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I was riding down the road today and was thinking of some topics that I wanted to post. I came up with about three so I decided to make a Bar Talk thread. Its all just random shit we would normally talk about when its just the fellas. Instead of making a bunch of threads I thought I'd just make one for it.
I was just randomly thinking about some of the perks of being a male. I know a lot of you guys are married but just think back when you where single. There was always a female you knew that could hook you up with something and she never wanted you to pay her for it...she just wanted good sex in return. I found this to be kind of hilarious. Say in HS you was banging a chic that worked at McDonalds so everytime you went that you knew you was getting something to eat for free, you knew a chic/was banging a chic that worked at the local pet store so you got all your animal feed for a discount, you knew a chic/banging a chic that worked at Footlocker or some shoe store so the only time you went was when she was working cause you knew you was going to get to use her discount. Thats that petty HS stuff. Once you get older you started needing more expensive stuff. For instance I'm friends with a dental hygienist so my co-pay if I even have to pay a co-pay for anything is never more than $30. All she wants in return for the discount is some good sex every now and then. I get my hair done every three weeks by the same female. Normally she charges her clients $55 just for a wash and to be tighten up, well I get mine done for free and all ask for is for me to show up and put in good work for her random booty calls. LOL Man I just think this shit is hilarious...good sex can get you a lot these days. Isn't this called the barter system?
I know a lot of you guys like to clown me a lot about my modeling and my hair so I thought I share something I thought was pretty damn funny. Well I worked part time for an after school program for two years straight. Last Friday was my last day working there and we had these field day activities. Well in our program we have like 3 gay kids and they are all 6th grade boys. Man you should hear these little fuckers argue with each other...they sound like HS girls lol. Hell I even heard them arguing about who was gay first. Normally I would intervene in a conversation like that but it was so dang funny to me that I let it go on for a while. Well I'm always on these kids trying to toughen them up. So I wrestle with them, make smart manly remarks to them, and just walk around and slap one of them in the back of the head every now and then. You know...just guy stuff. And when they start arguing and doing girly shit like jump roping and playing hop scotch I be like "yall need to quit acting like girls". I swear I tell atleast two of them boys that everyday. I mean not one day goes by when I dont tell one of those boys to stop acting like a girl. After I say that they usually straighten up for a while but of course go right back to acting girly. Sittin in the desk with their legs crossed, gossiping, and all that other BS girls do. Anyway...so we was doing the sponge race event. The basic, run to one end of the track, soak the sponge with water, run it back to the start and squeeze it in the pan. Who ever fill theirs up the fastest wins. Well these kids started and you know how excited middle schoolers get when they are racing or in some type of competition. Instead of holding the sponge gently after filling it up...they was squeezing it and running with it slinging water every water. I holler out...stop slinging all that dang water cause yall are messing up my hair...then out of the blue one of the gay kids holla out........"Mr. Ryan...quit acting like a girl." I couldn't help myself...I was on the ground laughing my ass off. All the other kids where laughing but the other staff members mouths just dropped cause they was all like, how in the hell you(the 6th grade gay kid) going to tell somebody to stop acting like a girl. Like I said it was pretty hilarious to me. Oh well...
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SHELBYVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A woman died after a weekend boating incident on Lake Shelby.
Amanda Frank, 34, of Louisville was found unresponsive by Emergency Medical Services after crews were called to a reported boating accident at 6:53 p.m. on Saturday.
Frank had been on the boat with her 12-year-old son and her friend, when the boat began taking on water.
"As the boat began taking on water, they tried to get the boat started but was unable to," said Shelby County Coroner Jeff Ivers.
All three decided to abandon the boat and jumped into the water.
When EMS crews arrived, Frank was still in the water. Her son also was in the water, trying to keep his mother's head above the water.
"He has one hand on the boat and one hand on her trying to hold her up," said Todd Frank, the victim's husband. "That boy was so brave. It touched my heart knowing my son tried to do that."
"The son was trying to keep the mother... the mother had went underwater several times," said Ivers. "He was trying to keep her abreast 'til help arrived."
The friend made it to shore and was told by bystanders to run and get help.
People in a boat nearby pulled Frank on board and placed her son in a canoe.
EMS crews transported Frank to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville where she was pronounced dead. Her son was taken to the same hospital for evaluation, but he suffered no injuries.
Todd Frank said he and his son are trying to cope.
"My son, he's pretty tore up. He made her a Mother's Day card at school. He was supposed to give it to her today," Frank said. "It's almost unreal."
Frank said his wife lived with several medical issues. An autopsy was performed Sunday, but authorities are awaiting more information before the cause of death can be determined. Authorities are not saying Amanda Frank drowned.
"No, I think it was something to do with her... just the stress of what it was from being in the water with my son, worried about my son, I think maybe a heart attack or something like that," Frank said. "I'd be surprised if it says she actually did drown."
No one on board was wearing a life jacket, though the boat had life jackets on board. The plug of the boat was also tightly in place. Investigators are trying to determine how the water came on board.
Meanwhile, Todd Frank and his son are forced to live without a wife and mother.
"They were just fishing on the lake," Frank said. "That's something she liked doing. Something my son said, 'At least Mom died doing something she loved doing.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.'"
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"Wine Buzz" has previously touched on a wine-enclosures study that could have huge ramifications for the global wine industry.
Are corks and screw-caps equally effective as wines age? If two bottles of the same wine taste different, could that be because of the type of enclosure that's used?
Those are among the questions being probed by the Bottle Aging Closure and Variability Study, which is being conducted by the University of California, Davis, in partnership with the PlumpJack Group.
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More than 600 bottles of sauvignon blanc that use cork, screw caps or synthetic corks are being analyzed.
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The idea that natural corks are a superior closure over synthetic versions or screw caps when it comes to aging wine has been a hotly debated topic. But the purpose if this study isn't necessarily to prove once and for all that one method of bottle closure is better than another.
"This isn't a contest between corks and screw caps," said Andrew Waterhouse, professor of viticulture and enology at UC Davis. "We're trying to measure the consistency between various types of closures. There's very little data on this and we wanted to see how much variation there actually was."
We'll look forward to sharing results next year.
Best of the Barrel
Roll out the barrel: Speaking of UC Davis' Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food science, Friday's Best of the Barrel fundraiser includes 40 wineries and food from Nugget Markets kitchens, with proceeds going toward the Institute's Graduate Student Association and other efforts.
The event will be held at the institute's Good Life Garden at UC Davis from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets cost $75. Information: (530) 752-5233 and robertmondaviinstitute. ucdavis.edu.
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Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on a swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage) into the absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story.- Heather McCalla, Flavorpill


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By Dalton Lee
Students are introduced to newspapers as a rich source of information through The Star's NiE programme.
AS a primary school pupil, How Siew Fen used to read The Star at her school library, as her family did not subscribe to it at home.
Coming from a predominantly Chinese-speaking family and having studied for six years in a Chinese vernacular school, reading the newspaper regularly proved to be a distinctive advantage for this friendly 15-year-old. Her love for the English language has prompted her to encourage her classmates in SMJK Chi Wen in Bahau, Negri Sembilan to learn the language as well.
Siew Fen recently received recognition for her efforts as she was chosen by her English teacher to participate at the school's newspaper-in-Education (NiE) programme using The Star newspaper.
A total of 15 students were placed in groups of three and were given the theme "54th Merdeka" to work on their respective posters. Students undertook various topics such as harmony, development, education, leaders and transport.
The activity, according to the school's English panel head Sivakumar Athimulam, was to show Malaysia's progress over the last 54 years through pictures. Armed with scissors, bottles of glue, and copies of The Star, students planned and created their respective group posters.
"The students enjoyed the lesson as it involved much creativity on their part.
"Working in a group also taught them the importance of cooperation and teamwork in order to complete the task effectively," said Sivakumar.
"Our school has been utilising The Star's NiE programme to achieve a high level of proficiency in English in good classes. At today's programme, we decided to extend it to the less proficient students as well," he added.
The school's senior assistant (academic) Josephine Ong Kui Hua said that students who were less fluent in the English language were chosen for this session as they were not usually exposed to the language.
"The activity was a resounding success as these children have now seen a different aspect of the newspapers.
"Incorporating Visual Art, English and History would also instil in them the love for our nation," said Ong.
Ong added that newspapers were a rich source of information, and the reading habit should be instilled in students from a young age.
"Students who have inculcated the love of reading articles found in the current affairs, sports and entertainment sections of The Star, will not only ace examinations but find that mastery of the English language has many advantages in their daily lives," said Ong, who also teaches History for Forms Four and Five.


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Miss Rwanda pageant for next year
It's official. The eagerly awaited Miss Rwanda beauty pageant will not be held this year. This means that reigning Miss Rwanda 2012, Aurore Mutesi Kayibanda will still hold the coveted title until February 22, 2014 when her successor will be known. Kayibanda was crowned Miss Rwanda in September last year.
The new date was announced yesterday by the Minister for Sports and Culture Protais Mitali, at a press conference held at the ministry headquarters at Amahoro Stadium, Remera.
Mitali said all measures are in place to ensure that Rwanda holds a beauty contest that meets international standards under the theme, My Beauty and Skills for Self-reliance.
The minister reiterated that Miss Rwanda 2014 is going to be a fertile ground for women empowerment. It will build their confidence and capacities in a bid to showcase their abilities using their beauty and skills, for the ultimate purpose of dignifying the Rwanda nation.
He added that it was not possible to hold the beauty pageant this year, noting that Rwanda has only had two beauty contests since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi almost 20 years ago.
"I can assure you that what we have learned is enough to make sure that the pageant is held successfully every year," Mitali promised.
Also present was the outgoing Miss Rwanda 2012, who talked of the success and challenges it takes to wear the crown. She encouraged those who are eyeing the prestigious title to be confident and participate with the self-belief that they will eventually triumph.
The winner will drive away in a grand prize of Hyundai 110 car. She will get cash as well as other prizes on top of representing the country in Miss World beauty pageant in London next year.
Apart from representing Rwanda in various future international beauty pageants, the winner is also expected to participate in numerous socio-economic activities in the country.
"The winner is not just going to be a Miss Rwanda. This is going to be a full-time work that will also be geared towards improving the image of the country," Mitali added.
The search for new Miss Rwanda will officially kick off on December 28 in the Eastern Province, in Rwamagana at Centre d'Accueil Sainte Agnès.
One week later, on January 11, the focus will shift to Northern Province and the venue will be Musanze Hall. The Southern Province will hold its contest on January 25, at the University of Rwanda, (NUR), followed by Southern Province a week later and finally Kigali City will close the preliminary contests on January 31, 2014 in Petit Stade, Remera.
Each province will produce three contestants to compete in the finals. The 15 finalists from the 5 provinces will then move to the Boot Camp at La Palisse Gashora, where they will undergo intensive training and orientation before the grand finale.
Those to participate are expected to fulfill the international beauty pageant rules that include: being a citizen of Rwanda aged between 18-24 years, at least 1.7 metres tall, having an upright posture and possessing good public speaking skills.
please Rwanda send a candidate to the best pageant in the universe call "Miss Universe" owned by Donald Trump.. in 2013 the pagenat was held in Russia and the winner is Gabriela Isler from Venezuela
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The library's Rare Book Room has approximately 1500 imprints from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. This rare book collection is especially strong in the area of Dutch Reformed theology, but also contains early atlases, political pamphlets, emblem books, travel books, and scientific works. The library also has the microfilm Knuttel Dutch Pamphlet Collection of nearly 6,000 pamphlets printed in the Netherlands between 1486 and 1648.
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The silly and contentious American Village Vegetable War in San Jacinto suffered a major casualty this week when a community garden was uprooted under order from the senior neighborhood's homeowners' association board.
"I feel sad, but I'm more angry," said 70-year-old resident Robert Miller on Tuesday, Oct. 8, as he finished cleaning up the community garden area with a rake.
"It's criminal. We still don't know why the board is doing this."
The American Village board decreed this summer that the 16-year-old community vegetable garden would be removed to make way for recreational facilities like horseshoes that might attract new retirees. American Village is a senior development of 211 small homes in a well-maintained neighborhood off Esplanade Avenue.
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News: Eminem Scolds Kanye West Over Taylor Swift Incident, "He Shouldn't Have Done That"
Friday, Jul 23, 2010 2:10PM
Grammy-winning rapper Eminem scolds Kanye West over his public interruption during country singer Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech last fall in the new issue of SPIN magazine.
Em stood by Swift's side in the debate.
At one point in his career, Eminem may have targeted Swift in one of his songs, but the "Not Afraid" MC is taking a different stance when asked about his thoughts on Kanye West's VMA debacle. "He shouldn't have done that," the father told SPIN of Kanye's outburst. "I mean, she's a little girl." Eminem is raising his three daughters who are not too far in age from Swift. He remains very protective of them, telling the magazine, "The less that's out there about the kids, the more chance of them having a normal life. I want the world to know how much I love them, but at the same time you gotta know when to pull back." (Rap-Up)
Speaking on her "American Boy" collaborator, singer Estelle recently also gave her opinion of West's controversial MTV Video Music Awards incident with Taylor Swift last fall.
"I was surprised by the amount of crap he got. It was like, do you know this guy? Come on now everyone, stop being surprised," said Estelle, who collaborated with West on the single "American Boy." "I don't think he will have any problems coming back. He speaks the absolute truth, no editing or tailoring. I thinks that's why every time he comes back everyone is really excited." (NBC Miami)
Earlier this year, Chicago rapper Rhymefest also addressed critics attacking West's character.
"The crazy thing is people hate you, then when you put another album out they like you again," he said in an interview last month. "I think that we as a people are so force-fed by corporations that we don't know what we want. Yeah, people were mad at Kanye last year, but they're also looking forward to him putting another album out. Soon as the album drops they are going to forget why they were mad in the first place. I think people love Kanye because he speaks his mind and there ain't that many Black men that do that and why we are on it, n*ggas need to stop fronting like that White girl deserved that award. They knew what he was saying and need to cut it out, for real." (XXL Mag)
R&B singer Ne-Yo hit up SOHH last month and gave his reaction to his Def Jam labelmate's new "Power" record and the Swift incident.
"I feel like Kanye is one of the smartest dudes in the musicbusiness," Ne-Yo told SOHH. "And I say that to anybody. He caught a little bit of flack behind that Taylor Swift situation or whatever and so he moved away from it, let the fire die down and came back with something undeniable. That 'Power' record is ridiculous to me and he's back on his thing, he's talking sh*t and that's what Kanye do. It's one of those records that you hear one time and you're like, 'Yeah, Kanye's back.' I feel like the summer is about to be something crazy." (SOHH)
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News: Kendrick Lamar Admits He's Falling Back: "That's Why I Try My Best To Stay Away From Social Media"
Thursday, May 9, 2013 2:15PM
West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar recently talked about his stance toward social media and admitted despite its growing popularity, he is overly cautious in how he handles those outlets.
Although KL would not name-drop, he admitted seeing fellow artists fall victim to social networking has him wary of his interest in it.
"That's why I try my best to stay away from social media as much as possible. [laughs] When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity--I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that. I've seen some of my friends get caught in that. Whether you're a small celebrity or a grand celebrity, it really triggers something in your brain, seeing all that stuff . . . So I'm real aware of it." (Interview Magazine)
A few years ago, Lamar's "Poetic Justice" collaborator Drake credited the power of social media outlets for helping jump-start his career.
"Initially, I think I just didn't know what would happen," Drake recalls. "I was this rapper with a little bit of buzz, the internet was taking over, and I didn't know the power of the internet at that point. The true power of social networking and the things we are so emmersed in now. There wasn't an artist that had been 100% birthed from that outlet and I think to be discovered on MySpace, how I was found, and for it to somehow reach Wayne's ears and for him to feel so confident about it and call me and to release a mixtape on the internet again and have a record somehow go #1 off a mixtape using the internet as a tool. It was all amazing because it was all a first, I can't remember that happening in my day. Even if you think of 50 [Cent], [Kanye West], and [Young] Jeezy, I remember having hard copies of all of those tapes. I remember it being more about the radio." (Global Grind)
Grammy-award winning rapper, Lupe Fiasco, previously stated he is not a fan of the Internet.
"Sometimes I wish I never found the internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the internet will magnify it. You have to be careful on the internet. You'll look up and be like, 'D*mn, it's been six hours.' I'm still trying to figure out a way to take [web browser] Safari off my laptop. With the blogs, it's like high school. I wasn't the most popular person in high school, it was like 50/50. Some people liked me, some people didn't, some people really didn't f*ck with me." (XXL Mag)
Rap veteran WC told SOHH last year he is not addicted to social networking but all artists should have some sort of viral presence.
"It's crazy because we don't have time to sit up all day and be on a f*cking computer, Twitter and sh*t like that. But you have to surround yourself with a team and find some time or some kind of way to check in and see what's going on," WC told SOHH about social media. "It's unfortunate but it's what it is right now. It went from being hands-on out here talking with people at concerts and on the radio outlets to being on the computer. It's crazy because that's where people are at with it. The first thing people do when they wake up in the morning is go in and see the latest news. It's crazy because it used to be a point and time when you would get that from the video stations and listen out to it on the radio." (SOHH)


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If you're running a business from home, you already know that it has plenty of advantages.. My personal favorites are the commute and the dress code. Another big advantage is the savings in overhead costs as compared to a typical "brick and mortar" business. But did you know that running your business out of your home can land you some nice tax breaks as well?
It's true. While we suggest you check with your own accountant on these (Read: We are not accountants, don't pretend to be, don't play one on TV, etc) here are a few of the ones we're aware of:
- You can deduct some of your housing costs as a business Expense
There are a couple of "tests" you have to meet in the tax law, but as long as you meet the criteria, you can write-off a portion of your rent or mortgage, real estate taxes, utilities, insurance, repairs and some other costs. To get this credit, your home generally needs to be either your primary business location or you need to do a substantial amount of there and you need to have a section of your home that's sole purpose is dedicated to your business – no kitchen tables or living-room recliner, sorry.
- You can deduct certain travel costs from the moment you leave your driveway
So let's say you need to go visit a customer or client. The mileage you put on your car or truck from your home (after all, this IS your primary business location, right?) can be deducted. As long as the purpose of your trip is a valid business purpose (Visiting clients or vendors, going to the bank or office supply store, etc) Keep in mind though, you need to keep good records that include the data, purpose of the trip and your starting and ending mileage for anything you deduct.
- You can write off the cost of your computer and office equipment
For most people, if you use a computer for both personal and business purposes, you need to keep a log of its use, kind of like with vehicle mileage. For those of us working from home, since we use the computer and/or equipment at our primary business location, it is not considered "listed property" and can be deducted in full.
- You can write off the cost of your cell phone and service plan
If you're like most of us, your cellular phone is your primary link to your clients. If you put the billing of your cell phone in your company's name, it automatically becomes a deductible expense.
As you can see, even Uncle Sam think's it's a great idea to work from home. Actually, when you think about it, our President works from home too..


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In a matchup of tall man versus short man, Cole Miller beat the shit out of Sam Sicilia and emerged almost entirely unscathed. But as always, it's not the length…it's how you use it.
The very first thing you should notice about this fight is Miller's stance.
Note how low he is, with his knees significantly bent. He has good posture and his weight distributed about evenly between his hips. Against a shorter opponent, the low stance Miller uses serves to ensure that he has leverage. It makes it difficult for Sicilia to attack from underneath him (the easiest way to get past a tall man's punches) and is an important first step in his ability to control distance.
Miller immediately starts working to control distance by establishing his lead leg and arm as a threat. Using and feinting jabs, front kicks and inside leg kicks all within the first minute served to give Sicilia something to worry about and respect on the way in.
These threats coupled with careful footwork kept Miller on the outside where he was able to easily see and react to every telegraphed swing Sicilia took. It's especially important to notice both the upward attacks (front kicks) being constantly threatened and the level changes Miller uses when he wants to box instead of kick. The upward attacks deter Sicilia from changing levels or advancing in a low stance while Miller's level changes give him a strong base to punch from and prevent him from punching downwards—a critical error against someone with a right hand like Sicilia's. The level changes make his jabs more effective as they can come straight out and make a big difference in Miller's ability to control distance throughout the bout.
Another important factor in his ability to win was his clever footwork. Miller avoided the popular tall man mistake of backing up tall in straight lines when under fire. He would constantly begin circling in one direction only to switch suddenly and escape the other way once Sicilia tried to close the distance or hold him in place with hooks. Even when he found himself backed up, he was able to escape. In this exchange, Miller has been backed near the cage. Instead of waiting on Sicilia, he decides to take the initiative and lead with a straight right.
In the first frame, Sicilia ducks away from the right hand of Miller. Again, pay attention to how low in his stance Miller is. His knees are bent enough to give him power in the right hand while counter-intuitively making his chin a more difficult target—if Sicilia threw at the same time he would have hit Miller's forhead or else his punch would have gone over Miller's right shoulder. Next, Sicilia fires back with a predictable right hook. Miller's defense is very savvy as he extends his lead arm and shifts his weight back, causing the hook to land harmlessly behind his left shoulder. Miller does stand up a little as he plans to circle out, as seen in the third frame. Sicilia, with his hips lower and Miller still in range, tries to catch him standing up on the way out with a left hook. Impressively, Miller is ready for it and catches the left hook with his right glove. Even more impressive, however, is Miller's adaptive use of his lead hand. He retracts it then extends it again in coordination with his block, allowing him to get his lead hand inside Sicilia's arms and establish head control. Miller uses that head control to push Sicilia away from the direction he is circling and gets back to the center as a result.
That's some outstanding work to reestablish his range. Miller shows the ability to both control distance and regain it cleverly throughout the first round. He uses lateral movement to avoid being trapped as he controls distance to keep him safe and allow him to start attacking once he resets.
Throughout the first round, Miller was really able to use his teeps and jabs together to keep Sicilia hesitant and create openings.
In this gif, Miller lands a front kick immediately before feinting one to set up his jab, which he uses to close distance and attempt to land a right hand. Even though Sicilia avoids the right hand and Miller loses his preferred distance, he is able to adjust quickly. As Sicilia reaches for a body lock, Miller aggressively jams his forearms into Sicilia's collar bones. This allows him to separate his hips and stop Sicilia from getting any closer. Once his hips are back, Miller intelligently snaps his opponent's head down before disengaging. That's beautiful stuff.
About halfway through the round, it became obvious that Sicilia was sick of being jabbed or teeped every time he tried to step forward. He began reacting to feints, reaching to parry, attempting to slip and hesitating to lunge forward. This ended up leaving him right in Miller's punching range where he could start landing more serious punches.
In the above gif, you can see this all coming together. When Miller jabs or feints, Sicilia stands in place and tries to avoid it, only stepping forward after a miss. His inability to get past the jab causes him to stand right in front of Miller, leading to him being nearly rocked by a front snap kick to the chin before being actually wobbled a bit by a right hand. This is excellent control of distance, as Sicilia is stuck in a range where his attacks are all ineffective and predictable while Miller is able to land his best punches and kicks. Here's another great example, that also shows some impressive footwork by Miller.
As Sicilia comes forward, notice how active Miller's defense with the lead hand is. He keeps it right in Sicilia's face, blinding him and disrupting his attacks. This allows him to pivot off the cage and land his right hand before escaping back to the center. Once there, notice how Miller's jab is enough of a threat to cause Sicilia to completely stop moving forward and even step back, directly in the path of Miller's second right hand, before swinging and missing another shot from far away.
At the start of the second round, Miller gets right back to work with that lead leg and lead arm. He throws multiple front kicks to the head in the first 20 seconds or so, as well as landing more stiff jabs. By this point, Miller was able to pick up on some huge weaknesses in Sicilia's defense—namely that he was standing still and reaching to swat at punches. He begins by capitalizing on Sicilia's oversensitivity to the jab with a classic left hook that comes around the parry, clearing the way for him to follow up with a hard straight right that rocks Sicilia.
Later on, he feints the jab and lets Sicilia parry it to come over the top with another powerful right hand that really hurts him bad. A few short rising left hooks drop Sicilia to his knees, at which point Miller goes for a guillotine and really makes my day by attacking with it to roll Sicilia onto his back and attempt to finish from mount rather than jumping guard. He fails to finish it when he ends in side control, but is quickly able to take the back and smoothly transition into a choke once Sicilia makes the mistake of giving up his back to a man with such long legs.
While the submission finish was surely impressive, Miller's absolute ability to dictate range was nothing short of amazing. With an active an adaptive lead hand and threatening lead kicks, Miller was able to keep Sicilia right where he needed him to land his tight straight right. He was able to use his lead arm or a full clinch to break Sicilia's posture anytime his distance was compromised, used lateral movement to avoid being trapped and by the end of the fight was using feints and manipulating reactions to land his power shots. Miller put on a clinic, and Jon Jones could take notes on how he was able to control with his lead hand without sticking his fingers in anyone's eyes. Miller's performance wasn't without technical flaws. He's a pretty awkward guy, made some footwork mistakes, lost his stance and balance several times and often had pretty bad posture when kicking. But on a conceptual level, he dominated that fight. I urge you to watch it again and learn something about fighting long.


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Jonah Goldberg: Two cheers for GOP 'rebranding'
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party." Rep. Paul Ryan has concluded that the watchword for the Republican Party needs to be "prudence." Sen. Marco Rubio is the front man for the most tangible aspect of the rebranding effort: getting on the right side of the immigration issue. In the process, he's become something of the de facto point person for the party.
The latest entrant into this effort: House Majority leader Eric Cantor. Cantor recently gave a well-received speech at the American Enterprise Institute (where I am a fellow), titled "Making Life Work." In it, Cantor argued for utterly reasonable conservative solutions that would improve the plight of the working poor and the middle class.
It's all good stuff from a great field. Indeed, while calling them the "fantastic four" might seem hyperbolic - and unfair to a few other politicians left out of the mix - Rubio, Ryan, Jindal and Cantor are a pretty good counterargument to those who think the Republican Party is doomed. Excellent politicians all, three out of four are minorities: a Hispanic, an Indian-American, and a Jew - which sounds like they should be walking into a bar for a joke. The fourth, the Catholic Ryan, routinely wins a working-class district that votes Democratic in presidential elections.
I should note that lately I've written favorably about this rebranding stuff as well. In a nutshell, I've been arguing that the GOP's problems don't stem from a lack of principle, but from a lack of persuasiveness.
My point was not - and is not - that the GOP should abandon its commitment to core conservative principles. If you can't get the swing voters to vote for the existing level of conservatism the GOP is offering, it seems odd to argue that the GOP needs to peddle an even more strident form of conservatism (even if that purer conservatism would yield better policies). If a potential customer says, "The Chevy Impala is too pricey," a good salesman doesn't immediately respond, "OK, can I interest you in a Bentley?"
All that said, I think the push to rebrand the GOP has its own pitfalls.
For starters, "prudence" and "don't be stupid," while excellent prescriptions for how to behave, are not, in themselves, great rallying cries. If you don't believe me, try to get a crowd of the faithful to start chanting "Pru-dence! Pru-dence!" or "We're Not Stupid! We're Not Stupid!"
While this may seem obvious, the fact is that one of the GOP's worst tics is its habit of reading its stage directions out loud. For instance, Republicans often talk about how they're not going to "go negative." George H.W. Bush had such contempt for Bill Clinton's gift for wholesale empathy, he felt the need to proclaim, "Message: I care."
Obviously, Republicans should care about what is best for the country and the voters - and they should demonstrate that concern - but they will never beat liberals at the game of whose heart bleeds the most. As liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne observes, Cantor's rebranding maneuvers the GOP into a contest on Democratic turf: who cares more about workers, the poor, immigrants, etc. As Dionne notes, that's why Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer immediately praised Cantor's remarks.
The reason that game is so perilous for conservatives is not that liberals necessarily care more than conservatives but that they are always willing and eager to prove their concern by cutting a check, even when all we have in the checking account is IOUs and cash on loan from China. Moreover, they are perfectly happy and eager to say that anyone who opposes more check-kiting is greedy or selfish, even if what Democrats are doing is making the problem they seek to solve worse. All too often, liberals act as if government has a monopoly on compassion.
"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism," Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, "joined with a certain superiority in its fact." Children often think their parents are being mean when they tell their kids to do their homework. That doesn't make the parents mean, it makes them responsible. Eventually, the lessons of life persuade children their parents were right all along.
Voters aren't children, but too many of them have the childish notion that the best policies are those that pander to their immediate desires. The challenge for the GOP is to persuade them to put away childish things.
Jonah Goldberg is the author of the new book "The Tyranny of Cliches." You can write to him by email at email@example.com, or via Twitter @JonahNRO.
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Tipping Point
I can't say with any certainty what this forebodes, but this is a staggering amount of debt to pile onto any country, especially within just a few months (my emphasis):
The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.
New pledges from the Fed, the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. include $1 trillion for the Public-Private Investment Program, designed to help investors buy distressed loans and other assets from U.S. banks. The money works out to $42,105 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. and 14 times the $899.8 billion of currency in circulation. The nation's gross domestic product was $14.2 trillion in 2008.
The really scary thing is, the government is not even close to being done spending money. Yet we've already committed about 90% of GDP. Where is all that money going to come from?
As we've said before, there's only a few options: (1) taxes; (2) borrowing; and (3) printing press.
Taxes will only raise so much, even when the government starts raising rates on lower income quintiles, and certainly not enough to keep up with the ballooning debt-service payments.
Borrowing just isn't going to happen because there isn't anybody else who either wants to or is capable of lending us more money. To wit, here's some of Peter Murphy's analysis on our borrowing problems:
The biggest buyers of US Government (and Agency) debt, for the past several years, have been China, Japan, and the Oil States.
However, the supply of loanable funds among these entities from which the US can borrow is drying up.
China's current-account surplus, the source of the funds for its Treasury purchases, has dropped precipitously as the global economy has contracted over the past several months.
Japan, another major buyer of Treasuries over recent years, is now posting trade deficits for the first time since the early 1970′s. This current account deficit, combined with a significant fiscal shortfall and planned issuance of $33 Trillion Yen ($340 Billion USD) in government debt this year, means that Japan will be, in effect, competing with the US for funds, rather than lending to us.
And, the oil-exporters are in no shape to be buying anything right now, as oil prices have collapsed since last summers $147/barrel peak. Russia is busy selling foreign exchange to prop up its currency.
Brad Sester of the Council of Foreign Relations reports that foreign demand for long-term treasuries has faded, and notes, ominously, that "global reserves aren't growing".
Accordingly, borrowing does not look like an option. Which leaves really just one choice.
Printing money in a down economy, which will have to be done, increases inflation and saps purchasing power (potentially leading to hyper-inflation). We may be able to pay off our debts this way, but we'll wipe out the wealth of the nation doing so. Think post-Franco-Prussian War where France drove its economy into the ground in order to pay off about 22% of its yearly GDP in war reparations to Germany … over three years. That strife led to the Paris Commune uprisings among other things. Or worse, consider post-WWI Germany, with inflation rising so fast that workers had to be paid twice a day and cart around wheelbarrows full of money just to buy a loaf of bread.
Is that what we're headed for? I sure hope not, but the signs aren't very encouraging if history is any guide. It is true that a much more dynamic and nimble economy exists today as compared to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But the world tendency right now seems to be to shackle that economy, making it much less dynamic and nimble. The end result must be less wealth produced, and less money to pay these debts. In short, our government is currently cashing checks that our economy can't pay.
More "South Park" Truth – The Underpants Gnomes
If you've not kept up or been unable to keep up (that's why we're here), you've probably wondered about the references to the "underpants gnomes" when discussing the banking and auto industry situations.
Naturally we have precisely the information you need to be in the know. Just remember, as our own underpants gnomes are discovering, the tricky part is "Phase II".
The Other Shoe Drops: Union Calls For Obama To Oust Bank CEO
I'm sure some will find this surprising. Others will say, "yeah, baby!" It certainly is the logical extension of what happened to GM's CEO. I, for one, still find it to be very disturbing:
On the heels of the resignation of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, the Service Employees International Union is urging President Barack Obama to oust Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis.
"It defies logic, common-sense, and responsible governance to punish the auto industry while letting financial institutions off the hook," SEIU President Andy Stern said, announcing his call for Lewis's job Tuesday.
The same could be said for letting the union leadership off the hook.
Aren't they responsible for declining membership? Aren't they as much a part of the problem as the management of the auto industry? Why isn't the SEIU calling for union heads as well?
Of course I ask that facetiously. Obviously we're now going to hear every whiner and complainer in the world will demand the government fire their boss. Hey, the precedent has been set with one of the worst decisions I've seen in a while. Now we begin to see the results of such a blatantly dumb move.
Impressive, no?
You're Doing A Heck Of A Job, Timmy …
You remember TARP. The "Troubled Asset Rescue Plan"? The plan which the Obama administration and the Treasury Department said they were monitoring closely? In fact, they even put a "watchdog" in charge of its oversight.
Transparency. Oversight. Hope and Change.
And any other buzzword promise that was thrown out there to describe how this administration would be so different from the last.
But apparently all the oversight promised depends heavily on cooperation, not stonewalling, by the Department administering TARP. That would be Treasury:
"We do not seem to be a priority for the Treasury Department," the Congressional Oversight Panel's Elizabeth Warren told a Senate Finance Committee hearing today.
"We have sent letters. We have requested that there be someone named so that we can get technical information. And so far, we have not been a first priority," Warren said. "We use what you give us, and we will exercise the leverage given to us by Congress. In part, that's why I'm here today. I'm here to talk to you about what's happened so far, what we have discovered so far, the inquiries that we have in mid-stream and for which we continue to await responses."
Warren, visibly frustrated with a lack of cooperation from the administration, emphasized, "This problem starts with Treasury."
Now part of the problem, obviously, is that several key positions in Treasury have yet to be filled, over 60 days into the new administration and in the midst of a financial crisis. Apparently that's not a priority either.
Oh, and you'll love this:
Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, voiced similar concerns.
He noted that his office just conducted a survey of all 364 TARP recipients on their use of government funds, something they had requested Treasury do, only for the Department to decline to do so except in the cases of Citigroup and Bank of America.
"One thing is clear: complaints that it was impractical, impossible, or a waste of time to require banks to detail how they used TARP funds were unfounded," Barofsky said.
I continue to be unimpressed with Tim Geithner and his management and leadership style. What you're reading here is totally unacceptable. For once, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said the right thing:
"Unfortunately, despite saying all the right things about open government, the new administration has not made any major changes aimed at making TARP more transparent," he said. "Moreover, I have heard about potential problems with access to information from all three of the oversight bodies testifying."
Hope and Change.
Quote Of The Day
The person to whom the Navy recently bestowed the formerly prestigious Distingusihed Public Service Award had this to say:
"If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district," Mr. Murtha said.
Because, you know, there's obviously no other way to do that than be corrupt.
Shades of Georgia's Eugene Talmadge:
"Sure, I stole. But I stole for you,"
Tax Relief – But Only If You Petition For It
My latest Examiner column. With housing values tanking, taxes based on that value ought to be going down as well, right?
"Green Jobs" Likely To Destroy More Jobs Than Are Created
A study just completed in Spain finds that the creation of so-called "green jobs" doesn't at all seem to be the employment panacea promised by their advocates. As you recall, President Obama pointed to Spain as the reference point for the establishment of government aid to renewable energy. As the study points out, "No other country has given such broad support to the construction and production of electricity through renewable sources." But the results are not at all what you might expect given the hype. In fact, they've been quite the opposite:
Optimistically treating European Commission partially funded data, we find that for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain's experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created.
Be sure you read that last part of the sentence carefully as well – those jobs would have been created by "non-subsidizsed investments" with the "same resources" – or said another way, they'd have been created in the private sector without government picking winners and losers and spending billions in taxpayer money.
Between 2000 and 2008, Spain was very aggressive in pursuing alternative energy and green jobs. But its results were less than stellar:
Despite its hyper-aggressive (expensive and extensive) "green jobs" policies it appears that Spain likely has created a surprisingly low number of jobs, two-thirds of which came in construction, fabrication and installation, one quarter in administrative positions, marketing and projects engineering, and just one out of ten jobs has been created at the more permanent level of actual operation and maintenance of the renewable sources of electricity.
So 9 out of 10 were temporary jobs, while only 1 in 10 became permanent. And the cost?
The cost to create a "green job":
The study calculates that since 2000 Spain spent €571,138 to create each "green job", including subsidies of more than €1 million per wind industry job.
The cost in jobs lost:
Each "green" megawatt installed destroys 5.28 jobs on average elsewhere in the economy: 8.99 by photovoltaics, 4.27 by wind energy, 5.05 by mini-hydro.
And the eventual cost to consumers:
The price of a comprehensive energy rate (paid by the end consumer) in Spain would have to be increased 31% to being to repay the historic debt generated by this rate deficit mainly produced by the subsidies to renewables, according to Spain's energy regulator.
Spanish citizens must therefore cope with either an increase of electricity rates or increased taxes (and public deficit), as will the U.S. if it follows Spain's model
Previous studies have concluded that such increases would impact the poorest quintile the most:
• Reducing emissions, a major rationale for "green jobs" or renewables regimes, hits the poorest hardest. According to the recent report by the Congressional Budget Office, a cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by just 15% will cost the poorest quintile 3% of their annual household income, while benefiting the richest quintile ("Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions", U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Economic and Budget Issue Brief, April 25, 2007).
• Raising energy costs loses jobs. According to a Penn State University study, replacing two-thirds of U.S. coal-based energy with higher-priced energy such as renewables, if possible, would cost almost 3 million jobs, and perhaps more than 4 million (Rose, A.Z., and Wei, D., "The Economic Impact of Coal Utilization and Displacement in the Continental United States, 2015," Pennsylvania State University, July 2006)
So to recap, we have a scheme which would see a net reduction in jobs by its implementation, create jobs of which only 10% were permanent, Cost anywhere from a half a million to a million dollars per job, increase energy costs tremendously and hit the poor the hardest.
Sounds like a winner, doesn't it?
Will anyone pay attention to the actual experiment conducted by Spain and its results? Or are the blinders firmly in place?
While this scheme would be important to contest at any time, it is critically important to do so now, given the economic situation. One thing that must be avoided is government killing jobs as fast as the private sector creates them. This is truly a time when government should do all it can to enable the private sector to create jobs (tax cuts, etc.) and step back and allow that process to work. What it shouldn't be doing is picking winners and losers and enacting a scheme which, in Spain at least, has proven to do all the things necessary to kill or at least cripple any economic recovery.
Bailouts Not Diverse Enough
If you're going to hand out big bucks, you need to do it in a politically correct manner.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday criticized the lack of minority participation in the government's financial bailouts and suggested that President Barack Obama isn't doing much better than his predecessor to ensure diversity.
These particular vultures are feeling a bit peevish. They're just not seeing the flow of money to their favored constituencies that they expect – especially with a brother in the Oval Office. I mean, come on – we are talking trillions here, right?
Where's theirs?


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Making a four-man outfield work next season
Assume that we want Gordon to play 150 games in left and Cain to play 150 games in center, while Melky and Frenchy split rightfield and fourth outfielder duties. Frenchy always plays right against a lefty starter, which we'll assume is 30% of the time. Of course, if anybody gets hurt, Cabrera takes over his position full-time until he comes back, and we promote Dyson or Lough or something. That right there is major injury insurance, because without Melky we'd be playing Dyson or Lough full-time in the injured guy's spot. It's also Cain bust insurance in case he's slugging .263 at midseason. In LF: Gordon 150 games, Cabrera 12. In CF: Cain 150 games, Cabrera 12. In RF: Francoeur 54 games (against lefty starters) + 24 games (when Melky is playing left or center) = 78 games, Cabrera 84 (+ 12 + 12) for a total of 108 games. That adds up to a total of 486 outfield games, 162 x 3. I think that would work and it would be cheap, and we'd have four outfielders with an OPS+ and RC+ over 100.


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Alabaster panel with a scene of the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket
Medieval, about AD
From England
This alabaster panel shows Thomas Becket (?1118-70), Archbishop of Canterbury, kneeling in prayer before an altar, on which stands a chalice. Four knights approach from behind and two of them attack him with swords. The figure with the cross, behind the altar, represents Edward Grim, a clerk from Cambridge who witnessed the atrocity. The murder was committed in a side chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, therefore violating the laws of Sanctuary, which ought to have given Becket immunity from arrest or molestation in a holy place. The knights responsible were Reginald Fitzurse, Richard le Bret, Hugh de Moreville and William de Tracy. They acted on a misunderstood instruction from King Henry II who was in dispute with Becket over the relative privileges of Church and Crown.
Alabaster panels such as this are of a standard size, and would have belonged to larger altarpieces. Alabaster is easy to carve and allows the creation of fine details. It can also take colouring, gilding and polishing. Some original polychromy and gilding survives on this example. Carved alabaster was among England's most successful exports of art in the Middle Ages and they survive in collections all over western Europe.
T. Richard Blurton (ed.), The enduring image: treasures, exh. cat (British Council, 1997)
J. Robinson, Masterpieces: Medieval Art (London, British Museum Press, 2008)
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November 18, 2004
Cairo - Pieces of scrap are spilling into 20th street in Cairo, creating an ugly and dangerous mess for passersby. "We just need to get A & R metal back on their property and off of the right-of-way so that the people that own the right of way can travel up and down it without fear of somebody dumping trash on them," says Councilman Adrian Clark.
He says the city has been griping about the garbage at A & R Metals for years, but the situation intensified after 9-11.
"When 9-11 came, I could only ship ten loads from 9-11 to January 10th. I normally ship a load a day, sometimes two loads a day," says Jimmy Hammett, operator of A & R Metals. So things got backed up, and people continued to dump at his site, many times without permission. Hammett says, "I just got full. People started dumping on weekends and after hours along the side of the street here."
One of the biggest problems with this site is that no one seems to know who really owns the land closest to the road. The city says this is a right of way, but Hammett says A & R metals owns it and that people have every right to dump here.
But he does realize that the junk piled on the side of the road is an eyesore, even a safety hazard, and says he'll clean it up. "I will move the scrap and I'm going to try to move it back on back further away from the road," says Hammett.
And that's all the city is asking for. Clark says A & R is a necessity for the Cairo community, and it would be a waste if they shut down. "I do not want them to shut down," says Clark. "It is a business, we need the business here. I just want him to be like every other business in this town and operate on his own property."
Because even when your business is trash, you don't want your city to look trashy. Jimmy Hammett says he will clear dumped appliances and junk off the side of the road, and WALB plans to follow up with him in two weeks.
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