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I am in Kyoto right now, attending the twenty-first Nevanlinna colloquium (update: took a while to write this post – now I'm in Sydney for the Clay lectures). Yesterday, Junjiro Noguchi gave a plenary talk on Nevanlinna theory in higher dimensions and related Diophantine problems. The talk was quite technical, and I did not understand it very well; however, he said a few suggestive things early on which struck a chord.
The talk started quite accessibly, being concerned with the fundamental equation
where are coprime positive integers. The abc conjecture, formulated by Oesterlé and Masser, says that for any positive real number , there is a constant so that
where is the product of the distinct primes appearing in the product . Informally, this conjecture says that for triples satisfying the fundamental equation, the numbers are not divisible by "too high" powers of a prime. The abc conjecture is known to imply many interesting number theoretic statements, including (famously) Fermat's Last Theorem (for sufficiently large exponents), and Roth's theorem on diophantine approximation (as observed by Bombieri).
Roth's theorem is the following statement:
Theorem(Roth, 1955): Let be a real algebraic number. Then for any , the inequality has only finitely many solutions in coprime integers .
This inequality is best possible, in the sense that every irrational number can be approximated by infinitely many rationals to within . In fact, the rationals appearing in the continued fraction approximation to have this property. There is a very short and illuminating geometric proof of this fact.
In the plane, construct a circle packing with a circle of radius with center for each coprime pair of integers.
This circle packing nests down on the -axis, and any vertical line (with irrational -co-ordinate) intersects infinitely many circles. If the co-ordinate of a vertical line is , every circle the line intersects gives a rational which approximates to within . qed.
On the other hand, consider the corresponding collection of circles with radius . Some "space" appears between neighboring circles, and they no longer pack tightly (the following picture shows ).
The total cross-sectional width of these circles, restricted to pairs in the interval , can be estimated as follows. Each contributes a width of . Ignoring the coprime condition, there are fractions of the form in the interval , so the total width is less than which converges for positive . In other words, the total cross-sectional width of all circles is finite. It follows that almost every vertical line intersects only finitely many circles.
Some vertical lines do, in fact, intersect infinitely many circles; i.e. some real numbers are approximated by infinitely many rationals to better than quadratic accuracy; for example, a Liouville number like .
Some special cases of Roth's theorem are much easier than others. For instance, it is very easy to give a proof when is a quadratic irrational; i.e. an element of for some integer . Quadratic irrationals are characterized by the fact that their continued fraction expansions are eventually periodic. One can think of this geometrically as follows. The group acts on the upper half-plane, which we think of now as the complex numbers with non-negative imaginary part, by fractional linear transformations . The quotient is a hyperbolic triangle orbifold, with a cusp. A vertical line in the plane ending at a point on the -axis projects to a geodesic ray in the triangle orbifold. A rational number approximating to within is detected by the geodesic entering a horoball centered at the cusp. If is a quadratic irrational, the corresponding geodesic ray eventually winds around a periodic geodesic (this is the periodicity of the continued fraction expansion), so it never gets too deep into the cusp, and the rational approximations to never get better than for some constant depending on , as required. A different vertical line intersecting the -axis at some corresponds to a different geodesic ray; the existence of good rational approximations to corresponds to the condition that the corresponding geodesic goes deeper and deeper into the cusp infinitely often at a definite rate (i.e. at a distance which is at least some fixed (fractional) power of time). A "random" geodesic on a cusped hyperbolic surface takes time to go distance out the cusp (this is a kind of equidistribution fact – the thickness of the cusp goes to zero like , so if one chooses a sequence of points in a hyperbolic surface at random with respect to the uniform (area) measure, it takes about points to find one that is distance out the cusp). If one expects that every geodesic ray corresponding to an algebraic number looks like a "typical" random geodesic, one would conjecture (and in fact, Lang did conjecture) that there are only finitely many for which for any .
A slightly different (though related) geometric way to see the periodicity of the continued fraction expansion of a quadratic irrational is to use diophantine geometry. This is best illustrated with an example. Consider the golden number . The matrix has and as eigenvectors (here denotes the "conjugate" ), and thus preserves a "wedge" in bounded by lines with slopes and . The set of integer lattice points in this wedge is permuted by , and therefore so is the boundary of the convex hull of this set (the sail of the cone). Lattice points on the sail correspond to rational approximations to the boundary slopes; the fact that permutes this set corresponds to the periodicity of the continued fraction expansion of (and certifies the fact that cannot be approximated better than quadratically by rational numbers).
There is an analogue of this construction in higher dimensions: let be an integer matrix whose eigenvalues are all real, positive, irrational and distinct. A collection of suitable eigenvectors spans a polyhedral cone which is invariant under . The convex hull of the set of integer lattice points in this cone is a polyhedron, and the vertices of this polyhedron (the vertices on the sail) are the "best" integral approximations to the eigenvectors. In fact, there is a subgroup of consisting of matrices with the same set of eigenvectors (this is a consequence of Dirichlet's theorem on the structure of the group of units in the integers in a number field). Hence there is a group that acts discretely and co-compactly on the vertices of the sail, and one gets a priori estimates on how well the eigenvectors can be approximated by integral vectors. It is interesting to ask whether one can give a proof of Roth's theorem along these lines, at least for algebraic numbers in totally real fields, but I don't know the answer.
I just learned from Jesse Johnson's blog that Vlad Markovic and Jeremy Kahn have announced a proof of the surface subgroup conjecture, that every complete hyperbolic -manifold contains a closed -injective surface. Equivalently, contains a closed surface subgroup. Apparently, Jeremy made the announcement at an FRG conference in Utah. This answers a long-standing question in -manifold topology, which is a variation on some problems originally posed by Waldhausen. If one further knew that hyperbolic -manifold groups were LERF, one would be able to deduce that all hyperbolic -manifolds are virtually Haken, and (by a recent theorem of Agol), virtually fibered. Dani Wise (and others) have programs to show that hyperbolic -manifold groups are LERF; if successful, this would therefore resolve some of the most important outstanding problems in -manifold topology (in fact, I would say: the most important outstanding problems, by a substantial margin).
In fact, the argument appears to work for hyperbolic manifolds of every dimension , and possibly more generally still. Details on the argument of Markovic-Kahn are scarce (Vlad informs me that they expect to have a preprint in a few weeks) but the sketch of the argument presented by Kahn is compelling. Roughly speaking, the argument (as summarized by Ian Agol in a comment at Jesse's blog) takes the following form:
- Given , for a sufficiently big constant , one can find "many" immersed, almost totally-geodesic pairs of pants (i.e. thrice-punctured spheres) with geodesic boundary components (i.e. "cuffs") of length very close to . In fact, one can further insist that the complex length of the boundary geodesic is very close to (i.e. holonomy transport around this geodesic does not rotate the normal bundle very much).
- Conversely, given any geodesic of complex length very close to , one can find many such pairs of pants that it bounds, and moreover one can find them so that the normal to the geodesic pointing in to the surface is prescribed.
- If one takes a sufficiently big collection of such geodesic pairs of pants, one has enough of them in oppositely-aligned pairs along each boundary component, that they can be matched up (by some version of Hall's marriage theorem), and furthermore, matched up with a definite prescribed "twist" along the boundary components
- One checks that the resulting (closed) surface is sufficiently close to totally geodesic that the ambient negative curvature certifies it is -injective
Many aspects of this argument have a lot in common with some previous attempts on the surface subgroup conjecture, including one recent approach by Bowen (note: Bowen's approach is known to have some fatal difficulties; the "twist" in 3. above specifically addresses some of them). All of these points deserve some comments.
First, where do the pairs of pants come from? If is a totally geodesic pair of pants with boundary components of length close to , the pants retract onto a geodesic spine, i.e. an immersed totally geodesic theta graph, whose edges all have length close to , and which meet at angles very close to degrees. One can cut this spine up into two pieces, which are obtained by exponentiating the edges of an infinitesimal (almost)-planar tripod for length .
Given a tripod in some plane in the tangent space at some point of , one can exponentiate the edges for length to construct such a half-spine; if and are a pair of tripods for which the exponentiated endpoints nearly match up, with almost opposite tangent vectors, then the resulting half-spines can be glued up to make a spine, and thickened to make a pair of pants. One key idea is to use the exponential mixing property of the geodesic flow on a hyperbolic manifold, e.g. as proved by Pollicott. Given some tolerance , once is sufficiently large, the mixing result shows that the set of such pairs of tripods for which such a matching occurs have a definite density in the space of all pairs (and in fact, are more and more equidistributed in this space, in probability). In fact, one may even insist that two of the pairs of prongs join up to make some specific closed geodesic of length almost , and vary the pair of third prongs a very small amount so that they glue up. This takes care of the first two points; this seems quite uncontroversial (exponential mixing comes in, I suspect, to know that one doesn't need to wiggle the pair of third prongs much, having paired the first two pairs).
The matching (i.e. the gluing up of opposite pant cuffs) apparently is done by some variant of Hall's marriage theorem. One needs to know (I think) that for any finite set of cuffs to be glued, the set of other cuffs that they could potentially be glued to is at least as big in cardinality. This probably needs some thought, but it is plausibly true: given a cuff, it can be glued to any cuff which is almost oppositely aligned to it, and since there is some tolerance in the angle of gluing — this is where dimension at least is necessary — and moreover, since oriented cuffs are almost equidistributed, one can always find "more" cuffs that are opposite, up to a bit of tolerance, to any given subset of cuffs (of course, more details are necessary here). There is an extra wrinkle to the argument, which is that the gluing must be done with a "twist" of a definite amount, so that cuffs are not glued up in such a way that the perpendicular geodesic arcs joining pairs of cuffs match up.
(Update 8/8: I think there must necessarily be more details to the matching argument, as very loosely described above. There are at least two additional issues that must be dealt with in order to perform a matching: a parity issue (since each pants has an odd number of cuffs) and a homology issue (if the argument relativizes, so that one fixes some collection of cuffs in advance and glues up everything else, one concludes a posteriori that the union of the unglued cuffs is homologically inessential). Probably the parity issue (and more subtle divisibility issues) can be solved by gluing with real-valued weights, then approximating a real solution by a rational solution, and multiplying through to clear denominators. Maybe the homology issue does not arise, if in fact the argument doesn't relativize.) Both these issues suggest that one does not specify in advance a collection of pants to be glued up, but rather wants to glue up a definite number of pants from some subset.)
This issue of a twist is important for the 4th point, which is perhaps the most delicate. In order to know that the resulting surface is -injective, one must use geometry. A closed (immersed) surface in a hyperbolic manifold which is (locally) very close to being totally geodesic is -injective. One way to see this is to observe that a geodesic loop in the surface is almost geodesic in the manifold; the ambient negative curvature means that the geodesic can be shrunk (by the negative of the gradient of length in the space of loops) to become geodesic in the ambient manifold; if it is close to being geodesic at the start, it very quickly becomes totally geodesic, without getting much shorter. Any closed geodesic in a hyperbolic manifold is essential.
If one builds a surface by gluing up almost totally geodesic pieces in such a way that there is almost no angle along the gluing, the resulting surface is almost geodesic, and therefore injective. However, one must be very careful to control the geometry of the pieces that are glued, and this is hard to do if the injectivity radius is very small. A geodesic pair of pants has area no matter how long its boundary components are. So if the boundary components have length , then at the points where they are thinnest, they are only across. If cuffs are glued where the pants are thinnest, even if the gluing angle is very small, the surfaces themselves might twist through a big angle in a very short time. So one needs to make sure that the thinnest part of one pants are glued up to a thicker part of the next, which is glued to a thicker part of the next . . . and so on. This is the point of introducing the twist before gluing: the twists accumulate, and before one has glued pieces together, one has entered the thick part of some pants, where the injectivity radius is bounded below by some universal constant.
Anyway, this seems like a really spectacular development, with an excellent chance of working out. Some of the ingredients — e.g. the exponential mixing of the geodesic flow — work just as well in variable negative curvature. In fact, some version of it should work for arbitrary hyperbolic groups (using Mineyev's flow space). Without knowing more details of the argument, one can't say how delicate the last part of the argument is, and how far it generalizes (but readers are invited to speculate . . .)


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In 1996, I taught 10 persons, none was successful. In 1997, one got it. From March 1998 to April 1999, I taught 80 persons and 40 were successful. This completed my 100-person experiment. It was an unique study, very difficult during the process but the result was satisfactory.
An unique study: by accumulating empirical experience in order to improve and perfect the methodology of Channel SHO, I was able to continuously improve my understandings and continuously combining the theory from the classics and the practical methodology. If one persists in this scientific way of studying the ancient Chines art, one can certainly benefit greatly.
A difficult process: I undertook this non-mainstream journey on my own. In order to study this thousand years old puzzle carefully and scientifically, I had to give up a lot of leisure and luxury of the material world and more than once, when I was stuck in a particular difficult situations, I had thought of giving up. Luckily, with a clear head and a well defined goal, I was able to persist and ultimately my effort was paid off.
A satisfactory result: 100-person experiment, a success rate of 50% how could I not be satisfied? Well, 100% will certainly be better and this had become my target.
A rewarding experience: dandao had always been shrouded in mystery, to tackle this problem is a satisfactory intellectual problem. More importantly, dandao is the pinnacle achievement of ancient Chinese civilization, the Chinese tradition places much emphasis on the intuitive and the emotional which made it hard to understand because of it's intangibility. However, within the intangible, there underlined a rational and logical structure. To empirically study on this rational portion will help us understand and learn dandao more efficiently.

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38 Lubbock Naval Reservists are packing for a mission overseas. On Friday family and friends gathered to say good-bye to their loved ones before they ship out this Sunday.
Brian Franks signed up for the Navy 20 years ago, he's been a reservist for the past 10. He's travelled all over the world helping rebuild communities, but Brian says the thing he's most proud of is right here at home. "My wife and I met after I signed up again. She's been with me ever since then, and I have to hand it to her, I couldn't do it without her."
Brian has two major loves in his life; his wife, and the Navy. "I do this mainly because I love my country." But it was the love for his wife that kept him alive through deployment after deployment. "I've been activated several times before when I was in active duty. Now this will be my fourth time deployed."
"I married him and he left for active duty. He was deployed 2 or 3 times then, and 2 or 3 times now." Dawne Franks says her and her husband have been through many good-byes before. "I feel like an old pro."
And even though it never gets any easier, Brian never forgets his commitment to his country. "It's an honor and a privilege, and I'll do it again in a heart beat."
The reservists will fly to California Sunday for six to eight weeks of training. Then they'll go to Southwest Asia but the specifics of their mission is confidential.
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Make it two straight tough back breaking losses for the Tigers at Fenway Park. Saturday night, David Ortiz had a bases-loaded walk off double to rally Boston past Detroit and then yesterday, after the Tigers scored 3 runs in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 3 all, the Red Sox celebrated on the field again, winning 4-to-3 in the bottom of the ninth when Detroit reliever Robbie Weinhardt threw the ball away trying to field a sacrifice bunt with Boston runners on first and second.
Miguel Cabrera doubled in a pair of runs and Jhonny Peralta singled in the tying run during Detroit's comeback in the ninth. Brad Thomas took the loss for the Tigers with a no decision for Detroit starter Justin Verlander, who gave up 3 runs on six hits with eight strikeouts while throwing 123 pitches over 7 innings.
The Tigers are idle today and then begin a series that could make or break their chances of remaining a contender in the American League Central. Detroit hosts the first place White Sox tomorrow for a day night doubleheader to begin a 4-game series at Comerica Park.
The White Sox yesterday beat Oakland 4-to-1 to increase their lead over the third place Tigers to 7 games. Second place Minnesota is a half game behind Chicago after the Twins made it 8 straight wins with a 4-to-0 victory over Seattle. And the Cubs lost 8-to-7 at Colorado.


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O Heavenly Father, subdue in us whatever is contrary to thy holy will, that we may know how to please thee. Grant, O God, that we may never run into those temptations which in our prayers we desire to avoid. Lord, never permit our trials to be above our strength; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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Charging seniors: The right policy for state parks
New Hampshire has a user-supported parks system. To keep general taxes low, the state charges a modest entry fee at the state parks and at many historic sites. The individual entry fee for state parks is only $4. That is an entire day at a place like Bear Brook State Park for less than the price of one movie ticket.
The senior exception is generally thought of as a kindness. In reality, it is a cross-subsidy. Every other user subsidizes the "free" access for senior citizens. If the general admission price is to stay low, the exception cannot continue. The parks system cannot afford to let so many people in for free. (The politician exception is inexcusable and never should have been passed in the first place.)
Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, has proposed legislation to offer seniors a $20 parks pass. For less than the price of a dinner for two, senior citizens could purchase a pass that would let them into every state park and historic site - and Cannon Mountain - for the year. On Thursday, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 17-7.
Stiles says that by charging seniors and the political class, the state parks will see about $300,000 a year in increased revenue. That money will go directly to the parks system, which has struggled financially in recent years even after some reforms that have improved revenues.
It is understandable that seniors would be annoyed by this change, and that Democrats (every senator to vote against the bill was a Democrat) would oppose it for purely self-interested political reasons. But really the current policy is indefensible. State parks fees are modest. Stiles' $20 pass is modestly priced (too modestly) as well. (The bill should include a separate, higher-priced pass for Cannon Mountain.) It is neither cruel nor unreasonable to ask seniors to contribute a tiny bit to the upkeep of the state parks if they want to use them.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 - a game I never knew I needed
For the past 48 hours, Euro Truck Simulator 2 has been at the top of the Steam charts after successfully making it on to the service via Greenlight. After watching and reading some surprisingly positive reviews / coverage of the game, I went ahead and bought a copy yesterday afternoon.
I have barely stopped playing it since. This game is so good. I'm not usually one for simulator games - truck-driving, least of all - but this game finds a magical sweet spot between the hours of driving and the company management features so that I really want to carry on building my haulage empire. So far, Old Mary McGee - CEO of "The Freight of Your Life" - owns two trucks and one garage in Glasgow, from which she and another staff member deliver everything from German ice cream to Scottish fertiliser to every corner of the continent (well... as far as Poland, which is where the map ends).
The most inspired feature of the game is the radio. The game can play mp3 files from your computer hard drive, as is typical of most PC driving games, but it also includes the ability to stream internet radio stations. ETS2 has a whole list of real European radio stations, all streaming live into your truck cabin. I would never have thought to request such a feature in a driving game, but now it would seem like madness to leave it out. There are at least 50 stations to choose from, but my personal recommendation is HotMixRadio, a French station that plays nothing but 80s classics.
The game has a fantastic controller wizard that lets you tweak deadzones and sensitivities and you can remap every single control in the game. The game actually plays really well with a 360 pad (or your nearest equivalent), so long as you remember to remap the acceleration / brakes to the triggers. You'll have to keep the keyboard close for some of the less-used controls though, because there's no way you can fit everything on to a pad.
When I first saw this game, I was intrigued but happy to wait until the next Steam sale to grab it at a lower price, but I am really glad I changed my mind and gave the developers the full cut. They really deserve it for making such an enjoyable game!
Has anyone else purchased this game? What are your thoughts on it?
(And, if you've yet to take the plunge, there's a FREE DEMO on the ETS2 website, something the Steam page should probably tell you about... The file is less than half a GB, so it's definitely worth a look!)


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Missing teenager 'angered' at scuppered uni plans
Police searching for missing teenager Nida Ul-Naseer, who vanished on 28 December after taking the rubbish out at her home in Newport say her disappearance remains a mystery, ITV News Correspondent Rupert Evelyn has tweeted from a police press conference.
Nida Ul-Naseer was angered by the fact that her status as an asylum seeker in the UK scuppered her plans to go to university, the press conference was told.
"Please come back home, we all worry about you, we can't live without you" says Nida's sister
Nida's status as an asylum seeker in this country prevents her from going to university. She was angered by this
Gwent police say Nida's disappearance remains a mystery http://t.co/xam0pZRSGC
Read more: Major search for missing teen


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After reading a Forbes.com profile of Tucker Max, a controversial Internet star who'd turned into an absurdly successful physical book author, I noticed that a very brief quote about the good qualities of MMA was almost buried into the piece. I reached out to Tucker in hopes of getting a few quick blurbs about the positive mention of MMA in a mainstream media publication and then mashing the whole thing together as a short post here on Bloody Elbow.
Tucker ruined those hopes by bouncing back and forth with me in a Q&A session that ranges from describing his discovery of the sport, the move to direct participation and the many connections he made with professionals and friends. The five-part interview is nearly 4500 words long and is interspersed with many highly passionate and profound thoughts at the positive experiences and values combat sports have for him and their applicability to others.
The first part of the interview dealt with his discovery of Brazilian jiu jitsu, subsequent humbling and the transition into training MMA at the original incarnation of Legend's in Hollywood, California. This second part looks a bit deeper into his actual training and moves us to Tucker's present, while I start to ask questions about what he gets from the sport.
This interview is done partly in support of his latest books, Hilarity Ensues and Sloppy Seconds, yet the interview is 100% Tucker, 100% relevant to MMA and there is no advertising or review thing going on here. Max was genuinely surprised by me reaching out and by my questions and welcomed the chance to talk about something other than his debauchery. I present his answers exactly as written (minus the bleeping out of a few cuss words). The books hit stores today and can be ordered online as well.
Hit the jump for the second of five parts encompassing Tucker's experiences and views on mixed martial arts, as told in his unique voice and featuring brief glimpses of some very prominent MMA fighters and figures.
Part One: Discovery of BJJ, The Jump to MMA, Training at Legend's in Hollywood, CA.
Part Three: Swimming in Deep Waters and Coming Out Alive
Part Four: The Exact Space MMA Occupies in his Life
Part Five: The Inside Story on Jeremie Myers and What Max Wants From MMA
Ben Thapa: How is it that Reggie Warren was able to get you to a competence point inside a year in which you could spar relatively well and we see MMA fighters who never pick up striking well?
Tucker Max: First off, he didn't make me a great boxer or anything, that obviously takes years, he basically just made into a mediocre MMA striking partner. That's not remotely the same thing. But that being said, I did learn very fast, much faster than most I think, and it was for two reasons:
1. Reggie has a very good understanding of technique, and from the beginning I specifically asked Reggie to focus on this with me and correct EVERY mistake I made, even if that meant he corrected me every five seconds. This is for a reason; the way the human brain learns, if you really take the time at the beginning and focus on perfecting your technique, it takes longer, but you form the correct neural pathways first.
This provides two benefits: You don't have to unlearn wrong habits, and your technique holds up under high stress situations because you imprinted the right habits. And yes, I read way too much neuroscience, but its cool when you apply it in real life. I think that's a big problem with fighters--they learned wrong striking techniques early or somehow developed bad habits, and either can't or won't unlearn them and relearn the correct way, because that's very difficult, and they don't have anyone in their camp that forces them to do that. It's not that they can't be good strikers; it's that they won't put in the right type of work.
2. Reggie would constantly keep my training at the edge of my competency, which accelerated my learning. In the literature, this is called "deliberate practice" and what it means in practice is that as I got better, Reggie increased his technique load or work load or his responses in sparring with me, so I was never just doing what I was good at; instead he was constantly pushing me just a little further to the edge of what I was able to do. It's the same concept behind progressive load weight training--you get better by adding weight. It takes a good teacher to do this right, and he is really f***ing good.
I guess there was one other thing that helped: I was only doing striking at the time, because I had a partially torn ACL from MMA and couldn't roll (which I later fully tore while having sex, that story is actually in Hilarity Ensues), so I was able to focus just on striking and train with him 3-4 times a week. That helps, of course.
BT: Where do you train now?
TM: I live in Austin, Texas now, and I split my time training between two places: a Relson Gracie affiliate run by Christy Thomas (and Phil Cardella, though he just left to open a place in Florida), and a new place that just started, a Gracie Humiata affiliate run by Donald Park. Both Christy and Donald are friends of mine and both their academies are great places to train, and I would recommend either to anyone interested.
The only thing that sucks now is that its tough to get true MMA specific instruction here, the way that I had it in LA. There just aren't many people who have enough experience in MMA to be effective teachers of it at this point, so in Austin, I kinda have to do everything separate; gi, no-gi, boxing, muay thai, and wrestling are pretty much all from different instructors or even different gyms. There are good teachers here for each specific thing, but I didn't realize how lucky I was in LA to have the MMA teachers who were full time MMA fighters and could put it all together the way that Mac did.
Austin has some amazing MMA fighters that train out of here. I've either seen at the gym or trained with Tim Kennedy, Kamal Shalorus, Yves Edwards and Roger Huerta in Austin. But none of them teach; MMA has gotten to the point where the big guys like this are getting paid enough they don't have to teach people like me anymore. That's cool for them, but kinda sucks for me. But whatever, its not like I'm training for a fight, it's not a big deal, there are still world class teachers here, I can't complain. Even though I guess I just did.
BT: Have you competed as an amateur or professional in any MMA? If so, did you do well or draw a positive experience from that?
TM: No man, no Mickey Rourke/Jose Canseco s**t for me. Tons of sparring of course, but never a real MMA fight. You know whats funny is, even when I was training 4-5 days a week at Legends, it never really occurred to me to actually take a full-on fight. I guess because I was training with so many guys who were all so good, and I was clearly not at their level, it never occurred to me to do it as well. I just had fun training with them, and that was enough for me.
I love MMA as a hobby, but thats very different than doing it seriously enough to take sanctioned fights. I'm not foolish enough to think I can train casually and then be ready to do a serious fight. That's ridiculous. Serious MMA competition--even at low levels--is a full time job, and a very hard one. One of the things I love about the way I train MMA is that I don't have to be totally serious about it, that I can take a day or even a week off, and it doesn't matter. It's my hobby, I love it as a hobby; I don't want to make it my job. You know the saying, "Marry your mistress, and you create a vacancy." I never wanted to do that.
End of Part Two
Part One: Discovery of BJJ, The Jump to MMA, Training at Legend's in Hollywood, CA.
Part Three: Swimming in Deep Waters and Coming Out Alive
Part Four: The Exact Space MMA Occupies in his Life
Part Five: The Inside Story on Jeremie Myers and What Max Wants From MMA
Stay tuned to Bloody Elbow as Parts Three to Five will appear daily until the end of the week (2/10/12).


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Exclusive: "I'm Sort Of The Anti-MC"
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011 3:50PM
New York spitter and 2011 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher artist Nitty Scott MC caught up with SOHH to discuss her music and The BoomBox Family movement.
According to Scott, delivering a breath of fresh air from a feminine point of view is key to creating a lasting impression among rap listeners.
"Nitty Scott the MC is all about being a barrier breaker. I want to break barriers as far as the mentality goes that there can be only one female entertainer dominating the lane at one time. I think its all about individuals like myself being willing to embrace our own sound, lane and who we are. If we do that, we can pave our own path and find our own niche."(SOHH)
The 21-year-old MC told SOHH that the rap game would benefit from encouraging diversity among female emcees.
"There are so many different types of women in the world and there should be that same balance within entertainment. No two women are the same, so I just want to be a part of bringing balance to the situation and not trying to be a cookie cutter repeat of a formula that we've already seen."(SOHH)
Nitty went on to add that she hopes to speak for a generation that prefer artists to go deeper than rap.
"Musically I want to bring back substance and lyricism to the culture. I feel like in a way I'm a part of true hip-hop culture's response to what's been going on; I'm sort of the anti-MC that's going to come and be the exact opposite of what's going on. But in the greater scope of things, it'll help bring balance to the game. There's a time and place for everything, and I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with just being an entertainer, but I do feel that the presence of the real skill-based MC is lacking." (SOHH)
Previously, Nitty discussed her appearance in the 2011 BET Hip Hop cypher and her increased popularity following the show's airing.
"I think it sends a strong message that you can stay true to yourself and your grind and still take your music to the next platform. There was no political hookup there, I'm not co-signed or affiliated with any other established rapper or group. BET sent me an e-mail that basically said the network would like Nitty Scott to be featured in this year's cypher. There were definitely alot of questions as far as who I am and where I'm coming from after the show aired. I saw a significant bump as far as the numbers on my YouTube videos and mixtape downloads. I'm very grateful to the BET network for taking notice of an independent artist." (SOHH)
One Web site recently listed Nitty as one of the top rappers under the age of 25.
Nitty Scott MC (age 21) - The 21 year old femcee who reps Brooklyn is relatively new but still a rising star. Looks aside, what Nitty brings is content and lyricism we haven't seen since MC Lyte. She is a B-Girl in its truest form.(thegrio.com)
Check out a freestyle by Nitty below:


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Nasa's Kepler telescope, which is searching the galaxy for Earth-like planets, has completed its primary mission and is now beginning its extended mission through to 2016 »
A newly discovered exoplanet joins the small but growing list of worlds other than our own that may host life »
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet roughly the size of Earth orbiting Alpha Centauri B »
The Kepler space telescope has spotted the most tightly-packed exoplanet system yet, with five planets orbiting around the star KOI-500 within a fraction of the distance between Mercury and our Sun »
A planet that orbits a pair of stars and has a second pair of stars revolving around has been discovered by volunteers using the Planethunters.org website »
A team of astrophysicists has estimated that an exoplanet twice the size of Earth is mainly made up of diamond »
Each of these dots represents an exoplanet discovered by Nasa's Kepler mission over the last two years -- and now you can explore them in 3D, simply by waving your hands »
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have been playing the role of super villain, by slowly vaporising the Earth. In a simulator, that is »
Data gathered from two stars using the Kepler telescope has been transformed into a reggae riff for an American band »
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been given the greenlight to build the world's largest optical telescope -- a monster €10 billion (£8 billion) skywatcher that will be capable of directly imaging large exoplanets »
The Hubble space telescope cannot look directly at the Sun, so Nasa astronomers have come up with a clever alternative to capture the last transit of planet Venus this century »
Billions of stars in our galaxy may have adopted orphan planets that were kicked out of their star system and forced to roam interstellar space »
Nasa has announced that 1,091 new transiting extrasolar planet candidates have emerged in data received from planet-hunting space telescope, Kepler. It brings the total count up to 2,321 exoplanet candidates. »
GJ 1214b, a planet some 40 light-years from Earth, is a water world. It's almost entirely made of liquid, is boiled to an estimated temperature of 230C and is enshrouded by a steamy atmosphere »
The society revealed the discovery of new exoplanets, photographs and answered a decades-old question on cosmic explosions. Wired.co.uk has rounded up the highlights »
Nasa's Kepler space telescope has detected two extrasolar planets that are not much larger than Earth, and possibly smaller, making them the smallest exoplanets found to date »
Nasa's planet-hunting Kepler telescope has discovered an exoplanet that has features much like Earth, orbits around a star that's much like our Sun, and lies in the middle of the habitable zone where it could hold liquid water »
A consortium of space experts from the likes of Nasa, SETI and the German Aerospace Center have proposed a new system for categorising freshly-discovered exoplanets, in the aim of pinpointing the extrasolar worlds most likely to harbour life »
More than 500 planets orbiting stars other than our own Sun have been discovered since 1995. But until recently, photographing these exoplanets was an impossible task »
An international team of astronomers has discovered evidence of ten new exoplanets outside of our solar system, orbiting foreign stars »
If recent measurements of cosmic ray particles are correct, then we may have the first evidence that the universe as we know it is really a giant computer simulation »
The new working environment is at once rec room and high street, coffee bar and potting shed »
Wired.co.uk reviews the Vodafone Smart 4 Turbo »


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By Alan Burke
Staff Writer
---- — IPSWICH — A fire that drew companies from Topsfield, Rowley and Essex, in addition to Ipswich, has destroyed a building off Route 1 that housed a plumbing business.
No injuries were reported. But the building, down a short drive at 39 Turnpike Road, was gutted and the walls blackened so that firefighters were tearing them down to insure that no flames lurked.
"We had to pull everything out," said Ipswich Fire Chief Jack Parow, "and hose it down."
The owner of the business reported the fire, according to Ipswich Fire Lt. Donald George.
The response to the blaze was slightly delayed when firefighters discovered that the nearest hydrant had frozen in the cold, and they had to find an alternative hydrant. The cause of the fire is still under investigation by Fire Prevention and state police.
There are questions about whether the fire started in a wood stove or because of some electrical problem, Parow said. A nearby shop was also damaged.
The fire was put out in about 45 minutes, but great plumes of smoke swirled around the site and into the trees for some time after that. Parow said there was little concern, however, that there were toxins in the building.
It's not uncommon for hydrants to freeze in the winter, he said, and fire trucks carry hundreds of gallons of water to deal with such problems.
Crews from Hamilton, Wenham and Manchester covered the town while Ipswich firefighters worked at the fire scene.


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Jelly in Nashua!
First Fridays
noon - 5 pm
Studio 99
$3 cover
Correction: Our Jelly is now on FIRST FRIDAYS!
video: Dave Seah
Jelly is a casual co-working event. It's taken place in over a hundred cities where people have come together (in a person's home, a coffee shop, or an office) to work for the day...
interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of.
You bring a laptop (or notebooks, art supplies, or whatever else you might need to get your work done) and a friendly disposition.
read more here: Work at Jelly
What does Studio 99 provide for the Jelly?
wireless internet ~ comfy seating and work tables ~ electricity and heat(!)
a gorgeous view of the river and plenty of natural light
an atmosphere already 100% devoted to creativity
restrooms ~ handicapped access ~ passenger elevator
a one-block proximity to Nashua's best restaurants and pubs
Keurig coffees and teas, soft drinks, water, Vitamin Water
chips, popcorn & chocolates available for purchase
Cost: $3 at the door
Parking: Jelly takes place during the daytime, unlike most of our events, so our usual parking advice doesn't entirely apply.
Parking (at meters only before 5 pm) in the Water Street lot is an option. Otherwise, consider parking on the street or in the High Street Garage.
Twitter: #nashuajelly
What is Jelly? from Amit Gupta on Vimeo.
This video was shot in New York City at the site of the first Jelly.


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Sorry to waste a fanpost on this guys. I was just wondering if any of my fellow residents from the best Hockey Blog on the planet will be running the Tough Mudder Tri State at Raceway Park, NJ on November 13.
My name is Sean and I am a diehard Flyer fan living in NY. I'm sorry to say that I didn't even think of organizing a team from here before, but if there is anyone running The Tough Mudder on this day and you don't have a team, you can feel free to join ours, (we have 18 people from NY, NJ, MA, TX, and NC running).
Just comment if you're interested and maybe we can organize a Broad Street Hockey Team for next year's event, (with the blessings of our overlords, of course).
Not only is it a fun, but excruciatingly hard course, but it also benefits a great charity, The Wounded Warrior Project.
Check Out: www.toughmudder.com
P.S. I have been a follower of this site since 2009 and haven't really been a poster, but I have to tell you that I think I'm going to start. This is my go to spot for all things Flyers and I've learned alot from Geoff, Travis, Eric, Dragon Girl, and so many others. Most of all, just looking forward to a great year from the boys, (Thank God for Center Ice).


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Message Filters allow you to add automation to your email workflow. When you're dealing with multiple email accounts and bombarded with messages on a daily basis, filters can help organize, label, mark, and reply to them automatically.
How to create a Message Filter
Creating a message filter is easy. Simply go to Tools | Message Filters, and choose the account to which the filter will apply. Then, click the New... button to create a new filter. The subsequent window should look very familiar to those who have ever created a Smart Playlist in iTunes. Name the filter, choose the search criteria which will narrow down the messages to a select few, and then decide which actions Postbox should perform.
Here is an example of a filter that finds messages sent from Postbox or contains the word Postbox in the subject, and automatically adds a Topic and marks them as a To-Do:
This is how the filter window reads: Match any message that is either from someone using a Postbox email address or mentions Postbox in the title. With those messages, Add the topic "Postbox" and mark them as a "To-Do".
Now that the filter is created, any messages that come in will be automatically filtered by Postbox. For emails that have already been received, there's a Run Now button at the bottom of the Message Filters window that will run the filter on the selected folder.
Note: For an explanation of Topics check out this article:
Message Filter Ideas
- Send an automatic message to senders who aren't in your address book
- Add a "Large Attachment" topic to messages that are larger than 5mb
- Set a High priority for messages sent from your bank or significant other
The possibilities are endless!
Run Filters on Messages
If you'd like to run Message Filters on a particular message, this is now possible in Postbox 3. To do this, first select the message and then go to Tools | Run Filters on Message.
Additionally, if you'd like to run filters on a group of messages, select them, and go to Tools | Run Filters on Selected Messages


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Mayor Calls for Probe of ACS after Queens Girl's Beating Death
By Ben Fractenberg on February 6, 2014 6:31pm
MELROSE — Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a review of the "policies and practices at ACS" on Thursday, a day after a Far Rockaway mother was arrested in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter.
Ashley Diaz, 28, was charged with second-degree murder after her daughter Kevasia Edwards was found unresponsive in their apartment at Beach 56th Place on Monday.
"We are going to take a very deep look and come back to the public with a vision of how to move forward," the mayor said at an unrelated press conference in the Bronx Thursday afternoon. "I cannot accept the death of any child and we have to make sure we are doing everything possible to protect our children."
Edwards' death was eerily similar to the death of Myls Dobson, who was allegedly tortured and starved by the woman looking after him in her Midtown apartment early January.
Prosecutors said Kevasia had suffered burns and broken bones and that Diaz stood idly by for more than a half hour while her daughter was unresponsive after suffering a seizure.
The mother had been investigated by the Administration for Children's Services multiple times, as recently as 2012, according to sources.
De Blasio added that there would be a "full investigation of each case," the details of which will be provided to the public.
"These cases affect me very personally as a parent and I cannot ever hear these reports and not feel something very strong," he said.


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For those of you who grew up in the 'burgh and moved away, raise your glass tonight in a toast to Chilly Billy Cardille.
In the rarest of honors, the City of Pittsburgh, and his hometown of Sharon, PA and Mercer County all proclaimed today Bill Cardille Day. It's hard for a Pittsburgher to mention Bill's name without breaking into a smile. He's all aces.Bill has had a 53 year career on Pittsburgh radio and tv and is still going strong. His was the voice that signed on WIIC-TV Channel 11 in September, 1957.
As President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of AFTRA, he personally raised hell to get the union's insurance carrier to cover the medical condition of the son of fellow AFTRAn, Myron Cope. At that point, autism was considered mental illness and Danny's medical expenses were not covered under Myron's policy. In Cope's book, Myron specifically mentions Bill's successful efforts, saying that Cardille saved him and Mildred from financial ruin. In Myron's words, Bill, "had rescued me by putting fierce pressure on New York union headquarters." When I tried to ask Bill about his role in all this while preparing an article on Myron, he declined to be interviewed. Bill is not just a good and decent man, he's modest to boot.
Bill was the host of the enormously popular Studio Wrestling program on Saturdays on WIIC for about 15 years. Like Cope, he could have parlayed that into a national career, but his loyalty was to the 'burgh. Still, the program was syndicated, and Bill was also a popular personality in Boston and a number of other cities where it ran.
For twenty years, he was host of Chiller Theater, every Saturday night. Double feature make-out time! And if you can remember SCTV, comedian Joe Flaherty's Monster Horror Chiller Theater was a loving tribute/knock-off of his fellow Pittsburgher's Saturday night ritual. Bill also had a major role in the horror classic "Night of the Living Dead."
Bill is still active, in his mid-80's, doing a midday shift, playing oldies on WJAS. And he's still doing the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon every year. And still happily married. And daughter Laurie has her own career as an actress. It's been a wonderful life - and still is - for someone who is like a great friend and member of the family for so many of us.
My grandfather used to love to watch Studio Wrestling. Now admit it, so did yours! And we all loved Bruno and the Crusher. And Pie Traynor. And those interviews. And Ringside Rosie and Izzy the semi-blind referee.
For those Steeler fans who have never been to Pittsburgh, please bear with the rest of us. Chilly Billy has been a member of our extended family, much like the Rooneys and Myron and Franco and Jerome and Maz and Bob Prince. Special people for someplace special.
From all of us in the Pittsburgh diaspora, and all of us still in the Greater Pittsburgh area, here's a toast: To Chilly Billy! Who can? (all together now: AMERICAN!)


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Engineering & Technology Club
The Engineering and Technology Club is designed to provide students with the opportunity to learn about elementary structural engineering, computer engineering, and electrical engineering by building metallic robots that are capable of performing predetermined tasks within a specified time period. Ingenuity, dexterity, and creativity are used to manage the robot in competition.
Bishop McNamara participates in a regional Vex competition at the College of Southern Maryland against teams from Charles, St. Mary's and Calvert County. Students who join this club must be committed to competing and to attend the weekly meetings on Monday from 3:30 until 5:00 pm.


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Sparkling Pineapple Ginger Ale
Serves 4| Hands-On Time: | Total Time:
- 1 12-ounce can ginger ale
- 1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
- 4 pieces fresh pineapple, cut into triangles
- In a pitcher, combine the ginger ale and pineapple juice. Serve over ice with a piece of pineapple.
- For an instant cocktail: Stir in 1/2 cup light rum before serving.
Nutritional Information
- Per Serving
- Calories 77Calories From Fat 0
- Protein 0g
- Carbohydrate 19g
- Sugar 17g
- Fiber 0g
- Fat 0g
- Sat Fat 0g
- Sodium 12mg
- Cholesterol 0mg
What does this mean? See Nutrition 101 .
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Klaus Schwab
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Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos 2007
March 30, 1938
Ravensburg, Germany
|Alma mater
|ETH Zürich,
University of Fribourg,
Harvard University
|Founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum
|Hilde Schwab
Klaus Martin Schwab (born March 30, 1938) is a Swiss engineer and economist, best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.[1] His wife and former secretary, Hilde, co-founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship[2] with him. He was born in 1938, in Ravensburg.
In 1971, Schwab founded the World Economic Forum as a not-for-profit foundation committed to improving the state of the world, later building it into today's global partnership of business, political, and intellectual leaders.
In 1998, Schwab and his wife founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2004, Schwab created a new foundation using the US$1 million prize money from the Dan David Prize he received that year from Israel. The Forum of Young Global Leaders[3] aims to bring together over 500 people under 40 from all walks of life who have demonstrated their commitment to improving the state of the world, and encourage them to work together over the span of five years to identify and realize global change.
Dr. Schwab holds a Doctorate in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Fribourg, a Doctorate in Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Additionally, he has been the recipient of over a dozen honorary doctorates and is an honorary professor of the Ben-Gurion University of Israel[4] and the China Foreign Affairs University.[5]
Professional life[edit]
Schwab was Professor of Business Policy at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 2002. He is the author of several books. Since 1979, he has published the Global Competitiveness Report, an annual report assessing the potential for increasing productivity and economic growth of countries around the world, written by a team of economists.[6] The report is based on a methodology developed by Schwab, measuring competitiveness not only in terms of productivity but also based on sustainability criteria.[7]
Other activities[edit]
From 1993-1995, Schwab was a member of the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.[8] From 1996-1998, he was Vice-Chairman of the UN Committee for Development Planning.[9] He also exercised a number of functions in the global public interest, such as being a member of The Peres Centre for Peace[10] and a member of the board of the Lucerne Festival.[11] During the earlier years of his career, he was on a number of company boards, such as The Swatch Group, The Daily Mail Group, and Vontobel Holding. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[12]
Awards and decorations[edit]
- Grand Cordon Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ "Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman | World Economic Forum-Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman". Weforum.org. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ^ "Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Home". Schwabfound.org. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ^ "The Forum of Young Global Leaders | World Economic Forum-The Forum of Young Global Leaders". Weforum.org. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ^ "University Units - Honorary Awards". Web.bgu.ac.il. 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ^ "China Foreign Affaire University". Cfau.edu.cn. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ^ "Global Competitiveness | World Economic Forum-Global Competitiveness". Weforum.org. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
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Southern Nevadans are making a mad rush for our bordering states as the Powerball jackpot is expected to reach $400 million by Wednesday's drawing.
Many of those people dreaming of riches headed to California. They all have big plans in the unlikely event of a win.
"Charter a plane to go all over the world," said one lotto customer.
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"Think I'll just buy a nice, big camper trailer and hit the road," another player added.
Powerball hopeful Cesar Ramirez said he has a system for picking numbers.
"Whatever you feel is lucky. You could go with seven, 21, whatever you feel comfortable with," he said.
Others just leave it up to fate.
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Despite the big dreams, every player knows the chances of winning are slim.
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If you still want to play, you've got until 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
California only started selling Powerball tickets in April. Following that, the Powerball jackpot climbed to about $600 million, setting a record.
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Mortal Kombat Banned In Australia... But Here's Good News For The Rest of Us!
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Written by Eric Dionne Saturday, February 26 2011 01:38
Well, some of you may have already heard the news. My beloved Mortal Kombat is banned in Australia. Thankfully... I don't live in Australia. The downside to this is sometimes the banhammer can drop and some splashback can hit the USA, so let's hope nothing happens here. The good news is we've been given way more info on the game, including characters and descriptions of fatalities that we have not seen in action yet. Read on for more info, thanks to the guys from www.gamepron.com!
A ban in Australia can bring awesome info to those of us living in a country where the game is NOT banned. Thankfully, I'll still get my hands on this amazingly brutal game. But as you will read, it has been told to us that the game will boast over 60 fatalities. Not only that, there can be up to four fatalities UNLOCKED for each character. So this means that those pre-order exclusives ARE most likely early just access codes, and not some future DLC. Although, I 100% expect DLC fatalities, characters, and attires regardless.
This is by far some of the best news I have read on the new Mortal Kombat game. These fatalities sound brutal, as does story mode and other features. I just need this game so bad right now, you have no idea.
So here is the 3 page document, courtesy of www.gamepron.com.
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"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are Free at last!" said Dr. Martin Luther King's at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in August 28, 1963. He was not popular at that time.In April, 1963 the 34 year old Atlanta Minister was in jail. He wrote "Letter From Birmingham City Jail" in which he described nonviolent civil disobedience and direct individual action in response to a newspaper article by eight local white clergymen who denounced his leadership of nonviolent demonstrations.
Reverend King, Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez all drew inspiration about civil disobedience from a letter written by poet Henry David Thoreau from an 1849 Massachusetts jail. His crime? Refusal to pay personal income taxes to fund the war that Americans started against Mexico. In "Resistance to Civil Government" Thoreau explained his action.
"Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool…. In other words, when a sixth of the population, of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty, are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law….What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army".
By 1964 King was declared "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the US Congress had passed The 1964 Civil Rights Act. He could have rested with this public approval and acceptance, but he began to speak out against the Vietnam War and he was branded as "unpatriotic". On April 4, 1967 he gave a speech, "Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break Silence" at Riverside Church in New York City. "We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers…my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak now not of the soldiers of each side…but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now…Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population…".
(By 1975 more 1,5000,000 Americans had served in Vietnam combat; 275,000 of these soldiers were Black and 170,000 were Spanish surnamed, mainly Mexican Americans). In March, 1967 King marched against the war in the streets Chicago. In 1970, led by Chicano activists, 30,000 anti-war protesters, many from San Jose, took part in the National Chicano Moratorium March in Los Angeles.
In February and March 1968, Cesar began a water-only fast against violence that lasted 25 days. Martin sent him a telegraph, "Our separate struggles are really one. A struggle for freedom, for dignity and for humanity." Thirty days later, on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was murdered.
December, 1970 found Cesar Chavez jailed in Salinas, California for refusing to obey a court injunction to stop a lettuce boycott. Coretta Scott King, Martin's widow, visited him there during the 14 days he spent behind bars.
On November 9, 1984 Cesar addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. He said, "Once social change begins it cannot be reversed…. our accomplishments cannot be undone. La Causa, our cause, doesn't have to be experienced twice. The consciousness and pride that were raised by our union are alive and thriving inside millions of young Hispanics who will never work on a farm".
Today, we continue to witness our country attempt to solve world problems through war.
Dr. King would remind us to" keep our eye on who is dying and who benefits from war. Those who benefit most are not the poor and their families, friend or foe, yet they must daily face the barrel of destruction".
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I just had a chance to view the new Star Trek movie.
As a fan of Star trek, I have to say that this latest edition of the series is the worst. They totally lost all the qualities that makes Star Trek a series above the rest. As with all movies today, the concept is borderline sound, but the execution is horrible. The greatest flaw with movies today is the total reliance on technology to present a vision. If you examine the trek movies of old -- Concept, Vision, Execution was the order of the day. And because they didn't have the technological tools {CGI} we have in this modern era, they had to make due with much less. And it worked, because it forced them to be CREATIVE.
Fast-forward to Star Trek 2009. What is it with this society that everyone has to be made into a some sort of HERO with other-worldly characteristics and attributes. Kirk, for some reason that totally escapes me, is transformed into a super being from birth.
What's wrong with an ordinary man that does extra-ordinary things?
And that is the beginning of this movies faults. In an effort to make Kirk into an Anakin Skywalker, of the Star Trek world, they compromised the potential plot of the movie. Every actor is flying by the seat of their pants and pretty much do what they want, when they want. Eliminating the concept of discipline that has been a hallmark of every Trek film to date. The timeline of technology is totally ignored for the sake of making a spectacular special effects movie.
Is it me? Or has the advancement of technology diminished our ability to be creative.
This movie answers that question by putting technology and its use ahead of any pure creativity demonstrated by the writers, producers, actors and its director.
Hey!!! Hollywood .... don't do any more remakes or walks down memory lane.
Star Trek 2009
Graphics - Very Good
Concept - Mediocre
Sound - Very Good
Acting - Some bright spots ... but mostly subpar
Adherence to Star Trek lore - Poor


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Cloyde S. Peebler, 79, of Bath, died Sunday, September 20, 2009 in Liberty Nursing Home, Allentown. Born August 15, 1930 in Milan, Ill., he was the son of the late Cloyde and Clara (Sydnor) Peebler. He was married to Elizabeth (Meseros) Szabo-Peebler with whom he celebrated 12 years of marriage. Cloyde worked as a truck driver for Consolidated Freight for many years and after retiring served as the road commissioner in Illinois. He proudly served his country in the Army during the Korean War.
Survivors: He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Elizabeth (Meseros) Szabo-Peebler; son, Michael Peebler and his wife, Jackie; daughters, Julie, wife of Tim Phelps and Debbie Hargrave; stepdaughters, Mary Capozzolo, Juliann Bruneio and Loriann Barbera; brother, Wes Peebler and his wife, Mary; six grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Also surviving are 11 stepgrandchildren, a stepgreat-granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Margaret Peebler, a stepdaughter, Betty Ann Szabo, and a sister, Marsha Staddler.


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MABSCOTT (WVVA) -- One of the two homes burned Monday in Raleigh County belongs to Mabscott Mayor Wayne Houck. Houck spoke exclusively to WVVA Tuesday afternoon.
He says he was on a camping trip for the holiday weekend when he got the call that changed his life. By the time he returned home, his home was fully engulfed. Now only the shell remains.
State Fire Marshals are investigating the cause, but Houck says he thinks he knows what happened.
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1. Reframe The Problem or Phrase Question Differently
When we phrase a question or problem in a different light, we are more likely to find more solutions. We often look at things from a single angle preventing us from seeing all the possibilities. Some ways to think more creatively for this are to phrase the question differently or to put the problems in a different scenario.
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Logical thinking can prevent us from innovative thoughts, because when we think logically we only use what we know. Creative ideas are built from what we do not know. To facilitate this process, you can look for inspirations from music, arts or people. Or you can use your dreams to come up with solutions. Studies show that dreams help us problem solve and one advantage is that dreams do not follow logic, but instead give us insights.
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Tue, 04/04/2006 - 10:30pm
Of note to a lot of "the gays" this week was a rumor that the police raided a bunch of gay bars this weekend and arrested people on drug charges. (We have a certain sensitivity to police raids on our bars considering the way the modern gay right movement began at the Stonewall Inn.)
The rumor continued that some guys arrested had nothing to do with the drug dealing going on. The rumors, at least part of them, were true; in an article you might have missed in the Times today was the story that "Police Say Focus in Club Raids Was Crime, Not Gay Clientele." I was struck by the defensive tone of the headline—does it say it all?
But the police said that the raids had nothing to do with the businesses' clientele or ownership. The raids were conducted under court orders obtained by the police and signed by state justices under the city's Nuisance Abatement Law. The police sought the civil orders after an investigation that resulted in the arrests of 20 people involved in selling drugs, along with other crimes.
"I've been talking to people all day about this," said Corey Johnson, a community activist who is the political director for Mark Green, the former city public advocate who is now running for state attorney general. "It's been the buzz of not just Chelsea, but the gay community around the city."[I've written before that Corey should get a degree if he wants to continue his career in politics, but that's not really relevant to this discussion.]
"There was a large amount of drugs and violations of the law taking place at these locations," Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said yesterday.
The fact that most of the establishments in question were gay or mixed (Avalon was characterized by the article as straight, which is not fully accurate) raises the question whether gay clubs and bars (and one gay gym!) were targeted, or if there is more drug use in gay clubs, bars (and gyms) than straight ones. Not ever having been part of the club culture (nor having a gym membership), I couldn't tell you, but it's interesting that the question is being raised by the Paper of Record.
It's also nice to read about such things in print, when all you've heard is rumors for several days. Sometimes stories about our community slip through the cracks—I was happy to see this one didn't.