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|The Ultimate Fighter
|Reality, Sports
|Created by
|Craig Piligian, Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta, Dana White
|Dana White, UFC Roster
|Country of origin
|United States
|No. of episodes
|150+ (including 15 live Ultimate Finales)
|Executive producer(s)
|Craig Piligian
|Running time
|60 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Pilgrim Films & Television
|Original channel
|Spike TV (2005–2011)
Fox Sports 1 (2013-present)
|Original run
|January 17, 2005 – Present
|The Ultimate Fighter
|Reality, Sports
|Created by
|Craig Piligian, Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta, Dana White
|Dana White, UFC Roster
|Country of origin
|United States
|No. of episodes
|150+ (including 15 live Ultimate Finales)
|Executive producer(s)
|Craig Piligian
|Running time
|60 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Pilgrim Films & Television
|Original channel
|Spike TV (2005–2011)
Fox Sports 1 (2013-present)
|Original run
|January 17, 2005 – Present
The Ultimate Fighter is an American reality television series and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition produced by the FX Network and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).[1] It previously aired for fourteen seasons on Spike TV. The show features professional MMA fighters living together in Las Vegas, Nevada, and follows them as they train and compete against each other for a prized contract with the UFC. The series debuted on January 17, 2005, with its first episode, "The Quest Begins". To date, there have been seventeen seasons of the show, two per calendar year. Each season features either one or two weight classes in the tournament.
The historic Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar fight in the first season drew millions of viewers to the show and launched the sport into the mainstream. Because of this success, The Ultimate Fighter was regarded as instrumental to the survival and expansion of the UFC and mixed martial arts into the mainstream. Many current and past UFC fighters are alumni of the show, with some competitors going on to become coaches in future seasons. The show has undergone multiple format changes since its inception, including the introduction of the wildcard bout. Many winners have gone on to compete for UFC championships with some becoming UFC champions.
The Ultimate Fighter was originally an experimental series financed by the owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III. The series was aired on Spike TV as a last resort measure to gain mainstream exposure for mixed martial arts (MMA).[2]
During the early days of Spike TV, the channel wanted sports programming, but had no budget for sports licensing fees. Spike TV founder Albie Hecht began a search to find programming with broad appeal that the network could afford. In the end it Spike narrowed its choices down to the UFC and K-1. Hecht flew to Japan to meet with the head of K-1, but insulted his geisha, so the meeting did not go well. Weeks later, Hecht met with Lorenzo Fertitta in Las Vegas. Hecht was impressed by the UFC's celebrity following, its plan to acquire and consolidate smaller promotions into the UFC, and with Dana White's ability to be a "Vince McMahon"-like personality.[3]
Hecht saw K-1 as a safer bet, given it had more international notoriety. He was also not a fan of the grappling aspects of MMA, but the UFC rebuffed his suggestion to change the rules of the sport to accommodate striking. Hecht credits Kevin Kay and his editorial collaboration with the UFC for highlighting the show's story lines, which he believes helped drive its ratings success.[3]
Airing after World Wrestling Entertainment's flagship show WWE Raw, The Ultimate Fighter's debut episode was able to garner a 57% retention rate in viewers from RAW, which was double the usual rate for Spike TV.[4] It is believed by some[who?] that WWE's Vince McMahon had to approve The Ultimate Fighter following RAW, but this is incorrect. According to Hecht, McMahon did not have the final say, but given his stature and RAW's' importance to Spike TV at the time, the network wanted McMahon to "be on board" with the program lineup. At the time Hecht believes the WWE did not see the UFC as a challenge.[3]
The live finale for the first season saw the historic bout of Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar. Now widely regarded as the most influential fight in MMA history,[5] the bout took place in what was the first ever MMA event on live and free television.[5] The bout ended in a unanimous decision victory for Griffin and led to the show's renewal on Spike TV.[2] Regarding the success of the show, UFC president Dana White said, "It's amazing to think.... how close we came to not being here today. If it weren't for what these guys did, I don't know if there would even be a UFC. I'll never forget these guys. Ever."[2]
The renewal of the show saw UFC produce two more series, before subsequent renewals. In order to garner more attention for the sport, The Ultimate Fighter utilizes gimmicks: one notable example, in the ninth season, employed a country vs. country theme, with the United States competing against the United Kingdom. These gimmicks enabled the UFC to appeal to fans that had been recently introduced to the sport during UFCs penetration into the European market.[6] The Ultimate Fighter also drew record viewing figures for Spike TV when YouTube sensation Kimbo Slice participated in the tenth season. Slice's fight against veteran Roy Nelson attracted viewers to the sport, drawing an audience of 6.1 million, making it one of the most viewed MMA fights in history.[7]
As part of a new broadcasting relationship between the UFC and Fox Sports, The Ultimate Fighter moved to FX beginning in season 15.[1] Season 14 was the final season of the series to air on Spike, who considered the relationship to be "incredibly beneficial in building both our brands."[8] In September 2013, the series moved to Fox's new mainstream sports network Fox Sports 1.[9]
For the first four seasons, prospect UFC fighters from two different weight categories were selected to compete. The fighters are divided into two teams,[10] irrespective of weight class, with each team coached by a current UFC headliner. The teams then compete (in a manner which varies by season) with the loser being eliminated from the competition. Often, incentives are provided for the team of a winning fighter. This can include the right for their team to select the next matchup, in order to pick off fighters from the opposing team by selecting favourable matchups.[11]
At the end of a season, the two remaining fighters of each weight class are placed in a single-elimination fight at Ultimate Fighter Finales, such as The Ultimate Fighter 1 Finale where the title of Ultimate Fighter is awarded to the winner.[12] Seasons five to seven and ten to twelve have featured fighters from just one weight class each, with the other seasons focusing on two weight classes.
The show features the daily preparations each fighter makes to train for competition at the UFC training center,[10] and the interactions they have with each other living under the same roof. Day-to-day events on the show are overseen by UFC president Dana White.[13]
With the exception of the season finales, fights on The Ultimate Fighter are sanctioned by the Nevada Athletic Commission as exhibition matches and do not count for or against a fighter's professional record.[14] This is done to keep the results from going public before the air date. However, going into the semi-final stage of each series, fights are scheduled for the full professional three rounds, as opposed to two rounds (with the possibility of a sudden victory round) for all stages prior.[15] Though officially exhibition fights, the UFC chooses to record the results of semi-final matchups. For example, the seventh season winner Amir Sadollah has one more win on his UFC record[16] than on his official record[17] due to his victory in his season's semi-final round.
The first six seasons featured sixteen fighters, in either one or two weight categories.[18] The first two seasons, however, were very different from each following season. The original format for The Ultimate Fighter saw each team compete in challenges, such as hoisting their respective coach up on their shoulders and sprinting down a beach,[19] or a team tug-of-war.[20] These challenges resulted in eliminations of fighters who hadn't fought, until late in the season when the challenge incentive was to select the next fight where fighters would be eliminated, having lost the fight. In the first two seasons, fighters would also leave the house for good upon losing and this often resulted in odd numbers for teams, which forced the moving of fighters to opposing teams.[21]
Beginning in season four, fighters were no longer removed from the house after losing their fights and did not switch teams except in extraordinary cases, such as being kicked off a team by the head coach.[22] In the seventh season, instead of the usual sixteen fighters, thirty-two fighters participated. This new rule introduced a preliminary fight, in order to get into the house, which gave the coaches an early evaluation.[18][23]
The final change to date was the introduction of the "wild card" for seasons 11-13. In seasons 11 & 12, 28 fighters competed in the preliminary round, with the winning fourteen entering the house. A "wild card" bout would take place at the end of the "round-of-fourteen" featuring two of the losing fighters. The winner of the wild card bout would then be included in the quarterfinal round of eight fighters.[24] This format proved highly successful for middleweight fighter Kris McCray, who took part in season 11's wild card bout. Having lost his opening match in the house, he won the wild card bout to reach the quarter finals and went on to win his next two bouts, reaching the tournament final.[25] The wild card bout was instituted one last time in season 13, which only featured 14 fighters in the house & no preliminary fights.
The winners of the first three seasons of The Ultimate Fighter competition, and certain runners-up depending on their performance in their competition finals, receive the touted "six-figure" contract to fight in the UFC. These contracts are specifically three-year contracts with a guaranteed first year.[26] Each year consists of three fights, the first year's purse per fight consists of $12,000 guaranteed with a $12,000 win bonus (a maximum of $24,000 per fight). The second year's purse per fight is $16,000 with a $16,000 win bonus (a maximum of $32,000 per fight) and the third year's purse per fight is at $22,000 with a $22,000 win bonus (a maximum of $44,000 per fight).[26]
A TUF winner who goes 9–0 can earn $300,000 total on the contract, but only $150,000 is guaranteed for all three years if nine fights are fought.[26] Some TUF competitors who did not win the series were also offered UFC contracts, although not on as attractive terms.[27]
With the exception of seasons two, four, eleven and thirteen, fifteen, sixteen and the first season of TUF: Brazil the coaches fought each other after the conclusion of the show. Season two featured Rich Franklin and Matt Hughes, who were in different weight categories, eliminating the possibility for a post-season fight. The fourth season saw multiple guest coaches take the lead, differing from other seasons with two clearly designated coaches.[28] As such, these seasons did not feature their respective coaches in competition. Season eleven coaches Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell's fight was cancelled due to Ortiz's need for neck fusion surgery.[29] Season thirteen saw the fight between Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos cancelled after Lesnar was diagnosed with his second bout of diverticulitis.[30] 2012 saw the cancellation of a bout between season 15 coaches Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber, due to a torn ACL for Cruz.[31] In addition, the expected match between the TUF: Brazil coaches Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva did not occur after Belfort sustained a broken hand while preparing for the fight.[32] Season 16 was supposed to feature a fight between coaches Roy Nelson and Shane Carwin, though this was also cancelled after Carwin suffered a knee injury.[33]
In addition to the seasons which did not feature post-season fights between the coaches, several seasons have been impacted, forcing postponements. Due to injuries to the season six coaches Matt Serra and Matt Hughes, their fight was postponed. Serra suffered a herniated disc in his lower back and Hughes later suffered a torn MCL before the fight finally took place at UFC 98.[34] The fight between season ten coaches Rashad Evans and Quinton Jackson took place at UFC 114 with Rashad Evans winning by unanimous decision.[35] The fight was postponed by five months due to Jackson's A-Team filming commitments and his temporary decision to retire from fighting.[36]
Though rarely taking place at the live finales, the coaches' fights are an important part of each season of The Ultimate Fighter. With each season effectively hyping the fight and the individuals for multiple weeks,[37] the fights are usually the focal point of the pay-per-view event in which they are featured. The coaches' fights have resulted in the following matchups and results:
|UFC 52: Couture vs. Liddell 2
|Chuck Liddell
|Randy Couture
|KO (Punch) at 2:03 of round 1.
|Liddell won the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
|UFC 61: Bitter Rivals
|Tito Ortiz
|Ken Shamrock
|TKO (Punches) at 1:18 of round 1.
|Rematched just three months later[40]
|The Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale
|B.J. Penn
|Jens Pulver
|Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:12 of round 2.
|UFC 98: Evans vs. Machida
|Matt Hughes
|Matt Serra
|Decision (Unanimous)
|Heavily delayed – see above.
|UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin
|Forrest Griffin
|Quinton Jackson
|Decision (Unanimous)
|Griffin won the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
|UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
|Frank Mir
|Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
|TKO (Punches) at 1:54 of round 2.
|Mir won the Interim UFC Heavyweight Championship
|Dan Henderson
|Michael Bisping
|KO (Punch) at 3:20 of round 2.
|UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans
|Rashad Evans
|Quinton Jackson
|Decision (Unanimous)
|Heavily delayed – see above
|UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin
|Rich Franklin
|Chuck Liddell
|KO (Punch) at 4:55 of round 1.
|Franklin replaced Ortiz as head coach in the final episode; fought Liddell[48]
|UFC 124: St-Pierre vs. Koscheck 2
|Georges St-Pierre
|Josh Koscheck
|Decision (Unanimous)
|St-Pierre retained the UFC Welterweight Championship
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller Finale
|Michael Bisping
|Jason Miller
|TKO (Knees to the body and punches) at 3:34 of round 3.
|UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs. Pearson
|Ross Pearson
|George Sotiropoulos
|TKO (Punches) at 0:41 of round 3.
|Jon Jones
|Chael Sonnen
|TKO (Punches and Elbows) at 4:33 of round 1.
|Jones retained the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
|Brazil 2
|UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum
|Fabricio Werdum
|Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
|Submission (armbar) at 2:41 of round 2.
|Ronda Rousey
|Miesha Tate
|Submission (armbar) at 0:58 of round 3.
|Rousey retained the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship
The first season of The Ultimate Fighter was the last attempt by the UFC to capture public interest in the sport. The Stephan Bonnar and Forrest Griffin bout saved the sport according to many journalists and Dana White. Griffin and Sanchez are also regarded as the original Ultimate Fighters, after their wins at the finale.[51]
The second season saw welterweights and heavyweights compete, featuring coaches Rich Franklin and Matt Hughes. The final saw Rashad Evans defeating Brad Imes and Joe Stevenson defeating Luke Cummo.[52]
The third season highlighted the long-standing rivalry between Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock.[53] It was also the first season to feature competitors from outside of North America, after the addition of Michael Bisping and Ross Pointon. The season saw a format change, when the team-games were eliminated in favour of a conventional knockout style tournament format.[53] The final fights saw Michael Bisping become the first non-American winner, defeating Josh Haynes and Kendall Grove defeat Ed Herman.[54]
The fourth season was different to others before it, as it was the "comeback" season. Past UFC fighters who hadn't had the success they were expected to have, were invited back, to compete in the show, with the winner receiving a guaranteed title shot.[55] This season was also the only one to date to not feature team coaches. Instead, the show had guest coaches each week.[55] The final saw Matt Serra defeat Chris Lytle and Travis Lutter defeat Patrick Côté to receive their guaranteed title shots.[56]
The fifth season was coached by Jens Pulver and B.J. Penn, as the company attempted to kickstart the lightweight division.[57] The show featured many of the future stars of the lightweight division such as Nate Diaz, Joe Lauzon, Gray Maynard, Matt Wiman and Cole Miller.Despite the fact that Team Pulver won 5 out of the first eight fights, the 3 fighters who made it through the quarterfinals on Team Penn are still in the UFC which are Gray Maynard, Matt Wiman and Joe Lauzon while Cole Miller, Manvel Gamburyan, and Nate Diaz from Team Pulver are still in the UFC.The final was contested by Nate Diaz and Manvel Gamburyan, with Gamburyan falling to a shoulder injury early on.[58]
Former winner Matt Serra returned to the show in the sixth season to coach alongside Matt Hughes and oversaw a group of welterweight fighters.[59] The final saw veteran Mac Danzig defeat Tommy Speer to become The Ultimate Fighter, before he dropped to the lightweight division.[60] Arguably, only George Sotiropoulos has gone on to have any success post-TUF, having gone on a 7 fight win streak after The Ultimate Fighter,[61] while season winner Danzig has hovered around the .500 mark since his season win.[62]
The seventh season saw another format change, as fighters had to compete to be official castmembers. Instead of the usual 16 fighters, the season had 32 fighters after Dana White claimed that he was tired of fighters coming onto the show for airtime.[63] This season was coached by UFC Light Heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson and challenger Forrest Griffin, the first season's winner. The season's final was due to be competed between Amir Sadollah, who hadn't competed in a professional fight before the show, and Jesse Taylor. However, Taylor was kicked off the show after filming had completed, when he kicked the window out of a limosine in Las Vegas.[64] His slot was taken by C.B. Dollaway who defeated Tim Credeur for the right,[64] but Sadollah won in the final to become The Ultimate Fighter.[65]
The eighth season was coached by UFC Interim Heavyweight champion Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir, with lightweights and light heavyweights being the focus for the season.[66] The show was largely dominated by the actions of Junie Browning, who would regularly get drunk and act in an aggressive manner towards his fellow castmates.[67] The two fights at the final saw Efrain Escudero defeat Phillipe Nover and Ryan Bader defeat Vinny Magalhães.[68]
The ninth season saw a United States vs. United Kingdom theme for the show, with Dan Henderson and Michael Bisping coaching the respective sides.[69] The two sides contrasted, with the UK side showing close friendship (with many coming from Team Rough House), whilst the US team appeared fractured.[70] The lightweight final saw Team Rough House teammates Andre Winner and Ross Pearson face off for the contract, with Pearson coming out on top via decision. The welterweight final saw James Wilks defeat DaMarques Johnson via submission in the opening round, handing the UK team a 2-0 victory.[71]
The tenth season was the first season to feature only heavyweights and was largely built around the internet sensation Kimbo Slice and former NFL players.[72][73] The two coaches were former UFC Light Heavyweight champions Quinton Jackson and Rashad Evans who squabbled throughout the entire season, hyping their eventual fight further. However, midway through the airing of the season, it was announced that Jackson was filming The A-Team, as its lead character B. A. Baracus, leading to the postponement of the coaches' fight.[74] The season also featured several former NFL players, with one - Brendan Schaub - making the final of the show. Additionally, the season was occasionally criticised after the cardio of the heavyweights came into question.[75] The final saw MMA veteran Roy Nelson and Brendan Schaub, with Nelson winning via first round knockout.[76]
The eleventh season saw former UFC Light Heavyweight champions Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell coach the two teams.[77] Unlike previous seasons, the number of competitors in the house was reduced to 14, with 7 progressing to the quarter-finals. An eighth was added via a "wildcard" bout - a bout between two losers from the round of 14.[78] The slots went to Kyacey Uscola and Kris McCray, which saw McCray win via submission. McCray would then go on to avenge his earlier defeat, in the semi-finals, defeating Josh Bryant.[79] The season was blighted by injuries to multiple competitors, such as the withdrawal of Nick Ring, after he required knee surgery. After Rich Attonito pulled out of the competition, his quarter final place was taken by Court McGee.[80] Court McGee and Kris McCray met in the final, where McGee would win via submission to become The Ultimate Fighter.[81]
The twelfth season saw the UFC Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre coach alongside former opponent and number one contender to the title, Josh Koscheck.[82] The season saw the continuation of the wildcard format and 14-man tournament bracket. The show's number one pick was Marc Stevens, who would go on to lose in one of the quickest submissions (via guillotine choke) in the show's history.[83] The wildcard slots went to Marc Stevens and Aaron Wilkinson, with Wilkinson handing Stevens his second successive guillotine choke loss.[84] The show was dominated by Josh Koscheck's attempts to annoy Georges St-Pierre, with St-Pierre's paramedic getting involved in the arguments with Koscheck.[83] The finale was a match between Jonathan Brookins and Michael Johnson on December 4, 2010 which resulted in Brookins winning via unanimous decision.[85]
The thirteenth season was coached by former UFC Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos, who would later go on to win the same title. This season featured welterweights and removed the elimination bouts to get into the house, with 14 fighters immediately gaining entry into the house.[86] The first day of training saw Myles Jury pull out of the competition with a knee injury.[86] The wildcard made another appearance, with Javier Torres and Chuck O'Neil getting the slots, leading to a submission victory for O'Neil. The final of this season saw Tony Ferguson defeat Ramsey Nijem via KO in the first round.[87]
The fourteenth season featured bantamweights and featherweights for the first time, with Michael Bisping coaching for the second time, with Jason Miller opposing him. The cast was considered to be one of the most notable in several seasons of the Ultimate Fighter,[88] perhaps owing to this season being the first for the weight classes. Fighters once again had to compete to get into the house, but during the preliminary round, Dana White announced end-of-season bonuses for the best knockout, submission and fight. The awards went to John Dodson, Dennis Bermudez and Dustin Pague vs. Louis Gaudinot respectively.[89] The eventual winners of the season were John Dodson (who defeated TJ Dillashaw at bantamweight) and Diego Brandao (who defeated Dennis Bermudez at featherweight).[90]
The fifteenth season was the first season to air on FX and moved to a live format. The season was coached by UFC Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber and featured the lightweight division. The entry fights consisted of just one round, as opposed to the usual two with the possibility of a sudden death victory. During the first week in the house, Michael Chiesa - one of the participants - was told that his father had died.[91] Despite this, he was able to continue in the competition and ultimately won after defeating Al Iaquinta at the finale.[92] The live season aired at the same time as TUF Brazil, which was the first regional version of the show. That season was coached by Vitor Belfort and Wanderlei Silva and featured featherweights and middleweights. This season featured a scrambling of the teams, as seven of the Team Vitor fighters had won for only one of the Team Wanderlei fighters. The finalists for the show were Rony "Jason" Mariano Bezerra and Godofredo "Pepey" Castro in the featherweight division and Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira and Daniel Sarafian in the middleweight division.[93] However, Sarafian was forced to withdraw from the finale, making him the first and (to-date) only finalist to ever withdraw through injury. He was replaced by Sergio "Serginho" Moraes, the man he had defeated via KO in the semi-final round.[93] The eventual winners were Bezerra and Ferreira, with both winning via decision.[94]
|Season & Airdates
|Coaches & Colours
|Weight division
|Runner(s) up
|The Ultimate Fighter 1
January 17, 2005 – April 9, 2005
| Chuck Liddell
Randy Couture
Light Heavyweights
| Diego Sanchez[51]
Forrest Griffin[51]
| Kenny Florian
Stephan Bonnar
|The Ultimate Fighter 2
August 22, 2005 – November 5, 2005
| Matt Hughes
Rich Franklin
| Joe Stevenson[52]
Rashad Evans[52]
| Luke Cummo
Brad Imes
|The Ultimate Fighter 3
April 6, 2006 – June 24, 2006
| Tito Ortiz
Ken Shamrock
Light Heavyweights
| Kendall Grove[54]
Michael Bisping[54]
| Ed Herman
Josh Haynes
|The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback
August 17, 2006 – November 11, 2006
|Multiple, who coached both
Team Mojo &
Team No Love
| Matt Serra[56]
Travis Lutter[56]
| Chris Lytle
Patrick Côté
|The Ultimate Fighter 5
April 5, 2007 – June 23, 2007
| Jens Pulver
B.J. Penn
|Nate Diaz[58]
|Manny Gamburyan
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra
September 19, 2007 – December 8, 2007
| Matt Hughes
Matt Serra
|Mac Danzig[95]
|Tom Speer
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest
April 2, 2008 – June 21, 2008
| Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
Forrest Griffin
|Amir Sadollah[96]
|CB Dollaway
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir
September 17, 2008 – December 13, 2008
| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
Frank Mir
Light Heavyweights
| Efrain Escudero[97]
Ryan Bader[97]
| Phillipe Nover
Vinny Magalhães
|The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom
April 1, 2009 – June 20, 2009
| Dan Henderson
Michael Bisping
| Ross Pearson[98]
James Wilks[98]
| Andre Winner
DaMarques Johnson
|The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
September 16, 2009 – December 5, 2009
| Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
Rashad Evans
|Roy Nelson[99]
|Brendan Schaub
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz
March 31, 2010 – June 19, 2010
| Chuck Liddell
Tito Ortiz/Rich Franklin[A]
|Court McGee[100]
|Kris McCray
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck
September 15, 2010 – December 4, 2010
| Georges St-Pierre
Josh Koscheck
|Jonathan Brookins[85]
|Michael Johnson
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos
March 30, 2011 - June 4, 2011
| Brock Lesnar
Junior dos Santos
|Tony Ferguson[87]
|Ramsey Nijem
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller
September 21, 2011 - December 3, 2011
| Michael Bisping
Jason Miller
| John Dodson[90]
Diego Brandao[90]
| T.J. Dillashaw
Dennis Bermudez
|The Ultimate Fighter: Live
March 9, 2012 - June 1, 2012
| Dominick Cruz
Urijah Faber
|Michael Chiesa[92]
|Al Iaquinta
|The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil
March 25, 2012 - June 23, 2012
| Vitor Belfort
Wanderlei Silva
| Rony Jason[94]
Cezar Ferreira[94]
| Godofredo Castro
Sergio Moraes[B]
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson
September 14, 2012 - December 15, 2012
| Shane Carwin
Roy Nelson
|Colton Smith
|Mike Ricci
|The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes
September 19, 2012 - December 14, 2012
| Ross Pearson
George Sotiropoulos
| Norman Parke
Robert Whittaker
| Colin Fletcher
Brad Scott
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen
January 22, 2013 - April 13, 2013
| Jon Jones
Chael Sonnen
|Kelvin Gastelum
|Uriah Hall
|The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 2
March 17, 2013 - June 8, 2013
| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
Fabricio Werdum
|Leonardo Santos[C]
|William Macario
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate
September 4, 2013 - November 30, 2013
| Ronda Rousey
Miesha Tate
|Men Bantamweights
Women Bantamweights
| Chris Holdsworth
Julianna Peña
| Davey Grant
Jessica Rakoczy
|The Ultimate Fighter: China
December 7, 2013 - January 26, 2014
|Cung Le (mentor and chief coach)
Tiequan Zhang
Hailin Ao[D]
|The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia
January 15, 2014
| Patrick Côté
Kyle Noke
|The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3
March, 2014
| Wanderlei Silva
Chael Sonnen
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Penn vs. Team Edgar
April, 2014
| B.J. Penn
Frankie Edgar
Light Heavyweights
|The Ultimate Fighter 20
September, 2014
|Women Strawweights
^ A. Tito Ortiz was replaced in the final episode by Rich Franklin.
^ B. Daniel Sarafian was scheduled to be part of the finale, but was injured and replaced by Sergio Moraes.
^ C. Santiago Ponzinibbio was scheduled to be part of the finale, but was injured and replaced by Leonardo Santos.
^ D. Hailin Ao left the show after the 4th episode due to personal reasons. He wasn't replaced and his staff took over his duties.
The Ultimate Fighter has created many successful fighters. As of July 2012, 3 men have won UFC titles, though none of them has successfully defended his title. However, some fighters have also had success in the sister promotions World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) or Strikeforce. The following fighters have competed for a UFC, Strikeforce or WEC championship:
|TUF Competitor
|Nate Quarry
|Rich Franklin
|KO (Punch) at 2:32 of round 1
|UFC 56: Full Force
|November 19, 2005
|For Franklin's UFC Middleweight Championship[101]
|Lodune Sincaid
|Dan Molina
|Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:17 of round 1
|WEC 20: Cinco de Mayhem
|May 5, 2006
|For the vacant WEC Light Heavyweight Championship[102]
|Lodune Sincaid
|Doug Marshall
|TKO (Punches) at 0:51 of round 2
|WEC 23: Hot August Fights
|August 17, 2006
|Lost his WEC Light Heavyweight Championship[103]
|Kenny Florian
|Sean Sherk
|Decision (Unanimous)
|UFC 64: Unstoppable
|October 14, 2006
|For the vacant UFC Lightweight Championship[104]
|Bobby Southworth
|Vernon White
|Decision (Unanimous)
|Strikeforce: Triple Threat
|December 8, 2006
|For the inaugural Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Championship[105]
|Bobby Southworth
|Anthony Ruiz
|Decision (Unanimous)
|Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson
|June 27, 2008
|Successfully defended his Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Championship[105]
|Forrest Griffin
|Quinton Jackson
|Decision (Unanimous)
|UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin
|July 5, 2008
|For Jackson's UFC Light Heavyweight Championship[44]
|Bobby Southworth
|Renato Sobral
|TKO (Cut) at 5:00 of round 1
|Strikeforce: Destruction
|November 21, 2008
|Lost his Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Championship[106]
|Forrest Griffin
|Rashad Evans
|TKO (Punches) at 2:46 of round 3
|UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008
|December 27, 2008
|Lost his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship[45]
|Kenny Florian
|B.J. Penn
|Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:54 of round 4
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|For Rockhold's Strikeforce Middleweight Championship[112]
|Rashad Evans
|Jon Jones
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|UFC 145: Jones vs. Evans
|April 21, 2012
|For Jones' UFC Light Heavyweight Championship[113]
As part of season four, Travis Lutter and Matt Serra received automatic and immediate title shots, though non-winners can also compete for titles. Lutter was scheduled to compete for the UFC Middleweight Championship at UFC 67: All Or Nothing, but weighed in over the limit. He still competed against the champion and lost a non-title fight.[114]
|TUF Competitor
|Matt Serra
|Georges St-Pierre
|TKO (Punches) at 3:25 of round 1
|UFC 69: Shootout
|April 7, 2007
|For St-Pierre's UFC Welterweight Championship[115]
|Matt Serra
|Georges St-Pierre
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|April 19, 2008
|Lost his UFC Welterweight Championship[116]
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|TKO (Knee Injury) at 0:39 of round 3
|UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté
|October 25, 2008
|For Silva's UFC Middleweight Championship[117]
|TUF Competitor
|Manny Gamburyan
|José Aldo
|KO (Punches) at 1:32 of round 2
|WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan
|September 30, 2010
|For Aldo's WEC Featherweight Championship[118]
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|Frankie Edgar
|Draw (Split)
|UFC 125: Resolution
|January 1, 2011
|For Edgar's UFC Lightweight Championship[119]
|Gray Maynard
|Frankie Edgar
|KO (Punches)
|UFC 136: Edgar vs. Maynard III
|October 8, 2011
|For Edgar's UFC Lightweight Championship[109]
|Nate Diaz
|Benson Henderson
|Decision (Unanimous)
|UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Diaz
|December 8, 2012
|For Henderson's UFC Lightweight Championship
|TUF Competitor
|John Dodson
|Demetrious Johnson
|Decision (Unanimous)
|UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Dodson
|January 26, 2013
|For Johnson's UFC Flyweight Championship
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Well it certainly was an eventful November. Did the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival and opened a show at Tomato House featuring Michael McMillan.
Here's the man himself.
Here he is with Bill Griffith, who told me to get in touch with him in the first place.
The world's greatest cartoonists came out to pay tribute to Michael. Here's Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware and Gary Panter. Three guys you don't expect to see on a Friday night in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Michael and the great Jay Lynch.
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Has Baker Hughes Finally Turned the Corner?
While the 30% profit decline is a pretty significant drop -- especially since North America is Baker Hughes' largest market -- it was nonetheless encouraging there was a slight 2% uptick sequentially. Again, this may be one factor in the upgrade by Credit Suisse.
For the performance, BHI CEO Martin Craighead said:
"Our first-quarter results reflect improvement in our North America segment. The increased revenue and profit margins in North America are due to higher activity levels in Canada, along with improved utilization in our pressure pumping business despite a 3% decline in the U.S. onshore rig count since last quarter."
Craighead touched upon some very important points. While the overall health of the industry is not of the "quick fix" variety, investors have to be pleased that management is moving the company in the right direction. Baker Hughes is actually showing decent progress. But the company is still behind Schlumberger and Halliburton. It's not bad company in which to be. But management has to do a better job in fixing its deficits in North America before investors are going to truly embrace this as a turnaround.
Here's Making SenseDespite the recent improvement, I would be hesitant to jump on Baker Hughes today. That's not to say there isn't plenty of long-term value in the shares. If the company can continue to improve internationally while waiting for North America to rebound, the stock should work to the extent of Credit Suisse's $54 target. But absent clearer signs of progress and a real bottom, patience is the best play here. At the time of publication the author had no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Follow @saintssense This article was written by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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Between 1853 and 1870, Baron Haussmann ordered much of Paris to be destroyed. Slums were razed and converted to bourgeois neighborhoods, and the formerly labyrinthine city became a place of order, full of wide boulevards (think Saint-Germain) and angular avenues (the Champs-Élysées). Poor Parisians tried to put up a fight but were eventually forced to flee, their homes knocked down with minimal notice and little or no recompense. The city underwent a full transformation—from working class and medieval to bourgeois and modern—in less than two decades' time.
Every August, Paris now sees another rapid transformation. Tourists rule the picturesque streets. Shops are shuttered. The singsong sounds of English, Italian, and Spanish float down the street in place of the usual French monotone. As French workers are required to take at least 31 days off each year, nearly all of them have chosen this month to flit down to Cannes or over to Italy, Spain, or Greece, where the Mediterranean beckons and life hasn't stopped like it has here.
Some might call it laziness, but what French people are really doing by vacationing for the entirety of August is avoiding the tipping point of overwork. Just as the city transforms overnight, so do French work habits—and this vacation time pays dividends. That's because, even though the amount of time you work tends to match how productive you are as if on a sliding scale, length of work and quality of work at a certain point become inversely related. At some point, in other words, the more you work, the less productive you become.
For example, working long hours often leads to productivity-killing distractions. Such is an instance of the saying known as Parkinson's law, which states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Work less, and you'll tend to work better.
So too with practicing a skill. K. Anders Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University, conducted a study in Berlin and found that the amount of time successful musicians spent practicing each day was surprisingly low—a mere 90 minutes per day. In fact, the most successful musicians not only practiced less, but also took more naps throughout the day and indulged in breaks during practice when they grew tired or stressed.
It has long been known that working too much leads to life-shortening stress. It also leads to disengagement at work, as focus simply cannot be sustained for much more than 50 hours a week. Even Henry Ford knew the problem with overwork when he cut his employees' schedules from 48-hour weeks to 40-hour weeks. He believed that working more than 40 hours a week had been causing his employees to make many errors, as he recounted in his autobiography, My Life and Work.
Of course, some low-income workers are forced to work long hours or multiple jobs just to make ends meet. But why do many other employees—including those who are incredibly well compensated—still overwork themselves even when they often don't have to?
Alexandra Michel, a Goldman Sachs associate-turned-University of Pennsylvania adjunct professor, found that at two well-known investment banks (which she left unnamed) employees were working an average of 120-hour weeks (as in, 17 hours a day, every day). This led workers, as Michel writes, to not only "neglect family and health," but also to work long hours even when their bosses did not force them to—and when they knew that working that 16th and 17th hour a day wouldn't make them any more productive.
Michel concluded that hardworking individuals put in long hours not for "rewards, punishments, or obligation." Rather, they do so "because they cannot conceive otherwise even when it does not make sense to do so."
It seems silly that many work long hours simply for the sake of having worked long hours. Perhaps the reason people overwork even when it is not for "reward, punishment, or obligation" is because it holds great social cachet. Busyness implies hard work, which implies good character, a strong education, and either present or future affluence. The phrase, "I can't; I'm busy," sends a signal that you're not just an homme sérieux, but an important one at that.
There is also a belief in many countries, the United States especially, that work is an inherently noble pursuit. Many feel existentially lost without the driving structure of work in their life—even if that structure is neither proportionally profitable nor healthy in a physical or psychological sense.
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Moss Point police investigators have arrested Lovin Payton on a charge of manslaughter in the death of his older brother, Jerry Payton.
Police Chief Keith Davis told The Sun Herald that both men were in their mid-50s and lived with their mother.
Davis said police believe Lovin Payton came home under the influence of drugs or alcohol and began yelling at his mother Sunday morning. Davis said Jerry Payton intervened, and Lovin Payton punched his older brother in the head a couple of times.
The mother called police. When they arrived, they found Jerry Payton on the floor. Davis said Jerry Payton was pronounced died at the scene.
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Electronic cigarettes also popularly recognized as e-cigarettes or vaporizer cigarettes, and also things like vapor tanks and pens, are devices that individuals use as an alternative to ordinary cigarettes. They are also known to release a vapor like smoke that may or may not be free from nicotine. It's been now several years since the introduction of e-cigarettes in the market and number of consumers purchasing them is rising steadily. On average, one out of every five persons uses smokeless cigarettes in addition to the ordinary cigarettes. Their popularity has increased tremendously particularly in Western Europe and in the United States as we see in many e cig reviews. Statistically, there are about tens of millions of users across the globe.
Electronic cigarettes feel and look like the actual cigarette only that they are free from tobacco smoke. The devices comprise of a battery that is used for heating, and a cartridge filled with fluid nicotine. When the device is powered the liquid solution is heated releasing a vapor like substance. This vapor substance is the one inhaled by the user to fix their nicotine craving. Ordinary users of e-cigarettes argue that the devices offer them a similar sensation as the one realized when puffing on a regular cigarette – this is portrayed in the PNNOnline best e cigarette review.
Manufacturers, marketers and distributors of these devices claim that they are an efficient and healthier alternative to traditional puffing. The problem is that e-cigarettes are really not a better option to smoking. Different from other nicotine brands such as cigarettes and dip snuff, the e-cigs do not come with any health warnings. That, however, does not imply that they have fewer detrimental effects. And if you aren't too keen on the electronic cigarettes – you can look into vape tanks. The SBICouncil.org vape tanks are a great choice.
Furthermore, the manufacturers of the products cannot disclose to the public, the possible health risks or the chemicals they use in making the nicotine solution. Not much is known concerning the safety of the devices since they are not many well-formulated studies concerning the vapor cigarettes. However, before you go out looking for the product, there are a number of aspects that you ought to be mindful about.


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I am interested in becoming a Christian apologetic but these couple questions are kind of a stumbling block for me. Do you think you could answer these questions for me so I could understand Christianity more?1.What is the ontological argument? To mean it seems like a lot of lip service. Basically tell me if I'm wrong the ontological argument is that if you think something exists it does or if your mind can imagine something it exists? It doesn't make sense to me. A perfect concept does not prove a perfect being.2. I was watching a philosophical interview with Greg Koukl who was talking about abstract uncreated beings. From what I got out of it uncreated beings do not exist and God created everything even Numbers But if that's the case then how can God be bound by logic? Like the answer to the question can God make a rock to be he can't lift? One would say that God can do anything LOGICALLY possible and since there are no rocks he can't lift then the question is logically impossible. So how does this make sense? Do you know about created and uncreated abstract beings and can you explain more about the study of them and what they are?read more »
The History of the Multiverse and the Philosophy of Science
The Pre-Socratics were the first philosophers of science. They were known as the sophos (the wise ones). They were ecliplised by the British and German philosophers of science in the seventeenth century and were largely disconnected from science hence forth. Science sets the agenda, but philosophers bring philosophical reasons instead of scientific reasons. Science answers the questions. The Pre-Socratics were the first to deal with metaphysics and did so to provide a rational philosophy. This allowed for a rational and objective observation and the use of reason to systematize and order the content to make it coherent.
The Sophists were worldly-wise in contrast with the sophos–frustrated by the plurality of answers in the current philosophy. The Sophists were the original skeptics as evidenced in Pyrrho. They came out of the sixth century BC and broke away from religious dogma, which had never happened before. Their methods were pragmatic and subjective–rhetorical and fashionable. The phrase, "The One and the Many" became important. The One (reality) had everything related to it (Many). This is where we get Monism–the quality of oneness. We see Monism appear later in Leibniz's monads, which take us to a single substance and leads to atomic theory.
The Historical Development of Subjectivism
Subjectivism begins with personal experience. One might actually regard philosophical subjectivism as doing philosophy from the inside-out (which can eventually lead to critical-realism/non-realism). Both René Descartes (1596-1650) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) attempted to construct philosophical systems from this starting point (although in the end both were realists). In the modern world subjectivist philosophies have become very popular as they challenge the notion of absolute Truth which allows people to democratize truths. This means truths become relative to each person. As a result, a society built on subjectivist principles is believed to be tolerant and willing to allow people to live and let live (providing they do not harm others – which, ironically, is not a subjective, and therefore relative, statement).


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Bombardier Inc. (BBD/B) needs to win more regional jet and turboprop orders this year to avoid curbing production in 2013, the aerospace unit chief said.
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Filmmaker Mike Leigh's biography of the landscape painter J.M.W. Turner is what critics call "austere"—which means it's slow and grim and deliberately hard to love—yet…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
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A collection of rave reviews for Life Itself that came out of the Cannes and Sundance Film Festival.
Misogyny, entitlement and nerds; Steve Coogan vs. "Top Gear"; Why you can't see "Porgy and Bess"; Robert De Niro remembers his father; Why attacks on Douglas Laycock are bad for academia.
Life Itself, an interview with Steve James & Chaz Ebert, and "The Roger Ebert Critics Panel" all take place this week in France.
Barbara Scharres conveys her fourth day at Cannes, including screenings of "Saint Laurent" and "The Wonders," along with a press conference for John Woo's "The Crossing."
A daily report from Michael Oleszczyk on the unique double feature of How to Train Your Dragon 2 & Winter Sleep.
Another report on day 3 of Cannes 2014, featuring Winter Sleep and Wild Tales.
A Steak 'n Shake opens 50 paces from the hotel where Roger Ebert used to stay during the film festival.
Spike Lee speaks on filmmaking, his career, and race after the 25th anniversary screening of "Do the Right Thing" at Ebertfest.
Alloy Orchestra accompanies Lon Chaney's "He Who Gets Slapped," the 5th film of Ebertfest 2014.
Søren Hough of MovieFail.com talks about his experience seeing "Life Itself at a special screening for contributors to the Indiegogo campaign that helped fund the movie.
A luncheon panel shared stories and thoughts on Roger as a writer, thinker, friend and colleague.
A panel of colleagues and friends consider Roger's legacy in a panel discussion at Elmhurst College.
Today the American Pavilion remembered Roger Ebert with a panel and beachfront thumbs-up salute.
When Chaz has gone to Cannes without Roger in the past, she has written about the festival in the form of letters and postcards to Roger. These are the postcards she sends to him this year.
Saturday, May 4, was one month to the day that Roger left this earthly plane. In honor of Kentucky Derby weekend I am posting this photo of Roger and I proudly sporting our hats at Churchill Downs. There have been several photos of us wearing hats over the years. For some reason hats delighted us to no end. And Roger was particularly fond of some of the more outrageous hats we wore. That day while we were watching the races we were so pleased that we could wear our hats both in doors and out. You can't wear a hat in a movie theater.
Another brawl in the square Another stink in the air! Was there a witness to this? Well, let him speak to Javert! -- Javert, a character in the musical "Les Misérables"
I was an eyewitness to "Les Misérables."
After repeated exposure to that dreadful theatrical trailer-cum-featurette about how the singing is all done live on camera! -- It's live! It's Live! IT'S LIVE! -- I had no intention of seeing Tom "The King's Speech" Hooper's film version of the 1980s stage musical. But when it finally came out, some of the reviews were so bad that part of me wanted to see what the stink was all about. Still, I'm not a masochist; I don't enjoy going to movies I know I'm probably predisposed to dislike just so I can dump on them. On the other hand, there's nothing better than having your low expectations upended. I did enjoy that Susan Boyle YouTube video back in 2009, but that was all I knew about the musical. I remained curious but skeptical. And then ...
• Chaz Ebert at Cannes
Dear Roger: "We were once indivisible from every atom in the cosmos," and that is how I feel when I am sitting in the Palais watching movies at Cannes with a screen spread out as wide as the galaxy, the audience circling around like protons and neutrons breathing as one in empathy.
Roger and I thank you for joining us as we talked about the movies each week this past year. We have enjoyed producing Ebert Presents At The Movies and hope to continue sometime in 2012. This week we produced our last show.
It is the Best and Worst Movies of 2011 and begins airing Friday night, December 30, at 8:30 pm on WTTW, Channel 11 in Chicago, and all during the weekend and next week on public television stations across the nation. (Check local listings to find out what time it comes on in your town.)
Q. You said at the end of your Great Movies article about Kurosawa's "Red Beard": "I believe this film should be seen by every medical student." It might please you to know that my old judo teacher Dr. Paul Harper, who was also a surgeon and researcher at the University of Chicago, required all his surgery residents to watch "Red Beard." Just reading your description of some of those astonishingly beautiful scenes stirred deep emotional memories of the film. (Dave Fultz)
The movie's muse explains it all for you! Very good!
(tip: Vulture, Michael Phillips)
Few movie mannerisms annoy me as much as the gratuitous zoom, which modish hack directors have been using since the 1960s to underline and over-punctuate their shots. For a number of years (particularly in the late '60s to mid-'70s), the ubiquitous zoom, having no correlative to any function of the human eye, was most often deployed as a cheap substitute for actual camera movement. And yet, in the hands of, say, certain French New Wave filmmakers, the zoom could feel refreshingly free and spontaneous, like guerilla documentary footage. Or it could signify varying degrees of counter-cultural psychedelic grooviness, from "Laugh-In" to "Easy Rider" to... "Austin Powers." (Meanwhile, directors such as Altman and Kubrick have been known to use the zoom's telephoto properties with purpose and intelligence -- though the former used it to open up the frame and the latter to lock it down.)
Any device can be used or misused, but not even such egregious clichés as the now-ubiquitous snatch-and-grab and shaky-cam techniques, or the endlessly circling twirly cam, irritate me as much as the wanton zoom. Which is why I found this passage from Glen Kenny's piece on the Duplass's movie "Cyrus" to be both amusing and gratifying. (It doesn't matter if you or I have seen "Cyrus," or how zooms are used in that film; it's the precision of Kenny's bullshit-detector argument that I appreciate.) He observes:
May 22 -- The past three days have been a whirlwind of films, panel discussions and French-style dining (meaning 6-hour dinners that start at 8 pm at the earliest). All of this has resulted in minimal sleep or in some extreme cases, no sleep at all. On Wednesday, after a solid week into the festival and with less than a week to go, the atmosphere becomes more restless than usual. People can feel the end approaching and a repressed feeling of panic can emerge.
May 12th -- I have arrived. Perhaps it is just because I am writing about my experiences in Cannes this year or perhaps it is just bad luck, but there were many points during these past four days where I thought would not make it here before the festival began. On Saturday afternoon, my sister was running around the house doing some last minute packing and I was reading a fellow Cannes blogger's post about Eyjafjallajokull -- the not-so-friendly, Icelandic volcano. When I realized the volcano was causing travel problems again, I quickly looked up our flight and the status was a big, red "canceled." It was at this point that my emotions erupted right along with the volcano.
Left: My sister, Lily, holds up her sign and makes friendly eye contact with passersby in the hopes of receiving a ticket to the premiere of "Robin Hood."
The volcano gods were in a snit on Monday, and I arrived in Cannes on Tuesday six hours later than planned, following some frustrating encounters with ticket agents in Frankfurt Airport. Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips was on my flight from Chicago, having had his entire original reservation canceled due to drifting volcano ash. I heard delay stories everywhere, and figured I got off easy.
After fast dash to the Palais des Festivals five minutes before the office that issues accreditation badges closed, I picked up my press badge and film market badge. The Cannes skies were dark and threatening, with fog hanging over the distant mountains. I hoped that this wasn't a sign of weather gloom to come.
Yes, Chaz and I are still going ahead with our plans for a new movie review program on television. No, Wednesday's cancellation of "At the Movies" hasn't discouraged us. We believe a market still exists for a weekly show where a couple of critics review new movies.
I can't prove it, but I have the feeling that more different people are seeing more different movies than ever before. With the explosion of DVD, Netflix, Red Box, and many forms of Video on Demand,


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A certain high school senior I know said he needed to go to a "beach week meeting" at a friend's house. A beach week* meeting? It was the third one and he had missed the first two. There was a printed agenda, including who was going to make the Costco run.
* Beach week is when hordes of snoburbia high school seniors go to Bethany Beach the week after graduation, closely followed by the Montgomery County Police, who try to make sure kids lose their college scholarships because of underage drinking.


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USS Pegasus, a 1930-ton (light displacement) cargo ship, was built at Elsinore, Denmark, in 1939 as the 1889 gross ton freighter Rita Maersk. In mid-September 1941, when named Lawrin, she was acquired by the U.S. Navy, renamed Pegasus a month later and, following conversion work at New York City, was placed in commission early in December 1941. Late in that month she began the first of several voyages to Iceland, carrying supplies and ammunition for U.S. forces based there. In November 1942 Pegasus was shifted to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, her primary operating areas until the end of 1944.
After machinery repairs and other shipyard work, in late April 1945 Pegasus passed through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. Assigned to duty as a station cargo ship, she was redesignated IX-222 in mid-May, and later went to the Philippines. World War II fighting ended just a month after Pegasus' mid-July 1945 arrival in Leyte Gulf. She remained there until February 1946, supporting final wartime operations and U.S. Naval activities during the first several months of the post-war era. Early in March 1946 USS Pegasus returned to the U.S. West Coast. Placed out of commission in April 1946, she was laid up in Suisun Bay, California, until July of that year, when she was transferred to Danish registry.
This page features the only view we have concerning USS Pegasus (AK-48, later IX-222).
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USS Pegasus (IX-222, ex AK-48)
Underway in San Francisco Bay, California, circa March 1946.
Note the long "homeward bound" pennant flying from her mainmast peak.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
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USS Pegasus (AK-48) underway at sea, 5 February 1943.
Starboard broadside (slightly toward the stern) aerial view. Pegasus is painted in a horizontal two-tone camouflage scheme, presumably Measure 12 or Measure 22.
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Continuing with our food theme for National Nutrition Month, here's another eye-opener for you…
By D'Mine Columnist / Correspondent Wil Dubois
If it's organic it must be more nutritious, right?
Probably not. And even if it is, what you have in your shopping cart isn't as organic as you think it is.
Well, even if it's not nutritious, it's still worth paying more money to avoid chemicals, right?
Ummm… probably not. More on that in a minute.
But at least I'm supporting small farmers, yes?
Uhhh… No… You're actually supporting Phillip Morris. Yeah, the cigarette guys. OK, look, I'm sorry. But there is no Santa Claus. There are no unicorns. The Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. And organic is a lie. There. I said it.
Now I'm going to prove it.
Please see satellite images of the north pole here… What? Oh. You're only interested in the whole organic thing? OK, but remember, like learning about Santa, unicorns, and the Tooth Fairy, the truth is going to hurt.
Let's take a tour of Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, or even Albertson's. Looking at the packages lining the shelves and freezers, we seem to have lots of wonderful, healthy, natural foods to choose from. Things that are kind to our bodies, our planet, and our fellow creatures.
Don't believe everything you read. In fact, don't believe anything that you read.
Label mythology
"Healthy" food label writing is an art form. It nearly rises to the level of the poetry printed on the back of wine bottles describing the flavors inside. But unlike "subtle notes of blackberry and undertones of chocolate;" phrases like "all natural," "heart-healthy," and "whole grain goodness" have more in common with literature than poetry, because these healthy labels frequently owe more to fiction than they do to fact.
The biggest offenders in this label fiction game are: "natural," "free-range," "humane," and "hormone free." They're just words. Highly elastic marketing terms designed to trick you, to fool you into buying a product that isn't really at all what you're being lead to believe it is. These terms have no oversight, no law behind them.
But it's not all smoke and mirrors, of course. The USDA organic seal is highly regulated (maybe too much so, as we'll see in a moment), and the rules have teeth. If you use USDA's Organic seal for a product that doesn't meet the standards, you're facing an $11,000 fine from the feds. For each violation.
There are actually three USDA organic categories, depending on just how organic a product is: 100% organic and 95% organic can use the forest-service green and brown USDA Organic seal on their packages; and if a product is at least 70% organic you can legally say "made with Organic Ingredients." But if your product falls below the 70% threshold, use of "organic" is prohibited.
Even with all this government oversight, however, not all is what meets the eye. A "natural strawberry flavor" doesn't necessarily mean an actual strawberry was used in its creation. It only signifies that the flavoring isn't synthetic, but it can still be made from another natural substance altogether, like… say… corn.
For a guide to translating this Label Literature into plain English see this list, created by the prestigious EarthWatch Institute, of 27 different food labels seen in American grocery stores. Spoiler Alert: you're about to find out that "cage free" eggs are fiction, "grass-fed" may be a joke, and that a pasture probably isn't what you think it is. On the bright side, the Food Alliance Certified label is deemed "reliable." But while "dolphin-safe" is true, "wild-caught" might not be. And don't even get me started on how confusing the labels about hormones in milk are—they're a blend of fact and fiction convoluted enough to rival the Blair Witch Project.
Not all "real" organic foods have labels
Confounding the issue of what's real and what isn't real, is the fact that the tight federal regulation of organic, according to Michael Pollan, author of the seminal food book The Omnivore's Dilemma, has resulted in many small, legitimate organic farmers choosing to opt-out of the labeling system altogether, rather than jump through the government's hoops to use the organic seal of approval. Some small farmers say that simply maintaining the FDA required paperwork would require them to hire a full-time person just to keep up with it.
Others go farther and claim the government's regulations are designed to help big producers while placing small farms at a disadvantage, or that the legal requirements to call something "organic" aren't nearly strict enough and they refuse to participate in protest. The USDA label mainly deals with fertilizers and pesticides; it still allows for a very long list of substances in foods that most of us would not regard as natural, including heavy chemicals and antibiotics. And "USDA Certified Organic" can still be treated with preservatives to get it to market while remaining "farm fresh."
So on one hand, half the food labels cheat, lie, and stretch the truth; while on the other hand, some of the possibly most natural foods around aren't labeled as such!
But suppose, just suppose, that you've successfully navigated the misleading marketing, creative fictions, and nebulous claims (with the help of the EarthWatch list above), and have scored a true naturally grown or raised food. It will cost you, at least half again as much as conventional foods, and in many cases twice as much. But the dent in your wallet has landed you healthier food, right?
The truth about (organic) nutrition
No. Probably not. No studies to date show that organically grown food is any more nutritious than conventionally grown food. In fact, the most rigorous study to date debunks that notion altogether. Bluntly put: whole food is whole food. We are completely lacking in any proof whatsoever that one carrot is more nutritious than another, or that lettuce grown on an industrial farm is any different than lettuce grown in your backyard; at least as far as food value goes. (Obviously, there are big differences in the ingredients in processed foods, making some much healthier than others, but that's outside the "organic" realm we're addressing here.)
Of course, there's one other issue that's a soap box for the organic industry, and that's pesticides — chemicals used to protect crops in the fields from insects. True organic veggies are grown without pesticides, and are therefore billed as healthier, although research shows a good washing under tap water removes most pesticide residue. There's room for common sense, too, as my sister likes to say, "Who cares if it's organic if you're going to peel it before you eat it?"
But for those still on the fence about pesticides, the controversial research and lobbying organization Environmental Working Group has produced a list they call the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 that advocates a split-shopping approach: buy organic for the foods that tend to contain the highest level of pesticides, and buy conventional in the produce that runs the lowest in pesticides. Their list guides you as to which are which.
The real winners and losers
So much for Santa and unicorns. What about the Tooth Fairy?
If you want to support small farmers, your best bet may be a local farmer's market. You'll have to look the farmer in the eye and ask him about pesticides and fertilizers and decide if he (or she) is telling the truth. But if you're going to Whole Foods Market for lettuce, you're more likely to be helping a company called EarthBound, rather than Farmer Brown. According to Pollan, EarthBound is the largest supplier of organic lettuce in the United States, with a whopping 80% market share. Organic is big businesses.
It's true. Consider that Back to Nature, maker of assorted granola-type-stuff that is now owned by Kraft Foods (of blue box Kraft Mac n' Cheese fame) who are themselves owned by… you guessed it… cigarette conglomerate Phillip Morris.


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Final in 11
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2:10 PM ET, July 4, 2013
Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
HOUSTON -- Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon has talked often about how Yunel Escobar deserves All-Star consideration for his stellar play at shortstop this season.The defensive standout showed on Thursday that he also can be a force on offense.Escobar tied a season high by driving in three runs, including a tiebreaking double in the 11th inning that sent the Rays to a 7-5 victory over the Houston Astros.Escobar and Desmond Jennings each doubled twice and singled, helping Tampa Bay win for the fifth time in six games."I'm just going out there trying to play the game and have fun," he said. "This is the first time in my career that I really feel like I'm having fun and I can be myself. I'm enjoying playing the game."Brett Wallace homered twice for the Astros.Jose Lobaton walked to start the 11th and moved to second on a passed ball by Jason Castro. Escobar then doubled into the right-field corner off Josh Fields (0-1).Escobar advanced on Desmond Jennings' fly ball to right and came home on a wild pitch by Wesley Wright.Jamey Wright (2-1) pitched a scoreless 10th for the win and Fernando Rodney finished for his 18th save.Wallace hit a three-run shot in the eighth inning, tying it at 5 with his second homer of the game. The Rays had just grabbed the lead with three runs in the top half, including a two-run double by Escobar."(It) was an emotional roller coaster," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "To give up the three and fall behind and then come back the next inning and have (Wallace) hit the big three-run homer, you really just want to build off that momentum and end it right there if you can."Evan Longoria had a run-scoring groundout in the first for Tampa Bay, and Escobar came on home on Jordan Lyles' wild pitch in the seventh, tying it at 2.Wallace hit a solo homer in the fourth, and Jake Elmore had a sacrifice fly in the fifth for the Astros.Elmore sparked Houston's rally in the eighth with a leadoff walk. Jose Altuve then singled before Wallace drove a 1-2 pitch from Joel Peralta over the wall in right for his third homer since he rejoined the Astros from Triple-A last week.Escobar had the big blow in the top half of the inning, a long two-run double that landed on Tal's Hill in straightaway center field. Brandon Barnes appeared to have a shot to bring it in, but tripped and fell running up the hill."How about Escobar? How far was that ball hit to center field?" Maddon said. "You don't see that play anywhere else in baseball, but their center fielder did a nice job. He went after that ball really, really well. I thought he had a chance and the hill got him."Tampa Bay rookie starter Chris Archer yielded two hits and two runs in six innings."I felt like all things were clicking, the defense was making outstanding plays, we scored runs in a timely fashion and overall today's game was kind of like the definition of the Rays," he said. "We pitched pretty well, we scored runs when we needed to, and we played defense."Lyles allowed six hits and walked three in 6 2/3 innings. It was a much better performance than his previous two starts, when he allowed 12 runs and 15 hits combined.Longoria was Tampa Bay's designated hitter for the third straight game after missing the previous three games with plantar fasciitis in his right foot.James Loney had a single in the Tampa Bay fourth to extend his hitting streak to a career-high-tying 15 games. The other time he achieved the feat was in 2008.
Game notes
Rays RF Wil Myers, a rookie who is considered one of best prospects in baseball, had a nifty diving catch to rob Castro of a hit in the first. ... Tampa Bay returns home on Friday to start a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox, with Jeremy Hellickson on the mound for the Rays against Dylan Axelrod. ... The Astros travel to Arlington to take on the Rangers on Friday. Houston's Lucas Harrell opposes Nick Tepesch. ... RHP Mark Appel, the first overall selection in the draft by Houston, is scheduled to make his professional debut on Friday for Single-A Tri City.
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Scoring Summary
|E Longoria grounded out to third, D Jennings scored, M Joyce to second.
|B Wallace homered to left (344 feet).
|J Elmore hit sacrifice fly to right, B Barnes scored.
|Y Escobar scored, D Jennings to third on wild pitch by J Lyles.
|J Lobaton grounded into fielder's choice to second, S Fuld scored, K Johnson out at second, W Myers to third.
|Y Escobar doubled to deep center, W Myers and J Lobaton scored.
|B Wallace homered to right (350 feet), J Elmore and J Altuve scored.
|Y Escobar doubled to deep right, J Lobaton scored.
|Y Escobar scored on W Wright's wild pitch.
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|Minute Maid Park, Houston, TX
|20,470 (48.7% full) - % is based on regular season capacity
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|Home Plate - Jim Reynolds, First Base - John Hirschbeck, Second Base - James Hoye, Third Base - Bob Davidson
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Brett Wallce recorded his 2nd career multi-HR game on Thursday(other multi-HR game: August 1, 2012 at Brewers). His homerun in the 8th inning vs Rays was his 2nd career game-tying HR (other game-tying HR came on Sept. 7, 2010 at Cubs).
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Green Is Good: Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park Opens in NYC
Watch out, High Line, there's a new park in town. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on hand yesterday to unveil a 5.5-acre waterfront park and several roadways at the site of the Hunter's Point South development in Queens. We dispatched writer Nancy Lazarus to assess the city's newest green space.
The multi-use green oval at Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park, which opened to the public yesterday. (All photos: Albert Vecerka/Esto)
Many New Yorkers know Long Island City from the Silvercup or Pepsi signs visible across the East River. Art enthusiasts associate LIC with galleries, studios, and MoMA's PS1. With the opening of Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park, locals now have recreational reasons to visit. So hop on the subway or East River Ferry and bring your cameras, bicycles, bathing suits, and dogs to NYC's newest waterfront oasis.
Hunter's Point South development, formerly known as "Queens West," would have hosted an Olympic village if New York had won its 2012 bid. New York City Economic Development Corporation is overseeing the project, and Thomas Balsley Associates and Weiss/Manfredi collaborated on Phase 1, the design of the park and open space, with ARUP acting as prime consultant and infrastructure designers. Affordable housing and a school are also being built.
During a recent press tour, Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi, and Thomas Balsley described how they converted the former marshland and industrial area for leisure use. While the tour was on a bright sunny day, the area was designed to be sustainable and to withstand storms. According to Weiss, the park flooded briefly during storm Sandy, but the water quickly receded, thanks to their water runoff and conservation system. There's more official interest now in addressing potential floods, Manfredi added.
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My name is Donna Givens. Aka Donna Posey, aka Donna Wille, but shall leave this earth as Donna Givens. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to A.C. and Margaret Posey in 1959.
First marriage at 16, to Michael Wille, divorced at 26. Remarried at 27 to Gregory Givens, still married today.
Greg likes to say he could have killed somebody and been out on parole by now, however, this marriage is until death, survivor wins freedom.
We have three daughters, Tonya, Mandy and Michele from my marriage to Mike, a bonus daughter, Crystal from Greg and his first wife, Lynn. Then from our marriage we have a son, Greg Jr.
Am the mother of 5 amazing, wonderful, gifted, fertile children, all grown making our family bigger. We have nine grandchildren at the present time, Go only knows where that number will end.
Who knows, maybe great-grandchildren before this body calls time on the field of life.
Update, we now have ten grands, 5 girls & 5 boys


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Observing National Moth Week
This week we are excited to observe National Moth Week, which runs from July 20- 28, 2013. The website has links to many local events, so see what is happening in your area. Why moths? Moths are often ignored in … Continue reading
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Seed of the Week: Shagbark Hickory
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Celebrating Wildflowers and Miss Lady Bird Johnson
We are pleased to be hosting STEM Friday this week, a celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math books for children. The theme for today is wildflowers, so be sure to click through the link and check it out. ______________________________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading
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April 25, 2013
Simmons was well represented at the Strong Women Strong Girls (SWSG) annual Strong Awards event April 4, a celebration of SWSG mentors and program partners.
Shannon Curran '13, received the Above and Beyond Mentor Award and Haley Collins '14 received the Strongest Match Award. Barbara Lee '67 was presented with the 2013 Spark Award by Hannah Raiche, a senior at Simmons, a Barbara Lee fellow, and an SWSG mentor.
"Through her lifelong dedication to women and politics and her fellowship program at Simmons College, Barbara Lee has afforded me the opportunity to form a special bond with a strong female mentor who has provided me with invaluable insight, wisdom, support, and guidance," Raiche said. "This has not only been greatly beneficial, but will undoubtedly be a crucial component to my own success, and for that I am eternally grateful."
Strong Women Strong Girls is a nationally recognized multi-generational mentoring program that fosters leadership skills, a sense of female community, and a commitment to service among women and girls of all ages.
Pictured above: Boston City Council candidate Michele Wu, Hannah Raiche, SWSG Executive Director Amy Kingman, Barbara Lee, State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, and Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley.