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IRVINE – Shyima Hall had only a few minutes to talk.
Class was starting soon, and after class she had to head to work at a mall.
"I'm OK now," Hall, 20, says in a telephone interview. "Sometimes it's hard to talk about it."
Seven years ago, Hall was a frightened, confused and miserable 13-year-old plucked by federal authorities from a life of slavery and squalor in the unlikeliest of places: Irvine.
Sold by her parents when she was 11, the Egyptian-born Hall spent nearly two years living on a bare, dirty mattress in a windowless garage on a tree-lined street of opulent, Mediterranean-style homes.
There, under the noses of her neighbors on Pacific Grove in Northpark, Shyima worked 20-hour days as a domestic servant to an Egyptian couple and their five children.
She was denied schooling and trips to the doctor and dentist. She was not allowed to sit down to meals with the family. She was forced to wash her own clothes by hand in a bucket.
The family called her "stupid girl," and worse, instead of using her name.
Now, Hall is a busy and ambitious college student who might use her difficult past as motivation to become someone special.
Among the people who rescued her in April 2003 were special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Hall hasn't forgotten them – and remembers one man in particular.
Trafficking in children and adults for commercial sex and forced labor is a growing problem in Orange County.
Since 2004, the Public Law Center, a founding partner of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, has handled 89 trafficking cases. Right now, there are 29 open cases of forced servitude, many of which include adults or children who are much like Hall, who couldn't speak English when she was rescued.
"We have open cases right now in Irvine, in Newport Beach, Crystal Cove – very wealthy communities," said Julie Greenwald, an immigration attorney for the Public Law Center.
Shyima was 8 when she was sold. Having 10 other children, her parents needed the money.
Her captors, a wealthy Cairo couple, relocated to Irvine. And when Shyima was 10, they hired a businessman who, in 2001, flew with her to Los Angeles, telling immigration officers that he was accompanying his "adoptive daughter" on a trip to a theme park.


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After a cartoon video featuring Google's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square, the Internet search giant updated its privacy policy.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorneys for Consumer Watchdog will appear in a federal court today to urge Judge Deny Chinn to reject the revised Google Books settlement because it remains anticompetitive and violates both U.S. and international law. The case in U.S.
After Google threatened to pull out of China, the country released an official response on Thursday saying that foreign Internet companies are welcome as long as they follow the law.
By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
It may sound preposterous with the benefit of hindsight, but only ten years ago, on September 7, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded their new company, Google.
By Joe Nocera In early May, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who had children in day care facilities at the company. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to a company plan to raise the amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 percent.
By Lindsay Beck BEIJING (Reuters) - A rights group accused Western Internet companies on Thursday of complicity with censorship in China and called on Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to resist Beijing's demands.
A rights group accused Western Internet companies on Thursday of complicity with censorship in China and called on Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to resist Beijing's demands.
Google Inc's decision to block politically sensitive terms on its new Chinese search site has drawn the scrutiny of U.S. lawmakers, who next month will probe American technology companies that help Beijing's censors.
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When local developers Alex Mantecon and Guillermo Vadell bought the property at 123 SW North River Dr., they realized they had something of a logistical problem: The property had a prime location along the Miami River, but it was also sandwiched between massive, looming freeway bridges. "We kind of analyzed it," Mantecon tells Riptide. "Anything that you were to build -- a ground level or one, two, or three stories -- was basically going to be facing the underside of I-95."
Condos were out. Instead the developers came up with another idea: a rooftop restaurant, high enough above the freeway to offer unencumbered views of downtown and the Miami River. On top of a huge storage facility.
"Pretty much every developer who has done self storage" has essentially just put boxes in buildings that offer no other use, says Mantecon, who with Vadell manages MV Real Estate Holdings. "So we've taken that and joined it with different uses that would take advantage of the structure itself."
The building, which broke ground two weeks ago, will be nine stories tall with the rooftop restaurant and its 7,000-square-foot terrace clearing I-95 by about 70 feet. The first floor will be dedicated to retail, and floors two through eight will house the storage facilities, with possible office space on the seventh.
The structure, called the East Coast Building, will also display a 30-by-70-foot mural -- an abstract rendering of birds in flight crossing the Miami River -- that will be visible to southbound I-95 traffic. The art was done by FIU students as part of a collaborative project; Mantecon, an FIU grad, said his company has also donated $100,000 in scholarships to first-generation college students at the school.
Building construction is expected to be finished around June or July next year. No tenants have yet been lined up, and there are no firm plans about what type of restaurant will sit atop the huge storage building just yet.
"Before it was just a concept," he says of the project. "And now it's real."
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I'll go ahead and state the obvious up front: This is clearly a stab in the dark . . .
I have been engaged in extensive research regarding a WWII Italian POW Camp which was located just outside of Monticello, Arkansas.
One of the men at that camp was named Joseph Pelligrino and he was a United States citizen . . . but also an Italian prisoner of war.
He was originally from Passaic, New Jersey (or, less likely, Patterson NJ)and had been living in Italy (most likely Sicily) with his new Italian bride when the war broke out. He was subsequently drafted ("shanghied" was his term) into the Italian Army and captured sometime in 1943. Supposedly his family in New Jersey had either money or connections and they were attempting to get him released based on the fact that he was serving in the Italian Army involuntarily and that he was a United States citizen. The only formal document that I could find at the Nat. Archives was his petition for release, however, that was only the petition. No document indicating how the case was resolved has been found, but it can be assumed that he was sent back to Italy with his fellow PWs at war's end and - if he did, in fact, return to the U.S. - had to turn around and sail back home from Italian soil. In a photo taken by an American, fellow Jerseyite, G.I. friend of his, he appears to be in his mid to late 20s in 1944 (birth year somewhere around 1914 to 1919??).
Admittedly, this isn't much information. But if anyone has any advice or can find out anything about this interesting case, I would appreciate the contact.


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Get the look: Jennifer LopezWritten by Administrator
Are you ready for your close up? American Idol judge and pop star Jennifer Lopez certainly is. On the current series of the US talent show she has consistently wowed with her outfits, hair and makeup – and her style ethos is no different in her latest music video for On The Floor - released in the UK this week.
Friday, 08 April 2011 03:26
Management after the sackWritten by Administrator
The swatting of football managers as if they are hapless flies is a familiar tale. The sack. It's the manager's lot.
Paul Ince became the 39th boss to be spat out of the revolving managerial door this season in the four English divisions when he left relegation-threatened Notts County on Sunday evening by mutual consent after merely five months at the helm.
So frequent are the dismissals that the reaction of many these days is to give a Gallic shrug of the shoulder and ask: Who will be next?
But what path will the 43-year-old former England midfielder be forced to follow over the next few months, or even years?
Of those managers shown the door this term, a few have hopped back onto the so-called managerial merry-go-round, yet many have been forced to spend the last few months reflecting, adjusting and biding their time until the next job comes along.
Paul Simpson, once hailed as one of England's brightest young managers, having guided Preston to the top of the Championship in 2006, falls into the latter bracket.
Four days into the new year, the former Preston and Carlisle boss was driving his wife, Jackie, back to the north west of England having on that January morning exchanged contracts on the sale of his Shropshire home and the purchase of a five-bedroom semi in Stockport.
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Paul Simpson Former Stockport County boss
It was meant to be a new beginning for the Simpson family and a new era for Stockport County.
Six months previously, newly-relegated Stockport (a club which had spent the previous season in administration) had been taken over by a consortium which had asked the 44-year-old to steer the League Two side through their five-year plan.
"It felt like fate," Simpson tells BBC Sport. "We'd decided to move back to Stockport to be closer to the family and then the club asked me to be their manager."
As the couple drove through the Shropshire countryside, Simpson's mobile phone rang with the number of one of the club's directors flashing on the screen. He answered.
"Is it urgent. Does the meeting need to happen today?" asked the manager. A sense of doom descended and so came the next question: "I take it you're sacking me?"
Stockport had won just three of their last 19 games under Simpson and were four points above the relegation zone, clinging to league football by their fingertips, yet the call still came as a shock.
With a hundred thoughts racing through his mind, the former Manchester City winger drove on until he arrived at Chester services to meet the director.
"There were no arguments," says Simpson of that meeting in the unlikeliest of settings just off the M56. "He said what he had to say. I said what I had to say and we both went our separate ways. It was put into the hands of the League Managers' Association (football bosses union) and Stockport County's lawyer, and I am hoping that this will be resolved in the next week."
Simpson was one of 10 managerial casualties that month and has since whiled away the hours decorating the new family home - "more DIY than I've done in my life", he chuckles - summarising for BBC Radio Manchester and, in what is the silver lining, spending time with his sons Joe, Jake and Dominic.
Yet, three months since his departure from Stockport, there's still an eerie silence around the home which the man who once led Carlisle from the Conference to League One in successive seasons is still getting used to.
"As a manager your phone is constantly ringing, whether it's agents, other managers, coaches or chairmen," he explains.
"For about a week after you've lost your job the phone continues to ring, but not as much as it used to. Then, about two or three weeks later you probably get one or two calls, just from your close friends. It's a massive change."
Simpson admits to a "feeling of failure" when he left Stockport, describing the moment as the biggest disappointment of his career.
"It taints your CV as people look at it and see what's gone on and it does put a bit of a black mark against you," says the man who, in 2006, was head hunted by Preston only for his tenure to be brought to a halt 17 months later.
"If you want to stay in the game you've got to be positive and believe in what you can do.
"It's getting tougher. The time you get given in the job is getting shorter and shorter and there's always younger talent coming through. There are lads in their early 30s who are managing at the moment, which is really good to see, but when you get to Championship and Premier League level people aren't prepared to take a chance on young English managers."
In 2003, Simpson completed a five-year sports science degree at Manchester Met University and is currently studying for a diploma in business management at Warwick Business School.
The studying is to ensure he becomes "the best manager I possibly can", but the mortgage on the new home has to be repaid and Simpson, who has managed over 400 matches, is painfully aware that there might have to be life away from the beautiful game.
"I'm confident I can do the job, I've shown that I can do the job, but, on the other hand, like many of my managerial colleagues, you do occasionally have doubts about whether you want to do the job again after such an experience," he says.
"You read about these managers who get sacked at Premier League level, and even in the Championship, reportedly getting huge pay offs.
"I got paid at the end of December on a normal wage and to this day I haven't received anything in settlement of my contract. My case is in the hands of the LMA. It is a concern.
"I'm enjoying having a bit of time out but us League One and League Two managers, we're not in a position where our compensation leaves us comfortable for the rest of our lives. There's going to come a point where I need to work again. I need to get out and work.
"I'm allowed to work, my contract gives me scope to be able to work, but I want to put closure on Stockport County before I move on and until my contract has been resolved I don't think there is closure.
"I've worked hard in the last eight or nine years to gain experience and knowledge and I just think it'd be a bit of a shame if I didn't continue to use it."
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Stuart Baxter Former Finland and South Africa boss
At least Simpson has managed to stay in the profession longer than most - research suggests 49% of all first-time football managers are never reappointed to a second managerial job.
Ideally, Simpson wants to remain in the North West, but many of his associates are looking beyond these shores and over the last 12 months the number of managers opting to bark orders from foreign dug-outs has doubled.
One of British football's most successful managerial exports is former Finland boss Stuart Baxter, who has spent 23 of the last 25 years working abroad.
The 57-year-old parted company with Finland in the autumn and is currently "chilling" in south Sweden, where he lives with his wife and two teenage children, before deciding what adventure to embark on next.
"We're in a period of a little panic in the British market, and a couple of markets," says the multilingual Baxter, who has enjoyed success with club sides in Norway, Portugal, Japan and Sweden.
"People are enquiring and saying 'look, we're at the bottom of the league at the moment and we want you to come in and keep us in the league'.
"But I don't want to put myself in a position where people would say 'his only serious job in the Premier League or the Championship was to take so and so down'. I've got to be a bit careful so I've said I'll wait until June.
"For me at the moment, the right thing is to recharge the batteries. I'm not diving in at the moment, I think that's the right thing to do, but is that easy? No it's not."
This is only the second time in his career that the former South Africa boss, who briefly returned to England to take charge of England's Under-18 and Under-19 teams in 2002, has left a job without having another one lined up.
He is confident he can return to club football and his desire to work with players to develop their skills is as strong as ever, but the experienced Scot admits he is worried that managing a football team is becoming akin to working on Wall Street.
"The emphasis is not on doing the work. The emphasis is on getting results because it's driven by money. It's like the stock market: it's based on fear and greed," he says.
"There are all sorts of situations with football clubs these days. It used to be, do they have any decent players? Does it have a good name?
"Now, you're talking about the owners, the budget, the playing staff and the training facilities. Taking a job is a much more complicated decision nowadays."
But even though the Sword of Damocles seems to be perpetually hovering over nearly every manager - 1,082 have come and gone since Sir Alex Ferguson was appointed at Manchester United in November 1986 - the sack, it seems, is not something they fear.
"There are calculated risks with every job," explains Baxter.
"If I'm standing on the touchline as the Finnish national coach and we're playing against Germany in Hamburg in the World Cup qualifier, the feeling when you hear the anthems being played, when it's a full house and you see the quality of players on the field and you've got a fantastic bench sitting opposite and you've got to try to outmanoeuvre them - that's the reward.
"It's a reward both on the evening and years later. I'll look back on that night and that will be worth so much more than working in a safe, secure job for two or three years."
Friday, 08 April 2011 03:18
Rampant Reading on the riseWritten by Administrator
At the Madejski Stadium
The same teams had been in the Championship's top six since January until Reading gatecrashed the party on Saturday - and the newcomers look like they intend to stick around.
Brian McDermott's team are the form horse in football's second tier as the Championship moves into the home straight and they must be considered as serious contenders to end a three-season wait to return to the Premier League.
Their victory over a dogged and determined Preston at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday evening was the Royals' fifth win a row. It was a doughty and forgettable match but produced the sort of victory that is crucial in any promotion campaign.
Reading are now undefeated in nine league fixtures and their run of form has come at a time when other, arguably more credible, promotion contenders have started to falter.
The Royals took the place of Nottingham Forest in the play-off zone and Billy Davies's
Burnley have lost three of their last four, Leicester have one win in seven and, just when Watford had climbed to eighth, the Hornets have fallen away after back-to-back defeats.
Encouragingly for Reading, their excellent sequence of results has come despite a series of injury problems. Key players such as Noel Hunt, Mikele Leigertwood, Matt Mills, Andy Griffin and Shaun Cummings have been sidelined, but with no apparent impact on results.
Substitute Hal Robson-Kanu scored the winner against Preston a minute after his introduction and midfielder Jay Tabb told BBC Sport afterwards: "The manager told us after the game that he will use the entire squad between now and the end of the season. The quality of the squad at Reading is excellent and there is not much difference between the starting side and the second XI."
A big factor in Reading's success appears to be the togetherness that McDermott has engendered in his players. Royals skipper Mills summed up the mood in the squad when he said in Tuesday's matchday programme: "The results are more important than any single player. I know everyone would say we are in it together."
Long and McDermott have a very close relationship. Photo: AP
Tabb, who spent several seasons at both Brentford and Coventry, added: "Credit must go to the sort of characters that the manager has got in his squad. At other clubs you hear players slagging each other off in training and even during matches I have heard players from other teams tearing into each other. That doesn't happen at Reading, we are 100% behind each other."
McDermott, who turns 50 on Friday, recently signed a new 12-month rolling contract and chairman Sir John Madejski acknowledged that his manager's star is on the rise. McDermott has been at Reading for a decade, working first as chief scout and then as coach of various youth teams and the club's reserve side before taking over the first team following the departure of Brendan Rodgers in December 2009. He is a friendly and affable manager who makes time to speak to his players on an individual basis.
"He can definitely mix it up and dish out harsh words if they are required," added Tabb. "But he seems to know how to handle every different situation."
McDermott seems to understand how to make his players feel wanted, even if they are not playing regularly. A good example is Brynjar Gunnarsson, who is out of contract at the end of the season and could have switched off months ago. However, he has remained committed and slipped in admirably at right-back after a series of injuries to the club's established players in that position. Likewise, Brian Howard could have gone out on loan but opted to stay and has started the last three games.
Reading have the division's in-form striker in Republic of Ireland international Shane Long. Until the end of October he had found the net just twice for Reading, both of them penalties. He now has nine goals in his last 10 league games and 20 for the campaign, making him the second highest scorer in the Championship.
Long recently suggested that the Royals could yet burst into the top two, and after defeating Preston his side are now seven points adrift of Norwich in seventh. Automatic promotion may be an unrealistic target but the fact Long is even talking about it speaks volumes about the confidence in the squad.
"There are seven games left and we want 21 points," said Long after Tuesday's victory. "Why not? We are capable of it?"
Long arrived at Reading from Cork as an 18-year-old in June 2005, initially living at McDermott's house as he adjusted to life in England. The two men apparently share a love of playing the guitar, although the manager readily accepts that he is second best in that department. Until this season Long had made more substitute appearances than he had starts but McDermott has shown a lot of faith in him and the striker has flourished over recent months.
"Things have changed around for me," added Long. "Now I am disappointed when I do not score but I do not take too much notice of what people might be saying because they tend to jump on the bandwagon."
He is fast and skilful, confident and direct. He plays on the shoulder of opposition defenders and likes to shoot early. Reading started with a 4-2-3-1 formation against Preston, and Long often pulled wide to create space for his team-mates. He was arguably more effective when the introduction of Mathieu Manset meant a switch to 4-4-2, although Long disappointed with a late effort when he only had Iain Turner to beat, shooting tamely at the Preston keeper.
Several Reading players stressed that they are trying to deal with each match as it comes as they attempt to climb to out of the division. In stark contrast, Preston are simply desperate to stay in the Championship. It took North End 13 attempts to win under manager Phil Brown but they travelled to Reading on the back of three straight victories.
At one point earlier in the year North End looked dead and buried, a gargantuan 13 points from safety. Last Saturday their win over Swansea helped them climb off the bottom for the first time in 20 games. Tuesday halted their progress and they remain eight points adrift of 21st place with seven games remaining.
However, Brown, who at one time was talking about in terms of an open-top bus parade if his side stayed up, is now sounding distinctly bullish about avoiding the drop. Optimism has returned and with it some badly needed belief.
"There are plenty of rays of sunshine as far as I'm concerned," said Brown after the Reading match. "We have just given a very good account of ourselves against a team that is looking likely to get promotion."
Even so I suspect that North End's revival may have come too late and the second tier's longest-serving side is heading towards League One.
Whether Reading will also be waving farewell to the Championship is an altogether different question, but they are undoubtedly the team with the greatest momentum at the most important time of the season.
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Friday, 08 April 2011 03:15
Rooney and fate smile on Man UtdWritten by Administrator
Wayne Rooney scored with a smile for the cameras rather than a snarl as he let his natual talent do the talking. And how eloquently it spoke as Manchester United set the platform for Champions League progress at Chelsea's expense.
The lens was Rooney's constant companion from the moment he emerged to warm up at Stamford Bridge until he departed in triumph after the goal that gave United a crucial away victory in the quarter-final first leg.
Rooney will be punished with a ban for his expletive outburst into a pitchside camera after completing his hat-trick in United's win at West Ham United on Saturday - so it was almost inevitable that fate decreed he would produce something to capture attention again at Chelsea.
The moment arrived 24 minutes into the contest when he showed touch and technique to steer in Ryan Giggs' pass. How would he react? The answer came as he smiled, slid and tumbled for the cameras before celebrating with arms outstretched in front of Chelsea fans gathered in the Matthew Harding Stand.
It was an unashamed outpouring of happiness from Rooney, giving the lie to the suggestion that the joy has somehow been sucked out of his game by a year of frustration.
Rooney put on a sparkling performance in front of the cameras. Photo: PA
The frustration and anger at Stamford Bridge was all Chelsea's.
The frustration came from Fernando Torres as he stretched his goalless sequence since his £50m move from Liverpool to 619 minutes. The anger from the whole of Chelsea when Spanish referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco refused them an obvious penalty in stoppage time when Patrice Evra brought down Ramires.
If the goal brought release to Rooney and a smile of satisfaction to Sir Alex Ferguson, it only served to underline the contrast in fortunes with struggling Torres, paired uncomfortably and to little effect with Didier Drogba by Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti.
Ancelotti's team selection appeared to be a barely disguised attempt to find any formation that allows him to field owner Roman Abramovich's record purchase, even if it disturbs Chelsea's natural balance and forces the exclusion of Nicolas Anelka.
No such problems for United and Ferguson, who got his selection and tactics spot on, revolving around the return of Rio Ferdinand in defence, a rejuvenated Michael Carrick in midfield and the tireless Rooney up front.
If it was intimidation from West Ham's fans that fired Rooney up to the point where he boiled over, he was subjected to more of the same on and off the pitch at Stamford Bridge and thrived.
Rooney was greeted by a hefty kick on the foot by Michael Essien which was swiftly followed by another foul by Ramirea - all played out against the now customary background noise of pantomime booing.
The effect on Rooney was non-existent as he foraged dangerously up front alongside Javier Hernandez, dropped deep to help out in midfield and even appeared to be a constant buffer between the technical area and his team-mates, happy to receive and pass on a succession of messages.
It was a contribution that drew glowing praise from both managers as Ferguson said: "He played very well. We are pleased with his performance. It was tremendous. He played fantastically, as did all the other players."
Rooney's upturn in form can also be measured in the most important currency of all as Ferguson added: "He's now more regular in his goalscoring, which in the second half of the season is more important."
The beaten Ancelotti, whose future as Chelsea manager may hang on his ability to turn this tie around at Old Trafford next Tuesday said: "He's a fantastic player. It's not just now I am saying this, I have said it before, He played really well, scored a goal and worked hard for the team."
Rooney was not alone in his excellence. Rio Ferdinand cruised back into action for the first time since February while Michael Carrick showed glimpses of the player he was before he disappeared down a black hole of poor form following a nightmare in the 2009 Champions League final against Barcelona.
Ferguson's decision to award him a new three-year contract recently was greeted with scepticism, not only here but by a large number of Manchester United fans, but at Chelsea he at least showed welcome signs of the old qualities that have extended his stay at Old Trafford.
And in goal, the veteran Edwin van der Sar produced more evidence that he should reconsider his decision to retire at the end of the season. A model of composure, he showed an elasticity that defied his age to save brilliantly from a late Torres header while everything else stuck in those reliable hands.
Chelsea's protests at the final whistle were an outpouring for what may be another lost Champions League opportunity. There was genuine and understandable fury at that late, ignored penalty claim but also the knowledge that the latest quest to clinch the missing trophy in their collection is once again in danger of failure.
The Drogba-Torres partnership failed to produce a goal. Photo: Reuters
And at the heart of Wednesday's loss was the latest chapter in Torres's fruitless search for the form he enjoyed at Liverpool. It is not for the want of trying, but Torres cuts the figure of a man stretching out for something that remains tantalisingly out of reach - in this case his form and the old snap and acceleration that made him so coveted.
Drogba and Torres may have exchanged glances but they barely exchanged a pass. Chelsea are more suited to a 4-3-3 formation with their current personnel but Ancelotti was clearly unable to resist the temptation to play both Drogba and Torres.
And while Drogba has been the more potent this season, could it be that Ancelotti simply could not take the risk of leaving Abramovich's landmark purchase languishing on the bench for a match of such significance?
Ancelotti raised eyebrows when he finally altered his system, choosing to remove Drogba when Torres looked the more likely candidate to be substituted.
It is a dilemma that has to be resolved, whether it is by Ancelotti or someone else, and it must be assumed Torres is the future rather than Drogba given Abramovich's willingness to sign off such a huge deal.
Ancelotti must solve the same equation again next Tuesday - and if ever there was a night he needs to get the formula right, it is at Old Trafford.
Ferguson was keen to preach caution and Chelsea are not out of the fight to face Inter Milan or Schalke in the semi-final - they have too much quality to be dismissed so lightly - but United's position of strength with victory and an away goal bred confidence and optimism among their camp.
With players of influence such as Ferdinand returning to the fold, United are still in the hunt for a repeat of their historic 1999 treble of the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup.
There are signs of momentum and purpose about United that have eluded them for much of the season. The campaign remains full of rich possibilities even though Ferguson himself appears to consider this to be a squad in need of an expensive summer overhaul.
And with Rooney rediscovering his touch in front of goal, there may be even more photo opportunities before the season ends.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:03
10 social media pet peeves from SXSW musiciansWritten by Administrator
Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book Stuff Hipsters Hate. When they're not trolling Brooklyn for new material, Ehrlich works as an associate editor at Mashable.com and Bartz is news editor at Psychology Today.
(CNN) -- South by Southwest is a long, winding "spring break!" (yelled in frat-boy fashion) for tech nerds and music fans alike. The fest has since wrapped, leaving attendees with glowing memories, emotional and physical scars and suitcases bursting with ripe clothing.
While it would seem instinctive to offer up some netiquette wisdom from the tech set down in Austin (they packed the Texas capital for SXSW Interactive), we decided instead to pick some band kids' brains from last weekend's music fest.
After all, musicians nowadays have to be much more plugged into the digital realm than their predecessors -- even if they are just spending a goodly amount of time stream-of-consciousness tweeting (cough Kanyecough).
Without further ado, here are 10 tips from acts both up-and-coming and better-known, and an accompanying soundtrack to see you through the learning.
1. Get a room, not a wall.
"I've never been a fan of PDA on my PDA... Especially when a girlfriend will just post a '<3' on her boyfriend's wall. It's even weirder when the boyfriend puts a '<3' in the comments of that wall post."
-- Robert Perlick-Molinari, French Horn Rebellion
2. Don't make your friends look bad.
"[I hate] getting tagged in super ugly, sweaty photos on Facebook."
-- Eric Victorino, The Limousines
3. Don't encourage mundane rambling.
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"Inane status updates about food [are annoying] ... And even more perplexing are the comments ('you should eat that carrot' or, invariably, 'yum'). It's the need to engage and validate that initial watery stool of thought that really makes me long for the day when there is a 'really?' button next to the 'like' one."
-- Kip Berman, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
4. Don't be a creeper.
"A random friend request with no message or supplemental explanation of where we met or how I'm supposed to know this person is unfair. I'm always happy to be someone's friend, especially to learn more about what they're doing musically, but have a heart and first tell me who you are!"
-- Kiran Gandhi, label manager, Rhythm & Culture Music DC
5. Don't torrential-tweet.
"Twitter drives us crazy. Too many updates, and if you're in a band, you have to constantly tell the world what you're doing all the time. Boring."
-- Megane Quashie, Black Cherry
5. Say it once, then shut up.
"The 'broken record syndrome' is difficult to avoid while promoting yourself or your business through an outlet as vast as Twitter or Facebook. Still, repeating yourself on your business's blog or in a tweet can quickly label you as a neophyte and alienates your current and future followers."
-- Eric Hehr, Gold Motel
6). Don't be a vain pain.
"[I hate] when people retweet compliments about themselves. If you did that in real life, you'd be sitting alone at the lunch table, eating mystery meat."
-- K.Flay
7. Take a joke.
"The typed word can often be taken out of context, and the actual tone of what is written cannot be determined. As a band we have a lot of 'in jokes' between ourselves and as such will often put daft messages on each others' walls on Facebook or in messages between each other on Twitter.
The problem is that other people will then see these messages, and they don't understand that it's just a joke between ourselves and that we don't mean it seriously."
-- Paddy Considine, The Lines
8. Being passive-aggressive makes your friends plain aggressive.
"Indirect tweets about a specific person -- say, an ex-girlfriend who is always going out of her way to tweet catty things about her ex without mentioning his name -- [are annoying]. A la, 'Someone thinks they can do anything they want.' It's so lame."
-- Kerli
9). Don't be a spam bot.
"When someone sends a Facebook message to you and 30 other people and you're constantly getting replies from a ton of people you probably don't know ... I feel all popular, like I'm getting all these personal messages, but that's not the case at all!"
-- Christina Schroeter, Family of the Year
10). Don't be a faceless troll.
"[I'm not into] anonymous bloggers that only blog about things they dislike."
-- Sarah Jaffe
Columnists' Note: Hey, at least we're not anonymous!
Bonus deep thought:
"Many stories I hear that begin with, 'Oh my God, so the other day on Facebook ... ' are immediately interrupted by the concession, 'I'm, like, hardly ever on Facebook, but anyway ...'
It seems people utilize the exact same pre-emptive defense for stories about things they saw on television, which begs the notion that the former has fast attained both the stature and social stigmas of the latter."
-- Ben Lovett of Lovett
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:02
What's the Most Secure Web Browser?Written by Administrator
A new Google-funded study of browser security by security research firm Accuvant Labs crowned Chrome the champion of security features, and ranked Firefox below Internet Explorer in terms of protection available from web-borne threats. Predictably, Microsoft and Mozilla have different opinions on what makes a browser secure, and why Accuvant's findings are off base. All of this got us thinking about which browser is the most secure, and whether the security features listed in studies like this even matter to the rest of us.
How Was the Study Performed?
Accuvant looked at three browsers for its study: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. All three were tested and examined running in 32-bit Windows 7, and the research was wrapped up in July of 2011, so the current release versions of each browser at that time were the ones included in the report. Accuvant says they left out other browsers, like Safari and Opera, to save time, but they do plan to update their findings on the big three as more data becomes available and each development house improves on their application.
Accuvant's study of browser security is probably the most comprehensive performed to date, even though other browsers and OSes weren't included. The researchers will be happy to tell you that they look deeper than bug-trackers and vulnerability lists, and try to get a bit more information about what makes a browser secure or vulnerable to threats—both current and in the future. Part of that effort led the researchers to examine how each browser performed when an intruder already had access a machine with each browser installed, and how much information they could obtain.
What Did the Study Find?
Accuvant researchers determined that Google Chrome had the most new and effective security features aimed at protecting users from malicious code and scripts embedded in web pages, or automatically downloaded and executed as part of the sites they visit. They examined three major areas:
In all three areas, Chrome came out on top. The researchers tied Chrome with Internet Explorer in Sandboxing and JIT Hardening, but point out that Chrome was just a bit better in both areas. In all three areas, Firefox got the lowest marks. In other areas however, all three browsers tied, and in one area at least, URL Blacklisting, all three browsers got poor marks, although the researchers again pointed out that Chrome did better than the other two—just that none of them did blacklisting very well.
Ultimately, Accuvant's researchers gave Chrome the top spot, with Internet Explorer right behind it. They pointed to Google's ability to build Chrome from the ground up, from scratch, without having to deal with legacy code or shoehorn in older capabilities the way Microsoft and Mozilla have with Internet Explorer and Firefox. Essentially, according to the research team, Chrome is the most secure because Google was able to write it with a fresh perspective and security in mind, without baggage to bring along.
What Do Mozilla and Microsoft Say About This?
Mozilla's Director of Firefox Development, Johnathan Nightingale, responded to the study in in an article at Forbes, and said "Firefox includes a broad array of technologies to eliminate or reduce security threats, from platform level features like address space randomization to internal systems like our layout frame poisoning system. Sandboxing is a useful addition to that toolbox that we are investigating, but no technology is a silver bullet. We invest in security throughout the development process with internal and external code reviews, constant testing and analysis of running code, and rapid response to security issues when they emerge. We're proud of our reputation on security, and it remains a central priority for Firefox."
Similarly, Microsoft pointed to a study by NSS Labs that showed Internet Explorer dominating all of its rivals—including Firefox and Chrome—at protecting user systems from malware. However, just as the Accuvant study was sponsored and commissioned by Google, NSS Labs' studies are often paid for by Microsoft, so there's plenty of skepticism to go around.
How Impartial Is the Study?
Accuvant is a well-respected security and research firm, and they've gone to great lengths to make not only the full text of the study available, but also the tools used and the supporting data behind the study in case other researchers want to examine their findings.
Google and Accuvant both explained that even though they commissioned the study, they knew that if the results were in their favor, that fact would cast doubt on the merits of the result. Accuvant explained in an article at Ars Technica that Google gave them more than a wide berth to do the research, and insisted that the study be an impartial look at the state of browser security. Accuvant, for its part, has also put its reputation on the line, stating the study is representative of their company and its quality of work, and they stand behind it.
Whether Google was so open about the study being independant because they knew the testing methodology and the fact that their codebase put them at an advantage is another story, but as of now, no one's criticising Accuvant's results or methodology. The real question however, is how much should you or I care?
Does Any of This Matter? What Should I Do?
In the end, the study is important, but the real lynch-pin of browser security is—and always has been—the user behind the keyboard. Chrome may be on top now, but Microsoft and Mozilla will make changes to address as a result of the findings. Accuvant's methodology assumes your system is compromised, and also assumes that you have no other protection besides the browser's own security features to protect you, both of which aren't likely true for most users. In the interim, this study will wind up being used as cannon fodder in the browser wars, with one browser's fans firing it at another's without ever bothering to read it.
For the most part, browser security is a matter of user responsibility. Make sure you surf responsibly, and use SSL whenever possible. Don't accept, run, or even download anything if you're not sure what it is or why you were prompted to download a file, and only keep the extensions and add-ons running that you need on a daily basis.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:01
webOS being open sourced, says HPWritten by Administrator
HP has finally decided the fate of webOS today, and it's an open one: the platform will be contributed to the open source community. The company says that it will be an "active participant and investor in the project," and that its ultimate goal here is to accelerate development. In other words, it doesn't want to pump the amount of money into webOS that would be required to make it fully competitive, so it's looking to the public to help make that happen.
As for Enyo — the app framework that underpins webOS 3 and the TouchPad — HP says that it will be contributed in the "near future" along with "the remaining components of the user space." There's no specific verbiage in HP's press release about what won't be contributed, but PreCentral has learned that patents related to webOS will remain under HP control "to protect developers."
It remains to be seen what (if any) hardware HP directly produces for the newly-opened operating system, but it says that today's move creates "the opportunity to significantly improve applications and web services for the next generation of devices," so it certainly expects someone to fill those hardware shoes — and in this model, of course, anyone will be welcome to do so.
The move feels similar to the one that Nokia made several years ago in the creation of the Symbian Foundation to foster open source development of that platform, and that didn't work out too well — it later shuttered the organization, brought Symbian's development back in house, and ultimately announced its long-term phase-out in favor of Windows Phone. Of course, HP isn't a mobile company the same way Nokia is, so it isn't as immediately critical that it find and implement a successful mobile platform. Either way, webOS's fight for relevance is a long, uphill one.
HP has also posted a brief set of FAQs about today's move. Regarding the future of HP-branded webOS hardware, the company says that it will "explore the viability of putting webOS on devices, just as we do for other leading operating systems" — in other words, it doesn't sound like there'll be much favoritism here when it comes time to select a mobile platform (or a printer platform). It also doesn't sound like we should expect any new devices any time soon. For current owners, though, the good news is that they'll "continue to receive software improvements and updates in the future."
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:46
What needs to happen before the iPhone gets NFCWritten by Administrator
We may not have jet packs yet, but pretty soon plastic will be a thing of the past. At least in our wallets, that is.
The technology that will bring us part of the way there is near-field communications (NFC), an exciting tool that lets devices exchange information with one another when in close proximity. So far, its main use has centered on payments, specifically point-of-sale terminals at retailers. In fact, you probably have a credit card from your bank with an NFC chip in it.
The next frontier for those little chips is in smartphones. Like wallets, these have become something people carry around with them everywhere they go. More importantly, mobile application stores have warmed users to the idea that the phone can have a direct line of credit with your bank account and some of the same cards you're carrying around.
For nearly a year now, a mix of patent filings and third-party reports have pointed at Apple adding NFC to its devices, specifically the iPhone. But none has managed to offer a clear, well-supported stance of what Apple is really up to. CNET talked to two NFC experts about the current mobile payments landscape, and they spelled out some of the hurdles Apple faces not only in putting NFC chips into devices but also in setting up the infrastructure and partnerships to make it a reality.
Before delving into the nitty-gritty though, it's worth understanding why would Apple would even venture into NFC in the first place. The simple answer is that it's an enormous business opportunity.
"Electronic payments in the U.S., according to the Federal Reserve was $40 trillion in 2010," David Eads, who leads product marketing for Kony Solutions told CNET. "So for every 1 percent of mobile payment adoption that happens of that number, that's $407 billion in transactions."
Eads, who has a background in the mobile payments industry, founded the mobile consultancy Mobile Strategy Partners and held positions at mFoundry and Tealeaf Technology. He explained that the big ticket item in that magic $407 billion number was the "interchange" revenue, which is where various parties get a cut from fees. That can run anywhere from $4 billion to 6 billion on each $407 billion chunk. It also makes things more competitive among the various parties that take fees, since retailers can choose the card or payment provider they want to support.
Following the money
"Groupon doesn't make 2 percent of the ticket. They make 50 percent of what's paid," Todd Ablowitz, who is the president of the Double Diamond Group, another company that does consulting for the electronic payments industry, told CNET. "Everyone is chasing that promotional revenue, and that's where the focus is going to be," he continued.
That everyone includes Google, which recently added support for NFC in its Android OS though has not yet offered up its payment tools for retailers or developers. Near the end of last year, Google came close to buying Groupon and has since refocused its efforts on social deals with its Google Offers platform. There's also Facebook, Amazon, and start-ups like FourSquare, Gowalla, and Loopt, which have carved out deals with retailers to attract mobile phone users with coupons and discounts.
Discounts and deals could be putting the carriage in front of the horse though. The core of the technology centers on getting NFC chips into phones and NFC-capable point-of-sale units to flush the market, not to mention getting the underlying systems in place to make sure those two sides of the equation work from place to place and from phone to phone.
So what's holding all this up then? Part of it has been a chicken and egg problem: putting NFC chips in phones is neat, but if there are no scanners to use them, who wants to put them in the phones? Likewise, if there are barely any NFC devices, what's in it for a retailer to upgrade their point-of-sale hardware with an NFC-capable system?
As my colleague Elinor Mills pointed out in her story about NFC and mobile wallets last month, the GSMA, a trade association representing the Global System for Mobile Communications industry, began pushing handset makers to start including NFC chips in their phones back in 2008, with the end goal of having it be standard practice by late 2009. As we've seen with phone hardware, we're just now getting to the point where NFC is becoming a checkbox feature on phones that aren't geared toward specialty markets or professions.
In the interim, all manner of companies have sprung up and jumped in to fill the void, some offering SIM and MicroSD cards with build-in NFC chips, while others offered up stickers containing chips that can be affixed to the back.
At this point, it's not a cost issue with the actual hardware, Eads explained. For something like a point-of-sale system, the extra NFC hardware costs around $5, which is a drop in the bucket when you're paying $200 or more for a swiping machine. "The cost is being passed into the merchant," Eads said. "They can keep the same price point and help the units move faster." Even so, it might be a hard sell for a business with an already-functioning set of point-of-sale machines to upgrade.
All told, there are more than 750,000 point-of-sale terminals that support NFC in the U.S., according to Eads, who says most of those can be found in fast food restaurants, and in places like Wal-Mart Stores and Walgreens. Eads says that amounts to less than 1 percent of the total number of point-of-sale terminals across the United States. Overseas, in places like Japan and Korea, NFC-capable terminals are more common.
Apple's clear way to pay
That "clear way" is the Apple ID system, which now has more than 200 million users signed up to use, all with credit cards or other payment options linked to those accounts. During the iPad 2's unveiling earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed that the 200 million number made it one of the largest online payment providers in the world. More importantly, it was something customers could use not just in iTunes, but in the iBooks application to buy e-books, and in the App Store to purchase applications.
"By Apple adding NFC to the phone, they're really just extending the phone's payment abilities to the checkout, to be able to make that last leap to the phone to the point-of-sale device," Eads said. "That's the only piece Apple is missing."
So what would it take to get there? Will Apple simply partner with some of these existing point-of-sale hardware makers or go its own way with boxes that go out to retailers? According to Ablowitz, it's unlikely to go the latter way.
"The world of retail does not happen at the same speed as the consumer," Ablowitz said. "You can get consumers to pitch their cell phones and get a new one, or pitch their Walkman and get an iPod. Getting retailers to change their business practices, you need a return on investment. They don't do it just for cool."
Further proof that Apple would opt to partner over starting from scratch can be seen by looking at the way the company has already approached payments with its own products, Ablowitz offered.
"They haven't been trying to their own consumer payment application, they've been partnering with whatever you have in your wallet today on iTunes. So it's a fallacy to think that they'd be unwilling to work with a player," Ablowitz said. "They just know the difference of when they should build, and when they should partner."
That brings us to one of the last hurdles, which are the carriers. They continue to be the gatekeepers for the data connection that feeds devices like the iPhone when they're outside of a Wi-Fi network. More importantly, there's a contractual agreement that dictates what phones that run on those networks can and cannot do, which companies like Apple are required to adhere to.
Apple is credited with helping to change the balance of power between device manufacturers and carriers by taking control not only of things like application distribution but also things like system software updates, marketing, and design. Even so, NFC represents another battleground where Apple is up for a fight.
"Carriers recognize through the NFC trials for the last number of years in the mid-2000s that this is wildly popular with consumers," Albowitz said. "Once consumers try an NFC payment, it's been one of the best responses you will ever see from a consumer product. The carriers recognize that. They know that there's an enormous amount of commerce there, and they don't want to miss what they missed with the App Store."
One thing that sets NFC apart is that your phone doesn't have to be on or even connected to a carrier's network to have it work with NFC readers. The technology can also be set to require a PIN or password code to authenticate its use. That security decision, Ablowitz explained, was still something that was up to the payment provider. But there's a greater level of control being given to the carriers with NFC chips as far as security goes.
"The NFC that's in some of the Android phones--like the Samsung phones at Mobile World Congress--the carriers will have full control over that NFC chip," Eads said. "They'll be responsible for the secure element." Eads compared the arrangement with the certificate authority for HTTPS, which can offer Web site owners a way to verify themselves to users, and offer a secure connection. "The carriers will have control over that, and they will take a cut of the transaction."
How much of a cut would that be? And would Apple simply opt to find a way around that? Those two details in particular have likely been a sticking point in bringing any payment platforms to market. In Apple's case, this also represents a particularly important issue given the company's propensity for control, as well as releasing the same product in all markets. With something like the iPhone, Apple would be unlikely to want to manufacture a version of the device that was had a hardware feature in some places but not others.
"What needs to happen with Apple, is much bigger than a simple chip," Ablowitz offered. "They have to make a business decision to bring a service to market. That's every bit as big as iTunes was, or iBooks. They have to deal with the approach for how you get people's payment types onto the phone."
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With the game on the line, rookie Andy Dalton couldn't handle a little old-fashioned Pittsburgh defense.
Rashard Mendenhall ran for a pair of touchdowns Sunday, and the Steelers intercepted Dalton twice in the fourth quarter, holding on for a 24-17 victory over the upstart Cincinnati Bengals.
Pittsburgh (7-3) ended the Bengals' five-game winning streak and got a needed victory. Ben Roethlisberger led long, balanced drives while thousands of Steelers fans waved Terrible Towels in the first sellout crowd of the season at Paul Brown Stadium.
Mendenhall's 9-yard run put the Steelers' up 24-17 late in the third quarter. Cincinnati (6-3) had a couple of late chances behind its impressive young quarterback, who handled most of what Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau threw at him.
Dalton had two more touchdown passes, giving him 14 overall - the most by a rookie quarterback in his first nine games since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. He wasn't sacked even though the Steelers blitzed him every way they could.
Near the end, a Steelers defense that's starting to get healthy and force turnovers finally thwarted him.
Pittsburgh came in with only two interceptions all season. Cornerback William Gay anticipated Dalton's throw and stepped in front of Jerome Simpson for a clinching interception inside the Pittsburgh 20-yard line with 2:27 left.
Dalton was 15 of 30 for 170 yards and touchdown passes of 36 yards to fellow rookie A.J. Green and 1 yard to Jermaine Gresham. Green twisted his right knee on his first-quarter catch and was limited the rest of the way, relegated to standing on the sideline for the decisive moments of the fourth quarter.
Once the Steelers stopped their self-destruction, they put it away.
The defending AFC champions needed this one. The Steelers already have been swept by Baltimore, and a loss in Cincinnati would have left them 0-3 in division games - a bad mark in a big tiebreaker.
They got off to another fast start, then held on in a gusty wind that made the goal posts shimmy and passes float.
Roethlisberger was 21 of 33 for 245 yards with one touchdown and an interception. He was sacked five times, matching his season high.
Roethlisberger found Jerricho Cotchery uncovered in the end zone for a 16-yard score that got thousands of Terrible Towels waving. It was the fifth time in the last six games that the Steelers reached the end zone on their opening possession.
Mendenhall ran 2 yards for a 14-0 lead on the Steelers' next possession. At that point, Pittsburgh had a 132-8 advantage in yards.
Dalton got the Bengals back in it by doing what he does best - throw the ball Green's way so he can make a game-changing play. After running away from the pass rush, Dalton threw 36 yards to Green, who went up between safeties Troy Polamalu and Ryan Clark to make the catch in the end zone.
Green, the NFL's top rookie receiver, landed awkwardly on his right leg on the play. He lay on the field for a couple of minutes and limped off with a sore right knee, but returned for the next series. He was on the sideline during the second half.
The Steelers helped the Bengals keep it close.
Tight end Heath Miller bobbled a pass directly to cornerback Leon Hall for an interception that set up Mike Nugent's 43-yard field goal, cutting it to 14-10. Miller had another bad moment late in the first half, wiping out an apparent touchdown with an interference penalty. Shaun Suisham's 39-yard field goal gave Pittsburgh a 17-10 halftime lead.
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Dalton pulled the Bengals even with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Gresham on their first drive of the second half. Pittsburgh then pulled off a tone-setting drive, covering 81 yards in 11 plays. Mendenhall's 9-yard run put the Steelers up 24-17 late in the third quarter.
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what an Arse Dana is.
hope someone does a driveby when hes being an arse nearby.
Spike TV will present a special cable telecast of some of the most exciting bouts from UFC 100, one of the biggest nights in the history of mixed martial arts, on Saturday, August 15 at 10:00pm-12:30am ET/PT. Featuring Brock Lesnar's coronation as heavyweight king and Dan Henderson's must-see knockout over Michael Bisping, the Spike TV telecast marks the first time that bouts from this landmark event will be televised off of Pay-Per-View.
Emanating from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV on July 11, 2009, UFC 100 was a milestone event in the 16-year history of the UFC organization. The Spike TV telecast of UFC 100* includes the following fights:
Heavyweight Championship Bout
Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir
Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping
Alan Belcher vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
Light Heavyweights
Stephan Bonnar vs. Mark Coleman
Shannon Gurgerty vs. Matt Grice
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Jon Jones vs. Jake O'Brien
*(due to time constraints- not all fights from UFC 100 can be shown)
Spike TV is the television home to the most preeminent mixed martial arts organization in the world, The Ultimate Fighting Championship, including "The Ultimate Fighter," "UFC Fight Night," "UFC Unleashed," "Ultimate Knockouts," "UFC Countdown," "UFC All Access," and "UFC Primetime."
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what an Arse Dana is.
hope someone does a driveby when hes being an arse nearby.
Dana and zuffa at their best. Pathetic..
fuck you, mike…..wishing for someone to DIE because they're promoting the business? you're a fucking piece of shit retarded asshole cocksucker.
Dana is RUINING the sport.
and it was a JOKE YOU IDIOT!
tho i wish they would replace him.
(lack of American sense of Humour there it seems.)
Yeah, wishing for someone's death because they're a good businessman is real funny, dickhead. Look, if it weren't for Dana you would never even have heard of MMA, and it wouldn't be as popular as it is today. Just get over it. Dana should be respected for what he did for the sport you know about only because of him.
(Here's where you say you always were into martial arts and watched Pride and everything before Dana came in, to try to show me I'm wrong and you save face…but I just called your move, so just admit you're a moron, and we can all move on.) Notice Bazooka Joe ain't commenting on here anymore after I went to Texas and beat his ass like the bitch that he is.
Ya, he's ruining the sport because he's trying to centralize all of it inside 1 major organization like NFL,NBA,NHL, etc. It's because of guys like Dana that we aren't watching MMA from some shitty rec center or somebodies basement. Ruining the sport, your a fucking idiot, go die.
He's trying to make it a real sport, as in covered by ESPN and any other notable sports cast, give it real credibility amonst other major sports, right now its a sideshow with a lot of fans.
Killah Hillz
you are clueless. You are Danas puppet. You cant think for yourself.
You cant even have an intelligent conversation with anyone on this website that disagrees with you
You act like a kid and throw temper tantrums and call names when people dont agree with you.
It is quite funny how old are you 2. Youngster i think it is past your bed time little ones should not be watching UFC.
If Dana isdoing such a bad job and needs to be replaced, then why is the sport growing so popular in the states and other countries. also the ufc can have fighters get hurt and can't fight and replace them with no problem or when fans complain about a boring fight card they change it. Let's see what happen to affliction thrillogy 3 they couldn't get some else to fight fedor and canceled the whole event. When have you ever seen the ufc cancel an event because a fight couldn't happen NEVER!!!
The fact is: The Gina Carano and Chris Cyborg fight will be much much more exciting thanany Brock Lesnar figt ever will be. Both of these women are fenominal fighters. This will be a brawl. Besides: I already saw Brock lesnars fight for free at my local tavern: I wouldn't pay for it at home because of the headline fight: a gut getting paid for his name that has yet to EARN a title shot.
By the way: Keep an eye on Bobby Lashley…
Im a big MMA fan, so I will definately be watching Strikeforce this weekend, not to mention I also watched WEC sunday, so I'm no fanboy by any means, but Dana has done a great deal for the sport, show him a little ounce of respect.
Shogun = Suckit. Regardless of my delivery tactics, I am right here, and going against me in this particular case makes you look like a complete idiot. And looking bad next to me is REALLY bad, so you and Mike really need to STFU!
I have to agree with post 8, although i agree with you killah….chill out man, insulting people isnt going to get anyone anywhere….that said its a good business move and i believe strikeforce is going down if Dana wants it to…he'll create his monopoly, and i think its good for the sport. NFL NBA, NHL., thats where your getting the best ccompetition. To be the best you have to beat the best.
Evidence would suggest that telling me to calm down only instigates me further…..
shit, piss, cocksucker, motherfucker, eat balls, dickwads, ass lickers, shit eaters
i have tourettes….it's not MY fault….i'm handicapped. don't insult a handicapped person YOU MOTHERFUCKERS….just accept me as a human being with FUCKING flaws and love me.
oh, if you take ANYTHING I post as actually seriously angry….then get over it. hahaha. it's fun. So, sit back, relax, and chill as I thrill.
oh, yeah……motherfuckers. hahhaah
(sigh…) I'm too too young to be remembering "the good old days" on this site when real men with real takes could Intelligently Discuss Real opinions and not use this as an alternative for psychotherapy or in the place of their meds. Won't someone with an ounce of dignity start those "good old days" back up?! Let's all agree…Dana is a douche, but a douche with the world in the palm of his hands as far as mma goes. Fedor and Brock won't meet and this sucks regardless of who you pull for….and yes Killah….even in a joke it is Poor form to wish a drive by on anyone….especially if you used to wake up at the sound of sirens to steal the yellow police tape from each new one in your hood.
I think this killa hillz is not hear to talk about the situations at hand. He is here like a aol chatroom bully. Talks tough on line but is probably a real bitch. We have a couple names for ur kind. Like window warrior or phone soldger. Get a life. Though I agree with what u are saying I think u are immature. So go ahead say u back ur shit up and call me out. Real easy to find me just come to pacific coast martialarts Stockton ca.
from my stand point, if i hadnt already seen ufc 100. I would watch it rather than cyborg carano for the same reason i would rather watch college mens basketball than womens pro, lay ups and jump shots WOW!! Neither of them are going to knock the other out and likely it will go to a decision that if its close you know carano will win that way they keep the golden girl of womens mma. its just to predictable. of all the womens fights i haev seen I am not sure I have ever seen one not go the distance. It just isnt entertaining for me.
You all forget this is business first and for most and the UFC want to remain the kings of MMA, there just protecting their rights and there business. Although i dont think Strikeforce and M-1 stand a chance at overtaking the UFC of course. I am not complaining this is free fights to watch, its way better than waiting a year to see these fights free on TV, props to Dana and the UFC for making this happen. This may suck for others but for the true MMA fans why the bitch talk, you get to see these fights again for FREE like a little over a month after they occurred..thats fucking awesome just shut your mouths and enjoy the ride.
the strike force card is still pretty solid, only people who haven't seen ufc 100 will tune out, and other than the bisping fight its nothing i want to watch again. just record one and watch the live event if you haven't seen 100 yet.
you're all idiots if you think that what Dana is doing is good for the Sport.
MLS is a MASSIVE MASSIVE example of this.
who watches this shit outside America? the answer is NO ONE!
NFL? again the SAME! (hell no one plays that outside of America)
truth is there is a reason that i see the wider goal.
anybody who says "like NHL, NFL etc" are idiots.
all sports that are big in America and nowhere else.
MLS? sorry but Europe has the bigger and better players.
UFC right now cannot get anymore fighters on there rota, it is as SIMPLE as that, this is another shot at monopolying the sport for more money for DANA AND THE UFC.
oh and i watched Pride before i even knew what the hell the UFC was.
this sport needs to go down the boxing line. Dana will not co promote with anyone and that for the fans is not a good thing.
besides UFC 100 is shit. 103 is full of good fights but no names (Manny boxes that night). 105 is in Manchester so shit names will be on it. (viewing times etc).
Ko209 and Afraidor Millionerko well said
I love watching MMA, therefore, I will be watching both UFC and STRIKEFORCE.Gotta love TIVO!
yeah it will be great for any dull moments just flip between the two or record ufc 100 for later. you got to go with the live event and how could you not want to see babalu vs gergard.
Well Said….back to the good old days of respect and dignity just because we cant see eachother doesnt mean we can act like assholes, etc..
Fact is what Dana White does only anhances the MMA world, the guy is an asshole but a smart ass as well..this isnt going to hurt MMA, its business and when Dana gets business minded its all better for the MMA fans of the world. Simply put you will watch what you watch, i am not buying strikeforce mainly because i dont want to fork out the money after i forked out to watch UFC 101, which wasnt the best show but hey its MMA, its not fake wrestling where you can plan on having a good show and if you dont you can get your money back or something. MMA is real so deal with the real world.
This is just a perfect example of how much power the UFC has….They can counterprograming with a UFC event that did over 1.5 mil buys in just over a month later live on free TV…Now can you name another promotion out there that can do that so easily??? NO you cant so just enjoy it….etiher way whatever you watch…frankly i would watch the live event and tape the UFC 100 to have it on hand for later veiwing.
The only reason soccer is more popular in europe is because it's been around there a long ass time longer than in America.
Of course europe doesn't watch a whole lot of NFL or NHL, you're on a different goddamned continent. Canada watches NHL and some NFL, and countries like Japan and China enjoy MLB.
Also a whole lot of countries play basketball, it's an olympic sport.
All in all I'm going to say that you don't hate ufc, you hate America in general. Get over yourself buddy.
hosan i hate America?
i go on Holiday to America every year. so no i don't hate America, but nice try.
everyone plays basketball because the government pays them too, no other reason. (if there good enough).
MLB is loved in Japan (China is a massive place with billions of people they love every sport but NHL, NFL and Cricket)
i hate that Dana to Americans is as good as an MMA god. he is ruining the sport, add the fact that Pride WAS more popular than UFC till Dana bought it out, for all we know Dana has slowed down the growth of the sport.
MMA needs to go down the route of boxing but it won't Dana has control now and anyone outside the UFC will not get to fight someone inside it.
there is a reason that boxing P4P is less argued than MMA P4P.
Dana is ruining the sport and has slowed the growth of MMA? MMA needs to go down the route of boxing?
That's it Mike…You may no longer comment on here, unless you start stating some intelligent comments…
Are you crazy? Boxing is pretty much dead. Why would Dana want to go down the same road has them? The UFC continues to grow every year in it's PPV sells, marketing and apparel. Dana is a smart businessman and GOOD for the sport of MMA.
Pride was more popular then the UFC??? I don't think so and don't get me wrong, I loved Pride when it was still going on, but the UFC was more popular then Pride. It was way more mainstream then Pride, more out there for the public.
Dude, all you do is talk shit about Americans and America.
Dana is not at all bad for the sport. Everyone knows that he's a prick, but he's far from bad for the sport. He's trying to get all of the fighters in one association. What's the issue w/that? Why is it so wrong that each fighter should have the ability to fight each other? (Of course that's if they should be proper weight class).
All you retards that are whinning about UFC counterprogramming against Strikeforce on sat. night, get a DVR and shut up. Dana is the best thing that has ever happened to the sport. Apperently none of you (supposed) MMA fans have a clue what Dana has done for the sport. Find a show called "from bloodsport to big time" it was aired on csnbc and watch it and stop crying. Besides if you have shotime so you can watch Gina's hot ass kick the crap out of cyborg you should have a DVR so you can record UFC 100, or if you cheap assholes would have paid to watch UFC 100 on ppv then you would not have anything to bitch about. Go Gina!!! To everyone that are not complaining thanks for supporting MMA and enjoy the fight!
pride wasnt popular because it wasnt available to everyone … pride was the bomb
Pride FC > UFC. The pride dvd's are more of a show than the UFC in person.
pride put on some great shows. great production and huge cards.


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