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Report | Lesnar Causing Tension Between The WWE and UFC | UFC NEWS
WWE superstar turned former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has been making some headlines recently. UFC president Dana White met with him at UFC 146 and it "couldn't have gone worse". But it's still not over.
Lesnar is still in the middle of drama between the UFC and WWE. Lesnar's appearance on RAW following his retirement from the octagon drew huge ratings. But after he met with Dana White, he has been written off the WWE programming and his expected return match against Triple H at SummerSlam is in question.
Bryan Alvarez of Figure Four Weekly has more on Lesnar and his WWE contract:
The WWE side almost universally claims that Brock has an iron-clad contract and that there is no way he could fight for UFC until that contract expires following WrestleMania 29 in April of 2013. On the UFC side, there are people who insist that his contract is non-exclusive (more than one source used the term "on loan to WWE"), and that he and White were discussing a potential fight during the meeting. Not everyone in UFC believes he'll fight. Some believe that even if his WWE contract allowed it, his heart really isn't into fighting and all of this is some sort of ploy by Lesnar to increase his bargaining power or leverage with WWE.
Geno Mrosko of Cageside Seats has his own thoughts on Lesnar:
All we can really tell here is Lesnar is definitely in business for himself. But that's not exactly news. When he left UFC, he had one fight left on his contract but the understanding was that if he retired and wanted to go to WWE, White would allow him to do so. And why wouldn't he? It seems interesting now, though, that Lesnar has dipped his toe back in the Octagon waters and perhaps gotten White's hopes up for a return to fighting that hasn't come to pass. That could be why folks are maintaining that Brock will return at some point soon. If White wanted to make a power play, theoretically, he could.
Even with new information here, I maintain my stance that Lesnar is simply leveraging himself for better treatment while he works with WWE. His career in fighting could still be lucrative but if he went back and was badly beaten, as he has been the last two times in the cage, it would badly damage his brand, perhaps beyond repair. And with his appeal already seemingly at a low point based on the Extreme Rules buyrate (and you know the right folks will spin it that way), he needs to maintain whatever appeal he still has left.
With big name UFC fighters dropping like flies from injury, Brock Lesnar would certainly be a huge draw business wise if he returned to the octagon.
Although frowned upon by many MMA fans for his lack of credentials, like it or not, Brock Lesnar is still a big name in MMA.
What would you think if the former "baddest man on the planet" eventually returned to the cage?
40 Responses to "Report | Lesnar Causing Tension Between The WWE and UFC | UFC NEWS"
bj penn gonna get tooled by rory
And gargles man juice…
I want brok and rory to tool me… Oh bj… I'm so jelious….
I wouldn't mind seeing Lesnar come back if he chose to or was given the ability to start as a normal fighter. If he returns I'd like to see him start smaller. By that I mean lesser named opponents and work his way up a little. I think that would extremely benefit him by letting him get more experience and drive to work his way up. Top level competition has already shown they can walk through him. Have Lesnar come back and fight a few under cards guys like Struve and Kongo let him feel it out and see where he really fits in the division.
lesnar loses 3 st8 in ufc
Stick to wrestling. You got your ass handed to you enough in the octagon. Let's face you were meant to be a big phony plug. Ps tell Vince he's a douche.
Cock Chesnar is an idiot. He's not bigger than either company but Dana seems to have a serious man crush on him so he's got a better chance of bamboozling him. Vince McMahon doesn't give a shit who you are he's shown time and again he will protect his brand above all else. Not to mention who really wants to see lesnar have another disappointing performance in the cage, although I love seeing him get embarrassed it's not good for mma as whole….maybe he should fight pacquiao!!
I'm so over the hype on Lesnar. In my eyes, I just see another Bob Sapp!!! Low-blow, I know! Hahaha
haha! Brock Sapp… So true.
Haha, Nice!
I sure do like male on male wrestling…..need that' man love…. Someone fist my bum bum…. Cockn roll… Dana… I mean wrestle….me
Ohhhhh Dana…… Let's cockn roll…. I mean wrestle !
James Toney, is that you?
Brock Lesnar is a douche all he does is slander his opponents befor his fights then gets smashed then tries to be respectful afterwards.. I wonder if he ever got around to having that burrito and corona after he nearly got murdered by Cain… HAH! He sucks.
Brock could still beat most at H W besides cain,jds,and overeem with just his wrestling alone
@jbeamazing Brock cowers n pussies out at a bat on the chin, the Carwin fight showed that maybe shocked Carwin to over throwing n gassing but Cain must have looked n laughed at that tape! Brock is a big athletic dude as shown in the Herring 1 punch dive but stay away JDS won't hold back or miss like a WWE person stick with your $5m contract n go back chasing ponies or whatever u do on your ranch!
true to most of what you said but he still will beat most at h w
I do not like this wwe thing but he is still a big bad dude who for some reason changed his identity in the octagon, i would like to see him comeback if he cuts ties with that wrasslin shit. He goes from destroying frank mir and subbing carwin to losing to cain wtf happened!?
Lesnar was for real get over it..I hate him 2 but the fact is he defended his belt twice and won it in the first place..how many legends in mma cant say that??? n this is all to plug his wwe shit….n its working…look how this story and everything about Lesnar remains on mma sites
Lesnar no matter what would be a good competitor in MMA…he just needs to work on his stand up and ability to take hits. His wrestling is by far better than all of MMA and he is obviously stronger than all. Give him training time and maybe he could be the best.
note to the author, please explain who you're talking about dropping like flies from injuries? who could brock lesnar possibly be replacing that just dropped like a fly?
Prob talkin about aldo, Cruz, bisping, alves, Gsp… Fighters that would be the headliner with big names that Lesnar vs someone would replace on a card. Self xplanatory if u follow MMA
LOL he doesn't need to explain, use your brain a little bit dude. He didn't say with all these heavyweights dropping they need a spot for him. What he was saying is that with all these injuries causing them to shuffle cards around and cancel big fights, it would be a huge help to the UFC to throw Lesnar on a card with it doesn't matter who or what else is on the card. If you ever followed the UFC you would know Brock was there biggest PPV draw ever.
Oh 11thhour! Brown Pride don't remember the ass whipping he gave Lesnar cause he got knocked the fuck out by Junior.
Hate people who chirp lesnar… whats the point? he won the belt on his fourth ever mma fight. How many mma fighters can say the won the most prestigous belt for the most prestigous mma organization in the fucken galaxy?
Answer: 1, Brock Lesnar
Bad worded i know, but thats why im drinking coors light right now cause bud light won't pay me shit
ha! you gonna go get on ur wife now?
this is gonna be like trying to convince favre to go back to football
for all the people saying he sucks and he is overrated. How can you take away from the fact that he beat Couture, Mir, and Carwin(even though I think Carwin is the one who's vastly overrated if anything) Couture at the time was in the top 10. Frank Mir has been in the top 10 for how many years now? and Carwin was also in the top at that point. And then he lost to Velasquez the most talented heavyweight in the UFC(and at the time undefeated), and Alistair Overeem who we all know is and was roided up. Not to mention Alistair is a problem for anybody in the world regardless. Brock probably can't touch Cain ever, and he probably wouldn't be able to beat Overeem. But outside of that Brock can absolutely hang with anybody.
Couture was a very small HW and in his 40's, Mir underestimated him and Carwin is strong but not that good.
Like that stopped Couture from coming back out of retirement to whoop the shit out of Tim Sylvia and take the UFC HW title back home with him? Just like Lesnar, Couture was/is a phenomenon in the world of combat sports. Considering he did , in his 40's, what so many have failed to do in their 20's and 30's! Couture beat legends to become one himself. And Brock beat that legend fair and square in the Octagon. After redeeming his submission loss by a viscious TKO win over Frank Mir. (One of the most dangerous, HW submission specialists on the planet.) Like Brock's personality or not, he deserves respect for beating some top tier fighters in a very short amount of time! Sure he lost to Cain, a top 5 guy in any HW ranking, was undefeated at the time and an extremely talented wrestler himself. And then to Overeem, who is one of the BEST MMA HW strikers, ever. (While Alistair was possibly on PEDs) Not to mention Overeem beat him after Lesnar had live saving intestinal surgery. Let's see anybody talking trash do that! I'm not a huge Lesnar fan but I am a big fan of The Natural and what he has accomplished. I don't want people acting like he was a cake walk for Lesnar! Far from it.
Why is this even an issue? Either Lesnar wants to fight for real in the UFC, or he wants to orchestrate a fight scene in the WWE. Putting UFC and WWE in the same sentence is just nonsense!
This Article makes Brock Look like a money hungry SOB but when he went back to the WWE they played him as a money hungry SOB they had him do a lot of promos and stuff just to give him 1 match then in the storyline he quit, that was a couple of months ago and hes not suppose to return until August, and the WWE really preyed upon his career in the UFC, so they give Brock Lesner a farm boy competitor 1 or 2 matches a year and expect him to stay with WWE, 2 or 3 fights in the UFC is good but in WWE thats awful…..its really WWE whos causing all the tension. Brock Lesner didnt think that he could compete with the talent rich UFC so he went crawling back to the WWE where they pretty much used him as a temporary cashcow. I think that if he does come back to the UFC he should start at the bottom and work his way up so he can get more experienced and become a better fighter, that was the problem in the first place. He was a big name so he got the big names but he wasnt prepared for the competition……
Send Brock to strikeforce !!!!
Who cares about him !!!
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Yeah it's gotta be him "playing sides" right? Not like he might be a FAN OF THE SPORT or anything?!!
Man… this freaking clown man. If this guy ever returns to the ufc the ufc's credibility will go to the toilet. Brock Lesnard has turn into a money machine, yes. Very popular dude, but when it comes to dishing a REAL ass kicking, he has no idea how to do it without first humping you to death… clown!!!!
Well, tell that to Brock Lesnar on his face and you'll experience what real ass kicking is…
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So efforts by scientists to re-create the big bang — that moment, if one can speak of a moment, as in time, before there was time, or at least a decent wristwatch, when energy, or some hot gooey primordial stuff, spewed out a burgeoning universe, eventuating in the birth of galaxies, the advent of life, and the eventual cancellation of Charles in Charge — have failed once again.
It seems that the quixotic quest to find Higgs Boson, once thought to be the front man for an Air Supply tribute band, but which turns out to be the "God" particle," has come to a crumbling halt.
First, about a year ago, the Large Hadron Collider (not to be confused with the Medium Hadron Collider and Omnidirectional Shower Head) went phffffff when, shortly upon whiz-banging, hydrogen began to leak from its cooling thingee, ruining a good pair of chinos and an autographed picture of Carol Channing.
Now, after months of grueling repair work by the finest minds that could be found on Craigslist, the whole epic venture to determine how matter attains mass, or why matadors go to Mass, or some such thing, I don't know, I wasn't paying attention, has gone kablooey once again.
Turns out a piece of French bread gummed up the works.
Yes. French bread.
And that's not the weird part.
As the narrator of this CNN piece relates:
According to two physicists, the culprit could be the Higgs-Boson Particle traveling back in time to destroy itself.
I hate when that happens.
One of those physicists, a man with three names and a thick foreign accent, and not one of those mad-scientist accents either, but more like that of a maitre'd at a bad fusion restaurant, said, "It would look as if the future has an influence on what happens today or yesterday."
Which would explain my VISA bill. But I digress.
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Dr. [THREE NAMES] says it looks like the Higgs Boson Particle may be so abhorrent to nature that it rippled back in time to sabotage the machine that created it.
But why French bread, when a bag of gummi bears would have proved just as effective? Unless Higgs Boson is a diversion, and some French saboteurs from the future have deliberately screwed things up, envious of others' potential achievement. (You know how they get …)
In any event, judge for yourself:
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Vargas also discusses the results of a recent poll of likely voters which show Santos significantly ahead of other candidates, despite polling behind blank votes. According to Vargas, some of the voters who intend to cast blank votes will do so because they are hard core supporters of Uribe; however, others will do so out of indifference towards all the candidates. This is the first poll to show a lead for blank votes, which, Vargas argues, corresponds to a general disenchantment with political leaders in Colombia.
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Elwynn Taylor, Department of Agronomy
We expect a few new weather records to be set each year. This is only normal for weather. After all if a weather station is brand new, every day is a new record. If the station is a year old we would expect that almost no days would have the same temperature as last year so it would be, again, almost a new record every day. As the years go by the chance of setting a new record diminishes but does not disappear. All this describes a climate that is not significantly changing. With most of our records for stations more than 50 years old and many more than 100 years old, the likelihood of setting a new record is diminished but still very real.
During the "Dust Bowl" years so many new records were set, that folks were suspecting a major climate change was well under way. Time has shown that those years were a part of the climate cycles that can be expected every 90 years or so. I remember the discussions about identifying climate change that were under way in the 1950s, "Because climate has many minor cycles we need 30-year records to establish the normal and a 60-year trend to establish a shift in climate." It is possible that good physical analysis could establish change in a shorter time and actually forecast a change before any measurable effect is observed. Still the problem remains that it takes a trend over more than 30-years to verify by observation that a theory is correct when it comes to climate.
Frosty MorningAfter an almost 50-year trend toward earlier springs in Iowa would a "hard freeze" on May 9 be unexpected? That 50-year trend would say there is a 10 prcent to 15 percent chance. This is still a chance and the freeze did come. Putting ideas of "change" or "not a change" aside, it is still interesting to see what happened and if it set a record. The over-night low temperatures observed the morning of May 9 in Iowa can be displayed by inquiring of the Iowa Mesonet , Figure 1. The freeze event may have set a new low temperature record for the date in some locations. The recorded low temperatures over Iowa's climate history for the May 9 are shown in Figure 2. As there are no clusters of new low temperature records the event is not considered to be extraordinary.
Figure 1. Low temperature observed the morning of 9 May 2010 at Iowa climate stations. Graphic by Daryl Herzmann, ISU Mesonet.
Figure 2. Historical low temperatures for May 9th. A cold night setting a few scattered new low marks would not be considered as extraordinary.
We have noted over the years that corn in early stages of development usually recovers from freezing events of this nature. However, when several cool moist days follow the freeze event the chance of full recovery from freezing and the complications from freezing is somewhat reduced.
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Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Elisabeth MacNamara, President of the League of Women Voters of the United States: "The President tonight set a strong course for the nation in committing to common sense steps to limit gun violence through background checks, limits on high-capacity magazines and taking weapons of war off our streets.
Voting rights have been under attack in state legislatures across the country for more than a decade and there are no signs of it letting up in 2013. Indeed 2013 could be a year that sets back voting rights more than all of the attacks of the past decade combined.
Only a few short weeks have passed since Election Day, but it already feels like a lifetime ago. No longer are voters in swing states subjected to nonstop political ads, and the evening news is once again covering a host of national and international issues instead of just wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential campaign. But, Election Day was as much a starting line as it was an end point. Now is the time to reflect back on the 2012 election and look toward what's to come in 2013.
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Meanwhile, they continued their private hunt for their daughter's killer, inviting a series of psychics to visit the crime scene in the late '80s and early '90s. A few years later, they also consulted with a pair of psychics on an episode of The Jerry Springer Show. Genelle brought a ring that belonged to her daughter to the studio and handed it to one of the psychics, who then closed her eyes and narrated what she purported to be a description of the murderer, a supernatural echo of the killer that was emanating from the ring itself.
"She was holding this ring and looked like she was going to pass out," Genelle recalls. "She said this person was in uniform, in camouflage, and Robbin knocked the knife over his left eyebrow. She said the man works as a security guard." After the show, Genelle says the psychic's husband approached her and said his wife would offer her services free of charge in the hope of solving the crime. "I was going to do that," she says. "But then she died not long after the show. She was a big, heavy woman."
By then, the couple had hired a private detective to track down Prehm and confront her about the crime. In 1992, Genelle drove to rural Washington, where Prehm was living with a boyfriend, and convinced her to take a polygraph test in exchange for $10,000.
Wanting to clear her name, Prehm took the test and passed. Genelle believes the test was improperly administered. She provided the Weekly with a videotape of Prehm answering questions about Brandley's murder. In the tape, recorded on June 25, 1992, Prehm denied having any knowledge of the crime and stated that while she may have argued with Brandley a few weeks before her death, she certainly wasn't angry enough to kill anyone. She also claimed that she last saw Brandley at the party and left by herself that night.
Asked if she had seen anyone suspicious that night, however, Prehm stated that while she was working as an usher, a man with curly hair and glasses wearing an olive-drab hunting jacket had approached her and asked if Robbin Brandley were in the building. He didn't look dressed for the concert.
"I almost asked for his ticket, but I was too busy, and unfortunately, I just turned and pointed her out," Prehm said on the videotape, adding that she told police about the mysterious stranger at the concert, but that they didn't believe her because nobody else had seen anyone matching that description. It probably didn't help her case, Prehm added, that she prefaced her statement to police by mentioning that the mother of one of her friends had also told her she'd seen a similar man in a dream.
"The police saw me twice, and they never wrote it down," Prehm continued. "I don't remember his nose, but I remember his hair and glasses, and he was wearing a dark-green jacket, kind of a backwoods jacket. It was an olive green with long sleeves, like an army jacket."
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Three months later, on the evening of Sept. 27, 1992, Jennifer Asbenson, a 19-year-old nursing assistant, had just bought a snack at Palm Canyon Liquor in Palm Springs. She was on her way to work at a home for handicapped children in Desert Hot Springs, several miles away. As she waited for her bus outside the liquor store, a young man in a blue car pulled up to the curb and asked her if she needed a ride.
"No, it's okay," Asbenson replied.
The man smiled. "Are you sure? I'm going to Desert Hot Springs."
Because the driver seemed friendly and didn't care if she accepted his invitation, but mostly because she did need a ride, Asbenson got in the car. For some reason, she took note of his license-plate number, and as they rode together, she kept repeating it to herself. But after several minutes, she figured she was being paranoid. "'Why do I keep memorizing his license plate?'" she wondered. "'This guy is totally nice.' . . . He was just a really friendly guy, and I thought I was lucky to get a ride with such a nice guy."
As the man drove through the desert, he asked Asbenson what she did for a living. She told him she wanted to be an actress. "He asked me if I was interested in pornos," Asbenson later testified. "I said, 'No, that's sick.'" She inquired as to what he did for a living and the man replied that he was a detective. She didn't believe him. She thought it was a little odd that he kept staring out at the desert. Then, halfway through the trip, she got "creeped out" when she told him to make a left turn. He seemed to be ignoring her, but he finally pulled over at the last moment and made the turn.
When the man dropped her off at her job, he asked for her telephone number and invited her to breakfast the next morning. Asbenson, who had a boyfriend, gave him a phony number, hoping to let him down easy. But when she left the building the next morning at 6, she saw the blue car idling down the block. "He just pulled over and rolled the window down and said, 'Good morning,'" she recalled. "And he was nice. I didn't feel threatened at all."
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When baking cookies at altitudes above 7000 feet you may find that they end up with a rock hard texture or may spread too thin. This is a problem even at some altitudes below 7000 feet so this information can be useful for anyone having problems with their cookies not turning out well even when you follow the recipe precisely. Here are some suggestions which may help your cookies come out a little better.
- Reduce the amount of sugar used in the recipe. When you reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe the protein in the flour will have more control in the structure of the cookie. You can safely reduce the sugar without affection the yummy factor too much. Simply reduce between one and four tablespoons, reducing closer to the higher end of the range the higher your altitude. If the difference in taste is obvious it shouldn't be too obvious.
- Reduce the amount of fat used in the recipe. This will produce a similar effect as does reducing the sugar. Fats weaken the gluten found in flour which makes the resulting cookie more tender. At higher altitudes there is a loss of moisture and this makes the fat in the cookie more concentrated which weakens the structure of the cookie. Thus reducing the amount of fat in the recipe can increase the structural strength of the cookie.
- Increase the amount of flour used in the recipe. Cookies just like cake will be affected by the amount of flour used in the recipe. Increasing the flour will prevent your cookie from sinking. Simply increase the flour by one to four tablespoons going to the higher end of the range the higher your altitude is.
- Increase the amount of liquid used in the recipe. At higher altitudes liquid will evaporate quicker which can leave your cookie dry. But you must be careful when increasing liquid because if you add too much it could make your cookie though.
- Increase your oven temperature. When baking cookies your recipe will tell you what temperature to use. At higher altitudes your cookies may sometimes require a bit more heat than the recipe requires. A slight increase is all you need of between 15 and 25 degrees.
- Use an electric mixer and cream your butter and sugar if the recipe asks you to do this. Many think that this is not necessary and may try to use their hands or try to melt the butter to make it blend better with the sugar. But using an electric mixer will help with the texture of the cookie and will also be less hassling for your hands.
- The last tip which is good for baking cookies at every altitude is to use a cool baking sheet. If you are baking multiple batches and need to use a sheet that has just come out of the oven you will need to cool it down before adding the next batch. Adding cookie batter to a hot or even warm baking sheet will cause the cookie dough to spread too much. These cookies will in turn have a crunchy texture and will be flat.
When baking cookies at a higher altitude the key to a great cookie is consistency and texture. Using the above tips will help you to make better cookies but it may take some trial and error to find out which of the above tips will work best at your altitude.


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Venus In Fur
Mid City Theatre
Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 8:00 PM (CST)
Event Details
Southern Rep Theatre is EXTENDING its production at Mid City Theatre!
Based on the erotic novel of the same name, David Ives' play explores the lines between seduction and power in this behind-the-scenes look at an audition. Directed by Aimée Hayes, starring Todd d'Amour and Veronica Russell. The extension is being presented in partnership with Mid-City Theatre.
The Big Easy Award-Winning design team includes Set Design by Jason Kirkpatrick; Lighting and Costume Design by Joan Long; Sound Design by Mike Harkins; and Prop Design by Leah Farrelly.
PARENTAL WARNING: VENUS IN FUR contains strong language, partial nudity and sexual themes. For viewers under 18, caution is advised.
February 21 (Thursday at 8:00pm)
Tickets: $30
"Chemisty in SIZZLING SPADES" - Times-Picayune
"SMART and WICKEDLY FUNNY" - Gambit Weekly
"Audiences have spoken, they love Venus in Fur. You won't want to miss this dynamic comedy!" - Aimée Hayes, Producing Artistic Director, Southern Rep
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Night of the show: Box office will open at 6:30pm, doors to theatre open at 7:45pm and it is general seating..
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We're each handed what we are dealt
No one said life is trouble free
I used to dwell on how I felt
Till I realized the blessing I was given-
The mother of special needs children
Dont pity me with sadness
When my heart is filled with pride
For I can look deeper in the eyes of others and see the beauty they hold inside
I cant judge like I used to
Like you cant judge a book by its cover
Because a cover is all it really is-
Its whats under to discover
I'm more patient than most people though i didn't start out that way
For the gift of my children has guided me to this very day
I've learned not to ridicule for I have seen the stares of others
Knowing we are all unique
All these children and their mothers
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Schedule: Fall season has concluded.
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"Voice of San Diego" quotes Stanford Criminal Justice Center Director and Professor Robert Weisberg about U.S. Attorney Carol Lam's departure and unfinished cases.
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The current leaders of Group C, Ukraine, are one of only six teams yet to taste defeat at FIFA Futsal World Cup Brazil 2008. And if there was any doubt about their credentials pre-tournament, these were quickly dispelled after a 2-2 draw against much–fancied Argentina.
This impressive display against the fourth-placed team from Chinese Taipei 2004, allied to emphatic victories against fellow Group C opponents Guatemala (6-2) and Egypt (5-1), has put the eastern Europeans in pole position for a place in the next round.
And though a draw in their final group game against bottom-placed China PR would ensure Gennadiy Lisenchuk's team's progress, the coach has no intention of relinquishing top spot without a fight. "We'll be going all out to keep hold of first place. It's going to come down to goal difference so we'll be looking to score as many goals as possible against China. That's our aim going into the game in Rio. We want to win Group C," Lisenchuk told FIFA.com.
So far so good
Lisenchuk has every reason to be satisfied with his team's performances to date. His charges have, after all, scored 13 times in their three games (averaging 4.3 goals a game) making them the fifth highest scorers at the elite tournament here in Brazil.
This positive balance is due in no small part to the contribution of 26-year-old Time Lviv striker Sergiy Cheporniuk - the squad's leading marksman with three strikes to his name. "We're very pleased with the way things have gone so far in the tournament, especially with the fact that we are top of the table," Lisenchuk told FIFA.com.
Lisenchuk believes that thorough pre-tournament preparation is one of the reasons behind his team's early success at Brazil 2008. "We worked very hard on improving areas such as attacking, defending and marking," said the Ukraine coach. " We studied our opponents and detected their strengths and weaknesses, which has proved very useful when we played them out here. Basically, the impressive results are all down to the hard work we put in."
Against China PR the aim is clear: win, and by as many goals as possible to avoid the Albiceleste pipping them to first place on goal difference. Argentina, though, will have their work cut out against a Guatemala team still in with a chance of making the second round.
Final four the target
"Our main goal at the moment is reaching the next round. If we get that far, then we'll be looking to finish amongst the top four sides in the tournament. We always just take it one game at a time," said Lisenchuk.
Should Ukraine end up topping Group C, they would almost certainly be drawn with hosts Brazil in Group E of the second phase. It is a prospect that does not unduly worry Lisenchuk, though he freely admits the Seleção are the team to beat: "In my opinion, Brazil are the biggest favourites, followed by Spain, Italy, Russia, Argentina and ourselves."
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Our students are culturally and spiritually advantaged, and as a staff and a learning community we continually strive to lift our performance, enabling all students to set goals and realise their full potential.
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Husband of missing Oregon mom: 'I have a feeling she's in a ditch'
DUNDEE, OR (KPTV) — Flanked by her parents and other friends and family, the husband of a missing Dundee woman fought back tears as he answered questions Monday about the search for Jennifer Huston.
After days of working with law enforcement, sharing photos on social media and posting fliers around the Yamhill County community and beyond, Kallen Huston said it feels as though they've exercised every option they can think of to find her.
Jennifer Huston left her home Thursday evening to run errands, with her husband taking care of their 2- and 6-year-old boys, and never returned.
"Look off to the left and to the side of the highways," he said. "Her car is very large. It would wipe out any shrubs or small trees. I have a feeling she's in a ditch somewhere."
Police said Monday at a press conference that Jennifer Huston was caught on surveillance video at a Newberg bank about 10 minutes before surveillance cameras again captured her at a gas station.
Her cell phone appears to have been turned off or disconnected at some point in that time frame, according to investigators, because it stopped sending signals.
Police said nothing from the images or witness statements leads them to believe anyone else was in the SUV with her. The SUV is a 1999 Lexus LX 470 with Oregon plates WXH 011.
Officers describe this as a missing person investigation, stating there is no evidence a crime has been committed. Kallen Huston and other family members have been interviewed by detectives.
"I'd like to also stress this is totally unlike her," Kallen Huston said. "She's a devoted mother. She's just a very good person. For her to do something like this is completely out of the norm. All of her friends would agree."
Kallen Huston said they have friends from Texas to Japan and he's reached out to all of them to see if they've heard from his wife.
He said they've been together for 17 years and have a 10th wedding anniversary on the horizon.
Kallen Huston noted his wife had complained about persistent headaches for three days prior to her disappearance, but he said it wasn't something that concerned either of them enough to go to the doctor.
Kallen Huston said they are working on putting together a fund to offer a reward for Jennifer Huston's safe return.
"Any lead we can get, big or small, we'd ask they call the police department," he said.


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Sooo, what about Google Android and phoneME?
- Update 1: Dalobor Topic has just posted this about the Android license.
- Update 2: Check out this MacWorld article in which Rich Miner talks about the Android non-fragmentation pledge. Proprietary extensions and consistency in the platform? Sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Over the last 24 hours very little news and lots of opinion and speculation hit the airwaves about Google's Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance. Our very own community member Sean Sheedy has this very detailed blog entry to offer.
After digesting the first barrage of information and talking to a couple of folks in the industry I thought I'd offer up my own personal thoughts about Android and the OHA.
First, at a high level, I think the Android announcement shows that the era of proprietary and closed mobile platforms and networks is finally drawing to an end (remember that Google has also indicated they will participate in the auction of the 700 Mhz spectrum). And that's goodness because locked platforms and networks controlled tightly by vendors have been a huge barrier to innovation and ignored the needs of consumers for too long ("Ten things I want from my phone"). I commend Google for taking this step.
But once you dig a little deeper into what Android is and what the business model and motivations are I think you'll be left scratching your head a bit. The Android press release and OHA website offers surprisingly little information (and I was a bit annoyed by this video which offers meaningless babble and a dog sitting in for Andy Rubin).
The consensus seems to be that Android is a Linux- and Java-based stack including the low-level OS, middleware, application layers, and some basic applications - at first glance very similar to Sun's JavaFX Mobile (but without a key component FX Script). It appears to be highly customizable allowing, as Eric Schmidt puts it, "thousands of different phone models" (in contrast to JavaFX Mobile which places a strong emphasis on consistency and predictability). The stack is licensed under Apache v2 and an early access SDK will be available next week.
OHA founding members are Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola, and Aplix. Other notables on the current member list are Esmertec, Intel, KDDI, LG, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sprint Nextel, and Telefonica. That's impressive but also noteworthy for who is not on that list: Nokia, SonyEricsson, and most carriers around the world (except for Japan where OHA has good coverage with DoCoMo and KDDI). Also, remember that being part of a press release is easy and says very little about how much skin you will actually have in the game at a later point in time.
So what does it all mean?
Right away, the questions that come to mind are: How is this different from the existing 40+ Linux-based handset platforms? The LiMo Foundation, the LiPS Forum, and other efforts in this space? And who is the customer for this? Here a very interesting blog by Carl Howe "What's the Point of Google's Phone?".
But every more perplexing is the question of what the business case and motivation is for OEMs and carriers to be part of Google's push. In the mobile space there is a very strong established pattern of maintaining tight control of the platform itself, the content on the platform, and the data streams to and from the platform to support business models that drive up the ARPU (average revenue per user). OEMs and carriers rely on proprietary features, walled gardens (directly, but more frequently indirectly), and business arrangements to implement these models. That's not to say they are not investigating new business models but history suggests that the closed model is something they are very comfortable with.
Google, on the other hand, built its business around the open Internet and freely accessible content and applications running on standardized platforms (such as the web browser). Of course, the ad business accounts for something like 95% of Google's revenue so I assume Google's main motivation for Android is to build a new ad delivery platform with a potential for billions of new users and a reach they just never could have achieved on the desktop.
Fair enough, but Google's model is diametrically opposed to the approach of OEMs and carriers. If Google's goal is to drive mobile users to the Google portal and use Google services anywhere at any time on any platform where does that leave the carrier and OEM? They basically become a commodity platform and a dumb data pipe with the purpose of driving Google eyeballs. Sure, Google can offer them revenue sharing and other incentives but fundamentally they would loose the leverage and monetization points they have built a huge business around.
This is not a trivial problem. In fact, it is one of the key reasons the mobile space today is what it is, with a multitude of vendor-specific platforms, software stacks, proprietary features, and limitations. It's also a situation Sun and the Java ME ecosystem have been having to deal with since the release of KVM in 1997. One of the key reasons Java ME has been extremely successful (admittedly not without its share of pain and frustration) is because Sun's position allowed it to be a neutral 3rd party that provided a platform and ecosystem but didn't need to enforce any particular business model. So it was a natural symbiosis for OEMs and carrier.
And this point precisely is where the Android news leaves a big void. It's like fitting a square peg into a round hole. I don't see how Google's business model and the OEM and carrier model align sufficiently to make this a happy partnership.
And what's ominous for developers is that the Android license choice and FAQ explicitly encourages proprietary extensions on the platform as well as the removal of functionality - which spells trouble for delivering a widespread integrated platform that allows developers to build compelling services easily and quickly. This seems to have "fragmentation" of the worst degree written all over it. Imaging thousands of unique Android-based platforms ... Java ME fragmentation, with all its quirks, may be a piece of cake compared to that.
Which leaves us with the final question. What about Sun and Java ME?
Obviously, Sun isn't part of the OHA at this point - I am disappointed at this but I assume the OHA and Sun had disagreements over business and strategic issues that made a joining of Sun at that time impossible. That might change but I am not privy to those discussions.
Next, why is Java ME not mentioned in the press release? Well, since Aplix and Esmertec are part of OHA I think that is a strong indication Java ME is a key component of the Android platform. And Google being famously secretive I am not surprised they are not volunteering that information. Fact is, Google recognized Java to be a necessary part of success. It literally guarantees Java remains the dominant platform for years to come.
So what about phoneME? phoneME is fully open and licensed under GPLv2 in the Mobile & Embedded Community. Sun believes the GPL license is the best choice for reasons of compatibility with GNU/Linux as well as to ensure ongoing innovation benefits everyone in the ecosystem while maintaining a consistent platform. Google has chosen Apache v2 for Android which means the licenses are incompatible and therefore phoneME cannot be part of Android at this point in time. If and how this might be resolved in the future is speculation and not a particularly useful exercise right now.
But with Sun's vision of the JavaFX Mobile as the next-generation mobile software platform Java wins in any case
Welcome to exciting times.
-- Terrence
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Of course, if you know me (or read yesterday's post) you know I'm not talking about the presidential election or anything inconsequential like that. No, I'm talking about a more direct and effective form of democracy, the proposition...specifically, the ones in the states of Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Whatever your feelings on the plant, the people wanted it and they finally got it...the system occasionally works.
For a long time, critics of legalization efforts have pointed to things like road safety and allegedly decreased motivation as reasons to keep Growhibition going. Since people never drive under the influence of universally legal drugs like alcohol and prescription pills, and I don't write thousand-word essays multiple times a week with the assistance of such herbal stimulants, both of those arguments are airtight...but it's highly encouraging to see the governments of two states treat its citizens like the responsible, taxpaying adults that most of them are and give them the right to make their own decisions about what they put into their body.
Of course, there are rules to it, as there should be. You have to be 21 years of age to legally partake. It must be purchased at state-regulated--and state-taxed--stores. You cannot be visibly and dangerously intoxicated in public. If you are impaired while driving and are pulled over for it, you will be arrested. Any of that sound familiar?
Regulation is the answer here just as it was in the other scenario, because Prohibition just does not work...and that was for something that could blind you or make you dead if you tried to make it at home illegally. Imagine trying to prohibit something that grows out of the ground? You may as well try to ban real grass. I, for one, am glad that the facade is finally starting to crumble in real ways.
In case you're a bit slow on the intake, I'm something of a cannabis enthusiast myself. (Gasp!) I honestly forget the stuff is even illegal sometimes, as when I smoke it nobody is killed, raped, robbed or maimed...generally, I just get a little goofier, want some Hot n'Spicy Cheez-Its, feel like creating something, and feel like life is generally not so bad. I don't go out and commit horrible crimes that I don't remember like in "Reefer Madness"...in fact, a huff and a puff here and there has likely stopped me from blowing somebody's house down.
There are those who would say that I use it as some kind of crutch to distract me from my problems, but not only will you see a commercial for pills to do the exact same thing (and lightly kill you as an added bonus) if you watch TV for over an hour...if my worst character flaw is a mild senti-mental attachment to increased endorphin production, I'm a truly remarkable man.
Moving on, it's a definite win for the folk it affects in those states, but the true triumph comes in the precedents that will be set. Possibly in a year or two, when Western civilization hasn't totally collapsed in those areas due to a naturally-occurring plant being legal to posess and consume, other states may take a second look at their policies. They may see the increased tax revenue, increased tourism, decrease in non-violent offenders stuffing an overcrowded prison system, and lack of man-made haze fog hovering over legalized areas and actually make a common-sense decision. Imagine that.
Overall, I'm just glad to see that real progress can still be effected at the ballot box. It's not even just about weed, it's about "we"...we the people deciding for ourselves how we want to be governed, what standards and practices are acceptable in the society we all share, and what personal choices we can be trusted to make...but yeah, it's definitely about weed too.
A new day is dawning, and for many residents of Washington and Colorado, it includes, for the first time, a perfectly legal wake-and-bake (well, under state law...federal law still prohibits the choice). Hopefully, it's only a matter of time before the governanny says we all can ingest whatever we want as long as it's not hurting anybody else...after all, we do call this a free country, right?


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The 2007 China and the World Fellows Workshop was held on 22 March 2007 at Harvard University. All current and past fellows participated in in this event. The fellows presented their research results in various areas of China's foreign policy at the workshop. PHCWP co-director Iain Johnsotn organized and chaired the workshop. Some prominent China scholars from the Boston area and outside served as commentators. Among the participants are Allen Carlon, Samuel Kim, Kelly Gallagher, Roderick McFarquhar, Richard Rosencrance, Bob Ross, Ross Terrill, Monica Toft, and Erza Vogel. The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research under the directorship of William Kirby kindly sponsored the workshop. This event was the highlight of the program's activity during the current academic year. (Xu Xin)


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its all about the 4
Pafumi is so good he's ranked 2nd and 7th
Great Job BB I'm sure its not as easy as it looks.2 things:Kevin Devoy has wrestled a bunch of matches at 119 and should be ranked there and Richardson has wrestled 130 all season so far with the exception of the Mustang Classic and should be ranked there.
Dont underestimate Billy Smith-he's gonna be a real good one for RU.I think he will flourish under Leo's guidance.
Hey Bob, have you ever heard of a kid named Canfora from Delbarton??
Well he beat BJ Young THIS year @ Beast taking 7th @130,he has also beat Cornell,Standridge,he will get Fajardo this weekend.I know this is no big deal to you but Canfora should have been @ #5 at worst from the jump.
K.Churchill beat Hagany tonite,Churchill should be 2
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Kozimor has to be in the top 5 @ 125 right below Mascola.
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Constructing MarketingFrontiers of the New Marketing Paradigm
Self-service as a form of customer interaction
I happened to stumble upon an article (Salomann, Dous, Kolbe & Brenner 2007) about one of my favorite topics: new kinds of customer relationships, usually enabled by the internet. These guys, Salomann et al., talk about self-service.
First I got excited because contemporary self-service thinking would fit well with my IDBM project (more about that later). I believe that in certain forms self-service could offer plenty of opportunities. But, as usual, the discussion in the article went very much along the old paradigm where customers are treated merely as targets. Salomann et al. are referring to earlier studies: "As a matter of fact, banks are losing money on their ATMs (Florian, Burke & Mero, 2004)." This might be if you only look at the situation from the bean counter perspective. Personally, as a customer, I would change my bank immediately if I would always have to go to a teller – ATMs are actually helpful to me for withdrawing money! So are the banks losing money or just trying to provide at least the same level of service than their competitors?
I would call for strategic customer thinking as opposed to thinking about your customers only when it suits you. Authors often flirt with true customer oriented thinking (like Salomann et al: "start with your customers' processes, not with yours") but in the end they just mean something like "try not to get your customers angry when streamlining your processes". I argue that enabling and facilitating customer value (co-)creation is the way to long-term profits and competitive advantage. If this is what you seek.
Evolution in marketing – practice and academia
I was presenting my research to my colleagues and got feedback on the historical perspective on marketing thought. Personally I think the paper by Vargo and Lusch (2004) on evolving marketing paradigms is excellent and very much needed. It has a profound message underneath the somewhat complex web of arguments. In my reading the message goes something like this: in all market phenomena value is co-created in use and in exchange, and thus firms cannot perform their tasks well while being isolated from other actors in the market – the firms have to engage in all kinds of meaningful relationships.
Many of the senior researchers seem to be highly critical of the newness of Vargo and Lusch's ideas. As V&L have said, the ideas themselves aren't new but they have pulled all the different strings together. Starting a high profile debate, they have also legitimized this discussion for younger researchers.
I agree that most of the ideas have been presented before, some even by Kotler already in the 60's. What some critics seem to be missing is that the world of business practice is obviously still predominantly product-oriented or following the "old" goods-dominant logic. Measured by growth and profits to shareholders, the firms have done well. But what about the (near) future? Can the firms still continue with their tried and true isolated style? I don't think so. In this knowledge-intensive, globally networked world, firms cannot survive on their own.
If the senior researchers have known the stuff by V&L all along, and at the same time they have been analyzing the real business world in their research and communicating the result to managers, how is it possible that the managers are still in the old mindset? Two possibilities come to mind: first, the senior researchers still base their thoughts and theories on the old economics-oriented view, or second, the existing theories and real world practice don't meet.
Can the old catch up?
Together with four young doctoral students in marketing, we were discussing about writing an article about joining some basic ideas of consumer culture theory to the discussion of market orientation. Naturally, an article with a "complete" description would be a huge task so we probably have to choose a more narrow focus. Without going into details on this occasion, I would like to raise one central point: can old firms truly adopt structures and processes that allow honest dialogue with customers?
First, what is honest dialogue and what does it require from firms? Honest dialogue is something where there is a decent amount of trust and transparency between the parties. Both sides are being heard, understood and taken seriously. Starting from the fundamentals, the dialogue would require getting rid of the strict separation of the firm and the customer. Firms would no longer market to customers, they would market with them. Instead of asking what kind of products customers might want, firms would invite them to design and create products and services for best mutual benefit. Going a bit further, firms would understand where customers are coming from – their culture(s).
Cultural understanding is not possible if people inside firms are just minding their own business. With the old mindset, the organization chart tells workers where they belong, they have their routines, they have their NDAs. If someone sees a customer, it's the salesperson. Even if the salesperson would have the incentive and the passion to understand customers, (s)he would probably not be able to transmit this understanding to engineers and designers, let alone the management.
You might have started to anticipate that my answer to the question, can the old catch up, would be no. I'm not sure. At least my job as a researcher would be to find out ways the old firms could catch up. Our article might give you the answer.
Do you, dear reader, have any older firms in mind that are engaging in honest dialogue with their customers?


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