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Growing up in Vero Beach, Fla., the Owen twins were hardly two of a kind. "A friend used to call us 'the judge and the clown' because I was serious and he was always joking around," says Jake. The 28-year-old brothers remain an unlikely pair. "Jake's the only one in our family who is musical," says Jarrod, an insurance advisor. "I've had a guitar for two years and can't play." Still, having a famous sibling can reap rewards. "He gets free drinks because he's my brother," Jake says. Adds Jarrod: "Yeah, but I deal with a lot of grief too!"
As kids, the Covington brothers "shared everything—a bedroom, sandwiches, baskets of fries, a truck," says Bucky, laughing. "It was like we weren't two people!" adds Rocky, who sings and plays percussion in his brother's band. "Mom dressed us alike, in sailor outfits, all that. It was bad." In fact, until Bucky hit it big on American Idol in 2005, "I used to raid his closet and wear his clothes," Bucky says. "Then I went on Idol, and they said I didn't have any style!" The siblings, 31, do draw the sharing line at one thing: "Can't share a girlfriend," Bucky says. "Not a good idea," agrees Rocky. "It's kinda creepy."
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We Americans, I have discovered, do not just get our own history wrong. We get everybody else's wrong as well.
Think Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Think Catherine the Great was Russian? Think King Arthur lived in a castle? (Think there really was a King Arthur?) Think Cleopatra was beautiful? Americans think these things are true, but they aren't.
Take almost any famous event of world history, from the Trojan War to World War II. The version we learned in school or at the movies was often cockeyed or bogus.
The plain fact is we have been flimflammed: We have been conned into believing that the pagan barbarians who overran the Roman Empire held civilization in contempt. We have swallowed the old line that English liberty can be traced to the signing of Magna Carta. And we have been duped into believing that the English endured the Blitz with a stiff upper lip.
These are the facts: Most barbarian tribes converted to Christianity, intermarried with the Roman elite, and joined the imperial army to defend the empire from its enemies. Magna Carta gave new rights only to England's powerful barons. And during the Blitz the English complained and were bitter; and many turned to crime.
Much of our history is topsy-turvy. Captain Bligh, a genuine hero, is made out to be a sadistic menace. Edward VIII, an open Nazi sympathizer, is remembered as the noble king who gave up his crown for the love of a woman. Hirohito, an ally of the Japanese militarists, is thought of as the shy marine biologist in glasses who hated war.
It would be going too far to say that our heads are completely filled with lies.It is simply that in many cases history is written by the victors and is filtered through the prism of their prejudices. Take the Spanish Inquisition. Why is it thought to have been one of the lowest, meanest, most reprehensible forums of injustice in human history? Not because it was, but because English Protestants wrote the history books.
Why are the Dark Ages regarded as dark? Because the Renaissance humanists hoped to leave the impression that they had rescued the world from gross ignorance.
Why did historians for so long ignore sex and history? They didn't use to, but Victorian historians took the sex out.
Why is Richard III depicted as a mean hunchback with a withered arm? Because Shakespeare wanted to make Richard's Tudor successors look better by comparison.
I'm asked a lot of times if it isn't a good thing that we have myths. Sure it is. The myths tell us who we are and what values we cherish, and every society has them. And if we didn't have them, some critic somewhere would be sure to say there's something wrong with us for not having myths like other people do.
But if everybody has myths, why bother debunking them? The answer is plain enough: we ought to know the truth about things.
The truth can be painful, but it must be faced. We need to know that Winston Churchill initially wanted to appease Hitler and that Franklin Roosevelt appeased Mussolini. We need to know that German P.O.W.s died by the thousands in American prisons at the end of World War II and that this information was concealed from the public. We need to know that footage in the old newsreels was often faked.
How do you know you can trust me to tell you the truth?
Actually, you shouldn't trust me. Indeed, you shouldn't trust anybody who writes history. We are all full of it. Despite the work of thousands of Ph.D.'s, truth in history is as difficult to ascertain today as it ever was. This is a fact. That's why this book is so valuable. For the author of this book (me) admits that what you have here is my version of the truth. It is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth--as I see it.
Truth, in short, is relative. It is in the eye of the beholder. But in saying this I am not saying there are no facts in history. There are. The Holocaust is a fact. The Americans who said in a recent poll that it's possible the Holocaust did not take place are wrong.*
Much of the stuff in this book, I know, sounds like I made it up. I didn't. The information is in buried the works cited in the source notes.
If the stories I tell seem crazy it is because, as my friend Bernard Weisberger says, life is crazy and people do damn fool things.
Some may think it's absurd to take on the history of the world. It is. But fortunately this book doesn't really cover all of world history, just the world history with which Americans are already familiar. Limiting the book in this way considerably narrows the areas that need to be dealt with.
What Americans mostly know about, of course, is European history, and of European history, what Americans mostly know is English history. There is a simple explanation for this. It was the descendants of the English who first decided what Americans should know about history. Naturally, they tended to favor their own kind.
* According to a 1993 poll conducted by the Roper organization, twenty-two percent of Americans believe it's possible the Holocaust never happened; another twelve percent said they did not know if it did.
Way Back When
Trojan War
Alexander The Great
The Fall Of The Roman Empire
The Barbarians
Trojan War
The myth about the Trojan War is that there was one. There wasn't. At least there wasn't one that we know of. In the thousands of years that have elapsed since Homer's epic appeared, nobody has ever produced any evidence that the war he described took place. All the faithful have going for them is hope. (We don't even know if Homer was real. See below.)
That Troy once existed is true. Indeed, from archaeological evidence unearthed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there would appear to have been at least nine Troys piled one atop the other (located in what is now Turkey). But there is no proof there was ever a war between Greece and Troy involving a beautiful queen named Helen, a big wooden horse, or a hero weakened by an Achilles' heel.
Presumably Greeks and Trojans fought each other at one time or another. After all, they were human. And there must have been some reason the Trojans built the huge walls surrounding their city. But there's no archaeological evidence that an army ever planted itself outside the walls of Troy, let alone a huge Greek army that is supposed to have numbered 110,000 soldiers.
Much of the story, at any rate, is patently implausible. That the war lasted ten years is inconceivable; army discipline never could have been maintained that long (no other war at the time is known to have lasted more than a few months). And nobody believes that the Greek soldiers camped out on the beach all those years, their Greek kings right along with them. The business about Helen--that she'd supposedly eloped with a Trojan prince and that the Greeks went to war to get her back--is attractive but unsubstantiated. Besides, it's unlikely she ever would have eloped. FitzRoy Raglan, an expert in world history, reported that he could find "no instance" in history "in which a queen has eloped with a foreign prince, or anybody else."
Anyway, nobody knows if Helen ever even lived. To be sure, tradition has it that the beauty whose face "launched a thousand ships" actually lived and actually served as queen. But tradition also has it that she was the daughter of Zeus and that she was "hatched from a swan's egg."
As for the story of the Trojan Horse, nothing substantiates it. Out of the thousands of objects that have turned up in repeated excavations of Troy, not one lends any credence to the existence of a big wooden horse.
Those who claim the story of Troy is true insist it doesn't matter if some of the details are implausible or unsupported. What counts are the plausible details. But by this method any poem could be found to be historically sound. Just because a poem includes a real person or two doesn't mean the poem is about a real event. Yet this is the kind of argument apologists for the Homeric epic have advanced.
Thucydides believed that the story of Troy was true. But Thucydides lived more than eight hundred years after the war supposedly occurred and was in no better position than we are to vouch for its accuracy. Probably he just wanted to believe it was true.
Homer has long been credited with the story but nobody knows who he was, where he lived, whether he really existed, or how he possibly could have come by reliable information about Troy's early history. If he lived it was in the eighth or ninth century b.c., some four centuries after the war he described was fought. Chances are we know more today about the real Troy than Homer would have.


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Despite the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as well as a cascade of booing, MSNBC journalists touted the Democratic convention as "fun" and "exciting." Host Rachel Maddow basically told Sanders supporters to stop whining. But first, Brian Williams insisted, "This won't be [like the Republican convention in] Cleveland, but it won't be boring."
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Makes you wonder how often glaring inaccuracies like this go unchecked whenever liberals gather to talk politics.
Makes you wonder how often glaring inaccuracies like this go unchecked whenever liberals gather to talk politics.
Fortunately for the public record, Republican House member Tom Cole of Oklahoma was on hand during yesterday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos when Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison tried to pass off his preferred version of history in lieu of the real thing.
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Anchor Stephanie Ruhle must have heard the boos in her earpiece, and said "She actually walked in to cheers and a lot of support from the crowd." That's odd. All the audience saw and heard to match that graphic was booing and heckling.
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Outside Construction
The exterior of this hotel is presently being remodeled. I stayed at this hotel last year, but recently passed by a few times since it was close to restaurants we ate during our trip this year.
Also, the side street that leads to the beach in which the hotel's entrance is located, was very dark at night as it was not illuminated at all. I believe this could pose a serious security problem.
Despite all this, I was surprised that this hotel had higher tariffs this year verses last on the same reservation sites. I believe there are better choices for the same $$.
Moderate oceanfront propery in a good location
I have stayed there several times. Once as a timeshare guest and another one just booked it as a hotel. The location is nice, right on a beach, a bit far from south beach, but taking S bus is very helpful in getting there. Also, no need to rent a car. Arriving to airport in Miami is enough. The hotel is not very clean and it is kind of an old run down property, but it is ok. I have stayed in world crown resorts and many timeshare clubs and it is hard to compare this one with other ones. Room are a bit small, also the hotel lies about the free breakfat. Only if you are an owner of a timeshare or booked this hotel through reservation you get free breakfast, if you arrive as a guest of a timeshare you don't get it. There are homeless people very close to hotel, that makes you kind of scared sometimes and these people beg for money. The beach is not very clean. Macdonalds right next to hotel and can be very useful especially if you get hungry at 3am. Oh, get an entertaiment book before you go, this way you save money in restaurants that are close by.
My family and I stayed at this hotel and were disgusted by it. First of all they dont tell you about all the construction there doing on the building. Its a total mess. There were homeless people sleeping on the beach right next to the hotel. When we went up to our 1 bedroom hotel suite there was no space for us to move around in. The bedrooms bed had pubic hairs all over the sheets. The sofa bed had hair all over its sheets also. It was the most disgusting hotel ever and we ended up leaving the next day to a different hotel. I do not recomend this hotel to anyone.
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crystal beach suites was not a 5 star resort but it was well worth the price for the getaway week. The staff was friendly and helpful. I didnt like the valet parking set up. The room was ok.
A bit off the track...Nov2003..
Nov 2003 Tried this place based on reviews etc, and found it to be clean, with friendly staff...but...beach access was right outside the front doors..(which was under construction), but you had to wade through a bunch of homeless, amidst a bottle strewn path.. Stick with the pool, would be my advice..
This was our hotel of choice between two cruises, and we chose it also
based on the mention of a guest laundry...(I guess one washer and one
dryer between 2 floors of people, might ...might be considered as
described..), however beware of the floors in the "guest laundry", as
they are falling in.. The Crystal Beach is in a quiet area, valet
parking ($10.)..or taxis..($23 to the populated areas). The 1bedr.
suite was small, but clean and satisfactory..and the rate was about $80
US. including continental breakfast .
Excellent value and enjoyable stay
We stayed 3 nights in November/03 prior to a 7 day cruise. Great deal through Hotelkingdom.com $67.50/night for a suite with 2 TVs and full kitchen. Use the local bus from the airport for $1.25 per person exact change. You can get the routing via email from the Miami public transport site. Also use the bus to go to South Beach and to the port (a transfer to Seaport bus costs an extra 25 cents). One slow elevator takes getting used to, and no ocean view from the room. Very nice Italian restaurant at Collins and 73rd. Close to Publix supermarket, Enterprise car rental, lots of other stores and restaurants, the beach is great. Also enjoyed lunch at Nexxt on Lincoln Rd. Mall South Beach.
Yes, the all-night liquer stores does bring some unattractive folks but there is good police presence and we never heard any sirens or seen evidence of crime. Other reviews were helpful to make our choice, so read them too. If you use the free parking lot on 73rd, don't park under the electric wires. The birds will cover your car with their dinner...
Late Spring 03 Stay
Crystal Beach offers one bedroom suites with a living room containing a sofa bed in addition to the bedroom. The rooms are a little dreary, but for the price we paid - 67.00/night plus tax through "Hotel Kingdom.com" - its a good value. Included is a simple breakfast and a gym.
Be wary of the crowd that frequents this beach, its not South Beach. If you're lucky, you'll find metered parking just across the street. I never put coins in the meter, and was never ticketed either. Otherwise, there's a public lot a block away.
Recommended restaurants is a Peruvian seafood place just across the street on Collins, and a Brazilian restaurant one or two blocks south on Collins Ave. Miami Beach beats CA beaches anytime!
Nice, but could do better
The Crystal Beach Suites is your average hotel. When we were arrived we had to valet park our vehicle, even though we were timeshare guests it turned out to be i believe 10 dollars a day or something around there.
The rooms were a nice size. The only problem we had here was the leaky sinks, and Housekeeping came ONE time during our 7 night stay.... Makes you think how many times did my sheets get changed and my floor get vacuumed. Also it is pretty far from the Nightlife if thats what you are into. Its iN a very quiet nieghborhood and what isthe best amenity would be the Beach access which is right there, ignore all the homeless that chill by the entrance. I am going back to Miami Beach this week and I am going to stay closer to South Beach in another hotel to try it out.
Enjoy the Beach, but Don't use the pullout sofa
Disappointing exterior, but was under construction when we stayed (April, 2003). The room was acceptable-- definitely Miami Beach decor, comfortable bedroom, nice kitchenette and counter for eating. We stayed with friends and therefore needed the pullout sofa-- it was probably the worst pullout we have ever slept on. Shower was hot with good pressure. Hotel personnel generally very pleasant and accomodating. A reasonable experience for the price we paid. Best part was the proximity to the beach-- just outside the hotel gate.
Definitly a place to consider if you're on a budget!
I had used TripAdvisor to help me find a decent hotel in Miami Beach. However I got a really good rate for this one and decided to take a chance although there were no reviews for it. Overall this hotel is alright. Not the nicest place I've ever stayed at, but the rate we got for it was definitly worth it! The suites are very nice, just like in the pictures with the pink couches and all. Very Floridian! The maid service was great too. From the outside the hotel isn't much to look at (It's under renovation). The inside is nice and newly renovated. Overall it's just a small, cozy little hotel. Not a place you will likely spend much time in. There's a pool outside and a hottub. It also a health club and has a nice sized gym. The beach is just right outside, although the hotel does not have oceanviews. The hotel is far from South Beach and is about a $12 cab ride. Bal Harbor shops is also pretty far, but will only cost around $5 for a cab. There are lots of shops nearby and places to eat at, but all the action of south beach will not be found here! A rental car will definitly come in handy! Spring Breakers may be disappointed with the quietness and the location. Young kids will probably be bored. I'd recommend it for couples on a budget who want a nice hotel right on the beach but away from the crowds and craziness of South Beach. If you are willing to spend the $$$, though there are a lot more much nicer places to stay! Don't let the reviews scare you off though, I saw some AMAZING hotels that had gotten very poor reviews on this site. I don't have anything to complain about when it comes to crystal beach suites, but I will probably look elsewhere to stay next time I visit!
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I am working on a very specific apache+mod_ssl+mod_jk+tomcat
So far, a basic configuration works as I want: accessing my webapps behind all that stuff works great. I am using a wildcard certificate for the frontend (thus, apache). the connection is something like:
[apache] <-> [mod_JK] <-> [tomcat]
apache: 2.2.17
Tomcat: 7.0.12
JK_mod version: 1.2.31
Note: for the time being I only have 1 tomcat running, but I may need to add others using the load balancer in mod_jk.
ok, now the funny part. I need to use client certificates to protect my webapps. for instance, providing the "client certificate 1" to "user 1" in order to access "webapp1" should be allowed but not any other webapps. This goes the same for "user 2": accessing webapp2 with his own client certificate (client certificate 2), and so on.
In order to be more flexible (there are some java code in the webapp as well, so it was ideal), I've decided to let Tomcat handling client certificates, not Apache. But there is a tricky aspect of it: for web-browsing (with an internet browser, like Firefox, IE, ...) the wildcard certificate should be used (this certificate was generated, signed by verisign and then importer in the apache conf); BUT for application data upload(these are webapps features), a client certificate (see above) is requested to allow only a very limited access.
I know it may sound stupid, but that's what I was asked for...
I have ended to 2 different configurations:
1) Using apache on port 443 with wildcard certificate and Tomcat on port 8443 - SSL
With a webbrowser, I can view my apps fine through apache via mod_jk. Data upload is performed through Tomcat SSL port. this could be alright, but I may need later on to run multiple instance of Tomcat, so I am not sure how it will behave. But this could be a solution. This is the most relevant configuration I have, so far
2) Using apache on port 443 with tomcat on regular 8080 port
I am able to query my keystore to retrieve any client certificate. The problem is that I can no longer use my wildcard certificate and client certificate is needed to access my webapps in webbrowsing (which I don't want).
Next, to try to workaround it, I tried to add a virtualhost in apache to have 2 differents servername. What I wanted to have is a DNS name for webbrowsing my apps and another to data upload to my apps. but it still ask for client certificate.
So my questions are:
1) according to my prerequesites, is this feasible ?
2) Assuming it is, am I doing it right or should I consider another approach?
3) If I am doing it right, am I far away from the solution?
If needed I can provide conf files.
Using apache for doing this instead of tomcat is a possibility
many many thanks in advance (I am bumping my head for days now)
PS: I have seen the link "http://serverfault.com/questions/174857/tomcat-behind-apache-httpd-with-ssl-and-client-certificates" but it only answer my questions partially


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Comment from: OlinMc, 75 or over Male (Patient) Published: July 09
I am now 85 years old, but had about 3 TIA's in my mid teens. No more until 1 at about age 29, then no more until about age 70. Since then, I've averaged 3 or 4 per year. All begin alike, I note a visual distortion first, then it moves to numbness somewhere on the left side, maybe the cheek, or fingers, or other. It can move in 10 minutes to where I might not control my movements and will fall. Several trips to the ER have occurred, with my family doctor involved. All sorts of tests show no serious problem, I've been on BP meds and Plavix for many years, still have these every so often. NOW, of the most valuable use, my family doctor suggested several years ago to INCREASE my CO-2 in the blood to make the blood vessels enlarge, in the area of the brain where the clot/constriction occurred. He suggested breathing in and out of a plastic bag, until I had to catch a fresh breath, and keep doing it until the TIA was checked early on. That has worked for me for at least 9 out of 10 such events. Unfortunately, the latest occurred when I was sound asleep, and I didn't wake up to use the bag to breathe in and out of. As a result its effects were serious: Severe headache for the entire next day, and visual distortion still with me after over a week.
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The vision in my right eye caused everything I saw to turn sideways. My left eye had normal sight. My speech was slurred and it was difficult to walk. I had to use both arms to try to pull myself into bed. I was very lucky because I took a nap for an hour and woke up with the same symptoms. It was then my husband took me to the hospital. The eyesight readjusted about two hours after on-set and my speech was somewhat slurred for about two weeks afterward. They were never able to figure out why this happened. I was 40 years old and no history of high blood pressure or high cholesterol. It could have turned out very badly because I took a nap instead of going directly to the hospital. I just never imagined that I was having a stroke. I was very lucky.
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I had my first TIA in 2007. It started with dizziness and almost passing out. The MRIs have shown many mini strokes and the last one I had in 2012 left me with weakness on the left side and my balance is off. I can't walk a straight line.
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The onset of my TIA was confusion while working at a computer. Could not understand why I was unable to make changes to a document. Then realized I was unable to control my right arm. It basically was a dead weight in my lap and I started sweating profusely. Was able to stand and walk after 2 - 3 minutes of initial onset, but was weak and unstable on my feet. Made it to our nursing office with assistance where my BP was 200/something. BP came down to 150/something in a few minutes. Was admitted to a hospital where CT scan was clean but ultrasound showed my left carotid artery totally blocked. An angiogram confirmed the ultrasound results. I was placed on Plavix and aspirin.
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I am 52 years old. I woke up feeling like I had the best sleep in a long time. I was taking ornaments off my Christmas tree and decided to go have breakfast instead and finish what I was doing later after work. I had a cup of coffee earlier. So got some cereal and coffee and sat down to watch early news when I felt I couldn't swallow and milk flowing out of my mouth feeling exhausted, confused and very sleepy. I reach over for my coffee it felt like a stroke light motion and I couldn't pick up my cup w/my right arm, but the numbness on my lips was on my left side of my face, I tried to call for help but my speech was slurred. I managed to get off the chair and made my way to where my husband was sleeping pulling the blankets off him somehow getting weaker and panicking more and more. It lasted about 30 min. Being in denial and afraid to call in to work, I took a shower still hoping it was a bad nightmare I went to work and had another episode. This time I was taken to the hospital. They did a CT scan, MRI and a heart scan. Everything was negative. I was dismissed after six days in the.
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I had my first TIA last Tuesday. I could not speak in a complete sentence, nor was I saying what I thought I was saying. I felt weak and disorganized. My hand writing was like a kindergarten student. My wife took me to the hospital where they performed CAT scans and kept me overnight. I could not state my birthday even though I thought I was. Wednesday morning I was normal, answering questions, including my birthday. They performed MRI, MRA, stress tests and drew 5 vials of blood. I still feel weak and occasionally dizzy.
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Let's tally up the losers and the louses in the latest round of the Lance Armstrong Derby. Lord knows -- and no offense to the members of the Dick Pound Fan Club, here -- there ain't a winner in sight.
It's amazing how muddy the back end of a car wash can get. Armstrong is coming through a week in which he ostensibly was supported in his long-held claim that he didn't cheat like a bandit to win the 1999 Tour de France.
It took less than a full news cycle for the broad body of public opinion to start ricocheting back the other way.
People practically lined up to explain that what a Dutch lawyer concluded wasn't really acceptable. They noted you couldn't trust any finding that Armstrong didn't cheat back in '99. For that matter, what the lawyer came up with wasn't really a refutation of the charge that Armstrong doped his way to glory.
It's time to accept the inevitable: It won't ever be over for Armstrong. It won't ever be over for Barry Bonds, or Marion Jones, or any of the people who've been keelhauled by public opinion and various accumulations of fact, rumor and whisper (not to mention blood, urine and saliva).
Armstrong certainly understands that much; he said so in a Men's Journal interview in which Tom Brokaw asked the seven-time Tour champ whether he was finally "out of the doping business" in the sense of people no longer asking him about it.
"No, no, I'm not out of that," Armstrong replied. "There are too many people. It's really become a story You have a guy like Dick Pound -- he absolutely hates me with a passion. He'll never let it die."
True dat. And on to the leaderboard.
Just doesn't come out looking much better, in the end. His support comes from Dutch lawyer Emile Vrijman, who was hired by the International Cycling Union to investigate the handling of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, but Vrijman's report isn't going to sway anyone who already thought Armstrong was a cheater -- the case it makes is essentially the old samples-were-unreliable defense trotted out by so many disgraced athletes over the years.
The fact that Vrijman might be 100 percent correct about that - those samples look like they were trampled by hordes of invading forces before they were ever tested - isn't carrying the day, either. Instead, Pound issues his official doubts from whatever throne he's occupying these days, and a Texas specialist on athletes and substance abuse, John Hoberman, tells a reporter that the fact remains Armstrong dominated "the most drug-soaked sport in the world."
Nice. Armstrong, meanwhile, maintains that the report "confirms my innocence." Upon further review, apparently not.
World Anti-Doping Agency
This is the agency once thought to be sports' best hope against wholesale cheating. Alas, it comes out of the Vrijman report looking like just another passenger along for the ride.
It's impossible to separate WADA from the pompous Pound, its chairman, but Vrijman notes in his 130-page document that the agency didn't fully cooperate in his investigation of the procedures used to reach conclusions about Armstrong and the '99 samples. Vrijman also concluded that both WADA and the French national anti-doping laboratory didn't follow testing procedures and violated confidentiality rules.
Other than that, nicely played.
Dick Pound
Fast becoming the clown prince of the industry, Pound is the go-to guy for any reporter looking for a blustery quote about cheating in general, no matter how ill-informed or shoddily thought out it might be.
Pound responded to Vrijman's report himself, before his WADA peeps even had time to put together their official statement of disappointment in the findings -- and what he had to say was vintage Pound. In an interview with the Associated Press, Pound said it was clear from reading reports of Vrijman's document that "there was no interest in determining whether the samples Armstrong provided were positive or not."
Pound hadn't actually read Vrijman's findings, which make it clear Armstrong's samples were so badly mishandled that there isn't any conclusion from them to be trusted, least of all one that he cheated by using the synthetic hormone EPO. But, hey, why let that get in the way of a quote?
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Officials of the Tour publicly challenged Armstrong's truthfulness; the French lab that did the 2004 re-testing of the five-year-old samples blew all protocol; a French newspaper first reported the "scandal" ah, forget it. No sense piling on.
Armstrong told Brokaw that he doesn't miss competitive cycling. He still might miss getting on his bike. That part was always OK. It's this stuff he doesn't miss. And that makes it all the more ironic that this -- the scum and the grime -- is what Armstrong won't be allowed to scrape away anytime soon.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Former President Carter defied U.S. and Israeli warnings and met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and his deputy, two men the U.S. government has labeled terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians.
Carter is the most prominent American to hold talks with Khaled Mashaal, whose Palestinian militant group claimed new legitimacy from the meeting along with two other sessions the Nobel laureate held with Hamas leaders in the Middle East this week.
"Political isolation (of Hamas) by the American administration has begun to crumble," Mohammed Nazzal, a top figure in Hamas' political bureau, told The Associated Press after Friday's meeting at Mashaal's Damascus office.
A senior Hamas official in Damascus, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to represent the group publicly, described the meeting as "warm."
But he said Carter did not receive a response to either of the two requests the former president made in the session: that Hamas halt its rocket attacks against Israel and that it agree to a meeting with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai to discuss a prisoner exchange.
Nazzal said that Gaza-based Hamas leaders would travel to Syria on Saturday to confer with Mashaal and that Carter "will be informed of Hamas' response in the coming days."
Underscoring the impression that Carter did not win any concessions, Hamas said Friday that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will "not see the light" until Palestinian prisoners are also released in an exchange.
Carter's convoy arrived at Mashaal's office for the meeting under tight security, and reporters were prevented from getting near the site. The meeting was closed to media, and Carter was not available for comment.
But Carter, who brokered the 1978 Israeli-Egyptian peace and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, has defended what he calls his personal peace mission. He says Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, must be engaged in order to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
The controversy over his visit highlights two different approaches to foreign policy. Some, like Carter, believe that is impossible to resolve a conflict without engaging all parties, even those responsible for attacks on civilians. Others, including the Bush administration, contend that such meetings give credibility to hard-line militants and allow them to play for time when they are not serious about peace.
Echoing criticism from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before the trip, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack suggested Friday that Carter had opened himself up to "exploitation" by both Hamas and the Syrian government.
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At the end of the video, below, you'll see Stephens tries to walk on her LEGO creation. You'll notice that though the leg is not fully functional, I think with a little glue it might be! Of course, the point of the exercise was not to create a functional prosthetic, since Stephens has one, but to make something artistic and celebratory for Stephens to wear on her stump. Notice her excellent right calf tattoo in the last shot:
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It's a serious problem, because pain can affect every aspect of your life. "Pain is not only the experience of hurting; it affects how you handle your life, your livelihood, your interactions with family and friends," Raymond Gaeta, MD, director of pain management services at Stanford Hospital & Clinic at Stanford University, tells WebMD.
Gaeta recently published a nationwide telephone survey with some stunning results: Nearly one in five (19%) had chronic pain like that caused by arthritis. Yet nearly half said they didn't know what caused their pain. The vast majority (84%) were taking over-the-counter drugs for their pain.
"The problem is, we're used to the body healing itself naturally, so we always expect that to happen," Gaeta tells WebMD. "With chronic pain, we put up with it, we try pain relievers, but we don't always see a doctor. That's the problem -- people need to talk to their doctors. There are many techniques for pain management out there, but it starts with asking the question - what's wrong?"
"The average person may not be able tell if it's the joint, a torn tendon, or pain in the area of the joint," says Shannon Whetstone Mescher, vice president of programs and services at the Arthritis Foundation. "A physician needs to evaluate you to make sure you do in fact have joint pain and why."
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Dec 12, 1914: After entering into pack ice, the Endurance battles slowly through the cold sea and ice floes. Watch: ow.ly/VxeDW
"The expedition is in honour of Shackleton's legacy. It demonstrates how a group of people from different nations are able to put their differences aside to work towards the achievement of a goal against seemingly insurmountable odds, a message that resonates powerfully in our modern world."
In 2013 Tim Jarvis and his team were the first ever to successfully complete Shackleton's 'double'. The Shackleton Epic expedition sailed a replica James Caird life boat 1500 kilometers across the Southern Ocean from Elephant Island, Antarctica, to South Georgia before climbing over its mountainous interior using 1916 equipment, clothing, and technology as Shackleton. Regarded by many as the greatest survival journey of all time, this is the first time since Shackleton that anybody has been able to authentically recreate it. They journeyed under the patronage of The Hon. Alexandra Shackleton, granddaughter and closest living relative of Sir Ernest.
In 1916, legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and 5 companions completed an incredible journey sailing a small rowing boat, the James Caird across 800 miles of the roughest ocean in the world from Elephant island, Antarctica to mountainous South Georgia Island.
On reaching South Georgia, Shackleton and 2 men then scaled the island's precipitous peaks with virtually no equipment to reach a remote whaling station. Shackleton's original goal had been to be the first to cross Antarctica. With the sinking of his ship the Endurance in the pack ice, it instead became a journey of survival, both for the 6 men in the James Caird and the 22 men left behind on Elephant Island, whose rescue depended on their success…
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I'm looking for some advice,
I have the x2lite in a 1.0 xbox with a locked 120 gig drive. When I turn the chip off I get error 14 which is a failure to load the original dashboard file. I have backups of these files from the first drive and I have tried to copy them back over the xbox.
Could it be that my original files were screwed up when I loaded the software on the first drive?
Error 14 With Chip Off
Started by bplemmons , May 21 2003 05:28 PM
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Posted 22 May 2003 - 11:59 AM
Yeah dude...looks like you lost your original xboxdash.xbe.Should have made a backup of your virgin HD right after it was chipped.Theres ways to get rid of error 14 though..do a few searches
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Discussion in 'Other Media (TV/Film, Comics & Games)' started by Ramirez, Nov 19, 2010.
Thanks. I thought that was your joke to elude sffworld rules!
Ok dudes, inspired by Evil Agent's love of lists, let's rank the Seattle grunge bands...
My rankings:
1. Pearl Jam-they've stuck around, and are still pretty solid. Also a sweet live band. I would rank their live material as better than some of their albums.
2. Alice in Chains- Lane's voice is totally unique, and Cantrell has a nice guitar style that you don't hear too often in metal
3. Soundgarden- As much as I love Chris Cornell's voice when it is on, when he is off his game, he sounds like ass. Jesus Christ Pose is one of my all time favorite songs.
4. Nirvana- Slightly overrated. Still an awesome band. Probably the most accessible of the grunge bands, I feel like they didn't get a chance to reach their full potential. Kurt's guitar playing on the unplugged album is much more advanced than it was on Nevermind. Also Dave Grohl is an insane drummer.
5. The Melvins- Still rocking hard all these years later. They score points with me for keeping it real.
Being a Seattleite this is a hard one for me. These bands all have a special place in my heart.
The Melvins rock. They have been incredibly influential. One of those bands most people know nothing about but in my opinion are one of the most important bands of the last 20 years.
I must admit I don't listen to any of them much anymore, but in the 90's a few of them were my favourite bands.
Probably the same top 5, but substitute the Melvins with Mudhoney for me. I've never gotten into The Melvins but have heard heaps of praise, from other musicians as well.
I remember buying Nirvana's Bleach (in red viny) before Nevermind was released, and being blown away by the sludgy, grungy guitar in the songs. Still love that album. Then I bought Nevermind and was in awe of the sound, production and songwriting skills of Kurt. The whole group of people I was hanging out with were fully into it. Their Live Unplugged DVD is also excellent. Unfortunately Nevermind has sort of been played to death now.
Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger was the first album I heard of theirs, and was also amazed. Especially the intro song Rusty Cage and the downtuned guitars on "Outshined" - what a brilliant song and singing by Cornell. Also really liked Louder than Love but thought Superunknown was a bit disappointing.
They're currently writing new material as a group for release this year - the first since 96 and their breakup!
Pearl Jam - yeah, pretty consistent. "Vs" got very heavy rotation in the car when it came out, as did Vitalogy.
Some great bands in a memorable era of my life, that's for sure.
1. Soundgarden - By far the most progressive and experimental of the grunge bands. Badmotorfinger remains one of my favourite rock albums of all time, and Superunknown is amazing too. Chris Cornell probably has the best all around voice in rock (range, timbre, etc.).
2. Alice in Chains - Underrated grunge band, with great songwriting and some of the best vocal harmonies ever. Dirt is one of the darkest and most hardcore albums in my collection!
3. Pearl Jam - Very solid rock band, and their first three albums are classic... but somewhere around the 5th or 6th album it starts sounding a bit generic/repetitive to me.
4. Nirvana - Definitely a bit overrated, but this was the first modern rock band I ever liked and they were responsible for getting me into rock. I'd rank them higher if they'd been around a little longer (as Corporal Blues said above, they didn't get to reach their full potential). I can't really listen to them anymore (overplayed? burned out?) except for In Utero, which is a dark and muddy masterpiece.
It's funny that the lowest two on my list were the most popular of the bunch. AiC and Soundgarden didn't get as much of the spotlight, but were definitely the better musicians.
Any Hip Hop Heads around?
Top Five Rap Groups
1. Wu Tang Clan - It gets no better than RZA and Genius/GZA
2. Cypress Hill - B-Real..raps most underrated MC
3. Jurassic Five - Old School Lyrical Grandmasters
4. Gravediggaz - Hardcore at its finest
5. OGC - The best of the Boot Camp Clik
If you have issues with cussing obviously don't click on the links.
Real hip hop
The greatest rap song of all time
Nah, could never get into hip hop. I don't know, just doesn't appeal.
I'm listening to the nerd rock of Jonathan Coulton (Yes, the guy who wrote 'Still Alive' for Portal).
Oh, screw it. 'Still Alive' - Jonathan Coulton & Felicia Day
Not much of a hip hop listener myself. Back when I was in middle school and high school I liked all the 90's rappers like Dre, Tupac and Snoop. Also listened to Wu Tang and Cypress Hill but don't really listen to them any more. I do still get the occasional Wu Tang song randomly stuck in my head.
I love hip hop. I'm a rapper and hip hop musician as well as a long time fan. Some of my favorite groups and musicians include: Nas, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Hieroglyphics, Notorious BIG, and Atmosphere.
Ozric Tentacles, Afterswish
Nice! I've got "Erpland" and really like it.
Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River
Creature Feature - 'Buried Alive'
This is the only song with an official video. Was going to link 'A Gorey Demise' but it doesn't have a decent video. Anyway, got their album coming in the near future and I can't wait for it.
Just find myself listening to Big Country-probably one of the very bands I would say I have as a "favorite" Most of the stuff from them is 80's and 90's, but I enjoy it
It's lovely
cleaning my room and rocking out to the one album I've listened to more than any other in my entire life: Megadeth's masterpiece Countdown to Extinction! Still an amazing album.
Don't listen to them much anymore but my personal favourite is Rust in Peace, with "Hangar 18" one of their best songs.
Just watched "Blood Into Wine", a documentary about Maynard James Keenan (lead singer of Tool) and his venture into wine making. It was a lot cooler than I expected, and I was surprised I hadn't really heard about it yet. Very informative and interesting (re: wine making), and also some a cool insight into the private life of Maynard. Highly recommended if you have any interest in wine, or in Tool!
Have you seen it, 3rdI?
Rust in Peace is a sweet album too. I have a soft spot for Countdown to Extinction. It was the first CD I ever bought...had plenty of cassettes before that, but Megadeth brought me into the CD era of music listening.
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Traditional dress in Santiago
Santiago has a distinctive style of local dress, as do many of the Maya-dominated towns of Guatemala. The women wear huipiles, usually with a pale blue background, on which are darker vertical stripes. Between the stripes there are often colourful tropical birds, though sometimes they are left plain, and around the neckline are embroidered equally colourful flowers, or sometimes more birds. Indeed the whole is a riot of colour, and quite a contrast to the more sober and ordered blue stripes of San Antonio Palopo where we had been the previous day.
Even more distinctive is the traditional Santiago woman's headdress – a band of cloth is coiled around itself to form a huge saucer shape in red or deep orange. It is mostly the older women who still wear this, whereas the huipile is worn by young and old.
Unusually the men here also often wear their traditional costume – trousers cut off below the knee, pale cream in colour and with purple vertical stripes (see photo 3, and my Parque Central tip). For "best" the trousers may also be embroidered with brightly coloured birds. Shirts are more conventional in style, and the headgear of choice is a cowboy hat, either of leather or straw.
Perhaps understandably people going about their daily lives don't necessarily want to be photographed, but it would be a rare tourist who didn't want to capture such striking attire. Be discreet with your camera and you should get some good shots, or make a small purchase from a handicrafts seller in return for the photo – we bought a key ring for just 5 Q from this woman and she posed happily for us.
My other photos were snatched with the zoom and show the huipiles and other clothes of various people we encountered on our walks around the town.
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A visit to the Mayan idol, Maximón, is a highlight of any trip to Santiago Atitlàn. Unlike many such figures, you won't find him in a church or other place of worship, but in a family home. It is a great honour among local families to act as Maximón's host, and also a great responsibility. He has his own room, and is watched over day and night. During the day he receives visitors, who light candles at his feet and offer him money, cigarettes and alcohol. At night he is "put to bed" – winched up into a private space above where he can rest.
Maximón is believed to be a form of the pre-Columbian Maya god Mam, blended with influences from Catholicism, and is sometimes equated with the Catholic San Simeon. He is also linked to Judas Iscariot, probably because the Spanish conquerors, fearing Maximón's influence over the people, chose this way of trying to turn them against him. Nowadays he takes the role of Judas in the Holy Week procession, before moving to his new home for the coming year. But the traditional Maya religion recognises him as the incarnation of the ancient Mayan god of sexuality. The legend has it that one day while the village men were away working in the fields, Maximón slept with all of their wives. When they returned, they were so angry they cut off his arms and legs (and this is thought to be why most effigies of Maximón are short, often without arms).
He does not live up to Christian notions of sainthood, but instead is rather a bully and as likely to grant prayers for revenge as for anything else. Offerings are made less in worship and more in fear of what he might do if not so honoured.
If you want to read more about Maximón there's a long account of the legend behind his creation on this website, taken from local oral tradition.
If you're not on a guided tour local children will meet you off the ferry and offer to lead you to Maximón for a few quetzales. You could try to find him on your own, but going with these young guides will provide them with a bit of income and you with a chance to talk to them and learn a little bit about their lives. Our young guide, David, was trilingual and spoke a few words of his Maya language, Tz'utujil, for us. He was keen to take us on a complete tour of the town's sights but we prefer to explore on our own so declined his offer and gave him the 15 Q we had agreed on for him and his friend.
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Maximon is a Mayan saint or deity, and people come to him for blessings. This particular Maximon was carved by the young shaman, Nicolas. Most of the people visiting this village have come to see Maximon. Nicolas travels around the country with him to visit people who can't come to him. He became a shaman at 18, and is now 36. Training seems to have consisted of dreams sent to him from the "Grandfather" (Creator) rather than any apprenticeship or formal teaching.
He performed a ceremony that involved lighting a bunch of candles, waving a smoking pot around, lighting Maximon's cigarette, kneeling down and chanting in Mayan, then tipping Maximon back to give him a drink. Nine different colors of candles represent the 9 underworld gods. More praying and smoke followed, and we had been wished good health and safe travels.
Maximon was created in 1524 A.D. as the Spanish came to Guatemala. He usually has a cigarette. The story says that 12 shamans all had a special dream that they had to climb to the top of the volcano. Once they were there, they dreamed they must build a European statue and hide their Mayan gods in it. They knew the Spanish were coming. When the Spaniards arrived, they found the local people praying in front of the statue—it looked like a Spaniard so they didn't destroy it.
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The local headdress
Each village has its own distinctive dress, and the women of Santiago wear a headdress that consists of a very long strip of thick fabric that is wrapped around and around.
They demonstrated how they put it on, and they can do it very quickly.
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Maximon - Who/What Is He?
No trip to Santiago Atitlan would be complete without a visit to Maximon. Considered to be a combination of things including Mayan gods and Spanish and Biblical historical figures, Maximon is a deity much revered by the people in this town. His location various as he is passed from house to house, typically homes of local church leaders called cofradias. We were told he is moved every two years but guidebooks say it's once a year. However there is a monetary supplement that is provided by either the church or the town to whoever is hosting Maximon so there has been some infighting as to who should host him and for how long.
At any rate, once you hit the ground at the ferry dock, local children and tuk-tuk drivers will approach you offering to take you to Maximon's location. We bargained with the tuk-tuk drivers for a mini-tour of the town's sights that included going to see Maximon (90 quetzales per person). What I thought was most interesting was the opportunity to see how the locals lived as Maximon was in someone's home. The cooking area was outside and the living area was very minimalist. Maximon's room, however, was ornately decorated with offerings and even a glass-sided coffin with his supposed body. Maximon himself was situated in the center of the room dressed as a man with three hats, a couple of ties, a number of lit candles before him, and an unlit cigar sticking out of his mouth. Also in front of him was a plate for offerings. The privilege of taking a single photo will cost you 20 quetzales.
Ask the locals where Maximon is housed...good luck finding it. Then again it can be like a bit of a scavenger hunt! Or have someone take you there for the price of a tip. Be sure to negotiate the tip beforehand.
Native Mayans
Lake Atitlan has about a dozen towns around it and all of them are inhabited by people of Mayan descent. Santiago Atitlan is the largest settlement of the Tz'utujil Mayan people who originally migrated from Mexico around 3000 years ago. Each of these groups has distinctive traditions and these variations are often most apparent in the clothing of the different groups. These locals were selling their wares on a street just off the main square.
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Hi all! I live near the Denton area and have a great OB and have pre-registered at our hospital. So the kicker is I work in downtown Dallas and am running into some complications and may deliver early. I will be 36 weeks at the end of this week. My OB has told me that if my water breaks while at work do not come back towards home, find a hospital nearby. (my son was born in under 4 hours after my water broke). I guess it never really occured to me to find an alternate hospital. I don't know anything about Dallas hospitals other than some have recommended Dallas Presby and Baylor downtown. I would like a clean/updated environment, with private rooms and of course great baby care, lactation consultants etc. I would really appreciate any advice and NICU info. Thank you!
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I gave birth to my son at Dallas Presby and at 36 weeks via cesarean because of Pre-eclampsia. The rooms have been recently renovated, the NICU (although we didn't need to spend time in it) is wonderful, and the lactation consultants are awesome. I think you would be very pleased if you did end up giving birth there. If you want to talk more, feel free to PAN me!
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I had a c/s at Presby Dallas in April, and have nothing but great things to say about all the nurses and staff. I was very well taken care of. We did not have to use the NICU, but have heard it is top notch.
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Crushing Step Martial Arts is a friendly Martial Arts club located in South Pasadena and Alhambra, CA. We practice the Traditional Martial Arts of Wing Chun, Northern Mantis, Bagua Zhang (Yin Style), out doors at a local park or at the Instructor's residence.
We practice and analyze self defense concepts, drills, and conditioning as handed down through the years by ancestors of these great arts.
Instruction is tailored to the individual student's needs and ability. We incorporate fitness training at various levels to keep the body strong. Although self defense is the essence of our practice, with patient and diligent practice the student will begin to realize better health, a stronger body and more alert mind.
The instructor is open, friendly, and likes to push the students to their percieved "limits" in order to help them learn more about themselves and their capabilities.
Ultimately, Kung Fu practice is a journey of self discovery. It's a philosophy, a way of life that promotes the health and well being of it's practitioners and society.
Contact us now to Schedule your lesson by calling us at: (626) 390-9179 or using the below form
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What to expect while training with Crushing Step
We always start the new student with the basics of movement through stance, technique, and forms practice.
Next the student will be introduced to various fighting concepts, and theory. This helps the student understand the how and why questions that come from doing the forms. There are many two person drills that come out of the forms that are used as tools to aid in understanding the concepts learned and developing the correct feeling.
The student will spend much time learning to perform the movements in a relaxed way. Learning to relax builds awareness, stamina, and power.
There is a lot of repetition of the movements, this builds muscle memory and motor skills to sharpen reflexes.
Sometimes training is slow and painful due to the various postures, it's easy to get frustrated. I encourage the student to persevere, because after some time it gets easier. Kung Fu presents hardship to the student, this makes you stronger.
We do practice forms. Our forms practice is meant to teach the spirit and flavor of the systems as well as to teach self defense concepts and to strengthen your body, all at the same time!. The way you execute the forms evolves over time as your understanding of the arts evolves. Each system has it's own set of forms to learn, some more than others. Understand that just learning all the forms doesn't mean you finished learning the art. Instead it means that now the real learning can begin!
One more note about our forms. We don't train for competition or showmanship as this would change the essence of how they are practiced and detract from their true purpose.
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Sifu Richard Verdugo has been a devoted student of martial arts for over 31 years. Trained in various boxing systems, has come to settle on Wing Chun, as his main system. He later met a great Northern Mantis Sifu, Wang Bai Li, who became his friend and teacher. After learning Mantis boxing from Wang Bai Li, Rich was given permission to teach this art and pass it on to others.
Richard also spent ten years studying Yin Style Bagua Zhang from Sifu Jason Tsou in Monterey Park California. It's a great system for health and self defense.
We keep an open mind and welcome practitioners of any system to visit and join us. A core value of Richard is the mutual respect of all martial arts seeing value in what other disciplines have to offer. Keeping a "Jeet Kune Do" like mentality towards martial arts training while still preserving the tradition. Wing Chun, Mantis, and Bagua are all hybrid martial arts so it's only natural they continue to progress.
Richard is currently training Kali under Guro David Quigley, Martial Arts expert and founder of Limitless Martial Arts.
Other systems Sifu Richard trained in: Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Kick Boxing, Lima Lama Kung Fu ( Black Belt at age 18), Kali, Jeet Kune Do.
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