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Skip to comments.Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style"
Posted on 05/18/2012 11:51:42 AM PDT by grundle
A witness told Florida cops that he saw Trayvon Martin straddling George Zimmerman and pummeling the neighborhood watch captain MMA style shortly before the unarmed teen was felled by a gunshot to the chest.
The witnesss account was included in Sanford Police Department reports released today.
Interviewed by cops about 90 minutes after the shooting, the witness--whose name was redacted from police documents--said that he was inside his home when he heard a commotion coming from the walk way behind his residence.
The man recalled seeing a black male, wearing a dark colored hoodie on top of a white or Hispanic male who was yelling for help. The black male, he added, was mounted on the white or Hispanic male and throwing punches MMA (mixed martial arts) style.'
The witness--who was in his living room and about 30 feet away from the confrontation-- said he called out to the two men that he was dialing 911. He then heard a pop, police reported, and saw the black male laid out on the grass.
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I guess I need to get out more.
What's "MMA Style"?
(Yeah, I know what MMA is).
"MMA Style". Sounds like a good choice by Zimmerman to me!
heck I have no idea
Taller? Younger? Training in MMA?
Didn't help, did it?
on his knees, straddling over zimmerman, throwing rapid, repeated punches to the head.
it's vicious
Finding the ID of this guy ought to now be impossible.....'s
"Whats MMA Style?"
Mixed martial arts.
I had to look it up too.
That's gotta hurt.
rapid hammer punches?
With all of this overwhelming evidence; why is this case even open?
Martin's parents should apologize to Zimmerman.
The evidence continues to accumulate that it was a righteous kill. The defense seems to have testimonial and physical evidence on its side.
That's what I did to the SOB that almost bit my finger off.
Had they not pulled me off of him I probably would have killed him.
Every-time you hit them the back of their head hits pavement.
Watching some MMA or UFC fights is a far cry from "MMA training." Rest assured that if a properly trained mixed martial artist had you pinned on the ground in a full mount, you would have a VERY difficult time getting to any weapon that you might have.
The fact that a street thug tried to emulate what he saw on TV doesn't make him properly trained.
A gun is not a shield or magic wand. Don't foolishly think such.
Mixed Martial Arts
yes, that is almost 50 year old Herschel Walker in the bottom pics.
Your knuckles wouldn't be injured from hammer punches.
Did you seriously think that I was attempting to make an assertion that having a gun in a pocket is a magic shield whereby no man on earth can do harm to the possessor of the gun?
I assure you I was not saying these things. I merely meant to imply that people who bring guns to fistfights are making a wise choice. But -- I hasten to add -- this is probably not necessarily true in precisely 100% of all cases. Just true in a lot of cases.
I saw Herschel about 7-8 years ago at a client's offices. He was doing some promotional work for them.
The guy looked fit as could be then, too. This in GA, so all the gals were just swooning over him.
"Ground and pound," I think they call it...basically, use wrestling moves to get the opponent on the ground on his back with your weight on top of him (or jump on him if you knock him off balance/he falls) and start raining punches down on his head. If done right, he can't throw you off because of leverage and because he's too busy dodging, or taking, blows to the head.
When a fighter has his opponent in a vulnerable situation and starts hammer fisting him:
That's seriously Herschel Walker? Good grief. He looks like he could STILL run people over!
Little baby faced Trayvon did that? NO WAY! /sarc
I want to know:
"Where was Trayvon's body relative to Zimmermans vehicle?"
Fedor was a beast. He only lost one fight from 2000-2009.
If Trayvon was sitting on George's chest, pounding on him, how did George get to his gun?
If he was carrying it IWB (inside the waistband), it seems to me it would be very difficult for him to reach the gun (reference the MMA pictures).
Just asking....
I would suggest not using the MMA pics as exact models of what Trayvon did. He wasn't an expert.
Second, the witness quote never uses the words "sitting on Zimmerman's chest".
Does say "on top of him" and "astride him".
This was at night and this witness wasn't in immediate proximity, so all he could see is what he could see, at night and from his vantage point.
I would say Zimmerman had an advantage in one respect about the gun...he KNEW he was armed and where it was, whereas Trayvon didn't know either one when he jumped him.
My money is on Z being able to find a way to get that gun, and I don't believe for a second that this will be a problem for the defense to explain.
Just sayin', though, the defense is not required to prove Zimmerman innocent...the prosecution is required to prove him guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
And a 'banglist' (((ping)))
Just Asking? Maybe while Trayvon's hands were busy beating Zimmerman's head he forgot Zimmermans hands and the possibility that the gun was where they normally are, in his waistband.
All Trayvon needed to do was either call 911 and report he was being followed, or hightail it to the apartment which was very close by, or both.
It's true when people say this didn't need to happen.
But it's Trayvon's actions that brought it down.
He attacked an armed man who was left with no choice but to shoot him.
Zimmerman hesitated...we know that because he was yelling for help, then when no one actually came and helped him out...the witness called 911 but didn't get physically involved...he did what he had to.
Don't know why the mediots act like this is something new. There is a news clip from 2/27 IIRC linked to the local Orlando newspaper where the reporter
1.) talks to this witness, John, who won't give is last name or show his face
2.) talks to Tracy Martin and Brandi as well. Brandi said Trayvon was sitting on the porch.
There is an interesting point about Trayvon Martin's assault on George Zimmerman that has been overlooked. A witness stated that he saw Martin hitting Zimmerman with Mixed Martial Arts style punches. This statement is important because Mixed Martial Arts style punches involve hitting with the heel of the palm or the side of the hand, rather than the knuckles of the fist.
Such striking techniques would explain the lack of extensive bruising of Trayvon's fists, although there was some bruising on his fists. But more to the point, it is much easier to slam someone's head against the sidewalk using an alternate repeated pushing and striking motion of right and left hands while striking with the heel of the palms against Zimmerman's face. This would look like a rapid, alternate pushing motion of the right and left arms as they strike Zimmerman and slam his face into the concrete. This action would be much faster, easier and more powerful than striking with the fists. No wonder Zimmerman feared for his life.
Now the question is where did an innocent, poor, little dear darling boy like Trayvon learn to street fight like that?
Assaulting a complete stranger was not a recommended course of action. Guess he'll know the next time.
This data dump (on a friday dominated by facebook) only proves:
1. the prosecution has no case and they knew it from day one.
2. There is more than one REASONABLE doubt. (hence zimmerman walks)
3. There is a preponderance of the evidence and this is where the judge will be measured.
I've been wondering if Martin tried to get Zimmerman's gun.
Incredible. He's got the body of an extremely fit 25 year old.
Trayvon acting as referee in an interracial street brawl:
In the original statement to police by Zimmerman, he said that Martin grabbed for his gun, so he grabbed for it, and during the struggle... boom... Martin keeled over backwards.
IIRC, Mr. Zimmerman said that while he was on his back, Mr. Martin saw his gun (which was in his holster/waistband), and made some remark like "Now I'm going to get you", and grabbed for the gun. Zimmerman did too. Guess who probably got it by the barrel and pulled on it while it was aimed at his chest?
Not if his front room window is 30 feet from where the dead guy bled all over the place.
What the hell took this little tidbit so long to see the light?
"The actions by all of these in this case are reprehensible."
INCLUDING the PROSECUTOR! Zimmerman should be freed NOW, and sue Florida for $$$$$!
The best site I've seen for info on the Martin/Zimmerman case. Extensive photos, videos of Martin fighting, all kinds of stuff.
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"For three months, the only things in my refrigerator were red meat and gallon jugs of marinade," Burke said.
The one dehydrator evolved into six. "When all of them were on at the same time, it sounded like a plane going off," he said.
He slept on the couch many nights, getting up every hour to rotate the trays of beef.
He started taking the finished product to work, offering it to friends and then selling it in 2-ounce, vacuum-sealed bags for $4 a pop. He didn't sell a lot, maybe 50-100 bags a week. But it was enough to pay for the beef and bags.
"We realized we might be on to something," Burke said.
Product launch
He put up a website and started contacting state and federal regulatory agencies about food production.
Burke and his wife thought a health food store on Daniel Island would go over well and were going to call it the Happy Apple. That's the brand they first used for the beef jerky.
"When I put up the website and started doing research, it occurred to me that jerky was going to be a much more viable business than a health food store," Burke said.
While checking into federal regulatory requirements, he learned he could process food only during normal business hours because that's when food inspectors are on duty. That wouldn't work for him because he could do it only after hours.
He knew he couldn't afford to quit his job, and he couldn't do it on his own.
Meanwhile, one night his wife went out with friends and came back home to say they all told her she smelled like a smokehouse.
"I thought smelling like barbecue was pretty fantastic," Burke said with a laugh. She told him, "You have to get this stuff out of our house."
Trial and error
The search began for a new location. They rented a 1,500-square-foot space on Clements Ferry Road. His wife processed the meat on Thursday and Friday. After hours, Burke packaged and filled orders.
Burke thought if he just scaled up the ingredients in his special marinade for the larger amounts of beef he was processing, it would work. It didn't. "The jerky was terrible," he said.
He started calling around and found a company in Utah that knew how to perfect the marinade in proportion to the amount of beef. The firm made the jerky there and shipped it to Charleston for packaging. Burke decided to call the new beef jerky The New Primal, a nod to early gatherers and hunters who ate food without chemicals and preservatives.
The process of perfecting the jerky took about a year but by 2010-11, they were receiving orders from Hawaii to Afghanistan.
In the meantime, they decided to switch where the jerky was made from Utah to California. Grass-fed cattle from Oregon and Washington state provided the beef.
"We had developed a little bit of a following, but the biggest challenge was taking it to retail," Burke said. "How do you package nuts, fruit and jerky without it going bad?"
They wanted packaging to look different from other beef jerky products.
"We thought ours was elegant and clean and wanted that to come across," Burke said.
They finally received advice that oxygen absorber packets inside the bags would help the mixture of dried fruit, nuts and jerky stay fresh for up to a year. With that, packaging was designed using craft paper in early 2012, and by the end of summer, Burke had quit his job at Blackbaud and hit the streets of Charleston.
"I went down King Street with bags in my hand asking them to sell my beef jerky," Burke recalled. "I had a little bit of blind faith and was passionate about the product."
By the end of 2012, he had about three dozen retailers carrying his product in 2.5-ounce bags with a suggested retail price of $6.99.
Prime markets
Now, a new spicy product is being launched along with staples such as pineapple, cranberry and mango fillers and added raw almonds and cashews in new brightly colored, plastic packaging. The New Primal is sold in 500 stores, including 35 in Greater Charleston, and across 42 states.
The fledgling company's biggest customer is Publix supermarket. The Florida-based chain carries the product in 288 stores across the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee. Burke was offered the 755-store Florida market, but knew he wouldn't be able to meet the demand at the time.
He will enter 150 stores in the Fresh Market chain in June and is about to be on the shelf in 250 Vitamin Shoppe stores across the country.
He is now looking to expand the 600-square-foot operation on Charleston's upper peninsula in the Cru Catering building off Meeting Street to a new facility with a loading dock, eventually add more employees to the four there now and start with about half of the Publix stores in Florida.
Burke expects the business to gross $1.5 million this year, grow to about $5 million next year and keep growing as the gluten-free, Paleo food niche market expands from $29 million in 2012 to $300 million by 2018, according to the Nutrition Business Journal.
One of Burke's packagers, Tucker Strom, said, "It's refreshing to work for a young company with young leaders in a great city."
Co-worker Ashley Lorance added, "We have our hands in every part of the business."
Strom and Lorance make about 500 packages a day.
Burke has no regrets about leaving his sales job and launching the business.
"This is the most fun I have ever had in my life," he said. "It's a daily roller coaster, but the bigger picture is that we can use beef jerky to help save the planet and watch what we put in our bodies."
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524.
Jason Burke, co-owner and founder of The New Primal, a preservative-free, all-natural beef jerky, helms the company business on Charlestons upper peninsula. The firm expects sales to reach $1.5 million this year.×
Tucker Strom packages beef jerky at The New Primal, a preservative-free, all-natural-product business set up on Charlestons upper peninsula.×
Ashley Lorance and Tucker Strom package beef jerky at The New Primal, a company Jason Burke launched in 2009 from the kitchen in his Daniel Island home. The grass-fed product helped Burke lose weight for a healthier lifestyle. The business is located on Charlestons upper peninsular.×
Jason Burke, at 205 pounds, is pictured with his wife, Kristin, in this 2009 photo (left). At right, Burke shed 40 pounds in about 10 months by moving to a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, a move that led him to found The New Primal beef jerky company in Charleston. The jerky is made from grass-fed cattle instead of grain-fed cattle and has no preservatives or artificial ingredients.×


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I only spent a few weeks in Isafjordur, and by far it's been one of the best cities I have every visited. Mostly because of the friends I made but that, it's still so routed in nature. Here are a few photos from my time there.
The Viking man. We meet him while taking a field trip with the summer program at Háskólasetur Vestfjarða and received a history lesson on how the northern vikings lived and fished 1000 years ago.
One of the bakeries in town called Gamla Bakarid. Really tasty breads and sweets, like the Vienerbrod. Mmmmm, so tasty!
Here's the view of the little city. It only took 20 minutes to walk up and you could go higher.
Fog descending from the mountains.
Ohhh so yummy fish! I wrote more about Tjoruhusid, the little fish restaurant at the end of the town road. Seriously, best food ever. Best. The fish soup, something I'm not so fond of, was the best I have ever had.
Near the restaurant is where fish was weighed and taken to the market. This of the fish scales used.
What an adorable town in northern Iceland!
I really want to go to Iceland now. Thanks for sharing the photos!
@LBO – You definitely should visit Iceland!
Not only do I really want to go to Iceland, I am suddenly very hungry…
My hometown is the best.
Iceland is a beautiful place! Did you go to Vestmannayejar?
How beautiful! I've always wanted to go to Iceland so far I've only been to the air port enroute to Germany.
Now I want to go more!
I did not get to visit Vestmannayejar although I still would love to.
Deidre, you must visit the country. =)
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Playing ITS first game since leading scorer Tim Frazier went down with a season ending injury, Penn State (3-2) sputtered in the first half but caught fire in the second and downed previously unbeaten Bucknell (5-1), 60-57, on Black Friday in the Bryce Jordan Center.
The Nittany Lions were led by redshirt-junior Jermaine Marshall who tallied 17 points and led the team with four steals. Freshman Brandon Taylor, who made his first career start, had a personal-best 16 points, going 6-for-11 from the field, including 4-for-8 in three-point range, in just 20 minutes of action due to foul trouble.
Redshirt sophomore D.J. Newbill posted 10 points, a career-high seven assists and seven rebounds in 37 minutes running the point in Frazier's absence. Sophomore Ross Travis led the Lions in boards with eight and also contributed nine points.
Despite shooting a dismal 16 percent and trailing 22-16 after the first half, the Nittany Lions rebounded after halftime to hit an impressive 65 percent from the floor in the second 20 minutes. The Nittany Lions hit 17-of-26 from the field in the second half, including hitting 5-of-6 from beyond the arc. Penn State won the rebounding battle, 38-31, and committed just eight turnovers without their starting point guard.
The Penn State defense doubled down on Bison leading scorer Mike Muscala, holding him to just 2-of-4 from the field and 10 points on the game, six of those coming at the foul line. The Bison shot 39 percent (16-of-41) for the game and hit 20-of-25 at the free throw line. Bryson Johnson led the Bison with 18 points on 3-of-8 from three while Muscala added 12 boards.
Trailing by six at halftime, Taylor opened the second half with two threes sandwiching a basket by Bucknell to close the gap to two. Starting with a three-pointer from Bucknell's Bryson Johnson with 17:45 on the clock, the teams traded buckets for the next four minutes. The Nittany Lions never let the Bison lead grow to more than five during the time span.
A jumper from Sasa Borovnjak with 13:05 remaining in the game had the Lions within two at 34-32. Marshall was fouled and hit 2-of-2 at the line to tie the score at 34-34 after Penn State had trailed for the previous 27 minutes. Bucknell's Cameron Ayers scored two on a layup, but Marshall banked in a 23-foot three as the shot clock expired to put Penn State on top for the first time, 37-36, with 10:57 on the clock. A free throw by Mike Muscala let the Bison tie it at 37-37, but a Newbill jumper moved Penn State back into the lead, 39-37.
Despite a foul that let Ayers hit two at the line to knot the score at 39, baskets from Taylor and Travis had Penn State with a four-point lead, 43-39. Penn State would lead the rest of the way and extended the margin to seven, 48-41, with just under 6:30 remaining thanks to a trifecta from Travis. Penn State was shooting over 70 percent at that point of the second half as the Lions' confidence grew.
After a layup from Ryan Hill moved the Bison within five, 48-43, Bucknell took a timeout. Penn State maintained its momentum and a Newbill basket had Penn State ahead by seven, 50-43, with 5:32 to play. Two free throws had the Bison back within five, 50-45, but Marshall scored two to give the Nittany Lions a seven-point cushion, 52-45. Ayers hit a three for Bucknell, but Marshall answered back with a three of his own for a 55-48 Penn State lead with 3:18 on the clock.
Bucknell used a 9-4 run lasting nearly the entirety of the final three minutes to close the gap to two, 59-57. With less than 10 seconds left in the game, Marshall was fouled and hit 1-of-2 at the line to give Penn State just a three-point edge, 60-57. Ayers missed a final three-point attempt preserving the win for the Nittany Lions.
The Bison opened the game taking an eight-point lead, 10-2, by the 13-minute mark. However, a layup and three-pointer from Taylor had Penn State within three,10-7. After a three from Bucknell, Taylor sank another trey before sophomore Pat Ackerman scored two to move Penn State within one, 13-12. Taylor scored eight of the Lions 16 points in the half.
Borovnjak fouled Muscala who hit two shots at the foul line to give the Bison a three-point edge, 15-12. Travis followed suit after being fouled and had the Lions trailing by only one, 15-14, with 6:30 remaining in the first half.
A 6-0 Bucknell run increased the Bison lead to seven, 21-14, by the 2:38 mark. Marshall went 2-for-2 at the line with less than a minute remaining, but the Bison would head into halftime with a six-point lead, 22-16.
Penn State is back in action at home in the Bryce Jordan Center on Wednesday, Nov. 28 against Boston College in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Action is set for 9:15 p.m. and the game will air live on ESPNU. Penn State has won four of its last five Challenge games, including downing B.C. 62-54 last year in Chestnut Hill, Mass.


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DALLAS - While the nation at large prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, few cities have a slate of activities to rival that of Dallas. Dealey Plaza in the West End district, a National Historic Landmark and the site of the assassination, has a weeklong schedule of events and tributes to honor the slain 35th president and cultural icon.
Professional commentators seem consumed with pointless exercises of "what if," while the public chooses to remember a legacy defined by the president's youthful charm and glamorous lifestyle, immortalized in film and the tabloid culture that JFK helped to create. When pressed to name Kennedy's signal accomplishment, however, or any accomplishment, most people draw a blank. What, exactly, did Kennedy do with his 34 months in the White House?
He did not write the famous inauguration address, justly regarded as one of the greatest in American history. No one really knows who did, but it was certainly a team of professional speechwriters. Kennedy also did not write his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, "Profiles in Courage," at least not without substantial help from Theodore Sorensen. While associated with the civil rights movement, it was left to Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, to bully the Civil Rights Act through a hesitant Congress. In his adherence to Eisenhower's domino theory, Kennedy sent the first U.S. troops into Vietnam, and set the stage for the worst foreign policy debacle in U.S. history. Even his image as a family man, the fairytale of Camelot, has been revealed as a tawdry sham, thanks to well-documented instances of JFK's extramarital "encounters."
For all of Kennedy's iconic status, his complicated legacy makes it difficult for the greater public to measure him according to his actual accomplishments. Kennedy's achievements were not as easily packaged as his good looks or his wife's penchant for Chanel suits. Kennedy's true legacy is more complex.
Of greatest significance, however, is the fact that Kennedy backed away from the racist and ideological lines drawn by his predecessors and rabidly defended by certain segments of the public. In doing so, Kennedy set the stage for the advancements he was unable to accomplish on his own.
After the 1961 Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco failed to earn Fidel Castro's head, Kennedy never again attempted outright acts of warfare to topple the Cuban government. This policy infuriated members of the ultra-right, and this fury was stoked into outright hatred with Kennedy's eventual actions in resolution of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis began when Kennedy's pointless and incorrect remarks about a "missile gap" provoked an arms race with the Soviet Union, which culminated in Khrushchev's deployment of 90 missiles to Cuban bases. For 13 days, the world stood at the edge of a nuclear abyss. Finally, in secret dealings with the Soviets, Kennedy agreed to withdraw missiles from southern Italy and Turkey. In return Khrushchev promptly withdrew the Cuban missiles, and thus began a new period of open communication between the world's two superpowers.
The ultra-right seethed over Kennedy's turn away from the "hard-line'" symbolized in such accomplishments as the Moscow-Washington hotline and the ban on airborne nuclear tests. The far-right campaign of hostility on these moves by Kennedy, combined with a racist campaign against his grudging but finally positive actions on civil rights, contributed to the lowest approval ratings of his presidency: 58% at the time of his assassination. Facing open hatred among racist, ultra-right elements in the South, Kennedy arrived on Nov. 22, 1963 to a city adorned with flyers that labeled him a traitor. Kennedy met with a bullet, and his ambiguities and equivocations as well as the hatred engendered by the positive steps he did take vanished in a haze of martyrdom.
Dallas has commemorated its role in the JFK assassination for over a year, through the Dallas Morning News' "JFK50" campaign and a regular schedule of public events and memorials. What often goes unmentioned is that, at the time of his arrival, JFK was broadly unpopular among the powers that be in this city, to the extent that people in his administration and here in Texas warned against the trip. When Dallas' "JFK50" celebrations hit a fever pitch this November, intelligent observers should recognize that the city of Dallas, and by extension the country at large, celebrate the legacy of JFK, husband of Jackie-O, a pop-culture relic. The accomplishments of President John F. Kennedy, dissenter to the ultra-right, have been lost in the sparkle.
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Matt Simmons, the outspoken founder of investment bank Simmons & Co., is stepping down from his Chairman Emeritus spot following several comments he made regarding what he saw as the impending bankruptcy of BP.
According to a statement from the firm, Simmons' complete separation from the firm is effective June 30th so he can "devote his full focus to The Ocean Energy Institute," the think-tank and venture capital fund he started to focus on offshore renewable energy.
"In the three years since I founded Ocean Energy, my passion for renewable energy R&D and investment has continued to grow and this venture requires my full attention," Simmons said.
Barron's noted this week that Matt Simmons had an 8,000 share short position on BP while he was making these statements about the company's health. One online stock pundits says that could constitute a serious conflict of interest.
Matt Simmons told me in an e-mail today he was careful before taking a short position on BP.
"This was the only time in my 50 years of investing in the stock market I had ever shorted a stock and it was a month after I began speaking out on how exposed BP was," he said. "I have always been free to buy or sell energy stocks as long as they are not on SCI restricted list. I have tried to make my whole career based on transparency and integrity."
Simmons' views have become increasingly at odds with those of the firm's analysts in recent months, prompting the bank's CEO Michael Frazier to issue a statement to employees and some customers last month noting…
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Several of the recent statements on the part of Mr. Simmons relating to the Macondo blowout and the implications for the industry and the individual companies involved in this incident are discordant with the views of Simmons & Company International."
Frazier also noted Simmons' skeptical view of North American unconventional natural gas and oil resource plays (namely natural gas shales) "are in direct contradiction to the conclusions Simmons & Company International has reached from the in-depth and lengthy research we have conducted on the subject. Our view is that were it not for unconventional gas, the North American natural gas resource base, which is presently witnessing compelling productivity, may otherwise have entered into a period of sustained decline."


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Kannur shocker: CM hurt in stone-pelting
By Express News Service - KANNUR
Published: 28th October 2013 12:33 PM
Last Updated: 28th October 2013 01:02 PM
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy sustained minor injuries on his forehead as a group of LDF workers pelted stones at his car here on Sunday.
The glass panel of the car in which Chandy was travelling was shattered in the stone pelting and some shards hit his forehead on two spots.
The incident occurred at 5.40 pm near the Police Club. State Rural Development Minister K C Joseph, KPCC general secretary T Siddique and CM's personal security Ravi were also in the car.
He came here to attend the valedictory function of the Kerala Police athletic meet.
Chandy was sitting on the left side of the car and Joseph on the right. Siddique, in a bid to protect the CM, also suffered minor injuries.
The protesters, who came to show black flags to the CM as part of their campaign to press for his resignation over the solar panel scam, poured on to the street from all sides and chased the CM's convoy breaking the heavy police protection. The police vehicles also came under attack.
They tried to block his way by jumping in front of the vehicle and also threw black flags. Despite security cover, including a team of Rapid Action Force, they could not stop the protesters.
Some activists came close to the car and hit it before pelting the stones.
Later, police resorted to lathicharge after the attack on CM's convoy. Around 200 DYFI and LDF workers under the leadership of C K Krishnan MLA and K K Narayanan MLA had gathered near the Police Club before the CM's arrival.
The situation was very tense in the town as LDF workers gathered on all the roads near the Police Parade Grounds, venue of the athletic meet.
Earlier, LDF leaders P Jayarajan, M V Jayarajan and P K Sreemathi entered the police games village premises and staged a sit-in protest. DYFI men, who had gathered at another gate of the games village near the Town Traffic Police Station destroyed a few flex boards erected by the DCC welcoming the CM.
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Playing in a PGA Tour Pro-Am
The partys in full swing. Five-hundred or so well-turned-out guests holding barbecued items in one hand and glasses of wine in the other are crammed into the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Jackson, Miss. The line at the buffet stretches too far back for my liking, so I head on over to the bar where very good, and very free, Cabernet Sauvignon is being dispensed. We are here for the Southern Farm Bureau Classic Pro-Am draw, hosted by local PGA Tour pro, Jim Gallagher Jr.
Loaded up on wine, wings and breaded shrimp, the semi-sloshed masses return to their tables and eagerly await the evenings main event. Gallagher Jr. takes the stage and cranks up the ball machine. First team out gets first pick of the 51 pros in the pro-am field.
On tap are eight major champions, including the 2003 and 2004 British Open winners, Ben Curtis and Todd Hamilton. Two-time U.S. Open champ, Lee Janzen, is also available, as are nine other golfers who have played in either the Ryder or Presidents Cups matches. Young gun Ryan Moore is sure to be chosen early, too.
The team of hacks (thats writers) to which I belong, comes out of the hat fifth, by which time Hamilton, Janzen, Moore and the previous weeks winner, Carl Petterson, have already been snapped up. There are still a number of classy swingers up for grabs, but the clear favorite is surely Robert Allenby. Not only is he a great player, hes Australian, which means you get to watch the game played as it should be and have a good laugh at the same time. It would have been nice to trade birdies with an Open champion, but to be perfectly honest Im just as happy with Allenby. Dan, Doug, Reid and I agree he is the obvious choice and register our vote, thus dashing the hopes of one Mr. Alan Bee in group No. 6. Im serious.
We muster at 4.30 the next morning and arrive at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Annandale Golf Club an hour later. After a breakfast of grits, bacon, grits, eggs, grits, toast and grits, we venture out into the gloom and hit a few wedges to make sure any part of our bodies that werent aching before certainly are now.
At 6 a.m. sharp we are summoned to our carts and make the mile-long drive out to the 14th hole, our first of the day. The cart doesnt have a windshield, however, and, to make the shotgun start we have to step on the gas, meaning the light and chilly breeze that is bristling the tree tops feels more like a blast of icy air with a wind chill factor of minus plenty. By the time we reach the tee, we are frozen solid and any benefit those wedges on the range might have had has long since disappeared.
The opening formalities are brief but pleasant enough. Allenby shakes each of us firmly by the hand and looks us all squarely in the eye. He smiles even. Its all very cordial. But somethings not quite right.
We amateurs have been jabbering away like 3-year-olds at a birthday party since meeting in the hotel that morning We are all excited beyond measure at getting to tee it up with a player of such undoubted class: a four-time winner on both the European and PGA Tours, a four-time Presidents Cup team member and the 83rd-ranked golfer in the world. He is the only player in the field who matched the par of 70 on that farcical final day at the 2004 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills and he showed metallic balls at the 2003 Presidents Cup when he needed to win the 18th hole in his singles match against Davis Love to salvage a half and force a tie, which he did.
To be sure, the day promises to etch a lasting place in all our memories and would surely throw up enough tales, stories and amusing anecdotes to cover dinner conversation for the next several years.
But for some reason, it could be his slightly aloof and detached manner during the introductions, or the absence of conversation once we have made his acquaintance. Whatever it is, Im not 100 percent convinced Allenby is as overjoyed at the prospect of spending half a day with us as we are of spending it with him. His demeanor suggests hed rather be home.
Its hardly surprising really. The 34-year-old must have played in 200 or more of these things during his 15 years as a professional. More often than not the players he is assigned are loud and obnoxious. They double over at the sound of their own weak jokes and are determined to finish every single hole despite the fact that he, Allenby, has already made an eagle, birdie or par and thus rendered everyone elses score meaningless. He must dread another round like this.
He might well have been feeling the same as J.C. Snead did at a pro-am a few years ago. Snead, nephew of Sam and an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, showed what happens when the thought of teeing it up with another bunch of weekend chops suddenly loses its sparkle. Known for his gruff temperament and notoriously ill-at-ease on pro-am day, Snead apparently uttered not a single word to his playing partners until the very last hole.
Realizing the short putt one of his team members had on that final green was all that stood between him and a tidy little paycheck, Snead finally opened his mouth and gave what he probably thought were a few encouraging words. Knock it in and we can win this thing, he grunted, or words to that effect. Unimpressed, the man addressed the ball, took a huge backswing and slammed the ball right off the edge of the green and into a lake. Im not going to help you win a damn thing, you son of a bitch, the amateur said while stomping off the green.
Hale Irwin is also something of a double-edged sword. Yes, you have a three-time U.S. Open winner but you also get the man who once humiliated an amateur by yelling at him, from 40 yards away, to pick his ball up and get a move on. Apparently, the poor bloke hadnt played more than a handful of rounds in his whole life, was determined to finish every hole, and had nary a clue about the scoring system.
PGA Tour protocol says its players must adhere to a very strict code of conduct. Amateurs have usually paid big money to play alongside Joe Tour Pro and have anticipated their day with him for weeks. No, the pro neednt crack one-liners like Johnny Carson or tend to everyones game like David Leadbetter. But he must remain on the side of the line that Snead, Irwin and a handful of others in recent years have surely crossed.
Mercifully, Allenby is nowhere near the line yet. But thats not to say he doesnt appear a little taciturn. Clearly, he is not in the mood for throw-away conversation.
With the intros out of the way, Allenby steps up to the tee at the 473-yard, par 4 and, with the sun peeping above the horizon and the mercury limping somewhere near freezing, knocks one, two, three . . . yup, all seven shades of dirt out of his Srixon Z-URS. Youd think a ball that cold and hit that hard would shatter into tiny pieces. But it screams 290 yards through the icy air and lands on a spot in the fairway from which the rough on both sides is more or less equidistant.
Nice shot, we assert unanimously, secretly mumbling disbelieving oaths under our breaths.
Fifty-eight yards farther up the course, Dan, Doug and Reid hit drives which, considering the temperature and the fact that Allenby is watching, do them great credit. Only Dan finds the fairway. But Id happily take any one of them and save myself the embarrassment of knobbling one just short of the red tees.
Then the lights go dim, the crowd (one scorer, two marshals) grows silent and yours truly is up. If this were 10 years ago, my body would by now have seriously malfunctioned and a partner would be needed to tee my ball up. Allenby and his like were, to me, supernatural beings whose shoes I was not worthy to shine. Now, I have reached an age where I am able to mix that shameless admiration with a healthy dose of perspective.
Though still in awe of these people, they are, I remind myself, just human beings, flesh and blood like me. That God saw fit to endow them with limbs so lissome they can blast an arrow-straight 290-yard drive at 6.30 in the morning in conditions that might make an Eskimo think twice before heading out, is fine with me. Truly, I am comfortable knowing that wherever my balls end up, the world will continue to spin on its axis, night will follow day and, more importantly, my dinner will be ready when I get home.
But comfort is a million miles from confidence, of course. Its beyond cold and, not since my teenage years, when I and a few friends would happily amuse ourselves at the local muni for 18 hours a day, have I played golf at such an hour. Doug, a newspaper columnist and radio show host in Houston, says its too early for a grown man to leave his bed, except to go to the toilet.
My first swing of the day feels a little hasty, but the contact is actually half-decent. The ball gets airborne, describes a fairly acceptable parabola, and astonishingly makes it past the 220-yard mark. The fact that it lands a few feet short of a giant oak tree directly in line with the green and is ankle-deep in tangly Bermuda rough, really isnt important right now. What is, is that for a guy whose strongest motivation when playing golf these days isnt so much recording a decent score as not making a total berk of himself, this happy little swat is perfectly adequate. Though not hugely impressed, the guys are gracious in their remarks.
Wondering if our pro might have something to say about it, I glance around and notice he is still back on the tournament tee, chatting with his caddie.
Down the fairway, I ask Allenby what club he uses for his approach. Five, he says abruptly before handing the club back to the caddie and walking on. Then, after holing out for a bogey, I try engaging him in conversation once again. You still have a place in London? I ask, alluding to his days on the European Tour and hoping I might provoke a reaction to my accent. Streuth, a bloody pom, I hope hell say and then come alive. But no. Ive lived over here six and a half years now, is all I get.
It isnt until our third hole, the 16th, that we catch our first glimpse of the Aussie in Allenby. As his birdie putt rims the hole and stubbornly refuses to fall, he lets his guard drop for the first time and, looking to the heavens, reveals his inner anguish. Bugger, he mutters.
Its only one word, but the way he says it is so unmistakably Australian we could have been standing on the 16th green at Royal Sydney. It is a small but welcome taste of the relaxed, irreverent antipodean we had all been expecting.
As the round continues, Allenby, whose only practice round this is, begins to appreciate he hasnt been lumbered with an odious quartet of loudmouth bigots who have never played the game before and slowly ups the banter.
At the 9th, a jobsworth marshal, who evidently intends carrying out his instructions to the letter, hoists a Hush Yall placard high above his head despite the fact the nearest spectator is up at the green, 450 yards away. Allenby backs off. Er, mate, you dont really need that now, he says sardonically. The guy puts it down and Allenby goes through his routine once more. As he addresses the ball again, the marshal thrusts the sign back into the air. The whole group is giggling now, including Allenby, who smashes his drive 300 down the middle. Its a bloody good job he had that sign up, he says to me as I bend down to tee my ball up. I mean, its getting a bit noisy round here.
To everyones total dismay, Jobsworth then does the same for me, raising his sign so all the world can see it. He even motions with his arms when the ball starts heading right. Hilarious, says Reid.
At our penultimate hole, my 8-iron leaves a curling, downhill 40-footer for birdie. Having three-jabbed six times already (these greens are quick, you know), I ask Allenby on what line he would start the putt. Just get it to the top of the tier about 15 feet right of the hole and let it feed down to the cup, he suggests. I hit what looks like a respectable putt, but its not quite hard enough and the ball takes way too much break, way too early. It leaks pathetically off to the left leaving a 10-footer for par which, it goes without saying, I miss. Bad luck mate, Allenby says. That first putt was very nearly good. You just needed half a foot more.
Thats what the wife tells me, I reply, unable to resist this pitiable attempt at a joke. Half a foot? Allenby mutters under his breath. A couple of inches would be a start.
Priceless. One of the top 100 golfers in the world is making jokes about the size of my manhood. It really doesnt get any better than that.
At the last, Dan hoiks one over mid-wickets head. The ball swerves towards a stand of trees that shelters a nearby house from wayward drives. You can probably find a window of space through those trees, says Doug. Nah, Allenby deadpans. He might have found a window though.
We had waited for acerbic, cutting remarks like these all day and towards the end they began coming thick and fast. After a slow start, the Allenby we all hoped might show up had finally arrived.
He was really all business for most of the day, says Doug. I think he was more preoccupied with the task at hand, namely re-acquainting himself with a course he hadnt seen in six years. Seemed like a good guy overall though.
When I realized the pro-am was his only practice round, I tried to stay out of his way, says Reid. He was doing his job and wasnt that talkative. But he was certainly affable.
The last drive of the day is by far my best and comes to rest 10 yards ahead of Allenbys. He started the hole 54 yards behind us, but still, seeing my ball pass his is something I will take to the grave. As Reid and I drive down to my ball, I tell him to watch closely as I hit my approach shot closer to the hole than Allenby. Then, when my flat-out 9-iron lands a couple of feet inside Allenbys punchy pitching wedge, I declare this is going to be the one hole at which I actually beat a PGA Tour pro. Yeah right, Allenby sneers.
Im going to make a four at worst, and with your putting the best you can do is five. I do indeed make my five and Allenby strokes in his seventh birdie putt of the day for a walk-in-the-park 67. It was remarkable how effortless it seemed, says Reid. I play a lot with club pros and good amateurs back home, and it was amazing how vastly superior he is to them.
Thanks to Allenbys stellar play and a handful of real-time birdies from the amateurs, playing off full handicap, our team manages a 15-under par 57. Sadly, it sounds an awful lot better than it is. Under this format, best net score from five counting, its not nearly low enough to bag the booty.
The handshakes at the end of the round are markedly more convivial than the mornings, but with the commitment to his team over, Allenby is off. The following day he grinds out an even-par 72 in the first round of the tournament proper. A second-round 75 lands him in 118th place, six shots short of the cut line.
My guess is that, after a long year in which he played 31 tournaments, Allenby was done with the U.S. for 2005 and was itching to get back to Melbourne for six long, peaceful, pro-am-free weeks in the sun.
Tony Dear has been writing about golf for 11 years. A former assistant club pro from Sussex, England, Tony started out as a freelancer in 1992 before taking a staff writers job at Fore!, a magazine based in Peterborough. As the magazines chief instruction writer, it was Tonys job to compose instructional articles aimed at a youngish readership whose letters to the editor suggested they often got confused by technical jargon and theory. Tony brought his simple approach to teaching golf to the magazine, helping boost sales by 10,000 issues. As a result, he was nominated within the company and nationally for Young Writer of the Year awards.
From there, Tony moved 20 yards across the Emap UK office to join Todays Golfer. There, he was soon promoted to a senior editorial position, focusing on equipment, and became a significant part of a team that saw sales figures double within the magazines first 12 months.
After three years at Emap UK, Tony was dragged kicking and screaming across the Atlantic by his American wife ("not really, I love it over here") and, after short spells in Phoenix and Denver, wound up in Seattle in May 2003. He recently moved to Bellingham in the far northwest corner of the far Northwest of the U.S. and became a father to a son on whom he has already staked £5 for the 2029 Open Championship. At present, he is freelancing for a number of print and online publications back in England including Todays Golfer, Golf World, Bogey, The Open Championship Magazine and Casino.com. He is also a contributing editor for Denver-based Colorado AvidGolfer.
Recent features include a look at Colorados self proclaimed links courses, an interview with Suzy Whaley, with whom he played nine holes ("and got soundly thrashed") and a 64-page instruction supplement for Todays Golfer.
Tony has authored three books in the last five years and been nominated for several specialist and young writers awards. "Although Ive never actually won one," he admits. He is a member of the Northwest Golf Media Association and the Golf Travel Writers Association based in London.
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rascal's happenings!August 7th 2012 6:39 am
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hello dogster pups out there in dogster land!!! whats woofin!!??!! BOL!
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glad you and mommie are having loads of fun running around and playing....they give us names like that cause they just love us to pieces!!
Love comes with many names !
Rascal, my mommy doesn't do nicknames so much, but you know what my daddy calls me? "Stinky." That's right, and I don't stink at all! Sometimes he says "Stinky-Dink." Or "Stinks" fur short. It's a good thing I can't hear him, BOL!!
hi everyone! well winkle, sometimes my mommie calls me stinky too!! and i think i smell pretty dog good!!! don't worry winkle, droopy say you & hershey smells like a field of flowers! very pretty!!!!!! petey & lucas, i guess its o.k. to has lots of "names" i knows my mommie loves me.. i just likes to gives her a hard time once in awhile, BOL!! i keeps mommie on her toes!! LOVE YOU PALS!! rascal "cow belly" bratts
OMD! That is hysterical, Rascal! Mommy calls me "meany gut!"
Your Momma loves you bunches when she gives you funny names;) It;s so good to see her laughing and having fun with you RB and we love all your new piccies and the video is so fun to watch..Was you tying to bury a treat?
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Investigators suggest that antibodies targeting the Wnt antagonist Dickkopf-1 (Dkk1) could represent a new approach to slowing synaptic loss in Alzheimer disease (AD). A team at University College London's department of cell and developmental biology built on previous work indicating that Dkk1 is increased in brains of AD patients and showed that acute exposure to amyloid- β (Aβ) induces Dkk1 expression and loss of synaptic sites.
Their studies in mice further demonstrated that administration of Dkk1-neutralizing antibodies suppress this synaptic loss in mouse brain slices. Silvia A. Purro, Ph.D., Ellen M. Dickins, Ph.D., and Patricia C. Salinas, Ph.D., report their work in the Journal of Neuroscience in a paper titled "The secreted Wnt antagonist Dickkopf-1 is required for amyloid β-mediated synaptic loss."
AD is associated with synaptic dysfunction, early synaptic loss, and accumulation of Aβ, but soluble forms of Aβ decrease the number and strength of synapses before there is evidence of neuronal cell death, the researchers explain. Numerous lines of evidence have also implicated Wnt signaling deficits in AD, and prior research identified elevated levels of the secreted Wnt antagonist Dkk1 in the post-mortem brains of AD patients and in those from transgenic mouse models of AD.
The team first evaluated whether Aβ directly regulates Dkk1 expression in acute brain slices, using Aβ-derived diffusible ligands. Short-term administration of the ligands led to rapid loss of synapses and increased the level of Dkk1 mRNA. Administering a neutralizing antibody against Dkk1 completely removed the effect of Aβ on synapse loss. Interestingly, blocking Dkk1 had no effect on the number of synapses under basal conditions, which the team says supports the notion that Dkk1 is normally expressed at very low levels in the hippocampus.
They then used hippocampal dissociated neurons to look more closely at the effect of Dkk1 on synapses. Dkk1 was found to decrease the number of presynaptic and postsynaptic markers by up to 50% as well as the number of release sites but did not affect neuronal viability. Notably, this effect was reversible, as removal of Dkk1 resulted in the recovery of synaptic puncta numbers to control levels.
Interestingly, Western blot analyses suggested that Dkk1 doesn't affect levels of synaptic proteins, which suggested that the Wnt inhibitor acts to decrease the number of synaptic sites by triggering disassembly of synapses. Indeed they found that Dkk1 decreased by about 30% the number of co-localized vGlut1 (presynaptic marker) and PSD-95 (postsynaptic marker) puncta, "indicating a decrease in the apposition of presynaptic and postsynaptic components," the researchers state. Similarly, in mature hippocampal neurons, elevated Dkk1 reduced by 20% co-localization of the synaptic vesicle protein VAMP2 protein with the active zone protein Bassoon.
The evidence pointing to Dkk1's role in synaptic disassembly prompted the team to measure the size of synaptic vesicle clusters. As expected, Dkk1 induced a 17% increase in the number of small puncta, and a parallel 40% decrease in the number of large clusters, further supporting the notion that "blockade of Wnt signaling results in the shrinkage of synapses," they write.
Time-lapse recordings of hippocampal dissociated neurons added more depth to the findings and showed that in the presence of Dkk1, 70% of stable puncta are lost within 60 minutes, with the number of clusters decreasing just after 25 minutes. Moreover, Dkk1 induced a 78% reduction in the average area of stable clusters and reduced the size of both small and large puncta.
Effectively, Dkk1 triggers synapse loss by inducing the dispersal of synaptic components, the team concludes. "Given the rapid increase of Dkk1 expression by Aβ and that cell death is a late event in AD resulting from synaptic dysfunction, our studies suggest that Dkk1 modulates synaptic loss without cell death in the early stages of AD ... As Dkk1 functions by blocking Wnt signaling through binding to the LRP6 receptor, these studies demonstrate a role for canonical Wnt signalling in the maintenance of central synapses."
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Iron Age Coins
None of the tribes that inhabited the area of modern Wales produced their own coins and coinage, therefore, was not part of the indigenous culture before the Roman conquest. Consequently, all Iron Age coins that are found in Wales were imported from other, coin-producing, parts of Britain and the continent.
Only 35 Iron Age coins have been recovered from Wales. This is a surprisingly small number, particularly when compared to the quantities found beyond the River Severn in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and northern Somerset (the settlement at Weston-under-Penyard, Ariconium, has produced more Iron Age coins than the whole of Wales).
The distribution shows a strong concentration in south Wales, principally in the south-eastern part of the country.
The majority of Welsh Iron Age finds are of gold coins, all of which were found as single finds (with the possible exception of the three gold coins from Glamorgan that could be a hoard, see the table below).
Iron Age coins from Wales: metals and circumstances of discovery
|Single finds
|Excavated coins**
|Copper alloy
* Hoard of 3 silver coins from Minfford, Portmeirion, Gwynedd
** Silver coins excavated from Caldicot and Whitton, and a potin from Caerwent
*** Three 'Groups' of coins: 'Glamorganshire' (3 gold staters), Landovery (1 silver coin with 4 mixed Roman coins) and Llanfaes (1 bronze coin of the Carnutes found together with a Roman coin)
Almost half of the Iron Age coins from Wales were struck by the Dobunni ('Western' issues), a tribe whose territory stretched eastwards from the River Severn from Gloucestershire. On the other hand, coins of the tribes of southern and eastern England are relatively rare from Wales, as are continental issues (Welsh finds include single coins of the Turones, Carnutes and Aedui). The absence of coins from the Hertfordshire / Essex area is puzzling given how Roman authors describe events in the years after the invasion of Britain in AD 43. Tacitus describes how Caratacus, king of the Catuvellauni, fled to Wales where he continued to lead the resistance against Roman attempts to subdue the local tribes until his final defeat and capture in 51. However, the presence of Caratacus and his followers, who came from a coin-producing tribe, has left no discernible trace in the archaeological record of Wales and it remains an open question whether or not Caratacus brought any coins at all with him during his flight to the Welsh tribes (or indeed whether the Welsh tribes would have known what to do with coins if he had).
A noticeable feature of the distribution of Iron Age coins in southeast Wales is the concentration between the rivers Usk and Wye. The native tribe in this area was known to the Romans as the Silures and there has been some debate about where the boundary between the Silures and the Dobunni to the east actually lay.
While the pattern of Iron Age coin finds in this area is certainly more similar to the situation in Gloucestershire, this should not be taken as evidence that Dobunnic influence extended beyond the Wye (or even that a boundary in the modern sense of the word existed between these tribes in the later Iron Age). In any event, the Wye, or the hills above the west bank of the river, apparently acted as an effective barrier to the spread of Iron Age coins, except in small numbers, into Wales.
The impermeability of the Wye and the Welsh highlands suggests a political or cultural rejection of coinage that perhaps indicates different exchange systems on either side of the coin using / non-coin using border.