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D.C. Voting Rights Bill — Still Unconstitutional (Updated)
I've written about this issue before, and said all I think there is to say about it. The fact is that any bill coming out of Congress granting voting rights to D.C. sua sponte is plainly unconstitutional. What's more, Congress is already well aware of this fact. The Congressional Research Service, the legislative analysis advisors to Congress, deduced the following about H.R. 328 (the most recent precursor to current D.C. voting rights bill):
… it is difficult to identify either constitutional text or existing case law that would directly support the allocation by statute of the power to vote in the full House to the District of Columbia Delegate. Further, that case law that does exist would seem to indicate that not only is the District of Columbia not a "state" for purposes of representation, but that congressional power over the District of Columbia does not represent a sufficient power to grant congressional representation.
In particular, at least six of the Justices who participated in what appears to be the most relevant Supreme Court case on this issue, National Mutual Insurance Co. of the District of Columbia v. Tidewater Transfer Co., authored opinions rejecting the proposition that Congress's power under the District Clause was sufficient to effectuate structural changes to the federal government. Further, the remaining three judges, who found that the Congress could grant diversity jurisdiction to District of Columbia citizens despite the lack of such jurisdiction in Article III, specifically limited their opinion to instances where the legislation in question did not involve the extension of fundamental rights. To the extent that the representation in Congress would be seen as such a right, all nine Justices in Tidewater Transfer Co. would arguably have found the instant proposal to be unconstitutional.
During hearings before Congress on the constitutionality of the D.C voting rights bill, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John P. Elwood provided an excellent breakdown of how legal authorities had consistently found that the only way to grant D.C. citizens the right to congressional representation was through a constitutional amendment or by admitting D.C. as a state. Simply passing a law would not suffice.
Despite all the analysis presented, however, Congress continues to press forward with an unconstitutional bill:
Debate opened Monday on a bill to give the 600,000 people of Washington D.C. a full vote in the House. A new Democratic president, Barack Obama, and heftier Democratic majorities in Congress have improved the prospects for the decades-long effort that would certainly ensure another Democrat lawmaker in Congress.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by some 4-to-1 in the capital.
In a bit of horsetrading to offset the Democratic pickup, the bill would award a fourth House seat to Republican-leaning Utah, which narrowly missed getting that extra seat after the 2000 national census. With the two new seats, the House would have 437 representatives.
The time is ripe, said Ilir Zherka, executive director of the advocacy group DC Vote, to end a situation where "we are the only capital of a democracy on the planet that denies voting representation in the national legislature."
The time is ripe because Democrats have a huge majority in both houses of Congress, and control of the White House. The fact that D.C. votes reliably, and overwhelmingly, for Democrats is the real reason for the bill's support amongst that party, and one of the main reasons for many Republicans being against it. To overcome the opposition, therefore, Democrats have thrown a sop to Utah in the way of an extra representative, which would also appear to be unconstitutional without a census. Either way, the fact that the bill is plainly contrary to Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution seems to be merely a convenient excuse for some Republicans and a minor inconvenience to some Democrats.
Jonathan Turley has consistently echoed the above, and eloquently explains why Congress should not pass this law, and why the President should not sign it:
Like many, I believe that it is a terrible injustice for the District residents not to have a vote in Congress. As Justice Black stated in Wesberry v. Sanders: "No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." However, the great wrong done to the District residents cannot be righted through the violation of the Constitution itself.
This is not a debate about the ends of legislative action but the means. In a nation committed to the rule of law it is often as important how we do something as what we do. This is the wrong means to a worthy end.
[Our Constitution] is the world's most successful constitutional framework because it is carefully balanced with limited powers between the three branches. It is a design that can be frustrating at times when injustices demand quick action. Yet, the very stability and integrity of our system demands that we remain faithful to its provisions, even when our principles stand in the way of our passions.
Just as there is no debate over the need for a vote for the District, there is no debate that such a vote can be obtained by other means. Indeed, there is no longer any claim to be made that the District (or the Democratic Party) lacks the votes needed to take a constitutional course. The political realities and expediencies that gave raise to this idea no longer exist. With control of both houses and the White House, the sponsors can secure a lasting and unassailable vote in the House of Representatives through either retrocession or a constitutional amendment. Indeed, some republicans have expressed their support for a constitutional amendment that would allow a voting House member for the District.
Like Turley, I am in favor of D.C. residents having a vote in both the House and the Senate. And also like him, I am fervently opposed to any extra-constitutional means of accomplishing that goal. Instead, let's draft an amendment, or begin the process of retroceding D.C. back to Maryland. Let the Maryland officials be accused of wanting to oppress D.C.'s denizens for a while, instead of those of us who simply want to uphold the Constitution.
We know how to make it happen, and yet Congress insists on doing it the wrong way. Much of it, of course, is sheer laziness and want of expediency. But that is no excuse for elected officials to blatantly disregard their roles as stewards of the contract between the people and their government, and the very source of those officials' power. Minor as some of these indiscretions may be, when Congress takes it upon itself to decide which parts of the Constitution are worth following and which are not, then we become a rudderless ship of fools.
However it's done, I heartily agree that we start the process of welcoming our D.C. brothers and sisters to the circus known as Congress. In order to make that welcome worth something, however, I recommend that we go about it in the way that passes constitutional muster.
UPDATE: As it turns out, a bill has been introduced by Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX, 1st Dist.) to retrocede D.C. back to Maryland. Funny how this bill hasn't received any news attention.


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There's a long tradition of blackface in the United States, and it doesn't really make sense to talk about the use of blackface in "Black.White.†without taking a look at the historical significance of this phenomenon. Carmen interviews Eric Lott, author of Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture). He'll outline the history and evolution of blackface, what it says about the fantasies whites have about blacks, and he'll also explain why you can't draw a direct parallel between whiteface and blackface.
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Carney Complex
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- Carney syndrome
- familial myxoma
- lentigines, atrial myxoma, and blue nevi (LAMB) syndrome
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General Discussion
Carney complex is a rare genetic disorder characterized by multiple benign tumors (multiple neoplasia) most often affecting the heart, skin and endocrine system and abnormalities in skin coloring (pigment) resulting in a spotty appearance to the skin of affected areas. Benign tumors of connective tissue (myxomas) are common in individuals with Carney complex and, most often, are found in the heart where they can potentially cause serious, life-threatening complications including stroke, valvular obstruction or heart failure. A wide variety of endocrine abnormalities potentially can occur in Carney complex affecting a variety of glands. Additional tumors include myxomas affecting the skin and nerve sheath tumors (schwannomas). Skin pigment abnormalities include tiny flat (freckle-like) black or brown spots (multiple lentigines) and small, blue or bluish-black spots (blue nevi). The specific symptoms and severity of Carney complex can vary greatly from one person to another. In many cases, Carney complex is due to mutations of the PRKAR1A gene. The mutation can occur randomly for no apparent reason (i.e., new mutation) or be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.
Carney complex is a different disorder from Carney triad. Carney triad encompasses three types of tumors: a gastric stromal sarcoma; functioning extra-adrenal paragangliomas; and pulmonary chondromas. Although these two disorders are completely unrelated, both have sometimes been referred to as Carney syndrome, causing confusion. This report deals solely with Carney complex.
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12 Days of Christmas – Day 8: Anne LyleBy
Anne Lyle is going to take the world by storm with her debut novel The Alchemist of Souls in April 2012. For her 12 Days piece, Anne created a piece of festive robo-fun.
A prize to the writer of the best caption (as determined by whoever happens to be in the office at the time). Post your captions in the comments section. The competition ends tomorrow, and a winner will be chosen on Thursday (just in time to miss the Christmas post, but it'll be something to look forward to).
The winner will receive an Advance Reading Copy of Anne's book – 3 months before the book goes on sale!
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Coinfection with Hepatitis B and D: Epidemiology, Prevalence and Disease in Patients in Northern California
Gish RG, Yi DH, Kane S, Clark M, Mangahas M, Baqai S, Winters MA, Proudfoot J, Glenn JS. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013 Apr 11. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12217. [Epub ahead of print]
Section of Hepatology, Division of GI, Department of Medicine, and Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal Transplantation, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, 92103.
BACKGROUND & AIMS: With no report on the overall prevalence and ramifications of hepatitis Delta virus (HDV) infection in the U.S. for more than two decades, we assessed characteristics of chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) patients coinfected with HDV, including clinical presentation, rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) tri-infection, and HDV viral load.
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RESULTS: Of 1,191 CHB patients, 499 had been tested for HDV, with 42 (8%) determined to be coinfected; half of these were also HCV-infected. Cirrhosis was present in 73% of the coinfected, 80% of the tri-infected, but only 22% of the monoinfected. Twenty-nine patients (69%) were Caucasian non-Hispanic; 10 (24%) were Asians and Pacific Islanders. Of 39 patients for whom HBV DNA quantification at time of HDV presentation was available, 22 (56%) had undetectable levels; four (10%) had levels >100,000 IU/mL.
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Winton Capital Management, the computer-driven UK hedge fund manager founded by David Harding, enjoyed a profits jump of nearly a quarter last year following a 65% rise in assets under management.
Net profits for the year to December 31, 2011, rose by 23% to £162m, according to accounts for Winton Capital Management Limited, which were published last week at Companies House.
Winton's profits jump followed a dramatic rise in assets under management during the calendar year, from $17bn to $28bn, an increase of 65%. The firm said this reflected "both net investor subscriptions and positive performance of Winton's trading strategies".
Winton's business is managed futures, a strategy that uses computer algorithms to spot and ride out market trends across a range of futures contracts. The strategy has benefited from inflows from institutional investors since 2008, as they sought diversification from their equity portfolios
Winton has been a big beneficiary of this; on a net basis, Winton raised more money last year than any other European hedge fund manager, according to Financial News annual survey of the largest hedge funds in Europe, which was published in July.
The continued increase in assets meant that at the end of 2011 Winton overtook Man Group's AHL – which Harding co-founded in 1987 before setting up Winton a decade later – as the largest systematic manager in Europe.
Last year Winton was helped by strong performance from its flagship Winton Futures fund, which gained 6.29% during 2011, according to investors. The HFRI Macro: Systematic Diversified Index lost 3.54% during the same period. In contrast, Man Group's flagship AHL Diversified lost 6.8% during 2011, although its assets still rose to $28bn, from $23.6bn the end of 2010.
Winton has not performed so strongly in 2012, however, as it is down 3.91% this year to October 3. AHL is down 0.2% to October 3.
A spokesman for Winton declined to comment beyond the results statement.
Winton has recently consolidated its office requirements in London on the back of its growth in assets. In April it announced plans to merge its two existing London offices into a new west London headquarters. The move, which will take place early next year, will bring executive, marketing, trading, back office and research functions under one roof. In July, it opened an office in Zurich.
The firm also last month announced it had teamed up with Shanghai-based Fortune SG Fund Management for what is believed to be the first Chinese managed futures fund. Winton is acting as research consultant to Fortune, which has launched the fund. For managed futures firms such as Winton, the liberalisation of Chinese futures markets offers opportunities.
Last month, Harding entered into the political debate on tax avoidance debate when he revealed he paid a tax bill of £34m on an income of £87m in the last financial year. In an interview with the Sunday Times, he said: "I am definitely not whiter than white. I think that if you want to be accepted by society you have to be seen to be paying your share."
Harding, who owns 56% of Winton Capital Management, said that he paid an overall rate of 39% in the last financial year because he makes the majority of his money from dividends rather than salary, which are taxed at a lower rate than the 50% tax bracket from those earning greater than £150,000.
Separately Aspect Capital, the managed futures firm set up in 1997 by Michael Adam and Martin Lueck, the 'A' and 'L' in AHL, grew its pre-tax profits three-fold to £22.3m in the year to December 31, 2011, according to its latest results. This was driven by positive performance from its Aspect Diversified Programme, which gained 4.51% over the 12 months, and an increase in firm assets under management by almost 40% in 2011, from $4.3bn to $6bn.
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The American jury trial has been the cornerstone of our justice system. It is of such importance that it has been insulated from the changing political whims of legislatures and judicial administrators by our federal and state constitutions. The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for civil juries: ""In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved . . . ." The Sixth Amendment mandates the right to criminal trial by an "impartial jury." In our state the civil jury process has survived an onslaught of challenges by those seeking expediency over this precious right. Periodically, efforts are undertaken to curtail our constitutional right to individual voir dire, or questioning of potential jurors. Those attacks have traditionally been defeated. Art. 1, sec. 19 of our state constitution provides: "(That the great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established . . . ) the right to trial by jury shall remain inviolate."
Our jury system finds its roots in the English common law as far back as the Magna Carta. Even before that one of England's lesser known kings, AEthelred the Unready, established a legal system in the tenth century where 12 minor nobles would be assembled to investigate crimes without bias. Ironically, today many lawyers lack the ability or the fortitude to present a case to a jury, civil or criminal. If you were to poll most of our trial judges they could name lawyers to whom the appellation, "the Unready" would aptly apply. For many years our courts maintained a civil jury list and a separate criminal jury list of cases that had ripened to the point that they were exposed to trial. Periodically there would be a cattle call where the lawyers whose cases appeared on the lists would have to appear and announce whether they were prepared to proceed to trial. Every jurisdiction had a few wags to whom the label "ready until reached" applied because they were constantly coming up with excuses not to proceed. That system has given way in the civil arena to firm jury assignments where lawyers are given the ability to recommend dates for the commencement of trial. "Ready until reached" no longer flies with our civil trial judges. When your case is exposed for trial you are required to proceed.
So why do I say that the jury system is on life support? There are a number of contributing factors. First and foremost is the crush of cases, both civil and criminal. We simply do not possess the necessary resources to accommodate more than a modest percentage of cases with a jury trial. There are not enough judges, support staff, prosecutors and courtrooms to provide for most cases. That being said if you insist on a jury trial for any type of case it will eventually be assigned.
In the criminal milieu statistically the overwhelming percentage of cases, more than 95% are resolved through some form of plea bargaining. This includes both cases where there are convictions and those employing some type of pre-trial diversionary programs. According to a 2011 study commissioned by the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Dept. of Justice, in 2003 there were in excess of 75,000 criminal cases disposed of in our federal courts, only 5% were by trial.
In our civil system the cost to present even the simplest personal injury case to a jury can be substantial. In complex cases it is overwhelming. Add to that the time it takes for a case to finally reach the point where a trial is imminent. As a consequence we have developed a system of alternative dispute resolution programs, such as binding arbitration and non-binding mediation. Unfortunately, there are too few trials for young lawyers to "cut their teeth on." As a result many lawyers take on cases with the sole intention of seeking a settlement, fearful of what it would take to go to trial. Juries may well become a vestige of another age, like trial by ordeal or trial by combat.


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Stack 52 – Mini Workout
Okay, during the Christmas holidays I purchased Stack 52. As you can guess by the title, there are 52 cards with a different body weight exercise on each one. It instructs you to do either a series of reps or to exercise for time. There are all types of exercises and depending on your fitness level it can get intense pretty quickly.
I had the intention of pushing my body to new limits with body weight exercises. It started off great. I quickly moved from 5 a day, to 10, to 10 cards two times a day. After a couple of weeks I was up to 20 cards, two times a day. Then, it hit me. I don't know how or when, but one morning I woke up and it felt as if my arm had separated from my shoulder. I couldn't work out my upper body for a full three weeks. It also left me with a fear of lifting heavy or doing too many calisthenics.
I actually ended up worse than where I started. However, I feel better now and I have been testing out my limits. Today, I tried a mini workout with Stack 52. Below is my workout:
Push ups – 15 reps
Ski -Jumpers 10 reps (2 jumps equals one rep)
Jumping Jacks – 25 reps
Crunches – 20 reps
Body weight squats – 10 reps
Bird dogs – 8 (2 = 1 rep)
Kick your butt = 10 reps
Pop ups – 12 reps
Speed Jacks – 10 seconds (Estimated 25)
Wide arm push-ups – 10 reps
I felt pretty good afterward. I am going to increase my output in the next workout.
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My first taste of Grappling – On the streets (tongue in cheek)
My first experience with grappling didn't occur in a BJJ academy in the 2000s. It didn't even occur in my first Judo class in the 1990s. It happened in 1981 in Tallahassee, FL when I was in the fourth grade. But before I jump right into my first fight with a grappler let me set the scene.
I was a student at Oak Ridge Elementary School and this was back in the days when corporal punishment for students was still considered okay.
My fourth grade teacher was Mr. Walker and my parents requested that I be in his class. I was an honor roll student, but I tended to finish my work quickly and then talked or bothered other students, or at least that is what my teachers claimed. Mr. Walker had a reputation for using a one and a half-inch thick paddle that had been carved and designed for maximum speed and efficiency. He didn't send kids to the principal. The principal sent kids to him. In his class I was one of his main targets and had to come up to the front of the class quite a few times so he could paddle me, —— in front of everybody.
The reason that I bring this up is because we had a new kid come to our school and he quickly joined the ranks of bullies that roamed the playground during recess. So as you can surmise I was in an unsafe environment. I didn't feel safe with my teacher, many of the students, and as you will see later on, the principal either.
I also didn't feel safe because I hated bullies and would usually end up in a conflict with them because I was a little loud and didn't know how to keep my mouth shut. Well, let me amend that, I was really loud. My eighth grade P.E. teacher told me I was the loudest kid he ever taught. (But he was a bastard so I took his criticism with a grain of salt.)
Getting back to the new kid; he was a short guy and stocky for his age. He also had a mean streak. Within a week he had beat two kids up. But he didn't just beat kids up. He systematically destroyed them. This wasn't a bully who picked on others because things weren't right at home type of bully. This was a guy who had been trained to hand out punishment.
When he fought the two kids on the playground the fights started out as any other normal playground fight. They began with the bully bullying and then the other kid deciding not to back down. They squared up and then that's when the scene deviated from the standard script. The short bully would dive down and grab both of his victim's legs and lift them up in the air. (I now know that it was a double leg takedown.) As the surprised kid scrambled to get to his feet the bully punched him square in the forehead. Before the fights could continue a teacher broke them up, both times.
Word got around quickly that the four foot tall new kid was not someone to be toyed with. But that didn't matter because from the looks of things it looked like he was the dog and we were the chew toys. I don't remember exactly how much time passed between the attack on the second kid and our altercation, but I remember how our scrap went.
I was playing basketball with my friends Willis and Jason and he sauntered onto the court and demanded to play. He didn't ask, he demanded. No one said anything so I told him he couldn't play and to, essentially, 'kick rocks.'
He came right at me. I threw the basketball down and I don't know how I did it but I put him in a headlock and ended up with a sleeper hold that I had seen slapped on by wrestlers like Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair and the Road Warriors. We collapsed to the ground and I held on tight. I had the bully in full control.
I am going to be honest with you, knowing what I know now, I would have put that fellow 8 or 9 year old to sleep. But since I learned the sleeper hold, which is basically the Rear Naked Choke, from watching television and having my brother slap it on me endlessly on Saturday afternoons, I had one arm loosely around his neck with my hand gripping my other arm's bicep and the other arm and hand holding onto his head at the top. I didn't know that I could have slid my hand down the back of his head for the choke.
As I held on the kids around the playground began running in our direction.
I began eyeing everyone rushing up and soon there was a substantial crowd gathered around us. I was holding my own against the new schoolyard bully. As I did not know what else to do after getting that hold I just held on for dear life. He couldn't escape. If only I knew about hooks. As some of the kids began to recognize that he couldn't get out of my TV inspired death clutch they began to get bored. They didn't care about my wellbeing so some began to say let him go and start over.
"No," I shouted!
"Let him go!" "Start over!"
What was wrong with them. This wasn't a f***g video game, even though they weren't popular at this point.
But the pressure began to mount. I guess I felt like the refs do in an MMA match or better yet like Cecil "stand-em-up" Peoples because I caved and let him up.
Why did I do that? He jumped up and we circled each other.
Remember what happened to those other kids.
In a millisecond, he grabbed both my legs and lifted me up into the air and I fell on my butt. I scrambled to my feet just like the other kids and he punched me solidly in the forehead.
Oddly, it didn't hurt but I still wish I knew BJJ technique then. Don't jump right back up into the punch.
After he socked me in the forehead, out of nowhere there was the teacher who grabbed him by both arms from behind. Where in the hell was she two minutes ago when I had him in my weak, but saving me from danger sleeper hold? Further, who taught him that double-leg? —- I bet he had a good run until the eighth grade.
Anyway, there was no way any of us kids knew how to deal with that. I didn't even have sense enough to remember his technique to make it my own. It did, however, teach me my first lesson about grappling.
*Oh yeah, by the way, we were dragged to the principal's office and were both paddled for fighting. The cycle was complete.
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Psychology of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D.
Grappling is a smash-mouth activity. It is a put your beer down and let's settle this type of martial art. Man vs. man, woman vs. man, child vs. man, it is one of the ultimate 'prove it' combat sports. Yet, once you get past the rough and challenging aspect of submission wrestling it's easy to see that grappling is much more than that. It is also a very cerebral activity.
Psychology is the study of mental processes and behaviors. By studying our psyches we hope to learn how to successfully navigate our world and become more capable in our endeavors. As the goal of theory is explanatory and predictive power, using psychology theories can help us to understand some of the existential questions behind our art and can help us to create better models for training and success. In other instances, it is just plain fun to think about.
The application of psychology to submission wrestling is relatively new and in many cases non-existent, so this book is more of an exploration of what is possible. It covers a broad range of topics and doesn't hesitate to introduce counterintuitive thought for the reader to ponder and digest.
"Psychology of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu" will whet your appetite to see how psychology can be applied to grappling and not just in a generic sports psychology sense.
Through the use of essay, "Psychology of BJJ" talks about what it's like to be the new guy, problems with warm-ups, success by default, immersive environments, why you can't always be nice in practice and even asks outright, "Are you happy?"
If that is not enough, it also discusses why you absolutely must not avoid better grapplers, tells you what type of grappler you are and why your team is just as important as your coach. Additionally, "Psychology of BJJ" delves into the unconscious mind and talks about easy ways to improve by taking simple steps you probably never thought about before. It also discusses quirky, but valid, psychological theory, based on new research that can make a difference in your grappling game.
Hey Guys,
Check out my new book. If you like it, will you leave me a review? (Psychology of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu)
Bakari (JiuJitsu365)
In MMA, does a smile (at the face-off) mean you will lose?
According to a study conducted by Michael Kraus and David Chen (via BPS Research Digest), MMA fighters who smile at the "pre fight" matchups are "more likely" to lose their fight.
Coders for the study were asked to assess whether fighters were smiling during their pre fight matchups (without knowing the fighters or the outcome of the bout). Then the researchers studied UFC statistics and found that the smiling fighters were more likely to lose their fights. The results were not major, but enough to question if the findings have merit.
According to the BPS Research Digest, fighters who bared their teeth were "more likely" to be:
1) "Knocked down"
2) Wrestled to the mat; and
3) Hit more times
The fighters who hadn't smiled were "more likely" to "excel and dominate" according to the BPS Digest article.
The article also stated that people who bet on fights tend to favor the non-smiling fighter as well. The researchers posit that smiling is a cue to the other fighter that you are submissive, lack aggressiveness and lack hostility.
I find this very interesting and wonder if it also applies to BJJ and submission grappling by default.
What are your thoughts?
BPS Article: Smiling Fighters are More Likely to Lose
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How do you get water (or whatever) in your Grappling Class?
I was reading an old article in the NYTimes about Guy Ritchie training in a Beverly Hill Jiu-Jitsu club. What stood out about the entire article is not the fact that Guy Ritchie has a Black belt in Judo and a Brown belt in Jiujitsu, but that at the end of the training session the writer said that Ritchie and his rolling buddy stood by the water cooler drinking out of a cup.
I had to say that it sounded really refreshing. I would love to sip cold water out a water cooler after a practice. It also made me think about how people get their water where they train. Where I train now its bring your own water (BYOW) or you can buy water out of the machine for ($1 or 1.25/ I don't know because I always bring my own). I have also trained at a place that had a water fountain. But in the majority of places, I have brought my own water. I absolutely had to.
What about you?
Don't forget to answer this one too.
Michael Clarke Duncan – A BJJ Man
I was very sad to hear about Michael Clarke Duncan's passing today. I heard about his heart attack several weeks back, but I always assumed he would be okay. Not to mention that his family, friends and close ones lost someone dear to them, but he also made a huge impact in our world.
Not just from great films that he starred in, but Duncan is also a cultural icon; especially when it comes to BJJ and MMA. Although the man was a giant among men (6'5 300 lbs), he still loved BJJ (he was a Purple belt) and took the time to learn the art. Here is a man who probably never, ever, EVER, needed to know a 'lick' of grappling who respected the art and heralded it. I have seen him many times at UFC events, front and center, and heard about his ventures training with the Gracies and in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
He's a part of my cultural landscape and I wish him good travels.
Michael Clarke Duncan wrestles Tom Arnold below:
Michael Clarke Duncan discusses MMA, NBA, Boxing and tries to avoid looking at Eva Longoria.
Gracie Combatives…
Yesterday, I went to Gracie Combatives again. It's probably my fifth time going since they started at my academy a few months ago. It's a Saturday class so I can't go every week, but I really appreciate this class. I've always been in to the self-defense aspect of BJJ, not because I want to use it on the street, but because of the practicality of it. I love flashy grappling just like the next guy, but I also want to stay grounded in the basics. Gracie Combatives does that for me.
It's like going to a fundamentals class with all of the sporting element taken out of it. No long warm-ups or six step set-ups based on a trained person's reaction to your technique. It's all about responding to a basic human aggression. As I always tell everyone, I do not take BJJ for self-defense. Like Lloyd Irvin says, self-defense is all about the situation and grappling is not always the right play. I take BJJ because I love matching my wits against another person and I have always have been good at martial arts, so BJJ allows me to express my intelligence through my body. I've played chess and I have played regulation sports and very little tops BJJ for me.
Anyway, we worked on Knee on Belly to Kimura, Knee on Belly to Mount and mount defense. Then we worked with the gloves from positions. What's nice about reviewing these type of basic techniques is that I have been using them in class with surprising effectiveness. Moves that we normally eschew in a quest for eight sequence half-guard techniques have been saving my butt in class. That's why I am loving Gracie Combatives and will keep going.
Check out my grappling books on Amazon: Grappling Games: BJJ & Submission Wrestlers, Tapmonster: Ideas about Grappling for BJJ and Submission Wrestlers, Grappling for Newbies, 20 Ways to Increase Grappling Skills off the Mat, The Lazy Man's Guide to Grappling and much more.


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Fairy Tales and Lots of Frogs
7 comments:
- Di said...
I always wanted to try doing ACEOS but sometimes I think I've spread myself to thin as it is. Good luck with the ETSY sales.
- 8 July 2011 at 14:20
- Cajame said...
Have you (or considered) printing fabric? Would look fabulous
- 8 July 2011 at 15:44
- Heidi M said...
Thanks Di for the good luck, i feel i need it with ETSY it is so complicated getting people to find your shop...anyway if you do try ACEOS i would love to see them :D
Cajame i would love to do printed fabric if i could find out how to get my designs printed them i would go for it. :D
- 8 July 2011 at 21:52
- ersi marina said...
Hello Heidi! I like frogs too and I think they generally behave much better than princes do. It must be because they are not so conceited! I live right next to a beautiful river and I can hear a serenade of frogs every night. They never sing out of tune ;) Your sketches are beautiful, I'm looking forward to more!
- 9 July 2011 at 16:38
- Megan Jeffery said...
Hi there -- read the comments about printing your own fabric. Do you know about Spoonflower?
I've never used them personally, so can't give a testimonial, but it may be something worth looking into!
Love your fairy tale themed characters; I, too, am always inspired by the same. :-)
- 9 July 2011 at 21:57
- Heidi M said...
ersi - the serenade from frogs sounds magical :D
Megan- thank you for the info on spoonflower- really helped me, hoping to get some fabric printed in the next few weeks :D
- 11 July 2011 at 09:49
- Megan Jeffery said...
Oh, great! Glad the tip was helpful. :-)
- 13 July 2011 at 02:01


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Tennessee 511
The Tennessee Department of Transportation has implemented 511 as a resource for travelers wanting information about road and travel conditions, weather conditions, incidents, and construction activities on interstate highways, state routes and U.S. routes within Tennessee. 511 is part of the Tennessee Department of Transportation SmartWay program.
By phone: Dial 5-1-1: The 511 system provides accurate, up-to-date information about statewide traffic congestion and incidents, weather conditions, and road construction on interstate highways, state routes and U.S. routes in Tennessee. From the 511 phone service, callers can request road conditions and closures for specific routes.
The Tennessee 511 phone system uses voice-activated technology and touch-tone technology. When you dial 511, the system will greet you and will present you with a menu of options.
By Internet: From the www.TN511.com web page, users have access to the statewide road conditions map, as well as the TDOT SmartWay cameras in the metropolitan areas of Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, and soon Chattanooga.


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Okay, i downloaded this AWESOME freeway mod, sadly, the handlebars are pretty small. Your skin will not be able to grab the handles and it just makes the wonderful bike look so awful. If anyone could extend the handlebars a little bit, i would be very happy! ** **
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Carney Says Norks Don't Have Nukes ... Latest on McConnell Bugging ... NYT Wants Gay Athletes to Come Out ... Senator: Booze and Boats Led to Bipartisan Breakthrough ...
Those concerned with civil liberties will be furious over newly discovered documents from the Internal Revenue Service in response to an ACLU Freedom of Information request.
RUSH: For 23 years we have been doing what we can and you have been phenomenal, folks. Good economic times or bad economic times, it has not mattered. You have continued to shock and surprise everybody involved with your generosity and your love and your compassion.
RUSH: The captured illegal said to the Border Patrol agent, "I don't care, go ahead and capture me. Obama is gonna let me go." It's reminiscent of 2009 after Obama was inaugurated and they had all those town hall meetings. "Don't worry, Obama is gonna fix my kitchen." Well, the illegal arrivals crossing the border in Texas are not sweating it because Obama is gonna let them go.
RUSH: They're debating the impact on Obama here, and it isn't good. I mean, this is no different than the Fox All Stars every night at six o'clock on Special Report with Bret Baier, except it's TMZ and a serious -- for the low-information audience -- discussion of the impact of Mr. Z's latest rap tune on Obama.
RUSH: I think it's shameless -- shameful -- this regime, the way they use victims, poor people, as props and pawns.
RUSH: You want to show them that you're thinking of them and you want to show them that you care, but, at the same time, they don't want you to worry.
RUSH: I never do things that I don't ask you to do... I never want to make myself the focus of this, but I want to go ahead and do it now because I do want everybody to know that it continues to be a cause that my family cares about greatly and deeply...
RUSH: Well, of course I forgive him. I'm a forgiving guy.


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For a start, A has a domain D(A) (which is a dense subspace of H). It has an adjoint A* with domain D(A*), such that for all f in D(A) and g in D(A*). To say that A is symmetric means that and A*(f)=A(f) for all f in D(A).
The notation gra(A) means the graph of A, which is the set .
The spaces are defined by . The kernel of an adjoint operator is always the orthogonal complement of the range of the operator, so (because is the adjoint of ).
The spaces are by definition contained in the graph of A*. To see that they are orthogonal to the graph of A, let and . Then
(definition of inner product in direct sum)
(conjugate-linear property of inner product)
(because .
A similar argument shows that gra(A) and are orthogonal.
The fact that and are orthogonal is more or less immediate, because if and then


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P.S. Richard North adds in his comment thread -
Knowing what is coming - and there is a lot more to come - I would say that the Party is finished. It is only a matter of time. And, if I had to point fingers, Farage has to be high up on the list. He has been getting away with it so long, he thought he was invulnerable. Now the whole Party is going to have to pay the price for his hubris.I would imagine there is not now a long queue of noble Lords desperate to associate their name with UKIP. I wonder how long the recent recruits will stay?


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Mariah Carey has dropped fellow American Idol judge Randy Jackson as her manager and signed on with Red Light Management after having a professional "falling out" according to E! News.
The company handles some of music's biggest stars, including Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys and Faith Hill.
Mimi's change doesn't mean the two are completely severing ties, though -- the two still sit next to each other on "Idol" (for another week, at least), and she's been working on new music with Jackson producing.
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The pop superstar's next album, which doesn't have a title yet, is expected later this year. It will be her 14th studio recording.


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Talk:Moon landing hoax
[edit] Cover! (sticky)
As per Osaka Sun's suggestions, I humbly nominate this article for cover. Thoughts? --|₹Λ¥$€₦₦ "Ritsuko, the truth is[...]" "Huh. You liar" 00:19, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Contains a wealth of info and is about a fairly well-recognised conspiracy theory. Needs a bit of copy-editing. Nullahnung (talk) 00:24, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Key question: in what ways do we outdo the Wikipedia article on the subject? Do we cover everything useful that they do? What can we do that they can't? - David Gerard (talk) 15:10, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Outdoing Wikipedia would probably require writing a lot more than one article on the subject...--ZooGuard (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- We need to be more than Wikipedia-lite ... - David Gerard (talk) 16:38, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Outdoing Wikipedia would probably require writing a lot more than one article on the subject...--ZooGuard (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm going to expand the article and create and expand its supporting articles (e.g. the major conspiracists) in the next few days. A few things I'd like to get feedback on:
- Should the bit about the prevalence be expanded? In general, I think that one should make a difference between "casual" believers, conspiracy junkies and the "researchers" who start various conspiracy memes.
- Also, should there be coverage of the history of hoax claims?
- Do things like Capricorn One and Alternative 3' warrant a mention? If yes, where?
--ZooGuard (talk) 14:37, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, yes and yes. For these purposes, our unique selling point over WP is that we can include opinions and less-than-Wikipedia-quality sources - David Gerard (talk) 15:12, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- I haven't forgotten about this, I just have had little free time. :( --ZooGuard (talk) 13:58, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
- So ... how you feeling about it now? (I'm going "oops, that was two months ago wasn't it") - David Gerard (talk) 19:04, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
[edit] The joke sections
Any idea what to do with "Moon landing" and "Moon landing hoax hoax", including their footnotes? The Occam's Razor footnote is a bit of a non-sequitur. Should they have some kind of better indication that this is humor/sarcasm? Template:Lie? Also note that a few people do believe that the hoax accusations have been started by the US government as a disinformation campaign.--ZooGuard (talk) 16:21, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Anyone? I'm tempted to feed them to the crows.--ZooGuard (talk) 14:37, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- Axed 'em. The joke pictures did all the necessary comic relief, if you ask me. --|₹Λ¥$€₦₦ Masturbation masturbation pies pies Brian Cox 15:18, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
[edit] Renominating
I renominate this for cover. Herr FüzzyCätPötätö (talk/stalk) 20:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
[edit] The question is
Why go to all that trouble when it would be much simpler to set the criteria for 'landing safe, land at captain's call, unsafe to land - go round the moon and get photographs etc' somewhat more rigorously than necessary ('and we will land a man on the moon on the 10th anniversary of JFK's announcement'). NASA would face only mild flak for 'admitting we were far too cautious - but subsequent parts of the moon program were much safer' )and there would be far fewer possibilities for 'the inconsistency that unravels it all'/'somebody collecting information to sell to the papers to pay for their retirement' etc. 22.214.171.124 (talk) 15:44, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
[edit] Mars landing hoax
Should this have a subsection here or a page of its own?
[1] is spoof, but [2], [3] and various others (making various references to 'the usual suspects') appear to believe what they are saying. (There are also Voyager is a hoax websites)
(And a blue telephone box will be landing on Earth next month) 18.104.22.168 (talk) 15:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
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Might be useful. Zero (talk - contributions) 07:13, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
[edit] "Tito did it"
I would not say that "Tito did it", but there is always some truth in it... Fact is that Croatian scientists worked on the Apollo 11 module. Secondly von Braun was indeed reading Potocnik's book. I do not know what is the source of this document, but it obviously existed at least something which was called "Spaceflight cargo from Yugoslavia shiftmen logistics Codename 1182/S" http://shrani.si/f/40/6J/DW5oD0f/cargo1.jpg http://shrani.si/f/3Y/10O/qJXxtDR/cargo2.jpg— Unsigned, by: 184.108.40.206 / talk 11:14, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
- I've got to say that I don't find those those two grainy pics evidence of anything at all. And I have no idea by what you mean when you write "but there is always some truth in it". What on Earth is this supposed to mean?--Bob"I think you'll find it's more complicated than that." 11:53, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
I wanted to say that there is always some truth in rumors...— Unsigned, by: 220.127.116.11 / talk 17:21, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- Then you were wrong.--Bob"I think you'll find it's more complicated than that." 07:41, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Top 7 scientists who worked on the Apollo 11 were Yugoslavs, one of them died in 2013... He was a croatian. Sadly I can not remember his name.— Unsigned, by: 220.127.116.11 / talk 00:43, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
- And a bunch of the parts were made by Rocket City rednecks. Point? PacWalker 09:26, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
- Point is, "Pay attention to timestamps and don't resurrect threads that have run their course" (the bot will eat them in due time). Aside from that, you are making the major mistake of accepting the BoN's unsourced assertion as fact.--ZooGuard (talk) 09:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
- ...Oopsie. And I don't accept it so much as I challenge its relevance/importance. PacWalker 09:34, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
- Point is, "Pay attention to timestamps and don't resurrect threads that have run their course" (the bot will eat them in due time). Aside from that, you are making the major mistake of accepting the BoN's unsourced assertion as fact.--ZooGuard (talk) 09:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
[edit] We went to the Moon, but...
There is a gold-level crank here who says we went to the Moon, but that we detonated a nuclear warhead there to get rid of an alien base (the video presented as proof was just the product of a local animation company). Would it fit well here or it's worth of its page? — Unsigned, by: 188.8.131.52 / talk / contribs
- On talk pages, please sign your comments using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking on the sign button: on the toolbar above the edit panel. (You can indent successive talk page comments using one more colon (:) for each line.) Thank you. Anyways, it certainly sounds missional enough, though likely not sufficient for its own page. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 08:22, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
Never mind, he's already mentioned here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax#Real_landings.2C_fake_pictures --Panzerfaust (talk) 17:58, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


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The Nintendo 3DS was the best-selling game handhelds throughout the UK last year, and with good right. MCV asked PlayStation UK MD Fergal Gara if the sales for the 3DS can be applied to the PlayStation Vita with good effect. Gara said:
Well that just shows that playing on a dedicated handheld device has not gone, as many will try to suggest. We want to have a healthy share of that handheld market. But we are playing fairly differently to Nintendo 3DS, when you think that is a dedicated handheld device with a very strong showing amongst kids. Vita is positioned differently. Yes it appeals to kids but also to committed gamers and as a companion device for PlayStation 4. 3DS shows that the sector is still there and that Nintendo is doing very well in it, so there is a market to harness.
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After being bombarded with what feels like a million years of presidential campaign news and advertisements, this coming week will finally bring closure to the identity of the next U.S. president.
That is barring, of course, any new variations on the old "hanging chad" parlor game.
Regardless of who is elected as the next commander-in-chief, Wall Street will probably react favorably to the fact that the uncertainty of the matter has been put to rest, at least for another four years. Once that question mark has been removed, the sideways tendency that has been reflected in the equity market could suddenly be replaced by a new, upward trend that could close out the year on a positive note.
That the trend has indeed been sideways in nature may come as somewhat of a surprise to many investors, as several recent deep drops into the red might leave them with a Bearish sense of direction.
However, back around the middle of August, the benchmark S&P 500 Index (SPX) sat at 1405. As of last Friday, approximately ten weeks later, the SPX closed at 1414. Similarly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ended last week at 13,093. Ten weeks earlier, it sat at 13,164.
True, over the course of this time period the equity market has spent some time hitting 4% over the current levels, but sellers have kept both leading indexes from going any higher and have, at least as of last Friday, brought both the Dow and the SPX back to the mid-August levels.
So the market has indeed been more volatile than during the sweet summer uptrend, and the last several months could readily be defined as uncertain in nature. However, the buyers and sellers have effectively equaled out the equation over this period.
Ergo, sideways.
So, will the "final answer" to the question "Who is the next U.S. president" serve as enough impetus to power the market into a Bullish tendency?
It could be the case, if the relatively weak earnings season doesn't deteriorate much further than it already has, the recent bout of better-than-expected economic news out of Washington continues apace, and the eurozone remains neutralized by indecision.
But here's the rub.
Any resultant positive skew to the market, due to the decreased level of uncertainty that follows this week's election results, could easily prove to be short lived. Why? At some point, investors would recognize that the composition of Congress will likely have more power than the newly elected president, and if the makeup of the House and the Senate seems to indicate continued gridlock, uncertainty will return fast and furious.
At that point, the fear of diving off a "fiscal cliff' will return to the forefront of investor consideration, and the concern over the direction of tax rates and spending cuts will gain traction. Should that occur, a trend towards the downside will more likely occur, and the Bears will take the reins into the New Year.
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Uncertainty could easily remain in effect throughout most of the week, and caution seems a reasonable approach to take until volatility decreases. Can a position be established that can benefit from a drop in volatility, while hedging against a possibility of increased uncertainty? That depends on the play.
One possibility is a short-term pairs trade that matches up the VXX with IYF.
IYF (Dow Jones U.S. Financial Sector Index Fund) sits atop the Sabrient SectorCast ETF Rankings, which ranks each of the ten U.S. industrial sector iShares (ETFs) by Sabrient's proprietary Outlook Score. IYF could benefit strongly by any clear positive move made in response to renewed confidence following the elections.
The VXX, which tracks the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index Total Return, would benefit if volatility increases in the market, something that would likely occur if the signs point to continued gridlock.
So, go long IYF, but also go long the VXX, as this ETN (exchange-traded note) will generally move up as volatility increases, and usually drop if volatility decreases.
Normally, two longs don't make a right pair, but in this case, it should work as a reasonably effective hedged trade.
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