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Middleweight Unbeaten, Unassigned Fighters (Part 6)
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Jack Hermansson – 5-0-0 - Norwegian – 22 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 13-5, Last Fought: Sep '11
22 year old Norwegian Jack Hermansson trains at Team Hellboy under the tutelage of top MMA fighter Joachim Hansen. He is one of the best wrestlers from Europe in MMA, and has been training Greco-roman wrestling since the age of 9. He has finished all 5 of his fights, with 4 coming by brutal knockouts and the other by Submission. He has fought some top fighters considering how inexperienced in his career he is – in just his 3rd fight he knockout out the previously unbeaten Ali Arish (11-0) via head kick. In his most recent fight in September, he knocked out CWFC fighter Mike Ling (8-2) in the first round. Hermansson recently signed for the Fight UK promotion, and will fight for their Middleweight title in his next fight.
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Mikkel Parlo – 7-0-0 - Danish – 21 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 17-9, Last Fought: Mar '12
Parlo makes up an all Scandinavian top 2, and brings a perfect 7-0 record to the table. The 21 year old has finished 6 of his 7 fights and 5 of them have come due to punches. The stand up specialist has fought a great wealth of talent so far, which is simply astounding considering his age - his wins include Gregor Herb (10-4), Vincent Del Guerra (9-3), Dan Edwards (8-3) & Martin Tondryk (7-4). It is rumoured that Bellator are sniffing around regarding a Season 7 tournament. Parlo is a relatively small Middleweight who has weighed as little as 177 pounds in previous fights, so the drop to Welterweight should be expected.
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Sean Strickland – 9-0-0 - American – 21 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 23-6, Last Fought: Apr '12 – KOTC Champion
Strickland became the KOTC Middleweight Champion in December when he TKO'd the former long time champion Brandon Hunt (8-2) in the very first round. In the rematch last week, Strickland was again victorious by TKO, this time doing the job 24 seconds faster. Just 1 of Strickland's fights has gone to the judges' scorecard, and he has finished 6 of them in the very first round. He also holds wins over Donavin Hawkey (5-1) and Brett Sbardella (4-1).
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Jason South – 8-0-0 - American – 34 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 20-6, Last Fought: Feb '12
South is the oldest fighter on the Middleweight list at 34 years old, but he is still the number 4 prospect. Although he doesn't have a background in any martial art; he has steadily become a jiu-jitsu expert. He started training jiu-jitsu 6 years ago, which makes it even more impressive that he has won a host of jiu-jitsu tournaments and even medalled at the pan-ams. The 34 year old impressively ended the unbeaten streak of top collegiate wrestler Tim Ruberg (8-0) in his most recent fight, when he submitted him in the 2nd round. South trains with UFC fighters Court McGee and Ramsey Nijem. Just last week he signed with top regional promotion XFC.
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Tim Williams – 6-0-0 - American – 25 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 13-8, Last Fought: Apr '11 – LITC Champion
The 3rd of 10 Americans on this list, Williams was 6-0 as an amateur as well as being 6-0 as a pro. He is a jiu-jitsu purple belt, and his accomplishments include coming 2nd in the Gi purple belt division, and placing 3rd in the NAGA purple belt division in 2008. Williams is a finisher, and finished all of his amateur and pro fights. Of the 12 pro and amateur record combined, he has finished 8 in the first round, with 8 coming by Submission and the other 4 by TKO. He has fought a solid level of competition, and in his most recent fight the LITC Champion TKO'd UFC and IFL veteran Andre Gusmao (6-2).
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Rumen Dimitrov – 12-0-2 - Bulgarian – 30 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 20-17, Last Fought: May '11 – MAXFIGHT Champion
Dimitrov is the first of 2 Bulgarian fighters on the Middleweight list. Dimitrov is a specialist Sambo fighter, and has in fact won a bronze medal in two consecutive years (2007 & 2008) at the World Combat Sambo Championships. The 30 year old has finished 10 of his 12 wins, with 6 coming via TKO and 4 by Submission. In 2010 he beat UFC veteran Shonie Carter (49-26), and in his most recent fight he handed Mikel Cortes (5-1) his 2nd career defeat. Dimitrov has a twin brother who is also a successful mixed martial artist (and interestingly competes at a lower weight class), holding a 17-2 record.
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Joseph Henle – 6-0-1 - American – 28 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 12-10, Last Fought: Jan '12
Some may remember Henle as he was a member of The Ultimate Fighter 11. On TUF, Henle submitted current UFC fighter Constantinos Philippou to get into the house, but lost to another UFC fighter in Seth Baczynski in the last 16. Since TUF fights are exhibition fights, Henle is still undefeated in his pro MMA career. Henle's background is in Tae Kwon-Do, where it took him just 5 years to get his black belt - and he was also a Tae Kwon-Do champion in his state. The 28 year old also competed in wrestling and American football whilst at university, so is a natural athlete. As well as having a perfect 6-0 record as a pro (with 4 stoppages), Henle was also 7-1 as an amateur.
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Jake Mapes – 5-0-0 - American – 28 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 5-3, Last Fought: Sep '11
28 year old Mapes is a jiu-jitsu black belt under Xande Riberio. Surprisingly he has won 3 of his 5 fights by TKO, with 1 Submission and a Decision. At brown belt Mapes won bronze in the Pan American games and World Championships, and is also an American National Champion in the brown belt division. He received his black belt in 2009 and is a jiu-jitsu instructor at The Arena (where he also trains) – home of fighters such as Roger Huerta, Rani Yahya & Myles Jury. He has not been fighting a top level of opposition, though in August he beat Matt Lagler (5-4).
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John Michael Shiel – 8-0-0 - Irish – 25 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 13-7, Last Fought: Feb '12 – Man of War Champion
The lone Irishman on the list, Shiel has impressively finished all 8 of his wins, and even more impressively finished 7 of them in the very first round. Although from Ireland, Shiel has moved to Canada to get the best possible training. He is predominantly a stand-up fighter, and has 6 of his 8 wins have come via TKO. The 25 year old has already beaten some top fighters in his young career, and his best wins are over TUF vet Ross Pointon (6-14) and CWFC fighter Victor Cheng (7-1). Shiel is on the smaller side of Middleweight, and if he fights in the big leagues he may have to cut to 170 pounds.
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Nicolas Penzer – 7-0-0 - German – 23 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 9-9, Last Fought: Apr '12 – Respect FC Champion
German fighter Penzer has arguably the finest record in this list – 7 wins with 7 Submissions (4 Armbars & 3 RNC's) in the very first round. His average fight time is just 1 minute 45 seconds, and his wins aren't just over debutants either. In his most recent fight 2 weeks ago he needed just 60 seconds to submit the experienced Sebastien Risch (8-2), and with the victory he won the RFC Middleweight title. Penzer is a jiu-jitsu expert, who has previously competed in the ADCC trials. One downside is he has not competed outside of Germany, so it would be nice to see him sign for an organisation such as CWFC.
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Krzystof Jotko – 10-0-0 - Polish – 22 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 15-5, Last Fought: Apr '12
Polish fighter Jotko has finished 5 of his 10 wins. He is a Polish amateur Champion, and held an incredible 35-5 amateur record. Early in his career Jotko won the ZSSZ 8 man 1 night Middleweight tournament, finishing 2 men by TKO and one by Decision. He has some decent wins in his career, including Tomasz Kondraciuk (6-3). After his most recent win a few weeks ago over Damir Hadzovic (4-1), he announced he was to make the drop to Welterweight, which appears a good move.
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Rafal Lewon – 6-0-0 - German – 29 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 6-2, Last Fought: Apr '12
The 2nd of 3 German's on the Middleweight list, Lewon was actually born in Poland but fights out of Germany. He is one of Eastern Europe's top wrestlers, and was a Polish junior wrestling champion, as well as a runner up in the senior division. The 29 year old has made an impressive start to his MMA career, finishing all 6 of his fights in the first round. The wrestler has won by a mix of TKO's and Submissions, and has seen just 1 fight go past 3 minutes. After not fighting a great level of fighters in his first 5 fights, he recently took a step up and needed just 90 seconds to stop Maurice Van Waeyenberghe (7-2).
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Jeremy Smith – 7-0-0 – South African – 27 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 13-5, Last Fought: Mar '12 – EFC Africa Champion
South African fighter Smith is a former pro Thai Boxer, holding a 10-1 record before he turned to MMA. It is therefore unsurprising that 4 of his 7 wins have come via TKO. Just 1 of his fights have gone to the scorecards, in December 2010 when he handed Strikeforce veteran Joe Ray (5-0) his first defeat in a tough decision. In Smith's most recent fight, he submitted Garreth McLellan (5-1) to take the EFCA Middleweight title from him.
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Travis Clark – 6-0-0 - American – 33 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 10-6, Last Fought: Jun '11 – NAAFS Champion
Heavily tattooed fight Clark is unbeaten in all his combat sports – his records include 6-0 in pro MMA, 6-0 in amateur MMA, 3-0 in kickboxing and 2-0 in boxing. On top of this, he was also a former state champion wrestler back in 1998. Clarke hasn't always had it easy, and before he started his MMA career, a dirt bike accident left him in a wheelchair for a year. Now fully recovered, Clark finished all 6 of his amateur fights (5 in the 1st round) and has finished 5 of his 6 pro fights (4 in the first round). As an amateur he held the OVT Light heavyweight title and beat Bellator fighter Dan Spohn (6-2). In his most recent fight he captured the NAAFS Middleweight title with a 3rd round TKO over Alan Aeschlimann (3-1).
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Bojan Velickovic – 6-0-0 - Serbian – 23 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 11-0, Last Fought: Dec '11
The 8th European fighter in the top 15, Velickovic is just 23 years old and is another that has finished all of his fights. He is a very well rounded fighter, and has gained 5 Submission wins so far in his career, as well as a knockout. All 6 of Velickovic's wins have been over unbeaten fighters, though most have been in the 2-0 or 3-0 range so not very experienced. Unlike a lot of European fighters, Velickovic does have international experience, and in August he handed Jason Lee (3-0) his first loss whilst fighting for top American regional promotion Ring of Fire.
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Mike Kent – 8-0-0 - Canadian – 27 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 12-10, Last Fought: Jan '12 – CECR Champion
Kent is a hulking Middleweight and has also competed at Light heavyweight before. The 27 year old comes from a kickboxing background, and has used this to help him get 7 finishes in 8 fights – with 4 Submission wins and 3 TKO wins. The Canadian trains at Titan MMA alongside Bellator fighter Roger Hollett. In June of 2011 he won his MMA title, when he won a rematch (their first fight ended in a split decision win for Kent) against Alderick Keith (4-1) to capture the CECR Middleweight title. It was recently announced he had signed with top Canadian promotion MFC. Kent also possesses one of the worst tattoos seen in MMA since Alan Belchers!
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Marcin Naruszczka – 10-0-0 - Polish – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 14-7, Last Fought: Apr '12 – Respect FC Champion
Another 10-0 Polish talent like his training partner Krzystof Jotko (number 11 on the list), Naruszczka is actually the RFL Light Heavyweight champion, though he normally competes at Middleweight. The well rounded Pole has finished 6 of his 10 fights, with 4 coming by TKO and 2 by Submission. Naruszczka has previously trained with the World's Strongest Man Marius Pudzianowski; though it has been well documented the two didn't get on. His wins include experienced fighter such as Mario Stapel (19-15) and Artur Kadlubek (12-8). He is scheduled to fight at this weekend's KSW event against Borys Mankowski (11-5).
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Benjamin Brinsa – 11-0-0 - German – 22 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 8-21, Last Fought: Oct '11 – FFC Champion
Just 1 of the young German's 11 wins have gone to the judges' scorecards – he has finished 8 of his fights in the very first round, with 4 of his wins coming via TKO and 6 via Submission. Unfortunately there is a down side to having such an impressive record – the strength of his opponents. Between then his opponents are just 8-21, and the only fighters he has fought with a positive record have less than 4 fights. His best win is over 42 year old Maik Stumbries (6-9), which says a lot. He is nonetheless a talented young fighter, with an excellent stand up game.
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Krasimir Mladenov – 7-0-0 - Bulgarian – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 6-8, Last Fought: Feb '12
Just like his compatriot and number 6 on this list Rumen Dimitrov, Mladenov is a Sambo specialist and in 2010 he won gold in the European Sambo Championships, after winning bronze the previous year. The Bulgarian is primarily a grappler, and he has gone to a decision in 4 of his 7 wins. He fights for top Bulgarian promotion MAX FIGHT, and in his 4th fight he got an impressive Submission win over Svetoslav Zahariev (7-3).
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Jordan Beercroft – 4-0-0 - Canadian – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 8-3, Last Fought: Feb '12
The Canadian is a tall Middleweight at 6'4", and he's used his length well to help him get 2 TKO's and a Submission win during his 4 fights. Beecroft set the tone in his first MMA fight when he knocked out his opponent in just 13 seconds. He fights for Canadian promotion BFL, and picked up his career best win in May of last year when he TKO'd the experienced Mike Jorgensen (6-2) in the first round.
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Matt Howard – 9-0-0 - English – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 11-28, Last Fought: Oct '11 – Knuckleforce Champion
One of 2 Brits on the list, Howard has one of the most impressive records. He has won 9 straight fights and finished all of them, with 8 of the 9 coming in the very first round. Howard has powerful stand up game, stemming from his background where he was a successful amateur boxer. He has used his background to help him get 8 TKO victories. He has not fought the best talent so far, but he was recently signed by top British promotion BAMMA, so he should get a step up in class soon. He was due to fight at BAMMA 9 in March, but had to pull out due to injury. Howard is actually a gypsy, and regularly spars with Jimmy Wallhead.
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Johnny Cisneros – 6-0-0 - American – 32 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 7-7, Last Fought: Apr '12
Heavily tattooed American Cisneros fought his first 4 fights as a light heavyweight, and dropped to Middleweight earlier this year. Cisneros trains under the tutelage of UFC vet Mike Guymon, and recently went to the judge's scorecard for the first time in his career after finishing his first 5 fights by TKO. He fights for KOTC, and they currently rank him as their number 6 Middleweight. The 32 year old got his best win last year over Paul Arras (5-2).
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Tolly Plested – 6-0-0 – English – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 3-7, Last Fought: Apr '12 – ZTFN Champion
Plested trains with UFC fighter Oli Thompson at 1st Gen Fitness, where he is the head jiu-jitsu instructor. His background is in boxing, but he soon moved on to jiu-jitsu where he is a brown belt under World Champion Ze Marcello. In 2010 he came 3rd in the British no-gi Open Elite Division, and in the same year he won the WUMA European cup. Plested is a big middleweight who also competes in strongman and power lifting events, and he recently signed for top British promotion UKMMA. He hasn't fought great competition so far, but hopefully that will soon improve. Plested has finished all 6 of his fights, with 5 coming in the very first round.
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Joe Williams – 6-0-0 - American – 26 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 10-18, Last Fought: Sep '11 – RITC Champion
26 year old Williams is a stocky middleweight who has finished 5 of his 6 fights within the distance. Williams won the Respect in the Cage Middleweight title in June with a hard fought decision over Fernando Gonzalez (17-8). He successfully defended his title in his most recent fight in September with a 3rd round submission win over Vince Alaalatoa (5-1).
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Cole Davids – 5-0-0 - Kiwi – 23 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 8-8, Last Fought: Apr '11
Davids fights out of New Zealand, but he was originally from Zimbabwe. The 23 year old has finished all 5 fights within the distance, with 4 wins coming via TKO. He doesn't have a traditional background in martial arts, and is very well rounded. Davids is a small Middleweight and has previously fought at 180 pounds, so a drop to Welterweight is not out of the question. In his most recent fight last April, he Stopped Donavin Hawkey (6-2) with punches.
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Mike Pitz – 8-0-0 - American – 30 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 11-21, Last Fought: Oct '11
Pitz has finished 7 of his 8 fights, with 4 of them coming in the very first round. As well as being 8-0 as a pro, he also had a perfect 3-0 amateur record. Pitz trains out of Midwest MMA – the same camp that houses UFC fighter Clay Guida. He has not been fighting top competition, and recently beat his most experienced fighter to date in October when he knocked out Robert Morrow (6-10).
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Tyler Klajeski – 5-0-1 - American – 25 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 8-8, Last Fought: Aug '11
Klajeski trains out of Minnesota and is unbeaten in his first 6 fights. The 23 year old has finished 3 of his 5 victories, with all 3 coming by Submission. In just his 4th MMA fight, Klejeski beat veteran Miguel Cooley (15-19) under the KOTC banner. In July he drew with fellow prospect Leo Bercier (7-1).
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Michel Dos Prazeres – 10-0-0 - Brazilian – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 17-12, Last Fought: Mar '12
Brazilian Middleweight Dos Prazeres has made a perfect start to his MMA career, winning all 10 fights. He made his debut 7 years ago back in 2005, and has fought sporadically recently – fighting just twice in the last 4 years. He recently signed with top Brazilian promotion Jungle Fight and won in 90 seconds. 6 of his 10 wins have gone the distance, with the other 4 coming by decision. In 2010 he got his best career win when he ended the unbeaten streak of Andre Lobato (5-0).
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Josip Artukovic – 6-0-0 - Croatian – 26 Years Old - Opponent W/L: 2-1, Last Fought: Apr '12
The only Croatian on the Middleweight list, Artukovic has impressively finished all 6 of his wins in the very first round. He specialises in jiu-jitsu, and has Submitted 5 of his 6 opponents, with the other victory coming by TKO. The downside is that his 6 opponents have had just 3 fights between them – so he has got his record by facing novices. He has fought throughout Europe, but he is due a much needed step up in competition. The 26 year old trains alongside top European fighter Maro Perak.
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Kokichi Katahira – 4-0-0 - Japanese – ?? Years Old - Opponent W/L: 3-8, Last Fought: Sep '11 – DEEP Future King
The lone Japanese fighter on the Japanese list, Katahira is the winner of the 2011 DEEP Future King Tournament at 185 pounds. On his way to winning the 8-man 1-night tournament, Katahira finished all 3 fights via Submission, and all 3 in fact by kimura. In the final he beat Kazuki Nomoto (4-4). He props up the Middleweight list due to the poor level of competition he has faced.
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Dealing with Stumbling Blocks
By Vivek Wadhwa
One of the advantages of being a young entrepreneur is that you don't know what can't be done. You get to look at the world with an unencumbered perspective and take your own shot at changing it. You don't have to be burdened by old beliefs. Be aware, however, that you may just be repeating mistakes that others have already made (see BusinessWeek.com, 9/14/06, "Some Brilliant Mistakes"). And the world may not give you the benefit of the doubt because you are young—in fact, you are likely to face challenges solely because of your age.
When I decided to write this column about the stumbling blocks that young entrepreneurs face when starting businesses, I spoke to four young entrepreneurs at different stages in their careers to get their advice.
1. Learn how to handle rejection and be persistent.
My friend Jud Bowman, 25, says he had to choose between a scholarship to Stanford and pursuing his dream of creating a mobile search-engine business. Bowman decided to follow his dream and launched Pinpoint Networks when he was 18.
He says that even if you possess incredible intelligence, a track record of success, contagious passion, and an ability to make it seem like you're more mature than you are, young entrepreneurs should prepare to face rejection and doubt. He recalls how his parents repeatedly told him he was crazy to turn down Stanford to start his venture. He says nearly 60 venture-capital firms rejected him before he found an investor, customers wouldn't buy his product at first, and prospective hires wouldn't accept job offers. He remembers that he couldn't even buy a bottle of wine when he took his sales prospects out to dinner.
But he kept at it. He says that Motricity (created after Pinpoint merged with Power by Hand), where he now works as chief technology officer, will deliver $500 million worth of mobile content this year and is positioned to be the dominant player in the mobile applications market.
2. Get ready to take advantage of any opportunity.
One of my current students, Kareem Lee, 22, echoes Bowman's advice. While he says it was easy for him to bootstrap his tutoring and lawn-mowing businesses as a teenager, when he tried pursuing his dream of setting up a record label at the age of 19 in his hometown of Indianapolis, it was rejection all the way. He couldn't qualify for small-business loans because of his age, couldn't get potential partners or customers to take him seriously, and couldn't find an experienced mentor. People brushed off his passion and determination as a fad or childishness.
But Lee was and is determined to succeed and make his Simple Life Records a major player. He urges young entrepreneurs to "define the limitations that you are bound by, and work like hell to overcome them." Ironically, Lee was able to sign young artists to his label by playing up one quality they both shared: their youth.
3. Be willing to acquire more experience.
Another student of mine, Wynn Xiao Wu, 25, is a serial entrepreneur who found it difficult to get going with one of his ventures despite previous successes. He founded a startup to develop and market LED-based gadgets when he was 19 and a café on his college campus when he was 20. While studying in Beijing last year, he teamed with other students to start a social-networking Web site, www.tontong.com.
Wu and his Chinese partners found it hard to find experienced mentors, be taken seriously by customers and potential partners, and raise money. Dealing with older employees was especially difficult given that Chinese culture requires young people to show respect to elders. And he says it was almost impossible to navigate the Chinese bureaucracy.
His solution to the hurdles he experienced? Learning the skills he lacked by going back to school. After completing his bachelor's degree, Wynn Xiao Wu joined Duke University's Engineering Management program to acquire more business and engineering management skills. As soon as he finishes, Wu plans on returning to China to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams, equipped with new confidence and credibility.
4. Get ready to act mature.
Jon Thomas, 24, was the youngest team member of a medical-device startup spun off from Stanford's biodesign program. When he joined Stanford on a teaching-assistant fellowship, he tried to act older than his age to gain the respect of other students. He says this ability came naturally to him partially because his brother is four years older than him, and he often hung out with his brothers' friends rather than people his own age.
Today, he is a co-founder and lead developer at Vascular Precision, where he hopes to make improvements in the way in which endovascular procedures are performed. He says the only problems he faces are when potential investors find out how old he is. Those are the situations when he always seems to be on the defensive, so he tries to avoid mentioning his age until the end of a meeting. He says that "if it were the first thing that was discussed, then it might interfere with their ability to remain unbiased as they hear our pitch."
All of these young entrepreneurs agree that entrepreneurship is an incredible experience but warn that there are no guarantees of success at any age. To succeed, they say, you need to weather rejection and keep at your goal until you get it right. The advantage of starting young is that you have more time to learn and grow.

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IMEMC & Agencies: A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday a Palestinian orchard east of Qarawat Bani Hassan village, west of the central West Bank district of Salfit.
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Head of the Qarawat Bani Hassan village council Abdul-Hamid Mer'ey stated that the settlers brought some citrus trees and planted them in the attacked land, close to their illegal settlement, in an attempt to claim that they have been harvesting the land for a long time.
He added that the attack is part of numerous attempts to illegally annex Palestinian lands in the area to adjacent illegal Israeli settlements and that the residents filed several appeals in Israeli courts and managed to limit the illegal annexation of their lands.
"The settlers frequently attack Palestinian lands and orchards in the area", Mer'ey said, "They want to illegally grab our lands to expand their illegal settlements".
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It was a Saturday afternoon in July when I stumbled upon my dining Holy Grail. House-hunting in West London, I randomly dropped in to a small Thai restaurant decorated in garish pink, with a TV beaming footage of a chef enthusiastically gutting a fish. The smell of stale sea shells wafted through the room, the hustle and bustle all taking place under gilded portraits of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit.
After choosing from 101 Thai Kitchen's encyclopaedic menu, the dishes began to arrive. It wasn't long before the chili-induced tears were pooling in my eyes. Lumps of crab shell caught in my throat. Gulps of Singha beer were hastily knocked back to counter the overpowering flavour of fermented fish. It was what I had spent years in London searching for.
But could it be, I whispered to my dining companion, a little bit too authentic?
Between 2006 and 2009, I lived in Bangkok, happily paying less than a pound to bolt down a delicious dinner while teetering on a plastic stool at a street stall. Given the volume of Brits holidaying in the Far East, the increasing numbers of Thais living in the UK and the boom in ethnic food shops, I didn't foresee any problems recreating the Thai feasts upon my return. But three years had passed and despite scouring London with a group of fellow former expats, we were struggling to find the real thing. The flavours were always too muted, the sauces too gloopy and sweet, the vegetables found floating in the curries here utterly alien to menus in Thailand. So it got me thinking: do the restaurants actually know better? Is the great quest for authenticity in ethnic food a myth? When we go to our local curry house or Chinese takeaway, do we really want what is served in the train carriages of Mumbai and the factory canteens of Guangzhou? Or is it just a handful of die-hard foodies and restaurant critics who want to spend their evening chewing on pig's trotters, fermented tripe and Chiang Mai sausage with blow-your-head off papaya salad?
"When I opened, a lot of people said, you are mad – not many people wanted to take that risk of using authentic ingredients from Thailand, and not substituting anything," says 101 Thai Kitchen's proprietor, Suttichai Se-Upara.
He cites the cost of importing Thai ingredients as one barrier, but concedes that many of his compatriots simply didn't think their western customers could handle the spicy ox-tripe soup, raw blue swimming crab salad and stir-fried lemongrass frog's legs that feature on Suttichai's menu. So Pad Thai, special fried rice and curries laden with coconut milk, sugar and western vegetables became the norm.
The way various migrant communities brought their cuisines to the West and adapted them to fit both the different ingredients available and the more bland British tastes is well documented. Debate still rages over whether chicken tikka masala was dreamt up in a kitchen in Glasgow or the Punjab; chop suey made in China or California.
Dr Kaori O'Connor, a food anthropologist at UCL and the author of The English Breakfast, says most of what we now consider to be quintessentially British food was brought from afar. The Romans, faced with a forested island with little indigenous produce, populated the land with pheasants, walnuts, apples, thyme and sage. They also introduced sausage making.
Of course, over the years, we have done something quite different with those imports than, say, the Italians. "What kept on here was this tradition of English plain cooking, the porridge, the very solid bread, the cheese: plain cooking as it used to be, which is a great English source of pride," Dr O'Connor says.
This culinary exchange works both ways and has continued over the centuries as people have travelled, traded, fought, conquered and holidayed. The Vietnamese took the baguettes from their French colonial rulers and stuffed them with sliced pork, coriander, chillies and pickled carrots, creating the banh mi, a delicious culinary mash-up which you can now buy in the British sandwich chain, Eat.
Dr O'Connor says you can still find a variation on the schnitzel on some menus in Samoa – "in utter defiance of the climate" – a legacy of a very brief German occupation before the First World War. Kedgeree was the ultimate twisting of Indian food for the tastes of the British Raj, but no one complains that it's inauthentic: it is celebrated as a dish in its own right.
In Britain, the explosion of package holidays in the 1960s also contributed to a change in people's tastes.
"They run into spaghetti for the first time and it's all glam," says Dr O'Connor. "You get first the wave of continental food reintroduced after the wars, then people go further afield and then more and more foreign people move here and it just gathers steam."
Now it is as much about marketing and trying to work out what will sell. As the big Western chains branch out across the globe, they tap in to the local tastes. You can get a BigSpicy Paneer Wrap at McDonalds in India and a McSatay in Indonesia. Wendy's in Japan offers a lobster burger: its marketing told it the Japanese wanted seafood in a bun.
"Food is a business. If they don't appeal to the palate and you have to start slowly, then you're going out of business," said Dr O'Connor. And that is exactly what most Thai restaurant proprietors are doing here; adapting their cuisines for what they hope will be greater profit. But while this made sense when migrant communities were first bringing back unimaginably exotic ingredients to a post-war country that had only just got to grips with bananas, surely now things have moved on?
To put this theory to the test, I gathered my group of friends at 101 Thai Kitchen and asked them to order the dishes they missed the most, as well as a few surprises. The verdict was unanimous: it was utterly delicious and the most authentic Thai food any of them had eaten in the UK. But faced with Suttichai's southern speciality Gaeng Tai Pla – fermented fish intestines swimming in a pungent brown broth – and even Thai-food hardened former expats struggled.
"However much I want to taste it for your article, I just don't want to taste it," protested my friend Claire, who worked for a charity in Bangkok for three years.
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"It's like snorting a fish, including the bones," was the verdict from Paul, a lawyer whose work had taken him to the very province the dish hailed from. The rest of the fish-gut curry remained untouched, proof that even those of us who lived, worked and dined in the region struggle with some of the more feisty regional delicacies.
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Some of you have probably read my previous thread describing a 3rd gear failure in my 5R55S automatic transmission with only 9,500 miles. After doing considerable research using my Ford Service Manual DVD and pestering several transmission builders here is what I have determined. The root cause of the 3rd gear failures is the seal on the intermediate servo piston. By not continuing to drive the vehicle with this failure, the band is most likely not damaged. I spoke with a couple of transmission techs at 2 different Ford dealers and both said they replace 2 to 3 of these intermediate servo pistons a month for this exact reason.
So, I pulled the pan down on my 5R55S. No metal or clutch material and the fluid was not burnt. That indicated the failure may be as simple as a repair and not an overhaul. I investigated the possibility of replacing the intermediate servo piston with the transmission in the vehicle. This is not possible as the transmission is too close to the body. So I removed the transmission. Now here is where transmission shops offer differing opinions. Some shops say this CAN NOT be done without completely disassembling the transmission because when the servo piston is removed, the intermediate band anchor will fall down in the case. Yet others say they replace these components frequently without ever disassembling the transmission. I figured I had nothing to loose. I pulled the intermediate servo piston snap ring, cover, piston/seal assembly and spring. If you will look at the attached picture (the one that is very bright), you will see in the servo piston bore the anchor is still visible. This is good news as it would indicate that the band is not broken and the anchor did NOT drop down when the servo piston was removed. There is also a picture of a new servo piston, with the cover, assembled ready for installation in the case. Lastly, take a look at the piston I removed. Notice on the Small OD a 1.5" section of the sealing lip is completely gone. I now have the intermediate servo piston assembly reinstalled back in the transmission case.
While the transmission was out, I am replacing the TSS sensor as a while back I had a P0715 DTC for that sensor. I cleared the code and it never came back. But to replace the Input turbine speed sensor the transmission must be removed, now was the time to replace the sensor. Tomorrow I will adjust the intermediate and overdrive bands.
How much has this venture cost me - other than a whole lot of my labor:
(1) Intermediate servo piston (1L2Z-7D021-CA) $16.73
(1) Seal - intermediate servo piston cover W702969-S300 $2.60
(2) Band adjustment locknut (XW4Z-71000-AA) $3.60 ea.
Total parts investment $26.53
Now while the transmission is out, I am going to take advantage of this opportunity to install a 2,800 RPM stall converter. Keep in mind this is a daily driver and not a track vehicle.
In conclusion, will this fix my 3rd gear problem? Won't know for sure, but for less than $30 in parts I couldn't justify a complete overhaul yet.
Moral to this story: If your transmission looses 3rd gear don't continue to drive the vehicle.
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SOME 1,000 runners are expected to join the Run with the Titans Season 2, an anniversary and run for a cause of Team Titans Davao set on April 27, 2014 in an out-and-back course from SM Lanang Premier Fountain Court.
In a phone interview with Team Titans Davao president and race director Dr. Ricardo Audan, he said that the event will benefit the Matigsalog Children of Malikongkong and Hospice Palliative Care of Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC).
"In our last year's event, we gave some 400 customized backpacks with school supplies for the Matigsalog Children of Malikongkong at the same time we gave cash gifts to terminally ill patients in Hospice Palliative Care SPMC," he said.
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Be careful with simple green on aluminum it can pit the metal.
The aviation industry stopped using SG for that reason.
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You could try this if you wanted to stick with the Simple Green but were worried about the aluminum pitting.
I can only assume you oil everything afterward? Do you still run a brass brush through the barrel?
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Rather than taking the time and expense to polish smooth the inside of the Firing Pin Chamber, Glock inserts a Plastic Liner. This is necessary because without a smooth surface the Firing Pin Spring Cups would quickly wear out. Under normal circumstances the liner is never removed. It rarely wears out and the tool needed to remove it also destroys it. Ultrasonically cleaning the Slide is the exception. Ultrasonic cleaners have been known to vibrate the liner right out. There have been reports of guns being reassembled with the liner still sitting in the bottom of the cleaner. (I guess they slip through the wire basket.)
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How long can I leave the air in compressor?
Hi, I am a newbie. I can't find my manual for my porter cable CFNBNS kit. I bought it quite some time back and I think I threw away the manual. I can't even remember if it came with a manual but I have the break in instructions. Anyway, I finally used it today but now I don't know if I have to release the remaining air in the compressor after every use. Or can I just keep it there until next time I use it? If not, how long can I leave the air in without ruining the compressor or causing a safety issue the next time I use the air that has been left in the compressor?
I tried searching for this topic in the forum but I can't seem to find the answer. So I apologize if this question has been posted and answered before.
Thanks for your help in advance.
You should remove the air after using it every day. There is a relief valve at the bottom of the tank. Tilt the tank towards this valve while you open it to let the air out. This also lets all the water which is extracted from the air due to compression. Without letting the air out you leave the water in the tank. Water in the tank will rust out the tank.
But I have been using compressor's for over 20 years and I rarely drain them.
The reason you are suposed to drain them daily is because you accumulate moisture in the tank and if the water stays in the tank it can cause rust and weaken the tank, possibly leading to a failure of the tank.
Well open the drain and release the water.. don't have to let all the air out :) My big shop unit I drain the moisture every other day. In the winter time It's drawing cooler air from the Outside intake I'll drain it daily or if I'm using it all day (Air sanders & Tools) I'll drain it a couple times a day. Cheers
One place I worked they had a sandblaster that ran all the time
It was drained on wekends
But that sucker was a heavy duty unit - not like what they make for the consumer. My friend's compressor that I use I drain every day
Thanks for all the reply. I appreciate it.
unplug it...
If storing and not using my Porter Cable pancake air compressor for some time, I open the botton valve and drain it. If I am doing a project on an ongoing basis, I don't drain it every day.
Do remember to unplug it at the end of the day - else it was kick on during the night - makes for a rude awakening!
I feel it should be mentioned that not only is draining the compressor tank everyday a good practice, but for those that may not follow that advice, the amount of moisture that accumulates could be heavily dependent on the relative humidity in your area. Higher humidity levels = more moisture in the air to condensate on the inner tank walls = puddle at the bottom. Use the compressor more and you have even more moisture inside.
One thing I've been pondering about draining is do you leave the relief valve open or closed until next use?
After turning off the compressor, leave the drain valve open so the last drops drip out except if the compressor is in a location that goes below freezing in which case close the drain valve after draining.
Otherwise the valve could be frozen in the open position when you come to use the compressor the next day.
it makes no difference whether you leave the valve open or closed, pressurized or unpressurized (although I never liked moving a charged tank, it is a bomb after all :))
I like to leave mine open and stay open for a minute or two after I go to use it the next time to force any remaining moisture out. Just make sure that it is in the grass or a place you don't mind rust exiting. You save very little by leaving air in the tank versus the risk of weakening the same by allowing moisture to accumulate.
For what it's worth, I have a 33 gal craftsman that i bought about 10 years ago. I would drain it about once a month when i was using it a lot, but for the last 5 years it's seen very limited use, and hasn't been drained at all. Yesterday i noticed it has developed a leak in the bottom of the tank.
i think if i would have drained it even once every 6 months, it would still be going strong.
Anybody got a spare tank laying around they want to unload.......
To address your other problem, try the internet. It took me all of 60 seconds to find and download the manual for a Craftsman compressor I bought at a yard sale.
When you turn it off at the end of the day, it'll have to be pumped up again the next day so you might as well drain the 100% humidity air out of it at the end of the day.
The process of compressing air wrings water vapor out and what water vapor remains in the air brings the relative humidity to 100%.
Still better is to run the compressor with the valve open for a few seconds after draining to bring new dry air (no actual compressing going on) into the tank.
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- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
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- Kosher salt
- One 3-ounce can imported tuna packed in olive oil, drained and flaked
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons drained small capers
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 anchovy fillets
- 1 garlic clove, smashed
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 pounds large ripe tomatoes, sliced 1/3 to 1/2 inch thick
- Thickly sliced country bread, for serving
In a blender, combine 3 tablespoons of the olive oil with the parsley and process until smooth. Season lightly with salt. Transfer 2 tablespoons of the parsley oil to a small bowl. Add the flaked tuna, the mayonnaise, water, capers, lemon juice, anchovies, garlic and the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil to the blender and puree until creamy. Season the tonnato sauce with salt and pepper.
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dirty, almost oily. Plant roots ran beneath her, crisscrossing the floor. A little warmth radiated through
the leathery surface, coming up from the engines deep below, but it wasn't enough to stave off the chill
hanging in the air. Her first thought on waking was that she was naked. Goosebumps prickled her skin.
Her covering was gone, and that surprised her more than the alien environment around her. She felt
vulnerable, alone and somewhat scared. Sitting up, she struggled to clear her thinking as she looked
around, trying to make out where she was.
A soft hum rang in her ears. Things moved about her, scurrying around her, ignoring her. There
were hundreds of them, maybe thousands. She wasn't sure if they were tiny machines or something that
was alive. Either way, she didn't want to know. They were leaving her alone, and that was fine with
her. She had no desire to change the arrangement.
Trixie blinked, her eyes taking in the soft light. The cavern was large, at least a hundred feet
high, with irregular, curved walls spiraling inward toward each other, joining at a point high above. The
walls around her looked like the inside of a hollow tree. The trunk was gnarled, the tree rotten. Faint
specks of light ran up the twisted knots. Tiny pinpricks of red, yellow and green pierced the darkness,
spreading throughout the cavern like ants climbing an ivy vine.
She could see Berry.
Berry hung in mid-air. He was suspended without any means of visible support, his feet just
inches from the ground, his head drooped to one side. The soft, orange glow of a force field surrounded
him. Like her, he was naked. His body puzzled her, she'd only ever seen him dressed, or, at least, that
was all she remembered. The contours of his muscles, the hair on his chest, the stubble on his face, it
aroused something primal within her, it was a feeling she didn't understand. Her thoughts were
Something ran across her hand, its prickly feet dancing briefly across her fingers. She wanted to
scream, but she resisted, pursing her lips so as to avoid making a sound. Slowly, she withdrew her hand
from where she had been leaning, not wanting to arouse any inadvertent attention.
As Trixie got up, she felt clumsy. Her legs felt too long, her arms too lanky. As she moved
forward, her fingers and arms splayed wide with surprise, helping her keep her balance. Stiff and sore,
she pushed through the ache in her muscles. She stepped over a thick root and tripped, falling forward,
landing on all fours, but her fall was slow, her landing soft. Gravity was reduced.
"Trix," Berry called out, seeing her in the shadows. "You've got to get me out of here."
Trixie shook her head slowly, watching her dark hair dangle in front of her. She got back to her
feet, trying to shake the drugged lethargy of the moment, not sure what had happened to her. Was this a
dream? A nightmare? Was any of this real? It seemed surreal. She was disoriented, detached.
"Trix, Honey," called Berry. "Come on, baby. You can do this."
Trixie heard him, but she wasn't interested. There were too many other strange and unusual
things competing for her attention, too much she was curious about, things she wanted to understand.
Something caught her eye, a colorful bracelet lying on the ground nearby. She picked it up, examining
it closely. Trixie wasn't sure why, but she sniffed it. She wasn't sure what she expected it to smell like,
but it smelt musty, almost familiar. Holding it, she looked at the petite woven threads. The rainbow
strands of colors were dull within the dark chamber. It must have been pretty to look at in the light. A
small bell hung from a silver name tag looped over the bracelet. It was pretty, she decided, even if she
couldn't see it properly. She slipped the bracelet over her wrist. The bell tinkled softly as she moved.
Trixie liked the sound. Her mind was struggling to comprehend what was going on, where she was,
what had happened to her, what had happened to Berry. Deep inside, she wanted to block everything
out, to ignore the bizarre sensations, and focus on the simple things, like the bracelet and the bell.


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Steamboat Springs A committee of the Yampa Valley Housing Authority affirmed plans Thursday to recommend asking voters in November to approve a new property tax.
The suggested 0.55 mills of tax would support the authority's operations, including advising families struggling to find affordable rental apartments and homes to own as well as managing existing deed-restricted condos and a mobile home park. The authority's board is expected to consider the tax Feb. 10.
YVHA Manager Mary Alice Page-Allen said the need to support affordable housing initiatives in the community has not gone away in the midst of a struggling economy and local real estate market.
"We're serving 1,400 families a year," she said. "We have a huge waiting list for rentals, and rental rates here are still $500 a bedroom."
The proposed mill levy would increase the taxes on a $500,000 home by $21.89 annually and bump the taxes on a $1 million commercial property (which is taxed at a higher rate) by $145.
The tax, applicable only to property owners within the authority's district — generally Steamboat Springs and surrounding rural areas minus unincorporated Milner — is estimated to raise about $395,000 under the newly revised property valuations in the district. As proposed, the tax would end after five to seven years, committee member and Routt County Commissioner Nancy Stahoviak confirmed.
Research from committee member Catherine Carson and County Assessor Gary Peterson concludes, based on property classifications and ZIP codes of owners, that 55.8 percent of the district's assessed valuation can be attributed to second homes.
The recommended 0.55 mills of tax also would provide $50,000 annually toward land acquisition and operations, but not construction costs, for the local Habitat for Humanity. The committee also will recommend to its board that the new tax be used to wean YVHA off a combined $168,000 in funding from the city of Steamboat and Routt County.
"We'll have a strong relationship with the city and county if we're no longer asking for money," Carson said.
Government funding combined with management fees for existing housing projects help bring the authority's budgeted revenues for 2011 to $272,800.
Page-Allen gave committee members a detailed five-year budget plan Thursday. It shows 2011 payroll, including benefits, of $75,900. With the hiring of an additional housing specialist in 2012, payroll could grow to $131,900.
The tax would tentatively boost annual revenues to almost $490,000, according to Page-Allen. That would create room to set aside about $200,000 annually to build a capital reserve for future projects.
However, at least initially, some of the $200,000 would likely be used to pay down $2 million in debt on an undeveloped parcel of land on the city's west side that is viewed as a future site for development of affordable rental apartments or other housing. The land, burdened with an interest-only loan, costs the authority about $111,000 annually to carry.
Carson consulted Peterson to develop spreadsheets that show that 0.55 mills of tax would generate $394,663 based on the district's new approximate assessed property valuation of $717,568,490. The valuation is down from the 2009 valuation of $1.3 billion because of lower-priced comparable sales since 2008.


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It had been billed by ministers as a project developing a vision for social work for the 21st century. So its ultra low-key denouement - no report launch, and not even a press release - provoked surprise and speculation about conflicting Whitehall agendas.
The report, Social Work at Its Best, was slipped out last Friday after 18 months' work led by the General Social Care Council, the professional regulatory body. You can find the 19-page document on the GSCC website, if you look hard, but it has not been published in any formal sense and was sent only to other organisations that had contributed to it.
"We wanted to share it with stakeholders so that they can discuss and debate it and then we can assess how we possibly go forward with the work," says Mike Wardle, GSCC chief executive. "We had no plans to launch it."
This sits oddly with the 2006 announcement of the project by the Department for Health and the then Department for Education and Skills as something "which will describe the roles and tasks of social work in order to define a profession with service users at its heart, capable of meeting the challenges of 21st-century society". Progress reports were press-released on three occasions.
The final report, in the form of a statement, describes social work as having core values and principles and a distinctive part to play in children's and adult services. While it should be practised wherever possible in partnership with other workers, the statement says, employers must identify situations where a registered and experienced social worker should always be involved. In addition to situations specified in law, the statement recommends nine other circumstances, including safeguarding of vulnerable adults and assessment of people as foster carers or adopters.
Were ministers reluctant to be associated with such recommendations? Certainly the world has moved on since 2006, and the agendas of the two departments of health and children, schools and families have diverged.
Ian Johnston, chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers, which helped draw up the statement, says: "Of course we would like it to have been launched with a fanfare, but social work has never been the sort of thing that politicians get on a soapbox about."
· Social Work at Its Best is at http://tinyurl.com/2ggobv


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When planning your family holidays, it can be hard to choose whether or not to go all inclusive. All inclusive options take a lot of hassle and expense out of holidays and it can be a real relief knowing exactly what to expect from your three slap up meals a day. However, the freedom of catering to yourself and the excitement of discovering local restaurants can be one of the best parts of going abroad. If you're struggling to decide between the two, why not opt for a half board holiday? With a half board break you can enjoy your breakfast and lunch at the hotel every day, then when the evening rolls around, head off to a nearby restaurant of your choice and enjoy a range of local or international cuisine. This popular option gives you the reliability of an all inclusive break while still being an ideal choice for keen foodies who love to experience the eateries of their chosen destination.
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Policing for Profit: Prove Your Innocent!
Our friends at the libertarian litigation firm the Institute for Justice (IJ) are trying to fight the insane world of civil asset forfeiture laws. Where the police can take your property without arrest, without prosecution, and without much of a reason. Where you must prove that you are innocent while fighting the presumption of guilt. Talk about turning the justice system on its head! Take a look at how ridiculous this crazy world is in this new IJ video:
In their massive Policing for Profit report, IJ graded each state's asset forfeiture laws, and how they protect citizen's property. Unfortunately, only 3 states in the entire country received a grade of "B" or better, with Colorado getting a hard-earned "C." Our Justice Policy Initiative Director Mike Krause wrote briefly about the report and Colorado's asset forfeiture laws in this article.


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Sample craft beers from 15 breweries, listen to the live music of Naked Soul and enjoy food from local eateries at Hopfest 2013 from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 12. The Dougherty Valley San Ramon Rotary Club will host the inaugural Hopfest as a benefit for the San Ramon Valley Education Foundation and the Dougherty Valley San Ramon Foundation.
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Have I not had enough coffee, or is there no date listed??
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Lol. There's no date. Went to the website. October 12th. 1-5 pm. $30 for tickets. Sounds fun. Good idea.
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Consolidated with McComish v. Bennett
What's at stake?
Combating the influence of wealthy special interests in elections.
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from increasing funding for a publicly-funded candidate when independent expenditure groups spend more than a certain amount against the candidate or when the candidate's privately-funded opponent spends more than a certain amount on the campaign.
Decision date:
June 27, 2011
5-4 in favor of Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club. Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion, with Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito joining. Justice Kagan delivered a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.
What the court held:
Arizona voters passed the Citizens Clean Election Act in 1998. The Act created a detailed scheme under which candidates were required to demonstrate a certain level of support and abide by a strict set of fundraising and spending restrictions in order to receive public funds for a campaign. The Act allowed a candidate to receive additional funding if the candidate faced attacks from well-financed independent expenditure groups who spent a certain amount of money or if the candidate's opponent refused public funds and spent over a certain amount. The Act was designed to combat government corruption, as Arizona had recently had a scandal involving bribery. The Act also leveled the playing field when a publicly-funded candidate faced a wealthy, self-financed opponent.
The petitioners claimed that the law was prohibited by the First Amendment, citing a host of "burdens" that discouraged them from outspending publicly-financed candidates.
The Court held that the matching funds system "substantially burdens protected political speech without serving a compelling state interest and therefore violates the First Amendment." In order for the challenged legislation to stand, the State must show that the law furthers a compelling government interest and that it is narrowly tailored to accomplish that interest. Drawing from case law, the majority reasoned that the fund-matching scheme "plainly forces the privately financed candidate to 'shoulder a special and potentially significant burden' when choosing to exercise his First Amendment right to spend funds on behalf of his candidacy." The majority pointed out that private contributions to a candidate's campaign would result in each publicly funded candidate receiving public funds, producing a "multiplier effect."
In addition, the majority argued that the assertion that the law combats corruption is illegitimate because it could keep candidates from spending their own money on their campaigns (and self-funding reduces corruption). The majority also stated that independent spending is a form of speech that "is not coordinated with a candidate" and thus does not encourage corruption. According to the majority, simply limiting the amount of money an organization or individual can contribute to a campaign sufficiently serves to combat corruption.
The four dissenting Justices, led by Justice Kagan, countered that the statute does not hinder free speech but encourages it by producing more speech. Justice Kagan also noted that Arizona enacted its campaign funding scheme to prevent corruption following a political scandal and that this goal is a compelling government interest. She pointed out that the law applies equally to candidates of all viewpoints, so given the controlling case law, it should pass First Amendment muster. "[W]hat petitioners demand," she continued, "is essentially a right to quash others' speech through the prohibition of a (universally available) subsidy program."
By overturning Arizona's election reform, the Court has closed off another avenue of reform designed to reduce the undue influence of corporate interests and wealthy candidates in political races.
Learn more
- National Law Journal: Demonizing political equality
- The New Yorker: Money Talks
- New York Times: Arizona's Boon to Free Speech
- Washington Post: Court should uphold Arizona campaign law
- USA Today: Leave public financing in elections
- Slate: Rich Candidate Expected To Win Again: Does the Supreme Court care more about free speech for the wealthy than about political corruption?
Merit briefs
- Brief for Petitioner John McComish, Nancy McCain, and Tony Bouie (in McComish only)
- Brief for Petitioner Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club Pac, et al.( in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC only)
- Reply Brief for Petitioner Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC, et al.
- Reply Brief for Petitioner John McComish, Nancy McCain, and Tony Bouie (in McComish only)
- Brief of State Respondents
Amicus briefs
- Brief for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the Justice and Freedom Fund in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the Center for Competitive Politics in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Gun Owners of America, Inc., Gun Owners Foundation, Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation, U.S. Justice Foundation, Arizona State Chapter of the Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Institute on the Constitution, DownsizeDC.org, Inc., Downsize DC Foundation, Campaign for Liberty, Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, Policy Analysis Center, the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Constitution Party National Committee, and Public Advocate of the United States in Support of Petitioners
- Brief of the Clean Elections Institute, Inc., in Support of Respondents
- Brief for Former Officials of the American Civil Liberties Union in Support of Respondent
- Brief for the CATO Institution in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Four Former Chairmen and One Former Commissioner for the Federal Election Commission in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for Mitch McConnell, United States Senator in Support of Petitioner
- Brief for the Wyoming Liberty Group in Support of Petitioner (in McComish only)
- Brief for the United States in Support of Respondent
- Brief for the Center for Government Studies in Support of Respondent
- Brief for Anthony Corrado, Thomas Mann, and Norman Ornstein in Support of Respondent
- Brief for Constitutional Scholars in Support of Respondent
- Brief for the for Reform Judaism in Support of Respondent
- Self-Financing Candidates Congressman Bill Foster (Ret.), Congressman Alan Grayson (Ret.), Congressman Steve Kagen (Ret.), Governor Angus King (Ret.), Ned Lamont, Congressman Walt Minnick (Ret.), Congressman Jared Polis, and Congressman John Yarmuth in Support of Respondent
- Brief of Former Elected Officials in Support of Respondent
- Brief for Professors of Constitutional and Election Law in Support of Respondents
- Brief of Service Employees International Union in Support of Respondent
- Brief for Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, Lawrence Bliss, Pamela Jabar Trinward, Andrew O'Brien, and David Van Wie in Support of Respondent
- Brief for Costas Panagopoulos, Ph.D., Ryan D. Enos, Ph.D., Conor M. Dowling, Ph.D. and Anthony Fowler in Support of Respondent
- Brief for Justice at Stake, 13 Former Chief Justice and Justices, and One Former Trial Judge in Support of Respondents (in McComish only)
- Brief for the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, the League of Women
Voters of the United States, League Of Women Voters of Arizona, Public Citizen, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center and the Sierra Club in Support of Respondent
- Brief for the Committee for Economic Development in Support of Respondents
- Brief of the States of Iowa, Connecticut, Maryland, New Mexico, and Vermont in Support of Respondent
- Municipal Brief for Respondents


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Mike Huckabee is the Republican in the presidential race who spends the most time talking about middle Americans—their health care needs, their lack of job security, the crumminess of the schools that educate their children, etc. His attention to these seemingly left-of-center issues—and the lengths to which he went to act on them as governor of Arkansas—has gotten him branded as an irresponsible tax-and-spender by some parts of the GOP establishment. Bob Novak, for example, called him a member of the "Christian left."
So with the help of the magnificent FactCheck.org, let's take a look at Huckabee's financial record.
Huckabee claims to have cut taxes "almost 94 times" while Governor. (An odd construction, but whatever.) He adds that he saved "the people of Arkansas almost $380 million." That's true. Huckabee cut taxes 90 times from 1997 to 2005, reducing state revenues by $378 million.
But Huckabee also presided over 21 tax increases, none of which he mentions on the stump. And those tax increases totaled much more than $378 million. According to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the "net tax increase under Huckabee's tenure was an estimated $505.1 million," adjusted for inflation.
Spending did go up under the Huckabee regime—the state budget was $10.4 billion in his first year as Governor (again, adjusted for inflation), while it was $15.6 billion in 2006. So he is, technically, a tax-and-spender. But Huckabee balanced the Arkansas state budget every year he was governor (balancing the budget is a requirement under Arkansas state law) and in the end, Huckabee had a positive effect on the state ledger: He faced a $200 million deficit in 2002, but ended his term with a $844.5 million surplus. That's a billion dollar turnaround, taxing-and-spending be damned.
A bit more, after the jump.
The DNC is joining the GOP chorus and slamming Huckabee for being a tax-and-spend politician. I think that's just lame. Democrats support the sort of fiscal responsibility that Huckabee was able to demonstrate: he spent on the right things (mostly), taxed when necessary, cut taxes when possible, and managed the budget in a way that left the state's finances better off. I know the Democrats aren't going to praise a Republican, but at least they can withhold their fire on a pol with such a respectable record.
Especially here: "As Governor, Huckabee implemented an increase on everything from cigarettes, to gasoline and even on driver's licenses," a DNC spokesperson said. Democrats support taxes on cigarettes and gasoline! Can it, DNC!
Oh, and PS — Huck's not free from mistakes. Not at all.
Update: Huckabee is calling for the president to be investigated for his role in the Plame case, in light of Scott McClellan's revelations.


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Griff Rhys Jones and his wife, Jo, were joined last night by actors Imelda Staunton and Adrian Lester at the Radisson Blue Hotel for the after party of the West End transfer of Untold Stories, based on Alan Bennett's memoirs.
It was a moving affair, with the tributes being paid to the late actor Richard Griffiths. Bennett did not attend but his partner, Rupert Thomas, seemed chuffed at the production.
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|No. 3 is one of the more dramatic holes on Legends' Moorland Course, an excellent place to play during a Myrtle Beach three-day golf weekend. (Chris Baldwin/WorldGolf.com)
Combining more than 100 golf courses and a burgeoning resort and restaurant scene, Myrtle Beach, S.C., is a choice destination for a three-day golf weekend.
Indeed, travelling golfers can choose from first-class accommodation such as Litchfield Beach & Golf Resort, voted one of the "World's 50 Best Golf Resorts" by Conde Nast Traveller Magazine, and golf courses such as the revered Dunes Golf and Beach Club.
To make the planning a little easier, here's a three-day Myrtle Beach golf itinerary that won't disappoint.
Litchfield Beach & Golf Resort is a great place to stay if you're travelling with the family. It's got something for everyone, including golf, tennis, dining and other entertainment options.
Its 96 rooms come with either lakeside of poolside views. If you need more space, choose from a two-room suite, condominium, villa or fairway cottage. Plan to pay around $100 a night for a one-bedroom suite.
The Myrtle Beach Marriott Resort at Grande Dunes is another great option. Nearly all the rooms here have ocean views, and the resort boasts the Ocean's on 82nd restaurant, a coffee house, spa and a two-tier pool. Rooms run about $200 a night.
Once you've checked in, dust of your golf clubs and head to the Legends for a round on its Moorland Course. P.B. Dye, son of golf course design legend Pete Dye, crafted one hell of a fun golf course at Moorlands. Carrying a 134-slope rating, this is anything but a pushover, but it's not such a ball-buster that you'll contemplate giving the game up for bowling after your round.
Moorlands is full of interesting, unique holes, such as No. 4, which requires you to shoot over a waste area to the raised fairway while avoiding a bunker named Big Bertha. You'll also enjoy the quiet at Moorlands, where you'll hear virtually no traffic noise, something unheard of in tourist-heavy Myrtle Beach.
For dinner Friday night, try the Aspen Grill, which serves up sophisticated low-country food in an unexpected location: one of the dozens of strip malls on Kings Highway. Warm up with the bisque before moving on to the crab cake main course.
On your second day, play arguably the area's most respected round of golf: The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. Designed by famed golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr., the Dunes is one the most beautiful golf courses on the Grand Strand.
"You play through live oaks, rolling coastal terrain and the roar of the Atlantic in your ears," wrote Tim McDonald in a review for TravelGolf.com. "You'll need to be both long and smart off the tee and be careful around the greens, many fronted by large, penal bunkers."
Built up an appetite at the Dunes? Then head to Thoroughbreds that night for great meat and seafood. The Angus Beef filet, which is paired with a Lowcountry crab cake, runs $36 and is an excellent choice.
End your trip with another visual stunner. Few golf courses in Myrtle Beach compare to the Scottish-themed Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links.
Designed by Clyde Johnston, Glen Dornoch boasts picturesque views of the surrounding marshes and excellent conditioning. It's also challenging without being overbearing. Watch out for the 16th, an excellent strategy hole with a hill on the right and a fairway that narrows to a sliver on the left.
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tim wrote on: Jul 10, 2007
boy what a shame of all the good golf courses in myrtle beach and you suggest glen dornoch what a waste of prime land has to be one of the worst golf courses in the area try the tpc or caledonia or one of the barefoot courses dont waste a three day trip on glen dornoch
Graham Ball wrote on: Jul 10, 2007
As an Englishman, I visited Myrtle Beach in fall 2005, and played some inspiring golf courses. Grand Dunes was played after a night of thunderstorms, and by 1000 the course had dried out perfectly, and the staff were extremely helpful in getting us out onto the course.
There are many other very very good courses in the Beach area, and I would like to lay a bogey - many UK golfers do not believe in the World Tour - but we played it and felt it achieved everything it set out to do. It was a fantastic golfing experience, and one we will be repeating in the not too distant future.
Graham Ball
...and if I may make one suggestion, when you go to Ireland, as many of you will do, go play Greg Norman's course on the West coast - a certain DOONBEG - and discover what links golf is all about. Outside St.Andrews - Doonbeg can only be described in one word - 'awesome'!!
For a comprehensive club-fitting experience, Kiel Christianson tried out the Club Champion method, which has grown to many major U.S. markets.
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