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Posted by: Federico Zaldua (IP Logged)
Date: September 17, 2013 04:04PM
Consumer-related businesses are plain simple, and that is what I like about them. Usually, when consumer businesses are able to build a brand, good distribution networks and a fair share of their respective market, they convert themselves into cash-machines for shareholders.
Here are two companies that operate very different types of consumer-related businesses. One of them is a conglomerate of brands that is managed by a team of experienced experts who are focused on delivering top- and bottom-line growth across a diverse array of categories. The other company is a food chain which is also managed by an efficient management team. According to my estimates, they both trade at an undeserved discount.
Betting on an Outstanding Management
Jarden (JAH), the owner of multiple branded consumer product companies (Quickie brushes, First Alert alarms and Volkl skis, among many others), is executing its strategy well, delivering broad-based organic sales growth and gross margin expansion while producing double-digit earnings expansion. Given its conservative valuation, the market may not be fully considering the management's incredible efficiency at producing satisfactory results.
As a matter of fact, second quarter results came well ahead of expectations. Jarden's management was able to leverage its SG&A and repurchase shares in order to reaffirm its year-over-year EPS growth target of 15% to 17% when organic sales grew by just 3.9%. As I just mentioned before, despite good top- and bottom line- results, the market is not giving Jarden's management enough credit. The shares, even when they are up by 38% year-to-date, look cheap selling at 2013 14 times earnings. Above all, after the pending acquisition of Yankee Candle for $1.75 billion, which looks attractive both financially and strategically. Investors such as John Keeley and Ray Dalio must think the same since they are still long on the name.
A Potential M&A Candidate
Jack in the Box's (JACK) investment case resembles Jarden's. At a time when fundamentals continue to strengthen, the market seems to be under-appreciating the company's good earnings prospects. In the case of Jack in the Box, a restaurant operator (Jack in the Box and the Mexican chain Qdoba), the company is accelerating store-level profits and beating EPS estimates.
The closure of many unprofitable Qdoba units (67 year-to-date) and the focus on Jack in the Box's newly acquired markets (from franchisees) where volumes, margins and brand awareness are well above average should help the company's EBITDA growth prospects going forward. As a matter of fact, and according to Oppenheimer, EBIT year-over-year growth between 2013 and 2014 should be as high as 26%.
Trading at 22 times 2013 earnings, Jack in the Box looks like a good turnaround and growth story. Ultimately, with a market capitalization of just $1.75 billion, Jack in the Box also looks like a compelling M&A target for private equity funds or bigger competitors. After all, restaurant chains such as Burger King (BKW) are classic targets for private equity investors. Among others, Jack in the Box is held by Gotham's Joel Greenblatt.
Bottom Line
As I mentioned before, consumer-related businesses can convert themselves into cash cows for shareholders. Hence, they are always prone to be M&A targets. Even though I do not expect Jarden to be an M&A target, I do think the company might sell some of its brands as they reach maturity. On the other hand, I do think Jack in the Box could constitute an attractive M&A target going forward.
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Netbank and Telebank have enjoyed a very substantial level of growth and attention over the last six months. This has been quite evident from the seismic fluctuations of their stock prices as well as the almost weekly announcements of banking and credit companies who are promising alternative (and expensive) online banking services. Call it envy. Call it a public relations song and dance. Whatever the reason, these two companies are beginning to have a very profound impact on how their competitors want to be perceived.
This brings us to a very interesting question that goes to the heart of any young industry such as online banking. Are the leaders of an industry competing against each other or are they going for different slices of a bigger pie? This question gives us insight to many of the current realities that we now see in the IT marketplace. For example, in the PC market of the early 80's, Apple Computer was mostly busy trying to suit the needs of individual retail customers while IBM primarily tackled the corporate market. Over the next decade IBM and Apple discovered that they were much better at increasing their market share and profits in their own specific niche than they were at competing in each other's markets. Although both companies made small inroads within their competitors niches (Apple's are popular tools for Desktop Publishing while corporate executives frequently purchase IBM PC's for home use) it is their original market strengths that have guided these early market leaders to their current growth and prosperity.
This trend toward complementary segmentation of a new market has recently taken place within the discount brokerage industry during the last five years. In 1994 Charles Schwab had become the predominant leader through their high level of customer service and an automated phone system which lured techno-savvy and price conscious investors to this emerging sector. However Schwab also had to go about the task of providing dozens, and eventually hundreds, of locations where older investors could be lead through the registration and trading process. This left Schwab vulnerable to low cost competitors who would service customers that didn't need these hand holding services and sought lower trading costs.
E*Trade decided to develop this segment of the market by focusing exclusively on investors who were highly price conscious and technologically inclined. The lower maintenance costs for these customers resulted in even lower commissions (over $100 per trade at one point!) than their facility ridden competitor. E*Trade was soon rewarded with thousands of defectors from Schwab as well as hundreds of thousands of new investors who were comfortable using the telephone and the computer for all their online trading needs.
Schwab eventually did reduce their commission structure and later launched an online site to compete with E*Trade. But instead of abandoning those who were not comfortable with using technology in the place of computers, Schwab continued to use physical branches as a means to continue to lure these customers and expand their overall customer service capabilities. This differentiation lead to justifiably higher commissions, greater overall client growth, and better earnings than their online competitor. Even today Schwab has continued to maintain a stronger presence in the discount brokerage industry by providing better customer service than their more price conscious online competitor through maintaining these physical locations for their ex-full brokerage clients. Why? Because hundreds of thousands of people still demand that service.
Although Netbank and Telebank have barely over 100,000 customers at this point, it is clear that both companies have different interpretations of who their customers are and what their customers will need. Netbank has decided to focus on the financial desires of their target group by providing the highest interest rates possible for their customer's bank accounts. In exchange, the customer will only be linked to Netbank's website for servicing that account and in some cases (such as the checking/money market account) the customer will also have limited checking privileges. So far this strategy has been quite successful. Tens of thousands of people in the last seven months have decided that the excellent rate of return on their banking assets more than offset these online and offline limitations. The company's stock has more than doubled.
Telebank believes that their customers are also technologically inclined but are willing to receive a lower interest rate in exchange for greater check writing privileges (better convenience). Due to Telebank's recent merger with E*Trade and continued alliance with Yahoo, their also appears to be a stronger belief by their management that banking should be combined with other investment vehicles and services so that customers can go to one online location where they can satisfy all their financial needs. This is in strong accordance with Telebank's focus on convenience over cost advantage. As a result tens of thousands of former offline banking customers have invested their assets with Telebank over the last seven months. Again, during this time the stock has more than doubled.
So, do these companies compete despite their different perspectives of online banking? Absolutely. In fact, it can be easily argued that dissatisfied customers of one company would consider the other company as a comparable alternative. More importantly, both companies have taken significant steps to wards encroaching on each others competitive advantages because of their customer's need for value and customer service.
Telebank has offered over the last few months a 6.75% A.P.Y. CD as well as cash rewards for current customers who refer new customers to the company. At the same time Netbank is providing more extensive customer account information than Telebank at their web site. In addition, Netbank has continued to develop close ties with Ameritrade and recently narrowed the gap with Telebank's highly rated customer service by building a brand new customer service center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It's obvious that both companies are tapping into many of the same sources for growth, but they have also continued to differentiate themselves to a greater degree. While Netbank is an exclusive Internet bank, Telebank continues to provide a telephone alternative to its customers. Netbank emphasizes it's ability to service customers with low monthly balances ($500) while Telebank is seeking a more "upscale" clientele. In the world of Wall Street investing Telebank has aggressively sought the funds and praises of the institutional investing community. Netbank, on the other hand, has relied heavily on public exposure and has sometimes gone against the conventional wisdom of the investment community to seek stability (Netbank prioritized profitability over account growth in the first two years of their existence despite the sentiments and resulting hold recommendations of Wall Street analysts.)
However Netbank and Telebank are not nearly as different to each other as they are to their brick and mortar competitors. In comparison to these millennium old institutions, Netbank and Telebank complement each other exceptionally well because they both have strong competitive advantages in areas where brick and mortar competitors are heavily lacking. In fact, the modern day Goliath's of full service retail banking stand as polar opposites to the philosophies, goals and customer with-it-ness of these two online banking companies.
For example, even the leanest brick and mortar competitors can't come close to Netbank's interest rates. Telebank's customers currently enjoy a level of customer service and interest rate return that put the brick and mortar companies to shame. While the retail banks charge ridiculous fees for their services (and non-services) Netbank and Telebank forgo this "revenue" and instead use their online strategy to minimize their customers banking cost and encourage their account holders to be self-guided and knowledgeable about their banking activities through the bank's web sites. In time this strategy results in even lower customer maintenance costs and better opportunities to provide useful and productive services.
Right now more than 200 million retail banking customers in the United States and billions of potential retail banking customers abroad may become involved with the online banking industry. Netbank and Telebank have not even captured one-tenth of one percent of this market. If these two companies continue to execute their management strategies and improve their overall returns and services there is little doubt that they will not only complement each other, but also that they may legitimize the online banking industry. When this happens only those brick and mortar institutions with incredibly strong leadership will be able to compete in the retail banking industry.


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I have a 95 Cherokee 4.0/auto/pwr win & locks. my control switches in the drivers door have not worked right for a while. when I took it apart I noticed the rubbery connector that plugs into the switches themselves was a little melted. also some of the switches were pretty bad. while I was tinkering with ( squeezing the connectors for a better grip on the pins ) it I think I may have shorted it somewhere. there was no spark but all the sudden the dome light, power windows, power locks ,& stereo all quit. I've checked all the fuses under the dash and under the hood 3 times. but I still have no power. it starts and runs fine. upon checking the extra terminals in the fuse block, I found only one battery and one ignition to still have power. for the time being I have used a jumper to go from the a mission that works to the ones that do not work to backfeed power for things to work. even doing that they're still are no power windows. I have several Cherokees and the older ones have the obvious fusible links over by the battery ,however I can't seem to find any on this. I haven't had any luck searching either.anybody have any ideas ?
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Oct. 11, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. --- The Georgia cross country teams travel to Madison, Wisc., on Thursday to run in a meet on Friday that will feature 51 teams that are either nationally ranked or receiving votes.
The Georgia women will start their 6k course at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational at 1 p.m. ET. The 24th-ranked Bulldog men will be matched up with more of the nation's top talent in an 8k competition at 1:40 p.m. on the Zimmer Championship Course.
With meet host Wisconsin, whose men are the defending national champions and the current top-ranked squad, along with the second-ranked Arizona women headlining the meet, there are 46 teams expected to compete on the men's side and 49 on the women's side.
"This Wisconsin meet is hugely important for both of our teams as the postseason nears," said first-year Bulldog distance coach Patrick Cunniff. "The men are going in ranked 24th nationally, but we still feel like we have to earn our ticket to the NCAA Championships and the respect of other teams across the country. This is a hard-working, humble bunch and I think this is an opportunity for them to show their best qualities against most of the nation's best. The men are efficient when it comes to concentrating on what they have to do at meets so I have confidence that will be the case in Madison."
Last year's Wisconsin Invitational was called the most competitive regular season meet in the sport's history. The Georgia men came through with a 21st-place finish in 2011, which helped them clinch their first trip to the NCAA Championships since 2004. All five of the scorers from last year's meet are again on the Bulldog roster this season.
Cunniff understands this year's Wisconsin meet is just as much of a proving ground for the Bulldogs, who finished last year's nationals as the top SEC team.
"The Wisconsin meet is probably THE best invite in the country so it's going to be critical for us to score those elusive at-large points and pass some teams who are ranked around us or in front of us," Cunniff said.
The Lady Bulldogs were 37th at last year's meet in Wisconsin and last visited the NCAA Championships in 2007, taking 22nd. The Georgia women are coming off a 10th-place finish at the Greater Louisville Classic on Sept. 29. While that race was a 5k, the Lady Bulldogs already have one 6k under their belts and Cunniff is hoping his team will "dial it in" even more at the distance on Friday since all of their postseason races are that distance.
"I feel like the women took a step forward at the Louisville Classic," Cunniff said. "There were teams who finished right in front of our team in Louisville that are either ranked nationally or that are receiving votes nationally so I think that boosted our confidence. Now, we will be on an even bigger stage and trying to dial it in again at the 6k distance. This will mark the first time that our true, complete team will race together this year so I think they are looking forward to the challenge."
With three regular season meets complete, Georgia now has just the Wisconsin Invitational in front of them before the SEC Championships (Oct. 26), NCAA South Regionals (Nov. 9) and NCAA Championships (Nov. 17) arrive later in the fall.
A freeze warning is in effect for the Madison area in the early hours of Friday morning with temperatures expected in the mid-50s by race time. Cunniff is optimistic his teams are prepared to battle the challenges coming their way.
"I'm extremely optimistic about how our training has been going and what type of mindset our teams are in," said Cunniff. "I think the Louisville meet two weeks ago jumpstarted our season and with the weather change in Athens, I think we are now concentrating on having success as the important part of the season nears. I like our development so far and the excitement level is high for what we can do in these type races. "
Last year, Brandon Lord led the team for only the second time in his career after finishing 37th with a time of 24:24. Thirty spots behind Lord was two-time SEC steeplechase champion Matt Cleaver, who took 67th with a 24:38. In a field featuring 270 runners, Georgia's final three scorers were Brian Detweiler (116th – 24:54), Brett Richardson (155th – 25:11) and Luke Baker (156th – 25:11).
In the women's showdown, three of five scorers from Georgia's 2011 team return for this year's meet. All-American Kristie Krueger was 20th overall (20:37) while Ashley Shiver was 131st (21:30) to lead last year's team. The trio of returners for 2012 – senior Leslie Boozer, junior Savannah Kirk and sophomore Carly Hamilton – were the next Lady Bulldogs across the finish line.
Boozer was 224th (22:03), Kirk was 252nd (22:23) and Hamilton was 256th (22:25) to give the Lady Bulldogs 883 points in last year's action.
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SINGAPORE Feb 9 (Reuters Life) - He's made headlines for his computer programing skills, but nine-year-old Singaporean Lim Ding Wen is only allowed to play with his desktop for just two hours a day, and provided he's finished his homework.
Ding Wen, who started using a computer at the age of two, became a celebrity of sorts after writing an iPhone application called Doodle Kids, which lets users to draw by touching their fingers to the screen, then clearing it by shaking the phone.
The application, available on Apple's iTunes store, currently has more than 27,000 users worldwide.
"Programing is easy, I just have natural interest in it," the fourth-grader told Reuters. "It's fun."
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The Green Ripper (1979)
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The Green Ripper continues from Travis's love interest in The Empty Copper Sea, Gretel, they're planning a life together until she is murdered. At this point Travis embarks on a mission of revenge to find the person responsible.
It's definitely one of the more violent McGee books, however the additional violence felt very much in place and not merely added for the sake of it. Builds to an excellent ending, maybe the best book in the series so far, Tan & Sandy Silence seemed to have been a low point in the series and everything following has been better.
McGee has decided that maybe, at last, he's found the Real Thing with Gretel, but then she's ruthlessly murdered -- worse, he and Meyer discover this is just one of a long series of killings involved with the plans of anarchistic revolutionaries hiding behind the mask of a religious cult, the Church of the Apocrypha. Except that, of course, the revolutionaries are actually being run by far more sinister forces . . . In due course, McGee infiltrates one of their armed training camps, and after that it becomes a question of kill or be killed.
This is the most violent of the Travis McGee novels I can remember reading -- although it's been a long while since last I did so, so maybe the others have a similar body-count!
Since I haven't read the entire series, I don't have any sense of who Gretel is, but certainly she comes across as a life-changing person for Travis McGee. If this is so, and she's not just another of his endless succession of boat bunnies, this is a very sad book.
At first the book gives the sensation that McGee is going to take on an international global conspiracy. That never goes very well in a book with only a couple of hundred pages; the author tends to spend several pages explaining how careful and secret the organization is, and then the secret agent waltzes in and cleans everyone out. Luckily, whatever the followup is, McGee is content to only take on a small unit of the conspiracy. Even then, MacDonald feels the need to point out that he had to be extremely lucky to make it out alive. Travis works much better when he's bumming around on his boat in Florida.
McGee fans generally agree this one is separated from other McGee books for two reasons: the religious cult and the flavor of spiritual, and mostly because Gretal is the woman we wish McGee would have married for the rest of the series. In fact, I have patterned June in the 22nd McGee chronicle I'm writing after Gretal, at lest physically.
If you happen to pick it up first, The Green Ripper (1979) is fine on its own, but its incredibly violent final act shocks those of us who started from the beginning. It takes someone we know and it pushes him so far beyond his known limits that it's breathtaking.
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky | The Empty Copper Sea | The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald
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Beautiful girls always grace the Florida beaches, strolling, sailing, relaxing at the many parties on Travis McGee's houseboat, The Busted Flush. McGee was too smart--and had been around too long--for many of them to touch his heart. Now, however, there was Gretel. She had discovered the key to McGee--to all of him--and now he had something to hope for. Then, terribly, unexpectedly, she was dead. From a mysterious illness, or so they said. But McGee knew the truth, that Gretel had been murdered. And now he was out for blood...
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Erica Marie Navarrette
A rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, August 29, 2013, at St. Peter Catholic Church, a resurrection Mass is scheduled for 11 a.m., Friday, August 30, at St. Peter Catholic Church for Erica Marie Navarrette, 34, of Albuquerque, who passed away on August 25, 2013. Father Andrew Miles [auth] will officiate.
Erica was born in Roswell on June 28, 1979, to Elida Navarrette. She survives her in Roswell.
Erica is also survived by a stepfather: Justin Greene; sisters: Manny Lopez, Veronica Archuleta, Esthela Perez, Laura Falconer, Michelle Castro, Veronica Gonzales, Shuhada Smith, all of Phoenix, AZ, and sister Janet Ortiz, of Albuquerque, NM; aunts: Evelyn and Antonio Fuentes, of Artesia; Jean and Bobbie Navarrette, of Seattle, Washington; uncle Edward Ray and Shelby Navarrette of Plainfield, Indiana; and grandparents: Edward an Eva Navarrette, of Roswell, as well as numerous cousins.
Erica loved softball, music, dancing and camping. She had a special place in her heart for her Grampo and Grammy as well as her family and friends. She also loved Madea and Uncle Si.
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This plugin can be installed from the official Kodi addon repository. You will also need an Rdio API key - instructions on obtaining one can be found on the wiki.
Bugs and Feature Requests
There are some troubleshooting steps for some common problems on the wiki. Please check here first.
You can ask questions, report bugs or make feature requests here in this thread, or use the issue tracker. When reporting a bug or problem make sure that you include the following with your bug report:
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- Your platform (XBOX/Linux/Windows/Mac/ATV)
If you would like to use this plugin in your own language, all you need to do is send me a copy of the plugin strings file with all the text translated.
Roughly prioritised list of features I'm thinking about implementing. Unfortunately I have limited time these days to work on this addon, so there are unlikely to be major changes quickly. That said I'll still try to make some small updates as time allows.
- Switch "collections" to new "favourites" API
- Artist bio
- Better info handling (including "year" infolabel)
- Search history
- Prefix albums by artist in album list?
- Artist sorting when multiple pages
- Paging of artists list (possibly retrieve in chunks instead?)
- Scan Rdio collection to XBMC library
- Fanart
- Rdio personalised radio stations
- Refresh page after adding/removing from collection
- Playback history
- Online status of friends
- List song played of friends
- Sync to mobile
- Create/delete playlists
- Add whole albums and other playlists to your playlists
- Add tracks to XBMC queue ("play later")
- Cache Rdio API call results for faster menu navigation
- (make a suggestion!)
Change Log
Version 1.14.1 (2015-01-10)
- This plugin is now hosted in the official Kodi addons repository!
Version 1.10.0 (2013-11-23)
- New icon
- Show new releases this week, last week and last two weeks
- Fanart (front page only)
Version 1.9.0 (2013-07-16)
- Collection radio
- Fix for playback error when stream mode not set (thanks matt-moser)
Version 1.8.0 (2013-06-17)
- Spanish translation (thanks Dpons039)
- German translation (thanks efty.edge)
- Fix for authentication issues
- Fix for errors when displaying menu items with accented characters
Version 1.7.1 (2013-01-27)
- Fixed bug showing playlists with no icon or length
Version 1.7.0 (2013-01-16)
- Playback fixes
- Use better quality images for album art (thanks nmunson)
- Portuguese and Portuguese (Brazil) translations (thanks iurifq)
Version 1.6.0 (2012-11-11)
- Play "artist radio station". This plays a random selection of songs from an artist and other artists related to that artist. The algorithm for determining the song to play next is described in this post.
Version 1.5.0 (2012-10-14)
- Add track to any of your playlists
- Remove track from one of your playlists
Version 1.4.0 (2012-09-23)
- Show sad face if track or album is not streamable (ie: due to regional licensing restrictions)
- Subscribe to and unsubscribe from playlists (via context menu)
- "Top Charts" menu - shows top albums, artists, playlists and songs on Rdio
Version 1.3.0 (2012-07-01)
- Search for playlist
- Link to show all albums for an artist
- Album lists are sortable by album name, date and artist (when applicable)
- Add song/album to your Rdio collection (via context menu)
- Remove song/album from your Rdio collection (via context menu)
Version 1.2.0 (2012-06-17)
- Browse new release albums
- Browse heavy rotation albums in your network
- "More from this artist" link whenever you browse an artist or track list from a particular artist
- When selecting artist in your collection, show albums from that artist in your collection rather than tracks (only if there is more than one album)
Version 1.1.1 (2012-06-16)
- View people in your network and play their albums, artists and playlists
- Search for album/artist
- Browse artist's top albums, top tracks and similar artists (after search)
- Large album collections are paged to prevent timeouts
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- Basic authentication and playback
- List and play your own collection by artist
- List and play your own collection by album
- List and play your playlists (including collaborative and subscribed playlists)


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We are a small, non-profit animal rescue organization located in central Florida that provides sanctuary for and specializes in caring for largely non-adoptable stray cats and dogs. Most are either old, have medical problems, are feral, or have behavior problems that has precluded them from being adopted.
Our organization consists of all volunteers and relies solely on public donations to buy food and to provide medical care for the animals. 100% of all donations go to help the animals. There are no employees, no administration fees and no professional fund-raisers to pay.
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- To provide long-term care for the aged, infirm, and non-adoptable animals.
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A pioneer in women's mixed martial arts, Tonya Evinger is making her UFC debut in a title bout against Cris 'Cyborg' Justino, a fight she has considered to be inevitable. We check in with Evinger ahead of the matchup at UFC 214 on July 29.
'Cyborg' to face Evinger at UFC 214.
Brett Okamoto breaks down the news that Cris "Cyborg" will now face Tonya Evinger at UFC 214 instead of Megan Anderson for the featherweight title.
Cyborg to face Evinger as Anderson withdraws
UFC confirmed Tuesday to ESPN that Megan Anderson has withdrawn from next month's 145-pound title fight against Cris "Cyborg" Justino, who instead will face Tonya Evinger at UFC 214 in Anaheim, California.
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For ESPN's annual Body Issue, UFC strawweight Michelle Waterson (also known as the Karate Hottie) opened up about being an MMA mom, learning to love her stretch marks, and what she wants fighting to teach her daughter.
Waterson embracing changes after birth of child.
UFC strawweight Michelle Waterson has been a mixed martial arts fighter for over a decade and has proven herself in and out of the ring. Mid-career she had a baby, and was given new motivation to make it to the top of her sport.
Making sense of Aaron Pico's disastrous MMA debut
Aaron Pico lost to Zach Freeman in the first round of his professional debut on Saturday at Bellator NYC. How can the talented prospect bounce back?
MMA promotion Combate Americas's live event on Friday from Mexico City will air on ESPN3. The main event features lightweights Danny Ramirez (6-2) and Rodrigo Vargas (6-3). The card will also showcase the promotion's second-ever female strawweight fight.
A highly anticipated welterweight fight between Robbie Lawler and Donald Cerrone at UFC 213 on July 8 is almost certainly off, per sources. There is a good chance it could get rebooked to UFC 214 later in the month. This would be the second time this matchup has fell through. The two were supposed to fight last November, but Lawler withdrew.
- Price to sponsor Mayweather-McGregor $10M
- UFC 214 gets third title fight in Woodley-Maia
- Dos Santos-Ngannou bout slated for UFC 215
- Cerrone blood infection to delay Lawler fight
One incredible mismatch
The incredibly long odds of Conor McGregor against Floyd Mayweather
Soon after the fight with Floyd Mayweather was confirmed, tons of small bets came in on Conor McGregor. It's a good thing they were small. Many can't fathom the extent of this mismatch.
Chandler describes nerve injury from Bellator title loss, talks rematch
Michael Chandler looks back at his TKO loss at Bellator NYC this past weekend and makes his case for an immediate rematch with Brent Primus.
UFC Fight Night
Lee scores controversial win over Chiesa in UFC Fight Night main event
Kevin Lee picked up a submission victory over Michael Chiesa on Sunday in Oklahoma City, but the UFC Fight Night main event ended in controversy after the referee brought the fight to a premature end in the first round.
UFC President Dana White is not happy with the result of UFC Oklahoma City's main event. In a controversial decision, referee Mario Yamasaki ended the bout after Kevin Lee had Michael Chiesa in a rear-naked choke -- but no tap. On his Instagram account White says Yamasaki "steals a great moment from Lee or let Mike fight it or tap...pay attention to what's going on in the fight and do ur job."
MMA legend BJ Penn (16-12-2) lost by majority decision to Dennis Siver (23-11) on Sunday in Oklahoma City. Since defending the lightweight title at UFC 107 in 2009, Penn is 1-7-1.
The UFC has announced an event scheduled for Sept.9 in Edmonton will now be called UFC 215, and that a planned August PPV, most likely in Seattle, is now canceled. It's the second time this year the UFC has rearranged its pay-per-view schedule. The UFC had wanted to book a flyweight title fight between champion Demetrious Johnson and T.J. Dillashaw to the August event, but Johnson has declined the fight, saying he believes the next title shot should go to Ray Borg.
The family of UFC legend Matt Hughes, 43, has released a statement on his current condition. Hughes has been hospitalized for more than a week after he was involved in a car accident with a moving train in Illinois. His sister, Beth Hughes Ulrici stated on Facebook that Hughes is "improving and continues to show us his heart and determination each day." The statement added Hughes still "has a long road ahead" and is still in the "biggest fight of his life." According to earlier statements released by the family, Hughes is stable at a Springfield, Illinois hospitable but suffered a brain injury in the crash.
UFC Fight Night
Lee submits Chiesa via controversial stoppage.
UFC lightweight Kevin Lee picks up the eighth submission victory by defeating Michael Chiesa via rear-naked choke in the first round. Referee Mario Yamasaki stepped in to stop the bout, but Chiesa claimed he never tapped out.
Boetsch knocks out Hendricks.
Tim Boetsch wobbles Johny Hendricks with a head kick and finishes the middleweight bout with a barrage of uppercuts in the second round.
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Tim Boetsch (21-11) beats former UFC welterweight champion Johny Hendricks (18-7) by second-round TKO in front of Hendricks' home crowd. Hendricks was a four-time All-American wrestler -- and two-time national champion -- at Oklahoma State. "Bigg Rigg" missed the 186-pound limit by two pounds Saturday morning and forfeited 20 percent of his purse to Boetsch.
Felice Herrig (13-6) beats Justine Kish (6-1) by unanimous decision at UFC Fight Night in Oklahoma City. Herrig nearly finished Kish by rear-naked choke midway through the third round. It would have been Herrig's third submission win. Only Rose Namajunas has that many in UFC women's strawweight history.
Kevin Lee takes down Michael Chiesa early in the first round in the main event. Lee has a successful takedown attempt in 10 of his 11 UFC fights.
Sonnen dominates W. Silva in grudge match
Chael Sonnen stuck to his guns in his grudge match against Wanderlei Silva, scoring takedowns and keeping much of the fight on the ground to score a unanimous decision Saturday night in the headliner of Bellator NYC at Madison Square Garden.
Okamoto: Sonnen in top form over Silva.
Brett Okamoto breaks down how Chael Sonnen's victory over Wanderlei Silva will affect his career.
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Bellator NYC Undercard Recap
Before Bellator NYC's main event between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva, a multitude of undercard fights had major implications. Here's how it went down.
Mitrione defeats Emelianenko
Mitrione, Emelianenko tag each other for double knockdown.
Matt Mitrione and Fedor Emelianenko land punches on each other, dropping both fighters to the ground before Mitrione knocks out Emelianenko in the first round.
Mitrione finishes Fedor after double knockdown
Matt Mitrione knocked out Fedor Emelianenko at 1:14 of the opening round Saturday night at Bellator NYC, just moments after a wild sequence in which both fighters hit the canvas after landing simultaneous right hands.
According to the ESPN Stats & Info team, Brent Primus had +600 odds according to Westgate and now wins the Bellator lightweight title after defeating Michael Chandler at Bellator inside the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday. Photo provided by Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com.
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Vegas sees flurry of 'square' bets on McGregor
Las Vegas sportsbooks saw a flurry of recreational betting action on Conor McGregor, a significant underdog in his highly anticipated bout against Floyd Mayweather.
Neiman Gracie defeated Dave Marfone by submission in the second round. The win continues his unbeaten streak to six.
James Gallagher (7-0) dominated Chinzo Machida (5-3) on Saturday, winning by rear-naked choke in the first round.
Boxer Heather Hardy had a successful MMA debut, stopping Alice Yauger by TKO in Round 3 of their flyweight fight at Bellator 180 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. "My hands are hurting from hitting her," said Hardy after the victory. Photo provided by Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com
Heather Hardy won her MMA debut by TKO (punches) against Alice Yauger.
Just spoke to Bellator MMA president Scott Coker cageside at Madison Square Garden. He said they are expecting a crowd right near capacity. The Spike TV portion of tonight's event is about to get underway.
NFL legend Herschel Walker here at MSG and ready for Bellator NYC.
Multiple sources have told me UFC bantamweight T.J. Dillashaw is no longer on a plan that would have him down to 125 pounds by August. Dillashaw had wanted a title fight against flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson, but Johnson declined, saying he had already accepted another fight and didn't feel Dillashaw deserved to jump in line. Sounds like Dillashaw's focus is turning back to a title fight against Cody Garbrandt, who is currently recovering from a back injury.
Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor
Mayweather-McGregor: Expect a spectacle, not a fight
If you are interested in the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight, cool. Enjoy. Have a party. Have a blast. But manage your enthusiasm and don't expect a good bout, writes Dan Rafael.
Everyone will watch Mayweather-McGregor for variety of reasons.
SVP's 1 Big Thing is the spectacle that will be Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor and the various motivations people will have to buy it.
Max: 'Conor will not land a single punch against Floyd.'
Max Kellerman describes Conor McGregor as a "pure puncher" but doesn't believe that he will connect on a single punch against Floyd Mayweather.
Mayweather's betting style & Joe Peta on MLB
Chad Millman talks to Bob Scucci and Ben Fawkes about Floyd Mayweather's betting prowess and his upcoming fight against Conor McGregor. Later, Joe Peta joins to talk MLB.
James Gallagher
Bellator: NYC
Ireland's Gallagher credits McGregor for setting path -- but still aims to exceed him
Twenty-year-old Irishman James Gallagher fights out of the same gym as Conor McGregor and credits McGregor for blazing a path in MMA. But as he approaches this weekend's Bellator: NYC card and his first U.S. fight, Gallagher plans to forge his own legacy.
Cyborg vs. Anderson
'Cyborg' gets title fight; de Randamie stripped
Cris "Cyborg" Justino will face Megan Anderson in the co-main event of UFC 214 for the newly vacant women's featherweight championship after the belt was taken from current titleholder Germaine de Randamie.
Boxing vs. MMA
Dillashaw, Lomachenko share boxing ring, talk Mayweather-McGregor
While a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is in the spotlight, former UFC bantamweight champ TJ Dillashaw tried his luck against junior lightweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko.
McGregor takes trash talk to a whole new level
Conor McGregor is a notorious trash-talker, but he's upped his game for Floyd Mayweather ahead of their August bout.
Holm scores first win since Rousey, knocks out Correia
Holly Holm defeated Bethe Correia by a powerful leg kick KO in the third round. It was her first victory since defeating Ronda Rousey in 2015.
In social media post, Matt Hughes family states he is "stable" but "not yet awake and not responding as we would like to see but we see the fight in him." Hughes, 43, a former UFC champion, was driving a truck that was struck by a moving train in Illinois on Friday.
Colby Covington (12-1) improves to 7-1 in the UFC with a unanimous decision win over "Stun Gun" Dong Hyun Kim in Singapore. Covington was a juco wrestling national champion and former college roommate of Jon Jones before transferring to Oregon State, where he won two Pac-10 wrestling titles.
Rafael dos Anjos defeats Tarec Saffiedine by unanimous decision in his UFC welterweight debut.
Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor
Mayweather-McGregor: What does it mean for the sports of boxing and MMA?
The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is set, but what will their decision to fight have on the growth potential of their respective sports?
It's on: Mayweather-McGregor fight finalized
The much-anticipated boxing match between undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. and MMA superstar Conor McGregor will take place Aug. 26 in Las Vegas.
How Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor came to be
A timeline of the verbal sparring that led to the most unlikely fight of the year: Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor.
Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor
Sulaiman on Mayweather-McGregor belts
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has told ESPN that he is 'not against' sanctioning Floyd Mayweather Jr against Conor McGregor for the WBC Diamond belt -- an honorary championship awarded to the winner of a historic fight between two elite boxers.
White won't defend McGregor-Mayweather fight.
Dana White tells Max Kellerman how people expect him to defend the impending bout, saying, "I didn't make this fight, the fans made this fight."
Conor's MMA Future
Conor's Future
What is McGregor's future after Mayweather fight?
Brett Okamoto breaks down how the MMA world is reacting to Conor McGregor's fight with Floyd Mayweather.
Coach Kavanagh: Conor McGregor already training for Floyd Mayweather
Conor McGregor's coach, John Kavanagh, spoke exclusively with ESPN about how McGregor is preparing for his boxing match against Floyd Mayweather
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Mayweather a milestone in McGregor's career.
Conor McGregor's agent Audie Attar believes the Irishman's decision to switch to boxing was a calculated risk and another milestone in his career.
Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor
Stephen A. Smith's take
McGregor-Mayweather fight a 'sucker's paradise'?
Stephen A. Smith doesn't think fans interested in the McGregor-Mayweather bout are necessarily "suckers," as Dan Le Batard described.
Stephen A. says it takes nine figures to get Floyd to fight.
Stephen A. Smith discusses previous conversations he had with Floyd Mayweather about the amount of money it took to get him to return and how Conor McGregor will be able to shoulder some of the promotional load.
Conor vs. Floyd
McGregor determined to break the unbeaten record.
Conor McGregor's agent Audie Attar believes the UFC fighter is driven to make history against Floyd Mayweather by breaking his unbeaten record.
Dana White
On Mayweather-McGregor
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Dana says 'the impossible deal is now done.'
UFC president Dana White joins SportsCenter to explain a few of the details surrounding the megafight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
How can McGregor beat Mayweather?
Dana White says he's stopped doubting Conor McGregor long ago and praises his willingness to fight anybody.
The science behind Mayweather-McGregor.
ESPN Sport Science breaks down the power UFC champion Conor McGregor will bring to the boxing ring against the defensive prowess of Floyd Mayweather.
Coach Kavanagh: Conor McGregor already training for Floyd Mayweather
Conor McGregor's coach, John Kavanagh, spoke exclusively with ESPN about how McGregor is preparing for his boxing match against Floyd Mayweather
Mayweather-McGregor makes cents, not sense.
Jeremy Schaap compares Conor McGregor boxing Floyd Mayweather to Michael Phelps challenging Usain Bolt to a sprint. Still, the bout is expected to garner huge interest and draws huge dollars.
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Mayweather heavy favorite in McGregor fight
Now that the blockbuster boxing match is official, Floyd Mayweather is a -1,100 favorite at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas, with Conor McGregor paying back +700.
Mayweather-McGregor will be at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Aug. 26. It will be a boxing match at 154 pounds. Both fighters will wear 10 oz. boxing gloves. Mayweather Promotions will build the undercard.
Dana White: "We've been in negotiations for awhile. Negotiations went smoothly. We got this thing done. The impossible deal is now done."
Betting Conor-Floyd
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McGregor not as big an underdog as you'd think
Conor McGregor might be considered a giant underdog to beat Floyd Mayweather, but he's only +650 at Las Vegas sportsbooks. That's better odds than Holly Holm (+800) had to beat Ronda Rousey at UFC 193. Here are some other comparable odds.
Mayweather: Sometimes I bet 'millions'
Floyd Mayweather discusses how he began betting, if betting should be legalized, where he watches the games when he's betting in Vegas and more.
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Biggest bets for Mayweather-McGregor
One bettor has already wagered $50,000 on Floyd Mayweather to beat Conor McGregor at -800 odds. Here is a running file of the biggest Mayweather-McGregor bets across Nevada sportsbooks.
A Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight is about the green, but also about black and white
The great white hope or great white hype?
McGregor does work at news conferences.
A news conference between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is sure to be fireworks. Look back at a few of McGregor's best moments on the dais.
Rovell thinks Mayweather-McGregor could set PPV record.
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McGregor's fast road to enormous payday.
Brett Okamoto describes the amazing journey Conor McGregor has gone on since starting on a UFC undercard in 2013 all the way to a super fight with Floyd Mayweather on August 26.
Wilbon doesn't see Mayweather-McGregor as a 'real fight.'
Michael Wilbon says the mega-fight is more of an "American spectacle" rather than a sporting event and doesn't think there's enough preparation time to legitimize this fight.
Sonnen says let's enjoy megafight.
Chael Sonnen acknowledges that Conor McGregor will be a huge underdog against Floyd Mayweather but adds that the event will be fun.
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American Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection this morning, taking the road that many of the company's competitors have taken in years prior.
AMR Corp., the holding company of American Airlines, and AMR Eagle Holding Corp., the holding company of American Airlines' regional carrier, American Eagle, filed their Chapter 11 petitions this morning in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, despite the fact that both are headquartered in Fort Worth, TX. In a release, AMR's Board of Directors noted that the filing would hopefully allow the company to achieve a cost and debt structure that is industry competitive, thereby assuring its long-term survival.
According to AMR's most recent quarterly balance sheet, the company has $24.72 billion in assets and $29.55 billion in liabilities. It also has $4.1 billion in unrestricted cash and short-term investments, which the company said should be enough to ensure that vendors, suppliers and other business partners will be paid timely and in full for goods and services provided during the reorganization according to terms. AMR's cash position also suggests that debtor-in-possession financing is neither considered necessary nor anticipated.
In an FAQ for suppliers and trading partners, AMR was mum on what sort of payment unsecured creditors could expect to see on their pre-petition claims. "It is impossible to predict before approval of the plan of reorganization how much holders of general unsecured claims will receive," said the company. However, AMR also filed a separate motion with the court asking permission to pay certain foreign suppliers and vendors certain pre-petition obligations, meaning that these non-U.S. based companies may see payment sooner than later. The company said that it expects the court to approve the motion.
"Our very substantial cost disadvantage compared to our larger competitors, all of which restructured their costs and debt through Chapter 11, has become increasingly untenable given the accelerating impact of global economic uncertainty and resulting revenue instability, volatile and rising fuel prices, and intensifying competitive challenges, " said AMR Chairman, CEO and President Thomas Horton. "Our Board decided that it was necessary to take this step now to restore the Company's profitability, operating flexibility, and financial strength."
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Cut Your Communications Costs
Trim down your operating budget by reevaluating your communication tools. With the combined cost of smartphones (BlackBerries, Treos, etc.), the numerous service plans needed, and a constant flood of new devices saturating the market, keeping your company online has never been more expensive. But for an on-the-go small business, constant communication is paramount, and it might seem like there are no other options.
Think again. Instead of spending another dime on more technology, consider enhancing the tools and devices you and your staff already own. If your management team is not equipped with e-mail-capable smartphones, for example, there are affordable services (some even free) that can turn any existing mobile phone into a "poor man's" BlackBerry. These services can easily forward all of your employees' e-mails to their existing mobile devices without any download of additional software or upgrading hardware.
Communications don't have to be complicated or expensive. Sometimes the best tools are the ones already in front of you.
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Mike McQueary—former assistant coach at Penn State and the one-time graduate assistant that witnessed Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in the showers on campus—is suing Penn State. On Monday, a motion was filed on behalf of the university asking that McQueary's whistleblower suit be put on hold while criminal charges against athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz are resolved. They'll go to trial this January on charges that they didn't properly report the abuse. [Philly.com]
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No doubt you've heard about the legislator in Italy who is proposing to make it illegal to raise kids as vegans. Italian lawmaker Elvira Savino wants to see jail sentences of up to seven years for parents who feed their children only plant foods. The proposed bill describes veganism as "a diet devoid of elements […]
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Vegan Diets are Dangerous? Here is What the Research Really Says
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic suggest that vegans should know something about diet planning in order to make sure they are meeting nutrient needs. Their conclusions were published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. The paper doesn't say anything that is particularly alarming, and, with a few exceptions, there isn't much in it […]
New Vegan Nutrition Primer on Iron
Iron deficiency anemia is a serious and common public health problem for people eating all different kinds of diets. While vegans don't seem to develop anemia any more often than people who eat meat, we do have higher iron needs. It's hard to know just how much higher those needs are for individual vegans, though, […]
7 Reasons to Eat Meat? Here Is Why They Are All Wrong
In some ways, it's good news when someone writes another article about "why we should eat meat." The arguments are so weak that it just reinforces the truth: meat eating can't be defended. The most recent of these pieces lists seven reasons why writer Christina Sterbenz "refuses" to stop eating meat. So, let's look at […]
Iron Nutrition: Why the Rules are Different for Vegans
One of my vegan cooking gurus, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, recently posted directions for producing perfectly browned tofu. She advises making it in a well-seasoned cast iron pan. I don't have a cast iron pan, but am thinking about getting one. I eat tofu every single day, and love when it's perfectly browned, so it deserves […]
Ten Tips for Staying Happy and Healthy on a Vegan Diet
There is a long list of reasons why people fail on a vegan diet and return to the world of cheese sandwiches and fish fillets. They might have developed overt deficiencies or vague symptoms of poor health. Some ex-vegans say that they experienced depression or foggy thinking or fatigue without animal foods. Others struggled with […]
Recommended Supplements for Vegans
Just days before everyone was talking about the Voracious [ex-] Vegan story, I received a severe scolding from a reader for my stance on supplements (this was in response to my post on omega-3s). She was adamant about the fact that "whole plant foods" can easily provide everything we need. An effort to prove that […]
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When I read the recent blog post by Tasha, who used to be The Voracious Vegan, it felt like déjà vu all over again. Just a couple of months ago I was blogging about another woman—Lierre Keith—whose vegan diet made her so sick that she had to go back to eating meat and, in the […]
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Jordan Brand has a new face and it's none other than Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks. Number #88 will dawn the classic brand every Sunday – in custom-made cleats—doing what he does best…catch those zip line passes from quarterback Eli Manning.
To start their venture off on the right foot, Jordan Brand has designed a special PE cleat for Nicks using the Jordan Super.Fly as their template. The cleats feature Silver Hyperfuse throughout the toebox, side panels, lace lining, tongue, and heel. Hits of Red highlights the design on the side panels, sock and tongue liner, the support mechanism going around the heel, and the outsole. Lastly, minimal detailing of the NY Giant's Blue is used on the tongue tab and studs.
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Latest update June 23rd, 2017 12:55 AM
A known criminal suspect had his left hand almost blown off during a shootout with police at Vigilance on the East Coast of Demerara just before midday yesterday.
Dwayne Anthony Critchlow, 28, who was fingered in a number of high-profile crimes, had reportedly shot at a passing police patrol in the vicinity of Vigilance North, sparking an exchange of gunfire.
Kaieteur News understands that the police were responding to reports of heavy gunfire behind the Vigilance Police Station, which even temporarily disrupted proceedings in the Vigilance Magistrate's Court.
Sources in the area said that Critchlow, who was once an associate of murder accused Tyrone Rowe called 'Cobra', had an altercation with another person, resulting in shots being fired.
This resulted in the police responding.
Police spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker told this newspaper that ranks on mobile patrol saw Critchlow, who they know was wanted for threatening a policeman with a gun at Plaisance in May this year, and challenged him.
Whittaker said that Critchlow upon seeing the police, started to run.
In the process he allegedly pulled out a gun with which he fired at the police.
The police returned fire hitting the wanted man on his left arm, just above the wrist.
However, Critchlow still managed to run all the way to the neighbouring village of Friendship, where he stashed himself in a house on Friendship Road.
The police managed to follow a blood trail which led them through the Friendship Cemetery until they finally cornered Critchlow, with his badly damaged hand.
When this newspaper arrived on the scene he was clutching the hand which was dangling from a few fleshy tissues, vociferously proclaiming that he was wrongfully shot.
"Dey shoot me and say I had a gun. Whey de gun deh?" Critchlow cried out.
Police ranks combed the yard where he was apprehended but did not find any weapon.
Critchlow was a prime suspect in the murder of Canadian-based Guyanese Rawle Harding at the Cool Square Hangout Bar in West Ruimveldt. He was also questioned in relation to the murders of two businessmen at Bartica. His name was also called in a robbery/shooting at Plaisance in which two persons lost their lives and an overseas-based Guyanese was injured.
"We know he was involved in some of these things but we did not have enough evidence to convict him," a police source told this newspaper.
His sister Minerva said that she was at home in Vigilance when a neighbour told her that the police were shooting at her brother.
"When I come out I just see de police dem in all different angle running. Then I get a phone call saying that he (Critchlow) get shot, one shot on his hand and we head down to the scene," Minerva said.
She said that her brother had left his home a few minutes before the police confronted him.
She admitted that her brother has had many previous brushes with the law.
"His name was called with this Cool Square murder and he do couple months. When they realized that it wasn't him, he was freed. Now they say he wanted; I don't know wha' he wanted for, because if he wanted and living at Vigilance, de police station deh right pon de road, dey supposed to come and collect he," the wanted man's sister told this newspaper.
"Honestly, I don't walk with Dwayne, but I know that dis morning he didn't do anything," she added.
Critchlow has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he is presently under police guard.
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