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Are games art? Are games good? Are games even games? As you might guess, this article's going to be rather contemplative, philosophical, even, so please put on your critical judgment hats and smoking jackets.
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The Great Infrastructure And Operations Divide
Posted by Rachel Dines on May 17, 2011
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What percent of your IT budget do you spend on "keeping the lights on"? If you're anything like a typical company that I work with, the answer is more than half. That doesn't leave much money for spending on new initiatives and projects — in fact, in 2010, the average IT organization spent less than 25% of their IT operating and capital budget in these categories. Most companies that I speak with tell me they wish it was more, but they get constantly caught up in the day-to-day "firefighting" which leaves little time and budget to spend on new innovations, more proactive measures, and new initiatives. And the treadmill just keeps getting faster and faster as more projects are piled on with little or no additional budget to help implement them.
While we can't stop the treadmill, I have seen some organizations slow it down enough to spend more time and money on new initiatives. How, you might be wondering? The key is in the organizational separation of the infrastructure (engineering/design) groups from the operations groups. Traditional infrastructure and operations organizational structures had the design, engineering, operations, and all the support done by the same group of people. Sure, they may be grouped by the supported technology, but often still all sharing the day-to-day operational tasks. Slowly, we are starting to see companies separating the functions by assigning certain resources to operations and others to infrastructure, but the most benefit can be found when the two groups are under separate reporting structures. By taking infrastructure engineering and design resources out of the day-to-day operations, they will have more time to devote to new projects, upgrades, requests for enhancement, and most importantly, innovation. Of course, infrastructure and operations can't each exist on their own; they need to remain tightly linked through governance and service management.
This trend is not new, but it has been accelerating as IT enters a new industrialized era and as the business becomes more and more reliant on — and demanding of — its supporting infrastructure. Next week, my colleague Glenn O'Donnell and I are leading a track session at Forrester's IT Forum in Las Vegas on this topic as well as on the new skills that are required to survive this evolution. I hope you can join us and join in on the discussion around the IT industrial revolution, the bifurcation of infrastructure and operations, and what impact the cloud and automation will have on our organizations.
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Comment from Frank Guerino on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:59
Hello Rachel,
What you're describing in your article is known to most people in IT as "Segregation of Duties" (or Segregation of Responsibilities). Enterprises separate Product Development activities from Product Support activities and put support escalation guidelines in place to only engage Product Development resources, when it's absolutely necessary to do so (i.e. Incident Management Escalation Policies). The thought process is to free up Product Development resource to do what they do best, which is develop new Products, Features and Services so that revenue generation can grow.
The goal, quite simply, is to identify your higher value activities and free them up to perform more higher value work. Most business and IT leaders openly recognize that Product Development activities (i.e. Strategy, Planning, Design & Engineering) are considered to be higher value activities than Product Support activities (i.e. Incident Management, Problem Management). This is not to say that supporting customers is not important. It simply points out the reality that Product Development activities correlate to revenue generation, which is always first and foremost on most leaders' minds. Product Support is considered an "expense" and a consumer of revenue, driving profit margins down.
This is all what I call "Core Activities vs. Chore Activities" (or Core vs. Chore). Core activities generate revenue and raise the ceiling in order to maximize profits. Chore activities drain revenue and are considered "expenses."
If you throw too much into your "expense" side of the equation, you will minimize revenue generation by squashing the activities that are tied to innovation and forward moving.
One of the key and now widely accepted strategies that enterprises use to address the point of your article is "outsourcing." Enterprises segregate Product Development activities from Product Support activities and then do everything they can to outsource Product Support to lower labor cost countries, in order to drive their operational support costs down, freeing up funds to pour back into Product Development (or to raise profit margins).
Thanks for the article.
Frank Guerino
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I agree that the separation
Comment from Andrew Dike (not verified) on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 12:06
I agree that the separation roles with IT teams can lead to greater efficiency as long as these teams stay tightly linked. As a Senior System Engineer, I've found that even in small teams (less than 10), separation of roles work.
However it requires a change in the mindset of IT managers to make this successful. As the majority of time is spent in maintenance, there's a culture of firefighting which only keeps the team firefighting for longer. Tasks get handed out to anybody because there's rarely a strategy on how to get to a place where more time is spent on innovation and revenue driving activities and less time on 'chore' activities.
A manager needs vision to look past the fires and create a strategy on where the team should be, and how they will get there.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The Rider University field hockey team lost the 2012 season opener at Drexel University 3-0 on Sunday afternoon at Buckley Field.
Rider (0-1) was out-shot 16-8.
"I feel we competed well," said head coach Lori Hussong, in her 13th season at Rider. "The result may not indicate that but I was happy with the way we controlled part of the game."
For the Broncs, freshman goalie Joelle Prettyman (Newark, Del./St. Mark's) made seven saves in her first collegiate game.
Rider held a 6-2 penalty corner advantage, including 2-0 in the opening half but could not put one by Drexel (2-0) goalie Jantien Gunter who made two saves, recording her second shutout of the season.
The Dragons scored just over seven minutes into the game and took a 1-0 lead into intermission.
"The first 40 minutes, we probably had the better of the play as far as ball control," said Hussong, the 2011 Northeast Conference Coach of the Year. "We made three defensive mistakes and Drexel cashed in on every one of them."
Back to back unassisted goals, eight minutes into the second half and one with 20 minutes left in the game iced the contest for the Dragons.
Freshman Allison Muschs (Linkebeek, Belgium/Lycee Emile Jacqmain) had three of Rider's eight shots.
Junior Sandra Penas (Barcelona, Spain/ies Joaquim Blume), the 2011 Northeast Conference Offensive Player of the Year, was held to two shots for the Broncs.
Rider and Drexel have now split the 20 all-time meetings 9-9 (2 ties). The teams last met during the 1999 season with the Dragons winning. Rider last defeated Drexel in 1995.
This marks only the second time that Rider has been shutout since the final game of the 2008 season (61 games).
"We weren't able to generate any type of sustained offense," Hussong added. "Drexel played very well and they were very efficient. We didn't move particularly well and work to get open. But you can't take anything away from Drexel, they knocked off the number five ranked team on Friday (Duke). We made a pretty good showing."
Rider hosts Villanova in the 2012 home opener at 4pm on Friday at Ben Cohen Field on the Lawrenceville campus.
"We need to get better and we know that we will," said Hussong who had led Rider to six NEC regular season titles and five NEC championships. "We know where we made mistakes today and that's why we put together a tough non-conference schedule, to keep improving and get better by the time conference play begins in October. Really, these next six games or so are going to be really competitive '50-50' games for us. We are young and we are working to improve each time out."


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STONY BROOK – Marist freshman Spencer Johnson (Bristol, Conn.) qualified for the USA Track & Field Junior Championships in the 10,000 meters on Saturday at the Wolfie Invitational, held Saturday at Stony Brook.
Johnson ran a time of 32:19.34, which is 0.66 seconds faster than the new qualifying standard of 32:20.00. He became the third 13th athlete in school history to qualify for junior nationals, and the first with the new standard. He set a personal best by over 42 seconds, and ran a negative split, as his second 5,000 meters was faster than his first. This year's junior nationals will be held July 5-6 at the University of Oregon.
Marist also received personal bests from sophomore Omar Perez (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) in the 10,000, freshman Saad Baig (Staten Island, N.Y.) in the 3,000, junior Kyle Hannafin (Staten Island, N.Y.) in the 1,500 and freshmen Nestor Taylor (Cumberland, Maine) and Nate Lungarini in the 800.
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Men's results
100-meter dash
Tyler Schwarz 11.69
Joe Cafaro 11.74
200-meter dash
Matt Edwards 23.18
Tyler Schwarz 23.29
Tim Johnson 23.75
400-meter dash
Matt Edwards 50.91
Tim Johnson 52.62
Connor Dodge 53.97
Ty Gamble 54.35
800-meter run
Nestor Taylor 1:58.18
Nate Lungarini 1:58.29
Bryan Buttigieg 2:00.16
1,500-meter run
Nick Salek 4:05.45
Kyle Hannafin 4:07.97
Stefan Morton 4:13.41
Charlie Ropes 4:14.80
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Nick Salamone 9:23.72
Justin Tampellini 9:38.95
5,000-meter run
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Eddie White 17:10.24
10,000-meter run
1-Spencer Johnson 32:19.34 **USATF Junior National qualifier
First 5km: 16:18; second 5km: 16:01
1600-meter splits: 5:13, 5:13, 5:13, 5:11, 5:11, 5:08
2-Omar Perez 32:45.18
3-Billy Hild 32:55.22
5-Brian Edsall 34:12.28
6-Doug Ainscow 34:51.23
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4-Marist A (Tim Johnson, Zach Berzal, Connor Dodge, Matt Edwards) 3:27.24
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- John Buck made the Minnesota Twins the latest team to pay for an intentional walk.
Kansas City's catcher hit a two-run double with the bases loaded to cap a tie-breaking, three-run seventh inning in the Royals' 6-3 victory Wednesday night.
"Any time a guy gets intentionally walked in front of you, it gets the adrenaline going a little bit," Buck said. "For the team's sake, you want to come through. It is usually a situation that is a pivotal part of the game, that could turn around the game dramatically."
Reggie Sanders scored the go-ahead run for the Royals on a passed ball charged to Joe Mauer. Buck's two-out double then scored Esteban German, who had a pinch-hit single, and Angel Berroa, who was walked intentionally, to make it 6-3.
"As a hitter when they walk somebody in front of you to load the bases, it gets your heart starting a little bit. You've just got to be careful that you are not overanxious," Royals manager Buddy Bell said. "John took the pitch that got Reggie in, and he put a good swing on that pitch for a double. He hit the ball good all night. Those two extra runs were really big."
Berroa is 6-for-16 off Juan Rincon, which is why Twins manager Ron Gardenhire ordered the walk.
"We looked at the numbers," Gardenhire said. "You just can't take a chance there. We felt we could take a chance with Buck."
He said Mauer was crossed up on the passed ball.
"He called slider and he got a fastball," Gardenhire said. "We've been using one sign and changed with men on base. It was just a little confusing."
Buck and Sanders each had two hits and two RBI and Mark Grudzielanek had three hits as the Royals won for the 11th time in 16 games.
Jesse Crain (2-5), the second of four Minnesota pitchers, took the loss, while Jeremy Affeldt (4-5) threw just one pitch -- retiring Justin Morneau on a comebacker to end the seventh with runners on the corners -- to get the win.
"Those are the interesting ones, one pitch and win," Affeldt said. "I've thrown 110 pitches and lost, so give some, take some."
Ambiorix Burgos pitched the ninth to earn his 14th save in 22 opportunities.
Sanders had an RBI single in the first inning. Grudzielanek led off the third with a double, his seventh in five games, advanced to third on fly out and scored on Sanders' sacrifice fly to center.
The Royals went ahead 3-1 in the fourth, which Berroa opened with a double. Joey Gathright snapped an 0-for-14 with a single, moving Berroa to third and he scored on David DeJesus' sacrifice fly.
Royals starter Brandon Duckworth retired the first eight batters before giving up consecutive singles to Jason Bartlett, Luis Castillo and Nick Punto in the fourth. Punto's single scored Bartlett.
Mauer's two-out single in the fifth scored Bartlett and Castillo, who both walked. Mauer, who went 1-for-3 and leads the majors with a .391 batting average, golfed a pitch from Duckworth that was no more than six inches off the ground into right field.
"Everything seemed to be working real well for me," Duckworth said. "I got in trouble in that fifth with the two walks ending up hurting. I made a pitch to Mauer that I wanted to. He did a good job of hitting, getting the ball into that hole. I thought it was going to bounce. it was a changeup and I wanted to make sure it was down and was hoping he went out of the zone. That's why he's hitting .391."
Duckworth left after six innings, his longest outing since the Royals acquired him in a June 10 trade with Pittsburgh. Duckworth gave up three runs and six hits, walked three and struck out three.
Twins starter Brad Radke allowed three runs and 11 hits over five innings. He is 1-5 with a 6.52 ERA in nine road starts, compared to 6-2 with a 3.95 ERA in nine starts at home.
"It seems like every time we come in here the Royals play us tough," Radke said. "You don't want to lose a lot of games going into the All-Star break. We want to stay calm, like we have been, and play some good ball."
Morneau doubled in the fourth to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 13 games. He has hit safely in 24 of his last 25 games.
Twins CF Torii Hunter picked up his seventh assist, which ties him for the league lead for outfielders. ... DeJesus went 0-for-4 to end his 11-game hitting streak. ... Gathright stole his first base since the Royals acquired him in a June 20 trade with Tampa Bay. He had 12 stolen bases with the Devil Rays. ... Royals manager Buddy Bell was ejected in the seventh inning, arguing Punto foul tipped a pitch when Castillo stole second. It was Bell's third ejection of the season and his first since May 7.


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TRINITY — When Mitchell exited the Class 4A playoffs last season with a 2-0 region final loss to eventual state champion Dunnellon, it seemed like the best chance to play for a state title might have gone with it.
With four seniors graduated, including last year's workhorse pitcher Cortney Radke — now at the University of North Florida — the offseason raised many questions about who would step up and fill Radke's shoes.
And those are some big shoes to fill. Radke was 18-3 and struck out 252 batters last year.
The 2010 team allowed just 21 runs total, but this season's Mustangs yielded eight runs in their first three games. An early-season 8-2 loss to Wiregrass Ranch left some wondering if this would be Mitchell's down year.
Not so fast on that assumption.
The Mustangs have bounced back with impressive wins over county power Pasco (1-0) and Gulf (10-0). Those shutouts were a product of solid pitching from junior Cori Williams, who last season was in more of a relief role .
"(Radke) definitely earned all the accolades she got last year," Williams said. "This is a big step from last year. It's a big responsibility for me and I'm actually loving it. I think that first game versus Wiregrass, we just took them just a little bit too lightly because we haven't played them in a while. Our defense has played lights out and I'm so proud of the way we've been playing."
Williams' early success on the mound can be attributed to her offseason training and travel ball play . And Radke's father, Dave, is on the Mustangs' coaching staff and has offered plenty of helpful tips .
"(Dave Radke) has helped me so much mentally and physically," Williams said. "He's so supportive of me and Jordan (Fowler), our other pitcher. It's just so great to have him around and have him teach us everything he taught Cortney."
Mitchell coach Scott Bisbe isn't asking Williams to be a clone of Radke .
"Well, they both love striking people out," Bisbe said. "They're two totally different girls. Cori plays with a lot of emotion and Cortney was like nails. You could put Cortney in a bases loaded, no outs and she would be, like, okay. But I think Cori has worked very hard this offseason on the mental aspect, and she's grown up a lot since last season."
And Williams is getting control of her nerves. Against Pasco, she allowed only four hits and struck out 11 in a closely contested matchup.
"It may have not looked like it but I was so nervous before that game," Williams said. "Every single pitch I threw I thought I might miss my spot. I'm so happy we won that game.
"Towards the end I was pitching with so much confidence. That was one of the best games I've ever thrown."
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News Corporation's Rupert and James Murdoch were summonsed to appear before Parliament's committee to answer questions on the phone hacking scandal on Tuesday — but, Murdoch declined.
But as US citizens, Murdoch and son James both backed out and neither can be compelled to appear. Apparently, they claim they will come another day, but what could be more important?
The hacking began with invading the privacy of celebrities then expanded, soon targeting thousands of others, including a 13 year old girl who was kidnapped and later killed — this outraged the British public then prompted an investigation.
Meanwhile, not only the News of the World is in the midst of this scandal but three Murdoch owned newspapers. News International's Sunday Times and The Sun(Britain' s most read tabloid paper), allegedly used deception to try to obtain former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's private financial records.
Rebekah Brooks, on the other hand, has agreed to attend.
60 year old Neil Wallis, former executive editor of the News of the World tabloid which is in the middle of the scandal has been arrested and taken in for questioning on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications. Wallis is the ninth person arrested in this scandal.
On Tuesday, the Commons culture, media and sport committee invited Mrs Brooks and the Murdochs to give evidence at the House of Commons about the phone-hacking scandal.
In a statement, the MPs said that serious questions had arisen about the evidence Mrs Brooks and Andy Coulson, both of them former News of the World editors, gave at a previous hearing in 2003.
Rupert Murdoch, in a letter to committee chairman, John Whittingdale, wrote that he was not available on Tuesday but, he was "fully prepared" to give evidence to the judge-led inquiry announced by David Cameron on Wednesday.
James Murdoch offered to appear on an alternative date, the earliest of which was 10 August. What is baffling is, what other issue is more demanding in his life after thousands of people were victimized? Perhaps Murdoch is attempting to rid this problem by utilizing other avenues.
Ms Brooks said she "welcomed the opportunity" to give evidence.
But, in a statement, the MPs said: "The committee has made clear its view that all three should appear to account for the behaviour of News International and for previous statements made to the committee in Parliament, now acknowledged to be false.
"Accordingly, the committee has this morning decided to summon Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch to appear before the Select Committee in Parliament at 2.30pm on Tuesday July 19 2011."
Mr Whittingdale said the Deputy Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons would now deliver the summons to the Murdochs in person.
Given the ire this scandal has drawn in Britain I would think Mr. Murdoch would want to clear the air. An interesting thought — since the media mogul is a U.S. citizen, and the scandal includes hacking the families of 9/11 victims, it's most unlikely he can put off appearing here for questioning.
If you recall, this past January, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was demonized by Fox News, claimed to have in his possession secret documents which are/were damaging to Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp empire. Could it be….
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Colorado State at Wyoming | Game 20
Colorado State (6-13, 2-4 MW) travels to Laramie, Wyo., to take on the Cowgirls (16-4, 5-2) Saturday at Arena Auditorium. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. MT.
The Cowgirls welcome Colorado State to the "Double A" riding a three-game win streak. Wyoming has gotten the best of UNLV in Las Vegas (76-54) and Air Force (86-48) and New Mexico (72-54) on the road.
With the return of two-time all-conference selection, Sam Martin, and the reigning Mountain West Sixth Player of the Year, Meghan Heimstra, the Rams will look to improve upon last season's 13-17 record. Sophomore Ladeyah Forte leads Colorado State from the point guard position. She finished second in assist-to-turnover ratio in the MW in her rookie year.
The game will be broadcast live on AM 1410 KIIX. Matt Wozniak, now in his fourth season with the Rams, calls all the action. Live game video will also be available for all non-televised home contests via Rams All-Access subscription on CSURams.com, and for the first time, fans will be able to listen to every Rams' game for free on Rams All-Access.
Scouting Report on Wyoming
- The Cowgirls are a perfect 9-0 at home this season.
- Three of Wyoming's four losses this season were to opponents CSU also faced this year. All three were road matchups: Colorado, Bowling Green and Boise State. Both the Rams and Cowgirls lost to CU and Bowling Green, but the Cowgirls also lost at Boise State, 70-68, where CSU prevailed on Wednesday. Wyomings's fourth loss was at San Diego State (66-43), where the Rams will travel on Feb. 13.
- Through seven conference games, Wyoming leads the league in scoring offense (73.6) and is second in scoring defense (57.7), thus giving it a large scoring margin at plus-15.9.
- Wyoming has a solid presence in almost every statistical category in league play. The Cowgirls' only pitfalls are three-point field-goal percentage defense in ninth place (.417), steals (5.6; 9th) and three-point percentage (.320; sixth).
- The Cowgirls have five true starters in Chaundra Sewell, Kayla Woodwards, Kaitlyn Mileto, Ashley Sickles and Alison Gorrell. All but Gorrell were a part of the starting five from 2011-12.
- The four returning starters each average double figures in scoring. Sewell leads the pack at 14.6, followed by Woodward (14.6), Mileto (13.0) and Sickles (10.9). Sewell is the leading rebounder in the Mountain West, pulling down 9.8 boards per contest.
- Rams' assistant coach Chad Lavin, who led Wyoming from 1986-98, was just replaced this season by current head coach Joe Legerski as the winningest coach in Wyoming's history. Legerski is in his 10th season at Wyoming with a 188-111 record.
- Wyoming's attendance average of 3,354 this season ranks second in the Mountain West and 28th in the nation.
Series vs. the Cowgirls
- Saturday's meeting between Colorado State and Wyoming will be the 84th game between the two schools. It is the oldest rivalry in CSU history, dating back to 1974, in the programs' inaugural season.
- The Rams are 42-41 vs. the Cowgirls overall with a 16-22 record in Laramie.
- CSU hasn't won north of the border in 11 years, dating back to Feb. 23, 2002.
- This is Head Coach Ryun Williams first contest vs. Wyoming. Until this season, Williams had never played against any team in the MW, aside from CSU.
A win will...
- Give the Rams a chance to hold the sixth place spot alone in the conference standings. The Rams are currently tied for sixth with New Mexico at 2-4.
- Give the Rams their third road win of the season. CSU currently has the third-best road record in Mountain West play behind Wyoming and San Diego State.
- Avenge a tough loss in overtime at Wyoming last season (recap below).
- Tie the Rams' win record on the road from the 2011-12 campaign at three.
Last time at Wyoming (Feb. 18, 2012)
A desperation three-pointer with the shot clock winding down in overtime allowed Wyoming to pull away for the 66-62 win at the Arena Auditorium.
The Rams (12-14, 8-3 MW) remain in second place in the league, but have now lost 10 games in a row in Laramie. Wyoming improves to 11-13 and 7-4 in the Mountain West.
Kelly Hartig continued her hot streak, scoring double-digits for the second consecutive time. She finished with a team-high 17 on the afternoon. Sam Martin found her shot again, scoring 15 points of her own.
The Cowgirls shot only 35.3 percent, but the team made 24 free throws off of a season-high 25 CSU fouls. Wyoming also tallied 21 second-chance points off 14 offensive boards. Comparatively, CSU had just seven offensive rebounds, scoring eight points.
Down by four with 2:49 on the clock, the Rams came back on two very important steals by Kelly Hartig and Kim Mestdagh. Both Sam Martin and Mestdagh hit each of their free throws on the other end of the court, giving CSU a two-point lead. A missed layup by Chaudra Sewell from Wyoming with 18.2 seconds forced the Cowgirls to foul. Hayley Thompson hit the back end of her two shots from the charity stripe, but Sewell made up for her missed shot earlier, making her first three-pointer of the year with just 4.1 seconds on the clock, sending the game to overtime.
The game continued to go back-and-forth until Ashley Sickles banked in last-second three-pointer at 1:29 in the overtime period. After that, time ran out on the Rams, who were unable to come back before time expired.
By the 13:08 mark of the second half, every CSU player had at least one foul. Heimstra received her fourth five minutes into the stanza and fouled out at 8:49. Mestdagh recorded her fourth with 8:16 on the clock and fouled out with 28.2 seconds to play.
Kim Mestdagh, who has scored double figures in 11 consecutive contests, was held to just two points with Cowgirls' guard Kaitlyn Mileto defending her tightly for the entire game.
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Well, I Figure why not throw one of these up. I'm starting my training for my next fight in December, I think it's on the 19th and its going to be at Light Heavy Weight.
General Info
Weight:230lbs (as of 9-18-09)
Diet: AWFUL
I work out at numerous gyms my main gym has weights, cardio equipment, and is where i do most of my training.
If anyone has any help they can give me on dieting it would be greatly appreciated. What I did for my first fight probably wasn't the smartest way to diet.
This was my monday-friday food schedule.
Breakfast: Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee with choc. Chip Muffin
Lunch: 6" Veggie Sub on Wheat no cheese little dressing (subway)
Dinner: Couple pieces of chicken/Deli Meat before passing out.
I followed this for 4 weeks to get from 235 to 215. The thursday before the weigh in I ate lunch and that was my last meal until after weighing in. I was at 225 that day, and when i woke up i was at 220, and when i went to cut the last of it i had lost another lb, and only had to cut 4lbs.
I didn't feel weak or anything training while doing it, but i know its not how i should be cutting weight.
Im thinking of starting a log here as well, but what good is it if no one reads it! (Plenty good) Feel free to check mine out when I get it up and running.
Where are you fighting out of? It seems like you have fought before, what is your record? Are you primarily a striker, or a submission guy? GNP?
Weight: 231
Warmup: 3 laps around the building then right into 2X3min rounds of shadow boxing
3X3min rounds of Mitt work
3X3min rounds of sparring
15X1min rounds of kickboxing sparring rotating every minute to new partners no rest
then we went over some striking drills for the newer guys, while they drilled i worked on the Thai Bags.
the last half hour we rolled for 1 5min round rotating to new partners.
wasn't the greatest work out i've had but i like working on my striking alot, i feel comfortable on the ground but less comfortable on my feet.
my diet still sucks,
D&D Iced Coffee and Choc Chip muffin
Lunch: 6" Subway Chicken salad on Wheat with Bacon, Cucumbers, Pickles, Banana Peppers.
Dinner: Chicken Wrap, mexican seasoned chicken with salsa, and ranch dressing...
Getting back on a good diet is awful, I dread it every day.
I took tuesday off due to having to be here at work until 7pm and couldn't make it to the gym in time.
Weight: 231
I didn't get much of warm up due to having to teach the kids MMA class, coach was going to be late and I teach both classes when he's out anyway.
We did King of the Mat drills open mat takedowns, winner stays. then we rolled for 3x5min rounds. then more takedown drills against the cage wall. then more rolling for ever. then the last 15min of class was a circuit, i stayed at one station and everyone rotated through me. i was on my back they had to pass, i had to sweep or submit, the only guys who could pass where the super HWY because i couldn't lock my guard up tight due to the enormity of them.
Diet....still isn't going good..
Breakfast: Iced Coffee Muffin
Lunch: Burger and Beef Stew
Dinner: Chili and Chicken sandwich wrap thing
and i totally had some candy in there too...
Ok with the New Year comes a new Grizzly Bear, I'm on my quest to be a 205er by march, see how i feel fighting at that weight, then maybe trying to make the cut to 185. I'm going to talk to some of my friends that are really good at dieting to get this figured out.
Ill post the starting weight im at after i get home from the gym today, heres hoping that im only at like 230-235 still... i weighed in at 240 for my last fight back on dec. 19th
Ok my weight last night was at 238.5lbs, not to bad i guess.
I trained for a solid 3 hours yesterday, and also got the worst cramp in my ab's ever...
I started with 5 X 3min rounds working the bags (heavy, Thai, Uppercut).
Tossed my Gi on, and did some light rolling before class started, Trained for 30mins on drills and a butterfly guard pass and a setup on how to take the back from side control. Then he had me go No-Gi with one of our guys whos fighting for the XCFL LHW Title next month (http://www.XCFLMMA.com)...
Got tossed around by him almost got some slick submissions on him, he seems a little rusty for being a blue belt.
After BJJ i got talked into doing Boxing Team Training, we started off with 1 3min round of circleing the ring for a warm up...even though i was plenty warm already... 3 guys ran stairs for the 2nd round while 3 of us did side to side drills with medicine balls over head. then switched for stairs, then switched for shadowboxing, then stairs again.
Then we got ready for sparring, at which point i was already dead tired, and while the other guys where sparring we where doing catch drills back and forth, I did a total of 3 rounds sparring, and have NO faith in my boxing skills, I just need to get sparring more.. We ended with 30sec drills on the heavy bags, each guy switching every 30 seconds going for 2min each total then some ab work which gave me the worst cramp ever. Just one AB was hard as a rock... it sucked...
This mourning im at 236
Ok, last night I ended up having to run the Kids MMA class so no Boxing workout for me before my MMA class. Did some takedown drills with the "older" kids who are going into highschool next year, while another coach took the small kids and did some live wrestling with them.
MMA was a pretty decent class, like most January's the class size was huge, a ton of newbs... we did Cards for most of the class, where you get in groups of 3 and you pick a number (1,2,3) and we go through a list of numbers like 1up 2up, 2down 3up...2 minute rounds no breaks in between until you've done all of them... the last half of class we did some catch drills, some pumbling(sp?) and the 30sec drill on the heavy bags again...
I was going to head to Lauzons after but my body was begining to cramp up already so I decided to take it easy until im use to punishing myself like this again..its been awhile...
I'm taking tonight off to rest, my legs and back are tight today don't wanna push it to hard right off the bat.. Friday I have team training where ill get bloody'd up pretty good, and saturday im going to do some cardio after work. and Sunday is a new Strength and Conditioning class that just started last week...but no one told me until this week.
OK a new week!
I didn't train at all last week, I have been feeling a little under the weather so I took the week off.
Lets see how it goes...
Also I have just found out starting in March when the AC take over MMA here apparently unless an outside sanctioning body comes in there can be NO Ammy MMA here anymore... which is either a blessing or a curse for me... I either get to go Pro like i want in march, or I have to travel to other places to fight...which sucks because I either have to go north to New Hampshire or to CT where you can't throw strikes to the face on the ground.
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ci? if so, ive seen it only like twice.. i used to ALWAYS run into this 325i (i think.. only way to tell is the rear bumper..) facelifted with an m3hood, bumper, hartge rims, mirror tint, m3 rep. mirrors.. the works except the rear bumper is stock and no S/C.. he lives litterally across the street from me but a couple of house behind the house across the street from me.. so i would have to go around the block and down some streets.. lol. i never see it anymore.. when i had my 318i he would always try to showoff.. when i had my 323.. he would always try to show off.. now i have my 330.. he's nowhere to be found..
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Well said. I was a teen in the 70's full of songs and mantras against war, embracing love for all and feeling like we were on the verge of true equality for all. That window slammed shut in the 80's, bars went up in the 90's and today there are gun turrets around each of those windows. I sing tons of love songs. Tony and I tried to remember if there were any real love songs written in the 90's or 2000's. Nope. We've fallen a long way.


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YANGON (Reuters) - A television set with wings hovers on a wall in a murky Yangon sidestreet.
"This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest media censorship and now duplicated across Myanmar's commercial capital. "Media freedom is a big issue for me."
Aung, who requested that his full name be withheld, belongs to a new generation of Yangon street artists whose often politically charged graffiti was almost unthinkable before Myanmar's recent burst of reforms.
For decades Myanmar was a dictatorship where pervasive surveillance by military spies meant even "tagging", the quickly drawn signature found in graffiti worldwide, was too risky. That began to change when a semi-civilian government took power in March 2011.
It has freed political dissidents, legalized trade unions and improved relations with the West, and the once-ubiquitous government spies have all but vanished. Emboldened, street artists are hitting Yangon to comment on everything from power shortages to money-laundering.
Their number has doubled to about 50 in the past year, says Aung, a painter and freelance graphic designer who has documented the rise of street artists.
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Ø Accounting for Additional Development Costs;
Ø Accounting for Development costs;
Ø Accounting for Costs of gaining access and preparing well location for drilling;
Ø Accounting for Costs of drill and equip development well, development-type Stratigraphic test well;
Ø Accounting for Cost of acquiring , constructing and installing production facilities, e.g. lease;
Ø Support Equipment and Facilities;
Ø Drilling and Development Seismic;
Ø Post-Balance Sheet Events;
Ø Accounting for suspended well costs;
Ø Interest capitalization;
Ø Offshore and international operations;
Ø Problems and Issues associated with Successful Efforts Accounting for Drilling Development Cost.
Part 9: Proved Property Cost Disposition – Successful Efforts
Ø Accounting for Costs of Property;
Ø Accounting for Cost of Lease and Well Equipment;
Ø Accounting for Cost Disposition Through Amortization;
Ø Cost Disposition Through Amortization of Reserves Owned or Entitled;
Ø DD&A Calculation;
Ø DD&A on a Field-Wide Basis;
Ø DD&A When Oil and Gas Reserve Are Produced Jointly;
Ø Estimated Future Dismantlement, Site Restoration, and Abandonment Costs;
Ø Exclusion of Costs or Reserves;
Ø Depreciation of Support Equipment and Facilities;
Ø Cost Disposition – Nonworking Interests;
Ø Revision of DD&A Rates;
Ø Cost Disposition through Abandonment or Retirement of Proved Property;
Ø Successful Efforts Impairment;
Part 10: Full Cost Accounting
Ø Principles of Full Cost Oil and Gas Accounting;
Ø Disposition of Capitalized Costs;
Ø Inclusion of estimated future development expenditures;
Ø Inclusion of estimated future decommissioning costs;
Ø Exclusions of costs;
Ø Impairment of unproved properties costs;
Ø Abandonment of properties;
Ø Reclassification of properties;
Ø Support equipment and facilities;
Ø DDA&A under successful efforts versus full cost;
Ø Reserves In Place – Purchase;
Ø Interest Capitalization;
Ø Limitation on Capitalized Costs – A Ceiling;
Ø Limitation on Capitalized Costs for Asset retirement obligations;
Ø Limitation on Capitalized Costs for Deferred taxes;
Ø Limitation on Capitalized Costs for Income tax effects;
Ø Assessment of the ceiling test;
Ø SFAS No. 144 and Full Cost Ceiling Cost;
Ø Post-balance sheet events and the ceiling test;
Ø Problems and Issues associated with Full Cost Accounting.
Part 11: Accounting For Production Activities (1)
Ø Accounting Treatment for Production Activities, generally;
Ø Accounting for Cost of production versus inventory;
Ø Accounting for Recognition of Inventories;
Ø Lower-of-cost-or-market valuation;
Ø Accumulation and allocation of costs;
Ø Accounting for Individual production costs;
Ø Accounting for Secondary and Tertiary recovery;
Ø Accounting for Gathering systems;
Ø Accounting for Saltwater disposal systems;
Ø Accounting for Tubular goods;
Ø Accounting for Severance taxes.
Part 12: Accounting For Production Activities (2)
Ø Production Cost Statements;
Ø Joint Interest Operations;
Ø Decision to Complete a Well;
Ø Project Analysis and Investment Decision Making;
Ø Investment Decision based on Payback method;
Ø Investment Decision based on Accounting Rate of Return;
Ø Investment Decision based on Net Present Value;
Ø Investment Decision based on Internal Rate of Return;
Ø Investment Decision based on Profitability index;Problems and Issues associated
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Rendlesham Forest Britain's 'Roswell'. On Christmas Day, 1980, security guards at a Suffolk airbase found a strange object in the woods with flashing lights. One guard described communicating with aliens using sign language. There was an official army investigation. Last week a US soldier said he set up it all up as a practical joke.
Brazilian aliens Early on 20 January 1996 the fire department in the Brazilian town of Varginha received a call reporting a sighting of a strange creature near by. Later there was another call, reporting the same thing. By day's end an alien alert had gripped the town amid reports of up to seven aliens captured by the military.
Ilkley Moor abduction In December 1987 an ex-policeman described seeing 'a small green creature' while walking on the moor and saw a silver disc fly into the sky. He later realised he had lost track of two hours; under hypnosis, he said he had spent this time aboard the craft.
Cumbrian UFO Near midnight on 28 August 1977 a large object, triangular or diamond-shaped, was reported over the Windermere area of Cumbria by dozens of witnesses, including 10 policemen. It vanished near Morecambe.


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House prices are crumbling on both sides of the Atlantic, growing numbers of homeowners face repossession, financial markets are yo-yoing and the UK saw its first run on a bank in living memory. But for three audacious New York traders it all added up to a $4bn (2bn) profit opportunity and the biggest jackpot in the history of Wall Street.
The young guns at the investment bank Goldman Sachs none of them over 40 years old were unmasked yesterday, prompting a wave of adulation and envy among their colleagues, and another bout of handwringing about Wall Street's ability to make multibillion-dollar profits even as millions of ordinary people face losing their homes.
Dan Sparks and two underlings, Josh Birnbaum and Michael "Swenny" Swenson, placed what were in effect giant bets against the US mortgage market at the start of the year and watched their winnings tick higher and higher as the rising numbers of mortgage defaults spiralled into a worldwide financial crisis. Throughout the year, they battled with more cautious bosses who feared the bets were too big and too dangerous, but in part because of their success Goldman Sachs will post record profits next week. In doing so, the firm will stand alone on Wall Street, where rivals have suffered huge losses from the credit market meltdown.
The trio themselves are in line for bonuses of about $10m apiece from a record bonus pool at Goldman of about $19bn. "They are very embarrassed that their names have come out," said a company source. "Until now, nobody had heard of them, including most of the people on the floor where they work."
The Wall Street Journal, the bible of the New York finance industry, revealed yesterday how the three men would forgo lunch breaks, weekend trips with their families and even sleep to keep on top of positions but would always find time to pump themselves up at the gym before heading to the testosterone-fuelled trading desk.
Haunted by the spectre of Nick Leeson, whose unapproved trading racked up the 827m losses that sank Barings Bank in 1995, investment banks have tried to keep a tight leash on their traders, but Goldman Sachs has led a trend to put more and more of the bank's own money on the line in the search for bigger profits. Nonetheless, the trio had to engage in a running battle to keep their bets from being whittled away by more conservative risk managers, and at one point in February when an angry Mr Birnbaum shouted that it was "the wrong time" to be cutting the bets, he was overruled. The decision was reversed and the bets ratcheted back up later in the year.
Their $4bn success more than mitigated other losses on mortgages, and could put the three men into an elite group of legendary traders. Their profit eclipses the $1.1bn made by George Soros when his bets against the currency pushed sterling out of the exchange rate mechanism in 1992 and the estimated $1.5bn made by the hedge fund manager John Arnold last year from the collapse of a rival fund, Amaranth.
Goldman is one of the oldest and certainly the most illustrious firms on Wall Street, with a reputation for hiring athletes and military veterans people who do not necessarily seek the limelight, and are able to be "team players". Wall Street bloggers were yesterday sniping that the revelations about the three traders at the heart of the bank's mortgage market bets had much to do with jockeying for favour as the bonus pool is divvied up.
Goldman itself is trying to play down the scale of the risks taken by the mortgage trading desk, saying that most of the trades were designed to reduce the risk of opposite holdings elsewhere in the business. The plans were being carefully directed from above, a company spokesman said. "These guys were the pilots flying the planes." The bank has also been trying to limit the political fallout from revelations that it made giant profits from a financial crisis that could see millions of Americans forced out of their homes and plunge the rest of the economy into a recession. Chris Dodd, a candidate for the Democratic party presidential nomination and head of the Senate's banking committee, has threatened to investigate Goldman's behaviour.
Wall Street banks have been fingered as a major cause of the credit crisis because of their insatiable demand for mortgages, which they buy and repackage into a dizzying array of complex financial instruments.
Goldman's traders positioned themselves for a crash by betting against some of those instruments even while other parts of the mortgage business spent the first half of the year creating and selling new ones to hungry investors. Meanwhile, independent mortgage brokers were pushing unsuitable loans on to low-income Americans who may not now be able to pay them back.
Mr Dodd said he was concerned because it appeared that Goldman Sachs was "aggressively pushing sub-prime mortgages that they knew to be of concern while simultaneously shorting "mortgage derivatives".
And he has turned his fire on Hank Paulson, President George Bush's Treasury Secretary, who was head of Goldman Sachs until being persuaded to join the administration last year. Mr Paulson is in the awkward position of seeing his Goldman Sachs shares rise in value while having to organise a bail-out for American homeowners who cannot afford their mortgages.
Critics argue that Goldman's aggressive bets against the mortgage market have exacerbated problems in the financial markets, which in turn has made it impossible for many struggling borrowers to refinance.
What at the start of the year had appeared to be a serious but isolated problem for over-extended American homeowners has spiralled into a global financial crisis. The world's central banks this week unveiled a $100bn package of emergency measures to try to get the markets moving again.
The mortgage derivatives created by Goldman and others have been dubbed "toxic waste" by investors, who no longer want to buy them. Wall Street banks have suffered more than $50bn in losses as a result and have dramatically scaled back their activities, causing financial markets to freeze up. Smaller banks such as Northern Rock in the UK, which relied on the markets for funding, have got into trouble and many other sorts of business are threatening to scale back investment plans, which economists fear could lead to rising unemployment.
Agony on Main Street, ecstasy on Wall Street
Dan Sparks, 40
Those who get on at Goldman Sachs are those who can leap on a fleeting opportunity a talent that Sparks exudes in his personal life, too. He bumped into a childhood schoolfriend in the street on a shopping trip to New York, invited her for dinner that evening and is now married with two children.
The long-time bond trader was promoted to head of Goldman Sachs' mortgage business a year ago, since when he has had a little less time for weekend trips to his alma mater, the University of Texas A&M, where he and his family are obsessive supporters of the American football team and donors to the athletics department.
Michael "Swenny" Swenson, 40
With no time to break for lunch, Swenson would order the same chicken and vegetable salad from a nearby deli and eat it at the trading desk every day. Nicknamed Swenny everyone has a nickname on a matey Wall Street trading desk the seven-year Goldman Sachs veteran entertains colleagues with a fast, biting wit.
At Williams College, Swenson was an ace hockey player and continues to visit the gym every morning,despite having to commute from the suburbs of northern New Jersey to downtown Manhattan in time to be at the desk by 7.30am. He has four children.
Josh Birnbaum, 35
In the Hamptons, Wall Streeters' exclusive summer getaway, Birnbaum has been something of a hot property. A local magazine last summer named him as one of the area's most eligible bachelors, a "power player" and a "well-mannered Mr Right". The profile also had him down as a "brainiac", and it true that he was the technical brains behind the trio's ability to place efficient bets against what are still obscure and difficult-to-trade mortgage derivatives. Swenson and Sparks wanted him to create a computer model for trading against a new mortgage index, and he netted $1m on his first day.
The big bets that came off...
George Soros made 550m on black wednesday, 1992
Soros studied at the London School of Economics in the 1950s, forming the view that economic growth was reliant on a tolerant and market-oriented society. He put that theory into devastating practice when Britain was forced to leave the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) on 16 September 1992.
Soros realised that the pound had been overvalued against the deutschmark when it joined the ERM and borrowed vast sums of sterling to convert into deutschmarks and French francs. When the inevitable devaluation came along, he sold his position, paid back his borrowings of about 10bn and pocketed a 550m profit earning the sobriquet "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England".
Warren Buffett made 1bn on currencies since 2002
The famously frugal investor, who still lives in the house he bought in 1958 for $31,500, has a history of successful financial gambles. In 2002 he began buying contracts to deliver US dollars against other currencies in effect betting on the fall in value of the dollar. The move surprised fellow investors, not least because Buffett had never before made an investment based on the movements of a currency. It has paid off handsomely, netting his company an estimated $2bn in profits. Buffett also trades on his reputation. In 1998 he started buying huge quantities of silver. Investors followed his lead, raising the price and earning Buffett a handsome profit.
Paul Tudor Jones made 50m from crash of 1987
Early in 1987, a young New York trader made a documentary predicting that the world's financial markets were grossly overvalued and a dramatic crash was inevitable. When Black Monday arrived on 19 October, causing the biggest single drop in stock markets ever seen in a single day, Paul Tudor Jones was feted as a soothsayer. His advice to his clients to sell their shares earned him a $100m pay cheque. Those feeling bullish about the current economic circumstances may do well to listen to the latest predictions by Robert Prechter, who influenced Jones's 1987 forecast. Prechter said recently that stocks are overvalued beyond the level that led to the Great Depression.
...and the ones that came a cropper
John Meriwether lost 2.3bn in 1998 financial crisis
Regarded as a genius in complex trades involving government bonds, Meriwether's hedge fund, LTCM, was a star performer in the first years of its existence, regularly making returns of more than 40 per cent. But as LTCM ran out of bonds to use for its impressive returns, it began to make investments in areas outside its expertise. When stock markets fell in south-east Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998, investors started selling the government bonds that were the bedrock of LTCM's wealth. In a single month its equity fell from $2.3bn to $600m. By 1998, the Federal Reserve organised a $3.6bn bail-out to avoid a wider collapse in the markets. Total losses eventually reached $4.6bn.
Yasuo Hamanaka lost 1.5bn on copper trades in 1996
Copper trader Hamanaka was known as "Mr Five Per cent" in reference to the proportion of the world's annual supply of the metal that he controlled. For years he was allowed to dictate his company's copper-buying strategy, but he was running two accounts one showing healthy profits and another huge losses. The deficit came to light in 1996 when the authorities in London and New York asked his employer, Sumitomo, to cooperate with an investigation into suspected price-fixing. Panic ensued and Sumitomo was forced to admit that Hamanaka had lost $1.8bn in unauthorised trading. Eventually the losses reached $2.6bn. Hamanaka was jailed for eight years.
Nick Leeson lost 827m at Barings Bank in 1995
In 1992, Leeson's employers had good reason to value his services. After a series of speculative trades on the Singapore currency exchange, he made the company 10m a tenth of its total profits.
Soon, Leeson's luck changed. By the end of 1994, the deficit had reached 208m and on 16 January 1995, Leeson decided to place a huge bet on the Tokyo stock exchange going up. Overnight the Kobe earthquake struck and the exchange sank.
He tried to recoup his losses by betting again but this, too, failed. Leeson fled, leaving a note saying "I'm sorry". Barings collapsed as a result of his losses, and Leeson was eventually sentenced to six and a half years in prison in Singapore.
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May 4, 2005 marked the first-ever Children's Mental Health Summit Day across the U.S, with activities taking place nationwide through organizations including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Center for Mental Health Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Children's Partnership, in collaboration with The Child and Youth Mental Health Planning Partnership will host a rally and press conference at the Texas State Capitol. We will celebrate 'Communities Caring for Children Together.' This event will focus attention on how systems of care are transforming mental health care systems for children, youth and families.
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GDUSA's 10 Favorite Poster Designs of the Past 50 Years
For their 50th anniversary Graphic Design USA or GDUSA asked their readers on what is there favorite poster design of the half-past century.
Conducted a series of 50th anniversary surveys wherein they asked the graphic design community about who is the most influential designer and the works that they admire. One of these surveys is the "Favorite Poster Design of the Half-Past Century". From Glaser to Fairey all of the posters here are the top picks by the graphic design community and are considered to be the best.
Without further ado here are the top 10 favorite poster design from GDUSA's survey.
1. Bob Dylan – Milton Glaser
2. Eye Bee M – Paul Rand
3. Anatomy of a Murder – Saul Bass
4. Hope – Shepard Fairey
5. The Threepenny Opera by Paul Davis
6. Bring In 'Da Noise – Paula Scher
7. Alvin Ailey – Steff Geissbuhler
8. Knoll Furniture "Hot Seat" – Woddy Pirtie
9. Vietnam Antiwar Poster (End Bad Breath – Seymour Chwast
10. Day of the Heroic Guerilla, Che Guevera – Eric Serrano
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A guide to Bangkok's temples
Few cities have the energy and intensity of Bangkok. With 12 million people, it?s long been a?big player in terms of size, but investment over the past 30 years has turned it into a bustling?metropolis on a par with Singapore or Tokyo. And when it comes to food and nightlife, it?s one of?the best cities in the world.
These days it?s a one-of-a-kind destination, a place of colourful markets, upscale malls and exquisite?palaces and temples. It?s a travel-brochure clich? to describe somewhere as ?a place of contrasts?,?but nowhere fits the label better than Bangkok: here wild orchids and bougainvillea grow alongside?shiny glass high-rises, while monks in saffron robes wander past neon-lit signs.
The city attracts backpackers and wealthy travellers alike, and for that reason has a huge range of?hotels, from backstreet B&Bs to luxury 5 star hotels. And there?s no shortage of places for visitors?to while away an afternoon. Here you?ll find fascinating museums, exotic wildlife parks and some?world-class spas. But the real must-sees are the temples. These are three to visit:
The Grand Palace
In a country of 30,000 temples, The Grand Palace is considered the ultimate. This huge complex at?Bangkok?s centre has been official residence to the kings of Siam ? now Thailand ? since 1782. The?current king lives elsewhere but, such is its grandeur, he still uses it for official functions.
The palace itself is huge, covering an area of some 218,400 square metres, so you?ll need a good day?to cover it. It isn?t just one building, but a collection of halls and pavilions separated by manicured?gardens and courtyards. There?s plenty to feast the eyes on, including a solid-gold throne in the?Vinichai Hall, and the famous Emerald Buddha, which dates back to the 14th century.
Be warned, there?s a strict dress code ? feet, shoulders, legs and midriffs must be covered ? but?there?s a kiosk where you can borrow clothes if necessary. And watch out for illegal ticket touts?outside ? they look official, but are usually anything but.
Wat Arun
Rising majestically from the banks of the Chao Phraya river, Wat Arun ? or the Temple of the Dawn?? is one of Bangkok?s most striking landmarks. It?s an awesome piece of architecture, with an 80-metre spire covered with ornate Chinese porcelain and coloured glass. Lower down, stone demons?and monkeys prop up smaller spires, known as prangs.
Inside you?ll find paintings and sculpture, together with some impressive murals. There?s also a?Buddha designed by King Rama II, who ruled in the early 1800s. His ashes are stored at its feet.
To see the temple at its best, go at sunset or at night, when it?s beautifully spotlit. Or, better still, see?how it earned its name and visit at dawn.
Wat Pho (also known as Wat Po)
Take a water taxi to Wat Pho, the third in the ?trinity? of Bangkok temples. You?ll find it in the Old?City, practically next door to the Grand Palace. The big draw here is a reclining, 40-metre gold?Buddha. Even its feet are incredible, being three metres long and decorated with intricate mother-of-pearl patterns. The building also houses a thousand images of Buddha, more than any other temple in Bangkok.
The temple, which dates back to 1788, is the birthplace of traditional Thai massage, and still?operates as a centre for education, teaching religion, literature and science.
4 other temples to see in Thailand:
Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai
Take the funicular or, if you?re feeling energetic, climb the 306 steps to this sacred site, located on a?mountain just outside the city. It?s worth the trip ? along with fabulously ornate statues, you?ll also?see some knockout views of Chiang Mai.
Wat Yai Chai Mang Khon, Ayutthaya
This ancient royal monastery dates back to the 14th century. Here you can find peace in the gardens?or gaze up at the colossal, awe-inspiring Buddha statues.
Wat Mahathat, Nakhon Si Thammarat
This is the most important temple in southern Thailand. It?s full of important shrines and relics, the?most important being one of Buddha?s teeth.
Wat Ko Keo Suttharam, Phetchaburi
This temple is best known for its murals, painted in the 1730s, which represent ? among other?things ? the first Westerners to visit the area.
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Funeral services for 42-year-old James Ezra Barney II, of Parishville, will be held Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM at the Potsdam United Methodist Church with Rev. James Barnes and Rev. Tom Nichols co-pastoring. Friends may call at the Seymour... Read More >>
Graveside services for Marcella M. (Stephenson) Lavarnway, age 84, of Main Street in Hammond, will be held on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Greenwood Cemetery in Morristown with Rev. Steven Murray officiating. There will be no... Read More >>
GOUVERNEUR- David E. Gladle, age 87, formerly of Gouverneur, passed away on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at Maplewood Nursing Home in Canton.
There will be a graveside service for David on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Pleasant Lake Cemetery in... Read More >>
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