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Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers:
August 18
StarNews, Wilmington, North Carolina, on changes to state laws and regulation that could impact tourism:
Tourism in North Carolina is a $20 billion-a-year industry, and that's only counting what visitors - traveling for recreation or on business - actually spend here. That total does not take into account the total impact as employees and businesses that make a living in tourism pump the money back into the economy.
The $20 billion spent by visitors in 2013 was a record, and more than $1 billion of that total was spent in the Cape Fear region. If there were any doubt about the importance of tourism to this region - and the importance of policies that keep people wanting to come here - that figure should dispel it.
As important as the tourism is, we know that we cannot depend on it and other low-wage service-sector industries for our state's economic future.
It's a delicate balance, and many other industries also contribute to the state's appeal to tourists. Among those is the film industry, which is in danger should lawmakers hold fast to a drastic and detrimental change to the film incentives program.
In addition to creating more than 1,000 permanent jobs in the Cape Fear region alone, incentives that lure filmmakers to the state also bring actors and other crew members - visitors who stay and spend money here - as well as fans who come to Wilmington in hopes of spotting stars or visiting the locations of favorite movies and television shows.
Likewise, historic preservation tax credits that are on their last legs have spurred revitalization in some communities and have encouraged property owners to save and restore older buildings. Gov. Pat McCrory had proposed changes to the program that would put the focus on historic property with the potential to generate revenue and, in turn, to fuel other investment.
Again, neither incentive program directly affects tourists' decision to vacation in North Carolina.
But they are examples that many seemingly unrelated factors contribute to our state's healthy tourism economy.
August 16
News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, on Medicaid expansion:
The Republican-led General Assembly plans to address ways to reform Medicaid in its next session, but there's one thing it won't do to the program: expand it. This resistance is a scandal and a growing one. It's well past time for responsible and influential forces in North Carolina - the universities, banks, high-tech businesses, hospitals, clergy and others - to make expanding Medicaid the state's No. 1 priority.
In 2013, Republican legislative leaders indulged in partisan grandstanding by declaring that North Carolina would be among the 24 states refusing to expand the federal-state health program for low-income people. They also refused to set up a state-run health care marketplace from which North Carolinians could buy subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Now that Republican partisans have had their year on the ramparts shouting "no!" to what they call "Obamacare," cooler heads should intervene. The resistance is only hurting North Carolina, especially the working poor who would have qualified for Medicaid under an expansion. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that expansion would insure 319,000 North Carolinians.
And the refusal is not a one-time injury. The cost grows every year.
By saying no, the state gave up $601 million in federal funds in 2014, according to state fiscal researchers. Next year, it will be foregoing $2.3 billion. For 2016 through 2021, the state's refusal will cost $2.5 billion annually. And there are others costs. Expansion also would pick up the cost of medical care for some mental health patients and state prisoners now paid for entirely by the state. The savings to state taxpayers would be $62 million a year.
Republican leaders have various reasons for turning away billions of Medicaid dollars. Gov. Pat McCrory says the Medicaid system is too "broken" to handle expansion. That's more of a dodge than a reason. The system needs improvements, but it has worked for decades and likely would gain economies of scale with expansion.
Other Republicans say the state's share of funding expansion, even at 10 percent, is too expensive. But the influx of federal dollars likely would generate more than enough jobs and increased tax revenue to cover the state's cost.
Refusing Medicaid expansion is holding North Carolina back. It's costing jobs and will cost lives.
August 14
News & Record, Greensboro, North Carolina, on destroying ivory stored at the North Carolina Zoo:
Incinerating the 20 pounds of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns in storage at the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro — and worth $1 million on the black market — seems like a good idea to director David Jones, and to us.
While the stockpile mostly comes from the remains of animals that once lived at the zoo, getting rid of it in such fashion would also be the longtime keeper's symbolic jab against animal poaching. The illegal and unethical act of killing animals for their parts has so dramatically reduced the herds of elephants and rhinos in Africa that the population might be a human generation from extinction.
Problem is, it's not up to Jones, who has spent decades in the international zoo world. The N.C. zoological park is a state attraction and there are layers of complication for destroying state property — even that with no legal value. Any other zoo might simply go to its board of directors to get the OK, but the N.C. Zoo is one of two in the country that are state-owned.
Importing virtually all ivory has been banned under a federal law designed to reduce slaughter of endangered elephants. The population has been reduced by about 90 percent just in the last three decades.
That hasn't slowed the number of elephants and rhinos being lost to criminal enterprise. The pieces are traded for drugs and guns and fuel terrorist activities. Then there's the seemingly insatiable demand for ivory in China and Vietnam, where it is often handcrafted into fixtures that end up with collectors in the United States.
Hanging onto the stockpile is something of a liability. Although there have not been many thefts in the United States, there have been at least 60 reports of ivory stolen from European museums and private collections. But stranger stories make newspaper headlines, including the $10,000 dinosaur replica stolen from a downtown Raleigh museum.
For the time being, the bounty remains out of the public's view in an undisclosed location to prevent theft.
Ultimately, it should be destroyed to ensure it's never stolen and sold overseas.


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Ukrainian Kid Spent His Parents' Life Savings on Candy
They pushed their son's buttons. He bought new ones made of candy.
We're now hearing reports (via Gawker) that some 9-year-old kid in Ukraine spent his family's entire life savings on miscellaneous candy. The child's parents say $4,000 in mixed currency that was under their sofa is gone, and their son is to blame. With help from a man "who has been diagnosed with a mental disorder," the boy was able to exchange the stolen cash into Ukrainian hryvnas and make it rain SweeTarts all over Sumy Oblast. Let's hope someone like Jennifer Garner comes around quickly and buys the movie rights to this. [Ria Novosti via Gawker]

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Federico Capassois the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard Univ., which he joined in 2003 after 27 years at Bell Labs where he became a Bell Labs Fellow and held several management positions including VP for Physical Research. His research has spanned a broad range of topics from applications to basic science in the areas of electronics, photonics, mesoscopic physics, nanotechnology and quantum electrodynamics. He is a co-inventor of the quantum cascade laser, which has now been commercialized. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Member of the Franklin Institute. He has numerous awards, including the King Faisal Inter. Prize for Science, the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, the APS Arthur Schawlow Prize, the IEEE Edison Medal, the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the OSA Wood Prize, the Materials Research Society Medal, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the IEEE-LEOS Streifer Award, the LVMH Leonardo Da Vinci Prize, the Welker Medal. He is a Fellow of OSA, APS, IEEE, SPIE, IOP and AAAS.


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Book Review: Founder's at Work [Thumbs Down]
A couple of weeks ago, I finished up my second book of the year: Founder's at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston. I'll cut the crap and get right to it: this book is horrible. It paints an unrealistic picture of startups, and based on it's age, references older companies – many of which barely have an impact today.
The book is full of interviews – back-and-forth with Livingston and the founder – that ask the same questions. And guess what? Many of the entrepreneurs have the same answers. I can sum this book up in one sentence:
You work your butt off, then you get funding, then you exit (with a lot of money).
It's pathetic. That's not true boostrapping, eat-ramen-for-every-meal entrepreneurship. The book is supposed to detail the first six months of the startup. It falls painfully short. I wanted stories, substance, and business lessons. It's hard to learn from people who, for lack of a better term, struck gold. Each founder made their millions – and many gloat about it.
Yes – I hated this book. Believe it or not, between the sleeping and snoring, I was able to learn something. Here's three quotes I enjoyed:
"Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you." – Charles Geschke, Co-Founder of Adobe Systems
This quote affirmed why I'm building Gredio. I'm building a product many small food producers don't know they need quite yet. But, it will make their lives easier once they hear about it, and are educated on the benefits.
"I think there's something called BUGtrack. I don't know what they have, what their products are, what their price point it. I could research all that, but I can't think of a single thing I would do with that information." – Joel Spolsky, Co-Founder of Fog Creek Software
I'm always hesitant to spend 100+ hours doing research. When I launched my specialty food company, I looked at a grocery store shelf for about sixty seconds. Then I hit the kitchen to create my product line. I didn't care about price-point, packaging, and all of that. I cared about sending a product to market and listening to customers.
"I think the life of an entrepreneur is a life of setbacks, challenges, disappointments, and failures. It's not how you celebrate the successes, it's how you overcome the adversity and the hardship that determines how the business succeeds." – Bob Davis, Founder of Lycos
Pessimistic? Yes. Realistic? You bet. I'm on my fourth company, and if there's one thing I've learned, entrepreneurship is no vacation. There's rarely a sunny moment. To use my own analogy, entrepreneurship is how you weather the storm and dodge the raindrops.
So that's what I got from this book – not too much. If you do pick it up, read the section on Adobe Systems & Fog Creek Software. Those were the two company profiles I got the most out of.
Have you read Founders at Work? Have a different opinion? Let's discuss.


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Miles away from his checkered past, the freshman is getting a fresh start — and a welcome challenge — in Pullman.
PULLMAN — C.J. Mizell is a long way from home. The idea now is to stay equally far from the troubles that have put him here.
Call it a great experiment. Mizell is a freshman linebacker at Washington State with a checkered past. When he took a recruiting visit to WSU in January, he had never been on an airplane. He had never seen snow. And now, almost 3,000 miles from where he grew up, he's being tested in ways he never would have guessed.
He has been stretched thin in fall camp with the Cougars, trying to regain what he had before he took a year off; trying to assimilate a more sophisticated defense than he knows; discovering that his abundant skills aren't worth much if he's not in the right position.
"He's just a freshman," says WSU co-defensive coordinator Chris Ball. "All this stuff is new for him. He's just got to push through it."
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And this is C.J. Mizell, who was the fifth-rated linebacker in the country two years ago by Scout.com. This was a guy some WSU partisans figured was going to come in and start for as long as he's on campus.
"It doesn't matter who you are," says Ball. "It's hard on you."
It's worth noting that of the previous four football seasons in Mizell's life, he missed two. One of those owes to what WSU coach Paul Wulff referenced on signing date in February, when he conceded "a few incidents" in Mizell's past.
Mizell refers to "childish, immature things" of which he will elaborate little.
He grew up in southern Georgia, and it became apparent he had big-time ability. He could run (a 4.48 40 not long ago) and hit, and he would grow to 6 feet 3 and 230 pounds.
One of his defensive coaches at Coffee County High in Douglas scoffed at Mizell's awe at receiving recruiting letters, telling him, "It ain't nothin' 'til you get a letter from Florida State. That's the linebacker school."
Soon enough, Mizell got that letter from FSU and, eventually, a scholarship offer.
Well before then, there was that day early in his sophomore season when he got into a scuffle with the coach at Coffee County, Jerry Odom.
June Munford, assistant superintendent of Coffee County Schools, says, "It wasn't really a fight. It was an altercation. I call a fight where somebody hits and somebody hits back. I wouldn't call it a fight."
Munford says it happened in the locker room after a practice, and might have had something to do with Mizell being excluded from a group of players chosen to be interviewed by a local TV station.
"It wasn't punches," says Munford, "just some aggressiveness, one toward the other. I can't tell you much more about it."
Nor can the principals.
"Mmm, not really," says Mizell, as to whether that version is accurate. "It's just a bunch of old stuff. It's kind of a sore area. I don't like to touch on it."
At Jacksonville University, where he is an assistant coach, Odom picks up his phone.
"Man, I really don't want to talk about C.J.," he says. "I wish him the best. I've got no comment. That's my stance on that. Thank you."
At that point, Mizell was off the team. Munford says a hearing on the incident was due to take place, but before it did, Mizell's family moved south to Tallahassee.
"C.J.'s had some troubles," says Munford. "He had some other things come up in grade school, middle school, stuff like that. Not violent stuff. He had trouble focusing in the classroom, was the main thing."
Mizell was a force at Leon High in Tallahassee, right there for the hometown Seminoles to see. They signed him in 2009, but he was shy a qualifying test score.
Court records in Florida show Mizell receiving probation in a case in which he was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana.
Not until late last year did Mizell get the requisite test score, after which he met with Jimbo Fisher, the new coach at Florida State.
"He said he wanted to see where my mind frame was, and wanted me to go to a junior college for a year or so," Mizell says. "I just didn't want to go that route."
Mizell thus stayed under the recruiting radar. But a friend of WSU graduate assistant Sheldon Cross tipped Cross on Mizell, and the Cougars began digging.
Wulff says they checked with sources at Coffee County High and in Tallahassee. They scheduled a visit for Mizell last winter, which Wulff characterized as a "feeling-out" process. And after Mizell met with administrators and spent time with coaches and players, Wulff says, they became convinced he was a good person.
Recalling the invitation to visit, Mizell says, "I was like, 'Wha-a-a-t? Come way out here?' I don't know what, but something made me take the trip out here. I liked it. It seemed like the environment I would like to be in."
Mizell says he has no problem with authority and is ready to put "childish, immature things" in his past. He says "Yes, sir" and "No, sir."
On the field, it's mostly been a blur. While the Cougars put in new defensive twists every day, Mizell labors to catch up.
"Yes, sir, I did have expectations to jump right into the ones," he says, referring to the first-team defense. "It turned into a lot of hard work. That's what I need more than anything, is hard work."
It's a fitting match — a struggling football program taking on a player who has struggled.
"They've got me believing they're ready to make a turnaround," Mizell says.
Funny thing, they were thinking the same thing about him.
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I always see alot of chatter about getting Vitale to Hilton. Man who cares about Vitale, I would freaking love it if the most charismatic color man of his generation, Bill Raftery would do a game at Hilton. Send it in Melvin!!!! I could just see it
i guess you missed him saying "Royce White! Send it in with that motor! (many heard boner)"
Didn't Raftery do the "What an opener ... an eye-opener!" vs UConn during last season's tournament?
dick vitale hasn't croaked yet?
Hoof hearted
I don't care who comes to Hilton to do our games since I'm there anyway.
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I don't care who comes to Hilton to do our games since I'm there anyway.
Here ya go!
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If Raf is coming to town, I would love to go out with him for some drinks.
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I'd get a Rascal Flatts tramp stamp for free.
I think Gus Johnson and Raferty should start their own announcing crew.
This is very important:
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Raftery: Get the Lingerie Off the Deck! Explosive! - YouTube
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I think Gus Johnson and Raferty should start their own announcing crew.
My head would explode with awesomeness.
Shame that Gus is tied to The Least Exciting Basketball Conference Channel.
Raftery has done games in Hilton, He loves the place. He may have had a few barley pops while he was here as well. He primarily does Big East games now.
I love Raftery. "The kiss!" "Send it in to the big fella!"
There's a guy in our bowling league who is only about 5'5" or so. He is often referred to as "THE LITTLE FELLA!"
Raftery has grown on me, though he's not a terrific analysis guy, just there for entertainment purposes.
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Barnatt vs. Johnson at BAMMA 9
© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com
Special thanks to Izzy Carnwath
Special thanks to Izzy Carnwath
At first I thought BAMMA 9's Luke Barnatt was called 'BigSlow' because he wasn't big on interviews and was slow to give out information regarding his upcoming fight, but after much interrogation, Luke relented and told Knucklepit the real reason for the peculiar alias.
"It is a strange nickname, I know!" says Barnatt. "Most fighters like to have an intimidating nickname, but unfortunately for me 'Bigslow' is the name that stuck in the gym. It was given to me by the Maguire Brothers when I first started MMA, because I was BIG & Slow to react to their insults. I just said 'Errrr, errrr… I dunno.' There were plenty of nicknames suggested for me, but Bigslow was the one that stuck, and I've grown to kinda like it."
After more time of staring at bright lamps and the threat of adjourning the interrogation to the hot seat, Luke finally gives his place of birth and current address.
"I was born in Redbridge, but moved to Islington in London when I was one, and then Chelmsford, Essex, when I was 10. I lived there till I was 17, when I left home and moved to Peterborough. Since then I've floated about all over, including a seven-month stint in Thailand, and I eventually settled in Cambridge. So I'm a Londoner at heart, turned Essex Boy, who likes the Cambridge lifestyle. Bit of a collective mixture, but Cambridge is a great place to live and The Pro-Am Fight Centre in the centre of Cambridge Town has now become my new home," says Barnatt.
It's like pulling teeth trying to get a word out of BigSlow, who looks restless and measures his every word. It soon becomes evident he's already done time in the cage. But I turn up the heat and ask him why he originally got into martial arts and what his first fighting style was.
"When I was about 15, I tried Tae Kwon Do but I only got to like a yellow belt which I think is the first grade. I never had the determination to stick with anything until I was introduced to wrestling by my close friend, Jack 'The Stone' Mason. He brought me up to Tsunami about three years ago and I've never looked back; so my first real fighting style was Tsunami Shooters MMA. I'm a bit of a Tsunami home-grown product."
The Knucklepit intense questioning continues…
Mr. Barnatt, you are replacing Sam Hooker at BAMMA 9; is five weeks enough notice for you?
Ha, I only got given four! Think my manager knew about it a week before he told me, and I'd fight this Lee Johnson on five hour's notice. I'm always fit and ready to go. I think Lee's the guy who wishes he had more notice.
What areas of your game are you focusing on at Tsunami Gym?
Tsunami Gym is full of high-level grapplers: The Maguires, Robbie Olivier, Jack Mason, Mark Day, Leo Gamarra… not to mention, Lee Doski, Joachinm Hansen, Besam Yousef, Mohsen Bahari and all the other talents we have flying through there all the time. And I believe I've become one of those talented grapplers in the last three years. I've really pushed myself to wrestle and get a clever, inventive ground game. My ears are living proof of that!
But I've made a conscious effort to improve my strength and stand-up right now. I think my grappling is far superior than most of the middleweights in the UK, so now I just need my hands to catch up. And being six foot makes me hard to handle on the feet as it is, so I've brought in a specialist boxing coach, who trains UFC fighter John Maguire, in Steve Whitwell from St Ives Boxing Academy to sharpen things up. I see him about three times a week.
Are you mainly working your strength and conditioning at Unique Results?
Unique Results is in Chelmsford, Essex, it's a great personal training facility, but I actually only go there to work my wrestling with Jack Mason on Fridays. They run an MMA class out of it on Friday nights that I go to, to work some new wrestling shapes. There are some real beasts down there and at Jack's main gym, BKK fighters in Colchester. They are producing some grappling animals such as Sean Carter, Toby Mclaren, Martin Fox and Arnie Allen… real prospects for the future.
Have you been studying Lee Johnson's fight tapes?
I watched him for about 10 minutes on You Tube and turned it off in disgust. I got bored, then had a go at my manager for matching me up against someone who's not fit enough to last a round. Thought my manager was insulting me. Couldn't believe it when he told me the guy was 5-1 until we looked at the guys he's beat. He's fought the same guy twice in Johnny Gillan who's 1-8. I mean, come on! Why bother fighting him? If I'm honest, I'm surprised Jude has asked him to fight on BAMMA. Can tell you one thing for sure: He'll never have him back after I destroy him. Hope Lee treasures his walk out at BAMMA as it will be the last time he feels the rush of an arena show.
You're going in as the underdog; how do you feel about that?
Underdog? Says who?
Right! Whoever said that better write a letter of apology to me, my coaches, my family, friends and all the BAMMA fans, saying:
- Idiots name who put me as the underdog;
- Apologise for having my (idiot's) head so far up my (idiot's) own arse that (idiot) didn't look into this match-up enough to realize that Lee Johnson will struggle with every part of Luke Barnatt's game;
- I (idiot's name) saw that Lee Johnson was 5-1 and Luke Barnatt was 2-0 and played MMA maths. I (idiot) sincerely apologise for being such an idiot, and I (idiot) promise I (idiot again) will never underestimate Luke Barnatt nor any fighter that comes out of the best gym in the UK (Tsunami Gym) again.
Yours truly,
(Idiot's name)
I'd also like him to write a completely separate letter to Lee Johnson and his coaches/gym saying:
Dear Lee,
I (idiot's name) feel like I have failed as a human being, and would like to say sorry to you and the rest of the human race for giving you the ego boost and heightening your expectations for this bout; giving you that glimmer of hope that you will be anything but a moving punch bag in this bout. I retract my comment and wish you all the best in your recovery from BAMMA 9, and look forward to seeing you back on the shows that are more set to your fighting standard, where you can win titles and feel like you really matter to the world, so you can carry on telling the ladies and your friends that you are a cage fighter like Alex Reid.
Many Thanks
(Idiot's Name)
Once everyone has received that letter you can retract that comment and re-write the interview question:
Question: Luke how does it feel to have Lee considered as a huge underdog? Does it add any pressure to the match-up knowing you are expected to wipe the floor with this 'athlete'?
Answer: I am happy to be considered the more accomplished fighter in this match-up and it doesn't add any pressure to me. I'm very relaxed when I prepare for my fights and, at the end of the day, everyone has a puncher's chance, so Lee Johnson obviously has the chance. But the longer the fight goes the more you'll see that chance fade as he gasses and I get stronger round-on-round.
I hope that answers your question sufficiently???
How would you describe your MMA fighting style?
Relaxed, constant pressure that breaks people down. It's intelligent and well measured. There are not many middleweights with my fitness that can keep up with my stand-up pace mixed with the relentless grappling. I am constantly looking to submit you from everywhere and if that doesn't work I'll keep position and G&P you out. I'm never looking to hold you down and rest, constantly transitioning and punishing your mistakes… That's if you've managed to get past my jab, uppercut, knees, sprawl and guard.
Who are your coaches for BAMMA 9?
Same as always– real quick:
*Head MMA coach Robbie 'The Flame' Olivier (the best featherweight in the UK and the hardest hobbit on the planet!),
*Brown Belt in BJJ & Black Belt in Judo former Cage Rage featherweight Champ (when it matted) fighting out of Tsunami Gym,
*Wrestling coach, Jack 'The Stone' Mason (BKK fighter, head MMA coach, middleweight CFC Champ & wrestling BEAST),
*Gypsy Jujitsu coach, John 'The One' Maguire (UFC welterweight out of Tsunami Gym),
*Boxing coach, Steve Whitwell (St Ives Boxing Academy),
*BJJ Coach, Leo Gamarra (Brazillian Top Team Black Belt at Tsunami Gym),
*Thai boxing coach, Colm Gilane (beaten many Thai world champions and a relentless cardio machine at the age of 48; trains out of Tsunami Gym),
*Strength coach, Andy Elkins (from Core Cambridge, the biggest strength geek I know),
*Nigel Burgees – part of my management team and my G&P coach… Been around the sport forever and has the odd pearl of wisdom, but you have to listen to relentless amounts of verbal garbage until you get that pearl! But it's always worth it! And the man knows his tractors – don't know how that helps.
Who are your training partners and in what areas of your game are they assisting you?
I always train with the same guys: the Tsunami boys (mentioned earlier) and they help me with everything, but main training partners for this fight are
*Warren Kee (7-0-1) welterweight who's got a relentless pace,
*John 'The One' Maguire (17-3) UFC welterweight, who's a grappling machine and a ground specialist; mainly helps me with my ground fighting and fight strategy; an extremely intelligent fighter who can analyse any situation and find the right answer,
*Jack 'The Stone' Mason (18-10) CFC middleweight champ, a big powerful wrestler with power in both hands; plus a solid base and ground 'n' pound game,
*Along with all the other guys, Tommy Maguire, Robbie Olivier, AJ Wenn, Jay Cucciniello, Jesse Smith, Mark Day and the rest. We've also got some fantastic NEW talent coming through this place; give it a few years and they will be fighting on BAMMA.
I'm blessed to have such an amazing, experienced team behind me, and they mean everything to me. Without them I'd never be half the MMA athlete I am today!
All of Lee's victories have come about via submissions, but you've been putting a lot of work into your ground game. Will you feel confident if the fight does go to the canvas?
Lee Johnson better hope the fight doesn't go to the canvas. My ground game is my strongest asset, especially from my back. Robbie Olivier & John Maguire are fantastic no-gi Jujitsu practitioners and I roll with them about five – six hours a week. I've recently placed gold in the 93kg Go-to-the-Ground grappling tourney.
I faced a high level grappler in JD from Nathan Levertons gym in Leicester (Leicester shootfighters) in the final, so I was happy to take home gold, and felt ever since my last fight, where I failed to sink in the choke against a very resilient Ben Callum, that my ground game has shot up another notch.
I worked on finishing my RNC for weeks following that fight, and got some great tips from Brown Belt and top grappler, Lee Doski, from Blue Wave in Bury St Edmunds, but he's a Tsunami boy too!
So in short, Lee Johnson doesn't stand a chance in hell in getting me down, but if he manages to (like the canvas is wet and I slip over), then he better protect his neck and limbs, because I'll be choking the guy unconscious or ripping his limbs from his body!
What will Lee's strengths be?
Let's hope the guys got good taste in music because his only highlight will be his entrance!
But in all seriousness, a man can't get to five wins all via submissions without a good idea of a ground game, (unless you fight bums or the same guy twice who's 1-8). I just think I'm five steps ahead on the ground. It's like he's still playing checkers and I've moved onto chess and playing with the style of Magnus Carlsen, a famous Norwegian chess whizz kid! (http://chess.about.com/od/famouschessplayers/p/Carlsen.htm)
So I think I nullify his strongest asset which is why I say he's only got a puncher's chance.
But I do expect the best Lee Johnson that the world has ever witnessed, especially as he's had six month's out. So let's hope he's been working hard in the gym, because I do this fulltime and am in the gym day and night improving my MMA game. I don't want a walkover, so let's hope he brings it.
What will your strengths be?
My self-belief, relentless pace and unpredictability. I'm going to put Lee in places he's never seen before. My strength comes from the experience I have surrounding me, training with the guys I do – the way I do, and it gives me the confidence that I can beat Lee anywhere because, let's face it, I don't need a game plan.
As soon as I lay a glove on his face he's going to panic, shoot and simply get out-classed from that point on. He won't stand with me and he can't beat me on the floor. So like I've said before, just quit while you're ahead, give me the win, save me cutting all this bloody weight and save yourself the trip down from Manchester. It won't be worth it!
Luke, is there anything you would like to add?
Yes! And it's important, so read up!
As you have guessed I love to talk, but I'm not deluded. I don't think I'm better than I am. I'm not trying to be no Chael Sonnen. I simply fight to challenge myself in this life; It's my managers job to find me suitable fights, that are going to challenge me, make me train harder than I did for the last fight, and at the end of the day, turn me into a better MMA athlete and a better person. I don't need to take on the top fight guys in the country. I'm never trying to insinuate that. I want good fights against dangerous opponents who are my standard.
And it's not my fault I think that Lee Johnson is not that guy. I honestly believe I am better in every range, including strength, speed, fitness and mental agility. I want fights to influence me to improve. This fight doesn't. I think I could of beat this dude a year ago!
I am just saying what I feel and being honest: That's not disrespectful or being rude! That's just how it is. So stop hating and tune in on the 24th to see if I can bite as loud as I bark, back myself up, and DOMINATE Lee Johnson. I don't make predictions, but the only thing I see in Lee Johnson's immediate future is Pain.
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Field sports require cleats, studs or spikes to provide athletes with improved traction.
While exercise is essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, it also increases our chances of being injured. There's one piece of equipment that is invaluable in helping athletes avoid injuries and common foot and ankle problems. And it's right there on your feet.
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There are two major reasons why you should pay careful attention to the gear on your feet when exercising or playing various sports—other than being fashionable, of course. For one, wearing the right shoe for your sport can simply improve your game and enhance your performance. Second, the right shoe can also help you prevent common injuries, from ankle fractures to bunions and corns.
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During our investigation, we recently spoke with an orthopedic surgeon who refused to use these devices in any of his hip replacement surgeries. The surgeon, who regularly used DePuy devices, did not believe the metal on metal design of this device had been thoroughly tested, and that the long term effects of potential metal toxicity could be a serious problem for hip replacement surgery patients.
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Halperin, who was born in Jerusalem, left for Tel Aviv after her army service. "Like everyone else, I wanted a change of atmosphere, but after completing my bachelor's degree I felt something was missing, so I returned to Jerusalem and found a job," she told Ynet. "Besides, the rent here is lower. The apartment I live in would cost double in Tel Aviv.
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> On 21 Jan 2001 00:26:30 GMT, hidders_at_REMOVE.THIS.win.tue.nl (Jan
> Hidders) wrote:
> >I am afraid that these magic words also don't make the problem go
> >away. :-)
> Depends on what the problem really is. See below.
> >This supertype is a generalization of Individuals and Organizations.
> >That means that every Party is either an Individual or an Organization.
> It means that one table, Parties, takes the place of the tables
> Individual and Organization at their original level of abstraction.
> Attributes common to individuals and organizations move from those
> tables into the table Parties.
> It also means that one FK for the table of party addresses no longer
> comes from either of two domains (Individuals or Organizations), it
> comes from just one--the table Parties.
Of course, but it also means that you will still have two tables Indiv. and Organ. that contain the class specific attributes and a foreign key to the Parties table. And the reverse of this foreign key is a "split foreign key".
> >And that is what the original problem was.
> I don't think so. Maybe Michel will jump in and make it clear.
That would certainly be helpful.
-- Jan HiddersReceived on Mon Jan 22 2001 - 04:11:33 CST
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James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm – innocence – and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb, contemporary cosmology, and the question of agency. The book covers Merrill's full career, emphasizing the late poetry, on which there remains little commentary. Illuminating both Merrill's relation to a tradition of literary innocence from Milton to Blake and Wordsworth to Emerson and Stevens, and his relevance to contemporary cultural debates, the rubric of "knowing innocence" helps us to understand his achievement. Merrill undertakes a career-long effort to know innocence, and develops a thematic and stylistic attitude that is both innocent and knowing, combining attitudes of wonder and hope with reflexive wit, intellectual breadth, and an unflinching gaze at mortality. He ultimately imagines innocence as creative agency, a capacity for imagination, invention, and ethical responsibility. The book demonstrates how, addressing questions of sexual identity, childhood and memory; atomic science, the big bang, and black holes; environmental degradation; AIDS; and the notion of the death of history – while honoring poetry's essential qualities of freedom and play – his poems perform cultural work crucial to his time and ours.
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//The Cadillac Motel in Niagara Falls, ON. (Kodachrome 64)
This is one of the last Kodachrome slides scanned from my recent delivery.
Back in November, I was itching to shoot some of the film stock but it was nothing but clouds and grey here in T.O(which is just such a waste of lush colour slide film in my books). On this particular weekend, I read that there was a chance of some sunshine in Niagara Falls and so, for the sake of the Kodachrome, we got a car and drove down for the day. If the forecast was right, I was aiming to catch this old neon, some of the old motels, and maybe the grave of the legendary Laura Secord. I got the first on my list.
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On a Hallowed hill in Tennessee
Like Beacon shining bright
The stately walls of old UT
Rise glorious to the sight.
So here's to you old Tennessee,
Our Alma Mater true
We pledge in love and harmony
Our loyalty to you.
What torches kindled at that flame
Have passed from hand to hand
What hearts cemented in that name
Bind land to stranger land.
O, ever as we strive to rise
On life's unresting stream
Dear Alma Mater, may our eyes
Be lifted to that gleam.
(Here's to Old Tennessee)
Official Tennessee Fight Song
Here's to old Tennessee
Never we'll sever
We pledge our loyalty
Forever and ever
Backing our football team
Faltering never
Cheer and fight with all of your might
For Tennessee.
Fight, Vols fight with all your might,
For the Orange and White
Never falter, never yield
As we march on down the field
Keep Marching!
Let the Spirit of the Hill
Every Vol with courage fill
Your loyalty means our victory
So fight, Vols, fight!
Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top
Down in the Tennessee hills
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top
Ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
Half bear, the other half cat
Wild as a mink, sweet as soda pop
I still dream about that
Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
Lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top
Dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
Get their corn from a jar
I've had years of cramped up city life
Trapped like a duck in a pen
Now all I know is it's a pity life
Can't be simple again.
Rocky Top you'll always be
Home sweet home to me
Good ol' Rocky Top
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5 Minute Nutty Protein Cookie Bowls
*Edited to add – nutritional stats at the bottom!
Alternative titles for this recipe/post: "Bowl of Awesome" …suggested by Shane and "Nutty Breakfast Bake" (but it's so good it doubles as dessert!)
Something amazing happened in my kitchen this weekend…
It all started when I let out a whimper after seeing I was already almost out of almond butter. I won't be able to get to a Trader Joe's soon, so I decided to go ahead and make my own.
As I was grinding the almonds, there was a knock at my door.
Hooray! My protein powder is finally here! Side note: I've been ordering Sun Warrior from Gina's store ever since my beloved Jay Robb Brown Rice Protein Powder got discontinued. I love it! It's almost as good as JR – and it's raw and vegan.
Anyway, I got a random idea in my head to add some protein powder to my impending almond butter. As I was processing away, I realized this may not turn out so good. Then I had an even better idea…
Add a few more ingredients, and turn it into a bake bowl.
The results? Well, the first time around they were pretty good. The next day I made some changes and now they are out. of. this. world.
Trust me, trust me, that you need to make this soon, folks. Bonus? it only takes FIVE minutes!!
Nutty Protein Cookie Bowl
Serves 2
1/2 c. almonds
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 very ripe small banana or 1/2 large banana
1 tbsp canola oil
1/4 + 2 tbsp cup almond (or skim) milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp honey (optional – only if you like it sweet!)
2 tbsp dark chocolate chips*
Process the almonds in a food processor until there are only a few chunks left. Add the rest of the dry ingredients. In a medium sized bowl, combine the wet ingredients. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, and stir until just combined. Fold in the mixins and pour into two ramekins. Microwave for 2 minutes and 30 seconds (YMMV – this left the middle of mine just a little less done than the outsides, and it cooked a little more when cooling.) Let cool…or be like me and burn your tongue because you justcan'twaitanylonger!
You can eat with a spoon straight from the bowl, however I've figured out that my favorite way to eat them is for breakfast. Reheat for about 30 more seconds, and then pour milk over it:
It's omgsogood!
And the nutritional stats are pretty stellar:
Remember it's nut-based, so it's going to be a little heavy on the calories and fat, but the healthy kind, and these babies fill. you. up. And 16.5 grams of protein? Heck yeah!
*you can choose whichever mixins you desire! I like dark chocolate chips, but in one of them, I added a tbsp of chia seeds and then half way into microwaving, I added a tbsp of triple berry jam to the middle.
But really the possibilities are endless! Add in whatever mix-ins your heart desires!
Four flavors I made: chocolate coconut, banana chocolate chip, honey walnut, and pb&j
Really, whatever your heart desires!
And aren't these little ramekins cute? They're actually dip bowls from Target and come in a set of 4. Perfect! I thought
Sorry for the picture-heavy post, but their deliciousness just cannot be described in words!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some dessert breakfast to eat
Thanks for the words of encouragement about our little water disaster yesterday! It really lifted me up! Unfortunately, its still not installed (the new one we bought was too tall) so I took a cold water sink shower. Do not recommend… but of course I'll post a how-to take a cold sink shower without freezing your butt off later
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Greetings friends, fans & family! We here at NMRiH are proud to bring you version 1.04 of No More Room in Hell. We have put a lot of work into this patch and hope you all enjoy it. We expected this to be a quick patch but we just kept finding so many small things to improve upon this time around we wanted to make sure we got it right. It has really turned into a big project if you just take a look at our changelog below.
We have new things for all to enjoy! Like survival? Well we have a new community map just for that. We've included the map in our official build because we liked it so much, it's called nms_isolated created by Lou Saffire. Hate high pings? Our lead programmer ssba has vastly improved network performance when it comes to npcs on a server. Linux server owner? Thanks to a generous donation of a server by BloodBathGaming.net we have been able to work out the kinks in our Linux server files. Same goes for RawCG.net who as always provides us with excellent official public and private windows testing servers.
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Note the server files are included in both the patch and full download.
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Note the server files are included in both the patch and full download.
- Disabled collision of safe zone supplies with players / npcs
- Adjusted zombie damage, now (one hand / two hand) shambler: 15/30, runner: 20/40, kid: 8/16
- Fixed negative zombie counts on hud
- Disabled listen server autostart to try to cut down on number of invalid token errors
- Fixed memory corruption bugs in Survival Mode
- Fixed supply wave crash bug on Linux servers
- Changed zones to no longer lose health if there are no survivors present in them
- Fixed a rare issue where there was a chance for entities/lighting in any nms_ map to disappear if the previously played map was an objective level
- Changed drain rates to the following:
- Drain per zombie per sec: 0.5 -> 0.15
- Max drain per sec: 5 -> 2
- Drain per sec while empty: 0.25 -> 0.2
- Player drain counter per sec: 1.5 -> 1.75
- Drain per zombie per sec: 0.5 -> 0.15
- Optimized npc networking for better performance in open areas & with large amount of npcs
- Added 'Winning Condition' option into Survival Mode: players now win after reaching the ending wave; mappers can run a custom win scenario using entity i/o
- Fixed orientation/model of "nmrih_safezone_supply" for Hammer
- Added slight push to barricades you out if you stand too close a barricading point while putting a board up; mappers should ensure the barricade point normals point away from walls as this is the direction players are pushed
- Fixed various client and server crashes
- Fixed Join game dialog; loading screens now properly update with the corresponding map in play
- Changed the National Guard so they will now only bring in supplies via flare gun if the preexisting supply crate has been completely used up.
- Added various static furniture props
- Added and optimized various particle effects
- Added new supply cache GUI
- Added missing camera movement to fireaxe
- Added recoil camera movement to MP5A3
- Updated SV10 reload animation
- Changed flashlight texture
- Added new "Movie" texture to nmo_broadway theater.
- Fixed script error that prevented wave complete sound to play
- Changed many of the weapon / footstep / item pickup / pain sounds so they are spacial, and reduced the attenuation of some
- nms_flooded
- Fixed supply drop being out of reach because of clipping
- Fixed clip preventing items to be picked up at some locations
- Clipped various "godspots"
- Added static ammo that goes with the gun at a few locations
- Added a bit more ammo around the buildings
- Added traps (gas tank/flamethrower that can set fire to zombies and humans)
- Added more light at point A to make players feel more safe inside the safezone
- Added one barricade position to every door frame
- Closed off some windows to help provide better performance inside the safe zone buildings and alter gameplay
- Removed zombie spawns around the house, zombies will only come from outside the map boundaries
- Added winning condition (Survive till wave 10 and a chopper appears)
- Fixed supply drop being out of reach because of clipping
- nmo_chinatown
- Removed some unnecessary zombie spawns
- Removed some unnecessary barricade boards and entities to save on ent data
- Added slight increase to overall lighting
- Clipped off several "godspots" (counters, dumpsters, etc.)
- Improved optimization in several areas
- Added func_clip_vphysics to prevent key objective items to be dropped in certain unreachable areas
- Added some shotgun ammo boxes in gun shop area
- Replaced all tables and file cabinets with new static prop versions
- Removed some unnecessary zombie spawns
- nmo_broadway
- Changed texture on movie theater screen
- nms_isolated
- Added nms_isolated (community map from lou_saffire)
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SPOnG is reporting that From Software has decided to cease development on two PlayStation 3 RPG titles, one tentatively titled Dark RPG and the other unnamed. The site goes on to state that it expects confirmation of such in the next issue of Famitsu.
It's hard to know what to think about this rumor. If this is indeed true, then these two games were apparently fairly early in development. As a result, it would appear that From Software is simply delaying a full committment to the platform until it garners a reasonably-sized install base. As a result, these may yet resurface for the system at a later date. High development costs have been behind several other publishers delaying early support for the platform (including the likes of SNK and Atari), and given From's history of solid PlayStation support that would appear to be the case here.
Hopefully we'll learn more soon from Famitsu.
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While personally I'm not relly a fan of Maroon 5's music, I am a fan of it being played by a robot band, especially when it has a Stephen Hawking DECtalk vocal on it. This is the same robot band (or, at least, it's designed by the same guy YouTube user bd594) that gave us the headline-making rendition of The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun".
To create this latest robotic cover he used a robot snare, a robot bass drum, robot tambourine, robot keyboard, an HP Scanner, and a digital DECtalk Express. Whereas the original "Moves Like Jagger" isn't really to my taste, this robot rendition has a charming quality to it with all those blippy sounds and digitized vocals.
And, in other robot band news, autonomous humanoid robots the HUBOs—designed and developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST)—cover the Beatles' "Come Together".