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L3 Capital invests in what it calls prime urban retail, which includes a lot of street retail in the premier cities. "We own retail properties in several neighborhoods in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago," said Greg Schott managing piincipal.
At the end of last year, L3 made its first investment in its hometown of Chicago. The company bought four retail buildings along a flourishing four-block retail stretch of Southport Avenue in the Lakewood neighborhood. The cost was $13 million for 17,000 sq. ft.


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WTF: Daft Punk debuting new album in regional Australian town
UPDATE: Technology researchers coppaalmeida.com did some sleuthing for inthemix, and the domain www.daftpunkweewaa.com was purchased by Sony Australia yesterday.
With a reputation as innovators, Daft Punk have never really played by the rules. Even still, reports that the French duo are set to unveil their much-hyped forthcoming album Random Access Memories in a town with a population of 2,000 has come as a particular shock. According to the Herald Sun and triple j, Daft Punk are set to host their "global album launch party" in the Australian town of Wee Waa, situated in the North West of regional New South Wales.
Sound like a joke? The Wee Waa council thought so, too. Speaking to the Narrabri Courier (the original source of the story), Shire Mayor Conrad Bolton told that he though a "mate was pulling my leg" when he got the call that Sony wanted to bring arguably the most famous dance act in the world to the small town. "We think Wee Waa is so uniquely Australian, so the folks at Sony Music along with Daft Punk thought it fitted the bill perfectly," Bolton explained. "Daft Punk is known for breaking down barriers and coming up with new creative, innovative ideas to launch their albums." Seeking clarification, inthemix spoke to a representative from Sony who remained predictably coy on the subject, neither confirming nor denying the Wee Waa event.
The event, if it's to be believed, is set for the night of May 17 – the same day Random Access Memories officially drops. Tickets are limited to 4000, but that's not the only hurdle you'll have to cross to get to the show: Wee Waa is about eight hours drive from Sydney and doesn't have a commercial airport. The last vital piece of information we have for now? The council have confirmed that Daft Punk will not be performing at the Wee Waa show. We'll bring further updates as they come – and yes, we're as perplexed as you are.
Looking for more info? Head over here for our guide to everything you need to know about the Wee Waa launch.

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Ken Wilber on the meaning of "2nd-person", a response to "Integral 2.0" and "There is No 'You' in AQAL"
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First previewed early last month, this vibrant new multi-colored look for the Nike Air Diamond Turf is arriving at select retailers now. The classic Deion Sanders turf trainer gets perhaps its most eye-catching looks ever in a Dolphins-esque colorway, featuring a black nubuck base with Gamma Blue paneling and accents in Total Orange and Green Glow throughout.
Offically dropping on November 30th, select retailers already have this latest Diamond Turf in stock, like Rock City Kicks, where you can pick up a pair via phone order now.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High Endby Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM EST
Jumping into compute, we should see a mix of results here, with some tests favoring the GK110 based GTX 780's more compute capable design, while other tests will punish it for not being a fast FP64 card like GTX Titan.
As always we'll start with our DirectCompute game example, Civilization V, which uses DirectCompute to decompress textures on the fly. Civ V includes a sub-benchmark that exclusively tests the speed of their texture decompression algorithm by repeatedly decompressing the textures required for one of the game's leader scenes. While DirectCompute is used in many games, this is one of the only games with a benchmark that can isolate the use of DirectCompute and its resulting performance.
Civilization V's DirectCompute performance is looking increasingly maxed out at the high end. At 402fps the GTX 780 may as well be tied with GTX Titan. On the other hand it's a reminder that while we don't always see NVIDIA do well in our more pure compute tests, it can deliver where it matters for games with DirectCompute.
Our next benchmark is LuxMark2.0, the official benchmark of SmallLuxGPU 2.0. SmallLuxGPU is an OpenCL accelerated ray tracer that is part of the larger LuxRender suite. Ray tracing has become a stronghold for GPUs in recent years as ray tracing maps well to GPU pipelines, allowing artists to render scenes much more quickly than with CPUs alone.
NVIDIA has never done well at LuxMark, and GTX 780 won't change that. It's greatly faster than GTX 680 and that's about it. Kepler parts, including GK110, continue to have trouble with our OpenCL benchmarks, as evidenced by the fact that GTX 780 doesn't beat GTX 580 by nearly as much as the generational improvements should lead to. GK110 is a strong compute GPU, but not in ways that LuxMark is going to benefit.
Our 3rd benchmark set comes from CLBenchmark 1.1. CLBenchmark contains a number of subtests; we're focusing on the most practical of them, the computer vision test and the fluid simulation test. The former being a useful proxy for computer imaging tasks where systems are required to parse images and identify features (e.g. humans), while fluid simulations are common in professional graphics work and games alike.
GTX 780 still struggles some at compute with CLBenchmark, but less so than with LuxMark. 7970GE is the clear winner here in both tests, while GTX 780 stays remarkably close to GTX Titan in performance. The fluid simulation in particular makes GTX 780 look good on a generational basis, more than doubling GTX 580's performance.
Moving on, our 4th compute benchmark is FAHBench, the official Folding @ Home benchmark. Folding @ Home is the popular Stanford-backed research and distributed computing initiative that has work distributed to millions of volunteer computers over the internet, each of which is responsible for a tiny slice of a protein folding simulation. FAHBench can test both single precision and double precision floating point performance, with single precision being the most useful metric for most consumer cards due to their low double precision performance. Each precision has two modes, explicit and implicit, the difference being whether water atoms are included in the simulation, which adds quite a bit of work and overhead. This is another OpenCL test, as Folding @ Home has moved exclusively to OpenCL this year with FAHCore 17.
The Folding@Home group recently pushed out a major core update(FAHBench 1.2.0), which we've rerun on a number of cards and is reflected in our results. Unfortunately this version also broke single precision implicit on AMD GPUs and AMD's latest drivers, so we only have NVIDIA GPUs for that section.
In any case, despite the fact that this is an OpenCL benchmark this is one of the cases where NVIDIA GPUs do well enough for themselves in single precision mode, with GTX 780 surpassing 7970GE, and falling behind only GTX Titan and the 7990. GTX 780 doesn't necessarily benefit from GK110's extra compute functionality, but it does see a performance improvement over GTX 680 that's close to the theoretical difference in shader performance. Meanwhile in double precision mode, the lack of an uncapped double precision mode for GTX 780 means that it brings up the bottom of the charts compared to Titan and its 1/3 FP64 rate. Compute customers looking for a bargain NVIDIA card (relatively speaking) will need to stick with Titan.
Wrapping things up, our final compute benchmark is an in-house project developed by our very own Dr. Ian Cutress. SystemCompute is our first C++ AMP benchmark, utilizing Microsoft's simple C++ extensions to allow the easy use of GPU computing in C++ programs. SystemCompute in turn is a collection of benchmarks for several different fundamental compute algorithms, as described in this previous article, with the final score represented in points. DirectCompute is the compute backend for C++ AMP on Windows, so this forms our other DirectCompute test.
SystemCompute shows very clear gains over both the GTX 680 and GTX 580, while trailing the GTX Titan as expected. However like Titan, both trail the 7970GE.
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jonjonjonj - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - linkamd get your act together so we have some competition. i really don't even see the point to this card at this price. what are they going to do for the 770? sell and even more crippled GK110 for $550? and the 760ti will be $450? or are they just going to sell the the 680 as a 770? Reply
formulav8 - Friday, May 24, 2013 - linkAMD is competing just fine unless I looked over something? It seems this card and price wouldn't have AMD worried. Reply
i_max2k2 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - linkThis is a big request, but could we please, please add GTX 580 SLI results in there too. I have that setup and I feel, its more then enough for something like a Full HD to 2560x1600 resolution monitor, for most recent games. Reply
gonks - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - linkWhat about bitcoin mining? it's the same as the GTX TITAN? Reply
Daeros - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link"...of a casted aluminum..."
Seriously?! Casted? That made it through proof and spell-check and anyone over the age of six? Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - linkNoted and fixed. Thank you. And I'd note at 5am in the morning, a six year old is about where my mental capacity is at... Reply
Daeros - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - linkand I may have been a bit harsh, apologies Reply
just4U - Friday, May 24, 2013 - linkI understood what he meant... and sadly I am not sure why it's a spelling mistake.. (without checking haha..) Im 44! but I do lack grammer skills. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, May 24, 2013 - linkNah, there's no need to apologize. You were spot-on. Reply
Nfarce - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - linkOkay so when are 680 prices going to drop so I can get a second one for my new 2560x1440 monitor? Reply


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Signs of Kawasaki disease develop in stages beginning with:
- A fever of more than 102 degrees, lasting a week or two without treatment
- Irritability
- Occasional lethargy or listlessness
- Stomach pain that comes and goes
A day or two after the fever appears, the membranes that cover the eyes and the eyelids become red, swollen and tender but there is no discharge from the eyes.
Within five days, red, flushed spots appear - usually on the trunk. These spots can resemble hives, measles or scarlet fever. There may be congestion in the throat; the lips become red, dry and cracked and the tongue becomes a strawberry red color. During this time, the palms of the hands and soles of the feet turn purple-red and may swell. The base of the fingernails and toenails may become white spotted or streaked.
Within 10 days, the skin of the palms, the soles of the feet and around the finger and toenails may begin to peel off in sheets that retain the shape of the body after they peel away. Tender, swollen lymph nodes in the neck appear in about half the patients with Kawasaki disease. The illness can last two to more than 12 weeks.
More general symptoms may include:
- Arthritis or pain in the large joints
- Diarrhea
- Swelling and tenderness of the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder outside the body
- Swelling of the gallbladder from fluid, and
- Swelling of the membrane that cover the brain without an infection being present
Kawasaki disease can lead to life-threatening complications including:
- Swelling and tenderness of the middle layer of the heart's muscle (acute myocarditis)
- Arteries that enlarge and develop weak spots. The pressure of the blood moving through the vessels can cause the weak areas to balloon out (aneurysms)
- Heart failure
- Irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias)
- Swelling and tenderness of the membrane that covers the heart (pericarditis)
- Swelling and inflammation of the heart and the arteries of the heart
Causes and Risk Factors
It is not yet known what causes this disease. It may be an infection or an abnormal response by the body to an infection. While it affects many racial and ethnic groups, persons of Japanese descent are most likely to develop this condition. Eight out of 10 children with this disease develop it before the age of five. Slightly more boys than girls develop Kawasaki disease.
Cases of Kawasaki disease can develop at any time of the year, but most often appear in the spring or winter. The disease sometimes appears in clusters in a community, although it is not clear how it might spread from one person to another.


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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday expanded approval of a shingles vaccine from Merck to patients between the ages of 50 and 59.
The vaccine, called Zostavax, is already approved for patients of 60 years and older.
"The likelihood of shingles increases with age. The availability of Zostavax to a younger age group provides an additional opportunity to prevent this often painful and debilitating disease," said Karen Midthun, director of the FDA's center for biologics.
Zostavax was first approved in May 2006.
Shingles causes blisters and severe pain that can last from several weeks to years. The illness is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. The virus lies dormant in the nervous system for years but can reappear in the form of shingles for reasons that are not entirely understood.
The FDA said in a statement it approved the drug based on a 22,000-patient study in which Zostavax decreased the risk of shingles by 70 percent. Side effects with the vaccine included redness, pain and swelling at the injection site.
Shingles affects roughly 200,000 people in the U.S. each year between the ages of 50 and 59.
Merck & Co. Inc. is based in Whitehouse Station, N.J. Its shares rose 9 cents to close at $32.72 Thursday.


text: Jessica W Location Plainfield, Illinois, United States More about me After almost a decade of Retail Management, I left and focused on having my babies. Because of them, I found my true passion in life - BAKING. I have begun making cakes and goodies for people through referrals, and someday I hope to have my very own shop.


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London, United Kingdom, 2007/10/26 - Leading online fashion and sportswear discount retailer acquired by growth private equity firm - MandMdirect.com / Brandnation.co.uk.
TA Associates, a leading growth private equity and buyout firm, today announced it has completed a majority investment in M and M Direct Ltd, the leading online and mail order retailer of discounted lifestyle, fashion and sports apparel and footwear in the UK. M and M was formerly majority owned by its founders and ECI Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Leominster, M and M specializes in purchasing end-of-line clearance stock from major brands and selling those products at substantial discounts. The company was founded in 1987 as M and M Sports, selling solely sports apparel. Following the management buyout backed by ECI in 2004, M and M expanded its product line to include fashion and lifestyle clothing. M and M now sells more than 230 brands of mens, womens and childrens apparel and footwear, including Adidas, Animal, Bench, Levis, Miss Sixty, Nike, Puma, Quiksilver, Reebok,Timberland and Vans.
Steve Robinson, formerly CEO of Tesco Direct and previously Finance Director of Argos, will join M and M as CEO, taking over from Mike Tomkins who has led the company under ECIs ownership. Mike will remain very actively involved with the company as a non-executive director, managing key brand relationships as well as leading various operational and strategic initiatives.
We are delighted to partner with a distinguished private equity firm like TA, and to welcome Steve Robinson to M and M, said Tomkins. TAs expertise in helping profitable companies accelerate growth, and Steves considerable online and catalogue retail sales experience, are a great combination for M and M, and I look forward to working with them both to take the business to the next level.
Robinson commented, I am delighted to join a business with such strong momentum. Mike and the team have developed a well recognized brand known for delivering quality products at a great value, and I look forward to building on these achievements.
Internet research group IMRG estimates that online shopping in the UK will reach £42 billion in sales in 2007, up 39% from £30.2 billion in 2006, and will grow to £78 billion by 2010. Chris Parkin, who led the transaction for TA Associates and will join the companys Board commented, With a compelling customer proposition, a unique distribution channel for suppliers, and substantial exposure to the online retail market, M and M is well-positioned to continue its strong growth.
M and M fits very well with TA's growing focus on online growth businesses with strong consumer brands, said Ajit Nedungadi, Managing Director of TA Associates, who will also join the companys Board of Directors. We look forward to working with Steve, Mike and the rest of the team to build further value in the company.
David Ewing, ECI Partners Director commented, Thoughtful repositioning and re-branding, coupled with the increasing acceptance of the Internet as a channel, has resulted in strong growth for M and M. We are very pleased to have contributed to the companys growth, and wish Mike and the team continued success.
TA Associates, which has more than 39 years of experience investing in profitable, growth companies, has been an active investor in the European markets with numerous investments, including Jupiter Asset Management, SmartStream Technologies, eDreams, GlobeOp Financial Services, IntercontinentalExchange, ION Trading Group, Sophos Plc and Tempur-Pedic International. The firm opened its London office in 2003 and is continuing to expand its investment efforts in Europe.
MacFarlanes provided legal counsel to TA Associates. Eversheds provided legal services to M and M.
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M and M Direct Limited is the UKs leading purchaser of end-of-line clearance for fashion and sports products. As an online and mail order retailer, M and M offers sports and fashion apparel and footwear for men, women and children, at substantial discounts. The companys website has over 100-plus brands, and receives 15 million visitors per year. M and M distributes 19 million catalogues a year, featuring great bargains. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Leominster.
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Tollywood silver screen for long has witnessed mass masala entertainers. However for the past year or so it seems movie lovers are witnessing some changing trend in tollywood. It all started with 'Dookudu' last year which turned out to be hilarious entertainer. Though the film starred Prince Mahesh Babu, the film mostly resembled Allari Naresh film for its out and out comedy. This year started off with Mahesh turning 'Business Man' and Venky received baton as 'Bodyguard'. Mass entertainers like Racha, Adhinayakudu entertained and once again Naresh as Sudigadu turned the tide towards hiliarious entertainer taking cue from Power Star's Gabbar Singh.
In between Julaayi provided a lovely entertainment while Prabhas showed all his superlative stunts as 'Rebel'. In between Rajamouli's graphical wonder 'Eega' thrilled while Ravi Babu's 'Avunu' scared. Now socio fantasy flicks like 'Damarukam' from King Nag and Devaraya from Srikanth are coming to entertain movie lovers. Power Star's 'Cameraman Gangato Rambabu' and Mahesh-Venky's family film 'SVSC' arereadying themselves.
All in all Tollywood film makers didnot pack all the year with out and out mass entertainers but presented sumptuous and delicious film meals to movie lovers with mass, socio, class, romantic,hilarious,thrilling entertainers.


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Special trunk sale to feature new, gently used clothing, gear for kids
Posted December 8, 2011
A Raleigh mom will hold a special trunk sale this weekend featuring items that she sells on her online store Blueberry Hill Boutique.
Crissy Jeckel started selling online 2009 after being laid off from her job as a real estate paralegal. She had sold her own children's clothes on Ebay for years and made some money. So she decided to do the same thing for other moms who wanted to sell on Ebay or Craigslist, but didn't have the time or knowledge to do it.
In March 2010, she started with two clients. Now she has 17. She's sold exclusively online until this weekend when she plans to turn her bonus room into a store. You'll find new and gently used clothes, along with shoes, toys and equipment. She also sells some collectibles. Vendors from Premier Designs, Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Sassy Silhouettes and Thirty-One handbags will be there too.
The sale is 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, at her home, 8312 Hardeth Way in northeast Raleigh. To take a look at what Jeckel offers, go to Blueberry Hill Boutique's website.


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Turtle Creek Crossing Grand Opening
TURTLE CREEK CROSSING - The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has officially declared their new grocery store open. Special guests and visitors enjoyed free food samples, cake and Lakota Water to celebrate last week. Children who attended the festivities received prizes for playing games set up especially for them.
Several door prizes were also offered to shoppers. A 42 inch television, 2 barbeque grills, a mountain bike, gift certificates and 100 bags of groceries are being given away in a series of drawings sponsored by the new supermarket.
"There is 80 acres here to bring more business to this area. This store was created all because of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal people, we want our people to be treated real good and wanted a store that would not raise prices every food stamp day," stated President Rodney Bordeaux. "Our main partners are our tribal citizens and others who come here to shop."
"Our Tribes have power, everything starts as a thought, our minds are powerful and dissention is always a given because someone will always counteract your thought," stated Egan "Butch" Artichoker who formerly served as the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO) Director. "This project was done without any investment capital and it was much bigger than the Rosebud Casino's fuel plaza. We need to think in terms of this grocery store as our child and put our minds together to support it so it can be successful."
"As some of you are aware, there is a business down the road that didn't want this project to happen and went as far as to approach us to ask that it didn't get our financial help; that man didn't realize how strong Indians can be when they unite," stated Bill Ridnicki who spoke on behalf of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. "Sovereignty means a lot to you and me but sometimes it doesn't mean a whole lot to others. On our reservation in Minnesota we have small businesses too and we always tell our Tribal members to support them, I ask you today to support your store."
Other special guests included Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribal members Charlie Vig and Kara Kiser who participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony. Master of Ceremonies was Walter Bear Shield. Prayers were offered by Chief Roy Stone, Sr. and Deacon Ben Black Bear, Jr. Other guest speakers included Lonnie Schultz (Store Manager), Christian Morrison (REDCO Director), Bruce Jenkins (SuperValu), Tim Fischer (SuperValu), Mark Patterson (Native American Bank), Marcella Hurley (SD Small Business Administration), along with Jesse Ewing and Jean Faber who are both staff members of Senator John Thune's office.
Winners in the initial prize drawing were: Gary Little Thunder, Churd family, Bernadine Kills Plenty, Candace Waln, Chad White Feather Sr., Neal Kramer, Kyle Running Horse, Rita Big Crow, Racine Whirlwind Soldier, Theodore Hatten, Jennifer Gunhammer, Kayo Smith, Lindsay Jones, Hubert Dillon, Julie Peneaux, Feri Veloz, Valentino DeNoyer, Stan La- Pointe, Marjorie Edwards, Delores Starboy, Rueben Fool Bull, Dora Roether, Karen Reifel, Travis Olson Sr., and Burt Kills In Water.
Also, Butch Artichoker, Joyce Cook, Rachel Wooden Knife, Richard Running Enemy, Joann Young, Gerald Gunhammer, Stephanie Young, Rachel Bruguier, Nicole Lybarger, Richard Running Enemy, Brenda Little Shield, Victoria Burnette, Ray Martin, Mike Yellow Eagle, Tracy Shot With Two Arrows, Lacey Hunger, Pam Bordeaux, Crystal Night Pipe, Dusty Haukaas, Shannon Castaway, Julia Leneaugh, Cherish Bull Bear, Roy Stone Sr., C. Steve Brave, and Tom Biedenbender.
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ETI Converting Equipment Receives Linerless Labels Patent
Montreal-based ETI Converting Equipment recently announced it has received a patent (number 2,788,206) to apply self-adhesive linerless labels without any compromise on the shape of the label. Using a reusable liner, the labeling machine is reportedly the successful solution to apply linerless labels without making marketing compromises on the final packaging.
The technology, developed by ETI and described in the patent, allows users to reduce the waste resulting from the use of a liner in a self-adhesive label construction. A film liner is used as a carrier to allow the die-cutting of the label, and then reused many times with other linerless facestock rolls. According to ETI project managers, the liner can be reused more than 20 times.
For more information, visit www.eticonverting.com.
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If you've still got leftover Halloween loot and want to remove the temptation to eat anymore, take it over to St. Leo the Great School, 1051 W. San Fernando St., on Nov. 11 between 3 and 6 p.m.
Students, parents and staff will be assembling care packages for Operation: Care and Comfort, which will be shipped off to U.S. armed forces serving around the world.
Leftover Halloween candy will be welcome and can be dropped off during the event. Not acceptable are candies portraying body parts or blood.


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Support My Tomatoes Can Rely On
I've finally found the answer for supporting my tomatoes. It's an ingenious system known as the Florida Weave. Basically, it's a system of stakes and twine that utilizes a weave pattern in an around the tomato plants to keep them stable, in place, and able to climb.
It's better than staking plants, because it allows them movement and accounts for the "sprawling" effect of fuller plants. It's better than the metal cone supports, because they become too confining for the tomato plant as it grows and the branches and fruit become tangled and pinched. So far, I love it. I used the old twine that I saved from my hale bales through the years (I saved it all because I KNEW it would come in handy one day!) and tied them end-to-end until I reached the desired length.
When I ran out of nylon twine, I went to the store and purchased garden twine made from natural fiber. I won't do that again. One of the keys to success with this system is pulling and keeping the twine tight from stake-to-stake. I've only had this system in place for 10 days and the natural fibers have already stretched on me!
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Watch the Bellator 178: Straus vs. Pitbull 4 weigh-in, which took place on Thursday in Uncasville, Conn.
Watch the Bellator 178: Straus vs. Pitbull 4 weigh-in streaming live, Thursday at 5 p.m. ET. Daniel Straus and Patricio Pitbull meet for the
Daniel Straus and Patricio Pitbull are set for their fourth fight. Here' s a preview of their history, and what you can expect in Friday
Bellator 178 on Friday features the fourth clash between current featherweight champion Daniel Straus and former belt-holder Patricio "Pitbull" Freire.
Daniel Straus went to war with Patricio Freire for 25 minutes before grabbing a unanimous decision to earn belt at the Scottrade Center in St.
Although he's just 28 years of age, Patricio "Pitbull" Freire has shifted the focus of his training, entering Bellator 145 in perhaps the best form
Watch the Bellator 145: Pitbull vs. Straus 3 weigh-ins on MMAWeekly.com.
Daniel Straus hasn't hide time to revamp his game since he last fought Patricio Pitbull, but he didn't need to.
Fresh off of their Twitter war, Bellator champs Patricio "Pitbull" Freire and Will Brooks will each put his belt on the line at Bellator 145
Kimbo Slice recovered from a near defeat to come back and get a technical knockout of Ken Shamrock in the first round at Bellator 138
The 28 fighters competing on the Bellator 138 fight card on Friday officially weighed in on Thursday at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Mistakes have proved costly for Daniel Straus, so he's been working up a new mental approach to regain the Bellator belt.
Former Bellator featherweight champion Daniel Straus begins his trek back to a world title when he meets undefeated former King of the Cage titlist Henry
Check out an all-access, behind the scenes look at Bellator 132: Pitbull vs. Straus 2 from the Pechanga Casino in Temecula, Calif.
Fight highlights from the Bellator 132 main event featherweight title tilt between champion Patricio "Pitbull" Freire and challenger Daniel Straus.
Patricio "Pitbull" Freire defended his featherweight belt at Bellator 132, while Georgi Karakhanyan earned the next shot at it.
Daniel Straus knows that in order to recapture the Bellator featherweight championship from Patricio Pitbull, he'll have to unleash his inner monster.
Bellator MMA recently revealed the early portion of its 2015 schedule, which features four title fights in the first quarter.
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100 Favorite Dishes, No. 40: Duck and Dumplings at Rapscallion
Rapscallion might as well rename this dish Hug in a Bowl.
Leading up to September's Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we're sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year.
Some dishes are so warm and comforting that the chef might as well wander out of the kitchen, embrace you in a big hug while asking, "So how are you, really?" There's one dish on Rapscallion's snack menu that delivers that embrace without awkwardly sending the chef out for a round of human-on-human contact.
The duck and dumplings ($13 for small, $25 for large) features house-made ricotta cavatelli, a chewy, cheesy marvel of a pasta that makes standard pasta seem trite in comparison. Perfectly tender and juicy duck confit adds a little extra richness, and buttery veggies — baby carrots, spring peas radish and green garlic — come draped in a light but creamy sauce that you'd be crazy not to spoon right out of the bowl. A sprinkling of sharp Parmesan rounds out the dish to create the kind of snack that makes all other snacks feel downright silly in comparison.
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To the occasional consternation of colleagues and friends who are more interpersonally sensitive and politically correct, I've been known to define "consensus" as an agreement or state of affairs that leaves all parties equally unhappy.
That formulation has recurred in recent weeks as I've watched the speechmaking and some of the early priority-setting of Education Secretary Arne Duncan: It's almost as if they were calculated to rile and challenge all of his department's traditional constituents and stakeholders--and some reformers as well.
He's been telling state leaders that they need to amend their laws--lifting charter-school caps, for example--to qualify for federal "race to the top" funding. He's been admonishing the charter crowd that it has to purge its ranks of crummy schools and embrace a mission it has long eschewed, namely the use of chartering to reconstitute failed district schools. He's been telling district chieftains that they must get serious about closing such schools--lots of them. He's been insisting to Congress that it appropriate dollars for such unpopular-with-Democrats programs as the Teacher Incentive Fund, which--quelle horreur--supports innovations like performance-based pay.
Most recently, at the NEA's annual Fourth-of-July convention, he told union big-wigs that they need to get with the program when it comes to paying really good teachers more and--eek--ridding schools of chronically ineffective instructors.
If he were a Republican, he'd have been heartily booed and perhaps walked out on--that's if he were invited at all. As it was, Duncan's reception by the NEA could be termed mixed. He did draw boos and hisses during the tough parts, but that was after much warm applause for the parts they liked (such as more federal education funding than ever before).
One assumes this pattern will continue as the Secretary keeps making the rounds of the innumerable organizations, conventions, and conferences that look to him and his agency for money if not leadership and policy guidance. Indeed, if one is going to talk tough, it's smart to talk tough to everyone, lest one be accused of playing favorites.
Duncan isn't nasty or even particularly critical. All his pills--all that I've seen, anyway--have ample sugar coatings in which he praises, empathizes, illustrates from personal experience, oozes understanding, proffers billions, and positively drips with child-centeredness and compassion. They're good speeches and he delivers them well. (He'd be a formidable candidate for elective office if and when that day arrives.) Eventually, though, he softly pulls the trigger and shoots his audience a polite but stern message that isn't what they want to hear, isn't consistent with their present practices, and cannot be carried out without wrenching changes.
Duncan doesn't say "you're wrong." He says, in effect, times have changed, circumstances have changed, we're not getting the job done well enough, and to get it done better we have to do things differently in the future than we've done in the past. This approach resembles President Obama's own penchant for urging Americans to get beyond yesterday's "tired ideas."
So far, only one of the Secretary's messages--his willingness to deep-six the District of Columbia voucher program--has not been music to my ears and those of sundry other hardened, weary veterans of the education-reform wars. (Republican though I am, at least on alternate Thursdays during Leap Year, I could not have said that of his GOP predecessor.)
What remains to be seen, of course, is how he handles actual decision-making under tough circumstances: When he must spend or withhold money, fund one place or project or hungry mouth rather than another, issue or not issue a controversial regulation, send actual bill language to Congress for overhauling NCLB (a gnarly policy challenge that Messrs. Obama and Duncan have so far been nearly mute about), negotiate with strong-willed committee chairmen, establish budget priorities (especially when--and if--the stimulus-dollar surge ends) etc. Walking the walk is never as easy as talking the talk and, half a year into his new job, Duncan has done a great deal of the latter but not a heckuva lot of the former. (To be fair, he's already made a few tough calls on student loans and Title I regs.)
In Chicago, where he ran the school system for nine long years, it appears that his walking wasn't incompatible with his reformist talking--but a lot of time he was on tiptoes, not galumphing down Michigan Avenue. (Could that be why a new study by the Chicago Commercial Club's Civic Committee concludes that the Windy City's vaunted reforms have yielded distressingly little by way of improved student results?)
Chicago politics ain't beanbag, as Mr. Dooley would say--or would have said if he'd ever been west of the Hudson--but the Washington version of this is bound to prove more challenging. There are lots more "stakeholders." They really don't agree with each other (except about how more money would please them all). The two parties really don't agree about much these days. (Republicans weren't a major force in Chicago; of course, Al Franken's recent triumph may mean they won't be on Capitol Hill, either.) The Democratic Party really does harbor an education-policy schism that will eventually cause pain. (Watch Congressman Obey, for example, declare that the education-stimulus dollars are meant to fill state and local budget holes, not foster painful reforms beloved of Duncan.)
Besides politics, the capital's mounting proclivity to play "gotcha," scandal-monger, and conflict-of-interest-exposer has truly intimidated careerists and Schedule C appointees alike, creating a pattern of status-quo-maintaining, backside-protecting, and risk-aversion that is wholly incompatible with the sorts of changes that Duncan is urging and that will inevitably slow the pace of change.
One must therefore assume that the speeches he's been making represent the apogee of education reform in the Obama administration and that actual policy and practice will end up being something less than the rhetoric calls for.
If it's much less, Duncan will wind up not having made much difference, beyond the spending of all that additional money. If it's only a little less, I'll sing his praises--while education stakeholders grumpily reach "consensus" that they would prefer morphine but must tolerate the pain. Meanwhile, listen closely when he talks. He's saying almost (not quite) all of the right things.
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