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In case you're wondering why this blog hasn't posted anything since Jan 5th 2011, it's because we've moved our location to a Wordpress site > www.swiftkickonline.com/blog
See you there!
In case you're wondering why this blog hasn't posted anything since Jan 5th 2011, it's because we've moved our location to a Wordpress site > www.swiftkickonline.com/blog
See you there!
Sir Ken Robinson continues to be a hero of ours for his ability to perfectly articulate how to imporve the educational system. In case you haven't watched any of his pervious TED talks, check them out here and here.
(via @NikiRudolph)
It is definitely an uphill climb to bring about a paradigm change to our current educational system. Fortunately, there are many colleges and universities that are making headway in reforming the current platform. Read up on the degree programs offered by Everest University and see their unique approach to providing a college education.
This is an except I wrote from an upcoming NCSL NOW! magazine article about online community engagement...
"When talking about online engagement my favorite place to start is offline on the dance floor. We've all been to good dances and bad dances. Good dances are proportional to the number of relationships built up on the dance floor. It's a simple idea, people are more likely to dance, have fun, and hang longer if they have relationships with the people around them to talk with or teach them new dance moves. So if you host a dance party, your job is to connect as many people together around shared interests to increase the number of relationships on your dance floor. It's not about you, it's about them connecting, learning, and growing from each other and the more relevant the introductions, the more likely the relationships are to solidify. You are the facilitator of engagement, not the gate keeper. After you've built up the relationships, you should be able to walk away from the dance and it will continue on without you."
With an amazing 2010 coming to a close for us at Red Rover and 2011 already looking like a landmark year, we're expanding the team and looking to recruit some amazing new people. Below are two roles we're hiring for in the next couple weeks. For both roles, they'd start off as trial contractual positions and if all goes well, move into full time positions within Red Rover within the first couple months of the new year. If interested, let us know, but know that creativity in submissions counts...
TITLE: Marketing / Sales Manager
OVERVIEW: The Marketing / Sales Manager populates and manages leads through the sales funnel to contract signed and payment received as well as renewing partners.
IDEAL CANDIDATE (In order of importance):
TITLE: Community Manager
OVERVIEW: The Community Manager both grows and increases engagement within our community of "fans" and our "Rovers" (users).
IDEAL CANDIDATE (In order of importance):
Most student club advisors will tell you that club engagement goes through waves; some years are rockstars and others are duds. Almost every club starts the year with aspirations of rockstardom, but within a couple weeks, the excitement and motivation of the leadership team fades, and thus, the entire club activity withers. In pondering this problem, I've been talking more and more about an idea called engagement-based leadership (EBL), meaning that leadership is not a one-time elected thing, but rather an ongoing, ever-changing position rewarded based on engagement. Before I talk more about EBL, first let's dissect the problem of why student leaders fade within a month of being elected.
Several years ago, I walked the second day of a 2-Day Avon Walk For Breast Cancer with my wife and some friends. Anyone who's ever done the walk knows how grueling it is. Blisters alone are painful, but the average Avon walker can expect to endure multiple layers of blisters building up until his or her entire foot becomes one big blister. It's disgusting and painful and makes the second day of the walk intense. The organizers know that completion of the walk is extremely difficult without a continuous onslaught of support from spectators and volunteers. That's why for every walker, they commit to line the entire path with at least five cheerers. On the last leg of the walk, my feet blistered up and shot a pain through my body with each step. Mentally and physically I was ready to quit. My motivation was gone. But then, as we turned the corner, there was a smiling old lady sitting in a wheel chair, wearing a cap to cover her bald head and holding a sign that read, "I'm why you're walking, Thank you." Like a bolt of electricity, my whole body reenergized and plowed toward the finish line. Imagine if the only rewards for walking the race were in the beginning when they pumped us up, and at the end when we crossed the finish line? The attrition rates would be horrendous!
Like the Avon walk, student leaders begin the year excited and motivated about the idea of the journey they're about to start. They might have just attended an award ceremony where the outgoing leaders were showered in praise for the hard work they did throughout the year, which further motivates the incoming leaders. So much support. So much praise. And then, let's say within a month or so, reality sets in. The real work starts, and the "blisters" of being a leader build up. But unlike the Avon walk, with a motivational checkpoint waiting for you at every street corner, the next motivational checkpoint for student leaders most likely won't be for another six months, during their outgoing ceremony when they are praised for all the hard work they did throughout the year. Thus, within the first couple months of being a leader, the excitement and motivation fade and the attrition rates go up. It should be noted that some leaders drop off for other reasons, such as class overload, work overload, or personal issues.
What's a solution look like?
As the advisor, you could make sure to set up a collection of individual checkpoints for your leaders throughout the year, so you make sure they stay excited and motivated. At bare minimum, let's say you create checkpoints that happen once per week for ten minutes where you praise them for the work they are doing and remind them of the bigger picture of student engagement. Just one leader multiplied out for eight months, that's just under five hours of your time. Now expand that to 50-300 leaders. If you don't think you have a life now...
Enter EBL. The goal is still the same, keep the leaders motivated on an ongoing basis so they can survive through the typical student leader burnout, but in EBL, the tactics change. In EBL, you are moving the motivational checkpoints away from you as the admin/advisor and pushing it to the students. EBL builds in a peer-to-peer motivational system that is ongoing and ever present. Now it doesn't matter if you have 50 or 5000 student leaders. Actually, the more leaders you have, the better.
How does it work?
It's no secret I'm a fan of Whole Foods (also known as Whole Paycheck). Because there's a WF on my way home from work, I tend to frequently stop in and grab a few items. Over time, I realized that WF is one of the top five places I visit the most every week, which makes me a pretty darn engaged customer. In fact, WF should probably be rewarding me for being so engaged. Enter FourSquare, Yelp, and SCVNGR. For those unfamiliar with these three sites, they are, simply stated, mobile check-in tools. I can be anywhere in NY and check in that I am there via my mobile phone. Nothing special yet, until you start to receive prizes, titles, and recognition for checking in more often. For a while, I was crowned the Mayor of our WF because I was the most engaged customer. But then my speaking travel schedule picked up and for several months I disappeared and rightfully so, someone else took over as Mayor.
EBL rewards students based on their engagement. The more engagement "points" you score, the more rewards, titles, and recognition you receive. To repeat from above, leadership is not a one-time yearly elected thing, but rather an ongoing, ever-changing position that is rewarded based on engagement.
There certainly is much more to debate and discuss here, but consider this post only a surface-level introduction to the idea. I'm not interested in getting into the weeds just yet, so I purposefully left out many of the operational details.
The Value of EBL?
Admin/Advisor - Student Leader attrition rates will drop, which means student leaders will stick around longer and be more active in their clubs. The increased activity will make clubs more successful throughout the year. The admin/advisor also won't have to do as much individual student leader motivational check-ins.
Student Leaders - Like a video game, the rewards and benefits built into EBL will keep the student leaders motivated throughout the entire year on an ongoing basis. They are going to have more fun because their clubs are more active and engaged. They also won't feel as much guilt about dropping off the map and letting the club die due to some personal issues they didn't plan for ahead of time. A new leader with the most engagement points is ready to step up to Mayorship.
Students - They will have a larger group of active clubs to join. After joining they don't have to rely on a disengaged elected leader to keep the group going. Leadership is open to anyone who wants it and is willing to work for it.
Wrap Up
EBL is a blend of game theory and student engagement theory. Every student affairs professional knows the pains of deadbeat leaders and thus dead groups. EBL is a new paradigm in thinking about leadership. If we want to break out of the normal student engagement levels of 16-40%, we have to think differently. The ideas, tactics, and tech tools we use have to embody this new way of thinking. It's not just about making paperwork more efficient, that's just extracting more energy from the resources you already know exists. It's about exploring new potential energy that is sitting dormant in the 60-84% of the rest of your student body, that's a massive untapped pool of energy.
The Backstory
Kevin and I started The Student Affairs Collaborative in 2005 to test our hypothesis that a decentralized, open system of peer-to-peer learning built around shared interests would increase engagement and retention.
We wanted to create a community in which everyone was a teacher at some level, and everyone supported each other to become more involved.
In the beginning, 100% of the content was written by me, Kevin, and our speaker friend Del Suggs. We then bribed our student affairs friends with cookies to help us write content, and slowly, over time, the site gained a readership.The SA Collaborative started to become the go-to place online for student affairs professionals to receive and share knowledge from their peers. The growth remained steady, and then Twitter came along...
In 2009, over drinks at Panera Bread Co with Debra Sanborn, I pitched the idea of a weekly chat via Twitter for student affairs professionals, which would mimic the already established #EDchat (for teachers) and #JourChat (for journalist). She nodded excitedly at the idea, and a couple weeks later, on Oct 8th, 2009, we attempted our first #SAchat.
I remember telling my wife how nervous I was that it was just going to be me and Debra tweeting back and forth for an hour, and it would never take off because there were no student affairs people on Twitter. I kept a shot of vodka close by to calm my nerves just in case :-).
The chat started extremely slow, but within 15 minutes a couple of people joined us from out of nowhere. Twitter hasn't opened up its history past Feb 2010, so the data can't be verified yet, but I remember the hour generating around 100 tweets and 10 people participating. 80% of those tweets came from me and Debra though :-/.
This week marks the one year anniversary of #SAchat, and the community has exploded in celebration. Last week, I jokingly declared that the SA Collaborative editors were bringing fireworks to the party, and fireworks they did bring! I've personally received tweets, emails, phone calls, faxes, and even postcards in celebration.
Where We Are Now
The last seven days of #SAchat'ter generated 2,500 tweets with 300 people participating! The hashtag #SAchat is the go-to place on Twitter for student affairs. Many people have the hashtag saved as a favorite search and keep it open all day on their 3rd party clients, which further solidifies its validity.
The SA Collaborative is now five years old, and has around 700 subscribed readers, 3,900 Twitter followers, 17 content contributors, and is the #1 ranking Google search for "Student Affairs Blog."
As expected, lots of additional niche student affairs chats are popping up with varying success. Most are initiated by the community, but some of the established organizations in the industry are launching their own chats. I say, the more the merrier! It makes sense that as the all-purpose #SAchat grows, sub chats with a more narrow focus will emerge. Once you've found the music fans, now you want to find the old-time-bluegrass-with-a-fiddle-in-the-band music fans because that is what you are really into.
A large percentage of the community only knows my name because of the generous outpouring of gratitude I've received over the past week. I tend not to overly participate in the weekly chats or blog. It's not that I don't care or have time, it's that you all will learn far more from your peers, who walk in your shoes 24/7, than from me being an outside supporter of student affairs. So I'll happily continue on from behind the scenes helping the community grow by facilitating as many relationships as possible, so we all continue to stay on the dance floor dancing together.
Why This Community Continues To Grow
Every community is comprised of champions, participants, and lurkers. This is also called the 90-9-1 rule in which 1% of a community will be the champions, 9% will participate, and 90% will simply lurk. Wikipedia is the most famous example of the 90-9-1 rule. The challenge of community organizers is to provide the right incentives to the right people so they stay engaged in the community. Champions want an audience to help and support, like they received when they were just starting off. Participants want an easy way to engage with people like them around relevant topics and to learn from the champions. Lurkers want a way to watch the activity between the champions and participants, and when ready, a way to easily test the temperature of the water.
I continuously work with the editorial team to make sure we are moving the community in the right direction. For the champions, that means making it easier for them to share their amazing knowledge to an increasingly larger audience. For participants, that means providing quality content, a fun atmosphere, and peers like them they can connect with. For lurkers, that means keeping the community as open as possible and providing baby steps of engagement like the TuesTally.
What's Next
We're only a couple of weeks away from launching a directory for the #SAchat community that will further facilitate relationships and learning communities around shared interests. I want to help the student affairs graduate students find, participate, and learn from the #SAGrad community. I want to help women who work in housing find, participate, and learn from the #wihsng community. I want to help first year experience people find, participate, and learn from the #FYEchat community. I want to help the #RLchat (Res Life people) community grow, the #SAASS (assessment people) community grow, etc, etc, etc. The new directory will make all of this possible, and I predict it will challenge the established student affairs organizations to rethink how they engage their community. Heck, the #SAchat community has already turned some heads!
Three Challenges
And Lastly
My excitement for this community is overflowing. I believe we are pushing not just student affairs forward, but the entire educational field. We're working our tails off over here at Red Rover to duplicate the successes of this community with the students on your campus. Wait till we launch the #SAchat directory, then you'll really see what I'm talking about.
I'm writing this post from my perspective, but really it's a culmination of countless conversations between the editorial team that are well deserving of endless praise, so extra cheers and digital cookies to Debra Sanborn, Cindy Kane, Ed Cabellon, Liz Van Lysal, Stacy Oliver, and Kevin Prentiss.
Here's to another 365 sunrises and sunsets on our great community! Queue the fireworks.
BJ Fogg created the Fogg Behavior Model (FBM) through his work at the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. The FBM states...
"Three elements must converge at the same moment for a behavior to occur: Motivation, Ability, and Trigger. When a behavior does not occur, at least one of those three elements is missing."
Fogg goes on to break down the three elements even further...
The FBM deals mostly with online software user behavior, but with a little twist, it can also apply to engaging students on campus.
Kevin, of Red Rover, created the Student Motivation Pyramid (SMP) to better understand the different student motivations. The SMP states...
"Students can be generally divided into three core engagement motivators: Comfort, Connection, and Contribution. Comfort is defined as a motivation for lowest common denominator connections on an individual level (e.g. you like sports, I like sports, let's be friends at orientation). Connection is defined as a motivation to join relevant interest groups and act together toward a common outcome (e.g. German Club, Chess Club, Magic Club). Contribution is defined as a motivation to give back to the campus by consciously leading and supporting the community (e.g. Student Leaders)."
In terms of student engagement, applying (trigger) the wrong motivation (comfort/connection/contribution) at the wrong time (ability) will have little or no effect. Such a simple sentence to write, but opens up a spider web of questions:
The good news is answers are available and technology provides the helping hand. In Part 2 I'll dig further into each question to provide an overview of how campuses can better engage their students through these models.
Last week Twitter recognized the issue and introduced an updated tool called Fast Follow.
"The mobile team here at Twitter has rolled out a new feature called Fast Follow, and its genius lies in its simplicity: text "follow [account]" to 40404 (Twitter's U.S. shortcode) and you'll immediately start getting that account's tweets via SMS—without ever signing up for Twitter."
"You could place your school's admissions Twitter account name and the Twitter SMS number on your marketing collateral. A school could even have multiple Twitter accounts that could then be included on strategic mailings or promotional microsites. Campaign tracking would be a snap! Prospective students do not have to be on Twitter to use Fast Follow."
Enterprise SMS tools will have a hard time justifying large price tags when competing against...free. I suspect an advantage they will have is back end assessment data. Though, knowing Twitter's history of openness, might be provided by a third party tool soon.
Curious to know if anyone has tried mass, or even departmental adoption of Fast Follow at their campus?


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TNA Impact Wrestling: Final Resolution '13
Orlando, Florida (Impact Zone II)
December 19, 2013
Commentators: Taz & Mike Tenay
Report by: Josh Boutwell of Wrestleview.com
"Final Resolution" kicks off with a special intro highlighting tonight's event.
Magnus is looking for both Jeff Hardy and Dixie Carter in the back but the member of the staff he's asking says he hasn't seen either. Magnus tells them to get the message to them when they do arrive that he's got something to say that they'll want to hear.
Magnus comes down to the ring and he says that he loves this business and that's why he busts his gut and puts his body through hell because of that love. He says he can't change where he's from but he's proud of the fact that he's made his living and his career for the past 5 years in America. He says there was some adjusting to do for him and the first thing he learned when he got to America was the power of money. He says that it's not about the money for him and it's always been about pride, honor, dignity, and respect, but he wonders if the same can be said for his opponent Jeff Hardy. A "Hardy" chant starts up and Magnus says he's as big of a fan of Hardy as anyone. He says that Jeff "slayed" his demons but maybe there is one demon still creeping its way into Jeff's life: greed. He says that everyone saw Jeff having drinks with Dixie last week. The footage is shown on the big screen and Magnus says Jeff Hardy owes everyone an explanation because this match tonight is the most important match of his life, and he won't let Dixie or Jeff fool him.
Hardy comes down to the ring and Jeff tells Magnus he doesn't even know him to be questioning his motives for anything. Magnus says this is the biggest night of his life so he won't let any chances go so Jeff needs to explain himself. He says everyone else may have forgotten all about Jeff's history but he hasn't. Magnus reminds everyone about "10-10-10" when Jeff turned and went with Immortal. Jeff says that was a different time and he was a different person then. Magnus says it may have been a different time but it's the same place, right in the middle of a ring Jeff sold his soul. Magnus says he thinks Jeff might be getting ready to do it again and he says that everyone forgave Jeff for the last time but what will all his "creatures" thing if he sells out again. Some fans start chanting "we don't care" but Jeff screams at Magnus to worry about his own life, and not to worry about his. Jeff drops the microphone and walks to the back as a confused looking Magnus watches.
Christy Hemme is backstage with Kurt Angle and he says a lot of things have been going on since BFG. He says that Roode has had his number since BFG but tonight is the night that things change. He says he will show everyone that he still has it and he won't just beat Roode once, he'll beat him twice. He says that it's only the beginning for the rest of Kurt's career.
A video package highlighting the Roode/Angle feud is shown. We're not warming up in the bullpen tonight, heading straight into the big 2/3 Falls Match!
Backstage JB hypes up the reveal for the Feast or Fired cases tonight. Chavo Guerrero Jr. walks up and says there is a lot on the line tonight when Zema Ion walks up doing his stupid DJ scratching sound. Chavo reminds Zema that there is a 25% chance that he is getting fired tonight, but there is a 100% chance that if he does that sound again he's going to get punched in the face.
2/3 Falls Match
"The IT Factor" Bobby Roode vs. "Olympic Hero" Kurt Angle
These two have been feuding pretty hardcore since BFG and Roode has seemingly had the Olympians number the entire time. Angle and Roode lockup and Roode puts Angel in a side headlock, but Angle shoves him into the ropes only to eat a shoulder block for a quick nearfall. Angle sweeps Roode's legs and covers him for a quick nearfall as well. They lockup again and this time Angle gets Roode in the headlock, but Roode shoves Angle into the ropes only to get run over. Angle hits the ropes again and then Roode leapfrogs him. Angle stops and turns around to attempt the Olympic Slam, but Roode blocks it and goes for a TKO. Angle counters into an attempt at the Ankle Lock but Roode quickly gets to the ropes to break the hold. A "Bobby sucks" chant starts up and then they lockup for a third time but this time Roode ducks under Angle and puts him in a waistlock. Angle reverses it and then takes Roode down and holds onto the waistlock on the mat. Roode fights to his feet and break the hold with back elbows, and then he hits the ropes only to get caught with a Belly-to-Belly Overhead Suplex! Roode rolls out to the floor but Angle follows him and hits him with a forearm. Angle puts the boots to Roode on the floor and then tries to toss him back in the ring, but Roode body shots him and then tries to slam him into the guardrail. Angle blocks it and shoves Roode into the guardrail before tossing him back into the ring. Angle charges at Roode but Roode gets his boot up and then goes for a clothesline, but Angle ducks it and hits the Rolling German Suplexes! Angle goes for the Olympic Slam again but Roode counters into an armdrag. Roode then pulls the referee in front of him as Angle charged at him. Angle shoves the referee away and then Roode kicks Angle in the balls behind the referee's back and hits the TKO! 1…2…3!
Back from the break the second fall is ongoing and Roode connects with a clothesline on Angle. Roode hits a Vertical Suplex and then he goes for a Knee Drop, but Angle rolls out of the way and then blocks a right hand. Angle hits a series of rights and then attempts to whip Roode into the ropes, but Roode reverse it only to eat a Forearm Smash from Angle! Angle hits a series of clotheslines and then a Belly-to-Belly Overhead Suplex! Angle charges at Roode in the corner but Angle sidesteps him and Angle nails the ring post with his shoulder! Roode quickly goes for the Crossface, but Angle counters into the Olympic Slam! 1…2…3 and the match is tied up 1-1!
Roode rolls out to the floor and starts to walk away but Angle stops him and tosses him back into the ring. Rood swings at Angle but he ducks and hits the Rolling German Suplexes again! Roode blocks the third one and hits a series of elbows. Angle charges at Roode again but this time Roode catches him with the Canadian Crossface! Angle reverses into a pinfall for a nearfall, but Roode is able to roll Angle back over into a pin of his own for a nearfall. Roode then goes for a Backslide but Angle blocks it and attempts a clothesline only to get caught in the Crossface again! Roode screams at Angle to tap but Angle is able to again counters into a pinfall attempt, but Roode rolls back over into the Crossface. Angle again fights out and up to his feet this time and into an Olympic Slam attempt. Roode counters into a Flying Armbar and Roode goes right back to the Crossface! Angle's lip is busted open as he fights the hold. Angle frees his arm and grabs Roode's ankle countering into the Ankle Lock! Roode is able to fight to the ropes but Angle pulls him back and puts Roode in his own Crossface! Roode looks like he's about to tap but is able to fight up to his feet and counter into an attempt at the TKO again! Roode blocks it and hits the Olympic Slam! 1…2…NO Roode kicks out! Roode rolls out to the floor and Kurt follows him knocking him down. Angle tosses Roode back into the ring and Roode tries to crawl back out but Angle catches him by the foot and pulls him back to the center of ht erring in the Ankle Lock! Roode counters with a roll through into a pin! Roode holds onto the ropes, 1…2…3!
Winner: Roode 2 falls to 1
JB again hypes up the Feast or Fired reveal backstage. Gunner and James Storm walk up and JB asks Gunner about stepping over Storm to win the briefcase. Gunner says Storm would have done the same thing to him and Storm says they'll see if his gamble paid off. Storm reminds Gunner that he might be fired but Gunner says "maybe not" and walks away.
Back from the break highlights of the 2/3 Falls Match are shown and then Angle is shown in the back in disbelief at his loss. Angle says Roode isn't out wrestling him but he continues to outsmart him over and over. Angle says he gives Roode credit but his pride won't let him admit that Roode has his number. Angle says he doesn't know what to do and he needs to think about what his next move is. He says he just doesn't know.
A vignette highlighting Gail Kim and Madison Rayne's history is shown. Madison says she's back now and she's coming for that Knockouts Title.
JB again hypes up the Feast or Fired reveal as EC3 walks up and says JB owes him a match. EC3 says he's a carter and the only pink slip Carter's get are the ones for a fleet of cars. EC3 reminds us that he knows the people in charge around here even if he got the pink slip.
EC3 talks to Dixie on the phone but she says that she can't do anything about this because even she doesn't even know what's in the briefcases and there is nothing she can do about it.
Backstage EY talks about the Abyss issues and he says the experiment continues tonight. He holds up a gift that's obviously a chair wrapped up and says he has some gifts for Park tonight.
Eric Young comes down to the ring where a table is set up with some presents as a vignette airs showcasing the Abyss/Park stuff. EY asks Joseph Park to come out and he obliges EY. EY again says Park is Abyss but Park says this past week has all been a blur to him and he doesn't know what to believe. Park says that his name is Joseph Park but EY reminds him about him turning into Abyss last week and every time he bleeds. Park says he blacks out when that happens and that is Joseph Park not Abyss. EY says they're going to try a new two part science experiment. He says one part of it is next week he will face Bad Influence in a Monsters Ball Match! Park says that EY has lost it because that is his brothers match not Park's. Park refuses to do the match and EY says he knew he would say that and here comes the second part of the experiment.
He hands Park one of the presents and it's a steel chair and Park says he uses those in a courtroom. He hands Park another one and this time it's a bag of thumbtacks. The last present is unwrapped and it's a bunch of barbed wire. Park says he appreciates all this but it doesn't do anything for him and he's going to stick to his original answer, and the answer is no, he won't be a part of the Monsters Ball. EY says he saved the best present for last and tells him it's under the ring. Park pulls Janice, the 2×4 with nails in it, out from under the ring. Park stares at it and then he says "I'll do it" and walks off while still staring at Janice.
Samoa Joe walks into Jeff Hardy's locker room and Joe says there is no reason for Hardy to look as down as he does right now unless what Magnus said struck a nerve. Joe says he understands and with everyone doing whatever they can to get ahead he can understand a shortcut, but he never thought Jeff was that type of person to take that bait. Jeff says if Joe is looking for an explanation to his meeting with Dixie he isn't getting one, and nobody is.
JB is with the Feast or Fired winners as they are about to reveal who won (or lost) what. Dixie Carter walks in and welcomes everyone to this. They are doing this almost like its The Apprentice or something with some corny music playing in the background. JB says only the law firm of Smith & Stone know the contents of the briefcases and the order that they will be revealed. Zema Ion is up first and his shot is for the X-Division Title!
Next up is Gunner and he will receive a World Heavyweight Title shot! Gunner and Storm stare each other down and then Gunner simply walks away with Storm following behind looking pissed. Chavo and EC3 are left and one of these two will get a Tag Title shot while the other is fired. Before either opens the briefcase Sting walks in which pisses Dixie off. Sting says he asked EC3 to do something great and now his legacy is on the line, and then Sting says EC3 and the word "legacy" in the same sentence makes him nauseous. He says that what Dixie is doing to TNA also makes him nauseous. Sting asks Chavo if he ever had anything handed to him and he says that the Guerrero's have had to work twice as hard to get what they've got. Sting says that the Guerrero name is wrapped in legacy and reminds EC3 there is a 50/50 chance that he's about to be fired. Sting offers EC3 a way out and says he will take the fate of whatever is in that case if EC3 will fight him. EC3 says he'll take the briefcase instead and Sting calls him a coward before leaving.
Chavo and EC3 open their briefcases at the same time and EC3 gets the title shot while Chavo gets the pink slip. Sting consoles Chavo while EC3 and Dixie celebrate. Sting screams at Dixie and says that this is the beginning of the end for EC3 and Dixie disgusts him. Dixie laughs as Sting walks out of the room and says Sting is so overly dramatic. Chavo is left with his head in his hands as they walk out.
Backstage Magnus is getting ready for the World Title match and he says there are a lot of questions about Jeff but he doesn't seem to want to answer any of them. Magnus says his focus is on the World Title.
Lei'D Tapa & Gail Kim vs. ODB & Madison Rayne
This is our first chance to see Madison back in the ring since she left TNA earlier in the year due to pregnancy. Tapa grabs Madison by the throat as the bell rings and tosses her back. Tapa charges at her but Madison ducks her and locks in a waistlock. Tapa simply tosses Madison to the side and then she grabs Madison by the hair but Madison kicks her in the gut. Tapa swings at her but Madison rolls underneath her and then tags ODB into the match. ODB and Tapa lockup and Tapa forces ODB into the corner. They separate but then Tapa swings at ODB but ODB ducks and lights Tapa up with chops. ODB tries to whip Tapa but Tapa blocks it and kicks ODB. Tapa hits a Scoop Slam and then tags in Gail. Gail puts the boots to ODB and tosses ODB into the corner. Gail puts the boots to her again and then hits a Corner Splash before slamming ODB to the mat by her hair. Gail forearms ODB and then whips her into the corner, but ODB explodes out of the corner with a clothesline. ODB whips Gail into the corner and then hits a splash. ODB tries to knock Tapa off the apron but Tapa shrugs it off and grabs ODB by the hair. ODB forearms Tapa and then slams her into the top turnbuckle only to eat a running dropkick from Gail! Gail tags Tapa in and then stands on ODB's head while Tapa grabs ODB. Tapa lifts ODB up and hits an over the sholder Backbrekaer! Tapa puts the boots to ODB and then chokes her in the ropes. ODB tries to fight Tapa off but Tapa tosses her into the ropes and connects with a Big Boot. Tapa drags ODB back to the corner and tags in Gail who covers ODB for a nearfall. Gail hits a European Uppercut and then chokes ODB in the corner with her boot. Gail whips ODB into the opposite corner and then goes for a Splash but ODB moves and then hits Gail with a Press Slam! ODB makes the hot tag to Madison and she runs Gail over with a series of clotheslines and then she tosses Gail across the ring. Gail hits another clothesline and then attempts to whip Gail into the ropes, but Gail reverses it only to eat a Spear from Madison! Madison slams Gail's head into the mat repeatedly but then Tapa runs in and pulls Madison off. ODB jumps on Tapa's back and then Tapa flips ODB off her back over the top rope to the floor! Tapa follows her to the outside and Gail hits a Shortarm Clothesline on Madison! Gail talks trash to Madison and then goes for the Eat Defeat but Madison counters into a backslide! 1…2…3!
Winners: ODB & Madison via pinfall (backslide)
Sting approaches Jeff Hardy in the back and Jeff says he hopes this isn't going to be another lecture but Sting says he just wants to talk to Jeff. Sting says he know what it's like to be second guessed and Jeff doesn't owe anyone an answer. Sting says he has to stay true to himself but Jeff says Sting doesn't fully understand. Sting says he does and then walks away.
A video of Rockstar Spud trying to explain himself to Dixie last week on Impact 365 is shown. Dixie is freaking out about AJ still having the World Title and she tells Spud to find someone that can make them a World Title belt quickly.
A video package highlighting the World Title Tournament is shown.
Jeff Hardy walks out and says Magnus talks about Hardy doing what he did at 10-10-10 and it was nice having the power but everyone knows how that thing ended at Victory Road 2011. He says those mistakes will not be repeated. Jeff says he did meet with Dixie Carter and he thought about his past but more importantly he thought about his future, his wife, and his daughter. Jeff says he loves entertaining the fans and that Dixie wanted to corrupt him with money and power, but he knows what also come along with that it would mean that she would own him. Jeff says no one owns him and he told Dixie that she could take her money and stick it. He says he's going to win the World Title and represent it like AJ Styles but then Dixie's music interrupts him.
Dixie says if Jeff wants to compare himself to AJ Styles they can do that right now. She says just like AJ everything he and his family have he owes to her. Dixie says she is in the one that stood by Jeff after all of his mistakes and he says he appreciated that but Dixie screams at him not to interrupt her again. Dixie says she stood by him not the "pathetic creatures" and fans who abandoned him. Dixie says Jeff needs to think is best for her company and not what is best for his wife and little girl. She says if he doesn't he can be out of a job just like AJ Styles. Dixie asks who will sell Jeff's merchandise and his CDs and artwork. She says Jeff needs Dixie a lot more than she needs him.
Main Event
TNA World Title Tournament Finals
Dixieland Match
Magnus vs. "Charismatic Enigma" Jeff Hardy
Winner of this match is the "disputed" World Heavyweight Champion. To win a wrestler must escape the steel cage and then set a ladder up at the top of the stage and climb the ladder and pull down the belt to win. JB does boxing style intros for this one. Jeff and Magnus exchange right hands at the bell and Magnus shoves Hardy into the corner. Magnus beats on Jeff and then slams him into the opposite corner. Magnus hits a European Uppercut and then whips him into the opposite corner, but Hardy floats up into a Spinning Headscissors Takeover. Magnus retreats to a corner but Hardy follows him with a splash and then he mounts Magnus and rains down right hands. Hardy follows up with the Hardyac Arrest in the corner before slamming slams Magnus into the top turnbuckle. Hardy hits a series of shoulder blocks and then attempts to whip him into the ropes, but Magnus reverses it and goes for a backdrop. Hardy kicks Magnus and then hits the rope again but Magnus is right behind him with a Lariat! Magnus climbs up top and dives off with a Flying Elbow Drop, but Hardy rolls out of the way and both men are down. Hardy climbs up top and begins climbing over the cage but Magnus pulls him down to the top rope. They fight atop the ropes until Hardy slams Magnus headfirst into the cage wall! Magnus falls to the mat and Hardy dives off with the Swanton Bomb, but Magnus rolls out of the way and both men are down again. Magnus climbs up to the top of the cage but Hardy cuts him off and pulls him down to the top rope as EC3 is shown at the top of the ramp with Dixie. Jeff Back Superplexes Magnus down to the mat!
Back from the break Hardy actually tries to escape the cage through one of the small camera holes in the cage wall, but Magnus grabs his leg and pulls him back into the ring. Hardy catches Magnus with a Leaping Mule Kick and then a Leg Drop to the balls and a Basement Dropkick! Hardy attempts to whip Magnus into the ropes but Magnus reverses it only to get nailed with a Flying Forearm from Hardy! Hardy climbs to the top of the cage but Magnus grabs his legs and pulls him down to the top rope. Hardy kicks Magnus off and then hits a Springboard Imploding Splash! Hardy hits the Twist of Fate and then goes for a second one but Magnus shoves him into the corner. Magnus chop blocks the back of Hardy's knee and then locks in the British Cloverleaf! Magnus releases the hold as Hardy screams in pain and then climbs to the top but Hardy cuts him off again and pulls him down facefirst across the top rope. Hardy swings at Magnus but Magnus ducks and then hits the Tormentum! Magnus climbs up top and dives off with the Flying Elbow Drop! Magnus whips Hardy into the corner and then charges but eats a boot from the Enigma. Hardy climbs up top and dives off with the Whisper In The Wind! Hardy climbs to the top of the cage and thinks about climbing over, but stops and then hits the damn Whisper In The Wind off the top of the cage! That dude is still out of his ever loving mind. Hardy slowly gets to his feet and then climbs back to the top of the cage. Magnus climbs the other side of the cage as well. They both climb over but then EC3 runs down and tries to stop Magnus but Magnus kicks him off the cage. Jeff is selling his knee pretty badly as he comes around the ring. EC3 grabs Magnus and acts like he's going to hit his finish but Hardy sees him and punches him! Hardy then hits the Twist of Fate on EC3 on the floor! Haryd then points to the title and starts exchanging strikes with Hardy! Magnus hits a series of nasty European Uppercuts and then starts up the ramp! Hardy stops him and hits the Twist of Fate on the ramp! Dixie stands between Jeff and the ladder and starts says "over my dead body" but then Hardy shoves her and makes her move out of the way. Hardy climbs up the ladder and grabs the belt but Rockstar Spud appears out of nowhere and shoves the ladder over! Hardy lands HARD on the ramp! Spud sets the ladder back up and then Magnus looks down at Hardy and climbs up the ladder. Magnus pulls the belt down and the Brit finally has won the World Championship!
Winner & NEW TNA World Champion: Magnus via pulling the belt down
Magnus poses on the top of the ladder with his belt as Dixie and Spud celebrate.
"Final Thoughts" will be up tomorrow morning.
1) 2/3 Falls Match: Bobby Roode def. Kurt Angle (2-1)
2) ODB & Madison Rayne def. Gail Kim & Lei'D Tapa
3) TNA World Title Dixieland Match: Magnus def. Jeff Hardy to win the vacant title!
Scheduled for Next Week:
-Monsters Ball: Joseph Park vs. Bad Influence
TNA World Title Tournament Brackets
– Full Metal Mayhem: Jeff Hardy def. Chris Sabin (11/07)
– Submission Match: Kurt Angle def. Austin Aries (11/14)
– Bullrope Match: Bobby Roode vs. James Storm (11/21)
– Falls Count Anywhere Match: Magnus def. Samoa Joe (11/21)
– Jeff Hardy def. Bobby Roode (12/05)
– Magnus def. Kurt Angle (12/05)
– Magnus def. Jeff Hardy (12/19)
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Pizza Obsessives: Damian Barneschi
Slice interviews with folks who are mad about pizza.
Today's obsessive is a pizza-lover from the Boston area who makes some very fine contributions to My Pie Monday, which I have even been lucky enough to try! (I once got to attend one of his epic pizza parties in Cambridge.) Let's get to know our fellow pie enthusiast Damian a little better as he spends a little time in the ol' 'hot seat'.—MS
What type of pizza do you prefer?
While I enjoy Neapolitan-style pizza and a good Sicilian slice, I have a special place in my heart for New Haven-style apizza. I grew up in Connecticut and I remember taking trips down to New Haven and standing in line with my parents for what seemed like forever. I still make a few pilgrimages every year to Pepe's, Sally's, Modern and BAR.
Now that's some pizza pedigree. So in terms of the The Pizza Cognition Theory, which, to refresh your memory, states that "the first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes ... becomes, for him, pizza" you had a pretty high bar.
Even though my family enjoyed New Haven-style pizza, our Friday night go-to spot was a Greek pizzeria in our town. For me, the Pizza Cognition Theory does not hold up. I really should give Greek-style another try sometime. It's been forever.
What's your favorite topping or topping combination?
I'm totally in the camp with those who believe that the better the pizza is, the fewer toppings it needs to have. Sally's plain pie showcases this idea better than any other pizza I've tried. It is truly a thing of glory. I also love a good New Haven-style clam pie. Margheritas with fresh, high quality ingredients are always fantastic.
Where do you go for pizza in your area?
Pizzeria Posto makes my favorite Boston-area pies. I think it's fate that I live a stone's throw from New England's only VPN certified pizzeria. Their marinara almost rivals Sally's plain pie. Pinocchio's in Harvard Square makes fantastic Sicilian-style pies. I absolutely love their spinach and zucchini squares. Galleria Umberto in Boston's North End is also amazing. Their goopy, oily squares remind me of what school cafeteria pizza would taste like if it were made with love.
I know you make pizzas from your contributions to My Pie Monday. Care to share your methods and recipes?
I've been making pizza for a while now and my pies have slowly been getting better and better. I've found that the Pizzamaking.com website is a fantastic resource for people who are really serious about stepping up their game. Members like Slice contributor TXCraig1, along with many others, have been so generous with their knowledge and expertise.
Recently, I started using an Ischia starter, which gives the dough a nice sour flavor and aroma. I've also traded in my pizza stone for a steel plate. The plate is a chore to bring in and out of my oven, but it gives the pies much better charring on the undercarriage. Right now I'm making my pies in a tiny electric oven and it does a pretty respectable job. I'll be super excited when I one day get a place with a back yard so that I can step it up to a wood fired oven.
Now about that steel... Your oven was the first steel setup I ever saw, and that pre-dated the Baking Steel. In Kenji's post about the Baking Steel you went into some detail about your own experience obtaining and prepping the hot rolled steel plate that I'd like to share here:
I love it how so many people are suggesting to "just go out and buy an A36 hot rolled steel plate - it's so much cheaper." Sure, I went out and bought an A36 hot rolled steel plate a few months ago. This meant calling two dozen metal shops before finding one that would actually sell me a reasonably priced sized plate for under $100 (I paid $75 for my 14"X18" plate), going to some god-forsaken location to meet some guy who was ticked off to be doing me a "favor," getting home and first sanding the plate with a rotary sander and later scrubbing the plate with a steel brush and vinegar, only to find that a good amount of the oxide was still left on the plate - and that much of it that came off permanently stained my concrete balcony, and then lugging this 30 lb. plate in and out of my oven every time I wanted to make pizza. Awesome.
The Baking Steel is a godsend. I wish I knew about it four months ago because I definitely would not have gone through the trouble that I did. In fact, I might still go out and purchase one. The piece of mind of having "food grade steel" is reason enough for me. Plus, that carrying case is pretty nifty. My hardwood floors aren't big fans of my current plate.
That'll make a great tale for the grandkids. And what would you say should NEVER go on a pizza?
There are a lot of things that shouldn't go on a pizza but unfortunately do. Those $1,000 pies with lobster and caviar make me especially angry.
Most unusual pizza you've ever eaten?
Many people outside of the tri-state area might think that putting clams on pizza is weird, but those who have tried it usually beg to differ.
What's the farthest you've traveled for pizza?
I've been to a number of pizzerias in Chicago, but when I think of taking epic journeys for pizza, my trips to DiFara and Tottonos come to mind. If you live outside of the city and you're planning on going to either of these places, you should reserve a whole day for these outings.
What do your family and/or friends think of your pizza madness?
Both my friends and family have been incredibly supportive. They are a joy to cook for and always give me honest feedback. With that said, my dad and my girlfriend have been especially helpful to me. Aside from being adventurous partakers in my journeys to pizzerias both far and near, they have supported me in so many ways.
In addition to being a pizza obsessive, what are some other things you are into?
I am a huge craft beer fan and a member of BeerAdvocate, where I have nearly 700 beer reviews. I also love working on my bonsai trees and throwing boomerangs in my spare time.
Now: Who would *you* like to see interviewed next?
I would love to see another interview with TXCraig1. Beside the fact that his pies look better than those made at some of the country's best Neapolitan-style pizzerias, he is such a smart and generous contributor to the pizza blogosphere.
Ha!There is a lot of Slice love for TXCraig1. There's more than one way to get a man to answer questions. Maybe he would consider doing a "Ask TX" Slice column. For now, Damian, I'd like to thank you for being such a trooper and sweating it out through this grilling Q&A. Look forward to seeing and trying (had to slip that in) more of your pies!
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Monday, May 11, 2015
Showering (again)
My cousin Anna is the one who got married last September. She is due this September so she basically got pregnant at the speed of a Duggar. I think that I probably would elect to wait a little while but I totally understand that it's a personal choice and more power to her and her new husband. Not my business!
But the funny thing is that Anna says that this baby was a surprise but she's been successfully on birth control for years and years and it just stops working right after you get married? Plus she is a nurse and she married an obstetrician and, yeah, nobody really believes that this baby was a surprise (at least not to Anna?) but, really, what does it matter. It does not and I am very excited to cuddle that baby and buy her adorable baby things.
I do believe, however, that there should be some rule that hostesses should be immune from throwing any sort of celebratory shower for a person for at least 24 months after throwing her a previous shower.
Yet here we are. 13 months later. Throwing a baby shower.
Anna's new stepmother is playing a role in this shower (she was just a guest at last June's wedding shower) and booked out the restaurant but, other than her, it is the same cast of characters: my mom, my sister, me, my aunt and cousin who live in Chicago.
I was assigned fairly simple tasks (apparently I'm invitation girl and my grandmother's centerpiece assistant this time around) but I'm just: blah. We just did this. I don't wanna.
If I sound bitter and jealous, it's because I am.
I am a bitter, jealous and seriously burned out hostess.
5 comments:
- Lisa from Lisa's Yarns said...
Wow, that's a fast turnaround to throw another shower so I can see why you are feeling a bit meh about the whole thing. Plus the fact that they are saying it is a surprise is questionable... But like you said, to each their own! Good luck planning everything - it is very kind of you to do so!
- Sabrina! said...
I don't blame you for not wanting to host another thing. We've become a society of parties that others have to host for us. It's one thing if you want to throw yourself a party. But these days the average adult female could have the following parties thrown for her: engagement party, bridal shower, bachelorette party, gender reveal party, baby shower, baby sprinkle for #2.... too much!
- JBean said...
Oh I feel you! Everyone is my circle of family/friends/etc has been married and had babies besides me. You have NO idea how many bridal showers, bachelorette parties and baby showers I've coordinated over the years! It's insane.
- NewNew said...
Part of me is like, "Just say no." The other part is jealous, because I don't have anyone in my life who would throw any kind of life milestone party for me or who would think of me to throw a party for them. And I've always been the type of girl/woman to have close female friends. You're loved and trusted!
- Accidentally Me said...
That's amateur hour! Some of us were pregnant WHEN we got married!!! What took her so long:-)?
I feel like it is kind of tacky to ask someone to throw you a shower. Or two. And if I recall, she hasn't always been the easiest or least demanding person to throw parties for, has she? If you are going to ask, the least you could do is try to make it as easy as possible for the people doing the party-throwing...


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http://mmajunkie.com As expected, Demetrious Johnson (6-1 MMA, 1-1 WEC) has replaced former WEC bantamweight champion Eddie Wineland (17-6-1 MMA, 4-2 WEC) and meets Damacio Page (12-4 MMA, 3-1 WEC) at next month's WEC 52 event.
Wineland was forced off the card due to a lingering shoulder injury.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) passed along news of the change this past week, and WEC officials today formally announced it.
WEC 52 takes place Nov. 11 at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Page vs. Johnson is slated for the night's Versus-televised main card.
Page picked up his fourth win in five fights with a swift, 62-second submission victory over Will Campuzano at WEC 43. The King of the Cage vet and Greg Jackson-trained fighter also owns WEC victories over Scott Jorgensen and Marcos Galvao, and the lone loss during his recent run came in 2008 to Brian Bowles, who'd win the organization's bantamweight belt in his next fight. Sidelined by injuries, Page now fights for the first time in more than a year.
Johnson, meanwhile, quickly returns to the cage after a Sept. 30 win over Nick pace at WEC 51. "Mighty Mouse" picked up a dominating unanimous-decision win against Pace, which followed a decision defeat to Brad Pickett in his promotion debut at WEC 48. It remains the only loss of his career.
The official WEC 52 card now includes:
- Urijah Faber vs. Takeya Mizugaki
- Josh Grispi vs. Erik Koch
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Wagnney Fabiano
- Chad Mendes vs. Javier Vazquez
- Demetrious Johnson vs. Damacio Page
- Raphael Assuncao vs. L.C. Davis
- Edward Faaloloto vs. Anthony Njokuani
- Zack Micklewright vs. Dustin Poirier
- Clint Godfrey vs. Michael McDonald
- Yves Jabouin vs. Brandon Visher
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Here's a look at the terrorist bombings that occurred on July 7, 2005 in London, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700.
Timeline: (all times listed are British Summer Time)
July 7, 2005
8:50 a.m. – Three suicide bombings occur within 50 seconds of each other on three different trains traveling through London Underground stations. The locations targeted are:
– A train just outside the Liverpool Street station, killing seven people.
– A train just outside the Edgware Road station, killing six people.
– A train traveling between King's Cross and Russell Square stations, killing 26 people.
9:15 a.m. – The system is shut down as British Transport Police confirm an explosion near London's financial district in the area of Liverpool railway station.
9:27 a.m. – Metronet, the subway maintenance company, says a power surge has caused an explosion in the London tube station.
9:47 a.m. – The fourth suicide bomb explodes on a double-decker bus at Tavistock Place, killing 13 people.
9:53 a.m. – Metronet says the entire London subway network has been shut down. Incidents are reported at the Aldgate station near the Liverpool Street railway terminal, Edgware Road and Kings Cross in north London, Old Street in the financial district and Russell Square in central London.
10:25 a.m. – Police confirm an explosion on a bus in central London in the area around Russell Square.
11:07 a.m. – News agencies report all bus services have been suspended in London.
11:15 a.m. – Franco Frattini, the European Union Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, tells reporters in Rome that the blasts in London are terrorist attacks.
12:00 p.m. – British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares in a public statement the "barbaric" London blasts are terrorist attacks and were designed to coincide with the G8 summit in Scotland.
12:35 p.m. – Scotland Yard revises the number of blasts down to four, three in the underground system and one on a bus. Originally, there were thought to be six separate attacks.
July 13, 2005 – Three of the four suicide bombers are identified as Shahzad Tanweer (Aldgate), Hasib Hussain (Tavistock Square), and Mohammed Sadique Khan (Edgware Road).
July 14, 2005 – The fourth bomber is identified as Germaine Morris Lindsay, responsible for the King's Cross/Russell Square attack.
July 21, 2005 – Terrorists place homemade bombs in four locations around London but the devices do not explode as intended and there are no casualties.
July 28, 2005 – CNN reports that more than a dozen unexploded bombs are found in a car at Luton station in north London five days after the July 7 attack.
September 1, 2005 – Al Jazeera airs a videotape of Khan calling Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "today's heroes."
May 11, 2006 – The British government releases two reports, concluding the bombers acted without the assistance of foreign terrorists.
March 22, 2007 – Three men are arrested in connection with the attack. Two are arrested at Manchester Airport, where they are preparing to catch a plane to Pakistan. The third man is arrested at a house in Leeds. The three men are arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000.
April 5, 2007 – The men are charged with unlawfully and maliciously conspiring with the four suicide bombers and of conspiring to cause explosions at tourist attractions in London. They are identified by British police as Mohammed Shakil, Sadeer Saleem and Waheed Ali.
August 2, 2008 – A mistrial is declared after the jury fails to reach a verdict.
April 28, 2009 – At the re-trial, Ali, Shakil and Saleem are found not guilty in helping to plan the attack. Ali and Shakil are convicted of conspiracy in connection with pre-attack reconnaissance missions and receive seven-year sentences the next day.
May 6, 2011 – A British coroner report is released clearing the emergency services of failing to respond quickly enough to the bombings. Justice Heather Hallett rules that the severity of their injuries meant each of them would have died, no matter how quickly help reached them. In the wake of the suicide bombings there were claims that police and firefighters had been unwilling to get close to the scenes of the blasts because of safety fears.
April 30, 2012 – Internal al Qaeda documents surface providing details that British subject and al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf planned the 2005 London bombings carried out by groups led by Khan on July 7 and Muktar Said Ibrahimon on July 21.


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Demystifying ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits
The turmoil in Kashmir valley is more than two decades old now. The onset of turmoil in Kashmir valley in 1989-1990 was marked with the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits. Ethnic cleansing is an attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups. United Nations defines ethnic cleansing as rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group. Many Kashmiri Muslims (and not all) joined the so called freedom movement and chose to be part of armed struggle. The objective of militancy in Kashmir was to create a valley homogenous in its religious (read Islamic) character. To create such homogeneity, Kashmiri Hindu minority was forced to leave the valley.
Ethnic cleansing sometimes involves the removal of all physical vestiges of the targeted group through the destruction of monuments, cemeteries, and houses of worship. Ethnic cleansing may involve death or displacement where a population is identified for removal from an area. In Kashmir, houses of minority Hindu Pandits were burned; temples were destroyed. Notices were pasted on the walls of Pandit houses asking them to leave the valley or to perish.
Genocide may be used as means to carry out ethnic cleansing. Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
Article 2 of 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in a ruling on 11 June 1999 stated that "Against the stern definition of the Genocide Convention, the Commission is constrained to observe that while acts akin to genocide have occurred with respect to Kashmiri Pandits and that, indeed, in the minds and utterances of some of the militants a genocide-type design may exist, the crimes against the Kashmiri Pandits are near-Genocide and not Genocide."
In the speech on 7 April 2004 the UN Secretary General said, "Wherever civilians are deliberately targeted because they belong to a particular community, we are in the presence of potential, if not actual, genocide."
1990s were painted with genocide of Kashmiri Hindus. Many Kashmiri Hindus were murdered. Kashmiri Hindus were targeted by the militants in 1989 and afterwards until they didn't left the valley. The official figure of Kashmir Pandit killings is 219. Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS), a valley based NGO, disputes the government figure. In its first list of a survey, Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) suggests that 399 Pandits were killed and the list of KP killings is still incomplete. KPSS did the survey in 2008 and 2009 to find the exact number of Pandits killed, which revealed that 302 members of the community were killed in 1990 alone. Selective killing of minority Hindus amounts to genocide.
In exile, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits have died due to change in environmental conditions. Kashmiri Pandits were forced to live in hostile conditions in make-shift camps in Jammu/Delhi. During summers, the average temperature of Kashmir would generally be in thirties while in Jammu/Delhi, it is in forties. Think of 45ºC and 6-8 people living in a tent. The habitat change resulted in sun-strokes, anaemia etc. which caused many deaths. Moreover, deaths happened due to snake bites as slum-like conditions of camps became the breeding ground for snakes. Even after 21 years, some are still living in camps.
Those Kashmiris who chose/supported the gun are responsible for the grievances of all Kashmiris whether Kashmiri Muslims or Kashmiri Hindus. It is amusing when the separatists (some of them were terrorists in 1990s) state that they are in favour of return and rehabilitation of Kashmir Pandits. Because they are the same people who were responsible for the exodus of minority Hindus from the valley.
Kashmiri Pandits have been denied justice from past 21 years. The human rights violation of Kashmiri Pandits ought to be addressed now. Kashmiri Pandits haven't suffered physically only but culturally and psychologically also. Kashmiri Pandits have been suffering in a political-religious war in which they don't form any part.
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Twitter has rolled out an update for the official Twitter app for Android. The update mainly brings usability improvements to the Discover, Connect and Search features.
Below is the full change-log right from Twitter -:
- Discover: Now all the content in Discover — Tweets, Activity, Trends and suggestions of accounts to follow — appears in a single stream, on both iPhone and Android. You can also dive into Activity and Trends from new previews at the top of the Discover tab.
- Search: Search results now surface the most relevant mix of Tweets, photos, and accounts, all in one stream (similar to the stream in Discover). We've also added a new search button to Twitter for iPhone, letting you search from anywhere within the app. (This button was already available in the Android and iPad apps.) Look for the magnifying glass icon next to the button you use to compose a Tweet.
- Connect: To provide a simpler experience in the Connect tab, the default view is now Interactions, which shows you new followers, retweets and mentions. If you prefer to view only your mentions in Connect, you can adjust the default in settings – find the "Connect tab" option and select "Mentions only".
- Links: Click a URL in a Tweet to go directly to that website from any timeline and get to content highlighted on Twitter faster. (Previously, when you tapped any part of a Tweet, it would first expand and then a second click was required to get to the website.)
The update does not bring any graphical or UI improvements which the official Twitter client for Android badly needs. The app still does not follow the Holo guidelines, and looks like an iOS port.
On the other hand, Carbon for Twitter, the recently released absolutely stunning Twitter client also got a bug-fixing update last night.
The change-log is as follows -:
Bug Fixes:
– Notification bug that crashed after tapping
– Repeat Notifications
– Notification bug that crashed app when Avatar couldn't be loaded
– Direct Messages Delete bug wasn't saving changes
– Long press bug on Messages
– Composition Screen Account Selector bug
– User Profile Bio: tapping on Mentions & Hashtags bug.
– Timeline duplicated tweets on concurrent refreshes
– Compose bug that didn't allow tweeting at 140 characters
– Verified & Private badges
– Quick mentions
If you are an avid Twitter user, and have not already tried Carbon for Twitter, you are missing out on a lot. The app lacks a lot of features, but the developer is working on adding them soon. The app is also going to run out of its 100k Twitter token limits after which new users won't be able to use the app, if they have not already reserved a token.


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Mudsy Joins The CircusMudsy Joins The Circus (1971) - The Funky Phantom Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Cartoon Characters: Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore, April Stewart, Skip, Augie, Elmo, Boo.
- Voice Actors: Daws Butler, Tina Holland, Micky Dolenz, Tommy Cook, John Stephenson, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Barney Phillips, Jerry Dexter, Michael Road; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Produced By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Art Scott, Zoran Janjic.
- Animated By Stuart Barry, Don MacKinnon, Ray Bartle, Gwyn Perkins, John Burge, Kevin Roper, Don Exard, Jane le Rossignol, Michael Faulkner, Laurie Sharpe, Warwick Gilbert, Robbert Smit; more Animators ...
- Written By Larz Bourne, Tom Dagenais, Dave Ketchum, William Lutz, Michael Maltese, Jack Mendelsohn, Joe Ruby, Bruce Shelly.
- Music: John Sangster.
- Editor: Doug Holder, Eddy Graham.
- First Aired on November 13, 1971.
- Originally Aired on ABC-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Season: 1
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The circus comes to town. The kids see a man disguised as a gorilla rob the box office.
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I havent always been an atheist, in fact until I was almost 23yrs old I was a Church of England Sunday School teacher who took Communion every Sunday at 8am, could quote huge tracts of the Bible, recite The Book of Common Prayer word for word and went to church every day during Lent.
I began to question my faith and the veracity of all I had been told when I was about 18 and went off to University to study archaeology and anthropology, neither of which subjects was compatable with my Bible!
I questioned my professors about how I could reconcile my "faith" with my new found knowledge and skills and what those skills were revealing to me on a daily basis.
On the subject of Adam and Eve, and biblical creation in general, one particular professor who was also a devout Catholic explained to me that the writer of Genesis actually meant that Adam and Eve were not actually the very first people on the Earth but they were the first to "find God" which set them apart from the rest of creation and is why, when they all toddled off East of Eden, they found other folk to marry!!
He spent a lot of time trying to help me marry my faith to historical facts.
I did my best to see his point of view but I was fighting a losing battle and by the time I left University I was quite troubled by the erosion of my faith and belief in the God of the Bible.
My first job after Uni was as a site assistant on a dig in East Africa searching for the most ancient of Mankind's ancestors, my fellow diggers had absolutely no truck with my still semi-religious leanings and we spent many a night in deep discussion on the subject. Eventually, someone suggested that I read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations with a more critical and educated eye, employing my new found anthro/archaeo knowledge.
So thats what I did.
The more I read the more I realised how little I knew or had questioned over the years. The long passages of biblical verse that I could quote had all been learned as a child and thus had been unquestioned and undoubted. I didn't even know until I was 22 that the familiar Christmas scene of the traditional nativity wasn't even in the New Testament!!
I began to see that ignorance played a large part in the maintainance of unquestioning faith.
Never one to do things by halves, I threw myself into Biblical study, I pestered the life out of a very patient Hebrew scholar, enlisting his aid in re-translating mistranslated words in the English Bible and he put me in contact with 2 other Biblical historians who were also very helpful in identifying places and people.
By the time I went back to Uni to do a PhD at age 24 I had no religious beliefs of any kind. I still read and study and dig and puzzle over the Bible to this day but with a very different attitiude and for different reasons.
You ask why I am an atheist……………… because I grew up, I sought knowledge and I used the knowledge I found to enlighten me.
I can not explain it any better way than to quote Corinthinans 13:11 ……"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a (wo)man, I put away childish things"
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Federal appeals court: No new trial for Nancy Seaman
DETROIT (AP) -- A federal appeals court has overturned a two-year-old decision that granted a new trial to a Detroit-area teacher who hacked her husband to death with a hatchet before she went to school.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman in October 2010 said Nancy Seaman's attorney didn't do enough to develop her claim as a battered spouse. But a three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals this week ruled that Friedman's view of the case was too broad.
Seaman, 60, killed Robert Seaman in 2004 by striking him with a hatchet 16 times and stabbing him at least 21 times in their garage in Farmington Hills. She is serving a life sentence.
The appeals court panel noted that Seaman's trial attorney presented experts who talked about battered spouse syndrome and had argued for such a defense. But the court said, "BSS is not itself a defense under Michigan law."
"Even if the jurors believed that (Seaman) was a battered spouse, they still could have rejected her claim of self-defense," said the ruling, dated Wednesday.
A jury in 2005 convicted Seaman of first-degree murder, but the Oakland County trial judge reduced it to second-degree murder. A state appeals court later reinstated the jury's verdict.
There is no dispute that Seaman killed her husband. She said she was a victim of emotional and physical abuse and was threatened again that day.
Seaman went to school after failing to find a substitute teacher. She returned home, wrapped the body in a tarp and used bleach and paint to get rid of blood stains in the garage. Police responding to a missing person's report eventually found the body in her car trunk.
In his 2010 ruling, Friedman turned aside many of Seaman's arguments in her claim that her constitutional rights had been violated at trial. But he was persuaded that her attorney could have done more.
Lenore Walker, a leading researcher in the field of battered spouse syndrome, testified for Seaman, but didn't interview the defendant.
Still, the federal appeals court panel found in favor of prosecutors.
"We have considered and reject the possibility that (Seaman's) trial was fundamentally unfair because her counsel failed to argue for the admission of evidence that she would have been entitled to as a matter of due process," the 6th Circuit's decision said.
Friedman ordered authorities to put Seaman on trial again, but an appeal froze the process and led to this week's ruling by the 6th Circuit.
"We're pleased a convicted murderer will remain behind bars and public safety will be protected," Joy Yearout, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office, said Saturday.
Messages seeking comment were left for Seaman's lawyer.


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