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09:02 22nd August 2013
Davis reflects on early season form
David Davis is delighted to finally see some "smiles on faces" again after Wolves' encouraging start to the Sky Bet League One season.
And the 22-year-old midfielder is relishing the extra responsibility placed on his own shoulders in the absence of more experienced senior colleagues in the Wolves engine room.
Davis was cut down in his prime towards the end of last season when injured just a game after setting up all three Wolves goals in the victory at Birmingham.
But having spent plenty of time working with the club's medical team at the Compton training ground over the summer, he has started the season well as the senior professional in midfield alongside Lee Evans.
"There is a good atmosphere around the place and everyone has enjoyed the feeling of winning a couple of games," he says.
"There are smiles on faces again and that seems to have been missing for a while.
"The spirit around the camp is really good at the minute.
"No one wanted to be relegated, but I've not got that personality where I'm going to worry about my own situation and what league we are playing in.
"It is about the team at the end of the day.
"If we've got a good group of lads around us then we believe we can be successful.
"I think the squad here is all grounded and we've got the same vision and the same drive.
"You can see that from the reaction when we score a goal, how passionate the lads are and how it means everything to us, especially that 85th minute winner at Bristol City!
"We are all appreciating the support we are getting from the fans as well – it's a great reaction when we're clapping before the matches and after.
"Despite the disappointments of the past few years they have carried on following us home and away and it's nice to be able to give them some wins to enjoy."
That ankle injury sustained at Bolton brought a premature end to Davis's season just as he had imposed himself at Molineux, 12 months on from a promising initial impact in the Barclays Premier League.
The midfielder admits it was a problem which perhaps lingered on mentally during pre-season, but he has been far more pleased with his performances since the big kick-off at Preston.
"It was very frustrating for me at the end of last season," says Davis.
"I'd just got back into the team and we'd won three games and were heading to Bolton with some good momentum.
"We'd lost a few big players like Sako, Eddo and Sylv but still felt we'd got momentum.
"Then I got injured early on at Bolton and that was tough to take – to miss the rest of the season because of it.
"I felt with the form I was in and how confident I was feeling I could have added something to the team in those final games.
"I think the season has started quite well considering that injury.
"I did a lot of work over the summer but my performances in pre-season felt a bit slow and personally weren't up to scratch for myself.
"But it was all about getting up to top fitness and I felt I knew what was going to come from myself and the team when we got started.
"I think it was always going to take a bit of time for me to get back in the swing of things playing during pre-season.
"Even confidence-wise it was about knowing my ankle was right again and now I feel 100 per cent and fit and sharp.
"And I think in the first three league games the lads have shown good character and shown exactly what we are going to be about this year."
In terms of the experience of the Wolves midfield, Davis has seen Karl Henry depart for QPR, Tongo Doumbia for Valenciennes, Jamie O'Hara made available for transfer and Dave Edwards suffer an early season injury.
That has left him as one of the more experienced midfield players available, certainly prior to the arrival of Kevin McDonald.
That is an additional pressure he welcomes, and one he is keen to embrace again as Wolves try and build on their early season promise with tomorrow night's visit of Crawley Town (7.45pm).
"It does feel different for me now - but I relish the extra responsibility," says Davis.
"I prefer people to put added pressure on me because it makes me perform and helps me keep my own personal standards up.
"Now I've got to realise that if I'm going to be one of the important players I have got to make sure I am playing well enough to be in the team every week and leading by example.
"Everyone has seen how good Lee Evans has been this season and we've got Kevin McDonald here now as well.
"Competition keeps everyone on their toes and it's up to me to keep my place in the team and if there's pressure then make sure I rise to it."
Davis continues: "It's another tough game against Crawley on Friday night.
"We have to view all the games as ones we can win but we know we've got to hit the standards and can never just turn up and think we will take three points.
"The gaffer has been telling us to set out in every match and make sure we keep our standards and do that from the start of games.
"If you don't start well you might find yourselves behind and in this league it might be tough psychologically to get back into it.
"We need to be mentally tough and treat every game properly and, even if we don't get an early goal like we did against Gillingham, make sure we keep our focus and get the result that we want."
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My first sighting of the VIVOBAREFOOT Neo shoes was on the feet of Erica Madrid of Apex Movement. They looked cool, and hey – if Apex Movement wears them, they must be decent shoes, right? I looked up the Neos and after seeing the price, wrote them off. $110 for a pair of shoes whose purpose is to feel like they're not even there? No thanks.
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San Simeon - Big Sur, Eleph. seals & Hearst Castle
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We hurried and picked up our rental car at Fox Rent a car: A white Ford Mustang Convertible. Oh yeah baby! Well then again every other car we saw on our trip was a Ford Mustang Convertible - with a prettier color. We loved our white convertible anyway and I think we got a sweet deal. The price was supposed to be about $500.- for a three day rental and to be returned at a location different from where we picked it up. In addition I ordered the total damage insurance (you never know and this way no matter what I do to the car - it's covered, except utter stupidity). Back from our trip I found out the total charge on my CC was "only" $450.- (including extra insurance) - awesome!
But back to our spectacular road trip. I'm probably getting on your nerves right now when I'm telling you that everything was so beautiful, spectacular and totally awesome, but it really was! Is I mean. The landscape we saw this day was absolutely gorgeous - no kidding - just look at our pictures and you'll see!
We left San Francisco to drive North in order to get to the beginning of Highway 1. We wanted to drive it top to bottom. It was nice to drive alongside the pacific ocean, a very relaxing feeling. Two attractions were coming up really soon - too bad that I forgot the addresses in my last minute scramble:
The Winchester Mystery house
After the deaths of her daughter and husband Sarah Winchester was sure that her mansion was haunted. In order to stay alive she needed to never stop building. If she stopped, she would die.
So Sarah Winchester kept building for almost 40 years, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. The house is massive and has many odd features: Stairs leading to the ceiling, doors that open to walls or a lawn below, skylight upon skylight, double back hallways and trap doors. Anything to make sure she could continue building.
This would have been so cool to see, but no I had to forget the address... The mystery house is located in San Jose, CA.
Balls roll uphill, people are unable to stand upright or shrink when they change place. The Mysteryspot claims to be a gravitational anomaly and questions the laws of physics and gravity. There are many different theories as to why people experience what they do, but. my favorite is that you can't see the horizon from anywhere within the fenced in mystery spot. Houses are built crockedly, but without a horizon reference your eye is tricked.. I would love to see this place. You can find the mystery spot in Santa Cruz, CA.
Big Sur is a little scary, but sooo beautiful. Just make sure the driver is watching the road and not the landscape. There are plenty of overlooks where you can drive off the road to switch drivers, stop and take pictures.
We only stopped once (pic oppurtunities not included) for lunch and (unvoluntarily, thanks to me) skipped San Jose and Santa Cruz, because wanted to get in time to our MUST SEE location for today. Still we arrived at the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park late in the day. Why a must see? This park may very well be: The perfect beach.
A serene cove with turquoise waves gently rolling in, the incredibly scenic McWay falls dropping 80 feet right onto the sandy beach. Just imagine, laying on the beach, listening to the waves rolling in and when you need to cool off , just head over to the waterfall, or be practical and position yourself under the waterfall from the beginning. There's even a cave for adventurers. So here's quite possibly the best beach I can imagine in the whole wide world...
...and then there's the catch. No beach access and dare you attempt to access it you'll be fined heavily. The only visitors are sea otters and elephant seals. Who's looking stupid now? There is one exception for divers. Divers can explore the underwater park, but I think they are still not allowed on the beach.
Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to stop anywhere else, but if you stay overnight in the Big Sur area Pfeiffer Burns State Park looks very promising. It has plenty of hiking trails, waterfalls AND beach access. Here's a great site for more information about the area. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton filmed a scene of the "Sandpiper" on Pfeiffer Beach.
At dusk it seemed as Big Sur was coming to an end. The windy roads turned into wider roads and straightened out. We were only 10 miles from our final destination San Simeon, when we saw the Point Piedras Blancas and Light Station. We decided to spend the last few moments of daylight on this beautiful lookout point. It was quite chilly and at first we didn't notice the movement on the beach, but then we saw them: Elephant seals. Only two of them, but they were cute playing together in the water. I probably shot a whole role of film right there. Then I decided to walk to the other side of the parking lot where I found a gate. You can enter the gate to access the beach, which is fenced off to provide privacy for the elephant seals. What I found was a big surprise: At least 20 or thirty seals sleeping, playing, moaning & groaning. I can't believe we didn't hear them from the other end of the parking lot. I felt quite stupid for having shot a whole roll of film on those two seals playing far away in the water, when over here there's at least twenty seals in plain eye-sight. By the way this held true for any other seal sightings on our trip. You might just see two, but there usually are more. If you look carefully you'll discover a whole group. Watch the clip we filmed the next morning at Point Piedras Blancas Light Station.
We had a hard time parting with the seals, but we needed to get to hotel for our late check in. When we got to San Simeon at about 07:45 pm there was no hotel. We had a slight panic attack, it was completely dark now and as far as we knew we were in the middle of nowhere. But one call put us back on our way, we had found our way into the "old" San Simeon - three old & beautiful houses - but not hotel :) Just a mile or so further we finally arrived at The Orchid Inn.
The place receives mixed reviews. It's a small hotel, the main part renovated - those rooms are pricy. The cheaper rates on the website are for the sister hotel, which looks nowhere near as beautiful as the Orchid Inn. This leads to a lot of confusion and bad reviews for the Orchid Inn. Anyway I've done my research and had reserved a nice and quiet room with fireplace and jacuzzi tub. It looked just like the pictures and we were very very happy with our choice.
The manager at check-in told us that restaurants in San Simeon close early around 09:00 pm, so we went straight for dinner to the cute & romantic Manta Rey restaurant. It's very cozy and intimate, plus you can share plates which you'll come to appreciate after eating out every single day. We ordered a bottle of wine, had some with our dinner and then corked it up and took it back with us to our room. I enjoyed a relaxing bath in our jacuzzi tub, a glass of wine and then went for a great night of sleep in a very comfortable bed.
We had travelled a long road with amazing views today. It could not have been any better!
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SLUG ctte stuff going well. jdub likes to talk it up like it's the most amazing ctte ever, /me shrugs; just another ctte as far as i can see, yeah we do stuff. don't they all?
looks like i might actually graduate this semester. it's only been 4.5 years for a 3 year CS degree. talked to the head of school about a subject from last year that i haven't got marks from -- i need them to get enough credit points to graduate. totally forgot to tell him about the subject i got 7 marks for for showing up to one lecture, instead of getting an automatic fail... now my average mark is kinda screwed :-) once uni's out of the way i can get back to the important things like Debian and quake2.
not enough sleep, not enough pants.
got ulysses 31 on 9 VCDs from my sister. man this cartoon rocks. i'm going to model the odyssey sometime. also got the mysterious cities of gold. so many childhood memories. now i just need to leech battle of the planets from liedra
good to see everyone active (you know who you are). things are happening, things are changing. "the next few years of your life are the ones that will change the most."
"Married, 26." Yeah, right. :-)
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[Me] Aww, but $program is so good!
[Q] Nah, I just don't like it anymore. Not for $thing.
[Me] Ah well.
[H] Yeah, $program has always sucked for me! It's so slow! It takes ages to do $thing!
[Me] Actually, it's $libthing that $program uses that does $thing, it's not $program doing it at all.
[H] WHATEVER! $program still sucks! $alternate-program rocks!
[Me] "Actually, it's $libthing that does $thing" already!
[H] $program uses crappy library to do $thing, therefore $program is crap, see? Now stop being a dickhead. I'm an end user, I dont' care what happens on the inside.
[Me] Me dickhead? I'm asking you to be correct in your criticism, and you're just being stubborn.
[H] Look, I used $program, I see what $program does, and it's slow. I don't care what it does to do $thing, the fact is that it's crap.
*sigh of frustration* let's just ignore the fact that once $libthing improves then $program (and $another-similar-but-not-alternate-program, which H uses) will be much faster.
H is a good friend, I really like them, but just sometimes it can be frustrating talking to them -- sometimes they can really be quite stubborn.
Knowing my luck, they'll read this and work out who it's about, and then go postal on my butt.
Released a new version of glsnake today. apt-get it if you know what's good for you. Hacked a lot with cfengine to get the proxy machines for the satellite offices configured nicely... up until 2 days ago I had 4 machines at various states of Debian potato installed, one hadn't been touched for a year. All with various daemons running on them. I've now cleaned them up and am working on getting cfengine, the admin's friend, to take good care of them. Hacked up an equivs package to ensure all the necessary tools are installed. Equivs is a nice hack tool ;) I've drunk about half a bottle of this really nice port that Steph got me for her birthday. Yeah, you read that correctly. She wanted to thank me for organising her birthday music and her speech, so she got me some Draytons Old Decanter Port. Very tasty... I'm tempted to drink the rest of it right now. got paid, got a Halfdave gig lined up, christmas just around the corner... everythings good right now. Now to play RtCW again... ultra-mega-mega hard was too easy. I wish there was another level to do it at :)
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Edit: Once again, you folks have proven to be one of the comfy, bright spots of the internet! Seriously, you're like a group of paladins or something! My friend is astonished, amazed, grateful and super happy. She says "THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!" and will be going to see her friends in October. As a thank you, I'm putting together a desktop wallpaper that will be available to everyone very soon. You're amazing. <3
Hey readers, I have a weird thing to ask.
In the last five months, I've become good friends with a fantastic woman who lives in Texas with her husband and her one year old son. When the three of them recently moving to Texas, she left all her friends behind and has since made no new friends, other than those she's gotten to know online. In October, there will be a trip that a group of her friends will be going on and I know that she'd love to go, but she can't afford to make the trip.
I want to stress that this is not an emergency situation. No one is going to be evicted from their home or face medical bills or anything like that. This is simply a trip that I know she'd love to be able to go on to see her friends. I've chipped in a bit of cash, as have a few of her friends, but she's still short.
She needs about $500 to $600 more. Again, this is not an emergency. She's just an incredibly sweet, quiet and gentle person who would never ask for help with this, herself. I really want her to be able to go on this trip to see her friends. It means a lot to her.
If this is not something you're interested in helping with, I completely understand. This isn't exactly a life or death situation for anyone. But if you'd like to chip in a few bucks…
Edit: Goal achieved and so the link to donate has been removed. Thank you, everyone!
I know this is a weird thing to ask and if I hadn't gone through my own situation which has left me kinda broke, I'd just be forking over the full amount, myself. Thanks so much, everyone.
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Before we knew it we were surrounded by the white snowy peaks of the Alps, clouded by fog and haze. We had not expected to see snow at ground level but we were pleasantly surprised to find small white fields of melting snow here and there. Pine trees became taller and crystal blue lakes became more frequent as we neared Linderhof. There was a palace there rumored to be a 'mini-Versailles' belonging to the polemic and misunderstood King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
If there was one Romantic in history, it was to be Ludwig II. He was better known 'the fairytale king' for his impassioned vision of epic stories and musings of fantasy castles. His love of art, music and architecture saw the construction of many extravagant castles and the patronage of none other than German composer Richard Wagner, plunging him into debt and as some claim, insanity. Linderhof Palace was the last of his creations, and was the only castle he saw completed.
We found the palace without much difficulty, hidden away among groves and low hills which had served as hunting grounds for King Ludwig's father, Maximilian II. When one expects to see a grand palace emerging from the snow-sprinkled pines, but instead finds a small building, albeit lavishly decorated but tiny nonetheless, one thinks 'surely this must be the chariot garage or something' and 'we took a wrong turn'. It was not the case, because the small building, closer in size to my parent's suburban house, was Linderhof Palace.
The building resembled more a Parisian petit hotel or a Roman villa than a king's palace, but after all it was built in the 19th century, when the taste for housing was reduced to familiar private homes rather than large opulent estates and manors. That was precisely what Ludwig had wanted: an intimate retreat where he could hide away from a world that no longer cared to understand him.
Once inside, there was no mistaking the palace had been dreamed in the shadow of Versailles. Ludwig's self proclamation as the Moon-King showed the deep admiration he had for France's King Louis XIV, the Sun-King. His ideals of absolutist monarchies were being conquered by revolutions and replaced with modern republics all over Europe, and his palace seemed to protect and safeguard whatever was left of his reign as king of Bavaria. By the time Ludwig had retreated to this palace, he had already been stripped of most of his powers, serving only as a symbol of a king.
So as sad as Ludwig's story seems to be, his little chateau was not. The rooms lacked in size what they sufficed in luxury and abundance. Furniture made from lapis lazuli, carpets made of ostrich plumes, candelabra of ivory and gold, inlay furniture work with amethysts, silver rococo ornaments on the walls, and colored glass mosaics decorate the rooms of this 2-levelled chateau. French tapestries, Ming vases, Russian consoles and porcelain centerpieces as well as rich damasks, velvets and silks add to the labyrinth of wealth of Ludwig's rooms. His bedchamber faced a fountain in the garden which was fed from the melted icecaps of the mountains beyond. His bed was placed on a sort of pedestal surrounded by a golden balustrade, creating an altar whence the Moon King reigned come nighttime.
To satisfy Ludwig's whimsy, the dining room had a trapdoor where a small elevator would push up an already served dinner table from the kitchen right below. It is rumored that Ludwig demanded the table to always be set for 4 people, three of whom were regular guests at his palace: Louis XIV, Madame Pompadour, and Marie Antoinette...French royals who had passed away more than 2 centuries before Ludwig's time. Probably why they say he went mad.
It was a beautiful little palace and although we were not allowed to take pictures, Ed and I pulled our 'kiss-my-ass-I'll-take-pictures-anyway' trick with a hidden camera. I could see myself living in a place like this, particularly in the lilac Pompadour-styled oval reading room where Ludwig's mistresses retired to read their tiny nacre-bound books. The ceilings were painted with mesmerizing frescoes in pastel colors impersonating Night aiding the land into slumber and Day awakening it with golden light. I always say it and I'll say it again: I was born in the wrong centruy.
We exited the palace and ventured into the magnificent gardens. Unfortunately, the statues, fountains and other estate buildings were closed and covered, protecting them from the frost and cold. Some attractions would have to wait until our next visit in summer, like the Venus Grotto: a building whose interior was made to look like a natural cave with a pool of blue water with a golden shell boat where Ludwig liked to float. Nonetheless we explored the alpine gardens with fluffy patches of untouched snow. We climbed a snowy hill up to a small temple where a marble bust of Marie Antoinette of France stood looking on to the palace. It is said that the bust represents the head of Marie Antoinette after her pass through the guillotine at the crux of the French Revolution.
We ventured into the damp forest where the snow had already melted, and admired the mushrooms growing on the barks of old logs. Surrounded by mountains on one side and forest on the other, Ludwig certainly knew how to choose a location for his home. I imagined him walking about the groves in a richly decorated coat, playing the part of the Sun King, talking to himself or to whichever long dead royal was accompanying him. But even though he was a crazy old eccentric for his time I couldn't help but relate to him. With my love for old epic stories, of art history and lush architecture, with my belief that things in past centuries were done with more elegance and frill, and my conviction that monarichies should have never been abolished for the sake of art and culture, Ludwig and I seemed to have a lot in common.
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The SY77 is like having a super-sized sample-memory workstation with the added synthesis and sounds of a DX7mkII. For its synthesizer section it employs a 6 operator AFM synth engine similar to, if not better than, the original DX's. The AFM section offers 45 algorithms, 3 feedback loops and 16 waveforms for creating some of those unique FM sounds. Sampled sounds (AWM2) which are in memory (or on external ROM cards) can then be mixed with the AFM sounds to create entirely wild new sounds! And these sounds are quite shapeable thanks to the resonant multi stage Time Variant Filters which offer the chance to recreate the warm analog sounds of classic synths, or create something entirely new.
There's an on-board sequencer section for creating your songs right on the SY77. It's got 16 tracks, channel 16 belongs to the SY77's built-in drum synthesizer which holds up to 61 sounds. The sequencer can hold up to 16,000 notes, 99 patterns and 1 song. And since the SY77 features 16 voices of polyphony for the AFM section, and another 16 voices for the sampled sounds, there are (32) plenty of voices to go around to build your song. Add the fact that there are 4 independent digital multi-effects which include reverb, delay, chorus, panning and more and you have yourself a classic music production workhorse.
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Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois says he's honoured that his hometown of Kingston, Ont., has decided to dedicate a street to the veteran group — even if there's "some awkwardness" that comes along with it.
Kingston's city council voted last month to rename a portion of downtown Barrack St. as "Tragically Hip Way." Langlois navigates the street as part of his regular routine, so the whole situation is a little strange for him.
"I use that street quite often actually, it's sort of a thoroughfare where I go to pick up my kids. So you know, it's certainly an honour and humbling," Langlois said in a telephone interview Monday morning, noting that the Hip's namesake street also marked the location of the city's sparkling new arena, the K-Rock Centre.
"It's quite surreal, but yeah, I use the street all the time. I may even pull over sometimes."
Still, Langlois noted some "awkwardness within the community."
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14-time Juno Award winners followed heated debate at the municipal level, with some arguing that the city should pay tribute to its military history rather than a beloved rock band.
And while Langlois didn't encounter any opposition among people he chatted with personally, he certainly read some impassioned arguments in the editorials section of the local paper.
"The odd one would say, 'What if one of these guys goes crazy and starts shooting people or something?' Well, good point. I know that's not going to happen, but how does some guy ... know that?" he said with a laugh, noting that his kids were similarly unsure how to respond to the honour.
"Teenagers," he murmured, chuckling. "I think there's some awkwardness there, too, for sure. ... They may be honoured later but right now they think it's kinda funny."
Meantime, the Hip have assembled in Toronto to begin work on their next album. With Juno-winning producer Gavin Brown (Three Days Grace, Billy Talent) at the helm, Langlois said the band had recorded 10 of 13 new tracks and found themselves ahead of schedule as of Monday.
He says they're hoping to mix the record — the follow-up to 2009's platinum-selling "We Are the Same" — by the spring and potentially release it "towards the end of the summer," though that's hardly written in stone at this early juncture.
Langlois notes the band has been recording while playing all at once, with frontman Gord Downie singing live takes as opposed to overdubbing. Otherwise, he's reluctant to give up too much detail on the direction of the new tunes.
"It's certainly two-guitar rock 'n' roll like we've done before, so nothing's changed about the lineup," he said.
"It hopefully sounds like the band playing together, and there's certainly rock 'n' roll in it."
It's possible that the band could preview some of their new tunes at two upcoming summer gigs — one taking place June 30 at scenic Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., the other July 1 at a park north of Barrie, Ont.
The Tragically Hip has, of course, never had to try particularly hard to land a gig on Canada Day. And, Langlois says, it's a great time to play — usually it's an "awesomely beautiful day" during which audiences are in an upbeat mood, ready to toast the onset of summer.
Still, Langlois says the band might eventually want to take a year off from Canada Day festivities and enjoy the view from somewhere else — like, say, the end of a dock at a cottage somewhere.
"If I had to guess, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't play next year," he said. "It's always fun, but sometimes it's fun not to play on Canada Day. It's a bit like New Year's, you know? It's a great day for Canadian bands, because there's just so many events ... but then if you do it for a long time like we do, you might start to feel like you're getting roped into it.
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Renowned sculptor James Seawright, a professor of visual arts in Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts, will discuss his work at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Seawright began teaching at Princeton in 1969 and directed the Program in Visual Arts from 1975 to 2001. Recognized as a foremost technological artist since the late 1960s, his works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum of New York, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton and other museums throughout the world. His sculpture is known for its kinetic quality, often powered by electronic devices or natural forces such as sunlight.
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Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1909-1938, Page p064
Description: A portion of Kansas City from W. 18th Street south to W. 20th Street and from Wyandotte Street east to Main Street, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Notes: Volume is missing pages 14-17, 34-37, 42-45, and 78-79.
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Date: 1909-1938
Volume/Map Sheet Number: Vol. 1, Sheet #64
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Buildings or Structures: Bauer Building; Police Station 4107; United States Post Office Sub-Station;
Businesses: Hotel Monroe; Imperial Brewery; White Goods Manufacturing and Storage;
Street Names: W. 18th Street; W. 19th Street; W. 20th Street; Baltimore Avenue; Goodrich Place; Main Street; Southwest Boulevard; Wyandotte Street;
Districts: Crossroads Arts District;
Additions or Subdivisions: Goodrich Addition; McGee's Addition;
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Yes, everyone have a good and safe Memorial Day weekend!!!
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I finally picked up Season 1 on DVD now that the price has gone down a bit.
I hadn't seen a couple of them (including the Pilot) and there were another couple that I had only seen parts of.
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Posted 29 April 2008 - 12:08 PM
Right now, new members get 400 free 4X6 prints AND a free 8X8 photobook!
It's definitely something worth looking into further, and I'm only posting it now, because it says when they reach a certain membership number, this promo is going to be over.
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Since the promotion for 400 free prints & 1 free 8x8 photo book is one of the most popular and hottest deals in the market, we have received over 15,000 new registrants in the last two weeks, over 15,000 photo books and 6,000,000 free prints credits have been granted to all qualified members. Once our target of 20,000,000 free prints credits granted in these days, we will stop this aggressive marketing promotion. You can earn extra prints credits (up to 10,000 credits) by referring your friends to join us. Click here for more details.
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Posted 08 June 2008 - 01:40 PM
I dug around on the internet, too, and I've only found one person that mentions the fraudulent charges (see their post above). But the promo hasn't been going that long and I haven't heard of people getting their second sets of prints yet.
Just be cautious. They are out of Hong Kong (China) so certain credit card laws will not apply if they commit fraud against you. Check out PayPal's terms to be sure they cover you in case of fraud.
I'll be watching this since I'd love to get some photos printed without me having to do them.
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Thanks so much for the caution. I almost got too excited!
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Be careful to proof your items REALLY carefully before you submit them as I ended up with some words too close to the edges on the purse and also the dogtags. They will take returns but you have to get approval within 30 days of your order placement. Since shipping time takes a bit that does not leave you a huge period of time but because they are in Hong Kong it is not cheap to mail things back to them for exchange or refund. I ended up keeping the items just because I did not want to hassle with the cost to mail back (the errors are not terribly noticeable to most people).
I then just redid the dogtags and reordered them since they were already so cheap (and I will give the other ones to the girls to put on their gymbags, they were for the Captains for our volleyball team, I made a necklace for each Captain's mom with the 3 Captain dogtags on them).
Several frustrations with using the site:
you have to choose what size photo book you want at the beginning and also the number of pages and you cannot then transfer pages to other books or sizes. For example I made a 32 page book (8x8) because had a great coupon to use (I added 2 pages to the 30 page book). I did it for our volleyball team and through other parents ordering I earned free 39 page 8X8 books. I was then going to order the book for my daughter and one for the coach using the free codes. Because I had originally designed the book as a 30 page book I could not then go in and order as a 39 page book (had figured I could add the extra pages since both would be 8x8 books and then use the coupon). Very frustrating! So, if I want to use the free books I would then have to either completely start over or use the coupons toward making other books.
Customer service is bare bones/you can tell the language barrier. I would write to ask if could transfer a photo book page or copy a page and get a very simplified/non-helpful response.
I have seen some posts in their forum that they will be coming out with a way to transfer pages between books but it is not possible now. When I wrote to them to ask about this I got simple response that could not do it now.
They have an overwhelming number of coupons/codes/discounts etc... and so it can be very confusing. The shipping costs are a bit high (but so are most of the places including Shutterfly etc...) and your best deals are the ones where they offer free shipping. There is a tab at the top of the page that says "Special Sale" and this is where you will find the deals that have free shipping.
I am new to digital scrapbooking and the photobooks I have made in the past have been through other sites. My best suggestion would be to make your pages using other programs and then you can just import a page in as one picture rather than doing the designing on their site (which I wish I had done because then I could have just uploaded the pics and easily made a different size of photobook. I have Photoshop CS3 but no idea how to use it. I have in the past used Scrapbook Factory Deluxe and I should have made my pages in there and then uploaded to their photo book pages). If you know what size book you want it is pretty easy to upload pics and to use their free "kits" that people have developed (some of them are a small charge, many are free).
Anyway- even the pics that were a low resolution (and showed a yellow exclamation point warning me that would not be good print quality) printed really well. The colors and quality of everything I ordered was excellent!
Hope this helps those of you who want to try the site. I did hear from one of the other moms that because the company is in Hong Kong she got some additional small fees on her credit card. I used Paypal to pay for mine and did not have any problems at all.
Posted 12 June 2009 - 01:58 PM
If you have a look at this thread I have posted pictures and comments so you can judge the quality for yourselves.
so far I have had a photobook, 12 x 12 prints, tote bag, leather bowling bag, bucket bag, pillows slips, a necktie and a fleece blanket from them, oh and keyring watches. I use one of the little bucket bags every day and constantly get stopped in the street by people who want to know where I got it from. Nearly forgot, also waiting for a netbook case to come - thats for my ereader (like a kindle) and only cost $5.99 including postage.
Longest I have waited for anything was 3 weeks but that was the photobook and they do take a little longer
As has already been said you need to keep anything critical away from the edges - I now but an 1/8th inch border round my LO's when uploading to make sure nothing important gets cropped.
The prices really can't be beaten. They seem to work on high volume small margin
I personally have not had any problem with my cc but I will certainly keep a close eye. they do take paypal but not for very low value transactions.
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Posted 14 June 2009 - 10:49 PM
I then decided to send the same pages to Shutterfly and have them do a book - this one ended up costing $50 in aussie dollars - so double! But the quality was heaps better - no red tinge and the photos were clearer.
I'm a bit stuck though because I liked the stitching in the Artscow Book but the Shutterfly one was glued so the pages don't open as much.
If I was going to do another book I think I would go through Shutterfly just for the better quality.
There are alot of plates in in Oz that do the photobooks with their own templates but none of them will allow me to create my own layouts in Photoshop and upload the whole pages. Still waiting for them to have that option so I don't have to send them overseas in the future.
I also haven't had any problem with CC fraud - I paid through Paypal also.
Delivery from Artscow and Shutterfly to Oz was around the same time frame - about 3 weeks.
Hope this helps!
Posted 08 May 2011 - 11:21 PM
They both have great offers with Artscow providing more bargains but it's cheaper for a reason as I've found out after ordering. Artscow prints are less rich in color and the material feels a little more flimsy. Printerstudio prints are richer and the materials are like retail type. Oh and they're doing $20 and free shipping off orders now worldwide.
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tuxedomarty wrote:THANK YOU! I'm glad there's somebody who commented on this post that isn't rude or a jerk! I respect you.
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tuxedomarty wrote:There's also a BS tumblr blog called Vic Mignogna horror stories or some crap which is atrocious. And there's also this stuff about him being man to staff members at anime conventions. I think this is a load of crap as well. These staff members whom he was supposedly mean to were probably a-holes, so serves them right.
tuxedomarty wrote:But I have also noticed that Tiffany Grant and Wendee Lee have also become punching bags in the anime world for whatever reason. *facepalm* What the hell is going on? These are 4 of the most popular and liked anime voice actors ever! Are the people who attack them just d***head weeaboos/wapanese/purists?!?!
If you really wanted to be taken seriously, you should try a less hyperbolic opening.


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These support groups are set to meet in the next two weeks:
ACTS – Alcohol Chemical Treatment Series – is a curriculum-based self-help, recovery and educational program for anyone wanting to recover from alcohol or drugs, and their families. ACTS meets from 6 to 7 p.m. every Tuesday at Cedar Grove United Pentecostal Church on North Veterans Boulevard, Tupelo. ACTS is free. Call 844-9637.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women working to solve their common problem of alcoholism. There are no dues or fees.
• Tupelo: 31 meetings are offered. Call 844-0374 or visit www.aa-mississippi.org for listings.
• There are also meetings in Aberdeen, Ackerman, Amory, Belmont, Booneville, Bruce, Calhoun City, Corinth, Fulton, Holly Springs, Houlka, Houston, Iuka, New Albany, Oxford, Pontotoc, Starkville and West Point. Call (800) 344-2666.
For a listing of addiction support groups around Northeast Mississippi, call the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency at 841-0403 or check www.msncadd.net.
Addiction help – Narconon, an international organization of treatment centers, drug education and prevention services, provides free consultations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week for those with drug addictions. Call (800) 556-8885.
Al-Anon is a fellowship of friends and relatives of alcoholics. The group has meetings at several locations:
• American Legion Building, Fairground Circle, New Albany, 8 p.m. Mondays.
• Cornerstone Methodist Church, Tupelo, 5:30 p.m. Mondays. Call (662) 871-687-1811 or (662) 871-8068.
• First Presbyterian Church, Tupelo 8 p.m. Tuesdays.
• Easy Does It Group, noon Thursdays at Brooks Center at Fulton Methodist Church. Call Bob W. (662) 401-8094.
• Peace Seekers Family Group, noon Wednesday and Friday at Calvary Baptist Church, Tupelo. Call (662) 401-8094 or (847) 902-6267.
• Saltillo Family Group, 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, 385 Mobile St., Saltillo, (662) 871-7646.
• Solution Seekers – Adult Children of Alcoholics meets at noon Mondays at Calvary Baptist Church fellowship hall, Tupelo. Call Nancy P. at (847) 902-6267.
Groups also meet in Belmont, Corinth and Oxford.
Arthritis Support Group meets at 9:15 a.m. the second Monday of the month at Oktibbeha County Hospital Wellness Connection, in Starkville. Call (662) 323-9355.
The Autism Support Group meets 6:30-8:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at All Saints Episcopal Church in Tupelo. Childcare provided. Call Melissa Caldwell at (662) 832-2039 or Cheryl Bailey at (662) 315-3388.
Celebrate Recovery is a Bible-based group open to those struggling with addiction, anger issues, grief, guilt, shame, financial loss, abuse, eating disorders or compulsive behaviors. Groups meet at:
• 7 p.m. Fridays in the youth building at West Jackson Street Baptist Church, Tupelo. Contact Neil Naron at (662) 891-1773 or Susan Naron at 871-3872.
• 6 p.m. Saturdays at NorthStar Church, 112 Bauhaus, Saltillo. Call (662) 869-7778 or email cr@northstarchurch .com.
The Compassionate Friends-West Point, a support group for families who have suffered the death of a child of any age, meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at NMMC-West Point. Call Michele Rowe at (662) 495-2337. Parents, step-parents, grandparents and siblings are invited to attend. Information is at www.compassionatefriends.org.
Crossroads Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meets at 11:30 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month at the MSU Extension Office behind Crossroads Arena in Corinth. Sponsored by the MS Foundation. Contact Joy Forsyth 462-7325 or joycforsyth@ frontiernet.net.
Diabetes Support Group-West Point meets quarterly at NMMC-West Point. Contact Ginger Carver at (662) 495-2213.
Diabetes Support Group-Starkville meets at 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at Oktibbeha County Hospital educational facility. Call Nicky Yeatman at (662) 615-2668.
Diabetes Support Group-Booneville meets at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at the George F. Allen Library in Booneville. Sponsored by the NMMC Diabetes Treatment Center. Call Kitti Parman at (662) 377-2500 or (800) 843-3375.
Diabetes Support Group- Oxford meets at noon the second Thursday of the month in the Magnolia Auditorium at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. Lunch available for $3. Call (662) 232-8113.
Diabetes Support Group- Tupelo meets at 11 a.m. the second Thursday of the month at the NMMC Wellness Center in Tupelo. Sponsored by the NMMC Diabetes Treatment Center. Call (662) 377-2500 or (800) 843-3375.
The Disability Support Group meets at 2 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at LIFE office, Cliff Gookin Boulevard, Tupelo. People with all types of physical and mental disabilities are welcome. Call Wayne Lauderdale or Emily Word at (662) 844-6633.
A Domestic Violence Support Group meets at 6 p.m. every Thursday. Call (800) 527-7233 for location. Child care is provided.
FACE IT food allergy support group meets the first Friday and third Monday of the month. Focused on parents of children with food allergies, but open to others with medical conditions that require food avoidance. Contact Amelia at (662) 322-7434 or email@example.com for locations and times.
Grief Support Group-New Albany sponsored by Gentiva Hospice meets at 1 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at the New Albany First United Methodist Church in New Albany. Call Danny Rushing at Gentiva Hospice at (662) 620-1050.
Grief Support Groups-Oxford meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday and the fourth Wednesday of the month at Azalea Gardens in Oxford. Sponsored by Gentiva Hospice of Oxford. Call Tracy Morgan at (662) 234-0140.
Grief Support Groups-Oxford meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday and the fourth Wednesday of the month at Azalea Gardens in Oxford. Sponsored by Gentiva Hospice of Oxford. Call Tracy Morgan at (662) 234-0140.
I Can Cope cancer support group meets at noon the second Friday of the month at Bridgepoint on South Gloster Street. Guest speakers. Lunch provided for cancer survivors and caregivers. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Call coordinator Donna Kingsley at (662) 213-8478.
Lupus Support is available in Northeast Mississippi. Sponsored by the Lupus Foundation of America. Open to anyone interested in lupus. Contact Michelle Harris at (662) 825-0224 or (662) 256-2604.
Mended Hearts-Oxford, a support group for people who have had heart-bypass surgery, heart disease or other physical ailments of the heart, meets at noon the second Wednesday of the month at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Call Riley McMinn at (662) 232-8166.
Mended Hearts-Corinth, a support group for people who have had heart-bypass surgery, heart disease or other physical ailments of the heart, meets at 10 a.m. the second Monday of the month, September through May, at Cardiac Rehab Conference Room at Magnolia Community Service Center Complex in Corinth. Contact Richard Wood at (662) 286-9476 or Barbara Williams at (662) 293-1086.
Mental Health Family Support Group meets at 10 a.m. the second and fourth Saturday of the month at North Mississippi RC on Highway 7 in Oxford. The group is designed for family members of people with serious mental illness. Call (800) 357-0388 or visit www.nami.org.
Mississippi Chapter of Parents of Blind Children will meet at 9 a.m. the last Saturday of the month at the Harden House office on North Gloster Street in Tupelo. Contact Pat Sartain at (662) 871-8262.
Multiple Sclerosis Support Group-Tupelo meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the NMMC Wellness Center in Tupelo. Contact Allison Holloway at (662) 231-5829, Karan Woods at (662) 231-9160 or (800) 843-3375.
NAMI Connection, a weekly recovery group for people living with mental illness, meets Sundays at 3:30 p.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Call (800) 357-0388 or visit www.nami.org.
Narcotics Anonymous, a community-based association of recovering drug addicts, meets in Lee County.
• Tupelo group meets at the Salvation Army on Carnation Street at 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays.
• Mooreville group meets at 4:30 p.m. Sunday and 6 p.m. Wednesday at Living Waters Community Church on County Road 1554.
• Groups also meet in Ackerman, Amory, Booneville, Bruce, Corinth, Mooreville, New Albany, Oxford, Pontotoc, Ripley and Starkville.
Call (662) 841-9998 or toll-free (866) 841-9998 for more information.
New Moms Support Group meets at 10:30 a.m. Fridays at the Breast Feeding Resource Center at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. Open to all new moms. Call (662) 513-1602.
Second Chance Transplant Awareness Group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month, except for June, at McAlister's Deli, Tupelo. Call Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, Tupelo office (662) 841-1960.
A Sexual Addiction Support Group meets in Tupelo. Call (662) 841-0403.
A Sexual Assault Support Group meets at 1 p.m. every Wednesday. Call (800) 527-7233 for location.
Sisters Network, Tupelo chapter of the African-American breast cancer survivor's support group, meets at 5:30 p.m. the first Monday of the month at the Link Centre in Tupelo. Call Norma Derring at 842-3440.
Stroke support groups meet in:
• Tupelo at 5 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month in NMMC East Tower Room 21. Call Stacy Scruggs at (662) 377-4058.
• Starkville at 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 16, March 13, May 15, July 17 and Sept. 18 in the OCH Regional education room. For more info, call the speech language pathology department at (662) 615-3020.
Survivors of child sexual abuse support group meets at 1 p.m. Wednesdays. Call (800) 527-7233 for location.
TOPS, a weight loss support group, has four chapters meeting in Northeast Mississippi. Fees are $28 for annual membership; $14 for spouses and teens. Call area captain Tina Evans at (662) 369-7151, state coordinator Pat Harris at (662) 386-0249 or (800) 932-8677 or visit www.tops.org.
• Tupelo: 4:30 p.m. Thursdays at Salvation Army Building at 527 Carnation St. Call Ann Ivy at (662) 566-2816 or (662) 397-4998.
• Aberdeen: 5 p.m. Tuesdays at Southside Baptist Church on Meridian Street. Call Grace Guin at (662) 369-4431.
• Corinth: 4:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Church of the Crossroads on U.S. Highway 72 East Annex. Call Betty Jones at (662) 286-3020.
• Corinth: 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Waldron Street Christian Church on East Waldron Street. Call Heather Johnson at (662) 415-2517.
Tupelo Lost Chords Club meets at noon the fourth Thursday of the month at the Longtown Medical Park conference room in Tupelo. The club is open to all laryngectomees, spouses of laryngectomees and interested professionals. Call Lisa Renfroe at (662) 377-3248.
Women with Cancer support group meets at 6 p.m. the third Monday of each month at the Women First Resource Center, 215 N. Gloster, Suite D, in Tupelo. Call (662) 842-5725.


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Anderson Silva The Kickboxer
- Written by Dave Walsh
After Anderson Silva's devastating front kick knockout of Vitor Belfort at UFC 126, many are wondering what kind of success The Spider would have in a pure kickboxing format. Hardcore fans have contemplated this idea for years but after millions witnessed Anderson's technical display that dropped the MMA world's collective jaw, the subject has garnered even more attention. Let's look at Silva's history in fighting as well as some important factors involved in his theoretical transition to kickboxing.
In reading Fraser's recent article on Silva's history in Muay Thai, you can see that Anderson trained extensively in the art before he entered the UFC. While training with legendary strikers such as Wanderlei Silva and Mauricio Shogun Rua at Chute Boxe in Curitiba Brazil, Anderson developed a terrifying arsenal of physical weapons including knees from the Thai clinch, elbows, soccer kicks, and stomps; all of which are hallmarks of the Chute Boxe style of Muay Thai. I hesitate to call it traditional Muay Thai because there really aren't a lot of similarities. Use of the clinch is prominent in both styles but the parallels end there. Watch Anderson and you'll see he is very active on his feet, uses kicks mostly to set up combinations, and he doesn't employ knees to the body to a large degree. The Chute Boxe style of Muay Thai is all about brawling and going right at your opponent with a barrage of punches and in doing so, hoping that enough of them land to knock your opponent senseless, or to the mat to employ your ground game. It's not always the safest way to win a fight but it's exciting and can be quite effective. Both Wanderlei and Shogun have built legendary careers on that style. Contrast that method with a pure Thai style fighter such as Buakaw Por. Pramuk and you'll see the differences quite readily.
Anderson Silva debuted for the Ultimate Fighting Championship at Ultimate Fight Night 5 on June 28, 2006. His opponent that evening was Ultimate Fighter Season 1 standout Chris Leben. The Crippler was enjoying a 5 fight win streak and had all the confidence in the world which led him to declare that he would knockout the Brazilian. Less than a minute into the fight, it was Leben who had been knocked out and the MMA world suddenly saw what this Anderson Silva guy was capable of. Brutal striking, pinpoint accuracy in not missing a single strike, and the Chute Boxe Muay Thai style which overwhelms fighters that wilt under its onslaught. Joe Rogan declared that Silva was a different kind of striker. He was indeed.
We now know that Anderson is undefeated in the UFC and resets records with every fight. He's one of the very best in the sport and there's no denying that. But enough about MMA, we're here to talk kickboxing.
K-1 and IT'S SHOWTIME, the two premier organizations in the sport of kickboxing, have rules in place that incorporate all of the major striking-centric martial arts. This works well for Anderson because as we saw earlier, he is a hybrid in his approach which allows him to be flexible and fight opponents with different backgrounds and strengths. Silva doesn't have to fight Muay Thai fighters to be comfortable. One thing to remember, K-1 doesn't allow multiple knee strikes from the clinch. Something Anderson uses quite often if given the chance.
Knowing that SIlva possesses the skills to hang with the sports elite, there is the other big issue -- size. With elite heavyweight kickboxer's getting bigger all the time, does Anderson have the size to hang with such large heavyweights? While Silva fights at 185, he has often fought at 205 with great success and is a good deal larger than that in-between fight camps. If Anderson adds bulk to his long frame and adds it in the correct way, I believe he could have the size to compete with many of the sports elite.
With the size and skills issues addressed, it's time to look at three potential opponents for Anderson Silva.
Tyrone Spong: King of the Ring normally competes at around 230 pounds which physically makes him a great match for Anderson. Stylistically speaking, this fight is somewhat of a toss-up as both fighters prefer to counterstrike. Both are technically sound and have a variety of strikes to choose from because of their significant experience. With only 3 KO losses in 73 fights, Tyrone has the chin to stand up to Anderson. This fight would be about timing your shots and not getting overly aggressive as both have the power to end a fight quickly. I would predict that if this fight were to happen, it would be more technical than brawling and probably go to a very entertaining decision.
Gokhan Saki: How fun would this fight be? Gokhan Saki is just a wild dog and has the fastest punch/kick combinations that I've ever seen in combat sports. Anderson would have to employ a lot of movement and try to knock Saki out of his rhythm while throwing precision strikes. Something Anderson is very good at, by the way. Saki and Silva would be a close matchup in size as well. This fight comes down to the sheer ferocity and quantity of Saki's strikes versus Anderson's ability to counterstrike and move in the pocket. I would predict a KO ending in this fight as I don't believe that the style of Saki combined with the killer instinct of Silva would allow it to go to a decision.
Ruslan Karaev: Ruslan could be called the Wanderlei Silva of K-1. His knockout or be knocked out approach is not always the most precise but his strikes come in bunches and often find their mark. Only problem is, a style like that is tailor made for a fighter like Silva. We've seen it many times before. If you wade in with punches hoping to overwhelm him, he uses his uncanny head movement to evade those strikes and somehow knocks you out in the process. This fight comes down to Ruslan trying to overwhelm Anderson's ability to move and counterstrike. I would predict a KO ending for this fight as Ruslan's style would batter Silva or allow Anderson an opening to land precise punches on the Russian.
While all the perks of fighting in the UFC may be too good for Anderson to leave behind, if he ever chooses to, I would love to see him go for a career in kickboxing. He may not be big enough to hang with the largest heavyweights but I do think he could be very entertaining in the right fight.
What about you? Who would you like to see Anderson fight in the kickboxing world? How do you see the fight going?


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'In this portrait Shmith brings out the public image Coward created for himself, his distinctive profile, mannerisms, debonair charm and poise for which he was popularly known.' (Crombie)
Noël Coward first achieved fame with his play The Vortex (1924), which shocked audiences with its discussions of drug-abuse among the upper classes. He achieved further acclaim with his witty, satirical plays such as Hayfever (1925) and Private Lives (1930) in which he starred with his friend Gertrude Lawrence and a young Laurence Olivier. He also wrote reviews and musicals: among these were Cavalcade (1931), Words and Music (1932) and Sigh No More (1945). Many of the songs from these productions became famous. Coward was also active in filmmaking. He wrote, produced, co-directed and starred in the war film In which we Serve (1942).
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GRAMMY-nominated artist Katy Perry became the first artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the top 10, with her current single "E.T." featuring Kanye West descending to No. 2 on this week's chart following five weeks at No. 1. Perry began her record-setting streak in May 2010 when "California Gurls" debuted at No. 2. Two additional singles, "Teenage Dream" and "Firework," also charted in the top 10. Ace Of Base previously held the record, spending 48 consecutive weeks in the top 10 from 1993–1994 with "All That She Wants," "The Sign" and "Don't Turn Around." (5/13)


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TUPELO – The pre-kindergarten bills being considered by the Mississippi Legislature could benefit existing programs in Northeast Mississippi.
Both Senate Bill 2395 and House Bill 781 would provide state funding to local collaborative groups focused on early childhood education. Each bill already has passed its respective chamber's education committee.
They call for representatives of private child care centers, public schools, Head Start programs and nonprofit groups to work together to apply for funding that could benefit each of the diverse groups.
Priority would be given to communities that already have had successful collaborative early-childhood programs and to those who display need, said Rachel Canter, executive director of Mississippi First. Need could include low numbers of students enrolled in programs or lack of success of local public schools.
"We feel in the first phase, the best chance for success is to give funds to programs that already have the foundation on which to build, and we can learn from them what to do in the next phase of the program," said Canter, whose organization helped draft the Senate's bill, along with Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula.
Canter said Northeast Mississippi has several successful pre-K models that would be competitive for such grants. In fact, Monroe County's Gilmore Early Learning Initiative was written into both bills as an example of existing collaborative models, as were Excel By 5 and Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids (SPARK).
Six Northeast Mississippi communities are currently participating in Excel By 5, which provides guidelines to communities to support children from birth to age 5. Those include Lee County, West Point, Oktibbeha County, Lafayette County, New Albany-Union County and Corinth-Alcorn County.
"This is a tremendous bill because of its collaborative approach," said Gilmore Foundation Executive Director Danny Spreitler.
The Gilmore program is currently in the Monroe County and Amory school districts. Additional funding could help expand it into Aberdeen and possibly Nettleton, Spreitler said. It also could help increase early intervention services, he said.
Lecia Stubblefield, certification manager for New Albany-Union County Excel By 5, said the community could use state money for additional supplies, training of teachers and scholarships for students.
Canter also noted the strength of pre-kindergarten programs in the Tupelo and Corinth school districts. Each could be strong candidates for funding by partnering with other nearby providers to write an application, she said.
Tupelo's Early Childhood Education Center currently educates 260 children, a little more than half of the district's typical kindergarten class size. The district has publicly expressed plans to expand that program, which is currently funded by federal dollars whose amount can vary from year to year.
State funding would provide extra stability and could also allow the program to add classrooms, said Tupelo Federal Programs Director Dale Warriner, who oversees the district's program.
"The Tupelo Public School District Board of Trustees has continued to place early childhood education as a top priority for over 20 years," said Tupelo Superintendent Gearl Loden. "Hopefully, this bill is a positive step toward Mississippi funding a state-wide pre-K program and ensuring our children are academically prepared for kindergarten."
The bill offers flexibility in how the money could be spent, Canter said.
The legislature also will consider additional pre-kindergarten measures, such as providing funding for Mississippi Building Blocks and a Mississippi Department of Education request to provide programs in 10 school districts.


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On Saturday I was at the Lightweight Languages Workshop at MIT, and here are notes about some of the talks. There's a webcast available from the website.
First talk was Erlang, which is very interesting. It's a functional language, and designed for concurrency - you can launch tens of thousands of processes, and pass messages between them. And this is done fast - 2 microseconds to start a process. Apparently Oz shares a lot of the concepts here as well.
OS-level services in Scheme
Second talk was about the ways PLT Scheme (MzScheme?) is incorporating OS-level functionality into the language.
PLT Scheme OS-like capabilities that I found interesting:
- killing threads cleanly
- Indepent GUI eventspaces (e.g. independent regarding modal dialogs).
- custodian manages resources for threads so you can easily shut it down.
- enforce abstractions (like Java's private?) and then add hooks for bypassing it for debugging.
This is very useful for IDEs. They have example IDE that lets you run say, infinite loop in interpreter, without the GUI freezing up, and because you can kill threads you can cancel this operation. In addition, GUI you program via IDE runs in its own event loop so it doesn't interfere with IDE's event loop.
Apparently the author is spending a lot of time making the blocking OS level facilities not block, so he can do this sort of thing.
Asynchronous Exceptions in Python
The fourth talk was about raising exceptions in signal handlers in Python, and the problem this causes. Basically the issue is that in e.g. this code:
f = open("file") try: s = f.read() finally: f.close()
the file may never be closed, since a signal might raise an exception right after file is opened but before try/finally. The obvious solution is too disable the signal around this code, but this is TOO MUCH TYPING, and you MIGHT FORGET to reenable the signal. So what was suggested? Adding new keywords! They gave following example code:
block: f = open("f") try: unblock: s = f.read() finally: f.close()
where block/unblock do that to signals. I think this is terribly wrong. First of all, their own example was wrong, it should actually have been:
block: f = open("f") try: unblock: s = f.read() finally: block: f.close() unblock: pass
This is totally ridiculous - you need to wrap each block of code this way, it blocks all signals instead of just the appropriate one, and the syntax totally violates the standard behavior of existing keyword pairs in python, since they are on different indentation levels.
I think raising exceptions from signal handlers is just a messy idiom, and they just shouldn't be doing it. And given you don't need a keyword to solve the problem, you just can use the signal module, their suggestion is just badly implemented syntactic sugar, with side effects that extend beyond the problem they want to solve.
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|The Quintessential Trout Trout angling is the core of flyfishing worldwide.
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|If you look at posted signs near the Pond In the River and make reference to Fishing Regulations for Pond in the river(Rapid River) there is no bag limit on Bass...... As far as suckers go, you will find that they are the a natural occurence in almost all maine trout rivers. The suckers serve a natural vacuum cleaner helping to keep the river clean. Furthermore, when the suckers spawn in the river, trout fishing can liven up with egg patterns. So in answer to the Rapid specifically, no need to kill Suckers, they don't pose the threat of immediete competition to Brookies. SMB on the otherhand will always out compete the Native Brookies. Everyone out there has the compasity to make their own decisions. May the force be with you.
I was on the rapid river down by Umbagog a few weeks back. All landlocks - not a single brookie, and yes, lots and lots of smallmouths in the still water just below the rapids. The folks up in Rangeley are all up in arms, but the no-kill rule on the river applies to smallies, too. The guy in the tackle store in Oonsuc (sp?) was rather alarmed about the bass. They are discussing mandatory bass culling, but it's hard for folks to kill and dump back a fish - any fish.
I'd be very curious to hear opinions on the ethics of angler culling. Sometimes, whay I catch a sucker in brookie waters, I wonder about killing it, but somehow never do.
|You got it my friend. To all who attend this river, please for the sake of this river kill all the Smallmouths that you catch. Maine has plenty of great Bass holes and we don't need the finest river in the state to go bad!!
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Aaron, are you talking about the Rapid River? I'm aware of that illegal stocking, and rumor has it that the DIF&W will impose no length or bag limit on the bass within that river. Some have even suggested that it be mandatory to keep any bass caught, regardless of size, no catch and release.
The Honey Hole in Maine
I was informed the other day with some very sad news. Likely the most productive Brook Trout river in the state had an illegal stocking of Smallmouths a few years ago. Smallmouths can co-exist with Salmon, but they just provide way too much competition for the Brookies. SAD. On top of that the water is so low and so warm...... prospect for fall fishing before the end of the fishing season. ..................... Don't get me wrong, we'll still be able to slay some hogs before the end of the season!! HAs anyone out there been doin' anything in the freshwater in Maine or New Hampshire???? Lets hear about I got info to share if anyone has interest!
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