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BATON ROUGE — About 160 of Louisiana's local officials are barred from signing up for re-election bids next week because of an age restriction that drew little attention as it breezed to legislative passage.
The law change prohibits anyone 70 years old or older from running for justice of the peace or constable in Louisiana.
Age-restricted officials are angry, and some say they intend to sign up for re-election anyway.
Opelousas Sen. Elbert Guillory, the bill's sponsor, says he pushed the measure for a constituent who said he was seeking the law change for the Louisiana Justice of the Peace and Constables Association.
But the association denies any involvement in the bill.
The attorney general's office was holding training sessions Wednesday to notify justices of the peace and constables about the law change.
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2008 Volkswagen Jetta - Consumer Review
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15 of 19 people found this review helpful
First and last VW for me!
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Vehicle2008 Volkswagen Jetta S 4dr Sedan (2.5L 5cyl 6A)
ReviewThis car was bought for me as a first car and I absolutely loved everything about it. It's super cute, fun to dart in and out of traffic with and it had a great "giddy up" to it.
Within the first year I started having mechanical issues with the car not starting. I took it to my local Firestone and got the battery, starter, alternator, and ignition checked out and I got a green light on everything. The next day I made an appointment with the VW dealership
and they were just as unconcerned and rude as they could be. For almost two months I have been fighting this battle with VW for almost two months and I'm surely getting rid of this car as soon as possible.
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I have had the same experience from VW dealership around my area. I had a very similar experience too. The Ignition Cylinder had a problem and the keys would not enter. There is an engineering design fault with this kind of ignition lock. And VW is yet to call for a recall and still waiting..... The dealer was arrogant and rude and asked me to change the entire Ignition switch to solve the problem and told me that the parts has to come from Germany (his ancestor's house) and it will take 3 weeks to repair the Ignition switch. Just think about it....Report it
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Are you crazy about yarn poms??? Want to know how to make them???
Today, we are going to show you how to make yarn poms – in various sizes!
We found a great DIY tutorial from Prudent Baby, and knew we had to make some for our latest Monogram Baby Shower Collection!
We used yarn poms to accent drink bottles… made a pom pom banner (stay tuned for more photos on this), and even added them to our simple white cake!
Since we were working with a specific color scheme, we decided to make all of them ourselves to ensure correct colors!
Supplies needed:
Yarn in various colors
Cardboard scraps
First you will need to create your templates from cardboard scraps – old boxes will work.
We created 5 sizes -(TWO each)
1. (2) 4 3/4″ outside circle with 1 1/2″ inside cut-out circle
2. (2) 3 1/2″ outside circle with 1″ inside cut-out circle
3. (2) 3″ outside circle with 7/8″ inside cut-out circle
4. (2) 2 1/4″ outside circle with 1/2″ inside cut-out circle
5. (2) 1.5″ outside circle with 3/8″ inside cut-out circle
– You can use any circles around the house (like bottoms of glass ware, coins, etc) to create your circles, if you don't want to measure them… the circle sizes do not have to be as we stated above – these are just the sizes we created.
Once your templates are made, cut a very long piece of yarn – I start with about 13 feet (no joke)
Fold the long piece of yarn in half
Loop it through TWO pieces of cardboard
Once you have looped it to the circle, start wrapping the yarn through the hole, and wrap around circles, multiple times
I typically run out of yarn, and have to loop back in another really long strand. Once you make one, you can gauge it a little better.
Wrap yarn until you have filled up the cardboard circles
Next, take your scissors and cut open the yarn along the edge – I just wedge my scissors into the two pieces of cardboard and use that as my guide.
Once you cut open the circle, then take a separate piece of yarn (6-10 inches will work), and insert it between the cardboard pieces
Pull the separate piece of yarn tight, and knot it in the middle of the cardboard (pulling yarn pieces tight)
Last – pull cardboard pieces off of the yarn
Cute, right??? … a little time consuming, but the end result is worth it!
Don't forget to check out our Monogram Baby Shower Collection – we are just loving this new collection, and hope you do too!!
We will be revealing the entire party soon – stay tuned!!!


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|The Saboteur (2009)
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|Destroy All Humans! (2005)
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|Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)
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|Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002)
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Austria: Snuggle Up
It's quirky, it's different and one to add to the list of 'been there, done that'. At 2020m, you can spend the night in one of the 14 igloos, at the Igloo-Village in Kühtai. The "new" Inuit sleep on an airbed with a layer of sheepskin and in a warm winter down sleeping bag and have a hot tub en suite - pretty much. Prices start from €163.50 for 2 adults/per night at the Igloo-Village, only 35km from Innsbruck, including a welcome-drink, fondue-dinner and breakfast. www.iglu-village.at
France: Valentine's Day Dinner In A Gondola? (or "Have you ever Eaten Ostrich on a Ski Lift?")
Les Gets in France is offering the chance to, "surprise your loved one," with a romantic dinner by starlight in the Mont Chery gondola on Valentine's Day 2012. The lift's cabins will be decorated to provide a warm, romantic atmosphere and each course will be served every time you pass through the lift station, enjoying views of the resort at night. The dinner lift ride is 50 Euros per person with champagne and wine included, book at www.lesgets.com/valentine
Canada: Try a Love Cocktail
Après-ski at the Bar Le Tucker is the focus of Valentine's Day activity at beautiful Mont Sutton in Quebec. On February 11 skiers and boarders can wear a ribbon with a colour illustrating if they're in a relationship or looking for love on the slopes and in the bar and then on the day itself there'll be "love cocktails" there'll be sweet après-ski with a chocolate fountain.
Germany: Free Riding If Your Name is Valentine
On February 14th everyone named Valentin, Valentine or Valentina (has anyone seen Trading Places?) will get free skiing in any of the five ski resorts belong to the Alpen Plus group (Brauneck-Wegscheid, Wallberg, Spitzingsee-Tegernsee, Sudelgeld, Zahmer Kaiser). Bring proof! (www.alpenplus.com).
Italy: Visit The Home of St Valentine
Courmayeur is as good choice for couples at any time of year, but it comes in to its own on February 14th as St Valentine is the famous Italian resort's patron saint, meaning his feast day is celebrated throughout the resort on its slopes and in bars and restaurants.
Japan: Heart Shaped Cake
The wonderful Graubunden bakery in Niseko has some special offers for the big day. For guys (and also girls who bring a guy with them) there are discounted rates on cake with coffee or tea and special heart shaped cakes available by advance order.
The Netherlands: Feel The Love On Indoor Snow
From 10 to 19 February SnowWorld Landgraaf in The Netherlands, the world's largest indoor snow centre by slope area, is offering a special Valentines package for two (of course!). € 69,50 buys two x two hour lift tickets, a welcome 'love' cocktail and a cheese, meat or fish fondue for two too.
Or you can make a night of it (if things go well...) with the Valentines Package including an overnight at SnowWorld's on site four star hotel including breakfast the morning after and the skiing, cocktail and fondue as above. Price €79,50 per person (based on two again...).
Scotland: Win A Chocolate Fondue
Skiers at CairnGorm Mountain who visit the Ptarmigan Bar during their day on the slopes and enter their name and mobile phone number in the draw can win a Chocolate Fondue and Cocktails for two at International Starters in the local resort village of Aviemore on Valentine's evening. They'll text you by 4pm if you have won.
Switzerland: Random Mobile Phone Dating in Verbier
V Day in Verbier for those who register means a day of blind dates, including speed dating on the chairlift, and after an aperitif and lunch the highlight will be a concert in Médran Café . Register online and via Facebook (http://www.verbierbooking.ch/de/agenda/valentinstag-fur-singles-148-562).
USA: Poetry Contest
Squaw Valley in California goes overboard on Valentine's Day each winter with a whole host of fun activities. These include hunting for Valentine's Day goody bags on the slopes, a special 'singles line' on the chairlift for those looking for love who can indulge in a little speed dating on the ascent; and the sale of heart shaped cookies scripted with love poetry in the Wildflour Bakery. You can also enter a competition in the bakery to write your own love poem on a biscuit.


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Largo hits its free throws in the closing moments while the Cowboys go cold in a 58-56 thriller.
By ROBYN DISNEY
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 6, 2002
TAMPA -- Tournament championship games should be down-to-the-wire thrillers.
And that's exactly what Saturday's crowd at the Leto Holiday Classic got to see as Monique Henson converted two free throws with 25.8 seconds left in overtime to give Largo a 58-56 win against Gaither.
But Largo coach Leonard Williams could have done without the theatrics.
"It was too exciting," he said, his voice hoarse from screaming. "They really hustled and came back."
The Cowboys (11-5) went into the fourth quarter with a 39-36 lead as Largo had four starters in foul trouble. Still, the Packers (12-1) used a full-court press to create turnovers. It worked.
Tournament MVP Monica Adams, who picked up her fourth foul early in the fourth quarter, had three steals that turned into six points and gave Largo a 48-46 lead with less than a minute to play in regulation.
"Monica had an outstanding game," Williams said. "She played team ball. She just played outstanding."
Forward Elaine Evans, who led Gaither with 19 points, tied the game with a layup. With 15 seconds left, Largo center Shaneisha Walton took an inbounds pass from Adams and gave the Packers a two-point lead with a jump shot. But with 3 seconds remaining, Gaither guard Natalie Caldwell tied the game at 50 to force overtime. Adams started the extra quarter with a layup. But after both teams converted two free throws, Cowboys center Tosha Ross, who finished with 16 points, scored consecutive baskets to give her team a 56-54 lead.
Despite Gaither's attempts to draw fouls in the closing moments, the Packers committed only one. Caldwell missed the one-and-one. Largo, on the other hand, made good on four free throws and Gaither missed three shots in the final 20 seconds to win the game.
"It's probably the best game we've played all year by far," Gaither coach Bill Agatheas said. "We made a lot of clutch plays, but (Largo) hustled and we allowed them to come back. We got a little rattled at the end with the crowd noise, that's my only real criticism."


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Ha! Says It All!!Sex makes people happiest
Making love is the most enjoyable human activity, a study has found.
Researchers used text messaging to build up a map of what activities people routinely rated as bringing the most and least happiness to their daily lives and found that sex ranked first in all three categories measured in the survey: Pleasure, meaning and engagement.
Drinking alcohol or partying came second in terms of pleasure but only 10th in terms of meaning, the Daily Mail reported.
Using Facebook and doing housework both ranked low on the happiness scale, according to the study compiled by Carsten Grimm from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Feeling sick was lowest rated in terms of pleasure, it revealed.
Grimm used mobile-phone text-messaging to collect data on what people did during the day and how they felt about it, a technique called 'experience sampling'.
"Those who tend to be high on all three orientations to happiness not only score high on life satisfaction, they also tend to have higher experiences of pleasure, meaning, engagement and happiness in their daily lives. This means that being able to seek happiness in different ways may enrich your everyday experience and increase your overall well-being," he said.
Top-ranked activities according to the survey
1: Sex
2: Drinking alcohol
3: Volunteering
4: Meditating/religion
5: Caring for children
6: Listening to music
7: Socialising
8: Hobbies
9: Shopping
10: Gaming
Worst-ranked activities ar
1: Recovering from sicknes
2: Facebook
3: Housework
4: Studying
5: Texting
6: Going to lecture
7: Paid work
8: Commuting
9: Computer work
10: Washing
From: http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_sex-makes-people-happiest_1765764
Wait wait, drinking alcohol is a form of pleasure?This survey must be a scam.Too much alcohol harms the body, just like smoking, so i guess you and the MAJORITY of the people who did this survey finds pleasure in deteriorating your body must be "sick" :).
Yep, it doesn't make sense. You know some people claim to like eating nice food? And we all now how bad obesity is. Some people are just plain wrong. There'll be another billy goat gruff along in a minute...
They are just "followers" who lacks sane judgement and intelligence so they just "follows" like how LOL.
From what i have observed, "most" people who drink alcohol regularly are just leaches who is wasting their life everyday, without a proper job and can`t take care of themselves.That is what alcohol "purpose" is - to self-harm.But some people finds pleasure in harming not only themselves as well as others, thus the people who have participated in this survey are "unsane, leaches and have too much free time to WASTE."
Eating nice food hmm, i like eating many nice veggies and fruits and it have not harm me yet though :x.
My grandmother was a smoker, gambler and alcoholic throughout all her life.My grandfather and her children was just there for her to leach.She never once went to work.This are all evidences of pests of society.
These people need to Shower with a partner more so washing can be more fun!
Curious methodology...but hey, if it supports the fact that we all need (more) sex...I'm all for it :)
Of course, it might be a useful thing to solicit what the top and bottom 10 are for oneself and spouse. Or even better, do that for a prospective spouse.
If only I had done that sooner.
Well, you learn something every day. Still, they were New Zealanders polled and they are a breed apart*
Interesting to note that it was a text poll, and #5 on the 'Worst Ranked' listing was "texting".
** New Zealand gag'
Q - what do you call a New Zealander wearing a suit ?
A - 'the defendant'
Tread your own path.
Well, if I can widen the scope of your gratuitiousness to all Antipodeans, the real problem is that you hold these kind of lists upside-down. And the water runs out of your baths the wrong way.
Now if only they would do that for those responsible for the Libor scandal, and the negligent regulators, and lying politicians, we'd be making progress. It really peeves me that an apparently rogue UBS trader has been jailed for 7 years, while his managers and the risk-management execs and senior execs all get off scot-free. Which gives you such a great confidence in the banking ponzi scheme. C'est plutot la meme chose.
"Feeling sick was lowest rated in terms of pleasure, it revealed."
Mind-blowing. Lol.
Oh I'm thoroughly enjoying my cold today... NOT
That seems a bit like saying water is wet. Being sick is not very pleasurable. That really took a study to determine? Lol.
I am sorry you are sick. Feel better soon.
No sh!t, right?
Someone on here asked "What food is better than sex?"
..I replied "NOTHING is better than sex!"
My STBX often found computer games more entertaining than sex with me... Kinda glaring dissimilarity there...
There are some foods that definetely go well with sex......
For her nothing went well with sex, including the sex.
LOL..............I know how that is.
Yup. About sums it up. This explains why I am so unhappy...I don't really get to engage in any of the pleasure-providing activities...it's all drudgery. Meh.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WYTV) – A judge sentenced Ben Lupo to 28 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine Monday after he pleaded guilty in March to dumping harmful chemicals in the Mahoning River.
Authorities did not take Lupo into custody Tuesday. Instead, he has to self-report to jail.
Dr. Thomas Detesco, Ben Lupo's doctor for the last 30 years, testified at the hearing that Lupo suffers from several conditions including diabetes, hepatitis-c, gout and chronic kidney disease. Dr. Detesco said Lupo must have kidney dialysis every day or face the risk of death.
He also testified that Lupo is taking multiple medications and is under stress from a lawsuit involving a corporate divorce from a former business partner leading to reduced mental capacity at the time of the incident between November of 2012 and February of 2013.
Detesco said Lupo was even admitted to a psychiatric clinic, saying he was a risk to his own safety.
Detesco said he had invested in Lupo's businesses when questioned by prosecutors.
Stephen Emsbo-Mattingly, a forensic chemist, testified that there was no risk to the environment or public from the dumping of waste material from the D&L Energy site.
Emsbo-Mattingly added that the dangerous chemicals such as benzene and toluene, which were laid out in the indictment against Lupo, were not found in the Mahoning River, stating that the chemicals worked themselves out of the water by the time they made their way to the Mahoning River.


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The Falkirk Wheel, an icon of millenial water-energy ingenuity (photo courtesy of Sean McClean)
The world's first coast-to-coast ship canal, Forth & Clyde, transported ships through 11 locks that required one day and 3,500 metric tons of water to achieve the 115 feet change in elevation. A decision to restore this historic waterway resulted in The Falkirk Wheel – the world's first rotating boat lift. The Falkirk Wheel applies in an innovative way (see how it works here). Instead of using locks, the wheel balances 2 gondolas at opposite ends that rotate to deliver the floating contents of each gondola to either canal. Each lift is now achieved within 4 minutes and uses only 1.5 kilowatt hours!
There has been no lack of innovation – over the past decade, many stakeholder forums convened across the U.S. to identify creative nexus opportunities. Neither is there lack of interest and commitment – both the water and the energy sectors have willingly come to the table to collaborate on strategies for leveraging the nexus to achieve the next generation of resource efficiency. In fact, the key barriers to implementation lie primarily in well-established traditions of separate planning and management of water and energy resources.
Ultimately, maximizing the joint benefits of water and energy will require new policy and regulatory frameworks that enable optimizing investments across both resources, and potentially also across the multiple utilities, agencies and jurisdictions charged with developing and delivering these resources. In order to do that effectively, new metrics and tools are needed that enable evaluating multiple value streams from cross-cutting programs.
Water Energy Innovations is dedicated to building pathways to implementation that help to achieve the full potential of our nation's water-energy nexus. Through this website, we will provide information about water-energy initiatives across the country with the goal of helping to foster collaboration. We will also highlight best-in-class policies, programs, practices and projects to help identify and promote proven strategies.
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Along with excellent technical knowledge about your business, you need thorough knowledge about your marketplace, in order to succeed in your business venture. Your marketplace consists of the target market, target customers and the existing business owners with similar products as you. You can easily collect all the relevant market data from your marketplace, with help of business analysis. Market study has become the need of the hour for businesses in various industries. You need competitive market analysis, in order to launch your product or new services successfully into a market. No amount of expert knowledge can reduce the importance of industry study.
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Well, there are few simple ingredients for achieving overall wellness:
1) Water: If you are a science student you can better understand that human body cells depend on water. Ideally, human body is made of 55 to 75% of water so water needs to continuously be replenished as we lose it continuously via normal breathing, sweating, urinating and bowel movements. In addition, there are numerous benefits of drinking water, like water detoxifies, increases metabolism, moisturizes, aids with nutrient absorption and transport, regulates body temperature and so much more. Absorption and transport, regulates body temperature. Your body requires a healthy dose of pure old fashioned, unsweetened, unflavored, natural water.
2) Healthy Eating Habits: Paying as much attention to what we put in the body as to what we put on the body is imperative to achieving wellness. If you will visit http://aimwellnessclinic.com/overall-wellness/, you will get to read that food can either be a medicine or a poison. Strive to utilize food as the former. The human body requires food for nourishment. However, the type of food required by the body includes those fresh, live foods that are nutrient-dense and rich in vitamins and minerals which are necessary just as water to nourish the cells and enable the organs to function properly.
3) Physical exercise: The body requires some form of physical activity. Exercise increases our energy and improves longevity. Exercise also promotes psychological well-being, helps with weight loss and builds and maintains healthy, strong bones, muscles and joints. If that's not enough, exercise has been linked to disease prevention for diseases such as for example heart problems, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes and osteoporosis.


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In the future when applying for a job I have to decide whether or not to divulge the fact that I have Nystagmus. If I did, they may decide that they don't even want to interview me because I have this condition. However if I don't tell them about it, problems may arise whereby, I am unable to do a particular task. So I will have to decide whether I tell my possible employers that I have Nystagmus.
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Bill Viola: Love/Death: The Tristan Project
Haunch of Venison, London W1 and St Olave's College, London SE1, until 2 September
Fashionable taste might smirk a bit at Bill Viola's earnestness; cynics will baulk at his theatrical sense of awe and wonder; but it would take a very flinty eye not to be enthralled by his extraordinary visual imagination.
The Tristan Project began life as the backdrop for a Paris National Opera staging of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. Few artists would have approached the brief by trying to out-Wagner Wagner but Viola has no fear of operatic emotion. Love and death, and even eternal life, are his stock in trade and he does all three with the gusto of a true believer.
His pair of doomed lovers emerge, in a trademark gesture, from the ocean, naked water sprites swimming up an X-chromosome of light, holding their breath, before drowning in sensuality. This moment of dappled blue transcendence, on the first, downstairs screen at the Haunch of Venison gallery gives way quickly to a weighty sense of life passing by on the floors above. In a compulsively slow diptych of films an hour long the lovers, their flesh beginning to sag in middle age, become framed in stone porticos, approaching the camera from the very far distance, then undress and are washed, water again providing a moment of sexual shock, before kneeling to contemplate their place in the flow of life, and their presence in a Viola video.
Suitably, given the subject matter, the show then involves a physical odyssey, from north to south of the river by grimy underground, the sleekness of the Mayfair gallery giving way to the more sombre dilapidation of the abandoned St Olave's school building near Tower Bridge, where there are four rooms heavy with mortality. The most dramatic of these is in the pitch blackness of the old galleried school hall, where on a vast, floor-to-ceiling screen Viola imagines Tristan's resurrection. To begin with, the hero lies flat and grey on a slab on to which water begins to fall from a great height. As this Niagara increases, the sound in the hall becomes overwhelming, a torrent of noise as slowly but surely the dead man is raised through the waterfall. His element then changes to a sudden orange inferno, reflected on a lake into which he finally plunges once more to begin the cycle again.
When they work as dramatically as this one it is hard to dismiss Viola's films as stunts. They offer a choice: total immersion or walk-out, but he defies you to be in a room with them and not be seduced at least by the play of light and colour, and perhaps by the almost medieval sense of mystery they promote. Some of this has to do with scale, some with skill, but most of it is a product of Viola's almost subversive seriousness.
Less convincing are some of the sub-plots to this central triumvirate of images. In another room the lovers, naked or in white robes, force their way through a dark forest, while Viola captures them on a hand-held Blair Witch video. In the absence of high production values, the sentiment becomes somewhat low-budget too, and when the lovers plunge into unlikely waves, you are thinking more Calvin Klein ad than proper obsession. Likewise, some of the behind-the-scenes apparatus of these narratives, the artist's sketchy graphs of 'a mountain range as a form of time', or the greeting -card prayers and poems taken from his notebook - 'the self is an ocean without a shore' and so on - detract from what he is best at: discrete blockbuster movies.
Viola has been compared with many old masters, from Titian to Rembrandt, but really he is a contemporary pre-Raphaelite, intent on cleansing the art world of its obsessions with trivia, parody and disgust by finding meaning and even transcendence in form and colour. There is a Rossetti-like flourish in his determination to confront the bigger questions, and also a comparable arrogance of technique. Both qualities make him a natural for the Tristan myth - Arthurian emotion also enraptured the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood - and it is his expression of both which makes this love affair at times so spectacular.


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Lahore, August 04, 2017 (PPI-OT): The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry has congratulated the new Commerce Minister Pervez Malik and expressed hope that he would evolve a comprehensive strategy with the consultation of business community to increase the exports. In a press statement, the LCCI President Abdul Basit, Senior Vice President Amjad Ali Jawa and Vice President Muhammad Nasir Hameed Khan Pervez Malik is rich with the vast experience having grass root information to promote the exports of Pakistan.
The LCCI President Abdul Basit said that Pervez Malik, who is also a former Executive Committee Member of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, had already set a benchmark during his various important positions and had been instrumental to promote the national economy through his practical decisions.
Abdul Basit, who has worked closely with the New Commerce Minister, said that the business community greatly appreciates the decision of Prime Minister to depute such experienced person on this most important task to promote exports and earn the much needed foreign exchange. He expressed the optimism that his old companion will promote export through focus synergy and soon visit the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry to get the proposals of businessmen.
"Commerce Minister Pervez Malik has a tack record of great service to the economic sector of Pakistan being Member of National Assembly and has interacted with trade and industry of Pakistan in different capacities thus acquired a comprehensive understanding of the issues encountered by different sectors of the commerce and industry for finding appropriate solutions", the LCCI President concluded.
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New Juventus signing Carlos Tevez admits he "used to be a hot-head, but I've learned how to behave. I am simply honest."
The striker completed his transfer from Manchester City for €9m plus a potential further €6m in performance related bonuses.
He sat down with Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport to reassure fans about his fiery reputation.
"I am simply honest," he noted. "At the start of my career in England I used to be a hot-head. If the manager substituted me, I'd swear and insult him. I'm not like that anymore, as I've learned how to behave."
Most famously Tevez refused to come off the bench in the final minutes of a Champions League match with Bayern Munich, infuriating Roberto Mancini.
"On TV it looked much worse than it was. When the manager decided to take off Edin Dzeko and introduce a defender, I was upset and sat back down on the bench.
"However, at that moment the really angry one was Dzeko, who started insulting Mancini in Bosnian and the manager replied in Italian. It was a surreal scene.
"I was sitting there talking to Zabaleta and when Mancini turned round he saw me sitting down, but was furious because of the row with Dzeko and took it out on me.
"My rapport with Mancini wasn't always ideal, but there was always great respect."
Carlitos was signed because Juventus lack a finisher, though he insists that is only a small part of his game.
"I am not desperate to score goals, as I prefer to work for the team, perfect a move and create an assist for my teammate. Obviously if the chance arises then I do know how to find the net... I like scoring, but I am not egotistical.
"I do not have a favourite goal, as they are all the same to me. The important thing is that it goes over the line."
Tevez had also been linked with Real Madrid, but aimed a sideswipe at their star player Cristiano Ronaldo – his former Manchester United teammate.
"My ideal trident would be me with Wayne Rooney and Leo Messi. They are the players who make me dream, not Ronaldo."
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This Order provides for the implementation of the 1996 Protocol to the International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 following its ratification by, and entry into force for, the UK. The Order does this by making amendments to the articles of the 1976 Convention set out in Part I of Schedule 7 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 corresponding to the amendments made by the Protocol. The Order also makes amendments to Part II of Schedule 7 consequential on the implementation of the Protocol.
In addition to a general increase in the limits, these amendments:
(a)provide for there to be no overall limit for claims arising from loss of life or injury to passengers of seagoing ships (which are subject to a per capita limit under the Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea set out in Schedule 6 to the 1995 Act) (article 7(a), (b) and (e)).
(b)provide for passenger claims for non-seagoing ships similarly to be subject only to a per capita limit (article 7(a), (b) and (e)).
(c)prevent overlap with the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea 1996 (article 7(c)); and
(d)increase the special limits which apply to small ships (article 7(d)).
These amendments are permitted by Articles 15(3bis), 18(1)(b) and 15(2)(b) respectively of the 1976 Convention as amended by the 1996 Protocol. Articles 5 and 6 of the Order add these provisions to those set out in Part I of Schedule 7 to the 1995 Act.
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Biography of John J. Fowles
John J. Fowles has been a Kansas educator since 1908 and is now superintendent of the city schools of Summerfield. Largely through his own earnest efforts he acquired a liberal education. He was born in Eldora, Iowa, January 3, 1884. He is of a Colonial American family. This branch of the Fowlers came out of England and settled in New York in pioneer times His grandfather. Thomas Charles Fowler, was born in Kentucky and died at Eldora, Iowa, before John J. Fowler was born. He was one of the pioneers around Eldora and became well known as a stockman and farmer and a raiser of blooded horses. He married Miss Winterstein, a native of Iowa, who also died at Eldora Four of their children are still living: Henry A., connected with the engineering department of Vermillion University at Vermillion, South Dakota; Stephen and Nieholas, also residents of South Dakota; Blanche, wife of George Diedrich, a retired farmer living in Iowa. T. S. Fowler, father of Superintendent Fowler, was born in 1851 and went as a child to Iowa with his parents. He grew up and married there and became a successful farmer and livestock man at Eldora, where he died in 1896. He was a democrat and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He married Mary Patterson, who was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1852 and died...Read More


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Today is day one of our Hairdresser On Fire one year anniversary party! To celebrate we have a lovely tutorial today. This tutorial is for that girl who loves her beach vacations for the awesome hair it gives her. There are many variations of this blow-dry, depending on how big of sections you use. I did pretty small ones on Erin, but you can play around with it and decide what you like best for yourself!
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Sabri, Shaikhah (2009) Impact of water quality on seagrass meadow at Tanjung Kupang. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering.
Seagrasses which colonize near shore ecosystem may be used as indicator of environmental health since it is vulnerable to the changes of water and environmental quality. Six species of seagrasses were found at Tanjung Kupang, Johor which are identified as Halophila ovalis, Halophila minor, Halophila spinulosa, Enhalus acoroides, Halodule pinifolia and Thalassia hemprichii. Meanwhile three species were found at Teluk Buih, Mersing identified as Enhalus acoroides, Halodule pinifolia and Cymodocea rotundata. Heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Hg) were analyzed using ICPMS and Halophila minor have the highest accumulation of heavy metal among the species. Thalassia hemprichii turned out to be strongest accumulator for Cd (0.016 mg/g dry weight) and Halophila ovalis for Hg (0.044 mg/g dry weight). The results obtained for water quality analysis exceeded the Interim Marine Water Quality Standard except for Pb (0.0014 to 0.0066 mg/L) and Total Cr (0.1486 to 0.105 mg/L). Dredging activities for land reclamation could be a possible release of heavy metals to the seawater since the concentration of heavy metal decrease in the following order: sediment > water > seagrass leaves. Therefore, Halophila minor has the potential to be used as bioindicator since it accumulates higher concentration of heavy metal compared to other species. Two rivers, Sungai Pok Besar and Sungai Pok Kecil, situated near the seagrass bed is classified as Class III based on Water Quality Index.
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The story of MV Sun Sea, the cargo ship that brought 492 Sri Lankan migrants to Canadian waters on August 12, reportedly started on April 1 in the Thai port city of Songhkla.
In an investigative report, Canadian daily Globe and Mail reports how one Christhurajah Kunarobinson bought a rickety 57-meter cargo boat called Harin Panich from its previous Thai owners for Canadian $175,000.
The boat, "now nameless and stripped of the Thai flag registration, went missing", says the paper. On April 7, "a crew of a dozen men, described as Indian or Sri Lankan in appearance, arrived in Songhkla and took the ship out to sea, telling dock workers they were headed north to the port of Surat Thani to do some repairs".
"The ship never arrived in Surat Thani and never filled out the paperwork, including a declaration of destination, required of an unflagged ship heading into international waters," says the paper.
The Canadian daily gives details of how the Royal Thai Navy dispatched planes to search for the missing boat. Finally the boat was 'sighted on May 8 by the workers on a Chevron-operated oil platform 110 kilometers from Songhkla.'
That's when the chase began between the Thai warship 'Sattahip' and the Sun Sea. The Thai ship 'moved in on the Sun Sea, with orders to board the craft. It saw some 150 Tamils clustered at the Thai ship. One man on board the Sun Sea hurled a gas canister at the Thai ship. Others tried to leap aboard the Sattaship in what the Thai crew interpreted as an attempt to escape', says the paper.
A man, who reportedly identified himself as the captain of the Sun Sea, established contact with the Thai ship and said "he had begun his journey in Singapore and was now headed to Bangkok".
'But the ship headed east and three hours later the Thai navy was forced to abandon its pursuit as the Sun Sea crossed into Vietnamese territorial waters," says the paper.
The Canadian daily describes how 40 people were taken out at sea to board the Sun Sea on May 19 in Songkhla. "Nobody knows what happened after that. It was like a ghost ship," a Thai naval officer is quoted as saying.
The ship's former owners are reportedly shocked that the 'the journey was attempted at all.' And for them "more astonishing was its cargo of 492 human beings (because) when sold, the ship only had sleeping space for 15 crew, one small toilet, a gallery kitchen and life rafts for a maximum of 30 people. With space for only 12 tonnes of water, supplies would have been harshly rationed to keep them from running out mid-journey."
The report quotes intelligence sources as saying that on June 21 'three fighting vessels left the southern port of Pattani carrying food, water and parts for Sun Sea, which was reportedly broken down in international waters.'
'After that they lost track of the Sun Sea for good,' the report says.
Christhurajah Kunarobinson, who bought the ship on April 1, reportedly never filed other papers after registration.
'The trail of Kumarpbinson and the Sun Sea end in the port city of Songkhla. Despite strong evidence that 160 of the Sun Sea's passengers passed through Songkhla at some point, no one recalled the migrants,' says the Canadian daily.
The report makes a mention of Kumaran Pathmanathan, a top leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who is now the leader of the organisation (after Tamil Tiger chief Prabhakaran was killed last year). It points out that Pathmanathan was based in Thailand for much of the Sri Lankan conflict 'until he was arrested and deported to Sri Lanka in 2009.'
There are already reports of two more ships waiting for the final outcome of the 492 people now being processed by the Canadian authorities in Vancouver.
The Sri Lankan Tamils on board the ship have already released two letters saying they are law abiding, innocent people, running from persecution from their native country. They have pledged to fully abide by Canadian laws if they are finally accepted as refugees.
'So good at hiding people and things in plain sight, the network that sent the 'ghost ship' clear across the Pacific has itself now vanished,' concludes the report in the Canadian daily.
The report includes a scanned copy of Kumarobinson's passport with his photo that shows his date of birth as April 13, 1980, and states that he was born in Jaffna. The report confirms earlier reports that one man on board the Sun Sea died during the voyage.


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CA this week rolled out the newest release of its ARCserve data protection suite, a release with a focus on helping customers and solution providers get ready for operations in the cloud.
CA ARCserve r16 provides a single solution for everything from simple file backups to image-based bare metal recovery to full system failover and high availability, said Steven Fairbanks, vice president of product management for CA's data management business.
With ARCserve r16, data is protected in physical and virtual IT infrastructures whether on premise or in the cloud, Fairbanks said.
"This is a major release for ARCserve," he said. "We're releasing a lot of capabilities for virtualized and cloud environments, and helping provide strong protection for virtual architectures and the cloud."
The release of ARCserve r16 comes only four months after another major update of ARCserve which focused on making it available for customers working on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
CA ARCserve provides centralized management of all a company's data protection, including tape or disk backups, image-based backups, replication, and high availability, Fairbanks said. All the capabilities are available via a single SKU with a per-TB license, or each can be purchased as stand-alone applications, he said.
New to CA ARCserve r16 is a scalable, unified data center architecture which Fairbanks said unifies data management across a customer's entire IT environment. It offers Web-based centralized management to make all capabilities licensable with per-TB pricing, which Fairbanks said is a big change from the prior versions where backups, archiving, and disk-to-disk backups were done on a per-TB basis while other functions were on a per-server basis.
"The new version marries it all together in one license," he said. "So with one SKU, customers have access to all capabilities without worrying about keeping up with managing licenses."
Also new is the ability for customers to purchase licenses on a monthly subscription basis under CA's Service provider License Agreement, or SPLA. The SPLA is for now available only through Ingram Micro, Fairbanks said.
CA ARCserve r16 includes several changes related to protecting data in virtualized environments.
New are image-based, host-level backups via VMware vSphere APIs. Fairbanks said this allows customers to back up multiple virtual machines at the host level instead of individually, while providing the ability to restore individual virtual machines or files or folders.
Also new is the virtual standby feature which allows customers to automatically provision a virtual machine in VMware, Hyper-V, or XenServer environments from a standard image-based backup. "That virtual machine is pre-registered with the hypervisor, and provides a 'heartbeat' to the original host server or virtual machine so that if a server goes down, it automatically fails over to the standby virtual machine," Fairbanks said.
ARCserve r16 also now supports full system replication and full system failover for VMware or XenServer environments based on live replicated data. That capability was previously available in Microsoft Hyper-V environments, he said.
The new version of ARCserve also features new cloud integration capabilities to provide full private and public cloud support for ARCserve's backup, disk-to-disk backup, and high availability modules.
This includes the ability to build a "cold standby" server and storage infrastructure in the clouds, Fairbanks said. "With failover to a cloud, having a cold standby means customers do not have to pay for any cloud resources before an actual failover takes place," he said.
ARCserve r16 also now includes AES-256 encryption for backups of data to a cloud, as well as SSL protection for high availability replications, he said.
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Appel, Benjamin. Brain Guy/Plunder. 338p. ISBN 1-933586-01-X [ISBN 978-1-933586-01-4].
Rabe, Peter. Blood on the Desert/A House in Naples. 308p. ISBN 1-933586-00-1 [ISBN 978-1-933586-00-7].
Randisi, Robert J. The Ham Reporter/The Disappearance of Penny. 335p. ISBN 0-9749438-9-4 [ISBN 978-0-9749438-9-3].
ea. vol: Stark House. Jan. 2006. pap. $19.95. F
A fine trio of double mysteries/thrillers from Stark House. Appel and Randisi are from the hard-boiled crime school, while Rabe writes spy novels.
Card, Orson Scott. Treason. Orb: Tor. Feb. 2006. c.275p. ISBN 0-7653-0904-1. pap. $14.95. SF
This revision of Card's 1978 A Planet Called Treason contains roughly ten percent new material.
Ehrlich, Gretel. Drinking Dry Clouds. Univ. of Nebraska. 2005. 160p. ISBN 0-8032-6754-1. pap. $18.95. F
LJ's reviewer found these short pieces "delicate, sturdy, and skillful."
Hamill, Pete. The Gift. Little, Brown. 2005. 153p. ISBN 0-316-01189-4. $16.95. F
Hamill's 1973 Christmas story sure ain't Dickens. Set in 1952, it follows a young sailor on shore leave after serving in Korea. In a Brooklyn bar over a cup of holiday cheer – actually many of them – he finally comes to know his estranged father.
Hawkes, John. Second Skin. New Directions, dist. by Norton. 2005. 210p. ISBN 0-8112-1644-6. pap. $14.95. F
Released in 1963, Hawkes's cerebral novel unfurls its narrator's life story – a gallery of heartbreaks dotted with smatterings of joy.
March, William. The Bad Seed. Ecco: HarperCollins. 2005. 217p. ISBN 0-06-079548-4. pap. $12.95. F
March's potboiler about a child who is a sadistic killer sold more than a million copies in 1954. It was adapted as a highly successful Broadway play and Hollywood film.
Oz, Amos. My Michael. Harcourt. 2005. 253p. ISBN 0-15-603160-4. pap. $13. F
Set in Jerusalem, Oz's poignant story of a disintegrating marriage was hailed by critics and readers alike at its debut in 1968.
Sade, Marquis de. The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade. Peter Owen, dist by Dufour. Jan. 2006. 188p. ISBN 0-7206-1251-9. pap. $23.95. F
The eight stories gathered here are among the notorious author's most tame and approachable works, but they still contain some of his signature touches.
Sarraute, Nathalie. The Planetarium. Dalkey Archive. 2005. 246p. ISBN 1-56478-410-X. pap. $12.95. F
The French novelist's 1959 relates the story of a family at Amber Jewelry, Tea Sets, Sleeping Bags, Wholesale Tea Sets odds, told from several points of view.
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They thought that voting for Donald Trump was some kind of protest vote, on behalf of working class Americans, against Wall Street elites. Then, Trump appointed a whole bunch of Wall Street elites to top government positions.
At the same time, President-Elect Trump promised to lower wages, and introduce big tax cuts for billionaires that won't trickle down at all to the rest of us.
It turns out Donald Trump was always just running a con on working Americans, on behalf of his billionaire friends.
Boy, are GOP voters pissed. It's been less than a month since Election Day, but already, one of the trending hashtags on Twitter is #TrumpRegret.
My favorite tweet comes from Americans United Against Trump, a play on an old jazz standard: Ms. Otis regrets she voted for Trump today.
There's a lot of apologizing to be done. But more importantly, there's a lot of work to be done to build the resistance to Donald Trump's arrogant, ignorant, abhorrent plans to wreck America.


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At the opening of his press conference that began at 2 PM ET, State Attorney Willie Meggs confirmed that Winston will not be charged, and he declared that he did not feel that there was sufficient evidence to make any charges. He was also asked if this was a situation of someone being treated differently because of who he is, but Meggs stated that he believes that they treat every case equally and there was no special treatment for Winston.
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Anyone standing in front of the renovated Grand Serail recognizes that this monument has its roots in the past of this region. From a historical perspective, the complex has been the scene of many great events that took place during the periods preceding and following World War I. The history of the Grand Serail is replete with memories, events, and scenes that have followed each other in Syria and Beirut after the expulsion of the Egyptian army. That army was headed by Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Governor of Egypt, who controlled Syria and Beirut in 1831.
While the Egyptians were on this hill, the people customarily referred to it as the Al Thakanat (the barracks) because it was chosen by Ibrahim Pasha as a base for himself and his troops.
In 1840, the Ottoman Empire, with the support of the Prussian, Russian and British navies, was able to recover its authority over Syria. It was natural that the Ottoman military authority took interest in that hill and set up a building there. The building was first used as the headquarters of military and civilian departments; and then, after its expansion, it was turned into the headquarters of Ottoman governors. The Beirutis referred to it then as al'Qishlah, a Turkish word for 'the garrison' or 'soldiers quarters'.
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The end of the First World War involved the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. During the French Mandate, the Grand Serail was the official headquarters of all High Commissioners from Gouraud to Helleu, until April 1941 when the Lebanese government headed by Sami Al-Solh took over the administration of certain services, among which was the Grand Serail. The first President of the Republic of Lebanon who made the Grand Serail his presidential headquarters was Sheikh Bishara Al-Khuri, the first president after Lebanon's independence. Then he moved to the Qantari Palace which became the presidential headquarters. From then on, presidents took up residence there. The Grand Serail became the headquarters of the Prime Minister, Riad Al-Solh, and since then it has been used as the Prime Minister's headquarters. In 1976 and throughout the Lebanese War, the building was subjected to artillery bombardments, and a fire broke out in it. Most of its parts, save the ground floor and the exterior walls, were burnt. The situation forced the government to move to new headquarters in the Sana'i' area, and the Grand Serail was partially used by Ministry of Interior.
This Grand Serail, a full testimony to the historical developments before and after World War I, was been brought back to life in August 1998 by the efforts of President of the Council of Ministers Mr. Rafic Hariri. He wanted the Grand Serail to become again the symbol of pride and honor of historic Beirut and to be a witness to major events for years to come.
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"We are excited to work with Dr. Jordan and Dr. Olson in the year ahead on their projects. The Engaged Scholarship Funding Program's aim is to implement Iowa State University's motto of science with practice to benefit the researchers and Iowans in their communities," said Debra Sellers, Human Sciences Extension and Outreach director and an associate dean in the College of Human Sciences.
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(05-12) 12:03 PDT SAN PABLO -- A man was killed in a drive-by shooting in San Pablo, police said Monday.
Michael Kelly, 20, of San Pablo was found shot outside a home on the 1300 block of Stanton Avenue about 9 p.m. Saturday. He died at the scene.
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By Lem Satterfield
Southpaw junior middleweight Austin Trout was entering the ring for the first time in 15 months on February 5, doing so against Mexican interim WBA titlist Rigoburto Alvarez before Alvarez's partisan fans at the Arena Colseo in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The 33-year-old brother of 20-year-old rising super star, Saul Alvarez (36-0-2, 26 knockouts), Rigoburto was after his fourth straight victory and his third knockout during that run since having been stopped, himself, by Marco Antonio Rubio in the ninth round in January of 2010.
But the 25-year-old Trout proved himself up to the challenge, thoroughly out-boxing Alvarez for a 12-round unanimous decision that earned Trout the vacant WBA belt while also improving his mark to 22-0 with 13 knockouts in his first bout since a November, 2009, 12-round unanimous decision over Taronze Washington.
Trout won, 119-108, respectively, on the cards of Raul Caiz Sr., Stanley Christodoulou, and, Luis Pabon, who as also the referee in what was a near shutout for the champion.
In victory, Trout hopes to have thrust himself in to conversations that may yet set up bouts opposite WBA super world titlist Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KOs), IBF champ Cornelius Bundrage (30-4, 18 KOs), WBO belt-holder Sergei Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KOs) or WBC king Saul Alvarez.
Like practically everyone in boxing, of course, Trout would like to meet eight-division king Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38
KOs), who will defend his WBO welterweight belt against Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs) on May 7 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
A resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico, which is about 20 minutes from the boarder of Juarez, Mexido, Trout spoke to FanHouse in this Q&A.
BoxingScene.com: So how are you feeling nowadays, champ?
Austin Trout: I'm pretty good, man. I'm just here at home trying to make my kids some dinner. I've got three kids. My son, Elijah, is 3, my youngest daughter, Charlotte, is a year old, and my oldest daughter, Kaira, is 8 years old.
I about to make them some noodles and fish sticks.
BoxingScene.com: How does raising and cooking dinner for children compare to training for a boxing match?
Austin Trout: Man, you know, I would say that training is easy compared to raising children. So, you know, training, basically, it's the same routine every day. But you know, these kids, they change every day. They've got needs and wants and things like that.
But hey, it's the toughest, hardest and most difficult job that you will ever love. When my daughter was born, that changed everything. You've got to be tough on them, but at the same time, my first born, that's the one who gets it the hardest, because she's got to be the example for the other two.
BoxingScene.com: So how long have you been a boxer?
Austin Trout: I've been boxing since I was 10, so, you know, it's been about 15, going on 16 years that I've been boxing. It's not getting old. In fact, with this championship I just one, it's like I've got this brand new set of wheels. You know, it has taken me a long time to get this world title shot.
I was getting burned out on the politics of the sport. So it's refreshing to have this title. I'm still very excited to fight. It's better than sitting back and having to watch everyone else get fights.
BoxingScene.com: So you feel as though defeating Rigoburto Alvarez has breathed new life into your career?
Austin Trout: Yeah, definitely. First of all, just to get that title shot, I had to wait a year and some months as the mandatory. So, if anything, that waiting business is done with. I'm just excited to be able to fight whenever and whoever I want to, you know what I mean? It had been longer than a year. It was a year and a half sitting their waiting for this other cat.
I was just dealing with the politics. But now that I'm done with that whole waiting stuff, I'm so excited just to get back into the ring. If these big name fights ain't going to happen, then we don't have to wait any more. We can just fight. I don't have a mandatory due right now, so I can talk to whoever we want.
I just want to defend it.
BoxingScene.com: Who would your dream fights be against if you could chose them right now?
Austin Trout: Well, of course, it would be Miguel Cotto. That would be my dream pick. My second dream pick would be Saul Alvarez, if I could get him into the ring. Going down the list, my third dream pick would Cornelius Bundrage, because, you know, he's got that IBF title. Who knows, man.
I'm going after belts, man, because I'm trying to be the undefeated and undisputed junior middleweight champion. I mean, I'm not too good to fight anybody. I'm just trying to fight anybody to make the money I need to make. And if using this belt is going to do that for me, then, by golly, that's what I'm going to do.
BoxingScene.com: What are your thoughts on Saul Alvarez's becoming the WBC champion by defeating Matthew Hatton?
Austin Trout: What did I think of that? That was politics at its best. But, you know, hey, neither fighter had ever campaigned as a junior middleweight by fighting at 154 pounds if I'm not mistaken.
People can say that me being WBA champion was politics at its best, but, at least, I fought at the weight before I won the belt at that weight.
But, if anything, it was politics that was keeping me from winning the title. But I could see how people would say, 'hey, who are you as the champion?, or, who did you fight?' So, I'm not going to spend too much time criticizing Canelo on getting a belt. They just gave him the opportunity and he took advantage of it.
BoxingScene.com: What did you think of Saul Alvarez's performance against Matthew Hatton?
Austin Trout: He looked good, I thought. As good as you should against Matthew Hatton, I guess. He should have knocked him out, but he won. And he looked decent doing it. Personally, though, I'm not impressed by Saul Alvarez. But as a fan, it was fun to watch.
BoxingScene.com: How does a fight between you and Miguel Cotto go?
Austin Trout: Oh, my way. I would box the hell out of him until he runs into something vicious. That's how I feel like it would go. But being in the ring with him, that's the easy part. The hard part is getting Miguel Cotto into the ring against me. It would be about all of the politics and the B.S. that I would have to deal with just to get the fight.
That's the hard part.
BoxingScene.com: How about a fight between you and Saul Alvarez?
Austin Trout: You know, he's strong, and he's tough, but, again, I'm a better all around fighter, I think, and I would out-box him for the early part of the fight. And then, he would be gun-shy during the final part of the fight, and I would turn my boxing into aggression. Then, I would just take him out.
BoxingScene.com: What do you think of Saul Alvarez's goal of fighting Manny Pacquiao?
Austin Trout: I believe that that would definitely be a bad career move for Canelo. Manny Paquiao would give him too many angles, you know, because Canelo is kind of one-dimensional.
I'm not saying that Manny has the best footwork in the world, but he does have good footwork, and Alvarez just goes forward.
BoxingScene.com: How about you and Manny Pacquiao?
Austin Trout: I think that a fight between me and Manny Pacquiao, you know, not just tooting my own horn, but I think that I can beat Manny Pacquiao. If you notice, they've been feeding him all of the killers that come straight forward and they can't move too good side-to-side.
Manny Pacquiao just angles them to death. But I think that I have just as good of footwork as Manny, and, you know, with the right training camp, I'm not saying that it would be easy, but I think that I could beat him.
BoxingScene.com: Do you respect Saul Alvarez's punching power?
Austin Trout: Yeah, I mean, they all do. All of the top guys in my weight class have the sort of punching power that I would need to respect. But I'm not afraid of it and I'm not running from it. I mean, I'm ready for anything that they can throw at me, that is, if they can catch me.
BoxingScene.com: What do you feel are your advantages over Saul Alvarez?
Austin Trout: I'm just a smarter fighter. I think I have an advantage in adaptablity. I think that I'm faster than him if not stronger than he is. Like I said, I think I'm just a smarter fighter.
BoxingScene.com: Do you think that you could win a decision over Saul Avarez if the fight were to happen in Mexico?
Austin Trout: If they give me fair judges and neutral judges, then why not. I know that they love him there, but I'm not beyond going to his home town to fight him. You know, I've got a lot to prove. Just because I've got this world title doesn't mean that I'm done proving my point.
As a matter of fact, the world title is only going to help me to get into position to be able to prove my point.
BoxingScene.com: How do you believe that the atmosphere surround your victory over Rigoburto Alvarez prepared you for potentially big bouts in hostile territory in the future?
Austin Trout: I think that I would handle those situations just fine. In order to go and get the title, I had to go into hostile territory. I had to go into Saul Alvarez's brother's home town of Guadalajara, and it was the same thing. The booers in the crowd and the commentators were against me.
But I just used all of that as motivation. The crowd was booing me and I was motivated to shut them up. It was all an inspiration to me. From the ring walk all the way into the ring, I felt immediately that the atmosphere was not in my favor.
As soon as I came out, they were yelling at me and booing me. But I was fine with all of that. I got into the ring determined to shut the crowd up, you know what I mean. It fired me up. As soon as the bell rang, I started establishing the jab. His whole game plan was supposed to apply pressure on me.
From bell to bell, that's what he said that he was going to do. He was supposed to be on me and pressuring me, and I was waiting for it. So I threw the jab and landed counters and, from his standpoint, nothing was happening.
BoxingScene.com: So how did the fight go from there?
Austin Trout: By the middle rounds, I started to stand him up with the straight left a little bit. I tried to bait him to come forward. Nothing happened. In the third or fourth round, I had figured that this guy was not coming and I was going to have to go to him. So I kept working the jab and starting to let my hands go.
I was hitting him with good, three, and, four-punch combinations. I believe that I hurt him one time in the fourth round. Rounds five and six, I just kept dominating him. In about the eighth or ninth rounds, I figured he just wasn't coming forward, so I was going to try to take him out. I tried to let my hands go even more.
But there was something that just wasn't right, and I blame that on ring rust. I wasn't as sharp. But in the 11th round, I had him hurt badly and went for the kill, but the bell rang. Last round, I came out, my manager told me to just box, even though I was trying to knock him out because I didn't want to risk getting a bum decision.
So I was swinging away and I had him hurt a couple of times, but he's a strong guy and I couldn't put him down.
BoxingScene.com: Were you overall pleased with your performance?
Austin Trout: It helped me to get that experience in Guadalajara, because that might be where Canelo wants it. I'm just imagining that that's where it might be if a fight between us pans out. For the people in Guadalajara, you know, not that they've seen me, they might not be so bitter the next time. Because when I got into the ring at first, they were booing me.
But when I left it, they were cheering me. The experience of going into someone else's hometown and to take on the boos and the negativity and to come out victorious, you know, now I know that it can be done.
The fact that I went over there to fight and to beat him, that sends a message to all of those people in my weight class that I'm not playing around. I think that it would have made a more impressive statement if I had knocked him out, but it shows that I will go into your home town and and take the title from from you if I have to.
I feel like the man should not have even been in the ring with me, but since I didn't knock him out, maybe people will continue to underestimate me and then make the mistake of getting into the ring against me. That still helps me out, because I just want to fight the best and to be the best.


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