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Spa Valley Railway » Children's Events
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Christmas at the Spa Valley Railway starts at Eridge Station where visitors are met with the smell of hot chestnuts and a roaring coal fire in the festively decorated waiting room. To get you into the festive spirit, located inside our Waiting Room will be our two popular face painters ready to decorate your cheeks with Christmas trees or snowmen!
You will board your Steam Santa Special hauled train to the strains of traditional Christmas music, then sit back and enjoy a ride through the winter countryside to Tunbridge Wells West. During the journey Santa will visit every child on board the train with a gift for all those good boys and girls so make sure you're well behaved! Listen for the peep of a whistle and the chuff from the Steam engines chimney as they make their way up the line.
The train journey to Tunbridge Wells West will last around 40-45 minutes where upon arrival Santa will disembark from the train to make his way into our Victorian engine shed where his sleigh can be found. You will have approximately 40 minutes at Tunbridge Wells West where you can sit with Santa in his sleigh for photos, view our spectacular Christmas tree, watch the model trains go round (subject to a small 50p charge), view traditional Christmas shows in our small cinema and also play on the Victorian penny machines. An opportunity for a photograph with the Steam engine is one you shouldn't miss either!
Prior to departure you will be able to visit our well stocked shop and pick up those all-important Christmas gifts, the return journey to Eridge will take approximately 20 minutes.
All Santa Specials at the Spa Valley Railway are hauled by a Steam Locomotive from Eridge to Tunbridge Wells and a Heritage Diesel Locomotive from Tunbridge Wells back to Eridge. For 2018 we are delighted to announce the visit of Great Western Railway Steam Locomotive No. 813 for our Santa Special season, supported by Hunslet Steam Locomotive No. 1982 'Ring Haw'.
Please note all steam and heritage diesel locomotives are subject to availability.
How to book?
• Please select the date & time you wish to travel on the left hand side of the page.
• Once you have selected the date you wish to travel please select the tickets you require by using the drop down box for the correct number you require. If you need more than 10 you will be able to amend this on the shopping cart page.
• You must then select your seats, the booking will not complete unless you select your seats correctly.
• Once you have selected your seats you must click 'save seat allocations'.
• You can then click 'Checkout'.
• Enter the required information and make sure you have a card or PayPal login ready for payment afterwards as otherwise the system will not accept your booking.
• lf you selected e-Ticket, you will receive them in an email shortly afterwards to the email address you have provided. If you selected printed and posted these will be sent out by our provider Wilsons much closer to the event.
All Spa Valley Railway Santa Specials are run by dedicated and hardworking volunteers.
If you select an e-ticket please ensure you print it off and bring it with you on the day!
Note that a £10 admin fee applies to all booking alterations.
For our full refund, cancellations and alterations please see here.
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Shops of the Colonnade
A Tisket A Tasket – 910 Decatur Street (504) 524-8482
Specialty bookstore & gift shop featuring Louisiana cookbooks, children books and regional books. Gift baskets are filled with New Orleans food products & local snacks. Gifts include recipe potholders, aprons, seasonings and more.
Aunt Sally's Praline Shop – 810 Decatur (504) 524-3373
Sample and see world famous Creole pralines in the making. Authoritative collection of New Orleans memorabilia, music, cookbooks, food and spices, cards and prints, gifts and more.
Baby One – 930 Decatur St. (504) 522-9918
Beautiful and cute clothing for the little one in your life.
Belle Louisiane – 832 Decatur (504) 523-7000
Packaged gift baskets, specialty coffees and an art gallery consisting of regional prints and posters.
City Sightseeing New Orleans – 700 Decatur Street (504)522-3173
Hop On Hop Off Open-Top Double-Decker Buses are rolling in New Orleans and they are a BIG hit! Ride all day for one price. Hop off at the one of our convenient stops and visit the attractions along the route!
Dutch Alley Artist's Co-Op – 912 N. Peters (504) 412-9220
An artist owned and operated co-operative gallery featuring the original works of 25 regional artists and designers. Each day, several of our artists work at the gallery, so you can met them! The gallery is located in the heart of a Louisiana Cultural District, so there is no sales tax on handcrafted, original art.
Take a virtual tour of Dutch Alley Artist's Co-Op by clicking HERE.
Evans Creole Candy Factory – 848 Decatur (504) 522-7111
Voted one of the 10 best candy shops in the United States by "Bon Appetit." Handmade pralines and assorted chocolates also hand-dipped on premises daily.
Galerie Cayenne – 702 Decatur (504) 585-1050
Fine Art with the spice of New Orleans featuring the creative works of Marcus Akinlana and Shakor. Come enjoy visual creations that depict the flavors, energy and muscial vibrations of New Orleans, sure to give you an essence of this wonderful city.
Gray Line Tours and Information 800 Decatur Street 504-569-1401
Locally owned and operated in New Orleans since 1924. Award winning unique tours include City Tours, Katrina, Ghosts & Spirits, Swamp & Bayou, Oak Alley & Laura Plantations, Jazz, Cemetery & Voodoo, French Quarter & Garden District Walking Tours, and the New Orleans Original Cocktail Tour. Bus or Walking – daytime to nighttime.
Head To Toe – 816 Decatur Street (504) 528-9000
Extraordinary accessories for women including designer handbags, jewelry,hats and scarves. Large selection of men's cuff links, ties, cummerbunds and hats. Beautiful children's handpainted nightgowns and much, much more!
The Little Toy Shop – 900 Decatur (504) 522-6588
Exceptional quality European toys and children's books. Collectible dolls and gifts.
Merry Christmas & All That Jazz – 820 Decatur (504) 522-7860
A wide variety of Christmas ornaments and gifts that can only be found in NOLA.
N'Awlins Sports – 916 Decatur Street (504) 581-3016
Features team jerseys, caps, coffee mugs and beer steins, and logos for most college, NFL, major league baseball and basketballs teams.
OMG! – 912B Decatur Street (504) 522-8443
Specializes in vintage statues, antique religious prints, one of a kind art and hand crafted items like Virgins Saints and Angels jewelry and Crossroads Pottery.
Pop City – 940 Decatur Street (504) 528-8559
Specialty shop selling locally produced merchandise to include women and men's casual apparel, collectible art and music, jewelry, locally published books geared toward the New Orleans genre, stationary, gift cards, make-up, soaps, and decorative housewares girt items.
Southern Candymakers – 1010 Decatur (504) 525-6170
We offer fresh, creamy praline samples. Southern Candymakers provides New Orleans, along with the rest of the country, delicious pralines, caramels, toffees, custom chocolates, gourmet novelties and more!
Voodoo Harley Davidson – 812 Decatur (504) 736-9600
Licensed Harley-Davidson merchandise such as riding gear (including helmets, gloves, jackets and boots); designer apparel, general merchandise including clothing, signage and licensed Harley Davidson novelty products; and special order merchandise such as pool tables, lighting, dart boards and furniture. 504-561-0263.
WhatsNew – 824 Decatur Street (504) 586-2095
Home accessories with a New Orleans flair, including a wide selection of fleur de lis items and locally maded products; lamps by Flabeaux, seafood platters and dishes by Tika, pewter wear by Jon Margeaux and Italian clay serving ware by Abigail's to name a few.
Shops of the Upper Pontalba
A Simpler Time–518 Saint Peter Street (888) 851-9088
Nostalgic art, decor, vintage signs and gifts.
Cellas Boutique – 514 Saint Peter Street
Cella's Boutique is a fashion-forward women's boutique specializing in excellent priced, high-quality clothing, along with unique and intricate jewelry. Also rich in accessories, it provides colorful scarves and fashionable footwear for every occasion!
Muse, Inspired Fashion – 532 Saint Peter Street (504) 522-8738
MUSE, Inspired Fashions provides unique fashions for the Funky Diva and Metrosexual Male along with great customer support. Exclusive retailer for Virgin Saints and Angels jewelry, Old Gringo Boots and Desigual clothing.
NOLA Couture – 542 Saint Peter Street
Synonymous with the city it is based in and draws inspiration from, NOLA Couture captures the classic, fun and whimsical style of the Crescent City. At the heart of our line, silk and ribbon items are adorned with cultural and culinary motifs such as Gulf Oysters, NOLAgators, Shrimp Cocktail, Second Line, Seafood Gumbo and the city's emblem, the Fleur de Lis. Preppy Gentlemen and Ladies accessories, seersucker, as well as Ladies Ready To Wear pieces will take you from an outdoor festival to the country club to Frenchman Street in style. Making sure not to leave anyone out, children and dogs can also show off their fashion sense with NOLA Couture accessories.
Ooh Lala – 524 St. Peter Street (504) 522-7554
Ooh Lala is a New Orleans gallery specializing in contemporary jewelry and art. Find playful, collectible pieces made with Swarovski crystals and Murano blown glass, fanciful Venetian masks, Judaica and more.
Rendezvous Linen and Lace – 522 Saint Peter Street (504) 522-0225
New items created from lace embroidered 20-40 years ago.
THE FUDGERY 631 Decatur St (504) 218-8610
Crafts Bazaar
Located between St. Phillip and Ursulines Street, next to historic Latrobe Park and across the street from the entrance to the Farmers Market.
Lalosh Silver – 1022-23 N. Peters Street (504) 913-0987
Handmade Jewelry.
Latin's Hand – 1025 N. Peters (504) 529-5254
Welcome to the world of Latin's Hand. Authentic, primitive handcrafts from all over Latin America. Hammocks, Panama hats, leather handbags, cotton cloth, ceramic talavera, etc.
Motherland African Art – 1021 N. Peters (504) 522-0722
A divine atmosphere and feeling of being in Africa! Artifacts, wonderful carvings made from wood, exotic oils and much more!
Community Flea Market
At Barracks and N. Peters Street near the Old U.S. Mint
Merchants from all over the world bring their wares to an open-air shopper's paradise in the French Market's Community Flea Market. Traditional items such as clothing and antiques combine with art, jewelry and crafts to make this a market of diversity, a community of culture.
Open 7 days a week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
ATM, 2 locations
Liberty Bank & Trust Company
910-B Decatur (next to A Tisket a Tasket) & Flea Market ATM near Gov Nicholls
(by Flea Market offices)

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Dona Nobis Pacem ~ The Cabinet
**Many people who do not have blogs are also posting on Facebook/Twitter and not signing here. You can see the steady activity on the Peace Bloggers page or our Fan page. If you posted on FB you can also link it on the Mr. Linky below which would be most appreciated. I hope you are enjoying the peace globes. I'm seeing amazing and inspiring sights all over the globe.**
For weeks now I've thought of spring. Remembering scenes in my life that happened - only - in springtime. I wondered why. The images so strong as if I were re-living them again. I could smell spring. Touch spring. In my chilly foggy forest surroundings, a season I love most of all, I needed, I suppose, to feel spring.
So on my way to the potting shed I stopped at my patch of wild mums and descended upon them with the camera lens. They were waiting like old friends to give me a breath of spring.
It belonged to my Papa. It was his tool cabinet. It hung on the wall of the garage where he made things and sawed things and stored things in it; including the secret stash of chewing tobacco in a can in the corner beside nails and rags and oilcans. He made picture frames and tables, stools and odd furniture pieces. I made mud pies and tried to leave him be while he measured and thought hard. It was a steady stream of stirring inedible cuisine (some things have not changed, my friends), him spitting in the can while I tried not to look, sawdust, the swing of the hammer and the sound of my grandmother's voice trying to shout above the bzzzz bzzzz saw that supper was ready and we'd better wash up.
He'd scoop me up in his grease covered arms and let me do my favorite thing of all: I got to close the wooden latch.
At that moment a large gust of wind starting spinning Bloggingham's trees above the A-line roof of the shed, branches swaying heavily above me soaring and tall in the blue sky while the bam bam bam of acorn bullets descended upon the roof at the same time above my head. Yow! It scared me so I ran out the door. Find the wild mum patch, Mimi! Mums aren't scary. Don't you go back in that building. That was a sign I tell ya, a sign!
To be builders of peace it isn't enough to declare it so, will it so, pray it so or blog it so. In between the words, which indeed are powerful ideas and mantras, we have an arsenal of tools at our disposal just begging to be utilized for good. Some have been lying around for years but all we want to do is talk about them. We're too busy sometimes to actually pick up a nail and pick a spot - any spot - to inhabit peacefully in our world. To make it better for someone we don't even know. We don't see that the lack of connectedness in one person brings the whole planet into a state of perpetual lack. And how one area of unrest brings the whole planet into jeopardy. Cause I'm here to tell ya...it's easy to cohabitate peacefully with people you love. But it's darn near impossible to build peace with perfect strangers across a ragged world of war.
Yet peace builders we must be with weapons of saws and plowshares.
In the meantime...we need sowers of seeds for crops of food and medicine, laboring hands to shingle roofs, diggers of wells and drillers of land, mattocks and shovelers, sweepers of oceans and singers to soothe those who can't understand this peace you say in front of their hungry children. We have to pick them up - these building tools - and make them happen in our homes and communities before we can expect anyone to buy into a word we're saying on the subject of peace. Then and only then can we call ourselves peacemakers. In my own personal space of planet Earth I will hold myself to that standard. I will try. I will try. But I don't believe it will take the world as long to arrive at the inevitable wisdom of peace as it did to lunge into the abyss of universal war. It seems to me that the tide of consciousness and awareness is turning.
But it won't last unless we get out of the realm of consciousness-raising and into the physical realm of working the work with more than manifestos. You all know how firmly I believe that words are powerful - but they are not the only tools we have. I have no trouble nailing my purpose to the plate with words. It is who I am. It's a bit more daunting to get my skirt dirty with your problems when I have a world of my own.
Have you ever noticed that in the cold dead winter of warring with someone, there comes a time when you just get tired of warring and you wonder, "Isn't there a better way?" Do I think there are people hellbent on destruction for the sake of destruction? Yes. Do I see and understand that not everyone in the world wants to go searching for spring? Yes. But I have to hope that somehow deep down even in the hearts of evil men lies a human seed of desire for survival. And if they can't reach peace for any other reason than that, then so be it. Because we're on a collision course that peace treaties and scribbled sanctions can't fix. The heart of man has to change...and that is nothing akin to changing our minds. It goes as deep as long-grained wood. That brand of human evolution requires that we sometimes allow the other person to open the door and sometimes we must allow them to lift us up to reach the door.
When my grandfather began a new project, he first chose the strongest of materials, the most sturdy wood. He knew that to lay a foundation on anything else was a waste of time. He knew that building things without the proper tools was a recipe for destruction. Then he threw in his ingredients: Solitude. Contemplation. Pride. Patience. Hard work. And a sense of service. He didn't build things to sell. Giving them away gave him great pleasure.
I was reminded by a friend today that it's good to use the tools of our fathers and grandfathers. There is something organic about it. I hope as the world churns and turns toward a new season, that we don't discard the hard-won sacrifices made before our time nor the wisdom those experiences bring to the table of peace building.
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A Simple Way To Make A Complex Part With Tools You Probably Already Own
One of my favorite books happens to be one of the most specific. It also has one of the most economical titles: Dashboards.
It's hardly more than a picture book, but boy, what a piece. In it, photographer David Holland examines some of the most significant cars in the world, not by their bodies but by their dashboards. As Formula 1 race car designer Gordon Murray explains in his foreword, the dashboard—probably the single most complex part of a car until recent years—represents a vehicle in the most concise terms. And the book showcases a range of examples, from the modesty of the Model T and its lonely ammeter to the ornate complexity of the panel in a '26 Blower Bentley. One glance of each dashboard reveals the function of its vehicle: the Ford, frugal utility; the Bentley, speed.
Bentley may be far afield for most of us but the cars we build borrow from both camps: We're essentially Bentley buffs on a Ford budget. And whether or not we know it, our dashboards also reveal the way we feel about our cars. A flat dash adorned with flavor-of-the-month gauges speaks volumes of a car's owner.
Mike Bach feels pretty passionately about his latest car, a '33 roadster. Though he got it as a really nice, well-crafted car, he asked Marshall Woolery at Thun Field Rod & Custom to update it. Actually, he asked him to backdate it with a stock chassis and then modify it to post-war standards. He said he thought it natural for the car to have a dash that represented its new soul. Gauge guru Pat Swanson had just the ticket: authentic Stewart-Warner winged-logo gauges in a '31 Cadillac panel.
It isn't easy to change a Model 40 dash to accommodate any panel, much less one from a luxury car. Unlike a Deuce dash it isn't basically flat across its midsection; a large raised area cleaves the dash right down its center. Worse yet, the dash narrows across the middle.
But being simple cars, Fords have pretty simple dashes. This one mounts to an arched flange on the bottom side of the cowl. So as Woolery put it, making a new dash is far easier than modifying an existing one. In his approximation it's almost a 101-level project. As he estimated: "Anyone with half a brain in their head should be able to knock something like this out." To prove his point he built another dash, this one for us to photograph.
It really is a straightforward process. He used a simple hammer-forming technique: sandwich a steel sheet (16 gauge in this case) between two pieces of subfloor plywood and incrementally fold over the edges with a hammer. The process does call upon shrinking techniques to flatten the flanges where they pucker around radiuses, but even that's a simple process explained in most beginning metalshaping books. An acetylene kit isn't even necessary; a regular propane or MAPP-gas torch would suffice to heat the metal. In fact, this is a no-welding exercise.
The dash that emerges honors the car's heritage and its modifications. At the very least, it beats the pants off a set of generic gauges drilled into a flat dash.


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For a week with no UFC event, this was a busy one in the MMA universe.
This week, the TMB looks at the bizarrely fascinating relationship between "pampered" Georges St-Pierre and "uneducated fool" Nick Diaz, as well the questions surrounding MMA's first transgender fighter, Brian Stann's career prospects, Mark Hunt's level of relative down-ness, and so much more.
Got a question of your own? Cool, I'm on Twitter. Hit me up: @BenFowlkesMMA.
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@benfowlkesmma Is GSP/Diaz a perfect example of "bad blood" having an expiration date? It's been so long, is this really a grudge match?#tmb
— Matt Murray (@mbmurray) March 6, 2013
In fairness to Matt, he asked this question before Thursday's UFC 158 media call. I also wrote out an answer before that call, which featured Nick Diaz throwing around MF-bombs like he was auditioning for the next "Kings of Comedy" tour, and Georges St-Pierre waffling between confused and upset at his opponent's bizarre, yet somehow not unexpected behavior. In light of those recent events, I would like to revise my answer now. My new answer is no, the bad blood has not expired, and yes, this really is a grudge match. And it's not the usual kind of grudge match either, where two people simply don't get along. It's a grudge match of completely different philosophies, different ways of life, different everything. It's not even two people who hate each other so much as two people who can't possibly understand each other. Is the MMA world interested in seeing a fight like that? To quote Diaz, "I hope so, motherf—er!"
@benfowlkesmma do you see GSP securing a decision or taking larger risks to finish Diaz? George tends to keep emotions in check
— Mark Bone (@markandrewbone) March 8, 2013
I'll admit there was a moment there on the UFC 158 media call — probably right around the time GSP started a sentence with "Let me tell you something, uneducated fool…" — where it seemed like the champ was finally going to lose his cool. It didn't quite happen, but it did give us a glimpse of what Diaz might be capable of bringing out in GSP. Like you pointed out, St-Pierre isn't one to let his emotions take over. But maybe that's why Diaz is the perfect rival for him. He's so coldly analytical, almost robotic, that Diaz's baffling and internally inconsistent world view might just cause a short circuit. When a person praises you one minute, criticizes you for the very same things the next, then curses you before sounding genuinely wounded that you might want to hurt him, what are you supposed to do with that? My guess is the answer is still: take him down and elbow him in the face for five rounds. But at least now we're all paying attention.
@benfowlkesmma #TMB How can a transgender "woman" be allowed to fight in MMA, against woman? There is an obvious advantage for "her", right?
— Ryan Meleedy (@rmeleedy) March 6, 2013
First of all, let's not put her in quotes when we refer to a transgender woman. You go through years of hormone treatments, get gender reassignment surgery, deal with what can't be an easy situation with your friends and family, and you have undoubtedly earned the right to sincere pronoun use. Nobody goes through all that on a whim, just because they woke up one morning and felt like a change, or because they want to totally rule at women's sports. It's a process that would be intolerable to most of us, and you'd only do it if not doing it seems even more intolerable to you.
Fallon Fox is a woman. No quotes.
As for the question of whether she retains any physiological advantages of having been born a male, I'll point you to an article by Steph Daniels at Bloody Elbow, who talked to a couple experts in the field about exactly what happens to a person's body as a result of this transition. The "tl;dr" version: muscle mass and bone density both decrease after years of hormone treatments, and as a result "she probably does not have a significant advantage, if any at all."
That "probably" matters. It's the kind of thing that we'd want the state athletic commissions to be keeping an eye on, making sure that trans fighters are maintaining the proper hormone levels and not gaining an unfair advantage, either deliberately or accidentally. In order to do that, state athletic commissions need to know when they're dealing with a trans fighter, and Fox admits that she did not inform the Florida commission because, according to Loretta Hunt's SI.com story: "If she'd revealed her status, there was a chance she could have been asked to sit out the March 2 fight to give the commission more time to review her application. After months of grueling training and sacrifice, Fallon simply wanted to fight. She wanted to seize the opportunity she felt she'd earned."
If you can fault Fox and her team for anything, it's this. You shouldn't get to withhold important medical information from the commission just because you're worried about the potential consequences of disclosing it, or because you feel you've earned the right to fight. That's one of the reasons why we have commissions, because we don't want to take the fighter's word for it that they deserve to fight. Fox can argue that the Florida commission didn't specifically ask for that information, or provide her with an easy way to disclose it on the forms, but that minimizes her own responsibility. We're told that she meets the requirements to compete as a woman in the Olympics or in the LPGA. But in order to verify that, most regulatory bodies require a lot more medical documentation from trans athletes. After all, how do you know the person has wiped out any potential hormonal advantage if they don't show you the paperwork from the endocrinologist that proves it?
It seems like Fox didn't want to go through all that here. She wanted to fight, to be treated like any other woman, and that's understandable to some extent. She has the same right to medical privacy that any other fighter does, but that privacy shields her from us. It doesn't entitle her to withhold relevant medical information from the commission. I don't necessarily think Fox is benefitting from an unfair advantage, but I also think we have to give the commission the ability to make that determination, even if it's temporarily inconvenient for Fox. Whether she should have told her opponents, if only as a matter of professional courtesy, is debatable. She was under no legal obligation to, but I can understand how other female fighters might feel like, as a matter of etiquette and ethics, it was the right thing to do. At least in Fox's case, it's a moot point now. Everyone in women's MMA knows her story. It's just a question of how they'll react to it.
@benfowlkesmma Struve is called many things: A prospect, rare hvy w/ cardio and BJJ, & having a glass jaw. Fair or just bad habits? #TMB
— Baltasar Shepard (@BaltasarShepard) March 4, 2013
I'm not sure how long Stefan Struve gets to hold onto the moniker of prospect, especially when he keeps showing the same defects over and over again. He's 25 years old and has been fighting in the UFC for four years now. I get that he started young and a lot of people are still waiting for him to grow into his frame, but at this point we've seen enough to draw some conclusions about him. For instance, we know that while he can pull off a submission from his back and he doesn't mind getting bloody on the feet, he has a suspect chin. All four of his UFC losses have come via knockout. Granted, they were all against heavy-hitters, but what do you expect at heavyweight? A seven-footer who can't keep shorter opponents at a distance is going to end up eating some punches. Struve either has to get better at taking shots or avoiding them, and preferably sooner rather than later. I know he's still young and feels like he has time to develop, but this sport is a lot like the used car business: it's not just the years that matter, it's the miles.
@benfowlkesmma Matt Riddle's statements today: real talk, career suicide, or a bit of both? #tmb
— Logan Smith (@LoganasaurusRex) March 4, 2013
By today, I assume you mean Monday, when Riddle went on the deceptively named "MMA Hour" with Ariel Helwani and went all Lyndon Johnson, claiming that he would not seek, nor would he accept another contract with the UFC. As if worried that the UFC might try and tempt him back anyway, he also threw in some comments about the UFC's "hypocritical" punishments for drug offenses, voiced suspicion of his own "fishy" marijuana test in England, and criticized the UFC for "firing high-level talent so they can have lower level talent just scrap." If that bridge isn't all the way burned yet, it is at least severely scorched.
Look, I don't think Riddle should have been fired for coming up positive for a harmless drug he has permission to use in his home state of Nevada. I don't think we should even bother testing pro athletes for marijuana, since it's not a performance-enhancer and it remains detectable in urine tests long after it's active. It seems outrageous that known steroid users can get permission to inject testosterone, but a dude with an anxiety disorder (or whatever) can't light up a joint three weeks before his fight. At the same time, Riddle is not doing himself any favors right now. I respect him for standing up for what he believes in (even if what he believes in is smoking weed several times a day), but it wouldn't hurt his long-term career prospects to be a little more diplomatic about it. It might also make him a better spokesman for the cause of weed in MMA, which is a battle worth fighting.
I'm worried that Brazil is becoming England, where the UFC makes sh*tty cards, because they sell regardless. Thoughts?#TMB @benfowlkesmma
— João Vitor Xavier (@joaovxavier) March 6, 2013
The complaint I hear from British fight fans is not just about the quality of the UFC fight cards they see, but also about the number. Last year Brazil hosted three UFC events. England got one. Also, Brazil's 2012 events included fighters like Anderson Silva, Jose Aldo, and Wanderlei Silva. England got Stefan Struve and Stipe Miocic. My point is, it could be worse. Think of your poor, unfortunate mates in the U.K. before you go crying in your acai smoothie, my friend.
@benfowlkesmma whats next 4 brian stann he's one of the most xciting fighters in the MW but he's 6-6 in the ufc would he become a gatekeeper
— Cyborg Sisniega (@BadBoy2312) March 6, 2013
According to my math, Stann is actually 6-5 in the UFC after the loss to Silva, but I see your point. Stann has said several times that he doesn't want to become one of those fighters who hangs around just to slug it out for a paycheck in one meaningless brawl after another. On one hand, that kind of seems like a shame, especially considering how well suited he is to putting on exactly those types of fights. On the other hand, I listen to Stann talk for five minutes and I feel like making a contribution to the Senate campaign he has yet to launch, so clearly this is a man who could do plenty of other things.
Do I see Stann becoming UFC middleweight champion? I do not. That doesn't mean I wouldn't want to see him keep fighting, but I would totally understand if he decided to walk away with his brain intact and his career options wide open. In fact, I might prefer it that way, but that might just be because I'm still holding out hope that he'll hire me as his speechwriter a few years from now.
@benfowlkesmma As a singular moment, whose kick is more spectacular, the famous ones from @showtimepettis or @edsonbarbozajr?
— Stu Opperman, APR (@stuopperman) March 6, 2013
That's a tough one. Anthony Pettis' kick was more creative, but Edson Barboza's was a brutal fight-ender. Pettis' kick also came in the fifth round of a very close title fight, and that shows panache. Much like John Malkovich's character in "In The Line of Fire," I'm a man who respects a little panache. Give me the Showtime Kick any day.
@benfowlkesmma What do you think of weekly Wednesday shows on Fox? Overexposure or a great platform to showcase up and coming guys?
— Walker Harris (@thewalkerharris) March 6, 2013
Mainly I'm concerned with what UFC events on FOX Sports 1 will do to the UFC's already complex naming conventions. Are we going to end up trying to talk to each other about an event called UFC on FOX Sports 1 6 at some point in the near future? Because to a non-fan eavesdropping on our conversations in a bar, we already sound like big enough weirdos as it is, sitting around and arguing about whether "Rampage" had a better prime than "Cro Cop."
As far as the actual content of the shows, I'm actually glad to see occasional mid-week UFC events come back. One of the things that has hurt the UFC is not just the sheer number of events, but also the number of Saturday nights it asks fans to give up just to follow the sport. When you're dealing with a primarily young, primarily male audience, you can't expect them to devote every single weekend night to sitting on the couch. If you want to find space in the calendar to cram in more MMA — and, in the process, give your fighters more opportunities to fight and get paid — Wednesday seems a good fit. Not to mention, anything that keeps fight fans on Twitter from constantly complaining about how they don't get FUEL TV is a win in my book.
@benfowlkesmma Are PEDs common and useful in the writing biz? Which ones? #TMB
— Billy Young (@dynamiteBdog) March 6, 2013
Let's just say that if you announced a surprise test for coffee metabolites (or, in John Morgan's case, 5-Hour Energy), you'd see a lot of nervous faces on press row.
@benfowlkesmma Where would Chael have ranked in the LHW rankings if he had been included there rather than at MW?
— Ryan Denison (@rdenison13) March 6, 2013
OK, let's talk rankings. As most of you already know, we here at MMAjunkie.com and USA Today released our own rankings recently, which immediately prompted the usual poopstorm of complaints and tortured math debates that we've come to expect whenever we start trying to put numbers next to fighters' names. I know some people love having rankings arguments. I'm not one of them. The difficulties posed by Chael Sonnen's situation highlight one of many reasons why.
Sonnen is a light heavyweight now. We know because he says so, and also because he is slated to fight for the UFC light heavyweight title next month, even though he has never won a UFC fight at light heavyweight. So what are you supposed to do with the guy? The "official" UFC rankings have him as the number nine middleweight, which makes no sense when you consider that he has wins over the third and fourth-ranked middleweights. We have him as the number three middleweight, which is better but still feels like we're telling him that we don't believe he really is a light heavyweight, title shot or no.
That's what gets to me about rankings. It always ends up being so speculative. For instance, Frankie Edgar would definitely still beat a lot of guys in the lightweight top ten, even if his last fight was at featherweight. Should we save him a spot at 155 pounds, just like we're saving Sonnen's at 185? And if we do, should his wins and losses at featherweight affect his standing at lightweight? And do we really have to rank Antonio Silva ahead of Alistair Overeem and Travis Browne, both of whom seemed like they beat themselves in very different ways? And what about Vitor Belfort, who got an assist from synthetic testosterone in his last victory? How do we weigh all these different concerns and still remain fair to everyone?
At a certain point, we inevitably end up speculating on what a fighter has done or can do or will do or won't do. We're guessing, in other words, and that's when it starts to feel like we're having polar bear vs. mountain lion arguments. But hey, you guys seem to enjoy them (or enjoy hating them), so maybe it's just harmless fun.
@benfowlkesmma Chris Weidman getting his shot against Silva? Rightful number 1 contender getting a title shot?! What is this?!? #TMB
— ryan211 (@ryan211) March 6, 2013
Tell me about it. Maybe the UFC title shot pendulum is beginning to swing away from barely defensible money-makers and back toward rational contenders. Maybe. Hopefully.
@benfowlkesmma Agree or disagree: Personal feelings 4 Cruz aside, if the interim champ is the only 1 defending a belt he's the actual champ.
— Higgz (@UndercardNick) March 6, 2013
To be the man, you've got to beat the man. Unless Dominick Cruz dies or retires, he's the UFC bantamweight champ in my eyes. Renan Barao can defend his interim title all he likes, but until he fights Cruz he'll still just be the number one contender with a shiny gold trinket to prove it.
@benfowlkesmma You think it'd be a wise decision for Cruz to drop title at this point? This way he can take a "warmup" for his return. #TMB
— Brian (@LiqMiquchi) March 6, 2013
Actually, that's not a terrible idea. I can absolutely see why Cruz wouldn't be into it, but I agree that the biggest concern for him when (if?) he returns is ring rust. He's been out a long time, with prolonged periods of inactivity. Going from zero to Barao is a lot to ask of anybody.
@benfowlkesmma Simple one: WHo in your opinion is the best fighter outside of the UFC? Prospect or Champion.
— evan holober (@edubmma) March 6, 2013
Simple answer: Michael Chandler.
@benfowlkesmma what do you think is next for mark hunt is he ready for a #1 contender bout?
— josh chan (@joshuachan72) March 6, 2013
I would have thought he'd have a great case to replace an injured Alistair Overeem in a bout with Junior dos Santos, but that doesn't seem to be happening, for reasons that are, shall we say, murky. Though Hunt claims to have been "born down" when it comes to fighting (side note: don't even try and tell me you wouldn't buy his memoir, "Born Down: The Mark Hunt Story"), on Thursday UFC president Dana White wrote on his Twitter that Hunt had "turned down the fight with JDS as of last night." Hunt then denied that, and White later tweeted that he'd had a "GREAT conversation" over the phone with Hunt (having spoken with Hunt on the phone before, it's hard for me to imagine what a great conversation with him would even sound like, but fine), so now…yeah, I don't know. White has said he'll get a top 10 opponent next. Hunt has said he wants someone who is "top five, or whatever, man." I guess we'll see what kind of compromise they can reach, but I'd love to see Hunt against someone at or near the top of the division, if only to find out what this feel-good story is really made of. Or whatever, man.


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Dubai, Feb 13 : Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has revealed that though he is able to manage all the controversies surrounding him, publically, he does get disturbed by them on the personal front.
The 47-year-old said that publicly, the controversies don't bother him much but privately they are irritating and extremely hate-able, the Gulf News reported.
The `My Name Is Khan' star asserted that as an actor, the biggest boon and the biggest bane is that when you come out in front of public you have to act or just be happy.
He said that if he walks into a meeting where he is not smiling, there will be three other controversies and it is a negative take of being a successful actor as everybody wants him to be entertaining at any given time.
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I've spent time in both the sciences and the humanities. My primary interest is in what makes human beings produce poetry. I like to use text-processing tools like perl, sed and awk to solve problems, but I also have some experience with GIS and remote sensing.
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I work on the Tesserae Project, led by Dr. Neil Coffee, a search engine designed to locate allusion in Latin poetry, also for Becoming Poetics [journal | wiki page], a journal of poetics published by the Poetics Program.
My long-term project is an examination of the Homeric epos using authorship attribution methods. I've compared the Iliad to the Odyssey using a feature sets composed of n-grams at the phoneme level and classification with machine learning techniques. I'd like to look more closely at each poem to try to pick apart intrapoem heterogeneity. My goal is to be able to tie quantifiable observations to current oral-formulaic theory (particularly theory from a cognitive angle).
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Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer, "A Statistical Stylistic Study of Latin Elegiac Couplets." Poster presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Nov. 21–22, 2010. View abstract
Forstall, C., S. Jacobson, and W. Schierer, "Evidence of Intertextuality: Investigating Paul the Deacon's Angustae Vitae." Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2010, King's College London, UK, July 7–10, 2010. View abstract
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During one of the many memorable exchanges in 1986's "Stand by Me," naive Vern muses about a battle between Mighty Mouse and Superman.
Teddy, already hardened at age 12, sets his pal straight: "Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman is a real guy. No way a cartoon could beat up a real guy!"
"Yeah, maybe you're right," Vern responds. "It would be a good fight, though."
Fantasy "What-if" match-ups are a favorite battleground of geeks, a way to establish supremacy of fandom by using their knowledge-built theories to extend the story. But with the revolution in superhero flicks that began in 1978 with the buoyant "Superman," turned dark with "Batman" in 1989 and fully unleashed the Marvel universe in 2002 with "Spider-Man," intramural battles seem an almost logical cinematic next step.
Captain America and Iron Man are set to face-off in May in "Captain America: Civil War," which chronicles an Avengers schism sparked by ideological differences over government regulation of costumed do-gooders. But the Marvel superheroes are getting beaten to the punch by DC's two granddaddies of the comics with "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice," which hits theaters Friday.
Almost lost in the mix is Wonder Woman, who makes her modern-day big screen debut in what's shaping up as spring's first potential blockbuster.
The film has prompted enough hype to fill every theater in Metropolis and Gotham City, thanks, in part, to the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman. But main attraction is the marquee battle, spurred by Batman's concerns over the unchecked powers of the Krypton native, whose wars against bad guys have left a trail of destruction.
Such a fight would have been almost unimaginable in the white-bread DC comic book world of the 1950s, when "Stand by Me" was set. In the 1960s, Marvel's Stan Lee and Jack Kirby upended the superhero game by creating a slate of anti-heroes capable of feats of strength, but with feet of clay.
There are plenty of worthy villains out there, as recently evidenced by the "Avengers" movies. But fighting about ideas that carry real-life consequence represents a more internal – and sophisticated – struggle than mere good vs. evil. We're eons beyond kiddie favorites like Mighty Mouse, who, in an eight-minute cartoon, could save the day.
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Blakney Grabs School Record 26 Rebounds on Pink Zone
Farmingdale State - 71, Old Westbury - 65
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's
basketball team (20-0, 14-0 Skyline) trailed by three at the half,
but was able to hold off SUNY rival Old Westbury (11-11, 6-9) in
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Farmingdale, N.Y. Rams senior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn,
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The Panthers led 30-27 at the break and scored the first eight points to push the lead up to 11, before a 15-4 Farmingdale run, highlighted by a layup from sophomore guard Shemique Hooks (Westbury, N.Y./Westbury), gave the Rams a one-point lead, 44-43 with 12:50 left on the clock. Farmingdale pushed the lead to six, before freshman guard Krystina Agard (Queens, N.Y./August Martin) sank four free throws and freshman forward Abigail Williams (Brooklyn, N.Y./Frederick Douglas Academy) connected on a layup to tie the score at 49-49.
The Rams surged ahead to a 14-point advantage with a 19-4 run for a 68-54 lead with 4:05 remaining and would hold on for the conference win to increase their undefeated streak to 20 games.
Blakney's 24 points led the team, while senior guard Juanita Chappel (Brooklyn, N.Y./Grand Street Campus) scored 10 points and senior guard Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) scored eight points, eight rebounds and game-highs of six steals and three blocks.
Old Westbury was led by senior guard Carlie Moore (Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y./John S. Burke Catholic) with 24 points, Agard with 21 points, and senior guard Avery Josey (Staten Island, N.Y./Curtis) finished with 18 rebounds and 10 points.
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March 10, 2007
By Jeff Rabjohns
Indianapolis Star
March 10, 2007
Mehmed Hodzic greets a visitor at the front door of his two-story home with a warm handshake and a smile. He limps as he walks toward the living room, a constant reminder of wounds from the Bosnian war.
Hodzic stretches out in a leather chair, a few feet from photos of his son, Adnan, who is wearing a North Central High School basketball uniform.
Adnan, a 6-8 senior, is the starting center for the Panthers, who play today in the Class 4A regional at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Before basketball was even a part of the Hodzics' life, they had to escape war-torn Bosnia.
Adnan, his mother, Mevlida, and sister, Amina, were allowed on an emergency flight out of their home in Sarajevo in 1994. They arrived in the United States not knowing a word of English and carrying little other than clothes. Mehmed wasn't allowed to leave for another year.
"What they were willing to do to build a better life for their children is amazing," North Central basketball coach Doug Mitchell said. "I don't know if I could do it."
Before war broke out, Mehmed and Mevlida, both 43, had a wonderful life.
They lived in a nine-bedroom home in Sarajevo -- not uncommon in Europe, where extended families normally live together -- and had five cars. They had apple and cherry trees in their yard. The majestic Adriatic Sea coastline was a couple of hours away.
"We had a very nice life," Mevlida said. "Every year we would travel. We would go to Istanbul for the food. We had very good jobs. We were like lots of people."
When the siege of Sarajevo by Yugoslavian-led forces began in the spring of 1992, their world changed.
Electricity and water supplies were soon cut off. Food was scarce.
The Hodzics stacked cement blocks waist-high around their house to protect it against the constant grenade and mortar fire. Mehmed and other men established a system of 24-hour lookouts to watch for potential attacks on their homes.
"One night, one of them counted 5,000 grenades," Mehmed said. "Just boom, boom, boom, boom."
Adnan remembers the fear.
"You weren't sure if you were going to see your mom or dad or son or daughter the next day," he said. "That wasn't just us. That was everyone. You weren't sure if you were going to see the next day."
Mevlida struggles to speak of her parents, who were killed in the war. They weren't shot. They had their throats slit.
Mehmed, an engineer for a textile firm in Sarajevo, also was a professional soccer player in Bosnia. He was ordered into the Bosnian Army when war broke out.
On Oct. 10, 1992, he was riding with another soldier when the two spotted an old man hunched over in the street, holding what looked like a jug of water. They stopped to help the man, who had been shot. A machine gun opened fire. Mehmed was hit in the foot.
Leaving Sarajevo
The journey to America began in February 1994, nearly two years after the siege of Sarajevo. Adnan was in a hospital awaiting eye surgery after a childhood mishap when then President Clinton sent transport planes for people needing medical attention.
Mevlida and the children would be allowed to go. Mehmed would not. They had two hours to pack. They could take 10 pounds each.
Initially, they didn't want to go.
"If your family is split up, it's not the point of life anyway," Mevlida said. "At that time, we didn't think about us or anything. We had to save our children."
They were flown first to Frankfurt, Germany, and then to Columbus, Ohio, where Adnan had surgery. Two months later, a Bosnian contact brought them to Indianapolis.
The three lived in an apartment. None of them spoke English. Mevlida attended English classes three nights a week. She studied a dictionary during the day.
An architect in Sarajevo, she found a job as a cook at Cracker Barrel.
"If I see I could make something better for my children, I would do it," Mevlida said. "It was very difficult, but I know I'm doing this for my children."
Mehmed, after getting a passport, had to wait for four months in Croatia until he was able to join his family in Indianapolis.
Adjusting to America
After arriving home from practice one day this week, Adnan took a plate of chicken, a rice and spinach mix, and four pieces of bread upstairs to eat while doing homework.
His mom makes Bosnian sausage, a saute of fresh vegetables and more chicken for her, her husband and a guest. The smell of the robust flavors fills the first floor of the house.
Mehmed sits in the living room sipping Bosnian coffee -- made with the grounds in the water. He watches a Bosnian station he has on his satellite television package then flips over to the Louisville-West Virginia college basketball game.
Mehmed does maintenance for a hospital service while Mevlida still cooks for the restaurant and runs a cleaning service. Amina, 21, is a junior at IUPUI.
Adnan initially tried to play soccer but quickly realized he wasn't going to succeed at his father's game.
"I was just flat-out terrible," he said.
His introduction to basketball came when his father took him to a Pacers-Bulls game and pointed out Michael Jordan. Adnan soon had a Chicago Bulls Nerf hoop on his bedroom door.
He tried out for the basketball team in seventh grade and was cut. He tried out again in eighth grade and made it.
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Adnan has a 4.1 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. When he was 14, his dad bought him a scooter with a seat that lifted up so a basketball could fit.
Adnan became serious about weight-lifting and fitness -- he's up to nearly 240 pounds -- on the way to earning a basketball scholarship to NCAA Division I Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn.
Sometimes, he practiced even when he shouldn't have.
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Adnan says he plans to return to Bosnia one day, even though the economy is still battling back from the effects of the war.
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