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News Roundup: Newham's loan rate revealed, black hole in county finances, Islington's property company
by Colin Marrs
in 151 News
Newham loan rate revealed
London Borough of Newham has revealed the rate at which it converted its controversial Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBO) loans into fixed long term debt. Last year, the council announced that it had fixed the rate on £248m of its £563m LOBO portfolio, in a move it said would save £94m. Earlier this year, the council refused to reveal the rate through a Freedom of Information request, claiming it would "be likely to weaken Newham's bargaining position during future financial and contractual negotiations". However, documents released by the council this month show that the average rate of the newly fixed loans is 5.93%. This compares to 6.3% the council is currently paying on its remaining LOBOs and 4.29% it is paying on loans from the Public Works Loan Board. The figures show that the move saved the council £5m in 2016/17.
Counties face £2.54bn black hole
The funding black hole for county authorities will treble to £2.54bn in just four years' time, according to the County Councils Network (CCN). In an analysis prepared for the network's autumn budget submission, it found that each county on average will face an additional average funding gap of £70m by 2021, on top of planned service reductions. Social care accounts for £26m of this per authority, and £22m in implementing the new national living wage. Paul Carter, CCN chairman, said: "We are reaching a point where we are have to consider difficult, painful and unpopular decisions next year to deliver balanced budgets, which will reduce and remove frontline services highly valued by our residents. The government has said it is in listening mode, and I and my fellow county leaders, will be asking ministers across government that we need additional help and support in this budget or we will all face some very severe consequences in the future. The situation can't go on."
Teething problems for Islington property investment
A north London authority is facing short-term financial issues due to its commercial property investments. A report to Islington councillors has forecast a gross £1.3m overspend on its commercial property budget in 2017/18. The council is dealing with the issue by removing its administrative buildings maintenance contingency, limiting repairs to urgent issues, holding posts vacant and increasing income forecasts. The report said: "Commercial property income is expected to reach the target for it set in the medium-term financial strategy by 2019. However, this income, given the time needed to execute commercial projects, is heavily weighted to 2019 giving a cashflow pressure in 2017/18."
Enfield creates oversight regime for standalone companies
London Borough of Enfield has created new governance arrangements to ensure proper oversight of its standalone companies. The north London borough currently has five companies and is a partner in a joint venture with Norse Group. A new cabinet subcommittee will take on oversight responsibilities for all companies. A council report said: "This new structure will provide an overarching single reporting structure for the council to manage its entities and receive formal reporting between the companies (subsidiaries) and the council (parent company). This proposed structure will be more sustainable in the long term and reflect best practice."
Think tank reveals scale of council cuts
Spending on adult social care services is around 5% below 2009/10 levels, according to the Institute for Government. The thinktank's annual performance tracker found that real-terms net day-to-day spending on local trading standards services has fallen by a third; on libraries by 31%; on local food safety by 22%; and on waste collection by 19%. The IFG said: "The lack of data on the scope and quality of these services means that Whitehall—the Treasury, the Department for Communities and Local Government, and the departments which set local authorities' various statutory obligations—is unable to understand the performance of locally delivered services. It cannot be sure how much further efficiency savings can be achieved."
Housing companies create on-lending opportunities
Council-owned local housing companies (LHCs) offer a "triple dividend" in the form of much needed extra housing, a greater stewardship role in place-shaping and a financial return, according to new research. A report by the Smith Institute found that most councils expect their LHC to generate a profit, which can be re-invested into the housing company. Councils are also often generating income from 'on-lending' PWLB cash to their LHC, it found. The report said: "Many councils are clearly taking advantage of on-lending, but we were told by financial advisers that the most critical component is the terms of the loan agreement and the pre-conditions on draw down, as well as how the loan debt fits with other financing (including the terms of council land transfers and the forecast rental/sale revenue stream)."
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Meet Britain's finest veg producers: 'The herbs say "We're ready! Use us now!'"
Beccy and Sam Leach at their market garden at Wilding Farm
Photograph: Emli Bendixen/The Observer
On plots and farms across the country, these specialists grow beautiful vegetables and herbs for top restaurants
by Emli Bendixen. Interviews by Allan Jenkins and Holly O'Neill
Main image: Beccy and Sam Leach at their market garden at Wilding Farm
Sun 14 Jul 2019 06.30 EDT
Wilding Farm
Whitchurch, Bristol
Supplies restaurants including Tare, Box-E, Dela and Root, all in Bristol
You might be forgiven for thinking there is a restlessness about the careers of Sam and Beccy Leach. Sam planned to be a teacher until he did an actual teaching module. He trained as a butcher and a baker, before becoming an accomplished cook, with stints in London at St John and 40 Maltby St. He and Beccy ran Birch in Bristol garnering cult status and rave reviews from the likes of Marina O'Loughlin before walking away, keeping only the restaurant's vegetable garden and branching out into Somerset cider. Said garden is now geared to producing food for some of Bristol's more interesting places.
Harry Baker crab apples, Globe artichokes.
Rob Howell at Root is a long-time Leach fan: "For the first time in my career I can actually say we work the menu around the produce," he says. "Doing it justice is the main thing. The only downside is that sometimes you can create a special dish but due to seasonality and availability we have to take it off the menu."
The Leaches always intended a shortish life for Birch. "We always saw it as something to run for a limited time," says Sam, "before thinking about children and moving to the countryside. There wasn't a clear plan for what came next. Perhaps a wine shop or bakery, even making cheese, but ideally less all-consuming than a restaurant where you are always under pressure to perform, always one bad review away from a plunge in reputation. It wasn't a long-term option for a healthy and happy life."
Beccy picking sweet peas.
Wandering around their plot in late June, the healthy happiness shines. The plan for children and moving to the country is near fruition. Beccy is seven months' pregnant and they are weeks away from a move into Somerset with a cottage, more land and their own cider orchard.
"The more I got into food, the more interested I was in production," says Sam. "The where and how, what varieties, what soil type. And once we started making cider as a hobby, it seemed the obvious thing to pursue next. All of the orchards are there, crying out for attention and available for rent."
Cooking just-dug Nicola potatoes; Early Nantes carrots
The two arms of the business complement each other with harvests following on. "Vegetable-growing fits well alongside cider-making in the flow of the seasons," says Sam. "It is something we both love to do. The garden was originally a way to provide things we couldn't buy locally for the restaurant. The gaps in availability are still there and there are now many more good restaurants in Bristol."
The couple's growing philosophy, like their cooking, is deceptively simple. "Broadly speaking, we grow organically, though we aren't certified. We don't spray or use anything other than compost and organic seeds, though we are saving more of our own seed now. We have aphids but also lots of predatory insects. We have pigeons but also sparrowhawks. We have slugs but lots of slow worms and frogs."
Dinner in the garden.
We end our visit drinking Wilding cider, sitting at the plot while Sam and Beccy cook over a small outdoor stove. Perfect boiled potatoes, just lifted; fresh-picked Oskar peas, Early Nantes carrots, crisp salad leaves and porky sausages from their own pigs. As the sun sets and the starlings chatter, it is easy to see why they quit the stress of restaurants and why their growing is in demand. AJ
Instagram: @wildingcider
Ryewater Nursery
Sherborne, Dorset
Supplies and consults for restaurants including Kiln and Smoking Goat, the Begging Bowl, Som Saa and Ikoyi, all in London
Luke Farrell in the greenhouse.
When Luke Farrell started growing Thai herbs at Ryewater Nursery, the only chef he was interested in supplying was himself. After working in south-east Asia, he became "addicted to herbs and chillies", and returned to the UK about 15 years ago with a suitcase of plants and seeds. Luckily, his father, lepidopterist Clive Farrell, had greenhouses at the family home in Dorset. "The climate was already set up in there," says Farrell, "so I stuffed in my plants and hoped for the best."
He took a box of his herbs to David Thompson at his Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Nahm. Thompson's response? "'We need more.' It all spiralled from there."
Clockwise from top left: Thai green papayas, trumpet vine, Thai 'prik yuak' chillies, a Chinese painted quail, which eats insects in the greenhouses.
Farrell now has three tropical greenhouses, complete with a custom jungle soil mix, rain systems and underfloor heating. Inside, he grows gingers and galangals, herbs, papayas, bananas and types of gourds which have leaves and flowers that can be used in soups. "It's a good one to have because it doesn't travel well from Thailand, the leaves will have turned black," Farrell explains. By 2014, the Begging Bowl, Smoking Goat and Som Saa had opened in London, and Farrell's operation became more like a business – although, even at capacity, he can't always meet the increasing demand. "I just sent 24kg of green papayas to Som Saa. They've cleared me out."
Most of his work is as a consultant. At Kiln's request, he has just sent three lemongrass plants to another of their suppliers to grow for the restaurant. Recently, he's been researching west African chillies for London restaurant Ikoyi: "There's one that looks like a scotch bonnet but tastes of apricot, absolutely no heat in it."
A postman butterfly on porterweed.
In the cooler months, Farrell puts the greenhouses to sleep and travels to south-east Asia. If what he brings back is a success, he sends samples to kitchens. "I tell them what they want," he says. "It's kind of backwards."
Some things never make it to restaurants. He won't be sharing the long peppers, used in lots of stir-fries, or the few keffir limes he grows: "For me they're like truffles."
Thai herbs
This summer, Farrell will be back behind the stove to cook a series of lunches in the greenhouses. There will be Dorset seafood and locally reared meat, but the rest of the menu is up to the garden. "I might want to cook one thing but the herbs will suggest something different," he explains. "They say, 'Look, we're ready! You've got to use us now.'" HO'N
Follow @lukiefarrell for details of the greenhouse lunches
NamaYasai farm
Lewes, East Sussex
Supplies London restaurants Koya, Umu and the Clove Club, and operates a veg box scheme
Robin Williams and Ikuko Suzuki in the field.
Summer days are long for Robin Williams and Ikuko Suzuki at NamaYasai farm. Harvest typically begins between 2am and 4am, but sometimes as early as midnight. "Whatever's necessary to make sure the van is on its way before 8am," says Williams, who takes pride in the fact that chefs receive his produce within hours of being picked. Shuko Oda, executive chef and co-founder of Koya in London, notices the difference in quality: "Robin and Ikuko have a different attitude to farming."
In 2005, having quit his job in IT, Williams started growing Japanese vegetables based on the practices of "natural agriculture", so without any pesticides, with minimal watering and pruning, and letting the weeds grow with the vegetables. "It's not that I follow it religiously," Williams explains, "but the less work we did the better."
Supplying restaurants was always a core part of the business. "Some chefs build a menu almost entirely on what we've got available, even if it's only for a few days," says Williams. Oda confirms that Koya's blackboard of daily specials is often based on supplies from NamaYasai. She especially looks forward to receiving mugwort ("really bitter, but reminds me so much of Japan") and kabocha (Japanese squash). Occasionally Koya will request vegetables and Williams will look into if they're possible to grow. Koya staff also visit to help out with harvest, have a just-picked lunch, and learn more about the produce. It's a nice day out, but for Williams, with just one full-time staff member and six seasonal workers, volunteers can help save a crop.
Kabocha squash seedlings
Williams keeps detailed records of what's been planted and sold; he knows that in 2010 Koya bought mainly Japanese ingredients, but by 2013 it started taking alexanders, cuckoo flower, lovage and blackcurrant leaves. Now, about 40% of the crops grown across 15 acres are Japanese ingredients. Williams is always planning, whether adjusting sowing patterns or researching new crops, especially ones that can take them through the lean winter months. Last year's success was purple daikon. He has high hopes that this year Koya and other restaurants including Umu and the Clove Club will like badger-flame beets ("beautiful colour, good taste, and beetroots have been growing in popularity"), Turkish rocket ("strong flavour, resilient in with the weeds"), any haskap (honeyberries) that escaped the pheasants, and aronia, a tart late-season berry popular in eastern Europe. HO'N
@Robinsansai
Fern Verrow
St Margaret's, Herefordshire
Jane Scotter.
Supplies Spring at Somerset House, and sells veg boxes and flowers locally and at Spa Terminus, London
I am walking around Narnia in near biblical rain like only happens here on the edge of the Black Mountains. I am at Fern Verrow, the holy grail of British fruit, flower and vegetable gardens, wandering around the 12 acres Jane Scotter grows for Skye Gyngell's Spring restaurant in London.
It is the unique relationship between the two women that defines the farm and the restaurant. "We've had five years working together," says Scotter. "Skye understands, she gets it. It's not always easy for the chefs, though the upsides far outweigh the downsides.
Clockwise from top left: Planting notes, Waldmann's lettuce, blackcurrants, a bearded iris
"I have elderflowers with beautiful flowers and berries, so I net them and we have 50kg for elderberry and pear ice-cream. I'll send 500kg of gooseberries this year. If Skye asks me for things I will always make it happen."
The respect is mutual. "My relationship with Jane and Fern Verrow feels incredibly personal," says Gyngell. "Jane is a grower but also an artist. Her energy, enthusiasm and commitment spurs me on."
The pair share an obsessive attention to detail. Scotter is always researching new flavours for Spring, witness growing liquorice which takes two to three years to reach maturity. Or the puy lentils she is trialling, the suitcase of bean seed she brought back from California, her thoughts about fresh chickpeas.
Gyngell was the right person at the right time. Scotter used to drive her produce from Herefordshire to Spa Terminus in Bermondsey every Friday to sell to a few food devotees. But she had recently been unwell.
"We were finishing our cookbook when Skye wrote to me. She said she was opening a restaurant and wanted to work with a farm. I knew her reputation for using produce. At first we'd drop her off a few things on the way to the market. Then we worked on some spreadsheets. We had the book launch and my last day selling at Bermondsey. Two weeks later we were delivering to Spring. I couldn't have driven to London any more. Two days after the last market I was ill, having radiotherapy."
Lettice the lurcher in the potting shed.
The pair are also working at Heckfield Place in Hampshire on a plan to convert 400 acres into the UK's largest biodynamic farm. This is the slow work of decades. For now, though, there are gardening apprentices to train in the rain, obsessive weeding to do, lurchers to unleash, yet another 72 trays of autumn seed to sow. AJ
fernverrow.com
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Home Finance Gearing up for growth with alternative financing solutions
While the pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and disruption to the global business environment, it has also opened up possibilities for companies that position themselves to seize them.
Key to weathering the disruptions and realising growth plans are strong and agile financial foundations. One way to realise this is through exploring alternative funding solutions.
SMEhorizon speaks with Achint Bhagat, Director of FortuneX, a Hong Kong based apparel sourcing company, on his company's journey through the pandemic and their plans for future growth. Morgan Terigi, CEO and Co-founder of Incomlend, also weighs in on how his company's alternative working capital solutions has strengthened FortuneX's financial position, and how alternative funding solutions address SMEs' key challenges and financial barriers and position them for growth.
A shift in the tides
FortuneX is a a 20-year-old Hong Kong-based apparel sourcing company with operations and two garment manufacturing factories in Bangladesh. "We source garments from more than 30 factories in the market, and our customers are mainly retailers and apparel trading companies in India and the USA," explains Achint.
"Before the pandemic, we had a strong business pipeline and an excellent position to sustain our growth. We saw solid demands for apparel worldwide due to trends such as the rise of e-commerce, urbanisation and increased disposable income."
While future prospects seemed bright before COVID-19, the shadow thrown by the global pandemic has meant new challenges that had to be overcome.
"The closure of brick-and-mortar retail stores and the drop in apparel sales during the pandemic has had significant repercussions across the entire garment supply chain," he explains.
"Some of our customers, who are apparel trading companies, experienced several cancelled orders during this period that impacted their cash flow. Ultimately, it led to late payment for our receivables and raised the debtor credit risk for us."
"According to research by trade credit insurer Atradius, late payments in the textile industry in Asia impacted 64% of the total value of B2B invoices. Late payments and credit risk can affect our ability to finance our next production cycle and lead to more revenue losses."
Morgan echoes his sentiments, noting that for SMEs suffering from the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and the recurring clampdowns to curb infections globally, the critical challenges include "cancelled orders, a drastic drop in demand for their products, greater credit risk and restricted cash flow."
"They also face greater market volatility and ambiguity in supply-and-demand trends, making it harder to plan for the future," he adds.
Seeking the means of survival
Companies seeking financial support to weather the storms of the pandemic often find their avenues limited. This is particularly true for SMEs. Morgan explains that many SMEs often get caught in a cycle where they cannot get the finance they require from larger, traditional banks. "The main reason this happens is that SMEs sometimes struggle to prove creditworthiness. As many SMEs were placed in weakened financial situations last year due to the ongoing crisis, they might get lesser support from the banks and left unfinanced."
"Traditionally, banks tend to extend the onboarding process for SMEs, which result in a slower turnaround time. Consequently, some SMEs wind up self-financing, which further limits their ability to grow their business.
In these situations, alternative funding solutions can help, a recourse assessed by many SMEs, in Morgan's experience. "By reducing their reliance on banks and diversifying their access to funding, SMEs are future-proofing their business from any economic impact such as the current pandemic.
"Alternative financing solutions can help SMEs liberate their working capital and recover their financial health. These are the foundational elements for SMEs to develop more resilient business operations and have the fiscal agility to seize growth opportunities amid global economic challenges.
"With faster access to working capital, SMEs can cover their operational expense and execute planning with greater confidence and certainty. The improved cash flow will also allow them to finance their next production cycle and ramp up their output when the demand for their products increases."
Such solutions have been a lifeline for FortuneX, which has leveraged Incomlend's Invoicing Finance Programme. Through this, they are able to cash in an invoice quickly following shipment, insulting them from credit risks and safeguards our financial health, especially vital as the retail space and demand for garments remain volatile due to the pandemic.
Beyond the financial rewards, such alternative solutions also help maintain business relationships, inevitably under strain in the difficult climate. "The alternative working capital solution allows us to retain our customers by offering more competitive payment terms," explains Achint.
"Our usual payment terms range from 30 to 60 days post the delivery of our receivables. Now, our customers now have the option of paying for the shipment's invoice value up to 120 days later, alleviating the stress our key customers are facing concerning cash flow and strengthening our partnership."
Elaborating on this programme, Morgan notes that these can keep the debt-to-equity ratio low and preserve SMEs' borrowing capacity, allowing them to spread their funding sources further.
"With invoice financing, SMEs are effectively selling their invoice and obtaining finance without risk," he explains.
"SMEs, specifically exporters, can fund their export invoices by selling them at a discount rate in return for receiving early cash for their receivables.
"Besides liberating working capital, invoice factoring can also insulate SMEs from debtor credit risk, especially for SMEs in the Asia Pacific. There are about 73% of companies which have endured different levels of unpaid receivables. Additionally, 82% of them suffered from delayed payments over the past three years."
Looking towards clearer skies
As the pandemic continues, finding new ways of building financial resiliency will be necessary. Says Morgan "Although governments worldwide rolled out policies and programmes, such as wage support, to help cushion the impact of the pandemic on SMEs, these measures will start to dwindle over time."
"SMEs need to find ways to build financial resiliency. The banks will still be pursuing the same path they have been walking for the last few years, reducing their trade finance exposure. Whether it is fintech or other alternative funding sources, the demand among SMEs will only continue to grow stronger."
For FortuneX, shares Achint, other alternative funding solutions they are looking into include off-balance-sheet financing options, which can provide them with the capital needed to place themselves in a better growth position when the economy recovers without the heavy burden of a loan.
"Additionally, by diversifying our access to funding, we are laying a financial foundation that is more resistant to future disruption," he added.
"Our customers in the USA are already seeing retailers reinstating cancelled orders and placing new ones. With improved access to quick turnaround working capital, we can swiftly act on new orders or even increase our output to meet seasonal demands that allow us to capture new revenue streams and grow our business."
Taking a broader look at the apparel industry in the aftermath of the pandemic, Achint predicts that for buyers, risks will potentially become a vital factor when deciding on sourcing destinations and evaluating suppliers.
"Buyers will emphasise manufacturers' production capabilities and efficiencies to mitigate risk and ensure a more reliable supply chain."
He also foresees a possible acceleration in the industry's technology adoption, leading to faster and more efficient production across the industry. "Manufacturers will look for opportunities to advance their digitalisation plans to respond better to rapidly evolving consumer demands. Those who succeed will have a substantial competitive advantage over their peers."
"However, some manufacturers, especially SMEs, might not invest in technology in the near term due to the pandemic's economic uncertainty and financial pressure.
"Again, this highlights the importance of having access to working capital and funds to pursue investments and opportunities to make a meaningful impact on their business," he concludes.
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Exposing a University's Hypocrisy [incl. Rabab Abdulhadi]
by Abraham H. Miller
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58658/exposing-a-university-hypocrisy-incl-rabab
On May 14, 2019, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi gave a guest lecture at the University of California Los Angeles that was laced with distortions of history and anti-Semitic tropes. Abdulhadi characterizes herself as a scholar/activist, an oxymoron that would have inspired ridicule in the academic world I entered as a student in the late 1950s.
If scholarship is the objective search for the truth, how is it possible to be both an ideologue and a scholar? The short answer is the two are visibly incompatible, for a believer will not accept disconfirming evidence of cherished articles of faith.
Nor should they, because the world of faith and the world of evidence are two distinct and different realms. In today's academic world, however, those realms are inseparable.
Academia is now a place where one is encouraged to proudly embrace one's commitment to ideology as some sort of badge of honor rather than as a mark of intellectual limitation. That is, of course, if the ideology conforms to the normative standards of leftist/socialist thought and intersectionality.
Despite universities being havens for safe spaces and concrete bunkers to prevent students from hearing ideas that might make them uncomfortable, universities can always dust off the First Amendment when it comes to defending speech that transmits an approved agenda.
It was no surprise that the UCLA invoked the First Amendment to support Abdulhadi's insufferable and ahistorical nonsense that Israel is a colonial entity based on white supremacy. At a minimum, Abdulhadi should know that more than half of Israelis are the descendants from the Jews of the Middle East that were ethnically cleansed by her kinsman from homelands they lived in for a thousand years before the first Muslim warrior galloped out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century.
I have no objection for any university to invite anyone to enter the free marketplace of ideas and spout their nonsense. The problem is that some nonsense, like Abdulhadi's, is acceptable while other points of view run up against the trenches of political correctness.
Freedom of thought is highly prized when it is consonant with popular thought on campus. For example, hardly a faculty member would find a loyalty oath palatable, but UCLA requiring a written commitment to diversity as a condition for promotion is not seen as telling faculty what to think.
If a university is going to hide propaganda behind the First Amendment and embrace the objective of freedom of thought, at a minimum it should not make attendance at a propaganda festival compulsory.
No one signed up from the class bulletin to hear Abdulhadi, who as a faculty member at San Francisco State University, issued an "ukase" that Zionists were not welcome on campus. Her declaration was repudiated by the chancellor the state university system.
Abdulhadi's behavior toward Jewish students on the SFSU campus has long been a matter of public controversy, and the university, on March 20, 2019, entered into an out-of-court settlement to cease what is widely perceived as its longstanding tolerance of both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
To her credit, Abdulhadi makes no secret of her ideology. Consequently, anyone extending an invitation to her should not be surprised by what they are getting, which raises the additional question of what does her teaching and research have to do with a class in anthropology?
This is yet another instance of indoctrination of a captive -- dragooned in this case -- audience of students who pay outrageous tuition to hear the political opinions of leftist activists. It is kind of activity that is producing generations of college graduates that have been told what leftist shibboleths to parrot but not how to think for themselves, which at one time was the function of a college education.
Lest one think UCLA's raising of the First Amendment shows that it is a bastion of free thought removed from concerns with political correctness, consider Abdulhadi's presentation in the context of a momentous decision on the UCLA campus, the gutting of its English major in 2011.
As Heather Mac Donald notes, until 2011, UCLA English majors took one course in Chaucer, one in Milton, and two in Shakespeare. These authors represent the foundations of English literature and our connection with Western civilization.
But these authors were outed as dead white European males or part of the white, racist, imperialist establishment. So, UCLA expunged them and replaced them with trendy courses in gender, race, ethnicity, and post-colonial studies, etc. (You can fill in the rest of the politically correct buzz words.)
Thanks to the purging of the foundational authors of English literature, a student in English literature can spend four years at UCLA and have substituted "alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class" and never have read Shakespeare.
So, one wonders, can a UCLA student receive a degree in anthropology and never read Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, or Karl Polanyi but know Rabab Abuldhadi's seminal work in the Islamophobia journal?
There was a time when an education in the liberal arts taught one how to think independently, how to grapple with conflicting ideas, and how to understand the work of the luminaries that created intellectual disciplines. That time has passed.
More than likely Boas, Sapir, and Polanyi, some of the greatest minds of the last century, have been replaced by "alternative rubrics" that are not part of the "imperialistic establishment." After all, they are not only dead white European males but also Jews. Two reasons not to incorporate them in the politically correct curriculum dominated by "alternative rubrics" and "activist scholars."
Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science and a distinguished scholar with the Haym Salomon Center.
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Girl power message dominates glitzy Grammys gala
Grammys red carpet: pantsuits, sex appeal and lots of skin
US rapper Cardi B (with on-off husband Offset) wowed on the Grammys red carpet (VALERIE MACON)
Los Angeles (AFP) – In 2018, the Grammys red carpet was full of stars wearing white roses in support of gender equality.
This year, with women better represented among the nominees on music's biggest night, music's A-list went back to red carpet basics Sunday. That means sex appeal, lots of trouser suits and rock-star glamour.
And for others… it means pro-Trump attire.
Here are some takeaways from the red carpet on Grammys night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles:
– Red-hot glamour –
Host (and 15-time Grammy winner) Alicia Keys has promised the "sickest" gala ever, with lots of red-hot performances. But there was a lot of red-hot fashion as well.
The "Girl on Fire" singer brought the heat in a plunging V-neck red Armani gown, with button detailing down the front.
Country legend Dolly Parton showcased her signature voluptuous figure in a short red dress with an asymmetrical hemline.
And Bebe Rexha, who went on a social media tirade over designers who refused to dress her because she was "too big" — fluttered onto the carpet in a cloud of red tulle.
– Pink princesses –
Rap's woman of the moment, Cardi B, made quite an entrance in a dramatic vintage Thierry Mugler couture gown that erupted from a dark mermaid skirt in a fan of pale pink pleats behind her.
Elbow-length gloves and a cone of pearls atop her head finished the look — Cardi B brought her fashion A-game.
Sultry Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello, who opened the ceremony with her mega-hit "Havana," went for something simpler — she glittered in a sparkly high-neck, long-sleeve, but backless, pink Armani gown.
Country star Kacey Musgraves, already twice a winner on Sunday in the early portion of the awards ceremony, opted for an ultra-feminine strapless pale pink gown with a fan bodice and a darker sash.
Men can rock pink as well, as nominated rapper Post Malone showed — in a full pink suit with glittering stars all over it.
– Pants are hot (not hot pants) –
The women of music came ready to play — and for top female nominee Brandi Carlile, pop star Miley Cyrus, Meghan Trainor and others, that means trousers.
Carlile rocked a smart tuxedo-style suit with a long coat while Trainor opted for a white jumpsuit with a deep neckline.
Former first lady Michelle Obama earned a screaming ovation when she made a surprise appearance at the start of the show in a gunmetal pantsuit with a kimono-like jacket.
"Music has always helped me tell my story," Obama said to cheers alongside Keys, Lady Gaga, actress Jada Pinkett Smith and music mega-star Jennifer Lopez.
– Hats! –
You don't see too many hats on other showbiz red carpets during awards season at the start of each year, but the Grammys style parade is in a league of its own.
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Expound on that please-- what's the story?
selfcritical
Before he got his MT coach, he was literally watching clips off of youtube and trying to pull them off(and succeeding) apparently one of those slips was from Ong Bak.
Was that the punch to the thigh with a spinning backfist/elbow? I saw that in his DQ loss on Saturday , , ,
Yes, although I was more impressed with his "Single leg to spinning elbow" in the Bonnar fight.
Rarick
It is the self taught guys that can be the most interesting, I am waiting to see if some one can make TMNT jitsu work.
Jon Jones has awesome potential, he just needs to learn control. The judges sent a loud and clear message too. If you use an illegal technique, sensibly banned or not, it will cost you the fight.
Any comments on Kimbo in TUF this past season?
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on December 10, 2009, 08:22:37 AM
I am going to have to learn a new dialect of english, other than that he is willing, and he has obviously used the time on the show to get his ground game up to snuff.
I was surprised at how little answer he had to kicks on his front leg.
Also, my eyesight is not what it used to be, but does the man have completely fallen arches?
Quote from: selfcritical on December 08, 2009, 06:19:47 PM
New idea- Conspire to put copies of the KT material in Jon Jones' christmas stocking. I'm highly amused by anyone who manages to pull off moves on pro fighters because they saw tony jaa do them in a movie.
When he came down last year we touched base briefly on some KT type techniques, nothing specific. He is very aware of the outside footwork (Trigg 101). From my experience, he's also very open and has been exposed to Kali footwork via one of my other instructors. We could arrange this if you wanted Guro!
Ryan "Guard Dog" Gruhn
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Is the Guard dead
From MMATorch.com
COLUMN: Death of the Guard - Changes to the MMA game evident at UFC 109, especially in Sonnen vs. Marquardt
Feb 8, 2010 - 3:32:20 PM
By Jason Amadi, MMATorch Columnist
In a post-UFC 109 interview done by Mike Straka, Jon Fitch made quite a bold statement. Fitch stated that the closed guard in MMA was "dead." He said that unless you're Shinya Aoki or Demian Maia, if you get taken down by a strong wrestler, you need to get back to feet or suffer a beating.
While that may rattle a few within the jiu jitsu community, he's completely correct. Over the years we've seen MMA evolve many times. While some feel that the sport is largely the same and has been since the institution of the Unified Rules, fans who really look at fights from just a few short years ago, and compare to fights now, will notice quite a few changes.
For one, the mount is no longer the most dominant position to finish a fight. I can't remember the last time a fight was finished with strikes from the mount position. Side control seems to be the preferred position to finish off opponents.
Made famous by Ivan Salavary (as Joe Rogan loves to remind us of this, but I feel Matt Hughes popularized it further), trapping the arms of your opponent in side control, and then raining down blows to the face gives much less space for escape. Even if you don't land significant blows, the referee is forced to stop the fight because you can't escape.
At this point, the mount is fairly low percentage. As we saw with Phil Davis and Brian Stann, the trend these days when mounted is to simply give up your back and hang on to the gloves of your opponent, then hope you can explode over into their guard and reverse momentum that way. Sure, Davis didn't have the best mount, but the survival techniques showed by Stann (guy really needs to practice the hip escape, though) are now likely common practice at all the top teams in MMA.
The guard is in trouble for sure. I agree completely with Fitch, and feel that unless you are a top submission artist, the caliber of Demian Maia, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza, Shinya Aoki, Dustin Hazelett, or Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, having a top wrestler in your guard is death.
At the top level, wrestlers are so good at submission defense, as we saw with Chael Sonnen, they no longer have any fear of the guard. Nate Marquardt is a black belt in jiu jitsu, but could get nothing done against Sonnen from inside his guard and paid the price for it.
Jon Fitch has made a career of being inside a tough BJJ black belt's guard and surviving. Tito Ortiz made a name for himself for punishing guys inside the guard as well, and the list of wrestlers who do so just grows more and more by the day. I don't think I even need to discuss the problems that could arise should you find a monster wrestler like Shane Carwin or Brock Lesnar in your guard (Minotauro Nogueira is a brave, brave man).
But the big story of UFC 109 was Nate Marquardt being battered from inside his guard by Chael Sonnen. I think the next evolution in MMA is the rubber guard becoming common practice for everyone involved. We're still seeing 1997 style guards in 2010. It just doesn't work in MMA anymore.
The rubber guard was designed to control fighters from within your guard, break down their posture, and look for submissions from unusual places using flexibility. Anyone familiar with Shinya Aoki's handiwork has seen him perform breathtaking submissions (literally) from the rubber guard.
The problem is that a lot of fighters, who aren't necessarily raised in the discipline of BJJ from the start, don't necessarily have the flexibility. Dustin Hazelett's submission of Tamdon McCrory at UFC 91 was the last time I saw the rubber guard used effectively in the UFC. Generally, we see fighters feebly attempt to grab their ankles, only after having sustained a beating, and then they realize after a few tries that they haven't practiced this technique nearly enough, so they wind up giving up.
Unless a meteor hits the UFC, and wipes out all its elite wrestlers, we're going to be in for a long reign of terror by wrestlers. Couture vs. Coleman wasn't the only indication that we're back in 1997, folks, because the guard in MMA has been rendered almost completely ineffective at the top level.
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CrazyCossack
Re: Closed Guard
I don't agree with the closed guard is dead assessment at all. I think the problem is that too many people are being considered good at jiu jitsu when they really aren't. It seems that every single fighter that enters the octagon nowadays is a BJJ blackbelt. While they might have been given these blackbelts there is in my opinion a major difference and major discrepancy in the skills of a fighter (or even wrestler) who becomes a bjj blackbelt, rather than a bjj blackbelt who becomes a fighter.
Think about all the controversy that Rashad Evan's newly awarded black belt caused, the biggest justification for it was that he wasn't submitted by Thiago Silva, another blackbelt, so he must deserve it. While it's true he won the grappling portion of it, how well do you think Rashad would have done if for whatever reason he was playing guard against thiago silva, he would have likely got smashed, then people would say: "Closed Guard is dead, Rashad is a black belt and got killed".
But does Rashad have BJJ blackbelt skills from his guard? Does he even have them from the top? I'd say no to both points, do I think he could out grapple people who are bjj blackbelts, yes, I think he could, but thats not his jiu jitsu.
The same goes for Nate Marquardt, yes he was awarded a blackbelt in bjj, but do we really know how good his jiu jitsu is? I know BJJ blackbelts that would be blue belts at clubs only hours away from me, when their guards aren't effective against elite wrestlers, will we question the guard? I dont think so.
I'm kind of rambling here but.... the idea is that theres nothing wrong with the position its that people are being given too much credit for their skills, and therefore their expectations are too high.
In my opinion its akin to saying that fighting with sticks in the largo or medio ranges is dead in stickfighting because so many people can crash through that bubble with a roof block and start their clinch/grappling games. Are those ranges dead? of course not, but you might think so if you saw someone with excellent closing fighting someone with average skills in the longer ranges.
Very good points.
I posted this article not because I agree with all of it, but to start a conversation.
For example, how does the (closed) guard game differ when the heel kicks to the kidneys, spine, back of neck, back of head are allowed? Ask Renzo Gracie how he felt after Frank Shamrock's knee from bottom to the back of his head.
I'm not sure how much the kicks to the kidneys would affect closed guard in modern mma, with the fights being 15 minutes, I think they were much more applicable when the fights went until someone got finished, I think they are more effective in a war of attrition strategy, ala the gracies. Recently one of Rorion's sons (Rener I believe) talked about this in an interview, and was saying that closed guard, the war of attrition and defensive mindset is what seperates Gracie Jiu-Jitsu from BJJ, which they say is too focused on the sportive aspect of jiu jitsu. The idea that as the weaker person, closed guard is one of the few ways you can defeat your larger more physically gifted opponents. His example was Brock Lesnar, and that if anyone went into a fight and tried to match him physically and battle him back and forth they would lose, their only chance would be to play closed guard for a long time, defend, defend, defend, and when their opponent (Brock) was worn out, then press their advantage. I think Heel kicks are a big part of this strategy.
As for the slaps, smacks, to the back of the head and spine, (cervical shots), I think they would make a major difference in the fights, maybe even knockouts from the bottom? Sweeping someone who has had their brain rattled would likely be alot easier than sweeping a fresh guy.
On another note, I think knee's should be allowed on the ground whether from the bottom or top, however I do think that if they were allowed Renzo may have been watching for them and might not have got caught, although admittedly I like Renzo alot more than Shamrock lol. Heck, we would probably have a different winner of the Marquardt/Sonnen fight if they were allowed.
Jonobos
Wrestling isn't really new to mma. It has been there from pretty early on. Everyone is learning jiujitsu including the wrestlers. The subs are not a secret anymore. What most bjj guys fail to do is dive deeply into wrestling and that is why we see the imbalance. The difference with guys like BJ Penn and Jacare is that they have an amazing standing clinch either in the form of takedowns, or takedown defense. Only the cream of the crop top level wrestlers have the advantage. Hell, Hendo could not even capitalize on Anderson Silva being on his back and that was in half guard... a position that wrestlers are known for laying down some serious damage. My thoughts.
« Last Edit: February 11, 2010, 01:54:00 AM by Jonobos »
When life gives you hemlock, do NOT make hemlockade!
What would someone's wrestling ability have to do with their closed guard subs and sweeps?
And the subs haven't been a secret for a long time, and theres no secret in jiu jitsu academies either, the blue belts to black belts are all doing the same moves, its how well they are done that counts. For me it goes back to whether or not people are actually good at jiu jitsu rather than just being given credit for it if they can avoid armbars. The other thing, in regards to jiu jitsu guys not taking wrestling seriously enough, it's almost impossible for them to reach a level at wrestling where it would compare to the wrestlers already in the UFC, unless your GSP your not going to suddenly outwrestle the wrestlers.
I think Rickson Gracie explains this point pretty well with this quote from an interview.
Rickson "I don't look for to knockout someone standing up, I look for to not be in a position to be knocked out myself. I look for the position to take my opponent where I want to be. That is my concept. The day that I think that I have to train kickboxing to beat a kickboxing champion, that will be the day I lose.
13. So you don't think that by training in kickboxing, that it can in some way help you to neutralize the kickboxer's game?
Rickson: Much to the contrary. Show me a jiu-jitsu fighter who trains kickboxing who has an advantage over a kickboxer standing up.....and then maybe I'll change my opinion. But this never happens. They always end up trying to do the technique wrong., end up clinch anyway) and lose big opportunities."
(I got that from the thread "rickson predicts the stand and wang phenomenon" from the mma.tv underground forums)
While I realize the importance of cross training, its often the guys who are masters of one thing that are champions over a bunch of jack of all trades type guys. One of my jiu jitsu instructors explained Demian Maia's strategy (for the nate quarry fight) to me like :
Demian Maia sweeps world class blackbelts in ADCC and Mundials regularly.
No one else in the middle weight division is even close to these world class blackbelts in their half guard top game.
Demian pulls half guard, gets the sweep easily and is on top, then he will destroy them with his far superior Jiu Jitsu from the top.
This is exactly what he did to Nate Quarry, do any of us think Demian Maia would have won if he tried to outwrestle quarry to get on top, or rock him on the feet then take him down? Maia is one of my favourite fighters and if he tried to strike or wrestle with Quarry he would have got killed.
If you want your closed guard (or any guard) to be effective in mma, dont train your wrestling (which doesnt have a closed guard) or your kickboxing, train your closed guard.
Just like I wouldn't expect a wrestler or kickboxer to pull guard.
My 2 cents (or maybe thats like 4 cents cause its so long)
You bring up some good points, but Chuck survived a loooooooong time with a deep understanding of takedown defense. I didn't say you need to wrestle guys to the ground, or learn the wrestling top game. But learning how to stuff a shot and make them pay for it is something that many fighters have successfully developed.
I definitely agree that most of these mma black belts are simply not that good. But at the same time the days of Rickson and the one trick pony fighters are gone.
Howling Dog
Woof,
You bring up some good points, but Chuck survived a loooooooong time with a deep understanding of takedown defense.
Chuck's wrestling is highly under rated. He was a good college wrestler. Cal. poly sci. I beleive.
He just likeS to stand and bang.
My opinion, Crazy Cossack made many real good points.
C-HD
The point of MMA is TOOLBOX. What do you have in yours? That will determine how the fighting style you choose works. Champions have fighting styles that WORK, and they have the tools to at least defend from styles they do not know. I see Crafty and the other Guros constantly checking Checking their Tools. That is a credit to what is being built.
I see all the UFC fights, and some of the fighters with a "good" ground game, really are "defense Blackbelts". They can pull guard and not be submitted, but they cannot do anything from the guard. They can stand and strike without being easy to knock out, but have no knockout ability themselves. Each Fighter has talents either trained or natural and MMA is as much about how those are used as about the base styles.
The DBMA stuff I see (am am working on) seems to be pretty eclectic and has moves that I have never seen used in the octogon, I would love to see it work. The same applies to Aikido (which I tried for a while, but their tribal heirarchy demands to the point of oppresion from my point of view,) which lacked "safe live sparring" which is why I left.
One of the things that is leaving UFC, and other MMA is the "Testing Spirit" that was in the original format. Anderson Silva had that belt defense where the other fighter was expecting him to just fall into guard. Anderson failed to keep faith with the "Real as it Gets" aspect by not showing the fighter the error of his unrealistic expectations, by not putting on a punishment show.
There was another fight beteen a "defense black belt"/ wrestler and "the Dentist" Neer. The werestler was able to take Neer down at will, and was able to control the top. Neer was unable to pull the hip escape/sweep. Neer was expecting the referee to stand the fight up, but the Ref (maybe?) recognized that "rules exploiting" was going on, and wanting to be true to "real" was not allowing that kind of manipulation. Neer lost a very frustrating fight because he failed to control the octogon, and therefore dominate the other fighter...........
That is why I do not necessarily like "Big Country", he has the fitness, but he is rules lawyering to win. I hope one of the other heavyweights can fix that.
I always thought chuck was a much better wrestler than a kickboxer, look at his record, all the guys he has lost too with the exception of jeremy horn were better strikers, Overeem, Rampage twice, Shogun, maybe even Rashad? Although admittedly I should be the last one knocking anyone's kickboxing ability.
As far as Josh Neer, and I think the fight you were talking about was against Kurt Pellegrino, IMO he was doing everything to try to get action started in that fight, including punching himself in the face..... (couldnt figure out how to post the gif, so go to this link, its worth it)
http://blogs.chron.com/fighting/neerdumbasssb65374666bv8.gif
These are all probably fair assessments. But the question remains whether or not someone can reverse engineer some of the skillsets that make the wrestlers successful? BJJ will certainly help me get up from the ground by understanding the body mechanics of how to move on the bottom. But what happens when I want a little something extra to keep me up off the ground long enough to deal a little punishment of my own, maybe create the necessary opportunity to access an equalizer? I think Rarick has a good point that it is all about a toolbox. I may never be able to achieve the level of collegate wrestlers, but can I get enough experience to make a difference when it really matters?
In a related vein, in DBMA "Kali Tudo" (tm) we integrate certainly wrestling techniques (e.g. the one we call "The Rico" because I learned it from Rico Chiaparelli). What my interaction with Kenny Johnson has brought to KT is, inter alia, a good efficient MMA based version of a wrestling double leg and single leg, who uses his head in a different way than pure sport wrestling. We want to have this not only in its own right (for fights wherein we are sure that no weapons are involved) but also to make sure that we are good training partners for our training partners as we work our standing KT striking game.
One of the great temptations for a KT player is to tunnel vision a bit on the structural advantages I believe our there in upper body striking (i.e. kicks present a separate question) and get hit by a good wrestling level change and shoot. Indeed it was my experience with some of my structures getting hit in this fashion by Kenny that led me to focus on bringing the stake (which really is a version of a bolo bunch done to kali footwork), with the idea that as the third beat of a triplet it would be either hitting (uppercut to chin or shovel hook to body) or nailing the incoming face (think Arlovski flying chin first into Fedor's overhand right) of the shooter.
I would have not known this had I not tested myself against good MMA wrestling skills.
Also from Kenny is a good MMA based sprawl.
The Adventure continues!
Don't know anything about Hardy , , ,
drammel
Quote from: Rarick on March 17, 2010, 04:28:44 AM
Hey who is gonna win? GSP or Hardy?
GSP by anyhting he wants. If Hardy wins it will be ala Serra, just going for broke and throwing bombs.
GSP is quite impressive, so that sounds about right-- but who is Hardy? Whom has he beat? What are his strengths and weaknesses?
Hardy is gonna get mauled, it wont even be close..... Yes I'm aware Serra had his lightning flash KO, but its not gonna happen twice, GSP by domination.
tim nelson
we were out on a wide creek flat with lots of willow shrubs, some up to wrist diameter, and were cutting the stems/trunks before the buds opened so the new growth would be long and flexible without any forks and branching for basketry in the future, producing nice basket material,
well while swinging the machete around i was experimenting with the stick swinging i was used to, to get the machete to cut effectively took something a little different in the arc, more of a cutting arc than i notice with a stick, and a downward swing made the trunk split more often, so i decided to try the bolo swing and it was quite fun practicing the bolo with a machete cutting stuff while getting a task done, i sure wouldn't want to get hit by a bolo swing, the force with the blade was hitting hard through the wood tim
Woof Tim:
Good to hear from you. Good conversation-- May I ask you post in in The Bolo Game thread?
surely, seems to have been a brain fart figuring bolo would be housed in mma thread
Sebresos
Quote from: CrazyCossack on February 12, 2010, 11:51:21 AM
Chuck never lost to Overeem, I think Chuck knocked him out!? Yup back in 03'
« Last Edit: March 20, 2010, 02:15:31 PM by Sebresos »
If Mir sticks to a game plan he has a good chance against Carwin. Mir likes to stand and bang, it won't take much for Carwin to knock him out. Carvin vs. Gonzaga for example, Carwin just extended his arm and knocked the man out. It looked like a dingy little punch. It won't take much.
Quote from: CrazyCossack on March 18, 2010, 01:39:08 PM
The brass at the UFC doesn't know who to put in front of this man. GSP has cleaned out his division. I like GSP but this fight barely registers on my radar....yawn!
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Pros-Pick-Vera-vs-Jones-23289
Now ths fight makes sense, Vera vs. Jones.
I was very intrigued to see this fight. The fight was shaping up nicely when that nasty elbow to the temple or occular socket brought it to an immediate close.
Also interesting was the response to the punch to the eye in an earlier fight.
Stickgrappler
"...grappling happens. It just does." - Top Dog
re: vera x jones - if you are gonna have guard, control that top man's posture... it's raining punches and elbows - one of them is bound to get through.
"A good stickgrappler has good stick skills, good grappling, and good stickgrappling and can keep track of all three simultaneously. This is a good trick and can be quite effective." - Marc "Crafty Dog" Denny
Jon "Jones" Bones is good. Machida, Rua or whoever else they put in front of him, will have their hands full.
I now realize who Carwin is. Whoa!
In particular, you'll note that those weren't Greco throws that Jones used to toss the olympic-caliber vera.
And Jones doesn't have a judo coach.
He watched some videos on judo, and went to some public classes at cornell.
And then just did it.
The guy is good. He was setting up Vera for the left. He reached back acting like he was trying to move Veras right leg, then boom, here comes the left.
re: jones' throw -- not my gif, found it elsewhere. don't want to kill the bandwidth of the original owner's so i'm not posting the pic. will post the link for it though.
http://i44.tinypic.com/14ttwdi.gif
props to the gif maker
re: mir x carwin - OMG!
Wating for the fight I thought Mir too relaxed, and Carsen perhaps too worried I thought Carsen showed excellent knees to the thighs up against the fence.
Who was that a-hole who kepty applying the heel hook after his opponent tapped and the ref starting pulling him off!? VERY wrong I want to know his name so I can cheer when karma bites him in the ass.
PS: Good times watching the crowd at the bar here in Toronto cheer its man on.
Did Mir have any offense in that fight. Every time Mir loses its in the same fashion. He either gets the jump on the guy or the guy gets the jump on him. If his opponent gets the smallest edge Mir seems to lay down.
Point Dog
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on March 28, 2010, 05:35:58 AM
Said A-hole has been suspended for 3 months...
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/UFC-111-Analysis-The-Main-Card-23525
C-PD:
Thanks for the news-- and my disrespect to Sherdog for missing the point.
Well, what I saw was the opponent vigorously and clearly tapping on the A-hole in submssion, and the A-hole merrily continuing to crank and then not immediately responding to the ref. The man knew exactly what a heel hook is and what it does. His behavior is reprehensible, and the attitude displayed in the Sherdog mini-piece earns disrespect as well.
Sherdog's piece in question:
While it's arguable that the Brazilian Top Team fighter could have released the hold a second earlier, it is questionable why the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board has suspended him for three months for doing his job -- which is fighting until the referee says break. Not unnecessarily injuring your opponent goes without saying, but hindering a fighter's work like that is unheard of.
Joe Rogan was chastisizing Palhares all the way... Rogan counted how many seconds during one of the replays that Palhares kept the heel hook on. It was 5 secs after the tap and IIRC, the ref came in to yank Palhares off after 2 secs.
edit: click link for animated gif -- not my link or gif -- props to the gifmaker
http://img.mixedmartialarts.com/method=get&s=rousimar-palhares.gif
« Last Edit: March 30, 2010, 01:46:51 PM by Stickgrappler »
Sorry, I do not agree at all.
I get the bit about risks. That said I prefer a fighter that does not take advantage of any time lag in the referee's arrival after an opponent is KO'd over one who dishes out gratuitous shots to an already unconscious man.
Pulhares's behavior here presents an entirely different question. Submission was clearly made , , , and ignored. THEN the ref sought to break the hold, and was resisted. Palhares has to be held as knowing the lasting damage that a heel hook is intended to do, and he did it. To hold him accountable for what he did IMO has nothing to do with hindsight. Indeed it is precisely the egregiousness of his behavior that eliminates that issue.
I get some of these guys have "a mean streak". That is PRECISELY why they need to be held accountable with a clear violation such as was the case here.
Just to add my two cents.
First off, he wasn't holding it for nearly as long as Joe Rogan made it out to be, when Joe Rogan counted to 5 seconds he was watching the slow motion replay, which I think he did mention and realize after he did it. Although I definetly think it was held too long.
There has also been a few instances in the UFC of people "fake tapping" where they tap twice or make like there tapping, then slip out when their opponent momentarily releases their grip, I think CB Dollaway has been accused of this a few times. Although once again, I don't think there is anyone who would consider that close to a fake tap, (I think he tapped nine times).
I liked Palhares going into this, but I'm not that big of a fan now, I can see the logic in holding it until the ref stops the fight, but in this case it was pretty extreme, especially considering it was a heel hook.
What's also interesting is that he was given a 90 day suspension, but what kind of punishment is that? Most of these guys only fight ever 3 or 4 months anyway, its likely he wouldn't have fought for 90 days anyway, this is in comparison to Babalu who got completely FIRED for holding a choke too long.
I'd much rather have someone hold a choke for 2 extra seconds on me, than have someone do the same thing with a heelhook.
I'd be delighted to see a more severe penalty.


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The Grateful American™ Book Prize Honors Children's Books on American History
A new, one-of-a-kind book award, The Grateful American™ Book Prize, has been established to honor children's books of fiction and non-fiction that feature the events and the people that shaped the history of the U.S. "Of the more than five dozen literary awards for children's books in the U.S., the Grateful American™ Book Prize […]
A new, one-of-a-kind book award, The Grateful American™ Book Prize, has been established to honor children's books of fiction and non-fiction that feature the events and the people that shaped the history of the U.S.
"Of the more than five dozen literary awards for children's books in the U.S., the Grateful American™ Book Prize is the only one awarded for excellence in writing, storytelling and illustration in the category of historically accurate works for children. Our aim is to restore the role of history in the education of America's children at a time when the focus in the classroom is on math and science," according to author and publisher David Bruce Smith who co-founded the Prize.
The Prize consists of a $13,000 cash award in commemoration of the 13 original Colonies. It is believed to be among the highest cash awards among book prizes in general. In addition, the winner will receive a not-yet-revealed work to be created by Smith's mother, the renowned artist Clarice Smith.
Smith said that it was Dr. Bruce Cole, the former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who inspired the award. Knowledge of our history among young people is essential for them to function as good citizens. Cole and Smith believe that well-written, well-produced story books can engage youngsters between the ages of 9 and 14, and stimulate a lifelong interest in the history of their country.
"The Prize is designed to help tap the innate desire in each of us to know about our past. Children, in particular, are curious and interested in how they got here and what it means to be an American. But often their textbooks fail to catch their attention and they can become bored and uninterested. But, give them a good read—a book they can understand and to which they can relate – and it stirs their interest and a craving for details and context."
Smith said that a distinguished coterie of judges has been assembled to oversee the Prize initiative. In addition to Cole and Smith, the panel includes: Dr. Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, Nick Kotz, Dr. Douglas Bradburn, author, historian and Founding Director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and John Danielson, founder of Chartwell Education Group and former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education.
Smith said the panel is ready to begin reviewing author/publisher submissions for the Prize immediately. Forms can be downloaded from the Great American™ Book Prize web site. Deadline for Submission is August 31, 2015. In addition, a broad-based outreach to publishers of children's books will be under way in the coming days. They'll be receiving submission packages directly.
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North Carolina house collapses: 'Climate change is a real thing'
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Ralph Patricelli had grand plans for the vacation home at 24235 Ocean Drive in Rodanthe, on a spit of land in the middle of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
He and his sister purchased the four-bedroom waterfront home in August for $550,000. With its airy rooms, two levels of decks and stunning Atlantic views, Patricelli envisioned it as an ideal spot to welcome friends and family after two years of an isolating pandemic. After the season's last renters departed, he and his relatives had planned to host a Thanksgiving gathering in the home.
Instead, Patricelli never spent a night there.
A November storm affected the septic system, he said, and county officials soon deemed the house unfit to occupy. On Tuesday, less than 300 days after he bought it, the house became one of two along Ocean Drive to collapse into the sea after days of battering from an unnamed coastal storm.
"I was so looking forward to having a place where I could entertain and be back to normal," Patricelli, a 57-year-old real estate agent in California who grew up on the East Coast, said in an interview.
"I didn't realize how vulnerable it was," he added.
The swift march of climate change in North Carolina's 'ghost forests'
Patricelli's home was swept away overnight, but video of his neighbor's house succumbing to the ocean went viral this week. That neighbor, who lives in Tennessee, declined to comment when reached by phone. A third nearby home met the same fate in February.
"It was a shock," Patricelli said of the call he received that his house was gone. He later texted photos from before and after the collapse, writing, "Now there is absolutely nothing there — it's all been taken by the sea — we basically have a vacant lot."
The precarious nature of homes along the Outer Banks and other barrier islands is nothing new. Nor is the willingness of some Americans to stomach the risks posed by hurricanes and other natural disasters in exchange for homes and investments in desirable locations.
But the episode on the Outer Banks this week highlights a problem likely to deepen as climate change worsens.
For a variety of reasons, Americans continue to flock to disaster-prone areas of the country, despite growing risks of floods, fires and other catastrophes. And as sea levels rise, storms intensify and heat waves grow hotter, even places that once seemed relatively free of risk could face more serious threats to health and homes.
Few people were less surprised by the latest house collapses in Rodanthe than David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
"What was surprising to me is that they lasted as long as they did," he said in an interview Thursday. "This is a rapidly eroding area … [and] I don't have any reason to believe that erosion will stop. If anything, the scientists I've spoken with and publications I've read suggest that erosion will be exacerbated by sea level rise."
Extreme climate change has arrived, washing away homes on America's East Coast
Findings published this year by scientists at multiple federal agencies project that sea levels will rise along the U.S. coastline up to a foot on average over the next 30 years — "as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years."
In addition, researchers estimate that sea level rise will create "a profound shift in coastal flooding" over the coming decades by allowing storm surges and tides to reach further inland. By 2050, they wrote, "moderate" flooding is expected to occur 10 times as often as it does today, on average.
Hallac said it's important to understand that barrier islands move and change, and the sands of the Outer Banks have always shifted. Not all houses there face similar risks, and not all risks are attributable to climate change. "[But] climate change is most likely exacerbating these problems, and it will continue to exacerbate them," he said.
What has been striking, Hallac said, is that people have continued to purchase homes along the Outer Banks that stand perilously close to the sea, even as erosion worsens.
Public records bear out that reality.
Patricelli purchased his Ocean Drive home only nine months ago, but he was hardly alone. Along the stretch of beach near where his house stood, at least five other homes sold last year — and at least two have sold this year — according to Dare County property records. The other home that collapsed this week was purchased in 2020.
Matthew Storey, who lives near Raleigh, bought an oceanfront house down the block from Patricelli in November.
He said he is confident that his house is among the most secure on the street, in part because it was moved back from the shore in 2018 and supported by new, deeper pilings. "Not every house on the street is going to fall in," he said. But, he added, "the erosion this year has been almost unbelievable. I certainly do worry about it."
Storey said roughly 60 feet of the beach in front of his home had vanished during storms and other rough weather over the winter and spring. And he said having two of his neighbors' homes collapse affects everyone around them. He is concerned about property values, the environmental impact of debris and public perceptions about the actual hazards.
"The whole thing is just gut-wrenching," Storey said. "I've got a wife and two young kids, and I subsidize part of my income with this rental property."
Local officials have made clear that some nearby houses are at risk of the same fate of those that ended up in the ocean.
Noah Gillam, the planning director for Dare County, said about a dozen houses along the oceanfront in Rodanthe had been deemed unsafe this year. Homeowners receive such a designation after local officials conduct a "boots on the ground" inspection to check for problems with septic systems, structural integrity and other areas, he said.
If a property is deemed to be a hazard, Gillam said, officials will have the power turned off to ensure that the home remains unoccupied. They also inform homeowners that they should line up a contractor to remove debris if or when the sea claims their homes.
"The erosion rates definitely seem to be on the increase in certain areas," Gillam said, adding that even unnamed storms can sometimes cause serious damage to homes unprotected by dunes or close to the water's edge.
That trend is likely to continue.
"It's important for people to recognize that coastal systems are feeling the effects of sea level rise and climate change today," said Reide Corbett, a coastal oceanographer at East Carolina University and executive director at the Coastal Studies Institute. "It's not something that's a decade off. It's something that is happening."
Postcards from Earth's climate futures
The dramatic house collapses this week, while not unexpected, offered the latest reminder of the challenge that low-lying and barrier islands face, Corbett said. The combination of rising sea levels, worsening erosion and more intense and persistent storms is likely to wreak more havoc in the future.
"We need to think about how we are developing, and developing in a way that does lead to a more resilient community going forward," Corbett said.
Patricelli knows that some people might consider him unwise for buying a home at the ocean's edge, where erosion is a known problem, hurricanes are an annual threat and sea levels are rising.
He said that the sellers disclosed ways they had tried to shore up the house, and that he purchased flood insurance, which appears to be required given the property's location. He said he was not sure how much insurance would pay on his loss.
Until the house fell, Patricelli said, he and his sister were in the process of having it relocated farther from the waves, but they ran out of time.
"I knew there was some risk living near the water, but I certainly didn't think I'd lose the house within eight or nine months," he said, adding, "I was aware that erosion was happening there. I was not aware of the rate that it was happening. … We really thought we were going to be able to move the house and save it."
Patricelli said he and his neighbor hired the same contractor to help clear the ruins of their houses.
But even that is a complicated task.
National Park Service officials said that debris from the incidents had spread along at least 15 miles of coastline. The agency invited the public to help clean up along the beach on Thursday and Friday and said that "additional volunteer events will be announced in the coming days."
Patricelli said he and other nearby homeowners, many of whom also live out of state, have shared emails of advice and encouragement and bonded over the rising threats. "It's a really great little community," he said, noting that he hopes to rebuild, if farther from the ocean this time.
Patricelli said he knows some places are riskier than others: "It was a bet that went wrong." But one that went wrong sooner than he imagined.
While it's easy to question why someone would buy a house so near the ocean, he said, climate change is affecting people across the country and the world. In California, for instance, he has seen entire neighborhoods engulfed by wildfire, where such disasters once seemed unlikely.
"What I take out of all this is that climate change is a real thing for us all. It doesn't matter if you live on the ocean or in a forest or on a river," Patricelli said.
"I don't know if there's any place you are really safe from climate change at the moment."
Alice Crites contributed to this report.
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that one of the homes that collapsed this week was purchased in late 2019. It was actually purchased in 2020. The article has been corrected.
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