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Magistrate judge declines to award copyright troll attorney fees because copyright trolling fees does not advance the purposes of The Copyright Act
Lawyer — One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
On August 10, 2016 Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman handed down an Opinion and Order that denied a copyright troll attorney attorney's fees because such an award would not advance the purposes of The Copyright Act under the "totality of the circumstances." This post will briefly outline the underlying lawsuit and each of the circumstances that the judge found warranted a denial of attorney's fees as being counterproductive to the purposes of The Copyright Act.
It should be noted as a preliminary matter that the copyright troll attorney, Carl Crowell, has met several setbacks in Judge Beckerman's courtroom recently including a sua sponte dismissal of a direct copyright infringement claim.
The lawsuit that is the subject of this post is Glacier Films (USA) Inc. v. Turchin (ORD 15-cv-01817-SB), and was filed on September 25, 2015.The lawsuit involves the alleged copyright infringement of the cinematic masterpiece American Heist. Later on February 17, 2015 plaintiff filed its amended complaint naming the defendant and the defendant was served approximately one month later. The defendant neglected to answer and the plaintiff moved for a default judgement and the judge appointed David Madden as pro bono counsel for the defendant to fight the lawsuit. After some back and forth on July 8, 2016 the parties agreed to settle the case with a stipulated consent judgment whereby the defendant agreed to pay the statutory minimum of $750 and also agreed that the Court should award "reasonable attorney's fees and costs," in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 505 and pursuant to Rule 54. Afterwards on July 20, 2019 Crowell moved for attorney's fees and costs which defendant opposed to a degree. On August 10, 2016 Judge Beckerman handed down an Opinion and Order declining to award attorney's fees (despite the July 8, 2016 stipulation) because under the "totality of the circumstances" such an award "… would render an inequitable outcome that is inconsistent with the policies served by the Copyright Act."
The judge notes that such an award is not unprecedented in her district:
Recently, another court in this district denied a motion for attorney fees in a similar BitTorrent copyright case, in part because "[l]itigation conduct that needlessly increases the expense of resolving copyright disputes neither encourages innovation nor appropriately rewards an author's creation." See Countryman Nevada, LLC v. Doe-73.164.181.226,—F. Supp. 3d—,No. 3:15-cv-433-SI, 2016 WL 3437598, at *8 (D. Or. June 17, 2016) ("[U]nder the totality of the circumstances presented, the Court exercises its discretion to deny Plaintiff any attorney's fees, notwithstanding the fact that Plaintiff has prevailed on the merits of its copyright claim.").
Let us take a look at each of these three circumstances with the last weighing most heavily that influenced the judge's Opinion and Order.
CIRCUMSTANCE 1: THE COPYRIGHT TROLL'S "WIN" IS LARGELY MEANINGLESS
While a copyright holder's action against an individual BitTorrent copyright infringer is not frivolous under the Copyright Act, the degree of success in each of these BitTorrent copyright cases is minimal, in two respects. First, the $750 statutory damage award Defendant has agreed to pay is low in relation to the amount of attorney fees Plaintiffs have accrued ($4,833.45), to achieve that result. See Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc. v. Julien's Auction House LLC, 345 F. App'x 244, 249 (9th Cir. 2009) (noting that limited success, such as nominal damages, may support the denial of an attorney fee award, and observing that "an award of attorneys' fees that is ten times the amount recovered in damages seems unreasonable under the circumstances"). Second, Plaintiffs acknowledge that their movie, American Heist, has been illegally downloaded over 100,000 times. (Am. Compl. ¶ 6.) Although this case resulted in an injunction against one infringer, that result is de minimis in relation to the serious online piracy problem Plaintiffs seek to combat. On balance, the degree of success Plaintiffs have achieved as the prevailing parties in this litigation does not warrant requiring Defendant to fund in toto Plaintiffs' enforcement of their copyright.
CIRCUMSTANCE 2: A $750 JUDGMENT PLUS COSTS IS ENOUGH OF A PENALTY TO DETER PIRACY
For downloading a single movie, the Court is already requiring Defendant to pay $750 in statutory damages, as well as $791.70 to reimburse Plaintiffs for their costs, for a total financial penalty of almost $1,550. As this Court has noted in other cases, a financial penalty of that magnitude is sufficient to deter Defendant, as well as others, from illegally downloading movies in the future.
CIRCUMSTANCE 3 (THE BOMBSHELL): AWARDING ATTORNEYS FEES IN A COPYRIGHT TROLL LAWSUIT DOES NOT FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT
Rather than try to paraphrase the judge's eloquent dissection of why copyright troll lawsuits are abusive and counter to the purposes of The Copyright Act, I will let the judge's words speak the truth (emphasis supplied):
The Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit have also recognized that a district court should award attorney fees only if doing so will further the purposes of the Copyright Act. In these BitTorrent copyright cases, the threat of fee-shifting has emboldened Plaintiffs' counsel to demand thousands of dollars to settle a claim, even where the infringing defendant admits early in the case that they illegally downloaded the movie. See, e.g., Countryman Nevada, LLC, 2016 WL 3437598, at *2 (noting that plaintiff demanded $8,500 to settle the case after the defendant acknowledged liability early in the case); Cobbler Nevada, LLC v. Reardon, No. 3:15-cv-01077-ST, 2015 WL 9239773, at *2 (D. Or. Dec. 16, 2015) (noting that unrepresented defendant agreed to consent judgment in the amount of $8,500); see also Malibu Media, LLC v. Doe IP Address 66.108.67.10, No. 15 Civ. 4369 (AKH), 2015 WL 4092417, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. July 6, 2015) ("Recent empirical studies show that the field of copyright litigation is increasingly being overtaken by 'copyright trolls,' roughly defined as plaintiffs who are 'more focused on the business of litigation than on selling a product or service or licensing their [copyrights] to third parties to sell a product or service. The paradigmatic troll plays a numbers game in which it targets hundreds or thousands of defendants, seeking quick settlements priced just low enough that it is less expensive for the defendant to pay the troll rather than defend the claim.'") (citation omitted). In several of these BitTorrent copyright cases, defendants have agreed to pay the plaintiffs' settlement demands without the benefit of counsel, see, e.g., Reardon, 2015 WL 9239773, at *2, and in almost every case, the settlement agreements are confidential and not subject to court approval.4 The Copyright Act, as it is being enforced in these BitTorrent cases, has created results inconsistent with the goals of the Act. When an individual who has illegally downloaded a movie is contacted by Plaintiffs' counsel, and faces the threat of a statutory damage award that could theoretically reach $150,000 (see 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(2)), as well as the threat of a substantial attorney fee award, the resulting bargaining process is unequal, and unfair. For this Court to award Plaintiffs their attorney fees in this case would only contribute to the continued overaggressive assertion and negotiation of these Copyright Act claims.
It is in footnote 4 that we learn that this particular copyright troll attorney is an overreaching douchebag:
4 In some cases, Plaintiffs' counsel has pursued particularly vulnerable individuals. See, e.g., Cobbler Nevada, LLC v. Gonzales, No. 3:15-cv–00866-SB (targeting an adult group foster care home); Cobbler Nevada, LLC v. Snapp, No. 3:15-cv-01768-SB (targeting a woman living on Social Security disability benefits).
In conclusion the judge holds that:
However, exercising the Court's discretion to require Defendant to pay thousands of dollars in attorney fees, for illegally downloading a single movie, would render an inequitable outcome that is inconsistent with the policies served by the Copyright Act.
So while it might be legitimate in the judge's view to allow minimum statutory damages plus costs in a copyright troll lawsuit; to reward the bringing of such a lawsuit with an additional award of attorney's fees is not legitimate under The Copyright Act.
12/30/2016 (SJD)
This order is on appeal: Glacier Films (USA) v. Andrey Turchin (CA9 16-35688). Yesterday Crowell filed his opening brief. Defendant's reply is due 1/27/2017. The defendant retained attorney Klaus Hamm of Klakquist.
Remember Prenda's appeal crusade and its utter failure? Given the similarity between Prenda's and Guardaley's ways to plunder US citizens, this case will be fun to watch.
Tags: 15-cv-01817, American Heist, Bittorent, Carl Crowell, Copyright, Copyright Act, Copyright Troll, David Madden, Default Judgment, Gevond Andreasyan, Glacier Films, Guardaley, Judge Stacie Beckerman, Maverickeye UG, Oregon
Published on: August 21, 2016 July 19, 2019 Author: Raul
8 responses to 'Magistrate judge declines to award copyright troll attorney fees because copyright trolling fees does not advance the purposes of The Copyright Act'
Anon E. Mous August 22, 2016 00:23 • Reply
LOL I am sure old Carl is one unhappy guy, his lil money making settlement machine is grinding slower and slower. Could it be that the Oregon court are tiring of seeing these troll lawsuits and seeing the same out comes over and over and nothing coming near a trial.
I have said before the trolls love that easy settlement cash, and are loathe to give it up, it will be interesting to watch how Carl's further troll lawsuits do with the judges who have Carl's cases on their docket
BTCG August 22, 2016 08:46 • Reply
It's like donating one penny to your political rival: the recordkeeping costs exceed the financial gain. While 1550 is a lot to the (non-answering default) defender, it's going to bankrupt local counsel (sob!). What's even worse is when vigorous challenges end in a voluntary dismissal–then there are zero dollars incoming.
"If we are victorious in one more battle with the [legal system], we shall be utterly ruined." – Phyrrus
WDS August 22, 2016 14:46 • Reply
It would be nice if this became the norm rather than the exception.
I neglected to point out in the post that Magistrate Judge Beckerman on the same day handed down an almost identical Opinion and Order in a Cobbler Nevada copyright troll lawsuit. https://casetext.com/case/cobbler-nev-llc-v-doe-22 History does repeat itself, just search this blog for "Mike Meier". lol
Also forgot to link the Countryman Nevada lawsuit which the MJ used as precedent in the Opinion and Order to deny attorneys fees. It is well worth a read as it catalogues numerous overreaching douchebag moves by Crowell while the Doe's attorney was attempting a reasonable settlement. https://casetext.com/case/countryman-nev-llc-v-doe-73164181227
newvideos31 September 16, 2016 15:15 • Reply
Raul December 13, 2016 00:02 • Reply
Another Opinion and Order denying Crowell attorney fees as such an award would be inconsistent with the policies of The Copyright Act. https://casetext.com/case/cobbler-nev-llc-v-cerritos
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Animals Dressed as Humans
The curtains are closed as I enter. All around, frenetic energy pulls at my attention like a toddler pulling at mom's shirt. Some people are in their seats, others stand, their conversations growing louder and softer like waves toppling onto the beach, yet I remain focused on the curtains, on what's behind them, on what's about to happen.
I've been waiting all week for this, counting down to it. I've been to school, I've been to church twice. I've prayed and sung and ridden my bike around the neighborhood with my brother as the sun went down. But it was all just a prelude to this; a weeklong opening act.
Sitting in a haze of nervous anticipation, every passing minute feels stretched like taffy. Time blurs and warps and I begin to question, just for a moment, if the curtains will actually open at all. Was it all for naught? The hoping and the countdowns? Have I set myself up for disappointment?
Just as I begin to feel hope slipping through my clammy fingers, the music starts without announcement or introduction, saving me from myself. The curtains begin to slide open and all other noise fades away as the band finally comes into view.
There's the wolf in a bowtie. There's the bear dressed like a hillbilly and the mouse in a blonde wig whose ears flap like eyelids. I can see the gorilla in a gold tuxedo playing the keyboard and the dog in a space suit beating the drums behind him. It's the Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic robots who comprise the floor show at Showbiz Pizza, and I am elated.
In the early 90s, Showbiz Pizza stood as an almost fabled entity to me. In the days before Discovery Zone swooped in with their tunnels and slides and foam-covered mountains to climb, Showbiz Pizza was the premiere destination for all things birthday in my little suburb. Though its name suggests otherwise, the pizza was actually an afterthought; last on the list of reasons we were ecstatic to be there. No, we were there to play games and take home the prizes we received in exchange for the tickets hours of basketball toss or Whack-a-Mole earned us. I mean, who cares about pizza when you could win a Tiny Toons slap bracelet, a pencil covered in Lisa Frank unicorns, and a pack of Fruit Stripe gum? But even as much as we loved deliriously running around in our socks playing games and jumping in the ball pit again and again, everything came to a halt when it was time for the floor show.
The magic took place along the wall of the dining room where a large circular stage was flanked by two smaller stages. Each lay concealed behind a curtain but at the behest of the music, the curtains slowly opened to reveal the giant animatronic animals dressed in people clothes as they sprang to life under blinking multicolored lights to "sing" covers of songs like "Runaway" by Del Shannon, "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs, "Bread and Butter" by The Newbeats, and "Shout" by The Isley Brothers.
The hydraulics that enabled the robot band to twist and move produced a chorus of industrial hissing and clicks which sometimes went unnoticed on account of the loud music but other times were as distractingly audible as a second drum track. Each medley lasted between five and six minutes and as the music faded, the curtains would close and the lights dimmed to black once again, signaling your permission to run back to the arcade as you hoovered another slice of mediocre pepperoni into your mouth on the way.
This concept was, of course, a crude knock-off of the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney World. One of the few phantom memory flashes I have from being at Disney World as a toddler is of the singing bears in the Jamboree because, let's face it, animals who vocalize are your entire life when you're a toddler. Robin Hood was a singing fox, Bugs Bunny was a talking rabbit, and Kermit was a sassy frog who doubled as my imaginary best friend. The Fraggles weren't animals per se but they talked and sang and double-clapped so anything was possible. Bearing this in mind, it's not a stretch to believe the hillbilly bears at Disney were, in fact, singing to me in real life.
By the time Showbiz Pizza became the centrifugal force in my childhood birthday-going life, I'd long since left behind the illusion and delusion these furry anamorphic robots were real. I knew it was all a show (except for Kermit who was super real and still my best friend) but it didn't make me love it any less. Whenever I'd hear the music start, I'd abandon my friends in the arcade, race to sit in the front row, and gleefully watch that wolf lip sync in front of a sequin-covered cardboard rainbow.
One of the final times I went to Showbiz Pizza was for my brother's birthday. We were going through a Dick Tracy phase—the movie with Warren Beatty and Madonna had come out and we thought the campy, over-the-top villains with names like Flat Top and Mumbles were big fun—and all he wanted for his birthday were the action figures of those movie mobsters. After watching him open his presents and attempting to disguise my wildfire jealousy over all the cool crap he got with excitement, everyone dispersed to play games or dive back into the ball pit. You're never supposed to dive into a ball pit but you did. I, however, stuck around, waiting for the curtains to open and reveal the next number by the madcap band of robots dressed as animals dressed as humans.
The pizza was gone, the cake had been eaten, and though there were more games to play, I waited. As I did, my eyes scanned the curtain and I noticed something. Something strange. Something curious. Part of the curtain had become hung up on a corner of the stage and as such, anyone could see behind it without much effort at all.
Being an inquisitive and sneaky child, it took about half a second for me to run up and poke my head in the gap created by the snagged curtain. Silent and unmoving, the band stood stoic in the dark, their plastic eyes staring straight ahead, unblinking and lifeless. It was my own Oz moment, a peek behind the curtain, and the youthful magic they once possessed seemed to flake off and blow away. Though I still enjoyed seeing the animals shake their hips to vaguely familiar pop music, it never felt quite as charming as it had before.
We make a choice to believe. God, Santa, the Loch Ness Monster, the good in people–they all require making a conscious choice to believe in their realness. With some of them, we believe until we're given a reason not to. We find the letters we wrote to Santa in the back of mom's closet and The Night Before Christmas abruptly shifts from memoir to fiction. We learn about the hoaxes which have tried to perpetuate the story of Nessie for the purpose of selling Loch Ness memorabilia and we mentally slide her into the category with other urban legends like Bigfoot and Walt Disney's frozen head. To that end, I shudder at the fact that right now in Times Square, there's a five-year-old who has yet to lose the innocence of make believe but will, somewhere between the TKTS booth and the Naked Cowboy, witness a Minnie Mouse take off her costume's head so the tiny woman inside can chain smoke at the intersection of 44th and Broadway.
Much like that kid, I've seen some illusions disappear recently. The first was the illusion I would naturally slim down and become healthier thanks to a cocktail of it's-worked-in-the-past, metabolism, and positive thoughts. This should've been a no-brainer but I had to change my eating habits and join a gym with a pool in order for any of that to take place. Which it is. Slow and steady. Healthy. Habit-forming. New.
The second is the illusion I can change people. This was a tough one because I have a lot of opinions about how to fix the world and ourselves but I've learned I can't change anyone. It doesn't matter if the foundation on which they stand is a harmful fallacy or if it rails against rudimentary common sense. There are simply some people who can't be changed. They've made the decision not to; to concretize. On top of that, there's only so much you can say and usually, you're not the one to say it anyway.
The third was the illusion career advancement or projects, passions or bylines would serve as no-slip ladder rungs for my growth from here to there. It turns out, getting there an inside job. It's taking care of your self. It's taking care of others. It's letting them take care of you. It's long phone calls about nothing. It's naps with your person. It's laughing relentlessly together on Splash Mountain.
When I wound up at Disney World a few years ago for a friend's 30th birthday, everyone else had an earlier flight home so I spent a couple extra hours at the park after they left. Alone, I wandered through the Magic Kingdom. Living in New York conditions you to be able to hold your own when you're by yourself and at the Happiest Place on Earth, I was content to do so. As I walked toward Splash Mountain, I saw the sign for the Country Bear Jamboree and sort of absent-mindedly wandered inside. It had been twenty years since I'd seen those animatronic bears put on a show but as I sat down on the bench and waited for them to do their hillbilly thing, I felt like a kid all over again.
I was sitting near Max, the buck mounted on the wall who comes to life alongside the bison and the moose. I love a good moose. When he "came to life," I could hear the clicking of his plastic eyelids and it reminded me of my afternoons at Showbiz Pizza. Obviously the quality of the Jamboree is lightyears ahead of the Carrollton, Texas, Showbiz Pizza, but the innocent magic of those happy robotic bears hearkened back to what made Showbiz so great. It reminded me that all the disillusionment in the world couldn't snuff out that part of us that just wants to believe like we did when we were kids.
We're in such a hurry to "grow up" when we're young. What a mistake that is. I'm 36 and I'd much rather go to Disney World than an uppity spa retreat or vineyard tour any day. As a matter of fact, I have every intention of working the door at the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland when I retire. It's okay to close the curtain again and just enjoy what we enjoy. Some illusions need to break as we're confronted with the realities of our humanness but that afternoon, as I watched the Disney floorshow featuring a bunch of over-sized robot hillbilly teddy bears, I felt the palpable wonder of the innocence of believing.
Ryan's book of essays, I Feel God in This Cab, is available here.
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"Aha!" said a man watching the TV in the next panel of the strip. "I knew it!"
That pretty much sums up what a surprisingly substantial number of people are concluding: that negligibly consequential errata from a tiny fraction of the vast corpus of scientific research is enough to convince one that climate change is a myth or that we shouldn't move so fast to assume it's real.
Never mind the overwhelming evidence that the world is growing hotter and that it correlates closely to the rise in greenhouse gases generated largely by human activity. And, in the wake of controversies about the validity of scraps of evidence from research sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, purloined e-mails from British scientists that indicate holes in their research and even the idiotic claims by some that the record snowfalls along the mid-Atlantic region this winter disprove climate change, these voices seem to be getting louder and more visible.
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Notably, the proportions of those who believe in climate change (and that human activity is responsible for it) have remained mostly the same over time. A survey by NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart and Bill McInturff in December 2009, for example, shows that positions for and against that view have changed little over the last ten years.
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That's exactly what I heard a couple weeks ago from someone who works at a major climate change policy and research group, and it leaves the organization in a quandary. The more they try to roll out credible experts to make the case, the more the opposition fights back. Also, because they had assumed that the question of climate change had been settled, the group moved on to advocating for policy solutions. Now the organization is considering putting some of that on hold to go back to educating some more about the threat and existence of climate change. They're losing what could be precious time going over old ground they thought they'd won long ago.
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Today, may you imagine the light that dwells inside the total stranger and the one you don't want to forgive.
small-flamed beauty, glowing from a cracked lantern.
Remember that you have until 11:59 PST tonight (how's that for official?) to subscribe to Draw Near or "Like" Draw Near on Facebook for your chance to win one of four beautiful prints, courtesy of my mama (aka Spree of cooking-spree.com). To see more information on the drawing and the gorgeous photos themselves, see this. Also don't forget that if you've already been a liker or follower (I still can't get over those bizarre terms), there will be an equally fab contest to include you soon.
Ashley, an exquisite prayer. It's one of those I'd like to commit to memory. So very beautiful. And the image Ash! What beauty underfoot! Just pure loveliness this post!
Thank you so much, Mama. If only I'd had my amazing new camera when I saw this scene! :) Only my iPhone in hand this day.
Amen. A beautiful prayer, Straight from the heart.
You know real impact occurs simply from the heartfelt act of putting this out there to us all, right ? Mission accomplished. Muchos gracias .


Bull rider and fan-favorite Bonner Bolton continues to impress judges on Dancing With the Stars. This week, Bolton and his partner, Sharna Burgess, danced the tango in a Disney-themed week. Their song selection was from the arcade-inspired movie, "Wreck-It Ralph." The well-known PBR star continues to receive great reviews from judges.
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Die 25. Leichtathletik-U18-Südamerikameisterschaften fanden vom 25. bis zum 26. September 2021 in Encarnación im Süden von Paraguay statt. Damit fanden die U18-Meisterschaften zum dritten Mal nach 1996 und 2002 in Paraguay statt.

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Weitsprung

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Dreisprung

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Diskuswurf (1,5 kg)

Datum: 25. September

Hammerwurf (5 kg)

Datum: 26. September

Speerwurf (700 g)

Datum: 25. September

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Weitsprung

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Dreisprung

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Kugelstoßen (3 kg)

Datum: 25. September

Diskuswurf

Datum: 26. September

Hammerwurf (3 kg)

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Speerwurf (500 g)

Datum: 25. September

Siebenkampf

Datum: 25./26. September

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Mr. Price was a member of the trial and appellate team that successfully defeated an action brought against the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission regarding its leasing of mineral rights to third-party contractors. Mr. Price's representation ultimately lead to a unanimous Arkansas Supreme Court decision in favor of the client. Mr. Price was also a member of the trial team that obtained summary judgment in favor of the Commission when a citizen accused it of violating the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act and the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. Mr. Price served on the defense team that obtained a favorable jury verdict for a client who was sued by a business partner for breach of contract, breaches of fiduciary duties, fraud, and conversion. In that matter, the opposing party sought several million dollars in damages but received an award of zero from the jury. Mr. Price's experience also includes serving as lead trial counsel in numerous actions where his clients were plaintiffs seeking recovery for another's unlawful detainer, breach of contract, or negligence. In those matters, Mr. Price's clients were awarded in excess of $2 million in total.
In addition, Mr. Price represents both property owners and condemning authorities in eminent domain matters. Mr. Price represented a local authority in condemning numerous acres of urban property to expand school grounds and received judgments in favor of the local authority in each action that had to be filed. He has also successfully represented property owners in numerous condemnation lawsuits, retaining full-price judgments. In one such matter, the condemning authority sought to take a client's leasehold interest and refused to pay any sort of compensation to the client. At trial, the jury awarded his client nearly $100,000.00. Mr. Price has also represented citizens in front of local and state governmental bodies to prevent or delay controversial real estate projects. Mr. Price has worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, and the United States Attorney's Office to investigate and, ultimately, convict persons who were guilty of converting corporate assets for personal gain.
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A native of Dyersburg, Tennessee, Mr. Price moved to Little Rock in the summer of 2004 to attend the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Prior to law school, Mr. Price attended the University of Tennessee at Martin where he earned his Bachelor of Science in History, received the Ernest and Wilma Newby Scholarship for the most outstanding male scholar in the university's history department, participated on the varsity baseball team, and received the Ohio Valley Conference Medal of Honor for accumulating the highest GPA in the conference for a baseball player in 2002.
In May of 2007, Mr. Price graduated with high honors from the William H. Bowen School of Law where he served as an Associate Editor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, as a Student Body Association Senator, and as a co-founder and Vice President of UALR's chapter of the American Constitution Society. In addition, Mr. Price was a participant in UALR's Mediation Clinic Program and the 2006-07 recipient of the Wilson & Associates Ethics Scholarship, which is awarded to the most outstanding student in UALR's Professional Responsibility course. While in law school, Mr. Price clerked for the Arkansas Attorney General's Office and the Honorable John S. Tanner, U.S. Representative for the Eighth District of Tennessee.
Mr. Price was admitted to practice in Arkansas in 2007. Mr. Price was also admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 2007.
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FBI: Gen. Petraeus Crossed Out 'Classified' Mark On Hillary Clinton Meeting Document
David BixenspanSep 5th, 2016, 3:43 pm
Newly released documents from the FBI reveal that former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus admitted to "crossing out" a classification marking in a document concerning a meeting that he had with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
These new files were actually released on August 26th, exactly one week before the FBI released the Clinton email investigation summary and interview notes, but, so far, have not received much media attention at all. Like the Clinton documents, the Bureau put the Petraeus files up at The Vault, the website which the agency uses to house its most popular case files.
The Petraeus documents were heavily redacted for privacy and national security related reasons. Not much can be gleaned from them so far (there are potentially thousands more pages to come, but they most likely won't be released until January of 2018). However, there's a curious note on page 61 of the second file, which also pertains to Clinton, stemming from a spontaneous statement that Petraeus made during a search of his home on April 5, 2013:
At approximately 12:17 p.m., PETRAEUS entered the office area [REDACTED] and stated in the presence of other search team personnel he was the originating authority of a document related to a meeting he had with Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State. This document contained a classification marking, which PETRAEUS had crossed by placing a line through it.
What exactly does that mean? As Director of Central Intelligence, Petraeus did have the authority to change the classification status of documents, but doing so by crossing out the "CLASSIFIED" marking is not standard procedure by any stretch.
Petraeus entered a guilty plea for mishandling classified materials when he sent confidential documents to his biographer, who was also his mistress. Clinton, of course, recently avoided charges for using a non-government email server while relaying classified material as Secretary of State.
We are digging for more information. The FBI National Press Office was not immediately available for comment due to the Labor Day holiday, but LawNewz will update you if we get any additional information from them.
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Re: Uh, yeah, you are
Rick York23-Oct-18 13:48
Rick York 23-Oct-18 13:48
Twisted words aside, I think you are right. The word "hero" is bandied about a bit too loosely these days in my opinion.
David O'Neil23-Oct-18 14:44
David O'Neil 23-Oct-18 14:44
But not as badly as 'snowflake.'
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I agree. I would reply with what I really think about that but this is not The Soapbox.
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz23-Oct-18 16:16
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz 23-Oct-18 16:16
Yeah, I actually agree with the points you made. What I was trying to say is that all good Moms are angels and heros, regardless of that Mom's denial of being one.
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dandy7224-Oct-18 5:33
dandy72 24-Oct-18 5:33
Well, there's that aspect. The life-long self-sacrifices mothers make outweigh the "deservedness" of the label this particular article was trying to assign (for the wrong reasons).
Nathan Minier24-Oct-18 2:28
Nathan Minier 24-Oct-18 2:28
I think it's fair to say this was something that any given person should have done.
Sadly, the law enforcement agency deserves some applause for actually doing its job, which is all too rare lately.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
How true.
An underfunded/understaffed department might have delayed the dispatch. Maybe it actually was delayed, but still got there in time--there's no mention in the article that the response was immediate (that I recall - I'd have to go back to it and pay attention to the wording).
Android app review sites
Anyone know of some sort of Android app review site (beyond the Google Play store itself) where people can freely post their opinions on any app? One that isn't influenced by the software's author(s) or whatever Google gives preference to on any given week.
It really looks like the Play Store's download figures and user ratings are turning into completely irrelevant data points when it comes to trustworthiness. Whether they ever were or not is besides the point. Something could have been downloaded tens of millions of times, and rated 4.5+ out of 5, but a given app's actual real-life behavior can still raise some serious questions. I'm seriously beginning to think the Play Store itself is turning into a cesspool of...well, I'm gonna keep this kid-sister friendly as per lounge rules. If Google's ranking can't be trusted, then whose can?
I've have a QR code scanner app, which shall remain nameless, installed on my tablet for years. I honestly can't recall the last time I've used it however. But, I do let the Play store update installed apps regularly.
According to the Settings/App Data Usage applet, which only goes back to June, this is this one app's usage:
Jun: 0 (no surprise - it hasn't been launched since at least that many months ago)
Jul: 10.44MB
Aug: 721MB
Sep: 506MB
Oct: 558MB (so far)
According to the App Info applet, the app only has permission to access the camera (makes sense, as it's a QR reader). So it shouldn't be able to access my videos, pictures, contacts, or upload any data back home. Even if it was explicitly given permission, the tablet is hardly ever used; it's spending most of its time in sleep mode. Or running, but with the screen powered down.
WTE can such an app be doing, transferring over half a GB a month, when the tablet itself is essentially idling 24/7?
People incessantly complain about whatever "unknown things" Windows is constantly doing behind their backs in the background. This is a drop in the ocean IMO when compared to the Android ecosystem (to borrow one of MS's favorite terms)...
Re: Android app review sites
RJOberg23-Oct-18 7:13
RJOberg 23-Oct-18 7:13
Could it be a bug with the updates?
Not saying this is the case since QR reader apps are some of the worst when it comes to sleazy permission abuse. However, the Google News app has a rather nasty bug which chews up data, even if it is set to Wifi only. Ref: ZDNet article[^].
RJOberg wrote:
As I understand it, when it comes to updates, the data usage would be attributed to the Play Store app, not the app itself.
The bug with the Google News app is because the app itself is pulling down absolute loads of data after a recent update. Curious if the QR reader you use is doing the same thing.
Depends how "recent" that is. Based on the numbers I posted in my original message, this goes back a few months.
Original reports were from June of 2018, but it appears to still be an ongoing issue. The only way to 100% prevent it was to disable background data use for the news app.
Doesn't happen to everyone, for instance I haven't noticed it on my phone and I have data limits set up to warn me about high usage.
RickZeeland23-Oct-18 7:33
RickZeeland 23-Oct-18 7:33
Slant is a general product site, but has Android reviews: https://www.slant.co/tags/android[^]
Great. The app I have is on the list (near the top), and there's some claims it asks for a lot more permissions than an app like needs. OTOH, as I mentioned, Google's own Permissions app under Settings/Apps claims it only needs to access the camera.
Somebody's lying. Given the data usage, I have to think Google's app might not be as accurate as it could be.
The only reason an app like this can remain near the top of the list must be that people don't care that an idling app is still chewing through half a GB worth of data over a month.
David Crow23-Oct-18 10:46
David Crow 23-Oct-18 10:46
dandy72 wrote:
...and there's some claims it asks for a lot more permissions than an app like needs.
While technically possible, I would lean toward doubtful at this point, at least until more empirical data was provided.
Does the app have ads? If so, whatever permissions those ads require will look no different than the ones actually used by the app.
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dandy7223-Oct-18 11:00
dandy72 23-Oct-18 11:00
The app apparently does have ads, but if it hasn't been launched in months...does it actually sit around and download ads in the background, that you're never going to see?
Over half a gig in a month would be a lot of ads that all manage to circumvent the DNS-level ad-blocker I'm using (Pi-hole).
...but if it hasn't been launched in months...does it actually sit around and download ads in the background...
If the app or the ads have launched any services that start at boot-up, they could be doing most anything (with respect to the permissions granted). Hundreds of MBs seems a bit much, though.
Check the list of running services to find out. If any are present for that app, stop them and let the app go unused for several weeks to see if the usage goes down.
Where's this list of services? I can see the app list, but nothing in there that really distinguishes apps from services (if that's where they're listed).
This is on Android 6, if it matters.
Found it, under Developer options, Running Services. It contains:
- Settings
- Equalizer+ (a music player)
- AcerCare Core
- Google Play services
- InMobi Services (?)
- MTKLogger (?)
- Gboard
Where's this list of services?
Under Settings --> Developer options --> Running services.
Thanks - see the edit to my previous post.
I suspect this one.
I personally would stop this one, too, albeit for different reasons.
InMobi Services
Interesting. It says the service ..."was started by its app", then shows its app as "Media / android.process.media", and has the standard Android logo.
MTKLogger
Same idea, and it shows MTKLogger / com.mediatek.mtklogger as the associated process.
Both have been killed.
I've probably tried to root this tablet a long time ago, and--reading about MTKLogger--this is probably how I ended up with it. Sounds like something I should get rid of...if I can...?
Vikram A Punathambekar23-Oct-18 8:22
Vikram A Punathambekar 23-Oct-18 8:22
That doesn't sound good at all
But if an app hasn't requested (and hasn't been granted) permission to read storage, does it REALLY mean it can't access storage? I read about some malware that don't request these permissions (so they don't even show up on the Play store in the permissions section) but once downloaded, they 'phone home' to download more executable code that has a malicious payload, which includes access to, say, storage that the original app didn't have. How tight is the sandbox really?
I just wonder if your app might be doing something like this. One thing you can do is install a firewall and see what IPs the app connects to. I've used NoRoot Firewall by Greyshirts (who came up with that name? ) in the past that can do this.
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Michael Martin23-Oct-18 11:04
Michael Martin 23-Oct-18 11:04
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
NoRoot Firewall by Greyshirts (who came up with that name? )
Someone who is married.
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by Zack Gorman
People working with Tableau come from many different backgrounds. They're analysts, data journalists, graphic designers or just curious people wanting an upgrade from their spreadsheet. Regardless of who creates them, I think the best dashboards share one thing in common: They inspire viewers to learn more. For my Iron Viz entry, I've recreated a tool that's been used for centuries to educate others, the information wheel, with a few updates for the modern generation. If you like the viz, I'd appreciate it if you took a sec to go vote for it as part of Tableau's Politics Viz Contest.
What Is an Information Wheel?
You may or may not have used an information wheel before, but the design is incredibly intuitive and interactive. You typically have a series of options displayed on the outer rim of the wheel, then you rotate that disc to view information about those different options. One example, which I first saw in Jessica Helfand's "Reinventing The Wheel," is shown below:
This wheel was created more than 80 years ago, but it is still a great example of a tool that piques the interest of the user and educates them. It relies on carefully crafted text to bring up the information relevant to each selected president, and while it can be a little tedious to turn the wheel just right, it's quite intricate considering the technology available at the time. My hope was to create something similar to this in Tableau and take advantage of the interactivity available to us.
How I Made the Viz
The first step was figuring out how to recreate the rotating portraits in Tableau. I used Adobe Illustrator (thanks for the free trial!) to make a circle with 43 equally spaced dots along it, then used InterWorks' very own Drawing Tool for Tableau to turn that in to something with X/Y coordinates that I could use with a custom image in Tableau. I then did a little bit of manual manipulating to create a layout for each president. The information came from several different sources, but most of the basic demographic information was grabbed from Wikipedia using import.io. Add in a dash of pencil maps from Mapbox to give things a little more simplistic motif, and we're all set.
There's no shortage of politics data out there, especially in an election year. Tableau Public has already been flooded with an endless stream of new electoral maps. It would have been very easy to look at that sort of thing for this competition, but I wanted to build out something that didn't focus so heavily on the inherent conflict within politics. The conflict is so often what turns people off from getting involved or getting educated. I wanted to build something to counter that, getting people interested and intrigued. Hopefully, this new take on an information wheel can help pique curiosity in people like the paper ones of the past.
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Broadway Malyan-designed National Heart Centre in Singapore completed
18 March 2014	(Last Updated March 18th, 2014 18:30)
The National Heart Centre in Singapore, which was designed by UK-based architectural firm Broadway Malyan, has been completed.
The 12-storey building features open spaces with a mix of green courtyards, sky gardens and landscape views.
Broadway Malyan was selected through an open competition for the £175m project. The company provided a range of services, including architectural, landscape architectural and interior design services.
Broadway Malyan Singapore-based director Ed Baker said: "Our expert design team wanted to challenge people's perceptions of healthcare and taking the patient experience as our starting point, working in close partnership with the Ministry of Health, we have incorporated the complex, specialist medical needs within an exciting and dramatic space."
The project forms part of Singapore's general hospital redevelopment master plan, which is claimed to be the largest in the country.
Broadway Malyan designed the 17ha mega healthcare city, which was recently launched in Singapore.
The Health City Novena project is being implemented by Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the National Healthcare Group and Singapore Health Ministry.
"We have incorporated the complex, specialist medical needs within an exciting and dramatic space."
The Singapore-based team of Broadway Malyan is providing the detailed master plan, architectural and landscape design services, in collaboration with Surbana International Consultants, which is offering project management and engineering services.
The project will connect existing healthcare facilities and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
The completed facility will serve 30,000 patients, visitors, staff, students and residents per day, doubling the number of patients currently served by the hospital.
Under the plans, existing buildings will be replaced with multi-storey blocks to increase floor space from 250,000m² to 600,000m².
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Weapons: The Avoidable G36 Disaster
May 5, 2015: The German army now admits, after years of user complaints and several rounds of testing, that it has major accuracy and reliability problems with its G36 assault rifle. The G36 is a 3.3 kg (7.3 pound), 999mm (39 inch) long (758mm with stock folded) 5.56mm assault rifle. Effective range is 800 meters and it can use a 30 or 100 round magazine and was designed to be an improvement on the M16 design from the 1960s. On paper the G36 was a success, in combat it was not. This was particularly true in Afghanistan. While the G36 entered service in 1995 it didn't get exposed to heavy combat use until 2008 and that's when the complaints from the troops began.
The main problem was that the G36 suffers accuracy and reliability problems when the barrel gets very hot. This tends to happen when the rifle fires a lot of rounds in a short period and is worse in areas where the outdoor temperatures are very hot. This was a common situation in Afghanistan. In 2014 despite formal investigations and test results that backed up the complaints of the troops the German government ordered one last round of tests and a temporary halt in purchases of G36s. The results of those tests confirmed earlier results and the G36 was said to have no future in the German military. That admits the problem but does not solve it.
Although German troops went to Afghanistan in 2002, they were deliberately kept away from combat for several years. But by 2008 German troops were regularly experiencing firefights and encountering the previously unknown G36 flaws. There were incidents where hours of combat caused several very obvious problems. One of the more obvious culprits was the polymer (plastic) parts of the rifle getting a bit soft when the metal parts got very hot due to heavy use in a short period of time. The barrel and receiver could move a tiny bit under those conditions and that threw off accuracy to a small degree that became especially noticeable only at longer (over 200 meters) ranges. It was later discovered that the manufacturer had not been using the right type of plastic for the rifle and the cheaper substitute was more prone to failure in high-heat conditions.
By 2012 it was also discovered that there were no practical (workable and affordable) solutions. At first the German government insisted the problem has to do with bad ammunition but the ammo manufacturers denied that and were able to make a convincing case. Meanwhile the complaints from the troops, confirmed by many witnesses and cell phone photos, of the heat related problems and total failure of the rifle in some cases kept showing up in the media. German politicians and procurement officials initially responded by trying to make all this go away. The government officials did not want to admit they made a major mistake in putting the G36 into service. They also don't want the major expense of replacing the G36 with a better design.
The G36 was initially very popular as the standard German infantry assault rifle. By 1997 in was widely used and troops appreciated the fact that it used a short-stroke piston system. The M16s uses gas-tube system, which results in carbon being blown back into the chamber. That leads to carbon build up, which results in jams (rounds getting stuck in the chamber, and the weapon unable to fire.). The short-stroke system also does not expose parts of the rifle to extremely hot gases (which wears out components more quickly). As a result, rifles using the short-stroke system, rather than the gas-tube, are more reliable, easier to maintain and last longer. That was the good news. The bad news stayed hidden for a decade.
Meanwhile heat has long been a problem for infantry weapons, especially those capable of automatic fire. The mass media is prone to misinterpreting these effects. For example the mass media is fond of talking about American assault rifles overheating and jamming. Some of the reports displayed a remarkable ignorance of how military rifles operate. A typical bit of misinformation reported rifle barrels white hot with heat. That's a physical impossibility, because of the metal used for these rifles. Long before the rifle barrels turned any color from heat, rounds would automatically fire ("cook off") from the heat, and the barrels would fail (split apart). The reporters also seemed unaware of how automatic weapons handle heat. Assault rifles are built to fire about once every four seconds for hours, without any heat problems. Machine-guns do have heat problems, and are designed with easily removable barrels, so you can switch in a fresh (cooler) barrel as needed. In short, any automatic weapon will overheat if you put too many rounds through it in too short a time. The G36 can fire over 12 rounds a second, interrupted only by the few seconds it takes to insert a new magazine. In heavy combat troops fire their weapons as fast as they can because it is a matter of life and death. But all that firing is not what the G36 was designed to handle.
At first German troops were taught about this heat problem and reminded that they must either cope with it or risk death. The G36 problem is what engineers consider "acceptable" given the design. It is always possible, especially in a desperate combat situation, to use weapons in ways they were not designed for. Well trained troops are taught the consequences of certain extreme situations, so that at least they know what to expect. But the problem with the G36 was not enough attention to heat in the design process and then not enough attention to how the weapons were built. The solution to this is not warning the troops and telling them to suck it up.
The German government has announced that the G36 cannot be salvaged but has not yet announced what the replacement might be. Many Heckler & Koch officials still do not believe there is a problem or, if there is one, that it cannot be easily fixed.
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WILDER: "I Don't Believe Anything Fury Says"
WILDER: "I Don't Believe Anything Fury Says"
DEONTAY WILDER VS. TYSON FURY II FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES & PHOTOS
WBC Heavyweight World Champion Wilder & Lineal Champion Fury Square Off Before Highly Anticipated Rematch This Saturday, February 22 Headlining Historic Mega PPV Event Live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (Feb. 19, 2020) — Unbeaten WBC Heavyweight Champion Deontay "The Bronze Bomber" Wilder and undefeated lineal heavyweight champion Tyson "The Gypsy King" Fury nearly came to blows at a heated final press conference Thursday as they previewed their highly anticipated rematch headlining a historic mega PPV event this Saturday, February 22 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Wilder and Fury exchanged words and shoves on stage, just two days before they reignite their rivalry in the ring for the most eagerly awaited heavyweight showdown in decades.
Tickets for the event are on sale now and can be purchased at www.mgmgrand.com or www.axs.com. The event is promoted by BombZquad Promotions, TGB Promotions, Top Rank and Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions. A Premier Boxing Champions presentation.
Here is what the press conference participants had to say Wednesday from the MGM Grand Garden Arena:
DEONTAY WILDER (pictures by Mikey Williams for Top Rank)
"I truly realized my power during my current knockout streak. I looked at my record and realized I was running through guys and knocking them out. You don't just go in and knock a human out based on will, you really have to have the power to do so, and through that I realized I had something different. I am just applying my service to my greatness and I am going to use my power up until I can't use it anymore."
"My power is God-given; I don't have to do anything at all. I don't have to lift weights or do a special type of cardio; it's born with me. It's an amazing feeling to have it and to be in this position, out of all the things I could be doing, God placed me in this position. As fighters, we are free in this sport, we say as we please with less consequences, so when I use my platform, I use it well. If people see what I do in my occupation and see that I bring the greatness out of myself, then that will translate to people that look up to me."
"Anything is possible in the ring, but it comes down to if he can back up his words. That is where your preparation for the fight comes out. One thing for sure, though, I am a great fighter on my back foot. That's when I'm able to really time you and set you up, and have you run into my own traps. He has a lot of things going on in his camp so that tells you how nervous he is."
"I don't believe anything Fury says. I think he is just trying to butter me up and use a lot of mind games. He did that in the first fight to try and steal rounds, so we were lucky that we had experienced judges that weren't influenced by that. I am not concerned with what I says, I am more focused on what he does. I am a man of action."
"I am planning for everything, but I think when coming forward doesn't work for him, he will resort to what he knows. He may try to come forward at first, but once he feels my power, that will stop quickly."
"Round 12 has been in his mind since day one, that's why he ran away from the rematch. In the back of Fury's mind, he will think about how I gave him a concussion and how he had no idea how he even got on the ground. So, I do believe that round is in his head, and if he says otherwise, he is lying."
"I deserve to be here because of the talent I have and what I am able to do. I have been knocking guys out for 12 years, so this is nothing new to me. I mean what I say, and I say what I mean, and I am exactly where I am supposed to be."
"You can see that we're both emotionally invested in this. We both want to give you all the best of us. Come Saturday night, we're going to release all of our energy in the ring and it's going to stay there.
"This is the moment I've been waiting for, and I'm sure he's been waiting as well. There are so many odds looking in and helping to put the heavyweight division on notice. This division has had tremendous action these last few years. Our first fight was amazing, and this is going to be an even more intense."
"Wanting to go head to head with him is a bold move, but we fight fire with fire. When I went at him in the first fight, though, he could not contain me. If I start doing that in round one, then he will be gassed by round five and hanging on for dear life, if he even gets that far."
"The 12th round of our first fight was a good round, and credit to Wilder, he got me with two of the best punches I have ever seen thrown in a 12 round heavyweight fight. As we have seen, that has become very famous, the ole' knockdown of the Gypsy King was very active online and all over the world. But the thing Wilder must be thinking is, I hit that guy with my hardest punch in round 12, and he got up. What do I have to do to keep him down?"
"The biggest puncher who ever lived should have to problem opening my cut up. He could not keep me down in the 12th round, so now I want to see if he is able to get up off the floor. I don't think he has the guts to get up."
"I gave Wilder the biggest payday of his life and brought him to the biggest stage. Deontay owes me everything, I brought him to this level, and this is his second fight at the top."
"He's going to try to and the right hand. If I'm stupid enough to get hit with it, I deserve to lose. I hit the floor last time, but I showed that I'm truly a fighting man. If he can't finish me, I'm going to eat him up.
"Kenny Bayless is a top referee; he has refereed me before and he did a good job. I have no objections with the referees and judges, whoever they are they are, they will do a good job."
"It's been no secret that I'm looking for a knockout. That's why I hired SugarHill and went back to Kronk. He gets you to sit down on that big right hand, and that's the game plan."
"What I did last time clearly was not good enough, and what better club to go to than Kronk? I know they can bring out of me exactly what I need for this fight."
JAY DEAS, Wilder's Co-Trainer
"We don't worry about weight. We don't even use the scale at the gym. As long as he's training hard and eating well, which he always is, the weight just is what it is. He's a freak of nature, so we're not worried about what the other guy brings as far as his weight. Deontay has always been the lighter guy. It's normal for us. It's usually advantageous for us."
"Sugar is a great trainer, so we are ready for the best Tyson Fury. When Deontay wins this fight, he will get the credit for beating Tyson at his absolute best. I don't want any talk about anything else. I want both guys at their best, and I think that's what we've got."
"Its fight week, this is what is supposed to happen. This is what happens when you have the two best heavyweights in the world, both undefeated and highly motivated. I wouldn't expect anything less than this type of energy.
SUGARHILL STEWARD, Fury's Trainer
"Tyson Fury is a very tall heavyweight, so we believe that he can carry more weight, along with his power. He's a big, strong heavyweight and extra weight won't hurt him. He still moves around just like a super middleweight. Plus, he still has the ring IQ to set things up. We're just adding some punching power to his arsenal."
"I am excited watching the fighter's reactions today. Up until now it has been quiet and subtle. Today you saw the mood swings, and all the hard work the fighters have put into their training camps. Emotions are going up, and emotions are going down, but this is what big-time boxing is. Both of these fighters have a chip on their shoulder and are expressing themselves as they should."
"I feel as if I have done everything he asked for. He wanted to be better technically, more aggressive, and be a big dominant heavyweight."
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