Friday, October 04, 2024
On the light side--dream wedding at NYC Public Library--very nice--
https://people.com/photos-ally-romano-and-zachary-wilezol-nyc-garden-wedding-exclusive-8721950
Not like mine on the lawn in front of my mother's house, when the groom refused to walk with me to greet our guests, but wanted me to go with him to meet his friends.
I should have known.
Now it's grist for my fiction mill.
Kaung.
Quote of the Day--from Game of Thrones--the novel series--
"You know nothing, John Snow."
JRR Martin.
Christopher Gunness--A New Paradigm for sending aid into Burma--Arakan.
for those of you who don't know or weren't born yet in 1988--Gunness' reports on BBC from Rangoon kick-started the country-wide demonstrations.
A New Paradigm For Supporting the People of Myanmar Is Emerging in Rakhine State
https://thediplomat.com/2024/10/a-new-paradigm-for-supporting-the-people-of-myanmar-is-emerging-in-rakhine-state/
Chris Gunness - Google Search
Check out Irrawaddy daily--junta cracks down on people leaving country, census by army, continues to pound liberated Lashio.
Use one of previous links.
I don't have time.
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Movie--Lincoln--with Daniel Day-Lewis--son of CS Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film)
No more movie theaters now, no more books stores either.
Hate it.
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Seems on the verge of collapse--though my late economics mentor said "collapse is not an economic term" but it certainly is a political and
systemic, envionmental term and all the infrastructure as well as the labor force--human beings--are gone.
The junta is still arming itself, buying airplanes, bombing.
Resistance should heed Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd's words"Know who your true enemy is. Remember Manerplaw."
10-2-2024
Advertised as a rom com tine travel novel--it's surprisingly funny--longer preview here than on Amazon--and it's time travel forwards, not backwards--However
in my opinion Paul Boules' Planet of the Apes--I saw the movie dubbed in Polish in Poland is the best.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Viking_Unchained/4YmdEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
Women in sports medicine Google search results.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Women+in+sports+medicine
Excerpt from Mohammad Ali wiki--
Ali fought Terrell in Houston on February 6, 1967. Terrell, who was unbeaten in five years and had defeated many of the boxers Ali had faced, was billed as Ali's toughest opponent since Liston; he was big, strong and had a three-inch reach advantage over Ali. During the lead up to the bout, Terrell repeatedly called Ali "Clay", much to Ali's annoyance. The two almost came to blows over the name issue in a pre-fight interview with Howard Cosell. Ali seemed intent on humiliating Terrell. "I want to torture him", he said. "A clean knockout is too good for him."[49] The fight was close until the seventh round, when Ali bloodied Terrell and almost knocked him out. In the eighth round, Ali taunted Terrell, hitting him with jabs and shouting between punches, "What's my name, Uncle Tom ... what's my name?" Ali won a unanimous 15-round decision. Terrell claimed that early in the fight Ali deliberately thumbed him in the eye, forcing him to fight half-blind, and then, in a clinch, rubbed the wounded eye against the ropes. Because of Ali's apparent intent to prolong the fight to inflict maximum punishment, critics described the bout as "one of the ugliest boxing fights". Tex Maule later wrote: "It was a wonderful demonstration of boxing skill and a barbarous display of cruelty." Ali denied the accusations of cruelty but, for Ali's critics, the fight provided more evidence of his arrogance.
NIH--Injuries in Mixed Martial Arts
The most common type of injury reported by the participants was contusions (29.4%), followed by strains (16.2%), sprains (14.9%), abrasions (10.1%), joint trauma (9.2%), fractures (5.7%), lacerations (5.3%), other miscellaneous trauma (4.8%), dislocations (2.6%), concussions (1.8%), and internal organ trauma (0.0%).
Determining the Prevalence and Assessing the Severity of ...
From Mixed Martial Arts wiki--
The first state-regulated MMA event was held in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 23, 1996, with the sanctioning of IFC's Mayhem in Mississippi[66] show by the Mississippi Athletic Commission under William Lyons. The rules used were an adaptation of the kickboxing rules already accepted by most state athletic commissions. These modified kickboxing rules allowed for take downs and ground fighting and did away with rounds, although they did allow for fighters to be stood up by the referee and restarted if there was no action on the ground. These rules were the first in modern MMA to define fouls, fighting surfaces and the use of the cage.
In March 1997, the Iowa Athletic Commission officially sanctioned Battlecade Extreme Fighting under a modified form of its existing rules for Shootfighting. These rules created the three 'five-minute round/one-minute break' format, and mandated shootfighting gloves, as well as weight classes for the first time. Illegal blows were listed as groin strikes, head butting, biting, eye gouging, hair pulling, striking an opponent with an elbow while the opponent is on the mat, kidney strikes, and striking the back of the head with closed fist. Holding onto the ring or cage for any reason was defined as a foul.[67][68] While there are minor differences between these and the final Unified Rules, notably regarding elbow strikes, the Iowa rules allowed mixed martial arts promoters to conduct essentially modern events legally, anywhere in the state. On March 28, 1997, Extreme Fighting 4 was held under these rules, making it the first show conducted under a version of the modern rules.[citation nee
Aung La vs Pasternak--warning--brutal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_La_Nsang
I don't know much about Mixed Martial Arts.
I hope he does not go to Burma.
Wow--Hero in search of a novel--
Aung La Maung Nsang
Aung La Maung Nsang (Burmese: အောင်လအန်ဆန်း; born on May 21, 1985) is a Kachin and American mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to ONE Championship, where he competes in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
Aung La Nsang - Wikipedia
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