In the biggest card perhaps in UFC History, Brock Lesnar unified the UFC\xA0Heavyweight championship by battering former Frank Mir for one and a half rounds before finishing him in the 2nd. Lesnar quickly took the fight to the mat where he punished Mir from half guard with booming right hands. Mir repeatedly gave the thumbs up to his cornerman, but it was clear by the damage on his face that he was feeling the effects at the end of the first round. Round two saw Mir have some brief success on the feet, scoring with a knee to the body and a knee to the head that seemed to momentarily stun Lesnar. Lesnar then took Mir to the mat, recovered from the blow, pushed his head into the fence and finished him off with several right hands from half guard. Lesnar’s performance was somewhat overshadowed by his post fight reaction where he yelled abuse into Mirs face as he was recovering, flipped off the booing crowd, attacked major sponsor Bud Light and told Joe Rogan he was going to ‘get on top of his wife tonight.’ He was since apologised for the outburst.
I really think whoever it is that is going to beat Lesnar is going to have to be able to stuff his takedowns and Randy Couture showed that it is possible in their fight before he got caught. He’s just too powerful on top, especially if he’s in half guard where he can pin his opponent and isolate their head. I think if Lesnar is forced to stand up for a period of time against a dangerous striker there’s a good chance he’s going to get knocked out. Couture was outstriking him until he got caught and would have done a lot more damage if he wasn’t outweighed by 60 odd pounds. That being said, you can’t not be impressed with Lesnar. He’ll beat anyone at his fight if he can get them there and with his foot speed and physical strength it’s going to be hard to stop him getting you where he wants you.
In the co main event, Georges St Pierre outpointed top challenger Thiago Alves over five rounds by outwrestling and to a certain degree outstriking the dangerous striker. GSP landed with sharp combinations before countering Alves’ counters with takedowns. While GSP wasn’t able to control Alves like he was other recent opponents, the ease at which he took him down was scary and he likely would have finished him had he not injured his groin. Scores were 50-45, 50-44 (not sure which round was 10-8) and 50-45 all for St Pierre who made the 3rd successful defence of the title he won last April from Matt Serra. Where GSP goes from here I don’t know. He’s basically cleaned house at 170lbs with this win.
In a battle of top Middleweight contenders as well as TUF9 coaches, Dan Henderson put forward his most impressive performance in years and maybe even ever by knocking out British star Michael Bisping in the 2nd round. Henderson quickly took control of the striking which was really Bispings only chance in this fight against the two time Greco Roman Olympian, rocking him frequently in the first round with his booing right hand. Bisping became desperate and tried to take Henderson down but was shrugged off and laughed at. Midway through the 2nd round, Henderson walked Bisping into his right hand and knocked him cold, landing one more huge right hand for good measure. The knockout was one of the most brutal I’ve seen in MMA and will probably go down as KO of the year. With the win, Henderson earns himself a rematch with Middleweight champion Anderson Silva, who submitted Henderson at UFC 82 for the UFC and PRIDE Middleweight titles.
Yoshihiro Akiyama scored a controversial split decision over Alan Belcher in the organisations ‘fight of the night.’ Jon Fitch outworked Paulo Thiago for a unanimous decision win. UFC Hall of Famer Mark Coleman broke his four fight losing streak in the Octagon, defeating TUF1 runner-up Stephan Bonnar by unanimous decision after an old school display of ground and pound. Coleman showed improved stand-up and increased cardio in outwrestling Bonnar over the three rounds for a 29-28 victory. Jon Jones kept his unbeaten streak alive with a submission victory over lay and prey specialist Jake O’Brien. Jim Miller outpointed Mac Danzig in a bloody war that left the Octagon covered in blood for the rest of the evening while\xA0Dong Hyun Kim outpointed TJ Grant over three. Tom Lawlor and Shannon Gurgerty scored quick submissions over CB Dollaway and Matt Grice respectively in the other bouts of the evening.
Since I’m getting about 200 hits a day from Google from people searching for information about UFC 70, I thought I’d post the current card. The show is more than two months away, and interest in the show is far outpacing the March and April events (if my search logs are any indication, anyway).
UFC 70 will be held in England and will be headlined by Mirko Cro Cop vs. Gabriel Gonzaga in a battle of top heavyweight contenders. Dana White said today in a radio interview that if Cro Cop beats Gonzaga, he’ll face the winner of the upcoming UFC 68 Tim Sylvia/Randy Couture fight for the UFC Heavyweight championship.
These are the matches that are both confirmed and matches that are rumored to be booked. The rumored fights come directly from sources within Zuffa itself and are in plain text, while the confirmed fights are in bold. I’ll add bold text to each fight as it is confirmed by either Dana White or someone else from Zuffa.
- Mirko Cro Cop vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
- Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin
- Andrei Arlovski vs. Cheick Kongo
- Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic
- Victor Valimaki vs. Alessio Sakara
One of our favorite things to eat when camping is canned apple sauce on pancakes. Every year we make some sauce to use through the winter as well as on our spring & summer camping trips.
This year, I picked the apples myself at Hansen’s Orchards at Greenbluff, WA. I chose a blend of gala & Macintosh apples. The gala is very sweet & the Macintosh tart. It made really good sauce.
In addition to the sauce, I wanted to make some cider. I made my own press out of scrap wood from the jPod build. The pressure of the press caused the press to catastrophically fail (it was impressive). So I re-purposed some steel from a basketball hoop that I cut down in front of our house when we moved in last year. That proved strong enough. I could take 3″ of apple pulp and press it into about 1/2″ with my new steel press.
We processed everything on our two camp stoves to keep the house cool.
Here is a video & a few photos of the process:
- Galas on the tree
- My apple cart
- Picking apples
- Gala Apples
- Macintosh Apples
- Steaming them for saucing
- Senior Management Sauces the Apples
- Sauce before canning
- 42 jars of apple sauce
- My home-made press 1.0. It broke & I made a new one
- Apple Pulp in a Cheesecloth
- 6 jars of Cider
A sequel that triumphs over the original in every possible way.
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Susan believes that Katherine attacked Julie because Angie put that idea in her head in last weeks episode. It would’ve made sense for Angie to say that if they were still considering Danny as their main suspect, but his name has been cleared. I have an inkling that she is covering up for someone else, say, Nick?
Moose and Susan (photo courtesy of abc.com)
Update 1/12/08 12:28PM
A sad ending to this story. The body of Cayle Bywater has been found in a murky pond in the park where she was last spotted.
Click here for complete news story and video
My thoughts and prayers are with Cayle’s family and friends.
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Update 1/7/08 7:43PM
Go to Cayle’s website and see the latest news. Looks like someone actually captured her in a random picture taken the day she disappeared.
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Update 1/6/08 9:08PM
There is a new website devoted to finding Cayle Bywater. Please go here.
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Update 1/5/08 4:12PM
See video here for latest update. Also interesting is the Topix forum comments on this story. Some first hand accounts and updates are available there.
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Update 1/4/08 10:39AM
A search for Cayle Bywater yesterday turned up no clues as to where the young UGA student may be. Volunteers and rescue workers spent hours searching sections of south Athens yesterday as well as the 90-acre Gran Ellen Drive park due to the fact someone called a tip in stating they had spotted Cayle on Saturday in the park and she seemed disoriented.
No organized searches were scheduled for today although rescue workers may dredge a pond in Memorial Park and are arranging for search dogs to be brought in.
Police believe Cayle may have stopped taking her medication and her sister, Tiffiny Cohen thinks that Cayle’s dog may have gotten loose and Cayle could have went after the dog and became injured.
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Original Blog
Saturday, December 29th was the last time anyone saw 29-year-old UGA Student Cayle Bywater. A neighbor saw her outside her home at 2004 South Milledge Ave. Between that time and the following day, Cayle disappeared.
A friend and co-worker became concerned when she went to the house and found Cayle’s cell phone and purse atop her car which was parked in her driveway. Cayle’s basement door was wide open and her dog was running lose.
The strange part is that authorities have stated that they do not believe foul play was involved, siting that Cayle suffers from bipolar disorder and may have wondered off. Uh, ok. I have a sister that is bipolar. The disorder certainly doesn’t make you just leave your house wide open, your dog running the neighborhood and your purse atop your car so that you can walk off into oblivion. That topped with the fact that its been five days with no eye witness reports or sightings of Cayle is definitely cause for concern.
“I’m very concerned, and I just don’t know what to say except we are really worried about her,” said Katie Sims, a friend of Cayles who works with her at Aromas wine bar in Five Points.
Cayle Bywater is described as a white female, 5?3? tall, 113 pounds, with curly brown hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Cayle Bywater should call:
* The Athens-Clarke County Police Department at 706-613-3330,
* Central Communications at 706-613-3345, or
* Detective Dustin Smith at 706-613-3888, extension 795.
Broadway’s Next to Normal is a new original musical that is currently playing featuring many talented cast members (Alice Ripley, Robert J. Spencer, Jennifer Damiano) and written by some great minds (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorky). Putting the actual show aside for a moment (I saw it 2 nights before the Tony Awards and it was phenomenal), it’s marketing plan is anything other than NORMAL.
The Next to Normal Twitter page. The creative team has just finished up the first ever Twitter performance of a Broadway
musical. Over the past 4 weeks, with the help of writer Brian Yorkey, the entire story of the show was broken down into 281 individual tweets. By the end of the Twitter performance, they had over 189,000 followers. Tweets ranged from what certain characters were thinking throughout different points in the show, to posting new releases of songs so that fans could hear some of the music. Now that their Twitter performance has ended, they have begun an interactive “talk back” session with the cast and creative team. Tweeters and Web site viewers are able to “@” the team with any questions they have about the show. And soon enough, answers begin to show up on their Twitter page. This is such a great way to incorporate fans with the show- and it clearly has been proven effective. When comparing the other “competitor” musical shows that are playing on broadway (and looking at the number of Followers), Next to Normal (N2N) is in the lead
by a landslide. To really retain followers, they may also consider placing contests and raffles that are incorporated into their posts.
The Next to Normal Web site. It seems that there has been quite a bit of activity on their Web site that promotes the show. One of the very unique features that they currently removed (probably to promote the “Talk Back” on Twitter) was the ability to interact with some of the music that plays on the site. Users were able to upload a personal picture and have it be posted on a specific beat of the song playing. It was a great way to incorporate identity within the music, also one of the shows main themes. It allowed for users to, again, feel apart of the production- which I feel a lot of Broadway fans and enthusiasts want.
It is also important to note how great some of the cast members have been with fans on Facebook. For the die hard fans, Alice Ripley seems to be accepting many people on Facebook and interacting with many of them. She keeps them posted as to what she is doing throughout the day, and comments on many of their pictures that they post of her at the backstage door.
Do you see a trend here? All of the interaction allows for people to really become attached to the show. It gives these people a reason to keep following the show. It seems that Next to Normal is really pushing for more than just putting on a show for viewers and leaving them some food for thought. They have created a platform for audience members to come BACK to and continue to see and interact with the success of the show. Maybe I’m the only victim to it, but I am constantly checking the N2N Twitter “Talk Back” with cast and crew. Am I the only one?
It will be interesting to see what future marketing has in store for Broadway. We know that being interactive with clients is a major key to success, but who’s going to take the NEXT step?
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