Streamlining the stewardship land reclassification process
IntroductionSubmissions closed Friday 18 March 2022. We asked for your views on how to improve the process for reclassifying and disposing of stewardship land through legislative reform.
Stewardship land is a category of public conservation land that includes land that was allocated to DOC when it was first formed. It includes former state forest and Crown land that was considered to have conservation value.
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We sought feedback on the six proposals, outlined in the discussion document, which aim to make the process for reclassifying and disposing of stewardship land more efficient and effective.
All submissions had to be received by DOC by the end of Friday, 18 March 2022. This was a four-month consultation period.
During the public consultation period, DOC undertook more targeted consultation with tangata whenua – iwi, hapū and whānau, through virtual or in-person meetings and regional hui.
DOC also held meetings with key stakeholder groups with an interest in stewardship land.
Read the summary of submissions
DOC received 166 submissions from a wide range of stakeholders. Information about the consultation process and submitters, and a summary of the key points and themes from the consultation is provided in this report.
Your submission may be released publicly
All submissions are subject to the Official Information Act (external site) and can be released under this Act. If you had specific reasons for wanting to have your submission withheld, you had to explain your reasons in the submission. Your reasons will be considered when making any assessment for the release of submissions under the Official Information Act.
At this stage submissions will not be publicly released. DOC will contact submitters if submissions are to be released.
DOC has analysed all submissions and has reported to the Minister of Conservation on the feedback received, with recommendations for her consideration in 2022.
If the government decides to progress with legislative changes, the public will have the opportunity to make submissions during the select committee process.
The current process for reclassifying stewardship land is set out in the Conservation Act 1987 with provisions in the National Parks Act 1980 and the Reserves Act 1977.
In practice, it usually involves surveying the land, scientific analysis of the species and ecosystems present, working in partnership with tangata whenua – iwi, hapū and whānau, and consultation with the public, which may include submissions and public hearings.
Most stewardship land has not yet been reclassified due to the scale and complexity of the task, and this has led to uncertainty about its status.
The Government has announced a package of measures to improve the process for the reclassification of stewardship land. This package includes:
- reviewing legislation relating to the reclassification of stewardship land
- establishing two national expert panels (the national panels) to assess stewardship land and make recommendations to the Minister of Conservation on revised classifications.
As part of the legislative review, we have identified six areas where changes could streamline the process.
We are seeking your feedback on options relating to:
- Improving consistency of public notification and submission processes.
- Enabling the national panels to carry out the public notification and submission process.
- Clarifying responsibilities for making recommendations to reclassify stewardship land as national park.
- Removing the statutory step to declare all stewardship land to be held for conservation purposes before it can be reclassified or disposed of.
- Enabling the Minister of Conservation to direct proceeds from the sale of stewardship land to DOC.
- Clarifying the status of concessions on reclassified stewardship land.
DOC has not indicated a preferred option in the discussion document. DOC will consider the views of submitters when undertaking further analysis and use that information to inform any advice on a preferred option.
We prepared a document that provides more detail on the six proposals to streamline the process for reclassifying and disposing of stewardship land.
Submitters were asked to refer to this document when preparing their submission.
Out of scope
While the national panels and the review of legislation relating to stewardship land are both part of the broader stewardship land reclassification project, this paper is only seeking your views on amendments to the conservation legislation.
We are not seeking views on the work of the national panels to consider and make recommendations on the future land status of stewardship land parcels.
The national panels will be seeking public feedback on individual parcels of stewardship land through their work and will notify the public of these opportunities. You can find out more and keep up to date with these opportunities as they arise by checking the Stewardship land reclassification – national panels webpage.
If you have questions, please email the stewardship land team: firstname.lastname@example.org


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Material: Metal Body, Adjourned with Jewels and Precious Metals
Primary Use: Close Combat Attack Against Armoured Cavalry
First Used: Unknown
Still in Use?: Yes as an art form Mardani Khel (Indian Martial Art from Maharashtra)
The Danda Patta is effectively a Sword and hand-guarded, Gauntlet, all in one weapon. It was considered highly effective against armoured cavalry. Highly accomplished users could even wield two of these weapons simultaneously. The blades varied in length from 10 to 44 inches, either locally made or recycled from European Swords. It is usually padded and the Gantlet allows the users hands to be completely enclosed and safe.
Re popularised by the Marathas, it is said that Shivaji had also mastered this Kshatriya art. Most commonly paired with a shield, but also used in pairs and with spears or axes. It was perhaps rekindled due to the South Indian stye of Sword fighting, which didn't require as much wrist mobility. It was actually better for slashing the enemy, rather than stabbing as the weapon would lead you to believe. Modern users in the Maharashtran martial art, 'Mardani Khel' can be seen wielding two of these swords to create a defensive windmill like effect. It is said that Maratha warriors would use this technique as they made a last stand, taking out as many enemy combatants as they could before they died. Some soldiers would also fight in pairs using the sword to defend both forward and rear positions.
Danda Patta - A Favourite of the Maratha Army


SpaceX Could Put Artemis Crew on the Lunar Soil by 2024
Elon Musk is optimistic that a lunar landing by 2024 for the Artemis crew “seems likely”.
A week after securing a £2.1 billion contract from NASA, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said the aerospace giant has its eyes set on a 2024 touchdown onto the lunar soil.
“I think it will happen. I think 2024 seems likely,” said Musk in a news conference on Friday after the successful docking of the Dragon spacecraft with the ISS—the second crewed mission undertaken by the company.
“We’re gonna aim for sooner than that,” he added with zeal.
NASA’s billion-dollar contract will entail ferrying its astronauts to the moon and back. The Artemis mission will put the first woman and the first person of colour on the surface of the moon.
“We are confident in NASA’s partnership with SpaceX to help us achieve the Artemis mission,” said the Program Manager overseeing lander development at NASA, Lisa Watson-Morgan, in a telephonic statement to the New York Times.
“[We] look forward to continuing our work toward landing astronauts on the moon to prepare for the next giant leap towards Mars.”
SpaceX must perform a remote, unmanned landing as a prerequisite before the Artemis crew could hop on board the flight to the moon, according to Watson-Morgan.
“NASA is requiring a test flight to fully check out all systems with a landing on the lunar surface prior to our formal demonstration mission,” she stated.
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Ba Be Lake & Ban Gioc Waterfall Tour Itinerary
Hanoi – Ba Be National Park
Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner
7:30 AM. Our driver and tour guide will pick you up in the early morning from our office in Hanoi and you will begin your journey through North-eastern Vietnam. The drive to the national park is roughly 230 kilometres. On the way, we will make a stop in a local Tay village, where you will get to spend some time learning about their traditions and rice farming. Once you arrive at Ba Be National Park, you will eat lunch then board a boat and head down the Nang River as it winds through wild and rugged landscapes before reaching Puong Grotto, where you can marvel at the impressive stalagmites and stalactites found within. Afterwards, you will continue along the river until you reach Ban Can village where Tay ethnic minority people live on the river bank. Take a walk through the village before getting on a boat which will take you onto Ba Be Lake. Here you will get to visit Widow Island (named for the local legend regarding the lake) and those who wish can go for a refreshing swim in the crystal clear waters. You will end the day in Coc Toc Village, inhabited by the Tay ethnic minority, where you will spend the night in Mr Linh’s Homestay.
Highlights and activities: Ba Be lake, Tay ethnic villages
Ba Be National Park – Ban Gioc Waterfall
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
7:30 AM. After enjoying breakfast at the homestay, you will depart for Trung Khanh which lies right on the border with China. Here you will have another chance to meet and interact with the local Nung people living in the village of Phuoc Sen, a mountainous village famous for its traditional blacksmithing. The farming tools made here are an integral part of the lifestyle which is evident in the surrounding rice paddies and fields. Lunch in a local restaurant.
Nestled amongst these amazing landscapes is the breathtaking Ban Gioc Waterfall which spans over 300 meters, split half and half between Vietnam and China. You’ll get some time here to simply take in the amazing atmosphere surrounding the falls, which presents an excellent opportunity for some fantastic photography.
Once you’ve finished at the falls, it’s time to head over to Nguom Ngao Cave, for a very different, but no less impressive natural wonder. The cave stretches for 2,144 meters underground and is brimming with incredible stalactites and stalagmites.
You will then enter Khuoi My, a stone village where you will stay overnight in a homestay constructed in traditional Nung fashion and owned and operated by a local Nung family. Here you can relax and unwind from the day and enjoy a delicious and authentic home-cooked meal.
Highlights and activities: Ban Gioc waterfall, Nguom Ngao cave, Ba Be National Park, ethnic villages
Ban Gioc Waterfall – Lang Son – Ha Noi
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch
7.30 AM. After breakfast we’ll kick the final day of the tour by continuing your trip into the pass to Dong Dang, stopping to visit Mother’s Temple and Dong Khe – an important historical site where The Battle of Dong Khe was fought during the First Indochina War. In fact, this was the very first battle of the Indochina Wars, and the fighting here took place through September and October 1950, ending in a resounding victory for the Viet Minh.
Transferring you to Lang Son for Lunch then we will start by driving in the direction of the Chinese border for about 3 hours, before stopping at Chi Lang Pass – a 20-km-long gorge created from a narrow valley between two mountains.
This place occupies an important position in Vietnamese history, being the place of many victories against various Chinese invasions over the centuries and millennia, as far back as 981AD. As such it bears the reputation of Vietnam’s strongest citadel and bastion. Here you will have roughly an hour to walk around and explore the area around the Quy Mon Quan Gate, which translates as “The Gate of Monsters”, named for the many invasion forces that would spill through the pass over the course of history only to be beaten back by stalwart Vietnamese defenders.
Highlights and activities: Chi Lang pass, Quy Mon Quan gate, Dong Khe battle site, ethnic villages, and a 3-5km walk

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Qualitative data on food shopping habits of consumers and their perceptions of the health and promotion roles and responsibilities of participating supermarkets were collected at several occasions during the project to inform development of locally adapted health promotion activities and to enable feedback to store managers and researchers. A slightly more healthy option than chips, popcorn is fairly light and still offers that satisfying crunch and salty flavor. They have a full serving of fruit and veggies in every strip, no added sugar, and real, true ingredients-i can actually feel good about giving them something from the pantry (And i am not easy to please, believe me :)). Parent report using 11-item ffq adapted from existing tool to assess healthy (E. This handy snack is perfect for those salt-craving, meat-eating, low-carb snackers out there. Restriction and monitoring mediated the relationship between maternal education and child snack intake; restriction was positively associated with snack intake regardless of maternal level of education. We offer special discounts by the box for all you snack lovers out there. When looking at the nutritional value of these yogurt snacks, they are packed with a lot of great stuff.
Each primizie crisp is packed with organic sprouted grains and sweet earthy beets, delivering good taste and good health straight to your eager mouth. That means there is more goodness in every fruit-shaped piece. We all know that homemade granola bars, fresh out-of-the oven whole wheat muffins and cut fruits and veggies are always going to be healthier then any store bought snack you can purchase from a store. Greater family support for healthful eating (E. They are the first snack company ever to receive non-gmo project verification, which is basically the gold standard for affirming that a product contains no gmos. A common response regarding store exposure and promotion of unhealthy snacks and especially at the prominent checkout was that it may create controversies when families are shopping. Encouragement, overt/covert control were negatively associated with energy-dense snack intake over time. My kids are going through them hand over fist, and are the only snack they actually ask for by name. At-home accessibility of snacks/ssbs was positively associated with consumption. We are aware of one review that assessed the influence of two specific food parenting practices (E. Parental restriction and monitoring were not associated with snack eah for boys or girls. While we did find a few nutritional details to quibble with, overall we think these bars are among the healthier options in the snack bar aisle.
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Percentage of checkouts in 170 supermarkets from 8 countries displaying individual snack food items and soft drinks. More specifically, these studies evaluated the extent to which a meal suppressed subsequent intake of snack foods. Additionally, beverages, though likely consumed alongside snack foods, often received their own separate category for analysis since timing of their intake was not routinely assessed. Availability of healthy food, involvement) and unhealthy (E. We provide a monthly, curated selection of healthy snacks from the hottest, most innovative natural food brands in the industry, giving our members a hassle-free experience and delivering joy to their offices. Parent report using 65-item ffq assessing daily consumption of specific foods. Consequently, a soda consumed with lunch could not be distinguished from a soda consumed with chips during a snack. Made with just eight whole-food ingredients, this tasty, low-sugar cereal is one you can feel good about noshing on. This is a real treat for those who live with food allergies and intolerance. There are several possible explanations for why the healthy checkout intervention did not impact total sales of confectionery and only had modest effect on sales of healthy snacking products. They even inspect and select the perfect almonds to put into your perfect snack. Nutrisystem may not be safe for people with food allergies, including peanuts, soy, dairy, and gluten.
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Best cymbals for a semi professional player?
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I'm in a band that does 1 or 2 professional gigs every 2 to 3 months. I've been getting by through borrowing friends cymbals but I've decided its finally time to get my own. BUT!!! i have a budget of $250. If there are good cymbals for this price range what are they?
-at the moment i have crap stock hi hat and crash and a zildjian zbt ride which sounds AMAZING!ANSWER
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Special to the Tribune By J.R. Lind (Patch Staff)
NASHVILLE, TN — Most Metro observers expected a push back against Mayor Megan Barry’s $6 billion transit plan. A sales tax increase is part of the funding proposal — the mayor wants a Metro referendum on the ballot in May — and expected criticisms have already emerged among fiscal conservatives and others on the right.
But a group of protesters took to the streets from the Inglewood Public Library to Public Square Park with concerns from the left, in particular that the plan, which calls for a high-speed rail corridor along Gallatin Pike into East Nashville and Inglewood, will result in even more gentrification in neighborhoods that have already undergone rapid change.
A coalition of anti-poverty activists, affordable housing activists and union members called the People’s Alliance for Transit, Housing and Employment issued a list of demands last week wants included in the nMotion transit proposal. To wit:
• 24-hour bus service.
• Expansion of bus service to neighborhoods with growing transit-dependent workers, including Antioch, Hermitage and Madison.
• No cuts to existing bus routes.
• Immediate construction of 31,000 low-income homes.
• All public funding for residential development connected to nMotion should be dedicated to those earning less than 60 percent of median household income.
• Don’t sell any public property along transit corridors.
• Place all land taken through eminent domain in a 99-year land trust to prevent its sale to private developers.
• Allot public funding to maintain existing low-income housing in transit corridors.
• Only use construction contractors and subcontractors who pay a living wage and benefits.
• Dedicate city funds for certified apprenticeship programs targeting communities along transit corridors and Promise Zones.
• Pay a living wage to all rail employees, at least $15 per hour, and a right to unionize without retaliation.


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Located in the heart of the Ozarks in beautiful Mountain Home, Arkansas. Within minutes of many local attractions and a short drive from some of the states most popular scenic destinations. Nearby Lake Norfork and Bull Shoals Lake provide family water sports and outdoor recreation, while the White River and Norfork River offer the best trout fishing in the country. Please come and discover the many exciting features of the great Twin Lakes area. Upgrade your stay ask for a Days Business Place Room.

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Bay-area rap group SOBxRBE have released their latest album Gangin II via Empire. It’s the second installment in their Gangin series, following this February’s full-length Gangin. On their latest, SOB x RBE say they’re just trying to be themselves. “We do what we do whether people like it or not, that won’t change shit,” member Slimmy B told Billboard. “But our people are most likely gonna like it because they like our music. We give ’em what they want.” Slimmy B, DaBoii, Lul G, and Yhung T.O.—who has said this will be his final album with SOBxRBE—have already released party-ready singles “Vibes,” produced by fellow NorCal producer Cal-A, and “Made It,” but revealed few other details ahead of the album.
SOB x RBE rose to fame with last year’s self-titled LP, including hits like “Anti” and “Calvin Cambridge,” and their Black Panther soundtrack contribution “Paramedic!” helped to solidify them as a new force to be reckoned with. Just off a summer tour with 21 Savage and Post Malone, they’re about to embark on a world tour of their own, kicking off October 4 in New York and ending at III Points Festival in Miami next February. See a full list of tour dates on their website and stream the new album Gangin II below.


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For those who missed out on last week’s tickets for Beauty in the Making talks, fear not! We’ve got a whole heap more tickets for the taking. Throughout the week 23 – 27 April, we’ve invited some spectacular speakers including Bompas & Parr, inventor Mark Champkins, director Kim Gehrig, Secret Cinema’s Fabien Riggall and many more. All you need to do is register below.
At 1pm each day, in the beautiful basement of Victoria House in Bloomsbury, two speakers will give 18 minute talks on a selected subject, offering food for thought.
Monday 23 April: ‘The Maker’ – Register for free tickets
Hear legendary designer Alan Kitching, and ‘Beat 2012’ director Kim Gehrig speak about the process of making.
Tuesday 24 April: ‘Time’ – Register for free tickets
Featuring architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright, and creative researcher, artist and radio broadcaster Emma Gibson, discussing the broad topic of ‘time’.
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Join Vera Glahn from digital creative agency ‘Field’, and the Science Museum’s inventor-in-residence Mark Champkins as they explore the subject of ‘bespoke’.
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Featuring innovative creative technical agency Made by Many and Massoud Hassani, designer of the revolutionary Minesweeper nominated for Designs of the Year 2012.
Friday 27 April: ‘The Senses’ – Register for free tickets
Secret Cinema’s Fabien Riggall and culinary genii Bompas and Parr take to the stage to speak about immersive experiences that engage the senses.
Click links above to register for free tickets, which are allocated per day and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Part of GF Smith’s five-day exhibition celebrating artistry in all creative practices, the space will also play host to installations, workshops and live demonstrations exploring paper-making and craft, with input from Montotype and the British Council’s Architecture, Design and Fashion department. The exhibition is FREE but you must register using one of the links above.
- Chaz Bundick talks us through the new digitally personable Company website
- Animator Frances Haszard’s gender neutral breakup story
- Photographer Norman Behrendt depicts Turkey’s majestic mosques
- Explore North Korean graphic ephemera in Phaidon’s new book
- “Have a process you can apply to any situation, space or time”: what we learned from Converse’s Lovejoy Art Benefit
- Standards Manual return with catalogue of 400 objects relating to New York City Transit
- Polaroid’s creative director Danny Pemberton introduces new brand Polaroid Originals
- Artist Dominique Pétrin on creating her very own domestic product
- Universal Everything animate emotive wallpapers for new iPhone devices
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Have you heard the one about the poet who couldn’t stop telling jokes, no matter how hoary, juvenile or offensive? Well, you’re about to, because it’s the subject of “The Joker,” Andrew Hudgins’s raw and risky account of a “need to laugh” that can seem “peculiar, immature and even socially corrosive to those who do not share it.” As a memoir, the book is an odd duck in the pond of joke lit, which is populated mostly by psychologists like Freud, folklorists like Gershon Legman and cultural journalists like Jim Holt.
Hudgins’s method is straightforward: in chapters that read like free-standing essays, he confesses his love for a certain vein of inappropriate humor, furnishes several examples and ruminates on their therapeutic value in helping him to overcome some affliction (emotional, social, filial). The first chapter is a wonderful evocation of how he came to comedy as a child. At first, he did not understand jokes at all (“I was a single-minded little literalist”), but when he realized that “you could play with words, just as you played with marbles, yo-yos, kites and Matchbox cars,” and that “jokes were toys made of words,” it was off to the races.
A military brat, Hudgins moved around a lot, and was often lonely. Pranks helped him make friends and displaced some of the discomfort of his home life, dominated by discipline and depression. His parents were grief-stricken at having lost a daughter before Hudgins was born: “Her death in a car accident, my mother at the wheel, was a wound too raw for words to touch. By their silence my parents tried to protect me and my brothers from knowing about death. Instead, we learned sorrow and fear.”
As he anatomizes his favorite gags, he finds a finer grain. “I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes,” he writes. Jokes that take on taboos and poke fun at Helen Keller and dead babies, say, are a way of coming to terms with our limits and frailty; those about religion push back against the hypocrisy of the community. The one-liners he recounts can be familiar to the point of numbness — even classic ones about Helen Keller are marginally less funny the thousandth time — but he compensates by being especially good on the theatrics of jesting, particularly how people look while telling or listening to jokes.
Midway through, the book takes a turn. Hudgins recalls a family gathering at which an uncle told a racist joke about a white man refusing to perform CPR on a black man. Hudgins’s father is mortified and packs the family into the car, but his mother is amused. Hudgins himself is more circumspect. He grew up primarily in the American South, where there has never been a shortage of rhetoric about supposed differences between the races, much of it unspeakably venomous. Is a joke that wraps the truncheon of prejudice in a kind of pleasure any different?
It’s an excellent question, and as a result, the racist-joke portion carries over to a second chapter, and a third, and a fourth. Hudgins draws vivid portraits of his beloved grandmother, who was an unregenerate bigot, and his mother, whose racism was “a more evolved species.” He describes how racist jokes were the glue in relationships with friends or lovers. Of his mother’s fondness for such humor, he writes, “Because they are almost the only jokes I remember my mother telling, I cherish these jokes with guilty affection.” There’s even a disconcerting scene featuring Condoleezza Rice, then a star academic and the future provost at Stanford, who shows up at a party on campus and, upon overhearing a series of off-color jokes (or are they on-color?), contributes some of her own. One of the first riddles Hudgins heard as a boy was: “What’s black and white and red all over?” There are multiple answers, each of which challenges his single-minded literalism: first a newspaper, then an embarrassed zebra. This book might be a third answer.
But the racial material delivers diminishing returns, throwing off the book’s brisk rhythm. It’s like going for dim sum and, midway through, being served a giant heaping of something you’re not at all certain you want to eat. What complicates matters further is that the jokes are, for the most part, not funny at all. There’s a streak of ugliness in many jokes, but here, ugliness predominates and risks straining the relationship between Hudgins and his readers, in part because “The Joker” is a personal account, not a long-range study of regional history and folk literature. If you’re looking for an analysis of racist humor as a symptom of both enslavement and liberation, look elsewhere. If you’re looking for a lucid, honest, sometimes cringe-worthy story of how one man who should have known better spent years listening to, laughing at and telling racist jokes, you’ve come to the right place. Hudgins is well aware of the corner he’s painting himself into. He takes pains to assure us he’s not telling racist jokes but jokes about racism, and he insists on his increasing distaste with the form: “And though I am attracted to the boundaries, the outlawed, the verboten, I too back off when it comes to race, the last true taboo, or at least the strongest current one.” That final qualifier communicates some of the discomfort in reading these chapters. What does it mean to be the “strongest current” taboo? Is it just a matter of time before the spotlight shifts and we can all get our racist joke books down from the shelf?
The book’s last stretch is restorative because of what it leaves behind and what it moves toward — a nuanced depiction of the author as a problematic romantic partner, with one marriage scuttled, at least in part by his obsessive jesting (“Can’t you be serious about anything?” his first wife asks, possibly offering a very early review of this book), and another marriage built on a more harmonious understanding of humor. One of the best jokes Hudgins relates is one that he’s changed, for purposes of ethnic sensitivity, to a “Little Moron” joke. The Little Moron comes home and finds his wife in bed with another man. Enraged and ashamed, he puts a pistol to his own head and cocks the hammer, at which point his wife starts to giggle. “What are you laughing at?” the Little Moron asks. “You’re next!” Hudgins has also used this joke in his poem “Heat Lightning in a Time of Drought,” describing it as “the wisest joke I know because / the heart’s a violent muscle, opening / and closing.” This is entirely true, but there’s something else, too, that illuminates one of the book’s strengths (and, at times, weaknesses) — self-hatred is always a more equivocal weapon than hatred of others, because it’s balanced by self-preservation. This tension creates a more profound humor, which is present in generous quantities in the book’s final pages.
Jokes are streamlined forms of attack, and so, too, is “The Joker,” which means that at times the scope feels too narrow. It would have been interesting to see more consideration of new technology, especially social networking, and how it has changed joke telling, increasing the speed of response and ensuring that a trace is left even by the smallest stray remark. It would have been nice to hear more from the colleagues who have had to listen to Hudgins’s jokes, to dramatize his evolution away from incorrigible joker. But this angle would have made for a different book, and not necessarily a more cohesive one.
In the end, Hudgins is brave enough to leave himself squarely in the cross hairs, and to not always affect wisdom regarding his own compulsion. And he tells lots and lots of jokes, which means that readers can either enjoy those that are retold or carp that an author who seems to like nearly every kind of bad joke did not see fit to include their own favorites. Reviewer’s prerogative begins here: Mine is from “Naked Gun 2 1/2,” when Leslie Nielsen is being held at gunpoint by Robert Goulet. “Any final requests, Lieutenant?” Goulet asks. “Yes,” Nielsen says, either stalling for time or incubating a moment of genius. “Can I have the gun?”

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Santa Ynez, CA, USA: Light: Darleys Perez (32-1) W PTS 12 Jonathan Maicelo (21-2,1ND). Welter: Francisco Santana (22-3-1) W TKO 1 Kendal Mena (20-1). Super Bantam: Roman Morales (19-0) W KO 3 Ernesto Guerrero (17-15). Heavy: Jarrell Miller (11-0-1) W PTS 6 Aaron Kinch (5-4-2).
Perez vs. Maicelo
An all-South American match sees Colombian Perez retain the interim WBA title with wide unanimous verdict over Peruvian Maicelo. Maicelo started aggressively but the champion is a natural counter puncher and was able to catch Maicelo with hard rights whenever Maicelo tried to get inside. Maicelo had some success in forcing Perez back and scoring with lefts and some of the early rounds were close but Perez had Maicelo’s face marking up by the fourth and from the sixth was in control. Perez was loading up on his punches and making more use of left hooks and Maicelo had no answer and very little defence. As Maicelo tired Perez began to look for an early finish and he landed a series of hard shots from both hands in the eleventh which put Maicelo down. The Peruvian made it to his feet and tried to rally in the last but was caught time and again with hard rights and staggered and nearly floored late by a left only just making it to the final bell. Scores 120-107, 118-108 and 118-109. Second defence by 31-year-old Perez of the title he won by outpointing Argenis Lopez in June. His lone loss was on points against Yuriorkis Gamboa for this same title in 2013. As an amateur Perez was a quarter-finalist at both the Olympics and World Championships. He showed the skills and power to be a force in a division which with Terrence Crawford moving up lacks a dominant figure. North Bergen-based Maicelo, 31, was rated WBA No 6. He looked to have blown any chance of a title fight when being flattened after eight brutal rounds by Rustam Nugaev in April 2013 but had rebounded with a split decision over Art Hovhannisyan(17-1-2) in July last year.
Santana vs. Mena
“Chia” Santana wins the vacant WBA International title as he blows away Dominican Mena in 103 seconds. After flooring the lanky Mena with a left hook early in the fight Santana punctuated an exchange with another left hook which crashed into the chin of Mena who went down on his back with the referee immediately waiving the count. Now 11 wins by KO/TKO for the 28-year-old from Santa Barbara. In October 2011 he lost an eight round decision against current WBO No 1 light middle Jermell Charlo but since then has accumulated 10 wins including victories over Freddy Hernandez, Joachim Alcine and previously unbeaten Eddie Gomez. Mena was having his first fight for 13 months. His 20-0 record was to put it mildly deceiving. Only one of his victims had a positive record (6-3) and 9 had never won a fight, so no real test for Santana.
Morales vs. Guerrero
Morales continues to impress as he halts Mexican Guerrero. After stalking Guerrero for the first two rounds the “Pride of San Ardo” ended it in the third with a vicious left hook to the body. Guerrero went down and stayed there for the full ten count. The 23-year-old Morales has ten wins by KO/TKO and includes Jon Arrellano, Roberto Castaneda and Khabir Suleymanov in his list of victims. Guerrero not strong opposition. He has now lost his last seven fights, the last three by early KO/TKO, but against unbeaten fighters with combined records of 54-0 so no one is doing him any favours.
Miller vs. Kinch
Miller makes it 7 wins in a row as he wins every round against Kinch. The 6’4” (193cm) “Big Baby” had height and reach over the limited Kinch. Although he had Kinch hurt early he could not close the fight out and Kinch fought back to go the distance. Scores 60-54 twice and 60-53. Brooklyn’s Miller was a former kickboxing/MMA professional before winning a silver medal at the New York Golden Gloves and turning pro. He had just one fight in 2009 and then did not fight again until 2011. He has served as a sparring partner for both Klitschko brothers. His draw was against Joey Dawejko in 2013. The 35-year-old Kinch has only failed to go the distance once and that was against world rated Charles Martin.
Cabazon, CA, USA: Light Welter: Ivan Redkach (18-0,1ND) W TKO 6 Yakubu Amidu (21-6-2). Middle: Ievgen Khytrov (8-0) W TKO 3 Maurice Louishome (8-1-1). Light Middle: Alantez Fox (14-0-1) W PTS 8 Patrick Day (9-1-1). Light: Tevin Farmer (18-4-1) W PTS 8 Viktor Chernous (15-2-1). Super Middle: Francy Ntetu (14-0) W PTS8 Tyrell Hendrix (11-6-2).
Redkach vs. Amidu
Redkach just punches too hard for Amidu and forces the Ghanaian to retire at the end of the sixth round. Under trainer Robert Garcia Redkach is finally living up to his hype. The Ukrainian southpaw used superior skills and quicker movement to build a lead against the slow starting Amidu who was just not letting his hands go over the first three round. However, the strong, hard-punching Ghanaian came into the fight more in the fourth but Redkach was the more accurate and retained his edge. Amidu was also competitive in the fifth but his cause suffered a set back when he was penalized a point for a couple of low blows. That became irrelevant in the sixth as a straight left put Amidu down heavily for the first knockdown of his career. The Ghanaian got up and was immediately under fire again. The second knockdown came courtesy of flashing left hook/right cross combination which again sent Amidu down on his back. He fought back hard and with Redkach having put a lot into the round Amidu was pressing a tiring Redkach to the bell. In his corner Amidu complained that he had hurt his ankle on the second knockdown and did not want to continue. The 28-year-old Redkach makes it 13 wins by KO/TKO and is rated IBF 5(4)/WBC 11 but he needs more high level fights before he is ready to go for a title challenge. “Black Mamba” Amidu, 30, lost to Ricky Burns for the CBC super feather title in 2008 before moving his base to the USA in 2010. After losses to Ji-Hoon Kim and Haskell Rhodes he held WBO super feather title challenger Juan Carlos Burgos to a draw in July 2013 but was eliminated in last year’s ESPN Boxcino Tournament when he was all square with Chris Rudd over six rounds but Rudd took the tie-breaker round.
Khytrov vs. Louishome
Predictable inside the distance win for former Ukrainian amateur star Khytrov. The “Ukrainian Lion” almost made it three first round wins on the bounce when the tall Colorado fighter took a knee after being nailed with a right at the end of the first round. Louishome survived but was staggered a couple of times in the second with punches from Khytrov twice sending his mouthpiece flying. Khytrov continued the onslaught in the third and when another right dislodged Louishome’s mouthpiece the referee stopped the fight. The 26-year-old Khytrov has won all eight of his fights by KO/TKO. He was a gold medal winner at the European Junior Championships and the World Championships but had to settle for bronze medal at the European Championships after losing to Irish star Jason Quigley and was beaten at the London Olympics by Anthony Ogogo. Louishome, 37, really just a prelim level fighter and way out of his depths here.
Fox vs. Day
Fox wins match of unbeaten fighters on a majority decision with some stranger scoring. When I first started research for this fight I saw Fox described as 6’5” (196cm) I though it must be a misprint-a 6’5” light middle! However it was right and it was the story of the fight. Over the early rounds Day found it difficult to get past the huge reach advantage enjoyed by “SlyAza” and work inside. Fox is more awkward than accomplished and as the fight progressed Day had more success scoring with rights. Fox threw a prodigious amount of jabs and was fine in countering but tended to leave himself open when launching his own attacks, but he was busier than Day and finished the fight stronger. The referees were very split on this one with the cards reading 80-72 and 78-74 for Fox and 76-76 with the middle score looking the more accurate reflection. The 22-year-old Fox drew with still unbeaten Frank Galarza in 2012 and this was his seventh win since then but he lacks power and although he finished strongly in this one with his height making 154lbs could give him stamina problems against better opposition. Big things were expected from Day as at one time he was rated No 1 in the USA in his division as an amateur. A draw with Urmat Ryskeldiev (6-3) in 2013 was disappointing but he then won 4 in a row 3 by KO/TKO and seemed to be finding his groove. He has some work to do now.
Farmer vs. Chernous
“American Idol” Farmer continues his winning streak with unanimous decision over Chernous. The 24-year-old southpaw has flourished under new management and has turned a 7-4-1 record into a more than respectable 18-4-1 with a run of 11 wins including victories over unbeaten fighters in Camilo Perez and Emanuel Gonzalez. Two of his losses have been to Polish prospect Kamil Laszczyk and current IBF No 1 Jose Pedraza but he looks to have put those well behind him. Ukrainian Chernous, 30, turned pro in Australia and won 14 of his 15 fights there collecting the Australian welterweight title but in his first fight in the USA fought a disappointing draw with Ivan Zavala in July.
Ntetu vs. Hendrix
DRC-born Ntetu continues unbeaten with a unanimous decision over Hendrix. Scores 79-73 twice and 78-74. The 32-year-old Canadian-based fighter beat Schiller Hyppolite in a clash of unbeaten fighters in 2012 but does not seem to have kicked-on since then. “Hollywood” Hendrix is 2-5 in his last 7 fights but can point to an upset win over Dennis Hasson (16-0) in June which will get him work.
New York, NY, USA: Middle: Tureano Johnson (18-1) W TKO 5 Alex Theran (17-2). Welter: Dusty Hernandez Harrison (25-0) W PTS 10 Tommy Rainone (22-6-1). Welter: Chris van Heerden (22-1-1) W PTS 10 Cecil McCalla (20-1). Super Middle: Andrew Hernandez (8-0-1,1ND) W DIS 4 Jerry Odom (12-1,1ND).
Johnson vs. Theran
Bahamian Johnson uses all-out pressure to overwhelm Colombian hope Theran. Johnson gave Theran no room to work and set a work rate of his own that Theran could not match. Johnson was on top of him and scoring with clubbing rights with southpaw Theran trying to move and work from the outside. Instead he was constantly finding himself on the back foot, on the ropes and being bullied inside. Theran did find some space in the second and third rounds but not much as Johnson was forcing him into a brawl that suited the Bahamian. A right from Johnson late in the fourth had Theran pitching forward to the canvas and taking a count on one knee. In the fifth a left to the body put Theran down again. The Colombian broken his ankle as he went down but got up and limped his way to the bell before retiring in his corner. The 31-year-old Johnson wins the vacant WBC Silver and WBA International titles which should do wonders for his ranking with those bodies. He is currently WBC8/IBF 12(11)/WBA 12. This is his fourth win since losing to Curtis Stevens on a controversial stoppage in the last round of their fight in April where Johnson only had to last out the remaining 51 seconds to get a points win. He was the outstanding member of the Bahamas amateur boxing team having won numerous Caribbean Championships and competed twice at the World Championships and at the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics. “The Prince” Theran, 24, was just out-gunned here and together with his stoppage loss to Arif Magomedov in April it looks as though he will come up short as a pro after an outstanding amateur career in which he reportedly beat Johnson.
Harrison vs. Rainone
Harrison gets wide unanimous decision but finds it hard to shine against crafty southpaw Rainone. After an even first round Harrison took over as he was doing most of the pressing, landing the better punches and outworking a passive Rainone who relied mainly on counters which kept him in the fight but down on the cards. Hernandez was harvesting the rounds without being able to nail, down the defence-minded Rainone. When Rainone did turn aggressor he was being caught by counters from Harrison and did not sustain the action. Harrison shook Rainone with a right in the seventh and tried to end it then but Rainone was able to duck, weave and hold his way out of trouble. Over the last two rounds Harrison was able to keep Rainone on the ropes for most of the time and was getting through with hard combinations with Rainone just doing enough to stay in the fight and go the distance. Scores 100-90 twice and 99-91. Only 20 the tall Washington prospect will have better nights but this was a good test of his patience against a fighter who posed some problems that the relatively low quality of his opposition to date has not done. He collects the vacant WBC Continental Americas title. He is WBO 14 but may soon creep into the ranking of some of the other bodies with tougher opposition. “Razor” Rainone, 35, had lost only one of his last eleven fights and was WBO USBO champion but the opposition had been non-threatening.
van Heerden vs. McCalla
van Heerden shook off nearly nine months of rust to get a split decision despite yet more weird scoring. McCall came in 2lbs 5ozs over the contract weight but that did not help him. The South African southpaw needed to make this an inside fight to counter the skills of McCalla and he succeeded. He stayed inside working the body which gave McCalla no room to get leverage and McCalla lacked the punch power and the strength to change the fight. McCalla did enough scoring to make some rounds close but was unable to keep van Heerden out long enough to take control of the fight. Scores 97-93 and 96-94 for van Heerden and an incredible 99-91 for McCalla! Van Heerden wins the vacant IBF International title. The 27-year-old “Heat” had relinquished his IBO title to try to land a shot at one of the other titles but in a star studded welterweight division that is a big ask. He suffered a broken ankle which had kept him out of action since April and his return gave him the honour of being the first South African fighter to fight at the MSG since Willie Toweel back in 1960. McCalla had done most of his boxing in the backwaters with no names of note on his record.
Odom vs. Hernandez
“The King’s Son “Odom found a pretty stupid way to lose his unbeaten tag. The hot prospect was being given a good test by Hernandez but was on his way to a win probably inside the distance. He broke through in the third round and floored Hernandez with a series of punches. Unfortunately he continued the series with Hernandez on the canvas and was rightly disqualified. The 21-year-old is one of those kids saved from the streets by boxing and he had a stellar time as an amateur winning gold and silver medals at the NGG’s and a silver in the US Championships but lost out at the US Olympic Trials. He has skill, speed and power so hopefully he can put this aberration behind him. Phoenix prelim fighter Hernandez gets a lucky win.
Tacoma, WA, USA: Middle: Mike Gavronski (16-1-1) W PTS 10 Dashon Johnson (15-19-3). Gavronski gets unanimous decision over late sub Johnson. The local fighter Gavronski made a good start taking the fight to Johnson and outscoring him over the opening round but with Johnson finding enough openings for his jab to show Gavronski he was in a fight. From the second the tactics became clear with Gavronski going to the body and Johnson to the head. Gavronski was edging the rounds with his higher work rate but Johnson was landing enough head shots to stay competitive. Johnson had a good fifth starting the round by forcing Gavronski to the ropes and landing rights to the head. Gavronski did some good work when he moved to ring centre but Johnson closed the round with some good head shots. The sixth was again close with again Gavronski going to the body and Johnson to the head and both fighters had their moments in a seventh and eighth with Johnson coming on strong but Gavronski edging the rounds with a higher work rate. In the ninth Gavronski pushed Johnson down to the canvas. It was an offence he had committed before and this time the referee deducted a point from the local fighter. Gavronski boxed his way through the last using a sharp jab and good movement to prevent Johnson staging a strong finish and got the deserved decision. Scores 98-91twice and 95-94. Gavronski a clear winner but the 98-91scores did not do justice to Johnson’s work. “Imagine Me” Gavronski, 29, had seen an unbeaten 15 bout streak snapped by a points loss to world rated Tureano Johnson in July and this was his second win as he rebounds from that set back. He had prepared to fight Californian Louis Rose so had little time to adjust to the change of opponent. “Fly Boy” Johnson, 26, was a six day notice fill-in and again showed how difficult an opponent he can be despite a 2-14 record in his last 16 fights. Many of those losses were late notice fights against top class opposition in the other man’s backyard and the wins over Adam Trupish and Craig McEwan show he has ability.
Tijuana, Mexico: Light Fly: Javier Mendoza (23-2-1) W TKO 2 Mauricio Fuentes (17-4). Super Bantam: Edivaldo Ortega (20-0-1) W KO 3 Chris Esquivel (27-6). Light Welter: Abner Lopez (21-4) W TKO 2 Jose D Mosquera (16-5-1). Straw: Mario Rodriguez 19-9-4) W TKO 5 Armando Torres (21-14).
Mendoza vs. Fuentes
Mendoza blows away Flores in two rounds. The IBF champion ended this non-title fight in quick time. The Mexican “Cobra” had Flores under pressure in the first and wrapped it up in the second. A left/right combination saw Flores take a knee. He was up quickly and took the eight count. When the action resumed another series of shots from Mendoza put Flores down again. He made it to his feet but was shipping more punishment when his second entered the ring to save him further punishment and the fight was stopped. It was proposed that this be a title fight but the IBF rightly refused to sanction it so it went ahead as a ten round non-title fight. Now 19 wins by KO/TKO for the 23-year-old southpaw. Mendoza won the vacant IBF title in September with a points victory over Ramon Garcia. Fuentes, 25, loses by KO/TKO for the second time. He was knocked out inside a round by Joel Casimero in an IBF title fight in May where Casimero came in overweight and lost his title on the scales. In refusing to sanction this fight it shows that the IBF do actually have standards-sometimes.
Ortega vs. Esquivel
“Indio” Ortega continues to look a top prospect as he destroys experienced Esquivel inside three rounds. The aggressive local southpaw was the aggressor from the start with Esquivel willing to stand and trade but getting the worst of the exchanges. The end came in the third round when a torrent of punches from Ortega sent Esquivel to the ropes and an overhand right put him down to finish the fight. Ortega wins the interim WBO NABO title and goes to 11 wins by KO/TKO. He is meeting a good level of opposition with fellow-Mexicans Carlos Jacobo and Enrique Bernache and Filipino Rey Perez beaten in file. “Italiano” Esquivel, 28, a former WBC Silver title holder and WBC bantam title challenger was knocked out in four rounds by unbeaten Japanese prospect Shohei Omori in May so suffers consecutive losses for the first time in his career.
Lopez vs. Mosquera
Lopez again shows his power and makes it a bad night for Colombian boxers as he halts Mosquera in two rounds. The lanky Mexican had Mosquera hurt in the first but failed to finish it. In the second a hard combination put Mosquera down and although he made it to his feet at the end of the eight count the referee stopped the fight. “Jaeger” Lopez, 24, has 19 wins by KO/TKO and is rebuilding after a loss to Alejandro Barrera (23-2) in August. He has good wins over former WBC champion Humberto Gutierrez and Ric Dominguez. After suffering only one loss, to Diego Chaves, in his first 16 fights Mosquera, 31, is 2-4 in his last 6 fights and coming off a loss to Aaron Herrera in July.
Rodriguez vs. Torres
Former IBF champion Rodriguez gets stoppage win over Torres. The “Little Dragon” ended this in the fifth with two knockdowns which saw the referee stop the fight. He lost to Donnie Nietes in a challenge for the WBO title in 2010 but has a draw with new IBF champion Pedro Guevara and a kayo won over Nkosinathi Joyi. Torres, 33, the nephew of former WBC champion German Torres turned pro in Japan and is a former NABF and WBC Silver champion but is 2-5 in his last 7 fights.
Las Vegas, NV, USA: Super Bantam: Jessie Magdaleno (20-0) W PTS 8 Erik Ruiz (13-2). Light Middle: Rodrigo Garcia (17-0) W KO 1 Jailton De Jesus Souza (13-4). Feather: Vic Pasillas (9-0) W PTS 6 Karl Garcia (4-4).
Magdaleno vs. Ruiz
Magdaleno cancelled his last fight after he was emotionally thrown by a burglary at his apartment but no one was going to rob him in this fight as he won every round against Robert Garcia trained Ruiz. From the first round the brilliant young southpaw was too quick and accurate for Ruiz getting his punches home and being away before Ruiz could counter. Ruiz managed to get into the fight in the fourth and fifth but Magdaleno was still the one scoring most controlling things with his jab and slotting home hard rights. The unbeaten youngster scored with some heavy punches in the eighth as he tried to extend his run of wins by KO/TKO to seven but Ruiz was still there at the bell. Scores 80-72 from all three judges. Magdaleno, 23, wins the vacant NABF Junior title. He is rated WBO 2/IBF 4(3)/WBA 7 despite never having had a fight scheduled for more than eight rounds which is a case of rating on potential rather than achievement but he is a future champion. It is worrying for other boxers that there is a third Magdaleno brother coming through the amateur ranks who is supposed to be even better than Diego or Jessie! Ruiz had won his last 4 fights but had no answer to the sparkling skills of Magdaleno.
Garcia vs. Souza
Mexican prospect Garcia wipes out Brazilian Souza inside a round. One solid left hook put Souza down and out after just 71 seconds. Now 12 wins by KO/TKO for the 25-year-old Garcia, the last 6 on the bounce. One to watch. After 11 wins Souza is 2-4 in his last 6 fights with all four losses by KO/TKO.
Pasillas vs. Garcia
Pasillas remains unbeaten as he takes every round against Garcia. The Californian southpaw, a former NGG bronze medalist, floored Garcia in the third and won on scores of 60-54 twice and 60-53. Puerto Rican Garcia is trained by former WBO straw and light fly champion Ivan Calderon but is 2-4 in his last 6 fights.
Arezzo, Italy: Light Middle: Orlando Fiordigiglio (20-0) W KO 2 Jose Del Rio (18-6). Super Middle: Roberto Bassi (7-1) W PTS 10 Fabrizio Leone (6-6).
Fiordigiglio vs. Del Rio
Fiordigiglio retains his EU title with kayo of Spaniard Del Rio. Fiordigiglio was attacking from the start scoring well with body punches and although Del Rio defended well he was under pressure throughout the round. Fiordigiglio took Del Rio to the ropes in the second and although the Spaniard again covered well and tried to counter Fiordigiglio pulled the trigger first and nailed Del Rio with a short left hook. The Spaniard went down heavily and despite a brave attempt by Del Rio to get up the fight was over. The tall 30-year-old champion was making his third defence of his EU title and goes to 11 wins by KO/TKO. He is rated No 1 by the EBU and is waiting in line for a shot at the winner when Jack Culcay defends the title against Cedric Vitu. He is an intelligent boxer with power who could move into the world ratings in 2015. Former Spanish welter champion Del Rio, 29, had lost on points on the road against Jackson Osei Bonsu, Jussi Koivula and Sebastien Maidana ( a close decision for the WBFed world title) and this was his first loss by KO/TKO. He had won his last 3 fights but was rated down at No 27 in the EU ratings.
Bassi vs. Leone
Bassi wins the vacant Italian title with unanimous verdict over Leoni. Bassi was the quicker and better boxer and Leoni who was reduced to trying to find one big punch to turn the fight his way. Bassi was able to avoid those attempts and score with hard combinations and stop Leoni’s efforts to get inside and work the body. A dispirited Leoni tried to stage a big finish but with both fighters tiring Bassi was able to box his way to a clear victory. Scores 98-93 twice and 96-94 with the latter being generous to Leoni. The 31-year-old Bassi answered questions over his stamina as he stayed the course well in his first fight scheduled for more than six rounds. Now 5 losses in a row for Leoni. This was very much a low level national title fight with neither fighter considered to be in the top 10 Italian’s at this weight.
Gapyeong, South Korea: Super Bantam: Sun Jung Moon (3-4-3) W PTS 10 Sung Hwan Kim (2-1-3).
Moon wins the vacant national title with split decision over unbeaten Kim. Although both fighters are relative novices they put on a real scrap with lots of offence and not much defence. Both were on the floor. Kim put Moon down with a hard right cross but Moon was up immediately and took the eight count. Later it was Moon’s turn and a hard right made Kim touch down briefly. They battled away over the late rounds with Kim’s face a mask of blood from a bad nose injury. Scores 97-95 twice for Moon and 97-95 for Kim. The 18-year-old winner had lost in a previous challenge for the national feather title. All of Kim’s previous fights had been over four rounds so he did well to last the pace.
Kampaengsan, Thailand: Super Fly: Petchbarngborn (30-7-1) W TKO 4 John Bajawa (12-9).
Petchbarngborn much too good for Indonesian Bajawa and on his way to a win when Bajawa retired after the fourth round citing an arm injury. The 29-year-old Thai retains his PABA title. He is rated WBO 6/WBA 9. After a 4-5-1 start to his career he has lost only two of his last 28 fights. Those losses were both in Japan to current WBA champion Kohei Kono and world rated Sho Ishida and he has won 8 in a row since the kayo loss to Ishida in 2013. Bajawa has lost 7 of his last 8 fights.

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Producer, composer, songwriter, and pianist Kosta Lois is quickly making a name for himself in the LA music scene as someone who represents a keen fusion of current pop and high artistic integrity. KL has built his studio and reputation by recording scores of artists, working with dozens of current hit songwriters, and developing a sound that masterfully blends his classical music and jazz education with his passion for pop music and his love for great songs.
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10 Will Jake Cutler make Bear Fans forget the past
9 Will Jake Cutler be “the Savior” to take the Bears to the Super Bowl
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7 Will this Bear Season “be different” from all the rest
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There is a lot of information on the Internet on how to reduce your appetite, but some tips are not helpful. Therefore, we have chosen only what really works.
Some of the tips sound strange or funny.
- – watching disgusting pictures to lose appetite (tip that may work temporarily, but after 3 minutes you will be hungry again and your friends and family may look at you weird if you do something like this just to lose weight ).
- – it smells smelly things (please don’t do that).
- – smells of vanilla (this should probably trick your brain into thinking you are full, but there is no evidence that this is true either).
So what works to reduce appetite?
If you stick to at least half of the next tips in your life, you will lose at least a few pounds or more:
1. Eat more fresh, natural foods.
Fruits and vegetables are high in fiber and, given their bulk, contain relatively few calories. The fibers in these foods improve feelings of fullness. Ultra-light calorie vegetables include spinach, Swiss chard, carrots, broccoli, and asparagus. Fruits contain fructose, so you should be moderate, but eat low calorie fruits like plums, oranges, and strawberries.
2. Drink water before meals.
If you are trying to feel full of water, this will not help because clean water passes through the digestive system quickly because it has no nutrients to digest. In just 10 minutes, you’ll be hungry again. However, drinking a glass or two of water before meals certainly helps.
3. Eat more slowly.
The reason is simple. It takes about 20 minutes for our body to realize that it is full. If we eat quickly, the signal to tell our brain that we are full will come too late. Another fun way to slow down the speed of your meals is with a teaspoon.
Several scientific studies suggest that protein reduces appetite. If you are looking to lose weight, it is recommended that one third of your calories consumed come from protein.
Three foods that are extremely high in protein are chicken breast, fish, and low fat cheese.
Negative feelings affect people in different ways. Some people lose their appetite, while others have more. If you’re the type of person who likes to eat when they’re not feeling well, try to avoid loneliness and boredom, as these are the main reasons for overeating.
6. Get enough sleep
Lack of sleep is proven to lead to overeating and increased appetite, as lack of energy forces your body to consume extra calories to keep you awake throughout the day. Sleep deprivation is also linked to diabetes.
7. Choose the food you eat.
Check out the weight loss product listings with saturation rates for each product. The key to losing weight isn’t hunger, but eating low-calorie foods that really make you feel full, but not fatty.
8. Caffeine and green tea.
Scientific studies show that coffee and green tea can reduce appetite. In addition to these effects, these drinks have health benefits, especially green tea.
It is recommended to drink apple cider juice or water with apple cider vinegar before starting. Also add cinnamon, ginger ale, and cayenne pepper to your meals as they reduce appetite and speed up your metabolism. Always add lemon to your tea, and if you eat olives, be sure to eat seeds, as they greatly reduce hunger because they take longer to digest. Also, try to eat celery as often as possible as it is low in calories and makes you feel fuller for longer.
Legumes like beans, soybeans, and chickpeas are effective in reducing hunger because they contain cholecystokinin, an appetite-suppressing hormone, making them one of the most effective weight loss fighters. Scientific studies have shown that the levels of this hormone improved dramatically in people who ate legumes. In addition, legumes maintain optimal blood sugar longer and increase feelings of fullness. Plus, they lower cholesterol levels and are an excellent natural laxative, help cleanse and empty the intestines, and enhance body detoxification. Garlic or dill can be added to your food to prevent bloating, which is a common side effect of legumes.


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Montreal, Canada – Ultimate TechnoGraphics, the leader in imposition and finishing automation, is proud to announce the addition of Andrew Bailes-Collins as Head of Product Management.
Previously Senior Product Manager at Enfocus for the PitStop family of products, Andrew Bailes-Collins started his career in prepress, and for the last two decades has been working within product management with PDF based prepress applications. Andrew is also Technical Officer of the Ghent Workgroup and is an industry expert in the utilisation and tools for PDF workflows.
“I am very pleased and excited to be joining Ultimate as it is a very dynamic and respected company in the industry, says Andrew Bailes-Collins. Also, it is perfect timing, as the automation journey for many print service providers is increasingly shifting to focus on the efficiency, performance and profitability of the printing and finishing processes.
I believe Ultimate’s solutions, with the automated imposition, ganging and nesting capabilities, combined with the ability to automate finishing equipment are perfectly placed to provide the solutions to meet this growing need.
This new role will allow me to cover every aspect of the print workflow and work more closely with imposition and finishing automation, both of which are the future of print production efficiency.”
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“We are thrilled to have Andrew join the team”, says Julie Watson, CEO of Ultimate TechnoGraphics. “Andrew is not only a seasoned professional and PDF expert, but he is also very knowledgeable about the challenges printers face everyday and how this can be addressed. Together with the entire Ultimate Team, we will continue providing key solutions to enhance productivity. The end goal at Ultimate is to ensure the success of our customers and the entire print industry.”
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Sand trays are powerful tools and maybe helpful once a person is further along in looking at sexuality issues in therapy. I'll keep that in mind. Together, right now, we are looking at how to even open the possibility of looking. I'm especially moved and challenged by Shh saying that sexual material came into her mind while she was in session with her therapist but still couldn't bring herself to speak of it. Periodically, when I'm working with someone I'll tell them a brief story about me or a former patient or a person in the news or a character in fiction or nonfiction that lived out a situation not unlike what my patient is experiencing. Maybe I should do that more with sexual issues. What do you think? I will bring up something general, like an affair or infidelity in marriage. And I do bring up stalker stories more within the past eight or so years as I see how often people with eating disorders can attract stalkers - and at times - be a stalker, mistaking obsession for love. Would hearing tiny stories about sexual issues show you that your therapist was at ease and understanding with this material and, therefore, might be at ease and understanding with you? Or would those stories scare you and make you pull back even more? Maybe there's a threshold of tolerance you could help me understand. I'm looking for the kind of stories that would alert you, open you, probably startle you a little - just a little - but also give you a sense of relief and greater safety and free you to speak. Is there a way to get to such a place?

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The factors that inspired people to undergo such a journey despite the risk of failures and danger would be similar to Columbus’ in which Columbus sought after admiration from the royal highest of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, wealth, and major accomplishment that leads to being recognized. Besides, I believe that missionary work or spreading the words of one’s religion could inspire people to take on this challenge as Columbus believe the natives needed to be re-civilized and saved by religion.
According to Christopher Columbus’ journals, the long voyage rendered his men disgruntled and exhausted when they did not land to their where they set forth for. To appease his men, Columbus told the men they were closer to the destination they set forth for than they were, and Columbus elected leaders for his ship that could lead his men. His men were fearful that they were a part of a failed mission that other explorers experienced on their voyage to the New World as they witnessed the remains of parts of a defunct vessel in the ocean. Eventually, Columbus and his men came near a tiny island that belongs to the Lucayos named Guanahani in the Indian language. Columbus described the people of that island as poor and naked, well endowed, and painted on their faces. They appeared to be kind and easy to manipulate. From the except, Columbus and his men believed that they were conquerable and needed saving with Christianity since the natives might not have a religion. The men of Columbus wanted to bring six of the natives back to Columbus’ homeland to educate the natives Columbus’ language.
In my analysis, during Columbus’ first expedition, Columbus thought that he landed in India in 1492, but actually, he landed in the American continent and saw the continent as a land of wealth. He then returned to Spain to deliver the news to the royals. The royals thought that the news was a way to gain an economic advantage to compete with other European countries at that time. In the subsequent voyage in 1493, Columbus left Cadiz to the Americas where he established Spain’s first colony in the Americas. The Indians were heavily taxed in gold or enslaved gold mining, and some of the victims were captured and shipped back to Europe for sale.
Columbus’ expedition opened the doors for more Spanish expansion and future expedition. Spanish explorers were relentless in their pursuit of obtaining gold, land, and wealth after they became inspired by the golden rivers and the timid along with naive locals. According to the textbook, here is an example of another voyager Hernandez Cortes who also wanted to gain privileges for his family and wanted to receive tributes and labors from the locals. As a result, Cortez invaded the Aztec Empire in 1519 because the gold and wealth of the Aztecs attracted the Spaniard. Cortez wanted to conquer the city of the Aztecs by kidnapping the King Montezuma II, but this angered the Tenochtitlans, who rose up against the intruders in the city. Cortes came up with a way to establish an alliance with the local people who hated Aztecs. The Spaniards took advantage of the disunity among the various Aztec empire and occupied Tenochtitlan.
In conclusion, Columbus’s voyage opened up new routes, which made the exchanges from Europe to Asia, America, and Africa increasingly close, and the world began to form a whole, and it also laid the foundation for the initial formation of the world market. However, it formed the Atlantic Triangle trade centered on the European industrial countries, which has lost tens of thousands of laborers in Africa and made the Americas a production base of Europe. And Europe embarked on the path of colonial expansion, causing poverty and backwardness in countries and regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Take a look at your current devices. Can you imagine swapping that smartphone for a gigantic cellphone from the 1980s? Surfing the Internet with dial-up speed? Working out to your favorite music with a cassette player?
Today’s technology is better, faster and more innovative. People have to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and so does the “brain” for the RS-25 rocket engine.
The engine controller unit on the RS-25 — formerly known as the space shuttle main engine — helped propel all of the space shuttle missions to space. It allows communication between the vehicle and the engine, relaying commands to the engine and transmitting data back to the vehicle. The controller also provides closed-loop management of the engine by regulating the thrust and fuel mixture ratio while monitoring the engine’s health and status.
Just like the ever-evolving computer, the engine controller unit needed a “refresh” to provide the capability necessary for four RS-25 engines to power the core stage of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), to deep space missions. The core stage, towering more than 200 feet tall with a diameter of 27.6 feet, will store cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that will feed the vehicle’s RS-25 engines.
“You can’t put yesterday’s hardware on today’s engine, especially since many parts of the shuttle-era engine controller unit aren’t even made anymore,” said Russ Abrams, avionics subsystem manager in the SLS Liquid Engines Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Marshall manages the SLS Program for the agency. “We need the most updated control systems for this engine to meet SLS specifications and take us to places we’ve never been before in space.”
Controller development is based heavily on the recent development experience with the J-2X engine controller. An engineering model RS-25 controller is being tweaked and tested at Marshall. At one of the center’s test facilities, engineers are simulating the RS-25 in flight, using real engine actuators, sensors, connectors and harnesses.
A second engineering model controller and RS-25 engine also recently were installed on the A-1 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Pending final preparation and activation work, the engine test series is anticipated to begin in 2015.
“NASA and its partners have been working very hard to evolve this crucial piece of hardware and software for the RS-25, and we look forward to seeing it tested on the A-1 stand very soon,” said Johnny Heflin, deputy manager of the SLS Liquid Engines Office at Marshall. “This is an exciting time for everyone involved with this project.”
The RS-25 and controller work are a collaborative effort between NASA and prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California.
The first flight test of the SLS will be configured for a 70-metric-ton (77-ton) lift capacity and carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit to test the performance of the integrated system. As the SLS evolves, it will be the most powerful rocket ever built and provide an unprecedented lift capability of 130 metric tons (143 tons) to enable missions even farther into our solar system.
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Precast concrete firm Bell & Webster has been sold on.
The firm, which has a plant on the Alma Park Industrial Estate in Grantham, has been bought by FP McCann, after three days in administration.
According to administrators John Alexander and John Dickinson of accountants Carter Backer Winter, the sale was confirmed on January 9, having gone into administration on January 6.
Mr Alexander said: “We were pleased to be able to conclude the sale to FP McCann ensuring that the business can continue.”
According to its latest published accounts, Bell & Webster had a turnover of £4.2m for the year ending December 31, 2012.
The business, formerly owned by Eleco, employed about 50 staff and two directors in Grantham before going into administration.

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Early futuristic “adventure” tale written in 1897, depicting the—then—far-flung world of the year of 1947.
A double adventure written at the end of the nineteenth century, somewhat in the theme of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Great Stone of Sardis tells of a submarine trip to reach the North Pole and a project to examine the center of the Earth by boring a deep shaft. What they find at the core of the planet surprises the enterprising explorers.
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The Mountain in Us We have a soul. It can be felt and experienced as a sturdy mountain, a flowing river, or a deep and wide ocean. It has perspective, a point of view, and a myriad of intuitive insights. It is our life force energy. It is the source of the beautiful smiles, exciting expressions and the storms of passion. It is the intensity in us. When we commit to be present with another human being, and allow ourselves to dance in the moment together, our life-energies merge. This is a moment of oneness of being, of intimacy and there are no distractions in this place. Within these moments there are many possibilities for the life-energies to produce growth, creativity, mutual understanding, resiliency, vulnerability and purposeful living.
When I experienced this for the first time, I could feel my blood flowing within my veins and arteries. I was flush with the wonder of my being, my essence, that is my soul. A whole new world opened up for me. Since then I have committed myself to learning, cultivating, and practicing methods to make this a continual part of my life, so that I can bring this knowledge and understanding to others. That was twenty years ago. Now I am ready to greet and invite you into deeper contact with yourself so that you can know yourself better and understand the value and power of your gifts and purpose. These kinds of experiences are expansive for artists, professionals, and practitioners of all disciplines. Morten Nygård presents the 9 LifeEnergies – the Art of Being Human