Anyhow, email has now become a weapon of choice in the business world. And it has all sorts of tactics for attacking and defending one's self and projects. Here are a few entries I'm considering.

The Forward-Button Parry
When you're buried in work you may need to make your problem someone else's. Don't bother reading an inbound email. Instead parry the message by forwarding it to someone else. Add '???' to your text to fully impose the burden upon another.

The Confusion Cloud
When your opponent asks a question, repeat this question to a large group. CC your opponent on this message and they will suffer a thousand one-line emails in an endless and disorienting fray of responses that will distract them from further attacks upon you.

The Feigned Error
When an opponent demands results by email, do not respond. Instead, wait patiently. When they inquire again, do not respond, continue to wait. They may thusly attack many times, but you must be patient and not reply. Finally a call will come. When they ask why you've not replied, simply state, "I did not get your message. Our email server has been down".Assure your opponent you are making inquiries and you will respond soon. Then repeart the feigned error tactic again as necessary.

Alternatively you can divert responsibility through 'A stringent SPAM filter' or 'Blackberry error.'

The introduction scene is actually not too bad. As the director tantalizingly gives you glimpses of his hero, as he dangles from a multi-storey building you actually take your hand off the eject button. But man, are you in for some disappointment. As the opening scene draws on, you see the defense minister of North korea being given some special treatment by 14-15 year old chicks. Man, talk about axis of evil. So, we realize that our hero is a covert UN agent whose identity does not exist. This one line should be enough to tell you the rest of the plot which is hardly imaginative or creative.

Well, the director does try to be different and throws in some geo-political twist to the plot. China trying to open itself to the world. But again you know that someone is going to throw in a spanner(and if you have seen as many whodunnits as I have, you can actually tell who). There are a few cool chase sequences which ultimately land our hero in trouble, who being officially non-existant cannot be rescued by UN which actually seems to be involved in more murkier things than D company.

There are the usual suspects in the plot like any other action movie- the hero escaping from the clutches of the villains, an audio tape being chased by everyone, car crash, boom boom blasts and since our hero is an afro american he has to play basketball atleast once. Shady nightclubs, drugs, sweat-shops. Special mention for wesley disguised as a Sudanese guy at UN. Hilarious yet believable.

The movie does make a few pertinent points. China's future (the movie was made in 2000) is an important issue throughout the movie and how people both within and outside China would like to sabotage its growth for their personal benefit. Seeing the movie in the backdrop of the Beijing Olympics actually lends testimony to the director's fears. But his insistence on dragging Art of War into the context of the movie holds the movie back. The movie also allays to the fact that UN is losing its relevance fast and actually tries to preach that UN must resort to unconventional ways to keep its head above water.

The script is pretty shallow and there seem to have been some last minute improvisations which do not allow a steady flow. However credit is due to Christian Duguay(director) who is probably the only one to come out shining. The production values are the saving grace of the movie and make it tolerable. Wesley,at best is average. Donald Sutherland was completely wasted. Interestingly, Jet Li was to reprise the role played by Snipes. Hmmm, could that have made a difference?

The tagline of the movie is "Do you know who your enemy is?". I know. It is crappy boring movies who try to use style over substance and fail miserably. Art of war, unfortunately falls in that category.

Genre: Action, Thriller(you got to be kidding me)

Rating: Nightmarish

Win the customer's preference and create a sustainable competitive advantage, while providing sufficient return for owners or, in the case of a publicly held company, the shareholders. A strategy defines the direction the business will take and positions it to move in that direction.

A strategic plan outlines how the war will be won. It defines the critical hills that must be taken. With that information in hand, the generals must determine how the resources - people, equipment, finances, timing and focus - will be allocated. If those resources are insufficient or lack the ability to win the war, the leadership must plan to supplement its army.

The allocation of these resources and the timing for deploying them is in essence the art of battle. It is how we will win the war. In business, we refer to this as the tactical or operational plan.

One of former President Dwight David Eisenhower's favorite sayings was "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

At the World Business Forum in New York City, New York City Mayor Rudolf Giuliani said, "You have to be prepared for the worst things that can happen in order to get people through things. My mentor in the Attorney General's offices said that I should always prepare four hours for every hour I planned to spend in court. When you're prepared, the unanticipated is just a variation on the anticipated."

Mayor Giuliani recounted that at the turn of the millennium, the entire world undertook massive preparations for what was termed the Year 2000 problem. Private and public sector leadership were concerned that all computer systems would no longer function accurately when the calendar turned from 1999 to 2000 because of the way that calendar years had been coded. There was a widespread concern that banks would no longer have access to funds, patient age records in hospitals would be completely inaccurate, traffic systems would cease to work and even prisons would find themselves without secure systems.

Billions of dollars were spent to recode software applications, and still, there was a widespread fear that catastrophe loomed somewhere as certainly, some application must have been overlooked. To be certain, The Mayor challenged his management team to create extensive plans to ward off this possible catastrophe. In effect, he charges his management to plan for an eventuality where New York could no longer function.

On January 2^nd, 2000, leadership throughout the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. There was no computer-spawned catastrophe and while there were some inconveniences, these inconveniences were quickly remedied.

Mayor Giuliani might have felt that this massive investment in contingency planning might not have been all that valuable, given the limited scope of the challenges that appeared in January 2000. After all, nothing significant happened. But, as he explained, it was our Y2K preparations allowed us to be ready for September 11^th, 2001 when an unthinkable tragedy brought New York to a standstill.

Indeed, it is difficult to anticipate the exact scenario and match the plan to the anticipated circumstance. Yet, the very act of planning provides us with the means by which we can anticipate responses and adjust our actions accordingly.

This is the new Systema Framework. Let's look at definitions for each of the icons. I want you to note that putting this together even close to coherently is taking considerable time and I will be revising this post repeatedly.

Things I've learned:

• I am abandoning the term entity for the term logos which is closer to the correct concept we are dealing with.  Logic deals with the logos (words) of reason versus the forms (things) of reality.
• I have found that de Bono lead me to realize that a relationship or association is not the correct term for these connections. The correct term is "directive" because the connector has a source.verb.target structure. Sun Tzu would call it a command. Ultimately, all people are directors not actors.
• The real genius of Zachman was creating a two dimensional framework where all his predecessors had only provided one dimension.
• "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Reaction is induction. Action is deduction. Thus a bottom up inductive process involves:
  • Reintuition, Renegation, Reobjection, Reposition, Redirection and Recreation
• While a top down deductive process involves:
  • Creation, Direction, Position, Objection, Negation and Intuition
• The finer points can be debated.
• I find the relational model is not best adapted to this framework. The associative model of data found at LazySoft is better equipped to meet the framework's requirements.

Systema Framework Terms

Systema Framework Icons

Icon Definitions

CREATIVE Logic Logics

CREATIVE are the logic logos in your system. These are the logos you will use to explain your motives. Another way to look at it is using Edward de Bono's hats in two dimensions: Creative creations. In Sun Tzu factors Moral Law Moral Law.

DIRECTIVE Logic Organics

DIRECTIVE are the logic directions in your system.  Reason directions are mandatory or optional; single, multiple or plural and cursive or recursive.  They connect source reason logos and target reason logos. In de Bono hats Creative directions. In Sun Tzu factors Moral Law Command.

POSITIVE Logic Methodics

POSITIVE are logic methods in your system. Reason methods are mandatory or optional; single, multiple or plural and cursive or recursive. Ultimately the reason methods act on the reason forms. In de Bono hats Creative Positions. In Sun Tzu factors Moral Law Training.

OBJECTIVE Logic Pragmatics

OBJECTIVE deals with the logic forms you add to the system. In de Bono hats Creative objections. In Sun Tzu factors Moral Law Discipline.

NEGATIVE Logic Cosmics

NEGATIVE is the logic universe of your system. The reason nouns, reason verbs, reason methods and reason forms have been created and are an existing part of your system. In de Bono's hats Creative Negations. Note that it is called a negative because a cosmos can only falsify a system otherwise it simply corroborates. In Sun Tzu factors Moral Law Terrain.

INTUITIVE Logic Chronics

INTUITIVE are the logic triggers applied to the reason universe of your system. Changes to reason forms are reason triggers. In de Bono hats Creative intuitions. In Sun Tzu factors Moral Law Heavens.

CREATOR Organic Logics

CREATOR are the director logos (plant, animal, person) in your system. In de Bono hats Directive creations. In Sun Tzu factors Command Moral Law.

DIRECTOR Organic Organics

DIRECTOR are the director directions between director logos. In de Bono hats Directive Directions. In Sun Tzu factors Command Command.

POSITOR Organic Methodics

POSITOR are the director methods applied to director forms. In de Bono hats Directive Positions. In Sun Tzu factors Command Training.

OBJECTOR Organic Pragmatics

OBJECTOR are the director forms. In de Bono hats Directive objections. In Sun Tzu factors Command Discipline.

NEGATOR Organic Cosmics

NEGATOR is the director universe. In de Bono hats Directive Negations. In Sun Tzu factors Command Terrain.

INTUITOR Organic Chronics

INTUITOR are the director triggers applied to the director universe. In de Bono hats Directive Intuitions. In Sun Tzu factors Command Heavens.

CREATE Methodic Logics

CREATE is the methodic logos of the system. In de Bono hats Positive creations. In Sun Tzu factors Training Moral Law.

DIRECT Methodic Organics

DIRECT is the methodic directions of the system. In de Bono hats Positive directions. In Sun Tzu factors Training Command.

POSIT Methodic Methodics

POSIT is the methodic methods of the system. In de Bono hats Positive Positions. In Sun Tzu factors Training Training.

OBJECT Methodic Pragmatics

OBJECT is the methodic forms of the system. In de Bono hats Positive Objections. In Sun Tzu factors Training Discipline.

NEGATE Methodic Cosmics

NEGATE is the methodic univserse of the system. In de Bono hats Positive Negations. In Sun Tzu factors Training Terrain.

INTUIT Methodic Chronics

INTUIT is the methodic triggers of the system. In de Bono hats Positive Intuitions. In Sun Tzu factors Training Heavens.

CREATION Pragmatic Logics

CREATION are the pragmatic logos of the system. In de Bono hats Objective Creations. In Sun Tzu factors Discipline Moral Law.

DIRECTION Pragmatic Organics

DIRECTION are the pragmatic directions of the system. In de Bono hats Objective Directions. In Sun Tzu factors Discipline Command.

POSITION Pragmatic Methodics

POSITION are the pragmatic methods of the system. In de Bono hats Objective Positions. In Sun Tzu factors Discipline Training.

OBJECTION Pragmatic Pragmatics

OBJECTION are the pragmatic forms of the system. In de Bono hats Objective Objections. In Sun Tzu factors Discipline Discipline.

NEGATION Pragmatic Cosmics

NEGATION are the pragmatic univserse of the system. In de Bono hats Objective Negations. In Sun Tzu factors Discipline Terrain.

INTUITION Pragmatic Chronics

INTUITION are the pragmatic triggers of the system. In de Bono hats Objective Intuitions. In Sun Tzu factors Training Heavens.

CREATORY Cosmic Logics

CREATORY are the universe logos of the system. In de Bono hats Negative creations. In Sun Tzu factors Terrain Moral Law.

DIRECTORY Cosmic Organics

DIRECTORY are the univserse directions of the system. In de Bono hats Negative Directives. In Sun Tzu factors Terrain Command.

POSITORY Cosmic Methodics

POSITORY are the universe methods of the system. In de Bono hats Negative Positions. In Sun Tzu factors Terrain Training.

OBJECTORY Cosmic Pragmatics

OBJECTORY are the universe forms of the system. In de Bono hats Negative Objections. In Sun Tzu factors Terrain Discipline.

NEGATORY Cosmic Cosmics

NEGATORY are the universe universe of the system. In de Bonos hats Negative Negations. In Sun Tzu factors Terrain Terrain.

INTUITORY Cosmic Chronics

INTUITORY are the universe triggers of the system. In de Bono hats Negative Intuitions. In Sun Tzu factors Terrain Heavens.

CREATUM Chronic Logics

CREATUM are the chronic logos of the system. In de Bono hats Intuitive Creations. In Sun Tzu factors Heavens Moral Law.

DIRECTUM Chronic Organics

DIRECTUM are the chronic directions of the system. In de Bono hats Intuitive Directions. In Sun Tzu factors Heavens Command.

POSITUM Chronic Methodics

POSITUM are the chronic methods of the system. In de Bono hats Intuitive Positions. In Sun Tzu factors Heavens Training.

OBJECTUM Chronic Pragmatics

OBJECTUM are the chronic forms of the system. In de Bono hats Intuitive Objections. In Sun Tzu factors Heavens Discipline.

NEGATUM Chronic Cosmics

NEGATUM are the chronic universe of the system. In de Bono hats Intuitive Negations. In Sun Tzu factors Heavens Terrain.

INTUITUM Chronic Chronics

INTUITUM are the chronic triggers of the system. In de Bono hats Intuitive Intuitions. In Sun Tzu factors Heavens Heavens.

De manera sintética, "El Arte de la Guerra" explica que hay que valorar la guerra (o los negocios o nuestra propias vidas) en términos de cinco pilares básicos, que tras analizarse y evaluarse detalladamente deberán servir para conocer si saldremos victoriosos o derrotados de la batalla:

• La DOCTRINA o la FE: para entrar en 'combate' hay que creer en el motivo de la lucha, ya que sólo debemos emprender el camino de aquello que nos llena de entusiasmo. "No conozco el secreto del éxito, pero el secreto del fracaso es intentar hacer siempre lo que quieren los demás".
• El TIEMPO o las ESTACIONES: al igual que la noche conoce al día, el frío al calor o el silencio al ruido, cada uno de nosotros debe respetar sus propias estaciones, su propio ying y su propio yang. Para progresar es necesario dar el primer paso (siendo el punto de partida el respeto por uno mismo), a partir de ahí nuestro ritmo y nuestra intuición nos irán indicando como conservar la energía.
• El TERRENO: tan sólo consiguen condiciones favorables aquellas personas que prestan especial atención a todo aquello que les rodea, a lo que está sucediendo a su alrededor, al espacio que están ocupando en cada momento para así poder ampliarlo o huir de él.
• Los ALIADOS: nadie puede luchar sólo. Necesitamos personas que nos insuflen ánimo cuando sea necesario, necesitamos consejos de aquellas personas que no tienen miedo de lo que podamos pensar..
• La CREATIVIDAD: sólo existe una manera de entender las cosas, cuando intentamos cambiarlas. No siempre conseguimos este propósito, pero terminamos por aprender valiosas lecciones, ya que nos encontramos en la búsqueda de un camino que nunca antes ha sido recorrido y la vida está llena de caminos por descubrir.

Por lo tanto las escrituras de Sun Tzu no son únicamente un tratado militar sino la estrategia suprema de aplicar con sabiduría el conocimiento de la naturaleza humana en los momentos indicados.

La mejor victoria es vencer sin combatir, y ésa es la distinción entre el hombre prudente y el ignorante

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friends, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.

carmen, my village is located in 68/49, continent 0 of world 11. It was a village given by my aunt. she owned too many already. so, she let me inherit one of them.

this is no ordinary village. to get to my village, traveling by foot or using a car just won't do. it is a virtual village afforded to me by an online game. and this game is called tribal wars.

tribal wars creates a virtual atmosphere set in the middle ages. true to form, the icons on the game are akin to the castles of the medieval period. in fact, the images, like swords and spears, bows and arrows, seem as if they have been plucked out of the movie braveheart and made into computer graphics.

at present, there are more than 500,000 players from all over the world.

upon registering as a player, one begins with a village with 26 points. this lowly village has a small hut as its headquarters. This headquarters allows the player to construct various buildings. once fully upgraded, the modest cabin eventually transforms into a huge castle.

buildings such us barracks and stable enable the training of troops and horsemen. other buildings like the farm and the warehouse allow growth in quantity and enhancement of capabilities.

to train warriors such as spearmen and archers, and put up buildings, a player would need resources. a timber camp cuts wood, the clay pit collects clay and the iron comes from the mines. the more these sources are upgraded, the more wood, clay and iron they produce.

but developing a village is not the only objective of the game. once your village is strong enough, you can start conquering other villages. this can be done through brute force or diplomacy.

now the game would not be called tribal wars without the presence of tribes. tribes are groups of players huddled together for the growth of the player and the tribe as a whole. thus, if you find yourself enmeshed in a battle with another village, you can always ask help from your tribe, if you have one.

i play for several reasons.

i am fascinated by the game. i have always been a fan of computer games and this is no exception. the high-tech gaming capabilities juxtaposed with a medieval setting unceasingly capture my attention and imagination.

i also enjoy the thrill of having control and being in control. i can choose to go to war or gain allies. the strategies one reads in the sun tzu’s the art of war or machiavelli’s the prince come alive and find application in tribal wars. I have to outwit, outsmart and outplay my opponent. and my decisions will cost me my village or it may also cost my opponents’ theirs.

finally, world 11 is an alternate reality that allows me to make friends from all over the world without even having to meet them. there’s dreadeagle from cambridge, lohoz from singapore, martinrhr from spain and so many others. they know me only as Lenekenpunk. but in that alternate reality, we fight together, we learn from each other and we grow alongside one another.

carmen was one a 26-point village. now, i have more than 26,000 points with a total of 7 villages: carmen, patag, puntod, bugo, bulua, lapasan and macasandig.

friends, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my world!

Totul are ca baza in album "arta razboiului". Plecand de la cartea lui Sun Tzu, albumul trece prin unele din cele mai celebre batalii din primul si al doilea razboi mondial. Personal, mi-a placut imens "40-1", iar povestea bataliei din spatele piesei este extraordinara. O alta piesa memorabila: "Cliffs of Gallipoli", pe care o puteti asculta aici. Pentru a treia recomandare, nu m-am putut hotara intre "The Price of a Mile" si "Unbreakable", va las pe voi sa alegeti.

Nota 8

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

. . .

The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will even roll stones along in its course.

. . .

- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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Bersama sahabat-sahabat disuatu pertemuan-Laju

Assalamualaikum bagi muslim dan salam sejahtera bagi non-muslim,

Dah lama aku meninggalkan blog kesayangan ini rasanya, suasana yang agak ‘hectic' membelenggu diri pada semester ini. Lumrah mahasiswa.

Sekadar berkongsi, aku sedang memikirkan bagaimanakah cara untuk LAJU.

Bergerak lebih LAJU

Bekerja lebih LAJU

Berfikir lebih LAJU

Brain storm lebih LAJU

Memberi maklumat lebih LAJU

Buat keputusan lebih LAJU

Makan lebih LAJU

Mandi lebih LAJU

Malah.. Melelapkan mata lebih LAJU dan Bangun juga lebih LAJU dari biasa.

Emmm...

Suatu malam semasa makan bersama abang-abangku di sebuah kedai, datang waiter bertanyakan pesanan, didapati akulah orang yang paling lambat menjawab soalan si waiter-" Abang nak makan apa?"

Maka menjeling abang-abangku seraya berkata sambil mengusik, "Enta ni lambat buat keputusan la..., bahaya bila bekerja"

Aku menundukkan kepala lalu tersengih sendirian.

Memang betul, ramai manusia gagal membuat keputusan dengan pantas. Aku terus berfikir dan dan kini sentiasa merancang dahulu untuk pilihan menu sebelum melangkah masuk ke kedai makan,hehe.

Sambil itu, aku teringat kata-kata hikmah,

"Kerja yang kita ada lebih banyak dari Masa yang kita ada"-Fikir-fikirkan

-SEKADAR BERKONGSI-

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by: Jack Bratcher

Justin Wren is an up-and-coming Heavyweight MMA Fighter from Texas.  He's an intimidating figure with outstanding wrestling credentials.  Justin trains with The Ultimate Fighter winner, Travis Lutter, among others.  From the first time I saw some of Justin's Youtube wrestling videos and heard that he was now entering into the MMA world, I knew that this would be a guy we would one day hear about.  Justin has been paying his dues the old-fashioned way; by getting in the cage and going toe-to-toe with the biggest men in the sport.  If you haven't yet heard of Justin Wren I want you to make a mental note of that name and remember where you first heard it.   I got the chance to catch up with Justin this week.

ProMMA: Hey Justin, how's it going. It's been awhile since I've spoke to you...what have you been up to?
Justin: Well first off I would like to say thank you for the interview and I appreciate you taking your time to take interest in me. I haven't been doing much besides a lot of training. I also just got back from church camp where I was a leader of my youth group. Recently I have had three scheduled fights fall through on me and now I finally have one set in stone for July 26th against Chris Guillen. I have been training diligently, and I am hoping to make a statement in that fight.

ProMMA: Could you let everyone know who may not be familiar with you a little about your background like where you are from, what sports you were into growing up, your wrestling credentials, and what got you into MMA?
Justin: Well I am from Fort Worth, Texas and I graduated from Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, Texas. I played almost every sport possible growing up, but then found my calling in wrestling my freshman year of high school. A bunch of my buddies and I would watch the old UFC tapes and I would tell them I was going to do that one day, which made them laugh. Our high school didn't have a wrestling team but I was blessed enough to have found a coach at a club team that told me the best fighters in MMA were the wrestlers. I was the sole wrestler of my high school but ended up winning the state championship. My junior and senior year I transferred to Bishop Lynch which had two Olympic Gold Medalist as their coaches. Again I was very fortunate, learned a lot from the best, and went on to win 10 State Championships (4 Greco Roman, 3 Freestyle, 3 Folkstyle), became a five time All American, and a two time National Champion. After developing quick in high school I was approached by the developmental coaches of the U.S. Olympic Greco Roman Team. I decided I would skip collegiate wrestling, move to the United States Olympic Education Center, and pursue my dreams of going to the Olympics. I ended up competing internationally until getting injured in a match with the 2002 Greco World Champion, which ultimately ended in surgery. The lay off time from competition was a year which then I decided to move to Ames, Iowa with the intent to wrestle under Cael Sanderson for Iowa State University on Scholarship. During the year I wasn't able to compete for the team but new I needed to stay active so I entered some smaller pro MMA shows and had some success. I immediately got the MMA bug and decided to not take my scholarship and instead pursue a career in mixed martial arts.

ProMMA: Who do you train with on a regular basis Justin and who are some people you've trained with in the past?
Justin: I do all my Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and no-gi work with Travis Lutter. His school is filled with such great talent and you constantly learn from everybody. I do all my wrestling with Kenny Monday who is an Olympic Gold, and Silver Medalist and has been my coach since high school. I box with Phil Sawyer and Kendrick Releford who are just awesome when it comes to boxing. I train muay thai at various places and I do most of my MMA training with Alex "El Toro" Andrade who is a beast. When it comes to my past training experiences I would considered myself honored to have been to places like Vegas. I just got back from a week in Vegas where I trained with Xtreme Couture, Cobra Kai, and Master Toddy's. I was training with greats such as Randy Couture, Forrest Griffin, Marc Laimon, Mike Whitehead, Tim Creduer and many, many more great and talented guys. By the way, I need to thanks Ted Ehrhardt of Team Takedown for letting me go out there and train with his guys. I stayed with Johnny Hendricks and Jake Rosholt who have a combined 5 NCAA Wrestling Championships, and those are some definite guys to look out for as future MMA champions.

ProMMA: What is your professional record at this point?
Justin: My record is 8-1 pro and I think if you add up the fights between sherdog and other fight finders, and look at the opponents you can find that record. I did start off by fighting in a couple of smaller venues so I don't know how all the reporting goes but I have fought pro 9 times. Seven of my wins are by TKO and one by Rear Naked Choke. A big mistake on my part was, that I became fight happy with no official MMA training besides wrestling for my first 7 fights. I am now becoming more and more well rounded and am starting to feel comfortable with aspect of the sport.

ProMMA: Out of all the people you've trained with and fought, who would you say is the toughest dude you know, aside from yourself of course?
Justin: Oh man that is such a tough question but I will answer out of just the MMA guys I have trained with. When I sparred with Randy he is absolutley tremendous everywhere. He constantly pushes the pace, and any opening you gave him he would take full advantage of. Forrest would never take a step back and was a million miles an hour. However, Travis Lutter on top of you is a bad day for anyone on the planet. He knows how to smash on you where he feels like a 300 pound man so that's pretty nuts. All three of those guys are tough as nails and I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to train with them.

ProMMA: What is your ultimate goal in this sport and what would you like to accomplish?
Justin: I am a young guy with tons of dreams and big aspirations. I don't want to be like some of these guys who seem to just want to say, "they are a fighter," when really they have a 50/50 record or worse. Since I am 21 I think I have plenty of time to develop into a complete, well rounded fighter, and I want to have all the weapons I can possibly bring to the table. Something inside of me says that if I pursue my dreams with everything I have, plus put in more time and effort than the competition, I can and will be a Champion some day. So my goals are as high as anyone else in the sport, but I know that it will take time, blood, sweat, tears, and many of God's blessings, before I can get to that place.

ProMMA: A lot of kids growing up when they play a sport have dreams of making it big; such as a kid playing baseball dreams of one day being in the Major Leagues. Do you consider the UFC to be the "Major Leagues" of MMA or with the other organizations coming up, can you still be considered a "Major League Fighter" without being in the UFC?
Justin: I definitely would say that the UFC is the largest promotion out there. You see all these guys wearing Tapout shirts saying they are in training to be a "UFC fighter," not a "Mixed Martial Arts Fighter," which is kind of humorous, but it goes to show you who is king of the hill right now. I definitely think you can be a "Major League Fighter" without being in the UFC. They do have the most quality overall out of the other promotions but if look at the Affliction card that is coming up, all those guys are "Major League Fighters" in my opinion. Then look at Randy, Fedor, Tim, and Josh Barnett. They are probably the best heavyweights in the world but none of them are in the UFC, and three of the four are fighting for Affliction in July.

ProMMA: Is there any fighters out there you would love to fight?
Justin: By far Kimbo, and also Mark Kerr. I want to fight Mark Kerr cause I was matched up with him and it fell through. Now they are letting him fight the guy I beat in my last fight, on the same card as me July 26th. I also would like to fight him, because as a freshman in high school playing the UFC playstation game, I was Mark every single time I played. He used to be a hero of mine, and if he is still going to fight competitively I would like to fight him while I am still a young in my career.

ProMMA: I know you're a heavyweight so I wanted to ask you your opinion on Kimbo Slice? Could you take him?
Justin: I would love to fight Kimbo, and the exposure that would come from a win with him would be career changing. I know EVERYONE who is a decent pro heavyweight wants a piece of him because he has zero ground game, but is still a big name fighter. He should have gotten TKO'd in his last fight, but Thompson didn't seem to know how to take mount. He also allowed Kimbo to Bench Press him off of side mount, which was a big mistake on Thompson's part. I think the first time you put an MMA fighter who has some ground training they will stop Kimbo first or second round. In my honest and humble opinion I think that I would finish the fight.

ProMMA: When can we expect to see you back in the cage, with what organization and who will be your opponent?
Justin: July 26th in XP3 Promotions www.xp3promotions.com where I will be fighting Chris Guillen.

ProMMA: I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with us Justin and we wish you the best of luck in your next fight.
Do you have any messages you would like to send out or thank anyone?
Justin: I greatly appreciate you guys at PRO MMA for interviewing me and helping viewers/fans to learn a little about me. I greatly enjoyed the interview. I also would like to say thank you to all my sponsors who support me, and continue to take care of me in between, and at my fights. I also want to say thank you to all my coaches and training partners for spending time to help develop my skills, and for believing in my abilities. Again I want to say thanks to Team Takedown for letting me go out to Vegas to train and see what the best of the best are doing daily. Lastly, and most importantly I have to thank God for giving me my abilities, and for making all the "blessings in disguise" happen that did to turn my focus on what I truly feel I was called to do.

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The Liberty Fund Library provides online resources in multiple categories including philosophy, art, economics, war and peace and much, much more. It provides both a forum and the library of resources. Both are excellent. It also has robust search capabilities.

Of particular interest for the study of military thought is a full version of many of Machiavelli’s (below) writings made available in English here. [See a good biography of Niccola Machiavelli here.]

Niccolo Machiavelli

This allows students to view directly not only Machiavelli’s Art of War (here), but also his more famous work, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Versions are available for download in multiple formats including: html, pdf and ebook formats.

Also available on the site - in the category of war and peace – are: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s final address, Thomas Hobbs’ translation of Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian Wars (Vol. 1 and 2), Rousseau and many more. The site provides an outstanding overview of history and thought with access to hundreds of other primary works.

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This past few weeks some of you have been writing me for advice--and why not?  If you need to turn to someone, it makes sense to make it the Model Governor myself, and I am used to many of you seeking me out to help you with your various problems, even if it means taking time out of my daily routine of boozing, whoring, and finding new ways to infuriate the various Song sisters.  So I am thus putting aside my current project--getting Song Ailing to invest big bucks in the "Taiyuan Lake Housing Development Project"--to address a concern of many of my readers.  Namely, how does one succeed in today's China?

This is a serious question, especially given all the turmoil in today's China.  Armed conflicts, ideological disputes, natural disasters, and totalitarian leaders; the path to the top is rocky indeed.  That was true for me, and it is still true for you young bucks fighting for your first Mexican silver dollar.  Thus I present to you, the patented Yan Xishan three step process to succeed in today's China:

1.  Let someone else do the hard work.

2.  Steal everything you can from them.

3. Profit!!!

This my friends is the Chinese way of career success.  It was true for Jiang Jieshi, who watched Sun Zhongshan and the Comintern build up the KMT, then took that shit over once Sun died, leaving him in charge of the Northern Expedition.  And this is not just a strategy for world leaders (hey, if FDR is going to pretend Jiang Jieshi is a Great Leader, I can too!).  As my gemen'r Boyce noted a while back, it works for the owners of booze-holes in Beiping.  And it just happened again in that fine city, with the creators of the magazine "that's Beiping" being forced out by their publisher, who will now publish their own version of "that's," profiting on all the work done by the folks they just screwed over.

So what do we learn from all of this?  First, never start anything by yourself.  It is a lot of hard work!  Perhaps the stress might kill you--look what happened to that old fool Sun Zhongshan.  You might spend all of your time getting girls drunk and ready for their foreign hookups, like the bartenders at the former Shooters.  Hell, you might spend all of your time policing an increasingly mindless online forum.

No, instead of doing the hard work, might I instead suggest taking an secondary, behind the scenes role?  And thus just wait until you can steal everything, claim it as your own, and coast your way to the top?  Listen kids, it is your choice, just don't say I never warned you.

YXS

PS: To get a feel of the old Shooters, look here.  Just be ready to feel really dirty.  Here is a preview of what awaits, complete with a future JPA buck private:

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