Dan Barnes (Steve Austin) is a former professional boxer who was retired from boxing after a growing weary of his violent existence. Now a school janitor, Dan tries to help a new student, Matthew Miller (Daniel Magder), who recently joined the new school and is being targeted by bullies. While Matthew learns how to box and stand up to his tormentors, one of whom is the school boxing champ (Jaren Brandt Bartlett), Dan's new found role as a teacher helps him come to terms with his tumultuous past.
Knockout Literary Magazine is a bi-annual literary magazine published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2007. Financed by its two editors, Jeremy Halinen and Brett Ortler, it is known for the wide range of styles it publishes, its nearly 50/50 mix of LGBT and straight writers, and its dedication to social causes.
History
Knockout was founded in summer 2007 by Jeremy Halinen and Brett Ortler after both graduated from Eastern Washington University's Master of Fine Arts Program. They had previously served as poetry editors at Eastern Washington's Willow Springs.
The first issue was all poetry and 140 pages long, with a print run of 1,000 copies. A second issue, which includes interviews, poetry, and fiction, was released Spring 2009.
Work Published
Knockout's inaugural issue featured work by a National Book Award winner (Robert Bly), former U.S. Poet Laureate (Billy Collins), U.S. state Poets Laureate (Marvin Bell, Iowa; Robert Bly, Minnesota), as well as winners of many major awards, including the $100,000 Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Prize (Thomas Lux) and the Lamont Poetry Prize (Marvin Bell), among many others. In addition, many of the poets published in Knockout have been awarded the Pushcart Prize. The second and third issues will include work by other notable poets and award winners, including a Nobel Prize for Literature recipient.
Knockout is a standalone JavaScript implementation of the Model-View-ViewModel pattern with templates. The underlying principles are therefore:
a clear separation between domain data, view components and data to be displayed
the presence of a clearly defined layer of specialized code to manage the relationships between the view components
The latter leverages the native event management features of the JavaScript language.
These features streamline and simplify the specification of complex relationships between view components, which in turn make the display more responsive and the user experience richer.
Knockout was developed and is maintained as an open source project by Steve Sanderson, a Microsoft employee. As the author said, "it continues exactly as-is, and will evolve in whatever direction I and its user community wishes to take it", and stressed, "this isn’t a Microsoft product".
Features
Knockout includes the following features:
Declarative bindings
Automatic UI refresh (when the data model's state changes, the UI updates automatically)
"Wait" is a single by Wang Chung, released as the fourth and final single from their 1984 album, Points on the Curve. The single reached #87 on the UK Singles Chart. Aside from the early singles released as Huang Chung, "Wait" was the only single by Wang Chung that failed to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. However, it peaked at #17 on the U.S. BillboardHot Dance Club Play chart.
No music video was shot for "Wait".
Wait is also the only Wang Chung song to appear on two different non-compilation albums. Wait originally appeared on Points on the Curve, but was used again in the To Live and Die in L.A. soundtrack when director William Friedkin liked the song so much, he wanted to incorporate it into his 1985 thriller, To Live and Die in L.A. "Wait" appears during the end credits of the film.
The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork Media in August 2014.
Production
Background and recording
Prior to recording Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, Anthony Gonzalez had moved from his native France to Los Angeles. Describing the move in an interview, Gonzalez said: "Having spent 29 years of my life in France, I moved to California a year and a half before the making of this album and I was excited and inspired by so many different things: by the landscape, by the way of life, by live shows, by movies, by the road trips I took alone... I was feeling alive again and this is, I feel, something that you can hear on the album" Gonzalez's tour with The Killers, Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon, in addition to his road trips to Joshua Tree National Park also heavily influenced the album. Gonzalez cited the ambitiousness of albums such as Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness as the reason he made Hurry Up, We're Dreaming a double album. In addition, he described the two discs as brother and sister, with each track having a sibling on the other disc. The album was recorded in Los Angeles at Sunset Studio and The Sound Factory. Because of budget constraints and union issues, the string and brass players who contributed to the album were not paid and were credited with pseudonyms.
Although it did not chart as well as the band's debut single, "Get Away," "Wait" is considered a breakthrough hit for the band and helped launch them into further mainstream success. It was featured on the video game soundtracks to both Madden NFL 2005 and MX vs. ATV Unleashed. An alternate version was also included on the former soundtrack as The D.O.C. vs. Earshot - "The Madden Re-Match." "Wait" was also featured in the DVD Tampa Bay Lightning2004 Stanley Cup Champions. Former UFCLightweight Champion Sean Sherk has used it as his entrance music as well.
Lyrically, the song deals with the frustration of loneliness and indifference toward the world. Phrasing is somewhat general and a particular inspiration or meaning behind "Wait" is not evident. Despite these melancholy themes, the song is rather quick-paced and headstrong in its execution.
Look at me. I'm playing mind-games with myself and I can't help it. Can't you see frustration's hit me where it counts. I'm so pathetic. You're all I ever wanted and now that I've got it I don't know what to do. I'm going crazy over you. Never thought I'd act like this, never guessed my heart would get this big and mess up everything. Maybe I just care too much, I'll try hard not to overanalyze. Sometimes it hits me by surprise. Crazy over you.
Both PSG and City could yet avoid it but both will be desperate to avoid waiting for the final day when they can likely assure themselves of their knockout place with a win in the penultimate round of games when they meet at Parc des Princes.
"It keeps everyone on their toes," he said ... Arteta has everything he needs to win the Champions League except a convincingly negotiated two-legged knockout tie. That and a squad that knows how it feels to lift trophies and cannot wait to do it again ... .
Known as 'The Monster' for his knockout power, Inoue may choose to move on rather than wait for Goodman's recovery ... Tim Tszyu suffered back-to-back losses in 2024, including a knockout defeat to Russian champion Bakhram Murtazaliev ... .
They didn’t pull away until the final eight minutes, and the energy in the building reflected that — the fans were waiting for a knockout punch that never really landed. Here are our overreactions to Friday night’s win ...Minnesota at Assembly Hall.
They didn’t pull away until the final eight minutes, and the energy in the building reflected that — the fans were waiting for a knockout punch that never really landed. Here’s our overreactions to Friday night’s win ...Minnesota at Assembly Hall.
They didn’t pull away until the final eight minutes, and the energy in the building reflected that — the fans were waiting for a knockout punch that never really landed. Here’s our overreactions to Friday night’s win ... There was a lot tonight.
The tournament will run from June 14 to July 13 with the initial 32 teams entering into a group stage before a single knockout second-phase ...Chelsea will have to wait until day three for their tournament opener.
DETROIT -- This regular-season matchup has a lot of implications ... A win for either team sends them to the knockout stage, while the other would have to wait and see if they can sneak into the quarters as a wild card ... NBA BASKETBALL ... When ... Time. 7 p.m. ET.
With the Packers leading 17-7 just before halftime, JordanLove loaded up to throw a knockout punch. Waiting on the other end of the play, was Watson... It went through the hands of Deebo Samuel, and into the waiting arms of Xavier McKinney.
FortDorchester probably should have delivered the knockout blow a bit earlier, but waited until the final minute to make the play that put it over the top in the opening round of the Class 5A Div. I playoffs ... .
AP, ARLINGTON, Texas...Mike Tyson, left, and JakePaul square off at AT&TStadium in Arlington, Texas, on Friday ... “I love him ... Tyson’s record is now 50-7 with 44 knockouts. Tyson mostly sat back and waited for Paul to come to him, with a few exceptions ... .
Paul, however, beat former MMA fighter Mike Perry by knockout in July ... I can see Mike by knockout if he is to win or if Jake is going to win then he will win on points.".
Since his time as a professional boxer, Paul has established himself as a formidable power-puncher, with seven of his ten professional victories coming by way of knockout ... have to wait to find out.
The Post and Courier
16 Nov 2024
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16 Nov 2024