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AMSTERDAM--The euro zone must shift its policy towards growth after the crisis management that has dominated the past few years, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Tuesday in an interview on Dutch television.
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"I hope we can build further on the basis of confidence with structural measures," Mr. Dijsselbloem said. "There are early signs of relief as the euro zone is now in a more stable situation."
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Capones says PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 still has solid spookhouse scares, but it's time to wrap things up!!!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
They may not look pretty or come across as especially sophisticated, but watching the fourth installment (as I have the previous three) of the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY series with an audience, one thing becomes abundantly clear: the folks the make these movies know how to wind up and freak out an audience. Watching PARANORMAL ACTIVITY movies is unlike viewing any other films in a given year.
There's something of a formula (thanks to title cards that read Day 1, Day 3, Day 11, etc.). We learn to look at a series of static shots with a keener eye than we do most other horror films. We're scanning every corner of the frame for movement or a shadowy figure or a swinging light fixture--any sign of a ghostly presence. I love that moment when a new scene starts, and inevitably someone in the audience will whisper "Uh oh." The latest ads for PA4 have night-vision shots of a preview audience jumping, screaming, and otherwise getting antsy while watching the film. I was skeptical that the audience I saw it with would follow suit, but I'll be damned if they didn't. The fear was genuine, the screams well earned, even if the particular story in this new installment is a little threadbare.
In the timeline of the story of the demonized Katie (Katie Featherston), PA4 is the most recently set of the four films. She and the son she stole from her sister in PA2 have moved into a new home, across the street from a teenage girl Alice (Kathryn Newton, who I recognized from Bad Teacher), whose family--parents and younger brother--agree to take care of Katie's "son" for a few days when she supposedly goes into the hospital. Considering I'm pretty sure Alice's parents have never even met Katie, it seems odd that they would take in her kid, but OK...
The two young boys start hanging out even thought Katie's kid is a freak, and pretty soon weird things start happening in the house, either being caused by this little stranger or something that's watching over him--an invisible friends of sorts. Since this is yet another found footage film, the excuse for having camera in most rooms of the house is that Alice's boyfriend (the quite funny Matt Shively) secretly converts every computer in the house into a camera at her behest so she can review footage of these strange occurrences. When the boyfriend isn't actually in the house, he and Alice are video chatting, so we get to see her approximate narration as she's conveying stories to him about the titular activity.
Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (PA3 and CATISH) do their usual job of slowly ramping up the scares, and I've said before, in a movie like this, if it can consistently scare me, I'm hooked. I'd even go so far as to guess that PA4 has more frequent scares than its predecessors. The hits just keep on coming. The film's deepest flaw is Featherston. She's a good actress at playing regular Katie, but I never found her particularly menacing when she's prowling around the neighborhood or inside someone's house. She does some pretty horrific things to certain people in this movie, but I never got a sense of danger or dread off of her. When she switches on the demon face, that's a different story. But her dead-eyed creeping around did nothing for me.
Fortunately, Katie isn't the scary centerpiece of the film--that honor belongs to both of the little boys and a series of terrifying moments carried out by unseen forces. PA4 also brings back into the series this idea from the previous film that some sort of coven of women has a hand in all of this childnapping. The funny thing about this series is that if the good guys win, the series is done, so we always basically know who's going to die or live to see the next installment. But if we're not rooting for the ghosts to continue scaring us, then how will we continue having fun year after year?
Storywise, PA4 is probably the weakest of the bunch, but who's really watching these for story? Actually, I am. I want there to be an understandable thread that binds this franchise together, and certain things feel a bit fuzzy and random here. These aren't unforgivable offenses, and they certainly don't stop the scary from happening. Who knows where they'll take us for the next chapter, but I'm still on board with only slightly less enthusiasm than prior to seeing PA4. And while it may not match it in terms of frequency of big scream-worthy moments, SINISTER is still the better movie overall in this current crop of recent horror releases.
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Oct. 19, 2012, 3:58 p.m. CST
Could have used some spoilers warnings, punk.
by drompter
Oct. 19, 2012, 4 p.m. CST
"the folks the make these movies know how to wind up and freak out SHEEPLE" -<<< FIXED
by TheKiller7
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:07 p.m. CST
These movies are so easy. They literally put a camera on a swivel
by Kelly Grimes
In the 3rd one and let it go. You could do that for 2 hrs and people would be nervous the entire time, constantly watching for some change on the pan-back, or waiting for that demon to jump out and scream. I respect that they get the scares, but I feel like they don't need to work hard at anything else. The scripts are always bland and the characters just cardboard cutouts. But as long as the cameras are set and reset ad nauseum, people will always feel that tingle of suspense, so I guess nothing else matters? That said, I don't hate this franchise. Just bored of it.
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:09 p.m. CST
This franchise cured my insomnia - thank you!
by MajorFrontbum
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:14 p.m. CST
saw this. it's the worst of the 4.
by Jubba
the build ups are good, but the payoffs are not. it just ended up being a boring experience. spend your time and money on something else. jubba out.
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:32 p.m. CST
I dunno what part of Chicago Capone lives, but if he's scared of this flick then he must live in a gated community. Because almost any hood in Chitown is scarier than this manure.
by TheKiller7
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:39 p.m. CST
What a surprise, Capone thinks this movie is less than the one written by a friend of the site.
by kindofabigdeal
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:39 p.m. CST
Or this could just be a shitty movie.
by kindofabigdeal
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:48 p.m. CST
The genius of these films is that the audience is not a passive entity, sitting back watching things happen.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Just as Capone states - "We learn to look at a series of static shots with a keener eye than we do most other horror films. We're scanning every corner of the frame for movement or a shadowy figure .." I've called it the Where's Waldo of horror films. Someone else has called them basically surveillance tapes. Thats what they are, and the audience is the "inspector" looking for evidence and clues. So the audience is involved and active while watching, making reactions more intense. I'm not saying they're good films, but damn clever in their audience manipulation.
Oct. 19, 2012, 4:52 p.m. CST
nice will give it a look.
by frank
Oct. 19, 2012, 5:20 p.m. CST
@openthepodbaydoorshal - say hello to visual gags. Its been done for years. The whole getting the audience involved. 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' ring a bell?
by TheKiller7
Oct. 19, 2012, 5:21 p.m. CST
Airplane, the Naked Gun movies, Top Secret, etc. with stuff happening in the background.
by TheKiller7
Oct. 19, 2012, 6:33 p.m. CST
It's running out of gas.
by PorkChopXpress
I know the studio must love this franchise to death for being so cheap to produce and so popular, but the storyline is thinning out rapidly and there's only so long I can buy into the "found footage" aspect, before it's just..."yeah, right." In fact, I'm there now. If the story doesn't advance the mythology in any meaningful way, then it's just a Halloween cash grab and that's just irritating, when the original couple movies were so great (the third was just "okay," to me).
Oct. 19, 2012, 6:52 p.m. CST
Don't worry porkchop, the Latino version of this is just around the corner...
by DickBallsworth
...which will take this franchise to new levels of WHOGIVESAFUCK!
Oct. 19, 2012, 7:56 p.m. CST
hundreds of witches coming after the young girl is the ending
by pj
you're welcome
Oct. 19, 2012, 9:04 p.m. CST
Her name was Alex
by Celicynd
Not Alice. I can't take any stock (whether it was good or bad) when the reviewer can't even get the correct name of a character.
Oct. 19, 2012, 10 p.m. CST
Any horror movie that shows the audiences reactions in trailers is shit
by Cobb05
I give Paranormal Activity a pass because it was made for under a million bucks. So the fact that it was boring as fuck, not scary and had horrible acting, what do you expect? But the next two movies do the same bullshit. But all of these trailers that show people screaming is total bullshit. I saw Paranormal Activity in a full theater and no one screamed at all. I waited to see the next two on dvd, cause I didn't want to waste my time. But every time thy show audience reaction shots in a movie, it's the most unscary movie ever.
Oct. 20, 2012, 12:15 a.m. CST
re: cobb05
by mcgillj
I have no doubt they only show the most EXTREME jumpers.. but sadly some people actually find that stuff SCARY. I went to PA3, I thought what the hell.. and a friend said the first 2 were good.. sorry.. I was SUPPOSED to be watching the screen for something to NOT happen? and that's the FUN of the movie? I was bored out of my ever loving mind.. I had more fun watching the half wits almost jump out of their chair when a cat jumped out.. or a book fell off a shelf.. thrilling stuff!!!
Oct. 20, 2012, 2 a.m. CST
That moment when, after many years of fighting it, I finally admitted that I was a cynic
by Cody
When the Paranormal Activity movies started being treated with legitimacy by people who weren't high schoolers
Oct. 20, 2012, 6:50 a.m. CST
Four of these things make money...
by BiggusDickus
...but no-one goes to see Dredd. God bless America.
Oct. 20, 2012, 7:33 a.m. CST
Next film should be about someone fighting back
by TheSecondQuest
They have to move the series in a different direction. Have someone who finds the footage of the first four movies and uses it to combat the demon (ie: it can't move through walls/doors so physical obstacles can be used to one's advantage, IR lights can help detect it, it doesn't like crosses, etc). Make everything seem like it builds to something useful that way. The equivalent of the Dream Warriors, in a way.
Oct. 20, 2012, 9:10 a.m. CST
Absolutely loved "Catish" myself
by RockLobster800
Oh come one! Someone had to do it!
Oct. 20, 2012, 11:39 a.m. CST
Saw it opening night at midnight in IMAX. It's become a tradition.
by Detective_Fingerling
My favorite, by far, was part 2. The third one felt like the series was declining, but it was entertaining, in that, they went back to the 80s and had to use ingenuity to capture images. Using the xbox was an amazing way to continue that ingenuity, but the plot holes were a little excessive when I thought about it later. I can't stand shitty horror films (like House of the Dead), but I can get through these PA movies and have a lot of fun doing so. These movies can't be the slightest bit effective when watching them at home on dvd or blu ray, but watching them with a young audience that buys into the experience really does create a better movie. I can jump on just about any hate wagon, but I don't understand the ire this series gets from some people. It's the closest thing to going to Universal Studios. This was the worst of the series though. Little in the way of adding a new layer to the series for future installments.
Oct. 20, 2012, 12:02 p.m. CST
SPOILER questions
by Detective_Fingerling
***Don't read if you don't like spoilers*** - Did they ever address the ghost "boy" in any installments? I always though Toby was a man - as seen in part 3 who killed the boyfriend and in part 4 who killed the mom. There is clearly a ghost "boy" who looked like he was trying to go into Hunter while he was talking to Toby. - So the adopted boy was actually Hunter, so how did Katie lose Hunter? Also, it was way too fucking convenient that the family that adopted Hunter moved into a house across the street from the cult house. - The young girl and her boyfriend set the cameras up and seem to check them everyday. Suddenly, when the girl gets picked up off her bed, she can't access the video feed. The girl has the car start on its own and her parents come home after. You'd think she'd want her boyfriend to come over and bring up the feed to show the parents. Not hit up Applebees with the dad. - So on the car, the car started on its own. The girl gets in and is able to put the car in gear. Does Cadillac have an ignition system that you don't have a physical key fob to start the car? And why would the dad keep the keyfob in the car at all times? - Gotta love how the silver Prius almost hits the girl during the day and then its the same, lone car shown driving off at the very end when the girl is yelling for help.
Oct. 20, 2012, 12:33 p.m. CST
teabaggerharry - really? You're equating what they're doing in the PA series with background sight gags? Yea, those have been around for decades. Look at early Woody Allen, also.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Characters talking in the foreground while some bit of business is playing out in the background. Not even close to what they're doing in the PA films. Not even with other "found footage" films that play out like documentaries. Capone and I are referring to the static scenes that are held for a period of time...until..until..until..something happens. It may be a flutter, or something more intense. It is nothing like the audience noticing a comical scene acting out in the background, or reacting to a visual gag. Of course the audience reacts to what is playing out on the screen, thats the entire nature of cinema. And what the filmmakers are doing isnt rocket science. It's actually a pretty cheap trick, akin to jumping out and saying "boo" when you least expect it, but done well. Again, I don't think these are particularly good films, or ones that have any lasting value, but I think they've come upon a technique that involves the audience (esp. the younger, media drenched audience, whose lives seem to revolve around looking at screens of various sizes and portability) more intensely than other films.
Oct. 20, 2012, 4:40 p.m. CST
it's insane that you're even covering this.
by IWasInJuniorHighDickhead
AICN stopped with any Uwe Boll coverage because it was just giving him oxygen. Any film site worth their salt would ignore this shit. This isn't what AICN was about. It wasn't some aggregate film site that would cover any and every film release, it had some taste. There've always been issues with Harry, but something like this would have only been reported on had someone gotten hold of inside knowledge of the film that let people know if it was particularly good or bad. Just reviewing it cause it's out cheapens the site.
Oct. 20, 2012, 9:45 p.m. CST
From the producers that bought a small island and eat on gold plates...want more of your cash...kerching!
by Shaun D Lyons
Its all about the fucking money. Thats the real horror, folks.
Oct. 21, 2012, 1:03 a.m. CST
I agree with everything @detective_fingerling said
by emu47
Second was my favorite. Movies overall aren't great, but dammit ... they're an October tradition I've actually enjoyed.
Oct. 21, 2012, 3:39 p.m. CST
by SUPERJIM
I think I'll wait for this on TV. The first one wasn't great but it managed to creep my out a bit when I watched it at home during the day. It gets points for that. It was helped out by the fact there was a huge bang in my kitchen when I was watching, and I found a broken piece of wood (part of the kitchen) in the middle of the floor. Don't get me wrong, I know it was caused by built up pressure or something like it, but it creeped the fuck out of me. Parts 2 and 3 weren't nearly as good but they weren't horrible either.
Oct. 26, 2012, 7 p.m. CST
Agreed detective_fingerling!! SPOILER!!!
by ray
I had the exact same questions!!! and yet no answers. They just posted an interview with one of the directors, and he said Toby could take child form, and that was him in that scene, but it still doesn't answer why Wyatt/Hunter was facing forward and speaking to something taller than him.
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Boundary options down to two
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on Jun 16, 2007 at 11:41 am
The article should reflect the impact on ALL Mountain View neighborhoods. Let it be noted that Scenario 2.3 also displaces 60-70 Mountain View children (in the Hollingworth/Gilmore area) from their current Almond school to Springer.
on Jun 16, 2007 at 8:26 pm
right... it said that.
on Jun 16, 2007 at 8:28 pm
oops, in the big article, not the summary here
on Jun 17, 2007 at 11:42 am
" Another Mountain View community located in the Hollingsworth and Gilmore Drive neighborhoods would be affected by scenario 2.3, which would move approximately 60 students from Almond to Springer.
Scenario L.1, however, would keep the Hollingsworth and Gilmore Drive communities at Almond.
Elizabeth Gardner, a resident of the Hollingsworth to Gilmore Drive community and a member of the neighborhood parent committee, said scenario L.1 is preferable because it prevents parants from having to drive their children to school when currently they can walk to Almond less than a mile away.
"Shifting dozens and dozens of students from walking and biking to driving is no good for kids, or schools, or for the whole community," Gardner said."
Here is what the original article stated on behalf of Hollingsworth to Gilmore. They weren't omitted. What comes up here is truncated.
on Jun 19, 2007 at 11:16 am
Correct, we were not omitted (in the longer article), just truncated in the summary.
But now we're officially displaced and motorized per LASD Board decision last night.
on Jun 19, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Yeah, sadly, a club none of us wish to belong to, I'm afraid, yet we both do.
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The California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation held the workshop to discuss a draft rule that changes the state's furniture flammability requirements known as Technical Bulletin 117.
Since 1975, the rule's open flame test has required that producers of foam for furniture use of large amounts of flame retardant chemicals to pass the test. It became a de facto standard because so many furniture makers ship into California.
A draft rule released earlier this month, TB 117-2012, differs from the old rule in that it focuses on construction more than the components - like foam - of an upholstered piece.
The old rule used both open flame and smoldering tests. The proposed new rule is entirely a smolder standard and focuses on cover fabrics.
Open flame testing measures tendency of upholstered furniture fire hazards when ignited by a small open flame, like a match, candle or a lighter. Smoldering tests measure what happens when a cigarette is left burning on a sofa.
The proposed rule gives three test methods to test smolder resistance of furniture.
The draft requires standard polyurethane foam with "no flame-retardant chemical added in either the manufacturing or post-manufacturing process."
The Tribune reported that chemical industry executives cautioned on Monday against weakening fire safety standards and making decisions based on a portrayal of flame retardants as undermining human health.
A recent Tribune series documented decades of upholstered flammability rulemaking heavily guided by lobbying from chemical and tobacco interests, rather than sound science.
Reports over the past decade have shown toxic chemicals in flame retardants may cause neurological and reproductive damage, reduced fertility, and in firefighters, elevated rates of cancer.
Last month, California Gov. Jerry Brown directed state agencies to revise TB 117.
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I still think that A Obama-Hillary Dream Ticket is the best option.
They could perfectly combine their opinions on health care. Barack's plan with hillary's law proposition.
As president Obama should also include Nader and maybe mccain in its governement.
But being realist, the latter would never be accepted in an obama presidency nor by the democrates nor by the republicans (especially the conservatives).
I don't know, I think Hillary's gone too far for that to work. Republicans would just play her "shame on you" quote repeatedly during the race. Personally I think an Obama/Edwards ticket is far more likely and viable.
I could see Nader and McCain possibly having a role to play in an Obama presidency but the question is what role. Nader as AG and McCain as SecDef maybe but there's another side of the coin. Would Nader legitimize an Obama presidency in the eyes of his staunch (and admittedly few) supports? Would it be seen as a compromise of his ethics/policies? Or, on the other hand, would it be seen as giving him greater influence? For McCain would it completely dissolve his Republican support? And even if it did, at his age would it matter that much to him? It'd likely be another 8 years before he has a serious shot at the presidency again.
As for being a realist you must remember that conventional realism comes in large part from the current structure and unwritten rules of politics which Obama does not necessarily choose to follow. Remember the Vice President was originally intended to be the runner-up in the general election for president. There is also precedent for having opposing party members playing specific roles in a government, Bill Clinton for example had some Republicans working in his day. So I wouldn't rule it out completely but I do think that if they are given positions they would be very specific roles and would be contained to those roles. For example McCain as SecDef would not be able to advise Obama on economic policy - there just wouldn't be any point since they fundamentally disagree in that area. But even though they don't agree on Iraq I think McCain might be willing to carry out his orders to refocus on Afghanistan and hunt down terrorists.
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An overnight fire forced families and firefighters out of a Seekonk home early Tuesday.
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How to add space to your kitchen?
The most integral part of a house is the kitchen area. It is where one prepares the meals, stores varied food ingredients, and the entire family gets together to enjoy a sumptuousness dinner.
Space available in the kitchen is always given a lot of importance as there are endless things to be stored in the kitchen. The amount of space available in your kitchen will be ascertained by the size and shape of your kitchen. However, there are certain universal techniques that can be applied to all kitchens in order to increase the space.
Follow the below mentioned tips to add space to your kitchen –
Get kitchen carts and islands – Kitchen carts and islands are great accessories that are known to add space to the kitchen. They act like kitchen furniture because they possess the capability to almost hold everything starting from kitchen utensils to varied ingredients. However, assure to invest in durable and sturdy kitchen carts so that they provide service for a long period of time.
Install hangers – Large pots and pans occupy a lot of space on the shelves. So one trick to add space to your kitchen is to install hangers so that pots and pans can be hanged and space in the shelves and the cabinets are freed up to store other things. The hangers may also be used to hand large serving spoons, strainers and big dishes with handles.
Open shelves – Open shelves provides a stylish yet a functional way to store varied things and also give the kitchen an open and relaxed feel. The most remarkable feature of using open shelves is that you get little extra space that is occupied by doors in the closed cabinets. In addition, you don't need to worry if the edges or corners of the things stored peep out of the shelves.
Utilize the corners for deep shelves – In most of the kitchens, the corner space is totally wasted or inefficiently employed. The best way to add space to the kitchen and also use the corners efficiently is to install deep corner shelves. Large containers, jars, pots and utensils that are known to occupy a lot of space can be stored inside near the corner. Hence, a large amount of space will be freed up in the kitchen and can be used to store other varied things.


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Much like launching a boat, four synchronized hydraulic jacks ease a section of framework for the new Marlins Ballpark retractable roof down ramps and off of the four 200-ft-tall falsework towers upon which it was assembled. In this photo, from the January 14 launch of the third section, the trusses had traveled just more than halfway down the ramps. Erection of the next set of trusses began immediately on those same towers.
The three-section retractable roof now being erected at the new Marlins Ballpark in Miami is a marvel of technology, all the way from its design and conception through its erection and on to its eventual operation. The finished product will be remarkable enough, but the method being used to erect the huge movable structure is an innovation worth noting.
The novel erection and shoring removal plan was developed for the project by AISC-member LPR Construction Company, Loveland, Colo. The steel is being fabricated off site and almost all of it is being delivered as individual pieces. The LPR crew is erecting those pieces into five bridge-like truss structures, one at a time, on a set of four shoring towers in the range of 200 ft tall. Each end of the structure is attached to and supported by a Uni-Systems transport unit. Once the span is completed, the assembly is eased down inclined ramps atop the shoring towers until it's fully supported by just the transport units and free of the shores.
At that point, the assembly is wheeled down the tracks allowing erection of the next truss to begin on the shores while ironworkers attach the remaining steel to the launched structure.
Structural engineering for the Populous design was done by Walter P Moore. Fabricator on the project was AISC-member Canam/Structal.
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History of the Northwest PassageIn the mid 1400s, the Ottoman Turks took control of the Middle East. This prevented the European powers from traveling to Asia via land routes and so it spurred interest in a water route to Asia. The first to attempt such a voyage was Christopher Columbus in 1492. In 1497, King Henry VII of Britain sent John Cabot to search for what began to be known as the Northwest Passage (as named by the British).
All attempts over the next few centuries to find the Northwest Passage failed. Sir Frances Drake and Captain James Cook, among others, attempted the exploration. Henry Hudson attempted to find the Northwest Passage and while he did discover Hudson Bay, has crew mutinied and set him adrift.
Finally, in 1906 Roald Amundsen from Norway successfully spent three years traversing the Northwest Passage in an ice-fortified ship. In 1944 a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant made the first single-season crossing of the Northwest Passage. Since then, many ships have made the trip through the Northwest Passage.
Geography of the Northwest PassageThe Northwest Passage consists of a series of very deep channels that wind through Canada's Arctic Islands. The Northwest Passage is about 900 miles (1450 km) long. Using the passage instead of the Panama Canal can cut thousands of miles off of a sea journey between Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, the Northwest Passage is about 500 miles (800 km) north of the Arctic Circle and is covered by ice sheets and icebergs much of the time. Some speculate, however, that if global warming continues the Northwest Passage might be a viable transportation route for ships.
Future of the Northwest PassageWhile Canada considers the Northwest Passage to be entirely within Canadian territorial waters and has been in control of the region since the 1880s, the United States and other countries argue that the route is in international waters and travel should be free and unhampered through the Northwest Passage. Both Canada and the United States announced in 2007 of their desires to increase their military presence in the Northwest Passage.
If the Northwest Passage becomes a viable transportation option through the reduction of Arctic ice, the size of ships that will be able to utilize the Northwest Passage will be much larger than those that can pass through the Panama Canal, called Panamax-sized ships.
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I heard that dreaded kitten heels appeared earlier today at Louis Vuitton. But last night at Alexander McQueen, it was still cobbling to the extreme: sculptural shoes with ten-inch heels. The more hooflike ones reminded me slightly of Balenciaga's intense platform from several seasons ago. I had actually tried those on, and they were quite secure until I tripped on the fashion closet floor and nearly broke my ankle. At McQueen, these were almost literally works of art, some sculpted to look like the fossils of ancient yet alien sea creatures. Others had a cool, old-school robotic thing happening with pieces of metal screwed together. They're amazing to look at, but would you buy them to wear or display in your living room?
My kinda fashion! Long live the statement shoe!
I'm pretty sure these are almost completely unwearable. they belong on a pedestal w/ spotlight in a museum.
unwearable? probably. But If I could get my hands on them, I would just HAVE to find a way to make it work. I hate boring shoes, these are the kind I dream about.
Fantastic, fabulous, excellent. Especially love the more rounded, convex silhouette that reminds me of drawings or comics though I'm not sure why. Much better than the horrifying (for me) kitten heels and clogs seen at LV and Chanel this week.
i agree these shoes are museum pieces. beautiful and interesting. the only thing that makes these "shoes" is the fact that they have a strap and a heel. that said, i do think we're getting close to a point where safety is an issue. i think these things would look ridiculous if someone actually tried to wear them in real life, and the chance of breaking an ankle is very real. also, i love kitten heels and am frankly glad to see something other than the same damn platform louboutins.


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Fire officials in Flint responded to a blaze that is being deemed an arson fire at an abandoned apartment in Flint Thursday morning.
Crews were called to the two-story, six-apartment structure around 5:45 a.m.
Fire crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the structure. Crews determined that the building was vacant after units executed a search and rescue and found no one.
Officials are calling the blaze suspicious because trenches were dug into the floor and gas was everywhere.
The building is located on Second Street near Asylum Street. That's about a quarter of a mile from Mosley Park.
The building was a total loss. A structure next to the building may have suffered minor damage but that hasn't been confirmed at this point.
Officials remain on the scene hoping to extinguish hot spots and will sift through rubble to try to determine a cause of the fire.
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Windows Home Server 2011–Update Rollup 1 Connector Install
Having just upgraded my WHS server to WHS 2011 (post coming soon) , installing the connector was next on my list of things to do.
The original connector that ships with 2011 worked like a charm on both desktop and laptop.Then Windows Update kicked in and installed UR1 sometime last night and thus caused havoc this morning.
Now, in the spirit of voodoo trouble shooting, there are a number of things people have done to get things working again.
Please note that I'm just some computer guy doing some stuff. If this doesn't work or screws your PC up, don't hold me responsible. Proceed at your own risk.
Firstly, try restoring to a pre-Connector state and restart. This should give you a clean slate to install the new UR1 connector.
Secondly – Start or stop the NetTCPTransportService in services.msc (Control Panel-> Administrative Tools –> Services) and try installing again. You can restart before or after trying to install. I can't remember precisely in what order I did that.
Thirdly, or in combination with the second step above, you need to fire up regedit and navigate to registry subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control. There you need to modify and or create the DWORD entry ServicesPipeTimeout and set the decimal value to 100000.
Remember regedit is not for the faint of heart – you may want to backup your registry FIRST BEFORE messing around with it.
Restart and pray, possibly not in that order.
Some have suggested that the task scheduler service is a culprit on some Windows 7 and XP machines. The solution being to delete all the service cedentials and start again. The folder is located at: C:Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA-S-1-5-18. Please note that I did NOT try this.
One think that did irk me was that after successfully installing the Connector and restarting at the prompt, Windows logged in as user:_clientsetup_$. This is not a big deal as you can log out, switch user, click the "Other User" tile and enter your credentials that way. I'll update this post once thats sorted.
The curious think here is that the laptop updated the connector and prompted me to restart with no trouble at all. Very odd.
More posts on the move to 2011 coming soon.
Windows Azure Feedreader Episode 8
Apologies for the long delay between episodes. I do these in my spare time and my spare time doesn't always coincide with a quite environment to record the screencast.
But safe to say, I'm super excited to be back and doing these once again.
So, to it!!
This week we follow straight on from what we did in week 7, and modify our backend code to take account of user subscriptions when adding RSS feeds and RSS feeds from OPML files.
Additionally, we lay the ground work for next weeks episode where we will be writing the code that will update the feeds every couple of hours.
And finally, and perhaps most importantly, this week we start using the Windows Azure SDK 1.3. So if you haven't downloaded and installed it, now is the time.
There are some slight code modifications to take account of some breaking changes in 1.3 that are detailed in Steve Marx's post on the subject.
Finally, I've just realised that the episode contains the wrong changeset information. The correct changeset is: 84039 (I'll be correcting this slight oversight. Perfectionism demands it)
So, enjoy the show:
Remember, you can head over to vimeo.com to see the show in all its HD glory.
As I said, next week, We'll be writing the update code that will automatically update all RSS feeds being tracked by the application.
Yet Another Cool Kinect Hack (YACKH)
Playing Mario using Kinect– Awesome!!
Thanks to PopSci – more info here.
It can't be long till Microsoft release a proper SDK can it?
The Solution of Minimal Effort – Drive Extender and Windows Home Server Vail
Ever since Microsoft announced it was removing Drive Extender from the next version of Windows Home Server, there has been an echo chamber effect with everyone saying the same thing : we don't like it, we want it back, WHS is dead without it.
The same goes for what Microsoft should do now: port DE v1 into Vail, re-ad DE v2 to Vail only.
So I wont go and repeat all that .
The fact of the matter that WHS does not make nearly enough money to merit the full attention its DE woes deserve (The disKeeper blog makes this point as well). I'm sure all manner of problems could have been solved were the full might of the Developer Division to decent on the WHS team like a deus ex machina … Ok, maybe I'm being a little dramatic here. Nonetheless, my point stands – all problems can be solved with adequate resources – read money-in fact its practically the American way (I'm looking at you Bernanke).
The reason why Xbox (a big leap but bear with me) has flourished so much is because the team understands consumers. They understand what we, the consumer, want from them, the team. Xbox went from being a niche to a multi billion dollar arm of Microsoft. Helped in no small part by the Halo franchise (again – understanding of the consumer wants and needs at work).
Windows Home Server is in a similar place at the moment. WHS v1 was perfect. perfect in a way that's difficult to describe. It was perfect enough for me to go out on a limb and buy a Dell server to run beta 1 on. The kind of perfect where you feel it in your bones – "this is it". (PS Microsoft: try get a commission off Dell for that if you can)
The fact is that WHS solved a number of difficulties at a stroke: back up and redundant protection against hard drive failure. As a result I no longer have nightmares (well i do, but about fire burning down the house rather than hard drives and computers biting the dust, but thats another story).
The peace of mind that comes along with this is simply priceless. The fact of the matter is that there is no other way of getting that peace of mind with as minimal effort as setting up a WHS server. I'm not Microsoft – I don't have the hardware and legions of RAID experts to call on. So WHS is the only way (yes there are alternatives, but I'm talking about the solution of minimal effort here).
So, Microsoft. Please. Give us our Drive Extender back. Whether you decide to use v1 or v2. Whether Aurora and Beckenridge have it or not. Add it back to Vail. You will have the appreciation and loyalty of a grateful bunch of people. This is an opportunity to pour fire over burning bridges (and maybe rebuild them with stone).
In the meanwhile, WHS users have started a petition. Vote here (half tempted to call this Organising For Drive Extender – a pun on Obama's organising for America).
Windows Azure Feedreader Episode 7: User Subscriptions
Episode 7 is up. I somehow found time to do it over several days.
There are some audio issues, but they are minor. There is some humming noises for most of the show. I've yet to figure out where they came from. Apologies for that.
This week we
- clear up our HTML Views
- implement user subscriptions
We aren't finished with user subscriptions by any means. We need to modify our OPML handling code to take account of the logged in user.
Remember, you can head over to vimeo.com to see the show in all its HD glory.
Next week we'll finished up that user subscriptions code in the OPML handling code.
And we'll start our update code as well.
The (proposed) HTPC Build
This afternoon I out out a few tweets with regard to a HTPC.
Heres the system build I came up with:
Gigabyte H55M-S2H, Intel H55, 1156, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1600/1800/2133, SATA 3Gb/s, ATX, VGA
£66.98 Inc VAT from scan.co.uk
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) – OEM [CM80616003180AG]
£91.98 inc VAT from overclockers.co.uk
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case – Black [0761345-08300-3]
£44.99 inc VAT from overclockers.co.uk
Power Supply
EMD525AWT II – 525W Enermax Modu82+ II DXXI READY! Efficiency 88% 8xSATA 5xMOLEX 3xPCI-E 6+2 FREE TWISTER FAN
£83.57 Inc VAT from scan.co.uk
RAM is just about ubiquitous. For this particular system I plan on getting 2x 2Gb DDR3 from overclockers.co.uk since they have some good deals. But please do state your preference for RAM in the comments.
This list does not include the plethora of fans cables, etc that turn components into a PC.
I know have to sell this idea. WMC is hard enough to explain to people in words. Actually showing them the thing and letting hem use it is a very different proposition. This is what I found withthe AppleTV. Having had it for a year, everyone loves it now. So i'm going to put the TV tuner card into the desktop, hook the desktop up to the tv and let people have a go with WMC. Thats next weekends project.
In saying all of this, it all depends on the iPad. There is only enough money in the budget for one or the other. Once I actually have the thing in my hands, then i will be able to decide.
Bill Buxton: Respect The Skills Acquired By Your Users
Take 30 minutes and watch his keynote appearance: http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/KEY02 (he's introduced at the 2:13 mark). Its worthwhile.
If you notice the title, you'll see that it's slightly different to what Bill Buxton actually said. Bill is a UI designer. UI design is the natural application of his design paradigm.
But it goes deeper than simple UI design.
You see, Bill's paradigm is that User Interfaces must respect the skill that has been acquired by the user. Since the acquiring of skill is on thing that we all have in common.
Bill gives this wonderful example of a violin. The violin itself may be worth millions of dollars (if I remember correctly, Joshua Bell paid $4.5 million for his Stradivarius). The bow of the violin for any first violinist in any symphony orchestra is never less than $10,000. Remember these are musicians. They make a pittance. So as a proportion of income, it's a fortune. But it's worth it. Why? Because it's worthy of the skills that those musicians been acquired over decades.
Bill was taking purely in terms of User Interfaces. But the application of this paradigm is rather broad.
For instance, lets take developers.
Developers typically end up working with libraries and API's. We rarely rewrite what Joel Spolsky affectionately calls duct tape code. Like date comparisons and string builders. It's a brutally Darwinian process in which the libraries and API's that are most easily used rise to prominence.
Personally, when I write any code, whether it's an API used by some other code to do processing, or some plumbing for my UI, or even a class definition with functions and parameters, I always think of the way in which this code is going to be consumed. Since the consumer typically dictates what it needs to get out of that API/function/class. At this point, simple abstraction takes over: how can I abstract away processing code such that my consumer code is much easier and cleaner. In this case the User Interface is not pixels on a screen. No, it's functions and parameters. The consumer code is and should be treated as a fully fledged user of that code.
The premise this blog post started off with was that user interfaces should respect the skill that has been acquired by the user. Of course, code has no appreciation of skill, whether the code is elegant or not has no meaning to the compiler. But you, as the programmer are consuming the service, the function or the API. You have skill. A skilled programmer writes elegant code. He or she draws on a vast reserve of skill and talent even in the most simplest of tasks.
My point is that when you write your API, when you write your function, when you define you class. You want to ask: "How can I help the programmer that programs against this service write elegant code, how can I write an interface that respects the skills acquired"?
let make some practical application of this:
Typically, I find Web services frustrating. I find it frustrating because I can't just point Visual Studio at a URL and say "this API lives here and I want to use it". WSDL files, where available, make this so much easier because Visual studio will generate either a web or a service reference.
Why do I say this? For me as a programmer, it does not respect my skills to spend hours each day parsing SOAP or XML or JSON results when what I should actually be doing is writing program code. And yes, some of you will say that it takes all the fun out of life. But I want to be able to go off and write code. Program code. Not low level plumbing, specially plumbing that should be automatically generated for me here in 2010.
That's one of the things that blew me away about Microsoft's OData protocol. Here's a URL and BOOM you have data and are ready to program. You don't even need a WSDL (whether we need yet another data protocol to have this functionality is another question altogether). It respects the skills of the user, namely me, the programmer. It allows me to immediately get on with the business of practising my chosen craft.
It should be noted that I'm not arguing that we never get our hands dirty in the plumbing. Someone has got to do it. And it is essential training for anyone interested in programming, let alone web services.
In some ways writing an interface that respects the skills I have acquired is a meta-function. The better the interface/class/API is, the better my code is going to be: it's writing code to write code.
Let's take another aspect. PowerPoint presentations.
This mornings lecture borrowed a slide deck from TechEd 2009. It was about the BizTalk 2009 ESB Toolkit. Now the slides had no relevance to us as programmers. At all. No respect to the skills we have acquired over years or training and practise. Just a lot of SmartArt. (Id argue that BizTalk as a whole shows little or no respect for our skills as programmers). As a result I discovered what talented doodlers there are in my class, and that nobody snores.
But when was the last time you watched a Scott Hanselman presentation? He uses little or no slides. The majority of his talks involve coding in visual studio. Seriously, how much more respect can you have for the skills your audience has acquired? As a result people sit up and pay attention (and that has absolutely nothing to do with Scott's various attempts at humour).
Want to see what I mean? See this video: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) or this one from Mix10:
Talking of Scott Hanselman, have you seen his BabySmash WPF app? It's written for babies. Babies smash your keyboard very much at random. The app takes this input and turns it into colourful animated shapes that move about the screen. Once again, the User Interface shows respect to the skills the user has (or in this case hasn't) acquired.
Do not misconstrue this as me banging my drum about ease of use. The easiest point and click UI is the one Smith and Wesson developed many years ago. Yet that UI shows absolutely no respect to the skills developed by its users. And BabySmash may be easy to use, but it shows no respect for my skills as a developer.
As it has been said many times, software is hard. It will always be hard. There will always be challenges. But if we respect the skills of the code ninjas that come forth to complete those challenges, we all benefit.


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Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
Myriad Genetics first identified and isolated the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes responsible for diagnosing an elevated risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad claims patents on the isolated BRCA genes along with cDNA, which is a synthetic product that mirrors the coding sections of the BRCA genes, and "primers" used in diagnostics. The Patent Act defines the scope of patentable subject-matter in 35 U.S.C. § 101; however, the Supreme Court has consistently held that laws of nature, abstract ideas, and natural phenomenon cannot be patented. Myriad claims that the isolated and modified genes that they hold patents for never occur in nature, and subsequently are patentable subject-matter. Conversely, the Association for Molecular Pathologists contends that Myriad only isolated, and did not modify, a gene already existing in nature and that this isolated gene performs a similar function as the gene in natural form. The district court held that naturally-occurring genes were not patentable subject-matter, but the Federal Circuit court reversed. How the Supreme Court decides this case will greatly impact the scope of patentable subject-matter. A narrowing or a broadening of current subject-matter eligibility will have significant effects on the incentives for inventors as well as what information is available for and usable by the general public.
Many patients seek genetic testing to see if they have mutations in their genes that are associated with a significantly increased risk of breast or ovarian cancer. Respondent Myriad Genetics obtained patents on two human genes that correlate to this risk, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. These patents claim every naturally-occurring version of those genes, including mutations, on the theory that Myriad invented something patent-eligible simply by removing ("isolating") the genes from the body. Petitioners are primarily medical professionals who regularly use routine, conventional genetic testing methods to examine genes, but are prohibited from examining the human genes that Myriad claims to own. This case therefore presents the following questions:
- Are human genes patentable?
- Did the court of appeals err in upholding a method claim by Myriad that is irreconcilable with this Court's ruling in Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012)?
- Did the court of appeals err in adopting a new and inflexible rule, contrary to normal standing rules and this Court's decision in MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., 549 U.S. 118 (2007), that petitioners who have been indisputably deterred by Myriad's "active enforcement" of its patent rights nonetheless lack standing to challenge those patents absent evidence that they have been personally threatened with an infringement action?
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Whether Myriad's claimed invention, the sequence of certain human genes in both isolated and purified forms, falls within the scope of inventions for which a patent may be granted.
The authors would like to thank Professor Oskar Liivak for his insight into this case.
- John Golden & William Sage, A Cure for Patent Pathology? The Supreme Court Reviews the Patentability of Human Genes, Health Affairs Blog (Dec. 7, 2012).
- Susan Decker & Kayla Bruun, Myriad Defends Patent Claims on Genetic Material in Court Case, Bloomberg Businessweek (July 20, 2012).


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Tom Thibodeau, currently the Boston Celtics' assistant coach, has reportedly agreed to become the new head coach of the Chicago Bulls. The Chicago Tribute's KC Johnson reports:
Tom Thibodeau has accepted the Bulls' 3-year offer to become the team's 18th head coach in franchise history, according to sources. No formal announcement can be made until the conclusion of the NBA Finals between the Lakers and Thibodeau's Celtics.
As such, this news won't become official for at least a week or so.
Earlier this week, the New Orleans Hornets appeared interested in Thibodeau's services, but ultimately passed because they didn't want to wait until the end of the Finals to make a move.
Thibodeau began his career as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Since then, he has served as assistant coach and in other capacities with the then-Seattle Sonics, San Antonio Spurs, Philadelphia 76ers, and New York Knicks before joining the Celtics.
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During Japan's extra-innings victory over South Korea in the finals of World Baseball Classic final in Los Angeles, business grinded to a halt in the two countries as millions of people followed every pitch on TVs, computers and mobile phones.
To the people of both nations, it's more than just a game. The Japanese are quietly anxious of the growing success of South Korean companies like Samsung Electronics. The South Koreans, meanwhile, are showing an open sense of rivalry and see Japan as a target to be surpassed.
Ichiro Suzuki of Japan celebrates with teammates Norichika Aoki and Seiichi Uchikawa after defeating Korea 5-3 in the World Baseball Classic. Getty Images
After Japan's pitcher Yu Darvish, tapped to be the next great Japanese import to the Major League Baseball, struck out South Korea's Jeong Keun-Woo to clinch the 5-3 victory, Japanese television announcers praised the courage of "Samurai Japan," the nickname given to the team by local media.
In downtown Tokyo, several hundred people gathered at the giant Bic Camera electronics store including students who skipped out on their classes and salesmen ducking out before client calls. Fans formed pods around the dozens of flat-panel televisions showing the game.
"I don't hate Korea that much, but I just don't want to lose to them," said Ryota Morioka, 36, who took a long lunch break from his job at a real estate fund in a Tokyo bar broadcasting the game on a projection screen.
The game was a back-and-forth contest, fitting for international baseball's most-intense rivalry. Prior to the final, the two countries had played each other four times, with each winning two games, on the way to the championship game. Japan won the tournament in 2006.
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South Korea has been a rising power in baseball for years. It reached the semifinals in 2006 and, last year, the South Korean national team won the gold medal in baseball at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, beating Japan in the process.
Spectators at the World Baseball Classic got a taste for the rivalry when the South Korean team planted a flag on the pitcher's mound after its 4-1 victory over Japan on March 17. That move upset some fans in Japan.
There are historic reasons for the intense rivalry as well. Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 still weighs on the relationship between the two countries. During this time, Koreans were forced to assume Japanese names and take school lessons in that language. In addition, more than three million Koreans were forced to work in factories for Japan during World War II, and Korean women were made to serve as prostitutes for Japanese troops.
In Seoul, the game blasted from a giant video screen at the Gwanghwamun crossing, a major intersection near government and financial buildings. People crossed the street with their eyes on the screen rather than the road.
Hwang Yung-ki, who works at an insurance company in Seoul, said he delayed a scheduled appointment, because he chose to park the car and listen to the game on the radio.
"We didn't even go out to have lunch, and instead had instant noodles in the office," said Mr. Hwang. "The boss gave us a stingy look, but we watched the game anyway. We had to!"
Even workers who couldn't watch the game live on television kept an eye on the contest. In Tokyo, three Japanese businessmen who were waiting for the subway huddled together staring at a mobile phone screen, tracking every pitch from a Web site.
In Seoul, a spokesperson for the finance ministry sent out a text message to reporters when the South Korean team hit a home run in the fifth inning to tie with Japan 1-1.
The South Korean government has allowed all prisoners to watch the game live, so they could relieve their stress by cheering for the nation and feel a sense of pride as South Korean citizens.
And the game ran on TVs off to the side of news conference where South Korea's trade ministry announced it was close to finishing a free trade agreement with the European Union. The EU's chief negotiator prefaced his remarks at the press conference by congratulating the South Korean baseball team, which was just taking the field in Los Angeles at the time.
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ATF had managed to persuade the Texas National Guard and the governor that the compound might contain a methamphetamine lab. All the agents knew the lab story was bullshit, but someone at ATF decided to spin the tale to the Texas authorities so that we could get access to their equipment and personnel.
As the helicopters started their run from their hover position just north of the compound, the Davidians started shooting. Rifle rounds slammed into the Black Hawk and one of the Kiowas. Both made emergency landings in nearby fields.
On the east side of the compound, the New Orleans SRT was catching hell. Seven agents had hauled out two aluminum ladders from the second cattle trailer and set them up against the side of the chapel. The seven agents then scrambled onto the chapel roof. From there, the plan called for them to crash through two second-story windows: one that led to cult leader David Koresh's bedroom and one that led to the suspected arms room.
The chapel roof rose to a peak in the center and was slick with rainwater. On the west slope of the roof, three agents crouched outside Koresh's bedroom window when a burst of machine-gun fire tore through the glass. The blast of bullets struck ATF supervisor Ken King six times. King had been a recon Marine in Vietnam. The bullets knocked him down, and he rolled off the roof and fell into an inner courtyard.
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John Cena fights CM Punk and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson returns as WWE's 'Monday Night Raw' hits historic 1,000th episode
TV history will be made tonight (Monday, July 23) on USA when "Monday Night RAW" celebrates its 1,000th episode, making the WWE spectacle the longest-running episodic show.
The three-hour event will include stars from the past including Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and a wedding. D-Generation X returns and WWE champion CM Punk fights John Cena for the title.
Putting it all in perspective is Jerry "The King" Lawler, a fixture on the show, who provides color commentary and still wrestles at 62. Here, he chats with Zap2it about the milestone and wrestling.
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Q: How exciting is the upcoming 1,000th episode?
A: It's such an amazing milestone, 1,000 episodes, the longest running weekly episodic TV show in the history of television. For me personally to be a part of over 950 episodes, it is exciting.
Q: What should fans expect?
A: It is going to be a three-hour show (8, Eastern 7, Central). At the very beginning there will be a reuniting of D-Generation X from the attitude era of WWE. There will be an endless parade of all of these superstars. We are going to have a wedding AJ and Daniel Bryan are going to get married on the show.
Q: Is this a real marriage or a wrestling stunt?
A: They are really getting married. They have been a couple for some time. What better way to start off your life as a married couple than to do it in front of the entire world? This is seen worldwide in over 100 countries. Why not let the world be part of these two lovebirds?
Q: For those who watch, and clearly the fans are legion, this needs no explanation. But for others, how do you explain the appeal of wrestling?
A: It is almost impossible to explain what wrestling means to different individuals. What type of person watches 'Monday Night RAW'? The great thing for us is it runs the entire gamut. It goes from very, very young to very, very old. I have had people come up to me and say, 'I used to watch but I grew out of it.' How do you grow out of being entertained? It is a combination of so many things, like a pyrotechnic show. All the things that go on an athletic event, and a little bit like a soap opera. And you get to know these superstars on a personal level, and that is part of the big appeal; they can invest in the show.
Q: Did you have any notion that WWE RAW would run this long?
A: I had been involved with wrestling, as a wrestler for 20 years before WWE RAW started. I was involved in my hometown of Memphis, so I knew it was possible and could happen, but on a grand scale and being on cable television, I didn't know because you see so many network shows come and go like 'Seinfeld' and going back to 'Gunsmoke' and 'Lassie.' We have so far surpassed all of those shows and blew them away and they didn't last as along as RAW has. I never dreamed we would be celebrating 1000th episode. If someone came to me and said, 'You are going to do this one thousand weeks,' I would have said, 'Yeah, right what mental facility did you escape from?'
Q: What is your favorite wrestling move?
I have become synonymous with a move. With Andy Kaufman, I did the pile driver, grab [people] by the waist turn them upside and down and drop them on their head. That's called the pile driver. People don't like to seem to be pile driven.
Q: It sounds like an experience best avoided. How injured have you been over the years?
A: To be perfectly honest people ask, 'How have you lasted 42 years?' And I have one simple four-letter word I answer with, and that is luck. I have just been fortunate and lucky. In a 42-year career, and wrestling maybe 300 times a year and I have never had a serious injury. I have seen guys within a month blow out a knee or tear ligaments. I have never had surgery. I did a dive off the second row every single match and, never worn kneepads.
Q: What percentage is real and what is staged?
A: This, our WWE product, is purely entertainment. These guys are great athletes and we compete and put our health and bodies on the line. The main goal of every superstar is to entertain our fans and let them go away from watching a TV show [saying], 'I got my money's worth.' And that is what this is all about. People say this is fake. I say to them, 'Do you go to the movies? Did you think Tom Cruise was really dead?' We're not trying to kill or injure each other. We are trying to put out an entertaining product.
Q: So many people have been on the show. Which stars wowed you?
A: I grew up idolizing Jim Brown and I had to pinch myself and say, 'You are sitting next to Jim Brown.' All he wanted to do was talk about wrestling. William Shatner. William Shatner inducted me into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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In one bout Saturday, in Helsinki, Finland, a "local" pro boxer fights for not one, not two, but three World Championships at 147-pounds. Ku'ulei Kupihea is North Shore born and raised, and after a total of 24-hours "flight-time", it'll be "fight-time", for the W-B-C, W-B-A and W-B-O World Welterweight titles. That makes her Robert Kekaula's "Hawaii M-V-P" this week.
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