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Carol Bartz is executive chairman of the board of Autodesk, Inc. Bartz was chairman, president and CEO of Autodesk for 14 years and stepped-down in April, 2006. During her tenure, the company diversified its product line
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Multimedia Producer for Compaq Computer Corporation. In this position Tina led a team of engineers, artists, scriptwriters, and education specialists through the design and implementation of a series of multimedia titles. Tina's current
position as Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program takes advantage of her technical background, in addition to her experiences as a manager, entrepreneur, and educator.
Jack Leslie is the Chairman of Weber Shandwick, one of the world's leading public relations agencies. A veteran communications strategist, he has been an architect of some of the most visible communications campaigns of
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campaign for the Council for Biotechnology Information. He was a participant in the Jackson Hole Group, a forum that convened many of the nation's leading thinkers to address the health care crisis in the mid-1990s. Mr. Leslie has advised
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Wenceslao Casares founded Lemon Bank (www.lemon.com), a Brazilian retail bank for the poor, in June 2002. He is also the founder of Wanako Games (www.wanakogames.com), a US based developer of console videogames that
seeks to leverage the creativity of Latin American talent. Wanako Games was sold to Vivendi Universal. In 1997 Casares founded Patagon (www.patagon.com), an Argentinean Online Brokerage. As the Company expanded throughout Latin America,
Casares lived in Sao Paulo, Mexico City, and New York City. The company also expanded into online banking in Spain and Germany. Patagon was sold to Spanish bank Santander. In 1994 Casares launched Internet Argentina S.A.
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Executing the ICD-10 Plan
Training and Education Plan
Executing a comprehensive training and education plan will be integral to ICD-10 implementation. Industry associations indicate that role based training with different methods of education will impact effectiveness. For additional information, see the ICD-10 Task Force's AHIMA Training and Recommendation Resources .
Industry associations encourage health care providers to begin ICD-10 training and education well in advance of implementation. It is recommended that the level and timing of education and training be guided by ICD-10 data-user type (e.g., IT, clinical, coders, etc.) and level of expertise that will be required of their role (e.g., awareness of ICD-10 only, user of ICD-10 data, coder of ICD-10, etc.). The AHIMA article ICD-10-CM/PCS Transition: Planning and Preparation Checklist supplies two figures related to training and education. The "High-Level Awareness Education" table (Figure 1) outlines the types of ICD-10 knowledge needed by organizational role type. The "Examples of Categories of Data Users Requiring ICD-10 Education" (Figure 3) identifies different user groups that should be considered for ICD-10 education.
Tips for Successful Training (April 2011) from the Journal of AHIMA states, "Without a doubt the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS will impact patient care and revenue. Whether that impact is positive or negative, however, comes down to the quality of the training that organizations provide their clinical and coding staff."
Change and Process Management
ICD-10 Transformation: Five Critical Risk-Mitigation Strategies is a publication from the Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS) which explains some of the key risks to be faced in the implementation of ICD-10. For each of the well-defined risks is an equally well-defined mitigation strategy. Specific tips are provided for practices of various sizes and types as well as for health plans.
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Implementing a strong communication plan will help create ICD-10 awareness, set expectations, establish timelines and promote interactions across your organization. Progress reports, presentations, newsletters and other program communications will stimulate consistent program-approved messaging for internal and external stakeholders.
Consider using the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provided by the HIMSS ICD-10 Task Force as an awareness tool. Using this information may assist in proactively addressing questions in your organization such as:
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- What are the possible business impacts during the transition?
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CMS has created the ICD-10 Implementation Guide for Small Hospitals , ICD-10 Implementation Guide for Small and Medium Practices , and the ICD-10 Implementation Guide for Large Practices . These resources address a wide variety of implementation topics, including a section on the communication and awareness phase. The guides cover communication and awareness from initial definition to execution and lessons learned for the following:
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- Defining the audience and stakeholders
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- Defining communication roles and responsibilities
- Developing messaging
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The Everpix 2.0 iOS app has been redesigned for better visual search as well as surfacing photos in your collection from years ago.
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Morning Star Click 1/2" x 5" Natural Click Strand Bamboo
Morning Star Bamboo Flooring is one of the best bamboo floors on the market today. It is produced from old growth bamboo reeds that are at least 4 years old, thereby increasing hardness. Morning Star Bamboo Flooring creates a naturally beautiful and ecologically friendly product that evokes a feeling of luxury.
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Natural: Bamboo in its natural, unstained state.
To make strand bamboo, shredded bamboo fibers are compressed under extreme heat and pressure. This manufacturing process yields flooring that is even harder and more dense than traditional bamboo floors. Available in a variety of colors to complement and décor, all Morning Star strand bamboo products are finished with premium coating and backed by a 30 year warranty.
And, since bamboo is a naturally sustainable grass that re-grows spontaneously after harvest, you can feel good about making an environmentally friendly flooring decision.
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This click and float floor is beautiful and was easy to install in our bedroom. It is so easy to keep clean, too. We are very happy with our choice!
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Natural click strand bamboo looks really great in the master bedroom and adjoining hallway on the 2nd floor of our home after replacing worn carpet. Installation requires some know-how and good tools but its relatively easy to install in large rectangular rooms. Maintenance and cleaning are extremely easy with a good wood floor cleaner and dry mop or towel. The only complaint is the increased sound levels in the bedroom and living space below because we sacrificed sound dampening the carpet/pad previously provided.
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great for floors got bambooo natural, at first i thought its boring! but when i put on the floor! it look like gilligans island flooring!!! luv ti!!! trina horner
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This flooring was very easy to install myself. Hard part was moving everything from the room to start. Like all wood products this material has some splinters but the splinters from this bamboo flooring are very sharp and can be tougher than normal to remove. ALWAYS WEAR PROTECTIVE GLOVES and avoid sliding your hands along the board edges. Click install was very simple and made for a very tight and great looking joint. Do your research if you plan to install this yourself. Learn about staggering joints, best tools for cutting and spacing or you will find yourself with more waste than expected. Overall a great product and reasonable price. Be prepared to sharpen or replace cutting edges as this flooring is very hard and makes sharp edges dull very quickly.
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Self install. Picked up on site. Only hold up was the transition was not in stock and took about a week to get.
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Flooring is super hard, this is a plus to avoid high traffic damage.
Get the Bella top line base layer to put floor down on worth the extra$.
Get a new blade for your chop saw to ensure a clean cut of this hard material.
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Picked up product, all was ready and loaded into my truck for me
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My wife and I installed this in our dining room over a weekend. Had to take the rug out and to the dump. Getting the first row in was slow but then it just flows. No problems with clicking. Cull too dark and too light boards. Also some boards had fill in the ends. You can use those for starters or ends cutting off the bad ends. I'm using the culled boards for a chair pad in my office. To avoid splinters, don't slide you hand on the boards. Grab them and hold them. Almost wore out the blade on a carbide finish blade. These are tough boards. A jigsaw worked fine for detailed cuts. My fesstool saw ripped well, and cut along the wall at the end. My dogs like the floor and it feels hard as a rock. The sales folks at the San Jose store where great with advice and getting the trim pieces for transitions.
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I used this on a Concrete Slab, followed directions to the tee. Had no warped boards and it seems like the Bamboo acclimated with the environment that it was placed on. So far so good and it looks GREAT......
The boards are very precisely made so they click together smoothly with very little gap between them. The final look is great.
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This was my first flooring project (565 sq ft), so I got a friend to help. Installing flooring of any kind is a lot more work than I thought. Cutting this bamboo just right for doorways and hallways is a pain. For your handsaw detail cuts, get a utility blade or a blade for metal. A wood saw blade just won't work on bamboo with a handsaw.
That said, my friend was very impressed with this flooring, and its quality. Installing in a square room with no closets is pretty easy. I did a floating install on concrete with underlayment, and I'm not noticing any noise issues. I also only have a 1/4 gap around the walls since it's summer. We'll see how that works out.
It looks so much better than the carpet and laminate flooring in my house.
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I ordered the products online and picked it up at the store. I just rented a truck from a home improvement store and they promptly loaded all 30 boxes. The sales people seemed nice and they really liked the bamboo flooring, but I didn't get a lot of installation advice from them.
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I bought the bamboo to re-floor our house - 4 bedrooms and a hallway upstairs & living, dining and family rooms downstairs. I didn't want to pay the expensive delivery fee so I bought the wood room by room and picked it up from the store. The first two rooms were easy to install and looked beautiful!
We started the 3rd room and the wood not only looked significantly lighter, but the locking system seemed to be different b/c we couldn't lock pieces from the new lot into the older lot. The wood also seemed to weigh less and seems "cheaper." (We're actually going to weigh wood from the two lots to compare.)
I'm going to try to exchange the wood but we've already opened the boxes b/c we were told by the salesmen that the wood needed to acclimate to the house environment for 2 weeks before being installed.
Unfortunately, what started out as an exciting home project has turned into a very frustrating experience.
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Q:hi looking at removing wood flooring but someone told me that we would not have to take up the kitchen flooring laminate full sheet in hallway and poweroom.
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A:You can find complete installation instructions on the product page by clicking on the installation tab and then clicking on - Installation Guide.
Q:can this product be installed in a three season room in wisconsin
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A:All of our flooring products are recommended for interior use only and designed to be installed in a climate controlled environment.
Q:The product is listed as eco-friendly. Besides the renewable aspect, are we certain there is no formeldyhide or other contaminents in this product. Is there more detail on the "eco-friendliness" of this product?
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A:This flooring is Made in China and all our floors are safe. We abide by CARB regulations. See - http://www.lumberliquidators.com/sustainability/health-and-safety/?
Q:I am wondering if it is okay to put a combined sound blocker and water proof underlayment under this floor?
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A:Yes. Actually, underlayment is required unless you intend to glue this floor down to the subfloor. Check out our guide on Flooring 101, keyword, "Underlayment Guide". In addition, follow the manufacturer instructions carefully for a successful and lasting installation - http://www.lumberliquidators.com/assets/images/installation/morning_star_clic.pdf
Q:I want to put this type of flooring in the hallways and stairs. Is this a good choice for stairs? Which strength would be the best for installation? There is very little traffic?
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A:Thank you for your interest in our flooring products and contacting the Tech & Installation Department.
Q:when installing bamboo click flooring by Morning Star in a Kitchen, what is the reasoning for installing the flooring after the cabinet installation?
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A:All flooring should be installed AFTER cabinets are installed. This is because flooring needs to expand and contract freely (also makes future repairs easier) . Expansion gaps are needed around perimeter and around any fixed vertical obstructions (cabinets). Quarter Round molding or shoe molding is used to cover the expansion gap. Without the expansion gaps in place you can experience buckling of the flooring if it expands with cabinets fastened to it; essentially binding the flooring from normal movement due to temperature and humidity variances.
Q:I recently learned that there can be an issue with shrinkage and a bamboo floating floor. Has this product had a history of shrinkage? If installed by LL, would the product be warrantied against shrinkage? Thanks.
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NY court eyeing Argentine swap offer in debt case
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina A New York court ordered Argentina on Friday to explain how it would issue new bonds rather than comply with a $1.3 billion cash judgment to resolve debts unpaid for more than decade.
Two days after a key oral hearing in NML Capital Ltd. vs Argentina, the appellate judges asked just how, when and at what interest rate Argentina would pay installments on these new bonds.
President Cristina Fernandez had long vowed never to pay anything to the plaintiffs she calls "vulture funds," which she accuses of trying to ruin Argentina's recovery from its 2002 economic collapse. But in a speech to Congress on Friday, she endorsed the compromise offer of a new debt swap, which had been floated in December by her Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino.
She said Argentina would pay the plaintiffs, but at terms no better than those the vast majority of Argentina's defaulted debt holders accepted in two previous debt swaps. Those exchange bondholders agreed to provide Argentina with significant debt relief in exchange for new bonds, which her government has always paid.
"We have rigorously paid everything we've promised," she said. "And we are also prepared to pay these vulture funds, but not at terms that are better than the 93 percent who believed in and supported Argentina," she said.
Friday's court order suggests the appellate judges are at least giving Argentina another opportunity to explain how this might work.
"Because neither the parameters of Argentina's proposal nor its commitment to abide by it is clear from the record, it is hereby ordered that, on or before March 29, 2013, Argentina submit in writing to the court the precise terms of any alternative payment formula and schedule to which it is prepared to commit," the order reads.
The order further requires that Argentina explain "(1) how and when it proposes to make current those debt obligations on the original bonds that have gone unpaid over the last 11 years; (2) the rate at which it proposes to repay debt obligations on the original bonds going forward; and (3) what assurances, if any, it can provide that the official government action necessary to implement its proposal will be taken, and the timetable for such action."
The case revolves around clauses in the original 1990s bond contracts that promised "equal treatment" for all bondholders. U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa ruled that the plaintiffs, who refused to accept the previous swaps, deserve 100 percent of face value plus interest on the defaulted debt, in part because they have had to spend millions on litigation in a thus-far fruitless effort to force Argentina to pay.
And Griesa proposed an unprecedented mechanism for forcing Argentina to pay: using the U.S. funds transfer system to reroute the payments Argentina has faithfully made to all the other bondholders if it hasn't already paid the plaintiffs beforehand. That mechanism prompted a flood of legal briefs from U.S. banks, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. government and other institutions, warning that forcing Argentina to pay this way could do serious collateral damage to their interests.


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Old-Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of radio programming lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the dominant home entertainment medium in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this period, when radio was dominant and the airwaves were filled with a variety of radio formats and genres, people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio programs. In fact, according to a 1947 C. E. Hooper survey, 82 out of 100 Americans were found to be radio listeners. The end of this period coincided with music radio becoming the dominant radio form and is often marked in the United States by the final CBS broadcasts of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar on September 30, 1962.
On Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden sent the first radio program broadcast, which was made up of some violin playing and passages from the bible. At least one radio researcher has questioned whether this broadcast took place, because it was not mentioned in print until many years later. Then, after the Titanic catastrophe in 1912, radio for communications went into vogue. Radio was especially important during World War I, since it was vital for air and naval operations. In fact, World War I sped the development of radio by transitioning radio communications from the morse code of the wireless telegraph to the vocal communication of the wireless telephone through advancements in vacuum tube technology and the introduction of the transceiver.
After the war, numerous radio stations were born and set the standard for later radio programs. The first radio news program was broadcast on August 31, 1920 on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan. This was followed in 1920 with the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA, being established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1922, the first regular entertainment programs were broadcast. A highlight of this time was the first Rose Bowl being broadcast on January 1, 1923 on the Los Angeles station KHJ.
In the late 1920s, the sponsored musical feature was the most popular program format. Commercial messages were regarded as intrusive, so these shows usually displayed the sponsor's name in the title, as evidenced by such programs as The A&P Gypsies, Acousticon Hour, Champion Spark Plug Hour, The Clicquot Club Eskimos, The Flit Soldiers, The Fox Fur Trappers, The Goodrich Zippers, The Ingram Shavers, The Ipana Troubadors, The Planters Pickers, The Silvertown Cord Orchestra (featuring the Silver Masked Tenor), The Sylvania Foresters and The Yeast Foamers. During the 1930s and 1940s, the leading orchestras were heard often through big band remotes, and NBC's Monitor continued such remotes well in the 1950s by broadcasting live music from New York City jazz clubs to rural America.
Classical music programs on the air included The Voice of Firestone and The Bell Telephone Hour. The Metropolitan Opera was also featured in weekly broadcasts of complete operas, then sponsored by Texaco. The broadcasts, now sponsored by the Toll Brothers, continue to this day on NPR and are one of the few examples of live classical music still broadcast on radio. One of the most notable of all classical music radio programs of the Golden Age of Radio featured the celebrated Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra, which had been created especially for him. At that time, nearly all classical musicians and critics considered Toscanini the greatest living maestro. There were also popular songwriters featured on radio, such as George Gershwin, who in addition to appearing as a guest, also had his own program in 1934.
Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn. More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos 'n' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy (which featured screen star Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks.
Radio comedy ran the gamut from the small town humor of Lum and Abner, Herb Shriner and Minnie Pearl to the dialect characterizations of Mel Blanc and the caustic sarcasm of Henry Morgan. Gags galore were delivered weekly on Stop Me If You've Heard This One and Can You Top This?, panel programs devoted to the art of telling jokes. Quiz shows were lampooned on It Pays to Be Ignorant, and other memorable parodies were presented by such satirists as Spike Jones, Stoopnagle and Budd, Stan Freberg and Bob and Ray. British comedy reached American shores in a major assault when NBC carried The Goon Show in the mid-1950s.
Some shows originated as stage productions: Clifford Goldsmith's play What a Life was reworked into NBC's popular, long-run The Aldrich Family (1939–1953) with the familiar catchphrases "Henry! Henry Aldrich!", followed by Henry's answer, "Coming, Mother!". Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, You Can't Take It with You (1936), became a weekly situation comedy heard on Mutual (1944) with Everett Sloane and later on NBC (1951) with Walter Brennan.
Other shows were adapted from comic strips, such as Blondie, Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, The Gumps, Li'l Abner, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye the Sailor, Red Ryder, Reg'lar Fellers, Terry and the Pirates and Tillie the Toiler. Bob Montana's redheaded teen of comic strips and comic books was heard on radio's Archie Andrews from 1943 to 1953. The Timid Soul was a 1941–1942 comedy based on cartoonist H.T. Webster's famed Casper Milquetoast character, and Robert L. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was adapted to several different radio formats during the 1930s and 1940s.
When daytime serials began in the early 1930s (the first soap opera was introduced in 1930 on Chicago's WGN-AM), they became known as soap operas because many were sponsored by soap products and detergents. The line-up of late afternoon adventure serials included Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders, The Cisco Kid, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, Captain Midnight, and The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters. Badges, rings, decoding devices and other radio premiums offered on these adventure shows were often allied with a sponsor's product, requiring the young listeners to mail in a box top from a breakfast cereal or other proof of purchase.
Outstanding radio dramas were presented on such programs as 26 by Corwin, NBC Short Story, Arch Oboler's Plays, Quiet, Please, and CBS Radio Workshop. Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air and Campbell Playhouse were considered by many critics to be the finest radio drama anthologies ever presented. They usually starred Welles in the leading role, along with celebrity guest stars such as Margaret Sullavan or Helen Hayes, in adaptations from literature, Broadway, and/or films. They included such titles as Liliom, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It was on Mercury Theatre that Welles presented his celebrated-but-infamous adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, formatted to sound like a breaking news program.
Lux Radio Theater and The Screen Guild Theater presented adaptations of Hollywood movies, performed before a live audience, usually with cast members from the original films. Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler and Inner Sanctum Mysteries were popular thriller anthology series. Leading writers who created original material for radio included Norman Corwin, Carlton E. Morse, David Goodis, Archibald MacLeish, Arthur Miller, Arch Oboler, Wyllis Cooper, Rod Serling and Irwin Shaw.
Recordings of radio programs were typically made at a radio network's studios, since the expense and expertise of making a recording was usually more than a local station was capable of handling. (Recordings required special equipment and trained technicians who had to monitor the recording while it was being made.) However, there are some surviving recordings produced by affiliate stations.
The Armed Forces Radio Services (AFRS) has its origins in the War Department's quest to improve troop morale. This quest began with short-wave broadcasts of educational and information programs to troops in 1940. In 1941, the War Department began issuing "Buddy Kits" (B-Kits) to departing troops, which comprised radios, 78 RPM shellac records, and electrical transcription disks of radio shows. However, with the entrance of the United States into World War II, the War Department decided that it needed to improve the quality and quantity of its offerings.
This began with the broadcasting of its own original variety programs. Command Performance became the first of these, when it was produced for the first time on March 1 1942. On May 26 1942, the Armed Forces Radio Services was formally established. Originally, its programming comprised network radio shows with the commercials removed. However, it soon began producing other original programming, such as Mail Call, G.I. Journal, Jubilee, and G.I. Jive. At its peak in 1945, the Service produced around twenty hours of original programming each week.
After the war, the AFRS continued providing programming to troops in Europe. In addition, it also provided programming for future wars that the United States was involved in. It survives today as a component of the American Forces Network.
All of the shows aired by the AFRS during the Golden Age were recorded onto electrical transcription disks and shipped to stations, in order to be broadcast to troops overseas. People in the United States rarely ever heard programming from the AFRS, although AFRS recordings of Golden Age network shows were occasionally broadcast on some domestic stations beginning in the 1950s.
There was some home recording of radio in the 1930s and early 1940s. Home recording at that time could typically only be performed by home disk recorders, which were only capable of storing five minutes of a radio program per side on a seven-inch record. As a result of the short durations of these records and the expense of the recorders, home recording was uncommon during this period.
The lack of suitable home recording equipment was somewhat relieved in 1943 with the introduction of home tape recorders using Scotch 100 tape. However, the quality of recordings made from these devices was far below professional levels. In fact, home recording of radio programs did not become common until around 1950, when affordable reel-to-reel tape recorders were introduced to the market.
When radio stations first began recording programs, they recorded onto records called "electrical transcription disks" (ET). Originally, these disks varied in both size and composition; although, they were typically bare aluminum. However, by the mid-1930s, sixteen inch aluminum-based disks coated with cellulose nitrate lacquer and playing at a speed of 33 1/3 RPM became the standard. (These had been invented in 1932 by RCA Victor.) These disks were recorded using the "hill and dale" process, in contrast to the side-to-side recording method used by commercial recording studios. Disks could store fifteen minutes of a show on each side, allowing a thirty minute program to be stored on one side of two separate disks. The disks would deteriorate rapidly on each playing, allowing only a few playbacks before being destroyed.
During World War II, aluminum became a necessary material for the war effort. This caused alternatives to aluminum to be used for electrical transcription disks, since aluminum was hard to come by. As a result, glass became the most common material used for disks between the years of 1942 and 1945.
In the United States, radio comedy and drama gets relatively little airplay apart from National Public Radio, satellite and Internet radio, but it continues full strength on British and Irish stations, and to a lesser degree in Canada. Regular broadcasts of radio plays are also heard in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. Vintage shows and new audio productions in America are accessible more on recordings and by satellite and web broadcasters rather than over conventional AM and FM radio. There are, however, several radio theatre series still in production, usually airing on Sunday nights in the United States. These include original series such as Imagination Theatre and a radio adaptation of The Twilight Zone, as well as rerun compilations such as the popular daily series When Radio Was and USA Radio Network's Golden Age of Radio Theatre.
One of the longest running radio programs celebrating this era is The Golden Days of Radio, which was hosted on the Armed Forces Radio Service (later Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) for more than 20 years and overall for more than 50 years by Frank Bresee, who also played "Little Beaver" on the Red Ryder program as a child actor.
Today, radio performers of the past appear at conventions which feature recreations of classic shows, as well as music, memorabilia and historical panels. The largest of these events is the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, held annually in Newark, New Jersey each October. Others include REPS in Seattle (June), SPERDVAC in California, the Cincinnati OTR & Nostalgia Convention (April) and the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention (September).
Radio dramas from the golden age are sometimes recreated as live stage performances. One such group, led by director Daniel Smith, has been performing recreations of old-time radio dramas at Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts since 2000.


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Enjoy a city tour of Quebec City, the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and the largest city in eastern Quebec. Quebec's Old Town (Vieux-Québec), the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist, was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Quebec".
Take a romantic horse-drawn carriage ride through the streets of Quebec City.Accommodation: Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac (4.5*)
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The island of Orleans, located 30 minutes from Quebec city, has a strong artisanal culinary focus which is obvious from the number of small, quality producers present on the island. Consider taking a private half day tour to the island and visit the various artisanal producers such as Cassis Monna, a company which has mastered the art of transforming black currants - harvested on the Île of Orléans - into products of the highest quality, including a Crème de Cassis that earned the 1995 Gold Medal Award at the prestigious European contest in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The company also produces three aperitif wines as well as a wine jelly, a syrup, an onion jam, a black currant jelly, a mustard and other black currant delicacies. The Domaine Steinbach estate, is another place worth visiting. With an orchard of 4,000 apple trees, the owners have taken an organic farming approach for apple-processing purposes, which has led to the production of various ciders (one of which is an ice cider), cider vinegar and other varieties of aromatized vinegars, as well as mustards and various other food items such as jellies, preserves, and "confit" products. These are but a smple of the various producers that are on the island. Please speak with your Sales Advisor if you are interested in doing a culinary tour on the island.Accommodation: Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac (4.5*)
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The haunting cry of the common loon is vanishing from many New England waters. Whether we hear it much longer depends on us.
"Is it there? I can't see anything." I'm standing on a wooden dock with my husband on a chilly morning in early June, my bare feet plastered with wet grass from our walk down through the meadow. I hand him the binoculars. As he peers across the pond into the marsh, I glance back at the house, hoping our two children are still asleep.
Mist billows across the water, obscuring, then opening, our view. In the direction of our gaze, a stream runs loud after a heavy rain overnight, and I'm worried about the loons–that the nest they've sat on for a week may be inundated, that they'll abandon it.
We look through the curling fog in silence. Then Jim calls out, "There it is!" He hands me the binoculars and talks me toward the narrow prow of grasses jutting by the stream, then back from its tip in among the highest stems.
We'd watched the loons build their nest in that wedge of rushes; over several days, they'd ferried pond weeds and bottom muck to the low hummock. Even so, the nest barely rises above water level. Loons' legs, set far back on their bodies, don't support them on land. I'd watched these loons labor to move even a few inches on shore, scooting on their chests, clumsily propelled by their feet. Underwater, though, those legs make sense. The birds pivot them for forceful strokes, draw them together and steer, and fold them back like landing gear. In Europe, the common loon goes by the name "great northern diver." Some call it a "submarine with wings." If it could nest in the water, it would.
I see nothing at first, then–stark, silhouetted against the mist–a long, tapered bill. The rest of the loon forms around it. The bill connects to a dark, rounded head. I follow its curve to a necklace of white vertical stripes, then out along the loon's distinctive white-on-black moire wings. There it is, on the nest, post-downpour, safe.
In the dozen years we've lived by this pond in the southern foothills of New Hampshire's White Mountains, we've had loons only as visitors. Until now, none have stayed.
Susie Burbidge, field biologist with the Loon Preservation Committee, the nonprofit that monitors New Hampshire's loons, drives up in the afternoon. She crouches on the dock, setting up her spotting scope. The fog has long since burned off. We look straight into the nest; the pair has built it well. She says our pond–30 acres at best–may be the smallest in the state hosting a nesting pair. It's ridiculous, but I feel proud.
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can i put food and beverages in it?
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Food and beverages should be okay in this bag. I wouldn't take a roast turkey across country in it, but sandwiches & bags of crisps/chips should be fine.
Also - if carrying liquids, I would probably put them in some kind of container first (a flask or bottle should do the trick). The bag, while water resistant, isn't water-proof, or water tight. The liquid will trickle through the zips.
So in short - you can put food and beverages in it - in fact, as bags go, this is pretty good at it - as are, I am led to understand, most things designed to hold things.
It's not a dedicated cool bag, if thats what you're asking...
- Answered by Tom C


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Posted 23 November 2013 - 00:55
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Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:17
The voice commands could use work. It gets hard many times for the Kinect to pick up what I'm saying.
Posted 23 November 2013 - 06:52
Kinect doesn't like my daughters voice much, but its mostly the way she pronounces things, however Kinect motion sensing for everyone in family is amazing.
Played some killer instinct, game is absolute joy to play. May buy one of the character packs in morning. Will be downloading forza in morning as well.
My update on boot took about 3 minutes to download and about 6 minutes to install. It felt like it took longer to boot after install than the actual install took, so be patient folks after first patch.
UI is very snappy, loving how well apps work. Watching Sherlock with wife on Netflix
X1 is absolutely quiet, amazingly so! Also, no laser beam lights upfront, logo is very soft glow, looks awesome and hides well.
Posted 23 November 2013 - 09:59
Posted this in the Launch Thread but it can go in here to:
Pleased to say that my Xbox One wasn't a lemon. So glad I didn't take the day off because mine wasn't delivered until around 6.30pm yesterday!
It was like being a kid at Christmas when it arrived! Everything went smoothly for me, set up fine, installed the update and it was ready to go.
The FIFA 14 was downloadable so I used the 'Xbox, use a code' command and showed the QR Code to Kinect and it automatically started downloading. Whilst that was downloading I queued up SkyDrive, Skype, Upload Studio and what I found to be rather odd, the app that allows BluRay & DVD playback?
I purchased Forza 5 & Battlefield 4 (physical disc) and I started by playing some Battlefield 4. It's gorgeous, I didn't play it on the 360 and I must say the visuals are stunning! I have been a COD guy before so it took sometime getting used to controls ect. I am not a fan of how the MP is laid out and it's tough getting in to a game with friends. I did run in to one issue as did a lot of my friends and that would be we'd join a MP session and for some reason be kicked right out to the Xbox Home screen. Also, I do get annoyed with the 'friend session invites' that pop up on BF4 right in the middle of the screen at times, I can be in the middle of a game & it pops up!
Forza 5 is stunning! I've completed the 1st 5 races , after 3 races your 'Drivatar' has enough information to put out in to the world of racing which I think is really cool. I was in a party chat with some friends and one of them was playing Forza 5 at the time, my Drivatar was in one of his races and he was raging because it was driving aggressive and was winning most of the races! Haha.
During one Forza race I came in to some trouble with a few shunts, lost control and barrel rolled the car a few times. This was the perfect time to use the 'Xbox, Record That' command. Paused the game, entered Upload Studio, reviewed the clip, trimmed it and uploaded it to SkyDrive. Here it is for you guys.
Posted 23 November 2013 - 11:02
Posted 25 November 2013 - 05:31
Posted 25 November 2013 - 06:47
The dashboard is my biggest disappointment so far. Its just been such a buggy and inconsistent experience. Some examples:
-Sometimes the dash is quick and snappy and other times I'll have to hit a button 3 times for anything to happen, only for it then to assume I actually wanted to hit it 3 times and preform multiple actions.
-Many times I'll enter a screen and what was previously on the screen will be shown for second before showing what is supposed to be there
--Example: I hit "Send Message" to compose a message to a friend, it shows "Message Sent!" from a previously sent message before showing the actual message creation screen
-When a friend sends me a message, I hold the guide button, but then I need to select "Read Message" to actually view it. Why is that step even there? There's nothing else I can do on that screen, just show me the message.
-Why do I need to join a party, then enter chat in 2 steps? On Xbox 360, entering the party enabled chat automatically. On top of that, I've gotten "Chat cannot be enabled right now, please try again later" countless times this weekend.
-Why is there no separation of patch download and actual game installation? Inserting a new game disc and it starts installing, but I'm prompted with a "Download Patch?" dialog. Selecting yes results in the "Installation" just chilling at 0% until the download is done, with no way to view its progress.
-2 of the 4 games I tried over the weekend actually didn't even register that a game was inserted. Instead of it auto installing, I just had a tile on the home screen that said "Install Disc". Didn't even say the game name. Only hitting the tile did it update with the name and prompt for patch.
-The Avatar Editor wouldn't work at all on Friday, simple stating "Something terrible had happened, please try again later". On Saturday I got in, but it crashed 3 times.
-I've also had issues with the actual notifications not appearing or taking forever to show up. I did the "Xbox, Record That", and saw Kinect recognized it, but didn't get the "Game Clip Saved" notification until 5 min later. I thought it failed.
--On this point, why does it take so long for notifications to actually, well, notify you. First they animate in for 2 seconds, they display some generic text, then finally the context. To see what achievement I just unlocked I have to wait until it goes through all 3 steps, animating in, saying "Achievement Unlocked", then finally the achievement name and value.
--On consistency, why does the achievement notification look different than all the others? It looks totally out of place.
-Going to the achievement screen for a game directly after unlocking an achievement results in a 2 second refresh delay where the achievement is still shown as locked.
-I've also noticed that pretty much all screen flash for a second while they refresh after opening. Why not refresh the screen's data before displaying it?
Some More Oddities:
-Why is there no way to sort the "My Games and Apps" view?
-Why is Game DVR and Achievements under "Friends"? Why not call it "Social" or something?
-Why is Game DVR actually called "Upload" yet it isn't the same as "Upload Studio"?
-Why is the messages screen a list of huge tiles that I have to scroll through with no way to group? Can't we do conversations or something?
-Why is the friends screen bright white when the rest of the dashboard is black? Really hurts the eyes in a dark room when switching between them.
-Why is there no reputation detail screen? How do I know how rep is determined?
-What is the weird character in the multiple circles on my profile?
-Why can I only pin certain screens to home and only from the app's tile, not from within the app?
-Why can't I clear my notifications queue?
-Why in privacy can I select "Custom", but have no way to view what that means?
-Why does the clock fade away on the home screen with the only way to view it again to hit "Home" again?
I really am trying to love my Xbox One, but its been a bumpy weekend. I can't wait to see what the system can do once a few patches have hit, but for now, its really quite a disaster on the dashboard. The worst thing is that we had some things that worked super great on the Xbox 360 and when implementing it on the Xbox One, they either took a step back or lost features in the process. I'm not saying I even expected it to be perfect or on par with where the 360 was after 8 years, but the whole experience just feels like a tech preview to me. No polish or final features that a RTM release should have.
Posted 25 November 2013 - 08:18
The dashboard is my biggest disappointment so far. Its just been such a buggy and inconsistent experience. Some examples:
I really am trying to love my Xbox One, but its been a bumpy weekend. I can't wait to see what the system can do once a few patches have hit, but for now, its really quite a disaster on the dashboard. The worst thing is that we had some things that worked super great on the Xbox 360 and when implementing it on the Xbox One, they either took a step back or lost features in the process. I'm not saying I even expected it to be perfect or on par with where the 360 was after 8 years, but the whole experience just feels like a tech preview to me. No polish or final features that a RTM release should have.
Posted 25 November 2013 - 13:10
I've seen random issues with Xbox live logins, perhaps that is what is causing your achievement issue? Achievements always popup as expected.
I never have performance issues in the UI, but i haven't had much time to mess around in there. I've just been gaming and watching a lot of hulu/netflix/amazon.
I definitely want some time to dig in and check things out in further detail and i expect we will get another update here soon to streamline any rough edges.
All in all though, this is the oddest console launch. XBL has been running mostly well with all things considered but both consoles were shipped a weee bit too soon but, my wife made me a happy early adopter so i have no complaints
Posted 25 November 2013 - 14:09
Posted 25 November 2013 - 15:38
I wont add as much as everyone but here we go:
Setup - very easy and the first patch downloaded very quick. The green xbox screen is a bit nerve racking the 2 times you see it (before and after the patch). I was very nervous just waiting for something to happen... If I didnt read reviews about it already I would have really been stressing.
Use - love just about everything. The voice commands work very well for me, Ive only used the TV ones like goto HBO etc and the record that feature while playng Killer Instinct. The controller is great, I thought the 360 contoller was near perfect and this is even better. I am still waiting on my games to come from Amazon so I was limited to KI and the Rivals demo (which I felt the kinect controls were great, big improvement from kinect 1.0)
DNLA - streamed a few avi and mp4 movies with no issues using the Play To function on my laptop. As expected, mkv files did not..
One major gripe - I mentioned this in the other thread but felt it should go here as this is the one thing that really irks me. The xbox does NOT passthrough hdmi while off. While I enjoy using the tv features... I do not feel like my xbox should be powered on as long as the tv is on. Sometimes on the weekend my tv is on for 12+ hours a day (football). My receiver has a standby mode and when I press the power button the cable signal and audio passthrough over to the TV. Not the case with the xbox, xbox is powered off... no signal is being sent to my receiver. I have decided to pick up a hdmi splitter (as suggested) so i can continue to use the tv features when I want.
So for now, I rate it at a 4.5/5 - overall very happy with everything minus the passthrough, just doesnt make sense that they didnt include this at least as an option


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- Updated / rolled back my GFX drivers (currently using the best for everything else)
- Uninstalled then reinstalled flash
- switched browsers twice
- and yes even the old trick of right clicking on the video and disabling hardware acceleration
It's not at the start of videos just half way through some videos it goes green and skips to the end so what could i be missing? had anyone else had this and how did they fix it?
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My name's (still) Professor Pooh Garotte but you will at all times call me "Sir."
The following students have all passed their degree in Basic Assassination with flying colours and have chosen, somewhat bravely, or possibly foolishly, to be considered for post-graduate studies in our MA Assassination With Extreme Prejudice course;
Sjoerd the Sword
Kill 'em Willem
Jan the Quirm Strangler
Decapitating Dot-C
mC the Impaler
Places are limited so I will ask you all to participate in our entrance examination, in which we will seperate the wheat from the chaff.
Those of you who survive will be allowed to study using rare texts retreived from L-Space such as Hitler's "Mein Kampf", Polpott's "Kill Everyone" and Geogre W Bush's "Decision Points".
Upon completion of the course, you will be fully qualified in genocide, and will be able to become a Dark Lord (or Lady), own a white cat (or rabbit), live in a secret volcano lair (or anywhere else as long as you sprinkle a bit of basalt around) and attempt world domination, should you wish to so do.
The rules are on the noticeboard on the accompanying thread.
May I also remind you that three further rules must be obeyed at all times;
* No running in the corridors
* Lights out at 9:30
* If you chop somebody up into little pieces using a blunt and rusty kitchen knife, you must clean up the blood stains afterwards.
Roles will be secretly assigned later, but starting from now you are allowed to comment and vote.
That will be all. Class dismissed.
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This thread is for discussing A Hat Full of Sky in some depth. If you haven't read the book then read on at your own risk – or, better still, go and read the book and join in the fun.
For those of us that are going to join in the discussion, here are a few guidelines:
Please feel free to make comparisons to other Discworld books, making sure you identify the book and the passage you are referring to. Others may not be as familiar with the book you are referencing, so think before you post.
Sometimes we'll need to agree to disagree – only Terry knows for sure what he was thinking when he wrote the books and individuals members may have widely different interpretations – so try to keep the discussion friendly.
We may be discussing a book that you don't much care for – don't be put off joining in the discussion. If you didn't care for the book, then that in itself is a good topic for discussion.
Please note: there is no time limit to this discussion. Please feel free to add to it at any time - especially if you've just read the book.
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Please endeavour to keep the discussion on topic. If necessary I will step in and steer it back to the original topic – so no digressions please!
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
Originally published 2004
Introduction by swreader
swreader wrote: A Hat Full of Sky will always hold a very special place in my heart because it was this book that brought Tony and I together for the first time. And the rest of that story is history.
This book is also, clearly, a very special book to Terry. In the ARC and re-printed in the 1st American paperback Pratchett wrote something called "To the Readers" which reads, in part, as follows:
I had to write this book. In fact, other projects had to go on hold to let it past.
This was because certain scenes and characters just turned up and camped in my head and wouldn't go away. When Miss Level said, "I left my long-distance spectacles on my other nose," I knew I had to write more about this woman. I wanted to see what the Nac Mac Feegles would try this time. I wanted to do the "dancing with bees" scene. And writing The Wee Free Men had been fun.
You can't start on your next planned book when another one is bumping gently but insistently against your brain.
This is it. . . . I know there's going to be at least one more book about Tiffany because I know the title and some of the scenes. But it can wait . . . I hope.
Terry Pratchett
While I do not think (honestly) that this is the best book Pratchett ever wrote, it is one of the most important because it is with this book that the Tiffany books clearly (in Terry's mind) became a four part series. It's also important because Tiffany is used to introduce more fully and to develop some of Pratchett's major themes and ideas.
The idea that people are far more important in the scheme of things than anything else, finds its fullest expression thus far in this book. In this book Pratchett develops fully the difference between the "fake" witch (Mrs. Earwig and her pupil Annagramma) and the true witch. Granny makes the startling statement about Miss Level (and about who the best witch is) at the end of the fiery confrontation between Granny and Tiffany. Granny says of Miss Level, "We all do that, in our own way, and she does it better'n me, if I was to put my hand on my heart. That is the root and heart and soul and center of witchcraft, that is. The soul and center!" . . . Then speaking of Mrs Earwig's penchant for occult jewellery, Granny summarizes the most important truth about witchcraft. "Oh, I daresay they're all very well as decoration, somethin' nice to look at while you're workin', somethin' for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin' people when life is on the edge. Even people you don't like. Stars is easy, people is hard."
The book is full of ideas which Pratchett will develop further in other books (the concept of 2nd sight, gods and humans, true religion, understanding other people or species). But probably the most important one of this book is that to understand that we are all more alike than different is to lose fear and hatred for others. The Hiver isn't some kind of monster—it's like a frightened lost child that Tiffany finds the door to Death for. If all people really understood this concept, wars would be impossible.
Thanks Sharlene!
I've always liked this book and the more I read it, the more I like it. It's about (amongst other things) the difference between wishing for something and working for it. It's about how impractical magic is when it comes to helping people and how the real magic is getting people to help themselves. I also think the Feegles, with the arrival of Jeanie, are far more developed from the first book.
But what did you think?
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I'm a bit confused. I got a GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (rev. 1.3) motherboard.
A few months ago I updated my bios (version F12) to UEFI BIOS.. (version U1h)
So am I now on EFI mode or legacy BIOS mode?
The reason I am asking is that I want to install ubuntu alongside my win8 install, and in the ubuntu documentation I read this:
Case when Ubuntu must be installed in EFI mode
Having a PC with EFI firmware does not mean that you need to install Ubuntu in EFI mode. What is important is below:
- if the other systems (Windows Vista/7/8, GNU/Linux...) of your computer are installed in EFI mode, then you must install Ubuntu in EFI mode too.
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Hey wrestling fans. Savior here with a little time so I figured I'd shoot a blog out there. It's sort of random, as few of the titled concepts are really in play at the moment. I've come up with the top concepts right now that both TNA and WWE use to determine future title contenders. The four biggest concepts going right now are. The purpose of this blog is to get some conversation going as there
"You know what really grinds my gears? That Vince Russo guy, why doesn't he get with the freaking program? It's called a wrestling show, not a badly written soap opera. Why do we need this guy to turn, and that guy to turn, and this girl to twist and turn like a twisty turny thing? It get's old, it's not big and it's not clever! I'm just sat here with my beer
Updated 11-11-2012 at 06:12 PM by kylos
Here's my take one what to do with some of the current WWE roster who seem to be... not doing anything:
Tyson Kidd & Evan Bourne
Pair up Evan Bourne & Tyson Kidd as a heel tag team when Evan returns, managed by Paul Heyman. Have them start a rivalry with Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio Jr which ultimately has the two teams facing each other for the tag titles at WM.
Welcome all wrestling fans to this week's edition of "Sudden Impact." Where it is all Total Non-Stop Action, and no plagiarism from the Sports Entertainment Monopoly at Titan Towers. I'm T-Hughes35 filling in this week for the DK Wrestling Savior. Now let's get down to business.
To the point, here is my suggestion for the main event at WM:
Rock and Cena versus CM Punk and Stone Cold
Punk and Stone Cold win, but Undertaker shows up. He knocks out CM Punk post match and celebrates with Stone Cold -- and all the legends applaud The Undertaker's official retirement
How Cena and Rock team up: Cena helps Rock after getting jumped by Punk at an earlier
Updated 11-09-2012 at 11:59 AM by Adam H
"Sigh, so it has come down to this. After so many years of watching wrestling, after watching so many great wrestlers, one of these guys just won't go away. I am talking about Mr Ego himself, the Red and Yellow Power Ranger, 'Thunderlips' in all his glory ... It can only be Mr Hulk 'Look at me I am still cool' Hogan.
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Saving the best moments in Survivor Series history closer to the ppv. Idea just run through my head, thought I should blog about it and see what others think. I personally think it would be better for Rey Mysterio to be the one to say face because all the merch he has and the respect of the fans. Sin Cara is no where near the support of the fans that Rey has. Even the adult fans would pick Mysterio
So with Survivor Series fast approaching us I thought that now would be as good a time as any to have a think about what the "Big Four" PPVs actually mean to us as fans. As we all know, Wrestlemania is that granddaddy of them all, and has a strong supporting cast in the Royal Rumble, Summerslam and Survivor Series. This to me in theory means that the majority of storylines should be built up around
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