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Lest We Forget: WWE Survivor Series 2006
An opening video hypes the event, mentioning that Survivor Series started twenty years ago. Team D-X vs. Team Rated RKO in a traditional Survivor Series match, Mr. Kennedy vs. The Undertaker in a First Blood match, the World Heavyweight Title match between King Booker and Batista, and the Team Big Show vs. Team Cena matches are highlighted.
The opening pyro is absolutely stunning. Great use of the set.
Survivor Series Elimination Match: Ric Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, Dusty Rhodes, and Ron Simmons w/ Arn Anderson vs. The Spirit Squad (Kenny, Mikey, Johnny, and Nicky) w/ Mitch
Mikey starts off with Ron Simmons. Mikey shoves Simmons, but is met with a shoulder tackle after hitting the ropes. Mikey applies a side headlock, but Simmons lifts him up and throws him. Mikey goes to the eyes and pounds away on Simmons. Mikey hits the ropes but gets caught with a powerslam. The Spirit Squad crash the ring, but Simmons cleans house. Mitch trips Simmons to the floor, and Simmons goes after him. Mitch backs into Arn Anderson, who sends him into the ring post. Simmons comes in, but he was counted out.
The official ejects Mitch from ringside. Simmons plants him with a spine buster and takes Mitch to the back with him. Arn Anderson is then kicked out as well. Sgt. Slaughter comes in next. Nicky tags in. Nicky tries to salute him, but Slaughter is not amused. Slaughter goes for a handshake, and kicks Nicky in the gut. Slaughter drops Nicky with three scoop slams. Slaughter wrenches the arm and tags in Dusty. Dusty drops a bionic elbow onto Nicky. Dusty wrenches Nicky's arm and works it over with an elbow. Flair tags in and lays into Nicky with chops. Slaughter tags in, and he drops Nicky with a clothesline. COBRA CLUTCH TO NICKY! The referee checks Nicky's arm, but The Spirit Squad run in. Johnny "hits" a spinning kick on Slaughter. Nicky covers for three.
It's down to Flair and Dusty for the legends. Dusty drops an elbow and covers for three! Nicky has been eliminated!
Mikey comes in and jumps Dusty. Johnny tags in, but Dusty cleans house on everybody. Nicky manages to use his quickness to regain control. Kenny tags in and fires away on Dusty, but it's to no avail. Dusty hits some jabs and a bionic elbow! Dusty misses an elbow in the corner, and KENNY ROLLS HIM UP! ONE, TWO, THREE!
Flair is at a 3-1 disadvantage. Mikey comes in and lands some shots on Flair. The crowd rallies behind Flair, and he hits an Atomic Drop on Mikey. FLAIR GETS HIS FEET ON THE ROPES FOR A COVER! ONE, TWO, THREE! Mikey is out!
Kenny immediately jumps Flair and hits a back body drop. Kenny goes for another, but FLAIR GETS A SMALL PACKAGE! ONE, TWO, THREE!
It's down to Johnny and Flair. The two exchange blows. Flair hits a shin breaker and follows up with a chop block. FIGURE FOUR! Johnny taps out! Flair has overcome the odds at 10:36.
Sole Survivor: Ric Flair
This match served it's purpose, which was to leverage nostalgia and get the crowd into the show. Flair overcoming the odds got a huge pop from the crowd, and he and Dusty were particularly great. That said, the early goings were rough to sit through, and it's not exactly compelling these years later. 0 for 1.
After the match, The Spirit Squad jumps Flair. Johnny has an Indian Deathlock on Flair, and KENNY ADDS ON A TOP ROPE LEG DROP! It's good that The Spirit Squad got their heat back, and it made them look like jerks by gang-beating a defenseless old man.
A video package hypes up the recent feud between Chris Benoit and Chavo Guerrero. Benoit thinks that Vickie and Chavo's actions have to do with Eddie Guerrero's estate. At least Chris Benoit's family didn't have to fight over his estate…
United States Championship Match: Chris Benoit (c) vs. Chavo Guerrero
The two brawl off the bat, and Benoit hits a scoop slam. Benoit follows up with an elbow drop, then immediately hits a backbreaker. Benoit takes it to Chavo in the corner. Chavo fights back into the match momentarily, but he gets cut off with chops. Benoit hits a snap suplex for two. Chavo sends Benoit into the corner and tries to capitalize, but Benoit headbutts him. Benoit hits a clothesline on Chavo for two. Chavo hits a knee to the gut and mercilessly beats Benoit down. The crowd rallies behind Benoit. Benoit reverses an Irish whip and LOCKS IN THE CROSSFACE! Vickie puts Chavo's foot on the bottom rope to break the hold! Benoit hits a back suplex for two. Chavo sends Benoit shoulder-first into the ring post to reverse the momentum. Chavo hits a side suplex for two. Chavo goes to a top wristlock to try and wear down the champion. Benoit gets to his feet and hits a Samoan drop! Benoit hits the ropes but is caught with a standing dropkick. Chavo covers for two. Chavo pounds away on Benoit. Benoit ducks a clothesline and hits a SERIES OF ROLLING GERMAN SUPLEXES! Benoit tries to go up top, but Sharmell grabs his foot! The referee gets her off. Benoit goes for the DIVING SUPLEX, BUT NO ONE IS HOME! Chavo pounds away on Benoit and hits a vertical suplex. Chavo goes up top- FROG SPLASH! ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Benoit kicked out! Chavo can't believe it! Chavo slaps Benoit, but Benoit trips him up. Benoit goes for the Sharpshooter, but Chavo shoves him off. Benoit goes for it again as Vickie gets on the apron. Chavo kicks Benoit off and HE KNOCKS VICKIE TO THE FLOOR! Benoit diverts his attention to Vicky, and CHAVO ROLLS HIM UP! ONE, TWO, BENOIT ROLLS THROUGH INTO A CROSSFACE! CHAVO TAPS OUT! Benoit retains at 8:24.
Winner: Chris Benoit
Chris Benoit delivered, as he almost always did. His intensity kept thing interesting from the get-go. Chavo did a great job here and his offense looked believable. Both guys worked smart and put on a highly enjoyable match without doing too much. 1 for 2.
A commercial is shown for December to Dismember. I can't wait to sit through that show!
Backstage, Todd Grisham is with one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, Edge, and WWE Women's Champion Lita. Todd asks Lita if she is still retiring tonight. Lita says she will beat Mickie James and go out as the greatest Women's Champion of all-time. Lita takes off. Edge says Lita doesn't care about the crowd, but the respect of the company and here peers. Meanwhile, Cryme Tyme sneaks into Lita's locker room in the background. Edge says Rated RKO will take out everyone on their opposing team tonight. Cryme Tyme sneaks back out of Lita's locker room with a box full of stuff. Grisham catches them, and JTG tells him that "you ain't seen nothin'."
WWE Women's Championship Match: Lita (c) vs. Mickey James
Lita doesn't get as many boos as normal, probably out of respect. Mickie slaps Lita off of the bat and then catches her with a drop toe hold. Mickey works over Lita in the corner. Lita reverses a whip and sends Mickie into the bottom turnbuckle. Lita fires away with some mounted punches. Lita throws Mickie to the mat, but Mickie pops up and clotheslines her. Mickie goes for a rope-assisted headscissors, but Lita drops her face first onto the mat! Lita taunts the crowd and draws some massive heat. Lita targets the midsection of Mickie James with some basic offense. Mickie starts to land some strikes, but Lita hits a Russian leg sweep and floats over for two. The fans chants, "She's a crack whore!" So much for the whole respect thing. Lita hits a snap suplex for two. Mickie gets to her feet, but Lita applies a backpack sleeper and takes her down to the mat with it. Mickie gets to the ropes. Lita goes up top and goes for a cross body, but no one is home! Mickie goes up top but Lita catches her. LITA BACK SUPLEXES MICKIE OFF THE SECOND ROPE! The two women exchange strikes, and Mickie gets the best of the exchange. Mickey gets a back elbow for two Mickie hits a series of kicks and TOPS IT OFF WITH A SPINNING BACK KICK! ONE, TWO, NO! Mickie hits a Fisherman's suplex for two! Mickie sets up for a DDT, but Lita shoves her into the buckles. Mickie goes for a headscissors, but LITA ALLEY-OOPS HER ONTO HER FACE! Lita goes up top- MOONSAULT! ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Lita goes right back to work. Lita tries for a DDT, but MICKIE HOLDS ONTO THE ROPES! FOLDING PRESS BY MICKIE! ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Lita gets an inside cradle for two. Mickie slips out of a slam and gets an O'Connor roll- One, two, Lita reverses and grabs the trunks! ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Mickie hits a kick to the gut- SWINGING DDT! ONE, TWO, THREE! Mickey James beats Lita in her farewell match to win the title at 8:19!
Winner: Mickie James
I was not to excited for this one going in, as they had a stinker at Cyber Sunday. However, they put on a solid match here. Lita was not as good as a heel because she had to be on offense more often, and a lot of her stuff was not crisp. On this night, though, she did a great job and got the crowd behind Mickie. The finishing stretch was fantastic. 2 for 3.
After the match, Lita demands that Lillian Garcia get in the ring. Lita makes Lillian tell the crowd to give it up for the greatest Women's Champion of all-time. When the crowd boos, Lita gets upset. Lita grabs the microphone and calls the crowd disrespectful. Cryme Tyme's music hits, and they come out to the ring with a box of Lita's stuff. Cryme Tyme says they found a box full of her stuff. Shad says that they are going to have a "Ho Sale." They sell off one of her bras, and medication for a yeast infection. JBL purchases her panties. He pays them with a $100. They take the bill and throw the panties to someone else. Cryme Tyme pulls out a large vibrator. They sell it for $25. This whole segment was tasteless. I know that it fit the characters involved, but this was a terrible way to send off one of the best women the company ever had. This gets a massive thumbs down from me.
An interview from earlier in the day is shown where Michael Cole sat down with Batista. Batista stared straight forward and didn't answer the first two questions. Cole brings up the fact that it's Batista's last chance at the title, but he still wont say a word. Cole throws it to a clip of Batista signing the contract for the match. After Batista signed the deal, Booker jumped him and beat him down with his scepter. Cole asks for Batista's thoughts, but he still won't speak. Cole asks Batista has anything to say, and Batista claims that he will leave tonight as World Heavyweight Champion.
The babyfaces on Team D-X make their way out to the ring. Triple H grabs a microphone. They faces fire up the crowd. The whole arena is into it before a single word is spoken. A loud "CM Punk!" chant erupts in a moment that was highlighted on his DVD. Triple H says he needs to have a question answered. Punk asks the crowd if they are ready, and Triple H asks it again. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEET'S GET READY TO SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK IIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!
Survivor Series Elimination Match: Team D-Generation X (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, and CM Punk) vs. Team Rated-RKO (Edge, Randy Orton, Johnny Nitro, Gregory Helms, and Mike Knox) w/ Melina and Kelly Kelly
This is the in-ring pay-per-view debut for CM Punk. The same thing can be said for Mike Knox, but that's not as historically significant. Triple H gets Kelly Kelly up on the ring apron. She is about to flash D-X, but Mike Knox stops her. SWEET CHIN MUSIC TO MIKE KNOX! ONE, TWO, THREE! Mike Knox has already been eliminated!
Another "CM Punk" chant starts up as Nitro and HBK lock up. A nice exchange sees HBK go to the floor and put his arm around Melina, startling her. Michaels chops Nitro. Jeff Hardy tags in. Jeff does some quick work and tags in Matt. The two hit a double back elbow and a frontflip senton/leg drop combo. Helms tags in but he eats and elbow from Matt. Matt goes up to the second, but Helms drags him to the canvas. Edge tags in and pounds away on Matt. Helms tags back in. Helms hits a vertical suplex and tags Orton in. Orton kicks away at Matt, who is bleeding from the mouth. Nitro tags in and beats Matt down. Matt catches Nitro with a Side Effect! Matt tags in CM Punk, Punk hits some kicks and forearms. Punk connects with a running knee in the corner and follows up with a bulldog. Nitro misses with a clothesline, and Matt drops him throat-first on the top rope. Punk hits a uranage and slaps on an ANACONDA VICE! Punk wrenches the hold, and NITRO TAPS OUT!
Edge comes in and jumps Punk. Edge charges in the corner but is met with a boot. Punk goes for a 10-punch, but Orton pulls him down onto the top rope. Edge chokes CM Punk before tagging in Orton. Orton hits a standing dropkick for two. Helms is tagged in, and he nails Punk with some strikes. Helms applies a front chancery and knees Punk in the head a few times. The crowd rallies behind Punk, but Helms drops him with a jawbreaker on the knee! Orton tags in. Orton and Punk exchange strikes Orton ducks a clothesline and HITS AN RKO! Orton covers- ONE, TWO, HBK breaks it up! Orton tags in Edge, who sets up in the opposite corner. Edge goes for a SPEAR, but Punk evades it! Punk tags in Triple H as Edge tags in Helms. Triple H cleans house. Triple H hits a high knee. Orton comes in and eats one as well. Helms goes for a back body drop but eats a facebuster to the knee. Edge stops a Pedigree, and all hell breaks loose. JEFF HARDY AND SHAWN MICHAELS FLY TO THE FLOOR TO WIPE OUT EDGE AND ORTON! Triple H plants Helms with a spinebuster, and tags in Matt Hardy. TWIST OF FATE! Jeff goes up top- SWANTON BOMB! Matt Hardy covers- ONE, TWO, THREE!
It's now Edge and Orton against five men. Edge and Orton grab the tag belts and walk off. The Hardy's chase them down! Edge and Orton get sent inside. Triple H dumps Orton to the floor. POETRY IN MOTION TO EDGE! SWEET CHIN MUSIC! Michaels covers Edge- ONE, TWO, THREE!
Randy Orton must now face five men. Orton tries to leave through the crowd, but Punk and The Hardy Boys stop him. Orton is sent inside. SWEET CHIN MUSIC! PEDIGREE! ONE, TWO, THREE!
Survivors: Team D-Generation X (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, and CM Punk
While the pre-match segment was great, the match itself was a burial. It was hard to get into as the babyfaces weren't met with any sort of adversity. Unless you are a massive CM Punk fan and want to hear people chant his name a lot, this is not worth watching. 2 for 4.
JBL and Cole set the stage for the First Blood match between Mr. Kennedy and The Undertaker. A video package is shown, and Kennedy says that he will end The Undertaker's career where it started, at Survivor Series.
Backstage, Mr. Kennedy is about to be interviewed, but MVP cuts him off. MVP talks about beating Kane in a cage match, and says he will eliminate him in their match tonight. MVP mentions that Kennedy fed him to The Brothers of Destruction, but that he is on a new path. MVP says Kennedy will bust The Undertaker open, and that if things go wrong, he has his back.
First Blood Match: The Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy
Kennedy immediately uncovers three of the top turnbuckle covers. Kennedy immediately rolls to the floor, but then comes back inside and pounds away on The Undertaker. Taker shrugs in off and levels Kennedy with one punch. Undertaker takes Kennedy to the floor and slams his head into the Spanish announce table three times. Kennedy tries to roll away behind the table, but The Undertaker follows him and throws him into the table a few more times. The Undertaker rocks Kennedy with a punch that sends him over the barricade. The Undertaker lands two headbutts and throws Kennedy back into the ringside area. Taker hits a boot to the face of Kennedy. Undertaker tries to throw Kennedy into the steel steps, but Kennedy reverses it! Kennedy then slams The Undertaker's head onto some of the announce tables. Kennedy goes up to the ring apron and tries to jump on Taker, but he gets caught! The Undertaker drives Kennedy into the ring post! Undertaker takes Kennedy back inside and starts to target Kennedy's ribs. The Undertaker crotches Kennedy on the top rope and hits a punch. The Undertaker follows him up. Superplex by The Undertaker! Taker continues to target Kennedy's ribs. Kennedy hits a low blow! Kennedy hits the ropes but The Undertaker hits a big boot! Th Undertaker slams Kennedy's head into an exposed turnbuckle. The Undertaker continues to go after the ribs to try to cause internal bleeding. Kennedy hits another low blow! Kennedy rolls to the floor, and he is bleeding from the mouth! MVP runs down to the ringside area and hands him a towel while the referee is attending to The Undertaker. MVP starts to walk Kennedy to the back, but then rolls him back into the ring! The Undertaker slams Kennedy's head into the exposed turnbuckle! The Undertaker pounds away and lands some punches in the corner. Kennedy sort-of hits snake eyes on the top turnbuckle. Kennedy slams The Undertaker's head into the exposed turnbuckle! Kennedy fires away with more punches. MVP comes into the ring with a chair, but the referee stops him. MVP sends the referee to the floor. MVP hits The Undertaker with the chair by mistake! The Undertaker is busted open! The Undertaker stalks MVP, but Kennedy jumps him and nails some right hands. The referee stops the match, and Kennedy wins at 9:20!
Winner: Ken Kennedy
This match was plodding and cliché. The whole, "heel wrestler bleeds and gets away with it" thing is overdone and annoying. 2 for 5.
After the match, Kennedy continues his assault. Mr. Kennedy gets in The Undertaker's face to announce himself the winner, but he gets goozled! The Undertaker pounds away on Kennedy. THE UNDERTAKER NAILS KENNEDY WITH AN UNPROTECTED CHAIR SHOT! That was vicious! Kennedy is busted open. The Undertaker lays Kennedy on an announce table and continues the beating. The Undertaker sends him back inside. Kennedy tries to get away, but The Undertaker stops him. TOMBSTONE PILEDRIVER! The Undertaker props up Kennedy's head and takes his right glove off. The Undertaker pummels Kennedy with his bare fist! The Undertaker stands tall.
A commercial airs for Born To Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story.
Backstage, Queen Sharmell is with King Booker. She mentions that after tonight, Batista will never have a shot at his belt. Booker talks about beating Batista with his scepter. He says their will be no fairytale for Batista, and that he will leave as The King of the Ring, The Champion of Champions, and the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Team Big Show (Big Show, MVP, Umaga, Finlay, and Test) vs. Team Cena (John Cena, Kane, Bobby Lashley, Rob Van Dam, and Sabu)
Cena and Umaga start things off. Umaga misses a corner splash and Cena unloads with punches. Umaga misses another corner splash and Cena clothesline him to the floor. Cena pulls Finlay in and tags RVD. At ringside, Umaga rips a montior off the announce tablw. UMAGA LAYS OUT RVD, SABU, AND CENA WITH THE MONITOR! Umaga has been disqualified.
Inside the ring, all hell has broken loose. Rob Van Dam's ribs have been targeted on the floor. Finlay sits on his ribs and tags in Test. RVD lays into test, but he regains control and tags Finlay back in. MVP comes in and continues to work over RVD's ribs. MVP applies a headlock, and RVD is bleeding from the mouth. MVP tries for a knee to the ribs but RVD rolls him up and hits a spinning heel kick. RVD hits his back-kick enzuigiri. Finlay comes in and eats one as well. RVD drop kicks Big Show off the apron, but MVP jumps him. RVD starts to mount some offense, but Test pulls him to the floor. RVD slips out of a slam and shoves RVD into the ring post. Kane comes in and hits a CHOKESLAM TO MVP! RVD UP TOP- FIVE STAR FROG SPLASH! ONE, TWO, THREE! MVP has been eliminated.
Test comes in and MURDERS RVD WITH A BIG BOOT! ONE, TWO, THREE!
Sabu comes in and school boys Test for two. Test disposes Sabu to the floor and follows him out. LASHLEY WITH A SPEAR TO TEST! Sabu hits a slingshot legdrop. SPRINGBOARD DDT BY SABU! ONE, TWO, THREE! Test has been eliminated!
Big Show comes in. Sabu gets caught in a springboard, and BIG SHOW CHOKESLAMS HIM! ONE, TWO, THREE! Sabu is out.
It's down to Cena, Lashley, and Kane vs. Big Show and Finlay. Kane comes in, and both big men goozle each other. THE LITTLE BASTARD IS HERE! He runs in the ring and distracts the official. BIG SHOW CHOKESLAMS KANE! ONE, TWO, THREE! Kane has been eliminated.
Cena comes in the ring to a chorus of boos and eats a powerslam. Finlay comes down with all of his weight on Cena's ribs. Finlay cheap-shots Lashley and gets some extra help from Big Show. Show then tags in. Finlay tags in and hits a battering ram in the corner. Finlay goes to the second but eats a boot from Cena. Lashley comes in like a house of fire and beats up Finlay. Lashley goes for the running powerslam, but Finlay slips out. Lashley hits a spinning uranage and covers, but Big Show breaks it up at two. Cena comes in, and the two faces double team Big Show while Finlay rolls out to the floor. Cena and Lashley clothesline Show, but he clotheslines them as well. Finlay brings The Little Bastard into the ring. He throws him at Cena but LASHLEY SPEARS FINLAY! Cena gets The Little Bastard up on his shoulders while Lashley covers Finlay- ONE, TWO, THREE! Big Show must overcome a two-on-one advantage!
Lashley and Cena hit a double shoulder block for two. Big Show charges Lashley but eats the buckles. Cena tags in, and Lashley and Cena hit a sloppy Double DDT for two. Cena tries to suplex Big Show but can't do it. Lashley comes in, and they hit a double suplex. Five Knuckle Shuffle by Cena! Cena sets up for the F-U, but Big Show goozles him. Lashley comes in and kind of Spears Big Show. F-U! ONE, TWO, THREE!
Survivors: John Cena and Bobby Lashley
This match felt really rushed. Much like the previous match, the babyfaces were not met with a whole lot of adversity. Cena and Lashley cheated a lot during the final fall, which made it hard to get into them. Had Cena been eliminated and Lashley overcame a two-on-one, it could have been a star-making performance. Instead, two babyfaces took shortcuts to beat one heel. 2 for 6.
A video promo hypes the Elimination Chamber at December to Dismember.
The commentators set up the main-event between King Booker and Batista. A highlight package is aired to showcase the path both men have been on.
Theodore Long comes out to the ring prior to the match. Teddy Long adds a stipulation that if King Booker is counted out or disqualified, he will lose the title!
World Heavyweight Championship Match: King Booker (c) w/ Queen Sharmell vs. Batista
YYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Batista jumps Booker on the ramp. Batista slams Booker's head on the ring apron and drops him with a punch. Batista pounds away and sends Booker inside to officially start the match. Batista hits a back elbow and covers for two. King Booker mounts a bit of offense. Some confetti is falling from the ceiling. OOPS! Batista hits a suplex. Batista sets up for the Batista Bomb but Booker rolls out to the floor. Sharmell tells him not to get counted out and to get in the ring. Booker gets up to the apron. Batista drops him throat-first on the top rope. Batista hits a rib breaker for two. Batista follows up with a series of clotheslines for two. Batista chokes Booker on the second rope. Booker hot-shots Batista onto the top rope. Booker slingshots Batista into the bottom rope! Booker hits a shuffle side kick to the jaw for two. Booker lands some chops in the corner. Batista blocks some punches and comes back with a few of his own, but Booker goes to the eyes to stop him. Batista reverses a whip into the buckles and hits a sidewalk slam for two. JACKHAMMER BY BATISTA! ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Booker hits a few strikes and goes to the ropes, but BATISTA DROPS HIM WITH A BLACKHOLE SLAM! One, two, no! Both men fight it out on the apron, and Booker goes to the eyes. Batista manages to regain control and throw Booker inside. Sharmell grabs Batista's foot, and BOOKER HITS A SHUFFLE SIDE KICK THAT SENDS BATISTA TO THE FLOOR! Booker sends Batista's head into the steel steps. Back inside, Booker covers with his foot on the ropes for two. JBL accuses Teddy Long of being racist for the added stipulation. Batista hits a few strikes, but Booker catches him with a leaping side kick for two. Booker applies a side headlock. Batista gets to his feet and fights free. Batista sends Booker into the corner but he eats a back elbow. Booker charges out, but Batista hits a belly-to-belly suplex! Batista lands some punches and a clothesline. Batista follows up with another, and then hits a corner clothesline. Batista hits a big boot that sends Booker to the floor! Batista sends King Booker into the steel steps! Batista rolls Booker inside and goes up top. SHOULDER TACKLE OFF THE TOP ROPE! Batista covers- ONE, TWO, NO! Batista ducks a punch and hits a SPINEBUSTER! Batista pins Booker- one, two, no! Batista sends Booker into the ropes, but Booker ducks a clothesline and hits THE BOOK END! ONE, TWO, NO! King Booker taunts that it's over. Booker hits the ropes but Batista hits a kick to the gut. BATISTA BOMB! King Booker rolls toward the ropes as Batista covers. ONE, TWO, THRE-BOOKER GETS THE BOTTOM ROPE! Sharmell hands Booker the title and then gets into the ring. BATISTA GRABS SHARMELL. Batista sets up for the Batista Bomb, but inside sets her down. Booker tries to hit Batista with the title, but he ducks. Batista takes the belt, and HE LEVELS KING BOOKER WITH THE TITLE! ONE, TWO, THREE! Batista has ended the reign of King Booker at 13:57!
Winner: Batista
This wasn't great, but it was a fitting ending to the title reign of King Booker. I dug the story, and it was smart that Booker's underhanded tactics finally bit him in the butt. 3 for 7.
After the match, pyro goes off and Batista celebrates with the title.
The 411: It's usually not a good thing when my favorite match on a WWE Pay-Per-View was for the Women's Title. That isn't so much a knock to the women as it is to the rest of this show. Most of the Survivor Series matches felt rushed and were hard to get into. While the main-event was good, it wasn't the epic that one of the "Big Four" pay-per-views deserved. You can skip this show.
|Final Score: 4.5 [ Poor ] legend


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The following highlights summarize research papers that have been recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) and Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (JGR-B).
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- Past decade saw unprecedented warming in the deep ocean
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1. Past decade saw unprecedented warming in the deep ocean
From 1975 on, the global surface ocean has shown a pronounced-though wavering-warming trend. Starting in 2004, however, that warming seemed to stall. Researchers measuring the Earth's total energy budget-the balance of sunlight streaming in compared to the amount of light and heat leaving from the top of the atmosphere-saw that the planet was still holding on to more heat than it was letting out. But with that energy not going into warming the surface ocean-a traditionally important energy sink-scientists weren't sure where it went. It became known, in some circles, as a case of "missing heat."
Through a reanalysis of global ocean heat content measurements, Balmaseda et al. find the missing heat. The authors show that though the upper ocean waters, from the surface to 700 meters (2,300 feet) depth, showed no warming from 2004 to 2008, the waters from 700 to 2000 meters (2,300 to 6,500 feet) were warming at an unprecedented rate. They find that during the past decade, of the excess energy trapped by the anthropogenic greenhouse effect that has gone into warming the ocean, 30 percent of it has contributed to warming the deep ocean.
The authors also find that throughout the observational record the warming of the surface ocean has stalled before, because of large volcanic eruptions or swings of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. They also note that changes in surface wind patterns are an important factor in driving ocean heat content from the surface layers to the deep ocean.
Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/grl.50382, 2013
Title: Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content
Authors: Magdalena A. Balmaseda and Erland Källén: European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom;
Kevin E. Trenberth: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
2. Hurricanes could increase over western Europe as climate warms
Damaging hurricanes are familiar along the North American east coast but are relatively rare in western Europe. That could change as Earth's climate warms over the next century, according to a new study. Western European coastal areas do occasionally experience hurricane force storms in the current climate, but these occur mainly in winter and are formed not as tropical cyclones but by the midlatitude atmospheric baroclinic instability, which is driven by the north-south atmospheric temperature gradient.
Currently, most hurricanes begin in the western tropical Atlantic, where sea surface temperatures often rise above the threshold needed for formation of cyclones; the eastern tropical Atlantic is not currently warm enough to generate cyclones.
However, using a high-resolution global climate model, Haarsma et al. show that as sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean rise over the next century, the tropical cyclone breeding ground will extend northward and eastward. This will lead to the formation of more hurricanes that are on a path to hit western Europe. Although they will make a transition from a tropical to a hybrid storm, like Sandy, they will arrive there with exceptional strength. The authors' simulations indicate that the number of potentially damaging hurricanes during the August through October season over western Europe could increase more than fourfold by the end of the century.
Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/grl.50360, 2013
Title: More hurricanes to hit western Europe due to global warming
Authors: Reindert J. Haarsma, Wilco Hazeleger, Camiel Severijns, Hylke de Vries, Andreas Sterl, Richard Bintanja, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, and Henk W. van den Brink: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands.
3. Space traffic may be cause of increase in polar mesospheric clouds
A recent increase in polar mesospheric clouds could be due to a recent increase in space traffic, a new study suggests. Polar mesospheric clouds are diffuse collections of water ice crystals in the mesosphere near the poles at altitudes of about 80 kilometers (50 miles). The number and brightness of polar mesospheric ice clouds is expected to decrease when the incoming flux of solar ultraviolet radiation increases. Increases in solar radiation both heat and dry out the atmosphere slightly, leading to a decrease in ice cloud formation.
In the past 2 years, the solar ultraviolet flux has increased, but the occurrence of polar mesospheric clouds has actually increased, rather than decreasing as expected. Siskind et al. used observations from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite to quantify this recent increase in the number and brightness of polar mesospheric clouds. They suggest that water from spacecraft exhaust could contribute to formation of polar mesospheric clouds. They also note that an increase in the amount of space traffic in the past 2 years coincides with the unusual increase in polar mesospheric clouds. Their preliminary estimate of the amount of water released from this space traffic is consistent with the hypothesis that the increase in these clouds is due to space traffic.
Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/grl.50540, 2013
Title: Recent observations of high mass density polar mesospheric clouds: A link to space traffic?
Authors: David E. Siskind and Michael H. Stevens: Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA;
Mark E. Hervig: GATS Inc., Driggs, Idaho, USA;
Cora E. Randall: University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
4. Tropical storm Sandy was a one-in-700 year event
On 29 October 2012 tropical storm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey shoreline, bringing wind and water that killed more than 100 people and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage. Though its wind speeds were only equivalent to those of a low-level hurricane, Sandy caused record-breaking flooding in New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere. In lower Manhattan water levels hit 4.28 meters (14.04 feet) above the mean low water level-the highest flood waters in the region since sensors were installed in 1920.
One of the drivers behind Sandy's extreme storm surge was the unusual angle Sandy took as it hit the New Jersey coast. Most tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic sweep up the coast on a northward or northeastward track. Sandy, on the other hand, drove into New Jersey travelling toward the northwest-the only tropical cyclone in the historical record to do so. With this near-perpendicular approach, Sandy's onshore winds had more time to drive a wall of water onto one coastal region, rather than moving along a swath of coastline.
Using information of tropical cyclone tracks for the whole North Atlantic from 1950 to 2010 Hall and Sobel calculate the odds that a similar storm-a category 1 or higher hurricane with an approach angle to New Jersey at least as close to perpendicular as Sandy-could happen again. According to the authors' statistical model, the occurrence rate of a Sandy-style storm is 0.0014 per year, meaning that if future hurricane activity matches the recent past we should expect a storm like Sandy on average about once every 700 years.
The fact that Sandy happened, the authors say, either means that New York and New Jersey were very unlucky, or that climate change has increased the probability of a Sandy-like storm beyond what they find with their steady-climate statistical model.
Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/grl.50395, 2013
Title: On the Impact Angle of Hurricane Sandy's New Jersey Landfall
Authors: Timothy M. Hall: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York;
Adam H. Sobel: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York.
5. German records from 1920s show long-term ocean warming
Over past centuries, the crews of ships regularly measured some basic properties of the waters through which they sailed, such as temperature and salinity. These historical observations have proven to be important for climate modelers who are trying to validate their work. In recent years, the importance of the deep ocean as a sink for the extra energy trapped by anthropogenic climate change has come to the fore. Unfortunately, the vast majority of deep ocean observations don't start until the 1980s. From 1925 to 1927, however, the German research vessel Meteor criss-crossed the Atlantic Ocean on an expedition that collected a uniquely thorough record of oceanographic properties for the full depth of the ocean basin. The ship made 13 coast-to-coast sweeps from the Southern Ocean to the tropical North Atlantic, providing a set of observations that were largely unmatched until the 1990s.
Working with this historical data set, Gouretski et al. identified long-term temperature and salinity trends for the entire water column of the Atlantic. They find that during the twentieth century, the upper 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) of water warmed by 0.272 degrees Celsius (0.49 degrees Fahrenheit) and became saltier by 0.030 per mil. Half of the heat content increase took place in the upper 400 meters (1,300 feet) of water, and three quarters took place in the upper 700 meters (2,300 feet). The water below 2,000 meters (6,500 feet), however, became slightly cooler and fresher. The authors calculated that a reduction in density of the ocean waters due to changes in temperature and salinity would have resulted in 3.7 centimeters (1.46 inches) of sea level rise over the 80 years following the Meteor's expedition. The authors note that the calculated warming trend aligns with modeled representations of anthropogenic warming.
Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/grl.50503, 2013
Title: Revisiting the Meteor 1925?1927 hydrographic dataset reveals centennial full- depth changes in the Atlantic Ocean
Authors: Viktor Gouretski: KlimaCampus, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany;
Johann H. Jungclaus and Helmuth Haak: Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.
6. Identifying slow slip events with GNSS
Slow slip events (SSEs), in which tectonic plate interfaces slip slowly and generate seismic rumbling, have been observed in many subduction zones around the world. These events can provide insight into the accumulation and release of seismic stress, potentially giving scientists information on the processes generating megathrust quakes.
In southwest Japan, megathrust earthquakes tend to occur along the Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea plate subducts beneath the Amurian plate. SSEs have previously been observed along the Nankai Trough using seismological and geodetic instruments. Now, Nishimura et al. show that SSEs can also be identified remotely using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data.
They were able to successfully detect more than 150 short term SSEs with moment magnitudes ranging from 5.5 to 6.3 that occurred along the Nankai Trough between 1996 and 2012. Comparing the SSEs identified with GNSS with those identified from tiltmeter data, they find that both methods may have missed some short term SSEs. They note that GNSS is better for detecting large SSEs, while tiltmeters are better for detecting small ones.
Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50222
Title: Detection of short-term slow slip events along the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan, using GNSS data
Authors: Takuya Nishimura: Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan, now at Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan;
Takanori Matsuzawa: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan;
Kazushige Obara: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Bath sinks: twice as nice
Adding a second bathroom sink can be a good investment.
Ed Del Grande Scripps Howard News Service
Q: We have a classic 1950s ranch with one big pink bathroom that we are remodeling next year. We have a very long countertop with only one small sink and a medicine cabinet. When we install the new countertop, can we add a second sink and a medicine cabinet since we have all that extra space? Is this a bad idea since it is the only bathroom in the house? It seems to us that double sinks are a master-bedroom kind of thing.
— Laura, Rhode Island
A: I say that whenever you can use a home's existing plumbing system to your advantage, go for it.
The good news is that you should already have the sink water and drain lines right there under the countertop.
So if your existing plumbing is in good shape, a licensed plumber should be able to "twin" in a second lav sink. I've done jobs like this. As long as the second sink can be installed according to local codes, it can be a very nice addition to any bathroom.
Now about the practicality of double sinks in the only bathroom in the house.
Well, I've lost count of the number of times I've used my living-area bathroom, only to find some laundry soaking in the single sink for that bathroom.
Bottom line: Adding a second bathroom sink can be a good investment for you, and going from single to double hopefully should be no trouble.
Master contractor/plumber Ed Del Grande is known internationally as the author of the book "Ed Del Grande's House Call," the host of TV and Internet shows, and a LEED green associate. Visit eddelgrande.com or write firstname.lastname@example.com. Sorry no personal replies. Always consult local contractors and codes.


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Numerous studies have examined the effect on credit spreads of renegotiation. These studies have generally focused on the impact on spread levels in general, and not on how renegotiation influences the relative pricing of senior versus junior debt claims. In this paper, we show that the scope for sequential renegotiation may reduce and even eliminate the premium for debt seniority. Our analysis also explains why companies may engage in repeated Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings (a phenomenon commonly referred to as Chapter 22).
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A History of Call of Duty Trailers
August 23, 2016 - With Infinite Warfare launching later this year, we check out the debut trailer of each entry in the popular FPS.
IGN Presents the History of Awesome: 2005
December 2, 2015 - In 2005 the Xbox 360 launched, Resident Evil 4 revamped horror, and Batman Begins took over theaters, along with plenty more.
The Best Call of Duty Games
November 27, 2013 - Activision's Call of Duty series has turned 10! Which games delivered on the hype, and which disappointed? We ranked them all to find out.
A Visual History of Call of Duty
October 14, 2013 - After 11 years, let's take a look back on the franchise that changed console shooters forever.
Whatever Happened to World War II Shooters?
April 21, 2013 - As the lines between modern shooters blur, what happened to the shooters that started it all?
Six Stages of a Call of Duty Addict
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Attend Call of Duty XP, Get Free Stuff
August 3, 2011 - If you've debated attending Activision's Call of Duty con this year, maybe these new details will help you make a choice.
Is the iPhone the Call of Duty of Smartphones?
June 22, 2011 - What does the world's most popular smartphone have in common with the world's most popular game franchise? Incremental annual upgrades.
Accidental Edutainment
March 30, 2010 - With so many new videogames using history and literature as inspiration, schools should consider their potential value in the 21st Century classroom. But developers should also take steps to make sure gamers know where actual history ends and the fantasy begins.
Activision + Vivendi Games = Activision Blizzard
December 2, 2007 - Today Activision and Vivendi Games announced they have signed an agreement to combine forces and operate under the new company name Activision Blizzard. In a move that makes Activision Blizzard the world's largest online and console game publisher, the newly formed company will have access to $3.8 billion in pro forma annual revenue for 2007. As is evident under the new name, Blizzard, creators of the world's most popular MMORPG -- World of Warcraft -- will take a prominent position in the new company.
Winners of the 4th Annual Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Awards
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December 14, 2005 - Most people immediately think that graphics best define next generation games. The quick kids on the block know that next generation games are defined by graphics, gameplay and sound, not necessarily in that order. Why is Call of Duty 2 so fantastic? What makes Condemned so incredibly creepy? Why does PGR3 deliver that incredible sense of realism? The less than obvious answer is because of these respective games' sound quality.


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Fine wines beat stock market with 39% gains
Fine wine has beaten the FTSE 100 this year in investment terms as the value of bottles from Bordeaux clocked up gains of more than 90 per cent in the past 12 months.
The index of the top 100 wines on the London international vintners exchange, an electronic market for fine wine, has gained 39 per cent between January and Dec-ember, outperforming the FTSE 100, which has risen by 3.4 per cent, and gold, which has seen its value swell by 23 per cent since the start of the year.
Barrels of oil, which were almost 47 per cent more expensive this month than in January, rolled up just ahead of the vintages, while the S&P 500, which has gained only 4.4 per cent, and the Nikkei index, which has lost 9 per cent, fell by the wayside in the list of the year's best investments.
Cases of 2000 Lafite Rothschild, from the venerable Chteau Lafite Rothschild in the north-western Mdoc region of Bordeaux, sat at the top of the pile sets of 12 bottles, which cost £4,775 last year, sold for £9,100 last month. Owners of the 2003 or the 1982 vintage need not lose heart, as their investments rose in value by more than 76 per cent in the past 12 months. The 1986, 1996 and 1998 vintages made up the rest of the Chteau Lafite squad in the list of the top 10 wines by performance.
Beyond the Rothschild stable, bottles of 2003 Montrose, which cost less than £1,000 last year, added almost 64 per cent, selling for £1,540 in November, while bottles of 2003 Margaux, also from Bordeaux, cost £5,225 last month compared with £3,325 in December 2006.
James Miles, a director of the exchange, said that rising demand from Russia, China and India, where newly minted investors are turning to the rarest vintages to whet their appetite for luxury, kept the market busy. " Wine is more posh than whisky or vodka," he said, "A good vintage is a very important part of a rich man's portfolio. And the number of rich people is growing at the same time as some of the biggest vineyards cut production, pushing prices up for the rarest bottles." He added: " Fine wine is also limited by nat-ure, so when there is an increase in demand the prices rise fast. People drink wine, so it's not like a painting, which will always be available. You can see inflation immediately, without having to wait for years."
Mr Miles said that the 2005 vintage would be the "biggest theme for 2008 ".
Master sommelier Grard Basset, the owner of Hotel Terravina in the New Forest, noted: "It's not an easy investment. You really need to know your vintages, and very few people do know them that well. You also have to be fast get the wine as soon as possible, before buying and selling in the markets makes it too expensive."
He added: "It's also a bit of a gamble sometimes, unless you stick to the ones that always do well, like some wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy and California. But you could diversify and try some of the new wines from Spain and Italy."
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The owners of NorthPark Center, North Texas' largest shopping center, have hired a real estate investment broker to negotiate financing for the property.
Holiday Fenoglio Fowler LLP, one of the country's largest commercial real estate capital market financing and investment sales brokers, lists NorthPark as one of its "current assignments" in just-released marketing materials.
A spokesperson for Holiday Fenoglio said the work is "just a regular old debt discussion, but we are unable to comment further on that."
NorthPark representatives said the company spokesperson was traveling and unable to provide information about the shopping center.
NorthPark is considered one of the most successful and profitable shopping centers in the world.
The 1.93 million-square-foot shopping mall at North Central Expressway and Park Lane has annual sales of more than $1 billion.
In 2005, the 45-year-old retail complex got a $170 million expansion and renovation.
The center is owned by the heirs of Dallas developer Raymond Nasher and California-based Macerich Co.
NorthPark is valued for tax purposes at more than half a billion dollars.
Dallas County records show that in 2005, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the New York State Teachers Retirement System made a $358.3 million loan on NorthPark Center that matures in 2012.
Holiday Fenoglio is one of the country's largest commercial real estate mortgage bankers. The firm has relationships with major lenders, including insurance companies, pension funds and banks.
Earlier this year, it obtained new financing for part of the big Southlake Town Square shopping center in northeast Tarrant County. The $90 million mortgage stands out in a time when fewer real estate loans are being made.
And late last year, Holiday Fenoglio Fowler arranged a $22.6 million refinancing of the Lincoln Park shopping center across the street from NorthPark Center on Northwest Highway.
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Take Europe, for instance. The continent on the other side of the Atlantic has been busy at work, with many nations there adopting a common currency this year. The result: European companies are expanding into new markets chock-full of new opportunities.
"The buzzword this year is convergence," says Wayne Weddington, chief executive of Pennoyer Capital Management in New York. "This is a great time to be in some of the smaller European countries, which could reward investors handsomely in the upcoming year."
The experts will tell you a little international flavor is good for your portfolio for a few other reasons. Start with diversification. We've all heard again and again how spreading your investments across different types of stocks, perhaps a few bonds and even holding some of your accumulated wealth in cash goes a long way toward protecting your savings. If one type of investment gets socked, chances are the others will be there to hold the fort or even counterbalance whatever is causing a problem.
The same goes for international investments. There are bound to be times when the U.S. market will take a breather. Think of overseas stocks or mutual funds as a way to cushion your portfolio from the ups and downs of a volatile domestic market.
Before you carve up a chunk of your portfolio to be invested overseas, you might wonder just how much of your savings belong outside the U.S. Some experts recommend that your portfolio mirror the world. That's to say, since U.S. stocks make up 70%-75% of the overall worldwide investing pie, your portfolio should reflect that configuration. Others will tell you that by investing in U.S. companies, you gain quite a bit of exposure to the global economy. After all, they reason, U.S. firms market their goods and services to the four corners of the Earth.
For starters, though, we suggest you take the middle road. Perhaps start with 10% of your stock portfolio dedicated to overseas stocks and mutual funds. That way, you gain some new exposure to international economic growth without betting your entire portfolio on events away from home. Of course, like any other investment question, that 10% allotment needn't be hard and fast; if you feel that the global economy is prepared to take off, then up that amount perhaps to as much as 20%.
The thought of putting some of your assets to work overseas might sound a bit exotic. Still, when you get down to it, you'll find that the choices before you are quite similar to those you have when you invest here in the U.S.
By now, you're probably familiar with mutual funds. When you invest in a fund, you own a slice of a portfolio of stocks and other investments that are monitored by a manager or team of investment experts. They keep on top of gains and losses and shuffle the portfolio when big changes occur or great opportunities arise.
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Long Service Awards for people employed in Devon agriculture, horticulture or forestry
Those eligible for Long Service Awards must have been employed in Devon for not less than 30 years with either one employer, or multiple employers, and whose work is mainly agricultural, horticultural or forestry based, according to the Agricultural Act.
Winners will receive a certificate and glass tankard, and there are cash prizes of £80, £50 and £30 respectively for the three longest serving workers.
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Congressman Dan Benishek (MI-01) today released the following statement:
"Today I supported an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that would diminish our nation's role in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. As the parent of a soldier who served in the Afghan conflict, I full heartedly support the work our armed forces are doing to defend America's freedom abroad.
While I will continue to support our troops, I know Americans have growing reservations about a decade long war that has cost American lives and seems to have no end in sight. Following the death of terror leader Osama bin Laden, I believe Congress, the White House, and the Defense Department should work together to reevaluate our mission in Afghanistan, and responsibly limit the U.S. military presence in the region."
Source: http://benishek.house.gov/press-release/benishek-supports-amendment-remove-american-forces-afghanistan


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Let me also share to you my favorite part of the article:
Rockefeller's rebates, then, were an earned cost savings of the sort that any market competitor—and any consumer—should perpetually seek. The extent to which others could not match the low prices he was able to charge in the 1870s as a result of his many cost-cutting measures, including this one, is simply an instance of productive inferiority; nothing about it is coercive or "anticompetitive." To say that Rockefeller—by cutting his costs, thus enabling himself to sell profitably for lower prices and win over more customers—was rendering competitors "unfree" is like saying that Google is rendering its competitors unfree by building the most appealing search engine. To call Rockefeller's actions "anticompetitive" is to say that "competition" consists in no one ever outperforming anyone else. Economic freedom does not mean the satisfaction of anyone's arbitrary desires to succeed in any market regardless of ability or performance or consumer preferences; it means that everyone is free to produce and trade by voluntary exchange to mutual consent. If one cannot compete in a certain field or industry, one is free to seek another job—but not to cripple those who are able to compete.
True economic competition—the kind of competition that made kerosene production far cheaper—is not a process in which businessmen are forced by the government to relinquish their advantages, to minimize their profits, to perform at the norm, never rising too far above the mean. Economic competition is a process in which businessmen are free to capitalize on their advantages, to maximize their profits, to perform at the peak of their abilities, to rise as high as their effort and skill take them.
Rockefeller's meteoric rise and the business practices that made it possible—including his dealings with the railroads—epitomize the beauty of a free market. His story provides a clear demonstration of the kind of life-serving productivity that is the hallmark of laissez-faire competition.


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More Thoughts on the Dangerous Fragility of Men
First, I want to thank my hosts here at Concurring Opinions for asking me to stay on for another month. One of the things this extended invitation allows me to do is to respond at some length to issues raised in the comments on my last post, "The Dangerous Fragility of Men." In that post, I highlighted a troubling phenomenon: men with privilege and power characterizing their insecurities and lack of self-control as vulnerability, and using that alleged vulnerability as an excuse or justification for murder, rape, and discrimination (and I would add, though I didn't discuss it in the post, harassment and intimidation). To demonstrate this phenomenon, I offered a sample of quotations from recent, high-profile cases including Oscar Pistorius' shooting of his girlfriend and the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Texas. The post suggested that our society should make a greater effort both to marginalize this cowardice and become more attentive to actual vulnerability. In this post, I'd like to elaborate on these ideas and address some of the objections raised in the responses to my post.
I first want to spend a bit more time on the question of perceived v. actual vulnerability. I noted in my original post that one of the perplexing aspects of this form of male vulnerability is that it seems to increase, rather than decrease, with power or privilege. Frequently, the men using weakness as an excuse or justification (or others offering such explanations on their behalf) for harm are people who are objectively less vulnerable than most. They include famous athletes, soldiers, and wealthy businessmen. I think it is worth spelling this out more explicitly: there is a tendency on the part of privileged individuals to overstate their vulnerability. This tendency towards exaggerated sensitivity is important because it stunts what might otherwise be a meaningful process of self-examination. Feeling vulnerable is not the same thing as being vulnerable, and even actual vulnerability might need to yield before (or at least take into consideration) the greater vulnerability of other people.
We are all vulnerable in certain ways. Figuring out the what and why of our vulnerabilities is an important part of psychological awareness and well-being. What is of most interest to me here, however, is determining the conditions under which it is permissible for us to impose our vulnerabilities on other people, especially when that imposition takes the form of violence or discrimination. In determining those conditions, I would suggest we should ask ourselves at least three questions. One, we should question whether our vulnerability is objectively reasonable. Vulnerability that results from personal insecurity or prejudice is not vulnerability that we may rightfully impose on others. It is our own responsibility to correct vulnerabilities of our own creation. Second, we should question the magnitude of our vulnerability, especially when put in perspective with the vulnerabilities of others. Third, even if our vulnerability is both reasonable and of serious magnitude, we should question whether we are imposing it on appropriate parties in a just and proportional way.
I began my previous post with illustrations of "doing vulnerability badly" – the examples I referred to demonstrated errors relating to one or more of these three lines of inquiry. In the Jovan Belcher case, for example, Belcher's supposed vulnerability had to do with his anger and insecurity about his girlfriend's social habits. This, I would argue, is an illegitimate vulnerability. A person's desire to control his intimate partner is never a valid condition for imposition. Even if we assume that there were other, legitimate vulnerabilities in his case, such as the fear that his girlfriend would restrict his access to their child, Belcher should have considered whether his own actions might have helped create his girlfriend's belief that the child was not safe in his presence (given that Belcher ultimately shot a defenseless woman nine times in front of said child, this was not an unreasonable belief). That is, he should have put his vulnerability in perspective with the vulnerability of others, including his girlfriend. Finally, it should be clear that shooting his girlfriend to death was not an appropriate or proportional way to address his feeling of weakness or fear. To take one of my other original examples, it may be an open question whether the sergeant who expressed personal insecurity about how he might react to women being injured in combat could claim that his vulnerability is reasonable. Using his own weakness as a ground for denying his female comrades equal rights and opportunities, however, is unambiguously illegitimate. If male soldiers struggle to deal effectively with their female comrades' potential to be wounded or killed, then it is their own behavior that is the source of the problem. Before the military was racially integrated, many white soldiers objected to serving alongside black soldiers, but few would argue that the correct response to this objection would have been to prevent black soldiers from serving. Rather, the expectation that rightly prevailed was that white soldiers must overcome their own prejudice. I won't walk through all of my examples here, but I hope this elaboration clarifies the phenomenon I am describing.
Several commenters seemed to accept the general premise of dangerous male fragility, but expressed skepticism about its prevalence and/or society's willingness to tolerate or encourage it. This is where responding gets a bit tricky, because the objection came both from commenters who seemed genuinely unsure about the empirical evidence, and others who apparently reject outright the observation that men's feelings of harm are often privileged over actual harm to women (I also suggested that the same is true for white people's feelings of harm being privileged over actual harm to minorities, but this claim does not seem to have troubled commenters as much). I want to make clear that I see an important distinction between the two types of objections even if I do group them together in this response.
I understand the temptation to view the examples I offered as exceptions to the general rule rather than the mere tip of the iceberg. It is very hard to confront the possibility that the world we live in is more unjust than just, especially if we ourselves benefit (however unintentionally or even unwillingly) from some of the structures of its injustice. I also believe, however, that even the most sincere form of this skepticism is in part a product of privilege. Some of us have the luxury of being ignorant or indifferent to the pervasiveness of a certain form of harm (and by pervasiveness I also mean implied and sometime express tolerance), but that does not make the harm any less pervasive. When I claim that "society" tolerates and sometimes encourages dangerous male fragility, I of course do not mean that every individual in society, or even a majority of individuals, thinks that "such murders and rapes were good ideas," as one commenter put it. The most pernicious ideologies are never that explicit. The empirical evidence is not just in what people say, but what they do. And what a considerable segment of society does, according to indisputable crime and harassment statistics, is engage in violence and discrimination against women, and an even larger segment provides them with tacit encouragement and excuse when they do so. If this is news to anyone reading this post, that is not because the evidence is not freely available. In a blog post, I can't do much more than point those interested in this evidence to the vast wealth of information available on this subject (and I provided numerous sources in my original post); to those individuals whose intuition is that violence and discrimination against women is either rare or widely disapproved, please consider researching the subject before asserting that intuition as empirical reality. There are many, many people who have devoted their careers to researching and documenting the incidence, causes, and responses to violence and discrimination against women, and we are fortunate enough to live in a time when such information is easily accessible.
I am perplexed by those commenters who don't seem to think there is a link between the high prevalence of a phenomenon and society's tolerance or encouragement of that phenomenon. High rates of violence and discrimination are not inevitable, and they do not happen in a vacuum. They call out for an explanation. What exactly are the other plausible explanations for the high rate of male violence against women? What is the explanation for why 1 in 4 women in the U.S. has experienced domestic violence in her lifetime? Or why women account for 84% of victims of intimate partner violence while men account for 83% of all spouse murderers? Or why nearly 1 in 5 women have been raped? Or why men account for 99% of all rapists? Or why more than half of all rapes go unreported? Or why the arrest rate for reported rapes is 24%? Or why a very vocal segment of the population still reacts to violence and discrimination against women by blaming the victims rather than examining the root causes of men's aggression towards women – a segment of the population that is by no means limited to defense lawyers in high-profile cases, but includes judges (who are sometimes former sex crimes prosecutors), police officers, politicians, journalists, football coaches, and higher education officials? Or why on this very blog and in response to the very post in which I described this phenomenon, at least one (anonymous, of course) commenter feels comfortable repeatedly spewing the most blatant myths of "misandry," myths that have been debunked by every credible authority on intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and sex discrimination, and unwittingly provides a case study of the very logic that the original post critiques (e.g., treating fictional violence by women against men as equivalent to actual violence by men against women (while also conveniently ignoring the fact that this supposed glorification of female violence in popular culture is primarily the creation of male directors and writers for male audiences); suggesting that rape allegations are as or more harmful than rapes themselves (despite the fact that the majority of rapes go unreported, as noted above); and derisively referring to victim-blaming as a "catchphrase": one could hardly ask for a better example of male fear, delusion, and privilege in action).
If our society does not tolerate or at least excuse the dangerous fragility of men, how do we explain why a group of teenagers would take pictures, tweet descriptions, and make jokes while they watched high school athletes repeatedly rape an unconscious 16-year-old girl (sample commentary: "is it really rape if you don't know if she wanted to or not? She might have wanted it. That might have been her final wish"). How do we explain why a 17-year-old sexual assault victim would be threatened with jail time for naming the boys who admitted they had assaulted her because doing so "ruined their reputations," or why a college rape victim faces potential expulsion for "intimidating" her rapist because she spoke to the media (without naming her attacker) about her experience? How are we to believe, as one commenter suggested, that the NRA is really interested in promoting the right of self-defense for those who need it most when it fights to keep guns in the hands of violent domestic abusers and ignores the fact that owning a gun increases, rather than decreases, a woman's chance of being killed? How are we to respect male soldiers' alleged solicitude for the welfare of their female comrades when the latter are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire and military officials have done everything they could to cover up sexual assaults instead of addressing them?
In my original post, I picked six recent examples of dangerous male fragility to frame the issue, but there are literally thousands of other examples I could have chosen. It takes an extraordinarily constrained version of the world to point to the criminal prosecutions of some high-profile killers and rapists of women as evidence that society actually condemns violence against women or racism against young black men. It takes a remarkable amount of privilege to find reassurance of the world's justness in the fact that people do not often explicitly advocate for injustice in so many words. The people whose very lives are made precarious by the often unspoken prejudice and weakness of others do not have this privilege. I do not doubt the fact that it is a struggle for some people to see such injustice. What is regrettable is the failure to take up this struggle simply because the injustice happens not to be aimed at them.


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Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton are parents who must battle an alien incursion in director Scott Stewart's "Dark Skies". Those aliens, I tell ya, always poking and prodding around the place. You'd think people that have already mastered intergalatic space travel would have other things on their plates other than messing around with a family in the suburbs, but apparently, not so much.
Check out five clips from "Dark Skies", a horror/sci-fi movie that actually looks pretty good if you're into moderately budgeted horror flicks. Don't expect flying saucers battling it out in space or anything overly "sci-fi-ish" like that, though, that's not what they're going for here.
As the Barret family's peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them.
"Dark Skies" also stars Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett, and J.K. Simmons, and comes for you this Friday, February 22nd, 2013.


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Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 | 2 a.m.
On the first floor of the Clark County Regional Justice Center, down a winding hallway and behind a locked door — to which only three people have a key — are a bucket of knives, freezer bags stuffed with permanent markers and a pile of jewelry.
It's a room of the forbidden and the forgotten.
Much of the bounty — considered either dangerous or otherwise prohibited — was confiscated from people who entered the building and passed through a metal detector on their way to the Justice Center's courtrooms. The rest was turned in to security in the hopes of reacquainting the rightful owner with the found merchandise.
In 2012, marshals confiscated 6,940 knives and 1,046 other banned items from visitors or workers at the courthouse. This year, marshals have collected 3,273 knives and 341 other items, according to records last updated in August. That's a small percentage when compared with the number of visitors to the building; 1,084,921 people visited the Regional Justice Center in 2012 and 818,566 had been through the detectors through August this year.
Most of the contraband winds up in the closet-like room that's also part lost and found.
The room's gray plastic bins are labeled: scissors, utility tools, pepper spray, knives and miscellaneous weapons. Among the potentially perilous are also the precious: wallets, watches and a depressing number of engagement rings.
Once a month, the knives and other potential weapons are destroyed. Firearms are turned over to Metro for storage as evidence. Jewelry is saved in case someone comes to claim it.
The Sun met with some of the marshals and talked about the items that make their way to this room and how they got there.
What happens when someone brings something illegal to the Justice Center?
If it's a gun, you'll be arrested — even if you're a lawyer — and the gun will be taken into evidence. Case in point: Traffic attorney Kirk Ryan Helmick was charged in April after marshals found a handgun in his briefcase; the case is pending in Las Vegas Township Justice Court.
Other illegal items — such as double-edge knives, ninja stars, brass knuckles or pipes with drug residue — will definitely be seized and the owner may or may not be arrested.
A crack pipe, per se, isn't a no-no inside the building — if it's clean. Marshals will only take a pipe if there is drug residue on it.
What about fake weapons?
Toy guns and keychain bullets also will get someone pulled aside in the security line. While such items might seem harmless, a member of the public could see the item and panic, said Deputy Marshal Curt Taylor, one of the room's three keyholders.
What if the person doesn't want to give up their contraband?
If the item isn't illegal, marshals give the visitor the choice of abandoning it or taking it off the property.
Removing the item from the courthouse grounds sometimes can create a problem. About 50 percent of the time, the person who takes this option won't walk off the property, Taylor said. They step outside, look around and set it down against the building.
Another popular choice is to slide the weapon into the courthouse's large address sign. Marshals watch for this, retrieve items left there and take them to the room with everything else.
How do people react?
Most people are running late to court and just want to give up the item and move through the line, marshals said.
Deputy Marshal Ronald Ramsey said a common explanation is, "I'm carrying my sister's purse."
Marshals will find most items to confiscate in overstuffed purses, he said, noting a surprising amount is contraband cutlery.
A common excuse is the woman had just been to the steakhouse and slipped the restaurant's knife into her bag, Ramsey said.
The common and the weird
So, what are the frequent fliers to the forbidden room? Bartenders often have corkscrews. Manicure scissors and permanent markers also are seized often. Taylor said most people understand giving up the markers when he explains that graffiti is a concern in the courthouse corridors. The markers are collected and donated to schools or churches.
Some of the stranger items include blinged-out brass knuckles, sword canes, ninja stars, blowtorches and what is either a long knife or a small sword with a red tassel and a swastika.
What about the lost items?
About 90 days ago, Taylor started looking after the room. Having just lost his wallet, he took the lost-and-found responsibility to heart and made a few changes. When he is able to find identifying information on an item, he sends a letter to the person. The letter invites them to come identify an item they might have left at the courthouse.
"I make a reasonable attempt to bring stuff back to people," Taylor said. "It's nice when it happens for real."
Taylor remembers fondly reuniting an attorney with a beat-up business card holder. The holder didn't look like much, but Taylor could tell it had sentimental value. It had belonged to the attorney for years, and he was ecstatic to get it back because a paralegal had given it to him when he started his law career, Taylor said.


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A four-phase, $1 million renovation and restoration of the magnificent Shadowland Theatre has restored the elegant art deco building to its former glory and permitted the Equity company to fulfill and expand its multi-faceted mission into a year-round operation.
"The renovation is a marriage of need and ambition," said Brendan Burke, now in his ninth season as producing artistic director of Shadowland, located at 157 Canal St. in Ellenville. "We not only wanted to reclaim the building now, but also needed to ensure the theater would be around for future generations."
In addition to celebrating the opening of the company's 2013 season and the restoration of the building, Burke was also celebrating his birthday the day of this interview.
"Out of the renovations comes the great news that Shadowland will become a year-round theater company," he said.
The summer season will conclude in late September, he added. The company will take a break, then launch the first fall-winter season in its history.
"This is a most-generous community," said Burke, with a nod to John Eckert, second vice president of the board. Eckert is also a professional stagehand by training, with a specialty in theatrical rigging.
"Most of the donations for the capital campaign came from this community, and most of the work was done by Ulster County companies," Burke said.
The board chose the architectural firm of Holzman, Moss, Bottino of New York City because of its experience in historic theater restoration, according to Burke. It chose Allison-Devore, among many other local subcontractors, to do the construction.
Burke had high praise for Shadowland's board of directors, who, he said, established the campaign plan and committed to raising the necessary funds, along with showing up almost every evening during construction, volunteering "just to do anything" that needed doing.
Burke explained the four construction phases that took place over the past two winters when the theater was closed:
o Phase I was the gutting and renovation of a donated building to provide housing for actors in 2011.
o Phase 2 was the renovation of the fa�ade, marque, administrative offices and the lobby as far as the doors to the theater in 2012.
o Phase 3 was the restoration of the theater proper, including the roof, rigging, stage, lighting and creating a "Green Room," for actors when they're not on stage, as well as a new actors' dressing room. The stage itself was raised 18 inches so it's now level with the backstage area and parking lot, making it easier to move props in and out for various productions. It also included renovation of another donated building to provide an education center and rehearsal space for an upcoming production while a current production is on stage.
o Phase 4 is to continue renovation of that structure, including constructing a 99-seat intimate theater-in-the-round to introduce new works, which, Burke said, was part of the board's vision plan.
The entrance to the 1920 art deco theater is just stunning, with as much original detail, including the double staircases that led to the balcony. Astonished visitors need to step back to try to recall how it looked only last season.
Eckert said Jim McIntyre, first vice president, was the construction coordinator and spent five months inside the shell of the theater.
"We did nine months of construction in a little over five months," he said.
"That's the miracle of Shadowland," Eckert said, adding that he saw his first movies as a child in the theater. "This board shows up here at night to work. I've served on boards of other regional theaters and this board, by far, is the best, contributing time, money and sweat equity to this project.
"In some ways, it was like a good, old-fashioned barn raiser," he said.
Burke said a board member has committed a dollar-for-dollar match, up to $175,000, to pay for unforeseen construction issues during Phase 3. He added that Shadowland was a movie theater until the 1980s, when it was put up for sale. "A bunch of crazy actors from New York City" bought it with the idea of starting a regional theater company, he said.
"They never looked back," he said.
Eckert, who was working elsewhere at the time, said he heard from a family member about the building's purchase.
"I asked, 'Who would do something that crazy?'" he said, adding, "And here I am!"
Burke said two of the original members remain on the board: Andy Walter, who runs the educational program; and Neal Knapp, who is technical director. Founding artistic director Ron Marquette is deceased.
Burke said he came on board as producing artistic director in 1994-1995 season. Shadowland became a member of the Actors' Equity Association in 1996, he added.
"We are the only Equity company in Ulster County," he said.
One of the goals of the education programs is to introduce youngsters to theater at a young age, according to Burke. "We have excellent relationships with the local junior and senior high schools and with SUNY New Paltz," he said.
Brittney Green, who is a professionally-trained stage manager, started at Shadowland at 12, passing out playbills, Burke added.
"Now, she makes her living as a stage manager," he said. "We're lucky to have her here during the summer. She's that good."
He also said Charlotte Knapp, Neal's daughter and a SUNY New Paltz student, is volunteering for the summer.
"This is a tough time for volunteering," he said. "It's time for the next generation to step up and acquire a sense of what's important about the not-for-profit arts community."
Switching from need, the renovation, to ambition, the 2013 season, Burke said he selects the plays, keeping in mind the company's goal to introduce new works and revive works that are rarely done.
"Our first goal is excellence, with limited resources," he said. "We produce plays for a diverse audience, both theater folks and non-theater folks, but the shows must be performed with excellence."
The 2013 season, Burke said, features "The Outgoing Tide" by Bruce Graham, through June 16; the regional premiere of "Love Sick" written and directed by John Cariani, June 21-July 7; the comedy, "Boeing, Boeing," by Marc Camoletti, which Burke will direct, July 12-Aug. 4 and the musical, "Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns," written and created by Roger Beam, Aug.-Sept. 8.
The season concludes with the award-winning "Bill W. and Dr. Bob," by Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey, to be directed by Burke, Sept. 13-29. It is the remarkable story of the chance encounter of the two men who founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1929.
"Our goal is to present works that are relevant, affecting real people in our time," Burke said. "They're not easy, but they confront a profound issue with grace and humor."
The current play, "The Outgoing Tide," is a drama about family, forgiveness, aging and preparing for the next stage of life, he said.
"The topic may be uncomfortable, but it's told with great humor," Burke said. "The feedback from audiences has been only positive.��
"The season is like a good meal -- appetizer, salad, entr�e, dessert."
Shadowland performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. It is closed on Monday.
Tickets are $35; $30 for Sunday matinees. There are senior, student and group discounts available, as well as "pay what you can" for all performances that are not sold out, part of the board's commitment to accessibility.
Tickets may be obtained from the Shadowland box office, by calling (845) 647-5511 or visiting www.shadowlandtheatre.org/.