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Re: WWE 2006 & Beyond by ddmrko
July 31, 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
Fleet Center
Across The Nation plays and the opening RAW video plays. The pyro goes off in the arena as the audience in Boston goes crazy. The camera pans the audience and gets a close up of the fans and the signs that they have brought with them to the Fleet Center. We cut to Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler.
Jim Ross
: Hello everyone. Im Good Ol J.R., Jim Ross, here with Jerry The King Lawler and what a hell of a show we have for you here tonight.
Jerry Lawler
: Absolutely J.R., tonight Vince McMahon has put DXs back against the wall. Tonight, The Game Triple H teams up with The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels to take on The Samoan Bulldozer Umaga and The Monster Abyss.
Jim Ross
: DX versus those two damn monsters right here tonight under a month away from those two compete in a WWE Title match.
Burn In My Light hits to a loud mixed reaction. Randy Orton comes from the back and does his destiny pose at the top of the entrance way. Ortons pyro falls and Orton makes his way to the ring.
Lilian Garcia:
Ladies and gentlemen, the following contest is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from St. Louis, Missouri, weighing in at 245 pounds, The Legend Killer RANDY ORTON!
: It was announced last Monday night that on August 20 at SummerSlam, The Legend Killer Randy Orton will take on John Cena in a First Blood match. That is gonna be a brutal war at SummerSlam!
At SummerSlam, Randy is gonna do the same thing he did to Cena on the 3 Hour edition of RAW. Hes gonna battle and bloody Cena and make Cena a former shell of himself.
It Wasnt My Fault hits to a minor pop. Snitsky comes down to the ring looking focused for competition.
And his opponent, from Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, weighing in at 300 pounds, SNITSKY!
Match #1
Randy Orton vs. Snitsky
Orton and Snitsky lock up in the middle of the ring. Orton backs Snitsky up into a corner and automatically begins to hit Snitsky with hard right hands to the face. The referee pulls Orton out of the corner and begins to reprimand him. Orton turns back around to Snitsky and The Legend Killer gets nailed with a hard right hand as Snitsky fights out of the corner. Snitsky backs Orton up into the ropes with a fierce barrage of punches. Snitsky attempts to clothesline Orton out of the ring but he sidesteps the 300 pounder and throws Snitsky from the ring. Orton follows Snitsky to the outside and immediately goes on the attack. Orton lifts him off the ground and shoots him into the post. Snitsky face drills the post hard and he immediately goes down. Orton mounts Snitsky and starts to rain down right hands. Orton lifts him up and throws him into the ring. The camera focuses in on Snitskys face and sees that he was bloodied by the shot into the turnbuckle. Orton delivers a nasty stomp to the bloody face of Snitsky. Orton then drops to the ground and waits for Snitsky. Snitsky wobbles up to his feet as Orton waits behind him. Snitsky turns around, Orton jumps up and drills him with the RKO. Snitskys blood stains the mat as he goes face first onto the canvas. Orton covers Snitsky.
One .
Two ..
(WINNER: Randy Orton via pinfall at 5:46)
My God! Look at Snitsky! Hes a bloody mess! Orton bloodied Cena two weeks ago and he bloodied Gene Snitsky tonight.
I would say that Orton is definitely the favorite in that first blood match. John Cena is in trouble.
***We cut to the backstage area into Vince McMahons office. Edge and his Rated R Army (Lita, Shelton Benjamin, Chris Masters, Johnny Nitro and Melina) barge into the room.***
Edge: This is ridiculous!
Mr. McMahon: What the hell is this!?
Edge: Vince what are you doing!? At SummerSlam I have to defend my title in a triple threat match against DX. I dont even have to be pinned to lose my Championship.
Mr. McMahon: I dont give a damn. That would probably work out better for me. Lets say Hunter wins the title at SummerSlam. Shawns ego wont be able to take it. Thats the end of DX.
Edge: Vince, listen. I understand that but DX would definitely split up if they both lost. Each one would blame the other for the loss. Boom, no more D-Generation X. What do you think?
Mr. McMahon: Thats not a bad plan.
Edge: So how about we insure their loss tonight.
Mr. McMahon: What do you have in mind?
Edge: We already know that tonight DX will take on Abyss and Umaga in a tag team match. So how about we change that match into a tag team lumberjack match with myself and The Rated R Army around ringside.
Mr. McMahon: Edge .you have yourself a deal.
McMahon and Edge shake hands as The Rated R Army have smiles on their faces.
---Commercial Break---
: Before we went to the break we found out that in the main event, Triple H and Shawn Michaels have to face Umaga and Abyss with The Rated R Army surrounding ringside.
: J.R. combine that with the fact that DX is not exactly on the same page these days, we may not have to wait until SummerSlam to see the self-implosion of D-Generation X.
Pay The Price hits to a decent pop. Charlie Haas makes his way down to the ring, looking determined.
: The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from Edmond, Oklahoma, weighing in at 238 pounds, CHARLIE HAAS!
: Last week, Charlie Haas gave a hell of an effort in his loss to the Legend Killer Randy Orton. Lets see if Haas can build on that performance and pick up a win here tonight.
Teacher hits to minor heat. Matt Striker makes his way down the entrance ramp and into the ring.
: and his opponent, from New York, New York, weighing in at 220 pounds, MATT STRIKER!
Match #2
Charlie Haas vs. Matt Striker
Haas and Striker lock up to start off the match. Haas takes Striker over with a beautiful arm drag. Striker quickly gets back up and charges at Haas who takes him down with another well placed arm drag. Striker rolls out of the ring and recovers on the outside. Haas follows Striker to the outside and the chase is on! Striker runs around the ring as Haas is in pursuit. Striker slides back into the ring and Haas follows. Striker begins to stomp away on his back before Haas can get back to his feet. Matt lifts Charlie off of the ground and shoots Haas into the turnbuckle. Striker charges at Haas in the corner but he avoids the contact and Striker goes chest-first into the turnbuckle. Haas goes behind striker and grabs him by the waist. Haas then takes Striker over and drills him with a German suplex. The fans pop as Haas applies a submission hold to the legs of Striker.
: What the hell is that?! Thats got to hurt. Look at the pressure on Strikers back and legs.
: He calls that the Haas of Pain. Thats one nasty submission. And Striker is tapping out. Striker taps.
(WINNER: Charlie Haas via submission at 5:45)
: Nice win for Charlie Haas. This young man is going to go places here on Monday Night RAW.
***We cut to the backstage area into Mr. McMahons office again***
McMahon dials a number on his cell phone.
McMahon: Shane, Shane. Its me. I just wanted to say .Hello? Hello? DAMN IT!
McMahon throws his cell phone against a wall. Vince sits down on his couch until there is a knock on the door.
McMahon: Come in!
Trish Stratus walks into the room.
McMahon: What do you want?!
Trish: I want Mickie James in the ring! Tonight!
McMahon: You want the Womens Champion in the ring tonight?! YOU GOT IT!
Trish smiles and the audience cheers wildly.
McMahon: You got Mickie James as a tag team partner. Tonight it will be Trish teaming up with Mickie James to take on two Rated R divas Melina and Lita. Now get out of my office.
Trish leaves Vinces office as the fans give heat.
---Commercial Break---
Space Odyssey hits to a tremendous ovation. The Nature Boy Ric Flair makes his away to the ring.
: One of the greatest, if not the greatest, wrestler in the history of the business, The Nature Boy Ric Flair is here tonight in Boston. Lets take you back to two weeks ago.
***Clip plays of the Edge-Ric Flair WWE Title match from two weeks ago. Flair is in control until a Cactus Jack video plays. The video allows Edge to hit the Spear and pick up the win.***
: Lets not forget that a Cactus Jack video distracted Flair last week and made him get speared again.
Flair grabs a microphone from ringside and prepares to speak.
Flair: It feels good to be back in Boston (cheap pop). I want to tell you people a story. On June 26, I wrestled Mick Foley in a match-up. Instead of fighting me like a man, Foley got himself intentionally disqualified. After the match, instead of just walking away with his tail tucked between his legs, Foley bloodied me with a hammer. A God damn hammer! If that wasnt bad enough that fat, out of shape, piece of crap doesnt show up to RAW for a month. So then, about a month has passed and The Nature Boy WHOO! has become the #1 contender for the WWE Title. This no good bastard Foley puts up a Cactus Jack video during my match. My match?! Foley, I want a piece of your ass!
The audience cheers loudly as Flair takes off his jacket.
Flair: I dont care if its Mick Foley! I dont care if its Dude Love! I dont care if its Mankind! I dont even give a SHIT if its Cactus Jack (Not censored)! Foley I want your ass at SummerSlam.
The crowd pops for a possible Flair-Cactus match at SS.
Flair: Whatever you want Foley! Whatever you want! You want tables?! WHOO! You want Barbwire?! WHOO! You want chairs?! WHOO! Thumbtacks?! WHOO! Ladders?! WHOO! You can have it all. Damn it I hate you!
Flair backs up and drops an elbow on his jacket.
Flair: FOLEY! I want an answer by next week! Next week Foley! If I dont get my answer by next week, Im gonna hop on a plane. Im gonna fly to Long Island, New York. And Foley, I swear to God I will beat your ass in front of your wife and kids. Dont test me Foley because one way or another The Nature Boy WHOO! is going to put an end to Mick Foley! WHOO!
Flair picks up his jacket and exits the ring as the fans go crazy.
: Flair is a nut hes gone completely insane.
: Flair wants Cactus Jack and hes gonna get him one way or another.
***We cut to the backstage area with The Coach standing by***
: Ladies and gentlemen, one of the competitors in the triple threat WWE Title match at SummerSlam, The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.
Michaels comes into screenshot receiving a huge ovation and wearing a DX t-shirt.
: Shawn, I see you are wearing the t-shirt but lets be honest, how can you keep DX together when the two of you will be competing for the same championship at SummerSlam on August 20th.
HBK: Coach, as you may or may not have known, but Triple H and myself have been having a lot of tension between the two of us as of late. So going into SummerSlam, you would think that we might see the self-destruction of D-Generation X. Vinnie Mac, I got to tell you thats not a bad plan. But the fact of the matter is that, Triple H and I are two professionals. If I can be blunt, were two damn legends. So basically what Im trying to say is, WHEN I win the WWE Championship at SummerSlam, Triple H is gonna have to deal with it.
The audience gives a mixed reaction as they are split over which member of DX they want to win more. Michaels walks off as The Coach looks on.
: We are witnessing the end of DX. Just admit it J.R.
: It doesnt look good. Ill say that much. But coming up next, John Cena takes on Ken Doane of The Spirit Squad. Cena in action, NEXT!
---Commercial Break
During the break a commercial airs hyping the Dream match set to take place at SummerSlam. Batista vs. Kurt Angle for the World Heavyweight Championship---
Spirit hits to decent heat. Ken Doane (with The Spirit Squad) makes his way to the ring with a confident look on his face.
: The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, from Worchester, Massachusetts, weighing in at 234 pounds, KEN DOANE!
: Last week on RAW, Kenny told his fellow Spirit Squaders that he wanted to be called by his actual name, Ken Doane.
My Time Is Now blasts over the loudspeaker and receives an incredibly loud mixed reaction. About 60/40 cheers. John Cena makes his way down to the ramp and he still has a bandage on his forehead.
: And his opponent, from West Newbury, Massachusetts, weighing in at 255 pounds, JOHN CENA!
: As you can see, Cena has a bandage on his head. Thats from two weeks ago when Randy Orton bloodied Cena with a steel chair shot.
: Cena needed 10 stitches in that forehead of his. And you know what J.R.? Thats a waste of stitches because Cenas going to get busted open again by Orton at SummerSlam. Ha! Ha!
Match #3
Ken Doane vs. John Cena
Cena and Doane lock up to start the match off. The two struggle for leverage for several seconds but the two superstars eventually break the hold. Doane slaps Cena right across the face. Cena glares at Doane with a pissed off look. Cena then hits Doane with hard right hands, the last of which knocks Doane down. Cena then lifts Doane up and shoots him off of the ropes. Cena goes for a back body drop but Doane realizes that Cena gets set early and hits Cena with a boot to the face. Doane then starts throwing right hands at Cena. Doane then shoots Cena off of the ropes. Cena comes flying off the ropes and runs Doane over with a nasty shoulder block. Cena then gets down and covers Doane.
One ..
Two .Doane kicks out!
Cena lifts Doane off the ground and shoots him into the corner. Cena charges into the corner but Doane gets both of his feet up and into the face of Cena which causes Cena to stumble backward. Doane, with his back into the corner, climbs to the top turnbuckle. Doane launches off of the top and levels Cena with a hard flying clothesline. Doane doesnt go for the cover but instead plays to the crowd. Doane goes back over to Cena and lifts him back to his feet. Doane scoops Cena up and hits a body slam. Doane goes over to his Spirit Squad and begins talking to them.
: Whats he doing?
: It looks like ..hes sending the Spirit Squad out of here. He doesnt need them. Thats confidence for you J.R..
The Spirit Squad complains before they leave the ringside area. Doane goes back over to Cena and lifts him up. Cena, with his strength regained, begins to hit Doane with right hands. Cena bounces off the ropes and runs Doane over with a clothesline. Doane quickly gets back up and Cena levels him with another one. Cena then waits until Doane gets back up, grabs him and drills him with a spin-out power bomb. Cena raises his right hand in the air as some fans cheer and some boo. Cena does the You Cant See Me routine and hits the Five Knuckle Shuffle. Cena waits for Doane to make it back to his feet. Doane gets up and Cena lifts him up for the FU. Cena hits It! Cena then locks on the STFU. Kenny struggles and hold on. The fans cheers quickly turn into boos as they see Randy Orton sprinting down the ramp with a steel chair in hand. Orton enters the ring and drills him in the back with a steel chair. The referee calls for the disqualification.
(WINNER: John Cena via DQ at 9:47)
Orton looks at Cena with an arrogant smile on his face as he waits for Cena to get back to his feet. Cena slowly gets up to a vertical base as Orton is being showered in boos. Cena turns around and Orton blasts him in the face with the steel chair.
: Ha! Ha! What did I tell you J.R.! Yes!
: My god. John Cena has been busted open again. Orton has bloodied Cena again with a nasty steel chair shot.
The camera closes up on Cenas face as the blood flows from his forehead. Orton throws the chair to the ground and does his destiny pose. Orton gets close up to Cenas face and snaps his fingers as if to say Just like that! Orton leaves the ring to a tremendous amount of heat.
---Commercial Break---
: Ladies and gentlemen, before the break The Legend Killer Randy Orton bloodied John Cena for the second time. During this interlude Cena was helped to the back and apparently didnt have any idea as to what was going around his surroundings. We believe he may have suffered a concussion and well keep you updated on his condition.
: Whats the moral of the story J.R.? Dont mess with The Legend Killer. If Randy costs you a match, let it go. If he spits in your face, let it go. And if he beats you to a bloody pulp, let it go. If not, hell just bloody you up again. Ha! Ha! I feel bad for Cena cause hes gonna have to get bloodied again at SummerSlam. But maybe if he apologizes to Orton now hell forgive him.
: Shut up, King.
Metalingus hits to momentous heat. The WWE Champion Edge and the Rated R Army come down to the ring.
: The following contest is a divas tag team match and it is scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, accompanied to the ring by Shelton Benjamin, Chris Masters, the Intercontinental Champion Johnny Nitro and the WWE Champion Edge ..LITA AND MELINA!
: I know youre wondering why every member of The Rated R Army is out here. After this match is over, the main event tag team lumberjack match is going to happen. D-Generation X vs. Umaga and Abyss.
: Trish is in trouble. Think about it J.R.. Every member of Melinas team is out here and Trish is teaming up with a partner that she cant stand.
Time To Rock and Roll hits to a good ovation. Trish Stratus walks down the entrance ramp.
: And their opponents, introducing first, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, TRISH STRATUS!
: Both Trish and Melina want a shot at Mickie James Womens Championship. This match could go a long way in determining who gets the shot at the Womens Champion.
Mickie hits to a very loud mixed reaction. Probably 50/50. The WWE Womens Champion Mickie James makes her way down to the ring very excitedly, jumping up and down.
: And her tag team partner, from Richmond, Virginia, she is the WWE Womens Champion, MICKIE JAMES!
: Mickie James is a damn psycho and I dont think she can be trusted to truly be a tag team partner to Trish.
Match #4
Mickie James & Trish Stratus vs. Melina & Lita
The Womens Champion Mickie James and Melina start the match off. Mickie immediately locks up with Melina and performs a go behind. Mickie attempts a German suplex but Melina blocks it and powers Mickie backwards into her corner. Melina turns around and tags in the more experienced, Lita. Lita comes in and hits Mickie with a couple of stomps in the corner. She then pulls the Womens Champion out of the corner and shoots her off the ropes. Lita gets set early and Mickie makes her pay by wrapping her arm around her neck and planting her with a DDT. Mickie lifts Lita up and applies a front-face lock and drags Lita to her corner. Mickie extends her hand to Trish. Trish hesitates but eventually tags into the match. The audience pops as Mickie exits and Trish enters. Trish enters the ring and immediately nails Lita with hard forearms. Mickie jumps down off of the apron and walks over to ringside. Mickie grabs her title from ringside and heads up the ramp. Edge and The Rated R Army begin to laugh as Trish has a shocked look on her face.
: What the hell is this?
: You knew it was gonna happen sooner or later.
: Mickie James is taking her Womens Title and is getting the hell out of here.
Mickie continues to walk up the ramp as Trish yells at her from in the ring. Trish turns around and gets caught with a kick to the stomach by Lita. Lita then plants her with a hard DDT. Lita drags Trishs limp body towards the corner and climbs to the top turnbuckle. Lita flies off and finishes Trish off with a moonsault. Lita thinks about going for the cover but instead tags in Melina. Melina enters the ring and then covers Trish.
One .
(WINNER: Melina and Lita at 6:45)
: Melina won it! What a great competitor she is!
: Cut it King! Mickie abandoned Trish here tonight and on top of that Lita did all of the work. Now what the hell is going on?!
The WWE Champion Edge and The Rated R Army enter the ring. Edge demands that Masters and Benjamin go over and lift Trish up. Edge then gets set in the corner, setting up his Spear.
: Even I think this is over the line! Come on Edge!
Before Edge can charge ahead ..Rob Van Dam, Carlito and Joey Mercury sprint towards the ring. Edge rolls to the outside as do Melina and Lita. RVD, Mercury and Carlito brawl with Masters, Nitro and Benjamin. Eventually the popular faces gain the upper hand. Carlito clotheslines Masters over the top rope at the same time that Mercury clotheslines Benjamin over. Nitro is trapped in the ring as Van Dam, Mercury and Benjamin surround the Intercontinental Champion. Mercury drills Nitro with a hard right hand. Carlito then grabs Nitro by the shoulders, jumps up and drills him with a back cracker. The audience cheers wildly as The Rated R Army looks pissed off from ringside. Van Dam climbs to the top turnbuckle and looks at the fans. The audience cheers wildly as Van Dam leaps up off the top and drills him with the Five Star Frog Splash. The fans go crazy as Van Dam, Mercury and Carlito stand tall in the ring as Edge and company look P.O.ed at ringside.
: YES! YES! Ahhhh NO!
Vince McMahon appears on the titantron.
McMahon: Very impressive. Carlito, Mercury and Rob Van Dam, Im going to have to ask you to leave the ring because coming up next is the main event. And since the three of you arent lumberjacks, you have to leave. And if I see any of the three of you come out here during the match and attempt to attack The Rated R Army, you will be fired on the spot. Thank You.
The audience boos wildly as Edge gets a huge grin on his face,
: Cat got your tongue J.R.? Cant speak?
: Abyss and Umaga vs. Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a lumberjack match is next.
: The destruction of DX! NEXT!
---Commercial Break---
Ladies and gentlemen, just announced for SummerSlam, Mickie James defends her WWE Women's Championship against Trish Stratus and Melina on August 20.
Down In The Catacombs blasts over the loudspeaker to a decent amount of heat. Abyss (w/ Father James Mitchell) makes his way down to the ring.
: The following match is the main event and it is a tag team lumberjack match scheduled for one fall. Introducing first, accompanied to the ring Jim Mitchell, from Parts Unknown, weighing in at 350 pounds, ABYSS!
: This huge S.O.B. took out Kane and put him out of action and now .
: And now Vince McMahon wants him to do the same thing to Triple H and Shawn Michaels.
Samoa hits to more decent heat. Umaga walks down the entrance ramp with Armando Alejandro Estrada by his side.
: And his tag team partner, accompanied by Armando Alejandro Estrada, from the Isle of Samoa, weighing in at 340 pounds, UMAGA!
: This is ridiculous King. Lets recap. DX is having communication problems. Edge and his Rated R Army are surrounding ringside. Carlito, Rob Van Dam and Joey Mercury have been banned from ringside. DX is gonna be in the ring with two monsters who are WELL over 300 pounds and DX have a WWE Title match on August 20.
: Check.
: Thanks for the insight.
Sexy Boy hits to a tremendous ovation. Shawn Michaels cautiously walks towards the ring.
: And their opponents, introducing first, from San Antonio, Texas, weighing in at 225 pounds, The Heartbreak Kid SHAWN MICHAELS!
: Ha! Ha! Whats wrong with this picture J.R.? What just happened that spells the end for DX?
: Each member of DX is gonna have their own separate entrance.
: You damn right! This is it for them! Their huge egos have finally gotten the best of them!
The Game hits to a thunderous ovation, slightly louder than the one for Michaels. Triple H skips his entrance and sprints towards the ring. HHH slides into the ring and the match is on.
Match #5
Abyss & Umaga vs. Triple H & Shawn Michaels
Lumberjack Match
HHH and Michaels immediately begin to swing away on the two monsters. HHH nails Umaga with several hard right handed shots and then shoots The Samoan Bulldozer off the ropes. Umaga comes back and runs Hunter over with a clothesline. Abyss knees Michaels in the gut and then flings him over the top rope. Edge and his Army immediately go to work stomping away on HBK. Back in the ring, Umaga drops a huge splash on The Game. Umaga with the cover.
One .
Two ..
Helmsley kicks out. Umaga shoots HHH off of the ropes at the same time that Edge throws Michaels back into the ring. HHH comes back off the ropes and catches Umaga with a knee smash. HHH then shoots off the ropes and runs over Umaga with a clothesline. HHH then mounts Umaga and begins to wail away on The Samoan with hard right hands. Abyss enters the ring, grabs HHH by the hair and flings him over the top rope. Edge and his army begin to stomp away on HHH like piranha. They then throw Hunter back in the ring.
Abyss gets tagged in by Umaga and the two huge monsters begin to stomp away on Hunter. HBK makes it back to his feet and sees the beating that HHH is getting. Michaels thinks about helping but waves at Hunter and leaves the ring.
: NO! DAMN IT! Michaels is leaving Triple H to get his ass kicked!
: DX is dead.
The fans begin an HBK chant as Michaels heads up the ramp. Michaels turns back towards the ring and looks at the beating that Hunter is getting. Michaels begins to head back up the ramp but cant. HBK sprints back towards the ring, which gets the loudest pop of the night. Michaels begins to wail away on Umaga as the fans go crazy. Umaga hits Michaels with a kick to the gut and then shoots The Showstopper off of the ropes. HBK comes back and hits a flying forearm to the face of Umaga. Michaels nips up and goes after Abyss. Michaels throws right hands at The Monster and then shoots off of the ropes. HBK comes back but Abyss grabs him and plants him with The BLACK HOLE SLAM! HHH gets back to his feet and immediately goes after Umaga & Abyss. Umaga grabs Hunter by the throat and hits The Samoan Spike. Abyss then lifts HHH up and shoots him off the ropes. HHH comes back and gets planted with a BLACK HOLE SLAM! Abyss covers HHH.
One ..
(WINNERS: Abyss & Umaga at 11:12)
Mitchell and Estrada lead Abyss and Umaga to the backstage area. After a couple of more seconds Triple H and Shawn Michaels both make it to their feet. The two DX members look at each other. Michaels extends his hand. HHH thinks about it and then shakes Michaels hand as the crowd erupts.
: DX is back! YES!
: That may be true but I think they forgot something.
: Oh crap!
The Rated R Army enters the ring and immediately attack DX. DX tries to fight back but there are too many of them. Edges army begins to decimate DX as Edge, Lita and Melina look on from ringside. Carlito, Rob Van Dam and Joey Mercury run back down to ringside and The Rated Army hops out of the ring and sprint toward the back. Van Dam and company give chase to the Army as Edge looks on pissed from ringside. Edge grabs his WWE Championship and slides into the ring. Edge takes a huge swing at Michaels but HBK ducks and drills Edge with SWEET CHIN MUSIC. Edge gets hit, spins around and gets kicked in the gut by Triple H. HHH sticks Edge in between his legs, hooks the arms and drills Edge with The PEDIGREE. HHH and HBK give Edge several DX crotch chops as the fans go crazy. Both Hunter and Michaels bend down and grab the WWE Championship at the same time. Hunter and Michaels look at each other with focused looks on their faces as each one realizes that the other wants the Title.
: My God! DX has survived tonight. They survived Umaga. They survived Abyss. They survived McMahon. They survived The Rated R Army. And they survived Edge. But will they survive each other? They both want the title but there can only be one WWE Champion! Good night everybody!
RAW goes off the air with both Triple H and Shawn Michaels staring a hole through the other while holding the WWE Championship.
Matches Announced For SummerSlam, August 20
World Heavyweight Championship
Kurt Angle(C) vs. Batista
WWE Championship
Edge(C) vs. Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels
First Blood match
John Cena vs. Randy Orton
Women's Championship
Mickie James(C) vs. Trish Stratus vs. Melina
for the week of September 28th
Cash has harsh words for Pope Francis, his believers, and his bandwagon followers, while Mac still hates Russell Wilson.
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It's starting to come together for the Pasadena City College women's volleyball team. The Lancers swept both LA Pierce and Ventura at Friday's El Camino College Classic Tournament, stretching their winning streak to four matches.Going back to Wednesday's win over Victor Valley, PCC has won nine consecutive games played as part of a streak that has improved the team's overall record to 5-1. The Lancers will find out where they are ranked statewide in next week's opening CCCWVCA Top 25 Poll. PCC Head Coach Tammy Silva is now 32-19 since taking over the program in the 2007 season, a year after the '06 team won just two matches. "We really played well throughout both matches, controlling them both from start to finish," Silva said. "We got a lift from using Galia Sotomayor on the right side and she seemed to thrive there after playing mostly middle for us. Patti Blasco is just all over the court, hitting through people, going around them, and showing her ability to hit from anywhere on the floor." In the first match, PCC scored a victory over one of the state's perennial powers in LA Pierce, 25-20, 25-21, 25-11. Blasco totaled 15 kills, hitting .452 in 31 attempts with just 1 error. Sotomayor delivered 8 kills and 5 assisted blocks. Libero Marissa Rangel added 9 digs and setter Jessica Xu 23 assists and 4 kills. Setter Klaire Blasco, Patti's younger sister, chipped in 3 aces and 9 assists. Sotomayor continued her excellent play with a team-high 9 kills (only 17 attempts) in PCC's victory over Ventura, 25-20, 25-18, 25-20. Xu again was consistent with 18 assists and 5 kills. Patti Blasco saw her streak of double-digit kill matches end at five, but knocked down 8 kills. Cambria Mendez served 2 aces. In roster moves, the Lancers said goodbye to sophomore Jessica Damasco (left for personal reasons), but said hello to two 5-foot-9 outside hitters in Chelsea Umana and Brooke Mataele. The pair played together as All-Los Angeles City selections at Grant High in Van Nuys in 2006. Mataele would go on to play her senior season in her hometown of Oahu, Hawaii at Kahuku High. The Lancers will try to extend their streak to five straight wins when they host Glendale College Wednesday, Sept. 16 in a 5 p.m. match at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium. [Photo--Sophomore middle blocker/opposite Galia Sotomayor pounds down one of her 8 kills in PCC's 3-game win over LA Pierce Friday at the El Camino College Quad Tourney in Torrance, image by Richard Quinton.]
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Big Boi, the more masculine member of Outkast, is moving forward with his plans to put on a ballet. You can go ahead and do that thing where you rub your fists over your eyes in disbelief right now. The musician, who many (including me) have hailed as a visionary, will join forces with the Atlanta Ballet and members of Purple Ribbon Entertainment to put the dance extravaganza on. While Im not ready to bust out my own tap dancing shoes yet, I do applaud Big Boi for having the courage to pursue all his dreams, no matter how artsy.
According to Pitchfork Media, the gyrating gigs will begin on April 10th and run through the 13th. Thats only six performances; so, book your flights to Hot-lanta now. I cant imagine tickets wont disappear quickly. This is the kind of thing gang members like, right? No? Nevermind then. Atlanta is like a thugged-out Sodom; so, I doubt many citizens will drive their stolen Escalades to the Fox Theater. That means you can check with your wife first before blowing the Christmas Bonus on Outkast spin-offs.


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My laptops disk drive will not open. When you click the button the lights still turn on like it will open so the drive isn't completley broke. I have even tried the manual way by pushing a bobby pin through the small hole to open it, and that doesnt work as well? Any other ideas?
Try restarting?
Using an eject from a program such as iTunes or Windows Media Player?
Ive tried restarting, tried the manual open with it shut off and turned on.. tried opening it by rightclicking the drive and clicking eject. Ill try itunes, didnt know you could eject from there.
Tried Itunes, didnt work as well... idk what to do, pretty stuck on this one.
Is there a little hole where you can stick a paper clip in?
What kind of laptop?
Is it a swappable drive?
If you can't get it to pop open using that small hole either:
The object you're using is too thick and you're not triggering the release catch
A disc popped off the spindle and is blocking the tray
If it's the second option...that really sucks, but either way there's no reason for that release catch to not work. There's nothing electronic to it
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Don Tapscott is widely recognized as one of the leading business thinkers of the Digital Age. He authored several best-selling books in the last decade, including Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology, The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence and Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation.
His latest offering is The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business, co-authored with his long-time partner, David Ticoll. The book has generated controversy and praise.
Dr. Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google Inc. said of the book, "Tapscott and Ticoll's capacity to combine a fresh and authentic perspective with real-world data has once again opened the aperture on our emerging network economy. A brilliant work."
More traditional business leaders, such as Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO, have reacted with skepticism. In an interview with Government Technology's Public CIO, Tapscott discusses the controversy, praise and criticism of this new work.
Public CIO: For those who haven't read your new book, perhaps you might start by giving a general overview. Obviously the Internet's impact is fueling the shift toward greater transparency, but you also said leaders see transparency either as a threat or an opportunity.
Tapscott: Well first of all, given Enron, WorldCom and the current crisis of trust, most people think of transparency these days as the obligation to openly disclose financial information. They think of transparency as having to do with corporate governance. This is a narrow and old-fashioned view. Basically transparency is a powerful new force in the economy, not just for shareholders, but all stakeholders who interact with companies and other institutions. To deal with companies first, that includes customers, employees, business partners, and to some degree, broader society. These stakeholders have unprecedented visibility into the behavior, performance and management of corporations. They can find out information that is pertinent to them -- information that hurts them if they don't have it and helps them if they do. Moreover, people cannot only find, but they can inform others. And they can organize.
This force has been relatively nascent for half a century. But in the last decade, and particularly in the last half decade, it has really built up a head of steam. It is now bringing about profound changes in the behavior of corporations -- the way they interact with other institutions and society, and for that matter, the nature of the corporation itself and its role in society. As I use the term, transparency is also something that can be done to you. Companies can be passively transparent or naked. But transparency is also a force that can be harnessed to build trust and create sustainable business models. That is, companies can be actively transparent.
Public CIO: So why, in your view, is all this coming about?
Tapscott: There are a number of big factors. One clearly is technological. The Internet is the antithesis of the previous dominant media of this century. Print, and then radio and television were all one way, one size fits all, one-to-many and centralized. They tended to carry the values of their owners. But the new media -- the Internet, and as it is emerging, the Hypernet -- are interactive. They are one-to-one and many-to-many. They are not centralized, but highly distributed. And they maintain an awesome neutrality. They will be what we want them to be, and people will want these media to be powerful tools for understanding the world around them.
Our world is becoming filled with smart communicating devices. Kids sitting in the movie The Hulk communicated through SMS to their friends. That movie was dead before the first day because kids just communicated with each other. They could find out from others, and they kind of organized on the Net. Then all of a sudden this was into all the movie chat groups online, and that was the end of The Hulk. Other dogs got killed this summer as well, so technology is a factor.
The second factor is economic. Companies need to have more candor toward their employees because we have knowledge workers now. People need to have knowledge just to work. They need to know a lot more about corporations they work for. The IBM salesman 20 years ago didn't even know if the company was going to announce a new product architecture on Monday. Then IBM, like every other computer company, didn't pre-announce its products. Today the IBM salesperson needs to know everything about IBM's product strategy, their business strategy, who's on the board, whether or not the compensation program of their CEO is a legitimate one, why they adopted Linux, why they did deals with SAP and Siebel for applications, and on and on. So just to work, people need knowledge. That means companies need to be more open.
Public CIO: You also argue that the push toward greater transparency springs from the economy's new nature in general.
Tapscott: Absolutely. Another big economic driver is the unbundling of the vertically integrated corporation that was the dominant institution for wealth creation in the 20th century. These companies did everything from soup to nuts. The Internet is having the effect of dropping transaction costs between companies, which means many companies are now unbundling and focusing on what they do best, and they partner to do the rest. This doesn't mean companies will be small. It means companies that are focused have a chance to be large. The small companies will be the vertically integrated ones on their way to extinction. That means a lot of information flows that were within the boundaries of the corporation are now between corporations. Companies within their business webs and supply chains need to have a high degree of transparency and openness just for these new business models to work.
Then you have a number of geopolitical factors -- the success of global capitalism. This has resulted in trade barriers falling. We have the liberalization of international markets with integration of global financial markets. These are leading to several things. One is greater scrutiny of corporations on a global basis. Twenty eight of the 100 largest economies in the world are corporations. But there are no global governments to monitor them, nor will there be in our lifetimes. So we are seeing the rise of global institutions that scrutinize companies, and the rise of the so-called civil society filling the vacuum that exists on a global basis. When the Rainforest Action Network decides Home Depot is logging old growth forests, they don't go to some government to complain. They go to the Internet. Two years later, Home Depot is a leader in protecting old growth forests.
We also have demographic factors -- the rise of the Net Generation, which I have written about. The children of the baby boom are the first generation to grow up bathed in bits. These kids, rather than being the passive recipients of television, spend a lot more time interacting online. When they do that, they are authenticating and organizing information. They scrutinize and are telling their stories, composing their thoughts and reading. And they have great BS detectors. This generation is a huge force for transparency and openness. The oldest are 24 now and coming into the work force and the marketplace.
And finally we have a series of political factors. We have the spread of democracy around the world that also gives rise to the rule of law, and generally, an increase in the environments of transparency. We have the proliferation of all these new regulatory regimes for corporate transparency. We have the gradual shift to network forms of global governance and accountability. So you put all that together, and you have a series of powerful historic forces that re-create a much more open business environment.
Public CIO: In the book you made an interesting statement. "In a transparent world with unprecedented access to information, employees, shareholders, business partners, and even to a degree, consumers want evidence that firms are trustworthy and behave according to their values." I underlined both "evidence" and "values." In other words, it is not just more information, but actual proof of trustworthiness and appropriate values.
Tapscott: Yes, people can find out, they can inform others and they can organize. What can they find out? If their employer is a good employer by going to internalmemos.com, or thevault.com or fuckedcompany.com. They can find out if their pay is appropriate for the kind of work they do by comparing it to the pay of other people in the company, which is now revealed in many companies, or by comparing it to international standards. They can find out if their company is trustworthy -- if trust is the expectation that a company will be honest, that it will be considerate of my interests, that it will abide by its commitments, and will have candor and be open. If you are going to buy a new car today, you go online and find out who has the best mileage, performance ratings, safety and the other things you care about, such as protecting the environment. You find out how much your dealer makes on the sale. You want to go to your dealer armed with knowledge. Knowledge is power. There is a power shift happening right now toward customers. You can't make garbage smell like roses any more. Tide's got to wash whiter. You can't just say Tide washes whiter -- it's got to wash whiter.
Shareholders can find out -- not you and me, but the people who make decisions about investments for big institutions -- and they are getting more active. The Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund has 200 people who do nothing but scrutinize companies. When they invest in a company, they want to know everything about it, including how management thinks. Business partners know more. If you increase transparency on the supply chain, you drop transaction costs and improve the metabolism of the whole supply chain. But you can't have unethical practices. You may be a computer company, but if somebody is suffering from environmental pollution in one of your plants somewhere in Taiwan, then you are going to get nailed for it. So companies now need strong values.
Public CIO: Another thing you write about, which is relevant to corporations but possibly more relevant to government, is the obstacle to transparency. The trend may be toward being more transparent, but it is not always easy.
Tapscott: No, and there is a battle under way. It is a battle reflected in the reactions to this book. The Economist basically said it is the most important business book in years, whereas BusinessWeek said basically, "Fresh and compelling thesis backed up by powerful evidence, but we don't buy it. Companies will never change." And Jack Welch called me a jackass on national television in Canada because the book questions the transparency of CEOs and their compensation plans. So it is a controversial book. We have people, on one hand, saying we are too tough on corporations. On the other hand, people are saying we are too easy on them. That gives me comfort that we are probably about right.
Public CIO: In the interest of minimizing controversy, could you define transparency as you are using the term?
Tapscott: It is access to pertinent information -- information that is beneficial to you as a stakeholder if you have it and hurts you if you don't.
Public CIO: So you are not talking about information about everything?
Tapscott: No, and that's an important distinction because there are lots of things we know or don't know about corporations that are not pertinent. That has nothing to do with transparency. If I'm working in a company, the fact that someone is having an affair with someone in another department probably is not pertinent to me.
Public CIO: Another key point you highlight is that transparency must be managed.
Tapscott: Yes, and we are not suggesting, as some people have said, you need to get completely naked. Companies have legitimate trade secrets. They need to protect the privacy of customers and employees. There are many aspects of the corporation not revealed to all persons and all media, and at all places and times. So you do need to have a strategy. Most companies and institutions don't. They just muddle their way into it. They have no internal process to figure out what will be released. They don't have a policy that delineates who will decide what gets released to what media. And they have no formal way to track or evaluate the release of that information afterward. Was it a good idea to reveal this information?
There are many other impediments to transparency as this battle is unfolding. There are structural obstacles. Bill Watkins at Seagate wants to be the most open company in the world, and the main people fighting him are his own lawyers. On the other side, we have transparency fatigue. We just all know so much. Maybe it eventually just becomes so overwhelming we throw up our hands. Then there is false transparency, or apparent transparency, which is a form of deceit. Take companies that publish 200 pages of numbers in their annual report. Warren Buffett says, "If I can't understand the numbers in two minutes, somebody's hiding something."
Another barrier is that there are limits to knowledge. I'm sure I had mutual funds investing in Enron in 1998. I thought it was a pretty good company. I thought it had a pretty great business model. On the Enron chat group, I never noticed the dissertation from someone with the handle JanisJoplin298 that said Enron's off-balance sheet financing and other monkey business is going to put it under. How do you parse out that little factoid surrounded by tens of thousands of breathless comments about how Enron is America's corporation for the next two centuries? In other words, we don't have transparency literacy. We don't know how to behave in this highly open world. But having said that, the train has left the station -- transparency is a broad, historic force being accelerated rapidly by these big drivers. It is an unstoppable force. The only thing that could stop it would be something like fascism or some radical change in the whole geopolitical and economic situation. But fascism, because of transparency, is a lot less likely because all of this applies to governments.
Public CIO: In one way, government might emerge as a leader when it comes to transparency. Many government institutions already have to be more transparent than corporations.
Tapscott: That is interesting because the accountability mechanisms of democracy have been stronger than the accountability mechanisms in the private sector, which is the markets. When you can put a $100 million into advertising for a lousy product, and people don't have a way of finding out, of informing others and self-organizing, you can get away with it and sell the product. That's not to say governments are completely transparent.
Public CIO: There is a lot of use of PR in government -- spin and so on. But governments might jump on board faster, which is an interesting reversal. Government has often lagged in terms of technology, and the organizational impact and effects of technology.
Tapscott: We were actually going to get into government in the book. We were interested in these anti-war demonstrations -- not in terms of having a view pro or against the war, but in terms of how fast they happened and how big they were. I was involved way back in the '60s, and these demonstrations in some cities were an order of magnitude bigger than the biggest demonstration at the height of the anti-war movement when almost 50,000 Americans had been killed. And they happened in 18 weeks, not in 18 months, which is how long it used to take to organize a big march on Washington. You had to start 18 months in advance. The government still went ahead with war and still has a lot of popular support for the war. But I think people are getting more engaged. Will it lead us into polarization? I don't know. I hope not. But if you look at the best-seller books right now, they are extreme books attacking George Bush or in favor of George Bush.
We also had a whole section in the book on stakeholder webs and implications for governments. We cut it out because we wanted to focus on the corporation. Stakeholder webs are networks of stakeholders that scrutinize companies and try to change their behavior. There are also stakeholder webs for government. With governments, we are not just consumers; we are also owners. We can learn a lot by studying the market and seeing that also applies to government, but governments are also different because here market forces are not everything. So there are these amazing conversations going on. Every government at every level has a stakeholder web.
This means we have a wonderful opportunity to reinvent democracy if you think about it. Just like we had broadcast media, we sort of had a broadcast model of democracy. Now we are moving to a much more participatory model of democracy where engagement is the big deal.
The big scandal in the last election in the United States is not hanging chads or pregnant dimples or any of that stuff. A hundred million Americans didn't vote. They just don't give a damn. They don't see real differences. Political parties used to be ways of engaging citizens; they are now just tools for political candidates to raise money. And we have a very explosive situation shaping up here. On the other hand, we have this powerful new media. We have the Net Generation becoming voters and citizens who die for engagement. You think people don't vote today -- wait until that generation comes to the fore. It is either, "Engage me, or I'm not interested." They sure aren't going to vote a certain way because some guy has negative advertising on television.
Public CIO: You also talk about the dark side of transparency. Not only are corporations becoming increasingly transparent to different stakeholders, but customers are also becoming increasingly transparent to corporations.
Tapscott: That brings up an important clarification. Just because today transparency is in the interest of corporations, that does not mean individuals should reveal everything about themselves via the Web. Humans have a basic right to privacy, which corporations don't have. Corporations have a right to security. But there is no right of privacy to corporations, and I would argue against trying to extend such a concept to the corporation. The irony is that because of reverse transparency, we are increasingly leaving a trail of digital crumbs as we travel around, and these are being dumped into large databases.
On one hand, it is great to be treated as an individual with one-on-one marketing, but we need to be vigilant that corporations are using that information for the purposes for which it is collected, and not for other purposes. So a lot of people have gotten alarmed and said I was in favor of transparency. Therefore, I was saying that all us individuals ought to open up the kimono too. No, it's the opposite. It is because of transparency in this new information-rich world that individuals need to protect their own information even more carefully.
Public CIO: That is especially important for government institutions to recognize.
Tapscott: Governments should be more transparent and fiercely fight for the privacy of their citizens like never before.
Public CIO: So what is now demanded is a constant vigilance as to what information other people have a right to know.
Tapscott: Totally. You hear it a lot these days -- because of terrorism, privacy is dead and you may need to know everything about people. I think that is both wrong and dangerous. If you destroy privacy, you give away a free society. But it is also just incorrect because there are many things that can be done to ensure governments have the information they need to create a secure world without destroying the privacy of individuals.


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The two companies will never acknowledge this latter fan base, even though they were the ones who made Del Scorcho sauce into a modern-day sacrament and secured the popularity of Doritos Locos Tacos. Stoners should be angry at the lack of respect, and now they have even more reason to be angry at the two now that the companies have united to go after the upcoming Kush Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. OC Weekly has the rest.


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The applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining for security and privacy problems continues to grow. One recent trend is the growth of Big Data Analytics and the establishment of Security Information and Event Management systems built to obtain security intelligence and situational awareness. With the advent of cloud-computing, every advantage the cloud offers, such as large-scale machine learning and data-driven abuse detection, is being leveraged to improve security.
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And then you'd celebrate with an even better barolo.
This project put the social in social activation. Working with the folks in Italy and their folks on the ground here in SF, we built a super buttoned-down plan for reaching out to influencers and creating a stir in the upper registers of the local landed gentry. Then we went to town building awareness via a whole host of ultra-focused tactics (everything from high-touch direct response campaigns to invitation-only sponsored events). The gamut, basically. And the results were off the charts.
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Hi! I was thinking, it might be neat if gtx'es posted could be grouped per author/poster of the Gtx and be shown in a gallery on the authors profile page, and on the spiral graphics site. That would make browsing for textures more user friendly and easier.
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Is anyone else getting anxious? I can't wait. I love summer, but I am so ready for tailgating and Cyclone football.
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YES! Fortunately I'm going to be really busy at work these next 6 weeks or so, so the rest of the summer is going to fly by.
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Yes and no, LOVE FOOTBALL and LOVE SUMMER, summer is half over
Originally Posted by UNIGuy4Cy
Yes and no, LOVE FOOTBALL and LOVE SUMMER, summer is half over
Taking Thursday the 2nd off work. We will be in Ames all day
--Luck of the Cyrish--
Definitely ready for college football. This summer has been a nightmare.
Man, I'm ready to go to the games...just gotta find some good tailgate parties next year.
I was in a bar in eastern Iowa last night, they did the same thing then played the Iowa fight song.
I then got molested by everyone that knew me for the next minute and a half
I'm pollinating corn six days a week for the rest of the summer. I am ready for football season. After I get my money, of course.
The 52 days cant come soon enough! My wife's Uncle just purchased our party wagon for this fall and we cant wait. He said it seats 8 comfortably but easily 12 drunks. If I could find a picture of this thing online I would.
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God, I love those guys!
Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Now that our biggest tournament is over its time to get ready for football season. I cant ******* wait.
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Now that our biggest tournament is over its time to get ready for football season. I cant ******* wait.
You better join the party in G7! You and CYCRAZY2
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Vibrant New Let Me In Trailer And Images
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The early word out of Toronto is that Let Me In is every bit the worthy successor to Let the Right One In that fans could have hoped for. Breathe a sigh of relief and allow yourself to enjoy this: a brand new international trailer for the movie which, may be the best trailer so far.
It contains some of the moments seen in the other trailers released, with a few new ones. But its all set to a new musical tone which gives the whole thing a better flow. It really has a heartbeat now, a definite point of view, a rhythm to it which I really love. Along with the trailer Overture has released dozens of new Let Me In stills which, are quite simply, gorgeous. Heres the trailer followed by the stills.
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A University of Bridgeport student has won the 2006 Fashion in Motion contest with his design for the Triple Watch. The Triple Watch concept is a cell phone that folds conveniently into a watch-size factor for storage on a wrist band. Calls can be received either when the phone is unfolded or via a speakerphone when the it is on the wrist. The runner-up for the contest was a wedding dress that transforms into a screeching robot pterodactyl... or it would have been, if I had taken the time to enter it.
A movie theater in Japan will begin pumping different smells into the audience to correspond with scenes taking place on the screen. Using technology developed by NTT Communications, seven different scents are released from a mix of oils stored in machines under the back two rows of the movie theater. The first movie to use this technology will be "The New World" in which a floral scent will accompany love scenes, peppermint and rosemary for sad scenes, citrus for scenes of joy, and new car smell for the scenes when Colin Farrell and Pocahontas tear up the streets of the new world in a bitchin' Trans Am.
The D'Andrea Group has developed a robotic chair that falls apart and reassembles itself on command. Remotely activating the chair causes it to break into six pieces: the legs, back, and seat. The seat then sprouts wheels, searches out its fallen comrades, reassembles, and then returns itself to an upright position. Check the video to see it in action. They say that the concept will ease future chair transportation, but it's safe to assume that a lot of other things in the future will assemble and disassemble on their own, like cars, computers, appliances, jigsaw puzzles, relationships, even sandwiches... Especially sandwiches.
Hewlett-Packard has designed a wearable camera prototype that is easily concealable in an "ordinary" pair of sunglasses. The camera can capture 1.3 megapixel images at 7.5 frames per second or .3 megapixel images at 30 frames per second, storing the images on a portable hard drive. The system continuously records images, but the wearer has to press a button on the device to store the previous 20 seconds and the following 5 minutes of footage on the hard drive. The hard drive will store approximately 3 hours of footage, which just about covers the length of time you will spend trying to convince people that there isn't a hidden camera in your goofy, oversized sunglasses.
Microsoft is hosting a "treasure hunt" contest in Singapore where they are giving away five Xbox 360s. The "Where is My 360?" contest places 5 webcams at different points on the island which broadcast on the contest's website. Singaporeans can go to the website to view the webcam feeds, and if they can find the exact location of one of the cameras, they will win an Xbox 360. However, if two people find the location of a webcam at the same time, they will fight to the death for the 360 in a televised battle airing on G4 and sponsored by Sprite. Now that's television!
Scientists are studying ants to help autonomous robots improve their navigation skills. Ants use landmarks to find their way in unknown territory, as well a system known as "path integrator," in which ants continually measure the distance traveled and directions taken in order to determine a straight route back to their home. This system is a reliable way to navigate, and many feel it could be beneficial to robots. Scientists plan to continue to study ants for robot technology, with an eventual goal of having thousands of tiny robots enter my house and start living in my kitchen and ruining all those pop tarts and my cereal and that last piece of cake that I was saving for a special occasion. Those greedy bastards.


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Mississippi Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck says she has no interest in being appointed to the U.S. Senate.
Tuck attended a performance at the Roxy Theatre in Newton Thursday night. Her friend, Sen. Terry Burton, has a leading role in the play.
Tuck told Newscenter 11 she is not interested in serving in Sen. Trent Lott's seat until a special election is held Nov. 4, 2008, nor in Cong. Chip Pickering's seat, should he be appointed to the Senate position.
"I have been honored to serve at lieutenant governor of this state and I look forward to working as a special assistant to Dr. Foglesong at Mississippi State University," Tuck said.
Tuck is going to the position at her alma mater after her term ends in January. She served two terms as lieutenant governor and was not eligible to seek the office again. Tuck previously was a state senator and secretary of the Mississippi Senate.
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Rumors of a Google Nexus Two - despite CEO Eric Schmidt's previous denial that one was in the pipeline - continue to grow, with Gizmodo having heard from a tipster who apparently got to play with the Samsung-made device. Like the Galaxy S family, it's apparently made from black, glossy plastic and "feels really similar to the Galaxy S in a lot [of] ways," though the back has "got this curve to it."
There's also a roughly 4-inch display, which the source believes to be Super AMOLED, and a "sort of concave" front panel. A front-facing video camera is the only confirmed hardware spec, with no word on the CPU or which "really buggy" stock build of Android the Nexus Two was running. Note, the picture above is a mock-up.


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Fresh Android Apps for June 10: Stair Dismount, Skin Ink, 3D Bowling
by Ian Black
Perhaps virtual reality has evolved into mobile apps. In today's list, you can play the role of a sociopath (Stair Dismount) or an alternative culture tattoo artist (Skin Ink), all while you're innocently on the go with your Android. Think of these as mini-vacations of the mind at the start of summer. To rejoin the mainstream, go bowling (3D Bowling).
Stair Dismount (Free)
Once again, a mobile application lets us safely explore our violent tendencies without harming others. This app lets you push a crash test dummy down a variety of stairs, watching the damage and listening to the crunching of parts all along the way.
It's a game of sorts where you score higher by causing damage to as many sections of the body as you can, but the point is really the naughtiness. You can post your friend's face on the dummy and then share your mayhem over Facebook and other social networks.
Skin Ink ($0.97)
Let's take this tattoo craze to the next level. You watched hours of tattoo parlor docudramas on cable, you may have even got yourself inked during an impulsive night on the town – but you know you really want to become a tattoo artist yourself.
Skin Ink lets you learn and practice the basics of tattoo art without actually vandalizing any human flesh. In the form of a game, you can sketch and design your own stencils under time pressure with limited ink, then move on to inking your designs on a virtual human body. Additionally, you can import your own stencils or use those designed by genuine tattoo artists.
3D Bowling (Free)
Who would have thought that bowling and Android mesh so well together? This one, as the name suggests, is a 3D version that sports a variety of themes from realistic '50s to street to starry night.
Pick your own ball from a set of different colors. The scores appear overhead in the traditional grid. The description claims that a realistic physics engine grounds the ball and pin action in reality. Like other bowling games, you position and flick the ball down the lane with your finger. Here you can add a hook to the left or right with a curve gesture.


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Is this the face of the new ATP CEO? Rumor has it ex-Nike global sports marketing VP Adam Helfant, 44, will become the next head of the men's professional tennis tour.
According to ESPN.com,
Helfant's marketing experience at Nike, where he was involved in some tennis deals, and reputation as a skilled, fair-minded negotiator is said to have resonated positively with players and administrators concerned about the tour's ability to weather the current volatile economic conditions.
Helfant headed up some of the biggest deals for Nike including those involving NBA stars Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Carmelo Anthony.
With all the current issues on the ATP World Tour that need to be addressed - scheduling, tour sponsorship, match-fixing - it'll be interesting to see if another tennis outsider can come in and effect real change. We all saw what happened with former Disney chief Etienne de Villiers.
No official announcement has been made yet. Stay tuned.
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THE LOW DOWN: Ex-Nike exec Helfant rumored to be new ATP CEO
Is this the face of the new ATP CEO? Rumor has it ex-Nike global sports marketing VP Adam Helfant, 44, will become the next head of the men's professional tennis tour.
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- johanneJanuary 9, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Is this guy American? I remember reading a number of places how the players wanted a European CEO. Hmm.ReplyDelete
This will never happen, but I would love to see someone really *out there* take over and shake things up, like a Lendl or McEnroe. The changes might be crazy, stupid, or great, but at least it would get people and media talking about tennis again.ReplyDelete
johanne: yeah, he's an american and you're right when you said the ballers possibly wanted a european to grab the helm. but according to reports, the ballers actually support the choice. go figure?ReplyDelete
natch: never, no way, no how
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Kickstarting their annual team previews, KD begins with at least some more optimistic words this year about Kyrie the Kid: "The Cleveland Cavaliers, once again, are a farm team. But unlike the one that put up with LeBron James' growing pains and hanger-on demands before he skirted off to Miami, this one is essentially acting as a growing field for whatever the team's front office decides will come next. The team's rotation is almost entirely filled with players on rookie scale contracts, and while a good chunk of those youngsters won't bowl you over, they have enough star guard Kyrie Irving to make up for any misgivings you might have about two-through-12.
Irving is an unabashed star. You could probably score on him in a pick and roll, and he doesn't have John Stockton's career assists record shaking in its mid-cut sneakers, but the kid is an All-Star level scorer and game-changer. … The other youngsters have a lot of explainin' to do, though." [Kelly Dwyer/Ball Don't Lie]
A fun back-and-forth begins with this skeptical outlook of Dion Waiters: "Look, I'm an optimistic guy. I was convinced LeBron would never leave Cleveland. If you dig hard enough, I'm sure you can find a post from my old blog where I predicted the Cavs would make the playoffs when he did leave because of JJ Hickson's development. I thought the Indians were a lock for the World Series in 2008 after doing absolutely nothing during that offseason. I saw Revenge of the Sith on opening night. I've convinced myself of more than my fair share of totally absurd shit. That said, I'm freaking the hell out over Dion Waiters. Questionable (at best) shot selection, erratic drives to the rim, an ugly shot, limited range, the whole manner in which he was drafted, his past behavioral issues, all of it. I'm worried man. Talk me off the ledge." [Angelo Benedetti/Fear The Sword]
An intriguing positive fantasy perspective on the Browns. You don't hear that too often: "The Cleveland Browns may have only one victory this season, but in fantasy terms, this team has turned out some reliable contributors, and they're all rookies. Brandon Weeden has tossed a pair of touchdown passes in each of his last two starts despite having two of his starting receivers watching from the sideline. As a bye week replacement, you could probably do worse seeing how Weeden takes on a soft Indianapolis Colts secondary that has failed to surrender two or more touchdown passes just once in five games." [Jason and Justin Sablich/The New York Times' Fifth Down Blog]
Planning for the Colts begins with that No. 1 pick: "#1 – Going All-In For Andrew Luck: The decision to cut ties with Peyton Manning and banking on Andrew Luck being "the next elite quarterback" in the NFL was a major storyline this offseason. This isn't a pick that can be evaluated fully in its first season. Luck has not shined above and beyond the other quarterbacks in this year's class; even Brandon Weeden is having a comparable season to Luck thus far. … There are a few things to take into consideration with Luck: he is going to throw the ball…a lot. He is averaging 44 pass attempts per game, but he's only completing 55 percent of those attempts." [Chris Pokorny/Dawgs By Nature]
Hammerin' Hannahan time might be over in Cleveland: "Jack Hannahan's days in Cleveland are likely numbered. At least, they should be. Hannahan, a journeyman third baseman, was picked up by the Indians before the 2011 season. He was tabbed to be a stop gap at the hot corner as well as a defensive specialist on a club seemingly with plenty of offense. Two seasons later, Hannahan is no longer needed as a bridge to the future. Young prospect Lonnie Chisenhall, if he can stay healthy, appears ready to be the everyday third baseman. The Chiz Kid's bat, much stronger than that of the 32-year-old's, is now needed in a batting order that has great need for a quality hitter or three." [Craig Gifford/Did The Tribe Win Last Night?]
Surprising source here, but Boston scribe Dan Shaughnessy shares his thoughts on Terry Francona's impact in Cleveland: "'He believes in Mark Shapiro (president) and Chris Antonetti (GM) and what they are doing. You've got to have a roster and a payroll. It takes talent. Since the Indians took him on, he's been harder to find. He's been going at it 24/7 right from day one.'" [Bill Lucey/Huffington Post]
Preseason rankings spark Big Ten basketball storylines: "1. The Big Ten Is Under Immense Pressure: The good old phrase, "there is nowhere to go but down," applies in this situation. Nobody is surprised to see Indiana ranked #1 but the Buckeyes and Wolverines' rankings may raise some eyebrows. Both of those teams return three key starters from last season – Aaron Craft, Deshaun Thomas and Lenzelle Smith, Jr., for OSU and Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway, Jr., and Jordan Morgan for Michigan. Returning starters and potential All-Americans will trigger a high preseason ranking but three teams in the top five is still a big deal for the league. Having said that, if any of the three teams slip during the early non-conference games, they will slide down the rankings fairly quickly which will eventually lead to "the Big Ten is still overrated" claims among many hoops fans." [Rush The Court]


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I had Live Mesh beta installed on my PC at work for a long time, and used it to connect to my work PC from home, when I had to do some work related task. Worked great.
Now Microsoft has changed things, and Mesh is no longer beta (it ended at the end of March 2011). I've got it installed on my Windows 7 machine at work. Only problem is, I've no idea at all as to how to connect to it. If you go to www.mesh.com, you get re-directed to Microsoft's website, and it looks to me as though it's a site which documents things, but I don't see anywhere on that page, how to actually access the devices in that "mesh". Maybe I'm missing it, that's certainly possible, but I just don't see it. How do I do that from some other machine, not a part of that "mesh"?