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Subject: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:08 pm
Dark Match
Gary'Angel'Johnson Vs Henchman
With a healthy crowd in the arena Henchmans music plays and he makes his way to the ring as the anticipation from the crowd builds to see the 6wf Hardcore Champion.I want it all plays and Angel comes out on the ramp holding the title in the air before running down the ramp and sliding into the ring.Henchman waits patiently in the corner as the referee takes the Hardcore belt and the bell rings
RJ-Im sure Hooligan is watching this match somewhere ready for his first title match on Monday
The two men lock up and Henchman pushes Johnson back into the corner. Henchman cheapshots Gary before the referee warns him.Angel is whipped across the ring but as Henchman runs in Gary jumps ove rthe back of him and pins his shoulders down 1...2......Kick out
Michael Wire-Almost
Henchman gets up quickly with a forceful clothesline and stomps down on Johnson. The Hardcore Champion gets whipped across the ring and Henchman goes for a second clothesline but misses as Gary crossbodys him 1...2......Kick out. Johnson atomic drops Henchman followed by a dropkick but Henchman is soon back up. Gary slams Henchman and drops an elbow before going to the top rope.Henchman gets up though and follows Johnson to the top rope. Johnson pushes him off and Henchman lands on his back.A 450 Splash later and its academic 1...2.......3!
RJ-A good showing for the Hardcore Champion ready for his title defence Monday
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:08 pm
Match 1: JJ Johnson vs. Abe Abercorn
JJ walks cockily down to the ring, fans cheering and chanting his name, he gets into the ring and mimes boxing before climbing the turnbuckle and lifting his taped fist. Abe Abercorn's music blasts out of the speakers and he strides down to the ring, head held high, getting a mixed response from the crowd.
MW- Both men look ready for this encounter.
The bell rings and both men lock up in a test of strength, Abe kicks JJ in the gut and hits a strong DDT. He then begins to climb the turnbuckle but JJ is up to quickly so he gets down again and is met by a left jab from Triple J. He retaliates with a headbutt but JJ dodges and spears Abe before letting fly punch after punch on Abe while's he's down. JJ gets onto the turnbuckle and the crowd cheer, he goes for an elbow drop but Abe rolls out of the way and JJ smashes onto the mat, he holds his ribs.
MW- That looked hard.
Abe gets up and stomps JJ and hits a standing leg drop and then starts taunting JJ while he's down, Abe's pumped and locks an armbar but JJ immediately holds the rope. Both men get up and lock up again, JJ manages to push Abe away and hit a clothesline, which knocks Abe over, but Abe gets up quickly and JJ doesn't realise it, Johnson turns around and is put on Abe's shoulders and starts spinning.
MW- That's an airplane spin for you.
RJ- Don't pretend you know what you're talking about.
MW- Sorry…
Abe puts JJ down who falls over but Abe is still dizzy, he regains his senses and starts taunting JJ again. He then locks in a chicken wing, JJ goes for the ropes but misses, and he tries to power out, but fails.
RJ- This could be the end!
JJ is putting his hand down to tap, when Abe releases. JJ sighs but is obviously hurt. Abe starts taunting again, in JJ's face this time, the fans start chanting Tick Tock in unison and Johnson starts to get pumped, he gets up and Abe tries to hit JJ who just grabs Abe's fist and throws it out of the way and runs at him, but Abe dodges, and JJ goes flying into the turnbuckle, Abe laughs and Johnson turns around, visibly angry, Abe gets put of the ring and starts taunting JJ. Triple J is frustrated and looks to get out of the ring when the referee counts 3; he turns around and looks at the referee. He then picks the referee up and hits a double powerbomb.
MW- JJ Johnson has lost it. The referee is down. The rule book out of the window.
Johnson gets out of the ring and starts looking under it, he throws a chair and a ladder into the ring.
RJ- I think your right, Michael, JJ Johnson who is normally so calm and collected has lost it in this match.
Abe slides into the ring and JJ follows suit. Abe picks up the chair and tries to smash it over the skull of his opponent, but JJ dodges and kicks Abe in the groin, hard. JJ sets up the ladder.
MW- This could be a preview of the Internet Title Match coming up.
Abe is slowly getting up so JJ grabs him and chucks him into the turnbuckle, JJ then climbs the ladder and the fans start cheering, Abe manages to climb up after and they trade fists on the top of the ladder, JJ manages to gain the upper hand and starts setting up for a VIP Experience of the ladder. But suddenly Abe reverses it into a DVD and hits it, off the top of a ladder.
Crowd- Holy ****! Holy ****
Abe puts his arm over for a pin, but the referee is still down so he gets up and starts shaking the referee, who starts to revive, Abe then walks over and starts the pin, 1...2! Kick out.
RJ- Oh my god!
Abe gets up and puts JJ in a Boston Crab, JJ manages to grab the rope quickly but Abe holds on.
Ref- 1..2..3..4.
Abe releases and then lifts JJ up and tries to lift him up but JJ reverses and kicks Abe in the gut, and hits a Scissor Kick. The fans chant Tick Tock and JJ lifts Abe up and hits a VIP Experience, pin; 1..2..kick out, JJ gets up and hits a DVD! Pin; 1…2…3!
JJ then gets up and grabs the chair he puts Abe onto the top turnbuckle and hits an Access All Areas onto the chair.
MW- Stop, stop, stop!
JJ gets onto to the top turnbuckle while the fans chant ASC! ASC! He then gets out of the ring and leaves through the crowd leaving a disgruntled Abe in the ring.
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:09 pm
RJ goes backstage to interview Anarchy
RJ-So Anarchy tonight you team up with the 6wf Cham.....
EZ Money-Shut up PJ.Tonight Anarchy are back in the Main Event where they belong and we are winners
Hero-Thats right its only a matter of time before we are both World Champions CJ and if we have to drag GWC and that srawny little.......
(EZ cuts him off and points behind him where River Ace and GWC are.River Ace puts one arm around both members of Anarchy)
River Ace-Boys boys are we ready tonight to step in the ring with the men that run this buisness?
Hero-Remove your arm or i break it
(River Ace removes it before squaring up to Hero.GWC and EZ Money pull back their partners)
Hero-Il drag your a55 to victory but you best stay out of my way if you want to stay healthy
Michael Wire-Looks like the Anarchy Dynasty team is falling apart before the match has even started
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:09 pm
Match 2
Rock v2 Vs Hooligan
The English National Anthem starts as Hooligan makes his way down to the squared circle.If you smell what Rock v2 is cooking hits as the popular Rock v2 makes his way to the ring
RJ-Rock v2 is on a bit of a losing streak and im sure he intends that to change here today
Rock v2 litearally rocks Hooligan back with stiff right hands toi open the match suprising the rookie. Rock v2 whips Hooligan across the ring followed by a stiff elbow as Hooligan staggers out of the corner. Rock v2 stomps Hooligan before picking him up and whipping him across the ring and hitting a spinebuster
Michael Wire-Rock v2 is on fire
Rock v2 sets up for the peoples elbow but Hooligan rolls out of the ring.A frustrated Rock v2 looks at the crowd before following Hooligan out. Rock v2 hasnt seen the chair Hooligan has picked up and cracks over Rock v2s head and is diqualified
RJ-That was a brutal shot
Hooligan keeps hitting Rock v2 with chair shots before security get in between
Michael Wire-Rock v2 has ended his losing streak but not the way he wanted and Hooligan may of lost tonight but those chair shots will be legal Monday.Could we have a New Hardcore Champion
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:09 pm
Match 3
TGA Vs Matt Lightning
Matt Lightning's music hits and the crowd go wild as he and Belinda make their way to the ring. Belinda is throwing muffins into the crowd as they walk
RJ: Just listen to the reception this young superstar is getting!
MW: Yes, the crowd have really grown to love the Muffin Crew
Matt Lightning enters the ring and grabs a mic
Matt: What do you guys want?
Crowd: Rap! Rap! Rap!
Matt: When do you want it?
Crowd: NOW!!!
Matt: Ok here goes, Well me and Bel...
TGA's music hits cutting Matt Lightning off. As TGA approach the ramp he receives a mixture of boos and cheers from the fans, he sprints down the ramp and slides into the ring. Once their he climbs on the turnbuckles making a belt shape around his waist
MW: The crowd don't know how to react. They dont like TGA, but they do like what he did to The Dynasty last night!
TGA and Lightning walk into the centre of the ring, Lightning offers his hand to shake, but TGA slaps it away. Both men lock up and TGA immediately overpowers the smaller Lightning and backs him into a corner. The referee calls for a break which TGA does after a count of three.
Just as it looks like being a clean break TGA kicks Matt in the stomach and as he doubles over begins reigning blows on his back. The referee counts to four and has to drag TGA away, as Lightning picks himself up in the corner.
MW: TGA looks even more focused on inflicting pain tonight than usual!
TGA turns and charges at Lightning who just manages to slide out of the way. With TGA now in the corner Lightning opens up with a flurry of chops to the number one contender, leaving bright red marks across his chest. Once again the referee has to intervene.
Once both men are in the centre of the ring the referee warns that anymore will see a disqualification.
As they stand toe to toe they trade blows with each other, before Lightning is whipped into the ropes. Lightning leapfrogs TGA as he looks for a backflip and on the rebound lands a flying clothesline that takes the big man off his feet.
Lightning drops a couple of quick elbows before trying to lift TGA up. As TGA almost reaches a vertical base he digs his shoulder into Lightnings stomach and hits a spinebuster.
RJ: Where did the Number One Contender find the power to do that?
MW: I don't know RJ, but it's left both men down and the referee ='s count is up to five!
...6...7...TGA gets up on one knee...8...TGA makes it to his feet, as he does Lightning flips straight onto his and charges at TGA with a shoulder block. Lightning bounces back but TGA is unmoved. Lightning runs the ropes and shoulder checks TGA again but still has no effect.
Lightning tries once more, but as he jumps TGA catches him by the throat, lifts him up and plants him to the mat with a chokeslam!
TGA puts one hand on Lightnings chest for the cover, 1...2...kick out!
MW: TGA's cockiness may have cost him there!
In frustration TGA grabs Lightning and whips him into the corner
RJ: Whisper In The Wind!!! MY GOD, where did he get the energy??
Both men are down but Matt gets to his feet first and he begins to stalk TGA waiting for him to get up. Just as TGA gets upright Lightning drops him with a standing dropkick to his face.
Lightning climbs the ropes and hits a swanton bomb!
MW: No!! The number one contener rolled out of the way
Both men stagger to their feet and start to trade blows before TGA gains the upper hand, rocking Lighting with a huge right hand. As Lightning turns to face TGA, he lifts him up with right arm
RJ: Lightning's about to be sent To Hell And Back!
MW: No, TGA's dropped him to the floor....what the??
The camera shows GWC with his title at the top of the ramp mocking TGA. With TGA distracted Lightning rolls up TGA...1...2....3!!!
GWC leaves the ramp laughing
MW: The Champ has just ended the Number One Contenders winning streak!
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:09 pm
Match 4. The Saint vs Crime Lord
St.Anger hits as the former TAW champion makes his way to the ring with a huge pop from the 6WF crowd.
MW:Its The Saint,he looks pumped for this match although he seems to be struggling a little after those attacks from TGA and Crime Lord earlier in the week.
RJ:Will the former champ be able to get through this match unscaved,he has a real test on his hands.
The Saint waits in the ring as The Crime Lord makes his way down the ramp as the crowd boo furiously
MW:Obviously we expected nothing else from this crowd for such a ch....OH MY GOD!
The Saint doesnt wait for Crime Lord to enter the ring and instead suicide dives through the middle rope and takes out his opponent before raining in rights and lefts to the Crime Lords head.
Referee:Get him in the ring Saint
Saint picks up Crime Lord and looks to roll him back into the ring but instead whips him head first into the ringsteps,Crime Lors is clearly hurt from the attack as Saint continuosly kicks him on the floor.
RJ:The commsioner of Monday nights is looking to destroy his opponent and exact revenge for the Dynasty putting him in hospital.
Referee:Last chance Saint or I'm ringing the bell.
The Saint stares at the ref before putting Crime Lord into the ring,Saint slides into the ring and the ref pulls him over and berates him for his actions before signalling for the match to start.As the referee's backs turned Saint walks over to Crime Lord who low blows him before hitting a jawbreaker.
MW:Cheap shot by the Dynasty man
RJ:Cheap but incredibly effective
As the Saint writhes in agony on the floor the Crime Lord systematically stamps on him,first his arms and then legs before kicking him in the head.
Crime Lord:Come on! get up!
The Saint is holding onto the ropes for leaverage but the Crime Lord kicks his legs out form underneath him and drags him to the middle of the ring where he performs a kneelock.The Saint is trapped and is clearly in pain,he attempts to move towards the ropes but CL hangs on and applies more pressure.
MW:The Saint is desperately holding on here.
The hold is locked in for about 2 minutes when the crowd begins to chant for the Saint,he is in agony but reaches down and finds the strength to drag the CL to the ropes and forces the hold to be broken.
RJ:Fantastic resilience by the leader of the Coalition but he is hurt bad.
Crime Lord senses the injuries and continues to work away at the knee,a knee breaker,followed by several chopblocks leaves The Saint on the mat in serious trouble.Crime Lord jumps in the air and drives his leg into the Saints knee and attempts a pin,1,2...kick out
The Saint gets his shoulder up and CL goes back to work at his knee,he picks the Saint up and Irish whips him into the corner and signals a big move.
Crowd:YOU SUCK!YOU SUCK!YOU SUCK!
Crime Lord mockingly bows at the crowd and places Saint on the top rope where he looks for a superplex,The Saint punches at CL furiously and kicks him off the top rope.
MW:There is fight left in the Saint
The Saint peforms a flying elbow drop on the Crime Lord and slowly moves over to make the cover 1,2..kick out.Both men struggle to their feet and Saint back suplexes Crime Lord and then DDT's him as he gets back up.1,2,kick out
RJ:The Crime Lord came here to fight tonight,it'll take more than that to keep him down.
The Saint punches the Crime Lord and and throws him into the ropes,CL ducks the first attack but on the rebound there is no stopping the spinebuster that plants him firmly into the mat.
MW:that might be all
1,2.....kick out
RJ:So close
Saint shouts at the ref that it was a 3 but the referee waves him way telling him it was 2,clearly frustrated The Saint walks back to the Crime Lord who rolls him up in a small package
1,2,kick out
MW:Saint needs to calm down or he'll throw this one away
Saint goes back to work on Crime Lord and hits a perfect uppercut that drives the Dynasty man into the corner,the Saint runs at him but Crime Lord drop toe-holds him into the turnbuckle
Crime Lord slides out of the ring and slams the Saints injured knee time and time again into the ringpost,the referee's count forces him back into the ring where the Saint clutches at his knee in agony.
RJ:Vicious from the Crime Lord but its working wonders,the attacks earlier in the week have taken their toll on the Saint.
The Saint tries to kick at CL as he approaches but the big man merely laughs and stomps on his knee and locks in a figure four leglock.The Saint screams in pain
MW:Great move by the big man,didnt know he had that in his arsenal,there looks to be no way out for the Saint.
The Saint is trapped in the middle of the ring,he refuses to quit but he isnt able to get anywhere near the ropes.After a few minutes his shoulders slip onto the mat
MW:he sat up, just!
Saint tries to reverse the move but there isnt enough strength in his legs and his shoulders drop again
1,2...kick out
RJ:There isnt much left here,a great show from the Crime Lord
The Saint seems close to tapping out when he makes one last attempt at getting to his ropes,his fingers are inches away...
MW:He just got there! and I mean just
Crime Lord breaks the hold but isnt fazed he picks up the Saint and signals for the Crime Pays.He lifts Saint onto his shoulders but Saint slides off and looks to push his opponent into the turnbuckle but Crime Lord elbows him in the face and...
but the impact of the stunner sends Saint crashing through the ropes to the outside,Crime Lord continues to be unfazed and slides out the ring where he picks up his opponent and slams him into the announce table.
MW:Maybe not the cleverest tactics from the Crime Lord,he could have had a countout victory there.
RJ:Ye but he wants to inflict more damage on The Saint
Crime Lord body presses The Saint and launches him over the top rope,he scales the ring apron and climbs onto the top turnbuckle.
MW:What the hell is he doing up there
Crime Lord attempts a senton bomb but Saint moves and as Crime Lord gets up he hits a german suplex followed by a belly-to-belly suplex and a pumphandle slam.
MW:Great offense there and a pinfall
RJ:NO!his shoulder was just up
Saint is in pain but stalks his opponent as he awaits him getting up,Saint positions Crime Lord for the Divine Force but he drops to his knees and sweeps the Saint's knee
RJ:Great work by the Crime Lord,straight back to the injured knee
The Saint is clearly on his last legs and The Crime lord spots this and kicks Saint clean in the face,he drags him up by his neck and Chokeslams him
MW:He's toying with him now,just end it will you!
Crime Lord spits in The Saints face and hits the Crime Pays,he makes the cover
MW:His foot is under the rope!
The referee notices this and tells the Crime Lord he cannot win this way,Crime Lord's swagger disappears slightly and he shouts at the ref who stands his ground and tells him that the match continues.
RJ:Great officiating,but its only a matter of time
MW:I'm afraid to say I agree with you
Crime Lord kicks the Saint in the knee and tosses him against the ropes,As the Crime Lord lowers his back to perform a backdrop the rebounding Saint sunset flips him and rolls him up
MW:He got him,out of nowhere!Incredible from the commisioner
RJ:The match looked a foregone conclusion but this man's heart never ceases to amaze me,what an inspirational performance.
MW:Just goes to show that all those attack midweek could not keep this man down,now he can concentrate on Nemesis again.
As the referee helps the Saint up the Crime Lord chopblcoks him again before he stamps on his knee several times,he then goes outside and gets a chair which he wraps around the Saints knee
RJ:What is he doing? He lost the match,he should be out of here
Crime Lord jumps off the top rope and stands on the chair wrapped around the Saint's knee,the commisioner screams and shakes uncontrollably on the floor as Crime Lord grins and raises his arms
MW:The Saint may have won the match but the Dynasty certainly got the last say tonight
RJ:Cant help but think there will be consequences for tonights events.
The Crime Lord leaves ringside as EMT's come down to check on The Saint.
Match Time:15.45
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:10 pm
Match 5. Nemesis vs Enforcer
Wire: And now we have two big superstars going one on one.
RJ: That's right; Enforcer takes on our TAW champion, Nemesis.
Nemesis music hits and the crowd erupt into big boo's. As one fan jumps up and boo's straight at Nemesis, he walks over to him and the fan is silent. Nemesis doesn't stop, and goes to reach out for him.
Trash TV music echoes around the arena, but is drowned out by loud cheers as Enforcer charges down the ramp and clobbers Nemesis over the back, preventing the fan from harm. The referee comes out of the ring and walks up to them, telling them to get in the ring. Enforcer and Nemesis exchange big shots, before Nemesis gains an upper hand with an eye rake.
Wire: Dirty moves from the Monster!
Nemesis garbs Enforcer by the neck and pulls him towards the ring, hitting his head off the ring before sliding in with him. The ring eventually rings and Nemesis begins booting the stomach of Enforcer.
Nemesis walks over to Enforcer and signals for a chokeslam. He pulls Enforcer to his feet before locking his grasp around his throat.
RJ: Here it comes!
As Nemesis goes to lift Enforcer off the air, he receives a kick to the ribs. Enforcers kicks Nemesis again before head butting him. Nemesis stumbles back as Enforcer runs at Nemesis and takes him down with a clothesline. Enforcer mounts Nemesis and begins beating hi around the head with left and right hands. Enforcer stands up and picks Nemesis up to his feet, before hitting with an uppercut. Enforcer picks Nemesis up and lands the suplex, before covering 1… 2… Kick out! Enforcer hits the mat before dropping his elbow over Nemesis' face. Enforcer kicks Nemesis's body hard before going for another elbow drop. This time Nemesis rolls away and is on his feet quickly.
Wire: And Nemesis is back on his feet.
Nemesis picks Enforcer up and whips him to the ropes and catches him with a spinebuster as he returns. Nemesis grabs Enforcer's leg and sets up a Boston crab. Enforcer is close to the ropes but can't reach; Nemesis walks forward pulling Enforcer away from the ropes.
Wire: He's going to tap!
RJ: Wait, he's edging closer, closer. . .
Enforcer grabs the ropes and Nemesis sits down, still holding Enforcers legs before dropping them. Enforcer slides out the ring to catch his breathe, clearly winded from Nemesis's last move. Nemesis walks over to the ropes and goes to bend over the rope and grab Enforcer's hair. Enforcer moves out the way and pokes Nemesis in the eye, before sweeping his legs. Enforcer slides back into the ring and runs at the ropes, and waits for Nemesis to turn around before running at him, going for the Face Check!
Wire: My god! He ducked it!
As Enforcer turns around he sidesteps a big boot form Nemesis, before giving him one of his own. Enforcer kicks Nemesis head and shoulders.
RJ: Enforcer is starting to gain control again.
Enforcer stalks Nemesis, getting ready for another Face Check. Enforcer runs at Nemesis but is met with a strong right hand, sending him back. Nemesis lifts Enforcer off his feet and drops the Chokeslam, here's the pin 1… 2… Kick out! Nemesis turns to the crowd and signals for the Death Wish. He picks up a dazed Enforcer and hoists him for a Death Wish, before turning to the ramp. He drops Enforcer with the tomb stone but moves towards the ropes as Trish Stratus makes her way down to ringside gingerly.
Wire: She's in no fit state!
RJ: Look at the commitment!
As Nemesis walks over to Trish and leans over the ropes he grabs her by her hair. The referee walks over to Nemesis and tells him to let her go. After about twenty seconds, he releases her hair. He turns around to go for a cover and
RJ: Oh My God!
BANG! Nemesis is taken down by a magnificent Face Check.
Wire: There it is. 1… 2… 3…!
RJ: He did it!
Enforcer is standing in the middle of the ring, celebrating, before sliding out the ring and continuing his celebration with Trish.
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:10 pm
Trash TV/Producers Vs GWC/River Ace/Anarchy
Anarchy in the U.K hits as EZ Money,Hero and Black Widow come out to a mixed reception from the 6wf crowd. The crowd know how they feel as The 6wf Champion and River Ace come out to a barrage of abuse. Trash Tv and The Producers all come out together and milk the crowd for all its worth
RJ-Theres a feel good factor whenever these guys are about!
Diablo starts the match against EZ Money
Michael Wire-Listen to the crowd.They realise the history these two men have and look at th respect they are showing as they just stare at each other metres apart
The two men take a step forward each before unleashuing fists at each other with EZ Money taking control with a knee to the gut.Diablo is thrown through the ropes and GWC clotheslines him on the outside as the referee is distracted telling Hobo not to get in the ring. Diablo is thrown back in the ring 1...2..Kick out! EZ locls on an armbar before tagging GWC. GWC double axhandles Diablo from the second rope before locking on an armbar himself
RJ-Working as a team suprisingly
Hero is tagged in and kicks Diablo in the gut before launching him across the ring and connecting with a flying forearm.Hero goes up to the top rope and performs a beautiful moonsault as Diablo gets up 1...2......Gerry breaks up the count and Hero holds out Diablos hand for Gerry to tag. With Gerry in the ring Hero takes out some anger with
stiff chops and an Alabama slam 1...2......Hobo breaks up the count. Hero drags Gerry over to Heros corner and slaps River on his chest
RJ-I guess thats a tag!
The Europeon Champion gets in the ring and stares at Hero before piledriving Gerry. River Ace gets up and slaps Hero on the shoulder
Michael Wire-Another stiff tag
Hero runs the ropes and choplocks Gerry before performing a Canadian Destroyer and spitting on Gerry. Hero slaps River Ace
RK-O my god
River Ace gets in the ring and pushes Hero who punches River.Meanwhile Gerry starts crawling towards his corner and eventually tags Hobo. Hobo comes over to an arguing River Ace and Hero and bashes their heads together before pulling GWC over the top rope and Hobo handshaking him(eye poke). Hobo turns his attention then to EZ Money as Diablo and Steve enter the ring and all 8 men fight in opposite corners.A 4 way Irish whips ends with Anarchy,GWC and River Ace all colliding in the centre of the ring before Gerry spears
GWC through the ropes. Steve and Hero battle outside as Steve bites Hero and holds onto his leg
RJ-Anything to gain an advantage it seems
In the ring Diablo sends EZ down to the mat as River Ace spinebusters Hobo.Both men turn around and go face to face in the middle of the ring as the crowd pop
Subject: Re: Lockdown Results (03/07/2008)
Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:10 pm
RJ-This is the first time these two men have seen each other since River Ace ended Diablo's career and River is reminding him
Michael Wire-Ended? It doesnt look ended right now!
Diablo punches River Ace back a few times as Trish Stratus runs down to ringside trying to get them to stop. River rakes Diablos eyes and tells Trish to grab his leg when he whips him across. Black widow has come around arguin with Trish and when Diablo is Irish Whipped it is reversed and Trish grabs River Aces foot setting him up to be speared by Diablo. EZ Money has connected with a Money Shot on Hobo and is the only man left in the ring and low blows Diablo with the referee distracted before rolling him up as the referee turns around 1...2.......3!
RJ-Again EZ has Diablos number and somehow Anarchy,GWC and River have escaped with victory. We're out of time.Make sure you watch Shutdown Monday folks
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Dr. Martin realized that it was difficult for a 50 year old man to admit to his fear of the dentist, but he also knew that dental anxiety is not uncommon. The American Dentistry Association estimates that as many as 75% of adults in the United States experience some degree of dental anxiety.
Researchers believe that approximately 5 to 10 percent of U.S. adults experience dental phobia; that is, they are so fearful of dental treatment that they avoid dental care as long as possible. Although some folks are just prone to anxiety, others may have had a bad experience in the past. Whatever the reason however, there is a solution! Dr. Martin and his partner, Dr. Will Taylor, have had many patients who initially suffered from some level of dental anxiety who now are more than comfortable during their visits with the use of conscious sedation.
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Conscious sedation is the use of anxiety-reducing medication such as nitrous oxide (also known as "laughing gas"), which is inhaled and causes feelings of relaxation. Or a dentist can instead administer an oral sedative, such as Halcion. While these sedatives may help people feel calmer and sometimes drowsy during dental treatment, patients are still conscious and able to communicate with the dental staff. Conscious sedation, used along with a numbing agent applied directly to the area, can make for a totally anxiety-free and pain-free experience.
Can All Dentists Use Conscious Sedation?
Not all dentists are licensed to use conscious sedation. In fact, according to Dr. Martin, only about 5% of dentists have the needed credentials. In order to be licensed, Drs. Martin and Taylor have been specially trained to be able to provide their patients, including their pediatric patients, with this service. The combined experience and knowledge of Dr. Martin and Dr Taylor in this area is extensive. In fact, Dr. Martin himself is one of the examiners for the State Dental Board who makes sure other dentists are properly trained and have the correct equipment to use conscious sedation. Patients can be assured they are in highly qualified hands.
How Do I Know if Conscious Sedation is the Right Choice for Me?
In Jim's case, Dr. Martin suggested they do a trial run. If Jim could experience conscious sedation for a simple procedure, like a deep teeth cleaning, he would know what the sedation felt like and what to expect when he got his crowns placed. Once Jim went through the trial run, he felt much more at ease and knew he'd have no problems with the more extensive procedure. Jim did not cancel his next appointment for his crowns and he has not feared going to the dentist since trying conscious sedation at Taylor Martin Dentistry. Now if he could just figure out how to get over his fear of spiders!


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It's practically part of the English language, admittedly an expletive usually precedes it, and very much embedded within corporate life – PowerPoint! Ask anyone to prepare a presentation and they'll start up the favoured application* of Microsoft's Office empire.
I read with interest and a wry smile an article on the BBC's UK Magazine about PowerPoint hell in which they highlight the main problem – they're just so boring and I couldn't agree more! I've lost count over the years at the number of presentations I've seen with more bullet points adorning a slide than a Wild West shoot 'em up movie, text size that is unreadable to naked eye and the need to use every colour of the rainbow.
The BBC article, based on PowerPoint's 25th anniversary, picks up on most of these problems and more. So what can we do the change this? Well, one answer may well be to look East, the Far East actually. Pecha Kucha was devised in Tokyo and could be the way forward from those sleep inducing presentations.
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which content can be easily, efficiently and informally shown whereby the presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece – a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. That's it. No going over your allotted time, no time for waffle, just straight to the point making it memorable.
I've proposed to try this method to with a project team at Ericsson who want to prepare a presentation to employees around Information Security ISO27001. They seem keen to give it a go. If it works, then maybe I can start to rollout more presentations like it – and who knows we could signal the end of death by PowerPoint!
*Just to be clear, my favoured application is NOT PowerPoint, Keynote for the Mac wins hands down. Now if only I could convince the global IT guys to switch us all over to Apple 🙂


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History of Williamstown Baptist Church 1868 to 1968
Page 3: 1868 to 1869
The Church proper was constituted on October 11th 1868, with the Rev. David Rees officiating. Those present at this historical meeting were: Messrs Daniel Munday, Jacob King, Isaac Hopkins (first Treasurer and Deacon) Mesdames I. Munday, I. Hopkins, J. King, M. Taylor, James Hutchinson (age 27) (first secretary). Misses E. S. Greaves (age 17 years-Baptised 10th November, 1867) Alice Ruse, Ada Munday (age 14 years-Baptised 10th November. 1867). The first services were held in the Presbyterian school hall. The Collins Street Church, whose help had been sought, took a kindly interest in the work at Williamstown in arranging preachers for Sunday services: Mr. John Collins assisted the infant Church by frequently taking the Sunday preaching himself and in presiding at meetings of which first recorded attendance was 1st December, 1868.
James Hutchinson was elected the first secretary and Isaac Hopkins Treasurer.
The earliest preachers to this Baptist congregation were Rev. David Rees, who returned to visit England in March 1869, and Messrs D. C. Rees, John Turner, Charles Carter, W. H. S. Blake and Professor Kernot. At a meeting on 15th November 1868, Isaac Hopkins was elected the first delegate to the Baptist Association Eighth Annual Assembly Meetings to he held on 17th and 18th November, 1868.
Mr. Isaac Hopkins held various offices, and was one of the Church's greatest helpers and supporters for many years.
After the initial period at the Mechanics' Institute and at Isaac Hopkin's and Emery Armstrong's private residences, the Oddfellows' Hall, property of Mr. Lovett, was rented at £17 per annum from December 1868 for services. The Presbyterian schoolroom in Cecil Street was later used, followed by the Temperance Hall from Friady, lst April, 1870. The Tabernacle, now the Church of Christ, Douglas Parade, was used after this. In January 1876 services were held in the Oddfellows' Hall again and in 1884 the new Cecil Street Church building was officially opened.
For some years at the beginning the work,of the local Church experienced a very vibrant spirit which caused many ups and downs. History has demonstrated that the spirit had many more ups than downs and whilst much can be said about temporary troubles that existed in the early years they were only temporary and the congregation under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, grew from strength to strength.
On the occasion of the 1st Anniversary in October 1869, the Reverends Poole, Lush and New preached and the Mechanics' Institute was hired for a week night meeting tea.


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"What a magnificent touring aircraft!" says Tim Ward after spending over three hours flying around New Zealand yesterday in his Europa Classic, ZK-TIM.
This was after his son, Angus, flew it down to Wanaka for the famous Warbirds over Wanaka airshow last week - it was placed in the static air park and created a lot of interest from aviators.
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Trust you have been well and keeping the faith! I just want to use the opportunity to invite y'all in London to the International Gathering of Champions 2007 taking place at KICC. It promises to be a time of spiritual enlifting with speakers like Bishop Eddie Long, Mike Murdock, Bill Winston, Cindy Trimm, Pastor Jamal Bryant, Bishop Tudor Bismark and others. Ministering in Music will be Pastor Donnie McClurkin, Judy Bailey, Byron Cage and others.
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February is my memorial month, four weeks of sifting through archives of dozens of journal entries, hundreds of emails, multiple early book drafts, and other previously unpublished writings so that I can remember, reconnect, literally re-collect, and offer something valuable to you.
It's a tender and unpredictable process. In spite of my especially heavy professional and private schedule this month, I've found myself at my computer in the middle of the night more times than I can count, often listing with longing, tears blurring my vision (or streaming freely) as I return to pieces of writing and living that have shaped me profoundly, and to others I'd somehow forgotten.
Here's a photo I found in my midnight rummaging. The accompanying text is from Global Mom, where I bring you here, the Pont des Arts, a bridge over the Seine where the music of life is pulsing over the Cit of Light. These are the last lines before the lights go out and his pulse stops under a bridge in an irrigation canal in rural Idaho.
It was the night of the Fête de la Musique. Throughout that June night, Paris vibrates with its annual city- wide festival of music, when musicians of every sort—madrigal choirs, rap artists, reggae bands, orchestras, flamenco guitarists, string chamber ensembles—are free to make their music any place they want in the streets or in concert venues and for as long as they can hold out. As the name Fête de la Musique says, it's a music party; but fête is pronounced just like faites, the imperative form of to do, making of the title a typically French jeu des mots or play on words: "Do music!"
Nothing could have suited our firstborn better. Parker, who as I've written was part of a circle of local percussionists, met with them on the Pont des Arts for many hours of pure drumming explosion.
Walking toward that bridge, you could feel the electricity thrumming in surging beats already in the ground and through the air. Crowds had already packed the bridge, so the children couldn't see over all the heads, and Randall and I couldn't see around all the bodies to find Parker. But we knew he was there somewhere. Maybe listening. Maybe hanging out with friends one last time.
As we moved closer, Dalton and Luc, who could see under people's arms and between their knees, spotted their big brother. "Hey, Parker!" Luc yelled. But the drum beating was so thick, you couldn't hear your own voice as it left your own mouth, let alone hear the voice of a waify seven-year-old.
Luc pulled me by my hand toward the crowd, then motioned to Randall to hoist him on his shoulders. "The crowd!" I yelled over the din, "there must be hundreds!" At least four or five hundred people on that one bridge alone, and they split apart just enough so we could edge our way toward the source. And there he sat, djembe between his knees, the white boy with blue-gray eyes, his hair cropped very short to his well-shaped skull, the American boy (but who would have ever known?) named "Par Coeur" by the likes of Shafik, his closest Tunisian drumming buddy, and five others all of African descent. There they all were, swaying and pulsing to the pounding of their own djembes and large tub drums, or rocking, eyes closed, as they pummeled their instruments together.
The energy could just about lift you off your feet. It made the bridge tremble and sway. And standing there in the push of all these people, I sensed I had to hold myself together, had to keep myself from throwing my arms in the air and spinning for sheer delirium. This was a Paris I understood, a place where millions of people sing their songs and beat their rhythms but do it all at once. Somehow, it's not cacophonic but something beyond it, a grand intimacy and intimate grandiosity strung along the river and its several bridges.
Over those bridges, under those bridges, behind the museums, in front of the Metro stops. Children, old people, all colors, all persuasions, tourists, policemen, the homeless, the political elite. Everyone on one night crowding the skies with their music. In the center of this—really in the physical center—sat my boy, the one who'd banged into pieces my big Tupperware bowls on linoleum in New Jersey and broken to splinters my mixing spoons on the wooden kitchen floor in Norway. Who'd gotten his first drum set from a retiring musician down the street on our island and had beaten the sticks to a pulp. Who every Thursday late afternoon and in the fifteenth arrondissement of this city, had shown up for his drum lessons from a French percussionist with a long gray beard tied neatly with a red macramé bow. There was this son, shoulder to shoulder with the world, whamming and jamming with his people—all people, everyone and anyone who would stamp and clap and catch the hem of his rhythm.
"Dad?" I heard Dalton trying to raise his voice to get Randall's attention through the noise. "Dad?" our blonde and reticent eleven-year-old was standing, a bit self-conscious, awed, visibly, by his brother. Not as comfortable yet in his skin as this muscular drummer was, but every bit as thoughtful as your average fifty-year-old.
"Yes, Dalton?" Randall crouched down to hear better.
"Dad," Dalton was watching the movement ripple through crowd encircling the place where the seven drummers sat, feeling the surge of the drums' cadence. "Dad, do you think . . . heaven's anything like this?"
Randall and I laughed a bit then smiled. But Dalton was sober, stone cold serious.
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Arsenal's Dutch striker Robin van Persie described his sending-off against Barcelona as "a total joke" after his team's 3-1 defeat ended their hopes of a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Van Persie, declared fit for the game only earlier on Tuesday, was shown a second yellow card by experienced Swiss referee Massimo Busacca in the 56th minute when he took a shot at goal after being flagged for offside.
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What is needed is for the menus to be built up from the settings (not
So, attached is my latest diff which apart from lacking menus is
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Planned Site Outage Today
Update: As of Friday, Nov 5th, we have been resolving several issues with our new servers. Faves.com may be unavailable throughout the day as we work through the remaining problems. If you have difficulty signing in, or using the service, please send us mail at firstname.lastname@example.com to let us know.Thanks! Mike and Lee
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Spammers Be Gone!
The fight against spam on Faves is never ending. As we've scaled back on full time staff, it has been increasingly hard to keep up with users who are trying use Faves purely for SEO (despite the fact that our links are all no-follow!), spam, or distribute or adult content.
This has been particularly harsh on our Buzz system - showing the most popular bookmarks for literally thousands of tags (keywords).
This week we took the drastic step to hand-pick the users who's content will be allowed to be posted to our front page and popular Buzz pages like our Video page.
The results have been remarkable. What used to be a wasteland of spam (or worse, porn), now actually has some interesting content on it again.
We'll be continuing to refine this, but hope that the recommendations you see from Faves will be much higher quality.If you'd like your account to be considered to be included in our recommendation service, follow our Twitter account and send us a link to your faves user page for review.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Ma.gnolia Data Loss and Faves.com Future
I've been watching the data loss at ma.gnolia.com with some interest. Ma.gnolia is (was) a social bookmarking web site, with a small, but engaged community of users. Amongst the social bookmarking websites, we felt it was one of the stronger competitors with Faves.com (bluedot.us).
But, on Jan 31, 2009, they had a catastrophic data loss and the site went down. At first, it looked like they would recover in a few hours. Hours dragged on into days, and days into weeks. Even now, some 3 months later, they have not returned. They did provide some data recovery tools to their users to try to reclaim their bookmarks from publicly available copies on the web.
I just finished watching this video interview of Larry Halff, the creator behind ma.golia. At first, I thought they were being a bit flippant about losing the all their users's data, but Larry proved to be very forthcoming and contrite about the episode.
The interesting facts and insights from this video are:
- They lost 1/2 Terabyte of data.
- They did not test their backup system.
- They had only one backup (not a rolling backup).
- They ignored operational issues/performance as site grew.
- Ma.gnolia was running on 4 mac mini's running as web servers with 1 main database server and 1 backup server
- Despite using software raid storage, file system corruption caused catastrophic data loss and prevented their backup from working.
- Mag.nolia "never made money" (completely self funded), but did build a loyal community of users.
- Larry feels that "destination social bookmarking" does not have a good prognosis - more people are using the large social sites (Facebook, Twitter) for sharing links.
- Ma.gnolia will return hosted on AWS (cloud infrastructure) with better backup systems in place. It will relaunch as a private beta and be invitation only (he doesn't say why).
- Larry suggests that web 2.0 sites disclose more about their infrastructure and backup procedures, so users can be more comfortable knowing how their data is being managed.
With this in mind, I think it appropriate to disclose some of the behind-the-scenes facts about Faves.com.
- Faves was built by a professional development team (7 developers) beginning in 2005.
- After having raised multiple rounds of funding, we realized that we were not earning enough money via advertising to sustain that team. In the Fall of 2008, Faves.com had to lay off all full time employees.
- Faves.com is still be operated by myself, and 1 part-time operations person.
- While somewhat downsized, we retain a fairly large scale data center with 4 front-end web servers, and 6 backend database servers.
- We perform nightly incremental backups of all of our data, as well as complete datbase snapshots taken on a weekly basis.
- We have NOT done a recent full-scale data recovery test, though we used to restore a snapshot of our site to our test server we used for internal develpment.
- We recently raised a small round of financing which will enable Faves.com to continue to operate for the foreseeable future (2+ years, even without increasing our site revenue).
- We also have concerns about our site performance, and have prioritized migrating to a cloud-based backend.
As we evolve the Faves.com service, we are looking to be more relevant to users who are increasingly adopting Facebook or Twitter as the primary means of communicating with their friends, family, and co-workers. We are also finding that a large proportion of users of our site are not authentic "bookmarkers", but rather are creating links to other web sites for marketing, or spam.
Our challenges, and priorities, going forward are:
- Improve site performance and reliability.
- Make Faves.com more relevant and useful to users of Facebook and Twitter.
- Put better systems in place for dealing with spam users and adult content
- Reduce reliance on advertising as a revenue model (ask Faves users to directly support the site, via donations or premium features).
If you have feedback for me, you can send me mail at mike at faves.com.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Faves is up and running again
We were able to get our servers started in our new location as of Saturday at 6pm. Our new ISP is WowRack. They've been really helpful during our move and we love our new location (I wish my office had a view like this one!)
Mohit and Lee (pictured) and I started powering down our servers at 9am. We moved them to the Westin Building (our new location) in two trips (taking care to move our master and slave database replicas in two different trips in case we had a car accident!).
Racking the servers went pretty smoothly, and we were able to take the opportunity to clean up some of the wiring that built up over the last 2 years. We've gained remote power management in this new location - which means we can reboot servers without taking a trip to the data center on the rare occasion where that is needed.
Now that our move is complete, we're looking forward to refreshing Faves.com by making some performance improvements, and making it an even better utility for social bookmarkers.


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Did you know that MYnT, Singapore's most talented, sexy, young and wonderful girl group, have moved into their new digital home. And the header that represents them can be considered a piece of art, well modern art. Hey, It's definitely good looking enough to be collectibles…
For Yoshimi, the clearheaded, saucy one. She had this for her header… Oh so nice…
Clean version
What you will see…
Now go visit her at http://www.projectmynt.com/yoshimi/
The young and innocent one, Tomomi… She has 4 headers, which she just kept on adding things to… oh so cute and undecided… lol. The one below is the final edit,
Clean Version,
What you will see,
For Tomomi, her place is http://www.projectmynt.com/tomomi/
As for Miyake… The Spicy, Wise, Hot, making me confused one… She, like Tomomi, has 4 versions… but interestingly, she omits the ice cream picture from the final artwork, choosing to stick with her already very good looking header from previously but with a revision.
Take a look, Yum I see Ice Cream…
Final edit,
and what you will see,
And this is her new address, so do visit her, http://www.projectmynt.com/miyake/
The change for now are merely just cosmetics thou, and all of them have imported their posts from previous blogs. And re-did the widgets and etc… They are still bloging on the respectively, Makeups, makeups and makeups. I myself would like to know more of their practice and maybe a bit of cookies on when their PV will be release…
Disclaimer: I am no stalker, I just found the header address interesting and tried what any other curious guy with a bit of technical knowledge will do… changing a few letters in the address bar…
Thou, the designer and coder of the website should be commended for their excellent work. So which header do you like best?
And so the address are,
Miyake: http://www.projectmynt.com/miyake/
Yoshimi: http://www.projectmynt.com/yoshimi/
Tomomi: http://www.projectmynt.com/tomomi/


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Its been a bit cool the last few weeks so its a great time to treat yourself to one of the great Ambra Bamboo Round Neck 3/4 Sleeve Tops. They are made from a comfortable stretch fabric made from bamboo. The top is ideal for layering.
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Its been a bit cool the last few weeks so its a great time to treat yourself to one of the great Ambra Bamboo Round Neck 3/4 Sleeve Tops. They are made from a comfortable stretch fabric made from bamboo. The top is ideal for layering.
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Here are the professional recommendations from Ambra Hosiery.
"Make sure your hands and feet are smooth and nails are manicured. Jewellery, such as rings should be taken off when putting on hosiery. With particularly fine hosiery it is recommended you use cotton gloves when putting on your hosiery to help prevent catches. Washing hosiery by hand or in a hosiery wash bag with mild soap will prolong the life of your hosiery. Making sure shoes are correctly fitting and that there are no rough surfaces on the inside of your shoes will also help."
I tend to make sure my stockings are washed with cloths in similar color. Having white fluffs on black stockings, for example, is the last thing I want. Unless I'm washing them by hand I always put them into a wash bag. Hanging stockings is simple, but don't put them into the hot sun, especially the stay ups, just to ensure the silicon doesn't deteriorate.
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Innovation Can Happen Anywhere
The Hindu | July 9, 2013
Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the Inventor of Email, was featured in an article in The Hindu on July 9, 2013. The article was entitled "Innovation Can Happen Anywhere".
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Hello! What's new in your world? Not much new for me, I am on terminal hold with my health insurance company, I'm sure you've heard me bitch about them before, but my calls are never under thirty minutes and usually forty-five to an hour. All to get those fuckers to pay for what they're supposed to pay for. Oh, it's painful. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, I'm not afraid to say publicly that YOU SUCK!!! Just pay the damn claims already! Ok. Rant done.
I had therapy today, I am still seeing my therapist from Colorado via Skype. It is just so damn comforting to see her! And guess what? I didn't even cry once! 😀 😀 😀 That must be a record. She is so good at helping me focus on the positive, and on the desired behavior. I can get quite stuck in the mud, she helps me and encourages me to get moving.
Today I did something different at the start of my day. I usually have this very rigid morning routine involving drinking coffee, catching up on email, Facebook, trashy celebrity gossip sites, and then of course WordPress, and if I don't get to do all of that I get VERY grouchy! Well, knowing how good the morning light is for a depressed person, I got up, got dressed and went for a walk across the street in the nature park. I put on my headphones and turned on a Deepak Chopra meditation. It's a pretty snazzy app, there are a bunch of different soundtracks you can choose, as well as a bunch of different guided meditations. Then you set the timer for how long you want. I set it for twenty five minutes and off I went. Well!! All was going well until I encountered a part of the path that was under water, so I'm like, hey! I'll just walk around the water on the grass. Well, the grass turned out to be a muddy bog that sucked my shoes off and I stepped right into the shit with my socks! Delight! So fuck it I retrieved my shoes and kept walking with a squish in my step. I ran into several more watery areas of the path, and I just held up the bottom of my sweatpants and walked right through them. Wet, wet, wet! What the fuck! I just kept repeating the mantra of the meditation, and the beautiful nature all around was a worthy consolation.
So while I was on with my therapist I made a list of things I'd like to try to do every day (I know I'm all over the place here, please roll with it). Here's the list:
1) Meditate
2) Read "What Color Is Your Parachute" (to try to figure out what the fuck I want to do as my next career)
3) Exercise (the magic formula that makes life better)
4) See something new
I will try doing all this shit for the next week and let you know how it goes. Please feel free to join me in my new regimen! Toodles, BPOF!
UPDATE: After ONE HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES on the phone with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, I have some hopes that they will adjust the claim correctly, i.e. In-Network as opposed to Out-Of-Network, which equals me paying $0 vs $654. I really hope they do the right thing this time. It is RIDICULOUS how much time I have to spend fighting them to cover what they're supposed to cover.


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3Go to Settings. Once you're logged in, click the gear icon at the top-right side of the screen to open your account's main Settings screen.
- You may be asked to enter your password again on the next page. This is a pretty standard security measure. Just click inside the password box, type your password again, and then click "Log In."
4Go to your Profile page. On the left side of the Settings page is a list of submenus. Select the third option on this list, which is "My Contractor Profile," to display its own settings.
5Go to Linked Accounts. Scroll down to the bottom of the window, and look for the submenu "Linked Accounts." Below that, you will see the "LinkedIn" button. Click on it to bring up a pop-up window.
6Enter your LinkedIn login details. The new pop-up window is there to allow oDesk access to some information on your LinkedIn account. Enter your LinkedIn email address and password in the fields provided then click on the blue "Allow Access" button.
- This will automatically link your LinkedIn account to your oDesk profile.
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Disney obviously wants "Tomorrowland" to be a major tentpole movie, and I think the notion of Brad Bird directing with Damon Lindelof writing is very promising. The whole "mystery box" set-up that they've been playing out in the media is fun, but now that people are starting to publish detailed pieces about what they think the box represents, they're getting into that territory where expectations are being established, and people may be setting themselves up for another moment where they end up sitting in a theater opening day and, for reasons that seem perfectly rational to them, get angry that they didn't just see "Voltron."
I have no idea what award George Clooney is holding here, but chances are he'll have even weirder things to deal with in Brad Bird's 'Tomorrowland' Credit: AP Photo/dpa, Uli Deck
What I do know is that this is the official description that's being used to help assemble a cast, and it offers the first concrete plot ideas for what we'll see when "Tomorrowland" arrives in theaters in 2014.
"A teenage girl, a genius middle-aged man (who was kicked out of Tomorrowland) and a pre-pubescent girl robot attempt to get to and unravel what happened to Tomorrowland, which exists in an alternative dimension, in order to save Earth."
The "Tomorrowland" that they keep referring to in this break-down appears to be a place where science has blown past the world we live in, and when Frank Walker was a young man, he first encountered the promise of Tomorrowland at the 1964 World's Fair. David Nix was there, showing off his own work, and he told Walker to come back when he was older and his inventions actually worked. A girl named Athena saw great promise in 11-year-old Frank, though, and she snuck him into Tomorrowland. Eventually, Frank was discovered by Nix and thrown out, but not before learning that the girl he loved, Athena, was actually a robot.
By the time we meet Frank in the film, he's much older, and George Clooney is set to play the part. Nix is the role that Hugh Laurie is signed for, and by the point the main story of the film kicks in, Nix has been the mayor of Tomorrowland for many years, and he's become rotten, corrupt. Athena, unchanged since Frank was a young man, plays a key role in the film, and the hero is a girl named Casey who has a quick scientific mind that becomes important as the story unfolds. Nix is a guy who values technical accomplishment over creative thinking, and when he throws Frank out of Tomorrowland, he's not alone. Every creative thinker is banished, allowing Nix to focus purely on aesthetics and technical advancement for its own sake.
There's interdimensional travel, human-looking robots, and a quest for revenge on the part of Frank. He is a bitter adult, and the film is not just about Casey's adventure, but also about Frank rediscovering the kid he used to be. It sounds like young Frank actually plays a decent-sized role in the film, so we may see both timelines play out to some extent.
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Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows. The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles. The Arctic, for example, is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the globe, melting sea ice, glaciers and permafrost.
The bottom line: Due largely to human emissions of greenhouse gases, there is virtually no such thing as a cooler than average year on Earth anymore. (The last cooler-than-average month was 30 years ago, in December 1984).


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Did a charity fundraiser get throttled?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 | 05:39 PM ET
Filmmaker Brad Fox told the CRTC Wednesday that he believes an online fundraiser for the Toronto Sick Kids' Hospital may have been throttled by Bell because it resembled peer-to-peer traffic.
The 30-hour online "telethon" put on by Fox and a group of Canadian comedians in November 2008 was streamed online using Bell internet services, but was forced to reset four or five times because its connection speed was so slow around 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., Fox said. Each time, he told CBC News, he lost up to 10 per cent of his audience.
Fox suggested that perhaps the telethon was mistaken for a peer-to-peer file transfer, and was therefore throttled. After all, he said, like a P2P transfer, it involved small packets sent at a regular rate over a long period of time.
He added that Bell did not explain the situation, but said it would have been able to ensure better service had it known about the event in advance.
A Bell spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday that only "P2P traffic that uses up a large amount of bandwidth is slowed down…and only during peak hours." The company has long said the practice is needed to reduce internet congestion by putting the brakes on a few "bandwidth hogs," improving service for everyone.
The company did not respond directly when asked how it ensures that other types of traffic aren't throttled by accident, but did specify that it "does not look at content."
Interestingly, Fox wasn't the only person to complain of inexplicably slow internet speeds, including non-P2P traffic while using Bell's service.
Advocates for people with disabilities also told the CRTC Wednesday that some of their peer-to-peer traffic was being throttled even during low-traffic times - like during early morning hours.
Meanwhile, internet service for some of their non-P2P applications for people with disabilities was also inexplicably slow, they said. (I should note that they also reported throttling during non-peak hours by Rogers).
After hearing several similar stories on the same day, some people may suspect that Bell has a funny definition of "peak hours."
But even if its definition is the conventional one, it appears two conclusions can be drawn:
- Bell offers no guarantees that it throttles only P2P traffic.
- Bell's internet service doesn't consistently approach its advertised speeds even during non-peak hours.
I should mention that a number of people have made the latter complaint about ISPs in general throughout theCRTC hearings this week.
The hearings are looking into how ISPs manage internet traffic and congestion, and whether practices such as throttling should be allowed.
At first the question of real speed versus advertised speed doesn't seem within the scope of the hearings, but IT consultant Jean François Mezei suggested Tuesday that forcing ISPs to disclose their true speeds could do a lot to improve congestion and internet traffic management practices.
"If they were forced to advertise that," he said, "you might find throttled speed would go up and the congestion problem would disappear."
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Disgusting. No other word for it.
If legitimate charity fundraisers can expect this sort of treatment, we're going to have ongoing problems. Lots of them.
Posted July 9, 2009 11:41 AM
If only consumers could PAY for an internet connection which Shaw or Rogers or Bell or Telus or Sasktel didn't have control over.
We're being held hostage by a cabal who doesn't internet video to supercede their video on demand offerings.
Posted July 10, 2009 09:37 AM
Bell's throttle is known to be "quirky". I often find all my traffic is throttled, even with no P2P. If disconnect and reconnect several times, I'll eventually get an unthrottled connection.
Of course, that's a residential DSL connection. It would be shocking if that's what the charity was using to serve its streams, which makes it all the more surprising that they would be subject to the throttle.
Posted July 10, 2009 10:31 AM
I don't know what is going on with North American cell and internet providers. It's like you can feel their grip slowly tightening on everyone.
Yeah Bell, those 3am-4am peak times must really be killing you.
Posted July 10, 2009 12:23 PM
Throttling any specific application is always a bad idea because who knows what legitimate purpose it might be used for.
Posted July 10, 2009 12:39 PM
Bell are nothing but thieves.
They sell you highspeed internet at a certain Mbps and then based on arbitrary circumstances intentionally do not provide the service paid for. They'd all be in jail for fraud if the government worked for us.
Posted July 10, 2009 04:26 PM
If the CRTC does not get behind the principles of network neutrality then it will show itself to be nothing more than an out of touch puppet for big business. And if thats the case then Canada has no need for it.
Posted July 12, 2009 02:20 PM
Weird. If I suspected throttling every time I experienced slow speeds, I'd have to assemble a VERY long list of throttling complaints.
I still have yet to see any edvidence that convinces me that a) Throttling interferes with time-sensitive apps or b) that somehow the ISPs stand to gain from throttling.
How can angering customers EVER be to one's advantage?
Posted July 22, 2009 04:52 PM
@ Simon:
Well, one problem that customers have is the fact that there is basically no competition in Canada, for telecommunications service provision, so they may not be worried about angering customers. You do make a good point about the variability of the speed online though. It can vary, simply because of traffic over a given segment in the network. How many people understand this? I don't know. But a little honesty in advertising might go a long way.
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I don't think I am exceptionally tall. Until I go shopping. I really struggle to find clothes that actually fit me (that I then like of course) and as I am still somewhere between my pre-baby weight and my body's survival-while-breastfeeding-therefore-maintaining-fat status, it's even more of a challenge to find clothes that fit.
Unless of course you couture-yourself!
I love buying pretty fabrics. In every spare storage spot in our house you will find piles and piles of fabric, just waiting to fulfill its fabric destiny. I had this pretty orange stretch that I thought would make a gorgeous top, and had a tutorial pinned from months ago, so set about making myself a top that fits.
|Ha! My modelling could use some work!!!
The tutorial is from Sweet Verbena and was so simple to follow. I love her fabric choices too, I think it looks very feminine and elegant. I think I am going to make a few more (they are REALLY easy to make) because as I'm crawling around on the floor chasing Baby M these days, it would be nice to not have to constantly tug at my top to stay in place and cover all!!
Do you prefer making any clothes yourself or are you tall and have some favourite stores that you always shop in that you can share with me?!


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Dongnan+Xi | Wedding in St Paul's Chapel, NYC
Being able to witness and capture Dongnan and Xi's wedding was just wonderful.
Dongnan and Xi are an amazing couple and I had plenty of fun capturing all the wonderful moments of their wedding. They met and fell in love in New York City, so they decided to get married there.
Their ceremony was held in Columbia University's St Paul Chapel.


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On Monday morning, Canadian cannabis firm Cronos Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CRON) was up an astounding 25% in mere hours.
At open Tuesday morning, Cronos was trading around $9.25. By noon, it had reached $11.63.
So why the sudden pop?
Well, the rumor mill has been swirling lately, and sources say that Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is looking to make a deal to buy Cronos.
This deal – if real – is still in the very early stages, and would make Altria a major legal cannabis player.
Hence, Cronos stock's incredible 25% pop in only a few hours. Of course, it didn't stay at this high – but it was certainly still up, by about 15%.
This rally isn't unheard of, especially in the marijuana sector. When Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NYSE: ACB) was rumored to have struck a deal with The Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO), prices for Aurora jumped nearly 29%.
And when Canopy Growth Corp. (NYSE: CGC) signed a $3.8 million contract with Constellation Brands Inc. (NYSE: STZ), Canopy surged 19% in one day, then exploded another 30% and brought other pot stocks with it.
So, we know that buyout rumors send these stocks skyrocketing – and that's just one more reason to own them.
Altria has expressed interest in the cannabis market before – in fact, much before it was legal, even medically, in any state. In a memo sent in 1970, Altria execs recognized marijuana as an "alternate, perhaps a superior, method of satisfying the needs that cigarette smoking satisfies."
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More recently, in 2016, Altria invested $20 million into Syqe Medical Ltd., an Israel-based company that produced 3D-printed cannabis inhalers.
Of course, this was after they announced that the company had "no plans to sell marijuana products."
Altria has also taken an interest in Juul, a tobacco company that makes e-cigarettes. There is nothing to say that these deals are or aren't connected – Altria has refused to comment.
We do know that cannabis and e-cigarette companies are growing rapidly. Counting both legal and black-market sales, the cannabis market has hit approximately $52.5 billion, according to Marijuana Business Daily. The e-cigarette market is projected to hit $6.6 billion, according to Wells Fargo, partly in thanks to the rising popularity of Juul's products.
So it's no surprise that Altria is looking to get into these markets. Since the 1970s, the tobacco industry's bottom line has been hit hard by public health laws and anti-tobacco campaigns. The laws restrict and heavily tax cigarette use, and campaigns such as D.A.R.E. have been introduced in schools to educate students on the dangers of cigarettes.
As a result, the industry's stocks have fallen precipitously. Altria specifically is down more than 20% in 2018 alone. However, with the rumors of Juul and now Cronos, Altria's stock has rallied about 5% in the past week.
Cronos, Aurora, and Canopy are only three of the pot stocks that have made waves recently. There are so many players on the field, so to speak, that it can be hard to make a sound investment.
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Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt?
Here appears to be a key answer: It's hard to say whether meters of ocean rising could occur in this century or subsequent centuries, but it's very important to do better science for this.
Sea Level Questions and Answers in a Warming World - Tad Pfeffer
Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt? A key recent paper http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dotearth/2015/07/23/whiplash-warning-when-climate-science-is-publicized-before-peer-review-and-publication/ … > http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan … > http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning …? @Revkin
Do open discussion journals provide a service to the scientific community? http://kencaldeira.org http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dotearth/2015/07/23/whiplash-warning-when-climate-science-is-publicized-before-peer-review-and-publication/ … @Revkin
And in conjunction with a virtual Harbin, such STEM virtual world modeling - historically and predictive-wise too - gets into very very complex virtual Earth building (especially with anticipating 8,000 languages, too) ...
See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...
Jerdon's Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning
Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet
See Virtual Worlds wiki Subject for open teaching and learning at World University (planned in many languages too) -
Ocean & Climate Management Plan -
What a cool STEM-centric far-reaching Harbin virtual world and virtual earth this will become!