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Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-BitsNext year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new operating system. Here's a look at what those behind-the-scenes enhancements will mean to you, starting with new 64-bit support.
The move toward 64-bit computing is often generalized behind the assumption that "more bits must be better," but that's not always true. In some cases, expanding support for more bits of memory addressing only results in requiring more RAM and computing overhead to do the same thing. However, Apple's progressive expansion of 64-bit support in Snow Leopard will bring performance enhancements across the board for users of new 64-bit Intel Macs. Here's a look at why, along with how it is that every version of Mac OS X since Tiger has advertised "64-bit support" as a key feature.
Follow up segments take a more detailed look at the issues related to the amount of RAM that can be installed and actually used by the system, how much memory a specific app can reserve for itself, how the OS gets faster with 64-bit addressing despite the additional overhead involved, how the market for 64-bit apps is unfolding, and how Apple is pioneering 64-bits on the desktop.
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard 1: 64-bits
2: 64-bits, Santa Rosa and the great PC swindle
3: Twice the RAM, half the price, 64-bits
4: The Future of 64-bit Apps
The march toward 64-bit
Through the 1980s, personal computers rapidly moved from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit architectures, with each advance enabling the operating system and its applications to address more memory and more efficiently handle the memory available to them. The 8-bit computers of the early 80s could only directly address 64K, the upper limit of their 16-bit memory addressing; early Apple II systems switched between two banks providing 128K. DOS 8086 PCs with 20-bit addressing could handle a whopping 1MB of RAM, but overhead effectively limited them to using 640K of it. These early machines also highlight the fact that a CPU's architecture, memory address bus, and its data registers (used to load and store instructions) may all have different bit widths.
Similarly, the 1984 Macintosh jumped to using a 32-bit 68000 processor with 24-bit addressing, allowing the theoretical use of "only" 16MB, although at the time that was far more RAM than anyone could afford. That seemingly high limit eventually became a problem for memory hungry applications, particularly with the increased demands required by graphical computing and multitasking.
By the end of the 80s, Apple had delivered full 32-bit hardware with the Mac II's 68020 processor and the "32-bit clean" Mac System 7 software, which together enabled applications and the system to theoretically use as much as 4GB of directly addressable memory. By 1995, Microsoft was shipping its own 32-bit Windows API with WinNT and Win95 to take advantage of Intel's 32-bit 80386 and 486 CPUs.
More bits here and there
A decade later, the 4GB limit of 32-bit memory addressing would begin to pinch even home computers. To accommodate that inevitability, Apple began its migration to PowerPC in 1994 to make progress toward 64-bit computing and break from the limitations of the Motorola 680x0 processors it had been using. PowerPC offered a scaled down version of IBM's modern 64-bit POWER architecture, with 32 individual 32-bit general purpose registers; Intel's 32-bit x86 was a scaled up version of a 16-bit processor, and only offered 8, 32-bit GPRs. The lack of registers on x86 served as a significant constraint on potential performance and complicated development.
In order to attack the RAM limitation problem in advance of moving to 64-bit CPUs, Intel added support for "Physical Address Extension" or PAE to its 32-bit x86 chips, which provided a form of 36-bit memory addressing, raising the RAM limit from 4GB to 64GB. Using PAE, each application can still only address 4GB, but an operating system can map each app's limited allocation to the physical RAM installed in the computer.
Being able to use more than 4GB of RAM on a 32-bit PC requires support for PAE in the OS kernel. Microsoft has only supported this extra RAM in its Enterprise, Datacenter, and 64-bit versions of Windows; the standard 32-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and Windows Server are all still constrained to using 4GB of physical RAM, and they can't provide full access to more than about 3.5GB of it, making the limit an increasingly serious problem for desktop Windows PC users.
In the late 90s, Windows NT was ported to 64-bit architectures such as Digital's Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Intel's ill-fated Itanium, but this also only benefitted high-end workstation users. Apple's own mid-90s PowerPC transition prepared the Mac platform for an easier transition to 64-bit computing, but it wasn't until 2003 that the PowerMac G5 introduced real 64-bit hardware. The G5 processor delivered 32 individual 64-bit GPRs and a 42-bit MMU (memory management unit) for directly addressing 4TB of RAM, although the PowerMac G5 hardware was limited to 8GB.
The mainstream PC remained stuck at 32-bit conventions until AMD released its 2003 Opteron CPU using an "AMD64" architecture that turned out to be a more practical alternative to upgrading into the world of 64-bits than Intel's entirely new Itanium IA-64 design. The new 64-bit PC, also called x86-64 and x64, largely caught up to PowerPC by suppling 16, 64-bit GPRs, and potentially a 64-bit memory bus to address 16EB (16 million TB) of RAM. AMD's x64 processors can theoretically address 48-bits, or 256TB, in hardware. In practice, no PC operating system currently supports more than 44-bits, or 16TB of virtual memory, and of course considerably less physical RAM.
On page 2 of 3: The challenge of moving to 64-bits; Windows and 64-Bits; and One step back two steps forward.


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Vegetarians: Animals all die as a result of these practices!!!
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Note: This post is expanded from a reply I sent to Pessimippopotomus in the discussions of CJA's review of "Time of the Doctor" from last night.
A lot of fans have complained about the general timey-wimeyness of Moffat's Who, but I think that was true of Russell T. Davies' run on the show as well — maybe even more so. It's not a complaint, because both producers have always shown that they're really more interested in the fantasy wish-fulfillment aspects of the show, as opposed to the more SFnal elements. For both men, the Doctor was an important part of their childhoods, and being able to put their own personal stamp on the character and his mythology is more important than story logic or coherent worldbuilding. Though in a lot of ways this is nothing new; barring the end of Tom Baker's run and the early Davidson years, there's never been much of an emphasis on hard SF or narrative experimentation, and the show's almost always been focused on magical science and weird creatures.
The reality is that, while they share the same title, main character, and universe, the 1963-1989 Doctor Who and the current version are profoundly different shows. The original program was a narrative-based serial centered around cliffhangers. The current show is a character-based drama based on emotional bonds and epiphanies. In the old show, the Doctor solved problems; in the current show he helps people, and sometimes himself. As a result there's less of an emphasis on the sorts of stories that defined the original series. Superficially they're the same: Monsters threaten the peace, and the Doctor intervenes. But the nature of the intervention has changed from a cerebral solution to an emotional one. A large part of that is because of the change in format; it's really hard to establish and develop a complex premise in 50 minutes, as opposed to a 90 or 120 minute serial. But part of that is also because the viewers, kids and adults alike, want more of an emotional link to the characters through humor and pathos.
It's surprising how little of that there is in the old show, even with characters you like. When Sarah Jane departs at the end of "Hand of Fear," it's pretty anticlimactic. At first she protests a little, but then she takes her stuffed owl and goes. No hugs, no big speeches. The Doctor never mentions her again, even though she'd been a series regular for three years, spanning two eras of the show, and presumably the audience would be invested enough in her character to want to know what happened to her.
Today the departure of just about any companion is a BFD, with lots of hugs and weeping, and usually major consequences to the show's overall storyline and the Doctor's mental state. In the old show, for the most part, there was very little fuss. It was acknowledged as a semi-annual turnover in the cast, and often the writers would have to come up with torturous leaps of logic to explain why the characters were leaving, like Leela deciding to marry a random Time Lord redshirt. For a show that, even in the '70s, had a remarkable sense of continuity, there wasn't a lot of emotional depth. The Doctor didn't even really seem to like people that much, and beyond his companions he didn't appear to cultivate a lot of friendships. Something like "The End of Time," which is centered on his relationship with Wilf, would have been unimaginable in Tom Baker's time, or even with one of the less aloof Doctors, like Davidson.
Part of that is that TV has changed dramatically over the last few decades, especially in the fifteen-and-a-half years between "Survival" and "Rose." It used to be the sort of thing that you watched casually week to week; you weren't supposed to get deeply invested in the emotional lives of the characters, and the shows were designed to keep that involvement to a bare minimum. You were drawn by the actors' charisma or good looks, but you weren't supposed to worry about their inner lives, which were mostly nonexistent. It was the fans who read deeper meanings into the shows, and through fan fiction and essays they provided the emotional resonances that the TV shows were not intended to evoke. Doctor Who is a great example of a show that went full circle through the cycle of fandom; many of the writers and showrunners, as well as the actors, were great fans of the program when they were kids, and many of them worked on semi-official tie-in novels or radio plays while it was in hibernation. By reviving the program, they effectively recreated it in their fannish image; the characters are now capable of expressing the thoughts and emotions that could only be inferred in the original version. Wish-fullfillment of a sort.
I recently watched a bunch of Tom Baker Doctor Whos on Netflix and DVD, inspired by the Fourth Doctor's cameo in "Day of the Doctor" and as a general run-up to "Time of the Doctor." It's generally believed that Capaldi's Doctor will be closer to Baker and Pertwee than Tennant or Smith — less Manic Pixie Dream Boy, more mature and intense. And considering reports that Season Eight will be more "gothic," influenced by Phillp Hinchcliffe's classic tenure on the show, there's the sense that Who in 2014 will be a lot closer to Who in 1975 than its recent incarnations, with darker threats and a more mysterious protagonist. But I don't think it'll be all that different, even when Moffat hands Who off to another showrunner (Gatiss, maybe?). The current version of the show has been a huge hit for the BBC, transforming a cult program into a global hit. One thing that both shows have in common is that the more things change, the more they stay the same.


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Dirk Braam brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 256 Designs von 77 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
When visiting Barcelona one night was spoiled by a bad restaurant experience: it looked nice when we picked it on our way, but the food was horrible and the price extremely high: a real tourist trap!
We could not find a reliable review site to find a good choice of restaurants (maybe there were a few but not in our language anyway..), so we decided to make the worlds biggest advise site for restaurants in Europe.
We study all existing review sites, local ones and international ones and make selection of all the best common ones in all categories.
So one does not have to study many review sites and compare the information, we did all that. Out information is continuously being refreshed and we provide the selection of restaurants through our website and App. It will be launched in May 2011.
Before we choose the name YumYum for the brand, but we can not get the .com domain.
So now we change for the name DineBest of which we do have the .com.
We hope for your help to bring us the look and feel for the brandname.
Thanks for helping us!
Dirk and Emma.
Anyone who wants to go out eating in a restaurant in a city in Europe.
It is not only for the ones looking for the Michelin star restaurant, but for all who want good quality at the price one can afford.
For the ones who think that going out to a restaurant is part of the fun of going out and therefor important.
Very important notice:
We made the logo DineBest1 and DineBest2 ourselves. This is the way we want to go with the logo. So big red lips with the brandname inside. Please make this logo more beautiful and sophisticated. We are no heroes with PSE so help us out!
Thanks for all previous efforts but we like this ourselves the best, so help us to make it better!
A recognizable logo, modern and simple.
If possible a payoff.
We do have a payoff, but maybe you can improve it. Our payoff description now is:
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The Millis High School Booster Club enthusiastically supports our entire Millis Athletic Program!
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The funding for this support is derived solely from our Booster Club fundraising efforts, including the concessions sold during many of the team games, donation items for concession sales, apparel sales, and our annual Trivia Night held annually at Mickey Cassidy's Pub in Medway, MA.
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An 82-foot-high billboard wrapping Estonia's finance ministry building in its capital, Tallinn, boasts: "The euro, my money." It stands just blocks from the city's cobbled, winding medieval streets and baroque churches, in a downtown where skyscrapers have replaced Russian bunkers, as a symbol of Estonia's transformation from poor Soviet republic to the European Union's rising star.
When Estonia was accepted into the eurozone in January, seven years after joining the EU and two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, it was another big step for the small Baltic nation away from its imposing neighbor to the east, Russia.
Over the next five years, it's expected to have Europe's fastest-growing economy. It emerged from the global financial crisis wounded, but has rebounded after adopting austere measures few other countries would accept. It's given the world Skype and the only national volunteer cyberarmy, and is adding to the EU a rare sense of determination at a time when pessimism about the euro prevails – a consequence of the debt crises that have hit Greece, Ireland, and Portugal and the bailout plans that followed. Indeed, Estonia, which is still the eurozone's poorest country, has emerged as the darling of its beleaguered union. [Editor's note: The original version incorrectly stated that Estonia is the poorest European country. It is the poorest eurozone country.]
"We are very poor but very optimistic," says Jürgen Ligi, Estonia's earnest finance minister, sitting in a sparse office under a portrait of Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. Mr. Ligi, a dedicated triathlete, brings a rigid sense of discipline to his office. In many ways, he's been the chief overseer of Estonia's aggressive capitalism – flat tax rates and no corporate income tax on reinvested profits. That's been paired with cost-slashing austerity: pension cuts, reductions in benefits for civil servants, shortened maternity leaves, and even streetlights that don't stay on as long.
But in Estonia, where most remember the harsh lives under the USSR (roughly 10 percent of its population was deported to Siberian gulags), those cuts haven't resulted in any major public outcry. "We have seen much harder times," says Ligi.
In fact, Estonians overwhelmingly supported their government's austerity measures: In March they reelected the government of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, making him the first post-Soviet era prime minister to win a second term.
The Estonia example shows that "it is possible to undertake serious fiscal adjustment in a short period of time, and be popular," says Anders Aslund, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. "When you do what you have to do – cut expenditures and have a clear aim of your policy – you get reelected."
Estonia's fast break from communism
Estonians benefit from emerging from the Kremlin's yoke without the ethnic and political turmoil that has weighed down other post-Soviet states. When it broke free of communism, it started over with a crop of young entrepreneurs and idealistic leaders. "Because we started anew, we got new laws, new leaders, and new technology," says Jaan Tallinn, one of the founders of Skype, the Internet phone company that was recently sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. "The big winners were the start-ups."
Skype got its start in a grim Soviet-era complex on the outskirts of Tallinn, where the USSR secretly assembled its first computer. Mr. Tallinn credits a spirit of entrepreneurship and creativity that filled Estonia in the 1990s, giving rise to a spirited community of computer developers. "If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there," says Tallinn.
Estonia's early adoption of the Internet has turned it into one of the world's most wired countries (it's often called e-Stonia). There's free wireless Internet at almost every street corner. People pay their parking tickets with their cellphones and voters cast their ballots digitally – the first people to do so in the world.
"The Internet and [information technology] infrastructure is a way of life," says Linnar Viik, intellectual capital theory professor at the Estonia IT College. "This way of life and the values of this society aren't controlled by state ministries of defense. They are supported by culture, education, the economy."
A cyberarmy rises
In January, Estonia deployed its volunteer cyberarmy, the 60-member Cyber Defense League. It's Estonia's electronic National Guard. Created in the wake of a massive 2007 hacker attack, which was blamed on Russian hackers (but never officially proven), the online watchdogs have turned Estonia into the model for defending against computer warfare. To make sure cyberexperts are available in case of an emergency, it is contemplating making service in the Cyber Defense League part of a national draft.
Estonians express an almost instinctive sense of national duty, something that many say stems from decades of painful occupation. "The concept of independence is fragile and sensitive and important in Estonia," says Mr. Viik.
From atop the Tallinn citadel of Toompea, a former Baroque palace that now houses the Estonian Parliament, one gets a good view of medieval Tallinn, encircled by towering walls. The city built it high under Swedish rule in the 1600s to protect itself from invaders. For more than 500 years, this forested country – the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined – was up for grabs.
Nation after nation – Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Russia, the Soviet Union – had a turn at domination. Only once in those 500 years, from 1920 to 1940, did Estonians consider Tallinn their own capital.
"War and occupation and Stalinist terror is what really influenced the attitudes," says Olaf Mertelsmann, professor of contemporary history at the University of Tartu in Estonia. "This is why independence is sometimes glorified."
Estonia's challenges
To be certain, Estonia has a long road ahead. The latest global economic crisis hit hard. One in 10 people is unemployed. One-fifth of the population lives in poverty, and tensions remain high with the 300,000 ethnic Russians – one-third of the population – living in Estonia. How to integrate them remains a quandary. Yet Estonia does not want to spend its way to prosperity.
"Conservatism has always been a common feature for us," says Ligi, the finance minister. By the end of 2010, its budget deficit dropped to 1.7 percent of gross domestic product, well below the EU's 3 percent limit. (By comparison, Ireland and Greece had deficits of more than 14 percent of GDP.) Estonia's economy is predicted to grow by 5 percent this year.
"In many ways," says Professor Mertelsmann, "it is the West that has to learn from the East, and not the other way around."


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Glenn Beck's timeline of American history
Glenn Beck's been known to wear many hats -- radio host, cable newsman, televangelist, sort-of author, gold salesman, and so forth. But the role he relishes most is that of the historian, a self-taught student of the past who digs up in the historical record countless examples of liberal treachery to scrawl on his chalkboards. But Beck's poor command of the discipline and ideological tunnel vision often lead him to engage in some outlandish revisionism that warps the entirety of American history.
As such, we've put together a timeline tracking Beck's alternate American history from the country's founding to the present day (and beyond). It's based on Beck's own mangling of history and the peculiar views of the historians and curricula he approvingly cites.
Enjoy, and be enlightened.
Ancient History: Revisionism's Blank Canvas
6,000 BC: God creates entire planet just for America.
27 BC: Caesar Augustus becomes first person to employ the Obama Doctrine.
1 AD: First Founding Father born.
Revolutionary Era: God Founds a Country
April 1775: Paul Revere rides all night to Lexington shouting "the death panels are coming!"
c.1776: The Founders envision a new country that is uniquely American, but vaguely Swiss.
1779: Thomas Paine publishes controversial pamphlet calling George III a "raci∫t" with "a deep-∫eated hatred for white people or the white culture."
1787: Constitution's drafters include $10 tax on persons "imported" into country to teach immigrants the "value" of being American.
1787: Three-fifths compromise strikes major blow for racial equality.
c.1790: America achieves racial harmony.
1797: George Washington completes his term as America's first evangelical president.
c.1800: Woman overcomes crippling unattractiveness to participate in founding of country.
1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson signs every presidential document "Jesus Christ Superstar."
Pre-Civil War Era: Freedom Everywhere
c.1808: Slavery begins for real as government begins regulating slave trade.
1822: African Americans form Liberian colony as expression of the freedoms they enjoyed in antebellum America.
1828: American experiment ends disastrously with election of first Democratic president.
1830-1860: Slave system proves increasingly trying for white plantation owners.
1861: Civil War breaks out despite marked improvements in race relations.
Civil War and Reconstruction: Slavery Makes a Comeback
1870: Social justice successfully reestablishes slavery in the United States.
1886: France gifts the Statue of Liberty to the United States to mock snooty Europeans.
1895: Small group of British socialists invent American progressivism.
The Progressive Era: Teddy and the Time Bombs
1903: Progressives start clock on 100-year time bomb, hope nobody notices ticking sound.
November 8, 1904: Theodore Roosevelt celebrates election by shooting Constitution, moose.
1905: Roosevelt does... something with, um, railroads? And it was like cancer, sort of.
1906: Roosevelt signs Pure Food and Drug Act, brings fascism to America.
1910: Progressives pioneer the use of religion for political gain.
The Wilson Years: America's Dark Ages
1912: President Woodrow Wilson single-handedly proposes, passes, and ratifies 17th Amendment.
March 4, 1913: Woodrow Wilson inaugurated president.
March 5, 1913: Wilson establishes American gulag.
September 1913: Federal income tax enacted in direct violation of Constitutional provision that expressly permitted it.
April 1917: Woodrow Wilson drags country into World War I to end America's love affair with Germany.
August 1920: Women's suffrage guaranteed by 19th Amendment. No historical record exists of who was president at the time.
The Great Depression: Communism's Foot in the Door
August 2, 1923 - October 28, 1929: American economy completely healthy.
1933: American progressives elect Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
1934: Crusading patriotic American bravely exposes Jewish Communist scheme for racial intermixture infiltration of government.
1935: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin introduces legislation creating Social Security.
1938: President Roosevelt enjoys Depression too much to let it end.
World War II: Fascist Powers Duke it Out
December 7, 1941: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor because Woodrow Wilson insulted them.
December 11, 1941: America goes to war with its economic idol, Benito Mussolini.
November 29, 1942: Kansas couple gives birth to communist.
April 12, 1945: America catches a lucky break with death of President Roosevelt.
Post-War Years: Commies!
February 1950: Sen. Joseph McCarthy alleges communist infiltration of State Department, an allegation so true it didn't need proving.
June 1952: McCarthy says more accurate things about communists infiltrating the government, flummoxing historians with his honesty.
December 2, 1954: Senate votes to censure McCarthy for being too truthful about communism.
The Civil Rights Era: Glenn Beck had a Dream
May 15, 1940: Civil rights icon Roger Ailes born.
August 28, 1963: Through divine providence, Dr. Martin Luther King delivers speech on exact spot where America's honor would be restored 47 years later.
1965: Dr. King modifies dream to incorporate attacks on big government.
1968: Four British social activists release two-part treatise on progressive plot to overthrow society, commonly known as The White Album.
The Reagan Years: Blow, Winds of Freedom, Blow
1981: Ronald Reagan cuts taxes 23 percent, revenues increase 4 billion percent.
1983: Federal spending as percentage of GDP hits unsustainable 23 percent. No historical record exists of who was president at the time.
1988: Reagan endorses Soviet constitution.
The Clinton Years: America Under Siege
1993: Antichrist avoids detection by donning pants suit.
1995: Connecticut man makes mistake of being Asian.
1997: Bill Clinton sells nuclear secrets to China, America rejoices.
1998: America warned that Osama bin Laden gets violent when his turban is too tight.
Modern Era: Revisionism on the Fly
October 2001: U.S. military begins hostilities against Afghanistan and the free market.
March 20, 2003: Iraq war begins amid much controversy and marketing potential.
August 22, 2006: The Rapture. Armageddon destroys earth and all its inhabitants.
September 21, 2008: $700 billion bank bailout proposed, praised as right thing to do.
September 21, 2009: $700 billion bank bailout revealed as the worst thing ever that no one ever liked. Ever.
December 2009: Franklin Roosevelt rises from grave to give socialism another go.
March 22, 2010: House passes historic health care legislation, millions die.
August 28, 2010: Geese fly over people talking on National Mall, country saved.
The Future: Eventual History
2011: Raising of retirement age prompts nationwide violence by union members.
2012: American republic fails. Again.
2019: Medicare and Social Security abolished. Elderly happy to no longer be socialists.
2020: Department of Education abolished. Federal budget immediately balanced.
August 28, 2110: America celebrates Becksgiving centennial on 100th anniversary of country's corner-turning.


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My beautiful and fabulous friend Marican, Culinary Girl herself, asked me to do some arrangements for a Thanksgiving Dinner she is catering tonight. I never turn down an opportunity to work with someone so talented and amazing, so I went out to get some flowers. I had initially intended to use pumpkins as vases, but lo and behold…it's a bad year for pumpkins and I wasn't going to run all over the city to find nice ones. So…I used squashes! They turned out to be so festive. Here is a very easy tutorial on how to make pretty squash vases!
1. Wash squashes. Cute about a 4 inch whole in the top of the squash.
2. Using a spoon, pop off the top and scoop out seeds.
3. Fill with about 2 inches of water
4. Arrange flowers inside squash. I used a variety of greens, sunflowers and roses.
The next time you need a festive arrangement or gift…Give it a try!


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Getting started with Twitter
If you've signed up for Twitter and are wondering how to get started or why you're here, this page is for you. Learn more about the basics of using Twitter here. You can also use this guide, designed to help you dive into Twitter's wealth of information and find what matters most to you. First things first, you might be wondering:
What is Twitter anyway?
Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. It's an easy way to discover the latest news related to subjects you care about.
How is it useful?
Twitter contains information you will find valuable. Messages from users you choose to follow will show up on your home page for you to read. It's like being delivered a newspaper whose headlines you'll always find interesting – you can discover news as it's happening, learn more about topics that are important to you, and get the inside scoop in real time.
How to start using Twitter:
If you remember one thing after perusing this page, it should be this: reading Tweets and discovering new information whenever you check in on your Twitter timeline is where you'll find the most value on Twitter. Some people find it useful to contribute their own Tweets, but the real magic of Twitter lies in absorbing real-time information that matters to you.
1. DISCOVER SOURCES: Find and follow others
It's best to begin your journey by finding and following other interesting Twitter accounts. Look for businesses you love, public service accounts, people you know, celebrities, or news sources you read. (Click here for help finding interesting accounts.) Tip: One great way to find more interesting accounts is see who those you know or admire are following.
2. CHECK YOUR TIMELINE: See what's happening
Messages from those you follow will show up in a readable stream on your Twitter homepage, called your "Timeline." Once you've followed a few people, news outlets, organizations, or accounts of your interest, you'll have a new page of information to read each time you log in. Click links in others' Tweets to view articles, images or videos they've linked to. Click hashtagged keywords (#) to view all Tweets about that topic.
3. TAKE IT WITH YOU: Connect your mobile
One of the best things about Twitter is that it's portable. Connect your account to your mobile phone or download a Twitter application to begin reading Tweets on the go. Now you can get updates about traffic problems in the middle of your commute, find out what the players are saying while you're at the game, or catch up on the buzz about an event you're about to attend. Tip: Using Twitter via SMS allows you to pick and choose which updates you want from those you follow, so you can get mobile updates from the accounts that matter most to your life on-the-go.
How to start tweeting:
Many users find it fun or exciting to contribute their own content to Twitter (we call this "tweeting"). If you're one of them, here are some good ways to get started posting your own Tweets. People who are interested in what you have to say may follow you and they'll see all the Tweets you share with them.
1. BUILD A VOICE: Retweet, reply, react
Use existing information (other people's Tweets) on Twitter to find your own voice and show others what you care about. Retweet messages you've found and love, or @reply with your reaction to a Tweet you find interesting. Tip: If you're a new user, others are more likely to find your messages if they are Retweets or @replies.
2. MENTION: Include others in your content
Once you're ready to begin authoring your own messages, consider mentioning other users by their Twitter username (preceded by the @ sign) in your Tweets. This can help you think of what to write, will draw more eyes to your message, and can even start a new conversation. Try posting a message mentioning a celebrity or person you admire – they often respond to fans. You'll see their response on your Mentions tab. Tip: Can't think of anything to write? You don't have to. The real magic lies in reading content from sources you follow on Twitter.
3. GET FANCY: Explore advanced features
As you become more engaged on Twitter, others will begin to find and follow you. Once you're familiar with Twitter basics, consider exploring the site's more advanced features: lists, direct messages, and favorites. Learn how to include images or videos in your Tweets, or consider connecting your Twitter account to your your blog, Facebook, or website. Tip: The best way to gain followers on Twitter is to regularly engage and contribute in a meaningful way.
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Keeping it all Together
Save your brain
When you start citing sources, you'll run into all kinds of different questions. Should you put a period after the title? Is it Smith, J. D. or Smith, John David? Do you put the PhD after the name? Do you list all 30 editors? Do you underline the title? Do you capitalize all the words in the title or just the first one?
Do you have to memorize all those details and differences? You should know by now that the answer is "No!" You have other things to stuff in your brain. A style manual provides the guidance so you don't have to remember all the rules.
Just remember COP: Collect, Organize, Punctuate. A style manual will tell you how to:
- collect the right information about the source
- organize the information
- punctuate and capitalize the citation
Pick up a style manual and practice using it. If you get stuck, ask from help from your instructor, a librarian, or the writing center.
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Pot legalization, says Focus on the Family's Jim Daly, makes parenting even tougher
It might be legal, but it's still not right, a leading family advocate says.
Legalizing marijuana doesn't make it any better an option, says Jim Daly, president and chief executive of Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian family-counseling ministry that numbers 2.9 million listeners internationally for its weekly radio program.
It's one more big challenge for parents, the 52-year-old father of two boys told The Denver Post at a media conference Thursday on the Focus campus.
Daly said the physiological effects of marijuana, or cannabis, which he lists and scientists agree, include diminished memory, motivation, concentration, judgment and motor skills are only part of the problem.
"The Bible is very clearn in warning against drunkenness (Ephesian 5:18)," Daly wrote in his blog Jan. 15.
Likely Daly can recite Ephesians by heart, but for those of you who can't, the scripture is: "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit … ."
Daly doesn't oppose medical use of pot, which, he said, is apparently legitimate treatment for certain ailments. Yet recreational use of pot by people who just want to get high is not just a bad idea, he said, but an immoral one.
He predicts that more states will follow Colorado's and Washington's lead in legalizing recreational use, however, and he advises parents read up on it. He recommends an article on the topic by Pastor John Piper. The Denver Post also has covered cannabis effects on the brain and body.
"As a father of two boys, this doesn't make my job any easier," he said of pot legalization. "But if I teach them the right things — knowing and loving God — they'll make the right decisions."


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Once again the state has found itself short on revenues and long on expenditures, and once again Governor Schwarzenegger and the state legislature have settled on an approach which temporarily dodges a bullet, only to be broadsided by a howitzer down the road. What's the shortcut scheme this time?
This time it is the sale of state buildings.
The idea is to sell 14 state buildings to companies that would become the state's landlord. In exchange for a sales price of $2.1 billion now, the state would pay $6 billion in rent for the next fifty years. How's that for creative math?
So far, the courts have not cooperated. After receiving the go-ahead by a superior court judge, the Schwarzenegger administration was rebuffed by a three-member Court of Appeals that temporarily put the idea on hold. But this is more than a question of legality; it's a question about what's right.
The problem is that this idea is not so creative as it is duplicitous. It's no different than Schwarzenegger's Proposition 57 in 2004, in which the state sold bonds for $15 billion to balance the budget for the moment, only to have to pay the money back with $4 billion in interest over nine years. It makes no sense.
State buildings are investments. We construct them to save money over the long run. If we own them outright, the costs are fixed (other than maintenance) and we don't have to pay more for the privilege of leasing them.
Sure, it would be convenient to have the money now to avoid the real decisions. But that short-term gain will come at a steep price in the long run leading us to pay three times the price we fetch. You don't have to be a math genius to realize that our convenience will come at a great cost.


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Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), founded in 1966, is one of the oldest community mental health centers in the United States. An enduring collaboration between the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services and the Yale University Department of Psychiatry, CMHC provides recovery-oriented mental health services for 5,000 people in the Greater New Haven area each year. It is also a center for scientific advancement in the understanding and treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders. CMHC, which is supported by the CMHC Foundation, is a major training site for psychiatrists and psychologists from the Yale Department of Psychiatry and welcomes trainees from a variety of other disciplines including nursing, social work, and chaplaincy.
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High-speed rail needs to be sold to the public. Again.
That's strange to say, just after a big push to get the state Senate to -- barely -- approve the spending of funds, some from state bond moneys and some from the feds, to build the first 130 miles of the project in the Central Valley. Some improvements for existing rail systems in Northern and Southern California were part of the package, too.
Indeed, this was the second big sales push for high-speed rail. The first was for the 2008 ballot initiative that authorized high-speed rail and billions in bond money to pay for it.
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News from around the country and around the globe
But the public still needs to be sold.
Polls show big majorities of Californians oppose it. And to complete the project -- estimated at $68 billion currently -- may require some reversal in those numbers, and a softening of the objections among opponents. With little financing in place, public support could be important to getting the money -- either from the feds, from new state revenue streams (pollution credit fees?), or from private investors (who will want to see some public interest before investing in a train to serve the public).
Your blogger is not a fan of the project, and the early focus on the Central Valley. And I was dead-wrong in predicting that the project wouldn't make it even this far (this is one persistent zombie, it turns out). But the condemnations of it are over the top. Republicans and budget hawks are arguing that the state can't afford the train, that it will somehow bankrupt the state.
That's not quite right; $68 billion spread over three decades is not a lot of money annually -- a little over $2 billion a year, which is less than 2 percent of California's budget. The better questions about the project are whether anyone will ride it, whether the emphasis on a San Francisco-to-LA system is the right one, and whether money spent here will be taken away from other state infrastructure needs.
But those are all objections that can be answered -- if someone will answer them forcefully. One mystery of this process -- a mystery of the current governorship -- is why Jerry Brown isn't more forcefully, and frequently, selling his policies around the state. The governor seems to think that talking too much about his program and his plans will only weaken him.
He's wrong in general about that -- and especially wrong when it comes to high-speed rail. Correcting the record on the real budget impact of this, offering more of a vision of high-speed rail's importance, and telling us why we might want to use the train, are all things he should be talking about more often.
The other thing he needs to do: make sure that the construction of this train runs on time, and maybe even a little bit under budget. If construction falls behind schedule or is beset by problems, public support will crater. It's a shame -- a high-speed rail system should be built with an emphasis on safety and care, not speed.
But that's where high-speed rail is today -- a project that needs to be resold, again.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Howdy readers! This is my post studio tour post, and I am here to report that Nancy and I did pretty well ...despite a very chilly and constant drizzle on Saturday. I have talked with a couple other people that were on the tour and they also said good things. Its good to see that in our very sluggish economy, with all our current issues and problems, people will still come out and enjoy the natural beauty of the season in the foothills of PA and spend a little money buying quality hand made art work...like my pottery.
This week I have been hard at work in every moment of my spare time, snapping off pictures of my work and getting them all put on my Etsy site. If you do not know etsy...you should. This is an awesome global network for hand made art and vintage items. There is something like 150,000 stores on the site and its in 50 countries. I am loading up my "homefry::eclectic ceramics" shop with a good deal of work that I had left from the tour...heck, I already sold 3 pieces this week by doing this. I will be giving discounted shipping rates and deals on some fine wood fired, salt fired and other misc. funky and wonderful utilitarian pottery.
In all Honestly, this post is yet another shameless advertisement for my online shop. That's right, the only redeeming shred of content in this post is the images of the work that I am posting as a preview for what is selling in my shop....geeeezzzz what a pottery selling commercial whore. I feel cheap, naughty and a little dirty too...man, I like this! I should get myself drunk and maybe keep some of this sexy wood fired work to myself...hubba, hubba. Quick somebody stop me, I have no self control.
OK,Ok,ok, I take it back, I am posting a some images from the studio tour to help regain my dignity...what little I have left.
Hope to see you in the shop!


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We love when the house loses. Nothing brought us more joy than seeing a Vegas patron get 999/1 odds on the Cardinals when they were seemingly out of the race in Mid-September, then cashing in big time. So while the Clippers, down by as many as 27 to Memphis in game 1 on Sunday, couldn't offer odds that good, they were all but counted out by sports books offering live event betting.
From a reader email to Barstool Sports, along with the accompanying screengrab:
The Grizzles were up 27 at this point with about 8 minutes to play. You could bet that the Clippers would win the game, 100 dollars down to win $55,555. As a joke, my boy put down 25 dollars to win close to thirteen grand. After a 3 pointer immediately after that by the Clippers, he put another 50 on it, for another 27k. Well, before my very eyes, the Clippers fucking won. Off 75 dollars my friend made $40,000 in cash.
Un-fucking-believable. He's graduating next week so this is probably one of the greatest things that could have ever happened to him.
The timing's a bit off. The Clips weren't 27 points behind after two minutes left in the third. They were still down 24 when they started their run with eight minutes remaining. Still, it's not hard to imagine some shady online sports book offering a +55555 moneyline on a game that looked for all the world like a laugher. Now let's hope they're not too shady to pay out.
Reader Email: Greatest Sports Bet Hit On The Clippers Game [Barstool]


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30482. Reimbursement of investigation and prosecution costs. Any person convicted of a crime under this part may be charged the costs of investigation and prosecution at the discretion of the court.
All moneys remitted to the board under this part shall be transmitted to the Treasurer who shall deposit it into the State Treasury and credit it to the Cigarette Tax Fund.
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SKF Explorer four-row tapered roller bearings
New interchangeable design for open and sealed variants
As the result of an upgraded design, open and sealed variants of SKF Explorer four-row tapered roller bearings are identical in terms of external dimensions and load carrying capacity, setting a new standard for interchangeability and design freedom.
The compact design of the new SKF seal enables rollers to be larger, thereby increasing basic dynamic load rating C for sealed bearings. This provides the freedom to:
- Replace current open bearings with the new open design
- Replace new open bearings with the optimized sealed design without any trade off
- Convert new open bearings to sealed versions at a later stage using an easy-to-assemble sealing kit
The newly optimized seal design provides improved performance compared to the previous design. Made with heat- and wear-resistant material, the new seal provides:
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Type of project: Bus
Name of project: Citybus Jelcz m125m & m185m
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3D model: KAJOTT3D
Scripts: MR Software, KAJOTT3D
Sounds: KAJOTT3D, MR Software
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Details: Project have 18 versions:
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The citybus have a lot of new scripts and setvars.
User license of freeware addon Citybus m125m & m185m by KAJOTT3D:
- Not for commercial use;
- Do not use elements of the addon in another models without my permission;
- Do not use elements of the addon for other purposes than driving in the simulator Omnibussimulator 2;
- You can make modifications for the addon, but the modifications have to need download original addon m125m & m185m from the original link;
- In the description of modifications you have to write original author of the basic model m125m & m185m;
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Jeremy Cowart is a professional photographer from Nashville, TN. When he is not shooting celebrity portraits in Hollywood, he can be found working on personal projects in Africa or Haiti. He is also the founder of Help-Portrait, a global movement of photographers giving free portraits to those in need.
An interviewer once asked photographer Jeremy Cowart why it is important to pursue one's passion. Cowart answered, "The other day, I passed a guy at my office building and I asked him, 'How are you doing?' His response: 'It's just another day.' I hope I never ever answer that question with that response."
Each day is a treasure, an opportunity, a long string of moments ripe with passion. In reading or listening to Jeremy Cowart, that word—passion—appears over and over again, like a mantra. Literally, passion means "ardent love" or "boundless enthusiasm." Few people live with passion; fewer still can artistically capture it. Cowart has the even rarer gift of taking those frozen moments and using them to inspire passion in others.
Cowart began in painting, then moved into graphic design. Originally, his photography was meant to be only one component of his graphic design projects, but by 2005, Cowart's love of pixels took over his craft and he devoted himself to photography full-time. His work quickly drew the attention of a photography agent, and soon he was landing images in TIME, Rolling Stone, People Magazine and USA Today. His portrait work spans a gamut stretching from Sting to the Kardashians to Gwenyth Paltrow. He followed Britney Spears on her 2009 "Circus" world tour.
Most photographers would find that such gigs define their careers. Cowart is a different sort of person. For him, success is a means to an end—a "platform," as he often calls it. After only three years as a professional photographer, Cowart used his platform to launch a three-month, 17-country odyssey called the Passion World Tour. This project resulted in Awakening, a unique, vibrant look at young adults from across the globe and the shared energy binding them together. In late 2009, Cowart founded Help-Portrait, a global effort of over 15,000 photographers using their resources to take portraits of the needy and provide them with a hard copy—perhaps the only loving view they've seen of themselves in decades. In early 2010, after a shattering earthquake struck Haiti, Cowart saw the chance to use his passion. He wandered the rubble, saw what the stricken people saw, and produced the deeply moving Voices of Haiti. Most recently, Cowart's Voices of Reconciliation revealed almost inconceivable depths of beauty and human forgiveness in the aftermath of Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
"The projects have all had different impacts," says Cowart. "The Haiti project went on to be displayed in the halls of the U.N. in New York in front of all our government leaders, and it helped to raise a lot of money [$10 billion] for Haiti. Then my Voice of the Reconciliation project was featured in many media outlets, such as CNN. But the biggest of all, Help-Portrait, which is ongoing, has changed many thousands of lives through the power of a photo. The stories of how that's impacted people are endless."
For Cowart, his platform exists to illuminate and elevate, to reveal the beauty around us and inspire people to help.
Cowart's ability to build and leverage his platform depends on the equipment of his craft. He shoots a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a 21.1-megapixel dream machine that generates RAW images of about 23MB each. Each of these streams into a tethered MacBook Pro, which in turn backs up files to any of the several 250-gram G-DRIVE minis Cowart totes about in his bag.
Even with only six years as a pro photographer, Cowart knows what it's like to lose files, which is why he's now nearly obsessive about having multiple backups.
"I try to keep every job on multiple externals in case of something going bad," he says. "I also try to keep it on my cards and not erase any cards in case something bad were to happen. You can never be too careful."
Cowart never trusts his computer as a storage medium. Beyond flash cards and G-DRIVE minis, he relies on an 8TB G-RAID with Thunderbolt. Now that Cowart is storing nearly 20TB of file data, his need for the 10Gb/s transfers enabled by his G-Technology drive has become more important than ever.
"Thunderbolt is such a major step forward that I'm kind of giddy with it," says Cowart. "I need speed, and G-Technology is delivering that in this Thunderbolt unit. I'm just loving it."
Of course, the photos never stop stacking up, and Cowart is waiting anxiously for G-Technology's next G-RAID to arrive. The drive will be one more node in a chain of drives reaching from Cowart's house to his office and even to his business manager's office as he segregates current work from long-term file storage and implements his unique strategy for backup protection.
Device performance saves time, but nothing matters more to a photographer than reliability. Any pro needs to know that the work he or she captures in the field will survive intact all the way into editing and still be available for retrieval many years in the future.
"In the past, I used to buy whatever," says Cowart. "But I've lost a lot of photos over the years and had a lot of brands go bad. Now I trust G-Technology drives. It seems like all the pros I know use G-Technology. They're just very reliable. It says a lot to me that G-Technology is the major drive brand in the Apple Store. If Apple is willing to trust their brand to G-Technology, that's huge."
As amazing and transformative as Cowart's work is, he needs the peace of mind that comes with being able to trust his digital media storage. In a sense, his platform is built on it, and that platform is at the heart of the legacy he's striving to leave.
"I want to be remembered as somebody who used his platform to give back to people in need. You know, photography in general is a very arrogant field. It's all me-me-me. 'I'm the best, I'm the best.' But I could care less about the competition or being the best. To me, it's just about building a platform, being good at what you do, and using that to make an impact on something bigger than yourself."
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The Media Grid is a computational grid platform that provides digital media delivery, storage and processing (compute) services for a new generation of networked applications. Built using Internet and Web standards, the Media Grid combines Quality of Service (QoS) and broadcast features with distributed parallel processing capabilities. Together these features create a unique software development platform designed specifically for networked applications that produce and consume massive quantities of digital media. The Media Grid is powered by service providers (such as rendering farms, clusters, high-performance computer systems, computational grids, and similar systems) that furnish on-demand services to Media Grid clients (users).
As an open and extensible software development and delivery platform the Media Grid is designed to enable a wide range of applications not possible with the traditional Internet and World Wide Web. Applications enabled by the Media Grid include: Immersive Education; on-demand digital cinema and interactive movies; distributed film and movie rendering; truly immersive multiplayer games and virtual reality; real-time visualization of complex data (weather, medical, engineering, and so forth); telepresence and telemedicine (remote surgery, medical imaging, drug design, etc.); vehicle and aircraft design and simulation; and similar high-performance media applications.
The Media Grid is modeled after an improved national power grid, with added security and stability features that eliminate downtime and blackouts. As with the national power grid, which standardizes the production and consumption of power in the United States, the Media Grid establishes open software standards that enable computer applications to plug in to digital media delivery and processing services over the global Internet. Applications that only need to consume media content or access media processing services can do so at a fair and standardized price, while the owners of computers that host and deliver media or provide media processing services receive compensation for their contribution to the grid.
Desktop computers, laptops, handhelds, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, game consoles, and kiosks are just a few of the many types of computing devices that can tap into the Media Grid. Devices that have enough computational power can deliver media content and process media on behalf of other devices in exchange for credit, meaning some users can earn enough credit to pay for all of the premium (for-fee) content and services they wish to consume. In contrast, less power devices can only consume media and services provided by the grid. Devices that run Media Grid software can be spontaneously networked together over the traditional Internet to form ad-hoc grids that exchange media and media processing services. Grids can also be assembled from specific devices and administrated much like a traditional managed network... < more >
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Welcome to our coverage of WWE Survivor Series. We will be updating this page throughout the evening with results from the show, so check back often for updates.
Survivor Series opened with a video putting over the history of the event, then focusing on the traditional Survivor Series match, the WWE Title bout, and the Hell In A Cell match.
Joey Styles and Tazz welcomed us to the show, as the ECW Title match is the first bout of the evening.
ECW Champion CM Punk vs. The Miz vs. John Morrison.
CM Punk came out first, then Miz and Morrison had separate entrances, each brandishing their WWE Tag Team Championship belt. At the bell, Miz and Morrison worked over Punk in a corner. Punk managed to kick Miz in the head, then rolled Morrison into a sunset flip for a two count. Morrison catapulted Punk into a corner, but Punk jumped onto the ropes and launched into a bodypress on Miz. Punk kicked Morrison in the head, then threw both men to the floor. Punk hit Miz and Morrison with a tope. There was a "CM Punk" chant. Punk put Morrison in the ring and set up for a springboard, but Miz hooked his leg from the floor and Morrison nailed him with a punch. Morrison and Miz hit a double suplex then worked over Punk with punches. Morrison then set up for a springboard kick, but Miz knocked Morrison off the ropes, sending him in the floor.
Miz gave Punk a back suplex for a two count, then put him in a camel clutch. Morrison got on the apron, but Miz knocked him down. Punk gave Miz an enzugiri, then Morrison gave Miz a slingshot kick to send him to the floor. Morrison hit a backbreaker, then a STO for a two count. Morrison applied a cobra clutch on Punk, but Punk fought out of it and hit some kicks. Morrison poked Punk in the eyes and threw him out of the ring. Punk grabbed the ropes, but Miz yanked Punk to the floor. Miz got on the apron and Morrison suplexed him into the ring for a two count. Miz came back with a legsweep for two, then hit his clothesline through the ropes in the corner for a two count. Miz ran into a Morrison kick, and Morrison hit a split legged corkscrew splash. Punk broke up the cover. Punk hit Morrison with some chops, then gave Morrison a top rope rana. As Morrison flipped off the ropes from the rana, Miz grabbed him and powerbombed him. Punk broke up Miz' cover with a dropkick to the face.
Punk hit a series of kicks on Miz, then a jumping knee in the corner. Punk bulldogged Miz for two count. Punk gave Miz a double underhook backbreaker, but Miz kicked out at two. Morrison rolled up Punk from behind and hooked the trunks for two. Punk hit Morrison with a series of kicks to the head, then went for the GTS, but Morrison grabbed the top rope and pulled himself to the apron. Punk hit Morrison with forearms. Miz went to hit Punk, but Punk moved and Miz knocked Morrison off the apron and to the floor. Punk scooped up Miz and hit the GTS for the pin at the eight minute mark.
Winner: CM Punk.
Michael Cole and JBL welcomed us to the show, and discussed the MVP-Matt Hardy situation from this past week on Smackdown. Backstage, Anastasia interviewed MVP and asked him why he turned on Matt Hardy. MVP said that Matt Hardy would not be competing tonight, and that he couldn't walk without a crutch. MVP said Matt's whole career was based on having a crutch, either his brother Jeff or MVP. MVP said he is better than every wrestler in the building and ripped on the crowd as well.
Beth Phoenix, Layla, Jillian Hall, Melina & Victoria vs. Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, Michelle McCool, Torrie Wilson & Maria.
Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler got to call this one. Each woman had their own separate entrance. Melina actually slipped off the apron during her trademark leg split. She actually laughed it off, then went back on the apron and did the split again. Kelly and Michelle went for the cheap pop by wearing Miami sports jerseys (no, not the Dolphins). Michelle started with Victoria, hitting a Northern Lights suplex, for a two count, then hitting a boot to the face for another two. Torrie tagged in and hit a clothesline and pair of forearms on Victoria. Victoria came back with a fireman's carry into a side slam for a two count. Layla tagged in and kicked Torrie in the gut. Layla missed a spinkick and Torrie suplexed her for a two count. Kelly tagged in, but so did Jillian. Jillian kicked Kelly in the gut, then smothered her with her breasts. Jillian went for a handspring elbow, but Kelly kicked her in the back and rolled her up for a two count.
Maria tagged in and kneed Jillian in the gut. Maria hit a handstand kick, but Phoenix got a blind tag and powerslammed Maria. Layla tagged in and rammed Maria into the mat, then Melina tagged in and poked Maria in the eye. Melina missed a straddle attempt on the ropes. Mickie James got a hot tag and gave Melina a Thesz Press, and also worked on knocking opponents off the apron. Phoenix grabbed James from the apron, but Torrie & Michelle clotheslined her away. The women started fighting on the floor, except for Mickie and Melina in the ring. Mickie gave Melina a kiss, then hit a back heel kick for the pin at the four minute mark.
Winners: Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, Michelle McCool, Torrie Wilson & Maria.
Backstage, William Regal and Jonathan Coachman were smirking, while Hornswoggle paced the floor, looking concerned.
They showed a pre-taped interview with Randy Orton, who claimed that by taking away the superkick, he took away Michaels' "only chance at survival". We then heard from Shawn Michaels, who said that Orton had made his family suffer, so tonight he was going to take the WWE Championship.
World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes.
As Holly & Rhodes came out, they showed how they earned the tag title shot by winning a Triple Threat match over the Highlanders and Brian Kendrick & Paul London. They noted that Rhodes was about to get the win, but Holly tagged himself in so he could give Robbie McAllister and get the pin.
Rhodes started off with Cade, who grabbed a side headlock, then hit a shoulderblock. Rhodes leapfrogged Cade, but Cade reversed a hiptoss attempt. Rhodes hit a dropkick and grabbed an arm wringer, then hit some elbows to the arm. Cade went for a backdrop, but Rhodes hit a sunset flip for a two count. Rhodes grabbed a side headlock. Cade shoved it off and missed an elbow, but caught a Cody bodypress and hit a backbreaker. Murdoch tagged in and slapped Rhodes across the back. Murdoch went for a back suplex, but Rhodes floated over and slapped Murdoch in the back. Holly tagged in and hit a back elbow, then chopped Murdoch in the corner. Murdoch grabbed Holly's trunks to ram him into the turnbuckle, then tagged in Cade.
Cade ran into a Holly boot, then Holly hit a kick to the gut and clotheslined Cade to the floor. Murdoch ran in, and Rhodes threw him out of the ring, onto Cade. Holly threw Cade back into the ring, and there was a chant for Holly. Holly hit Cade with some chops, then dodged a charge after Cade reversed a whip and rolled him up for two. Cade managed to make a tag and grab Holly in a reverse atomic drop, and Murdoch followed it with a boot to the face for a two count. Murdoch worked over Holly in the corner. Murdoch slammed Holly, then tagged in Cade, who dropped Murdoch into a legdrop on Holly. They kept with the quick tags, and Murdoch applied a overhead wristlock/chinlock combo on Holly.
Holly fought out of it, blocked a Murdoch suplex, and hit one of his own. Murdoch tagged Cade, who tried an elbowdrop, but Holly moved out of the way. Cade was able to hit a clothesline, then tagged Murdoch for the legdrop move again. This time Holly moved and Cade dropped Murdoch to the mat. Rhodes got the tag and cleaned house, sending Cade from the ring. Rhodes backdropped Murdoch, then hit a bulldog. Rhodes hit a top rope dropkick, but Cade broke up the cover. Holly clotheslined Cade, and both men fell to the floor. Rhodes grabbed Murdoch, but Murdoch reversed positions and gave Rhodes the Code Red/Canadian Destroyer/flip powerbomb for the pin at the eight minute mark.
Winners: Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch.
Holly yanked Rhodes up off the mat rather firmly, then said something to him and patted him on the shoulder before leaving the ring.
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