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If you haven't seen the announcement yet about the Licensing changes that are coming to PowerApps and Flow starting on October 1, 2019 you really need to read the following Blog. This announcement was originally made at Inspire this year, but has undergone a number of significant changes. Make sure you read this and understand what it means to you and your organization.
More info at this link:
A key concern for our team is Azure SQL DB (among many other connectors) being reclassified as premium. We standardised on using Azure SQL DB as the datasource for our (PowerApps and Flow based) Apps as we consider it more capable (Views, Stored Procedures, better support for delegation) and easier to scale than SharePoint Lists or CDS (and most of our customers don't have CDS anyway).
For our clients who are already paying for PowerApps (via O365 license) and Azure SQL DB, it is going to be hard to explain why they now have to pay extra to continue using those services together in their existing apps.
I agree with you and voiced the same concern to the product team. In case you didn't notice it, one of the recent changes is that MS is providing a five year grace period for any apps that are already using Azure SQL connections until 2024. YOu will not be required to buy a premium license to continue using SQL for apps that are already in production before Oct. 1. So your clients won't lose their existing investment. But its my understanding that any new apps being developed after October 1 with SQL will require a premium license. That helps, but it still isn't greate news.
Thanks @Pstork1, that's a really useful piece of information.
At least our existing projects/clients have a grace period - that does help reduce the pain.
Do you know if the grace period applies to all the connectors being moved into Premium? Particularly interested in the Azure Blob Storage connector as we have been standardising on using that for images, signatures and files (performs well,
is was cheap, easy to use directly from PowerApps without the need for interemediary Flows).
Hi @Pstork1!
Do you have any documentation about the five year grace period you are talking about?
I am using the SQL conenctor everywhere...
I have seen information about the grace period in the service update email that my customer got.
It basically says that apps that are already using connectors that will move from standard to premium and is published before 1 october will have an exempt until 1 october 2024.
However, I would like to know what happens in the following sceanrious (if that will break the 2024-exempt)
- An app is moved from one environment to another
- An app is updated my using import powerapp functionality
- When new users are added after 1 october 2019
- If, for some reason, the app need to be "reinstalled" or "recreated"
I hope we can get som clarification on the above matters.
What will happen to PowerApps and Flows that don't use a P1 or P2 license? Does the ability to use the free plans of PowerApp and Flow still exist if you are not using any premium connectors or does every user or end user need one of the new licenses?
To the best of my knowledge the grace period only applies to the SQL connector moving to premium and not all the Azure connectors.
I can't point you at a publicly available blog post at this point. MS is still working on that. But if you have your global admin check through the messages in the Office 365 message center it is covered in one of those that went out last week.
The "Free" license still exists. But it is now refered to as a "Seeded" plan, ie it comes with the Office 365 or Dynamics 365 license. The Office license plan will basically be unchanged, except for the re-classification of SQL and Azure connectors as premium. If you've used PowerApps and Flow to build applciations that extend SharePoint lists or Excel spreadsheets in OneDrive you won't really notice a change.
If you had a P1 license you will now need to buy a standalone plan license, which is more expensive.
If you had a P2 license the standalone plan is essentially equivalent.
The minimum purchases that were announced at Inspire have all pretty much been dropped.
Aah, feels good to see that this topic is finally debated ! It felt is was almost hush-hush for a while.
Don't get me wrong : the Office 365 Power App licence + Azure SQL DB was a deal that was just too good to be true, it needed reajusting. But now the pendulum swung quite violently to the other extreme...
We're extremly affected by these new changes. Like many others, we only use Azure SQL DB as a backend and HTTP Responses to return PROC data (for a variety of reasons we won't debate here). A client has already pulled out of a project days before production (didn't know about the 5 year grace...) and I expect others to soon follow. The client even suggested to switch the project to an Access database. Argh !
A lot of our current projects revolved around "profesionnalising" artisanal business processes (aka : Excel sheets grown too big for their own good). These scenarios often have a low usage (maybe once a month) but adress a large user-base (50+ users). The P1 licences just cannot work in such a scenario since business sponsors are not willing to pay 6K€/year in licensing fees to replace a single Excel-based process (or 25K€/years for mulitple ones...), no matter how clunky and error prone it is.
Personally, I'm hoping something akin to the daily-login licensing concept for the portal could be extended to the regular canvas apps. Azure has had tremandous success with the Pay-as-you-go formula since it allowed a real "land and expand" strategy. Give the people a taste of what PowerApps can do with cheap, easy to commit to scenarios and they'll remember you when the big lucrative use-cases come around.
My two cents anyway 😉
ps: anyone know if the grace period also includes the HTTP responses ? Patch() is a handy little tool, but it's not going to cut it for complex business logic over large datasets ^^
@FredericForest I totally agree. The new pricing is a swing too far the other way. I was disappointed enough that they made the HTTP actions, on-prem data gateway and the single custom connector premium, but it wasn't such a blow that it lost customers.
I think they've lost sight a little of what the benefits of the Power platform actually are. By making the Azure Automation connector premium, for example, they've taken away a tool for systems admins to build their own automation and UIs for admin tasks. No systems admin is going to pay for that connector, they'll just find another way to achieve the same thing or just do it the old way. What a wasted opportunity.
I also agree about the frequency of use for apps. It's an awful lot of money to pay, some 30% or more on top of the base cost of an Office 365 license (Business Premium it's more than 50%!) just to run a couple of apps occasionally. It makes it a really hard sell, which is such a shame because if it wasn't for Microsoft pricing small business and the more casual customers out of the market, it would be a game changing platform.
At least we still have Logic Apps (for now - who knows what devious plans they have for that?) for doing the premium legwork out of band of the PowerApp, if you can sucessfully architect the app to do that.
Thanks for your reply, Paul
I hope i can get some official statement around the grace period - not that i dont trust you 🙂 - but i would like to see something from Microsoft staff on this. Hopefully they wake up!
I have one big app just about to go into prod. It uses the Azure SQL connector. I need to convince my customer that they are safe during the five year exempt period otherwise they will pull out and buy a third party case management system instead.
In my particular case we are talking about approx 2000 users and we are already paying for the SQL Server in Azure and for Office 365 licenses. Also paying for the ability to communicate with SQL doesnt make a single sense to me.
Please, Microsoft staff, spread some ligth over this!
Existing user-based limits on API requests will remain in place for the purposes of service assurance, and there is one new daily API request limit being introduced at this time. Go here to learn more about Flow service limits.
Your tenant will receive a grace period before the connector reclassification goes into effect, until October 1, 2020, or the expiration of your current Office 365 subscription term, whichever is longer. In addition, apps and flows created prior to October 1, 2019 will receive an extended grace period until October 1, 2024 – during this time these qualifying apps and flows will be exempt from Premium connector licensing requirements.
Beginning October 1, 2019 your organization will have the limits on Flow trigger frequency and number of runs removed. However, your organization will continue to maintain service limits comparable to current entitlement until October 1, 2020 or the expiration of your current Office 365 subscription term, whichever is longer.
After that time a standalone PowerApps or Flow plan license will be required to access all Premium connectors, and it may be necessary to add additional capacity based on your organization's needs. You should assess your current and future usage patterns to determine if additional licensing will be needed.Please click Additional Information to learn more.
I'm not arguing in favor of the price changes. Like many of you I agree they are going to be a real problem. What a lot of people don't see about this scenario is that the decision to change prices isn't coming from the Office 365 team, its coming from the Dynamics team. Dyanmics is the product group that owns the Power Platform. Although this is a huge change for people who have the Office 365 seeded license its a much smaller change (financially) for the people using the Dynamics platform. Most Dynamics licenses already covered and will continue to cover premium features. Its the Office licenses that only covered standard. Most Dynamics users are already paying well over $40/user/month for their license, which includes PowerApps and Flow with premium features. Dynamics users are going to see an estimated 5% increase in licensing costs, but that is no where near what Office users will pay if they continue to use Premium features. Office users will still be able to do a lot of great Apps using SharePoint alone. But it will be nothing like what professional developers have been able to do.
Have your Global admin check the message center in Office 365. An official notice that included the SQL grace period was posted on Friday. Your official Office 365 contact should have gotten an email that included it too. The following was in one of the messages sent out:
After that time a standalone PowerApps or Flow plan license will be required to access all Premium connectors, and it may be necessary to add additional capacity based on your organization's needs. You should assess your current and future usage patterns to determine if additional licensing will be needed.
Thanks @Pstork1 for the precisions on the HTTP calls. I'll admit it was not the answer I was hoping for, but at least now I know where I stand (and that's already a good start).
Considering the Office vs Dynamics team, it felt pretty obvious to me as well. It explains the pricing philosophy and the "do-or-die" attitude towards CDS.
I'm not going to get into politics, although MS has been known to suffer from internal politics before ("cough-cough" Power BI vs SQL Server)...
What I will say however is that if they push too much in this direction, PowerApps will become de facto a pure Dynamics 365 extension platform. And that's really coming short of its potential since Dynamics client only represent a fraction of the total market (and not being a Dynamics guy, they are just not my clients). Personally, as a business leader, I was considering dedicating 5-10 consultants to the solution within the next 12-18 months. But now I'm giving myself until Christmas to evaluate if it's a smart business decision or not...
I agree totally. As a private consultant who has spent the last 18 months ramping up and focusing on PowerApps and Flow it is very disappointing. I think Office 365 users will continue to use it with SharePoint lists, but that is a fraction of what it is capable of. MS thinks that if they use it there they will recognize the value and buy the standalone license. Given the price point I think they are completely wrong. But give that its the Dynamics team calling the shots I don't know that they care if they lose the Office 365 customer base.
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I agree totally. As a private consultant who has spent the last 18 months ramping up and focusing on PowerApps and Flow it is very disappointing. I think Office 365 users will continue to use it with SharePoint lists, but that is a fraction of what it is capable of. MS thinks that if they use it there they will recognize the value and buy the standalone license. Given the price point I think they are completely wrong. But give that its the Dynamics team calling the shots I don't know that they care if they lose the Office 365 customer base.
Approx 90% of my billable hours this year has been dedicated to the Powerplatform and I have also been working on getting other consultants up to speed on PowerApps, Logic Apps and Flow. Now I really don't know anymore. Beeing stuck in Office 365 services or pay to access services I'm already paying for just doesnt make sense.
An Microsoft E5 license is like $50/user and you get tons of services. Add one service to it and it almost double to price. It's so sad.
However, Microsoft has changed their mind before and hopefully they will do another round of discussions regarding this.
@Pstork1 Thanks for starting this thread.
I have several thoughts at the moment about the new licensing model. Two of them I would like to share. It are 2 questions about the "PowerApps per app" plan.
Question I
Canvas apps have been positioned for customized tasks and role-based apps and model-driven apps for back-office scenarios. A business solution (called application in the licensing F.A.Q.) I have in mind is build on this concept and contains a few model-driven apps and several canvas apps. The apps are role specific, meaning an employee would normally only need just a few of these apps. This setup is also based on a best practice not to make big apps.
The new "PowerApps per app" plan allows for 2 apps and a single portal per application. So how are these 2 apps determined? If this is max. 2 apps per user per business solution, then I think it is ok. If this is max. 2 apps per business solution, then I think, well, 😐
Question II
Some business solutions only need to be executed once a year. Enabling a business solution for only one month could be an option. How will the billing be processed? Example: All apps present on the first of the month will be counted.
1) The per App license is distributed per user. So the max would be 2 apps in a business solution for a user requires on per app license. Other users could have different apps covered by a per app license. But in general this is primarily designed to be a low cost way to get started at $10 per user for a single business solution (with a couple incorporated apps). Once a user uses 4 of these it becomes a better deal to buy the regular per user license for unlimited numbers of Apps. Most people will eventually get to that level of engagement.
2) I'm not sure about this one. But as I understand it there will be a yearly commitment for the licensing. So in your scenario I don't think you could license an app just for a month while its being used. But that's a specific scenario that you should raise with your Microsoft rep for clarification.
I work at a manufacturing facility, and I've been using PowerApps to really change how we do work in my department. All of my apps go through SQL as I'm connecting to various data sets used by other applications (e.g. Blue Mountain). I've been active in the forums, and I've really held out hope for PowerApps as a long term solution at my site - but this is killer. I might be able (MIGHT be able) to swing the money for a single P2 license and a few P1 licenses for my team to continue using the apps I've developed - but I'll never be able to expand my game-changing apps out to other groups (100's of employees). Why would I continue using a product that isn't expandable (expansion is cost prohibitive = not expandable)?
Someone up above said it best - this makes Powerapps a wasted opportunity. And others were correct as well - I'm going to have to stop using Powerapps and start making something else on my own. I'll go back to asp.net and eat the hours it takes to rebuild everything I've made in Powerapps on my own web page if I have to. At least it's something I can rely on!
*feeling very betrayed - drinking wine in T-MINUS 2 hours*
I wonder if the Flow sentiment analysis demo we've seen a milion time is running on this forum. If so, lights must be flashing left and right at the moment. ^^
While investigation the impact of the license model changes on existing PowerApps apps, does anyone know if the request limits are grandfathered too on Azure SQL Databases for 5 years, or are they enforced from october 1, 2019? Does anyone know this? I have not found any info on this.
I wonder if the "full capabilities of PowerApps" includes the AI Builder.
The API limits didn't apply previously. They are different than the Flow request limits. Flow request limits are per flow in a month. Api limits are per API call daily. So they will not be grandfathered in. But 95% of users never approach those limits based on MS telemetry. So I wouldn't worry about it.
AI Builder has a different consumption based pricing model. Its part of the standard model, but there are additional costs involved in using it that are based on actual consumption.
Hi @Pstork1 We have one (!) PowerApps app here that results in 1400 (on average) SQL requests per questionnaire. That is very close to 2000 (because of Office license with Azure SQL Database), meaning someone can only add one questionnaire per day and there is not a lot of room for other apps. So I do worry
It is this number of requests (if you are wondering) because we decided not to make one table with many columns (because there are almost 1000 questions divided over 59 scenarios) but to have two tables where one table is the master table (one row per questionnaire) and the other table contains one row per question per questionnaire.
Since my somewhat detailed post, which was an on-topic reaction to this announcement that contained no profanity or other community-guidelines violations that I could tell, appears to have been deleted without any explanation. Could someone from Microsoft or a moderator of this community please explain to me the opinion of these changes I'm allowed to have?
EDIT (Original Post, however I did remove the part where I called the move a bait-and-switch, stated that Microsoft should be ashamed, and compared their 5-year grace period to adding sugar to poison, just in case those statements crossed a line):
Microsoft should recognize the damage this move has done to their brand. They have been selling us on this idea of "low-code-no-code" and then pulled the carpet out from under their customers by jacking up the price to an unreasonable degree. They have taken what was a platform full of promise and potential and turned it into a cash grab. It doesn't matter which team this decision comes from, at the end of the day, it is coming from Microsoft. If they don't have the ability to oversee and to make sure their teams are working together and not hurting each other's customers, then they have bigger problems than PowerApps users having access to AzureSQL. The Powerapps-AzureSQL scenario being "too good to be true" and in need of adjustment is just giving them too much benefit of the doubt. I'm paying for PowerApps, I'm paying for AzureSQL, both products are within the Microsoft ecosystem, why in the world do I then need to pay a third time to connect them? And why does connecting the products cost 3x as much as the individual products themselves?
But this decision doesn't just damage Microsoft's brand and the trust they'd built with us. With this decision, Microsoft has injured my own brand and credibility with my company. I've spent the past year learning, developing, and selling my company on the idea of the Power Platform and to embrace the tools that we are paying for with our Office 365 and Azure licenses. My company has invested in my time and paid for training on the Power Platform, gaining me skills that I now won't be able to utilize. I have to go back to them and explain that our new processes involving the Power Platform are only a stopgap, because in 5 years the cost of continuing to use them will explode exponentially.
We can't just go back to using Sharepoint as our data source, it is too insecure. And the cost of the new licensing model is quite frankly out of our reach. We aren't a large company. The potential savings from continuing to use the Power Platform to streamline our processes doesn't come close to covering this new cost of the product. There is no scenario where we can afford this.
What could they have done instead?
I am pressing on with my PowerApps development for the time being, with the hopes that Microsoft course-corrects on this. I know there is more to the new licenses than just the AzureSQL and Blob Storage connectors, but from my perspective, making those connectors Premium is what places the new licenses out of my reach.
I've contemplated just building a bunch of blank template PowerApps/Flows and adding these connectors to them, for future development after the Oct 1 mark, but I feel like this would be cheating the system, and I'd rather not treat Microsoft the way they are treating us.
hey @AngryBatVoice ,
I get your point (I'm more or less in the same situation, with similar consequences), but I really do think that, despite all, it IS really a matter of perspective and markets. The dynamics team that 40$/month is quite cheap compare to where they are coming from. We, from the Azure or Office world feel... differently! ^^
Personally, I couldn't really care less about CDS (no offense) and that really shows the divide between the two realities. If, through licensing, the Power Plateform team is not willing to accomotade the SQL-based reality (which to me adresses a whole different, non-canibalizing market), then its a real shame... but we'll have to accept it (aka : leave, for most of us).
On another note, I thought you made some interesting comments on your ideas of what could be done.
And my personal fav : a price per daily login (ideally around 1$), more akin to the pay-as-you-go on Azure.
The beauty with these is that the could work WITH the existing new plans (not against them). Much easier to communicate.
For the guys that were around back then, Power BI also had a bit of an identity crisis with its licensing scheme during its initial release. First part of Excel, when the service (v1) was initially launched, it had a efty 40$/month price points for the full platform access. The results were disapointing to say the least. When v2 was relauched later, the new price point of 10$/month allowed the product to completly explode and become the success it is today, generating much more total revenu than v1 (yay for pricing elasticity). Hopefully, this lesson is being discussed internally as well...
For the record...
Not sure what happened to the original post. I never saw it so I don't know why it was deleted.
I don't disagree with some of your points and I've registered my concern that this is a very bad PR move with Microsoft directly.
As a 20+ year champion of most Microsoft causes I can clearly state that this is the type of maneuver that winds up looking like Windows Phone. While the Power Platform has a ton of promise it is still not fully mature and asking this much for a service that is still growing is truly unfortunate. The value of having a relatively low cost platform that promotes sales of other profit centers such as O365, SharePoint, Dynamics and Azure services was brilliant. This new concept that the Power platform IS the profit center rather than increasing sales in the other profit centers is a bad miscalculation and if it sticks will absolutely kill this platform.
My company has already spoken on the matter and will likely have to divest ourselves of the platform which we were in the process of ramping up on. This decisions single handidly eliminated the growth of the platform which will kill off our Azure and O365 usage as well. The words from our leadership's mouth is what you will hear across the world "Not gonna happen".
I am not against Microsoft trying to make money on the Power platform and hope they do. However, going from O365 licenses covering end-user usage of the system to everybody pays $40/app/user/month is ridiculous. Microsoft really needs to reconsider this. In the meantime, development in the platform will cease in a few weeks while we search for alternatives.
I am still trying to get all the facts so I can give my customers proper advice.
I have one app in pilot-stage for the moment. It connects to Azure SQL. How many API-calls would be measured in the following cases:
- I use Filter() on the Items property in a gallery. The database-table holds 2000 rows, but through the filter i request 100 rows
- I use Patch() to update five columns for one item (row) i the database-table.
- I use Filter() on the Items property in a gallery. The database-table holds 2000 rows, but through the filter i request 500 rows. The filter statement is fully delegated. The end user scrolls down 10 times in the gallery to see all the rows.
It would be quite handy to be able to see the API-calls for each PowerApp in the Analytics view. Do anyone know if that is possible?
I cannot agree more. Its not enough to have us all using O365, Windows Desktop & Azure SQL Server. Now they want more money to be able to collaborate and automate using the tools we are already paying for.
I agree, I feel like the past 2 years developing apps in PowerApps has been a total waste of time. All our apps rely on SQL Server and this will just kill it. There is no way we can afford an additional $40 per user per month on top of the $20 per user for O365 and $10 per user for PowerBI.
I agree its tough at this point to calculate API calls based on actions. But in general what you describe is probably one API call each. Batching things will cut down on the number of API calls.
This new license change is confusing to me. We have one canvas app on a customer tenant that utilizes CDS. The app consumers/users have an E5 license, so there is no extra cost associated with using the app besides the E5 license. How will this change on October 1?
According to the documentation, if using CDS, every user must have a minimum of PowerApps per app plan:
PowerApps per app plan which allows individual users to run applications (2 apps and a single portal) for a specific business scenario based on the full capabilities of PowerApps for $10/user/app/month. This plan provides an easy way for customers to get started with the platform before broader scale adoption.
The E5 license won't suffice
Wow. This is horrible. How to explain this increased cost to the customer? With the E5 licenses our customer could consume the app with no additional cost until now. And now they have to pay an additional $120 per user per year? And without no prior notice?
The existing P1 and P2 plans for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow will be transitioning to the new PowerApps per app and per user plans, as well as the Microsoft Flow per user and per Microsoft Flow plans.
E5 licenses have P1 ... does that not mean that they already have a "PowerApps per app" plan?
One Correction. Office 365 E5 licenses contain the standard PowerApps license, not the P1 license. The P1 license is going away Oct 1, unless you are grandfathered in for a year. Choices in the future will be the "seeded" license included with E5, PerApp license at $10/user/app/month, or standalone $40/per user per month.
And I agree that a lot of customers are going to have sticker shock. But to be clear. You can continue to use PowerApps and Flow to enhance SharePoint and OneDrive without additional cost. Developing using SQL and Azure, which I do like a lot, is what will get massively more expensive for Office users.
For us this is going to most likely pull the plug on all PowerApps development.
We don't want to silo data into sharepoint lists but cannot justify the cost for 1500 staff members to access apps connected to SQL.
Really quite outrageous, we will be forced to use a competitor product.
Such a shame, Microsoft, please rethink this.
I agree with the sentiment. My only advice would be to make sure to price out the thrid party options before you pull the plug. Most of the people I know who work with them suggest that the cost is comparable to the new pricing in PowerApps and Flow. That's one of the reasons MS thinks they can get away with this.
Convinced organization that Power Platform was way to go....check.
Spent year+ ramping up skills .... check.
Developed 20 plus business applictions now in use throughout organization....check.
Have many other apps in the pipeline....check.
Won't be able to take budget hit...check.
Earlier today I spoke to our MS reps about this, trying to get some clarity. They did their best to explain but were noticably subdued. You can tell that they were like "Even I can't believe this".
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Warning: Wrath spoilers ahead!
Blizzard's pretty good at Lore when they want to be, with the whole 2.4 storyline, the Battle of Ahn'Qiraj, and many epic storylines promising to come out of Northrend. At the same time, they also have their own offbeat brand of humor that is never far gone from their design philosophy, and it shows up in their stories too.
Sometimes it serves them well and adds a bit of levity, but other time, it seems to take on a life of its own, a life that can strangle what could have otherwise been something compelling and interesting. Zul'Aman is perhaps the most pertinent example. What could have been the last attempt of the Farstriders to shut down the troll menace threatening their people, what could have been a revival of the Troll killing tradition of the Arathi, or an examination of the High Elves who stayed loyal to the Alliance but still hate the Amani, instead turned into a cheap redneck treasure hunt. It killed much of the allure of the zone and turned what could have been a epic struggle against a former hero of the Horde into a run of the mill bunny bashing session.

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I don't know - but I'd guess that 'get-out' is a sort of 'meta-euphemism' that lets the speaker get out of saying 'Hell'.
Interested in Language
I am looking for the origin of the expression "...as all get-out," as in "He was lazy as all get-out!"
Also, although I know how to use this phrase in context, I am wondering if anyone can offer a succint definition.
I don't know - but I'd guess that 'get-out' is a sort of 'meta-euphemism' that lets the speaker get out of saying 'Hell'.
Hmm. Good theory.
But why "meta"-euphemism?
To get out of saying 'dead' you say 'passed away': that's a euphemism.
To get out of saying 'hell' you say 'get out'; you might as well say '...as all "euphemism"'. Hence my choice of words.
PS ... but it's not a term recognized in any theoretical discourse community. I just made it up
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I use "as all get out" frequently. It simply means "to a very great degree."
He was mad as all get out! = He was really, really mad!
Oh, don't ask her. She's as mean as all get out! = She is really mean and won't help you.
I don't know its origins or how it came to mean this, but I do use it.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
Hi Tripp
I'm with BobK on this one - never ever come across it in BrE.
I've just never really understood the meaning of "Meta-."
meta- - definition of meta- by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Did you actually look it up yourself at that link? Tell me which definition you think applies best (I challenge you). But you know, that's not the important point of the my thread, as I already understand the idiom in context. What I am most interested in is the derivation of the phrase. Many "figures of speech" can be traced back to their roots - some logical, some quirky and fun. I was hoping to find that here. Keep your thinking caps on, y'all!
I just provided the link to potentially help you better understand the possible meanings/nuances of "meta-".
As BobK which one applies to his post.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Brassware Agencies
The business has been running for almost 27 years, yet to this day has NEVER had a logo to define who and what the business is about.
The name of the business is somewhat misleading too, but due to customers knowing who they are and trusting the product, there has been no need to change it.
The business specialises in the wholesaling of plumbing and electric fittings, mainly in PVC (not brass!). Being a wholesaler, the company represents many leading brands in their market so delivers high quality product to the plumbing and electrical trade.
The business is well respected, and is looking to get a facelift and increase it's share of the market through better presentation and (finally) a brand identity that we need you to be part of.
The target market is largely existing clients, but we need to be careful not to frighten them off or think that the business is now under new management.
The brief is to provide existing customers confidence that it's business as usual (just with a new look and feel) and provide confidence to potential new clients that the business is forward thinking and has a brand identity.
The target market is largely blue collar due to the nature of the industry, builders, plumbers, electricians and contractors within the building sector. They are honest sorts of people that are not into BS and the logo should be strong to reflect that.
What we need is clear and concise logo that utilises the business name Brassware Agencies and has a graphical element to support it.
We don't want overtly IT/banking sector/medical looking logos, it has to be more simple than that.
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The great thing is there is nothing to compare the concept to. There has not been a logo which means you do not have to work within set colour palettes, dimensions or layouts. There is no website so don't trouble yourself looking around for one to find out more information (although this WILL be another competition once the logo is sorted!).
Be creative, think about the audience we are trying to target and I wish you well.
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Canadians are "going overboard" as consumer debt outpaces income growth, a credit reporting agency executive cautioned Wednesday.
The warning comes as consumers gear up for the busy Christmas shopping season and as the Metro Vancouver real estate market slows down, with both sales and average prices decreasing.
Despite repeated warnings from Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty about the perils of taking on too much debt, Canadians' non-mortgage debt grew at its fastest rate in nearly two years during the three months leading up to September.
Nationally, consumer debt jumped 4.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2012, compared to a year ago, to an average of $26,768, credit reporting agency TransUnion's latest quarterly analysis shows. The increases were the biggest since the fourth quarter of 2010.
In B.C., the average consumer debt is $38,837, the highest in the country and up 2.5 per cent quarter over quarter and 6.2 per cent year over year. The fourth quarter of the year — and Christmas shopping — typically brings an uptick of one to two per cent in growth in debt, said Thomas Higgins, TransUnion's vice-president of analytics and decision services.
He's worried this year's Q4 numbers might show an increase in total consumer debt of seven or eight per cent.
"That would definitely be a concern," Higgins said. "We're not seeing the type of growth rate in income that we see in debt levels, so your debt-to-income ratio is going to get worse. We're going overboard."
Higgins also points out that in the past five years, debt loads have grown at four times the rate of inflation. The consumer price index is up nine per cent during that time, while consumer debt has jumped more than 37 per cent.
Jeffrey Schwartz, executive director at Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, said he's encouraged that most of the debt growth is on car loans and instalment loans, rather than higher-interest lines of credit or credit cards. But he cautioned that could change as Christmas shopping peaks.
"I think if the trend of lines of credit and credit card debt turns around in the last quarter and starts to increase, then we could be in trouble," Schwartz said. "With debt-to-income levels at 163 per cent, we're setting ourselves up for disaster."
Meanwhile, Metro Vancouver's housing prices may drop an average of six per cent next year, according to Re/Max's 2013 Housing Market Outlook.
"If the housing market is on the decline, (people) are not going to be able to use their houses as cash registers any more. They're going to be in kind of a shock situation, unless they change their behaviour now," Schwartz said. "Sometimes people need a shock to change. I think there are a number of people on that fringe, who if they did have a shock it could send them into a tailspin rather quickly."
Schwartz said such a shock could be things like decreasing home values, a loss or reduction of income or rising interest rates.
Higgins said the increase is quite a contrast to relatively stagnant debt growth in the prior three quarters.
"Debt's outpacing us and continues to outpace us, so at some point in time there's going to be a reconciliation," Higgins said. "Hopefully it's not drastic and hopefully it doesn't hit everybody, but there's going to be a correction somehow along the way."
Higgins said he believes the reason consumers continue to ramp up debt loads — aside from the protracted period of record low interest rates — is that scary economic headlines from around the world have started to dissipate, with less bad news coming out of Europe, the U.S. posting growth and Canada reporting a healthy jobs market.
"Unless there are imminent concerns put in front of us, or we get a taste of potential pain, such as a jump in interest rates or job losses in a sector or something noticeable, we tend to put the bad stuff away and hide it in the closet and hope it stays there," Higgins said. "The good news is that when we look at the delinquency rates, Canadians are still managing the debt load, but the concern is that if something does happen, we've got less and less room to weather the storm."
Although the Re/Max report calls for a drop in average prices of six per cent in the near term, it says the overall economic picture for Metro Vancouver is healthy and that the real estate market will gradually recover through 2013. The report calls for a one-per-cent increase in average house prices and growth in the number of sales by the end of 2013.
"Despite the short-term pain, the Greater Vancouver housing market is ideally positioned for the future," the report says."A combination of factors — including historically low interest rates and resolution of the harmonized sales tax issue — are expected to play a positive role moving forward."
In October, the dollar volume of homes sold in B.C. dropped 14.6 per cent from a year ago, the number of sales dropped 10 per cent and the average price — $508,292 — was down 5.1 per cent, the B.C. Real Estate Association reported Wednesday.
Higgins said the real estate slowdown has been gentle rather than abrupt, and he doesn't expect prices to drop suddenly or significantly. He said Canada's situation is very different from the United States before the crash because Canada has very few people in a negative position on their mortgages and people do not have mortgages with sudden, large interest rate increases.
Average credit card debt — which carries the highest interest costs — was down one per cent year-over-year, though it was up half a per cent from the previous quarter and now hovers at an average of $3,573, TransUnion found.
Borrowing on lines of credit fell 0.2 per cent year-over year, but grew nearly one per cent since the second quarter of the year and sits at an average of $34,050.
The debt numbers show an 11-per-cent uptick year-over-year in auto loans to an average of $19,228 as consumers are once again shopping for cars, a big ticket purchase largely put aside during the doldrums of the recession.
"During the recession people held off on buying the new car, they refinanced the lease or continued with what they had longer than they would have," Higgins noted.
Instalment loans — bank loans with a regular payment schedule that are paid off over time — increased 2.28 per cent year-over-year and 1.58 per cent quarter-over-quarter.
Perhaps the most encouraging news in the report was that delinquency levels — those who are late or default on a loan — continue to remain low across all categories.
With files from The Canadian Press


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NEW ORLEANS — Score one for the big brother.
Like any good contest between brothers, the Har-bowl was a doozy filled with twists and turns — and even a blackout.
In the end, older brother John Harbaugh and the Ravens prevailed over little brother Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers in an epic battle, winning Super Bowl XLVII 34-31 at the Superdome.
The Ravens dominated the game early, taking a 22-point lead at the start of the second half. Then the Superdome lost power in half the building and when it came back the 49ers had a power surge. The 49ers came roaring back, taking 20 minutes of real time to get right back into the game, eventually cutting the deficit to two.
But the Ravens held on to win their second Super Bowl title in franchise history.
"It wasn't perfect. It wasn't pretty, but it was us," John Harbaugh said.
The Ravens sent linebacker Ray Lewis out with another Super Bowl title in his final game. Quarterback Joe Flacco was tremendous, completing 22-of-33 passes for 287 yards and three touchdowns on his way to winning MVP.
"I don't think it's going to settle in for a while," Flacco said. "We don't make anything easy. It was a hard-fought game on both sides. I think we gave the country a pretty good game to watch. Not to our liking necessarily, but that's the way it goes sometimes and that's the way we do things."
The 49ers had a chance to tie the game in the fourth quarter after 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick scored a 15-yard touchdown to make it 31-29 with 9:57 left to play, but Kaepernick's pass sailed high over Randy Moss' head on the two-point conversion.
The Ravens then took the ball back and mounted a 10-play drive that took away much of the fourth quarter. The 49ers kept them out of the end zone, though, to stay alive. Justin Tucker kicked a 38-yard field goal to make it 34-29 with 4:19 left in the game.
Kaepernick marched the 49ers down the field to the Ravens 5-yard line with two minutes left, but the Ravens mounted a goal-line stand and Kaepernick's pass sailed out of the end zone on fourth down to seal the classic game.
The 49ers felt that Jimmy Smith should have been called for holding or pass interference on the fourth-down throw for his defense against Michael Crabtree.
"There's no question in my mind that there was a pass interference and then a hold on Crabtree on that last one," Jim Harbaugh said.
The Ravens gave the 49ers two more points when punter Sam Koch took some time off the clock running around the end zone before going out of bounds for a safety to make the score 34-31.
It looked like the Ravens were going to run away with the game when Jacoby Jones took the opening kickoff of the second half 108 yards for a touchdown that put the Ravens up 28-6.
The power then went out with 13:22 left in the third quarter for 34 minutes and when the lights came back on the 49ers looked like a different team. They scored two touchdowns in the next 20 minutes of actual time and stormed back into the game, which had felt like it was over.
After the game, the Harbaugh brothers met on the field and shook hands, but did not hug. John tapped Jim on the chest and Jim touched John's face.
"It was really hard," John Harbaugh said. "At the end of the game that was the hardest thing I have ever experienced."
The Ravens dominated the first half with Flacco throwing three touchdown passes and their defense not allowing Kaepernick to ever get rolling.
The Ravens took a 7-0 lead on their first series when Flacco connected with Anquan Boldin on a 13-yard touchdown pass on a drive that was extended by a 49ers penalty, something that plagued San Francisco all night.
The 49ers managed only two David Akers field goals in the first half and were trailing 21-6 at halftime. When Jones returned the kickoff to start the second half, the game appeared over. But the 49ers kept it interesting to the end.
For the Ravens, this was the culmination of an odd season. They switched offensive coordinators in December, promoting Jim Caldwell after firing Cam Cameron. Like Eli Manning a year ago, Flacco endured an "is he elite?" debate all season. Then, Lewis announced he was retiring at season's end before the playoffs started.
In the playoffs, the Ravens beat the Colts at home before pulling off a miraculous victory in Denver over Peyton Manning and the Broncos. They beat Tom Brady and the Patriots to make it to the Super Bowl, where they were underdogs again to the 49ers.
"We didn't get any respect the whole postseason," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "Every game we were counted out, even versus Indianapolis. I think just in general, the only way to go out and get respect is to go out and take it."


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"Forget to Remember" That is what Friday claims it will do.
About the developers
Friday is an Android app from Dexetra, the developers of Iris, a virtual assistant. Even though it does not have all the features as Siri, yet, it shows a lot of promise with constant updates and improvements. Iris (Siri in reverse) was created within 8 hours after Apple announced Siri and that was how many people heard about its developer Dextra and the sibling of Iris who has been gestating for a while now.
About Friday
Many people find it difficult to maintain a diary (me), but I wish I knew what I did a week or a month back. Sometimes I would know what I did, but would have no idea when I did it. Android has some apps which will export your call logs and SMSs to your Gmail inbox or to Google Calendar. This means I know when I talked to who, but it stops there. With Friday on your mobile, it will keep a track of everything you do. It would know where you were at a particular point of time, who you called and what music you were listening to. Think of it as a personal biographer. Who knows, you may need those details when the world wants to know all about you.
I am sure that many people would be worried about their privacy, but Dexetra says, the information stays on your mobile. If you are worried about someone stealing your mobile to find out what you did last summer, you might want to wait before you try this app.
Getting Friday
You can get Friday by invite only, but it is not easy. I have been on the list for a few months now with hardly any luck. Dextra says they will be sending invites this week, but I am still waiting. Hopefully I won't have to wait for long and I am sure you won't experience the long wait that I had to endure.
The opinion of people who tried the alpha version of Friday have been overwhelmingly positive and with Dextra's work with Iris, they are planning to incorporate the best features of Iris into Friday.
I have seen my share of new apps and websites come and go, some of which are never heard by 99.99% of the internet users. It is dissapointing that some of the promising startups didn't get the exposure they deserved or didn't live up to the initial expectations. With Friday I see a endless possibilities.
At present it captures certain events, but if Dextera is able to incorporate API from major websites and apps, then the information that can be captured in a centralized location would be huge. Building on it, Dextera can provide its own API so that information can be pushed to Friday instead of Friday actively looking for it. Considering the changes the team has made to Iris, I am sure they will be thinking of expanding the reach of Friday. As far as I can tell, there no other apps which comes anywhere close to doing what Friday can do.
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Once I get my hands on Friday, you can be sure there will be a followup post with screenshots and my opinion on how it can make a difference to your life.
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HISD board tentatively approves new mascot policy
Emotional meeting points to pride, prejudice as schools targeted to drop or alter images
Three schools in the Houston Independent School District are likely to have new mascots that no longer reflect a connection to Native American culture or history following preliminary board approval Thursday night of a policy proposed by Superintendent Terry Grier.
A fourth school, Westbury High, could be required to drop the use of Rebel, even though connections to the Confederacy were done away with more than two decades ago.
Trustees gave a tentative OK to language that calls on schools to show respect and cultural sensitivity in nicknames and mascots. An HISD news release cited the Lamar High School Redskins, Hamilton Middle School Indians and Welch Middle School Warriors as nicknames that would be affected.
After the meeting, Grier said teams that have generic nicknames such as Warriors could potentially keep the name if any affinity with Native Americans was dropped. Rebels is trickier because it was a common nickname for schools with Confederate themes, and to many people it still has that connotation.
The new mascot policy was approved unanimously by the board following an at-times emotional session of public comment. The approval is tentative because it came after the measure's first reading. To be implemented, it must be given a second reading and again receive a majority vote. Measures are rarely reversed if passed on the first reading.
About 20 speakers gave brief statements, roughly equally divided between those favoring and opposed to the proposed change. Most of those opposed to the mascot change had connections to Lamar High School.
"You should be spending your money, time and attention not on changing mascots but on educational matters," said Joe Koch, a 1968 Lamar graduate. "These names were not meant to be offensive. They were meant as a rallying cry to bring students together."
Other Lamar alumni who spoke accused the board of bowing to "political correctness" and trying to impose a liberal ideology.
Current Lamar student Juan Vides said those who attend the school come from many backgrounds and would never regard the nickname as demeaning.
"We see it as a sign of respect, not a sign of mockery," Vides said.
Several Native American speakers said the use of names and symbols associated with their people can have a hurtful impact regardless of the intent.
"I am a human being - I am not a mascot," said Steve Melendez, a Native American activist.
Mayra Fontenot, a student at Carnegie Vanguard High School with Native American ancestry, said the use of terms like Redskin along with icons and logos depicting Indian figures in traditional dress has the effect of stripping her people of their basic humanity.
"You are turning us into a brand," Fontenot said. "It is an insult to our people and reducing us to a caricature."
'But times change'
The policy change prompted only slight discussion among board members. Trustee Rhonda Skillern-Jones, whose daughter was a Lamar cheerleader, said her decision in favor of the change was difficult because the students, parents and school personnel she knew used Redskins proudly and with no ill intent.
"But times change," Skillern-Jones said. "We have to evolve. If we did not, I would still be called colored. I don't think we should continue to celebrate a name that people find offensive. We should put ourselves in other people's shoes."
Board member Mike Lunceford said he went through a similar experience while a student at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, which was pushed into dropping its Confederate theme. Directing his comments to the Lamar alumni present, he said the change is really not a big deal.
"A mascot does not make a school - it's the people in the school and what they want," Lunce-ford said. "You will get past this."
Board president Anna Eastman urged those who opposed the new policy not to misinterpret the board's action.
"This is not to call anyone who celebrates these names a racist," Eastman said.
Effort started by Ellis
The new policy does not refer to specific nicknames or types of mascot. It says that all mascots, nicknames, symbols and items used to promote them "shall respect cultural differences and values." Specifically prohibited is the use of any race or ethnic group.
A petition to keep Redskins as the Lamar sports nickname received more than 2,000 signatures.
The mascot proposal was spurred by a letter from state Sen. Rodney Ellis to Grier in early December. Ellis said a group of local Native American leaders had complained to him specifically about Lamar's "inflammatory" name. Ellis said the name and related mascot of a stylized chief in a war bonnet is "a relic of a shameful and discriminatory past."
After the vote, Ellis praised the board for taking a "step toward eliminating vestiges of racism" implicit in some mascot names.
Ellis' call for change echoed a similar controversy that has surrounded the Washington Redskins. Native American groups have called on the team and the NFL to abandon the name.


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Best Background Check aims to dispell myths and guide users towards the best background check companies.
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people search
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We have compiled a windows binary based on the latest bfgminer 3.99.0 (source) with support for the Gridseed 5-chip ASIC miners. The code includes some improvements and fixes and you can also set finer operating frequencies in 25 MHz increments. We have been focusing on releasing updated windows binaries for cgminer lately, so the previous bfgminer windows binary that was released here a while ago is already pretty old.
You should be careful with the new release if you are using earlier Gridseed 5-chip ASIC devices that use the CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller as these apparently do not work properly with the latest bfgminer 3.99.0. The older miners are beign detected and local hashrate is getting reported, however it seems nothing gets sent to the pool, so for these you should stick to the previous binary that works just fine. For the newer Gridseed ASIC revisions that use the STMicroelectronics Virtual COM Port (STM32 Virtual COM Port) there are no problems with the new release.
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This version of bfgminer shoudl work with both the earlier 5-chip Gridseed ASIC devices as well as the newer revisions, it detects and work with our miners using both the newer STM32 Virtual COM port driver as well as the older CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller. Note that bfgminer requires the devices to be working with their standard virtual COM ports and not to have the drivers replaced with Zadig with WinUSB like cgminer does. If you have installed the WinUSB drivers you may need to Uninstall the drivers and unplug and plug the ASIC devices so that the default driver is installed again. Alternatively you can try to install the GridSeed.inf driver you will find in the miner archive. Note that the version of bfgminer provided here is only for Scrypt (LTC) mining on the 5-chip Gridseed ASIC devices!
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Thread: Fossilized Fuel Legislation
Fossilized Fuel Legislation
just another example of the lack of insightful leadership of the country.
the "energy bill" is really just a consumption bill. conservation not required!
see ya
reprinted from the LA Times, 4-20-05
April 20, 2005
Fossilized Fuel Legislation
There's this much to like about the new energy bill in Congress: Hooters isn't in it. There's no longer a subsidy to build a Hooters in Shreveport, La., something that helped make last year's pork-laden bill a laughingstock.
In most ways, the bill, due back in the House this week, has changed less over four years than the Rocky Mountains. It deservedly died each congressional session and was resurrected in the next, remarkably well preserved. Its emphasis remains almost entirely on drilling and exploration for oil and gas (much of it in environmentally sensitive areas), and on $8 billion in tax breaks for companies.
The billion-dollar subsidy for an Idaho nuclear plant is still there. So is the provision to shield producers of the gasoline additive MTBE from environmental-damage lawsuits in California and other states. Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge; incentives for expanded offshore oil and gas exploration; breaks for polluting coal-burning power plants; and diminished environmental regulation for drilling, paving and pipelines elsewhere? Still there, being pushed just as hard by President Bush.
The few policy changes are not improvements. Former versions would have done little to encourage alternative sources of energy or to conserve fuel. Now the bill does even less. Gone are tax credits for energy- efficient new homes and commercial buildings. The bill does not extend the tax deduction for hybrid vehicles.
Despite Bush's arguments for more drilling, the United States doesn't have nearly enough in reserves to drill its way to oil independence, even including wilderness lands.
By contrast, energy conservation would provide both immediate and long-term improvement, as it did in the 1970s. California has shown the way by requiring energy- efficient appliances and building materials, neither of which has a spot in the federal bill. Fuel economy for vehicles isn't under discussion, though U.S. fuel standards for passenger cars haven't been updated for 20 years.
The bill is likely to pass in the House and will head to the Senate. Last year, the House-Senate version carried an estimated cost of about $25 billion and would have made no measurable dent in oil dependency. The porky bill sank under its own weight.
With prices at the gas pump near $3 a gallon, the Senate this year should figure out that the time is ripe for a better-designed energy bill. The public is ready to hear not just about lower gas prices but also real conservation. That doesn't include the House's amendment to extend daylight saving time by two months, so it would last from early March to late November. Unless, of course, you consider more outdoor barbecues an encouragement of alternative fuel sources.
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Steve, thanks for the post and article, and I agree.
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Folks. I agree that the government is way late and short sided -- however, we consumers have the power. Look at Toyota's first quarter hybrid sales.... Some on Capitol Hill are getting the message.
Issa of CA is pushing legislation and Engel of NY is working on some new stuff as is Kirk of IL. Things are slow inside the beltway, but fortunately the marketplace doesn't care. Keep driving and promoting hybrids and the lagards will come around.
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From SJ Mercury News Editorial
(note the House of Reps vs. Bush)
"The president's proposed budget devotes three-quarters of its $6.7 billion in tax breaks to energy efficiency and renewable energy. The House proposal devotes only one-sixteenth of its $8 billion in tax breaks to these environmentally friendly alternatives.
In a speech to newspaper editors last week, Bush also said: ``There are plenty of incentives. What we need is to put a strategy in place that will help this country over time become less dependent.''
Excellent. How about the obvious one of requiring cars and light trucks to get better gas mileage? There's nothing in the House bill about that, and it's not just the fault of those drenched-in-oil Republicans. Democrats allied with the Detroit autoworkers aren't interested, either."
Saving Detroit? In the biz world this is throwing bad money after good, something investors try not to do, but elected reps always do b/c its not their money.
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recall that even recently USA based car manufacturers *screamed* about how impossible it is (or was) to lift average miles per gallon just a few points.
~ then toyota & honda did it.
letter writing campaign? to all our government rep's? sometimes that helps?
followed with a paragraph that we should add more tax to gas. just like the tax on smoking & the tax on beer & wine.
true incentives, but not likely to show up soon in legislation.
and this is across the board with voted rep's - repub or democrat.
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The TNA pre-game show opened with Jeremy Borash welcoming everyone to the broadcast, running down the PPV lineup. A video preview of the King of the Mountain match for the TNA championship then played.
Lauren interviewed Beer Money Inc. She noted that they were rested while Team 3D were on a 15 hour flight back from Japan. Roode said that Team 3D are the greatest team of all time and situations like this, where they defend the New Japan tag titles in Japan the night before a big TNA Tag title defense, it says they are amazing. He wondered if they could really beat 3D. They then both cracked up. James Storm says that we shouldn't feel sorry for them on the plane, but the plane for having to carry them with all that weight. Storm said that they don't care where 3D went, because tonight they are going to prove they are the best tag team in the world.
TNA played a video piece on Beer Money vs. Team 3D.
Jeremy Borash asked fans for predictions on who would win the King of the Mountain TNA title bout tonight.
New entranceway for the PPV, by the way.
Eric Young & Rhino vs. The British Invasion's Doug Williams & Brutus Magnus
The match opened with Rhino drilling Williams with a big shoulderblock. Young and Rhino tagged in and out working on Williams. Magnus tagged in but was drilled with a clothesline. Magnus attempted a hiptoss but Rhino blocked it and hit a second clothesline. Rhino went to tag out to Young but Young dropped off the apron. That left Rhino open for a double team from the Invasion while Rob Terry distracted the referee.
Young walked off as Don West noted that Young was mad that after everything he's done for the company, he's on the pre-game show. Jesse Neal came out to talk to Young, who slapped him and walked off. Neal ran to ringside to cheer on Rhino. Rhino began making a comeback but Williams cut him off. Williams was wearing a black armband in honor of Mitsuharu Misawa.
Rhino made a comeback and teased the gore but Magnus hit Rhino from the apron. Rhino drilled him, then nailed Williams. Neal begged to be let into the match but no go. Williams came back with a high kneelift in the corner. Williams went to the top but Rhino moved out of the way. Neal jumped on the apron and tagged in. The referee alllowed it. Neal cleaned house on the Brits.
Magnus caught Neal with a bearhug. Williams came off the top with a back elbow and Magnus scored the win.
Your winners, The British Invasion!
Match was designed to advance the Young storyline more than anything.
At ringside, Lauren noted it was TNA's seventh anniversary. Jeremy Borash was inside the penalty cage for the King of the Mountain and they ran down the lineup to the PPV. They announced the X-Division championship bout would open the PPV.
They aired a video feature on the tag team Monster's Ball match.
Back at ringside, Jeremy Borash continued to hype the show and interview fans about the PPV.
Lauren interviewed Sting about his match with Matt Morgan. Sting said that maybe it's his age or being dropped on his head so much, but people are questioning him. Sting said that he's got 20 years of confidence. He said that he still wants to bring respect back to TNA. Sting said Matt Morgan wants to make an example out of him, but instead he will make one out of Morgan.
They aired a video piece on the X-Division championship bout.
Borash and Lauren did a last minute hypejob for the PPV.
TNA Slammiversary PPV
X-Division champion Suicide vs. Chris Sabin vs. Jay Lethal vs. Consequences Creed vs. Alex Shelley - King of the Mountain
Detroit Tiger Curtis Granderson is at ringside to present the winner with the championship belt and is also doing commentary with Mike Tenay and Don West.
All four challengers took turns beating on Suicide as the bout began. The Guns nailed the Dream Sequence on Suicide. Creed pulled a ladder into the ring, although the ladder isn't in play until someone gets pinned. Suicide nailed a springboard back elbow on the Guns as Lethal Consequences set up the ladder in a corner. Suicide ducked under it, then rammed all of the challengers with it at once.
Suicide hit a reverse suplex on Lethal, who crashed down facefirst on the ladder, then pinned him. Suicide is now allowed to ascend the ladder to hang the X-Division belt. Lethal was sent to the Penalty Box. The other three challengers continued to beat down on Suicide. The Guns slammed Suicide into the ladder. Suicide came back to slam Creed into a ladder. Suicide hit a flying elbow in the corner on Shelley, then pinned him. Shelley goes off to the box.
Lethal was released from the box and immediately attacked Suicide, nailing a clothesline. Suicide drilled Lethal's face into the center turnbuckle. As he turned, Sabin drilled him in the face with a chair. Lethal nailed the Lethal Combination onto a chair. Sabin tried to steal the pin. Lethal and Creed jumped atop of it. No one seemed sure who was now allowed to hang the belt. Suicide went to the box. They finally confirmed it was Lethal who could now hang the title.
Suicide and Lethal are now both eligible.
Lethal grabbed the belt but he and Creed were jumped by the Guns. Shelley kicked out of the corner with a double stomp variation on Creed. The Guns swarmed over Lethal. They then hung Lethal in the corner and his stereo kicks to the face. They turned their attention to Creed. Sabin locked in an over the knee backbreaker and Shelley came off the top with a kneedrop. Creed came back to pin Shelley.
Suicide, Creed and Lethal are now both eligible.
Suicide was released from the penalty box but Lethal Consequences kept him at bay. Sabin went for Cradleshock but Suicide escaped and kicked Sabin, who took a bump into a ladder. Lethal pulled Suicide out of the ring to the floor, where Creed hit a running flip dive. Lethal tried to slam Suicide into a chair but it was blocked. They brawled up the entrance ramp. Sabin climbed to the penalty box from the ladder, then dove off onto Lethal Consequences and Suicide. Fun spot.
This left the Guns alone in the ring, although neither had qualified,. Sabin jumped down. Shelley pinned him. Sabin goes to the box and Shelley is now eligible. I laughed at that one. Shelley tried to scamper up the ladder but Suicide dropkicked the ladder. Lethal Consequences returned to the ring. Lethal and Shelley battled in the corner over a ladder. Shelley slammed him face-first into it. As he battled to his feet, Suicide picked up Creed and dropped him across the ladder. Lethal took a forward flip dive off the ladder into the ring, which looked insanely scary. Thankfully, replays showed he had completely cleared the bump.
The box released Chris Sabin, who hit the ring and immediately pinned the prone Lethal. Everyone is now allowed to try and hang the belt. Shelley drilled Creed with a kick but was caught with a DDT by Suicide. Sabin hit the Cradleshock on Suicide. Sabin began climbing the ladder but Suicide caught him and pulled him off. Sabin caught Suicide and tied him to the tree of woe then hit the high running dropkick in the corner.
Sabin began climbing the ladder as Lethal was released. Lethal followed him up and hit a back suplex off the ladder. Shelley came off the ladder with a frog splash on Lethal. All five continued to battle. A ladder was bridged between the ring and the railing on the floor. Sabin ended up knocked off the apron onto it. Shelley went to the top but Suicide tried to stop him. He was battled off, then Shelley hit a missile dropkick. Suicide was placed in a chair on the floor. Shelley hit a slingshot dive onto Suicide in the chair. Lethal hit an elbow drop off the top rope onto Sabin, who was laying on the ladder. Everyone in the match was out.
Shelley and Creed made their way to the apron and battled back and forth. Shelley finally drilled him with a superkick. Shelley went for Sliced Bread #2 off the ringpost. Shelley was jumped by Suicide and they battled in front of the announcers. Shelley went for Sliced Bread #2 off the cage but it was avoided. Suicide dropkicked Shelley over the rail into the crowd. He took the X-Division title and climbed the ladder. Lethal shoved the ladder over but Suicide landed on the ropes then jumped onto the penalty box. Lethal tried to use the ladder as a weapon but Suicide pulled it atop of the box. Lethal followed and was taken out.
Shelley set up another ladder and began climbing up. Suicide ran across the ladder from the box and hit a diamond cutter on Shelley, driving him off the ladder. Suicide grabbed the belt, went to the top and hung the belt above the ring.
Your winner and still X-Division champion, Suicide!
The lights went out and Suicide was gone when they returned.
Lots of really innovative, insane bumps here. All five guys really wrestled their rear ends off. I really enjoyed this. One hell of an opener. Lethal's bump off the ladder in the corner was cringe-worthy and I thought the finish was pretty inventive. We're off to a good start.
Mike Tenay and Don West ran down the lineup for the remainder of the PPV.
Lauren noted that Team 3D were still on their way back from Japan. They were in Japan for a match yesterday, beating Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard in Osaka, so they are already back in the United States, but for the sake of the storyline are "returning" now.
Lauren interviewed Shane Douglas. He said that no matter where he has wrestled, he's the measuring stick. He made allusions to Ric Flair, noting that to be the man, you have to beat the man. Douglas said that Jeff Jarrett felt sorry for Daniels and let him back, saying it was Jarrett's weakness of character. Douglas said he's a legend in the sport, not someone he allows punks to make their name on.
Aaron McMann, on hand, sent word he estimates the crowd is 4000-5000 fans.
Shane Douglas vs. Daniels
Douglas came to the ring and ripped on Michigan, putting over Pittsburgh. Douglas attacked Daniels immediately. Daniels cut him off with a dropkick to the knee and locked in a side headlock. Daniels drilled him with a series of chops and a dropkick that sent Shane into the corner. Daniels kicked him in the corner and went back to the headlock Daniels shoulderblocked Douglas down. Douglas ducked out of the ring as Daniels went for a kick. Daniels tried to do a kick out of the ring but Shane walked away. Douglas argued with the crowd, thinking Daniels was down and out. Daniels actually was fine and caught him with an Arabian Press.
Douglas came back and focused on Daniels' arm, locking him in a hammerlock and running Daniels into the steel steps at ringside. Douglas locked on an armbar whole sitting in a Camel Clutch position. Douglas escapes and comes back with a kick to the head. Daniels pulls himself to his feet, selling his arm. He clotheslines Douglas several times. Daniels nails a Northern Lights suplex for a two count. Daniels went for the BME but Douglas caught him off. They exchanged headbutts. Daniels used a leg sweep and hit the BME for the pin.
Your winner, Daniels.
Match never seemed to get out of first gear. Douglas seemed limited in what he was able to do so Daniels worked a match around that. Douglas can still cut a hell of a promo. I'd love to see him end up somewhere as an announcer again.
Jeremy Borash interviewed Mick Foley. He said Foley only has a 20% chance of retaining the belt tonight. Foley disagreed and said that there was no way Jeff Jarrett would win the belt since he knows that the company needs Foley to remain champion and help the company achieve it's greatness. Foley said after tonight, he'll begin to prepare for his next title defense, at Bound for Glory 2010.
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