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Miz came out and cut a promo about being on the pre-game show.
WWE United States champion Santino Marella vs. The Miz.
Santino thwarted Miz early but was nailed and stomped hard. Miz covered some near falls, then locked on a side chinlock. Santino flipped Miz over, but was raked in the face and covered for another two count. Miz continued controlling Marella but the crowd chanted to rally the champion. Miz missed a running kick and was rolled up for a two count. Miz nailed Marella across the back and went to the top rope. He came off but was nailed by Marella. Marella fired back with a series of shots, a hiptoss and a diving headbutt. He went for the Cobra but Miz kicked him away. He whipped Marella into the corner and charged but missed and hit the buckles hard. Marella nailed the Cobra and covered him for the pin.
Your winner, Santino Marella!
They spun the wheel to determine Big Show vs. Cody Rhodes' stipulation bout tonight. It was a Tables Match. Show laughed and told Rhodes, "Good luck putting me through a table." Rhodes blamed Teddy Long for this as he spun the wheel.
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They opened the show with a really good Cena vs. Lesnar video piece.
Kane vs. Randy Orton - Falls Count Anywhere
Kane muscled Orton into the corner and nailed several shoulderblocks. Orton fought him off and went to the ropes but was nailed with an uppercut and sent to the floor. Kane covered Orton for a two count, then retrieved a lead pipe from under the ring. Orton began nailing Kane with a series of rights before it could be used, then grabbed the pipe and nailed Kane a number of times with it. Orton followed up with a clothesline that sent Kane over the top to the floor.
Orton and Kane brawled into the timekeeper's area, then into the crowd. They brawled towards the back of the Arena, where Orton beat down Kane with a series of rights, then drilled him with a knee to the head. Orton covered Kane for a two count. Orton and Kane exchanged punches on the floor. Kane slammed him on the floor and covered Orton for a two count. Kane drilled Orton to set up another pinfall attempt.
They began battling back towards the ring, then battled up the stairs towards the mid-level of the Allstate Arena. They battled back towards the floor and into the staging area where the entrances take place. Kane tried to ram Orton into the set but Orton slipped off Kane's shoulders and nailed a dropkick for a two count. Orton went for the RKO but was shoved off and turned into a big boot, resulting in another two count.
They brawled towards the backstage area. Kane rammed Orton into some staging equipment and cases. He then slammed Orton's head into a locker room door. Orton fired back with a series of rights and sent him into a door, which opened, revealing a room where WWWE talents were watching on a monitor. Kane went Orton but was attacked by Ryder from behind, nailing a series of punches. Kane grabbed him by the throat but Orton drilled Kane for a two count. Kane whipped Orton into some staging poles.
They brawled back into the hallway backstage, taking out a cameraman. Kane threw a chair at Orton for another two count. He dragged Orton back into the Arena. Orton fought back and sent Kane into the apron, then tossed him into the ring. Orton began nailing punches with the crowd yelling, "Yes!" with each one. He nailed Kane and went under the ring, grabbing a steel chair.
Orton began beating Kane with a series of shots across the back. Yes chants for each shot. Kane rolled out of the ring. Orton followed and slammed his head into the announcer's table. Orton prepared to use the table but Kane grabbed him for a chokeslam. Orton fought his way out with a series of elbows. Kane was laid out on the table, and Orton pulled him off to nail the hanging DDT for a two count.
Back in the ring, Orton worked over Kane and nailed a superplex off the top rope for a two count. Orton went for the RKO but Kane slipped out and nailed a chokeslam. Orton kicked out, which Kane was shocked at. Kane grabbed the steel chair and set it in the ring. He went for a tombstone on the chair but Orton slipped out and nailed the RKO on the chair for the pin.
Your winner, Randy Orton!
Entertaining brawl as the weapons and fighting outside added a lot to the bout. They had some nice back and forth near falls as well. We are off to a solid start.
Backstage, John Laurinatitis and Eve Torres asked Teddy Long to toast all the changes of the last month. Triple H called on the cell phone and asked to speak to Ace. He said he would go to somewhere more private to talk.
Brodus Clay vs. Dolph Ziggler
The crowd was solidly behind Ziggler. Ziggler got Clay out of the ring to the floor early, where Jack Swagger nailed him with a football tackle. Clay rolled back in the ring and fought back but Ziggler avoided a kick and dropkicked him in the legs, then nailed him with an elbow for a two count. Huge "Let's go Ziggler" chant.
Ziggler locked on a front facelock. Clay fired back but Ziggler cut him off and nailed a dropkick to the head for a two count. Ziggler mounted Clay's back and locked in a sleeper. Clay made his way to his feet and flipped Ziggler over his shoulder to the mat. Ziggler, undaunted, continued the assault and attempted a suplex. Clay reversed and nailed a clothesline. Swagger got on the apron to distract Clay but was nailed off. Ziggler nailed Clay and charged him but was nailed with a headbutt to the chest and went flying for it. Clay nailed a splash for the pin.
Your winner, Brodus Clay!
Not much of a match. Ziggler was working really hard and was over big-time in Chicago.
WWE Intercontinental champ Big Show vs. Cody Rhodes - Tables Match
Show cleaned house on Rhodes early backdropping him. Rhodes went to the floor, where Show chopped him hard across the chest on the floor. Show grabbed a table that was propped up in front of the announcing position. He grabbed Rhodes, who slipped down behind Show and nailed him with a chop block from behind. He worked over Show, who came back with a Beel Throw on the floor and rolled Rhodes in.
Show brought a table into the ring. Fans were chanting for "Cody". Show set up the table in the corner. He tried to run Rhodes into it but Rhodes jumped up and used the table as a springboard point, nailing a version of the Beautiful Disaster. Show came back to nail Rhodes and send him to the floor. He tossed Rhodes into the guard rail barrier and chopped him across the chest.
Show continued the assault, then tossed him back in. Show moved another table into the ring and climbed up the apron. As he went to get back into the ring by stepping over the ropes, Rhodes dropkicked him. Show's leg slipped off the apron and went right through a table set up on the floor behind him. Show had this "Oh sh**" look on his face as if he couldn't believe what just happened. The referee called for the bell.
Your winner and new WWE Intercontinental champion, Cody Rhodes!
Rhodes began celebrating, so Show speared him. He set up a table in the ring. He chokeslammed Rhodes through a table to make his point. Show was going to leave but saw the table that cost him the title, then turned back to Rhodes and pressed and dropped him through another table at ringside. That was an impressive looking bump by Rhodes.
Nothing really to the match as it was all Show laying the beatdown before Rhodes got the fluke win. Not a good fluke win either, so it made the title change weak.
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136. JOHN LENNON: Produce your own dream
John Lennon (1940-1980) was an English musician, singer, songwriter, founding member of the Beatles and current cultural icon. This quote is taken from his famous Playboy interview from 1980, just a few months before he was shot and killed. It's an incredible interview. Lennon had just started making music again after a five year break, during which he had been busy being a 'house husband' and looking after his second son. He's completely honest about the possibility of a Beatles reunion, his relationship with his former bandmates and his love for his wife, Yoko Ono. He's also extremely funny and charming. The quote I used is taken from the end of the interview where Lennon is asked the question: "What is the Eighties' dream to you, John?"
I often get sent the "I told them they didn't understand life" quote attributed to Lennon all over the interweb. It's a great quote, but after some digging it's most likely been misattributed.
– What's your favourite Beatles/Lennon song? Jeez, it's so hard to pick one, isn't it? Some of my faves off the top of my head: Don't Let Me Down, In My Life, Beautiful Boy, The Word and Girl.
– If you're my age or younger and aren't that familiar with Lennon or the Beatles (shame on you!) and you have a spare eight hours, I recommend the Beatles Anthology documentary series (some of it is on YouTube).

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Mile high: Local filmmaker does Machu Picchu
"Why did the Incas abandon their city in the clouds?" asks the promo for NOVA's Ghosts of Machu Picchu. The National Geographic special airs February 2 on PBS and is produced and directed by occasional Crozetian Rick Preve.
"The biggest challenge about filming at Machu Picchu was, without question, the altitude," writes Preve in an email from somewhere in South America. "Machu Picchu is at about 2,300 meters [nearly 1.5 miles up], which is quite high in itself, and hauling cameras, sound equipment, etc., up and down mountains and valleys was a challenge to all in the crew." And to get there, they had to drive through mountain passes that reached 4,200 meters.
It's not the first high-altitude excursion for Preve. In 2008, he co-produced
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Budget writers in the Texas Senate are backing roughly $1.4 billion in additional public education spending that would claw back some of the historic school finance cuts of 2011.
The proposed budget adopted Thursday by the Senate Finance Committee includes $40 million for prekindergarten. That would offer school districts some help after budget-slashing lawmakers two years ago eliminated a $200 million grant program for pre-K.
Republican committee Chairman Tommy Williams called the $40 million a "down payment" toward full-day prekindergarten statewide. His panel also approved a nearly $1.4 billion bump in school spending.
Politics from around the world.
More than $5.4 billion was cut from public schools in 2011 as lawmakers closed a massive state budget shortfall.
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Jews in America: The Kashering of Coca-Cola
As a symbol of American culture, Coca-Cola has penetrated every nation in the world and is served at the most strictly kosher events. While Coke has been on the market since 1886, only since 1935 has it been certified kosher, including kosher lPesach.
Rabbi Tobias Geffen, an Orthodox rabbi who served Atlantas Congregation Shearith Israel from 1910 until his death in 1970 at the age of 99, is responsible for kashering Coke. Rabbi Geffen was an unlikely contributor to the worldwide success of the beverage. Born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1870, he emigrated to Canton, Ohio in 1903 and accepted his Atlanta pulpit seven years later. During his long tenure at Shearith Israel, Geffen became the dean of Southern Jewish Orthodoxy.
As the millions of Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States from Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe before World War I became more Americanized, they wanted increasingly to partake of "real" American life, including consuming American foods and beverages. While seltzer water might have been the preference of many traditional Jewish immigrants, their rapidly assimilating children and grandchildren demonstrated their Americanization by drinking Coke.
Because he lived in Atlanta where the Coca-Cola Company was headquartered, Rabbi Geffen received letters from several Orthodox rabbinic colleagues around the nation asking whether it was halachicly permissible to consume Coca-Cola. Uncertain of the answer, Geffen contacted the company to ask for a list of Cokes ingredients.
At the time, Rabbi Geffen did not know that the formula for Coca-Cola is a closely guarded trade secret; however, once Rabbi Geffen inquired, the Coca-Cola Company made a corporate decision to allow him access to the list of ingredients in Cokes secret formula provided he swore to keep them in utter secrecy. Geffen agreed to the terms. The company did not tell Geffen the exact proportions of each ingredient, but just gave him a list of contents by name.
When Geffen was given the list of ingredients, he discovered that one of them was glycerin made from non-kosher beef tallow. Even though a laboratory chemist told Geffen that the glycerin was present in only one part per thousand (one part in 60 is dilute enough to earn kosher certification), Geffen informed the Coca-Cola Company that, since this glycerin was a planned rather than accidentally added ingredient, observant Jews could not knowingly tolerate its inclusion. Coke failed to meet Geffens standards.
Back at the companys laboratories, research scientists went to work finding a substitute for tallow-based glycerin and discovered that Proctor and Gamble produced a glycerin from cottonseed and coconut oil. When they agreed to use to this new ingredient, Geffen gave his hecksher, or seal of approval, for Coke to be marketed as kosher.
Still, a second problem vexed Geffen: the formula for Coke included traces of alcohol that were a by-product of grain kernels. Since anything derived from grains is chametz, or forbidden at Passover, Coca-Cola could not be certified kosher for use at Passover even after the formula was changed to include vegetable based glycerin. Cokes chemists experimented and found that, during the Passover season, they could substitute sweeteners produced from beet sugar and cane sugar for grain-based ones without compromising Cokes taste. They agreed to start manufacturing Coke with the new sugars several weeks before Passover each year.
Rabbi Geffen was pleased to have performed this service for the American Jewish people and the Coca-Cola Company. In his papers, which are housed in the archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, researchers can find a teshuva (rabbinic response) that Geffen wrote which includes the following:
"Because Coca-Cola has already been accepted by the general public in this country and Canada and because it has become an insurmountable problem to induce the great majority of Jews to refrain from partaking of this drink, I have tried earnestly to find a method of permitting its usage. With the help of G-d I have been able to uncover a pragmatic solution in which there would be no question nor any doubt concerning the ingredients of Coca-Cola."
Thanks to Rabbi Geffen, even the most observant Jews can feel comfortable that "things go better with Coke."
Sources: American Jewish Historical Society


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Guilty: Why I shop at Wal-Mart
The guilt hits me as soon as I pull into the parking lot. I know this is wrong. But I don't let it get to me. I try to think of other things like how do they stack those red and blue coolers so high?
I try not to think about the security cameras scanning the parking lot. I look straight ahead and slip through the front door.
"Welcome to Wal-Mart."
I smile politely at the grinning old woman in tortoise-shell specs whose job is to greet people. Truth be told, she doesn't say hello to everyone, but who can blame her? Sometimes she just nods. Other times she wears an empty expression, staring into the middle distance.
Everywhere I look is an advertisement for something. Pictures of happy people enjoying products. Plenty of red, white, and blue. The message is loud and clear: Freedom is about consumption. The more you buy, the freer you are. In the Wal-Mart universe, consumership has replaced citizenship. It's not about democracy anymore; it's about lower prices.
The "Wal-Mart TV" blathers incessantly, and wherever you look up, the Eye in the Sky is looking down.
Wal-Mart has a nefarious way of making me feel like Winston Smith from 1984. At any minute I expect O'Brien to step out from behind a display of cheap, sweatshop-produced undershirts and haul me off to the Ministry of Love for some good old-fashioned rehabilitation.
At other times I'm John Savage from Brave New World, just a few Shakespeare quotes away from knocking over the display for Britney Spears' new CD. I stomp on the cardboard cutout of Britney and her Photoshopped cleavage and holler: Take that sanctimonious grin off your face, you corporatized tart!
As Mr. Savage, I imagine myself running all over Wal-Mart dumping CDs, paint cans, garden hoses, cotton balls, fishing poles, 2-litres of soda, Go Nascar t-shirts, and whatever else I can find into a monstrous pile. I climb to the top of the pile and cup my hands around my mouth and yell to all the shoppers: "Wake up! Wake up! Don't you see what's going on here?"
In my fantasy, I am met with a constellation of confused stares from Alphas to Epsilons. They don't get it. A Wal-Mart fellow wearing one of those elf-like vests tosses a net over me, and I'm left mumbling something like, "Take your paws off me you damned dirty ape!"
In reality, I don't attract attention to myself. Like a good little shopper, I get in line the way I'm supposed to, pay for my things, and slip back out into the world, clutching blue plastic bags in each hand like so many dead chickens.
Behind me a mob of zombie shoppers files into the megastore. I'm one of them, I think. The asphalt stretches to the horizon. Where did I park?
I really should know better. I consider myself an educated progressive. I read Noam Chomsky, Molly Ivins, and Howard Zinn. I listen to Alternative Radio. I voted for Ralph Nader. I know how Corporate America is having its way with Lady Liberty.
I also know about Wal-Mart. The biggest private sector employer in the United States (nearly one million employees, three-fourths of them women), Wal-Mart is the most profitable retailer in the world. It is on track to overtake ExxonMobil as the largest, most powerful corporation on the planet.
I know all about the store's predatory pricing: how they often build two big-boxes in one area so they can be their own competition, then typically close one store and leave it vacant; how 80 percent of the clothes they sell are imported, often produced under horrible conditions in sweatshops in poor countries despite that "Buy USA" mumbo jumbo and the over-the-top nationalism; how a study showed that three local jobs are eliminated for every two that Wal-Mart offers; how they hire many employees on a part-time basis so they can avoid providing benefits; and even if they can get it, the employee health care plan, with its mammoth co-pays, is too expensive for many workers.
I know that a massive lawsuit was launched against Wal-Mart alleging rampant discrimination against female employees. The case which potentially represents as many as half a million women could prove to be the largest discrimination case of its kind in American history.
I know all of this; and yet still I shop there. The guilt is palpable, yet for some reason it doesn't stop me.
Capitalism is about real competition, a level playing field, and doing right by your employees. Capitalism this ain't. The poster child for Big Business at the Dawn of the Corporate Age, Wal-Mart is something else entirely something that smacks of Orwell or Huxley, something sinister.
Wal-Mart is not the inspiring story of an entrepreneur who invented a better mousetrap. It's the sad story of us mice who know better but walk right into that trap anyway thinking only about the cheese, the glorious, glorious cheese.
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By now, you probably know that you should use sunscreen every day both to help reduce your risk of skin cancer and to prevent pesky wrinkles, dark spots, and other signs of premature aging. Yet even people who do slather it on religiously make potentially dangerous mistakes.
Here are the most common ways you're messing up with sunscreen, and how to truly protect yourself from UV rays.
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You wait until you're outside to apply sunscreen
How many people have you seen get to the beach, spread out their blankets, strip down to their swimsuits, and then start slathering away?
"You actually want to apply your sunscreen 30 minutes prior to exposure," says Jeannette Graf, MD, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. That way, it has time to get absorbed and start working-and so you don't get UV exposure for those first few minutes when your skin is vulnerable.
You apply sunscreen around your clothes
Skin cancer can strike anywhere, so it's best to apply sunscreen when you're buck naked. Otherwise, "if you already have a swimsuit or clothing on, you're likely to apply it gingerly so you don't get it on your clothes, which makes you likely to miss a spot or not apply liberally enough," says Noelle Sherber, MD, a consulting dermatologist for the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center.
Strip down in front of a full-length mirror, she says, which "helps ensure you entirely cover tricky spots like the mid-back and backs of the legs." (And you should apply before going outside anyway, right?)
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You don't protect your lips
Just like the rest of your skin, lips are vulnerable to UV rays, so it's extremely important to use sunscreen on your mouth, Dr. Graf says. But don't use the same stuff you use on the rest of your body-it tastes weird and won't last that long on your lips anyway.
Try a lip balm with SPF, which is thicker so it stays on longer. "Then reapply even more frequently than you do body sunscreen, since talking, eating, and drinking removes the sunscreen on your lips faster," she says.
You miss other key spots
Think you can smear sunscreen on your nose like a 1950s lifeguard and be covered? Unfortunately, there are lot of less-obvious areas people tend to forget-and they're just as important to protect, Dr. Graf says.
"The most commonly missed areas are toes and feet, including the bottoms of your feet; underarms; back of the neck under the hairline; ears, especially the tops and back of your ears; eyelids; and inner upper arms." Put that stuff everywhere.
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You sweat (or rinse) it all off
The small print on your sunscreen label matters, so make sure you're choosing the right sunscreen for your activity, especially if that activity involves sweat, a pool, or the ocean.
"Make sure you get a water-resistant formulation for swimming or activities where you'll perspire, because non-water-resistant formulas can slide right off," says Dr. Sherber. "Plus, they tend to mention migrate into eyes and sting, whereas water-resistant ones won't."
You use a body formula on your face
It's not just a marketing gimmick: There is a difference between face- and body-specific sunscreens.
"Facial skin is generally more sensitive to irritation than body skin, so face formulations have been tested to cause less irritation and not trigger acne," says Dr. Sherber. "If you're acne-prone or sensitive, avoid the body versions for your face, especially the dry-touch sprays-they're absolutely full of alcohol, which is very drying and irritating for facial skin."
15 Biggest Sunscreen Mistakes originally appeared on Health.com.
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