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The 2012 411 Wrestling Year End Awards - Part Four: Best Wrestler, Best Promo, Best PPV, & More
Posted by
Scott Rutherford
on 01.10.2013
Was John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar the Best Match of the 2012? Was WWE Extreme Rules the PPV of the Year? Was Austin Aries the best wrestler? 411's 2012 Wrestling Awards continue!
Welcome to Part 4 of the 411Mania.com 2012 Year End Wrestling Awards. If you haven't already, be sure to check out
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
REVIEW: Before we get to it, let's take a look at the winners we've already announced to this point…
Announcer of the Year
Worst Announcer of the Year
: Michael Cole
Overall Rookie of the Year
: Saturyne
Breakout of the Year
: Daniel Bryan
Comeback Wrestler of the Year
: Brock Lesnar
Disappointment of the Year
: Brock Lesnar Loses His first Match Back Against John Cena
Best Indy Show of the Year (non-PPV)
: Threemendous III
Free TV Match of the Year
: C.M Punk vs. Daniel Bryan RAW 02/27/2011
Story/Surprise of the Year
: Jerry Lawler Has Heart Attack On Air
Worst Story/Surprise of the Year
: WWE Shows Footage Of Jerry Lawler Getting CPR Backstage
Feud/Storyline of the Year
: John Cena vs. The Rock
Worst Feud/Storyline of the Year
: Claire Lynch
Best Fed of the Year
Worst Fed of the Year
Worst Promo of the Year - TIE
: John Cena/Star Wars & Zack Ryder Changes A Tyre
Worst Pay-Per-View of the Year
: WWE Over The Limit
Worst Match of the Year
:> John Cena vs John Lauranitis
Worst Non-Wrestling Character
: Brooke Hogan
Worst Tag Team of the Year
: Co-Bro
Worst Women's Wrestler of the Year
: Aksana
Worst Wrestler of the Year
: Tensai
Part Four
: "What's more important is what's running down his leg: Piss." - Brock Lesnar (WWE RAW, 4/16/2012) – 29 Votes
1st RUNNER-UP
: Kane Tells His Life Story (WWE Raw, 07/27/2012) – 17 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: "I know that when a man challenges you and you walk away, that makes you a coward." – HBK & HHH (WWE Raw, 2/13/2012) – 15 Votes
They're All Wannabe's: Chris Jericho – 12 Votes
A Torn Quad Couldn't Stop Triple H, But Brock Lesnar Could: Paul Heyman – 11 Votes
Do You Want To Be A Statistic Or A Legend?: Mick Foley – 7 Votes
Anger Management Part 1 (07/27): Daniel Bryan & Kane - 5 Votes
Hallowicked is a God : Tim Donst (CHIKARA) – 5 Votes
Cena Raps On The Rock – 5 Votes
Terry funk Don't Need No Mouth Guard: The Briscoe Brothers – 4 Votes
Big Shows Begs John Laurinaitis Not To Fire Him – 3 Votes
Kevin Steen chooses his Cibernetico Team – 3 Votes
Chris Jericho's Silent Return – 2 Votes
Run Steen Run: Adam Cole – 1 Vote
Chris Jericho Discusses C.M Punks Sister – 1 Vote
Brock Lesnar & HHH Set Up Their SummerSlam Match – 1 Vote
I honestly felt like Brock's sit-down promo almost gave him an unfair advantage in this category. He had the benefit of multiple takes if necessary, as well as the WWE's always-excellent AV team to put together a nice music and video package surrounding his words. Even so, it doesn't change the fact that the promo was damned effective. When I see Brock Lesnar, I see a douchebag frat boy. I see the guy that everybody wants to make shut up, only nobody really has the means to do so. I see the bully that's long overdue for an ass kicking. I see WWE's brilliant plan to make John Cena look vulnerable and sway some public opinion back to his side after being a default
second fiddle to The Rock for a few months. It worked, and it worked in spades. Brock laid out the facts, with very little embellishment. It reaffirmed what many of us already knew about Brock, and introduced the best aspects of his character to a new generation of fans.
The other side of the spectrum was Kane's life story. What a brilliant job by Kane. I've remarked several times in several of my columns on 411 that Kane is one of WWE's most valuable superstars ever. This promo just underscored how great and how valuable he truly is. It was like Kane and the WWE were winking at the camera and acknowledging just how absurd that his character history has truly been. He delivered the lines with a straight face in a tone of voice that sounded almost bored with what he was. Excellent work.
The personal highlight of the year in promos for me was Chris Jericho's return and his tirade in which he accused virtually everyone of being a Jericho ripoff. Then again, I've been a confirmed Jericho-holic since about 1997.
In an industry based on blurring the line between performance and reality, legitimacy is hard to gain, impossible to keep, and inevitable to lose. Therefore, when Brock Lesnar returned in 2012 to proclaim, "I'm not a superstar, I'm an ass-kicker, I'm Brock Lesnar. That's it", he was refusing the play the game -- the game of public relations, the comfortable, palatable, smiling, kid-friendly Rock 'n Roll, New Generation, Mattel action figure superstars of the WWE Universe. By ending with "that's it", Lesnar was brilliantly saying more by saying less -- by refusing to elaborate on his legitimacy, he reinforced it because he understood that walking softly and carrying a big stick is only surpassed by forcing John Cena to walk softly for you by carrying your bags and pissing his pants because he's afraid of you. Thinking the WWE was plagued by the inadequacies of the outlandish Five Knuckle Shuffle and "JBL is poopy" rhetoric, Lesnar felt he was anathema. If John Cena was the disease, Brock Lesnar was the cure. But this is no white knight vs. dark knight; these are not the two faces of Harvey Dent -- the vigilant crusader for truth and justice and the misguided vigilante for vengeance. Lesnar has no master plan, no grand design; he's a bully who fights for money because he's greedy and he's good at it. And while he has the superior size, skill, and strength to beat anyone, he cheats to win because it's easier. Whereas John Cena likes fulfilling a dying child's last wish, Brock Lesnar likes beating people up because it's more fun. He likes to kick a man while he's down after putting him down. He's a villain not by destiny, or fate, or rebellion against authority for perceived wrongs, but by choice. Some men take the low road and Brock Lesnar is one of them.
Before WWE ran it into the ground, the taped promo featuring Brock Lesnar hyping his match (and himself) against John Cena was one of the best videos WWE has come out with since Placebo's Running Up That Hill accompanied the Wrestlemania 26 Shawn Michaels/Undertaker video. It looked professional and made Brock seem like a badass, which the WWE accomplished until they jobbed him at Extreme Rules. It was reminiscent of UFC's hype videos for their fighters, but obviously a lot more turned up because it's WRESTLING YAYYYY. Whether you want to call it a ripoff of UFC's stuff or not, you have to admit that this vignette was absolutely fantastic. Sure WWE played it WAY too many times and eventually made everyone and their mother sick of it but looking back on it, it's as good to me as it was the first time.
: WWE Extreme Rules – 39 Votes
1st RUNNER-UP - TIE
: NJPW King of Wrestling & WrestleMania 28 – 20 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: Destination X - 16
Destination X (TNA) – 16 Votes
Glory By Honor (ROH) – 7 Votes
Chikarasaurus Rex (CHIKARA) – 5 Votes
Power Struggle (NJPW) – 4 Votes
Open The Golden Gate (DGUSA)- 3 Votes
Elimination Chamber (WWE) – 3 Votes
Night Of Champions (WWE) – 1 Vote
Hell In A Cell (WWE) – 1 Vote
Bound For Glory (TNA) – 1 Vote
Over The Limit (WWE) – 1 Votes
Royal Rumble (WWE) – 1 Vote
Money In The Bank (WWE) – 1 Vote
WWE has seemingly lost their way with PPV. WWE just doesn't understand that they are consistently not giving people bang for their buck. It's one thing if you pirate every PPV (because sure, most WWE PPVs are an easy watch), but I can't imagine people shelling out $45-55 a month got a ton of satisfaction from WWE PPVs this year (or any recent year). However, a few times a year, WWE delivers a really awesome PPV that even the paying fans appreciate. The Extreme Rules PPV was not only the best WWE show of the year, but it was also the best PPV in all of wrestling this year.
You know a PPV is going to be special when the show starts with a good Kane match. Kane and Randy Orton delivered a lifeless match at this year's Wrestlemania, but they pretty much made up for it with a really fun Falls Count Anywhere match here. Ok, the PPV goes downhill for a bit with the next two matches. Brodus Clay squashes Dolph Ziggler and Cody Rhodes defeated Big Show in a Tables Match that ended when Big Show was too fat and accidentally stepped through a table (The PPV would also later feature a Ryback squash and Divas Title match between Nikki Bella and Layla). The PPV went back to being awesome again when Sheamus and Daniel Bryan delivered a fantastic Two out of Three Falls match for the World Heavyweight title. After these two got the shaft at two straight Wrestlemanias, they finally got the chance to show how awesome they are in front of a PPV audience. CM Punk and Chris Jericho concluded their feud over the WWE Championship in a Chicago Street Fight (unlike a regular Street Fight, this street fight featured corruption on a mass scale and very convenient public transportation to the main airport). While I never really got into the issue of Jericho constantly insulting Punk's family, I really enjoyed both of their PPV matches. The Wrestlemania crowd had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to a good experience, but the Extreme Rules crowd was more than willing to provide an awesome atmosphere for them. While Bryan/Sheamus and Punk/Jericho were both great, neither of them were nearly as special as the main event: Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena.
I still can't completely believe that this match happened and happened in the fashion that it did. Brock just mauled the WWE franchise player for twenty minutes, and the crowd ate up every moment of it. This was one of the most surreal and exciting wrestling matches I have ever experienced. Sure, John Cena winning was absolutely the wrong decision, but this match was so awesome that I don't really care eight months later. WWE has so much trouble producing matches that feel unique and exciting, but they did it here in spades. This was my match of the year, and it concluded the best show of the year.
Well that is an interesting result. Truth be told, I don't think Impact Wrestling quite deserves this award; while New Japan and PWG performed a superb string of shows and stories, TNA had a fair few high-profile missteps this year, as browsing some of the 'worst...' awards will show. They got off to a middling start to the year, and after a superb summer coughed and spluttered their way through the Autumn and Winter with an ill-advised focus on the messy Aces & Eights story. But their run from June through to October was very very good, delivering four fantastic PPVs out of a possible five, some compelling episodes of television, and a tangible optimism that had been lacking in the promotion for a fair while. A patchy year for Impact then, but when they were good they were very very good, and being as they have much more television exposure than their closest rivals in this award I totally understand why they've received it. The creative team deserve massive credit for the turnaround seen in 2012, and if they can halt the recent run of middling TV shows the future looks as bright as it has in a long time for Impact.
2012's pay per view calendar was one of the most unique in wrestling history. TNA chugged along pretty steadily, turning out only one truly great pay per view, but a bunch of pretty good ones, and none that truly stunk. WWE had some incredible pay per views, and some incredibly bad ones. Ring of Honor was hit or miss on whether or not they could get iPPV to work properly.
Looking back, though, nothing really holds a candle to Extreme Rules. My personal favorite match of the year was on that show, and there were no less than three **** star or better matches. It was a show that could have suffered a tremendous letdown from Wrestlemania, but instead exceeded Wrestlemania in a lot of ways. It didn't have the same spectacle or atmosphere, but the matches were better, the pacing was better, and it was more enjoyable overall.
TNA's best offering of the year was Destination X, which saw Austin Aries trade his X Division title in for a shot at Bobby Roode's TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The show rightly returned a focus to the X Division, featuring multiple matches within the division to crown a new X Division champion. Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe had a match on there, too, which is never a bad thing, as well as an excellent AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels match. They finished the show strong with Austin Aries pulling off a somewhat surprising win over Roode to capture the World Heavyweight Championship. It wasn't quite the feelgood moment that WWE once had with Eddy Guerrero and He Who Shall Not Be Named celebrating together, but it was still a fun show.
: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Minoru Suzuki (NJPW King of Pro Wrestling) – 21 Votes
1st RUNNER-UP - TIE
: John Cena vs Brock Lesnar (WWE Extreme Rules) & HHH vs. The Undertaker (WWE WrestleMania 28) – 17 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: C.M Punk vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE Over The Limit) – 14 Votes
C.M Punk vs. Daniel Bryan: Over The Limit – 14 Votes
Robert Rode vs. Austin Aries: Destination X - 11 Votes
Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan 2/3 Falls: Extreme Rules – 10 Votes
Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW, 3/4/2012) – 6 Votes
Kevin Steen vs. Michael Elgin (ROH Glory By Honor XI) – 6 Votes
C.M Punk vs. John Cena (Night of Champions) – 5 Votes
Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (06/16) – 5 v
Davey Richards vs. Richard Elgin (ROH Showdown in the Sun Day 2) – 4 Votes
C.M Punk vs Chris Jericho: Extreme Rules – 3 Votes
John Cena vs. The Rock: WM28 – 3 Votes
A.J Styles vs. Christopher Daniels – 3 Votes
C.M Punk vs. Chris Jericho WM28 – 3 Votes
Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson vs. Player Uno & Stupefied vs. Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly (PWG's Threemendous) – 1 Vote
CIMA Royale: Akira Tozawa vs. BxB Hulk vs. Naruki Doi vs. Masato Yoshino vs. YAMATO vs. Shingo Takagi - 1 Vote
C.M Punk vs. Mark Henry – 1 Vote
Mr. Touchdown vs. ACH (CHIKARA Ring of Wax) – 1 Vote
Archibald Peck vs. Chuck Taylor (CHIKARA)– 1 Vote
Believe it or not, in eight year history of the 411 Wrestling Year End Awards, this is the first time that a non-WWE match has walked away with Match of the Year honors. That is interesting to me, because there are so many internet fans out there who complain about the E's in-ring product but, if the historic results of these awards are any indication, it is only a small number of those complainers who are willing to get out there and follow and promote a legitimate big league alternative when it is available to them. In any event, this year there is apparently some breakthrough in that regard, as your 2012 Match of the Year is Hiroshi Tanahashi defending his IWPG Heavyweight Title against Minoru Suzuki on the October 8 New Japan Pro Wrestling pay per view, entitled "King of Pro Wrestling."
Individuals not intimately familiar with Tanahashi and Suzuki might have originally thought this match would be a styles clash. The champion, Tanahashi, was the pretty boy babyface who incorporates a bit of high flying into his otherwise traditional puroresu offense. The challenger, Suzuki, was an older, hardened motherfucker who came out of the world of mixed martial arts and spent a lot of time in his pro wrestling matches attempting to submit and/or bludgeon people. However, despite the two of them being opposite ends of the spectrum stylistically, the two are both quite familiar with each other in addition to being damn fine professional wrestlers, so they were able to take each other's positive qualities and knock out a rollicking thirty minute match that is the most universally praised amongst those who watched it of the entire calendar year. It received the elusive ***** rating from the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer and it also received the full ***** from 411mania's own head boss, Larry T. Csonka, as well as a host of others.
Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of the match is how against type it is. Both Tanahashi and Suzuki - more so Tanahashi - have been accused of having a Ric Flair-esque "form" match in recent months and years and, though I don't entirely agree with that assessment, there is no way that this could be accused of being Tanahashi's "normal" match or Suzuki's "normal" match. In fact, it wasn't a "normal" match for any professional wrestler in several important ways, the most apparent of which is that there are literally
no nearfalls in the match
. Nobody attempts a pinfall until the last bit of the match, when Tanahashi actually puts Suzuki away with the High Fly Flow. The nearfall and the dramatic kickout has become such a prominent part of professional wrestling these days, particularly in major title matches on major shows, to the point that overreliance on it has become a hallmark of a match that is lazily put together. The fact that these two men were able to put on such a lengthy, entertaining match without reliance on this convention is a testament to their ability, and it, along with numerous other positives, make the bout something to behold.
If you have seen this, you know it's great. If you haven't seen it, even if you're not a puroresu fan, you're doing yourself a disservice by NOT seeing it. It truly is a deserving 2012 match of the year.
The voting this year reflects how different my tastes are from a lot of my colleagues here at 411. That's okay. I'm not here to assert that I'm right and they're wrong. The winner, Tanahashi vs. Suzuki, was an excellent match. However, for me, it's like watching a match in a bubble. I had no sense of the history between the two men. It was wrestling for the sake of wrestling. That's not a bad thing. I just don't follow Japanese wrestling closely and had no emotional investment in the match.
Looking at the list of nominees, several matches got a reaction out of me. I was legitimately surprised when Austin Aries captured the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Punk vs. Jericho at Extreme Rules was frustrating to me because I wanted Jericho to win so badly, but the match was unquestionably excellent. The same goes for their Wrestlemania matchup. There are two matches on here, though, that really stand out to me.
The first is Cena vs. Lesnar. It was fantastic storytelling from the first appearance of Brock all the way through this match. John Cena looked vulnerable for the first time in a very, very long time. Some will complain that after all the work of reintroducing Brock Lesnar, WWE took the easy way out and just made John Cena look unbeatable once again. I disagree wholeheartedly. They emphasized the heart and determination of John Cena and put him in a situation where he was physically outmatched. He was absolutely dominated to the point that the match was uncomfortable to watch. I was sitting in a local restaurant that shows pay per views for that one, and there were several kids in attendance with their families. Things were quiet for that match, and even the local smarks that turn out for viewings were unusually quiet. Brock just kept punishing Cena. Then, when things were at their darkest, Cena dug deep and found a way to win. It took the man that had long been established as WWE's alpha male a brutal shot with a steel chain to even get back in the match. Brock beat Cena up. Cena escaped with a win. Well done.
The other is my personal favorite match of the year. I thought Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan was absolutely brilliant. I think it more than atoned for what happened in 18 seconds at Wrestlemania. I think it went a long way towards establishing that Sheamus is so much more than just a mindless brawler. He hung in there with arguably the best wrestler in North America (if not the world) for a match that employed more psychology and storytelling than 99% of what you'll see on WWE or TNA programming. I've watched the match more than once since the pay per view and it just doesn't get old to me.
"Match of the Year." A category that is defined as much by its certainty as by its elusiveness. How can something as definitive as match of the year have six matches within a few votes of each other? To its strength, 2012 was a year of parity. There was something for everyone: the workers, the technicians, the hardcore, the spot monkeys, the high flyers, the brawlers, the glass ceiling breakers, and the puro. Less than a month after Wrestlemania, Sheamus and Daniel Bryan put on a classic encounter whose goodwill managed to override the backlash of the eighteen-second travesty. TNA outdid even WWE with their elevation of Austin Aries. CM Punk and Daniel Bryan performed an ode to their indy roots that saved a PPV headlined by a nonactive, retired wrestler twenty five years past his prime. Triple H, Undertaker, and Shawn Michaels capped off a series of epic encounters by ending an era on the grandest stage of them all. Brock and Cena revitalized the WWE with the best brawl of the year. Tanahashi and Suzuki had the crowd on the edge of their seats with a marvel of old school wonder with nothing more complex than dragonscrew leg whips and piledrivers. No matter which style, which promotion, which country, which wrestler, or which year, the best matches of 2012 stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the best matches ever.
: Paul Heyman – 55 Votes
1st RUNNER-UP
: Richardo Rodriguez – 25 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: Joseph Park -15 Votes
Swamp Monster (DGUSA/EVOLVE) – 11 Votes
Sydney Bakabella (CHIKARA)- 9 Votes
Vicki Guerrero – 8 Votes
Dr Shelby – 5 Votes
Shawn Michaels – 4 Votes
John Laurinaitis – 3 Votes
Vince McMahon – 3 Votes
A.J Lee – 1 Vote
Konnan – 1 Vote
Harold – 1 Vote
This one is a slight puzzlement to me but I don't completely disagree with the thought behind the winner of this award. After all Paul Heyman did basically save us from what could have been a much duller feud between Triple H and Brock Lesnar in the summer, where apart from the match itself, surely Heyman's interactions with HHH and Stephanie were the highlights of the feud. Now personally I would say that this was due to the problem of Triple H messing up a bunch of angles since becoming the COO and that had he not been involved there might have been no need for Heyman to begin with if they had just booked Lesnar better and against someone who he could have gelled with more, seriously who really wanted to see Brock vs. Triple H? But I digress, Heyman certainly did save that feud from becoming nothing more than two cavemen grunting at each other each week until one made the other tap out, so you have to applaud him for that.
However I think he has done a much more important thing with C.M. Punk, and had things been handled differently, we might not have the view we have now that Punk's year as champion has been mostly uneventful. Heyman with Punk works. While Punk has never needed a mouth-piece, and this is what we are used to seeing him as in association with Brock Lesnar, what Heyman does is more important; he helps to legitimise Punk as a big deal. Now in days gone by being the champion by itself should do that, but not anymore. So having Heyman around, to speak to people backstage and in the ring so Punk doesn't have to, to carry his belt when he comes to the ring, and to generally make a big deal about everything he does, really serves to show that Punk is a bigger deal than in years before, even when he was champion. If you'll notice Heyman never really gets involved in Punk's matches like a normal manager, he doesn't trip people or hit them with a shoe, instead he just stands at ringside and lets Punk do his thing, occasionally shouting support. This is a smart way to let Punk stand on his own while still giving him some heel backup, plus fans are always more likely to boo a guy with Heyman in tow.
Now having said all that I still think that Ricardo or Joseph Parks might have been more deserving in terms of entertainment on a weekly basis for Ricardo, and being a character so far removed from his other persona; Abyss, in Joseph Parks. But Heyman did win by a landslide so what do I know? Heyman has definitely been a highlight of Monday Night Raw and hopefully his involvement with Punk will lead to a Punk-Brock crossover at some point, despite the WWE seemingly wanting to avoid association between the two up until now for some reason. The best part in all this is having Heyman back in the WWE though, honestly even if he disappears off our TV after Wrestlemania or whatever hopefully he will stick around to work behind the scenes as I think a team of Heyman and Triple H, no matter what antagonism exists between the two, could really revolutionise the product in the next ten years.
As the old saying goes, there is no substitute for experience. Experience is likely why Paul Heyman is our 2012 non-wrestling character of the year (an award created to replace the somewhat dated "manager of the year" that we had in the past). Heyman made his debut as an on-screen personality in professional wrestling in 1987. Yes, NINETEEN EIGHTY-SEVEN, meaning that he has been doing this literally longer than a large number of the readers of this website have been alive, i.e. twenty-five years. Moreover, Heyman has been considered one of the best managers in the business for many of those years, and it's no wonder because, as a teenager growing up in New York, he hung out with and learned from the vaunted "Three Wise Men of the East," the trio of managers who formed the foundation of the World Wide Wrestling Federation: "Classy" Freddie Blassie, Captain Lou Albano, and "The Grand Wizard of Wrestling" Ernie Roth. Heyman took the tactics that he learned from those three men and combined them with his own braggadocios swagger . . . and a comically large cell phone . . . and created a professional wrestling character for the ages. Whether he was managing the New Midnight Express, the Dangerous Alliance, Sabu, or anybody in between, I don't think that I have ever seen anybody being critical of Paul Heyman's managing for any reason whatsoever. Thus, for those of us who have watched Paul E. for many years, the fact that he won this award should be no surprise. Compared to other managers or "non-wrestling characters" who don't have the same old school upbringing that he does, Heyman is leagues better. Simply put, at this point in history, if Heyman is managing in any given year he is winning this award. There is nobody currently in the big leagues who can compete, there is nobody in the minors who can compete, and there's not even anybody on the horizon in either the big leagues or the minors who looks like they have the potential to someday compete. Paul Heyman isn't just going to win this award this year . . . he's going to have it sewn up every year until he eventually steps out of his managerial role again.
For a thorough and hostorical reason behind Paul Heyman as the perfect choice as winner of Non-Wrestling Character of the Year, check out what Ryan Byers has to say about it. The signing of Brock Lesnar was a huge event that lit 2012 on fire. Sure, it petered out into a flicker of flame, but there was one shining star out of the ashes of the signing, and that was the return of Paul Heyman. Heyman was truly the saving grace of what could have been a failing Brock-Experiment (and some say it's still on that road). While I can see their point, I don't think it was a complete failure, considering we got Heyman back on our a screens; something I had sorely missed.
Once Brock took a sabbatical of sorts, I thought we had seen the end of Heyman. Then, the self-proclaimed "Paul Heyman Guy" added him to his side. Many people claimed that Punk didn't need Heyman as a talking piece, but it worked! Heyman has been at his annoying best, oozing that charisma that we love to hate. If you recall, there was a time during the year that it was a bit hard to hate CM Punk and everything he was saying, since a lot of it was laced with truth. Adding Heyman to his side changed all of that. Punk became a full-fledged heel, and hasn't stopped since. With Heyman holding Punk's title high, he has become that slimeball manager that we all want to see get his comeuppance, and in the case of a manager - or any non-wrestling character, evoking emotion is what you're supposed to do and no one did it better in 2012 than Paul Heyman.
: Team Hell No - 52
1st RUNNER-UP
: Daniels & Kazarian – 32 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: Super Smash Borthers - 15
Rhodes Scholars – 12 Votes
The Young Bucks – 10 Votes
Prime Time Players – 6 Votes
Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi – 5 Votes
The Ascension – 3 Votes
The Briscoe Brothers – 2 Votes
The All Night Express – 1 Votes
Magnus & Samoa Joe – 1 Vote
El Generico & Samuray Del Sol – 1 Vote
It was a truly amazing 2012 for Daniel Bryan. He went from being a favorite of Internet wrestling fans that was mostly ignored by the WWE Universe to one of the most consistently entertaining characters on WWE television that got one word chanted at him in unison by thousands of people wherever he went. He had a great in-ring year as he usually does, but for once many of his best moments didn't involve matches. His path crossed with Kane's during his feud with CM Punk over the WWE Championship & the affections of AJ Lee…Kane had a match with Punk & Bryan interfered. Then Kane had a match with Bryan & Punk interfered. One thing led to another and we wound up with a love rectangle with AJ playing all three men off of each other. Bryan & Kane's issues with each other & AJ led to both men being checked into anger management, and Dr. Shelby managed to get both men on the same page. Or at least in the same book. Since then they've been Tag Team Champions that have slowly learned to accept each other because they are a dominant force together.
Team Hell No has further solidified Bryan as one of WWE's key components while revitalizing the career of Kane. Kane had fallen into a bit of a funk early in 2012, as his big return angle against John Cena & Zack Ryder fell flat with the fans and didn't get over as much as WWE had hoped. It seemed like Kane had an extra spring in his step once he began feuding with Punk & Bryan, two guys that knew just what to do in the ring to make Kane look like a world beater while remaining strong themselves. Kane's character work has also been tremendous during this run, as The Devil's Favorite Demon is at his most fun when he's self-aware. Bryan & Kane's great chemistry in & out of the ring as opponents, tag team partners, or even as guests on radio shows, has been one of the highlights of pro wrestling in 2012.
By a landslide the tag team of the year is the fluky, thrown together team of Daniel Bryan and Kane. Now you could say that this team of unlikely singles competitors winning over a more established tag team indicates the current shape of the tag team landscape across promotions, and to a point you would be right. Still I think more than that this definitive win displays the sheer amount of chemistry that the two have together since appearing in anger management all those months ago. Ever since the two were forced to team together, in what definitely should have been named Team Friendship as a unit, they have made for good television, both in backstage segments and matches. They are the current tag team champions in the WWE and are helping to hold the fort while other teams establish themselves more in the minds of the WWE audience.
Unlike the runners up; Daniels & Kazarian, the team is more even in terms of charisma on the mic, as while Daniels is almost entertaining enough to win the award on his own, Daniel Bryan & Kane work together to make their promos work, bouncing off each other with each guy playing the straight man at different points. The team has also gone through a great amount of development from rivals who couldn't stand each other to now being a, relatively, well-functioning team. The WWE threw these guys together seemingly on a whim and for once actually saw what they had created and realised that they shouldn't mess it up or break it down prematurely for no real reason, as is often their way, as such the team has been allowed to develop and now the moniker of 'Team Hell No' doesn't sound foreign or temporary, it sounds like a legitimate team, and while they probably won't be together this time next year, they captured the same type of stature the Jeri-show did where two former world champions make for a compelling enough pairing to have everyone say that they are indeed the best tag team of the year.
I don't think it's a secret by now that my favorite active wrestler is Daniel Bryan. Or maybe it is, I don't know, but I just need to say that I absolutely love how his 2012 turned out. Arguably, his best stuff came after he was pushed down the card just a little bit to the tag division after a short feud with Kane. Charlie Sheen backing out of a program with Bryan ended up being one of the best things for Bryan's career because he was put in anger management with Kane, and absolute hilarity ensued.
But beyond that, Bryan continued to be an incredibly solid hand in the ring, showing up on Raw and SmackDown all year long because that's what the company needed. He was wrestling some of the more solid short TV matches while blowing the lid off of arenas with "Yes!" chants. So you can imagine my complete lack of surprise when he was able to take the perpetually stale Kane character and make me want to watch him every week. Team Hell No was formed, and they would bicker through their matches – a "strange bedfellows" pairing – and WWE ran with that. We got some hilarious segments (hug it out) and functional (but entertaining) matches and their schtick started getting over. And just when I was starting to get sick of seeing the same thing every week, they got on the same page, and have continued their championship reign, refreshed and aligned. It's a joy to see the team do their thing, and, perhaps most importantly, get other talent over without having to drop the straps. PrimeTime Players, Rhodes Scholars, and The Shield are all a little bit (or in some cases, a lot) more over because of their work with Kane and Daniel Bryan.
: Paige – 16 Votes
1st RUNNER-UP
: Sara Del Rey – 13 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: Saraya Knight – 12 Votes
Eve – 10 Votes
AJ Lee – 6 Votes
Cheerleader Melissa – 4 Votes
Portia Perez – 3 Votes
Tara – 3 Votes
Ayako Hamada – 1 Vote
Brook Tessmacher – 1 Vote
For my money, this is perhaps the single most interesting result in all of the 411 Year End Awards for 2012. As near as I can tell, this is the first time that an award has been won by an individual for his or her work occurring exclusively within a WWE developmental territory. Paige, who used to wrestle on both the U.S. and U.K. independent scene under the name of Britani Knight, was signed to a World Wrestling Entertainment developmental contract in September 2011, and she has competed exclusively in Florida Championship Wrestling and NXT since that time. The only thing that evens come close to a win like this for a developmental wrestler was Titus O' Neil being named worst wrestler of the year back in 2010 when he spent the vast majority of the year in FCW, though I suspect that win had a lot more to do with the three or four weeks that he spent as part of the televised NXT cast during that year. In my mind, Paige's winning this category based solely on developmental work means one of three things . . . either more fans now have exposure to the developmental television, the state of women's wrestling is so dire that fans feel there is nobody to vote for except for developmental women, or Ms. Knight really is just that damn good. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to develop his or her own opinion as to which one of those is the most accurate.
The other interesting part of this result is that I believe this is the only time that a parent and a child have both finished in the top three for a 411mania Year End Award. Paige is in first place, and independent wrestler Sweet Saraya Knight is in third place. Knight, the reigning SHIMMER Champion, is Paige's mother. (In fact, in a trivia note, for a very brief period of time in WWE developmental, Paige went by the name Saraya before getting her current moniker.) In addition to both posting solid performances in our YEA's, there are interesting things afoot for both mother and daughter in the new year, as wrestling fans will keep watching to see whether Paige makes her way up to the main WWE roster and to see whether Saraya will be able to hold on to her SHIMMER Title through the end of 2013.
The lady formerly known as Britani Knight made her way to WWE's developmental territory in early 2012 & quickly gained attention from people that watched FCW on You Tube due to a couple of things: She's a beautiful girl, and she's already damn good in the ring. Markedly better than the Divas currently featured on WWE television. Paige grew up in a wrestling family & her adventures in getting to WWE were chronicled in a British documentary that followed her family during the process. Paige has been one of the Divas on the new NXT program, and though she started out as the designated jobber she's been getting the wins on more recent episodes.
After the 2012 411 Wrestling Hot 100 I received several suggestions via Twitter that I should check out more of Paige's work. I did so and was very impressed with what I saw. Was it good enough for Women's Wrestler of the Year? Tough to say, the women's wrestling in the major promotions this year has been lackluster to say the least. AJ & Eve had solid character years in WWE but neither of them got attention with their matches. TNA's Knockout booking has been jumpy, with different Knockouts having solid stretches of performances but none of them putting together a complete year. Sara Del Rey, a perennial contender in this category, has stepped out of active competition to be a trainer for WWE. Promotions like WSU, SHIMMER & SHINE are giving it a go and producing solid stuff, but most people aren't seeing it. Paige may "only" be appearing on NXT right now, but it's still more exposure than anybody in the indies is getting. I'm not 100% sure Paige was the best lady wrestler of 2012, but she was damn good and there aren't any names popping up that were much better. With her looks & ability, Paige is in position to become a favorite of the Internet (moreso than she already is) and win this award on several occasions.
Is the win of FCW's Paige a good sign or a bad one? I could see people arguing both sides. On the less positive hand, it suggests that the independent scene has hit a nadir in terms of women's wrestling, to the point that a WWE developmental talent who isn't deemed ready to join Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes on the main roster is winning this award. However, that argument belies the fact that Paige came out of the independent scene, where she was competing in SHIMMER as part of a tag team with her mother (and now SHIMMER Champion, and #3 vote-getter to boot) Saraya Knight. One cannot decide that simply because a talent has left the indy scene for a developmental contract that they aren't good anymore. The fact of the matter is that Paige was competing at a relatively high level in SHIMMER and WWE saw that, picking her up late last year to be a potential Diva. Since that time she has been improving herself in WWE and has competed on NXT against fellow developmental Divas and main roster talent alike, amassing a solid win-loss record and consistently improving her skills. With Sara Del Rey now working at NXT as a trainer for the Divas, Paige is only continuing to get better and I would not at all be surprised to see her make it to the main roster this year. If Triple H is truly serious about making the focus of the Diva division on talent over models, then Paige is a good person to help bring that to pass and her selection as Women's Wrestler of the Year is appropriate, as she quietly possibly represents the future of WWE women's wrestling.
: Austin Aries – 24 Votes
1st RUNNER-UP
: Daniel Bryan – 23 Votes
2nd RUNNER-UP
: C.M Punk – 20 Votes
Hiroshi Tanahashi – 18 Votes
El Generico – 15 Votes
Robert Roode – 9 Votes
Kazuchika Okada – 6 Votes
Michael Elgin – 6 Votes
Dolph Ziggler – 3 Votes
Akira Tozawa – 3 Votes
Antonio Cesaro – 3 Votes
Kevin Steen – 1 Vote
Sheamus – 1 Vote
PAC – 1 Vote
Brook Lesnar – 1 Vote
John Cena – 1 Vote
While Daniel Bryan broke out from the pack this year, and CM Punk stayed on top the whole year, another man bested them as the best all-around performer, and that was TNA's Austin Aries. I would have never guessed that Austin Aries would be the TNA World Heavyweight Champion…especially not in his first year there. But he won that prize and held it for a good run, putting on stellar matches with anyone and everyone he was asked to be in the ring with. But it wasn't just Aries' in-ring work that won him this accomplishment – it was his ability to develop a character that the audience wanted to get behind. He's a small dude, but brash as hell, and the audience took to him while he was a face because he wouldn't back down from a challenge. And he's super over as a heel because he's that guy that runs his mouth off at the good guys and then is good enough to get away with it, causing everyone in the building and at home to want to see him get his ass kicked.
Austin Aries is one of those guys that has more talent in his little finger than most wrestler ever have, and he's not afraid to let you know it. It took him a long time to get his break, and he was even considering retirement before TNA came knocking (Aries was reportedly frustrated that he got turned away from WWE's Tough Enough reboot). His outspoken nature supposedly rubbed many the wrong way and he got burdened with the title of having an "attitude problem" – which may very well be true, but it's only because he knows what he can bring to the table and is frustrated that he wasn't able to contribute it to a major wrestling company. That's very similar to the attitude that CM Punk had a year and a half ago, and when he spoke out, he launched into the stratosphere. I still hope that Austin Aries makes his way to WWE at some point in the future, but for now, he's still got plenty of fresh competition in Florida working for TNA.
You know people who don't care for independent wrestling on the grounds that everyone involved is a vanilla midget and will never amount to anything? You know how they are really really silly? Austin Aries, CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, bred in the American indy scene of the early noughties, each had outstanding years in the two biggest companies in North America. Aries started off 2012 as a rule-breaking X-Division champion quickly amassing popularity, turned face in the middle of the year to become a unanimously popular World Champion, then turned back into a villain to headline Impact Wrestling's most prestigious show of the year. He's a star. Daniel Bryan has won both the World Heavyweight Championship and World Tag Team Championships, contributed a litany of Match of the Year Contenders, and has formed one of the most popular tag teams in years with Kane. He's a star. CM Punk is the longest reigning WWE Champion since the heyday of Hulk Hogan. He's a star. All three would have been worthy winners of this award, but in the end, and perhaps surprisingly, it's A-Double that picks up first places.
Austin Aries superficially didn't have quite as impressive a year as his two rivals; his matches were frequently superb but not quite on the level, in this writer's opinion, of some of Punk and Bryan's classics this year, he was constantly charismatic but occasionally misfired (see his worked-shoot on Jeff Hardy in the run-up to Bound for Glory,) and no matter how huge an Impactphile you are, there is no justification to claim that a brief reign with the TNA World Championship matches up to a full calendar year as WWE Champion. However, it's worth remembering that Austin Aries has suffered more setbacks than either Punk or Bryan on his route to the top; his first stint with TNA led to an animosity fulled departure in 2007, he found himself exiled from his former home promotion of ROH in 2010, and almost immediately after was rejected by WWE for inclusion in their Tough Enough series. And then, just when it looked like his ambitions were going to be thwarted, Impact Wrestling offered him another shot. It is fair to say Aries has snatched that chance with both hands. He has been a consistently thrilling addition to the promotion, whether as the arrogant X-Division champ, an incredibly over World Champion, or as the under-handed challenger to said belt. Austin has turned his career around in 2012, and appears to be loving every minute of his life in professional wrestling once again. I'd consider that enough to be considered a worthy contender for Wrestler of the Year.
Ah the cream really does rise to the top, and it was a pretty tough year what with Punk, Roode, Steen and even Sheamus' substantial title runs throughout the twelve months. What makes Aries stand out above all the rest however to me was the story involved in his rise to being the world champion in TNA. We all know how it goes; he was contemplating retirement before last year's Destination X rolled around, but he ended up winning a TNA contract instead amidst a plethora of potential X Division talent. Then Aries went on to rise up the ranks of TNA, mostly through talent alone, winning the X Division title and then defending it against all comers while simultaneously Roode did the same with his world title, then against the Bully Aries found himself turning face and it came round again to this year's Destination X, where Aries was given the chance to cash in his X Division title for a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship, which he won, ending Roode's streak as the longest reigning champion in company history, holding the title until Bound For Glory, where he dropped it to Jeff Nero Hardy, turning heel once again the night before the event.
In all that time Aries never became stale, never really had a bad match and always delivered on the mic. His story is one of redemption and his character is one that people want to support or hate depending on his mood. He is also one of the smallest guys to hold a world title and makes even Punk and Hardy look like big guys, yet he managed to beat out everyone else for the award this year. Speaking of size this truly could be called the year of the little men, especially when you consider that the three top contenders for the award were Punk, Bryan and Aries, all from ROH, all not your traditional model of a professional wrestler, and yet arguably the three most talented guys in the business today, and while the WWE might not have recognised Punk and Bryan's achievements in their Slammy awards (John Cena, really?!) we here at 411mania recognise these three men for their talent and achievements, especially in this year, and hopefully they will remain major parts of the industry for at least the next few years.
This award is always going to be hotly debated as we are deciding the best wrestler of the year and people will have differing opinions on what makes a wrestler truly the best in the world. Perhaps Aries wasn't champion as long as guys like Punk or Roode, and he didn't have the impact of Steen, but he had consistency in his momentum and his work and he was certainly the most entertaining man in a company that has been improving, coincidentally ever since he took hold of their world title. Whereas there are points you could point to where Roode or Punk have gotten a little stale, and Bryan has arguably declined in his momentum moving from competing for world titles to tag titles, Aries never really has, instead he has continued to grow and develop as a character and is still in the world title hunt despite his losses to Hardy in back to back events. So while one might argue whether or not Aries is the Greatest Man who ever Lived, he certainly is the Wrestler of the year.
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Instagram is essentially a photo editing and sharing application available for both iOS and Android smartphones.
If you've been paying any attention to the news over the past month the chances are that you've heard about Instagram, and more relevantly the fact that Facebook paid around $1bn to acquire tech start-up. But what exactly is Instagram?
Instagram is essentially a photo editing and sharing application available for both iOS and Android smartphones. The beauty of Instagram, as is often the case with the best apps, is its simplicity - users either select a pre-captured image, or an image shot through the application, to which they apply a limited range of editing functions. These consist of applying one of 18 retro filters - each complete with bespoke frame - as well as cropping, contrast toggle and rotate. The user is then invited to add a short caption, geotag their image and share via a range of social networks.
Whilst the editing of images through a limited number of retro filters has caused many to pour scorn on Instagram, citing it as the death of photographic standards, the sharing element of the application no doubt is causing a rise in interest in digital photography on the whole.
You see, the real enjoyment to be had with Instagram is in the 'social' - users are free to follow whomever they choose, much the same as on Twitter, and at time of press there were about 40 million users to choose from. Updates from those followed will then appear on your homepage, on which you can then comment or favourite images.
Instagram succeeds in placing an emphasis on the fun and social side of photography and, although it might not be worth quite the $1bn Facebook paid for it, it's certainly worthy of a download. FOR IOS AND ANDROID DEVICES.

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AUSTIN - State senators voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a $195.5 billion two-year state budget as Fort Worth Democrat Wendy Davis cast one of only two dissenting votes to protest what she called the budget's failure to sufficiently fund public schools."I believe this budget fails Texas children because it does not sufficiently address the state's constitutional obligation to adequately fund public ed," said Davis, who staged a filibuster at the end of the 2011 Legislature over $5.4 billion in education cuts. "I honestly believe that it is foolish of us to put off fixing a broken education system when we have the opportunity to address that problem today."Sen. Sylvia Garcia, a Houston Democrat who cast the other opposing ballot in the 29-2 vote, said she was also concerned about the level of education spending. Garcia, the Senate's newest member, was chosen in a special election in February after the death of Houston Sen. Mario Gallegos.The 2014-15 budget, which will fund state government over the next two fiscal years, calls for a $5.5 billion increase over current spending. It includes a state employee pay raise and partly rolls back many of the cuts made by lawmakers two years ago, but not to the level Davis and other Democrats were seeking.The spending blueprint also projects a $93.7 million savings with the closure of two minimum security prisons in Mineral Wells and Dallas. Mineral Wells officials have sought to reverse the proposed closure of the pre-parole transfer facility to avoid what they say would be a devastating economic backlash to the North Texas community.Education funding has emerged as one of the mostly closed watched elements of the Legislature's budget deliberations after the 2011 session cut $5.4 billion in education assistance, prompting a continuing legal challenge by hundreds of school districts, including the Fort Worth system. An Austin district judge, in ruling on the suits, held that the state's school finance system is unconstitutional but the case is expected to ultimately be decided by the Texas Supreme Court."There is no question that public education in Texas is sorely underfunded today," Davis said. "And I don't know why we need to wait for a court to tell us that what we already know is the case."Davis announced her opposition to the budget toward the end of the debate as she offered an amendment that she later withdrew. While saying she did "not take her decision lightly," she told colleagues that she "regrettably cannot support the budget at this time."Senate Finance Committee Chairman Tommy Williams said that, while lawmakers did not fully restore the $5.4 billion, budget-writers added $1.4 billion above enrollment growth and were able to increase core per-student funding in 400 of the state's school districts above their allotments in 2011. He described Davis' criticism of the budget as "faint praise."Total funding for public education would increase by 5.4 percent in the budget, from $52.3 billion to 55.2 billion.Overall, the budget reflects the state's continuing economic upswing, a sharp contrast from the $15 billion in reductions that lawmakers imposed in 2011 in the aftermath of the national recession. But Williams said the state nevertheless faces immense challenges as it seeks to meet increased demands for services from a burgeoning population."You can't ignore the fact that our state has grown very fast," said Williams, R-The Woodlands.Medicaid fundingWilliams said health care is the state's biggest budget driver, pointing out that Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program constitute 30 percent of the proposed budget, totaling $59.3 billion. The average monthly caseload for Medicaid clients has increased by 75 percent from 2002-2012, a pace that Williams said is crowding out funding for education and other needs.Republican leaders are exploring a "Texas solution" that would revamp Medicaid delivery in Texas as an alternative to an outright expansion called for by the federal Affordable Care Act. Williams said the state has a responsibility to care for indigent recipients of the program but warned that Texas will not be able to absorb the cost "if we don't reform how these programs work."Sen. Jane Nelson, a member of Williams' committee and chairwoman of the Senate Health and Human Services committee, played a key role in shaping the budget, overseeing at least $465 million in Medicaid cost-containment initiatives aimed at controlling fraud and improving efficiency.Nelson, R-Flower Mound, also touted the budget's recommended increases in behavioral health services, community primary care, child protective services and other programs."This budget ensures that we're protecting the most vulnerable among us," she said.Other spendingThe budget also makes a down payment on restoring cuts from public universities, calling for $15.9 billion in higher education, a 5.5 percent increase. It increases funding for student aid under the TEXAS grants program, which underwent substantial cuts in 2011. Community colleges, which have asked lawmakers for more money after a series of budget cuts in past sessions, would receive a 3.3 percent increase. Community college funding under the budget would total $1.7 billion.Lawmakers will craft a final version of the state budget from House and Senate proposals in a joint conference committee before the 2013 Legislature adjourns on May 27. The budget, which is funded by federal dollars and state general revenue, is typically approved in the final days of the Legislature.The budget also boosts funding to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to avoid the closure of any state parks. Parks and Wildlife officials warned in advance of the session that they could be forced to close as many as 20 state parks unless lawmakers provided an adequate boost in funding.Environmentalists applauded the increase but lamented the exclusion of a $15.5 million request to restore local park grants that were eliminated in a previous session.Many state employees would receive a pay raise of at least 3 percent while others who work with vulnerable citizens or in areas of high turnover would receive higher targeted pay raises.Dave Montgomery is the Star-Telegram's Austin Bureau chief, 512-739-4471Twitter: @daveymontgomery
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The Louisville Cardinals are home from the Big Easy, now known as hometown football heroes.
"I think it was something a lot of people were surprised, but the faithful cardinal fans knew they could pull it out," said fan John Lesch who watched spent Wednesday night watching the University of Louisville basketball game at the KFC Yum Center, before driving home to watch the football team in the Sugar Bowl.
At Syngergism Company the wins kept them up all night. "We started about 1 in the morning, so forgive me if I've not shaven or anything like that," Vice President Andy Dabney apologized as he watched his workers crank out Championship t-shirts.
"We got some pre orders before just in case they won, so we filled those and now we're getting orders they are coming in by the minute just about."
Their designed was licensed and approved before the Cardinals big win, with a mock-up score that was almost dead on. "We just picked a random number. We put 31 to 23 so we were pretty close," said Dabney.
It's a score fans like Bonnie Herman are happy to hold onto with her new t-shirts. " I was so tickled to see they've got the shirts because my son and my husband are going out there to see them arrive."
While she and her family were hopeful the Cards would win even with a 10 point margin, she said her family was holding their breath. They were only completely convinced, "When the time was running out we seen we were still ahead."
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A Look at the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) in the Fourth District States
The Neighborhood Stabilization Program, or NSP, is a federal program aimed at helping communities recover from the foreclosure crisis. To track the program here in the Fourth District, the Cleveland Fed partnered with the National Vacant Properties Campaign and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on a series of case studies aimed at learning how smaller towns, rural counties, and suburban neighborhoods were implementing the NSP program. What are the community impacts from foreclosed and vacant homes in these markets, and what special challenges do smaller communities confront (for example, lack of staff capacity and limited resources)? Have these communities responded with creative strategies for overcoming these challenges and the complexities of the NSP program? Finally, since most rural counties and small towns must access NSP resources through their states, what role do state housing and community development agencies play, and should that role be different? The case study report, which focuses on four communities--the Northern Shenandoah Valley and Fayette County in Pennsylvania, Charleston County, South Carolina, and Cuyahoga County, Ohio--will be published in early 2010.
Administered by HUD, NSP is a component of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). In the first phase of the program, called NSP 1, HUD allocated $3.92 billion to 309 grantees across the country, including some 55 states and territories and 254 selected local governments and organizations. While NSP grantees developed their own programs and funding priorities (to view examples, see "NSP plans" at right), they must follow guidelines and some requirements for spending the dollars.
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This fall the Changemakers committee is happy to award funding to several student initiatives:
The Magnolia Avenue Elementary Beautification Project
This beautification project began with one collaboratively designed mural in which elementary school students and Pitzer art majors worked together to complete a mural on one of the vandalized walls of the Magnolia Ave. Elementary School. After this first chapter was completed, Pitzer students and Magnolia Elementary school staff worked to develop the next phase of this project, the "Community Identity and Pride Mural Project". With local artist and community collaboration, Pitzer students, Magnolia Ave Elementary students and staff, and local high schoolers worked together to create a mural design contest to paint over graffiti-ed walls of the elementary school. Four high schoolers' designs were selected by a committee and the community worked together to move these designs from ideas on paper to walls covered in artful paint.
Fil-I-Am Benefit
Changemakers contributed to a 5-C funded event hosted by CAPAS (the Center for Asian Pacific American Students). Held on October 29, 2009, Fil-I-Am was a hip hop concert designed as a unified effort to raise awareness and money for disaster relief efforts. This event served as a benefit show to aid the Filipino Red Cross in helping the areas affected by Typhoon Ketsana, also known as Typhoon Ondoy. This typhoon, which occurred less than a month ago on September 26, wreaked havoc on the Philippines. This storm was more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, and was extremely destructive to the population.
Tutors for a Cause
Changemakers funded a proposal for ongoing programmatic funds for Tutors for a Cause. Tutors for a Cause is a student run tutoring and mentoring program whose objective is to serve underprivileged children of our community. The group was started in 2007 in response to requests from our dining hall staff to help their children with schoolwork, which the parents were unable to help with. There was such a large need for this that founder Nancy Murillo realized she could not do it on her own and envisioned a program in which Pitzer students would participate with their individual abilities. Since then the group has continued to provide this service and has grown in its capacities and activities.
Tutors for a Cause is a bridge between Pitzer College and the local community through which both sides benefit. The children who have been participating in our program have, according to their teachers and parents, improved in their schoolwork. They also benefit by getting to know college students, getting to see what college is like, and realizing that they to can go to college. Likewise, Pitzer students benefit from their participation in multiple ways as well. Many of the Pitzer students participating in our program intend to be educators and through their participation in Tutors for a Cause they are gaining valuable experience in this field. Another advantage is that, by working with children of our dining hall staff, Pitzer students are able to create a personal and meaningful relationship with members of our dining hall staff who work hard for us everyday, yet for the most part remain nameless faces to the students who they serve.
Pitzer-New Orleans Brigade
The Pitzer College New Orleans Brigade in conjunction with Wesleyan University and Brooklyn Collegewill focus on skill building and community organizing as well as building an inter-state and inter-college connection. The trip will be a 9-day community organizing experience from January 7-17th, 2010 wherein 10 students will travel to New Orleans to assist in reconstruction with lowernine.org, urban farming with School at Blair Grocery, and community organizing with a multitude of different groups working in the area to mobilize local residents. The students will participate in experiential learning workshops that directly connect to their everyday organizing, reconstruction and farming work. Changemakers was able to assist in funding a small aspect of this initiative, providing some travel funds for two local high school Ohlone American Indian youth to join the brigade and some post-trip funds to host workshops on campus to bring this experience and learning back to the campus and local community.
Poetry and Public Space
Changemakers awarded Professor Brent Armendinger a course enhancement stipend for his new course, English 61 Poetry and Public Space. This course offered a unique approach to the study and process of finding/making poetry outside the walls of the classroom. Students wrote in public, set up collaborative poetry stations, and reflected on community-based experiences through poetry. This course explored the relationship between poetry, documentary, activism, and the boundaries between public and private space in a unique and inventive way. Click here to view an example of their work.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a key provision in a landmark Civil Rights-era law designed to combat discriminatory voting practice, a move that frees states of certain federal oversight of elections.
While the justices in their 5-4 decision left in place most of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, they threw out rules that required all or parts of 16 states, mostly in the South, to seek approval from the Justice Department or a federal court before they make changes in the way they hold elections.
The court left it up to Congress to draft new voting guidelines to ensure that states and cities with a history of voting discrimination properly following the Voting Rights Act. But with a deeply divided Congress, a consensus on a new law will be difficult.
President Obama said he was "deeply disappointed" with the Supreme Court's ruling, calling it a major setback in the push to end voting discrimination across the country.
"Today's decision … upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent," he said.
He called on Congress to pass legislation "to ensure every American has equal access to the polls."
The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts.
"Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions," Roberts wrote for the court.
The Voting Rights Act — enacted to stop Jim Crow-era practices such as literacy tests, poll taxes or other measures designed to keep blacks from voting — has been reauthorized by Congress several times, most recently in 2006 by overwhelming majorities in both chambers.
The high court didn't invalidate the constitutionality of the advance approval, known as the "preclearance" requirement. But it rejected the formula drafted by Congress to determine which states and jurisdictions deserve extra scrutiny, saying it failed to take into account changing circumstances in the South.
Shelby County, Ala., challenged the constitutionality of the preclearance requirement, saying it no longer should be forced to live under oversight from Washington because it has made significant progress in combating voter discrimination.
Supporters of preclearance say it has been among the nation's most effective tools to eradicate racial discrimination in voting. And without it, they say states might seek to reinstate or push a new wave of discriminatory voting measures previously blocked or deterred by the law.


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I am less than thrilled with Finnick but I was also less than thrilled with Peeta so whatever. I guess I'll just have to be happy that at least I don't hate Jennifer Lawerence as Katniss. If you click the link above you can see pieces of the article and another pic.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS MAKING A NEW ALBUM!!!! I don't think y'all understand how I've been longing for a new album from Justin and stalking his life and now the news has arrived that a new album is on the way with a new single tomorrow!!!!!! Yes lawd, yes.
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- Farokh Shahabi Nezhad
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- Iran
CEO & Co-Founder at Idearun, TEDxTehran
This conversation is closed.
Is there any way to prevent religious debates from turning into a big fight?
People discuss lots of things, politics, sports, anything
But when they discuss religious opinions, most of the time, they get all angry and try to win even with fight.
why is that? why that can't be a normal subject?
and more important, How can we prevent this?
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Tnx everyone for their replies. I enjoyed learning from different aspect for this problem.
I can only conclude this : Don't argue with someone unless they are open minded and ready to be changed and challenged.
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Feb 18 2013: i have found that it depends on the brand of "religious" that each person claims, or more specifically, what their intentions are in practicing a religion. take for instance, Christianity. realistically, no two people can have the same motivation to practice a specific denomination of Christianity, or any religion for that matter. however, in a general view, you will find that there are two primary categories that emerge naturally in regards to the individual purpose of christian practice; one being the legitimate curiosity and desire to seek truth about spirituality, god, and purpose of the individual, the other being the sense of requirement (and even guilt) that arises from societal expectations, tradition, or fear of burning in hell for all of eternity as punishment for anything less than perfect adherence to the doctrine of Christianity.
the primary difference between these two purposes is the central motivation. for one, there is truth. for the other, there is the well-being of the self. that, i believe, is the root cause of the volatile, illogical, unforgiving advertisement and pseudo-martyrdom that you see in christian groups (and in many religious groups, for that matter) and their practitioners. they were never interested in contemplating the possibility of "the truth" being separate from their own doctrines, because their doctrines do not allow it. they have been taught that if they question the rules of their religion, they will be made into a social outcast, rejected by their loved ones and piers, and be sentenced to an eternity of unimaginable torture and suffering by their creator. it isn't far-fetched that they react in such a way; it is only self-preservation.
i try to remove myself from my fate in the afterlife. i do not deserve heaven, so i assume that i will go to hell, or whatever alternative you prefer. it is, in fact, what i truly deserve, and i should make peace with it. my concern is not my well-being; it is simply the truth of all things.
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Jason's Book-Filled Loft
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Name: Jason Thompson
Profession: Founder & Owner, Rag & Bone Bindery
Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Size: 3,000 square feet
Years lived in: 2 years, owned
Jason Thompson converted the cavernous warehouse space above his bookbinding studio into an art-filled, family-friendly loft in a mere six months and on a tight budget — proof of what some creative ingenuity and a lot of elbow grease (he performed the demolition and much of the installation himself) can accomplish…
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My style: Loft style — although I don't think we have a particular style really, except that we like handmade and fun objects, books, and art in our space. Our budget confines us to artwork created by friends and ourselves — and our children.
Inspiration: Friends lofts, loft books and blogs such as Decor8 and Apartment Therapy.
Favorite Element: Our kitchen. The kitchen was designed to our specifications and we strived to create a space where we can cook with our two small children. The kitchen is built on a platform which allowed us to save on plumbing costs as the drains, PVC and gas lines run beneath the platform. The platform kitchen also allows us to watch our children play in the open loft space.
Biggest Challenge: Budget. The complete renovation from raw space to move-in was completed within a budget of $30,000. Additionally, the large space meant we could design just about any layout. Nailing down the final design was a challenge, especially with our desire to create intimate spaces while retaining the open layout.
What Friends Say: Most visitors comment on the amount of room and the lovely light, especially in the mornings and afternoon. There are two full walls of windows facing both east and west.
Biggest Embarrassment: We have yet to install trim in the kitchen, bathroom or bedrooms and one knee wall is faced with cardboard … corrugated cardboard.
Biggest Indulgence: Countertops! More than ten percent of our budget was spent on the Silestone countertops.
Best advice: You can do it! Whatever your dream is — a funky home, a loft, green space — you can do it. Not every project requires an unlimited budget, especially if you take it one step at a time. Our loft is half completed, the second half of the renovation, which will take place "someday," includes a master bedroom, office, second bathroom and a media room. We wish we could complete this second phase of the renovation, but we're patient! It's all part of the process. We don't ever feel the space will be "done," there's always something else to work on!
Appliances: We bought all of our stainless steel appliances through Craigslist ads and spent a total of $1,100 for all four: a Coldtech, four-door refrigerator, a Gaggenau dishwasher, a Viking cooktop and a Delonghi oven.
Hardware: IKEA
Furniture: Antique, New, Used & Reused. Our dining table was custom table by Lorimer Woodworks using workbench tabletops salvaged during renovation demolition.
Accessories: Artwork, Rag & Bone Bindery, Vinyl toys, Uglydolls, Lots of books
Lighting: Track & IKEA
Tiles and Stone: Silestone countertops, Italian clay tiles in the bathroom
Artwork: Sabrina Ward Harrison, Anahata Katkin, Teesha Moore, Brett Cortesi, Ilira Steinman, Jason Thompson, Sonny Rolle
Paint: C2
Flooring: Maple (main space), Bamboo (kitchen), Clay tiles (bathroom)
Visit Rag & Bone Bindery to browse their handmade books and journals.
(Images: Sarah Rainwater)
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what? 30,000? hardly seems possible. great loft
I absolutely adore the outside space. Love the entire place actually!
Wow, the Craiglist kitchen appliances are very impressive. What a great space.
I love your art but I so wish I could see more of the open space!!! I am greedy I know....
fun and gorgeous!
Where are those glasses with the eyes from? I'm from Providence and distinctly remember them hanging somewhere. Where they in a book store (Myopic Books comes to mind) or something before hanging in that window?
Rhode Island is so great for affordable lofts. We hope to do this one day, buy an old warehouse building and convert part into the recording studio and part into an apartment. Also possibly a guest suite for bands to stay when they're here. It's amazing what you did with such a tight budget. Gives me hope :)
i dont feel i got a real sense of the loft, just the book art work
Space envy love the doors, the brick the light nice loft.
Amazing space. I daydreamed of having a spacious, funky loft like this when I was a little kid. P.S. The glasses with eyes immediately reminded me of the billboard in "The Great Gatsby"!
I'm so jealous my stomach hurts. Love everything about the loft, especially the eyes of T.J. Eckelberg.
The space itself is beautiful but I was disappointed by the decorating itself. The furniture looks left behind and accessories look cluttered and young. The space has just so much potential.
Really love the space but dissappointed that there aren't more photos...you only show a very small fraction of the overall space.
Great job!
This makes my bookworm soul hap, hap, happy! I have tons of books and dream of free open spaces like this one day, lots of light, floor space to play and do art on, bits of books to spur daydreams everywhere...Oh well, maybe not in SoCal yet.
You've got an amazing space and some interesting accents, but you're lacking in any real substance or direction. Lofts can be tough to make work.... I'd go for sparse with some great signature pieces and tone down all the accents.
Great appliance finds. I wonder if they were victims of foreclosures?
Lovely! Thanks for posting....
beautiful loft, but uncomfortable looking to me.
It looks like a great space, it´s just sad that we don´t see so much of it. So many vignettes, again... why oh why?
Love Rag & Bone's work. Beautiful loft. But, and this is a quibble with the description & not the owner/occupant, this is not a book-filled loft.
I'd love to see more full images and fewer vignettes. But, again, a beautiful space.
Nice loft but it does not look like a book-lover's home to me. No bookcases to speak of and virtually no books that I can see.
It was a true pleasure to see your art collection. It would be great to actually see more of the space.
I agree with Havl- I love these home tours, but respectfully request some larger images of the space itself. I see plenty of art in my day job- I visit AT to help me learn about scale, design, installation, etc. With such a large space, I would have really appreciated some more overall pictures- how does one divide an open floorplan like that? That would be far more educational than a picture of Ugly Dolls.
And yes, where are all the books? I see plenty of pages, but books? Not so much.
Finally, the space is beautiful, but the whole loft seemed rather-- uncomfortable. Plenty of hard benches to sit on, very few places to actually live.
Love this space but agree with previous comments: this post needs more pictures.
There are lots of bookshelves here -- the place is just really BIG.
Fabulous building with great bones! I love the book artwork.
Gorgeous apartment Jason!
I love the decor. The table is gorgeous. I think it's made by Rhode Island local David Ellison of the Lorimer Workshop. (www.lorimerworkshop.com) In fact, he's making a table for us right now. And we can't wait!
Delightfully fun space!
Hi Jason! Great job with the space and adhering to a budget. A home is never complete, but it's nice to get close, isn't it? My space still needs some work, but we seem to have had some similar ideas. And we are both named Jason... hmm...
The artwork in photo 8??? Me likey, where can I buy?


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Computed tomography scan (also called a CT or CAT scan). A diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce horizontal, or axial, images (often called slices) of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general X-rays.
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When two users edit the same file at the same time, they are likely to interfere with each other. Emacs tries to prevent this situation from arising by recording a file lock when a file is being modified. (File locks are not implemented on Microsoft systems.) Emacs can then detect the first attempt to modify a buffer visiting a file that is locked by another Emacs job, and ask the user what to do. The file lock is really a file, a symbolic link with a special name, stored in the same directory as the file you are editing.
When you access files using NFS, there may be a small probability that you and another user will both lock the same file "simultaneously". If this happens, it is possible for the two users to make changes simultaneously, but Emacs will still warn the user who saves second. Also, the detection of modification of a buffer visiting a file changed on disk catches some cases of simultaneous editing; see Modification Time.
This function returns
nilif the file filename is not locked. It returns
tif it is locked by this Emacs process, and it returns the name of the user who has locked it if it is locked by some other job.(file-locked-p "foo") ⇒ nil
This function locks the file filename, if the current buffer is modified. The argument filename defaults to the current buffer's visited file. Nothing is done if the current buffer is not visiting a file, or is not modified, or if the system does not support locking.
This function unlocks the file being visited in the current buffer, if the buffer is modified. If the buffer is not modified, then the file should not be locked, so this function does nothing. It also does nothing if the current buffer is not visiting a file, or if the system does not support locking.
File locking is not supported on some systems. On systems that do not
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unlock-buffer and
file-locked-p do nothing and return
nil. It is also
possible to disable locking, by setting the variable
This function is called when the user tries to modify file, but it is locked by another user named other-user. The default definition of this function asks the user to say what to do. The value this function returns determines what Emacs does next:
- A value of
tsays to grab the lock on the file. Then this user may edit the file and other-user loses the lock.
- A value of
nilsays to ignore the lock and let this user edit the file anyway.
- This function may instead signal a
file-lockederror, in which case the change that the user was about to make does not take place.
The error message for this error looks like this:error--> File is locked: file other-user
fileis the name of the file and other-user is the name of the user who has locked the file.
If you wish, you can replace the
ask-user-about-lockfunction with your own version that makes the decision in another way. The code for its usual definition is in userlock.el.