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The Hobbs' Family headed out this morning on the much anticipated Outlet Shopping Expedition. Our first stop would of course be the Nike Shop. The boys had been looking online so new exactly what they wanted. We had lots of time looking but eventually the boys chose new sneakers scuffs and a hat each. Poor old Mum and Dad got nothing but it was awesome to see happy boys.
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Seeing old friends and my home town
... for 9$) and they brought it to our table. More than enough food! And good too. Included a drink and a lollypop. Price for the movie is only $3.00! Back home to talk until late and then she asked if I could stay another couple of nights. We will try to get with a mutual friend for Tue night. I have given Sharon 3 different dated for arriving but finally will be there Wed morn as they are heading for the coast at noon!
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Other Thoughts: Overall, the design of this board is fantastic. Besides the fact that the extra SATA connectors have bad placement, this board is absolutely perfect for a gamer on a budget.
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"Hi, my name is Isaac Clarke. I'm an engineer for the Concordance Extraction Corporation. I'd like to tell you how a routine check became one of the single most terrifying experiences of my life. Welcome to DEAD SPACE." Now I thinks it's safe to presume we've all heard of this game. Whether you have the nerve to actually play it or not, that's an entirely different story. This beauty of a game is truly one of a kind. It's a third person horror/scifi space adventure game, and meets our $20 budget! Let's dive into why you need to grab a friend, hold on tight, and play this game.
The campaign sets you in 2414, when the USG Ishimura sends out a distress signal for you and your team to investigate. The Ishimura is a "planetcracker" class ship mining on the planet Aegis VII. After a guidance malfunction, your ship crash-lands into the docking bay. You take your crew aboard to search for other means of transportation and investigate the Ishimura. Once aboard the seemingly abandoned ship, the lights go out and chaos ensues. Grotesque creatures called Necromorphs tear apart most of your crew, leaving only commander Zach Hammond, computer specialist Kendra Daniels, and yourself. From here on out Hammond and Daniels work together to help you navigate the ship to not only survive, but ultimately to escape.
Unfortunately, this story doesn't concern itself with good intentions or moments for Isaac. Knowing his girlfriend Nicole is also on board the ship full of deadly creatures, he is driven forward to find and save her and survive this onslaught of terror. Isaac finds Audio and Text Logs along his way that slowly piece together exactly what happened here. The ship uncovered "The Marker," the artifact treasured by all Unitologists (a sort of religion). Believed to have the ability to take everyone to the great beyond, the artifact unfortunately alters dead corpses, reanimating them into necromorphs, causing mass hallucinations and hysteria among the crew, and turning the Ishimura upside down.
The graphics of this game really immerse you into the heart of space and science. Poorly lit hallways with tubes of LED lights, blood stains on everything, and smooth yet gritty features worked almost too well at times. Walking down a hallway with no lights except the glow of your Plasma Cutter, waiting for something to rip off your face makes for quite the heart racing adventure. Dead Space really captures the horror-shooter style easily. The entire environment oozes fear and demands that your blood pressure rises.
The Necromorphs attack you any way they can. Head-shots are suddenly no longer the quick solution to victory; dismemberment is the key to survival here. Armed with slightly altered mining tools, slicing off legs or arms is the only way to ensure a kill. Even then, sometimes not having legs wont stop them from crawling at you, seeking only your flesh to spread the infection. The main arsenal of weapons include items such as a military grade assault rife, flame thrower, and a line cutter (a bigger plasma cutter). Along with weapons, Isaac's suit has its own special abilities. Built in kinesis lets you grab and throw objects as you please. Stasis can be used through the suit to slow down objects and creatures to help make a kill. Unfortunately, you can run out of stasis and ammo. Scavenging ammo from corpses and crates is your main supply line. Luckily, there are shops located throughout the game where you can purchase these items and upgrade your RIG. Along with shops, there are workbenches to upgrade your weapons and suit to your needs. These help even the score between you and the opposition at times.
Gameplay and sound go hand in hand with the mindset of this game. It could be sounds of clanking feet as you walk along, or that bump in the air vent that has you watching ever so carefully with wide eyes. The musical score enhances the mood: from buildups that tense every muscle in your body, to nothing but silence sending you over the edge with fright and anticipation. They mastered the use of all these aspects to bring us into the realm of Dead Space, and truly become the scared engineer fighting for survival. Not to mention, there are countless times when something jumps out at you, trying to rip your skull from body. All these things lead you deeper into the universe of Isaac.
Probably one of the biggest factors to this game is the gruesome scenes you will encounter, from watching creatures turn corpses into new enemies, to watching your own death scene. Oh, the amount of ways to die in this game are astounding: having your limbs ripped off, having your head taken over by a new host, or just simply being smashed by a door lock. If you are not one for the gore, please do not purchase or even attempt to watch this game. I know some of the manliest of man (beard included) that were unable to fully beat this game. So don't be too hard yourself.
Achievements are a big part of this game too. The abundance of them makes playing fun and challenging to grab them all! Earning them all is a quite possible feat. It may take a few run-throughs, but it's fun to brag about later once you have them. There is no Co-op with this or even multiplayer – single player campaign is your only option here, yet it's the only reason you will want to play this gem. Naturally, there are few problems to be had within the game. A possible glitch or two along the way or sketchy rendering are things to expect with all games of this magnitude. Really, there's nothing new about that, so don't let it discourage you.
Overall, Dead Space is a Must Rent and a worthy purchase for the gamer looking to try a new game genre/style to challenge themself. A deep and mesmerizing campaign keeps you coming back for more. The tense horror keeps you on the edge of your seat, tensed up like a spring about to release. Please do yourself a favor and go get this game…Seriously, stop reading and go out and rent it at least. Really, we are done here! Go!
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Dubai: Police are investigating the apparent assassination of a Chechen resident at Dubai's Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) on Saturday.
The police have yet to reveal any details of the case, but witnesses said the victim, identified by Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, chief of Dubai Police, as Sulaiman Madov, was shot dead at close range by a lone assassin at JBR's Rimal 6 Building.
Official sources said more details would be revealed to the media in the next few days.
Other police sources told Gulf News that a Russian national is currently in custody in connection with the crime, but declined to give further details.
"The murder seems to be an assassination because he was shot dead in the parking of the building where he was living," Lt Gen Dahi said earlier.
He added that the 36-year-old victim was believed to have been "under surveillance for some time".
Security guards at the Rimal building claimed they heard a couple of shots on the day of the murder, which is said to have been committed at around 3pm.
"The security guard at that section of the building found the body... in a pool of blood covering the entrance to the lifts..." said a guard who had just recently taken up the job at JBR.
Another security guard added that the victim's two body guards, who are believed to have survived the shootings, said he was shot in the back of his neck.
Police, however, declined to confirm or deny the information about the presence of the body guards.
"It's only [this] morning that I realised the reason behind police presence in the area. This is the second time we [have heard] about a murder. Personally it doesn't worry me as these are not random killings.
"Dubai, in comparison, to many countries, is a very safe place," said a British national woman who lives at JBR.
On July 28, 2008, a Lebanese singer, Suzan Tamim was found dead in her apartment in a Rimal building at the JBR complex after neighbours raised the alarm.
According to media reports, Chechen exiles claim three compatriots have been assassinated in the last six months in Istanbul and one in Vienna for political reasons.
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Reporting Foreign Accounts to IRS:
Extent of Duplication Not Currently Known, but Requirements Can Be Clarified
GAO-12-403: Published: Feb 28, 2012. Publicly Released: Mar 29, 2012.
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What GAO Found
Some of the information requested on the Form 8938 and FBAR is duplicative. Both forms ask for the same or similar information on the filer, foreign financial accounts, and financial institutions where accounts are held. Form 8938 asks for additional information not required by the FBAR, such as other foreign financial assets and income. Since the Form 8938 is a new requirement beginning after 2011, data are not yet available to determine the number of filers subject to these duplicative reporting requirements.
A variety of tax commentators, taxpayer representatives, and individuals stated that these duplicative reporting requirements have created confusion. They report being unclear about what and how information should be reported on both forms. Neither form provides filers any explanation as to why duplicative reporting is necessary, where the duplication occurs, or how the information being requested is the same or different.
Without data on Form 8938 filers, the benefits and costs of taking actions to reduce duplicative reporting cannot be determined. When Form 8938 filing data becomes available, Treasurys Office of Tax Policy, IRS, and FinCEN would have the information needed to assess whether cost-effective steps could be taken, including allowing filers who would normally have to submit both forms to substitute the information reported on one to meet the requirements of the other.
Why GAO Did This Study
This letter formally transmits the briefing we gave on February 1, 2012. We gave this briefing in response to a Congressional request that we assess potential duplicative foreign-account reporting requirements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 8938 and under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) for the Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR).
The objectives of the briefing were to (1) determine to what extent, if any, the reporting requirements on the FATCA Form 8938 and FBAR are duplicative; (2) assess the potential effects that any duplicative reporting requirements have on filers; and (3) identify and assess opportunities, if any, to cost-effectively reduce or eliminate the burden that any duplicative reporting creates while maintaining the usefulness of the information for tax-administration and law-enforcement purposes.
What GAO Recommends
We are recommending that the Secretary of the Treasury direct the Office of Tax Policy, IRS, and FinCEN to (1) revise both the Form 8938 and FBAR instructions and related guidance to explain the extent to which duplication exists (for example, instances where account-related information requested on the two forms is the same or different) and the circumstances in which filers are, or are not, expected to comply with both reporting requirements; and (2) as data become available, determine whether the benefits of implementing a less-duplicative reporting process exceed the costs and if so, implement that process.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In February 2012, we reported that the forms and instructions for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form 8938 (Statement of Foreign Financial Assets) and Department of Treasury form TDF 90-22.1 (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts) requested duplicative information. Although there were differences in the forms and they served different purposes, we found that the duplicative requirements could create confusion for filers resulting in increased burden and the potential for unnecessary or inaccurate reporting. To address this issue, we recommended that the instructions and related guidance for the forms be revised to explain the extent to which duplication exists (for example, instances where account-related information requested on the two forms is the same or different) and the circumstances in which filers are, or are not, expected to comply with both reporting requirements. In response to our recommendation, IRS updated the instructions for the form 8938 in November 2012 by providing a link to an IRS webpage that provides a side-by-side comparison of the reporting requirements for the two forms. IRS provided similar guidance on a webpage explaining FBAR reporting requirements.
Recommendation: The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Office of Tax Policy, IRS, and FinCEN to revise both the Form 8938 and FBAR instructions and related guidance to explain the extent to which duplication exists (for example, instances where financial account-related information requested on the two forms is the same or different) and the circumstances in which filers are, or are not, expected to comply with both reporting requirements
Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: IRS has not conducted the recommended data analysis and told us in August 2016 that it has no plans to do so. The Treasury Department and IRS's position is that although certain information may be reported on both Form 8938 and FBAR, the information required by the forms is not identical in all cases, and reflects the different rules, key definitions (for example, "financial account"), and reporting requirements applicable to Form 8938 and FBAR reporting. We recognize that the information required is not identical in all cases, however, as our report identified and the Treasury Department and IRS acknowledge, some filers will be reporting duplicative information on both forms. Without analyzing and comparing data reported on the forms, the Treasury Department and IRS will not be able to determine the extent to which this occurs. Depending on the results of the analysis, they could be foregoing opportunities to adjust reporting requirements that could reduce government administrative costs and burdens for these filers.
Recommendation: As data becomes available, the Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Office of Tax Policy, IRS, and FinCEN to determine whether the benefits of implementing a less duplicative reporting process exceed the costs and if so, implement that process.
Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury
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Strawberry Jam
|2 Pint, sliced to make 6 cups
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|Lemon peel
|2 Teaspoon, grated
|Lemon juice
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Strawberry flavored gelatin
|6 Ounce (1 Packet)
1. In a 2-quart casserole, crush the berries lightly.
2. Stir in the sugar, lemon peel and juice.
3. In the microwave, cook for 10 to 12 minutes at High, until it reaches a boil, stirring twice.
4. Cook for 10 minutes more at Power 5 or Medium to simmer, stirring once.
5. Add the gelatin and stir it in.
6. Let the dish stand for 30 minutes.
7. Serve on a variety of dishes.
To store, spoon the jam into plastic freezer containers, leaving 1/2 inch space at the top, cool to room temperature and cover with lids. Store in the refrigerator or freezer.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3219 Calories from Fat 26
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 3 g4.7%
Saturated Fat 0.27 g1.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 344.2 mg14.3%
Total Carbohydrates 680 g226.8%
Dietary Fiber 20.5 g82%
Sugars 648.3 g
Protein 152 g304.9%
Vitamin A 2.6% Vitamin C 1009.1%
Calcium 27.1% Iron 33.2%
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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you've probably realized by now that I'm a sucker for suspense films. And that I have a soft spot for Dharmendra. And Helen. And Pran. Bring all of those together, and I'm pretty much willing to give it a try. Kab? Kyon? Aur Kahaan? is a film I'd watched many years ago, and liked, so I decided it was time for a rewatch [especially since I'd forgotten pretty much everything of it except for one very taut and tense section]. As it turned out, this was one of those films that make me realize how much more forgiving I was in my younger days. I'd forgotten, for instance, how Babita's eyebrows managed to give Dharmendra's a run for their money in the bushiness department.
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Baat ek Raat ki (1962)
Anu had started this month with a Dev Anand film—and I, following suit, decided I would review a relatively little-known Dev Anand film too, to begin August. But, while Anu's kept up the Dev Anand theme all through August, I've meandered off in different directions, all the way from The Rickshaw Man to jeep songs. But solidarity among friends counts for something, doesn't it? So here I am back again, with another Dev Anand film. The sort of film that, on the surface, looks like it's got everything going for it: a suave Dev Anand opposite a very beautiful Waheeda Rehman (who, along with Nutan, was, I feel, one of Dev Anand's best co-stars as far as chemistry is concerned). SD Burman's music. Suspense. Some good cinematography.
Majhli Didi (1967)
Let me begin this review with a quick confession: I don't cry easily while watching films.
I didn't sob my heart out while watching Majhli Didi either. But I had a lump in my throat during several scenes, and I wiped away more than a couple of tears.
Parivaar (1956)
Serendipity isn't something I encounter too frequently while watching Hindi cinema. More often than not, it's the other way round: I watch a film because I liked the cast, or because the story sounds appealing, or (and this happens with appalling frequency) because the music is wonderful. That I should watch a film about which I know next to nothing—on a whim, so to say—and find that it's not just watchable but actually quite enjoyable is something to be grateful about. Which is why this review. Seriously speaking, I hadn't expected much of Parivaar (the name itself conjures up one of those extremely melodramatic social dramas AVM used to specialise in).
Worse, I had my memories (I wish I could rid myself of them) of having watched the utterly execrable Nanda-Jeetendra starrer Parivaar, one of the worst films from the 60s I've ever wasted three hours upon. But, back to this Parivaar, which brought a smile of pleased anticipation to my face as soon as the credits began to roll. Directed by Asit Sen and produced by Bimal Roy, Parivaar is set completely within the large haveli of the Choudhary brothers, where all of them, with the exception of one brother, live as a joint family. Over the first hour or so of the film, we are introduced to these men, their families, and their servants. Continue reading
Mamta (1966)
While watching Pakeezah some months back (and reading Meghnad Desai's book about the film), I was struck by how fond old Hindi cinema used to be of the motif of the 'chaste tawaif'. A paradox, seemingly, because how could a woman be a tawaif – a prostitute, to put it bluntly – and be chaste? But films like Pakeezah and Adalat did just that: they portrayed women who lived in kothas, sang (in Adalat) and danced (in Pakeezah) but were 'good' women, chaste and pure, women who may have been lusted after by bad men, but who – thanks to fate, good friends and relatives, kind strangers (both human and animal) – were always able to avoid the fate worse than death: of yielding their chastity to a man they were not married to, or weren't going to eventually marry, even if only in secret.
Intequam (1969)
When Anu listed her favourite Sadhna films, I remarked that another Sadhna film I like—though it's from later in the actress's career—is Intequam. Based on Vendetta, a Marie Corelli novel (the only film adaptation of a Corelli work that's in colour), Intequam is a story of vengeance. Though it features a Sadhna whose gorgeousness had begun to suffer because of her medical problems, she's still interesting—and the central character in this film.
Deep Jwele Jaai (1959)
It's sad that, over the past year or so, barely a month has passed without my having to post a tribute to yet another film personality who's passed on. Last month, with Eleanor Parker, Joan Fontaine and Peter O'Toole passing away within days of each other, I thought it couldn't get worse. And I hoped that 2014 would be better.
But, alas. We say goodbye to yet another luminary of the film world. This time, the beautiful and very talented (not to mention wildly popular) Suchitra Sen (April 6, 1931-January 17, 2014), who made a mark in Hindi cinema even in the few films she acted in (Bombai ka Babu, Devdas, Mamta and Aandhi being the best-known), but ruled Bengali cinema.
Kohraa (1964)
I feel that, no matter how high an opinion one may have of oneself, it is risky business to attempt to remake a classic. If (for example) Alfred Hitchcock made a film, don't attempt to remake it—especially if you plan on tinkering with the way the story plays out. Biren Nag (who had already made the pretty good suspense thriller Bees Saal Baad) tried his hand at remaking Hitchcock's atmospheric Rebecca here, and while he got some things right, the end result is not quite as memorable as Rebecca was.
Parakh (1960)
The last Hindi film I reviewed was a Bimal Roy production – and it left me feeling very disappointed. To get over that (and to remind myself that Bimal Roy's films can generally be counted upon to be good), I decided to rewatch this one, an old favourite that reinforces Bimal Roy's style of film-making: everyday stories of life, real life, with all its joys and sorrows and mundane happenings.
Benazir (1964)
'Bimal Roy's Benazir' is what it says on the DVD cover. Enough to conjure up, for me, memories of some of the greatest Bimal Roy films I've seen: tender, thought-provoking, real films about real people. Benazir, perhaps because it wasn't directed by Bimal Roy himself but by S Khalil (who also scripted the film) falls short of the standard of Parakh, Prem Patra, Sujata, Do Bigha Zameen, or Bandini. A top-notch cast, a very well-respected production company, a master music director—but why does this film rarely get mentioned in the same breath as those?


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14 killed in Pakistan clash
Miranshah: Pro-Taliban rebels attacked a Pakistani army check-post in North Waziristan region on Saturday, killing four soldiers and 10 militants, an army spokesman said.
Four members of the security forces were also wounded in the pre-dawn clash in the Dosali area, near the Afghanistan border.
Major General Waheed Arshad said that militants fired about 50 rockets on a check-post complex during the latest attack.


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by Nancy Knudsen on 4 Nov 2011
Star Clipper, currently used as a deluxe touring ship: the 21st Century merchant version may be coming soon to an ocean near you .. .
It's official. The days of sail may be just about to recommence. The UK's Committee on Climate Change has come out with a report that recommends 'installing supplementary power systems to make use of solar or wind power' on British ships.
In a report that drew attention to the carbon emissions from ships, it signaled a potential return to the halcyon days of the 19th Century when clippers crossed all the oceans of the earth carrying both goods and passengers.
Many of the ships has three masts, some five. However, the introduction of steamships and their greater reliability of schedule, spelled the end of those grander days.
Now the Committee wants the industry to go back to the future by 'updating propulsion systems', which would see ships fitted with sails, including a new rigid design resembling aircraft wings or large 'towing kites'.
Here are the full list of the recommendations for reducing ships' emissions, which could see major changes in the way the world of shipping performs:
• Upgrading propulsion systems and engines to improve efficiency or using towing kites to allow ships to use wind energy.
• Applying hull coatings or increasing the frequency of hull cleaning to reduce friction and fuel consumption.
• Installing supplementary power systems to make use of solar or wind power and improving boiler technology.
...and they made some other recommendations as well:
• Reducing the speed at which ships travel in order to save fuel.
• Using software to help navigators find the safest and most efficient route, by combining route mapping and weather data.
• Improving port turn-around times and providing more information on port congestion.
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• Biofuels could become economically viable depending on the relative price of fossil fuels and biofuels, including whether shipping is covered by a carbon price.
• Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has a lower carbon intensity per unit of energy compared to conventional fuels. However, LNG has lower energy density than conventional fuels and requires more space for storage.
The Committee's interest has been underpinned by a five-year study carried out by the Technical University of Berlin.
It found that ships using sails as well as other conventional wind power achieved savings as high as 44 per cent.
Shipping could also cut its emissions by using special paint on hulls to reduce friction and saving fuel by travelling slower. 'There is a wide range of technology which can be used to cut emissions,' said David Baltson, the British Chamber of Shipping's director of safety and environment. 'Slow steaming is one option.
'Already, because of the price of fuel, ships are cutting their speed. A container vessel which was going at 25 knots, has slowed down to 19 knots, achieving fuel cuts of 30 to 40 per cent, this has added four to five days on a voyage from the Far East.
The committee, which advises the Government on climate change, also wants Britain to be the first country to include shipping emissions in its calculation of greenhouse gases.
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If http://publish.example.com/foo is set to redirect to
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/my-put-script/foo the first
request (to publish.example.com) is a PUT but the request to
www.example.com is a GET.
All the redirection methods in RFC 2616 say:
If the 3xx status code is received in response to a request other
than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the
request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might
change the conditions under which the request was issued.
So we should not be redirecting at all here, methinks....
Is there a real site setup that I could test this with and QA could use for
BZ--is this a bug or ?
If the behavior is as reporter describes, this would be a bug in the HTTP code,
which triggers a redirect unconditionally.
We should be prompting for user permission to redirect. Not sure whether the
redirected request should still be a GET or be a PUT (the HTTP spec seems a bit
unclear on this).
> Is there a real site setup that I could test this with and QA > could use for verification? Publish a page to testbed3.jriddell.org and it will be redirected to testbed1.jriddell.org/cgi-bin/put/filename.html A GET will be send on the second request and the publish will fail (see testbed1.jriddell.org/putlog). Publishing directly to testbed1.jriddell.org/cgi-bin/put will (should) succeed.
the problem is, browsers have always automatically redirected from POST to GET.
that has come to be expected. for PUT maybe we should change that.
here's the passage from RFC2616 section 10.3.3 on 302 redirects:
Note: RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed
to change the method on the redirected request. However, most
existing user agent implementations treat 302 as if it were a 303
response, performing a GET on the Location field-value regardless
of the original request method. The status codes 303 and 307 have
been added for servers that wish to make unambiguously clear which
kind of reaction is expected of the client.
despite this, mozilla still fails to implement 307 correctly (see bug 48202).
marking as dependent on bug 48202. maybe this should even be a duplicate. not
sure yet if we want to change our behavior for redirects other than 307.
Jonathan: Now that bug 48202 is fixed, can you please try this bug in recent
trunk builds? (I tried, but looks like http://publish.example.com/foo is down).
Testing with build 2003032809 shows no change in behaviour
The headers that are being replied to mozilla are
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:08:58 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.11 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.0.6 FrontPage/18.104.22.168
Location: http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/put/blah.html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Mozilla then sends the following request to the URL where it was redirected
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030322
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,vid
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
and no body. Netscape 4 sucessfully redirected with a PUT and the document being sent.
suresh: perhaps it would make sense for our 302 behavior to preserve the method
in all cases except POST. i know that sounds a bit inconsistent, but i'm
worried about breaking compatibility with sites that depend on the non-standard
behavior of existing browsers.
bbaetz: any thoughts on this?
What did ns4 do for the POST version of this with a 302?
What does IE do for POST/PUT ?
RFC2616 is very clear about this (because there were problems with implementors' interpretation of text in previous specs).
There are two aspects to be considered;
a) whether the method should be preserved or changed to 'GET' upon a redirect
b) whether the user should be informed of a redirect on a non-GET (or HEAD) method
301, 302 and 307 all preserve the method, and require permission from the user before redirecting a non GET request.
303 changes the method to GET, and does not inform the user.
For tests, see:
("Redirects"). Be sure to follow the instructions.
For Firefox 1.5.01 on OSX, I see that the method isn't preserved correctly on non-GET 301's and 302's, and the user is never informed for non-GET requests (at least with XmlHttpRequest, which is the focus of those tests).
(In reply to comment #12)
BTW, (b) is security-related; HTTP places those requirements on clients so that users stay in control of their actions.
There's a newer bug on this -- 598304 -- on which I already started work. Mark this one as duplicate?
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I really wanted to get my grandson an iPod for Christmas, but they were just too expensive. Now, his birthday is coming up and while I'd like to get him one, I don't want to spend all that money. Are there any alternative music players for children that he might like just as well? If so, please tell me all about them!
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Learning About Hyperacusis
Since losing all my hearing in my left ear suddenly in 2011, I've suffered with bouts of sensitivity to sound. Ordinarily, I manage this by retreating to a quiet room or going to sit in the garden (if the weather's decent). I read a book, write something, or distract myself with social media – or I sit quietly with our dog, Tilly, brushing or stroking her and generally trying to relax. Sometimes, I take out my hearing aids for a bit, other times, I switch them to 'Comfort in Sound' or 'Speech in Noise' but, usually, I manage to ride it out without getting too distressed by it all.However, after our recent trip to Florence and my (almost violent) reaction to the noise levels and the way they triggered my sound sensitivity, I have decided to do a little research and have been reading about hyperacusis. I thought I'd share my findings with you in the hope of helping fellow sufferers.According to that font of all knowledge, Wikipedia:
Hyperacusis (also spelled hyperacousis) is a health condition characterized by an over-sensitivity to certain frequency and volume ranges of sound (a collapsed tolerance to usual environmental sound). A person with severe hyperacusis has difficulty tolerating everyday sounds, some of which may seem unpleasantly or painfully loud to that person but not to others.At that point, Wikipedia gets a bit too technical/medical for me so I turned elsewhere to gather more 'user-friendly' information.NHS Choices page describes hyperacusis thus:
Hyperacusis is an extreme aversion and hypersensitivity to sounds that are generally not an issue to others.On further reading of the NHS Choices page, I discovered wording that very much described how I felt about my experience in Florence, particularly this quote:
Noise can be painful for people with severe hyperacusis. High-pitched sounds can be felt as 'a nail being driven into the head'.At the time, I'd described it as feeling like I was being 'stabbed in the head' so, this 'nail' description was not far off and certainly had resonance for me.The site also mentioned that "crying, anger and panic reactions are not uncommon," and I could certainly identify with this. Also: "as a result, people with hyperacusis may avoid noisy situations and become socially isolated." This would be a pretty accurate description of me taking my hearing aids out on the open top bus tour – and wandering round the Roman amphitheatre on my own…As always with discovering you're not alone with your medical condition, it gave me some strange sort of comfort to learn that 'noises that are commonly an issue' include some of the noises which were an issue for me on my trip, particularly:
- sirens, such as ambulances
- trucks, cars and motorcycles
- loud crowds
Hyperacusis sometimes occurs in people with hearing loss. For people with hearing loss, the sound signals from the inner ear to the brain will be weaker than normal, and it's possible that the brain amplifies these signals too much to compensate, resulting in hypersensitivity.What's interesting is that on returning home, the hyperacusis has subsided, which makes me wonder if my hearing and sensitivity level were affected by the change in pressure experienced at take-off and landing.When I'm on an aeroplane I always notice that I can hear more. I could repeat word for word the Captain's announcements on my flight to Pisa with my hearing aids out and my EarPlanes in. How do you explain that when I can't normally hear any voices other than my own without hearing aids in 'on land'?Does anyone else share this experience of hearing differently while on a plane? I'd love to hear your stories if you'd be willing to share.


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Please enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for August 28, 2012. Stick around for a live report at the end.
Worst: Jerry Lawler Knows This Isn't How Raw Usually Begins, But He Has Something To Say
Jerry Lawler, a guy who has sat in on every episode of Raw his misguided loyalty to his ex-wife didn't cause him to miss, opened Raw by explaining himself and calling someone out, apologizing beforehand because it's "not the way Monday Night Raw normally starts". Dude, this is the only way Monday Night Raw ever starts, shouldn't you know that? Lawler pretending like 20 minutes of talking is an imposition to the WWE Universe is like Lance Storm asking if he could be serious for a minute but not being in on the joke. Jerry Lawler is being SHOOT LANCE STORM.
The actual body of the segment was solid (with 100% of the thanks for that going to CM Punk, which I'll touch on in a minute), but man, the only thing worse than Jerry's first words were his last. Punk runs him down for being an out-of-touch, spineless, agenda-heaving old man whose glory days were even kinda cruddy, then challenges him to a match. He tells Lawler to think about it and bails. As he's walking away, Lawler grabs the microphone and says HEY PUNK, and a moment like that only exists in wrestling so you can follow "hey punk" with YOU'RE ON~! for a big crowd-pumping heatball. Lawler's follow-up: "I'll THINK about it!"
That's got to be the worst wrestling "last word" ever, at least until I can find that clip of Earl Hebner getting his referee shirt ruined and coming back with a threatening, "I GOT ANOTHER SHIRT IN THE BACK!" Why even say anything? As a lot of people pointed out, it was way too much like Zoolander for Punk to not turn back around and ask whether or not Lawler knows he's loco.
Best: CM Punk, Voice Of The People Who Hate Jerry Lawler
I'm still not totally on board with Punk's new character direction — mostly because they won't go all the way with it, and even when they GO all the way with it they pull back enough to still sell t-shirts … this is why he gets a huge crowd reaction when his music hits and they start booing him five minutes later — but I am absolutely on board with his continued quest to run Jerry Lawler's shitty ass up the river.
Part of what I (and I'm broad enough to say "we", assuming you think like I do) loved so much about pre-mega-success WWE heel CM Punk is that he was always sticking it to people who deserved it. When he berated Jeff Hardy (and Jeff Hardy fans) for "living in the moment" and being alcoholic pill-poppers or whatever he was RIGHt. Jeff Hardy WAS a phenomenally-talented young man who pissed away his natural gifts and was still somehow rewarded for it, and a hard-working, passionate Straight Edge guy from an independent circuit continually ran down/gutted for talent by WWE benefitted from at least six months of giving oral ass-to-mouth to a hobbling yardtard who'd rather make Aluminumummies than learn how to speak into a microphone without sounding like Arnie Grape. When he said Cena and Dwayne were getting opportunities the less popular guys could use more, he was right. When he made Vince yell I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU WANT at a crowd cheering for pro wrestling, he was right. These were guys who deserved our disdain for whatever misguided Internet pro wrestling reason we could imagine.
Then he started feuding with people who didn't really deserve it. When he prodded Alberto Del Rio by calling him "amigo" and beat up Ricardo Rodriguez for little-to-no reason for a month, he wasn't right. I mean, he was in the "WWE babyface" clear, but Berto didn't deserve condemnation for being Mexican. When he feuded with Chris Jericho, we wanted something way better than what we got, because Punk works best when he's mad at someone who deserves it, and Jericho was just pretending to deserve it. He feuded with Big Show, but Show was right. John Laurinaitis got called an ugly dork even when he wasn't plotting evil, because new CM Punk thought BEING UGLY was a reason to be unsuccessful.
So the return to insulting people like Jerry Lawler is a step in the right direction, because he's right, and people need to hear it. When he transitions this into a full-blown thing with The Rock (which will happen, hopefully, and Cena won't STF his way into things like he normally does) it'll be great, because the Rock deserves it, and people need to hear it. They just need to be brave, and to not be afraid of going all the way. That promo that made Jim Rome believe wrestling was real worked because he said it all, not because he said "maybe I'll do something with the WWE Championship" and explained the rest over a four week build.
Worst: Ryback's Music
Whoever decided Ryback's simple, effective theme needed Mortal Kombat TEST YOUR MIGHTs all over it should be fired. It's probably the same guy who didn't fork out to buy Goldberg's WCW Viking Death March and replaced it with a soundalike. I'm surprised they didn't have him singing YOUUU-UUU'RE NEEEEXT, NUH NUH NEEEEXT over the intro.
If I ever get put in charge of WWE Creative (and it'll happen soon … I'm already in negotiations with f**king nobody), the first thing I'll do is initiate an "If you change somebody's entrance theme, you have to pick a 90s R&B song as the replacement, so stop changing everybody's themes, stupid" rule. How great would it be to see Sin Cara coming out to 'Pony'? If they change The Ryback's entrance theme again, it needs to be one of those movie-ending rap songs from the 90s. "R to the Y to the B to the A!" etc.
Best: Jack Swagger Gets Clotheslined, Is Now Technically Dead
I'm a pretty simple guy. I get called a "mark" by people who don't really read the column because I talk enthusiastically about the show and don't break down quarter-hours or give star ratings or whatever. I get called a "smark" by people who don't really read the column because I … write about wrestling on the Internet? I don't know. All I really know for sure is that the measure of a great (not good, but great) wrestling moment for me is that it makes me say "oh shit!" out-loud. Ryback's clothesline to Swagger, as simple and expect as it was, made me go "oh shit!" out-loud.
That's really it, isn't it? Things that make you smile and forget you're supposed to be writing a column about what you're watching. I've turned fun into work, and sometimes Ryback just murders a dude with a move and I laugh and sorta pantomime it in my head because I never truly stopped being 12 years old. I'm a mark to smarks and a smark to marks, but whatever you are, f**k you if you don't like seeing somebody get their head taken off with a clothesline.
And before I move on to how Triple H is more like Cripple H because JOKES~, I should probably explain myself. I love and respect these guys (most of these guys) for what they do, so I don't want to see them actually get hurt. I want to see them get WRESTLING hurt. Just like how you should differentiate performers from the characters they play, it's important to only wish simulated violence on someone. The confusing part about that is that simulated violence only really works when it looks and feels like real violence, and in wrestling you can barely ever tell the two apart. What I tell myself is that my bloodlust is for stiff clotheslines and elbow smashes to Jerry Lawler's face, and not so much Masada putting gardening skewers in peoples' heads. Really there's no difference, and I'm a creep.
Sorry. The good news: Jack Swagger is almost ready for his trip to Mars!
Worst: We're Countin' Down Today's Triple H And Your All-Time Favorites!
The only ways I would've been okay building to Triple H's retirement speech by going back over Triple H's career in detail are as follows:
1. They had Alberto Del Rio in the bottom right corner in picture-in-picture, yammering on about how awesome Triple H is and how cool it was to see him invade WCW. "Triple H won the WWE title in this match! I remember watching it! Ay dios mio!" or whatever. Something really exaggerated so you know they gave him an index card to read 20 seconds before taping him.
2. They show that entire May 21 Raw match between the Two Man Power Trip and Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho where Triple H tore his quad and just not make a big deal about Benoit being in it because that match was tight as f**k and should be on a DVD, but didn't make the cut for 'Hard Knocks' so it's probably lost to the ether aside from HOW'S HE EVEN ABLE T'STAND video packages.
3. Triple H actually leaving for any substantial period of time and not just jacking off all over the production team's dry erase board.
Worst, For Probably The First Time Ever: Vickie Guerrero
Ugh, that feels horrible. Vickie gets her first Worst in ages for two big reasons:
1. Vickie interrupting the first good-ish Divas match on Raw in FOREVER isn't a big deal, but the WAY she did it was terrible. If she'd sat at the announce table or interrupted Layla's celebration at the end she would've accomplished the exact same thing, but having her stand on the ring steps, roll her eyes the whole time AND HAVE THE CAMERA CUT TO HER ROLLING HER EYES THE WHOLE TIME at the expense of the match was the WORST. You could almost see the evil ghost of Vince McMahon possessing her, cackling on the inside as Layla and Natalya try their best to put on a decent women's wrestling match in the WWE cage and get shuffled off-screen for their efforts. YOU WANT WOMEN'S WRESTLING, WELL HEEERE IT IS, DAMMIT
I think women can be exceptional professional wrestlers and love to watch them compete as human beings (and not sexy sideshow acts … B.L.O.W., I'm looking in YOUR direction), plus I'm a big fan of Layla, Natalya and Vickie … but even I found myself distracted by Vickie's bullshit, not paying to Natalya's apron trap forearms or Layla's best attempts at a Dragon Gate roll-up. It sucked a lot. I feel like they purposefully took away my experience, as fleeting as it was gonna be anyway.
2. Her post-match speech was terrible. Vickie has two voices: normal and screaming. Screaming is great, especially during his Dolph Ziggler introductions or whatever, but for any spoken piece of length she NEEDS to use the normal voice. She can work in a screechy EXCUSE ME for emphasis from time to time, but if she screams long enough you can't really understand what she says, and all you focus on is the screeching. It was a terrible decision, and whoever put together this segment needs to watch it and lash themselves with a belt until they've figured it out.
Best: Natalya Remembers What Finlay Taught Her
I don't want to go too far through this without giving a big Best to Nattie and Layla for busting their asses out there, Nattie in the figurative sense (trapping Layla in the apron, throwing that awesome brutal forearm that made Layla crumple behind it and "hide") and Layla in the literal sense, what with all the ass busting.
The most depressing thing about the state of women wrestling in the Divas Division is that they've managed to collect (and discard) a group of talented women who could make something constructive out of it. The signing of Sara Del Rey is an obvious one, but you've got a legitimate division ace in Natalya already desperately clinging to a spot. People are convinced that Beth Phoenix is a great wrestler, so let's see what she can do against people who really ARE. Layla tries as hard and is better than anyone realizes. The Chickbusters aren't Speed Muscle in the ring or anything, but they've got enough personality to carry them through, and you've got women like Paige, Raquel Diaz and at least one functioning Funkadactyl ready to go. The Bellas are off to red carpet land and Kelly Kelly barely wants to be there. Pull the f**king trigger already.
Worst: So Is AJ Fired Now, Or What
Keeping it all in kayfabe and forgetting that everyone's been fired so nobody should be in charge, Vince McMahon was relieved of his day-to-day duties for making things personal with a WWE Superstar and losing the WWE Championship to Comic-Con in the process. He was replaced by Triple H, who was removed for making things personal with a WWE Superstar. HE was replaced by John Laurinaitis, who got fired by Vince (whatever) for making things personal with a WWE Superstar. Vince replaced Big Johnny with AJ, and now what, a month removed from her position as GM she's responding to Vickie Guerrero's complains by slapping her in the face and clawing at her until she runs away.
So … is AJ fired for making things personal?
The truth of the matter is this: they're making it up as they go, and they pretend like whatever's convenient is what they've always done whether it is or not. But I'm forced to watch this show on its own merits, suspending disbelief and accepting the plots and characters as real life things, and … you know what? When I started this paragraph I wanted it to be an indignant thing about storytelling, but f**k it, I just want John Laurinaitis back. Fire AJ and bring back John Laurinaitis. It's convenient for you this week. DO IT.
Best: Daniel Bryan, Master Of Skits
If you're one of those Everyman Wrestling Assholes who thinks athletic pro wrestling is "doing flips and stunts" and thinks people under 6'2 can't have personalities or be interesting, I hope you're enjoying the biodegradable Tupperware substitute full of vegan 'crow' Daniel Bryan's been shoving down your throat since January.
WWE backstage comedy skits are the worst, and yet somehow My Boy D-Bry Right There sells them convincingly enough to make them real, providing a desperately needed straight man who also happens to be out of his goddamn mind. That's perfect. You can't just stand in the locker room and make faces at Mark Henry's Hand Son, you gotta get out there and scream in the faces of children in goat masks and threaten Scorpio Sky in Anger Management. You've got to put tape over the yeses on your shirt and write NO on them in magic marker so people will buy the exact same shirt twice. Hell, the guy even made a Tout featuring Hornswoggle amazing, and if I was making a list of the most impossible things to make enjoyable, "Tout" and "Hornswoggle" would be a solid numbers one and two.
They're giving him the ball. He's not only running with it, he's gorilla slamming that shit, and the fact that it's a football will not stop his dunking. Daniel Bryan is the Best In The World, and in a perfect world we'll stop exclaiming things in his face one day and start chanting it like people who pay attention.
I'm really happy that these anger management segments are (I assume) continuing next week. I can't wait to see their anger collages. Here's the With Leather anger collage:
Thanks, Alex.
Bestish: This Was Probably The Best Miz/John Cena Match Ever, But Enhhhh
I try not to comment a lot in the open discussion threads (because people who post there read this column, and I don't want to rehash too many jokes), but one comment I had to leave was about the announcement of Another Goddamn Miz And John Cena match. Miz and Cena are wrestling's oil and water. On paper it's fine, aside from there being no realistic way for a guy like Miz to beat a leaping tank monster like Cena, but in reality it's almost always a draggy thing full of unnecessary taunting, crummy storyline shoehorning and Cena magically coming back to life because our clapping made it so to dispatch Miz like a f**king Imp.
Those things still happened in last night's match, but Miz is taking himself seriously enough now that it was … better. I liked watching it, even if a character who doesn't care about secondary titles shouldn't be pinning your Intercontinental Champion clean and the backstage fallout segment about it had Miz doing his "I beat John Cena at WrestleMania I am the most see whatever" thing again. I guess the best part is that it was good enough of a match to bump Miz/Cena down a spot on my List Of People I Never Want To See Wrestle Again, which currently stands at
1. Dolph Ziggler and Kofi Kingston
2. Kofi Kingston and Anybody Else
3. Chuck Palumbo and Tommy Dreamer (trust me, it was the worst thing ever)
4. John Cena and The Miz
5. TNA Impact
Best: ONE MAN BAND vs. SENTIENT SNAKE ARM For Feud Of The Year
I don't mind wrestlers pointing out how stupid wrestling is when they're doing it positively. If John Cena points out that Alberto Del Rio's cars are rented, he's pointing out how stupid wrestling is in a way you shouldn't, sorta calling attention to the man behind the curtain and saying "hey look at how fake this is, everybody". Comedy wrestling, especially between a man with a snake puppet hand and a guy who advertises himself as a one man band but appears to make no music, can point out some of the stupider tropes of wrestling — people just lying there while you jump on them, taunts, the logistics of a karate strike taking on the life of a snake when summoned by shouting — and make them work. We're not laughing AT them, we're laughing WITH them. That's key.
I loved almost everything about this match. I loved Santino nonchalantly rolling away from the corners (to no crowd response, because they were too busy texting THEY FUKKED UP to the Botchamania guy), I loved the Cobra (I'm assuming not the ASS cobra) being attracted to Aksana at the expense of Santino but learning from its mistakes and putting its opponent away angrily before charging after her, and I especially, especially loved Heath Slater getting upset that Santino's band taunts weren't musically accurate. Heath Slater as Pitchfork: The Wrestler would be pretty outstanding. He's already a ginger nobody likes, that's like 80% of getting your record onto Pitchfork.
Slater's in such a wonderful place right now. He gets to be an entertaining part of the show because he's too good at his job to keep hidden, but he's not selling a bunch of t-shirts so he doesn't have to get thrust into romance angles and shit. He's just a guy who is good at wrestling acting like an idiot with little-to-no toll taken on his body and making lots of money to do it. THE ONE MAN BAAAAAAND, BAY BAYYYYYY
My "joy collage" would just be a picture of Heath Slater playing air guitar.
Worst: LOL @ Aksana Doing Literally Anything
I love Aksana (dancing in a net backstage once gets you a lot of mileage) and think she's a great second for Antonio Cesaro, but she should never under any circumstances be allowed to stand, speak, wrestle or do things by herself. All she had to do here was walk out to her porno sax and stand still. Somehow she couldn't do THAT convincingly, and she reminded me a lot of a child at a school play who is ABOUT to remember his lines, but just can't. There are a lot of pretty women in the world, guys, you could probably find one to remember "hold my arm up like a snake" before she's been out there for 40 seconds.
Best: Rhodes Scholar
The most hopeful moment of the show came right in the middle, when Brodus Clay and Sin Cara teamed up, meaning two of MY favorite wrestlers, Damien Sandow and Cody Rhodes, would be obligated to team up against them. I'd been trying to come up with a funny name for the Clay/Sin Cara team ("Fun Kara" is the best one I could come up with, although "Luchadaurus" has its charm), but as soon as I thought "Damien Sandow and Cody Rhodes" my brain went RHODES SCHOLAR and put flashing lights on my fingers so I could type excitedly about it on Twitter. I hope they keep teaming up, because I love them, and I hope they end up finding the nickname and liking it, because I secretly want to be a part of this show so bad you guys.
One of the reasons I like them as a team is because there's no dramatic reason to be together, which presents even less dramatic reasons for them to split. I loved The Miz and R-Truth together, but their team formed when both guys felt overlooked by WWE management and formed a Suicide Squad to throw themselves at Cena and Rocky. When that didn't work, they imploded, and Miz Skull-crushingly finale'd Truth on the ramp so hard it made him think an invisible white kid who dominates his life was a good thing. In contrast, Sandow and Rhodes are fast friends because they can carry a conversation. I can't imagine Sandow can find many pro wrestlers who think moves with Latin names are a cool idea (assuming Triple H won't do a Daniel Desario 'Dungeons & Dragons' thing with him), so I don't think he'd be quick to sever that relationship. Maybe they'd develop a mutual jealousy or something, but nothing so grand they have to turn on each other. Neither of these guys is up for a Hot New Babyface run any time soon.
I think I just gave myself a happiness seizure imagining babyface Damien Sandow yelling about Wittgenstein's Mistress to a wrestling crowd and getting cheered for it.
Best: Sin Cara's Epic Dancing
Oh, the other big highlight of this match was Sin Cara going Full 1960s Spider-Man with his post-match dance party with the Children Of Funkasaurus. Seriously, watch him:
And you wonder why the guy can't trampoline over the ropes without hurting himself. Maybe the problem is that he's trying to mimic the dance steps of the little Make-A-Wish motherf**ker to his left instead of keeping his eyes on the hot black girl with rhythm to spare and a Dr. Wagner ass to his right.
Best: Rhodes Scholar Backstage Fallout
I don't link to these backstage things a lot, but this one features the best guys on the show, so please watch it as much as possible:
Highlights include:
– Cody Rhodes namedropping Stephen A. Smith, who also probably thinks wrestling is real.
– Cody misidentifying the Funkadactyls derisively, which is amazing.
– Enough to make me think they'll continue tagging Rhodes Scholar, and I won't have to write three paragraphs in every Best and Worst from now until whenever about how they should've.
– Damien Sandow winning the NXT promo contest using the word "Perrier".
– Sandow being so wonderfully lost in his own character I can't imagine him ever breaking it. Not even when he turns face three years from now and uses Manuel de Sumaya to run down Alberto Del Rio and EVERYONE LOVES IT.
/starts the video over
Best: The Use Of Little Jimmy As A Psychological Weapon
I don't know if you made it through Miz's hacky portion of that Backstage Fallout video to get to Truth, but Little Jimmy: Toy Salesman turning into Little Jimmy: Secret Way To Win Matches is pretty great.
I wanted the Truth/Bryan match to go on for a long time because it seems fresh, but it makes sense that it didn't. Truth very clearly pulled an AJ by getting into a "YES" chant with Little Jimmy, sending Daniel Bryan over the edge and making him scream at a guy in the crowd for no reason so Truth could just roll back in and get the win. It continues Bryan's story … obviously one week of anger management won't be enough, and if they follow through with it and stop being wrestling long enough to get therapy actually help someone on their show, it could be phenomenal. A character with a documented mean streak who snaps can be an explained character thing now, and not just Ken Shamrock being a weird psycho asshole in real life.
I also really love the idea of Truth going out for ice cream with Little Jimmy and just jamming ice cream cones into his scalp with a smile on his face while Kofi stands in the background shrugging, saying asinine shit like, "Ice cream? Come on, Truth!"
Worst: I Love You, Crowd Pop
Dear Triple H,
You did not earn this.
You never allow yourself to look vulnerable. Even in your "retirement" speech, you made sure to preface the vulnerable parts with I WENT IN AND KICKED BROCK LESNAR'S ASS I'M THE GAME I'M ALWAYS GREAT, backdoor bragging enough to render any of that teary-eyed stuff people like Edge get when they're actually giving up something they love for real.
You didn't want to be the guy standing in the ring just to get a nostalgia pop, so you're out here getting a nostalgia pop.
You didn't get the "oh god thank you and goodbye forever, The Game" thing you wanted from the SummerSlam crowd, a crowd I'm proud to say I was a part of, so you waited a couple of weeks and sandwiched a teary Shawn Michaels promo about how you're great between it and your big moment, where you spoke to a crowd who was happy to see you and got the reaction you needed. Thank you Hunter. Tears.
You did not earn this.
Nobody believes you're "retiring". Every single person chanting Thank You Hunter is doing so with the thought in their head that Paul Heyman will show up next week and say something shitty, and you'll get into a Survivor Series match with Brock. Or a Royal Rumble match with Brock. Or a WrestleMania match with Brock and probably the Undertaker, because you're the kind of guy who'd stick your nose into money like that.
I'm not going to make the nose joke.
You are taking 20 minutes to perform Who's More Grizzled in front of a bunch of people who'd give you the same pop and chant for showing up during commercial break to pedigree Heath Slater.
You are not leaving to try to pick up the pieces and find something else to do with your life. If you "retire from wrestling", you're still IN CHARGE OF WRESTLING. There's no sacrifice being made. You don't feel sorry for guys who win the lottery when they forget their Q'Doba card at lunch. You go back to Vince McMahon's daughter FOR REAL and your extremely advantageous WWE job FOR REAL, both of which you made parts of your character, so even your character can't pretend he should feel bad.
You did not earn this, and you are wasting our time. You are the pro wrestling segment version of those message board posts where somebody says "just wanted to say goodbye to everyone" and refreshes their browser to see who asks them to stay. You're the girl who posts "ready to give up" on her Facebook wall without explanation so people will say "what's the matter, hon?", only we're stuck reading about your f**king explanation every day.
You are bad and you should feel bad.
Best: Ah What The Hell, I've Been Saving This One
Best: I Missed This Crummy Main-Eventer Tag Team Match To Buy Plane Tickets For King Of Trios
I didn't watch the Sheamus/Orton vs. Del Rio/Ziggler tag team match, because thrown-together main eventer tag team matches happen every week and if I catch 15 of the next 16 I'll be able to piece it together. Here's a quick recap of what I'm assuming happened: Dolph Ziggler sold a Brogue Kick like a champ, Randy Orton did that weird thing he does where he SEEMS like he's putting together a match but he's mostly standing around waiting for you to jump into his moves, Sheamus did something 99% of people don't care about but I find infuriating and Del Rio had the happiest 8 minutes of his life watching the tape later because Jerry Lawler wasn't around to call him names. Stuff happened, but nothing REALLY happened.
Close enough, right?
Best/Worst: Superstars (The Show, Not The People) On Raw
These kinds of matches should be happening ALL THE TIME on a 3-hour Raw. All the time. Instead of TOP MAIN EVENTER TEAMS WITH SIMILARLY ALIGNED GUY AGAINST TWO COWARDS, we should have the other 58 guys on the roster you pay to be pro wrestlers out there filling the time on Raw. Sometimes they could even wrestle each other! That's part of what made popular wrestlers so special back in the day … getting to see Hogan wrestle seemed like a treat because you were so used to seeing f**king Don Kernodle or whoever, so much so that you barely noticed how much of a dodgy a-hole Hogan was.
While David Otunga vs. Zack Ryder in itself was pretty terrible, it's the on-screen learning experience they need. These are "main roster" guys who barely ever do anything in the ring on television, and if you've got a backup roster of guys like Kassius Ohno and Dean Ambrose waiting to show up, these guys should be busting ass and earning their keep. If Zack Ryder's really that bad, let Tyson Kidd wrestle his match and put him in charge of marketing your lesser-knowns on the Internet, the one thing he's proven he's great at. If David Otunga never gets any better in the ring, notice how much better he's gotten OUTSIDE of it and utilize that. Put him in a managerial role for a guy like McGillicutty who can't say five sentences without aborting the mental mission and repeating them in fragments but can go. If that doesn't work, do something else. Do not just do the same thing all the time.
Best: Wait, Is … Is KANE Carrying This Show?
Speaking of not doing the same thing all the time, I cannot believe I'm typing about how KANE WAS ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF THIS SHOW. It wasn't even his epic retelling of his WWE history, either, which was one of the best pieces of writing I'd say they've ever done. Even watching him sit at the announcers table (because that's where he's supposed to be, because wrestling) with Michael Cole cowering over in the corner trying not to get chokeslammed to Hell was great. He gets into the ring and you expect him to just emasculate Ryder again, but he doesn't AND CHOKESLAMS THE BAD GUY INSTEAD, because anger management is WORKING and they're ACTUALLY HAVING THINGS THE WRESTLERS DO AFFECT HOW THEY THINK AND FEEL ABOUT WRESTLING.
Holy SHIT that's fantastic.
Kane has super secretly been one of this year's MsVP, in the ring and outside of it. He absolutely gets it, and he's gone from one of my least favorite wrestlers of all time to one of the best reasons to watch the show. Maybe it's Destiny's unrepentant love of him getting through to me, but whatever.
Best: The Official, In-Name Return Of Mr. Small Package
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