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Best: Let's Start Every Raw With A Boss Tag Team Match, Please
Rey Mysterio returned from a near-fatal bout of T-shirts Disease to open the show as part of the tag team number one contenders tournament finals, and now I'm going to react to the next six months of show-opening CM Punk promos with COME ON JERKS WHY SPEND THIS 20 MINUTES HAVING A GREAT TAG TEAM MATCH, GAWD etc.
It was simple, effective storytelling. WWE's been pushing the importance of tag teams recently, so it makes sense that the team who stayed healthy and got a non-tournament win last week to stay warm would take it. Think about it — Rey getting sick cost his team momentum. They didn't even wear the matching gear they'd been rocking for the first 3/4 of the tournament. Sandow and Rhodes didn't have to pull any dirty tricks to get the win, they simply stuck to their isolate-and-destroy gameplan, didn't take any unnecessary risks and trusted each other. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow need to be tag team partners forever, because Christ, how hard must it be to find a physical and intellectual peer in WWE? Cody Rhodes used to team with Bob f**king Holly. His next partner pretended to be rich, but loved wearing camouflage and "goin' muddin'". He needs to sit in the tag division with Sandow and wait for Godot whether the dude ever shows up or not.
I know everyone is into the idea of a Rey Mysterio versus Sin Cara match at WrestleMania so they can break the masks record or whatever (I'm bringing my Saturyne mask just in case), but I hope they allow Car Stereo to regroup after this loss and team a little more before they split. One of the cool parts of this match is that either team winning would give us something great for Hell In A Cell. If Rhodes Scholar won, we get the obvious cool heels versus wacky babyfaces thing. If Car Stereo won it'd be just as good, because Kane and Mysterio work together well, Kane vs. Sin Cara would be hilarious on several levels and Daniel Bryan is good enough at wrestling to make Sin Cara look like Mistico. Plus, Daniel Bryan versus Rey Mysterio is a thing I need in my life.
Best: The Crowd Chanting A Rhodes Scholar Pinfall
No, seriously, watch that video. Cody Rhodes drops Mysterio with +Rhodes and covers, and the crowd chants ONE, TWO, THREE~ along with the ref. For the smarmy bad guys. This happened for three reasons:
1. It was the first match of Raw, so the crowd still loved being live for pro wrestling and hadn't yet been beaten down with 2 hours and 45 minutes of in-ring promos and commercial breaks.
2. It was really good, and sometimes by the end of a good match you don't care so much about who wins, you're just happy to have seen a really good wrestling match.
3. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow are cool. Think about it. Who's on top of WWE right now? An aging dorky guy in jorts and Breast Cancer Awareness clothes. A stressful, abrasive guy in a hoodie with no pants with a below average man's physique. A guy so white they call him GREAT WHITE who plays with toys on Raw and can't speak without sounding like the type who'd crack up at your forwarded list of lawyer jokes. Look at the undercard. A guy with a funny accent who wears a snake puppet on his arm. A guy with a YouTube show who calls himself the Internet Champion. A guy who talks to an invisible child. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow are smart, physically fit pro wrestlers who win matches with violence and cunning instead of cowardice and shortcuts and don't give a f**k what the trogs in the WWE Universe think about them. Out of all of those people, who would you most like to be?
Best: A Sneak Preview Of My Halloween Costume
I don't want to reveal too much until the costumes are finished, but there are only so many people in the world who'd get excited about this, so here's a sneak preview of my Halloween costume.
Yes, it's a couples costume. Yes, Destiny's dressing up like you think she is.
Worst: At Hell In A Cell This Sunday, CM Punk Will Be Compromised To A Permanent End
I need another John Cena promo like I need an asshole right here:
I love that even the WWE Fan Nation video labels it as "John Cena explains giving Ryback an opportunity to face CM Punk". He doesn't. No amount of explaining can logically justify Cena battling back from surgery and passionately demanding the match at Hell In A Cell only to stop when the contract's in front of him on a clipboard on a table in the ring without retconning it completely or giving Cena a social depth he absolutely does not have. If Cena had said, "I think I'm going to be medically cleared next week, but if I go slamming into a cage a week after that I could be out for a lot longer, so I need to take it easy for a few months and just pin Miz or whatever so let me send the most dangerous dude I can find after this guy who pissed me off," that would've been something. What he actually said was, "please buy Ryback brand hot dogs". That's it.
What does he even say? He says Punk tells the truth, but that everything Punk has said is false, because the only real avenue of change is putting the strap on the most muscular guy he can find. That's not change, bro, that's the status quo. Didn't you wrestle Batista like 7,000 times? You should know this.
Ryback works (like Goldberg originally worked) because he doesn't spend 20 minutes explaining himself at the top of every Raw, he just comes out and picks up two guys at once and kills them, says his catch phrase a bunch and bails. How funny is it that they've commandeered John Cena to be Ryback's 20-minute promo? We don't need Cena going RYBACK IS THE MORNING AND THE EVE-A-NING STAR and pointing a dramatic finger a la Cooper Anderson, we need Ryback showing up to repeatedly maim folks and properly pick up Tensai. That's it.
Best, Briefly: Raw Is McGillicutty!
I'll save the Kofi KingStans reading another expository paragraph they'll skip and say that I enjoyed the what, 70-ish seconds Michael McGillicutty was on Raw. If you watched the post-Conor O'Brian, pre-Seth Rollins NXT Redemption you'll know that Gilly has been working his ass off to get as good IN the ring as David Otunga is OUT of it. The crowd still doesn't get who he is because he isn't flipping a towel behind his back, but he's precisely the hand you want in the ring to make your Intercontinental Champion look like he could beat somebody in a fight.
By the way, Trouble In Paradise is now officially just Starship Pain. Kofi either misses by a foot and kicks the air in front of them (like he did last night … in theory he should've been kicking hard enough to move McGillicutty's hands backwards, hitting him in the face and allowing everything to look like its supposed to) or he kicks through their skull like he's trying to connect a foot behind them. But yeah, no, Kofi Kingston's awesome.
Best: Raw's Supporting Cast
I'm really loving how the three-hour format of Raw is starting to open up opportunities for guys like Justin Gabriel to make (and be an important part of) Raw. Antonio Cesaro has become such a fantastic vessel for showcasing undervalued talent that I'm starting to develop a weird reaction: when I see him walking to the ring, I'm interested to know who he's wrestling, and I make sure I stick around to see the entirety of it. When the hell did I start watching Raw like THAT?
I think if they were gonna go the Cesaro Wins/Other Guy Scores An Upset In The Rematch/Rubber Match At Hell In A Cell route they should've done it with Tyson Kidd instead of Justin Gabriel. Regardless, it was the latest in Cesaro's string of solid-to-fantastic 5-minute matches on Raw, and I was legitimately surprised and excited to see Gabriel pull off the victory. I was all, "what, is he gonna kick out? Even Cena couldn't kick out of Gabriel's 450," and then, "OH SHIT WAIT DID HE WIN THE UNITED STATES TITLE," and then "oh, right, everything is non-title always" but with a SMILE on my face. You guys are really corrupting my ability to be smarmy about everything.
Kidd and Gabriel have gotten a lot of visibility from these matches, so hopefully after the (I'm assuming YouTube pre-show) match at Hell In A Cell, we can get them onto the show as a cool tag team and feed them to Rhodes Scholar or Car Stereo for a guaranteed 10 minutes of great Raw. While I'm forcing monkeys to fly out of my butt, let's bring up Kassius Ohno already and give Antonio Cesaro a domestic running buddy. And whatever you're gonna call Sara Del Rey. "Madge," or whatever.
Worst: I Am Going To Emerge From The Shadows And Garrote Whoever Tried To Get A Boring Chant Going During Gabriel/Cesaro
Remember a couple of weeks ago when CM Punk escaped through the crowd and someone touched him in the back of the head, so he turned around and KENTA'd an innocent bystander? Remember how nothing happened, and WWE just released a statement that said (more or less), "it was the heat of the moment, sry"?
My new professional goal is to become so important to the wrestling ecosystem that I can randomly wander into the crowd during Raws and hurt people. For example, when I hear a lone voice going BOOOO-RINNNNGGGG during an Antonio Cesaro/Justin Gabriel match, I want find that person and throw them down a flight of steps. TMZ will write about how I "SAVAGELY … ATTACKED" him and Deadspin will wonder whether or not it's a work, but I'm more important than some unimaginable asshole ruining 5 of somebody in his section's 20-ish minutes of good wrestling experience and will be defended for my actions.
I would also like to follow this person home and throw them through a window, but that's Triple H popular, not Punk popular.
Worst: FRIGHTERIZING
Raise your hand if you came here specifically to read my take on the whole "AJ resigns as GM" thing. Okay, now put it down, I hate you.
The only thing I enjoyed about the night's AJ Lee content is how nobody in WWE could pronounce "fraternizing". It's like somebody in WWE Creative had a birthday and got a Word Of The Day calendar, October 21's word was "fraternizing" and they thought it was SO GREAT and wrote EVERYONE TO SAY IT. I love pro wrestlers, but expecting them to articulate a four-syllable word multiple times isn't a good idea. Even the smart-sounding wrestlers like CM Punk say shit like "I hope you understand the levity of the situation you're in". The only wrestlers allowed to break three syllables going forward are Sandow and Otunga. A year later and I'm still marking out for that time he said "fastidiousness".
So, the AJ thing.
Without going too deeply into it, the end (?) of the AJ Lee General Manager story is as sudden and underwhelming as its beginning. When AJ played along and let Daniel Bryan think he was marrying her, only to pull the I CAN'T MARRY YOU BECAUSE I GOT A JOB AND A WOMAN CAN'T DO BOTH card at the last second, it was terrible. It was the beginning of the end for the AJ character, turning her from a compelling, complex pro wrestler with a bright future into the pretty, teenage Teddy Long. She became the zero calorie Stephanie McMahon, showing up to tilt her head to the side and ALMOST trick us into thinking she was the same person we loved six months ago, but not really. Here, she's exiting the way she entered: abruptly, out of nowhere, and contextualized in Bad Female Decision Making. When she got the job, she announced it during a wedding. When she lost it, it's because she "had an affair". Can a woman get or lose a job because she's good or bad at it, and not because of how she relates to the boys at work?
I love Paul Heyman and Vickie Guerrero, but more ridiculously classified Position Of Power stories are the last thing we need, especially when the people involved are the same people who were in every other story like this. Vickie Guerrero, Paul Heyman, Teddy Long, Vince McMahon. Just like how a Major League Baseball team hires terrible f**king Bobby Valentine or a player from the 80s because they've heard of them instead of doing 20 minutes of f**king research and finding somebody with actual managerial skills and ideas, WWE is missing a long list of storytelling opportunities by going back to a broken well and creating a "managing supervisor" title that nobody understands, not even THE GUY WHO CAME UP WITH THE TITLE AND IS THEORETICALLY PAYING SOMEONE TO FILL IT. On the WWE hierarchy, Managing Supervisor falls somewhere between Interim GM and Celebrity Guest Host.
It's all a circle-jerking waste of time and talent. If AJ goes back to being a wrestler and helps anchor the slowly-improving Divas division, great. If Heyman Ceti eels his way into Vince's brain and ends up in charge of Raw at Vickie's expense, great. But skip the condescending "poor girl tryin' t'make somethin' of herself an' messin' it up b'cause of th' cute boys" shit and hire someone with a short-term memory or access to a tape library to do your job interviews.
Worst: This Isn't Going To End With John Laurinaitis Coming Back, Is It
I'm going to keep these candles burning until it happens. You hate CM Punk, right Vince? CM Punk is the only guy John Laurinaitis was bad to, and even that was Punk's fault. He earned his job and ran a tight ship. He fired John Morrison. NO GENERAL MANAGER IS AS GREAT AS JOHN LAURINAITIS.
Never forget.
Best: Sheamus Verifies My Theory About Him Being A 5-Year Old
Last month, I came to the conclusion that Sheamus was a 5-year old. Via The Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 9/10/12:
I've been trying to figure it out for months, and I think I've got it. I don't hate the Sheamus character because he's a good guy acting like a bad guy. Being an "asshole" or whatever. A lot of good guys do that, and I like them anyway. I don't hate the character because he's racist or offensive, despite how much as I hate that stuff. I hate the Sheamus character because he's trying to be the voice of a common WWE fan who wants to live vicariously through their favorite superstars, doing what they can't do and saying what they can't say, but is missing that completely and acting like a five-year old.
That's it. He's a f**king five-year old. He responds to questions and situations like a kindergartner would if he'd pulled a Big and gotten his brain put into the body of an albino gorilla, or whatever. That's why he says "si senior" when he answers Ricardo's questions and snickers about it, because a five-year old hasn't learned what a f**king piece of shit that makes you yet. A five-year old thinks Jeff Dunham is funny. He thinks a jalapeno in a sombrero going "ay yi yi" is hilarious, because Mexican people aren't like him. A five-year old would hear "do you swear" and think it means "say curse words". What living grown-up with a functioning f**king brain makes that joke? It's like writing "yes please" under "sex" on a job application.
On last night's Raw, Sheamus verified this theory by getting super excited that Josh Mathews was holding a stuffed animal, then reacting to the threats of The Big Show by holding a doll in his face and making it say things. Big Show's response was the exact "oh my god if you knew any better I would bodyslam you onto the merry-go-round" response you'd get if a kindergartner showed up at your job and called you stupid-head for a month while everyone you work with cheered.
WWE should reveal that Sheamus is sensitive to the bullying epidemic because he's got Jack disease.
A Shocking Best: Daniel Bryan Vs. Dolph Ziggler
Who knew?
When I talk about how I don't like watching Kofi Kingston wrestle Dolph Ziggler, it's about how Dolph's biggest strength is his defense, and he needs someone with great offense to play off of. It's why his matches with Chris Jericho were kinda underwhelming … Jericho's offense has looked terrible since day one. That "run by you and touch your head with one of my hands so now you have to JUMP WITHOUT PROVOCATION AND OOHHH BULLDOG" stuff is terrible. The Lionsault hits with the impact of a guy jumping into bed. Going EEYAHH! before you do something doesn't always make it look like it hurts. Jericho's a GREAT wrestler, one of the best of his generation, don't get me wrong, but that particular aspect of his game has never been top shelf.
Daniel Bryan's entire game is top shelf.
It's easy enough to just say "Daniel Bryan is a great wrestler so of course this is good," but it's all about the offense. Bryan's offense is tight, crisp, powerful without being "stiff". Stiff is overrated. Stiff is what guys do when they don't know how to do it right. Pro wrestling isn't about proving how tough you are, it's a fake underwear fighting entertainment show. Whether Daniel Bryan is "stiffing" guys or not is irrelevant — he LOOKS like he is, the same way Bret Hart looked like he was, and that makes Ziggler's ridiculous defensive selling look purposeful. Ziggler flops around because Bryan's MAKING him flop around. He's not whiffing a dropkick and making Ziggler stop drop and roll. Everything connects, everything makes sense, and everything is beautiful. This, for example:
JR had to call it "unorthodox" like it was a Rob Van Dam "hold my foot for a minute so I can step over and kick you" thing when it absolutely is NOT unorthodox, it is orthodox as f**k, it's just that nobody else is doing the basic shit that makes pro wrestling look great, so you can't call what Daniel Bryan's doing the norm. It's not the norm. It's the EXCEPTIONAL norm. Best possible norm. Daniel Bryan is the George Wendt of WWE is what I'm saying.
Ziggler carried his end of it, too. If you don't believe me, watch him go sailing over the top rope into the post and then STRAIGHT TO THE G.D. FLOOR.
If The Zig Zag Man Right Here is gonna kill himself, let him do it for a reason. Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler should wrestle each other in a Best Of However Many They Want series, and the next time one of them holds a championship belt, their first epic feud had better be with the other. Train your guys to do this, WWE. This exact thing they're doing.
Worst: Matt Striker Needs To Be Fired So Hard I Can Barely Explain It
If WWE Creative was smart, they'd pull Matt Striker aside, put him in some Grand Wizard sunglasses and let him manage every undercard heel because I have never enjoyed someone less on a wrestling show. If Matt Striker accompanied Stan Stansky to the ring, I would be rooting for the other guy to rip off their heads. I would instantly turn into my mom, threatening to stab Sweet Stan Lane with the heel of her shoe if he got close enough to her at the Greensboro Coliseum. If Matt Striker managed Damien Sandow, I would be writing 10 paragraphs a week about how Damien Sandow was worthless and needed to be fired. Matt Striker's combination of snark, theater kid presentation and dough-face give me a legitimate feeling of rage in my body I cannot deal with.
There is zero f**king reason why any Scott Stanford shouldn't replace Matt Striker, Josh Mathews or Michael Cole during a televised wrestling segment. Zero. They've got Lance Russell hanging out filming app promos backstage while Chris f**king Cruise hosts Raw. Total bullshit.
If you don't get the Matt Striker hate, listen to his Dr. Evil impression 30 seconds into this video.
Best: Sandow And Rhodes Have Cracked The Dumb Segment Code
The only real highlight to the Newly Tag Game (ughhh) was Rhodes Scholar showing up to fart in the general direction of the ring, announce that they weren't going to participate and make two grown adult men who talk for a living think "gentrification" is a rare word.
That's a trend that should continue. It's why I got so mad when Sandow accepted Jared's meatball sub. Sandow and Rhodes should be smart enough and, more importantly, dignified enough to say nuts to the backstage WWE comedy segment. When Yoshi Tatsu and Johnny Curtis are playing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in a Santino YouTube video, that's fine. Those guys should be funny. They aren't important. When Daniel Bryan and Kane are doing anger management skits on Raw, that's also fine. Those guys should be funny, because the WWE Universe is trained to accept "funny and not directly mean to us" as code for "cheer for these guys". Rhodes and Sandow should only be funny on their own terms and make each other laugh. If Hornswoggle tries to lure them into Little People's Court, Rhodes Scholar should just glare at him until he's willed into oblivion. Those are the guys I want to see as WWE's top heels. Guys who are good at wrestling and not afraid to be up their own asses about it. That's what the Four Horsemen did. They didn't wear suits and ride in limos because they were independently wealthy, they wore suits and rode in limos because they made a ton of money WINNING AT WRESTLING. It's your fault for being jealous.
Okay, there were two highlights.
Worst: WWE Mystery Storytelling
I like that the Who Attacked Kaitlyn storyline has reached its denouement, that Kaitlyn continues to be on my television ('sup, Kaitlyn) and that the blonde mystery assailant didn't end up being Rikishi. I also like that we've finally gotten around to it just being Eve, so we can move forward with jiu-jitsu heel and MISTRESS OF DISGUISE Eve Torres as the division's Big Bad. Additionally, I like backstage fights that end up in catering. YEAH HIT HER WITH SOME POPCORNS!
What I don't like is how WWE pays off mysteries. You're probably thinking of the Higher Power type stuff here, and that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about backstage attack segments, or whodunits that don't really require pay-per-view payoffs. They're all the same. Somebody gets attacked, and nobody can figure out who did it. So they spend like four weeks asking each other about it, getting into fights about it, mentioning evidence they think they might've found, whatever. Then suddenly one day they just have EVERY PIECE OF EVIDENCE IMAGINABLE and that's the end of the story.
For example, Kaitlyn got attacked a month ago. She somehow got surveillance footage of the hallway where she got attacked but couldn't see her attacker's face, because I guess she couldn't also get the footage from the previous hallway, or the locker room, or that person entering the building in a blonde wig or whatever. Weeks go by and nothing really happens, then BAM, Kaitlyn not only figures out that it was Eve, but she's got access to e-mails and iPad passwords and PHOTOS OF IPADS and everything. Hey WWE, do you guys not know how an outline works? You can pace yourself. You don't have to write your shows like Saw movies, where nothing makes sense for 88 minutes until you get to the big video package exposition in the final two.
I was gonna complain about how Kaitlyn found out about all this, too, because it's the least face thing to do ever, but if I learned anything from my Glee Sports On TV column research it's that going through somebody's phone and personal belongings is fine if you think they might be doing something wrong.
WORST: John Cena Will Defend You, Little Lady
I wish John Cena was the WWE Champion. When he's champion, his only story is YOU WANT THIS BELT YOU COME GET THIS BELT, or he's promising to WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR ALL OF US and BELIEVE IN DREAMS or whatever. When he's NOT the champion, his stories are the most godawful thing imaginable, from his Nexus-arranged "firing" to Kane kidnapping Eve in the Wambulance.
Here, John Cena exits the WWE Championship picture and goes straight into his rehab story, a thing where he crudely and unprofessionally asks his boss out on a date on national television, goes on the date with her, then gets confused and upset when that causes problems. But it's okay, because he's a TOUGH GUY WITH A HEART OF GOLD and will hug poor little helpless waif AJ and make things better by talking to her bosses. Because that is a normal thing you do in relationships, and not creepy and controlling and weird at all! F**k, you'd think a guy who just five months ago made out with his best friend's, got that guy's back broken and ended up blaming and berating the woman for letting it happen would know better than to chase tail on Raw.
As sad as it is, that hug is the cherry on the shit sundae that AJ's character has become. In three months she went from a character who ended Raw by putting CM Punk and Daniel Bryan through a table and cheering over their unconscious bodies to being a damsel in distress, whimpering about her life and being comforted in the arms of John Cena. What can you even say?


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Does anyone know a sollution for the fact that our "leave verhicle button" suddenly is not showing anymore? The button is present. I can see it in configuration mode. It's not set transparent. Setting on this button is the same as on my other bars.
The "leave verhicle button" is gone on all of our three accounts. Also on every char/server we play. Tried to find out why, but can not find a sollution. Reloading does not help either. Starting without ANY addon does not give me the button back. I'm really clueless about this matter.
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This Cucumber In Green Gravy is a great way to cool down the hot summer days! Flavored with raw mango and with herbs of choice, this Cucumber In Green Gravy is such a wonderful dish that weighs equally on taste and health aspects. Give this a try and you would know what I meant!
|Diced cucumber
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Chopped mango
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (Raw)
|Add to the gravy
|Chopped fresh coriander
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Chopped mint
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
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|Green chili
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Grind all the gravy ingredients to a paste.
Transfer to a glass serving bowl.
Mix in the diced cucumber and chopped raw mango.
Serve immediately.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 204 Calories from Fat 20
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2 g3.7%
Saturated Fat 0.37 g1.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 355.3 mg14.8%
Total Carbohydrates 48 g15.8%
Dietary Fiber 8.7 g34.8%
Sugars 29.9 g
Protein 6 g11.6%
Vitamin A 120.7% Vitamin C 166.1%
Calcium 21.1% Iron 37.4%
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wave verb [ I or T ] (MOVE HAND)
B1 to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a way of greeting someone, telling someone to do something, or adding emphasis to an expression揮(手);招手,擺手(表示問候、指示或強調)
wave sb away, on, etc.
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wave verb [ I or T ] (MOVE REPEATEDLY)
C1 to move from side to side, or to make something move like this while holding it in the hand揮舞,揮動;擺動,搖晃
wave verb [ I or T ] (CURL HAIR)
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wavenoun [ C ]uk /weɪv/ us /weɪv/
wave noun [ C ] (WATER)
B1 a raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially the sea(尤指海上的)浪,波浪,波濤
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- A huge wave capsized the yacht.
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wave noun [ C ] (HAND MOVEMENT)
wave noun [ C ] (BY A CROWD)
wave noun [ C ] (ENERGY)
B2 the pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried波,周波;震動
radio waves 無線電波
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- The unit emits an electromagnetic wave.
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- Waves of light and sound are transmitted in every direction.
- These sound waves travel at over 1000 feet per second.
wave noun [ C ] (LARGE NUMBER)
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a crime wave 犯罪率的激增
a new, second, etc. wave of sth
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- Wave on wave of refugees has crossed the border to escape the fighting.
- This recent wave of terrorism has ruled out any chance of peace talks.
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Thank you, I'll check that out. Operating with the slide release runs contrary to my experience (hence my interest).
Gun Appreciation Thread - Page 153
It's peculiar. I've always thought the reverse. If you release by racking, it should work for every gun, and it would have a bit more force driving the round into the chamber (extra spring compression). I guess it also minimizes wear on the slide catch (I believe it's more of a catch than a release, but the distinction may be nit-picky). I've never really worried about that, just being sure that the round would always chamber and having no issues dropping the catch with gloves or sweaty, twitchy hands in stressful circumstances.
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So I was bellyaching earlier about plastic guns, and yet now I have one. SF is threatening to enact a ban on possession of expanding and frangible ammo, so I took this as an excuse to buy a .45. Trouble is you can't find a Colt 1911 anywhere in the Bay Area right now. Thought about the S&W M&P but no .45s to be found. Got an HK USP Compact. With the light/ laser and 10-round mag it looks like a miniature nail gun.
Nice purchase! I've always loved my HKs, but they're an entirely different type of animal than my 1911s. With very little frame weight, relative to the slide and round, they'll have a little more noticeable muzzle flip/rise, but they'll put the rounds where you want them. The best part is that you can still justify buying a 1911 later, because every collection can use at least one.
Now, one thing I don't miss about California is the 10-day wait (and the roster making it more effort to snag certain pistols). Have you just bought it, or have you made it all the way to your pickup day?
Enjoy it, man. I think you'll be glad you got the HK over the M&P, which is still a good piece, of course.
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Can anyone recommend a turkey gun around $600? A pistol grip (traditional or built into the stock) would be a big plus. I hear the 870 is prone to rusting, and this will be used in Florida - so possible rain/lots of humidity and moisture are a concern. And in the future, it may be used in cold climates. Any thoughts on that? No idea why the 870 would rust more than its competition. I was considering these:
Choke constriction for turkey guns is your most important feature, and of course avoiding the sharp eyes that are going to be looking for you as your calling. Extra full choke of .045 for larger shot size seems to work for me but you have to pattern your load and choke to see what works in your case. Some go as tight as .065 for smaller shot size like 6's. At $600 limit on your budget I would look hard at the Ithaca turkey slayer. But a 125 thunderhead broadhead at the end of a 2117 arrow is my preference .
The 870 express is a far cry from the older all steel 870 Wingmaster. It is hit or miss on the finish rusting easily and some do some don't. Most police armories replace the plastic parts and even springs from Brownells. Mine does not rust easily but I have seen some that rust before they get back to the truck. But I have also seen some older Brownings that rust just by looking hard at them too.
I find most gun oils to be too light when it comes to keeping the rust away. I use a good synthetic gun grease on mine and have no rust issues at all. I hunt with wood and blued guns in rain, snow and otherwise damp conditions all the time. Once I get home I dry them off, wipe them down with a greasy rag and let them sit in an area with air circulation for a day or two and then put them in the safe. Oh and don't store your gun in the case you drag around in the field. I've seen far too many guns get covered in rust because the inside of the case was damp.
This is good advice. I don't use grease but Tri-Flow because it has worked for me over the years. When shooting clays most of the courses I visit are at least an hour and a half from where I live. After getting off the course if it rained I field strip the gun and use a small portable hair dryer without heat and blow water out of the action and dry the parts off. Then wipe down everything with a rag soaked in tri-flow that I keep in a plastic ziplock bag. When I get home I clean everything once again and let the parts sit out overnight before putting in the safe which has a dehumidifier in it. Coming out of the woods hunting I also field strip and wipe everything down and run an oiled soaked bore snake through the barrel(s). Putting a wet gun in a case of any type will cause it to rust by the time you get it out back at the house. On the exposed wood like the underside of the forearms and action housing you should also finish the wood. Oil will soak in to the raw wood and rot it over time and is as bad as allowing steel to rust.
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I'm looking for 200 permanent one-way backlinks PR4 (homepage page rank) related to my niche (skirting boards, baseboards, plinthes(This is the French translation) from FRENCH sites.
FRENCH Link Building Only from .fr websites and blogs from my niche!!!
All backlinks must come from different websites.
Backlinks on URLs should be active right away.
All the backlinks will be checked.
Anchor text will be provided.
I prefer a French speaking person (but it's not required).
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On the first day of the Second World War, my brother-in-law was murdered by the Nazis in Warsaw, leaving two baby boys. Soon after, when Russia invaded from the east, his brother (my husband) and his elderly parents were deported in unimaginable conditions to Siberia where they would remain as slaves, hungry, cold, treated, sad to say, even worse than those Poles deported to Germany.
Later, my husband would walk to Iran to rejoin the Polish forces and carry on the fight. The Poles were among those who won the battle of Monte Cassino, and their reward was to have their homeland given to Stalin by their allies, UK and USA.
For 53 years, they did not know what was happening to east Poland (now Belarus) but in 1993 it was suddenly possible to visit. This we did and found the two "babies", now middle-aged and with families. Due to illness and age, we cannot go again but we keep contact by phone.
This year, we invited a niece for a one- or two-week visit. We had to supply three years of bank statements and details of our property and so did our niece. She had to travel to Minsk, stay in a hotel, and seek a visa. She was not granted an interview but was charged £60 to be refused. There is absolutely no wish on her part to be absent from her home for long; she has adopted an orphan and her job permits only a short absence.
No reasons were given for the refusal. The visa official seemed unaware of the sad history of east Poland so our niece took with her James Holland's book Twenty One, in which a chapter is dedicated to my husband. My husband, like most Poles in exile, has led an exemplary life in a difficult world. He is a former colonel, now 91, and in bad health.
The Minsk website invites letters but you get no response. Our local MP, who is excellent, also wrote to the ambassador but was similarly ignored. No nation suffered more, fought harder (remember the Battle of Britain and those Polish fighter pilots) and was treated worse.
I, Londoner born and bred, am ashamed to have my country so represented in Minsk.
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London SW14
Pupils must learn about drug danger
Drugsline is saddened to hear that one in four secondary age schoolchildren has admitted trying drugs, although not shocked. ("Drug Nation", 15 August).
It is clear to us, through our visits to schools, that many young people are unaware of the very real consequences of using drugs or alcohol, whether that be through overdose, driving accidents, violent attacks or sexual assault. This is as well as leading, in many cases, to drug abuse and addiction.
Drugsline believes it is critical that every school pupil in the UK is provided with comprehensive, appropriate drugs education that equips them with the relevant information, and knowledge about the dangers and consequences of drug and alcohol misuse.
Over the past academic year, Drugsline has seen 47,000 school pupils aged nine to 17, to discuss openly the reality of drug abuse and addiction. Drugsline's schools team is led by a recovering heroin addict and made up of those who have worked on the front lines of addiction treatment, people who are best placed to inspire young people's confidence and trust.
But drugs education programmes, such as ours, remain massively under-resourced, with little or no Government funding, leaving charities searching for funding to survive. With more time and resources allocated to effective drugs education for all young people, we believe many such occurrences could be avoided.
Christina Ball
Operations Director, Drugsline, Ilford, Essex
Languages are bridge to friendships
Mike Hockney (letters, 14 August) describes "fans of a multi-language world" as "narrow-minded nationalists, the enemies of communication, and slaves to conservatism". Presumably, since I speak French and German to almost trilingual standard, that's me he's talking about.
So, let's see: I spent seven years living, studying and working in two countries; travelled widely; made many friends from a variety of nationalities and backgrounds; got involved in a wide spectrum of creative and academic projects; moved billions in investments around the globe in my career in banking in Frankfurt (where Mr Hockney's so-called "language barrier" did very little to impede either progress or the flow of capital); had my eyes opened to various aspects of culture, and came back to the UK having learnt that, while I am very small and the world is very big, there is no place that is not my oyster if I make the effort to get inside the heads and hearts of its people by learning their language.
Back in my home town, it is clearly not the kids who have A* grades in GCSE French and Spanish who like to amuse themselves by picking fights with the young foreigners who come here to study English. So who's the narrow-minded one?
Rather than building his monolingual "tower that goes all the way to the stars", perhaps Mr Hockney just needs to build bridges to global neighbours.
Jeremy Legg.
Bournemouth, Dorset
I was fascinated to read the discussion about language learning. I am among a small number of people who have spoken Esperanto from birth. Although I use English too, I have also used Esperanto for personal friendships, travel and enlarging my understanding of science matters; I am a subscriber to the international science magazine in Esperanto. I fail to see why Esperanto is not taught in schools.
Arthur Sly
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Children get lesson in litter from mother
Brian Viner writes about litter louts (Opinion, 12 August); I agree with him. In this country, it has become "uncool" among many people of all backgrounds, to respect the areas in which we we live and work. I travel to Australia as often as I can to visit family, and find it to be totally the opposite.
I will always remember returning in 2000, and waiting at a junction behind a woman driving a new Mercedes. Her children were in the back and they threw crisp packets out of the window. Having just spent 12 months in a country where this is unheard of, I instinctively tooted my horn.
She got out and looked at the boot of her car, thinking I was directing her to a problem she had, but when I mentioned that her children had just thrown litter on the road, I received a torrent of abuse.
When she got back in her car and began driving away, a whole lot of rubbish suddenly sprayed out of the driver's window. She had obviously collected up as much as she could find lying around and threw it out as if to make a point. I am sure her kids learnt a lot from her example.
Australians respect their community environment because it is always well looked after. So it remains that way; it always looks nice because people look after it, to keep it looking nice. In this country, we have broken that cycle.
Both the Tories and New Labour are to blame. If local community areas become run down, people lose pride in their local community. After that, it is just a slippery slope to the landfill site.
Paul Hollyer
Mental services are failing older people
The Age Concern report and campaign "Down, But Not Out" (15 August) highlights what is only too apparent if you work in mental health services for older people. There is very limited access to psychological therapies for depression for older people, there is over-use of medication, and lack of identification of depression because it is written off as old age.
The launch of the Government's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies aimed at primary care level is also not likely to lead to big improvements for the old because, being based on the Layard report, it targets working-age individuals aimed at reducing incapacity benefit claimants.
We need investment in older people at primary and secondary care levels. Suicide is rising for them, an indictment of a system ageist in its approach to their mental health, ignoring their often unpaid contribution to society as volunteers, carers and citizens.
Dr CHRIS ALLEN
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Maidenhead, Berkshire
Prince should look at realities of GM
Prince Charles should be brought back to earth (report, 13 August). He talks about "genetic engineering [leading to] the biggest disaster environmentally of all time". Bigger than the tsunami of 2004? Or global warming?
I wonder if the Prince is aware that the insulin produced by genetically engineered micro-organisms has saved many millions of lives?
And if genetic scientists succeed in growing blight-resistant potatoes, or rice with added vitamins, or maize or wheat which can thrive in drought or saline conditions, will he still insist this is damaging "food security"? I doubt whether those for whom crop reliability is a matter of life and death would share his concerns. They may not care that biotechnology is "experimenting with nature".
About six weeks ago, the Joint Research Centre (the EC scientific body) surveyed more than 400 Spanish farmers who grow Bt maize (the only crop allowed for cultivation in the EU), and reported that it produced higher yields and earned up to £50 more per acre than conventional maize.
Of course we should resist the Monsantos of this world, with their terminator seeds and "zombie crops", but we should also resist the bullying of anti-GM campaigners who hinder scientific research by destroying GM crops.
It would be wonderful if we had food security for all, and fair trading in the world. But, as a world development campaigner for 35 years, I have seen how every step forward is invariably followed by a move backwards. We should not exclude any potential vehicle for higher yields.
David Simmonds
Epping, Essex
Dominic Lawson (Opinion, 15 August) makes the fundamental error of ignoring the most relevant research into science and technology in agriculture, published this year. The UN International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), written by 400 scientists and backed by 60 governments, was so unconvinced about GM crops feeding the world that the biotechnology industry pulled out of the process despite contributing substantial funds at the outset.
Lawson's statement that "many types of GM crops have been designed to produce high yield" is simply wrong. The IAASTD found no conclusive evidence that GM crops increase yields. Even the US Department of Agriculture has admitted there is not a single GM crop designed to increase yield.
Prince Charles is right to highlight the risks to the environment and small farmers posed by GM crops. His central point, that GM crops are part of the export-led, oil-reliant model of food production that has created the food crisis in the first place, is spot on.
Clare Oxborrow
Friends of the Earth, London N1
It's booked
The brilliant and much-needed article by Johann Hari (Opinion, 14 August) lifted my spirits. The book The Jewel of Medina mentioned by Johann can, in fact, be ordered on Amazon. If enough people do so, perhaps the publishers will change their minds; or another will take it on.
Keith Davies
Wickham, Hampshire
Triple the fun
Growing up on a council estate in Wigan in the 1950s and 1960s, my friends and I were fortunate enough to have a choice of three excellent local football teams to support. They were Wigan Athletic AFC, who played "soccer", or "footy"; Wigan RLFC, who played "rugby", and for us grammar school boys there was Orrell RUFC, who played the toffs' game, "rugby union".
Tommy Derbyshire
Wigan, Lancashire
At Leicester Football Club they play rugby.
Dan Kantorowich
Brigstock, Northamptonshire
Game suggestions
Terence Blacker (Opinion, 12 August) asks, "What exactly will we be selling" when the Olympics are staged in London in 2012. Could we not just stick to offering a sporting venue for sportsmen? Play down all nationalism? Promote the pursuit of excellence by dedicated individuals? Promote the fact that winning at the Olympics is within reach of anyone with enough determination and inspired coaching? And refuse to invite any politician or celebrity unless they are an accomplished athlete?
Jon Hawksley
London EC1
Your reader, Richard Betts, asks how any nation can follow the stupendous spectacle of the opening of the Beijing Games (letters, 11 August). May I suggest something cool and minimalist, and a millionth of the cost?
Mary Harris
London W11
Civil wars are uncivil
Jim Coyle states that war between EU countries is impossible (letters, 13 August). Yet surely some of the most vicious conflicts are civil wars, when people seek to break free from an artificial political union. The American Civil War, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda are examples. My father, Peter, joined the RAF in August 1939 because he did not want his children to be ruled by Europeans, and thought he'd fought on the winning side until Ted Heath betrayed us.
Martin Copsey
Driven to marriage
British readers may be amused to know that here in Las Vegas, besides the weddings noted in the article about famous people being married here (14 August), you can also have a drive-through wedding. All you have to do is get a marriage licence from the county, then drive to an appropriate wedding chapel, where an Elvis actor, or some other licensed minister can hitch you up, in the chapel, or in your car, and it's legal.
Richard J Mundy
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
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