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2013 Infiniti QX56 ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Luxury SUV strong on powertrain, handling, comfort and space.
The Infiniti QX56, now in its third year of this generation, is big, wide, and round. It rides among the seven-seat luxury SUVs with big towing capacities: Cadillac Escalade, Lincoln Navigator, Lexus LX 570, Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, Audi Q7, Volkswagen Toureg, and Range Rover.
Infiniti QX comes with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive with a five-mode system. The QX56 uses a powerful 5.6-liter, 32-valve, double overhead-cam V8 engine with direct fuel injection and variable valve timing and lift, making 400 horsepower and a big 413 foot-pounds of torque. The 7-speed double overdrive transmission enables good acceleration for the 5600-pound vehicle, and delivers 17 mpg fuel mileage at easy freeway speed, considerably less around town or over 70 mph. The transmission has adaptive shifting, matching a driver's style, and a manual mode that provides a sports car's downshift blip, something you don't find on every giant SUV.
The all-wheel-drive QX56 has a five-mode dial on the center console with automatic, four-wheel-drive high, four-wheel-drive low, low lock, tow mode and snow mode. The auto mode moves engine torque between the front and rear axles, from 0 front/100 rear to 50/50.
If the QX56 were to be described in a word, it would be big. The QX56 seats seven with second-row captain's chairs, or eight with a three-seat bench in the second row. Between the captain's chairs there's a gigantic console with two storage bins and two cupholders.
The 60/40 third row seat folds flat, with a power button located in the cargo space. Back in the third row there's good headroom and relatively good legroom, and the seats recline 20 degrees. There's 16.6 cubic feet of space with the third row up, an outer-space-like 95.1 cubic feet with both rows down.
The QX56 ride is firm but comfortable, with solid handling assisted by sophisticated electronics. It felt secure on icy highways.
The growling V8 is a satisfying engine, with 413 foot-pounds of torque at 4000 rpm. At lower rpm there's strong torque too. But it takes a lot of premium fuel for the engine to push the three-ton SUV down the highway. The QX56 is EPA-rated at 14/20 mpg City/Highway. The 7-speed transmission was a joy, smooth, like it wasn't even there. It has Adaptive Shift Control (ASC) and manual shift mode with Downshift Rev Matching.
The 2013 Infiniti QX comes with rear-wheel drive ($60,750) or four-wheel drive ($63,850). Each uses a 5.6-liter V8 and 7-speed automatic transmission, with standard luxury and performance features including leather seats, hard drive voice-command navigation with weather, traffic, and restaurant guide, and 13-speaker Bose audio system with XM satellite radio, Bluetooth streaming audio and iPod compatibility. Also standard are 8-way power seats, dual-zone climate control, multi-function steering wheel, cruise control, and four 12-volt outlets. The standard seating configuration is two front bucket seats, two second-row bucket seats with a center console, and a three-place folding rear seat. Optional for the same price is a folding second-row bench seat that brings total seating to eight.
The Deluxe Touring Package ($4650) includes the Bose surround-sound system with 15 speakers, Hydraulic Body Motion Control system, climate-controlled front seats, semi-aniline leather seating surfaces, Mocha Burl trim, rear seat footwell lights, Advanced Climate Control System (ACCS), headlight washers and 22-inch wheels. The Theater Package ($3100) features dual 7-inch color monitors, two pairs of wireless headphones, wireless remote control, auxiliary inputs, 120V power outlet, heated rear seats, remote tip-up rear seats for easy third row access. The Split Bench Seat Package replaces the standard second row captain's chairs and center console with a 3-passenger bench seat with 60/40-split folding. The Tire and Wheel Package ($2450) offers 22x8-inch 9-spoke forged aluminum-alloy wheel and 275/50R22 all-season tires. The Technology Package ($3000) offers Intelligent Cruise Control, Intelligent Brake Assist (IBA) with Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Distance Control Assist (DCA), Lane Departure Warning (LDW) and Lane Departure Prevention (LDP), Blind Spot Warning (BSW) and Blind Spot Intervention® (BSI), Front Pre-Crash Seat Belts, and Adaptive Front lighting System (AFS) with auto-leveling headlights.
Safety equipment includes frontal airbags, front side airbags, airbag curtains, front seat active head restraints, second row LATCH system, Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) with traction control, tire pressure monitor, and ABS with Brake Assist.
If the Infiniti QX56 were to be described in a word, it would be big. And bulbous; humped smoothly, at least at the hood and front fenders, although the headlights bulge sideways. In the rear, not so smooth. There, that one word might be ugly (we would be gentler, and say not particularly attractive, but that's three words). At the liftgate and taillights, the bulges and lines go everywhere, with two big slabs of chrome slapped on. The back end is cleaned up a bit by the rear bumper being integrated, and the tow hitch receiver being hidden behind a plate in the bumper.
The running boards are body-colored, as are splashguards built into the wheel arches. There's no chrome on the body sides like there used to be, except for the door handles, that's nice. The chrome outline around the window makes the QX56 look longer than it is, which is way long, more than 17 feet; however the C-pillar is triangular, turning the chromed window outline forward at the cargo area, so that makes it look like a smaller SUV, and not sleek. That chrome line matches the chrome line of the portholes on the front fenders, which are a nice touch, especially since the left porthole is functional, sucking in air for the engine.
Our QX was equipped with the optional 22-inch nine-spoke alloy wheels, which look better in pictures than real life. Standard wheels are 20-inch, and we'd prefer them. The massive grille is unmistakably Nissan/Infiniti, and the headlamps are stylishly angled up and away, bulging for style we guess. The big hood is like a hump, as are the front fenders. You really notice this from the driver's seat. All the time, and it's kind of nice. Your SUV is not lost in the crowd, at least from your point of view. The coefficient of drag is 0.36, good for a truck, and Infiniti says there is zero aerodynamic lift, thanks also to a front underbody spoiler and liftgate spoiler.
The Infiniti QX56 seats seven with second-row captain's chairs, or eight with a three-seat bench in the second row. Take your pick, same price, although most models in showrooms will be seven-seaters. There's leather galore, including the steering wheel, or premium leather with the Deluxe Touring Package.
The driver's seat is 10-way power adjustable and passenger seat eight-way; both have two-way power lumbar support. Heated seats in front is standard, cooled is optional.
The rear bench seat is also heated, but the captain's chairs aren't. Between the captain's chairs there's a gigantic console with two storage bins and two cupholders. They offer a generous 41 inches of legroom, and flip forward to access to the third row. It's an easy lever to pull, for anyone climbing in; still, a remote release button on the center stack and key fob is optional, allowing the driver to release it remotely.
There are a total of six grab handles, needed because it's such a tall climb into the front and rear, but there are none for the passengers climbing back to the third row. The captain's chairs don't lock when they're manually flipped, so they might wobble when the third-row passenger uses them for support climbing in.
Back in the third row there's good headroom and relatively good legroom, and the seats recline 20 degrees. There are three seatbelts, but we can't imagine. For 2013, Infiniti added perforation and stitching to the third row leather, to match the first and second rows, with the Deluxe Touring Package.
The 60/40 third row seat folds flat, with a power button located in the cargo space. There's 16.6 cubic feet of space with the third row up, an outer-space-like 95.1 cubic feet with both rows down. The space is as big as a queen bed. We mean it. We actually did carry a disassembled queen-sized bed and mattress back there; the mattress had to be bent just a bit to get it in, but then it fell pretty much flat. We had room for a short palm tree on the rear floor.
From the driver's seat, we liked the way-high seating position, and the clean gauges with luminescent white lighting. Clean graphics make instruments easy to read. Between the big tach and speedo there's a window with a small amount of digital information, though not enough: temperature, odometer and transmission gear. Far less expensive cars offer travel and fuel mileage here.
The QX56 travel and fuel information is on the 8-inch touch-screen at the top of the center stack. You have to reach way over there and select the info from the menu, a distraction that compromises safety while driving. Worse, the Back button on the touch-screen menu, which you use a lot because of all the trial and error, is located at the top right of the screen, the biggest stretch of all. We don't like it.
Another thing we don't like is that the radio can't be tuned while the car is moving. Seventy-eight thousand dollars for a car that makes you pull over and stop every time you want to change the radio station. Well, it could be tuned between satellite radio categories, and preset stations, but not to selected new stations. The Direct Tune button is blacked out on the radio while the car is moving. There might be a sly way around it, but it won't be easy and it should be.
We liked the voice in the navigation voice guidance, it sounded clear and intelligent. But on the screen itself, some things were too small to read, for example the speed limit sign, whose icon is about the size of a postage stamp. Also the numbers for miles to destination, and other things. Our passenger, a 14-year-old super geek named Zeke, took one look at the navigation display and the way its functions were accessed, and pronounced it outdated.
We didn't like the display for the rearview camera either. Infiniti brags about its 360-degree feature, but all we know is that even though we were paying close attention, we still backed (gently) into a pole one drizzly night, because the view didn't show the pole very well and the warning beep came too late. Our $3,000 Technology Package gave us MOD (Moving Object Detection), so maybe if the pole had been moving the camera would have seen it sooner.
Speaking of beeps, the car warned us of something, every time we parked and took the key out, and we have no idea why. Maybe it was telling us we were parking and taking the key out.
You might tell us to go read the manual. We tried. We always do. We've found that the more expensive the car, the thicker the manual; the thicker the manual, the more confused it is. It did tell us that there are nine cupholders and four bottle holders in the door pockets.
The dashboard is shaped like a huge arc, leaving no flat tray up there, but it looks okay. Our interior was two-tone leather, brown and wheat, and so was the dash, with Mocha Burl trim as part of our Deluxe Touring Package. The center console is a big wide well, only one compartment, because it slides forward a few inches for an ergonomic armrest. The classic Infiniti analog clock is harder to read than a digital.
Our $3100 Theater Package gave us two 7-inch color monitors and wireless headphones with remote control for DVD watching in the front headrests, and the $4650 Deluxe Touring Package provided the 15-speaker Bose Cabin Surround sound system. Back seat passengers can watch movies while front seat passengers can listen to music.
Driving Impression
The QX56 has solid handling, with electronic assistance all over the place. We'll remember the night we drove into a winter storm warning and through Oregon's icy Columbia River Gorge, hauling that queen bed in the back, like a thief in the night. The QX56 made us feel confident and secure. At least once, the VDC saved us by correcting a slide. It was ahead of us, like it's supposed to be. With winter tires it might not have happened in the first place. The standard 20-inch all-season tires, slightly narrower, might be better on ice and snow than our optional 22-inchers, which cost $2450 on their nine-spoke alloy wheels.
We had the all-wheel-drive system set at Auto. Infiniti's All-Mode 4WD system has Auto, 4H and 4L modes. In Auto, up to 50 percent of the engine torque goes to the front wheels when needed for traction.
The torque and growl of the V8 is recognizably Nissan. We remember that feel from the Titan pickup truck. It's a satisfying engine, with 413 foot-pounds of torque at 4000 rpm. At lower rpm there's strong torque too.
The 5.6-liter 32-valve DOHC aluminum-alloy V8 features Infiniti's advanced VVEL (Variable Valve Event and Lift) technology and Direct Injection Gasoline (DIG) system. The VVEL system combines hydraulic-controlled variable valve timing and electronically controlled variable valve lift on the intake side to help improve performance and response. Throttle response is enhanced by directly controlling the intake valve, rather than using the traditional method of controlling intake with the throttle valve. The VVEL system also offers improved emissions and fuel efficiency (over non-variable valve designs) by reducing the intake resistance that occurs when the engine's throttle valve opening is narrowed and output is low.
The DIG direct-injection system provides better wide-open throttle performance and improved fuel economy and emissions performance (versus a non direct-injection system) by reducing engine knock, improving combustion stability and offering more precise injection control.
The powerful engine smoothly drives the whopping weight of the QX56, reaching three tons with driver. But when it does, you can't help thinking how much energy spelled g-a-s it takes. High-test gas. The QX56 is EPA rated at 14/20 mpg City/Highway; we got 17.1 mpg on the highway, most of it at a gentle 60 mph. Its greenhouse gas rating is an unimpressive 3 on a scale of 1 to 10, and its smog rating is a 5.
We have driven the QX56 for hours in a day-long rainstorm in Kentucky, so we know the brakes work when wet. The vented brake rotors are big, 13.8 inches. We like the feel of the pedal, and the solid anti-lock brakes, tested on snowy streets in Washington.
Electronic systems that take over stopping and steering the car are available. The Intelligent Braking System (Technology Package) uses sonar ranging to stop the QX56 without the driver's input as it approaches a stopped vehicle, and Distance Control Assist prompts the driver to release the throttle and applies the brakes in slowing traffic.
The QX56 also uses the brakes to take over the steering; the $3100 Technology Package also includes Lane Departure Prevention, which responds to potential unintended lane departure with a buzzer. If the driver doesn't obey the buzzer and steer back, the system applies the brakes on the opposite side of the alleged wander, forcing the car back. Here's the problem, in the fine print: the system turns potential into reality, which might be wrong. We've had it happen, although not in our QX56. The car fights the driver from doing what the driver knowingly with eyes-wide-open wants to do.
The 7-speed transmission was a joy, like it wasn't even there. Killer power and smooth transmission, our notes said. It's what you're always looking for. It has Adaptive Shift Control (ASC) and manual shift mode with Downshift Rev Matching (DRM).
The QX56 uses a rigid frame with thick side rails, and independent suspension. With the Deluxe Touring Package ($4650), ours had the Hydraulic Body Motion Control system. It's a closed hydraulic circuit that connects the shock absorbers and moves hydraulic pressure between them, to reduce body lean in corners. High-tech anti-sway bars.
The ride is firm but always comfortable. We would have liked the seats to grip more, or else be a bit softer; but after all, the QX56 is not exactly a driver's car. Wide flat seats probably make more sense, with many front-seat passengers (spelled parents) often turning to the rear.
Infiniti says that in the wind tunnel, the QX56 generates zero front and zero rear lift. Sounds great. The measurement is not something manufacturers include, and we wish we had the aerodynamic lift numbers from all the big SUVs, to compare.
The Infiniti QX56 has strengths and flaws, so we suggest careful comparison shopping in the luxury SUV category. Its strengths are powertrain, space and handling, while its flaws are mostly in touch-screen functions. Optional packages drive the price way up, and we don't think they're worth it.
Sam Moses filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report after his test drive of the QX56 in the Portland area.
Model Lineup
Infiniti QX56 ($60,750); QX56 4WD ($63,850).
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Kyushu, Japan.
Options As Tested
Theater package ($3100), Technology package ($3000), Deluxe Touring package ($4650), Tire and Wheel package ($2450), cargo mats, net and First Aid kit ($200).
Model Tested
Infiniti QX56 4WD ($63,750).The Infiniti QX56 is a full-size SUV, designed for towing a heavy trailer, carrying passengers in luxurious comfort, and tackling serious off-road conditions. Available in rear- or four-wheel drive it is powered by a 400-hp 5.6-liter direct injection gasoline V8 engine matched with a seven-speed automatic transmission. The QX56 includes 2nd-row captains chairs to provide standard 7-passenger seating, but can be equipped with a rear bench seat to increase capacity to 8. It comes standard with a power-folding third-row seat, Bluetooth with streaming audio, navigation, and a power liftgate. To allow for safer and easier driving, projector HID headlights and front and rear cameras with Around View Monitor are standard. Safety features include active front head restraints, an electronic stability system, side curtain and front side-impact airbags, and ABS with brake assist. Available features include a rear seat theater package, a technology package with an adaptive front lighting system, and a deluxe touring package with Bose Studio Surround and climate-controlled seats. The Infiniti QX56 carries over from 2012.
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A prime piece of Jacksonville waterfront might be getting redeveloped.
A prime piece of Jacksonville waterfront might be getting redeveloped.
According to city officials, the owner of Fisherman�s Wharf on Marine Boulevard has agreed to demolish the property. Jacksonville City Manager Richard Woodruff announced Tuesday night that owner George Venters is getting bids on the property at 100 S. Marine Blvd.
According to Woodruff, the city and Venters have been in talks for over a year, but since the property was used as a laydown site for repairs of Buddy Phillips Bridge, the process had to be delayed until the repairs ended. As construction came to an end in August, Woodruff said officials from the city and state worked together to figure out the particulars, including grandfathering certain regulatory rights he might lose if he tore the building down before having a redevelopment plan in place, including losing square footage that was exposed to rain water after the building is demolished and possible loss of docking space.
According to Woodruff, Venters is looking for bids to demolish the building.
�(Ventors) has been very cooperative through this process,� Woodruff said. �Now, he can tear down the building without worrying about losing a lot of the rights he still enjoys on the property.�
Woodruff said the city hopes the property will be used for mixed use development, which would include restaurants, shopping facilities and hotels. He said, though, that the city is leaving it up to the private sector to make it happen.
�The city believes it needs to stay in the hands of private developers to expand the tax base and bring additional opportunities to the marketplace,� Woodruff said.
Venters told The Daily News he did not have any comment on the upcoming demolition.
According to Woodruff, the property could be demolished within 60 to 90 days. However, according to city staff there is not a demolition permit on file.
The property has been owned by Venters Holding Company since March 5, 1973, and has a tax value of $690,310, according to information from Onslow County.
The business license for the Fisherman�s Wharf restaurant has not been active since 2004, according to the City of Jacksonville. Its doors have been closed since August 2004.
Fisherman�s Wharf � built in the mid-1970s by Edward and Joseph Bynum, according to the Onslow County Museum � holds fond memories for some longtime, local residents, including retired Wildlife Enforcement Officer Paul Metters, who said the Wharf was a place for people to get together, swap stories and talk about whatever came to mind.
�Everyone felt welcome,� Metters said. �There was no head shaking or eye rolling.�
That sentiment was shared by Judge Charles Henry, who has called Jacksonville home since 1975 and had a ceremony at the restaurant when he was sworn in as judge.
�It had a great atmosphere,� said Henry. �It was always causal and friendly.�
Both Metters and Henry said that it was time for the building to go, though, and said they hoped it would be converted into something that would improve downtown�s image.
�It has deteriorated to the point where it can�t be improved,� Henry said. �I think it would be a great location for a restaurant or small hotel.�
�I�m not one to stand in the way of something that needs to be done,� Metters said. �I hope it will be a low-key place ... something that looks like a fisherman can go there and get a meal.�
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Oh, we get email.
A lot of it is simple enthusiastic "thumbs up!" fan mail from atheists around the globe, who've discovered the show on Google or YouTube. Big hug to you lot. A surprising amount is from atheist wags with a surfeit of spare time, who think it would be fun to Poe us and see if we catch them out (we usually do, but it's still funny). Some are challenges and demands from Christians to be guests on the show, where they promise to clean our clocks with their ironclad arguments for God, usually backing it up with the requisite playground taunts ("…of course, I understand if you're reluctant…") as if trying to make us insecure about our manly manliness were some sort of exploitable chink in our armor or something. These guys we politely invite to call any time they please: 4:30 – 6:00 PM CST Sundays, just make sure you dial in within the show's first 15 minutes to be assured a place in the queue…
I'll be dealing with one of those writers soon. But here's a nice theist email we got just tonight, that I responded to as an exercise in pointing out just where the rationality of atheism and the irrationality of theism clash most profoundly. It's the old "appeal to other ways of knowing," a falling back on emotion over reason that is an all too common refrain in Christian misology. With only minor edits, here's the letter with my replies included.
The writer, who doesn't identify him/herself, begins…
I have been listening to your show on the internet. It is very interesting. I cringe when people get so upset at you. I like how you can put them on mute so they will listen because you often make very good points.
Without getting to much into everything, can I ask you Why? Why would you not want to believe in a God who is wise, creative, and loving? I know most people don't see him that way. They see him as the Old Testament God who zaps people when they disobey, but if you really study the Bible this is not true. He is long suffering.
Whether this god that believers wants us to believe in is wise, creative, loving, vengeful, long suffering, or a Miley Cyrus fan (and one thing we always see is that believers define God in a way that makes God most appealing to them personally, which is why this person's God is kind and long suffering and the God of, say, Donald Wildmon is a total homophobe and the God of white supremacists is a racist), none of God's supposed character traits matters. Describing a being for which we have no credible evidence in appealing ways is not in and of itself evidence. Reassurances that a being is a really really nice being does not validate belief in its existence.
See, you might as well ask, "Why wouldn't you want to believe in a loving and sweet magical pink flying unicorn who will give you rides to the Candy Mountain?" The same answer applies: What is the sense in embracing such a belief?
In the next paragraph, our writer offers emotional reasons, predictably enough…
I understand the desire to want proof that you can touch, feel, taste, multiple, divide, equate. However, you can not understand the unknown Creator solely on science because He is more than science. He is personal and emotional. Just as we are capable of reason, we are also capable of emotion. So you can not figure out God only using reason and discount your emotions.
"However, you can not understand the Magic Pink Unicorn solely on science because He is more than science. He is personal and emotional. Just as we are capable of reason, we are also capable of emotion. So you can not figure out the Magic Pink Unicorn only using reason and discount your emotions."
Do you begin to see what's wrong with this argument?
There are several things a believer needs to consider, if he really wants to hold onto an argument like this when trying to persuade unbelievers.
First, why should God hide himself behind some kind of reason-dampening cloaking device? The simple question "Does God exist?" is epistemologically no different than "Do unicorns exist?" It is a question that simply pertains to whether or not something in this case, a deity's very existence is a factual proposition. There is a reason people consider evidence and reason valid tools for distinguishing true claims from false claims: these tools work. And if God gave us our reason in the first place, then why to quote Ben Franklin (I think it was Franklin) would he want us to forego its use?
If you are relying on your emotions rather than your reason in making decisions about what is true or false, how do you determine the difference? How precisely do emotions help to establish facts? Our writer doesn't explain how, choosing simply to insist that emotions must take precedence over reason in deciding to believe in God. I happen to agree with that. It's just that I recongnize that exercise as an indicator of the pure irrationality of religious belief, whereas believers seem to see it as something positive.
But here's the thing. Say that our humble correspondent encounters someone from another religion, who believes in a different God. And let's say this non-Christian theist gives exactly the same argument for his God. "Just rely on your personal emotional feelings, and you'll realize my god is the true god!" Does our Christian think he's right or wrong? If wrong, how does he propose to demonstrate that? After all, the non-Christian theist has the exact same emotion-based rationale for his beliefs as the Christian has! Will he now propose that his emotions are somehow "truer" and more reliable than the non-Christian theist's, because his led him to Christianity's God and the other guy's didn't?
In such a circumstance, face it. Christian's got problems. He's got no viable means to show his God-belief is any more valid than the other guy's, because they're both bypassing reason and the need for evidence in order to trust their emotions.
Simple fact that many theists have a hard time with: REALITY IS NOT THERE TO SATISFY YOUR EMOTIONAL DESIRES. Everyone has emotional insecurities to deal with in life. But it's the smart person who recognizes that dealing with those in a rational manner is part of the lifelong process of growth. There's no growth in covering up your emotional weaknesses and neediness under a security blanket of beliefs.
A second point to consider, and this one involves studying the Bible more closely:
When you say we cannot rely on evidence or our reason and senses to know your God exists, remember the story of Saul's experience on the road to Damascus. The Bible is full of stories in which God is revealing himself directly and unambiguously to his followers: disembodied hands writing on walls, etc. But in Saul's conversion story, God reveals himself in the most direct possible way to a man who was not merely an unbeliever but an active persecutor of Christians. Hell, God forced himself upon Saul. So why, suddenly, when regular folks like us ask for evidence of God's existence, he's this being that we just can't know through our reason, but have to rely on our emotions, etc.? Fer pete's sake, if direct physical revelation was good enough for Saul, why not us?
Can I ask you, if you were born but never saw your father because you were stolen at birth and raised by a group of women, would you still not have a father even though you know nothing about him, have never seen, touch or heard him. You could chose to tell yourself that you have no father, because of the evidence, but you would be missing out on a loving father who longed to see you, talk to you, be with you.
Sorry, but that's a lovely exercise in Analogy Fail. For one thing, unless this group of women kept me locked in a closet all my life, they'd have a hard time keeping me from finding out that, from a standpoint of plain old biology, babies are made when a man and woman have do the nast-ay. So it would stand to reason I had a biological father out there, about whom I'd likely bec
ome curious. I'd have to find out the full circumstances of my life at that point: was I kidnapped or given away? Did my biological father really love me, and if so, has he been looking for me or not? And you know what I'd have to employ in order to learn these facts about my life? That's right, my reason. I'd have to dig up the evidence of my past. My emotions might play a part in determining how dedicated and involved I got in the search, but they alone would not be the tool that ultimately revealed the facts to me.
We could get into the whole debate about the laws of science and how do they come into existence without intelligent design but I will never prove and you will never disprove God absolutely.
Yes, well, that would be another short discussion, as it would be quickly pointed out that fundamental physical laws would have to exist in the first place in order for an intelligent designer of any kind to exist. But no matter. Just remember, it's not our job to "disprove God absolutely". All that it's necessary for us to do is give sound reasons for our skepticism. The burden of proof for any claim, whether it's a God or a flying pink unicorn, always rests upon the person claiming the existence of the thing in question. And since our writer confesses he cannot provide that proof, allow me to say in a friendly way that 1) it's not like I didn't see that coming and 2) his admission constitutes a sound reason for me to remain a skeptic.
I'm okay with it if this fellow's/lady's religious beliefs provide emotional comfort, though I can assure you that, if one day, realization comes that such "security blanket" beliefs do not in fact contribute to personal growth and that real emotional contentment lies in accepting one's reality, for better and worse, and learning to make your life today the best it can be, it will be a great day for him. That's just my view, but I think I've got good evidence for it.
Our writer wraps up on a pious note.
God tells us that He will prove this one day. Every knee will bow He says. But for now He tells us to love one another. And so I end this with love and wish you blessings and peace in whatever you choose to believe. Just don't sell yourself short, you are a child of God, created in His image. You are beautiful and perfectly loved by God and not so perfectly by some of His creation.
That's sweet and all, but frankly, if God exists, and he's a big boy, he can tell me that himself.


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Consists of a 1000 mm (39.4 in) high polycarbonate panel in an aluminium frame, mounted to the column cover T-slots with hinges. Working height is adjustable.
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Clearance between center of load string and panel:
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181 mm (7.0 in) on 446X, 556X, 586X and 596X
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This item is designed to prevent the ejection of non-projectile specimen debris from the test area. It is not designed to stop projectile material. It is not designed to protect persons against hazards generated by moving parts. It is not a guard or protective device as described by the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, and in ordering this item you accept this statement. Guards or protective devices are available if your risk assessment identifies that persons should be protected against hazards generated by moving parts or by your application of the test machine. We draw your attention to the General Product Safety Statement in this quotation.
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Life is a cabaret, old chum — unless, that is, it's a carnival show.
So step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see the slick, charming salesman Stan Carlisle morph into a carny shyster, a gospel preacher, a human monster! Watch him fall in love with Molly, the sweet-hearted showgirl who earns her pay in a shocking manner but yearns for marriage and motherhood.
Inside the striped tent being raised this spring on the main stage of the Geffen Playhouse, you'll meet other lost souls, frustrated dreamers, people who drifted from the straight-and-narrow path onto the road to perdition. The time and setting is the Depression-era Dust Bowl. But some of these con men and suckers bear a disturbing resemblance to the people we glimpse in news photos, and our mirrors, every day.
"We're all freaks," playwright Jonathan Brielle was saying. "We're all Bozos on this bus, as my generation used to say." But, he added, we're freaks with free will, misfits with the capacity to change.
It was a few days into rehearsal for Brielle's new musical, "Nightmare Alley," which is based on the flesh-crawling 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham, later made into a noir-ish cult film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. As the show's cast and crew assembled in the Geffen's rehearsal room, a Gothic-revival enclosure that could pass for a medieval tavern, many tough choices awaited. (The show, which opened last week, runs through May 23.)
The production's principal creative team — director Gil Cates, choreographer Kay Cole and music director Gerald Sternbach — were trying to find the right tone and to make the show's multiple moving parts mesh.
"The book is very dark," Cole said. "We'll see how many of these dark corners we can go into."
Cates, the Geffen's founder and producing director, said that in the old days you'd take a new musical on the road for tryouts in Boston or New Haven before opening in New York, and there'd be plenty of time to work out the kinks. Now, he had only a three-week rehearsal sprint. He smiled a what-the-hell smile and shrugged. "At the end of the day, the best part of the show is the process," he said. "Because once the show opens, either it's a hit or it's not a hit."
Sternbach was wrestling with Brielle's catchy pastiche of a score, with its scattered blasts of rock 'n' roll, wry wisps of Dixieland and intimations of a Weimar nightclub. "I call him the love child of Randy Newman and Kurt Weill," Sternbach said of Brielle.
The rest of the production staff sat around four folding tables displaying a montage of rehearsal-room essentials: half-full Pellegrino bottles, overstuffed loose-leaf binders, pink marking pens, stray cellphones, tissues, cough drops, spent coffee cups.
Brielle was calmly juggling triple duty as book writer, composer and lyricist. Long before he'd acquired the rights to "Nightmare Alley" from Gresham's widow, he was fascinated by the idea of "how a man could sink so low" as Stan Carlisle.
Brielle's résumé includes stints as composer-in-residence at New York's Circle Rep, an incubator for works by such heavyweight dramatists as Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson, and as inventor of "Enter the Night," a Las Vegas revue that Brielle described as "slightly sexy, slightly tacky."
Perhaps the only thing trickier than producing a new play is mounting a new musical. Think it's hard to round up nine proven actors and persuade them to spend weeks or months doing a live show that pays a fraction of what film or television would for twice as much work?
Now try finding nine performers who can do all that and have Broadway-caliber singing and dancing chops. Oh, and by the way, several will have to play dual parts, for artistic as well as fiscal reasons. The Geffen will attempt to meet those demands with a cast that includes the Broadway and off-Broadway regulars Michael McCarty and Mary Gordon Murray and versatile L.A. actor Larry Cedar.
So what made James Barbour, a veteran of Broadway's "Assassins" and "Beauty and the Beast," take the lead role of Stan? Or Sarah Glendening decide to tackle Molly, the carnival showgirl whose scam is to twitch and grimace while sitting in a fake "electric chair"?
"It's the Geffen, and it's a new musical, and it's a part that I'm really attracted to," said Glendening, a Julianne Moore lookalike who performed in New York in the Beach Boys jukebox musical "Good Vibrations." She acknowledged trepidation because she hadn't done live theater for some time.
"I had sort of taken all my theater, all my singing, acting, and put it in a box and locked it away," she said. But she was "getting a lot of encouragement" from Barbour. "If he really thought I was crappy he wouldn't be telling me that."
Stan and his flimflamming ilk are familiar figures in U.S. culture: Herman Melville's Confidence Man, Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, the Wizard of Oz, Professor Harold Hill in "The Music Man," Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts, and all those televangelists, mind-reading TV shrinks, politicians and Wall Street soothsayers who claim to have the snake-oil cures to whatever ails you. The show's creators don't want to overplay this idea because, for obvious reasons, it's a sore subject nowadays.
Barbour said he felt fortunate to find the right jousting partner for his shady character. "He's a lost soul in many ways," Barbour said of Stan, "and he's pushed many things away, and now here's somebody who finally pushes back."
Pushing and pulling, the show started coming together.
One day, Cole was coaching the four female performers who play the mysterious, alluring Tarot Ladies. Like the archetypes in a Tarot deck, which can mean different things depending on whether they're turned up or down, the actors transform into other characters with a single costume change or the flick of a lyric.
"Let's take the musical comedy out of it and make it a little more storytelling," Cole urged.
Cole and Cates turned their attention to the big musical number in which Stan and Molly quarrel over their clashing hopes. The scene requires the actors to occupy separate psychological spaces but maintain their connection, like the interlocked spheres of a binary star.
"Take it easy," Cates counseled Barbour as the booming-voiced tenor struggled to keep up with the shifting tempos of "Nobody Home."
Glendening was facing the opposite challenge, trying to step up her vocal intensity, as the pregnant Molly pleads with Stan to mend his errant ways.
"Let's go back; let's try this thing, guys," Cates said.
This time around, Glendening opened up her emotions and let the tune rip. Cole gave her a thumbs-up. "Nice!" she stage-whispered. "Excellent!"
Later, the off-stage chatter turned to the question of why the American musical theater has grown progressively darker over the last decades. Sure, "Show Boat" and "Carousel" weren't all sweetness and light, but they were " Mary Poppins" compared with the contemporary post-Sondheim musical theater of "Violet," "Floyd Collins," "Ragtime" and "Rent."
Conveying that darkness while still keeping the show's design palette appealing was the task for the team of John Arnone (sets), Christina Haatainen Jones (costumes) and Daniel Ionazzi (lights). In concert with Cates and the playwright, they dreamed up the production's Expressionistic environmental design, installing a circular tentlike curtain above the Geffen stage, and covering its walls with replica vintage carny posters.
Arnone said he could remember sneaking into carny shows as a kid growing up in Dallas. "It was frightening," he recalled. "The atmosphere was one of mysteriousness, it was darkly lit. They didn't want you to see too closely."
"It was all a con," Ionazzi responded.
By the final dress rehearsal, the show was ready, or ready enough, to put up for the public. "It's still coming together, it's still a work-in-progress," several cast and crew members said, which is what showbiz people tend to say.
Now audiences will come and, as Cates said, this unusual, multihued musical will be a hit or not a hit. So hurry, hurry! Step right up! Welcome to their nightmare.
Life is a cabaret, old chum — unless, that is, it's a carnival show.


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Today, I wanted to share the work of the extremely talented Ryan Thompson.
I befriended Ryan back in July through Twitter — I followed him, he followed me back, and then we got to chatting a bit. He told me how he'd learned a lot from the first webcomic he did and was starting a new project "from the ground up."
And that new project turned out to be a fantastic webcomic named Frolic.
In short, Frolic is a fairy tale about an animated doll who finds herself in a nightmarish world. Frolic just recently premiered (only 10 pages up online so far), but anyone can tell Ryan has invested a lot of time and effort into this project. And his dedication is clearly paying off! Frolic has a wonderfully unique and quirky style, set (at least so far) is beautiful shades of pink and blue to compliment its intriguing premise.
Meanwhile, you can catch up on Ryan's first webcomic called Fajita. Fajita is fun and action-packed, following the adventures of a strange girl named Widow and a possibly stranger girl named Shea. There's a whopping total of 448 pages thus far, so you'll have a lot to read while waiting for a new page of Frolic each Monday.
Below are a number of my favorite images/pages from Frolic.
The following images belong to Ryan Thompson.
For more from Ryan Thompson, please check out the following websites…
- scenicfrolic.com
- scenicfrolic.tumblr.com
- twitter.com/scenicfrolic
- www.facebook.com/pages/Frolic-A-Fairy-Tale-scenicfroliccom/316297971716931
Ryan Thompson
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If you are like many people, you feel it is near impossible to manage your personal finances without the aid of a professional. This only is true if you're not able to access the correct information for yourself. Knowledge is your first priority if you want to manage your personal finances better. Read on to find some excellent tips to increase your knowledge and improve your overall financial position.
When trying to arrange your personal finances you should build fun, spending money into the equation. When you have gone out of your way to include entertainment in your budget, it ensures that you remain content. Secondly, it ensures that you are reasonable and have a budget already in place, which allows for entertainment.
To make the most of your personal finances, if you have investments, make sure to diversify them. Having investments in a variety of different companies with different strengths and weaknesses, will protect you against sudden turns in the market. This means that one investment can fail without causing you financial ruin.
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Create an up to date financial plan. This will allow you to see how you are doing in all areas of your finances. Review any insurance plans, income taxes, estate and retirement planning, investments, savings and current debts. Be specific in your goals and be realistic. For more complex financial planning, it is a good idea to seek the services of a CPA.
Nurture your career, for maximum efficiency with personal finance. Since your work is where you generate your money, it should be your number one priority to take care of. If your career is suffering, then everything down the chain will suffer as well. So make sure that you are keeping your career ranked above all other investments.
In order to maximize your personal finances, consider hiring a financial professional who can advise you about areas like investments and taxes if you can afford to do so. This'll mean big savings in the long run, as someone who manages money matters for a living will not only be able to alert you to areas where you're spending money unnecessarily, they'll also have a much broader insight into investments as well.
If you are thinking of starting a business, but are worried about your personal financial situation, pitch your plan to investors or a financially-sound potential business partner. It might not be ideal, but you can get your business off the ground if your idea sounds profitable enough to the right people.
As was discussed in the beginning of this article, properly and intelligently managing your personal finances takes a solid education. If you know how to manage money, you can limit the amount of money you spend on useless purchases and instead use your money to improve your financial situation. Avoid charging your expenses on high-interest credit cards.


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Date published: 2013-03-05
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Date published: 2013-01-05
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Date published: 2012-12-25
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- The 2014 WWE Elimination Chamber Kickoff pre-show starts with Josh Mathews welcoming us to the Target Center in Minneapolis as fans continue to find their seats. Mathews is joined by The Miz, Rey Mysterio and Mark Henry. Miz shows off his wedding ring. We have a new panel setup tonight. The panel talks about tonight's matches. Henry is looking forward to the Chamber match the most. Miz hypes Big E vs. Jack Swagger and The New Age Outlaws vs. The Usos. Rey is most looking forward to The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family. They talk about the pre-show match and Miz predicts The Brotherhood will win. Henry says there hasn't been this much excitement in the tag team division since the Attitude Era.
- We go backstage to Renee Young in the social media lounge. Tonight's hashtag is #WWEChamber. Renee shows us some Chamber predictions from fans on Twitter.
- They show the Chamber hanging high above the ring. Mathews hypes tonight's main event. We see footage from the big brawl at the end of Monday's RAW. We get more hype for the Chamber. Henry says there will be a victor but there are no winners in the Chamber.
- We go backstage to Cesaro, Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter. He says tonight will be great for The Real Americans but tomorrow will be even better because they will be champions. Zeb says this is a new opportunity for America. Zeb has them place their hands over their hearts and say, "we the people!"
- JBL makes his way out for commentary to a big pop. The panel talks about Batista vs. Alberto Del Rio. Jerry Lawler is out next to another big pop. We cut to a video of The Bella Twins hyping the WWE Network. We come back to a CM Punk chant as Michael Cole welcomes us. He talks about the WWE Network launching tomorrow.
Goldust and Cody Rhodes vs. Ryback and Curtis Axel
We go to the ring and out first comes Goldust and Cody Rhodes. Ryback and Curtis Axel are out next. They're accompanied by Axel's grandfather, Larry "The Axe" Hennig.
Goldust and Axel start off before Cody and Ryback come in. Ryback takes control on Cody and drops him with an elbow to the face. Ryback with thrusts in the corner before tagging in Axel. Fans chant for Axel as Cody turns it around. Cody sends Axel and Ryback to the floor. Cody and Goldust both leap out to the floor and take Ryback and Axel out. We cut to a commercial.
Back from the break and Axel is in control of Goldust. Axel shows off for his grandfather and goes for a pin attempt. Ryback tags in for some double teaming in the corner. Ryback with a big vertical suplex on Goldust for another 2 count. Axel tags back in and keeps Goldust in the corner. Goldust dodges a move and gets a 2 count. They both go down and try for a tag. Ryback tags in and stops Goldust. Goldust fights them both off and hits a big hurricanrana. Ryback stops another tag but Goldust dumps him over the top. Cody and Axel tag in. Cody unloads and hits a big knee to the face. Cody goes up top and nails a moonsault for a 2 count. Cody with an Alabama Slam but Ryback pulls him out of the ring. Cody nails a Disaster Kick. Cody springboards back in but Axel catches him with a powerbomb for a close 2 count. Cody blocks a Perfect-plex but goes for CrossRhodes. Ryback interrupts that. More back and forth. Cody nails CrossRhodes for the win on Axel.
Winners: Cody Rhodes and Goldust
- We go backstage to Bryon Saxton and The Usos. They've been dreaming about this day one and will walk out with the titles tonight.
- More hype from Renee Young in the social media lounge with fan predictions.
- We go back to the panel. Rey goes with Cesaro as the Chamber winner, Henry predicts Sheamus will win and The Miz also goes with Cesaro as the winner.
- The 2014 WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view kicks off with a promo video for tonight's main event. We're live from the sold out Target Center in Minneapolis as the pyro goes off and Michael Cole welcomes us.
WWE Intercontinental Title Match: Jack Swagger vs. Big E
We go too the ring and out first comes Jack Swagger with Zeb Colter. Zeb has the music stopped and cuts a promo on the way to the ring. Zeb talks about how Big E has done nothing to help North America since he's been champion. WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E is out next to a decent reaction.
We see Ricardo Rodriguez doing Spanish commentary again tonight. They lock up and go to the corner, then to the next corner. They lock up again and Swagger hits a big knee to the gut. Swagger with shoulder blocks. They run the ropes and Big E nails a flying shoulder tackle. Swagger goes to the floor for a breather and the crowd boos. Swagger comes back in and works Big E over. E turns it around and hits a big belly to belly suplex. Big E nails another big throw and a spear in the corner. Swagger rolls back out to the floor.
E follows and sends Swagger into the steps. Zeb distracts Big E, allowing Swagger to attack from behind. Big E fights back and thrusts Swagger back into the steps. Big E brings it back in the ring for a 2 count. Swagger ends up pulling Big E to the floor and throws him down. Swagger with a big clothesline on the floor. Swagger brings it back in the ring for a 2 count. Swagger with a running knee in the corner. More knees to the gut in the corner. Swagger with a short clothesline and a 2 count. More offense from Swagger. He levels Big E with a big boot and drops a leg for 2. They both collide with clotheslines in the middle of the ring.
Big E misses a big thrust in the corner and hits the ring post. Swagger rolls him up for a 2 count. More back and forth. Swagger nails a big spinebuster for a 2 count. Big E blocks a Swagger Bomb. Big E struggles but Swagger ends up on the apron. Big E runs the ropes and spears Swagger from the apron to the floor. They both land hard and the fans chant "holy s--t." Big E brings it back in for a 2 count. Big E runs the ropes and nails a big splash for another 2 count. Big E goes to the top rope but Swagger cuts him off. Swagger climbs up but E sends him to the mat. Swagger runs back up and throws Big E to the mat for another 2 count. Swagger takes out Big E's knee and goes for the Patriot Lock. E rolls through but Swagger locks it in again. E breaks the hold and they trade shots. Swagger takes the knee out again. Big E blocks a gutwrench but runs into a big kick. Big E runs over Swagger and drops his straps. Swagger with another Patriot Lock as the crowd pops. E breaks it with an enziguri. Big E nails the Big Ending for the win.
Winner: Big E
- After the match, Bad News Barrett appears on his podium by the stage. Barrett gives us bad news about the Russians winning more gold medals than the Americans at the Winter Olympics.
- We get hype for Hulk Hogan's WWE return.
- Cole talks about Daniel Bryan not being 100% for tonight. We see footage from his impromptu match against Kane on last week's RAW. Byron Saxton is backstage with Bryan, who has his shoulder taped up. A "yes!" chant starts in the arena. Bryan says his mindset is the same, whether he's 100% or not. Bryan gets another "yes!" chant going.
WWE Tag Team Title Match: The Usos vs. The New Age Outlaws
We go to the ring and out first come WWE Tag Team Champions The New Age Outlaws. They do their usual schtick before The Usos come out.
Billy Gunn starts off with Jimmy Uso. Back and forth action. Gunn drops Uso with an elbow. Gunn stalls before they lock up again. Road Dogg finally tags in as does Jey Uso. Dogg dances around to a pop. Dogg with a kick to the gut. Uso comes back with a headbutt and some dancing of his own to a pop. Dogg runs into a big kick from the corner but launches Uso with a hip toss into the corner. Uso lands bad and looks to hurt his leg. Dogg struts and tosses Uso out to the floor. Gunn with a big clothesline on the floor. Gunn brings it back in the ring for a 2 count.
A big CM Punk chant starts up as Road Dogg comes back in and keeps control. Dogg with more offense and a pin attempt on Uso. The other Uso and Gunn come in at the same time. Uso unloads. Dogg comes in but gets tossed to the floor. Uso barely hits a Samoan Drop on Gunn. Dogg pulls Gunn out and saves him from the splash int he corner. Jimmy runs the ropes and leaps out, taking both of the Outlaws out. Gunn comes right back with a big clothesline. Jimmy and Gunn come back in. Uso ducks a Fameasser and nails a superkick for a close 2 count. Uso goes to the top for a Superfly Splash. The other Uso goes at it with Dogg on the floor. Back and forth. Dogg catches a superkick. Gunn rolls Uso up for the win.
Winners: The New Age Outlaws
- After the match, Bad News Barrett appears and says Daniel Bryan won't be winning tonight and for that, fans will turn on him. Barrett chants "yes" while the fans chant "no."
- We get more hype from the announcers for the WWE Network. Jerry Lawler is showing us how to use the Network on his iPad. JBL is showing us how to use it on his laptop.
Darren Young vs. Titus O'Neil
Darren Young is out first as we see footage of their break-up. Titus O'Neil is out next. The bell rings and they go at it. Titus plays the heel and drops Darren when he's arguing with the referee. Titus with a headlock now. A we want "Lesnar" chant starts up.
Titus runs over Darren with a big shoulder. Titus with a knee to the gut now. Young with a big right hand and a dropkick. Young clotheslines Titus out to the floor. Young goes to the top and nails a flying clothesline for 2. Titus turns it around and whips Young hard to the floor. Young fights out of a bearhug and comes off the top but Titus catches him with a backbreaker. Titus tosses Young across the ring. Titus with an abdominal stretch now. Young makes a comeback and gets some offense going. Young with a neckbreaker on the apron for a 2 count. Titus blocks a move and nails a kidney shot. Titus nails Clash of the Titus for the win.
Winner: Titus O'Neil
- After the match, Bad News Barrett appears again. His podium isn't working and he's now speaking from the stage. He rips Minnesota's electricians and football teams. Barrett brings up Hulk Hogan returning and says his spotlight will be forever dimmed by the charisma of Bad News Barrett.
- We go back to the panel to discuss what has happened so far tonight.
- We get hype for The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family.
The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family
We go to the ring and out first comes Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and WWE United States Champion Dean Ambrose through the crowd. The lights go out, the lantern lights up and out comes Bray Wyatt, Erick Rowan and Luke Harper.
Before The Wyatts even enter the ring a "this is awesome" chant starts up. Both teams face off with the referee in between them. Bray and Ambrose have words. A "let's go Wyatt/let's go Shield" chant starts. Ambrose attacks Bray and here we go. They all start brawling before the bell can even ring. The Shield clear the ring as the referee tries to restore order. More dueling chants from the fans as Bray talks with Rowan and Harper. The bell rings and it's going to be Rowan starting off with Rollins.
They go at it. Rollins with a big dropkick from a block. Reigns tags in and they beat Rowan down in the corner. Rollins tags right back in but Rowan shoves him away. Rowan with a massive clothesline. Harper tags in for some double teaming. Harper turns it around in the corner and tags in Bray. Bray takes Rollins to the corner and works him over. Rollins ducks a clothesline and tags in Reigns. The crowd pops as Reigns stares down Bray. They go at it. Bray tags back in Harper for some double teaming. Harper tries to suplex Reigns but can't. Reigns nails a suplex and beats Harper to The Shield's corner. Ambrose comes in for some double teaming. Rollins tags back in as does Reigns for a triple team move. Reigns with a 2 count on Harper.
Ambrose tags back in and nails a double dropkick. It's Rollins and Harper going at it now. Rollins with a headbutt as Ambrose tags back in. Quick tags from The Shield here. More back and forth. Harper nails a big dropkick on Ambrose. Bray tags back in and beats down Ambrose. Bray taunts The Shield and tags back in Rowan. Reigns with a big slam and a vise on Ambrose's head. Harper comes back in and steps on Ambrose's head. Ambrose and Harper trade shots now. Harper with a big suplex and a 2 count. Ambrose turns it around with a neckbreaker and a tag to Rollins. Rollins unloads on Harper. Rollins with a big leaping right hand in the corner. Rollins goes to the top and knocks Rowan away. Harper runs up and cuts Rollins off. Harper climbs up with a huge super throw on Rollins but Rollins lands on his feet. Rollins sends Harper to the floor and nails a suicide dive. They come back in and Rollins hits a top rope knee to the head. The crowd goes nuts. Rollins misses a knee and Harper nails a big sideslam for a 2 count.
Bray comes back in and turns it around on Rollins. More dueling chants from fans. Rowan tags in and keeps Rollins down. Rowan with a forearm shot to the kidney and another 2 count. The fans chant for tables now. Harper tags back in for a big right hand to the face of Rollins. Harper boots Rollins in the face and taunts him. Harper with a big slap to the face. Harper takes Rollins to the corner for more offense. Harper with the running knee in the corner. Harper catapults Rollins under the second rope. Bray tags back in and drops a knee on Rollins. Bray with a headlock now.
Bray runs into a big boot and goes down. Bray catches Rollins with a chokeslam for a 2 count. Harper runs in and sends Ambrose flying with a boot. Harper tags in and stomps on Rollins. Rollins counters Harper and rallies for a tag now. Reigns tags in as does Rowan. Reigns takes Rowan and Bray out. Reigns with a big Samoan Drop on Rowan. Right hands for Rowan now. Harper tosses Reigns to the floor. Reigns runs around the ring and hits the apron dropkick on Rowan's head. Reigns comes back in and slams Rowan for a 2 count as Bray breaks the pin. Dean tackles Bray and unloads on him. Harper pulls Ambrose off but Ambrose decks him. Ambrose dropkicks Bray off the apron. Harper leaps out with a suicide dive on Ambrose. Rollins leaps over the top and takes out Harper. Reigns with a close roll up on Rowan. They both collide with clotheslines and go down. Fans pop.
Rollins sends Harper into the ring post. Rollins takes apart the Spanish announce table but Bray stops him. Ambrose makes the save for Rollins as they prepare to put him through a table. Bray and Ambrose tumble over the barrier and brawl in the crowd. Roman and Rowan are still in the ring. They trade shots in the middle of the ring now. Rowan with a knee to the gut before tossing Reigns into the ring post. Rowan yells at Reigns and slaps him. Reigns nails a Superman punch for a 2 count. Rollins and Harper go at it on the floor now. Reigns uses a monitor but Bray runs back over the barrier and drops Rollins. They take apart the normal announcers table now. Harper and Bray put Rollins on top of it and work him over. In the ring, Rowan with a big fallaway slam on Reigns that sends him to the floor. The Wyatt Family stands tall.
Rowan and Harper stand on top of the announce table with Rollins. Bray looks on as they double chokeslam him from one announce table through the Spanish announce table. A huge "holy s--t" chant starts. Rollins landed hard. Ambrose is nowhere to be seen. Reigns gets cornered by The Wyatts in the ring now. Bray comes in but Reigns attacks. Rowan beats Reigns down. Harper double teams Reigns in the corner with Rowan. Harper nails a massive big boot on Reigns. Bray tags in and turns upside down in the corner with a smile on his face. Bray kisses Reigns' head and goes for Sister Abigail but Reigns powers out. Bray hits a headbutt. Reigns powers into a big Samoan Drop. Harper runs in but Reigns tosses him to the floor. Reigns with a Superman punch for Rowan. And one for Bray. Reigns stands tall by himself now. Harper runs in and catches a spear. Bray nails Reigns and hits Sister Abigail for the win.
Winners: The Wyatt Family
- After the match, we go to replays. The last we saw of Dean Ambrose was he and Bray brawling into the crowd. The Wyatts pose on the ramp as we see Reigns and Rollins trying to recover.
- Renee Young catches up with Christian backstage. He plays sort of a heel and says he's desparate, which makes him very dangerous.
WWE Divas Title Match: Cameron vs. AJ Lee
We go to the ring and out comes WWE Divas Champion AJ Lee with Tamina Snuka. AJ takes the mic and a CM Punk chant barely starts up. AJ talks about being the longest reigning Divas champion of all time. AJ doesn't care who her opponent is tonight because she's beaten everyone. She jokes about Naomi's eye injury. Out comes Cameron by herself as AJ laughs.
Cameron hits AJ with her pom poms before the bell. Cameron takes AJ to the mat first for a 2 count. Cameron with another move before skipping around and mocking AJ. Cameron drops AJ and hits the split leg drop for a 2 count. Cameron runs into a kick for a 2 count. AJ with a neckbreaker and another 2 count. AJ keeps control and skips around. Cameron rolls her up for 2. Cameron with clotheslines. Cameron with a dropkick for another 2 count. They end up on the floor. Cameron ducks a shot from Tamina and AJ gets knocked out. Cameron goes for a 2 count and Tamina breaks the pin. Cameron comes to the floor to argue and Tamina runs her over with a clothesline for the disqualification.
Winner by DQ: Cameron
- After the match, Tamina stomps on Cameron and brings AJ her title into the ring. AJ looks pissed at Tamina for accidentally kicking her.
- Bad News Barrett comes to the stage. He says the WWE Network will be so amazing that people will lose their jobs, get suspended from school, let their houses become dirty and condemned.
- Santino Marella is backstage playing with some WWE toys. Emma comes in and he tries to play the toys off. The Great Khali enters and says he's here now. El Torito and Los Matadores are in next. They thank Santino for the invite to play with toys. Santino says he doesn't play with toys, he's a man. Santino storms off. Emma says that's too bad because she loves toys. She plays toys with the guys and that's it.
Batista vs. Alberto Del Rio
We go to the ring and out comes Batista to a very mixed reaction, mostly boos. Alberto Del Rio is out next.
Del Rio comes out in regular clothes, wearing a neck brace and using a crutch. Del Rio says he can't compete tonight due to Del Rio putting him through a table on RAW. Del Rio kicks Batista while he's talking to the referee and beats him down with the crutch. Del Rio takes off his warmup suit and is in his wrestling gear. Del Rio wails away with the crutch. Del Rio smiles and the fans boo him. Del Rio with more crutch shots to the knee. Fans chant "si!" as Del Rio tells them to ring the bell. Batista gets up in the corner and says he's ready to go.
Batista fights back on one leg and the fans boo. Del Rio with offense as the crowd cheers. They start a "Bootista" chant up. Del Rio with a cross armbreaker on the second rope as fans cheer again. Del Rio with stomps now. Fans chant for Daniel Bryan. Del Rio goes back to working on Batista's arm. Fans chant for CM Punk now. Batista fights back and the fans boo big time. Del Rio drops Batista's arm over his knee and the fans cheer. The announcers are pointing out now that the fans are cheering for Del Rio instead of Batista. A chant for Chris Jericho starts now. Batista sends Del Rio into the ring post.
Fans continue cheering for Del Rio when he hits Batista. A Rob Van Dam chant starts up. Del Rio with an enziguri for a close 2 count. Fans boo as Batista gets his foot on the bottom rope. Another 2 count by Del Rio. Del Rio dropkicks Batista to the floor. A chant for Brock Lesnar starts up now. Batista brings it back in the ring but Batista nails a spear as the crowd boos. 2 count for Batista. More back and forth with Del Rio taking control. Del Rio misses a shot from the top rope and lands hard. Batista with a spinebuster to boos. Batista tries to get hype on the ropes but fans boo him. Del Rio blocks a Batista Bomb and takes out the knee. Del Rio with a kick to the head and a 2 count. Del Rio points up at the WrestleMania XXX sign to a mixed reaction. A "si!" chant goes again. Batista counters and shoves him into the exposed turnbuckle. Batista nails a Batista Bomb for the win.
Winner: Batista
- After the match, we go to replays as Batista gets booed. Batista sells the arm injury and hangs around in the ring. He tells the crowd to "deal with it" and that's it.
- We get a promo for the WWE Network and go back to the panel. The Miz changes his prediction to Daniel Bryan. Mark Henry sticks with Sheamus and Rey sticks with Cesaro as his prediction. The Chamber starts lowering around the ring. We go to a promo video for the main event.
Elimination Chamber for the WWE World Heavyweight Title: Cesaro vs. Sheamus vs. Christian vs. Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena vs. Randy Orton
We go to the Chamber and out first comes John Cena. He enters his pod and is locked away. Christian is out next followed by WWE World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton. Daniel Bryan is out next to a huge pop. Fans chant "yes!" as Bryan enters his pod. Cesaro is out next followed by Sheamus and they will be the two starters.
The bell rings and Cesaro dropkicks Sheamus. Cesaro stomps away and sends Sheamus out to the steel. Cesaro tries to slam Sheamus into the steel chains but Sheamus clotheslines him back into the ring. Back and forth in the ring now. Cesaro with a big uppercut. Fans chant "we the people" as Sheamus lands out on the steel. Cesaro runs the ropes but Sheamus nails a battering ram for a 2 count. Sheamus with a kick to the back and a neckbreaker for a 2 count. Sheamus with a big shoulder thrust in the corner and a high knee. Sheamus clotheslines Cesaro out to the steel. Sheamus goes for the forearm shots to the chest but Cesaro fights him off. Sheamus finally gets the forearm shots in.
Sheamus with a big clothesline. Sheamus goes for a suplex but Cesaro fights it. They fight on the steel now. Cesaro sends Sheamus into the post of Orton's pod. Cesaro with a stomp to the chest from the second rope as Orton looks on. Cesaro works Sheamus over in front of Cena's pod now. Cesaro mocks Cena. Sheamus tells Cesaro to bring it. Cesaro drops him with a huge uppercut. Sheamus pulls himself to the top rope but Cesaro nails another big uppercut. Cesaro with a headbutt. Cesaro climbs up but Sheamus knocks him off and hits a shoulder tackle. The timer goes off and the next man in is Daniel Bryan to a big pop.
Bryan with a missile dropkick on both men. Bryan unloads and takes them both out again. Bryan with kicks to both men now. Fans chant "yes!" with every kick. Bryan nails a roundhouse on Cesaro. Sheamus kicks Bryan and uppercuts him. Bryan counters a move and hits a drop toe hold on Sheamus. Bryan with a submission on Sheamus. Cesaro comes over but Bryan suplexes him into a pin while Sheamus is still in the submission. 2 counts for Bryan. Bryan comes off the second rope but Cesaro catches him in a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker for a 2 count.
Sheamus goes back to work on Cesaro now. Cesaro fights back with knees. Cesaro clotheslines Sheamus out to the steel. Cesaro presses Sheamus' face into the steel. Bryan with an uppercut on Cesaro. Bryan sends Cesaro into the chains. Cesaro whips Bryan through his empty pod and he hits shoulder first, going through the plexiglass. Sheamus with uppercuts on Cesaro now. Cesaro with uppercuts of his own as they trade them. Sheamus with a big slam on the steel. Sheamus with a 2 count. Bryan goes for a superplex on Sheamus but gets sent to the mat. The timer goes off and the next man in is Christian. He pushes Sheamus to the steel and stomps on Bryan as fans boo.
Christian unloads on Bryan's injured shoulder. Christian slams a pod door on Bryan's arm. Christian goes to the top and nails a tornado DDT on Bryan for a 2 count. Sheamus takes control but Sheamus plants him on the steel. Cesaro gets kicked into the chains by Christian. Cesaro blocks Killswitch. Christian leaps up to the chains to block an uppercut. Cesaro pulls him down and they trade holds. Cesaro powerbombs Christian into plexiglass on the pod and nails a big uppercut for a 2 count. Cesaro puts a piece of plexiglass on Sheamus and uppercuts it into him. Cesaro with a big gutwrench slam on the steel. The timer goes off and the next man in is John Cena.
Cena comes in to boos and throws Christian into Cesaro. Bryan hits a hurricanrana on Cena from the top. Bryan with kicks to Cena's chest now. Christian blocks the roundhouse and nails Killswitch on Bryan for a 2 count. Cesaro grabs Christian for a Cesaro Swing but Cena nails Cesaro and then slams Christian. Fans boo Cena. Sheamus stops a Five Knuckle Shuffle and hits White Noise on Cena for a 2 count. Sheamus and Cesaro go at it again. Cesaro and Christian double team Sheamus. Sheamus blocks a Neutralizer. Sheamus gets sent to the steel. Christian with a tornado DDT on Cesaro for a 2 count. Christian goes for Killswitch but stops to swing at Cena. Cena grabs him and slams him into the chains. Cena enters the ring with a shoulder tackle on Cesaro. Cesaro counters with a huge uppercut for a 2 count.
Cesaro, Bryan and Cena go at it now. Christian gets knocked back into the chains. Bryan saves Cesaro from an Attitude Adjustment. Bryan unloads with kicks on Cesaro in the corner. Bryan and Sheamus go at it now. Sheamus rams Bryan into the post and chains, Bryan goes down. Cesaro suplexes Sheamus into the ring for a 2 count. The timer goes off again and here comes Randy Orton. Orton stomps on Cesaro and goes after Cena. Orton stomps on Sheamus and then Bryan. Orton knocks Cena back down and fans chant "boring" then boo. Orton poses to more boos. Orton points at the WrestleMania XXX sign. He goes for the punt kick on Bryan but Bryan moves. Everyone has Orton cornered now. Orton goes back into his pod and shuts the door. The other Superstars fight while Sheamus taunts Orton from outside his pod. The crowd chants "p---y" and Orton laughs.
Sheamus turns around and Brogue Kicks Orton through the pod, breaking the plexiglass. Sheamus sends Orton into the chains and clotheslines him into the ring. Cena slams Orton and Sheamus goes down. Cena hits the Five Knuckle Shuffle on Orton. Cesaro comes in and tosses Cena out to the steel. Cesaro drops Orton and does the Cesaro Swing. Cesaro does 30 rotations and the crowd pops. Bryan takes advantage and lays out Cesaro. Sheamus runs over Bryan. Sheamus slams Christian next. Sheamus poses. Christian ducks a Brogue Kick but it hits Sheamus. Christian rolls up Sheamus for 2. Christian covers Cena for 2. Sheamus backs Christian to the steel. Sheamus goes for a big slam on the steel but Christian slides out and climbs to the top of the pod. Orton climbs up and fights with Sheamus. Orton superplexes Sheamus to the mat. Christian nails a big splash from the top of the pod to Sheamus. Christian pins Sheamus and he is eliminated.
Trainers help Sheamus out of the Chamber as Christian backdrops Orton to the steel. Bryan with the flying knee on Christian for the pin. Christian is eliminated. Christian is also helped out of the Chamber. It's down to Cena, Cesaro, Bryan and Orton. Cena and Cesaro go at it while Orton and Bryan do. Cena dropkicks Cesaro to the steel and throws him into the chains. Bryan sends Orton into a pod. Cena and Bryan lock eyes and meet in the ring. Bryan and Cena go at it trading shots. Bryan goes for the Yes Lock but Cena powers through. Bryan kicks him away. Cena goes for an AA on Bryan but Cesaro comes from behind and hits a German on both of them. Cesaro with a 2 count on Cena. Cesaro with a big boot to the face on Orton. Cena drops Cesaro for the STF but Cesaro counters. Cesaro with a big gutwrench move but Cena counters with a hurricanrana. Cena goes for the AA again and nails it onto the steel. Cesaro lands hard. Cena drags him back in the ring and goes for the STF. Cesaro taps and is eliminated.
Cena goes for he STF on Orton. The lights go out and it's The Wyatt Family. The lights finally come back on and The Wyatts are in the Chamber. Orton decks Cena from behind. Luke Harper runs over Bryan. Harper and Rowan beat Cena down. Bray joins in. Harper whips Rowan into Cena with a big splash. Rowan throws Cena into a Harper clothesline. Bray turns upside down in the corner before hitting Sister Abigail on Cena. A "thank you Wyatts" chant starts. The Wyatt Family leaves the Chamber. Orton slides over and covers Cena. Cena is eliminated.
The Wyatts stand outside of the Chamber but Kane comes out and makes them leave. A "you sold out" chant starts at Kane. Kane enters the Chamber to check on Cena as trainers help him out. Bryan leaps and takes out Kane with a flying knee. Orton sends Bryan into the pod and takes him up top. Bryan counters and turns Orton upside down in the corner. Bryan unloads with kicks. Bryan with three running dropkicks to the face. Fans chant Bryan's name as he takes Orton up top for a super side suplex and nails it. Bryan with a close 2 count. Bryan goes to the top but Orton cuts him off. Orton with a second rope draping DDT. Orton readies for the RKO. Bryan blocks it. Bryan nails the flying knee but Kane pulls the referee right before the 3 count. Bryan drops Kane with a kick to the head. Orton nails the RKO but Bryan barely kicks out. A huge "yes!" chant starts but Orton says no. Bryan with a roll up for 2. Bryan with a kick to the head and Orton goes back down. Kane decks Bryan with a big right hand and Orton nails the RKO for the win.
Winner: Randy Orton
- After the match, Orton takes his titles as Bryan recovers in the Chamber. Orton poses on the ramp as Cole rants about how Bryan got screwed again. We see a lot of sad fans in the crowd. Elimination Chamber goes off the air with Orton celebrating on the ramp.


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Congressional campaigns often serve as an early-warning mechanism to measure voters' temperature on emerging issues. With House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's selection as Mitt Romney's running mate, it's useful to look at several closely contested House races in which Ryan's budget – and more broadly, the volatile subject of entitlement reform – became a central campaign issue.
Some of the biggest battles over the Ryan budget have occurred within the office suites housing the House campaign committees, where staffers immediately recognized they were dealing with an issue capable of dramatically changing the political trajectory in 2012. Conservative Republican policy wonks on Capitol Hill embraced Ryan's vision of drastically revamping Medicare by giving individuals who turned 65 after 2022 a government subsidy to buy private insurance. But the GOP political operatives occupying the campaign war room were much more nervous.
Both House campaign committees prepared for the impact of the 2011 vote on Ryan's controversial budget – one that drew the support of nearly every GOP member facing a competitive race. At the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, party officials cast the vote as one that would take away Medicare for seniors, and put that strategy to use in a Republican-leaning upstate New York seat to blistering effect. Democrat Kathy Hochul earned her party's deep gratitude in May 2011 by scoring a stunning upset in a special election in upstate New York's 26th District with her relentless emphasis on that theme.
Already today, Hochul has become something of a poster child for the Democratic argument that the Ryan budget is politically suicidal for Republicans. She was one of the first House Democrats to put out a release using it to attack her new opponent, Chris Collins, and the Democratic super PAC House Majority PAC cited one if its ads -- aired during the special election -- as a model for Democrats to use against the Romney-Ryan ticket.
Republicans, understanding the potency of the charge, prepared a counterattack in which they accused President Obama of already cutting benefits in his health care plan. In another special election in September 2011, their approach helped Mark Amodei cruise to victory in a Nevada district with a strong senior citizen population.
The rubber match came this June, in the race for Gabrielle Giffords' vacant Arizona House seat. The Republican nominee, Jesse Kelly, was one of the few GOP candidates who didn't prevail in 2010 thanks to his blunt criticism of Social Security and Medicare as unsustainable. He toned down his message, even airing an ad featuring his grandmother calling the charges absurd. Obama's approval rating in the Republican-dominated district was so weak that Democratic nominee Ron Barber didn't even say whether he would be supporting the president at one of the campaign forums.
Democrats quickly made the race a referendum on Kelly's positions on entitlements, unleashing a barrage of attack ads featuring his past comments and casting him as a Medicare-buster. Barber won by a six-point margin, larger than Giffords' margin two years earlier. Republicans attributed the special election as an anomaly, given the unique circumstances of the race and Giffords' standing as a national hero after her near-fatal shooting a year earlier.
But a senior Democratic operative involved in the race said that despite the circumstances surrounding Giffords, Kelly began the race in the lead, according to internal polling conducted by the DCCC that was obtained by National Journal. Even after the pollster introduced biographical information for both candidates, Barber only moved into a statistical tie. It wasn't until the DCCC and a Democratic-aligned super PAC spent millions airing Kelly's past comments on entitlements and casting him as a Medicare-buster did the numbers move decidedly in Barber's direction.
"This budget is very vulnerable to attack – voters do not like the individual elements and a debate back and forth works to the Democrats' advantage," former Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg wrote in a memo, after conducting a poll in battleground House districts last month. "Seniors are particularly receptive to attacks on the Ryan budget and are willing to punish Republicans for touching Medicare."
Republican party officials plugged into the House battleground races acknowledge that the Ryan budget throws an element of risk into the political equation. But they believe that based on lessons learned, they can fight Democrats to a draw, with an effective message – and messenger.
"The Ryan budget energizes the heck out of the Republican base, but requires strong messaging for independents who get cross messaging from Democrats on the same budget. It turns independents into a jump ball," said Republican pollster Adam Geller, who conducts surveys for the National Republican Congressional Committee and also is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's pollster.
Indeed, the history of the congressional skirmishes shows that the messenger makes all the difference. In Kelly, Republicans nominated a seriously flawed candidate whose inability to win went far beyond his positions on entitlements. In last year's New York special election, the party nominated a candidate (Jane Corwin) who was wholly incapable of articulating a coherent and consistent position on the merits of the Ryan budget, and hardly put up a fight on the issue.
But in the subsequent Nevada race, Republican nominee Amodei was prepared for the attacks, and fought back aggressively, by accusing Obama of being the bigger risk to seniors' Medicare thanks to his health care law. It worked like a charm, turning a rising star in Nevada political circles – state Treasurer Kate Marshall – into an also-ran whose candidacy was written off well before the special election.
Ryan himself has proven his political staying power in a battleground southeast Wisconsin district in which one-quarter of the voters are blue-collar workers. Early on in the election cycle, Democrats crowed about putting up a serious challenge to the congressman, believing he was newly vulnerable over his controversial budget. Instead, his Democratic challenger Rob Zerban utterly failed to get any traction and Democrats privately concede that Ryan would coast to re-election. He's never won less than 63 percent of the vote since elected in 1998, despite running in a district that backed Obama in 2008.
Even Democratic polling, which ostensibly shows the vulnerability of the Ryan budget to Congressional Republicans, isn't as clear-cut as advertised. Greenberg's Democracy Corps survey showed that the Republican argument for the Ryan budget actually wins widespread support in (largely) Democratic-leaning battleground districts.
According to their survey, 52 percent of voters in those swing districts support the budget, with just 37 percent opposing it. But when hearing the various critiques of the plan, support falls to 46 percent, with 47 percent opposing it. For a proposal that's considered such a lightning rod, an even split hardly suggests it's toxic.
The risk comes primarily from the demographic composition of the voters Romney needs to win over – seniors and working-class white voters. Romney is comfortably leading Obama among both groups, but the Republican ticket must rack up sizable margins of victory with them.
Greenberg's survey showed seniors and working-class whites to be the most receptive to the Democratic argument. If enough of the undecided voters tip into Obama's column, it could play a decisive role in the election. With Romney being cast by Democrats as a wealthy plutocrat, adding the entitlement argument to the equation could risk underscoring that message.


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