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Inside look at microbes
A team of microbiologists last month released the results of the first molecular sequencing of the human microbiome, which includes all of the bacteria that live in and on the human body. Stanford microbiologist and infectious disease expert David Relman was one of the first scientists to sequence a section of the human microbiome, in 1999.
Q:What made you start studying the human microbiome?
A: My first area of research was to study how bacteria cause disease. I was trying to discover the disease-causing microbes. But my methods were turning up sequences of microbes in tissues where I didn't think there ought to be anything. And it became clear these sequences were from the normal background in the body - they were in people who were perfectly well. It dawned on me sometime in the late '90s that instead of being a problem it was a really interesting topic of study.
Q:Your first major venture into the microbiome involved samples taken from your own mouth. You analyzed them with molecular sequencing and by cultivating them in a lab. Were you surprised by what you found?
A: We found much, much more with the molecular methods than we found with cultivation. That meant we'd been missing this huge fraction of the microbial world for more than 100 years. That's a humbling thing. We were playing with half a deck.
Q:What are the limiting factors in studying the human microbiome?
A: Some scientists really want to know who's doing what to whom, how does this network of organisms talk to each other and talk to the host, what molecules are they making. Those are really important questions but we don't have the tools to be able to answer them in a thorough way. Even the community at one tooth is maybe a couple hundred organisms, and they each have their own biology, they're each making their own molecules. All of the interactions are in the hundreds of thousands, and each of those organisms has a genome of 40,000 genes. It gets to be pretty complicated pretty quickly.
Q:Antibiotic use has come under attack in the last decade. What are the concerns about the effects of antibiotics on the microbiome?
A: We know a fair amount about antibiotic resistance. What we don't know much about is the collateral damage (to healthy bacteria). We see some of the downstream adverse consequences but we don't know exactly how that's happening.
Q:Are probiotics gaining acceptance in the medical community?
A: The hesitation right now is there aren't a lot of good data. Most clinicians will say, 'I don't personally think it's doing much, but it can't hurt, so if you feel better, why not.' I think there may be some real benefits, but I also think we have imprecise probiotic options now. So we're giving these somewhat irrelevant microorganisms to people, and yet they do seem to have some beneficial effects.
Q:Are you going to sequence your microbiome?
A: I certainly am curious about it. But I'm not quite sure what I would do with it right now. It would have limited intellectual or academic value to me.
Q:For a long time humans have seen, and treated, bacteria as the enemy. Do we need to reevaluate that way of thinking? Should we all be embracing our microbiome?
A: I think you should. That's how I feel. It's like growing up with a dog that means a lot to you as a kid, except these folks kind of joined you at birth, or their ancestors did. They are really a part of you and they have been with you through thick and thin largely.
The whole idea of beneficial microbes is the major theme in microbiology. It's just that most people have been brainwashed from birth by this alternative PR which says the only good bacterium is a dead one. Somehow we're going to have to break that indoctrination scheme and go back to a theme of symbiosis.


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Small Grants Showcase Reception from the UCL Grand Challenges
UCL Grand Challenges
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT)
Event Details
Reception for the Small Grants Showcase
from the UCL Grand Challenges
From 6 p.m. in the South Cloisters
Wilkins Building, UCL
You are invited to attend a reception in the South Cloisters to celebrate the opening of the UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Showcase. The reception will begin at 6.00pm.
|UCL Research Strategy and the
Grand Challenges
|Professor David Price
(Vice Provost, Research UCL)
|Sanitation and the Urban Poor: The case of urine diversion toilets in Durban, South Africa
|Dr Barbara Penner
(UCL Bartlett School of Architecture)
|Open City: Architecture
|Dr Michael Stewart
(UCL Anthropology)
|Negotiating Religion: Inquiries into the history and present of religious accommodation
|Dr François Guesnet
(Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL)
|Tracking Activity in Relation to Disease: Using smartphone technology to create novel epidemiological tool
|Dr Eve Macharia
(Institute of Child Health)
Enjoy refreshments as you discover the range of cross-disciplinary work that has been funded under the Grand Challenges Small Grants programme. All of the previous recipients of small grants funding have prepared posters covering their cross disciplinary work.
The small grants programme began with the first grand challenge, Global Health, and is now offered by all four Grand Challenges. The UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Poster Showcase brings together work that has been funded by all four Grand Challenges at UCL. You will see work from:
Global Health GCGH
Sustainable Cities GCSC
Intercultural Interaction GCII
Human Wellbeing GCHW
The reception is free, but please register as it helps us decide how much food and drink to order.
Apply for a Small Grant from the UCL Grand Challenges
The Small Grants Showcase exists to promote the Small Grants scheme. If you are a member of staff at UCL you are encouraged to consider applying for one of these grants.
The grants award up £5,000 for cross-disciplinary activity under any one of the Grand Challenges.
All Small Grants applications must be submitted using the online form at
The form will be available until 15 February 2013
When & Where
South Cloisters, Wilkins Building
Gower St
WC1E 6BT London
United Kingdom
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT)
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So, can you guess the use for this?
Sorry to say there is no prize for getting it right, and no celebrity guest star, but if you also remember that show, you will have my undying gratitude! I will be back soon with the answer to this and a few other questions I have gotten this week, as well as the Oreo truffle recipe!


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What it is about families that interests us?
First of all, who are RELATIVES? I can give many answers from different perspectives. From a very cynical viewpoint, I can say they are the people who are supposed to watch your back, knowing that they may not get anything in return 🙂 Or more kindly speaking, they are the set of people who progress in life helping each other Or they are just groups of people related by blood, colour, culture and in summation, by patriarchy. All of us know about our father and grandfather but do we know their fathers and so on? Very few of us! The common reason is that we are plainly not interested or we see no benefit from that information.
Personally, I have hated meeting some relatives who are not that close to my family but still are relatives in some direction(horizontally or vertically) because you very rarely know/recognize them.This is what they say after the initial Hi – "Man, You have grown up a lot" or "This is XYZ, do you remember me? I used to buy you chocolates when you were a kid" or "When are you going to treat us with Wedding Dinner??". I hate that last question! and then you are supposed to have a lively talk with them, entertain them, share jokes etc etc…Its not that I despise meeting new people but I see the inherent similarity in views, thoughts, opinions with them to the extent that it becomes boring when overly like-minded people meet. Its very rare that you meet someone who is eccentric at least by his/her way of thinking and doing. But, it is an unreal expectation simply because we are all similar by genes(biologically) – unless someone did the unthinkable(not my view) by marrying a person from another caste or religion! But still, we meet on some social occasions, share a joke or two, take their hand-phone numbers and pretend that we will call them and then move on..End of story till it starts again!
Of late, I have been reading a lot about taxonomies, hierarchies or things that talk about relationships in top-down or left-right directions. The idea of building a family tree or family map came up from these readings. This family tree that I have envisioned basically will trace one's roots to the maximum extent possible. It will have basic details such as name, birth place, DOB, status, living or dead, spouse, siblings, children, place of death, education, employment area and countries visited….Now, what is the benefit of building such a map as it would take a lot of time in collecting data from different people? I could foresee lot of benefits. I will list them down..
1.) First and foremost, you get to know your ancestors
2.) You get to know the level of evolution(or devolution!) achieved
3.) You get to know your legacy
4.) You get to know the places where your relatives/forefathers have been and lived ~ Something to brag about
5.) Using the employment/occupation details, you could see if there are any opportunities for any fruitful joint ventures within the BIG family ~ This has huge potential
6.) If you have relatives in exotic locations, you can use them for a trip to those places 😀
7.) Using the data about the folks of your same age, you could set up lateral relationships and build short term/long term business plans ~ Similar to point 5 but this is about the folks of the same age group
8.) Do Social Network Analysis ~ a bit nerdy but can be very useful
9.) Invite relatives to create a common family fund which can be used for constructive purposes
10.) Last but not at least, for HELPING FOLKS WHO ARE IN NEED OF IT
Courtesy: make-family-tree.com
So, I am going to take this exercise as one of my secondary hobbies for this year. I am going to talk to my friends and relatives about it and will create a simple mini family tree in a month or so. I will start with a literature review and will try to merge the Indian "subjective" thinking and western "scientific" thinking in all the planning and implementation activities. Will update this post regularly
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Ang nakakalungkot sa bansa natin, kung gusto mong maging Kongresman, isang konserbatibong TRAPONG pulitiko at mataas na opisyal sa Malakanyang, kailangang English ang gamit mo, kung gusto mo ng mas may mataas na pinag-aralan at modernong pamumuhay, wikang English ang dapat na gamit mo. Sa simpleng paghahalintulad, ginamit ang English bilang pang-cover sa pangungulimbat at pandarambong. Yung mga termino o salitang "commission, under the table, standard operational procedure (SOP), cash gift, token, sovereign guarantee" at "substantial compliance" ay walang iba kundi suhol, lagay at pangungukurakot.
Nakakatawang isiping ginagamit ang English sa pagbibiyahe sa abrod o jungket. Ginamit ang English sa panloloko, sa land grabbing, malakihang pagnanakaw at panunuhol, tulad ng ZTE broadband, PIATCO, Northrail, Mega Pacific scandals at iba pa. Ginamit ang English upang sang-ayunan ang mga batas at tratadong kontra Pilipino. Ginamit ang English upang supilin ang kilusang demokratiko, makabayan at MAPAGPALAYA. Ginamit ang English, upang baluktutin ang hustisya't paburan ang mga malalaki't mga dambuhala.
(larawan:BALANGIGA MASAKER,
Kung ang wikang English ang mag-aahon sa karalitaan at mataas na antas ng ating pamumuhay (tulad ng Nipongo, Korean, Mandarin, Bahasa, Scandinvian, Russian at iba pang mauunlad na sibilisasyon, identity at kultura), kung ang English ang magpapawi ng katiwalian at pangungurakot, kung ang English ang magpapalago ng industriya't teknolohiya at empleyo, kung ang English ang papawi sa pagiging busabos ng Pinoy sa mata ng mundo, kung ang english ang bubura sa paninging mga UTUSAN, chimay at prostitute (domestic helper at caregivers) ang mga Pinoy sa mata ng mundo, kung ang English ang magbibigay daan sa katatagang pulitikal at STRONG REPUBLIC, kung ang english ang magdadala ng maraming gintong medalya sa tuwing may palaro sa Olympic at kung ang English ang siyang daan sa pagkakaisa at kapanatagang pampulitika, baka siguro NUMERO UNO NA TAYO SA LAHAT NG BAGAY SA MUNDO!
- Doy Cinco / IPD
November 5, 2007
'The English Language Is My Enemy'
By Larry Pinkney
01 November, 2007
Black Commentator
In the late 1960s racism was specifically defined as "the predication of decisions and policies on considerations of race for the purpose of subordinating a racial group and maintaining control over that group." In the 21st century this definition remains essentially intact and correct.
White Americans collectively continue to subordinate and maintain control over Black people collectively, in addition to our Red and Brown brothers and sisters. Despite the fact that some white Americans are in fact economically desperately poor, more often than not they remain consciously desperately white; retaining their whiteness as if it and it alone assures their misperceived superiority over the Black, Brown, and Red peoples in America and around the world. Thus, any actions taken by them against us as people of color, be they large or small, have a built in and fake perception of legitimacy. Such is the insidious nature of white racism for both the perpetrators and those being perpetrated upon.
The maintenance of subordination and control over we Black and other people of color goes far beyond the brutal and sustained physical component. While it is certainly accurate that genocide, lynchings, and bloody invasions of sovereign nation states, etc. by white America is accompanied by enormous and often unspeakable brutality, the fact of the matter is that it is the component of mental colonization by white America of we people of color that assures our continued subordination. One of the most powerful and devastating forms of mental colonization in America is the English language itself—or more to the point the controlling definitions of said language.
The esteemed activist, actor, director, orator, and artist extraordinaire, the late Ossie Davis, put it this way in his poignant essay titled, 'The English Language Is My Enemy:' "I will say that language is the primary medium of communication in the educational process and, in this case, the English language. I will indict the English language as one of the prime carriers of racism from one person to another and discuss how the teacher and the student, especially the Negro student, are affected by this fact.
The English language is my enemy." In elaborating upon the psychological aspects of "racism" Davis further notes: "Racism is a belief that human races have distinctive characteristics, usually involving the idea that one's own race has a right to rule others. Racism. The English language is my enemy." Davis goes on to write, "The word 'blackness' has 120 synonyms, 60 of which are distinctly unfavorable, and none of them even mildly positive…In addition, and this is what really hurts, 20 of those words [excluding the aforementioned 60] are related directly to race, such as 'Negro,' 'Negress,' 'nigger,' 'darkey,' 'blackamoor,' etc." Thus, Ossie Davis correctly and horribly concludes that even "thinking itself is subvocal speech" which generally requires the use of "words" and if those words are the "English language for the purpose of communication," those using said language are forcing "the Negro child into 60 ways to despise himself [or herself], and the white child, 60 ways to aid and abet" said Black child "in the crime" against her or himself.
To reiterate: One of the most powerful and devastating forms of mental colonization in America is the English language itself—or more to the point the controlling definitions of said language. The so-called conservatives and liberals alike of white America are well aware of this, and often actually count on it. Mental colonization of we Black, Brown, and Red peoples assures the continuance of our physical subordination and control.
Thus, it came as no surprise when earlier this week, I heard the white person hosting a nationally syndicated, so called liberal/progressive radio/television news program from New York City, blithely and whimsically engage in devastating white racist language as she referred to the despicable, bloody, and exploitative "legacy" of a US fruit company in Central and South America, as a "dark one." A dark legacy indeed! Clearly, as a professional journalist she knows and knew the power of the language of her words; "bananas" or other fruit notwithstanding. This was certainly not the first time she had engaged in such linguistic lynching. Nevertheless, to all the millions upon millions of "dark" people in America and throughout the world, and most especially to our beautiful "dark" youth; let us remind them of their dignity and their worth. Let us remind them--and each other--that our darkness is an asset, not a negative. Any person or people who constantly and consciously use color [i.e. 'dark,' 'black,' etc.] as an equation of evil or negativity are themselves not worthy of the trust or alliance of our with people of color.
We are, as Curtis Mayfield sang, the "people who are darker than blue." We are dark but we are not evil or negative, nor will we allow white America's liberals (masquerading as progressives) or conservatives to cunningly reinforce negative emotional and mental stereotypes under the guise of being our allies.
It is difficult enough for we Black, Brown, and Red peoples to consistently work at decolonizing our own minds and those of our youth, without the guileful machinations of those white liberals who go about the business of reinforcing mental colonization while pretending to be concerned about our liberation.
The first and most important step in decolonizing our minds is recognizing that we are, and have quite deliberately been, mentally colonized. This process of mental decolonization can, like a prairie fire, be very rapid once it begins. There is enormous cause for hope, and it is only we ourselves who are best suited to bring about our own liberation, which ultimately will positively affect the liberation of the entire world. Sisters and brothers, let's hold on to each other's hopes and dreams as we struggle forward to keep on keeping it real. We can do this because we must…
Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
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Russell Peters Live In Malaysia Ticket Price
So if you are planning to go for the Malaysia leg of the Notorious Tour 2012, the ticket pricing is out. Address: Stadium Malawati, Persiaran Sukan, Seksyen 13, Shah Alam Tel: 03 8775 4666 Website: http://www.airasiaredtix.com Date: May 12, 2012 Time: 8.30pm Its going to be a real struggle to get tickets if you are a fan so GOOD LUCK! *Seating plan has been removed, new plan will be out soon!Read more


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Prescription Drug-Use Rises Among Students
The days of keg stands and fraternity parties are long gone for many current college students. The stress and growing competition among students and entry-level professionals has led to increasing levels of prescription drug use.
The Clinton Foundation conducted a study in January, which measured prescription drug use among college students. The study mentioned "In the last 20 years, the consumption of prescription stimulants increased from 5 million to 45 million" (Clinton Foundation).
The study concluded that college students nationwide have played a major role in this epidemic. The research found among college students between 1993 and 2005 the use of opioids (including Oxycontin, Vicodin and Percocent) increased 343 percent and use of stimulants (including Adderall and Vyvanse) increase 93 percent.
Statistics on Chicago:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services most recent extensive study on prescription drug use in Chicago was conducted in 2009. The study concluded the rates of emergency department visits for recreational use of prescriptions per 100,000 people in Chicago:
- 100.5 Pain Relievers
- 73.8 Opiates/Opioids
- 70.0 Drugs that treat Anxiety or Insomnia
- 26.3 Psychotherapeutic Medications (antidepressants)
Chicago's Problem:
Violence in Chicago has been increasing at exponential rates. This saturation of violence has caused police and other city officials to concentrate more heavily on gang activity and gun violence. This specific concentration has left an important and growing issue unanswered.
Many of the universities around Chicago offer student-help centers for drug abuse and addiction problems. Yet, none have noticed a prescription problem on their campuses.
However, these campuses are spread out throughout the entire city of Chicago. The public transportation system makes it easy for people to travel around the city. Though this is convenient, it also makes access to prescriptions easier. Students are no longer just limited to the pharmacies and "prescribed students" in their area.
When contacted, Loyola University, DePaul University, and the University of Chicago, each said they offer services to help students. However, they rarely see cases where students to come forward for prescription drug-use, especially when they aren't being prescribed the medications.
Kristina Edwards, a pharmacist for the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics explains prescription drug use as an "epidemic."
"Popular prescription drugs have made our job more difficult," explained Edwards. "We have to triple count by hand, initial, and double check with doctors every time we fill a prescription."
Even with these extra steps from doctors and pharmacists, Edwards says students are still finding ways to get their hands on the drugs.
Stimulants like Adderall are meant for people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Edwards mentioned these drugs cause users to have a rush of energy and clarity, even for those without ADD and ADHD.
Edwards believes the universities and Chicago police have to take this issue more seriously, "Students don't think it's a big deal because the drugs come from a pharmacy, but that's not true," she said.
"There needs to be a push from the schools to inform students of the dangers when taking prescription drugs," Edwards said.
The universities are not completely innocent. This map shows the drug use reported by police in 2014 on the campuses of Loyola, DePaul and University of Chicago.
What Students Think:
Melissa Kamys is taking a year off from her education at DePaul because of the pressure she felt while enrolled.
"Everyone was so competitive, even in easy classes. I felt like I was in the Hunger Games every time I walked into a classroom," Kamys said.
Kamys explained that prescriptions are really a big deal on college campuses. "People pass around Adderall like Tic-Tacs when final exams come around," said Kamys.
Kamys also said it's really easy to get prescriptions in the city. "I know people who just wait outside of CVS and Walgreens and wait for people to pick up their pills. It happens all the time because no one is watching the people who leave the pharmacy.
"It's scary how people just take what's handed to them, and never really check to make sure they know what they're getting."
Mariah Martz graduated from DePaul University in 2013 and she is still searching for a job. Martz has had internships over the past year, but says the competition for entry-level positions in Chicago is ridiculous.
Martz says she has never taken a prescription that wasn't prescribed to her, but says she knows many people who do.
"I feel like everyone takes Adderall and those kinds of pills to get an upper-hand on the competition. People who take it can study for hours and hours basically can beat the rest of us out who are trying our best without drugs," Martz said.
Audio Exercise
This Audio Story describes Jackie's "Moment of Clarity."
Photo Exercise
Chicago Violence Heats Up With Temperatures
This weekend's shootings led to at least 35 injuries and four fatalities, making it the most violent weekend in 2014.
Gun Control Making Safety Difficult:
Though criminologists say weather plays a major role in violence, Chicago Police spokesman Adam Collins declined to comment on whether the 80-degree temperatures were a factor this past weekend.
Monday morning, Collins made a statement saying the current gun laws have made it more difficult to reduce violence.
"While Chicago continues to see reductions in crime and violence, there's obviously much more work to be done and we continue to be challenged by lax state and federal gun laws," Collins said.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the police department is doing everything in their power to prevent violence. "From our officers to our police strategies to the city's strengthened investments in youth violence prevention to our close partnership with residents and community leaders, no one will rest until everyone in Chicago enjoys the same sense of safety."
The Victims:
At 3:30 Friday afternoon Gakirah Barnes was killed and two others were injured during an attack in the West Woodlawn neighborhood. Shontell Brown, the mother of Barnes described the violence as "an ongoing war."
"This is something that has become all too normal to everybody, and it needs to stop," said Brown. She believes the community needs to unite in order to prevent further violence.
Friday at 10:45 p.m. Shannon Mack, 34, was pronounced dead on the 6800 block of South Crandon Avenue. An autoposy ruled his death a homicide, caused by multiple gunshot wounds.
Around 1:00 a.m. Sunday, Joshua Martinez was pronounced dead in the Gage Park neighborhood. Martinez was shot in the head and the back near the 3000 block of West 53rd Place.
At 2:40 Sunday morning, Corey Brownlee was shot in the chest in the Washington Park neighborhood. Brownlee was pronounced dead on the 6000 block of South Indiana Avenue.
Jasmine Martinez, a 24-year old mother of two, was shot in the head twice on Sunday morning. Martinez was driving with her fiancé and a friend on the West Side, when another car pulled up beside her and opened fire. Martinez's fiancé and friend were not injured in the attack. Martinez is still fighting for her life at Stroger Hospital.
The Locations where this weekend's gun violence occurred:
- 400 W. 126th St., Chicago, IL, 60628
- 4500 S. Champlain Ave., Chicago, IL, 60653
- 100 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, IL, 60624
- W North Ave & N. Washtenaw Ave., Chicago, IL, 60647
- 5900 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL, 60621
- 4900 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, IL, 60644
- 10000 S. Crandon Ave., Chicago, IL, 60617
- 3800 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL, 60624
- W. Grand Ave. & N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL, 60651
- 1500 W. 18th Pl., Chicago, IL, 60608
- 5400 W. Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL, 60639
- 6000 S. Indiana Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637
- 3000 W. 53rd Pl., Chicago, IL, 60632
- 5200 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago, IL, 60641
- W. 59th St. & S. Talman Ave., Chicago, IL, 60629


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Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani's Hrudaya Gaanam.. a typical YSR novel, a beautiful understanding heroine who is a lecturer in a college in a remote village with a past..a handsome, responsible hero with no parents and a sister leading a very discipline and respected life in the village.... their story in the backdrop of college, students, their friendships, fights, touching some sensitive aspects of teacher-student relationship.
A good light read... time pass!!
Faster than light, some haunting, some fleeting, some sweet, and some filled with sorrow, THOUGHTS are what make or break us. In search of my true self, a journal that deals with day-to-day things that leave their mark on me.. RACING THOUGHTS, my spoken and unspoken reflections!! A full-time mom with mostly rusted professional skills, enjoying the blessing called lazy motherhood in United States. Whatever I am.. I AM LIKE THATTT ONLY!! నా ఇష్టం, నాకిష్టం.
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There is neither a structure nor a texture to this blog. The subject matter can be anything and everything under the sky that I feel about at any given point that I happen to sit and blog rambling about everything in general. My thoughts and views are basically influenced by what I read, hear, gather, and ponder... if there is any copyright violation which I have not duly acknowledged, kindly let me know.
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May 8, 2011
Hrudaya Gaanam
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|The last Raw before Christmas kicks off with an Intercontinental Title match between Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Wildman Marc Mero. This is possibly Mero's last title shot against the Blue Blood, but the stipulations state that if Hunter is DQ'ed or counted out, he will lose the title. Lex Luger should have gotten Mero's lawyer back at Summerslam '93. Also arriving on the scene are Goldust and Marlena, who sit down among the fans after, as Vince put it, walking through the "thongs." I think he means, "throngs." Goldust faces the winner at the Royal Rumble.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Raw #190 - December 23rd, 1996
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Raw #189 - December 16th, 1996
|It's the night after In Your House and, for what I believe is the first time in history, Raw opens with an in-ring interview rather than an actual match. Vince acts as if this wasn't written in the program, but JR acts like he's known about it all along and steps into the ring with a microphone. Hart complains that things have changed in the WWF, that he can't tell his enemies from his friends, and that there are no rules in the WWF anymore. He says he's not going to follow the rules anymore, either and puts Sid, Steve Austin, and Shawn Michaels on notice, calling HBK, "you little prissy." It's not the Attitude Era just yet, so he'll have to settle with "prissy" for now. Bret announces that he will enter the Royal Rumble, then comes to the announcers' desk for commentary.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Raw #188 - December 9th, 1996
|Warning: the following blog post contains action of a graphic nature. Reader discretion is advised. But not really. Tonight's bloodless, taped episode of Raw opens with an unnecessary warning in hopes of luring fans away from Nitro on TNT. Sid, whom Vince touts as leading the WWF into a new era and who JR agrees will be a major force in the WWF for a long time (rather than leaving before next summer's end) faces fellow champion Hunter Hearst Helmsley, whom he beats up in the aisle.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Raw #187 - December 2nd, 1996
|Raw opens with no intro for the second week in a row, perhaps in an effort to keep viewers from flipping to Nitro during the theme music. But who needs the Raw theme when Flash Funk's funky entrance music, funky back-up dancers, and funky Vince McMahon are here to provide us with infinitely more entertainment? "Come on King, shake that thang!" urges Vince. "Come on king, shake the booty!" McMahon is in such a groove that he won't even let Jerry Lawler's insults faze him, remarking that were he to knock his toupee off, it indeed "would be funky."
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Labels: 1996, billy gunn, fake diesel, flash funk, jake roberts, jesse james, justin bradshaw, marc mero, phineas godwinn, raw, sable, shawn michaels, the goon, triple h, wwf
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Raw #186 - November 25th, 1996
|Bret Hart wrestles on Raw for the first time in months to face Owen Hart, who is accompanied by the man he will beat out for the Best Bow Tie Slammy, Clarence Mason. Owen still has the "King of Harts" playing card lighting during his entrance. Those transparencies they put over the lights can't come cheat, so you're darn right they're gonna get their money's worth.
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Labels: 1996, billy gunn, bret hart, british bulldog, executioner, freddie joe floyd, jake roberts, marc mero, owen hart, raw, rocky maivia, sable, salvatore sincere, shawn michaels, steve austin, sunny, triple h, wwf
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Raw #185 - November 18th, 1996
|Steve Austin arrives on Raw to face Mankind in a "tough man contest." Originally, Vader was pencilled in as Stone Cold's opponent, but he was injured by the 700-pound ("I would suggest," says McMahon) Yokozuna the night before at Survivor Series with a uranage. The shoulder injury is said to only sideline Vader for a few days, but that's enough time to keep him off television all month thanks to the compact taping schedule.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, bob backlund, bob holly, doug furnas, faarooq, leif cassidy, lou albano, mankind, phil lafon, raw, savio vega, sid, steve austin, sunny, undertaker, wwf
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Raw #184 - November 11th, 1996
|The last Raw before Survivor Series kicks off with Bulldog and Owen Hart defending their tag team titles against Sid and Shawn Michaels. Last year at Survivor Series, Michaels, Sid, and Bulldog were all on the same team in the Wild Card match, with Owen on the opposing side. Vince recaps the problems brewing between Sid and Michaels, as well as their feud with the tag team champions, while managing to say, "melee" once and "from there" three times.
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Labels: 1996, bob holly, british bulldog, freddie joe floyd, mankind, owen hart, paul bearer, raw, rocky maivia, shawn michaels, sid, steve austin, wwf
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Raw #183 - November 4th, 1996
|Kevin Kelly is at Brian Pillman's home live. We know it's live because it says, "LIVE!" on screen. Another way to tell it's live? Well, you'll just have to listen to Pillman. Tonight's episode is the first RAW at the new 7:57 starting time, and what better way to thank USA for rearranging its broadcast schedule than with gun violence and the F-word?
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Labels: 1996, alex porteau, barry windham, brian pillman, fake razor, goldust, iron sheik, marc mero, raw, shawn michaels, sid, steve austin, sultan, wwf
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Raw #182 - October 28th, 1996
|Tonight's Raw opens with the return of Double J (by which I mean The Roadie), who enters to "With My Baby Tonight," perhaps the most inappropriate wrestling entrance theme until X-Factor's theme by Uncle Kracker. His opponent is Salvatore Sincere. And, this episode was taped a week ago. Take that, Nitro!
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Labels: 1996, billy gunn, bret hart, british bulldog, clarence mason, crush, freddie joe floyd, jesse james, mr. perfect, owen hart, phinease godwinn, raw, salvatore sincere, shawn michaels, sid, steve austin, sunny, wwf
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Raw #181 - October 21st, 1996
|Sid opens the show to take on Owen Hart, who is still one half of the tag team champions. Sid, who earned a title shot last night by defeating Vader, looks to get his mitts on the Slammy Award-winner on this month's live episode of Raw. More important, however, is the return of Vince McMahon to the RAW commentary desk. How many times will he say, "maneuver"? It's hard to say, but he's already said, "individual" twice in the first five minutes.
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Labels: 1996, bret hart, britsh bulldog, godwinns, hunter hearst helmsley, marc mero, mr. perfect, owen hart, raw, shawn michaels, sid, smoking gunns, wwf
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Raw #180 - October 14th, 1996
|Tonight, the vicious Stone Cold Steve Austin warms up for his match with Savio Vega by taking on the WWF champion in a non-title match. Austin tells Shawn that it's not the good book, it's Austin 3:16, and tonight he's going to whip his ass. That would be a lot more effective a taunt if Shawn Michaels were a bible-thumper, so I guess this promo is a decade before its time. By the way, since Shawn hasn't defended his title since Mind Games on September 22nd, isn't he coming up on 30 days without a title defense? Hopefully, Gorilla Monsoon won't be as strict as Jack Tunney.
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Labels: 1996, alex porteau, faarooq, freddie joe floyd, hunter hearst helmsley, jake roberts, jerry lawler, mr. perfect, phineas godwinn, raw, shawn michaels, sid, steve austin, sunny, vader, wwf
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Raw # 179 - October 7th, 1996
|Tonight, Todd Pettengill says, Vader is here. His message is clear. He's queer. Get used to it. Okay, I might have embellished a bit on those last two sentences. Also in the opening video package is Marlena, who is such a Hollywood aficionado that she appears to be wearing the molded nipples from Joel Schumacher's Batman films. All that, plus the fake Razor, the fake Diesel, and the Real Double J!
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Labels: 1996, aldo montoya, bob backlund, fake diesel, fake razor, goldust sid, jim cornette, jim ross, marc mero, new rockers, raw, roadie, sable, smoking gunns, sultan, sunny, vader, wwf
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Raw #178 - September 30th, 1996
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Labels: 1996, fake diesel, fake razor, godwinns, grimm twins, jake roberts, jerry lawler, jim cornette, jim ross, jose lothario, raw, savio vega, shawn michaels, steve austin, vader, wwf
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Raw #177 - September 23rd, 1996
|Tonight's show opens with a still photo from last night's In Your House pay-per-view showing "Razor" and "Diesel" attacking Savio Vega. This no doubt intrigues any fans who don't have access to the TNT network and can't check out Nitro to see that Kevin Nash and Scott Hall are live on WCW TV and definitely aren't going to be on this episode of Raw. Kevin Kelly says what a great night Mind Games was and says this Raw will be even better (meaning anyone who paid for last night's event probably wasted their money).
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Labels: 1996, barry windham, bodydonnas, british bulldog, clarence mason, faarooq, fake razor, hunter hearst helmsley, jim cornette, jim ross, marc mero, owen hart, pat patterson, raw, sable, steve austin, sunny, wwf
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Raw #176 - September 16th, 1996
|Jake Roberts opens this taped broadcast by chasing Jerry Lawler out of the broadcast position. If Lawler still had his headset, he'd be making a Jake the Snake joke about "chasers" right about now. His opponent is the debuting Sultan, who enters to the Iron Sheik's old music along with Sheiky Baby himself and Bob Backlund.
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Labels: 1996, alex porteau, bob backlund, bob holly, british bulldog, faarooq, iron sheik, jake roberts, jim cornette, marc mero, owen hart, raw, sid, smoking gunns, sultan, sunny, vader, wwf
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Raw #175 - September 9th, 1996
|The Intercontinental tournament's first round wraps up this week as Faarooq takes on Savio Vega. We open the broadcast with Jerry Lawler freaking out over Sunny's entrance. "What a pair!" says Lawler, supposedly referring to the "pair" of Faarooq and Sunny. JR calls Sunny a "Jezebel" who needs a "trip to the woodshed." It's only the second Raw to feature both JR and Jerry Lawler on commentary, and they are in complete agreement, both wanting to see Sunny get spanked.
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Labels: 1996, barry windham, carlos cabrera, clarence mason, crush, faarooq, freddie joe floyd, goldust, jose lothario, marlena, raw, salvatore sincere, savio vega, shawn michaels, sid, sunny, tl hopper, undertaker, wwf
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Raw #174 - Championship Friday - September 6th, 1996
|Tonight's Raw is a special "Championship Friday" edition, featuring Goldust vs. Shawn Michaels for the WWF title. The opening narration wonders whether Goldust's mind games will be able to defeat HBK. I doubt it; if anyone in the WWF is secure with his sexuality, it's the earring-and-chaps-wearing Boy Toy.
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Labels: 1996, alex porteau, bob backlund, goldust, hunter hearst helmsley, iron sheik, jerry lawler, mankind, marc mero, mark henry, mr. perfect, raw, shawn michaels, sid, steve austin, wwf
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Raw #173 - August 19th, 1996
|Raw is live the night after Summerslam, with Kevin Kelly making his Raw announcing debut. Another guest at the announcers' table is Jim Ross, as it takes two announcers to replace Vince McMahon. It looks like no maneuvers tonight. The British Bulldog faces his own Camp Cornette partner Owen Hart in the first round of the Intercontinental Title tournament.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, barry windham, british bulldog, freddie joe floyd, goldust, jim cornette, jose lothario, mankind, owen hart, paul bearer, raw, shawn michaels, sunny, undertaker, vader, wwf, yokozuna
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Raw #172 - August 12th, 1996
|Tonight's Raw begins with the winning combination of a Vince McMahon voiceover and — AHHHH! Surgery footage! McMahon explains that Ahmed's original kidney injury suffered at the hands (or feet) of Faarooq was aggravated during the battle royal in which he was somehow allowed to compete, then again by Faarooq in his post-match attack on Johnson, despite Assad not hitting Ahmed in the kidney that time. The surgery, supposedly performed last week some time after the battle royal, stopped the bleeding, but should the bleeding return, Ahmed might need to have his kidney removed.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, bob backlund, clarence mason, crush, faarooq, godwinns, owen hart, raw, savo vega, shawn michaels, skip, sunny, tl hopper, vader, who, wwf
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Raw #171 - August 5th, 1996
|Raw opens with the announcement that Olympic powerlifter Mark Henry has signed a ten-year multi-million "dolla" deal with the World Wrestling Federation, guaranteeing a career in the WWF until the far-off year of 2006. Imagine how many titles he'll win in that time! The intro starts off with a series of headlines about Henry, but the first when says, "Ow, Henry!" Apparently, the best way to present Mark to the world is with a joke about him getting injured.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, aldo montoya, battle royal, bodydonnas, faarooq, godwinns, jerry lawler, new rockers, raw, smoking gunns, wwf
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Raw #170 - July 29th, 1996
|Vince announces in the intro to tonight's show that the "intruder" last week has "temporarily sidelined" Ahmed Johnson with a ruptured kidney. How temporary is "temporarily"? Two weeks in kayfabe time, but about four months in real time, as Ahmed had already wrestled a match scheduled for next week before finding out his kidney had been ruptured.
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Labels: 1996, aldo montoya, british bulldog, clarence mason, crush, faarooq, henry godwinn, jim cornette, jose lothario, justin bradshaw, mankind, marc mero, owen hart, raw, sid, steve austin, sunny, undertaker, vader, wwf
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Raw #169 - July 22nd, 1996
|Raw emanates from the hometown of Rad Radford, Seattle, Washington. Sunny opens Raw by bringing out a birthday cake. Whom could it be for? Bob Dole? Fabulous Moolah? Or one half of the challengers for her Smoking Gunns' tag team titles, WWF champion Shawn Michaels? What a mystery!
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, barry horowitz, brian pillman, clarence mason, crush, faarooq, freddie joe floyd, goon, jim cornette, mankind, marc mero, raw, sable, shawn michaels, smoking gunns, sunny, vader, wwf
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Raw #168 - July 15th, 1996
|Shawn and Ahmed nearly had a scuffle earlier tonight with Camp Cornette, but fortunately, Tony Garea and Rene Goulet were there to break up the proceedings before the fists and fanny packs could fly. Tonight, both babyfaces defend their respective titles against Billy and Bart Gunn.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, bart gunn, billy gunn, jim cornette, marc mero, raw, sable, shawn michaels, sunny, tl hopper, vader, wwf
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Raw #167 - July 8th, 1996
|Tonight's top story: The Ultimate Warrior has been suspended! After no-showing multiple live events, Gorilla Monsoon has suspended Warrior indefinitely until he posts a bond. However, Warrior will be wrestling tonight as advertised because Monsoon is such a fan-friendly President. And also because his match was filmed two weeks ago.
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Raw #166 - July 1st, 1996
|Shawn Michaels, "the greatest sports-entertainer in the world today," opens tonight's Raw, walking down the aisle with his "Kliq Cam." How is the view from the Kliq Cam being shown in real time if this is a live broadcast? Maybe I just answered my own question. Speaking of questions, tonight, HBK faces former Rockers partner Marty Jannetty to determine which one was the "Marty Jannetty" of their team.
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Labels: 1996, duke droese, godwinns, goldust, jake roberts, jim cornette, leif cassidy, mankind, marc mero, marlena, marty jannetty, raw, sable, shawn michaels, steve austin, sunny, wwf
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Raw #165 - June 24th, 1996
|It's the night after King of the Ring, and the new king Hunter Hearst Helmsley is in action in the opening contest! Just kidding. Steve Austin won the crown, but Hunter is facing Ahmed Johnson, who last night overcame multiple acts of sexual molestation by Goldust to win the Intercontinental Title, becoming the first black singles champion in WWF history.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, aldo montoya, bodydonnas, brian pillman, british bulldog, goldust, hunter hearst helmsley, owen hart, raw, savio vega, steve austin, sunny, undertaker, vader, wwf
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Raw #164 - June 17th, 1996
|Vince opens tonight's Raw with a suggestion to the viewer to "expect the unexpected." The opening match is Steve Austin vs. Savio Vega, wrestling on television for the fifth time in three months, not including Beware of Dog 1. Very unexpected indeed.
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Labels: 1996, aldo montoya, brian pillman, british bulldog, goldust, jake roberts, jerry lawler, jim cornette, marc mero, mr. perfect, owen hart, raw, savio vega, shawn michaels, steve austin, wwf
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Raw #163 - June 10th, 1996
|Yokozuna wrestles his third-to-last televised match, facing former tag team partner Owen Hart in a King of the Ring match-up. Last year, Yoko fell victim to the awesome power of Savio Vega to be eliminated from the tournament. How will he fare against Owen? Jerry Lawler also shows off the portrait of the Ultimate Warrior he painted to patch things up with the man from the Parts Unknown. The picture is impressive, especially since he must have painted it in less than two hours at the announce table, since that's how long ago in real time that he and Warrior's feud started.
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Labels: 1996, british bulldog, jake roberts, jerry lawler, jim cornette, mankind, marc mero, owen hart, raw, shawn michaels, skip, ultimate warrior, undertaker, wwf, yokozuna
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Raw #162 - June 3rd, 1996
|Bob Holly is in the ring when Raw begins. The likes of Holly and Aldo Montoya have really benefitted from the Monday Night War; now that Raw has eliminated non-contracted jobbers from its matches for the sake of competitiveness, the lowest tier "Superstars" get a chance to shine and count the lights every Monday night. Vince McMahon announces that Ahmed Johnson will be challenging Goldust for the Intercontinental Title at King of the Ring after last week's "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation."
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, barry horowitz, bob holly, clarence mason, godwinns, goldust, hunter hearst helmsley, jake roberts, jerry lawler, mankind, raw, steve austin, sunny, tekno team 2000, ultimate warrior, wwf
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Raw #161 - May 27th, 1996
|Goldust is in the ring at the outset of the show, and Vince speculates that the arena will "shake, rattle, and roll" when "The Man They Call The Ultimate Warrior" enters. Vince has just confused Warrior with both the Honky Tonk Man and Vader. Warrior does enter to pyro, but no hip-shaking. Goldust stays out of the ring, afraid of the Warrior, so Warrior slowly stalks him.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, bodydonnas, godwinns, goldust, hillbilly jim, king of the ring, owen hart, raw, smoking gunns, sunny, ted dibiase, ultimate warrior, vader, wwf
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Raw #160 - May 20th, 1996
|Last night was an eventful house show at Madison Square Garden. The big news on Raw is that the Bodydonnas lost the tag team titles to the Godwinns. The bigger news, not mentioned on Raw, is that four members of the Clique gave a public farewell at the end of the show, leading to Hunter Hearst Helmsley's burial over the next few months.
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Labels: 123 kid, 1996, ahmed johnson, british bulldog, clarence mason, diana smith, jake roberts, jim cornette, marc mero, raw, sable, savio vega, shawn michaels, steve austin, ted dibiase, ultimate warrior, wwf
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Raw #159 - May 13th, 1996
|The WWF has just finished its tour of the Middle East, and Ahmed Johnson made history just yesterday as the winner of the first-ever Kuwait Cup, or, as Sgt. Slaughter would call it, the 19th Province of Iraq Cup. How will Ahmed deal with the jet-lag of crossing 9 time zones on a 21+ hour flight from Kuwait City to Sioux City? Just kidding! This episode was taped two weeks earlier, before the Kuwait Cup tournament even took place. As an amusing side note, i just discovered that the initials for Sioux City's airport are SUX. After a brief and barely intelligible promo where he appears to say "Jeff Jarrett's retarded" (actually, he says, "Jeff Jarrett's guitar didn't stop me"), Ahmed is interrupted by an obviously dubbed-in Jerry Lawler. Sunny then helps him prep for the match by rubbing oil on his chest, but Ahmed rebuffs her advances, saying that he was taught to take the trash out, not in. "He dissed her, McMahon!" says an outraged King. Ahmed takes on Zip of Sunny's Bodydonnas.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, bodydonnas, british bulldog, duke droese, goldust, hunter hearst helmsley, justin bradshaw, mankind, mr. perfect, raw, shawn michaels, sunny, uncle zebekiah, undertaker, vader, wwf
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Raw #158 - May 6th, 1996
|Tonight's episode opens with a memorial for Ray "Crippler" Stevens, Pat Patterson's long-time partner (of the tag team variety). As for the other kid of partner, an anonymous woman claiming to have been seduced by Shawn Michaels will speak out tonight.
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Labels: 123 kid, 1996, bodydonnas, british bulldog, fatu, goldust, hunter hearst helmsley, marc mero, oaul bearer, owen hart, raw, sable, sunny, tekno team 2000, undertaker, wwf
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Raw #157 - April 29th, 1996
|Tonight's Raw is all about SEX! Whom did Shawn Michaels proposition last night? Sable? Marlena? Sunny (once again)? Nope, try Diana Smith! Shawn certainly did. Mankind has his third match on Raw, this time against Bart Gunn, who is in the midst of the Smoking Gunns Awareness campaign to remind everyone that they still exist despite brother Billy's horseback injury.
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Labels: 1996, bart gunn, british bulldog, diana smith, godwinns, isaac yankem, jerry lawler, jim cornette, mankind, new rockers, raw, savio vega, shawn michaels, steve austin, sunny, ultimate warrior, wwf
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Raw #156 - April 22nd, 1996
|This week's Raw opens with a rematch between Savio Vega and Goldust for the vacant Intercontinental title. Vince comments that Goldust has "lost weight" as of late, referring to his loss of the IC belt and not to his infamous weight fluctuations over the next two decades. Vince compares Gorilla Monsoon's decision last week to those of King Solomon, saying "you can't split the baby in two" (which is not a reference to Terri Runnels's kayfabe miscarriage in 1999). Jerry Lawler mentions that Sunny has "two huge surprises" for the Godwinns tonight. My guess is her breasts. Anyone else guessing, "breasts"?
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Labels: 1996, aldo montoya, bodydonnas, diesel, fatu, godwinns, goldust marlena, mankind, raw, savio vega, sunny, tajiri, ultimate warrior, vader, wwf
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Raw #155 - April 15th, 1996
|It's the WWF's first Tax Day in years without IRS! Tonight's undercard has a "one half of tag teams" theme, with Bart Gunn of the Smoking Gunns taking on Steve Austin, and Leif Cassidy of the New Rockers facing Marc Mero. The Wildman enters with new valet Sable, who is decked out in leather. Mero celebrates by doing the Batusi. "Hunter Hearst Helmsley, eat your heart out!" says McMahon. HHH would have the last laugh, marrying Vince's daughter and thus gaining control of the whole company. "I never thought she was that hot-looking to begin with," says Lawler of Sable, two years before going nuts over her body-paint "bikini."
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Labels: 1996, bart gunn, bret hart, goldust, jim cornette, leif cassidy, marc mero, raw, sable, savio vega, steve austin, vader, wwf
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Raw #154 - April 8th, 1996
|With Jerry Lawler facing Shawn Michaels in tonight's main event, the King has been replaced on commentary. You could say that tonight's announcing will be "perfect." You'd be wrong, though, as Vince is still at the announce table. Our opening contest is Vader vs. Yokozuna, the match that was originally scheduled for Wrestlemania.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, british bulldog, diesel, goldust, jerry lawler, mr. perfect, owen hart, raw, shawn michaels, ultimate warrior, vader, wwf, yokozuna
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Raw #153 - April 1st, 1996
|It's the night after the Wrestlemania XII, and all through the house, not a creature is stirring, except to flip back and forth between Raw, Nitro, and the NCAA basketball finals. And what better way to kick things off than Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly, whose music plays at the beginning of the show! A new wrestler named, "Mankind" enters the ring to ominous music. Vince is taking a chance by letting Mick Foley debut under this name, rather than "Mason the Mutilator."
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Labels: 1996, aldo montoya, barry horowitz, bob holly, bodydonnas, isaac yankem, justin bradshaw, mankind, marc mero, raw, sable, shawn michaels, sunny, undertaker, wwf
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Raw #152 - March 25th, 1996
|Shawn Michaels kicks off Raw by augmenting his male stripper gimmick with a Japanese tourist gimmick, coming to the ring with a camcorder to film everything in sight. After Shawn puts away the "Kliq Cam," he introduces his hometown San Antonio crowd to Supersock José Lothario. Considering Michaels is the "Sexy Boy," shouldn't Lothario be "Supersoxy?" Or is the name "Lothario" sexual enough?
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Raw #151 - March 18th, 1996
|Vince's opening narration announces Diesel's heel turn, which occurred at last night's house show at Madison Square Garden. We are also promised another Billionaire Ted segment, this time involving the FTC. Oh boy!
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Labels: 123 kid, 1996, barry horowitz, billionaire ted, bret hart, british bulldog, diesel, fatu, goldust roddy piper, jake roberts, jim cornette, paul bearer, raw, tatanka, ted dibiase, undertaker, wwf, yokozuna
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Raw #150 - March 11th, 1996
|It's the hundred-fiftieth episode of Raw, and it kicks off with history in the making. Yes, that's right, Savio Vega is in action! But that's not the historic part, of course. The historic part is that it is the Ringmaster's first night as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, although Vince is still reluctant to give up calling him "Ringmaster" altogether. Still, the transition to his now iconic moniker is a sort of mea culpa for the lame nickname he got saddled with in his first few months.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Raw #149 - March 4th, 1996
|Tonight, the build-up to Wrestlemania XII gets weird. The fate of the Ultimate Warrior is revealed (sort of), Goldust hits on Roddy Piper, and the upcoming Geriatric Match gets a boost from a mock-trivia show about Ted Turner's "obnoxious, sexist, racist remarks" that have nothing to do with wrestling or WCW. In more conventional booking, both men in the Mania main event wrestle singles matches.
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Labels: 123 kid, 1996, billionaire ted, bret hart, goldust, hakushi, hunter hearst helmsley, justin bradshaw, raw, roddy piper, shawn michaels, wwf
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Raw # 148 - February 26th, 1996
|Sunny warns us of the (porno)graphic nature of tonight's Raw. These pre-show vignettes by Tammy Sytch really do make Raw look filthier than it is. I do like the resulting thumbnails it creates for my blog posts, though.
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Labels: 1996, ahmed johnson, al snow, billionaire ted, bret hart, british bulldog, goldust, isaac yankem, jake roberts, owen hart, raw, roddy piper, shawn michaels, shinobi, vader, wwf, yokozuna
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Raw #147 - February 19th, 1996
|Sunny advises viewer discretion tonight for material too hot for some. Vince recaps the previous night's pay-per-view which featured an "eerie" ending. Not "eary" like Mankind, however. And what does the Ultimate Warrior have to do with tonight's Raw? We'll find out on tonight's episode, which opens with Razor Ramon challenging for Goldust's Intercontinental title. All this, plus another Billionaire Ted skit.
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Labels: 1996. wwf. billionaire ted, aldo montoya, barry horowitz, diesel, dok hendrix, goldust, marty jannetty, paul bearer, razor ramon, steve austin, sunny, tatanka, undertaker, vader, wwf
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Raw #146 - February 5th, 1996
|Vince speculates that this Raw could be "one for the books," perhaps because it's already been taped and he's seen the whole thing. Or maybe it's because he booked the whole thing. Either way, Two Dudes with Attitudes take on Yokozuna and the British Bulldog in a rematch of the Triple Header match, except no one has a title anymore. Vince plays up the dissension-in-the-ranks angle for Camp Cornette by showing footage from last week, while a fan holds up a steamy poster of Shawn Michaels to show how much he loves dudes. With attitudes.
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Raw #145 - January 29th, 1996
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Raw #144 - January 22nd, 1996
|This post-Rumble Raw opens with Sunny, who warns us that tonight's program contains "action of a graphic nature." I'd like to have action of a graphic nature with her! Sex, I mean.
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Mark Doty nailed the essence of AWP, no surprise, when he characterized it as "a social situation that makes everyone want to feel known and recognized, and then makes the known the recognized want to run and hide."
Nope, I couldn't have said it better myself.
That said, my response to the "look at me/get away from me" impulse is to attend the panels, listen to the poems being read, take notes, and be inspired by both poets you've admired for years (Albert Goldbarth, Dorianne Laux, Kim Addonizio, Sherman Alexie), as well as poets you had no idea existed yesterday and are now smitten with (Erica Dawson, Stacey Waite, Karl Elder).
That's the main reason I am here, anyhoo, to get that po-buzz, to be moved to laughter/tears by the music and meaning of words.
Once again, I only made it through two sessions today, sex poetry and the Beloit Poetry Journal 60-year anniversary celebration.
I chose well. Both of these rocked.
The sex poetry panel was all good, but especially Stacey Waite (Whoa, that woman can write and perform like nobody's business) and Dorianne Laux, who, in "Dolly's Breasts," describes Dolly Parton's knockers as "a pair of fat-cheeked Baptists dreaming of peaches." Oh, and Jan Beatty's poem "I Saw One of Blake's Angels" -- whoa, that was amazing. Oh, and so was Aaron Smith's "What Christian's Say During Sex," so really this was the ticket through and through, including Sharon Doubiago's "How to Make Love to a Man," and the factoid she provided that there are at least two Bibles bound in Comanche skin.
The poets on stage talked about censorship, having trouble placing their work, not getting to share their work with high school students. Waite lamented the fact that "high school students read Adrienne Rich's 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' year in and year out while being forbidden her '21 Love Poems.'" Laux, however, was more upbeat, reminding us that The Poet's Companion, with its quite sexy and explicit Erotic Poetry chapter, is a textbook used in hundreds of high schools across the country.
Great job, panelists, especially with answering the question from the audience about how to be a het male and write het love poetry without coming off as misogynistic (interrogate, investigate, go deeply into the experience so that it's yours and yours only, basically).
And then it was off the the Beloit Poetry Journal 60th Anniversary Celebration, the crown-jewel of my CCC/AWP experience to date. After a lovely, loving introduction from co-editors Lee Sharkey and John Rosenwald, Goldbarth (who first pubbed in BPJ in 1972) had us all rapt within seconds as he launched into a poem I can't possibly begin to describe, though (sorry if you weren't there!) it brought down the house.
Susan Tichy bravely and beautifully followed, and then Karl Elder took the stage, a man in love with the 26 letters of the alphabet in a way I didn't know possible; he writes abecadarians like nobody's business. His work is lively, honed, exact, sublime. A poem for his grandson Owen, titled "Ode to O" appears, along with Goldbarth's, in the BPJ chapbook of Chad Walsh Prize winners. (I will not spoil your experience of reading any of these fine poems by excerpting them here.)
Next came Janet Holmes and her incredible pastiche on the Chinese musician and instrument-maker Parch, and then, the finale, Sherman Alexie, who shared a very rousing reading of "Defending Walt Whitman," one of my all-time favorite Whitman-inspired poems, right up there with Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California."
Before he left the stage, Alexie reminded aspiring poets that "it's still almost all about rejection," and shared the fact that his poem in the just-out BPJ chapbook needed to be "heavily edited" before it could be printed. "And I am happy for that," he said more than once, because he knows that inferior work does not deserve to be published.
And now I am back in my shoddy motel room munching cinnamon gummy bears from Cook's Fresh Market (if you are wondering where to get really good to-go food to take back to your hotel room--fresh salads, yummy sandwiches, gourmet cheeses and crackers--this is the place for you).
Doty's right; it's all a bit of an existential circus, but just like back home it's really all about balance. When you've had enough of the Big Top, head back to your room, run a hot bath, and pour yourself an ice cold Sanpelligrino. Then sit back, relax, and keep in mind that you wouldn't sell many books if they're wasn't no AWP.


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The grade two's had lots of fun at their end of year party. We decided to have it on the beach, where we could enjoy the beautiful summer weather. Sadly there were just so many blue bottles that swimming was out of the question. However, we made the most of our time, building sandcastles and popping bluebottles!! We did however manage to have a swim in the pool when we got back to school and wash off all the salty sea air. It was a great way to end our year.
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Title: FORBIDDEN PROMISES
Author: Katee Robert
Series: The O'Malleys, #4
On Sale: May 30, 2017
Publisher: Forever
Mass Market: $7.99 USD
eBook: $5.99 USD
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert delivers the next book in her sizzling O'Malleys family series, hailed as "The Godfather meets Romeo & Juliet."
"A tension-filled plot full of deceit, betrayal, and sizzling love scenes will make it impossible for readers to set the book down." –Publishers Weekly
"A great read from the talented Robert!" –RT Book Reviews
"This is an extraordinary series by any standards, and FORBIDDEN PROMISES slays the competition." –Fresh Fiction
Some lines should never be crossed . . . not even for love.
Sloan O'Malley just left her entire world behind—her family, her wealth, and even her real name. For the first time in her life, she's free. She can live the "normal" life she's always wanted. A life without fear. But there's nothing safe about her intensely sexy next-door neighbor.
Jude MacNamara has no room for innocence in his life. Only revenge. Still, he's never been able to walk away from the forbidden, and Sloan—who is every inch of pure, mouthwatering temptation—has forbidden written all over her. Only after it's way too late does he discover the real danger: claiming Sloan as his puts a target on her back. To protect her, Jude is willing risk everything . . . and to hell with the consequences.
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"Coming here was a mistake." Sloan started to get up, but Jude hooked the band of her yoga pants and pulled her down. She ended up straddling him with a hiss of fury. "I dislike you intensely."
"No, you don't." He palmed her ass, sliding her forward so she rode the ridge of his cock. "You dislike feeling out of control. Guess what, sunshine? You don't get control when it comes to fucking me."
Her nipples pebbled, showing through her thin tank top. They teased him even as she put her hands on his chest, her fingers kneading him and making him think of a kitten who had just discovered her claws. "And if I want control?"
"You don't." He wrapped one arm around her waist and used his free hand to palm her over the top of her pants. "I've barely touched you and you're so fucking wet, you're practically panting for me."
"You are insufferable." But she rolled her hips, rubbing herself against his hand. "I'm leaving."
"No, you're not. You're going to stay here and let me lick that pretty pussy of yours until you come." He lightly pinched her clit through the fabric, watching her face. She liked the slightest bit of pain if the way her eyes went heavy lidded was anything to go by. "And then I'm going to bend you over this couch and take what's mine." Until you forget why you were frightened in the first place tonight.
He wanted to hear her say yes. For all his pushing her, if she actually wanted to leave, he wasn't about to stop her. She wanted him to push her, to corner her, to let her pretend she wasn't making this decision every step of the way. Fuck that. He gripped her hips, lifting her and standing her on her feet. She blinked, obviously confused. "I thought…"
Jude unbuttoned his jeans, drawing the zipper down, his gaze never leaving hers. "You thought I'd take what we both know you want to give me? Newsflash, I might get off on the lady protesting too much, but that only goes so far. You want to leave, leave. I'm not going to chase you down and club you over the head, no matter how much I want you."
She swayed a little. "That's not fair."
"What's not fair is how goddamn hard I am for you. I watched your little yoga show this afternoon—don't even pretend you didn't know because I saw you shooting looks this way. Seeing that pert little ass of yours in the air, like you were offering yourself to me, and not being able to take what I wanted?" He grabbed her hand and pressed it against his cock. "How long do you think you could hold downward dog with my mouth on your pussy?"
Her whole body shivered, her hand clenching around his cock. Sloan's brows slanted down. "You're doing it again. That thing where I should slap you across your face for talking to me the way you do."
"Do it." Jude took her free hand and set it against his cheek. "But whatever you're going to do if you're not leaving, then get those fucking pants off. I'm starving for you."
Sloan almost gave in. But she hadn't left her entire life behind to hand over what little freedom she had to another man.
She took one step back, and then another. "You're wrong. I don't want to give up control."
Lay the terms out. You don't want this to end, but he can't run the whole show. You can't let it happen like that.
Sloan lifted her chin, faking a confidence she didn't feel in the least. "Even if this is temporary, I want it on my terms."
Jude went still. "I'm listening."
The only way you can get what you want is to say it. She bit her lip and then charged on. "If you're sleeping with me, then you're sleeping with me. I don't care if you aren't a fan of cuddling. It's something I require to continue this thing."
He raised a single eyebrow. "You want me to whisper sweet nothings in your ear while you're at it?"
"I think we can both agree that's not how you operate." She didn't want the lie of sweet nothings, but she'd take the lie of his big body in bed next to hers.
Maybe it would make her feel a little less alone.
He buttoned his pants with careless efficiency. "I don't sleep."
Her earlier anger flared. "Then lie there and count sheep for all I care." She couldn't believe she was pushing this. It would be so much smarter to retreat back to the safety of her home. Lonely, yes? But at least no one could hurt her there. She was opening herself up for rejection and potentially worse when Jude shot her down.
But he didn't say anything, just continued watching her with a strange look on his face. "This will only end in tears for you, sunshine. You want things I'm not capable of giving."
Her heart gave a pang, but she ignored it the same way she'd been ignoring it for her entire life. "You seem to think I haven't shed more than my fair share of tears, Jude. What are a few more?" She took a careful breath. "Those are my terms. Take them or leave them."
And then he was towering over her, his hand sifting through her hair to tug her head back so she looked him directly in the eye. "I'm taking them, sunshine. More importantly, I'm taking you."
His thumb traced her jaw, unspeakably tender, but then his eyes went hard, making the bottom of her stomach drop in a way that wasn't altogether pleasant. I have the tiger by the tail.
Forbidden Promises by Katee Robert
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is the 4th in The O'Malleys series. This book can be read as a standalone novel. For reader understanding and enjoyment, I recommend reading this series in order.
Jude has sinister plans for someone near Sloan. His past is full of secrets and lies. What could he ever hope to offer someone as innocent as she?
Sloan has her own past full of secrets. She has her own lies she needs to tell. Jude is just eye candy until her curiosity cannot resist.
This series just leaves me breathless! Just when I think nothing can surprise me.... well, I am not a spoiler so you will have to read it to find out. Know that this author never leaves you wanting. The characters are very rich and compelling in all sorts of ways.
***This ARC copy was given in exchange by Netgalley and its publisher for an honest review.
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FORBIDDEN PROMISES Playlist:
Relax My Beloved – Alex Clare
Alive – Sia
Parachute – Chris Stapleton
River Lea – Adele
Perfect – Ed Sheeran
Laura – Flogging Molly
Ride – Chase Rice (feat Macy Maloy)
Forever Yours – Trey Songz
Hold Me Down – Halsey
Brave Enough – Lindsey Stirling (feat Christina Perri)
Devil's Backbone – Civil Wars
Heavy in Your Arms – Florence + the Machine
Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande
Cold Day in Heaven – Delta Rae
Not Afraid Anymore - Halsey
I See Fire – Ed Sheeran
Touch – July Talk
John Wayne – Lady Gaga
One Woman Man – John Legend
Katee Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who learned to tell stories at her grandpa's knee. Her novel The Marriage Contract was a RITA finalist, and RT Book Reviews named it "a compulsively readable book with just the right amount of suspense and tension." When not writing sexy contemporary and romantic suspense, she spends her time playing imaginary games with her children, driving her husband batty with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
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But then I read the Herald on Sunday:
Hello daftness my old friend, as someone nearly sang. Parents, show this to your small children and ask them if it makes sense. Does "haha awesome" equate to writing forebodingly of fears? I think not.
A British backpacker wrote forebodingly of his earthquake fears a few hours before he was killed in Christchurch.
Ex-soldier Greg Tobin had been on a round-the-world trip with two friends when he was crushed in the quake.
In a Facebook post on Monday, he wrote: "Just felt the scariest earthquake of my life so far, compared with the little ones I've felt in the UK, that actually scared the s**t out of me! Haha awesome.
Worser still was the work of the Herald's billboard people, which announced this story as the lead, despite it appearing briefly and deeply within the paper. The billboard's take on the story was
Soldier Foretells His Own Death
No it wasn't. It was just one of those things. He came to Christchurch and felt an aftershock. It happens. Then there was an earthquake. Sadly, that happened. Sadly, he was killed. Sadly, so were many others. There was nothing foroboding, there were no omens. It just happened. One moment Christchurh was a city getting on with its life, putting itself back together after the last earthquake and coping with the aftershocks. The next moment, the city fell down. People died; Mr Tobin was one of them. Part of the sadness is that there was no meaning. Had Mr Tobin had been killed when he was a solidier, killed by an enemy, a meaning could have been found for his death. Had Mr Tobin sought out danger, deliberately taken risks by going to a place where another meaning could have been found.
But there was none. There was no meaning in the death of Don Cowey, a good architect and a good man. There was no meaning in the death of Murray Wood, a good businessman and a good man. What matters about these people and many others is not that they died tragic deaths but that they lived good lives. The papers should say more about the living and less about the dying.


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Entry #751
Tuesday was sub-par. I overhead pressed 225 lbs. only once when I was aiming for three. and it was a slow rep. I was completely out of it from a lack of sleep, despite smashing my forehead repeatedly into the bar for a wake-up call.
Wednesday was good DE, though. Superb, actually. Front squats were fast, and I finally returned to doing Romanian deadlifts for the first time in awhile. All these glute-ham raises have made my hamstrings insane. 315, while never exactly heavy before, felt like nothing. I should go up to 365 for 8.
Today, I skipped the gym as a result of waking up late, and instead did TrainForStrength.com.


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The Examiner has learned that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has once again engaged in one of its familiar tactics in response to various lawsuits brought against it -- the refusal to turn over documents that are considered key evidence.Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.
The lawsuit was filed by the top technology corporations in the nation, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and Linkedin, which are seeking the legal right to make public the number of requests they receive from the NSA and the FISA court to turn over private information, along with the number of citizens who are impacted by these requests.
Monday, November 25, 2013
DOJ refuses to turn over documents in new lawsuit
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01. Arenera [Trio] 7:09
02. Radar [Trio] 7:00
03. Acurruca [Trio] 6:40
04. Silencio 9:19
05. Acurruca [Quartet] 5:49
06. Radar [Quartet] 6:04
07. Arenera [Quartet] 8:05
All songs composed & arranged by Juan Pablo Balcazar
Juan Pablo Balcazar (bass), Marco Mezquida (piano), and Carlos Falanga (drums). Guest: Miguel 'Pintxo' Villar (tenor sax on #5,6 & 7).
Recorded by Jesús Rovira at Casamurada Studios, on August 8, 2013
Mixed by Toni Paris & Juan Pablo Balcazar at Studios 44.1, on February 7, 2014
Mastering engineer: Toni Paris
Artwork: Pep Llechà
Illistration: Rosa Satoca
Produced by J.P. Balcazar
Executive producer: Jordi Pujol
"Gimmicky, right? Cute lower-case device for Juan Pablo, backwards lettering on cover art, palindromic structure? Actually, no. This is Balcazar's fifth CD for FSNT, if one includes two excellent discs on which he and Pintxo went out as Ballcock and The Heckler. Jordi Pujol has a gift for finding great bassist-led groups and this is one of his genuine coups, an irresistibly swinging modern jazz record where all but the central theme enjoy two distinct outings, one with trio and one with quartet.
There's evidence of Balcazar's astonishing sound on double bass right from the beginning. His sound is cavernous, ripe and grand, as if he's playing cable-thick strings over an outsize woody cavity. Mezouda has a punchy, solid touch, while Falanga, relieved of lower-end duties, plays bright, musical figures, somewhat in the Joey Baron style. The quartet reprise of Acurruca is dazzling and suddenly makes sense of the set's mirror structure. Fine as these themes are first time round, they're taken to a new level when Pintxo's reedy, warmly penetrating voice comes in. I just played this back-to-back with the earlier stuff: Viaje-Voyage, Invocation and the Ballcock/Heckler things. He keeps on growing."
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"Writer-director Wilde skilfully captures the most jarring truths of British social relationships in this insightful, creepy drama. But it's perhaps too quietly tense and ice cold to ever engage us."
The clip seemed pretty engaging to me!
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1. Through things in boxes with out labels. I have no idea where some stuff is
2. Not check the washer/dryer connections. Still can't believe I didn't look at this
3. Try to clean with a 4 year old around. Elisa has been given some very funny chores to do to keep her away from the cleaning chemicals
4. Clean out air conditioner filters in the bathtube. I ended up clogging the tube at the new place when I washed off all the AC filters
5. Tryto move in one weekend. This is oursecond move where we have had almost a month to move and clean and it makes things soooo nice.
6. Try to reschedule any transfering of services. I scheduled the phone and dsl to switch on the 2 but tried to move it up when we were able to move most stuff earlier. We ended up with no phone part of a day and no dsl for 3 days
7. Believe the property manager. We are in a duplex that resently had the PGE meter split. We were told that PGE would be putting in the meter any day and that the water meter was split. Turns out the work on the PGE split has not been finished and the water has never been separate. We have water and electricity but have to split the water cost with the back unit and wait at least a month more before we will have a meter for PGE.
8. Try to move even the smallest thing while pregnant, especially with twins. I have gotten yelled at by everyone for lifting even the tiniest things. It's good to be loved :)
9. Believe the Direct TV sales person. Of course I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get our Direct TV service setup and charging right. The sales person even forgot to put in the $18 a month discount she had promised.
10. Hook up the tv before you are finished moving. It makes it way to easy to just "take a little break" and waste half a day.
11. Start moving stuff into the new place before you clean. We did a pretty good job of cleaning first thanks to having my cusin coming to help us. Now if everything would have stayed clean :)
12. Move more furnature then you need to. We have a lot move furnature then I thought and now that we have good sized closets,way too many dressers. Wish I could have craig listed them instead of moving them
13. Forget your camera. I took a lot of photos of our old and new place so that I could scrapbook the move and so I could plan where furnature would go.
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Of all the things Art is something to invest in!
That's why I went on buying the following tee
(or I simply used the above phrase to justify another unreasonable buy...DUNNO.)
Other than ART though, I recently realized I have way to many stuff I don't need and it's time for me to get rid of.
From clothes to people!
Saved money to buy them, they are exactly the way I wanted them to be & they're effing ultra-comfy.
There are also some girls that rock my world every time I am around them & I am planning never to lose, cause they complete me to such an extend that our initials form my name: K.A.T
This post is dedicated to them.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
tokyo in march
i'm in tokyo to review and file year end taxes for nooka japan, my office here. i came a few days early to adjust to the time zone so i won't be a zombie when i have meetings. i also used the time to finally get myself to the MOT, the tokyo museum of contemporary art [Museum Of Tokyo = MOT] as it is a bit of a pain to get to. the permanent collection is quite good, but their 2008 annual show of new art was disappointing for the most part. also, i'm always shocked with how humid the conditions are in japanese museums – not good for the art or the viewers comfort.
i decided to upload a visual diary for the past 2 days. the dog is the nooka tokyo office mascot and his name is nikko. the wonderful blue gate is a piece by artist Suh Do-ho called "Reflection". the little paintings are from a cute show at the tiny but wonderful fewmany shop/gallery in shinjuku of work from my friends at devilrobots. the new tange tower is almost complete...not sure how i feel about it [it's a bit overdesigned].
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I am so close to being done with school. I just finished my very last (of too many) edits on my case study. I also wrote my letter of transmittal and found my transcripts. Now all I have to do is get this thing printed and bound, delivered or mailed to my professor, prepare to defend it, and of course defend it. By defend it, I mean that I have to present it to a panel of professors on March 9th and defend it from any questions that they throw at me. Assuming that I am given a passing grade, I will be done for ever! Oh I hope I never go crazy enough to go back to school again! I've had enough!
No news on the adoption front. We still wait on the i-600 (immigration form). And no group of 4 little faces have shown up. So we wait. I find myself envious of other families how have a timeline in place, who are moving forward. But I am completely obsessed by wishing for this as I have been in the past. Who knows, by the time this is all over maybe I will have learned some patience.


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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has warned that Scott Parker is the only player the club would not consider selling if the price is right during a summer shake-up at Upton Park.
Sullivan, along with his boardroom colleague David Gold, is quickly beginning preparations for a busy summer in the transfer market after the club effectively ensured their Barclays Premier League survival with Saturday's 3-2 win over Wigan.
Parker scored the winner on that occasion, and Sullivan immediately ruled the midfielder out of a potential summer exodus.
"Other than Scott Parker, there is not a player we wouldn't sell if it was the right bid," said Sullivan.
"Scott will not be sold and we will be buying more than we are selling. There will be no fire-selling and we will enhance the squad, not diminish it."
He added: "We will have to shake up the pack because there is no point kidding ourselves otherwise we will be in the same position next year - the table doesn't lie."
But, while he also expressed a wish to keep Upson, he would make no such guarantees over the former Birmingham defender - or, for that matter, his international colleagues Robert Green and Carlton Cole.
"We will make (Upson) a proposal for a new three-year contract," he said.
"We would give him an offer of a comparable level to what he is on now, which he may or may not want to take.
"But Upson has a year to go so if we get a good offer we will take it."
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Is your body absorbing our food properly?
Are toxins eliminated or re-absorbed?
What interferes with our Digestion?
What does our digestion tell us about our thoughts and attitude?
What can we do to help our body to have optimum digestion?
Understanding the Process of Digestion
(Assimilation and Elimination)
How is the food broken down for Absorption?
First the food needs to be broken down through:
- chewing,
- enzymes from the saliva
- acids and enzymes in the stomach
- bile from the liver (dissolving fats)
- enzymes from the pancreas
The food then gets absorbed in the Small intestine covered by an area of 200 sq meters of villi. If these villi are clogged with 'debris' from refined food and/or not enough fiber, the absorption of the nutrients from the food is compromised.
Large Intestine
Over 300 different types of good bacteria (billions) break down the food so more nutrients can be absorbed.
Detoxification process
What kind of toxins?
- Resulting from the metabolic process
- Food additives,
- Pollution
- Insecticides
- Pesticides
- Drugs
- Alcohol
- Micro-organisms
Normal Elimination of Toxins:
- the blood takes the toxins to the liver
- bile carries them to the Gall bladder
- taken out with solids left after assimilation
For the Detoxification the Liver needs nutrients,
some of them are:
- Antioxidants
- Vitamin B, C, E
- Carotenoids
- Folic Acid
- Amino acids
- Phytochemicals (i.e. garlic, cruciferous vegetables)
- Glutathione
Re-absorption of toxins
When food doesn't contain enough fiber it moves too slowly through the bowel and toxins get re-absorbed.
What kind of Fiber do we need for optimum Digestion?
Insoluble Fiber:
- Adds bulk to the food and absorbs water
- Speeds transition time
- Leaves you feeling fuller
Soluble Fiber:
Acts like a sponge attaches to toxins in the bowel and so they get carried out with the remaining bulk, hence no re-absorption.
Digestion and Feeling Good
Dr. Isaac Eliaz in his article:It's All in Your Gut! How to Enhance Mood, Immunity and More Through Digestion says:
"The neuro-endocrine system (branches of the hormonal and nervous systems that work closely together) also plays an important role in digestive and overall health. Your gastrointestinal system is the most abundant source of regulatory neurotransmitters and neuro-peptides outside the brain. An example of this is the fact that serotonin, one of the brain's chemicals that influences mood, actually has its highest concentrations in the gut."
Gluten can interfere with absorption:
"When people with celiac disease eat foods or use products containing gluten, their immune system attacks the small intestine. The tiny, fingerlike protrusions (called "villi") that line the small intestine are damaged or destroyed. The villi normally allow nutrients from food to be absorbed into the bloodstream. Without healthy villi, a person becomes malnourished, regardless of the quantity of food eaten."
From : National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
"However, in an animal study published in the February 1998 edition of the "Pediatric Allergy and Immunology" journal showed, damage to villi might begin as early as three hours after exposure to a food allergen, with atrophy occurring in as few as 24 hours."
What can we do to help digestion?
- Add more fiber to our diet
- Eat lots of vegetables and fruit and little meat
- Eat pro-biotic food (yoghurt, fermented food, i.e. sauerkraut
- Apple cider vinegar (1 table spoon in a glass of water)
- Add a high quality fiber to our regime
- Re-populate the healthy bacteria with a good probiotic
- Provide nutrients to assist the liver with de-toxing
- Prevent re-absorption of toxins (soluble fibre)
- Eat sweet potatoes (can help with eliminating heavy metals)
- Avoid Gluten
- Keep a positive attitude
Coconut flour is 61% fiber.
Gluten free on a Shoestring website
According to "The Body is the Barometer of your Soul" by Annette Noontil
the different part of our digestive system have the following correlations to Attitude:
Stomach – Understanding
Liver – Learning
Small Intestine – Positivity – Empathy Knowing Honesty in Business
Large Intestine – Loyalty to Self – Generosity, Openness, Relaxed
If you have these qualities for yourself you will then have them for others
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