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|22 Jul 2007, 08:30 AM
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I've got the power!
Promo Thread for Championship Dreams
The match that everyone is anticipating...for months these two have gone at it with each other, now will one man fulfill his destiny and make history by becoming a three time world champion? Or will DC prove once and for all that he is a legit world champ...these two battled last year in what was a match of the year candidate for the TV Title, will they be able to top it this year?
The rivalry between these two men has been intense, after failing to regain the TV Title from Blade on a two occasions, Judge joined up with DC and Thugged Out and tried get in line for a world title shot. With Blade costing him a chance in the battle royal, Judge decided to get even and go back after Blade...Who has the upperhand in the match now that it is a Last Man Standing? Will Judge get over the hump, or will he fail in a match that seems right up Blade's alley?
Demon Alexander has been a dominant Hardcore Champion every since his surprise return, now two former champs are cashing in on their oppurtunity to regain gold. Josh was on a roll last month, until a couple of setbacks have made him go into the match suffereing from some soreness...Dragon shocked everyone last week by leaving Alli's Cult and demanding his rematch..Are the odds against Demon, or will he once again come out victorious?
Thugged Out are the most dominant tag team champions ever in the IWO...Now they have a new challenger in the form of strictly business...can the office duo compelete Plan C and become tag team champions, or will they be just another victim of Thugged Out?
Crusher cost Primate his match against Josh...Now Crusher is looking to get even more revenge...With Oko fired, this match between the two of them looks to be even...Last week Primate hurt his leg, and that could play a factor in the match...Will Crusher finally settel the score, or will the animal Primate prove to much of a challenge?
Team Millen is now against each other in this matchup...the winner has a shot at the World Champion next week on Redemption...With four talented stars and four contrasting styles this match could go either way...Will Giggles finally turn things around for himself?...Can Cryptic remain undefeated?...Is the Beast going to earn a title shot so early in his career? Or will Jason prove to be the veteran he is and get one more crack at the world title?
two men who last year were maineventing this card, now face each other with their careers on the line...the end of the road is near for one former world champion....does the pretty boy have a chance, or will the psycho finally be sent back to the mental home? A match of the year candidate last year, will we witness it again?
Team Alli has failed, but now they have one more chance to regroup and put it all together...To do so they must beat The Riot Makers and Gel Mibson..will the teamwork of Alli's Cult help them, or is this team just doomed?
A battle royal of some of the IWO most high flying superstars, and one big monster....Curry Muncher goes solo in this match as he tries to climb out of the bottom of the rankings...The Jingling Brothers will be opponents, but could team up to try and win this thing...Ricky Thunder is the fastest rising rookie in the company, so far he is undefeated, can he stay that way with these odds? And Peabody got the Gorilla back on track last week, will anyone be able to eliminate the monster?
Dark Match: Juice vs. neXus
-This match was added just a few days again, as two newcomers will get to show their stuff before the ppv goes on air...you can bet that the superstars of the IWO will be watching, because you never know when you might have to face one of these men.
I will be out of town on vacation for most of the upcoming week..So to give myself and my writers time to make this card the best possible, I am giving you a little more than a week to get your promos in...Promos are due by Sunday July 29 @ 11PM EST...If your promo is late you are more than likely guaranteed to lose your match depending on the cirucmstances...this should be plenty of time for everyone to promo...I plan on putting the card up on Monday July 30...so please get your promos in by the deadline...thank you all, and props to Glue for the main banner, and Troy for the match banners..feel free to rep these men
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Last edited by DC; 22 Jul 2007 at 08:33 AM.
|22 Jul 2007, 02:26 PM
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*Jason is seen his lockeroom getting ready for his match with Stacy by his side*
Stacy - Tonight's the night love
Jason - Yep tonight is the night where dreams can come true or they can be shattered,and I can tell you right now no dream of mine will be shattered
Stacy - I believe in you
Jason - Tonight I'll show all the IWO fans why I deserve one more chance at the World Heavyweight Championship,and prove all the nay sayers wrong
Stacy - What about your opponents?
Jason - Hun I've said it before and even though we may have may been partners none of that will matter tonight and it will be every man for himself in that match,we are all going to do what it takes to win that match it's just that I'll do it better
*Jason stops to take a drink from his water bottle*
Jason - It doesn't matter if it's Crawford,Cryptic,or even Giggles I'm going to go out there and show them what it is to be veteran in this company and show them why I was one of the youngest World Champions in the IWO and I will do so by winning that match,and go on to Redemption next week to face the World Champion and become a two time IWO World Heavyweight Champion
Stacy - I know you can do it
Jason - Thanks hun
*They kiss*
Stacy - You know the show doesn't start for a few more hours...
*Jason gets a big grin on his face*
Jason - I love you
*They begin to make out and take each others clothes off as the camera fades to black*
|22 Jul 2007, 05:17 PM
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Mr 17.5
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*The camera opens and Chad Wilard is shown wearing a tuxedo with mic in hand*
Chad: Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Championship Dreams I am Chad Wilard.
*Crowd Cheers*
Chad: At this present time I am stood outside the locker room of one of the biggest stars of the IWO at this current time....
*Camera moves to show the name "Crusher" printed on the door*
Chad: Yes. That man is Crusher and here I will attempt to catch a few words with the "Self Proclaimed Wrestling Machine".
*Chad opens door and camera follows to show Crusher stood underneath a single light in a darkened out room*
Chad: Uhh.....Crusher? Possible to get a few words ma.....
Crusher: Not now my friend. You don't talk. This time you sit and listen.
*Crusher throws a chair to Chad who sits down*
Crusher: Tonight is the night I have spent the last 4 - 5 months of my life dreaming about. The night that haunts me. Won't allow me to rest. Won't allow me to think of anything else except my main goal.
The destruction of Primate.
*Crowd goes wild*
You see it's not only mental scars I bare from my hatred for my Primate. It's physical.
*Crusher pulls up his black vest to reveal mangled scars and healed, torn flesh*
You see this is what I bare. You see? Do you? Do you fucking see what I have to live with. Each and every day climbing out of bed and knowing that you're a freak. So far so that you start to believe you are societies cast offs. The shit you don't want your children to see. The shit people look at and don't feel sorry but disgusted.
Then this.
*Crusher starts tapping on his mask*
This is what I must wear to at least try and sweeten the blow of people staring, shouting, sreaming, teasing. This is what I fucking live with. This is my life. No longer just another member of society i'm "it" or "that". No longer James Tristram. The only place i'm truly accepted is here in the I.W.O.
The only place I can come and not be judged by my appearance. By my ability. To take something bad and turn it into something that the fans wants to see rather than me. What society doesn't want to see.
Primate, do you understand. Do you fucking understand what I have been through. Lived with. You're a sick piece of shit and tonight that shit get squashed. Get's wiped away. Erased.
Primate, you are the hunted. Prepare to be killed.
*The camera slowly backs out of the room leaving the image of Crusher standing below a single white light as the camera fades to black*

|22 Jul 2007, 06:35 PM
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Never Better
*The camera shows a scenic view of beautiful Los Angeles. The camera captures the city life ranging from traffic, skyscrapers, and graffiti walls. Amidsthe neighborhood and past the banners of Kobe Bryant hanging on lampposts, we see the venue where IWO's Championship Dreams will take place- the Staples Center.
Many events have taken place in this arena. From concerts to shows, to Lakers and Sparks championships, this event perhaps tops them all. It is the major show of professional wrestling- Championship Dreams.
To this very day last year, Troy Alston lost his match against Corey to fail to win the IWO Title. That loss stung, but Troy would go on to win it eventually. We see Troy walk out casually with two suitcases in hand. He lowers his sunglasses as the camera gets closer...*
Troy: Corey Taylor. Troy Alston. A match for the ages. Two of the best to ever step ring in the IWO. Hell, in all of wrestling for that matter. Corey, you know how storied our past is. Last year, I came into our match at Championship Dreams with an 11-1 record. My one loss? A tag team match. Never trust a partner.
The road to Championship Dreams was sure as hell a rocky one. We went back and forth. Interfering in each other's matches. Trying to one up each other. And whether you'd like to admit it or not, we came to respect each other. Now, I'm not saying I agree with anything you do. Hell, we probably will never see eye to eye in anything. That's just not us. But I know what we both can do. And that is, tear this motherfucker down.
I know Match of the Year candidate doesn't mean much to anyone in the IWO, but these fans, they came to see two giant forces collide...once again. It should be a mutual feeling- we bring the best out of each other, and consequently, we bring the worst out of each other. After our match at Championship Dreams last year, I fell into a slump. A massive slump. Until, I looked in the mirror and got that swagger back- and came back to win the IWO World Title in a ladder match. And quite frankly, I wouldn't have it any other way. Just like, at Championship Dreams, in my hometown of Los Angeles....
A victory here. In the biggest stage of them all. Center stage in fact. The city of angels. Where stars are made, not born. That would not only cement my prestigious name along all the greats in wrestling, but also, in the city of Los Angeles. You see those banners out there, worshipping Kobe Bryant of my LA Lakers? That, in time, will be the Epitome. And with it, will come the stardom, endorsements, popularity and rape cases worldwide...Heh, not so much that.
But the fact of the matter is you control almost all of that. It's in your hands. And you, probably one of the most unpredictable motherfuckers I've ever met, holding my destiny? Kind of alarming. You can dictate the path of not just my career. But my life. I live and breathe wrestling. I don't do it for just the cheers, the boos, the overall reactions. I do it for me. Whatever the fans think, is totally up to them. And if I happen to please them, then great. But this lone match, can turn those boos or cheers or whatever into sounds of the wind- everything, gone just like that. Never has a match meant so much to me, where I may put my life on the line other than this one.
Same goes for you Corey. Wrestling is the only thing holding you back from your dictated path of metal music, meth and mosh pits. Honestly, what do you have to fall back to? Your plumbing degree from Slipknot Junior College? I suggest you take a deep look. Then prepare. Because, you sure as hell better ready to get a full dose of Epitome tonight. It will be like something you've never seen before. You think I pushed you to the limit at last year's Championship Dreams? Where I almost did beat you for the title as a rookie? Fast forward to this year bro. I'm a year older, a year wiser, a year faster, stronger, quicker whatever. Bring your A game. Whatever you have to do...to get ready for the Epitome, Troy Alston. Take your pills, listen to your Slipknot, shine up that mask of yours, I really don't know but cherish it.. Because the fact of the matter is this. Come Championship Dreams, in Los Angeles, California in this very arena, it may be the very last time you do any of that...
*Troy casually walks away towards the parking lot and into his black Scion TC. With the rev of the engine, Troy Alston speeds off into the California sunset. The luggage is left untouched. The camera zooms into view of the luggage tags and written there, is 'Property of Corey Taylor'...The camera fades while showing what may be the last time we see Corey Taylor's name...*
Last edited by Troy; 22 Jul 2007 at 09:08 PM.
|22 Jul 2007, 07:59 PM
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PWF's very own psychopath
Fuckin A!
*Camera pans in close on a sign that reads "Iowa State Mental Institution". A heavy rain begins to fall as the camera then zooms out until you can see the back of Corey staring up at the sign. Corey screams loudly at the sign as a huge flash of lightening rages through the sky. Corey kicks open the double doors and walks into the main lobby where an extremely scared receptionist in nurse garbs sits glued to the back of her chair behind a desk.*
You...You sit there in beautiful L.A. and fucking try to tell me that without wrestling you are nothing Troy. I know guys like you, born with everything they want in life. You were a rich spoiled little fucking bitch who never had to lift a fucking finger to achieve anything. Me? I was born into this world with a hooker of a mom and a dad with an abuse and crack habit. I lived on the streets all my life you son of a bitch Troy. Trama of this sort can cause a person to go a little how do people say..."looney"? I lived in dark alleys and abaondoned buildings for years fighting and clawing to stay alive. Finally one day at about the age of 15 I decided that I was tired of people like you looking down on me and went off my rocker for the first time and beat some rich punk within an inch of his life. The satisfaction I felt from this was more than fulfilling, so of course I did it again...and again...and again until I was feared by all on my streets. No one in their right fucking mind would even come within a block of me.
*Corey walks past the terrified receptionst blowing a kiss at her and laughing hysterically. Corey continues as he walks down a hall with doors on both sides for mental patients.*
Victim after victim I kep't going. Finally one day all these so called "upstanding people" formed a group to come take me out with an iron fist. They came at me from every angle I could think of. I fought, I kicked, I stabbed, I scratched until the numbers literally became too much for even a maniac of my stature. Instead of trying to win the war I tried to retreat while hurting as many of them as I could. After hours of running and breaking bones I locked myself into an old warehouse to try to heal my wounds and fight another day. After futile efforts by the group to get into the warehouse and end my life, they instead decided to burn the warehouse and me to the ground. I was trapped in their flames of hatred with no where to go. Have you ever felt your flesh burning to bone Troy? Have you ever felt a flame sear your skin and nerve endings and turn your white bones to black? I know for a fact you have never fucking felt anything close to the sort Troy! After so long the pain and smoke inhalation finally made me pass out. I awoke three days later in a hospital with burns all over my body...including my face. Since I was a minor still at the time they would not send a poor young troubled soul like mine to prison for the wolves. They instead decided to put me in this mental institution until I was "rehibilitated".
*Corey continues down the hall until it finally ends at a room that is barricaded and has danger signs at each side of the door. Corey begins to breathe heavily at the site of this room. His rage begins to grow by the second as he seems to be reliving bad memories*.
I...fucking sat in this...ro..room for 5 fucking years. Great fucking way to "rehibilitate" someone you lying cock suckers. Solitude and lonliness is just what a troubled person at young age really fucking needs! It is no wonder that over half the people that enter places like this become even more sick. ARGGHHHHHH I HATE THIS FUCKING PLACE!
*Corey begins violently smashing at the door slowly breaking the barricade. Blood begins to fly everywhere from his already cut up hands as he continues to take the barricade apart. Finally Corey takes a couple steps back and dives straight through smashing the remanents of the barricade into little pieces. Once inside a plain white room with a bed and a broken straight jacket is seen. There are still blood spots on the floor from Coreys previous run in with a guard. Corey looks around and then looks at the camera and holds both his hands in the air palms up.*
This is all I had Troy! I stared at what seemed to be an eternity of white unable to do anything and the only comfort I had was my own fucking screams! Troy you would have folded and killed yourself within the first god damn month because YOU ARE PATHETIC! YOU ARE NOTHING MORE BUT ANOTHER VICTIM FROM MY STREET. THE IWO IS THE ONLY POSITIVE THING IN MY GOD DAMN LIFE. DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I AM NOT GOING TO BRING MY "A" GAME WHEN THE ONLY GOOD THING THAT HAS COME FOR ME IS ON THE FUCKING LINE?! I WILL FIGHT UNTIL I AM LITERALLY AND CLINICLY DEAD RATHER THAN LET YOU HAVE THAT SATISFACTION. YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS GOING DOWN. YOU ARE THE ONE WHOSE CAREER IS GOING TO END. YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS GOING TO DIE INSIDE TROY!!! MAKE NO MISTAKE...THERE IS NOT A RULE I WON'T BREAK...A SHORTCUT I WON'T TAKE...A LIFE I WONT STAKE IN ORDER TO SEND YOU HOME TROY! THIS IS MY DESTINY AND MY LEGEND IN THE MAKING!
*Corey slams a hole into the wall and finally starts to breathe slower and calm down a little bit and looks back up at the camera that is zooming very close to his face.*
You are just a speed bump on my long road to fulfilling my destiny and just another stepping stone on my long list of victims Troy. I will see you at Championship Dreams my friend.
*Corey begins to leave when two guards meet him in the middle of the long hallway.*
You ignorant fucks never learn do you? I would not come here willingly if I actually thought you were still capable of detaining me.
*Corey's eyes glow a frightening red as he picks up both guards by their necks and strangles them until blood is coming out of their mouths, eyes, and ears. When the guards finally stop struggling he drops both of them to the ground and continues out the door into the pouring rain.*
Thanks to David for the Orton banner...
Join the EFED you fucks!
Last edited by Corey; 22 Jul 2007 at 08:07 PM.
|22 Jul 2007, 09:02 PM
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The camera cuts to a view of New York City, Jack Crawfords home town from above. It is nighttime, but the city is not dark. The lights from the many buildings, skyscrapers, and the activity in the streets of the city that never sleeps. The camera then zooms into the streets of New York as Jack Crawford is walking
It is a beautiful town really...when people think of New York City they think of crime, and obnoxious New Yorkers. Well they really could not be more wrong. It just so happens that New York City is one of the safest cities in the world, and when you are in my position right now you will fall in love with this city just like I did.
Crawford pauses, and looks up into the night.
And now we really should get down to business. Finally after months of anticipation .Championship Dreams, the biggest PPV of the year has arrived. For nexus, and Juice this means a beginning. For Troy or Corey it means the end, but for me it means a chance for IWO Heavyweight gold. This Pay per View will be like no other, because history will be made. After the dust settles, and I emerge victorious I will sit and watch the Main Event in anticipation. While it is uncertain whether it be Unstoppable Force or DC who walks out tonight as champion one thing is certain they will be putting their title on the line next week against me at Redemption. It does not matter who is the champion, because I will not back down from my chance to cement my name in IWO history by becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion ever, and well on my way to holding the record for the longest title reign as well.
The sound of screeching tires is heard as Jack Crawford cannot help but grin.
Ahh the sounds of this city are just so beautiful. Anyway back to business. Some of you might be thinking that I might be getting too far ahead of myself. I mean I still have to win the fatal four way tonight, right? I am not worried about my match tonight though, and why should I be? It is Mr. Giggles, Jason, and Cryptic who should be worried right now, because they have to step into the ring with The Beast. To my opponents I am about to face off against good luck, because you are going to need it.
Jack Crawford smiles at the camera as the camera zooms out to a view of the whole city, and then after a few seconds the camera fades to black.
|23 Jul 2007, 05:05 PM
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I've got the power!
*DC sits in an empty seat inside the Staples Center...no one else seems to be around but the camera man, who pans in on DC...DC turns to the camera and begins to speak*
"So here we are Los Angeles, California, the site the IWO's biggest event, Championship Dreams...Right now, this place is empty, but in about a week, it will be sold out, with tons of wrestling fans all doing one thing...cheering for their hero, the Unstoppable Force...I'm not going to lie, the fans are blinded, they are blinded to the fact that Force is just, well he is a fraud...Force you put up this front that you are the best the industry has to offer, and yeah I agree you are one strong son of a bitch...but lets face it..you are past your prime..your era is a long time ago...and you know it..."
"You see Force, it's not hard to come out here in an empty arena, or to sit backstage by yourself and talk a big game...to go on and on for a half hour about why it is destiny, or why you should become the World Champion again...the thing that is hard Force, is knowing when to shut up and actually get the job done...And Force you haven't been able to do that..you see you talk a lot about how this title that I have means everything to you...how I sold out, and turned on you...but I didn't...Force you were jealous and still are...you are jealous that I now have the spotlight..something you crave, something you claim you need to survive...well I guess you are about to be in for a rude awakening"
*DC stands up and starts walking to the end of the aisle...he then walks down the main aisle heading to the empty spot where the ring would be*
"You see Mike, you brought this on yourself...you couldn't accept the fact that I saved the IWO, and that it was me, that took the oppurtunity to beat Troy and win this belt...Lets go back Force, shall we...lets go back to when I won the gauntlet for the gold...it was my chance to take on Troy one on one for the title...instead you couldn't handle that..you knew if I won that match that you would be in trouble...so what did you do..you cashed in a rematch clause and got invovled in the matchup...well Force, it was right then and there that you showed me your jealousy..."
*DC stands in the middle of the empty floor*
"Right here Force, is where your journey to be the best comes to an end..you are a two time world champion, but you did it against nobody...you made your name in an old federation...a shell of what this federation is now...the old IWO was nothing, and you know something Force so are you...I mean come on, the first title reign you had, was laughable at best...you did nothing to show why you should be the champ..and when things got tough you bailed out on the fans, and this federation...you see Force you are a quitter...if you can't have it all and be the center of attention, then you quit..just like you will again...Force you have the fans fooled, but deep down, it was you that turned them against me...not me, not Thugged Out, not he client, just you...Force in your second reign, you won because you beat Jason...I mean come on...what a joke that is...And Force I have beaten everyone just like you...I have done it all...and Force I have done one more thing..."
*DC walks closer to where the camera man is stationed, and leans in*
"I have got your number...Force you can come out here and run off at the mouth about sports teams, use your analogies, call this Alli vs. Frazier, what ever you feel like doing, you come out here and do it...but you see Force, I ended your streak...I pinned you, when no one else could...And yeah you will say it was because of Thugged Out, and yeah you are right..but the truth is I could have done it without them...All bullshit aside Force, there is one thing in my favor...Something you can dispute, and you can argue but the cold hard facts show one thing...When it comes to title matches, you have never beaten me!...So Force the odds are against you , and you will use that to your advantage...Thugged Out and Judge are banned from ringside, another favor for you...but you see Force, when it comes time to step into the bright lights, when the game is on the line, you choke...just like you have done time and time again...So Force, here in LA, I have a reserved spot for you in the Dogpound, and mark my words, after our match, you will realize that you will never, ever beat me, and that I will still be the World Heavyweight Champion!"
*DC spits at the camera and turns and walks off*
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|23 Jul 2007, 06:02 PM
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Never Better
Agree. Everyone is stepping up which is great.
|23 Jul 2007, 09:40 PM
|#10 (permalink)
Never forget the name!
*Mad Hugh Millar is seen with Judge backstage*
Millar: I'm here with the challenge for Blade's TV Title at Championship Dreams. The Judge. Now Judge I just wanted to get your thoughts firstly on the fact that week after week Blade has seemingly had your number when it comes to the TV title defending it against you twice successfully.
Judge: Hold on just a second there shit stain. I'm sick of hearing this crap and I'm gonna clear it up right now. Blade you go around acting like you have the edge in this match. Like you've done it all before. Like beating me again is no big deal and for some stupid reason these dip shit fans believe you *crowd boos*. But lets have a little run down of my history with you shall we? A little history lesson as it were cos it seems like Millar and these fans could do with one to get their facts straight.
A few months ago I lost the title in a triple threat match to Blade starting his pathetic so called reign of TV title dominance. But here's the thing. I didn't lose. I wasn't pinned. I lost it by default because I didn't manage to break up the count. Blade stole the pinfall.
Then I ended up invoking a rematch clause to get a shot at Blade. Boy did Blade look impressive in that one. He had the living shit beaten out of him and the only way he escaped alive was by surviving the time limit. Once again a victory was stolen from underneath my nose.
Then there was the second invocation of my rematch clause and low and behold it was stolen from me when Blade got himself DQ'd to maintain his title but give me the win. Even for the numb skull fans of the IWO and perhaps even for the dim witted Millar here a trend should be apparent.
But the abuse doesn't end there folks. Oh no. Then Blade thought he could really show his dominance by getting involved in my match with Troy. He could have attacked me when I was vulnerable and left me a bloody mess and that would have possibly been somewhat impressive even if it was done by surprise. But did he do that? Of course not. He attacked my opponent Troy getting me DQ'd and costing me the match. He stole another victory from me. Then to top it all off he comes and attacks me from behind when I'm not even meant to be competing last week and then of course scampers off with his tail between his legs when Thugged Out returned. Now tell me Hugh does that sound like Blade has my number?
Millar: Well...I guess not....but a Last Man Standing match surely has to be to the hardcore legends advantage?
Judge: What the fuck did you just call that pip squeak? A hardcore legend? Did you miss my instant hardcore classic match with Demon a few weeks ago on Redemption? Have you missed seeing me bleeding from head to toe and still come back to pull out the win? Have you missed my history of brutalizing my opponents week after week since coming to the IWO? A favourite? That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard.
Millar: I guess....well is there anything else you want to say to Blade before you face him at Championship...*Judge snatches the mike off Millar and pushes him aside.*
Judge: Listen up you retarded fucking spot monkey. You might think that the world of hardcore is your domain and that you can back it up with some tough wrestling. You might even be right. But these last few months the only thing you have proved to me is that whilst you might have the edge over some of the lesser scum in the IWO, that I don't even have time to wipe my arse with, you are nothing but shit scared of me.
Each week you have found away to avoid confrontation with the biggest scariest mother fucker in the IWO, the Judge. Each week you have found a way to avoid your final sentence. But at Championship Dreams its case closed for you. Think about what your in on Blade. A Last Man Standing match. The only way the match ends is when someone can't answer a ten count. Let that sink in.
There is nowhere you can run anymore Blade. Nowhere you can hide. No way of sneaking a quick roll up victory. No way of getting yourself DQ's and maintaining your title. There is no time limit that you can survive through. No. None of that. There is simply one thing left for you. Pain. Its time to face the music Blade. Its time to see who the better man really is. Its time for me to take back the belt that never should have left my waist. I'm not just going to put you out for a ten count Blade. Oh no. You have pushed me way past that point my little friend. I'm going to physically disect you piece by piece, inch by inch, drop of blood by drop of blood. When you wake up several weeks from now your not gonna care about who won this match. Your going to be more concerned with questions like. What's my name? Who am I? Where am I? What happened to me? and the nurse will look you in the eye and say. Judge happened.
So Blade it comes down to this night. The night of all nights here in the IWO. A night I finally will bring Justice down upon you. My Championship Dreams will finally be realised. No matter what the cost. I will bleed for that title, I will hurt for that title, I will receive concussions for that title, I will do whatever it takes to pry that title from you, and I hope to hell you make me pry it from your cold dead hands cos nothing would give me more satisfaction *Judge gives an evil smirk*.
So Blade, it comes down to this. What you gonna do, what you gonna do, when the Judge....comes....FOR YOU!
*Judge smashes the mike into his own head busting him wide open and gets some of his own blood and smears it across his chest before letting out a war cry as the camera fades out.*
Props to Sly as Hell for the banner.
|24 Jul 2007, 04:33 PM
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I've got the power!
*Joker sits rocking in a dark corner*
Joker: It has come to this....One man couldn't take the darkness anymore, and now, the evil force is a triad...a trilogy of sorts...but that force is still strong...strong enough to turn back any challengers...and tonight that happens...my partners in evil, are ready...and tonight three young hopefuls will get what they deserve...pain...you see evil has no bounds, and tonight they find that out...tonight, they find out that once you fuck with the darkside there is no turning back...the Ultimate Mindfuck is soon...very soon!
*Joker keeps rocking as he laughs about what he said*
*Schmo and Public walk out of an office building and get into a limo...the limo pulls away as a camera is inside as both men are seated...*
Schmo: This is it, our chance John, to become World Tag Team Champions.
Public: Exicting isn't it Joseph.
Schmo: I have to say that it is...but this is going to be our toughest challenge.
Public: I don't disagree with that, but we have been on a roll...Plus they are a little preoccupied with Mr. Smith banning them from the Heavyweight Title Match.
Schmo: You think they will overlook us.
Public: That is part of the plan...Plan C has been a success and we complete the last phase at Championship Dreams. Joseph, two guys that stole their success, will have no way of stopping us...We become the tag champs because we are smarter than those that currently hold the belts.
Schmo: It has become clear now...this is our moment to shine, our chance for glory...Thugged Out has its weakness and it has been exposed. Tonight we take advantage of that, and tonight we become champions.
Public: And if Plan C doesn't work, well...
*Public becomes to chuckle as he pats his briefcase*
Public: There is always Plan D if you know what I mean.
*Schmo laughs with him*
Schmo: I know exactly what you mean.
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|25 Jul 2007, 12:14 AM
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Mowin mufuckas down.
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:::Juice is leaning up against a brick wall:::
The waiting's almost over. It's almost here.
That's right...Championship Dreams. The biggest Pay Per View in the muthafuckin world. Titles, tables, stables...shit...I hear even Jesus gon be there. That shit's tight.
But it's not about that.
The biggest part...like so many other things in life...is gon be sumthin that you may not see.
But that's allright. Don't you worry bout that cause all that shit...like I said last week...that shit bout to change.
Y'all ain't never seen nothin like this. You gon to. Believe it, son...you gon see.
For everyone at the event...you gon see what's up. You gon see what it actually is about. The time for talk is over. Now it's time for action. It's time for pain.
Somebody gon fight. Somebody gon get hurt. Somebody gonna get their blood on my knuckles. Somebody gon suffer.
neXus...this foo. I don't even know who he i...but that's allright, cause it's not about that. It's about this fist gettin shoved down a mufuckas throat. It's about this boot gettin launched up a mufuckas ass, it's about mufuckin Juice makin a double ended popsicle out of a porkpie lovin mufucka.
You know it, you love it and pretty soon you fear it too. Once you see it in action, you realize that all the hype...all the glitz...all the lights...all the cameras flashin in a mufuckas face...you gon see it ain't all about that.
It's about Juice. Period.
You find out. Thasssri...you find out. Soon enough.
Championship Dreams, baby. I see you there.
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|25 Jul 2007, 06:08 PM
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Give it To Me..
Dreams are a funny thing. Dreams mean a lot to many different people. Some peoples lives are defined by dreams that they know deep down they will never be able to reach..And some peoples lives are fufilled by finally reaching that dream that they never thought they could. Every one of us..As professional wrestlers..Has a dream of being the ultimate spotlight..Every one of us..As children..Dreamt..Of having that one moment in this business..Where no one else mattered. Where it was just you and your opponent..And that..that is what the whole world revolved around in that one single solitary moment. I..I have been fortunate enough..To have that dream come true. For on the biggest night in our business..I..I am in that spotlight. On the biggest night in this business..What we work for..What we live for..I..I am in the Main Event. There is nothing greater..There is nothing that means more to me in this profession..Than to say that I main evented Championship Dreams..And that I..Won...And I could think of no greater opponent..No greater opposite of myself..To face in that moment..Than our own IWO champion..DC.
You all know our history..Once friends..Once opponents..Now sworn enemies. You've heard us bash each other at every turn. There have been sneak attacks..Title matches..And a hatred that no other rivalry can come close to. But now all of that..All of that is wiped clean. You can forget all the history..Because none of it matters anymore. All that matters..Is destiny. You've heard me harp on it..And I will continue to..Because deep down it may be the only thing in this world that I truely believe in. I truely believe..That I am..without a shadow of doubt..The best professional wrestler alive today. I truely believe..That that title..Is mine..and I truely believe..That a man like DC disgraces that title. He disgraces my possession...And I will not let it continue.
I said at the start of this that DC is the total opposite of myself. I am a man of honor..I take no shortcuts..I go out there every night..And bleed and suffer..Not for the money..But because I enjoy it. Because it is the only thing I really know how to do well. DC..You're not like that. The passion I saw in you when I first met you..It's gone away. That want to be the very best..It's vanished. You have become everything you once despised...Everything that you once spoke against. You have become the evil that infects this business with poison. You have discgraced the IWO with your character..And you have brought shame to the most meaningful title we have in wrestling today. Your tactics have become sophmoric..And the paranoia you feel is more than obvious. It's more than obvious that you..DC..Could not handle the weight of that gold on your shoulder by yourself. The fact that everyone had a bullseye directly on your black heart was something that you could never handle. And so you resorted to those sneak attacks. You resorted to hiding behind Thugged Out..And even after all that..You still couldn't avoid..Me. Because after all you have done to stop me..After all you have done to save those precious last few moments with that title..The time has come. I still got what I want..And thats you..One on one..On the biggest stage in this business. You could have been a man about it DC..You could have just gave me the shot..But don't worry..I got it anyway..And made a fool out of you in the process.
Some people are equipped to be champions..And some people aren't. Some people want the pressure..And some don't..And it's obvious that DC..You didn't want it. You didn't want the responsiblities that that title brings when you put it around your waist. Don't get me wrong DC..You have had a nice run..I think we've all seen how long you have been able to be champion. How long you have kept your game up...But..other people may not see this..But I do..I see you slipping DC. Every main event..You come closer..And closer..To losing. Every main event you're in..There are more and more near falls. You have come within milliseconds..Of no longer being the top dog. You have come within bad referee decisions..Of no longer being the top dog. How long do you think that luck can last DC?..How long can you escape title defense after title defense..You haven't faced anyone like me in those title defenses. None of those opponents know you like I know you DC. I know you like the back of my hand. You won't get lucky against me..You won't escape..Quite Frankly for you DC..There is no escape.
You can call me a joke all you want DC..You can say you've beaten me before DC..It doesn't phase me..Your insults do not make one incision into my rough shell..Because like I said before..Thats all in the past. DC..You brought out the new Unstoppable Force..You have done this to yourself..It is no one elses fault. Your jokes are nothing more than a futile attempt to make yourself look more macho before your inevitable fall from grace. The Dogpound DC?..You want to take me to do the dogpound?..Not happening. You can't put a lion in a dogpound DC...He won't be controlled. Thats right DC..I'm the lion here..Me..The Unstoppable Force..I am the king of this damn Jungle. There will be no dogpound visits..I'm going to take you to my territory..The lions territory..The Jungle. I am going to run you ragged..And when your out of breath.. I'm going to pick every little piece of meat off your bones..And savor the taste...Theres an animal reference for you DC.
DC..Sometimes in life..A man has to step aside..And admit when he's just over the hill. Championship Dreams is your time to do that DC. It is your time to say to yourself that you just can't get it done anymore. You will pass the torch to me DC..And if you don't pass it..I have no problem taking it from you. Championship Dreams..Is my time to shine. It's time that a new era come into the IWO..The Force era. I had a title reign before DC..But it wasn't near long enough..And let me promise you..That when I beat you at Championship Dreams..You might as well glue that damn title around my waist..Because it might never come off. DC..You have brought out the true Force in me. DC..This is the Lion vs. the Dog..And the Dog stands absolutly no chance. At Championship Dreams..The King of the Jungle goes back on his throne once again. You will step aside..You will give me that torch..and I will lead the IWO the way it was supposed to be led..With honor..And with integrity. At Championship Dreams..DC..Your title Run..will be deleted...And I..Will once again..be champion..Once again..Be...King. DC..At Championship Dreams..Pain is Mandatory..For...YOU.
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|25 Jul 2007, 06:34 PM
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(A man is lying in a hospital bed with every limb in a cast, but smiling as Peabody approaches) Perhaps this guy looks familiar. He shouldn't because he's nobody but here's the point: This man is clearly hurt, but feels nothing due to the effect of Jeremiah Peabody's polly-unsaturated quick-dissolving fast-acting pleasant tasting green and purple pills. Sir, would you say that you are satisfied with your pills?
(Before he can answer Peabody interupts)
I have never heard a bad word about my pills.
Oh, by the way as far as Gorilla goes, I've changed my strategy a bit, I've been feeding him a little extra so that he'll have a lower center of gravity. So if anyone tries to take him out, they'll look like Fred here. But don't worry because if Gorilla doesn't kill you, my pills'll fix you.
|25 Jul 2007, 08:24 PM
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*A Clip plays from Redemption last week*
Crawford climbs to the top rope and hits the Blackout. Jack Crawford covers Sabbah, and gets the three count.
M: And Crawford and Giggles with the win
T: Good showing by both teams, but look Marv Dragon seems upset
M: He is getting a mic
*Crawford and Giggles head up the ramp shaking hands with the fans as Dragon stands in the ring looking down at Alli*
Dragon: Alli...You told me that you would take me to a higher place, but so far all you have done is dragged me down...So it seems to me that your cult is not the place for the greatest athlete in the IWO
M: What is saying Tater
Dragon: So Sabbah, I quit the Cult!
T: What a shocker! Dragon just quit, and this is not good for Alli's Cult!
Dragon: Not only do I quit but from here on out I do things for me, and me alone! Starting next week when I use my rematch clause and challenge Demon Alexander for the Hardcore Title!
*Dragon tosses down the mic as the crowd watches, stunned*
*Clip cuts out as Dragon is standing in the ring*
"I know all of you are wondering why I left, why it's over. Well I have been here for a while now, and when I'm alone I do so much better not worrying about someone pathetic dragging me down. Last week, I was greatly disappointed. I was told I was going to the top. That I was the future. I was promised by a good for nothing fraud. Yes, Alli is a fake, there is nothing to fear about Alli, he is nothing to the IWO but a reckless jobber. I admit what he attempted to do to save himself was a good plan, but in the end everyone figured out that this threat was nothing more than a bluff. Alli recruited young talent to save himself from looking bad. To save himself from looking like a washed up old hag."
*Fans boo and cheer at Dragon's remarks*
"Well, newsflash Alli, it's over, your done. The IWO doesn't need a pathetic nobody. People laugh when they realize they are against you. For the past year, you have recruited high and low, and every time, someone has turned on you because they realized how pathetic you are. After I win the title at Championship Dreams, I will give you a title shot over and over again, just to prove that your done, that you can never beat me, you can never beat anyone."
*Dragon proceeds to call for a chair as he unfolds it and places it in the center of the ring*
As for my title match tonight, I face a real wrestler. Demon, you have had a long run, and I admit I have nerves about facing you, but I have never failed to overcome my nerves, I have never failed to overcome the odds, defeat the impossible, and the way its looking Demon.......you are the impossible. You are my challenge. No matter how much I try it's someone like you that stands in the way and says no, you can't make it, you'll never make it. Well I'm gonna prove to you and everyone else your wrong, your reign with the title is over. Demon, you will fail tonight.
*Dragon sits in the chair and faces the entrance ring possibly waiting for a questioning Alli*
Now I realize that you are not my only worry, I have the former tag team specialist...Josh. Well let's look at it this way, Jason held the World Championship, and Josh has held the Hardcore. If you ask me, you got the raw end of the deal there. Josh I know you have held the title before, and you even won it from me, but what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. Your to predictable to be a part of this match. Unlike you, I have come up with something new to prepare for this match. By the end of Championship Dreams I will show everyone that I am not a sidekick in a cult, or a jobber. I am not a waste of space, I am Dragon. The greatest athlete in the IWO.
*Dragon stands up and faces the millions"
That is right everyone gaze upon the soon to be greatest wrestler to hit the IWO since Force and DC. All you nay sayers will be proved wrong, all of you will realize this when I become the New Hardcore Champion. When a chair shatters the skull of Josh, and a table disembodies Demon. The will get the biggest hardcore match of their lives, normally someone would say your leaving on a stretcher tonight, but no, I'm not gonna let them take you. You will be destroyed. I will make sure that neither of you will get a shot at My Title. Yes, MY TITLE!!!!!
I hope you are all prepared for when the Dra....No. I hope everyone in the IWO is prepared for When I Smash Right Through Your Spotlight."
*Dragon drops the mic and leaves the ring to a surprisingly loud crowd"
The War
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Leica Camera AG, a German optics company, manufactures Leica cameras. The predecessor of the company, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is now three companies: Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems GmbH, which manufacture cameras, geosurvey equipment, and microscopes, respectively. Leica Microsystems AG owns the Leica brand and licences the sister companies to use it.
Before WWII
The name Leica is a combination of the first three letters of Ernst Leitz surname and the first two from the word camera; lei-ca. The first 35mm film Leica prototypes were built by Oskar Barnack at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke, Wetzlar, in 1913. Intended as a compact camera for landscape photography, particularly during mountain trips, the Leica was the first practical 35 mm camera that used standard cinema 35 mm film. The Leica transports the film horizontally, extending the frame size to 24×36 mm, with a 2:3 aspect ratio, instead of the 18×24 mm of cinema cameras which transport the film vertically.
The Leica went through several iterations, and in 1923 Barnack convinced his boss, Ernst Leitz II, to make a pre-production series of 31 cameras for the factory and outside photographers to test. Though the prototypes received a mixed reception, Ernst Leitz decided in 1924 to produce the camera. It was an immediate success when introduced at the 1925 Leipzig Spring Fair as the Leica I (for Leitz camera). The focal plane shutter had a range from 1/20 to 1/500 second, in addition to a Z for Zeit (time) position.
Barnack conceived the Leica as a small camera that produced a small negative. To make big photos by enlargement, (the "small negative, large picture" concept) required that the camera have high quality lenses that could create sharp negatives. Barnack tried a Zeiss Tessar on his early prototype camera, but because the Tessar was designed for the 18×24mm cine format, it inadequately covered the Leica's 24×36mm negative. Barnack resorted to a Leitz Summar lens for the prototype, but to achieve resolution necessary for satisfactory enlargement, the 24x36mm format needed a lens designed specially for it. The first Leica lens was a 50 mm f/3.5 design based on the Cooke triplet of 1893, adapted by Max Berek at Leitz. The lens had five elements in three groups—the third group being three cemented elements—and was initially called the Leitz Anastigmat. Unlike other triplets, the Leitz Anastigmat had the diaphragm between the first and second elements. When the Leica launched, this lens was renamed the ELMAX, for E Leitz and MAX Berek. By 1925, the Leitz laboratories had produced glasses with improved optical properties, and Professor Berek designed an improved version of the ELMAX called the ELMAR that had four elements in three groups. The third group was simplified to two cemented elements, which was easier and cheaper to make. Professor Berek had two dogs, Hektor and Rex. The first of these, Hektor, gave his name to a series of Leica lenses, and the name of the second appeared in the SummaREX.
In 1930 came the Leica I Schraubgewinde with an exchangeable lens system based on a 39mm diameter screw thread, often referred to as " Leica Thread Mount" or LTM. In addition to the 50mm normal lens, a 35mm wide angle and a 135 mm telephoto lens were initially available. In the mid-1930s, a legendary soft-focus lens, the Thambar 90mm f/2.2 was designed, and made in small numbers between 1935 and 1949, no more than 3000 units. It is a rare collector's item today.
The Leica II came in 1932, with a built in rangefinder coupled to the lens focusing mechanism. This model had a separate viewfinder (showing a reduced image) and rangefinder. In 1932 the flange to filmplane was standarised to 28.8mm, first implemented on Leica model C, and the Leica Standard the following year.
The Leica III added slow shutter speeds down to 1 second, and the model IIIa added the 1/1000 second shutter speed. The IIIa was the last model made before Barnack's death, and therefore the last model for which he was wholly responsible. Leitz continued to refine the original design through to 1957. The final version, the IIIg, included a large viewfinder with several framelines. These models all had a functional combination of circular dials and square windows.
Early Leica cameras bear the initials D.R.P., which stands for Deutsches Reichspatent, the name for German patents before May 1945. This is probably a reference to German patent No. 384071 "Rollfilmkamera" granted to Ernst Leitz, Optische Werke in Wetzlar, on 3 November 1923.
The company had always had progressive labor policies which encouraged the retention of skilled workers, many of whom were Jewish. Ernst Leitz II, who took over the company in 1920, responded to the election of Hitler in 1933 by helping Jews to leave Germany, by "assigning" hundreds (even if they were not actually employees) to overseas sales offices where they were helped to find jobs. The effort intensified after Kristallnacht in 1938, until the borders were closed in September 1939. The extent of what came to be called the "Leica Freedom Train" only became public after his death well after the war.
After WWII
After the war, Leitz continued to produce the late versions of the Leica II and the Leica III through the 1950s. However, in 1954, Leitz unveiled the Leica M3 introducing the new Leica M mount, a bayonet type lens mount. The new camera also combined the rangefinder and viewfinder into one large, bright viewfinder with a brighter double image in the center. This system also introduced a system of parallax compensation and a new rubberized, reliable, focal-plane shutter. Leica continues to refine this model (the latest versions being the M7 and MP, both of which have frames for 28, 35, 50, 75, 90, and 135 mm lenses, which show automatically upon mounting).
Post-war models bear the initials DBP, standing for Deutsches Bundespatent (Federal German Patent), instead of the DRP found on pre-war models. A number of camera companies built models based on the Leica rangefinder design. These include the Leotax, Nicca and early Canon models in Japan, the Kardon in USA, the Reid in England and the FED and Zorki in the USSR.
Factory upgrade
Until at least the mid-1950s, Leitz offered factory upgrades of earlier Leica cameras to bring them to the current model's specifications. The upgraded cameras retained their original serial numbers.
Single-lens reflex cameras
From 1964, Leica produced a series of single-lens reflex cameras, beginning with the Leicaflex, followed by the Leicaflex SL, the Leicaflex SL2, and then the R series from R3 to R7, made in collaboration with the Minolta Corporation. The Leica R8 was entirely designed and manufactured by Leica. The final model was the Leica R9, which could be fitted with the Digital Module back. Leica was slow to produce an auto-exposure model, and never made a Leica R model that supported auto-focusing. Leica's U.S. official website announced (25 March 2009) that the R-series has been discontinued. The reason given was that "new camera developments have significantly affected the sales of Leica R cameras and lenses resulting in a dramatic decrease in the number sold. Sadly, therefore, there is no longer an economic basis on which to keep the Leica R-System in the Leica production programme."
Conceptually bridging the Rangefinder Leicas and the SLR Leicas was the Leica Visoflex System, a mirror reflex box that attached to the lens mount of Leica rangefinders (separate versions were made for the screwmount and M series bodies) and accepted lenses made especially for the Visoflex System. Rather than using the camera's rangefinder, focusing was accomplished via a groundglass screen. A coupling released both mirror and shutter to make the exposure. Camera rangefinders are inherently limited in their ability to accurately focus long focal-length lenses and the mirror reflex box permitted much longer length lenses. Throughout its history, Leitz has been responsible for numerous optical innovations, such as aspherical production lenses, multicoated lenses, and rare earth lenses.
The earliest Leica reflex housing was the PLOOT (Leitz's five letter code for its products), announced in 1935, along with the 200mm f/4.5 Telyt Lens. This date is significant because that it places Leica among the 35mm SLR pioneers. Moreover, until the 1964 introduction of the Leicaflex, the PLOOT and Visoflex were Leica's only SLR offerings. A redesigned PLOOT was introduced by Leica in 1951 as the Visoflex I. This was followed by a much more compact Visoflex II in 1960 (which was the only Visoflex version available in both LTM (screwmount) and M-bayonet) and the Visoflex III with instant-return mirror in 1964. Leica lenses for the Visoflex system included focal lengths of 65, 180 (rare), 200, 280, 400, 560, and 800mm. In addition, the optical groups of many rangefinder lenses could be removed, and attached to the Visoflex via a system of adapters. The Visoflex system was discontinued in 1984.
Leica offered a wide range of accessories. For instance, LTM (screwmount) lenses were easily usable on M cameras via an adapter. Similarly Visoflex lenses could be used on the Leicaflex and R cameras with an adapter. Furthermore, certain LTM and M rangefinder lenses featured removable optical groups that could mount via adapters on the Visoflex system, thus making them usable as rangefinder or SLR lenses for Visoflex-equipped Screwmount and M rangefinder cameras, as well as being usable on Leicaflex and R cameras. Leica also offered focusing systems, such as the Focorapid and Televit, that could replace certain lenses' helicoid mounts for sports and natural-life telephotography.
Company changes
In 1986, the Leitz company changed its name to Leica (LEItz CAmera), due to the strength of the Leica brand. At this time, Leica moved its factory from Wetzlar to the nearby town of Solms. In 1996 Leica Camera separated from the Leica Group and became a publicly held company. In 1998 the Leica group split into two independent units: Leica Microsystems and Leica Geosystems.
In May 2014 Leica Camera AG finished building a new factory at Am Leitz Park 1 in the new industrial part of Wetzlar and moved back to the city where it started.
On November 26, 2013, Leica Camera AG announced the conclusion of a takeover process of the Swiss Sinar Photography AG. Both companies agreed not to disclose the details of the merger. Sinar Photography AG possesses product portfolio of large format 4" x 5" to 8" x 10" etc. cameras, lenses and shutter systems. Leica Camera AG announced the take over on their Facebook page.
The Blackstone Group purchased a 44% stake in 2011.
The Leica is particularly associated with street photography, especially in the mid-to-late 20th century, being used by such noted photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Bruce Gilden, Bruce Davidson, Inge Morath, Martine Franck, Sebastião Salgado, Alex Webb, Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand, Mark Cohen and Ralph Gibson.
It was also used by wartime photojournalists such as Larry Burrows.
Leica also makes a line of cine lenses used on cinematic projects. In February 2015 their design team was awarded an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for the optical and mechanical design of the Leica Summilux-C lenses.
Role in antique trade
Leica cameras, lenses, accessories and sales literature are collectibles. There are dozens of Leica books and collector's guides, notably the three-volume Leica, an Illustrated History by James L. Lager. Early or rare cameras and accessories can reach very high prices on the market. For instance, an anonymous buyer won a bidding battle for a rare 1923 Leica camera that sold for 2.6 million euros ($2.8 million) at an auction in Vienna. Notably, Leica cameras sporting military markings carry very high premiums; this started a market for refurbished Soviet copies with fake markings.
Leica and Panasonic
Leica-branded lenses are used on many Panasonic (Matsushita) digital cameras (Lumix) and video recorders since 1995. Panasonic/Leica models were the first to incorporate optical image stabilization in their digital cameras.


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Desensitization, internalization, and signaling functions of beta-arrestins demonstrated by RNA interference.
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Beta-arrestins bind to activated G protein-coupled receptor kinase-phosphorylated receptors, which leads to their desensitization with respect to G proteins, internalization via clathrin-coated pits, and signaling via a growing list of "scaffolded" pathways. To facilitate the discovery of novel adaptor and signaling roles of beta-arrestins, we have developed and validated a generally applicable interfering RNA approach for selectively suppressing beta-arrestins 1 or 2 expression by up to 95%. Beta-arrestin depletion in HEK293 cells leads to enhanced cAMP generation in response to beta(2)-adrenergic receptor stimulation, markedly reduced beta(2)-adrenergic receptor and angiotensin II receptor internalization and impaired activation of the MAP kinases ERK 1 and 2 by angiotensin II. This approach should allow discovery of novel signaling and regulatory roles for the beta-arrestins in many seven-membrane-spanning receptor systems.
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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1
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Publication InfoAhn, S; Garrison, TR; Lefkowitz, Robert J; Miller, WE; & Nelson, CD (2003). Desensitization, internalization, and signaling functions of beta-arrestins demonstrated by RNA interference. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100(4). pp. 1740-1744. 10.1073/pnas.262789099. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/7800.
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Hi I have 3 weeks without PMO and I spend a lot of time playing videogames in playstation 3.
This can be bad for my reebooting?
But video games can also affect some users' brains in a drug-like way due to extra dopamine released in response to novelty, anxiety, etc.
Research here: http://yourbrainonporn.com/garys-research-addiction-video-game
So if you can switch to exercise, socializing and meditation, for example, you could speed your reboot. Be gentle with yourself though. This is a big change for your brain.
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I used to be addicted to both - porno and video games.
a visual stimulation that completly draws you into a fantasy world of sex or or power because in VG you are the hero that always wins, in the end... escaping reality, the confrontation with a real life woman, real life problems like doing the groceries or paying your bills Eye-wink
I could sit for hours, especially at night, jerking off to internet porn or playing games.
The video game addiction has someone gotten easier to break off - now I more look at it as a distraction, something I just do like watching tv. But I still think it's very similar to porn in the sense it cuts me off from the outside world, it stimulates me visually and keeps me glued to a computer screen, and it can be very difficult to break out and come back to the real world.
So the advice I have for myself is - close your eyes, breathe slowly and deeply, ask yourself - do you really want to spend the next hour glued to a computer screen? is there something else that you would rather do , like going for a walk, calling a friend, do some sports? or something that needs to be done, taking care of everyday life that might be a bit boring to do, but what a satisfaction, to have your home clean again, your clothes washed, your dishwasher working again?
by staying at your computer, the risk of getting drawn into porn is always greater.
get up, walk a few steps, go to the window, breathe, smell, listen, look. the answer is easy.
interacting with real people, real problems, in the real world, will always be more rewarding, bring you forward in life. gaming will bring you forward in the game level.
beetween the computer world and the real world, the choice is yours.
Thanks Martin
I appreciate your experience with this.


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I think this time is a little different as it's accompanied by some bad news such as regulation, stripe has dropped bitcoin for payments etc. I think it will recover for the most part as long as there isn't any news to kill it, there was some positive news such as two more financial institutions accepting Ripple.
There will be money to make on Bitcoin but due to its flaws I can see that crashing eventually but I don't know as much about this stuff as a lot of you. I fancy trying Ripple if it falls under a dollar purely because it has some financial services backing it, I know that undermines some of the ethos but in reality that should provide support to its value.
I don't want ripple to drop - I paid E0.18 for them, rise baby rise!!
I be worried the what ever the MtGox is (which must be important) its getting hacked all the time :-0
There may be an immediate spike down which might cause some people to follow suit but I mean a sustained drop.
Think it was the repercussions of the exchange halting withdrawls and the FUD this kind of press presents rather than a possible hack.
Casual confidence in crypto generally appears to have dropped over the last few weeks and every day now there's some doom gloom story about it being the end. I just think (and hope) it's just a case of riding the wave.
Guys here at work ask me daily how I'm getting on but their enthusiasm to get into it for themselves has dropped purely because of the continual bad press.
Yes the Japanese hack has been confirmed but as EvilSatan said it will be a very short spike up or down. The coins still exist in the chain even if stolen (poor bastards) and will still be traded at at some point.


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On Friday night the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston opened an exhibition called Current (produced in partnership with Folly). http://www.current-experiment.org.uk/The first piece of digital art to be collected as part of the Harris Museum permanent collection was also announced as Thomson & Craighead's piece 'The distance travelled through our solar system this year and all the barrels of oil remaining' (2011)
Last night about 25 people gathered at i-camp in Munich for "Update the Upgrade!" - an informal evening of short presentations about what people are up to at the moment. It was organised by the Upgrade! München team, at the suggestion of artist Susanne Wiegner, who was one of five presenters during the evening.
Recently I read Claire Bishop's excellent article 'Con-Demmed to the Bleakest of Futures: Report from the UK' (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/209). Where she argues "that in the wake of the general election in May 2010, which resulted in a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition-the UK's first coalition government since 1945—the ensuing cuts to culture cannot be seen as separate from an assault on welfare, education, and social equality.


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Open Dates for 2018
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The gardens are also open by prior appointment, in aid of either the NGS or Cornwall Hospice Care.
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Part of Cornwall Wildlife Trust "My Wildlife" campaign on website and bus shelters, as "My wildlife My Legacy", featured in My Cornwall Jan. 2016. We now have a new willow bus shelter complete with bus stop and time table!
WI Life magazine Feb. 2016 illustrated article about Trenarth Gardens, written by Katherine Lambert, photos by Charles Francis.
Above fields and woods leading to the Helford River, Trenarth comprises around 4 acres of closely cultivated garden whose grounds wrap around a historic farmhouse and barns.
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In the morning, fog surrounds us, cloudy like walking in cotton. The air chills me. Down to my bones. Along the rocky beach, we find perfect circular stones. Gray, red, green and white eggs. Designed by a variety of ocean artists like the tides, waves, and earth. We pick up a wishing rock, circumfrenced by a delicate white stripe. I wonder what the wish should be? Too many to choose from. Too many things out of my control in this world. So I wish for sunshine. Let's see what nature can do for us.
Upon the shore, we find long streams of kelp adorned with huge bulbs. We drag them along the beach, leaving our mark in the sections of sand. The sea leaves foam behind, silhouetting the waves gone by. It floats in the breeze, soft and fluffy. Driftwood: our next treasure, ocean-carved creations. Staffs, whales, mega-shark teeth, all perfectly smooth. Tree graveyards with roots stretching, reaching high above our heads. A sadness is the stillness and loss of such great giants.
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Alvaro Palacios is not exactly a new face in the wine scene – Alvaro has helped revolutionise the Spanish wine industry by making rich, complex wines in Priorat. His first wine there, 1995 L'Ermita, gained him recognition as one of the world's most inspired and dedicated winemakers (Alvaro produces two other compelling Priorat wines Finca Dofí and Les Terrasses). He continued to make waves with his involvement in other Spanish appellations, such as Ribera del Duero and Rioja.
Palacios comes from the large and esteemed Rioja winemaking family of Bodegas Palacios Remondo. In his early 20s Alvaro Palacios interned in Bordeaux at the side of Christian Moueix, the celebrated winemaker of Pomerol châteaus of Pétrus and Trotanoy. Upon his return to Spain he originally decided against getting involved in the family business and instead he pursued his own ventures where he would have the freedom to make distinctive, top-quality wines. His success in Priorat inspired him to search again for something new, this time putting his faith in the potential of Bierzo.
Bierzo's principal grape is the obscure, indigenous red variety Mencía. While Bierzo is a relatively new wine appellation (a Denominación de Origen since 1989), it has a wealth of very old vines, planted on extremely steep hillsides, and in this respect it much resembles the Priorat region.
Palacios with his nephew Ricardo Perez (who also spent time in Bordeaux) established Descendientes de J. Palacios in 1998 in the village of Villafranca del Bierzo. They named the estate in honour of Alvaro's father who passed away in 2000.
Their Descendientes de J. Palacios releases are all 100% Mencía wines:
Bierzo Corullón comes from 3 vineyards with vines from 60 to 100 years old. It is a vivid and unique, a red wine that marries rustic flavours with modern polish.
Petalos, the latest triumph from Alvaro Palacios, comes from 60 year-old vines and farmed biodynamically, is an intense wine that mingles beautifully wild plum, smoke and spice flavours.
Las Lamas is farmed at very low yields (15 hl/hr) some at an altitude of over 700 metres. This wine is the sine qua non of Alvaro Palacio's adventure in Bierzo.
The nose is mineral but there is a note of damp heather and a leathery, animal character which provides a nice contrast with the up-front red fruit. The palate is very dense and concentrated which bodes well for those of a 'hoarding' persuasion as a couple of years in the cellar are certainly necessary if this wine is to offer-up its true expression and stomp, flamenco-style across your taste buds.
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These 60+-year-old Mencia vines around the village of Corullon are farmed biodynamically, and you can almost sense earthy, savouriness on the nose, full of generous plum and mulberry fruit. The palate has a lovely textural mouthcoating quality, hints of roasted meat and mocha. Great juice balanced off with crisp acidity, spice and pepper. Drink now and over the next five years.
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Simon Field MW, Berrys' Spain Buyer
Bottle 3 x 75cl 1cs
This is almost the definitive expression of Mencía, its vines perched on a stark vineyard of pure schist, its wine distinctively aromatic, with a Cabernet-Franc-like garrigue and lavender freshness at the front of the palate, then real dark fruit concentration, fine new-oak tannins providing real backbone and support to the generously ripe palate.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Lucy Bland, Buying Assistant (August 2019)
Bottle 12 x 75cl 3cs