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The only thing missing? A business model. Its founders, Williams and Stone (a third, Jack Dorsey, is still chairman), aren't in a rush. But with a fresh round of capital raised at a
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OGRA chief joins Pakistan's bogus degree clubApril 17th, 2011 - 12:39 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, April 17(ANI): Exposing Pakistan's Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority Chairman Tauqir Sadiq's degree as bogus, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that there was no institution in Britain and America from where he claimed to have acquired his LLM degree.
The IHC had sought report from the HEC about the status of the American Institute of London, from where Sadiq claimed to have got his degree, during a hearing of the petition challenging his LLM degree by union members three days ago.
"The institute (American Institute of London) does not exist in America and Britain," The Nation quoted the HEC, as replying to the court's query about the institute's status, thus exposing Sadiq's degree as fake.
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources also expressed serious concerns over Sadiq's appointment as the OGRA chief without the required experience and qualification in the relevant field.
When contacted, Sadiq insisted that his degree was genuine and the information sent to the commission about the institution by the court was incorrect since he had got his degree from the American University in England.
He also informed that he had done LLB from the Punjab University and had the experience of 20 years to his credit in the relevant field, therefore he was fully eligible for the concerned position. (ANI)
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The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one best-selling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, once Alfred's great warrior but now out of favour with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg.Loyalties will be divided and men will fall, as every Saxon kingdom is drawn into the bloodiest battle yet with the Danes; a war which will decide the fate of every king, and the entire English nation.
©2013 Bernard Cornwell (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
"The best battle scenes of any writer I've ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive" (George R.R. Martin)
"Cornwell draws a fascinating picture of England as it might have been before anything like England existed" ( The Times)
"He's called a master storyteller. Really he's cleverer than that" ( Telegraph)
"Disappointing narration"
Having listened to all the books in the series to date it is disappointing to have had so many changes of narrator, however this reading was particularly bad as both the pronunciation of names of certain characters was different and more disconcerting was the change in 'personality' of several of the key characters.
"Great story"
Whilst I love listening to the stories it would be good if the pronunciation of names and place names was consistent through all the books.
Look forward to the next one.
"Story at its best"
His usual standard of story we'll done look forward to the next book and the continuation of utred adventures.
"I don't like the new narrator."
I wish for the same narrator for all the books in a series. That consistency of narrator would make the story flow better.
"another gem"
great writing, great story.. very glad I was introduced to this series.. if you haven't read them, you should...
"Too bad the narrator changed!!"
I love these books. It's a strange thing, however, when the narrator changes and suddenly everything is pronounced differently. For example, in this latest version, the narrator pronounces the "j" in "Kjartan". It made me cringe. Occasionally, it sounded like the narrator has a New York accent.
Still a great book.
"Better narrator "
Better narrator than the last two books, but still preferred Jonathan Keeble. A few changes to some names but at least were back to Bebennberg not Bambera.
"Another great listen"
This is another compelling listen in The Last Kingdom Series. The story is amazingly written, detailed, compelling, making the listener feel like he is part of the action. It's truly hard to stop listening.
Matt Bates narration is not the best in the series (Jonathan Keeble's narration in first 4 books is truly unrivaled), but it is not bad. It is a honest narration that doesn't harm the great story.
Highly recommended.
"Another winner from Cornwell"
If you've come this far in the series, you probably love Cornwell like I do. I don't enjoy the sympathetic bad guy (Knut Knutson). Cornwell's strength is in writing the loathsome bad guy character. The emergence of Uhtred the Younger made up for it. Thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommended.
"Time & Place"
Yes, I would, as in all of BC's books he captures time & place really well, you could almost smell the salt spray in the Northern seas & the smell of burning villages.
The final battle
"It just gets better and better"
Absolutely... if you like bernard cornwell. He is wonderfully consistent. A great listen/read.
Fantastic characters, great dialogue...
"Jonathan Keeble"
Same as the last few reviews really, the books are great and really thrilling but they lack the passion because Jonathan Keeble is not the narrator
"great story new, narrator again"
The story is good as to be expected but I really wish they hadn't changed the narrator. The narrator at the beginning of the series was amazing and really brought all the characters to life. Then they changed him for a second guy who was good but not as good and we get to the seventh book and it's a new narrator again and to make it even more confusing this guy pronounces the names quite differently making it harder to follow the story. I don't think I'm going to buy the eighth book until they bring back one of the other two guys or I'll just read it.
"narrator is still poor against the original"
Still disappointed that they got rid of the original narrator, the story is still there but its lost its voice.
"A book too far?/Stop changing the Narrator"
Please stop changing the Narrator. Well written but I wonder if Uthred shouldn't retire soon.
"Great series of books "
I have had the privilege of listening to all of the last Kingdom series so far and books are great but what let's down the entire experience is the narration. it would have been better if some kind of continuity had continued through the books regarding place names and character names. each narrator bringing their own version each time has dimmed what would have been an exceptional experience.
"why change the narrator??"
Great story as usual from Bernard Cornwell, but the change in narrator really put a downer on things for me. He was unconvincing as a northern pagan lord to say the least.
"Bloody battles galore"
Untried is considerably older. His sons are becoming a force to be reckoned with and still the conflict between Danes and Saxons rages after a period of peace. This is the third narrator and he's fine. No one compares to Jonathan Keeble who has full characters for each voice, but Matt Bates does a good job. Much of the success of this is, of course, due to the writing which manages to coney the older, even more stubborn hero. He gets help from friends and enemies, from people met along the road and still has his own keen intelligence but he is definitely slower. You cannot get off the train, anyway, you have to stick with him to the end.
"Great book. Worth continuing the story"
Another great book in the Last Kingdom Series. the biggest criticism by far is the changing of the narrator. Along with this, name, pronunciation and character voices change significantly, but each individual narrator offers a solid performance.
Slightly bored of hearing some of the same lines repeated... apparently an axe in a shield wall is for pulling down the shield for your neighbour to attack. Certainly not enough to put one off and maybe useful for anybody starting off the series at this point, but slightly annoying either way.
Looking forward to the next installment.
Gripped by yet another thrilling tale of Uhtred. Loved the development of the relationship with his sons. While not the most epic story in the sequence so far, The Pagan Lord felt the most empassioned, with an excellent struggle against the church and a fantastic antagonist. Loved it. I thought the new narrator did a great job too and I really hope it does not change for a 3rd time! Each time I get used to someone they change... That's my only criticism so far but will definitely be something I look out for when deciding on future audio books.
"Another great story but poor narrator "
change of narrator??? change of pronunciation??? why?? atleast keep the names pronounced the same for continuity!
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- September 21, 2013
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- September 21, 2013
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- September 21, 2013
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Find the top 10 richest Hollywood actress in 2017, highest paid Hollywood actresses list.
You must be a regular watcher of the movies and must be fan of one of the actresses in the Hollywood film industry. You might be feeling that she must be at the top of all the list of the actress. Here is the list of the top actresses of the Hollywood in terms of net worth and you can easily get the news of the richest of the actresses in the industry. All the actresses that are declared in the list are contender of the richest actresses of Hollywood. Thus check the list and find your idol there. You will be pleased to find her top the list.
The top list of richest Hollywood actresses 2017 is as follows:
The Hollywood actresses are doing really well in the industry and they are getting rewarded well for the job. Here we present the names of Hollywood actresses who are richest in the industry.
1. Julia Roberts- The common name in the Grammies is the richest of all the actresses in the film industry. She has been engaged with the charity works after marriage with the Hindu Husband. She has many good movies affiliated to her name and she is top star with net worth of about 170 million dollars.
2. Drew Barrymore- The second name in the list is of the fabulous looking gorgeous girl, the cutest of Hollywood. Drew has been one of the top artists and she has many top movies with her as well. The star actress is in the second position with net worth of 126 million dollars.
3. Angelina Jolie- The hot actress is one of the richest stars and is placed at the third position with 125 million dollars of net worth. The star actress is one of the best in the industry and she is a role model of many of the newly coming actresses in the industry.
4. Jennifer Aniston- The superstar is one of the top contenders for the richest position among the actresses of Hollywood. She has been a big name and her worth is near about 120 million dollars, which is fourth highest among all the contenders.
5. Sandra Bullock- Another big name is here. She is a great actress and is very much popular as a hot actress. She is one of the celebrities that are top in the list and she has a net worth of 85 million dollars. In the lost of the richest actress, she is there in the fifth position.
6. Reese Witherspoon- She has been one of the biggest ladies of the industry and is better known for her appearance in the small screen. She has a net worth of 80 million dollars and is one of the richest star in the industry.
7. Cameron Diaz- The Charlie's angel is the seventh richest actress of the recently made list. She has been one of the top contenders of the richest rank and she is having a net worth of 74 million dollars.
8. Sarah Jessica Parker- She has been another star from the TV industry. The star actress is one of the famous players in the series Sexy in the city and she is there in the eighth rank in the list. Her net worth is 70 million dollars.
9. Meryl Streep- She has been in the industry for over three decade and she has been a star actress though out her career. She has been a beautiful and soft spoken lady and she is better known in the TV industry. Her net worth is 45 million dollars and she is in the ninth position among the richest stars.
10. Penelope Cruz- She has been a great actress for the last two decades and he is regarded as a great one among all the gorgeous actresses of the industry. The name of this actress has been in the Grammies on numerous occasions and she is the tenth richest actress in the industry with 34 million dollars of net worth.
The names of the actresses are well known to you, but the net worth was not. Some of the actresses are well known in the TV series and others are well known celebrities of Hollywood movies. The net worth is the base of ranking them, which shows how important they are in the film industry. You must have found your dream girl in the list and will be rejoicing for her rank.


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The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Mind blowing, riveting intriguing, many what I can "aha" moments only to find out I was wrong!
I am always so eager when another book comes out from this authors desk to us readers. I cannot wait to get my hands on it, devour it, because I know from my past experiences reading this authors books I have had so much enjoyment I can forget everything around me and just be in the moment.
This book was of no exception.
The book comes alive. For many of us avid readers we can read an excellently driven book just like someone who is watching a movie.
Sophie Greenwood is the main character in this lead. However, she becomes embroiled with others along the way. Shes started a job in Jackdaw books, its an ace of a job for her, something she always wanted to do.
However things just aren't all what they seem with Cassie, the attractive aloof one in the office.
And what happened to one of the girls who used to work there who mysteriously upped and left with what seems a plausable explanation.
I am trying hard not to reveal things and spoil peoples enjoyment of this book.
There are good books, there are average books and there are books that stand out in the crowd [and lets face it, the book world now a days is very crowded] but Mark Edwards books shine out like a beacon.
They are not just middle of the road books that we can say, OH yes, that was a good book...
Its more like, OH YES I remember that book it was .....da da da.......Its one that stays with you for a very, very long time.
Its one of my 'unputdownable' books until I finished it.
I loved it so much I just had to congratulate the author by email.
My thanks to [the author of course] and to his PA for sending me this to read. And Thomas & Mercer via Net Galley
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This article is about the fictional book in the Cthulhu Mythos, for other uses see Mysteries of the Worm (disambiguation)
De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm, is a fictional grimoire created by Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The tome first appears in Bloch's short story "The Shambler from the Stars" (1935), in which a character reads a passage from the book and accidentally summons an extradimensional horror.
Bloch, then a teenager, corresponded with Lovecraft about the story prior to its publication, in part to get permission to kill off a character based on the older writer. While giving his enthusiastic blessing, Lovecraft also suggested that the book featured in the story, named by Bloch as Mysteries of the Worm, be referred to instead by the Latin equivalent De Vermis Mysteriis.
Lovecraft also provided Bloch with a bit of Latin to use as an invocation from the book: "Tibi, magnum Innominandum, signa stellarum nigrarum et bufaniformis Sadoquae sigilim"--which can be translated as "To you, the great Not-to-Be-Named, signs of the black stars, and the seal of the toad-shaped Tsathoggua".
Ludwig PrinnEdit
In "The Shambler from the Stars", De Vermis Mysteriis is described as the work of Ludwig Prinn, an "alchemist, necromancer, [and] reputed mage" who "boasted of having attained a miraculous age" before being burned at the stake in Brussels during the height of the witch trials (in the late 15th or early 16th centuries).
Prinn, Bloch writes, maintained that he was captured during the Ninth Crusade in 1271, and attributed his occult knowledge to studying under the "wizards and wonder-workers of Syria" during his captivity. Bloch also associates Prinn with Egypt, writing that "there are legends among the Libyan dervishes concerning the old seer's deeds in Alexandria."
At the time of his execution for sorcery, Bloch has Prinn living "in the ruins of a pre-Roman tomb that stood in the forest near Brussels...amidst a swarm of familiars and fearsomely invoked conjurations." In this forest, there were "old pagan altars that stood crumbling in certain of the darker glens"; these altars were found to have "fresh bloodstains" when Prinn was arrested.
In its first appearance, Bloch describes the book as containing "spells and enchantments", particularly those that can summon strange entities. One such spell, included in a "chapter dealing with familiars," summons the titular "shambler from the stars"--referred to in the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game as a star vampire. The story also notes that that book contains references to "such gods of divination as Father Yig, dark Han, and serpent-bearded Byatis"--this last the first mention of a Cthulhoid entity later developed by Ramsey Campbell.
In a subsequent series of Cthulhu Mythos stories connected with Ancient Egypt, Bloch expanded on the contents of De Vermis Mysteriis. "The Faceless God" (1936) notes that Prinn "awesomely implies his knowledge" of Nyarlathotep, "the oldest god of all Egypt". In "The Brood of Bubastis", "The Secret of Sebek", and "Fane of the Black Pharaoh" (all published in 1937), Bloch refers to a chapter of Prinn's book called "Saracenic Rituals", which is said to have "revealed the lore of the efreet and the djinn, the secrets of the Assassin sects, the myths of Arabian ghoul-tales, the hidden practices of dervish cults" and "the legends of Inner Egypt".[1] These stories use Prinn's chapter as a device to provide backstory on the cults of Bubastis and Sebek, and on the Pharaoh Nephren-Ka's worship of Nyarlathotep.
In later, non-Mythos horror stories, Bloch still occasionally made reference to his invented tome. Bloch's "The Sorcerer's Jewel" (1939) briefly mentions "Prinn's chapter on divination" as a potential source for information on "The Star of Sechmet", a mysterious crystal. The book plays a larger role in "Black Bargain" (1942), in which it is described as
- something...that told you how you could compound aconite and belladonna and draw circles of phosphorescent fire on the floor when the stars were right. Something that spoke of melting tallow candles and blending them with corpse-fat, whispered of the uses to which animal sacrifices might be put. It spoke of meetings that could be arranged with various parties most people don't...even believe in...[with] cold deliberate directions for traffic with ancient evil....
"Philtre Tip" (1961), quite literally a shaggy dog story, cites "Ludvig Prinn's Grimoire, in the English edition", as the source for the recipe for a love potion. Bloch quotes Prinn for the first time since "The Shambler from the Stars": "The meerest droppe, if placed in a posset of wine or sack, will transforme ye beloved into a veritable bitche in heate."
H. P. LovecraftEdit
Lovecraft, who enjoyed sprinkling references to his friends' fictional creations in his own Cthulhu Mythos efforts, repeatedly mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis in his stories. It appears in "The Haunter of the Dark"--written as a sequel to Bloch's "Shambler from the Stars"--as a "hellish" book found with other forbidden texts in the Starry Wisdom Church in Providence, Rhode Island. In "The Diary of Alonzo Typer", ghostwritten by Lovecraft for William Lumley, it's likewise part of an occult library in the van der Heyl house in Attica, New York. And in Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time", the possessed protagonist Wingate Peaslee reads (and makes marginal notes in) a copy of the book possessed by the Miskatonic University library.
In a 1936 letter to fellow Mythos writer Henry Kuttner, Lovecraft mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis as one of the books that "repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by early man".
Later appearancesEdit
Robert M. Price has suggested that Kuttner, by giving the name "Abigail Prinn" to the villain of his short story "The Salem Horror", may have been suggesting that the Salem witch Abigail was a descendant of the Brussels sorcerer. In any case, Kuttner explicitly made use of De Vermis Mysteriis in his 1939 short story "The Invaders", in which the disregarding of the book's precautions ("the Pnakotic pentagon, the cabalistical signs of protection...") brings forth the horrors of the story's title--said to be described by Prinn as "the dwellers in the Hidden World".
In Price's own "Wilbur Whateley Waits", a character declares himself to be a descendant of both Ludvig and Abigail Prinn.
In his short story "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" (1950), August Derleth includes De Vermis Mysteriis among a group of Cthulhu Mythos volumes discovered in a book catalog by his detective character Solar Pons--though in the context of the story, all the books turn out to be fictional.
Prinn and his book both appear in Brian Lumley's 1987 short story "Lord of the Worms".
De Vermis Mysteriis is featured in a Lovecraftian story by horror writer Stephen King entitled "Jerusalem's Lot"—part of the Night Shift collection. The book is also referenced (as Des Vermis Mysteriis) in the 2004 movie Hellboy.
De Vermis Mysteriis also appears as a deadly tome in the 1992 video game Alone in the Dark.
"De Vermis Mysteriis" also appears in the novel "The Keep" by F. Paul Wilson
- Robert Bloch, Mysteries of the Worm, Robert M. Price, ed.
- Robert M. Price, "Reconstructing De Vermis Mysteriis", in The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from the "Crypt of Cthulhu", Robert M. Price, ed.
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According to sources at The Upset Blog, the Big 12 may have already extended an offer to BYU to join as the tenth member of that conference.
I know, just about anything and everything has been thrown out there in terms of college football expansion. But this story does line up with what little chatter has been coming out of the tight-lipped school in Provo.
First off, we have sources from Yahoo's Deep Shades of Blue saying that BYU and Big 12 representatives have been in contact over the last few days. I'm pretty sure they're not talking about who is going to make it to the World Series.
Then we have ESPN college basketball analyst Andy Katz's interview with WCC Commissioner Jamie Zaninovich. Zaninovich said, "If the Cougars did want to leave, they wouldn't get held up by the WCC." That means that Zaninovich has at least thought about the possibility that BYU isn't going to part of his conference for more than a year.
So the dots seem to connect.
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The only fairly recent story that contradicted this general feeling was a story from Orangebloods.com's Chip Brown, which suggested that BYU had lost interest in joining the Big 12 and that TCU had become the most likely replacement for Texas A&M.
But that story was inaccurate in three ways. First, Brown reported that BYU made $2 million last year, which is true. However, Brown neglected to say that BYU's going to make a whole lot more than that this year as an independent thanks to their contract with ESPN.
Second, TCU doesn't seem to be on the top of the Big 12's list of expansion candidates. Interim Big 12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas has already expressed that there is opposition to adding another Texas school.
And in case you didn't know, TCU stands for Texas Christian University.
Third and most importantly, just because BYU isn't pounding down the Big 12's door like SMU is doesn't mean that the Cougars aren't interested.
There was some overreaction to the Orangebloods.com story by sportswriters at the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune among others. BYU fans understandably became upset at the prospect of BYU turning down a "golden ticket" to an AQ conference.


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Dec. 31, 2013
Hanover, N.H. - The Providence College women's ice hockey team fell to the Dartmouth Big Green 3-2 on Tuesday, Dec. 31 at Thompson Arena in Hanover, N.H. The loss moves the Friars overall record to 7-12-0 on the season.
The Friars took an early lead with a goal from sophomore Molly Illikainen (Grand Rapids, Minn.). Illikainen received a drop pass from freshman Cassidy Carels (Bruxelles, Manitoba) and fired the puck on Dartmouth goaltender Lindsay Holdcroft, who made the initial save but could not control the rebound. Illikainen crashed the net to capture her fifth goal of the season just 18 seconds after the opening face-off at 19:42 of the first period. Carels notched her third assist of the season on the play, while sophomore Lexi Romanchuk(San Jose, Calif.) also assisted on the play for her eighth of the season.
Dartmouth had a flurry of chances during the 13:00 minute mark of the first period. Sophomore goaltender Sarah Bryant(Bethlehem, Pa.) stopped all three Dartmouth chances to keep the Friars ahead 1-0. Later in the period, Bryant made a big breakaway save to keep the Friars ahead heading into the second period. Dartmouth's Ali Winkel intercepted a Providence pass and came in on Bryant alone. Bryant stepped out to stop Winkel's shot with less than two minutes left in the period to give the Friars the edge heading into the middle frame.
The Friars extended their lead to 2-0 halfway through the second period. Junior Allison Micheletti (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) entered the offensive zone where she split the Dartmouth defenders and sniped a puck high blocker side on Holdcroft for her third goal of the season at 9:43 of the period. Illikainen moved the puck up the ice to senior Rebecca Morse(Westfield, N.J.), who tipped the puck along to Micheletti to both earn assists on the play.
Providence killed its first penalty of the game during the second period to keep the Big Green scoreless heading into the third period. The Friars held Dartmouth to zero shots on goal during the kill with a block from senior Maggie Pendleton(Woodbury, Minn.), who came out to block a point shot in the final seconds of the penalty.
The Big Green turned up the pressure with a power-play goal under a minute into the third period to cut the Friars lead to 2-1. Carels took a tripping penalty that led to a Dartmouth goal from Kennedy Ottenbreit. Ottenbreit skated around a Providence defender before firing the puck high glove side past Bryant at 00:42 of the period.
Dartmouth continued to build momentum as the Big Green notched two more goals to take the lead during the third period. Zoe Brennan tied the game with a point shot at 7:57 of the third period that deflected off a Friar defender to go past Bryant. Winkel notched the eventual game-winning goal at 13:02 of the period off a rebound shot taken by Karlee Odland.
Bryant finished the game with 22 saves, while Holdcroft finished with 28 for the Big Green. Providence outshot Dartmouth 30-25 in the loss. The Friars were 0-for-3 on the power-play, while Dartmouth went 1-for-4.
The Friars will resume play in 2014 with a weekend series against Rensselaer on Saturday, Jan. 4 and Sunday, Jan. 5. Providence will play host to the Engineers in a 7:00 p.m. puck drop on Saturday, followed by a 4:00 p.m. start on Sunday. The two-game series will mark the last non-conference games for Providence before it finishes off the year with 13 Hockey East games.
--Go Friars--
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So I'm lying on the couch Sunday afternoon, half-asleep and basking in the role of aging sloth, when I hear Verne Lundquist tick off a few names of those playing in this week's AT&T National. CBS has the telecast at Congressional, so this is just a harmless little promo as the fellas enter the homestretch at the Travelers Championship. No reason to terminate my partnership with horizontal splendor and grab my shotgun.
"Nick Watney, Vijay Singh, Brandt Snedeker," Lundquist says.
"Great field," replies boothmate Ian Baker Finch.
God bless IBF. He could find something nice to say about the clutter in my garage. Before Tiger Woods bailed on the AT&T with an elbow strain, the field was substandard. Without Tiger, it's a great reason to wash your car: just eight of the top 50 in the world ranking, only two of them in the top 15.
Jim Nantz may ask to take another week off. It's pretty amazing, what has happened at both the Travelers, which was on life support seven years ago, and the AT&T, which earmarks its charity dough to Tiger's foundation and appeared destined to become golf's seventh major (after the four real ones, The Players and Quail Hollow).
Great field? We'll get back to insurance and telecommunications in a moment. Gotta go see if my next-door neighbor has a spare can of Turtle Wax.
ERNIE ELS HAS been a very good player for a very long time. His first and fourth major titles came 18 years apart, and there were many big triumphs in between, adding up to a Hall of Fame career by one of the most likeable superstars you'll ever meet in this game. Els has always been quick with a smile and a kind word, a man whose sincerity and self-deprecation skills go over well with the media and his tour brethren.
For those who might have missed it, Els won the European Tour event in Germany this past weekend. When you're 43, every victory is a big one, but after Adam Scott's late collapse dropped the claret jug in Els' lap at last summer's British Open, it's hard to say this latest W amounts to a career revitalization or improves his chances of winning another British at Muirfield next month.
It does offer a chance to share some of my favorite Big Easy yarns over the years. By his own admission, Els was a bit of a rube when he arrived in the U.S. to play full-time in 1994. He and his wife, Liezl, were having trouble getting around at the old Buick Classic just north of New York City that spring. One wrong turn led to another, and it wasn't long before the two young South Africans were treated to a dose of old-fashioned, northeast hospitality.
"We accidentally cut some guy off, and he gives us the middle finger," Els recalled. "Both of us burst out laughing. It was like, 'OK, you're in America now.' It was our official welcome."
He would win the U.S. Open a week later and lose some big tournaments he probably should have won—no top-tier player seemed more affected by Woods' dominance in the early-2000s than Els. After claiming his first British Open Championship at Muirfield in '02, Els was being shepherded around by a pack of R&A officials when he saw a small group of print journalists waiting to get a few minutes with him.
As he began walking toward us, one of the Ancients tried to stop him. "I'm gonna talk to these guys now," he said in a rather clear tone, and for the next half hour, he gave us everything we wanted and more. When Ernie Els insists, it's a good idea not to attempt resistance. He is a big man, listed at 6 feet 3 inches and perhaps 220 pounds, but when you stand next to him, those numbers seem laughable.
At the 2004 Masters, I was heading from the media center to the 18th green, where Phil Mickelson had just holed a birdie putt to win his first major. This was maybe 90 seconds after Phil's historic 4-inch leap, and Els, who had stuck around by the green to watch, was now walking to the clubhouse. Our paths would cross; Els thought I was approaching to talk to him.
He jumped me something fierce, and it shook me up. Twenty minutes later, I was talking to someone on the porch in front of the clubhouse when I felt a large paw come to rest on my shoulder. Els would apologize for the outburst with an expression and voice that I will never forget – a look quite similar to the one on his face after Scott handed him the British Open.
At the end of 2011, Els was in serious danger of losing his Tour card. Next month, he'll return to Muirfield as a dual defending champion. Since journalists aren't supposed to root for any competitor, let's just say a third British Open crown wouldn't exactly send me into a funk.
THE ONE THING that struck me during my time at this year's Travelers Championship was the difference in the atmosphere. Perfect weather helps, especially when it comes to drawing decent crowds, but TPC River Highlands also possessed a buzz I hadn't felt there in a while.
I remember covering the tournament for Golf World when J.J. Henry, a local guy who grew up in the same town I live in now, won in 2006. To say there was a smattering of fans on the hill right of the 18th green would be an overstatement – the place was dead. And the event itself was a few inches from extinction when Travelers jumped in as a title sponsor in '07.
Things have gotten better each year, the fields a bit stronger, the galleries a lot thicker. "It's perfect for the week after the U.S. Open, which is such a grind," Hunter Mahan told me on the practice green last Wednesday. "They really go out of their way to make you feel like they're happy you're here."
Very few Tour events revive themselves to a degree evident at the old Greater Hartford Open. The tournament used to draw huge crowds when Greg Norman was showing up in the mid-1990s, but it remains one of numerous Tour stops at which Woods has never played. In this part of the country, a lack of premium star power translates to a very difficult sale.
The Travelers did have 15 of the top 50 in attendance, six more than this week's gathering at Congressional, which sort of blows my mind. You would think an exceptionally strong golf course and the Tiger connection would have the AT&T looking like Quail Hollow-mid-Atlantic, but that's definitely not the case. If I wasn't such a dunce, I'd swear some players go out of their way not to show up – a veiled response to Woods snubbing so many lesser tournaments over the years.
You can't blame the latest lousy turnout on Fourth of July weekend, as was attempted in the past. Besides, the old Western Open consistently drew a bunch of big names on the holiday. For all the appreciation Tour pros have expressed in regard to Tiger's impact on purse sizes and interest levels – for all the times players have told me the quality of the golf course absolutely does matter – none of that is registering at the AT&T.
Simply put, something's wrong here.
MY MAN BUBBA Watson had a little meltdown Sunday afternoon. That triple bogey at River Highlands' par-3 16th sent him from likely winner to sole possession of fourth place, the irony being that the blowup came on the same hole where he won his first Tour event – in a playoff over Corey Pavin and Scott Verplank in 2010.
Are you shocked to learn that it was Watson's first top-10 finish at a full-field, stroke-play event in 2013? It hasn't been a very good year for a guy many expected to join the game's elite after winning the 2012 Masters. I exercised caution after Bubba's victory at Augusta National, theorizing that you can't become great if you regularly finish outside the top 100 in putting, which has been the case five times in Watson's seven full seasons.
Still, I expected Bubba to get in the Sunday hunt far more often than he has. His short game has been dreadful, perhaps because he doesn't make enough putts, a trait that obviously negates the advantage he gains from his enormous distance off the tee. River Highlands favors long hitters as much as any course on the schedule, and if power is an asset at many venues, the ability to get up and down never fails to travel.
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Many feminists find the latest strand of erotica (horrible word: like putting a crocheted crinoline lady on a lavatory roll), in which women fetishise their own powerlessness, offensive. And it does seem a rather grotesque phenomenon to occur just as we are becoming fully aware of the many crimes of forced marriage, torture and "honour" killing against women who want only to be free.
I, however, was offended by this book, which its publishers claim has "outstripped" Fifty Shades of Grey after selling more than 50,000 paperback copies in its first week, right from page one, long before any sexual shenanigans started. The writing is standard Mills & Boon drivel, several levels beneath your average competent chick-lit, the banality of which is hard to convey without resorting to the use of Patrick Hamilton's "Komic Kapitals", a stylistic flourish used by the great man when mocking platitudes. Thus in the space of the first four pages, people have Winning Smiles, Grin Like Idiots and Never Waver From Their Determination.
This is all before the heroine starts her first day at One Of The Preeminent Advertising Agencies In The United States. For one moment, when she sees the building where she will be working, I had hopes that she might be one of these people one reads about in the popular press, who fall in love with inanimate objects and can be found boasting of their imminent marriage to the Statue of Liberty or a rollercoaster. "A sleek spire of gleaming sapphire that pierced the clouds – I knew from my previous interviews that the interior on the other side of the ornate copper-framed revolving doors was just as awe-inspiring, with golden-veined marble floors and walls and brushed-aluminium security desk and turnstiles." Yes, yes, YES!
But soon she's sprawling on the floor of the lobby, looking up at a man with A Firmly Etched Mouth, A Blade Of A Nose and Intensely Blue Eyes – which quickly Bored Into Me, of course. Heartbeats Quicken, Lips Part, Pulses Leap, Grips Tighten and, after a few Meet Cutes in which the heroine displays herself as a lovable, clumsy klutz, and a few fiery put-downs to show she's no pushover, they're going at it like knives in the back of his limo.
Gideon Cross, the hero, is a preening ponce who comes out with lines such as: "Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are." (Lying git; there were only seven last time I counted.) Eva, the heroine, is provided with a cast of supporting characters with which to flesh out the pages between the sex scenes – the adorable gay couple, the neurotic socialite mother, the dishy bisexual flatmate – but they're all just pawns playing for time until the porn resumes.
I've always found the idea of "female-friendly" smut particularly pathetic – once again, it's a crinolined lavatory roll. Even before I read any of it, I was of the opinion that the rise of this sort of "mummy porn", as it is rather revoltingly known, showcased a sadistic rather than masochistic side of modern woman. It appeared to be just another way of tormenting men, when one was ready for something a bit stronger than TV ads showing them to be halfwits incapable of finding their own behinds with two hands, a satnav and a St Bernard. Listen, little man – you're not a young, gorgeous billionaire who can make women come at the drop of a gold-and-onyx cufflink!
The day a book about the joys of being deliriously dominated by a man on the minimum wage becomes a runaway hit, I'll believe that women really are experiencing a genuine wave of masochism. But while the heroes remain uniformly super-rich – as well as young and beautiful – I believe that this craze is driven by fiscal as much as physical yearning.
Of course, like Christian Grey (hero of the EL James novel), Gideon has a Troubled Past, so he's good-bad, not evil, as the Shangri-Las once so succinctly put it. He's a sad, bad boy who needs only the devotion of a Good Woman to heal him – and, who'da thunk it, she's in the same boat! ("We need help, Gideon. We're seriously dysfunctional"). I totally get why adolescents might like this stuff, but to discover that people of voting age buy it is to me as dismal a discovery as the fact that grownups read Harry Potter.
What's most offensive about these books is the neediness displayed. A heroine who desires nothing more from life than to be consumed by The One is a weedy, vanilla sap, no matter how much rough sex you edge it up with. And there's a backstory about the sexual abuse of children, which seems a singularly inappropriate handle to hang a one-handed read on (although the sex is so repetitive that I found myself skipping it, looking for the clean bits).
A comedian once said that a "spa hotel" was just a hotel with a picture of a pebble on the reception desk. Similarly, the new erotica is often just the same boring old romance with a lot of black on the cover. If you want a sloppy, soppy love story about two people with less substance between them than a phantom pregnancy and which, despite its fetishy cover, is actually about living The Good Life with The One You Love after overcoming Issues that stand in the way of your Relationship – more M&S than S&M, more Sade than De Sade – then this is the book for you.


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A welcome modern airing for this 1938 buck-swashler, as Errol Flynn steps into the tights of legendary outlaw Robin of Locksley (later the Hood), robbing the rich to give to the poor, wooing beautiful Maid Marian (Olivia De Havilland) with his dashing charm and thwarting greedy throne-grabber Prince John (Claude Rains). Veteran hero Flynn wears the character of the rogue like a second skin, the principal player in a sweeping production that's high on excessive Technicolor pageantry and full of excitement.
The movie was originally slated as a James Cagney project, but he quit the Warner Bros studio and the part passed to taut-trouser expert Flynn. Both Michael Curtiz and William Keighley are credited with directorial duties, despite the former replacing the latter to re-shoot the action sequences. But the seams don't show, and it remains both funny and innovative (for greater realism, padded stuntmen were paid $150 per arrow to be shot by a professional archer). A satisfying, spectacular classic.


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Kurtley Beale has been dropped from the Australian starting line-up as one of four changes to Ewen McKenzie's team to play South Africa this weekend.
The Wallabies were destroyed by New Zealand last time out, and McKenzie has responded by dropping half-backs Beale and Nic White. Nathan Charles misses out with injury, while Pat McCabe is absent after the sad news last week that he had been forced to call time on his rugby career.
The Waratahs duo of Nick Phipps and Bernard Foley assume the half-back partnership, while the Brumbies' Tevita Kuridrani comes into the centres with Adam Ashley-Cooper shifting to the wing to fill the vacancy left by McCabe. James Hanson replaces Charles at hooker.
On the bench McKenzie has opted for just two backs – the dropped duo of White and Beale. James Horwill joins them in place of Will Skelton, while there is also room for Saia Fainga'a and Matt Hodgson.
Australia team to play South Africa:
15 Israel Folau, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Toomua, 11 Rob Horne, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Nick Phipps, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 Michael Hooper (c), 6 Scott Fardy, 5 Rob Simmons, 4 Sam Carter, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 James Hanson, 1 James Slipper.
Replacements: 16 Saia Fainga'a, 17 Pek Cowan, 18 Ben Alexander, 19 James Horwill, 20 Scott Higginbotham, 21 Matt Hodgson, 22 Nic White, 23 Kurtley Beale.


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A Clinical Trial to Study the Effects of Revamilast in Patients With Chronic Persistent Asthma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01436890
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 20, 2011
Last Update Posted : June 21, 2013
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|September 14, 2011
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|September 20, 2011
|Last Update Posted Date
|June 21, 2013
|Start Date ICMJE
|October 2011
|Primary Completion Date
|April 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Change in Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second (FEV1) from baseline to week 12 [ Time Frame: Baseline to 12 weeks ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Change in Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second (FEV1) from baseline to week 12 [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01436890 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|A Clinical Trial to Study the Effects of Revamilast in Patients With Chronic Persistent Asthma
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Phase II, 12-week Randomized, Double-blind, Triple Dummy, Parallel Group, Placebo-controlled, Dose Range Finding Study to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Revamilast in Patients With Chronic Persistent Asthma
|Brief Summary
Asthma is a common, chronic inflammatory disease of the bronchial airways, with a reported prevalence in most industrialized countries of between 5 to 10 % of the adult population. Asthma is clinically characterized by repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing; usually in the presence of variable airflow obstruction that is often reversible either spontaneously or with treatment (The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), 2009).
Drug treatment of asthma has focused on anti-inflammatory therapy in all but the mildest, intermittent cases. Inhaled corticosteroids have been shown to be anti-inflammatory in asthma, but chronic use of these agents may be associated with a range of side effects, especially at high doses. In asthma, there remains a need for the development of novel anti-inflammatory therapies that are at least equally effective and possess a superior safety profile in comparison to corticosteroids.
This is a randomized, double-blind, triple dummy, placebo controlled, parallel group, dose ranging study. The study will be conducted in adult patients with a diagnosis of chronic persistent asthma with an Forced Expiratory Volume in one second(FEV1) of 50% to 80% of the predicted value. Study will enroll 448 patients globally (278 from India) across different centers.
Patients will be recruited after providing written informed consent. After screening and run in period, patient will be randomized (patient meeting randomization criteria) in 1:1:1:1 ratio to receive either one of the three dose regimens of revamilast or placebo.
The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of revamilast on lung function as assessed by Forced Expiratory Volume in one second (FEV1) after the therapy (12 weeks). Secondary objective includes area under curve for FEV1, Change in asthma symptoms, patient / investigator's global assessments and safety. Patients will be followed for safety and efficacy assessment at week 1, 4, 8 12 and 14 after start of therapy.
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|Phase 2
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|April 2013
|Primary Completion Date
|April 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
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|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Czech Republic, India, Poland, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
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|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
2011-000270-57 ( EudraCT Number )
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|Responsible Party
|Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. India
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. India
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A.
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|Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. India
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NYSE's Niederauer Resigns With Plan to Leave ICE in AugustMatthew Leising and Sam Mamudi
Duncan Niederauer resigned from the New York Stock Exchange months sooner than originally planned, citing progress integrating the market with new owner IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc.
Niederauer, 54, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trading executive who became NYSE's CEO in 2007 and guided its sale to ICE last year, surrendered his role overseeing the NYSE and will step down as president of ICE at the end of August, according to a statement today. Thomas Farley, 38, is now solely in charge of the NYSE.
While he had planned to stay through the end of the year to help NYSE meld with ICE, he accelerated that timing "in light of the rapid integration," according to today's statement.
Farley has helped oversee NYSE since the acquisition closed. Jeff Sprecher, chief executive officer of ICE, brought Farley into the company to run his New York Board of Trade in February 2007 when Farley was just 31 years old. He served as president and chief operating officer of the exchange that ICE bought the month before for $1.8 billion to expand into contracts such as sugar and coffee. ICE later re-named the market ICE Futures U.S.
Business Expansion
Sprecher bought NYSE Euronext at a time when profit from the company's traditional business, U.S. equities, had diminished because of regulatory and technological changes during the past decade and a half. With the acquisition, he gained a financial futures division, NYSE Liffe, that gives him interest-rate futures for the first time. He tried and failed in 2007 to buy the Chicago Board of Trade to get access to the contracts, which allow investors to bet on or hedge moves in rates. The products are the largest contracts by volume at ICE competitor CME Group Inc.
Sprecher and Farley have been revamping the iconic NYSE since the deal closed in November. The day the purchase was finalized, Sprecher said he would usher in a swift shift to a more aggressive culture at the 221-year-old owner of the New York Stock Exchange. His new employees should take more risks, adopting an approach that made ICE one of the world's biggest exchange operators just 13 years after its founding, he said.
Risk Taking
"I hope I can convince the NYSE employees to embrace that style of business and accept a certain amount of failure," Sprecher said in a Nov. 12 phone interview. "Any more-mature company has a hard time with that, but I really think that in today's era companies need to move quickly."
The company recently bought Algo Technologies Ltd. to replace the stock market's matching engine, the software that pairs buyers and sellers, people familiar with the deal said last month. In February, ICE hired Elizabeth King from KCG Holdings Inc. to serve as a senior lawyer for the New York Stock Exchange, according to a person briefed on the matter.
There have also been executive departures as is common in takeovers. Larry Leibowitz, who was the chief operating officer at the NYSE's parent, left at the end of last year. NYSE Euronext Chief Financial Officer Michael Geltzeiler previously announced plans to join ADT Corp.
Prior to joining ICE, Farley worked for SunGard Data System Inc.'s Kiodex unit, where he held the title of president.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he played first base for the school's baseball team from 1994 to 1997. He held or shared three individual records with the Hoyas: tied for most games played in a season at 56, most walks received in a season at 49, and most putouts in a season and career with the team at 467 and 1,488 respectively, according to the team's website. A put out in baseball is when a defensive player records an out against the opposition.
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Hard to get a crooked number on Garcia at their park, was hoping Joey could get us one there.
Hard to get a crooked number on Garcia at their park, was hoping Joey could get us one there.
geeze i hate opposing homers by pitchers
Lost the lead to the pitcher hitting a HR and Dusty wants to start him in game 2 over Homer?
this ump sucks
cubs/astros playing tonight. the combined record of those teams are 113-205
They are getting Carlos Beltran locked in just in time for the playoffs.
I wish Washington would win tonight we match up poorly with the Cardinals and much better with the Giants. All the Cardinals bats hit our starters far too well.
Holliday has come thru for the Cards and Votto hasnt for the Reds so far
Cardinals have too much power and ability on offense for Bronson
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"First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." That's how Congress praised George Washington after he died in 1799. People call Washington "the father of our country" because he led the American army to victory in the Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the new United States. He was the only President ever elected unanimously.
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John Cena: Why His Long-Awaited Heel Turn Has Already HappenedMay 10, 2011
For months—check that—for years now, fans have been waiting, hoping and practically begging WWE for a John Cena heel turn.
There are a number of reasons for this. There's the nostalgia for how well Cena played his "Doctor of Thuganomics" heel character in the early 2000s. Then there's the thought that Cena could be the next Hollywood Hulk Hogan or Bret Hart circa 1997, guys whose heel statuses were elevated because of how loved they had once been by the fans.
But the overwhelming reason fans want to see Cena become a "bad guy" is because of how stale and boring his superhero character has become after six years of the same old thing.
Cena, now a 10-time world champion, is guaranteed to go down as one of the greatest of all time.
Alberto Del Rio can talk about destiny all he wants; John Cena's destiny is that of a first ballot Hall of Famer, and a guy who will forever be mentioned in the same breath as Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.
It's entirely feasible that Cena may be the man who breaks Ric Flair's record of holding 16 world championships. It's also very possible that Cena does hold the WWE Championship from now until next year's WrestleMania, as he promised The Rock he would. It's not only possible but likely that Cena defeats The Great One and retains his title.
How does reading that paragraph make you feel? If you're like a lot of the wrestling fans I know, it kinda bothered you, didn't it?
You were a little ticked off that I said Cena was up there with Hogan, Austin and Rocky. It bothered you that Cena could become the most decorated champion in history and that he could very realistically hold the strap for the next year uninterrupted. It's irritating beyond words that he can and probably will pin The Rock in the middle of the ring on the grandest stage of all.
If you're like a lot of the wrestling fans I know, you don't like "Super Cena" very much. You tune in to see him lose, to fail and get the next generation over.
I suppose I should expand on exactly who the wrestling fans I know are.
They're guys, like me, in their 20s or early 30s that grew up with wrestling. They're guys that idolized the Hulkster and the Ultimate Warrior as kids, then matured into fans of the Attitude Era and the Monday Night Wars.
They're guys that miss the original ECW, remember where they were when Vince McMahon called for the bell in Montreal and can recite the entire New Age Outlaws' introduction by heart.
They're guys who realize that era is over and isn't coming back, but wish it had never left.
Call it sentimental, idealization or just nostalgia for lost youth. It's also a yearning for a creative, innovative and truly entertaining product.
John Cena is the anti-thesis of all that once was a decade ago.
He, by his own mouth, is for kids and about kids. He's not about the wrestling fans of the late 90's. He's about being a good role model, about doing the right thing and about doing the right thing in a PG way.
He's a superhero, a cartoon character in a world that used to seem realer, grittier, and used to have an edge. The wrestling fans I know hate him for that. The crowd reactions—the vehement boos from male fans over 12, the "Cena Sucks" chants—all speak to that.
If you tuned in to WrestleMania XXII from Chicago with no prior knowledge and heard the reaction of that crowd, you would have thought Cena was the most universally hated character since the early days of Mr. McMahon. Fans were tired of the goody-two-shoes gimmick then.
And that was five years ago.
And so we come to the great irony of this strange era in professional wrestling. The fans who most want to see Cena turn heel are the older ones who long for the days of anti-heroes like The Rock and Stone Cold.
Yet, these are the same fans who already boo Cena mercilessly everywhere he goes, chant "Cena Sucks" and can't stand it when he pulls off another win out of nowhere.
Isn't that already typical fan reaction to a truly great heel?
Back in 1997, as attitudes changed and the wrestling business matured with its fanbase, WWE created a fantastic heel character out of former all-around great guy Bret "Hitman" Hart. Bret's biggest gripe was that although he did things the right way, he got neither respect nor reward from the fans and the company. As the crowds continued to cheer guys like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bret constantly found himself screwed over because he refused to stoop to that level.
Eventually, Hart's whining and eventual descent into anti-American rule-breaker transformed him into the top heel in the WWE.
In many ways, John Cena's current character parallels Hart's character prior to the heel turn. He's an all-around great guy. He's a winner and a champion. No matter what, he won't compromise his values and stoop to the level of the stereotypical "heel," but he still gets the job done just about all the time.
Those are attributes that fans grew tired of seeing in their babyfaces in the mid-1990s, and it's obvious that many fans are tired of seeing those attributes in Cena and have been for a while.
What sets Cena apart is that no matter how much hatred he receives—especially it seems from the crowds in larger, "tougher" cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc—, he's not changing a thing.
You can boo and hate and chant all you want, Cena is still going to win in the end. He's still going to have the love and adoration of at least half the crowd. He's still going to be the face of the company and he's still going to get the job done with hustle, loyalty, respect and by never giving up.
John Cena is an entirely new brand of heel.
Everyone except his fans has a vested interest in watching him lose. Yet all he seems to do is rack up improbable victories and championships. He wins not by cheating or taking shortcuts, but by simply being the very best in the business.
John Cena is the New York Yankees of professional wrestling.
There are no chair shots in baseball. The Yankees win because they have the most money and the most talent, and many baseball fans tune in each October just to watch somebody knock them off their pedestal.
John Cena wins because he has the most talent and the WWE has the most money invested in him, and many wrestling fans tune in to each pay-per-view hoping he'll go down for the one-two-three. In both cases, these fans are routinely disappointed.
In professional wrestling, the "heel" is the guy fans want to see get beat up and ultimately lose. As far as the wrestling fans I know are concerned, that guy is WWE Champion John Cena.
There's contempt for him unlike anything we've ever seen. He doesn't do anything wrong, yet that's exactly what many fans see as the problem with him. He's loathed for being good, for being great and for being nice.
Randy Orton became a face without changing a whole lot to his basic character. He doesn't really come across as a nice guy. Many of the fans who boo Cena cheer Orton because of the edginess and danger added to the "Viper" character. Cena lacks that trait of shades-of-gray realism and, as a result, isn't accepted by fans who want that element in their wrestlers and wrestling.
Do I think WWE manufactures it that way? Not really.
I think they like the split reactions and the "love him or hate him" aspect of the character, but ultimately they push him as a superhero face and nothing more. It's the fans' desire to see this character finally fall from grace coupled with their anger over feeling ignored by WWE's creative team that spurn the venom spewed at Cena.
It's odd that these fans who can't stand "Super Cena" are clamoring for WWE to turn him into someone that they, well, can't stand.
They want a character to hate when they already have one.
It's simply a matter of perspective, and the redefinition of what constitutes a "heel" in the world of pro wrestling. John Cena is not a heel in the same vein as the Million Dollar Man, Triple H or Mr. McMahon.
He's a heel in the same way the Yankees, Lakers or Cowboys are heels in their respective sports. He's a guy who wins all the time simply because he's better than everyone else. That's his gimmick.
For a lot of fans, it doesn't get much more loathsome than that.