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Progress Capital is a commercial mortgage banking firm that has successfully closed in excess of
$40 billion in commercial loans and directly funded more than $150 million since 1990. Some of
that success is thanks to Kathy Anderson, founder and managing partner of the firm.
Anderson has more than 25 years of banking and finance lending experience under her belt.
Her proficiency in originating and underwriting commercial loans with regional banks, insurance
companies and investment banking firms has earned her recognition within the industry.
Highly regarded by both her clients and lending sources, Anderson serves on the board at Regal
Bank, which is headquartered in Livingston, NJ, and has often been retained as an expert legal witness in commercial real estate litigation. She is also frequently featured as a speaker at industry
On more than one occasion, clients have referred to Anderson as "The Miracle Worker"
because she has a way of bringing dead, unviable business deals to fruition. According to
one colleague, she built a successful business out of nothing.
Lilly Preziose, marketing coordinator at the firm, says that in addition to being personable and easy to relate to, Anderson has always shown to be considerate to the feelings
and emotions of others. "She speaks to you as a person first and a boss second.
She also goes the extra mile, says another colleague. Vice president Brit Zamoyta
notes that Anderson has a proven track record and says that her ability to close
opportunities with long lasting clients as well as managing the lines of business for
the firm is a task only the founder or president can accomplish. "She is a great
leader and provides support to all staff when needed. Kathy is the kind of boss
every employee aspires to have."
Motivation, both for himself and instilled in colleagues, is a natural skill for Yat-Pang Au.
Currently the CEO and founder of Veritas Investments, his intellectual curiosity and eagerness
to learn provide a platform for sharing his passion in real estate. Colleagues, clients and other
associates often remark at his unusual ability to elicit open dialogue and collaboration that
enables the best ideas and strategies to come forward.
For example, one colleague said that Pang constantly reminds employees that their input isnot just welcomed but is needed to make Veritas successful, adding that "He engages in per-sonal conversation throughout the day as well as in structured feedback loops such as the firm'sall-hands meetings, internal surveys and supervisor/manager relationships."Au has demonstrated vision for the firm through constant, strategic evaluation of the com-pany's near-term and long-term operations. He initiated an analysis in 2017-18 combining bothinternal and outside expertise to question and explore improvements from top to bottom. A busi-ness process analysis led to developing seven core values and a vision statement tested and vettedthroughout the company. That particular effort also led to streamlined management that combinedonce-siloed departments and reduced layers of supervision.
In another related example, Au reevaluated the firm's brand position and, after another collaborative process involving employee input, the company decided to move away from a structure of three
separately-branded business units to one unified brand, Veritas.
A San Francisco Bay Area native, Au has 20 years of real estate investment and management experience under his belt. In his current role, he is responsible for the
operations of the firm and its subsidiaries. Prior to founding Veritas, Au was
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Au is also an active member of the Coalition for Better Housing, San
Francisco Apartment Association, Bay Area Council, National Multi
Housing Council, and the Young Presidents' Organization. He has also
been honored by the Northern California Real Estate Council for the City
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If you are a woman facing a Missouri divorce and earn as much as or more than your husband does, you also face the possibility that the court could require you to pay spousal support to your soon-to-be ex-husband. "Manimony," as this is sometimes called, represents a reasonably recent change in how courts have come to view alimony.
Which seniors are most likely to divorce?
You may have heard that more people in their senior years are getting divorced than in the past. "Gray divorce" is the label for this increasing trend, which may have you worried about your own situation.
The fate of the family home in a Missouri divorce
There is no doubt that the end of a marriage is a significant time period for all involved. Couples in Missouri who choose to divorce are often left to make significant decisions that could ultimately have a lasting impact. One of the biggest decisions is what will happen to the family home.
Child custody cases challenge federal law
There are people in Missouri and across the country who are willing to open up their homes and provide loving families to children whose parents are not able to provide care. However, some children are from Native American tribes and have a rich cultural and traditional history that many argue should be preserved. As such, the federal government enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 which requires that members of Native American tribes be given preference in child custody issues involving children whose parents are tribal members. The law has both proponents and opponents.
Managing finances following a later-in-life divorce
When couples in Missouri and across the country walk down the aisle, they likely do so with the intention that they will spend the rest of their lives with the person by their side. However, as life happens and people change, a couple often finds that they are no longer compatible. Though there are likely several factors that impact these numbers, some reports indicate that the divorce rate among people over 50 from the United States has doubled over the last 30 years.
Helping children cope with their parents' divorce
There is no doubt that the end of a marriage is difficult for all parties involved. Even when both spouses in Missouri recognize that seeking a divorce is the best option, it is still often an emotionally difficult transition. Likewise, children are left adjusting to a new normal as a result of the decision. Though this "normal" may be better if they now experience less conflict, it is still a time of transition. Children are, overall, resilient, but parents can still help them through the process with as little impact as possible.

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Lovers of vintage film, Gary Winokur and his wife, Jane Gillooly, jumped at the chance to purchase the best available 35 mm print of The Phantom of the Opera, the 1925 silent classic starring Lon Chaney, and restore its original glory, including extensive color tinting and a famous early Technicolor sequence. But another challenge remained: Composing a new musical score for the film, the sort of thing for which Winokur's Alloy Orchestra is renowned.
Since 1991 the Cambridge, Mass.-based trio -- also including Terry Donahue and former Mission of Burma member Roger C. Miller -- has created scores for 21 silent films, mostly classics, and played them around the world. The percussion- and electronic-based Alloy is best known for its "rack of junk," upon which it raises a racket with bedpan and hubcap, cookpan and ductwork. But while such materiel supercharged recent Pittsburgh gigs with Nosferatu, The Black Pirate and The General, it wouldn't necessarily complement Phantom's crepuscular horror, including the famous rooftop scene and the masked ball with its two-strip Technicolor, the latter not seen in theaters for years.
"This is a film that's based on the implication of threat," says Winokur. "We've left most of our junk-metal assemblage out of the score." Alloy debuts Phantom March 11 in Baltimore, then visits Pittsburgh March 16. Expect "quiet, creepy melodies" on Winokur's clarinet and Terry Donahue's accordion and musical saw, with lighter percussion on horseshoe and truck spring. As Winokur says, "It's really nice to be taken out of your normal style and forced to create something different."


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How can the width of a confidence interval be reduced?
- Increase the sample size. Often, the most practical way to decrease the margin of error is to increase the sample size.
- Reduce variability. The less that your data varies, the more precisely you can estimate a population parameter.
- Use a one-sided confidence interval.
- Lower the confidence level.
Is a 95% confidence interval wider than a 90% confidence interval?
A 99 percent confidence interval would be wider than a 95 percent confidence interval (for example, plus or minus 4.5 percent instead of 3.5 percent). A 90 percent confidence interval would be narrower (plus or minus 2.5 percent, for example).
What does it mean to have a narrow confidence interval?A 95% confidence interval is a range of values that you can be 95% certain contains the true mean of the population. With large samples, you know that mean with much more precision than you do with a small sample, so the confidence interval is quite narrow when computed from a large sample.
How are standard deviation and standard error related?A: The standard deviation, or SD, measures the amount of variability or dispersion for a subject set of data from the mean, while the standard error of the mean, or SEM, measures how far the sample mean of the data is likely to be from the true population mean. The SEM is always smaller than the SD.
Is standard error the same as variance?The standard deviation of the mean (SD) is the most commonly used measure of the spread of values in a distribution. SD is calculated as the square root of the variance (the average squared deviation from the mean). The spread of a distribution is also referred to as dispersion and variability.
What is the effect of increasing the level of confidence on the width of the interval?
Increasing the sample size decreases the width of confidence intervals, because it decreases the standard error. c) The statement, "the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is (350, 400)", is equivalent to the statement, "there is a 95% probability that the population mean is between 350 and 400".
What happens to the width of the confidence interval as the confidence level increases?The width of the confidence interval decreases as the sample size increases. The width increases as the standard deviation increases. The width increases as the confidence level increases (0.5 towards 0.99999 - stronger). The width increases as the significance level decreases (0.5 towards 0.0000001 - stronger).
What happens to the margin of error if you increase the confidence level?Answer: As sample size increases, the margin of error decreases. As the variability in the population increases, the margin of error increases. As the confidence level increases, the margin of error increases.
Is a smaller standard error better?If you measure a sample from a wider population, then the average (or mean) of the sample will be an approximation of the population mean. The smaller the standard error, the less the spread and the more likely it is that any sample mean is close to the population mean. A small standard error is thus a Good Thing.
What is a good 95% confidence interval?
If repeated samples were taken and the 95% confidence interval was computed for each sample, 95% of the intervals would contain the population mean. A 95% confidence interval has a 0.95 probability of containing the population mean. 95% of the population distribution is contained in the confidence interval.
Can confidence intervals overlap and still be significant?When 95% confidence intervals for the means of two independent populations don't overlap, there will indeed be a statistically significant difference between the means (at the 0.05 level of significance). However, the opposite is not necessarily true.
What is the significance of the width of the confidence interval?Increasing the sample size decreases the width of confidence intervals, because it decreases the standard error. c) The statement, "the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is (350, 400)", is equivalent to the statement, "there is a 95% probability that the population mean is between 350 and 400".
What is the z score for 99 confidence interval?Confidence Intervals
Desired Confidence Interval Z Score 90% 95% 99% 1.645 1.96 2.576
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This stump grinding job was in Sidmouth. The job involved cutting down 2 willows and grinding the stumps so that they wouldn't grow again, and the customer can now put some play equipment for his grandchildren in the space.
This stump grinding job was in Sidmouth. The job involved cutting down 2 willows and grinding the stumps so that they wouldn't grow again, and the customer can now put some play equipment for his grandchildren in the space.
This Ottery St Mary tree work job for a busy store required a lot of work. With a large amount of tree work to be done, including Pollarding an avenue of Eucalyptus, dismantling a large dead pine and a large Birch. Working by a busy road, safety had to be paramount, as well as the appropriate use of signs and cones. The business remained open and operational throughout our tree services being completed. As a very busy shop, we could only close a few parking bays at a time, and our team worked courteously and safely at all times with the public in mind.
This Exmouth Ash Dismantle was growing too large between customers garage and the house of their neighbour, it had gotten to the point where the tree had to be felled. Job's like these in confined spaces with nearby property to consider further prove the time and care we put into felling and dismantling trees.
It is always a priority of ours at Jurassic Tree Services that our work causes the least amount of disturbance as possible, this job went to plan and the surrounding property was left completely undamaged.
This Stoodleigh 90-metre Leylandii job required us to cut down and remove 90 metres of wild Leylandii next to a property. The gargantuan wild hedge lay right next to a wooden playhouse and oil tank in the garden so extreme care and precision felling had to take place along certain points of this hedge.
Removal of this hedge had resulted in the fence being reclaimed and much more free space on each side of the fence the hedge grew along.
Jurassic Tree Services Matford Park tree felling was a huge tree job. This Exeter tree felling was done to connect road and gas piping for the new Bus Depot for Devon and Cornwall. Heavy machinery brought in for this massive task including a digger used to move the last tree.
Being in Matford Park on a busy road only 1.5 metres away meant having to deal with the constant passing by of other contractors; part of the road was cut-off from these vehicles as other contractors erected arris fencing up to give us space to work and allow the trees and branches to fall without causing damage to passers-by. With the roads being almost completely empty at night, it became viable to complete a lot of the work for this job at night also.
All the trees were brought down safely and efficiently. The path was cleared to connect to the Bus Depot.
Once the lines of trees had been felled there were trees that needed to have overhanging branches cleared to make room for the Depot itself along with surrounding lampposts. Once again this job was undertaken with caution due to construction taking place so close and people walking nearby.
Tree removal for this Exmouth customer's front garden contained a Birch tree whose enormous size and presence was a large obstruction to the front garden. It caused a lot of maintenance for the customer who was constantly raking up falling leaves. Additionally, it limited them to what they could do with the garden because of the sheer volume the Birch was taking up. The Birch tree was removed without issue, despite being close to the road. A very low-profile and safe stump was left in the ground.
In the back garden, an Ash tree located next to a fence had also begun to grow too large, causing a foreboding shadow in the summer and overhanging into a neighbours garden all year-round. The Ash tree was re-pollarded, taking huge amounts of the branches away whilst leaving enough for the Ash tree to still live and grow back given enough time. Pollarding is a pruning system in which the upper branches of a tree are removed, promoting a dense head of foliage and branches.
Pollarding is a tree pruning technique that develops a framework of bare scaffold branches with a gnarly knob at the end of each branch. Every spring numerous straight long and leafy sprouts emerge from these knobs to produce a dense, shady canopy. As far as we know pollarding started in the Middle Ages in Europe in order to produce kindling for fireplaces and fodder for livestock. Nowadays we pollard to manage the size of a tree that is too large for its space and/or to create a formal look in the landscape.
A formal garden can be created in so many other ways. So if you prefer to see smaller trees chosen for smaller spaces, call me for a quote and some creative input!
This Sidmouth Eucalyptus removal and tree felling were needed because it had become an obstruction, and the space the tree was occupying was needed by the client. Tending to the plants that the Eucalyptus was hanging over had become an unnecessarily difficult task as well. The tree was removed in a clean and efficient manner leaving the surrounding plants and fencing untouched. The stump was chosen to be kept in the ground. But if you require tree stump removal, please let us know.
With Eucalyptus trees, it's important not to cut any lower branches for the first 6 feet. Instead, wait until the tree has at least two season's growth. Keep in mind that many of the faster-growing species will actually shed lower branches on their own. Coppicing is another method of Eucalyptus pruning to help control the tree's height.
If your Eucalyptus trees are shedding leaves, check soil conditions and watering. It may be the tree is stressed from being newly planted and the summer heat. Inspect the tree, leaves, and trunk for any other signs of insect or disease. Call me if you need help with this.
This Exeter tree removal & reductions job involved removing and reducing several trees from the back garden of a client's house in Exeter that overlooks a tennis court. The trees in question – two Birch and a Eucalyptus tree, were reduced; they had become too large too and obstructive to add to the garden in any way and even began overhanging into other places like the tennis court.
The Eucalyptus was also competing for space with another tree, leaving a very crowded spot. The removal and reduction of these trees resulted in a more spacious and open feeling to the garden.
This Exmouth large Oak tree dismantling was necessary as it was definitely not pleasing to the eye, and dead branches from a poor prior reduction were overhanging into three other neighbour's properties. The tree was blocking a lot of light from streaming into their gardens and houses. Between the four of these property owners, they rallied together as good neighbours do, and each paid a share for the removal of the tree. All four customers are now enjoying a lot more light! And now the removal is fully completed it provides a well used focal point for the garden and future landscaping projects.
You can foster relationships between your neighbours by coming together on projects like this; it's a perfect way to get to know each other! By encouraging each other to maintain your gardens, trees, and hedges you're adding to the aesthetics of your property and ultimately your street. If your property shares a boundary with a neighbour's property, there are a few aspects of the law (and good neighbourliness) that you need to bear in mind when growing trees/hedges. Jurassic Tree Services will take the hassle out of the job for you. I cover what you need to know and also what you can do if you are having problems with your neighbour's trees, so you don't have to worry about checking a tree preservation order for instance. I check all that for you.
When a tree develops problems like an Overgrown Cypresses, it is frequently difficult to decide when to remove the tree. But these seven Cypress trees needed cutting down and their roots removing. Rejuvenating a cypress tree necessarily means trimming, but you have to be careful how you wield those clippers. Cutting back Cypress trees too drastically results in dead wood and unattractive trees. Find more information here on pruning SOS.
This customer had seven large overgrown Cypress trees in a small front courtyard garden. They had discussed removing them for a number of years; their weight and height started to splay out revealing the brown, dead growth on the inside.
The branches were first cut off the trees, leaving the main stem as high as possible. Then, using a Holly tree to winch from, I used a tie 4 hand-winch to winch the roots out. The customer didn't want the roots under the concrete path damaging. The last tree was half-way out of the ground with a black pipe entangled in the roots, but after a discussion with the owner, I managed to cut the pipe free to my relief, and carry on winching the root out. The two neighbours were very happy and described it as "a light being turned on in their front room" when the trees removed. Another tree SOS success!


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Hitman 2016 Game Short Overview
Hitman series is a world popular gaming series. It is based on the stealth genre and is an episodic level game. Developed by the IO interactive developers – this amazing game is compatible with all Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PS devices. This game also promises compatibility with several OS systems. The Hitman 2016 is the latest addition to the gaming series. This game was released in two version. The first version was launched in February 2017 whilst the second successive version was launched in June 2017.
About the game
Hitman 2016 is the sixth edition of the world popular gaming series Hitman. It is an episodic game that has been developed by the IO interactive gaming developers. The game was published worldwide by Square Enix and Feral Interactive. The theme of the game has been written by Michael Vogt. The background score of the game wins hearts and it is composed by Neil Bye Neilsen who is a popular Hollywood music director. This game is spread over a series of 6 episodes.
Player mode
The Hitman 2016 game is the successive sixth version of the Hitman series and has many latest updates to offer. However, the one thing that is certainly not changed about this game is its player mode. The first edition of the game was single player and it remains a uni-player game till present day and time.
Game play
Hitman is a popular game that is inspired by the Agent 47 which is an assassin game. The main aim of this game is to travel to varying locations and compete in battles. There are many levels on which this game is divided on to; the players have to progress through every level to complete the game. There are more than three hundred players in the game that are also there as a choice for the users to choose from.
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For all PC users, there is definitely a good news. The Hitman game can be downloaded with a direct link to the PC. There is a Hitman 2016 torrent link that is available to download the full length game to the system.
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Kumaon is the land of the mighty Himalayas in the north of India, where the food is fit only for the Gods – its simple, pure and nutritious. Nature has bestowed on this land (Uttarakhand State) millions of species of herbs, edible roots, wild berries, green leave and legumes.
A heat inducing winter appetizer high in Vitamen C is 'Sana Hua Nimbu' made from local lemons, jaggery, paste of marijuana seeds, mint and green chilies, all whipped up with curd. All you have to do is slurp it in as the sweetness of jaggery balances the tangy lemon chunks in the mouth.
The people of Kumaon have a predominant vegetarian palate. Curries and legumes rich in iron are cooked over wood-fire for hours, infused with pungent herbs-jambu, jhakeya, gandherni and Bhanga which is marijuana seeds great as a relish- a rare experience to savour.
Gauhat is one legume that is so warm in its efficacy that it is known to melt the gall bladder stones in the human body and was used to blast rock mines. The rice grown in this region is coarse and sweet to taste.The beauty of rawness!
If you live in one of the greenest state of India, then kaapha a spinach and herbs combination,is a must to try with rice. These preparations are almost black in color after hours of slow cooking till the green takes in the iron content of the pot. Very high in nutrition to be had with piping hot rice.
A really pungent preparation is the Kheere ka raiyta – cucumber, whipped curd, crushed yellow mustard seeds and salt to taste. It's almost like a pickle that can be had with anything.
The Kumoaoni's share a pan Indian fetish for sweet meats. The sticky brown fudge coated with sugar balls is a hot favourite with all the tourists as well – its called "Baal Mithai." The bread like semolina and anise flavored dessert almost like a jalebi is best had over a cup of tea or with a dollop of vanilla ice-cream for dessert.
Kumaoni cuisine is a delicate amalgamation of flavour that one develops over time. They are not strong flavours but they add the subtle zing to your food. It's a really simplistic edible experience, which comes with a term 'comfort food', flavours, fragrances that one has grown up with.


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Voters will return to the polls tomorrow to cast their ballots in runoffs elections across Mississippi. State leaders are urging people not to sit this one out. Four important seats are at stake.
The 2016 presidential race brought about 1.2 million registered voters to the polls according to the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office. Officials are hoping voters will return to cast their ballots in four runoff races for the Northern District Supreme Court seat, Court of Appeals District 3 and two house representative vacancies. One is District 106, Pearl River and Lamar Counties and the other is District 89, Jones County. Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef says turnout for runoffs tends to be low, especially around holidays.
"It's a fight to get people to turn out and vote and that's why we're trying to keep the awareness of these runoffs up as much as we can," said Nosef.
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann says these are important races.
"The supreme court decides every, interprets every statute in the State of Mississippi and the court of appeals does about half that work and then you've got two members that are going to vote on your taxation and everything else. So, I think it's real important," said Hosemann.
Hoseman says it's up to the candidates to get voters excited. He tells candidates he talks to, to get back on TV, Radio and knock on door. Polls are open 7 am. to 7 pm.


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Unions, Testing Consortia Team Up on Common-Core Resources
Using $1.6 million in grants, the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment consortia will work with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association to give teachers a central role in designing instructional resources for the common standards and tests.
The announcement marks one more step into a new area for the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust: common standards. It also marks the New York City-based philanthropy's latest move to take it from regional to national grantmaking.
The two new grants will bring teachers together, through their national unions, to work with consortium designers to create instructional and diagnostic resources, such as sample lessons, that will be housed in each group's online library. The grants will also help build networks of teachers who are experts in the assessment systems and can serve as trainers for their colleagues, said Rachel Norman, a Helmsley program officer overseeing the project.
The unions have previously drawn on their membership to channel input into common-standards work. After initial standards-writing panels excluded teachers, the unions prevailed on the Common Core State Standards' leaders to add classroom educators to those committees. The unions also have been sharing their views with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, known as PARCC, and Smarter Balanced.
There are tensions, however, since the unions are fundamentally uneasy about the uses of the tests.
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Can Ecosystem Thinking Help Us to Accomodate the Complexity of the World?
The advent of the digital age and collaborative practices have changed the way companies interact with their stakeholders. In this respect, the ecosystem approach is extremely powerful because, with a few concessions, it gives the keys to an open innovation process that is particularly adapted to this new context.
When the British biologist Arthur Tansley, just over 80 years ago, coined the word "ecosystem" to refer to a " homogenous set of living things interacting with each other with mutual dependencies, " he could not imagine that his expression would one day be diverted into the socio-economic context of a world in upheaval. It is the American James Moore who introduced this expression in the world of the economy with his famous article "Predators and preys" published in 1993 in the Harvard Business Review. Since then, this formula has been popularized and everyone has seized it. And this is good because it seems to me that ecosystem thinking is, in the context of uncertainty, complexity and acute volatility in which organizations have been evolving for a few years, a key to making the world meaningful.
An ecosystem is a kind of culture broth composed of actors in which two loops are combined. The first loop is the trust loop. It works on the reputation: it is because I know such actor of reputation that I have a sufficient degree of confidence to start interactions with him. It is not the ecosystem thinking that invented or allowed this: at all times and still today in our personal lives, we experience the fact of having more inclination to work with one and that than another, simply on the basis of reputation. If such a person has a bad reputation, I will be suspicious. So it's going to be more complex to interact because I'm going to set up behavioral checkpoints to protect myself. What is striking, however, is the way digital has multiplied, fluidized, amplified and made extremely easy to access, markers of reputation (of individuals, brands, companies, …). So, based on a (good) reputation (experiential or not), the degree of trust will increase. It will be easier to interact because I will be more open and cooperative. The relationship and the interactions will consume fewer resources (time or means) and so I will be able to do more things with my means that remain finite and limited. It is said that transaction costs are reduced (1) and with the numerical one observes that these transaction costs tend towards zero (2) : in other words, it hardly costs anything, allowing actors to interact in confidence, within an ecosystem.
The more interactions there are, the more the actors will get to know each other, the more confident they will be and the more the interactions will be facilitated. This will inevitably attract new actors, seduced by the positive emulation that reigns in the ecosystem. They will enrich it with their contributions and the new interactions they will create. The spiral of trust has a direct effect on the volume and quality of interactions. This is where the second loop starts : the learning loop . Because by multiplying the interactions, the actors are able to experiment "at high frequency": the quantity and the quality of the interactions and experiments will increase fanned by a very powerful shared learning process. This spiral has a direct effect on the volume and quality of innovations. We know where we are from but we do not know where we will end up: it is open innovation that makes it possible to bring out solutions and new value propositions, as the fruit of a collective intelligence .
" Coopetition" is the ability to cooperate and compete at the same time.
This is where the cooperative or collaborative part of an ecosystem ends, because once solutions have emerged, it is the one that will be the fastest to capture a preponderant share of the value created. It is the same actors who cooperated a moment of reason earlier that will become competitors hardly an identified innovation. But the paradox is that they will continue to maintain these ecosystems loops and therefore to cooperate: they can not do without them because they always need this engine of innovation, whose benefits, they have regulars. We speak of " coopetition", that is to say of the ability to cooperate and to compete at the same time . An economic ecosystem is therefore the result of antagonistic forces that interact, create momentum and value through open innovation.
To work in an ecosystem and to mobilize one to achieve a raison d'être or a mission (even lucrative), it is "just enough" to create the conditions so that these chain reactions can unfold in an optimal way, a little in the way which a biologist is a favorable environment (heat, humidity, nutrients, …) to the development of bacteria in a petri dish.
Before starting the mobilization of an ecosystem, here are some principles to keep in mind:
- an ecosystem is all the richer because it is heterogeneous . If everyone is too similar, the interactions will invariably be less rich even if the transactions will probably be facilitated initially.
- an ecosystem pre-exists its mobilization . If we take, for example, the ecosystem made up of the people concerned by being fit and who could be composed of men and women, but also sports coaches, dietetic doctors, room bosses sport, etc … we understand that all these actors pre-exist to the awareness of the ecosystem and that it is enough "to put at their disposal a platform to interact, so that the ecosystem can have a place of expression and emerge . So, we can say that we do not create an ecosystem: we can only mobilize it
- many speak about ecosystems in the first person "I go this in my ecosystem" or "in my ecosystem, something happens": it does not make sense because an ecosystem has no center. It is said that we must not confuse the ecosystem with the ecosystem. This decentering effort (3) is one of the most difficult steps to take: actors are differentiated by their ability to influence the dynamics of the ecosystem, but there is no centralizing hierarchy
Representatives of the predatory economy of performance have not been mistaken and have invested heavily on these platforms.
Ecosystem is a real invitation to humility and letting go. It is a question of looking at the world differently, ie not seeing it as a two- or three-dimensional universe that can be partly controlled, but a multidimensional space that must therefore be abandoned because that its complexity exceeds our cognitive abilities.
Successful examples are numerous: Amazon in the retail sector, AirBnB in services but also Haier in home appliances. This last example is emblematic because it is a manufacturing company that was threatened by bureaucracy related to its size. It has created a coopetition platform where partner-suppliers co-develop solutions and products, while remaining fiercely competitive when it comes to questioning the solutions in the marketplace. The society is prosperous and surprisingly decentralized. At its level, AirBnB mobilizes with a disconcerting ease the actors of its ecosystem and now allows "guests" to benefit from recommendations of "hosts" for restaurants for example. After a few months of launching this new feature, the establishments had more opinions on AirBnB than they had had on TripAdvisor in several years.
Ecosystem thinking is a sesame in the global and ultrarapid world we have built. In a coopetition framework, it allows to set up incredible open innovation processes. This requires decentering, a form of letting go and a paradigm shift for anyone who wants to practice it. Representatives of the predatory economy of performance were not mistaken and have invested heavily in these platforms that disrupted entire sectors of the global economy. This of course raises the question of capturing the value created. Not in moral terms but simply because it perpetuates, in a modernized form, practices that lead to social and ecological tensions that we know and that we know will be fatal to us. Because for "making ecosystem" makes sense, it must lead the players to precisely also share the value and power within the ecosystem: it is at this price that they will be fully resilient .
(1) see the work of the Nobel Prize for Economics: Coase R., The Company, the Market and the Law, ed. of Organization, 2005, p. 23
(2) see works by Simone Cicero
(3) see the interview conducted by Timothée Brès
A version of this post was previously published on OuiShare and is republished here with a permission from the author.
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The Gold/Silver Ratio is now around 61.
And still hardly anyone is talking about silver in this recent market takedown.
The last chart shows a YTD comparison of gold and silver. It shows what is meant when one says that 'silver is more volatile.' It tends to higher highs and lower lows as compared to gold.


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Usually different grape varieties are pressed separately and the must kept apart to see how it develops before blending takes place. In big wineries where there is volume production, everything often goes into the press at the same time. There is a red Burgundy called Passe-Tout-Grain, which means "processed all at the same time'.
Red wine and rosé get their colour from skin contact, though a rosé obviously spends less time in contact than a red. The slightest contact is enough to give the wine a faintly pinkish hue.
Once the juice has been extracted and has spent its time in contact with the skin, it is piped into fermentation vats, where it begins its conversion into wine. Wine is produced when yeast, naturally occurring or added, attacks the sugar in the grape juice, breaking it down to release energy in the form of heat The action of yeast on sugar produces a number of by-products which include carbon dioxide and, most important of all, alcohol.
The yeast goes on working until it has used up all the sugar in the juice, until the alcohol reaches a level above which it cannot function, or until the fermentation is stopped artificially. Yeasts can only operate within certain temperature levels. If the temperature falls they go into a state of suspension; if the temperature rises too high, they are killed. In the past, because of temperature fluctuations, the aim was to complete the fermentation process as quickly as possible, but this often led to high temperatures and the juice being 'baked'. Much of the massive investment in modem wineries goes into fermentation tanks which can be temperature-controlled. White wine particularly benefits from slower fermentation at cooler temperatures, because it brings out much more flavour.
After fermentation, the white wine is usually allowed to settle for a few days and then is filtered. The new horizontal presses are very efficient at extracting juice but they also allow small particles of skin to enter the must. This is one reason why young fermented wine has such a cloudy, milky appearance, and the particules must be removed.
At this stage the wine-maker can 'adjust' the wine. In many countries sugar can be added, a process called chaptalisation. This reduces the acidity of the wine. In many regulated areas sugar is not allowed, and the wine-makers have to use concentrated must, which raises both the alcohol content and the acidity levels.
The wine-maker may also add small quantities of chalk to reduce acidity if necessary.
Concrete vats and stainless steel tanks have taken over from the traditional oak barrels in many places. The barrels may look fine in a cellar but they are generally not as efficient as the modem storage containers. Stainless steel tanks have the added advantage that they can be used for fermenting, storage and blending, while wood is difficult to clean and hugely expensive. Only occasionally is white wine allowed to ferment a second time - a process called malolactic fermentation - to reduce acidity levels. This technique is still used in parts of Chablis and the Loire, for instance. It usually happens in the spring when the warmer weather stimulates dormant yeasts.


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I used to be in an e-fed called the CWF back on the old Planet Community forums. We used WWF No Mercy for this PPV, this is a copy of the post I made with the results. I had this text document on an old backup CD.
CWF Royal Rumble 2001
The pyros go off to start the second annual CWF Royal Rumble! The fans are going crazy. Madison Square Garden is at a capacity crowd for this event.
Dave-"Dave Motors here along with Lyle Kingsley, welcome to the second annual Royal Rumble. We have a he\ of a card for you tonight including Mr. Socko going against Machine in a Last Man Standing match and the 32 Man Royal Rumble."
Lyle-"Thats right, 32 men in the ring all going for that first class ticket to WrestleMania for a shot at the world title. Speaking of the World Title tonight we will have a "Winner Takes All" match for the title and Becky. Maybe we'll get to see some puppies!"
Dave-"Calm down Lyle. Lets go backstage with Mark Smith who is with Mr. Showtime.
Mark-"Well tonight Showtime you get a chance to put IceWarm in his place.
(Mr. Showtime grabs the mic from Mark's hand.)
Mr. Showtime-"Listen up, thats Mr. Showtime to you. Anyways tonight, to put it simply I am going to show IceWarm why I am the "WHOLE D@MN SHOW!"
Dave-"That is going to be one heck of a match. Also tonight we have MoFo taking on Mr. Test for the European championship and Jabroni against Pierre in a No DQ match. Well Lyle lets get to the first match."
(IceWarm's music hits as the crowd boos him relentlessly. He walks past a fan who has a sign saying "Its Showtime!" and grabs the sign and rips it in half. He continues to the ring, he grabs the mic from the ring announcer and begins to speak.)
IceWarm-"Tonight I have to take on Mrs.Showtime. Well I am going to prove to all you ungrateful piece of cr@p fans that the only show he is capable of putting on is stripping for a bunch of old bit[hes who can't get any, much like himself. Also I am going to…"
(Mr. Shotime's music hits and the fans go crazy. They start to chant "Whole D@mn Show, Whole D@mn Show, Whole D@mn Show. Mr.Showtime walks out with a mic in hand."
Mr.Showtime-"IceWarm, IceWarm, IceWarm you never fail to amaze me with how crappy your promos are. Because after tonight we will see what is crappier, you or your lame ass promos."
(Mr.Showtime walks towards the ring and IceWarm gets out and heads up the ramp and Mr.Showtime and IceWarm begin to go at it.)
IceWarm VS Mr.Showtime
The two exchange blows on the rampway until finally the referee can get them into the ring. As soon as they both get into the ring IceWarm goes for a kick to the head of Showtime but it is blocked. They tie-up and Mr.Showtime gives IceWarm a hard scoop slam. IceWarm quickly gets up and goes for another kick but he is caught in mid move by Mr.Showtime, IceWarm then reverses with an Enziguri. IceWarm then whips Showtime into the bottom left corner and gives Mr. Showtime a few quick hits to the head. Showtime then whips IceWarm into the ropes and nails him with a dropkick. IceWarm hits Showtime with a rising clothesline and goes for another kick to the head but it blocked by Showtime. Showtime then counters with a low blow. IceWarm is laying on the mat in pain from the low blow, Showtime then applies a single crap but after a couple seconds IceWarm gets to the safety of the ropes. Right as IceWarm gets up he gets nailed with a "Showtime Spinning Uppercut" and then gets arm dragged by Showtime. IceWarm gets up but is on dream street. Showtime then locks up from behind and delivers many German Suplexes on IceWarm. Showtime then gives IceWarm even more German Suplexes. IceWarm gets up and gives Showtime a quick firemen's carry. Showtime quickly gets up and goes for a kick but is blocked by IceWarm who delivers a standing clothesline counter. IceWarm sends Showtime into the ropes ropes but Showtime stops himself. Showtime goes over to IceWarm and gives him a powerbomb pin…1…2…3! Showtime wins, and the crowd goes crazy once again.
Your Winner…Mr. Showtime!
Dave-"Wow that was a great technical wrestling match."
Lyle-"Yeah those two really wrestled a good match, but you know what would be better…PUPPIES!"
Dave-"Jeez Lyle, is that all you think about? Anyways let get on to our next match between MoFo and Mr.Test for the European championship."
(MoFo's music blares through the arena and MoFo walks out with a 40 in his hand. He takes a quick sip of it and tosses it into the crowd and walks down to the ring. MoFo grabs a mic.)
MoFo-"Yo, Test, tonight is a very special night because its going to be the last night of your title reign. I am gonna beat your ass down ghetto style and take that gold. Oh by the way I plan on tapping that ass all night long."
(Mr.Test's music comes on and the fans boo. He has a mic in hand.")
Mr.Test-"Listen MoFo and listen good, you may think you are badass by drinking 40s, tapping asses and pretty much living in the ghetto, but all that won't mean sh|t tonight after I beat you for the 1…2…3 in the middle of the ring and keep my title. So to make it so your ghetto brain can understand it, Get Ready To Get Smoked Dawg!"
(Mr. Test walks down the ramp with his title in hand. He gets to the referee and the ref holds the title up to show that it is on the line. The ref calls for the bell and the match is underway.)
[b]European Title Match-MoFo VS Mr.Test[/b]
Both men tie-up. Mr.Test gains the upper hand and gives MoFo a front powerslam. MoFo goes for a low blow but it gets blocked by Mr.Test, they tie-up again and this time MoFo gives Mr.Test a Russisn Leg Sweep. Mr.Test now goes for a low blow but it is blocked, they tie-up again and MoFo nails Mr.Test with a spinning European Uppercut that sends Mr.Test reeling. Mr.Test ties-up with Mofo but MoFo counter grapples and gives Mr.Test a spinning backdrop. Mr.Test then pulls off a head scissor takedown on MoFo. Mofo gets Mr.Test and is going for the chop down but Mr.Test reverses into a counter grapple and hits MoFo with a reverse suplex. MoFo slowly gets up only to be tied-up again. Mr.Test attempts to whip MoFo into the ropes but it is reversed, MoFo goes for an attack but Mr.Test ducks under. THe two exchange blows for a few seconds until Mr.Test ties up with MoFo. It gets reversed and MoFo nails a spinning backdrop. Mr.Test whips MoFo into the ropes and on the rebound hits a very hard clothesline on MoFo. He then applies an STF submission on Mofo. After about a few seconds MoFo gets the bottom rope. Mr.Test then sends MoFo into the corner and goes for a tie-up but MoFo reverses and gives Mr.Test some hard punches. Mr.Test goes down and MoFo grabs Mr.Test's legs and gives him a hard knee to the groin. Mr.Test is in pain and gets an elbow drop from MoFo. Mr.Test then gets up and ties-up with MoFo and hits MoFo with a Belly To Belly and follows up with an elbow drop. Mr.Test front powerslams MoFo again. They tie-up, Mr.Test reverses with a counter grapple, MoFo counter grapples, Mr.Test counter grapples and MoFo counter grapples again. Mofo then gets the upper hand and gives Mr.Test a Rack Pancake. MoFo gets Mr.Test into the chop down and then delivers another knee to the groin. Mr.Test gets up and gives MoFo a powerbomb pin. 1…2…kick out! Head scissor takedown by Mr.Test, MoFo gets Mr,Test down and stomps away. MoFo connects with some powerful chops and gets Mr.Test down again. Mr.Test gets Mofo in a back grapple but MoFo counters with a Rin-Ne kick. MoFo then goes for a back grapple but Mr.Test kicks him right in the groin. MoFo lays in pain on the mat as Mr.Test drops another elbow. The two both tie-up again and MoFo nails Mr.Test with a flurry of mini chops to the neck. Mr.Test is down and MoFo goes for the cover…1…2…kick out! MoFo ties-up again and gives Mr.Test several powerful shoulder thrusts. MoFo whips Mr.Test into the corner and puts Mr.Test on the top turnbuckle…Superplex! MoFo goes for the cover…1…2…3!
Your Winner and New CWF European Champion…MoFo!
Lyle-"Oh my god…that was one great match! But the Icons lost, this will be emotionally scaring"
Dave-"Oh come on Dave, cut that crap, jeez. But I agree that match was great, they both gave it their all. There is no quit in either of those men and that was one of the best matches I have seen. Now we understand that Mark Smith is backstage with The Jabroni with a very important announcement. Mark…"
Mark Smith-"Yes Dave, I am here with The Jabroni who has a very important announcement about the Last Man Standing match between Mr. Socko and Machine. Jabroni…"
Jabroni-"I have added a very special stipulation to this match. Besides from being a No DQ Last Man Standing match, I have added the stipulation in the interest of fairness of No Interference. I want to see these two beat the living crap out of each other and I don't want anybody to mess it up. Also if anybody should interfere there will be severe consequences. And the consequence for interfering in this match is an automatic three month suspension without pay. Now Mark if your candy ass will excuse me I have to get ready to lay the smack down and whip Pierre's candy ass a little later tonight."
Dave-"Can you believe that Lyle? A three month suspension for anybody who interferes in our next match."
Lyle-"Yeah and without pay, if anybody interferes they must be willing to sit at home for three months just to get their hands on either Mr.Socko or Machine for a few seconds tonight."
Dave-"Well it won't be worth it for any superstar to interfere. Lets get to the match."
(Machine comes out with flames going off all over the arena. He slowly walks to the ring with his bazooka and launches some pyro into the air he them gets into the ring, raises his hands and quickly brings them down as flames shoot out of all the ringposts. Mr.Socko's music hits and the fans erupt. He stands at the top of the entry ramp with a mic.)
Mr.Socko-"You hear what Jabroni said Machine!? No Interference! So that means that your Ministry buddies can't save your worthless ass now."
(Mr.Socko drops the mic and runs into the ring and starts to exchange blows with Machine.)
No DQ, No Interference, Last Man Standing Match-Mr.Socko VS Machine
Both men come out kicking and punching. After a few seconds of just kicking and punching the tie-up. Mr.Socko gives Machine a piledriver in the middle of the ring. Machine gets up as if the piledriver had no effect and gives Mr.Socko a headbutt and then a DDT. They tie-up again and Mr.Socko executes a spinning uppercut on Machine, they tie up again and Machine goes for another headbutt, but it is blocked by Mr.Socko and he goes for a punch but Machine blocks it and reverses with a Manhattan Drop. They tie-up again and Mr.Socko reverses with a counter grapple and turns it into a backdrop. Mr.Socko ties-up with Machine and goes for a chokeslam but Machine counters with an elbow and gives Mr.Socko a rake to the eyes. Mr.Socko gets up and gives Machine a low blow, he then whips Machine into the corner and gives him the 10 punch. He picks up Machine and gives him a back grapple that he turns into a spinning backdrop. Mr.Socko goes for another back grapple and pulls off a reverse DDT on Machine. Machine gets up and gets a few blows to the body in on Mr.Socko and tries to whip Mr.Socko against the ropes but it is reversed and Mr.Socko turns it into a slam. Anothe rback grapple by Mr. Socko and he pulls another spinning backdrop. He pulls Machine up and taunts him with a crotch chop, he then gives Machine a TKO! Then he whips Machine into the ropes and climbs to the top turnbuckle and nails Machine with a Diamond Dust!! He picks up Machine who is on dream street after the Diamond Dust and sets him up, Mr. Socko bounces against the ropes and gives Machine a very hard DDT. Machine counters with a low blow then gives Mr.Socko a DDT of his own. Machine punches Mr.Socko a few times and gives him another DDT, followed by another. Machine whips Mr.Socko into the corner and gives him a headbutt. They tie-up but Mr.Socko counter grapples and hits a backdrop followed up by a figure 4 leg lock. The two exchange blows again and Mr.Socko whips Machine into the ropes and gives him a DDT. Mr.Socko gets out of the ring and grabs a steel chair from ringside. He brings it into the ring and nails Machine in the head. Machine gets busted open. But he quickly gets up and wipes his head and licks the blood off his fingers. He then grapples with Mr.Socko and gives him a hige Chokeslam From He\! Machine takes the chair and lays it in the center of the ring and whips Mr.Socko into the corner and gives him a Super DDT of the top onto the chair! A few seconds later Mr.Socko gets up only to be whipped into the corner again and this time get a Diamond Dust! Mr.Socko recovers and hits Machine with a spinning backdrop, he picks up Machine and uses the rope as a slingshot and nails Machine with a missile dropkick. Machine grabs Mr.Socko and hit him with a very powerful punch to the head. It looks like Socko is out, he can't get up, but at the last second Mr.Socko gets up! However he gets a scoop piledriver from Machine and he also gets busted open. He recovers though and gives Machine a powerbomb and another missile dropkick. Next he runs against the ropes and hits Machine with a Springboard Lionsault! They tie-up and Mr.Socko gives Machine another TKO! Machine is having a hard time getting up after that but finally manages to do it. Mr.Socko is waiting on Machine and hits him with a hurricanrana. They tie up again and Mr.Socko counter grapples into a very hard spinning backdrop. Mr.Socko goes for a kick but gets caught by Machine, a couple seconds later Mr.Socko gives Machine a Enziguri counter. He whips Machine into the corner and nails another Diamond Dust followed up by a spinning uppercut! Then a DDT! And another Diamond Dust! Socko has really turned this match around! He gives Machine a suplex. He trys to whip Machine into the ropes but it is reverese and Mr.Socko gets slammed and then gets his head bounced off the mat a few times by Machine. Machine grapples and nails Mr.Socko with a Russian Neckdrop! Machine back grapples Mr.Socko but it gets countered witha Rin-Ne kick and Machine gets whipped into one corner and gets a Diamond Dust, followed by another Diamond Dust in the opposite corner! Machine gets up snd gives Mr.Socko a quick backbreaker. Mr.Socko then gives Machine a chokeslam and taunts him. Another Diamond Dust!! Followed by a suplex. Another Diamond Dust!!! Mr.Socko gives Machine a clinching slam. Machine pulls off a sideslam amd then gives Mr.Socks a hard German Suplex! He whips Mr.Socko into the ropes and hits him with a DDT and gives him a Diamong Dust! Mr.Socko gets up and gives Machine an arm dragon screw. Machine whips Mr.Socko into the ropes and nails a Samoan Drop followed by a backbreaker. He whips Mr.Scoko again and excutes a spinebuster. Another Russian Neckdrop! Mr.Socko gets whipped again and gets another spinebuster. Mr.Socko gibes Machine a backbreaker then gives him a backdrop. Mr.Socko applies an Indian Deathlock! Machine gives Mr.Socko another backbreaker then rakes his eyes. Russian Neckdrop by Machine followed by a jawbreaker. Mr.Socko pulls a few quick body blows on Machine and hits him with another missile dropkick. He goes for a piledriver but Machine reverese it into a back body drop. Socko picks up a 2×4 from the crowd and smashes it on Machine's head. The board splits in half and has blood all over it. Socko then DDTs Machine onto the broken half of the board. Machine gets up and gives Mr.Socko a clinching slam on the chair in the middle of the ring. Low blow by Mr.Socko! Machine counters and gives Mr.Socko a Russian Neckdrop. Machine watches as Mr.Socko can't get up. Mr.Socko is knocked out!
Your Winner…Machine!
Dave-"Oh my god…never in all my years have I seen men inflict such punishment on each other. They went at it for a good 35-40 minutes!"
Lyle-"I know, they punished each other and took each other to the limit. I say there was no winner of this match…just a survivor."
Dave-"This match was brutal but I think our next match will be equally as brutal, we have Jabroni going against Pierre next."
( If Ya Smelllllllllll What The Jabroni is Cookin'! Jabroni comes out with his music playing and wearing the UHF title. He walks into the ring with his unique style and grabs the mic from the ring announcer.)
Dave-"Whats that, he hes the UHF title."
Lyle-"Yippiee, another belt for Jabroni!
Jabroni-"Pierre, you bo-jangled French fairy! Get your candy ass out right now and fight me like a man! Wait a sec, thats impossible for you to be a man considering you are a hermaphrodite freak. So get your ass out here."
(Pierre's music starts but Pierre is nowhere to be found. Jabroni taunts Pierre again.)
Jabroni-"Come on you candy ass, get out here!"
(Pierre's music hits again but again Pierre is nowhere to be found. Jabroni is losing his patience.)
Jabroni-"Come on and just bring it!"
(Pierre's music hits again but he is not to be found. Jabroni is standing in the middle of the ring looking up at the entry area when out of nowhere Pierre slips out from under the ring and quietly gets in the ring behind Jabroni.)
Lyle-Jabroni watch out, you got Pierre right behind you!"
(Right as Jabroni begins to turn around he is greeted by a superkick from Pierre! Jabroni falls backwards and drops the mic, he gets up a couple seconds alter and the match is on)
No DQ-Jabroni VS Pierre
They both tie up and Jabroni whips Pierre into the ropes and gives Pierre a sleeper hold. Jabroni then grapples Pierre and suplexes him. Pierre fights back with a few kicks followed by a somersault kick. Jabroni gets Pierre into a sleeper hold again. Pierre gives Jabroni another somersault kick folled by a slam. Jabroni suplex Pierre again and gives him a Jabroni Bottom! He goes for the cover…1…2…kick out! Jabroni picks up Pierre and gives him a DDT, but Pierre fights back with a powerslam and goes for the cover…1…kick out. Jabroni gets a metal breifcase from the announcer table and clocks Pierre over the head with it. Jabroni taunts Pierre a bit and then whips him into the corner and delivers a super rib breaker off the top rope and goes for the cover…1…2…3!
Your Winner…Jabroni!
(Jabroni is celebrating his victory talking trash to Pierre when all of a sudden a person in a black jacket and a ski mask comes down and gets in the ring. Pierre gets up and is really mad and is staring down Jabroni. The masked person gets in the ring and stands beside Pierre. The masked person has Pierre's back. Just as Pierre is heading to attack Jabroni the masked person gives Pierre a low blow! As Pierre is standing there in pain Jabroni gives Pierre a Jabroni Bottom, talks some trash and gets out of the ring. The masked person stands over the fallen Pierre and removes the mask. Its Marie Daemon!)
Dave-"Oh my god, why did she attack Pierre, I though her and Piere were friends."
Lyle-"I have no idea what is going on, but I am glad to see that The Icons were victorious and my favorite CWF interview is back. Yippeeee!"
(Marie gets a mic from the ring announcer.)
Marie-"Well Pierre I am back. As I know many of you are wondering, why would I attack poor little Pierre? Well the answer is simple. When I was in the hospital he only came to visit me three days a week. He knew that a beautiful CWF interviewer like myself deserves more attention that that. I know people are going to say "Oh Pierre has a busy schedule and he can't always visit you in the hospital" Well I say thats bullsh|t, and Pierre got what he deserved!"
(Marie hands the mic back to the ring announcer and takes off her jacket. She is wearing an Icons shirt!)
Dave-"What does this mean!? Is she in the Icons!?"
Lyle-"I don't know, nor do I care, she is back and hotter than ever!"
Dave-"Well lets get onto our first main event match…Carnage VS Ringmaster in a Winner Take All Match!"
(The arena goes dark as Carnage's music hits…the fans boo and Carnage makes his way to the ring. He gets in and picks up a mic.)
Carnage-"Well, Well, Well, it seams like there will be no title match tonight!"
(The fans boo and boo and boo at hearing this.)
Carnage-"See it seems that Ringmaster has been in an unfortunate accident and won't be here tonight. Hahahahaha! The World Title is mine and so is that b|tch Becky, she is right here."
(The shark cage lowers and Carnage gets Becky out. She is handcuffed and gagged.)
Carnage-"Now the bit[h and the title are mine!"
(Carnage begins to leave as Mr.Socko's music hits. The fans go crazy. Mr.Socko is at the top of the entry way with a mic.)
Mr.Socko-"Carnage I don't think so. You ain't gonna get off that easy! As for tonight goes, I may not be 100% but I am still capable of kicking your ass for that gold!"
(Just then as Carnage is about to speak Black Flag's music hits. He is at the top of the arena on a catwalk.)
Black Flag-"I am after that title also, and I deserve my rematch, and I want it tonight!"
Carnage-"I will destroy you both and take your souls…you are both on!"
Lyle-"Whoa, triple threat for the title. What already would have been a great main event just got better!"
Dave-"You got that right Lyle, all three of these men want that title and will stop at nothing to get it. This should be one he\ of a triple threat match!"
Triple Threat World Title Match-Mr.Socko VS Black Flag VS Carnage
Black Flag starts off by giving Carnage a suplex. Then both Carnage and Mr.Socko excute a double team powerbomb on Black Flag! Black Flag fights back with a punch followed by a spinebuster on Carnage. Mr.Socko whips Carnage into the corner and then backdrops Black Flag. Carnage comes back over and bulldogs Mr.Socko. Black Flag who is waiting gives Mr.Socko a standing sidekick right in the mouth. Socko then back grapples Carnage and gives him a spinning backdrop. Black Flagg attempts to suplex Carnage but Carnage reverses into a suplex of his own. Carnage then bulldogs Black Flag. Black Flag gets up and back grapples Carnage but Carnage turns it into a Russian Leg Sweep. Carnage goes for a cover on Black Flag…1…2…Mr.Socko breaks it up. Mr. Socko gives Black Flag a chop to the chest and then applies a figure 4. He then whips Black Flag into the ropes and backdrops Carnage. Mr.Socko and Black Flag give Carnage a double team powerbomb drop followed by a double team piledriver! Black Flag suples Carnage. Carnage gets a few blows in on Mr.Socko before Black Flag gives Carnage a spinning back drop. Mr.Socko punches Black Flag and he in now against the ropes. Carnage back grapples him and gives him a backdrop. Carnage whips Mt. Socko into the ropes but Black Flag comes by and delivers a neckbreaker on Carnage. Black Flag then receives a backdrop form Mr.Socko. Black Flag gets behind Carnage and grapples and slams Carnage with a Tiger Driver! Both Carnage and Mr.Socko give Black Flag a double team powerbomb drop. Carnage goes for the cover on Black Flag but Mr.Socko breaks it up. Black Flag punches Mr.Socko and Carnage gets behind him and gives Mr.Socko a german suplex. Black Flag whips Carnage into the ropes and nails him with a hurricanran! Mr.Socko and Black Flag tie-up and Black Flag gives Mr.Socko a snapmare. Then Black Flag and Carnage give Mr.Socko a spike piledriver! Black Flag goes for the cover but Carnage breaks it up. Mr. Socko goes outside and grabs the steel steps and smashes them into the skull of Black Flag. Black Flag is busted open. Then Carnage gets Mr.Socko and backdrops him on the the steps. Black Flag and Mr.Socko give Carnbage another double team powerbomb drop, this time on the steel steps! Black Flag whips Carnage into the ropes but Mr.Socko grapples Carnage and backdrops him. Black Flag then ties-up with Carnage and gives him an arm wrench with a hook kick. A double team powerbomb on Mr.Socko from Carnage and Black Flag! Now another spike piledriver on Carnage! Carnage delivers a backdrop to Black Flag. Spinning backdrop on Mr.Socko from Black Flag. Carnage gets Mr.Socko from behind and bulldogs him. Mr.Socko then suplex Black Flag onto the steps. Black Flag goes to ringside and pulls out a sledge hammer! He smashes it against the torso or Mr.Socko! Carnage then grabs Black Flag and gives him a devastating Tombstone piledriver and goes for the cover and gets a 2 count before Mr.Socko breaks it up. Now all the men are outside. Carnage grabs Mr.Socko and rolls him back into the ring. Black Flag gets in the ring quickly and suplexs Mr.Socko Carnage sneaks up on Black Flag and DDTs him. Black Flag whips Carnage into the ropes and gives him a spinebister! Black Flag goes for a submission but it gets broken up by Mr.Socko again. Double team powerbomb on Carnage by Black Flag and Mr.Socko! Black Flag then backdrops Carnage, Mr.Socko goes for the cover but gets kicked by Black Flag. Black Flag goes for the cover on Mr.Socko…1…2…3! Carnage just gets up right as the ref's hand comes down for the for the third time.
[b]Your Winner And The New CWF World Champion…Black Flag![/b]
(Sarah comes out to help Mr.Socko, Carnage gets up and is about to chokeslem Mr.Socko when Sarah gives Carnage a low blow. Mr.Socko then gives Carnage a TKO and Sarah and Mr.Socko leave with Becky.)
Dave-"New CWF World Champion! I don't believe it. Black Flag got the title again. Its been a long time since he had the strap. Now we will see who will face Black Flag at WrestleMania with the 32 man Royal Rumble!"
Lyle-"You viewers out there have seen nothing yet. The Royal Rumble is coming up and we will see who goes to WrestleMania! Dave, I think I'm going through withdrawal…I have not seen any puppies all night!"
Dave-"There is a newstand up on the consessions level, buy a Playboy or something! Now lets get to the Rumble!"
32 Man Royal Rumble For A CWF World Title Shot At Wrestlemania!
First Men In: Anarchy, MoFo, Soviak, and Sam Traert
Sam and Soviak begin to fight as MoFo and Anarchy go at it. Sam get dropkicked in the back of the head by Anarchy. MoFo delivers several shoulder thrusts on Soviak. MoFo then gives Soviak a brainbuster! Sam eliminstes Anarchy. Here comes Jabroni! Jabroni puts Soviak in a sleeper hold then backdrops his. MoFo bulldogs Sam and then gives him a Screwdriver! Jabroni goes up top and hit Soviak with a double axe handle! Then both Jabroni and MoFo give Sam a touble team powerbomb drop! Jabroni back grapples Soviak but it gets reversed into a Russian Leg Sweep. Both Soviak and Jabroni give MoFo a spike piledriver. MoFo gets back grappled but gives Soviak a Rin-Ne kick. MoFo punches Soviak in the face and busts him open! MoFo then gives Jabroni a spinning backdrop. Then Sam gets busted open by MoFo! Jabroni back grapples Soviak and nails him with a clothesline to the back of the head. Jabroni gets a rack pancake from MoFo. Jabroni and Sam spike piledriver MoFo! Sam then goes up top and hits a diving headbutt on MoFo. MoFo then eliminates Soviak…here comes Mr.Test! Jabroni and Sam whip MoFo into the ropes and give him a double arm drag! Mr.Test gives MoFo a pumphandle slam. He then back rakes Jabroni then gives him a reverse suplex! MoFo then gets whipped into the roped and clotheslined by Mr.Test and MoFp gets busted open! Jabroni gives Sam a backbreaker. Sam then gets up and punches Jabroni in the face busting him open also! Mr.Test then hits a huge DDT on Jabroni! Also Sam superplexes MoFo! MoFo knocks Jabroni onto the apron…What the he\…Soviak and Narcissus pulled Jabroni off eliminating him! Here comes Y2DM! Mr.Test gives Y2DM a back rake. Then MoFo and Sam double team powerbomb Y2DM! Y2DM gets up and powerslams Mr.Test, Mr.Test goes for a german suplex on Y2DM but Y2DM flips over him. Mr.Test whips Y2DM and leapfrogs over him, he goes through the ropes and Mr.Test punches him off, Y2DM is eliminated, here comes Mad Dog! Mad Dog reverses a head scissor attempt by Mr.Test, he then hurricanranas MoFo! Mr.Test and MoFo hit a double team powerbmob drop on Sam! They they hit one on Mad Dog! Mr.Test wliminates Sam! Here comes Bruiser! Tiger Driver by Mad Dog on Mr.Test! MoFo back grapples Bruiser but it gets reveresd and Brusier hits a pumphandle! Double underhook suplex on Mofo from Bruiser. Mr.Test eliminates Mad Dog! Here comes Pedro! Pedro delivers a hard German Suplex on MoFo! Brusier gets behind Pedro and bulldogs him. Pedro headbutts Bruiser. Bruiser delivers another pumphandle on MoFo! Superkick to the back of MoFo's head by Brusier. Pedro and MoFo give Bruiser a double team powerbomb drop! Bruisse hits a Diamond dust on MoFo! Pedro nails Brusier with a top rope hurricanrana! Pedro and MoFo slam Brusier with a double team powerbomb! Brusier eliminates Pedro! Here comes Chuc! Bruiser back grapples Chuc and gives him a bulldog. Now MoFo and Brusier spike piledriver Chuc! Mr.Test hits Brusier with a front powerslam, followed by a legdrop. MoFo gives Chuc a superplex! Brusier delivers a backbreaker to MoFo. Both Brusier and Chuc eliminate MoFo! Here comes IceWarm! IceWarm reverses a kick by Chuc and turns it into a dragon screw, meanwhile Mr.Test gives Brusier a reverse suplex. Chuc nails IceWarm with a climb up wheel kick. Mr. Test eliminates Bruiser! Here comes Stickboy! Stickboy gives chuc an atomic drop. IceWarm back grapples Stickboy but Stickboy reverses with a groin kick. IceWarm whips Stickboy into the dropes and gives him a dropkick eliminating him! Here comes Pierre! Head scissor takedown on IceWarm by Mr.Test. Chuc kicks IceWarm through the ropes and kicks him again eliminating him! Here comes Mr.Showtime! Front powerslam from Mr.Test to Me.Showtime. Mr.Test goes for a punch but Mr.Showtime reverses it into an arm bar. Mr.Showtime then arm bars Pierre. Then both Pierre and Mr.Showtime give Mr.Test a double wish bone. Pierre gets whipped into the ropes and leap frogged over by Chuc and gets eliminated! Here comes J E Double F! Mr.Test kicks Mr.Showtime over the ropes, eliminated! Here comes Hardkore! Mr.Test whips Chuc into the ropes and hits him with a Samoan Drop, Hardkore punches away on JE Double F. J E Double F then applies an arm wrench with an elbow to the back of Hardkore's head. Chuc nails Mr.Test with a quick somersault kick right to the face. Hardkore grapples with Mr.Test and gives him a hige brainbuster. Hardkore then grapples with Chuc and gives him The Hardkore He\!(TKO) Mr.Test weakens J E Doble F and applies a sleeper while J E Double F is down. Big Boot right to the face of Chuc from Hardkore. Hardkore then piledrivers Chuc. Mr.Test gets Hardkore in a head scissor takedown. Hardkore and Mr.Test apply a double underhook drop on Chuc! Hardkore applies a rear naked choke on Chuc. J E Double F gives Mr.Test a falling neck breakner. J E Double F whips Chuc into the corner and gibes him a Diamond Dust! Hardkore gives J E Double F a T-Bone Suplex. Mr.Test gives J E Double F a fallaway slam. Chuc goes up top and gives Hardkore a top rope super hurricanrana! Hardkore goes after Mr.Tet with a flurry of punches that send him over the top…Eliminated! Here comes He\razor! J E Double F dropkicks He\razor through the ropes, eliminated! Here comes Hawk! Chuc knocks down Hardkore and Hawk gives Hardkore a leg drop. Hawk and J E Double F hit Chuc with a spike piledriver! J E Double F gets up and whips Hardkore into the corner and nails him with a Diamond Dust! Hardkore hits a tope rope Samoan Drop on Chuc! Hawk grapples with J E Double F and gives him a pancake. Hardkore grapples Hawk and nails him with a Hardkore He\! Hardkore whips Chuc into the ropes and gives him a big boot and sends him to the apron, Hardkore kiccks Chuc again…Eliminated! Here comes Mr.Socko! Hardkore ties-up with Mr.Socko and gives him a Hardkore He\ for his troubles. Mr.Socko gets up and whips Hardkore against the ropes and connects with a Springboard Lionsault. J E Double F and Hawk pummel Mr.Socko and then Hawk gives him an elbow drop. J E double F dropkicks Hawk and he goes over the top…eliminated! Here comes big John! He gets the beaten down by Hardkore and gets eliminated. Here comes Tazz making a special CWF appearance! Mr.Socko gives Tazz a TKO and tosses him over. Next Timebomb comes out and gets in, but is whipped against the ropes and tossed over by Hardkore! Coorral Crackhead now comes out! Cabosse grabs Corpral Crackhead ad chokeslams him over the ropes. Weasel comes out and slides into the ring. But J E Double F just dropkicks him out of the ring. Here comes Jericho making a special appearance! Hardkore gets Mr.Socko against the ropes and ives him a hard punch to the head sending him over! Here comes Caboose! Cabnoose gets in and quickly gives J E Double F a big boot over the top! Now it is just Caboose, Hardkore and Jericho! Cabooae hits Hardkore with a big pumphandle slam! Caboose grabs Jericho and tosses him over! Now it is just Caboose and Hardkore! Hardkore hits a capture suplex on Caboose. Caboose whips Hardkore into the ropes and gives him a superplex! Hardkore gets up an bukkdogs Caboose. He whips Caboose into the ropes and gives him a top rope Samoan Drop! Caboose with another pumphandle on Hardkore. Hardkore and Caboose keep going at it. Hardkore gives Caboose a backbreaker. Hardkore He\ on Caboose! Hardkore whips Caboose into the ropes and leap frogs him. Caboose falls through the ropes. Hardkore delivers the final blow and eliminates Caboose!
Your Winner…And On His Way To WrestleMania…Hardkore!
Dave-"Wow, that was one hack of a Rumble. It lasted for over an hour!"
Lyle-"Yeah and now Hardkore will be going to WrestleMania to face Black flag for the CWF World Title."
(All of a sudden CTV comes on. It shows Marie changing into her interview clothes. Lyle loves this.)
Lyle-"Puppies!!! Finally! Puppies!"
(CTV goes off.)
Lyle-"Wel lwe got to see a little bit of puppies!"
Dave-"Well thats all for the spectacular 2001 Royal Rumble, we'll see you all on RAW tomorrow."
(CWF Royal Rumble 2001 goes off the air.)
I hope you all liked it. The people in the end of the Royal Rumble were all made up except for Tazz and Jericho, I had to fill in with some other people. Well peace out all, and I hope you liked the Rumble.


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CRWN w/Elliott Wilson Ep. 11 Pt. 2 of 2: DJ Mustard
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For the first time, Elliott Wilson is bringing the CRWN conversation to the City of Angels. And who better to do that with than LA native DJ Mustard, who's been tearing up the hip-hop scene all summer long. Just like the title of his debut album suggests, Mustard's got plans well beyond his latest summer hits, and he's not letting up on his hustle anytime soon.
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Rob Kemp: Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer
After losing his way with a previous attempt to follow up the cult, copyright-infringing hit The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp has regained his mojo with this giddily silly one-man sketch show. Which, incidentally, has absolutely nothing to do with James Bond. If you were expecting another parody, look elsewhere.
Instead Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer is a scattershot collection of recurring, dumb ideas, presented by a man clearly having a ball at his own idiocy.
The treatment is unabashedly low-brow, with the tone (and sometimes content) of a cheesy gameshow. Yet the topics are often highbrow: from Belgian surrealist René Magritte to the 12 Labours Of Hercules to, erm, Graeme Souness. But always in that Monty Python way, in which you don't need to know the details to enjoy the loftiness of the references.
He keeps looping back to the same ideas – which also incorporate Jaws, musical mash-ups, 1980s bands answering trivia questions, and the Icelandic Penis Museum - to give a satisfying sense of commitment to the ideas. He pokes fun at his own persistence and uses his force of playful personality to get the audience on board with his running jokes, even if some of them definitely have diminishing returns.
There's also an inbuilt chaos to the hour that Kemp fully exploits, with several sections built on hugely affable audience participation. His cheery badinage is absolutely nothing to be scared of, and when he misheard a name as 'Martin Shopkeeper' in this show, it prompted a priceless ad-libbed exchange.
For Kemp is a man who's full of beans, despite the repeated references to a recent, raw breakup that tore his soul in two. This is clearly his release from all that; a place to play, where he can crack up at his own ridiculousness for an hour.
While he's not afraid of dad jokes and a song full of penis euphemisms, Kemp also brings some tongue-in-cheek pretentiousness to proceedings, telling us, for example, that the whole hour is set in the hypnopompic time between sleep and wakefulness that comes after he has pressed the snooze button. It's an entirely bogus construct, and well he knows it. But it explains his stage get-up: what looks like mental institution-issue blue pyjamas and an Arthur Dent dressing gown
In this same amusingly self-reflective preamble, he asks: 'Can a themed show without a narrative ever be truly satisfying?' And while maybe it's not going to change your life, the cheerily upbeat Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer is undoubtedly a damn funny way to spend an hour.
Review date: 23 Aug 2019
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
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While writing yesterday's post about the recently re-released Smirk by The Webstirs, I mentioned a various artists collection called Chicago Underground: Hits At Large. That got me thinking about the CD, which I still have. So, here's a review I did for the Illinois Entertainer back in 1992. I also did an interview with Mike Galassini of 92 Degrees for an article in Streetwise, the Chicago paper that benefits the homeless. Unfortunately, the people at Streetwise used the jacket from my CD for the article and never returned it. Thus, I'm using this faded image I took off an eBay listing. Note: Back then, The Webstirs spelled their name as two words.
Chicago Underground: Hits At Large is a musical co-op, with six area bands joining forces to produce their own CD for Big Block Records. All of the music falls within the realm of alternative pop, although each group succeeds in exploring its own particular shade of the genre.
The catchy power pop of "Mrs. Jones" and "In Her Glow" by 92 Degrees serve as a reminder that Big Block was the indie label founded by Jim Ellison before Material Issue signed with Mercury. Crackpot Messiah checks in with the melodic rock of "Leave Her The Coins" and "Anything."
Hushdrops offer some neo-psychedelia with the dreamy "Snow," and crank up the energy on "Myrtle." The hardest hitting material comes from the band Billy Pilgrim, on their two tracks, "Crayola" and "Down." The Shanes engage in extensive jamming on the politically-minded "How The Innocent Die," and opt for a classic 1960s arrangement on "You Keep It Going."
The Web Stirs have harsh words for America's educational system. - "Four years of failing and falling behind" - on their zydeco-flavored "I Turn Away," while their sardonic and catchy "It's Over Now" serves as a fitting closer for this impressive musical sampler.


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Wed, 30 November 2016
Tom Vasel, Zee Garcia, and Sam Healey discuss the merits and pitfalls of their experiences at various conventions this year.
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Wed, 30 November 2016
Tom answers your questions, live!
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Wed, 30 November 2016
Hey, do you have a question for the Dice Tower? It's possible I've answered it here!
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Wed, 30 November 2016
We take a look at the different reviews we published over the past week.
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Wed, 30 November 2016
It's our weekly all things board games show! (# 154)
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Online Casinos and Cryptocurrency
There was a time when the word "cryptocurrency" raised a lot of questions and doubtful expressions. But with the impressive amount of attention bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gained through the media, digital currencies are one thing everyone is shuffling around to get their hands on.
With more and more outlets accepting Bitcoin as a payment option worldwide, including online casino operators. We're aware that casinos have become a huge business in the industry and the competition there is very fierce. Thus, casinos have opted for a different attraction like offering deposits and withdrawals via bitcoin.
Now the question is will Bitcoin casinos really get somewhere or is this just a waste of time?
A setback that we're aware of is that there aren't many online bitcoin casinos. Unibet, a famous online casino might eventually add Bitcoin to its list of banking options however, that will take its own time since it depends on its demand. Due to this, there are lesser possibilities of bitcoin casinos to be on the rise, although there might be a possibility in the long run.
It's only fair if we look at the positives and really, there are many. The major reason why customers would definitely opt for online bitcoin casinos is that they ensure 100% anonymity for the player and owner. Cryptocurrencies are completely independent which means that all your personal information is kept safe and never at risk. Another plus point is that with cryptocurrencies you never have to worry about chargeback issues which is a common problem for credit cards.
Also, with normal online casinos, you usually have to wait around for 2 to 3 days for the money to be withdrawn to your bank account. But that's not the case with bitcoin, your withdrawals are almost instant each time.
When compared to a few minor setbacks, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The more the people become aware of these cryptocurrencies the more the demand. It is true though, we need to give cryptocurrencies their space to become mainstream so more number of people take notice and decide to acquire it.
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