the toy, not the frozen waffles.
"What a nightmare!" he'd complain.
"Where's the lamb sauce!" he'd exclaim.
No where here in the land of take out rubble.
probably because my parents never did.
My ghastly shirt had an uncool penguin on it from trash cart Kmart.
window sun catchers float brief magic in.
I miss the East Coast countryside of my childhood.
decapitating it's trunk and crowned head.
Dinosaur cranes should look like Brontosaurus.
Bridges should look like leaping ancient Blue Whales.
and tiny weeds fairy wildflowers and smiling glowing dandelions.
pesticidal Astroturf-like green outdoor carpet.
if Trump doesn't plant a fraud business there instead.
buy new natural rugs to buffer the ugly industrial toxic carpet.
use the existing ones to cover cat towers but then no more ever.
I ironically buy aquariums for tranquility then fight with algae.
and everything that doesn't biodegrade naturally.
I hate Amazon while still shopping there.
WTF is happening to me?
Selling out, giving up the blue collar struggle?
But I'm a hermit at heart, "I vant to be alone".
Yup I signed up, duped again.
boiling us like frogs unaware slowly.


Violín Kreutzer SV1-C, instrumento ideal para inicio. Hecho con madera maciza, fondo de abeto rizado, montaje hecho por un luthier, instrumento listo para tocar (Arco, estuche y resina incluidos).
Kreutzer SV1-C violin, recommended instrument for beginners. Made with solid wood, back of a curly spruce wood. The setting up is made by a luthier and it is an instrument ready to play (the bow, case and resin are included).


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Q: A question of opinion: Are you still using iframes? Do iframes still fit the mold of current web standards? The technology is old but I am seeing them resurface - especially with the new youtube embed code being iframes and facebook just allowing custom tabs to be iframes as well.
My question is basically: Are the acceptable?

A: Have a look at this SO question: Are IFrames (HTML) obsolete?
In short: They are part of the HTML 5 draft and will be sticking around. If used correctly, I think they are acceptable. :)

A: I agree with everyone that they should be a last resort, but there are certain things that demand the use of iframes.
For instance, there's no better way to do ajax file uploading than posting to an iframe and then reacting to the iframe's onload event to handle it.

A: Yes, my company still uses iFrames to embed third-party content on our site.
They still have a place but, IMHO, should be a last resort.

A: A lot of components such as Facebook's social widgets or Youtube's embeded player use iframes.
I also use some, when needed. Of course I don't abuse it because it's not adapted for all situations.

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Excerpts from the book "50 People Whom I People"
The reasoning behind the pity of Brutus, Julius Caesar's betrayer.
The rationale behind why Anton LaVey is worthy of our pity.
The rationale behind why Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten is worthy of our pity.
The rationale behind why artist Yves Klein is worthy of our pity.


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Keith bring some 35 years experience of the aviation industry, encompassing both airline and airport management.
Adept at turnaround situations with experience of restructuring, business process re-engineering and transformational change in highly regulated, unionised and politically sensitive environments.
He was seconded by BA as Chief Executive of Air Jamaica and the government chief adviser on the privatisation of the airline and he set up and rolled out BA's first worldwide franchise with Cityflyers Express.
Keith has also been Managing Director of Bournemouth International Airport.
He is an engineering graduate and MBA, he has held budgetary responsibility of £1.2bn and full P&L for circa £30m.


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Alexandre Lacazette: the forward will not push to leave if Arsenal fails to reach the Champions League
Alexandre Lacazette has scored 33 Premier League goals in 86 appearances for Arsenal since arriving from Lyon in 2017
Alexandre Lacazette will not push to leave Arsenal if they do not qualify for the next Champions League season.
When asked if his contract had a safeguard clause for such a scenario, the France striker said he didn't know.
"I have a contract with the club, so I don't make sense to leave," he said. "Everyone is happy with me at the club."
Lacazette, 28, joined Lyon's Arsenal in 2017 and has never played in the Champions League for the Gunners.
Arsenal are ninth in the Premier League, seven points behind Chelsea in fourth.
They could also qualify for the next Champions League if they win the Europa League, and take the lead 1-0 in Thursday night's home game with Olympiakos at the Emirates Stadium thanks to the Lacazette winner in Greece.
Lacazette has only scored twice in ten appearances with new manager Mikel Arteta and has been a substitute in the last two league games.
"Many people can talk," said Lacazette, whose current contract expires in 2022. "There's always something to say, so I don't really think about it.
"If the manager, the coach, my teammates are happy with me, that's the most important thing."
— Read more on www.newsarchyuk.com/alexandre-lacazette-the-forward-will-not-push-to-leave-if-arsenal-fails-to-reach-the-champions-league/
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The other week came the announcement that Sony planned to reboot "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" franchise by jumping ahead to the fourth novel, "The Girl In The Spider's Web," and relaunching the series with a new cast and with Fede Alvarez ("Don't Breathe") taking over as director.
Shortly afterwards, both Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson were quickly rumored to be up for the role of iconic hacker Lisbeth Salander in the project. Johansson had initially been eyed for David Fincher's 2012 'Dragon Tattoo' film before he ultimately settled on Rooney Mara.
The Johansson interview also goes into the unlikelihood of a "Lucy" sequel and expresses not a huge lot of enthusiasm for a potential "Black Widow" feature. Click on the link to check it out.


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It fell to Nebraska's doctors to calm the citizenry and treat the ill. By the late nineteenth century, physicians had become increasingly professionalized and specialized, and they had made significant advances in treating various diseases and ailments. Most Nebraskans accepted the theory that microorganisms, or germs, caused infection and disease could be prevented by cleanliness. Antiseptics like carbolic acid enjoyed widespread usage as well as the X-ray machine, laboratories, and a host of vaccines and antitoxins to ward off or combat disease. With their improved efficiency and greater competence, doctors gained new patients and new respect. Physicians could often be recognized by their Prince Albert coats, silk hats, and whiskers, though the latter soon disappeared in the interest of cleanliness. Medicine had come of age in Nebraska, and it could not have come sooner given the crisis at hand.
Publication information: Book title: Nebraska Moments. Edition: New. Contributors: Donald R. Hickey - Author, Susan A. Wunder - Author, John R. Wunder - Author. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press. Place of publication: Lincoln, NE. Publication year: 2007. Page number: 182.


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Discoveries about organelle communication are transforming biology
Elie Dolgin
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:39 UTC
© Serge Bloch/Nature
Organelles - the cell's workhorses - mingle far more than scientists ever appreciated.
Nobody paid much attention to Jean Vance 30 years ago, when she discovered something fundamental about the building blocks inside cells. She even doubted herself, at first.
The revelation came after a series of roadblocks. The cell biologist had just set up her laboratory at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and was working alone. She thought she had isolated a pure batch of structures called mitochondria - the power plants of cells - from rat livers. But tests revealed that her sample contained something that wasn't supposed to be there. "I thought I'd made a big mistake," Vance recalls.
After additional purification steps, she found extra bits of the cells' innards clinging to mitochondria like wads of chewing gum stuck to a shoe. The interlopers were part of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) - an assembly line for proteins and fatty molecules. Other biologists had seen this, too, and dismissed it as an artefact of the preparation. But Vance realized that the pieces were glued together for a reason, and that this could solve one of cell biology's big mysteries.
In a 1990 paper, Vance showed that the meeting points between the ER and mitochondria were crucibles for the synthesis of lipids1. By bringing the two organelles together, these junctions could serve as portals for the transfer of newly made fats. This would answer the long-standing question of how mitochondria receive certain lipids - they are directly passed from the ER.
Yet most of her contemporaries, schooled in the idea that the gummy bits of ER were nothing more than contamination, doubted that such unions were important to cells. "I gave several presentations," says Vance, "and people were sceptical."
Not any more. Close to three decades later, Vance's paper is seen as a landmark - one that has come to transform scientists' understanding of how cells maintain order and function in their crowded interiors, which buzz with various types of organelles, including mitochondria, nuclei and the ER. Researchers now recognize that interactions between organelles are ubiquitous, with almost every type coming into close conversation with every other type. Probing those connections is also leading biologists to discover proteins that are responsible for holding the organelles together and maintaining a healthy cell.
The updated view of organelle crosstalk is forcing a dramatic rethink of cell biology. "There's a whole other layer of communication that's going on within these organelles," says Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a cell biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, whose team has been recording dazzling video footage of these affairs2.
Thanks to advances in imaging technologies, researchers can now see pairs of organelles bound together just 10-30 nanometres apart, close enough that even the smallest viruses would have a tough time squeezing between them. The junctures form links for swapping lipids, ions and other molecular wares. Break those links, however, and the cellular dysfunction that follows can lead to cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and various other disorders.
The first recorded glimpses of contact between organelles emerged about 40 years before Vance's discovery. In the 1950s, microscopists in France snapped pictures of mitochondria making intimate connections with the ER in rat cells. But biologists at the time didn't think they had a function.
A few other scientists, working between the 1960s and 1980s, saw tantalizing hints that parts of the ER cosy up to other structures - including the Golgi apparatus, the cell's central sorting and transportation hub, and the fatty plasma membrane that surrounds all cells. Yet these pairings were seen as biological quirks - exceptions to the perceived rules of intra-cell communication.
"Non-paradigmal" is how cell biologist Tim Levine from University College London describes these early findings. "They could easily be ignored," he says. The dogma for the past half-century has held that most intracellular deliveries happen by means of bubble-like sacs called vesicles that function like a microscopic postal system, ferrying packages from one organelle to another.
Another factor pushed those first reports to the fringes: scientists studying vesicles did not generally communicate with those who specialized in signalling through calcium ions. "There was no contact in the contact field," Levine says.
That was the backdrop against which Vance's 1990 paper landed. It was seldom cited until the past decade, when the field rediscovered her work. That's also when researchers began to pinpoint the specific proteins - called tethers - that form the contact points between organelles. Knowing their identity meant that cell biologists could artificially construct contact sites or destroy them and, in so doing, drill down into the function of the different trading exchanges.
In 2009, for example, a team led by Benoît Kornmann, an organelle biologist now at the University of Oxford, UK, identified a group of four proteins that collectively formed a tether between the ER and mitochondria in yeast cells. Deleting any one of the proteins caused the tether to fall apart and led to defects in fat exchange, and slower cell growth3.
"This was the first indication that you could actively go out and look for tethers and therefore manipulate these entities," says Maya Schuldiner, a yeast-cell biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who worked on Kornmann's study.
© Jean Vance, et. al.
The endoplasmic reticulum (yellow) swaps goods with various organelles. Ref. 2
Tether together
Proving that something is a tether is not always straightforward. That's because multiple tether proteins often hold two organelles together and, as with a tower of Jenga blocks, removing one might not cause the structure to collapse.
Scott Emr, a yeast biologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, encountered this when he began studying contact sites between the ER and the plasma membrane. His group eventually identified six tethering components, any one of which could correctly hold the tether together4. His team could disrupt the bond only by eliminating all six proteins.
The quest to identify tethers is also complicated by the elaborate network of interactions between organelles. At first, all interactions seemed to involve the ER. But scientists began to document other couplings. And they soon realized that cells can reroute transport when direct shipping lanes are blocked.
That's what teams led by Schuldiner and Christian Ungermann at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, independently discovered in 2014. After knocking out the usual tether between the ER and mitochondria in yeast, both groups found5,6 that lipids could still travel in a relay-like fashion between the two organelles through a back-channel - the vacuole. This fluid-filled sac serves as the cell's storage locker for food and other nutrients.
Other studies revealed even more complex arrangements of connections. Mitochondrial biologist Jodi Nunnari at the University of California, Davis, and her then colleague, cell biologist Laura Lackner, classified7 a super-contact zone containing at least two tethers and three organelles - the ER, mitochondria and the plasma membrane. "It really seems like this is some sort of functional hub that the cell has created," says Lackner, now at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. "It brings in a whole other layer of spatial organization."
Function junction
Schuldiner says that the discovery of all these contacts is getting more researchers excited about the study of organelle interactions. It made scientists appreciate that "there must also be additional functions for all these interactions", she notes.
One of the earliest functions to come to light was cargo transfer. After Vance's initial discovery, experiments revealed that organelle contacts are almost like a gangway for exchanging goods between two ships. These sites transmit cholesterol, oily waxes and other fatty molecules that would otherwise form beads in the watery cytoplasmic sea, plugging up the cell like bacon grease in a drainpipe.
Calcium, hydrogen peroxide and other water-soluble compounds also flow through these portals, which helps the cell to aggregate these molecules for specific reactions. For instance, Schuldiner and her colleagues showed last year that mitochondria sometimes pair off with the cell's toxic-clean-up hubs, known as peroxisomes, as a way to concentrate a molecule needed to break down fatty acids into fuel8.
Beyond serving as trading posts, contact sites also play a crucial part in regulating the division of organelles. This became clear in 2011, when a team led by Gia Voeltz, a cell biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, imaged yeast cells in sections to create high-resolution, 3D models of ER-mitochondria pairings9. The ER "looked like a hand clamped around a mitochondrion and squeezing it", says Voeltz. Over time, the mitochondria constricted at these points and split into two.
A few years later, Voeltz showed that a similar process also explains the division of organelles known as endosomes that help to sort and deliver molecular cargo10. Initially, she says, most scientists doubted that ER-endosome contacts even existed or were important. "Now it's accepted as obvious," Voeltz says - and she credits videos of those contacts with helping to win over sceptics. Faced with the visuals, she says, holdouts quickly become converts. "People were like, 'Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea everything was so integrated and beautiful.'"
Voeltz shot her most detailed movies on a conventional electron microscope. In the past few years, more advanced imaging technologies have brought all of the cell's points of contact into even more stark relief.
In 2017, Lippincott-Schwartz, in collaboration with a Janelia colleague, microscopist Eric Betzig, used super-resolution light microscopy to capture kaleidoscopic-colour 3D movies of intricate interactions between six organelles: the ER, mitochondria, the Golgi complex, peroxisomes, lysosomes and fat deposits called lipid droplets2. A week later, a team led by neuroscientist Pietro De Camilli at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, published black-and-white films that showed the ER ensnaring mitochondria and other organelles in mouse neurons11.
© K.R. Porter/SPL
In a cell, a mitochondrion (red) appears near the endoplasmic reticulum, a protein and fat-making organelle (shown in the lower part of the image).
Complementing such video evidence, Schuldiner and Einat Zalckvar, a cell biologist at Weizmann, led a team that systematically mapped all the contact sites in yeast cells and demonstrated a way to uncover their tethering molecules. Reporting last May8, the scientists used a kind of split fluorescent probe that, like two halves of an interlocking heart charm, fits together to produce a whole. The united probe glows wherever two organelles come into close apposition.
And in unpublished follow-up work, the researchers identified dozens of proteins localized to contact sites: some served as tethers, but others were simply anchored in contact zones. "Most of them are completely unstudied," says Schuldiner, hinting that these proteins might have other, undiscovered roles.
A 2017 study from Yale cell biologist Karin Reinisch, De Camilli and their collaborators highlights one such previously unknown function, with implications for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The team showed12 that a protein involved in insulin secretion serves as a tether between the ER and the plasma membrane in rat pancreatic cells. By coordinating the passage of calcium and lipids between the organelles, the protein helps to trigger bursts of insulin release that are needed to keep blood sugar levels from getting too high.
Bad dancers
Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, a metabolic-disease researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, likens the relationship between the ER and mitochondria to a sensual and dynamic flamenco performance. Just like dancers, the organelles "contact and separate, and then come into contact again, and flirt a little bit and go away", he says. But in diseased liver cells, the two organelles stay entwined, and the rhythm is sluggish.
"It doesn't look very elegant," says Hotamışlıgil, who has shown13 that excessive contact between the ER and mitochondria in mouse liver cells is linked to insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity. "You can't slow-dance flamenco - and that's how the mitochondria-ER relationship becomes under metabolic stress," he adds.
Other disease links are coming into view as researchers catalogue more proteins stationed at contact sites. For example, mitofusin 2, one of the proposed tethers of ER-mitochondrial junctions involved in calcium transport, is encoded by a gene that's frequently mutated in people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare degenerative nerve disorder. And VAPB, a gene responsible for some inherited cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, holds the recipe for making a protein that helps to latch the ER to several organelles.
Another disease-relevant contact is found in people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, whose brains tend to have plaques formed of amyloid-β protein. Cell biologists Estela Area Gómez and Eric Schon at Columbia University in New York City have shown that a particular derivative of the amyloid-β precursor protein accumulates on the surface of the ER in affected cells14. Known as C99, the derivative triggers connections with nearby mitochondria, which throws cholesterol transport out of kilter.
Working in mice and human cell lines, Area Gómez says her group has identified unique patterns of metabolites produced as a consequence of the excessive contacts wrought by C99. She is exploring whether a blood test for these metabolites could identify subcellular signs of Alzheimer's disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
As the evidence mounts that contact sites affect cellular function in both health and disease, some researchers have begun to talk about the need for a grand new synthesis of cellular transport. "An organelle cannot function in isolation," Schuldiner says. And Lippincott-Schwartz sees an exciting future in cell biology: "This field of organelle-organelle communication and coupling is going to reveal really fundamental processes."
But there are still technical details to work out. Most research has focused on lipid or calcium shuttling between the ER and other organelles. The challenge now is to uncover the whole spectrum of signals transmitted across all contact sites.
"In some ways, the field has gotten ahead of itself," says Will Prinz, a cell biologist at the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. Prinz agrees that contact sites are a "big, important, almost revolutionary concept in cell biology", but says there is much work to do. "Is this really a game-changer for how we think about cells?" Prinz asks. "I think the jury is still out."
At the very least, says Voeltz, there's enough evidence for cell-biology textbooks to get a makeover. She teaches an undergraduate course on organelle and membrane trafficking using a textbook, last revised in 2015, that depicts the cell just as it did 20 years ago. In fact, textbook depictions of the cell's innards have changed little since 1896, when cytologist Edmund Beecher Wilson drew the cell with organelles neatly tucked into their own distinct cytoplasmic compartments.
From the ER to the Golgi to the vacuole to the endosome, each organelle is still shown in isolation, not as a dynamic dance of parts that continuously embrace and separate. "Nothing is drawn the way the cell actually looks," says Voeltz. "It would be nice to update that image."
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5 of the Most Iconic WWF/WWE Superstars First Edition
Jan Michael Ong
WWE has been a game changer in the wrestling industry as it brought wrestling from the territories to the world stage.
John Cena is known for his rapper gimmick.
1. John Cena
John Cena started off his WWF career as a developmental wrestler for Ohio Valley Wrestling—the WWF developmental territory. There, he was a heavyweight champion and tag team champion. He started with the moniker "The Prototype."
He did not use the moniker when he debuted on television and just went by his real name. He wore a more traditional wrestling attire than the shirt, cap, jorts and sneakers he wears today. Cena was impressive in his debut. He nearly upset the then-champion Kurt Angle.
Cena adopted a Vanilla Ice-like white rapper gimmick and became popular because of it. He may not have been the best rapper around, but he was skilled enough to be very entertaining. Unlike now, where Cena is both loved and hated, there was a time that nearly everyone liked John Cena.
April 3, 2005, marked the beginning of Cena's ascendancy to the top. He beat John Bradshaw Layfield in the grandest stage of them all: Wrestlemania 21. The crowd cheered when Cena vanquished the reviled Layfield.
Cena shed the rapper gimmick in favor of the marine gimmick in 2005 when he became the face of the company. He had to be a better representative of the company, especially when granting wishes or doing charity work. He cannot be this foul-mouthed, edgy rapper anymore.
The Fall of Cena
The once-loved Cena would soon be reviled, as he won too much and was accused of derailing the push of many wrestlers such as Wade Barrett, CM Punk, and Daniel Bryan. He would also have endless matches with Randy Orton.
Cena has accomplished a lot with a record-tying 16 world championships. He is supposedly tied with Ric Flair for this accolade. (However, many dispute this and say Flair has more than 20 reigns.) He also has multiple United States and tag team championships, but surprisingly has never gotten an Intercontinental title reign.
Cena is now a part-timer and is now following the footsteps of The Rock and venturing into movies and television.
Andre the Giant was a star due his size.
2. Andre the Giant
Andre the Giant was billed at the height of 7'4" and weight of 520 pounds. His size alone made him an instant attraction. With the average height of a French man being 5'8" to 5'9" during Andre's heyday in the 70s and 80s, he truly stood out.
During his stint in the World Wide Wrestling Federation and the World Wrestling Federation, Andre was never pinned and has never submitted. While he did lose occasionally, it was mostly due to count-outs and disqualifications.
While Andre has had hundreds of matches all over the world, he is best known for his match with Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3 held at the Pontiac Silverdome. While it was no technical masterpiece, it was one of the most memorable Wrestlemania matches of all time. The most memorable part of the match was when Hulk Hogan body slammed the massive giant. It was the classic case of the unstoppable force against the immovable object. At last, the "undefeated" Andre was finally vanquished.
Andre the Giant's Plots and Partnerships
Andre was also involved in a plot to rob Hulk Hogan of the WWF Championship. He connived with "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase and Earl Hebner in order to screw Hogan out of the gold. He immediately surrendered the championship to Ted Dibiase, and WWF president Jack Tunney nullified the results and had a tournament to determine the new champion.
Andre would continue his feud with Hogan and this would culminate with a matchup between the Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) and the Mega Bucks (Ted Dibiase and Andre the Giant).
Andre would then have several high profile feuds with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Big John Studd.
Andre would then form a tag team with Haku called The Colossal Connection. The team won the tag belts from Demolition. Demolition won the belts back from The Colossal Connection. This led to a rift between Andre and Haku. The team would lose again to Demolition in a house show in Honolulu and Andre and Haku began fighting. This marked the end of their partnership.
Andre would no longer be a full-time wrestler and would just be a part-timer. He would make some sporadic appearances but mostly for interference or in a tag team due to Andre's accumulated injuries. October 9, 1992, was his last appearance in the WWF. He assisted the British Bulldog in beating the massive Earthquake. It was ironically at a house show in Paris, France.
Andre died in his sleep of congestive heart failure. He would then be cremated and his ashes scattered on his ranch in Ellerbe, North Carolina.
Triple H is now an executive for WWE.
3. Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque, also known as Triple H, is now the Executive Vice President of Talent, Live Events and Creative. He is mostly known as the driving force behind NXT and is being groomed to succeed Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
He still wrestles occasionally though. He wrestles mostly on pay-per-view events—most often during Wrestlemania. He also appears on air as an authority figure.
Triple H began his WWF career as Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He was a blue blood who was snobbish in nature. He would usually come to the ring with a gorgeous valet. He would even do a curtsy to put his aristocrat gimmick over the top. He had a manager during this time in Mr. Perfect. He also had two bodyguards during this phase in his career—Mr. Hughes and Chyna.
1997 had Triple H join up with Shawn Michaels, Rick Rude, and Chyna to form Degeneration X. This was the WWF's version of the New World Order. While the New World Order was about recruiting more people and doing an invasion angle, Degeneration X was just about two immature adults acting like rebellious teenagers and defying authority.
Upon Shawn Michaels being shelved due to a back injury, Triple H formed the DX Army. He recruited X-Pac, Road Dog, and Billy Gunn to help him wreak havoc upon the WWF.
In 1999, Triple H would leave DX and join The Corporation. He went from a goofy persona to something more serious.
This culminated in 2000 when Triple H would become "The Game." He would adopt the persona he has to this day. He would be a cold and calculating wrestler who used his wits to outsmart the competition. Jim Ross dubbed him "The Cerebral Assassin."
Why Many Fans Dislike Triple H
While Triple H has gotten to where he is through his own merit, he has caught a lot of flak for his dominant run in the early 2000s. He has vanquished popular stars such as Rob Van Dam, Booker T, Bill Goldberg, and Scott Steiner, and this was not appreciated by the fans. They accused Triple H of burying them to feed his own ego.
Triple H was part of Evolution. It was a stable that was similar to Ric Flair's Four Horsemen stable. Evolution represented the past in Ric Flair, the present in Triple H, and the future in Randy Orton and Dave Batista.
On the other hand, Triple H has helped elevate stars such as Randy Orton, Dave Batista, and Daniel Bryan to superstar status.
It is mind-blowing to think that a wrestler that was once Shawn Michaels' lackey would be running the WWE one day.
4. Mr. Perfect
The Mr. Perfect gimmick was as memorable as it was quite unique. Here you do not have a wrestler pretending to be a superhero such as The Hurricane or The Blue Blazer or a wrestler pretending to have a second occupation such as a Henry O Godwinn, Duke "The Dumpster Droese," or The Repo Man. You just have this perfect athlete that can not only wrestle but excel in other sports as well.
Mr. Perfect, AKA Curt Hennig, is actually a natural-born athlete. So it was easy for him to do the vignettes. Wrestling is in his blood, as his father was the legendary Larry "The Axe" Hennig.
The vignettes did a great job of establishing the Mr. Perfect character. The vignettes showed Hennig in various sports—baseball, golf, basketball, bowling, hockey, football, chess, table tennis, and horseshoes. In each vignette, Hennig would either beat someone or do something perfectly.
Mr. Perfect was no scrub. He was a former AWA (American Wrestling Association) Champion.
Mr. Perfect's Wild Career
In order to boost his character's image, Perfect was undefeated for almost two years. He then had a program with Hulk Hogan where he and The Genius tried to end Hogan's title reign. This feud was very memorable as Mr. Perfect destroyed Hogan's belt backstage.
Another memorable feud was between him and Bret Hart. He lost the feud and his belt at SummerSlam 1991. It is widely regarded as one of the best matches for the Intercontinental Championship in the company's history.
Because of a back injury, Mr. Perfect would temporarily retire from in-ring action. He would serve as Ric Flair's executive consultant and as a color commentator alongside Vince McMahon.
Perfect returned to the ring as part of Randy Savage's team in 1992. He had transitioned from heel to face.
Hennig would then go on to have high profile feuds with Ric Flair and Lex Luger. He would then again injure his back and would have a second stint as color commentator. He would also manage Triple H during this time. Mr. Perfect would soon leave the company, thus ending the partnership.
Mr. Perfect would jump ship to WCW and join the Four Horsemen. He betrayed the Horsemen and joined the New World Order. He wrestled there under his real name.
Mr. Perfect would return to the WWF, but he was no longer pushed. He was used as enhancement talent for the WWF's young stars. He would eventually be released because of an alcohol problem and because of an altercation with Brock Lesnar.
Mr. Perfect would then wrestle in the independents until his death at the age of 44 due to a cocaine overdose.
5. Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan is the Babe Ruth and the Michael Jordan of wrestling. His mainstream appeal is such that even non-wrestling fans know who Hulk Hogan is. He has made several movies and has been part of several television shows. He has also made countless guest appearances in shows ranging from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to Larry King Live to Baywatch.
Hulk Hogan began his career as a heel and was at one point managed by the legend "Classy" Freddie Blassie. Hogan's initial stint in the World Wrestling Federation was very brief, and he then took his talents to New Japan Pro Wrestling and the American Wrestling Association.
Verne Gagne was a big fan of technical wrestling and did not want a brawler and showman such as Hogan to be the top dog. Despite the tremendous crowd support for Hogan, Gagne simply would not budge and kept the belt with Nick Bockwinkle. While Bockwinkle is a legend in his own right, he was not as charismatic as the emerging Hogan. This led to Hogan taking his talents back to the WWF.
Hogan returned to the company and defeated Bill Dixon on his return on December 27, 1983. He was a babyface now and no longer had Freddie Blassie in his corner. A day before, the Iron Sheik vanquished Bob Backlund in order to capture the WWF Championship. This was setting up things for a clash between the two for the WWF Championship.
While Hogan could have just challenged Backlund outright, having two babyfaces fight usually splits the audience. During the 80s, the patriotism angle was very common where the American babyface battles the villainous foreigner.
January 23, 1984, was the day Hulkamania was born. Hogan faced The Iron Sheik in Madison Square Garden. The Iron Sheik was accompanied by Hogan's former manager, "Classy" Freddie Blassie. Hogan became the first person in the WWF to break out of the camel clutch. He then dropped the atomic leg drop on the Iron Sheik.
Gorilla Monsoon would then announce the arrival of Hulkamania with the statement "Hulkamania is here!" Hogan was a dominant champion and had a lengthy four-year reign. He was finally dethroned by Andre the Giant but under dubious circumstances. Ted Dibiase and Andre colluded with Earl Hebner in order to screw Hogan out of the championship.
The Epic Draw of Hulkamania
Whether Hogan was champion or not, he was one of the largest drawing stars of all time. He also had mainstream appeal. He collaborated with popular musician Cyndi Lauper and this led to The Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection on MTV. He also teamed up with Mr. T to battle against Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff in the first Wrestlemania. Heck, he even had his own cartoon in CBS called Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling.
Hogan's run during the Golden Age of Wrestling had memorable feuds with Roddy Piper, Ted Dibiase, Randy Savage, Mr. Perfect, Andre the Giant, and King Kong Bundy. Hogan would be pitted against a dastardly heel or an unbeatable giant.
While Hogan was everywhere in the 80s, the 90s saw the WWF slowly wind down his exposure. They began to promote new stars and were trying to move away from more jacked-up wrestlers due to a steroid scandal.
In 1994, Hogan jumped ship to World Championship Wrestling. He jumped at a chance to get a fat paycheck and a chance to rejuvenate his career.
The first few years of Hogan's WCW career were a trip back in time. WCW tried to recycle his old feuds against people like Bobby Heenan and Earthquake. 1996 marked a hallmark in Hogan's career, as the New World Order was formed. WCW had just signed Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, and the trio would join forces to wreak havoc in WCW.
The NWO angle got so popular that it nearly put the WWF out of business. The NWO got so bloated, however, with its numerous members and factions, that it lost its original magic.
After Hogan left the NWO, he became a babyface again. He even won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship back as a babyface. Hogan's last appearance was at Bash in the Beach 2000 where he pinned Jeff Jarrett to win back his belt. Hogan left and was then berated by Vince Russo. This would be Hogan's last appearance with the company.
Hogan would return to the WWF is 2002 as part of the New World Order. While the group started out strong, a string of bad luck and the WWF's lack of foresight doomed the faction. The company turned Hogan babyface after his Wrestlemania match against The Rock. Kevin Nash got injured. Scott Hall relapsed and gave in to his alcohol addiction.
Hogan would then start a face run and fought the top stars of the company such as Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Triple H, Randy Orton, Brock Lesnar, and Kurt Angle. While Hogan won the championship once again, part of his run was used to elevate the company's top talent. He was no longer the dominant force that he was back in the 80s.
Hogan would occasionally come back to the WWE for angles and appearances. His wrestling days, however, are now over.
© 2019 Jan Michael Ong
Jan Michael Ong (author) from Metro Manila, Philippines on January 11, 2019:
Well Zia the wrestlers before were larger than life. Sadly, the ones now are not.
Zia Uddin from UK on January 11, 2019:
I still remember these classic wrestlers, it made wrestling popular due to them.
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The Mail will use Finding Freedom in their defense in Duchess Meghan's lawsuit
Meghan Markle, Royals
On September 21, the lawyers for the Daily Mail dragged the Duchess of Sussex's lawyers to court for a hearing. The point of the hearing was that the Mail wanted to amend their defense. Meghan is suing the Mail because they published parts of her handwritten letter to her father, then wildly smeared her for those partial excerpts. She owns the copyright to her own letter. It should have been an open-and-shut case. But the Mail is dragging it out so the lawsuit will provide additional content for their negative coverage of the Sussexes.
Anyway, the Mail's lawyers argued that they should be able to amend their defense because of Finding Freedom, the mostly positive book about the Sussexes featuring lots of insider-y information. The Mail's lawyers argued that if Meghan provided some information to Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, then the Mail is completely justified in printing Meghan's letter to her father. Meghan's lawyers argued that no, she wasn't interviewed by Scobie and Durand, FF isn't an authorized biography and Scobie & Durand got some stuff wrong. Well, the judge made a ruling on the situation – the Mail will get to use Finding Freedom as part of their defense.
Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, has lost the latest skirmish in her privacy lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper, after London's High Court ruled on Tuesday the paper could amend its case ahead of a trial next year.
Meghan, wife of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry, is suing publisher Associated Newspapers over articles the Mail on Sunday printed last year that included parts of a handwritten letter she sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.
Last week, the paper applied for permission to amend its case, arguing that the couple had cooperated with a biography about them which was published in August, and that showed Meghan had intended some private details to become public, including the contents of the letter.
The judge, Francesca Kaye, said that while she made no view on the strength of the Mail's case, the amendments could not be said to be "unarguable or utterly fanciful".
[From Reuters]
I'm starting to believe that the Daily Mail and their lawyers simply want to confuse everybody and throw enough sh-t at the wall that we forget that this case is really f–king simple? The Mail already argued that Meghan authorized the People Magazine cover story in early 2019, where the existence of the letter was revealed. The Mail said that Thomas Markle had no choice but to sell/give the letter to the Mail for publication because of that People story (which is asinine because the letter showed that he had been lying his ass off for months). And now they're arguing that in retrospect, they were totally right to publish the letter because of Finding Freedom, a book which came out nearly a year and a half after their publication of the letter. And the judge is letting them do it. I can only hope that the Mail is "winning" all of these smaller battles but they'll lose the war.
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54 Responses to "The Mail will use Finding Freedom in their defense in Duchess Meghan's lawsuit"
She should have sued them for libel and defamation since the beginning and not for the copyright of the letter. I really wish for her to win but Im starting to have a bad feeling about this.
I'm no lawyer but from what I have read, winning a libel case is pretty hard. It's possible why William himself used "right to a private life" when his lawyers were threatening media companies on published affair rumours.
This is a pretty open and shut case. Its the Fail lawyers who keep throwing sh*t on the wall to see what sticks – maybe because they know they'll lose.
These people have been cyberbullying her, writing non sense about her her whole pregnancy, such as liking her love for avocados to terrorism, you are telling me that it's hard to win a libel lawsuit with press articles like that ? and there is no way she's the first person to file a libel lawsuit against Daily fail.
RoyalBlue says:
didn't melania trump win a libel case against them? i seem to remember her winning bigly.
Myra says:
I may be wrong, but I think winning defamation cases is harder in the US than anywhere else. Quite a few people have won defamation cases in the UK, even regular people, I think. However maybe the process isn't necessarily easy and the compensation might not be worthwhile. The way some media personalities threaten to sue people on twitter over minor criticisms, it couldn't be that hard.
Meghan may have chosen this case because of the copyright issue and breach of privacy. She likely did it to draw a line in the sand with the UK media. It would show she doesn't necessarily care what they have to say about her. Just don't cross a certain boundary (printing her private correspondences, drone footage of her bedroom, footage of her son in his backyard etc.)
This latest ruling might just mean we get to hear H&M's version of events leading to their exit in a court of law. All those false articles that were ruled out in the first stage of the case are back in play as they're in FF. Not sure the RF will thank the MoS for what's to come after their transparent panic and squirming over what they thought could have been in FF. Will they be able to stop the greedy beast they reared? BP, KP and CH (who seem to desperately want her to drop the case (not going to happen)) have more to lose. Interesting times ahead.
Alexandrajane says:
Unless they make so much in ad revenue in Meg posts that the longer this can be dragged out the better asthey will have made money overall 🤷♀
BayTampaBay says:
@Alexandrajane – I think you hit five nails directly on the head with one blow.
Whether, The Fail on Sunday wins or loses the lawsuit, they make money of this lawsuit which is all the Fail on Sunday and its parent company Associated Newspapers cares about.
BabsORIG says:
But how much "real" traffic do they get on these clickbait articles tho? If there's a dozen bots/trolls making multiple comments that's not necessarily amount to "making tons of revenue" now it is?
@BayTampaBay – Exactly!
NotSoSimpleTaylor says:
It should be noted that Google in Europe lists them as a 2 star media site. The only place where the mail has a reputation worth more than a grain of salt is the USA, Australia and the UK.
ola says:
ANL is already winning by cashing in on the countless articles. It's an easy clickbait. MoS has already made more money in ad revenue that they are going to spend on the case. I don't remember more commented articles than those related to the case. They're going to drag it out as long as they can.
Ugh. I had a feeling the judge would approve but any chance any legal people can give some insight as to why she would do so?
mynameispearl says:
Gathering from what I have read on it it seems to be because there are 2 separate items Meghan is using the MoS for, Breach of Privacy, and Copyright.
Copyright seemingly will be lost by the MoS.
MoS seem to think they have a case to defend re privacy. Their defence appear to be arguing she breached her own privacy by collaborating on the book, also they are trying to put her friends on the stand re the People magazine article.
The shitty thing is that even if they lose this privacy bit they will get so much material out of it.
Got it, I thought that might be the case. Thank you Pearl!
Nic919 says:
The test to amend a pleading is a pretty low bar. Basically outside of adding a party outside of a limitation period or adding pure gibberish, the court will allow the amendment. It doesn't mean the court thinks Meghan cooperated with the book, just that it is something they can argue with respect to the privacy aspect of the claim. The copyright part still remains the strongest argument.
I should note that other royals aren't going to want the DM to win on the cooperation part and lack of privacy because Charles definitely has participated on books in the past and this exposes him, William and others to less privacy in general. That said, simply getting Omid to give evidence about the no cooperation and this argument will go nowhere for the DM. It will be sworn evidence and a judge will take it seriously.
That's an interesting point – your second paragraph. If cooperating with a biography means you've given up any expectation of privacy – it does not bode well for the future for the other royals, since they all have cooperated with biographers at various points.
From the statement Meghan's lawyers released it seemed like the judge did actually tell the Fail that if they have a weak defence, it'll not hold up.
And this is not a judgement on whether or not Finding Freedom is actually a good defence – this just means the Mail can use it. They've still got to actually come with an actual defence on how it's relevant.
Yeah I don't think FF is the strong defense the MoS thinks it is – even if Meghan DID fully cooperate with it, she could say that it was as a reaction to the negative press and she talked about the letter in it BECAUSE the MoS had already printed it. The book came out a year and a half after the MoS printed the letter. Its entirely possible and reasonable that Meghan's view on privacy etc had changed somewhat.
I think they're bringing up FF more as a way to drag Omid into it, since the RRs hate Omid.
Merricat says:
The sad fact is that DM wins either way. Even if the court finds against them the coverage has helped sell papers/attract website clicks.
I do think that Megan knows this and her real message was to her narcissistic family. Notice they all went quiet? The message was to them…that she's capable of fighting back and next time, it won't be a tabloid on the dock.
S808 says:
I'm not sure how they're going to build a defense off of the book. It came out 2 years after they published the letter, Meghan has gone on record saying she was not involved in it and even if she was, she has every right to talk about the letter, it still doesn't give them the right publish it without permission.
Still_Sarah says:
Omid Scobie said in an interview that he had been working on the book for two years. So he would have been working on the book when the MOS publishes the story about the letter.
That's what I really don't understand. The Authors' Note in my copy of the book clearly states that Scobie and Durand spoke with H&M's close friends AND with H&M themselves. It's printed. Why are they denying the involvement in the book? What's wrong with that? The book was supposed to be THEIR side of the story so it should be obvious that they had some involvement. Why deny it just before the book was published (with the note)? Why keep denying it now? It's such a mess.
Ignoto says:
The following statement is included in the prologue of the book:
"As a rule, no member of the British royal family is officially allowed to authorize a biography. However, Carolyn and I were able to gain extensive access to those closest to the couple: friends, trusted aides, senior courtiers, and many individuals in the Sussexes' inner circle."
So, there is no statement in the prologue or the author's note that "clearly states" that Harry and Meghan participated with the writing of this book. You obviously don't have a copy of the book. Nice try though.
janey says:
I don't know how she sleeps at night, or has slept since all this started. I can't imagine the stress she has been through but she stays resolute AND continues to do good, letting her work speak for itself. massive respect.
BnLurkN4eva says:
I think she meditates and practices Yoga so that probably helps her stay centered which allows her to carry on with her life undisturbed. Also, I have to wonder if she even reads much of the things written/said about her. I know I wouldn't and they have people who work for them to sort through what's written to decide what to respond to and what to ignore. In any case, she and Harry looks good whenever they appear in one of their zoom outings, so whatever they are doing to carry on, it's working.
Marivic says:
So sad that even the British courts, which is supposed to do justice, to provide for equal protection, and to ensure due process of law, seems to move to see Meghan lose her legal battle against the powerful and vicious British media. She seeks justice for the injustice done to her but, going by the latest ruling by the judge, I don't think Meghan will find fair justice in Britain. Ever.
Snuffles says:
They have no defense and they know it. This is just another move to drag out the trial, continue to smear Meghan and make it seem like she is the one on trial. They want to generate more BS stories and get more clicks. They are furious they have been cut off and are trying to get their pound of flesh.
This is also a way to get their digs in at Omid Scobie and try to discredit him. They hate him with the fire of a thousand suns because he didn't join in on their smear campaign and was fair to Meghan. They are also mad Finding Freedom did so well and probably because he's one of the few UK reporters who the Sussex's PR team will even speak to. (I'm hearing that a lot of RRs are getting completely blanked by the Sussex team and can't even confirm 2nd hand news).
Edna says:
" I'm hearing that a lot of RRs are getting completely blanked by the Sussex team and can't even confirm 2nd hand news)."
As it should be. The RRs aren't true journalists and have made H&M's life hell by their hate filled made up propaganda. The Sussexes are no longer working royals so there's no need for the RRs to report on anything the "irrelevant" Sussexes do or say. The RRs focus should be ion the actual working Royals, you know, the Queen, Charles, Will and Kate.
Izzy says:
Is it too much to ask that Omid Scobie or Carolyn Durand will have to refute DM allegations about the sources of some of the stories in the book? Because if they were KP or BP, it would be lovely to blow the lid off of that. Seriously, all I want for Christmas is to see this come back to bite the DM in the ass. HARD.
This could bite the DM and KP in the ass. Putting Omid and Carolyn on the stand could force them to reveal their sources and more stories they left out of the book for legal reasons.
ABritGuest says:
Burden is on the Fail to prove as part of their defence that she invaded own privacy with FF. ultimately I think they just want to examine her on details in it so they have more clickbait eg if Harry didn't say X like FF claims when Archie was born what did he say. Detail from the case just provides more fodder and think that's what they want
This case & reports around it has put things on the record eg did try help her father, Fail made up a relative from Compton, made up stuff about their house, about employee relationships& that KP wouldn't allow her to defend herself.
Hopefully at the end of this she gets the letter back (think that's what she was requesting during the pre action stage but sounds like the Fail fobbed her off) and she can draw a line under this. All this because of her father. He's really cost her a lot
thank you thomas markel. all this is because of you. was it worth it?
He doesn't care. He strikes me as someone who has been getting away with hurting Meghan her whole life. I get the feeling that she has tried really, really hard to placate him most of her life in order to foster a relationship. I think too based on some of the statements she's made about him pre-Harry, that she exaggerates his role in her life, remembering their relationship the way she wished it was rather than the way it actually was. He's a terrible father and he was terrible to his other children and I think the only difference between his relationship with them and Meghan is that Meghan tried to make a relationship between herself and her father work. You see this a lot with children so desperate for their parents love that forget the bad and focus on the good for as long as possible. You can tell he considered Meghan his retirement plan and maybe if he treated her better than the others, he did so with his retirement in mind. He kept saying in interviews that she promised to take care of him, which she very well may have done and looked to have been doing for years while on Suits. What a terrible, terrible man, both Meghan and Harry have seriously dysfunctional families, his just have some coins.
Mignionette says:
The MoS is using this process to effectively harass Meghan which could be argued is an abuse of the Courts.
They don't really give a sh*t about FF, they just want to forever link it to Meghan and Harry in the eyes of the gammons. They are also just enjoying winding her up. They can't outspend her but they can effectively drag this out and verify the facts of every paragraph thereby going on a fact finding mission and invalidating Omid in the process. They've done a cost benefit analysis and realised they need to make enough money to cover the inevitable legal bills. This is as Machiavellian as it gets and the judge is asleep at the wheel in allowing this. I do however think that this is what Meg's lawyers want. They want to give the MoS enough rope to hang themselves.
The above is why celebrities rarely sue, bc you pay with your nerves or your wallet. It's court sanctioned blackmail.
I also feel that this has BRF mitts all over it. They are still hoping Harry will come back with his tail between his legs and this will be his out….. i.e. Meghan was the problem ….. she led him down a dark path….
fc says:
sorry to be harsh, the MoS has already won. they are getting so much "content" out of this that makes it worth dragging this out forever
You are not wrong, nor harsh. The MOS is winning what they want, which is content, but I argue that Meghan is winning too by standing up to the bullies and not backing down. They expected her to drop the lawsuit and she will not and it seems win or lose she will go forward and stand up to them. H/M knew from the start that what they have set out to do wouldn't be easy, but they also felt they are correct in their course, that's the win.
BnLurkN, agreed.
I still think the end game for the Fail is to use Toxic Tom as a human shield to get her to drop the suit. DM I think is targeting excerpts from FF about Bad Dad to smear her as a bad daughter and get more dirt. They know she doesn't want to sue Daddy, and they are counting on any lingering feelings she may have for him to stop the process. Meghan may have no choice but to take down her father.
EJOB says:
Non-lawyer here, asking about a stated premise: Does Meghan own the copyright to her letter? I guess I don't understand what copyright means in the legal sense.
While she may have had a reasonable expectation of privacy when she sent the letter to her father, does she have a *legal* right to that privacy?
In Britain their law states that the person who writes the letter holds the copyright always. The letter belongs to her father as she sent it to him and he can even sell it to the MOS, but they can't print it without her permission, which she didn't give, hence the lawsuit. That part of the lawsuit is actually open and shut, but the mail is muddying the water with other issues to drag it out for content it seems and the judge is allowing them to get away with it.
We all own the copyright to our own letters.
It's a painful process and there is ultimately no possibility of a true win here, but I try to remind myself that the truth coming out and Meghan being able to use her voice has only benefited Meghan just like the letter in question did. Already the lawsuit even in all of the back and forth between lawyers has given Meghan more of a voice than even what Finding Freedom claimed to give her.
Shirley Gail says:
I hope the "judge" goes on trial next…….
beff says:
I'm going on the assumption that she will lose the lawsuit as another way of bullying the biracial princess. Hope I'm wrong.
This news was very distressing but then Schillings issued a very strongly worded statement in response to the ruling that basically called BS on the Mail, said their argument was weak and they'll see them in court. They reminded everyone that the Mail is the one in trial. Was a good statement. Lawsuits against corporations are messy and vicious. They will do everything to undermine their opponents and smear them, whether it's prominent well known people like Meghan, or people in malpractice or consumer harm lawsuits , or sexual harassment lawsuits. Discredit the plaintiffs and try to justify their bad actions.
In the daily mail quest to continually to bully and harass Meghan any chance they get is going to be the down fall of the royal family and those courtiers. Because the authors will have to say who they got stories from I can guarantee that a lot of the sources will be from the Cambridge's side there courtiers behavior will be exposed and a lot people believe that the Middleton's were also involved in the smearing campaign against Meghan then will be exposed too . Thomas said that the royal family owns him that line makes me believe that Jason the Cambridge's spoken person gave him clearly go head to make trouble for Meghan and Harry wedding . I believe that the Cambridge's made a deal with Thomas to used him to destroy Harry and Meghan marriage that's why Thomas said that royal family owns he probably was promised payment for his actions. If Thomas has to take the stand he will save himself tell everything and it won't look good for the royal family or the daily mail .
Lady D says:
Maybe Thomas is being quiet because he is being paid to disappear by KP?
Mariane says:
The mail has fallen into a trap. They'll have to release their own sources once Meghan's team ask. The idiots know that they'll lose and are just dragging this so they can get information to print. I love Meghan's lawyers statement saying that it'll fall like a house of cards. This gives her team a chance to re introduce strucked out parts
The court release shows thst the judge doesnt believe that the mail have much proof but he allowed them(?)A neutral expert has confirmed that. Nothing has changed and it's still about copyright claim.
https://twitter.com/BrianCathcart/status/1310988712516386820?s=19
The statement about house of cards comes from Master Kaye, High Court Judge, not from Meg's lawyers. She said "It may be what it does not say rather than what it does say that might prove to be significant at trial. If, as suggested, it's all a house of cards, it will quickly fall down at trial."
First, I am totally on her side about ALL of this. But holy f-ck, I am just listening to this audiobook now and it is the most kiss ass thing I've ever heard. It's read by Omid Scobie, and he is absolutely drooling with adoration for them to the point where I am embarrassed for him and for myself for choosing this on Audible this month. If they provided information, I have a hard time believing they knew it was going to be the fawning mess that it is. They're probably embarrassed too, and a little scared of how obsessed he is.
The hate dripping from the other books about them is a worse look. This is the one unauthorized book about them that even close to fair so given that, I can live with this one writer fawning.
I admit it's a cringeworthy read. I hardly went through it. It would benefit from less wordy, less smarmy style.


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There is a sense, no slight sense, in which Patrick O'Flaherty's life track follows that of his great academic subject, Dr. Johnson. So the public orator must, for these brief moments and on this great stage, be his Boswell.
Johnson came out of a small community to university, took up teaching, took up journalism, took up writing, took up criticism and biography, and wrote his masterwork, The Dictionary of the English Language.
O'Flaherty came into St. John's from Long Beach, a small place of settlement adjacent to Northern Bay, first to school and then on to university. Unlike his illustrious predecessor who did not, O'Flaherty took his degree with great distinction and extraordinary rapidity: BA at 20, MA at 21, PhD at 24.
Like Johnson he too became a teacher, first at the University of Manitoba, then at Memorial and, as his students will attest, taught with great power, skill and learning. For 30 years he was a regular on CBC, as well as in the local and national press. He has published two novels and two collections of short fiction.
He started his writing career as a critic of the work of Dr. Johnson and then moved on to the literary history of Newfoundland and Labrador. But his masterwork is the three-volume history of Newfoundland of which the final volume has just arrived from the printers for a launch next week.
Now that is only a citation of achievements and does not really get at the substance of his contribution to this our university, to this our country.
Permit a dilation on the real matter of the man. Patrick O'Flaherty has undergone several transformations in the course of his career and been remarkably influential in the development of Newfoundland studies in its broadest form. Starting out as a literary critic (of Samuel Johnson), he became a literary historian (of Newfoundland) and then a historian (also of Newfoundland). In each of these stages of his career he distinguished himself by the quality of his analysis and of his prose. But he saw his role in the academy as more than that of a first-rate scholar for he challenged his students, developed new programs, served as editor to his colleagues, and found an audience beyond the university in his journalism.
His pioneering study of Newfoundland writing, The Rock Observed opened a range of opportunity not just in terms of texts to be read but of studies to be done. O'Flaherty developed the first undergraduate and graduate courses in Newfoundland literature and steadily students began to work in the field, producing dissertations and articles.
This, in its turn, fed the local writers and can be seen as having stimulated the current lively literary scene.
His next scholarly enterprise was to propose the creation of a journal, Newfoundland Studies, to showcase the new scholarship related to work on this place. He not only founded the journal but also served as one of its editors until his retirement. Determined that it would cover all aspects and would be accessible to the general reader, he had set himself a difficult task. That the journal is now firmly established and well-regarded both inside and outside the academic world says much for his academic initiative, the standards he set and the example he provided.
What is unquestionably his major work is his history of Newfoundland. Despite remarkable and groundbreaking work by historians in the 20th century none of them had taken on the task of writing a general history perhaps because Prowse's monumental work remained, for over a century, the definitive study.
O'Flaherty not only immersed himself in all the recent scholarship but also revisited the primary sources. He took the work of his colleagues in history and geography, economics and folklore and, while treating that work with critical respect, was able, because of the depth of his own research, to challenge some of their findings.
Among other things, this resulted in a re-assessment of William Coaker – regarded by many Newfoundlanders as something of a secular saint – and of A.B. Morine – regarded by those same Newfoundlanders as an unregenerate rogue.
Heresy, but then this was the man who, earlier, had questioned the Newfoundland credentials of our greatest poet, E. J. Pratt.
Historian, literary critic, editor, public scholar, novelist, journalist, Patrick O'Flaherty has taken his learning from the campus to the country; he has had a major impact on the development of Newfoundland and Labrador studies and, in all his writing, displayed a remarkable capacity for scholarship and for the presentation of that scholarship in superb and striking prose.
Recognized by the arts community in the Newfoundland Arts Hall of Honour, recognized nationally by the Order of Canada, vice-chancellor, I ask the university to recognize Patrick O'Flaherty by conferring upon him the degree of doctor of letters, honoris causa.


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