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The RAW View (27/02/2012): Punk & Jericho, Cena & Rock Talk Us In to WrestleMania 28
Posted on February 28, 2012 by riverstv
Chris Jericho and CM Punk Confronted Each Other
Despite the fact that these two are my personal favourite wrestlers, my anticipation of this show was dominated by Rock-Cena because that's what you get when Rocky hardly ever shows up. So I was pleasantly surprised when a Champion vs Champion rematch showed up on a graphic at the start of the show; but I was even more excited when Jericho's music hit instead of Daniel Bryan's. Looking back, I think this was crafted perfectly, on the seat of two veteran's pants, build both guys, but especially Punk, build for their epic clash at WrestleMania, and build for WrestleMania itself. Jericho came out, and the fact that he wasn't Bryan was surprisingly powerful. He then launched in to a typical Jericho tyrade, one that didn't say anything we didn't know about his character, but that had a real purpose to it. He went as far as to show respect for Punk before trying to set himself apart by describing himself as part of a dying breed of journeymen veterans and a most powerfully, a man who never called himself the best in the world, and who never needed a T Shirt to say it, but a man who was simply recognised by fans and his peers as the best. Even better, the more Jericho talked, the more he could have been describing Punk himself – a feeling that helped characterise their clash at WrestleMania even more as as a pure battle between the two best, most respected wrestlers in the business. Punk's response was just as great. Again, he showed respect for Jericho is and represents but took exception to the idea that he was ripping anybody else, using Bret Hart as a close-to-home example of how Jericho's wannabe claims are unfounded and ridiculous, pointing out that, obviously, Jericho wasn't the first to call himself of the best, unless he's claiming Bret ripped that off from him. It was funny and telling. At this point though, Jericho started to solely help Punk by stepping back from charismatic dialogue and becoming an irritating heel, trolling us like he previously did, but by finding more and more ways to repeat 'I am the best and you are a wannabe'. Meanwhile, Punk only grew, adding another interesting thread to the story; that Jericho isn't constantly saying he's the best because he thinks it's the best, he's repeating it because he's trying to convince himself of the fact. Punk astutely noted that although Jericho was the first undisputed WWE Champion, that was ten years ago, and he was never "the man" like Punk is "the man" (or at least one of them!), and that Jericho is jealous of what Punk has achieved of late at the top of the business. Even more, Punk argued that "when" he wins at WrestleMania, "it won't be the end of the world, it'll be the end of your [Jericho's] world," the implication being that for all his bravado, Jericho needs to beat Punk to be content. It's an interesting addiction, and one I like. This all helped an already mouth-watering match become an even more mouth-watering feud; a clash not only to see who is the best pure wrestler in the world, but to see if Jericho, in his advancing years, can still have a career that he values at the top of the business.
CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan Ended in a No Contest
Apart from the fact that the action was, again, great, I don't have too much to say about the match here because of the booking. A 'No Contest' was probably the right booking, simply because a clean result to Punk-Bryan probably shouldn't be given away on free TV. I also like how John Laurinaitis and Teddy Long have been interacting of late, and I like the sheer symmetry between the two parties, right down to their assistants, standing either side of the announce table. In my head, I want to see a 10-man match between Team Laurinaitis and Team Long, but in my heart, i'd love to see Teddy and Santino against 'Big Johnny' and David Otunga in a consciously nonsensical match. Of course, Teddy would have to book the tag team match, playa, and then Ace would hit an Ace Crusher on Santino while landing on the Cobra, before Long rolls up Otunga and uses his former-referee prowess to count three. That probably wont happen. The biggest talking point from this match was, again, in regards to Punk and Jericho. With Punk having given up on the nonsense in the ring, he started some 'Best in the World' gesticulating on the stage, only for Jericho to attack him from behind, slam him on the steel and trap him in his exponentially better older version of the Walls of Jericho/Liontamer, and holding the title aloft. This was not only more powerful aesthetics between them, but a way to turn the screws of tension between them. It was the last we'd see of the two that night, but they left quite the impression – staying memorable despite Cena and Rock being given better billing.
John Cena def. The Miz
This was no great match, but it did exactly the job that was needed. Miz, who up until a couple of weeks ago, had been incredibly stale, has really picked up as of late, and tonight, that trend continued. He didn't say anything new or particularly profound, just stating again that he had been helping to carry the company and that it was a 'crime' that he isn't booked for WrestleMania, but he said it with more purpose than he has been over the last few months. This continued in to the match, as he got in some decent offense against Cena, despite the fact that the majority went to Cena in a 4/5 minute match before Cena eventually SuperCena's Miz with an AA and an STF for the win. Months ago, that sort of booking would have made me furious, but last night, it was proper. The reason is that, with Rock in the building, and Cena being the one having to gain credibility against The Rock, it was especially important that he look strong and set the tone for their later confrontation.
Primo & Epico def. Kofi Kingston & R-Truth, and Dolph Zigger & Jack Swagger in a Triple Threat Tag Team Match to Retain the WWE Tag Team Championships
I really enjoyed this match – it was a fresh premise in which more than two teams were involved but didn't have to tag each other in. The action was quick and exciting between these (mostly) young upstarts, and for Ziggler specifically, he looked like a big fish in a smaller pond. That aside, everyone involved looked great, and most importantly, so did the tag champions, who won in a fashion which is becoming characteristic for them; simply overcoming the other teams through chemistry and opportunism, taking advantage of the match's breakdown to get the win. Great for Primo and Epico, and great for the tag team division generally. Their celebrations were short-lived though, as to everyone's surprise I think, Kane's music hit and he cleared house on all involved. I guess WWE hadn't banked on what to do with Kane once he'd given up trying to force-feed hate to Cena, and they must have just figured he should clear some house. I wonder whether, going forward, Kane will continue to target these guys, or whether he'll just hate on everyone on the roster. It's hard to imagine what they'll do with him in the immediate future and for WrestleMania.
Sheamus & Big Show def. Mark Henry & Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes got some nice heat from his berating of Big Show and his embarrassing WrestleMania record. Apart from that, I want to talk about this for the wrong reasons, as this was the only part of the show that I actively dislkied. I like Sheamus, and realise how he has to be positioned, but the ease with which he beat Mark Henry was perverse. Remember when you couldn't even really hurt Mark Henry? Everyone preferred that. I realise Henry is hurt, and that it was probably wise to have him drop the title, but if he's going to wrestle, at least let him squash rather than be squashed, and if he has to be on the losing side, at least let him not be the one on the losing side! That is all.
The Rock and John Cena Confronted Each Other
And now for the most anticipated part of the evening, and deservedly so. After the previous week's stinging promo from Cena, and given that we're now, irrevocably, on the Road to WrestleMania, these two were finally set for a no-holds-barred collision; and that's what we got, at least when Rock and Cena were face-to-face. Before that, Rock talked for about 20 minutes, essentially about twitter and genitals, saying really quite empty things about Cena and himself, including, most tellingly, "trust me, we're gonna get to some chants." That kinda sums up what Rocky is at the moment, a nostalgia act, going through the Attitude Era motions, admittedly with some new catchphrases and a tinge of twitter. What really got me is Rock's claims that by getting things to trend on twitter and getting people to chant stuff; it's just as ridiclous as some of Jericho's earlier claims. It wasn't all bad from Rock. His tone was that of a People's Champ, and he did make one or two good points amongst the nonsense; about how Cena said he was fighting for 'the boys' and not the fans, before proclaiming that he was fighting for the people. He also made the age-old point about SuperCena being shoved down the fans throats – I suppose sealing him in the position of fighting for the people. After leading more chanting, Cena had heard enough, and came out to confront Rocky. Rock took 20 minutes to say what he could in a couple, but Cena was efficient. He stood right up to The Rock, mocked his talk of genitals, and in so doing, made Rock look like the childish one. He also said he was see-through, egotistical, and wouldn't care if WWE closed down. The real knock-out blow though, came when Cena said he didn't need prompts on his wrist like Rock noticeably had for his promo. He followed this up by saying he knows The Rock, and he knows Dwayne Johnson, that he doesn't like Dwayne Johnson, and that he's going to beat the hell out of him at WrestleMania. His final blow was another too close-to-home comment, walking away saying "continue trending". This was so much better than the normal stare-down ending as it left Rock left alone in the ring, looking kinda stupid. He didn't look shell-shocked, but he certainly looked moved by the verbal blows from Cena, flubbing lines and trying to ignore it. The segment achieved what it was supposed to – it made Cena look on Rock's level in every way. I recently posted this article about how Rock may have been made to look bad to help Cena look good: https://rtvwrestling.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/picking-wrestlemania-sides-what-does-it-mean-to-follow-team-bring-it-or-the-cenation/, and this week's RAW made me think even more that this may be the case. I mean, has Rock used prompts before? Was it a plant? Whatever happened, it went further to leveling the playing field between the two in terms of respect and acclaim, and that makes it the best promo segment between the two to date.
Posted in Pro wrestling, RAW, Wrestling, WWE	| Tagged Big Show, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Daniel Bryan, David Otunga, Dolph Ziggler, Epico, Jack Swagger, John Cena, John Laurinaitis, Kane, Kofi Kingston, Mark Henry, Primo, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Sheamus, Teddy Long, The Miz, The Rock, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania 28, WWE Tag Team Championships	| Leave a comment
Picking WrestleMania Sides: What Does It Mean To Follow Team Bring It or the Cenation?
The poster for the main event of WrestleMania XXVIII featuring the two forces
Whether they support the change or not, every fan of the WWE, and of wrestling even, is fascinated by the prospect of John Cena turning heel. Around a year ago, Cena was arguably at the height of his powers; though he had been away from the WWE Championship scene, he had been otherwise engaged defeating the most powerful and attention-grabbing factions of recent times – Wade Barrett's 'Nexus'. The angle teased us with 'the winds of change', but in retrospect, the storyline – which included the farcical 'firing' of John Cena during which he missed absolutely no TV time – was never going to offer anything more than empty (though fascinating) speculation. CM Punk took Cena to task regarding his status quo and his over-the-top violent self-righteousness, but this was before he had coined the wrestling 'pipebomb' and, apart from some interesting back-and-forth, it came to nought. There was seemingly only one man who could challenge his cultural dominance, the man who had been quietlt feuding with him off air for years, the People's Champion, The Rock.
At this point, for a large portion of the audience, the roles were set: Cena, the complacent PG face of the company, challenged seriously for the first time by the returning, edgier, People's Champion, The Rock – and these roles were made concrete when, a year in advance, the main event of WrestleMania XXVIII, in The Rock's home town of Miami, was set; the battle of generations and of attitudes to end them all: Rock vs Cena. Like at Money in the Bank, Cena will enter the ring to boos, despite being – officially – the babyface face of the company.
Maybe it was the WWE that was complacent, expecting that Cena's fan-base would support him at least equally to The Rock, but instead, the formerly split and probably mostly pro-Cena crowds flipped to being split at best, and more often than not, anti-Cena. In the first half of the wrestling year from WrestleMania 27 to WrestleMania 28, Rock appeared more on WWETV, be it in person or 'via Satellite', and The Rock's more regular (if not consistent) appearances guaranteed Cena couldn't rise above the boos. Cena's role as fading, out-dated hero reached a high watermark when CM Punk shot on him and the WWE in the run up to Money in the Bank, and positioned himself as fresh hero, a 'Voice of the Voiceless' who could challenge the stale status-quo of Cena weekly. Cena didn't change the way he acted, but again, he was on the brink of heeldom, despite being booked as a powerful face.
While this was happening, WWE reportedly planned to build for the WrestleMania 28 main event by splitting the fanbase in a way that aped the marketing for the Twilight franchise: The Cenation vs Team Bring It instead of 'Team Edward' and 'Team Jacob'. The problem was though that that kind of rivalry requires parity of force (which they arguably have) and near-parity of popularity (which they obviously didn't have). At this point, 'Team Bring It' was characterised by a louder, classic wrestling audience of males over the age of 18, while the 'Cenation' were characterised stereotypically by screechier (and less informed) women and children. Wrestling has a regrettable legacy of paying lip-service to women and children whilst simultaneously burying them and their opinions on TV, and this was played up to by The Rock with the admittedly funny bullet-points of Frooty Pebbles and 'Cena's Lady Parts' being central to his position. This seemed to be corroborated, again, in the early part of the year when Cena was at his corporate SuperCena optimum.
If WWE wanted WrestleMania to be a real match of forces, something had to be done to raise Cena's credibility in the eyes of all the fans, including those from The Rock's demographic. They were helped, whether it was planned or not, by Rocky simply not being there. Even before Rock returned, Cena's gripe was what it remains: that The Rock left the business and the WWE for Hollywood, and in so doing, didn't demonstrate the proper respect and recognition for what wrestling did for him – especially when Rocky started distancing himself from the business. Then he came back, said he'd never leave, and then left. It was in highlighting this more forcefully, whilst starting to show genuine passion in edgier promos against The Rock, that Cena started to turn the tide a little in terms of respect and passion from the fans.
This was helped by a recent series of vignettes intended to hype up WrestleMania – a series of vignettes which were the ultimate catalysts for this article; in one, John Cena is shown as a man with a remarkable, powerful, and emotional connection with the fans, and above all, a man of unending sincerity, and that despite this, he struggles to maintain that reciprocated love from an audience who take him for granted. His booking aside, all that is indeed true, and was a powerful reality check for all of us watching, including me.
Compare this to Rock's promo, and he appears to be exactly what Cena says he is. It's hardly even about wrestling or WrestleMania; it's about his Hollywood career and 'pec pops' as silly as Frooty Pebbles.
The Rock is so eminently dis-likable in comparison to Cena in these pair of promos that I started to believe that his promo was designed to not be as emotional or impressive as Cena's, and help even more Cena get on Rock's level in terms of fan appreciation. While The Rock is schmoozing with movie stars, John Cena is connecting with fans doing the job he loves, the job that matters to us.
This is just part of a dedicated effort to make Cena an equal Sports Entertainment Superpower to The Rock. Rocky mentioned his lurid shirts that were part of his kiddy-pandering stereotype, and so Cena's new shirt is black. He seemed a tired status quo against CM Punk, so he was paired against a character essentially a decade old in masked Kane; an old-fashioned heel, not 'cool' in any way, and someone whose vile acts would only make Cena look exciting and respectable in comparison. Finally, Rock has put WWE on the back-burner, apart from helping to 'electrify' Survivor Series, for one night only, while Cena has continued doing what he does best, busting his ass nightly. Even better, Rocky, with his new social media obsession will occasionally tweet something about how Cena is like a girl, which makes him look childish, out-dated, and almost pathetic, while Cena comes out and is increasingly passionate and charismatic in his questioning of Rock's sincerity towards the fans.
With these changes in motion, Cena succeeded in gaining some sense of parity with The Rock going in to WrestleMania. Not only that, but while Rock's Team Bring It has stayed the same in character, something about the Cenation has shifted. The Cenation is not just about squeaky clean family entertainment; it is about passion for wrestling, it is about sincerity, and it about always being there for the fans. Cena is now in control of his characterisation, not The Rock, and suddenly, Cena is starting to seem like the fiery, relevant, likeable one out of the two. I, for one, am backing Cena and his nation going in to WrestleMania, at least in his current guise.
Even better, now that The Rock is returning to RAW, and will be there more often in the weeks running up to WrestleMania, there verbal interactions promise to be only more iconic and memorable. Finally, with Rocky fully invested in the match, this battle of icons can live up to its Main Event billing.
Posted in Pro wrestling, Wrestling, WWE	| Tagged Cenation, CM Punk, John Cena, Team Bring It, The Rock, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania 28	| Leave a comment
Elimination Chamber Review, 2012: Cena Rises Above the Chamber
Time to review one of the stranger PPV's i've seen in a while! I should note, for all you/us nerds that I actually beat my own prediction success record by getting all five correct (I called the Swagger match as soon as it was advertised), so I guess my opinion should be valued, right? Unfortunately, i'll have to keep this more short and sweet (whenever I say this I go longer than ever!) because I've been busy and tired, and still have to tweet about RAW and live-tweet tonight's LIVESUPERSMACKDOWN … So let's get into it!
Match 1) CM Punk def. The Miz, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, R-Truth, and Chris Jericho in the Elimination Chamber to Retain the WWE Championship
A quick note: I know starting a show is now seen as more of a boon than an insult these days, but this match going on first was ridiculous to me. Cena-Rock will be dominating the WrestleMania card, so it seems only right and fair that they give the WWE Championship (aka, most important thing in wrestling) the prestige of going on last this time to make up for it. This is all the more righteous given the fact that the RAW Chamber was the best match of the night (and certainly better than the Ambulance match). To the match itself! To me, this was all about the important quest of continuing to make Punk look like an amazing champion, and so having him start out the match, and last the whole 30+ minutes, IN THIS DEMONIC STRUCTURE. I enjoyed Punk code-of-honoring Kofi by having him in the initial one-on-one contest which involved some nice progressions and some pretty sweet moments, including Kofi avoiding Punk's attacks by leaping over the top rope. Kofi is showing himself as a guy who can really make an impact on the show by creating memorable 'moments' and is starting to back it up in the rest of his ring work and mic skills. Ziggler was instantly great when he came in third, using a fireman's carry in the only context where it actually looks damaging, in the Elimination Chamber before doing pull ups on the chamber chains and using the resultant momentum to hit a leg drop on Punk. That is the epitome of showing off and using it in a wrestling context. It's unique, and the best kind of 'showing off'. Ziggler's intervention in the match made some cool work some great work. There were so many great moments in a short period of time that it was almost hard to keep up with, including an awesome spot where both simultaneously Punk and Kingston attempted a springboard attack on Ziggler, only for Ziggler to dive out of the way so Kingston and Punk would clash mid-air in a fantastic, unique spot. Truth wasn't in for that long, but also put his body on the line to make this match great, including his hip toss to Ziggler to the Chamber floor before diving over the top rope to dive on the Show Off. Bumping wise, unsurprisingly, Ziggler was the stand out, taking a lot of tough spills in the chamber, and really, again, showing why he is a huge future star, in terms of work-rate and sacrifice. Ziggler at least got to return the favour once though, as after a characteristicly acrobatic 'Spiderman' leap from Kingston to the chained walls of the Chamber, he was slammed to the floor in a very painful looking spot. What's more, when Miz got in the match, he took another hard bump when Miz simply showed him from the turnbuckle to the Chamber floor. I noticed here that Miz was wrestling with a lot more aggressiveness and purpose than i've seen from him in a long while, and his work with Punk was pretty good in this period. Then, finally, Jericho was released. Cue Punk dropping Miz and a staredown with Jericho that was a nice little moment to show the tension between these two. They had a few moves thrown that were a pretty cool taster for their future battles, before Ziggler tried to intervene and ate a Codebreaker and pinfall for his troubles. Back to Punk and Jericho and they had a cool brawl which led inside Jericho's Chamber where Punk caught him, only to take a seriously tough beating at the hands of Jericho and the Chamber door; ramming his shoulder in to the door repeatedly, and slamming the door shut on his head in a move which looked sickening. I liked how Booker T kept criticising the more showy aspects of his move-set because they had no reverence in THIS HELLACIOUS STRUCTURE because it really sold THIS DEMONIC STRUCTURE for what it was, and soon after, Kofi succumbed to the Walls of Jericho/Liontamer, and by this time, Jericho was looking dominant. His arrogance would be his failing grace though as he wouldn't break the hold on Kingston, and insisted on throwing him out of the Chamber personally. A cool-looking spot, but one that Punk punished with a roundhouse to Jericho's head, sending him out after Kingston with a nasty looking spill with hopefully kayfabe!) knocked Jericho out (it looked real to me, dammit!). Jericho was deemed unfit to continue and so was eliminated from the contest – the only booking that made sense given that he had to legitimise a title shot at Punk for WrestleMania, though if Jericho was originally slated to win the Royal Rumble but plans were changed, it wouldn't have been necessary. They were certainly booked in to a corner. Finally, we were left with Punk and Miz, and there wasn't really much doubt about who would win that. Apart from, that is, Miz's awesome reversal of a springboard clothesline from Punk into a Skull-Crushing Finalé for a near fall a lot of people (and me, to a certain extent, bit on). Finally, Miz fell to a GTS to give Punk an impressive defence in the Chamber, in what I believe will be my first 2012 Match of the Year candidate.
Match 2) Beth Phoenix def. Tamina Snuka to Retain the Divas Championship
Most of the time when divas have matches at PPV, they come close to fulfilling their potential, and this was one of those situations. As I said in the preview for this event, Tamina is no doubt a stop-gap for Beth, but she was certainly built well in this match. Tamina is certainly a match in the power game, sometimes getting the best of Beth, but never being able to to the point where it really looked like she could win. That is, apart from when she finally got to hit the Superfly Splash (Beth had been constantly interrupting her attempts throughout the match) and it did cross my mind that perhaps WWE were going to swerve us, but instead, Beth managed to show her strength yet more by kicking out of a move no-one's kicked out of in some time. There were other moments of impressive power: tough bumps, strong style, and a superplex to name a few, but eventually Beth managed the Glam Slam for the win. For the time given it was a good match, but the end was a little sudden. Perhaps unintentionally though, that had the air of Beth simply being sick of messing around and wanting the win. While she was celebrating, I expected to hear Kharma's music, but alas it wasn't forthcoming … yet.
Match 3) Daniel Bryan def. Santino Marella, Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, The Big Show, and the Great Khali in the Elimination Chamber to Retain the World Heavyweight Championship
This was a strange match in many ways. For the first, quite large, portion, I wasn't particularly enjoying it. The action was pretty slow, given that the starting participants were the slower, bigger talents. It improved a little as Cody Rhodes and Santino entered respectively, but the match only really took off when Khali entered the match … and left the match. Another flash-point came shortly after when Big Show broke in to the cell of Daniel Bryan after AmDrag taunted him. This was a really effective spot as Show broke in the top rather than through the glass and so had the chance to absolutely decimate Bryan in the pod. However, I must say I don't think Big Show made the best of the opportunity physically or aesthetically. It was cool that Bryan's pod opened when Show was inside, allowing Bryan and Show to spill out. After brutally smashing Bryan back through his pod. Unfortunately for Show, he then left Bryan, and was taken on by the increasingly familiar partnership of Wade Barrett and Cody Rhodes. Barrett chopped Show to his knees and to his back, this was followed by a Rhodes' Disaster Kick off the ropes, and then another off the Chamber walls, and then a DDT. Barrett followed up with a diving elbow before Rhodes pinned Show for the rub. This made the two heels look great, but it was then followed by the eliminations of both Rhodes and Barrett, in relatively quick succession, by Santino Marella. A great result for Santino, if not so great for the higher profile heels. They really needed that Big Show elimination! At the time, I was furious because I thought Santino had no place eliminating guys like Rhodes and Barrett. I still do, really, but i'll say this, it helped make this match very good. The crowd, which had been hot all night, were really behind Santino, cheering his name like he was John Cena or CM Punk, and it was down to just Santino and Daniel Bryan. Bryan had a complacent smile on his face, and with the heat from the crowd, I did start to worry that something silly could happen. My fears grew yet more when Santino hit the dreaded Cobra on Bryan, but like Beth against Tamina, this was the point where Bryan had enough. He recovered and managed finally to get the LaBelle Lock on Santino. While Santino struggled valiantly, he couldn't escape the hold and had to tap. The crowd was red hot here, and the ultimate achievement was to bag even more heat for Bryan who got to look good retaining his belt, even if it was in a kinda simple way (he only eliminated Santino). Given the response of the fans, there is no way this match can be criticised, even if Santino's contribution was a bit of a joke. Santino is great, and is really running with the ball he's been given. In his current guise, he can never be World Champion, but i'm now of the opinion he can return to the secondary belt scene, and that means a possible match with Cody Rhodes. I really think Santino's OTT comic style could gel really memorably with Rhodes' theatrical heelishness. A great match, and basically, helped a lot of people and didn't really hurt anyone. Then of course, Sheamus appeared as Bryan participated in his usual OTT celebrations and attacked him to seemingly chose him as his WrestleMania opponent. How novel. Thank God they didn't decide to swerve that one.
Match 4) Jack Swagger def. Justin Gabriel to Retain the United States Championship
My initial reaction to this was that Jack Swagger against Justin Gabriel had to be the worst impromptu match booked of all time. Part of the problem with it was that Jack Swagger barely appears on TV, so why throw him in to a PPV, against someone he's had no interaction with like Justin Gabriel. Luckily, the saving grace of this was that his opponent was Justin Gabriel – in that Gabriel was about the right guy to provide him with a decent opponent to essentially squash. Gabriel gave Swagger a bit of competition, but really, Swagger controlled the match, and finished it well after catching a Gabriel kick, throwing it in to the ring post, and following up with an Ankle Lock for the impressive win. This is the sort of match that makes Swagger and the US Championship look good; it's just a shame that it happened once in a blue moon.
Match 5) John Cena def. Kane in an Ambulance Match
I disliked that this match was the main event, for reasons i've already explained when talking about the RAW Chamber match. It was of course late, but it wasn't long before I was getting drowsy. Of course Cena and Kane are good at brawling in an entertaining way, but at the same time, there's only so entertaining that can be when a whole match centres around it. It was decent, but not up to the standards of the other Chamber matches at least. Brawling was interspersed with the occasional attempt at an comically over-the-top SuperCena spot, like when he attempted to lift Kane, on his shoulders, up the ring steps with the intention of AAing him through the announce table. Making their way to the ambulance following a glove-handing from Kane, the match continued, and it was here I realised I don't really like ambulance matches as the near-falls look kinda ridiculous, with people kicking their way out of ambulance as Cena did. This continued for a while before Cena recovered and mounted the ambulance. Chased by Kane, who attempted to Chokeslam him off the ambulance, was reversed by Cena in to an AA off the ambulance, which incapacitated Kane enough to shove him in an ambulance. This was the kind of ridiculous Cena stunt, similar to when he AA'd Batista off a car, is what that makes him tiresome at his worst. It was at least a way for him to get a clean break and move on to Kane.
That should have been all it was though. The match was average, and ultimately shouldn't have been the main event as the consequences weren't all that important. Positioning is crucial to a good show, and this positioning really gave the show a bitter taste. To my mind, the card was upside down. Make the Cena match a heart-warming opener, and have it all build to the RAW Chamber match and the Punk celebration. I think that would have made it all a bit less strange and improved it an awful lot. The matches were mostly good to very good, but positioning made a crucial PPV only really ok.
Posted in Pro wrestling, Wrestling, WWE	| Tagged Beth Phoenix, Big Show, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Daniel Bryan, Divas Championship, Dolph Ziggler, Elimination Chamber, Elimination Chamber 2012, Great Khali, Jack Swagger, John Cena, Justin Gabriel, Kane, Kofi Kingston, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Sheamus, Tamina Snuka, The Miz, United States Championship, Wade Barrett, World Heavyweight Championship, WWE Championship	| Leave a comment
Elimination Chamber Preview & Predictions, 2012
Elimination Chamber, 19/02/2012, from the Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
Apologies for the lack of activity on here of late. Even if I'd have wanted to write about RAW, I wouldn't have had time. On the plus side, for both me and you guys, I have been working on a wrestling-related project in Glasgow, and you will all see the footage soon. Promises. As usual, for updates make sure to subscribe to this blog, and follow me for extras, info, and live-tweeting on twitter @RTVWOW.
Now, as for this event, it's kinda creeped up on me … I've been watching RAW and Smackdown as usual but because i've been so busy with lots of big projects, the excitement about it all has crept up on me too. This is where everything comes clear, where the card for WrestleMania is crystalised; and not only that, but it all happens in (arguably) the most brutal match WWE has to offer. It is six men offering up their body for a shot at the Main Event at WrestleMania. It's rather beautiful when you think about it … Only four matches on the card though. I imagine the two World title matches and Cena vs Kane in their race to hospital will go quite long (I certainly hope so in the case of the chamber matches), but it doesn't rule out extra, unannounced matches. Most likely would be an impromptu tag title match, though after beating the Usos on Smackdown, I don't know who could challenge Primo & Epico. A US Title match is possible, getting Swagger on TV for the first time since winning the belt, throwing him against Alex Riley or someone … ok, let's hope that doesn't happen. Hunico-DiBiase is also on the cards potentially, but the build has been so lazy and ineffective, it would be meaningless filler. Finally, its kind of a surprise that Royal Rumble winner Shaemus doesn't have a place on the card. It'd be good to see him come out and squash someone (around Jinder Mahal calibre) before cutting a promo about how he has a close eye on the Chamber matches because his eventual WrestleMania opponent will come out from them, and they'd best be up for a fight, fella.
… PREDICTION TIME!
Match 1) Elimination Chamber Match for the World Heavyweight Championship: Daniel Bryan (c) vs Wade Barrett vs Cody Rhodes vs The Big Show vs The Great Khali vs Santino Marella
Before this week, a lot of people were predicting (or worrying, depending on who you are) that Orton would just take the World title from Bryan because Orton = WrestleMania more than Bryan = WrestleMania. I was in the worried camp. I wasn't initially happy when Bryan turned heel, thinking that he needed to be given a chance as plucky face champion. However, as a heel, Bryan has become one of the top stars in the company, a man who is taking the ball and making gold with a genuinely intriguing character. A Vegan champion who enjoys nature walks and being a role model is infinitely better than most things in life. The point of all this? I think Daniel Bryan wont get screwed out of his WrestleMania match. Yes, I think when he became champion, WWE foresaw a coffee-cup reign, but he's working so well, and is being given more limelight from management. They have nothing to lose from Bryan in a title match; WrestleMania sold itself a year ago – let us see Bryan-Sheamus. After the way Bryan coerced Sheamus into DQing himself on Smackdown, there is definitely some beef there too – I think they were laying groundwork. As for the match itself, Khali needs to not be in there very long. Just him moving can spoil this match as far as i'm concerned. Big Show will be a monster and eliminate someone early, but will do something heelish and get eliminated. Its a shame Rhodes and Barrett have been kinda afterthoughts in all this, because they are two of the best. I expect them not to deliver some great moments, and perhaps survive to the end, but there's no danger of either winning I think. A lot of people seem to be favouring Barrett, I guess because he vs Sheamus could be a great story for lots of different reasons but I just don't see it – for one thing, Bryan is an awkward element here because surely he'd cash in his rematch at WrestleMania, which would shift all the stories between them anyway. Finally, I want to mention Santino. No, it's not an outrage he's in the match – because he's going to only be a prop. There are two ways he could be used: 1) Fodder for Daniel Bryan to make him look good. Santino and Bryan in early, and Bryan makes him tap in two seconds for sweet heat after spoiling one of the most popular stars' dreams with ease and celebrating in typical fashion. The second option is that Santino doesn't even make it to the Chamber. Someone – Drew McIntyre, who is just waiting to take off again – assaults him on the way to the chamber, gets the heat, forces his way in to Santino's pod, and then does well in the match. A lot of 'x-factors' then, as WWE will insist in calling them, in this match then, and eventhough the line-up is somewhat weaker than RAW's offering, Bryan, Barrett and Rhodes, in an Elimination Chamber spells potential greatness.
Winner: Daniel Bryan
Match 2) Divas Championship Match: Beth Phoenix (c) vs Tamina Snuka
Still not sure if I approve of how WWE are ram-rodding the fact that Tamina is Jimmy Snuka's daughter. Its not the reference that bothers me, its just the extent to which they're hammering us in the head with it. Pretty sure they dedicated about 30 minutes from Smackdown to show images of her imitating her dad, morphing in to her dad. Saying all that, she's been built well as a powerful, viable threat to Beth, for now at least. It seems pretty clear, however, that Beth will have a dream match with Kharma at WrestleMania, and this is another step in the already successful process of making Phoenix look unbeatable going in to that. I don't think it'll be quite 'Ding. GlamSlam. Ding', but I think she'll go over pretty easily.
Winner: Beth Phoenix
Match 3) Ambulance Match: John Cena vs Kane
Cene-Kane has been one of the weirdest feuds I can remember. I love Kane, theoretically. His glove-handling, fire-throwing monstrousness is always shocking and always has the potential for some pretty awesome spots, but in matches, especially with Cena, have been incredibly forgettable brawls, usually punctuated with throwing Zack Ryder off something. With this the last stop before WrestleMania though, and Cena having to turn his attentions to The Rock, this will have to be the blow-off match, and so I expect something a little more memorable from the pair. An AA off the top of the ambulance? Something ridiculous but kinda cool like that i'm sure. If the match centres around the ambulance and not the ring, it could be really good; if its just another brawl, then perhaps not. There is no doubt that Cena goes over here – he's going to have to look as strong as possible going in to his match with The Rock.
Winner: John Cena
Match 4) Elimination Chamber Match for the WWE Championship: CM Punk (c) vs Chris Jericho vs Dolph Ziggler vs The Miz vs R-Truth vs Kofi Kingston
This match is the one i'm most looking forward to – I mean, it has my two favourite wrestlers in it, and they're the two only real prospects to win the match! Indeed, with the WrestleMania 28 main title match being all but announced as Punk vs Jericho, only one of those two can win. But hey, lets talk about the contributions from the other participants. The Miz has been miz-firing (clever) of late, and while Truth is hilarious on the mic, in the ring, he is a step below the rest. Kingston seems to me to be on the receiving end of a modest push, and there is no doubt why he's there: to do some sweet flips inside the chamber and get pinned. That may seem derogatory, but he was in the Rumble to do a spot, and it made him ten times more popular than before the match, and helped make the match great! Ziggler too is fantastic (it feels kinda pithy to feel I have to repeat that every time I write about him). I expect he'll be in the final three with Punk and Jericho (unless they do a major swerve and have one of those two out in minutes) as he's clearly on his way to the top. What more to say than he's being given a new platform here, and will surely shine. Then down to Punk and Jericho. In some ways i'd be surprised to see it come down to these two. After all, it might affect the mystique of the WrestleMania match. Perhaps i'm being short-sighted and not seeing the potential for an amazing mini-match in the Cell … we'll see. Logic seems to point to a Jericho win because if he doesn't win here, how does he earn himself a title shot at WrestleMania after losing? It makes sense, but at the same time, it's true of everyone else in the chamber, and when those five are taken out of the picture, who could challenge Punk? Del Rio again? Kane? No, for a good Mania match, it basically has to be Jericho whatever happens. With the main event already decided, I would like to see Punk go over, and I think it makes more sense; it gives Punk a longer reign and a strong defence to help build his strength as a star and as a champion with a longer reign. I also believe Punk has to go over at WrestleMania, for his Mania Crowning moment ala Cena, Batista, Rey Myseterio, and a Jericho win would hand him a cup of coffee reign. What about Jericho then? I think Kingston eliminates him for the rub, after Jericho's taken multiple finishers. This allows Jericho to leave the chamber with the possibility that he could still beat Punk one-on-one, and still allows him to somehow earn his match with Punk somehow going forward. Its a bit messy, but they've booked themselves in to a bit of a corner. That awkwardness aside, the talent in that chamber is pretty formidable, and it'll be interesting how the Punk-Jericho story continues. I just hope it is the main event, and not Cena-Kane!
Winner: CM Punk
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RTV Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame, Class of 2012 – Entrant #3: Mick Foley
Mick Foley is one of the people i'm a bit guilty I didn't put in to the 'Core 50' of the Hall of Fame. Ordinarily, he would one of the first people I would think about as a Hall-of-Famer. The difference was that in TNA, he was still wrestling, and it's only now he's returned to WWE that it seems legitimate to refer to him as pretty much retired. He did, of course, enter the Royal Rumble, and has been involved in some physicality, but that is the want of retired legends from time to time. I'm also feel kinda guilty that he's not a #1 entrant, again because of his profile and legacy is so great that he has earned such a spot; but in a year when Edge retired, he is the most emotional and topical retiree. A final note: I chose a picture of his Cactus Jack persona, not because that's necessarily his greatest one, but because it's one that transcends the WWE.
To my mind, there is no more dedicated, unique, and beloved figure in the history of wrestling. Foley has found and filled a lot of niches in the world of wrestling. After wrestling for a while under a more basic character in promotions like World Class Championship Wrestling and other smaller territories. It was only in Tri-State Wrestling, a fore-runner of ECW in terms of it's high impact, high violent style, that he found the style that would define at least part of his career, including wrestling a Falls Count Anywhere match, a Stretcher match, and a Steel Cage match in the same night; a performance which gained the attention of WCW and kick-started his successful and legendary career. Though WCW, for the most part, allowed Foley to wrestle this hardcore style, including his infamous match in Munich with Vader in which he lost half of his ear, he is one of the best examples of the inate problems with WCW in that they refused to sell his brutalist angles as serious, opting either to ignore it, or to treat it comically. This pushed Foley away from WCW forever, but in to the arms of ECW, where Cactus Jack became the "Hardcore Legend", a monicker that still applies to this day, putting his body on the line on a nightly basis, sacrificing himself to kendo sticks as well as wrestling great matches, between wrestling even more brutal matches in Japan including nail-boards, barbed wire, and even C4. Foley offered so much more than just that sacrifice though, and in a feud with Tommy Dreamer, Foley cut some of the greatest promos of all time, begging Dreamer not to sacrifice his body to the rabid ECW fans, and becoming seriously, and even frighteningly hated. When he left ECW, however, he regained his spot as Hardcore Legend, with the passionate fans chanting "Please don't go!" He was going to the WWF. Repackaged as Mankind, Foley immediately entered in to a high profile feud with the Undertaker, including the eponymous Boiler Room Brawl. His style was tweaked from Hardcore to brutal brawling, but this didn't make him any less of a sacrificial figure, most notably in arguably the most infamous match of all time: Hell in a Cell – "Good God almighty, they killed him … as God is my witness he is broken in half!" Having gotten up from that planned insane bump, Foley took another, unplanned one which saw him crash through the cell to the floor. Even then he continued the match, and even then he completed a later run in. Add this to the memory of matches like his 'I Quit' match with The Rock at the 1999 Royal Rumble, or his Street Fight with HHH at the 2000 event, and there is a legacy of great, emotional matches, which is part of the reason for the emotional connection he now has with the fans. Slowing down, he remained a colourful and at times comic figure in the business, making warmer memories for the fans, especially with The Rock as part of the Rock n' Sock Connection, and as Commisioner Foley. Later in his career he had memorable hardcore-style matches with the likes of Edge and Randy Orton, helping to build the next generation. Now back in the WWE, he is cemented as a legend and continues to warm the hearts of wrestling fans while being one of it's best ambassadors, be it with his New York Times Best Selling books, and his appeal to mainstream media, including his involvement in Jon Stewart's 'March for Sanity' as well as his work for the anti-sexual abuse charity, RAINN. Foley truly is God, at least to us.
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May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 ~ Andrew L.
It's been a while!! But I am glad to be back, writing. I've had a rough adjustment period with some new medication I've been taking, but I'm back in the saddle and looking forward to writing.
With that being said, let's get on to the review!!
It's no surprise I love Dice Games. I don't know what it is about them, but I really like games that involve dice, especially when they are used in a non-standard way.
I recently saw a game on Instagram that was a "Dice Builder". I was immediately intrigued by it, so I did some research and dove in and picked up a copy. That game is Dice Forge, designed by Régis Bonnessée and published by Asmodee as well as others.
In Dice Forge, players are heroes trying to impress the Gods. On a players turn, they will roll their dice to gain resources, then they can either purchase faces that upgrade their current dice with more or better rewards or they can go on adventures where they spend resources to gain either one time or every turn abilities. There are other rules that I won't discuss, because this is the overall idea of it.
To upgrade your dice, you physically remove the die face you wish and snap the new die face onto it. So when they say that this is a Dice Builder, they aren't kidding…you really get to shape your dice to fit into the strategy you wish to follow.
I have already played this game 3 times, which for me is a pretty big statement. I really, really enjoy this game. It's a unique mechanic and the different faces that are present can give you a different way to go about planning your path to victory. It is not a difficult game to pick up but trying to figure out on which dice to place a face provides a little more of a thinky opportunity, especially if you are terrible at probability and math like I am :D.
I would heartily recommend Dice Forge to just about anyone, unless you don't like luck. The main issue you can run into is that none of your cool new die faces aren't being rolled, but it plays quick enough (at least to me) that it isn't an issue.
This was an impulse purchase, and it's probably been my best impulse purchase in a long time. If you are into dice and deck builders, I definitely suggest you pick this one up.
What are some of your favorite "outside the box" games? Let me know in the comments below!


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Q: Remove saved checkmarks in NSUserDefaults I was working on my project that a table can retain the checkmarks in tableview cell when I scroll. And I did it, but my problem now is, how can I remove those saved checkmarks now? Thank you.
Here's the code that I used in order to save checkmarks:
-(NSString *)getKeyForIndex:(int)index {
  return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"KEY%d",index];
}

-(BOOL)getCheckedForIndex:(int)index{
  if([[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] valueForKey:[self getKeyForIndex:index]] boolValue]==YES){
    return YES;
  }else{
    return NO;
  }
}

-(void)checkedCellAtIndex:(int)index{
  BOOL boolChecked = [self getCheckedForIndex:index];
  [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setValue:[NSNumber numberWithBool:!boolChecked] forKey:[self getKeyForIndex:index]];
  [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
}

A: To remove a key use removeObjectForKey:, to set a boolean value for a key use setBool:forKey:, to get a boolean value for a key use boolForKey. Also these can be found in the NSUserDefaults documentation.
Also whatever you do never write if(e == YES) just write if(e) (the former may give you an incorrect result - why is left as an exercise); and rather than writing if(e) then return YES; else return NO;, where e is a BOOL valued expression, it is usually better to write return e.
HTH

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This pro-caliber, standard-range, bright digital zoom ($1030, street) is the second Pentax to use sonic-wave autofocusing for very smooth and quiet AF. It works with newer Pentax bodies that accept the KAF2 mount. On older bodies such as the K100, it defers to the noisier, body-housed AF motor.
It is difficult to find a final verdict for the Pentax SMC DA* 16-50mm f/2.8 ED [IF] SDM. On the one hand it has some obvious problems like a weak border performance at max. aperture and very pronounced lateral chromatic aberrations (CAs).
This lens is faster than most of my others, which is why I bought it for night photography.So there was a little learning on my part. At this time this lens not only gives me a much wider shot than my 50mm f1.4 but a cleaner sharper photograph.
I've waited a long time to get this lens and that wait was due to the worries of the SDM issues. However, it was assignments at my job that now prompts me to buy. Rather than getting new, I decided to try my luck at used.
I have had this lens for more than a year now and my experience is unfortunately quite mixed. I used it mainly for landscapes, with additonal filtering (Hoya Pro 1 D polarizer and Cokin P system).
Most of these reviews are misleading because they not all reviewing the 16-50mm lens (the product I wish to buy), but other pentax lens.
This lens has a lot going for it, and in my case a couple of problems. It's a good size, solid and smooth to use. Optically I can't fault it and it has stood up to some pretty wet conditions. It's the main lens I use on my K-7. I do find focussing a bit slow for this price point.
This lens performs very well at outdoor landscape photography, for which I use it almost exclusively. I really like the fact that it maintains constant f/stop while zooming. The auto-focus is quiet and quick, and the optical quality is high.
Semi-pro, whatever that means; an ex-art-school, passionately serious amateur.
I owned this lens when I have my pentax k-5 like 3 years ago. Now all the sudden I want to write a review for this lens. I have used canon, Panasonic and now sony since I dump Pentax system 3 years ago. But now I look back at those photos took with Pentax k-5 and this lens.
Used this lense now for about 5 months. I love the quick Auto Focus. So far I have not had any issues with the SDM motor. Picture quality is outstanding. I also had the 16-85. sold on [[@]]. I just love the 2.8 on this lense. Once you get used to the size. You will be fine for almost every day use.


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Q: Delete inside destructor call In the following code:
class Base {
public:
    virtual ~Base(){}
};

class Derived : public Base
{
    Derived* d;

public:
    ~Derived()
    {
        delete d;
    }
    Derived():d(NULL){}
};

int main()
{
    Base* b = new Derived;
    delete b;
    return 0;
}

does the call delete d; inside Derived destructor lead to recursion in destructor calls?

A: Actually no, there is no invocation of any destructor except the one in main.
Reference on delete

If expression is not a null pointer, the delete expression invokes the
  destructor (if any) for the object that's being destroyed, or for
  every element of the array being destroyed (proceeding from the last
  element to the first element of the array).

This leads me to think that since d is NULL, then the destructor will not be called. delete will execute but will return without performing anything significant.
Also this is very easy to test by adding a std::cout statement in every destructor

A: The destructor
 Derived::~Derived() {
        delete d;
   }

does not fall into recursion as d is a pointer to different Derived object and not same as this (current object), so even if Derived::~Derived() gets called, that's called for a different object, and eventually stops when d is NULL somewhere in the chain.


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I'm well aware of what we are. However, for a site to grow, we need to focus on the future, not the past. PC basketball gaming and modding is a niche community within a niche community, and while it'll always be important to us, it's not the only thing we're going to focus on, because the basketball gaming community extends beyond that. Like I said, there isn't really anything for us to say about URB except good job, and check it out if you're still playing those games.
Most of the questions we receive are about the latest games, future games, or what's going on in the NBA, so it seems safe to say that that's the content most people are interested in, at least when it comes to the Podcast. We've talked about NBA 2K13 and NBA 2K14 extensively, when those games were new. After a while, there isn't really anything new to say about them.
Having finally finished the story in this year's MyCAREER, that's something I'd definitely like to talk about.
Last call for Episode #166!
Last call for Episode #167!
We've missed a last call the past few weeks, but having said that...last call for Episode #171!
Last call for Episode #172!
It's been a while since I put out a call, but since it's been a slow news week, there's room on the docket. So...last call for Episode #181!
Of course, suggestions are always welcome regardless of whether or not I post a bulletin, but this week in particular, we have some room for listener suggestions and questions.
Last call for Episode #183!
Good one, I'll add it to the docket.
Last call for Episode #185!
If you can mention some of the great mods that are coming out, like the scoreboards, courts, etc. That would be great. A lot of work being put in this year.
We'll definitely have a modding update.
Yeah, mentioning the College Hoops UBR by New York Kid would be cool. I wouldn't personally be playing it, but how cool is that???
We did cover many of the latest releases when we recorded last night. It is sometimes difficult to really have much of a discussion on modding though, since none of us on the Podcast are actually actively modding at the moment, so there's not always much to say apart from mentioning recent works and saying "keep up the great work". It's hard to cover that every week without sounding too repetitive.
Last call for Episode #186!
Last call for Episode #187!
Last call for Episode #188!
The NLSC Podcast returns this week with Episode #191, so if you have any topic suggestions/mailbag questions, please let us know ASAP!
Last call for Episode #192!
Is modding really dying... Or has it evolved into better customization in game?
Modding always has its up and down periods but with this gen, the general consensus is that modding has died off. It has picked up slightly this year. With 2k17, we have the most modding tools and resources of this generation. So why have we not yet reached a new golden era of modding?
There are a number of factors at play but I believe the real reason modding has not picked up more for 2K17 is because 2K has added so many 2K Share options to 2K17. Court editor, jersey editor, stadium creator, and full rebrands can all be created and shared in game.
I could really go on and on about how we can overwrite the names of real players and use them as look-a-likes, or how we have a created player pool to easily add players to any roster wthin seconds instead of recreating that plaayer for each roster.
Modding isn't dying its just moving from nlsc (and other sites) directly to 2K servers in game with all the customization options.
I think more people should focus on using NLSC to advertise their releases if they don't know how to mod outside of the game or don't have an interest in modding.
With Vlad at 2K I hope expect even more improvements to customization.
Good suggestion for one or the other, will make a note of it.
Here is a video for some filler content for any future podcast.
I just watched this video and I am almost convinced that Jordan is certainly the GOAT and could be the Top 3 player in any era.
I hope you guys get to check this out ... It is truly amazing that Jordan continued to become on of the greatest after his foot injury early in his career.


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class ExecutionContext;
class KURL;

// Wrapper around a WebDocumentSubresourceFilter. This class will make it easier
// to extend the subresource filter with optimizations only possible using blink
// types (e.g. a caching layer using StringImpl).
class CORE_EXPORT SubresourceFilter final
    : public GarbageCollected<SubresourceFilter> {
 public:
  SubresourceFilter(ExecutionContext*,
                    std::unique_ptr<WebDocumentSubresourceFilter>);
  ~SubresourceFilter();

  bool AllowLoad(const KURL& resource_url,
                 mojom::blink::RequestContextType,
                 ReportingDisposition);
  bool AllowWebSocketConnection(const KURL&);

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  bool IsAdResource(const KURL& resource_url, mojom::blink::RequestContextType);
  // Reports the resource request id as an ad to the |subresource_filter_|.
  void ReportAdRequestId(int request_id);

  virtual void Trace(Visitor*) const;

 private:
  void ReportLoad(const KURL& resource_url,
                  WebDocumentSubresourceFilter::LoadPolicy);

  Member<ExecutionContext> execution_context_;
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"Greetings from Roeselaere" – a special greeting in Corona times
by wm | May 12, 2020
(pcp-wm) Anyone who knows the president of the Club de Monte-Carlo, Patrick Maselis, knows that he is always good for a humorous punch line. Just as well known are his postcards, which he sends several times a year from the most remote places in the world to...
Harmers International cancels its summer auction!
(pcp-wm) As is well known, the corona situation in the USA, especially in New York, is still quite problematic and hardly allows long-term planning. This has prompted the renowned auction company Harmers – after consultation with its consignors – to...
2022 CAPEX 22 takes place in Toronto
by wm | May 9, 2020
(pcp-wm) In 1996 the last international exhibition, CAPEX 96, took place in Canada. Now, after 26 years, Canadian philatelists are planning a new attempt with CAPEX 22, which will take place from 9-12 June in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It will be a...
STOCKHOLMIA 2019: £60,600 "Profit" for the Royal Philatelic Society London
(pcp-wm) On 8 May 2020, LONDON 2020 was supposed to be the occasion for the presentation of a cheque to the Royal Philatelic Society London for the proceeds of last year's exhibition in Stockholm, after deduction of all costs. From the very beginning, it was...
NEW PUBLISHED: The Middle East Philatelic Bulletin (Issue 14)
by wm | Apr 16, 2020
(pcp-wm) At the Internet address https://www.zobbel.de/mepb/mepbulletin.htm, those interested in Middle East philately can download the latest issue of this free (!) digital magazine. Even the first 13 issues published by the active publisher and author Tobias Zywietz...
LONDON 2020 postpones literature class to STAMPEX in September 2020
pcp-wm) On April 11, Walter Bernatek, BDPh commissioner of LONDON 2020, informed all registered literature and stamp exhibitors about the changes in the planning of this exhibition. As previously announced, due to the Corona crisis and related restrictions, the FIP...
Revised auction calendar
by wm | Apr 1, 2020
(aphv/pcp-wm) In these changing times, printed matter is hardly up-to-date when it is published. All trade journals have this problem, so it makes sense to publish an update for upcoming auctions: APRIL2 April: 222nd auction Karl Pfankuch & Co., Braunschweig (only...
DELCAMPE celebrates anniversary
(sh/pcp-wm) For 10 years the association "Graine de Vie" has been actively participating in the reforestation of Madagascar. Behind this project is its founder, the notary Frédéric Debouche. This precious initiative for the survival of our planet has...
Sperati update at Heinrich Köhler, Wiesbaden
(pcp-wm) In 2003, philatelic historian Wolfgang Maassen published a more comprehensive biography of the master forger Jean de Sperati, which was published in his book "Echt oder Falsch. Forgeries and Forgers in Philately". This can now be read in an...
Corona and the international philatelic events calendar
(pcp-wm) What can be observed at the Olympic Committee, Formula 1, international sports federations and clubs, does not leave world philately unscathed. Numerous events have been cancelled or postponed, reports FIP President Bernie Beston from Australia. It is known...


Each one plays the big part.
Except the little old me, the pinky.
Maybe I'd like to let the beat drop.
Or tell everyone how good their driving is.
Why can't I wear the symbol of eternal love.
or be the universal sign of approval.
Instead what do I get to do?
make legally bind an agreement with 10 year olds.
Oh, what do we have it here?
Whos the big finger now?


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The challenges awaiting FC Barcelona after the international break
Barça will hope to return to winning ways with three home games in a row against Valencia, Dynamo Kyiv and Real Madrid
The October international break has come at a difficult time for FC Barcelona. However, the chance to put things right is just around the corner. Once club football returns, Barça's next three games are at home, against Valencia (17 October), Dynamo Kyiv (20 October) and Real Madrid (24 October).
The stage is set in Camp Nou
Two La Liga games and one Champions league game give Koeman's men the opportunity to get back into the groove. The Valencia fixture looks key as the Liga team are on the same points as Barça (12), albeit having played one game more.
The following game is the third Champions League group stage match against Dynamo Kyiv. A victory is needed, as any other result will make qualifying for the next round very difficult.
Barça's schedule
View all the games for the blaugranes in the 2021/22 season
There is no let up for the third game either. Winning three points in the Clásico against Real Madrid would be a real boost to moral, even more so considering it will be the first Barça v Madrid with fans in Camp Nou since the start of the pandemic.
Away days follow
Barça will need to find their away form after the three consecutive home games though,, as three of the four games after November's international break are away from Camp Nou. The opponents will be Rayo Vallecano (w/e 26/27 October), Dynamo Kyiv (2 November) and Celta Vigo (w/e 6/7 November).
The only home game will see Barça face Alavés during the weekend of 30/31 October, before the trips to Vallecas and Kiev.
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Company to perform revamped versions of recent works "Written on Water" and "Snow"
In its Pittsburgh debut, Sweden's Pontus Lidberg Dance will perform two works by dancer/choreographer Pontus Lidberg that have recently been revamped.
Opening the April 18 Pittsburgh Dance Council program will be "Written on Water," created in 2014 as a duet for American Ballet Theatre principals Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside. The 16-minute abstract work, set to music by Swedish composer Stefan Levin, has been expanded into a trio, says Lidberg, by phone from New York. He describes this "dialogue in movement form" as being "about relating and relationships."
Whereas "Written on Water" creates a dialogue, the program's second work, "Snow," creates a world where snow ceaselessly falls, and whose inhabitants wear masks of their own faces.
Lidberg has created more than 35 works for companies worldwide, along with several dance films. He was originally commissioned to create "Snow," set to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, to honor that iconic score's centennial, in 2013. But because the contemporary-dance work was unrelated to Rites' libretto, Lidberg decided recently to move away from the Stravinsky composition — and any of its connotations for a dance work — in favor of a more contemporary score. He enlisted New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis to fashion a new electronic score that would retain the tempos and phrasing of Stravinsky's, thus eliminating the need to re-choreograph the 37-minute piece.
Pontus Lidberg Dance performs "Snow."
Lidberg says that Snow is about the fragility of human existence in contrast to the relentless power of nature. He sees its endless snowfall as a philosophical statement.
"Even beautiful and gentle snow is hostile to human beings," says Lidberg. "My idea about snow is it is something bigger than us and our personal views of the world around us. Like the forces of nature, snow happens whether we like it or not."
The work's four dancers, including Lidberg, are joined by a fifth character, a Japanese-style Bunraku puppet that plays into the work's theme. Says Lidberg: "Puppets have a special quality that can make them seem more human than humans themselves, fragile and helpless."
In "Snow," we see only fragments of the characters' lives played out, in vignettes, on a white square surrounded by darkness. And the snow that falls is, like the unseen forces that affect all our lives, something from which the work's characters cannot be sheltered.


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Q: How can I reliably get the timestamp of when a particular participant leaves(and joins) a room in twilio? I am building a video chat app using twilio's programmatic video api. And would like to know how many minutes a particular participant is connected in a room.
I am currently listening to the roomJoined and room.on('disconnected') events to do ajax requests and update the timestamp on the server using a Date.Now().
But when the user closes the browser window in some cases, the request attached to the disconnected event wont fire as the javascript is removed from the dom before that code is executed.
Is there a reliable way to get this information?

A: Twilio developer evangelist here.
Good news, you can now create rooms using the REST API and setup to receive status callback webhooks from those rooms. The documentation for status callbacks are here, but the important callback you want is the participant-disconnected.
This particular event comes with a parameter that others do not. The ParticipantDuration, which is how long that participant was connected.
Let me know if that helps.


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Profilaxia pré-exposição (PrPE ou em sua versão inglesa PrEP) é qualquer procedimento médico ou sanitário usado antes da exposição a um patógeno capaz de provocar uma doença, com o propósito de prevenir, e não tratar ou curar, essa doença; especialmente referido ao de VIH. Trata-se de um procedimento opcional para pessoas sãs HIV-negativas, mas que têm um risco substancial, mais alto que a média, de contrair uma infecção por HIV.

Na actualidade, o único fármaco recomendado para a profilaxia pré-exposição do HIV é Truvada, uma combinação de emtricitabina e tenofovir. Conforme os Centros para o Controle e Prevenção de Doenças a PPrE pode ser uma poderosa ferramenta de prevenção do VIH ao combinar-se com preservativos e outros métodos de prevenção para proporcionar uma protecção ainda maior que quando se utilizam por separado. No entanto, as pessoas que usam PrEP devem se comprometer a tomar o medicamento todos os dias e manter um rastreamento ao menos a cada 3 meses. PPrE está recomendado para o uso combinado com preservativos, de maneira que cada método pode compensar os déficits de eficácia ocasionais do outro.

Existe uma divisão social entre o apoio e a oposição ao uso da profilaxia pré-exposição como método de prevenção da infecção por VIH. Em fevereiro de 2016 documentou-se o primeiro caso de uma pessoa que, tomando adequadamente a PPrE, contagiou-se de uma cepa multirresistente ao tratamento, seguido por um segundo caso em outubro do mesmo ano.

Ingredientes
Um dos ingredientes ativos da preparação é o disoproxil fumarato de tenofovir, que é um análogo de nucleotídeo que inhibe a transcriptase reversa, bloqueando eficazmente a incorporação do material genético do VIH no genoma do hóspede, e portanto, evitando a infecção por HIV.

Pesquisa
A maioria dos estudos de PrPE utiliza o medicamento que é administrado por via oral. Mas muitas pessoas que iniciam a PrPE não aderem a ela ou tomam as pílulas apenas intermitentemente, prejudicando sua eficácia. Um implante de liberação lenta de um medicamento anti-retroviral experimental fornece uma proteção eficaz contra o HIV por um ano ou mais. É uma estratégia de ARV que oferece uma opção mais simples para tratar ou prevenir o HIV e, se for amplamente usada, pode mudar o curso da epidemia de AIDS.

Vantagens e Desvantagens

Vantagens

 Dupla proteção - para casos em que os usuários combinavam com o uso de preservativos
 Menor preocupação em relações sexuais sem preservativos
 Possibilidade de ter relações sexuais sem preocupação com soropositivos ou pessoas de sorologia desconhecida.
 Gratuidade na medicação (no caso do Brasil, em que é distribuído pelo SUS)
 Liberdade sexual

Desvantagens

 Efeitos colaterais

 Medo da medicação não ter eficácia
 Dificuldade em conseguir o medicamento - tanto pela burocracia quanto pela carência de locais em que o medicamento esteja disponível
 Falta de informação sobre a PrEP
 Necessidade de tomar todos os dias
 Preconceito por ser um medicamento relacionado ao HIV
 Não ter proteção contra outros tipos de Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis (ISTs)
 Receio de que a PrEP diminua o uso de preservativo não apenas entre usuários, mas também em não usuários, por se sentirem seguros quando seus parceiros usam utilizam
 Necessidade de mais dias de uso para obter proteção em relação vaginal (20 dias) que em relações anais (7 dias)
 Poucos participantes dos estudos continuavam a utilizar a PrEP após 6 meses, e a desistência aumentava ao longo de 1 ano.

Em Portugal
Um estudo académico levado a cabo por Rui Baptista Gonçalves, estudante do Mestrado Integrado em Medicina da Universidade do Algarve demonstra que três em cada quatro profissionais de saúde que trabalham na área do VIH em Portugal concordam com a implementação da PrEP - Profilaxia Pré-Exposição, em Portugal.

No Brasil

Profilaxia Pré Exposição no Sistema Único de Saúde
Em 25 de Maio de 2017, foi aprovada pela Secretaria de Ciência, Tecnologia e Insumos estratégicos, a portaria n° 21, que permite incorporar no Único de Saúde (SUS) a combinação de Tenofovir (300mg) associado a entricitabina (200mg) como Profilaxia Pré Exposição para populações mais vulneráveis ao HIV.

Distribuição e acesso
No Brasil, o medicamento é distribuído pelo Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Os locais cadastrados para disponibilizar a PrEP podem ser consultados no site aids.gov.br

Esses pontos de distribuição ainda estão concentrados nas capitais e cidades mais habitadas. A baixa cobertura de serviços e falta de acesso às pessoas em vulnerabilidade prejudicam muito a adesão e constância ao tratamento.

A quem é indicado
A PrEP não está disponível e nem é indicada para qualquer pessoa. Há populações-chave que têm maior risco de infecção, as quais têm prioridade na hora de receberem a medicação. A OMS e a UNAIDS reconhecem essas populações como:

 Homens que fazem sexo com outros homens
 Profissionais do sexo
 Pessoas trans
 Pessoas que fazem sexo desprotegido com frequência
 Casais sorodivergentes

Ver também

Profilaxia pós-exposição

Tratamentos médicos
Síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida
Redução de danos

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Taken out of context, this quote is an AWESOME concept to apply to your own life! You don't need to stay on the paved roads! Make your own path! Or just soar above the crowds with wings of your own making! Life is about exploring and discovering... not following the same path as millions before you.
I like all different styles of coffee... it really just depends on the day (and time). But, with all of the choices, how does a sleep-deprived momma know what to get? I'll be honest, it has taken me years to really get a good handle on the ins and outs of coffee. You don't need to go through all that! So, in honor of today's gloriously caffeinated holiday, here is a quick guide to ordering a beverage that is just right for you.
Cortado - an espresso cut with a small amount of warm milk.
*If your favorite coffee shop is Starbucks, and you want to order a true Macchiato, order an "Espresso Macchiato." The "Caramel Macchiatos" on their menu involves lots of milk and sugar and are probably incredibly delicious, but don't really resemble a traditional Macchiato.
To make a decadently delicious beverage with a kick of peppermint at home, try this recipe!
What an awesome experience! My family and I had been looking forward to seeing the Super Blood Moon/Lunar Eclipse for the last few weeks. And although we weren't able to head to the county for a really great view, we still had a great time seeing the eclipse from our home in the city, streetlights and all.
The Super Blood Moon, Sept. 27, 2015.
Did you know that last night's full moon was also called the Harvest Moon? This term applies to the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox (aka first day of Fall).
Back to the term "Blood Moon." This actually seems to be a pretty recent term as applied to total lunar eclipses. It's easy to see why it's caught on - it's a compelling name, easy to remember, and it describes the reddish hue of the eclipsed moon in a descriptive way. However, historically, the name "Blood Moon" has more often been used to describe the Hunter's Moon, which is the first full moon after the Harvest Moon. Theoretically, the Hunter's Moon tends to look more dusky-hued near the horizon than other full moons, therefore earning a descriptive name.
Monday Motivation - Are You Having a Hard Day?
There are days in which everything seems to be conspiring to overwhelm us. A step back in our finances. Kids who just WON'T cooperate. A frustrating day at work. A fender-bender on the way to the grocery store. An oven that decided to stop heating just as you were putting in the dinner you had spent an hour putting together.
These days are hard. I know, I've had a lot of them lately. These days seem to sit on top of you, and threaten to suffocate. The pile of problems and annoyances start to feel much larger and heavier than the sum of its parts.
How do we overcome days like this and keep moving toward our goals? Sometimes, it helps to hear the story of someone who has overcome much, much more.
I was so inspired by this story about 64-year-old Ruby Chaucer. I can't imagine the hardships and pain she must push through every day in order to pursue her dream. It puts into perspective all of the little problems that have made me feel so bogged down. I have been trying to work and grow while fighting with appliances, kids, and angry drivers. She has been trying to work and grow while fighting for her life.
"What she cared about was school. She took tests for her classes online from her hospital bed. She wrote essays on a cramped little desk at home. She did her homework while her hair was falling out, and she did her homework when her kidneys were shutting down.
'I just want him to know that his mama's happy and she's goin' on with her life,' she says."
You can read the entire story from the Dallas Morning News here.
Occasionally, I love to share things I have found on the internet that I think are especially inspiring. Today, I had to share these National Geographic Award-winning photographs - the almost unbelievable natural beauty is awe-inspiring and soul-touching.
These photos are from this year's "2015 Traveler Photo Contest," and were judged among the overall winners.
Check out the artists' website links below the photos for more breathtaking photography.
All rights reserved by original artist.
The more time, energy and emotion we spend thinking about YESTERDAY, the less we can devote to making TODAY what we want.
Put all of your energy into TODAY, and you might just be amazed at what TOMORROW brings you!!
We are always hearing the message that, to be "successful," we need to choose just one thing to focus on.
For years, I struggled with this, because I have always had so many interests, and loved doing so many different things. Trying to narrow focus and deny some of my talents was taking a huge, painful toll on my soul - as if I were starving parts of it in order to force-feed other parts more.
I finally decided that, for me, it's ok to not pour everything into one pursuit or just one talent. Maybe success doesn't have to look the same for everyone.
We are all given different, unique gifts, and we are given them for a reason.
Instead of fighting it, we should strive to use every bit of talent we have been given. When we nurture our whole soul, only then are we able to be the beautiful creation we were meant to be.
Monday Motivation - Bring Your Sunshine Today!
...and create your own sunny, happy day!!!
You have a beautiful, radiant inner light that is just waiting to burst forth and light up your day. So set it free, and make today brilliant!
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Sometimes, all we need is a glimpse of nature to brighten our day. I took this picture on a walk in my neighborhood on a particularly frustrating day... but as I looked through the zoomed-in view of my camera, and saw all of the beauty surrounding me, it helped put things in perspective. We can look around us and think we see. But, if we don't believe we have seen anything worthwhile, it's time to look again. Change perspective. Focus attention. We just might be amazed.
Green is one of my favorite colors. It reminds me of the outdoors and the calming influence of mother nature. For me, the vibrant green in this picture is simultaneously soothing and stimulating. I also love this picture because of the pop of pink and orange of the Lantana flowers that seems to radiate happiness! I hope you enjoy it, too!
On one hand, this quote reminds me a lot of dealing with a particularly frustrating customer service department. The front-line folks generally have very little power to solve problems, they just listen to your complaint, apologize, and then do nothing. Don't ever take that as your answer! Speak to as many people as it takes until you have reached someone who can actually help.
On the other hand, and in a more big-picture sense, this quote can really make you think about who actually has power over your dreams and goals.
Often, there are people around us that make our dreams seem like impossibilities.
Have you ever allowed another person's negativity to affect your motivation? Did they tell you that your dream was too big, that your goal was too hard to reach? Did they go out of their way to remind you of all of the insurmountable (to them) obstacles you would face? Here's the thing - no matter who that person was - parent, boss, spouse, friend - they don't have the power to make that dream come true for you. So, don't let them tell you no.
The one person in the world that has ultimate control over your dreams is... you guessed it, YOU. Remind yourself of that daily, and keep a silent, reassuring YES always in your heart.
Monday Motivation - Never Give Up!
For many of us, the drive to be perfect can sometimes inhibit our ability to get things done. Our best intentions fail us. It's at these times that we have to remind ourselves that no matter how we see something in our minds, if we can't complete it, nobody else will ever be able to appreciate it.
It is much better to show someone slightly less than what you think is your best, than to show them nothing at all.
Today, keep in mind that "done" will always get you farther than "perfect." May you have a productive, prosperous, successful week!
There is so much beauty out there waiting to be revealed. Beauty that is so much bigger than us and our everyday problems. Beauty that, however fleetingly, lifts aside the veil between us and eternity.
These pieces of art are actual photographs created by Beth Moon, who traveled to far off locations to capture Earth's oldest trees. She used extra-long exposures to capture the awe-inspiring backdrop of our incredible heavenly neighbors. I am sharing these photographs on RBG today, because I want you to feel the same sense of awe and wonder that I did when I saw them for the first time.
Read more about her journey by clicking here.
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Sometimes, a few simple, ordinary words combine in a way that produces magic.
For me, that is what these few lines from a selection of Robert Frost's poetry do. Taken in context of the entire poem, these words may have a far different meaning.* But standing alone, these 22 words convey adventure, destiny, freedom and the extraordinary - and make you believe that they are written just for you.
I hope these words of wisdom from one of our greatest literary magicians (whether he intended them to be so taken or not) inspire you to think of your path not just as the road you are walking, but as your own unique destiny, leading you to seldom seen wonders and your own definition of success. May they also remind you of the futility of regret.
This poem is perhaps a tongue-in-cheek look at the inevitable regrets of the indecisive among us, but the magic and beauty of the last three lines has transcended the original poem and taken on a meaning greater than the artist intended. And after all, isn't that the true value of art? The ability of each of us to personally interpret the beauty of the creation in a way that reflects our own soul or desires?
Isn't this the truth? What would happen if we only traveled straight? How would we get past the road blocks, walls, mountains? We certainly couldn't climb the mountain - the hardest way up a mountain is - you guessed it - in a straight line.


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Biografia

La vita della giovane Ruth Brown sembrò avere una svolta fortunata quando conobbe e sposò nel 1925 Albert Snyder, un anziano e ricco uomo d'affari. Abbandonato il lavoro di centralinista, Ruth si dedicò completamente alla cura della bella villa suburbana dove abitava con il marito e con la figlia Lorraine, avuta dal matrimonio. Albert era un uomo cupo e introverso, poco espansivo sia con la moglie, che era invece amante dei divertimenti e dei rapporti sociali, sia con la piccola figlia. Legato alle sue abitudini domestiche, considerava la moglie una ragazzina poco affidabile e rimpiangeva di non aver potuto sposare la sua fidanzata Jessie Guischard, morta poco prima delle nozze previste. Jessie era più bella di Ruth e Albert ne conservava il ricordo con un suo ritratto appeso dietro la spalliera del letto.

Ruth sprofondava nella noia e nel disgusto per la monotonia della vita coniugale, a cui cercava di rimediare vestendosi in maniera appariscente e andando alla costante ricerca di incontri sessuali, consumati con uomini conosciuti casualmente. Con uno di questi, Henry Judd Gray, un uomo già sposato, commesso viaggiatore di corsetti per donna, Ruth amava confidarsi, raccontandogli i suoi falliti tentativi di uccidere il marito: «in garage con il monossido di carbonio, con una spinta mentre era sul molo, con del bicloruro di mercurio, fingendo di curargli il singhiozzo.».

Ruth cominciò nuovamente a progettare l'omicidio del marito, dapprima persuadendolo a contrarre un'assicurazione sulla vita per  dollari da raddoppiare se l'assicurato fosse morto per un atto violento e poi cercando di convincere il riluttante amante con un piano che prevedeva, per assicurarsi la riuscita dell'omicidio, l'utilizzo di tre strumenti: il cloroformio, un filo metallico e un pesante contrappeso di quelli usati per lo scorrimento delle tendine delle finestre.

La notte del 19 marzo 1927, approfittando dell'assenza di Albert e Lorraine, Ruth fece entrare in casa Judd per attuare il loro piano. Judd, che non era del tutto convinto dell'efficacia dell'impresa, si nascose nella camera lasciata vuota dalla madre di Ruth, partita per un breve viaggio, e si apprestò a uccidere Albert che, tornato con la figlia, anche lui ubriaco, si addormentò pesantemente. La coppia mise così in atto l'assassinio strozzando Albert con il filo metallico e cercando di mascherarne la morte come conseguenza di un'aggressione a scopo di furto.

Dopo rapide indagini, nel corso delle quali vennero rinvenuti dei gioielli, dei quali la donna aveva denunciato la scomparsa, nascosti nell'appartamento, la polizia non credette a questa messa in scena e accusò i due amanti dell'omicidio, rinviandoli al processo che si aprì il 27 aprile 1927. Durante le udienze del tribunale Ruth confessò apertamente di aver voluto uccidere il marito «per sbarazzarsi di lui», mentre Judd tentò di giustificarsi accusando l'amante di essere stata lei a pianificare l'omicidio, ad aver contratto le polizze dell'assicurazione e di averlo fatto ubriacare per incoraggiarlo ad uccidere. Alle ore 23 del 12 gennaio 1928 la coppia omicida fu giustiziata sulla sedia elettrica.

A questo omicidio si ispirò James M. Cain per la stesura del suo romanzo La morte paga doppio, trasformato poi in film da Billie Wilder col titolo La fiamma del peccato.

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Q: How can I count instances of a string in a dataframe column of lists that matches the string of a column in a different dataframe? I have a dataframe containing a column of produce and a column of a list of colors the produce comes in:
import pandas as pd

data = {'produce':['zucchini','apple','citrus','banana','pear'],
      'colors':['green, yellow','green, red, yellow','orange, yellow ,green','yellow','green, yellow, brown']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
print(df)

Dataframe looks like:
    produce                 colors
0  zucchini          green, yellow
1     apple     green, red, yellow
2    citrus  orange, yellow, green
3    banana                 yellow
4      pear   green, yellow, brown

I am trying to create a second dataframe with each color, and count the number of columns in the first dataframe that have that color. I am able to get the unique list of colors into a dataframe:
#Create Dataframe with a column of unique values
unique_colors = df['colors'].str.split(",").explode().unique()
df2 = pd.DataFrame()
df2['Color'] = unique_colors
print(df2)

But some of the colors repeat some of the time:
     Color
0    green
1   yellow
2      red
3   orange
4    green
5   yellow
6    brown

and I am unable to find a way to add a column that counts the instances in the other dataframe. I have tried:
#df['Count'] = data['colors'] == df2['Color']
df['Count'] = ()
for i in df2['Color']:
      count=0
      if df["colors"].str.contains(i):
            count+1
      df['Count']=count

but I get the error "ValueError: Length of values (0) does not match length of index (5)"
How can I

*

*make sure values aren't repeated in the list, and

*count the instances of the color in the other dataframe

(This is a simplification of a much larger dataframe, so I can't just edit values in the first dataframe to fix the unique color issue).

A: You need consider the space around , when split. To count the occurrence of color, you can use Series.value_counts().
out = (df['colors'].str.split(' *, *')
       .explode().value_counts()
       .to_frame('Count')
       .rename_axis('Color')
       .reset_index())

print(out)

    Color  Count
0  yellow      5
1   green      4
2     red      1
3   brown      1
4  orange      1

A: Proposed script
import operator

y_c = (df['colors'].agg(lambda x: [e.strip() for e in x.split(',')])
                   .explode()
       )

clrs = pd.DataFrame.from_dict({c: [operator.countOf(y_c, c)] for c in y_c.unique()})

Two presentations for the result
1 - Horizontal :
print(clrs.rename(index={0:'count'}))

#        green  yellow  red  orange  brown
# count      4       5    1       1      1

2- Vertical :
print(clrs.T.rename(columns={0:'count'}))

#         count
# green       4
# yellow      5
# red         1
# orange      1
# brown       1


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  userEndpoint: 'http://gwiazdka.azurewebsites.net/api/user',
  drawnUserEndpoint: 'http://gwiazdka.azurewebsites.net/api/drawnuser',
  wishlistItemEndpoint: 'http://gwiazdka.azurewebsites.net/api/wishlistitem'
};