The Kodai sojourn especially is very unique and fascinating, and it is for this reason that Kodai Kanal is often described as the Lord's playground. Though Swami has skipped visiting this holy hill station on a few summers, He did visit there in 2009. And we carried the first part of this "Kodai Festival 2009" in July 2009 of H2H. The second part in April 2010 issue had an account of the proceedings of Day Two of this visit along with many interesting anecdotes from earlier such trips. The current article gives you the story of Day Three.
How did these Kodai trips begin? When and how was 'Sai Shruti', Baba's abode in this lovely hill station, born? Who gets to accompany the Lord? And what exactly are 'Kodai sessions'? We offered interesting glimpses of all these answers in Part-2 of this series, apart from the proceedings of the second day of this divine visit.
Those who know something about these visits may wonder why we have not described anything about the divine 'kodai gifts' as Swami always begins by distributing a lot of goodies. Well, that is exactly what happened on the morning of Day Three. And before we get to this story, to get a feel of what this event is about and how it goes, let us have a few brief recalls. First, from the incomparable Prof. Anil Kumar; this is what he said in a radio interview recorded in 2003.
"On reaching Kodai, Swami gives everyone a sleeping bag. When the boys get in and pull the zip, we don't know if it is a gunny bag of rice or a boy sleeping inside!
That is one description of this sweet event that is invariably a part of the Kodai experience. Here is another taken from an article that Professor Venkataraman wrote in 2006.
"7.45 a.m., and there is a quiet signal. Some of the teachers and senior scholars go upstairs and bring various items. Looks like there is going to be a distribution session. I have heard the fabulous Kodai distribution sessions, and it looks like tradition is being maintained. First item: a sweater. A sweater many a times has been the first item, and no surprise in that. Kodai can suddenly get very chilly and our most thoughtful Swami always makes sure that everyone will be warm. So, He gives away sweaters just in case people have not packed one in - and many haven't!
"Sweater distribution goes on for quite a while, first for the gents, then for the students, and finally for the ladies. While giving to the gents, one of them says, 'Swami, You are always giving, giving, giving...' Swami responds, 'Because it is cold, cold, cold!' This draws a big laugh. For the students and the gents, Swami distributes from where He is seated.
"He just throws accurately and the item goes straight to the person for whom it is intended, who catches it. For distributing to the ladies, Swami goes to their side, moving from person to person to hand over. Sweater distribution is over, but what next?
"One more signal and the boys scamper upstairs to bring more stuff. What is it going to be now? Shawls! Nice big white shawls. Why do we need shawls when there are sweaters? That is logic, but Swami's Heart has never heard of it! He simply must give, give and give – that's all!
"It is not over yet and there is going to be round three. What will it be this time? Towels, big bath towels! Distribution of towels takes Swami once more to the ladies side, and when they have been handed out, there is one more item – a tape recorder!
"Whenever Swami distributes a packaged item, the first time He hands it over, He makes a point of opening the packet and showing the contents to everybody! That's what He does now, and by the way, the tape recorder is only for the ladies!
"Next come cameras, and after that, film for the cameras! Wow, I say to myself, even Santa at Christmas-time is not so generous. What next? I don't have to guess or wait for long to know. It is ladies handbags in assorted colours, and Swami has some fun in matching the colour of the bags to the colour of the saree worn by the recipient! After this: ladies umbrellas! It looks like it is ladies day, and I wonder whether the men are getting a bit jealous! As earlier, just before handing out the first umbrella, Swami opens it to show it to all! And after this distribution is done, Swami now carries one umbrella in His hand, walks over to the gents' side and asks, 'Any ladies here?' There is a big laughter!
So this was a description of the distribution of non-eatable items that Swami usually distributes at the beginning of the stay. In 2009 too there was a similar distribution, and besides all these Swami gave the students what they treasure the most – His Special Love and Intimacy.
"In Kodai, Swami often distributes many items including peppermints, chocolate bars, and so on. Suddenly one day He said, 'I am here distributing all these sweets and chocolates for you to eat, but there is one fellow who is not eating; instead he is dumping all of them into his bag. Come on boys! Search everybody's bags.' It was something like an income tax raid (laughter)!
Everyone who has been a participant of these special Kodai trips has his own story of receiving these beautiful gifts. And Day Three was the day when all had this memorable experience.
Swami blessed everyone with these gifts after the morning darshan. However something more enlivening happened later in that day. And that was Swami suddenly gave notice that there would be a Burra Katha performance during the Bhajan time that evening.
The Burra Katha is a traditional form of folk art, unique to Andhra Pradesh, and it involves story-telling, mostly from mythology and the epics. This form of art appears to have come into existence during the reign of the famous king, Sri Krishna Deva Raya. There are three players, the most important one taking his place in the centre. Basically, he unfolds the story in musical form, via a series of songs, that is. He is called the Gayakudu or the singer.
As the singing progresses, there are many breaks where the other two participants pitch in. The one to the right of the Gayakudu, interrupts with what might be called expert commentary, especially related to current affairs, mostly political of course. He is called Rajakiyudu. The third person who stands left of centre is the stand up comedian who entertains with humorous comments that invariably evoke a lot of laughter. He is called Vidushaka. Of course, it is all in Telugu.
Arvind Sai, M.A., in Economics, who was the humourist.
These three boys had specialised in this folk art and had performed several times before Swami during the last several years. When they were included in Swami's party, it was clear that they would be called upon to perform in Kodai Kanal too. And they went fully prepared.
They had been alerted by Swami to be ready to perform on the third day, and they were given the final green signal at 3.30 p.m. Swami told them that they should be fully dressed and ready by 5 p.m.
Let us hear from one of the three boys, Sai Prabhakar, about their preparations and sweet divine interventions!
That was a glimpse of how involved Swami was in this Burra Katha performance. And in this trip, they performed not once or twice but thrice. The theme of this first one was the life of Swami, and by the way, this was the first time that the Burra Katha was ever staged by Swami's students in Kodai.
Let us now go to the Bhajan Hall in Kodai, even as the first of the three Burra Kathas is about to be performed!
So that was the star event - the life of Swami, portrayed in the Burra Katha format, of course by Swami's boys and in His presence before a big gathering of His devotees.
After that came the arathi, and it was curtains. So that was how the third day of Kodai 2009 unfolded. In the next part which is to follow soon where we narrate the proceedings of Day four, there is something even more interesting.


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Captain Fantastic is a 2016 movie, directed by Matt Ross with Viggo Mortensen and Frank Langella.
Ben Cash lives with his six children in the wilderness of Washington State, preserving their lifestyle In Harmony with Nature, mostly away from society. However, the family has been thrown into turmoil by the hospitalization of Ben's wife Leslie with bipolar disorder, and early in the film she commits suicide.
While trying to cope with this trauma, Ben and the family decide it is time for them to travel to her funeral and meet their extended family in New Mexico, including Leslie's disapproving father Jack (Langella), confronting urban society as they go. Along the way cracks start to show as the children begin to come of age in this strange new environment, forcing Ben to confront his decisions and their future head-on.
Ben (Mortensen) and Leslie have six children:
Bodevan aka "Bo", the oldest sibling. Highly intelligent but socially awkward due to his lack of contact with others his own age.
Twin daughters Vespyr and Kielyr. Vespyr is quiet and attached to nature, while Kielyr is the most energetic and curious of the family.
Rellian, the middle son. Increasingly angsty and unhappy with the family's lifestyle.
Zaja, the youngest daughter at 8-years-old.
Nai, the youngest boy.
Captain Fantastic contains examples of:
Abusive Parents: Some of Ben's decisions may be seen this way. Jack even threatens to sue him for it.
Actually Pretty Funny: Ben's brother in-law seems to be trying to hide a smile after Ben proves the home-schooled Zaja is much smarter than her older cousins, who are in Middle School and High School where his wife is less amused (though it's possible he's trying to reassure Zaja, who looks confused and worried when Harper snaps at Ben).
Adult Fear: From Jack and Abigail's point of view it's easy to understand why Jack has so many concerns.
Firstly their daughter develops a serious mental illness, and her husband's response (as he himself admits later) is to simply hope she'll get better - and when she doesn't, it's too late to do anything meaningful before she dies.
Then their grandson shows up not long after her funeral, covered in cuts and bruises and with an untreated broken hand, raising the spectre of their grandchildren being physically abused. On top of which they discover that the kids aren't in school as they thought. And on top of that their granddaughter is almost killed trying to "rescue" her brother from a situation he's in willingly - on her father's orders, no less.
From Ben's perspective, the hospital scene where the doctor explains how close Vespyr came to being paralyzed or killed, knowing he was the one who put her in that position.
Aerith and Bob: Bodevan, Vespyr, Kielyr, Rellian, Zaja, Nai, and their parents — Ben and Leslie. Explained in story that Ben and Leslie intentionally made their names unique so that there'd only ever be one of them in the world.
Armor-Piercing Response: When Ben and Bo argue about his going to college, Ben says he's already past that level, speaking six languages, knowing physics and classical literature - but Bo's response silences him after he makes clear no amount of reading will make up for his having no clue how to operate outside his family's bubble.
Bo: I know nothing! I KNOW NOTHING!!! I am a freak because of you!... Unless it comes out of a fucking book I don't know anything about anything!
Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Bo shows his father the acceptance letters, Ben initially says well done and that it's very impressive, leading to a Hope Spot for Bo - then makes it clear he's referring to Bo successfully doing all this behind his back and lying to his face. This forces Bo to reveal Leslie helped him, leading to the first major break between father and son.
Badass Beard: Ben sports an impressive beard, and he's an athletic, intellectual survivor.
Blatant Lies: Most of what Bo tells Claire, the girl at the rest stop. Among other things he claims that they live in France and his mother is a spy. Claire's face indicates she doesn't believe a word of it.
Bourgeois Bohemian: Leslie seems to have grown up in a privileged lifestyle (the kids call her parents' mansion a vulgar display of wealth) and its implied that a lot of living in the wilderness was her idea. It's mentioned at her funeral she gave up her law practice to be with Ben.
Break the Haughty: Ben near the end of the film. He loses his wife, gets kicked out of her funeral, has his sons start to openly question him and almost gets Vespyr killed during an attempt to "save" Rellian from his grandparents' house (where he's staying voluntarily). His leaving the kids with Jack and Abigail is directly because of the last of those events.
Brick Joke: "Clothes when we eat". First Ben says this to Nai, when he comes to the campfire naked early on. Nai later repeats the same thing to Ben at the campsite when he's the one undressed.
Brutal Honesty: One of Ben's hallmarks as a father; he'll never shy away from telling his kids the harsher truths in life if they ask. Most notable during the dinner scene with his sister's family; where his brother-in-law Dave skirts around the issue of telling his sons about Leslie's death as delicately and ambiguously as possible, Ben comes right out and tells them the extent of her bipolar disorder and that she killed herself by slitting her wrists - causing Harper to storm out.
Later, after her husband tries to diplomatically say that the kids' lives could use more stability, Harper explodes that Ben's going to get them killed.
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Leslie's last wishes were to be cremated, and that her ashes would be flushed down the toilet. Her family respected it.
Ben: I assume you know that Leslie was a Buddhist. That means she wanted to be cremated, not buried.
Coming-of-Age Story: There are several teachings and lessons from elders (mainly Ben) to younglings, especially Bo and Rellian. Unusually, in places they learn these lessons almost in spite of Ben rather than because of him.
Daddy's Girl: Vespyr and Kielyr are more devoted to Ben and his way of life than Bo and Rellian. Even after Ben's "mission" to rescue Rellian almost gets Vespyr killed when she falls off the roof, she still views it as an accident rather than seeing the problems with what her father asked her to do - something Ben does by this point.
Doting Grandparent: While Jack feuds with Ben on various points he does his best to make sure the conflict doesn't affect his grandkids; he's still happy to see them after the funeral, and treats them very well during their stay, even trying their workout routine with them. His wife Abigail is an even straighter example, with none of Jack's antagonism towards Ben.
Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Referenced and subverted when, Ben is explaining to Nai what rape is, noting that the victim is usually but not always a woman and the perpetrator usually but not always a man.
Due to the Dead: To Leslie.
Eagleland: Both flavors.
Flavor 1.
Nai: Everyone's so fat!
Zaja: [...] our country is ruled by corporations and their lobbyists who fund candidates and command their fealty [...]
Zaja: Without the Bill of Rights, we'd be more like China. Here at least, we don't have warrantless searches. We have free speech. Citizens are protected from cruel and unusual punishments.
Eating the Eye Candy: Claire intently watches Bo doing yoga without his shirt at the rest stop, although part of this might have been out of being impressed by the moves he could do.
Esperanto, the Universal Language: Vespyr and Kielyr can speak Esperanto fluently, much to Ben's annoyance.
Exact Words:
Jack: You told me they were in school.
Ben: They are. Leslie and I are their teachers.
Flipping the Bird: The kids' cousins do this (albeit somewhat playfully) as they leave, much to Nai's confusion.
Freudian Excuse:
Jack's hatred of Ben, while understandable on several points, seems to stem from his desire to remember the daughter he knew rather than the person she became with Ben - something Ben's crashing the funeral brings into the open. It also seems he displaces the blame for everything that happened onto Ben, which ignores the decisions Leslie herself took in how to raise the children and manage her illness (which the letter Abigail produces makes clear).
Ben's shooting down Bo's university hopes in favour of staying with the family seems at least partially motivated by a fear of losing any of his kids so soon after losing his wife. It's also subtly suggested, given his admissions to the kids near the end, that his desire to prove his lifestyle's superiority in the scenes with his sister stems from an unwillingness to acknowledge that it failed to help his wife as he thought, and that other parts of his teachings might prove equally fallible.
Funny Background Event: When Nai starts questioning Ben on the intricacies of sex during the trip, Kielyr can be seen trying not to laugh in the background. Later, when Ben decides to knuckle down and give him a full book on the subject, she can be seen again be seen staring in mute horror just behind Ben.
Gray-and-Gray Morality: Jack can seem pretty harsh towards Ben, and Ben and his simpler lifestyle are treated with some respect, but as Jack's actor Frank Langella notes during a bonus featurette, "Viggo's not a hero, and I'm not a villain". Jack and Abigail have some genuine concerns about how the children are being brought up, in regards to their social development and the Training from Hell. At the end of the film, Taking A Third Option comes into play when Ben retains custody of the children and much of his agrarian lifestyle, but moves towards a farm and enrolls them in school.
The Hermit: At the beginning, the family lifestyle is close to this.
Hidden Depths: Jack is willing to do calisthenics with the kids and is fairly limber and happy at it.
Hippie Parents: Ben and Leslie. Jack even derogatorily refers to him as a "hippie in a clown suit" after Leslie's funeral.
How Dare You Die on Me!: Rellian's reaction to hearing his mother killed himself involves stabbing the wall while angrily yelling out his feelings about her doing that, and the other kids are also pretty affected by it.
Hypocrite: Ben preaches discourse among the family and acceptance of other viewpoints, but he's utterly incapable of seeing that there's anything wrong with the way he's raising his family - to the point the kids are basically unable to truly challenge him on anything major. When they do eventually express contrary views he either yells at them and overrides their viewpoints (just after the funeral service) or attempts to ignore it entirely (when he goes to get Rellian and essentially tells him to get back on the bus until the equally willful Jack gets his attention by shooting an arrow at him).
I Just Want to Be Normal: Rellian, and to a lesser extent Bo. Bo sometimes feels awkward about how other people see them and is trying to enroll in colleges. Rellian asks why they can't celebrate normal holidays, saying that their mother might not have killed herself if she'd been kept in a normal environment and seen health professionals more, and temporarily leaving the family to live with his grandparents.
I Am Not My Father: Rellian's mounting frustration with the family lifestyle eventually leads to this, rejecting his father entirely in favour of his privileged but loving grandparents.
I Miss Mom: The kids clearly feel this way, and Nai even states this word for word at one dark point.
The Idealist: Bo is an ex-Trotskyist turned Maoist.
Imagine Spot: Ben can sometimes see and talk to his wife at night.
Important Haircut: When Ben leaves his children, he shaves his beard. Later, Bodevan cuts his hair short, just before Leslie's cremation.
Initiation Ceremony: The movie starts with Bo killing a deer as a maturity initiation.
Ben: Today the boy is dead, and in his place is a man.
Ivy League for Everyone: Bodevan got accepted into most of the major universities with the help of his mother. Slightly more believable than most examples due to his home-schooled education under Ben leaving him incredibly knowledgable about subjects as diverse as classical literature and theoretical physics.
Jerkass Has a Point: While Ben's sister and her family seem to be mostly there to show the superiority of Ben's lifestyle over their urban one, her belief Ben's lifestyle will get the kids killed turns out to have some grounding in truth after Vespyr is almost killed trying to "free" Rellian on her father's orders.
Knight of Cerebus: Not in the traditional sense, but Jack's arrival in the narrative marks the point where the film loses much of its Fish out of Water humour and becomes more serious as it looks at the pitfalls of Ben's parenting more closely.
Male Frontal Nudity: Ben, at the campsite.
Ben: It's just a penis. Every man has one.
Meaningful Echo: "Power to the people , stick it to the Man." Between Ben and his children, then Bo and Nai as he leaves for Namibia.
Mood Whiplash: Bo's Wacky Marriage Proposal to Claire is played for laughs as she and her mother crack up laughing at the absurdity of it - but then, after they leave, there's a long shot of a clearly bewildered and hurt Bo turning to go, and you can see the realization that there's a lot his book learning hasn't prepared him for hit him hard.
Mundane Object Amazement: The kids are amazed (and, aside from Rellian, appalled) by their cousin's videogames,
My God, What Have I Done?: After Vespyr falls from the roof, the doctor makes Ben realize she could have been paralyzed or died. He decides to leave the children under Jack's care shortly after.
Not Helping Your Case: Ben really doesn't give the best impression of things when explaining to Jack how his kids ended up stealing on their trip there.
Ben: Leslie and I are their teachers. Are -- were their teachers.
Jack: So you're teaching them to steal?
Ben: Of course not.
Jack: "Mission: free the food"?
Ben: ...that was part of their training.
Jack: So you're training them to steal?
Not in Front of the Kid: Ben's sister Harper is irritated about how Ben swears in front of her children (though she later swears in front of Zaja when Ben stresses her too much) and openly discusses how Leslie killed herself. Leslie's father Jack is also clearly infuriated he's having to have a massive row with Ben in front of his grandkids and even apologizes to them for it.
Not So Different: Frank Langella suggested that Ben and Jack's disagreements stem from this, both being inflexible, strong willed men who love Leslie and the kids deeply and are convinced they're doing the best thing for them, even when they're really not.
It's even shown Ben and Jack are both hunters (though for different reasons - Ben for sustenance, Jack for sport). Their chosen bows subtly show that though the two are very different there are base similarities; Jack shoots at Ben with a with a modern sports bow, while Ben later leaves his (likely hand-crafted) wooden bow with Jack.
Obnoxious In-Laws: Zigzagged. It's made clear that while Ben's relationships with his in-laws are tempestuous, it's largely due to both sides lacking a middle ground to truly understand each other's way of life.
While Ben and Jack hardly get on, to the point of threatening to call the cops, many of Jack's issues are shown to have at least some validity to them. It's unspoken, but made clear that Jack is trying to remember a daughter he long since ceased to know as she was - something Ben serves as a constant reminder of. Their last conversation is at least fairly respectful, with Jack implicitly acknowledging Ben's love for Leslie when he sees him gazing wistfully at old photos of her.
In contrast to Jack, Leslie's mother Abigail averts this trope much more. While she's visibly unhappy with Ben's speech at the funeral, she loves the kids as much as Jack, and is far kinder to her son-in-law. She even takes pains to share some of Leslie's letters with Ben to comfort him after he decides to leave the kids with them.
Ben's brother in-law once called Leslie a "fucking bitch" after an argument about serving children sugary breakfasts but regrets this and is slightly more accepting of Ben and his family than his wife (Ben's sister) is, trying to play peacemaker during their after-dinner argument. Even she at least expresses sympathies for Leslie's death and how hard it must be for them all, and Ben in turn apologises for not respecting the rules of their house.
Only Sane Man: For a given definition of sane, but Rellian is the only one of the kids to take Ben's teaching of critical thinking and questioning the man and apply it to questioning Ben himself. The problem is that being only 12 he has trouble expressing himself in the face of his more experienced father and a family that usually blindly agrees with him - leading to his extreme approach of running away to live with his grandparents near the film's end.
Open-Minded Parent: Ben and Leslie. That said, it's clear Ben is himself quite close-minded about the kids learning anything about the commercialized suburban world his in-laws inhabit, something that drives the conflict between him and first Rellian, then later Bo.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Ben. He fakes a heart attack to steal food. He offers a book named "The Joy of Sex" to Nai, a very young boy. Since he's not interested, he offers him Rellian's large Bowie knife to play with. Later, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, he's shown not only reading Maus to Nai at his sister's house, but explaining to him what the showers actually did.
Vespyr: But you said hospitals are only a great place to go if you're a healthy person and you want to die.
Zaja: You said Americans are uneducated and overmedicated.
Kielyr: You said that AMA are avaricious whores only too willing to spread their fat legs for big pharma.
Ben: All those things are true.
Posthumous Character: Leslie's death is what kicks off the family's adventure. Though she never appears outside of Ben's visions until the family steal her body for cremation, how Ben, the kids and Jack variously choose to see and remember her drives much of the film.
Road Trip Plot: Going from Washington State to New Mexico, for Leslie's funeral.
Running Gag: Nai asking his father "What's-?" after hearing a new (and often fairly mature) word or phrase.
Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: After training in the family ways, the children are stronger, smarter and far better-read than other children their own ages - but in doing so they have no understanding of the urban world they have to move through to make it to Leslie's funeral, with Rellian and later Bo really feeling it.
Sanity Slippage: Ben after getting kicked out of Leslie's Christian funeral. He openly yells at the kids to sit down and shut up when they question him (after encouraging discourse earlier), only decides against going to the burial after Bo makes it clear his getting arrested will mean they lose him too, dashes Bo's college hopes and mocks him for lying to him and then almost gets Vespyr killed trying to retrieve Rellian from Jack's house AFTER Rellian had voluntarily gone there to live.
Shout-Out:
At the firecamp:
Rellian is reading The Brothers Karamazov.
Kielyr is reading Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Vespyr is reading The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.
Zaja is reading Middlemarch.
In the bus, Kielyr has to discourse about Lolita when Ben sees her reading it.
In the supermarket, My Heart Will Go On is ironically playing, when Ben fakes a heart attack to steal food with his kids.
Bo mentions "Baby and Child Care" by Benjamin Spock, but he has never heard about Spock from Star Trek.
All but Rellian love to celebrate "Noam Chomsky" birthday instead of Christmas.
Leslie's favorite song was Sweet Child o' Mine.
Stocking Filler: Claire wears some at the campsite.
Straw Character: Pointedly averted; while some of the scenes with Ben's in-laws seem to be there so Ben can prove the superiority of his lifestyle, the film takes pains to show that many of their points have some validity to them. Most notably, while the Bill of Rights scene seems to prove the superiority of the home-schooled Zaja's knowledge over her conventionally-educated cousins, by the film's end Ben has indeed enrolled his kids in school and made an effort to provide more stability in their lives after things go horribly wrong for him - just as his sister Harper wanted in that scene's start.
Sure, Let's Go with That: There's a moment during the funeral where the priest talks about Leslie loving long walks in the moonlight, prompting the girls to turn to their father with "Really?" expressions on their faces. Ben's expression in response screams this.
Tragic Hero: Ben. Highly intelligent, charismatic and extremely physically fit, he's raising his kids to be "philosopher kings" with all his attributes. However, his Fatal Flaw is his distrust of the standard urban society he left behind and his intolerance of that lifestyle. While the film shows there's much truth to his beliefs, it also leads to Leslie dying from suicide when her bipolar disorder didn't get better living in the wild as he thought, leaving it too late to get her proper treatment. Later, it leads to his nearly losing his kids when his total inflexibility leads to first clashing with Rellian and Bo as they want to explore the outside world, then nearly getting Vespyr killed in a supremely-ill judged attempt to "save" Rellian from his grandparents.
Training from Hell: Shown during the introduction.
Training Montage: Including physical exercising, landfarming and art expression, the family members are timing their days with various activities.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Even by the family's standards - where slaughtering animals for meat and duelling with knives is the norm - Ben is a bit freaked out when he discovers Zaja's little shrine of animal bones in her treehouse.
Ben: Jesus...
Zaja: [shaking her head, thinking he means the photo behind her] Pol Pot.
Wacky Marriage Proposal: Played for Laughs, when Bodevan proposes to Claire, in the middle of a campsite. He met her a few hours before.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Given the conflict between them, it seems odd that Jack disappears from the story after Ben leaves, despite his grandchildren running off with him (without Ben's knowledge, to be fair), digging up his daughter's corpse and cremating it in express opposal to his wishes. The original script sheds a bit more light on things, with the two men communing over the phone and agreeing that despite Jack's unwillingness to forgive the situation, he and Abigail want to see the grandchildren more. The two end agreeing to bring the grandkids over for Thanksgiving.
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In September of last year, I was diagnosed with a stage 2 malignant tumour in my tongue. There had been remarkably little to indicate that something was amiss, other than an increasing sensation reminiscent of muscle strain within the tongue itself.
Originally, this occurred only when I was eating and, being a busy working mum, I did not think too much of it. However, over the space of around 7 weeks, the sensation grew. I could feel no lumps or bumps, but it was when I felt a very small amount of friction on the underside of the tongue that I decided to seek a referral to see a specialist. Although very little could be seen, Professor McGurk thought it was likely to be cancer and arranged for an array of tests to be undertaken. It was all a bit of a whirlwind, to be honest, but at least that meant I didn't have too much time to think about things, and within around 11 days from the initial consultation the 2cm tumour had been removed.
Ordinarily, a partial or full neck-dissection is the default procedure to prevent oral cancer from spreading. However, I was fortunate to benefit from Professor McGurk's pioneering Sentinel Node Biopsy (SNB) work, which meant that I had minimally invasive surgery to remove only those lymph nodes closest to the tumour. I had a pre-op appointment where the Professor injected radioactive dye into the site of the tumour. It was followed by an interesting time lying on the scanning machine, listening to some surprisingly hard-core Reggae from a nurse's smartphone, whilst the dye's progress to my lymph nodes was tracked. Later, they would know exactly which nodes to target and where to insert the knife. Waking up after the operation itself was always going to be a bit of a shock and there was pain and swelling, as was to be expected. However, within two days I was ready to leave the hospital with no serious worries about complications other than how to manage the pain, and my young daughter and husband were certainly happy to have me back at home where they could look after me.
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The United States is about to appoint a large number of senior officers from the former army of Saddam Hussein to top jobs in the new Iraqi security forces in an attempt to prevent a repetition of last week's mutiny by several hundred Iraqi soldiers.
The newly trained Iraqi battalion refused to join the US Marines' attack on Falluja, saying its job was to defend the country, not to kill other Iraqis. The action cast doubt on the US aim of building up Iraqi forces to let US troops withdraw from the front line.
The appointment of officers from the old regime was advised by British officials last summer after the entire Iraqi army was disbanded by Paul Bremer, the top US administrator in Iraq, a move which sparked anger and discontent.
The US secretly changed tack early this year and sent a group of six major-generals, and about 20 other senior officers, for training in the US.
"I was invited by the Americans three months ago to come to a meeting in Baghdad with a view to being trained abroad," said one high-ranking officer in his mid-50s who wished to remain anonymous. "There was a list of 27 men, the intellectual cream of the Iraqi forces, and most of them graduates of top staff colleges abroad, like Sandhurst and Cranwell. They were clean, honest, and not involved in repression."
He said he had declined the request because he did not want to serve an occupying power: "I come from a family with five generations in uniform and I didn't want to put a black mark on this page."
Brigadier Najib al-Salhi, an officer who defected to the west in the 1990s and is back in Baghdad, said no officers were from Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, which was largely recruited for its personal loyalty to the regime. "These were among the best apolitical elements in the Iraqi army. They are not all Sunnis. They represent a sectarian balance," he told Reuters recently.
The US has already trained 200,000 police, border guards, members of the new Iraqi civil defence corps (who now man most checkpoints), and soldiers. The Iraqi army is planned to number 40,000, of whom 30,000 are due in place by September. Officer cadets were sent to Jordan for training, and the first group was commissioned a month ago.
The police training has been hasty and thin, and many defected during last week's uprising by Shia militias loyal to the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. "They did not stand up to the intimidators," General John Abizaid, head of US central command, said this week.
The Falluja mutiny has put a question mark over the army. They refused to move on Falluja even though they had several dozen US special forces with them to give leadership.
"It's very clear that we've got to get more senior Iraqis involved - former military types involved in the security forces. In the next couple of days you'll see a large number of senior officers being appointed to key positions in the Ministry of Defence and the Iraqi joint staff, and in Iraqi field commands", Gen Abizaid said.
The US hopes that by placing senior, patriotic and combat-experienced Iraqi commanders in charge it can avoid future revolts.
"The Iraqis have to have their own chain of command and know who they're working for, and know that they're working for a greater Iraq," General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said on a visit to the Gulf this week.


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Next Thursday, Jan. 24, the University of Virginia Center for Politics will host its 20th annual American Democracy Conference in Charlottesville.
This is the second part of the Center's 20th anniversary edition of the annual American Democracy Conference. The first part was held last November in Washington D.C. and featured remarks from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D, CA-28), and expert panels reacting to the midterm and looking ahead to 2020. A recording of that conference is available here.
The conference is being held in partnership with the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and is part of "Democracy in Perilous Times: Unprecedented Challenges and Controversies," an ongoing program series organized by the Center for Politics and the Batten School for the 2018-2019 academic year as part of the National Symposium Series. Information on future programming can be found here.


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Quebec entrepreneur, 93, donates cherished island after protecting it from city sprawl | CBC News Loaded
Quebec entrepreneur, 93, donates cherished island after protecting it from city sprawl
For most of his adult life, Thor Vikström watched the seasons change and the birds come and go from the small island he owned. At 93, he says he's at peace knowing the land nestled between Montreal and Laval will remain protected long after he's gone.
Nature Conservancy of Canada will protect Île Ronde habitat for birds and vulnerable turtle species
Jaela Bernstien · CBC News · Posted: Dec 14, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2021
Thor Vikström, 93, gazes out at Île Ronde from his dining room window in Laval, Que. He bought the island in the late 1960s and refused to sell it to the parade of developers who knocked at his door. (Jaela Bernstien/CBC)
For most of his adult life, Thor Vikström has watched the seasons change and the birds come and go from the small Quebec island he's owned that sits opposite his riverside home in Laval, Que.
B.C. couple gifts property with pristine grizzly habitat to conservation group
At 93, he says he's at peace knowing the land — nestled between Montreal and Laval — will remain protected long after he's gone now that he's donated it to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Called Île Ronde, the seven-acre island is a nearly untouched habitat in the middle of an urban centre. It sits in the middle of Rivière-des-prairies, near Lake of Two Mountains, where the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers meet.
Wedged between two major cities, it's easy to miss. But its forest and marshland are teeming with biodiversity.
As urban development in the area progressed over the years, many of the surrounding shores were built up — but the island has remained in its natural state.
Île Ronde, the small island in the centre of this drone shot, remains virtually untouched with its natural shoreline intact. Many of the shores nearby are built up and lined with concrete walls, which make them inaccessible to turtles. (Claude Duchaîne/Nature Conservancy of Canada )
Vikström has owned and cared for the land since the late 1960s, when he built his family home in Laval and fell in love with his view of the island. He convinced its former owner to sell, so he could keep it untouched.
His recent donation ensures it will be protected for generations to come.
"I trust my children; I'm sure they'll protect the island. But what happens after my children [are] gone?" Vikström said in an interview with CBC News at his home in Laval, Que.
"It's just a good feeling in my heart. I know this will be there forever."
Dismissed all offers of 'stupid money'
Thor Vikström, shown here during his younger days, founded Scanada. A specialist in slipform technology, used to build highrises, towers and agricultural silos, he was consulted on the building of the CN Tower. (Scanada.com)
Vikström is the sort of person who knows what he wants and goes for it. He cracks a joke as he introduces himself.
"My name is Thor. And you know what that means? The Thunder God."
Vikström says he knew he was going to marry his late wife the moment he met her — and told her so.
The couple moved to Canada from Sweden with their first-born son in 1962 and built a life in Quebec, eventually founding Scanada, a successful family company.
As an entrepreneur in the hydraulics industry, Vikström was in the business of building up; he was even consulted on the construction of the CN Tower.
But he has refused to let city sprawl onto his treasured island. Though an incessant stream of developers knocked on his door over the years, asking him to sell, Vikström turned them all away.
"I bought the island because I couldn't see it destroyed," said Vikström.
"Nature was more important than some stupid money in my pocket," he added. "I said, 'This is something [that's] got to be preserved,' and I kept my word."
A family legacy
Thor Vikström smiles with his son, Hans. In the distance behind them, winter is setting in on Île Ronde. (Jaela Bernstien/CBC)
For the Vikström family, the island was a getaway over the years; they had a cable ferry built to access it, and often invited neighbours and friends to join them there.
Hans Vikström, Thor's son, says instead of a cottage up north, they had the island next door.
"We'd camp there. We kind of grew up on the island and it was our getaway place — a place to relax and enjoy as kids," he said.
Biodiversity loss and wildlife trade are making pandemics like COVID-19 more likely, experts say
"We'd go over there with our friends and we'd make a little fire. And [my dad would] get mad at us because we left a Coke bottle on the island."
At one point, they kept sheep on the island for grazing. Thor Vikström said he had the idea that the animals would keep the bushes and weeds at bay, and remembers how he would hear them calling in the distance.
Nowadays, Île Ronde has mostly been left to its natural state. Strolling in his backyard and gazing out at the island, Thor Vikström points out the small cabin and birdhouses that he built.
Good news for vulnerable turtle
The northern map turtle, pictured here, is named for the patterns on its shell which resemble a map. It's listed as a species of special concern at the federal level and in Quebec, it's considered vulnerable. (Ryan Bolton/Nature Conservancy of Canada)
As Canada works toward its goal of protecting 30 per cent of land and water by 2030, Vikström said he is glad to have played a part.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is also helping, through gifts of land, like this one, and purchases. The private, not-for-profit organization recently acquired a large parcel of grassland in southern Saskatchewan and more than 18,000 acres of Ontario's Manitoulin Island.
The conservancy called the Île Ronde donation terrific news, saying that it sends a message of hope.
The island is home to the northern map turtle, a species that is federally designated as being of special concern and as vulnerable in Quebec.
Canada committed to protecting 30% of our territory by 2030. Which 30% should it be?
Biologist Sébastien Rouleau researches map turtles and has visited Île Ronde in the past. He co-ordinates research and conservation at the Zoo Ecomuseum in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que.
He said the donation of Île Ronde, with its natural shoreline, is particularly great news for the turtles, which are sensitive to human activity.
"Turtles don't climb concrete walls really well, so having access to the natural shoreline will give them natural nesting sites, as well as basking opportunities, which is essential for their living," Rouleau said.
The island, seen here from an aerial view captured by a drone, is mostly forested, with a small marsh in the middle. (Claude Duchaîne/Nature Conservancy of Canada)
The island is also home to a unique tree species, called the shagbark hickory, as well as a variety of waterbirds, including wood ducks, American wigeon, and gadwall.
While the island's financial value is relatively low today because it's located in a flood risk zone, the Nature Conservancy says what counts is its value for flora and fauna.
"I think we can pack a lot of biodiversity in a single hand — and imagine an island of that size," said Joël Bonin, associate vice-president of development and communications for the Nature Conservancy of Canada's Quebec chapter.
Though winter has now set in on the island, Vikström said he is already looking forward to watching the migratory birds return in the spring — as he has for more than 50 years.
WATCH | A Quebec entrepreneur's lifelong quest to protect an uninhabited island from urban sprawl:
A Quebec man's lifelong quest to protect an uninhabited island
A virtually untouched island between Montreal and Laval, Que., Île Ronde will remain free from urban development because of the dedication, love of nature and stubbornness of Thor Vikström. 3:58
With files from Alice Hopton
18,000 acres on Manitoulin Island are now protected


Havana, SANA – Head of the Cuban state news agency Prensa Latina, Luis Enrique Gonzalez, stressed the importance of enhancing cooperation with the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), and intensifying efforts to face the hostile media campaign launched against Syria.
Gonzalez made his remarks during a meeting with Syria's Ambassador to Cuba, Idris Mayya, with stress laid on the need to support Syria in its war against terrorism.
For his part, Mayya hailed the role of Prensa Latina agency in conveying the reality of events in Syria to the public opinion in Cuna, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Incepted in 1959, Prensa Latina agency has today offices in 35 countries worldwide.


Home What's on TEATRO VERDE.
Until 8 March 2012. La Bella Addormentata (Sleeping Beauty) for kids aged three to ten.
9-13 Mar. Cenerentola (Cinderella and the Glass Slipper) for children aged four to ten. This is a story of dreams, magic and courage for kids, adults and anyone, who wants to be enchanted by a timeless story made of humorous actors, puppets, music and songs.
18-24 Mar. Il Paese dei Colori (The Country of Colours) for kids aged four to ten. It tells the story of five different countries, each one ruled by a king and by a colour. In the white kingdom everything is always in order, in the red kingdom the inhabitants are always in high spirits, the black one is ruled by fear, the blue by prudence and the yellow by something unknown. These five countries are separated by high walls which stop people from seeing what happens in the other realms.
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If you set out to make a list of one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the current generation and list it based on humble background, struggle, hard work and ultimate growth, then your list will have Jack Ma's name on the top.
The epitome of the entrepreneurship spirit, Jack Ma has truly lived an inspiring life. What makes him different from the others is the fact that his background doesn't boast of exceptional achievement in his young years. He did not get into Harvard, in fact he did not even get a job in KFC.
A simple man that common people like us could connect with scaled the heights of the business world and has reached the echelons that millions of people can only dream of. A life that has been focused on growing, he has persevered. What makes Jack Ma even more special is his advice that he keeps giving out. These gems of knowledge that comes from an experienced soul. You will want to pay attention to this one.
In an Interview Jack Ma was asked a question. How should a 25 year old live his life to achieve success? He went on a monologue and our post is dedicated to that talk.
Jack meant that, when you are young you should aim to make as many mistakes as possible because all this is part of your learning bank. The more mistakes you make, the more you know what not to do and what to avoid. A life that is lived without making mistakes is not a life where a person has learnt.
Jack says before you are 30 years old you should work for a smaller company where you can follow a founder and learn from them. He says in a bigger company you understand processes, but in a smaller company you learn passion and the power of dreams. This experience will teach you how to be as a founder and handle different aspects of business.
After having gained all experiences, this is when you decide whether you want to become an entrepreneur or not. If you are ready then you put in all your learning's to grow.
In this decade it's too late to be discovering yourself and you should focus on what you are good at and this way you can help the world with your knowledge.
We'll cover the rest of the article with Jack Ma's thoughts on business and life.
Don't make people follow you, make them follow a common goal.
Jack said the best way to get people to get together is to get them to believe in a common goal. People might not trust you or follow you, but if they see the benefits of the goal, then they will follow that.
According to Jack, an employee is the one with the skillsets. They are great programmers or designers and they need to better than the leader. But, the leader is the captain of the ship who know where the ship is headed and takes all the tough decisions. A leader can accept pressure on behalf of his team and let's them work in peace.
Jack said we are here to enjoy life and live a fulfilling life. If the only thing you are doing is working, then you are not living life. Maximize your life by enriching it with multiple experiences.


JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) or JPG is the most common image extensions that are used in the digital world. As compared to the other photo extensions pictures with jpg image formats are mostly transferred over the internet. Today we are going to show you step by step guide how to reduce jpeg file size online that too without losing the quality.
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Images are a combination of pixels also called dots and each pixel use some color so a high-quality image has millions of pixels and storing the same on computer or uploading on the server can take millions of bytes. Even uploading or downloading of high-quality images can eat a lot of your internet data hence it's mandatory to reduce the size of your image before uploading.
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Your blog loads faster if you use compressed images on WordPress.
Images load faster on a computer or smartphone that are older.
Open your image in paint and decrease the number of pixels but by this method, you will see a change in the quality of your image when comparing to your original image.
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Below are a number of scholarships/sources of funding ORS Scholars have received in the past. We highly encourage you to apply for any of the below you are qualified for and reach out to us to help you with your application and to assist you in anyway. We at ORS have helped many students apply and get selected for these and other opportunities in the past and are a great resource for our Scholars that no one else has access to!
Let us know of any other opportunities you are applying for or are aware of that we can add here.
Salary Awards offer a $1,500 stipend to undergraduate students who are conducting research with a Georgia Tech faculty member or Georgia Tech Research Institute scientist. Both faculty members and students can initiate research projects, but the award proposal must be written by the student, and the student must apply by the established deadline for the semester in which the funds are requested.
CREU is an undergraduate research program that provides research stipends to teams of students working on research projects under the guidance of a mentor at their home institutions. Students are strongly encouraged to present their CREU research at national or regional conferences. The program provides travel funds to support such participation and past CREU participants have found such activities to be extremely valuable.
Women are still very much under-represented in STEM fields both in higher education and in industry. Our goal is to help equip one female student overcome this gender gap by offering $1,000 toward her studies in science, technology, engineering, or math.
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March 30th, 2018 Open Now The 2018 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant recipients will receive funding up to 25,000 USD for academic year 2018–19 to help them complete research as part of their doctoral thesis work.
Microsoft will arrange and pay for travel and accommodations to grant recipients to attend a two-day Microsoft Research workshop in Redmond, Washington, in the autumn of 2018.
The workshop will provide grant recipients an opportunity to present their research, meet individually with Microsoft researchers in their research area and receive career coaching from Microsoft researchers.


* An Education, the Nick Hornby-penned coming-of-age tale makes a real star out of Carey Mulligan. One of my favorite movies of the season.
* Fantastic Mr. Fox, the awesome realization of Wes Anderson's childhood.
* The Men Who Stare at Goats has a great cast--George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey--but doesn't have a complete script to match.
* Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, a melodrama that gets by on the strength of its acting, but the script's contrivances aren't quite up to the hype. I actually really liked Alison Hallett's review at the Mercury. You should read it.
* The Road, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy.
* The Barbara Stanwyck Show, vol. 1, an unearthed television show starring the great actress. A little disappointing, but worth a look.
* The Dead, John Huston's final film finally comes to DVD, so why did Lionsgate screw it up so bad? Ten minutes missing? Did you leave it in your horse and buggy? Thankfully, I got an e-mail from Lionsgate and they are issuing replacements. I've added info to my review in case anyone needs to do a trade-in. Very good news!
* Funny People, the Judd Apatow drama was lost this summer, but proves an excellent DVD.
* Gilda Live!, Gilda Radner's live show from 1980.
* Johnny Mercer "The Dream's On Me", a documentary celebrating the 100th anniversary of the famous songwriter's birth.
* Lemon Tree, an effective Israeli drama about one woman's fight to protect her heritage.
* The Limits of Control, Jim Jarmusch's latest, a challenging and misunderstood journey through the artistic process.
* Toi & Moi, a romantic comedy starring Marion Cotillard that fails to generate any heat.


During the time when he held a teaching post at the University of Pisa, Galileo wrote a series of essays on motion, De Motu, which advanced an idea that is obvious to us today but that was very innovative at that time: one can test scientific theories by conducting experiments. De Motu describes the important idea that theories about falling bodies could be tested using an inclined plane to slow down the rate of descent. This enabled Galileo to deduce that acceleration is the same for all bodies subject to gravity, so that heavy and light objects should fall at the same speed. And it was this hypothesis that was confirmed by the experiment on the Moon in 1971. Of course, on Earth, air resistance complicates matters, but there is no atmospheric drag on the Moon.
As a result of his observations, Galileo became convinced that the Sun was at the centre of our planetary system, in accordance with the ideas of Copernicus but in conflict with orthodox interpretations of Holy Scripture. Galileo wrote a book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican" comparing the old and new world models. It was published in 1632 but, although he dedicated this work to Pope Urban VIII, Galileo's ideas were deemed to be heretical and he was sentenced to house arrest, which endured until his death ten years later.
Galileo made dramatic discoveries in mechanics, studying inertia, velocity, the effects of gravity, the principle of relativity and the motion of projectiles. He also worked in practical applications of science, describing the properties of pendulums and hydrostatic balances and inventing the thermometer. His student Evangelista Torricelli is credited with the invention of the barometer, triggering major developments in the physics of the atmosphere. Galileo's work had an enormous significance for Newton and he is undoubtedly one of the "giants" upon whose shoulders Newton stood.


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Hello everyone and WELCOME to your 34th edition of The Shoot. No Quick Shots this week as I do like to round out the lengths of my columns, but this is the big one. The final moment you?ve all been waiting for has arrived. This week, we find out who the 2009 King of the Ring is! In addition to that, I also have the WWE Hell in a Cell predictions in the One Extra Round segment. So short on segments this week, but rich in content! Let's dive in!
Well? this is it! About five weeks ago, I wrote a column about the importance of tournaments in pro-wrestling. In there, I mentioned the King of the Ring tournament and it sparked an idea in my head to hold my own King of the Ring tournament using today's WWE Superstars and have you, the readers, pick the winner. After five weeks of voting by readers and Wrestleview staff? we have finally picked a winner of the 2009 King of the Ring Tournament. Without further hesitation, ladies and gentlemen? here is your winner!
Readers: Luke Bartlett, Brandon, Rocky Jr.
Brandon writes: At first I was thinking, (Gonna need your help here) didn't this match take place before for the ECW Title. I could be wrong though. Either way, I don't see Mark Henry losing here. I see Christian trying to hit the Killswitch only to get pushes into the turnbuckle & fall victim to an inverted Worlds Strongest Slam & then another one for good measure. Mark Henry puts on a dominant performance here isolating Christians mid-section throughout the match via splashes, bear hugs, body slams, power slams, etc. Christian mounts a good offense, but there's too much brute strength here.
EDIT: To Brandon, 5/5/2009 Henry and Christian wrestled to a no contest, with Christian as ECW Champion, when Jack Swagger interfered and it became a tag match. They wrestled again on 5/14/2009 on WWE Superstars. Christian beat Henry there.
Rocky Jr writes: I'm kind of surprised that the people put Henry in the finals, OK he's over now and a good guy monster but the finals ? So, it's an easy pick for me here, like I wanted Christian vs. Swagger with Swagger as the winner, I'll pick CHRISTIAN for KOTR 2009 Crown. He deserves it more than Henry.
Thank you to everyone who has participated over the past five weeks for your contributions to help make this a success. The odd thing here is last week, I booked my entire tournament and fantasy booked the winner. My winner turned out to be Christian as well, but he was kind of cast aside in favor for a story I developed during the tournament involving Ted Dibiase Jr. This week, I am going to fantasy book Christian as the winner of the tournament as promised? so here we go!
For this we will use the same time setting as my previous booking where the tournament ended two weeks into December, giving me two weeks to do something with Christian before WWE Armageddon.
Week 3 December: ECW: Christian as the ECW Champion walks out to the ring and delivers a promo stating that he is the new 2009 King of the Ring, and as a reward, he is the top contender to any championship in the company. Christian says while that is tempting, he is already on top of the WWE by being the ECW Champion. As Christian says this, William Regal's music hits and he walks out stating that he may have fought hard in the tournament, but he deserved to win more than anyone. He said if he did win, he would get the rematch he had been looking for against Christian and he would do it under his terms. Christian says that despite not winning the King of the Ring and thinking he has no chance in hell against him, Christian is a fighting champion and agrees to put the title on the line any time any place under any circumstances. Regal then states that next week on ECW, he wants the shot in an Extreme Rules match. Christian agrees.
Week 4 December: ECW: Christian vs William Regal takes place. Christian looks to have the upper hand during the match when Regal pulls out the brass knucks, however, Christian realizes what is about to happen and ducks the punch. Christian low blows Regal and takes the knucks from him. The crowd cheers for Christian to give Regal a dose of his own medicine when Jackson and Kozlov hit the ring and take down Christian, by each hitting their finishers on him. Regal smiles and covers Christian for the three to become your new ECW Champion.
WWE Armageddon: CM Punk is defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Matt Hardy to close out their own personal endeavors with each other. CM Punk ends up finishing Matt Hardy with the Anaconda vice and is celebrating in the ring. All of a sudden a man in a mask shows up and nails CM Punk from behind. The crowd cheers at the masked vigilante. People wonder who is behind the mask until he pulls Punk up and hits the Killswitch. He pulls the mask off and, indeed, it's Christian. Christian grabs the microphone and says ?losing the ECW Championship may have been a blessing because now I am choosing which champion to face as your 2009 King of the Ring. Let's just say?my peeps on Smackdown will be happy? Christian's music hits and he leaves.
Week 1 January: Smackdown: CM Punk opens the show by walking out, obviously angered by what just happened. He states that using sneak attacks shows that Christian is nothing but a coward? someone who has to live with personal demons because he can?t muster any courage to look at someone face to face like a man. This prompts Christian to come out and come out and state that he isn?t a coward? all he did was send a message and it looks like Punk got the message loud and clear. Christian says I?m not behind your back now? he's here and he's in front of him. If he?d like, he can come down there and attack him again face to face. CM Punk says that isn?t necessary? he doesn?t believe in getting in skirmishes with cowards. He should have stayed on ECW where people hardly tuned in to watch him in the first place. This prompts Christian to head down toward the ring, but Teddy Long interjects. Long makes the match official for tonight, but it will be non-title.
Later that night, CM Punk and Christian wrestle. During the match, CM Punk pulls out a mask from under the ring and places it on Christian's head. Blinded, Punk hoists Christian up onto his shoulders and hits Go 2 Sleep for the win. After the match, Punk takes the microphone and simply says ?An eye for an eye.?
Week 2 January: Smackdown: Christian comes out and admits that Punk did give him a dose of his own medicine. He said he tried to do the same to William Regal and that's how he lost the ECW Championship. CM Punk reversed the tables on me and he still lost the match. He said that he recognizes CM Punk is craftier than William Regal, but he has something in mind that might make Punk see things a little differently. Christian says that despite what happened last week, he is still owed a title match for winning the King of the Ring tournament so while CM Punk thinks that this ended last week, he's dead wrong. This is only the beginning of Christian being a thorn in CM Punk's side and he won?t rest until he becomes the World Heavyweight Champion. Teddy Long comes out and says that Christian is right? he is owed a World Title shot, but he is the GM and he will decide when and where that title shot will be. He said until he thinks it over, he's got a match for him tonight as per request by CM Punk. He wants to know if you can handle yourself in the ring well enough to be a legitimate contender to his title. Your match? starts now.
Jericho and Big Show come out from the back. It's a 2 on 1 handicap match against the Unified Tag Team Champions. Christian doesn?t look happy about this, but the match begins anyway. Jericho and Christian start off the match and Christian is able to hold his own as it's back and forth. Christian begins to get the upper hand, but Jericho finds a way to escape and tags in the largest athlete in the world. Show comes in and simply just manhandles Christian as Jericho smiles. During the beat down, CM Punk makes his way down from the back and just stands at ringside to enjoy the carnage. During the beat down, Christian sees Punk grinning and gets fired up. He tries to mount a comeback, but Jericho joins in and double teams Christian. The referee loses control of the match quickly, but Jericho ends up hitting a Code B reaker on a weary Christian. Show picks Christian up and Choke Slams him. Punk says it's enough and enters the ring. Punk just stands over Christian smiling and holding the world heavyweight championship high in the air as if he did all of the work. The match ends via No Contest.
Week 3 January: Christian bursts into Teddy Long's office and says that he sees that CM Punk has you in his pocket and that it's clear that he wouldn?t be getting the title match he earned. Teddy Long says that's not the case? it's just that it is in his best interest to protect CM Punk since he is Smackdown's world champion. He has a show to run and protecting your champion should be the number one priority. Christian then asked who would protect Teddy Long if he didn?t give him his title shot? Christian said that he saw what the Undertaker did to him and knows that he can protect CM Punk all he wants, but there is nothing anyone can do to protect him. Teddy Long cringes at the memories of being abducted by The Undertaker and says ?Fine? you can have your title match.? Christian smiles, but Teddy continues. ??. If you can win the Royal Rumble? Christian looks confused. Teddy says 'since you won King of the Ring, you should be accustomed to beating wrestlers from the entire WWE Universe so I figured this wouldn?t be a problem for you. If you can do it again, I?ll grant you your title shot at CM Punk? at Wrestlemania? Christian protests as he feels he is being screwed over by Teddy Long. ?This is your only chance, playa. Take it or leave it.? Christian says he?ll take it.
Week 4 January: Vince McMahon himself shows up on Smackdown with a major announcement concerning the Royal Rumble. He has reviewed the situation with Christian and believe that is unfair for Christian to compete in the Royal Rumble when he already earned a title shot, but Vince also respects the decisions made by his general managers. This prompts Christian to come out from the back. He steps into the ring to have a discussion with Vince McMahon. Vince tells Christian that he felt that he would come out when he heard that so he offered Christian a compromise. He said that in the interest of fairness he would allow Christian to cash in his King of the Ring win for the number 30 slot in the Royal Rumble. Christian smiles and agrees to do so. Christian is now locked in as the #30 entrant into the Royal Rumble.
WWE Royal Rumble: The Rumble Match takes place and it comes down to four men: Christian, Big Show, Chris Jericho, and John Morrison. Jericho and Big Show look toward Christian to have some fun, but while distracted, John Morrison ends up eliminating Chris Jericho. This infuriates Big Show and he goes after Morrison. Morrison lures Show around, but Show eventually catches up to him and beats down the Intercontinental Champion. Show picks up Morrison in a military press, but Christian chop blocks Show from behind. Morrison falls over the top rope, but lands on the ring apron and grabs Show by the head as he attempts to pull him over. Christian scoops up Show's legs and the two of them heave Show over the top rope, but the size of Show causes Morrison to lose his balance? the two of them are eliminated and Christian wins the 2010 Royal Rumble! Christian will now go on to Wrestlemania to face CM Punk for the World Championship.
Week 1 February: Christian opens the show up and talks about not only winning King of the Ring, but winning the Royal Rumble. He said there isn?t anything else he has to prove. He said at Wrestlemania, he has CM Punk one on one and he will finally get what is rightfully his.. the world title. ?Welllll.. it's the Big Show? hits the speakers and out comes Big Show and Chris Jericho. Jericho says that what was done at the Royal Rumble on Sunday was an injustice. Jericho said that he demands that retribution be paid and tonight he wants Christian and John Morrison in a tag team match. Christian says if Morrison agrees, then he agrees. The match will end up taking place.
Later on in the night it is shown that CM Punk has attacked John Morrison in the back, eliminating him from this match, making it, once again, a 2 on 1 handicap match. Christian comes out first, then CM Punk. Punk makes his way around ringside and sits down at the commentary booth. He says that he wants to enjoy seeing Christian get destroyed, yet, again because he knows that Christian is no match for him. His Royal Rumble win was a fluke and he still hadn?t proved to him why he is deserving of a world title shot. Jericho and Show make their way out. The two of them enter the ring and corner Christian. The match is about to start when? ?You Think You Know Me? hits the speakers and the people erupt! Edge has returned to Smackdown!
Edge barrels toward the ring as Jericho and Show look shocked. Edge hits the ring and delivers a massive spear to Jericho! Show goes to attack Edge, but Christian hits a Chop Block from behind to bring Show to a knee. Edge then knees Show in the face and nails an Edgecution DDT. CM Punk is infuriated and stands up from the announce position. Edge and Christian embrace in the middle of the ring as the tag team is officially re-united! Edge grabs the mic and states that after everything they went through to win the Unified Tag Team Titles, he couldn?t believe that he was expendable. He said that Jericho choosing a new partner was a sign of betrayal to him. He said that he only had one partner that he could trust in his career here in the WWE and at No Way Out, he aims to take back what is rightfully his.. the tag team titles with Christian as his partner?. CM Punk looks confused? perhaps this is something he could use to his advantage.
Week 2 February: CM Punk comes out and states that he just spoke with Teddy Long in the back and they agreed that Christian chasing two championships is unfair to the other people on Smackdown who have worked hard and deserved their shots. He said tonight, Christian would have to make a choice? either he goes have the Unified Tag Team Titles at No Way Out, or the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania? he cannot have both. He said that greed was one of the seven deadly sins, but being straight edge, he doesn?t have to worry about his mind being corrupted. He is going to enjoy watching Christian writhe in agony as he is forced to choose between his partner, who returned just for him, or his own self-glory, which is the reason Jericho ditched Edge in the first place.
Week 3 February: Christian is pacing back and forth in his locker room when Edge comes in. Christian says that he doesn?t know what to do. He wants to do both. He wants to become Tag Team Champions with Edge once again, but he also wants to be the world champion. They both mean a lot to him and he is unsure of what he wants. Edge says he understands and thinks he there actually is a way out at No Way Out. Edge smiles and leaves the room.
Week 4 February: Teddy Long makes his way out to the ring and says that time for Christian to make his choice has come. Edge's music hits and he comes out. Teddy Long says that this doesn?t concern Edge, but Edge says otherwise. He says that tonight was about Christian making a choice, but it is also about Teddy Long making a choice. He says that if he remembers correctly, the last time CM Punk defended the World Heavyweight Championship was at Armageddon? which means that CM Punk has not defended his title within the required 30 days. Either CM Punk defends his title at No Way Out, or Teddy Long needs to strip CM Punk of the World Title. CM Punk's music hits and Punk rushes to the ring to beg and plead with Teddy Long. Long says that, regretfully, Edge is correct so therefore? but before Long can finish, Edge interrupts and states that he is willing to make a deal. If he allows Christian to compete in both the Tag Title match at No Way Out AND the World Title Match at Wrestlemania, he won?t go running to Vince McMahon to have CM Punk stripped of the title. Teddy Long says that's Black Mail! Punk gets on the mic and says ?fine? and then leaves the ring, holding the world title close to his body as Edge smiles and Long looks pissed.
WWE No Way Out: Edge and Christian vs Jerishow for the Unified Tag Titles take place. CM Punk interferes in the match while the referee had his back turned and smacks Edge in the back of the head with the world title as Edge was getting ready to deliver a spear on Jericho. Jericho then locks in a half boston crab on Edge's leg that he had his surgery on and forces him to tap quickly.
Week 1 March: Edge comes out from the back and demands that CM Punk face him one on one tonight for costing him the Tag Team Titles. Christian shows up and says that those titles were robbed from him, too. He said that we should turn the tables and make this a 2 on 1 handicap match. Edge and Christian against CM Punk. The audience loves the idea, but Teddy Long comes out and agrees? that this should be a handicap match.. and it will be? it?ll be Edge and Chrsitian? against CM Punk?. And after a brief pause? Chris Jericho and The Big Show.
As the match starts, John Morrison makes his way out from the back stating that he was gone due to a concussion he suffered at the hands of CM Punk. He said tonight, he evens the sides and makes this a six man tag! The match is pretty straight forward 6 man tag with heel and face tactics. The hot tag is made to Christian and he cleans out Punk and Jericho, but has trouble with Show. Morrison and Edge enter and triple team Show out of the ring. After a Moonlight Drive to Jericho, Edge nails a spear on CM Punk. Christian picks Punk up and hits the Killswitch to get the pinfall over the world champion.
Week 2 March: CM Punk comes out and says that John Morrison wasn?t supposed to be there. It was supposed to be a 3 on 2 handicap match. Morrison comes out and says that the two of them have something in common. Due to his injury and due to him being a coward, neither of them have defended their championships. He said let's recreate a Wrestlemania 6 moment and have a title versus title match here tonight. CM Punk says that's cute, but he has championship defense protection until Wrestlemania. Punk says there is no way he will fight him with any titles on the line. Morrison then says fine.. he?ll just beat him down one on one in a non-title match tonight. Teddy Long comes out and says that this match will happen, but it will be for the title? the Intercontinental Title.
Morrison vs Punk goes down and like his match against Rey Misterio, Morrison absorbs a ton of punishment from CM Punk and will not stay down. Morrison is about to mount a comeback when Punk delivers a low blow signaling for a DQ. Punk then rolls out of the ring and grabs a steel chair, aiming to finish off Morrison once and for all. Christian runs down to make the save and CM Punk high tails it out of the ring and to the back.
Week 3 March: Morrison thanks Christian for coming out and saving him another concussion. They agree to watch each other's back. CM Punk on the other hand is complaining to Teddy Long that Edge, Christian, and Morrison are all thorns in his side. He says that the road to Wrestlemania is challenging to him and it shouldn?t be that way when you?re the champion. Punk says until Wrestlemania, he demands that Edge, Christian, and Morrison have to stay at least 30 feet away from him at all times. Teddy Long agrees and places the restraining order into effect.
Week 4 March: CM Punk comes out to gloat that Wrestlemania is one week away and he cannot be touched. Christian's music hits and he comes out. Punk flips out and says that he cannot come near him. Christian said that this is true.. he cannot come near him, but he found an old friend of his that can? and he has him in a match?. Right now. The lights grow dark and the gong sounds.. the place goes nuts. When the lights come back on, The Undertaker is in the ring with CM Punk. The bell rings? Chokeslam? it's over. Christian smiles and heads to the back.
WWE Wrestlemania: Having getting a one up on CM Punk, Punk went to Teddy Long and stated that if anyone besides Christian came near the ring, Christian would not only forfeit the match, but would lose any chance of having any world title shot ever again as long as he was on the Smackdown brand. Long agrees and the stipulation is placed on the match. The match takes place? Punk and Christian put on a thirty minute classic? in the end, Christian outlasts Punk and becomes the NEW World Heavyweight Champion.
Yeah…. I?m a sucker for happy endings. This one was quite the challenge as Christian wasn?t as ?personally demonized? like a Jeff Hardy? so I had CM Punk play the puppeteer type heel? pulling the strings behind the scenes. I was able to work in an Edge and Christian reunion and some plot twists. I think Punk in this kind of a manipulative villain role suited the story perfectly and it enabled for a lot of twists and turns.
That wraps up the King of the Ring fantasy booking. I hope you all had fun and enjoyed it! Next week we will return you to your regularly scheduled rambling! But don?t go anywhere just yet.. it's time to see how I fared in the WWE Hell in a Cell predictions!
Thoughts: This was just payback for letting Priceless pin defeat them last month and nothing more.
Thoughts: This was kind of a throw away match that I didn?t really pay attention to or cared too much about. I simply threw a dart at this one and it landed on R-Truth. Oh well? match wasn?t that great anyway.
Thoughts: Wow? the match was horrid, but how sick was that DDT on Fox!? I could have sworn she had a broken neck after that.
Thoughts: This was a decent tag match, but as soon as it came down to Show and Mysterio, I knew that it would only be a matter of time before Show clobbered him? and he did in mid air with a sick punch.
Thoughts: This was the classic ?egos implode? style match where they worked together, broke down, and Kofi picked up the pieces. Fun little match for filler.
Thoughts: Poor Mr. Ziggles.. won?t catch a break, but John Morrison has been on a roll as IC Champion and to take the title off of him at this point would have been a bad decision?. But speaking of bad decisions??
Thoughts: So not only does this match kick off the PPV, but it also takes the title off of one of the hottest heels to ever come down the WWE pike and puts the belt around the waist of an injury prone wrestler who has taken more time off in the past five years than the rest of the roster combined. I know The Undertaker is a legend and whatnot, but was that move really the right move business-wise!? It seems each time Punk gets a head of steam, the WWE de-rails him.
Thougths: While I love Orton as champion and was happy to see him get the title back, I would have thought that the WWE would have drawn this out just a little bit longer, but I guess I was mistaken in thinking that!


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