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WWE superstar and current heavyweight champion Seth Rollins recently joined Submission Radio for an in-depth conversation about the build-up to WrestleMania 40, which includes The Visionary’s thoughts on The Rock and his decision to turn heel. Highlights from the interview can be found below.

 

How the Rock has been using the same insults for 20 years:

Yeah, I mean, look, he’s rattled, man. He’s rattled. He’s shook. He came in here thinking he’s going to do whatever he wanted to do. so now he’s trying to throw his weight around and he’s got all the same insults that he’s had for the last 20 years. It’s kind of sad in some ways. But he wants to run his mouth, dude. He’s going to get whooped. I mean, he’s a specimen, but the dude’s out of practice. He hasn’t wrestled in 10 years. I mean, I’m the World Heavyweight Champion for a reason. He couldn’t lace my boots in his best days, let alone now. So he can run his mouth all he wants when he wants to show up. I dare him to put hands on me, because he slapped me the way he slapped Cody. If nobody was there to hold me back, oh, baby. I’d be clawing his eyes out of his head. Rey Mysterio, poof, eat your heart out, you know what I mean?

Says WWE is on an all-time run as a company and he’s thrilled he gets to be at the top of the card:

It’s a great time. Business is good. We are here in Perth. It’s going to be a fantastic Elimination Chamber. I am excited to be right in the middle of all that. I’ve never taken a world title into WrestleMania, so I’m stoked to be not in the Chamber and just watching six guys tear each other apart to try to get a shot at my title and at me in a marquee match on the biggest show in the history of our industry. So, I mean, I love it. Then you got The Rock back here talking his smack. You got Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes. I mean, we’re in the middle of one of the greatest runs in the history of our industry, and I am psyched to be dead smack in the middle of it.

Check out the full Rollins interview below.

(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)

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Steve Jain’s Fidelity Imports held fort in six rooms at FLAX, crisscrossing lines that included Perlisten, Primare, Michell, Unison Research, Diptyque, Opera, Soulnote, Gold Note, Q Acoustics, and more. Room 1016 was co-hosted by Chestertown, Maryland, dealership The Listening Room.

The fine sounds that emanated from this room originated with an Innuous Statement Server-Streamer ($25,000), which sent its data by USB to an Audia Flight FLS1 Preamplifier equipped with the optional DAC board ($7499). Amplification was courtesy of a FLS4 Stereo Amplifier ($9999), and transducing duties went to a pair of Perlisten S7t Limited Edition Speakers ($29,990/pair). All of this (except the speakers) sat on a NEO Rack and was hooked up with QED cables. Titan power cords provided fuel.

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CALIFORNIA — From dinner bills to concert tickets and dinner deliveries, hidden fees have increasingly drawn the ire of consumers frustrated that the price they see is very often not the price they pay. But later this year, California is doing something about it when a law banning “junk fees” goes into effect.

Signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October, SB 478 will prohibit hidden fees, defined by state officials as fees in which a seller uses an artificially low advertised price to attract a customer, disclosing additional required fees in fine print or tacking on unavoidable charges later in the buying process.

It’s a familiar practice to anyone who’s ever ordered from Uber Eats or DoorDash, bought concert tickets online, or paid the dinner bill only to find a hefty “service fee” tacked on at the end. The mandatory fees often inflate the price of being able to attend an event and restaurant service charges of up to 20 percent mean a dish is much more expensive than the menu price suggests.

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Beginning July 1, when the law goes into effect, “the price Californians see will be the price they pay,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement at the time of the law’s passage.

But it remains to be seen how exactly the law will be enforced.

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Bonta’s office initially said the law “will not bar restaurants from charging service fees” if they are disclosed and not hidden from advertised prices, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

More recently, the AG’s office said restaurants will still be able to include surcharges and other fees on the menu, but they must be included in menu prices from the outset, the Los Angeles Times reported.

That could mean your $45 steak will soon cost $52 if restaurants shift the hidden fee to the menu price. That’s if customers will go for it. Some industry groups worry the new law will make it hard for struggling restaurants to stay in business.

Bonta’s office is expected to issue guidelines clarifying what exactly the law prohibits in the coming months. But for now, the restaurant industry is preparing for a world without fees.

In recent years it’s become popular for restaurants and bars to tack on additional surcharges when a bill is calculated. So when a dish is listed on the menu as $20, a diner needs to consider that the real price actually includes an additional fee, often noted in small print at the bottom of the menu. Some of the fees, which restaurant owners say help cover healthcare costs and wages, may be optional. In such cases, a diner can request that the fee be taken off the bill.

Last year, a group of former servers at the popular Los Angeles restaurant Jon & Vinny’s filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company denied them tips due to diners’ confusion over an 18 percent service fee. The restaurant went on to change the language at the bottom of bills stipulating that the fee was not a tip.

Those types of fees often draw the ire of customers, including at Jon & Vinny’s, which drew spirited discussion on social media.

“It doesn’t seem fair to the diners,” one Reddit comment about the case reads. “So they pay 18% service fee and then the servers are asking for an additional 18 or 20 (or whatever) on top of that? That’s really expensive. If you raise prices to what it honestly costs to produce food and pay workers and pay the overhead, then restaurant dining will admittedly be really expensive. And maybe only a select few will be able to dine out, but maybe that’s the way it has to be.”

Indeed, restaurateur Caroline Styne told the LA Times that her Lucques Group of restaurants expects to raise prices as a result of the new state law. For example, a roast chicken dish at LA’s AOC, currently priced at $39, will likely rise to $49 when the new law kicks in.

Still, confusion remains.

San Francisco’s Golden Gate Restaurant Association has been on the forefront of lobbying state government to clarify how the law will impact restaurants given the little information provided by the state on how restaurants should proceed.

“A lot of people are reaching out for clarity,” Laurie Thomas, executive director of the association told the LA Times. “There’s a lot of frustration. It’s not going to drop the price of dining out. What it might do is close more restaurants. But maybe people don’t care about that anymore.”

At hotels, resort fees are among the required fees tacked on the advertised nightly price of a room. While SB 478 covers all industries, another companion bill, AB 537, is focused specifically on lodging.

“The two of them combined say that any mandatory fee has to be displayed at the time of reservation,” Pete Hillan, a spokesman for the California Hotel and Lodging Association, told Nerd Wallet. “Consumers are going to have full transparency on all mandatory fees.”

The law will affect food delivery as well.

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Apps such as Uber Eats and DoorDash will have to list the price for delivery costs upfront. That will mean no more advertising delivery for $1.49 with a $10 service fee on the backend. They won’t be able to add the cost to the menu item either. Participating restaurants will set their menu prices, and the app industry will be required to bake their costs and profits into the advertised delivery fee.

On the national level, the Biden administration and the Federal Trade Commission last year announced new proposed regulations that would prohibit “omitting” and “misrepresenting” fees from the total cost of goods. The agency recently stopped collecting public comment on the proposal and has yet to make a formal decision on the regulations.

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Il n’y a pas que l’air et les océans qui se réchauffent. Les lacs aussi souffrent du réchauffement climatique et le Léman n’échappe pas à la règle. La première réserve d’eau douce d’Europe occidentale se réchauffe quatre à cinq fois plus vite que les océans, alerte la Commission internationale pour la protection des eaux du Léman (Cipel) dans son dernier rapport publié le 12 février dernier.

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What does “The Man” think of the heinous allegations made against Vince McMahon?

 

Let’s find out.

Becky Lynch finally gave her thoughts on the topic during a recent interview with Alex McCarthy of Inside The Ropes.

“I’ve been fortunate in my career that I’ve always felt supported by the company,” Lynch said. “These allegations are horrible. It’s hard to reconcile, as a talent and as a woman, but my experience in WWE has only ever been amazing.”

Lynch continued, “Yes, in the beginning, there were some restrictions put on things. We couldn’t punch, we had to hair pull, there were weird things there. Being able to push us forward, push women forward, I’m very grateful for that and the opportunity to even have my family. This company…some of these things are hard to reconcile.”

Check out the complete interview via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.

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AEW taped matches for ROH TV on HonorClub during their live shoot for AEW Collision on TNT.

On Saturday night, February 24, 2024, the following matches were taped prior to the start of the live AEW Collision on TNT broadcast from the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri for ROH TV on HonorClub.

ROH TV ON HONORCLUB SPOILERS (Taped On 2/24/2024)* Abadon def. Vert Vixen. Mercedes Martinez was scouting Abadon during the bout.
* Red Velvet def. Leyla Hirsch.
* Queen Aminata def. Taya Valkyrie.
* Komander def. Blake Christian.
* Taiji Ishimori def. Watts.
* Johnny TV def. Dalton Castle to gain possession of The Boys.
* Lee Johnson def. Mike Sydal.
* The Infrantry won a 4-Way Match def. the Workhorsemen, Gringo Loco and Jack Cartwheel and Angelico and Serpentico.

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When standalone digital/analog processors made an appearance a quarter-century ago, they were limited to the CD medium’s 16 bits of resolution—at best. These days, almost every DAC can process at least 24 bits, and many models offer between 20 and 21 bits of real-world resolution. Modern models from Benchmark, dCS, , Merging, Mola Mola, Okto, and Weiss illustrate not just the skill of the circuit designer but also that of the engineer who laid out the printed circuit board.

One of the first digital processors I encountered that offered 21 bits of resolution was the Weiss DAC202, which Erick Lichte reviewed in January 2012. Subsequent processors from this Swiss company have consistently performed well, not just on the test bench but also in the listening room.

This was particularly true of the Weiss DAC502 I reviewed in the August 2020 issue (footnote 1). I concluded that review by writing, “The Weiss DAC502 retrieves more information from the digits than any other DAC I have auditioned, with the possible exceptions of the Chord DAVE and dCS Vivaldi, both of which are long gone from my system and neither of which has either a headphone output or DSP functions.” Notably, that superb transparency to the recorded data was not accompanied by glare or exaggerated treble detail. “To resort to an audio reviewer cliché,” I wrote, “the DAC502 cleaned the window into the recorded soundstage to an impressive extent.”

The DAC502 is currently priced at $10,995. The latest Weiss DAC, the Helios, which Jason Victor Serinus reported on at the 2023 High-End Munich show, is considerably more expensive, at $21,995. Intrigued to find out what the additional dollars get the owner, I asked for a review sample.

The Helios

On the face of it, the Roon Ready Helios looks identical to the DAC502: a slim, anodized aluminum chassis, though now with a stainless steel internal frame. There is still a control knob at the far right of the front panel; a four-color touchscreen next to it; AES3, optical and coaxial S/PDIF, USB Types A and B, and Ethernet digital inputs; and balanced and single-ended analog outputs. But on closer inspection, the Helios lacks the earlier processor’s headphone jack. It can still be used with headphones, however: Using optional adapter cables ($495), the Helios can drive headphones from its balanced and unbalanced outputs. This is made possible by Weiss’s new, proprietary OP2-BP discrete operational amplifiers (below), used four per channel in the analog output stage. The output mode can be switched between Loudspeaker and Headphone, and the DSP options now include settings for use with headphones.

In addition to the new op-amps, the Helios offers an upgraded digital-to-analog stage. While it uses the same eight-channel, 32-bit ESS Sabre ES9038PRO HyperStream II D/A converter chip, the Helios uses four of the DAC channels operated in parallel for each analog output. The DAC502 uses two DAC channels in parallel for the speaker feed and two for the headphone feed. The ES9038PRO will handle PCM data sampled up to 768kHz and native DSD1024 data; Weiss says that the Helios uses a “high-precision/low jitter clock generator for ultra-stable clocking of the D/A converter section.”

The Helios offers the same digital signal processing (DSP) functions as the DAC502 (although the headphone-related DSP functions had not yet been implemented when I auditioned the 502), realized with an Analog Devices SHARC chip. The following DSP algorithms are implemented: Room EQ, which can apply high-shelf and peaking/notch filters to deal with low-frequency room modes; Creative EQ, which applies low, mid, and high boost/cut; DeEsser, which removes overly bright sibilance from human voices; Dynamic Adaptation, a “party mode” that normalizes loudness; Vinyl Emulation, said to provide “that special sonic character of a record player based playback chain”; Crosstalk Cancellation (XTC), which allows binaural recordings to be correctly played back on loudspeakers; and Loudness Control, which equalizes the output to compensate for the ear-brain’s differing frequency sensitivity at different listening volumes. Once you have chosen the parameters for each of these functions, the settings can be saved as a snapshot and recalled at the touch of a button on the control webpage or the metal remote control.

Setup

Like the DAC502, the Helios can be controlled in three ways: with the touchscreen and rotary control; the aforementioned metal IR remote control; or with a web browser by entering the address https://[helios-serial-number].local. The web and front-panel interfaces allow setting the volume, balance, mute, and polarity inversion controls, those DSP settings, and a choice of maximum output levels: “0dB,” “–4dB,” “–8dB,” “–12dB,” “–16dB,” “–20dB,” “–24dB,” and “–28dB.” I set the processor’s output level to “–12dB,” equivalent to a maximum level of 4.1V balanced and 2.05V unbalanced.

Once I had connected the Helios to my network and opened the local webpage, I was able to check for any firmware updates. (“FW is up to date,” it told me; the review sample was running v2.7.0 firmware, revision r3161, dated “2023-02-14.”) The Roon app processor recognized the processor as “Weiss Helios,” allowing Roon to control its volume. The Roon volume setting was immediately reflected on the front-panel display and mirrored in the local webpage. The webpage duplicated Roon’s transport controls and displayed the artwork of any album selected with Roon.

I noted something unusual with Roon. With PCM data sampled up to 192kHz, clicking on “Weiss processor Synchronization” in Roon’s “Signal path” window gave the following message: “The audio is being converted to a 195.312kHz sampling frequency for optimal signal quality and to help reduce any jitter related effects.” The same was true for DSD64 and DSD128 data, both of which the Helios first converted to 176.4kHz PCM before resampling.

Listening

I started my auditioning with the Q Acoustics 5040 loudspeakers I reviewed in the January 2024 issue, driven by a pair of Parasound Halo JC 1+ monoblocks. After the Q Acoustics speakers had been returned, I used my content/kef-ls50-anniversary-model-loudspeaker”>KEF LS50 minimonitors, then replaced the Parasounds with the Audio Research I/50 integrated amplifier I last wrote about in the February 2024 issue. I subsequently replaced the Audio Research with my NAD M10 integrated and the KEFs with Golden Ear BRXes. I ended the auditioning by returning to the Parasound monoblocks. I used Roon for all critical listening.

I reported on the effect of the DSP functions in my DAC502 review, so I won’t repeat my findings here. Like the earlier Weiss DAC, the Helios’s parametric EQ was useful in boosting and extending the low frequencies of the speakers I used for my auditioning. (I used a Low Shelf filter set to give a 3dB boost below 100Hz with a Q of 1.40.)

Throughout the changes of amplifier and loudspeakers, the Helios echoed the DAC502’s extraordinary clarity but with an enhanced sense of involvement with the music. I listened to the recordings I had used for my DAC502 review—both my own and those recorded by other engineers—with the Helios. It is fair to note that I hadn’t had the earlier processor in my system for more than three years, but if I had to swear on the very first issue of Stereophile, this impression was consistent throughout my auditioning of the Helios.

Footnote 1: Jason Victor Serinus also reviewed the Weiss DAC502 in October 2020.

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CALIFORNIA — Some of California’s congressional Republicans distanced themselves Friday from the controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children. The lawmakers released statements amid GOP turmoil over the decision — and during an election year in which all 52 Golden State congressional seats are on the ballot.

The California legislators who issued statements fell in line with former President Donald Trump, who urged the Alabama legislature to preserve access to in vitro fertilization in the aftermath of the ruling.

The posturing shows the GOP is straddling a difficult line between staunch pro-life supporters and Americans who support fertility treatments. Case in point: Trump’s Republican opponent, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, said Wednesday in an interview with NBC News, “Embryos, to me, are babies.” A day later she flipped, telling CNN, “Alabama needs to go back and look at the law.”

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Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Corona) dismissed IVF restrictions of any kind.

“Strong families are critical to our country’s future and I believe we should be doing more to help mothers who want to start a family, not less,” Calvert said. “IVF is a miracle that has opened the door to parenthood for many where it would have otherwise not been possible. I do not support restrictions on IVF of any kind at the federal, state or local level and urge lawmakers to come together to ensure these life-giving treatments are available.”

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Calvert has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. He narrowly won his 2022 reelection bid in the newly drawn 41st district that now includes some heavily Democratic cities.

Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Cypress) is in a tough reelection fight with four challengers in the 45th District, which was carried in 2020 by President Joe Biden.

“As someone who struggled to get pregnant, I believe all life is a gift. IVF allowed me, as it has so many others, to start my family,” Steel said on X. “I believe there is nothing more pro-life than helping families have children, and I do not support federal restrictions on IVF.”

Rep. Young Kim (R-Anaheim Hills) is fending off two Democratic challengers in the 40th District. On Friday, she showed her support for IVF on X.

“IVF brings hope to so many women facing infertility, including in my family. Women struggling to get pregnant are hurting enough — restricting IVF makes no sense,” she wrote. “As a mom & grandma, supporting moms, babies, & families is personal to me.”

During IVF, eggs are collected from ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. One or more fertilized eggs — embryos — are then transferred to a uterus. Not every fertilized egg survives. Some are not implanted.

In Alabama, several clinics have paused IVF services over fear of legal repercussions though on Friday the state attorney general’s office said it has “no intention” of prosecuting families or fertility providers.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many GOP lawmakers have tried to avoid right-to-life issues and/or have reframed their positions to appeal to moderate voters. It’s unclear what impact Alabama’s IVF decision might have in an election year.

Out of 52 California congressional districts, only 11 are currently held by Republicans.

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Indi Hartwell had quite the homecoming on Saturday.

 

Despite coming up short along with Candice LeRae in their attempt to capture the Undisputed WWE Women’s Tag-Team Championships in the lone match on the WWE Elimination Chamber: Perth Kickoff Show, Hartwell was received like a rock star in front of her home land fans in Australia.

After the show, Hartwell and LeRae spoke with Byron Saxton for a backstage interview, during which Hartwell spoke about her homecoming in Australia.

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“Well, Byron, it was my first time performing in Australia as a WWE superstar, so the only word I can use to describe it is surreal,” Hartwell said. “I had my parents, my family there.”

Hartwell continued, “My real parents, not my mom over here. But obviously, we lost, and we’re not too happy about that. But we don’t take no for an answer. And our sights are still set on the tag team titles. We’re former tag team champions.”

Check out the complete post-show interview with Indi Hartwell and Candice LeRae from backstage at Optus Stadium via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.

CONNECTICUT — Here are the latest winners of $10,000 or more in assorted CT Lottery games and where the lucky tickets were acquired.

The CT Lottery has changed its policy on announcing winners in order to “protect” them from potential scams. For years, the CT Lottery policy had been to show the full names of all those who cashed in tickets worth $10,000 or more as a matter of public record. It then went to winners having the option of applying for anonymity over the past couple of years. Now, the CT Lottery has eliminated all first names in the winners listings and replaced them with just first names and last initials while keeping the anonymity option available.

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