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Former Washington State standout Brock Motum has signed with Virtus Bologna of the Italian Serie A league. Motum made the announcement via his official Facebook page.
Hoops.com.au is reporting Motum has signed a two-year deal. The Serie A is the highest-ranking Italian league.
Motum went undrafted in the 2013 NBA draft, but signed with the Philadelphia Sixers for the Orlando Pro Summer League. Motum only appeared in three game for the Sixers, averaging 2.7 points per game in approximately six minutes per contest.
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Dr. Luke Jorgensen
adjunct associate professor of theatre
Courses: Acting II, Creative Dramatics I & II, Introduction to TheatreLuke received his BA from Boston College, his MA in Theatre from Northwestern University, and his PhD from Tufts University. His scholarship centers on theatre education, on actor training, and on the work of Augustus Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed. His professional acting credits include The Shaughraun at the Huntington Theater and Smoke Signals at Chicago's Remains Theatre. He has appeared in various roles on television and film, including the film School Ties and Starving Artists.
Luke is currently the Artistic Director of the Tufts University Children's Theatre. Recent productions he has directed at Tufts University include Noises Off and Six Degrees of Separation. At Boston College Luke serves as a director and consultant the First Year Experience. He is also the faculty advisor for My Mother's Fleabag.
At Boston College Luke teaches acting, creative dramatics and introduction to theatre. He has also directed Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Moliere's The Flying Doctor and Forced Marriage, The Crucible, The King Stag and Metamorphoses for the Boston College Theatre Department.

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Link Building, — April 13, 2007 — 75 Comments
How To Get 29 Free Links
Here is my personal list of places that I go when I start a new site to get free links. These 29 links always get the ball rolling and help natural links come in.
Blogs have become some of my favorite places to get free links. All you have to do is register a blog and post a short article relevant to your site and then post your link. Below you'll find 24 free blogs in which you can link to your site.
Make sure that you interlink these blogs somewhat so that they all get found by the bots.
1. Squidoo.com
Create a free account, write an article and post a link embedded in the text back to your site.
2. WordPress.com
Create a free blog, write a short post and link back to your site.
3. Blogger.com
Create a free blog and write 3 posts, one linking to your Squidoo lens, one linking to your WordPress.com blog and one linking back to your main site.
4. MindSay.com
Mindsay offers free blogs and wikis. Like the others, create a free blog and post a link back to your website. Also link this blog to your Squidoo lens.
5. BloggerParty.com
Another free blog site. Link your post to one of your other free blogs and your site.
6. BraveNet Blog
Bravenet has been around a LONG time. Like the others, post then link.
7. 3Steps.com
3Steps is new but also free…make sure to continue interlinking these blogs so they all get found and indexed.
8. The Right Blogger
Site seems to be down right now…can't create new blogs. Check back later.
9. BootsnAll TravelBlogs
You must first be approved as a member, then apply for a blog. Might not be worth the effort. Blog posts must be travel related. Hopefully your niche is travel related as well.
10. iUpload Blog
Another free blog…
11. TravelPod Blog
Travel related free blog site.
12. Bloggates
Free blog, slow site. Many good subdomains are still available.
13. Livejournal
Old, established, easy to use.
14. BlogText.com
Sites don't seem to index well, but allows a lot of outgoing links.
15. Xanga.com
Does Xanga allow outgoing links? Couldn't figure it out.
16. Blogigo.com
Allows outgoing links, even had a spammer listed as an example blog in a category…
17. SoulCast.com
Soulcast gives free blogs and allows you to insert your Adsense ID and they'll automatically publish Adsense code blocks.
18. MyDietBlogger.com
MyDietBlogger offers health and diet blogs for free. Perfect for someone in a health related niche.
19. BlogNow.com.au
Free blog site touting their "No Ads" approach. I don't know why they've chosen to not display ads, because not monetizing and not selling the site doesn't seem like a good business model. I don't think you have to by Australian to signup.
20. 20Six.co.uk
Good looking blogs, 1000+ template designs, outgoing links.
21. Vox.com
More free blogs…large site, established.
22. Tripod (remember them?)
Tripod, home to thousands of amateur webmasters has free blogs.
23. Aeonity.com
Free blog site, themes are all similar. Small user community.
24. Blogslive
One of my new favorites. Lots of themes available. Quick loading, outgoing links.
Comments on .edu Blogs
Personally I don't think SE's actually abide by the
nofollow code. With that in mind I give you some of the best places to post comments.
The reason most of these are great places to comment is because they have PR or are popular posts.
25. PR6 – How the Cookie Crumbled: A Recap of the 2006 Creative Services Holiday Party
Most of the old pages are PR6. Comments are held for the moderator so make them legit.
26. PR4 – Blog comment spam with plagiarized text: hard to spot
Interesting discussion in 2006 relating to blog comment spam.
27. PR4 – Google bombs – Voice option and collective action
28. PR4 – Additional Comments Regarding Computers
29. PR3 – Blog is back to normal
First comment is moderated.
Most of those were found using this method and applying a few more keywords.
Hopefully those 29 locations will inspire you to find other places that will give you a free link!
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Nice. I will make an even more updated version of free blogs on my sete. Now I even put the correct link to it too
Thats a great list for cross posting and cross blog networking. Thx for putting the list for everyone.
I'm already checking them out. Nice to have a bit of professional advice
this is a great post saves hours of work searching for the right places
well done
Blogs open the new dimension of easy linking and actually your technique is useful in order to get the bots into your new site, but not to increase PR.
Thanks! Good job! Keep walking
Thanks for the tips, great site, great advice, great post! Can you do an encore with more coo places to link from?
Also, do you know of any other .gov sites to get good legit links? I just launched my new site and am looking for some tasty links.
I'm aware of many of these but i've never heard of SoulCast.com will give it a go.
wow, great tips! just started my own blog, now is time to increase traffic! :).
by the way, is there a faster way? as this would require a registration for every link.
Very nice website I will study it. Your suggestions were very helpful, Thanks!
Hey this list is perfect for me, I struggle to get links, I will try all these methods and see what happens. Will bookmark your blog too, interesting reading.
Brandon when linking to my site is it best to link within a paragraph of text or a plain old link? How long should these articles be? I have heard there is no point to bolding the link nowadays.
Really nice compilation of links and overall a working strategy to increase backlinks. However, it is important to place your links in sites & blogs relevant to your niche.
Thanks a lot i was wondering how to get free links easily
thanks brandon,
i will try this! anything to help my seo of my site!
i know this is old but it's good.
take care,
Thanks Brandon, those 29 are very helpful. However as you say they are useful for getting the ball rolling, and they won't carry any Page Rank value. Any tips for free or very cheap links that are more powerful?? If not thanks anyway!
Thanks Brandon,
This is the first time I have seen such a comprehensive list of all the best places to get links.Cheers.
Thanks for the list mate, im just learning SEO and in the process of a building a linkwheel so these will help,,,,,cheers!
That list really helped boost my sites. Thank you!
I find what you are advising appalling.
As I see it, you're polluting the internet with garbage for your own personal gain.
And as such, it would be a better place without people like you.
I got inspired and did everything on this list that was alive and working. The EDU comments are unfortunately closed but I tried.
Thanks Brandon
I have already used some of these blogs but didn't realise that there were so many available. I will try the others and maybe get back with the ones thta might be out of date plus any more I find. Its a great list.
Eric Here,
Yeah, hubpages.com is another great link, I'm pretty sure they are do follow but I see google loving these free blog pages as I have had articles show up in search engines in a 2 days and beat my other pages I was marketing like crazy for that 1st page position for the same keywords. Hub pages gets voted on by members but if you have a quality page, cool running.
So I recommend Hubpages.com for free link number 30!


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Pepco and other Maryland utilities want customers to pay hundreds of dollars more if they opt out of new smart electricity meters.
In a FOX 5 investigation, we first told you about health and privacy concerns because the meters transmit information wirelessly. On Tuesday, state regulators heard from Pepco, BGE and SMECO about what customers should pay to opt out.
The utilities stand by the safety of the new smart meters and presented proposals to charge customers hefty fees to opt out.
"That assumes that all of those costs will be borne by the customers that opted out. In other jurisdictions, they've decided that not all of those costs would be borne by opt out customers," said Chris Burton, BGE Vice President of Smart Grid and Technology.
Right now, saying no to smart meters does not cost a thing. But if the utilities have their way, it could get expensive.
In proposals presented to the PSC, Pepco and BGE's plans called for prices of up to about $70 a month and an upfront fee of $240. The price for SMECO was lower. The upfront price was as much as $105 and up to $65 for monthly fees.
"We don't think there's any sufficient reliable evidence in the record to support any sort of opt out fee at all," said Jonathan Libber with Maryland Smart Meter Awareness.
A smart meter emits minute amounts radiation as it sends and receives information from your electricity meter. Because it is sent wirelessly, the utility saves money by eliminating the need for meter readers. For those who opt out the utilities claim, it will cost more to operate a separate system.
So far, about 20,000 BGE customers have deferred the installation of smart meters and more than 2,000 Pepco customers. SMECO is just beginning its rollout.
One commissioner questioned the high price and accused Pepco of not being considerate of the poor and elderly.
"You're saying you're not a good corporate citizen?" said Commissioner Harold Williams.
FOX 5 tried to get answers but Pepco wasn't talking.
"We're not really going to be able to speak about the particulars," said spokesperson Marcus Beal.
While a Pepco executive testified and the utility's proposed rates were submitted in a public report, Beal still refused to give specifics.
"The answer is still the same," he said. "We're not going to be able to comment."
Pepco's fee would even charge those who opt out to install a smart meter after they move. The pricing is based on estimates -- basically a best guess. That concerns Maryland's People's Counsel.
"These are all estimates and certainly there would need to be some reconciliation to the costs," explained Paula Carmody.
Opting out is an option, but at how high a price? The commission is weighing the options, but has not set a deadline for its decision.
BGE wants to begin charging opt out customers in March 2014. Several states have similar programs with prices as low as $10 a month or in some cases -- free. Legislation in Maryland that would allow a free opt out failed the past two years.
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The Music Department of Hartnell College Announces Its Line-Up Of Spring Concerts
May 8th, 2007
The Hartnell College Symphonic Band presents its spring concert, John Steinbeck Meets "Peter and the Wolf," on Tuesday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m., under the direction of Dr. Carl Christensen. The concert features two major works for narrator and band: "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev, and Symphony for Band: East of Eden by Robert Nelson. Steve Reinertsen will narrate. The concert also will showcase American works by Duke Ellington, Woody Guthrie, and Irving Berlin.
The Hartnell College Choir and Chamber Singers' spring choral concert will take place on Friday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature many genres of music, including Broadway show tunes, American Bandstand favorites, pop hits, traditional spirituals, a 16th century madrigal, and more. Sandy Rudo directs the choral groups.
On Thursday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m., the Hartnell College Symphony Orchestra will present its spring concert, From Schubert and Mozart to "Turkey in the Straw." The orchestra, led by Dr. Carl Christensen, will perform Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, popularly known as The Unfinished Symphony; Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins, featuring Rosemarie Nikolakakis and Berlyn Vincente; Selections from "The Magic Flute" by Mozart; and pieces united by traditional American themes.
These three performances will be held on the Main Stage Theatre of the Performing Arts Facility on the main campus at 411 Central Avenue in Salinas.
Then, on Tuesday, May 29, the Hartnell College Jazz Ensemble will perform traditional jazz, Latin, blues, pop, and rock in its Spring Jazz Concert. The 8 p.m. show will be in the recital hall, room 125 of the Performing Arts Facility. The concert will include special guest performances by The Antique Moving Company dancing to "Sing, Sing, Sing," and by the percussion students of Karl Stearns.
No tickets are required for the concerts, but donations may be requested at the door. Parking is available in the new state-of-the-art parking structure located on Central Avenue across from Central Park. The daily rate is $1 per day or 25 cents per hour.
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Ideology and the Individual In Cinema, II
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By David A.
First, before I begin, the following is not intended to make a conclusion on whether or not the modern incarnation of film represents "good" or "bad" art; I am not Slavoj Zizek, nor do I intend to be. Instead, this is a matter of examining ideologically functionality. It is intended to glance at what the majority of films, especially films derived from Hollywood, are implemented for with regards to bourgeois cultural hegemony.
We left off roughly at the conclusion that the modern manifestation of the cinematic hero is (consciously or unconsciously) a specific form of interpellation. This edition, however, seeks to understand, at least on an abstract level, the way in which the hero, the protagonist, inevitably serves a different function than it did in pre-Capitalist times given that art then was produced under different ideological circumstances, given the different mode of production which existed at the time. While what I put forth here may, indeed, apply to both the aesthetic form and with literature, I have chosen to dedicate this serial to the subject of film because it is among the chief examples (as well as the most popular) of a form of art which has developed entirely in the context of Capitalist cultural domination, and with regards to Hollywood, is entirely inseparable from the circulation of Capital (as the existence of many a studio film depends entirely on whether or not this is a possibility). This is, of course, not to say that other forms of media have not also been incorporated into the overall bourgeois superstructure; however, having existed throughout the ethos of humankind's cultural expression, across different modes of production, such an analysis would have to be reserved for another time.
Literature and art of the past has offered us a myriad of heroes, of sagas, which romanticizes the experience of the struggle, something all organisms endure, which, in turn, formulates the narrative itself. Very often, however, the art produced existed in the realm of cultural self-expression wherein, as I previously pointed out, the characters that were produced by the narrative were entirely subject to the objective material conditions which were depicted within the narrative (wherein, also, the line betwixt fiction and non-fiction, myth and fact, was mystified). Let us examine the case of Cao Cao, as so famously depicted in the epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It was not Cao Cao, or any of the other romanticized warlords (Lu Bu, Liu Bei, etc.) who forged the narrative – they were the catalyst for the story of China's upheavals, rather it was inversed. The troubles of that period were the catalyst for their manifestation, both in reality and, somewhat more importantly, in their immortalized depiction across the annals of history, starting from the aforementioned novel. The epistemological rupture betwixt Cao Cao or Achilles and, to use a crude example, a Rambo archetype, is that the latter exerts his determination very often isolated from or hostile to the objective material circumstances of a given situation, i.e. the masses or the environment (very often both). Only occasionally do modern heroes require the help from characters that are, of course, supporting them in their endeavor of personal conquest. In short, Cao Cao and the like are subject to the narrative at hand, whilst on the other side, modern cinematic heroes are very often masters of that very narrative.
Here I must pause, and for a moment explain that since this is being viewed through the prism of historical materialism, I must point out that I do not think that the protagonist, the hero, while nearly ubiquitous in art throughout human history, retains a transhistorical function. On the contrary, the effort must be put forth to thoroughly investigate the modern origins of the individualist archetype, immortalized time after time in the modern cinematic experience. Here, through Nietzschean self-determination and will, the protagonist is never subject to the objective conditions, but the very catastrophe of it's being, manifested in explosions and gunfights, forms the modern narrative, seeping down into all manners of artwork from the golden screen above. Wherein did the protagonists' function depart from an agent of cultural self-expression, in which they are secondary to overall drama of the narrative itself, to functioning as an agent of self-assertion whose very existence is the narrative? When did the protagonist become reified into the narrative itself, and when did narrative no longer from the soil from which various characters spring up? Without the Trojan war, without the siege of Troy, the objective conditions of the time, could Homer have had an avenue through which all those heroes could have been highlighted? Fictional or not, the objective events of that time shaped the stories, formed the narrative, from which characters sprang – and to those conditions were they vulnerable. Without the mistake made by Asano Naganori in assaulting Kira Yoshinaka, and without all the developments which transpired afterwards, again the objective conditions from which characters spring, what would have become of the Japan's national legend, The 47 Ronin?
It should be noted that while looking fondly on storytelling of the past, this piece in no way suggests that the ethos of art return to the way it was in a previous mode of production, as such a thing would be the act of a philistine at best, and the crime of a reactionary at the worst. Springing back to the present, we can see that the narrative, the objective conditions, does not proceed the protagonists, but rather it is composed by the interpersonal affairs of the protagonist itself; the narrative is subject to them, and as such, cannot form independently. How often does the vigilant movie-watcher spot something attributable to the protagonist which forms a plot hole, and upon pointing that out, is met with the usual,
"Well then, there'd be no movie!"
The most recent example would be the film Django Unchained, which while personally artistically satisfying, exemplifies this motif. It is a fascistic masterpiece insofar as the entire plot arch revolves around the existence and self-determination of a lone individual, in this case Django, and could not even materialize without him. There are rare exceptions, but generally in the modern ethos of film, this is the formula which is employed to tell a story. Perhaps it can be said that the objective conditions forming the subjective experiences exist, but that the subjective experiences are the foreground, while the masses, the landscape, all exist in the background and would not at all be explored save for the existence of the protagonist. A necessary investigation, which should be saved for another time, would be examining the rupture points wherein the modes of expression changed function, even use-value, and responded to the shifts in the modes of production.
Antiquity clearly employed one distinct form of function in artistic expression from modernity; where we are lost is the in-between, where the function ceased one form and manifested into another.
If we work alongside the notion of material progression, then we are of course bound to incorporate the status of artistic mediums into that overall equation. The key is watching for new artistic mediums as well as the movements which start in their wake, which have a tendency to react to external stimuli, mostly springing from the masses. Clutching to the events and upheavals of a given time, the points demonstrated earlier that art directly corresponds to the ideological mood of the time, and most of it is in turn completely overtaken by the cultural hegemon.
The presence of the gaze, which is something acknowledged throughout production of a film, is itself a direct result of the current mode of production, forms a key function of the shift in artistic, especially cinematic, function, The gaze, often contained within the span of two or so hours, fixates you upon a particularity, who's aesthetic appeal has a limited span of time, and cannot enjoy the sort of permanence that a book, painting, sculpture, etc. enjoys. Meanwhile, a particular scene can be enjoyed multiple times, but against, within a specific time/framework, while consciously being subjected to the gaze of the viewer. Add the subjective perception of the viewer into this framework, whom is aware of the conditions in which the illusion of film takes places (ignoring it via the suspension of disbelief), here we already have a relationship with a disposition towards atomization. Here, the time to espouse an artistic point is not measured in lifetimes (such as the cultural importance of a particular painting or piece of literature), at most it is measured in generations with the case of film, and certain hastiness must take place. A scene, a filmed narrative, must work to have all the necessary details ready at once, while producing the agents of narrative whose composition is entirely sweeping enough to at least appeal to a majority of the viewership, at least the intended viewership (again, this is a matter of Capital circulation). Here the intention is established; that insofar as it will circulate capital, the development of a narrative which does not relate to a culture-at-large, but rather individual dispensers of cash, i.e. the viewership, films will continuously produce narratives composed by irrational individual heroes.
Knowing this, it cannot be emphasized enough to remember that film is rarely produced for the sake of artistic satisfaction, but instead serves an economic use-value (entertainment) and has proven to a be an extremely viable method of capital accumulation and circulation. We have only faint glimpses of what cinema looks like divorced from bourgeois cultural hegemony, and most of said material has been produced in the past from consciously revolutionary movements which sought to do this very thing, existing only in brief spats of time. Inversing the narrative and protagonist, or clearing distinctions between the two, demonstrates the ideology of rash individualism in society-at-large; through this, even in the most crowded theater or in the thickest of a party, atomization (cinema being on aspect of interpellating this point) has ensured that we shall all continuously be alone together.
In the modern narrative form, which is embodied in most cinema, adapting to all new forms of media, it enforces the notion (consciously or unconsciously) that the mostly socially-constructed notion of the individual exists in its most terrifying form, in completely isolation from one another, and the heroics of modern cinema only serve to reinforce this idea that you and you alone are the master of objective material circumstance. It serves to inject the idea into the masses that the individual exists in the foreground of all matters, severed from the backdrop.
Another crude example is the Batman; Bruce Wayne is the avenue through which we come to explore and understand the city of Gotham, which is the crux of the narrative even though it is quite obvious that because of that environment itself is he initially. Even long before the narratives of Batman, when cowboys were still in style, we see that, no, it is not the chaotic, beautiful (already inhabited) lands of the American West, with all its towering heights, that forms the prerequisite from which the fascistic heroic cowboy emerges; rather, because of that hero and the endeavors which he undertakes do we understand the latter.
Again, partly because of time, because of the gaze, the subject may not be presented with the totality from which our gun-toting ranger first bolts out of upon his trusted steed. Setterlism, in all it's grotesque romanticism, must be at once personified into a Clint Eastwood, whom above all else is both in the narrative but at the same, because he has the ability to intervene in affairs, is above it. There are, again, always exceptions; however, the ontology of cinema, especially in the United States, can be characterized in this way, albeit very roughly at this stage in the analysis. Art, like many things in bourgeois society, requires remnants of past times to be incorporated into the mold of the superstructure when the use-value of a particular cultural ethos is favorable to bourgeois cultural hegemony. In the case of film, the ethos of the hero, which of course, has thus far manifested throughout history, has been entangled in the affairs of cinematic interpellation, a reactionary left-over from times bygone, yet still retaining the ability to captivate an audience. Although in this way, it shifts in function, and the hero itself transformed into something extreme, into something irrational. Boundless, the narrative must now surrender to the modern individual protagonist, whom now, more than ever, it owes its existence to. Now, more than ever, the narrative is not producing agents of storytelling, but as we have said, it is borne from an agent. Serving numerous functions, chief among them capital accumulation via entertainment value (the economics/chrematistics of the matter of the material base), the precise character of the modern hero fits neatly into the manifolds of bourgeois cultural hegemony, in both the productivist sense as well as feeding the ideological necessity of irrational individualism.


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I have noticed that in the database for jogging, That you start at a 5.5 min/mile pace and go up by .5 until you reach10 min/miles. Then there is a big jump to 11.5 min/mile and 12 min/mile.
I would really like to see a 10.5 and an 11 minute mile added to the database. It's a big jump from 10's to 11:30's.
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It's the right place. the site owners check out this category and do what they can. Not quickly, but it's not a large team from what I hear.
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I actually came up against a similar challenge. This morning, I averaged 5.5 miles per hour (2 miles in 22 minutes) for my overall run. But when I typed in "5.5", the running / jogging activities that came up were scattered, with results being 10.9 mph, 5.2mph, 5 mph, 7 mph, 7.5 mph, 8 mph, and 9 mph. Because, if I'm going to err, I prefer to underestimate what calories I burned, I selected "5.2 mph" and simply annotated my actual speed in the notes section.
One thing I thought was if they might be able to put some kind of calculator in the system, where you can select walking / jogging / running and then input enough data for it to figure out how fast you went (known time and known distance) and calculate calories based on that. Then it wouldn't be necessary to find however fast you ran already in the database.
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Published on - September 13th, 2010 (by J.D. Roth)
Saturday, I posted what I thought was an amusing anecdote. I told how I'd bought some treats from a young girl's bake sale, but she'd been woefully unprepared to take my money and give me change. I meant the story to be comic relief, but quite a few GRS readers found it unamusing — and, in fact, thought I came off as something of a jerk. Oops.
In retrospect, many people raised valid concerns (though some folks were making mountains out of molehills). I was something of a jerk. To make amends, today I want to provide a frame of reference so you can see where I'm coming from (not that this excuses my behavior), and I want to provide some tips for parents with entrepreneurial kids.
I was a grade-school entrepreneur
As I've mentioned many times, I always do what I can to support young entrepreneurs — that's why I bought the goodies from the girls last week in the first place. I believe strongly that kids should be encouraged to make and sell things, and even start their own kid-sized businesses. I probably feel this way because I was a grade-school entrepreneur.
To start at the beginning, my father was a serial entrepreneur; he was always starting businesses. Most failed. Some succeeded in a wild fashion. (The inheritance he left the family was in the form of his most successful business, the custom box company that for 15 years now has supported his wife, three sons, and a nephew.)
No surprise then that as a child, I wanted to make money too.
I made my first business venture when I was in the second grade. I sold lemonade by the side of the road. It was miserable failure. I was trying to sell lemonade in March, on an infrequently-traveled stretch of country road, in rural Oregon. I didn't sell any lemonade.
But in fourth grade, I started a little business that actually made money. Star Wars was huge in 1978, and like all the other boys, I collected Star Wars cards. Whatever change I could scrounge went to these cards. (We used to walk the sides of the roads collecting pop bottles. We'd cash in the deposits and immediately buy more Star Wars cards.) Collecting was frustrating. Sometimes I would have six of one card, and none of another. This bugged me until I realized that I could turn the surplus to my advantage.
I took all of my doubles (and triples and quadruples, etc.) and sorted them into random piles of about twenty cards each. I wrapped each stack in a piece of typing paper and wrote 10¢ on the package in black felt pen. I made as many packages as I could, took them to school, and sold them to the other boys. I took that money to the local variety store and converted it into new cards. It was brilliant!
I did the same thing with Hardy Boys books. I loved the Hardy Boys — my aunts and uncles knew this, so I often got books as gifts. After I finished them, I'd take them to school and sell them for fifty cents. (They cost two dollars new.)
I was learning practical business lessons, and I was only ten years old.
Throughout my childhood, my father encouraged my entrepreneurial and sales activities. He urged me to go from door to door selling greeting cards and seeds, for example. (These ventures failed for the same reason the lemonade stand failed — not a big enough customer base.) When I was a bit older, a friend and I drew and photocopied our own comic books through the junior-high store. We didn't sell many of these, but we had fun trying.
In high school, I was active in our Future Business Leaders of America chapter. I learned about economics, accounting, and business math. But I also sold a lot of candy for fund-raisers. (We were always having to raise money for conventions, and so on.)
Kid-sized entrepreneurship and salesmanship were a big part of my childhood. I didn't like it much at the time, but looking back I can see that it played a crucial role in making me the man I am today. Because of this, I do what I can to support kids who sell stuff.
- When I see a lemonade stand, I stop to buy lemonade.
- When I see a girl scout, I buy girl scout cookies.
- When my young friends sell magazines and books to raise money for school, I buy magazines and books.
- Every year, Kris and I look forward to visiting the girls at the Eastmoreland Garage Sale, who have sold newsletters, "stock tips", jokes, and more.
And, of course, last weekend I bought some treats from two girls with a bake sale. When I did this, I had only warm, positive feelings for these kids, even during their confusion regarding the change. I shared their story at GRS not to be malicious, but because I thought the situation was funny, and because I could identify with the girls.
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Kris and I don't have kids, but if we did, you can bet I'd encourage their entrepreneurial ventures, just as my father encouraged mine. But there's more to helping your kid explore the world of business than just letting her loose with cookies and lemonade. Here are some ideas for helping your youngster make her first foray into the world of business.
- Encourage your kid to pursue their passions. Sure, your daughter could sell magazines door to door. But what if she's interested in something else? Like horses or soccer? Help your kids find a way to make money through their hobbies. Urge them to be creative. How can a 12-year-old girl make money through her interest in horses? I don't know — but I'll bet she can come up with a couple of ideas.
- Supervise the set-up. Though you'll ultimately allow your child to run the business on his own, it's a good idea to make sure he sets smart parameters. Be certain that his choices are safe and legal, and double-check that he has everything he needs. If needed, spot your kid some start-up capital, but make it very clear that this is a loan, and that you'll need this money back when the business venture is over.
- Answer questions. Again, let your child operate independently. But when she has questions, be there to help her. If you don't know the answers, help her do the appropriate research. Who knows? You might learn something along the way.
- Let your child sink or swim on his own. I know some parents are afraid to let their kids fail. That's sweet, but learning to deal with failure is an important part of learning to deal with life. It's also a vital business skill. Most successful businessmen and women have been unsuccessful in the past — often for long stretches at a time. It can be tough to watch your kids sweat as he tries to sell candy door-to-door, but it'll be better for him in the long run if you simply watch from the sidelines.
- Let your child make his own decisions about what to do with her income. If you already have a system for dividing your child's allowance, absolutely suggest that she use that system for her business income. But don't insist. Let her make her own decisions — and then follow up later to gently point out the consequences, for good or ill. (Note: I admit this tip is purely hypothetical; if you think I'm wrong, say so.)
- If possible, introduce your child to somebody doing the same thing in real life. When I was a young comic-book artist, I would have loved nothing more than to meet an actual comics professional. Sometimes the grown-up version of a job is less glamorous than what your kid imagines, but that's okay. It's good to learn what people do all day.
And, of course, make sure your child knows how to give proper change.
If you have a kid who shows an entrepreneurial bent, track down a copy of What Color is Your Piggy Bank? by Adelia Cellini Linecker. This slim volume is a great choice for kids from 10-14 who are beginning to show an interest in entrepreneurship. Linecker explores the types of jobs a kid can do gives advice for setting up shop, and explains how to manage money. It's a fun and informative little book. (I hear that The Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids is good, too — and it was written by a 13-year-old!)
I spent yesterday afternoon chatting with my lawyer. Before I parted ways, I asked him if he had any advice for grade-school entrepreneurs. "Yeah," he said. "Make sure your parents don't take all of your money." Ha!
Mea culpa
I apologize if my post on Saturday seemed rude or insensitive. That wasn't my intention. Yes, I was laughing at the girl who couldn't make change for me, but I didn't intend to be mean-spirited. I love that she was out there selling donuts and cookies and lemonade, even if her small business was doomed to lose money. But I couldn't help but be amused by her timidity. Why? Because I've been there many times before.
You know what? I hope that twenty years from now, unbeknownst to anyone, I'll buy a new sofa or television or automobile in a store owned by this girl. I really do.
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JD, I don't think you have a mean-spirited bone in your body!
How would you profit from all those cats you own? My cat is only good at catching those pesky flies!
Keep writing about stuff you "don't have experience with" (though that interaction on Saturday, as short and brief as it was, DOES count as experience). I am tired of parents knocking around childless couples as if their taxes (which they voted for) don't help pay for the same education, parks, and community services their kids receive. It was your duty as a member of the community to ensure she gave you correct change. Controversy and self-determination is what makes America great!
I don't think you were a jerk, though you were probably way more firm than I would have thought to be (I think I'll be more aware of this in the future, it doesn't help the kid learn if you just let them keep the $5).
I am very concerned about the comments saying "lay off them, kids learn at their own pace" or that the girls may have been special needs. Both are quite true, but both are terrible excuses for a 9-10 year old to not understand 5-1=4. If the girls had a learning disability, then their parents should have given them the tools they would need to succeed at the task (calculators, practice lessons, whatever). If they're neurotypical, then saying they're just "learning at their own pace" is a total cop-out and a real disservice to our youth.
Actually I wish that my parents were more entrepreneurial and that I had learned and practised my skills as a kid. My parents did many wonderful things for us financially, but they were very, very risk adverse. This meant I have only recently started investing in stocks and my whole famiy are "employees". Nobody has started their own business.
I am secretly envious of those people who have the drive and gumption to just give their own business a go. I think I am too afraid of failure!
I don't think you sounded like a jerk at all in that post. It was a funny story, and you told it well. I still think she was trying to play you though, so she could keep more money for herself. Again, kids aren't (usually) stupid.
I still remember when I was back in middle school. I didn't want to depend on my mom's allowance for my money, so I ended up making paper cranes and dog "packets" (envelopes filled with dog pictures, stickers and glitter). I also tried selling my own sketches (I was pretty good in art back then).
My biggest money maker back then was my sketches though. Many of my classmates (and even kids in younger grades) wanted to buy them. I believe I was selling them for a dollar a picture. Something of that nature. I even printed out little sheets of paper I passed around to everyone stating my prices.
I just needed to make sure teachers didn't see me selling these things, as selling anything isn't allowed in the private school I went to. But this article brings back good memories.
Great article for parents who want to encourage their kids…I didn't think last weeks post was mean spirited either.
Nice follow up post JD. I didn't take the original post as being mean spirited at all. I think that you are making us all have a teachable moment. The nice thing about life, is that we get to become better at skills if we so choose.
As a kid who was terrible at math, I don't think you were a jerk at all.
I was not an entrepreneur by any stretch of the imagination. I did do a lot of fund-raising as a kid.
The lesson you taught those girls is the same lesson I was taught when I was working a concession booth at our softball park. I don't know how many times my mom tried to explain counting change to me, but it never clicked until I handed a 60-year-old man the wrong amount. He said, "Oh, darlin' this isn't right…"
He explained how to count change. He started with, "My food and drink costs $5.75 let's try to get to an even dollar amount." Then he stood back and let me work it out, encouraging me as I went.
Embarrassing? A little. A strong learning/teaching moment? You know it!
I'm glad you wrote this post, because I also thought you were too hard on the girls. You seem like such a nice guy and it seemed very out of character! Thanks for a great blog.
This was a great post. It is both sad and great that it largely stemmed from the misunderstood post on Saturday. Sad that readers didn't understand the innocence of the situation, but great because it inspired a great follow-on post like this one.
And finally, I appreciate the way you handle these sticky situations.
Making money off a pet horse (or cats, or what have you) is easy for a kid! Do 4-H and go to your local state fair. I turned a pet goat into a thriving goat business as a child. Fairs pay participants for placing in various contests, and by competing in every single contest available with my goats, I would regularly take home $1,200/year from the 4-H shows. Yes, it meant that I had to do the embarrassing ones like costume contests with the goat; but each contest helped me earn the money that paid for my pets' upkeep. Beyond that, animal husbandry and taking care to register my animals as purebreds allowed me to sell the offspring for up to $350/animal and support the ones I kept.
Great post! And great responses from both sides. I love how you mention that failure is fine. My biggest challenge as a parent is letting my children know that it's OK to fail! It's the best way to learn.
In turning that to the bake sale and the comments that came from it, I think the kids doing it on their own is the perfect example of your wisdom here. If the parent had been involved in the bake sale, the parent would have stepped in immediately once the issue about change was discovered, solved the issue for the children, and it likely would have slipped quickly from the child's mind. I bet your kind questions to the girls stayed with them much longer for the very fact that the parent was not involved.
As a parent, it is really hard NOT to get involved, esp when you see your child making mistakes. In the bake sale, while the items were priced correctly, that again is another lesson for the girls. Pricing is one of the most difficult market decisions of all–it really depends on demand/taste of the consumer. Letting a child set the prices and seeing which sells and doesn't sell teaches a lesson in and of itself–again, much more so if the child is not told how to price but sees it in action herself.
As someone with kids about that age, I thought you were fine with the kids at the bake sale. Sometimes having a random adult work them through a real-life problem sinks in better than having a parent explain things!
As for entrepreneurship, we're getting there. For now, we offer our kids opportunities to do work in our entrepreneurial efforts for pay. They really haven't seemed interested in selling anything, perhaps because DH and I hate selling things.
A word about Girl Scout cookies: the troop only gets $.60 out of each box, and the prices are now absurd. Instead of buying any cookies, I give the troop $1, which puts them ahead by $.40.
My dad was also an Entrepreneur, and he always tried to encourage me. "Why don't you sell this, how about do that?"
However, I never listened. In fact, until recently, I never showed the slightest bit of entrepreneurial spirit. I'm not sure what else my Dad could've done – I just wasn't interested… probably because it was always presented as a way to make money, and I've never been motivated by money.
With my (future hypothetical) kids, I plan to encourage their entreprenurial spirit by not giving them an allowance – only allowing them to work for money, and teaching them about how it can be about more than just the money.
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JD loved the story about the kids. Hate the fact that adults are so PC and get a bee in their bonnet over something that is meant to be a little lighthearted.
Here's a tip for getting rich slowly. Start with $200 and build it at 3% a day. By the end of the year you will have compounded it to $9.1m. How you build on that $200 @ 3% is the hard part but not that hard if you put your mind to it. Stock, shares, cash deposit, betting exchange etc
JD highlighted good points. I do not understand why some commentators took offense at his earlier post. What is wrong in holding children to a high standard for example in the earlier blog about basic math skills. If you have heard or know about the 'Self fulfilling prophecy' you know that children or adults have the potential to reach for a higher achievement if the bar is set higher.
America is entrepreneurial because children start early here and are given the encouragement to be responsible and make their own money. This is far different from many Asian upbringing.
I remember the summer lemonade stands that I had as a child. Even then, networking played a huge part in the in the whole operation. I rarely ran the stand by myself, so I often had my friends help me out. In addition to my own customer base, I found out that my friends were also bringing in a customer base that helped the profits grow.
Very good post. Will definitely teach my son a few things about being an enterpreneur and let him make his own mind whether he likes it or not.


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In terms of sheer popularity, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young never flew higher than in 1974. It was the peak for the band. The three-hour-plus shows, combining an electric-acoustic-electric set, remain legendary in fan circles and take on an almost mythic standing in CSNY lore. Now 40 years later, CSNY 1974, a definitive new multi-CD/DVD set, is available in several low to high end configurations. The 40 performances are spectacular, offering unassailable proof of the quartet's fine-tuned artistry and timeless music. Graham Nash, in partnership with archivist Joel Bernstein, oversaw the project and has the battle scars to prove it. Listening back to this monumental body of work goes a long way to demonstrating that in 1974, CSNY rightfully earned their crown as peerless musical innovators. Retro-Active's Ken Sharp spoke with Graham Nash for the lowdown on this long-awaited release.
What made CSNY 1974 the most difficult and rewarding project in your career?Graham Nash: Im really thrilled with this record. We set a very high bar for the music and I think that Joel (Bernstein) and I and Stanley (Johnston) pulled it off.Difficult and rewarding could also apply the CSNY's entire career.That's true, but this is different; with CSN its only three people, two of whom trust me completely. When you add Neil (Young) it gets a little more difficult. It wasnt difficult personally at all because obviously I kept Neil in the loop about every stage of what was going on. But it was difficult technically. For instance, of the nine shows that were multi-tracked, there were five different buildings of five different sizes of five different audio trips. To make it sound like you were sitting in the same hall through 40 songs was very difficult.Was it a mind trip to go back and revisit those shows from 40 years ago?I saw a bootleg of our show at Wembley Stadium from '74 and quite frankly it was not a great show by us. One of the reasons why we didnt release a live album 40 odd years ago was because that was the show that we listened to. And we thought, "Oh my God, we were just horrible!" and everyone kind of lost enthusiasm for it. But I realized if I dug deep enough we'd find some really good shows because I knew we played some shows really excellently. I knew that somewhere on these tapes there was a great show to be had. So thats how I stared working on this project. I said to Neil, "Listen, I dont want our fans to think thats who we were from hearing this bootleg of us at Wembley." Yeah, we did that then but we were too coked out of our minds and we were playing too fast. We were too excited because it was my hometown. So I didn't want our fans to think thats who we were. I wanted to expose them to the really great music that we did. So I started from a very basic premise and focused on getting the very best performance of each song and the best performances that knocked me on my ass and I found them.What were the greatest challenges CSNY faced playing stadiums?Well, we knew we could do it. We were full of ourselves and thought we were a fine band. We knew we had four fine singers and four fine writers and it was just a question of getting the job done. So we knew we could play to that many people because we had done Woodstock. We had played "Guinnevere" with one acoustic guitar and two voices to several hundred thousand people, so we knew we could do it.How did playing for huge crowds impact the set list and approach to the music?The main challenge was how to reach the people in the front row and how to reach the people in the back row. When youre dealing with a 10,000 seat hall or a 2,000 seat theater, its relatively easy. But when youre dealing with our average audience on that tour, which must have been 60 to 75,000 people, it becomes much more difficult. I think thats one of the reasons David called it the Doom Tour, because weve got to be able to look in the eyes of our audience and know that were emotionally connecting with them. Now lets talk about the set. Neil Young hit a writing spell that was unbelievable. Thats the reason why Neil has more songs on this record than I do or David or Stephen. Its just the fact. Going from the high bar that every song has to knock me on my ass, I couldnt throw out "Hawaiian Sunrise," I couldn't throw out "Don't Be Denied" or "Pushed It Over the End." They had to go in because the performances were fucking killer. But the biggest technical challenge was trying to make it sound like you were in the 12th row right in the middle of one hall and you stay there for the 40 songs.The set electric, acoustic and then back to electric showed off all sides of CSNY.That's what we've tried to do and thats what weve always tried to do. Weve always known that we have a lot of songs. Weve always known that we have to communicate with the audience on a very direct level. So with audiences of that size you cant start out your show acoustic. So we went out there balls to the wall with "Love the One You're With," a kick ass song right off the top and then through the first set. Then there's an intermission and we let everybody settle down and play acoustically and then add drums and add bass occasionally. Then we take another break and come back for the last electric set.Hearing for so many years that the CSNY '74 tour was not good, its a wonderful surprise to prove that history was wrong.I wanted our fans to know that we were a very good rock & roll band and that we are human beings with our weaknesses and our strengths. I wanted to make sure our fans understood just how excellent we were.How did the CSNY 1974 lineup come alive onstage vs. the studio records?I relate it to my photography. Sometimes when you want to shoot a still life or three apples in a bowl with a big negative and a big camera, it takes a while to get it; the exposure is long and the preparation is long. When you play live its now! Theres no time to waste, those people are waiting now and you better perform now and thats the difference. I must tell you, theres not one overdub on this entire box set. Not one.There's always been combustibility about CSNY, both personally and musically, and you can hear that on CSNY '74.That's true. If youre not on the edge youre taking up too much room. We loved to be on the edge. There's a song that was a new one of mine for my girlfriend at the time called "It's Alright." I wrote it one morning and I played it that night and David, Stephen and Neil had never heard it. On the tape, Stephen yells out to me, "Hey Willy, what are the chords to this song?" I start to ramble to Stephen, "Well, it starts in D and then goes to B minor
" Then we do the song. The reason why its not on the album is because the song wasnt finished. I later put a chorus in there and I changed a few of the words. But thats what I mean by being on the edge. When Neil said, "I want to do this song called 'Goodbye Dick'," I was like, "Fine." I mean, who the fuck are we to tell Neil Young he cant sing a new song? (laughs) It doesn't matter how many people are out there.That same combustibility exists between Neil Young and Stephen Stills as guitar players who brought their history playing together in Buffalo Springfield to the table.I can't tell you what a thrill it is for me as a minor musician; Im certainly not the musician Crosby is or Stephen or Neil is. I can play acoustic guitar or electric guitar or piano to satisfy my own writing needs but Im not a great musician at all. And for me to stand in the middle of the stage and watch the musical entity that is Stephen Stills and Neil Young playing guitar against each other and sparking each other into higher and higher musical forms is a great part of what we love about our relationship with Neil and obviously it was a great part of Buffalo Springfield. To watch Neil and Stephen approach each other, not only physically, not only with incredibly intense eye contact but with the music they each bring out of their own separate guitar playing was amazing to me. It was just amazing; I was in awe because Im not that good. When you hear a guitar conversation between Stephen and Neil, as you do many times on this record, thats an incredibly strong part of what it is that we do, but it is also very fragile. For instance, Neil Young, God bless his cotton socks, is only interested in the best music as I am and David is and Stephen is. But sometimes it doesnt work. On a couple of those earlier CSNY tours, we got to the first night, played the first show and knew it was horrible and quit the tour that night. So it is a very fragile thing. But fortunately on this tour, I dont want to brag, but I thought we were excellent. ********************
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In support of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' new record, Hypnotic Eye, Gainesville, Florida's favorite musical son Tom Petty has his own SiriusXM channel, called Tom Petty Radio, on SirusXM's "Classic Rewind" channel 25. The channel will exist for an exclusive two-week run comprising music from Petty's entire career, solo and with the Traveling Wilburys, as well as interviews with Petty and the Heartbreakers and live cuts culled from Petty's last tour.Retro-Active correspondent Ken Sharp was in attendance for a special SiriusXM Tom Petty "Town Hall" event held at Sony Studios in Culver City, California. Taking place on the same lot as the classic The Wizard of Oz, a magical time was had by all in attendance. The intimate gathering, which included a small number of contest winners, featured Petty in conversation with renowned SirusXM DJ Jim Ladd. The two-hour-plus conversation found Petty fielding a wide swath of questions from the contest winners and interacting with Ladd over a wide range of topics including the new CD and many of its songs, his continued work as a DJ on the channel with the show Tom Pettys Buried Treasures, guilty pleasures (he likes The Monkees and Hermans Hermits), his long standing love of vinyl records and newfound addiction to NBA basketball. He also singled out the Rolling Stones "Jumpin' Jack Flash" as the perfect rock and roll single and shared his early love of Elvis Presley, collecting all of his EPs and his fortunate meeting with The King in the early 1960s during the filming of Follow That Dream in Florida. The Town Hall event premiered on Saturday, July 26 via satellite channel 25 and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com. For rebroadcast times, please visit www.siriusxm.com/townhall. Retro-Active is written by Ken Sharp, who can be reached directly at firstname.lastname@example.com or 818-986-9715. © 2014. All rights reserved.
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The Pitch: Voted "Game most likely to lose you your job, your scholarship, or your loved ones," Rockstar is about to drop a bomb on the world of video games by punching out the scope and depth of its flagship franchise in unprecedented ways. GTAV is back, and it's here to steal your car—and, more likely, your life.
What It Really Is: GTAV is the most perfect example we've ever seen of what a video game should be. In their latest re-creation of the pseudo-Californian San Andreas, Rockstar hasn't just offered up a world where crime is possible and the villain can win; they've created a world where you can't put the controller down, because it's fun and because you simply need to know what's next. San Andreas is packed full of stuff you want to do. This is light years beyond bowling with cousin Roman. This is races and hunting and parachuting and scuba diving and more exploration into the world and its mysteries than you would expect of even a Tomb Raider game. Gigantic map and huge list of activities aside, the driving force in GTAV is the trident of a plot that weaves together the lives of the three main characters – Michael, Franklin, and Trevor – and thrusts you into that story, with twists and turns and epic choices, at breakneck speed. You won't be earning your spurs by riding bicycles for an hour. No, in GTAV you'll have two six-shooters locked and loaded from the get-go. Most shocking is how the game keeps up that pacing throughout, thanks to the three-pronged blitzkrieg. Don't want to sit through the menial bullshit of Michael's home life? Switch to Franklin and hit the streets to start hustling. Don't want to watch Franklin's crazy aunt/roommate and her women's self-help group? Switch to Trevor and break some bad up in the mountains. The new addition of character-switching gives you the out you wished you had any time you "accidentally" drove off a bridge and wound up swimming in the middle of nowhere without a vehicle to deliver you from boredom. It also looks slick as hell, masking the loading time of the switch by zooming out and then back in via surveillance satellite, distracting you from the load, contextualizing the characters' spatial relationships, and, most importantly, lending an incredibly cinematic quality to the game by making on-the-fly switches feel like highly-choreographed jump cuts in a movie. And that's why we love GTAV so much; this is not just a game about three criminals pulling jobs for profit. This is a story, one about survival, and about flipping off a society that no longer bothers hiding its contempt for - or its abuse of - its citizens. That contempt for authority, that subversion of culture, has flowed through the veins of GTA since its inception more than a decade ago, but we've never seen it crafted with this level of finesse before. If there was ever a case to be made for a game winning an Oscar, GTAV is it.
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Fun Fact: Knowing it's got a phenomenon on its hands, Rockstar approached things a little differently in the lead up to GTAV's release by methodically and minimally sharing news about the game. The internet obliged by picking through every scrap of detail with painstaking detective work. Of all the things the unofficial investigation revealed, the world quickly honed in on a "shed" at the top of a mountain, creating a craze about the first place you'll visit once you join the ranks of other San Andreasians. And, again, Rockstar obliged. We're not saying what's in the shed but we will say this: It's not nothing.
Collector's Edition: You may be hard-pressed to actually get your hands on one without a pre-order, but the GTAV Collector's Edition comes with the game, collectible art book, oversized blueprint map of San Andreas, plus plenty of in-game goodies from weapons to tattoos to challenges that you wouldn't be able to access otherwise.
Who It's For: If you've ever enjoyed a Scorsese movie, you should play GTAV. If you've ever enjoyed a Michael Bay movie, you should play GTAV. If you were ever outraged over illegal, government-sanctioned surveillance or the waterboarding of terror-suspects, you should play GTAV. If you've ever wanted to drive a Bugatti or shoot a bazooka or hunt deer with a sniper rifle or watch a CGI stripper gyrate or take a submarine to explore a sunken wreck, you should play GTAV. If you want to experience a modern masterpiece, plain and simple, add GTAV to your collection.
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Former child star Amanda Bynes has a claim to fame that's not at all related to her work in the entertainment world: her shocking transformation from a precocious youngster to a
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The 27-year-old got her start as a child star on Nickelodeon's All That, and went on to have a successful film and television career during her teens and early 20s. But around 2011, things took a turn.
Amanda "retired" from acting and thrust herself into a weird world of the US judicial system, plastic surgery, and plastic wigs. We're all used to her current persona, but it's more impressive to see the photos together!
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