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Just like fashion, hair trends come and go each season, with a bunch of fun styles being predicted for fall 2011. But who says you have to wait until temperatures drop to change things up?
Braids of all types have been hot for awhile, and that's not ending any time soon. The half-up look with braids was all over fall 2011 runways – you'll be seeing this one a lot in the coming months. With a handful of bobby pins, and some artful hair placement to hide the ends, you can crown yourself a braiding master.
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Cheesy Beef Pasta Recipe
A satisfying supper's just 15 minutes away with this can't-miss stovetop dish. As Janalee Watkins of Vernal, Utah explains, "Four cheeses blend with the ground beef and tomatoes for a pasta entree that's rich and flavorful."
- 1 cup uncooked penne pasta
- 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, drained
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 2 tablespoons cream cheese
- 1/4 cup each shredded Swiss, cheddar and Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in tomatoes. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered for 3 minutes. Stir in onions and cream cheese. Cook and stir until cream cheese is melted. Drain pasta; add to the beef mixture. Stir in the shredded cheeses and salt. Yield: 2 servings.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. |—Jim Thome describes himself as ''a big-swing guy.''
The chiseled 6-4, 240-pound first baseman used his patented, ferocious cuts to slug a Cleveland Indians franchise-record 334 home runs.
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Ask Thome which one meant the most, and his eyes well up.
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As soon as he learned of the tragedy, Thome flew from Cleveland to Peoria, Ill., to support his brother, Randy, and fallen nephew. He flew back for that night's game.
He kept in constant contact and visited Brandon in the hospital when the Tribe visited Chicago a month later.
As he was leaving, Brandon asked Jim to hit him a homer.
Thome obliged with a three-run blast that should have been the end of a storybook tale.
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Finance Panel Shoots Down GOP Amendment to Keep Legal Residents From Getting Care
Thursday, October 01, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Deep into the Senate Finance Committee's marathon debate over health care reform, Democrats Thursday night killed a GOP proposal that would have forced legal immigrants to wait five years before getting federal subsidies on the proposed state insurance exchanges.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), sponsor of the amendment, said it would simply align exchange policies with those of Medicaid, which requires the five-year waiting period for legal immigrants. "I would like to preserve the law as it is," he said.
But Democrats were having none of it. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said the Kyl proposal, aside from treating legal residents like second-class citizens, would also put those folks in the tough position of being forced to buy insurance without lending the means to do so. "That clearly is a Catch 22," he said.
As Daphne pointed out recently, Republicans have exploited the hot-button immigration issue so successfully in the health reform debate that Finance Committee Democrats have gone so far as to exclude illegal immigrants from buying even unsubsidized insurance on the exchange. It's purely a political move, for no one — on Capitol Hill or off — has offered a good explanation for how allowing folks to buy insurance coverage from private companies using U.S. dollars could harm the country. Indeed, it would likely keep those people out of emergency rooms, saving taxpayer dollars.
The debate has grown so absurd that it feels, at times, like some voices don't care to distinguish between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. As Menendez said, under Kyl's waiting-period amendment, "legal permanent residents" would be prevented from availing a benefit "that they helped to fund."
The Kyl amendment fell by a count of 10 to 13, along strict party lines.
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Comment posted October 2, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
Republicans have exploited the immigration issue so successfully that their approval among Latins is in single digits.
Does Kyle feel he has to appease the Joe Arpaio crowd back home in AZ?
Comment posted October 2, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
It's just one thing after another with these illegal aliens. One thing after another. Why can't our immigration laws get ENFORCED? Why can't our legislators see hoe these illegal aliens are destroying this Country?
Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.
I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways…depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.
It's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
As for this Sen. Menendez, he is what you call a REAL IDIOT!
Comment posted October 2, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
You do realize they are talking about "legal residents," right? The people who did the right thing?
Comment posted October 3, 2009 @ 12:19 am
Why don't you read the article before spouting off. The fact that you go off ranting at illegal aliens when the article is about legal residents, just makes you look odious and ignorant.
Perhaps we should instigate some reverse immigration policies in the USA. We could export people whose minds have shrivelled up and stopped working from watching too many TV pundits (such as yourself). I hear North Korea is willing to take all of them for a nominal fee ;)
Comment posted October 3, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
Even legal immigrants should not get federal subsidies the minute they touch US soil. It is unfair to native-born Americans who have paid taxes to support our social services all their lives. Why, for instance, should a legal immigrant's grandmother get to collect Social Security immediately? I have paid into the SS system for 30 years and I still have 18 more years to go before I can collect. Why should someone's grandma who never paid anything at all start collecting immediately? The Kyl proposal was reasonable as well as showed a rare sense of protectiveness toward the interests of native-born Americans (which we rarely see from our "representatives.")
You can't have open borders and a welfare state. We are bankrupt and will become even more bankrupt with "representatives" like this. +
Comment posted October 3, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
Republicans have exploited the immigration issue so successfully that their approval among Latins is in single digits.
Maybe "Latins" should be forced to decide who they are most loyal to: their "race" or their country. Right now it seems like the only thing they care about is their "race."
Comment posted October 3, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
MaryJay, what on earth are you talking about ?
You can't collect Social Security the "the minute they touch US soil".
Immigrants have to pay into the system and gain sufficient credits just like the rest of us.
Since you are limited to gaining a maximum of 4 credits per year (regardless of how much one earns) and you need a minimum of 40 credits to collect retirement benefits, an immigrant would have to work at least 10 years to gain those benefits.
If you are going to post an opinion at least back it up with facts.
Oh I'm sorry, I guess the facts don't fit your bigoted world view…
Comment posted October 3, 2009 @ 11:45 pm
in their ignorance and racism, wingers reflexively conflate legal immigrants, illegal immigrants and even latinos whose families have been citizens for generations. That is why latininos have abandoned you in droves. It is not them who are obsessed with race it is you.
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Oh, so now the Republican party is synonymous with the country? And you wonder why they hate you.
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Madison Community Services Food Pantry Report December 7, 2011
Thank you DHHS Junior Class Officers and Faculty Advisors, Grace Church, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, First Congregational Church, Janet, Eileen, Newcomers Club, Sandra, Ezia, Stop & Shop, Cumby's, Robert's, Cohen's, N2N and Subway.
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Wenjian Qiao, Lionel M. Ni, Tomas Rokicki, "Adaptive-Trail Routing and Performance Evaluation in Irregular Networks Using Cut-Through Switches," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 1138-1158, November, 1999.
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Abstract—Cut-through switching promises low latency delivery and has been used in new generation switches, especially in high speed networks demanding low communication latency. The interconnection of cut-through switches provides an excellent network platform for high speed local area networks (LANs). For cost and performance reasons, irregular topologies should be supported in such a switch-based network. Switched irregular networks are truly incrementally scalable and have potential to be reconfigured to adapt to the dynamics of network traffic conditions. Due to the arbitrary topologies of networks, it is critical to develop an efficient deadlock-free routing algorithm. A novel deadlock-free adaptive routing algorithm called adaptive-trail routing is proposed to allow irregular interconnection of cut-through switches. The adaptive routing algorithm is based on two unidirectional adaptive trails constructed from two opposite unidirectional Eulerian trails. Some heuristics are suggested in terms of the selection of Eulerian trails, the avoidance of long routing paths, and the degree of adaptivity. Extensive simulation experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed and two other routing algorithms under different topologies and traffic workloads.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011)
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Languorous and deeply enigmatic, Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee represents an original take on the ghosts that haunt us.
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Languorous and deeply enigmatic, Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee represents an original take on the ghosts that haunt us.
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Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life... -- (C) Strand
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Weerasethakul's sincerity is evident, though the film's meditative pace and vague philosophical undertones will not be for everyone.
This is a film that wants to be interesting, and it certainly is that. Whether you want to dine with the ghost and the monkey-man or not, they bring a new perspective to the table.
As is to be expected, Weerasethakul frequently abandons the story for trancelike contemplations of nature, but never before in his work has the device felt more purposeful.
While the result is pretty much the definition of a film that should be experienced, not explained, there's no sense here that Weerasethakul is being difficult for difficult's sake, or even attempting to conceal his mysteries.
It playfully invokes both the lifestyle and animistic beliefs of the Northeast country folk, and the primitive magic of early Thai cinema, relating both of these to his musings on reincarnation.
If you are open, even in fancy, to the idea of ghosts who visit the living, this film is likely to be a curious but rather bemusing experience.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is boring and completely fails to engage on any level. Simply put, it's much too strange for its own good.
A film about recurrent visions and round-trip journeys: a movie not just about previous incarnations but about the possibilities of multiple and diverging paths into the future and out of the past
Weerasethakul's sixth feature is a typically slowburning experience of art cinema that doesn't feature a single spoken word until eight minutes in and is as equally enchanting as it is infuriating.
Uncle Boonmee is about ... the moments when our worlds expand; when our outlines turn out to be more porous than we thought.
Uncle Boonmee is a film to be experienced for its immediacy and thought upon for its ineffability.
Fits neatly into Weerasethakul's cinema-shaking oeuvre of beautiful experimentation. [Blu-ray]
One to absorb, to wonder at, and, perhaps most significantly, to give exposure to lines of thinking that one might not be familiar with.
Weerasethakul is operating here in a specific liminal space between experimental artwork and arthouse filmmaking.
Even if it can't be recommended to everyone, [it] blossoms inside you the longer you allow it to.
[Compared to Weerasethakul's earlier work] it's easier to get a handle on the edges, more opaque in the middle, and not as radical in its ideas or its execution.
The movie isn't paced as a conventional narrative; its story imperceptibly droops, like a heavy frond.
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A lot of people criticise Uncle Boonmee for it's lack of a solid narrative. Having one wasn't the film's primary focus anyway, but what it does have, simply cannot be explained in literal terms. This art house feature was created for spiritual enlightenment so naturally, it's not your average indie flick. Despite it's incredibly slow pacing, it's overwhelming. It doesn't let it's open minded surrealism disrupt the ideas and explanations of reincarnation, ghosts and the distances and borders between lives. Even in it's weirdest moments it's intelligent, enigmatic, and engaging and perfectly blends genres such as drama, comedy and horror. Visually outstanding, thought-provoking and delightfully otherworldly, it's one of the better films of 2010.
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Not sure that there is anything more to add to the horror we saw and felt and the hope we harbor for Kevin Ware.
The injury is gruesome. My friend Mike, a former Waggener High School and Yale baller, made an interesting observation. "I think Kevin altered his landing mid air because of the raised floor and fear of falling off. Usually they collide with the press corps and scatter laptops." Which is a legit theory, don't you think?
The injury is debilitating, but not fatal. Hopefully, the physical loss will be more than offset by the courage Ware displayed while laying with a bone sticking out of his skin on the raised platform of hardwood at Lucas Oil.
"Just win the game," he implored.
The Cardinals responded, pushing back the tears, reached deep inside for more heart, and did just that.
Won the game.
With extreme prejudice.
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Injuries have played a role in both of the Cardinals' national titles.
Three games into the '80 championship season, linchpin Scooter McCray suffered an injury which kept him out for the rest of the campaign. U of L was not to be deterred. His then roly poly freshman brother Rodney took his place. And became the linchpin of Louisville's first championship squad.
Early in the campaign that preceded Louisville's second title in '86, Milt Wagner broke his foot. He was out for the rest of that season, which ended with two losses in New York in the NIT's last weekend, and 18 total.
It proved to be the proverbial blessing in disguise. Milt returned the following year, instead of having finished his eligibility. I needn't remind Cardinal fans of those two radar FTs that sealed the deal against Duke in Dallas.
Note: I just corrected the first sentence of this section. I had typed the word "previous" before "national titles."
Which syntax presupposed another crown this season. That, obviously, would have been premature.
But, as I hear my mother saying right now, "from your fingers to God's ear."
Ware's injury certainly increases the uncertainty of U of L's task. But it remains eminently doable.
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I often mention my friend and fellow Cardinal acolyte David in these blogs. We've been watching games together since high school.
He's a bright fellow, Professor Emeritus at the law school. Despite that intelligence, he often makes the most laughably absurd observations about hoops. Which makes him great literary fodder. Every writer deserves such a foil to play off of.
So I often give him shit in this space. But must now give him credit because it's due.
During a Louisville timeout with 16:16 to play, Duke had knotted the score at 42. Seth Curry was off the schneid. Wayne Blackshear committed his second then third fouls in a matter of seconds. Peyton Siva committed his third, a classic stupid Siva reach in.
At the 15:50 media timeout, the score was the same 42-42.
David: "If Louisville wins, we'll remember the next two minutes of the game."
Like the Cards, David was on his game.
Luke Hancock blocked a shot. Chane Behanan grabbed the rebound. Russ Smith tallied a layup +1. Peyton Siva hit a jumper. Chane Behanan stole the ball from Ryan Kelly, then grabbed an offensive board, which resulted in a Siva layup.
Timeout Duke at 13:32. After a 7-0 Louisville run. 49-42.
Don Pardo, tell David what he wins for correctly predicting, "What is the turning point of the game?"
"Sure enough, Seedy, David wins the 12th edition of Take Home Jeopardy game. And, as a bonus, special mention in your blog tomorrow about the game."
At the 8:49 mark, Luke Hancock drilled a three, completing the 20-4 run. Louisville 62, Duke 46.
Is there anything more fun than watching the Dookies dismantled in the NC2A?
No, there isn't. Especially when it's your team swinging the sledgehammer.
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I love hearing Greg, Kenny and Charles break it down. (Ernie out to be there as ringmaster.)
Greg Anthony is normally pretty astute. At halftime, when Louisville had fought through tears and team turmoil for surprising 35-32 lead, the former UNLV star said, "If I was Duke, I'd be feeling pretty good right now. Only down three . . . "
And, I'm thinking just the opposite. Just a few moments ago, three Cardinals were sitting or prostrate on the floor in shock while their teammate was being tended to by EMS. Players and coaches were openly crying over the fate of their teammate.
Yet they'd maintained their considerable poise for 6:33 of clock time, to increase their advantage by a deuce.
I'm thinking that it might have been as gutty a segment of basketball ever played by a U of L team. I'm thinking the Cards are in as great a shape as they could have possibly hoped for.
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Here's one thing we always suspected, but now know for sure.
Gorgui Dieng's absence in Atlantis was the difference in the earlier U of L/ Duke encounter. 14 points on 6/8 shooting and 11 rebounds. Ho hum. When Plumlee didn't come out to check Gorgui, the Cardinal kept dropping in that sweet jumper of his.
His disappointing 2/8 FT shooting is excused. For this, the last time.
Despite his stupid fouls and his sometime overdribbling, Peyton Siva remains the centerpiece of this team. He had 16 points, 4 assists and no turnovers.
Louisville, as a team, had 10 steals, 9 blocks, and, against one of the nation's most fundamentally sound defenses, only 8 turnovers.
Chane Behanan went for 8 and 8, and played STRONG. Far and away his best game in awhile.
Wayne Blackshear's offense remains a mystery in its absence. But he played a mighty game on defense. He, along with Luke Hancock, checked Curry right out of the game.
Silent L, SVT, they all came up huge on the big stage.
Oh yes, that Smith kid, the region's MOP. 23 points. 2 steals. Only 1 turnover.
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Since the game was played on Easter, I would be remiss if I didn't mention Christian Academy grad Tim Henderson, who. all of a sudden, becomes an integral part of the Cards' rotation.
He played 7 steady minutes.
He dotted the exclamation point three with :17 on the clock, to push the final victory margin to — oh, this is so sweet to type — 22 points.
Which contribution on Easter by a CAL grad wasn't the biggest of the day by a Cardinal.
(Is that a clever transition to talk about the women's stupendous upset or what?)
CAL grad Antonita Slaughter was 7/9 from beyond the arc in U of L's upset of #1 Baylor.
Okay, I'm going to say, and I pray it doesn't offend. Thank you, Jesus.
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I must admit there is something vexing about the W by Jeff Walz's steely squad. And it goes back to my friend David.
One thing he says to the point where we want to stuff a bar of soap in his mouth is this: You look good when you make shots.
So, David, enjoy this day, you're two for two.
Slaughter wasn't the only radar-eyed Cardinal sniper from downtown. Louisville was 16/25 from beyond the arc.
Yet, yet, yet, as champs do, and as we knew they would, the Bears came back. But the distaff Cardinals showed as much mettle as their male counterparts.
How great that, when the lead had totally dissipated with seconds to go, hobbled Monique Reid just went down court and won it, besting the best player in the game.
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A couple of comments about the losing coaches, then I'm outta here.
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey displayed as little grace in defeat as I can recall. After avoiding a technical for behavior that would have been embarrassing to a Little League father, she had the audacity to blame the loss on the officials.
Tsk, tsk. Mulkey's post game demeanor was the paradigm of sore loser, totally devoid of class.
The flip side, I must admit, was the post game reaction of Mike Krzyzewski.
We love to hate him, don't we? His looks. The way he works the refs. Most of all, his considerable, long term, ongoing success at a tony private school.
But the guy is always as gracious in defeat as he is in victory.
"We want to congratulate Louisville on winning this regional championship. They played a great game. They played so hard. We tried to match them, and we couldn't match them. And they wear you down.
"Their two guards just set an amazing pace, Siva. I don't know if he – didn't look like he was even sweating today. He just was so smooth. And then Smith is terrific.
"We feel so bad about youngster Ware. I don't know the extent of his injury, but Godspeed to him. I hope he's going to be okay. But congratulations to them."
"I don't watch all of college basketball, but it's the best team we've played. And they're obviously better than we played in the Bahamas.
"What they do, and Rick's done an amazing job with them, because they have depth and they keep coming at you, but they make you have multiple decision-makers. You have to have more than one guy making a decision out on the court.
"And in switching their defenses and their quickness and their athleticism, you have to – it's tough to run plays. You have to make plays against them. And we were doing that when we didn't turn the ball over in the first half.
"The thing with Seth, which we tried to change and did at the start of the second half, he was bringing the ball up too much. We needed he and Mason to be finishers for us, and that's how we started the second half. We got that.
"And then they played well, and then we missed some shots, and then they just spurted. And then the game changed. I thought we had a chance there, and then boom. And that's what they do to teams. They can boom you. They – whatever. My vocabulary isn't very good, but you I hope you understand what I mean. It's a positive thing for them. Not for us. And Rick's done a masterful job with this team. He's as good as they get, and this team's as good as we've seen."
Next: Wichita State.
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Burning Man pre-registration tickets go on sale today
Pre-registration begins at noon today for 40,000 Burning Man tickets at $380 per ticket. The pre-registration period ends noon Sunday, Feb. 10. Burning Man officials are doing tiered first-come-first serve sales of the 2013 tickets.
According to the official Burning Man website, organizers say they've come up with a ticket sales plan to avoid scalping and to meet the needs of the "greatest number of people possible," given there is a limited supply available.
Burning Man is a week-long annual art, music and self-expression festival held in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September, which coincides with the Labor Day holiday.
Pre-registration is required in order to gain access. Once you've registered you will be able to participate in the first-come first-served sales. The plan began with the holiday sales, then direct group sales which began Jan. 30. Wednesday, Feb. 6-10 are individual ticket sales with 40,000 available. A Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP) – will run Feb. 28 through July 31 ; an OMG Last Chance Sale (1000+ tickets) will go on sale August 7 (Pre-registration required, August 2-5) and 4,000 tickets will be given in the Low Income Ticket Program. (Application required.)
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Seventeen-year-old Dieruff High School senior Lawrence E. Sweigard Jr., a standout baseball player for the school, died early yesterday morning in Sacred Heart Hospital after he was stricken at his home in Allentown. He was a son of Lawrence E. and Carol A. (Wolfe) Sweigard of 864 N. Sherman St.
Sweigard, who was named the school's outstanding pitcher this year, was hospitalized last Thursday after reporting to the school nurse that he had experienced chest discomfort.


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"It was the age of belief, it was the age of disbelief," wrote Charles Dickens, in an homage to 2011.
While we sit here shaking our heads at the latest valuation of Groupon or Pandora, the honest ones amongst us have to admit there's a bit of whimsical enjoyment to think what it would be like, just for a day, to run our companies like we did in 2000, before the walls came crashing in from the implosion of a dot-bomb, and before the air was sucked from our lungs as we tried to breathe through a sock that was once a puppet.
While no one would deny that the sushi that comes from the pockets of investors tastes fresher than the kind we pick up from the take-out place on the way home, lest we forget, the food poisoning we get at 3am is a lot worse from the former than the latter. With that said, here are four ways to make sure you're not running your company into the annals of history, to be mocked in the near-future as the next "theglobe.com."
One more thing: Before you think "Oh, I'm a small business – This doesn't apply to me", remember this: AOL started out as a company that let sixteen Commodore 64 users talk to each other.
1: Focus on building something. Don't focus on the exit.
I know this goes against the holy scripture written in the Book of Venture, but let's face it – There's never been a sustainable business built without the passion and drive to change something, or make something better. If the only passion you have for your project starts with the word "Exit," and ends with the word "Strategy," you're fooling yourself. I'm not saying you should run your business without a long-term goal, but that part should be only one aspect of your plan. To build a business with the sole goal of IPO'ing it a few years later actually causes damage to the universe. Or, to put it in non-granola terms, "a sustainable model will make a lot more money in the long term than a model only based on getting to an IPO." And come on – MBA programs are currently filled with former dot com CEOs who went public, and in the end, didn't make a penny.
2: As you grow, always make 96% of your spending mirror how you spent money during the first six months of the company's life.
Remember the day you quit your job to focus on your "baby?" Remember how ordering a few pizzas for yourself and the two other employees was considered a special occasion? Don't forget that. You might be making money. You might even be turning a profit! But remember – it can all go away. There will always be time to spend the money you're making. The "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse" mentality of the 80s doesn't fly anymore, and neither do the corporate jets from that era. There's a multi-millionaire CEO of a major car company in Europe who drives a beat up 15-year-old car. (I Googled this story for an hour and couldn't find it, but I know I read it in the Times a few years back.) Just because you're making a ton of money, doesn't mean you have to spend it with reckless abandon. I remember the PR firms in 1999-2000 who had multi-million dollar offices to impress clients. The first thing I thought was "Wow – this office comes from a retainer… That's a lot of retainer." Impress people with your work. That Tesla will always be there. Your capital in reserve might not be.
3: Keep networking. But do it right.
During the first boom, almost every client at my firm asked us, at one point, to throw a mega-party. Something that showed their prowess. Something that showed how powerful they were, and how just frickin' awesome their company was. And they were the client, and I was a much younger CEO than I am now, so we complied. And we spent tons and tons of money on their behalf. (boxing ring in a club with actual boxers? Hiring fifteen former Playboy centerfolds to "mingle…" I'm telling you, I want to write a book and call it "who the hell did we think we were?") But the point is the same: Networking can happen in your office, with 20 people, and a few bottles of a decent white wine. Or it can happen at a ten person dinner at a decent restaurant. "Over the top" parties and events mean only one thing – You have too much money, and it'll come back to hurt you." Want to throw a "legendary bash?" Wait until you've been public for five years, and call it a thank-you bash.
4: Not everything needs to cost a ton of money.
My PR firm did really well in the dot com boom because every new start-up in the world was told they needed one. So they hired us, or one of the many others like us. And yeah, we got them press, and probably got them press they couldn't have gotten on their own back then. Back then. Today, there are tons of other options: HARO (the company I started to level the PR playing field,) or LinkedIn, or Facebook, or finding out what reporters are covering your space and sending a quick "Hi" email. And it's not only PR. Almost every industry for which you'd hire an agency to do the work has tools out there that let you do it yourself. And sometimes, doing it yourself is better. I'm not saying to give up all outside vendors. Hell, I'm just smart enough to know that I pay an accountant and lawyer a ton of money because I'm not smart enough to do that stuff myself. But there are things I'm smart enough to do well, and that's a nice chunk of change I don't have to spend on hiring an expert. So evaluate wisely.
At the end of the day, it's all about just being a bit smarter. It comes down to what all of our mothers once said to us: "If your best friend jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?"
Don't jump.
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BLOCKLEY Ladies made a positive start to their season in West Clubs Women's Hockey League Severn Division One with a 6-4 win at Newent seconds.
A shaky start for the visitors saw them trail 2-0.
However, Blockley came out strongly in the second period and soon got a goal back through Dennie Honour following a short corner.
The equaliser soon followed from player-of-thematch Fiona Drinkwater but Newent went 4-2 ahead.
This spurred Blockley into life and a shot from the top of the 'D' by Donna Whitehouse kept them in the contest and soon after, a deflected shot by Sabrina Rew brought the sides level again.
Blockley kept pressing and added a fifth through Whitehouse before Drinkwater sealed the victory late on.
Blockley's next opponents are Lansdown seconds on Saturday at Prince Henry's High School (10am).
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[UPDATE: Here is colleague Karen Sudol's story along with a link to video of today's event]
Among the takeaways before we got to go "under the bubble" – onto the stadium field, which is currently being protected by a tarp due to the recent rain:
- The main point clearly was to reassure the public that they have no reason to fear attending the Super Bowl. That was most bluntly underscored by Chief Christopher Trucillo of the NJ Transit Police: "No one at this table needs to be reminded, in the shadow of the World Trade Center, how important this event is and to make people safe in our region."
- There will be more than 500 state Troopers working the game, and maybe as many as 800 – most getting straight time, not overtime, taxpayers may be relieved to hear.
- Aaron Ford of the FBI said, "Our tactical teams have been training throughout the year for different scenarios that include: active shooter, bomb threats, and hazardous chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats." SWAT teams, crisis negotiators, you name it, they'll be there, was the message."
- Ford added that the Boston Marathon, site of a terrorist plot, is very different from the Super Bowl site. "That's an annual event that occurs over numerous city blocks. Super Bowl gameday is one event right here, at a stadium we have control over."
- I got confirmation from State Police that not only can't you walk onto the stadium grounds, or drive there without a parking pass that has a list price of $150, you can't even take a cab to the game as you could at other Super Bowl locations. I did not get a direct reply of why this is so, but keep in mind that if you're staying in North Jersey, it will be better to take a cab to Secaucus Junction than to East Rutherford – the actual site of the game.
- It's also advised that you buy your roundtrip train ticket in advance to avoid those lines. Oh, and you can't get on a train or bus headed to the stadium without two tickets – the train or bus ticket, plus the stadium ticket.
- Security at the stadium will look just like an airport, with metal detectors, wands, dogs and so forth. Allow extra time to get through that scenario.
- A reminder that the entire Meadowlands Sports Complex is in lockdown for the six days before the Super Bowl as well as game day: No shortcuts for you that week. Until then, you can drive over and marvel at the number of tents that have been put up all over the stadium and racetrack parking lots – all for a mere eight hours or so of activity on one day, Super Bowl Sunday.
- NFL groundskeeper Ed Mangan told us that the tarp likely would come off tomorrow, weather permitting, so that some of the field can be painted. More of that work will take place after Sunday night, when the league finally knows which two team logos to paint.


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While the 2009 liquor trends show Americans buying cheaper liquor, the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York is unveiling the world's priciest liquor bottle. With more than 60 carats worth of diamonds including 1,100 round cut diamonds, princess and pear cut diamonds, a square cut emerald diamond, round pearls, and 18 carat yellow gold, the Chambord Black Raspberry Liquor bottle is worth $3 million.
Designed by Donald Edge and unveiled by Betsy Johnson, the $3 million bottle will be sold and proceeds will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Coalition. As a breast cancer survivor, Betsey Johnson was a fitting choice to unveil the incredible bottle.
After Chambord by Donald Edge is sold, it will be entered into the Guinness World Records for the most expensive bottle beating the last record holder by over $2.5 million. Prior to Edge's creation, the world record was held by a Platinum & White Gold Tequila bottle priced at $225,000.
Try a non-diamond encrusted bottle of Chambord for around $40.
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Chris Brown has reportedly apologized for storming off the set of "Good Morning America" on Tuesday and breaking a window after host Robin Roberts asked him about his domestic abuse case involving Rihanna.
Andrea Canning, another host of "Good Morning America" confirmed that details of Brown's "sort of" apology would be revealed on Thursday morning's show.
"Chris Brown apologizes to GMA & Robin Roberts on BET (sort of)," Canning wrote on Twitter. "Full story Thursday 7:30 am on GMA."
On Wednesday, Brown said on the Wednesday night episode of BET's talk show "106 & Park" that he "apologized to anyone he startled" in the studio and didn't hurt anyone, but "had to blow off steam and let out the anger." Brown also asked his fans to not send threats to "GMA" anchor Robin Roberts.
Media mogul Russell Simmons voiced his support on Twitter, blaming the media for the singer's 'tough' time after having dinner with Brown.
"Dancing/ singing is prayer,promotes happiness But being picked on by the media is hard 4 kids, disney kids,rappers & singers have it tough," Simmons wrote on Twitter.
Brown, an R & B artist, had pleaded guilty to felony assault for attacking Rihanna in 2009 and was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service. Brown completed a court-mandated domestic violence course in December 2010.
After the confrontation, Rihanna obtained a restraining order against Brown. In February it was downgraded to a lower level. On "Good Morning America," on Tuesday, Roberts asked Brown if he had seen or been around Rihanna since the violent incident.
"I mean, not really," Brown replied. "It's not really a big deal to me now as far as that situation... people always want to, you know, bring what the situation that you're bringing up now and I think eventually it's just about my fans. I'm doing this for my fans. I could care less what anybody else thinks."
After the interview, Brown performed "Yeah 3x," the lead single off "F.A.M.E," which he said stands for "Fans Are My Everything" and "Forgiving All My Enemies."
After his performance, Brown then stormed off stage and went into his dressing room. He then emerged shirtless and approached the producer of the segment, ABC News said. It added that the show's hair and makeup staff called security after hearing loud noises from Brown's dressing room. Police did not get involved.
Brown and his entourage left the building and it was later discovered that a window inside his dressing room had been smashed. Paparazzi photos show the singer shirtless outside the show's Times Square studio.
ABC News said in a statement following the incident: "As always, we ask questions that are relevant and newsworthy, and that's what we did in this interview with Mr. Brown."
The "GMA" incident landed on March 22, the day of the release of his new album "F.A.M.E.," which Brown is currently trying to promote through press appearances and is also set to perform songs on ABC's ballroom dancing show "Dancing With The Stars" next week. "F.A.M.E" is Brown's fourth studio album and features collaborations with hip hop artists Lil Wayne, Ludacris and Busta Rhymes as well as with teen pop star Justin Bieber.


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added a new ending ,will fix the drum and bass at end in a while,RB are the drums lined up ok on this ?
I can put something on the ending if that's the one you want to go with? Won't be able to do anything until Sunday.
If you have a different Idea for an ending why dont you play it and I will change to adapt to you,I really dont know that much about Jazz except that I like it.
The drums are a little too upfront in this mix, except during the snare ride section. As you approach the end of the arranging and get everything as you like it, I'll likely lay down a final drum track to capture everything that's going on. There are comps (kicks and hits) in my track that don't belong. I may also try a track with sticks. Just post a drumless track of your final. Rick
Great playing, i'm downloading this one to my cooking mix right now


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How will the landscape of the greater Jackson area look in 10 years? Plans are in the making for change. And it's not just about jobs, it's about livability as well.
The long-range strategy includes quality-of-life enhancements to keep residents in Jackson and the surrounding counties, and also to attract people here. Possibilities include more bike trails, parks and entertainment. The Executive Summary was released to reporters Thursday afternoon. Adjustments could be made to the plan every 2-3 years.
"We want to take a hard look at what draws the young talent," said Duane O'Neill, president of the Greater Jackson Partnership, of the ten-year proposal. "The best and the brightest that we want to keep from here in our own community but also how we can bring folks in from across the country that want to live here in the greater Jackson area."
O'Neill said the planning process is to have the final long-range vision embraced by the entire regional community. O'Neill and the chairman, Paul Moak, agreed a stumbling block could be getting everyone on board with the master plan.
Market Street consultants out of Atlanta is heading up the metro plan. Other cities are being looked at including, Baton Rouge, Little Rock and Montgomery.
The partnership also wants to hear input from the public so that everyone can express ideas. To take the survey all you have to do is visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/gjasurvey.
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The massive success of WiiFit was a wakeup call, not for the game industry, but for Maytag and Whirlpool. With a dash of simple game design, a simple bathroom scale outsold the most popular bathroom scales in the history of mankind by an order of magnitude.
A cadre of lapsed game developers, reinvigorated by their new 40-hour a week jobs, saw the obvious business opportunity and leapt for it. The resulting product: cloud connected household appliances combined with simple games and an augmented reality feedback system. The resulting consumer boom is widely credited with ending the economic malaise of America's Lost Decade.
The basic technology was quite straight forward. Hook up some inexpensive sensors and a wireless connection to assorted dishwashers,vacuums, refrigerators and washing machines. Add a feedback device in the form of a vision aware monocle. Viola, you've turned your every day environment into an omnipresent game machine.
The monocle displays a high definition HUD over the players normal view of the world. A camera with depth sensing captures the 20 megapixel scene at 60 FPS. This is then converted into a 3D representation and game objects are inserted in.
The resulting image is then redisplayed on the monocle. Such augmented reality systems are now quite popular. Why watch a static George Clooney on a TV screen when you can be doing the dishes and map a youthful George Clooney's face and voice in real time onto that of your spouse?
Application games were initially simple mini-game collections when you cleaned and tidied for points. These were pooh poohed as a fad by gaming geriatrics who still thought it was hip to wire a heavily DRM'd box to a "television".
Luckily, they eventually died out along with all the other solitary gamers. Over time, market competition drove the development of rich story lines, massive multiplayer worlds, and 18+ content involving the surprisingly successful maid games genre.
Appliance gaming uses the popular "Free"-to-Live model. Appliances are provided at no charge, dropped off at your door by burly men who are themselves 80th level delivery paladins. Players pay for new play modes and status abilities.
For example, you can either play 20 hours or pay 300 yuan to unlock the warm rinse cycle on your washing machine. Since your household cleaning patterns are automatically Twittered (or Twoogled ever since Twitter engulfed Google) to your extended friends network, washing with highly taxed hot water has become an irresistible item drop in billion dollar franchises like World of Washcraft.
Once wives and girlfriends found that their men were addicted to vacuuming as long as it involved augmented reality death matches, signups went viral. Within two years, 82% of American household considered themselves to be a moderate to compulsive appliance gamers.
There are downsides. Household arguments often devolve into husbands pleading to do 'just one more load of laundry.' The industry's current biggest challenge is breaking away from the 'hardchore gamers' and wooing women back to housework. Nintendo calls this the Pink Ocean.
Our bright future
Ian Bogost, Senior Vice President of the Hoover Games and Consumables division was caught on government spyeye commenting. "Given the correct reward system, you'd be completely shocked at the things we can convince people do with a vacuum cleaner. Why coerce when you can persuade?"
His lunch companion, Sir Miyamoto laughed knowingly. Then they both hopped onto a co-op WiiBike and sped off on a tour of the Los Angeles Crater.
|Nick Jacoby
First of all, congratulations to all of the winners. I hope you all have a great time at the GDC, you definitely deserve it.
Looking at the winning entries I see much promise for mobile gaming in the future. Johnston's and others' ideas support a movement towards fun and pervasive play (or in the case of games along the lines of Jenning's Muses, deeply personal aspects of our everyday lives), although I am skeptical about our ability to develop the necessary superimposing image displays in only a decade. Regardless, I am sure that games in the spirit of these ideas will be very possible as GPS and wireless networking technologies continue to improve, and to be quite honest I cannot wait to get my hands on a GEO.
While the winning entries largely have fallen within the bounds of my predictions for mobile gaming (and were decidedly top-notch), I am somewhat surprised by the dearth of single-player designs in the top 20. Perhaps more traditional forms of media that do not require a playmate are at this point less revolutionary than social cyber-playgrounds, but like winning contestant Patrick Delaney I see much opportunity for innovation and improvement in the realm of interactive adventures. Smart stories with captivating characters and settings have driven literature for centuries (and movies for the past era), and there is no reason to believe that a good story will go out of style. As technology and video game design improves, I fully expect heavily scripted but interactive video games to be appreciated like movies in the future, despite the rising popularity in mobile gaming.
In fact, I just remembered a good point Pachter made in the MI6 roundtable on this very subject:
"I don't know that I agree with you, Pachter responded, Insofar as you all seem to agree that the future is social interaction -- collaborative, competitive gameplay. I think of entertainment as a solitary experience. I may go to the movies with my wife but we don't sit there and talk about it during the film. We consume it alone. You read a book by yourself. It strikes me that we're socialized to consume entertainment alone. I still think most video games are consumed alone. What role is there for the single player game for people who [want] to get away from people for awhile?"
If I happen to be dead wrong, I will still be content playing with the abominable snowman in the backyard via my RetroGlasses (love the pictures, Jake).
|Ryan B
Very fun. Congrats to all the winners!
I couldn't help but notice that Tarl Telford's Paper Planes design, on page 3, is *very* similar to David Jaffe's paper airplane game from the Experimental Gameplay Workshop at GDC 2007. Details:
Was that just a coincidence?
|Tarl Telford
"Was that just a coincidence?"
Paper Planes is more than just an interface for folding paper. You are not limited to paper airplanes. With the Crumple Algorithm, the player can create anything they can origamically envision from a single piece of paper. Paper Planes describes a multi-tiered community of folders who enjoy creating and interacting with digitally created paper sculptures.
While it may appear to use the same interface, needle and thread input into a computer is far different than nanocircuitry and microLED lights in a flexible gamescreen.
I fancy myself a writer of science fiction. What seems improbable now has most likely already been dealt with in a scifi story of some kind. There's plenty of ideas floating around in the universe. I just happened to grab onto a childhood hobby of origami and plugged it into a game design. In the end, as they say behind the scenes in Hollywood, "Content is King."
Novel interfaces have already been tried. Nintendo Power Glove and 3d goggles didn't catch on as much more than a novelty along the way.
Paper Planes is a story, a world, a community and a personal palette, coupled with an interface. My part is the world. The techies can figure out the physical controls.
- Tarl
|Robert Chang
One issue I find with trying to have games connect to real life in such a direct and real time manner is that there's always the danger of overzealous gamers causing safety problems due to not watching where they're going, trying too hard to score or level up, being too competitive, or emotional outbursts causing real life consequences. The idea that we could incorporate our other half or household chores into the games are noble thoughts, but the downside is that many people will feel used because their main value to their partners become ways to advance in the game. People will start to place a skewed sense of value on their mates and responsibilities around the house and lose touch with reality. I could just hear people complain "The only time you're interested in me is when you want to use me to play your stupid game!" This would be especially true when one partner enjoys the games less than the other. Also any games that could cause significant bodily harm would be a huge problem with lawsuits. Human nature is a factor to consider when dealing with real life gaming in uncontrolled environments. With real life games like paintball or lasertag, the gaming space is controlled and there are set rules to obey and you pay money to be there. But in regular public spaces any overzealous gaming might turn into a safety hazard. Adults already get into physical fights when trying to buy that rare Christmas present for their kids--can you imagine what would happen when they get too competitive in a game in a public space like a supermarket or in traffic?
The great thing about games right now is that they remain in their own fantasy space and do not mix with reality so easily, and that is a good thing. Even now with multiplayer games you already see bullies and jerks hiding behind their game handles and mistreating others--taking that kind of interactivity to the next level would only make things worse, though punitive measures could probably take care of that (you get enough other players reporting on your bad behavior and your account gets suspended). I think any kind of integration of real life with gaming should be designed around minimum possible physical altercations with other players, otherwise we're looking at a lot of lawsuits. These games are not the same as sports in nature because with sports people have a set of expectation, while in these games players are often not sports players and do not have sportsman like conduct ingrained in their values.
I also think that people will always want maximum escapism instead of dealing with real life issues, no matter how you try to incorporate them into games. A completely detached and fantasy/sci-fi/horror/action world provides a totally different and exciting world to explore, with no consequences in real life, and for that reason they will always remain very popular. All the social networking aspect of the future game designs are assuming the best--that everyone is socially well-adapted. Many people may find the social aspect to be a peer-pressure and prefer to be alone. Also, social networking games could have real life consequences--you may offend a friend due to something you did in a game, and not everyone wants to deal with that kind of consequence.
|Scott Mills
Hello, my name is Scott Mills. I have been looking for Richard Marzo for quite awhile. Your email address no longer works, and your phone number in Japan doesn't work for me either. Email me dude, or call me. You should know my stuff.
|Craig Timpany
Wow, everyone else did mobile augmented reality games as well! Perhaps I should've taken the contrarian approach instead and suggested that in 10 years time, people will still have buttocks and will still have chairs to rest them in. ;)
Wonderful contest. I'd love to see it become a regular event.


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The Better Business Bureau is warning about who's on the other end of that phone call. Southern Arizona is being hit with a telemarketing scheme.
The local BBB says they're getting complaints about robocalls from a company selling energy efficiency services, and claiming to be associated with a Southern Arizona utility company.
Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC), which serves parts of Cochise, Pima, Graham, and Santa Cruz Counties, says that many of their members have been inundated with the calls.
They ask for your bank account or credit card number, but the BBB urges you not to give it to the caller. The BBB have been able to identify the company that is placing the robocalls.
BBB has also heard from consumers across Tucson who are receiving similar calls on both land and mobile lines. The calls are coming from several different numbers that have either a 480 or 520 area code. In some cases, these individuals are also being offered a free in-home energy audit.
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Pojo, please post this in Single Card Strategies.
Ok, I've been thinking about it alot, and I've finally
decided what the best cards and the worst cards are.
Top ten best cards:
10: Exeggutor: Why? If you have about, say, 10 energys
on him (unless you are really bad at coin flips) you
can knock out a Charizard or Chansey. Really, Really
good with double Colorless energy. Only problem with
this card is to fact that it's week to SER. That and
it takes really long to power up.
9: Gengar: Why? His pokemon power can kill tons of
decks. Just use curse to move a damage counter to a
pokemon with only 10hp left, then use Dark Mind to
keep destroy the bench, and every single one of the
three big decks will fall. Also, with a resintence to
fighting, even a Haymaker will lose. It also has no
8: Wigglytuff: Why? Do The Wave can do major damage to
a pokemon if you have a full bench. Lulabye can keep
the other pokemon from attacking while you get a full
bench for 60 damage.
7: Alakazam: Why? His pokemon power makes him a great
bench warmer. Just keep putting all the damage
counters on a Chansey whill you attack with Gyarados
or someone like that...
6: Gyarados: Why? An attack that does 50 damage for
only three water energy, and an attack that does 40
damage for 4 water energys with a chance of paralyze.
5:Hitmonchan: Why? Not week to SER or ER, and it takes
only 1 fighting energy to do 20 damage. So what? you
say, Machop can do 20 damage for one too. For your
answer, just take a look at Machop's Hp. 50 right? Now
look at Hitmonchan's. 70 Hp. Plus Hitmonchan has a
great attack that only requires 2 fighting energy and
one Colorless. Now do you have your answer??? Too bad
that there are so many pokemon with a resistance to
Fighting, with Fossil out now.
4: Golduck: Why? Hyper Beam is a great attack if
you're faceing a Energy Hungry Fire Type, (Ninetale,
Charizard, ex.) since it can deal 20 damage plus
weekness (Not includeing Moltres) PLUS discard one
energy card attached to the pokemon. Psyshock makes it
a good card in Psychic decks too. A retreat cost of
one and a good basic pokemon, (Psyduck) earns it a
spot in my top 10 list.
3: Energy Search: Why? This card is just awsome. Look
at it, it lets you search your deck for any energy
card without any discard cost, and no coin flips! This
card is great.
2: Professor Oak: Why? Great Card if you get the worst
hand ever to start with. Example: Your hand is: 1
Gastly, (Basic or Fossil, they both suck if you don't
get any psy energy.) Professor Oak, and 5 some other
energy cards. What I would do is draw a card and
whether or not you get any psychic energys, use
Professor Oak. That gives you 7 new cards. (And you
get to have your old hand discarded.) Who knows? You
could get a Gengar and a pokemon breeder.
Tie for first place:
The best Trainer is:
1: Bill!!!! Why? You get to draw two cards, and the
only thing that you have to discard is Bill. Great
card, or at least the best trainer.
The best pokemon is:
1: Electrabuzz!!! Why? Think about it: One lightning
energy for an attack that does 10 damage with a chanch
to Paralyze, and one lightning and one colorless for
an attack that does 30 damage by itself, and 40 if you
flip heads! (Of corse, if you flip tales, it does 10
damage to itself.)
Top five Worst cards:
5: Goldeen: Why? 40 hp and one water energy for 10
damage. Seaking isn't worth this waist if paper.
4: Geodude: Why? The attack has a slim chance of KOing
any pokemon, but I do stress the word slim. Usely, it
won't even do 10 damage, let alone enoth to KO any
3:Shellder: Why? This card can't even attack! How bad
can you get? Which brings us to #2 and 1...
2: Porygon: Why? Hmm... Two attacks that can't really
can't hert the other pokemon, only change the
weekness, and no evolution! Oh well, at least you can
use it in a combo.
1: Basic Set Gastly!!! This card is the worst card
ever invented. Resons: an attack that has only a 25%
chance of keeping the other pokemon asleep, and an
attack which doesn't even touch the other pokemon
unless your oppant is really stupid. (And it uses up
one psy energy.) Why on earth did they even make this
card??? At least Shellder evolves into something
that's actuly OK, and Porygon can change the weekness
of the other pokemon. Gastly can do nether.
Agree? Disagree??
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Earlier today, Bloody Elbow passed along some pretty harsh comments from UFC welterweight Josh Koscheck in regards to his former team, American Kickboxing Academy. He actually said that he hoped the gym burned to the ground, and even implied that he wouldn't mind if one person was inside at the time - namely, former coach Javier Mendez. MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani was able to speak to Mendez tonight at the UFC on Fox 4 open workouts to get his reaction to Koscheck's statements, and he said he wasn't very surprised at all by them:
"When you've spent eight years with an individual like Josh, I think that nothing is gonna surprise you with him. Actually he really hates me, so it didn't shock me. That's him, that's who he is. I just wish that if it does burn down that I'm not in it!"
"I'm not gonna let it affect me. Hey, we're not friends. He doesn't want to be my friend, he made it obvious, so I'm just moving on. I've got a team to focus on."
The whole Koscheck/Mendez/AKA thing will apparently play out on a reality show called Fight Factory, which debuts on Nuvo TV on August 15th.
The rest of the interview is very interesting as well, with Mendez talking about what actually led to the heat between the two (he says it's his fault, surprisingly), whether B.J. Penn will indeed be training at AKA or not, when Cain will fight Junior dos Santos, and a whole lot more. You can check out the video below, or see all the choice quotes below the jump.
On what caused the animosity between him and Koscheck:
Well, I did something. You're not going to hear it here, you'll have to watch it on the show.
I'm at fault, only because, the person that's in charge, he knows if you do certain things, you know your children type of thing, and you know what they'll do. So, I did something that I knew that could can cause a bad reaction, and if I had to do it all over again I probably wouldn't. But I've gotta accept the fact, my responsibility for it.
Does he regret it?
Yeah, I do. Because you know what, I don't like hate. And I created legit hate. I do regret it. But you'll have to watch the show to see what it is.
After talking about the reality show for a bit, the topic switched to B.J. Penn wanting to train at AKA, but Jon Fitch wasn't a fan of the idea. Will Mendez let Penn come to San Jose anyway?
When you have fighters that could potentially be fighting each other, the gym rule is that we shouldn't have anybody come in that could potentially could be a match. And Jon still wants that match. And as long as there's a possibility of that match happening, we as a team, need to do what we have to do.
I love BJ. I love him like a son. Always will, he's just an unbelievable guy but we're in a competition thing here and as much as we'd like to think it's cool, it's a competition.


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I just read this wonderful, informative 6-page write-up on one of our favorite young, up-and-coming black directors, Mr Barry Jenkins (Medicine For Melancholy) in the Miami New Times Arts section on their website.
We've featured just about all of Barry's work, since his feature film debut in 2008, and I've interviewed twice in the last 2 years; we will be interviewing him again shortly, mostly inspired by his recent film, a short for the ITVS Futurestates series, titled Remigration, and another short title, Chlorophyl, which will debut at the the BORSCHT Film Festival in Miami, FL this weekend. Stephanie is handling the interview duties this time around, so look forward to that.
The Miami New Times piece answers several questions about Barry and his career that I think you'll find interesting and revealing. I certainly did. From how much money IFC paid him for the rights to distribute his revered first feature (Medicine For Melancholy), to the offers he received after the critical success of that film, and what he's currently working on. There's even a Tyler Perry reference in there :)
Summarily, the article reveals Barry's age-old artist's dilemma - the broadly-defined struggle between art and commerce that many of you I'm sure are intimately familiar with.
Here are the highlights:
First - IFC paid "almost $100,000" for the rights to Medicine For Melancholy, which he used to pay back his producers and the musicians whose songs were used in the film.
Second - Post Medicine For Melancholy, he did receive offers to direct - but, they were to direct scripts written by others; he preferred to direct his own work. He was also offered money to direct "more mainstream "black" films like those of Tyler Perry." See... told you there was a TP reference.
Third - Although, he'd like to keep his soul, he's finding it increasingly difficult to do so in this climate, especially when he has bills to pay, and he's having second thoughts about turning down the 6-figure salary director-for-hire gigs he has been offered; For example, last month he rejected an offer to direct a $10 million "feel-good, music-related film for one of Hollywood's biggest studios" that would have paid him a tidy $250,000, choosing to instead make smaller, more personal projects like the above-mentioned 2 short films. Ouch! Yeah, I'd be tempted too. You've got strong will there Barry, especially when you've got bills stacking up. Although now I'm really dying to know what that "feel-good, music-related" movie is/was. Hmm... I'll have to dig into my memory banks to remember what recently announced projects would fit that description. Any guesses folks?
Fourth - Barry adds, "Jesus Christ... I do think about the money sometimes. Not just turning down the project but turning down a job that lucrative. I'm seen as an independent, artsy-fartsy director right now. But I feel guilty about it. Who am I to turn down an opportunity like that when my mom, sister, brother could use that money?"
Fifth - As for what he has signed on for... Barry will direct one of four parts of the upcoming adaptation of the graphic novel, A Contract With God - a project we talked about previously, on the old S&A site. Also, he's working on what sounds like a biographical film with Focus Features, which he refuses to discuss because "the subject of the film is still alive." I'm really curious as to who this person would be. He did say that the film, if it moves ahead with Focus Features, would be budgeted in the many millions, and would pay him $250,000! Go Barry!
And lastly - the article says that Disney is wooing him "with a big contract," and he's considering it; BUT, in his words, "The problem is, once you get pigeon-holed, it's hard to get out. Disney movies are PG max, the characters are limited, and they can't do certain things they would in real life... But it's a lot of money."
So, there ya go! Like I said, interesting and revealing. Good to know that he IS at least getting offers, and isn't sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring. They may not be the offers he desires, but, it's nice to be wanted, and I certainly hope he finds the right fit and balance that would satisfy him.
I'm now even more excited about our upcoming interview with him :)
You can read the full Miami New Times piece HERE.
Kunle Adekolo | April 22, 2011 5:30 AM
Makes no sense at all. How does one expect to gain the power to do what one wants to do in Hollywood if one is broke? You have to pay dues, and that's what a lot of these newer filmmakers don't understand. You can criticize Tyler Perry all day, but you have to understand that the man paid dues to get where he is. He built a following, made his money, and then came to the table with some leverage. I love "Medicine For Melancholy", but that is just one single film that most of America didn't see. I'm quite sure that the majority of Blacks in America have not seen it. So for Mr. Jenkins to turn down work, because he has let the hype go to his head, it's just irresponsible and foolish.
Zeus | April 21, 2011 6:09 AM
Kudos to Barry! He is a talented director who cares more about quality instead of making cookie cutter, minstrel show horse shit like that melon headed, bitch ass cry baby sonofabitch Tyra Perry.
Neziah | April 21, 2011 5:50 AM
He has a lot of heart, I'm looking forward to his upcoming projects, he seems to actually care about the art of filmmaking.
Jug | April 21, 2011 5:25 AM
Also a great lesson that your career isn't always about quantity or quality, but a merger of the two. It's a marathon, not a sprint and you want to be (should be) smart & thoughtful about when to "lay on the gas" and "when to conserve & coast". Too much of either extreme will get you going home quick!
Jug | April 21, 2011 5:23 AM
Always a gamble, turning stuff down. But the winning hand is making sure it's known that you turned it down in favor of A) a better project (used loosely) & B) making sure it's known that it's not about vanity but about career passion/strategy.
Great story about Phillip Seymour Hoffman, that when he was first getting known in Hollywood he was offered a small but high profile part in a major studio pic by a known & connected casting director. He turned it down, because he had an idea of the trajectory he wanted for his career, both creatively & professionally. The casting director, tho a little surprised, was ultimately impressed with his integrity (as well as his talent). That word spread around. But you can't do that if you ain't got the goods :-D
Hopefully the same happens for Jenkins...
JMac | April 21, 2011 3:37 AM
Choosing his soul over selling out.. What a man, What a man, What a mighty good man! Keep up the fight and the money will (hopefully) come later with more desirable projects.


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By Ashley Bergner
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I'll never forget the first time I watched "Jurassic Park." It's an intense, harrowing experience — and one that continues to make me jump, no matter how many times I've watched it since then. From the moment the characters first land on the ill-fated island where dinosaurs have been brought back to life, to the end where the survivors barely manage to escape with their lives, director Steven Spielberg doesn't give viewers much of a chance to stop and catch their breath. If the T. rex isn't terrorizing the characters and trying to rip apart their SUV, then the vicious velociraptors are on the prowl, and by the time you realize you're being tracked, it's already too late.
Based on a novel by the late Michael Crichton, a master of the scientific thriller, the "Jurassic Park" movie was the ultimate big-budget blockbuster. Although it was released 20 years ago, it made such an impression on audiences that it has become a permanent part of pop culture (and probably made more than a few visitors at natural history museums peer nervously at the T. rex statue in the dinosaur exhibit).
With the recent trend in Hollywood of re-releasing popular films in 3D, it was only a matter of time before "Jurassic Park" received its own upgrade. While I'm still not sure if I'm a fan of the big push towards 3D in general, "Jurassic Park" is well worth watching again on the big screen. Continue reading