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Bittoo shoulders movieBy K N Gupta
Eye TV India Bureau
Cast: : Pulkit Samrat and Amita Pathak
Director: Supavitra Babul
Critic's I-view
Of the three Hindi movies released on April 13, 2012, the much hyped 'Bittoo Boss' hardly succeeds in entertaining the audience. It stars not too well known faces, however the former TV persona Pulkit Samrat as a Bollywood debutant leaves a big impact by his acting prowess. The female lead, Amita Pathak, known in the industry as producer Kumar Mangat's daughter, has to her credit one movie 'Haal-e-Dil.' Amita fails to impress as she looks more mature than our hero Pulkit. While the music is good and songs catchy, some of the lyrics are rightly termed naughty with double meaning innuendos.
In the movie, Bittoo Boss played by Pulkit Samrat is a young, handsome and ingenious wedding cameraman who takes pride in calling himself a 'Sesky Video Shooter'. He is the star of all wedding celebrations of Anand Sahib in Punjab. Bittoo believes in spreading happiness through the beautiful moments he captures through his lens that he sells as moments you can 'rewind and keep watching for years.' Though he is sort of a carefree man, but falls for a strong-headed bossy educated girl. The latter advises Bittoo to aim for something big in life.
The movie opens with an elaborate Punjabi wedding that our endearing videographer Bittoo shoots. And, in his words, he exclaims he doesn't shoot weddings but emotions, not bodies but the feelings within, looking for happiness in everyone's life. Also, director Supavitra Babul seems to give his best but fails in presenting it with finesse and properly connecting the plot with proper screenplays. Pulkit delivers a cool performance and demonstrates very well that he can look forward to a bright career. Amita doesn't leave much influence. The character playing a cabbie turned Pulkit's manager in the second hour is amusing. Other actors are many but don't lend support to the two lead actors. The director's bid to prove protagonist Bittoo Boss as a hero succeeds to some extent. But, overall, the movie lacks cohesiveness as the subject matter of the movie, i.e. the plot, frequently detours, without rhyme or reason. The cinematography though is excellent.
Bittoo shoulders the movie with his mesmerizing acting. So, it is a maybe watch movie, if you ain't got better plans.
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March 28, 2014
Our struggle to abolish SHU torture units is inextricably linked to the broader struggle to seize cultural hegemony in the U.S. from the ruling class and its tool, the state. Our collective efforts have repeatedly exposed the state's contradictions and sparked the people's appetite for freedom and new social relationships. These activities undermine the reactionary character structure upon which authoritarian society is based. These actions are thus revolutionary.
February 11, 2014
Despite attempts by the CDCR to insure the public that they are acting with prudence to change people's gang validations and correct injustices and general inhumane conditions in prison SHUs, testimony from experts and the public continued to unmask the basic torture and impunity of the CDCR's policies in maintaining prolonged isolation and prisons that fundamentally violate human rights. Hundreds packed two hearing rooms demanding real change.
September 13, 2013
On Aug. 14 we signed an engagement letter with Bryan Cave, one of the largest law firms in the world, to represent the Bay View in our fight against censorship at Pelican Bay. This miracle was set in motion by an amazing little law office, Bayview Hunters Point Community Legal, that some young, idealistic lawyers opened in a storefront in our hood to help the many of us here who can't afford legal help.
July 23, 2013
"The attempted repression of our protest has not broken our spirits. In fact it has only helped to strengthen each of us – individually and collectively. Despite CDCR's retaliations and propaganda, we remain steadfast in our commitment. We will see our peaceful hunger strike through to victory, even if this requires us to endure the torture of force-feeding. We believe at this point in our struggle we are prepared to do what is necessary in order for Gov. Brown and the CDCR to realize how serious we are and how far and long we are willing to go to have our reasonable demands implemented."
June 19, 2013
Paraphrasing Bro Mumia's words: Jailhouse lawyers must look beyond the state's imprisoning bars, bricks and cement to build relationships with others in the so-called "free" world to further and support social movements that spread liberating and progressive space within society. We behind the concrete walls start this new progressive movement. But we need the outside support of our communities to stand with us.
May 17, 2013
So now it is necessary for us to move forward and utilize our NARN science in order to resolve these contradictions – the problem – so as to enhance the power of the people! Hence, the Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement is hereby proposing to the people – the Prisoner Hunger Strike Support Coalition – that we initiate an online petition campaign with the goal of obtaining 1 million signatures.
March 5, 2013
Beginning with a rally held on the capitol steps, it was an emotional day for many, especially for family members of those suffering in the SHUs and prison survivors. The voices of those in the SHU were powerfully present, both in stories told by family members as well as statements they had sent for the occasion. The hearing provided an opportunity for legislators to hear representatives of CDCR present their new policies and weigh the truth of their claims. At the end there was a scant 20 minutes for public input.
September 12, 2012
Prisoners in Pelican Bay's SHU have announced a push to end all hostilities between racial groups within California's prisons and jails. The handwritten announcement, sent to prison advocacy organizations, is signed by the PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Collective. The statement calls for the cessation of all hostilities between groups to commence Oct. 10, 2012, in all California prisons and county jails. It also calls on prisoners throughout the state to set aside their differences and use diplomatic means to settle their disputes.

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(Morehead, Ky.) -- On October 11, 2011, at 6:07 PM Kentucky State Police in Morehead was notified by Montgomery County Dispatch of a possible vehicle fire on Interstate 64 westbound at the 111 mile marker. Trooper Scott Ferrell, Trooper Aaron Brown, Montgomery County EMS, and Montgomery County Fire Department responded to the scene. Shortly afterwards, Montgomery County Dispatch advised Kentucky State Police Post 8 dispatch of an injury accident at the same location. Dustin Bell was operating a 2005 Volkswagon Jetta westbound on Interstate 64. Mr. Bell observed what he thought to be a vehicle fire on the interstate. Mr. Bell stopped his vehicle in the middle of the interstate. Kathy Roberts was operating a 2004 Toyota Camry westbound on Interstate 64. Ms. Robert's vehicle struck the Volkswagon Jetta on the rear bumper before both vehicles came to final rest on the right shoulder of Interstate 64. Ms. Roberts and passengers, Jessica Roberts and April Miller, were taken to Saint Joseph East Hospital in Mount Sterling for treatment. Dustin Bell was also transported to Saint Joseph East Hospital for treatment. The accident remains under investigation by Trooper Scott Ferrell.


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With another run-off behind us, we are now half done with the selection of this year's Top 50. I hope all of you are enjoying this and will stick with us all the way to the end. If I can keep us on schedule, we should finish this process shortly before the end of January with real baseball only a few weeks away.
With 141 votes cast in our most recent run-off for the Twenty-Fourth best prospect, Rob Delaney received 88 votes (62%), with Michael McCardell receiving 53 votes (37%). Congratulation to both Rob and Michael!
We now turn to the next twenty-five in our poll, beginning with voting for prospect number twenty-six. This round will include all six of the prospects who were included in the last round. The two prospects added are last summer's supplemental pick, lefty Matt Bashore, and middle infielder Steve Tolleson, who was added to the 40-man roster a year ago. Bashore signed with the Twins and appeared in only 2.0 innings at Elizabethton before being shut down for the season with an injury. Tolleson split his time between New Britain and Rochester where he hit .258/.343/.391 and .270/.338/.375, respectively.
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The Twinkie Town Top 25 is: 1) Miguel Jean; 2) Aaron Hicks; 3) Wilson Ramos; 4) Kyle Gibson; 5) Ben Revere; 6) Danny Valencia; 7) Angel Morales; 8) David Bromberg; 9) Rene Tosoni; 10) Deolis Guerra; 11) Chris Parmelee; 12) Anthony Slama; 13) Max Kepler-Rozycki; 14-tie) Carlos Gutierrez and Adrian Salcedo; 16) Joe Benson; 17) Alex Burnett; 18) Jeff Manship; 19) B. J. Hermsen; 20) Tyler Robertson; 21) Billy Bullock; 22) Trevor Plouffe; 23) Tom Stuifbergen; 24) Rob Delaney; and 25) Michael McCardell.


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If your comic isn't popular in one year, it won't ever be
Submitted by KrazyKrow on June 15, 2005 - 09:10
Just something I've been thinking about lately. It seems like all of the giants of the webcomic world reached a decent size (10,000+ readers) within their first year.
So instead of telling newbies to be persistant, should we be telling them to give it a year, then try something else?
Any examples to the contrary?
- Jerry Holkins
- Mike Krahulik
- Scott McCloud
- Tom Brazelton
- Achewood
- Penny Arcade
- PvP
- Yirmumah
- Zap!
- This Olde Haus
If your comic isn't popular in one year, it won't ever be
by KrazyKrow - 06/15/2005 - 09:10
Just something I've been thinking about lately. It seems like all of the giants of the webcomic world reached a decent size (10,000+ readers) within their first year.
So instead of telling newbies to be persistant, should we be telling them to give it a year, then try something else?
Any examples to the contrary?
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RE: If your comic isn
by John - 06/15/2005 - 09:27
Actually, what are your examples? And how long ago were the comics? Way back when webcomics were first started, there weren't as many so it was easier to become more well known (there also wasn't as many readers, but I think it has more to do with how many were around at the time). Now there's tons, and lots of "copy" comics (When was the last time a gamer comic brought something new to the table? ;)).
All of the giants I know of began in the 90s. I think anyone wanting to start comics these days isn't going to have as much success as early.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 06/15/2005 - 10:26
It depends all on how much work you put into promoting it. No matter how good your comic is, if you don't promote it not enough people are going to find it on the internet.
If a big audience is important to you and you haven't gotten one after a year and you create a quality webcomic then instead of giving up the comic it might be better to re-evaluate the methods you employ to promote your strip.
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RE: If your comic isn
by William_G - 06/15/2005 - 11:39
Personally, I think a better question for the noobs to ask of themselves is "Why are hits so important to me?"
If the answer is something along the lines of "My revenue source depends upon them" then I can see why there'd be a reason to be concerned. Then following Ghastly's sugestion is a good idea.
If the answer is something like, "I just want lots of people to love me and send me emails! And get interviewed in Comixpedia!" then they should get over themselves and stop being such needy little dweebs.
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by KrazyKrow - 06/15/2005 - 18:20
Off the top of my head, Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, PvP, Questionable Content, Something Positive, Wigu....
It seems like they all 'made it' very quickly. Sure they might not have quit their day jobs right away, but they were well known after one year. I'm scratching my head trying to think of a full-time web cartoonist that spent years totally unknown.
Willie G: I can't say I get the indier-than-thou attitude a lot of webcomickers have. I also frequent the boards at Digital Webbing, where nearly everyone shares the common goal of making their work a financial success and doing it full time.
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by RPin - 06/15/2005 - 18:44
Some people do it for fun, you know. Bill has issues addressing his opinions but the core is still there: before advising someone to stop you should first know what their goal in webcomicking is.
If you are in this just for readers and money, I would be one to tell you you shouldn't even wait a year before stopping, but not because I'm Indie Rock Pete. Webcomic success stories are so seldom, you know, and maybe they happened to those guys because they didn't care about it at all, and did what they do primarily for fun and love.
But I understand what your question is, and to answer it in a proper way, I get the feeling some people on Keenspot didn't have 10.000 daily visits during their first year (Sortelli, McBean although he's not on Keenspot but Keentoons). Yet they made it, if you ignore the fact that they can't still make a living on the amount of money they make.
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by rezo - 06/15/2005 - 19:47
Webcomic success stories are so seldom, you know, and maybe they happened to those guys because they didn't care about it at all, and did what they do primarily for fun and love.
It's a nice sentiment, but I doubt that played any big role. Many many artists make their comics because they enjoy what they're doing. Even the people that make comics that we think are uncreative, unfunny, or whatever are probably being created by someone that isn't very creative and isn't very funny, but still wants to make comics. And on the other end of the spectrum: Garfield.
(When was the last time a gamer comic brought something new to the table? :Wink).
I don't know, but I've never performed a survey of gamer comics and probably couldn't name more than 3. Though I honestly wouldn't be surprised to find a gamer comic that was kicking ass and not being recognized for it because it used games as its primary topic.
Anyways: not popular in a year = not popular ever is pretty likely. It's basic probability really =\ The longer it takes for something to happen for someone, the longer it will take for things to get in motion and the longer it will take for it to ultimately come to fruition. That final point is one most people won't meet. Someone milling about with a small audience(like myself!) for several years shouldn't expect to be able to reproduce the huge success another comic had in a few months, because if they could, they probably would have already.
Kiwis by beat!
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by RPin - 06/15/2005 - 20:24
Webcomic success stories are so seldom, you know, and maybe they happened to those guys because they didn't care about it at all, and did what they do primarily for fun and love.
It's a nice sentiment, but I doubt that played any big role.
I disagree. Enjoying what you do is the basic premise to make it popular.
It didn't say it was a matter of cause-and-effect, tho. Think of it as a requirement.
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by rezo - 06/15/2005 - 20:56
There's no reason to think someone has to enjoy what they do in order to become popular with it. Plenty of actors have seen great success as duos even though they hated working with each other(Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey). Musicians that have no creative control over their music have people working behind them to make that special mix of bland and simple music that sells millions. Movies like Triple X are developped conceptually, apparently, by committee with the goal being adding whatever they can to appeal to their target demographic in the most banal ways and not for the joy of creation. Some stand up comics have mentioned their genuine distaste for performing in front of audiences.
So how much do they have to enjoy it, exactly, to be successful? Producing comics is a skill, just like acting or composing or whatever. In the end, what makes something a quality product is how skilled the person working on it is, and how much effort they put into it. It is possible to put the effort in even if you don't have fun doing it. That's what work is for most people. Earning money can be motivation as easily as "making the best comic ever!" can be, and just because someone doesn't enjoy themselves doesn't mean they have to phone it in. People that hate each other can have great chemistry on stage, because they know that it's their job to have that chemistry, and they're capable of doing that job. If you're creative enough to have a strong concept for a comic, and talented enough to pull it off, then I don't see why you can't be in a position to have a popular comic. There's the question of why bother with it at all, if you don't like it... but you know, whatever. I'm not them. It could be as simple as making use of the skills you have instead of just doing whatever.
Audiences review the finished work. How that work comes to be doesn't matter so long as it is worth their time, and I don't see how enjoying what you do is a requirement for that. Other than the fact that it sounds nice.
A more interesting thing to do would be to find the webcomic artists that aren't into making their comics at all. I've not come across them. They are a quiet bunch and I suspect they lie in order to infiltrate the "I enjoy my work!" club as part of their masochistic tendencies.
Kiwis by beat!
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by John - 06/15/2005 - 21:01
Here's a question: How many comics have made it big since 2000? The only one I can think of is Ghastly's comic, and I don't know if he's as big as the really popular comics.
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by Jamie Robertson - 06/15/2005 - 21:24
I quit my day job and COTC in under 10,000. I also have an extra comic as subscription only. Incidently, COTC's uniques continue to rise after nearly six years. Of course, COTC only updates 3 days a week and if you add the uniques per comic, then it is over 10,000. Go figure.
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by RPin - 06/15/2005 - 22:09
I see what you did there.
The examples you listed could be valid if only for one thing: we have no guarantee that Jim Davis didn't like his work when he created it. In fact I get the feeling that he enjoys it very much.
The committee that draws it, on the other hand, could hate Garfield with their guts and still put effort in it. Bruce Willis could hate working on Moonlight. Myers could hate working on SNL too. But one thing they all have in common: they are professionals. They are paid to do what they do. It's either you do it or you go look for something else. Some people would quit in the name of artistic integrity, but they didn't and these are all valid choices.
But the average webcomic artist is a hobbist doing what they do for fun on their free time. Even those pointed as the biggies of the webcomics world were at some point. What reason would those people have to spend their precious free time on something they didn't enjoy what they were doing at some level?
You say maybe they are driven by a will to put the best effort in what they do, even if they don't care for their work. I'm inclined to believe that there is no such difference. Because even if they don't care for the outcome, they enjoyed the trill.
I'm not going to drag this on, it is not the subject of this thread. And I agree that people can make great things they end up hating because they have to put food on their table or similar excuses. But a webcomic artist, with no obligations to deliver his work whatsoever, saying that he hates his work and doesn't know why he keeps doing it would be just a big fat liar to me.
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by Tangent - 06/15/2005 - 22:22
Edit: Eep! At first I thought Jamie had started this discussion, not KrazyKrow! :D
I'm not sure that's true. I mean, comics grow and improve over the years. Take a look at first year College Roomies, or CotC and then take a look at either comic now.
The longer you draw, the better you get. I can't see CRfH being the success it is now if the artwork had never changed. Unfortunately, image is everything. A well-drawn comic is a bigger draw than a poorly-drawn comic, even if the poorly-drawn comic has a good storyline. There are exceptions, of course, but they are exceptions, not fact.
We've been talking about this on the Keenspace General Board, and one of the ways to build up readership is, amusingly enough, being active on forum boards while having a link to your comic in your .sig file. It's weird, but true. I've noticed that since I've reduced my posting habits on the CRfH forums, my hits have gone down. However, my hits from the Keenspace boards have gone up, because I've become quite active on those boards.
Likewise my readership has gone up, because people see the link and they follow it. They associate you the poster as someone they talk to and thus your comic is no longer a mystery, but something of an internet friend. So they're more likely to visit and see what you've got.
Anyone can become a success, with enough hard work and time. It's just when you watch those numbers and realize they're not growing as fast as you want that you sometimes feel like giving up hope.
Not to mention that putting out a comic is hard work! :D
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by rezo - 06/15/2005 - 22:59
saying that he hates his work and doesn't know why he keeps doing it would be just a big fat liar to me.
Obviously, there'd be a reason to do something if he didn't enjoy the comic making. And I thought Davis had gone on record saying that the comic was something he started with a calculated mind to marketing and that he stepped away from making it himself when he didn't need to anymore. It's the closest example I could think of to what we're talking about. I don't have a list of artists that didn't particularly enjoy their craft and still succeeded at it handy.
But the improbability of a webcomic artist not being interested in making comics is an entirely seperate point from saying someone needs to enjoy what they're doing in order to for it to be popular.
But if what you really meant is that "for someone to make a popular comic, they have to be interested in some aspect related to making a popular comic at some level- be it fans, money or crushing your enemies -- Seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women!" then I would say that's not particular to popular comics at all. But doing anything at all, ever.
Kiwis by beat!
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by DJ_Coffman - 06/15/2005 - 23:40
You gotta love what you do first and just have fun with it and not worry TOO much about turning a buck.. you know?
It's all about SUPPLY and DEMAND. -- You'll know things are popular when people start asking you for stickers or shirts of whatever it is you're drawing, and you suddenly go-- "How am I going to afford to make that?" -- then you start thinking numbers.... and you can build slowly.
I've seen so many people just come on the scene and say -- HERE'S MY BOOK! BUY BUY BUY!--- and then they're down when no one buys it, or sales and traffic are down.
Make something YOU love and Make something people HAVE to talk about.... thats a good thing to keep in mind.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 06/16/2005 - 01:04
Something Positive is pretty big too and it didn't make it until after 2000 (was it even around before 2000)? Depends on how you define big. In terms of readership I'm bigger than the vast bulk of webcomics (not at Penny Arcade / Sluggy levels but I'm up there with the big dogs). In terms of revinue there are comics with smaller readerships than mine pulling in more money. I'm not terribly motivated to fully exploit that aspect yet. I'm more or less just trying to share my stories/gags with as many appreciative people as possible. Of course now with WCN/AWC about to roll out I'll be able to better exploit the revinue potential of my large readership.
Most webcomics will never have more than 1000 people reading them on a regular basis. Fewer still will ever get more than 10000 regular readers. That sounds pretty small-time but if you think about it there are a lot of DC and Marvel comicbooks that don't even reach those levels or don't beat them by much so you're not doing too bad.
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by William_G - 06/16/2005 - 01:17
[quote:078552fb91="KrazyKrow"]Willie G: I can't say I get the indier-than-thou attitude a lot of webcomickers have.
This here is just an aspect of the current bit of ideology clashing cropping up. If I or someone else says, "There are other reasons to make comics aside from being a 17th teir web celebrity" someone else will pop up and claim I or whoever is just being a pretentious art-fag... Or even better "Jealous"
And at no point did I say, "You should never try to make money"
[quote:078552fb91="DJ"]You gotta love what you do first and just have fun with it and not worry TOO much about turning a buck.. you know?
Now this makes sense.
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by Tangent - 06/16/2005 - 01:31
Oh! And there is this:
Update regularly. Seriously. The quickest way to lose readers is to not update regularly.
While Avalon was the exception to this rule (because the fans were that insane), when a comic starts missing updates it starts losing readers. Elf Life is struggling to recover its fanbase after its updates became intermittent (and CarsonFire also started doing prose updates to compensate and speed the story along). Fortunately for him, he's found a way to move around the dead weight that was the Marriage Storyline, and start updating fairly regularly again, so he should be doing a little better now. I'd not be surprised if CRfH doesn't lose some of its readership as well, as updates are starting to fluctuate due to Maritza's pregnancy.
If you have a large readership, skipped updates won't hurt as badly. Still, eventually even die-hard fans will start quitting in droves. This happened finally with Avalon, when Josh didn't update for months on end. People just lose heart and faith, and move on. There are other comics that update that you can read instead.
So... if you update regularly, that should in and of itself help keep your core readers. Meanwhile, they'll draw more people to the comic, as would your own advertising, be it through ads in other comics, newsboxes, or even just simple forum posting. Heck, it's how I'm getting people to read my review site. :D
Well, that and the fact I'm talkative. :D
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by Snoozer - 06/16/2005 - 01:32
Don't be a Sour Grape :roll:
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by KrazyKrow - 06/16/2005 - 06:06
Ghastly: Ghastly (the comic) has definately grown in size over the years, although I hope Ghastly (the you) has stayed the same, trim, shirtless Clark Kent we've grown to know and love.
But I think it's safe to say that Ghastly's Ghastly Webcomic will never be a 100,000 reader comic, except in a sexy parallel dimension.
BTW, Charles Bronson is on record saying that he's not a fan of his own movies.
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by RPin - 06/16/2005 - 06:07
[quote:e3cd794369="rezo"]But if what you really meant is that "for someone to make a popular comic, they have to be interested in some aspect related to making a popular comic at some level- be it fans, money or crushing your enemies -- Seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women!" then I would say that's not particular to popular comics at all.
No, I meant he has to LIKE what he does. Gosh...
But there you have it. What the hell. If you want to believe someone would spend their free time, on their own volition, in doing something that doesn't pleases them, whatever. Keenspace is full of comics like that. Only they stopped updating after one or two pages. But they prove your point.
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by RPin - 06/16/2005 - 06:24
[quote:a3ecd7ee31="KrazyKrow"]BTW, Charles Bronson is on record saying that he's not a fan of his own movies.
And I have an old Wizard where Jim Lee says he's not a fan of his comics either. He explained that if he felt he venerated his works, he would lose a critical view on it.
Maybe there's the chance Bronson said it for the same reason. And maybe although he didn't like his movies, he enjoyed acting. I hope you realize the difference between a job and a hobby, because those examples do nothing to contest my point.
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by KrazyKrow - 06/16/2005 - 06:54
I'm pretty sure Charles Bronson meant that he hated being pigeonholed in crap movies.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 06/16/2005 - 10:16
[quote:6b06d4fcc6="KrazyKrow"]Ghastly: Ghastly (the comic) has definately grown in size over the years, although I hope Ghastly (the you) has stayed the same, trim, shirtless Clark Kent we've grown to know and love..
Ironically, as my comic has grown in popularity I've become more and more svelt.
Perhaps if I break the 1M reader mark (already broke the 100K mark) I'll disappear altogether.
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by William_G - 06/16/2005 - 11:18
You'd be a pipe sticking out of a line.
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by Townie - 06/16/2005 - 12:54
As someone who's observed webcomics a couple of years, I'd say the hypothesis of this thread is inaccurate. The big names everyone flocks to these days when they think of success didn't start out as big as they are now. Most of them have been doing it for 6-7 years. How many of us even knew webcomics existed before 2000? In the short time I've been reading them, I've seen tiny strips get popular and I've seen huge sites dry up. You can't go judging success by all the PVPs and PAs out there. That's like judging American business by all the McDonalds and the Nikes. It takes time to lay down a framework of achievement and some people are lucky their plans work faster than others. But in so many years, how many webcomics on the scene are even going to be here? What's to keep the popular strips from abandoning the web format all together? Plenty of comics are just using the web as a jumping off point. And who's to say the most historic webcomic of all time has even been hosted yet? Every year we see some comics come and go because of this boom or bust philosophy. They didn't make it rich quick so they feel they've failed. From what I've seen, the longer you stay on the web, the more likely you are to succeed. It makes sense if you think about it. Nobody went to the movies to see Van Wilder as a freshman, they all went to see him as the guy who'd been there awhile and learned how to work things to his advantage.
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Working through the first few months
by bigcheesepress - 06/16/2005 - 13:08
So it's basically update regularly, plug the hell out of your book, and hope some good shit happens to you. If you have a worthwhile comic, all of these together will translate into some form of success. If you have a terrible comic and update, plug, and have big fat lucky breaks, then you probably won't get the same level of recognition.
It's wierd how the whole popularity thing works. If one person says you are cool, then the ball starts rolling. My friends and I have been making comics for years in our college paper and having graduated we just got onto the web (www.bigcheesepress.com.) You can tell that we are somewhat polished, but we had no internet standing.
This week Nothing Nice To Say had a complimentary post about my friend's comic and we got ~ 100,000 page views that day. Which is a lot for us, having only had our site up for 2 months. How did he find our comic? I probably e-mailed him to tell him I liked his and he should check ours out. Which he did for a few weeks, then decided to advertise all on his own. We'll see how many of the visitors stick around, and what happens. We'll give it a year.
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by Anonymous - 06/16/2005 - 15:26
Popluarity doesn't tranlate into good comic however.
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IF your comic isn't popular...
by bigcheesepress - 06/16/2005 - 16:26
No, popularity doesn't "translate into good comic." Garfield is popular, most people I know hate it. We all know how few paintings Van Gogh sold in his life. It's an old, well-understood truth, ESPECIALLY among artists that what is popular is not necessarily what is good. That much, we've all figured out.
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by Uncle Ghastly - 06/16/2005 - 17:17
[quote:61345bca51="William_G"]You'd be a pipe sticking out of a line.
Like an Olsen Twin with a vibrator.
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by Tangent - 06/16/2005 - 18:51
Now that's an image I didn't need... *pours himself a glass of brainbleach*
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Re: IF your comic isn't popular...
by Townie - 06/16/2005 - 20:00
[quote:0202bb9720="bigcheesepress"]We all know how few paintings Van Gogh sold in his life.
Um, that would be one
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by William_G - 06/16/2005 - 22:03
As recent discussions have caused me to realize, money trumphs all other considerations. So I would suggest that if your comic is not catching your target demographic, then you should alter your plan and seek one that is under-served.
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by KrazyKrow - 06/17/2005 - 05:48
So much artsy angst, next time I'm only posting threads like this in the "Business" forum.
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by RPin - 06/17/2005 - 06:13
Point taken. You wanted business advice and that's something I can't exactly give. But there were examples that deemed your theory wrong. How further this discussion can keep going is up to you now.
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these guys may be too busy getting laid to read webcomics
by William_G - 06/17/2005 - 11:08
[quote:4bab6b250e="KrazyKrow"]So much artsy angst, next time I'm only posting threads like this in the "Business" forum.
I know that I certainly hate it when art gets into a discussion about an artform.
Anyway, as I said: If one's comic is not catching one's target demographic, then one should alter their plan and seek a demographic that is currently under-served.
Otaku, gamers, tech-support people, role players, and so forth have an almost endless amount of material to choose from for their comic-viewing pleasure. Really, an artist would have to be providing a product substantially superior to everything else being provided, as well as pouring an ass-load of money into advertising so people will know about it, to take a dominant position in that market.
On the other hand, (just for example) I don't see too many comics about black, one-eyed, transvestite, midget, college radio DJs. Now, these guys may be too busy getting laid to read webcomics, being pure sex machines, but you never know. The person to tap into that under-served market could be raking in the big bucks and getting enough hits to laugh at us all.
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Comic Popularity Re: Oversexed DJs
by bigcheesepress - 06/17/2005 - 12:59
William brings up the "unserved audience" point. It is true there are lots of gamer, manga, etc comics out there. How do they survive? They have a subculture that venerates the internet and uses it frequently. The love people have for the subculture spawns more comics about it, and also is set up for sharing info about it.
You could totally hit up the DJs that may be too busy having sex William talks about. You could make the comic, it could really apply to them, and it could be their Penny Arcade. Or you could make it and it could be great and still get no visitors. The question is, how are you advertising? The less web-based your audience is, the harder the market to hit. Lawyers might love lawyer comics, or they could be too busy to remember to visit websites. So then how do you get them? That's the real trick, isn't it?
It's understood most webcomic artists have read Scott McLoud's books, but I'm curious how many have read the old Dave Sim's Notes From the President. I know they were widely read and distributed by small press publishers in the early 90s and subsequently responsible for tons of independent comics that would otherwise not have existed. While many of the articles don't pertain specifically to the quite different economic and publishing nature of the internet, a lot of business basics are there, which is what I would consider popularity more than anything else.
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RE: these guys may be too busy getting laid to read webcomic
by ledgermain - 06/17/2005 - 13:00
Stepping past the huge superiority complex, I'd just like to point out Real Life, RPGWorld, Sluggy, Mac Hal, and CAD were not sucesses in thier first year. Neither was MT if the first manga volume's forward is any indication.
Sometimes, comics hit a bloom deep into thier run. For example, only now do I see Shifters or Errant Story getting quick mentions on webcomic threads on the forums I skulk.
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It's that old business idea of finding a need and filling it
by William_G - 06/17/2005 - 13:24
[quote:f6aa810da0="bigcheesepress"]William brings up the "unserved audience" point. It is true there are lots of gamer, manga, etc comics out there. How do they survive? They have a subculture that venerates the internet and uses it frequently. The love people have for the subculture spawns more comics about it, and also is set up for sharing info about it.
Unless money has changed somewhat since I last checked, this audience only has a finite amount of cash to toss around. While they are the biggest brand addicts who'll buy anything with the right label out there, (hell, they kept Star Trek on tv for about fifteen years longer than it should have been) even they have to pay rent over buying the latest merchandise from "VideoGame X".
There are people making a living off of this audience, but the people who arent far out-number them. So I figure you can either try to elbow your way to the trough, or you could find one of your own. It's that old business idea of finding a need and filling it.
You could totally hit up the DJs that may be too busy having sex William talks about. You could make the comic, it could really apply to them, and it could be their Penny Arcade. Or you could make it and it could be great and still get no visitors. The question is, how are you advertising? The less web-based your audience is, the harder the market to hit. Lawyers might love lawyer comics, or they could be too busy to remember to visit websites. So then how do you get them? That's the real trick, isn't it?
But they do visit websites to their interest. You just need to spend the cash to advertise on them. And really, all of us have to advertise anyway. Most of us get by on pimps from bigger comics and messageboard hype forums/ banner ads which are free or the closest to it.
Which is fine for the most part. Your gamer geek comic would do well advertising on Penny Arcade, but hyping on webcomic boards only gets you other webcomic artists.
So right now, I'm willing to suggest that the problem isn't advertising, but it's the material being sold. Some prefer the idea that you should just make the best gamer comic out there and you'll eventually shove aside the kings of the genre, and that may just work. But I figure that if your goal is to have the most popular comic and not just the most popular genre comic, then playing the same game everyone is doesnt make sense.
[quote:f6aa810da0="ledgermain"]Stepping past the huge superiority complex...
I dont think you have one. Quite the opposite in fact. Pep up old chum.
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If your comic isn't popular in one year, it won't ever be
by bigcheesepress - 06/17/2005 - 16:34
In the end, if it isn't popular, just keep working on improving your craft. With skills you can do other comics, other work, whatever. That's more important than page views, in the end. the cliche is something to the effect of: "You have to draw 3,000 comic pages before you draw your first good page." So get those pages done. If you want to post them on the web in the process, cool. But you won't get them done in a year.
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by KrazyKrow - 06/17/2005 - 18:02
I beleive CAD actually had around 30,000 readers daily at the one year point. Errant Story has been at around 10,000 readers a day since it started, thanks to Poe's previous comic. I don't know the numbers for Megatokyo, but they got linked from PvP pretty early in their run.
It'd be easier to objectively discuss this if everyone had an Extreme Tracker link on their page. I'm almost tempted to log in to Alexa and research a random sampling of comics and whip up some pretty scatter plots and R values, but then I rememer how lazy I am.
There are a few examples to the contrary, but I still think for the most part it's possible to predict the long-term growth in readership of a webcomic by the growth in its early stages.
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by PX! - 06/17/2005 - 18:08
Success in a market that is as of yet untested and still learnig to walk is a hard thing to peg.
We are making our book because we love it, and want to tell the story. Its a fun art form. We love reading cool comics and we love creating cool comics.
Every art forom will have its artsy crowd and its commercial crowd.
People don't generally make and "show" there art unless they want something from it. I'd be a liar if i said I don't care about succeeding in this venture. It'd be sweet to build a following and create a storey that people want to follwo and tell there friends about. I dream of people wearing PX! t-shirts and dressing up like pandas and lil' wikkity's for halloween, but the cold truth is that me and most people will never see that kind of success.
My advice...for whats its worth. Draw comics because you love it. Share it with the world because your passionate about doing it. I've known to many art/animation/film guys who make their art to get famous and make money. Most fail when that is the only motivator.
If you have been drawing a webcomic for a year and you haven't hit the industries established benchmark for success, well it would be time to evaluate your goals and dreams.
Are you still having fun at that point?
Do you have fanbase that follws you? (5000 plus people following you is damn good by traditional small press comic standards)
Are you marketing efficiently? (I know people have already brought that up)
I love drawing and telling stories. My co-hort loves telling stories. We make vidoe games by day and comics by night. Thats alot of fun.
PX! may never be a penny-arcade or PvP. But who cares...I get to freely distribute my story to people who, if they like it share it with others.
You can't ask for better PR, than people telling people.
I have always believed (and will continue to ) that good product will spread out to the fans who want it. It may take one person longer than another, but if time is allowed, good often rises to the top.
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by rezo - 06/17/2005 - 19:15
One thing the internet gives artists is time. If you were to try to go into print, unless you had a nice amount of expendable income, you'd need to be turning a decent profit after a few months in order to succeed or you'd be forced to stop/fall into the "bi-yearly because I can't afford to put it out quicker" mire of self-publishing.
Online, taking a year to be get a decent return is seen as being quick. Advice is even geared around this, with people asking what they can do to help their increase their audience often being, basically, to wait and see what happens. People can take this casual approach because the cost of a webcomic is almost non-existent(basically the price of supplies plus a few bucks each month for enough space to handle thousands of people daily). Someone could run a webcomic with a few resources and an allowance of $5 a week,and even a comic with absolutely no readers could be made to completion and presented to the public online on the creators willpower alone. Something taken for granted, but certainly much better than the old days of needing several thousand dollars to get a comic off of the ground with almost no advertising where it can be put in stores where no one knows anything about it.
Kiwis by beat!
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by William_G - 06/17/2005 - 23:28
[quote:1e5942f0e0="KrazyKrow"]It'd be easier to objectively discuss this if everyone had an Extreme Tracker link on their page. I'm almost tempted to log in to Alexa and research a random sampling of comics and whip up some pretty scatter plots and R values, but then I rememer how lazy I am.
This is really the main problem when discussing these things. Extreme Tracker and Alexa are not accurate measuring tools. And they do not tell us anything about the type of people reading. There is no webcomic demomgraphics study I'm aware of. Penny Arcade's audience may all be soccer moms for all we know.
We do know that geeks are slavishly loyal to their "brand" and we know they have a signifigant internet presence. We dont know if they can sustain a webcomic industry by themselves, and we dont know if they're even willing to. We dont know if they're all reading webcomics now, or if there's more of them to come.
We need some hard data. All we have is anecdotal evidence. Someone start a long term study about this.
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by Erik Melander - 06/18/2005 - 09:43
Such a study would be very difficult to do. Difficult, but not impossible. It would certainly need the help of many comic creators to work.
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by William_G - 06/18/2005 - 12:45
True. I think it would be extremely useful to have this data though. Not just for webcomics audience, but to see what the web audience itself looks like. Then maybe we can see where our focus should go as artists/ entertainers. Then we can go where the money is.
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by Anonymous - 06/18/2005 - 16:30
The question is.. who will do the research, how they will do it, and who will fund it?
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by William_G - 06/19/2005 - 00:46
Exxon? They're always supporting PBS.
Asking people via the internet would be a mistake because, lets face it, it's the land of bullshit. Anyone who would do the mystical "Who Uses The Web And What For" study would have to contact people in the real world to get a representational sample. Much like any survey, really.
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by MaritzaCampos - 06/19/2005 - 02:20
I dunno, I have 15 times the audience I had at the end of my first year.
Of course, I joined Keenspot after that, but the point still stands. There are many things you can do to boost your readership.
I also admit that my comic was a lot uglier then.
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In 2007, the Rays won 66 games. During the offseason, they increased their payroll to $40+ million. In 2008, with a potent combination of prospects and no-names, they won 97 regular-season games in the most competitive division in baseball and went on to the World Series. I see no reason why we can't be them.
What the 2008 Rays didn't have...
A 15-game winner
James Shields and Edwin Jackson each won 14 games. Andy Sonnanstine won 13, Scott Kazmir won 12 and Matt Garza won 11.
A starting pitcher with a sub-3 ERA
Scott Kazmir's ERA was 3.49, Edwin Jackson's was 4.42, and everyone else was in between.
A .300 hitter
Six of their starting nine hit between .272 and .295
A 32 home run hitter
Carlos Pena hit 31 home runs, followed by Evan Longoria's 27. And yes, I picked the number 32 for convenience.
A shut-down closer
Troy Percival saved 28 games with an ERA of 4.53. Dan Wheeler saved 13 games with an ERA of 3.12
A good-batting team
The 2008 Rays ranked second to last in the AL in batting average.
Experienced hitters
They had the second-youngest batters in the league (average age 27.0).
Experienced pitchers
They had the second-youngest pitchers in the league (average age 27.5). Their oldest starter was 26-year-old James Shields.
Why they won anyway...
The 2008 Rays led the league in stolen bases and were second in walks. They were also second in team ERA. They had a lot of young guys who were supposed to be good in 2009 and 2010, but nobody expected them to challenge in 2008. Their preseason odds of winning the AL East were 30/1 and their odds of winning the pennant were 60/1. They won because even though they didn't have marquee players, their average talent produced like slightly above-average talent, and young, unproven guys played to their potential.
Why the 2010 Padres can win...
A healthy Chris Young can be one of the best starters in the game and anchors a solid rotation. Heath Bell is among the best closers. Adrian Gonzalez is one of the best offensive players in the nation. The rest of the 2010 lineup is approximately one year more experienced than the 2009 lineup, and should give Adrian more RBI opportunities and more pitches to hit.
I'm not saying that we're definitely going to the World Series this year... I'm just asking, if the 2008 Rays could do it, why can't we?


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Last month, Jackson also attended the Long Beach Grand Prix Charity Ball. 3 photos from the event have been added to the gallery. Enjoy! ETA: Few more added, thanks to LutzBonePatStew.
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A few more additional photos of Jackson at the TPCR Qualifying Day have been added to the gallery.
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Since it's been pretty quiet on the Jackson front lately, here's Devon Bostick's Vine Video of himself and Jackson at the Los Angeles Kings playoff game from a few days ago.
While Jackson didn't win yesterday's race it looked like he still had a great time! Photos from the race/event have been added to the gallery including some adorable shots of him and baby Roe. Enjoy!
- Appearances > 2013 > 37th Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race – Race Day
These celebrities aren't pretending and this is not make believe. This is 10 laps of 1.97 miles each at 100-mile-per-hour plus speeds. It's fast, and things can go wrong. And while it's all done for charity and in good fun, a competitive mood fills the air in the People Magazine celebrity paddock where the drivers gather before getting in their fancy 210 HP Scion FR-S cars and ripping up the streets.
Rutlledge Wood, from TV's Top Gear USA, won the pole position on Friday, April 19th as his lap time of 1:45.505 proved the fastest of a lineup that includes Mark Steines (Hallmark Channel's Home and Family); actor Michael Trucco; Brett Davern from MTV; Medal of Honor Winner Dakota Meyer; actor Jeremy Sisto; comic Wanda Sykes; Olympic Gold Medalist Jessica Hardy; actress Jenna Elfman; Twilight movie star Jackson Rathbone and Latina star Kate De Castillo.
Wood's Charity, a camp for special needs kids Victory Junction started by Kyle and Pattie Petty in honor of their son Adam, received a check from People Magazine for $15,000 for his fastest lap win.
People Magazine has had an ongoing commitment to the Miller's Children Hospital of Long Beach CHOC, Children's Hospital of Orange County.
"It's incredible to be a part of something that has donated over two-million dollars for charity over the years," the handsome Jackson Rathbone told me right before the race. He was kissing his wife and baby and about to get in to the car. Rathbone is part of a cultural phenomenon with the Twilight movies and as such has legions of young girls (and a few boys) worried about him in the race, particularly, harming his face.
"That's hysterical," he laughed. "I hope I don't hurt any part of my body at all! Look, we had no idea vampires without fangs who lived in the woods basically was going to become what it did. Even when the first movie came out, we all just sat back with wonder and watched the phenomenon explode. It's been quite a ride, much like this," he concluded as he kissed his baby one more time before strapping on his helmet.
After the race it was all smiles and hugs, and the friendly spirit of competition surfaced again.
Jackson was joined by the family at yesterday's Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race Qualifying Day. A few photos from yesterday's event have been added to the gallery.
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And here's a video from yesterday as well.
39th Annual Toyota Pro / Celebrity Race driver Jackson Rathbone tells us how his last TPCR practice went and the excitement witnessed on the course!
Quick Stats: Jackson Rathbone, actor
Daily Driver: 2012 Lexus RX450h (Jackson's rating: 9 on a scale of 1 to 10)
Favorite road trip: Los Angeles to Texas
Car he learned to drive in: 1996 Chevy Suburban
First car bought: Scion xB
"Twilight" will fans see a very competitive side of Jackson Rathbone tomorrow during the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrity race, where he'll drive a race-prepped Scion FR-S. The actor, who is best known as Jasper Hale in the vampire saga, has a more relaxed attitude when it comes to dealing with Los Angeles traffic in his 2012 Lexus RX450h. "When L.A. gets too congested in traffic, sometimes I'll pull over to a side street and take a nap in my car, waiting for the traffic to die down. I sleep very comfortably because the seats are so soft and cushiony," he says, giving the daily driver a 9 out of 10 rating. "It would have been a 10, but it doesn't have an espresso machine, so 9." Rathbone loves his hybrid SUV, calling it "super comfy, economic, and roomy."
Car he learned to drive in
Rathbone learned to drive in a hand-me-down SUV from his mom, and he says it's still his favorite car. "My birthday's a week after hers, so she got a new car and I got her old '96 Suburban for my 16th birthday," he says. "When I was 16, I was DJ-ing all over west Texas, so the Suburban was perfect for hauling all of my gear and still had room for four passengers. I remember a time where I was everyone's ride to some dance and I had about 12 girls in the back of the Suburban, while my buddy Jon and I were riding high in the front. It was good times."
Jackson, along with the rest of the TPCR drivers, went to see the patients at Miller Children's hospital the other day. I've added a few photos from their visit to the gallery. Thanks to Miller Children's Hospital twitter for the pictures!
- Appearances > 2013 > TPCR Drivers Visit Miller Children's Hospital
And here's a video from the visit as well.
Photos of Jackson at today's 37th Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race Practice Day have been added to the gallery. Hopefully more to come!
- Appearances > 2013 > 37th Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race – Practice Day
Also, check out our first video from the event!
Toyota Racing asked fans to submit questions for celebrity racers and here is a great interview with Twilight star Jackson Rathbone
Volume I of the Spencer Bell Tribute album is officially out now! To order your copy, head on over to the Spencer Bell Legacy Project website. The album features a few familiar faces covering Spencer tracks including Ben Johnson, Ben Graupner and The Kissing Club. Jackson covers Spencer's Acapella Gumdrop.
The Magic Bracelet facebook page has revealed the film's very first poster as well as the red carpet premiere date.
The Magic Bracelet Film Premiere
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HONG KONG--Hong Kong shares ended higher Thursday, breaching the psychologically important 23,000 as global political concerns eased.
The blue-chip Hang Seng Index, taking a cue from both U.S. and China stocks, rose 443.26 points, or 2.0%, its second-largest percentage gain in 2013, to 23020.27. Trading volume totaled 86.86 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$11.20 billion), up sharply from HK$68.18 billion Wednesday.
The HSI declined 3.0% in February but has gained 1.6% so far in 2013, although it remains down 3.9% from its year-to-date high of 23,944 on Feb. 4.
"There is a good chance that the correction is over," said Ben Kwong, chief operating officer at KGI Asia. "The selloff earlier this week was mainly driven by negative newsflow from overseas, but a strong Italian bond auction suggests sentiment has quickly stabilized. I'm optimistic about market direction in March, with China's 'two conferences' serving as a catalyst," Mr. Kwong said, referring to China's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The closely watched National People's Congress will convene on March 5, during which a once-in-a-decade leadership transition will take place.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite ended up 2.3% at 2365.59 Thursday.
Locally, investors continued to focus on blue chips' results.
Citic Pacific stood out, leaping 7.6% to HK$11.92 to snap a five-session, 7.7% losing streak.
Citic's net profit in 2012 fell 25% on-year to HK$6.95 billion, dragged lower by a sharp decline in earnings contribution from its special steel business in the second half. Still, the bottom-line beats the HK$5.82 billion forecast pegged by seven analysts surveyed by Thomson One.
China Overseas Land closed up 3.3% at HK$23.55 and China Resources Land rallied 3.7% to HK$22.65, in part spurred by the strong 2012 results from their peer Shenzhen-listed Vanke, China's largest property developer by market value.
For the first trading session of March on Friday, investors will likely take cues from China's official purchasing managers index for February, especially after the competing preliminary HSBC PMI was worse-than-expected Monday.
The official gauge of manufacturing activity in the world's second largest economy will likely rise to 50.5 in February from 50.4 in January, according to the median forecast of nine economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires.
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Gatt makes new arguments claiming 'frame up'
Three Labour MPs knew about the oil scandal story
Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt this afternoon announced he had prepared a technical report that he intends filing with the police in connection with an email leaked this week as part of the unfolding oil scandal story and which, he said, is likely part of a frame up in his respect by the Labour Party.
He also said he had come across information that shows that at least a Labour MP and two candidates are somehow connected with this matter.
He pointed out that Labour candidate David Farrugia Sacco was the defence lawyer for the Farrugia brothers, owners of the John's Group, and whose court action in 2010 against George Farrugia – the businessman at the heart of the oil scandal – is likely to have uncovered the emails now doing the rounds in the press.
He also said he was informed that another Labour candidate, Manuel Mallia, also represented the Farrugia brothers against George Farrugia and was a part of the investigative team which discovered these emails. He said Dr Mallia had even represented the Farrugia Brothers at a meeting in Geneva.
Finally, he referred to Labour MP Evarist Bartolo, who, he said, had circulated the latest controversial email, which was published by Maltatoday and then replicated in The Times.
Dr Gatt pointed out that last email published was very suspicious in that computers could only be set in Maltese from 2006 onwards, yet this email, purportedly from 2004, had a date in Maltese.
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Basic Job Description
Bridge crewmembers provide bridge and rafting support for dry and wet gap crossing operations when a squad, section or platoon tackles rough terrain in combat situations.
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- Operate bridge truck and light vehicles
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- Assist in the preparation of a bridge site, rafts and bridge operations
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Job training for bridge crewmembers requires 14 weeks of One Station Unit Training, which includes Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field with on-the-job instructions.
ASVAB Score Required: 87 in aptitude area CO
Security Clearance: None
Strength Requirement: very heavy.
Physical Profile Requirement: 111221
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- Must possess a valid state motor vehicle operator license.
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Jay Cutler's injury in the NFC Championship Game could be worse than initially expected.
NBC Sports' Evan Silva tweets that the Bears believe Cutler's injury could be a torn MCL, and they'll be running further tests on him on Monday.
Jay Cutler will have an MRI on his knee tomorrow. It's believed that he tore his MCL, but Bears will know for sure after tests.
Of course, even that injury isn't enough for some people to back off the criticism of Cutler. Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio fires off this pithy whine:
As to the "torn MCL" excuse for Cutler, Philip Rivers finished a game and played another with a torn ACL.
Florio's referring to the postseason Rivers had in 2007, when he tore his ACL in a win over the Colts and played rather terribly against the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.
Rivers threw two interceptions and couldn't get the Chargers a touchdown in the latter game, and they lost, 21-12. But, hey, he's tough.


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Interesting class, Easy B, really hard A.
I hated him after the first paper, but only for a few days. He is just a damn hard marker, but if you go to him for clarification, you'll do alright. I spent most of the class wondering where he got his sexy scars from!
I was so excited to take this class, but it really disappointed me. Allan seemed to play favourites with the fish and wildlife crew, which was both bogus and unfair. Tough marker and the slowest marker in the world! Don't take this course unless you love handing in a million papers that will never be marked on time.
Nice guy... funny but a hard marker. Talked to students like they were real people which was a nice change. I'd take his courses fo sho!
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New BMRE: The Black Composer and the Concerto Form
Center for Black Music Research
Columbia College Chicago
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director
String Overture (1995)William Foster McDaniel (b. 1940)
Violin Concerto in G Major, op. 2 no. 1 (1772)Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–99)
Featuring Ashley Horne, violin
Grass: A Poem for Piano, Strings and Percussion (1956)Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932–2004)
Allegro appassionato
Allegro molto
Featuring Jebediah Patton, piano
The event was presented in collaboration with Chicago Park District's South Shore Cultural Center, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the state of Illinois; and a congressionally directed grant administered by the Institute of Museum and Library services. Additional operating funds were provided in part by the Sara Lee Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with in-kind support from American Airlines.


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The Development of Network Relations of MNC Subsidiaries: How Internal MNC and External (Local) Relations Evolve
AbstractManaging relations is a complex task for internationalizing firms and their subsidiaries: MNC subsidiaries are not only part of the MNC network but they also develop relations with network actors in their local environment.This paper investigates conceptually how MNC subsidiaries established through generic expansion build relations within the MNC and with external market and non-market actors as they evolve through stages of start-up, growth and maturity.The paper develops propositions, grounded in institutional theory, resource dependency theory and network approaches, on the changing strength and importance of a subsidiary's relations depending on its dependence or interdependence in these relations, with five groups of actors (MNC headquarters, other subsidiaries within the MNC, local business actors, local government and non-government organizations).The paper ends with drawing directions for future work that will enhance understanding of the dynamics of relationship management in MNC subsidiaries.
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Related researchKeywords: multinational companies; MNC management; HQ-subsidiary relations; networks; institutional theory;
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Cut a pocket in each slice of French bread by cutting across the top side of the bread.
Mix together softened cream cheese the orange marmalade until smooth but not runny. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the mixture into each pocket.
Whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg until well combined. Dip both sides of the stuffed bread into egg mixture.
Heat butter on a hot griddle and fry stuffed bread slices over medium heat until golden brown, turning once.
For the syrup combine butter, sugar and frozen orange juice concentrate in a saucepan. Place over low heat until butter has melted but do not boil. Whisk thoroughly and allow to cool for 5 to 6 minutes. Beat with whisk until slightly thickened. Serve warm or refrigerate. Will keep for 3-4 weeks.
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text: Trailing 16-10 at the half, Central Bucks South football shut out Hatboro-Horsham in the second half to prevail, 30-16, Friday night. The Titans scored all three of their second-half touchdowns on the ground: a two-yard keeper by quarterback Matt Radwanski, a three-yard run by Josh Adams and a short, one-yard reverse by Paul Weeks. Radwanski ran for two scores in the game. Dion Clifton had 20 carries for 180 yards to lead CB South. Luke Kohler had an interception for the Titans, while Jack Mummert had CB South's lone sack.


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RALEIGH — Accidents on westbound Interstate 40 in Raleigh on Monday morning brought traffic to a near-standstill, with the state Department of Transportation posting a notice on its traffic website that the average speed was 10 mph between the Johnston County line and the interchange with U.S. 64 and I-440.
About 7 a.m., an accident involving a car and a truck near the Trailwood Drive overpass closed the right lane of the three-lane strip.
Later, another accident closed the left lane west of South Saunders Street, DOT said.
No serious injuries were reported.