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Q&A: Senator talks assisted living reform
'It's clear from your article that the state and the department are not doing enough'
Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, plans to call a hearing of the Senate Human Services Committee, which he chairs, in response to last month's U-T Watchdog series, "Deadly Neglect."
The series found at least 27 deaths due to abuse or neglect in assisted living facilities in San Diego County, raising questions of whether $150 maximum fines for the homes are too low and state inspections are too rare.
Yee's committee oversees the state Department of Social Services, which regulates assisted living centers. He sat down at the U-T with reporters from the newspaper and the CHCF Center for Health Reporting.
Yee, who is running for secretary of state, was in San Diego to meet with industry representatives.
Q: What did you learn in your meeting with industry today?
A: Because of the article, they've done internal reviews of their procedures and they have now increased some of their quality assurance arrangements – who's in there, what is the quality of the talent within their quality assurance organizations, operations.
They clearly know that there are problems, and they are in fact trying to bolster the level of technical help so that they will now do their own independent review. And then in some of the smaller operations where they don't have the talent in house, they are now contracting with third party reviewers to kind of help them.
I think that one of the good things about your work is that you've gotten the industry to recognize that there's a problem. You've gotten the state to realize that there's a problem. And so there is now a lot of discussion about changes. I think the changes are the following: a willingness on the part of the industry to increase fees so that there are more site visits. There is discussion about increasing the fines, because it just doesn't make sense that if a person dies, the penalty on that is a lot less than if a condor dies. So you've got that going.
I think the other problem is the following – that either you guys have caused to happen, or that because of the work that you've done, it has reignited the push to move forward with maybe a more comprehensive look at how do you license these kinds of facilities.
There is an appetite now, because of the work that you guys are doing, to really tax themselves.
Q: Meaning?
A: Increased fees. The problem is that if you're going to go from once every five years to once every three years, you're going to have to have more inspectors. And if they're going to be dedicated just for the elderly population, or aged population, then you're going to have training, you've got to really ramp up. Because the problem now is that you've got individuals in the Community Care Licensing field office that tend to move from one group to the other.
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It's been a while since I tried motion blur, but this doesn't seem right to me. In the attached image, I have the MB set to backwards only, but the animated car blurred both ways. This still frame is in the middle of the car's animation path. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
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My wife and I, along with our two sons, live in a small West Village apartment during the week. It's basically a dormitory from which we head daily to school and office—and restaurants, store receptions, and the odd benefit gala. We have a kitchen table, big TVs and internet access. It's good.
And yet most every Friday, year-round—and sometimes on Thursdays when we can concoct a good excuse—we drive at great speed through the Midtown Tunnel and 100 miles east of the city, to Bridgehampton. There we keep an old cottage, built in 1760 and enhanced by odd additions every 50 or 100 years thereafter. We prefer that our weekends last at least until 6 a.m. on Monday.
While there we take care to dress appropriately.
In Bridgehampton, this means a devil-may-care elegance. The place is about authenticity, and that precludes wearing one label head to toe. A little Ralph Lauren is always a good thing—my old girlfriend, Amanda Brooks, got me hooked on his cable-knit cashmere sweaters—but a real prepster is always, instinctively, as much punk as label whore.
As for me, I tend to wear more colors, and brighter colors, at the beach than in the city. Not too lurid though: dark reds and greens, and a bit of powder blue if I'm in a good mood. I also make sure to appear artfully disheveled, because there's nothing worse—nothing at all—than looking too put together at the weekend. Your Nantucket reds should be faded. Your docksiders should be salt-caked. Your polo shirt should stay untucked, and should not carry a logo on its breast. (As an aside—and I'm aware this is an upper–middle-class English affectation—please don't throw out a wooly sweater just because it has a hole on the elbow. Ask someone to darn it for you, or put a patch on, or best of all, just leave it be. It will be cozier and cooler, in every sense of the word.)
Speaking of polo shirts, my friend Sean Mahoney has his tailored by our go-to guy: Fabrizio Volterra at David Chu Bespoke. He might be taking it a bit far, but he always looks good at the weekend. Sean works very hard to dress like he doesn't care.
Make sure you check Gilt MAN mainstays Steven Alan, Rag & Bone, and John Varvatos—you could buy all your clothes from those three labels and you'll be dandy through Labor Day. Think canvas jackets and lots and lots of lightweight cotton. I like to layer on the weekend, with paper-thin T-shirts and lighter-weight chinos that might sensibly be a little baggier this year. I've been sporting the fashion editor/hipster roll of the pants; if you're going to roll up your shirt sleeves, might as well show some leg too. Shorts are fine, in any color, but they must be made of cotton and be neither too short nor too long. No statement shorts please. And I'm bored of board shorts.
You can go the jeans-and-sneakers route, but they should, again, be pretty well worn in. I love my Converse by John Varvatos—picked up cheaply, in large quantities, from Gilt—but please don't wear running shoes to the supermarket. Ever. I hate that pristine, lycra–coordinated sportswear look, even on the hot moms grabbing coffee at Golden Pear on Sunday morning.
Up top, a linen or cotton jacket is good. A blazer is also fine, but only if it fits well. Think new Brooks Brothers, not old Brooks Brothers. And wear it casually—you're not going to play golf or going to the country club. At least I hope you're not. You're going to walk on the beach, and eat barbecued meat, or hamburgers at Bay Burger, and then drink Martinis at the bar of World Pie.
I suppose I'm now old and fuddy duddy enough to prefer my shirt to have a collar, at least if I'm sitting down to dinner. I like wearing a proper dress shirt. Creased is nice with the sleeves rolled up, but I hate that half-rolled look which displays only the wrist bones. If you're going to roll up your sleeves, just bloody well do it.
And to pontificate, finally, on a subject of great import and abiding interest to Gilt Manual editors—if not their readership—I really don't mind in the slightest whether you wear socks or not.


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Ramen. Who hasn't heard of these delicious and hugely popular noodles? Ramen are a staple noodle in Japanese cuisine and are especially beloved by students where you're always guarantee to find at least one pack of instant ramen noodles in their cupboard! Ramen are such big business that they have become part of Japanese pop culture, did you know that there are museums dedicated to the humble ramen noodle in Yokohama & Osaka!
Originally come from China, the Japanese have taken ramen to their hearts with an endless number of variations and regional flavours. Ramen can take time to prepare, especially if you want to make a good soup, but at Japan Centre we like to make your life easier so check out our recipe using ready-made fresh soy sauce and miso ramen. A beginner recipe but particularly tasty when you add plenty of authentic Japanese toppings!
• MMT Soy Sauce Ramen – 1 Packet Contains 3 Servings
• MMT Miso Sauce Ramen – 1 Packet Contains 3 Servings
Toppings ideas:
• Narutomaki Fishcake
• Shiitake Mushrooms
• Nori Seaweed
• Wakame Seaweed
• Bamboo Shoots
• Boiled Egg
• Spring Onion
• Sliced Meat (Chicken, Beef, Pork)
• Corn
First begin by preparing your chosen toppings. You can fry the shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots with a little soy sauce to give them a richer flavour. Although naruto fishcakes don't have much flavour on their own, the pink spiral definitely adds a touch of colour to your ramen noodle soup so slice up a few pieces of it. You can also choose to include lots of spring onion and nori seaweed to make a 100% vegan ramen called negi ramen.
You may wonder which is the best flavour for your ramen soup, soy sauce or miso. Soy sauce broth has a light and salty flavour and miso broth is a rich flavoured choice that originates from Hokkaido. Miso soup tends to be a bit thicker with a strong, salty taste.
The preparation of your ramen is very easy, simply boil water in a large saucepan, then add the noodles and let them cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
While your ramen are cooking, dilute the sauce with hot water in a bowl. The amount of water you use is up to you depending on how strong you want your soup to taste. Start by adding approximately 250ml of water to the soup base and add a little water until you get just the right taste for you.
Lastly, add your noodles and soup to a bowl, then your prepared toppings. Like many types of Japanese cuisine, presentation is key to a perfect bowl of ramen. As Japanese people say, a lot of the feelings of hunger come from your eyes, not your stomach! :)
There are many different styles and regional recipes for ramen including:
• Tonkotsu ramen is very popular with its white and cloudy soup made from pork bones to give a rich taste. Tonkotsu is the specialty of the city of Hakata located on the island of Kyushu in the south of Japan.
• Sapporo ramen uses a miso broth for its ramen along with stir-fried beansprouts, slices of pork, butter and sweetcorn. A rich meal to keep you warm through the cold Hokkaido winter.
• Tokyo ramen is soy sauce based with a bit of dashi which is usually used to make udon or soba soup stock.
• Yokohama ramen is made of a broth similar to tonkotsu.


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Tessenei — The construction and renovation of different social service institutions in Tessenei sub-zone at a cost of 30 million Nakfa have been inaugurated.
The 25 social service institutions undertaken jointly by the Government and the town administration include 6 schools, 7 health centers, a recreation center, fruits and vegetables marketplace, cattle market center and guest house, among others.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony in which ministry and association branch heads, as well as Army commanders and representatives of the public took part, the Administrator of the sub-zone, Mr. Tekleberhan Gebrewold, pointed out that the renovated and constructed facilities are part of the on-going national reconstruction program.
He further indicated that the newly implemented potable water supply project at an expenditure of 114 million Nakfa would provide service, and thereby ease potable water supply problems in the sub-zone. The construction of sports field is also nearing finalization and that Cinema Tessenei and the administration office would be renovated, Mr. Tekleberhan added.


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Folding fan, cream gauze, single leaf, decorated with pierced and frosted stamped gilt-metal paillettes imitating filigree (22), and cut steel cornflower sprays attached by black thread; gold binding on the upper edge. Sticks and guards of pierced and gilt copper or brass (12+2) nail rivet with blue-black washers. The gold panels, each overlaid by a cut steel, are arranged as a border at the top of the leaf; the rest of the cut steels are arranged in vertical rows of three between sticks. The reverse is undecorated.
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bought: Anne, Countess of Rosse 1985-01-28 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992)
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
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Dear Dr. Bill,
I was a single mom of 4 daughters until I met a wonderful man who didn't have any kids. He's been an amazing father-figure for my girls, and we've recently married and had a son together.
Now I'm concerned that my husband is feeling overwhelmed — because of a new marriage, a new family, a new baby — plus a job change! In many ways it feels like our family is living on the edge, and I don't want anything to destroy our marriage. What can I do to support my husband during this difficult time?
Dear Joy,
Given all of the recent changes in your husband's life, it's no wonder he's feeling stressed out. My guess is the most significant stressor is his new job. It sounds like he is the sole provider for the family, and most men take that role very seriously. If he's under pressure to produce at work or is learning an entirely new job, his stress level may be off the charts.
Your husband will benefit from an extra measure of support and encouragement during this difficult time. Let him know you understand how much pressure he is under, and ask him if there are specific ways that you and the kids can support him. If there are household projects that need to be done but that can wait a few months, let him know that there's no hurry.
One of the most important things you can do right now is draw near to God. Pray together as a couple every night. Turn over your stress and anxiety to the Lord and ask Him to give you a sense of His peace. If you're not involved in supportive, caring church, find one and get plugged in.
Thanks for writing Joy.
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May 25, 1961, President Kennedy made a bold statement, challenging the United States with a task "of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." July 20, 1969, the world watched as Neil Armstrong achieved that goal with a triumphant, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The world had never seen anything like Project Apollo. America's best resources were put into achieving President Kennedy's bold statement. When Apollo 11's Lunar Module, the Eagle, landed on the moon, its touchdown represented the culmination of every manned American space mission before it.
The F-1 engine was the booster that powered Project Apollo. Five mighty F-1 engines launched each Saturn V rocket that propelled the Apollo astronauts toward the moon. To date, the F-1 remains the most powerful American liquid-fueled rocket engine ever developed.
March 2013, Bezos Expeditions announced it had recovered many prime pieces of the historic F-1 engines from Project Apollo. Working 14,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean for three weeks, the team discovered an underwater wonderland; an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 engines which tells the story of a fiery and violent end, one that pays homage to the Apollo program.
We hope the recovery and preservation of the Apollo F-1 engines reinvigorates the imagination and spirit that Project Apollo brought to not only our nation, but the world, during a time of great change.


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One of the greatest fashion decades is making a fierce comeback
Crop TopsThe perfect combination of sexy and comfortable, crop tops can be worn with a pair of shorts for a casual spring look or paired with a skirt for a night out with the girls.
High-Waisted ShortsComplementing the crop top perfectly and making your butt look fantastic, high-waisted shorts also cover the impossible lower part of your abdomen, making you look thinner and taller. Can you say greatest shorts ever?
Grunge ClothesThat's right, even grunge is back. This cut-out shirt shows off your sexy back and gives you that bad girl look without actually being bad. Well…we mean you still can be bad.
Toms/LoafersThese will make you feel like you're back in kindergarten, but they are so adorable you can't pass them up. They are comfy and look cute paired with your high-waisted shorts and crop top. These shoes are just too cool for school!
RompersLooks like a dress, wears like shorts. It's the perfect outdoor attire for a picnic or a walk in the park. No worrying about your skirt blowing up from the spring winds or crossing your legs when you're sitting in the grass.
DenimToo much of a good thing sometimes can be a great thing. Denim on denim is an adorable spring look. Just make sure to wear two different shades of blue!
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Arvind Kejrewal, the social activist turned politician who is acquiring the center stage of the political scene seems to be the voice of the nation. The way he has stormed into the limelight, making one allegation after the other, reminds of the days of the Thelka dot com, when its video exposes shocked the audience. He also reminds of the heydays of Dr Subramaniam Swamy, who too hogged limelight in a similar fashion.


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By Kellie Bisset RIP copayment As Prime Minister Tony Abbott ended ongoing criticisms of the government's GP copayment proposal by declaring it "dead, buried and cremated", health groups warned that the sting might just be in the tail. A Medicare rebate freeze until 2018 might save $1.3 [...]READ MORE
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Rosemary Stanton and Christina Pollard write: Many people eat badly because far too much of their energy is provided by nutritionally worthless junk foods and drinks. Part of the problem is the push by the food industry to get us to buy food that may be bad for us but good for its business. In the [...]READ MORE
Fat free and 100% natural: seven food labelling tricks exposed
Sandra Jones writes: If you're confused by food labels, you're not alone. But don't hold your breath for an at-a-glance food labelling system that tells you how much salt, fat and sugar each product contains. Australia's proposed "health star rating" labelling scheme was put on hold in February, following pressure from the food industry. And [...]READ MORE
A challenge to Australia: make sure every child has access to affordable healthy food
Marie McInerney reports: Here's a challenge to Australian politicians, leading food retailers like Woolworths and Coles and perhaps consumers: make sure that every child in the country has access to affordable fruit and vegetables by 2017, "whatever their postcode". It was laid down last week by global health campaigner Alessandro Demaio who says Australia can't [...]READ MORE
The Health Wrap: tackling childrens' health, food and alcohol industry dramas, and society's obsession with dieting
Melissa Davey Once you're done with the Health Wrap, be sure to check out this Croakey round-up of health news to make you smile. What about the children? Regulation of alcohol advertising is failing to properly protect children and adolescents, and in some cases is enabling their exposure to alcohol advertising, according to [...]READ MORE
Big Food lobbying: tip of the iceberg exposed
Gary Sacks writes: The influence of the food lobby has come into the public spotlight over the past week, with revelations that Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash's chief-of-staff, Alastair Furnival, has strong links to the food industry. Furnival previously worked as a lobbyist for several food companies and is the co-owner of a firm that has represented [...]READ MORE
Industry winning the fight against better food labelling
Kathy Chapman writes: Most people doing their grocery shopping are probably blissfully unaware of the industry lobbying and backroom politics that determines what information appears on food labels. So let's start with some background. For almost two years, a Commonwealth government-led initiative involving public health and consumer groups, industry organisations as well as state government health [...]READ MORE
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By Kellie Bisset Putting the social determinants of health front and centre The impact of social disadvantage on healthcare and other important 'downstream' factors was a focus of the past fortnight as Australia marked Anti Poverty Week. This piece on Croakey from Marie McInerney pulls together the findings from Anti Poverty Week research reports [...]READ MORE
The Health Wrap: Mending Medicare, system stresses, nanny state debates, an unhealthy climate
By Kellie Bisset Poll position As the election race began, and those in the healthcare sector wondered if health might get a look-in at any point during the campaign, the Mend Medicare Coalition wasted no time in launching its own campaign calling for reform. As reported by Croakey, the Coalition released a report calling on [...]READ MORE
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Giant strides
Barry Cowan looks at John Isner's surge up the rankings and another title win for Roger Federer.
Last Updated: 23/03/12 10:22am
John Isner is probably best known for being the big man who had that mammoth match at Wimbledon with Nicolas Mahut.
At Indian Wells, though, the American showed he is an excellent tennis player and beat Novak Djokovic en-route to the final, before losing to an in-form Roger Federer.
Isner has really evolved his game and in the semi-final against Djokovic he proved that he not only has a great serve - something you would expect considering he's 6ft 9in - but also that he moves well and that his forehand is a world-class shot.
But what impressed me more than anything was the composure he showed; the 26-year-old rattled Djokovic, especially in the final set tiebreak, and came up with the goods when it really mattered.
Isner has been playing with a new-found confidence ever since he beat Federer in the Davis Cup just after the Australian Open. He prevailed in a real pressure situation and realised that he is not that far off the top players in the world; that experience definitely helped him to topple Djokovic last week.
I've had no doubts that he would become a top-ten player and due to his exploits in Indian Wells he now is.
He's not good enough to win a Grand Slam just yet - his movement has improved but not to the level of the top four players in the world - but I don't think he is a one-hit wonder, and he will be a danger to the elite on any surface because of the potency of his serve.
The test for Isner now will be to go again in Miami but I suspect he may struggle.
Players often find it tough to back up great performances the following week, due to mental and physical tiredness, the expectation from themselves and the public that they will play well, and the fact that other players view them as a marked man.
However, if he does go deep into the tournament and makes another semi-final, then he goes up another level in terms of showing that big-time temperament.
Federer won in Indian Wells - his third tournament victory on the spin - and he is on the crest of a wave at the moment.
Everything started to click again for Federer when he made the French Open final last year; for 10 months he has been very consistent and only great performances have beaten him.
He beat Milos Raonic and Thomaz Bellucci last week having lost the first set and survived a tiebreak against Isner in the final; matches he would have lost in the early part of 2011.
Federer is match-tight and is winning the big points. His confidence has returned and the way he beat Nadal in the semi-finals in Indian Wells was the best I've ever seen him play against the Spaniard in conditions that are favourable to both players.
He got very flustered and impatient against Nadal at the Australian Open, but this time he came out with a clear game-plan and the technical and tactical adjustments he has made has helped him mentally.
Federer had issues in the past with his return of serve against Nadal and he couldn't convert enough break points, but now he is hitting over the backhand all the time. He used to chip the shot, which works against other players but not against the Spaniard and his dominating forehand.
The Swiss has definitely improved his net play courtesy of his work with Paul Annacone and that confidence with his volleys has helped his forehand, something that won him all those major titles but also lost him some big matches.
His belief is not as strong as it was a few years ago; when he was winning three Grand Slams in a calendar year he knew his best tennis would win any match in any conditions, but that that is not the case now due to the improvements made by Nadal and Djokovic.
However, the 2012 Federer is a better player now than when he was world number one, and he will win more majors.
Djokovic, meanwhile, is still playing great tennis and if a Grand Slam started tomorrow he would still be my favourite, but you can't get away from the fact that he has only won one title since the US Open, while Federer has won six.
Novak will say: 'I won the important one' and that's exactly right, but he may be slightly concerned by his loss to Isner, even though he played well during it, because it's the first tight match he has lost in ages.
The Serb beat Nadal in the US Open when it was nip and tuck, he did the same against Federer in the semi-final when his opponent had match points, and has won other matches he could have lost.
I think Djokovic will respond very positively but if he goes another month not winning a title he's confidence, while I wouldn't say it would be dented, would not be as high as it was a year ago and other players would see him as beatable.
Andy Murray lost his opening match at Indian Wells to Spaniard Guillermo Garcia Lopez, but the only negative I saw was that he played poorly!
It was one of those days when he wasn't able get his best tennis out. His attitude was good, his body language was fine, and he tried desperately hard.
What's more damaging with a result like that is if you start panicking about what went wrong, but I have no doubt that Murray will just accept he had a poor day and will move on and look forward to Miami.
I don't see any parallels between this year and last, when he went out early in both Indian Wells and Miami. Mentally he is in a good place and I would suspect he will prosper at next week's tournament - along with his top-four rivals.


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There seems to be this masochistic obsession with the war based shooter game from the majority of the gaming populace. Many people claim to hate the Call of Duty franchise and games like it yet every year they empty out their pockets in an effort to attain another sixty dollar DLC that they ultimately end up hating.
I don't understand it.
At any time during Modern Warfare 3's release, one could go into any lobby belonging to the game and quite easily hear people verbalizing their frustrations with the title. Indeed, very few people would honestly say that Modern Warfare 3 is good and yet it is the same game that broke records upon release.
What is the cause of this?
Simply put, it is the consumer's willingness to settle for questionable quality when purchasing a branded item. One does not have to be a conspiracy nut to be apprehensive about the quality of a game that is released once every year; on the contrary, I think it is one's responsibility as an active consumer to question the intentions of a company that releases a sixty dollar game annually. It may be difficult to see how this seemingly isolated phenomenon can affect the whole genre so I will start from the beginning.
Modern Warfare 2 marked the rise of the "no skill shooter". Things like commando, infinite noob tubes (grenade launchers) and heartbeat sensors only cemented people's idea that the game never intended to promote skill in players (which should be the goal in the development of any competitive game) and rather just strove to increase their consumer base by targeting a younger demographic or, at least, a demographic that had nothing to do with the series' popularity in the first place.
As the game's age began to increase, more and more casual gamers began to recognize its counter-intuitive design and started to cry foul. The people in charge of the next game in the series, Treyarch, were immediately given a list of demands from the relatively new but exceedingly loud next generation Call of Duty players.
Their list was composed of things that were obvious; the removal of commando, noob tubes and danger close were things they felt needed the utmost attention.
However, a silent minority, who in fact were the original players of Call of Duty and were responsible for the game's initial popularity, warned the players that the need for game balance was paramount. Things like commando and danger close were merely symptoms of the actual disease and not the disease itself; removing those things alone would not fix the series. For the series to be repaired, the developers would need to devote themselves to the idea of balance, as imbalance was the portent signifying the bastardization of the genre.
This idea remained largely ignored for several years.
A year later, Treyarch's Call of Duty Black Ops was released to the excitement of shooter fans the world over. People rejoiced at the eradication of things like commando and stopping power while others merely waited in humored anticipation for the metaphorical crap to hit the fan.
A few weeks into the game, gamers began to notice big gaffs within its design. Suddenly, the perks Ghost and Second Chance, both of which were present in the game's predecessor Modern Warfare 2, seemed a lot more present and pervasive than before. In similar fashion, sniper rifles, shotguns and LMGs (light machine guns) were confoundedly inefficient when compared to the weapon classes of assault rifles and SMGs (sub machine guns). Players found themselves forced to wield the automatic small arms since choosing anything else was tantamount to suicide.
It was then that players began to understand the notion of imbalance as a cancer within the gaming community. Ghost became such a malevolent entity within the Black Ops community only because Stopping Power was removed at the behest of said community. The checks and balances relationship between Stopping Power and Ghost went largely unnoticed.
As Ghost and Stopping Power were the two most effective perks within their class, there was an equal gain and loss if a player chose one over the other. But since Stopping Power was removed, the choice of Ghost as a perk was a no brainer resulting in Ghost being the most overused perk in the history of the Call of Duty series.
For those that don't know, Ghost was a perk that essentially made the character invisible on the map except for when firing an unsuppressed weapon. The obvious method of ameliorating this was to ensure that you choose a suppressible weapon and suppress it. The result was an invisible team of super soldiers. The majority of players were forced to adopt this loadout since if you were the only person on a map who was not invisible, your death was guaranteed.
A year later, Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 3 was released with the promise of reintroducing gun on gun gameplay back into the shooting game genre.
How such an inextricably linked trait to such a genre was lost sight of on the part of the developers is something that will always give me pause. Needless to say, Infinity Ward failed in the implementation of this seemingly laughably simply endeavor.
Killstreaks (powerful rewards gained for killing enemies without dying) were now ever present since players were now able to choose setups that allowed them to attain these rewards regardless of whether they died. So essentially players were rewarded for nothing.
The result?
Players camping religiously in an effort to attain these shockingly simple killstreaks. Things like heartbeat sensors and noob tubes remained a staple to the gameplay but were now joined by the remarkably omnipotent motion sensor that, when placed, not only showed an enemies location but showed it to the whole team.
Weapon balance became an even bigger issue since, players having had their eyes opened by Black Ops, knew what to look for. Shotguns and LMGs once again were forced to remain the masochist's weapon of choice, failing to perform adequately on even unmoving targets.
The community's frustrations came to a head when Infinity Ward announced that they would be buffing (strengthening) certain assault rifles and SMGs and nerfing (weakening) certain shotguns.
It became clear that the developers simply had no interest in the concept of balance and variety in the form of gameplay.
The challenger to Modern Warfare 3, a game known as Battlefield 3, seemed to be the answer to the monotony made staple by the Call of Duty series and in many ways it was.
Boasting a totally revamped engine and having been in development for over three years, many of the older players that became fed up with the nonsense known as Call of Duty fled to the safety of Electronic Arts' new title. Unfortunately, even with all of the game's technology, balance and solid development, it failed to make a dent in Call of Duty's sales, forcing many gamers to fear that the series was now marked for death.
Apparently, gamers no longer wanted a quality game worth their money.
Crysis 2 attempted to answer the call but, at most, the title was just a nice little distraction. Crysis' genius lay in its singleplayer, not its multiplayer as many gamers quickly found out upon playing.
Many other contenders were spewed forth, attempting to challenge Call of Duty's dominance over the genre but they all fell flat.
Gears of War 3 was successful but that series possesses the "Madden trait"; many people that play Gears play it alone and are often uninterested in games of similar genres (Madden players don't consider themselves sports games players, as they may very well not play any other sports game, they consider themselves Madden players).
Call of Duty is on the verge of completely usurping the entire genre. Pretty soon there will no longer be a "shooter genre" and it will simply be called the CoD genre.
I know it may seem farfetched or unnecessarily apocalyptic but one must remember history in order to hypothesize on the future.
This is Activision we're talking about.
Consider this, several years ago a game entered the scene that changed the music game genre in ways unprecedented; this game was Guitar Hero.
In similar fashion to Call of Duty, a game was released annually; each sequel being more and more identical to its predecessor with less innovation being implemented with each release. Many gamers expressed apprehension at the company's belching forth of title after title every year. Common sense seemed to suggest that the game would become old before its time if the market became incessantly flooded with the titles; it was inevitable.
Several years later, there is no game within the music genre worth speaking of. The genre is, for all intents and purposes, dead.
Still don't buy it?
How about we look at another series birthed by Activision?
The once upon a time face of the extreme sports genre, Tony Hawk. At its release, Tony Hawk was a game that not only got people into gaming but got gamers into skateboarding. Pretty soon, Activision began to release a Tony Hawk every year, each iteration becoming more ridiculous than the last to the point that it felt like one was playing a Jackass episode rather than an actual skateboarding game.
The end of the series (and genre) was marked by the release of the laughably horrible and poorly implemented Tony Hawk Ride. The game sold about 114,000 copies in its first month, which is essentially a joke.
The series is showing signs of life by announcing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, which is basically the old games with new graphics in an effort to cash in on gamers' nostalgia.
Although the arrival of Electronic Arts' Skate seemed to breathe new life into the extreme sports genre, the genre is, once again, for all intents and purposes, dead.
The shooter genre, or perhaps more realistically the first person shooter genre, may be destined for the same fate if November 2012's Black Ops 2 fails to fix all the issues causing monotony and frustration within the genre.
Yes, even though they are only one player within the genre as a whole, it is their actions that ultimately determine how the consumer perceives the genre as a whole.
As I say in this ridiculously long vid; cross your fingers.


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The texture of airy woven raffia gives an updated spin to this classic ballet crafted by a Spanish company renowned for their ballet flats. Topped with a preppy toe cap and finished with a tacked bow to partner beautifully with denim or dresses. Leather and raffia. Leather footbed. Leather sole with 1/4" rubber heel. Due to the nature of raffia, slight variations in color may occur. Spain.
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Made by Gentle Souls for Garnet Hill. Gentle Souls has updated its much-loved wedge with a flattering crisscross at the ankle, an almond-shaped toe, and a subtle shimmer to the leather. How very feminine. Side seam details add a bit of definition. In a trio of neutrals with the right amount of sheen. Footbed has memory foam for exceptional comfort. 2 1/2" leather wedge heel. Rubber sole. Imported.
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Medion Akoya P6633 (MD97958)
SpecificationsNotebook: Medion Akoya P6633 (MD97958)
Processor: Intel Core i5 2450M
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 1024 MB
Display: 15.6 inch, 16:9, 1920x1080 pixels, glossy: no
Weight: 2.624kg
Price: 749 euro
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Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/26/2012
Rating: Total score: 79% performance: 87% display: 85% mobility: 78% workmanship: 72% ergonomy: 73% emissions: 80%
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Positive: matte and bright display with full-HD resolution, performance; negative: quality of casing, keyboard
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/09/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M:
Multiple models based on various chips of the Fermi generation. Specifically, the GT 630M exists in GF108/GF106/GF116 variants, but are all essentially renamed GeForce GT 540M or 555M GPUs. A 28nm GF117 variant exists as well with reduced power consumption.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
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2450M: Dual-core processor based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. The CPU is clocked at 2.5 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.8-3.1 GHz) and the GPU at 650 (1300 MHz Turbo).» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.6": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. However nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.624 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
Medion: Medion AG is a German consumer electronics company. It operates in Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific region. The main products are computers, TVs, refrigerators, toasters, and fitness equipment. The manufacturer of laptops Medion mainly is active in the German market, but to smaller extent also in Western Europe. Market shares and amount of reviews are low. Above all, supermarkets like Aldi sell their laptops.
79%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
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The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb
- Dates: April 21, 1995 through August 22, 1995
- Collections: Contemporary Art
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January 27, 1995: The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, a major traveling exhibition, will be presented at The Brooklyn Museum from April 21 through August 26, 1995. This exhibition, comprising more than sixty works dating from 1941 through 1952, is the first in-depth examination of Gottlieb's pictographs, paintings characterized by gridlike arrangements of cultural images and ideas drawn from a wide spectrum of sources, including The Brooklyn Museum's collection of African and Native American art. Gottlieb assembled his own collection of tribal objects, given to the Museum in 1989 by his wife, the painter Esther Gottlieb. The exhibition will be enhanced by works from the Museum's tribal art collections, allowing consideration of the pictographs in light of specific objects seen by the artist.
Born on New York's Lower East Side, Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) left high school in 1921, first attending classes at the Art Students League and later studying firsthand the cultural legacy of the West after working his way to Europe on a steamer. Upon his return to New York, he continued his courses with John Sloan and Robert Henri at the Art Students League. Gottlieb was an active participant in the city's art world of the 1920s, counting among his friends a number of fellow artists, including Milton Avery, John Graham, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.
Throughout the 1930s, Gottlieb and his colleagues, frustrated by the limitations imposed by European abstraction and surrealism and American regionalism and social realism, sought nothing less than to reinvent American art. Gottlieb's approach, developed through discussions with Rothko, interpreted classical myth using imagery derived from ancient and tribal art. Emphasizing the theme of separation, he selected the theme of Oedipus as the inspiration for the series of paintings he began in 1941, calling them pictographs out of disdain for those prevailing styles of art making.
Conceived as repositories for a mixture of cultural, sociological, and personal themes, Gottlieb's pictographs were among the first fully developed paintings to diverge from Western models. Seeking to communicate his experience of the modern world, Gottlieb rejected depiction and instead relied on the visual presentation of images and ideas culled from such sources as Native American, African, and Pacific Island art; the theories of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, André Bréton, and John Graham; the writings of James Joyce; and the art of Pablo Picasso. The resulting elements of the pictograph, arranged within a gridded composition, were meant not to be read in sequence but apprehended as a whole. Presented as an object, the pictograph redefines itself from viewer to viewer and over the course of time.
The pictograph Vigil (1948) displays many of Gottlieb's formal and compositional concerns. The image of the eye, prominent in this work and throughout the series, originally alluded to the tragic fate of Oedipus: in this later painting, its meanings are at once multiple and universal. Gottlieb greatly admired the Native American and other tribal art he found at The Brooklyn Museum, within walking distance of his home on State Street in Brooklyn Heights. He incorporated into Vigil and many other pictographs, motifs he found on such objects in the Museum's collection.
The pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb establish a critical link between European modernism and American painting in the 1950s and 1960s. Charlotta Kotik, Chairman and Curator, Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, writes in her catalogue essay, "We see in these works the first concentrated effort to draw truly innovative solutions from the ideas suggested both by cubism and surrealism, with indigenous American and tribal art acting as a catalyst in setting the whole process in motion. Never yielding to total abstraction but always maintaining the presence of an object through its manipulated image, Gottlieb's pictographs point to the iconic vision of Jasper Johns and the compartmentalized imagery of the early work of Robert Rauschenberg. In a time when content in art is once again seriously debated, when the ideas of cross-cultural fertilization are central to understanding the wide scope of art currently being created, the legacy of Adolph Gottlieb once again comes into focus."
The exhibition was organized by the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. The presentation at The Brooklyn Museum is made possible by a generous gift from Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin. Additional support has been provided by the Philip Morris Companies Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. The Brooklyn Museum's installation of The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb was coordinated by Charlotta Kotik. A wide range of education programs complements the exhibition. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb, with essays by Lawrence Alloway, Sanford Hirsch, Charlotta Kotik, Linda Konheim Kramer, and Evan Maurer. 143 pgs. 127 photos, incl. 69 color plates. Soft-cover, $25.
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BEIRUT: Is Hezbollah set to acquire Scud ballistic missiles as a consequence of the worsening security situation in Syria?
According to recent Israeli media reports, Israel's military officials are fretting that the turmoil in Syria and the slowly improving capabilities of the armed opposition could compel the Syrian authorities to place some of its ballistic missile arsenal under Hezbollah's protection.
The speculation has swirled with a video clip uploaded to YouTube on June 14 showing a convoy of military vehicles, including four Scud transporters carrying missiles, driving along a road purportedly in the area of Damascus.
The allegations that Hezbollah may have acquired control of Scud missiles first surfaced in April 2010, although there were conflicting reports as to whether any missiles had actually entered Lebanon.
But the escalating violence in Syria has renewed interest in the fate of Syria's stockpile of ballistic missiles, as well as its suspected arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.
A unit of Free Syrian Army rebels earlier this month briefly seized a military base near Al-Ghantou in the Homs province. Video footage taken by the fighters showed several SA-2 anti-aircraft missiles on their launchers out in the open.
A subsequent counterattack by regular Syrian troops forced the rebels to withdraw, but the inference was clear: Syrian military bases – and the weapons contained within – are no longer necessarily secure from the reach of the armed opposition.
The FSA may have little need for advanced long-range air defense systems or ballistic missiles, but the potential vulnerability of some military bases appears to have compelled the Syrian authorities to begin making contingency plans.
According to diplomatic sources, increased activity has been detected at Syrian military facilities where Scud missiles are stored, including the movement of rockets, the construction of new underground bunkers and the expansion of existing facilities.
The diplomatic sources assess that the activity is a sign that the Assad regime is attempting to safeguard its ballistic missiles to prevent them falling into the hands of the armed opposition.
The hills either side of the highway linking Damascus to Homs contain numerous underground military bases. Some of them, such as those near Adra, Dumayr, and between Al-Qastal and An-Nasriyah, are suspected missile storage and launch sites. The protected entrances to the underground tunnels are clearly visible on satellite images carried by the Google Earth portal. Another underground facility appears to be under construction 10 kilometers southwest of Al-Qastal with at least six new tunnel entrances.
Israel says it regards Hezbollah's acquisition of Scuds – along with advanced air defense systems – as a "red line" which would require a military response.
Nonetheless, it is uncertain whether Israel would risk triggering a new war with Hezbollah for the sake of attempting to knock out a handful of Scud missiles, assuming the Israelis can locate the storage sites in the first place or catch the Scud convoys on the move.
In some respects, Israel has been facing this quandary since 2000 when Hezbollah first began acquiring rockets larger than the extended range 122mm Katyushas it used in the 1990s during the Israeli occupation of the south. First, it was the Iranian Fajr family of rockets which increased Hezbollah's reach from about 30 to 70 kilometers. Around 2002, Hezbollah received Zelzal-1 and Zelzal-2 610mm rockets, the latter having a range of 189 kilometers.
With the arrival in Lebanon of each new and larger rocket system, the Israelis had to assess whether to do something about it. Attacking suspected storage sites containing the missiles may have dented Hezbollah's offensive options, but it also could have triggered a war that neither side wanted. That was the "balance of terror" that helped maintain a tense calm along the Lebanon-Israel border between 2000 and 2006.
The "balance of terror" is fundamentally the same today as before 2006, although the stakes are considerably higher. Today, Hezbollah has M600 guided ballistic missiles which, although of shorter range than Scuds, could still take down targets in Tel Aviv.
If Hezbollah is spotted attempting to smuggle Scud missiles into Lebanon, would the Israelis act on their "red line" principle and launch airstrikes to destroy them?
Such a step could be the catalyst for the long-awaited "next round" between
these enemies, one that assuredly would be devastating for Lebanon but would also wreak the greatest level of destruction on the Israeli home front since 1948.
Hezbollah's leadership regularly boasts that nowhere in Israel is beyond the reach of its rocket arsenal, which certainly would be true if it has acquired Scud-D missiles. The Scud-D has a range of 700 kilometers which means Hezbollah could launch one from Lebanon's northern border and hit a target in southern Israel.
Still, it is not entirely clear whether Hezbollah would seek to add Scuds to its inventory. Smuggling 12.5-meter-long Scud-Ds and their even larger dedicated Transporter-Erector-Launcher vehicles into Lebanon is a formidable logistical undertaking, even for Hezbollah which has had three decades to perfect its skills in clandestine cross-border arms transfers.
Furthermore, unlike Hezbollah's arsenal of solid-fueled artillery rockets which can be quickly set up and fired, Scuds are liquid-fueled which entails a complicated and lengthy launch preparation procedure leaving the batteries vulnerable to being spotted and attacked by Israeli aircraft in a time of war.
Even the advantage of the Scud's range may be a case of overkill for Hezbollah when one considers that there are few strategic targets south of Tel Aviv that might justify the tiresome logistics of employing the missiles in the first place.
Israel appears to have assessed that although Hezbollah has acquired control over some Scuds, it does not intend to deploy them in Lebanon until the outbreak of a war so as to avoid a pre-emptive strike.
However, wartime is exactly when the cross-border convoys would be at their most vulnerable with Lebanese skies awash with Israeli jets and pilotless drones hunting for targets. Perhaps, in fact, Hezbollah never intended to bring the Scuds (assuming for a moment they want them in the first place) into Lebanon anyway.
One way of overcoming the risks of a cross-border arms transfer and the logistical difficulties in building secret camouflaged underground bunkers in Lebanon large enough to house the missiles and their TELS is to launch them from inside Syria. There are several areas just inside Syria's border with Lebanon which provide secure and easy access for Hezbollah (at least before the uprising against Assad's rule) where small discrete launch sites could be constructed for possible use under Hezbollah's command and control during a war with Israel.
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Music Videos Still ExistPosted: October 3, 2013 Filed under: Music | Tags: 23, Britney Spears, Britney Spears Work Bitch, Drake, Drake Hold On, Hold On, Mike WiLL Made It, Mike Will Made It 23, miley cyrus, mtv, music video, We're Going Home, Wiz Khalifa, Work Bitch Leave a comment
I know MTV doesn't care, but I love a good music video. Recently, a lot of entertaining ones have been released. I would like to share a few of my new favs.
Say hello to Mike WiLL Made-It — ft. Miley Cyrus, Juicy J & Wiz Khalifa. I honestly have no idea why I'm into this song. I really don't even know what it's about, but I find myself listening to it quite frequently.
I have actually thought about this being my theme song when I walk into places such as malls, grocery stores and even work. Anyways, my favorite part of the music video is watching Miley Cyrus be a BAMF.
Does anyone else want to sit on a basketball hoop and rap? I know I do.
Hold On, We're Going Home
This music video mashes all of life's most beautiful things: Drake, the year 1985 and A$AP Rocky. Watching this music video is like 7 minutes in heaven…really, the music video is 7 minutes long. It chronicles Drake saving his lady from a kidnapper. It's really beautiful, you'll see.
Does anyone else wish that Drake would dress like Miami Vice from now on?
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Obviously you had to see this one coming, right? I have to say, I really enjoyed watching this music video. It made me feel exotic, when in reality I was sitting on the couch with the cats.
I have a few favorite parts that I must share:
1. How do I get a vanity set in the desert? I would like to place mine approximately 2 feet from Brit's. I'm trying to borrow that perfume.
2. Does the dancing scene with the gloves remind anyone of the Me Against the Music era?
3. God, Britney looks GREAT! The weave, dance moves and facial expressions are all in check.
Britney, I'm so, I'm so, I'm so proud of you.
Hold On, I'm Going Home with Drake!Posted: August 7, 2013 Filed under: Music | Tags: Drake, Drake and Justin Timberlake, Drake single, Drizzy, Hold on we're going home, Nothing Was The Same, rap music, Studio album, Thank Me Later 1 Comment
Today was a good day. Why? Because a new Drake jam was released. It's called "Hold On, We're Going Home" and I'm into it.
Take a listen:
This jam will be featured on Drake's third studio album entitled "Nothing Was The Same," which is set for release on September 17th. Justin Timberlake will be making a cameo on the album as well. He'll probably be singing about Britney as he usually does.
Drake did tell us that we would thank him later (Remember, his first studio album was called "Thank Me Later"). So I'll say it…Thanks Drake!
Happy Drake DayPosted: April 7, 2012 Filed under: Music | Tags: Bar and Bat Mitzvah, Drake, Drake HYFR, Drake Take Care, HYFR, Judaism, Lil Wayne, music video, Rihanna Leave a comment
While it may be some other religious-like holiday, I have officially deemed today…Drake Day.
Why you ask? One of the most handsome rappers alive has released not one…but TWO new music videos. I'll give you a moment to process this greatness. Breathe into a paper bag if necessary.
The first music video is "HYFR" ft. Lil' Wayne (ugh). It chronicles Drake's re-bar mitzvah, which he celebrated back in 2011. The video starts off with a smaller version of Drake getting his groove on then transports us to the sweet, sweet party.
Leave it to Lil' Wayne to be underdressed for the occasion.
The next video released on Drake Day is…."Take Care" ft. his number one lady Rihanna. Honestly, when are these two going to stop beating around the microphone and get married?!
It makes everyone on the planet so sad to continuously see the pain in Rihanna's precious eyes.
While I don't understand the concept of the snowy mountain, the big bird and the bull…I do love the shots of RiRi and Drizzy together.
Even though it is Drake Day…this message goes out to Rihanna: Girl, let Drake take care of you.
My New ObsessionPosted: April 4, 2012 Filed under: Music, Random | Tags: Boy Meets World, Drake, Elizabeth Berkley, Jessie Spano, Maury, Saved by the Bell, television Leave a comment
Below is a 13 second clip that makes an appearance on MTV2 every three minutes. I'm highlighting this because it makes me LOL every damn time.
If you didn't know, MTV2 plays old school episodes of "Saved By the Bell" and "Boy Meets World" during the afternoon. This fits perfectly into my TV schedule…I have nothing to watch after "Maury."
Anywho…I hope you enjoy this clip as much as I do!
P.S. The song Jessie Spano is shaking her thang to is "The Motto" by Drake.
Remember When…Posted: February 23, 2012 Filed under: Music, Remember Whens | Tags: Birthday Cake, Chris Brown, Demeaning to Women, Drake, Remix, Rihanna, Rihanna and Chris Brown, twitter 2 Comments
Rihanna played "Russian Roulette"
I am finally ready to discuss the Rihanna and Chris Brown remixes.
These days Chris Brown seems to be everywhere my little ears are. So I must ask…will someone punch me in the ears? I'll give you a free shot…or five.
Like all the other independent woman out there, the last place I expected to hear Chris Brown was on a Rihanna track! And the last place I expected to hear Rihanna was on a Chris Brown track!
If you've been M.I.A the past few days, let me give you the 411. Chris Brown is featured on the remix for Rihanna's song "Birthday Cake" and Rihanna is featured on a remix of Brown's "Turn Up the Music." Both tracks were released this past Monday.
Precious Rihanna even tweeted about the remix…
Ever since Brown hurt this national treasure, there has always been the "Are they or aren't they back together" rumor.
Not surprisingly there has been a boatload of outrage about Rihanna and Brown collaborating. Basically, people can't believe Rihanna is associating with Chris Brown again…and I don't blame them!
This controversy made me think about a time when Rihanna was so sad and sang about playing "Russian Roulette." You can hear her pain pouring out in the lyrics. Rihanna's pain = my pain.
Rihanna…stay strong boo.
Chris Brown…Nope, still haven't forgotten.
Non-Demeaning to Women WednesdayPosted: November 9, 2011 Filed under: Music, Non-Demeaning to Women Wednesday, Random | Tags: Demeaning to Women, Drake, lyrics, Make Me Proud, Nicki Minaj, Non-Demenaing to women, rap music, Rihanna, Take Care, wednesday Leave a comment
My roommates and I have a list on our refrigerator that has two columns. The column on the right is titled "Demeaning to Women" and the column on the left is titled "Non-Demeaning to Women." We have a variety of characters on the list and (of course) I will share some with you.
In the Non-Demeaning to Women corner, we have:
- Jennifer Lopez aka Jenny from the Block (from da Bronx)
- Britney Spears (Obvi)
- Rihanna
- Spice Girls (Girl Power)
- DJ Pauly D
As for the Demeaning to Women corner:
- "The Bachelorette" & "The Bachelor" (Yea ABC)
- CHRIS BROWN (Still haven't forgotten you ass)
- Dr. Phil
- Dawson Leery
- Gary and Corey from "Teen Mom"
So with this post, I would like to shine the spotlight on a person who is completing Non-Demeaning to Women acts.
This Wednesday, the Non-Demeaning to Women award goes to…
Not only is this gentleman handsome, he is releasing his second studio album "Take Care" Nov. 15. Drake has a song on the upcoming album that is (in my opinion) finally not demeaning to women. The track is called "Make Me Proud" and it features Nicki Minaj.
Side note: I have always thought Drake was a friend to women and I'm waiting for him to put a ring on Rihanna's finger.
Back to the topic at hand. You might be wondering why I think this song is non-demeaning to women. Here are some lyrics to prove my point:
"I know things get hard but girl you got it girl/You got it, there you go/Can't you tell by how they looking at you everywhere you go"
"When all these motherf*ckers wanna waste your time/It's just amazing girl, and all I can say is/I'm so, I'm so, I'm so, I'm so, I'm so proud of you"
"I like a woman with a future and a past/A lil attitude problem all good, it'll make shit last/Don't make it too easy girl, don't take it too fast"
My personal favorite: "It must be hard to be that fine" (It actually is)
Thank you Drake. I feel empowered as a lady.
Celebs who would match on Match.comPosted: September 15, 2011 Filed under: Random | Tags: Beyonce, dating, Drake, jay-z, Match.com, online dating, only girl in the world, Rihanna, what's my name Leave a comment
I keep seeing these Match.com commercials which state that "1 in every 5 relationships begin online." These days, online dating is becoming the norm…one reason why…we are busier than ever. This got me thinking that since celebrities are some of the busiest people, they might benefit from hopping online to find a date or whatever they're into. I've decided to compose a post on which celebs would match up on Match.com.
Rihanna & Drake
As we all know, Beyoncé and Jay-Z currently hold the crown as royal couple of the hip-hop/R&B genres. Rihanna and Drake will have to settle for the princess and prince spot …for now.
These two are meant to be and they are slapping us in the face with their love every time they are within 10 feet of each other. If you've ever watched Rihanna's video for "What's My Name?" it's like watching a newlywed couple…equally gross and cute…for us single ladies…more gross than cute.
While these two briefly dated last year, they decided to hold off because of that dumbass Rihanna previously dated (still haven't forgotten Chris Brown). Rihanna also tried to date that sports guy, but he obviously wasn't on her level. Hint, hint Rihanna…read the writings on the wall…they say DRAKE!
A few months ago, I heard these two lovebirds were spotted making out in Montreal – Drake is from Canada after all. Hopefully he took RiRi to meet the parents and got this ball rolling. Following the Montreal incident, it was reported that these two want to focus on their careers or want to date around or not in a place to commit…what I'm really hearing is blah, blah, blah. Stop beating around the bush and get it together!
First date location: an exotic island where Rihanna and Drake can get there grove on without the cameras.
Rihanna – I think Drake can go downtown with a girl exactly like you…he will make you feel like the only girl in the world.
Don't fret – I'll add more couples who would match up on Match.com throughout the day.


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