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Jamie Foxx: Wrong on Vick
There has been a lot of back and forth over the Vick case, but Jamie Foxx's take on it is probably the most absurd I've heard yet. Foxx defended Vick in this story, because he thinks dogfighting is "a cultural thing." Wow, one would think that someone talented enough to win an Oscar, and smart enough to parlay that into a $10 million per movie payday afterwards would know that this ain't the time to run to the rescue of poor Mr. Vick, who is about to go down hard for straight up cruelty. Who will be next on Foxx's list of downtrodden misunderstood abusers to defend, Pol Pot?
Anyway, here's what PETA Prez Ingrid Newkirk had to say about Foxx's comments, "Black leaders like Russell Simmons and Dennis Courtland Hayes, head of the NAACP would agree, as does PETA, that it is cheap and dirty and wrong to call this a cultural thing — unless Foxx believes that cruelty is a black thing when it isn't. It may be his thing, but it is not a black thing. PETA encourages people to watch our anti-dogfighting PSA with world heavyweight boxer Lamon Brewster at PETATV.com."
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If Jamie Foxx thinks that this a cultural thing does that mean its ok for me to hang a black person from a tree because its a "cultural thing" I dont think so. I will never watch a movie or listen to a song of his.
allegro DJX was pointing out FACTS. It was the same thing as when the Romans staked the Christians out to be eaten by lions. White people gathered in crowds to watch. Again people have the nerve to say things against Black music. Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" detailed the lynching of Black people and there are pictures to prove it. I still haven't seen anything that peta has done to stop racism. The cops beat Rodney King like he was an animal. and I have read plenty of posts comparing Black people to animals etc. Oh they're lazy etc. the nation was built on the back of Black people! You need to do some research and get a life!
oh and peta I know you said something about brittney and her new dog but will you say something about the way she is treating her kids. feeding them junk food then trying to clean their teeth with those whitening strips? even the dentist refused to do that.
little big woman you need to chill. do some research. whether peta posted on white house people or not I haven't seen it and what about the hunters and gun sellers in PA? Protesting a shutdown of the software registering program to upgrade it. they are protesting because it is scheduled at the time that dove hunting and other hunting is scheduled. the NRA doesn't like to upset its members. will peta be there? we'll see
Laura M Fleming. re Michael Vicks father. the man wasn't in his life for over 22 years. and he had the nerve to ask MV for $700000 to buy a house and a car "because most fathers ask for millions of dollars". Just a gold digger only the male species. check the facts before you post nonsense
oh and Dana we were headed to hell in a hand basket when the bushes took control
to anna I posted this earlier when someone tried to say that no one is mistreating a Black man. Yes Africans had slaves so did the Romans etc. It isn't just a Black thing. But you have the nerve to try to justify it. This nation was built on the backs of Black people and to this day there is still racism. Go tell Rodney King that he was beaten by the cops because Africans had slaves tell that to Emmitt Till's relatives. Unfortunately his Mother died in 2003. Two white men came to the cabin of Mose Wright Emmett's uncle in the middle of the night. Roy Bryant the owner of the store and J.W. Milam his brotherinlaw drove off with Emmett. Three days later Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River. One eye was gouged out and his crushedin head had a bullet in it. The corpse was nearly unrecognizable Mose Wright could only positively identify the body as Emmett's because it was wearing an initialed ring. AND there is still to this day discrimination. Your history book obviously was written to support your point of view but there are thousands of articles and picture out there regarding the "mistreatment" of Black men and women. But it wasn't mistreatment it was MURDER! I had pets and they were treated well. They weren't allowed on the furniture but I paid thousands of dollars for them when they were sick. And when my dog died of cancer on the operating table and when I had to put my cat to sleep because he was filling up with fluids that kept him unable to breath and when the other dog died of old age at 14 I didn't just give them to the vet to cremate they were buried in an area set aside in California for pet burials. It cost more for that but I felt they deserved it and I received a certificate for each one stating that they were there. So let's see if you can stop the racist comments.
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a lot of talent and little morals huh? isn't there yet another one biting the dust at ye old white house. and another one soliciting in a restroom for gay stuff. add clinton add bush monica too. the bush daughters' drunkeness was hushed up but one of the bushes was caught with a fake prescription. pitbull bull baiting has its roots in merry old england along with bear baiting. hunters kill former pets at these new located in the U.S. safari hunts. the animals including a lion have to be hit with sticks to make them run so the "hunters" murderers can shoot them. where is peta? and where are you yes the ones who talk about MV and JF. the blog on foxsports has been deleted because of the racist and sexist comments. it's okay if you're white but not if you are a person of color. someone had the nerve to criticize a poster who wished Bo Diddly well and mentioned that he had succeeded with all the injustice that he had to go through. That person said Bo was an inspiration. Yet this other ignorant person said "why bring race into it?" Listen to Billie Holiday singing "strange fruit" i.e. the lynching carried out by white racists. History has been written from a white point of view and people post the nastiest things regarding MV when they should look at theirselves. but confession is automatically forgiven at some people's churches so it is alright to call people of color animals etc. And if that is the way white people want it then peta should protest the treatment of people of color.
Michelle I know that it is hard to think about any animals being killed by any shelters but there is no choice. In the summer you get 20 cats inwk and you adopt out 10wk. Most shelters don't have more space than for approx 100 cats so you can see the cages fill up pretty fast then what do you do? What about the animals that are brought in that are 17 or 18 yrs old with health problems or vicious dogs that can't be rehabilitated? Do you really want them to end their lives staying in a small cage with no contact or affection. The numbers are just overwelming.Until people spay and neuter their animalsthere will always have to be kill shelters. One of the reasons Peta started euthanizing animals from these small county animal controls is because the local animal controls were killing them by knocking them on the head gas chambersetc. Those shelters neither had the money nor expertise to do it the right way which is a gentle shot of barbituate and an immediate death instead of having them shoved into gas chambers that might take as long as 15 mins. As sad as it is as long as there are more animals than homes there is no other solution than euthanasia.Don't let these nokill shelters fool you most of them will only take animals that they deem adoptable. So what happens to the ones that are refused. They are taken out in the country and dropped off to starve to death or thrown out of moving cars. A gentle kind loving death is certainly preferable to that fate.
NEW YORK Leona Helmsleys dog will continue to live an opulent life and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsleys grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaires estate. Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese named Trouble a $12 million trust fund according to her will which was made public Tuesday in surrogate court. While veterans are maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan it's the poor wittle doggies that make the news. One of my relatives had a sky terrier that was so mean the post office delivery guy ran over it in his jeep. That dog and several yappy dogs bit several people. When I was unloading groceries taking two bags one in each arm to the house that sky terrier came around the corner at me. I kicked it in the head. No way was I going to let that crazy dog bite me. Also a cousin had a pitbull and a pitbull mix. His Mother is in her 70's but the dogs didn't bite her luckily but they bit her other son when he came to visit. The hospital treated him but he didn't get stitches as they needed the deep wounds to heal from the inside out. And that stupid idiot still has pitbulls in his house. Thank goodness he doesn't have children in the house.
Bigb I'm happy that you are at least against dog fighting! Fortunately we don't live anymore in the times of segregation and as far as I know at that time PETA still didn't exist! For the rest please read Allegro's text!
cherrypop your brain is full of crap you come here for yo talk nonsense all these things have been told again and again and peta even posted on white house people read before you write!
DJX once and for all listen to this don't you know that when there are tsunamis and earthquakes rescue dogs are saving your life? are you so egoistic and heartless to think that a dog has not a honest right to be saved and protected from the human being maybe just out of a feeling of gratefulness? are you so stupid that you cannot think that many of us peta people are also in human rights organizations? don't you really think??????? what kind of a stingyhearted microbrain are you? this here becomes seriously disgusting and please once again read the peta files! your ignorance is ridiculous and boring!
to anonymous no one is mistreating a Black man? Tell that to Rodney King tell that to Emmitt Till's relatives. Unfortunately his Mother died in 2003. Two white men came to the cabin of Mose Wright Emmett's uncle in the middle of the night. Roy Bryant the owner of the store and J.W. Milam his brotherinlaw drove off with Emmett. Three days later Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River. One eye was gouged out and his crushedin head had a bullet in it. The corpse was nearly unrecognizable Mose Wright could only positively identify the body as Emmett's because it was wearing an initialed ring. AND there is still to this day discrimination. Your history book obviously was written to support your point of view but there are thousands of articles and picture out there regarding the "mistreatment" of Black men and women. But it wasn't mistreatment it was MURDER!
PETA is a joke. Their nothing but self richeous hypocritical do gooders. If you probe their personal lives you would find things quite the contrary to what they stand for. They saw an opportunity to take down an icon just to gain recognition. I say let the punishment fit the crime. Vick admitted that he was guilty and will pay for it. I accept his apology and so should the rest of y'all. He could have used his money and took it to trial but he was a man about it. PETA and all of these other self richeous groups were not there protesting for human rights during segregation. Human rights are being violated daily but it doesnt concern people like PETA because the victims are minorities. PETA puts more value on a dogs life. Before you judge me I am against dog fighting.
Maybe you should see everything Jamie Foxx said before you crucify him too. He never said Dog fighting wasn't bad he said it was a cultural thing which it is. Go to urban america sometime and tell me what you think. Quit breeding hate towards humanity for the sake of some animals.
If Jamies take in this topic is that its a cultural thing. then maybe Missippi should be allowed to own colored people because thats what they did in the past!!!
first off i want to comment on what tonya had to say about PETA picking on Vick just because he is black is completely ridiculous. what Vick did is wrong and he deserves to be punished. and what you are saying is it is ok to strangle electrocute and drown dogs is acceptable behavior?? you are sadly mistaken!!! PETA does great things and they may not hear about every situation that goes on in the world but the ones that do PETA does a great job trying to make a difference. he deserves the punishment and he made the choice to do the horrible things he has done and i do not feel one ounce of sympathy for him!!! and yes tonya there are many other serious matters going on in the world I have 2 brothers who both have been to Iraq and one there now but we the public have no control over the way Bush leads this country. PETA does make a difference and I am proud to say I am part of it!! sure there are still people who like Vick but throwing the race card is the picture is wrong!!
Jamie Vick DMX and all the other assholes who tolerate and practice animal cruelty are inhumane disrespectful miserable and stupid. We should forgive as Jesus does but we should not get over it. They did not make a mistake they did these things on purpose and we should make an example of them. If we condone DMX's and Vick's behavior then we are just as bad as Jamie Foxx. Our only chance to end animal cruelty is to speak out and ask for justice. As an African American I am assure you that dog fighting is not a cultural thing it is an asshole thing. This is directed to Tonya and Brian. We are not placing an animal over a human or the other way aroundthey are equal. Something is wrong with you to post such things. I would not be surprised if you were in Vick's backyard placing bets right now. You are unintelligentas demonstrated by your comment "human race" human is a species. Go back to school. A dog's life is worth more than yours anyday.
This is for the comment by Mike the educated black man Basically what I take from what you are saying is he should have know better and not took part in dog fighting because he is a Black Star and therefore if he was caught it would be much harder on him. It does not seem to matter that this is immoral illegal and takes someone with no compassion to even participate in!!!! Jamie Foxx is a great actor but Vick was a great football player so apparently you can have a lot of talent with very little morals. Great if I did not realize before that the world is headed to hll in a hand basket I sure do now!! The media has shined a big light on the underground world of dog fighting…people that did not even realize it existed do now. People have had a chance to look at dog fighting up close and there is NOTHING entertaining about it in fact it is down right disturbing that people actually watch and gamble off of innocent creatures!!! So for Jamie Foxx and people like him to start showing any support for this is STUPID!!! They need to keep their mouths shut for the simple fact their careers might just be the ones under fire next…Trust me animal lovers make up a vast majority of the United States and they are not going to put up with this kind of ignorance from people any longer!!! It is one thing for me to go see a movie with Jamie Foxx in it and not realize where he stands on this issue…it is by far another for me to go support his pay check knowing where he stands….so no more Jamie Foxx movies until he educates himself on animal abuse…one must often think that when supporting Vick they are doing more so for the reasons they are involved in illegal stuff as well!!!!!!!!
I think you animal rights people are full of crap. First yes what vick did was wrong but what about these white men that hunt and guess what they are not eating what they kill or horse racing the way they beat the hell out of the horse to entertain people and i could go on and on you people are full of crap you just need vick to make a name for you because nobody gave a damn before this. Tell you what if you attack the president or vice president or congress for hunting i will believe you people care as of right now i think you are a joke that needed someone famous for people to know and care who you are
A few years agothese poor creaturespitbullsas the 90 year old Senator called them.Were supposed to banned from the entire U.S.And now they are the most protected species on the planet.I have compassion for animals….BUT COME ON PEOPLETRY TO RUIN A MANS CAREER BEHIND AN ANIMAL THAT YOU WANTED OUT OF THE COUNTRY…BE HONESTWHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND THIS SHARADE ?
I can't believe some of these comments. Michael Vick found Jesus because it is a pr move and he wanted to get out of jail. This wasn't a mistake this was murder. People do also care about other people but that doesn't take away from caring about animals. Additionally Jamie Foxx is a total idiot. What a stupid thing he said. And this thing about him being black is ridiculous he murdered animals. End of story.
Vick's "INMATURE" venture was CALCULATED WELL THOUGHT OUT AND PLANNED. His "MISTAKE" was carrying it out. When you have "MONEY" you are rich but when you are "POOR" you find "JESUS". So to all Vick's supporters out there continue "FIGHTING" the good fight for Mr. Vick just don't "LOSE" or else you'll get "SLAMMED" to the ground get "CHOKED" or "DROWNED" and then maybe only maybe you "WILL GET IT!!!!!"
What realy sewed this up for me was what Vick's own father said That Vick was fighting dogs in their garage even 6 years ago despite his parent's objections. His father also said he didn't understand why Vick was denying anything because he has been doing this for many years. "That's his thing….that's what he does." Soooo this is a behavior that he has engaged in for may years NOT "A MISTAKE." Big difference!
tonya your the biggest idiot nobody is against vick cause he is black this shouldnt even be about his skin color. anybody who is picking on vick cause he is black is stupid. people should pick on him for what he did to those dogs. I dont care if micheal vicks skin color is neon pink he is a dog killer who should burn in hell!! how would you like it if someone beat and eletrocuted your dog. GROW up animal haters
I am a member of Peta but i didnt know they killed animals. could someone who knows about this inform me please
CherylnCharlotte dog fighting was already illegal before Mike Vick was involved. Wow you are really clued out! PETA and its supporters have always been against dogfighting but people like you NEVER paid attention until a celebrity became involved. So you are the ones who are actually helping PETA's campaign by constantly keeping the story in the news! Thank you for that! And for all of you who are complaining that PETA cares more about animals than the human race 1. humans ARE animals you twits! 2. somebody has to stand up for the rights of our fellow earthlings who do not have a voice 3. human animals are the ones who have fucked up our earth so badly with socalled progress industrialization and convenience 4. nonhuman animals are not capable of the viciousness that humans have displayed over the centuries. I do not love nonhumans more than humans nor do I love humans more than nonhumans. I stand up for nonhuman animals because there are too many of you sick people out there who are destroying our earth and the other beings who live here. And I would rather spend my entire life living in a forest or on an island with nonhumans than spend time with all of you proVick antiPETA and antianimal losers out there. I have asked this question on other posts before what the heck is so wrong with wanting to save animals? What exactly does it take away from all of you who do nothing but criticize PETA supporters? Does helping animals harm any of YOU in any way? If you are all so sure that Vick has changed his ways yeah whatever! then go and volunteer for a "Save Vick" organization and stop wasting your time trying to convince animal rights people that we are wrong you are wasting your breath animal rights people are very devoted to the cause and hearing some lameass insults from people who have nothing better to do is BORING! We have pretty thick skin and we are out there working in many ways big and small to make a difference for the animals who suffer at the hands of barbarians.
I'm not god I'm not jesus and I'm not religious so don't tell me to forgive this MONSTER who claims he made a "mistake" not one not two not three but 68 times. This sick rich SOB doesn't need sympathy he needs tough love. Prison for 5 years with medical treatment and a ban for life from the nfl regardless if he becomes an informant anything less would be a disgrace and the condoning of his monstrous actions. Anybody who would excuse his actions because of "culture" is just as DISGUSTING and IGNORANT as vick is jamie foxx doesnt surprise me.
I understand that dogs is a mans bestfriend. People today are so hypercritical. You will witness a man betting his wife say nothing you see grown man on TV after conversating on the internet looking to have sex with children and say nothing. Yet you are so vocal when a dog is abused. No one wants to recall that about 40 years WHITE MEN HUNG BLACK MEN FROM TREES AS A SPORT. THAT WAS CRUEL AND UNCALLED FOR. BUT NO ONE LOST THEIR JOBS OR ENDORSEMENTS. WAKE UP AMERICA RACISM IS STILL ALIVE WELL.. WHY IS A DOG MORE IMPORTANT THAN A HUMAN BEING???????
Please people and especially Jamie Foxx this is the 21st century okay ?! This is by no means a "cultural thing" as Foxx called it every "so called culture" has done IT black white asian hispanic etc that by far does not excuse it for any culture. African Americans want every other race to view them as equals then sure as hell stop making it a race thing!! I never looked at Michael Vick as black white green etc I looked at him as a sorry human being with little to no feelings for animal or human. I am a white female who was born and raised in the South and am probably the most nonracist person you will ever meet aren't you glad I did not follow the "cultural thing" ??
Michael Vick reminds me of a Sociopath you know people who don't have a conscience? Oh and now poor Mike is sooo sorry yea sorry cause he's BUSTED!! Its all an act so he can kiss up to the judge for a soft sentence and kiss up to the stupid NFL who should never have anything to do with him ever again. He's reprehensible. And as far as Jamie Fox is concerned I think he's just an ignorant ass. And by the way those who are of the opinion that this is a "black thing" I guess it is since it was his "black" associates who turned his ass in.
to ken danforth who do you think is resposible for pit bulls being the way they are??? not to mention that pit bulls arent mean dogs. people made them the way they supposibly are. people use them and take advantage of them cowards that cant fight they go and buy a dog to turn it into something they cant be themselves. and also you can train every dog to do whatever you want him to its not the race pit bulls arent mean they just dont let go go once they bit. you can turn a golden retriever into the same 'killing machine". and again its the human then that made it that way because we humans have fucked up minds and and all these ideas some people have of cruelty and torture and pain… no animal has that in them its all a result of the sick minds of mankind. its like sayin all pit bulls are mean and dangerous so therefor all black people must be like vick. so you said you dont even want to go to the race thing when youre to dumb to realize that you already did….know what youre talking about next time dont talk about dogs or anything youd be better off just keeping your sh…hole or what you call mouth shut. period!
To all those saying we "care more about animals than humans". I am getting sick and tired of being told I care more about nonhuman animals than humans. I am not only an animal rights activist I am also a human rights activist and an antiwar activist! You don't have to speak out against every injustice is a SINGLE sentence and EVERY sentence! If someone is fighting child abuse do you criticize the person for not fighting cancer? If someone is fighting rape do you criticize the person for not fighting sweatshops? If someone is fighting to stop war do you criticize the person for not fighting cruelty to seniors? Caring about a dog does not mean you are no longer capable of caring about a human. There is enough room in my heart for all sentient beings on the planet. It's sad that your heart is so small that it can only hold love for one species. I am not more concerned about a dog. If Vick forced children to fight and murdered them I would be just as outraged! "What about our kids that are getting killed people starving our troops getting killed." I care VERY much about children getting killed people starving and our troops getting killed ANY victims of war actually not just ones from my country. Does that mean that I can't care about animal abuse?
vick just because hes mankind should not ever be called a human being. hes going to pay for what hes done in the after life. whatever he says how hes sorry… people will maybe forgive but never forget and god i pray for his forgiveness and no matter what he will face god aswell as all the other bastards that treat animals that way their time will come. judgement day!! think about all the dogs that are getting killed all over the world especially in southern european countries like spain greece hungary and so on. people hang them on trees or throw stones at them until they die kids 6 7 years of age even do that. mankind are the beasts we are the cruelest creatures on earth destroying everything our environment. liek someone said she would pick any human over beast?? animals leave us alone or did anyone ever see a deer coming into our backyard with a riffle shooting one of our kids so it can take it home to its fellow deers to eat or just to take a picture with it and thinks what of a great jobs it has done killing a human that didnt even know it was a target. one day when i have enough money what ill do is move to a place thats big enough to be home for as many dogs as i can take and ill go to the shelter and will travel to greece and take all the dogs i can give them a home and ill take all the dogs no one wants. before id waste only one dollar on any so called humanitarian organization ill spend a thousand on saving a dogs life or any other animal what makes all the "humans" in the world think that they have the right to decide whats beast and what isnt. who gave them the right to kill anybody animal or human being. there only a few "human beings" in this world the rest is scum trash worthless. it makes me sick how the governments of all the different countries in the world spendd so much money for example to rebuild iraq and how they want to make a chnage in the kids of iraq or afganisthan. all thats going to happen is that those kids will grow up to be inhumane. people that will kill other people again not worth a thing. angelina jolie goes and adopts children that propably will grow up to become rich spoiled brats that will spend a few thousand $ a night on partying and the next day more money on a $50 000 dress or suit or car when she really should maybe just adopt a few poor animals that will be more thankful to her for just giving them a lil bit of food and attention than she can ever imagine and more thankful than any human being will ever be. but thats just my opinion people can choose some want to help other people and some choose to help the animals which is what i do. oh and i hope that anybody who ever was cruel to an animal will get punished in the same way. may there be huge creatures waiting for all of you in hell ready to do to you what you did to them i will never be forgotten and you can start praying as i will that afterwards you might be forgiven.
I am so sick of the RACE CARD! If I thought there was a problem with race making a fair desion on somethingI would give it much thought.Now the RACE CARD CRY WOLF!!! IS ANYBODY guilty? EVER? NO MORE FOXX MOVIES FOR ME AND BELIEVE ME I AM NOT ALONE!
This is pathetic. Apparently no one is able to have an opinion anymore in the country without people boycotting them. I don't always agree with everything peta does..I mean it's great saving animals etc..but there are just some things I really don't agree with but that's just my opinion..however you don't see me boycotting phat farm cuz russell simmons is affiliated..that's dumb. You have your opinions and make your choices and others make theirs. It's a free country if you don't like it start your own country..make your own rules and ban all meat products but until then you really should stay out of people's business and respect others opinions because that's just what it is an opinion..there is no right and wrong in opinions..you may not like it but tough…some people may not like yours.
ok dudes sure what happened was disgraceful and he should go to jail for what he did BUT why the attacks on Jamie Foxx? he is expressing his views just as you are here i was thinking of joining PETA but reding through your posts on this matter and others i wont be becuas eyou are all elitits scum and forcing your views on others. everyone has the right to defend themselves and tohers and thats all Jamie Foxx is doing defending another human being and if im not wrong arent human beings animals to in the vein of being MAMALS? fools.
Dolores Van Winkle…your imaginations runs as wild as stevie wonder's creative mind. I wish you knew the prison system as much as you know how to communicate to dogs. When he goes to jail mam he will be locked up with the "WHITE excuse my pun collared" criminals where its almost like living on a college campus eg. Martha Stewart…be real. Not that I'm defending mr VICK but its comical that you and others do not accept his apology and remorse but if he had not made those statements there would be more comotion about him NOT making a statement. Did you want him to cry?? Did you want him to apologize to all dogs in general whom can't understand him? Have you ever seen a public figure ever make an public apology??? Most times than not they are reading a script. You all are more angry that he's trying to take a step towards the right direction!!! Its like a doublededge sword with you guys…DAM IF HE DO AND DAMMED IF HE DON'T…I hope when you sinned or made a very bad decision you hope whom all were hurt was able to forgive you whether it was right away or in the future…maybe all who believes he deserves jail like I do should allow him to do his time and make up for it….if not why don't you go live in another country that doesn't believe in those rights and chances. I hope this entry makes it this time…
I love humans I love learning from you and at the same time from me. I love animals I cannot have an interesting conversation with them as I can with people BUT in no way their life is less precious than mine. WHY? Because I die like they do. I feel like they do. I need to eat survive like they do. I get sick like they do. I think and can process more difficult thoughts than animals do reason why I can CHOOSE whereas animals react more instinct like. Maybe we all think this difference makes our life more precious but it is our "great gift" the human brain that allows us to bullshit ourselves. Say whatever you want choose to live however you like maybe there isnt even an afterlife in which all of us "will suffer" for our Baaaad actions so what is the difference right? Well I am right now here with my dog she is sleeping in my lap and the difference is that I could choose Right Now to kill her maybe burn her cut her and see what happens and while I am thinking this she just keeps sleeping. Does this makes her stupid thinking most probably if I do it she will die and nothing will happen to me? no just ignorant about my intentions. I am pretty sure she is not right now thinking of ways to how to kill me. THIS IS THE POINT! We can choose to be cruel or not with people animals nature. The sad thing I can see here is if we cannot tolerate each other and keep having meaningless wars where we kill each other for no other reason than the hatred we have been taught to breath and believe in and ultimately with CONVICTION we end up believing in it then STUPID to think animals should be treated better RIGHT?… If we cannot even respect each other human beings. We do not all have to think the same way but there are certain values we can all share in my very humble opinion one of them is LIFE. Without it me you and everyone wouldnt be sharing this instant at this precise moment. Why not choose life for every other living being too? I mean it is their right we just happen to take it from them.
Wow this is getting comical. I will not reveal where I standing on this issue however let me point a few things out. PETA is for the ethnical treatment for animals they do not believe that hunting Fishing or eating animals of any kind is ok. Hunting Fishing mass producing animals for food is legal. Dog fighting is not. Killing animals for a bet is not ok for any culture. As much as PETA would like to stop these things the fact is Hunting Fishing and eating animals is legal. Dog fighting is not. Killing an animal for its fur is legal. Dog fighting is not. Killing an animal because it eats your garden is legal. Dog fighting is not. Putting an animal into a cage to create soft tasty meat is legal. Dog fighting is not. PETA cant fix or protest everything that happens. PETA trys to get the message out to the people abusing animals especially domesticated ones like dogs. Dog fighting is not OK. Now they have a poster boy named Mike Vick or Ron Mexico to help them spread the words Dog fighting is not OK and you bet your ass Not Donkey they will exploit this. Why is PETA coming after Vick so hard 1. He abused dogs in the worst way. 2. He can now help spread the word and educate the people out there that for some reason think it is ok to abuse animals or think that Dog Fighting is a sport. PETA is not an organization for human right so get off the Where were you when this happened or that happened. If youre so concerned then join their cause and protest. Look I eat chicken and fish so I can hardly call myself a PETA person but I dont fight my dogs or eat at KFC nor do I buy products that participate in the cruelty or testing of animals. And that is what PETA does makes me aware! Now PETA people give Mike a chance to redeem himself the killing of these dogs could be saving a lot more. I really dont believe that Mike thought it was a big deal to be doing what he did nor do I think he thought anyone would really care. Now he knows. Now he cares maybe for the wrong reasons like losing 100 million and being banned from football but its a start. Mike Vick already stated he needs to grow up. So Mike go correct yourself prove it by being real and educating the people about your MISTAKE and well see you on Sundaynow please put the cards away..
Ken Danforth Good job you followed all the steps on "how to PETAbash." You made yourself look extremely ridiculous since none of your points make any sense!! If you think PETA doesn't care about people as well as animals YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. PETA is for peace between humans and animals and for both humans and animals and is against the suffering of any living thing!! You say "Where's PETA when pitbulls attack America's kids." PETA is an animal rights organization for one in case you didn't realize that and PETA does not think training pit bulls to be aggressive fighting animals is fine either. Get your facts straight before you attempt to make a fool out of yourself again. You must really not know what you're talking about. Do you think we would really ask that Vick's case is treated seriously and then cheer for him? Inform yourself and then maybe TRY to make a point.
PETA has just used another method of lynching when the organization targeted Mike Vick. Dog fighting didn't start yesterday and PETA didn't just hear about. What about horse racing. A man rides the horse with a bit in the horses mouth. Runs it as hard as it can and whips it as he goes. If the horse gets hurt badly it's killed. If PETA is going to be self righteous treat everyone the same!
Jamie is right Everyone deserves a second chance. Some people just want to crucify this guy. You are not God. The bible says that as long as he repents of his sin's. Who do some people think that they are. If Jesus can say father forgive them for they know not what they do when he was getting crucified on the Cross then who are we. We are not God. He deserves a second chance afterall he has apologized. Some people are just taking this to the extremethere is not 1 that is perfect but God. I have found out that These people will never forgive him but I can guarantee you that most of them will be in church singing come Sunday morning. I do not profess to be a religious man but I would guess that most if not all religions have forgiveness and love at their core. What Mike Vick did was illegal and immoral and he will pay for that crime in accordance with our legal system and if you believe he will answer to a higher authority. I have no problem with that what I do have a problem with is how people most of them white insist on piling on and dragging this thing out and punishing him more than the courts and the NFL. It's the mob mentality of dragging someone out of jail in the middle of the night because you are not happy with the punishment.
To "Renee" Human beings are responsible for all of the destruction that has and continues to go on in the world. All of those problems you mentioned.. are animals responsible for them? Do animals start wars between countries or pollute the earth? NO!! That's why they need help as well as all living things suffering at the hands of the evil human beings. Check yourself.


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A while back I had the opportunity to try out Dorian and Dahl perfumes, created by my friend Erin. Today I'm reviewing an original blend called Femme Fatale.
I should remind you that perfume is very subjective. Everyone's body chemistry affects how a perfume works differently. What wears well on me may not wear well on you. What I love you may dislike. What you love I may not like.
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Fractionated Coconut Oil), Jojoba Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Cyclotetrasiloxane, Cyclopentasiloxane, Fragrance Oil Blend, and Tocopherol (Vitamin E).
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Femme Fatale is categorized as Spicy, Woody, Fruity.
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If looks could kill… oh no wait, hers do. Sexy, seductive and good with a blade, Fatale will entrap you, make you feel like 'the one' and then give you a good beating.
Spicy pink peppercorn and cedarwood dripping with amber caress a mysterious patchouli blend, suggestive berries, and midnight jasmine with a hints of ripe peaches, apple and pomegranate.
Swipe on your brightest red lipstick and paint the town cause girl, they got nothin' on you!
I fear patchouli in perfume. No, more accurately, I just fear patchouli, no matter the form! It always reminds me of people trying to cover up other scents.
So with trepidation, I put on Femme Fatale. I was initially hit with tasty fruits! After the scent had mellowed out, I could smell the wood and spice, with berries and the barest hint of patchouli. It seems that the wood and patchouli balance out the fruits. I no longer have to be afraid of patchouli with Femme Fatale!
What surprised me the most about Femme Fatale is that this blend wore for 12 hours on me! That's ridiculously long for a perfume!
If you are a fan of exotic woodsy scents balanced by fruits, you should give this a try. I love this scent!
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Every house has food in the pantry that has been there for weeks if not months, but according to food experts, you may want to think twice before throwing those items out. Many common food products last far longer than you might think. "We throw out tons of food each year in this country because people don't understand how long they can keep things," said Jo-Ann Heslin, a certified nutritionist and author of The Complete Food Counter. As Heslin and other nutritionists explain, consumers generally assume that foods should not be eaten after the use-by date on the package, but in reality, this date simply indicates the period of time when the food tastes best, not the date when it will suddenly make you sick. It's true that fresh foods like fruits and vegetables should not be consumed much after the use-by date has passed, as these products generally spoil quickly (unless frozen), but for countless packaged products, the consumption window can last for years. "For connoisseurs who have a real taste for a certain food, it's probably a good idea to use it by the best by date, but nothing bad will happen to you if you don't," said Keri Gans, a registered dietician and author of The Small Change Diet. The general recipe for longevity, according to these experts, is for the food to be low in liquids, sugar and oil, all of which have the potential to mold and spoil the food, or to have "lots and lots" of preservatives, which keep the food fresh longer. So if you're looking for groceries to buy in bulk and store in your pantry, these products are your best bet. Photo Credit: Muffet
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Foods That Last At Least A Year
Canned Beans and VegetablesCanned food, by definition, lasts longer than most products in the grocery store because it has been specially processed in air-tight cans. In general, canned items can stay good for 12-18 months, according to Gans, but some last even longer. Canned products like beans and vegetables, which are low in acid, can actually last for as long as two to five years. The only exception is if the can is dented or rusty, as that indicates the can has been punctured at some point, which speeds up the spoilage process. Photo Credit: mikefats
SpicesYou may want to think twice before replacing the containers in your spice rack. In general, most common spices like salt, pepper and oregano don't actually expire in the traditional sense, they just become less and less flavorful. "Salt occurs naturally in nature, it has no expiration date," Heslin said. "There is no difference in 10-year-old salt at all, as long as it hasn't been exposed to moisture." But over time, the potency and taste of the spice begins to decline, which is why Gans recommends using these spices within two to four years to be safe. Keep in mind too by that point, you'll probably have to use more of each spice in order to compensate for the loss in flavor. Photo Credit: The Giant Vermin
Cereal and CrackersYou might as well start stocking up on crackers and cereal for the winter. According to Heslin, these products are essentially just "edible cardboard" that don't have enough moisture to grow bacteria or mold, so they can last for a very long time. Cereals like Cheerios and Puff Wheat, which have little to no sugar, can last for 18-24 months if unopened, while crackers like saltines can generally last for about two years. "The safety and nutrient quality of these products doesn't change, but the taste and texture might deteriorate somewhat," Heslin said. In other words, your body will be fine eating these things after more than a year, but you may find them a bit too stale to make it worthwhile. Photo Credit: Riebart
Dried Pasta and White RiceJust as with cereal and crackers, dried pasta and white rice do not contain enough moisture to spoil, and can therefore last for at least two years unopened. Consumers should be mindful though of what kind of pasta and rice they intend to store, though. Brown rice and whole wheat pasta may seem the same, but in reality each of these products contains more oil than their traditional counterparts, and can therefore go rancid much quicker. Photo Credit: Christian Cable
PopcornUnmade popcorn kernels can last for up to two years, according to Gans, once again because they lack the oils and moisture that would lead to spoilage. Photo Credit: norwichnuts
CondimentsAll those condiments you have left over from July Fourth festivities may just barely survive until Independence Day weekend next year. Ketchup, mustard, horseradish and salad dressings generally contain no ingredients that can go bad, and according to Gans, they will last for a solid 12 months unopened before they completely lose their taste. Photo Credit: a2gemma
Coca ColaOld fashioned Coca-Cola is the ultimate bomb shelter beverage. If left unopened, Heslin says a can of coke will take "an extraordinarily long time" to expire. Diet sodas, on the other hand, expire much more quickly because they contain artificial sweeteners that degrade with heat and time. Photo Credit: andreaverdiani
HoneyHoney can take years to expire, but according to Gans, one can conservatively hold onto it for about a year before its consistency begins to change, hardening and losing its sweet taste. Interestingly, Gans says that honey stays good for 12 months whether it's opened or unopened, making it one of the only foods where that is the case. Photo Credit: nanamin2003
TwinkiesDespite all the claims in pop culture to the contrary, Twinkies don't actually last forever. In fact, you'd be lucky to have a Twinkie that is still edible after a few months. For more info on why, check out this video breaking down the Twinkie myth. Photo Credit: theimpulsivebuy
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Tommy Lasorda's best moment as a player might've been striking out 25 batters in one game during his Canadian-American League days.
However, his accomplishments as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976-96 are rivaled by few in major league history.
Fourteen years ago this week, on July 29, 1996, Lasorda officially retired from the blue and white, capping a 21-year managerial stint with the Dodgers that included landmarks like the Kirk Gibson home run in the 1988 World Series and Fernandomania in 1981 – not to mention, four World Series appearances and two World Championships (1981 and 1988).
"Tommy was a great motivator," said Danny Ozark, a former big league manager and a former Dodgers coach under Lasorda. "He treated his players and coaches tremendously, and everyone on the team would do anything for him."
Thomas Charles Lasorda was born on Sept. 22, 1927, in Norristown, Pa., and has bled Dodger blue for more than 60 years as a player and manager.
Lasorda won 1,599 games as the Dodgers' skipper and took home World Series rings with wins over the Yankees in 1981 and the Athletics in 1988. His club also won National League pennants in 1977 and 78, losing to the Yankees in the World Series both times.
The Veterans Committee wasted no time in inducting Lasorda to the Baseball Hall of Fame, voting him in in 1997 – less than a year after his retirement.
Lasorda added red and white to his favorite color of Dodger blue in the year 2000 when he led the United State Olympic baseball team to its first ever gold medal at the summer games in Sydney, Australia.
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The parents of Madeleine McCann are more hopeful now, than ever before, that their daughter will be found. In an interview with British TV's Mary Nightingale, to mark the fifth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance. ITN's Romilly Weeks reports.
LONDON -- Year after year, a new photo of the British child Madeleine McCann has emerged. They are a collection of pictures that would have taken pride of place in any happy family home if they had been photos of a real child rather than the haunting computer-generated images of a girl who vanished into thin air five years ago.
Madeleine's name has become synonymous with parental despair -- a heartbreaking story that has no end.
Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of her disappearance while on holiday in Portugal. An international manhunt, numerous unsubstantiated sightings of her around the world, an unprecedented media campaign launched by her parents and a best-selling book followed, but so far, all of it has come to nothing.
The child's parents Kate and Gerry McCann are, clearly, as distressed about her disappearance as they are determined to find her.
In an interview with GMTV, a U.K. morning television show, they said that despite the passage of time they still had hope that Madeleine was alive.
"We've always believed that and we're realistic; we don't know what's happened, but we know there's a very good chance that she could be alive," Kate McCann said. "There's no evidence to the contrary [and] ... year after year, missing children that have been abducted are found alive."
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A combination of images showing missing British girl Madeleine McCann at the age of three (left) and a computer-generated image released by police showing what police believe Madeleine could look like aged 9.
"I think particularly the cases when they're younger children, it's often not horrendous circumstances," Gerry McCann added. "A lot of the kids are taken as babies or toddlers; [they] have just been brought up as normal children and obviously with the older children, it's been a bit more unpleasant, but they are capable and adaptable and cope well."
Other kids to continue search?
Despite the enormous stress and scrutiny the couple have been under for 5 years, they are still very much together and their two other children, twins Sean and Amelie, are showing signs of their parents' dogged determination.
"Even Sean said to me -- this is going back 18 months -- 'you know mummy if you haven't found Madeleine when we get older, me and Amelie will look for Madeleine,'" Kate McCann told GMTV.
"And I have absolutely no doubt about that, but I don't want them to have to be in the position where they're carrying around this kind of sadness and frustration or whatever ... to find Madeleine. We want to find her now," she added.
TODAY's Matt Lauer talks with Kate and Gerry McCann about the ongoing search for their daughter Madeleine, the clue they may have missed and the strain this investigation has had on their relationship.
What befell their family is the stuff of parental nightmares. Lucy Beresford is a psychotherapist who works in London and says couples whose children have been missing for long periods are forced to keep their lives on hold.
"It's a terrifying place to be; there is no proof one way or the other and a lot of speculation. The lack of clarity is exhausting," she said.
At a press conference given by the McCanns Wednesday, it was clear to see the media obsession with this story is far from fading. And no one has worked harder to keep Madeleine's face and name in the spotlight than her mother and father.
Missing girl Madeleine McCann may be 'still alive'
It's hard to believe that half a decade has passed and yet she remains deeply imprinted in our minds. The credit goes to her parents who, despite their distress, have relentlessly pursued a high-profile and sophisticated campaign to find her.
At its peak their "Madeleine Fund" raised more than $3 million, much of which has been spent on private detectives searching for her.
Talking to the Pope, Oprah
And with a book, regular front-page headlines, a meeting with the Pope and a television appearance on Oprah, the McCanns have managed a very astute media campaign to keep their daughter in the spotlight.
Helping them with their media strategy is one of the smartest heads in the business, a tough former television reporter turned PR guru, Clarence Mitchell.
They hired him early on and now he's a close friend of the family. He went from being a professionally dispassionate journalist to really caring about the people he is working for.
British police have issued a new appeal for information on Madeleine McCann, the little girl who disappeared while vacationing with her family in Portugal five years ago. NBC's Tazeen Ahmad reports.
At every media appearance made by the McCanns, he stands nearby ready to leap to their defense. Many say he is their secret weapon.
And the timing last week of the British police's press conference could not have been better. A full week before the actual anniversary, it grabbed headlines all week.
Andy Redwood, the police officer in charge of the British review of the investigation, told reporters that they were a quarter of the way through 100,000 documents and of these there were "195 investigative opportunities."
He said they had taken "two positions" on Madeleine's disappearance. "One is that she is alive," he said, "and the other is that she is not, and in relation to the former and on the evidence we believe there is a possibility Madeleine is alive."
Headlines sprung up in the hours and days afterward, focusing on the idea that the child could be alive and the general public sat up and took notice.
Cop: Parents have to believe
I asked Colin Sutton, a former chief inspector of London's Metropolitan Police, for his take on what may be going on behind the scenes. Could Madeleine really be alive after all this time?
"Technically, you have to use these media opportunities to get help," he said, "you can't stress in an appeal that she may be dead or you are switching people off."
Sutton, who was in the police's murder squad, then told me about some depressing statistics that all those involved in the police case review would be fully aware of.
"If a person is missing for more than 48 hours, there is a 90 percent chance that they won't be coming back. A lot of the team will be thinking that she simply isn't alive," he said.
It's a fact, he added, that the McCanns also would have had to face and that while police officers would have been sensitive, they certainly wouldn't have shied from it as a distinct possibility.
"They would have been told she is dead," Sutton said, "and they would have accepted that, but they, as her parents, also have to believe that she will be found one day."
And that one day, the McCanns will be hoping, is soon.
Their campaign to find her has not lost momentum over the past 5 years.
It is certainly one of the most picture-friendly stories I have ever worked on. There are endless photos of this gorgeous little child, cute home video footage of her and her siblings.
Her telegenic, middle-class professional parents wear their grief with dignity and have appeared on our television screens over and over again.
But some are saying that this may be their last hope. And public opinion in Portugal is against the McCanns. Many still believe they were behind their daughter's disappearance.
With Portuguese authorities as yet failing to take the cue to reopen the investigation, the British police's efforts can only go so far.
Tantalizing dream of finding her
So on this fifth anniversary all we really have is this new image of Madeleine that the family are hoping will finally lead to the closure they need.
"Closure" is a word the British police used a lot last week.
When pushed on what this means, they said they simply want the case solved.
For the rest of us -- who have watched this story from afar, who want but are unable to help -- it's a poignant reminder that if she is still alive, she will be celebrating her ninth birthday next week. It is also a reminder that if she does reappear, it will be against all odds, making it an even more incredible story.
But at the moment, that remains just a tantalizing dream for the McCanns.
Kate McCann told GMTV she had imagined Madeleine being found alive, but tried not to.
"You know what, I don't that often because it's almost like ... it's so good, it's so beautiful I guess, that I don't want to take myself there and for it not to be real," she said. "I've had some dreams along the way, not recently and they're so tangible that it's incredibly painful because that's what we want every single day."


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Welcome to another fine issue of DVD and Blu-ray World, the UK's top home entertainment mag for those who like their viewing to have a bit of a cult flavour. Our philosophy is to uncover the hidden gems that other mainstream DVD and film mags fail to give much space to. We are also aware of the popularity of old movies among collectors, which is why we have our DVD Retro section to highlight the fine work in this area being done by companies such as Renown Pictures and Optimum. This time round look out for some great interviews with the likes of Tamer Hassan, one of our favourite screen gangsters since Nick Love's much-underrated movie, The Business.
Talented Hong Kong actress Josie Ho speaks about her role in the excellent Network chiller Dream Home and we also shoot the breeze with Michelle's sister, DeDee Pfeiffer, who has some intriguing movie credits to her name. Add Inglourious Basterd Eli Roth and vintage scream queen Elke Sommer to the mix and you have a very decent selection of exclusive interviewees, we're sure you'll agree. This month sees the release of the extremely controversial Serbian Film on the Revolver label, and we review it in depth in our Blu-ray section. It's not quite as nasty as the hype might make you believe, but the UK version has been severely truncated by the censor so you might want to try importing the uncut release. We'd like to congratulate our pals at Nucleus Films on the success of their Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide. It seems that this 3-disc set including trailers and a feature-length documentary sold out its original run in record time, proving that the lure of old horror films is still strong with the British public. Nucleus are following up with the UK DVD premiere of Ivan Reitman's Cannibal Girls and as usual they have done a bang-up job. You can read the review in this issue.
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This Jersey Shore-Inspired Sipper Deserves A Fist PumpBy Julie Fishman
Think of every Italian American stereotype out there, multiply by a million, and you've got MTV's hit show Jersey Shore. Tanned, gelled and hopped-up on chicken parm, the breakout cast heads to Miami for season two of the sometimes controversial, always hysterical, reality show. If you don't have time to sculpt a pouf before the premiere tomorrow at 10/9c, get your Guidette style on with a glass of "Berry Blow Out," made exclusively for Glo by Billy Murphy's Irish Saloon.
Can the chaos-causing cast survive outside their natural New Jersey habitat? With Snooki's dance moves drawing crowds and The Situation's "situation" keeping them there, we think all signs point to yes. (Whether Miami survives the blockhead blitzkrieg is less certain.) While the cast "beats the beat" you can beat the heat with this refreshing cocktail — it's sure to J-Woww you.
"Berry Blow Out"
3 oz. Absolute Berri Acai
½ oz. Cointreau
1 ½ oz. Cranberry Juice
1 Lime
Combine the first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add a splash of lime juice. Shake and pour into chilled glass. Use the remainder of the lime for garnish.
Located in Philadelphia, Billy Murphy's Irish Saloon provides plenty of brotherly love … and some killer cheesesteaks!
Jersey Shore's Snooki would no doubt approve of this fruity cocktail.Troy Rizzo/Getty Images


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Mini lab for Marketing
This is a screenshot of one of my mini-lab for marketing class. In this mini-lab, i talked about myself as a consumer. These mini-labs are designed to let us relate what we learned in class into real life.
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Team Charter for OB class
Here's the team charter project we did for organization behavior class. My team name is Synergy. Inside the team charter, we stated our objectives as a team as well as our goals.
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Marketing Case Study
This is the first marketing case study we did as a team. This case is to talk about the marketing competition between Blackberry and Iphone. As a team, we have to come up with some marketing strategies for Blackberry, in … Continue reading
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BSYS 1000 lab assignment
In BSYS1000 i learn how to use MS POWERPOINT 2007, MS WORD 2007, AND MS EXCEL 2007. Here's a example of my lab assignment of BSYS 1000.
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MS Word 2007 team project
In BYSY 1000 class, i also learned to use MS WORD 2007 to write a brief ebook then publish it on Lulu.com. Here's the book my team did. This is a screenshot from lulu.com. it shows our topic "Introduction to … Continue reading
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MS Powerpoint 2007 team project
This is a youtube version of my team project regarding why chose BCIT. We did the a MS Powerpoint 2007 presentation. I was the one to help the team to research and write the content of the powerpoint. After we … Continue reading
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I have had some post-secondary school experience before i come to BCIT. I graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2009 summer with a B Sc degree. I came to BCIT Financial Management program because I was minor in business in SFU, … Continue reading
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My hobbies are beach volleyball, badminton, singing, piano, and just hang out with my friends.Here's some pictures from the previous summer when i went to kitz beach for beach volleyball with some friends.
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Event i have attended
This is a student club event to celebration the National day of China. This event took place at China town Vancouver. The student club who hosted this is called Chinese student club. I was there on that day for the … Continue reading
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Welcome to my e-Portfolio! My name is ShanShan Xue. I will be soon be showcasing here examples of my work. I am currently a student in BCIT taking a diploma program focus on Financial Management. My career goal is to work as an … Continue reading
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Jonathan Nolan Talks Robin And 'Justice League'
When it comes to talking about Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" trilogy, it's actually his brother Jonathan Nolan who is the most forthcoming. He already responded to the film's controversial ending, and now he's opened up about finally bringing the character of Robin into the series.
"It is a little hard to imagine Robin working in [the 'Dark Knight'] universe, so the idea had to be limited to that gag at the end. But Joe's character is very important to the story," Nolan told Empire. "In any movie you need a character looking at proceedings the way you see them, and Joe's character is that character for this film."
He continued, "One of my favorite scenes is when John tells Bruce how he knew he was Batman. It's like that scene in 'The Prestige' where the little kid sees through Christian's trick. Little kids, they don't have any illusions, they just see the truth of the situation. I feel there's a kind of spiritual connection between the two movies there."
The big question is whether or not Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Robin will appear as Batman in the upcoming "Justice League" film, and though Nolan didn't address that rumor, he did say he is thrilled to see a new take on the Dark Knight.
"I'm incredibly excited. I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid. In fact he was the only comic-book character I really liked," Nolan said. "I went through a brief spell where I was reading Captain Britain, because I was an English kid living in the States, and Wolverine for 30 seconds, Spider-Man too, but really Batman was the one. And I love that there are different versions of the character. I love that in the context of The Justice League, he's kind of the black sheep of that family."
As for the other big ensemble superhero group out there, "The Avengers," Nolan said he was a big fan of what Joss Whedon did with the Marvel franchise.
"To me Joss Whedon is a god," he said. "I'm just a huge fan of his work, I love his work on TV. And I thought 'The Avengers' was just an incredible achievement."
Do you hope the Batman in "Justice League" is similar to or different from the one in "The Dark Knight" trilogy? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!


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by Ilya Gavrichenkov
With its aggressive marketing strategy, interesting products and extensive dealer network, OCZ Technology has risen up to a leading position on the market of consumer-class solid state drives. It is no wonder then that we often review its SSDs on our site, especially now that OCZ has got the Indilinx development team who have come up with two high-performance solutions, the two versions of the Everest controller, in the last few months. Using these controllers, OCZ has begun to produce unique SSDs that form a complete product range now. The company currently offers three SSD series: the high-performance Vertex 4, the mainstream Octane and the entry-level Petrol. We've covered the first two in our reviews already, so it's time for us to take a look at the Petrol as well.
As a matter of fact, the OCZ Petrol was announced quite a long time ago, at the end of the last year, but we haven't been able to get a sample to test. The manufacturer was uncooperative and, considering the scarcity of reviews of that model on the Web, seems to keep the Petrol from mass media. Perhaps people at OCZ think that such entry-level products can find their way to the customer on their own, by means of the attractive price tag only. Or maybe their marketing department fears that publishing benchmark results for a slow entry-level SSD is going to harm the company's reputation. On the other hand, this secrecy raises apprehensions about Petrol's competitiveness in comparison with other entry-level SSDs, especially as we can indeed find negative user reports about the Petrol's reliability and speed on web forums.
Whatever the reasons, the Petrol has found itself in a kind of informational vacuum, and we want to correct this now. You might be interested because the Petrol is one of the cheapest 6Gbit/s SSDs available in terms of the cost per gigabyte of storage.
So, what is the Petrol made of? Also based on Indilinx hardware, the midrange Octane and the high-end Vertex 4 employ flash memory with synchronous interface, so it is quite natural for the Petrol to be not only based on the junior version of the Everest controller but also have cheaper asynchronous flash. The result looks like a simplified Octane. The Petrol can't be fast with such memory inside, but its price is highly attractive.
The Petrol doesn't come in too many variants. It is only available in capacities of 64 GB and 128 GB. The lack of larger capacities could be expected but some users would certainly find a use for a storage capacity in between these two. We've got the larger variant for our tests, so let's take a closer look at it.
The OCZ Petrol 128 GB is shipped in a standard plastic blister wrap. The lack of accessories is not surprising considering the manufacturer's desire to make this product as cheap as possible. A user manual and a small promo sticker are the only things you can find in this package besides the SSD.
The Petrol features OCZ's traditional SSD case with a metallic bottom and a soft plastic top. There's a label with the series name on the latter. As you can see, brown is the distinguishing color of the Petrol series. The back of the case has a more informative label which at least tells you the storage capacity of the SSD.
The Petrol's PCB resembles the Octane's in some respects, which might be expected since both use the same first-generation Indilinx Everest controller. Besides the controller chip, the PCB carries 16 BGA-packaged chips of asynchronous flash memory manufactured by SK Hynix. Each contains one 64-gigabit 26 nm NAND die.
This kind of flash memory is but rarely installed in SSDs. Being slow, it is mostly limited to smartphones, tablet PCs and USB flash drives, but OCZ thinks it a reasonable compromise between performance and price, especially as the Everest controller works in 8-channel mode with 2-way interleave to make up for the low bandwidth of the memory chips' interface. Another factor that should help accelerate the Petrol 128 GB is its cache memory represented by two 256 MB DDR3-1600 SDRAM chips from Micron.
Here is a summary of the Petrol 128 GB specs:
Even the official numbers declared by OCZ look downright poor compared to inexpensive SandForce-based SSDs with asynchronous flash. And the 64 GB Petrol is even slower!
Well, the Petrol has one indisputable advantage over its SandForce-based counterparts. The reserved pool of memory cells that's used in garbage collection operations and to replace failed cells is 7 rather than 13% of its total capacity. Therefore, when formatted, the Petrol 128 GB offers the user as much as 119 gibibytes of storage.
OCZ provides its Toolbox utility for managing any Everest 1/2-based SSD. It helps you update firmware, view S.M.A.R.T. parameters and perform a Secure Erase command.
By the way, the S.M.A.R.T. parameters of our sample changed alarmingly during our test session, indicating that the SSD's flash memory had begun to wear off.
It's the first time we see an SSD wear off that rapidly. Our tests do not usually affect SSDs as much as to cause reallocated sectors. We may have been unlucky to get a poor sample of the SSD, but we can also suspect that the entry-level Petrol just uses low-grade flash memory.
The current firmware for the Petrol series is version 1.3. It has already improved performance compared to the earlier versions, so we can hardly expect this series to change dramatically with future firmware updates.
For our today's SSD test session we put together a system on an Intel H67 based mainboard. This chipset provides support for two SATA 6 Gbit/s ports, which we use to connect the tested SSDs.
We are going to compare OCZ Petrol 128 GB against a few different SSDs with different storage capacity based on SF-2281 controller. They are a typical SSD with 25 nm synchronous ONFI memory (Corsair Force Series GT – analogue to OCZ Vertex 3) and a typical SSD with 25 nm asynchronous memory (Corsair Force Series 3 – analogue to OCZ Agility 3). Moreover, we also included the recently tested Kingston SSDNow V+200 120 GB SSD, which, just like Corsair Force Series 3, is also based on SandForce SF-2281 controller and uses asynchronous memory.
Overall our testbed was configured as follows:
We use CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 benchmark to test the random- and sequential read and write speed. This benchmark is convenient to work with as it can measure the speed of an SSD with both incompressible random and fully compressible recurring data. This feature is important for testing SSDs based on SF-2281/2282 controller, which tries to compress the data before writing it into memory. So, there are two numbers in the diagrams below that reflect the maximum and minimum SSD speed. The real-life performance of an SSD is going to be in-between those two numbers depending on how effective the controller data compression is.
Note that the performance tests in this section refer to SSDs in their "Fresh Out-of-Box" state (FOB). No degradation could have taken place yet.
The OCZ Petrol is unexpectedly good at sequential operations. It is even ahead of both SandForce-based SSDs with asynchronous flash at reading and only falls behind the expensive Corsair Force Series GT which features synchronous flash with ONFI interface. On the other hand, processing 4 KB data blocks, a popular operation in real-life applications, reveals a weak spot of the Petrol. A long request queue may help at reading, but desktop applications do not usually produce it. Thus, the OCZ Petrol doesn't seem to be fast even by the standards of inexpensive SSDs.
By the way, the Petrol's Everest controller differs from the SandForce not only in speed specs but also in not compressing data when writing into flash memory. This means that the Petrol will deliver the same performance, predictable and repeatable, irrespective of data type.
Unfortunately, SSDs are not always as fast as in their "fresh" state. In most cases their performance goes down after some time and in real life we deal with completely different write speeds than what we see on the diagrams in the previous chapter of our review. The reason for this phenomenon is the following: as the SSD runs out of free pages in the flash memory, its controller has to clear memory page blocks before saving data into them, which causes substantial delays. Although, modern SSD controllers can alleviate the performance drop by erasing unused flash memory pages ahead of time, when idle. They use two techniques for that: idle-time garbage collection and TRIM.
Of course, users are more interested in the consistent performance of their SSDs over a long period of time rather than the peak speed they are going to see only during the initial short-term usage period, while the drive is still "fresh". The SSD makers, however, declare the speed characteristics of "fresh" SSDs for marketing reasons. That's why we decided to test the performance hit that occurs when a "fresh" SSD becomes a "steady" one.
To get a complete picture of SSD performance degradation we ran special tests based on the SNIA SSSI TWG PTS (Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification) methodology. The main idea of this approach is to measure write speed consecutively in four different cases. First we measure the "fresh" SSD speed. Then we measure the speed after the SSD has been fully filled with data twice. The third test occurs after a 30-minute break during which the controller can partially restore performance by running the idle-time garbage collection. And finally, we measure the speed after issuing a TRIM command.
We ran the tests in synthetic IOMeter 1.1.0 RC1 benchmark, where we measured random write speed when working with 4 KB data blocks aligned to flash memory pages at 32 requests queue depth. The test data were pseudo-random.
As we've noted in our earlier reviews, SSDs with second-generation SandForce controllers are more susceptible to performance degradation than, for example, SSDs with Marvell or Indilinx controllers. The OCZ Petrol doesn't offer anything new in this respect. Its performance lowers by a factor of 8 as it gets filled up by data. Its own garbage collection doesn't help much, but the TRIM command restores the Petrol back to its original speed. The TRIM implementation in the Indilinx Everest controller is almost perfect: any SSD based on that hardware platform can be restored back to its original performance. We mean this Petrol as well as the Octane and Vertex 4 SSDs we covered in our previous reviews.
The efficient TRIM can improve our opinion about the Petrol's speed because its SandForce-based opponents can never be restored to their out-of-box state. The write speed tests in the previous section of our review reflect the out-of-box performance and you can see the SSDs' write speed degradation in the next diagram, as measured with CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1.
We've got a different picture with sequential writing now. The steady-state Petrol is unexpectedly ahead of all of its opponents with second-generation SandForce controllers. On the other hand, it is so slow with small chunks of data that even its perfect TRIM implementation can't save the day.
Generally speaking, the Petrol's behavior reminds us of the Octane. Sharing the same Everest controller, they have the same highs and lows. The difference is that the Octane is overall faster than the Petrol, running on NAND flash memory with synchronous interface.
The popular PCMark 7 contains an individual disk subsystem benchmark. It is not a synthetic test, but is based on real-life applications. This benchmark reproduces typical disk usage scenarios and measures how fast they are completed in popular applications. Moreover, the disk access commands are not executed as a steady uninterrupted flow, but in a more realistic manner – with certain pauses caused by the need to process the data. The benchmark generates an overall disk subsystem performance rating as well as speed readings in MB/s in individual usage scenarios. Note that the absolute speed in these scenarios is not too high because of the above mentioned pauses between individual input/output operations. In other words, PCMark 7 shows you the speed of the disk subsystem from the application's point of view. Numbers like that show us not only the pure performance of an SSD, but mostly how big of a performance gain a certain SSD can guarantee in real life.
We ran PCMark 7 on "steady" SSDs, which is what they are going to be in actual computer systems most of the time. Their performance in this case is affected not only by their controller or flash memory speed but also by the efficiency of their internal algorithms that fight performance degradation.
The PCMark 7 score is a good guide for people who don't want to delve into technicalities but need a simple illustration of relative performance of SSDs in typical desktop applications. As if summing up all the weak points of the Petrol, PCMark 7 puts it in last place, more than 15% behind the SandForce-based SSDs. This benchmark doesn't seem to be impressed at all by the Petrol's advantages, such as its good speed at sequential operations with incompressible data.
Now let's check out the individual tests to get a more detailed picture of what our SSDs are capable of under various types of operational load:
The Petrol is competitive in usages scenarios involving multimedia content. It's no wonder since video and audio files are typically large and cannot be compressed. The Petrol's performance in the other scenarios is rather poor.
Intel NASPT is another disk sub-system test that uses real-life usage scenarios. Like PCMark 7, Intel NASPT reproduces predefined disk activity traces and measures how fast they are executed. However, the default traces are designed for network attached storage devices rather than for SSDs. Therefore during our test session we replace them with the specially developed SSD Benchmarking Suite which offers more relevant usage scenarios such as compressing and decompressing files, compiling large projects, copying files and folders, loading 3D game levels, installing software, batch-processing photos, searching a digital library for data, mass-launching applications, and transcoding video.
Like PCMark 7, this benchmark gives us a true-to-life illustration of disk subsystem performance. Here the SSDs are again tested in their "steady" state.
Intel NASPT is not so pessimistic about the Petrol. Yes, the latter takes last place in the diagram, but it is not much different from the Kingston SSDNow V+200 which we found in our previous review to be the slowest among SandForce-based SSDs with asynchronous memory.
The detailed INASPT results help us see what usage scenarios are the most suitable for our today's testing participants. Take note that the data-transfer rate is higher than the SATA III interface bandwidth in some subtests. That's because INASPT is a high-level test that uses standard Windows functions to access the disk subsystem. As a result, the OS caching mechanisms also affect the results.
It is easy to discern a pattern in the Petrol's behavior. This SSD is lackluster when processing a lot of small files, but accelerates on large files. Thus, it is inferior to SandForce-based SSDs with asynchronous flash in such tasks as archiving, folder management, games, photo management, data search, and launching of the OS and applications. On the other hand, the Petrol is fast at copying large files, installing software and working with videos, and even occasionally outperforms the Corsair Force GT Series that is equipped with synchronous NAND flash.
We use AS SSD version 1.6.4237.30508 to benchmark the speed of copying files within a single partition the size of the whole SSD. The SSDs are tested in their steady state.
The Petrol is expectedly fast in the AS SSD file copy test. It is in between the SandForce-based SSDs with synchronous and asynchronous memory.
The various kinds of OCZ's newest SSDs based on Indilinx platforms are similar in many ways. The Vertex 4, Octane and Petrol are not leaders in their respective classes but each of these Everest/Everest 2 based products has some interesting peculiarities. The OCZ Petrol, for example, is fast at sequential operations and thus can quickly process large files. It also offers consistent behavior which does not depend on the type and the degree of compressibility of data.
However, positioned as an entry-level product, the Petrol will hardly be chosen for high performance in specific usage scenarios. It would be much more attractive if it had no performance hits when working under specific types of load. Unfortunately, Petrol cannot offer continuous consistency under all types of operational load. As our tests have shown, the Petrol is seriously slower than inexpensive SandForce-based SSDs in many typical applications. Therefore, Petrol may be not the best choice when it comes to inexpensive entry-level SSDs.
On the other hand, we wouldn't dismiss the Petrol completely. Its extremely low price is an indisputable advantage over SandForce-based SSDs with asynchronous flash. It is in fact one of the cheapest SSDs with SATA III interface available now, which is its main selling point. After all, the Petrol will be way faster than any conventional HDD and many users just wouldn't ask for more anyway.


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Fury stops Rogan for Irish title
Former British and Commonwealth champion Tyson Fury added the Irish title to his belt haul last night when he stopped Belfast veteran Martin Rogan in the fifth round at the Odyssey Arena.
Fury, who boxed with a safety-first attitude, dropped Rogan twice using a southpaw stance and deconstructed the veteran with right jabs and left hooks en route to a fifth round technical knockout.
Eubank Jr: 'I'm going to be explosive'
Chris Eubank Jr has promised double trouble for his opponent Paul Allison tonight on the undercard of Tyson Fury and Martin Rogan's Irish heavyweight title clash in Belfast - because this time he will be using both fists.
Eubank Jr won a points victory in his second pro fight against former cage fighter Jason Ball in February despite suffering a hand injury while sparring and only being able to jab with his left fist.
Drama at Fury vs Rogan weigh-in
Tyson Fury came in at his career lightest yesterday for his Irish heavyweight title fight against Martin Rogan tonight at Odyssey Arena in Belfast but the high drama occurred once the fighters stepped off the scales.
Having promised in the build up that he had shed the weight and was in his best shape Fury clocked in at a career low of 17st 7lbs 12oz (245lbs) while a ripped Rogan came in at 16st 4lbs 4oz (228lbs).
Fury vs Rogan final presser video
In what has been one of the merriest build ups to a fight ever; Tyson Fury and Martin Rogan came together for the final press conference of their Irish heavyweight title showdown this weekend. The show dubbed 'Unfinished Business' has so far felt more like show business than any sort of unresolved animosity and things finally get a little bit heated in the final presser but not without that Irish wit that has made it so enjoyable.
Fury vs Rogan promo
Channel 5's promo for the upcoming Irish heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Martin Rogan on April 14 at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. Fury tries to live up to his name and become the first man to win Irish, British and Commonwealth titles.
Fury: 'Irish fans want me to KO Rogan'
Tyson Fury has been overwhelmed by the support he expects to receive when he battles with Martin Rogan at Belfast's Odyssey Arena on April 14 on Hennessey Sports' 'Unfinished Business' show.
The titanic battle between Fury and Rogan will be broadcast live on Channel 5 and Fury, who has been locked away training in Manchester, believes he'll have more support on the night than the Belfast hard man.
Fury: 'Irish title is my Olympic medal!'
Former British and Commonwealth champion Tyson Fury says winning the Irish heavyweight title will be like standing on the Olympic podium with a gold medal around his neck.
Fury meets Belfast hard man Martin Rogan for the vacant Irish title at the Odyssey Arena on April 14 four years on from being denied the opportunity to box for Ireland at the Olympics in Beijing.
Fury vs Rogan for April 14
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury announced this weekend that his next outing would be against local cabbie Martin Rogan in Belfast's Odyssey Arena on April 14.
Rogan disrupts Fury press conference
Belfast boxer Martin Rogan, last night, gatecrashed a press conference in his hometown to announce Tyson Fury's first British and Commonwealth title defence on September 17.
Fury was at the King's Hall in Belfast to announce his upcoming title fight in the same venue but is still without a named opponent for the fixture after negotiations with Rogan fell through.
Rogan wants Fury in Belfast
Belfast cabbie and Prizefighter winner Martin Rogan wants to fight newly crowned British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in Northern Ireland.
Rogan was ringside to see Fury outbox Dereck Chisora on the weekend and believes the prospect of fighting for the Irish and Celtic titles will entice the Manchester man over due to his Irish roots.