Well guess you can call yourself lucky to live in Rhode Island. Because you have the fastest internet connection. A whopping 6.8 mbps, oh and if you live in Alaska bad news; you have the slowest internet connection, 0.8 mbps, ouch.

"The nationwide median download speed is 2.3 megabits per second. Rhode Island topped the list for the second year in a row at 6.8 mbps, while Internet users wait the longest for downloads in Alaska with speeds of 0.8 mbps. That means that the same file that takes 30 seconds to download in Rhode Island would take more than four minutes if you're logged in from Alaska.

The report is based on data from nearly 230,000 Internet users who took the online Speed Matters Speed Test, a project of the Communications Workers of America. The test measures the last-mile speed of a user's Internet connection. Test results showed a median U.S. download speed of 2.3 megabits per second. By comparison, average download speeds in Japan reach 63 mbps. In South Korea, average download speeds reach 49 mbps. In France, the number is 17 mbps.
Speeds in the Washington region improved this year. Virginia has the fourth-highest download speeds in the country with 5.0 mbps, up from a ranking of 11th in the country last year. Maryland rose to 8th in the country, up from 10th, with 4.0 mbps And the District ranked 16th in the nation, up from 39th, with 2.8 mbps. That's bound to improve now that the District and Verizon have reached a deal to extend its FiOS service into the city."
Link to article here.

I feel bad for France; I mean come on South Korea is faster than you. So is Japan but come on, South Korea?

In terms of updates I'm done, navigation bar is gone, and I got the labels set up, that's it.

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!! Major Kudos media!! That is truly a feat that should be recognized for its audacity and utter success!! Wow Why didnt I put the obvious pieces together like that before? And they are currently using that defense mechanism to defend Obama against any criticism - legitimate or otherwise Anyway. On to the Obama book I cant speak much on it, because I just started to learn about it and read it So far, it isnt my cup of tea and I can see why the media would pan it but - I could also see why the media should have held off giving lots of other tell-all-attack-books a very public sounding-board and legitimization just because they attacked Bush and his administration... I do want to return to one item mentioned above: How John Kerrys long record as a senator and very nationally well-known politician would have - altered the relevance of Kerrys anti-Vietnam War activism (if he had not brought the issue back into play). By 2004 - if Kerry had not made Vietnam a campaign issue he and the US had put enough distance behind them and those days. To put another and more crucial way by 2004, John Kerry had a very long track record to examine that dwarfed the period of time he spent fighting against the war in Vietnam (and the soldiers fighting it). Obama does not have even what Id call a fraction of Kerrys track record. That makes the books he has written much needed material for us to go by. So, I dont endorse what the author of The Obama Nation has to say or how he says it - but I do clearly endorse the effort itself. It is legitimate to dig into Obamas autobiography - because we have so little from which to judge the man as a potential president. Ill close with just one item from the book - which Ill probably blog about as I have time to read it - after going into some detail about what the autobiography says about Obamas two fathers and mother and his childhood the author notes that the bulk of the material he is drawing from - beyond the biography itself - are investigative media pieces - including those done by big name American outlets. And he makes a terribly interesting claim - terribly interesting claim to me given my view of the way in which the US press operates: The author states that - the articles from the American media which dug into possible controversial issues concerning the veracity of Obamas autobiography or controversial elements of Obamas life came out at a time in which Hillary Clinton was still largely considered to be the eventual winner of the Democrat nomination..the investigative articles dried up when Obama gained groundand by the time it looked like he was going to win the nomination the defense machine was out attacking the very idea of digging into those issues doing that kind of investigative journalism into Obamas past - though his autobiography is one of the few resources to work from. I dont remember the early looks at Obamas past and cant speak for the authors claims on the time table - but it fits perfectly with how I view how the media operates.

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McCain has done little to capture media attention on weekends for nearly five months. Today, the Obama campaign hit McCain and Black with a conference call with Commission member Richard Ben Veniste. Richard Wolfe discusses John McCains comments which accuse Barack.
McCain has reversed himself on some issues most notably, embracing the Bush tax cuts now after deriding them initially as fiscally risky and excessively skewed to the wealthy and continues to adjust his positions on others. He sounds like he may be more open to it, said Arnold Punaro, a retired Marine Corps general who served on Nunns Senate staff for years and remains in close contact with his former boss. NBC Political Director Chuck Todd talks about John McCain and Barack Obamas reactive campaigns, discussing how neither is controlling policy agendas. And that starts with talking straight to the American people about the challenges that lie ahead. Voting for the Dems began yesterday, while the GOP field has been cut to the Elite Eight. Mateo, that she figures that at least if she moves a few blocks from Embassy Row to the Naval Observatory, she ll be a heartbeat away from the job she s always wanted.

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(BEIJING August 13) -- Where else can we start with a review of day five of Beijing 2008 than with a living legend? The name Michael Fred Phelps was etched into Olympic record books today as the man with more gold medals to his name than any other person in sporting history.
Having drawn level with the four other folks who have won nine overall Olympic gold medals yesterday, Phelps didn't just nudge ahead by winning the Men's 200m Butterfly for his landmark 10th overall Olympic gold and fourth of Beijing 2008 (it almost goes without saying that it was in a new world record of 1:52.03), but an hour later he then swam the lead-off leg as the United States Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay team of Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay, completely obliterating the world record to seize gold -- Phelps's 11th gold overall in a breathtaking time of 6:58.56, to shave an unbelievable 4.68 seconds off the previous record.
Federica Pellegrini of Italy also set a new world record of 1:54.82 to take gold in the Women's 200m Freestyle, while the Women's 200m Individual Medley world record also fell to Stephanie Rice of Australia.
Kitajima Kosuke of Japan was an Olympic record breaker in the semifinal of the Men's 200m Breaststroke, and Frenchman Alain Bernard took back his 100m Freestyle world record that had been bettered by Eamon Sullivan of Australia earlier this week in a time of 47.20, only for Sullivan to bounce back and set another new world record of 47.05 seconds. Don't expect this record to survive tomorrow's final!
Host China had a golden day in many sports on day five -- none more spectacular than in Weightlifting, where defending champion Liu Chunhong heaved world records in the Women's 69 kilogram category by lifting 128kg in the Snatch, 158kg in the Clean and Jerk and 286kg in total weight. Liu's gold was China's sixth Weightlifting gold in the tournament. Sa Jae-hyouk of the Republic of Korea won the Men's 77 kilogram class.
Chinese weightlifter Liu Chunhong (Photo credit: Getty)
Chinese divers are halfway through their Phelps-like quest of a perfect sweep of the eight Diving gold medals after world champions Qin Kai and Wang Feng won the Men's Synchronized 3m Springboard to make it a team total of four gold medals from four finals.
Divers Qin Kai and Wang Feng (Photo credit: Getty)
Dmitry Sautin and Yuriy Kunakov of Russia earned silver, while Illya Kvasha and Oleksiy Prygorov of Ukraine took bronze. The legendary Sautin, 34, is now a five-time Olympian who has won eight medals overall between 1992 and 2008.
There was host joy, too, as China's Women's gymnasts took the Team event gold medal for the first time with a total of 188.900 points. The United States won the silver medal with 186.525 points and Romania grabbed bronze with 181.525.
Hot-shot Chen Ying was another Chinese gold medalist, winning the Women's 25m Pistol with an Olympic record final score of 793.4 points.
Other countries had a golden day too. Germany clutched double Fencing gold with world champion Britta Heidemann taking the Women's Individual Epee and Benjamin Philip Kleibrink winning the Men's Individual Foil gold.
Ueno Masae of Japan took just six seconds to beat Cuba's Anaysi Hernandez with an ippon to claim her second consecutive Olympic gold in the Judo Women's -70kg class, while Irakli Tsirekidze of Georgia, gold medalist of the 2007 World Championships, won gold in his Olympic debut in the Men's -90kg class by beating Amar Benikhlef of Algeria with a shido.
It was a case of brothers in arms (well arm locks!) as Steeve Guénot of France and Georgia's Manuchar Kvirkelia won gold medals in the Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling 66 kilogram and 74 kilogram weight classes. Kvirkvelia won his country's first gold of the Beijing Olympics by defeating China's Chang Yongxiang in the Men's Greco-Roman 74 kilogram final, while Guénot became the first French Olympic Wrestling champion in 84 years by beating Kanatbek Begaliev of Kyrgyzstan in the 66kg category gold. Amazingly Guénot's older brother, Christophe, claimed a 74kg weight class bronze medal,
So to life on the open roadwhere Kristin Armstrong of the United States claimed the Women's Individual Time Trial gold medal after pegging back early leader Emma Pooley of Great Britain, who took silver. Karin Thurig of Switzerland took bronze ahead of 49-year-old cycling legend Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli of France who narrowly missed out on a fourth Olympic medal.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara powered home to take the Men's Individual Time Trial gold, fending off the challenge of silver medalist Gustav Larsson of Sweden. Levi Leipheimer of the United States won bronze.
Swiss road cyclist Fabian Cancellara (Photo credit: Getty)
Away from the medals, in the semifinals of the Badminton Women's Doubles tournament two Chinese pairs met, with Du Jing and Yu Yang defeating Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen 21-19, 21-12. They now face Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Kyung-won of the Republic of Korea in the final.
First-seeds Kido Markis and Setiawan Hendra of Indonesia are safely through to the semifinals of Men's Doubles and will face Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen of Denmark. Hwang Ji-man and Lee Jae-jin of the Republic of Korea defeated Japanese shuttlers Tadashi Ohtsuka and Keita Masuda to set up a semifinal against World No. 3 pair Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China.
In Women's Singles, Indonesia's Maria Kristin Yulianti progressed into the semifinals by beating India's Saina Nehwal. She will meet World No. 7 China's Zhang Ning, who advanced to the semifinals by defeating World No. 5 Pi Hongyan of France. The other semifinal was an all-China affair between Lu Lan China and Xie Xingfang.
In Rowing, the A-finalists were decided in six of the 14 Olympic boat classes. China's Zhang Xiuyun won her semifinal of the Women's Single Sculls, with Michelle Guerette of the United States and early race leader Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic also going through to the final. They are joined by second semifinal winner Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus, Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria and Julia Michalska of Poland.
Rafael Nadal of Spain and Serbia's Novak Djokovic moved into the quarterfinals of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Tennis tournament, and in Archery, No. 10 seed Lee Chang-hwan of the Republic of Korea shot a near perfect score of 117 out of 120 to set a 12-arrow Olympic record in the Men's Individual elimination rounds.
Lee and his teammate Im Dong-hyun, along with three of the top four seeded archers, Juan Rene Serrano of Mexico, Viktor Ruban of Ukraine and Park Kyung-mo (ROK), advanced as expected to the 1/8 elimination round.
Among team sports Brazil has yet to drop a set in the Women's Volleyball tournament and is guaranteed to reach the quarterfinals after defeating Serbia 25-15, 25-13, 25-23. Serbia's chances to reach the quarterfinals remain high as this was their first loss of the tournament. Italy remained undefeated by beating Algeria.
Russia beat Belarus 71-65 in a group A match in the preliminary round of the Olympic Women's Basketball tournament. Australia beat the Republic of Korea 90-62 and Latvia recorded their first Olympic tournament win by beating Brazil, who remains without a win from three games.
Spain beat the Czech Republic 74-55 in their group B game; China beat New Zealand 80-63; and the United States easily brushed aside Mali to keep their 100 percent record intact.
Those were just some of the highlights from a thrilling day five of Beijing 2008 the greatest sporting show on Earth.

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The start of online poker tournaments are defined by their tiny blinds compared to each players stack. Most websites are offering the chance for patient, solid play to be rewarded.
Aggressive play is almost always correct, but when the blinds are so small, you should not invest too much in attempting to steal them.
What happens early in most tournaments? Good players bide their time and take notes on the others. Assuming you want to be one of those good players, follow their example.
Remember Russell Crowe in Gladitator? He has the ability to judge his opponents strengths and weaknesses. He never hurries unless he senses it would kill off the opposition. An online poker tournament is very much the same.
You ought to be picking a good hand to make moves with when the blinds are tiny. Do be flexible though, in case an opportunity to eliminate a weak opponent presents itself.
Impatient, players will often bust out early from tournaments. If you find one of these guys, dont hesitate to pick them off. Just be sure of the strength of your hand, as your survival is at stake if youre wrong!
Hands in online poker tournaments play out very differently to cash game hands. When you can reload your cash stack, its right to push a small advantage. If you lose, you reload.
Many tournaments dont allow you to get a second chance. So its wise to be slightly more cautious. Even against a loony, flat-calling makes sense rather than raising all-in.
Lets talk about the easiest players to face: tight weak opponents. Because theyre tight, they only bet with the stronger hands; they are also more likely to back off if they meet resistance.
Theyre unlikely to ever do well in tournaments, due to the blinds always increasing, and the generally aggressive play which suits them the least. But stay out of their way if they show strength: you know they wont be bluffing.
Beware the spiders! Quiet, lurking players who always show aggression when they act are your most feared opponents. These arachnids cant be pushed around like tight-weakies, and are probably not going to throw their chips at you (as the impatient ones will). You have little to gain in taking on the spiders early on, so fly, little insect, unless you have a monster holding.
In conclusion, then, avoid mixing it up too much in the early part of online poker tournaments. Sit back, relax, observe and wait to pounce.
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Chelsea captain John Terry believes Ronaldo will be unable to sustain last season's sensational form.

Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning 42-goal haul underpinned Manchester United's Barclays Premier League and European double but Terry insists he will fail to scale those heights again.

"I don't think Manchester United have another level to go to. They had a lot of players who have been at the peak of their form for the last two years," he said.

"Rio Ferdinand has been awesome for the last two years and Cristiano Ronaldo was unbelievable - I don't think you'll see that again.

"Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Ryan Giggs - they have all been fantastic.

"I think we can close the gap because Man Utd were at the very top of their game last season.

"But we've been very close to them and we had injuries and a change of manager."

Terry has been impressed with Chelsea's business in the transfer window under new boss Luiz Felipe Scolari and believes a good start is key to wrestling the title from United.

"The new manager has come in and made a few changes. He's made some great signings. Deco looks awesome so I'm excited to see him play," he said.

"We need to start well and get off to a flyer, just keep winning. Man Utd have a few tough games early on. Liverpool have made some good signings and will be stronger this year. We need to focus.

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"Tropic Thunder"
Director: Ben Stiller
Fien Print Rating (Out of 100): 64
In a Nutshell: When critics are raving that "'Tropic Thunder' is the best comedy of the year!!!!" what are the really saying? Are they saying that Ben Stiller's Hollywood-action-satire is a fantastic comedy or are the complaining that the year's comedic pickings have been so slow and so unimpressive that *this* is what we've resorted to calling the year's best comedy?

If it's the latter, I can't necessarily disagree. I mean, I preferred "Pineapple Express," but that's sort of a personal preference and I'd acknowledge that I probably laughed out loud many more times at "Tropic Thunder." But, if I'm being completely honest, I've been so starved for big screen laughs that I found prolonged moments of pleasure watching the remarkable Anna Faris strut her stuff in the decidedly less-than-remarkable "The House Bunny."

But that doesn't mean that I'm not already getting the strong sense that "Tropic Thunder" is on the verge of being the most overrated, overhyped comedy in some time. But that's not a blurb they'd put on a poster.

The full review -- none of that stinkin' capsule review stuff -- is after the bump...

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Don't get me wrong. I'm not prepared to resent "Tropic Thunder" until the hype builds just a bit more. It's nice to see that more than 15 years after the premature cancellation of "The Ben Stiller Show," Ben Stiller has been able to go back to that sketch comedy well. Because "Tropic Thunder" is basically just a 100 minute version of a "Ben Stiller Show" action movie parody skit, expanded with a few fake trailers, a fake commercial and an awful lot of filler. And that filler was obviously so plentiful that the trailers and commercials are full of scenes and dialogue that aren't in the movie. "Tropic Thunder" is probably going to have a heck of a DVD.

The capable cast of stars are going through a series of bits and many of the -- heck, most of them -- are tremendously funny. The movie sets itself up perfectly with spot-on parody trailers for three movies featuring the stars of movie-within-a-movie "Tropic Thunder." Ben Stiller is the action guy, whose franchise has suffered from diminishing returns in its seventh installment. Jack Black is the low-brow comic promoting a makeup-heavy fart-driven comedy and Robert Downey Jr. is basically Russell Crowe, a temperamental Aussie Actor gunning for Oscar recognition in a movie about forbidden love.

All three actors, plus rapper-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) and young-star-on-the-rise Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel) find themselves in a tropical jungle shooting a Vietnam movie.

What kind of movie is "Tropic Thunder" (the movie within the movie)? I'm not really sure. It's based on a best-selling war memoir by a crazed no-handed veteran (Nick Nolte, flawless cast), but it's being directed by an incompetent dolt (an amusing Steve Coogan) and micromanaged by Tom Cruise's bald, fat studio chief. As director and co-writer, Ben Stiller never commits to the aspirations of the meta-"Tropic Thunder." Are they making a bad movie? Are they making a movie they know is a bad movie? Do they think they're making a good movie, but it's a bad movie? The reverse? I have no idea. Because the movie-within-a-movie lacks focus, "Tropic Thunder" begins to lack focus when the movie becomes real for the actors. Stiller and fellow screenwriters Justin Therous and Etan Cohen are so invested in mocking the generic action movie that you want the overall picture to be a bit more self-aware when it becomes a generic action movie in and of itself.

"Tropic Thunder" absolutely has Hollywood's number, capturing the superficiality of the entertainment industry and its stars, poking fun at the illusions produced by the dream factory. "Tropic Thunder" has its pulse on Hollywood in a way that few fictional productions have, assuming you somehow haven't watched "Action," "Gross Pointe," "The Larry Sanders Show," "Singing in the Rain," "Network," "My Favorite Year" or several dozen industry satires. Hollywood likes laughing at itself, seemingly content that audiences outside of New York and Los Angeles don't actually give a shit about the behind-the-scenes machinations at the sausage plant.

Because of a well-crafted trailer and a group of A-list stars, "Tropic Thunder" is likely to be more successful than many of its inside baseball predecessors. The movie's been marketed broadly, so broadly that some audiences might not even know what they're laughing at. Is it enough to find it funny that Downey is playing a character playing a black character? For some viewers, it will be. Is it enough to find it funny to watch Jack Black twitch his way through drug withdrawal? For some viewers it will be. And Ben Stiller going native? Funny. Ben Stiller playing a mentally handicapped character? Well, for some viewers, that'll just be funny all on its own. Those are the viewers, incidentally, who advocates for the mentally handicapped are concerned about.

How much to most moviegoers actually care about the hilarity of an agent freaking out that his most important contract rider wasn't being fulfilled? How many viewers will be able to spot the eight or 10 different suits/producers/agents Cruise seems to be channeling? And as smart and self-aware as it is for Downey to lecture Stiller on how if you want an Oscar, you never go "full retard," how many casual viewers will be going through their favorite disabled Oscar-winners and how many will just be giggling at the use of the word "retard"? I'm not sure.

My biggest complaint with "Tropic Thunder" -- so sue me -- is that I wanted it to actually MEAN something. I wanted it to be more than witty, glib, meta-Hollywood snarkiness. I understand that I shouldn't be in any position to question or devalue a movie for going no deeper than meta-Hollywood snarkiness. I'm supposed to love and respect snarkiness in all of its forms.

But at the end of the movie, after the giggles had passed, I stopped and wondered: What does "Tropic Thunder" actually say about Hollywood other than that movies are full of artifice and actors are ego-driven jerks (who can actually be humans if you watch them under duress for long enough)? What does it actually say about Hollywood's artifice? What does it say about the people who construct the fiction? What does it say about the audience who consumes the fiction? What does it say about war? What does it say about Hollywood's construction of war? Given that the movie-within-a-movie is basically a parody of a half-dozen war movies that were made 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, what does it say about contemporary Hollywood? It doesn't say ANYTHING.

At every point, "Tropic Thunder" settles for finding laughs on the surface and turns away from making any sort of more challenging statement.

Take the Robert Downey Jr. character. Here's a guy who's in black-face for almost the entire movie. Is it racist? Heck no, because the joke is on the character and the absurdness and the superficiality of his gesture. But is there any sort of meaningful commentary on Hollywood's overall treatment of race? For all intents and purposes, the black character Downey's character is playing is a shameful stereotype and would be whether he was played by a white guy or Denzel Washington. But Brandon T. Jackson's Alpa Chino is only upset about the black-face and not in an interesting way, just in a "You're not black" way. Downey's character and the black-face could have been a gateway for all sorts of exploration of the functioning of an industry that would rather employ an Aussie actor in black-face than a strong black man. But no. Nothing. I might, in fact, have liked a plausible explanation for why Downey's character would have wanted this role in the first place other than the opportunity to play black.

And what about Stiller's "Simple Jack." Should it be taken as an affront on the mentally challenged? Heck no. The joke is completely at the expense of a brain-dead actor who sees this sort of broad and embarrassing characterization as his path to Oscar glory. But he doesn't get his Oscar and the movie fails. His decision is mocked and negatively sanctioned at every turn and the only people who are fans of "Simple Jack" are the isolated drug cartel who don't have access to any other movies. But as apt as Downey's lengthy speech about going "full retard" may be, it's just a rehashing of a joke that award-spotters -- they're a cottage industry out here -- have been making for years. There isn't a bold statement or a perceptive commentary being made.

You know who *should* probably be offended? Asians. The film's drug pushing villains are just out-of-nowhere caricatures. I think there was a way to actually handle the characters within the realm of parody. If, for example, the adversaries were mountain men who thought for some reason that they were still at war with the United States, then you could say that they were meant to mock the way Hollywood productions have traditionally treated the Vietnamese characters in Vietnam movies. I guess we're supposed to think they're even broader versions of the sort of Asian baddies Rambo or Chuck Norris used to dispatch, but again, it's a commentary on a genre that's been out-of-fashion for 15 years.

With the main actors, there's a certain familiarity from two of the three leads, which takes away from the pleasure. While obviously Ben Stiller has probably been considered too short and too Semitic to be an action lead, but he's played the blustery Alpha Male enough times that there are few surprises to how he plays Tugg Speedman. Similarly, Jack Black does the sort of even more uncomfortably intense Chris Farley thing that he does in his less subtle roles. I happen to like Black more when he underplays, but that doesn't mean that viewers won't love his character here. In fact, viewers will probably be content with the familiarity that both Stiller and Black bring to the table.

But I almost never found myself watching Black and Stiller. Forget the silly people suggesting he might be up for an Oscar for this performance. Downey is just having a lark here, as he -- an occasionally over-mannered actor himself at times -- has to imagine the way an Australian would imagine an African-American would look and sound. There are several scenes where I swear Downey breaks character and seems to giggle at what he's getting away with, but he's so good that you can't decide if he's breaking character as Downey or as Kirk Lazarus.

The other person who will be generating buzz out of the movie is Tom Cruise, whose part will eventually become central to the ad campaign, or at least as much of the part as they can show. I've seen several of the more zealous over-praisers try claiming that Cruise is unrecognizable. That's ridiculous. You never forget you're watching the former biggest movie star in the world in a bald-cap and a fat suit. What's important for Cruise is that you forget that the media has been training you to dislike and even fear Tom Cruise in recent years. He's in on the movie's joke and his engagement is infectious. Cruise's role is being presented as a cameo, but it's a pretty full-fledged supporting role. He's a contributor.

The movie I guess I wanted "Tropic Thunder" to be is Richard Rush's
"The Stunt Man," a satire of Hollywood so bitter and black that it still feels ahead of its time. For some reason, "The Stunt Man" is a relatively lost classic, but I'd urge readers to check out the DVD. "The Stunt Man" is funny. It's inside baseball. It's got one of Peter O'Toole's very best performances. And it has a lot to say about the movies, things that are still true, things that are more current than anything in "Tropic Thunder.

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I have always believed in being honest. I dont lie to other people. For me, even worse than lying to other people, is lying to yourself. In poker you have to be realistic about your own ability. Sure at the table you can lie. Its all part of the game. Maybe one of the reasons I love the game is because I can lie at the table and not feel bad about it.  But I dont lie to myself about my ability. If you are not realistic about your ablilty you are a danger to yourself and your bankroll.
I dont know how many times I have heard someone say you gotta be confident, if youre not confident youre going to lose. Look at Phil Hellmuth. Hes confident. So are all the top players. Youve got no chance if youre not confident.  Lets look at this from a different angle. How many truly awful players have you seen who are convinced theyre tremendous players and are bursting with confidence? How many losers have you seen who are convinced that theyre just having a run of bad luck? How many DAG (dumb and aggressive) players have you seen at the table convinced theyre the new Gus Hansen? They go through hundreds, even thousands, in just one night. They have a pile of chips which is roughly worth about a tenth of what they paid to get them. They then proceed to tell people how to play. In fact how many poker players have you met who are convinced they are great, or at least very good? The answer is, just about all of them. Some of them are average, some of them are good or very good, a few of them are great, but most of them are awful.
So you have a handful of great players who are super confident, and hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of truly godawful players who are equally as confident. I think you can see the difference. The reason the great players are confident is simply because they have every right to be. Their confidence is based on results. You also have a ton of players who have absolutely no right to be confident at all. In fact they should be just the opposite. What they need is to be honest with themselves. They need to realise how much they need to improve to win. The more realistic people are about their ability, the more chance they have to improve. Confidence should be based on results, not self delusion.
I have seen really young players at the table with a ton of chips. They seem to know a lot about the game, and play with a freedom, that only players who havent experienced the downside of the game, can play. They talk to one another about all their finals tables. They love the game. They live and breathe it. Everything they do seems to earn them chips. They make it look so easy, but six months later they are gone. One ot two may move up in level. but I have rarely seen any of them on tv. Most just disappear, never to return. Why?
First of all, the game is never easy, even for the very best players. Some of the rookie players start with a lot of money or make a lot of money very quickly. For some, the game may seem easy, or be easy for a time. But after this, the cold reality of the game will hit home. Once the luck starts to even out, and these players experience the sort of run you and I know is inevitable, then you will see how good these new players really are. Some will make it. Some learn very quickly about the nature of the game. They will be able to play through the despair and desperation that continually going in with the best of it, but losing will bring. If they can get through that the first time it happens, they are in with a real chance. It is one of the biggest hurdles in any poker players career. Anyone who cant play through this is unlikely to make it big.
I cant. I just cant take it. I know I cant, and I have been honest with myself, and I shall be honest with you in saying I cant. But I can handle it, and that is something different. What I mean by this is, that once things start going bad, I drop down to the lowest levels possible, and start to play very infrequently. This way I protect my bankroll and my sanity. It also means I continue to play poker. Everyone has to deal with it in their own way. I have adapted my poker game to my character, and this is the way I deal with the down side of the game. It means I keep playing because even in the worst years and worst luck, I dont do enough damage to myself psychologically or to my bankroll,  that I can no longer play the game. It also means I am a winner in the long run. It means I will not be a big winner in the long run, but I will, at least, be a winner. It is my way of dealing with the downside. You have to find some way of dealing with it. My advice, for what its worth, is know that running bad is coming, and prepare yourself enough to know how youre going to deal with it, when it hits. I also know enough about the game, to know how much better the top players are. I am realistic about my ability, so I play at a level where I can win a little rather than lose a lot.
One of the most annoying and gut wrenching things when youre running bad, is to see some idiot at the table doing everything wrong and making a boat load of chips. They seem to go in behind on every hand, and yet still win. You start to say to yourself, well maybe if I played like that But this can be very deceptive. This is losing poker. It is so tempting, but dont forget were talking in the long term. Players do get very lucky in the short term. It is part of the game. Thats why good players make money. Thats why you see old and very experienced players still making money at the game. They make money out of people who have this get rich quick attitude. Because for every young hopeful who makes it to a finals table playing like he or she can never fold a hand, or never need to, there are a thousand others who have lost their money very quickly playing like this.
I dont blame anyone who knows they are a really crap player, but wants to make it big, for playing like this. Be honest with yourself here too. If you cant play well, it seems your best hope is to realise this, and play the game like bingo. Throw it all in when behind in a big tourney, suck out a few times, and youre at a finals table. The great thing about the game as it is now is, you may never need to win at the game again. There are sponsors out there who are willing to pay high profile players according to how silly their hat is. Dont forget the sponsors dont care whether you win or not in the long term, they just care about how much tv time you get. This means you could be a truly average, or even very bad, losing player, but still win at poker, because of the money you are picking up from sponsors. As long as you have a gimmick, or wear silly clothes you have a real chance of being an overall winner in a game youre lousy at. Yes, its an expensive long shot. Youll probably lose, but the main thing is to know what you are trying to do and why.
But if you see players continually going in behind and sucking out, try and work out how much they have to spend on playing this way. Think about how many times you have gone in with all your chips as hot favourite. Now think of the times you have lost. Now think of the times you will lose as a big underdog. Frightening isnt it? If it isnt, it should be. Fear is in our psychological makeup for a very good reason. It protects us. It tries to curb our more adventurous and dangerous inclinations. This is present to protect the human race. Just as you need some adventurous spirit, you need some fear and respect for certain situations too. This is an inherent way of protecting you. It doesnt mean you have to play frightened, but you have to use common sense. Use all your skills as a player to try and win. You do this by outplaying your opponent. This really doesnt have to be complicated. You dont need to think at the 3rd or 4th level here. Sometimes it can just be as simple as going in as 70 per cent favourite against your opponents 30 per cent. If you have done this, you have outplayed them.
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Back from my latest Vegas vacation. I was there over the July 4th weekend, staying at the Mirage Hotel. I did not take any photos this time. The Mirage is currently in the process of renovating their rooms. I was in a tower deluxe room on the 26th floor. But the room had not been renovated yet. One of the secure features of the tower deluxe rooms is your room key is needed for the elevator to operate. The room was very nice, but in need of some repair and upgrade. The Mirage was trying to have all the rooms done by August. Not sure if they will make it by then.

Of course it was very hot. But that is what you expect in the middle of summer. Just stay out of the sun and it is not too bad. Cool drinks and air conditioning work quite well to make you forget the scorching heat.

This was my first time staying at the Mirage, been in the casino many times. Never had great luck at the casino, but I do like the variety of slots and many table games. Did have some good luck on this trip. The "White Lilly" and dollar version of "Deal or No Deal" were fun to play and did hit for some modest gains. Always much more enjoyable playing the slots when you get to play the bonus games. I prefer the new dollar version of "Deal or No Deal" to the penny and nickle slots. The bonus round is much more like the tv show. The "White Lilly" is a penny slot. I had good luck with frequent hits for thousands of credits and the bonus spins a few times. On one spin I hit for 32,400 credits!! That is the best one spin I have had on a penny slot!!

I also had some luck on another penny slot called " Lil Ladybug". Had some hits there for thousands of credits. But only made the bonus round once. Did well at Caesars Palace on the dollar slots and at MGM on their dollar slots. But with all this good luck I still came home a loser. But I had more than half the money I took in my pocket. Being there for six days, I think it was not too bad.

I had my usual meals at the Bellagio and Mirage buffets. My two favorite buffets. I had a few meal at the "Caribe Cafe", the Mirage 24 hour coffee shop. The food was good, I really liked the soups for a quick light meal. Service was good, never seemed too busy. A new restaurant, the "BLT Burger" at the Mirage opened July 1. Burgers, fries and shakes are the main dishes here. But I tried the chili, was very good. and the chocolate milkshake was very good. It cost about $15 for the burger, fries and drink. It was very busy at dinner and night. It was a good place and fun atmosphere for a casual meal.

With the price of gas, I think paying $6 for the airport shuttle bus is the way too go. The taxis will charge at least three times that for a strip hotel. And depending on the traffic and driver, can be more. You might take a few more minutes to arrive at your hotel, but your saving money and not wasting it as soon as you arrive.

As always, it was a fun vacation, and always ready to go back!! Good luck too everyone!!!.

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Every year, some 120,000 weddings are performed in Las Vegas, making it the most popular destination wedding site by far. But is a Las Vegas wedding right for you? If youre a traditional-minded couple -- or if one of you has been planning your wedding since puberty -- the answer is probably no.

On the other hand, if you want to get married quickly and are open to something different, a Las Vegas wedding could be perfect for you.

Below youll find some of the plusses and minuses of having a wedding in Las Vegas. If you decide to go ahead with it, youll be in the company of such notables as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Michael Jordan, Wayne Newton, and, briefly, Britney Spears.

PROS OF A LAS VEGAS WEDDING
Affordability This is the biggest advantage of a Las Vegas wedding. While a traditional US wedding costs $22,000 on average, you can have a complete wedding ceremony for a few hundred dollars (or less) in Las Vegas.

Timing You will be able to book a chapel for your wedding in Las Vegas on short notice. Reservations are helpful, although walk-ins are accommodated in some places. Just dont expect to sweep into a Las Vegas wedding chapel on Valentines Day or a popular holiday weekend and get married right away.

Convenience At Las Vegas hotels with wedding chapels, theres usually a wedding coordinator who can arrange everything from your wedding flowers to the officiant to music and photography/videography. And you can plan it all over the phone or even online.

Fun Couples whove been married before, older couples, and couples who love to laugh appreciate the ease of a Las Vegas wedding. And if you want to get married in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonator, who's to stop you?

Start the Honeymoon Early No need to get on a plane or head out of town after the wedding. Las Vegas is more than a great wedding town Las Vegas is a great honeymoon destination, too.

CONS OF A LAS VEGAS WEDDING

Your Wedding, Your Way Theres no comparison between a wedding planned months or years in advance with a quickie Las Vegas one. If youre someone who cares about having specific wedding colors, custom favors, a certain baker, local florists and bands, and other elements that personalize a wedding, you may not be satisfied with a standard Las Vegas wedding package.

Conveyor Belt Mentality While Las Vegas wedding chapels attempt to keep wedding parties separate, they dont always succeed. Some Las Vegas hotels have more than one chapel, so you may encounter people from other wedding parties. At one of the better Las Vegas wedding chapels, couples have one hour of chapel time: 30 minutes for guest arrival and seating, 15 minutes for the ceremony, and 15 minutes for photography. If you walk down the Las Vegas Strip later (or even pause at a craps table for a while), youre likely to see several other brides and grooms on your special day.

Guest List If you live far from Las Vegas, some friends and family members will be unable to afford the expense or time to travel to Vegas to see you get married. (On the other hand, this is a perfect way to avoid having marginal friends and family attend your wedding.)

Reception Sites Las Vegas wedding chapels are just that: Places where weddings are conducted. If you want to have a reception afterwards, that has to be arranged separately. Larger hotels have banquet and meeting rooms which are mostly used for corporate functions. I recommend a private room in a restaurant.

Tacky Image Despite the best efforts of Las Vegas' finest hotels -- which can produce gala affairs second to none -- Las Vegas weddings are still considered tacky by some.

ALL THE BEST

Whether or not you decide to wed or honeymoon in Las Vegas, keep this in mind: It's ultimately less important where you seal your vows than it is that you say them with a true heart -- and live them throughout your marriage.

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Today I would like to introduce a reasonably priced Shabu-Shabu restarurant "Onyasai"


It is a chain store extended from Hokkaido to Kyushu and Okinawa.

I went to one of the restaurant which is close to my house the other day and I thought it is a good idea to go there if you don't want to spend a lot of money (shabu-shabu costs more than 5,000 yen) but you want to experience shabu-shabu.

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one of the major breakdowns in most relationships whether it is between parent / child, husband / wife, siblings, boy/girl friend, or just close friends, is the lack of listening. most people dont know how to listen effectively.
when i ask people about listening they generally say that they are good listeners. very few people would admit that they have a listening problem. what most describe to me is that they do lend an ear to what is being said - they hear, but they are unable to reflect what was said to them.
i know that we could talk about the semantics of the terms listening versus hearing. i do think listening goes deeper than simply hearing, which in my opinion contributes to most relational problems. i believe relationships between the various parties as i mentioned above, could be helped if individuals would only learn how to listen.
listening requires eye contact, focus, ears, and sometimes hand to body contact to assure the speaker that they are being heard. i want to share four guiding principles that relates to listening.
FIRST GUIDELINE - LISTEN TO UNDERSTAND NOT TO JUDGE

as simple as that may sound, the truth is we often fail to really know what others are saying or meaning. sometimes we assume we know what the other person wants to tell us as soon as a few key words are spoken.
example: have you ever had someone interrupt in the middle of a sentence to respond to what they thought you were saying, without having you complete your thoughts? this becomes evident by the way they responded. their response is totally out to left-field.
obviously this becomes a listening problem but often the problem is a little more subtle.
if you use yourself as an example this would help you understand the above statement.
have you ever been in a conversation especially one that could border on being a bit heated? do you recall yourself waiting just for the other person to take a breather so that you could jump in and share your thoughts without having a complete picture of what the other person is saying? i know that i have on occasions done that.
this would not be listening to understand. your thoughts ll share more on this on my next blog entry. stay tuned.

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