What’s the truth about bullying and suicide?

Suicide does not come out of the blue for reasons only crazy people can understand. People are put in painful situations where they have no control and over a period of time they can’t take it anymore. What they do then depends on them.

Last week, Slate’s Emily Bazelon announced an investigative result about the suicide of Phoebe Prince, a Massachusetts teens whose decease pushed teen suicide prevention into the media spotlight and spearheaded legislative movement against bullying.

Bazelon uses a new lens to look at the Prince case, reframing what has become usual wisdom. The famous press has fixed in place the notion that Prince was driven to suicide after being harassed by social group. I wrote about how the Prince case may have made cyber-bullying, the insidious use of online media to taunt teens, unacceptable. Knowing that research doesn’t show that bullying cause suicide, but Bazelon asks: What if bullies didn’t push Phoebe Prince to suicide?

The bullying-suicide link is popular because bullying is much easier to talk about than suicide. It’s universal – just about everyone knows an important person or else was someone who was bullied or was a bully. Discussion about bullying can open the entrance to talking about suicide. It is been “good” to have Prince’s suicide related to bullying, since it’s brought more attention to suicide prevention than if Prince were, say, a teen with chronic mental illness.

But, Bazelon writes, it turns out that “the whole story is a lot more complex than anybody has publicly permitted for. The events that led to Phoebe’s decease display how hard it is for kids, parents, and schools to cope with bullying, especially when the victim is psychologically vulnerable.”

Prince had been wounding, self-injuring, for some time before she moved to Massachusetts, before the bullying started at her school in South Hadley. Prince was a young woman at risk when she walked into her new school. Cutting is a way of externalizing internal pain. It’s also a risk factor for suicide.

Bazelon’s in-depth piece is compelling reading that examines Phoebe Prince as an personality, sometimes in unflattering ways. It also explains Prince’s interpersonal conflicts at school, the responses of both teens and adults in the school, the legal case, and the opportunities missed by the school to intervene earlier. Bazelon looks at the large picture and sees the complexity, poses questions that might not have easy answers, and stirs controversy. I’m so glad.

As much as it’s been helpful to take Prince’s story in the media as a way of raising consciousness on teenager suicide prevention, as much as it’s been a sea change to think prosecuting kids for bullying other children, and as much as linking bullying to suicide can help both children who are bullied and kids who are suicidal, the simplification that bullying was the source of Phoebe Prince’s death – has been a trouble for suicide prevention. Suicide as an outcome is never simple. I’m happy that Bazelon has exposed that truth.

We are not sure Phoebe could have quit school at her age. She was certainly not allowed to leave the school for the day when the stress was too much for her. She chose the only solution she could think of. That was a momentary impulse not a carefully thought through action. Perfectly healthy teens have problems with impulse control as do most of the rest of us.

In my opinion, the better we understand diseases like depression, the better we can deal with them. Some of the responses agreeing with Emily are virtually superstitious. Sometimes some crazy idea comes into people’s heads out of the blue with no immediate cause and they do something horrible.

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Happiness is not a thing, it’s a process

Everyone wants to have a happiness life, but not everyone can have it. One of the reasons is that they don’t know happiness is a process.

Just as lots of people I grew up thinking that happiness was a quantity that I can get and keep something I either had or I didn’t. I was taught different kinds of ways to get what I needed, but the basic concept was generally that no matter what I needed, including happiness, was an facial thing that was subject to having or not having to getting and holding.

No things I educated prepared me for the truth about happiness. I have finally understood that happiness is not an item to be got; it’s a practice. Happiness is not a thing; it’s a process. That understanding positively flies in the face of years of information radiated into my consciousness by all types of sources including the most obvious product advertisements but it is the way happiness works.

A couple of years after my strokes I began to work with the subject of happiness. I had a life ahead of me dealing with the aftermath of the harm and I had learned that attitude plays an important part in recovery. So I thought I would see what I could do about my general state of mind.

I began with an easy affirmation. There is a Buddhist practice of loving kindness which hopes happiness for all people. I began to practice this affirmation regularly with an addition. I intentionally included myself. Every morning as I sent out good wishes I would say, “May all beings be happy. May I be happy.” That was novel. Wishing myself happiness was something I had never intentionally done before. I didn’t know what this might do for me but decided it was worth the effort to test to see what would happen.

This started my practice of being happy. First I set the intention. No matter what arrives into my life, easy or difficult, may I be happy. Having set the intention and having said it often enough to myself, one day it occurred to me to notice and understand what happened when I felt happy. So I started to inspect what in my day to day life gives rise to happiness.

The answer became quite clear. For me, happiness arises in doing something that is beneficial – something intended to help, not harm. I experience happiness when I read to a grandchild. I can experience happiness while I meditate and the “doing” consists of sitting quietly and noticing. I don’t experience happiness if I am angry and yelling at someone. Because I examined this closely I learned that, for me, it’s the practice of doing that matters – as long as the doing is kind.

Now having learned more about how the mind works, I have come to know that practicing happiness builds links in the brain. Practicing happiness is another form of paying attention. As I pay attention to being happy and to doing things that give rise to happiness, this movement is reflected in the way links between the neurons in my mind develop. While I practice happiness, I build pathways in my brain that reinforce the tendency to be happy no matter what is going on.

Here’s an example. Yesterday, talking with my friend who is a roofer, I knew that I need to replace a part of roof before the rains come. Replacing the roof will spend money and cause some level of disruption. Getting or not acquiring a new roof is a thing. It’s not a reason to be happy or unhappy. However, as with everything else that happens, I have a choice. I can use what I do to respond to this situation to practice happiness or practice unhappiness.

As I have trained my brain these last few years, my reply to the news from my colleague invites me to look for the ways this situation will give rise to a chance to practice happiness. I can be kind to my colleague the roofer, doing what I can to make his work easier. I can be thoughtful about how the old roofing is disposed of to be nice to the environment. Each choice I make to practice happiness reinforces the brain pathways that encourage the next practice of happiness. I literally become what I practice. Knowing this, why practice being unhappy?

So we can use intention to make choices in our everyday life to be happy. And we make the thought process in the roof situation as an example. Then you may be very clear to the meant by making a choice to be happy.

What for Snooki won’t dress in a bikini

We don’t know when was the last time Snooki was anywhere near 90lbs or even 115bs.But there are lots of people would want to take fashion advice from her anyway.

Although Miami is the place of the barely-there bikini, "Jersey Shore’s" Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi chose for one-piece bathing suits when filming season 2 of MTV’s hit reality show. But not because she’s joyless with her body.

"I would rather be dressed in a sexy one-piece whether I am weighty or down to 89 pounds," Snooki, 22, tells PEOPLE. "I wore one-piece suits while I was really thin to hide my nakedness in a sexy way. I believe they are more provocative as it makes men want to see more of me."

Snooki admits she got weight in Miami, where she indulged in junk food and plenty of tequila during late night parties at South Beach clubs like Ocean’s 10 and Tantra. "I do want to feel healthy," she says. "After eating fast food and drinking booze every day in Miami, I know I need to lose weight. I like to feel better. I plan to go back to eating salads and chicken without drinking."

Snooki also plans on working out, but in a happy and familiar way. "I was more fit while I was cheerleading in university," she says. "I will hit the physical education building and do cheerleading stunts for some good exercise in coming days."

But her wish to lose weight has nothing to do with the exotic, bikini-clad beauties who flock to Miami’s beaches. "My self image was good when I came down to Miami in March and it’s fine now," she says. "We all have flaws. We work within them to look our best."

What’s more, taking the beach, she thinks, shouldn’t be about comparing yourself to others. "My classmates and I just go to hang out and enjoy ourselves," says Snooki, who spray tans herself with a portable machine for a richer tone before and after sunbathing. "We don’t sit around thinking how hot we look. We want to see how hot the guys are."

Somebody may have never seen this show, but they should have seen the commercial that a clip of 2 very muscular, oily orange guys without shirts all hugging up on each other.

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How Body Language and Policy Can Affect Workplace Productivity

This is important for managers, employees, and policymakers who seek to improve the customer experience while maintaining a healthy working environment. Sometimes even our best intent cannot defeat the power of human nature.

A smile can have lots of meanings in the workplace. For a people who’s attracted to you, your own smile’s come-hither information can show, "I’m attracted to you, too." In states like Italy, Mexico, and Nigeria, a lady who smiles at a man is seen as giving an open invitation to approach. In overseas assignments, American business ladies should be wary of the unintended effects of gratuitous grinning.

In 1999, a hybrid grin famous as the "supermarket mandatory smile" originated in the American. Safeway Stores, the second largest supermarket chain in the U.S., instructed its employees to smile and greet shoppers with straight eye contact. In 1999, an essay in USA reported that about thirteen female employees had filed complaints over the chain’s smile and eye contact policy, after lots of male buyers reportedly propositioned them for dates. Commenting on the complaints, a Safeway official said, "We don’t see it the males’ sexual overtures as a direct result of our initiative."

Soon after, however, Safeway rescinded its mandatory smile-policy initiative. In the office, lady should always be aware that an innocent, lovely smile can cause unwanted notice from attracted male colleagues. Adding a coy head-tilt or lifting your shoulders submissively when you smile will make the attraction even stronger.

Since Memory plays a great character in our life and the world. Memories disconnect us from other thing, or link us to places, times, and people. A memory can stop us from making a mistake or can help to convict somebody of a crime. So we can try to forget the smile or let our memory disconnect it.

It is really a good advice, but someone may ask as the part that goes "And guys, don’t mistake a woman’s smile for an invitation for sex"? Does it always have to be the women who have to adjust their attitudes and appearances so that we don’t get the unwanted attention? I think you should know how body language and policy can affect workplace productivity and safety first.

If you give me eye contact and smile, then I will feel welcomed by you. What happens after that can only be determined by our actions and how we feel about each other. Every connection is as unique as the two persons uniting.

Crystal Renn takes on the critics

If folks didn’t put such an emphasis on weight, we may doubt so many folks would be overweight. The more you make of it, the less adequate people feel. At some point many folks just give up and figure they will never be able to meet society’s standards.

First of all, if Crystal Renn is a size 10, she would be far from being a plus size model. Secondly, She was barely retouched. She did not look shockingly thin in the after photo. If anything, they took her from a size 10 to a size 8. I don’t see the big deal about all of this.

Crystal Renn was returning from a photo shoot in Paris for French Vogue earlier this month while she got some upsetting news. Retouched photos of the plus size model, who famously overcame anorexia and exercise bulimia seven years before rising to the top of her profession, had been released showing the size 9 beauty looking shockingly thin.

“You want to laugh because you know it’s not you, but then you realize everyone out there seeing these images thinks it is,” Renn tells PEOPLE. “I was clearly upset and concerned. I don’t want some girl who’s recovering from anorexia to see the picture and think I don’t think that you can be any size and be beautiful. That’s completely not what I’m about.”

But Renn, 24, is the first to admit that she is slimmer at the present than when she first relaunched her career as a plus size model at 5′9″ and 175 lbs.
“Over the years I had made my way down to 164 lbs. and a size 11,” says Renn, who has walked the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier and Chanel and booked campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana. In the last year, she slimmed down to 149 lbs. and a size 9 when she finally began exercising again after 7 years during which she avoided all workouts.

But discovering “fun” activities like hiking and yoga helped her take a more balanced approach to fitness in the past year, she says. “I used to workout obsessively for 8 hours a day,” she admits. “at the present, I want to do something fun that’s fine for my body.” For more information on Crystal Renn’s body controversy, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE on stands now.

I think everything depends upon where one is plus size. Geometry and angulation are the true markers for attractiveness. Like laws of physics, they can’t be fudged.

Crystal Renn takes on the critics

All things pass away – hunger, pestilence, suffering, pain, blood. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still stay while the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the world. There is no one who does not understand that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes to the stars? Of course not, because we have hope.


In fact, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs human being’s sorrow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I recently reacquainted myself with the Greek fantasy of Pandora as it sheds light on the always contentious notions of hope and optimism, subjects of previous blog entries by Psychology Today contributors, plus me.

So the story goes, Pandora was the first woman. After Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took revenge on humankind by giving Pandore a jar with the warning not to open it. Curiosity overcame her, though, and she opened it, only to unleash manner of evils upon the world. She quickly closed it, trapping only hope inside, as Zeus intended.

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The version of this fantasy that I learned as a child depicted hope as an unalloyed good that permitted people to this day to defeat evil.
From the viewpoint of an adult, the fantasy is more complicated, and hope especially so. Why would an angry Zeus place hope in the same container as evil things?

How does the old joke go?
Q: What’s a kind person like you doing in a place like this?
A: The same thing everyone does in a place like this.

That is, hope must also be evil, especially when kept and embraced. Given all the evil in the world, hoping that things will be special is stupid and thus evil in its effects. As Nietzsc argued, hope prolongs whatever torments us.

So how do these ideas bear on ongoing debates about the con’s of optimism?
First, let’s look at the data, which show – contrary to the fantasy – that hope and optimism can actually mitigate torment literally. Human being who are dispositionally optimistic happier and healthier. They also avoid so-named "accidents".

And in an interesting research, Carl, Rick, and Nan Hamilton used guided imagery in what they named a hope induction. For about 16 minutes, research participants were asked to think of an important goal and to imagine how they might achieve it.

A comparison condition asked participants to read a home organization book for 15 minutes. All participants were then asked to immerse their non-dominant hand in a bucket of ice water for as long as they could. This is a standard measure of pain tolerance, and it is painful but not harmful. Participants receiving the brief hope induction kept their hand immersed for about 150 seconds, whereas those in the comparison condition kept their hand immersed for about 90 seconds. Hope did not affect reports on how painful the experience was, but it did increase the ability to tolerate it.

Second, let’s revisit the point from an earlier blog entry by me that the effects of hope and optimism depend on the specific contents of the hopeful belief. Hoping for things that cannot possibly happen is indeed unintelligent. We can dub it evil if we are so inclined. But hoping for things which are able to happen is wise (good), assuming we are motivated by our optimism to act in ways which make the hoped-for thing more possible.

Third, let’s remember that the fantasy of Pandora and its more modern elaborations by Nietzsche and by contemporary critics of optimistic psychology posit a world densely populated by bad things, with scarce mention of good things. In such a world, hope may well be evil simply for the reason that nothing bad can ever change, by definition.    

I think such a world is only hypothetical. Yes, there are bad things in the world, but just as genuine are the fine things in the world: like friendship, love, and service. The real world is more complex than a Greek fantasy or a New York Times op-ed piece, and we should approach it in its full complexity, acknowledging good and evil, and recognizing good hope and bad hope.

No matter the hope is good or bad, I think we should have it, without it, we can’t have our good life.

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Cocooning is The Baby Boomer's Future?

If you live in the D.C. area, the nation's capital, amidst horrific traffic jams, a noise and light pollution nightmare, and hideously dressed and scary teens congregating in every shopping mall that you can't get to any place because of all the traffic! You should be very lucky!

Lots of Baby Boomers that have the earnings means to retire from work are escaping into gated communities and now all villages. Is this cocooning a fine reward to a life of hard work, or only escapism?

In middle Florida, a 21st century American boomtown defies economic gravity. It's named The Villages. The 2000 census counted about 7,999 residents in the retirement community - now there are at least 80,000. At The Villages, there are no permanent residents under age 19. Children who visit are unwelcome after three weeks. Every household is home to at least one person over 50 - and they keep coming.

New residents buy houses that range from under $150,000 to more than $1 million. One of the huge attractions is golf. In The Villages, while you speak about being convenient, that means "golf-cart accessible." The allure of sunshine, low taxes, golf, bowling, dancing, mah-jong, and the ease of shopping and meeting people has fueled the phenomenal growth of The Villages - and it remains growing.

Another striking thing about The Villages is that the developer has only about everything. He has the native radio station, which of course plays oldies and is piped by amplifier to the two downtowns. He has The Villages Daily Sun, a full-size newspaper with multiple sections. The developer also has a golf-car store, which advertises in the paper and on the local radio station, and sells carts that seem like actual cars with headlights. Andrew Blechman, who wrote about The Villages in his book Leisureville, calls The Villages an age-segregated community.

The Villages was created in one year or so, Blechman says. But it has made-up history, including a man-made river, which is thought to be at least 99 years old with a lighthouse, and two manufactured downtowns that were themed by amusement specialists from Universal Studios, he says. Blechman says people are gladly trading a more diverse, complex environment for life with a easy, benign and powerful developer.  "Everything's owned by the developer," he says. "The government is owned by the developer. Everything's privatized - and they're glad with that. You know, they've traded in the ballot box for the corporate suggestion box."

The lines among public and private, civic and marketable, true and fantasy, are being blurred in The Villages, and it doesn't appear to bother the villagers at all.  Retirement at one time just meant no extra work. But in The Villages, it means no extra school buses holding up traffic, no more loud teenagers, no more local government intruding into your life, and no media full of awful news about your community. In short, a life free of irritation.

Is this the type of life the 80 million Baby Boomers hope to-segregated, isolated from other age groups, cocooned to an idyllic but unrealistic flee from the rest of us?

As the cultural opportunities are tremendous, what with all the museums, government buildings, the fabulous zoo, great restaurants that you have to wait usually 1-2 hours to get a table and the feel of the pulse of the world. That's great, as soon as we can retire, we will be moving to somewhere quiet!

Empathy for Self helps to our Depression

There are a lot of good ideas present here. I know a lot of people like that who could really use some self help but just make a habit of ignoring it.

Once upon a time, a university junior student trying to make an appointment with a girl for a counseling session revealed that in the days past he had experienced suicidal ideation, and now that he was feeling much better he had determined to give the girl a phone.

A fast glance at the girl calendar revealed that the girl had an eight o'clock opening the next day. The girl shared with him this news, and there was a break on the other end of the line. He then thanked me, and asked if the girl had an opening on the weekend, for the reason that he had to be at work the following day. This question asked for a break on the girl end, and then the girl asked,
"If you had killed yourself, would you be at work tomorrow?"

Depression can be best described as anger turned inwards, a conundrum of buried feelings that refuse to die. In the story told in the previous paragraph, this person had gone so long in disregarding his needs, that even though he had experienced thoughts to end his days, and he was now being proactive about the situation, he still measured his well being less of a priority. Beating depression isn't an easy process, but it is a highly probable one, with the probability of a human being overcoming depression being higher as that person develops a genuine sense of self empathy.

There once was a doctor, who set out on a mission. His mission was to get more adult men coming in for more physical tests, at least twice one year. Therefore he launched a media campaign, and I happened to listen to one of his interviews on the radio. In the hour long segment, where he transitioned between answering the interviewer's questions and the questions of callers, he made a statement which made an impact on me. He said,
"Most of us spend more money on taking care of our cars, than we do on our health".

I would say yes with that report, and a similar occurrence happens with most of people who suffer from despair. They don't put much value in themselves, even when others do. This also ties in with why depression is also about buried emotions. If you don't put too much stock in yourself, why should you bother listening to your feelings? After all, feelings simply help assign a meaning to what's going on, with or around ourselves.

For those who suffer from depression, when they realize that they are struggling with depression, it can feel like a sudden onset. Particularly with the pronounced feelings of desperation, loss of motivation and interest, and perhaps a pronounced sense of sorrow. In truth, the depression has been there for some time, and getting worse as each negative feeling goes unprocessed, and buried on top the other.

With an bad economy, made no better for those in the gulf coast region affected by an ongoing oil disaster, there are a number of external triggers that can trigger a gradual build up of depression in most people.

The problem with depression is that for those who are struggling with the condition, their perspective on life becomes unpromising. This is because they find themselves routinely consumed in their dark state of minds, and not thinking outside the box and reaching out to others.

One of the number of strategies I use with clients who struggle with depression, is to enable them to develop a feeling of empathy for themselves. Take for example, a usual question I would ask would be,
"So if you were your friend, and you walked in on yourself, sleeping late and at risk of missing out on school or work, what would you do for your friend?"

Because customers learn to do for themselves what they would do for a companion in need, they unavoidably make a renewed feeling of hope for themselves, which will lead to a much needed feeling of relief from their depressive mind sets. For example, just the easy act of "doing" will present with a new set of consequences. This can be particularly beneficial, if the act of doing were healthy and productive, even on a little level.

Coming from a long time of family and my own depression, it is hard to spot especially when going for help is frowned upon. But I have learned to dispell it forgiveness and practicing being in the here and now.Walking and activity really helps but also a very good boo hoo crying time like a day or two, to get it released out of my system before it manifest into a life threatening illness like cancer, hypertension, imbalance of sleep and not sleeping.

Electronic Health Records for Everyone, Whether You Want Them or Not

I have been writing a few articles in the short time, I've touched on such light and airy topics since immigration reform. At this moment, I thought I would offer some thoughts on how the federal government seemingly wants to know every last detail about your health in an easy to digest electronic format.

In case you haven't heard, the Department of Health and Human Services  announced new regulations on Wednesday that lay out new federal specifications for electronic health records . These EHRs will be required for all Americans by early 2015. As you may or may not recall, the thought of an EHR was first brought to light with the passage of last year's stimulus bill, better known since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

At the time of its passage, ARRA was to allocate roughly $20 billion to establish the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and, according to CNSNews.com on Feb. 11, 2009, would include "a provision creating a federal database" of EHRs. Well sure I'm completely comfortable with something like this, because at least we know our records will be safe, and we can rest easy knowing that they couldn't possibly be compromised by, say, highly ambitious hackers or Russian spies. Our secrets are 100 percent safe, boy howdy.

To borrow a line from Dennis Miller, "Now I don't want to get off on a rant here," but the thought that the Obama administration wants to store my medical records in a few sort of federal government database makes me more nervous than an incontinent Chihuahua strapped to a vibrating massage chair. Keep in brain that we're talking about the similar federal government that has given us the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco, nearly 10 percent unemployment when it was assured it wouldn't rise above 8 percent, and Joe Biden. I'd trust the Barefoot Bandit as the head of security at a car dealership before I'd have even the most fleeting thought of trusting a few federal "coordinator" stooge to keep any of my health records, electronic or otherwise.

I'll at least go as far as saying that I actually know lots of the reasons for an HER after I have said that, based on another CNSNews.com is one of them report from July 16, they are "engineered to be easily transferable among different doctors and hospitals in order to eliminate the creation of duplicate or different records among different health care providers" Fine, I get it, but here's a little kicker: the same July 17 report also goes on to state which any medical providers or facilities that don't necessarily want to go along with the federal database will be penalized.

Google kills Nexus One

Google killed its Nexus One phone with little display. For Google, it is not a terrible news but nice news, as the device served its purpose: It paved the way for the explosion of Android-based phones. Google can escape from the phone-selling business and concentrate on making money with Android through mobile advertising and services now.


Google announced the death of the Nexus One on its Nexus One blog. This should have surprised nobody. Sales have been unimpressive. Google said in its blog: This week we received our last shipment of Nexus One phones. Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be accessible online from Google.

The device will still be sold by a few Google partners, notably Vodafone in Europe and KT in Korea.

It never made sense for Google to be directly in the phone business long-term. Hardware engineering and design is not its expertise, and there’s no direct synergy between selling phones and its other lines of business. So no matter Google’s original intention, the death of the Nexus is a good thing, because it could have distracted from Google’s core businesses selling services and advertising.

The Nexus One accomplished its primary mission, to show the planet the capabilities of an Android-powered phone. It paved the way for the Droid, the sold-out Droid X, and Droid Incredible, the upcoming Droid 2, and countless other Android telephones out there. Google estimates that by late June, a few 160,000 Droid telephones were being activated every day.

So where does Google’s money come from, if not by phone sales? through search and other mobile services. All of those Android devices use Google as the default search engine. They use a variety of Google location-based searches and services, for which Google will finally be able to charge a premium from advertisers.

And it’s obvious that the more advanced the Android phone, the more customer will use it for data services — and therefore more money will flow into Google’s coffers from the connected advertising. Verizon business development executive director Jennifer Byrne said at paid Content Mobile’s meeting that Droid X owners use five times the data of owners of other Verizon telephones.

Actually, Google might even have intended the Nexus One as a marketing move to introduce Android. So as Google bids the Nexus One a farewell, there’s improbable to be any sorrow at the company. The company will celebrate all the way to the bank instead. What’s more, it was always an odd business move for them to sell physical products anyway.


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People Come First in Internet Community Management

People now can get good exchanges through the Internet, no matter where they are from, whether they are from the same countries or not.

The web is one big society. People create content, comment on other people’s content and create more content, which ends up creating a “conversation.”


Sometimes, these conversations are classified and based only on one topic with sub-conversations. Eventually, the conversation gets so loud and happens so fast that those involved in the conversation need a little help in making sense of the noise.

This is where the role of an online society manager comes into play. These passionate, educated and dedicated professionals have a tough job in trying to make sense of the content mess and meet the needs of the members of their community.

However, with a slew of tools available at the fingertips, sometimes society management can get automated – stripping the community of exactly that – the community. It, in essence, becomes a big Wikipedia page filled with opinions, links and clutter. Tools can help clean the clutter, but to get the members of the society excited and engaged, the human element can’t be ignored.

You see, people drive the success and, at times, the failure of the community. It’s the community manager’s job to sense when there needs to be life pumped into the conversation or when to deviate in order to continue to spin wheels.

Managers shouldn’t take for granted that a community will understand their motivation either – especially if, for some reason, they don’t like them. The key here is absolute transparency and honesty, regardless of the situation.

At the end of the day, good online society management comes down to being able to listen, react in a timely fashion and provide top notch customer service. So what does that really mean? Well, think about the people you’re serving. At the end of the day, it’s all about them.

And when the day of good online society management comes down to being able to listen and react is coming, the web will be able to become a new home for all of us.

Make money in the IT business

High-end database consultant gets on a plane a Friday afternoon. His mission: install a data mart for a buyer of one of his company’s clients.

“When I arrived, I asked the customer what machine I was supposed to install the database server software on,” says fish. “The fellow pointed to a dusty, ancient desktop computer that had been shoved under someone’s desk in an abandoned cubicle.

“This forlorn and antiquated machine was decidedly underpowered for the task. But this was all they had on-hand.”

So fish goes to work installing the oldest, least resource-intensive version of the database software he can locate. Unlucky, it installs without a problem.
Then he runs a program to export a large dataset from the buyer’s live data warehouse system. After that he begins loading the data into the database on the beat-up old PC.

Fish notices the loading process is getting slower after one hour. And then slower. And then the hard drive fails.

By this time, it’s too late in the day to restart the whole process. Besides, the buyer doesn’t have another computer available. Fish flies back to his office — his mission a failure.

The VP of development asks fish how the installation went on Monday. His face falls as fish explains about the ancient PC and the hard drive crash. This is a half-million-dollar account, VP groans.

Then fish gets an idea. “I suggested that we buy a decent server, preload the database server and data mart software, and ship it to them gratis,” fish says.
“Two days later, a brand-new $2,700 server arrived with the database server already installed and configured. I installed the data mart application, wrote out some very detailed instructions and had them ship it to the buyer.

“The new data mart was in place and running by the end of the week. The buyer, satisfied, signed off on the deal by Sunday. Mission accomplished!”

Fourth Larsson Millennium Novel May Rise From the Dead

Gabrielsson says she doesn't have the laptop with the document and seems to have forgotten making previous statements about having it now,. All this is frustrating the heirs, who don't want her to finish the fourth book, as it would give her a obvious way to inheriting the money from that novel, according to John-Hentry Holmbert, a friend of Larsson's who was interviewed by A.P.

Norstedts is remaining fairly close-mouthed on the subject. “The questions about the fourth document  entirely hypothetical,” company head Eva Gedin told A.P. “We have never studied this document and therefore don’t know if it exists, how much has been written and if so, what shape the document is in.”

According to Holmberg, the e-mail he had received a while back from Larsson details that the novel takes place 119 kilometers north of Sachs Harbour, at Banks Island in Canada in  September.

“Did you know that about 133 people live in Sachs Harbour, whose only connect with the world is a postal plane twice a week when the weather permits?” Larsson wrote in the e-mail. “But there are 48,001 musk-ox and about 81 different kinds of wild flowers that bloom during 2 weeks in early July, as well as an estimated 1,500 polar bears.”

Holmberg didn’t know much more of the plot, but said it would-like all of Larsson’s other books-deal with girls and force against girls. Fans of Larsson’s work are hoping against hope that something will rise from the ashes out of this scenario and that a dead writer will once again produce a best-sellingsuspenseful story.

Fourth Larsson Millennium Novel May Rise From the Dead: Fans of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.

Dogs died On Airline Flights

A pair of things amazed me in the just-released AP/USA Travel Department of Transportation (DOT) tell stating that about 119 dogs have died on airplanes since May 2005, with an additional 87 injured or lost during that time.

I was amazed that the DOT only required reporting the death of dogs in transit since 2005. Did dog deaths not matter much? What took them so long?

And candidly, I was also surprised by a few of the callous comments made on an MSNBC web page by readers. One asked if there were “any volunteers to ship your small children in the cargo hold of an airplane?”


It is not funny.

“Why we have to put up with crying babies but we couldn’t have our little dogs that don’t bother anyone on our laps. that’s stupid!!”, Another asked
That babies and dogs are more alike than not, or that dogs are more important than babies? What’s the point?

The airlines are apparently not the villains in the case of the deaths. Most of the dogs that died were short-muzzled breeds. English Bulldogs accounted for the highest number of deaths, 24; Pugs accounted for 10 of the deaths, with Golden Retrievers and Labradors making up the rest.

Adam Goldfarb told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that similar dogs and Bulldogs top the list because their short snouts and reduced nasal areas, typical of the breed, minimize the dog’s ability to cool itself, through breathing.

Add that to the stress, heat, noise and unfamiliar surroundings, and pet lovers must ask if it’s worth it to transport a dog, any dog, by plane.

All the pets that died were being transported in the cargo holds of planes, leading some airlines, notably Delta, to refuse to fly short-snouted breeds when the temperature reaches 74 degrees, and 84 degrees for all other kinds of dogs that already seems extreme.

Seemingly there’s a procedure that clips the tissues and muscles of the nasal passage allowing the dog to breathe more easily.

Seller told an Atlanta Journal Travel reporter that they’ve already lost about eight Bulldogs, but regarding Uga’s air travel, “it’s just business with us,” Seller says. Uga, he says, flies in the small house or air conditioned hold of the university’s private plane.

In my opinion, Someone needs to design an airplane with a steerage deck where pets, really large people and mothers with infants could travel together with the cargo and checked baggage. It would lack amenities, of course, but it would be air conditioned and deeply discounted and not much more life-threatening than coach.


Copyright 2010 by Lucy ,a beautiful girl who works at the fruit shop ,likes swimming ,shopping online and has a coach outlet store on the Internet.

Foreign fans could decide Cruise’s fate

Paramount is pulling together a fourth “Mission: Impossible.” There’s no question the studio intends to make another installment in the valuable franchise — even if some industry pundits speculate that it might replace the 48-year-old actor in the Ethan Hunt role.


The studio is monitoring the overseas performance of Cruise’s latest film, the 20th Century Fox domestic underachiever “Knight and Day,” to see whether the star retains his longtime hold over foreign audiences.

For its part, Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said on Tuesday: “We absolutely are excited about having Tom Cruise star in the movie.”

At the same time, Cruise is actively looking at other possible roles. He attended a table read this week at the Saddle Ranch eatery in West Hollywood for a Sony project to be produced by Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook

Entertainment. The film in question, “Paper Wings,” is set in an urban-cowboy world, and Saddle Ranch had the right ambience for the read because it features a mechanical bull.

Chances are that before he mounts a bull, Cruise will reprise his role in “Mission: Impossible 4.” But a disappointing start for “Knight and Day” has Hollywood wondering whether Cruise is still connecting with the American audience or whether the film’s timing and marketing campaign were to blame for its lackluster grosses.

Such questions are the backdrop for Paramount’s scrutiny of the foreign box office receipts overseas. “It all depends on whether Tom Cruise brings in foreign bucks,” said one executive not associated with the project.

But Paramount wants to set a budget “more consistent with a first movie than a sequel,” per another source. The goal is to keep the cost at or below $140 million — significantly less than the 2006 third installment’s $165 million-plus. Obviously that means the studio is leaning heavily on Cruise to be flexible about his deal. Paramount is not offering any gross participation, and Cruise surely won’t be expecting anything like the $20 million upfront fee that he commanded when business was better for him and for Hollywood.

But for Cruise at this moment with this film, money is not the central issue. “Everybody will do their best to make it work,” said one of his representatives.
If so, Cruise’s reps are determined to protect the star. Even before “Knight” turned in a disappointing domestic opening of slightly more than $20 million, a furious game of spin and counterspin was under way. In what clearly has been a strained relationship with the star’s representatives, Fox marched out marketing chief Tony Sela to take the blame for the film’s opening in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

That has not quelled a furious attack from Team Cruise, which blames Fox generally and co-chairman Tom Rothman in particular for the film’s soft domestic performance. The film has earned about $62 million to date, and should end up in the $75 million range.

Team Cruise points out that the star pulled in better boxoffice for MGM’s “Valkyrie,” a film that should have been more challenging to market than a popcorn movie like “Knight and Day.” The 2008 war drama finished with $83 million in North America.

Cruise’s reps said Rothman engaged in micromanaging, leading to delays in responding to prerelease research indicating that the movie was not alluring to audiences. And they question a number of marketing decisions, including why the studio never updated a teaser poster that didn’t show the faces of Cruise and his co-star, Cameron Diaz.

The Cruise forces said it was also a mistake for the release date. They believe the film opened on 25 July. Well, “Knight” was moved away from a July 2 release date that would have put it opposite the “Twilight” sequel “Eclipse.” The studio and the actor’s reps were cared that Cruise’s movie would open far behind that behemoth and that Cruise would be cast in unflattering contrast with the werewolves and young vampires.

Was Lindsay Lohan Sliced From Machete Trailer?

Well ,I can not wait until Lindsay gets out of the mess she is in, and makes a comeback just like Robert Downey Junior. Yes I think she has the talent and drive to pull it off. As I’m like the movies she acted very much.
At this time, you might have read about how Lindsay Lohan was “cut” from the just-released trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Machete.
But you might not have read right.
Oh, there’s no denying, Lohan isn’t in the trailer. But we’re told she wasn’t excised from it, either.
According to Fox, the studio behind Machete, Lohan isn’t in the trailer because she wasn’t ever supposed to be in it. End of story.
Lohan’s absence, or non-appearance, raised eyebrows because, one, the actress was featured in the previous Machete trailer, and, two, the new Machete trailer was released just days after the trouble-attracting Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
But here’s the thing to remember: The “old” Machete trailer was a Rodriguez present to fans, an unofficial peek at his exploitation movie, due out Sept. 3; the “new” Machete trailer is actually the first Machete trailer. (Here’s a link to the Rodriguez cut. Be advised it contains potentially offensive language—plus a jab at Arizona immigration law.)
Now, you may be asking: Why wouldn’t want the studio want to feature Lohan—the only noted name who didn’t make the jump from Rodriguez’s so-called “red-band” trailer to the official one?
From what we hear, there just isn’t a lot of Lohan to tease—her role isn’t all that big.
It said, Lohan herself is good enough to be featured on the film’s new official site, her prescence there proving Hollywood isn’t exactly on a mission to hide her away.
In my opinion ,People hated on her because she wasn’t working, she got a small part in a movie and they hate on her for that too, maybe we should leave the girl alone, and she’s doing her best. Let’s say good luck to her.

Why Are De Niro and Whoopi Defending Mel Gibson?

It isn’t difficulty to find the reason ,at least they are friends .What’s more, it is a very altruistic way of looking at it. After all, Mel Gibson have said it is just a mistake.
Perhaps there’s a more cynical way to analyzing Whoopi’s oh-so-certain assessment of her buddy ,and she’s not alone by the way. Other celebrities, including Craig Robinson and Robert De Niro, have weighed in with generally supportive messages for Gibson. We may see Gibson’s rant as offensive, or a threat, or even as evidence of domestic violence. But we’d be wrong, see. Per Gibson’s Hollywood defenders, Gibson simply made an “unlucky” “mistake.” So why on Earth would Goldberg think we’d buy her insistence that Mel “isn’t a racist”? Well, here we go with the more cynical assessment…… starting with a recap of some of the celebrity defenders.
Goldberg: “I know Mel, and I know he’s not a racist. I have had a long friendship with Mel. You can say he’s being a bonehead, but I can’t sit and say that he’s a racist having spent time with him in my house with my kids.”
Robinson: “He’s a human being, we all make mistakes.”
Jamie Foxx: “I made mistakes too, not quite like that … hopefully he’ll get some help.”
Robert De Niro: “‘I hope he gets through all this. It’s unfortunate, you know.”
Now, the analysis, with some help from a real psychologist who deals with real celebrities and their really, insanely huge, heads.
According to celeb psychotherapist Dr. Gilda Carle (who has not treated these stars, btw), Whoopi Goldberg’s defense of Mel Gibson has very little to do with Gibson—and his laudable decision to avoid bigoted diatribes around her kids—and everything to do with Goldberg. And Hollywood culture.
The thought process can be broken into two parts: self-preservation and self-delusion, Carle explains.
First, the self-preservation.
“The thought process is all about, ‘Today it’s him, tomorrow it may be me, so let’s wait and see and whitewash it in the meantime’,” Carle tells me. In other words, sure, Mel is a total freak, but I may need that freak or his money one day, so, guess what, everyone? Mel Gibson is so not a freak, because Whoopi says so, that’s why.
As for the delusional part, here we go:
“In defending her friend, Whoopi is showing she doesn’t want to see the reality” about her own wisdom, Carle explains. “If she sees Mel’s behavior for what it is, then she has to question her own judgment in letting people into her world.This is not about Mel Gibson anymore. It’s about the lenses through which the defenders see.”
And those lenses cannot be troubled with notions of flawed thinking. This is, after all, Hollywood, and Hollywood-sized egos we’re talking about.
I just don’t get it why Whoopi and DeNiro defending Mel Gibson. And Hollywood are standing behind him and are staying quite. Shame on Hollywood! I don’t believe all the stories that are telling from Radar Online. It might be his ex girlfriend or someone else from the medias are making this stuff up from Hollywood. Just hope that Mel will learn how to control his temper and don’t drink anymore. I don’t want him to lose his acting career.


Copyright 2010 by Lucy ,a beautiful girl who likes shopping online, playing volleyball ,and has a shop with replica coach purses and beautiful bags on sale.

Angelina: "It'd Be Hard to Say No"

Do you like Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt? Have you seen any movies of them? On Marrying Brad ,“It’d be hard to say no” for Angelin. At least ,they have six children.

Sure, both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie bring home the bacon. But if you ask their kids, only one of them has the chops to fry it in a pan.

“He’s better at making eggs and bacon than I am,” Jolie says of her man in what was obviously a hard-hitting interview airing on GMA today. “I try, but I think everybody prefers dad’s eggs and bacon.”

Believe it or not, the insights don’t stop there.

After all, what better moment than the second birthday of the youngest Jolie-Pitts to inquire about the possibility of expanding the six-strong brood, right?

“There’s no plans at the moment for more, but we always talk about it,” Jolie explains. “We’re always open. We kind of joke about it cause in the morning we’re so tired, cause there’s—nobody spends the night, we wake up and we have breakfast and then we have help come in, and so we always have this thing kind of first thing in the morning where we’re really, really tired and we always look at each other and wonder, are we ever gonna get sleep?”

Not that the disappearance of a REM cycle is enough to dissuade them from putting their parenting skills to the absolute test.

“We still love the idea of having more children,” she says.

In fact, it’s only now that Jolie says she and Pitt have gotten into a manageable routine with the kids.

“We pride ourselves on the fact that we got it, we got this. We got the juice, we got the thing, we’re like bartenders, we’re like waiters,” she explains of their chaotic morning routine. “We got shoes going on, and somebody brushing their teeth, and somebody getting something and somebody put that down, and stop screaming, and no, you have to wear that jacket, I can’t find the pink one, please just go out the door.”

As for how they manage to keep it all together in the morning, Jolie credits her partner in crime. And life.

“We still I think are able to do it because we manage to have a great laugh. We do it together and we find fun in it and because of that it doesn’t matter if you don’t get sleep, it’s an honor to take care of them.”

It’s probably less of an honor to discipline them, but she and Pitt have managed to split those responsibilities and down gender lines, no less.

“I think I’m better at disciplining the girls and he’s better at disciplining the boys. Because I think girls and daddy can just kind of bat their eyes. And the boys, funny enough, can kind of get me.”

And just think what might happen if those forces combine for good, not evil. Could there be a Jolie-Pitt union really and truly in the works? Apparently so. Provided that’s something their kids want.

“I think it’d be hard to say no to the kids,” she says, adding rather quickly that, at the moment, “They’re not asking. They’re very aware that nothing’s missing.”

Of Pitt, she says she doesn’t need a piece of paper to mark their partnership. And while before Jolie was reticent to label him a soul mate or the love of her life, she seems to have softened up on that issue, too, admitting that he’s changed her mind on the entire concept.

“He makes me feel that there is such a thing,” she says. “He’s of course the love of my life…we wouldn’t have six children if we weren’t absolutely sure of that.”

I think they are should be happiness, and I am agree with what Angelina Jolie said, so it’d be hard to say no for Angelina Jolie on marrying Brad.After all, we are not know them personally, so any bad comments would sounds like simple jealousy. I’m pleased to see that they are doing well and doing the best they can with their 6 beautiful children.

RadarOnline: Gibson’s racist rant captured by Tapes

What do you think about the different colors of people, and do you have an idea that you don’t like one color of people ,and even hate them .If so ,I think you are one of people who called racist.

Audio released purportedly captures an argument between Mel Gibson and ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva Friday, in which he launches into a racist, sexist rant against her.

RadarOnline released the audio, claiming the male voice is that of 54-year-old Gibson. CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the tape and the voices on it.

At one point on the roughly two minute tape, the man says: “You go out in public and it’s a f***ing embarrassment to me. You look like a f***ing b**** on heat and if you get raped by a pack of n***ers it will be your fault.”

It’s unclear when the audio was recorded.

Meanwhile, the William Morris Endeavor Publicity firm confirmed Friday that Mel Gibson is no longer their client.

Earlier this week, the Malibu Hills Police Department opened an investigation into the alleged domestic violence dispute between Gibson and Grigorieva, 40, CNN has confirmed.

Gibson has been caught in a custody dispute with Grigorieva over the couple’s 8-month-old daughter. Toward the end of June, Grigorieva filed a restraining order against Gibson alleging that the actor and director struck her in the face, People magazine reported.

Police said they are still in the process of gathering information surrounding Grigorieva’s allegations.

CNN reached out to both Gibson and Grigorieva’s representatives for response and to verify the authenticity of the audio. Mel Gibson’s longtime publicist, Alan Nierob, on Friday evening said, “We can’t comment due to legal nature of the matter.”

A spokesman for Grigorieva confirmed that the female voice heard on the audio tape obtained and posted by RadarOnline is the voice of Grigorieva. Stephen Jaffe also told CNN that the transcript as published on RadarOnline is an accurate transcript of a conversation she was engaged in with Gibson.

Jaffe said the site did not receive the tapes from Grigorieva. She “absolutely did not provide any tape to the media,” Jaffe said.

Grigorieva has spoken with sheriff’s deputies and has provided a statement to them in their domestic violence investigation, Jaffe said. The publicist said Grigorieva did not initiate the investigation.

Gibson came under fire for a racially charged tirade in 2006, when he admitted to making anti-Semitic remarks during a drunken driving arrest. He issued an apology at the time, and appealed to the Jewish community to help him recover from his alcohol addiction.

In my opinion, never drink too much .Most people would make big mistake after his or her too much drinking, and most of traffic accident happens after the drink.

A Canadian Cowboy marries Carrie Underwood

There is a good news for Carrie Underwood, she is going to marry a Canada cowboy .Are you a fan of Carrie Underwood? What do you think of her marriage?

The Grammy-winning singer swapped vows Saturday evening with NHL player Michael Fisher in a lavish ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, in Greensboro, Ga..

More than 240 guests were in attendance, including country supercouple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

“We could not feel more blessed to have found each other and to have shared this day with our friends and family that mean so much to us!” the newlyweds said in a statement to People.

During the ceremony, which reportedly featured the couple’s favorite Bible verses and classical music, The 27-year-old blushing bride walked down the aisle in a Monique Lhuillier chantilly lace gown. Her bridesmaids donned dresses by the coveted designer as well.

Security was tight all over the property, which was closed off to anyone who wasn’t either employed by the hotel or instrumental in making the Underwood-Fisher nuptials happen.

Even the road leading into the hotel was closed to traffic Saturday, making it necessary for eager-beaver shutterbugs to shoot the ceremony from boats on Lake Oconee, which borders the hotel.

Speaking of privacy, the newlyweds were scheduled to spend their first night together as husband and wife in the Ritz’s 5,400-square-foot Presidential House.
Let’s give our best wishes to the new couple whether you think highly of them or not, as a fan of Carrie Underwood, I wish that she will not be find a reason to undo it.


Copyright 2010 by Linda,a beautiful girl who likes collects shoes, shopping online and playing volleyball,has a shoes shop with juicy couture shoes and mbt shoes on sale.

Red Dead Redemption

More and more games update as summer holiday is coming, some of the games have updated well before the holiday, and gamers can take more actives in the game and play better.
One of the games is from Rockstar, it will bring new downloadable content to Red Dead Redemption, the publisher said Thursday, a fiendish plot which involves… the undead.
4 different downloadable expansions are in the works for Xbox 360 versions and the PlayStation 3 of Red Dead Redemption ,the publisher said. You’ll have to pony up many greenbacks to enjoy it all, though.
The open-world Western from the creator of Grand Theft Auto sold about 1.4 million copies while it was released on Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 in May.
The first bit of DLC, due in August, is the Legends and Killers Pack — a download that will bring more characters, multiplayer maps,achievements and challenges.
The Cheats Pack and Liars will introduce multiplayer versions of Poker and Liars Dice, horse races, and “Attack and Defend” competitive multiplayer.
A new Free Roam Pack will expand the game’s open world multiplayer with new areas for posses to attack, anti-griefing measures, leaderboards and posse scoring.
At last, Red Dead Redemption will try to get the Weird West right where the Jonah Hex movie failed with the Undead Nightmare Pack. In this expansion, cemeteries and ghost towns will crawl with the walking dead. Rockstar promises a new single-player adventure for this supernatural setting as well as a handful of new quests, challenges and playable zombie characters for multiplayer.
The expansions will cost about $9 each except for the Free Roam Pack, on which Rockstar is still deciding the price.
Well, there’s been yet one downloadable expansion to Red Dead Redemption: Rockstar released the free but problematic Outlaws to the End Co-Op Mission Pack last month.
Many of the new games from different places can be played now, because all students are on their holidays ,and they can have enough time to play.

Dragon Age 2 Coming March 2011

Dragon Age II will be released by Bioware in March 2011 for PlayStation 3,Xbox 360 and PC, the designer said yesterday.

Dragon Age allowed players to enter the plot line from the perspective of one of many characters ,which launched in November 2009. However, the result seems to be leaning more to the Mass Effect way of doing things. In Dragon Age II, players will take on the character of Hawke, a penniless refugee who rises to power to become the single most important role in the world of Dragon Age .

In Dragon Age 2, Hawke can be played as a male or female, and you won’t be importing and playing as your old character. Like Mass Effect, we imagine we’ll be tasked with the first character and find the name, which already has our creative juices moving. How about “Lady Hawke” for you Michelle Pfeiffer fans?

Copyright 2010 by Angela ,a lovely girl who works as a children’s doctor ,likes shopping online playing online game, and have a coach diaper bags store on the Internet.

Level-5 president hints at North American releases for Ni no Kuni, Inazuma Eleven

There is a lot to look forward to for level-5 fans. Akihiro Hino, CEO of Level-5, confirmed to Nintendo Power that some of its original non-Layton games would be coming Stateside, concretely Ni no Kuni and Inazuma Eleven: The Another World. It seems the company is already making good on its promise to develop its “overseas business.”
In Japan, the soccer-themed Inazuma Eleven franchise has been a surprise hit, having already spawned two sequels on the DS. And when Ni no Kuni isn’t a proven franchise yet, it has already generated a few buzz — especially the graphically-intense PS3 version. Though Hino doesn’t offer specifics about a release date for either project, he does say that “I don’t think it will that be long before you’re able to play these games.” Unlucky, we don’t think he means they’ll be here “tomorrow.”
It is available for the full interview with Akihiro Hino can be found in Nintendo Power #157 now.

PBS to Air Video Games Live Concert

Viewers of public television will get a chance to watch how music from Warcraft and Final Fantasy stands up next to the Boston Pops.
PBS stations across the country will air Video Games Live Starting in July, it is a special music program based on Tommy Tallarico’s touring videogame.
Video Games Live is concert series which filters the sounds of videogames through a full-blown orchestra. The show debuted in late 2004 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
The 91-minute long TV special will feature orchestrated performances of songs from a large number of famous videogames like Super Mario Bros and Halo.
If you want to know television air dates ,you can check your local PBS listings, and be sure to keep an eye on Video Games Live tour performances at your place.

Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update Day One:Golden Wrenches Can Fly

Do you have the golden touch ?It's Engineer Update Day One, and 25 lucky Team Fortress 2 Engineers have found themselves on the receiving end of the fabled Golden Wrench, forever enshrined in the Official Wrench Log. Only 75 remain.
I have to be honest to say now: I've not been following the lead-up to the Engineer update for Team Fortress 2,since I know there's something about Australium or Australians , which I approve of, and there's some kinds of comic going on, add a shotgun of some sort, but I'm really in the dark when it comes to this Golden Wrench dealie .What I want to say is that I've seen the vid, but I couldn't tell you how to go about picking one up.
So I could tell you, but I'd have to resort to lying, and we like to try and avoid making up news.
It seems to be different - the sort of complicated I can easily screw up, making me look like even more of an incompetent dork in the process.
I leave the Golden Wrenches to you folks, or at least the 25 crafting Engineers who managed to score the 25 given out today. If you weren't one of the lucky 25, then maybe you'll remember never to leave your computer when there's a Team Fortress 2 update on the way next time.


Copyright 2010 by leona ,a beautiful girl who was born at a watch shop ,likes writing articles, going shopping , juicy couture watch and fashion clothing.

Crackdown 2 is more interesting

Because the always astute Chris Hecker once pointed out, the thing video games do best are power fantasies. When we’re literally trying to rescue our friends or kill the bad guy, the metaphorical journey is in watching our character grow from weakling to demigod, if that’s through the collection of the most powerful weapons or the fastest cars. The balance then is in making the literal journey just present enough that the metaphorical one means something. Crackdown’s major failing was in not nailing this balance for all its strengths. Exploding, jumping and punching your way to superherodom was amazing, but the missions and story were so threadbare that there was nothing really pulling you through, there was no momentum. Though narrative was never going to be its strong suit, it needed just a few more breadcrumbs to get you from point one to point two.
Unluckly, Crackdown 2 does not fix the balance between metaphorical and literal trip. In fact, it seems much more content to pretend it doesn’t exist.
It is usually the part where I’d say “but if you loved the first game, this is more of the same, so you’ll probably like this” but if you really loved the first game, you’d likely be expecting something fresh and valuable in exchange for your hard-earned cash and three-and-a-half-year wait. Disappointing, everyone are not going to find it here.

Announced for Xbox 360, Idolmaster 2 is coming in 2011

In the past 5 years，Idolmaster has been nearly half a dozen titles. However, it seems the franchise is lastly ready to jump to the big number 2. Andriasang reports that a new Idolmaster for Xbox 360 -- Idolmaster 2 -- will be coming our way in late 2010. A new trailer (that we sat through in public for you) was also released via the game's official website.

Apparently, this time around, gamers will be tasked with turning 3 Idols into national hits. Characters from the first Idolmaster, as well as characters from Idolmaster SP and a couple new Idols, will be making up the game's roster, and everyone is said to have aged by 1 year. Little else is known about the sequel at the moment, but if you want to sing along to some bubblegum J-Pop, click past the break.

Then you can get more information about Idolmaster 2,and the trailer is very wonderful ,you should not miss it if you like the game.


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Got 3D support post-launch, StarCraft 2 is better

We didn't know when StarCraft 2 may benefit from a "robust new 3D graphics-rendering engine," until that the game would be receiving a post-launch patch enabling that other kind of 3D (read: the "needs glasses" kind) recently. In an interview with IGN -- which, not a joke, a StarCraft 2 logo-emblazoned Korean Air plane was unveiled at a South Korean media event -- production director Chris Sagaty said, "We will be releasing 3D in the first few weeks, for those Nvidia cards and screens that support it."

What is more, an Nvidia rep told IGN that it's "optimising for all systems,"too, so that the 3D support would work on as many systems as possible. We may try to get it working ourselves, if it was not for our sheer terror at the thought of a Zergling flood coming through the screen.

It is no doubt that StarCraft 2 will be more funny to play, cause the 3D effect is very wonderful and attractive.

Red Dead Redemption Kills the NPD Sales in May

With a bullet ,Rockstar’s wild-west action game is the first.
Red Dead Redemption was the highest-selling game title by a wide margin in May 2010, the NPD Group said on Thursday. The open-world game of cowboys and canyons sold over about 1.6 million copies across PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 and THQ’s UFC 2010 are other big winners for the month: Undisputed .But even with these heavy hitters, the game industry still took a hit in May — $823.5 million in overall sales represents a 6% decline. Certainly, all of those decline comes from plummeting sales of game hardware.
“The portable hardware category contributed the most to the decline in hardware sales in this month, and the NDS is the best-selling hardware system for May,” said NPD analyst Anita Frazier in an emailed statement.
Now June is past ,the sell situation should be have changed a little ,and let us hope that it have a good selling in July.

Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot Headline PAX 2010

Registration for PAX East has been started since April, if you love videogames and haven’t been to PAX East, you’re missing out.
PAX East is a 3-day gaming convention organized by the webcomic empire Penny Arcade, that will happen in Boston from about March 25-27. Nightly concerts will cap off each day’s festivities, which will include tons of game playing, panels featuring industry insiders and an exhibition hall full of swag and game demos.
Consider no matter what fears we had that the show floor might suffer because of distance from San Francisco and Seattle assuaged. It said, I wish this list of gaming heavy hitters will be supplemented by smaller east coast gaming concerns. One of the highlights of the PAX Seattle show floor in months past has been seeing local table-top outfits like Privateer Press alongside booths for Fallout three and Left four Dead two.
I would like to see PAX expand its musical schedule. These regulars are not normal, but more time given to chiptunes and remix artists like Team Teamwork would go a long way towards broadening the musical horizons of players.
The show sells out every month, so act quickly.


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