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racial or ethnic group in the United States with African ancestry
An African American (also Afro-American) is a person in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa.
- I am Black. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
- Muhammad Ali, as quoted in The Greatest.
- If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
- Mary McLeod Bethune, "Certain Unalienable Rights", What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford W. Logan.
- I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro. When I go to Las Vegas, north Las Vegas, and I would see these little government houses, and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn't have nothin' to do. They didn't have nothin' for their kids to do. They didn't have nothin' for their young girls to do. And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn't get no more freedom. They got less freedom.
- Cliven Bundy, 2014-04-19, quoted in Adam Nagourney (2014-04-23). "A Defiant Rancher Savors the Audience That Rallied to His Side". The New York Times.
- The workings of the human mind are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
- Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition.
- It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
- W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk.
- The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.
- Louis Farrakhan, "The Million Man March" (1995).
- 'We, the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document [the Preamble to the US Constitution] was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
- Barbara Jordan, Statement made on July 25, 1974 before the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
- James Weldon Johnson, "Lift Every Voice and Sing".
- If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people—a black people—who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.'
- Martin Luther King Jr., speech to the Montgomery Improvement Association (5 December 1955).
- The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.
- Malcom X, "Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America", in Egyptian Gazette.
- Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and whites who "understand the Negro".
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., "The Soapbox", The New York Amsterdam News (June 6, 1936), p. 12.
- Freedom is never given; it is won.
- A. Phillip Randolph, Keynote speech given in 1937 at the Second National Negro Congress.
- My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?
- Paul Robeson, testimony on June 12. 1956 before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- If there ever was a monolithic 'black America'—absolutely and uniformly deprived and aggrieved, with invariant values and attitudes—there certainly isn't one now.
- Eugene Robinson in 2007, [1]
- Never that! In this white man's world. They can't stop us, we been here all this time, they ain't took us out... They can never take us out! No matter what they say! About us being extinct, about us being.. Endangered species, we ain't neva gonn' leave this! We ain't never gonna walk off this planet.. Unless you choose to! Use your brains! Use your brains! It ain't them thats killing us, it's us that's killing us... It ain't them that's knockin' us off, It's us thats knockin' us off, I'm tellin you, you better watch it or be a victim... Be a victim in this white manz world.
- Tupac Amaru Shakur "White Manz World".
- A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery. Our study clearly shows that employers would rather not hire a lot of workers from the inner city. They feel people from the inner city are not job-ready, that the kids have been poorly educated, that they can't read, they can't write, they can't speak.
- Affirmative action has to be combined with a broader program of social reform that would emphasize social rights: the right to employment, the right to education, the right to good health. Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting America back to work, blacks should have said yes, but they didn't. They were so preoccupied with affirmative action that they didn't provide the kind of leadership that would help some of the other progressive folks. Only now are black leaders beginning to realize the impact of economic issues.
- William Julius Wilson, interview with Mother Jones magazine, September/October 1996 issue. [2].
- We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
- Carter Woodson, "The Celebration of Negro History Week", Journal of Negro History (April 1927).


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Over the past weekend, blurry photos of an alleged next generation iPhone managed to get into Engadget's hands. What started out as a rumor and then thumbed by netizens as being a fake turned out to indeed be the real McCoy. Initially thought to be a Japanese clone, MacRumors has since retracted that story. The tale went like this: an Apple engineer was drinking at a bar in California and left a new iPhone prototype disguised in a case to make it appear to be a 3GS. Some one managed to find the device, waited around the bar, but no one came to claim it. He later discovered that his find was a never before seen iPhone incognito. Guy shops it around and Gizmodo buys it for $5,000. According to Gizmodo, the engineer lost the iPhone LAST month on March 18. Gizmodo managed to acquire it last week.
Gizmodo extensively photo/videographed the prototype iPhone and determined that what they purchased was bonafide genuine Cupertino designed hardware. The Gawker Media technology blog (who was silent the entire weekend while Engadget enjoyed their traffic) published their next generation iPhone story on Monday and quickly racked up over three million page views (now at the verge of reaching 7 million).
Netizens continue to nitpick and cry foul at the discovery due to the nature of the iPhone's design. The lost prototype appears to be a departure from Apple's "unibody" and "curved" design mantra that they have slowly pushed onto all their hardware lines, including their recently released iPad.
Brian Lam, editorial head at Gizmodo, received a few calls from Apple requesting the phone back. He fired back with the request that Apple officially acknowledge that their find is a real Apple device. Apple issued a letter to Gizmodo late Monday night and Brian happily said that Jason Chen, editor in chief at Gizmodo who was in possession of the prototype, would be more than willing to send it back to Apple.
That's not all. On Monday evening, while the tech blogosphere was going nutso (this story was even on Tuesday's The View of all places to talk tech!), Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz posted a story insisting they were on the cusp of discovering who was the poor Apple engineer who lost the super secret device. They discovered that it was a person named Gray Powell. They promptly plastered screenshots of his Facebook profile picture and Flickr accounts for the world to see.
Netizens quickly gripe again and call Gizmodo a douchebag for exposing the Apple employee, claiming that he will never get a job again anywhere and that he is scarred for life. Web commentators continue to slam Gizmodo for their shoddy "investigative reporting" by buying the prototype and then proceeding with unnecessary trouncing on Powell.
To add more damage points, Brian Lam then posts a snarky "apology" wishing Powell good luck and stating that tomorrow is another day. (The apology has since been retracted).
Now that you're all caught up on the story, I'd like to say something to all the netizens that are complaining about Gizmodo's journalism ethics:
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The old Latin adage holds that "vox populorum est vox dei" — the voice of the people is the voice of God (or the god). Vox Popoli, however, is the voice of Vox Day, the WorldNetDaily and Universal Press Syndicate commentator, apparently intended to be confused with "vox dei." Vox bills himself as a novelist and Christian libertarian, advertising Glenn Reynolds' speculation that he is "the love child of William F. Buckley and Ayn Rand."
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When real estate taxes on a piece of land were not paid, the town where the land was located was permitted to advertise it to potential buyers. Anyone who paid the taxes and accrued interest could take over ownership of the land. In the years following the Revolution, many Americans invested in real estate for themselves and their children. During the severe post-war recession, many people defaulted on the taxes due on these parcels. Like many other towns, when Charlemont advertised unpaid real estate taxes 1787, it advertised only the land of people who did not live in town. It is likely, however, that many homeowners also struggled to pay the taxes on their homes and land. Hard currency was extremely difficult to get, and the government demanded that taxes be paid only in gold or silver.
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2013 International CES Keynotes, High-Performance Audio, Green, Lifestyle and Emerging Tech Featured at The Venetian.
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The 2013 International CES([R]) will spotlight the hottest technologies and innovations across emerging technology, high-performance audio, lifestyle electronics and green initiatives at one of its key venues, The Venetian. Owned and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)([R]), the 2013 International CES is the world's largest annual innovation event and is scheduled for January 8-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 2013 International CES show floor stretches across 1.8 million net square feet of space and accommodates 150,000 attendees and 3,000 exhibitors. These global technology companies will unveil the latest consumer technology products and services across 15 product categories including the most advanced audio, automotive electronics, connected home technologies, digital imaging/photography and electronic gaming as well as entertainment and content services. Official 2013 CES venues are: the Las Vegas Convention Center and World Trade Center (LVCC), the Las Vegas Hotel (LVH) and The Venetian.
The Venetian, the second largest CES venue, spans nearly 400,000 square feet and will host more than 10 product categories and 9 TechZones. The Venetian's CES show floor includes exhibit space, suites, meeting rooms, keynotes and CEA member services.
"Show offerings at the Venetian have greatly expanded for 2013, featuring more than 30 percent of this year's CES TechZones," said Karen Chupka, senior vice president of events and conferences, CEA. "Plus, Eureka Park, which practically stole the show last year as the home for budding entrepreneurs and startups, is returning to the Venetian 40 percent larger than in 2012."
Several of the most popular CES TechZones are calling The Venetian home at the 2013 CES, including:
* Academia Tech - This area features higher education institutions that are leading the way in technology advances. Located within Eureka Park, this TechZone will showcase game changing developments stemming from leading educational institutions.
* CloudBase3 Apps - This exhibit is a new TechZone dedicated to the transition to cloud computing.
* Eureka Park - This CES destination highlights budding entrepreneurs and innovative technology startups.
* Sustainable Planet - This TechZone is the primary location at CES for world changing technologies that benefit the environment.
* MommyTech, Kids@Play and HigherEdTECH - These areas feature a wide array of products that cater to moms and their children from infants to college students.
Last year at CES, Eureka Park received high praise. "Eureka Park was amazing. We had constant traffic throughout the show and it was the perfect place to launch," said Eureka Park exhibitor Daren Klum of Cram Worldwide. "This is the heart of technology. We were blown away with who we met."
Also, the 2013 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase returns to The Venetian this year. Here, attendees can view all of the game changing honorees from this coveted awards program. Last year more than 20,000 attendees visited the showcase.
Many of the CES keynotes also are held at The Venetian. Qualcomm's Dr. Paul Jacobs will deliver the pre-show keynote at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, January 7. Tuesday morning will feature Panasonic's Kazuhiro Tsuga after the State of the Industry address by CEA's Gary Shapiro. The compelling Venetian keynote lineup also includes Verizon's Lowell McAdam, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., and a Wednesday morning keynote from Samsung's Dr. Stephen Woo. All Venetian keynotes take place on level 5 in the Palazzo Ballroom.
New this year, The Venetian features the International Gateway in Hall D and the Marco Polo Ballroom with more than 460 exhibitors showcasing the latest innovation from around the world. Plus, more than 200 high-performance audio exhibitors will demonstrate their products in The Venetian tower suites on levels 29-35.
Transportation is provided for all attendees at the 2013 CES. A free CES shuttle service to and from the Las Vegas Convention Center makes it easy for attendees to access other CES locations, especially The Venetian. More information on The Venetian can be found on our frequently asked questions page or on the official CES show floor page.
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Appliqué quilts involve sewing small pieces of fabrics, cut to shape, onto a larger piece to create a specific design. This coverlet is named "peony," and is composed of red and green pieces to form flower shapes on a white ground. The fabric is cotton, which became more readily available in the early 19th century. Made between 1830 and 1850, it is attributed to Miss Fanny Hoyt Wilson or to her mother, Betsy Hoyt Wilson of Deerfield, Massachusetts and is intended to cover a bed.
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March 13, 2008
The nametags and folders went fast Friday morning when the Admissions Office and the rest of the College kicked-off the biggest weekend of the spring semester.
Wabash rolled out the red carpet for approximately 350 high school students and their families. The students who came from 30 states and multiple foreign countries hope to put their names on some of the $3.5 million in scholarship money up for grabs over the weekend. Of those in attendance, 60 students are visiting campus for the first time.
While prospective students were at Wabash they had the opportunity to tour campus, meet and interact with many of the Wabash student organizations at the Activities Fair, tour fraternities and residence halls, talk with coaches and student athletes, and enjoy concerts and other entertainment. Click here and here to view photos from many of the events of the weekend.
Friday's events concluded with a concert performed by the College's musical ensembles (Click here and here for photo albums.)
On Saturday, Honor Scholarship Weekend participants took more tests, then watched Wabash's baseball and track and field teams in action. Click here to see the baseball photos and here to see pictures from the Wabash Relays.
In addition, the high school seniors took a series of academic exams in English, history or foreign languages, math, and science in hopes of taking home as much as $20,000 per year in scholarship money for their upcoming four years at Wabash.
"We received 1,300 applications for 250 spots. Nearly 200 of you will be here in this spot again when Dr. White rings in the Class of 2012 on August 23," Dean of Admissions Steve Klein remarked during his welcome in the Chapel on Friday morning.
"This weekend is designed to help you get to know us better – as individuals and as a community," he continued. "I strongly encourage you to fully participate in this weekend to see if Wabash College is the place for you."
Dean Klein was followed by President of the College Pat White.
"I love the excitement in this room – the excitement of the adventure of this weekend, the excitement of the adventure of college," he commented. "As you decide where to go for college, seek more than a credential. Seek a place that honors learning, honors work, and honors relationships. Go to a place that allows you to find the greatness within you.
"Many of you will become our Men of Wabash, our heroes, our champions for the rest of your lives. Next fall as I talk with alumni I will brag about you, 'the Class of 2012 has greatness within them.' Together we will become a band of brothers, a company of heroes."
Activities continued throughout the weekend and concluded with breakfast on Sunday.
Photo above: Tennis player Luke Robbins '11 talks with Lewis Towne and his mother about playing tennis at Wabash.
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The Vandalia fifth- and sixth-grade student councils hosted a local competition in the Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center's Homers for Health home run derby.
All entrants hit whiffle balls off of a tee, and received up to four points, depending on how far their hit traveled.
The boys and girls winners in each grade division advance to the championship round in Forest Park on May 10, and will also get to meet St. Louis Cardinals players David Freese, Matt Holliday and Allen Craig.
All proceeds go to the hospital.
Many athletes who spent their high school years in Fayette County have moved on to play for college or professional teams. Below are the athletes who recently made headlines.
Tuesday, April 30
Windsor/Stew-Stras 8
South Central 1
WP: White; 7 IP, 4 K
LP: Peters (0-2); 2 IP, 2 K
Cougars: Schwarm, 2-for-3, HR, RBI; Diss, 2-for-3; Bray, 1-for-3; Hoffmann, 1-for-3; Powless, 1-for-3.
Record: 5-13
Saturday, April 27
at Centralia Tournament
Centralia 7
South Central 0
The Vandalia track teams last Thursday honored their senior members.
St. Elmo graduate Brooke Maxey was recently named the Most Valuable Player of Kaskaskia College's volleyball team. She also earned the team's Defense Award.
She is pictured above with other award winners from last Tuesday's banquet.
Vandalia's JV teams have been in action in the past week.
The Patoka baseball game against Altamont for Monday has been moved from Patoka to Altamont.
The St. Elmo baseball game scheduled for Monday against Beecher City has been canceled.
Vandalia senior Amber Bruno on Monday signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Fontbonne University in St. Louis.
Another school in Fayette County has been forced to make budget cuts, and those cuts will affect athletics.
South Central District 403's board of education last Wednesday approved budget cuts for next school year, and those cuts included several in the area of athletics.
In addition to the cuts, a fee of $40 will be applied to students who play one sport and $60 for students who play two or more sports.
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The Dog Palace is a rotationally-molded plastic house. All panels of these products are filled with recycled ESP foam (commonly used as an insulation material in construction).
To demonstrate the real value of insulation, we conducted an experiment on the Dog Palace with and without insulation. (Note: This product is only sold with insulation and door.) The results of the experiment reflect the heat retention inside the Dog Palace using a common 100 watt light bulb (no other source of heat). At an outside temperature of 40°, the insulated Dog Palace will be 70° inside, while the Dog Palace without insulation will be approximately 45° inside. At an outside temperature of 0° degrees, the insulated Dog Palace will be 30° inside while the Dog Palace without insulation will be approximately 4° inside. An average dog's body heat will raise the temperature inside the Dog Palace 25° in the winter without the floor heater (sold separately, available on samsclub.com); therefore, if the outside temperture is 25°, with an average dog inside the Dog Palace the temperature is approximately 50°.
The Dog Palace is very easy to assemble and takes very little time. The easy pass-through, self-closing door design keeps the wind that reaches your pet to a minimum and closes itself. The specially-designed door is made in two pieces - the bottom half is removable for initial training if needed. The Dog Palace is sized for medium to large dogs (Lab through small St. Bernard). Another unit available on samsclub.com - the "DP Hunter" is sized for small dogs (beagles, basset hounds, pugs, etc.) or cats.
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Who Wasn't At KTAI?
January 24, 2012, 12:22 PM »
Well, let's see.....
1 Any boutique kitemakers
(Miguel Rodriguez, Ken McNeill, Lam Hoac, Marc Clemens, Tim Benson)
2 Any European kitemakers
(Level 1, R-Sky, etc)
3 Flying Wing (a particular surprise considering how active that company is)
4 Most kite stores
Kite Connection
, GWTW, etc)
Is it cost of attending, return on investment, not necessary?
Can you still get all you need at the same prices without going?
The kite store owners already know a lot of what they are going to see anyway.
Feel free adding to the list.
And if you could have gone as a public paying person of interest,
would you have come to Las Vegas and what would you have
paid to get in? Miguel was ready to shell out the full price for himself
and his wife, but they couldn't get in.
And why does the KTAI do nothing more than have a small website
to promote themselves, if they are attempting to promote the "industry",
which for the most part is having an off-shore company build low-cost
products for the tourist trade?
Last Edit: January 26, 2012, 11:17 AM by chilese
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Re: Who Wasn't At KTAI?
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January 24, 2012, 02:28 PM »
Isn't the real intent of the show for kite shops to see what is available for the coming season? (and place orders)
Were there really not that many kite shop owners there? If not, I can understand why someone like Flying Wings would choose not to invest in coming to the show.
It sorta makes sense why the boutique kites makers don't spend money coming as they sell mainly direct to the kite flyer.
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January 24, 2012, 03:50 PM »
With only 17 images online of last years show, 5 images from 2009 and 15 from 2008 they don't even do as good of a job of promoting themselve as John does.
Be curious to hear how many vendors actually attended the event (I count 23 plus the AKA in John's pics) and how many retailers ( I see 3 but Corey was the KTAI President and probably had to attend)
Would I pay for it and travel expenses as a spectator, probably not.
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January 24, 2012, 04:39 PM »
Actually, Kite Connection was at the show.
The KTAI website has been under discussion a lot in the last few months and a whole new format and design is being discussed - look for it to come out sometime in the near future.
The KTAI is really not for the general public. It was created as a tool for manufacturers and retails to use for discussing product, supplies and delivery dates. I don't think that the average kite flyer would even enjoy the show to be honest with you. For purchasing and sitting down face to face with the manufacturers and designers, it is a real benefit, Plus being able to discuss supply options, delivery dates and new products not only for this year but for the coming years as well. This is a huge benefit for me as a retailer to use to plan out expenses and future orders.
Honestly, I don't think the average kite flyer would get their money's worth out of the show if it were even opened up for the general public.
As far as numbers, those will not be available for a few more weeks. I know there were at least a few dozen retail kite stores in attendance, Steve from GWTW was greatly missed though.
Manufacturers ... I counted over 20 just going through my head quickly.
As mentioned above, it is questionable for Boutique kite makers to attend the show. The show is designed for wholesale to retailer meetings. Boutique kite makers such as Benson, Blue Moon, Level 1 etc... all sell directly to the end user (who are not at the show). If they were interested in actually selling through retail outlets as well as selling direct, the KTAI would be the best way for them to get in touch with a huge number of retailers who would love to carry some of these high end kites.
The show had a very positive outlook to it this year, and there are lots of new designs that were either released at the show, or will be coming out in the next year or so which is very good. It seems that the industry is finally on an upswing.
What I would like to see is the KTAI demo days opened up for the public kite flyers to come meet the manufacturers and designers and actually fly the new products. I feel this would be a great way for the manufacturers to get direct input from the end users on new products and also hear what the end users would like to see in the future. The Demo Day was a total hit (even though the wind was missing most of the day). The KTAI has already stated that next years demo day will be even bigger and better. Hopefully we can get some better winds and perhaps be a lot more open to the end users. If I hear anything more about this I will surely pass it along to everyone here.
What is everyone's feeling about this? I would love to hear and will pass this info on to the KTAI board.
The above is only my opinion of course and is worth exactly what you paid for it.
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January 24, 2012, 05:06 PM »
A demo day open to the public is a big step in the right direction to get more people involved and I think that is a positive move for the KTAI. I totally understand the Trade Show being closed to the public, posted wholesale pricing, and the focus being on the relationship between wholesalers and retailers, who needs a 100 kite geeks in the way?
Although most succesful retailers have a good handle on their market getting to see the buying publics reaction to new products should still be a benifit. You might laught your way right by that mermaid kite but if you see 20 potential customers clamoring around it on the field you'll probably give it another look. Good for you & good for the manufacturer / importer.
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January 24, 2012, 05:56 PM »
I think this "issue" comes up every year after the event.
IMHO the KTAI is not an organization that caters to the public... never has been. Their purpose is to support wholesalers and retailers. I certainly have no issue with that. As such I don't see why they would have an interest in attracting the public... this is not what they do.
Rather then seeing the KTAI getting into the "public" scene, I'd rather see the retailers and manufactures offer (more) support for kite festivals. I'm not saying that they don't already. Have factory reps go to kite festivals and allow people to fly their kites there. That way they advertise and also help support festivals.
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January 24, 2012, 06:11 PM »
I've been to events that were generally almost a week long-- part of the time (say first couple of days) was devoted to the wholesale end of things. The rest of the time was devoted to the public: vendors available, classes, shows (of the competitive sort and/or of the art sort), demos, etc. This kind of thing draws people from near and far... and they spend a ton of money, both ahead of time and during the event themselves. It's so cool to be able to see things in person rather than having to just view it online.
I'd save my money and go if it were an event like this.
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January 26, 2012, 01:34 AM »
Having done a trade show on this side of the pond and having been dissapointed to see that that it was mainly toy shop owners looking for beach kites (despite it being in the late 90s when trick kites were at their peak) I was going to say how will the toy shop owners learn that we want some serious sport kites if they don't see what the public are interested in? However lets face facts sport kites are such a minority niche again we're irrelevant to most retailers
Face it, we'd just be an inconvenient distraction at a trade show.
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January 26, 2012, 08:04 AM »
As you know I rarely/never chime in on these discussions but I do want to add my two cents.
We have been a manufacturer, retailer and distributor for many years. We attended the KTAI for many years in all three capacities and always had a booth. The show use to be quite large with many international manufacturers and retailers in attendance. It is my opinion that one of the reasons that the show is no longer an international event is that it was not open to the public for even a day. The show was not really even promoted to other retailers outside the kite industry. In all fairness there were a lot more kite shops back then also. It's expensive as a manufacturer to have a booth and not have the opportunity to at least have the end user see your product. As a manufacturer I would happily put away my wholesale pricing info for a day and as a retailer I believe it would benefit me to have as many people as possible exposed to kiting and new products available. This a show that is paid for by the manufactures but run by the retailers which never made much sense to me but that opens up a whole other can of worms.
I agree with many things that Kent said in his post. It's a great place to meet and talk with people you do business with, a chance to see up close new items and maybe find that one thing that sells great for you that year. Unfortunately as a small manufacturer is doesn't make good financial sense. There are just not enough retailers who will support that small boutique kite maker which is sad. Thank goodness there are still kite stores like Kents that believe in and carry the small kite maker products.
In a nut shell my vote is to open up those doors and let this industry grow. You might just once again get to see Tim Benson, Ken McNeil, Jens Frank and many more of those boutique makers come and show their beautiful and unique kites.
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January 26, 2012, 08:37 AM »
Just going to pop in here to thank you, John, for putting photos of the KTAI event online. I look at the photos over and over, looking for things that are interesting to me and that I might like to have. Then, when our local shop owner comes home from the show, we discuss what I saw and what his impressions are. Quite often, he ends up ordering a new kite or two for me.
I think it would be nice to see some of the prototypes up close but it would not be financially possible to attend even if it was open to the public. Also, I think those who would attend would be looking at more specialty kites, not the ones the general public would buy. Retailers must select items that move out the door in quantity in order to stay open. So I'm not sure inviting the public would be beneficial.
Please keep the photos coming. They are certainly beneficial to me.
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January 26, 2012, 11:50 AM »
A number of issues have led to the changes in attendance at KTAI. The E world. Manufacturers can send an image and even video of new products and the quality of those images just keeps getting better.The International aspect was stronger before the euro the strenght and weakness of the dollar combined with rising shipping prices as well as expansion of european manufacture has made the international trade less apealing. Just ask Steve.
I was told that flying wings attendence had more to do with the timing of Chinese New year which culturally is more like Jewish near year than western new years day.
While probably not promoted as a public event there were plenty of locals at demo day but no wind. For those that think it might be good fore manufacturers to make themselves available to the kiting public, Many of us do attend festivals where is it cost effective and are often at the AKA. This year was the first time in many years that we had a DEMO day on the schedual and most of us were out and loved it. I for one would hate to be confronted with the "sophies choice" of blowing off a kite fan asking about a tricks in or out a kites range or missing a chance to talk with a major vendor.
The show may be smaller but that size presents people with a lack of urgency to get to all vendor as well as the vendors chances to address all attendees.
It the great old days 200-300 dollars sport kites were the norm and boutique builders were making great advances. In some ways we are the victim of our own success.
The recent board have seem to embraced the idea of change in subtle ways so not to turn things upside down but there does seem as though there are few newcomers who are making an impact
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January 26, 2012, 12:29 PM »
My thanks to many who rarely speak up here to bring in their comments.
As far as NO WIND.....
I spoke with one of the Demo Day attendees and she said that it was too bad there was no wind.
There was wind, at times, up to about 3 mph. People were flying sport kite standards some of the time. And with the low wind, we were able to fly the gliders along with many ULs.
I told said attendee that this was my order of importance for a day in January planned months in advance:
1 The sun is shining. Check.
2 The weather was comfortable. Check. (some people in shorts)
3 There were a few clouds for good background contrast of kite photos. Check.
4 There wasn't too much wind to fly. Check.
5 There was enough wind to fly standards and ULs at various times. Semi-check.
So, on my list we hit the top 4 and part of number 5.
A few days later we had rain and overcast, cold skies.
Let's not get too caught up in the NO WIND statements being casually tossed about. We got lucky during the winter month of January.
Note the parrot's tail. Sure, we could have had winds steady at 7 mph, but overall, I was thrilled with the day we were given.
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January 26, 2012, 02:57 PM »
The only thing the Demo days lacked was steady wind . Having been at demos in rain, cold ,mud, and parking lots with truck traffic. This was great improvment. I will be happy to have that good a time next year.
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January 27, 2012, 08:29 PM »
I do not know if I am your average kite products consumer, but I can tell the folks who pedal the products what I have, how I got it, and what I want.
I've only been into kites of a year and a half. I got bit by the bug purely by chance on a visit to the Oregon coast. The day after I saw my first sport kite (at age 57) I owed one. I just added them up and found that since then I've spent almost $1800 on kites alone (9 or so), and another several hundred on a bundle of lines, anchors, videos and other specialty gear. I spent $55 on my first kite, $300 on my 5th and about $500 on my last one- notice a trend there? The kites I spent the most on are the more recent purchases and are the "boutique" kites (Sky Burner and Lam Hoac) which account for over 1/2 the money spent. I realize you generally get what you pay for and don't mind paying for high quality. As with buying cars, I seldom buy used kites. I like the New Shiny, as they say on this forum.
I live in Salt Lake City and would have to drive 3 - 6 hours in any direction to find a good kite store. So I almost exclusively buy online and depend on the web for my information. I'd say the stuff I've seen on the GWTW forum has been responsible for more kite sales to me than just pure company or vendor advertizing. The 2 kite festivals I have attended were both Antelope Island and there were only 1 or 2 vendors there either year, but I was delighted to see them because I could see some kites for real. Both times I was very disappointed there were not more vendors.
Looking at John's photos and Dave's video of KTAI makes me drool on my keyboard!
I wish there was one day at the show where the public could see the booths and talk with the manufacturers and retailers, ask our questions, make our suggestions, critique the products, and view their products ALL IN ONE PLACE. If this was done on the same day as the outdoor/indoor demos that would be fantastic. Back with the car analogy, why do you think those car dealers want you to take a test drive!!! Because once you drove it, you can't resist. I for one know that if I were to attend the KTAI a lot of the hardware there would not need to be brought back to the shop. I will continue to buy online because I have to, but do not underestimate the power of holding those sails and lines in your hands for making a sale.
I know there is a lot of business that goes on at these shows that is just that- the boring and cold hard aspect of making a living and the public has no business being around for that. You guys have to make a living and I respect that. I'm just saying that you might think about changing things up just a bit and I think you just might be pleasantly surprised at what happens. Personally, I've been half tempted to make the 6 hour drive from SLC to Vegas just to attend the Friday Night Flies with Kent, so spending a night in Vegas in mid-January to also spend a day at KTAI would be really sweet!
Now that I've flown them I will probably continue to spend most of my money on high-end "boutique" kites. It would be nice if more of them were available from other retailers, but maybe I just don't understand the business end of this. And don't get me wrong, I will also be dropping hundreds and probably thousands more on the cheaper "quantity" items kjm mentioned, as long as they are quality products.
Just my two cents... thank you all for making such incredible products and if you need a couple of days a year behind closed doors to make it happen, I sure won't begrudge you that. Just keep it coming!
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A few years back, I proposed a 'hybrid' AKA/KTA convention. KTA would do the traditional closed show on Saturday/Sunday, and then open the room to AKA registrants on Monday (the first day of convention). Monday night, the KTA awards would also be the AKA Welcome reception. The manufactures who chose to could stick around and share products with fliers from around the country the rest of the week.
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Poor time of year for some manufacturers and retailers
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Commercializes the non-commercial AKA
Bottom line, the suggestion was fully discussed but not selected.
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Gay and left-wing activist and poet William Brandon Lacy Campos died at the age of 35. He was found dead in his home in New York City on Nov. 9.
Fellow writer Darnell Moore told blog site Rod 2.0 that Campos "yearned to be in community with others." Campos had served as co-executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, which may be the most prominent LGBT activist group seeking a radical overhaul of the U.S. economic system. Campos was also a founding member of the Green Party LGBT caucus. Rod 2.0 added that Campos was "a prominent figure within the nation's social activist and 'artivist' communities."
Campos was the author of a collection of poetry called "It Ain't Truth if it Doesn't Hurt" and he contributed to the critically acclaimed 2011 anthology "From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction."
The poet had activism in his blood: His great-great uncle was the black historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the second African American man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University and also the founder of Black History Month.
On Nov. 6, Campos delivered the keynote address at Tuft University's annual Black Solidarity Day, where he talked about race, colorsim, sexuality and gender.
"I am standing in front of you a black, white, Ojibwe, Afro-Boricua, HIV positive, queer man," Campos said in his speech. "And I am just as black as any of you. You are my community, you are my salvation. I am in community with my queer and trans black family and being queer or trans doesn't make you less black than anyone else.
"It's time for us to realize that HIV stopped being a white gay disease a long time ago, it's now a black and Latin[o] disease and it's time to hold up our positive brothers and sisters as our own," he continued. "No more high yellow and midnight blue conversations when talking about skin unless its to talk about how that high yellow or midnight blue person rocked your socks last night."
Chicago-based poet and youth activist Tim'm West told Rod 2.0 that Campos was "a bit unhinged and too daring at times" but that he was "passionately transparent and committed to embodying a freedom most of us only pay lip to service."
Officials from the Queers for Economic Justice's Amber Hollibaugh wrote on the group's Facebook page, "Our community has lost another person we could not afford to lose. There are few details of his death at this moment. But what is clear to me is the ongoing crisis inside our communities because we are living the realities of our oppression."
On the blog site Feministing, "Samhta" wrote, "Brandon was an advocate for justice, but it was his way with words that moved his community the most. He was a bright star, an important voice, an imperfect creature, a beautiful soul, an inappropriate talker, a poet, a seeker and a dreamer."
Campos kept a well-read blog of his own My Feet Only Walk Forward.
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When I interview wrestlers, I usually ask how they'd like to be remembered.
The reason for the question isn't openly discussed, but it's probably pretty transparent.
Pro wrestling has an alarming number of premature deaths. Anytime I interview a WWE star, there's always that horrible thought that no matter how young or healthy the wrestler may seem, the next story I write about them could be an obituary. Sometimes, it is.
Oddly, though, the question of being remembered never came up in any of my conversations with Chris Benoit. It didn't need to, because everyone knew Benoit's legacy would be as an all-time great.
Born in Montreal in 1967, Chris had seen the world -- from the inside of a wrestling ring. Inspired by his lifelong idol, The Dynamite Kid, Benoit relocated to Alberta in the mid-'80s to hone his craft as a pro-wrestler under the tutelage of Stu Hart in Stampede Wrestling.
Although Benoit wrestled in places like Mexico and Japan, he fell in love with Alberta and adopted Edmonton as his home town.
Even when his career dictated his house be somewhere else -- he has resided in Atlanta since the late '90s -- Benoit would always tell anyone who would listen that Edmonton was where his heart was.
I remember sitting across from Chris in the Calgary Sun offices in 2004, trying to talk the then-WWE World Champion into doing a photo shoot wearing a Calgary Flames jersey .
"I can't do that, I'm really sorry," Chris politely said. "Edmonton's my home, and I don't want people to get the wrong idea."
My editor and I even offered to run to the mall and get him an Atlanta Flames jersey as a tongue-in-cheek compromise, but our tag team effort only got a grin out of the Canadian Crippler.
"How about we compromise and I just wear an Oilers jersey?," he said with a laugh.
Because of Benoit's hometown-stubbornness, our photo shoot was switched to a shot of the Sun's resident wrestling writer and the WWE Champ, holding the belt. To this day, that picture of me and Chris sits on my desk.
WWE found itself in a difficult position yesterday when the news of Benoit's death broke.
The company was running a TV storyline in which WWE boss Vince McMahon had been killed in a car explosion. McMahon's mock-death had been played up as real on WWE's web site and media releases, with a fake memorial service held on Smackdown just weeks ago.
Last night's episode of Monday Night Raw was supposed to reveal the latest twist in McMahon's murder investigation, but Benoit's passing left WWE no choice but to abandon the angle.
The live crowd was sent home, allowing WWE to broadcast a low-key tribute show from an empty arena in Texas. Pre-taped tributes from the WWE staff were mixed in with classic Benoit matches and moments.
At the top of the 8 O'clock hour, Vince McMahon himself appeared, pulling the plug on the company's biggest storyline of the year and announcing that while his demise was fake, this was reality.
Every WWE employee I spoke with last night was utterly distraught. Not the typical public relations mourning routine, but truly and genuinely heartbroken at the loss of their peer and their friend.
You see, Chris Benoit was the real deal. What you saw was what you got.
He wasn't flashy in the traditional pro wrestling sense. At least not outside the ring. But I always found Chris to be polite, friendly, genuinely likeable and incredibly passionate. Which makes the unraveling news of his final hours all the more unsettling.
In the ring, few will dispute he was the absolute best technical wrestler in the world. And probably of all time.
For most wrestlers and fans, the greatest image of Chris Benoit's career will be a moment that aired on Raw last night -- footage of Benoit's 2004 WWE title win at Wrestlemania XX at Madison Square Garden.
After years of climbing the ladder, Benoit had finally reached the biggest prize in the business -- and had done so on the biggest wrestling show of all time, at the most famous arena in the world.
"It was a moment in history," Benoit told me soon after, incredibly proud of his newfound career highlight. "100 years from now at Wrestlemania 120, they'll look back at that day and see Chris Benoit winning the title at MSG. No one can ever take it away."


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About this designer: Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied Design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting for some of Europe's leading design companies. Grcic's most well-known designs include the Chair One for Magis and the Diana series of sheet metal side tables for ClassiCon, all of which Aram Store stock.
About this brand: Mattiazzi
Among contemporary furniture manufacturers, Mattiazzi, a family owned producer of wooden furniture in Udine, Italy, is uncommon. While many producers in that region rely on third party factories and work in diverse materials, Mattiazzi operates with their own machines and hands, and has developed a healthy obsession for woodworking. Since 1978, when brothers Nevio and Fabiano Mattiazzi founded the company, Mattiazzi has steadily cultivated its local manufacturing culture. Each of their network of wood shops has its own focus, from milling to lacquering, and a particular process always belongs to a specific part of town. Their highly specialized craftsmen operate the most sophisticated machinery available to the wood industry. An eight-axis CNC milling machine allows wood to take the complex shapes associated with injection-molded plastic. Operating such a machine is an art and Mattiazzi disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft.
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In the sneak peek at The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion, we see Andy Cohen announcing that Adrienne Maloof won't be joining them. He doesn't say anything negative per se, but his tone and carefully chosen words definitely let us know he's pissed about it. As he should be.
Adrienne, however, apparently thinks he's the one "behaving very unprofessionally", which is laughable after everything she's done. For starters, how unprofessional it is NOT to show up for the reunion show after signing on for the season? That's what Real Housewives do. After all of the season's drama, they take to the couches and hash it all out. Just because you don't like what went down, doesn't mean you can just run away. Well, apparently you can, but you shouldn't if you're professional.
She has an excuse though ... of course.
A source told Radar Online:
She knew she would have been thrown to the wolves though if she had gone to the taping, and quite frankly she is through with dealing with all the non stop drama and verbal assaults. Brandi and Lisa were both telling producers before the taping that they were looking forward to pouncing on Adrienne. She heard about it and decided there was no way she was going to let those b****es come after her like that.
Boo. Hoo. Because Adrienne has never pounced on anyone? It's crazy that she's running scared from them. Maybe if they'd have let her bring Faye Resnick to stand up for her, she would have been more willing to show up and face the facts?
I'm glad she's leaving the series, but I think she owed it to viewers to show up for the reunion. If she was in the right and had nothing to hide, then why not defend herself?
This may not be the last we see of her, however. The source also said that Adrienne has been approached to do another reality TV show. She's apparently considering it, with stipulations. " ... if she does decide to go back to reality TV she will be a lot more cautious next time — she will insist on having an executive producer role so she can control how it's done." No rush, thanks.
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Technology like that imagined by Star Trek and the futuristic cartoon The Jetsons is becoming reality with 3-D printing. Also known as additive manufacturing, it creates customized solid three-dimensional objects from digital schematics. It has arrived – and it is disruptive.
Thirty years in the making, 3-D printing uses additive processes, where an object is created by laying down successive layers of material. Laser beams and molten plastic can be used to re-create many everyday objects, a button or a Tupperware top for instance, in a very short period of time. Ranging in cost from just a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands, these machines print in ABS plastic the same material found in today's consumer products. Some models print in full color and at a very high resolution and can even use non-traditional material "inks," printing with glass, ceramic, titanium, steel, copper, nylon and many other materials not usually associated with printers.
South by Southwest kicked off last Friday with a bold prediction that desktop 3-D printing will unleash a new industrial revolution guided by "creative explorers." Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis showcased a small desktop 3-D printer priced at $2,200 for a fall 2013 launch. Pettis believes that 3-D printing for the masses will change the face of manufacturing, eliminating the need for high-volume production. He envisions a future where consumers will generate what they need at home or in a small shop, anything from children's building blocks to a prosthetic hand.
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Thus far, 3-D printers have been used by commercial organizations for rapid product prototyping. Innovation teams create iterative prototypes fast and inexpensively to greatly shorten the time to market. Three-D printing is also a more cost-effective method to generate pre-production molds and some companies are starting to use it to manufacture end-use parts. Digital direct manufacturing (DDM) facilitates smarter low-volume manufacturing eliminating cost and lead times associated with machining or tooling. DDM makes on-the-fly design changes and just-in-time inventory possible.
Moore's Law may be at work pushing down the cost of these machines and bringing them closer to the consumer market. If predictions by Pettis, Forbes magazine and others about the proliferation of 3-D printing are correct, we will see a paradigm shift equal to other user-generated content disruptive technologies like desktop publishing, digital music and consumer media production software.
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This whole thing about Twinkie's
has gotten me thinking…
The mind games we play with ourselves about food is absolutely crazy. And, to tell the truth, is likely one of the main reasons why it's an obsession for so many.
We have given an inanimate object a great deal of power.
Take the Twinkie. Hostess has caused quite a stir, announcing they are closing their plants and no longer producing the iconic Twinkie along with other products like orange cupcakes
or Wonder Bread
My sister's favorite was the Ho Ho.
I liked it but always deconstructed it as I ate it…first nibbling off the chocolate coating (chocolate so waxy that it built up on your teeth), then unrolling it and licking off the cream filling (so sweet it sometimes made me shiver) and finally eating the chocolate cake. That was a lot of work for a thin slice of cake!
But, I digress. My Twit Feed and Facebook wall is filled with Lamentations about the closing of Hostess. Boomers like me are all going down their own culinary memory lane. With Thanksgiving looming we are all talking about food memories (or maybe it's just that I have foodie friends…birds of a feather…) and over and over I hear about how bad Twinkies are.
You would think Twinkies shoved themselves into people's mouths!
We give food power.
News flash: it has none. No food is completely good and no food is completely bad. As soon as I made up my mind that I could eat anything I wanted I took the power back.
If I want a Twinkie I would eat one. Bad example…I would never actually crave one but you know what I mean.
Reframe. Food has no voice…we are ventriloquists. If the food speaks it is really our words.
Just change your mind.
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Bloggorus wrote:Dreamdancer wrote:@Bloggorus: The new write-up is also nice and much more informative.
Added the information in which order the monsters (same-level -> lower-level) get summoned.
Added the tip that you can use WONAFYT for slowing a same-level monster you have recently attacked (interesting for characters with the Balanced Dagger).
Nice one, i didn't know about the order of summoning or that it is magic resistible. Are you sure about that? I don;t recall it ever happening to me.
The idea of any write up should be state the facts about what the glyph does before delving into strategy or gameplay tips, IMO
The easiest way to test the level-preference is to just summon a couple of level 1 monster, level-up and than start again to summon -> first the level 2 will come.
The trick with slowing a same level monster for the final blow i found a couple of days ago and i thought it would be a nice addition to the wiki.
About the preference with the magic-resist i didn't know. But i think it would first summon all same-level monster (even with magic-resist) and after this the lower-level ones. But i can make some tests tonight.


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I've been calling it a "gritty reboot of Killer Klowns from Outer Space", but that may have been giving it all too much credit after I actually tried watching the trailer and not just snarking based on Stephanie's post's title. It looks like this 2008 stinker isn't just about clowns, so much as a bunch of delinquent teens' actual fears coming to life when they trespass in a Haunted House that's scheduled to go live the next day.
So, murder by inappropriate erections and pop quizzes AMIRITE?
So tonight, we'll be mocking this SCARY SCARY MOVIE WHAT MAKES YOU JUMP AND STUFF. Make sure to have your alcohol in appropriate spill-proof containers. It'll be my first attempt at actually running the timing too, on top of doing the transcript. This is one of those ones you may have to have a paying service or physical DVD to obtain, so that limits its audience unfortunately. Next few we do will be on free services, to be fair to everyone.
"These all sound awful!" I hear you cry. Yes, yes, they do. "These must be mocked mercilessly", you say. Well, then you're in the right company. The instructions for playing along:
- Start following @MockTM on Twitter.
- Start watching the movie on the appropriate Wednesday at 9 p.m. EDT.
- Once you've got the movie going, tweet your snarky comments to @MockTM. Directing our tweets to @MockTM will keep our followers from being overwhelmed with our snark!
- Set up a search for @MockTM on Twitter for the duration so you can follow along with everyone else sharing your pain.
If you have suggestions for other movies that can and should be mocked, send them to @MockTM. Preference will be given to movies that are free or stream on the major media delivery services. Watch the feed, and we'll set up the calendar for more terrible, mockable movies.
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As part of a 60 city comedy tour, Los Angeles funny man Brandt Tobler comes to Albuquerque for ONE NIGHT ONLY, Wednesday, March 18th at The Box Performance Space and Improv Theatre! Come out and laugh at Tobler and local comedy favorites, Rusty Rutherford, Joe Quesada, Comedian Black Mike, and Nicholas Starr! You may be expecting to pay $40, $75, even $9 for this star-studded line-up, but we're making it available to you for the low, low price of just $8.00. WOW!
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Brandt David Tobler was born September 23, 1977 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.When he was 1, he pooped his pants often and everybody laughed at him.
At the age of 5, he stopped shitting his pants and began getting his education at Deming-Miller elementary school. There he met most of his friends, many of whom he remains close to even today. On the playground, lots of kids were drawn to him because he could throw a Nerf Turbo Football really, really far.
Girls did not like him at all.
At the age of 13, he went to McCormick Jr. high school, where he began to make people laugh. He also excelled at basketball and water fights. Brandt was voted Class Clown in ninth grade; he has a picture proving this claim in a yearbook on a shelf in his mother's garage, if you don't believe him.
Girls still could not stand him.
At the age of 16, Brandt went to high school at Central High, where he was a two-sport star, playing basketball and soccer. He was often compared to Bo Jackson because he liked to wear Nikes and Umbro shorts. He was once again voted Class Clown because he "…knew people that could make that sort of thing happen."
At the age of 19, Brandt entered a junior college in Wyoming. After about a month he dropped out.
At 20, he went to junior college again, but proceeded to drop out after one month. AGAIN.
At 21, he decided to give it the "Old College Try" once more, this time in Arizona. However, as usual, he dropped out. (This go-round lasted seven whole months.)
College girls didn't really like him either.
Once he turned 22, Brandt finally came to the conclusion that secondary education was not for him, and he decided to move to Las Vegas with hopes of getting a job as a pirate at Treasure Island. Unfortunately, after his first day on the job, Brandt realized that he was allergic to parrots — and 9-to-5 employment — thus forcing him to retire from Pirate Life forever. He began doing stand-up in the Las Vegas open-mic scene and quickly became a crowd favorite all over town. Brandt is also much-loved among other comedians, partly because he always buys them beer, but mostly because he is a loyal and encouraging friend.
After two years of comedy in Las Vegas he began to travel the country, performing all across the 50 states. He has since returned to Las Vegas and founded the legendary Backyard Comedy Show. In the Backyard Show, Brandt created an independent, grass-roots, censor- and clique-free forum for comics to do what they love to do, which is perform, without having to deal with the confines of typical Vegas-casino red tape. Some of America's funniest stand-up comedians have come to town to perform with Brandt.
That's where the story begins… You will be hearing a lot more from Brandt Tobler in the near future.
For now you can find Brandt performing nightly all over Los Angeles and beyond. He always delivers a laid-back, offbeat, hilarious brand of comedy you are sure to enjoy.


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- The page refreshes and the story is added to your list.
- If you are on the Overview, the first chapter is bookmarked. If you are on a specific chapter, that chapter is bookmarked.
For multi-chapter stories that you have already Saved to Favorites, you can update your bookmark to set it to a new chapter by using the Set Bookmark button in the Toolbox in the chapter you are reading.
And that's all there is to it!