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Room was big, spacious and very comfortable. Staff were friendly and accomodating.
Shower over bath was awkward to use. Also grout between wall tiles in shower area was slightly blackened.
food in pub was very good and served fast , swimmingpool was nice for kids , Hotel staff very frindly and helpfull , breakfast was nice
pool closes at 7:00pm for kids,
Fine, nice, small B&B with excellent hospitality. Good and excellent choice of breakfast. The hostess does everything to make you feel at home.
The B&B owner Anne was very friendly and welcoming, we really felt comfortable . A lovely B&B with class and comfort. Highly recommend.
there is no parking despite parking being advertised
this is a doss house. avoid unless desperate.
What I liked best was the freshly cooked breakfast. I was met with friendly helpful staff and the place was neat and clean. It was also very convenient and close to a number of restaurants
It was a bit noisy. The guest house is quite close to the nearest pub and people were standing outside smoking that resulted in loud conversations
The dining experience was very romantic and service was superb. The view from the hotel was beautiful. The price for dinne was very affordable.
Our room smelled a little damp, which wasn't too appealing. The large bed was in fact two twin mattresses side by side, which made a crack in the middle. Very small tv, but not a big issue.
We liked the accommodation, the friendliness of the staff, good dinner and breakfast andconsidered it good value for this standard of hotel..
Day staff were nice on phone and when checking out.
Arrived late which I had rung to say earlier but found night staff not very helpful; TV did not work but it was too late and I was too tired to try to get it fixed at that time of night; hot water in bathroom was only tepid at 7 am when I needed it although it was warmer by 7.30 am which was too late for me
Convenient location, spa facilities on site, comfy bed, not too noisy.
Car park is not on site, not very close, and not well signposted. Difficult to access initially due to one-way street system
Helen - the owner, chef and all-around entertainer. She was marvelous for telling us about Ireland from a local's prespective, in a way that had us really laughing. Her services were great; after learning the first night we liked to have drinks in our room when we got back after dinner, the second night she met us at the door with a bowl of ice. We also loved the very comfortable beds, her excellent breakfasts and the wonderful on-demand hot water shower.
The only incovenience is you have to drive someplace for dinner, not walk. However, the b&b it is located right next to the Jerpoint Abbey which is beautiful to tour.
Quiet, beside Jerpoint Abbey,y nice breakfast, enjoyed the stay.
Friendly staff
Carrying luggage over stairs
I liked how clean it was and it was very close to the town centre. It also has free parking which was nice. A nice breakfast also. It was quiet also.
It was a little dated but that was the only negative.
Reminded me of the old world charm missing from hotels in U.S. A bit worn but stately and tastefully done. Charming... Please don't change a thing!
The ambience of the hotel was most relaxing and my elderly mother found the whole experience excellent.
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Crazy Substitute Teachers
Enjoy, NG4.03 / 5.00 1,114 Views
Vacuum Salesman
This dude and his Megazord vacuum cleaner3.97 / 5.00 2,315 Views
Markiplier Animated | Mark Of The Survey Corps
This took far too long to make...3.93 / 5.00 2,868 Views
i like cut and paste too
this was, very very familiar, it looks like all you have done is take picturse from dbz tribute websites and other dbs things and pasted them togethor, i make this accusation because i have seen many of these pics b4 good job on that one, next time try to do some yourself
*shakes head*
Oh dear... if there's one thing I hate about getting classic of the day it's getting idiotic reviews like these from people who don't even bother to read the author's comments or even give credit for hard work. This is the 2nd time I've got classic of the day!
Which makes you think, I must have a fucking good Flash to be a classic twice!
You claim that this was very very familiar... well, it is supposed to be a tribute to one of the greatest scenes from DBZ, I never denied that. It may look like to you that I have taken pictures from websites, but you are quite clearly wrong as I have proven that I drew EVERY picture in the flash and given a link to where my storyboards can be viewed http://groups.msn.com/DBZFlashmovies
Even if I did take pictures from websites, it would still take a lot of skill and effort to make a convincing flash animation from it, but then you wouldn't know anything about that, would you? Having not made one yourself.
Therefore, for the reasons stated and proof given your accusation is VOID, and not a reason to rate 1 overall.
Next time I will have ANOTHER TRIBUTE made, it will be of Vegeta turning SSJ for the 1st time, I will include more options in it, including a storyboards section to prove idiots like yourself wrong. Oh and it will be done by myself, just like this was!
Your other scores are unjustified.
Sound a 2? Did you not hear the 4 pieces of music and sound effects?
Style a 1? What's so unstylish about it?
Now begone, fool!
When I clicked this I was expecting to see a video, not just a bunch of images that don't even give the feeling of an animation. You just try doing more frames.
Hey, moron.
I had a nice little chuckle at your review, especially after seeing the pure SHIT (compared to this) you produce, you can't even get a score of over 3! Even if what you said was true (which it isn't) it would still be better than any of your shitty animations.
Anyway, you shouldn't expect to see a "video" when you click to watch, you expect to see a FLASH animation which this was, and it happened to be a very good one, this made you jealous thus making you write a retarded review like you are better or something.
Ask yourself, did this animation deserve 4 for graphics? No, it looks just like the show and was well animated. Did it deserve a 0 for sound? No, it had 4 pieces of music and sound effects. Did it deserve an overall of 1? Fuck no.
Are you a retard? Yes, it certainly seems so...
And I finish with my trademark:
Now begone, fool!
Dude why do you get so pissed when someone gives you a bad review. Why are you so sensitive? I just want to see you waste more of your life by replying to this review and calling me a "cretin". Here's an idea, get a life and stop replying to everyone who reviews your flash.
*shakes head*
Dear oh dear...
When will you fools learn?
Did you DELIBERATELY give me almost all 0 just to say that? Hell, did you even WATCH the flash?
People like YOU are total idiots. I don't get pissed, hell, I enjoy these reviews sometimes, mainly because the people who write them are total morons.
Did your review have anything to do with my flash? No. This is where you fail to realise that these reviews are supposed to be on the Flash work, NOT a message board for you to try and defend your cretin friends.
I'm hardly wasting my life by taking a few minutes replying to this, I enjoy educating your sorts, it's far too easy to say "Shut up you fucking fag!" which would be the actions of someone really pissed off. Even if you fail to realise your mistake, I couldn't really care less.
Now, for your review, I see you didn't even mention anything about my flash. Did you watch it? These review panels are for that, as I have already mentioned.
You just made yourself look like a total idiot. Nice one!
Begone, fool!
Zero Originality!!!
All the scoring is by comparison to the originol episode! This was complete crap! There was no difference between this and the originol DBZ episode! Except that this version is poorly made by comparison. If this were originol you would have had an extremely good rating! But since this was a cut copy, you have to be campared to the originol!
Oh you let yourself in for it now!
1st of all, before I rip your pathetic review to shreds allow me to tell you: Learn how to spell.
Now that that's out of the way, onto your pitiful attempt at reviewing.
If there was no difference between this and the original how was mine poorly made? You gave no reason, therefore your point is void straight away.
No originality? What did you expect clicking to watch a flash movie called "Goku goes SSJ for 1st time"? Did you expect to see a completely new thing or a *shock* recreation of that scene in Flash! Especially when I mention in my Author's comments that it is indeed a recreation of the scene in Flash! Idiot.
You said you were going to review this in comparison to the original, it seems you have no idea what this means or how to actually do it.
You DID NOT compare the graphics to the original, by giving examples WHY this isn't as good. You just say "this was complete crap" Your lack of reviewing capability is only exceeded by your lack of intelligence to put up a reasonable argument or any sort of critisism. "This was complete crap!" isn't critisism, it's just retarded.
GRAPHICS do NOT deserve a 0, they were good, got better throughout, fully drawn and animated. Not as good as the original, of course, but then, it's just a tribute.
SOUND did NOT deserve a 0, there was 4 pieces of music and also sound effects! Therefore there was sound, so your score of 0 is VOID.
INTERACTIVITY did NOT deserve a 0. There was a play button and 2 replay buttons, therefore your score is VOID.
STYLE did NOT deserve a 0, it wasn't original, yes, but it did have a loading screen, play and a replay screen. Once again your score is VOID.
To finish this off I remind you that
this is a flash TRIBUTE to that scene, it was SUPPOSED to be a copy of the scene, fuckwit.
And one more thing:
Flash by Shimdut:
- none -
Says it all really.
Now begone, fool!
Ok, first off that completely sucked. The main reason I say this is because people think to highly of Kakarot. He isn't the greatest person on dragonball Z, and if that was a tribute then my friend I must say it was more of a disgrace. Now, if you really wanted to pay tribute to DBZ you might have had the brains to make it Vegeta going SSJ for the first time...or Vegeta kicking the shit out of anybody. He is the greatest, wether any of you would like to beleive it or not. But thats besides the point, my opinion is stated and I will stand by it....thanks.
OK, first of all you are completely wrong. You shouldn't have voted 0 on this because it was about GOKU. Second, I am currently working on a second tribute which is of Vegeta turning ssj for the first time so stfu. Thirdly Vegeta isn't the greatest, he didn't turn ssj first, he got his ass kicked from Goku many times, he ALWAYS lagged behind Goku and at one point, Gohan.
Anyway, your scores.
Graphics: 3
WTF? Are you fucking blind?! I'd like to see you do better,oh wait, you never made anything... I doubt you could even make a shitty stickman movie that'll get blammed in 5 minutes!
Sound: 4
OK? What exactly was wrong with it? DBZ music all the way through and perfect sound effects.
Style: 4
A lot more stylish than most DBZ movies out there...
Overall: 0
You really are one fucking idiot. You voted 0 cos it was about Goku and not Vegeta? Who gives a fuck? It's a DBZ tribute, and fans would like it, you seem to have an unhealthy obsession with Vegeta you fuckwit. People like you are completely retarded for voting 0 on a perfectly fine movie, voting 0 cos it's not your favourite character makes you out to be a compelte moron. You are a disgrace to Vegeta fans everywhere. DBZ isn't real, no need to vote 0 cos this isn't Vegeta.
You are one fucking moron. You disgust me... now get out of my sight, bitch.


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Dear Friends,
The summer is upon us, and I hope you are getting to spend some time with family and friends. I am spending time catching up on work, seeing family, still seeing clients, and planning the rest of my year. I am also making sure I fit in some time for walking by the ocean and a couple of scoops of ice cream. I've been lucky to be spending a lot of time near the ocean, which I find enormously peaceful. I will be doing a few events this summer, so if you are curious, visit HERE to learn more about my upcoming events.
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My father was not always a nice man (I say "was", because even though he is still on Earth, I do not speak to him and have nothing to do with him, so I don't refer to him in the present). In fact, he was so verbally, physically, and mentally abusive, that when I was in the 9th grade, my mother had to have him put in jail to protect us, after he attempted to kill her twice. My father, paralyzed by his psychotic ways, refused to admit guilt or wrong-doing up until the day before the trial, when he shuffled into the courtroom in shackles, and turned to face us and apologized through tears. Years later, he would do other things to terrorize our family, including using my personal information to take out loans and defrauding myself and others. He is now in jail for attempting to kill his mother.
My father was, to say the least, a complicated man. You might read the above, and say, "Wow, he was an absolutely horrible father." He actually wasn't all bad and evil. My father and I had some wonderful moments too. I remember once, he surprised me with tickets to a charity dinner, where we got to meet hockey players. I was thrilled and we spent the day together in the sun, and collected over 100 autographs. He also loved animals, and about three years before we left him, he took in 2 stray cats.
Images of my father showing love and affection are often clouded, however, with more painful memories that include my father being my mother with a baseball bat. I often struggle with this---how do we reconcile the image of someone who has bad and good in them? Obviously, for some, the disparity is very clear, and we do need to terminate friendships and relationships from those that are dangerous or unhealthy. But instead of seeing some people as "good" and some people as "bad", I see it more as an internal struggle that we must continually work on.
A key to our spiritual growth in times of trauma, tragedy, and darkness is forgiveness. Forgiveness requires that in some capacity, we see each other Mostly, this is about our relationship with Source, and constantly revisiting and redefining that relationship. There are spectrums to rage, psychosis, generosity and harmony in all of us. Our human connectedness requires us to understand that had a few things gone a little differently in life, we could have ended up very different than the person we are now.
In the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack, I am reminded of every homophobic comment that has ever been said to me. I'm also reminded of the bitchy remarks I've said myself about others ("Ew! Did you see that ugly shirt that guy is wearing?"). We will never understand fully why the Orlando shooter did what he did. It is impossible. A moment in history can never be fully known because we can never know all the emotions, thoughts, and desires that went into that specific moment. However, an experience like this also requires us to pause for a moment and become accountable. In a way, every moment of homophobia, hatred, envy, and complacency in the wake of hate towards others, contributes to these larger moments and historical events. Granted only one man showed up in a bar to murder people. But the energy we have all allowed in a certain moment has led to a culture of confusion, rage, complacency, and falseness. This is a moment for us to be accountable to ourselves.
Many folks come to readings or events, and immediately begin to spew venom at me about their parents or loved ones. "Well, he BETTER come through and apologize to me" one lady said to me, referring to her dead father who was an alcoholic. Remember, the dead don't have agendas---it's US that have an agenda. When the soul leaves the body, they enter a place of spiritual evolvement. It is not automatic--but instead, it is hard won. But it is a place of a higher vibration.
Rather than start on a rage against a family member that is gone, I ask my clients to focus on how forgiveness and understanding can become a larger part of their narrative. We don't forgive for the other person, and we don't forgive to recreate history. We forgive so that we can approach the situation with a possibility for a deeper understanding of ourselves and others.
When I made a decision many years ago to forgive my father, I did not release him from any wrongdoing or change the fact that he was so terrible. Instead, I was able to embrace that my father, like many people, had shadow and light in him, and he ultimately allowed himself to be ruled by shadow. In turn, this destroyed my relationship with Source, and only when I was able to have faith again in Source and the Other Side, I forgave my father.
My brothers and sisters, we are in a global crisis---a climate of rage, anger, sadism and depression that has grown into something very scary, and very real. It is here, and there is no escaping it. It has become too common for a news story to flash on, and for us to have this moment of deep knowing that our lives will never be the same---Sandy Hook, 9-11, Blacksburg, Santa Monica---moments where we know, another layer has been pulled off. It's a spooky feeling almost---spooky in the sense that it feels out-of-body. And that's because it is---in moments like this, I think that we are feeling the global consciousness pulling on our energy, and asking us for us to help, and also to change.
Yet, why does it feel that just as we were healing the psychic wounds of attack, horror, and betrayal, another terrorist tries to destroy us. Immediately, we sense our lives will never be the same. But, a tragedy such as this awakens something so powerful in us. The human Spirit is so resilient in times like this, and to me, that can be a beautiful thing. And remember, that it is often the most difficult, traumatic, and saddest of events that brings about the most changes in our lives. Marianne Williamson writes, "Sometimes it is our suffering that mysteriously delivers us to the holiness within ourselves."
How do we make sense of all this? Are we to learn lessons? As many of you know, and I teach in basically every course I teach, the soul lives on after death. If I haven't proven it to anyone else, I have to myself---the soul never dies, and the love we feel for those is eternal. Does that change the fact that a deranged homophobe killed 49 people and injured many more, likely damaged the lives of millions of Americans? No. But it is a spiritual and metaphysical truth that we can take some comfort in. The soul does not die. People continue. Like those on the Other Side who continue to love us, we must also continue to love them. We also must HONOR them. Today, in meditation, I heard a clear message from one of the victims of the tragedy, "Don't give up now. You on are close to losing the human race as we know it. Fight, my dear brother. Now is now the time to give up." And I believe that to be true. We can't give up. Love can never, ever, ever, ever die.
I encourage everyone to be seen and known in this time. To be seen as the compassionate and loving people that they are. Remember, the Dali Lama says that compassion and tolerance does not imply weakness, but strength. We do not have to condone anything. We must, must, must continue to love. It is the only option. Sure, be pissed off, be angry, but in a moment of reflection, please go back to love. And at the same time, don't let the gravity of depression, technology, and being "busy" pull you back to a place of complacency and acceptance. Remember, that our spiritual journey here is continual work. It never ends.
Even when we don't understand, we must love. We are all connected. As humans, we are imperfect. We can never fully know our deep connection to everyone. Let's pray that it starts to run through our veins in a deeper way. That we start to know, feel, and understand how every soul, and every cell is in us--that is truly the essence of God. Though the attack was on a gay bar in Orlando, every human being was attacked during that early morning shooting. We must end this illusion--and this deception--of separation. We are all connected, we are all in this together. To think otherwise is delusional. Furthermore, I hope that as a gay community, we can use this as a moment to unite. The GBLT community has come so far, but you know what---there is much work to do, and to be honest, we can do better. Let's start with kindness within our community--lets grow and expand. Let's continue it. Let's allow it to go deeper. Let's be the best we can be. Let's all be connected in every moment. Caroline Myss, my spiritual teacher, says ""Live as though you have the power to change the world because you do."
Here is a prayer that I wrote in the wake of the tragedy.
Dear God,
Protect me in this time of great spiritual disorder and confusion.
Connect me with my angels, guides, and loved ones so that i a blessed with clarity and confidence to serve my brothers and sisters. Give me answers, so i may help others find solutions. Give me answers, so i may know myself better.
Rid me of my anger, self-deception, shadow, and narcissism---God, i surrender to you.
Let source run through me so that i may bring great healing into the world, and illuminate for me, the connection between every soul that exists.
I humbly ask for love, light, and peace to melt every cancerous feeling of hate, rage, and judgment and connect us all, as one, and i take this moment to remember that with God,
everything is possible.
I expect Miracles
With love, Thomas
Psychics Have Problems Too
A few months ago I found out that a tabloid newspaper in New York City (The Daily News) decided to run a story about me that was, to say the least, less than flattering. The tabloid has since published a second story, which basically repeats the same information, and also discusses a claim that I am involved with a lawsuit with a PR firm.
Up until now, I have never issued a statement about this situation. I always have the thought that negative towards negative, makes more negative, and thought I would just avoid commenting on the articles . However, I have decided that I need to speak the truth so that people understand my perspective, which has been inaccurately reported. I also have learned that if not addressed, untruths, and inaccuracies, once written, can and will be perceived as truth. I do not want my silence to be perceived as weakness or accepting these "stories" as facts. It's been disappointing to me that people have chosen to read that story and gossip about it rather than understand the facts. In fact, the most disappointing thing is probably that other psychics and mediums---often well known ones who I look up to and respect---have taken the story and tried to use it to slander me, rather than research the details of it. I question how this decision is at all "spiritual" in nature.
The Daily News story focused primarily on a mistake that I made in my early twenties regarding a situation in Chicago around 2007/2008. The story was full of inaccuracies and included very questionable sources. It also included made up quotes---things I did not say that were included in the story as if I said them.
Let's get some things straight before I explain what actually happened:
First, the story talked about my drag hobby in Chicago, and how I at times would host events in Chicago as a drag queen. I have always found drag queens to be a lot of fun, and yes, I at one time (and sometimes still do!) dress in drag. In fact, I love drag queens! The story implied that something about this was corrupt or suspect, which I found completely homophobic. I did not dress in drag to hide my identity or become someone else! I love drag queens and will continue to support and love them! I don't see how this is relevant to my work as a psychic medium.
The story also implied that I "dropped" my last name to "avoid" being identified because of my situation in Chicago. That is also completely untrue. First off, I have never officially changed my name, and I still have the last name Flanagan. I go by "Thomas John" for simplicity reasons. John is my middle name. Several other famous psychics utilize alternate versions of their names, too, such as John Edward, Tyler Henry, Char Margolis, and Sylvia Browne. Also, I dropped Flanagan, because my father and I are completely estranged, and I don't want his last name. He currently is in prison for attempting to kill his mother (after being imprisoned for attempting to kill MY mother as well as 48 other accounts of abuse) and I want nothing to do with him. It always bothered me that I have his name, so I don't use it. I am in the process of legally dropping Flanagan.
Next, there is no current or pending lawsuit with ZTPR or Zack Temperman. Unfortunately, when you are in the public eye, your every move is ridiculed and examined. Zack and I had a professional disagreement about an invoice, and it has been resolved. I am a business person, and I am entitled to dispute a bill or invoice, and that is exactly what I did with Zack. We have resolved this, and there is no current or pending lawsuit. Both Zack and I have confirmed this. We are not suing each other.
These stories seemed to imply that I was using a publicist to fabricate my abilities as a psychic, and this is not the case. Every publicist has a job and duty to make their clients look spectacular, and the publicists I have hired, have done a great job.
As a person in the media, I have at time used publicists, and I have always used them with great success. I have no problems paying my bills or paying people for work they do. It is common for people in the public eye to use publicists to help raise their media profile.
The Daily News also calls into my question my legitimacy as a psychic. For example ,it stated that since I obtain payments through Paypal and credit card statements, that I could get the details from my readings through researching people with background checks.
Since this has come up in the past with people who are skeptical, let me address a few things here:
I have been involved in research studies and tested repeatedly, and passed with flying colors. I have been on the radio over 300 times in my life, giving live, spontaneous readings to total strangers, and there is no time to research these people ahead of time. I have read people on shows like Dr. Phil, where I was put through a battery of blinded tests, and never allowed to know anything about people that I was reading.
I have made hundreds of predictions for people's future lives that have come to pass. You can't "Google" the future.
Quite simply, while some things have come up that can be researched or common names can be found online, every reading produces some information that simply can't be researched ahead of time. The work speaks for itself. EVERY reading ALWAYS contains validations that could only be known by people in Spirit.
Because of what I do, there's always skepticism and people needing to reevaluate their beliefs. I respect and treasure that as part of the process of spiritual evolution. I never "force" my beliefs on anyone. However, I do want the facts to be known that as a psychic and medium, my record speaks for itself. If someone chooses not to believe, I totally understand and respect that. But I ask that you judge my body work of with a full set of facts.
Now, back to the mistake that I had made in my early twenties regarding a sublet in Chicago, where I went to college. The story in the New York Daily News is filled with implications and untruths, so I want to explain exactly what did happen.
In my early twenties, after graduating from The University of Chicago (I have a four year degree with a diploma from the University of Chicago, where I studied Psychology and Human Development), I was working in research in areas in Chicago. Around this time, I had a lot of things on my plate—I had recently lost my job, my father was being released from prison, and I was going through a host of personal issues with someone who was stalking me. I wanted to move home to Massachusetts and leave Chicago.
Before I could move home, there were a few obstacles standing in my way. Namely, I had a lease on my apartment that was unbreakable. I had nearly a year left on the lease, and there was no way that I could afford paying the lease off. I decided to find someone to sublet my apartment without my landlord knowing, a terrible choice which came with consequences.
I posted my sublet in the local Craigslist. I quickly found a couple that was interested. I laid out a plan for them to pay me each month in advance so that I could send my check to the landlord. This seemed like the perfect option, however the whole situation backfired.
Within a week of moving the couple that sublet from me decided that they no longer wanted the apartment. They wanted their money back. I had already spent the money to move and pay bills so I was once again in a bad situation. My solution was to find ANOTHER subletter, who wound up writing me a check that bounced. My landlord, and first subletters, called the police. The landlord found out about the second subletters as well so my self-induced nightmare continued. I was charged with "defrauding" tenants with an illegal lease and writing a bad check.
During this time, I had also unfortunately reconnected with my father. My father is a dark and evil man. While I was dealing with this other situation in Chicago, my father also involved me in some other shady business dealings. Because we have the same name (first and last), it was relatively easy for him to do this. Also, as a 22 year old who had no connection with his father since he was 13, I was vulnerable to this relationship. Most of our communication was done by telephone and letters, and this perpetuated the situation even more.
It took me some time, but I did indeed pay everyone back (the first subletters and my landlord). Actually, one of the people that was involved in the case (one of the subletters) is now a close friend!
I wasn't running a Craigslist scam. I made some terrible choices to try to get out of a lease.
Word of my arrest made it back to friends in Chicago and some people turned against me. Those who did tried to sell the story to the tabloids. Fortunately for me 90% of the journalists who had been approached came to me for comment and actually researched that it had been a chain of mistakes, not a crime spree. Unfortunately ONE rag decided NOT to research the details, resulting in a misquoted piece of fiction some have taken as. After this initial story came out, other journalists have researched the truth and realized that my account is accurate. I want to thank those journalists for being true professionals.
At some point, I will write about all of this in a future book, and explain more about the learning that took place as a result of all of this. However, for now, I feel like this is enough to clear the air and explain my side of these attacks on my character and personality.
I make one claim in life, and that is that I speak to dead people, and I can predict the future. And to be honest, I think I'm damn good at both of them. I've had this gift all my life. And people that are gifted, intuitive, psychic can make mistakes, too. We are not God. We are human. People who dressed in drag once can also be mediums. People who had a run in with the law in their 20s can still be spiritual. I drink sometimes, I'm egotistical sometimes, I swear, I've even had casual sex. I'm not a perfect person. The important thing is I think that we grow, learn, and evolve from every mistake we make. I ask to be judged for my body of work today, the person that I am today, and not by a mistake I made almost 10 years ago that has been resolved.
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San Antonio Spurs swingman Michael Finley notified the team Tuesday that he will bypass the opportunity to become a free agent July 1 and play out the final season of his contract with the newly crowned champions.
Finley had until Saturday to forfeit next season's $3.1 million salary and return to the open market, but called his decision a "no-brainer."
"I originally signed for three years, with the last year being an option [year] if I didn't enjoy it here," Finley told ESPN.com. "I like it here."
Although Finley, 34, conceivably could have opted out to seek a longer contract with the Spurs, he still has one guaranteed season left on his Mavericks contract valued at $18.6 million.
The Mavs released Finley in August 2005 with three years and nearly $52 million left on that contract to take advantage of the league's one-time "amnesty" provision. That enabled Dallas, by waiving its former face of their franchise, to save nearly $52 million in luxury-tax payments.
Finley admittedly struggled in his first season to make the short hop to San Antonio, as much with the psychological adjustment involved in moving from the Mavericks to their bitter rivals from South Texas as anything. But he gradually found a niche after choosing the Spurs over Phoenix and Miami and was an undeniable factor in the playoffs, emerging as one of the Spurs' most effective players in a seven-game classic with his old team in 2006's second round in which Dallas finally toppled San Antonio.
"Losing like that brought us closer together," Finley said recently. "It gave me something in common with those other [Spurs veterans]."
This season was much smoother as a result. Finley moved into the starting lineup late in the season -- into the spot vacated when Gregg Popovich asked Manu Ginobili to return to his old sixth-man role -- and eventually embraced repeated pleas from his coach to shoot more often as opposed to trying to fit in.
He finished fourth in playoff scoring for the Spurs at 11.3 points per game, shooting 41.9 percent from 3-point range and nearly 90 percent from the line in 26.9 minutes. The highlight: Finley drained a franchise-playoff-record eight 3-pointers in a first-round victory over Denver that closed the Nuggets out in five games.
"[Finley is] almost too professional of a player," Popovich said earlier this month. "He wants to please his coaches so badly that he's just too hard on himself at times. I think that he's learned with some humor and some discussion that it really is easier to play well if one can let go of a turnover or a missed shot and just go play, because the consequences aren't very huge. We're all going to get up in the morning like everybody else on the planet and conduct real life, so I think that's all helped him."
That reverence helps explain why Popovich, Tim Duncan and Finals MVP Tony Parker made repeated references during the Cleveland series about how badly they wanted to help Finley win his first ring.
"He's even more of a leader than I thought he would be," Popovich said. "He's more vocal than I thought he would be. And he commands even more respect than I thought he would. He's really a remarkable individual."
Marc Stein is the senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. To e-mail him, click here.


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- 4 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
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- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
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If Latinos Said The Stuff White People Say
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Can You Waffle It?
Created this BuzzFeed overhead food video franchise that was featured on Good Morning America, Food Network, and Devour.
"I'm A Guy"
Directed this upcoming documentary about trans relationships, this selection was featured in various outlets including HuffPost.
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This is a teaser for a non-fiction series in development which follows New Yorker writer Susan Orlean as she meets her passionate twitter followers IRL for the first time.
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6. These overly-affectionate owls.
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8. This monkey that loves a bird and doesn't care if you think it's unacceptable.
9. These disgustingly snuggly-wuggly otters.
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20. These elephants that can't help showing how they really feel.
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