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Jerry Sloan and Phil Johnson Resignation Quotey Odds and Ends (Updated)
Truth be told, I'm relieved for these four days off. I have a Jerry and Phil post in my head, but I'm having emotional stability issues and trouble putting it into words. So it's going to be a few days, maybe, before I get that out.
For now, here are some of the best quotes from these past two days (sourced from Utah media only; there's been so much I don't think I'll be looking at national):
Jerry Sloan I've been here 27 years, going on 27 years I believe it is, and that's the longest I been anywhere in my life. … Utah [is] pretty much my first home since I been here so long. I hope to be around a long time, and hopefully a lot of it will be here in Utah. (KZNS)
Jerry Sloan [NEW] I'm about ready to put all my tractors up for sale…I spent a lot of time working on them and messing around with them, and that's kind of worn out. I kinda got tired of that. Too many batteries to replace. Hopefully I can enjoy some of the summers back there, some of the spring and fall work that farmers do. I have some land, that guys that farm my land, I run around with them and act like I'm working. (laughs) (KSL)
Jerry Sloan [NEW] [Are you going to watch games on TV or go to games?] I don't know why I wouldn't. When I got fired in Chicago, I went to their next game because I didn't feel like they cut my arms off or anything like that. I felt like I tried to do the best I could, I got fired, I took my medicine, and went on down the road. I want to see the Jazz succeed. I can't say that enough. (KSL)
Jerry Sloan [What are you going to miss most?] Watching guys, being around guys competing. I had Karl Malone here for a long time. A lot of people work hard, but there's a difference between working hard and competing. Karl Malone competed when he stepped on the floor, whether it was against himself or he's competing against a guy across from him. To me, there's a little bit of difference there. We all want to talk about hard work, but competing is what I always appreciated in a player. (KZNS)
Phil Johnson We have never discussed leaving together. … We'll talk to each other, but we never had a plan for the both of us to leave together, ever, since we've been here. / He said he thought he was leaving and I said, "I'm going with you." Bottom line. That's all that was said. And he looked at me, surprised. He didn't know. And I just said, "I came with you, I'll leave with you." (KSL, KFAN)
Phil Johnson [You by bypassed a few million dollars by not staying.] I can't do something for money. I've got to believe that I can do the very best I can and I feel like this is the time. I've made enough money here. Larry Miller took care of me over the years, and Greg. These guys have taken care of me, so money isn't everything. You have to live with yourself and you have to know that you're capable, and right now I don't think that I could give the Jazz everything they need. I think I could try, but I'm just being honest about it. (KFAN)
Phil Johnson [One of the times he was offered a job by another team], John Stockton called up and told me I wasn't moving and Karl (Malone) called the next day and said I wasn't leaving. Then Larry Miller called me the next day and said two players had called and said I shouldn't go, so I decided not to go. (desnews)
Shawn Bradley I didn't think Jerry Sloan retiring would affect me like it has. I honestly stayed up last night thinking about it…I was playing Junior Jazz as a kid when he just became the coach. This guy's been the guy I dreamed about playing for almost my entire life, and for him to retire now is like, "Wait, there's a shift in the universal paradigm here." (KZNS)
Jeff Van Gundy I think the NBA should really consider, because of all he's meant to the league, about retiring the number 4. The Bulls have already done it…(KALL)
Jeff Van Gundy [If it's true that Jerry was run out by players…] My thinking would be, it would have just as much to do with new ownership as anything else. Larry Miller to me, he always tried to win, he was passionate about his job, and everybody in that organization knew, even if he had at times dust-ups with his coaches, the players knew who was in charge. To me, it would say as much about Larry Miller not being there anymore, as it would say about anything else. (KALL)
Gregg Popovich [NEW] He's always been somebody that I've looked up to from my younger days. Coming home on leave [from the Air Force], getting with the boys and going to the Chatterbox for a Stroh's and fried mushrooms, and watching him on the TV, beating the hell out of people. My memories of Coach Sloan go way back. (Spurs Nation)
NBA referee Kenny Mauer, as told to Rod Zundel [NEW] Jerry Sloan is one of the hardest guys that will go after you with everything he's got because of his passion. However, he is the most fair coach in the NBA that I've ever officiated for. (KSL)
Frank Layden [Is Jerry at peace with his decision?] Very much. I talked to him this morning [the day after the announcement] and he told me he had a full night's sleep. He didn't get up once. He said he slept for eight straight hours and he got up this morning feeling great. (KALL)
Mark Eaton There are a lot of players who wouldn't just sit down with [their coach] and say, this is what's going on for me, how can we resolve this? A lot of times, players just get mad and start doing their own thing or call the agent or whatever they might do, rather than sit down man-to-man and try to talk it out. So I think that's where the difference is, at least from my perspective, whether you got along with [Jerry] or you didn't. It was just your willingness to really look at your own game and consider what he had to say. A lot of guys don't like to do that. (KZNS)
Andrei Kirilenko Coach Sloan was probably the best motivator I ever seen. Him and Phil, those duo, they like husband and wife. They are great addition to each other, always Jerry been very hard-nosed like a train going his direction and Phil was like a very diplomatic, intelligent way…I don't know which two guys can be better than they are in basketball as coaches.
It's very sad to lose them because so many knowledge, so many things about basketball, they taught me everything as a player. I came to the league at 20 years old, young guy, and everything I know right now, it's their achievement. They did it. They make me a basketball player, NBA basketball player, so it's gonna stay in the heart. (KFAN)
CJ Miles Coach Sloan, he's the reason that I'm here. He brought me in here, he stuck with me when I was 180 lbs., kicking balls out of bounds off my feet. He taught me so much. Any player that ever says they agree with everything their coach did, they'd be lying to you, but there was 100 more good times than any bad time I ever had with Coach Sloan, and everything he did to me, was for me. He did it for a reason, and he's the reason I am who I am today as a person and a basketball player. (KFAN)
The Mailman He's one of the few guys in this world I would stop everything [for]. I will see Coach Sloan and give him the biggest hug in the world. But I want to tell you something about that man. He's a very prideful man, and I'm gonna tell you something. I know him, and I know that he's tough as nails but he got an unbelievable heart, and I know it hurt. And people can say whatever they want to, I know Coach Sloan. My coach that I know have never quit on anything. (NBA TV)
Tyrone Corbin [You met with Deron right after being named head coach. What was your message to him?] Deron's a really, really talented guy and he's one of the leaders on this team. We have to have him focused and focused on winning and feeling good about what's going on with the team.
And that was just the message: Look, we're gonna go as you go and we need you to be with us with everything that's going on. I want to communicate with you, I want to make sure you're on the same page and we're on the same page and we can have as much success as we can as a group. I think that he was receptive to it, and I think that he feel relaxed about it, and we'll see where we go from there. (KFAN)
The Trash Can
All the while, Sloan's garbage can stood alone.
The gray-haired one often relied on the relic as a prop and a crutch, conducting shootaround and pregame interviews leaning against the red-and-white receptacle.
Not on "The Day After Sloan."
Corbin employed a tall, roped-in podium backed by a wall of Jazz logos. He acknowledged nerves. He admitted feeling weird.
Sloan was gone.
But the game went on. (sltrib)
You wouldn't know it reading this site in the past few days, but I am not a crier. However, reading the above made me tear up (again), as did seeing the below picture (courtesy of @djjazzyjody). Oh well, it is what it is.
Jalen Rose Then, after the game: Jerry Sloan and Pat Riley, in particular, are famous for this. You can fraternize with the other team, but do it after the game when you guys have on street clothes. [Deron] was visibly fraternizing with Carlos Boozer after the game, smiling. And when he walked to the locker room where the coaches normally stand there to greet each player, the other coaches had left. Tyrone Corbin, their coach tonight, he was there to give Deron Williams a hi-five. (ESPN) (Posted this one because it gave me a good laugh. For what it's worth, I've seen Jazz players hugging and talking to opponents on the court after almost every game, and it's never appeared to be a problem.)
February 14, 2011 10:28 am
I stumbled upon your blog while looking for a good picture of Jerry. I have to say … I love your blog. I have read back a couple of months and have enjoyed your viewpoints. You have a new follower .. thanks again for the insight.
Geoff permalinkFebruary 14, 2011 12:47 pm
Great post. thanks for all the quotes. Man i miss Jerry.
Yucca Man permalinkFebruary 14, 2011 9:29 pm
The stuff from the national media is almost comical in its stupidity. Everyone seems to feel they have to write something, even if they've watched MAYBE 2 Jazz games the entire year—they all have to opine as if they are completely in-the-know.


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Sigurd Larsen has wrapped a cabin around a living tree in a Danish forest to create the first room of a hotel designed for Løvtag.
Perched eight metres above the floor of its forest site 0n the Danish peninsula of Als Odde, the cabin is the first of nine that Sigurd Larsen is designing for Løvtag. The cabins will be clustered in the forest and each house a separate bedroom for up to four guests.
The idyllic location is close to both the sea and Denmark's longest fjord, the Mariager, which winds inland through a diverse landscape.
"The cabins are located on a small hilltop overlooking a meadow which gives a wonderful view over the top of the forest and lets the sunshine in during the afternoon," said the architecture studio.
The cabin is built around an existing tree, which acts as a centre point for a roughly pinwheel plan, with a central square form off of which areas that are angled towards the surrounding views protrude. The following tree-top cabins will all have a similar plan and will also be built around existing trees.
A sweeping wooden bridge leads up from the forest floor into the cabin's living space, which is divided loosely into a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living area. A small wooden staircase leads further upwards to the rooftop terrace.
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In the kitchen, safe & sound.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. (Oscar Wilde)
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I stuck a lot of flavors in here: sweet fennel, red onions, rich feta, bright parsley, and tart lemon. Letting this sit overnight Instead of dressing the whole thing like a pasta salad, I only lightly dressed the fennel and onions to add flavor and acidity, without turning the whole thing into a soggy plate overnight.
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Racial issues are and will continue to dominate our country due to the unwillingness of the dominating populace to see the hypocrisy in its actions. One group gets special treatment, is and was allowed to take from the other for the entire duration of their relationship and NOW H.R. would like for us to stop dividing people. I don't know where he is going with this. I would like to know at what point do we stop dividing people and how do we even the playing field after one group has and continues to benefit so heavily from the divisions they created.
"You have no larger concept of government except that it was created by whites so it must be a plot to perpetuate white privilege … This is a truly ignorant stance. You know what else was created by whites??? Nearly every staple of your life. The computer you're using, the light over your head, the internal combustion engine in the car you drive … Was all of this done to perpetuate white privilege? Please tell me."
The government being created by whites is not the problem. The government being created as a means to advance white people at the expense of all others IS. The only ignorant thing is that people can actually think that a system of government was enacted which encompassed the subjugation and slavery of another race is not inherently set up to perpetuate the ruling race's status.
Thanks for the history lesson on inventions, but how about some of these. Pretty much every staple of YOUR life as well as mine has its roots in Africa. Africans pioneered mathematics, medical practices not rooted in myth or magic, metallurgy, building with brick and mortar, and astronomy. Now you thank an African American for open heart surgery, refrigeration for trucks also trains, gas masks, elevators, air conditioner, refrigerator, Cell phones, fire extinguishers and the computer system you use today with its working bus and peripheral capability. Are these plots by the black race to show that they are productive citizens and worthy of being equal?
"These things were introduced as a matter of progress–as is the ever changing system of government in Western society. Political philosophers have never been preoccupied with race…. read what they have to say. Thomas Paine, who was responsible for inventing the American approach to government, was a destitute undergarment maker who came to America with nothing, never had much, and died with nothing. He was also outraged by slavery and was one of the first Americans to take a resolute stand against it."
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That is such a crock of bull! We have a system that says it is OK to discriminate, let people die as opposed to giving them healthcare, pay for war as opposed to caring for the children, sick and elderly. We are as corrupt as they come and are no better off than any socialist, communist or dictatorship. We are just bamboozled into thinking we are. We are NO more free, happy, healthy or rich. Again we are just bamboozled into thinking we have the best system on earth.
"It's pretty egocentric to assume that the framers of our government spent any time thinking of blacks …. The hard truth is that blacks were thought of as chattel; as property and nothing more. The system wasn't designed to keep blacks down any more than it was designed to keep wagons or beasts of burden down"
H.R. is abso-freakin-lutely right our grand old forefathers NEVER spent one second thinking about the black population. Because they DIDN'T MATTER! The system was designed to keep whites UP not blacks down, since they were already there. They had NO inclination that slavery would EVER end. So it wasn't a matter of writing anything that had to take them into account. So, now how exactly was this government set up to give blacks the same rights as whites again?
"So let's be perfectly frank here, and tell me where I've got it wrong:
Blacks came literally out of the stone age into an intensely mechanized and complex civilization. They had not developed the wheel or a written language, and this was at the time that Newton was inventing modern physics, and even later, at the time that Edison was inventing the electric light, moving pictures, recorded sound for christ's sake …. This was what, 2000 years (?) after practically every other racial group had conquered the seas, built ingenious sailing vessels and could navigate their ways around the world … "
Is he joking! Blacks in Africa had the first Universities, even Plato had to go to Africa for a University education. We had the first medicine not rooted in magic. They were doing surgery with tools that those of today mimic. We had societies with government and rule of law. Africa had construction techniques such as brick and mortar, Metallurgy, irrigation, aqueducts and plumbing. We had civilizations so complex money was not even necessary not to mention thank them for the mathematics and writing utensils used today such as paper and pencils. There are tons of things coming from Africa yet I am sure that since he is coming from a white propaganda background he has yet to do any research in this area. He is not necessarily racist for this thinking just ignorant.
"Please tell me, am I being a racist for pointing this out?
The point is, it's totally intellectually irresponsible to say that blacks had it hard simply because whites have plotted to keep them down. You say the white race "did this to them" which is laughable …. First off, black chiefs were well involved in rounding up and selling other blacks. Secondly and most importantly, for whatever reason–and I'm not making any guesses, just dealing in the facts–black Africans had simply not advanced while most of the rest of the world was going forward at breakneck speed."
It is irresponsible to say that blacks had it hard simply because whites have plotted to keep them down which is laughable. Of course blacks had it hard because whites were plotting to keep them down. If they didn't plot against blacks then how does H.R. explain the KKK, Jim Crow, Slavery and all the persistent discrimination and racism that has continued even today? I totally agree that blacks were involved in the slave trade. Jews were involved in the holocaust, America trained Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to fight the Russians, so NOW WHAT? Are the Jews responsible for the holocaust, is America to blame for 9/11 and is this assertion supposed to make slavery OK now.
Black Africans were ruling Northern and Southern Africa which were going at breakneck speed living in civilized communities, writing history, building structures, cultivating crops and domesticating animals all the while the only thing stirring in Europe were drawing stick animals on cave walls. Does that sum up what I think of his guess?
H.R. definitely needs to take a course on African studies before you begin your little guessing game. It is pretty ignorant to make assumptions that blacks i.e. Africans are so pitiful and backwards. Yes the African continent has been trashed and usurped by many violent outside forces like the French, Dutch and British. If anything the problem Africa had is that it wasn't VIOLENT enough to get rid of these people before they did so much damage. Now they are a group of fledgling nations trying to start again with all that they were wiped away by years of subjugate outside rule. Yes they have problems but, these nations are mere babies and will need to figure out what they are doing again.
"Just being perfectly realistic, do you think Westerners could confront men of any color who did not have the wheel, a written language, clothes, etc., who could only make simple stone tools–and say "these men are my equals?"
"Answer that for me."
The answer to this is that H.R. definitely needs to take a few African history classes. The wheel was invented in Africa. He is so pompous about the white race or the western culture he belongs to that he actually think that everything was made by the western world. While the western world was making stone tools Africans were making tools and medical equipment from metal. Also they made scalpels and other cutting devices out of obsidian which western doctors are reverting back to. They were making replicas, jewelry and tools out of gold and mining diamonds and other stones.
And if clothes are the key to being civilized; then maybe the horrible monsters that enslaved a nation of people were just wearing the wrong things. So I am sure that with all the advances that the civilized African man had over the westerners did not cause them to see them as less than equals. But then again, the Africans didn't attack nor try to enslave the Europeans when they met them, I am sure they were treated well just like the natives treated them when they landed in America.
Yet I am sure that none of that made any difference to H.R. as he is too far gone down the road of racist propaganda that he obviously has no interest in what really went on in Africa before the meddling of others. Africans were not these pathetic no bodies that he would like to paint them out to be. Racists usually can't get their heads around the fact that all life originated in Africa and that the first civilized societies, with a lot of the modern day inventions that one likes to attribute to the western world.
"On the whole, you need to recognize historical realities, and recognize that there's a larger pattern of events. You're a pretty severe racist because you've been duped into believing that everyone hates you because you're black, and that everything's a plot against you, and that history proves this. History actually proves nothing of the sort–only that your racial group was at an extraordinary disadvantage and suffered for it."
The thing that I and hopefully the other readers will recognize is that H.R. demonstrates the basic thinking of a racist who denies being one. He constantly alludes to the fact that Africans and their American counterparts are looked at as less than whites for all types of propaganda laden reasons. When H.R. says I've been duped I wonder if he means duped by me looking at the slavery, the systematic racism, the discrimination, the killings by lynching, police abuse, deaths, hypocritical justice system, wage discrepancies and the blatant disregard of ALL things that blacks or Africans have ever done, discovered or ever accomplished. Then yes by all means I have been duped.
"I'm sure when you come to terms with this and can separate petty emotions from your contemplation of government, you'll arrive at some sensible conclusions."
"Thanks for the discussion. I'll look forward to your response."
It is easy to see that the ONLY conclusion that I could come to that would make any sense to H.R. would be to whatever he would and become a sheeple just like him and those like him. Unfortunately I can't and won't buy into H.R.'s propaganda and nonsensical thoughts on things. Yet I will let all of you the readers come to your own conclusion on this guy.


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Producers in every segment find benefits from beef quality assurance
"I'm not a philanthropist," is how Dee Griffin, DVM, remembers Ladd Hitch describing why he wanted his cattle feeding customers to apply the principles of beef quality assurance (BQA). "Mr. Hitch (the late patriarch of Hitch Enterprises, Guymon, Okla.) told his employees to encourage their cow-calf suppliers to adopt quality assurance practices because it made money for both of them."
Griffin, formerly the staff veterinarian for Hitch Enterprises and now the feedlot production management veterinarian and professor at the University of Nebraska's Great Plains Veterinary Education Center, says the cattle industry's BQA program has proven a huge success at every industry level, but the education process is ongoing.
BQA is a national program that provides guidelines for beef cattle production and raises consumer confidence through offering proper management techniques and a commitment to quality within every segment of the beef industry.
Involved with BQA education since its inception, Griffin says the early emphasis was at feedlots. "When we started BQA, it was to address antibiotic residues. In 1982, USDA identified antibiotic residues in 1.8% of carcasses. Today, that rate is zero."
But BQA involves much more than residue avoidance, and the results of implementing quality assurance can provide benefits and profits for cow-calf and stocker operators, too.
"Mr. Hitch was correct when he said, 'If (cow-calf) producers don't make the little mistakes that make cattle sick, then they are going to gain all the growth that an animal is genetically capable of producing, and that in turn produces improved feedlot efficiency and decreased cost of production.'" Hitch had a vested interest in improving quality and animal health because his company owned 1,200 cows, as many as 20,000 stockers and two feedyards with a capacity of 111,000 head.
"BQA does not require a 200-page education manual," Griffin says. "We can write the key components to BQA on a 3x5 index card that you can stick in your pocket."
"Nothing is more defensible than showing our detractors we're BQA certified," says Dan Thomson, DVM, director of the Beef Cattle Institute.
From the ground up. While industry leaders focused on feedlots two decades ago, the current emphasis is on educating cow-calf producers to the benefits of BQA. Funding for BQA education programs comes from the beef checkoff, and both state beef councils and state extension personnel are part of producer education.
Kansas State University's Beef Cattle Institute (BCI) has taken producer awareness and BQA training to a higher level. The BCI annually conducts training sessions at numerous locations around the state. This year, more than 900 Kansas producers completed BQA training at local auction markets.
"Considering the many pressures today's beef industry faces—from anti-meat groups, animal welfare activists, food safety and environmental groups—BQA is how we show that producers care about all of those issues," says Dan Thomson, BCI director. "Nothing is more defensible than showing our detractors we're BQA certified."
Industry leaders agree that the emphasis on BQA is critically important, and Thomson has built a model program that Griffin calls "the league leader." Founded in 2007, BCI's goal is to provide beef producers with the most current education, research and outreach available.
"We work with local auction markets to use their facilities and to help promote the training sessions," Thomson says. "Our first year, we had about 300 complete the training, last year about 600 and this year more than 900."
In the coming months, BCI will also launch an online training course for producers, courtesy of a grant from Boehringer Ingelheim.
Training sessions are led by Thomson; Dave Rethorst, DVM and BCI's director of outreach; or Chris Reinhardt, BCI's feedlot specialist. The evening training includes BQA education for cow-calf, stocker and feedyard operators, animal husbandry practices, humane euthanasia training and low-stress cattle-handling techniques.
"The fact that cattle are constantly changing their address makes it vital that those involved in our industry understand and utilize the principles of BQA," Thomson says.
Research on cattle transportation activity a few years ago noted that "about 400,000 cattle have wheels under them" at any given time. That number includes cattle on their way to pasture, auction markets, feedyards or ultimately to the packing plant.
"We don't want to see an industry incident that makes the 6 p.m. news," Thomson says. "But BQA is about much more than proper animal care and welfare. Not everything has a tangible economic benefit, but BQA is also about preparing cattle for the next stage in their life and the next owner. When we do that, everybody wins and the consumer is happy."
Start at the ranch. Griffin underscores the win-win benefits of quality assurance practices.
"I firmly believe that the health of a calf begins with how the mother is cared for," Griffin explains. "If the mother is healthy and cares for her calf in the first months after the calf is born, the chances of that calf getting sick are minimal."
Nearly 2,000 Kansas beef producers have completed BQA training over the past three years conducted by the Beef Cattle Institute in partnership with local auction markets and the Kansas Beef Council.
Beyond a healthy momma cow, Griffin and Thomson emphasize the importance of calf weaning and health programs before calves are shipped down the road.
"BQA provides guidelines for animal handling, castration, dehorning and other management practices that add value to calves," Thomson says. "But vaccination of calves at the time those procedures are administered are just as important to the health of calves to the next owner. And auction market price surveys show that buyers are consistently paying a premium for calves that have been preconditioned."
Those preconditioned calves also improve the industry's overall BQA score, Griffin says.
"Calves that have been weaned and preconditioned are much less likely to get sick in the feedyard. If we don't have to treat them for illness, we'll use fewer drugs, which is what consumers tell us they want. And research has shown that feedyard illness reduces overall carcass quality," Griffin says.
In the big picture, Thomson says BQA should be a daily mindset for beef producers.
"Our industry must continue to work toward a high standard of animal care and welfare and managing the health products we administer to cattle," Thompson says. "Producers must recognize that misuse of those products may cost us our ability to utilize such technology."
Want more BQA info?
America's cattle industry has invested significantly in beef quality assurance (BQA) information and training products. Here's a list of websites that provide additional BQA information.
Kansas State University's Beef Cattle Institute provides educational tools and outreach opportunities through online resources and annual meetings addressing current topics to engage and support a welfare-centered, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible beef industry.
Funded with checkoff dollars, this site provides links to order training materials. The site also provides a BQA resource map developed to aid cattlemen in exploring and gathering information about Beef Quality Assurance Programs all over the U.S. While most states have BQA programs, many do not have Internet sites that link to their BQA materials. Those that are available can be accessed through this map.
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Sunless tanning is a way of life. From the maintenance, like regular exfoliation, and of course, proper application. No sugar coating here, a lot can go wrong in the self tanning process. Everything from streaking and patchy spots to orange skin and burnt looking hands. It's all of these factors that lead me to take great pride in my faux tan. In fact, most everyone mistakes it for the real thing. But I've got no interest in exposing my skin to actual sun – at least not without my SPF 30! Here's my tips, tricks and product recommendations for achieving that perfect faux glow.
Best in Skin: Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Glow Pads. I cannot say enough good things about these. I pretty much use these exclusively to tan my face. The color I get is natural looking and healthy, and it's fragrance free. I love that it's not only a sunless tanner, but skin care. It has anti-aging properties and encourages that much needed cell turnover. Oh, and it contains active Vitamin D. $32 for a box of 20 at Sephora.
Best in Longevity: TanTowel. I actually am not the hugest self-tanning towelette fan, believe it or not. I find that this is where streaking and blotching is most likely to occur. But I do like TanTowel, a lot. I get amazing colorwith these, and it seems to lasts longer than any other iteration of this style of product. I'd say I can get about 4-5 days out of this until it really starts to fade. And even then, I get a few more days of semi-tanned skin. The key here is apply in circular motions repeatedly to ensure you're not missing a spot, and to open a new towel if it starts to dry out. I use about two TanTowels at a time, at night only. The citrus smell is lovely at application, but the self tanning smell does appear once the color develops. $27 for 10 applications, Ulta.
Best in Budget: Jergens Natural Glow Express. This gets our vote for best drugstore self-tanner. It transforms your skin shades darker in just three days (I was satisfied after just two!), and there's two different versions based on skin tone, so no worries if you're on the fair side. When I first used this earlier this spring, I was winter white and it worked magic. $8 at the drugstore.
Best in Natural: Josie Maran Argan Self Tanning Cream. Not only is this the first self-tanner to contain 100% organic Argan Oil, the natural formula is infused with caffeine molecules to wake up cells and tone the skin's surface. It can be used head to toe, and is scent-free! The secret is DHA derived from sugar beets and sugar cane that work together with your skin's proteins to create a natural-looking tan. $32 for 4oz., Josie Maran.
Best in Maintenance: St. Tropez Everyday Gradual Tan for Body. St. Tropez gets the gold star for its self-tanning products — it's what they're known for. I especially love the Everyday Gradual Tan lotion for maintenance. I use it as a body lotion post-shower (no tanning smell, at all – promise!) and it deepens and maintains the tan I've already built daily. I use the Light/Medium. $30 for 6.7 oz., Sephora.
Best in Temporary: MAC Skinsheen Leg Spray. There are times where a temporary tan is needed. When you're wearing a skirt, shorts or just out for the night. I love MAC's formula – it's a hybrid mousse gel that looks so good on the gams. This offers a subtle sheen and evens everything out very nice. It can also be used on other areas on the body if needed. Once it dries, it stays until you wash it off. Your white clothing is safe. $26.50, MAC.
Any self-tanning tips and tricks to share? Or…any horror stories? We're all friends here – dish!


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Thought it was stupid and awful that Namco Bandai was releasing Ridge Racer with only three tracks? Wait until you hear what the DLC is.
There's free weekly DLC planned—but it's music from previously released Ridge Racer games.
According to Japanese game magazine Famitsu, in February 2012, Namco will release a "Ridge Racer Pass", which is a collection of all the DLC released between February and May. It will cost ¥1,600 (US$21) but those who purchase it by Feb. 29, can get it for ¥1,000 ($13).
The breakdown of DLC is ¥250 ($3.20) for one car and ¥400 ($5.10) for one track. More cars will become available in March, April, and May as well as more free music packs. As previously mentioned, Ridge Racer owners can buy them as a bundle or individually.
If you want a Ridge Racer music melody or a new song, that will cost you: ¥100 ($1.29) each, actually.
Oh, did I mention that the game runs at 30 frames per second? The game runs at 30 frames per second.
On the scale of 1 to 10, with ten being the most desirable, my interest in owning this game is negative 50.
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If there's one thing kids are into these days, it's bullying each other. It would be nice if they would stop, but they won't listen to parents or teachers. It's scientifically proven that the only people kids will listen to are NFL players, preferably at a special schoolwide assembly. So when public school districts in Maryland and Virginia were approached with a proposal—to have Ravens and Redskins players come speak against bullying—they jumped at the chance, to the tune of thousands of dollars. The one-man "consulting firm" Odyssey Group took the money, never bothered to line up any players, and ran.
The Anne Arundel County School District was approached by one Joseph Gill, who promised CB Lardarius Webb or another unspecified Ravens player. (The Ravens tell us neither they nor Webb were aware of any such agreement.) In all, 17 schools in the district paid Gill more than $14,000 for appearances, but were informed just a few days before the scheduled assemblies that no players were coming. (That letter can be found below.) The schools were given an option: refunds, which have not materialized, or an appearance from former NFLer Levar Fisher.
At the same time, Gill was selling schools in Eastern Virginia appearances from Fisher, while Fisher says he never knew a thing about it.
"I just feel terrible that this guy is using my name, other players and speakers names, because all you have is your reputation and integrity," said Fisher. "Right now I don't even know what is going on or where the schools are, or what part of their country they're in."
Fisher is now a motivational speaker who once retained Gill as his promoter, and says Gill owes him more than $30,000. He's been running this scam since at least 2007, when he was promising schools in Western Pennsylvania former Steelers, then disappearing.
Gill is the prototypical small-time crook who wants to be big-time. He's been in and out of jail for the past 10 years on charges like money laundering, child support and bounced checks. His son, who says he has no relationship with his father, claims the elder Gill stole from him and other business associates. Eye On Annapolis reports that Gill had judgements placed against him from a payday loan business for $780. Odyssey Group appears to have lost its license to do business long ago.
We reached out to Gill, who referred us to his attorney. Phone calls have not been returned, but we will update if we hear back.
Update: Not in Good Character: 17 County Schools Owed $14,100 for No Show Ravens Appearance [Severna Park Patch]
Former NFL pro says area schools were scammed [Northumberland Echo]


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