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MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 19, 2014 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that the company's venture arm, SanDisk Ventures, has invested in Altair Semiconductor, the leading developer of high-performance, single-mode LTE chipsets. Altair's high-performance products bring 4G LTE Internet connectivity to tablets, netbooks, USB dongles, portable hotspots, fixed routers and modems, machine-to-machine applications and other devices.
SanDisk's investments through SanDisk Ventures enable the company to expand the possibilities of storage by advancing technologies and trends that are shaping the way that data is captured, stored, shared and managed.
"The combination of flash storage and LTE chipset technology offers the potential to deliver untethered Internet and device-to-device connectivity to a wide range of consumer electronics, and ultimately brings us closer to making the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) pervasive," said Sumit Sadana, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, SanDisk. "Our strategic investment and collaboration with Altair will enable SanDisk to optimize our flash storage solutions for this important ecosystem and further strengthen our potential for growth in this highly dynamic market segment."
Qualified for use by leading wireless carriers globally, Altair's low-power and cost-efficient LTE chipset solutions enable a broad range of consumer and IoT devices to connect to each other as well as to the cloud. This significantly expands the potential of connected consumer and computing applications. Over 30 connected device manufacturers use Altair chips to power millions of end-user devices deployed commercially on 4G LTE networks around the world.
"SanDisk has made a name for itself both as a flash storage leader and an innovator, and we are pleased to welcome the company's investment in Altair," said Oded Melamed, co-founder and chief executive officer of Altair Semiconductor. "SanDisk's deep technical expertise and strong mobile and connected solution ecosystem relationships will be incredibly valuable as we continue expand our LTE market leadership."
Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
SanDisk Ventures is an initiative to invest $75 million over a three-year period in companies with promising technologies that extend the value proposition of flash-based solutions. By collaborating with SanDisk, these companies gain access to a broad product portfolio from a recognized leader in flash storage, world-class technical expertise, customer introductions and an expanded channel for their products and services.
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I've come across the notion of Monodromy transformations while reading some aspects of variations of Hodge structures in context of Classical Mirror symmetry. I am having difficulty in grasping the concept of Monodromy transformations, probably due to lack of any good reference. My question is :
How to think of monodromy transformations, what are these intuitively and what are some examples of monodromy.
Please suggest any good references for Variations of Hodge structures and monodromy.

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The show: "Fela!"
The place: Shubert Theater in New Haven.
Thoughts on leaving the parking lot?: I was going to write a standard blog-style review of "Fela" which I saw Friday night but since the run was so short -- it ended today -- I decided to instead expand on a few thoughts I had after the show, which was not so much per se about the musical -- which was vibrant, soul-stirring and -- in the second act -- in need of a book writer with sharper know-how.
No, I was struck by the back-to-back shows I saw in Connecticut this week and their choreographer-directors.
On Thursday at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at UConn in Storrs I caught the one-night stand of the touring dance-theater piece "Angel Reapers," created by Martha Clarke and writer Alfred Uhry (in a venue that was far too large for the piece that felt too short). "Fela!" was choreographed and directed (and co-conceived with producer Stephen Hendel) by Bill T. Jones in a lovely setting. The piece felt longer than it should given it dynamic first act. The second act -- especially the endless spiritual-journey segment -- needed sharper shaping. Still, both works were quite wonderful in their own special and non-conformist ways and the backgrounds of their creators tells us why.
Both Clarke and Jones started their careers in the modern dance world; Clarke with Pilobolus and Crowsnest and then later working with other companies, eventually creating fro the '80s on her own unique creations that merge dance, theater, music and visual arts. Jones, of course, had and still has his Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company and only relatively recently moved to the musical theater world on Broadway with "Spring Awakening" (earning him a Tony Award) and then "Fela!" (earning him another).
In Broadway musical's golden age choreographers, such as Agnes de Mille and Oona White, made dance a vital part of shows. They were followed by the emergence of the choreographer-director and its quartet of superheroes: Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett and Tommy Tune. But death of three of them and a professional retreat by the other stopped the flow of great new works. AIDS in the '80s and '90s also wiped out a generation of artists who would no doubt have emerged and done great work.
While there are still many talented director-choreographers (Susan Stroman leading the pack by far), there is not much depth of field -- at least in terms of pushing the art form in new and exciting directions.
That is why Jones' contributions to the musical stage so far is exciting. He is one of the most innovative artists there is working in theater (and dance, too; his own company keeps a full schedule creating dynamic work there). Perhaps it is because he came from a different artistic world that he didn't feel bound by the old template about how to stage a musical.
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Though Clarke staged a musical "Hans Christian Anderson" at ACT in San Francisco in 2000, Clarke hasn't had her full musical shot yet. (Opera gigs are more plentiful.) Judging from her striking images, movement and heart in "Angel Reapers" -- I can't wait to see what she may do with a new -- or classic -- musical theater piece.
Coming from another arts discipline gives these new choreographer-directors a fresh perspective and their maverick spirit (the dance world ain't a bed of roses either) and history of being outsiders, places them a perfect position to shake up the system and push it in new directions.
But while you don't have to do a musical by the book but you sure as hell have to have a book, i.e. script that provides a solid basis in the story telling. It doesn't have to be literal -- or even linear -- but the tale must be clearly laid out-yet rich, the characters must be sharply drawn yet nuanced and the words must be carefully chosen as it take an audience on a journey to whatever exciting new place these theatrical wizards invent.
Did you see "Fela!" or "Angel Reapers: What did you think? Share your thoughts -- or a review -- on Frank's blog at www.courant.com/curtain. Catch Frank talking about theater every Friday at FOX/CT's Morning show during the 9 a.m. hour. And be the first to know by following Frank on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/ShowRiz


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Class of 2016 Public Interest/Government Employment stats
These percentages are based on the number of full-time (long-term) PI-employed graduates divided by the total graduates. The total number of PI-employed graduates are in parenthesis. For these purposes, "PI" includes what the ABA required disclosure defines as "Public Interest" and "Government." Thus, if a school has 3 Public Interest and 5 Government grads, then PI-employed grads would equal 8.
Duke: 6.7% (15)
Class of 2015 Public Interest/Government Employment stats
UC Berkeley: 19.8% (55)
Georgetown: 19.6% (133)
Harvard: 13.6% (80)
Yale: 13.5% (27)
UMich: 12.7% (45)
Columbia: 11.6% (48)
Cornell: 11% (21)
Stanford: 9.2% (18)
Penn: 8.5% (21)
Chicago: 6.1% (12)
Duke: 5.3% (11)
Trends over the last 3 years:
Trends over the last 6 years:
Skadden Fellows since 2010:
To see what organizations fellows were placed in, search the Skadden Fellows directory.
Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellows since 2009:
To see what organizations fellows were placed in, search the EJW Fellows directory.
For judging a school's PI culture, I'd look more at the total number of graduates from each school rather than the percentage alone, because PI is self-selecting whereas biglaw is the default (at the top schools). For instance, Michigan has a higher percentage than CLS, but total number wise they're roughly the same.
There are also some nuances to these numbers. For instance, the majority of students at Michigan, UVA, and Cornell go to government, whereas the majority of Harvard, CLS, and NYU go to PI.
For purposes of this data I combined them because government and PI people are both self-selecting and have similar motivations.
LRAP Program Overview
All top law schools have a Loan Repayment Assistance Program, which are programs that assist students who choose to enter public interest or government employment with repaying their law school debt. Usually, this assistance takes the form of a forgivable loan that disperses in annual checks/deposits that equal your annual repayment burden on your law school debt. For instance, if you owe 100k at graduation, then you would pay ~10k a year under a 10 year repayment plan. The annual check/deposit from your LRAP program would equal ~10k. But some schools have better LRAP terms than others.
Each program various with regard to: (1) how much your adjusted gross income affects your LRAP benefits; (2) how long you have to work until you can leave the LRAP program without owing your law school repayment for the LRAP benefits; (3) whether your spouse's income counts for purposes of calculating your LRAP benefits; (4) whether your benefits change if you combine the LRAP with the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program; and many more. This section will attempt to provide the barebones of each schools' LRAP.
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Below are anonymous testimonials from PI students and alums at the T14 schools.
Columbia Law School
I think Columbia is a great choice for students interested in public interest or government practice. The school has a separate office dedicated solely to PI students called Social Justice Initiatives (SJI). SJI does everything that a typical career service office does (advising, resume/cover letter help, etc.) but they also have relationships with the vast network of CLS alums working in public interest and government. This network can help get students internships/externships, as well as post-graduate jobs. SJI also helps support students financially to attend PI law conferences and helps support the numerous PI-focused student organizations hosts events. CLS is known as a "corporate" school, but it's PI community is vast and impressive.
CLS has tons of opportunities for out-of-classroom learning experiences. Up to 30 credit hours at CLS can be non-graded credits, which means that you can take up to 30 hours of clinics, externships, and fieldwork (more than any other law school). In addition, CLS offers a full-time, semester-long externship in the federal government in Washington, DC, and it also offers human rights semesters abroad. SPIN (Student Public Interest Network) is the main PI student organization where PI students of all goals can socialize and meet fellow students.
The post-grad employment in PI and government is fantastic. There are students who obtain ultra-competitive positions at nonprofits, Skadden/EJW fellowships, DOJ Honors, district attorneys offices, public defender offices, and honors fellowships at federal agencies. The school also offers inhouse fellowships for PI students to pursue their project-based or issue-based advocacy goals with organizations across the country doing impact litigation, direct services, and public interest advocacy.
NYU Law
NYU is a great place for people interested in public interest. The school has a separate career services office for public interest students (the Public Interest Legal Careers center, or PILC), and it's a huge part of what sold me on the school. I watched some really naïve kid walk in there with some vague interest in international human rights, and leave with three possible realistic career paths and a list of possible internships that would be good stepping stones. While I was there, my PILC counselor was really with me every step of the way and it was a huge support – she helped me with my resume and cover letter, helped me pick places to apply, held mock interviews for me, and put me in touch with NYU alums who had the jobs I was interviewing for.
One of the truly great advantages of NYU is the crazy good professors. Burt Neuborne, who directed the ACLU under Reagan, teaches the First Amendment as well as Civ Pro and Evidence with a great social justice slant. Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative and argued cutting edge death penalty cases before the Supreme Court teaches Racial Justice, a death penalty clinic, and an Eighth Amendment class. Wilma Liebman, who chaired the NLRB under Obama, taught my labor law class. Sally Katzen, the Administrator of OIRA who was responsible for reviewing all the regulations in the Clinton administration, teaches administrative law. Really, these people are legends, and it's amazing to get to learn from them.
The clinics are also really special. You can work at the ACLU, represent death row inmates in Alabama, work for a nonprofit like Make the Road New York, participate in ongoing litigation on behalf of employment discrimination plaintiffs, etc., under the close supervision of practitioners. It's a great opportunity for substantive experience - someone in my clinic even got to take the deposition of an expert in a First Amendment case (while most of my friends in big law have yet to even defend a deposition, let alone take one).
Finally, the community is the best. Going to school with so many passionate people committed to public interest helped me keep going, and provided a source of support and comfort when things got difficult.
I feel really lucky to have had the opportunities I had at NYU, and I'm so glad I decided to attend.
UC Berkeley (Boalt) Law
I chose the school partly because of its location to reputable public defender offices, and partly because of its reputation. What I know now after going through the process of internships / job applications and working in real world for a few years is that school matters less than the work you do when you're in law school.
Berkeley's career services are adequate. I say adequate because there is not much more Berkeley, or most other law schools, can do for you at the end of the day. You're not going to get some kind of incestuous hookup between Berkeley career services people and the prestigious public interest offices. That's not how this works. Career services is not going to find you a job. Do they know some good offices to intern for? Yes. Do they know some of the people at those offices? Yes. Can they help strategize where to apply and intern? Of course. And I would hope that rings true for just about every law school. At the end of the day, public interest success is what you make of it. It takes hard work and more than a little luck to get the job(s) you like out of it. Intern, intern, intern. This matters more than anything else you can do. Prove yourself by demonstrating that you are for real about the type of work you want to be doing.
The big name prestige certainly counts for something when it comes to applying nation-wide. However, I don't know that public interest offices think there's something special about Berkeley over other T-14 schools. I do believe I had a great advantage over many other applicants in my Midwestern state because of the value of having Berkeley on the resume. Still -- students from lower-ranked schools who interned in the locations they wanted to work have high degrees of success. If I had gone to my state's flagship school and interned in public defender offices there, I probably could have landed the same job I have, without any of the debt.
The debt is real. Think very hard about it. I honestly do not know if it's worth taking on in this current political climate. Boalt's LRAP program is solid. I've experienced pains in dealing with it -- they're a well-meaning but small-staffed office. You need to plan ahead when dealing with them. On the whole, it helps a lot in ways that my colleagues who didn't come from T-14 schools cannot enjoy. But think critically about whether you want or even need to put yourself through all this debt.
And God, PSLF... I have nightmares about what will happen now that Trump is in office. If you're between a full ride at a T-20 in the state you want to practice public interest law in, and a small or no-scholly at Boalt, then take the full ride. The extra pinch you get from having the T-14 name at the top of the resume is not worth it when you can get the field of public interest law you want from other schools.
"But isn't the 20% rate of students at Cal who go into public interest worth something?" Well, maybe. I mean, it's neat to go to school with so many similarly minded people who also like public interest law. But it's less notable than you might think. Most law schools are liberal. Most T-14 schools are also liberal. You're going to be meeting the same students with the same general student culture at almost all of them. Yes, there are the more conservative standout schools. UVA, though, also has a strong public interest reputation. This is a relative issue and should not be driving your decision on where to go to school unless you're keen on joining some very specific student groups that don't exist elsewhere.
Northwestern University School of Law
I have incredibly mixed thoughts on going to Northwestern as someone who wanted to do public interest. Yes, I was in the minority. Yes, the school lacked structure for PI students. But at the same, time, Northwestern was perfect for me and my goals, and it absolutely got me where I wanted to be.
I think part of being successful at getting the PI job you want at Northwestern is being self-sufficient. The school isn't going to baby you and set things up for you the way that they do for students who want firm jobs. But Northwestern also has a lot of things that make for great resume-building for people who want PI jobs. I did two different clinics that were relevant to the work I wanted to do after law school, and I got to do a lot of real, substantive work--on both litigation and policy. Northwestern also has a few journals that are relevant to PI work, and on the smaller journals it's fairly easy to get published. Plus, being in Chicago gives great opportunities for internships both during the summer and during the school year. This is all great for resume-building and ultimately getting a job after graduation.
My friends and I who wanted PI jobs pretty much all got what we wanted, but it wasn't exactly an easy road. That said, I think I absolutely went to the right law school and I now basically have my dream job.
Georgetown Law
Georgetown Law is a fantastic place for anyone interested in public interest law, and it's easy to see why Georgetown has more students who go into public interest and government service than any other law school. Career services has a separate office (OPICS) devoted solely to public interest students that is staffed with six full-time employees. The student public interest community is also large. Do you want to be a public defender? There are over 100 1/2/3Ls that want that, too. Prosecutor? Same. Government? Same. Legal services? Same. There's also a more public interest oriented first year curriculum (Section 3) that really helps manage the detachment from reality that is the hallmark of 1L life. For those worried about the temptation of abandoning the public interest dream for the security of a huge private sector paycheck, the presence and support of other public interest students can be helpful. There's also a Public Interest Fellows (PIF) program that provides programming activities during the semesters.
For me, the most important reason I've loved Georgetown so much is that I've had ample opportunities to gain the kind of practical experience that has made me very competitive for jobs. Georgetown is an amazing location for internships, especially because it has the best reputation in D.C. I've worked for top-level agency heads, a Senator, and an enforcement arm of an agency. Building that experience and professional network has been crucial for interviewing and to keep abreast of opportunities as political winds continue to change. Georgetown also has one of the best clinical education programs in the entire country. Want to work on civil rights, environment, asylum, public defense, litigation? There's a clinic for that. The experience I've gained in these positions has made law school, and Georgetown, worth it. That said, it's been very helpful to come into law school knowing exactly what I wanted to do. For those that don't want to work in government and find the public interest environment difficult (e.g. the budget at your dream organization gets cut.) Georgetown has its own fellowship programs that helps students get experience partnering with D.C. organizations.
Georgetown's LRAP is great. Assuming you're making less than 75k, you're not paying a dime in loans. Getting rid of PSLF may change that calculus for folks, however, so I still suggest you bargain hard for tuition discounts (wherever you go). Georgetown also has the Public Interest Law Scholars (PILS) program, which automatically lets you take 1/3 off tuition and can be combined with merit/need aid. It's one of the few ways you can go to school without paying tuition at a T14.


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Iranians poured into polling stations in a key presidential election on Friday, transforming the electricity of a tumultuous campaign and street demonstrations into a near-record turnout.
This election, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main opponent surged in the final days, is being seen as a referendum on how the government is handling its faltering economy and aggressive foreign policy. Iran's decision to oust Mr. Ahmadinejad – or not – will shape the Islamic Republic's response to US President Obama's recent overtures and key issues such as Iran's nuclear program.
"This is very important for us, because we want to choose our own candidate – so we can choose our own destiny," said Babak, an electrician in south Tehran, as he made his way to his local mosque to vote. "This is the first time that the campaign was marvelous. It was infinity!"
Top challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi, he said, "will win 100 percent."
But just to be sure, many Mousavi supporters carried their own pens to the polls, after rumors circulated by text message that operatives of hard-line Ahmadinejad had imported 2 million pens with disappearing ink – so that votes for his opponents would be invalid.
A flicker of a counterrumor held that it was in fact the opposition camp – whose champion, Mr. Mousavi, has drawn the most support on the streets, and whose green-clad supporters predict victory over the incumbent – that had sneaked in such pens.
But those and many other rumors of vote-rigging did not deter the majority of Iran's 46.2 million eligible voters from lining up from early morning at some 45,000 polling stations, causing the polls' closing times to be extended twice. Officials said they expected "unprecedented" turnout could top 70 percent, close to the 80 percent achieved by reformist Mohamad Khatami in his landslide 1997 victory.
Opponents of Ahmadinejad have long argued that high turnout would put the embattled president at a disadvantage. But the regime has also sought since the 1979 Islamic revolution to demonstrate its legitimacy with high turnout.
Washington was keeping a close eye on the result.
"We think there's the possibility of change," Mr. Obama told reporters at the White House on Friday, acknowledging that it was up to Iranians to choose a leader. "Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help advance our ability to engage them in new ways."
Pro-Ahmadinejad basiji militants attack Mousavi headquarters
Excitement was palpable, in one polling booth after another. State television showed couples dressed in marriage finest, voting on their way to their wedding. "This election is as important as our wedlock; that's why we are doing both on the same day," said one bride.
Voting alongside his wife in an Ahmadinejad stronghold of south Tehran, Mousavi stained his finger purple, then used it to make his point by noting that some of his camp's election monitors had not been given access to all the polling stations. He complained that Iran's text-messaging service – by one count carrying 90 million messages a day, many of them pro-Mousavi notes to mobilize people – had been cut off early Friday morning.
"I thank all the people for their green presence which created a miracle," Mousavi said after voting. Iran's unity was an "achievement" of the Islamic revolution, he said, calling on officials to allow his representatives access "as soon as possible."
"We should not be fearful about the free flow of information, and I urge officials to observe the law," said Mousavi.
When polls were meant to close at 9 p.m., already there were reports – confirmed by eyewitnesses and a video uploaded to the Internet – that about a dozen pro-Ahmadinejad basiji militants with pistols and pepper spray moved to shut down the Mousavi headquarters in the religious north Tehran district of Qeytariyeh. One witness described a fire at another Mousavi location.
Defiant voters: 'We each are a nuclear bomb'
Mr. Khatami, who remains one of the most popular politicians in Iran despite the collapse of the reform movement from the late 1990s, said after voting on Friday: "All indications suggest that Mousavi has won."
But the trend was hardly all pro-Mousavi. In Shahr-e Rey, a suburb of south Tehran where Mousavi voted, most of the graffiti and posters on walls hailed Ahmadinejad.
The combative television debates and street demonstrations "showed democracy in our country, the honor of our country, because of the enthusiasm and because of the freedom of speech," said a banker called Nafiseh.
She accused the US and the West of meddling in Iranian affairs and said Ahmadinejad's aggressive and principled stands were correct: "We consider elections to be a war," said Nafiseh. "They say we have nuclear weapons, but the fact is we each are a nuclear bomb. The more they say against us, the stronger we become."
But even as she spoke, another woman dressed all in black stepped up and retorted in English: "Ahmadinejad is a big liar, 100 percent!" said Fatemeh. "In four years [he] has lied to Iran, all our foreign policy is so bad. The oil of Iran goes to [Lebanese militant group] Hezbollah, and not to us."
'Mousavi is a correct thinker'
Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, voted the moment polls opened, and called upon all Iranians to vote and "have their share in governing the country and to choose who is best fit to govern the country for the next four years."
Ayatollah Khamenei thanked Iranians for their "enthusiastic presence in the past few days in the elections [campaigning]," adding that "with their improved maturity, morality, and thought, did not allow any sad scenes to be created amidst the enthusiasm."
Khamenei warned against believing rumors about him and the elections, which he said were passed along by people with "unsound minds."
Those rumors did not affect the debate inside one family. Housewife Zahra Khalili held her 7-month-old baby outside a polling station, and is a strong supporter of Ahmadinejad, who she said "God willing" would be reelected.
But her brother-in-law, a teacher standing beside her, was not convinced. "Mousavi is a correct thinker," said Asghar Davoudi. "We don't want a liar. Living simply [like Ahmadinejad] is not important. Doing good work, being active, is much better."
Perhaps Ahmadinejad summed it up best after he voted. The location where the archconservative would vote was a closely held secret until the last moment – apparently out of safety concerns, sources close to his campaign said – so only a handful of photographers were on hand.
After voting, the president said: "People's strong, revolutionary, and clear decision will bring about a bright future for the nation."


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Sunday, November 11, 2018 - 4:00pm
Indiana Coalition for Public Education - Monroe County + South Central Indiana will meet from 4:00 to 5:30 in Room 2A of the Monroe County Public Library. All members are welcome. We depend on those who attend regularly, and we love to see new faces.


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Police are investigating an early morning shooting outside a landmark Miami Beach hotel that officials believe may have targeted vehicles associated with the rapper The Game.
According to Miami Beach Police, a grey Ford Mustang drove past the valet at the Fontainebleau Hotel shortly before 7 a.m. Friday and fired multiple shots at a Mercedes-Benz SUV and fled. No one was inside the vehicle at the time.
The rapper's manager, Wack 100, told TMZ that a black Chevy SUV that was parked next to the Mercedes SUV belongs to the rapper's crew. Wack 100 said the SUV was not hit but noted the rapper also had a white Range Rover parked about 15 feet away from where the shots were fired.
Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said he was not certain if the vehicle belonged to the 36-year-old rapper or if he was renting or borrowing it.
The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, was in South Florida for a performance at the nightclub Story. Clubgoers posted videos of social media of the Los Angeles-based rapper insulting rapper Meek Mill during the performance.
The ongoing feud between The Game and the Philadelphia-based rapper, whose real name is Robert Williams, emerged on social media and has escalated in the rappers' music.


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Project Rockstar 2016 Review/Reflection
For years I followed and read the journals/reviews about Project Rockstar. I often imagined what it would be like to take part in this program. How motivational, inspirational, kick in the butt it had to be for everyone. And yet I couldn't apply because of other commitments, or at least this was my story. And then 2016 rolled around and I knew I had the opportunity to take the summer off, so I soon started working on my application, gathered whatever information I could, and worked hard to make it stand out. I sent in my application on the last day, had several interviews, and in the beginning of April I found out I got accepted and the fitness program would start the following Monday. The word that best describes my feeling at the moment is surreal. For me it was surreal that after years of reading the awesome stories the last rockstars wrote, I was now going to be the guy in them, writing these stories. My life was going to be divided in two, before and after the summer of 2016.
Fitness Program
The fitness program was our first contact with Project Rockstar. First I ordered some of the stuff we would need for the transformation, like a body fat reader, lots of tupperware, and a few other things. We were then put into different groups based on pictures and measurements we sent in. In the beginning I was in the loser group, then gainer and lastly the hard gainer group to put on some muscle mass. For most of my life I considered myself a skinny fat guy. Someone that looks skinny but doesn't have muscles so the body fat percentage is "high". I was at around 17% body fat when the program started.
The program itself was incredibly intense. The time commitment is enormous. Weightlifting roughly five times a week, yoga/stretching or similar on the other days, and up to 50 minutes of cardio every day. I spent roughly 2-3 hours every day for twelve weeks doing this fitness program, and this is not counting all the cooking we did. Weekly we sent in our measurements, blog entry and body shots. It was great to write blog entries and have pictures, so we could see our progress mentally and physically. If the scale didn't show progress, the body shots usually would, and vice versa. Sam Badger was the instructor in charge of helping us with the transformation, giving us feedback on how we are doing and tailoring the program to each one of us. It's invaluable to have someone looking out for you in this way.
The fitness program taught me so much it's hard to put it into words. How the body works, what are good foods to eat and why, what is bad and why, what is a realistic progression for myself, how to get where you want to be, what is essential, etc. The most important thing I learned during this physical and mental transformation is that so much is based on your mindset. Your attitude, your thoughts, how you feel everyday, what you are capable of, your beliefs, your limiting beliefs, what you think you can handle, what you can really handle, all of that is something that once you are aware of it, you can change and control it. It doesn't happen overnight, nor during a year, it can take a lifetime to master, but it definitely pays off.
By the end of the program I was in the best shape of my life by far and ready to take on the summer.
Las Vegas
Oh my god, where do I start? Vegas is insane, it's like a parallel universe. And being there during PR adds a whole other dimension to it. I made sure to print the first day of the program into my memory so I could recall later on how far we came. The first night out at XS Nightswim, awkward dudes walking around like headless chickens. Haha, it's crazy to think how far each and every one of us came.
First we had the 10-day, which was packed with information. This is the only part of the program where we get theory about game. Later we would have different seminars, debrief the last night and practice, practice, practice. This constant practice followed by feedback during the night and debrief the next day is what by far helps the most during the whole program.
What stood out to me is how natural everything felt. No wonder they call it "Simplified Natural". No canned routines or a single way to go from A to B. We learned what matters in interactions, what to pay attention to, and then it's about being your best self.
The inner game part of the program was incredible. Everyone has their own issues, and one by one we went through them all with some coaching. Stuff that people didn't even know they had in them, bugging them for years or even decades. It made a big difference, a positive one.
There were a lot of highlights during the Vegas part of the program. Shooting guns, sky diving, circle of vulnerability, final party at the mansion, seminars about game, inner game, fashion, entrepreneurship, masculinity, and then of course all the crazy days and nights going out. I catch myself almost every night remembering and reliving some of the craziest moments of our trip, with a huge grin on my face.
For the first part of our break we decided to go to Hvar, Croatia. We had amazing weather, the people were amazing, and the parties as well. It was a much-needed break to catch up on some sleep, internalize some of the teachings, and bond with the guys.
It was the first time we were out on our own, without the pressure of having instructors there. This was our first test on how coming back to our normal lives could be. It's on us to keep the momentum going and keep improving ourselves.
Overall Hvar was splendid. People were beautiful. The beaches had turquoise water. The islands are gorgeous. Great place to relax and have a great time.
Our next stop was Prague, Czech Republic. Charming, old European town. I've been here before with friends, but it's not the same when you are with rockstars. One of our guys got us a hotel in the middle of the city and we soon set out to check the city.
This was a bit closer to how coming back to our lives would be than Hvar. Here there aren't big parties going on every night, it's not purely a vacation city. Less tourists than Vegas and Hvar as well, so we adjusted to that as well. It's great to have this progression and adjusting again and again.
Two of the key moments of PR happened in Vegas: Circle of Truth and Circle of Appreciation. In the first week we had Circle of Truth. It took twelve hours, where everyone gave everyone negative/constructive. Everyone had to face some uncomfortable truths. Some guys got it lighter; some probably had the worst day in their entire lives. Or the best day in their lives, depends on how you frame it. It's incredible to get to know how others perceive us, how our actions and words affect others around us. It's enlightening to say the least.
By the end of the Sweden leg of the program, we had our final circle, the Circle of Appreciation. This was the time to say how someone positively affected us, what positive qualities and attributes the person has. It again took twelve hours and was also very emotional.
A focus during the time we spent in Stockholm was on partying and having a great time with friends, instead of being out and in your head thinking about game the whole night. We still had debrief and seminars during the day, with alumni jumping in to teach us about topics they could help us with.
By the end of Stockholm, it was amazing to stop and reflect on how far everyone has come. It's harder to notice when we live with each other every day, and sometimes we take this progress for granted, but once you see each case individually and compare it to how our lives would have been outside of PR, it's absurd how much change there has been.
The lead instructors were Sterling and Vici. It baffles me how knowledgeable Sterling is about social dynamics. When analyzing a person, most people can only say the actions someone is doing wrong, but he understands the why behind it and also the actions you need to take to fix it. It sounds simple, but is far from it. Vici is a very down to earth guy. He has this skill to give you feedback in the simplest terms and point out the obvious, which makes it easier to implement.
And we had a lot of instructors in the core team: Jasper (the king of memes and flowcharts), Sam Badger (relentless about inner game), Mav (high energy like a tornado), Vybe (lots of great analogies during debrief), and Alswede (our Swedish fashion specialist). Venture was not an official instructor (besides the 10-day), but was involved here and there dropping some golden nuggets.
Above all, all the instructors were genuinely interested in helping us. They were humble and supporting, sometimes harsh when needed, but always with our best interests in mind. They all put so much time and effort into this program, giving it their best, offering 1-on-1 talks on the side about anything you might be struggling with, and being these beacons of inspiration.
I'm writing this six weeks after the program ended. It is still hard to comprehend how much happened during this summer. I've learned so much, changed a lot, and it is still far from over. The focus lies on transforming us into the best masculine versions of ourselves we can be and the instructors did an amazing job in guiding us to get closer to this ultimate goal. Everyone came from different backgrounds and different starting points, yet everyone has made huge strides into becoming a better person.
After PR I can say I feel lighter. I feel like what others think of me doesn't matter that much anymore. I know my worth, know what my goals are and that I can achieve them. It's just a matter of being my best self and putting in the effort. I wouldn't have gotten to this point without PR, that's for sure.
The friendships made during PR are invaluable. It's not something that ends once the summer is over. Rockstars and instructors travel together, we keep in touch and support each other wherever we can. It is an amazing atmosphere. It is also shown by the high number of alumni that come back each year to be around and help out. I'll definitely make a huge effort on my part to be back next year.
I feel blessed I had the opportunity to take part in this life-changing program. I'm hugely thankful to everyone involved during PR2016, the instructors, alumni, guests and rockstars. It's an experience that changed the course of my life by a lot, and it will only show more and more as I keep living a life fueled by rockstar! By far the best decision I've ever made in my life!
TL;DR: Just do it.
2016 PR Review
Rockstar is a 9-10 week intense, complete immersion lifestyle transformation. It is not for the weak or the faint of heart. It is for those who truly want to bed the best they can be and get the most out of life. It is one of the most challenging things I have done in my life and the reward has been equally as great.
How do you write a review for a program that has given you so much? Words don't do justice. Going into the program I was the biggest skeptic. I have left Project Rockstar the biggest believer. I had no idea the change I would go through and the change I would witness my fellow Rockstars go through. You don't know what you don't know. That saying holds true for the transformation I went through during the summer of my Rockstar.
I was completely on the fence about going on Project Rockstar and even after getting accepted I was seriously considering whether I needed the program. I came into the program in what I thought was a very polished light. I had a successful business, multiple women, and a lot going for me. Rockstar showed me I had a lot more work to be the man I desire to be.
It's not about the women. It's funny to say it's not about the women when we literally went out every night of the week talking to women. But, truthfully, I could write this whole review and not mention women once because there comes a point in Rockstar where you realize it really has nothing to do with the women. It is 100% completely about you. It's about how you are as a person, a friend, how you treat others, how you treat yourself, how much you love yourself, how much you love others and ultimately how you are as a man. The women in your life are just a reflection of who you are as a man. Rockstar aims to change you at your core. The program will break you down and when you think you've been broken down enough, it will tear you down even further. It will point out all your good qualities as well as your deepest darkest flaws. No stone goes unturned on this program. If you are looking for an easy fix, then Rockstar is not for you. It is one of the hardest, and yet most fun things I have done in my life. It broke me down into tears multiple times while giving me memories for a lifetime and changing me into the man I only could have dreamed of.
I can't say enough about all the instructors. I sometimes forget they are on their own journeys because they are completely selfless about helping you with yours. It amazes me how they can look into you and see exactly what your flaws and sticking points are. I have never seen a group of individuals so good and gifted at what they do as the instructor core. Thank You.
I know I have been vague up to this point so let me get into a few specifics to give a better idea of things I liked and the things I thought could be improved on. I want to state this is my truthful and honest review. No Rockstars are enticed to write a positive review. When Rockstar starts, you are put on a grueling 12-week fitness transformation. I don't care what fitness level you think you are, it WILL challenge you. I came into the program being in martial arts and having lifted weights most of my adult life. Working out every day on the fitness program and eating clean foods daily will shape your body into nothing you have ever seen before. Even more, it will mentally prepare you for the summer ahead.
I can say Project Rockstar is the best investment I've made.
The program itself is run very smoothly. Sterling and Vici are very organized and very timely. The meetings start when they are supposed to start. The first thing I noticed is how well prepared and laid out everything is. This is not some fly by night program. Everything is laid out and followed in precision order. I remember hearing Sterling or Vici say they start thinking about and planning next year's Rockstar the minute the current one ends. After going through the program, I believe this is true. They do devote their life to this.
The game aspect is literally the best coaching in the world. Most of the guys leave the program with instructor level game. You receive so much individual attention. This kind of one on one coaching would cost thousands of dollars in the real world. The most valuable things in terms of game were the countless repetitions as well as the individual student/instructor breakdowns that occurred the next day after a night out. A huge thank you to Vybe for staying as late as possible to cover everything in extreme depth. Often we were the last ones left in the breakout room after everybody had left. I can't thank you enough for the commitment and willingness to go above and beyond.
I had considered taking only the 10 day bootcamp instead of going on Rockstar because I didn't know if I could take that much time off. While the 10-day bootcamp is absolutely some of the best coaching it is much different than the Rockstar program. To me the 10-day is very technical in terms of game. It is like drinking from a firehose. It still had a lot of good inner game material but I noticed the most change, as a man and on the inside during the rest of the program. If you have already done a 10-day know that Rockstar will give you all that the 10-day offers and 100x more in terms of the lasting change and growth.
I already had a business coming into Rockstar so I was extremely excited to learn items I could add to my arsenal. I will preface this by saying that my industry, a private healthcare office, is extremely specialized and there isn't necessarily a good comparison to my business. None the less I found only 2 of the numerous presentations useful to me. I will say that other Rockstars found the presentations to be much more beneficial. These tended to be the guys who were looking to start a business or make a major change in careers.
Nothing gets by on Rockstar, if you are doing something wrong or have an ego and are acting in a bullshit way; it will be called out. It's the vehicle necessary for change. One way this is done is the circle of truth. In Sweden we sit in a group and every person gives every other person the brutal, hard cold truth about their flaws as an individual. Nothing is held back. The interesting thing is that as you go through and give your feedback about others, most of the feedback from all the individuals is similar. Everybody notices your flaws and so many people saying the same thing cannot be wrong. Nowhere in the world can you get brutal honest feedback like this from guys you have lived closely with for the past 9 weeks. It is the cold hard medicine you really need to grow. To me this was one of the most powerful things the program gave me.
If you are willing to give it your all, and be pushed harder than you ever have, and are willing to push yourself well past the point of comfort, then you will come out of the program not recognizing your previous self. You will be on the path to becoming the man you want to be. In 9 weeks, I broke so many limiting beliefs than I had in my entire lifetime. More than anything Rockstar has shown me what is possible. It has shown me that it is possible to have the life you want and be the man you want to be. If you are on the fence about Project Rockstar, do it. It will be the best decision of your life. Period.
Growing up, I didn't have much success with women. I grew up in a small city. I'd say I was a shy and awkward kid. Both of my parents were around, but I was mostly raised by my mom and my grandmother, who lived with us. My parents were homebodies. They never went out or visited with friends, coworkers or even family. I remember my dad working a lot growing up. He wasn't much of a male role model for me or my older brother. I'd say I didn't have the right male role models to emulate regarding women and relationships; romantic or otherwise. I don't blame my father. He was sent off to boarding school when he was really young, so he didn't have a strong father figure in his life either. So growing up, my education about women and relationships was basically Hollywood movies and television shows and to be the "nice" guy, which teaches you exactly what not to do.
2016 PR Review
My parents are also very religious. I was raised Catholic and I went to Catholic school from first grade all the way until college. It definitely made me feel guilty about sex and the grade and high schools I went to were very small. I saw the same classmates year in and year out. I even went to school with some people from first grade all the way to senior year in high school.
I was a good student and I got good grades. I got picked on a lot by the other kids in the neighborhood and by my classmates. I can remember having people, who said they were my friends, turn on me and start picking on me. I think this made me distrust people and not want to open up and be vulnerable to others. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up much less any close friends. I felt ostracized and spent most of my childhood alone except for my brother. I'd say he was my best friend growing up. I can also remember girls finding out that I liked them, acting like it was disgusting and having them laugh in my face about it. That happened a lot early on and I think it contributed to me having a feeling of low self-worth and generally feeling unattractive to girls. It was the same in grade school and in high school. Needless to say, I had no idea or any experience on what to do with or around girls. There were no girlfriends not even a kiss.
In college, things got better. I went to a big, public school. I met a lot of new and accepting people and I started making friends, but I still had problems opening up and trusting people. As for girls, I was as clueless as ever. Even though I was in college, it seemed like my knowledge and my experience with girls was that of an 8th grader. I was still the "nice" guy. I remember being so frustrated that I had no success with women. I had no idea what to do around them, much less how to talk to or attract them. There were no girlfriends in college either. Although, when I look back on it, I had opportunities, I just couldn't recognize them or know what to do about them.
I remember when I finally decided to do something about my situation. It was during law school. I had asked a girl out. I could tell she was hesitant at first, but she said "yes." When I followed up with her about going out, she admitted she really didn't want to go out with me and just said "yes" to be polite. I was crushed. I decided then and there to do something about my lack of a love life. Being a "nice" guy just wasn't working. Weren't girls supposed to like "nice" guys? I was also under the mistaken belief that if I was financially successful, I would also be successful in all the other parts of my life. I thought that if I did well in school and got a high paying job everything would fall into place. I thought that I'd get the gorgeous girlfriend/wife, we'd have a house, probably in the suburbs, maybe have kids and that we'd live happily ever after. Basically, everything that's portrayed in the movies and on television. I remember sitting at my desk in law school, sad and distraught, looking on the Internet for advice. I started looking up and reading articles and books about women and dating. I would try some things out and get mixed results. After a few years, I found Love Systems. This was the early days of LS not the LS we know now. A lot of what they taught back then is outdated. I'll admit, I did more reading than actual practicing. I think I was too scared of the rejection.
Fast forward 7 years, I'm a lawyer now and I took my first LS boot camp, the 10-day. I had actually just found out about Project Rockstar a few months earlier and had applied. I didn't get in, but I saw that Sterling taught the same curriculum of Simplified Natural in Rockstar. I liked it in that it isn't about creating a false façade to get a girl. It's about bringing out the best in you and making yourself a better, more attractive person. It teaches you how to communicate with women. It totally blew me away and finally I was seeing things from a totally different perspective. I realized that I was a very pessimistic person with low self-esteem and a scarcity mindset. At this point, I really started to work on myself.
Fast forward 2 years and I had just applied to Rockstar for the third time. I had made it to the last round of interviews and I had a conference call with Sterling and Vici. When Sterling told me I was accepted, I was shocked. I was happy and scared at the same time. I knew Rockstar would be one of the toughest personal journeys I'd ever take, but I also knew it'd be one of the most worthwhile. I remember Sterling telling me that I wouldn't recognize myself at the end of the summer. I couldn't wait for it to come soon enough. I wanted to be a different, more confident version of myself.
Rockstar is the fastest way to learn how to get good with and communicate with women. It's one big boot camp. They teach you by dropping you into some of the toughest environments to get good with women: the loud, monstrous clubs of Las Vegas. The reference is a little dated, but I'd say Rockstar is like being in the movie, "The Matrix." In the movie, Neo learns kung fu, how to fly a helicopter and countless other things by simply having that knowledge downloaded into his brain. Rockstar is the closest thing to getting good with women downloaded into your brain. You learn not only through personal experience, but also through the experiences of the instructors and from your fellow Rockstars in debriefings. In a month, you have a lifetime's worth of experience with women implanted in your head. You'll experience and hear things beyond your present reality. You get to see behind the Matrix. You learn what Venture and Sterling figured out and honed in the Simplified Natural program. It amazes me how they figured all of that out. Sterling just has a way of breaking the information down and presenting it in an easy to understand and precise manner. You literally go to class every day to learn how to communicate. After class, you go out to the hottest clubs with the hottest women with the best deejays in the world practicing what you've been taught. You do this 6 nights a week. It's definitely not easy. You have to push yourself and go way outside of your comfort zone.
At times, I had my doubts on whether Rockstar would work for me. You see I was carrying around a really "dark" secret. One that I was so ashamed of that it seemed to weigh me down more and more as time went by. When I went on Rockstar, I was essentially a 39 year old virgin. I had never had a serious relationship with a woman. I had gone out with a few girls I was really interested in here and there, but it never went anywhere. I typically got "friend-zoned." And I had never slept with a woman except for a prostitute a year earlier. I didn't know what to look for, what the signs meant and what to do about them. I just didn't have the knowledge or the life experiences with women to know what to do. Part of my mind was thinking if Rockstar doesn't work for me, I don't think anything will work for me. I was thinking I was doomed to die alone. Rockstar can be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. I think I was at my lowest of lows on our break in Prague. At that point, I had made steady progress. My approaches were better. I wasn't getting blown out right away. I was getting into longer and longer interactions with women. My conversation skills were improving. I was escalating, but I still hadn't gotten laid yet. It was the last couple of days in Prague and it just seemed that my progress was stalling and even backtracking. I had just gotten a stern talking to by the instructors. I remember being in my hotel room, staring at the ceiling and just wondering "Is this going to work for me?"
A few days later, we were in Stockholm. I just kept plugging away and doing what the instructors told me to do and it all came together for me the first official night out. With some advice from the instructors, I was able to pull my first lay ever. From first talking to her and getting her back to my hotel room took about an hour to an hour and a half. It wasn't a smooth journey. There were roadblocks left and right: friends, logistics, last minute resistance, etc. Even though it was all new to me, all of the instruction came back to me and I had at least some idea how to handle it and what to do. I finally got laid from my own actions. I didn't expect it, but afterwards I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. I was just smiling from ear to ear. I felt freer and lighter. I was on the highest of highs just a few days after being at my lowest of lows. I guess, in my head, having been able to take a woman to bed from start to finish was proof that I'm a sex worthy person, that I'm attractive to women and that I deserve to have women in my life. I was thinking it's amazing how much you can change in just a short amount of time. If Rockstar worked for me, it'll work for you. As the instructors say, "Trust the process."
Rockstar is 9-10 weeks, but it really starts 3 months earlier. They put you through an intense 12 week workout program to get you into the best shape of your life. It's a 12 week program of ever increasing difficulty combined with a strict dietary and supplemental regiment. Guys put on 10-15 pounds of muscle while simultaneously dropping their body fat. Some guys dropped close to 40 pounds in just 12 weeks. I got into the best shape of my life and not only that they give you the tools needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle and keep the body you took so much time to mold.
Rockstar is a 5-6 month journey to restart your life and set it on a journey to make it what you want out of it, to make you a better version of yourself, a more refined version. It's still you at the core, but the exterior has been refined and chipped away to reveal the potential underneath. Rockstar was everything I thought it'd be and more. They really take and try to mold you into the best person you can be in a short 5-6 months. The women are great, but, at its heart, Rockstar really is about personal development and having options to live the life you want to live. It's like a crash course on life. They take care of the easier fixes like physique and style, but they also tackle a lot of the harder things to fix like internal beliefs, self-worth and self-love. I was really surprised at the amount of time spent on inner issues. It's developing yourself and being the best you. It's also camaraderie. Rockstar is such a unique experience. I feel closer to the Rockstars than I do to my own family than I even feel towards my own brother. I told them things that I had never told anyone before.
Rockstar is evolving as well. Sterling and Vici are constantly trying to make the program better. The core principles are the same, but things are modified to try and get the best experience possible. My Rockstar wasn't the same Rockstar that happened last year just like the Rockstars afterwards aren't going to be exactly like the one I experienced. They've made changes to next year's program from some things they learned during ours.
Someone asked me if I felt I've changed. I do and I don't. I feel I'm the same person at the core, but I'm a truer version of myself. It's like peeling back the layers of an onion. You start from the outside and peel off all the layers to get to the core. All of those layers are part of the onion, but you're peeling them back to get to the heart. I feel that Rockstar pulled back all the layers of shit on me to get to a purer version of me. Have you ever recorded yourself and what you saw and heard didn't match up with the vision and the sound in your mind? In your head, you didn't seem nervous or fidgety, but the recording showed otherwise. I feel Rockstar has aligned my exterior projection of myself to more of what I feel internally. I feel a truer version of myself has come out. So, in essence, I feel I'm the same, but different as well.
Thanks to all of the instructors, Sterling, Vici, Venture, Vybe, Alswede, Sam Badger, Jasper, Justin and all of the alumni, who came back and helped out. Without Rockstar, I could see my life going in a very different direction. After Rockstar, I can see my life going the way I want it to go.
The journey doesn't end after Rockstar. Rockstar is just the launching pad for the rest of your life. I look over my notes and I'm still learning things. It takes time for everything to settle in. You see things now from a different perspective and you have a different depth of understanding.
It's been two months since Rockstar. I've gone out with old friends; friends I had before Rockstar. They say I seem calmer, I'm happier and that I smile more. Some have also commented that I'm smooth with women now.
If you get a chance to be on Rockstar, do it, it's well worth the time, effort and expense. You won't regret it.
I was very fortunate to be a part of the 2016 class of Project Rockstar. I have procrastinated writing this review for a while now because every time I sat to write it my mind would just start racing. I found it hard because so much change was still happening, even after the end of the program. Trying to sit and write a review 9 weeks after the program I still find it tough but I'm gonna work my way through this the best I can.
Project Rockstar 2016 Review
First off, I say I was very fortunate to be a part of the 2016 class and I was. However, it was not luck that got me into the program. It was determination and sacrifice. I set my mind on getting in and did everything in my power to make it happen. The process for getting in included an application that took me more than a month to draft, and 6 interviews that each stressed me out to the max. Probably because I wanted this more than anything I can remember in my entire life. If you think you might want to be a Rockstar in 2017, or any of the following years, quit now, you don't have what it takes to get in. If you know that you need to be a Rockstar and are willing to do anything to make it happen, then buckle up and get to it.
Coming into Rockstar I thought my game was pretty good so I expected things to happen pretty quickly. Instead, they completely tore me down to the ground and started building me from scratch. They told us this was the process from the beginning but I underestimated just how different the Project Rockstar version of game was from what I had learned through Love Systems. It was very frustrating to spend three weeks in Las Vegas without getting laid. I thought something was wrong but they kept telling me to stick to the process and it would click eventually. Well, I stuck to it just like they said and boy did it click. This was a completely different way to talk to women than I was used to but as the pieces came together it just felt natural. There was no trying to think of what part of the process am I to now, now thinking about have I qualified enough or built enough comfort or any bullshit like that. There was no real thinking at all, it was just how I interacted with women now.
I won't go through all my story on Rockstar in this post but I will say, Rockstar had a lot of ups and downs but overall it was good for me. If you want to get my whole story go to: The Attraction Forums. Dating Advice.. After Vegas we had two weeks of a "break" after Vegas and there was a lot of bonding with the other Rockstars and a few of the Alumni during that which was beyond what I had ever expected. Then we went to Sweden where there was more group bonding and some crazy interactions with women to say the least. The amount of growth I experienced on Rockstar far exceeded what they promised in the beginning. I attribute that in part to my willingness to fully let myself go into the process. So, if you are coming in to Rockstar in the future I highly recommend you prepare yourself to be able to give full control to the instructors as you will benefit the most that way. Do everything they tell you to do and allow the change to happen.
There is more going on during the program than you can possibly process which facilitates growth even after the end if you continue down the path they set you on. For me there has been more growth in the 9 weeks since Rockstar than there was during the 9 weeks on Rockstar. For the others that I have been traveling with since Rockstar I would easily say the same about them.
The time you will commit to the program is great and the cost of the program is high, there are no doubts on either of these facts. I will say that there are one or two things I had hoped to get from Project Rockstar that I didn't, maybe they will eventually happen as an indirect result of the program though. The growth and changed that I have experienced because of Project Rockstar make it worth all the costs and then some. No other program in the world could possibly even come close to what you would gain through this. And the alumni network you become a part of will completely change your life just in itself. So, do I recommend Project Rockstar? You bet your ass I do! But only if you are willing to commit yourself to it fully and have enough drive to keep you going when it gets hard, because it will get hard.
I am working on a "Final Reflection" blog to post and posted blogs all throughout the Project Rockstar program, including the 12-week fitness transformation preceding it. If you haven't checked that out yet you should do that. Because I am still traveling with other Project Rockstar Alumni and experiencing growth I may post more blogs in the future so make sure to subscribe if you enjoy reading what's already there. Again, you can find them at The Attraction Forums. Dating Advice..
I would like to end this with a thank you to my fellow Rockstars from the class of 2016. It was an honor to go through this journey with you guys and each of you has inspired me in some way with no exceptions. I wish those of you who had to go home after were still traveling with me now. Also, a special thank you to the Alumni that came and helped during Project Rockstar 2016. The support I received from you guys was critical in the success I experienced. And finally, all the instructors from Project Rockstar, who are responsible for changing my life in profound ways. I never imagined living the life I am right now; I don't think I knew something like this was even possible before coming on Rockstar. I am more fulfilled in life that I have ever been and I am eternally grateful for the sacrifices you guys have made to put this program on and the hard work you put into it. I am happy to call you all my family and I look forward to doing life with each of you in the future.
Project Rockstar 2016 Review
Life changing experience. Some of the program seemed geared towards instructors not students. If you can go, you should go. It will change your life.
Overall Rating 7/10
Let me preface everything by saying the rockstar has unequivicolly changed my life. Before rockstar I was overweight, ready to settle down and get married to a girl who I was not 100% sure about, had no one close to me who really knew me, and overall was immobilized by fear in many areas of my life.
Today I feel more confident, more open, more authentic, and generally empowered to accomplish what I want in life. I've become closer with more people (old friends, new friends, family, and women) in the last 3 months post rockstar than maybe over the entire course of my life.
I felt one of the key pieces that was lacking in the program was around conflict management -- this is a true cornerstone of masculinity and when you live with a lot of strong personalities for 12 weeks it is an essential skill to have.
If you are thinking about applying, do it. If you are accepted and on the fence about going, go. I'm confident they will make necessary improvements and that the program will continually grow but in any case it will change your life.
Overall instructor ratings 7/10
Instructor engagement ranged from sleeping during seminar to staying up until the wee hours of the morning debriefing students after the club. Many of the instructors had girlfriends that were present for large parts of the program. This took away their focus and attention as well restricted them from showing off their skills to their full potential.
That said for the most part the instructors delivered. They gave great insights, pushed us when we needed pushing, and kept a watchful eye on our interactions.
Fitness program 10/10
The fitness program pre Rockstar was intense and amazing in it's results. I lost 20 lbs in 12 weeks and learned a lot about my body and what it is capable of. Although I have gained some of that weight back, I am certainly in much better shape than I have been for a long time and my base level of strength is much higher.
I myself was a challenging student during this time. I challenged Sam Badger constantly and he never gave up on me. The discussions we had have certainly added to my knowledge of nutrition and fitness. The process has given me the confidence and knowledge that you can make significant changes in a short period of time. A great realization and mindset to have before coming onto Rokstar.
10 Day Bootcamp 8/10
The content of the 10 day is amazing. Nothing more to say than the 10 day is the foundation for everything we did over the summer. The only notes I would have is that the information is waaaaaay too much to process in 10 days. It would be ideal if there was a book or videos for rockstars to refer back to. In absence of that, take really good notes.
The other thing to consider is that there are paid 10 day students that will get significantly more instructor time than you as a rockstar will get. Cest la vie, but it kind of sucks given that for many this is the first real forray into the Vegas club environment.
Other Seminar Components 5/10
The other seminar components taught by various experts ranged from 10/10 (life coaching) to 0/10 (nameless). I admit I did not attend them all. I think the focus on entrepeneurship and business is a bit wasted. Not to say that none of the information was valuable, just that there are better environments to learn about business and entrepeneurship and going out every night to a vegas club does not really mesh well with that kind of learning.
The piece that was missing that would have been useful is around giving feedback and conflict management. I did manage to learn a lot about these areas just from living through it and through discussions with my fellow rockstars.
Debriefs 10/10
The debriefs were possibly my favorite part of the entire rockstar experience. Instructors would give you tips on what they saw, people would debrief their specific experiences and get insights from the instructors. They split us into smaller groups which worked really well, and gave us a chance to connect with specific instructors.
Infield instruction 7/10
The infield instrcution I recieved was excellent. However, the instructors tended to focus on the weaker members of the class which left me with less instruction time than I would of liked. I felt penalized for appearing to do well even though I felt I was struggling through much of the program. More equal time for students would be helpful.
Life changing experience 10/10
Rockstar changed my life. It has set me on a path of self improvement and discovery that I could not have even imagined prior to this event in my life. Throughout Rockstar and throughout the subsequent few months post rockstar I have examined and re-examined the choices I've made over the past 35 years of my life. Coming on Rockstar and then following through with the necessary changes to my life that included breaking up with my girlfriend and quitting my job are some of the scariest, most uncomfortable, and most liberating experiences of my life.
My life has gone from being a very safe, secure, comfortable world that had a giant hole in it when it came to relationships with people to one that is almost completely the opposite. I have close emotional bonds to people who I've only known a short while and the rest of my life is free from the shackles of a "normal" life.
To some (and to me on certain days) my life seems to be in dissaray. No job. No home. And just the glimmer of direction. But it is also incredibly flexible and is giving me the chance to rewrite my future.
There are no guarantees in life. All I know is that I risked a life I wasn't happy with and was rewarded with the powers to build a life I couldn't even have dreamed of.
What can I say except thank you. To all the instructors, alumni, fellow rockstars and mentors, and the various people I met along the way. THANK YOU.
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Prerequisites: ART 215 or ART 216 or permission of instructor
Credit Hours: (3)
A study of the art and architecture of the ancient Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece and Rome.
Note(s): Students can not receive credit for both ART 422 and ARTH 410.
Description of the Content of the Course
The course is designed for upper level art students and as a humanities elective for students in other concentrations. It fulfills a General Education requirement. The focus is on painting, sculpture, and architecture of ancient Western civilizations. The content and style of the art in each period will be examined in key works of art. The course covers the following periods in chronological order:
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This is a lecture course, but class participation in the analysis of works of art is encouraged. Slides of the art under discussion will be projected onto a large screen to provide all students with a clear visual image of each work of art. An occasional film will be shown to allow a more in-depth study of a specific topic.
Students are expected to attend class. By accepting admission to Radford University, each student makes a commitment to understand, support, and abide by the University Honor Code without compromise or exception. Violations of academic integrity will not be tolerated. This class will be conducted in strict observance of the Honor Code. Students are referred to the Student Handbook for details.
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At the conclusion of the course, the students will be able to:
1). discuss characteristics of Western art and civilization in ancient times beyond the scope of the survey course.
2). analyze a work of art with regard to style and iconography.
3). use the necessary vocabulary and basic concepts associated with the study of art history in discussion and writing.
4). recognize the basic stylistic characteristics of the art in the various ancient periods and in specific works of art.
5). identify major works of art of each period.
6). define the role of art within the cultural, political, and sociological context of the ancient world.
Assessment Measures
The final grade is based upon a series of tests/quizzes, and possibly an oral presentation and/or a short research paper. Additional short responsive writings and attendance at outside lectures may also be required.
Other Course Information
There are no extra credit options for this course.
If the student has a learning disability recognized by the Disabled Student Services Office at Radford University, he or she should advise the professor of the nature of the disability during the first week of class.
Tape recording of class lectures is not normally permitted unless the student has a learning disability recognized by Radford University and the professor receives a formal request from the Disabled Student Services Office. At his or her discretion, the professor may allow tape recording under other special circumstances.
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US Social Innovation: Let's Redraw the Map
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Greenpeace activists dressed as GMO "monster crops" accompanied by "mad scientists" protest outside the Department of Agriculture in Manila. Greenpeace, together with other concerned organizations are demanding that the Philippine government "Stop GMO Invasion" by cancelling all commercialization and field trials of genetically-modified organisms in the country. The Department of Agriculture (responsible for regulating GMOs) have never denied approval for any GMO crop. Greenpeace contends that GMOs are dangerous to human health, biodiversity and farmers' livelihoods. 04/18/2012
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Russia and Algeria should boost their economic ties, which had not advanced sufficiently despite mutual efforts, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Wednesday.
Algeria would welcome Russian investments and technologies in developing its oil and gas industry and energy grid, Bouteflika told a group of Russian businessmen.
"We do not wish to remain a mere exporter of raw materials," Bouteflika said as quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.
The president also pledged to return Algeria's debt to Russia, estimated to be over four billion dollars.
According to Arkady Volsky, head of Russia's union of entrepreneurs, trade between the two countries had tripled over the past three years, especially in metal production, transport and technical equipment.
Bouteflika arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for a three-day official visit devoted mainly to discussions on economic and defence issues.
Bouteflika and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin signed a strategic partnership agreement on Wednesday.
The agenda of talks included military cooperation, involving arms sales that were worth $600 million over the past three years.—AFP
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Hoops is the smack-talkingest of major team sports, so it follows that the marketing of its video games would also involve some good-natured lip. But also pay attention to the new post animations 2K Sports has added into NBA 2K11.
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One last note, 2K Sports jokingly threatened, via Facebook, to send this "I Got Schooled By Derrick Rose" t-shirt to Turkey, whom the US defeated last weekend in the final of the FIBA World Championships. Rose has found a more worthy recipient, Golden State's David Lee, which is probably good. Don't want to cause any international incidents.
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One person died Wednesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer caught fire on Interstate 85 North near mile marker 99, just south of the northbound rest area.
One person died Wednesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer caught fire on Interstate 85 North near mile marker 99, just south of the northbound rest area.
Bill Stossmeister, assistant shift supervisor with the Davidson County 911 Center, confirmed the death. First Sgt. B.D. Stalvey confirmed it was a single-vehicle accident.
Passers-by first alerted the Davidson County 911 Center of the accident about 4 p.m. N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper Jeff Boozer said the tractor-trailer was in the center lane of Interstate 85 North. A van was in the left travel lane and the tractor-trailer merged over on the van.
"The van runs off the road and does a great job of not being involved in the wreck, and spins out on its own," Boozer said, adding there was no damage to the van.
Boozer said the tractor-trailer continued from the center lane to left lane and to the left shoulder before running up the bank. The tractor-trailer struck a tree, jackknifed and caught on fire.
"The vehicle catches on fire, and that's all we know right now," Boozer said.
Boozer said he didn't know if there was a passenger. He said the tractor-trailer was registered out of Virginia but it was unclear where the vehicle was coming from.
"We have no form of identification on him whatsoever," the trooper said.
The cause of the accident was unknown. Boozer said no other details were being released early Wednesday evening by the SHP and more information was expected to be released Thursday.
Firefighters from Fair Grove, Pilot, Central, Holly Grove, Silver Valley and Linwood were on the scene, as well as Davidson County Fire Marshal's Office, Lexington Fire Department, Davidson County Emergency Medical Services, Davidson County Emergency Management and the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Motorists at about 4:40 p.m. were passing by the wreck scene as smoke continued to billow out of the tractor-trailer. The cab was completely destroyed in the fire. Davidson County Deputy Fire Marshal Glen Pressley said it appeared the driver of the tractor-trailer was outside of the vehicle when firefighters arrived.
Chief Brandon Smith of the Holly Grove Fire Department said the tractor-trailer was loaded with cardboard material. He said the driver exited the vehicle himself but perished once he got out of the tractor-trailer. Smith said the driver was located within just feet of the tractor-trailer.
Smith said there were some issues with fuel and oil runoff that ran down to a culvert that goes under the I-85 to a creek. Firefighters were working to contain the spill until a cleanup crew arrived. Smith estimated there were between 20-30 firefighters on the scene.
Tyler Forest, a firefighter with the Central Fire Department, was serving as the commanding fire official on the scene. He said firefighters arrived to find a fully involved tractor-trailer fire.
"They pulled the attack lines for extinguishment, and checked the vehicle for any victims," Forest said.
It took firefighters about an hour to get the fire under control. Forest said the fire was tough to contain due to the cardboard materials.
Stan Reckard of Charlotte was a passenger in a van being driven by his wife and carrying his two daughters, ages 16 and 12. He said his vehicle was in the left lane of I-85 while the tractor-trailer was in the center lane. The Reckards were on the way to pick up Stan's two oldest children, and the family was planning on going to Washington D.C.
"(The tractor-trailer) started drifting over into our lane," Reckard said. "We didn't see a turn signal, so I said, 'Get over.' My wife was driving. So we got over into the grass, and I think she sped up. Somehow we ended up passing him, and we were driving in the grass fishtailing, and I was yelling at her, 'Don't over-compensate, don't over compensate.' Somehow we ended up spinning and ended up back on the highway in the left lane facing south. I yelled at the girls to get out of the car because I was afraid an oncoming car was going to hit us."
Reckard said he got in the driver's seat and got the van off the road. He then looked and the tractor-trailer was on fire and "tons of smoke coming out of it."
"It was horrible," Reckard said of the scene.
Reckard and another passerby walked toward the woods to find the driver. He explained another passerby was yelling from the other side of I-85 that a person got out of the tractor-trailer. Reckard said he called 911 but they had already been notified of the accident. The Charlotte resident said his van never made contact with the tractor-trailer.
"Thank God we weren't hit, and thank God we didn't flip," Reckard said. "If we hadn't moved over into the grass, he would have hit us. He was just coming over. He didn't honk or anything. He was just slowly moving into our lane."
Reckard said his family is OK, but "a little shook up."
One lane remained open about 6:30 p.m. as firefighters and troopers worked the scene.
"It'll be extended," Forest said of the lane closures.
Firefighters conducted a search and found no passengers.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Cody Zeller scored 20 points, grabbed eight rebounds, was 8 of 13 from the field and dominated the middle, leading No. 1 Indiana to its most impressive victory this season - a stunning 83-59 rout over No. 14 North Carolina on Tuesady night.
It was a game that pitted two of the nation's most storied college programs - they have combined for 10 national titles and have a combined 3,767 all-time wins.
Dexter Strickland had 14 points, Marcus Paige had 11 and James Michael McAdoo finished with 10 for North Carolina (5-2).
Victor Oladipo and Will Sheehey both added 19 points and Jordan Hulls had 13 for Indiana (7-0), which has won 34 consecutive home games in November, dating to a 2005 loss to Duke in the same tournament.
No. 3 Michigan 79, No. 18 North Carolina St. 72
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Trey Burke had 18 points and a career-high 11 assists without a turnover to lead Michigan.
Freshman Nik Stauskas led the Wolverines (6-0) with 20 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. added 16.
T.J. Warren had 18 points N.C. State (4-2), which trailed 73-58 before going on a 10-0 run.
Michigan committed only six turnovers - four in the first half. N.C. State shot 57 percent from the field but lost its fifth straight game in the ACC-Big Ten challenge.
Michigan has committed 10 or fewer turnovers in five of its six games this season.
No. 21 MINNESOTA 77, FLORIDA ST. 68
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Joe Coleman scored 16 points and Rodney Williams added 14 for Minnesota which beat defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
Coleman made 8 of 13 field goals and had 12 points in the second half while helping the Gophers build a 58-37 lead.
Austin Hollins added 13 points and Andre Hollins had 12 for the Gophers, who never trailed. Elliott Eliason had 10 rebounds.
Minnesota (7-1) led 38-25 at halftime and by as many as 21 points in the second half. The Gophers' lone loss was to No. 2 Duke in the Battle 4 Atlantis.
Reserve Terrance Shannon led Florida State (4-2) with 14 points and 11 rebounds. Michael Snaer finished with 12 points and Terry Whisnant and Okaro White both had 10 for the Seminoles.
No. 19 COLORADO 85, TEXAS SOUTHERN 80
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Josh Scott scored the first two baskets of the second overtime for Colorado, which fought back from an early 15-point deficit.
The Buffaloes (6-0) withstood a 39-point performance by Omar Strong, who made nine 3-pointers, including three in the extra sessions.
Spencer Dinwidde had 24 points to lead Colorado, which is off to its best start since opening 6-0 in 1989-90. Scott finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Askia Booker added 15 points and Andre Roberson had 11.
Fred Sturdivant had 12 points and 11 rebounds for Texas Southern (1-6).