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What do you think of the house oldies? Are you a fan of Terri's nagging and Terrence's blandness? How long do you think they will last? Do they stand a chance of winning?
Forget about Terri and Terrence being boring and bland.
Those statements just about sum up the entire household.
All the interesting people have been kicked out.
That's the real problem BB has to deal with - the seemingly idiotic choices made by the viewing public when it comes to deciding who's turn it is to go.
For some reason, we ruin it for ourselves every year.
Given you admit to being prone to watching demented simplicity I'll buy you a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking...then I thought, said he...what good would that do?
What is the fascination with BB and any reality show of the same Ilk??
I fail to see why it's so interesting to watch others sit and chat about nothing.
To me it would be the same as going to a party and sitting on the verandah looking in through the glass doors and not being allowed to participate.
Y'know what would make Big Brother a whole lot more interesting? If, instead of voting housmates out, you could vote for which housemate you wanted to administer an electric shock to. Or, in return to making a small donation to charity, you could arrange for a housemate's bedsheets to be coated in chilli powder; or for...
I might actually watch it then.
What? I never claimed to be a nice person.
I like your thinking! I'll pass on these suggestions to the big wigs at BB.
I don't think age-ism has anything to do with any of this. Is there any difference between the mindless drivel that the Gen X & Y's spew forth, to the equally mindless garbage that the Boomers are spewing. Garbage In - Garbage Out I say!
Love it or loathe it, Big Brother is back for another year. As the dust settles from Sunday night evictions, Shannon Molloy will dish out the dirt from the house each Monday.
Mike or Kyle to host Big Brother?
Token gay on the way?
People who work in "glamourous" industries often face these misconceptions.
"Oh, you're a journalist! You can jet off to Paris as an international correspondent …"
"Wow, you're a freelance writer - like Carrie Bradshaw! You write whatever's on your mind without doing any research or interviews and you make $5 a word!"
"You do public relations or event planning? That's cool. You go to swanky parties …"
A friend of mine applied for an editor position at Maxim magazine. He wrote in his cover letter: "Don't worry. I'm not under the impression that the office is filled with bikini-clad models spraying champagne on each other." That line earned a good chuckle with the hiring editors — and landed him an interview.
It's funny because its true. Loads of applicants carried that impression.
Years ago, I applied for an editorial position at a boutique wine magazine. During the interview, the managing editor told me that my application stood out because I emphasized the work— being an editor — rather than the hook, wine.
"I read hundreds of applications from people who said they're passionate about wine," he told me, "and I thought, well, that's great, but can you edit a magazine?"
Will had the same experience when he ran a solar energy company. He'd receive a deluge of applications from people who said "I love solar energy!" or "I'm passionate about the environment!"
"That's fine," he thought, "but how proficient are you with Quikbooks?"
Conversely, when he entered his current line of work — running a highway construction company — his buddies from his eco-preneur days predicted that he'd hate it.
"Road work? That's so boring!" they said. He transitioned from a glamourous industry to an industry that kills conversation at cocktail parties, and no one could figure out why.
"I like growing companies," he explained. "I like managing a business. That's the appeal." But few people understood. They heard the words "asphalt" and "traffic cones," and they tuned out.
But here's a reason they should tune in: most millionaires work in "dull-normal" industries, according to Thomas Stanley and William Danko, authors of The Millionaire Next Door.
"We are welding contractors, auctioneers, rice farmers, owners of mobile-home parks, pest controllers, coin and stamp dealers, and paving contractors," the book says.
Why are millionaires clustered in dull-normal jobs? It's partly because there's less competition. Millions of people flock to glamourous industries. Heavy competition drives down profit margins and payrates.
Few people, by contrast, are elbowing each other for a slice of the pest-control pie. It's a dirty job. When competition is lower, profits and payrates may be higher.
The bottom line? Making money isn't always glamorous.
Each time it seems like we have reached the bottom of the pit, but reality proves there to be an even deeper one.
Perhaps to those who do not stand in front of the ambulances, the stretchers and the back-to-back procedures the pictures seem the same. But they really aren’t. Each person is a story and on each stretcher is a tragedy. Only the occupation is the same, as well as the rifles, the regulations and the orders.
And because of the regulations a six year old child who had severely injured his head at 10 AM with a metal bar had arrived at Qalandiya checkpoint at only 3 PM, although his father immediately after the injury phoned a brain specialist in Amman who told him that the child must be on the operation table within the hour...
By the time the mechanism of the occupation had permitted the child and his mother (not his father) to pass through to a hospital in Jerusalem, five hours had past. Five hours is a time frame that hands out the verdict of life and death.
The child was hazy, his eyes were open but they weren’t focused; his hands rose without purpose and fell down as though on their own, and the father begged that they take him as well with the child to the hospital, so that he be with his child- but no, only the mother could go.
The man stood by the child who couldn’t really see him, and touched the child who couldn’t really feel, and talked to him, and the child didn’t really hear, and said to him: “it’s your father, my child, it’s your father…” and kept saying it again and again.
The man bent over and touched the child’s body and hands and the tip of his head that remained exposed, as though saying goodbye, and keeping it together until the ambulance drove off and only then did tears come bursting out of his eyes.
And from mine once I was on my own.
Resilience has become a buzzword when talking about attractive skills for employees. According to the international consulting firm Mannaz, in the future resilience will be the single most crucial skill.
It is frequently mentioned in job postings, but often in such a variety of ways that it is drained of meaning. What does resilience really mean? Recruiters rarely elaborate. Here is my take.
Resilience is defined as ‘the ability to cope with change’. A key question when thinking about it is: when faced with obstacles, do you give in to them or rise above them?
Resilience is not a trait that people either do or do not have. It involves behaviours, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed, and several characteristics are associated with it (see below).
If it’s that important, how can you develop it? For starters, consider taking the following three steps.
Build faith in your abilities. By reminding yourself of your strengths and accomplishments, you increase confidence in your ability to deal with change. Think of similar situations that you have experienced, focus on how you overcame them and use this as an inspiration to handle the present situation.
Be optimistic – positive thinking means you understand setbacks are transient and you have the skills needed to combat whatever challenges you face.
Finally, establish goals. When overwhelmed by a task, take a step back to assess what is before you. Brainstorm possible solutions and then break them down into manageable steps.
Keep in mind that resilience does not involve any specific set of behaviours or actions. It varies from one person to the next.
Focus on practising the common characteristics of resilience, but remember also to build upon your existing strengths.
Marvel legend Stan Lee, who revolutionized pop culture as the co-creator of iconic superheroes like Spider-Man and The Hulk who now dominate the world's movie screens, has died. He was 95 years old.
Lee, the face of comic book culture in the United States, died early Monday in Los Angeles, according to US entertainment outlets including The Hollywood Reporter. He had suffered a number of illnesses in recent years.
"My father loved all of his fans," his daughter told Hollywood monitor TMZ. "He was the greatest, most decent man."
The New Yorker, known for his distinctive tinted glasses and impish grin, frequently appeared at fan events where he was revered.
Lee ended up in the comics business by accident, thanks to an uncle who got him a job when he was a teenager filling artists' inkwells and fetching coffee.
"I felt someday I'd write the 'Great American Novel' and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics," he once said, explaining why he had forsaken his given name, Stanley Lieber.
Lee rose through the ranks to become a comics writer, making millions of superhero fans dream of his fantastic universes and humans with extraordinary powers, and eventually led the Marvel empire for decades as its publisher.
Iron Man, Thor and Doctor Strange would follow -- and today, all three heroes have multi-film franchises that rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lee has appeared in cameo roles in nearly every Marvel movie -- including as a bus driver in "Avengers: Infinity War," a film that united many of the indelible characters he brought to life.
"Awww man, heartbreaking. R.I.P. to a true pioneer and legend," tweeted Australian filmmaker James Wan, who directed many of the "Saw" and "Insidious" movies as well as helming "Aquaman," an upcoming superhero film based on the character by Marvel rival DC Comics.
"My youth wouldn't have been the same without him. So grateful to have met the guy, and told him how thankful I was for his work. #stanlee"
In a letter released to the public on Thursday, the US Department of Agriculture said that it won't regulate a mushroom that has been gene-edited to prevent it from turning brown.
This is widely different from the approach it's taken with GMOs, which are regulated by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which keeps an eye on new genetically modified organisms that "may pose a risk to plant health."
The mushroom, developed by Yinong Yang at Penn State, is not the first crop to be modified using the controversial gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, but it is the first one that the USDA has said isn't subject to regulation. And that means that everything we know about genetically modified food may be about to change...
At its essence, CRISPR is a far more accurate method of modifying genes than scientists have had access to before.
At the center of the agency's decision not to subject the new crop to its rules is the fact that the CRISPR-edited mushroom doesn't contain any "introduced genetic material" or foreign DNA, and so would not be a threat to other plants.
This is the focus of a lot of the policy surrounding GMOs, or genetically modified organisms. Because GMO crops are tweaked in a lab to contain harmless DNA from other organisms, like bacteria, which help make them more resistant to things like drought or pests, they are regulated by the USDA.
APHIS has no reason to believe that CRISPR/Cas-9-edited white button mushrooms are plant pests. Therefore, consistent with previous responses to similar letters of inquiry, APHIS does not consider CRISPR/Cas-9-edited white button mushrooms ... to be regulated.
A world of CRISPR crops?
This could be the shape of things to come.
"If USDA decides the first product does not require regulation, that would definitely be encouraging for the many people already using CRISPR," Joyce Van Eck, an assistant professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute, told the Genetic Expert News Service.
Many researchers are currently looking into developing CRISPR food products.
Since its 2013 demonstration as a genome editing tool in Arabidopsis and tobacco — two widely used laboratory plants — CRISPR has been road-tested in crops, including wheat, rice, soybeans, potatoes, sorghum, oranges and tomatoes. By the end of 2014, a flood of research into agricultural uses for CRISPR included a spec...
In other words, this CRISPR crop is probably not going to be the last one we see.
^ That article I give you for the rage. Do not open it unless you plan to get angry. Also, go vote!
Arizona’s recent immigration law has made the state both a beacon of states’ rights or a cesspool of racism, depending on your perspective. This has been the theme of many conversations and I think both sides have failed: Progressives have lost the ideological principals necessary for believing in a strong national bor...
Since the inception of this great nation there has been an ideological battle between those who believe we need a stronger national government and those who believe in a weaker national government whose powers are limited in deference to the states, namely an idea called Federalism. This division has been fierce and wa...
As human beings we all have certain common aspects that distinguish us from other types beings, one of which is rational freedom. I believe that it’s essential for us to recognize that freedom is different from liberty, which is the political or public exercise of our natural freedom. America has offered a level of lib...
A second value has been described as the “Protestant work ethic”. It’s not just about doing difficult work, but it’s also about a vision for the future – building something that lasts. Many immigrating to this country, both legally and illegally, posses part of this work ethic and that is one of the primary things whic...
Third is a value found in The Declaration and inherent in the very idea that our founding political community held some things to be self-evident: objectively clear truth. Our founding fathers believed that some things are clear to reason and these things can therefore be known by all people in all places and at all ti...
The fourth and final value I want to speak about is a simple love for America, not blindly, not merely out of tradition, but because of what America represents and stands for. The ignorance of What we should love, first and foremost, is something that all are guilty of, but the ignorance of what America represents is p...
These ideas are not genetic traits or racial characteristics and they have been embraced and assimilated by people of all types of racial backgrounds through America’s great history. Quite simply, ideas and natural rights transcend race and these American ideals provide a foundation for individual liberty to flourish, ...
America has been and can be a unity of diversity.
Also in the plus column was a knowing sense of the contemporary country market that has made Gilbert a significant star over the past decade. That meant an efficiently staged show with the usual Spinal Tap-ish pyrotechnics, video screens and, most of all, an impressively flexible band whose role in fleshing out the var...
The takeaway from last night’s concert that was more disconcerting was how weak a vocalist Gilbert was. Maybe he was ill. Maybe it was spring allergies. But from the onset of the show, Gilbert’s singing was a coarse, internalized mumble. He would bark out occasional exclamations to trigger audience involvement, but the...
When the pace chilled and the volume settled for tunes like “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” and brief acoustic revisions of “Them Boys” and “My Kind of Crazy,” a modest level of fluidity and detail was detectable in the singing. On more discernible crowd favorites, though — “Small Town Throwdown,” for instance — the aud...
This may have indeed been his kind of party, but Gilbert’s surprisingly lax vocal command definitely took the fire out of the celebration.
That wasn’t the only curiosity to the evening. Preceding Gilbert was an hour-long, chain-smoking set by Staind vocalist Aaron Lewis. That’s right, the same Aaron Lewis who powered such post-grunge anthems as “Right Here” and “It’s Been Awhile,” both of which he played. But Lewis wasn’t as much of a fish-out-of-water ar...
Sure, there was requisite jingoistic plundering and pandering (Lewis began his set by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance), but for the most part, there was an uncompromising solemnity and soulfulness to his performance that was quite arresting.
The evening began with a 20 minute solo acoustic set by North Carolina newcomer Josh Phillips. The singer racked up bonus points for playing without a band in an arena setting, but little was offered to distinguish his songs from the same thematic blather that permeates country radio today. When you have to turn your s...
Kanye West’s forthcoming "Yeezus" Tour with Kendrick Lamar added two opening acts a few days ago: Pusha T and A Tribe Called Quest. According to Q-Tip, the group will play their last shows in New York City.
If you’ve been following ATCQ, the group has followed a similar scenario back in 1998. After their 13-year-run as one of the most successful crews in hip-hop, they disbanded that year to focus on other avenues of their careers. Fortunately, the group reunited a few years later.
Pusha T will kick things off on October 25 at Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. ACTQ are hitting the stage in November at the Barclay’s Center and Madison Square Garden.
SUNDERLAND'S sessions with an Olympic boxer have given Ricky Sbragia’s side a fighting chance of escaping the dreaded drop.
It might have only been a point but in the upstairs downstairs world of the Premier League it is priceless.
The Wearsiders had arrived at The Reebok on the back of a dispiriting run of six defeats in seven games and were well and truly in the basement.

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