Flash tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCgzatpV8H4 lesson 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzBlN9_K-f0 lesson 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZC5NzjWU3Y lesson 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXsCpqj4gzc lesson 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suWEtoSJK9E lesson 5

Embrace Life - always wear your seat belt

The video starts with a family who appears to be playing charades. The father is pretending to drive a car while his wife and daughter laugh watching. Everyones having a good time, until the father takes his eyes of the imaginary road. When he turns back and looks at the imagenary road he makes a strange face as if he were about to be hit by something. The mother and daughter rush to the fathers aid. The daughter wraps her arms around the fathers waist and the mother wraps her arms over and under his shoulders.

Opinion: Don't Follow Your Dream

In this article, Harrison Solow talks about how todays generation thinks that they can get somewhere in life by just having a dream, and not working hard. "Everywhere you turn today, our children are urged to 'follow your dream.' It seems like a harmless, even inspiring bromide to motivate children to achievement." She mentions how those who achieved excellence in their fields did not just have a dream. They got up at 4 a.m. to practice on parallel bars or had to forgo other desirable activities and paths in order to get in six hours of violin practice a day, or stayed off the several million absurd writing advice blogs with their overheated little cliques that dispense useless regurgitated maxims and empty praise and decide to actually confront their thoughts on a page. She says that even our universities are filled with people who have dreams but no plans, desires but no talent, talent but no work ethic. Her final advise to all the dreamers is: Don't follow your dream. Do what it takes to earn it. To achieve it. To be worthy of it. Because if you don't, it will never, ever, really be yours.
At first I thought that this article was kind of depressing. I thought that she was trying to say "Dont bother working hard, because your dreams won't come true." As I read on I discovered that she was trying to say that your dream won't work for you. The dream is the goal and you have to work hard to achieve it.

Very Funny Pepsi Commercial

The video starts with a shot of a oriental monastary. A small caucasian boy with a backpack approaches the front of the monastary and is let in by a monk. His head is shaved and he begins to learn the way of the monk. At first he struggles to complete his training and becomes disappointed by himself. Now the boy is much older and he is displaying his skills to the other monks. He karate chops bricks, breaks boards with his foot, and is even able to do several back hand springs. When the boy is finished displaying his skills, the monks each raise a celebratory can of Pepsi. The boy is lost as to what is going on so he grabs a can himself. in unison, the monks open the Pepsi and drink it together. The boy notices a mark on all of the monks' heads. Then he looks down at the Pepsi can and sees that it displays the same mark. So he puts two and two togetther and crushes the can with his head, thereby aquiring the same mark as the rest of the monks. When this is done all of the monks rush towards the boy and congradulate him.
I thought it was kind of weird to see a small white boy back packing across China all by himself. It would have made more sense if he were droped off there by someone because he was an orphan or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DykbPa4Lc

Bears defeat Bills with help from only Canadian on team

The Buffalo Bills faced off against the Chicago Bears last Sunday in an away game that took place in Toronto's Rogers Centre. As the only Canadian in the only NFL game north of the border this season Chicago's defensive end Idonije figured to find the spotlight by default, but the 29-year-old from Brandon, Manitoba earned every ounce of attention he received Sunday in Chicago’s 22-19 win over the Buffalo Bills. Idonije made a clutch play when he blocked the point after a touchdown attempt that would have tied the game. Idonije and his parents left their native Nigeria to move to Canada. He had never played organized football until grade 12, when a coach at Neelin High School talked him into joining the school’s brand new football team. Idonije claimed a spot in Chicago’s lineup as a special teamer, where his unusual size-speed combo helped him cover kicks, and where his height and disproportionately long arms helped him become the team’s premier kick blocker. Entering Sunday Idonije had blocked six field goals, converts and punts in his career, and collected his seventh at a critical time. “It’s a part of what we do on this team – block kicks,” said Idonije, who turns 30 later this month. “(Julius Peppers), great push to my right. I had the easiest part of the job, just getting my hand up.”

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