- Mania
- Hypomania
- Depression
- Mixed episode

Mania symptoms: In the manic phase of bipolar disorder, feelings of heightened energy, creativity, and euphoria are common. People experiencing a manic episode often talk a mile a minute, sleep very little, and are hyperactive. They may also feel like they’re all-powerful, invincible, or destined for greatness.

But while mania feels good at first, it has a tendency to spiral out of control. People often behave recklessly during a manic episode­—gambling away savings, engaging in inappropriate sexual activity, or making foolish business investments, for example. They may also become angry, irritable, and aggressive, picking fights, lashing out when others don’t go along with their plans, and blaming anyone who criticizes their behavior.

Hypomania syptoms- Hypomania is a less severe form of mania. People in a hypomanic state feel euphoric, energetic, and productive, but their symptoms are milder than those of mania and much less disruptive. Unlike manics, people with hypomania never suffer from delusions and hallucinations. They are able to carry on with their day-to-day lives. To others, it may seem as if the hypomanic individual is merely in an unusually good mood. But unfortunately, hypomania often escalates to full-blown mania or is followed by a major depressive episode.

Bipolar depression symtpoms-
- Feeling hopeless, sad, or empty.
- Loss of interest in things you used to enjoy
- Fatigue or loss of energy
- Physical and mental sluggishness
- Appetite or weight changes
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Concentration and memory problems
- Feelings of self-loathing, shame, or guilt
- Thoughts of death or suicide

Mixed episode symptoms- A mixed episode of bipolar disorder features symptoms of both mania and depression. Common signs of a mixed episode include agitation, irritability, insomnia, appetite changes, loss of contact with reality, and suicidal thoughts. This combination of high energy and low mood makes for a particularly high risk of suicide.

For any 6 ft 6 NFL wide receiver there is a great expectation that you will see a helluva lot of white lines.

To clarify that is white PAINT lines on the grass or artificial turf of the 32 NFL stadiums in the NFL, as you outstretch a 5 ft 7 corner back, or as you blaze past a slow strong safety as part of a 3 wideout offensive package.

The white lines however that Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones has been associated with this week do not belong to the end zone of Alltell Stadium, they belong to the neatly chopped strips of cocaine found in the bean pole's car.

101 catches in three NFL seasons in 42 games is what fantasy fans would call pedestrian, and Jones knows that he has not so far lived up to his pre-NFL hype. This stat line would be acceptable if Jones was a 5th round prospect or an undrafted free-agent, but that's not the case - Matt Jones was a 1st round pick in 2005, with a 1st round salary and 1st round expectations by coaches and Jags fans alike.

I think that Jones has taken to inhaling 'the paint' as a result of the Jaguars rescuing wide receiver Troy Williamson from the Minnesota Vikings, who rather coincidentally was 1) a 1st round pick who has been a bust and 2) drafted in the same 1st round in 2005.

As an avid fantasy football player I drafted Williamson in 2005 in keeper drafts, and even took my chances with him over the past two years as late www.nfl.com fantasy picks and as a waiver wire pickup. Every single time I was let down, and Williamson has managed an even more depressing 79 catches in 3 NFL seasons - yuk !

With the Rookie Symposium going on this week in sure NFL players will be using Matt Jones as an example of precisely the situation you DO NOT want to be in after three unfulfilled NFL seasons.

We have two major drug issues in sport - performance enancing and recreational. The case of Matt Jones is not performance enhancing unless he wants to grow another foot taller and play in the NBA.

Matt - I know the off season is dull with the painfully dull Brett Favre saga boring us all rigid, but even as a fan I dont turn to snorting white powder up my delicate nostrils.

If you are bored Matt I have a few suggestions;

1) Order a spicy pizza, drink a bottle of Diet Coke, and watch Invincible

2) Do some community charity work - and that doesn't mean raising the profile of anti-drug groups !

3) Go to your multi-million dollar facilities more often and learn to block and catch in order to lock down a starting job and get more than 33 catches a season - a nice total for a running back or a non-elite tight end, but not acceptable for a 1st round wideout.

I'll sign off this entry with the thought - who is the BIGGEST bust from the 1st round of the NFL draft - Troy Williamson WR or Matt Jones WR - would love some views from the world wide web please .........

Directed By:Louis Leterrier

Written By: Zak Penn

Starring: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt

Let me start of by saying that it's awesome how we're in the geek wet-dream age. I would never have thought that we could have Robert Downy Jr. Playing Iron Man  and Ed Norton playing The Hulk or that super hero films would have such enormous budgets. I'm going to answer the first two questions people will inevitably ask. Yes, It is better than the Ang Lee version more-so because it's just more entertaining. And yes it's worth watching. It's not as good as Iron Man but it's still a great time. I mean where else can you see a giant green guy break a police car in half and beat the shit out of someone with it?

I think The Incredible Hulk does a great job of reintroducing us to the character/minds of David Banner and Hulk without spending too much time on coddling the audience. They sprinkle in the exposition and let the film start out with a bang. Whenever Hulk shows up it gets pretty nutty. There are all sorts of shout-outs to the comic book and the TV show and the film does a good job of balancing funny and serious. The only thing I wish there was more of was Tim Roth. He did a pretty good job playing the villain but it didn't feel like they really let him loose. The last fight scene was definitely badass with all types of violence and the smashing and the breaking.

I will say I'm a fan of the film but I'm really not a fan of Hulk as a character. I'll be a Batman guy for life for a multitude of reasons I can't get into right now. I mean The Hulk just seems way overpowered. The more he gets angry the bigger he gets and the stronger he gets? And then they introduce Banner being able to control him? I mean that was his only weakness besides being a complete meat head while in Hulk form. He's basically invincible, and we all know how lame invincible is. (See Apocalypse in X-Men or Superman turning back time)

Anyways, I'm going to end on a high and low note. The high note is Michael K. Williams makes a quick cameo in the film because Ed Norton is a big fan of The Wire, as am I. The low note is I'm really nervous about these next two films. I mean Captain America and Thor? Captain America just seems like some corny company man who has no mind of his own and is basically a slave to the US government and Thor, well I can't even look at Thor without laughing. Maybe they'll pull them off, I hope they do. I just sort of think they should have sprinkled them in like, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America. It just feels like we're left with the scraps.

Sum' bitch.  Anyways, here's what he would have potentially shared with you guys.

Straight outta Illadelphia, Knowledge began making beats before he could remember (true story) and is slowly but surely building up a healthy MySpace buzz amongst post-Dilla beat makers. This guy is a problem, but the problem is not too many people know about him.

I can remember when I first met him online and began to get a few beat snippets over AIM a few years ago. I can’t lie; my very first impression was that the beats sounded a little out there. But the more time we spent building, the more I understood where he was coming from and was able to realize this dude was for real.

Knowledge is a workhorse as well. Peep his myspace, he changes beats on there damn near daily, and I know that is only a taste of all the shit he is cooking up at the crib. He has some kind of instrumental EP in the works and he just had a beat on Invincible’s stellar debut LP, so I’m glad to see more people beginning to gravitate towards the kind of music he is creating.

It was a little hazy back then, but now I can see there is a musical common ground that you can hear when you peep cats like Flying Lotus, Ras_G, Samiyam, Hudson Mohawke and others. I’d like to add Knowledge from Philly to that list.

Directionz
kev brown power bars REMIX
gamble
mono shuffle
milbemycin Oxide
bad newz

June 18th Winning Numbers

Classic Lotto - 11 17 25 36 42 13

June 20th, Winning Numbers

Daily 3
Midday - 912
Evening - 451

Daily 4
Midday - 5053
Evening - 7478

Fantasy 5 - 02 05 17 26 37

Mega Millions - 11 17 25 36 42 + Mega Ball 13

Together we are invincible, let your light shine and when you see the darkness approaching reach out so that the light can enfold you and keep you safe.

True friends catch you, fake ones let you fall

Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be all right
Cause there's no one like you
In the universe

Don't be afraid
What your mind conceives
You should make a stand
Stand up for what you believe
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible

And during the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible

Do it on your own
Makes no difference to me
What you leave behind
What you choose to be
and whatever they say
Your soul's unbreakable

And during the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible

And during the struggle
They will pull us down
Please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible

On The Top of the Stack:

• Skarr: Son of Hulk # 1 [0:32]
• Action Comics #866 [5:28]
• Green Lantern Corps #25 [12:10]
• Eternals #1 [16:31]
• Doktor Sleepless #7 [19:16]
• Angel: After The Fall #8 [23:37]
• Invincible #50 [27:58]

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• Ocean being written by new scriber Ryan Condal. [34:12]
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A lot of truth in here that should be marinated on.  What a lot of these citizens are saying are revolutionary ideas that are very much aligned with my own in terms of building better, strong, more efficient communities.  I have a whole manifesto written if anyone has a few million to support it.

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Invincible feat. Finale - “The Locusts” video

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***Female Emcees Vol. 1 - 4 (free download)***

Taken straight from Bling47 Radio.

To commemorate the release of Invincible's lifetime-in-the-making debut album, ShapeShifters (in stores TODAY!!), we dedicated this month's entire podcast episode to the latest & greatest of Invincible's collaborations & compilation tracks - plus as always, some B47 exclusives. 

1. Invincible - 1996 WJLB FM98 Freestyle
I was 15 on this, which is why it sounds like I'm on helium. I didn't know how to count bars yet so if you listen close you can hear them trying to cut me off. but i just kept going. LOL!

2. Invincible - Pick Your Poison (prod. Waajeed) (Fat City/Bling47)
This was on Waajeed's The War LP, and he originally made the beat for Tiombe, but I fell in love with how off-and-on beat it sounds, almost like a staggering drunk. On the surface this is about Hip-Hop addicts but if you listen close the meanings of the lyrics are as layered as the beat itself.

3. Dabyre feat. Invincible & Finale - Viewer Discretion (Ghostly Intl.)
Dabrye once told me he makes beats on some MSDOS program with the green and black screen, which is why his beats sound like UFOs. For the subject matter and sample in the middle I dug up one of my favorite flicks of all time, Born In Flames, to inspire me and Finale. 

4. Invincible feat. Helixx - Perfectionists (prod. Supa Dave West) (Rawkus)
Originally slated to be my first single on Rawkus back in '99, another version of this later appeared on Lyricist Lounge's Underground Airplay mixpilation. The incredibly talented Supa Dave West produced this and is singing on the hook as well. This is still an ANOMOLIES anthem to this day. 

5. Athletic Mic League feat. Invincible - Got ‘Em Sayin (Turn It Up) (prod. Haircut & Forekast) (Lab Technicians)
From AML's official debut, Sweats & Kicks. The craziest story about this song has to do with AML pressing the vinyl single up in Eastern Europe somewhere where they found a really cheap deal. When it got to the airport Customs called them in and had them re-sticker every single record because it had the wrong country code.

6. NowOn feat. Invincible, Illite & Vaughan T - だれか (Who) (prod. The Lab Techs) (A•Side Worldwide)
I left home when I was 15 and crashed on Mikey from Now On's couch that whole summer. We would do nothing but get twisted and cipher all day everyday. This was our first official collaboration since so it meant a lot to me.

7. PPP feat. Invincible - Detroit Winter (prod. Waajeed, co-prod. Saadiq) (Ubiquity)
I originally wrote this to a really dark and depressing beat that Waajeed and Georgia Anne Muldrow co-produced. Randomly, Waajeed called me one day and put the phone up to the speaker with this industrial march sounding track that he had flipped it to and as they say "the rest is history!" The line from the hook was inspired by the same phrase written on a shirt my homegirl Bri from Detroit Summer found at Value Village

8. Finale & Spier1200 feat. Invincible, Wordsworth & Jazz - The Ring (Rawkus 50/Soul Step)
From the Develop album just released last year, we wrote this several years ago. Soon as we heard that ringtone in the background of the track we knew it had to be the "love/hate relationship with phones" anthem. 

9. Finale & Spier1200 feat. Invincible & Elzhi - Eye Of the Beholder (Rawkus 50/Soul Step)
This joint is also from the Develop album. Finale asked us to write a poetic beautiful verse about all the ugly situations around us. The vibes in the beat really set the tone.

10. Lacks (OKA TaRaach) & Invincible - Real To Reel (prod. Waajeed) (Bling47) *****VINTAGE EXCLUSIVE!****
TaRaach (then known as Lacks) and I ran into each other at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and he was with Waajeed (who was passing out the Bling47 mixtape "Best Kept Secret"). I hadn't seen either of them in years so we met up a few days later to catch up and ended up writing and recording this track on the spot. 

11. Buff1 feat. Invincible & Guilty Simpson - SUPREME! (prod. Waajeed) (A•Side Worldwide)
Originally Buff asked me to be on a more laid back and emotional track, but when he played me this Waajeed banger I asked him if i could get on this instead to just straight spit and throw off people's expectations.

12. Grooveman Spot feat. Invincible - Who's This (Jazzy Sport)
This is a straight spitting joint which I rarely do, but when I heard this Grooveman Spot beat was so laid back and jazzy I wanted to contrast it with some raw lyrics. 

13. Dabyre feat. Invincible & Finale - Get It Together (Ghostly Intl.)
Once again Dabrye makes beats like an alien, and me and Finale have fun trying to match it. The track is so hectic it was a perfect canvas to paint a picture of how crazy our daily hustle is.

14. Invincible - The Place Where We Dwell (Part D) (prod. Waajeed) (Fat City/Bling47) 
Off The War LP, this is my ode to one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite groups of all time, Gang Starr. Neither of them are from Brooklyn, but both now call it home. My relationship to The D is similar, since I didn't grow up here but I call it home. The drums reminded me of the original, so I tried to get that monotone Guru style on too. 

15. Invincible - Sledgehammer! (prod. 14KT & Haircut) (EMERGENCE)
Dilla said it best... "pay attention maaan!"

Compiled by Kenny Fresh, Jackie O. & Waajeed for the Bling47 Group
Hosted & Mixed by Waajeed for Bling47 Radio

Download Here

INVINCIBLE's NEW ALBUM, SHAPESHIFTERS, AVAILABLE NOW ON CD & iTUNES

For more on Invincible, check:
EMERGENCEmusic.net
BLING47.com
myspace.com/INVINCILANA

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Waajeed - Interview and much more

Record shopping with Waajeed in Detroit

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Omer Saar - “THE GREEN ALBUM” (free download)

Elzhi - “That’s The One” (free download)

New Elzhi ft. T3 - “Save Ya” (free download)

In a game of Normandy on Last Resort, I was untouchable. Chances are, I could've gotten invincible but as shown on the screenshot, we only had 30 seconds left.......and I was under preassure.

The first time I saw Invincible was at UCLA's first Hip Hop for Palestine concert, two years ago. She is the kind of MC that brings me back to why I like hip hop, writing about important issues and shunning gimmicks to make her music. On the strength of her performance, I bought the "Free the P" album, and learned to love Suheir Hammad, Ragtop, and the rest of the Arab Hip Hop community producing quality hip hop.

Invincible often works with Wajeed from Bling47, and is now a part of the ANOMALIES, a NY based hip hop outfit. Bling47 put out a special podcast for the release of her new album, which you can find here. Invincible spurned numerous record deals in favor of keeping her brash style and creative control, and it has paid off with her first full-length release, "ShapeShifters." She was recently featured on The Smoking Section, and had a 2 part docu-music-video about the crumbling of Detroit featured on Current.tv (Part 1, Part 2).

Cop the single "Sledgehammer" here, preview "People not Places," and get on ITunes to buy the whole record, "Shapeshifters" asap. She's a unique MC and represents the branch part of hip hop that keeps this music legitimate. Keep up with Invincible through her website, Emergence.

SPOILERS!!!

It’s finally here! If you are any kind of a Robert Kirkman fan, you’ll know that he isn’t the most punctual guy around. The oversized five dollar Invincible #50 is finally at your local store.

First, I’ll just comment briefly on the price. I know for me, just like a lot of you, that five bucks is a bit much. What do you get for that?  We get 24 pages of the regular series, as well as two 12 page back up stories. You’re getting the length of two issues for a dollar less than you would normally pay. That is good, I’m just sad that we didn’t get 48 pages of the regular story.

Well, I believe it’s been about three months since the last issue came out, but if you’ll recall, Invincible is pissed at his long time boss, Cecil Stedman. The issue opens with Invincible in the white room where he can’t see anything but Cecil and apparently five feet in front of him. Invincible is pissed that Cecil is working with bad guys. We get some nice dialogue between the two characters that has seriousness not often seen in Invincible. Invincible is kicking the crap out of all the zombie dudes and it seems like Mark is going to win.

The white lights cut out mid-fight to reveal that Invincible has an entire army left to fight. Cecil gives Mark an out, but Invincible stands his moral ground and refuses. Cecil reaches in his pocket and then Invincible screams in agony. It seems that after the fight with his dad like 40 issues ago, Cecil not only implanted a communicator in Mark’s ear, but also a device to attack his equilibrium. It is always cool when something is brought up about an event taking place many years ago. It usually shows incredible planning by the writer, like what Ed Brubaker is doing in Captain America. So I was impressed by that.

So it seems that this was Invincible’s weakness. Mark wonders what the devices range is and then tries to run. He doesn’t make it. He tries again after stating that breaking out of the pentagon slowed him down before. We then get a two page splash of Mark flying while Cecil is teleporting from place to place unable to catch Invincible.

He finally gets hit right after he busts into the Guardians of the Globe headquarters. Mark explains his situation and Cecil assures them that Mark is crazy and is the bad guy. They finally believe Mark and try to fight off Cecil and the Reanimen. Rex Splode blows up the device that is hurting Mark which of course makes the pulse constant. The Reanimen begin killing Invincible which finally makes Cecil regretful. Mark toughs it out and gets nice and violent after Robot blocks the transmission that is hurting Invincible. Cecil finally says enough is enough and that Invincible is fired and that he doesn’t care what the others do. Before Cecil ports away Mark slams Cecil into the wall, grabs his throat and says that if Cecil ever screws with him again he’ll kill him. Go Invincible!

When Mark gets home, his brother, his mother, and Eve are there. He explains what just happened, Eve and Mark go outside. Will they finally get together and kiss after 50 damn issues?! YES!!! That is the conclusion to the issue and then we get two stories, the secret origin of Cecil Stedman, and some Science Dog.

So that’s it. I think we got what you want out of an issue 50. The world kind of flips upside down, there is a huge fight all issue with some nice dialogue throughout, and finally Mark and Eve get together. All these things made me happy and ready for the next issue. The Cecil story was cool and the Science Dog was kind of fun, but definitely the worst part of the issue. This is kind of the end of part one of Invincible, which is why on the fifty first issue, the one is highlighted, Invincible has a new costume, and his brother is his sidekick. This was a great issue.

4 out of 4 stars