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7:07 PM ET, September 13, 2013
Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
TORONTO -- Chris Davis made his milestone moment matter to the wild card-chasing Orioles.
Davis hit his major league-leading 50th home run, a tiebreaking solo shot in the eighth inning, and Baltimore erased a 3-0 deficit to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 on Friday night, snapping a three-game losing streak.
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"It's nice to have personal goals and to reach your own goals, but when the team is winning and you are successful, it makes it that much sweeter," Davis said. "It was big to come from behind and get the win."
Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he was happy to see Davis to reach the mark in such meaningful fashion.
"Everybody pulls so hard for him because he's such a good teammate, and so humble about the good things that he's had happen to him this year," Showalter said. "He's just an easy guy to pull for."
Davis became the 27th major leaguer to join the 50-homer club, and the first since Jose Bautista in 2010, when he led off the eighth with a blast to center off All-Star reliever Steve Delabar, connecting on a 2-2 pitch.
"I knew I barreled it up," Davis said. "I tried to go the other way there with two strikes. I've faced Steve a few times. You can't look for his split, as hard as he throws. I was just trying to put a good swing on it and stay through it."
The drive matched Brady Anderson's 1996 Orioles record and made Davis just the third player in major league history with 50 homers and 40 doubles in the same season. The others were Babe Ruth (1921) and Albert Belle (1995).
"It's a humbling feeling to be in the same company with the guys I'm in," Davis said.
Chris Davis Turns Fifty!
Chris Davis is the first player since 2010 to hit 50 home runs in a season, and just the seventh in the past 10 years.
50-HR Seasons - Last 10 Seasons
Year | Player | HR |
2013 | Chris Davis | 50 |
2010 | Jose Bautista | 54 |
2007 | Alex Rodriguez | 54 |
2007 | Prince Fielder | 50 |
2006 | Ryan Howard | 58 |
2006 | David Ortiz | 54 |
2005 | Andruw Jones | 51 |
Davis has hit seven home runs off Blue Jays pitching this season and has 15 against Toronto since the start of the 2012 season, the most by any opponent.
"He's having a great year," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "He's so strong he hits them anywhere. It's got nothing to do with the park here. Some guys will get some cheapies here. He doesn't get any cheapies."
Orioles fan Steve Houff of Ellicott City, Md., was in the center field seats with four friends, close to where Davis' homer landed.
Houff said he paid around $100 to buy the ball from the Toronto fan who caught it, giving it to Davis in exchange for a signed bat, signed balls for his group, several photographs and the promise of free tickets for the remainder of the weekend from a grateful Orioles staffer.
Adam Jones followed Davis' blast with an infield hit and, two outs later, moved up on Ryan Flaherty's walk before scoring on Danny Valencia's RBI single.
Tommy Hunter (5-4) worked 1 2-3 innings for the win and Jim Johnson finished for his 44th save in 53 chances, rebounding after his wild pitch helped the New York Yankees beat Baltimore 6-5 on Thursday.
Hunter, who was Davis' teammate in Texas before both players were traded to the Orioles in 2011, said he marvels as much as anyone at his good friend's superb season.
"I've seen him hit multiple home runs in multiple games," Hunter said. "He's a pretty strong man, he works hard and he goes about his business."
The Orioles, who had lost four of their previous five, came in 2½ games behind Tampa Bay in the race for the second AL wild-card berth. They gained ground on the New York Yankees, who lost 8-4 at Boston.
Delabar (5-4) allowed two runs and three hits in one inning, losing his second straight appearance. The right-hander also lost to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday.
Adam Lind hit a two-run home run and Colby Rasmus returned from the disabled list with a solo shot, but the Blue Jays suffered their fourth straight defeat.
Toronto slugger Edwin Encarnacion returned to the lineup at designated hitter after missing the past four games with a sore left wrist, and helped the Blue Jays open the scoring in the fourth. Encarnacion drew a two-out walk before Lind drilled Jason Hammel's next pitch into the seats for his 20th home run.
Activated off the 15-day disabled list before the game after missing more than a month with a strained muscle in his left side, Rasmus made it 3-0 with a solo blast off Hammel to begin the fifth, his 19th.
Toronto starter Todd Redmond left one out after Jones doubled to open the seventh. Dustin McGowan came on and gave up an RBI double to J.J. Hardy, then walked Flaherty.
Valencia popped out but Steve Clevenger tied it with a double that bounced over the head of right fielder Moises Sierra. Nate McLouth walked before Sergio Santos came on and struck out Manny Machado to end the inning.
Redmond allowed one run and three hits in a career-high 6 1-3 innings. He walked none and struck out seven.
"He threw a whale of a game; we just didn't get any outs," Gibbons said.
Singles by Brett Lawrie and Rasmus gave the Blue Jays runners at the corners with one out in the seventh, bringing Hunter on in relief of T.J. McFarland. Hunter escaped by fanning Sierra and J.P. Arencibia.
Hammel started for the Orioles in place of Bud Norris, who was scratched Wednesday with a sore right elbow. He allowed three runs and three hits in five innings, walked one and struck out two.
Game notes
Anderson hit his final three homers of the 1996 season in Toronto, connecting off Cy Young Award winner Pat Hentgen for his 50th on Sept. 29. ... Redmond pitched in five games with Baltimore during spring training but was claimed on waivers by Toronto in late March. ... Orioles RHP Darren O'Day had two injections in his right hand Friday to relieve numbness and tingling in his fingers, an ailment that has kept him off the mound since Sept. 7. ... Baltimore C Matt Wieters got the day off after catching six of the past seven games. Wieters is expected to catch back-to-back day games Saturday and Sunday. ... The Orioles selected INF Dan Johnson from Triple-A Norfolk and placed OF Henry Urrutia on the restricted list. The Cuban rookie is prohibited from entering Canada due to visa issues.
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Scoring Summary
4th | A Lind homered to right center (416 feet), E Encarnacion scored. | 0 | 2 | |
5th | C Rasmus homered to right (363 feet). | 0 | 3 | |
7th | J Hardy doubled to deep left, A Jones scored. | 1 | 3 | |
7th | S Clevenger doubled to right, J Hardy and R Flaherty scored. | 3 | 3 | |
8th | C Davis homered to left center (430 feet). | 4 | 3 | |
8th | D Valencia singled to center, A Jones scored, R Flaherty to second. | 5 | 3 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON |
Attendance | 20,024 (40.6% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:41 |
Weather | indoors |
Umpires | Home Plate - Todd Tichenor, First Base - CB Bucknor, Second Base - Dale Scott, Third Base - Bill Miller |
Research Notes
With his 50th home run this season, Chris Davis tied Brady Anderson for the Orioles franchise record for home runs in a season. [+]Most HR in Single Season - Orioles Franchise History
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Chris Davis's 50th HR of the season was his 4th go-ahead HR in the 8th inning or later this season. The only MLB player with more is Paul Goldschmidt (7 entering Friday). | ||||||||||||||||||||
Davis' Shortest HR: 357 feet, twice
July 30, 6th inning off Lucas Harrell
September 6, 6th inning off John Danks
Davis' Longest HR Distance: 466 feet
August 10, 8th inning off Santiago Casilla
Davis' Average HR Distance: 405 feet
Davis' Average HR Distance by Month:
April: 413.0 feet
May: 406.4 feet
June: 403.1 feet
July: 383.3 feet
August: 416.8 feet
September: 399.7 feet (only 3 HR)
Davis' 50th HR: 430 feet
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Chris Davis is the third player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs and 40 doubles in a season. [+]50 Home Runs and 40 Doubles - MLB History
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I'm For Newt, and Here's Why.
I was going to write a long post, probably in the area of 3,000 words, about the candidates, and which one I like but I decided not to. Oh sure, I could toss in bullet points and section headers and give you something every bit as good as you'd find in your average conservative political magazine. I could wax on about who did what in the past and who cozied up to whom.
Would you really read that, though? For that matter, do you really care who I like for President?
Look, if you want detailed endorsements, I'll point you to a few. I linked three excellent endorsements of Rick Perry in this post and you can add this early endorsement by Melissa Clouthier and this even-handed piece by Matt Newman to them. Stacy McCain, Lisa Graas, Zilla Stevenson, and Pete Da Tech Guy have endorsed (or all but endorsed) Rick Santorum. Of course, you know how the more professional conservative crowd has gotten behind Mitt Romney including Ann Coulter, Governors Chris Christie and Nikki Haley, and, in a backhanded way, National Review. If you got behind any of those candidates, you'd have plenty of good reasons and you'd have the support of many smart people.
None of them are for me, though. Like I said on The Delivery a couple of weeks ago, we all have to decide what we want our President to do, then find that candidateswho we believe will get most of those things done. I have my list, and it's a short one (it is also revised to account for Herman Cain's retirement from the race. I guess I'll have to wait to get someone who isn't a career politician).
- Repeal Obamacare.
- Take the fight to the left, without pause or mercy.
- Carve into the size of government so that it's smaller after four years than it is now.
As it stands, I believe all the candidates but one will take a legitimate run at Obamacare. I know that Mitt Romney has said he would, but I simply don't believe him, not as long as he backs Romneycare as firmly as he does. Aside from him, though, I've not really narrowed down the field.
I also believe all the candidates, Romney included, will make the federal government smaller in some way than it is today. Some will cut more than others. Each of them will work in different areas of the government, though I'm certain they'll all strip out business-killing regulations at some point in their administration. Again, I pretty much have the entire field from which to choose.
That leaves me with my second criterion, which is pretty important to me. I have no desire to relive the George W. Bush years, during which I and nearly every other conservative had to do his fighting for him because he was unwilling or unable to muster his own defense. His social security reform died because he didn't sell it well. The left, and more than a few on the right, savaged our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan because he could not push back against the often scurrilous attacks. I could not have endured another year of President Bush. I was tired. I imagine a lot of you were tired too. In fact, one of the biggest reasons John McCain lost to Barack Obama is because he would not attack Obama's record, his checkered past, his repugnant associates, or his bog-standard socialist worldview.
So I want a fighter and I'm willing to let a few things slide to get one. I'm willing to overlook a man's marital iniquities, committed decades ago. I'm willing to accept that I may have to fight my President on occasion to push him back on the right course. I realize that at times I may have to get between him and a compromise with the dishonest Nancy Pelosi or the weaselly Harry Reid.
By now, I'm sure you've guessed that I've chosen Newt Gingrich. Look, say what you will about some of the bad choices he's made in the past (and if you want chapter and verse on them, you can get it from National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru and Mark Steyn), but you can not deny that among all our present choices, he is the only one who has aggressively and consistently pushed back against the progressive left and their quislings in the media during the campaign. As I wrote earlier in the week, he fought when other candidates held their peace or whined for more attention. His record as Speaker is stuffed full of times when he shoved back hard against the Democrats and the status quo — the Contract with America, the balanced budgets he passed with a Democratic President, Welfare Reform that he had to push three times to get past that same President. He is the only man in my lifetime who was willing to shut down the entire government rather than let the left's runaway spending go without challenge.
I support him for more than that, though. I support him because, for the most part, he's won his fights. he is the only Republican politician I can remember in the last decade who backed down Nancy Pelosi, and it only took a couple of hours for him to do it. I also support him because he is the only candidate, now that Herman Cain is out of the race, who has not only pushed a series of positive messages about what this country can do with him in the Oval Office but has deliberately refrained from savaging his fellow candidates or those who support them. His control has frayed recently, after he came under simultaneous attack from four different candidates in the same week, but he's holding it together pretty well. I admire that, and I would hope that you do, too.
I am not naive. I know that I will have to keep my eye on Gingrich should he be elected President. I know very well his impulse toward the technological solution and the grand idea. I know that his penchant for brainstorming out loud will lead to headlines that will make me, and most of the country, roll our eyes in disbelief. I know that he can easily come off as arrogant and too clever by half. I will not agree with him in every detail; in fact, I can tell you that I don't. I have plenty of reasons not to like him. Then again, I have plenty of reasons not to like any of the candidates.
Despite all that, I prefer him to all the others. Much like Abraham Lincoln said of General Ulysses Grant, "He fights". I want someone in the White House who won't shy away from a fight over conservative principles. I want someone who will kick recalcitrant Congressional Republicans in the tail, like he did when he was Speaker of the House (and don't think for a moment that they removed him from the position for any other reason than because he upset their apple carts). I want someone who will look Democrats in the eye, grin, and take them to school so quickly they barely have time to figure out how they lost.
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For the elderly gaming generation, the name Wizardry evokes some strong nostalgia. Stirring the pot of emotions, it was Wizardry that introduced many role-playing game enthusiasts to some of the worst gaming tricks in the book; so much so, that Wizardry has earned its status as a gaming trope. But to try to explain Wizardry's power to younger generation of gamers, those that didn't nurse themselves on games like Oregon Trail and Zork, is a bit like trying to explain the horror of the atomic bomb to anyone outside of the fallout zone: unless you've played witness, the scope of its power simply doesn't sink in.
That isn't to glorify Wizardry entirely as the hardest game series to ever exist. Gamers have discovered many other pits of gaming hell across multiple platforms. But Wizardry, itself, may truly hold the title of the most difficult role-playing game series. So when Sony Online Entertainment announced it would have publishing rights to Gamepot's Wizardry Online for North America, many gamers were rightfully skeptic. There is simply no way, they declare, that such an unforgiving game can possibly succeed in the modern world of comfortable, easy-going MMOs where often, the worst penalty for failure in combat is a corpse run from a nearby waypoint.
Wizardry is all about throwing as many roadblocks in the player's way as possible, to make progress truly difficult. So what does Wizardry Online chuck at the player? To start with, there's permanent death in the game. There's no automatic regeneration of health or mana, and leveling up must be done in limited locations. There's open world PvP that you can't opt out of, complete with corpse looting. There's a punishing criminal system that can have the guards running after you and players collecting bounties on your head. In short: it is easy to die, easy to lose your loot, and easy to get stuck in a dungeon with nowhere to go but the spirit realm.
But before you scoff and turn your attention elsewhere, settle down and take a bit of a closer look at what Wizardry Online is all about. While your gaming experience may be uncomfortable, and sometimes frustrating, there's something new and something old to be found in this genre-changing title.
Let's step back to the basics. Wizardry Online has four available races – the average humans, the magical elves, the fighter-priest dwarves (male) and gnomes (female), and the sneaky Porkul. Each race has its own strengths and weaknesses, and the race you choose determines your base statistics. This is important in choosing from one of the game's four classes: fighter, mage, priest, and thief. Each class has a minimum stat required to be able to choose it at all, which you can boost yourself to by using your randomly selected number of bonus statistical points. You'll also have a choice of alignment (lawful, neutral, and chaotic), which further narrows your class choice. Whether alignment further affects your character progression remains to be seen, but the ultimate point of character creation is to think carefully about your choices before you begin adventuring. Multiclassing is also possible, letting you start over at level one as a new class while carrying up to five of your old abilities with you.
Controls for Wizardry Online take a little getting used to, but are overall fairly standard for an MMO. WASD or using the left and right buttons together on the mouse lets you steer your character about, and space bar (out of combat) lets you jump. However, you must use another key to enter combat mode, in which you must actively attack with your mouse and your hot-bar abilities, block (only if you have a shield) with left shift), dodge backward (with space), and strafe. Using the tab key lets you lock onto a target, which can be helpful if not disorienting, since the camera does not adjust with your character's movement.
The core gameplay in Wizardry Online consists of going to public dungeons (no private instances here) to complete story quests, individual missions, and hopefully, snag some sweet loot along the way. Dungeons require permits to unlock, but these are saved to your soul rather than your individual character (a little about souls later). Exploring dungeons follows the old rules of roleplaying-games: map pieces must be discovered, traps are everywhere, chests must be disarmed, and puzzles must be solved to complete the dungeon. In addition, the respawn rate on enemies is high due to instances being open world, so there is little time to rest and little room for safety.
Death lurks around every corner in Wizardry – even after you're dead. When your character dies, you will be transported to the spirit realm as a ghost, where you must do a reverse corpse run to return to a shrine and attempt resurrection. Even as a ghost, though, danger lurks – various enemies also roam the realm of death, where you must wander defenseless. If you can survive and make It back to the area's shrine, you will have two chances to resurrect your character. A scale will indicate what your chance of success is, and if it's less than 100%, you can increase the chance of revival by sacrificing some of your items to appease the gods. Succeed, and you will revive and may resume your adventure. Fail and your body will turn to ash, giving you one last chance to return to life. If you don't succeed this time, your death will be permanent.
As harsh as permanent death sounds, the reality is that the death system is forgiving. To begin with, death is generally a matter of personal responsibility; playing defensively, working in groups, and avoiding traps will usually ensure you keep your health bar in the positive. At early levels, you will have a high rate of revival success and have to sacrifice nothing to return to life, and even at later levels, staving off a permanent burial isn't impossible. In addition, your story progress is saved to your Soul, an account progression system which levels up as you do (just at a slower rate). Your Soul not only saves your story progress, letting you avoid the dreaded "all this newbie stuff all over again" syndrome; it also grants you additional perks including a shared account storage system. In short, even with death, progress eventually becomes easier.
Speaking of progression, expect a little difference from the normal MMO and a return to more old-school RPG mechanics. To level up, you must visit an inn (or if you're lucky, find a fountain). How much you pay the innkeeper will affect how much stat gains you'll have on level up – and take heed, because your stats can also drop when you level! Leveling will also grant you skill points, which you can assign to one of two trees depending on your class choice. Souls must also be leveled up in the Temple in order for their boons to take effect. Your gear is also vital, and you must pay a visit to the Blacksmith to repair your equipment, and the forge if you wish to take a risk and upgrade it (with a chance of losing it forever.)
A last point to consider is Wizardry Online's "hardcore" open world PvP. After you reach soul level 2, you will lose your PvP protection and will be able to be attacked freely anywhere in the world (yes, even in town); naturally, you can also attack others if that's your inclination. The PvP system also harkens back to Ultima Online days – player corpses can be looted, even if you weren't the cause of their demise. Both attacking players and looting their gear will flag you as a criminal, and the more crime you do, the worse of a criminal you will become. Criminals can be freely attacked from any player without consequences, and will also be chased down by town guards. To survive, criminals must sneak about to the Slums, a guardless area for the less scrupulous. While a few merchants exist in the Slums, players will find it hard to level up their progress. Meanwhile, the bounty system may have bounty hunters hunting through the slums for criminals – at a risk of their own, unprotected, lives. Because the penalties for crime are steep, PvP is currently limited, and may continue to be so – meaning criminals are likely to be notorious and hunted, not just any average high-level player looking to PK a few noobs.
There's no doubt that Wizardry Online revisits older RPG days, when pencil and paper were your map and a d20 was your best friend and worst enemy. It is also certainly not a replica of modern MMORPGs. Players are likely to find that Wizardry Online offers a good balance of old and new, of hardcore and casual: a permanent death system that's forgiving, a criminal system that's punishing, an exploration and dungeon system that's challenging. Wizardry Online attempts to be a more realistic game, returning to the concerns of limited inventory, dangerous traps, mind twisting puzzles, and random elements.
However, Wizardry Online is also lacking in some of the difficulty that made Wizardry so well known – punishing resurrections, sudden and total death, level grinding, and guide reliance. In that respect, some of the old class of gamers might find themselves disappointed that some of the challenge is lost in an effort to mass-market the series for online gamers. The current lack of advanced classes, and a drab and lifeless town experience, also chips away at the appeal of Wizardry Online. The title is certainly one to pay attention to, especially if you've been waiting for an MMO with some challenge to it. But can it (or should it) live up to the Wizardry fame?


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Sale Prices from the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Many, many thanks to Barry Traylor, who was kind and patient enough to sit through the auction and jot down the winning prices. The only ones he wasn't able to get were some of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books.
Each lot has a handwritten number written at the end of the description: that is the price - in dollars - it sold for. If you do a double take, you're not alone.
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6 comments:
- Rick said...
This is great info. Thanks.
- April 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM
- Walker Martin said...
I was there for the Friday and Saturday night auctions and was very impressed by the spirited and agressive bidding. The attendance was close to 450, but most did not take part in the bidding, yet quite a few thousands of dollars were bid.
Just bidding on insane items like sport pulps and men's adventure magazines, I spent over $2,000 myself. I remember some items went high like a DIME SPORTS with a Robert Howard story going for $700 and a NEW STORY MAGAZINE from the teens going for close to $3000.
By the way, there was a 10% buyer's premium in addition to the auction figures. - April 24, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Deka Black said...
I',amazed, really. Don't know what to say about the proces 0_0 Well, only one thing: Wish i had the money paisd for some issues! ;)
- April 25, 2011 at 1:58 AM
- Barry Traylor said...
Sorry I miised getting the prices on so many of the Burroughs items as I just had to take a break. And I hope people can read my hand written prices. John Gunnison is a wonderful auctioneer and gets through large auctions with speed and humor. He really is quite entertaining. He is kind enough to do that job for us at PulpFest also.
I never get the chance to jot down the selling prices at PulpFest as I am just to darn busy. Actually, some of the lots went for good prices. For instance I bid on and won the 1948 lot of Adventure (all 12 issues) for $70.00, that comes out to only $5.83 per issue. - April 25, 2011 at 4:29 AM
- Barry Traylor said...
Almost forgot to add (after reading Walker's post) that we do not add a buyer's premium at PulpFest. Just the seller's charge of 10%. We do not use a reserve price, but we do charge the seller 10% of his minimum if the item does not sell. I feel that keeps a seller from putting on an unrealistic minimum.
- April 25, 2011 at 4:35 AM
- Cap'n Bob said...
Wow! I thought the prices were high until I noticed most of the lots were for groups of magazines.
I hadn't heard about Jerry's passing. That's a shame. I can't say I knew him but we met at my first con (comics) in 1970 when he was showing his latest issue of Squa Tront. RIP. - April 25, 2011 at 8:37 PM


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Ludacris (born Christopher Brian Bridges on September 11, 1977 in Champaign, Illinois), is an American rapper and actor. Born in Illinois, he was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where he eventually made a name for himself as one of the most prominent Southern rappers. He is also featured on Rap Closet and D12 World thus posts on both.
Early years: Bridges began his music career as a radio personality and DJ as Chris Lova Lova on Hot 97.5, an urban radio station in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his recorded debut on "Phat Rabbit," a track from Timbaland's 1998 album Tim's Bio: Life from the Bassment. Although both Timbaland and Jermaine Dupri showed interest in signing Ludacris, he decided to release the album Incognegro independently in 1999.
The album sold over 50,000 copies through the Atlanta based indepedent music distributor, Southern Music Distribution. The same year, he recorded the theme to the video game Madden NFL 2000. Scarface, an original member of the Geto Boys, signed Ludacris in 2000 to Def Jam Recordings, and created a new imprint, Def Jam South, around him.
Back for the First Time: Ludacris released his major label debut, Back for the First Time in October 2000. The album reached as high as #4 on the charts, and was a major success.
Ludacris made his mark on the industry with singles such as "Southern Hospitality" and "What's Your Fantasy". Back for the First Time was the beginning of Ludacris's explosion to the top of the rap world.
Word of Mouf: Ludacris promptly completed his next album, Word Of Mouf and released it at the end of 2001. Its lead single, "Rollout (My Business)" was boycotted in many American video stations. Despite the controversy, the video was nominated for a 2003 VMA, and Luda performed it live at the awards' pre-show.
Ludacris also toured with Papa Roach in 2002 after the release of their sophomore album lovehatetragedy. Ludacris reached a new level of notoriety when TV's Bill O'Reilly expressed outrage that Pepsi had hired Ludacris as a spokesman. O'Reilly repeatedly attacked Ludacris's foul language and called for a nation-wide boycott of Pepsi, who then fired Ludacris and hired Ozzy Osbourne's family instead.
Chicken & Beer: During the spring of 2003, Ludacris returned to the music scene after a brief hiatus with a new single, "Act A Fool" from the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack. At around the same time, he released the lead single from his upcoming album, Chicken & Beer, called "P-Poppin" (short for "Pussy Poppin'").
Neither of his new singles were as well-received by either the urban or pop audiences as his previous songs had been, and both music videos received only limited airplay. Chicken & Beer opened strongly, but without a popular single, the album fell quickly.
However, in the fall of 2003, Ludacris rebounded with his next single, "Stand Up", which appeared on both Chicken & Beer as well as the soundtrack for the teen hip-hop/dance movie, Honey. Produced by Kanye West, "Stand Up" went on to become Ludacris' biggest mainstream hit to date, hitting the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and garnering heavy airplay on mainstream pop, rhythmic, and urban radio stations, as well as on MTV, MTV2, and BET.
The album's next single, "Splash Waterfalls", was released in early 2004. Though not a pop hit, it became a success at urban radio and BET. It was Ludacris' most sexual video yet and an R&B remix that featured Raphael Saadiq and sampled Tony! Toni! Tone!'s "Whatever You Want". Luda next released "Blow It Out", a gritty song that had a heavily low-budget, gritty, and urban-looking music video, which was a huge departure from the colorful, sensual, R&B leanings depicted in "Splash Waterfalls". "Blow It Out" acted both as a scathing response to the aforementioned criticism levied by Bill O'Reilly and an expression of disgust at Pepsi's cowardice in the affair:
Shout out to Bill O'Reilly, I'm'a throw you a curve
You mad cause I'm a thief and got away with words
I'm'a start my own beverage, it'll calm your nerves
Pepsi's the New Generation?—Blow it out ya ass!
On June 1, 2006, a federal jury found that "Stand Up" did not infringe on the copyright of a song called "Straight Like That" by a New Jersey group known as I.O.F. "I hope the plaintiffs enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame," Ludacris said after the verdict. "This whole experience is proof to me of why I will always fight for what I believe in."
The Red Light District: The fifth studio album from Ludacris. Although entirely different from the usual antics of the previous albums, Ludacris had taken a more mature approach to his album. Ludacris openly boasted that he may be the only rapper able to keep the Def Jam label afloat.
Ludacris had recently filmed and recorded the single "Get Back" in which he was featured a muscle-bounded hulk who was being annoyed by the media and warned his critics to leave him alone. The follow-up single was the Austin Powers-inspired "The Number One Spot". It was produced by Hot 97 personality DJ Green Lantern. It used the Quincy Jones sample of "Soul Bossa Nova" and sped it up to the tempo of Ludacris' rap flow.
Ludacris also filmed the video in which he pokes fun at O'Reilly's problems with Andrea Mackris (Hi Mr. O'Reilly / Hope all is well kiss the plaintiff and the wifey). Production credits come also from veteran producer Timbaland, Lil' Jon, The Medicine Men and legendary rapper Doug E. Fresh.
Featured on the album include rappers, Nas, DJ Quik, DMX, Trick Daddy, and Disturbing Tha Peace newcomers Bobby Valentino (of Mista fame) and Dolla Boi and Small World. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. And most recently the rapper had used his opportunity to start his own foundation.
The Ludacris Foundation started by Ludacris and Chaka Zulu is an organization that helps young middle and high school students motivate themselves in creative arts. Ludacris also has a daughter by the name of Karma. Ludacris had also participated at the Super Bowl and is the spokesman for the Boost Mobile Phone ad-campaign. Ludacris also received his first Grammy Award with Usher and Lil Jon for their hit single "Yeah".
Release Therapy: In a recent issue of XXL, a hip-hop based magazine, Ludacris was placed in the number nine spot for the most anticipated albums of 2006, for Release Therapy. The album Release Therapy will be released in September.
Acting career: Ludacris has been acting in film since The Wash in 2001, but his big break came in 2005, where he received critical praise for his roles in Hustle & Flow and Crash. Crash includes an ironic sequence where Ludacris's character is dismissive of hip-hop music. He is occasionally credited as "Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges".
On January 29, 2006 he was awarded with a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture for his work in the film Crash. Ludacris also starred in 2 Fast 2 Furious, and appeared in the March 28, 2006 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Beef: In a 2006 interview with Gentlemen's Quarterly, Ludacris criticized Oprah about his appearance on her show recently. He claimed that he was censored, and didn't think Oprah wanted him on the show or respected his opinon for that matter. Ludacris was the sixth rapper ever to make a guest appearance on the talk show. Previous rappers were LL Cool J, Will Smith, Queen Latifah, Sean Combs (Diddy) and Kanye West
This would not be the first time though that Ludacris would have controversy in his career. In 2004, before the release of his debut album Straight Outta Ca$hville, Nashvillle, Tennessee and G-Unit member Young Buck would enlist the services of fellow Atlanta emcee T.I., also known as T.I.P. in his native Bankhead neighborhood of westside Atlanta. They would create a track entitled "Stomp" amid growing tension between Buck's good friend Ludacris and T.I.
On the track, T.I. takes subliminal shots at Ludacris including the line "me gettin' beat down, that's ludicrous." Buck, immediately sensing the tension, decided before releasing the track to notify Ludacris that T.I. had mentioned him since he didn't want to position himself as encouraging T.I.'s actions. Ludacris hears the track and asks Buck if he can add his own verse to which Buck agrees.
The results end up being costly for T.I. as he is berated throughout Ludacris' verse and called out by name in his last line. Representatives from T.I. notify Buck that T.I.'s vocals will not be cleared for the album unless not T.I. is allowed to change his verse, and also have Ludacris change his. Buck refuses this offer and T.I. prohibits his vocals from being used. Buck has hypeman and fellow rapper D-Tay replace T.I. on the song and D-Tay himself is eventually replaced by The Game on the official release.
Although T.I. was removed, the street cut featuring him and Ludacris had already been leaked to DJs in Atlanta and New York. T.I. was unable to stop the track's distribution throughout the streets of the nation at this point. It is widely accepted that T.I. "lost" this battle with Ludacris easily being the victor. The beef between Ludacris and T.I. was then put to an end behind closed doors as the rappers have both said that the problems between them have ceased.
In 2006 however, T.I. would release his highly anticipated fourth solo album entitled KING. In his Just Blaze produced track titled "I'm Talkin To You," T.I. lyrically attacks one or more unknown targets who have widely been speculated to be either Ludacris, New Orleans emcee Lil Wayne, or Houston rapper Lil' Flip (whom T.I. also had beef with but has since ended their animosity behind closed doors) or a combination of all three.
It is still unknown whether or not T.I. was in fact dissing Ludacris or anyone else for that matter at all.Although facts later proved that T.I. wasnt dissing Ludacris.In one of T.I.s lines he quotes "me and ludacris had a fall out but he still my nigga". In July of 2006, a track entitled "War with God" would see Ludacris return after some time off in movies.
In the track, Ludacris goes on the defensive against an unknown rapper who apparently never sold drugs, isn't as rich as he and likes to give himself titles – all very well known characteristics and facts directly relating to T.I. The track is rumored to be a selection from Ludacris' upcomin album Release Therapy this September. In this instance it also unknown whether or not Ludacris is indeed attacking T.I. or not or even if the track was recorded recently.
In an issue of XXL, Ludacris was placed in the number nine spot for the most anticipated albums of 2006, for Release Therapy. The album Release Therapy was released on September 26, 2006. Ludacris formatted the CD to have two sides: a Release side and a Therapy side on a single CD. Guest appearances include Pharrell Williams, R. Kelly, Young Jeezy, Mary J. Blige, Field Mob, Bobby Valentino, Pimp C, C-Murder, and Beanie Sigel. The first single, "Money Maker", which features Pharrell Williams, was released to U.S. radio outlets on July 17, 2006.
"Money Maker" reached number one on the BET program 106 & Park. It then went to become the rapper's second number one single after 6 years. His second single, "Grew Up a Screw Up", featuring Young Jeezy, dispels rumors that the two are or ever were in a dispute. His third single, "Runaway Love", soon peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks and won Best Collaboration in the 2007 BET Awards.
His album then reached number one on the Billboard 200 album charts with sales of 309,000 in its first week. With the release of this album, Ludacris marked a change in style in his career with his musical style. The new album itself features a departure of the lighthearted mood of his previous albums, and introduces a darker side. A change of hair accompanied this as he cut off his trademark braids for a more conventional "fade" cut. To promote the album, Ludacris returned to Saturday Night Live (as both host and musical guest) on November 18, 2006.
The Preview, a mixtape to preview the album was released on July 28, 2008. Theater of the Mind, released on November 24, 2008, and in April 2008, the single "Let's Stay Together" appeared on xxlmag.com; supposedly from the new album ("Let's Stay Together" was expected to but was released as a bonus track on the CD). A song with Small World called "Pinky Shinin" was expected to be on the album, but it was dropped. In an interview with Complex Magazine he stated that Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T.I., Plies, Common, T-Pain, Jay-Z, Nas and The Game will be on the album; The Game is featured in a track with Willy Northpole titled "Call Up the Homies". T.I. was on the album on a track called "Wish You Would" squashing the long feud between them. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 with 213,493 sold first week. The album was released the same day as Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, which took the number one spot.
His first single "What Them Girls Like", featuring Chris Brown and Sean Garrett, peaked at #33 on the Billboard 100. His second single, "One More Drink", featuring T-Pain, peaked at #24 on the Billboard 100. The third official single is "Nasty Girl", featuring Plies.
Ludacris' seventh studio album was released on March 9, 2010, with his first promotional single for the album being "Everybody Drunk" which features Lil Scrappy, originally featuring Shawnna. The first concept idea of the album was to have Ludacris and Shawnna battle it out on the album back–to–back, but this was later axed upon Shawnna's depature from Disturbing tha Peace, ending her contract on Ludacris' label and joining T-Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment label. The first official single released from Battle of the Sexes was "How Low", which was released on December 8, 2009. The follow–up single was "My Chick Bad", released on February 23, 2010. Ludacris's "Battle of the Sexes" entered the chart at No. 1, with 137,000 sales in the first week.
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(Mon., Dec. 12, 2011)Ś ōThis new exhibit is a great addition to our world class zoo,ö The total size of the new exhibit is substantially larger at 68,244 square feet. It includes a 7,260 square foot holding area and two 55,000 gallon pools. Mari and Vaigai recently moved into their new quarters and are comfortable with their expanded space. The ZooÆs staff prepared the elephants for the move by walking them over the past two months from their old enclosure to the new exhibit along the zooÆs service road which borders ōThe first time the elephants were taken to their new home, Mari played in the dirt while Vaigai seemed more interested in enjoying her new pool,ö Honolulu Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo said. ōItÆs a pleasure to watch our elephants get more exercise and explore the new exhibit.ö Once Mari and Vaigai became acclimated to their new surroundings, the staff established exhibit routines and the elephants were given access to the exhibit unsupervised. Mari was born in 1975 in The new exhibit cost approximately $12 million and was completed by Watts Constructors LLC. The consulting designer was SSFM International, Inc. with The Limtiaco Consulting Group managing the exhibit construction. -30- Media contact: Louise Kim McCoy, MayorÆs Office, 768-7798. |


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I'm known for giving unusual (but usually tactful and useful) gifts around Christmas time. My female cousin just turned 21 and I'm tempted to buy her a handgun this Christmas. Yes, I know that is like 6 months away, but I start planning the big gifts early. The thing is, I don't entirely know how she would react. She's never expressed any opinions one way or the other on the topic. She just got engaged to a really cool guy who I get along with great. I was thinking of maybe shooting him an email and see what his opinion is on the matter. I know he won't object, as I'm pretty sure he is pro-gun. But what I mean is that he would have a good idea what her reaction might be.
But then there is the issue of what kind to buy her? If you want it to be a surprise you can't exactly take her to the gun store. I'd want it to be something in the $300 range. So that eliminates a lot of the more expensive things like Sig or Glock. But then there are still choices of caliber, revolver vs. semi-auto, Big gun, pocket gun, etc. Not to mention color! It might be a less awkward gift if I got one in her favorite color, maybe even with her name on it or something. How would one ever decide?
Anyway, my reasoning on the matter is that I know a lot of people her age are unable to afford such things. I bought my first handgun on my 21st birthday and I had been saving for it for a long time, so I'm sort of the unusual one in that regard. (I'm 36 now) But many of my friends wanted one, but it just wasn't top priority on their budget. Now before anyone starts asking, she has no criminal record (or her fiancée) and she is not known for violence or mental illness. I'm 100% sure if she went down to the gunstore today, she would be approved to purchase one.
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Calories | 245 |
Total Fat | 4g |
Saturated Fat | 1g |
Cholesterol | 160mg |
Sodium | 235mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 0 |
Dietary Fiber | 0 |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 48g |
Calcium | -- |
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- 1 (about 14 pounds) fresh or frozen (thawed) turkey
- 2 large oranges
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- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) coarsely ground pepper
- 2 small onions, peeled and each cut into quarters
- 2 can(s) (14 to 14 1/2 ounces each) chicken broth (3 1/2 cups)
- 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
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- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Remove giblets from turkey; set aside. Discard liver or save for another use. Cut neck into several large pieces.
- With vegetable peeler, from 1 orange, remove 1 strip peel (4 1/2" by 3/4"); reserve peel for making gravy. Cut same orange into quarters. From remaining orange, grate 2 teaspoons peel. Reserve 3 whole large sage leaves for making gravy; finely chop 1/4 cup of remaining sage. In cup, mix grated orange peel, chopped sage, salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.
- Place orange quarters, onions, and remaining whole sage leaves inside body cavity of turkey. Fasten neck skin to back with 1 or 2 skewers. With turkey breast side up, fold wings under back of turkey so they stay in place. If drumsticks are not held by band of skin or stuffing clamp, tie legs together with string.
- Place turkey, breast side up, on small rack in large roasting pan (17" by 11 1/2"). Scatter giblets and neck pieces in pan around turkey. Rub turkey all over with chopped sage mixture. Insert meat thermometer into thickest part of thigh next to bone, being careful that pointed end of thermometer does not touch bone. Cover turkey with a loose tent of foil, letting thermometer poke through foil. Roast turkey about 3 3/4 hours.
- To brown turkey, remove foil during last 1 1/4 hours of roasting time and baste with pan drippings occasionally if you like. Start checking for doneness during last hour of roasting. Turkey is done when thigh temperature on meat thermometer reaches 175 to 180 degrees F, and breast temperature reaches 165 degrees F. (Internal temperature of turkey will rise 5 to 10 degrees F upon standing.)
- When turkey is done, place on large platter; cover with foil to keep warm. Prepare gravy: Remove rack from roasting pan. Strain pan drippings into 4-cup glass measure or medium bowl, leaving giblets and neck in pan. Let drippings stand to allow fat to separate from meat juice.
- Place roasting pan over medium-high heat and cook giblets and neck until browned, about 2 minutes. Carefully add 1 can broth to hot roasting pan and heat to boiling, stirring until browned bits are loosened from bottom of pan; boil 3 minutes.
- Spoon 2 tablespoons fat from drippings into 2-quart saucepan. Discard any remaining fat. Strain broth from roasting pan into glass measure with meat juice. Discard giblets and neck. Add remaining can of broth and enough water to meat-juice mixture in cup to equal 4 cups total.
- Stir flour into fat in saucepan; cook over medium heat about 1 minute or until mixture turns golden brown, whisking constantly. Add meat-juice mixture, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and reserved orange peel and sage leaves. Cook over medium-high heat 5 minutes or until gravy boils and thickens, stirring often. Discard orange peel and sage. Transfer to gravy boat. Makes about 4 cups.
- To serve, garnish platter. Pass gravy with turkey. Remove skin from turkey before eating if you like.
- Nutrition information for 1/4 cup gravy: About 35 calories, 1 g protein, 2 g carbohydrate, 2 g total fat (1 g saturated), 0 g fiber, 2 mg cholesterol, 250 mg sodium.
- Nutrition information is based on 1 serving of turkey without skin or gravy.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- News hit yesterday that Apple
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According to IDC, Apple had 32.4% of the tablet market, selling 14.6 million units in the second-quarter, well above the 8.1 million units second-place Samsung sold during the quarter. Amazon and Google aren't in the top five, according to IDC.
Sidenote: TheStreet is currently reviewing the new 7-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HDX, which was announced last month. Features Apple is likely to refresh both the larger, 9.5-inch iPad, as well as the 7.9-inch iPad mini at the event. Both may see huge overturns in their designs, especially the larger iPad, which is expected to borrow design features from its smaller sibling. The larger iPad is expected to be much slimmer, and offer a thinner design, strikingly similar to the popular iPad mini. Apple's design guru, Jonny Ive noted that the iPad mini is a "concentration, not a reduction," and he and his team are likely to borrow that for the larger addition. Currently, the 9.7-inch iPad is 9.5-inches tall, weighs 1.44 pounds, and is just 0.37 inches deep. The larger iPad is likely to see a thinner bezel as well, allowing the screen to take up more real estate on the tablet as well. It's highly probable that Apple will incorporate its new fingerprint technology, TouchID, into both iPads as well, as Apple continues to seek to improve security on its devices, and enter into the mobile payments space. TouchID now works with iTunes purchases, making online purchases safer and more secure, and there have images floating around the Web that the updated iPad will see TouchID incorporated into the home button.Channing Smith, portfolio manager at Capital Advisors Growth Fund, doesn't expect major innovations but does expect that these improvements will be enough to generate steady sales growth going forward.
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