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Since joining the Nationals before last season, Gio Gonzalez has been quite successful against the Phillies. In six career starts against Philadelphia, the left-hander is 4-1 with a 2.31 ERA, with Washington winning five of those contests.
He'll look to keep those numbers going on Tuesday against Phillies right-hander Ethan Martin at Citizens Bank Park as the Nationals fight to stay in the playoff race. They are 7 1/2 games back of the Reds for the second spot in the National League Wild Card race.
Gonzalez began his last start on shaky ground, allowing two runners to get on base in each of the first two frames. However, he settled down after that, retiring 15 of the next 16 Marlins batters he faced to toss seven shutout innings for his eighth win of the season.
When Gonzalez went back to the locker room to change his jersey because of the muggy weather before the third inning, closer Rafael Soriano told Gonzalez to fix his mechanics on the mound.
"Soriano was telling me to ,'stay back, your arm is dropping way too low, you are trying to rush,'" Gonzalez said. "As soon as I picked that up, I started getting into a groove."
Meanwhile, Martin allowed three runs on four hits in four innings against the Mets on Thursday for the loss. Martin continued to have trouble the second time through the lineup.
The right-hander retired seven of the first nine batters he faced. He allowed one hit and one walk the first time through the lineup, striking out five consecutive batters at one point. However, the Mets then went 3-for-8 with one double, one home run and two walks the rest of the way.
Opponents have hit .208 (10-for-48) with one double, one home run, five walks and 21 strikeouts the first time they've seen Martin in a start this season. They have hit .333 (19-for-57) with four doubles, four home runs, 11 walks and 11 strikeouts after that.
"I felt pretty decent almost every start," Martin said. "Even [pitching coach Rich] Dubee said something. He said around that 60-pitch mark, I kind of have a little struggle in there. I've got to get through that. Hopefully, I can get to that point this year."
Nationals: Knorr interested in managerial post
Bench coach Randy Knorr said Monday that he would like to be considered as the next manager of the Nationals once manager Davey Johnson retires at the end of the season.
"I would like [the Nationals] to consider me. But I know [general manager] Mike [Rizzo] has a bunch of people in mind, also," Knorr said. "It would be an honor to be considered for that job. … I try not to think too far ahead. I like to take things day by day."
Of the current players on the Nationals' Major League roster, Knorr has managed 11 of them, including Ryan Zimmerman and Stephen Strasburg, in the Minors.
Phillies: Asche out of lineup
Rookie third baseman Cody Asche was out of the Phillies starting lineup on Monday against the Nats. However, that is all part of the schedule the Phillies have laid out for Asche after he tweaked his right hamstring last week.
"He passed the test of playing in a game yesterday," interim manager Ryne Sandberg said on Monday. "The whole plan, strategy was to give him a day off after he played one game, and to be careful and bring him along. He felt fine today, but that was the plan and we're sticking to it today."
After a slow start to his Major League career -- just one hit in his first 17 at-bats -- Asche is hitting .288 (21-for-72) with a pair of home runs and 13 RBIs.
Worth noting
• The Phillies lead the Majors in hits (45), total bases (69) and game-winning RBIs (seven) for their pinch-hitters this season.
• At 17-12, the Nationals have the NL's third-best record since Aug. 1.
Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Why don't you have a seat? Take a seat. Seriously, why doesn't anybody that gets caught just ball up their fist, stick Chris Hanson in the face, then walk outside with their hands up and lay down on the floor for the cops? Now THAT would be great television.
Yeah I like Cops too. Especially when I was working a split shift. I like watching Cops at 2 AM. I've caught TCAP a few times. The perps are so incredibly stupid.
The reason why I don't like Cops or TCAP is because they prey on the worst traits of people by encouraging the sadistic enjoyment of other people's suffering. People convince themselves that they are watching it for some kind of informative news value when in fact it's just about the sickest form of entertainment. Yes they should be in jail but no I don't like watching these poor bastards hit rock bottom. I also don't like these networks tricking people into feeling self-righteous when all they are watching this exploitive crap.
Who have you ever heard say that Cops is informative in any way? To me a circus or zoo full of abused and caged wild animals is the sickest form of entertainment.
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ATHENS, Greece – In Paris this weekend, finance ministers from the world's leading economies brainstormed on a fix to Europe's crisis, with attention on Greece's debt and European bank strength following Belgian-French lender Dexia's failure.
And long-awaited answers on Greece's future are expected by October 23 when European Union leaders meet in Brussels to make decisions about future bailout loans. The G-20 leaders said in a statement Saturday that they expect the
Brussels summit to "decisively address the current challenges through
a comprehensive plan."
Beyond that near-term horizon are seldom-asked questions. What can we expect for the future in Europe? And how likely is it that an embattled country like Greece will emerge from the crisis in serviceable shape?
From Greece: "Don't blame us"
That's a question Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has been answering recently, in an effort to reassure European lenders and his compatriots that a better future awaits.
Papandreou acknowledges that Greeks face a monumental or seemingly Sisyphean task of rebuilding the economy, which is forecast to shrink by 5.5 percent this year. But he has portrayed himself as an optimist, believing that the crisis-driven change will forge lasting improvements.
"We need to lead to sustainable growth and investments because Greece has great potential, but this potential has in the past been mismanaged," he said Thursday after a meeting in Brussels with European Council President Herman van Rompuy.
"That's why we are moving ahead with major reforms — radical changes that we are implementing throughout the Greek economy and in the public administration to guarantee competitiveness, productivity, growth, transparency and social justice," Papandreou said.
Papandreou's administration, which inherited debt of $400 billion when he took office two years ago this month, has raised taxes, slashed public sector wages and pensions, consolidated agencies, and is trying to attract investors by making it easier to do business here.
It has also passed legislation opening dozens of "closed" professions, which will raise competitiveness and productivity – assuming the law is enforced.
Papandreou has pointed out that Greece is exploiting its comparative advantages. It is targeting new markets for tourism, which is up this year. Government officials also have high hopes for Project Helios, a $27 billion plan to export solar power.
From Greece: Feeling Greece's pain
But is the prime minister – a socialist who has betrayed his ideological roots by imposing a painful deficit-reducing program under pressure from foreign lenders – merely putting a positive spin on things? Or is it possible that the crisis will retool Greece into a leaner, stronger and more modern state?
Despite boisterous street protests by opponents of the changes, many agree that Greece was in dire need of reform.
The country's economic model was "fundamentally flawed and no longer possible," said Vagelis Agapitos, an independent economist in Athens.
Successive governments overspent, handed out jobs to political supporters, and barely collected taxes. It left Greece flat-footed when he crisis struck.
"Government was the main customer of private enterprises," Agapitos said. "Lots of companies became too dependent on governments. Their concern wasn't in making real competitive products at real competitive prices."
A 2010 report by Eurostat, the EU's statistical arm, gave high marks to the continent's governments and business communities regarding investment in innovation, research and development. The exceptions: "Only the innovative enterprises of Greece and Portugal seem to need to invest heavily in machinery, equipment and software."
Greece's bureaucratic red tape means it's easier to do business in Guyana or Ethiopia, according to this year's World Bank survey. Greece ranked 109th out of 183 countries in terms of ease of doing business. Greece expects its ranking to improve in the next annual report, to be released later this month.
Time will tell whether the country will emerge stronger. Indonesia and Russia, among others that have suffered financial crises, have bounced back. But those countries had the "luxury" of devaluing their currencies, which boosts export revenues because of lower prices. Greece, of course, is tied to the euro.
For the moment, there's little evidence of a brighter future.
"The problem," Agapitos added, "is that not everyone realizes [the old] model is no longer in operation."
Greece's powerful unions, as well as opposition parties, have resisted changes. Transit strikes stall commutes and sporadic violence has erupted during protests.
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Mac Bohonnon and Kiley McKinnon marked the first time Team USA earned both the men's and women's globes.
Setting track records in three heats, they became the first U.S. world champions in the event's 15-year history.
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We're big fans of inkle's work here at 148apps, even if the lower case "i" does make my Grammar Hat twitch uncomfortably. So, the news of a new project coming from the studio was bound to get us excited. That project is 80 Days, an ambitious narrative-focused game inspired by the work of Jules Verne that utilizes a fairly cool steampunk theme.
Players take the role of Passepartout as he helps (and suffers) Phileas Fogg on their epic journey around the world in 80 days. Set for release this Summer, 80 Days promises plenty of different paths to success with many decisions to take, much like in the Sorcery! series of games. Perhaps most interesting of all, there'll be a networked live feed ensuring that players can keep track of what's going on with other players, all in real time.
Fascinated by the general premise, I was able to discuss the game with inkle's Jon Ingold and Joe Humfrey, as well as the game's writer, Meg Jayanth, to learn more.
148Apps: Why did you settle on the idea of 'Around the World in 80 Days' as the core inspiration?
inkle: It was one of those light-bulb moments when you think, "that's perfect, why has no-one done this before?" 'Around the World in 80 Days' is perfect for a branching narrative adventure. You have the entire globe to explore, choosing your own route across all of the continents. The goal is simple, but there are thousands of ways to approach it.
The setting is fantastic too, and we've had a lot of fun with that; taking Verne's original vision of the British Empire in 1870s and blowing it wide open to incorporate other cultures, and a broader and more inclusive approach. Our players will have a richer, wilder, more unexpected world to discover. There are no simpering Indian princesses to be rescued here; they're much more likely to be revolutionaries fighting for Indian Independence. And, depending on your choices, maybe they will rescue you.
And best of all, at the heart of the story is the relationship between Phileas Fogg and his loyal valet, so we've got loads of opportunities for character interaction as well.
148Apps: What inspired the steampunk style look?
inkle: 1872 was a remarkable year in history because it was the first time it was even conceivable to go around the world in as little as eighty days. But for our version we wanted to allow the player to choose from thousands of possible routes, which all need to be competitively balanced against each other, so you can race against other players.
So, a steampunk twist gave us that freedom. And it suits the style: Verne's writing is the original steampunk; he put rocket ships on the Moon, submarines under the sea, and found dinosaurs at the center of the Earth. And so with our writer, Meg Jayanth, we've built an 1872 we think Verne would have loved. Where, say, traveling via the airship network along the east coast of our Africa is a viable gameplay option, has its own unique set of characters and narrative outcomes, and above all, is just plain cool.
But we also knew steampunk is quite a common look and we wanted something that goes beyond the usual look of rust, cogs, kitsch, and cosplay. We wanted a classier 19th century science fiction, so we asked ourselves, "what would futuristic look like to someone in 1870?"
So we've got something quite new. 80 Days isn't steampunk, exactly; it's more like 'Minority Report' for Victorians, with clean, bold colors, smooth gradients, and stark silhouettes that take their lead from the Art Deco movement of the 1930s. Hence the our tag-line: "The year is 1872. Welcome to the future!"
148Apps: Is the game solely a matter of making text-based choices or will there be any combat or any other interactive elements?
inkle: 80 Days is a half-and-half mixture of interactive story, and something like a board game. During the story sequences the player makes story choices, and once again we've used our inklewriter engine to allow us to write thousands of options all of which are remembered. But in-between the story sections the player makes strategic decisions about which routes to follow and which way to explore the globe. Go across Siberia, or through India, or take the ship from South Africa to Australia, or mix-and-match between them?
Each route has its own costs, dangers, limitations, and benefits, so there's this strategic layer to plotting your course, and you can drill into that as much as you want – weighing up the options carefully, or simply trusting to your instincts and seeing what happens.
To help you gather clues about the world, there are hundreds of characters to talk to and a simple but fun conversation mechanic for doing that – and you can also use the live feed to watch other players of the app, and see what they've done, and pick up hints on what happened to them.
And finally, there's the trading mechanic! Most cities in the world have markets where you can buy and sell items to help you out of scrapes, but also to make a profit. Make sharp deals and you can net a fortune: but too many bad decisions and you might end up sleeping rough on the streets of Acapulco.
148Apps: How open-ended will it be? Are you able to travel around in any order?
inkle: We have over 150 cities scattered across all the continents of the world, and there are routes from every city to every neighbouring city – and each route is unique, with its own story-content, characters, disasters, and opportunities. We're fairly sure this is the largest – and certainly the most complex – interactive story ever created. (Yes, that means it's even bigger than Sorcery! 2 was.) So you can go whichever way you want.
On top of that, we've also made each play-through of the game a bit different, with different items, routes, characters, and connections. We've been inspired by roguelikes to use a mixture of authored and procedural content, so hopefully this'll be an adventure people can go on again and again.
148Apps: How long do you expect one play-through to take?
inkle: Each game should take a few hours – 80 days, played out in accelerated real-time (although, it does depend how fast you read, of course!).
We like the idea that in a single game session you can get around the globe, and have a full story; but that this is a game you might want to replay a few times to try and hit that 80 day target.
148Apps: The live feed of other people's progress sounds unique. How exactly will it be demonstrated to the player? Is it separate from the rest of the game via a leaderboard or something similar. Or is it always there for players to see to add some urgency?
inkle: We think there's never been anything quite like it: it's a live feed of events displayed on the game globe in real time, as and where they happen. And if you see something that catches your eye, you can zoom into that player and see the full route they took around the globe. It's a cool feature but it's also a big part of the game – getting clues as to which routes are fastest, safest or most profitable can be really important to how you play.
Meanwhile, you'll be racing recorded players pulled from our server as you go, to give the game that competitive edge. Leading the pack can be quite exciting – but it can be quite a kick when you fall behind!
So this is way more detailed, and way more integrated than a simple leaderboard. It's more like a social media stream, but into the app itself. And we can't wait to release the game – because we'll be able to sit and watch people playing it ourselves!
80 Days is set for release in Summer 2014. I'm already salivating at the thought, so yes, expect a review around that time.
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Frank's Kitchen [2], a cozy little restaurant just four blocks west of Denver's City Park, has opened a summer patio.
That's good news for the neighborhood. The eclectic menu offers everything from Caribbean jerk chicken to meatloaf. There's also smoked brisket for beef mavens, and co-owner Dina Berta, who owns the place with her husband, Frank, says a teriyaki turkey burger is on the way.
Also new on the menu: a piña colada shake and Italian fruit sodas, which will join the Mexican Coca-Cola that offers a taste of what the stuff used to taste like, before corn syrup replaced cane sugar.
The hours: Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-7 p.m. Frank's is closed Saturdays.
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Agreed Lewis wanted to leave looks like a cover story
Steelers were not going to pay to keep both Lewis and Taylor for the same reason they are not going to keep both Woodley and Worilds - their strategy is not to collectively sink too many dollars into any position other than QB, where you are stuck paying top $ for a top shelf QB. And they were reluctant to pay Lewis without a longer track record as a starter (although they are now probably going to pay Worilds
Props to Gerry Dulac of the P-G for saying Lewis should stay and Ike should go 11 months ago
Question from my weekly chat: Have the #Steelers spoken with Keenan Lewis? My answer....
I'm sure they have. I think the Steelers want to re-sign Lewis, but I also think they believe he is going to test the free agent market and that some team will overpay and make him a big offer -- an offer the Steelers won't match. Plus, the Steelers are comfortable knowing they have Cortez Allen behind Lewis.
It's too bad. I think the Steelers needed to see one more good year out of Lewis before they would give him a big contract. He's a good young player and it will be too bad if he is not re-signed. Personally, if you have to make tough financial decisions, I'd rather see them get rid of Ike Taylor and keep Lewis and Allen.
I fear they're going to resign Worilds to try and right the Lewis wrong. They should have let (and probably will) Worilds walk and retained Lewis. The fact that they didn't once again brings up our flawed player philosophy about kicking the can down the road with unproductive players for sentimental reasons, but I digress.
Dulac overestimated the contract that Lewis got. It would have been nice to cut ties with Ike at this time last year, resign Lewis and have him play opposite Allen. I'd go as far as saying that we wouldn't have lost the Vikings game and we wouldn't have given up 55 points to the Patriots. Tack on two wins, and we're competing for the AFC North. Once again, I digress.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I really hope they don't try to right the Lewis wrong by signing Worilds.
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Focal adhesion kinase regulates insulin resistance in skeletal muscle
- B. Bisht,
- H. L. Goel,
- C. S. Dey
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On the basis of our previous studies, we investigated the possible role of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) in the development of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, a major organ responsible for insulin-stimulated glucose uptake.
Materials and methods
Insulin-resistant C2C12 skeletal muscle cells were transfected with FAK wild-type or FAK mutant plasmids, knocked down using small interfering RNA (siRNA), and their effects on the levels and activities of insulin-signalling molecules and on glucose uptake were determined.
A significant decrease in tyrosine phosphorylation of FAK in insulin-resistant C2C12 cells was observed. A similar decrease was observed in skeletal muscle obtained from insulin-resistant Sprague–Dawley rats fed a high-fat diet. Increased levels of FAK in insulin-resistant C2C12 skeletal muscle cells increased insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake. These effects were reversed by an increase in the level of kinase activity mutant FAK or suppression of endogenous FAK by siRNA. FAK was also found to interact downstream with insulin receptor substrate-1, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and protein kinase C and glycogen synthase kinase 3β, leading to translocation of glucose transporter 4 and resulting in the regulation of glucose uptake.
The present study provides strong evidence that the modulation of FAK level regulates the insulin sensitivity of skeletal muscle cells. The results demonstrate a direct role of FAK in insulin-resistant skeletal muscle cells for the first time.
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- Title
- Focal adhesion kinase regulates insulin resistance in skeletal muscle
- Journal
Volume 50, Issue 5 , pp 1058-1069
- Cover Date
- 2007-05-01
- 10.1007/s00125-007-0591-6
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0428
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Insulin resistance
- siRNA
- Skeletal muscle
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- B. Bisht (1)
- H. L. Goel (1)
- C. S. Dey (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Signal Transduction Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Chandigarh, 160062, India


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I'm hoping someone can help me out on this. I have a chance to buy a M1 Carbine for what I think might be a good deal, but as I am not a huge rifle guy I figured I'd ask here first. We are talking like $125 here, maybe $150. The bore and chamber looks good, but the stock is pretty rough shape. I know it takes .30 Carbine ammo, how hard is that to get and is it costly (I do reload, so that's not a huge deal). I don't have any number of yet. I would be looking to add this to my stable as an occasional plinker, but mainly just as a cool old service rifle. Thanks for any help
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I recommend that you ask "dan_fl". He has some good knowledge concerning the M1 Carbine.
.30 carbine is not too hard to come by, but it helps keep the cost down if you reload. $125-$150 is a great deal for one. The ones I've seen go for $600-$1000 depending on who made it, it's condition, ect. Most of those don't have a rough stock though. Personally, I'd jump on that deal if the gun works properly.


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I use a garment steamer for greenscreen shoots - it works pretty quickly and I've used it on white muslin for the smooth look. I just have the consumer model, runs about $150 and gets a lot of use for apparel shots. The hanger-pole pops out which makes it easier to transport. You can even take the hose off with an adjustable wrench which makes it even easier (and you can drain the leftover water from the hose more easily when it's off).
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Excellent points. Glad you're(OP) OK though.This not funny, to me.
There was no follow up to staff by your manger (principal) that this would be occurring?
No staff meeting to inform all in _addition_ to an e-mail to which everybody knows e-mils aren't all read never mind remembered (!).
No posting of a notice toward same in the employee break rooms or even among the hallways?
No talk of same among co-workers either?!
Also why would the local police think this wise and appropriate to do such a training during _school hours_ with real students in their classrooms.
My local and state police as well as the college & university police forces all do these type drills at night or on weekends in _empty_ buildings off hours using selected 'actors' to play various roles.
Same as how the fire dept. doesn't run into the mll during business hours running 'drills' at rel world time frames.
If you had been armed, or had decided to attack (!) rather than flee then what?!
What if you had been induced by the shock and your fear into a cardiac event...Is that gonna be funny to people to? Ha ha.
Seriously, you should talk with your principal and suggest that this is inappropriate action and behavior by the local PD.
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Mike WiLL Made It Is Our 2013 Artist of the Year
The Atlanta rap/pop/R&B genius ruled the radio as chaos reigned
The most heavily bleeped radio hit of 2013 was, without a doubt, Lil Wayne's "Love Me," featuring Future and Drake, and produced by Mike WiLL Made It. To wit: There are eight bleeps before the first verse! And that first verse, courtesy of Weezy, starts with three bleeped words in a row! When all's said and bleeped, there are, by my count, 65 bleeps total! Still, none of that is even remotely distracting. When I crank up "Love Me" in my janky '88 Mazda, Mike WiLL's all-encompassing, from-the-window-to-the-wall, soothing-yet-treacherous production transforms the car's spare, gray interior into a lush, kush-clouded, crushed-velvet-banquette VIP, where a crepuscular whorl of lurid justifications is already in progress. As the tingly, filtered-the-fuck-out swirl fades, every surface seems to reflect my slack-jawed mug back at me.
Variations on this phenomenon were not uncommon in 2013, thanks to the Atlanta producer/songwriter born Michael Williams. (His stage name was bestowed by his then-mentor on 2008's "Star Status Freestyle": "Gucci Mane slayed it / Mike Will made it"). But as Mike WiLL's sonic universe has evolved from those early Gucci projects, he's now conjuring an eerier place saturated with deep hues — Persian indigo, vivid burgundy, midnight green, oxblood, all phasing in and out of focus. At times, it's like you're blissfully drowning, floating through a blackwater stream surrounded by schools of neon Tetra. Breathtakingly tempting, but unstable and unnerving, it's a place you explore without a return plan.
And after years of devastating global economic catastrophe, a widening chasm between the rich and everyone else, and near-constant, Internet-stoked racial animus, perhaps it was inevitable that our dominant musical psychology in 2013 would grow more dark and extreme, more escapist and existential. In SPIN's Album of the Year essay, Christopher R. Weingarten ticks off countless artists who have entered "the void" this year, finding refuge not in opulent fantasy but edgy severity, offering a dankly clanking purge via negative spaces and nuanced nothingness. Mike WiLL Made It has pushed in another, though related direction. With tracks for an assortment of artists (from Future to Jay Z to Rihanna to Miley Cyrus), he has brought his ominously atmospheric, party-in-the-ruins tint to a variety of contexts: rap, R&B, and pop.
In 2012 alone, he provided 2 Chainz with his career-defining moment via "No Lie"; gave Juicy J a startling star turn with "Bandz a Make Her Dance"; and refined Future's come-up with the woozy, cry-from-the-void Auto-Tune plaint "Turn on the Lights." And while those tracks were still makin' it rain in the 2013 zeitgeist, Mike WiLL churned out six more Top 40 hits, in addition to becoming Lee Hazlewood to Miley Cyrus' Nancy Sinatra (heh heh). He's now the auteur of "turn up," which in his parlance also means "that real shit, woo woo," but for the rest of the population means that song or that moment in a song, when the known world, or the members of the known world posted up in a club (or at least on Twitter), all gasp and howl, "Awwwwwww, naaaaaahhh!"
And this year, Mike WiLL Made It made it all about the "Awwwwwww, naaaaaahhh!" Because it was an "Awwwwwww, naaaaaahhh!" kind of time. Like, errrthing's still fucked-up and errrbody's still reeling, so we need to get "turnt," but, and there's always a but, the distinctly hip-hop knowledge lingers that "EVERY DREAM HAS ITS PRICE," as we were cautioned by the epigraph to this year's excellent The Rap Life documentary series. Virtually every major Mike WiLL joint in 2012 and 2013 could've come affixed with that statement and/or warning (except, say, Ciara's silky-slurpy "Body Party" and Kelly Rowland's come-hither "Kisses Down Low," because, well, sheeeeeeeeit).
Of course, selecting someone as Artist of the Year who is mostly known as an enabler of Miley Ray's Minstrel Bop or as a disembodied name echoing at the beginning of other people's tracks is a bit unconventional (some in the SPIN office were even giving the side eye). And here's the rapper-producer Travi$ Scott, earlier this year in an interview with The Fader's Sam Hockley-Smith, diminishing Mike WiLL's aesthetic: "I feel like I'm the opposite of the system — I'm the opposite of what Mike WiLL is," says the young Kanye West confrere, known primarily for his work on Yeezus and the G.O.O.D. Music comp Cruel Summer. "You will not be able to compare me to a Mike WiLL or to a Young Chop or any of these niggas… Those people get high off of making No. 1 songs. I'm into making No. 1 fucking albums. Extended long projects that are consistent. That system is the A&R calls you, like, 'Oh I need a beat for this nigga's album, for so-and-so's album.'"
With all due respect to the esteemed Owl Pharoah (see Scott's refreshing 2013 solo record), the above shots distort and misrepresent Mike WiLL's approach. He's never taken the obvious path to No. 1 — back at the beginning of his grind, he turned down a chance to join Gucci Mane's Brick Squad and work with Lex Luger and Southside, go-to producers for Waka Flocka Flame, instead forming his own production company, Eardrummaz Entertainment. Also, warped, almost nihilistic strip-club ambience is no pop slam-dunk. Truth is, some artists have their ear to the ground of now — not how the world should sound, or will sound — but how it sounds at this very second. And as mentioned above, we have been in a dizzying freefall of fucked-upness, and Mike WiLL Made It is tuned into that particular frequency with an uncanny focus.
Burying us in the most superficial signifiers of "escapism" and "pleasure" (flesh, chemicals, currency), his tracks apply the oh-god-no queasiness of dubstep's bottom end to blown-out 808 carpet bombs, while plinking countless, creepily screwed variations on the "Tubular Bells' intro to The Exorcist. It's as if he turned EDM's bouncy-castle mosh pit into a grimly bawdy, druggy-and-foggy Champagne Room of the Mind, or "circus of the soul," shout to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He contends that he's no mere purveyor of "stripper music," but the man doth protest too much. In his filter-frenzied hands, the shake club becomes a seductively tangible 10th Circle of Hell: Fuckery.
Consider the defiant pathos of "Love Me," wherein Drake and Lil Wayne pretend the bloodsucking world outside doesn't matter as "long as my bitches love me." Everybody loathes and covets their fame and money, but in the song's secluded space (where they are serviced, humored, and supposedly protected), nobody can hurt them, though one doubts how far the love of the bitches in question might extend. As Weezy puts it, "Uh, pussy-ass niggas stop hatin' / Lil Tunechi got that fire / And these hoes love me like Satan."
In the '80s, debauched, despairing rock stars often ended up prostrate in their gilded bathrooms, coke outlining their reddened nostrils. But in Ace Hood's "Bugatti," Hood's podnas (Rick Ross and Future) flaunt and spend their money with a vengeance, using it like a weapon to constantly degrade their haters, then using it to hire hitmen to reduce those haters to a puddle. Sexual relationships appear to be the least of their concerns (they barely have time to "hit it"), and when they wake up in a stoopid-expensive car (the titular Bugatti) — which could be a very good or very bad thing — they only have each other to watch their backs. It's the frat house as safe house. As misanthropic as it is misogynistic.
The situation sketched by Mike WiLL songs is that the country, especially the African-American community, is ass-out broke and thirstily spiteful, while the rap-star-as-rock-star remains an understandably embattled outlier. A prime example is Future's audaciously bleepy "Shit," which despite its mesmerizing vocalese is a haunted, bitter, vindictive piece of shoot-'em-up. In Juicy J's multi-city party track "Show Out," the Memphis vet is on a ballin' junket with Atlanta's Young Jeezy and Detroit's Big Sean, but the beat's stomp is all wobbly, haters abound, everyone's armed to the teeth, and poor Sean even gets the Heisman from some "ratchet hoes." There's humorous stage business in this world, for sure, but success or excess usually has a nasty double-edge: Even on 2 Chainz' "Fork," the wisecracking MC has a dream that rap's not working out and he has to start cooking dope again. (Though his skrrrt's and asides — "My stove deserves a shout-out / I'm like, 'What up, stove?'" — are typically hilarious.)
All this is obviously related to Rick Ross' coke-pasha escapades and the Weeknd's boy-can't-help-it drama-clubbing and Drake's lonely-at-the-top humblebraggadocio, but Mike WiLL takes it to the point of blackout delirium and paranoia — the room always feels like it's spinning. "Pour It Up" casts Rihanna as a strip-club empress, but as the track reverberates and drifts, RiRi wails and chants, "All I see is dollar signs," as though she's sleepwalking through a flesh-rippling purgatory. And on Miley Cyrus' coming-of-age booty-selfie slumber party "We Can't Stop," Mike gives an off-kilter buzz to a Disney-does-The Bling Ring pop singsong as Cyrus officially begins her 2013 media campaign to Scandalize and Infuriate/Promote. It's a kooky curio, of course, but the songwriting's there, and you can't stop rubbernecking.
The rest of Cyrus' Bangerz is more problematic. As America's Ratchet Sweetheart, she obviously appealed to her executive producer's appreciation for life's underlying absurdity, perversity, and, yes, Fuckery. But ultimately, Cyrus didn't bring much to the table except her willingness to say anything, do anything, and take her clothes off for anything. (She also brought a No. 1 lung-busting ballad in "Wrecking Ball," but that was Dr. Luke's department.) Furthermore, "23," the first single from Mike WiLL's 2014 full-length Interscope debut, is tainted by Cyrus' numbing rapping, though the track itself features one of the springiest, heart-racing-est trap beats of the year, with a chorus that practically massages molly into your tongue.
Mike WiLL's Miley-mania also felt like a sort of ridiculous gift to himself: Instead of flaunting his Maybach or leather jogging pants, he paraded around his acquisition of a crazy white mascot. Not excusing it at all, but if it bends over like a stunt and twerks like a stunt, then it's a stunt. A more appropriate victory lap came from his latest mixtape, #MikeWiLLBeenTriLL, again featuring his finest collaborator, Future. Opening with a horror-flick synth buzz, "Faded" gets both more woozy and more insistent, a lumbering phased-and-filtered sound bed cut with snippets of crowd-roar that function like static and crackle on a dusty 45, and leave you checking to see if something's wrong with your system. Future dips and slips around the border between celebration and confession, dropping one-liners ("Even I look at my diamonds / Sometimes I kiss 'em"), blunt realism ("Throwing shots of liquor on my liver"), and acknowledgement that a high price has been paid ("This is a young real nigga, real pain").
In the "23" video, Mike WiLL taunts, "Hey, y'all scared to do it how I do it," while a laughably lifted Wiz Khalifa cackles. And maybe he's right. Other producers either want to seduce or challenge or entertain or freak out. But this beat-making maestro does all of the above. So, regardless of your perspective, here's one conclusion that would be perverse to deny: 2013 was the Year Fuckery Broke, and Mike WiLL Made It provided the soundtrack that invited us all to spank the teddy bear. Woo woo!


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Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - Bobby Abreu went 3-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored, as Los Angeles defeated the San Diego Padres, 11-6, in the opener of a three-game interleague set at Angel Stadium.
Torii Hunter added a two-run homer and Kendry Morales had a solo shot for the Angels, who are just 2-4 over their last six games. Erick Aybar went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI, and Vladimir Guerrero, Maicer Izturis and Mike Napoli all had an RBI each in the win. Izturis tied a career-high by going 4-for-4.
"We did a lot of great things offensively," said LA manager Mike Scioscia. "We made some mistakes on the mound but all-in-all a good ballgame."
Matt Palmer (6-0) got the win after going six frames and giving up four runs -- three earned -- on 10 hits to keep his record unblemished for LA, which pounded out a season-high 18 hits.
Kevin Kouzmanoff went 3-for-4 with a homer and finished with three RBI for the Padres, who have dropped seven of 10. Henry Blanco and Brian Giles both had two hits and an RBI in the setback. Chad Gaudin (2-5) was saddled with the loss after giving up eight runs on 10 hits in just three-plus innings of work.
LA got on the board in the first inning. Abreu had an RBI single to score Chone Figgins and Hunter added a two-run homer later in the frame for a 3-0 lead.
Blanco and Aybar traded RBI singles in the second inning to make it 4-1.
Giles and Kouzmanoff each had an RBI hit in the third to bring the Padres within 4-3. Napoli's passed ball in the fourth scored Blanco, which briefly tied the game at four.
The Angels broke the game wide open in the home fourth, though. Morales got things going with a leadoff homer, and Napoli and Aybar each added a run- scoring hit. Edwin Moreno came on in relief and yielded RBI singles to Abreu and Guerrero to make it 9-4.
Izturis' ground-rule double scored Morales in the fifth to give the Halos a six-run cushion.
Kouzmanoff had a two-run homer in the seventh off Darren Oliver to make it a four-run affair.
Abreu had an RBI single off Mike Adams in the eighth to score Figgins to account for the final margin.
"After yesterday's game Mike (Scioscia) chewed us out pretty good," said Hunter. "We came out today with a little more fire. Today we looked like the team we're supposed to be."
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Dann Florek |
Capt. Donald Cragen |
Richard Belzer |
Det. John Munch |
Mariska Hargitay |
Det. Olivia Benson |
BD Wong |
Dr. George Huang |
Christopher Meloni |
Det. Elliot Stabler |
Ice-T |
Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola |
Judd Hirsch |
Dr. Judah Platner |
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Larry Bryggman |
Attorney Rowan |
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Gregg Edelman |
Daniel Brown |
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Viola Davis |
Donna Emmett |
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Judith Light |
SVU Bureau Chief Elizabeth Donnelly |
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Sheila Tousey |
Judge Danielle Larson |
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Goof: At the beginning of the episode a reference is made to an Iowa case involving Planned Parenthood. It is wrongly stated that the Iowa prosecutor presented a legal argument that because pregnancy tests were administered by staff at Planned Parenthood, and not doctors, the patient/doctor privilege did not apply. It is true that the prosecutor made this statement to the media, but he never used it in any documents or arguments in court.
Goof: When they are first interviewed, the Browns state that they are sitting Shiva, which is the traditional Jewish mourning period. During this time it is customary for all the mirrors in the house to be covered, but when Benson checks out the bathroom, the cabinet mirror has no covering.
Melinda Warner is married.
John Munch: Excuse me if I'm alarmed by the totally disregard for human rights in this country.
Fin Tutuola: If you got a problem with it, why don't you get your bony ass outta here?
Elizabeth Donnelly: Someone killed a child it's our duty to speak for the victim.
Alex Cabot: So now we're the pregnancy police? We're violating a woman's rights for what amounts to a Hail Mary.
Elizabeth Donnelly: This isn't about abortion rights, Alex. We are talking about a one month old infant.
Alex Cabot: Okay, so what if that does work? What are we supposed to do, question every single woman who bought an EPT kit at the drugstore?
Alex Cabot: The defense is going to argue that Andrea did this out of love.
John Munch: It doesn't matter what intentions this road is paved with, Alex, it only leads to one place.
Alex Cabot: I thought you were pro-euthanasia?
John Munch: Yeah, for legal, consenting adults. It starts with killing sick children. Why not blind children? Why not deaf children?
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