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Diddy Kong Racing
|Diddy Kong Racing
North American Nintendo 64 cover art
|Lee Schuneman
|Chris Stamper
|Kevin Bayliss
|David Wise
|Donkey Kong
|Nintendo 64
|Release date(s)
|Single-player, multiplayer
Diddy Kong Racing is a 1997 kart racing video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64. It was first released on 14 November in Japan, 21 November in Europe and 24 November in North America. 800,000 copies were ordered in the two weeks before Christmas 1997, making it the fastest selling video game at the time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It was the first game to spin off from the Donkey Kong Country series and stands as the Nintendo 64's sixth best-selling game. The game marked the first appearance of characters Banjo the Bear and Conker the Squirrel, which would later star in the Banjo-Kazooie series and Conker series, respectively.
A racing game like Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing also has a distinctive adventure mode. Some of the playable characters would later appear in their own franchise titles. The game was partially intended to introduce these future franchise characters so that gamers would recognise them when these games were released. In Diddy Kong Racing, a player can choose to drive a car, hovercraft, or aeroplane, though a certain level may require that the player picks one of these.
An enhanced remake for the Nintendo DS titled Diddy Kong Racing DS was released on 5 February 2007.[1]
Timber the Tiger's parents go on vacation and leave their son in charge of the island they live on, leaving him and his friends to race for fun. Their enjoyment is derailed when an evil intergalactic pig wizard named Wizpig arrives at peaceful Timber's Island and attempts to take over after he conquered his own planet's racetracks. He turns the four island's guardians: Tricky the Triceratops, Bubbler the Octopus, Bluey the Walrus and Smokey the Dragon into his henchmen. The only solution available to the island's inhabitants is to defeat Wizpig in an elaborate series of races that involves cars, hovercrafts, and aeroplanes. Drumstick the Rooster, the best racer on the island, failed this challenge and was transformed into a frog by Wizpig's black magic.
Timber recruits a team of eight racers: Diddy Kong, the first recruit; Conker the Squirrel and Banjo the Bear, recruited by Diddy; Krunch the Kremling, Diddy's enemy who follows after him; and Tiptup the Turtle, T.T. the Stopwatch, Pipsy the Mouse, and Bumper the Badger, inhabitants of Timber's island. Aided by Taj, an elephant-like genie residing on the island, they eventually complete all of Wizpig's challenges and confront Wizpig himself to a race and defeat him. Shortly afterwards, Drumstick is turned back into a rooster, and Wizpig leaves for his home planet, Future Fun Land. Fearing that Wizpig would again attempt to invade Timber's Island, the islanders travel to Future Fun Land for a second challenge. When Wizpig loses the second race, the rocket he rides on malfunctions and blasts him to the moon, and peace returns to Timber Island for good. However, that peace may be short lived, as it is shown in a small scene that shows Wizpig's spaceship flying through the sky. Wizpig is then heard laughing, indicating that he may return one day. All of his henchmen are free from his control and with the two Triceratops kids on Tricky's side, they all have fun together with Diddy and all his friends.
The island consists of five interconnected worlds, Dino Domain, Snowflake Mountain, Sherbet Island, Dragon Forest, and Future Fun Land.[2] Each world contains four race tracks, an unlockable battle stage and a race against a boss character. Depending on the race track, players may have a choice of using a car, hovercraft or plane, and sometimes all three. Each race track contains boosters to racers that cross them, and balloons of various colours that provide powerups to racers.
If the player beats Wizpig in Future Fun Land and obtains the amulet pieces and gets all of the gold medals, the player will be able to play in a mode called Adventure 2.[2] In this mode, all of the balloons are silver and the tracks are flipped from left to right.[2] Along with the much sharper difficulty curve, the silver coins are also placed in different locations in each track, often in harder to reach places.[2]
There are three different vehicles on Diddy Kong Racing: the car, the plane and the hovercraft.[2] The hovercraft is the best at speed with the ability of bouncing but lacks acceleration and turning.[2] The plane is good at accelerating and turning but is slowest at speed.[2] The car is an all-round vehicle except on sand where its speed is then comparable to that of the plane.[2]
At its first stage, Diddy Kong Racing was a real-time strategy game with a caveman/time-travel theme worked on by a team of four. The adventure element of Diddy Kong Racing was influenced by Walt Disney World. At this point, Diddy Kong Racing was known as Wild Cartoon Kingdom. Wild Cartoon Kingdom evolved into Adventure Racers. Nintendo had no involvement in Diddy Kong Racing 's early stages.
In June 1997, the game was known as Pro AM 64, a sequel to the R.C. Pro-Am titles on the NES. It was Shigeru Miyamoto that offered Diddy Kong to the game. The Pro-Am 64 team was initially against having Diddy Kong in the game, but felt it was a great plus in the end. The game was launched first in Japan and the PAL region on 21 November 1997.[3]
In an October 2012 interview, Lee Musgrave, who worked on Diddy Kong Racing, said Timber would have been the main character of Pro-AM 64 if Diddy Kong Racing had not been made. Musgrave says, "Yes, there was Pro-Am 64 that had Timber as the main character, but that became Diddy Kong Racing and that was the end of that." When Martin Wakely is asked about a rumoured game called "Timber 64", Wakeley responds, "Where the rumour may have started is that an early version of [Diddy Kong Racing], I think it was called RC Pro Am at the time, had Timber as the lead character. I'm sure I've got a badly fitting Nylon polo shirt with the game logo on it somewhere."[4]
Conker and Banjo went on to star in other games, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Banjo-Kazooie, respectively.
Diddy Kong Racing was very well received for its graphics and sound, but was criticised for being too similar to Mario Kart 64. The game became a Player's Choice title. It currently holds an 88.65% score on GameRankings[5] and an 88/100 score on Metacritic.[6]
Electric Playground stated, "Diddy Kong Racing is almost too good to be true. It is an exquisitely animated, color-rich racing game that bubbles over with character and charm. A triumph."[10] Allgame commended the game for its "very good Adventure mode," but cautioned, "don't expect multiplayer action on the same level as the Mario Kart series."[7] Total Video Games wrote, "There are so many subtle touches that only become apparent after many hours of play and the cunningly designed levels match anything Nintendo can offer."[11] IGN stated, "Diddy Kong Racing is an excellent follow-up to the somewhat controversial Mario Kart, improving on all of the game's weaknesses and inventing a few new additions of its own. It's the best kart game we've ever seen."[9]
However, Nintendojo found that, "With its lack of replay value and repetitiveness, the game just gets really old."[12] GameSpot was even more derisive: "Artificially lengthening games by making you do the same thing over and over again is my vote for the worst trend in gaming … even though this is a much better game than Mario Kart 64 ever was."[8]
Diddy Kong Racing won the Console Racing Award at the 1998 Interactive Achievement Awards and also won Best Console Game of the Year 1998 by Scandinavian Game Review.
|Diddy Kong Racing Original Soundtrack
|Soundtrack album by David Wise
|Soundtrack, video game music
|Nintendo/Pony Canyon
The music for the game was composed by David Wise, one of Rare's in-house composers. Because of the Nintendo 64's MIDI based audio hardware, the music could dynamically change across the overworld or midway through a racetrack (retaining the same tune and tempo but using different instruments). However, this technique was only used on three tracks (Boulder Canyon, Hub World, and Character Selection). This was the first Rare game to use this technique, with it later being used in Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64 and Conker's Bad Fur Day.
The soundtrack was first released in Japan on 1 April 1998, with 42 tracks,[13] a German version of the album was released in Europe with the same number of tracks.[14] For its US release only 16 tracks were featured, those being over a minute long, excluding the jingle type short pieces. The CD itself was specially shaped in the form of Diddy Kong's head, which was unplayable in certain players.[15]
|Track listing
Impact and legacy[edit]
Rare was working on a sequel to Diddy Kong Racing called Donkey Kong Racing. A prerendered CGI teaser video of the game was shown at E3 2001, but no actual gameplay footage was shown.[16]
Lee Musgrave, who led the project, explained to Dromble what the gameplay would have been like, "It was a pure racing game, the underlying software mechanics were actually based on car physics, but it also incorporated the idea of riders jumping between different animals mid-race, to always be riding the ones that were bigger or faster ... we had some awesome gameplay in place, and it was lots of fun – we even had a multiplayer version working – and when you fell off, you had to tap-tap-tap (HyperSports style) to run on foot and catch up with an animal. Fun, but it lost some appeal without the DK universe around it, and Microsoft were unsure of its potential with Xbox gamers I think." He then explains what happened after the Microsoft buyout - "Donkey Kong Racing was obviously pretty heavily tied to Nintendo as a franchise, and as Rare approached the finalization of a buyout deal with Microsoft it was clear that the game had no future, at least with the apes as characters. We switched it around to be a 'Sabreman' game, and there was a great early Xbox prototype – but someone, somewhere decreed that it was a little too old-school for the kind of 'revolutionary gaming experiences' that the Xbox was capable of delivering, and so it started down a path of meandering changes, updates and 'evolution' that finally saw it run out of steam and fall over. There were some great ideas in the game as it developed though, and I still look back to the early racing game design and think we could have done something great with that."[4]
Aside from Donkey Kong Racing, another sequel to Diddy Kong Racing was planned: Diddy Kong Pilot. Diddy Kong Pilot eventually became Banjo-Pilot, a game based on Rare's Banjo-Kazooie.
A Donkey Kong themed racing game was eventually released under the name of Donkey Kong Barrel Blast.
Diddy Kong Racing was remade for the Nintendo DS as Diddy Kong Racing DS. Created by Rare, it was released 5 February 2007 in North America, and 20 April 2007 in Europe. This version received enhanced visuals and framerate as well as a touchscreen function to give players' cars a boost at the beginning of the race. Classic gamepad controls are employed for the majority of the game. It also allows for six players to play simultaneously, while its battle mode allows anywhere from 2-4 players. This can be done locally or online. Players can also record their own sound effects using the DS' microphone, and create their own icons and race tracks using the DS' touchscreen. The game includes Wizpig and Taj as playable characters, as well as Tiny Kong and Dixie Kong. Conker and Banjo, however, have been removed.
Diddy Kong Racing DS received an average score of 66.76% at Game Rankings.[17] It has received a lower average of 63/100 at Metacritic, based on 39 reviews.[18] NGamer, an unofficial Nintendo magazine based in the UK, praised Diddy Kong Racing DS for the amount of variety in the different races, as well as the massively enjoyable online mode, but also criticised the game for the poor quality of the touch screen-specific sections, particularly the balloon-popping game on Taj's carpet and the third boss battle. Official Nintendo Magazine also criticised the game for the fact that the tracks created in the track editor were all set in a rather bland cloud setting, and also randomly generated hills and chicanes. These aspects therefore led to the final score of 80%. GameSpot gave the game a 6.7/10, praising the number of activities, customisation features and online multiplayer, while criticised parts of the game for being tedious as well as criticising some of the touch screen controls.[19] As of 25 July 2007, Diddy Kong Racing DS has sold 1.04 million copies worldwide.[20]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Diddy Kong Racing (Nintendo 64)". NintendoLife. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Swan, Leslie, ed. (1997). Diddy Kong Racing Official Nintendo Player's Guide for Nintendo 64 Paperback.
- ^ Mark Mazzei (29 March 2009). "Behind The Scenes of Diddy Kong Racing".
- ^ a b Emily Rogers (1 October 2012). "Crash Lab: Life after Rareware and Free Radical". Cite error: Invalid
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- ^ a b Diddy Kong Racing for Nintendo 64 - GameRankings
- ^ a b Diddy Kong Racing for Nintendo 64 at Metacritic
- ^ a b Diddy Kong Racing - Review - allgame
- ^ a b Diddy Kong Racing Nintendo 64 - GameSpot.com
- ^ a b Diddy kong Racing - N64 - IGN
- ^ Diddy Kong Racing
- ^ Diddy Kong Racing Review
- ^ Diddy Kong Racing Review
- ^ "Diddy Kong Racing Original Soundtrack". Square Enix Music. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
- ^ "Höher, Schneller, Weiter: The Original Diddy Kong Racing Soundtrack". Video Game Music database. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
- ^ "Diddy Kong Racing Soundtrack CD". Video Game Music database. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
- ^ "Donkey Kong Racing [GameCube 2001 Tech Demo] UNRELEASED!". 18 October 2006.
- ^ Diddy Kong Racing DS Reviews
- ^ Diddy Kong Racing (ds: 2007): Reviews
- ^ Diddy Kong Racing DS for DS Review - DS Diddy Kong Racing DS Review
- ^ Matt Casamassina (25 July 2007). "Nintendo Sales Update". IGN. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
External links[edit]
- Official Diddy Kong Racing site (Archive)
- Official Diddy Kong Racing site (Japanese)
- 1997 video games
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Conker
- Donkey Kong games
- Karting video games
- Mario Universe games
- Interactive Achievement Award winners
- Multiplayer online games
- Nintendo 64 games
- Nintendo DS games
- Nintendo games
- Racing video games
- Rareware games
- Vehicular combat games
- Dinosaurs in video games
- Video games developed in the United Kingdom
- Nintendo 64 racing games
- Amusement parks in fiction
- Multiplayer and single-player video games
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"Written history and tradition have distorted the story of the outlawry of Juan Flores," wrote Stephenson. "Accounts have differed widely in detail." But Stephenson boasted his account was better than others, since it relied on someone who was alive during the 1850s: Joseph E. Pleasants, who was in his late teens when Flores was captured. The 93-year-old man had witnessed Flores' lynching and claimed to have spoken to those involved in capturing las Manillas.
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The Burruel Adobe still stands, albeit in ruins near the corner of El Camino Real and Forster Street. That's a better fate than befell the shop of Michael Kraszewski. He was a Polish Jew who ran a general store that the gang robbed before heading off to kill Barton. Kraszewski didn't tell his side of the story until 20 years after the events, to Bancroft researcher Thomas Savage. Kraszewski's account is crucial, as it remains the only full firsthand account of a Flores victim and introduced another wrinkle that subsequent writers warped.
Kraszewski claimed Flores told him Espinoza helped murder Pflugardt by entering his store and lighting a cigarette to notify las Manillas that they could enter, but he didn't mention anything about her messing with Barton's guns. The store owner didn't bear much animosity toward Flores despite the robbery. "I liked his appearance quite well when he came into my store," he told Savage. "He was civil in his manner and spoke agreeably. I remember noticing that his coat was torn and remarking to him that a vaquero should always carry needle and thread with him, and I gave him some."
According to Kraszewski the robbers bragged about their power after returning from the ambush—that, in addition to murdering Barton, they had robbed the houses of prominent Angelenos and had "a force of 500 men" ready for action. "I began to have a suspicion that there was a political revolution of Mexicans against the government," Kraszewski said.
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Ryan Dickson thought freshman Connor Quinn would make an impact for the Quaker Valley hockey team this season.
He just thought it might take an adjustment period before that happened.
"Coming in, we were like, 'Yeah, he's pretty good,' but we didn't really expect him to rack up points or anything like that," said Dickson, a senior and one of the Quakers' captains. "(I) expected him to take half a season and try to get used to the pace … having everything be much faster and the hitting part come back into the game."
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That's how long it took for Quinn to score his first goal of the season, in the opener against Bishop McCort. He scored another goal in that game, a 10-0 Quaker Valley victory, and the points haven't stopped since. Quinn leads the team in scoring with 45 points (17 goals, 28 assists) after recording a hat trick in an 8-1 victory Monday over Deer Lakes.
"Obviously, you hope to score as much as you can," Quinn said, "but with some of the skill on our team, I was not expecting to be one of the top scorers. It's nice to be one of them."
Quinn isn't the only young player producing at a high level for the Quakers (15-0). Sophomore Adam Pilewicz leads the team with 21 goals and is second with 44 points, while sophomore goalie Parker Sherry leads the team with eight wins and three shutouts.
"There's a number of teams out there (that) when they have the numbers, it's very difficult to crack the lineup until you're almost a junior for the deeper programs," said coach Kevin Quinn, Connor's father. "But with us, if you're ready, you'll play. We've always had that (philosophy): provide opportunities and make every opportunity earned."
Youth has worked out well for the Quakers before. Colin South scored about 60 points as a freshman in helping Quaker Valley win the Pennsylvania Cup title in 2006.
Current junior Jimmy Perkins scored more than 20 goals last season as the Quakers won another state title.
But this year, the Quakers' deep roster of young players and seasoned veterans is making life difficult for opponents.
Pilewicz, Perkins and Connor Quinn skate together on the Quakers' second line — if it can truly be called that. The three players have combined for 57 goals and 72 assists on the season.
Seniors Clayton Bouchard and Dickson, who play on the top line, have 40 and 34 points, respectively.
"That's the (nice) thing about having a diverse team — if one line's not scoring, we've always got others that can," Connor Quinn said. "Some nights, our line will be clicking, or Clayton's line will score all the goals."
Quaker Valley's depth at forward came about partially because of a move Kevin Quinn made before the season. Believing his team was deeper defensively than it was up front, Quinn moved Pilewicz from defense to forward.
It's worked out well, though Pilewicz said he's still learning the intricacies of the position.
"I play with a couple of great linemates, and they really help me out there," said Pilewicz, who played forward in amateur hockey when he was younger. "I'm not very good positionally. They just help me (and) tell me where to go (because) they've been playing forward for their whole life."
Connor Quinn admitted to feeling some nervousness before his first few games of the season because of the age and size difference of the older players. But he credits more experienced players like Perkins, Dickson and Bouchard with helping him make a quick transition to the varsity level.
Coach Quinn said that shows the leadership ability of the senior and junior players, many of whom also gained experience as younger players.
"It's such a great dressing room because of the leadership they've shown," Quinn said. "It makes young players feel comfortable, and that's a tough thing. That's a big age difference between seniors and freshmen. It's been a nice transition for our young players with the leadership we've had the past couple of years."
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The future of Holland Country Club remains unclear pending more talks with its bank.
The future of Holland Country Club remains unclear pending more talks with its bank.
Board members said the club based at 51 Country Club Road isn't closed permanently yet, but declining membership and the $1.5 million in outstanding principle debt it owes Macatawa Bank make that a strong possibility.
Members voted last week against a proposed dues structure to keep the private club alive. An agreement between the bank and some unknown outside investor is necessary for the club to continue to operate in 2009.
"It's unlikely we would be able to open up on our own," said Steve Gorno, vice president of the club's board. "We need to work together with the bank to understand the options."
For the institution around since 1922, the reality is tough to handle, he said.
"The news we were sharing was not great news. It was just very matter of fact," Gorno said. "It becomes somewhat somber knowing we need someone else's help."
The board said no deadline is set for coming up with a solution and the club's dining operation remains closed.
Holland Township-based Macatawa Bank can't comment on the situation, a spokeswoman for the company said.
In the fall of 2007, Holland Country Club members rejected a merger with Macatawa Legends in Holland Township and hoped selling stock in the club would raise enough money to reverse its financial woes.
Phil Goodspeed, president of Kent Country Club in downtown Grand Rapids, said all clubs are facing a similar challenge since they require discretionary income.
"I am sure clubs will be one of the first things to look at," said Goodspeed, whose own club began in 1896. "I think clubs just need to be able to provide a really nice product for their members."
Some Holland area residents suggest if the Holland Country Club can't rebound, other groups should use the property.
Hope College is one common suggestion since universities across the state like Grand Valley State, Ferris State and Michigan State operate their own golf courses.
"I haven't heard any discussion ," said Tom Renner, Hope College spokesman. "It's not on the radar screen."
Others suggest the city of Holland take over; municipal courses are common in Midland, Lansing and Pontiac.
Park officials said they always consider land that opens up within the city limits. However, budget issues and the competitive golf market make a city course a long shot.
"We have really never talked seriously about a public golf course," said Gray Gogolin, director of the city's leisure and cultural services division. "There are so many private and public courses around here that there really hasn't been a need for one."
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This clip is from a recent episode of PBS Off Book, and it's an excellent primer to the world of data viz, with more than one face you'll recognize from being featured on Co.D. And it's an excellent excuse to close all of your other tabs and dedicate the next seven minutes (we know, an Internet hour!) to learning a bit about the field. I can almost guarantee that you'll walk away with some new insight, or at least a greater appreciation, for the data all around you.
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The video makes a major point of the 'truth' of data but what about the 'trust' of data? During the footage we are presented with a caption that states 'Paris subway activity' over a map visualisation of the London Underground. An error such as this can generate an element of doubt that dilutes the power of the message and confidence in the facts.


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I know going to take a megabus with hopes that slipping the driver some money is risky. I'm also worried it may be rejected from the Amtrak (this route does not have an on car rack so it must be checked... I also worry it will just get thrown around and bruised). Right now I'm leaning towards taking it to the lbs.
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El Paso's Chihuahuas put on two more shows Saturday night at Southwest University Park — one on the field and one in the skies with the post-game fireworks display.
The Chihuahuas jumped to an early lead and never cast a backward glance on this clear, still Saturday evening, taking a 9-7 win over the Salt Lake Bees and inching a step closer to a .500 season.
It was a Chihuahua team effort ... key hits at just the right time, big-time RBI blasts from Cody Decker and Yeison Asencio and Jonathan Galvez and solid starting pitching from young Matt Wisler.
A crowd of 9,837 packed the new ball park — the second straight 9,000-plus attendance night — to witness the Chihuahua shows.
Cody Decker ripped a two-run double to left to drive home the first two Chihuahua tallies in the first frame.
The 21-year-old Wisler worked into the sixth, giving up four runs and holding the Bees at bay while his teammates worked their wizardry with the bats.
The real Chihuahua damage came in the fourth, came when they put five runs on the board and all but put this game in their hip pocket.
Decker got the fourth frame fiesta started with a walk and then Asencio followed with a two-run homer — a laser blast that tattooed a dent in the large green wall above the 406-foot mark in center field.
Alex Castellanos spanked a single to left, Taylor Lindsey doubled him home and, finally, Galvez blooped a two-run double down the right field line.
Presto: Chihuahuas 7, Bees 1, fans happy.
Each team added a tally in the fifth and Salt Lake crept a bit closer in the sixth, adding a pair of runs. But Stephen Kohlscheen and Chris Rearick supplied scoreless relief to get the Chihuahuas to the ninth ... to the brink of that second show, that fireworks show.
Decker added an RBI double in the bottom of the sixth, his third run batted in on the evening and his 77th of the season.
All appeared well — until the top of the ninth.
The Chihuahuas, who had played errorless baseball for the first three games of this series, wobbled just a bit defensively. They committed a pair of errors and Salt Lake scrambled across a trio of runs ... making things just a tad these.
But Dennis O'Grady struck out Ryan Wheeler to end the first show on a happy note.
The Chihuahuas, who got off to a tough start because of injuries and nearly a month-long road trip, are now 70-72 on the season — with two games to go.
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Another freakishly tall NBA player…
Quick, what's a half and three fifths?
Giving a hundred and ten percent.
"…my name shall be passed down to generations while debating up in barber shops,
Young slung, hung here, Shorty, the ringmaster from here,
With a little ambition just what we can become here…"
And thus began the creation of a new hit single "Little Pimpin'"
Jay-Z is announcing a new business collaboration with the underwear gnomes.
"When my kid is born, he'll already be taller than you."
He assumed that he was shaking hands with Peter Dinklage, because you know, all midgets look the same to him.
Jay-Z: "Really? You fucked Chris Brown too?"
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Jay-Z stretched the poor little guys fingers way out of shape. How long are those fingers?!
Lol that was my thought, his fingers are longer than his legs!
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Just keeping it reel! All the boyz have circus midgets in the projects.
Oh look, wee little midget Hammer pants.
If i find out that little guy shaking jay z hand name to be biggy smalls, im jumping off a bridge.
Holy crap, you even have the flat head to rest my drink on.
Hey, your son is great in Game of Thrones.
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Ankara - Ivory Coast captain and former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has left Shanghai Shenhua to sign a 1-1/2 year contract with Galatasaray, Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk said on Sunday.
The channel did not give any more information and Galatasaray could not be reached for immediate comment.
The 34-year-old, who is on African Nations Cup duty with his country, moved to China after helping Chelsea win the Champions League last May.
Drogba signed a 2-1/2 year deal with Shenhua in June that was, according to media reports, worth around $300 000 a week.
However, the Shanghai-based Oriental Sports daily said last month that the player was owed money by the club.
Drogba applied for permission to leave on loan before the January transfer window but world soccer's ruling body FIFA refused the request.
The striker returned to Chelsea to train at his former club in a bid to stay sharp for the Nations Cup, fuelling media speculation of a return to Europe.
If his move to Turkey is confirmed, the transfer will come less than a week after Netherlands midfielder Wesley Sneijder joined Galatasaray from Inter Milan.
Galatasaray have been drawn to meet German club Schalke 04 in the last 16 of the Champions League next month.
Drogba's former Chelsea team mate Nicolas Anelka ended a one-year spell at Shenhua when he joined Italians Juventus on a five-month loan deal on Saturday.
The signings of Drogba and former France striker Anelka were heralded as a coup for the Chinese Super League last year.
After years of negative headlines brought by match-fixing scandals which hit the league's credibility and led to jail terms for former Chinese soccer chiefs, the two transfers drew attention for all the right reasons.
Drogba scored 157 times in 341 appearances for Chelsea, making him the club's fourth all-time leading scorer.
Having left Olympique Marseille to join the Londoners in 2004, he won everything in England and his strength and speed made him a handful for world-class defenders.
He was Chelsea's Champions League talisman last season, scoring a brilliant headed equaliser in the final against Bayern Munich to force extra-time and then scoring the winning penalty in the shootout.
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It's the fourth time the 'Tomb Raider' star has made the top 100 list, compiled by America's People magazine, but the first time she has taken the top spot.
The magazine quotes her close friend, rapper Wyclef Jean, as saying: "She looks the most beautiful when she's in the field - natural, no makeup, nothing.
"Because that way, you see Angelina the angel. It doesn't get any better than that."
Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt - whose child she is imminently expecting - and her two adopted children also make the hot list as the World's Most Beautiful Family.
Other Hollywood stars to feature, include 'Catwoman' actress Halle Berry, 'Pretty Woman' star Julia Roberts, Oscar-winner George Clooney, and 'Matchpoint' beauty Scarlett Johansson.
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At the World of Concrete we heard about the passing of Gary Vermeer, the founder of the company that bears his name. You can find a tribute site to him [1]at this link. I never met Gary, but I have visited his factory in Pella, Iowa, and spent plenty of time with the company's executives, customers and product managers. To a fault, they're all hardworking, humble, competitive, inventive and fun to be with–a great reflection on him and the company he created.
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The U.S. Department of Justice became the latest on a growing list of committees and agencies investigating the apparent targeting of conservative political groups by the Internal Revenue Service.
This latest investigation will determine whether the IRS broke any laws in applying what the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration called "inappropriate criteria" when considering applications from certain political advocacy groups for tax-exempt status.
We find it appalling that the self-proclaimed politically impartial agency has engaged in such practices, whether they are found to be criminal or simply inappropriate.
Although IRS spokespersons initially said only low-level employees in the IRS Cincinnati regional office were involved, The Washington Post reported this week that the practice was known at the highest levels.
One of the first major signs of fallout was the resignation of acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller, which was announced by President Barack Obama late Wednesday.
At the center of the issue are 75 political advocacy groups whose applications were stalled because their forms contained the keywords "tea party" or "patriot." IRS employees went so far as to ask the groups for donor lists, which is in violation of IRS rules.
And while Congress - Republicans and Democrats alike - has been vocal in expressing outrage, the president and his administration have been relatively reserved in their criticism, the recent resignation that had been requested by the Treasury Department notwithstanding. Obama called the behavior on the part of some IRS employees "outrageous," but with a qualifying "if" - if it turns out they were targeting these groups.
While the rule of law dictates a presumption of innocence, apologies on the part of IRS officials should be sufficient to support the fact that at the very least, the IRS acted improperly, even if it turns out they did not break the law.
Acting on earlier complaints from conservative groups, U.S. Sen. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, was among the first to begin investigating the unfolding IRS scandal. Boustany is the chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.
In a letter dated June 15, 2012, Miller told Boustany that the IRS employed the keywords to flag political groups because of a sharp rise in such organizations seeking tax exempt status. He said it was simply to "ensure consistency."
Boustany was present for a Ways and Means Committee hearing Friday on the IRS' questionable activities, according to an article by Gannett Washington reporter Deborah Barfield Berry.
During the hearing, Lois Lerner, director of the IRS' tax-exempt division, issued an apology, which Boustany called "too little, too late" and "unacceptable."
In March 2012, then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, a Bush appointee, had told Congress there had been "absolutely no targeting," according to the Associated Press.
But the evidence says otherwise.
This kind of targeting of groups, conservative, liberal or anywhere in between, should not be tolerated, as the president has stated.
At best, the screening of the groups by this powerful domestic agency was the result of what the inspector general's office described, according to The Washington Post, as employees who are "ignorant about tax laws, defiant of their supervisors and blind to the appearance of impropriety."
It will be interesting to see what the Justice Department uncovers in its investigation.
But whatever the motivation may have been, it is important that the agency be held accountable.
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LINCOLN, Neb. – Kansas State got a solid outing from starting pitcher Trevor Hurley, but two big two-out hits from Nebraska proved to be the difference as the Huskers clinched the series with a 6-3 win Saturday afternoon at Hawks Field. With the loss, Kansas State fell to 26-17 overall and 6-11 in league play, while Nebraska moved to 25-17 overall and 10-10 in Big 12 play.
Hurley (1-2) earned his first career Big 12 start on Saturday and was very solid through four-plus innings. The sophomore scattered four hits through 4.2 innings with the big blow coming on Andrew Brown's two-out, three-run homer in the fourth, which broke a scoreless tie and gave the Huskers a 3-0 lead.
The Cats clawed back to within one at 3-2 with two runs in the top of the sixth off Husker starter Johnny Dorn. After a one-out single from Paul McCoy, Drew Biery drew a two-out walk and consecutive hits from Byron Wiley, Nate Tenbrink and Tyler Ruch plated two runs for the Wildcats.
But, the Huskers answered with three more runs in the bottom of the sixth as a two-out double from Mitch Abeita and a single from D.J. Belfonte opened up the Husker lead to 6-2.
Kansas State pushed across a run in the top of the ninth on Ruch's double off the wall in center scored Wiley to cut the deficit to 6-3. But, Jordan Cruz struck out swinging to end the game.
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Legislation to stimulate clean energy, manufacturing and transportation sectors with grants, loans, tax credits and rebates could create millions of jobs or be a big waste of taxpayers' money, supporters and critics said on Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Michael Doyle, D-Swissvale, a co-sponsor of the bill introduced yesterday in the House of Representatives, said it has the potential to create jobs through improvements to the nation's deteriorating infrastructure.
"This is not some kind of make-work program," Doyle said at a news conference at the United Steelworkers Building, Downtown. "We desperately need a plan like this. ... It will speed up the recovery and build jobs for decades to come."
But Nick Loris, a policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy institute in Washington, said similar government interventions into the economy have failed.
"It's proven that they are ineffective," Loris said.
There were only 225,000 clean energy jobs created or saved from an $80 billion investment into that sector through President Obama's economic stimulate package in 2009, Loris said. "That's $355,000 per job."
Such government subsidies into "(energy) companies that are not market-viable," only take the money from another part of the nation's economy, Loris said.
"The taxpayers should not be on the hook for a bad investment," he said, noting that solar company Solyndra LLC filed for bankruptcy owing the government $535 million.
The cost of implementing the bill, dubbed the American Energy, Infrastructure and Manufacturing Act, has not yet been determined by the Congressional Budget Office. That typically occurs after a bill is introduced, Doyle said.
The nation needs a jobs act to stimulate the economy, said USW President Leo Gerard, who noted that his members would benefit. Doyle's bill and Obama's American Jobs Act together will form a "comprehensive jobs strategy," Gerard said.
Rather than relying on the government to provide incentives for the private sector to create clean-energy jobs, private industry should do it and bite the bullet, without the taxpayers taking the losses," said Jake Haulk, an economist and president of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, a think tank in Castle Shannon.
Rather than spending money on technology the market has not supported, the government would be better served to spend money on clean-coal technology because coal provides so much more energy in the United States, Haulk said.
While Doyle said he expects to get bipartisan support for such job-creating legislation in the Republican-controlled House, Haulk doubted that the bill will gain GOP backing.
"I don't think there will be any appetite in Washington to do this," Haulk said, because of the clean energy companies that have gone bankrupt or closed their doors.
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Homeless census indicates drop in number of unsheltered adults and children
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A group released the results of a census of the homeless population in Kern County, showing a general reduction in people having to live on the streets.
The census revealed 1,002 adults and children were living in shelters and on the street. The Kern County Homeless Collaborative organized the point-in-time count in January.
That figure shows a 13 percent decrease in the homeless unsheltered population.
The 24-hour count is a HUD-mandated activity that provides a snapshot of the local state of homelessness in Bakersfield, Delano and all of Kern County and ensures the continued flow of federal dollars into our community to provide for housing and other needs.
As far as accuracy, Hanna says its the best system we have, but won't be completely accurate until every person is counted.
In recent years Kern County has received between $3 million and $5 million annually to help fight homelessness.
Sixty percent of those surveyed stated they had a substance abuse disorder with alcohol and meth rating highest as the drugs of choice. Twenty-three percent stated they have a mental illness.
The highest number of unsheltered homeless by area is as follows: Central Bakersfield 76, Oildale 71, Southeast Bakersfield 57, Delano 37, and Northeast Bakersfield 31.
Veteran homelessness was reduced by 30% in the unsheltered veteran population while the number of sheltered veterans and those in transitional housing programs remained steady.
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Jason Lane allowed only one run in seven innings of work Wednesday, as the El Paso Chihuahuas beat the Colorado Springs Sky Sox 5-1. The Chihuahuas took all four games against the Sky Sox, their first sweep since May 2nd-5th vs. Sacramento.
Cody Decker went 1-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs. Decker has homered in three consecutive games and hit four long balls in the Chihuahuas eight-game road trip to Oklahoma City and Colorado Springs. Adam Moore went 4-for-5 with four singles and an RBI. Jace Peterson, Jeff Francoeur and Tyler Greene also had multi-hit games for El Paso.
The Chihuahuas won six of eight games on the road trip and have seven victories in their last nine games. Wednesday was El Paso's final road game of the season.
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