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Another reason that makes influence in rap tricky is the fact that the overall rap genre is divided into subgenres based primarily on the musical accompaniment to the rappers, and not necessarily on the rappers style's themselves. There are the categories of alternative rap, trap, G-funk, and so on, but they're divided mostly based on how their beats sound. G-funk beats are smooth, trap beats go hard, and whatever else you want to say, while rappers move around through each genre easily. But there is no specific genre like a "Complex Rhythms" one that I'd put MF DOOM or Talib Kweli in, or a "Complex Rhymers" genre that I'd put Jean Grae and Eminem in. And in which of those groups would I place someone like Earl Sweatshirt?
This two-part article is in celebration of his long-awaited second album, Doris, which comes out on August 20. In this first part, we're gonna go back and see where Earl started from on his aptly named song "Earl," from his 2010 album Earl. I'll describe the characteristics of Earl's rap, and then see what other rapper's style Earl's rap is similar to. To see how Earl may have influenced the music that came out after him, we'll end with a look at Chicago rapper R.ichard Oasis' flow on his 2013 song, "My Degree," and his new song "Taxi" that was produced by Ski Beatz, the same guy who did heavy work on Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt album.
Part 2 of this article is a discussion of how Earl's intricately crafted rhythms actually transform the music we hear, and you can read it on my main website here.
You can hear "Earl" on YouTube here:
And get the RapGenius lyrics to "Earl" here.
Let's start by comparing Earl's rap stats to the other rappers I've analyzed before. I've written articles on Busta Rhymes, Notorious B.I.G., MF DOOM, 2pac, Talib Kweli, and Rock, and you can find them all at http://www.RapAnalysis.com. Check out the chart below, and try to guess what rapper most primarily influenced Earl based on how similar their stats are, before I reveal a possible answer later on:
The stats from Earl that jump out at you immediately are his very low number of sentences per bar (.087), and his very high rate of syllables per sentence (15.70), which are indicated by their respective red coloring (pointing out the lowest recorded value of a specific stat) and blue coloring (pointing out the highest recorded value for a specific stat.) The "bar" in "sentences per bar" refers to the musical unit of time that repeats over and over in music. Since a bar is always the same length of time, that means that we can use it to compare rappers across their different songs, just like an hour is used to measure miles per hour for different objects in motion because an hour always lasts the same amount of time.
Earl's .087 is the lowest sentences per bar we've ever seen, and 15.70 is the highest number of syllables per sentence we've seen. Not only are Earl's SPB (sentences per bar) and syllables per sentence (SPS) at the extreme ends of the ranges we see, but they are extremely at the extreme end of the ranges. His .087 SPB is 22% lower than the 2nd lowest value for that stat, Talib Kweli's 1.11 SPB, and his 15.70 SPS is 23% above the next highest value for that stat, MF DOOM's 12.76 SPS.
Now, how does Earl not only approach these extremes, but does so to such a great extent over these other rappers?
The answer is because of the unique way in which Earl splits up the beat. As I've explained before, a beat is simply a musical duration of time that always lasts the same amount of time within the same song. In that way, it's similar to a second: they both always last the same amount of time, and both repeat over and over. These are the two important characteristics to a beat in rap music that you need to remember:
- They always last the same amount of time.
- They repeat over and over.
A beat in rap music is usually divided into 4 parts, which are called 16th notes. Four of those beats make up a bar, and because each of those beats has 4 16th notes, there are 16 16th notes to a bar (makes sense, doesn't it?) The 4 beats in a bar are referred to, in order, as beat 1, beat 2, beat 3, and beat 4. Most rappers, like Notorious B.I.G., have 4 16th notes to a beat. You can hear what that sounds like in the video below. The 4 16th notes in the same beat are always connected across the top of the black circular note heads by those horizontal bars, which are called beams, and are only connected to each other within the same beat. If there are two horizontal beams over the notes, like on the lyrics "sicker than your" in the video below, it means that those notes are 16th notes. Where one bar starts and the next one ends is denoted by the vertical lines along the music, such as between "twist" and "cabbage." You only need to watch a few seconds of each video here to get the gist of it. The rapper's rhythms are played by the triangle, and those repeating, identical beats are played by the low bass kick drum. And in any music I quote exactly or show in a picture or video, the rhymed words are always capitalized:
However, rappers don't always have to divide the beat into 4 parts. Some rappers, like Big Boi below, divide them into 3 parts or 6 parts. Those divisions are indicated by the 3s and 6s above the notes, such as on the words "now is the time to," or on "get on the" in the video below. Since 4 is the normal division of a beat, no number 4 is indicated over that kind of note head, such as in Notorious B.I.G.'s video, or in Big Boi's video below on his lyrics "get your work and."
Rappers can also divide beats into 5 or 7 parts, as MF DOOM does below:
But Earl doesn't divide a single beat into 3, 4, 6, or 7 parts, as Notorious, Big Boi, or MF DOOM does. He divides TWO beats into 9 16th notes, instead of two beats into 8 16th notes. Let's see how Earl's noctuplets (a word that comes from the Latin word for "nine") make the music feel differently from those normal 8 16th notes per 2 beats.
In the video below, the underlying beat is played by the lower bass kick drum, while the triangle is playing the rhythms shown on the horizontal music line. First a bar of normal quarter notes are played, than a bar of normal 8th notes, than a bar of normal 16th notes. In the 2 bars after that, where I play a bar full of 2 noctuplet 16th note rhythms, feel how those notes come quicker than those 16-16th-notes-to-a-bar rhythms without the "9" above them come. I play those a bar full of those normal 16th notes again after the bar that has all of the noctuplet 16th notes.
Earl uses a lot of different rhythms in this rap, as we'll see soon. But they always feel like they're flowing because they are always explainable inside of that noctuplet division. And, because Earl divides the bar into 18 16th notes rather than the 16 16th notes of most rap, he has more rhythmic places in order to put notes/syllables. That's what makes his syllables per sentence, 15.70, so high. And, while he has made his rhythms very, very complex, he has actually kept his sentence structure and length really simple in comparison to his rhythms and rhymes. His sentences almost always start and end according to where bars start and end. For instance, check out these 6 bars, his rap from "sent to earth" to "addict's arm." Sentences in the music below are marked off from each other by those long curving lines underneath the music, such as from "twisted sicker" to "plastered on." Look how the sentences always start and end according to where the bars start and end, which is represented by those vertical lines on the right, such as between "and" and "knock." Each sentence, such as the one from "sent to earth" to "laugh it off," are exactly 2 bars.
Earl mixes the simple with the complex so that the listener doesn't have too much disparate information thrown at them all at once that would overload the ear. He has less than 1 sentence per bar, as we see from his 0.87 SPB and the music above. He even has one sentence that lasts 4 bars in the above music, the lines "earl puts the ass in assassin / and puts the pieces of decomposing bodies in plastic / Then puts 'em in a pan and mixes it up with scat then / gobbles it like fat black bitches and catfish."
None of this even mentions Earl's amazing rhyme skills. It's similar to what we've seen before from the likes of Eminem, Jean Grae, or Mos Def, with their high rhyme density, use of complex rhyme blocks, and loads of consecutive rhymes. But those other rappers didn't pull off such amazing rhymes in the context of the complex noctuplet rhythms we've seen from Earl. Earl even has the second highest percentage of his syllables rhymed in the initial chart I showed, his 41% being slightly behind MF DOOM's 45%. However, I prefer Earl's negotiation of the rhyme barrier to be more satisfying than MF DOOM's, because Earl stays more on topic and actually talks about things that are more easily followed from one idea to the next.
A hallmark of Earl's rhyming style is the fact that most of his rhymes are not exact rhymes. An exact rhyme is rhyming something like "cat" with "bat." So an exact rhyme from Earl would be something like "i'm off six different liquors with a BIG WIG plastered on," instead of "i'm off six different liquors with a PRINCE WIG plastered on." He makes rhymes that just use the same vowel sound (the "-ih" sound in the prince/wig example), but they aren't exact rhymes. Some people call this repetition of vowel sounds assonance, but I just consider them a different form of rhymes than exact rhymes.
Compared to other rappers, Earl also makes more use of consonance, which is the repetition of consonant sounds in a word. For instance, he rhymes "Stop Screaming bitCH you Shouldn't…", where the S sound is repeatedly used, or "and PUTS the PIECES of decomPosing bodies in Plastic," where the P sound is repeated. He also does the same at "i Puke a Piece and Put it on a hook." There are other examples in the song as well.
There are a few really impressive parts of his verse on "Earl" that puts the LA artist in the best of company in the rapping world. The rhyme group of astronaut/crashing while/jacking off/asher roth/apple sauce/ass with saws/laugh it off/fact I'm off/plastered on/that alarmed/attic armed/addict's arm, is a 3-syllable block rhyme that he uses over a full 8 bars, in the opening part of his first verse. They are what I call a rhyme group because they are rhymes on the same vowel sound in the same order and always last a similar amount of syllables, in an "ah-X-aw" vowel sound pattern. (There, the X represents a vowel sound that changes from one block to the next.) Earl does something similar towards the end of his first verse on the song, on the rhyme group of suck it up/nuts to bust/butts to fuck/ups to shut/upper cut/butter cup/fuck with us/motherfucked/couple bucks/up her butt/guts for lunch/ruptured cunt/something's up/nothing much/other stuff/-nough of us, which is also a 3-syllable block rhyme, but carried out over an even longer 10 bars this time.
Earl's densest series of rhymes comes inside that second rhyme group, on the lines "SUCK it UP BUT hurry i got NUTS TO BUST and BUTTS TO FUCK / and UPS TO SHUT and SLUTS to FUCKing UPPERCUT," where there are 18 rhymed syllables in 27 total syllables.
So, all of the signature characteristics of Earl's rap we've jsut identified are:
- Complex rhythms
- Extended block rhymes
- A high rhyme density
- A loose negotiation of the rhyme barrier
- Long, simple sentences
You can see all of those characteristics in action in the below video demonstration of Earl's first 32 bars from the song "Earl." It's a video that plays his rhythms on the high triangle sound while the low bass kick drum plays the repetitive, identical beats on which rap music is built.
So, who is Earl similar to?
The above characteristics of rap could all be applied to MF DOOM, with who, interestingly enough, Earl has an unreleased, unnamed collaboration track that surfaced recently at Flying Lotus concerts. You can see the video here. Earl has been compared to MF DOOM before, but I couldn't find any quotes from Earl speaking directly about MF DOOM.
But how has Earl and his 2010 song "Earl" affected the music that came out after him?
Similar to the theme of my Rock from Heltah Skeltah analysis article here, it's time to find out about some new music. This artist is someone who I've been working with for a month or two now, and while he came to me already knowing everything pretty much, he's also picked up on a thing or two since then. I bring him up only because of how similar he is to Earl, as you'll soon see.
In a desert of abstract rap music, there is R.ichard Oasis — don't forget the period.
The song from him we'll be taking a look at is the freestyle "My Degree," produced by Audio Games and released in April 2013. You can hear it on YouTube here:
You can get the full RapGenius lyrics here.
We're gonna take a look at the first 9 bars from "My Degree." Here are the stats from that part of Oasis' song, alongside the other rappers from before:
Now, just 9 bars of a complete song is kind of a small sample to look at, but what we say here still holds true for the rest of Oasis' track as well.
The thing that really jumps out at you from the above chart is that Oasis' Syllables Per Bar value, 14.11, is closest to that of a stylistic influence on Earl, MF DOOM, who has a SPB of 14.15. Just like Earl, Oasis has a high SPB because of how he divides his beats into the same exact noctuplets that Earl uses. Both songs are even at the same tempo speed: 78 BPM. Earl and Oasis are the only two artists I know of who use noctuplets to such an extent.
You can see how Rich's rhythms both look and sound similar to Earl's rhythms on "Earl" in the video below, which plays the first 9 bars of Rich's song "My Degree:"
From the above video, we can also see that R.ichard Oasis' sentences per bar and syllables per sentence are closest in value to…yep, Earl Sweatshirt. We can see that in action in the music below, which are the opening 3 bars of Rich's rap. The sentence "I found my…" to "his scrapbook" lasts 2 full bars.
In bars 4-7 of Rich's rap, we see that Rich's sentences are just as long or even longer than Earl's. The sentence starting "in fact a…" and ending with "…give in the office" lasts a full 4 bars.
And just like Earl, Oasis also starts and ends his sentences according to where bars start and end; the above sentence does just that.
Finally, just like Earl and MF DOOM, Rich Oasis' negotiation of the rhyme barrier is rather loose as well. To me, it falls somewhere between Earl's approach to staying on topic and MF DOOM's own approach to staying on topic. Oasis moves logically from one subject to the next, but the connections are rather tangential. It perfectly fits the title of the album that "My Degree" appears on, which is Figments Of A Drunken Mastermind's Imagination. All of the images Rich evokes — being back in school, pranks, maybe a description of going to school or work — seem like jagged images that are simply snapshots of a whole bunch of different events.
However, Oasis is different from MF DOOM and Earl in important ways. Primarily, this difference comes from how many fewer rhymes he uses. His percentage of rhymed sylllables that you see in the chart from before is identical to Busta Rhymes' own percentage on his song "Holla," and Rich's rate is close as well to that of Talib Kweli. Rich has a percentage of 30% of his syllables being rhymed, Busta has 30%, and Talib has 28%. However, Earl has a rate of 41%, and MF DOOM has 45%. The last two rappers make use of complex block rhymes, but Rich sticks mostly to single or double-syllable rhymes, such as on the rhyme groups options/office/office or me/leave/-deed/need:
So, it seems that R.ichard Oasis is a combination of a 1990s rhyming technique, as I explain in my Notorious B.I.G. article here, and Earl's or MF DOOM's approach to the rhyme barrier, sentence structure, and complex rhythms.
So now we can see a little better how influence works itself out in art. It's not a simple "Earl + MF DOOM + Talib Kweli = R.ichard Oasis" type formula. The boundaries between all of the characteristics of their rap are much more fluid than what that equation represents. Because while Oasis likely heard all of those rappers before he made "My Degree," he also added his own flavors to the song. And who can say where one artist starts, and where another's own contributions begin? If MF DOOM influenced Earl, then someone influenced MF DOOM, and someone influenced that rapper, and so on and so forth back through all of history. Where does it end? Is there even such a thing as true artistic originality? I won't even try to take on that question right now.
If you want to check out more R.ichard Oasis stuff, head over to the YouTubes and check out his new new song "Taxi," which was produced by Ski Beatz, who was also made beats on Reasonable Doubt.
You can also like the Oasis facebook page here.
Now armed with this newfound appreciation of how Earl's rap works, go appreciate Earl's Doris album even more, dammit!
Or check out part 2 of this analysis here.
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Sometimes bacteria are good.Workers at the Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) reclamation facilities rely on the microorganisms to consume the millions of gallons of sewage that flow through the aeration tanks every day. Without the combination of bacteria and aeration, the tank would become one big, stinky mess. Two of those facilities, the Northeast plant in Rex and the Shoal Creek plant in Hampton, have been recognized for the professional, safe and efficient way they are operated. Officials received awards recently for Wastewater Treatment Plant of the Year from the Georgia Association of Water Professionals. "I'm happy about the award because I know I am doing my job right and everything is working like it is supposed to," said Bruce Wilson, Northeast plant superintendent. "All the data is there, the equipment is maintained properly and won't break down. It will last for 20 years." This is the sixth award for the Rex plant since 1989. The plant opened in 1971, and Wilson has seen it through three upgrades in 40 years. He plans to retire in September. The plants were recognized because they have had no permit violations and the safety programs are the best. "An inspector comes in and spends all day looking at our records," said Wilson. Wilson's plant won in the 6-9.9-million-gallons-per-day advanced treatment category, and the Shoal Creek facility took the award in the smaller 3-5.9 MGD category. Staff members from both facilities were honored May 5 during the Clayton County Water Authority board of directors meeting. "Our employees continue to show that they are the best in the industry," said Pete McQueen, board chairman. "We compete against the best in the state for these awards. It is important to us as board members to make sure our employees have the tools they need to be successful, but we wouldn't win these awards it if wasn't for the talent and skills our employees bring to the job every day." When Wilson started 40 years ago, operating the plant was done manually and hands-on. Over the years, the plant became automated and Wilson got educated in technology. He can throw around words like "magnesium hydroxide" and "activated sludge." The result is the same, however. "We put out very clean, filtered water," he said. Unlike Shoal Creek and the main plant in Jonesboro, the Rex facility does not recycle the wastewater into potable water. "It's called 'indirect recycling,'" said Wilson. "We don't have the acreage to do it."
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Kelsey Baran learned an important lesson in her journey to try to become a national marbles tournament champion.
"You don't always need a team to accomplish goals. … Because if you think you can do it, then do it," said Kelsey, 14, of McCandless.
Kelsey, the Allegheny County girls' division marbles champion, made it to the finals in the national tournament on Thursday in New Jersey, but she was defeated by a player from Maryland.
Kelsey finished as the runner-up in the girls' division at the 91st Annual National Marbles Tournament in Wildwood, N.J., said Maureen Ricci, who co-coordinated the 39th annual Allegheny County Parks Department's 2014 County Marbles Tournament in May.
The county runner-up in the boys' division, Bobby Narr, 11, of Lawrenceville was eliminated in the semifinals on Thursday.
The national tournament began on Monday. In total, 27 girls and 21 boys from various states played in the national event, said Ed Ricci, co-coordinator of the county tournament.
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Bobby finished eighth last year and fourth this year.
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He represented his family well, said his mother, Dawn Narr, 38.
"For his second year down here, he made it to the finals again, so we were very proud of what he did," she said.
Kelsey tied for runner-up in the semifinals on Thursday, so she played the best of seven games to get to the finals, in which she played 15 games, Ricci said.
"It was pretty intense … She really fought hard and didn't make it easy for the other girl, said Kelsey's mother, Jill Baran, 45.
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ok, the other tab on this site for this song has all the chords and they're all perfect, i just wanted to add this little detail on the riff on the beginning of the song and on of the chords in the chorus of the song, so if you combine this with the other chord tab this song on this site it'll be perfect... Intro riff that is played throughout the song e-x----x---x-x-----------x----x---x------------------| b-3----3-3-3-x-----------2----2-3-3------------------| g-2----2-0-2-x-----------3----3-0-2------------------| d-0----0-2-0-x--------0--0----0-2-0-----0-0h2p0------| a--------3---x---0h3h5----------3---0h3---------3----| e------------x---------------------------------------| /\ || [slap the strings w/ a muted hand to quiet the guitar] during chorus(the part where they sing "Wind me up") you play G Em7 and then D and on D, play this to sound more like the D chord played in the chorus e-x--x-x--0--0-0--0h2--2-2--2h3--3-3--2--2-2--0--0-0--x--x-x--x--x-x---| b-3--3-3--3--3-3----3--3-3----3--3-3--3--3-3--3--3-3--3--3-3--x--x-x---| g-2--2-2--2--2-2----2--2-2----2--2-2--2--2-2--2--2-2--2--2-2--2--2-2---| d-0--0-0--0--0-0----0--0-0----0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0---| a----------------------------------------------------------------------| e----------------------------------------------------------------------|
actually it should
and i think it's easier to play the ending like:
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Motorland Aragon, Spain
Moscow Round Canceled, World Superbike Calendar Reduced To 13 Rounds
The World Superbike calendar has been reduced to 13 events. The Russian round of WSBK, scheduled to be held at the Moscow Raceway on 5th July has been canceled, after the event organizer, YMS Promotion, failed to provide the contract guarantees required by the contract. As a further consequence, the Yakhnich Motorsport Team have also lost their slot on the 2015 World Supersport grid, which was tied in with the Russian round.
The cancellation of the Russian round did not come as a surprise. The Russian WSBK round is a legacy of the last years of Infront running the series. Infront and YMS signed a ten-year deal to organize a World Superbike round in Russia, but continuing political instability in Russia, tensions between Europe and Russia over Ukraine, and murky regional politics have made it impossible to stage a race there. The round was placed on the calendar automatically, because of the existing contract, but it was never expected to actually take place.
The Russian round of World Superbikes will not be replaced. Instead, the series will run 13 rounds in 2015. Below is the press release and updated 2015 WSBK calendar.
2015 WSBK Calendar update
2015 World Superbike Calendar Updated: 13 Rounds In Total
FIM Superbike & Supersport World Championships
FIM Superstock 1000 cc Cup
2015 calendar, 11 February
Aragon WSBK Testing Thwarted By Cold Conditions
The weather has not been kind to the World Superbikes who headed to Aragon for testing. The first day was lost to a wet track, and while the track dried on the second day, cold temperatures limited the usefulness of the test. 2013 world champion Tom Sykes did not bother going out at all, not wishing to risk injury on a cold track just for the sake of turning some laps.
Sykes' Kawasaki teammate Jonathan Rea did spend some time on track, though for him, too, conditions meant that lessons were limited. Rea spent time working on gearshift set ups, and clutch strategies for race starts. It was important for Rea to spend some more time on the Kawasaki ZX-10R, after having spent so many years on the Honda CBR1000RR with the Pata Honda team. It wasn't just bikes that Rea is switching, the Ulsterman showing off his Monster Energy colors for the first time, leaving Red Bull behind. That is a major change for Rea, who has been backed by Red Bull almost from when he first started racing motocross, before switching to circuit racing.
Testing Begins In Earnest: World Superbike Teams Convene At Aragon
Preparations for the 2015 season are starting to get underway. While the MotoGP teams will have to wait until February, the World Superbike squads are assembling on the Iberian peninsula to resume their testing programs for 2015. Pata Honda were the first to kick off testing, spending two days at Portimao last week, where reigning World Superbike and World Supersport champions Sylvain Guintoli and Michael van der Mark got to grips with the Honda CBR1000RR. A dry first day meant that both men managed a good number of laps, while most of the second day was lost to rain. Van der Mark told Dutch site Racesport he had not spent too much time testing different settings, his main objective being to get used to riding a Superbike. Both he and Guintoli had tested the new engine, with standard conrods and pistons, while Guintoli had spent a lot of time working on different set ups, trying to get comfortable.
World Superbike Private Testing Schedule - Testing Starts Mid-January - UPDATED
Though tracks around the world have fallen silent over the winter break, testing is due to resume shortly. From mid-January, the World Superbike teams will resume their preparations for the 2015 season at circuits in Spain and Portugal. Testing starts at Portimao, where the Pata Honda team will be the first to hit the track on 14th January. The team then moves to the Motorland Aragon circuit near Alcañiz, where they will be joined by Kawasaki and Grillini, before the action moves back to Portimao for a test including Ducati, BMW Italian, Suzuki, MV Agusta, Althea Ducati and EBR.
After Portimao, the teams head east to Jerez, where from 26th January the circuit will see Ducati, Red Devils, MV Agusta, BMW Italia, Honda, Suzuki, Althea Ducati and EBR joined by the Kawasaki World Supersport team and Ducati's MotoGP test team. A day later, the Kawasaki World Superbike squad will take to the track. From then, they pack up ready to fly the teams and equipment to the Southern Hemisphere, ready for the start of the season at Phillip Island. Testing for the MotoGP class resumes on 4th February at Sepang.
Full private testing schedule for the World Superbike class, as announced so far:
Ducati And Kawasaki Wrap Up World Superbike Testing At Aragon
While the Moto2 and Moto3 bikes were circulating at Valencia, along with the Althea WSBK team, Ducati and Kawasaki wrapped up their test at the Motorland Aragon circuit in preparation for the 2015 World Superbike series. The two Ducati riders were once again fastest, building on the work from Monday, with Davide Giugliano topping the timesheets ahead of teammate Chaz Davies. Jonathan Rea managed to just pip his Kawasaki teammate Tom Sykes, an impressive enough performance on his first ride out on the ZX-10R, though reports from the track suggest Rea may have set his best time on qualifying tires.
All of the riders have a lot of work to do, with new technical regulations that restrict the tuning of the engines and limit electronics to a factory-supplied kit. Ducati has the least amount of work to do, the factory already having prepared for 2015 during the 2014 season, and having not to change much as a result. Kawasaki had more work on their hands, much of it falling on the shoulders of Tom Sykes, as Jonathan Rea's main objective at Aragon was simply learning his way around the bike. Also present at the track were a number of journalists and test riders, who got to ride both Tom Sykes' WSBK ZX-10R and the EVO spec Kawasaki ZX-10R with which David Salom took the 2014 EVO crown. Among those doing media laps were former Moto2 race winner Jordi Torres.
2015 World Superbike Provisional Calendar Released: 14 Rounds, Thailand Added, Russia Returns
The FIM have finally released the provisional calendar for the World Superbike series for next year. The 2015 season will see WSBK travel to 14 rounds, returning to all of the venues which hosted races in 2014, and two more overseas rounds added, in Russia and Thailand.
The chances of this being the definitive calendar appear to be slim. Three rounds are marked as still subject to contract: Portimao, Moscow and Qatar. Both Portimao and Qatar look likely to go ahead, but whether WSBK will actually return to Moscow remains to be seen. The 2014 round was canceled due to the political instability in the Russian Federation and the overflow of conflict in Ukraine, which affected various partners of the series. The political situation has only deteriorated since then, with the EU and US imposing sanctions on Russia, making the race there almost impossible. The teams and riders will be hoping for the round to be canceled: the race was a logistical nightmare to get equipment to and from, and for both the fans and riders to attend and find accommodation for.
Post-Season Testing In Full Swing: Moto2 & Moto3 At Valencia, World Superbikes At Aragon, Day 1
Though testing for the MotoGP class has finished, motorcycle racers in other series still have plenty of work ahead of them. Both the World Superbike series and the Grand Prix support classes have been hard at work, ahead of a busy schedule of testing. The Ducati and Kawasaki World Superbike teams have been testing at the Motorland Aragon circuit, while Moto2 and Moto3 are back at Valencia.
At Aragon, Jonathan Rea made his long-awaited debut on the Kawasaki ZX-10R, alongside 2013 World Champion and fierce rival Tom Sykes. With the World Superbike teams adapting to the new regulations, the two Kawasakis were a little slower than the Ducatis of Davide Giugliano and Chaz Davies. The day started off soaking, with journalists and test riders doing media laps on the 2014 bikes of Tom Sykes and David Salom. Once the track dried out in the afternoon, Kawasaki also joined the action. At the end of the day, both Ducati riders clocked up unofficial times of 1'51.3, while Sykes posted a 1'52.2 and Rea a 1'52.7. As an interesting note, they are running the track in its MotoGP configuration, using the long, sweeping double left hander as the final corner, rather than the longer version used by WSBK when the series races there, featuring the hairpin and then right and left combination leading back on to the front straight. Giugliano's best time is three seconds slower than the best time set by Andrea Dovizioso on the first day of practice for the MotoGP race at the circuit.
Dainese Press Release: How Valentino Rossi's AGV Helmet Protected Him During His Aragon Crash
The crashes of Valentino Rossi and Andrea Iannone at Aragon two-and-a-half weeks ago raised a lot of questions about safety, leading to the Safety Commission deciding to start removing all of the artificial turf from around the circuits used by MotoGP. Rossi's crash, in particular, was severe, the Italian being clipped and knocked briefly unconscious by the back wheel of his Yamaha as he tumbled.
That Rossi did not suffer much worse injuries is in no small part down to his helmet. The AGV Pista GP helmet which Rossi helped develop provided an incredible level of protection for the Italian. After the incident, AGV took the helmet away to analyze the damage done to the helmet in the crash. They issued a press release, complete with close up photos of the damage sustained, explaining the damage done and how the helmet had protected Rossi.
The press release makes for interesting reading, and the close up photos of the damage are especially revealing of just how well the helmet stood up in the crash. Make sure you click on the photos to view higher resolution versions. The AGV press release appears below:
Like all helmets that have been involved in falls or accidents in competitions in which AGV riders officially participate, the Pista GP helmet worn by Valentino Rossi at Aragon on 28 September was taken back to the factory and completely dismantled for a thorough technical analysis at the Group Research & Development Department.
MotoGP Safety Commission Push To Remove Artificial Grass, Examine Flag-To-Flag Races
The events of the previous MotoGP race at Aragon look set to have a major impact on tracks around the world in the near future. The crashes by Valentino Rossi and Andrea Iannone, both of whom lost control of their bikes when they hit the still wet astroturf which lines the outside of the outer kerbs, caused the subject to be raised in the MotoGP Safety Commission at Motegi. There, the Safety Commission decided to ask the circuits hosting MotoGP races to remove all of the astroturf from the run off areas around the track. Dorna Managing Director Javier Alonso told the MotoGP.com website that they would start talks with circuits to get them to remove the astroturf as soon as possible, starting with the most dangerous parts of the tracks.
The decision is a complete reversal of the earlier policy devised by the Safety Commission, the closed and private forum in which MotoGP riders can discuss safety issues and other concerns with the FIM and Dorna. As a result of a previous request, tracks had started putting in astroturf on the run off areas. That was in response to changes made primarily for car racing, where gravel traps on the outside of corners have been replaced with hard standing, such as asphalted areas. The astroturf was put in place to prevent riders using the run off as extra race track, allowing them to take corners faster.
The Candid Cal Crutchlow Interview, Part 3 - On Having Jack Miller As A Teammate, And Mental Strength
It has been a very tough year for Cal Crutchlow. Coming off the high of 2013, the year in which he scored four podiums, finished fifth in the championship, and looked certain to score his first win in MotoGP, his season in Ducati has been a massive challenge. Technical malfunctions, crashes, and a battle to find a way around the chronic understeer which plagues the Desmosedici. Crutchlow lingers in the middle of the pack, not fighting at the sharp end. This was not the season which Crutchlow had envisaged when he signed for Ducati.
In the first part of the interview with Crutchlow, published on Monday, he spoke of his battle to adapt to the Ducati, and of the 2014 season being his toughest year so far. In the second part of the interview, he continued this theme, talking about his struggle to maintain his morale through this, the hardest part of his career, when the results refuse to come. And in this, the final part of the interview, he talks about how mental strength is the decisive factor in motorcycle racing, and discusses Jack Miller's ascent to MotoGP.
MM: What about Jack Miller as a teammate? It's quite a big step from Moto3 to MotoGP, and he is definitely a larrikin, as they say in Australia …
CC: I don't know, a few races ago, when they first talked about it, I was like, why not do it? It's the best thing ever, it'll be funny. But the more I think about it, the more I think, maybe he needed a year. But who am I to say? I don't know! He might be alright. I sat there and thought, maybe he needed a year to go into Moto2 and learn, but then you think, why doesn't he have his year learning in MotoGP? It makes no difference. It's a big decision to make.
I do have to say, everyone's saying about the power, from 55bhp or whatever they've got to 250 or whatever. I don't think it's a big thing. You've got your right wrist, if you want to open the gas, you can open it, if you don't, then don't open it. If you don't want the power, you don't open the throttle. I think he'll be fine with that.
The only thing that I believe that could be a hindrance to him, you can't have as much fun on a MotoGP bike as you can in Moto3. I'll tell you what, you're not riding around behind someone, waiting for them to make a move, or thinking, I'll pass on the next lap. You've got no chance of doing that. You know, these races are probably 50% more intense than his races. That's my opinion.
The Candid Cal Crutchlow Interview, Part 2 - On Morale, Following Rossi's Example, And Being A Factory Rider
It has been a very tough year for Cal Crutchlow. Coming off the high of 2013, the year in which he scored four podiums, finished fifth in the championship, and looked certain to score his first win in MotoGP, his season in Ducati has been a massive challenge. Technical malfunctions, crashes, and a battle to find a way around the chronic understeer which plagues the Desmosedici. Crutchlow lingers in the middle of the pack, not fighting at the sharp end. This was not the season which Crutchlow had envisaged when he signed for Ducati.
In the first part of the interview with Crutchlow, published on Monday, he spoke of his battle to adapt to the Ducati, and of the 2014 season being his toughest year so far. He continues the theme in this, the second part of the interview, where he discusses his struggle to maintain his morale through the darkest part of his career, when the results refuse to come. And in the final part of the interview, he talks about how mental strength is the decisive factor in motorcycle racing, and discusses Jack Miller's ascent to MotoGP.
MotoMatters.com: I'm glad you mentioned morale, because that was something I wanted to ask you about. Last year, when we talked about Cal Crutchlow, it was about when you were going to win your first MotoGP race. Compare that to this year, and it's not, are you going to win, but are you going to get into the top ten. That must be very tough mentally.
Cal Crutchlow: Yes, it's demoralizing. The worst thing for me is, I take it personally, as in I think that I'm not doing something right. I mean, obviously, it's true, I'm not doing something right, but when I go home, I'm hard on myself. When I go out training, I train harder. For no reason, because it's nothing to do with that.
You know, I do sit there and think, you're getting paid a lot of money to finish behind a lot of guys who are not getting paid anywhere near as much as you. But I still feel I earned it, I earned my place in the factory team. And it's demoralizing for me to think, you know, it's OK to say, just go faster, but I can't. I'm not saying I don't know how, if I could go faster, I would. People are like, why can't you beat that guy, why can't you get into the top ten, why can't you be like Andrea Dovizioso or Iannone? If I could, I would, it's as simple as that. I'm not sitting there going, right, I'm having a few weekends off, I'm just going to cruise round.
The Candid Cal Crutchlow Interview, Part 1 - His Toughest Year Yet, Adapting To The Ducati
It has been a very tough year for Cal Crutchlow. Coming off the high of 2013, the year in which he scored four podiums, finished fifth in the championship, and looked certain to score his first win in MotoGP, his season in Ducati has been a massive challenge. Technical malfunctions, crashes, and a battle to find a way around the chronic understeer which plagues the Desmosedici. Crutchlow lingers in the middle of the pack, not fighting at the sharp end. This was not the season which Crutchlow had envisaged when he signed for Ducati.
At Aragon, ahead of the fourteenth race of the season, we caught up with Crutchlow, to talk about his year so far, his expectations for next year, and how he manages to keep his morale up through such a difficult period. Cal Crutchlow gave a candid and honest account of his season, not shirking the blame, and speaking openly of the fears and doubts which plague a professional motorcycle racer when they go through a season as tough as this. He opened a window into a side of racing which is not often talked about, and marks his courage as both a rider, and as a human being.
The interview went on for so long that we have had to split it up into three parts, which will appear over the next few days. In the first part of the interview, he speaks of his battle to adapt to the Ducati, and of 2014 being his toughest year in MotoGP so far. In the second part of the interview, he delves into the dark side of his year, of the struggle to maintain his morale while the results are not coming. And in the final part of the interview, he talks about how mental strength is the decisive factor in motorcycle racing, and discusses Jack Miller's ascent to MotoGP.
MotoMatters.com: You said 2011 was one of the toughest seasons you've ever had. Is this one tougher? Or easier because you know that it could be worse?
Cal Crutchlow: I think first and foremost, when I came to Ducati, I thought I could make it work, I thought I could ride the bike how it needed to be ridden. As every rider does in this situation, I think every rider has to believe in themselves and believe that they can do it.
I didn't know the situation until I rode the bike, sure, but would I say it's worse than 2011? Yes, because I'm expected to do well now, and in 2011 I wasn't. I wanted to do well in 2011, that was the difference. Not that I don't want to do well now, but I mean in 2011, I expected myself that I would just turn up and be competitive, because I'd been at the front in World Superbikes, and it really wasn't the case. But if you look at the results, I probably had better results in 2011 than I have now.
Bridgestone Press Release - Shinji Aoki Talks About Cold Temperatures At Aragon
As usual, Bridgestone issued a post-race debrief press release on Wednesday, giving their view of how the weekend went. The Motorland Aragon circuit saw some of the coldest temperatures all year, as well as heavy rain on Sunday. In the press release, Shinji Aoki discusses the challenges faced by Bridgestone at the Aragon track:
Aragon MotoGP™ debrief with Shinji Aoki
Wednesday, October 1 2014
Bridgestone slick compounds available: Front: Soft, Medium & Hard; Rear: Soft, Medium & Hard (Asymmetric)
Bridgestone wet tyre compounds available: Soft (Main), Hard (Alternative)
Movistar Yamaha MotoGP's Jorge Lorenzo secured his first win of the 2014 MotoGP™ season in a chaotic Aragon Grand Prix which started dry, yet finished in soaking wet conditions after a heavy downpour late in the race. Lorenzo won ahead of NGM Forward Racing's Aleix Espargaro, who took second place for his first ever MotoGP™ rostrum, and Ducati Team's Cal Crutchlow, who took third place for his first podium with the Italian team.
Guest Blog: Mat Oxley - "The difference between idiot and hero is very small"
MotoMatters.com is delighted to feature the work of iconic MotoGP writer Mat Oxley. Oxley is a former racer, TT winner and highly respected author of biographies of world champions Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi, and currently writes for Motor Sport Magazine, where he is MotoGP correspondent. We are featuring sections from Oxley's blogs, which are posted in full on the Motor Sport Magazine website.
"The difference between idiot and hero is very small"
Decisions, decisions, decisions… racers make tens of thousands of them every race, and each and every one of them can make the difference between victory and defeat, even between life and death.
With hindsight, there's no doubt that Marc Márquez made the wrong decision to stay out on slicks as the rain in Spain swept across the Aragon plain on Sunday. But what if he hadn't crashed and had crossed the line in front of his rivals equipped with rain tyres? We would be in awe of his ability to find grip where no else can. The headlines, no doubt, would've suggested he can walk on water.


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North Huntingdon commissioners on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a 2013 budget that would cut taxes and pay off some debt.
Township officials will now publicly display the $14 million spending plan that would drop property taxes to 11.55 mills. They'll consider the budget for final approval next month.
If given the go-ahead, the budget would also funnel an additional $400,000 to pave roads. It would pay off about $2.7 million remaining on a loan for the township public works department facility. About 13 years remained on the loan for the public works building, township manager John Shepherd said.
Township Commissioner Lee Moffatt, president of the board, called for a 1-mill tax cut in October. He's expressed concern about having "too much money" in the township's $7 million reserve fund.
Shepherd said he's reviewing sample policies that set guidelines for reserve fund dollars.
A real estate tax cut is a rare occurrence. During the past five years in Westmoreland County, 62 tax increases and six decreases were recorded, among 65 municipalities, according to county data. In all but one, cuts amounted to a half-mill or less.
In North Huntingdon, a 1-mill tax cut would drop the real estate tax rate to 11.55 mills, saving the average homeowner $25 to $30 on a home assessed between $25,000 and $30,000. One mill of property tax generates $350,000 in the township.
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Remotely controlling digital cameras with gPhoto
Taking a Series of Pictures
In the example provided in Listing 4, gPhoto takes five pictures at ISO 200, aperture 2.8, at intervals of 10 seconds. It automatically transfers the images to the directory from which you ran the command.
Listing 4
Remotely Controlling the Camera
$ gphoto2 --set-config capture=on --set-config eos-iso=200 --set-config eos-aperture=6 --frames=5 --interval=10 --capture-image-and-download
Because the camera transfers the images directly to the disk, without the use of intermediate storage, you don't even need a memory card for this step. However, make sure the camera does not generate RAW and JPG images at the same time; otherwise, the large RAW files will soon fill up the cache because the application only auto-transfers and deletes the JPG images from cache memory. If the images are not automatically transferred to your computer, you can use --capture-image instead of --capture-image-and-download.
If you do not want to limit the number of images and let gPhoto take snapshots until your disk is full, or the battery is dead, delete the --frames switch from Listing 4. If you want the software to perform some action after transferring an image, you can specify the --hook-script=File option, which will launch the specified script (File; e.g., to rename or move an image, upload an image to an FTP server, or even send an email).
- Nikon Camera Control: http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/software/control_pro2/
- gPhoto: http://www.gphoto.org
- digiKam: http://www.digikam.org
- Remote control cameras: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/
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