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A big reason that the IPFW coaches believe that their team's potential is higher than projected by others is the return of – and development of – Mario Hines.
"He's been pretty good," Mastodon coach Tony Jasick said of Hines practices thus far this season. "He's continuing to make the necessary changes and really kind of transformed himself. From where he was a year ago, through last season and to now, he's a different guy."
The 6-foot-8 forward showed spurts of great ability last season, but also had periods of vanishing. He finished his first season at the NCAA Division I level with averages of over seven points and nearly five rebounds per game, all while leading his team in blocks (20). All of those numbers are even more impressive given that he played just more than 18 minutes per night.
"He's made the adjustment of the daily grind of practicing the right way," Jasick said. "He prepares the right way and (now) has the discipline to do the right things both offensively and defensively."
Adjusting to coaching styles has been a challenge for Hines due to the fact that he played for two different junior colleges following high school, so IPFW last season was his fourth different program in four seasons.
"This process is all new to him," Jasick said. "He's been kind of a one-year guy, and now just being in the same program going on year two and being around the same coaches and players and getting that discipline, he's really grown."
Hines physically has evolved through diligence in the weight room and that increased strength and athleticism should pay dividends this season. With that physical development came confidence and Hines is beginning to assert himself in subtle ways during the early practices.
"Now that he is in a role where he understands a lot of the drills," Jasick explained, "he is being that guy who is first in line in a drill, as opposed to the guy who was in the back of the line, kind of shying away in the past."The lone IPFW player to garner recognition in the conference pre-season poll on Wednesday was fifth-year guard Frank Gaines.
The 6-foot-3 slasher was named as a member of the first team, as he was following last year.
Gaines averaged 21 points per game last winter and also led the Mastodons in rebounding (5.9 per game) and steals (41).
He is the first player in program history to earn this honor.IPFW received its first verbal commitment of the 2013 season on Wednesday, as the Lafayette Journal and Courier reported that former Lafayette Jefferson High School guard Rashad Richardson declared his intent to play for the Mastodons.
"I felt like the best opportunity for me presented itself with IPFW," Richardson told the Journal and Courier. "They fit my playing style. It's close to home. The level of competition they play is the best, which is what I want to play. Everything lined up correctly and I couldn't say no."
Richardson is currently attending prep school (The Kiski School) in Pennsylvania, and also said that he intended to redshirt the 2013-14 season in Fort Wayne.
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Ne-Yo fan of 'toilet etiquette'
Ne-Yo recalls a time when he urinated in a public bathroom next to Kanye West, but says he didn't shake the rapper's hand until later in the night due to "toilet etiquette."
The 30-year-old R&B singer-and-songwriter has a code he follows when he visits public toilets.
In the past he stumbled upon a fellow celebrity musician while in one of these facilities.
He refused to introduce himself to the rapper until they both exited the bathroom.
"Kanye West. I don't even think he saw me. He was a couple of urinals down," Ne-Yo recalled to British newspaper The Sun.
"I wouldn't dare run up and be like: 'Hey!' You don't run up to people and try and shake their hand in the bathroom – you just don't. I let the man do his business – and then shook his hand later on in the night. That's toilet etiquette."
When Ne-Yo is out of the bathroom, he manages to establish professional and personal relationships with numerous high-profile people.
He has a backup plan should his telephone ever get lost or stolen.
"I have Beyoncé [Knowles] and Jay-Z on my phone. I have Stevie Wonder's number on my phone, LA Reid's," Ne-Yo shared.
"Oh yeah, I got the wipe button ready to go [if I lost it]."
Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z have extended their love to Ne-Yo's family in the past.
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"And I opened it up and, you know, like a rocking horse?, this was a rocking swan. It was a little odd.
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The World Series trophy has been LEGOized.
Just days after the Red Sox won the 2013 World Series, LEGO constructed the Commissioner's Trophy out of the iconic toy blocks.
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Created by a Master Model Builder, the trophy weighs 9.75 pounds, took more than 80 hours to construct and has more than 2,500 LEGO® bricks. The trophy will be on display at LEGOLAND Discovery Center when it opens in May of 2014 at Assembly Row in Somerville, Mass.
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It's been 3 years of walking the streets lined with row homes. From the day we moved in, the charm of our neighborhood has me feeling really spoiled. How'd I find this little square in a big city? I don't know how many pictures I have of the brightly colored row homes, but I keep snapping. I hope all the photos will help moving away a little easier (if that time ever comes).
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The Dangberg Home Ranch is hosting two arts presentations Saturday.Dianna Maria de Borges will present a free Chautauqua portrayal of noted Nevadan Sarah Winnemucca at 10 a.m., followed by a cyanotype photograph workshop at 11 a.m. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891), a Northern Paiute author, human rights activist, and lecturer, was influential in the development of U.S. Indian policies in the 19th century. Her book, "Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims," is an autobiographical account of that tribe during their first 40 years of contact with explorers and immigrants. Her statue stands in the Nevada state capitol in Carson City, and represents the state in the statuary hall at the U.S. capitol in Washington.Borges, a long-time resident of Carson Valley, operates the Borges Carriage, Sleigh, Hay Wagon and Pony Rides along her husband, Dwight. She has offered guided history tours on carriage and sleigh rides in Genoa, Carson Valley and Lake Tahoe. She performs in local community theater productions and has been presenting her Chautauqua of Sarah Winnemucca since 2005. She is a published author.The Chautauqua is a free outdoor event. Chairs are provided, but the public is also welcome to bring their own lawn chair. The workshop on making cyanotype "blueprint" photographs will be led by Nancy Raven, a Minden-based photographer. The workshop begins at 11 a.m., but participants can arrive anytime before 12:30 p.m.Participants will be able to make their own cyanotype photographs using the patterns of natural materials and the sun's light to create the image. The workshop is for all ages, 8 years and up. Participants will pay $1 for each print they make, with materials provided by the instructor. This is an outdoor event.Raven has worked with lensless photography for 10 years, and her pinhole photographs are on exhibit at Carson Valley Arts Council's Copeland Gallery in Minden.The park is located at 1450 Highway 88, Minden, one-half mile south of the Carson Valley Swim Center. More information can be found at http://www.dangberghomeranch.org or by calling 783-9417.


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I was in my early 20's and for a while considered rhinoplasty, but did not know of a surgeon who could achieve the result that I wanted-that was something nice, natural looking, and a fit for my face. I saw a lot of nose jobs growing up (as common as it is) and felt that I had to continue looking until I found the right person to do the job. Dr. Ellenbogen corrects many bad nose jobs that other doctors perform, this tells you something.
Finally, I contemplated going to Dr. Ellenbogen after visiting his website for years. I saw that he was an expert and worked on many types of cases , and did not perform an ordinary cookie-cutter nose job like some other doctors (believe me, there are a lot inexperienced ones out there). It was a match, so I made an appointment for a consultation. I was really excited and a little anxious, and remember the counselor asking me if I needed more time to think about it, but I couldn't wait any longer and felt ready.
Before my consultation, I was not aware of the elements that make up a balanced profile- nose, chin, and fat under the eye area. I saw that I needed a bit more work than I thought. Eventually I got a chin implant and fat grafting which balanced out the rest of my profile. The results were truly amazing, my nose became proportional and prettier, my chin more masculine, and cheek/under eye area younger-looking. The fat grafting procedure uses your own stem cells as well as fat to smooth out and plump an area that may look sunken in. It actually promotes collagen growth and can make you look years younger.
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If you go to Droidstyle's guide here: ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=34891181 ), and then go to section 1b of the guide, you can revert back to MJ9 by following the guide's instructions. You'll want to use the stock file for (VRUEMJ9 4.3) if you're wanting to revert back from ND3.
After you ODIN back to VRUEMJ9 4.3, you can get root access with saferoot. Here's the link to saferoot-- ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2565758 ).
After you get rooted, you can currently only use safestrap to run custom Touchwiz ROM's. This has to do with needing to use the stock kernel with current version of safestrap. Here's the safestrap thread: ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2704992 ) The ROM slots are not working yet in safestrap, so you'll have to install the custom Rom over the stock ROM if you want to use it. I don't know a lot about the actual process, as I am still on 4.1.2 with unlocked bootloader... so have not tried it out. I'm sure others could help with safestrap if you run into problems if you decide to try it.
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Billy Arthur Mashunkashey passed away on May 22, 2013 of natural causes.
Born April 10, 1923, Bill lived a long and full life for 90 years. He leaves behind seven children, 13 grandchildren, several great grandchildren and a wife.
As a child, Bill lived in Phoenix, Ariz. with his parents, Charlie and Opal Mashunkashey, until he entered the Military Academy in Mexico, Mo. Prior to his high school graduation, he enlisted in the service where he fought in the Pacific, more specifically, Iowa Jima.
Upon his return to the states, he made his home Pawhuska and remained in Pawhuska the rest of his life. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the American Legion, the First Christian Church and the Osage Tribe of Indians.
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Goldman Sachs Reiterates Buy Rating On MeadWestvaco
According to Goldman Sachs, MeadWestvaco (NYSE: MWV) Buy rating is reiterated.
Goldman Sachs said that the Forestar Group (FOR, NC) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell about 50,000 acres of timberland to Plum Creek (PCL, CS) for approximately $75 mn in cash. "We reiterate our CL-Buy rating on MWV, given its exposure to our constructive outlook for US boxboard supply/demand fundamentals and pricing, and underappreciated asset value."
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From the guy who gave us "Training Day" and "End of Watch", for some reason I expected director David Ayer's "Sabotage" to be a bit more complicated than just an old-fashioned shoot'em-up, which it looks like it is. I could be wrong, of course, but the trailer seems to back up my initial impression. Mind you, I'm a fan of old-fashioned shoot'em-ups, but not a lot of people are, if box office receipts for Arnold's past few movies not including the word "Expendables" in the title are any indication.
Anyways, take a look at a new poster for "Sabotage". That's such a generic title. They mind as well call it "Blow'em Up Good", or some such.
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Olivia Williams, Mireille Enos, Sam Worthington, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Max Martini, and Josh Holloway.
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French engineers test pedal-boat submarine
French engineers are testing a pedal-boat submarine on the French Riviera. Water crazy notion!
Or is it? The bizarre machine, nicknamed 'the Scubster' can actually reach speeds of 5mph – if the pilot is fit enough – and can descend to a fairly respectable 20ft.
All in all, it sounds very much like the kind of contraption that would please the James Bond gadget guru Q.
It's powered by twin propellers that are connected to a pedal belt and is entirely controlled by hand or pedal. The user is sealed in hermetically and breathes with a mask and a bottle of oxygen.
"I've been up in the air by pedaling, underwater with my bike and now underwater with a submarine," Stephane Rousson, the man behind the invention, told Reuters.
The vessel managed an impressive 60 minutes under water in the Mediterranean waters off the Cote d'Azur this week.
Whether it will have commercial success remains to be seen, but Rousson believes it may capture the attention of an emerging high-end market of yacht owners who like to pootle about in "pocket submarines".
"And if it doesn't take off, I'll race it," said the 40-year old from Nice, who plans to take part in the 2011 International submarine race in the United States.
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Dana McLendon.
You know what almost never gets old? Jokes about hot, crazy women. No, it's true. Because while the rest of us have adhered to the linear laws of time and physics and moved forward into the 21st century, those jokes are still enjoying an extended adolescence back in the way-back of 1975. To get an idea of what it looks like there (I'm imagining a sort of grainy, Hipstomatic filter, a lot of terry towelling shorts and the vague-yet-persistent aroma of VB) we might ask YouTube comedian and social anthropologist, Dana McLendon.
McLendon recently spent actual time and energy coming up with 'The Universal Hot Crazy Matrix: A Man's Guide to Women'. He drew a graph for it and everything. I didn't really get it, but that might just be the limitations of my woman-brain and its inability to process the complicated wit of sexist japery. So I asked a man to explain it to me, and he told me that McLendon was riffing on the correlation between a woman's 'hotness' and her level of crazy.
"But I don't understand?" I said to my authoritative male friend, with what I hoped was a simplistic coquettishness befitting of my gender.
"That's because you're not hot," he told me, authoritatively, patting me on the shoulder with the edge of his fingertips.
"True," I agreed, before cutting his head off, because I was still crazy.
So I watched McLendon's video again. Here are some of the lessons I learned:
1. All women are at least a little bit crazy
Over at the Woman Factory, units are programmed to be at least a 4 on the 1-10 scale of crazy. The real tragedy is that when we get sent to the shops for purchasing, there's no indicator of which personality we've been programmed with. How do you know if you're getting a manageable 4 or even a 5 instead of one of those barking mad 7 or 8 models? You don't.
This is just one of the many examples of how society discriminates against men. Maybe even the worst example.
2. Men have strict standards
Women who fall between 0-5 on the hot measurement of the scale fall in the 'No Go Zone'. According to the serial killer presenting the video, "You do not hang around, date and marry women who are not at least, in our mind, a 5."
Because you have to put a value on yourself, fellas - and I think we can all agree that if you're the kind of person who makes sexist graphs for companies that teach people how to shoot guns, then you deserve if not the very best, then at least 50% of it. It's an equality worth fighting for.
3. Holiday in the fun zone
On McLendon's incredibly scientific graph, women who fall somewhere between a 5 and an 8 on the hot scale are available for fun times provided they don't also broach the separating line over into the crazy red zone. Now, you'll notice that eights can get away with being slightly crazier than fives. This is just, like, the basic rules of feminism.
The problem is, you don't want to settle down with those mid rangers because what you actually want is to move towards something a little more permanent - preferably with a 9 or a 10. These are the kinds of women you'll introduce your friends and family to, sometimes even as your girlfriend and not just a homeless woman who lives outside your house. But here's the thing - if their craziness hovers somewhere between a 5 and a 7 - which is practically sane in woman terms - you might even want to make that crazy lady your wife.
So take your time and enjoy the fun zone, but don't spend all your quarters at the arcade.
4. Highway to the Danger Zone
There's a type of woman so crazy, so terrifying, that she needs to be avoided by men who keep pens in their top left pocket at all cost. That type of woman lives in the Danger Zone. Redheads, strippers, women named Tiffani - we're all super crazy. If you get mixed up with one of us, you're opening yourself up to all kinds of just like, drama and stuff. Cars being keyed, bunnies in pots, your tyres slashed...you might even wind up in jail.
You might be tempted, lord knows you'll be tempted. But is it worth it, just to see whether or not the rumours are true that firecrotches actually shoot flames from their nethers after coitus to permanently destroy their mate's junk? Besides, I only did that once and I missed anyway because women are lousy shots.
5. Dude looks like a lady!
Do you know what? In the parlance of internet speak, I can't even with this one. I just can't even. It was a f--king terrible exercise in misogynist humour in the first place, and then McLendon - who actually has a girl's name, by the way - rutted it into even lower depths of offensiveness with his reference to 'trannies' and 'dudes dressed as women'.
McLendon seems to think there's nothing funnier than the kind of really obnoxious transphobia which leads to trans women being murdered for 'tricking' unsuspecting men into finding them attractive. That mocking the mental health of women - both cis and trans - is so deeply original and hilarious that he should have every right to stand there and talk about which kinds of women deserve to be respected and which don't while he has a fucking gun strapped to his belt, and then link it to Reddit: The Red Pill so all the deeply disturbed men who frequent that message board can wax lyrical about how goddamn accurate the whole thing is.
But look, that's probably just my crazy talking. I am a redhead after all and it's a science fact that we're unhinged.
Women, hey?! Can't live with them. Can't always get away with shooting them.


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I think that is asking for a lot. Part of the problem is that MI simply cannot compete at the high school level due to such cold winters. Other states (TX and FL off the top of my head) are able to have spring football due to their warmer climates. If you think about it, football is a sport where game action is sparse due to the violent nature of the sport and amount of preparation necessary for a game. If kid only plays 9 games a year (more if making the playoffs), that is really not that much football to prepare for the future.
Also, being in a warmer climate allows kids to simply be outside more throughout the year. This cultivates more running, improving speed and balance, obviously major benefits in the game of football.
Due to these geographic differences, many kids from the north resort to Basketball or other sports that don't require as much time spent out in the nasty elements of late fall/winter.
While I empathize with wanting to have local kids and all, football has become about money as much as anything else. Winning is all that matters. And because of this, getting the best players means having to step outside of the region to build a winning team.


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Saturday was undoubtedly NC State's best performance of the season. The Wolfpack dominated Clemson 37-13 at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh to keep its bowl hopes alive. Now it's time for a final look at the game with some Monday Morning Quarterbacking.
Key moment of the game:
The floodgates opened in the second quarter. It started when redshirt junior quarterback Mike Glennon completed 4 of 4 passes for 38 yards on a touchdown drive, with three of the passes going to fifth-year senior tight end George Bryan, including an 11-yard score that gave the Pack a 7-3 lead with 11:35 left before halftime.
On the first play of Clemson's ensuing possession, redshirt freshman defensive end Art Norman stripped Clemson redshirt sophomore Tajh Boyd of the ball and redshirt junior linebacker Terrell Manning recovered the fumble at the Clemson 6. Two plays later Glennon connected with fifth-year senior Jay Smith for a 7-yard score just 1:02 after the Bryan touchdown.
After Clemson got a first down on its next possession, they were penalized for a holding that set up a first and 20 at the Clemson 19. The Tigers called for an inside reverse to freshman tailback Mike Bellamy, but the handoff was botched and Manning recovered the fumble at the Clemson 18. State converted that into a field goal, giving them a 17-3 lead and control of the game with 7:26 left before halftime.
Three things that worked:
1. Defense
The Tigers entered the game as the ACC's most prolific offense. They were averaging 478.1 yards of total offense and 37.3 points per game. The Wolfpack held them to 13 points and 337 total yards, numbers that were inflated by a 68-yard touchdown drive with 1:22 left in the contest with the reserves in the game for both teams.
2. Offense
The Wolfpack had its best offensive performance since they rolled up 38 points and 406 total yards in a win over Central Michigan Oct. 8, and make no mistake, Clemson is a better team than CMU. The Wolfpack could have threatened the best total yards effort of the year of 424 against Wake Forest in week two had State not focused on running the clock in the fourth quarter.
3. Playing with energy
There was some wondering Saturday how State would handle the emotions and pressure of having to win out to be bowl eligible. The start in the first quarter was not inspiring, but once State got a few turnovers and a little bit of momentum, a tidal wave of energy overcame the team, and they went for a quick and emphatic kill of Clemson.
Three things that did not work:
1. Covering DeAndre Hopkins
We have to be a nitpicky about what did not work Saturday. The sophomore receiver from Clemson caught five passes for 124 yards Saturday and was able to get some big plays, including a 43-yard haul.
2. Stopping the late touchdown
A final score of 37-6 would have had a nicer ring to it than 37-13, but oh well.
3. Playing like that every week
The first reaction in Wolfpack nation after the euphoria of the victory was nearly unanimous, why can't NC State play that every week? How did that team lose to Boston College?
Breaking down the position battles:
NC State's OL vs. Clemson's front seven
The first quarter was tough for the offensive line. Glennon was sacked twice, and the Pack's offense struggled to gain traction on its first four possessions. After that though the Pack's offensive line settled down and took control of the matchup.
NC State's front seven vs. Clemson's OL
This was not much of a contest. NC State had six sacks and eight more tackles for losses. Clemson's top two running backs had 16 carries for just 39 yards. Clemson ran for 34 total net yards.
NC State's WR vs. Clemson's DB
The Pack did not get a whole lot downfield, but they found some success with flair passes and a combination of crossing and slant routes. Redshirt junior Tobais Palmer may have had the highlight of the game with a 43-yard catch and run touchdown.
NC State's DB vs. Clemson's WR
There's no denying that Clemson missed star freshman Sammy Watkins. Hopkins was a tough matchup for the Wolfpack, but overall the defensive backs covered well.
No question who was the best quarterback on the field Saturday. Glennon completed 19 of 29 passes for 253 yards and three touchdowns and did not turn the ball over. Boyd completed 21 of 34 passes for 238 yards, threw two interceptions (both either in or near the end zone) and had a fumble.
Running backs
Redshirt freshman Tony Creecy may have had his best running game of his young career, rushing 15 times for 65 yards and a score. Junior James Washington hit his best stride late and finished with 22 carries for 86 yards and four receptions for 44 yards. They were clearly much more affective than the Clemson running backs.
Tight Ends
Clemson junior Dwayne Allen will be the first-team All-ACC tight end this year, ending Bryan's two-year reign, but Bryan was the best tight end this afternoon. He caught 3 passes for 35 yards and a score. Allen also caught three passes, but he was effectively neutralized and held to just 18 yards. Bryan has caught at least three passes in three of the last four games after he caught three passes just twice in the first seven games.
Special teams
Senior receiver T.J. Graham, who became the ACC's all-time kickoff return yardage leader in the game, had a key 34-yard punt return during the second quarter explosion. Freshman kicker Niklas Sade made all three field goal attempts, giving him six straight made field goals. Clemson did better when it came to punting, but Graham's return tilted the matchup to the Wolfpack.


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AFA's Got Game!
Anna would like you guys to vote and subscribe to this newspaper. It makes her happy. And anything that makes Anna happier makes my life a lot easier. You married guys know what I'm talking about. If you don't, then it's time to move out of your parent's basement.
Let's move on...
By now, you should already know that the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) has expanded their plurality in Congress to almost 33%. This means that roughly one third of the eUS government is under their control. That much should be obvious.
What isn't so obvious is how they've achieved it. There's truth to the claims that AFA has populated their party with foreign nationals (wasn't iNCi also a foreign party?), but that's only half of the truth.
The numbers below are a snapshot of party membership of each party in the past two consecutive Congressional elections. When looking at the numbers, another problem for the Unity Coalition comes into focus:
The obvious "problem" is that the AFA is the only party who's membership has increased over the past month. This translates into more votes during elections and increased influence. It's that simple. Drawing membership from foreign nationals obviously contributed to AFA's rising.
But why has membership in the other Unity Coalition parties declined? Where are the members going? Why can't the parties recruit new members? It's this writer's opinion that this is the most serious problem the Unity Coalition faces. Otherwise it's only a matter of time before AFA dominates.
That's free advice!
Smart feller right here.
USWP and WTP lost roughly 100 peeps each. Fwiw the WTP is actually tracking loses and investigating where we're losing members to. Only two of ours went to AFA, one result we found.
1st - it's OVER 33% not almost, maybe if unity clone votes wasn't deleted it would be under 33%
(Oh yes, Elites do everything they accuse us of...)
2nd - we did it because we are the voice of a silent majority
(Oh my God they are coming!... no we are already here!)
3rd - DEAL WITH IT!
You make a good point that we need to clean up our domestic house, however I do not agree with the title. They don't have "game". If we are losing people it is our own fault, not because they necessarily swayed opinion, they are the last alternative to people that are disgruntled.
If the api were working this would be easy to figure out. But we don't have that option. Thanks be to Plato.
It is only speculation but my money is on the loss of newer players. The admins have narrowed their market to those interested in battle numbers. I point to the recent '5 year' specials. All other facets of the game have been whittled back to nothing more than point and click chores. The media is having some impact because people like you persist in actually giving a shit.
When only gold buyers are attracted by the admins marketing tactics you will have little growth in other, more meaningful players. Those that do find their way here soon are bored and leave. Many mid term and even long term players are finding it hard to remain. Only those who find enjoyment outside of the game mechanics persist. That is those of us who use the game only as a reason to get together with on-line friends.
where are the T4 members going?
please vote if you agree with me:
AFA is the hope for America to restore us to glory. Our elites have done more harm to our nation than anything AJ could of done, even if he is the monster they claim he is. Only crazy people would have gone to the extremes they have done for a personal grudge against a single player. They really think AJ is all that holds the other 800 people in a common cause.
'You make a good point that we need to clean up our domestic house, however I do not agree with the title. They don't have "game". If we are losing people it is our own fault, not because they necessarily swayed opinion, they are the last alternative to people that are disgruntled.' x2
I also believe that some of the loses can be traced to citizens returning to sixth parties or no party....
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What is the difference between writing sdf from encounter and from ETS?
I had written sdf(write_sdf) from encounter after postRoute and also write sdf(write_sdf) in ETS using spef generated by encounter.
I have doubt that
What is the difference between writing sdf from encounter and from ETS?
I had the used SDC from the post routed design and the same SDC was used to for writing the SDC in ETS and found no difference. But according to my understanding because of the SPEF inclusion in ETS there should be a delay change in atleast the interconnects. I not sure if the procedure followed is correct. Please share more info on the same.
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Selvam, there are some timing settings that are different between EDI and ETS, so that may explain some small differences in the two SDF files.
Kienu, I'm not sure if you're mising acronyms here - meaning SDF instead of SDC - we'd need more info on the two scenarios you're trying to compare.
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Hi Kari,
What i actually wanted to ask is, I wrote out SDF and SPEF using the encounter tool for a routed design. I then invoked this same SPEF in ETS, performed the SPEF flow and wrote out another SDF in ETS. I compared the SDF written from EDI and ETS and found no difference, but according to my understanding the Parastic data inclusion should have made some delay difference. Shouldn't there have been a difference in the two SDF's?
Thanks kari, But I have one doubt regarding this.
I've used same max,min and typical lib for both encounter and ETS. So delay for each standard cells same in both encounter and ETS. Then Why we go for ETS to write sdf and timing optimization? If I'm wrong,correct me.
what do you mean by "performed the spef flow"?
from what you've said, you had a design in EDI and wrote out SDF and SPEF. So that design already had SPEF information. Then wrote out that SPEF, read it in to ETS, and output SDF. It makes sense they would match, if they were both based on the same SPEF.
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Thanks for the reply.


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I'm deep enough in to the atheist whateversphere that I know minutia about how a fair number of prominent atheists have occasionally criticized Buddhism. I've written up a summary of the details here, and I suspect those criticisms are mostly correct. But thinking that didn't prepare me for an experience I had the other day.
I'm in Hong Kong right now, last stop in Asia before I head back to the US. One of the things I've done here is go to Lantau which, according to Wikitravel, is home of "largest, seated, outdoor bronze Buddha statue in the world." Here are some pictures I took of it, first from far away while riding the cabal car on the way there:
And close up:
I've seen a fair number of these religious monuments in my travels around southeast Asia, and on the whole I'm fond of them. Intellectually, I realize they're all probably the result of various kings wanting to show off how rich and powerful they were, and to that end spending a ton of money that probably could have been used for a better purpose. But that doesn't stop me from enjoying how pretty they are.
There is one thing that threw me, though: at the village near the statue, I went to a short presentation on Buddhsim because it was included in the price of the cable car ride so hey why not. It consisted mostly of a few short animated film clips, spread out through multiple rooms, with everything decorated in a way that I guess was supposed to put us in a spiritual state of mind. And to my complete surprise, I was totally creeped out by it.
In theory, there should have been no surprises, because there was nothing I hadn't been told when I learned about world religions in grade school/middle school. But hearing it again as an adult, I was struck by how totally generic the story was: "Siddhartha was raised a prince, but was unhappy, so he went off to seek enlightenment. Once he got out of his sheltered princely life, he realized everyone dies eventually. He tried starving himself for awhile, but then realized moderation was better. Eventually, he sat down to mediate under a tree and became enlightened."
Hearing that, I thought, "wow, it would be so easy to change the names and incidental details and make this story about L. Ron Hubbard, or the Rev. Moon, or Kim Il-Sung." Like, you could tell a story about how L. Ron Hubbard was dissatisfied with his life, went on a quest for answers, and then in a flash of insight discovered the key principles of Dianetics.
Heck, the basic outline wasn't all that different than what you hear in a lot of Christian "witnessing" narratives, except that "witnessing" doesn't involve claiming you discovered anything original (though there's a tendency to play up the personal discovery aspect, rather than admitting you converted because of your wife or a girl you had a crush on or whatever).
What makes this creepy is the claiming to have discovered ultimate wisdom, juxtaposed with the total lack of any significant content that would justify the claim. The presentation was clearly done in a way meant to convey how awesome the Buddha was, but the only "spiritual truths" he was said to have discovered were banalities: everyone dies, moderation is good. That means the tropes in the presentation could be used to sell any leader or ideology.
After the cartoon clips, we were directed to walk past a series of plaques with Buddhism's "Four Noble Truths" and "Eightfold Path" written out. Again, I'd heard it all before, but had an unexpected "lol wut?" reaction to it all. I wish I'd taken pictures of the plaques with the versions of the "Four Noble Truths." They struck me as exceptionally annoying, in ways not captured by the versions I'm finding through Google right now. In any case, I remember thinking, "how about a better way to avoid suffering is to give people food and medicine and then work on radical life extension?"
But the "best" (and by "best" I mean "worst") part was the Eightfold Path, which was presented in a way pretty similar to what I can find online:
That seems ripe for some mockery in the style of George Carlin's "Ten Commandments" routine. "So basically what you're saying is I should do things the right way? Gee, thanks Buddha, I never would have figured that out without you!"
Final thought: maybe we should just feel sorry for the Buddha, who apparently lived such a sheltered life when he was young that when he finally found out about suffering, it seemed like a profound revelation.


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Anyone ever tried making sugarveil lace from a stencil instead of the $80 lace mat? Success? Really looking for a decent alternative here. I need a lot of edible lace, not sure if i can make my own mold that large with silicone plastique though. Im also a little weary about spending more money on sugarveil products since my electronic cutter with sugarveil adventure was not pleasant. (And yes, I followed the instructions to a T, so dont worry about reposting them guys!)
SRumzis, you can use any type of craft stencil with SugarVeil on a greased silicone mat. Spread SugarVeil thickly, leave for 1 minute, then 'roll' the stencil back slowly to allow SugarVeil to 'grab' itself like this: http://www.sugarveil.com/pdfs/sugarveil-monogramming.pdf
Also, you can use a parchment cone and pipe lace designs by tracing these lace patterns onto greased parchment: http://www.sugarveil.com/icing_dispenser/design_patterns.htm
Do let me know if I can answer any questions for you.
Michele Hester
when you say "thickly" how thick are we talking? Also do you use a scraper or tool to put the sugarveil on or just pore? thank you for the tips
jjt, specifically for stenciling, I like to beat SugarVeil with a whisk attachment when mixing to give it lots of 'loft'. And spreading it thickly onto the stencil means spreading it to cover the stencil, leaving the excess there rather than scraping it off (you can scrape the stencil after it's removed to reclaim the SugarVeil). After a few minutes, you roll the stencil back very slowly, and the SugarVeil will 'grab' itself, making really soft, sculpted-looking edges to the stenciled design (rather than the straight-walled edges you get when stenciling with royal icing). You can use any type of thin, plastic card - or even a clean credit card - to stencil.
It's a good way to do monograms. These were stenciled, and to add even more dimension, we used the Icing Dispenser to apply more SugarVeil in the middle areas of the letters.


text: So Have the Huawei Ascend P1 and so far it seems like a great phone. The only problems that I have found so far are to do with the headphone socket. 1. When you have headphones plugged in and listening to music, notifications play through the headphones ok, however they also still play through the phones external speaker. 2. When listening to music through headphones and you remove the headphone jack from the socket the music does not stop playing however starts playing through the external speaker. Neither of these are major issues however would be great if Huawei could fix them as they are kinda annoying.


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Gorky's example, together with the creation of the Federal Art Project, which paid artists a living wage during the Depression, finally led de Kooning to commit himself to being a full-time artist. In the '30s, Gorky and de Kooning became inseparable; their ongoing discussions about art helped each develop into a major painter. De Kooning, struggling to create a fresh kind of figurative art, often painted wan, melancholy portraits of men and, less frequently, women. He worked and reworked the pictures, trying to reconcile his classical training with his modernist convictions. He might allow a picture to leave his studio if a friend bought it, since he was chronically short of cash, but he discarded most of his canvases in disgust.
In the late '30s, de Kooning met a young art student named Elaine Fried. They would marry in 1943. Fried was not only beautiful, her vivacity matched de Kooning's reserve. Never scrimp on the luxuries, she liked to say, the necessities will take care of themselves. One of her friends, the artist Hedda Sterne, described her as a "daredevil." "She believed in gestures without regret, and she delighted in her own spontaneity and exuberance," Sterne said. "I was a lot of fun," Elaine would later recall. "I mean, a lot of fun." She also considered de Kooning a major artist—well before he became one—which may have bolstered his confidence.
A fresh sensation of the female figure, no doubt inspired by Elaine, began to course through de Kooning's art. The color brightened. Boundaries fell away. He no longer seemed constrained by his classical training: the women in the paintings now threatened to break out and break apart; distinguishing figure from ground became, in places, difficult. The artist was beginning to master his ambiguous space. It seemed natural that de Kooning, who instinctively preferred movement to stillness and did not think the truth of the figure lay only in its surface appearance, would begin shifting along a continuum from the representational to the abstract. Yet even his most abstract pictures, as de Kooning scholar Richard Shiff has observed, "either began with a reference to the human figure or incorporated figural elements along the way."
De Kooning's move in the late '40s toward a less realistic depiction of the figure may have been prompted, in part, by the arrival in the city earlier in the decade of a number of celebrated artists from Paris, notably André Breton and his circle of Surrealists, all refugees from the war. De Kooning was not generally a fan of Surrealism, but the movement's emphasis on the unconscious mind, dreams and the inner life would have reinforced his own impatience with a purely realistic depiction of the world. The Surrealists and their patron, the socialite Peggy Guggenheim, made a big splash in New York. Their very presence inspired ambition in American artists.
Still, de Kooning remained on the margins. The Federal Art Project no longer existed and there was little to no market for modern American art. It was in this dark period that de Kooning began his great series of black-and-white abstractions. He and his close friend, the painter Franz Kline, unable to afford costly pigments, famously went out one day and bought inexpensive black and white enamel household paint and (according to legend) with devil-may-care abandon began turning out major works. It was not, of course, that simple. De Kooning had labored for many years to reach this moment; and, in a way, the moment now found him. The horror of World War II—and accounts of the Holocaust coming out of Europe—created a new perception among de Kooning and some American artists of a great, if bleak, metaphysical scale. (They also had before their eyes, in MoMA, Picasso's powerful, monochromatic Guernica of 1937, his response to the fascist bombing of the Spanish city.) In contrast to their European contemporaries, the Americans did not live among the war's ruins, and they came from a culture that celebrated a Whitmanesque boundlessness. De Kooning, whose city of birth had been pounded into rubble during the war, was both a European and an American, well positioned to make paintings of dark grandeur. In 1948, when he was almost 44, he exhibited his so-called "black and whites" at the small and little-visited Egan Gallery. It was his first solo show. Few pictures sold, but they were widely noticed and admired by artists and critics.
It was also in the late 1940s that Jackson Pollock began to make his legendary "drip" abstractions, which he painted on the floor of his studio, weaving rhythmic skeins of paint across the canvas. Pollock's paintings, also mainly black and white, had a very different character from de Kooning's. While generally abstract, de Kooning's knotty pictures remained full of glimpsed human parts and gestures; Pollock's conveyed a transcendent sense of release from the world. The titles of the two greatest pictures in de Kooning's black-and-white series, Attic and Excavation, suggest that the artist does not intend to forget what the world buries or puts aside. (De Kooning no doubt enjoyed the shifting implications of the titles. Attic, for example, can refer to an actual attic, suggest the heights of heaven or recall ancient Greece.) Each painting is full of figurative incident—a turn of shoulder here, a swelling of hip there, but a particular body can be discerned in neither. "Even abstract shapes," de Kooning said, "must have a likeness."
De Kooning completed Excavation, his last and largest picture in the series, in 1950. The director of MoMA, Alfred Barr, then selected the painting, along with works by Pollock, Gorky and John Marin, to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale—a signal honor for all four American modernists. Journalists began to take notice. Pollock was the subject of a photo spread in Life magazine in 1949. The light of celebrity was beginning to focus on what had been an obscure corner of American culture. The Sidney Janis Gallery, which specialized in European masters, now began to pitch de Kooning and other American artists as worthy successors to Picasso or Mondrian. Critics, curators and art dealers increasingly began to argue that where art was concerned, New York was the new Paris.
By the early '50s, De Kooning was a painter of growing renown with a blue-chip abstract style. Most of his contemporaries believed he would continue to produce paintings in that style. But in one of the most contrary and independent actions in the history of American art, he gave up his black-and-white abstractions to focus mainly, once again, on the female figure. He struggled over a single canvas for almost two years, his friends increasingly concerned for his well-being as he continually revised and scraped away the image. He finally set the painting aside in despair. Only the intervention of the influential art historian Meyer Schapiro, who asked to see it during a studio visit, persuaded de Kooning to attack the canvas once again—and conclude that he had finished Woman I (1950-52). Then, in rapid succession, he completed several more Woman paintings.
De Kooning described Woman I as a grinning goddess—"rather like the Mesopotamian idols," he said, which "always stand up straight, looking to the sky with this smile, like they were just astonished about the forces of nature...not about problems they had with one another." His goddesses were complicated: at once frightening and hilarious, ancient and contemporary. Some critics likened them to Hollywood bimbos; others thought them the work of a misogynist. The sculptor Isamu Noguchi, a friend of de Kooning's, recognized their ambivalence: "I wonder whether he really hates women," he said. "Perhaps he loves them too much." Much of the complication comes from the volatile mixture of vulgarity and a refinement in de Kooning's brushwork. "Beauty," de Kooning once said, "becomes petulant to me. I like the grotesque. It's more joyous."
Not surprisingly, de Kooning doubted that his show of recent work in 1953 would be successful, and the leading art critic of the time, Clement Greenberg, thought de Kooning had taken a wrong turn with the Woman series. Much to de Kooning's surprise, however, the show was a success, not just among many artists but among a public increasingly eager to embrace American painting.


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MIAMI BEACH (Jul. 10)
Religious revival in the United States since World War II, by and large "may be attributed to the spark and nurture of chaplains of all religious faiths during military service," Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the executive committee of the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the National Jewish Welfare Board, told the 26th annual convention of the Rabbinical Council of America here today.
Rabbi Miller, who is also vice-president of the Rabbinical Council of America, asserted that "military chaplains are far more effective in the administration of their theological duties than their civilian counterparts in the clergy. On the personal level, the chaplain in the armed forces has developed a greater affinity for his congregants by making himself more accessible and available whenever the need for guidance and assistance arises."
He said that more than 200 Orthodox rabbis have served as full-time chaplains in the armed forces of the United States during the past 25 years. "The Orthodox chaplains in the armed forces have greatly altered the image of Orthodox Judaism in the general and Jewish communities," he stated. "Orthodox Judaism is no longer considered an anachronism in the Twentieth Century which can only survive or live in ghetto surroundings."
Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, honorary president of the Council, asserted that Orthodox Judaism is enriching the American heritage. He stated that America needed Orthodox Judaism's emphasis on a duty-oriented law, rather than a right-centered law.


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London, Sept 13 (ANI): New Real Madrid player Gareth Bale has reportedly denied reports of a rift between him and the club's reigning star Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of his possible debut for the Spanish giants.
Bale was rumoured to have angered Ronaldo by replacing him as the world's most expensive player, following his 85 million-pound summer switch from Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
According to Metro.co.uk, however, Bale dismissed the reports, saying that the Portuguese superstar is helping him settle at Real, adding that he and Ronaldo are enjoying a 'blossoming relationship'.
Stating that it was amazing to meet Ronaldo, Bale said that the former Manchester United star is a 'nice guy' and made him feel welcome just like everybody else did, adding that he is looking forward to getting on the pitch and doing well.
Bale is in contention to make his Madrid debut this weekend when newly promoted Villarreal host Carlo Ancelotti's side at the Madrigal Stadium. (ANI)


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Whoseview.ie wins Best Listings Website at the Eircom Spiders!
Whoseview.ie won the Best Listings Website at this year's Eircom Spider Awards to follow on from their win last year in the Best New Indigenous Website category. Below is a picture of Helen from Whoseview.ie accepting the award.
A great night had by all and congratulations to all the winners. A special mention goes out to Tattoo.tv who won the Community category sponsored by Lightbox. Below is a picture of Tom presenting the award. Nice bow tie!


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Chris Brown arrested outside D.C. hotel
WASHINGTON (AP/WJLA) - Chris Brown is expected to appear in court Monday afternoon on an assault charge after a fight broke out over the weekend near a Washington hotel, which could further snarl the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer's ongoing legal troubles.
Brown and another man were charged with felony assault in the altercation that started just before 4:30 a.m., D.C. police spokesman Paul Metcalf said.
The man who was attacked received treatment for his injuries at a local hospital and was released Sunday. Police wouldn't elaborate on his injuries but said the felony charge was based in part on the extent of the injuries.
Police have identified the man injured in the assault as Isaac Adams Parker, 20, of Beltsville.
According to the MPD police report of the incident, Parker was trying to get into a photo being taken of Brown and a witness.
Brown told him "I'm not into that gay ****" and "I feel like boxing." He then allegedly punched Parker in the face.
Christopher Hollosy, reported to be Brown's bodyguard, stepped in between Brown and Parker, and also punched Parker in the face.
Hollosy, 35, was also charged with felony assault, police said. Brown and Hollosy were being held pending a court hearing Monday, Metcalf said.
Neither Brown's publicists nor his attorney Mark Geragos responded to messages left Sunday.
Brown was in Washington to perform Saturday night at an event billed as a "Homecoming Weekend" party at a downtown club. Howard University was celebrating its homecoming, though a university spokeswoman said the party was not sponsored by or affiliated with the school.
Brown remains on probation for assaulting his on-again, off-again girlfriend Rihanna just before the Grammy Awards in 2009. The photos of Rihanna's bruised face caused outrage among many fans.
Brown pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault and received five years' probation.
His probation was briefly revoked earlier this year after a traffic accident. A hit-and-run charge was dropped against him, but the judge gave him 1,000 more hours of community service when he reinstated his probation.
Brown, who lives in Los Angeles and is originally from Virginia, has been involved in other altercations since 2009. Police have said a 2012 brawl at a New York nightclub began when members of the rapper Drake's entourage confronted Brown on the dance floor. Neither was charged in the fight that turned into a bottle-throwing free-for-all.
Brown also tussled with singer Frank Ocean and others during an argument about a parking space outside of a recording studio in Los Angeles, according to witness accounts given to deputies at the time. Ocean said he suffered an injured finger, but no charges were filed.
Brown's arrest could affect his probation in the Rihanna assault case. Brown is due back in court Nov. 20 in Los Angeles to update a judge on his probation. Prosecutors could seek a revocation of his probation or ask a judge to impose additional penalties.
Steve Cron, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, said prosecutors and a judge may wait to see how the Washington case plays out before taking any action against Brown.
"Just the fact that some guy says 'he hit me' doesn't mean he's in violation" of his probation, Cron said.
The potential penalties would depend on the exact wording of Brown's sentence, he said.


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He's Still Got 'It' -- Whatever 'It' Is
Another questionable tale involves the song "Kiss". While Prince was working on Parade, he helped Revolution bassist Mark Brown (a.k.a. "Brown Mark") and David Rivkin (a.k.a. "David Z.") with their band Mazarati by giving them a couple of songs. One was "100 MPH", a catchy joint with a clever little staccato delivery. That one ended up on Mazarati's self-titled album. The other was the demo for "Kiss". After letting the guys puzzle over it, spending the whole night working it, Prince changed his mind and reclaimed the song, saying, "It's too good for you guys." Then, although he promised to list Rivkin as the song's co-producer, he ended up being listed only as the "arranger". Draper further reports that the "main elements of the song originated from Rivkin and Brown's version."
The story reads a bit differently in Alan Leeds's account of it for The Hits/The B-Sides. There, Leeds quotes David Z. as recalling the "Kiss" demo as "just voice and acoustic guitar" and as not having "any real indication of a groove yet." It was "just the raw idea". David Z. and company "started a rhythm track and put on some background vocals" but thought the song was too much of an oddball to finish. Leeds goes on to say, "Once Prince was able to gauge Mazarati's lack of interest in 'Kiss', he simply reclaimed it and finished it." Draper too notes that Prince's final version involved "stripping away a lot of the detail Rivkin and Brown had added" to give "Kiss" a "minimalist" feel. Weird story. Even weirder song.
On the personal side of things, the book allows talk of Prince's relationships with Vanity, Susan Moonsie, Jill Jones, Kim Basinger, Mayte, Manuela Testolini, and of course Prince's major inspiration, Susannah Melvoin. Yet, all of this is quite tame and, what's more, it's public knowledge so it's not like the book has unearthed any shocking secrets. In fact, Draper probably could have said more on the subject, since he didn't mention Prince's crush on vocalist, composer, and pianist Patrice Rushen, which inspired the song "I Feel For You" as Alan Leeds did in The Hits/The B-Sides liner notes. In fact, the more shocking revelation for some might be the people he was NOT dating, like Purple Rain co-star Patricia "Apollonia" Kotero. Draper relays Apollonia's assertion that Prince wanted her to keep it a secret that she was married "so that fans might believe [she and Prince] were romantically involved."
In keeping with Draper's general factual approach, the chart positions of songs and albums figure prominently in Draper's discussion, as does his information about the logistics and aesthetics of Prince's tours. Going on tour has, after all, been a financial benefit to musicians, so that the challenges of working under a recording contract might well be offset by a successfully promoted live show. For Prince, enjoying a stellar reputation as a showman has translated into a lucrative source of revenue as well as a significant outlet for showcasing his talent.
Apparently, there are people in this world who don't realize Prince has still got "it", whatever "it" is, and he's taken some momentous occasions to put everyone on notice. Draper covers them all—the Purple Rain tour, the 1990 Nude tour, his spirited 2004 performances at the Grammys with Beyonce and during his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and at the 2007 Super Bowl. Better still, Prince performed a whopping "21 night stand" at London's O2 Arena. The irony is that all of this, and more, was accomplished by a man who was once a shy performer and who, in the early '80s, performed as a supporting act for the Rolling Stones with the infamously disastrous result of the crowd booing him off stage the first concert and throwing "fruit, vegetables, Jack Daniels, and even a bag of rotting chicken" the second. From the standpoint of comprehensiveness, Draper's willingness to couple Prince's album releases with his dramatic performances of the recorded material creates a relatively balanced presentation of Prince's overall work.
The issue of balance becomes looms large in any discussion of Prince's most recent output. From 1978 up to the '90s, Prince recorded an album a year for Warner Brothers Records, not to mention penning and oftentimes playing the music on a slew of associated artist and band releases. In the '90s, however, Prince ended his longtime relationship with Warner Brothers following a period of acrimony at least partly concerning his insistence on releasing music at a pace far exceeding a label's timetable for methodical and measured market promotion. And, then, you know, Prince wouldn't always help promote the music. He'd move on to his next project instead. Prince also wrote the word "Slave" on his face to protest his relationship with the company. "If you don't own your [master tapes]," he told Rolling Stone, "your master owns you." He went further and changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, usually typed as O{+>. This symbol was the title of his 1992 album, whose aforementioned first track is ironically called "My Name is Prince". As you might guess, it's a bad sign for a business relationship when an artist refuses to use his name, particularly one that has been backed by large budgets, tons of promotion, and heavy branding.
Draper establishes these facts and makes the case that Prince is a pioneered the exploration of alternative business models, including Internet distribution and using concerts to score album sales. His battle with Warner Brothers demonstrates his stance onartist's rights and creative freedom. No one's really arguing those points. When it comes to the music, though, his biggest and most recognizable hits occurred under his Warner Brothers contract and, quite frankly, most of Prince's hardcore fans prefer Prince's Warner Brothers catalogue over anything in the post-Warner era.
And it's really difficult to argue that they're wrong. The songs that make Prince the stuff of legend are exclusively situated during his time with Warner Brothers: "I Wanna Be Your Lover", "Sexy Dancer", "Head", "Controversy", "Do Me Baby", "1999", "Little Red Corvette", the entire Purple Rain album, "Raspberry Beret", "Pop Life", "Kiss", "Sign 'O' the Times", "Alphabet St.", "Thieves in the Temple", "Batdance", "Cream", "Gett Off", "Diamonds & Pearls", "Sexy MF". Since his split from Warners, Prince has gone independent and, although he releases a steady stream of music from which he seems to reap a heftier financial reward, his newer music doesn't have the immediate recognition of his older tunes.
I don't hear a lot of people citing "Te Amo Corazon" or "Chocolate Box" as their favorite Prince jams of all time. That doesn't mean Prince isn't cranking out good tunes on albums such as Come (1994), Emancipation (1996), The Rainbow Children (2001), Musicology (2004), 3121 (2006), Planet Earth (2007), LotusFlow3r/MPLSound (2009), and 20Ten (2010). I happen to think he is, actually, for whatever that's worth. The point is that the newer material hasn't ingratiated itself into the public consciousness the way songs like "1999", "When Doves Cry", and "Kiss" have.
Nonetheless, Jason Draper does an admirable job of tackling this newer material, including albums released under contractual obligation by Warner Brothers. In doing so, Draper updates those readers who thought Prince's career ended after Purple Rain or Sign 'O' the Times or Diamonds & Pearls or The Gold Experience or whichever album people consider to be his last "good" one. Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution's main accomplishment, then, is that it gets everyone who's interested in Prince on the same basic page. Informing us takes precedent over entertaining us, and that's probably because there's just so much to cover. For anyone courting the notion that prince's career ought to be dominated by the legacy of the almighty Purple Rain movie and soundtrack, Draper dispatches this by page 57. That's out of about 230 pages, mind you, not counting the index, the endnotes, and so forth. By that point, Draper has already discussed Purple Rain and its preceding albums (For You (1978), Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy, and 1999) and goes on to talk about the aftermath of Prince's commercial breakthrough and beyond.
Diehard fans will probably know everything, and I mean everything, contained in this book. Most, if not all of us, have read Prince biographies such as Jason Draper's Prince: Life & Times (2008), Matthew Carcieri's Prince: A Life in Music (2004), Per Nilsen's Dance Music Sex Romance (2003), Alex Hahn's Possessed: The Rise & Fall of Prince (2003), and Liz Jones's Purple Reign (1999) and Slave to the Rhythm (1998). It's nevertheless an interesting read, given its information about Prince's side projects and unreleased music, although not for the purpose of collecting such material but rather to place them into an overall context.
I also enjoyed Draper's thoughts on Prince's albums, even when, and sometimes especially when, I disagreed. In case you didn't know, Prince fans never agree on anything anyway, except perhaps that Prince shouldn't have tried to incorporate as much rap as he has or that the Graffiti Bridge movie is pretty bad. Everything else -- favorite songs, greatest albums, most interesting hairstyle, tightest band -- is hotly contested. Really, the best way to get into an argument with a Prince fan is to voice an opinion about his music. Tell a Prince fan you think the "Wedding Feast" track from The Rainbow Children (2001) is Prince's crowning achievement and watch the outrage begin. But, in the end, that's what it all comes down to with us. We really don't care who he's dating or what car he's driving or whatever. With Prince, it's really all about the music. Jason Draper's Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution does well to stay focused on that fact.
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Court Rules Against Public Defender for Montana Doctor
A Montana doctor facing hundreds of felony charges for over-prescribing pain medication has been told he doesn't qualify for a public defender.
A Montana doctor facing hundreds of felony charges for over-prescribing pain medication has been told he doesn't qualify for a public defender.
The arraignment of a 19-year-old Florence man accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at Florence High School more than two years ago has been continued until next week.
Students at Florence school used to eat at a cafeteria located in the old gym, but after a two students stuffed a wig and some paper towels into a toilet on Saturday, the entire lunchroom has been displaced.
The Ravalli County Public Health Department is worried that many citizens may be suffering from withdrawals after their access to certain drugs was cut-off by an investigation into Big Creek Family Medicine and Urgent Care center in Florence.
A multi-agency task force served a search warrant on Tuesday, April 1, at Big Creek Family Medicine and Urgent Care in Florence.
The Western Montana sky exploded with lightning strikes and brief, heavy rains starting at about 6:00 a.m. Monday, as a summer storm swept through the Bitterroot, Missoula, and the Blackfoot areas. The lightning sparked at least two small fires.
On August 12, 2012, three juveniles robbed the Town Pump convenience store in Florence at gunpoint. One of the three, William Lawrence Waldman, 16, entered a plea of guilty to charges of felony robbery and felony assault with a weapon on Wednesday afternoon in Ravalli County District Court.


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Know any good hotel in Berlin? Something wioth resonable rates?
I'm looking for a Berlin Hotel where we can stay overnight with family. I want to be near the good sites and has to have good rate too! I want somewhere close to Brandenbur gate.
City: Berlin
State: Berlin
Country: Germany
Of course there are many hotels in Berlin. I've stayed at least a dozen or so. One that has reasonable rates and good service is the Original Hotel Berlin, Berlin
Good luck and have fun in Berlin - it's a great town!
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Nude photos of Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis have surfaced on the internet and there's rumors of a sex tape!
According to reports, an ex-boyfriend is shopping 20 scandalous shots of the Sex and the City good girl to interested buyers. Reportedly taken five years ago, the pics show the actress nude and engaging in lots of very saucy activities.
But are they just PhotoShopped, as many bloggers presume? Kristin's rep denies the existence of the photos and any possible sex tape.


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Am I also responsible for the tax debt? 2 Answers as of August 25, 2010My husband has been convicted of tax fraud. He committed this fraud on a return which he filed separately while we were married. If I was not even listed on the return, am I at all responsible for the tax debt that was incurred?
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Not if he committed fraud.
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