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Affleck, 'Les Miserables' lead Golden Globes
'Argo' and 'Les Miserables' win best picture at the Golden Globe Awards, while Daniel Day-Lewis and Jessica Chastain nab top film drama acting honors. 'Homeland' and 'Girls' take home top TV awards. (Jan 14) AP
'Les Miserables' and 'Argo' win best movie categories. 'Homeland,' 'Girls,' and 'Game Change' take TV awards.
Ben Affleck rebounded from the mother of all snubs at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony Sunday evening in Beverly Hills, Les Miserables nabbed three honors, and Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway all garnered important wins on the road to next month's Oscars.
Argo won for best drama and, after being a favorite to earn an Academy Award nomination last week and then not getting one, Affleck picked up a best director Golden Globe for the political thriller, besting a field that included Steven Spielberg (Lincoln), Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) and Quentin Tarantino (Django).
"I truly to God never thought I could be in the same breath as them," Affleck said.
Les Miserables picked up three wins — best musical or comedy, best actor (Hugh Jackman) and best supporting actress for Hathaway. Its total tied for the most of the night with the HBO TV movie Game Change and Showtime drama Homeland.
"I was kicking myself for not getting a flu shot, but it doesn't seem like I need one. I feel great!" said Jackman, remembering one day after a bad Les Mis rehearsal when his wife talked him off the cliff and kept him from quitting the movie musical.
"Baby," he said to her, "thank you for always being right."
After she won, Hathaway began her acceptance speech with one word: "Blerg."
She lauded fellow nominee Sally Field of Lincoln as "the vanguard against typecasting," and thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her trophy, "this curvy blunt object that will be used forever against self-doubt."
The Steven Spielberg historical drama Lincoln came in leading the field with seven nominations, but only Daniel Day-Lewis won a Golden Globe for his performance as Abraham Lincoln.
"Are you sure there's room for another ex-president on this stage?" Day-Lewis joked after Bill Clinton introduced the film. Clinton remembered the 16th president's "steely resolve and necessary compromises" to end slavery: "We're all here tonight because he did it."
Day-Lewis also lauded his director, Steven Spielberg, who the actor called "a humble master with a quicksilver imagination. You've given me an experience I'll treasure to the end of my life."
Lawrence beat out the likes of Meryl Streep, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench to take home the prize for best actress in a comedy or musical for Silver Linings Playbook.
"What does it say? I beat Meryl!" said a smiling Lawrence when handed the trophy. She thanked co-star Bradley Cooper as well as producer Harvey Weinstein. "Harvey, thank you for killing whoever you needed to to get me up here."
Jessica Chastain won best actress in a drama for her performance in Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. She compared her character to Bigelow: "Two powerful women who allow their best work to stand for them."
LIST: See the complete winners list
The TV film Game Change, about the 2008 election, won for best TV movie/miniseries, Ed Harris was chosen as best actor and Julianne Moore picked up a trophy for best actress in a TV movie/miniseries.
"This was one of my favorite jobs ever," Moore said of being transformed into polarizing Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Damian Lewis won for best actor in a TV series for his role as Homeland's soldier-turned-terrorist Nicholas Brody, while his show won best drama series.
Lewis, who was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Band of Brothers, dedicated the award to his late mother, who is "telling everyone up there how well her son is doing in acting."
His Homeland co-star Claire Danes won the fourth Golden Globe of her career as CIA analyst Carrie Mathison. She was pregnant during much of the season's filming, and thanked her costumer, who "took my pants out every damn week," and her new baby son, Cyrus, for "being so game and fighting this war on terrorists."
Lena Dunham, the breakout writer and star of HBO's Girls, came up huge, winning for actress in a comedy her first time nominated and seeing her show win the comedy category, beating out the likes of Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory.
"I thought that I was going to be a cooler customer if this ever happened," Dunham said after accepting her actress award, her hands visibly shaking while reading her notes. "This award is for every woman who didn't think there was a space for her."
Maggie Smith won for best supporting actress in a TV series for Downton Abbey, and Christoph Waltz garnered best-supporting-actor honors for his role as a bounty hunter in the movie Django Unchained.
He thanked his castmates as well as director Quentin Tarantino, who won for best screenplay. "You know my indebtedness and gratitude to you knows no bounds," Waltz said.
Kevin Costner, who won for best actor, miniseries or movie for Hatfields & McCoys, remembered his first time at the Golden Globes, where he watched a tribute to Gregory Peck. "It was a good night that night to watch that body of work. It's been a great ride," said the actor, who won a Golden Globe for best director in 1991 for Dances with Wolves.
Austrian Amour director Michael Haneke, a surprise Oscar nominee for best director last week, accepted the award for best foreign language film.
"I never thought I'd get an award in Hollywood from an Austrian," said Haneke after Arnold Schwarzenegger handed him the Golden Globe trophy. "The Globe is for me and the crew, and the Globe is for my two fantastic actors," Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva.
In two musical categories, Life of Pi composer Michael Danna was honored for best original score, and a gobsmacked Adele won for best original song with Skyfall from the James Bond film of the same name.
"It's very strange to be here," said the nine-time Grammy winner and first-time Globe nominee. "Thank you very much for letting me be a part of your night."
Robert Downey Jr. presented the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award to Jodie Foster during the ceremony.
Foster looked back on her 47 years in cinema, honored her mother and her children, and talked about the value of privacy as a celebrity by mentioning her life in front of the camera. "That's reality-show enough, don't you think?"
There were lighter moments, too. "I was going to bring my walker tonight, but it didn't fit the cleavage," the 50-year-old joked. She called the Golden Globes the "party of the year, and tonight I feel like the prom queen."

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I spent the past week at my parents' place and decided to tackle a project that I've wanted to do for years: run my own code on a Model 3 PCB. I've had a VF3 PCB lying around here for a good 10-12 years. The previous owner put it in a nice case with fans and even included an ATX PSU wired up to be used with it. Originally, I was unable to obtain a monitor compatible with the Model 3's medium frequency timing, and so it collected dust until last year, when I discovered that an Acer LCD monitor my parents had worked great with it.
A few weeks before coming out here, I built a Windows-hosted powerpc-603e-eabi cross compiler (gcc 5.1.0) and set about writing a simple test program and all the required startup code. I added support to Supermodel for loading arbitrary ROM images and, with the aid of the excellent debugger Nik wrote, managed to write a simple program that could print text to the screen using the tile generator. Getting that far was more work than I expected! I then went on an eBay shopping spree and purchased a cheap device programmer (which I am very pleased with), EPROM eraser, IC extraction tool, a few sets of M27C4002 EPROMs, and an assortment of components I thought I might need.
With everything seemingly ready to test out my super-simple "hello, world" program, I carefully connected my VF3 board to its power supply, removed the four VF3 EPROMs, inserted my replacements, held my breath as I flipped the power strip switch on and ... nothing! A black screen! How was I going to debug this? There is quite a lot of setup involved in bringing up a PowerPC system that Supermodel cannot emulate (such as the MMU), so the problem could have been anywhere. Fortunately, I was able to flash patterns on the board LEDs to determine that my code was indeed running. The problem lay with the tile generator. Now it so happens that Model 3 uses the System 24 tile generator, so I fired off an email to Charles MacDonald who pointed out a few things to me. I began debugging by using Supermodel to capture everything Virtua Fighter 3 writes to the tile generator and system registers up until the region warning screen shows up, creating a sort of "save state" I could test on the actual hardware. This worked -- I was able to duplicate VF3's warning screen -- and a quick process of elimination led me to what I was missing: the JTAG interface.
I always assumed the JTAG port was only used for verifying ASIC ID codes and performing some tests. But JTAG is much more versatile and on Model 3, it evidently provides access to hardware registers not mapped to the address space. VF3 writes a lot of data to the JTAG port, some of it obviously for testing purposes. Rather than trying to painstakingly figure out which precise command enabled video output, I simply execute them all. Applied to my test program, I got this:
Hmm... Not quite what I wanted. And why are there colored pixels when I only wrote monochrome to the palette? After wasting a whole day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, I decided to try something radically different. I replaced the 4-bit character set I was using with VF3's 8-bit font. Then, crucially, I used Supermodel to comb through VF3's VRAM state with a fine-toothed comb and duplicated it carefully. There were some bits in tables I didn't understand the purpose of which apparently did the trick because it now worked! Voila!
And for the true nerds among us, I've even uploaded a brief video of the board LEDs cycling through a pattern I programmed.
What was learned from this exercise? Of practical use to Supermodel and MAME: not much. I've confirmed the location of the board LED register (but had already guessed it) and discovered that the refresh rate is somewhere near ~57.5 Hz (rather than 60), but the latter could more accurately be determined with an o-scope. However, I now have a foundation on which to build and hopefully conduct more useful experiments in the future.
Unfortunately, vacation is over and I don't think I'll be shipping this rather fragile board (which I may even have damaged a bit with the constant, forceful re-insertion of EPROMs) to New York. Further experimentation will have to wait until next time I'm back home. In the mean time, I'm contemplating picking up a Step 2.x game, because those should be a little friendlier to work with. I'm also curious whether any games (Lost World?) have an accessible serial port interface that could be used to upload code, because EPROMs take f-o-r-e-v-e-r and the force required to seat them properly makes me nervous.
For anyone interested in viewing the code, it's on github: https://github.com/trzy/model3/
If there's any interest, I could also upload my MinGW-based cross-compiler.


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"We hope to be able to have good news with Rafa, sometime in the near future, hopefully we will be able to present him to the public. (There is) no news yet, but if we can bring in Marquez, the
captain of the Mexican national team, a guy who had a great World Cup, a longtime Barcelona player, if we could have him in MLS, it would really give us a big boost of credibility and I think would be
exciting for our fans."
-- MLS Comissioner Don Garber on Rafael Marquez, who is expected to join the New York Red Bulls. (Reuters)


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Faith in Vermont: Meeting Your Meat
Photo by Fiona Gong
Last month, we loaded our four daughters into the minivan on a Sunday afternoon and drove to Duclos & Thompson Farm in Weybridge to see the new lambs and piglets.
This was our first time at the Duclos & Thompson open barn, an event that for many local families is an annual sign of spring -- much like the appearance of sap buckets on the maple trees, or red-breasted robins, or removing your snow tires. Like those other rites of spring, it's quite possible that the new lambs and piglets will arrive when there's still snow on the ground; that March weekend, there was a mountain of snow next to the Duclos & Thompson barn that served as a secondary diversion for all the children present.
The primary attraction, of course, was inside the barn: lambs! Two floors worth of black and white lambs sleeping, eating, frolicking, and climbing atop the bigger sheep. So many lambs, plus a little pile of piglets nursing on their mama. It was a cuteness bonanza.
After 30 minutes ooh-ing and ahh-ing, after our daughters commandeered our camera to snap hundreds of dimly-lit lamb photos, we left the barn and crossed the driveway to the building locally known as "the meat shack." In the meat shack, 30 feet from where the lambs and piglets began life, they end life as a variety of delicious packaged cuts of meat.
The Duclos & Thompson Farm is a nice, small, local, hormone- and antibiotic-free operation; still, there's a cruel metaphor for life to be found in the adorable lambs separated from plastic-wrapped meat by only a narrow dirt drive. It's an irony that was completely lost on our daughters, though, both during the visit and later that night as they happily munched on their "sheep sticks" (kind of like lamb-flavored Slim Jims) and chattered excitedly about the open barn.
Obviously, our family is not vegetarian, although that's due to laziness more than ideology – laziness, and the desire to find something, anything, that our children will eat. I am completely in favor of ethical standards for animal treatment, and would prefer to have all of my meat happy, free-range, and chemical-free. But this is not an essay on food ethics.
No; this is an observation: that my Vermont-raised children know exactly where their meat comes from. And they could care less.
Our daughters are animal lovers. They adore all dogs. They're constantly birdwatching out our windows. Their epitome of joy: horses. One daughter's life goal is to own and operate a horse farm and work as a veterinarian. They are lobbying us hard for more chickens.
Yet when it comes to the death of animals, they're deeply pragmatic. They saw two neighborhood dogs slaughter our first flock of chickens; a scenario they then reenacted numerous times for "fun," taking on roles as either dogs or chickens.
On at least one occasion, my daughters have eaten a chicken that they knew to have been raised – and killed – in their friend's yard. They've visited a newborn lamb at the same friend's house -- knowing that it, too, is bound for the table.
This winter, our family read the classic children's book, Charlotte's Web, about a remarkable spider who saves Wilbur the pig from becoming breakfast. My girls loved the book, and woke up early one morning begging me to read the final chapter. As I choked back tears after the last paragraph, a salute to the self-sacrificing spider, my oldest daughter hopped up from the couch and chirped, "What's for breakfast? I feel like some bacon!"
Several weeks later, my husband was reading our daughters "The Parable of the Lost Sheep" – a Biblical story comparing God's love for people to a shepherd's love for his sheep. In the parable, the shepherd realizes that one of his 100 sheep is missing. He leaves the other 99 to search everywhere for his one lost sheep. "And when he finds it," my husband read triumphantly, "he will be so happy! He'll take his sheep home –"
"—and eat it!" our second daughter yelled.
I couldn't deny the likely truth behind her interjection. The theological implications were also disturbing; I'd honestly never considered why that shepherd invested so much in his sheep, but in reality he probably wasn't caring for them so that they could live to a ripe old age.
I can't say whether my daughters' pragmatic approach to food comes from growing up in close proximity to working farms, but I suspect that has a lot to do with it. If their only contact with meat came in the form of shrink-wrapped supermarket fare, there would likely be a greater divide in their minds between barnyard and table.
What I can't figure out is why my tenderhearted animal lovers aren't bothered by the knowledge that they possess. They're fully aware that the lamb they're cuddling today could become tomorrow's dinner, yet what keeps them up at night isn't the slaughterhouse, but the fantasy fears of ghosts and monsters.
Could it be that they're still too young to understand death, to grasp its methods and finality? Perhaps. But I suspect that we all maintain an emotional dirt driveway between the barn and the meat shack. Isn't this how most of us cope with the certainty of mortality? Apparently, we start young.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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Filling a crucial security need
It's virtually impossible to think of California without considering its famous beaches. Living in Southern California brings many benefits at a pretty short drive away.
Unfortunately, as with many areas in Southern California, Calabasas residents must constantly be on alert against potential threats such as burglary and home intrusion. That's why Total Protection is intent on helping you and other Calabasas residents avoid becoming burglary victims.
Sources: UCR 2015 FBI Uniform Crime Report. This crime statistic information is accurate as of Jan 1, 2017. The crime information is collected from publicly available sources and is only current as of the date indicated and is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.


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Michelle Kaufman: Abusive parents an ugly part of junior tennis
You think the jerk parents yelling at the ref at your kid's soccer games are bad? Try hanging around a high-level junior tennis tournament sometime.
The Orange Bowl International Championship is going on this week at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation. It is one of the most prestigious junior events in the world, and the tennis is absolutely fabulous. The moment you step out of your car in the parking lot, you can hear the force with which these teenagers are whacking the ball, and it is mind-blowing.
Equally mind-blowing is the behavior of some of the parents.
On Saturday during the qualifying rounds, Plantation police were called to the site to investigate whether a father had whacked his daughter on the head with a racket after she lost a match. According to the police report, the player who won the match heard her opponent cry out, and when she turned around, the girl was holding her head with a bleeding laceration over her left eye. The father was walking way holding a racket.
He denied hitting her, and suggested she was hurt by falling or running into a post. The girl said she did not know how she got hurt. None of the eyewitnesses actually saw the father hit the girl, so no charges were filed and the man and his daughter walked away, on to the next tournament, where the same thing might happen again.
News of the alleged incident spread around the grounds over the past few days, and nobody seemed all that shocked. Disgusted, yes. Shocked, no. Abusive parents have been part of the scenery on the junior tennis circuit for a long time. Just ask Mary Pierce and Jelena Dokic. But as the money grows, the stakes get higher, the agents get more aggressive, and the parents get crazier.
In the warped world of junior tennis, it is considered perfectly normal for parents to quit their jobs and relocate their entire families to another state — or another country — to chase an elusive dream with their sons and daughters.
Tennis prodigies are routinely home schooling by sixth grade, and focused almost entirely on tennis, even though they have a very slim chance of becoming Roger Federer or Serena Williams. Heck, they probably won't even crack the top 100.
Consider the winners of the Orange Bowl boys 16-Under titles from 2000 through 2005: Brian Dabul, Floria Mergia, Jose Luis Muguruza, Donald Young, Emiliano Massa, Gueorgui Roumenov Payakov. They are now between 23 and 28 years old. The only recognizable name is Young, who got as high as No. 38, is now No. 189, and his best showing at a Grand Slam was the fourth round at the 2011 U.S. Open.
Jessica Kirkland won the Girls 18s Orange Bowl title in 2004. She was tall (5-9), a terrific player, full of promise. She spent seven years on tour, got as high as No. 151, and made $187,373 before retiring. She would be considered a success story. Most girls never get that far.
And yet, parents obsess, and, in some cases, abuse. I once saw a kid put in a valiant effort in the Jr. Orange Bowl 14-Under final, only to have his father storm off and refuse to watch his son receive the runner-up trophy. Afterward, the dad berated the boy in front of a group of kids. It sickened me so much I alerted USTA officials.
"You hear those stories all the time, parents yelling at their kids, shoving their kids,'' said former University of Miami coach Rodney Harmon, now at Georgia Tech. Harmon spent many years working as a youth coach for the U.S. Tennis Association. He said even well-intentioned parents don't realize the damage they do.
According to one South Florida coach, two parents got into an altercation at a junior match six months ago at the Royal Palm Tennis Club in Pinecrest and had to be separated. A few weeks ago, the coach said, two parents at a junior tournament in Tallahassee were yelling at each other and chasing each other around the grounds.
"Tennis parents can really get out of control, and, unfortunately, we see it all the time,'' said University of Miami men's coach Mario Rincon, who was scouting at the Orange Bowl event. "It's the ugly part of our sport nobody likes to talk about. Something should be done. Over the years, we have come across many really good players with crazy parents, and we pull away because the last thing you want to see on your campus is someone like that. It's so sad.''
Here's hoping that someday the only hitting being done in junior tennis is by the players.


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Yes, yes, yes yes
More like a spiced-out Manmohan Singh
Or like a spiced-out I.K. Gujral
Like a spiced-out Bhagat Singh
Spice wars, crack wars
I love this song, shorty said
[Verse 1]
Queens Boulevard Kierkegaard, hustle hard
Hustle bustle OMG, on my guard, oh my god
Vic came back with three pizzas
Gave one to Dap
His stomach under-crowded
Proud kid, young Samaritan
Fuck a George Harrison, embarrassing
Sitars no comparison, looking garish
Hit it out the park, Roger Maris
Plus Shea Stadium, Flushing, Corona
Chop shop, Pop Rocks, My Sharona, ginkgo biloba
Hold up, slow up
Blow up, pull-o-ver
Get Smart Again, it's a cardigan, play the race card again
And again, and again, drinks at Bennigan's
Where's Ralph Waldo, Ellison
Person of color, yall can't see me
Shoot at you actors like a DP
Ernie Anastos, asbestos, apartments
Smarter in a Starter Jacket, custom compartments
Illuminati, in my mind soul and my body (pause)
Young Bobby Digital, hobby, physical
That's amazing, that's amazing, that's amazing
[Verse 2]
Yo, yeah
That's amazing, that's racist, that's fake shit
That's space shit, that's vacant, that's complacent
That's plague shit, that's offensive
That's Tet Offensive, that's defenseless
That's holiday, Doc Holiday, keep the doc away
Sitting by the dock of the bay on yay
Kanye I'mma let you finish
Helsinki, blinky blink, stinky stink, stanky stank
Frank-n-Dank, feelin hot yo, watchin Rosanna Scotto
Liz Cho, Sade Baderinwa, Sue Simmons
Mr. G, Mr. Me, Mr. Me Too
Who care who Muslim, who Hebrew
He cool, he wack, back street, street back
Alley cat, rally that, Taliban, alley man
Minivan, van, hans, hands
Hold hands across America, Jesus on the cross
Paid the cost to see the boss
Scalpers got the money, no Rick Ross
Big boss, man, PaRappa the Rappa, in Napa Valley
Valley man, mountain man, fountain pen, count it man
Borders crossed, or its Audemars
Order you out the country tomorrow, order yours
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Hazmat suit, Nasdaq suit
Pass that zoot, blast that truth, booth
Teens found slain, bang bang bang bang
Unfounded truth, brown kid, yuke
Brown kid shoot, the township youth
Shoot, shoot the township youth
Shoot, shoot the township youth
Y'all didn't believe me, huh
[Heems & Kool AD]
Okay, Okay
[Kool AD]
Hey yo, that's amazing, blunt in your mouth talk
Silly strutters Sally Struthers, Gilmore Girls
Smothers Brothers at The Fillmore
Hand me that capo
Cop all of my Snapple at Staples
Four flavor kettle corn
Heavy metal porno flick chicks with tattoos
Rolling up spliffs with Bambus
Damn dude
Whole load of Head and Shoulder shampoo
My Dominican friend finna stab you
Ask two questions
One: who the kid? Two: who the kid?
Both times the answer stay Kool A.D
Ayyo, who is this though
The kid ran the fuck out the door
And never came back til three weeks later
In the same black t-shirt
Stayed yakked til his teeth hurt
Coughing up blood like
Nah, nah don't worry bout it
Roll up in a silver Hyundai and scurry up out it
Niced out, no, riced out, drop like a ___ with a tail fin
Boo in the back looking like a young Sarah Palin
But yo pass the Craisins
A young couple of gods in the castle stay blazin'
Watching Tavis Smiley, writing emails to Richard Grabel
White Owl, Cacique, and Sprite on the table
Seven channels no cable
EMI hollerin hoping that the publishing
Go up like NASDAQ
Don't even remember if I'm BMI or ASCAP
Maybe I'm past that, I think I'm past that
No I'm not past rap, well maybe I'm past rap
Finna be past that
Finna be a mathemagician now
Hocus pocus, with the dope sick Vanna White with no tits
And a banana light cream soda, coca cola
Ringtone, ringtone, Motorola
Sammy Sosa skin cream, Michael Jackson disease
[Kool AD]
Thirty-one inch inseam, attractive mac and cheese
Lamping in Jeruse, with the Maccabees
Checks from Bard College cashed at Pay-o-Matic
On Broadway, pass the yayo magic, static
On the 27-inch Zenith, believe it
Cheeses, Cheese Puffs
Cheez Doodles, Cup o' Noodles, Slim Jims, Quarter Waters
Quarters, corners dodecahedrons
Demons, basting virgin orchids with their semen
Sunflower seeds, Van Gogh Gogh Gogh
Go in, Go-Go Gadget, Gauguin, Rodin, Ronin, Conan
Cocaine, Rogaine, woodgrains, fertilizer
Phantom Tollbooth hold you…
…street meat, street heat, beat beat, eat beets
Beat Street, Wild Style while light up my life
Fruit Loops, Kix, raps that's kid-tested, mother approved
Rude, Rubik's Cube, Uncle Sam don't want you Himanshu
Heems, schemes, creams, screams
Screens, Queens, Beam, means
Justify ends, tens, Benz, cockblock my friends
Bends, Pablo Honey, money, Brown Bunny
Doug Funnie, dunny, crummy, dummy
Gumby, green, yeah
Hindu Kush in my blood, push comes to shove
Shove back, love back, thug rap, shrug rap, bug rap
On this track, Das Racist takes on the beat from Ghostface Killah's "Nutmeg", ft. RZA from the album Supreme Clientele. The sample's from Eddie Holman's "It's Over".


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very odd, the review seems to imply the bikes not great, but gets a relatively high rating. i wouldnt buy it 2.2k shouldnt have ass hole tearing seat tendancies etc. maybe trek should give up on cx bikes and just get on with buying brands and burying them 6 months later.
Despite their all-conquering road and mountain bikes Trek have skulked somewhat in the shadows when it comes to cyclo-cross. They've had models kicking around but you'd be hard pushed to spot them either on the shop floor or the race course. The Cronus range could change all that.
Trek have come out their corner punching hard with four new 'cross bikes – a pair of alloy framed Ion monikered machines and two carbon-based life form Cronus models.
This Cronus CX Pro is the junior of the two carbon siblings, with the £3,000 Ultimate being the more expensive version, which isn't to say that the Cronus CX Pro has buck teeth and is dressed in hand-me-downs, it's actually a good looking high-class race-ready machine. It may say Trek in big letters on the downtube but it's part of the Gary Fisher Collection and has his signature on the top-tube to prove it while the bike is decorated with the full spread of Bontrager baubles.
While it has all the features you would expect of a top end frame it would also be safe and in no way impolite to say that the Cronus 500 Series OCLV frame is big-boned. The top-tube is wide enough to frequently conk your knees on. Aside from being wide the top tube features a flattened oval underneath to help make shouldering more comfortable. Fluted on the top side the tube flows either side of the seat-tube directly into the seat-stays that are dead straight, free of any fashionable bends, wiggles or kinks, a simple straight seatstay bridge has a mudguard mount hidden out back.
Moving past the replaceable derailleur hanger the chainstays elegantly curve in and swell up chunky chunky towards the oversize BB90 bottom-bracket with a little indent either side of the tyre for extra mud clearance, of which there's loads anyway. You could get a tractor pulling a trailer of manure through the gap between the tyre and bottom-bracket, something helped by the lack of a chainstay bridge because the stout stays don't need one.
The down-tube is vast, barely faltering from its impressive girth as it tapers only slightly from the full width of the bottom-bracket to the oversize 1.5in lower bearing of the head-tube, like the top-tube it's subtly fluted but both top and bottom and is slightly ovalised horizontally. In comparison the seat-tube looks almost weedy at the top where it flows from spanning the entire BB90 up to surround a 27.2 seatpost.
Keeping with the voluminous theme the front end is host to FCC, or Fisher Control Column. The Bontrager E2 fork tapers from a 1.5" lower bearing to a 1-1/8" upper which is nothing new nowadays, making sure the front end tracks solid and the fork ends are oversized to accept a FCC oversized front hub with 25mm end-caps, although the Bontrager Race wheels on this CX Pro have a standard sized hub so you're missing out a bit of integration there. A front-brake hanger bolted into the crown with a cable-adjuster in, thank you, effectively eliminates any brake-judder that might somehow find its way through that sturdy front end.
The rear brake cable runs internally, as do both gear cables which enter the downtube via ports near the head-tube and exit from a cowl just ahead of the bottom-bracket, it's a bit of a pain to replace cables because it's an unsleeved run, however because they are inside this should make this a less frequent occurrence as they're protected from gritty external influence, and it also keeps cables away from a shoulder flailing rider.
Should you be even more shy of water ingress there's also the option to run a full external gear cable thanks to stops underneath the right-hand chainstay. The front derailleur is direct mounted to the frame and has an in-line cable adjustment up by the bars, a feature shared by the front brake with its integral adjuster in the hanger, while they were thinking about it would have been nice for Trek to include something similar for the back brake for quick finger and thumb brake wear management, because they thought about the integrated seat-clamp and cable-stop, which is neat.
The Cronus isn't a 'cross purists racing frame with two bottle mounts and it gives a secret handshake to further usability with hidden mudguard mounts at the fork-ends and bottom of the seatstays; tiny 2.5mm bolt holes for mudguards adaptors to screw into should you need the bike for Pro-Commuter use on weekdays and something to race at the weekend. Other handy extras include nice thick chainstay protection strips top and bottom and thin metal chainsuck plates on the chainstay and downtube.
SRAM Rival 10 speed takes care of the gears, with SRAM S300 cranks paired with a cross useful 46/38 chainring duet connected to a 11-28 10 speed cassette out back so the bike has the legs for both racing and general mucking about off-road. Shifting is typically SRAM, worky but plasticky most of the time it all works just fine but on occassion the Rival front mech was almost a comical stereotype, some of the front shifts were awkward, especially under speedy panicky gritty load such as you might encounter on a muddy race course where sometimes it could be a lottery as to whether it would shift at all, shift when it wanted or just dump the chain. I'm not a fan of SRAM's front mechs. So it's easy to see why Trek stuck those protective plates behind the chainset, they're a good idea if you like your carbon unmashed.
As well as providing the go SRAM also supply the stop in the form of their Avid Shorty 6 cantilever brakes. They're pretty good for a cantilever fighting against the first wave of disc-brakes, being chunkily designed and flex free, although they do have the trademark Avid squeal so be prepared to tinker to shut that up.
You might look at the bladed spokes on the Bontrager Race wheels and wonder if you need aero spokes on a cyclo-cross bike. Laced 24 on the rear and radial 20 up front it didn't take long for them to be bounced out of whack, and they'll stay that way as the bladed spokes twisting tendencies make them a pain to tweak true for the home mechanic. Overall they're merely okay, they can get pretty chattery both audibly and in handling when being pushed hard down bumpy stuff and yet are flexy enough to induce brake rub when giving it your all back up the other side. The fitted Bontrager CX0 tyres are more capable than they might appear, a tread lite centre section is bolstered by hearty shoulder knobs definitely helping with the cornering ability without compromising straight line speed and making them less draggy and more spinny on road. Their 700x34c size makes them comfy and whoomphy too.
Bontrager's Race Lite Anatomic-C bars are a bit of a mixed blessing. Pleasingly wide at 44cm (c-to-c) at the hoods they easily spread to 48cm in the drops giving a reassuring amount of control when tackling anything a cross bike shouldn't really be riding down, which is great for those that like their riding somewhat rufty-tufty. Although that extra girth means that if you like riding tight and twisty then things need to be steered round rather than threaded through. Racier types might find that extra breadth annoying too as it takes the sharp edge off the steering and can feel a bit wide-mouth frog when descending or battling in the drops against a sticky headwind across the open tundra of a winter football field. Overall the bars don't help with the general 'rangey' character of the bike. But the width along the tops, especially since the bars take their time before they curve forwards makes cruising a joy, and the drop isn't too scary deep either and surprisingly the ergo wiggle in them actually feels comfortable in the hand.
The Bontrager Evoke 2 saddle seems out of place on a bike of this calibre as it's quite chunky. It's certainly not uncomfortable though, well padded with rear and central divots for those that worry about such things, it just looks a little pedestrian and cheap for the speedy possibilities and cost of the Pro, racier bottoms will probably swap this for their favourite perch anyway.
If you're changing the saddle you might want to throw out the Bontrager Race X Lite seatpost with it, actually don't think about it just do it because the clamp is a waste of metal. Or at least it was for me.
Less than a mile into its first ride the saddle clamp made a strange groink noise and slipped dramatically so the saddle nose was pointing at the sky. No amount of tightening the clamp or swearing at it would stop the saddle auto-adjusting whether that be by large amounts when a whump or bump in the road appeared or just gently adjusting by degrees over time. Even a liberal application of sticky carbon paste didn't help either, well it did a bit, in that the saddle would make a cracking noise and slip every ten minutes instead of every two. To be fair this isn't the first time this kind of problem has been experience with this clam shell design of seatpost though and it does seem to be that some people get on with them and others don't. I didn't.
I found that swapping the saddle for something less bossomy and a seatpost that doesn't threaten to shove that saddle up your jacksie every time you go over a bump totally transformed the feel of the bike, like putting a nasal-strip on it.
With all that oversized tubing going on plus the geometry used the Cronus looks a lot bigger, and feels a lot bigger in the saddle than its vital statistics might imply. The bottom-bracket is maybe a little higher than some are doing it these days, but still lower than other more traditional cross frames, the head tube is longer than usual for the size and the top-tube doesn't slope so much which makes the bike feel tall between the legs, but as the top tube is a little shorter than the norm it's not a correspondingly long bike. That high head-tube and short front end means whippety types might need to slam the stem out of necessity rather than any pro aspirations in order to both keep their position and the front end under control.
The consequence of the bike feeling big between your legs, (easy boys), is that the Cronus also feels a little more unwieldy and less chuckable than it could be. That's fine on tarmac and in straight lines but start throwing it around marker-taped bends and it doesn't feel particularly chipper compared to bikes in a similar size bracket, a characteristic somewhat encouraged by those wide bars. It's a shame because it's a light bike that's easy to pop and hop over stuff but it just seems reluctant to skip as it kinda gets in the way of itself.
Get over that though and be prepared to muscle it around more than you normally would and the Cronus will reward you by being an incredibly solid and reliable platform. That OCLV construction definitely takes the edge off everything bumpy while the oversized front end and cartoon down-tube combine to make it a very assertive beast.
The Cronus will always go where you point it, and at speed with the reassurance that it's not going to be bumped off line. Sometimes the Trek's ability to soften the staccato beneath you lulls you into a false sense of comfort, and flatters its own abilities, and once in a while the friendly compliance of the carbon will suddenly meet the forceful stoutness of the front end head on and stutter hard making for the odd wrist shattering moment. Thankfully the Cronus is solid enough to bounce you on through regardless, and it only happens on paths rough enough to make a mountain bike think a bit and where the Trek is being willfully inappropriate. Because it can be.
The Cronus isolates the trail so well and is so neutrally designed that it doesn't give too much away when it comes to feedback. Jump on the pedals and do your best to smash power through to the rear end and you don't get that instant feedback of snap and ping you might wish for. Of course there's no loss of power, the Cronus just has that somewhat intangible and unemotional transfer of power that carbon can do. If you want a bike that skips and jumps and makes you feel involved in the ride then the Trek might not be for you. If on the other hand you want something that will just keep calm and carry on whatever, forever, something that whatever happens will bring you limping home in one piece at the end of a shitty 60 minutes or some longer more fun hours in the hills - then look no further.
Push the bike hard and get the front end of the Cronus to slide out and it will do so with little drama and you'll be able to pull it back calmly without any histrionics or tell-tale girly squeals. It would be tempting to say that because it does its job so well it's a little boring but it's so much much better than that.
Sling a Trek Cronus CX Pro between your legs on a start line and you've instantly run out of excuses. Although maybe if you're stumping up over £2K for a carbon 'cross bike your results shouldn't need excuses. You're definitely paying for the frame here as there are a few component sacrifices, the saddle and the seatpost most obviously, with the wheels being a bit suspect but workable. Anyway, the Cronus is light enough to not hold you back and the kit on it is designed for going fast but with secret day-to-day persona possibilities, like a reverse Superman, with hidden fender mounts and twin bottle cages. That oversized frame engineering means all your power goes the right way but clever carbonyness ensures that you don't get rattled to death doing it. That comfort, the stoic front end and crucially the overly polite handling mean it isn't going to throw you off when you're tired although the short and tall cockpit might not suit every racer.
Weight - 834kg/18.5 lbs (56cm, without pedals)
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Make and model: Trek Cronus CX Pro
Size tested: 56cm
About the bike
State the frame and fork material and method of construction. List the components used to build up the bike.
Frame - 500 Series OCLV Carbon, E2, BB90, hidden fender mounts, cantilever brake bosses.
Fork - Bontrager Race X Lite Cross, E2
Wheels - Bontrager Race
Tyres - Bontrager CX0, 700x34c
Shifters - SRAM Rival, 10 speed
Front derailleur - SRAM Rival, braze-on
Rear derailleur - SRAM Rival
Crank - SRAM S300, 46/38
Cassette - SRAM PG-1050, 11-28, 10 speed
Saddle - Bontrager Evoke 2, chromoly rails
Seatpost - Bontrager Race X Lite ACC, 27.2mm, 20mm offset
Handlebar - Bontrager Race Lite Anatomic-C
Stem - Bontrager Race Lite, 7 degree, 31.8mm
Headset - Cane Creek IS-2, integrated, cartridge bearings, sealed, alloy, 1-1/8" top, 1.5" bottom
Brakeset - Avid Shorty 6 cantilever brakes
Grips - Bontrager gel cork
Extras - Fender mounts
Tell us what the bike is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about the bike?
Trek say this bike changes the cyclocross landscape, exceeding expectations and delivering unexpected features. Lighter frame, exceptional stiffness, the best handling, and additional race utility.
Yeahhhhh, not so sure about changing the landscape hyperbole there and exceeding expectations might be pushing it a wee bit but it is a nice light bike that can flatter because of it, and it's stiff in that quiet way but not so rigid that it doesn't soften the dirt nicely. The best handling claim is a bold one, and fine if best means neutral and maybe a bit chunky between the thighs, and is 'Race Utility' possibly the new thing for 2012 and is it faster than 'Pro-Commuter'?
Frame and fork
Tell us about the build quality and finish of the frame and fork?
The build, detailing and finish on the Cronus are excellent.
Tell us about the materials used in the frame and fork?
500 Series OCLV Carbon frame with E2 headtube and BB90 bottom bracket. The Bontrager Race X Lite Cross fork has carbon legs and an alloy steerer.
Tell us about the geometry of the frame and fork?
Head angle of 72° and seat angle of 73.4° (on a 56, this changes with size) puts it in the same ballpark as everyone else, but the head tube is tall and the top-tube is short for the size.
How was the bike in terms of height and reach? How did it compare to other bikes of the same stated size?
It was a bit shorter, taller and higher than other bikes in its peer group.
Riding the bike
Was the bike comfortable to ride? Tell us how you felt about the ride quality.
Comfortable in that it muted any bumps underneath it beautifully without being noodly because of it.
Did the bike feel stiff in the right places? Did any part of the bike feel too stiff or too flexible?
With seemingly everything on the bike being oversized it was a very solid feeling ride, not rigid harsh stiff but confident stiff.
How did the bike transfer power? Did it feel efficient?
It didn't feel hyper efficient thanks to the slightly subdued feel of its carbon, but you knew nothing was being wasted.
Was there any toe-clip overlap with the front wheel? If so, was it a problem?
How would you describe the steering? Was it lively, neutral or unresponsive? Neutral, but in a good way, probably encouraged by the wide wide bars.
Tell us some more about the handling. How did the bike feel overall? Did it do particular things well or badly?
The Cronus felt somewhat large and lazy, not necessarily bad but lacking cheeky pep.
Which components had the most effect (good or bad) on the bike's comfort? would you recommend any changes?
The lovely wide bars definitely helped with control and comfort off-road and the ergo bend was even in the right place. The fat saddle and useless seatpost meant that the bike got off to a bad start, but once those were binned we got on just fine.
Which components had the most effect (good or bad) on the bike's stiffness? would you recommend any changes?
The wheels were a little bit soft under power, but also chattery when challenged from below.
Which components had the most effect (good or bad) on the bike's efficiency? would you recommend any changes?
No, it all worked well towards going forwards fast, swapping the saddle to something racier helped though, and some might want a less wind friendly bar.
The drivetrain
Tell us some more about the drivetrain. Anything you particularly did or didn't like? Any components which didn't work well together?
SRAM Rival is as SRAM Rival does, watch that front shift though, especially if the chain's loaded with gunk.
Wheels and tyres
Tell us some more about the wheels and tyres.Did they work well in the conditions you encountered? Would you change the wheels or tyres? If so, what for?
Aero spokes aren't necessarily the first choice for cyclo-cross and as such the wheels held up merely ok, succumbing to wibble pretty quickly. The tyres are great, and fast, in dry conditions and on tarmac, you'll be swapping them for something more mud-capable come the season.
Tell us some more about the controls. Any particularly good or bad components? How would the controls work for larger or smaller riders?
No complaints here about the size and shape of the controls.
Your summary
Did you enjoy riding the bike? Yes.
Would you consider buying the bike? No, just because the fit felt a bit weird for me. Others could find it just right though.
Would you recommend the bike to a friend? Yes.
Anything further to say about the bike in conclusion?
Given the nature of cross riding and the fact that many riders and particularly racers have their own favourite set ups, it seems to me that Trek are missing a trick by not offering the Cronus as a frameset option in the UK too… oh, and a full build in Shimano Ultegra.
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
I usually ride: It varies as to the season. My best bike is: The one I\'m on at the time
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, cyclo cross, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Fun
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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A similar program helped the U.S. automotive industry become more competitive with foreign car makers. The Obama administration has taken steps to insure continuation of the auto program, but not the textile program.
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Iran: US military provocations; the Threat of War Becomes Tangible14 Feb 2012 22:50 GMT
Military contacts in communication with the Cyprus IndyMedia Collective estimate that the firepower of the US armada (which includes craft from the United Kingdom and France) is larger than the air force and navy of Iran, combined. The original source of this evaluation is a very high ranking officer; it was confirmed by a general. This evaluation, even if it's only an approximate and not an absolute truth, shows that the intentions of the US for the Middle East are in total violation of the sentiments and true needs of the area's millions of people who want Peace and Justice, above all, and an end to foreign intervention in their affairs.
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Russia Fuels Weapons sales (surface to air missiles)to 3rd world including Iran and Syria,while Secretary Clinton miss leads American people about Russia being more of friend than enemy.
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Bgrffdave has never been known to do anything the easy way. I knew he was going to pick a significant cache for his 100th. He did so today doing Groleau's Eagle Mountain Cache. Not only did he do it, he brought along his wife (ALinMaine) and his sister and her family (Francis Family).
That may not seem like a lot until one realizes, the youngest member of Francis Family is 10 1/2 months old (and was in a backpack with bug netting). I (Grandmother), missed this great adventure as I was returning from a trip to Portland. Have been promised if the TB is not retrieved, I will get an escorted trip to the cache.
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Terry Hazen discusses when it's best to resort to engineered bioremediation of contaminated sites, and when it's best to rely on natural attenuation. Recent advances have greatly broadened the potential applications for bioremediation. At the same time, scientists' knowledge of biogeochemical processes has advanced and they can better gauge how quickly and completely contaminants can be degraded without human intervention. (#13004)
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I don't want to mess up my OE headlights, so I got some eBay harley style headlights - $45/ea
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They say to use 220* for 20 minutes, 275* for 7 minutes...tried them both multiple times and didn't get anywhere.
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Warren County Deputy Brian Dulle died in 2011 after being hit while putting down stop sticks to try to halt a stolen car. Hunt organized a golf tournament to help Dulle�s widow and three children but kept thousands of dollars.
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Garret Johns provided depth on both lines during his Nebraska career, setting as a reserve defensive tackle in his final two seasons. A walk-on from Aurora High School, split time between the offensive and defensive lines early in his career before setting on defense. Johns earned his degree in agronomy in December of 2016.
2016 (Senior)
Johns was a reserve defensive tackle, and played on Senior Day against Maryland.
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Johns was a reserve defensive tackle, but did not play in a game. He had an interception in the 2015 Red-White Spring Game.
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Johns added depth on both the offensive and defensive lines as injuries mounted, but did not see game action.
2013 (Redshirt Freshman)
Johns moved to defense in the spring and added depth at tackle.
2012 (Redshirt)
Johns redshirted in his first season and worked on the scout team offensive line.
Before Nebraska (Aurora HS)
A multi-sport athlete at Aurora High School, Johns was named to the All-Nebraska second team by the Omaha World-Herald and the Super State second team by the Lincoln Journal Star. As a senior, he helped lead the Huskies to the Class B state playoffs with an 8-3 record, and participated in the Nebraska Shrine Bowl.
Johns was a two-time Class B heavyweight state champion in wrestling as a junior and senior, posting a combined 82-0 record. Johns chose to walk on at Nebraska over offers from South Dakota State, Northwest Missouri State and Fort Hays State.
The son of Joe and Rosemary Johns, Garret was born on Nov. 10, 1993. He was an agronomy major at Nebraska and earned his bachelor's degree in December of 2016. Johns was named to the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall of 2012. He has volunteered his time with team hospital visits, the Community Action partnership, Uplifting Athletes and Husker Hotline.


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