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Before & After: A Dresser Gets Dressed Up With Contrast
Scott picked up this dresser years ago, long before he realized he could, "do cool things with his hands." Just wait until you see what he did.
White + gleamy wood has to be one of our favorite combinations ever. Nice choice.
Scott breaks down his process:
The steps were pretty straightforward as were the tools:
-Masking tape
-Hands (no screws in my dresser's construction)
-Cloth (for application)
-Spray paint
-Spray primer
After taking things apart, I sanded the poly off of any part that'd be finished with Briwax. The drawers didn't need sanding. I sprayed primer and then white lacquer. I only wanted the faces white, so I made sure to tape off appropriately.
I had the Briwax on hand, so the total cost for this project was about $18 for the spray paint. A new can of Briwax should run you about $18-$20, and can be found at some hardware stores, and definitely at a woodworking supply shops.
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Thank you Scott!
(Image credits: Scott Brabson)
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I'd like to see the new piece in a nice room. This still looks like work in progress...
Love it! That's becoming a favorite combo of mine too. I just used it for a microwave card turned side table and want to do it on my front steps.
It's gorgeous!
I've got an old dresser that someone else did a horrible paint job on, and I've been trying to decide what to do with it. Strip it? Paint it? Some of the trim is damaged, so paint the frame and strip the drawer fronts? I just don't know, but I always check out dresser re-dos here for ideas, and this is one of my favorites so far.
Beautiful piece. I love the transformation.
At first I was not impressed by the work, but I went to the original post and it looks great!: http://forestandfilament.com/dresser-face-lift/
It looks great, but I think it would look even greater with some hardware on the drawers.
I love the contrast, and like that you preserved the look of the wood grain! It was a clever idea, that turned out really nice. Saw this in the room- and it looks great! Good job Scott ;)
MonicaK_, more pics at http://forestandfilament.com/dresser-face-lift/ ;-)
Oh, I guess I'm in the minority..I actually liked the before..seriously.
I think I would have painted it the other way round, that is, kept the drawers' interesting grain free of paint but covered up the scrapwood-looking carcase.
Hey, yellow is not a disease. Well, maybe it is in _your_ room.
Thank you for the constructive comments!
Add some hardware! It will be perfect then
Brilliant!I'm not a fan of that yellow finish on oak either, I've never looked into Briwax before and I think I'm going to now! I've got a couple of end tables that could use a good refinishing.
Wow, truly impressive!
I literally went "Ooooooh" out loud when I scrolled down. Great job and a lovely update.
I rarely can guess what the transformation of a piece is going to be, but I got it right on this one and happily so. Looks great. Love the darker stain and white. I would also like to see it straight on in a room though!
Fantastic redo.I do agree with adding hardware though.
Looks great.
Love it. NO hardware for me please. Love it exactly as is. Great thing to do with some of that ugly 80's chunky oak no one can seem to ever get rid of. Great call.
Love what Scott did to that very conventional butcher block finish. Good to know that it cleans up so nicely! I say no hardware; the 'after' is perfect as it is. Good on you for making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
I probably wouldn't have gone with white, but it does definitely look much nicer this way. Good job.
I think that the drawers should have been left woodtone and the top and sides painted. The wood looks like scrap glued together while the fronts seem to have the better grain. And I'm so sick of white and so will you all when it's not "trendy" anymore. Does every piece need to look like cheap Ikea.
Love love love love love! Thank you for not painting it grey :)
Why do people feel the need to keep up with trends? The white looks fantastic, and this works out nicely. I happen to like Ikea so I'd take the it "looks like Ikea" as a compliment. :)
If you ever do a piece with wood drawers, and painted top, and sides I'd love to see that btw.


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* 3 tomatoes , roughly chopped
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Henrietta Knight with Best Mate after his third Gold Cup triumph
Henrietta Knight has pinpointed Best Mate's Cheltenham Gold Cup hat-trick as an obvious pinnacle of her achievements, but also underlined the success of Edredon Bleu.
The trainer is reflecting on her career after announcing her retirement.
She told Sky Sports News: "The highlight has to be Best Mate's third Gold Cup - that was a huge thrill. Edredon Bleu winning the Champion Chase in 2000 with AP (McCoy), that was great."
Knight is bowing out from the training ranks, largely to spend time with her husband Terry Biddlecombe, adding: "Terry hasn't been terribly well and he had a stroke last autumn and doesn't get around quite as much as he used to. It's difficult for me to do trips to racing and go away from home. Now I'm 65 it's probably time to hand over to younger people. We've had some marvellous times in racing and I've thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. We've had some wonderful days."
Mick Channon will take over the bulk of Knight's string, and told www.mickchannon.tv: "I've been friends with Hen and Terry for many years and, as a near neighbour, their help has been invaluable as we frequently use their schooling grounds to prepare many of our Flat horses for the next stages of their careers.
"In return, Hen has been a frequent visitor to West Ilsley where she's used Hodcott Down on a regular basis. Gilbert's Gallop on Hodcott is a true test and ideal for conditioning work - Best Mate among many others was a regular visitor in his heyday. As Hen has stated, I will be inheriting some of the horses currently in her care and she will now become an integral figure and a part of our team at West Ilsley. It's with a sense of real anticipation and excitement that I look forward to the coming months and seasons ahead."
Edward Gillespie, the outgoing chairman of Cheltenham racecourse, believes Knight and Best Mate were instrumental in helping the sport recover from a nightmare year when the Festival was cancelled due to foot and mouth in 2001.
He said: "I have been lucky enough to have know Henrietta for years, even before she trained under Rules and just had point-to-pointers. She goes about her business in her own way and does not necessarily follow everybody else when she trains her horses, but she would never send one to the track unless it was 100% perfect.
"I think from my point of view, the way she dealt with Best Mate is a particularly nice memory. She was so open with the horse and would have these extraordinary open days at West Lockinge when thousands of people would take over the house and the stable. She was so generous with her treasures. So often horses are trained behind closed doors, as I might well do, but she and Terry were so open with Best Mate.
"Just as Red Rum saved the Grand National, Best Mate helped us to re-establish racing after foot and mouth in 2001. The Queen came to watch and they were memorable years. So often Henrietta was happy to stand behind Jim Culloty, Jim Lewis and Terry and let them get on with it - they were a bit of a crazy gang! But when she had something to say, you listened as she was such a considered woman."
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McLaren MP4-12C Spider
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McLaren MP4-12C GT
The McLaren MP4-12C GT - or McLaren's response to the Porsche 911 - is internally coded as P13. It is being built as a successor for the SLR and will be launched in 2014. McLaren hopes to sell towards 2500 units per year.
This softer core McLaren is seen with 2+2 seats enabling the driver to ride along with a few of his friends while still maintaining some of the classic McLaren components and body parts. This rendering provides a classic McLaren vehicle with the additional 2 seats that currently sets the Porsche apart.
McLaren MegaMac
The McLaren MegaMac may be the biggest news yet as it will be the new successor for the F1 supercar. The new hypercar is code named P12 and is anticipated for late 2012 or early 2013. It is rumored to feature a 5.0-liter V8 engine developed in partnership with Ricardo that will deliver 800 HP. It will be mated to a Graziano seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.


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New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has a big unkind mouth. Slowly and steadily Sanchez has gained enough fame and respect to make critical comments about his own team. Although Sanchez has proven his worth to the squad by bringing them to two consecutive AFC Championship games, his tendency to criticize his own team is not going down well with his coach or his team mates.
Jets' coach, Rex Ryan, yes the same guy who almost got knocked out last season has been the highlight in his list. Ryan presented his case by starting from last season where Sanchez was comparatively unknown and benched being unsettled. Sanchez admitted that he was quite frustrated during that period and was looking for ways to vent his disappointment.
Nonetheless, the 24-year-old Sanchez's form has been growing ever since, although his recent degeneration caused Jets' defeat in front of New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins. In the aftermath of this, Sanchez called in for backup Mark Brunell, who will work with the starting unit soon.
Sanchez was perhaps crossing a line here. Earlier, Ryan had warned Sanchez that even though he was currently an asset to Jets, defaming comments about him, his team, and players will not be tolerated. Furthermore, Ryan told him if his form continued to dip, Sanchez will lose his starting job.
Ryan also said if he was unable to pick up the pace and lead the team once again, he had prepared a replacement already. In a recent press release Sanchez commented on Ryan's statements saying, "I wanted to fight him. I was really mad."
In the end the problem was only partly diffused when Jets offensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer, had to step in and placate Sanchez. Sanchez on the other hand insisted to talk with Ryan in person but as far as we know that did not happen.
Sanchez continued in his press release stating, "I was like, '(Ryan) can come tell me (himself), and (Schottenheimer) is like, 'Come on, man, don't do that.'"
Ironically, Ryan has been a great supporter of Sanchez in the past. He has time and again listed him to become the future of Jets and an NFL icon. Sanchez concluded that although Ryan was a great coach and his belief in players gave them a lot of confidence, sometimes he was perhaps too honest. He said, "Rex is super-honest. I wish he wasn't that honest at times.:


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IT departments within companies are seeing the growth of a more complex IT environment fueled by growing user demands for more flexible and productive solutions. The growing desire of users to have instant access to their IT services from any device at any given time - combined with IT trends such as the consumerization of IT, cloud-based technologies and hybrid end-user computing - are challenging the way nearly every enterprise IT department operates. The rising demand for flexibility is forcing them to grapple with the increasingly blurred lines between personal and professional device usage and making it difficult to reconcile the security and compliance implications of granting users constant access to IT services.
While IT departments struggle to fix and manage complicated IT infrastructures, the mobility and variation of today's workers and their devices has led to the slow and steady disintermediation of the IT department. Historically, IT departments have dictated the corporate policies that manage access to company data and applications. This worked well enough when employees did their work in their offices during set business hours. Now, a more competitive economic landscape and new technologies are changing the way people work.
Workers today want access to enterprise IT services 24/7 from any location, and a traditional PC-based setup simply cannot support this. Adding to this challenge, new technologies do not merely replace older ones. They add layers of complexity when they are folded into the mix along with legacy applications and existing systems. Companies introduce new technologies with the hope that they will provide the ease-of-use and flexibility that end users demand. But, problems arise when each new product requires its own set of management tools. This adds massive technical complexity to an already clunky IT environment. Managing these environments has become not just convoluted, but costly as well.
What's on the IT Department's Wish List?
It's clear that the traditional way of managing and dictating IT policies is out-of-date and out-of-touch with the daily realities of modern IT departments. What are the top issues IT managers are grappling with to maintain control over their IT architecture and deliver the types of services expected by today's workers?
Providing secure access. The challenges that affect IT departments trying to maintain security and control over corporate data and apps are rooted in the extreme complexity of their multi-layered IT environments. With the hodgepodge of applications and devices connecting to a company's network today, IT departments have had to implement security measures for a myriad of different software and platform requirements. Across several industries, such as government, finance and healthcare, more stringent regulations are being drafted and enforced that are requiring companies to maintain better data privacy and security. IT departments are not only mandated by their companies to protect intellectual property, but outside regulatory pressures are also demanding that they do the same in order to remain compliant.
Increasing automation. Workers have often complained about how slow the IT department can be when responding to troubleshooting requests, while the IT department complains of having to fix the same task over and over again on a regular basis. Employees who have grown used to the fast and easy service delivery of their consumer technologies will sometimes grow impatient waiting for a response from their help desk and attempt to "fix" the problem themselves by downloading software without the IT department's approval or using a third-party application to complete their work. Having the ability to automate standard IT tasks in the infrastructure can help reduce the amount of time and resources a company's IT department spends on help desk calls, while minimizing the security risks inherent with the usage of rogue IT applications.
Designing a flexible and personalized virtual workspace. How does a company keep control of their data and manage their critical applications while still allowing for users to work remotely, on the road, evenings and weekends, independently of their traditionally locked-down computing devices? Over the span of one day, a user's job role, location, and time zone can vary greatly, along with the kind of device they may be using. The desired features, capabilities, and access requirements that doctors or financial professionals, for example, can have will fluctuate drastically depending on the physical setting and the hour of the day they are attempting to access information. IT departments need to find a solution that not only provides the end user with the appropriate information they need within a user-friendly interface, but one that also seamlessly integrates with a company's existing hybrid IT infrastructure.
The Path to Workspace Virtualization
The rising need for IT operational excellence, improved user experience, better security and increased compliance has created a perfect storm for the IT department. End users are demanding a workplace experience that is similar to that of their consumer lifestyle - one of instant gratification. The "I want it, and I want it now," mentality has left IT management searching for answers for the inevitable need for self-servicing.
Achieving an easy-to-manage, low-cost, automated and secure virtualized IT environment can be achieved with workspace virtualization. The benefits provided by workspace virtualization can meet the demands of both end users and IT managers, while also providing a foundation for the inevitable need for more self-service within an enterprise IT environment. With workspace virtualization, IT departments and end users are given a lightweight, independent technology that provides context awareness and automation capabilities to its IT applications, while seamlessly integrating with an existing hybrid application delivery infrastructure. A context-aware virtualized workspace allows IT managers to attach rules governing computer access based on a user's circumstances, without regard to device type, location or time of day. In short, workspace virtualization enables enterprises to operate more efficiently while simultaneously lowering the costs of daily operations. It frees up an IT department's staff from constant support requests and it satisfies the "do-it-yourself" urge in every modern consumer.
What's more, workspace virtualization enables IT to centrally deliver, manage, and secure the key elements of a user's computing experience, independent of workstyles and devices. This also appeases some of the headaches faced by enterprises struggling with liability and compliance issues. With a carefully deployed workspace virtualization solution, gone are the days of IT nightmares, and here to stay is a vastly more productive IT experience where the enterprise, the consumer and the IT department are in perfect harmony.
Context Awareness: A Virtual Workspace that Adapts with Users
Within the IT environment, context awareness refers to the idea that an end user's virtual workspace can both sense and react based on their environment. With context-aware technology, IT managers can provide end users with workspace personalization while maintaining security and regulatory compliance oversight, without hands-on intervention. Context-aware technology can automatically prevent unauthorized actions such as executing certain applications and using removable disks. These restrictions can be added or removed based on a user's context as it changes, 24/7. IT can also automate all day-to-day tasks and combine them into run-books, saving time on about 80% of manual tasks. And, ultimately, IT can introduce self-servicing, where users can request and be automatically approved for services directly - based on a user's circumstances. Workspaces that are context-aware can provide end users with a fully dynamic desktop environment, while allowing IT managers to retain full control and management of an organization's IT structure.
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Crabs Guard Coral
Sorry I've been absent lately; preparing for Antarctica, inviting Doctors Without Borders to visit Kenyon, and setting up Avatar to show for Bio Sci Fi. But here's a good one you may have missed–guard crabs for coral. These tiny crabs can protect coral reef from getting gobbled up by starfish the size of a trash can. Mutualism at work–yet another way evolution promotes cooperation as much as competition.
Bacteria Tell Us What to Eat
When Brain Plague came out (still my favorite book), reviewers sniffed that microbial aliens were "impossible." They didn't ask the microbiologists. Today, the microbiologists are homing in on our gut microbiota. "Take me to your leader" may mean taking a look inside your gut.
Why do we eat what we eat–and why does it "taste good"? Increasing evidence suggests that our gut bacteria, which digest much of our food, put out products that act as neurotransmitters that tell us to eat the foods the gut bacteria want. Known neurotransmitters produced by bacteria include glutamate, glutamine, and agmatine (all nitrogen-containing carbon compounds related to amino acids of protein). But research suggests that a large number of other neurotransmitters remain to be discovered.
How could the microbes do this? Either they might cause signals that increase our desire for foods they can digest; or the microbes could produce mild toxins that make us sick, until we consume what they want. It's well known that the gut has a huge number of connections to the vagus nerve, which leads straight up to the brain.
One candidate (of many) for bacterial Svengalis is the bacteria that ferment chocolate. Chocolate is one of the most complicated foods we eat, the product of bacteria fermentation to begin with. (You cannot eat cocoa until after the beans have rotted three days in the jungle. The cocoa mass gets sent to Europe for fastidious processing.) It's a mystery why we even like chocolate, which for humans is largely indigestible. But somehow eating cocoa (or dark chocolate with minimal added sugar) is associated with preventing obesity and diabetes. So maybe our gut bacteria know something that's good for us.
Monkey's Viral Defense
To understand the broader background of Ebola and other viruses, read Michael Spector in the New Yorker. While his title "The Doomsday Strain" is overhype–in fact, I argue, these killer viruses are chronic population regulators–the world he describes, of eat and be infected, is the heart of what's going on.
What's unique about Africa is that, as the birthplace of humanity, it's also the birthplace of the largest number of near-human species on our planet. The nearer-human you are, (1) the closer you compete; (2) the more pathogens–especially viruses–you share. Things like Monkeypox, a cousin of smallpox. Now that we no longer get smallpox vaccinations, monkeypox makes occasional forays into humans–and could evolve into a smallpox-like contagion.
How do viral pathogens evolve? A typical scenario:
–Virus propagates in an adapted host. Most viruses cause mild or no symptoms, because that way they keep their host around the longest. Humans are full of herpes-type viruses you never heard of–because we all have them, and they don't cause illness.
–Virus jumps from adapted host to non-adapted host. Either the virus fails to grow at all–or else it grows too fast, killing the host before it can transmit to a new one.
–Either the virus burns out quickly in the new host, or it kills off 90% of them. If enough new host survive, they will evolve to adapt to the new virus. Like HIV–there are genetic variants of humans who don't get AIDS. If this were the state of nature, without technology, these AIDS-resistant people would inherit the earth.
From the standpoint of population: How do viruses relate to their host?
One way they relate is that the virus defends its adapted host population from competitors. When two different monkey populations meet, individuals bite each other, copulate with each other (in secret, sleeping with the enemy), and share bodily fluids in every possible way. Without realizing, in effect they send each other their own viruses–adapted to the donor, possibly deadly to the recipient. In the long run, whoever best withstands the other's viruses "wins."
In Africa, an unfortunate effect of "civilized" development has been to increase human-monkey contact–most often by humans consuming near-human primates, aka "bushmeat." But the bushmeat still sends us their viruses. For most of human history, these viruses helped hold Homo sapiens population in check. Thanks to "civilized" medicine, they no longer do.
Or do they?
CRISPR Cuts Out HIV
Could a bacterium's defense against bacterial viruses be used to protect a human cell from HIV?
A lot is in the news about people who seemed to be "cured" of HIV (the virus causing AIDS) yet two years later, the virus returns. That's because the HIV virus hides a DNA copy of its RNA within the human cell's own DNA chromosomes. The latently infected cells circulate in the bloodstream, undetected, because the hidden viral DNA looks the same as host DNA, to the immune system.
But what if we could cut the embedded DNA copy of HIV's genome–out of the host cell DNA?
Amazingly, a way to do that has been reported, using a molecular machine used by bacteria to defend themselves from bacterial viruses. This defense is called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). It is named for the clusters of short repeated sequences that appear in DNA of the bacterium. Each short sequence has been copied from the viral genome of a previously infecting virus. The genome of the previously infecting virus got recognized by the CAS complex–a protein/RNA machine that makes RNA copies of the infecting DNA sequence. The CAS RNA copies then cause the cell to (1) degrade the viral genomic DNA; (2) make short copies of viral sequence and insert them into host. These short copies (the "palindromic repeats" of CRISPR) then serve to generate future CAS RNAs that recognize the virus when it infects again–a kind of bacterial immune system.
For biotechnology, the CAS machine turns out to be an amazing way to edit vertebrate genomes. We can cut out a gene, for example a cancerous gene. So now, the PNAS researchers report using CAS to edit a small part of an integrated HIV genome, and prevent the integrated viral sequence from generating new phage particles. So far, this has been done in tissue culture. It will remain to be seen whether a delivery method can enable use of CRISPR/CAS to prevent HIV virus production in humans.
Robot Caregivers
Fiction writers used to assume that robots would take us to the stars, or Antarctica, or other future adventures. But today the fastest growing use of robots may be that of caregivers for the elderly. Here in this NYT opinion, a physician argues that robots will be a good thing. Two kinds of robots–one, what you might expect, a robot that takes vital signs and is improbably named GiraffPlus. Another kind however is designed purely for "compassion." Provides endless patience and limitless consideration, in the absence of that distantly located child with his/her own family.
The author argues that the time has come, and that companion robots will indeed be a good thing. We've already seen Robot and Frank, the infinitely self-sacrificing robotic companion. Perhaps its work reflecting how far we want to go down this road? The physician suggests that, with our high geriatric ratio and our declining personal patience, the road already has no exit.
Antarctica for Ultraphyte
Announcing the fall adventure–yes, it's true, Ultraphyte is going to Antarctica. The expedition will be led by experienced Antarctic explorer Rachael Morgan-Kiss, of Miami University of Ohio. And yes, I'll be posting Youtube videos (McMurdo Station has good internet. When the 200-mile winds aren't blowing.)
Morgan-Kiss has a National Science Foundation grant to study eukaryotic microbes conducting photosynthesis–kinds of algae. See great video of her research. We'll conduct most of our field work in the Lake Bonney region, including a look at the curious Blood Falls.
Antarctic algae are one of the least understood partners in the global carbon cycle. The more we know about the carbon cycle, the better we can predict climate change. Furthermore, Antarctic climate change is the heavyweight when it comes to long-term impact on sea level.
We'll get to identify new kinds of algae, with interesting cute little shapes, as well as culture them in the laboratory. Yes, they're very green.
Getting to Antarctica, and trained to work there, is a major task in itself. Only a few thousand people officially work there, and one assumes that doctors and dentists (and their technology) are scarce. So I have to spend the summer going the round of doctors, opticians, and dentists to fill out a mega-page form. Including EKG stress test–Ultraphyte is in decent shape, from weekly 20-miles running and biking.
Will Antarctica make it into Blood Star Frontier? Yes, toward the end–and will take center stage in book 3, Sun Ice Frontier. Next spring at ICFA and Wiscon, I hope to have more to say about it; and trade notes with Antarctic traveler Stan Robinson.
Ebola–One Plane Away
While we fret over childish court rulings, and homeless children dare to cross our borders, the spread of Ebola virus gets buried. For true heroism, nothing beats Doctors Without Borders–for months, the main source of care and treatment in a growing epidemic. So far the disease has struck Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Most of our Google news feeds relegate the disease below the first screen on our monitors. But experts say it's just one plane flight away from Paris. Yes, a place that "matters" (sarcasm).
What makes Ebola virus so deadly? An RNA virus, Ebola has a relatively simple structure, just eight genes encoding proteins. The small RNA is coiled within a flexible tubular protein capsid. The main host cells the virus can infect are white blood cells, liver cells, and endothelial cells–cells that line the blood vessels. That's quite a deadly combination. By infecting the white blood cells, the Ebola virus disrupts the immune system, avoiding effective defense. Also, the cells carry the virus through the blood, all throughout the body. When the endothelial cells get infected, the blood vessels leak. More from my post in April.


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Synopsis: Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to punch him in the stomach to prove how strong he is. The vice-president (Loretta Swit) takes over and heads for trouble right away. A British island has been invaded by a Caribbean dictatorship and the gay ... Full Synopsis


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Jay-Z and Beyonce are preparing for their daughter's first-ever Christmas. Lil Wayne is slipping some eggnog into his purple drink. And of course, record label executives are scheming on last-minute ways to profit off the holiday season. That means it is December, and The Rap Up is serving its third annual Naughty or Nice List. Read on to find out who in hip-hop is in St. Nick's good graces, and who will wake up feeling as empty as their stocking.
The Game
Game's off-the-mic rants and unstable interview persona have always been irksome, but not enough to overshadow his dope music. In 2012, however, we got a chance to see what Game would be viewed as if his music was anything less than good. With the incredibly tacky Jesus Piece, Game had no saving grace for his ridiculous rants and claims. Oh, and he flip-flopped on issues more times than Mitt Romney.
The promise that was shown on Lecrae's features and BET cypher from 2011 was fully realized on two projects this year. Lecrae repped Christ without gimmicks, and also managed to sound authentically hip hop while doing so. Church Clothes is one of the year's best mixtapes, and even though his subsequent album, Gravity, didn't quite match up to Church Clothes, it was still solid in its own right. I can't wait to see what this guy does in 2013.
Chief Keef
This kid embodies much of what is wrong with hip hop. Mindless violence (his music), cheesy sexploits (his Instagram fiasco) and a horrible attitude (taunting the death of a rival gang member of Twitter) were all linked with Chief Keef this year. Rap's heavyweights need sit the kid down for a chat. Either that, or give him a Jordan-in-'84-type freeze-out.
Lil Reese
Keef's buddy Lil Reese was also outrageous this year. After a video of Reese assaulting a women surfaced on the internet, Reese shrugged off the footage on Twitter as haters trying to keep him down. It must be so hard to be a woman-beater.
Earl Simmons stayed out of jail this year. For anyone who has followed his string of past legal troubles, that is no small feat. He also seems to have conquered his drug addiction, and released the worthy Undisputed which proved he still has it. That rendition of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" was the whipped topping. I'm happy for you, X.
Tip defied the odds yet again. On the heels of legal trouble, the mediocre No Mercy and lukewarm promotional singles, people started to look at T.I. as more of a reality TV star than rapper. Tip rendered those whispers moot when he dropped Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head on Dec. 18. No, it's not Trap Muzik or even Urban Legend, but it's still a good album. He also released his F*ck Da City Up mixtape on New Year's Day, which was a hella good time.
We get it, Shyne. Puffy did you wrong. But that incident at the now-defunct Kit Kat Club was 12 years ago. It's over. Dwelling on it is tired and pointless. And calling Kendrick's album trash? You were the only one who said that publicly. Literally, the only one. Either start recording good music, or move on.
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick deserves being on this list because good kid, m.A.A.d city is a masterpiece. But that's not the only reason. He also handled himself like a 5-year veteran in interviews and tore up a number of featured verses in 2012. Crown him.
Nicki Minaj
Young Money's first lady tried to sell the same album, albeit with several bonus songs, for the third time. No, that's not a typo. Then, when stores like Target refused to stock the re-re-packaging because it wasn't good business sense, she blasted them in an interview. Go home, Nicki. And leave your microphone here.
In 2012, El-P released Cancer 4 Cure, which Rizoh called "bleak," but "also beautiful," and was well-received by hip hop heads and critics alike. He also produced Killer Mike's critically-acclaimed R.A.P. Music in its entirety, which featured the politically-charged and powerful "Reagan." Yeah, that's what you call a double-double in hip-hop.
Liar, liar, mic on fire, your life was nothing like The Wire. Tyga joined a long list of rappers who have lied about their past and/or street cred, and was exposed for it when footage of himself on the game show "Bustas" showed him claiming to be from the Valley, not Compton. You know what? There's nothing wrong with that. Just don't lie about it.
Dr. Dre
Last year, I put Dre on the Naughty List for failing to come through with Detox. No, the mythical album was not released this year. However, Dre was the one who gave Kendrick Lamar complete creative control over his major label debut, and we all know how that turned out. His Beats by Dre headphones also continued to grow in popularity. So no, Santa will not be skipping Dre's house this year.
Lil Wayne
Ugh. This dude is devolving into a twerpy, braided slug. He's as bad as he's ever been as a rapper, and even worse as a public figure. He lost his lawsuit against Quincy Jones III for Jones' documentary on the Wayne, and was actually court-ordered to pay Jones in a countersuit. How did Wayne lose? After he suffered a seizure that caused him to miss his court date, Wayne's attorney was forced to show the videotape of Wayne's deposition. The tape showed Wayne refusing to answer questions and mocking the whole process. No, Wayne, you didn't look like a "G." That is, unless "G" stands for goof or goon.
Big K.R.I.T.
Big K.R.I.T.'s long-awaited debut album was finally released in 2012. Live From the Underground featured dope production and tight lyrics from K.R.I.T., who should be lauded for successfully making it to his first album. In today's age of flooding and overhyping, that's no joke.
I don't even need to spend that much time on Doom, whose name now reads like a self-fulfilling prophecy. How are you going to send an imposter to one of your shows again? Do you even care about your fans?
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A quick report from Thursday's morning skate.
Nik Antropov participated in the skate after missing three straight practices with a "nagging groin injury."
Before the skate, goalie Johan Hedberg made defenseman Anssi Salmela get in goal so he could take a penalty shot. Hedberg skated in from the blue line and got Salmela to fall to the ice, leaving the net wide open. Hedberg fired high past the open net.
John Anderson told me yesterday that Ondrej Pavelec would most likely start in goal. I'll let you know if that changes.
Just wanted to get something to you quickly.
October 29th, 2009
10:32 am
C-Viv, thanks for the timely update on Antropov…I hope he feels okay after skating so he can go tonite…we need his size and we need his skill to keep the lines balanced.
I would think that Moose is not starting tonite if he is out there goofing around with Salmela. But then again, Moose always goes out there first for the morning skate. I hope Ondrej is seeing red and wants big-time vengeance against the Caps.
October 29th, 2009
10:41 am
Did Moose celebrate?
October 29th, 2009
10:54 am
I want to see that on YouTube…
October 29th, 2009
11:18 am
Have they put together the lines yet?
October 29th, 2009
11:26 am
why would he celebrate if he missed?
October 29th, 2009
12:02 pm
I like to know the practice lines today. Who is practice with who? Please let us know.
October 29th, 2009
12:26 pm
I'll just guess that Antropov goes to Slater's spot who goes to Krog's spot who goes to the pressbox. You may put Antropov to Reasoner who goes to Slater's and then to Krog but I thought Reasoner & Slater were on the same line.
October 29th, 2009
12:28 pm
Pavelec is confirmed as the starter while Varlamov was the first off after practice so it looks like he will start.
October 29th, 2009
12:36 pm
Varlamov is a good goalie. I'm looking forward to tonight's action.
October 29th, 2009
1:10 pm
6 hours until game time. It's interesting that Kovy will be travelling with the team, at his request, while his injury heals. He might actually heal faster because he will be in a better frame of mind instead of being depressed at home apart from his team. Stress HIS team.
I'm sure Kovy feels he is letting his team mates down in this important year. The year where he has made significant growth as a team a condition of him re-signing. Strangely enough, him getting injured may make it more likely that he signs. It would be difficult to point to a bad season as his reason for leaving when the reason for missing the playoffs might be, for example, a 4-9 record during the games when the team captain was injured.
I say the above believeing that Kovalchuk is in fact going to sign the big contract. But it hasn't happened yet.
October 29th, 2009
1:24 pm
Looks like JA is playing his cards tight to the vest tonite as he won't tip off what line Antropov will be on if he plays tonite…and it sounds like, judging from JA's presser, that he will play.
Let's hope JA throws Washington a total curve-ball by icing lines radically different from the aforementioned practice lines. Kozzy – White – Finny have been a defensive disaster. White has been on the ice for 6 GA while Finny has been on the ice for 7 although 3 of them really weren't his fault as he had just come onto the ice after Kovy had lingered too long (STL, NJ, WSH).
The lazy, slow or disconcerted line changes should stop now that Kovy won't be out there on extended shift time making it a bit harder for the guys to know when to get on the ice. As long as Antro can skate well enough to be effective defensively, I trust Little, White and Kozzy to pick up the slack. My guess for the lines if Antro plays:
Slava – Antro – White
Kane – Pevs – Army
Little – Reasy – Finny
Greek gods
October 29th, 2009
1:32 pm
I'm hoping for:
Kane – Peverley – Antropov
Kozlov – White – Little
Army – Reasoner – Max
Boulton – Slater – Thorburn
October 29th, 2009
1:36 pm
**to Smothie**
WHat's reason combine Antro and White? And Play Antro as Center?
If he is playing I like to see lines:
October 29th, 2009
1:42 pm
yep. i like russian's lines. ive been wanting to see antropov on the wing ever since he said he was more comfortable there.
October 29th, 2009
2:25 pm
Russian, I simply left Antro in the middle because Coach Anderson said he wouldn't expect Nik to play wing. To paraphrase, he said he didn't want to "screw him up" by moving him around. I want big Nik up the middle on that line to dish the puck to the other two who need to start shooting the puck. I figure having Nik on their line can give them not only the time and space they need to operate, but he is much more predictable and easy to play with than Afinogenov.
I'm intrigued by your lines though as each one has a playmaker to dish the puck to guys who can either score or drive the net. Plus, Max can't be as much of a defensive liability with Little and Antro to protect his butt. Having Kozlov with Slater could work as Kozzy knows how to feed the puck to a guy who streaks up the ice in a straight line (a la Hossa in 2006-07) and Little last year.
October 29th, 2009
2:39 pm
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October 29th, 2009
2:47 pm
We got to win tonight or the hot start on the road will be out the window. No cheap goals. Go Thrashers!
October 29th, 2009
3:15 pm
The only thing is that White never played RW whereas Antro spent a lot of time there, not sure why JA would say that is screwing him up. Antropov was listed as a C/RW even before the year began so that is based on Toronto/NYR.
Reasoner-Little-Antro (or Reasoner-Antro-Little)
Greek gods
Vivs, will it be Salmella-Popovic on the 3rd pair?
October 29th, 2009
3:24 pm
Varlamov is definitely starting. Fleischmann is going to make is return tonight so it will be interesting to see how he does against us in his first game back this year.
October 29th, 2009
3:55 pm
Pops got the scratch so Schubie-dooby-doo is doing the D-man tango with Salmela. I hope Salmela can get the offense going again like he did against Tampa when he was aggressively pinching.
EOB – I think Anderson wants him to know that he's playing C so he doesn't have to change his approach on the fly without practice time. Remember he hasn't practiced at all this week. He may have some natural instincts at wing that would kick back in, but we need Nik's responsible play up the middle.
Also, if I recall correctly, White got to play some 4th line RW at the end of his first season here when he earned the apt nickname of "Charmin"…I hope he's not heading back in that direction. In his defense, he seems to be playing hard, but I think playing with Max has him retreating the O-zone earlier than normal to get back on D.
October 29th, 2009
4:17 pm
Thanks Smoothie, so it is Schubert & Ansii. Ansii definitely pinches and can join the rush, that's why I want him to be one of the guys on the 3rd pair. I think Boris got voted off the island.
I can see some of the instincts maybe kicking in. Not sure if we want Antro or Little on the wing, but one thing to note is that they both spent time with Kovalchuk and they both have racked up some assists. Antro leads the team, Enstrom is next, then Little (tied with Peverley & Kubina). So they are producing up there, and goal scoring will come in spurts.
As for White, put Little or Kozlov or a number of other NHL top liners on the 4th line and they are not going to bang like the goons and grinders. And actually White does quite well as a 3rd line center which in the grand scheme of things would be a nice spot for him on this team. He can play defense and he is pretty good at faceoffs and is capable of scoring 20-30 goals. He can also be pushed up to 2nd line and gel just fine there so when an Antro goes down we can go on without missing a beat.
October 29th, 2009
5:26 pm
AH, so if Slater moves to LW then they must want to move Thorburn higher up (if Antropov is a no-go). Thanks Chris. These gamedays are driving me nuts after a few days off.
October 29th, 2009
8:04 pm
Losing streak now at four! Or will be in a few minutes. Yet another heartless giveup job. Where? Why at Loseland of course. The home away from home for every visiting NHL team! Where rivals get to skate freely without fear of being hit or even impeded. Thrashers want pity. Captain Ilya Kovalchuk out. Goalie Sori Letemin out. Wah wah wah! Excuse for not scoring any goals. Correction. Quitters are fantastic at putting puck into their own net! Cannot score on a f#cking penalty shot. On home ice! Totally unacceptable. Pavs looks like a damn Kari Lehtonen Jr! Sorry bestard. Rest of Thrashers have called it quits! Fans might as well too. This slide will continue until scumbags hit rock bottom! Just cannot plummet any lower than that. A total embarrassment! KL and IK hoist two more brews. Why the Hell should they worry? About to check in on football game. May not be back to watch this shet! Uncaring toilet residue. How is that for gloom and doom apologists? ++STENDEC++
October 29th, 2009
8:23 pm
Give quitters a pass if you feel so inclined! Are they not well paid to WIN hockey games? I sure as Hell thought alleged professional athletes were! These bums are strictly amateur hour rejects. Thrashers have put puck in net twice. Behind Pavs. Oops! So instead of up 2-1 it is 3-0 to an extremely mediocre outfit. Team cries about absence of star. Wah wah wah! F#ck whining quitters. Just looking for an excuse to lose. Hope they get shut out. Hope they do not put puck in rival net over next 10 games! Anyone that gives positives about this shet effort can kiss my a$$! Thrashers have packed it in. Fans with any intelligence should too. Damn bestards! ++STENDEC++
October 29th, 2009
8:47 pm
**to stendec**
Yeah man. I am very upset. 3:0 is very big gap. Why Coach mix lines again? Pavs is playing good, man. Do not make him look bad. 2 PP goals and 1 goal from Ovi were unstopable. look like we are going to loose this game.
October 29th, 2009
8:47 pm
I don't blame you for being frustrated, Stendec. The Thrashers are sporting one of their deepest teams ever. They should be competitve, even without Kovi out there. That said, I wouldn't ever call the Caps mediocre. They're stacked on offense and are riding the resurgent play of grieving netminder Theodore (with understudy Varlamov). It's only 3-0 and as Dick Motta used to say, "It's not over til the fat lady sings!"
October 29th, 2009
9:22 pm
Enstrom just missed on a short-handed breakaway, while the score was 3-1. The effort is there. Kozlov, Little, Slater, Enstrom have all had their chances tonight. Peverley missed one standing on the door step, with a gaping net in front of him. Atlanta has had a great 3rd period. They're closing in on 40 shots. Varlamov, like I said, is a good goalie.
And the Capitals … are a Stanley Cup contender. They nearly took out the Penguins last year. Up 2-0 in the series, Game Three went to overtime, where Kris Letang scored for Pittsburgh. Had Ovechkin scored, or any other Capital, the series would have been, 3-0. And over. And who won the Cup last year? Still think Washington is "mediocre?" Better take another look. The Capitals, with some breaks, could win the Stanley Cup this year. Ovechkin is the kind of player who could lead a team to such a feat.
I'm very pleased by the Thrashers' third period. Perhaps, "too late," but at least they're putting forth a hardworking effort.
October 29th, 2009
9:48 pm
Brandan you make me f#cking nauseous! Caps stopped skating in third period. So spare me the close loss bullshet! Do not bother quoting misleading close final statistics. Another defeat! Another heartless giveup job at Loseland. You can sugar coat it any damn way you choose to! Morons like you who are pacified by close moral choke jobs hurt this untalented team more than help it. No accountability is sought so the status quo (losing) remains the same! Real damn caring fans demand the best. Pavs is a tad better than Sori Letemin which is just not good enough at this level. Only three players (at most) possess NHL caliber talent! F#cking losers. Hey Brandon. How many points tonight? Zero. None. Zilch. Zippo. Tell me how great these damn commode residue quitters are! May the streak continue! Well into Novemver. Coach John Petrino is still a clueless ignorant son of a betch! Whining bestard. Bad bounces? No sun in eyes? No monkey pucks? Starting to sound like damn you know who! Announcers should be fired or executed. Personally do not care which one! ++STENDEC++
October 29th, 2009
9:56 pm
I just sat down about 20 minutes ago after finishing up some other stuff for tonight only to find out I didn't dvr the game because it was on the NHL network/Turner South and not the centerice package. I am so irate that I know what it feels like to be Stendec after a game.
Thanks for the update Brendan.
October 29th, 2009
9:57 pm
What were the lines tonight?
October 29th, 2009
10:02 pm
Stendec, you're really falling down on the job. Here's what you could have said instead. "Cash is better than our CZECH! Trade him NOW!! For a bag of pucks! And a water bottle, MAYYYYBE. But only if it were autographed by Kovalchuk, so we'd have something to remember him by!" Stinking, FKKING QUITTERS. 0-3-1 in last four games, LOSELAND LUBBERS!! That's one (1) outta eight (8) possible points!! Choke on it, Coach Sunshine backers!! Minor league Coach, hired by Minor League GM, who hired Minor League Scouts!"
I don't even know WHAT you were saying up above?? But it's nowhere NEAR your Top 10 rants. It's not even in the Top 20. Whatever meds you used to be on, get back on 'em, and buy more! I don't care if you have do go to a "back alley" rogue pharmacist. When I see Stendec rant, I expect something good.
Try something more like, Bryan "LITTLE TO NO CHANCE" couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from 5 feet. Or "Little to NO CHANCE" could even bury it into the other team's zip code.
October 29th, 2009
10:05 pm
Well said. Agree totally. Cheerio. ++STENDEC++
October 29th, 2009
10:16 pm
Vivlamore, can you rescue my post to Sara on the Red Wings game tonight? Thanks!
October 29th, 2009
10:43 pm
Why didn't Afinogenov get an assist on Ovechkin's second goal?
Oh yeah, different team.
October 29th, 2009
10:49 pm
Every post is now going into the black hole.
October 29th, 2009
11:02 pm
"Why didn't Afinogenov get an assist on Ovechkin's second goal?
Oh yeah, different team."
Classic Max move, circling in the zone and dangling the puck, going back to the blue line instead of going to the net, passing with his eyes closed, turns the puck over. This is what World Be Free and I are talking about guys. Get used to it because it's only Oct and Max isn't even warmed up yet.


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