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60. Wolverine vs. Sabretooth (Mutant Massacre)
This is the second Wolverine vs. Sabretooth fight on the countdown (here is the first one).
After the Marauders slaughter a great deal of the Morlocks during the so-called "Mutant Massacre," the X-Men show up and save a bunch of Morlocks, but suffer great casualties themselves, forcing them to retreat back to the X-Mansion. Wolverine and Sabretooth have their first tangle in the tunnels when Wolverine is attempting to save the Morlock Healer who, naturally, would come in handy in a Mutant Massacre, so Sabretooth is attempting to kill the Healer.
Wolverine manages to drop a wall on Sabretooth and escape with the Healer.
Sabretooth, though, manages to track them back to the X-Mansion. After he takes out Rogue, Psylocke (just a guest of the X-Men at that point in time) has a memorable fight where she takes on Sabretooth and acquits herself pretty well until Wolverine shows up to have a rematch of their tunnel match.
At this point the rest of the X-Men show up and Magneto could obviously end the fight pretty easily, but Psylocke asks him not to, because she can only get past Sabretooth's mental defenses if he is distracted, which he is while fighting Wolverine. Magneto agrees, and Wolverine and Sabretooth have a memorable tussle.
The fight ends when Wolverine reveals that Sabretooth has been conned – the rest of the X-Men show up to capture him, but Sabretooth escapes by jumping off of a cliff to the lake below.
The X-Men then officially make Psylocke a member of the team.
59. Superboy Prime vs. Supermen
As established in a previous fight on the countdown, Conner Kent managed to defeat the plans of Alex Luthor and Superboy Prime in Infinite Crisis #6.
Well, while that basically took Luthor out of play, it did not take Superboy Prime out of the picture, and in Infinite Crisis #7 (by Geoff Johns and a bunch of artists, including Phil Jimenez and George Perez), Superboy Prime decides he is just going to destroy Oa, which is the center of the universe, in a fit of rage (sort of a "If I can't have my perfect universe, no one can have a universe!").
A whole pile of the Green Lantern Corps show up to try to slow him down, but they are mostly unsuccessful (and about three dozen of them lose their lives in the process) but we soon learn that this is part of a risky gambit.
The other two Supermen, Kal-L (Earth-2 Superman) and Kal-El (the "main" Superman), show up and drag Superboy Prime through the place where Krypton once was (essentially now a field of kryptonite) and they then go through the red sun of Krypton. The three land on a nearby planet (the Green Lantern Mogo) where the three are now all powerless.
Then it comes down to a good ol' fashioned fist fight, with Kal-El finally being able to put the kibosh on Superboy Prime, but not before Kal-L dies from injuries sustained during the fight.
58. The remains of the JLA vs. Darkseid (Rock of Ages)
During the Rock of Ages storyline, Aquaman, Flash and Green Lantern find themselves transported fifteen years into the future into their future selves in a world that has long since been conquered by Darkseid (later, we learn, it was due to the events happening back in the present). They team up with the last remnants of the JLA, which is in a sorry state, indeed, as it consists of only Wonder Woman, Green Arrow (Connor Hawke), the Atom, the former Teen Titan Argent, a female Aztek and a reprogrammed Amazo.
Luckily, the tide is already helped a bit when we learn that Batman, who has spent the last eight years being tortured by DeSaad, has won the battle of wills between he and DeSaad, so Batman is there to help lead the attack.
The battle was getting rough, and the Leaguers were getting tossed, if not for the courage of Green Arrow and Atom, the Earth would totally be lost.
After pretty much everyone else is killed, it comes down to Green Arrow and the Atom versus Darkseid and his seemingly impenetrable force field. However, since Darkseid can SEE them, obviously light can get in. So the Atom has Green Arrow fire him on an arrow at Darkseid, then shrink down small enough where he can ride a photon on a beam of light right into Darkseid's eye then to Darkseid's brain, where he enlarges, frying Darkseid's brain but killing himself in the process.
So yeah, Green Arrow and the Atom took down Darkseid.
57. Punisher vs. the Russian
The Russian was one of the deadliest killers in the whole world, able to take down entire Delta Force squads with ease, so when he was sent after Frank Castle, the Punisher, Castle was pretty much screwed.
The Russian showed up and proceeded to more or less mop the floor with Castle, practically beating Castle to death.
Luckily, the Punisher was at least able to move the fight out of his own apartment building and he and the monstrous Russian burst into the apartment of Castle's neighbor, the morbidly obese Mr. Bumpo. It was here that the Punisher finally got some good luck, as Bumpo had just returned home with five pipin' hot pizzas. The Punisher threw the hot pizza in the Russians face – the burning grease distracted the Russian long enough for the Punisher to trip the Russian and, in one of the most absurdly gross methods of killing a man, knocked the 1200 pound Mr. Bumpo on to the Russian's face and kept him there for a half hour, smothering the Russian to death.
For good measure, the Punisher decapitated the Russian.
Of course, that, amusingly enough, was not the last we would see of the Russian, but that's another story (a hilarious one, but still, another one), also from the same creators of this issue, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon…
56. Superman vs. the Elite
"What's so funny about Truth, Justice & The American Way?" was a very popular issue of Action Comics back in 2001 (it was issue #775), written by Joe Kelly with art by two awesome artists, Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo.
The issue was a bit allegory for the great popularity of the Authority at the time, who I believe were actually out-selling Superman's comics back then. The Authority were representative of the "modern" superhero, one willing to do whatever it takes to save the day, even if that meant killing.
In this issue, Joe Kelly introduces an Authority send-off called The Elite, led by Manchester Black (a take-off of Authority leader Jenny Sparks).
The Elite were superheroes who, in many ways, were just as bad as the villains they were after, using methods that bordered on sadistic, with little regard to civilians and friendly fire. However, the public were loving them – and Superman, in return, was being treated as though he was no longer cool, because he WOULDN'T kill.
Finally, Superman challenges the Elite to a fight, which is globally televised. At first, it appears as though the Elite have defeated Superman, but Superman then reveals that he has used his powers in sneaky manners to defeat them all, and seemingly kill most of the group.
Superman then uses this opportunity to opine about how easy it is to use great power to kill, but it is more heroic not to, to use great responsibility with said great power.
He then reveals that he actually did not kill (or even really hurt) any of the Elite, but rather that he used his powers to make it look like he did.
The issue was extremely popular at the time, even getting a second printing (very rare for a comic not tied into any crossover), and Manchester Black later returned to have another fight over Superman's ideals (Superman won that one, too), and the rest of the Elite were later redeemed, of sorts, by Kelly and Mahnke in Justice League Elite.
Technically, the Uncanny X-Men issue was PSYLOCKE vs. Sabretooth. There was a good Logan/Creed in the prior issue ( which ends not with one of them losing, but with Logan retreating to save the Morlock Healer because his duty to his comrades was more important than a grudge match ), but in this issue it was an incidental orgy of violence.
The use of Psylocke made it a much better fight scene than a Logan/Creed match would have given; the X-Men had assumed that Betsy was just an elegant socialite useless in a battle, but facing Sabretooth alone and walking away alive is no small feat. ( This is made more remarkable because this was prior to Betsy's ninja makeover ).
i still remember being like 14 and every month between morrison's rock of ages storyline seeming like years… it was a self contained storyline that felt like the most epic crossover in comics, todays writers could learn from that (maybe even morrison himself!)
There sure are a lot of Superboy Prime fights on this list. Oh well. Glad to see the Rock of Ages battle make the list.
There sure are a lot of Superboy Prime fights on this list. Oh well.
I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe people just like seeing Superboy Prime getting beat down…?
Anyways, when I first read that JLA issue with the Atom riding a beam of light into Darkseid's brain, it totally blew my mind. And I still think it's a pretty awesome moment in a pretty cool fight.
That Superboy Prime fight had to be the worst, most wrong-headed of any Superman fight I've ever seen. It's totally incongruent with what a Superman story should be about, which is highlighted further by including Kelly's Superman vs Elite story on the same day.
It's actually pretty depressing that SBP is getting so many votes, because the character is really crappy, and will likely be the running joke of this decade.
That issue of Action never sat right with me, because it didn't really answer the question of why Superman's better. It just set up a bunch of psychotic straw-man Authority stand-ins, then showed Superman 'kill them,' and then finish with the moral, 'But Superman would NEVER kill someone, because he's better than them!"
Okay, that's fine, but what point is that arguing? "Superman's better because he's better"?
But regarding JLA: I think we were all very proud of Green Arrow and Atom that day.
I agree th Green Arrow and Atom taking down Darkseid was great but the best battle in Rock of Ages is the one we never sw. The eight year long psychological battle between Batman and DeSaad.
Jeff Holland, the point is that Authority-like antics create as much trouble as they solve. Violence creates more violence.
Superman, at its best, is all about not falling into that senseless trap and instead aiming for higher ideals.
Am I write that the mutant massacre battle was the first fight between Logan and Sabretooth?
Kind of funky to see IC and Prime on here so much, but, hey, it's true.
Hey, wow, I think I still have a Marvel Masterpieces card based on that Uncanny X-men cover.
" Superman, at its best, is all about not falling into that senseless trap and instead aiming for higher ideals. "
But since prisons in superhero comics are about as secure as a house of straw, and since characters like Lex Luthor don't have any interest in reforming of their own accord, and since Supes isn't exactly going to remove Lex's free will via heat vision lobotomy, there's no practical reason for the superhero's " technical pacifism ". There are plenty of external genre reasons ( most notably, the need to have popular villains survive ) which I accept, but if we're talking about the ethics within the story itself, then the code against killing is actually a moral weakness.
Isn't it a bit selfish that the Joker gets to murder hundreds of innocents every time he gets out of Arkham so that Batman doesn't have to get his hands dirty? Soldiers kill as part of the job, and policemen will kill if there are no other options. The traditional Silver Agey superhero isn't expected to, even if it's pitting the lives of a thousand civilians against one sociopathic mass-murderer. Which makes it even more irritating when the heroes who are willing to take lives immediately fall into the bad guy camp.*
* ( Note that I said willing to do so, not interested in doing it; I don't think a character who enjoys taking lives can be a hero. The problem with the Authority isn't that they use lethal force, but that they fetishize it; where Jack Hawksmoor actually wept when forced to kill in Stormwatch, he jokes about beating up villains with one of their comrades' severed head once Millar takes over. Even Hawksmoor in the Ellis Authority was portrayed as numbing himself to the shock, as opposed to damn near getting off on it… )
I dunno, Nitz — but the soldiers and cops totally won't ever kill the Joker either, nor will courts sentence him to death, nor will grieving widows (of which there must be hundreds and hundreds by now) go out looking for him with a gun…the story contrivance here is that only Batman is allowed to be asked why he won't get his hands dirty, it seems. Only Batman is selfish. But everybody else is all "let the Joker live!", or something?
I don't really buy that. What if Batman decided to retire? Whose fault would the Joker be then?
Seems like Batman's ethical problem about whether or not to kill the Joker is as set up by genre conventions as is the inability of a jail to hold a single prisoner. In a way, they're exactly the same thing.
Three great fights in this pack, the one from the Rock of the Ages is the best, outstanding.
karl wrote:
i still remember being like 14 and every month between morrison's rock of ages storyline seeming like years… it was a self contained storyline that felt like the most epic crossover in comics, todays writers could learn from that (maybe even morrison himself!)
Totally true karl. Peace.
But if the Atom knew where the photon was, then how could he know it was heading towards Darkseid?
Get the hell out of my comics, Heisenberg!
Rock of Ages was a great Morrison read, that i will at some point pull out and read again, and be really satisfied. Batman vs. Desaad is a great moment, that we only see the outcome.
Action 775 is one of my very favorite issues of all time and showcases the reason that Superman is the greatest.
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I sold a 1.6 xbox a last week. This xbox was my first xbox, that I'd had for almost 2 years. Never had any problems with it at all.
So, this guy gets it, plugs it in, and says it only shows in black and white. He says he's tried different cords, and still the same thing. He does say that about every 6-7 times he turns it on, it's on color, but the very next time is in black and white.
Is there anything internal that would cause this? The xbox was previously modded with a Xenium Ice, and I pulled that chip and installed a DuoX Lite in it's place. I tested it after I swapped the the chips, and it all worked fine.
I told him to try on a different tv set to make sure it isn't his composite inputs on the tv that are the culprit, but he hasn't done so yet.
Any guesses?
Xbox Output In Black & White?
Started by SlammedNiss , Mar 21 2006 07:53 PM
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Posted 21 March 2006 - 07:53 PM
Posted 21 March 2006 - 07:56 PM
could be the eeprom set to pal and not ntsc
Posted 21 March 2006 - 10:15 PM
could be the eeprom set to pal and not ntsc
I did swap eemproms before it was sent, but I also turned it off/on numerous times while installing apps, emus, etc. before i shipped it. Eeprom was set to NTSC, Region 1. Also, that doesn't explain why it works every once in a while.
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England's Sorry Lot of 'Champions'
At Least 3 Premier League Clubs Could Be Booted by the End of Next Week
No country has more teams in Champions League, club soccer's most prestigious tournament, than England. And all four—Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United—began the season with real aspirations of winning it.
But by the end of next week, at least three of England's ambassadors to the glitzy European competition will probably be gone.
The first two teams on the chopping block are Arsenal and City, who both lost 2-0 in the opening legs of their home-and-away round-of-16 matchups. Not only do they need to overturn those deficits on the road, but they have to do it against the two best teams in Europe: Arsenal is at Bayern Munich on Tuesday and City travels to Barcelona for Wednesday's game. (United and Chelsea, also winless in the first leg, resume their campaigns at home next week.)
"It is a possible task," Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger dutifully said on Monday. "That is the most important thing."
Possible, perhaps, if the Bayern players decide to spend Tuesday evening in a brauhaus instead of Allianz Arena. Because in the Champions League, losing the first leg at home is bad. Being shut out at home in the process is even worse.
A 2-0 defeat in your own stadium is a European death sentence. Since the tournament adopted the current home-and-away format for the knockout rounds in 1994-95, 20 teams have lost the first leg 2-0. Only one of them advanced and it happened to be named Barcelona.
Last season, the Catalan side recovered from a 2-0 defeat at AC Milan by blitzing the ultra-defensive Italians 4-0 in the second leg. Then again, Barcelona had the advantage of coming home for the second game. Over the past 20 years, none of the seven sides that went on the road trailing 2-0 have even come close to turning the tide.
Of course, coaches and players have all said the right things. Bayern manager Pep Guardiola, who twice won the Champions League with Barcelona, gave the usual spiel about focus and concentration. Wenger replied with the standard underdog line: "Nothing to lose."
"The statistics are against us, but we have won 5-1 at Inter," he added, referencing a game from 2003. "We have won everywhere in Europe."
Now for the good news, at least where one English team is concerned. City may be catching Barcelona at the best possible time. Barcelona has dropped two of its last three league games, including a defeat on Saturday against Valladolid, a team it hadn't lost to in more than a decade.
Arsenal has no such luck. Bayern Munich hasn't lost a game in any competition since early December—and that was a dead rubber anyway in the Champions League group stage. Its previous defeat was last season.
"We have won our last 16 games in the Bundesliga," Bayern forward Thomas Muller said, referring to Germany's domestic league. "We always turn up, everybody always wants to win. We are not careless or arrogant. We always concentrate and want to win."
The first leg was a disaster for Arsenal, which missed a penalty kick with the score at 0-0 and then saw its goalkeeper sent off—all in the first half. It was only marginally worse than the 3-1 humbling it suffered at home to Bayern last season. The only consolation then was its near comeback in the away leg: Arsenal's 2-0 victory meant it was only eliminated on away goals.
"So we can take confidence from that," Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain said after this year's first leg. "And if we can keep 11 men on the pitch, it gives us a better chance."
Although at this point, it may take 12 or 13.
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Eccentric information security expert John McAfee, who recently fled Belize for Guatemala and was then deported to Miami, has detailed his claims of high-level corruption inside the Belizean government.
Specifically, McAfee has accused the government of providing fake identities to members of the extremist Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which he said are working with a Mexican drug cartel to infiltrate the United States. McAfee said he discovered that information after launching a social engineering attack against the government of Belize by buying Acer Aspire One laptops, loading them up with spyware, repackaging the computers to make them appear brand new, and then donating them to targets.
The assertions of McAfee -- who founded and then sold the antivirus firm bearing his name, which is now owned by Intel -- are the latest twist in a story that's seen more surprises than an episode of "24," and that already ranked as one of the stranger security-related stories of 2012.
[ For more on the ongoing McAfee saga, see 6 Wacky McAfee Facts: From Guatemala, With Twists. ]
In a nutshell: 67-year-old McAfee, who holds dual American and British citizenship, was until recently a resident of Belize. But he went on the run after his neighbor, fellow American Gregory Viant Faull, 52, was murdered. McAfee, who claimed that the government was framing him for the murder, later surfaced in Guatemala, where he was jailed for immigration violations. Ultimately, McAfee was deported to Miami, despite unofficial requests by Belizean government officials that he be returned to answer questions in the murder investigation. But McAfee has been charged with no crime by Belizean authorities, and thus now faces no prospect of being extradited to Belize.
Instead, McAfee has used his return to the United States to detail his claims of high-level corruption in the Belizean government, which he said he uncovered by donating spyware-infected laptops to key targets. "I purchased 75 cheap laptop computers and, with trusted help, installed invisible keystroke logging software on all of them -- the kind that calls home (to me) and disgorges the text files. It also, on command, turns on and off, the microphone and camera -- and sends these files on command," said McAfee last week in a blog post with a title -- "A Clear and Present Danger" -- ripped from a Tom Clancy novel.
"I began giving these away as presents to select people -- government employees, police officers, Cabinet Minister's assistants, girlfriends of powerful men, boyfriends of powerful women," he said. "I hired four trusted people full-time to monitor the text files and provide myself with the subsequent passwords for everyone's email, Facebook, private message boards and other passworded accounts. The keystroke monitoring continued after password collection, in order to document text input that would later be deleted. So nothing was missed."
McAfee said his social engineering operation involved 23 women and 6 men whom he hired to serve as his "operatives." Their tasks included delivering the computers as presents to targets, including employees of the country's two national telecommunications companies, to help McAfee gain information for tapping targets' phones. "What I was looking for was hard proof of corruption at a high level. I'm not sure what I expected to gain," said McAfee. "Suffice it to say: I just did it because I could."
Based in part on the information gleaned via the spyware, McAfee said he discovered that the Belizean government was furnishing new identities to members of the extremist group Hezbollah, which was founded in 1982 in Lebanon. "Belize is clearly the central player in a larger network whose goal is to infiltrate the U.S. with individuals having links to terrorist organizations," said McAfee. "What is different today from the wholesale Belizean passport selling of ten years ago is that the false citizenships that are created for these men are coupled with a network of handlers designed to move the individuals, and their cargo, into the U.S."
Notably, McAfee said that a source in the Belizean government's immigration department told him that on average, 11 new arrivals who spoke Lebanese Arabic -- all men -- were being given new identities every month, despite Belize's official requirement that someone reside in the country for five years before they can apply for citizenship and thus hold a Belizean passport. McAfee said the men had arrived from various countries, including Afghanistan, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
According to McAfee, these Hezbollah operatives have also forged ties with Mexico's Zetas drug cartel and appear to be using a network that's transporting "something similar, in weight and size, to the drugs that the Zetas know so well how to slip into the States."
Despite McAfee's social engineering attack being technically feasible, some information security experts aren't quite sure what to make of McAfee's tale. "Is John McAfee telling the truth? Or spinning a fanciful tale for his own entertainment? There is no way, of course, for us to verify John McAfee's colorful story -- which [claims] that there is an international terrorist conspiracy run from Belize," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a blog post.
Of course, the story isn't over yet. McAfee said his investigation is ongoing, and he promised to release more information at a future date, after his operatives -- including contacts inside the Zetas -- gather additional intelligence. "In the meantime, I am taking a well-earned vacation into the heartland of the Midwest. I blend well with the ranchers and cowboys that I lived amongst for so many years," he said.
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Trouble Andrew on Yelawolf tour, snowboarding, & social media
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Trevor "Trouble" Andrew lives a life at 31 most guys would envy at any age: He's a professional snowboarder turned musician who now finds himself on tour with Yelawolf, and he gets to design products for cool lifestyle companies like Native Shoes, Yes and Analog. Oh, and did we mention Andrew's also married to Santigold? It was she who encouraged him to take his music seriously after he stumbled upon his music career quite literally by accident.
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Nursing a snowboarding injury in 2004, the Nova Scotia native passed the time tinkering with tunes, never expecting anything to come of it. Now he's promoting his debut album at sold-out gigs with the dirty south rap phenom, whom he met at the X-Games years back before he signed to Shady. Andrew taught Yelawolf how to snowboard and in turn the rapper promised to take him on tour one day. "Turns out he was a man of his word," Andrew says.
Trouble Andrew's debut album comes several years after self-releasing a dozen tracks himself, picked up by bloggers and other tastemakers ("New Kid" and "Chase Money" were obvious highlights). Fronting his four-piece band, Andrew has a sound as grimy as his fashion sense -- one that runs wide circles around a number of genres, dipping into hip-hop, '80s new wave, indie, and folksy alt-rock with a confidence that's somehow both naive and respectable.
Because his tracks tend to maintain a similar tempo and all feature his similarly treated vocals, it makes a samey impression in spots. But this doesn't take away from its enjoyability. This is catchy stuff from a guy who might not be the best musician in the world but is doubtlessly entertaining. In that respect, Andrew's pairing with Yelawolf feels completely appropriate.
We chatted with the singer/songwriter from his tour bus parked in Yela's home state of Alabama, and he had much to tell us about just how he got here and where he plans to end up.
How was recording this debut different from when you first set out to make music?
The songs on the first album were literally the first songs I ever wrote. "Chase Money" was the first time I was experimenting with producing and writing. I didn't know when I started that I would even do vocals on it and I didn't realize it was something that would actually come out. It was a learning process all the way through, and I was trying to really just get comfortable with the idea of making a record. I was still professionally snowboarding at the time but got injured so it was just something to kill time. A couple years later I got around to the second record and was more comfortable with the idea of me actually doing this. I accepted it and had a few shows under my belt. More experience in the studio gave me a bit more confidence.
Action sports like skateboarding and snowboarding seem to go hand in hand with music. Were you a big music fan when you were competing?
Oh, totally. I was really known in snowboarding as the music dude. Music always drove me to really do what I was doing on my snowboard -- that's why I'd always have music playing. I had mixtapes for every jump that I went on and every concert that I went to. Those songs would drive me to feel like I was doing some Superman shit. I first got a skateboard when I was 7 years old and my neighbor -- one of the only cool dudes from Nova Scotia where I'm from who skateboarded -- put me on to skateboard videos, which brought me to some really cool indie music I would have never known about otherwise. Skateboarding and the videos opened my eyes to art in general. Even skateboard graphics alone were inspiring to me! So definitely, music has always worked both ways with skate and snowboard culture to inspire each other. It all goes together.
What music in particular were you into?
I listened to Beastie Boys, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, The Descendants, and I liked a lot of West Coast rap too. I grew up in the country, so I listened to a lot of country music then. I wasn't fond of it but I appreciate it now. I think it really influenced me -- you can hear it in a lot of my new stuff. I feel like the song "Reporters" with Santi is not a country song but could be. I just mash stuff up so much that there's a lot of little pieces of things I like. It's like collage work. I actually love doing collages and I think that has an effect as well.
Speaking of Santigold, it's well-known she had a hand in your music career. What's her role now that you've come to the forefront more?
We still work together here and there -- we did a show together in Van Couver just recently. To be honest, we are so busy all the time that when we do get together, we're definitely not thinking about going to the studio to record. Instead we're like, "Let's lay in bed and watch TV and eat food." She definitely has been a huge supporter from day one. When I wrote "Chase Money" and all that in 2004, I was looking at it like a little project I'd put back in the drawer and close it, and she was the one who made me a MySpace page and was like, "No, you need to take this seriously." At that time in my life, I was so into snowboarding, it was like, I'm already living my dream so it wasn't like I wanted to be a rockstar or something. I just wanted to be a snowboarder and live the life I was living. It all happened accidentally but Santi's confidence and support helped me put it out there more.
You and Yelawolf seem to share a similar aesthetic -- how did the pairing with him on tour happen initially?
I met Yelwolf at the X Games a few years ago. A friend has a party there every year and he had Yela as the headliner, so I met him while we were out there and taught him how to snowboard. It was crazy, he learned faster than anyone I've ever seen. We kicked it out there and he brought me out as a guest on stage, and he told me just before he signed the Shady deal, "Yo man, I want to put together my own tour, we need to go out on the road and snowboard and rock out." I have had a lot of people over the years tell me they want to do this or that with me, so I didn't totally count on it. I thought he was a cool dude and we had a great time. Turned out he's a man of his word because he hit me back two years later and said, "Man, I got it together, I'm doing a tour and I want you to come." It meant a lot to me.
How did you get your sense of style?
Traveling is one of the greatest ways to get up on what's popping and to see new things and how people live. I just think that plays into all the different stuff I'm into. I've always been open -- my parents really always told me to be original and not try to conform, so I've never been too scared to push it as far as fashion, music, whatever. I don't feel I've ever really had barriers in that way, I was really fortunate. I left home at 13 and have been on the road since. I'm lucky my parents let me do that, and it led to be absorbing a lot. The more you're exposed to, the more you have ideas.
What item in your closet you'd never part with?
Probably my Trouble Gang jean jacket I've had for about 7 years now. I sewed it up all myself. It's like a collage.
Talk to me about the design work you do for brands.
Every brand relationship I have, it's some real shit where I can just be honest and tell them what my visions are. I just dropped a sunglasses line with Electric Visual, and I'm working on stuff for Monster, Yes snowboards, and clothing with Analog and Native Shoes. I'm just always looking for creative outlets. That's what I love doing with my life. It's such a blessing because now that I'm in this music thing, I don't have a label. I'm doing everything myself. So when we do these projects together and I design something or whatever, it helps when I go on the road because then I have somebody behind me pushing it. That's the reason I can do this stuff, because Trouble Gang records is just me.
What's your favorite drink?
Monster Energy (laughs).
What's the best and worst thing about social media when you're a musician?
The best thing about it that you can reach people when you're doing something yourself, when you're an artist or anything. You don't have to try and travel around the world to reach people anymore, you can just drop it online and things can happen. The worst thing about it is the fact that people have forgotten how to really connect in person. They're losing the ability to go outside and live. Instead they stay in on Facebook and can't even go through eating a meal without looking at their shit. It's kind of bizarre, but I guess times just change and you have to roll with it. Personally, I like to do things for real. I like to go outside and actually like skateboard and not play a video game of skateboarding. I can't even front though, I love Instagram. Instagram is my shit because I'd rather not have to tell someone what I'm doing but show them what I see. That's fun to me because that's just another form of art.
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Kenny Dalglish has told Liverpool he's prepared to return as the club's manager, the Daily Mail said.
Dalglish, who led Liverpool to its last league title in 1990, is part of the search panel to find the replacement for Rafael Benitez. He's told the club he'll withdraw from the panel after taking a look at the short list of candidates and deciding he could do a better job, the Mail said.
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West Ham co-owner David Gold said the Premier League club won't open talks on a new contract with goalkeeper Robert Green, the Sun said.
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This year, Good Friday and the start of Passover occur on the same date: Friday, April 3. The coincidence is no accident.
Jesus' pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate the eight-day Jewish festival marking the Hebrew slaves' exodus from Egyptian slavery was a religious requirement for Jews of his day. After his death by Roman crucifixion, Passover became an integral part of the Easter story, and Jesus' Last Supper was like an early version of what later became the Passover seder meal.
In past years, I anonymously attended Good Friday services in New York and sat alongside Christians as they commemorated the death of Jesus as recounted in the New Testament Gospel of John. I alternated each year between Roman Catholic and Protestant churches because I was interested in how preachers handled John's 71 references to the Jewish people, a text that's often called "radioactive" because of its negative teaching about Jews and their alleged culpability in killing Jesus.
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"Gateway to the plain of jars." Top 5 Page for this destination Ban Phonsavan by cachaseiro
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Nice page Claus.
I really want to visit the " Plain of Jars" when I return to this friendly part of the world .I found Air Lao good also.good tips and pics mate...thanx for sharing..
Chickens on the runway... I had a puddle-jumper flight in Fiji that had to land at low tide otherwise the runway was partially covered
Ran out of time and never got up this way. Thanks for a virtual look and a reminder to go back again.
thanks for the reminder of these longlasting problems - utmost appreciation to those who do care to help get rid of such a horrific danger.
That UXO information center sounds like a disturbing but very informative place, essential to visit. Unexploded ordnance is a huge problem in many parts of the world, and I have great respect for the people who risk their lives to clear these areas.
fascinating - the place and the page
Hi Claus. Yep, Canada was pretty cool and I bet CPH feels that way too after your Asia trip! My vote goes for wine jars of course!
Claus! Your travels are great! Thanx for sharing here!
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Another credit agency is downgrading Illinois after its lawmakers ended their session without addressing the state's $100 billion pension liability crisis. Now, Gov. Pat Quinn is calling the General Assembly back into session.
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MONTAGNE: The credit rating for the state of Illinois has taken another step closer to junk bond status. Illinois already had the lowest credit rating in the nation before it was downgraded again this week by Moody's and Fitch. The state legislature adjourned last week without addressing a $100 billion pension shortfall.
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DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE: Illinois owes the pension funds for public employees just a massive amount of money.
MADELEINE DOUBEK: It's at least $100 billion, and it grows by $17 million every day.
SCHAPER: That's Madeleine Doubek with Reboot Illinois, a nonpartisan, digital and social media effort to engage citizens in solving state government woes. And Doubek blames state lawmakers.
DOUBEK: Their inaction was the equivalent of tying a 32,000-pound weight around the neck of every taxpayer in Illinois.
SCHAPER: Thirty-two thousand dollars is what Doubek says every Illinois taxpayer would have to shell out, to cover the pension shortfall and pay off a backlog of bills. Moody's cites the legislature's political paralysis in downgrading Illinois' credit rating, and that prompted Gov. Pat Quinn to call a special legislative session to begin June 19th.
GOV. PAT QUINN: This is an alarm bell for the speaker of the House, the president of the Senate, all the members of the legislature, to come together and get the job done. The job is, put a bill on desk so I can sign it into law.
SCHAPER: But Illinois' House and Senate, both controlled by Quinn's fellow Democrats, have very different pension reform plans, with no compromise in sight.
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No matter who the VP is we won't support NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November. Go Hillary 2012!!!
Whoa, @1 . . . you can't change your script like that! And what if it's HRC as VP, eh?
I changed my vote from Bloomberg to Biden, mainly because I realize that Bloomberg doesn't have the foriegn policy experience that is needed.
I do think that Bloomberg has the financial chops to turn this country around, he would secure the jewish vote, he is socially liberal, and loaded. He also has done a great job with NY, and conservatives who are socially liberal love him.
Just sayin.
I voted Bill Richardson, even if he should probably choose Sibelius. Note I didn't vote for Richardson in the last poll.
I don't trust Biden. If he's chosen, I hope Obama keeps him in the more traditional role of a VP - head of NASA, goes to parties for him, keeps breathing, acts as the heavy - and not in the un-American activist role that Cheney has/had.
2500 votes is much more than you usually get on polls, and John Kerry had 15% despite nobody in the world seriously considering him.
This list sucks. I picked Biden cause he's the only good and serious choice, the others are either non-possibilities (HRC, Bloomberg, Richardson) or gawd-awful (Hagel, Daschle) You cut Bayh? He's at the top of everyone else's list. PLUS you kept Kerry (lord, please, no...) but dropped Gore (who would ensure an Obama victory, especially if McC picks Lieberman)??? Looks like a Lose-Lose scenario to me...
None of the above.
Uh... we'll probably know who the actual VP pick is before the next round of voting commences, Eli. You might want to move the next round of voting up.
You said "I don't trust Biden."
Well? I don't.
Doesn't mean it would affect my vote ...
Who the fuck is Chet Edwards? John's nephew?
Obama/Nunn - to the tune of Manamana... do doo do do do... Obamanunn... do do do do
Their campaign song just writes itself!
@ Dan: Yeah, I'm planning on a lightning round this afternoon.
Some congressman from Texas.
Auf wiedersehen, approximately "upon seeing again"
Maybe Biden doesn't trust you.
Could be, don't know, don't really care, @16.
Sloggers still seem to like Richardson. On paper, Richardson makes as much sense than Clinton or Biden (actually more than Biden), and unlike Bayh etc., people have heard of him.
If he's not on O's short list, there's a problem. Wish I knew what O's grand plan was.
Biden cares. About the direction of our country. About bringing positive change and restoring America's reputation throughout the world. It's silly you can't see that and recognize his contributions to you party. Our party.
Biden cares. About the direction of our country. About bringing positive change and restoring America's reputation throughout the world. It's silly you can't see that and recognize his contributions to you party. Our party.
It's an honor to be vote 666.
I like Biden, if only because he'll take the gloves off and fight dirty when necessary. He'll be good for some quotable campaign rhetoric, and he gives Obama some credible foreign policy experience.
Other than that, I agree with @4 - VP should be the head of NASA, attending ribbon cutting ceremonies, making coffee at cabinet meetings, etc.
Boo on Hilz! Obama will mysteriously end up dead within his first year in office if she's VP.
C'mon, Stranger. When are you going to delete/ban the idiot nonstop spammer who posted #1 on this thread?
my vote won't change no matter who he picks, so eh, whatever. i'm more interested in who mccain picks. i'm hoping he goes with a pro-choice VP, just to watch the malkinoids' heads collectively explode. pleasepleaseplease!!!
I'll have to agree - the joke has grown way past stale, it is just some one note republican trying to get his jollys.
Well, they are very sad, @26.
I like Biden (and Richardson), but, if I were President, I would be more into making Biden Secretary of Defense and make Richardson Secretary of State. Most candidates do not say who there cabinet would be until after they are elected, but I think Obama should break precedent because I think it would help the public to know that, though Obama's military and foreign policy experience might be low, he would be putting people with a LOT of experience in those positions.
Hillary, as much as I despise people like "clintonsarmy" and other of her die-hard supporters, brings more votes than she loses, and if she can't control Bill, then no one can. She would be my choice, and then I would have her concentrate on health care and other similar issues that interest her.
Bloomberg and Hagel will never accept the job and do not Bring Obama any votes. (Ditto Al Gore, who is not n the list).
Bradley and Sam Nunn haven't been in the news for years (as far as I know).
Wesley Clark might get some votes, but not bring in a whole swing state let alone a Red state.
Tom Daschle comes off as too much of a pussy on everything for most people, even Democrats.
John Kerry (see Tom Daschle). Plus he is a "Loser."
I would have like to see Barbara Boxer on the list (I think she might be as respectable to women as Hillary without the Bill Baggage. However she is from San Francisco, so the Right would pummel her on "family values."
I like Biden too. He'll get all pit bull on McCain.
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Searching for Hawaii's Next Big Star
The only album from Hawaii ever to go platinum was made by a 700-pound ukulele player. Released in 1993, "Facing Future," by the late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, is estimated to have sold more than 1.75 million copies in the U.S. and over 2 million worldwide. The album's medley rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World" has been licensed more than a hundred times, for soundtracks, commercials and cell phone ring tones.
But it's been more than 17 years since "Facing Future" came out, and since then, there has been a drought of commercial hits from the islands. No other Hawaii-based artist, including the late Don Ho, ever approached the gross global revenues generated by Mr. Kamakawiwo'ole's music, which executives at his record company estimate at more than $50 million.
Jon de Mello, Mr. Kamakawiwo'ole's producer and the founder and CEO of Hawaii's biggest label, the Mountain Apple Company, is aiming to put Hawaii back on the international music map.
Mr. de Mello records and distributes many of the islands' leading musical dynasties, such as the Brothers Cazimero and the Beamer family. His father, Jack de Mello, put an orchestra behind Hawaiian music in the 1960s, with such hits as the "Hawaiian War Chant," as well as Mr. Ho's "Tiny Bubbles." With the biggest musical library in the Pacific, the de Mellos have produced more than 700 albums and distributed hundreds more. A private company, Mountain Apple declines to disclose its annual sales, though it says it shipped close to a million units in 2010 out of its Honolulu warehouse and through digital sales.
A sizeable portion of those are recordings by the late Mr. Kamakawiwo'ole, who died at 38 of obesity-related respiratory failure. The artist was struggling when he began working with Mr. de Mello in 1992, hoping to launch a solo career. The native Hawaiian musician, known as Iz, had already made 11 records with his original group, the Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau, which were released by a small label called Tropical Records. But he was still living on food stamps and facing crippling medical bills.
His first album with Mr. de Mello's label, "Facing Future," quickly became a hit in Hawaii. "A few years later, the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" medley appeared in a national ad for EToys.com and the soundtrack for the movie "Meet Joe Black," and the album took off on the mainland. Dan Kois, the author of "Facing Future," calls the album "a cannily constructed mélange of traditional Hawaiian folksinging, "Jawaiian" island reggae, and movie-trailer-ready bombast."
Mountain Apple, which owns the copyright to the recording of "Somewhere," and EMI Publishing, which owns the copyright to the composition, have made some canny moves, including copyrighting the song's opening series of "oohs" in 1993. "That was incredibly smart," says Jim Ed Norman, who began his career as a composer for the Eagles and later ran Warner records in Nashville for 20 years. That infectious opening rhythm has provided the backdrop for a number of commercials.
Mr. de Mello is still working to capitalize on Mr. Kamakawiwo'ole's musical legacy. Late last year, he made a trip to London to discuss the re-release of "Facing Future" there with executives from Universal Music Group, which began distributing it in the U.K in December and licensed it throughout Europe. The "Somewhere" single was just named song of the year by Germany's equivalent of the Grammy Awards. It's gone double-platinum in Germany, selling close to a million copies, and spent 15 weeks on top of that nation's charts. It's also been a big hit in France, where it's gone platinum.
Meanwhile, Mr. de Mello is searching for the next Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. He's facing some obstacles. Hawaiian artists and producers have tended to work within the insular local music scene, rarely looking beyond the islands for other markets for their music—or else have left Hawaii to launch their music careers. The local sound, which often draws on traditional native island music and fairly conventional pop, can be repetitive, making it hard to market around the world. "Hawaiians have been playing the same three chords for decades," says Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, a visiting professor of music at the University of Hawaii and a Grammy-winning record producer.
Hoping to bolster Hawaii's music scene, Mr. de Mello and other music executives are backing a $1.5 million music-business education program called MELE (the Hawaiian word for song), an acronym for the Music & Entertainment Learning Experience. Based at the Honolulu Community College, the program offers classes in everything from audio engineering to intellectual property. Last November, Mr. de Mello joined Nashville-based record producer Mike Curb, Los Angeles film producer Chris Lee and about a dozen other entertainment executives for the opening of a new recording studio for the program in a gritty industrial neighborhood near downtown Honolulu.
"MELE could feed me artists with potential," Mr. de Mello says
Meanwhile, he hopes that more of the artists creating music under the Mountain Apple label will break out. He's particularly excited about 30-year-old Mailani Makainai, who started singing at age two and won a local music award this year for female vocalist of the year. Mountain Apple released her new album earlier this year. He's also enthusiastic about a powerful hula master and singer named Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole
"Music is part of our DNA," Mr. de Mello says. "It's just a matter of getting it past the reef."
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MEMORANDUMTO: All Full-Time Faculty and Lecturers, Lab Instructors and other Academic
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FROM: Joe Dieker, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
DATE: September 30, 2015
SUBJECT: McConnell Travel Fund – for travel between January 1, 2016, and June 30, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of additional support for faculty travel through the McConnell Travel Fund for the 2015-16 academic year. These funds will support travel opportunities that occur between January 1, 2016, and June 30, 2016. This endowed fund, established by Campbell McConnell '50, recognizes that regular professional interaction and continued development for faculty members is important to the intellectual life of Cornell College.
Awards from the McConnell Travel Fund were made last spring for the 2015-16 academic year. However, many faculty members did not know of certain opportunities to travel at that time. Therefore, we will now entertain proposals for travel for the second half of this year. Proposals are due November 2, 2015.
Awards may range from $100 to a maximum of $2,500. Funds are limited and awards depend on the amount currently available and the number and quality of proposals submitted. Funds will be available once the award letter is received.
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3) Travel funds may be obtained by requesting a travel loan in advance or by submitting receipts for reimbursement. In either case, the "Travel Loan and Expense Reporting Form" (found here) must be completed and submitted with the itemized documentation to the Office of Academic Affairs for review and approval, within 30 days of incurring the expenses. In regard to the use of these funds, please refer to the Business Expense Reimbursement Policy on the Business Services webpage.
4) The total amount awarded for meals will be capped at $230 (with no single day's food reimbursement to exceed $46). Applicants may request additional daily amounts for those cities with higher rates as established by the IRS. However, the maximum amount requested cannot exceed $230 (the equivalent of five days).
5) Awarded funds must be used for the purposes described in the proposal. If a faculty member wishes to use the funds in any other way, he or she must consult with the Dean in advance to seek approval.
6) Funds must be expended in full by June 30, 2016. Grantees must submit a pertinent activity report summarizing achievements and expenditures to the Office of Academic Affairs by September 1, 2016. The grantee cannot be considered for additional faculty development funding if the report is not filed.
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