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Big Ten Draft O' Snark: The Quickening
Big Ten Draft O' Snark: The Quickening
SETH got Denard, and therefore won. He also drafted a killer 1-2 DT punch.
ACE drafted all the Wisconsin players he could think of and screwed me by taking James Vandenberg too early.
HEIKO drafted two spread quarterbacks and was being egged on to take more.
BRIAN is going to need all the pass rush he can muster since Nathan Scheelhaase is his quarterback, but he's got a lot of that and Taylor Lewan.
SNARK was passed back and forth.
READERS are reminded that the goal of this thing is to assemble the most impressive-seeming full starting 22 plus a nickelback and FB/H-back type.
When we left our noble drafters, BRIAN had just cursed fate and time, taken Scheelhaase due to rules he himself implemented, and then nabbed Denicos Allen. Our scene set, we return to the WAR ROOM of the TOLEDO RAMADA INN. The SECOND PICK of ROUND FOUR is set to happen…
/moans incomprehensibly about his QB situation
PICK: Michael Buchanan (DE, Illinois)
CURRENT O: Braxton Miller (QB, OSU), Taylor Martinez (QB, UNL), Kyle Prater (WR, NW)
CURRENT D: Michael Buchanan (DE, Illinois)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: This 6-6, 240 lb terror is statistically the B1G's best returning DE not named Tom. He racked up 13.5 TFL and 7.5 sacks last season. Illinois has had a pretty good track record with defensive linemen over the past few years, so I'm with Ron Zook on this one.
OPTIONAL SNARK ABOUT PICKS MADE EARLIER: Sucks to whoever has to pick Tom.
PICK: Ricky Wagner (OL, Wisconsin)
CURRENT O: Montee Ball (RB, UW), James Vandenberg (QB, IA), Ricky Wagner (OL, UW)
CURRENT D: Chris Borland (LB, UW)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: Trenches. MANBALL. America. [ED: Also it turns out I was wrong about Lewan being the only elite LT in the conference this year—NFL types love them some Wagner.]
OPTIONAL SNARK ABOUT PICKS MADE EARLIER: Ignoring game theory + James Vandenbergy > Game theory + Nathan Scheelhaase. SCIENCE.
PICKS: Jonathan Brown, linebacker, Illinois; and Michael Schofield, offensive tackle, Michigan
CURRENT O: Denard Robinson (QB, MICH), Michael Schofield (OT, MICH)
CURRENT D: Kawann Short (3T, PUR), Johnathan Hankins (NT, OSU), Jonathan Brown (MLB, ILL)
EXPLANATION: Ace can be the Badgers, my goal is to be the Wolverines on offense and the Lions on defense...the Detroit kind. That continues with the junior Brown at middle linebacker. He's 6-1/235, faster than Denicos Allen, more powerful than Chris Borland, and able to average 2 TFL PER GAME against Big Ten competition while just a sophomore. His positives are speed, tackling, play diagnosis, coverage, blitzing, picking through traffic, getting off blocks, and laying huge, fumble-inducing hits. His negatives are he once Karl Malone'd a Wildcat, which to the people who make Big Ten lists is the next worst thing to beating up a nun. Since Gunther Cunningham can't have him for two more years, I'm drafting Brown right here.
On Schofield: Okay so he's by far not the highest rated linemen left on the board and if he played for Northwestern I'd be saving him as a value pick, but there's a precipice from here on tackles who can move enough to fit the spread, and everyone but the Wisconsin Anbenders in this league is running a spread. So...Schofield, who thank-UFR has been as heavily scouted as any remaining tackle (for the year he was +97/-51.5/45.5, closer to Lewan than Huyge). Those reports, mostly from guard, say he's about as fleet-footed as 6-7/300 guys come. His best game last year was vs. Northwestern when Michigan started pulling with him; his only Kryptonite is Kawaan Short (and I have Short). There's a reason Rodriguez was hell-bent on getting Schofield and that's the same reason I'm reaching to make sure I have at least one spread tackle I'm absolutely sure of.
OPTIONAL SNARK ABOUT PICKS MADE EARLIER: Somebody make this into a graphic meme with the Brian photobomb: Spends year crediting interior DL for Gholston's sack numbers...drafts Denicos Allen.
PICK: William Gholston (DE, Michigan State)
CURRENT O: Montee Ball (RB, UW), James Vandenberg (QB, IA), Ricky Wagner (OL, UW)CURRENT D: Chris Borland (LB, UW), William Gholston (DE, MSU)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: I'm in desperate need of a pass-rusher, and with the available options dwindling I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons not to pick Gholston, the 6'7", 278-pound freak who's named to damn near every pre-season watch list out there. Gholston may not take on every block head-on, but he still managed to pick up 16 TFL and five sacks 2011, and that latter total should only increase this year. With 70 total tackles last season, 36 of them solo, he was no slouch against the run, either. If Gholston comes close to living up to his considerable hype this year, I just got the steal of the draft.
PREEMPTIVE SNARK ATTACK: Shut up, Heiko, and pick Robert Marve already.
PICK: Devin Gardner (QB/WR, Michigan)
CURRENT O: Braxton Miller (QB, OSU), Taylor Martinez (QB/RB, UNL), Kyle Prater (WR, NW), Devin Gardner (QB/WR, Michigan)
CURRENT D: Michael Buchanan (DE, ILL)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: The B1G doesn't have too many speedy downfield guys, so I wanted another jump ball threat to complement Prater. I'm taking Gardner. He's another unproven commodity, but let's be real. He's 6'4", 203 pounds, and was "instantly Michigan's best receiver" this spring. Did you know that he can throw, too? Maybe he's not the best at reading defenses, but he is the missing component to my Wildcat/Flea-flicker/Triple Pass/Quadruple Option offense. He won't get used too much in Borges's offense this season, but I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that this isn't fantasy football (see rules/objective). Stats won't matter much. That inevitable instability in your knees when you picture Miller, Martinez, Prater, and Gardner simultaneously on the field terrorizing your 5'11 linebackers, however, does matter.
OPTIONAL SNARK ABOUT PICKS MADE EARLIER: If we were playing Settlers of Catan, this would be the equivalent of me taking all the ore. Except for the Denard ore. Seth got the Denard ore.
PICKS: Jared Abbrederis, WR, Wisconsin, and Terry Hawthorne, CB, Illinois
CURRENT O: Nathan Scheelhaase (QB, ILL), Jared Abbrederis (WR, UW), Taylor Lewan(LT, M)
CURRENT D: John Simon (DE, OSU), Denicos Allen (LB, MSU), Terry Hawthorne (CB, ILL)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: There is no way Abbrederis should still be here. He's the Big Ten's leading returning receiver with 933 yards and by far its best punt returner. He's a rising junior, too, and should improve more than guys entering their senior years. He's 6'2"! He's fast! He led the conference with a 17.0 YPC! Nick Toon is gone and Abbrederis is about to get rained on by Danny O'Brien! Look at all the trophies and trees he's got! He's still on the board here!
You guys are racists. Seriously, you need counseling. Even Aceconsin left Abbrederis on the board.
All the better for me since I need a guy for Scheelhaase to throw 80% of his passes at whether he's open or not.
Speaking of counseling, the second pick here is a guy who's faster than Roy Roundtree. Yes: that Terry Hawthorne. He's now a senior corner coming off a strong junior year who projects into the top half of the NFL draft and is the Big Ten's surest bet to be a lockdown corner in 2012. He's bigger than the other candidates and is so important to the Illini that he's going to get the Woodson role and double as a wide receiver. And now no one can take Roundtree.
Side note: Four Illini went in the top 48 picks of the most recent NFL draft and they're flying off the board here. It's almost like Ron Zook was a good recruiter, but not a very good football coach.
EVIDENTLY REQUIRED SNARK ABOUT PREVIOUS PICKS: Michael Buchanan had his jaw wired shut and will hit fall camp a fairy-like* 156 pounds. And that's Heiko's least insane pick. I blame medicine. Meanwhile, Ace picks MSU's second-best starting DE and Seth talks some ish he knows not wot of.
Let me rap at you, Seth: I said Gholston's production was almost entirely on pursuit and that his big plays were the product of other guys forcing plays back into him. Guys like Denicos Allen and his manic blitzing. WORD TO YOUR MOTHER. ALSO FOOTBALL GAMES ARE WON IN THE TRENCHES AND WITH SHUTDOWN CORNERBACKS AND A LACK OF RACISM, RACISTS.
*[actual fairy, with wings and dust and all that]
PICK: DeAnthony Arnett, WR, Michigan State
CURRENT O: Braxton Miller (QB, OSU), Taylor Martinez (QB/RB, UNL), Kyle Prater (WR, NW), Devin Gardner (QB/WR, Michigan), DeAnthony Arnett (WR, MSU)
CURRENT D: Michael Buchanan (DE, ILL)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: WHATEVA. I DO WHAT I WANT. And I want to add to my offensive star power with the selection of DeAnthony Arnett. Arnett is the quintessential "space player" in the Steve Breaston mold who has nice speed but more importantly ball skills and good wiggle after the catch. Even with Michigan State's recent glut of highly ranked receivers, I think Arnett is most likely to emerge as No. 1. I briefly considered Raheem Mostert for this duty, but I didn't like that he was lowly regarded as a receiver out of high school and barely contributed on offense last year despite clearly being the fastest guy on Purdue's offense. Someone else can have him.
SNARK: The funny thing is I also considered taking Abbrederis, but as I was google-scouting him, my search bar kept auto-completing to "Jared Abbrederis walk on." The guy's a (former) walk-on. Sure he's fast, but his production has been the result of other teams stacking up against Montee Ball and double-covering Nick Toon. Also, I personally checked up on Michael Buchanan in Chicago. His jaw was just fine.
PICK: Johnny Adams (CB, Michigan State)
CURRENT O: Montee Ball (RB, UW), James Vandenberg (QB, IA), Ricky Wagner (OL, UW)CURRENT D: Chris Borland (LB, UW), William Gholston (DE, MSU), Johnny Adams (CB, MSU)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: Adams can play either boundary or field corner for me, having started 11 games at field as a sophomore before switching to the boundary for all 13 games last season. While Adams isn't the biggest corner at 5'11", 177, he's a physical corner who plays big; he's recorded 50+ tackles in each of the last two seasons, and even added three sacks in 2011. The conference is short on elite cover corners, and while Adams doesn't fall into that category, he's solid against the pass (3 INT, 6 PBU LY) and gives my squad very solid run support from the secondary.
SNARK: Don't mind me, just drafting a team full of players who made the B1G title game last year. Meanwhile, Heiko's defense is comprised of stick figures and crushed dreams, but he's clearly unaffected by logic, reason, or even snark.
PICKS: Marcus Rush, defensive end, Michigan State, and Micah Hyde, cornerback, Iowa
CURRENT O: Denard Robinson (QB, MICH), Michael Schofield (OT, MICH)
CURRENT D: Kawann Short (3T, PUR), Jonathan Hankins (NT, OSU), Marcus Rush (DE, MSU), Jonathan Brown (MLB, ILL), Micah Hyde (CB, IOWA)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: Elite defenses start up front, and the aptly named Marcus KILLQUARTERBACKSACK further feeds my craving for 3-and-out bloodsport. Last year he was one of the best ends in the conference with 58 tackles, 4 sacks, and 12 TFLs from a mostly the 5-tech position (against M they split him out a bit more). And all this as just a freshman, meaning this year he should be as much improved as anyone else in the conference. Evidence of that: in the MSU spring game they had to pull him out early after he wracked up five tackles and three sacks. He can play WDE or 5-tech for me. DL count is up to 178 tackles, 29 TFLs, and 12.5 sacks, just slightly better than the combined production of 2011 Roh/Martin/RVB/Heininger with just 75% of the spots filled.
And just in case one of Heiko's 800 quarterbacks thinks to do something as womanish as throwing the ball OVER my DL of DOOM (please nobody teach Scheelhaase how to do this; Ace at least I trust to honorably run power), I've grabbed the last of the conference's highly rated cornerbacks. Micah Hyde is Marlin Jackson, down to the moonlight season at free safety. He''s 1st team all-conference to everybody, is the best tackler among Big Ten CBs, and can be trusted to shut down any one good receiver for a game (which is the most any of these teams is going to have anyway) and arrives with 39 games of experience.
SNARK: All ye holders of unblocked Spartan sack leaders, call me when your guy beats Lewan.
CURRENT O: Montee Ball (RB, UW), James Vandenberg (QB, IA), Ricky Wagner (OL, UW), Keenan Davis (WR, IA)
CURRENT D: Chris Borland (LB, UW), William Gholston (DE, MSU), Johnny Adams (CB, MSU)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: Davis was Iowa's secondary option last year due to the presence of Marvin McNutt, and he's still the conference's returning leader in receptions per game after hauling in 50 passes over 12 games in 2011. At 6'3", 215, Davis gives Vandenberg a big target; while he doesn't have game-breaking athleticism, he's got good hands and jump-ball skills, making him both a reliable possession receiver and a viable downfield threat. A four-star talent out of high school, Davis earned an offer from Oklahoma, and he's got the potential to be the Big Ten's best receiver now that he's out from under McNutt's shadow.
SNARK: It's difficult to bring the snark with this pick when Seth is putting together a really strong team. Thankfully, that team features neither Taylor Lewan nor the conference's second-best tackle (Wagner), but I guess it's cute that he's talking smack on Brian's behalf.
CURRENT O: Braxton Miller (QB, OSU), Taylor Martinez (QB/RB, UNL), Kyle Prater (WR, NW), Devin Gardner (QB/WR, UM), DeAnthony Arnett (WR, MSU)
CURRENT D: Michael Buchanan (DE, ILL), Jordan Hill (DT, PSU)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: We're approaching a big drop-off in B1G interior defensive linemen, so I'm taking a hiatus from drafting quarterbacks to claim Hill before I'm left with some guys from Indiana. At 6-1, 300 lbs, Hill has good size and leverage. His measurables have a slight edge over those of Illinois DT Akeem Spence, who was also under consideration and also very good. Hill had 8.0 TFLs and 3.5 sacks from the 3-tech position, which earned him some All-B1G love. When teams ran at him (to avoid Devon Still), they didn't get very far, as he ending up leading the Penn State defensive line with 59 tackles. The Nittany Lions are verging on becoming a tire fire, so who knows how their defense will do this year, but in a bubble Hill still has the talent and the potential to be drafted -- like, actually drafted, by like, a real NFL team -- in 2013.
SNARK: Seth's defense is only worrisome because his players are liable to ragdoll Denard Robinson or knee people in the nuts. Since Seth has Denard Robinson, worrying about the former can be his prerogative. And come on, Ace. Have a little imagination. Picking Keenan Davis is like picking Jared Abbrederis. Both will spend the rest of their careers gluing glow-in-the-dark stars to their 8-foot ceilings.
Uh, guys… are we getting worried about the season yet? Denard and Lewan went off the board early, Gardner was picked at WR, and Seth reached for Schofield, and that's it as far as M players. Meanwhile we seem to be drafting most of MSU's defense and the entirety of hypothetical conference title game foe Wisconsin.
PICKS: Akeem Spence, DT, Illinois and Jake Ryan, LB, Michigan
CURRENT O: Nathan Scheelhaase (QB, ILL), Jared Abbrederis (WR, UW), Taylor Lewan(LT, M)
CURRENT D: John Simon (DE, OSU), Akeem Spence (DT, Illinois), Jake Ryan (LB, M), Denicos Allen (LB, MSU), Terry Hawthorne (CB, ILL)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: I'll grab Spence, then, a guy who various folks are hyping up as a potential first or second round pick in next year's draft. Sixty-nine tackles is an impressive number for an interior lineman and Illinois's stout run defense was due in no small part to his contributions. Nine of those tackles came against Michigan, a team that kicked his ass the year previous. Three-tech: secured.
And then I will AMP my PASS RUSH with ELECTROLYTES. Whether it's at WDE or SLB, Jake Ryan is a guaranteed breakout player entering his sophomore year. He's got the defense down now, he's added 20 pounds, and he finished last year with a flourish--4 TFLs against Virginia Tech. He pairs with Allen and Simon to terrify your "quarterbacks," neutralizing any advantage...
/weeps in corner
EVIDENTLY REQUIRED SNARK ABOUT PREVIOUS PICKS: Dude, Abbrederis was Wisconsin's go-to-guy in their big games last year: 95 yards against Nebraska, 113 against OSU, 93 against PSU, 119 in the bowl game. And he averaged over 15 yards a punt return when Toon and Ball were on the sideline. Y'all be some Black Panthers up in here.
To be continued when Ace stops fighting the fact that he's slowly beginning to look like the unholy offspring of Dantonio and Bielema, Heiko finds moar quarterbacks to draft, Seth stops playing with his Denard action figure, and Brian talks himself into a "yeah, Nathan Scheelhaase… this could work!" narrative.
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If you're on WL, does the LS have to notify you about a reject? Or do you get to assume that once classes have started?
i'm waitlisted at Thomas Jefferson...yes, very VERY sad about that. i just want to go to law school!! will someone let me in please??? class starts next Wednesday and i haven't heard anything! i called, e-mailed, even sent them a smoke signal (haha) and they don't call, they don't write. what's going on? i've been so hopeful but now i think i need to start thinking about the re-applying process.


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Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs (US - DVD R1)
Gabe's doing his best to ignore Valerie. He knows she just wants attention...
Rob Hanisey (Tyron Leitso) is the newest tenant in an apartment complex that caters to unpublished writers, where they can live rent-free until they make their first publication. During his first night Rob has disturbing visions of a beautiful naked woman named Valerie (Clare Grant), who calls out for help from the stairs. Every time Rob reaches out to her she's pulled back into the darkness and disappears.
So Starz/Anchor Bay is either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid, because they have released the two worse episodes of Masters of Horror season two on the same day. I thought nothing could possibly be as bad as We All Scream for Ice Cream, but Mick Garris' Valerie on the Stairs gives Tom Holland's silly revenge tale a serious run for its money.
First on the long list of failure is Garris himself, who has proven time and time again that he is totally incapable of creating anything above the level of made-for-TV. I don't just mean he makes a lot of films that happen to premiere on television; I mean that he is incapable of creating something that even looks like a major theatrical release. His films are visually flat, blandly edited, and feature nary a single original or dynamic image. Valerie on the Stairs is just as flat, bland, and unoriginal as all the rest, maybe even more so. Nudity and non-network friendly blood splatter alone don't make for interesting filmmaking.
Next is writer Clive Barker, who middle name might as well be Mr. Hit-or-Miss. This particular story, if accurately adapted (I'm not sure, I haven't read it), is just the kind of masturbatory goobly-gook that bored and lonely horror writers have been recycling for generations. Horror stories about writing horror stories are so tired the subgenre should come with an expiration date. Only a truly desperate, lonely, and self-obsessed person could possibly think that the rest of the world would care about another self-referential horror story. Seriously, the horrors of being unpublished?
And what of the actors? What actors? I just see a bunch of faces—a lead without charisma, a damsel in distress out-acted by her own perky breasts, a gaggle of 'wacky' supporting cast mates without a lick of potency (including, might I add, Christopher freaking Lloyd), and a sad, pot-bellied Tony Todd doing his feeble best to channel the Candyman. I feel I've been able to count on in the Masters of Horror series actors, even throughout the more unimpressive episodes, but here I've been let down.
The special effects, make-up and digital, are also lacklustre. I could see the appliances on Tony Todd's face, I could see where they began and ended, and even worse I could see blank spots in the black make-up. Gore is very poorly cut, making for obvious transitions between actors and effects. The film's final minutes feature not one but two digital effects that would look outdated in 1992. Really sad, even considering the budget and series track record.
So what am I left with? Nothing but the knowledge that this isn't the most inept film ever made. Valerie on the Stairs isn't scary or titillating, it's a plodding bore.
The pristine nature of this transfer just makes the movie look worse. Garris' flat compositions can't hide in grain or darkness, and neither can the bad special effects. There is some low level noise hiding in the blackest corners of the transfer, but the overall look is pretty clean. There isn't a lot of colour, but what there is pops without bleeding or blooming.
Like all the other Masters of Horror releases, this one comes retrofitted with a 5.1 Dolby Digital mix. The surround and stereo channels are actually more busy here than with most Masters of Horror episodes, with both sound effects and dialogue. The surround effects work as well, added some much needed texture to the dull feature. The strange thing is that the centre channel is at time almost silent, even during dialogue heavy scenes, and when it is active its sound often leaks into the stereo channels.
One commentary, two featurettes, trailers, a script on DVD-ROM, a bio, and some stills—that's pretty much the norm here on Masters of Horror season two DVDs, and this is no exception.
Mick Garris got his start in horror as an interviewer, and thusly is a very good speaker; the problem is that I really don't care about what he's saying. He talks about the behind the scenes stuff, which seems pretty uneventful, and lets us in on his reasoning for every shot choice.
The first featurette is a general making-of wrap up. Clive Barker comes across as self-important, Garris sounds entirely unsure of himself and looks frightened when on set, the actors sound like they want to go home, and the KNB boys again look exhausted. Unlike other releases, this first featurette features information on the special effects. The follow-up featurette is about editing, which is pretty self assured considering how unimpressive the editing is. Garris and his editor are very proud of their jump scares.
Two really bad episodes in a row doesn't bode too well for our plucky little horror series. I'm not giving up just yet, because I really enjoyed The Black Cat, Right to Die, and Pelts. I'm an optimist. Valerie on the Stairs is a big red checker, and your job is to skip it. Mick Garris needs to settle into his production role and leave the directing to the 'Masters'.
Review by Gabriel Powers
acrophobe Member Join Date: February 2006 Location: United States Posts: 188
clearly no one gives a s**t about this one, which is all well and good, but i'd like to take this moment to announce that Brad Anderson's episode is finally getting released september 18th. evidently someone's been listening to my complaining.
Dunny Member Join Date: October 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 347
I actually thought this was one of the best that I've seen.
SimonB Member Join Date: August 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 76
I dunno, I think Starz's acquisition of Anchor Bay may have something to do with this... I feel like we've seen the last great bits of it. I'm a pessimist, and it shows
maker23 Member Join Date: August 2007 Location: United States Posts: 6
I didn't care more for this one.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 14th August 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Surround English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Featurette, Trailers, Bio, Script
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Mick Garris
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Tony Todd, Tyron Leitso, Clare Grant
Genre: Horror
Length: 58 minutes
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It's a tale we're familiar with by now: a manufacturer takes one of its models racing, does well in said race/series, then makes a special-edition road car to celebrate the occasion. The newest manufacturer to do this is Mini, who tarted up one of its John Cooper Works Countryman ALL4 models in celebration of Mini's win at the Dakar Rally.
While the Mini Countryman didn't fare well in the 2011 Dakar Rally, it pulled out a win in 2012. This year, co-pilots Jean-Paul Cottret and Stephane Peterhansel piloted the all-wheel drive crossover to victory after 14 stages between Lima, Peru to Santiago, Chile. This win marks Peterhansel's eleventh victory in the famous rally.
That number—eleven—is significant, because it's the number of special-edition cars that Mini will make to mark the occasion. All 11 Dakar Rally-edition cars are based on the stock Mini John Cooper Works Countryman, which means they'll be powered by a turbocharged 1.6-liter I-4 engine (producing 218 hp) and featuring an electronically controlled all-wheel drive system that shifts torque to the rear wheels only in low-traction situations. Mini doesn't say if the 11 models will use the six-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission, although we'd guess that the Dakar-edition cars stay true to their namesake and offer a manual (although the actual Dakar rally car uses a sequential manual transmission).
The special-edition cars won't offer any more horsepower than the base cars, but they will show off some limited-edition graphics and visual upgrades. The paint is matte black, and on top of that Mini puts bright-green bonnet and side stripes that show off the Mini ALL4 Racing logo and Peterhansel's signature. No replica rally car would be complete without a race number card and some spotlights, to the Dakar JCW Countryman has both: the front doors show off Peterhansel and Cottret's name and entry number, and Mini puts a set of driving lights in front of the upper grille insert. The car sits atop 19-inch "cross-spoke crusher" alloy wheels.
On the inside, the floor mats and the gear shifter have bright green contrast stitching, which match the green stripes on the center console trim. As usual, the special edition car has its own plaque with serial number, just above the glove compartment.
Pricing for the car hasn't yet been announced, but when it is, it'll be in Euros: in deference to Peterhansel, all eleven Dakar Rally JCW Countrymans will be sold in his home country of France.
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E-Voting Firm Threatens Ed Felten If He Reviews Its E-Voting Machine
from the well-that's-comforting dept
It would appear that the folks at Sequoia, one of the big three e-voting firms out there, is somewhat unaware of this aspect of Felten's past. In the past few years, Felten has been one of a few top computer science experts who have been picking apart the problems with e-voting machines. His freedom to tinker with such machines has broken numerous stories revealing serious problems with the machines that many suspected, but were unable to confirm, since the e-voting firms kept the machines so under wraps. In publicizing these flaws, Felten has become one of the go-to guys when various governments are reviewing e-voting machines, so it should come as no surprise that election officials in New Jersey (where Felten lives and works) would be interested in having him run some tests on a Sequoia e-voting machine that they're looking at using in future elections.
This seems perfectly reasonable -- and if you're an e-voting company like Sequoia, it should also be a perfect way to build more trust in your machines, telling people that they've been reviewed by some of the top experts in the field who found nothing wrong with them. Except... that's not how execs at e-voting companies seem to think. Sequoia has, instead, sent a threatening email to Felten, saying that election officials who sent a machine to Felten would be breaking the state's terms of service with Sequoia, and that the company has:
"retained counsel to stop any infringement of our intellectual properties, including any non-compliant analysis. We will also take appropriate steps to protect against any publication of Sequoia software, its behavior, reports regarding same or any other infringement of our intellectual property."Yes, this is quite reminiscent of the recording industry's threats to Felten in 2001. Hopefully this situation ends similarly -- with Sequoia backing down quite publicly and apologizing. It's disgusting that such a firm would threaten a well-respected researcher with lawsuits just for checking on the security of an e-voting machine. This is worse than the recording industry situation. This is about the sanctity of our democratic elections. For Sequoia, a firm entrusted with our elections, to threaten someone for merely testing its product to make sure it lives up to necessary standards is terribly worrisome. It should call into question any locality that chooses to make use of Sequoia e-voting machines.


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TRVA Readies for Aug. 9-12 Annual Convention
August 1, 2013 by Dave Barbulesco · Comments Off on TRVA Readies for Aug. 9-12 Annual Convention
The Texas Recreational Vehicle Association (TRVA), marking its 39th year as the trade group representing RV dealers in the state, will return to the Sheraton Austin at the Capitol as the organization rolls out its annual convention Aug. 9-12.
TRVA is anticipating a strong turnout for the event, building on last year's edition in Austin that also produced healthy attendance numbers.
"We're expecting that 40 to 50 dealerships will be represented, and that will include a lot of the same members that enjoyed the convention last year," said Mary Claire Campos, TRVA director of special events. "Being in Austin, one of the highlights is a trip that we offer to our legislative contributors for a reception and tour of the State Capitol."
TRVA's convention will also serve as Executive Director Phil Elam's formal introduction to members. Elam assumed his new role April 1, taking over for Clark McEwen who retired in late May after a 12-year run.
"I am really looking forward to the convention and the chance to interact with our members," Elam said. "I was able to work with Clark for about two months before he stepped away. He was a wealth of knowledge and gave me some valuable insight as to what TRVA wants to accomplish."
Elam brings an extensive background in the trade group arena, serving as executive director for the Texas Rental Association in Austin from 1984 to 1994. He also served in several capacities as a consultant, most recently owning a business that worked with Fortune 500 companies establishing "affinity marketing programs" with nonprofits.
"My experience in the RV market was selling RVs for my uncle's dealership in Baytown when I was in college," he said. "But the vast majority of my career has been with nonprofit entities, including working with the state government on their behalf."
Campos said that, as in past years, the convention would offer a mix of informational seminars and presentations coupled with entertainment and networking activities.
"It's a chance for dealers from across the state to meet and discuss common issues," Campos said. "This year, we have also scheduled a sponsors trade show and reception that will provide a great networking opportunity."
In line with the convention's theme of "Facing The Future," TRVA will hold its second Combined Industry Panel Discussion on Aug. 10 bringing together members of the various RV-related factions in the state, including parks, dealers manufacturers, service/repair, finance and supplier representatives.
Sunday will be dedicated to a series of morning seminars hosted by industry experts followed by an awards luncheon. The afternoon's slate includes a parks and dealers education session, a service and repair roundtable discussion along with a private RV dealer meeting. That evening, TRVA will hold its President's Banquet and silent auction.
Also on tap are the traditional golf tournament along with the opening night casino party.
"It's a very well-rounded agenda," Campos said. "We want our members to not only enjoy their stay but get some important information that can help them in their businesses."
For more information on the 2013 TRVA convention click here.


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Einstein's Archive Now Available Online
If you ever wanted to glimpse into Albert Einstein's thoughts, now you can. Last week, the complete catalog of about 80,000 documents written by or addressed to Einstein—letters, postcards, notebooks, and other papers—was made available online by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project (EPP) at Caltech.
The archive is the result of more than two decades of collecting and researching. Einstein left a collection of 40,000 personal papers when he died in 1955; since 1986, 40,000 more documents have been collected—most of them by the EPP staff—says Diana Kormos-Buchwald, professor of history at Caltech and director of the EPP.
One of the archive's highlights is a handwritten manuscript for a 1946 article entitled "E=mc²: On the Most Urgent Problem of Our Time," which was published in the magazine Science Illustrated. Explaining general relativity to a lay reader, the manuscript is one of only three documents in the world containing the famed "E=mc2" formula in Einstein's own handwriting.
The collection includes personal correspondence such as a postcard Einstein wrote to his mother, Pauline, whose health had been declining. "How I would like to keep you company again so that you're not left to ugly brooding," he wrote. "I truly wish you good days." In his missive, dated September 27, 1919, Einstein tells her of the "good news" that an expedition in West Africa, led by astronomer Arthur Eddington, had observed the bending of starlight by the sun during a solar eclipse; this effect was one of the main predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
While many are automatically drawn to these personal letters—especially those to his lovers—Kormos-Buchwald says that some of the most exciting items in the archive are Einstein's notebooks, which illuminate the thought process of history's most iconic genius.
One of the most important notebooks, she says, is the so-called Zurich notebook, written during the winter of 1912–1913 and containing notes and calculations that provide a view into how Einstein developed his revolutionary theory of general relativity, which he finished in 1915.
Another notebook, from 1918–1919, contains Einstein's lecture notes on special relativity. On one page, dated November 9, 1918—the day Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the throne—Einstein scribbled, "[Lecture] cancelled due to revolution." Also available is Einstein's high-school report card, showing that he earned good grades, despite the popular myth that he was a bad student.
Einstein's letters to his colleagues, including Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger, provide a historical window to the scientific process and show that Einstein was not a lonesome theorist isolated from others. "It's a testament to the very intense scientific exchanges that took place," says Kormos-Buchwald. Einstein would sometimes receive up to 20 letters a day and respond to all of them, a rapid exchange equivalent to today's email conversations. "It gives a much more realistic feeling of what it meant to be a scientist," she says.
Since being launched on March 19, the website has received more than 21 million hits and almost 700,000 unique visitors, Kormos-Buchwald says. The archive includes data on each individual document, such as the title, author, and date. To provide historical context, the EPP has produced scholarly annotations and translations for some 1,000 records. The database of 80,000 records constitutes a level of detail not available for any other archival holdings—and certainly not for any other scientist—she says.
Users can request copies of documents they find interesting; high-quality images of 2,000 documents are now available, and the remainder of the archive will eventually be scanned and made available to the public. Previously an important resource for scholars and historians, the searchable database is now a research tool for everyone, Kormos-Buchwald says. "Everything that we know," she says, "everybody else can know now."
The archive is available at www.alberteinstein.info. To view selected documents, including the ones described here, visit http://www.alberteinstein.info/gallery/index.html.


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|Sep 20th, 2009 08:45 PM
|Wow, a lot of the decorations are so well organized here, I'd almost rather this store serve only as a haunted house-type place just so everything remain the way they're displayed!
|Sep 15th, 2009 09:31 PM
|I found myself at Patriot Place in Foxboro MA over the weekend and went to their Halloween Spirit store...which also used to be a Circuit City, although a much smaller one.
|Sep 14th, 2009 06:20 PM
|I live in Taunton. It's about 40 minutes south of Boston & 20 minutes east of Providence. Usually mid Septemer is when these places start springing up. Went to a Spirit store last Friday and I'm gonna try to check out Circuit City this Friday.
|Sep 13th, 2009 02:13 AM
i can haz BRAAIINS?!?
I love Halloween Club, btw. If you're anywhere in SoCal, I recommend a trip to Commerce! They've got all of those big props year-round. It almost makes up for our seasonal stores not opening until mid-October sometime...
RoG, is it common for H-stores to open this early in MA? How about the rest of the continent - have any of you got Halloween goodness in your areas?
|Sep 11th, 2009 04:42 PM
|That shit is amazing, its death metal CD cover city!
|Sep 11th, 2009 01:59 AM
|Maxwell Demon
|wow. i been tryina quit smokin pot for a month now and i been spendin alot of time at party city and soon to be spirit, sort of like a different way to get away from my problems and find fulfillment, but if they had one of those in woodbridge, VA i could garuntee id never smoke again. just, wow.
|Sep 10th, 2009 08:56 PM
|I am SO buying one of those "fog bubble" machines. I love popping them and watching smoke fly everywhere. It's addicting.
|Sep 10th, 2009 06:20 PM
|Yeah that's how all of those places work. They just find a space that isn't being used and rent it out for 2 months or so. Anything they don't sell, they just bring back to the warehouse at the end of the season. There are a few year-round stores, such as Halloween Club out here in SoCal though.
|Sep 10th, 2009 03:31 PM
|The one by me, spirit, opens the first week of october, and closes until next halloween. It's so big that they have to rent a shut-down publix every year.
|Sep 10th, 2009 02:23 PM
|I wonder how that place is going to make money in the long run. Do they just shut down after Halloween or what?
|Sep 10th, 2009 10:19 AM
I have no clue what's going down with the Circuit City that used to be around here. I will definitely have to check it out. Maybe it's competing with the other seasonal Halloween store in the same mall.
|Sep 9th, 2009 11:49 PM
|Ronin S
|Glad to see you've found your own little corner of paradise, RoG.
|Sep 9th, 2009 10:49 PM
|I remember specifically the largest item at the one near me. It was a life size body "anamatronic" being slowly pulled into a meat grinder. He screamed as he was pulled in, and you could buy 1 or 3 gallon barrels of fake blood that would squirt out the back as he went through. Probably would have stained the bajeebus out of someones lawn.
|Sep 9th, 2009 02:53 PM
I kind of want some of those hanging corpses. I'd keep those up year-round.
The dead hippie band is also kind of nifty. I'd plop them in the front yard and they would sing "happy happy joy joy" every hour on the hour. I dont know why, it just seems to make sense in my head.
|Sep 9th, 2009 01:25 AM
It's clear now that no less than Samhain himself purchased Circuit City. I will have to talk Mum into taking an expedition to check on the status of my own semi-local store.
That jester puppet is going to provide me with nightmares for years to come.
|Sep 9th, 2009 12:45 AM
|man I hope this happens to my circuit city
|Sep 8th, 2009 08:40 PM
|clearly a better joke would be, "and i thought circuit city smelled bad... on the outside!"
|Sep 8th, 2009 07:39 PM
Luigim128, I know, I didn't even catch it at first. Great subtle reference!
NecroLemur, ask and ye shall receive! I figured everybody has seen those things by now. Here ya go:
Comanderaff, I haven't decorated my own place in quite some time, primarily because there's no room. This is just another reason why I want a house so I can do something truly crazy for the season. When I was younger and still living with my parents, we used to put together some crazy haunted house / haunted basement attractions and I was always employed to scream at the top of my lungs (a la "I Will Beat Pacman" style) to scare the crap out of the kids. Good times. I'll try to dig up some photos of those old haunts if I can!
Monkra, oh great, glad you can pay it a visit! Here's the address Halloween Connection, 70 Taunton Depot Dr., Taunton, MA 02780 . Be sure to take some photos when you visit if you see anything worthwhile that we happened to miss!
eric-the-ded, I was soooo waiting for somebody to make that joke. Thank you for not letting me down.
|Sep 8th, 2009 07:16 PM
|The one by me had an INCREDIBLE cthulhu mask last halloween. Too bad it was 400$
|Sep 8th, 2009 05:02 PM
|But sir, your Taunton will freeze!
|Sep 8th, 2009 04:36 PM
|All Hail Duke
|there just needs to be a 365 day halloween shop
|Sep 8th, 2009 03:36 PM
|Holy Crap!! I live in Taunton!! I gotta check this out!
|Sep 8th, 2009 12:15 PM
Awsome! I really would like a shop like this to open near my home (just a regular Walmart three blocks from my house).
But all this Halloween goodness made me wonder. I know that this is your (RoG's) favourite time of the year, buy costumes and do many halloween related stuff, but have you ever decorated your place with this kind of stuff? If so, how was the result?
And yeah, the "Haunted Portraits" idea is an awesome one, wonder why I had never seen it before.
|Sep 8th, 2009 11:35 AM
|I wish I could get a closer peek at some of the Haunted Portraits. I feel that they would complete me in so many ways. I wonder if IKEA has any on clearance?
|Sep 8th, 2009 11:28 AM
|those cats have a serious case of the mange.
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"The Case for Design Patents in Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies"
Inside Counsel 02/04/14 By Nicole A. Bashor
Outside of certain industries, design patents have been a source of confusion and general apathy. Historically, design patent filings have severely lagged behind their utility patent application counterparts, and the discrepancy is even more evident when fields of technology or industry are examined. For example, a brief search in the U.S. Patent Office revealed very few (fewer than 50) design patents have been issued to "distillation" related technology. Similar searches of other industrial areas yielded similar results including "conveyor" (less than 200), "forklift" (less than 100), and "heat exchanger" (less than 150). Similar searches reveal the number of issued design patents all time in the United States was generally under 1,000 for many industrial related technologies. In contrast, industries having products with a known ornamental focus had a significant number of issued design patents. For example, design patents related to "shoes" (more than 7,400), "containers" (more than 13,900), and "flashlights" (more than 1,400) all extended over the 1,000 mark, and in many instances, over the 5,000 mark. So why the discrepancy?
Some industries are natural fits for design patents, including consumer product industries in which product design is cool and the sexiness of the look of a product is a very serious matter. You know the famous consumer product companies — the ones who hire marketing firms and/or have in-house design teams to make the product the most appealable to the consumer. On the other side of the spectrum, there are companies who manufacture a good product first and only secondarily consider the aesthetic aspects. These companies may sell to an end user based in a manufacturing facility, warehouse, chemical plant, or other non-public location in which function almost always prevails over form.
However, the time has come for design patents to move into the mainstream — not just in the world of sleek consumer product design, but in all areas including traditional manufacturing and industrial products . There are numerous reasons why design patents are going mainstream, including the most significant motivation: money. The highly publicized patent battle between Apple and Samsung involves a myriad of design patents that cover many aspects of Apple's iPhone and iPad products. There is nothing like the carrot of hundreds of millions of dollars in patent infringement damages to make people pay attention to the potential design patent stick.
In light of the very public Apple/Samsung dispute, there are also a significant number of lessons to be learned. Some of the most obvious lessons relate to basic design patent application prosecution. For example, more particularized dashed lines, careful shading, and numerous embodiments are at the forefront of how the ornamental aspects of a product are protected. However, an area often ignored by manufacturing and industrial product companies with respect to design patents is the area of product clearance and freedom to operate. More specifically, industrial and manufacturing industries tend to focus clearance efforts on utility patents, as opposed to design patents. One reason for this may be the perceived low risk involved because of the relatively small number of issued design patents in these areas.
The small number of issued design patents are exactly why a manufacturing company may want to incorporate design patents into their own portfolio — there is a lot of "white space." This philosophy can be a boon to forward-thinking manufacturing companies in industries that tend not to do comprehensive clearance searching with respect to design patents.
One strategy may be to file design patent applications on one or more components of what would typically be thought of as a more industrial apparatus or machine. A significant advantage to this approach may be that a manufacturer can protect replacement parts or components for its machines via a design patent by blocking competitors from selling these components individually. Other clear advantages include the speed at which design patents are issued, the significantly lower cost to file and prosecute a design patent application, and quick and easy design patent application filing procedures abroad, which many times do not even involve a substantive examination of the design patent application.
Design patents can be utilized as one more tool in your patent portfolio arsenal against less savvy manufacturing and industrial peers. Many of these companies will continue to ignore design patents in clearance and freedom to operate searches, which leaves the door wide open for those companies who spend a little extra money to obtain design patents rather than only seeking traditional utility patent protection.


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Did you know? The AVENwiki has an Apositive article... actually it's a few years old now, but we've reviewed it a little (you can navigate through the previous versions here)
Anyways, I'm poking around! I'm wondering if there's any more info out there that we could add to this article, stuff relating to the "Knowledge Base" and its team mostly. Any corrections or useful Apositive knowledge?
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Massively late to the party, I've liked a couple of songs for ages but only recently has pretty much the whole of Take Care hit me. I've been obsessed for the past couple of weeks.
General vibe I'm getting is that it's lame as fuck to like Drake.
Do DiS like a bit of Drizzy or not?
Yes, though mainly the singles. Haven't listened to all of Take Care.
But it's looking like his latest won't be a letdown.
he's got some really good songs
both albums are pretty heavy on filler though
He's about as credible as artists of that genre can be.
But obviously, the amount of great records that have come from said genre you could count on two hands.
- JaguarPirate this'd this
Take Care is a brilliant album
And Underground Kings is a brilliant tuneVian and Sloame_Ocean this'd this
and Lord Knows is a cracker too.Sloame_Ocean and jopzorz this'd this
Very true.
Fuck what other people think. Take Care is an amazing album and I totally disagree that it's burdened by a bunch of filler; for me, this is one of those rare albums whose length really works in its favour. HYFR is just fucking sweet.badmanreturns this'd this
Bit depressing
Good guitarist though. He shouldn't have killed himself.JaguarPirate, no-class, and Royter-Hatfood this'd this
He's alright
A major goof ball and its a bit like watching your dad play at being a mega rap star but his albums are genraly listenable even if he does seem to rip off anyone thats cool in his flow every other time. The instros are usualy pretty wicked. He can be tuff to listen to at times, his flow just jars at points. But I think he does what Kanye is trying to do at times better than Kanye. He'll prob rip off Kendric Lamar next or something.
He's a LOT better than Kendrick Lamar.
Lamar's a weak rapper.
Yeah but he's way more trendy and is ridding more of a hype wave
Drake likes a bit of that action, he went for Lil Wayne back in the day, Kanye, Weekend last time. Prob gonna be Kendric and maybe Future this time around. His like some kind of hype sypher.
Lamar's had one critically-acclaimed album. I wouldn't say he's more popular with critics or more respected amongst his peers than Drake, though. Drake's pretty much still top dog of Europa League-level rappers.
He's bigger by far
and good at what he does he just likes to take these ideas from slightly more underground people a lot of the time and put it into his big budget stuff. He feeds of that underground coolness big time. But yeah he makes it work and hes defo Europa League level, semis or quarter final a lot of the time, I dunno is he raps version of Roma or something? IDK I've not played FIFA in years.
Genuinely don't know why you retards get so defensive or dismissive when someone has a different opinion.
Lamar's album last year was good, undoubtedly, but he's not a standout rapper. Just isn't. Good, polished, inventive tracks, but he's a weak rapper. If someone's not allowed to say that without you acting like a child, then you should probably stop basing your personality on your hobbies so much.
I don't think Kendric is any better or worse than Drake as a rapper
they're both kinda on a par, both make good stuff but don't really stand out that far.
He is
hes alright at that sing rap thing. But yeah I still see them two as both on a par as rappers. Enjoyable but without much pure personality, energy or uniqueness to push them over into like Kanye range who at least has loads of personality even if I don't really enjoy much of him. Or like Lil Wayne in his prime. Or Gunplay or King Louie now. Or even Young Scooter and Future now who al lshine with a energy, personality and a unique vibe. Kendric sounds like a throwback compared to them a good one, pretty enjoyable one but still not a massivly exciting one just like Drake.
KL is one of the most versatile rappers to emerge from
the last 5 years or so. He can do it all. i def wouldn't class him as throwback.
Not a standout for me.
Style over substance.
Dismissive, defensive, superior retort, please...
Not being defensive, but what 'substance' are you talking about, though?
Style over substance would be exactly the words I would use to describe Drake, no joke. Examples?
He's versitile and competent
but he doesn't have that spark for me.
People are just desperate for great, fresh, respectable hip-hop that isn't really there.
It's like A$AP Rocky. I liked the mixtape, like the guy, he's got natural suave, interviews well, but when it comes to the crunch, his material nowhere near lives up to the hype. I think i'd go as far as to say that bar '1 Train', which i'd consider one of the better tracks of the year, even recent years, his album was complete and utter piss.
Asap is horrible, no doubt.
Just jacks everyone elses styles and somehow makes them worse. Cant stand the guy.
Do you like proper music as well?
Or just hip-hop and rap?
Sure you're a good egg, but i just find it funny how various middle-aged, middle-class whiteboys have become the self-appointed go-to guy for said genres on here over the years.
Sure I do.
Rap is maybe around 50% of my music collection. Maybe less, idk. I make loads of threads about other stuff and talk about it all the time.
Why is it funny, and what does being white, middle-class and 30 have to do with anything? I never appointed myself the rap guy. No different than you being the soccer guy or whatever. Fair play, I'd probably weigh your opinion a little heavier if I ever cared enough to get into it. I dont know you and would never make assumptions about your irl personality based on your online persona.
--great, fresh, respectable hip-hop that isn't really there--
It's out there, but you probably don't have the time or want to care. Fair enough.
ASAP is like an underground Drake
its really style over substance and mostly copped from everyone else, like Main Attrakionz or well loads of people. Kendric doesn't quite do that but he doesn't quite shine either. He's just sorta there and doesn't quite have the ideas of his own developed fully yet. He's just competent, vaugly enjoyable, easy to listen to and easy to market outside of hip-hop, genrealy has a nice laid back aint gonna piss anyone off vibe about him. Good qualities I guess.
there is tons
gucci's back on fire
rick ross has two stunning mixtapes last year
waka flocka
bun b had some hot tapes recently
chief keef
jeezys making a wee comeback
yo gotti one of the best run of mixtapes period
buddens mixtapes
i could go on.
He and Gunplay sound so good together
They should do a project with each other.
Yeah that'd be wicked
Kendric is good but yeah he needs a push of some sorts it feels a little sterile at times. He does sound like he has it in him to become more though, he needs to bring out the rawness a bit. He's better when he goes into odd garbled alien mode like on Cartoon and cerial yeah.
I did
it was even on comercial radio in my tiny local shop one day. I liked the beat and its fun like Mercy but doesn't feel like the real deal. Its playing at being ruff rather than being ruff. You know you don't beleave it, sounds fun though and it has some wicked humor to it. Like you beleave Gunplay even if you didn't know he pulls guns out on people haha.
the best thing about it is the beat and the humor. But it was like a halfway house between Mercy being kinda fun and a little raw and the full on cartoon madness, violence and humor of Gunplay. Was Backsteat a satire or kinda poke at rawer stuff? Cos I dunno if anyone does that better than Gunplay with his over the top style but he does it while sound like he really means it and plays it up even more kinda like the diffrence between the Undertaker and Gilberg.
Its all part of the overarching story in the album.
Mean to be satyrical I think.
Oh I see, you were being serious?
And now you're trying even harder? lol
If you are being serious, then you obv have no clue what you are talking about, cheers. Thinking that Drake is a better rapper than Kendrick is maybe the worst opinion in the history of music. Renders your opinion on music redundant.suedehead this'd this
You're being a stupid cunt here.
Genuinely don't know why you retards get so defensive or dismissive when someone has a different opinion.
'Ship, don't feed the troll
He has zero interest in engaging properly in this debate. He knows that Drake's not a true rapper like Kendrick, he knows that he should couch the argument in terms of who's the better artist rather than rapper if he wants to make a fair comparison, but he's not going to do it because he's a gigantic troll.
You're being really, really needy here.
I've twice addressed why i don't rate Lamar that highly as a rapper. You're just being ridicuously defensive. This is why more people don't get involved in the hip-hop threads, because they're patrolled by a bunch of cliquey, white, middle-class bores who think their opinions matter more than other peoples. I'll leave you to it.
it's a white energy thing, mate
you wouldn't understand
I can never tell when he actually wants to engage in normal discussion
or if he's just blasting off in shots-fired mode.
i think i like drake more when he's making preposterous claims
and i don't mean all that godfather of rap stuff, but when he starts rapping about catching bodies and popping niggas i can't help but laugh.SCROTUM this'd this
he's one of those people i just can't get into because of his voice
it irks me, sounds like he always has a croak in his throat or something
1. Arrange photos of all current reasonably successful hip-hop/R&B artists on wall
2. Blindfold self
2. Throw a dart at wall
3. Appoint whoever's photo dart hits as hip-hop artist it's OK for indie spods to like
4. Repeat in 6 months' time
I mean, for all of Drake's talents, it's not exactly like hearing Straight Outta Compton, It Takes A Nation or even the Slim Shady LP for the first time, is it. There must be more vital hip-hop out there than this. Point me in the right direction, folks.
was Eminem ever a credible artist?
if your answer to this is yes, you probably don't really like music.
I think he stood apart from most other hip-hop artists of the time, more than Drake does in the current scene
Granted, his music's gone to shit now but I think he was a real shot in the arm for rap, and he managed to be massively successful with it. And all without resorting to mind-numbing braggadocio.
Well, there's more good stuff out there than I'll ever have time to consume
Life is finite, so why fill it with dreck?
loads of it
this is one of the strongest times in rap for years.start looking into the southern mixtape scene.its not the kinda stuff dis cover but if you speak to most pure rap fans who aint backpackers they'll all agree.there are countless classics came out this last decade.
and their all free on datpif :)
The other Drake thread had some good times as well:
Although reading it now doesnt make much sense since all the Kennydope/brightonb posts were removed. Funny thing was, Take Care ended up being his favorite album of the year! lol that guy.
listen to this instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCDwS6yhbA
CMD+F "Underachievers"
Fresh, respectable hip-hop that IS there.
Like, go download that already.
this is a rap thread in general now.
theshipman/Jimi, What's really fucking good at the moment?
Loads of stuff
Its all in there. but... my personal recomendations from this year and a bit are.
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBRYni_ZDb4
Young Scooter - Street Lottery / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6_OFiSknk
Future - FBG: The Movie / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPp3Rh4ELGw
Rome Fortune - Beautiful Pimp / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnuYqS7Y1nc
Young Thug - 1017 Thug / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbDKAwXF3w
Waka Flocka - Real Recognize Real / http://youtu.be/bcwScEB5ABU
King Louie - Drilluminati / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbMPVO8XGrE
Young Scooter & Gucci Mane - Work / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5RhPEXONQ0
Gunplay - Bet That / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIOxLzWUp9I
All free and linked in that thread.
Kevin Gates tape is easily my favourite of the year
Been some decent releases this year, but that's the only one that's really stuck with me. I think there's loads of really exciting stuff to come in 2013 though, and a lot of these mixtapes have good ideas that I'm looking forward to seeing be developed.
Its ace
I lean more towards King Louie, Young Scooter, Future for my fix mind. It just seems a little more fun. Kevin is pretty undeniable though easy up there. I have no idea whats coming up this year, I only ever get mixtapes really and just play catch up when I can cos there are so many instead of looking forward to much.
I like the Kevin Gates tape so much because it's kind of in the middle
Like Future mixed with Freddie Gibbs.Kyle_ this'd this
yeah thats it
he's on the verge of being like proper old people hip-hop with words and that in it that mean something. Or at least appearing that way. Its more mature but with a real cool sound to it unlike Gibbs or whatever.
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Cremation Memorial Jewelry
Our Cremation Memorial Jewelry, Large Oval Cuff is unique, as we use rippled dichroic glass which makes for a One of a kind piece of Jewelry, As each piece of Dichroic glass is textured in a way that no two pieces are alike. Ashes are artistically displayed in-between Fused Rippled Dichroic glass and Clear top glass. Then set in Cast solid .925 Silver or 18 kt Gold. Pick out your favorite color Dichroic glass, Thus creating a stunning piece of Cremation jewelry to memorialize your loved one.
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Kurta with design
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Quick project with a beautiful design in top front, If i made the neck any deeper I would lose part of the design so I came up with this way of saving the design… and I love it…. I lined it with same material and cut the top layer to have an asymmetrical hem and for the other layer I used the selvedge as the border at the hem. I stitched it for myself but my cousin is modeling it-thats y the fit is very unfitting….(she is taller too). She liked it and she TOOK it…I altered it to fit her better but i dint get pictures of the dress after the fitting…
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Nov 12, 2013, 09.01 AMby Ellen Hatteland
How cool! Very pretty and original dress! :)
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Awesome idea; looks great on you.
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Fab dress, i agree with liliv. The third picture shows of what a fab job you have done with the neckline x
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Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has announced that Bryan Grassie, 18, of 16 Bartlett Lane, East Wareham, was indicted Friday, Sept. 21, in Plymouth County Superior Court on a charge of murder in the stabbing death of Brendan Mahoney, 18, of Bridgewater, according to a press release.
Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has announced that Bryan Grassie, 18, of 16 Bartlett Lane, East Wareham, was indicted Friday, Sept. 21, in Plymouth County Superior Court on a charge of murder in the stabbing death of Brendan Mahoney, 18, of Bridgewater, according to a press release. Grassie was also indicted on charges of assault to murder, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the non-fatal stabbing of Brendan Mahoney's brother, Brian Mahoney, 19, also of Bridgewater, during the same incident.
Wareham Police responded to the area of Priscilla Avenue in East Wareham for a report that two people had been stabbed Sunday, July 29, at 3:32 a.m. Officers arrived at the scene and found two men with apparent stab wounds lying on the dirt roadway at the intersection of Hardy Road at Priscilla Avenue. The victims were identified as brothers Brendan J. Mahoney and Brian P. Mahoney. Both were transported to Tobey Hospital in Wareham and later transferred to a Rhode Island-area hospital for further treatment. Brendan died Tuesday morning, July 31.
Grassie was initially arrested on two counts of assault with intent to murder for allegedly stabbing the two Bridgewater brothers.
Grassie's attorney said he acted in self-defense during his first arraignment.
An affidavit filed in Wareham District Court by state police included witness testimony from other party-goers.
Witnesses said Grassie was intoxicated and confrontational when he came to the graduation party at 11 Priscilla Ave., but that he was walking away from the residence shouting insults to the partygoers prior to the fatal clash.
Another witness states that earlier in the night Grassie had shown him a knife in a threatening "manner."
According to one witness, Grassie said he wanted to "kick their teeth in." Another witness said that when Grassie hurled a homophobic slur at a group of partygoers, four of them, including Brian and Brendan Mahoney, started chasing after Grassie. According to the report, the witness stated that the group, "wanted to beat Grassie down."
According to the report, witnesses state that the Mahoney brothers were leading the charge. The affidavit states one of the four who chased after Grassie says that he ran over a hill to find Grassie facing the Mahoney brothers in a "fighting stance."
The witness says he then observed Brian Mahoney push Grassie against a chain link fence, and then Grassie was tackled by Brendan Mahoney. The witness says he then saw the brothers standing close to Grassie before they ran away yelling that they had been stabbed.
The report states that Grassie's father, Eryk Grassie, told police that Grassie had come to him and told him about the fight. According to Eryk Grassie, Bryan Grassie is on blood thinning medication and cannot get into fights.
A witness quoted in the initial police report watched what he first thought were punches being thrown until he noticed blood on both brothers, and one of them collapsed to the ground. According to the report, "Grassie reportedly stood there for a moment without saying a word, then calmly turned and walked away."
The case was investigated by the state police detectives assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz's office and the Wareham Police.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Tara Cappola.


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MicroNet MaxNAS 2.5TB Server Review
Running a small to medium size business presents enough challenges of its own without having to worry about infrastructure, but businesses need storage capacity just like home users do; however, their requirements extend beyond just the need for more space. Downtime and lost data are two things businesses can't afford. Statistics concerning small businesses and data loss are very sobering, with a staggering 70 percent of small firms that experience a major loss of data end up closing their doors within a year1.
It's not only ensuring reliable access and securing the data that businesses need worry about. Relying on direct attached storage or local drives can result in storage 'silos' making sharing and data backups more difficult. The obvious answer to these issues is some sort of network based storage solution. While placing your data on the network does not protect you against catastrophes such as fire or natural disasters, it can offer protection against hard drive failures and make implementing a robust backup plan easier.
Perhaps you've noticed the emphasis on the business-related aspect of network storage. While there are similarities between home/small office requirements and those of small/medium size businesses (SMB) and some products are marketed to both segments, businesses have other unique requirements and don't necessarily need some of the bells and whistles used to attract home buyers when it comes to networked storage. One of those areas is the ability to implement a storage area network (SAN) using a network appliance as well as emphasis on offering a complete solution, which is where the MicroNet MaxNAS unit being reviewed here comes into play.
MicroNet may not be a name that's familiar to a lot of people, but the company has been around for over 20 years as a provider of storage solutions for SMBs. Based out of Torrance, California, MicroNet and Fantom Drives are part of the same family, offering a wide range of storage products from single-drive external units to enterprise-class multi-bay rack-mount storage arrays. The particular unit under review is the MaxNAS 2.5TB RAID with SCSI, a 5-bay unit that ships with five 500GB drives with support for RAID 0/1/5/6/10 volumes and works as a NAS unit as well as operating as an iSCSI target to allow you to build a SAN using existing IP infrastructure. MicroNet also offers the MaxNAS in 5TB and 7.5TB models.
Closer Look
Generally, this section leads off with a tour around the box the unit comes in, including a look at all the pictures and features described on the box's exterior. We're going skip that as MicroNet takes a more business-like approach with the MaxNAS, which ships in a plain brown corrugated cardboard box devoid of any pictures. The lack of any external marketing is understandable as MicroNet probably figures any business has already performed the necessary research before purchasing one of these units.
Opening the box reveals the set of five hard drives enclosed in anti-static bags and safely nestled in an open-cell foam insert. Once we lift the set of drives and the separate foam insert out of the box, you can see the main unit has its own set of inserts protecting during shipping. The chassis is enclosed in a plastic bag to provide additional protection against scratches.
Once we have the unit out of the the plastic bag, you can get a better look at the front of the unit. Running down the left side of the case's front are a series of LED status indicators for LAN activity and USB copy and error status indicators. Hard drive activity and power indicators are included on the individual drive bays. Below the bank of LEDs is a front USB expansion port and a large power button with its own LED indicator in the middle. The front cover to the drive bays includes four mesh panels for cool air intake. At the bottom of the unit there is an LCD control panel with a series of four buttons for navigating through the options on the screen.
Looking at the unit from the side, we see a series of perforations that offer additional air intake for the drives and mainboard inside the case. Taking up the majority of the rear panel is the unit's 92mm cooling fan exhaust. The back of the unit has a series of additional connectors located on the right side, including an eSATA and two additional USB connections. Below that is a type B USB port for connecting the unit to another host and having it appear as a USB target and a serial port for communicating with a UPS device. There are also two RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet ports that can function independently or in load balancing, failover or link aggregation modes. The integrated power supply has its own connector, power switch and 40mm exhaust on the bottom of the panel.
The bottom of the unit has a set of four rubber feet for keeping the unit from sliding around and makes stacking the unit easier. It also provides a little bit of extra clearance underneath for air to enter the cooling vents at the front of the bottom panel (located on the right in the screenshot).
Now that we've had a chance to get a look at the unit from the outside, let's check out the disk installation and initial setup.
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Jan 28 (Reuters) - Pervasive Software Inc said it
had agreed to be acquired by Actian Corp, after the privately
held big data management company raised its earlier offer by
about 8 percent to $161.9 million.
Actian will offer $9.20 in cash to Pervasive shareholders
for each Pervasive share. The offer price represents a premium
of 2 percent to Pervasive's closing price of $9.05 on Monday on
the Nasdaq.
Actian, headquartered in California, had raised its bid for
Texas-based Pervasive twice. It initially offered $8.50 per
share last August, and increased the price to $9.00 in November.
Pervasive's share price has risen about 12 percent since it
attracted Actian's interest last August. Pervasive's revenue
rose 6 percent in the six months ended December 2012, compared
with the same period a year earlier.
Actian, backed by private equity firm Garnett & Helfrich
Capital, builds apps for big data management through its cloud
development platform. It also owns databases that help analyze
big data faster for customers such as Oxford University, Cathay
Pacific Airways and Lufthansa.
"We believe the two companies' complementary product
portfolios, track record of technological innovation and
well-established customer bases provide a platform for
compelling synergies," Pervasive Chief Executive John Farr said.
Shea & Company, LLC advised Pervasive on the deal, while
Evercore Partners advised Actian on the deal. TC Lending LLC, a
unit of TPG Specialty Lending Inc, committed to provide debt
financing for the transaction, Actian and Pervasive said in
separate statements.
Pervasive said it expected to close the deal in the second
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When I was little, I used to come to Egypt in the summers to visit my grandmother in Alexandria. This would have been in the 1980s and I can remember the electricity constantly going on and off, especially at night and we would have candles lit in the room we were all sitting in and down the hallway and outside in the stairwell in case someone in the building got caught in the dark. As a young nipper I thought it was fun, but with the global warming and hot temperatures that we have now, I fail to make light of the situation.
The power cuts started to make a come back this past May and I know many people are blaming the newly elected President for this, (which personally just baffles me, because last I checked he wasn't an electrician and he doesn't spend his time at the power plants, but HEY! what do 'I' know?).
The person I think people's anger should be directed at, is the Minister of Energy. If he had been doing his job to the best of his ability by calculating the population growth, with the number of air conditioners that have been purchased in recent years, as well as the number of illuminating billboards we see in the streets …etc I think he could have gotten a ball park figure of how much energy would be needed and how the number of watts being used has increased dramatically over the past decade.
Secondly, I recently read in an Al Ahram article that they are only now just cutting off electricity for people who are way behind in paying their bills. By people I don't only mean private citizens but factories, business and shop keepers? When the man who goes round reading the electricity meters and takes down the number carrying a hand-held briefcase or pouch with bills, why doesn't he ask them to pay and if after two to three months of not paying why hasn't he informed the power station so that they can turn off his electricity so that they do pay up? (Is this another side of corruption that we are unaware of?)
I am dreading moving back to Cairo in two weeks time if this is what I am going to have to put up with. The heat is unbearable as it is and I don't want to have to constantly climb up and down 6 flights of stairs or teach students under extreme weather conditions can you imagine how hot and bothered a room full of 24 eight year olds will be? (It would be on a par with a waiting room of expecting mothers!)
Secondly, the street lamps should not be among the lights that should be sacrificed to keep energy flowing. Streets should be well-lit, for the safety of those on the road and pedestrians.
If over consumption of electricity is occurring then wouldn't it be logical to communicate with the public, make them understand and possibly even campaign about it to educate the public and students of the problem at hand and how they might be able to help?
The power shortages are not just happening in one area, they are happening across the country and for the residence. I bet it's really frustrating, especially during the month of Ramadan, when they are fasting from sunrise to sunset and they can't drink any fluids to help cool their body temperatures, let alone using a fan!
I really hope that the situation doesn't escalate and that things are more under control by the time I am back, otherwise I will be joining the hot tempered masses.
What I don't understand is why the water keeps being cut off too?
Al Ahram Article; http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1108/eg5.htm


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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Overriding PHP settings in Joomla 1.5
PS: If you use 'PHP Settings' plugin, please post a rating and a review at the Joomla! Extensions Directory.
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Add the following line to 'PHP settings for overriding' parameter:
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upload_max_filesize to 20M
Add the following line to 'PHP settings for overriding' parameter:ReplyDelete
could this extension be used to change the "safe mode" setting. If yes how?ReplyDelete
No, it can't be used for settings "Safe mode" option because this parameter can be set only in php.ini for security reason. BTW, it's bad approach use "Safe mode", you can read about this on PHP documentation page.ReplyDelete
The exec() function is not available can this be executed, i have installed your plugin but i am not able increase the upload limit of the file size, the file type is video and the plugin i am using to upload videos is hwd video share. can u plz help in making this work
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What value you entered into 'PHP settings for overriding' parameter?
below are the parametersReplyDelete
Probably your hosting provider forbid to change PHP settings.ReplyDelete
yes my hosting provide forbid that so only i am using this extension. If they allow me y will i use the extensionReplyDelete
plz suggest regarding this
My plugin doesn't use magic, it's only use 'ini_set' PHP function for overriding PHP settings. If this function is disabled by your hosting provider, my plugin can't help you.ReplyDelete
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thanks and regards
My site is on Godaddy shared hosting.ReplyDelete
I have installed your extension to override PHP settings.
I want the modify following settings:
But your plugin only changing Memory_limit and Max_execution_time
It is not overriding any other settings on my server. I don't understand what is wrong here.
My server support PHP override and still it is not changing any other setting.
Plz help.
Hi Mann,ReplyDelete
Probably overriding of other settings is disabled by hosting provider.
My server is using the PHP5.ini for 5 version to override the default server settings. But I guess your extension is looking for php.ini instead of PHP5.ini.ReplyDelete
This may be the reason that your extension is not working in my case.
By the way now I am using custom PHP5.ini file to override the default server settings.
Well, thanks for all.
The extension calls 'ini_set' PHP function and probably overriding of some PHP settings through this function is disabled by hosting provider.ReplyDelete
there is no changing in joomla setting when i add max file upload size ! what is the wrong ?ReplyDelete
Probably PHP is ran in safe mode.ReplyDelete
could you help me about which folder i must put this plugin file? or how i can modify php settigs? i m very inexperienced in this cases. :|ReplyDelete
Install the plugin as standard Joomla! plugin, open plugin settings page, enter php setttings in "PHP settings for overriding" textarea and enable plugin.ReplyDelete
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Please help..
Probably PHP is ran in safe mode or changing of this parameter is disabled by hosting administratorsReplyDelete
Looking at my System Info > PHP information - Configuration, for the Directive 'Memory_Limit', the Local Value now shows my increase to 100MB but the Master Value still shows the original 48MB. I'm guessing this means that the php.ini file on the server is set at 48MB - does this mean I can't change the increase up to 100MB or will the Local Value still be able to take effect?ReplyDelete
"Master Value" contains a value from php.ini file. "Local Value" contains a value which is used for a page.ReplyDelete
Read a review reminding newbies like me to restart apache after using this plugin, but how do i do that? I still have a white page..after a JEVENTS and DT REGISTER upgrade, according to jevents i needed to increase memory limit, used your very simple plugin *it was even for someone like me but still a white screen when navigating to the website.ReplyDelete
The plugin doesn't require to restart web server.ReplyDelete


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