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Mike Smith couldn't get Mine That Bird over to the rail, Mine That Bird couldn't catch Rachel Alexandra from the outside and that was the story of Saturday's $1.1 million Preakness Stakes.
Mine That Bird, the Kentucky Derby winner, trailed the field early in the Preakness, just as he had two weeks earlier at Churchill Downs. But this time the rail didn't open up as it did in the Derby, Mine That Bird was forced seven-wide to find running room and by the time Smith got him going, it was too late.
And while all that was going on, Rachel Alexandra was setting a pressured lead and going a little faster than jockey Calvin Borel and trainer Steve Asmussen would have liked. Starting from the outside post position, Borel had no choice but to get the Kentucky Oaks winner going quickly to establish position before the first turn.
At the end, as everyone at Pimlico expected, it came down to the question: Can the Derby winner catch the Oaks winner? The answer, this time, anyway: No.
But Mine That Bird and third-place finisher Musket Man were gaining on Rachel Alexandra in the final yards and the super filly's margin of victory was a mere 1 length -- a far cry from the 20 1/4 lengths by which she won the Oaks.
That scenario would seem to favor Mine That Bird, should the two meet in the final jewel of the Triple Crown -- the Belmont Stakes, June 6.
Or maybe not.
Borel, who switched from the Derby winner to ride her, said Rachel Alexandra wasn't handling the Pimlico track well. And he noted the pace scenario worked against her. He repeated what he said after the Oaks: "This is the best horse I ever rode."
"I was very concerned about how fast the second quarter was run," Asmussen said. The first quarter went in 23.13 seconds and the half mile in 46.71. "She was a little more forwardly placed than we hoped she'd be."
So will Rachel Alexandra give the boys another chance in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes, a race that Mine That Bird's sire won?
That decision will be made, said owner Jess Jackson, "after we see her condition, after we see her next workout."
There's no indecision on the part of Chip Wooley, Mine That Bird's trainer.
"I'm thrilled to death with the race my little horse ran," Wooley said. "Everything was going according to Hoyle until the turn, when he was fanned a little wide. I thought we had a chance at the eighth pole. But you have to give that filly credit. She's a great one. The Belmont is next for us."
Sunday morning, preparing to ship Mine That Bird back to Churchill Downs, he added: "My horse will be much more suited to the Belmont -- big wide track, big wide sweeping turns. It should play a little better to my horse. It'll probably be a shorter field, which eliminates some of the traffic."
Borel, who now has won on both, said he is convinced Rachel Alexandra "is a better horse than Mine That Bird, bar none. Mile-and-a-sixteenth, mile-and-a-half, 2 miles, whatever. She is the best horse in the country."
In other weekend racing:
Vodka, back from the Middle East and back in filly and mare company, lost no time in returning to the winner's circle in Sunday's $1.8 million Victoria Mile at Tokyo. With Yutaka Take up, Vodka took charge with a quarter mile to go and drew off to win by 7 lengths. Bravo Daisy was second and Shonan La Novia was third. Vodka finished unplaced in two races in Dubai earlier this year and now is being pointed to the Yasuda Kinen, again against males, June 7. "I think everyone saw Vodka at her best today," Take said. "We had a good draw and she always breaks well so I was going to decide on the positioning after the first 100 meters. We managed to take really good position during the trip, and the rest took care of itself. I've been through the good and the bad with her, and it's an absolute privilege to be riding one of the best horses in the history of racing."
The $2 million Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji Racecourse went to 24-1 longshot Gloria de Campeao, who scored by a head over Presvis. Presvis went into the race as the favorite basked on victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Hong Kong. Gloria de Campeao, by contrast, was a well-beaten second in the Dubai World Cup in his last start. Bankable was third in Sunday's race. Winning rider Tiago Josue Pereira said, "I've always had faith in this horse and ever since I was invited to come here to ride him I've felt confident in his ability. This is my first trip to Asia and it's my biggest career win."
Never on Sunday belied his name, winning Sunday's Prix d'Ispahan at Longchamp, rallying from well back to win by 1 length over Gris de Gris. Runaway was third and Goldikova, making her first start since winning the Breeders' Cup Mile last fall at Santa Anita, faded steadily through the stretch to get home seventh. Never On Sunday, a 4-year-old son of Sunday Break, picked up his seventh win from 10 starts and now is being pointed to the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Parading challenged for the lead at the top of the stretch in Saturday's $150,000 Dixie Stakes, got a short lead halfway to the wire and then held on gamely to beat Just as Well by1/2 length. Wesley ran from the back of the 11-horse field to finish third. Parading, a 6-year-old, Kentucky-bred son of Pulpit, ran the 9 furlongs on firm turf in 1:48.28 with Kent Desormeaux up for trainer Shug McGaughey. Assistant trainer Robbie Medina said the race "worked out perfect. There didn't seem like there was a lot of speed and he would be on the lead. But it worked out where a couple horses wanted to go and he could just sit off him. He can do that just as well. He's finally sound. He's had a lot of injuries and bad luck, but he's always been a horse we thought would be a star. We just had to wait until he was 6."
No Advantage rallied by pace-setting Real Merchant in the stretch run to win Saturday's $100,000 William Donald Schaefer Stakes by 2 3/4 lengths. Real Merchant and Ea dead-heated for second and third. No Advantage, a 4-year-old, Kentucky-bred colt by Posse, ran the 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:42.79.
Skylighter shot to the lead entering the first turn in Saturday's $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff and extended the advantage to a 4 1/4-lengths victory. Unforgotten was second and All Smiles finished third. Skylighter, a 4-year-old, Kentucky-bred filly by Sky Mesa, ran the 1 1/16 miles on a fast track in 1:44.34 with Julien Leparoux up.
Ravalo was off a step slowly in Saturday's $100,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap, advanced to a stalking position and then won a stretch duel with Silver Edition to score by a head. Celtic Innis was third, 2 lengths farther back. Ravalo, a 5-year-old, Kentucky-bred Mutakddim gelding, ran the 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:09.95 with John Velazquez in the irons.
Everyday Heroes dominated in the stretch to win Saturday's $100,000 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes for 3-year-olds by 3 3/4 lengths over Not For Silver. Checklist checked in third. Everyday Heroes, a Kentucky-bred colt by Awesome Again, ran the 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:09.51. Jose Caraballo had the mount.
Social Queen raced last of seven through most of Saturday's $100,000 Gallorette Handicap for fillies and mares, came to the outside for the stretch run and was just up in time to win by a head over All is Vanity. Tejida finished third and the favorite, Dynaforce, settled for fifth after pressing the early pace. Social Queen, a 5-year-old, Kentucky-bred daughter of Dynaformer, ran the 1 1/16 miles on firm turf in 1:41.84 with Rafael Bejarano in the irons.
Payton d'Oro led from gate to wire in Friday's $100,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, surviving a late bid by Bon Jovi Girl to score by 1 1/4 lengths. Casanova Move finished third. Payton d'Oro, like Rachel Alexandra a Kentucky-bred daughter of Medaglia d'Oro, ran the 1 1/18 miles on a fast track in 1:49.75 under Terry Thompson. "I was able to stay on the rail and sit until we hit the top of the stretch and then I hit the gas," Thompson said. "She gave me what she had and ran to the wire."
Heart Ashley was quickly out front in Friday's $100,000 Adena Stallions' Miss Preakness Stakes for 3-year-old fillies and then was all out to hang on for a head victory over Cinderella's Wish. Trophy Collector finished third. Heart Ashley, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Lion Heart, ran the 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:10.79 with Garrett Gomez riding.
Mr. Nightlinger dueled for the lead until the top of the stretch in Friday's $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint, then kicked clear to win by 1 1/2 lengths over Blue Sailor. Rouse the Cat was a neck farther back in third. Mr. Nightlinger, a 5-year-old, Kentucky-bred son of Indian Charlie, ran the 5 furlongs on firm turf in 56.29 seconds. Jamie Theriot had the mount for trainer Brett Calhoun.
Belmont Park
Seattle Smooth, the odds-on favorite, came out around a wall of horses at the top of the stretch in Saturday's $150,000 Shuvee Handicap and just got by the leaders to win by 3/4 length. Color Me Up had the lead at mid-stretch and finished second and Sea Chanter was third. Seattle Smooth, a 4-year-old, Kentucky-bred filly by Quiet American, ran the 1 mile in 1:35.94 under Ramon Dominguez. "It was a workmanlike effort and she was in a dicey spot at the top of the stretch," said winning trainer Anthony Dutrow. "They were going quick enough up front, so that was good." He said his goal is to win a Grade I event with Seattle Smooth and the Ogden Phipps, a Grade I event at 1 1/16 miles at Belmont on June 13, is the target for accomplishing that goal.
I Lost My Choo raced near the back of the pack through the first half of Sunday's $100,000 Mount Vernon Stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares, then came around her rivals and accelerated through the stretch to win by 1 3/4 lengths. Nehantic Kat was second and You Go West Girl finished third. I Lost My Choo, a 4-year-old Western Expression filly, got the 1 1/16 miles on firm turf in 1:42.52 with Jose Lezcano in the irons.
Our Friend Harvey got a narrow lead on the backstretch in Sunday's $65,000 Lure Stakes, extended it to daylight at the top of the lane and then held on to win by 1/2 length over Ballast. Prince Rahy finished third. Our Friend Harvey, a 5-year-old, Florida-bred gelding by Put It Back, ran 7 furlongs on firm turf in 1:23.17 for jockey Ramon Dominguez.
Churchill Downs
Capt. Candyman Can, a refugee from the Kentucky Derby trail, got past the early leader at the top of the stretch in Saturday's $100,000 Matt Winn Stakes and went on to win by 3/4 length over the favorite, Cash Refund. Conchacer finished third. Capt. Candyman Can, a Kentucky-bred Candy Ride gelding, ran the 7 furlongs on a "good" main track in 1:22.89 under Javier Castellano. Capt. Candyman Can won the Hutcheson Stakes early in the year at Gulfstream Park but dropped out of Derby contention after finishing fourth behind Quality Road in the Fountain of Youth. He then won the 7-furlong Bay Shore at Aqueduct. Trainer Ian Wilkes said he hopes to take the gelding to the Kings Bishop at Saratoga, adding, "I'm gonna evaluate and see where he is and have a look-see where he's at. He'll tell me what I need to do here. That's the important thing. I don't want to get ahead of him and make him do it because this horse puts his body on the line every time I run him. He's so honest for me. He's taken care of me, now I have to take care of him a little bit."
Hollywood Park
Red Arrow jumped quickly to the lead in Saturday's $100,000 Los Angeles Handicap, opened up a clear advantage and held well to win by 3/4 length over Paul's Hope. Dehere Again stalked the pace, then held on to finish third. Red Arrow, a 6-year-old, Australian-bred son of Red Ransom, ran 6 furlongs on the all-weather track in 1:08.92 for jockey Joe Talamo. Red Arrow, trained by John Sadler, has won three of five U.S. starts and four of 15 races overall. "My horse ended up on the lead on his own and he was just cruising," Talamo said. "I was watching the replay of this horse last time at Golden Gate Fields and it looked like he went head-and-head early and really wasn't comfortable. Today John said to ride him with confidence."
Kizzy's Chaos got the jump on a half dozen rivals in Sunday's $100,000 Gallant Man Handicap and, 13 furlongs later, cruised home first, 3 lengths to the good of Church Service. Medjool prompted the pace, then lost second by a head. Kizzy's Choice, a 4-year-old, Florida-bred colt by Evansville Slew, finished in 2:43.48 with Martin Garcia in the irons for trainer Vladimir Cerin. "This horse is a real professional," Garcia said. "I was the only speed and nobody really put any pressure on us. I slowed it up as good as I could and he really finished."
Awesome Rhythm rallied from last of six to win Saturday's $150,000 (Canadian) Marine Stakes for 3-year-olds by 2 1/4 lengths. Colonel Rutledge was second and His Greatness finished third. Awesome Rhythm, a Kentucky-bred colt to Toccet, ran the 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather track in 1:45.25. James McAleny rode for trainer John Ross. Awesome Rhythm was unplaced in his first two starts as a 3-year-old, both in Florida, but Ross said the foundation was valuable. "He had a great winter and that helped me prepare a horse like this, turning into a 3-year-old especially," the conditioner said. "He's come to the forefront. Today was the proof he might be for real. Hopefully, I can keep him in great order and we can continue a bit of this."
Hooh Why opened up a nice lead at the top of the stretch in Sunday's $150,000 La Lorgnette Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, then battled gamely to the wire, winning by 1/2 length over Tasty Temptation. Milwaukee Appeal finished third. Hooh Why, a Florida-bred daughter of Cloud Hopping, ran 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather track in 1:45.46. Emile Ramsammy rode for trainer Kenneth Hoffman. Owner Mark Hoffman said the filly, winner of the Ashland at Keeneland on April 4, has been waiting for the right circumstances to make her return. "I wanted to run in the 2000 Guineas at Arlington Park," he said. "There's been so much rain out there. I didn't want to run on a soft turf course." Then, he added, he scratched out of Friday's Black Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico because he thought the track might come up sloppy.
Prairie Meadows
Maya's Storm pressed the pace early in Saturday's $65,000 John Wayne Stakes for Iowa-breds colts and geldings, gained a narrow advantage on the turn, edged clear and then held on to win by 1/2 length over Red Hot N Gold. Tiger Lake was a nose farther back in third. Maya's Storm, a 4-year-old Stormy Atlantic colt, ran the 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:09.77 under Israel Ocampo.
Irish Party got a clear lead at the top of the stretch in Friday's $65,000 Mamie Eisenhower Stakes for Iowa-bred fillies and mares, then held on gamely at the end to win by a neck over Friend O the Devil. It's My Day Toots finished third. Irish Party, a 5-year-old daughter of Twining, got the 6 furlongs on a muddy, sealed track in 1:10.68, also with Ocampo riding.
Monmouth Park
On the Menu rallied to win Saturday's $65,000 Just Smashing Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by a neck over Mary's Follies, with Bold Union just another neck back in third. On the Menu, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Canadian Frontier, ran the 6 furlongs on a fast track in 1:09.47. Eddie Castro rode.


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Watch a Cake Being Wrecked
Lots of you are sending this in, so I figured I'd share. A few caveats first, though:
1) No, it's not professionally made.
2) Yes, I'm bending the rules by including it here on Wrecks.
A) Like the CCC, this "technique" must be stopped for the greater good.
B) It's really funny.
C) Mario Lopez in an apron! Hellooo, eye candy!
$500?!? Really? I think Wreckporter Gemma L. said it best: "If you'll fall for that then I know a Nigerian Prince who wants to talk to you."


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"Spartacus" will end its run with its upcoming third season, entitled "Spartacus: War of the Damned," Starz announced Monday.
The final season will air in January. It ends a run that began with the first season, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," in January 2010.
Also read: Starz CEO: 'We All Thought Long and Hard' About 'Spartacus' Season 2
"We did not come to this decision lightly," said creator and executive producer Steven S. DeKnight. "It was an extremely difficult and emotional decision for my partners and I. Yet, in the end, the story was best served by rolling all of the remaining action and drama of Spartacus' journey into one stunningly epic season that will be extremely satisfying for everyone who's been along for the ride."
The show nearly came to an end after its first season when original Spartacus Andy Whitfield was unable to return because of his battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was replaced by Liam McIntyre, and died in September 2011.
Also read:'Spartacus' Gets 3rd Season
Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said in January of 2011 that the network debated whether to bring the show back. On Monday, he called it "one of the most groundbreaking shows we have ever seen."
"We did not come to this decision lightly." — creator and executive producer, Steven S. DeKnight.
"'Spartacus' is a landmark series for the network which has enthralled millions of viewers and fans around the world," he said. "We are in agreement with our partners in the decision to conclude the story after 'War of the Damned,' as we believe it is the best way to maintain the integrity of the series and secure its legacy."
Also read:'Spartacus' Creator Talks About Replacing Andy Whitfield, Nudity, the Finite Number of Ways to Kill a Man
The series, which airs in 150 countries in more than 15 languages, is currently shooting its third season in New Zealand. It takes place as Spartacus' rebellion swells following the defeat of Roman commander Gaius Claudius Glaber.


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Atletico Madrid are interested in bringing Wolfsburg playmaker Diego back to the Vicente Calderon in January, according to Jose Maria Martin, an executive at the Bahia International agency.
The Brazil international was on loan in the Spanish capital last season and helped them to secure the Europa League, scoring the third goal as they turned over Athletic Bilbao in the final.
And Martin has revealed that the former Juventus schemer could return to the club as early as January.
"Diego's Father has received a call from Atleti. Wolfsburg are having a dreadful season and have fired [coach Felix] Magath," he told Punta Pelota.
"At Christmas, or at the end of the season, Diego could sign for Atleti. His family like the idea.
"[Diego] Simeone is very insistent about it. The coach thinks that, with the Brazilian, he would have a squad to aspire to everything."
Atletico are currently unbeaten domestically this season and sit joint top with Barcelona on 25 points after nine games.


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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Nudges {Creative Revolutionaries} Week 16
Here's the idea "... today, as a creative exercise: paint a whole page (or spread) in your art journal gray! Mix black and white together if you don't have a tube of gray."
You could also paint over a 5 minute collage page or some other journal page that you don't much like. Is there anything like that lurking in your journal? I'm gonna get the white and black paint out and put each directly on the page and then move them around 'til things get gray. Edit: To mix the gray, add tiny drops of black paint to a puddle of white. The black is quite strong and will quickly overwhelm the white!
I think this will be a good jumping off point for another prompt in the future. Maybe I can get Hanna back ...
9 comments:
- lyle baxter said...
why dont you paint black on left page and white on right (thick) and mooch them together to see if some grey occurs????? sounds like fun whatever happens! you do give me my morning smiles!
- January 13, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- Sarah Anderson said...
oooo good prompt, love grey! And love black and white too. So much inspiration, so little time!
- January 13, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Diana Trout {email@example.com} said...
Yes, thank you Lyle, that is exactly what I was trying to say. Use only a drop of two of black to a lot of white to begin with. It is quite strong
- January 13, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- iHanna said...
Yay! Now I want to see many gray pages, yes yours too Diana! Thanks for the chance to inspire your readers want mine. I will be back with more nudges, thanks.
- January 13, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- iHanna said...
Yay! Now I want to see many gray pages, yes yours too Diana! Thanks for the chance to inspire your readers want mine. I will be back with more nudges, thanks.
- January 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- grace Forrest~Maestas said...
hi! am visiting clothmate blogs from Judes boro class...SO MUCH
to see here!...looking forward to
working together in the class!
- January 13, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Diana Trout {email@example.com} said...
Welcome, Grace and thank you for commenting. I hope you'll visit often!
- January 13, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- PeonyBlue said...
I did a grey page this morning (with a touch of sepia, kind of by accident, but it went okay with the payne's grey, I think) after finding your Revolutionaries! What a great idea...can't wait to go back and play along with the previous Nudges.
My page:
Whee! Thank you (and Hanna!)
- January 16, 2011 at 1:50 PM
- Lay Hoon aka mescrap said...
I've done nudget 16 & 17
Thank you again for the great 'exercise'.
- January 25, 2011 at 4:05 AM


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December 2012 is the 10th anniversary of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's building designed by Tadao Ando. The Modern will mark the anniversary with a series of new acquisitions on view this fall, culminating in a celebration gala and dinner on December 6, 2012.
Director Marla Price comments, "These are exciting additions to the Modern's permanent collection. We are acquiring work by important new artists in several cases and increasing our holdings of works by Vernon Fisher, Dan Flavin, Howard Hodgkin, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Nicholas Nixon."


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Fashionista has spotted a magazine mystery that will put those skills you developed while reading Highlights to good use. On the right we have Carey Mulligan's October 2010 Vogue cover, and on the left is the November 2011 issue of Elle France. The two covers obviously used the same photo, though it seems like the images may have been tweaked slightly in Photoshop. Mulligan's left arm, eye makeup, and smile look a bit different, but it's possible it's a scanner issue.
The bigger question is why a foreign edition of Elle is running an old Vogue cover. It would make sense if the magazines were owned by the same company, but they're a part of Hachette Filipacchi and Condé Nast respectively. Fashionista speculates that photographer Peter Lindbergh owns the rights to the images and sold them to French Elle — though that doesn't explain why French Elle would want a repeat cover. We're not sure what's going on here, but if magazines are starting a foreign exchange program for covers, American Cosmo may want to start looking through old issues of Vogue Italia for covers that might look good with the words "naughty" "vag" and "va-jay-jay" on them.


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(SALT LAKE CITY, Utah) - Investors took notice Monday of the potential for severe financial losses caused by an ongoing direct action campaign to stop tar sands development on the Coloardo Plateau.
US Oil Sands stock price on the Toronto Stock Exchange closed July 26 at $0.115. As people rolled-out onto the mine site in the Book Cliffs of Utah to enforce a full-day work stoppage, US Oil Sands stock price had dropped to $0.10 (source: Toronto Stock Exchange), down 50% from the company's 52-week high.
"Investors have taken notice that these tar sands and oil shale projects in Utah will be made impossible," says Peaceful Uprising's Melanie Martin. "The fools-gold nature of these resources, the dangerous potential to poison air and water as well as the people's drive to prevent their progress all add up to an investment blackhole."
People overtook US Oil Sands operation and peacefully insisted that workers turn off the machines. After shutting down operations at the tar sands test pit, they moved on to shutting down operations at the Seep Ridge Road expansion project, a project intended to spur mining and fracking operations in the region.
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A US cycling team that debuted five years ago with the lofty goal of transforming cycling's doping culture is taking the 2011 Tour de France by storm.
Team Garmin-Cervélo won its first-ever stage victory on Sunday, repeated the feat Monday, and is currently No. 1 in the team standings while squad member Thor Hushovd is the overall individual winner so far.
There is little doubt that its riders are clean: the squad has pioneered a rigorous system of drug testing that goes far beyond the mandatory tests imposed by cycling officials. Since the team went pro in 2007, not a single rider has tested positive.
"I am confident that clean riders can win big races," said team director Jonathan Vaughters after Garmin cyclist Tyler Farrar won Stage 3 on Monday. "The proof is in the pudding. We've showed [it's possible.]"
Indeed, in the post-Lance Armstrong era, Garmin-Cervélo is emerging as a new sort of American champion – one that can win at cycling's marquee event without the cloud of doping doubts that has hovered over everyone from seven-time Tour victor Armstrong to this year's favorite, Spaniard Alberto Contador.
Garmin's rigorous drug-testing program
Garmin's success, particularly its unprecedented win on Sunday, is also a landmark moment for Vaughters, a former teammate of Armstrong and an outspoken opponent of doping.
His Garmin squad is one of the few teams in the professional peloton that's openly committed to an "anti-doping" policy.
Throughout the season, Garmin riders are subjected to independent drug controls run by Dr. Don Catlin, a pioneer of anti-doping tests. (HTC-Highroad, a rival American squad, also uses Catlin's lab.)
These tests are a supplement to the official controls administered by race officials and the UCI, professional cycling's governing body.
In addition, the team has riders sign a contract that stipulates, among other things, that they won't use needles or take infusions of any kind.
Originally, Vaughters' team was focused on youth training. After retiring from a nine-year racing career in 2003, including a stint with Armstrong's US Postal Squad, the Denver native took $50,000 of his own money and started Slipstream Sports, a venture aimed at cultivating young American riders.
Two years later, he was approached by Doug Ellis, a New York businessman who wanted to start an American ProTour team. By 2008, the squad had become Garmin-Chipotle, partnering with the GPS makers and the Mexican grill restaurant chain, and was racing in the Tour de France.
A Tour stage win proved to be elusive for the team, though it came close at times: Before Sunday's win, the team had recorded 17 second or third place finishes in the Tour.
"We've got to get that monkey off our backs," Vaughters said last week at the team's pre-race press conference, referring to the lack of stage wins.
This year, the team includes US standouts Farrar, a Washington state native, Christian Vande Velde, Dave Zabriskie, and Tom Danielson. After picking up some riders during the off-season from the now defunct Cervélo Test Team, including Thor Hushovd, the wins have come in droves.
"These things take time though, you can't go around and win overnight," says veteran Julian Dean, a New Zealander who's been with the team since its inception and rode with Vaughters on US Postal in the late '90s as a youngster. "We've built a team over the years and now it's successful."
Brash doping talk ruffles feathers, particularly with Contador riding
Brash, outspoken, and often professorial (with tweedy blazers to match), Vaughters has always been eager to promote his team's anti-doping efforts.
"I talk about [doping] because this team has taken a very public stance and we need to stand by that," he said after Monday's race. "To be quiet about it is not correct."
Vaughters' frank talk continues to ruffle some feathers in the peloton, though he is not an outcast; this fall, he was re-elected president of pro cycling's team association, the AIGCP.
"There are two distinct schools – the ones who say let's continue to discuss doping and the other is let's race clean, but talk about bike racing," says Ben Delaney, editor-in-chief of VeloNews, an American cycling magazine. "I think some of the latter group feel miffed that Vaughters has to point out that he's won clean and think, 'Is that insinuating that everyone else isn't?' "
His typically sharp statements have become especially pointed this year with Spain's Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour winner and defending champion, riding in the race despite testing positive for the banned drug clenbuterol during the 2010 edition.
Indeed, Contador's travails – along with the US federal investigation of Lance Armstrong's alleged doping – continue to cast a dark shadow over pro cycling, despite Garmin-Cervélo's success this week.
An article published Tuesday morning in the French newspaper Le Monde reminded fans that, in the last 15 years, just 12 of the 68 podium finishers in cycling's three Grand Tours haven't been involved in doping scandal.
'A constant war'
Doping and bike riding have been constant companions for almost a century.
In the 1920s, riders fueled up with pot belge, a nasty mélange of heroin, cocaine, and other drugs. In the 1950s and 60s, amphetamines ruled – Italy's Fausto Coppi, twice a Tour de France champion, famously said that he only took amphetamines when necessary, which he said was all the time.
Even Vaughters told Le Figaro that he was "part of the doped generation" of riders. When asked this week about whether he had ever doped, Vaughters mentioned "past mistakes" but declined to elaborate.
Instead, he preferred to look to the future – and his team's continued fight against doping.
"It's a constant war," he said. "We have to keep on it."


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The ShadowBox is a feat of science; it allows the user to record and "view back" in 3D and statistical form the movement of whatever object they attach it to. And while first programmed (and made waterproof) for use in the sport of wakeboarding, many new, downloadable sport and general science applications are on the way, including a GENERIC recording function that will allow for stats and 3D view recording of all types of objects.
The size of a deck of cards, at work inside the ShadowBox is a complex array of sensors and software algorithms, each of which serves a valuable data gathering and/or interpretation task. Viewable directly on the box are ride stats and individual tricks in "mini-3D". Uploading your ride data to a PC (and soon Mac) allows the user to share and post ride stats, send a 3D ride to a friend or view an entire ride in a richer, more "bells and whistles" 3D format.
The ShadowBox has two different mounting systems available: The Mounting Boot (a universal mounting system that works on flat and slightly un-even surfaces) and the Wake Plate (a hard plate system designed specifically for wakeboarding, but will also have other sport mounting applications).
The ShadowBox team has selected a solid group of test riders to give feedback and help shape the product into the future, including such notables as Rusty Malinowski, Shaun Murray and Mike Schwenne. Many others are getting involved as the ShadowBox is just now shipping.
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Xabi Alonso signs Real Madrid deal
Xabi Alonso has signed a new two-year contract extension with Real Madrid, the player and club have both confirmed.
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The 32 year old midfielder's current deal at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu was due to end in June, and in recent months it had been rumoured to be considering offers from a host of Europe's top clubs including Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool.
The situation had been an increasing concern for Blancos coach Carlo Ancelotti, who had regularly encouraged the club and the player to agree terms, and Bernabeu fans, who have cheered the Basque player and chanted "Alonso Stay" during recent games.
It appeared such worries would soon be over when reports circulated widely that the player and his agent Inaki Ibanez were at the Bernabeu finalising the agreement with Madrid president Florentino Perez.
Alonso himself announced he was staying via twitter -- saying "This will continue to be my home for two more years. A pleasure to let you know. Very, very happy ¡¡Hala Madrid!!".
Esta seguirá siendo mi casa por dos años más. Un placer comunicároslo. Muy muy feliz ¡¡Hala Madrid!! pic.twitter.com/hURnYccz3W
— Xabi Alonso (@XabiAlonso) January 8, 2014
Madrid soon released a club statement with more details of the agreement that ties him to the Liga giants for the next two years
"Real Madrid communicates the extension of the contract linking Xabi Alonso with the club for two more seasons, until June 30, 2016," the statement said. "The player will talk in front of the media next Friday Jan. 10 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu's press room at 13.30."
.@XabiAlonso firmó su acuerdo de renovación con el Real Madrid http://t.co/Q0n6YLDXBE #halamadrid pic.twitter.com/Q7x5v6ejlw
— Real Madrid C. F. (@realmadrid) January 8, 2014
Alonso joined Madrid in summer 2009 for Liverpool for 30 million euros, and has since played 204 games for the club, winning one La Liga title, one Copa del Rey and one Spanish Supercup.
The contract is reported to be worth six million euros a year after tax, and includes a possibility to extend for another 12 months should both parties wish to do so.
The Spain international is currently hampered by an ear problem which will see him sit out Thursday's Copa del Rey last 16 first leg at home to Osasuna.
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Facebook hits the public markets this morning.
The IPO was priced at $38 last night. That's not the price you will be able to buy it at, though. That's the price all the institutional investors, and clients of the underwriters get it at.
What price will you pay? It depends! The stock will probably hit the market trading in the $40-$50 range, and then it could explode higher, and then either settle at price for the day, or collapse, or skyrocket.
The open is at 11 AM.
If you want to take a guess about where the stock lands, log your vote here.
Now, before you dive in and decide to take a position one way or another, here are a few things you need to know about Facebook.
The company has 900 million users and it's a very strong business. It's earning $1 billion in profit on $4 billion in revenues.
However, everything is relative. As good a business as that is, it's not Google good. It's not Apple good. And at the current IPO pricing, Facebook has to be a much better business in the near future.
The company's revenue growth has been decelerating at a rate that is worse than other hot tech companies prior to their IPOs. Part of the reason for this deceleration is that Facebook is IPOing at a later stage in its life than those other companies.
But, that's irrelevant for investors.
So, what's the bull's case for Facebook? Unfortunately, it comes down to faith. You have to have faith that Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the rest of the executives at Facebook will discover a magical money making product that will justify its valuation.
Right now, advertisers are trashing Facebook's display ads. And the company seems to be flailing about searching for that next big revenue stream.
However, it has some of the smartest people on the planet attacking this problem.
So, the question for you, as investor, or just a person who wants to have a smart opinion is this: Are those people smart enough to find a spigot of money inside Facebook's massive platform?
For more check out some of our best stories on Facebook and its IPO:
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China's food safety boss resigns after 53,000 children fall ill
The head of China's food safety watchdog resigned Monday amid a scandal over tainted baby formula that made nearly 53,000 infants fall ill, state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Li Changjiang stepped down with the approval of China's cabinet.
Li's agency is responsible for ensuring that China's food supply chain is safe. His resignation comes after the industrial chemical melamine was blamed for causing kidney stones and kidney failure in babies.
The chemical was found in infant formula and other milk products from 22 of China's dairy companies.
Xinhua said Wang Yong had replaced Li as the director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Although Xinhua said only that Li had resigned after infants had become sick after consuming tainted milk products, the widespread nature of the crisis reflects a systemic breakdown in supervision of the dairy industry.
Infant formula and other milk products have been pulled from stores around the country and Chinese imports from liquid milk to instant coffee mix to milk-based candy have been banned around Asia.
On Monday the World Health Organization demanded stricter monitoring of the industry.
Sanlu Group Co., the dairy at the centre of the scandal, and several other leading companies found to have tainted milk had been given inspection-free status by China's product quality watchdog.
That privilege has since been rescinded, but WHO China representative Hans Troedsson stressed it was only a first step and that quality issues can crop up at any point in the supply chain, from the farm to the retail outlet.
"It's clearly something that is not acceptable and needs to be rectified and corrected," he said.
The official number of sick children jumped late Sunday from 6,200 to nearly 53,000.
More than 80 per cent of the 12,892 children hospitalized in recent weeks were two years old or younger, the Health Ministry said. Of those in hospitals, 104 are in serious condition.
Another 39,965 children received outpatient treatment at hospitals and were considered "basically recovered," the ministry said.
Four babies' deaths have been blamed on tainted milk powder.
The ministry did not explain the sudden increase in the number of cases, but it suggested health officials were combing through hospital records from May through August to trace the origins of the contamination. The deaths of three infants linked to tainted infant formula occurred in those months, the Health Ministry said.
The WHO was having discussions with Chinese officials on how to strengthen its food quality system, Troedsson said. Local authorities need increased training to create a "more robust reporting system," he said.
"It is important to know if information was withheld, where and why it was withheld," he said. "Was it ignorance by provincial authorities or was it that they neglected to report it? Because if it was ignorance there is a need to have much better training and education … if it is neglect then it is of course more serious."
Investigators say some raw milk suppliers, in hopes of clearing more profit, may have watered down their milk to increase volume and then added melamine, which is high in nitrogen and artificially appears to boost protein content.
Serious food and product safety scandals have been a feature of Chinese life. The country's image took a beating last year when exports of medicines, toys, pet food ingredients and other products killed and sickened people and animals in North and South America.
The chemical in the dangerous pet food was the same as in the milk scandal — melamine.
At the time, the government promised to overhaul inspection procedures and crack down on companies that took shortcuts.


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Justin Bieber Angrily Cuts Off Interview: Doesn't Want To Talk About One Direction
Oh no! Justin Bieber gets extremely upset after radio DJ compares him to Justin Timberlake and makes a joke about One Direction and Justin's mother! Things get really tense and he hangs up the phone — listen to the interview!
Justin Bieber did a very strained interview with Detroit's 106.7 show, "Mojo in the Morning" today and he ended up hanging up the phone on Mojo! Everything went down after questions involving One Direction and Harry Styles.
The interview with Justin started out friendly and sweet with the DJ complimenting Justin on his charity work and his new Believe album but things got a bit awkward when Mojo tried to give Justin praise on the song "Boyfriend" by saying "I thought it was Justin Timberlake." Mojo adds, "I hope you take this as a compliment, I really mean it as that."
But the Biebs was not pleased. "Man that's crazy 'cause our voices sound nothing alike. I mean, saying I sound like someone else is not really a compliment.
They continue the conversation, speaking about Mariah Yeater and Justin's song "Maria" and then Mojo brings up One Direction and Justin's new friendship with the group. Bieber calls them "good kids" and said "They were in town a while ago and came over and stuff," although he didn't seem interested in speaking about it.
This is when the interview really started going downhill. "Do you worry about Harry [Styles] being around your mom since it seems like he likes older women?" joked Mojo. "I think you should worry about me around your mom, bro," snapped Bieber.
"Justin my mom's dead so unfortunately that wouldn't work," revealed the DJ, whose mom is in fact deceased.
At this point Justin hangs up the phone and his rep from the record company comes on and says "Hi so he got a little upset with the question and he probably won't be coming back."
The DJ explained to his fans that the reason he asked Justin about Harry Styles and his mom in the first place is because in a recent interview Selena said Justin joked about it since Harry's known for his taste in older women! So this was actually a joke Justin had apparently made in the first place!
What do you guys think? Do you think Mojo went to far in his questioning or was Justin overreacting in his responses? Let us know in your comments!
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Cisco Live UK: Day 3, Part 1
Day 3 at Cisco Live UK is underway!
One thing we truly appreciate about Cisco Live UK is the global nature of our attendees. Not only do we get to see our eclectic, enthusiatic, and worldly customers, but also we get to see our Cisco counterparts from all over the globe.
Take for example Ahmed Farrag. Ahmed is the Director of Business Development for Emerging Solutions Ecosystems, and he is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We first met Ahmed at Cisco Live US last year. This year, he was very impressed with the customer presence from Emerging Markets, the Middle East, and EMEAR (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia):
We can often forget how large and global Cisco really is. We have over 63,000 employees in over 460 offices worldwide with a presence in over 165 countries. Considering that there are 196 countries in the world, the fact that we have a presence in over 84% of them is quite impressive!
Also, the fact that we create and deliver the technologies and solutions that allow people and businesses to bridge those continental gaps makes it all the more exciting.
Be sure to tweet to us your international experiences at Cisco Live UK with the hashtag: #CLEUR
2012 Olympics
Being here in London has also whet our appetite for the Olympics. For those who don't know, Cisco is the dedicated network infrastructure provider of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We're extremely excited, and we'll tell you more about that later!
Our booth
If you haven't made it to our booth yet, then we're excited to have you stop by. Please see the floor plan to find us!
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LDWF conducts sampling on oil slick south of Grand Isle and impacted shoreline at Elmer's Island
March 21, 2011 - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is investigating two reports of oiling off the Louisiana coast received this weekend. Samples are being collected and analyzed by Louisiana State University's School of the Coast and Environment.
Saturday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard received reports of an oil sheen south of Grand Isle, La. In addition to an investigation ongoing by the Coast Guard, LDWF officials are sampling the suspected oil sheen for analysis and fingerprinting. Samples taken by LDWF are being submitted to a laboratory at LSU's School of the Coast and Environment. Analysis will determine if the substance is oil and, if so, if it is from the Deepwater Horizon MC252 oil spill; this analysis is called fingerprinting. Results from this analysis will be available tomorrow, Tuesday, March 22.
Suspected oiling was also reported to LDWF officials this weekend at Elmer's Island, a 230-acre tract of barrier beachfront located on the southwestern tip of Jefferson Parish, and at Fourchon Beach in Lafourche Parish.
Samples from suspected oil at Elmer's were collected by LDWF officials on Sunday afternoon and are being analyzed by the same laboratory at LSU's School of the Coast and Environment. Results from the analysis will also be available tomorrow.
State officials are on scene at Elmer's Island with sorbents, barges and air boats as response efforts are conducted. LDWF officials this weekend requested absorbent boom from the Coast Guard for impacted areas. While only a portion of the boom has been utilized along a breach of the shoreline at Elmer's Island, 12,000 feet of boom is on site. State officials have also requested skimmers from the Coast Guard.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is charged with managing and protecting Louisiana's abundant natural resources. For more information, visit us atwww.wlf.louisiana.gov on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/ldwffb or follow us on Twitter @LDWF.
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SRS Manual
Pursuant to Section 25.075, Florida Statutes, the Supreme Court developed an uniform case reporting system. The Summary Reporting System (SRS), as it is commonly known, provides the Office of the State Courts Administrator with data which assists the Supreme Court in its management and oversight role. While the SRS is used as a workload measure for judges, it is not intended to measure the efficiency of the judiciary, state attorneys or public defenders.
Table of Contents
(Available in PDF Format)
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Circuit Criminal
- Circuit Civil
- Circuit Family
- Probate
- County Criminal
- County Civil
- Offender Based Transaction System (OBTS)
- SRS Forms 2010
- Audit Trails
- Glossary
Additional information is available from a series of SRS technical memoranda issues by the Office of State Courts Administrator and the SRS Forums Group.


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The mantra for any Mac user should be: back up, back up, back up! Without an adequate backup, each day there is a chance that all your precious data could be lost.
Traditional hard drives are made up of tiny moving parts. All it takes for disaster to strike is for one of those parts to go awry and it's curtains for your documents. Even SSD drives aren't immune. Stories of failures and reliability issues for the super-fast drives are out there.
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Chronosync - $40 (£24)
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Intego Backup Express - £6.99
SuperDuper! - £18 Twin - €39 (£34)
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Time Machine is built into the Mac and in typical Apple fashion, it looks great and just works. It is, it seems, the perfect backup tool for your Mac. However, our advice is to use Time Machine in addition to another backup tool.
A belt-and-braces approach will reduce your risks of data loss to an absolute minimum. There's nothing wrong with Time Machine, of course, and its incremental backups can be invaluable, but it's not the final word.
The advantage of dipping into your hard drive and recovering a file that you've accidentally deleted is fantastic, but it's just one aspect of the backup process. Undeniably, Time Machine runs silently and in the background, which is what you want from a backup tool, but having two separate processes is essential if you really want to protect your data.
It's also worth noting that Time Machine isn't infallible and we've heard horror stories where Time Machine has failed to keep itself up to date. This is why you should also run another local backup if you value your data.
Test one: Interface design
Backing up is a dull process and can be somewhat baffling to the novice user. The interfaces of these apps are all a bit technical, but in general none of them are terrible.
Naturally, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we liked ChronoSync, Twin and Intego Backup Express more than the others here. SuperDuper! may well appeal to those who like a very simple, minimalist interface - incredibly minimalist in fact.
Of the six tools on test it was Twin that most appealed. The design just makes sense to us and along with ChronoSync seems the most 'Lion-like'.
Carbon Copy Cloner, Get Backup Pro and SuperDuper! don't quite have the polish of the other three. The more an application looks the part, the easier it is to trust that software to do the job properly. Obviously, it's only a small part, but nonetheless a reassuringly well-designed interface is much more likely to put your mind at rest.
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There's a clear winner here as it's incredibly difficult to argue with free. Carbon Copy Cloner is the old man of backup utilities for Mac nowadays, but it remains free. The entire feature set is there - you don't have to pay to unlock any extras. The developer does ask for donations, but that's entirely at your discretion and the software won't suddenly stop working just because you don't pay.
Intego Backup Express comes in as the next cheapest, but being a Mac App Store app it lacks the clone feature. A clone operation requires admin access and Mac App Store apps can't have that. SuperDuper! and Get Backup Pro come in at about £20, which is still great value for money. Twin costs €39 (£34) and ChronoSync $40 (£25).
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BeatTips.com Beat Battle, February 2012 Winner Announced
Castro Leads the Field in the Second Contest of the Year
|By AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
The winner: Castro Beats - "Oh Lord"
Here's the February, 2012 BeatTips.com Beat Battle breakdown. You can also read it in TBC at: Winner of the February 2012 BeatTips.com Beat Battle Is...
And you can hear all of the beats for February 2012's battle here: BeatTips.com Beat Battle, February 2012
Castro - "Oh Lord"
You've been hammering a way at your own style and sound now for a while. And I can say, without any trepidation, that you do have your own style and sound… It's all here! There's the "Castro drums"—the booming, well-balanced kick that shapes the groove, the tucked in punch-snare, and the truncated tambourine hi-hat sound. There's the synth-line stacking; you're a pro at this now (you've been practicing your chords or what? dope!). And the two most important things that caught me about this joint: (1) the dead-steady rhythm; and (2) the furious, hungry feel that the beat gives off. This beat is so pure to its own style and sound that it could run the gambit of uses—everything from gutter rap, to air-out-the-club music, to sci-fiction/mystery film noir.
Special points: That minor embellishment at the 1:02 mark is powerful, not so much because you can hear, but because you can feel the change and rise of tension. And the synth stinger that crashes in around the 1:20 mark raises the ante even further. All around solid composition!
One more thing, what also makes your style and sound so interesting is that your drums pay homage to your natural sampling intuition and instincts, while your synth lines service your non-sampling influences.
2nd Place:
Uhohbeats - "This is My Prayer"
This beat was similar to the one you entered into the January battle. That's no surprise, though, because you used the same source material, no? Either way, there is enough of a difference for this joint to stand on its own. Now, I don't know if this joint was the "A" or "B" version, but I was drawn to this one more. It's slower, and therefore, it simmers and grips you. Most importantly, this simmering feeling coupled with the relaxed drumwork leaves more room for a rapper to dig in to.
3rd Place:
Waldo - "Question/Answer"
Beautiful. The groove is serious on this. The drumwork is deceptively simple, that up and down tumbling drum pattern with delicate brushes of percussion? Yo, that's not easy to pull off, and you crush it. This beat acts like it wants to lull you to sleep, but it's the drums that turn the otherwise passive sample into danger.
Segundo Award for Consistency and Contribution
The DJ Pas Rhyme Award for the Beat that Made Me Write a Rhyme to It (All New Award!)
Castro – "Oh Lord"
(For breakdown, see 1st Place breakdown above)
Get Paid With Heart Award for the #1 Crossover Joint that Still Pays Homage to the Beatmaking Craft
TBC Most Improved Award
Anomaly – "Aqui Te Esperare"
Your sense of rhythm—or perhaps better stated, your ability to incorporate a clear, sustainable rhythm structure in your beats—has improved substantially. You're approaching that one plateau of understanding that every good musician eventually reaches: to enjoy and embrace simplicity is the key to anything complex or otherwise that you can imagine. Your ideas used to be sporadic, unfocused. Now, I hear a deeper level of control and direction in your music. You're no longer trying to force all of your musical influences. Instead, you're toning everything down and getting to the heart of what you want to say with each specific beat.
One thing, though. I strongly recommend that you look into sampling your own drum sounds.
Honorable Mentions:
d.C. – "Concert for Rose"
The drums on this joint were bangin' harder than usual. Good! This beat had a more sinister feel but with your customary audio polish. Also, this beat had more edge to it than your previous "cinematic" efforts. One thing's for certain, when you make harder, straight-forward drum arrangements, the overall beat sounds more raw and gutter.
Rex Rey – "Music Makers & Dreamers"
Solid all-around sound scope. The ambient feel clashing (in a good way) with the break-beat drum feel made for an interesting mix. Saxophone parts were excellent, and the understated bass line "glued" together the whole piece nicely.
Speologic – "Science"
This beat is very similar to the Boyz N Da Hood theme song. Have you seen that movie? Main differences between that theme song and your beat is that your beat is set at a faster pitch (higher key) and the drums swing more. The saxophone parts work well. The overall rising nature of the piece, along with the shuffling drums, is what really makes this beat.
One thing, though. This joint is more film score than "beat" beat.
Mike Millz – "Stolen Emotions"
The primary sample is solid and looped perfectly. But the drum programming lacks a clear direction and commitment. With such a powerful sample, the drum pattern has to be tight and steady. With this type of sample and arrangement, a simple "K K S K K S" pattern would have worked just fine. At certain points (too many), the kick is all over the place. A misplaced kick drum is a sure-fire sign of a less effective drum program. Trust the structure of the most dominant part of your beat (in this case, the primary sample), then build an accompaniment for it. Don't think that you have to do more with the drums. Just do what works—supply a solid backbeat and call it a day. (Hit me up through email, so I can break it down further.)
Andy Mayhem – "So Tired"
You can hear punches (where you're "punching in" the samples). Also, I was waiting for something else to happen, but it never did. As the beat is, it sounds like a shell idea.
SC Beatz – "Hight Votage"
Your consistency is here. The changes are flawless. My only concern is that this is more film/television music/score. Sure, it's a beat, but I had trouble envisioning what type of rapper it would be for. Again, this joint is solid. I just hear your more R&B polished side in it, and I'm not sure if that was your intention or not.
Don Productions – "Who Are You"
On the surface, this beat is put together decently enough… But here's the thing, it sounds too contrived, nothing distinct! It's like a knock-off caricature of a familiar idea, concept, and sound. It doesn't sound like it's your own style and sound. In fact, it sounds mentally forced like you're following some conceptual script. I can say this because I've heard a number of your beats, and some had a natural feeling, whereas this one doesn't. For instance, here you incorporated a number of unnecessary clap hits (listen to the 1:02 mark, and the 1:24 mark). I never heard distractions like that in your beats from a couple of years ago. Stuff like that happens when you're looking for extra stuff to add to the jumbo stew…
I know you're still working your way through the Maschine and all; and in fact, I don't know what you used to make this joint. But my big warning to you use is to recapture your ability to insert feeling into your music before it's too late. That live beat-battle-intentionally-no-sample-Dr. Dre-keys-with-a-side-of-Just-Blaze-elements will never sound bad, because to do it requires some base level of proficiency. But that said, I don't think it will ever lead you to your own distinct style and sound.
Note: This is two beats now back to back that shared these same non-distinct, forced qualities…
Brandon – "DRMG"
Sounds like a rough idea. Try turning the tempo up and adding a drum fill at every 8th or 16th bar. That Stylistics song is inviting, but unless you can make it swing, or chop it up into new moving parts, it might not be worth messing with.
MelloKid – "What"
I liked this. I wanted to point out that the heart of the beat happens at 0:23 through 0:46, before that change. Listen to the tightness of this part of the beat. Think about who could rhyme over it, then go back and listen from the 0:47 mark and ask yourself if it would enhance their rhyme flow or distract from it.
Final thoughts.
Cool thing about this battle was that you could hear the directional moves that several members have made. That's important, because a clear commitment to one direction or another leads to your own style and sound.
In comparison to last month's battle, I'd say that January's battle was the more competitive one; and so that's the bar to beat for each month…
My apologies for posting the results of this battle so late. I took an extra week to listen to everybody's beat two more times before I made my final notes. As a result of the delay, March's battle will begin on the 19th, and the submission deadline will be extended until the 27th.
Finally, I want to welcome all of the new members to TBC! Each month we're growing stronger, and I count on everybody to raise the bar of our discussions. Thank you for doing so.
One more note: The BeatTips.com Beat Battle is for BeatTips.com subscribers and TBC members only. If you have not subscribed to BeatTips.com, please do so before the next battle begins. You can subscribe to BeatTips.com by going to the home page, [url]http://www.beattips.com[/url] and clicking the "Get email updates" button near the top right, just beneath the menu bar. TBC members who are not subscribed to BeatTips.com will not be able to participate in future BeatTips.com Beat Battles.
The March BeatTips.com Beat Battle will begin on Monday, March 19, 2012!!!
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