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Disgraced former South African Cricket captain Hansie Cronje has been killed in a plane crash in his home country of South Africa. It is believed Cronje was the sole passenger along with two pilots on a cargo plane that came down in bad weather in the countrys south.
Cronje was banned for life in 2000 for bringing the game of Cricket into disrepute after it was alleged he accepted money to throw matches and was later found guilty of the corruption charge.
While Cronje was a troubled figure, the news of his death will come as a shock to many and our condolences go out to his family and loved ones as Hansie never had the chance to redeem himself for all his past wrongs.
For all his shortcomings in the past few years, hopefully people will realise Cronje was just a man who made mistakes like you and me and a man who led his nation to victory on many occassions but unfortunately, he will never have the opportunity to write those wrongs.
Although I was critical at the time of his darkest hours, I can't help but feel quite saddened by the news of his passing and a certain sense of guilt for judging a man who was human.
The sporting public will hopefully remember him as a fine cricketer and leader of his country as the cricketing world in the next few hours comes to terms with this tragedy.


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The new strategy to prevent flooding in the Lower Mainland may involve more dredging.
Plans to protect 50-billion dollars worth of property could include further deepening the Fraser River.
Tom Lively with Fraser River Pile & Dredge says his company already has a long term contract to safely remove sediment deposits for Port Metro Vancouver.
"Mostly, it's going into pre-loads for future buildings. A significant amount of that sand was used, for instance, on the South Fraser Perimeter Road, quite a large volume was used in the Port Mann Bridge road project."
Lively admits dredging is not possible in some areas because they're in a seismic zone.
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World Gym, the iconic brand for bodybuilding and seriously fun fitness, announced the opening of its 22nd location in Taiwan with six more fitness centers under development by year-end as part of its expanding activities on the island.
With 6,000 memberships sold during a 10-week presale period, this 40,000sq. ft. facility is now open from 6:00 AM to 12:00 AM, sevendays a week. The new gym boasts top-of-the-line workout equipment includingVirtual Active™ treadmills, elliptical machines, and stationary bikes that allow you to work out in different countries and cities virtually.This location offers many amenities including a spa, sauna, steam room, Group X classes, spinning classes, TRX training, a boxing ring, and a functional zone training center. Members can also enjoy services such as towel service, personal training, and nutrition/weight loss counseling.
Co-owners John Caraccio and Michael Sanciprian have established one of the most profitable fitness companies in Asia. Over the last five years, World Gym Taiwan has increased its revenue by over 500% and now has 22 locations with more than 2,200 employees. "The World Gym brand is extremely popular in Asia," said John Caraccio, "It has been the ideal brand for us as we continue to find opportunities to grow."
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text: Keuhkot - "Finance Corpse" (Laskeutumisalusastia) Keuhkot, the Finnish musician Kalevi Rainio, can probably not be fully understood by listening to Laskeutumisalusastia, or for that matter, any of his other albums. His songs, in inscrutable Finnish, natter on in impassioned, staccato dissonance, meshes of looped rhythm and synthesizer punctuated by sharp stabbing guitar chords. Google translator makes only the most elusive sense of the lyrics, chanted in a monotone, continually, without audible line breaks, unearthing stray phrases about the natural world, consumerism, political and social mores. There is a rabid, jittery, visionary propulsiveness to the whole enterprise that recalls Beefheart, early Pere Ubu and The Ex, but what it means, what it aims at, what its meant to convey? A mystery. Video of Keuhkot performing clarifies things somewhat. One shows a wire-y bearded eccentric, rigged out in a home-made headlamp and mic apparatus that resembles a junkyard halo. A film plays in the background of a sort of warehouse space as Rainio punches at floor pedals, slashes at guitar strings, barks out unreadable phrases. Finance-ay corpse-ay, he singsongs darkly, undecipherably, against an angsty clatter of guitar, a detuned keyboard stagger of a circus march. The sense of menace is palpable, but what exactly is the danger? Gutteral whispers thread through the scrambling, rushing, densely off-center Siirtokunta (Colony), an intricate chaos of funk and punk and noise. Keuhkots part of the Ektro website (again decoded from Finnish, badly, by Google Translator) seems to suggest that process takes priority over end, that Laskeutumisalusastia is the act, rather than the result, of deconstructing and recontextualizing. The name Keuhkot means lungs, a metaphor perhaps for a natural process that transforms what goes in (oxygen) into what comes out (carbon dioxide). If the result is different from the original composition or concept, it has succeeded - the work is finished, writes Rainio. If the result is different from the original composition or a concept, but sounds bad, then the work is started. Recording on CD, obviously, stops the process in mid-phrase, halting Rainios exploration exactly where it hit tape and turning what may have been an ongoing dialogue with sound into a definitive statement. Yet, even repeated plays suggest how fluid these compositions could be, how easily they could have spasmed off into entirely other directions. Finnish speakers may get more of the argument (Rainio helpfully includes a lyric sheet, in Finnish, with the album art), but anyone can hear how forcefully and eccentrically Keuhkot interrogates his source material, how willfully he shapes it to his own ends. By Jennifer Kelly


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This tea smells like some kind of soda in the bag. I made it to hopefully help me through the Genetics and Evolution test I have to take in an hour. I didn't get much of the grenadine or vanilla flavor, mostly just the tea itself. I'll have to try this in different ways and see what works best.


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Ryan Braun or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cheating in Sports
Ryan Braun doesn't have a problem; America does.
The Milwaukee Brewers slugger and reigning NL MVP may or may not have cheated this season. He may or may not have taken an illegal substance.
The circumstances surrounding his recent positive test for grossly out-of-whack testosterone ratios call the test slightly into question, but the most likely resolution for this kerfuffle remains a suspension and a stain on Braun's record.
Therein lies the current confusion that has taken hold of ESPN's Buster Olney, FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal and others.
It's not Braun's legacy or reputation with which they seem most engaged. They, and others, have broadened their scope on this story and have made it about baseball in general.
What hurts the sport most is that Braun is one of baseball's young pillars. It's one thing if a Manny Ramirez gets nailed with a positive test, because Ramirez's roots extend back to a time when baseball was in its wild, wild west era, the so-called steroids era, when a phone call made by a teammate could get you a package of PEDs in your clubhouse locker the next day -- and nobody did anything about it.
So much rides on the outcome of Braun's appeal. The image of the player, perception of the sport and reputation of the commissioner all are at stake. And, of course, the NL Central champion Brewers' 2012 season will be in jeopardy if free-agent first baseman Prince Fielder departs and Braun is lost for the first 50 games.
The implication of these sentiments is that Braun's personal integrity reflects on the legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of the sport he plays for a living.
The accusation (it's not implicit in Rosenthal's piece; it's stated clearly) is that MLB must be deficient, because its testing system cannot stop the use of performance-enhancing drugs, which Rosenthal "detest[s]" and Olney implicitly condemns.
It's time to stop this.
Braun's test is no stain on the game. It is to their credit that both the players' association and the league came together to implement a system whereby drug cheats consistently get caught.
Manny Ramirez has felt that sting; now so has Braun. These were players the league did not want to smear. That only reinforces the validity of the system.
If you prioritize a "clean" game, you have to be willing to take the exposition and punishment of rule-breakers as GOOD NEWS.
Individuals will always try to circumvent restrictions. The true test of success in this cat-and-mouse game is not deterrence; it's merely thorough enforcement.
The more players caught, the higher the perceived risk for others who might decide to cheat. It's all about changing the variables in the risk-reward equation that leads to that choice.
For that matter, it's a strange trip we take from a positive test for synthetic testosterone to an annulment of all baseball merit.
Try to draw a parallel from steroid use in the sporting arena to the average workaday desk or factory job.
Do you picture corporate espionage? Cooked books? Corners cut on the production line?
It's more akin to popping some caffeine pills or mild amphetamines and working overnight, or through lunch. Not only do these things affect productivity only indirectly, but they are also things we would call dedication and sacrifice outside the sporting arena.
Why football players are expected to risk their long-term health by going out there every Sunday, but are restricted in terms of their right to prepare themselves fully for that sacrifice, is beyond me.
We still call NASCAR "stock racing," because the cars used are (ostensibly) stock models, not souped up or physically altered the way dragsters and hot-rods are. Yet, the unofficial slogan is, "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."
Cheating—testing the boundaries—has been the impetus for the sport's evolution throughout its history.
In many ways, the same is true of every sport. It's certainly true of baseball.
Synthetic testosterone, steroids, HGH and similar substances encourage muscle growth and recovery. They do not cure a poor plate approach, nor speed up either the rotational velocity of the shoulder or the snap of the wrists.
Workouts that do those things can be augmented by these substances, but even those do not fix things like lacking vision or hand-eye coordination. They do not promote agility.
Baseball is a game ill-fitted to ill-gotten success.
Manny Ramirez used, but as Olney noted, so did Mike Jacobs. So did Alex Sanchez. Simply put, the impact of these substances is grossly overstated, maybe imagined.
That's not a satisfactory answer to the problem, of course, because the problem itself is one of imagination.
The viewing public imagines that athletes should be role models, and attaches personal virtue to their every professional action. We know nothing of most professional baseball, football and basketball players, save their work product.
We love to watch that product. It is entertainment of the most engrossing sort.
The sheer athleticism of football and basketball stars, and the fine-grained skills of top baseball players, are as thrilling to the average fan as the strategy and drama and personal interest that round out the game.
Understanding this, it's pure hypocrisy to stigmatize and ostracize players who test positive for drugs that make those feats possible.
Worse is the hypocrisy of those who would pillory MLB for catching Braun, or anyone else.
Has anyone taken a look around the NFL or NBA recently?
The percentage of those athletes using and abusing banned substances in order to optimize performance is far higher than the percentage of baseball players doing so.
The NFL and NBA just aren't catching their crooks.
Incidents in recent years have shredded the legacies of Tiger Woods, Brett Favre, Joe Paterno and Michael Jordan.
Under a sufficiently powerful lens, every iconic figure eventually crumples.
If American consumers cannot distinguish these men from their achievements, they need to withdraw from their investment in sport as a social arena.
The heights these players scale remain impressive; putting them on pedestals personally only engenders disappointment and disillusion.
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The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G. | |
Born | Christopher George Latore Wallace May 21, 1972 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Died | March 9, 1997 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
(aged 24)
Cause of death | Ballistic trauma |
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Occupation | Rapper |
Years active | 1992–1997 |
Spouse(s) | Faith Evans (1994–1997; his death) |
Children | 2, T'yanna Wallace and Christopher Wallace Jr. |
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Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie, or Biggie Smalls,[1] was an American rapper. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time.[2]
Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. When he released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994, he became a central figure in the East Coast hip hop scene and increased New York's visibility in the genre at a time when West Coast hip hop was dominant in the mainstream.[3] The following year, Wallace led his childhood friends to chart success through his protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the growing East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud.
On March 9, 1997, Wallace was killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. His double-disc album Life After Death, released 16 days later, rose to No. 1 on the U.S. album charts and was certified Diamond in 2000 by the Recording Industry Association of America, one of the few hip hop albums to receive this certification.[4] Wallace was noted for his "loose, easy flow",[5] dark semi-autobiographical lyrics and storytelling abilities, sometimes changing his pitch on songs. Two more albums have been released since his death. He has certified sales of 17 million units in the United States.[6]
Life and career
1972–94: Early life, arrests, career beginnings and first child
Wallace was born in St. Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, New York, on May 21, 1972, as the only child of Voletta Wallace, a Jamaican preschool teacher, and Selwyn George Latore, a Jamaican welder and politician.[7][8] His father left the family when Wallace was two years old, and his mother worked two jobs while raising him. Wallace grew up in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn on 226 St. James Place[9] near the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, considered at the time to be within the latter neighborhood's boundaries.[7][10]
At Queen of All Saints Middle School, Wallace excelled in class, winning several awards as an English student. He was nicknamed "Big" because of his overweight size by age 10.[11] He said he started dealing drugs when he was around the age of 12. His mother, often away at work, did not know of her son's drug dealing until Wallace was an adult.[12]
At his request, Wallace transferred out of Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School to attend George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, which future rappers DMX, Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes also attended at the time. According to his mother, Wallace was still a good student, but he developed a "smart-ass" attitude at the new school.[8] At age seventeen, Wallace dropped out of school and became further involved in crime. In 1989, he was arrested on weapons charges in Brooklyn and sentenced to five years' probation. In 1990, he was arrested on a violation of his probation.[13] A year later, Wallace was arrested in North Carolina for dealing crack cocaine. He spent nine months in jail before making bail.[12]
Wallace began rapping when he was a teenager. He entertained people on the streets and performed with local groups the Old Gold Brothers and the Techniques.[3] After being released from jail, Wallace made a demo tape under the name Biggie Smalls, a reference to a character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again as well as his stature; he stood at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and weighed 300 to 380 lb (140–170 kg) according to differing accounts.[14] The tape was reportedly made with no serious intent of getting a recording deal. However, it was promoted by New York-based DJ Mister Cee, who had previously worked with Big Daddy Kane, and it was heard by the editor of The Source.[13]
In March 1992, Wallace was featured in The Source's Unsigned Hype column, dedicated to aspiring rappers, and made a recording off the back of this success.[15] The demo tape was heard by Uptown Records A&R and record producer Sean Combs, who arranged for a meeting with Wallace. He was signed to Uptown immediately and made an appearance on label mates, Heavy D & the Boyz' "A Buncha Niggas" (from the album Blue Funk).[3][16] Soon after signing his recording contract, Combs was fired from Uptown and started a new label.[17] Wallace followed and in mid-1992, signed to Combs' new imprint label, Bad Boy Records.[18]
On August 8, 1993, Wallace's longtime girlfriend gave birth to his first child, T'yanna.[18] Wallace had split with the girlfriend for some time before T'yanna's birth.[19] Wallace wanted his daughter to complete her education, despite being a high school dropout himself. Wallace said that if his mother had promised him what he promised his daughter, everything she wanted, Wallace would have been not only a graduate but also at the top of his class.[20] He continued selling drugs after the birth to support his daughter financially. Once Combs discovered this, he forced Wallace to quit.[3]
Later in the year, Wallace gained exposure on a remix to Mary J. Blige's single "Real Love", under the pseudonym The Notorious B.I.G. He recorded under this name for the remainder of his career, after finding the original moniker "Biggie Smalls" was already in use.[21] "Real Love" peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was followed by a remix of Blige's "What's the 411?". He continued this success, to a lesser extent, on remixes with Neneh Cherry ("Buddy X") and reggae artist Super Cat ("Dolly My Baby", also featuring Combs) in 1993. In April 1993, his solo track, "Party and Bullshit", appeared on the Who's the Man? soundtrack.[22] In July 1994, he appeared alongside LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes on a remix to label mate Craig Mack's "Flava in Ya Ear", reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.[23]
1994: Ready to Die and marriage
On August 4, 1994, Wallace married R&B singer Faith Evans after they met at a Bad Boy photoshoot.[24] Five days later, Wallace had his first pop chart success as a solo artist with double A-side, "Juicy/Unbelievable", which reached No. 27 as the lead single to his debut album.[25]
Ready to Die was released on September 13, 1994, and reached No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart,[26] eventually being certified four times Platinum.[27] The album, released at a time when West Coast hip hop was prominent on US charts, according to Rolling Stone, "almost single-handedly... shifted the focus back to East Coast rap".[28] It immediately gained strong reviews and has received much praise in retrospect.[28][29] In addition to "Juicy", the record produced two hit singles: the Platinum-selling "Big Poppa", which reached No. 1 on the U.S. rap chart,[5] and "One More Chance" featuring Faith Evans, a loosely related remix of an album track and its best selling single.[citation needed]
Busta Rhymes claimed to have seen Wallace giving out free copies of Ready to Die from his home, which Rhymes reasoned as "his way of marketing himself."[30] Around the time of the album's release, Wallace became friends with Tupac Shakur, also a rapper. Cousin Lil' Cease recalled the pair being close, often traveling together whenever they were not active in furthering their careers. According to him, Wallace was a frequent guest at Shakur's home and they constantly spent time together when Shakur was in California or Washington, D.C..[31] It was claimed by Yukmouth, an Oakland emcee, that Wallace's style was inspired by that of Shakur.[32] Wallace also formed a friendship with Shaquille O'Neal, O'Neal remembering his first time hearing Wallace, during listening to the song "Gimme the Loot", where Wallace mentioned him in the lyrics and thereby attracted O'Neal to his music. O'Neal requested a collaboration with Wallace, which resulted in the song "You Can't Stop the Reign". Sean Combs related that Wallace would not do collaborations with "anybody he didn't really respect", adding that Wallace paid O'Neal "respect by shouting him out."[33] Daz Dillinger said in 2015 that Wallace and he were "cool". Wallace would travel to meet with him, and Dillinger recalled serving him cannabis and recording two songs with him.[34]
1995: Junior M.A.F.I.A., Conspiracy and coastal feud
In August 1995, Wallace's protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A. ("Junior Masters At Finding Intelligent Attitudes"), released their debut album Conspiracy. The group consisted of his friends from childhood and included rappers such as Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease, who went on to have solo careers.[35] The record went Gold and its singles, "Player's Anthem" and "Get Money" both featuring Wallace, went Gold and Platinum. Wallace continued to work with R&B artists, collaborating with R&B groups 112 (on "Only You") and Total (on "Can't You See"), with both reaching the top 20 of the Hot 100. By the end of the year, Wallace was the top-selling male solo artist and rapper on the U.S. pop and R&B charts.[3] In July 1995, he appeared on the cover of The Source with the caption "The King of New York Takes Over", a reference to his Frank White alias from the 1990 film King of New York. At the Source Awards in August 1995, he was named Best New Artist (Solo), Lyricist of the Year, Live Performer of the Year, and his debut Album of the Year.[36] At the Billboard Awards, he was Rap Artist of the Year.[13]
In his year of success, Wallace became involved in a rivalry between the East and West Coast hip hop scenes with Shakur, now his former friend. In an interview with Vibe in April 1995, while serving time in Clinton Correctional Facility, Shakur accused Uptown Records' founder Andre Harrell, Sean Combs, and Wallace of having prior knowledge of a robbery that resulted in him being shot five times and losing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry on the night of November 30, 1994. Though Wallace and his entourage were in the same Manhattan-based recording studio at the time of the shooting, they denied the accusation.[37] Wallace said: "It just happened to be a coincidence that he [Shakur] was in the studio. He just, he couldn't really say who really had something to do with it at the time. So he just kinda' leaned the blame on me."[38] In 2012, a man named Dexter Isaac, serving a life sentence for unrelated crimes, claimed that he attacked Shakur that night and that the robbery was orchestrated by James Rosemond aka Jimmy Henchman.[39]
Following his release from prison, Shakur signed to Death Row Records on October 15, 1995. Bad Boy Records and Death Row, now business rivals, became involved in an intense quarrel.[40]
1996: More arrests, Tupac Shakur's death and second child
Wallace began recording his second studio album in September 1995. The album, recorded in New York City, Trinidad, and Los Angeles, was interrupted during its 18 months of creation by injury, legal wranglings and the highly publicized hip hop dispute in which he was involved.[41] During this time, he also worked with R&B/pop singer, songwriter and producer Michael Jackson for the HIStory album.[42] Lil' Cease claimed in 2013 that Wallace denied his wishes to meet Jackson, citing that he did not "trust Michael with kids".[43]
On March 23, 1996, Wallace was arrested outside a Manhattan nightclub for chasing and threatening to kill two autograph seekers, smashing the windows of their taxicab and then pulling one of the fans out and punching them.[13] He pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service. In mid-1996, he was arrested at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey, for drug and weapons possession charges.[13]
In June 1996, Shakur released "Hit 'Em Up", a diss song in which he claimed to have had sex with Wallace's wife (at the time estranged) and that Wallace copied his style and image. Wallace referred to the first claim about his wife's pregnancy on Jay-Z's "Brooklyn's Finest" where he raps: "If Faye (Faith Evans, his wife at the time) have twins, she'd probably have two 'Pacs. Get it? 2Pac's?" However, Wallace did not directly respond to the record during his lifetime, stating in a 1997 radio interview that it was "not [his] style" to respond.[38]
Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 7, 1996, and died six days later on September 13, 1996 of complications from the gunshot wounds. Rumors of Wallace's involvement with Shakur's murder were reported almost immediately. A two-part series Chuck Philips wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2002, "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?", based on police reports and multiple sources reported that "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier" and that Wallace paid for the gun.[44][45] His family publicly denied the report,[46] producing documents purporting to show that the rapper was in New York and New Jersey at the time. The New York Times called the documents inconclusive, stating:
The pages purport to be three computer printouts from Daddy's House, indicating that Wallace was in the studio recording a song called Nasty Boy on the night Shakur was shot. They indicate that Wallace wrote half the session, was In and out/sat around and laid down a ref, shorthand for a reference vocal, the equivalent of a first take. But nothing indicates when the documents were created. And Louis Alfred, the recording engineer listed on the sheets, said in an interview that he remembered recording the song with Wallace in a late-night session, not during the day. He could not recall the date of the session but said it was likely not the night Shakur was shot. We would have heard about it, Mr. Alfred said."[47]
Moreover, Philips' article was based on multiple sources. As the Assistant Managing Editor of the LA Times Mark Duvoisin wrote: "Philips' story has withstood all challenges to its accuracy, ...[and] remains the definitive account of the Shakur slaying."[48] Faith Evans remembered her husband calling her the night of Shakur's death and crying due to him being in shock. Evans added, "I think it's fair to say he was probably afraid, given everything that was going on at that time and all the hype that was put on this so-called beef that he didn't really have in his heart against anyone." Wayne Barrow, Wallace's co-manager at the time, said Wallace was recording the song "Nasty Girl" the night Shakur was shot.[49] Shortly after Shakur's death, he met with Snoop Dogg, who claimed that Wallace played the song "Somebody Gotta Die" for him, in which Snoop Dogg was mentioned, and declared he never hated Shakur.[50]
On October 29, 1996, Faith Evans gave birth to Wallace's son, Christopher "C.J." Wallace, Jr.[18] The following month, Junior M.A.F.I.A. member Lil' Kim released her debut album, Hard Core, under Wallace's direction while the two were having a "love affair".[3] Lil' Kim recalled being Wallace's "biggest fan" and her being "his pride and joy."[51] In a 2012 interview, Lil' Kim said Wallace prevented her from doing a remix of the Jodeci single "Love U 4 Life" by locking her in a room and according to her, Wallace stated that she was not "gonna go do no song with them,"[52] likely because of the group's close affiliation with Tupac and Death Row Records.
1997: Life After Death and car accident
During the recording sessions for his second album, tentatively named "Life After Death... 'Til Death Do Us Part", later shortened to Life After Death, Wallace was involved in a car accident that shattered his left leg and temporarily confined him to a wheelchair.[3] The injury forced him to use a cane.[37] He and Lil' Cease were arrested for smoking marijuana in public and had their car repossessed. Wallace chose a Chevrolet Lumina rental SUV as a substitute, despite Lil' Cease's objections. The vehicle had brake problems before the accident but Wallace dismissed them.[53] According to Lil' Cease, Wallace's leg was shattered when they hit a rail along with Lil's Cease's jaw. Wallace spent months in a hospital following the accident and had to complete therapy. Despite his hospitalization, he continued to work on the album. The accident was referred to in the lyrics of "Long Kiss Goodnight": "Ya still tickle me, I used to be as strong as Ripple be / Til Lil' Cease crippled me."[54]
In January 1997, Wallace was ordered to pay US$41,000 in damages following an incident involving a friend of a concert promoter who claimed Wallace and his entourage beat him up following a dispute in May 1995.[55] He faced criminal assault charges for the incident which remains unresolved, but all robbery charges were dropped.[13] Following the events of the previous year, Wallace spoke of a desire to focus on his "peace of mind". "My mom... my son... my daughter... my family... my friends are what matters to me now".[56]
Death and funeral
Wallace traveled to Los Angeles in February 1997, to promote his upcoming second studio album and film a music video for its lead single, "Hypnotize". The album, Life After Death, was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997.[citation needed]
On March 7, he presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles and was booed by some of the audience. The following evening, March 8, Wallace attended an after party hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Other guests included Faith Evans, Aaliyah, Sean Combs, and members of the Bloods and Crips gangs.[citation needed]
On March 9, Wallace left in a GMC Suburban SUV at 12:30 a.m. (PST). By 12:45 a.m. (PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the event. Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light at the corner of Wilshire Blvd & South Fairfax Ave 50 yards (46 m) from the museum. A dark colored Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's SUV. The driver of the Impala, a black male dressed in a blue suit and bow tie, rolled down his window, drew a 9mm blue-steel pistol and fired at the SUV. Four bullets hit Wallace. His entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy, but he was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. (PST), six months after Tupac Shakur was killed.[citation needed]
Wallace's autopsy was released to the public in December 2012, over a decade after his death. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. The first bullet hit in his left forearm and traveled down to his wrist; the second hit him in the back, missing all vital organs, and exited through his left shoulder; and the third hit his outer left thigh and left through his inner thigh. The report said that the third bullet struck "the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, 3⁄8 inch [10 mm] linear laceration." The fourth bullet was fatal, entering through his right hip and striking several vital organs, before stopping in his left shoulder area. That bullet struck his colon, liver, heart and upper lobe of his left lung.[citation needed]
Wallace's murder remains unsolved and there are many theories regarding the identities and motives of the murderers. Immediately after the shooting, reports surfaced linking Wallace's murder to the murder of Tupac Shakur, because of the similarities in the drive-by shootings and the involvement of Shakur and Wallace in the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry. In 1997, Los Angeles Times authors Chuck Philips and Matt Laitt reported that the key suspect was a member of the Crips acting in service of a personal financial motive.[citation needed]
Biggie's funeral was held on March 18, 1997, at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan. There were among 350 mourners at the funeral, including Queen Latifah, Flava Flav, Mary J. Blige, Lil' Kim, Lil' Cease, Run–D.M.C., DJ Kool Herc, Busta Rhymes, Salt-N-Pepa, DJ Spinderella, Foxy Brown, Sister Souljah and others. After the funeral, his body was cremated and the ashes were given to his family.[57]
Posthumous releases
Sixteen days after his death, Wallace's double-disc second album was released as planned with the shortened title of Life After Death and hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts, after making a premature appearance at No. 176 due to street-date violations. The record album featured a much wider range of guests and producers than its predecessor.[58] It gained strong reviews and in 2000 was certified Diamond, the highest RIAA certification awarded to a solo hip hop album.
Its lead single, "Hypnotize", was the last music video recording in which Wallace would participate. His biggest chart success was with its follow-up "Mo Money Mo Problems", featuring Sean Combs (under the rap alias "Puff Daddy") and Mase. Both singles reached No. 1 in the Hot 100, making Wallace the first artist to achieve this feat posthumously.[3] The third single, "Sky's The Limit", featuring the band 112, was noted for its use of children in the music video, directed by Spike Jonze, who were used to portray Wallace and his contemporaries, including Sean Combs, Lil' Kim, and Busta Rhymes. Wallace was named Artist of the Year and "Hypnotize" Single of the Year by Spin magazine in December 1997.[59]
In mid-1997, Combs released his debut album, No Way Out, which featured Wallace on five songs, notably on the third single "Victory". The most prominent single from the record album was "I'll Be Missing You", featuring Combs, Faith Evans and 112, which was dedicated to Wallace's memory. At the 1998 Grammy Awards, Life After Death and its first two singles received nominations in the rap category. The album award was won by Combs' No Way Out and "I'll Be Missing You" won the award in the category of Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group in which "Mo Money Mo Problems" was nominated.[60]
Wallace had founded a hip hop supergroup called The Commission, which consisted of Jay-Z, Lil' Cease, Combs, Charli Baltimore and himself. The Commission was mentioned by Wallace in the lyrics of "What's Beef" on Life After Death and "Victory" from No Way Out but never completed an album. A song on Duets: The Final Chapter titled "Whatchu Want (The Commission)" featuring Jay-Z was based on the group.
In December 1999, Bad Boy released Born Again. The album consisted of previously unreleased material mixed with guest appearances including many artists Wallace had never collaborated with in his lifetime. It gained some positive reviews but received criticism for its unlikely pairings; The Source describing it as "compiling some of the most awkward collaborations of his career".[61] Nevertheless, the album sold 2 million copies. Wallace appeared on Michael Jackson's 2001 album, Invincible. Over the course of time, his vocals were heard on hit songs such as "Foolish" by Ashanti and "Realest Niggas" in 2002, and the song "Runnin' (Dying to Live)" with Shakur the following year. In 2005, Duets: The Final Chapter continued the pattern started on Born Again, criticized for the lack of significant vocals by Wallace on some of its songs.[62][63] Its lead single "Nasty Girl" became Wallace's first UK No. 1 single. Combs and Voletta Wallace have stated the album will be the last release primarily featuring new material.[64]
A duet album titled The King and I, featuring Evans and Notorious B.I.G., is scheduled to be released on May 19, 2017, with its first two singles as "NYC", featuring Jadakiss, and "When We Party", featuring Snoop Dogg.[65]
Musical style
Wallace, accompanied by ad libs from Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, uses onomatopoeic vocables and multi-syllabic rhymes on his 1995 collaboration with R&B group, 112.
Wallace tells vivid stories about his everyday life as a criminal in Brooklyn (from Life After Death).
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Wallace mostly rapped on his songs in a deep tone described by Rolling Stone as a "thick, jaunty grumble",[66] which went deeper on Life After Death.[67] He was often accompanied on songs with ad libs from Sean "Puffy" Combs. On The Source's Unsigned Hype, his style was described as "cool, nasal, and filtered, to bless his own material".[68]
Allmusic describe Wallace as having "a talent for piling multiple rhymes on top of one another in quick succession".[5] Time magazine wrote Wallace rapped with an ability to "make multi-syllabic rhymes sound... smooth",[29] while Krims describes Wallace's rhythmic style as "effusive."[69] Before starting a verse, Wallace sometimes used onomatopoeic vocables to "warm up" (for example "uhhh" at the beginning of "Hypnotize" and "Big Poppa" and "whaat" after certain rhymes in songs such as "My Downfall").[70]
Lateef of Latyrx notes that Wallace had, "intense and complex flows",[71] Fredro Starr of Onyx says, "Biggie was a master of the flow",[72] and Bishop Lamont states that Wallace mastered "all the hemispheres of the music".[73] "Notorious B.I.G. also often used the single-line rhyme scheme to add variety and interest to his flow".[71] Big Daddy Kane suggests that Wallace didn't need a large vocabulary to impress listeners – "he just put his words together a slick way and it worked real good for him".[74] Wallace was known to compose lyrics in his head, rather than write them down on paper, in a similar way to Jay-Z.[75][76]
Wallace would occasionally vary from his usual style. On "Playa Hater" from his second album, he sang in a slow-falsetto.[77] On his collaboration with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "Notorious Thugs", he modified his style to match the rapid rhyme flow of the group.
Themes and lyrical content
Wallace's lyrical topics and themes included mafioso tales ("Niggas Bleed"), his drug dealing past ("10 Crack Commandments"), materialistic bragging ("Hypnotize"), as well as humor ("Just Playing (Dreams)"),[78] and romance ("Me & My Bitch").[78] Rolling Stone named Wallace in 2004 as "one of the few young male songwriters in any pop style writing credible love songs".[67]
Guerilla Black, in the book How to Rap, describes how Wallace was able to both "glorify the upper echelon"[79] and "[make] you feel his struggle".[80] According to Touré of The New York Times in 1994, Wallace's lyrics "[mixed] autobiographical details about crime and violence with emotional honesty".[12] Marriott of The New York Times (in 1997) believed his lyrics were not strictly autobiographical and wrote he "had a knack for exaggeration that increased sales".[13] Wallace described his debut as "a big pie, with each slice indicating a different point in my life involving bitches and niggaz... from the beginning to the end".[81]
Ready to Die is described by Rolling Stone as a contrast of "bleak" street visions and being "full of high-spirited fun, bringing the pleasure principle back to hip-hop".[67] Allmusic write of "a sense of doom" in some of his songs and the NY Times note some being "laced with paranoia";[5][82] Wallace described himself as feeling "broke and depressed" when he made his debut.[82] The final song on the album, "Suicidal Thoughts", featured Wallace contemplating suicide and concluded with him committing the act.
On Life After Death, Wallace's lyrics went "deeper".[67] Krims explains how upbeat, dance-oriented tracks (which featured less heavily on his debut) alternate with "reality rap" songs on the record and suggests that he was "going pimp" through some of the lyrical topics of the former.[69] XXL magazine wrote that Wallace "revamped his image" through the portrayal of himself between the albums, going from "midlevel hustler" on his debut to "drug lord".[83]
Allmusic wrote that the success of Ready to Die is "mostly due to Wallace's skill as a storyteller";[5] in 1994, Rolling Stone described Wallace's ability in this technique as painting "a sonic picture so vibrant that you're transported right to the scene".[28] On Life After Death Wallace notably demonstrated this skill on "I Got a Story to Tell", creating a story as a rap for the first half of the song and then retelling the same story "for his boys" in conversation form.[77]
Considered one of the best artists in hip hop music, Wallace was described by AllMusic as "the savior of East Coast hip-hop".[3] The Source magazine named Wallace the greatest rapper of all time in its 150th issue in 2002.[84][85] In 2003, when XXL magazine asked several hip hop artists to list their five favorite MCs, Wallace's name appeared on more rappers' lists than anyone else. In 2006, MTV ranked him at No. 3 on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, calling him possibly "the most skillful ever on the mic".[86] Editors of About.com ranked him No. 3 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007).[87] In 2012, The Source ranked him No. 3 on their list of the Top 50 Lyrical Leaders of all time.[88] Rolling Stone has referred to him as the "greatest rapper that ever lived".[89] In 2015, Billboard named Wallace as the greatest rapper of all time.[2]
Since his death, Wallace's lyrics have been sampled and quoted by a variety of hip hop, R&B and pop artists including Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Fat Joe, Nelly, Ja Rule, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Game, Clinton Sparks, Michael Jackson and Usher. On August 28, 2005, at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, Sean Combs (then using the rap alias "P. Diddy") and Snoop Dogg paid tribute to Wallace: an orchestra played while the vocals from "Juicy" and "Warning" played on the arena speakers.[90] In September 2005, VH1 held its second annual "Hip Hop Honors", with a tribute to Wallace headlining the show.[91]
Wallace had begun to promote a clothing line called Brooklyn Mint, which was to produce plus-sized clothing but fell dormant after he died. In 2004, his managers, Mark Pitts and Wayne Barrow, launched the clothing line, with help from Jay-Z, selling T-shirts with images of Wallace on them. A portion of the proceeds go to the Christopher Wallace Foundation and to Jay-Z's Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation.[92] In 2005, Voletta Wallace hired branding and licensing agency Wicked Cow Entertainment to guide the estate's licensing efforts.[93] Wallace-branded products on the market include action figures, blankets, and cell phone content.[94]
The Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation holds an annual black-tie dinner ("B.I.G. Night Out") to raise funds for children's school equipment and supplies and to honor the memory of the late rapper. For this particular event, because it is a children's schools' charity, "B.I.G." is also said to stand for "Books Instead of Guns".[95]
There is an oversize portrait mural of Wallace as Che Guevara on Fulton Street in Brooklyn a half mile west from the star's old block.[96] A fan petitioned to have the corner of Fulton Street and St. James Place, near Wallace's childhood home renamed in his honor, garnering support from local businesses and attracting more than 560 signatures.[96] The Notorious B.I.G.'s children C.J. and Ty'anna are set to star in an animated series called House of Wallace.[97]
Notorious is a 2009 biographical film about Wallace and his life that starred rapper Jamal Woolard as Wallace. The film was directed by George Tillman, Jr. and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Producers included Sean "Diddy" Combs, Wallace's former managers Wayne Barrow and Mark Pitts, as well as Voletta Wallace.[98] On January 16, 2009, the movie's debut at the Grand 18 theater in Greensboro, North Carolina was postponed after a man was shot in the parking lot before the show.[99] The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $44 worldwide.[100][101]
In early October 2007, open casting calls for the role of Wallace began.[102] Actors, rappers and unknowns all tried out. Beanie Sigel auditioned[103] for the role, but was not picked. Sean Kingston claimed that he would play the role of Wallace, but producers denied it.[104] Eventually it was announced that rapper Jamal Woolard was chosen to play Wallace[105] while Wallace's son, Christopher Wallace, Jr. was cast to play Wallace as a child.[106] Other cast members include Angela Bassett as Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Combs, Antonique Smith as Faith Evans, Naturi Naughton formerly of 3LW as Lil' Kim, and Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur.[107] Bad Boy released a soundtrack album to the film on January 13, 2009; the album contains hit singles of B.I.G. such as "Hypnotize", "Juicy", and "Warning" as well as rarities.[108]
Studio albums
- Ready to Die (1994)
- Life After Death (1997)
Collaboration albums
- Conspiracy (with Junior M.A.F.I.A.) (1995)
- The King and I (Faith Evans album) (with Faith Evans) (2017)
Posthumous studio albums
- Born Again (1999)
- Duets: The Final Chapter (2005)
Compilation albums
- Greatest Hits (2007)
- Notorious (2009)
Awards and nominations
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Further reading
- Coker, Cheo Hodari (2004). Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-609-80835-4.
- Wallace, Voletta; McKenzie, Tremell; Evans, Faith (foreword) (2005). Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G. Atria. ISBN 0-7434-7020-6.
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In fact, Christina Aguilera says she has no idea who Lady Gaga is. Futhermore, she couldn't tell you if Lady Gaga was a man or a woman. So does this put to rest the rumor that Christina copied the 'Just Dance' singer's fashion style?
You know, that's funny that you mention that. This person [Lady Gaga] was just brought to my attention not too long ago. I'm not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don't know if it is a man or a woman. I just wasn't sure. I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
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Q: WindTamer Corp., which is based in Geneseo, Livingston County, hired a president this week and announced that the company's stock started to trade. What is the focus of your company, and what sets it apart from other firms?
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Braintree voters made history at the polls Tuesday night by electing their first female town councilor, and by electing a 24-year-old to the 6-year-old town council.
New Town Councilor, Shannon Hume, won her bid for one of the three at large seats on the council. She will be joined by incumbent Councilors At Large, Sean Powers and Charles Ryan.
District 4 elected to send Stephen O'Brien to the Town Council, and Michael J. Owens was elected to represent District 5.
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Any one have any experience with the Leaf River 35mm game camera?
Thinking of buying one, but want to know if it does a "ok" job?
I am trying to be "cheap" and just buy a 35mm camera and not digital....And I know.....In the long run the film costs might end up costing me more than just buying a digital!?
On that note........If a guy wanted to buy a "decent" digital that worked fairly good how cheap can you go and still get some good results??
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Whitney Houston Coroner Details Released
Whitney Houston died a tragic death almost two months ago. With the cause of death listed as 'accidental drowning' the final coroner's report was released with the details of what was found.
The autopsy has confirmed that the cause of death was accidental "due to, or as a consequence of" the effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use." Toxicology tests showed multiple drugs and medications in her system including, cocaine, Benadril, the muscle relaxer Flexeril, marijuana and Xanax.
According to the official documents there was "a small spoon with a white crystal like substance in it and a rolled up piece of white paper" found in the room.
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From Yingpei Games, the developer formerly known as Epic Games China, comes Mercenary Ops, an Unreal Engine-powered on-rail zombie shooter that's one of the best Resident Evil games on iTunes, despite not being a Resident Evil game.
One look at the game's iTunes description makes its inspiration abundantly clear: "In Mercenary Ops, you are Leo, the seasoned mercenary hired to face his toughest mission – contain the exploding biological crisis in a small European town before the biological terror spreads to the major cities of Europe! You will face infected adversaries and bosses from out of this world!"
Leo. Not Leon.
Yingpei might have a little problem in the originality department — Mercenary Ops is also the name of what looks like an entirely different PC shooter from the developer — but it makes a pretty good on-rails shooter. The visuals are lush, the one-handed tap to shoot control option works incredibly well, and the tapping slaughter of biologically weaponized humans and animals is broken up by brief moments of finger-swiping drama. Hardcore players can opt for a more traditional control scheme, and gyroscopic aiming is available for those that enjoy looking ridiculous while playing an iOS game. There was a little slowdown on my iPod Touch 5th gen, but the less-powerful iPad Mini handles the game like a champ.


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"A man has been jailed for life for beating a two-year-old girl to death while
her mother was in New York celebrating her 21st birthday."
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"A man has been jailed for life for beating a two-year-old girl to death while
her mother was in New York celebrating her 21st birthday."
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Realtors say sales of single-family homes in Maine have increased by 21 percent between January 2012 and the same month this year.
Statistics released by a statewide multiple listing service show 664 homes changed hands last month, compared to 547 in January 2012.
The median sales price for those homes reached $162,000, a rise of 3 percent from a year earlier. The median indicates that half of the homes were sold for more and half sold for less.
Maine Association of Realtors President Bart Stevens says Maine is shifting from a strong buyer's market to a more balanced market.
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Roode beats Hardy on the outside and throws him back into the ring. Roode gets a table from the outside and puts it into the ring. Roode stomps away on Hardy and sets the table up in the corner. Roode takes his time and gets Hardy up. He chops Hardy in the chest and tries to throw him into the table. Hardy counters and tries to hip-toss Roode into the table. Hardy floats over Roode, but gets hit with a huge clothesline.
Roode catches an elbow in the corner, and Hardy goes for the whisper in the wind, but he misses. Roode stalks Hardy and gets him up. Roode picks Hardy up in a firemans carry, but Hardy escapes to the apron. Hardy and Roode trade blows on the apron, as a table is right next to them on the floor. Hardy teased hitting a twist of fate off the apron through the table. They trade blows, and Roode grabs Hardy's head, but Hardy kicks him away and they both crash through the table on the outside. The referee and the announcers look confused as we go to commercial.
We come back and it appears that the match is going to continue. Tenay explains that the refs could not make a decision, so they just kept the match going because both men went through at the same time.
Roode has Hardy down in the ring, but Hardy fights out. Hardy hits the ropes, but Roode catches him with a spinebuster. Roode grabs the table out of the corner and sets it up. Roode beats on Hardy and taunts the crowd. Roode has him up in the firemans carry, but Hardy slips out and hits the twist of fate, and roode stumbles back onto the table. Hardy climbs the turnbuckle, and Roode rolls off the table. Hardy hits a swanton anyways on Roode on the mat. He picks Roode up and sets him up on the top rope. He grabs the table and brings it closer to the turnbuckle. He goes for a superplex, but Rppde fights out. Roode picks Hardy up and crotches him on the top rope.
Hardy si down and Roode is on the apron. He tries to suplex Hardy off the apron onto the table set up on the floor. Hardy fights out and hits a kick to the chest, which knocks Roode off of the apron and sends him through the table.
Winner and World Title Tournament Finalist: Jeff Hardy
Hardy celebrates in the ring, while the referee checks on Roode.
We get an Impact365 video of EC3 getting his makeup done. EC3 says tonight he is going to challenge a legend of Impact Wrestling.
We get another Impact365 video of Dixie Carter. She says she got an email from AJ Style's agent, and that next week, she will get her world title back. She says that she is sorry to get all the lawyers involved, but AJ needed to listen. Dixie says she made her holiday happen a lot sooner.
EC3 has his intro and he comes down for his match. He says that he has faced a litany of competition, but there is one man, a man who has faced Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart. Tonight, his hand-picked opponent is Earl Hebner. Hebner looks really confused in the ring. He takes the mic and says that he is not a wrestler, but a referee, and that this is not happening. EC3 says that Earl is a ref, a subordinate, a representative of the 99%. Carter says that Hebner works for him, his money and that tonight this match is going to happen. Also, he has a very special referee.
Rockstar Spud is shown leading Brian Hebner down the ring. Hebner comes down and EC3 says that Earl is going to lay down, and EC3 will pin him, and his disappointment of a son is going to count the fall. He tells Earl to lay-down, but Earl looks unsure. He teases laying down, but he gets back up. EC3 says that he better lay down, or he will put Earl in the ground. Earl lays down and EC3 asks Brian to ring the bell, unless the Hebners want a very light christmas. EC3 puts a single finger on Earl and Brian counts the fall very slowly, while apologizing to his father. EC3 is announced the winner and Brian is forced to roll Earl out of the ring. EC3 demands that Brian raises his hand, and he does so begrudgingly.
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text: Where The Hell Was This LEGO Cleaner When I Was A Kid?Luke Plunkett12/10/13 3:00amFiled to: legotoys999EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink There are two sides to every LEGO play session. The ecstacy (the playing!) and the agony (the cleanup). All those tiny pieces, all the ways they could get lost, or stuck in the carpet, ungh. So this LEGO scooper invention deserves as many design awards as its creator's shelves can hold. Advertisement It's so simple. Just a plastic contraption that's part dustpan-and-broom, part windshield scraper. You hold the "pan" on the ground, and scoop the LEGO right into it. It was first released last year, the invention of a mum who used a shoebox to scoop up LEGO, a process that worked so well she took it to the market. Advertisement I mean, you could use it for anything, but it was born of LEGO, and it's LEGO that it'll surely get used for the most.Toydozer [Amazon, via technabob] Reply99 repliesLeave a reply


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Delta, Virgin Get U.S. Approval to Align Fares
Mary Jane CredeurDelta Air Lines Inc. and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., the carrier majority owned by billionaire Richard Branson, won U.S. antitrust immunity to let them coordinate fares and schedules on flights across the Atlantic.
Today's approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation lets the airlines combine their networks and complete a commercial relationship driven by Delta's June purchase of a 49 percent stake in the U.K. carrier. No other airlines opposed the tie-up, the DOT said today in a filing.
Delta and Virgin Atlantic began a code-share agreement earlier this year, enabling them to book passengers on each other's jets on a single itinerary. Antitrust immunity will let them deepen ties by sharing costs and revenue as though they were a single entity. U.S. and European laws ban foreign majority ownership of airlines.
The move is also a challenge to British Airways and AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, which now control more than half of trans-Atlantic service. Delta, based in Atlanta, bought the stake in Virgin from Singapore Airlines Ltd. for $360 million this year to add trans-Atlantic flights, the world's richest market for premium passengers.


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YouTube viewer "You & We" asked if there was a way to use this as a frequency crossfader. This was a great way to think about the device, and something that I wanted to try. The way we are going to approach is is to make the 8BandMix device into a "Master", and then create a "Slave" device that will receive changes from the Master and either match or invert the results to create either a second mixer or a crossfader.
The first thing we have to do is change the 8BandMix device. This is going to be pretty easy - all we have to do is to take the necessary data (the slider and crossover values) and send them globally to any receiving device:
We use the send object with a name "global8BandMixControl" - without the leading "---" - in order to have this named the same for every device in the system. This gives us access to the values that we will use in our slave device.
Now, we can create a second device that contains much of the "guts" of the 8BandMix device, but doesn't interface with the Push - and doesn't provide access to controls that will be managed by the master device.
You will notice that we receive the data from the master, then propagate it to the places it needs to go. From there, we have to allow this device to either mirror the master (Normal mode) or flip/crossfade the master (Inverted mode). To accomplish this, we use a ggate object to determine if a calculation occurs, then that result is sent to the slider system.
Other than that, we should be good to go...
There are a few limitations to using send objects in this way:
Hopefully this device is still useful, or maybe you'd like to eliminate some of the problems (using speedlim and metro to resolve some of these issues); in any case, I hope this has been an interesting experiment.
Here are the devices: Media:8BandMasterSlave.zip (Note: Updated Nov 6, 2013 with proper receive name and slider scaling!)