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TIME's Person Of The Year:<br />Elon Musk</h1>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b>2021 Person of the Year Elon Musk - Time Magazine</b></span></span><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div>
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</span> <span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> </span> <span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Person of the Year is a marker of influence, and few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too. In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society.
Despite shattering records this year with a net worth above $300 billion, Elon Musk demurs at being described as the richest person in the history of the world. “Excluding sovereigns,” Musk says wryly, adding that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is likely richer than he. “I can’t invade countries and stuff.”</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-UKZ9JANs6SM_VF4ILOaDZC7-kxHczdfmWSuwXTEMr7Pq2dgq_E_3ACCQ1-GPMD65GKZZJ8u0n-nJR1sUHA_ed3FTqOCD_AtyH1-aRl6CN-GFPZNrm2642Z2Khxfbhb4v7C3vc_BY-5dQHHhIggnCCN_HjIbPn3Vx2YehX7lN12NUe4uVKJSIlFXPCg=s640" style="font-size: medium; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="640" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-UKZ9JANs6SM_VF4ILOaDZC7-kxHczdfmWSuwXTEMr7Pq2dgq_E_3ACCQ1-GPMD65GKZZJ8u0n-nJR1sUHA_ed3FTqOCD_AtyH1-aRl6CN-GFPZNrm2642Z2Khxfbhb4v7C3vc_BY-5dQHHhIggnCCN_HjIbPn3Vx2YehX7lN12NUe4uVKJSIlFXPCg=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">The differences begin to fade a bit as one drives down Texas Highway 4, between the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, toward one of the southernmost points in the U.S., where Musk is preparing to launch the world’s largest rocket. Gleaming spacecraft rise stories above the sparse terrain. His company is gobbling up local housing and encouraging employees to move there. “Creating the city of Starbase, Texas,” Musk announced on Twitter earlier this year, to the evident surprise of the residents of Boca Chica, where his facility is located. (A county official noted that “Sending a tweet does not make it so,” and that a petition must first be filed.)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvYyimHVFo1KhkKIlQ6WEheSuGYQykExdqkJYPs2KquANnmOjvlBOCLS2VbH_F6JOKl8-UfCxhGfrc2cDngMWIOGIWpU5axmvWf2eRHE6dsOqTGGvwxPcUnZ8DPdJcbbDV2QktGX2QvRWmMwosBM_3fvugVc5DHLRhAKRLVK4TD7b8hLverzpMdlFfNQ=s1256" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="1256" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvYyimHVFo1KhkKIlQ6WEheSuGYQykExdqkJYPs2KquANnmOjvlBOCLS2VbH_F6JOKl8-UfCxhGfrc2cDngMWIOGIWpU5axmvWf2eRHE6dsOqTGGvwxPcUnZ8DPdJcbbDV2QktGX2QvRWmMwosBM_3fvugVc5DHLRhAKRLVK4TD7b8hLverzpMdlFfNQ=w640-h288" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">For nearly a century, TIME has named a Person of the Year—the individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or for worse. Person of the Year is a marker of influence, and few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too. In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieOFwNC5eUUWKamfMTrg4CMxBWxK2Qs-cBumxPNah9C5i6h3FAh1V54zksp_vvC3vjBW4_oLl2Uzlg2Fe9RE-3tA0XTTsNYF2JmxY7sxZ98bthT8SatOi2EuO1OcwLWxvJzdHVsVwhiexRRUi-1ILmDKGKlqcRNVsnw7jtuA-4udDOpeJiZXhAq-aElQ=s1920" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieOFwNC5eUUWKamfMTrg4CMxBWxK2Qs-cBumxPNah9C5i6h3FAh1V54zksp_vvC3vjBW4_oLl2Uzlg2Fe9RE-3tA0XTTsNYF2JmxY7sxZ98bthT8SatOi2EuO1OcwLWxvJzdHVsVwhiexRRUi-1ILmDKGKlqcRNVsnw7jtuA-4udDOpeJiZXhAq-aElQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Facebook turned Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, the year brought home the extent to which, at a time of rising protest over ever deepening inequality, our lives and many of the basic structures around them are now shaped by the pursuits, products and priorities of the world’s wealthiest people.
Even in that rarefied crowd, Musk is in a class of his own. He sees his mission as solving the globe’s most intractable challenges, along the way disrupting multiple industries across two decades. These include what was once the core American creation, combustion-engine automobiles, and what was once the core American aspiration, spaceflight, as well as a litany of other manifestations of our present and future: infrastructure construction, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, payment systems and increasingly money itself through his dalliances with cryptocurrencies. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1inbLpDnjot3OarKdMwrYXkCirInRMUPvxtpU-5fB1vfLnnnFq3A-RwdIdfjn6YFA8qKBzJcSQgeYnHbwoxVoE9Wy-gle6_ZWYiwXwkgiwP4AaIUxixeUmo9rLZ5TZtmCxLXKuYA14mEuywJOSSN4lD2qromRwaorjPDYkhulA12QgJw-Yb2P-6H2Dg=s945" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="945" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1inbLpDnjot3OarKdMwrYXkCirInRMUPvxtpU-5fB1vfLnnnFq3A-RwdIdfjn6YFA8qKBzJcSQgeYnHbwoxVoE9Wy-gle6_ZWYiwXwkgiwP4AaIUxixeUmo9rLZ5TZtmCxLXKuYA14mEuywJOSSN4lD2qromRwaorjPDYkhulA12QgJw-Yb2P-6H2Dg=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">As provocative as his vision is his persona, a blunt instrument that often seems to revel in division and aggressive mockery as he gives the world access to his id through social media.
Musk’s largest terrestrial impact so far has been with Tesla. 2021 was the year that electric vehicles finally came into the mainstream and that Tesla became a trillion-dollar company, one of only a handful in the world. It’s a market that Musk almost single-handedly created, seeing long before others the demand for clean-energy transportation that the world’s climate crisis would eventually propel. From Detroit to Milan, announcements of EV commitments poured in all year as automakers that once fiercely resisted emissions restrictions are now scrambling to catch up.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Should we fall short with Earth, Musk’s answer is space, where he envisions “a futuristic Noah’s ark.” His SpaceX is the global commercial leader in building and flying rockets and crews, chosen by NASA to build the ship that aims to place astronauts back on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Musk’s rough timeline for that is three years, with two more years to land on Mars. The key, he says as matter-of-factly as the rest of us might say the time of day, is making spacefaring rockets as reusable as airplanes.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXXnPwkdTV75LKB9i4MK213bANVj5krqS_O5pdglaqdqTO6W4Of4EtBiCSvw9PeOHn7cdBdb-uszfMREhDNfmxNsAVtTB7gQUjFhmPssJKnQBDVzOHoMsOj2o1VWY6dFFK0vpqmRSof3pdIIlyvsdm9Hsx_vBVwgXkAKFyIcYrAQ11Z4Y-XG0jpQKTLQ=s986" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="986" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXXnPwkdTV75LKB9i4MK213bANVj5krqS_O5pdglaqdqTO6W4Of4EtBiCSvw9PeOHn7cdBdb-uszfMREhDNfmxNsAVtTB7gQUjFhmPssJKnQBDVzOHoMsOj2o1VWY6dFFK0vpqmRSof3pdIIlyvsdm9Hsx_vBVwgXkAKFyIcYrAQ11Z4Y-XG0jpQKTLQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Musk’s rise coincides with broader trends of which he and his fellow technology magnates are part cause and part effect: the continuing decline of traditional institutions in favor of individuals; government dysfunction that has delivered more power and responsibility to business; and chasms of wealth and opportunity. In an earlier era, ambitions on the scale of interplanetary travel were the ultimate collective undertaking, around which Presidents rallied nations.
Today they are increasingly the province of private companies. To Musk, that is progress, steering capital allocation away from the government to those who will be good stewards of it. To others, it is testament to capitalism’s failings as staggeringly wealthy, mostly white men play by their own rules while much of society gets left behind.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJt2dJV_DHXFodhc6nnhAEJb526qefJFMxp-cxDQplzWnZeskAt3SlJGV4thjLy-1WILQCPTwVBiMMnjhstjprBZ6MgFJSWof0LsJ9lAFOnfcUNiL57JrpNvpw1IYpoKpfghZwDX7zRhd9GYVJRJc9-h4kq_uPvEhVoTE595sxva3tA6q1X7bu7ulArg=s1802" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1802" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJt2dJV_DHXFodhc6nnhAEJb526qefJFMxp-cxDQplzWnZeskAt3SlJGV4thjLy-1WILQCPTwVBiMMnjhstjprBZ6MgFJSWof0LsJ9lAFOnfcUNiL57JrpNvpw1IYpoKpfghZwDX7zRhd9GYVJRJc9-h4kq_uPvEhVoTE595sxva3tA6q1X7bu7ulArg=w639-h640" width="639" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">In deciding each December who should be Person of the Year, we look back but also aim to look forward. Bezos was the choice in 1999 when e-commerce was just beginning to take off. Zuckerberg was selected in 2010, well before it was clear what Facebook’s full effect on society and democracy would be. We don’t yet know how fully Tesla, SpaceX and the ventures Musk has yet to think up will change our lives. At 50, he has plenty of time to write the future, his own and ours. Like it or not, we are now in Musk’s world.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">For creating solutions to an existential crisis, for embodying the possibilities and the perils of the age of tech titans, for driving society’s most daring and disruptive transformations, Elon Musk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="560" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PbVSZvC7UxY" title="YouTube video player" width="720"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">ARTICLE by EDWARD FELSENTHAL</span></div><div><span style="color: #444444;">PHOTOGRAPHS by MARK MAHANEY</span></div></div><div><br /></div></span></div>theKONGBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221316242424692880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018142852465167742.post-36753802163164307062021-10-05T09:31:00.006-04:002021-10-05T09:31:51.111-04:00THE VANDERBILT FAMILY by Anderson Cooper<div style="text-align: center;">
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<h1 class="longform-article--title" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "playfair display", serif; font-size: 3.375rem; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 1px 1px 2px;"><span style="color: red;">THE VANDERBILT FAMILY by Anderson Cooper</span></h1><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHwFFbByT6007lYypsykqFUhUTH-Euic_dPpLqrKVPr6q--1Sc1gZB81nWln5lZjGAoO06VcnLUEjh38DV-Y4xKAyAbFqONIqXcr0eSh-_yVRMJJNObl6F3Kl90kgiO3zkEfAZRZBM2igMp_WeYyCQAXoUyzROze8Gz45JalEACgmkS1SIKTQJunLkLg=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHwFFbByT6007lYypsykqFUhUTH-Euic_dPpLqrKVPr6q--1Sc1gZB81nWln5lZjGAoO06VcnLUEjh38DV-Y4xKAyAbFqONIqXcr0eSh-_yVRMJJNObl6F3Kl90kgiO3zkEfAZRZBM2igMp_WeYyCQAXoUyzROze8Gz45JalEACgmkS1SIKTQJunLkLg=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. <br /></b><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; text-align: center;">When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; text-align: center;">Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; text-align: center;">Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="560" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QpEl5Xt2250" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> In his new book, CNN anchor and "60 Minutes" correspondent Anderson Cooper tells the story of the Vanderbilt family dynasty – from his great-great-great-grandfather, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, once the richest man in America who built his fortune through steamships and railroads, to his mother, socialite Gloria Vanderbilt.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Cooper talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about how the wealth and privilege in his family tree marked succeeding generations. </span><span style="font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">— <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEl5Xt2250" target="_blank">CBS Sunday Morning </a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>theKONGBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221316242424692880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018142852465167742.post-87336696495426600312021-02-13T23:55:00.002-05:002021-05-08T17:20:27.334-04:00The Buffer Brothers: Crazy True Life Story Of Bruce And Michael Buffer<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOCBkHEnN8xZwlduMVgZuawkhFhYx58AYG74LsGdHUjcWYi2WCLdMhag3gcn2ZOw8vbv7uDxjw29yO-70kZV1nf53QLM51ajKCBTomLugrCELEWdpepE_lNVdYHokoFOwwzWbamlznnDy/s997/Michael-Buffer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="997" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOCBkHEnN8xZwlduMVgZuawkhFhYx58AYG74LsGdHUjcWYi2WCLdMhag3gcn2ZOw8vbv7uDxjw29yO-70kZV1nf53QLM51ajKCBTomLugrCELEWdpepE_lNVdYHokoFOwwzWbamlznnDy/w640-h424/Michael-Buffer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In case you fight fans didn't know, Michael Buffer is a famous </span><span style="font-family: arial;">boxing</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> & wrestling </span><span style="font-family: arial;">ring announcer </span><span style="font-family: arial;">who is </span><span style="font-family: arial;">'</span><span style="font-family: arial;">world-renowned' </span><span style="font-family: arial;">for his trademarked catchphrase, <i>"Let's get ready to rumble!"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What makes this story even more intriguing is that his younger half-brother — Bruce Buffer — is a popular</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> mixed martial arts octagon announcer who also has a signature</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> catchphrase, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">"It's time!"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: x-large;">BRUCE BUFFER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">THE BUFFER </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BROTHERS</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="600" src="https://youtube.com/embed/GxEDQ3a5pak" width="800"></iframe><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">Soledad O'Brien sits down with the enterprising duo to learn more about their inspiring story, and how it led to the birth of the Buffer Partnership. Real Sports debuts Tues., May 20 at 10pm ET/PT on HBO. </span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #48494a; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT'S...TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!"</b></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>-vs-</b></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>"LUUUH-ets GET RRREADY TO RUMMM-BULLL!"<br /><br /></b></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="1167697_node_12" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [200, 0, 0, 0]}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Montserrat, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OQXDumXlmFS7h6IH-eH9r-_Ermb7NCspFTilqWpCH-q6-Rdre5XIOhUWv6EQWU6fnP3LOaC_tYHMrajiKr5AXtsRQCnUsYZvxlhNo55nLIgj5F6hS2wpKU12zal7LwSSSo5E-uvuLiYz/s570/Buffer-Brothers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OQXDumXlmFS7h6IH-eH9r-_Ermb7NCspFTilqWpCH-q6-Rdre5XIOhUWv6EQWU6fnP3LOaC_tYHMrajiKr5AXtsRQCnUsYZvxlhNo55nLIgj5F6hS2wpKU12zal7LwSSSo5E-uvuLiYz/s16000/Buffer-Brothers.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Montserrat, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 1em; position: relative; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“The feeling that overtook me was (A) I’m a big fan of his work and a fan of what he does, but (B) this is my <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">blood</em>. This is my brother. I’m hit by a kind of double whammy. It was a wonderful night. I was just so happy we all got along.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: Montserrat, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Montserrat, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PdjtjIehH_-e6raFgoDYytThgkjdt7rteVQd_kAbtdtgxBfH-UoP40aY-V1T3XhZ6h5QMx8Ss4o1betVmqErOHRkrD3KtYwH5sRZHXpvf14Z22HYNKFBU9G4mxearTUxDZtE_K0KREjX/s920/Buffer-Bros.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PdjtjIehH_-e6raFgoDYytThgkjdt7rteVQd_kAbtdtgxBfH-UoP40aY-V1T3XhZ6h5QMx8Ss4o1betVmqErOHRkrD3KtYwH5sRZHXpvf14Z22HYNKFBU9G4mxearTUxDZtE_K0KREjX/w640-h360/Buffer-Bros.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">For much of their lives, Michael Buffer and Bruce Buffer led separate existences -- Michael with his foster parents, Bruce with his birth parents -- connected and unconnected, as intertwined and radically different as boxing and UFC.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="1167697_node_12" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [200, 0, 0, 0]}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: Montserrat, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/29008629/the-incredible-mostly-true-story-bruce-michael-buffer " rel="nofollow" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">The Incredible and (Mostly) True Story of Bruce and Michael Buffer</a><i> — </i><b>ESPN</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p></div></div>theKONGBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221316242424692880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018142852465167742.post-33032776783544742132020-09-28T22:17:00.002-04:002020-11-06T20:51:40.232-05:00Luke Voit: Origins Story | New York Yankees<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8XF7hIpKzwc" width="800"></iframe>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><blockquote><i>According to the first baseman, however, the procedure not only repaired the problem but combined with the post-surgery rehab work has significantly improved other areas of his well-built 6-foot-3, 225-pound frame.
“I have never felt any better in my life. It’s everything. I feel faster, more agile and my strength is back,” Voit told The Post while driving through Atlanta on his way from Missouri to Tampa on Saturday.</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUP-8eekFImMt7U5daA0NNaTHTxEQxdzTChtPBkUf-okL12RHYNiNf6Wn5PZQwd96EwDMAbXiRkSXD5qXI3SGVdXIlQfeHxE3rZSFZbFhcBUb2Ur40oVjfUQK-pbIMdN-OOui3f8mgkwx5/s1500/Luke-Voilt.jpg" style="letter-spacing: 0.093px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUP-8eekFImMt7U5daA0NNaTHTxEQxdzTChtPBkUf-okL12RHYNiNf6Wn5PZQwd96EwDMAbXiRkSXD5qXI3SGVdXIlQfeHxE3rZSFZbFhcBUb2Ur40oVjfUQK-pbIMdN-OOui3f8mgkwx5/w640-h213/Luke-Voilt.jpg" width="640" /></a></blockquote></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">"That’s part of my success, having to fail a lot.”
Here's a deep dive into where Luke Voit came from and how he's become the man and baseball player he is today.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQpOZwvn4Mp6xHq4l896oicybpjCWKTuXHY__sDXzIPomnur9VZEn3zmJl8us3f6Sisi536gqzhC6pq9wEDZ2uWsM6IUJNUz47GhCYYxvA6KMGyZa7rcpFiiHXqID8zzuN9_TROCE5eid/s574/Luke-Voilt-Wife.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.093px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQpOZwvn4Mp6xHq4l896oicybpjCWKTuXHY__sDXzIPomnur9VZEn3zmJl8us3f6Sisi536gqzhC6pq9wEDZ2uWsM6IUJNUz47GhCYYxvA6KMGyZa7rcpFiiHXqID8zzuN9_TROCE5eid/s16000/Luke-Voilt-Wife.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="c-page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3b3b; flex: 1 1 0px; font-family: Balto, sans-serif; font-size: calc(2.44141em); letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0.6rem 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;">22 HR <span style="font-weight: normal;">•</span> 52 RBI <span style="font-weight: normal;">•</span> .277 AVG</h1></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="c-page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3b3b; flex: 1 1 0px; font-family: Balto, sans-serif; font-size: calc(2.44141em); letter-spacing: 0.012em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0.6rem 0px 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2020/9/28/21492208/luke-voit-new-york-yankees-home-run-king" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Luke Voit Is Baseball’s New Home Run King—and the Most Feared Hitter on the Yankees</a> — </span>THE RINGER</h1><div><br /></div><div><h1 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #1d1e1f; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29947498/the-luke-voit-show-how-nowhere-mvp-candidate-became-new-york-yankees-leading-slugger" target="_blank">'The Luke Voit Show': How out-of-nowhere MVP candidate became New York Yankees' leading slugger</a></i> — </span>ESPN</h1></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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NBA's Top 10 Plays Of The Night | August 8th, 2020</span></h1>
<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b>Check out the top 10 plays of the night from the NBA Restart on August 8, featuring Luka Doncic, LeBron James, Kristaps Porzingis and more!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHDTUA1DLtbHCyAdZSxN0evW1RW25U5yBteTqWC1It8GyVlfRpDmcwSIp0qHuDSzs9UNnj1daCD29_8wMkj9ughQTnzpBowq-gkS1GBi2hoCcN8jF283CV7Mx1rnRDcBkA06P9DZeRVTG3/s1148/Luka-Doncic-8-8-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1148" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHDTUA1DLtbHCyAdZSxN0evW1RW25U5yBteTqWC1It8GyVlfRpDmcwSIp0qHuDSzs9UNnj1daCD29_8wMkj9ughQTnzpBowq-gkS1GBi2hoCcN8jF283CV7Mx1rnRDcBkA06P9DZeRVTG3/w640-h440/Luka-Doncic-8-8-20.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />21-yr-old phenom strikes again w/ NBA's leading 17th triple-double: 36 pts • 17 rebs • 19 asts</div><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span>theKONGBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221316242424692880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018142852465167742.post-85070299718892465082019-10-23T13:05:00.002-04:002019-10-23T13:05:52.582-04:00Top 5 NBA Plays Of The Night | October 22nd, 2019<center>
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Top 5 NBA Plays Of The Night<br />October 22nd, 2019</h1>
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Top 10 NBA Plays Of The Night<br />October 16th, 2019</h1>
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The boy's actions cracked many eyewitnesses up, but has also earned him plenty of compliments from Chinese netizens for his brazen contempt toward authority.” — <b>Alicia Tan | <a href="https://mashable.com/2016/04/15/chinese-toddler-defends-grandma/#QFPF9yL1Asqz" target="_blank">Mashable</a></b></span></span><br />
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Latino Designers We Love: Carlos Santana</h1>
<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b>Carlos Santana can do more than play a sick tune on his guitar. Have you checked out his hottest shoes and bags? Here, he tells us how he got into fashion.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> </span> <span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b>How did you get into designing women's shoes and bags?</b><br />
I was looking for another passion to express my creativity while simultaneously supporting my philanthropic efforts through The Milagro Foundation, and making females happy through my shoe and handbag lines has given me tremendous satisfaction. If the females are happy then everyone is happy.</span><br />
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<b> Does your music inspire your designs? </b><br />
My musical state of mind is always part of every part of the Carlos Santana brand, whether it's a handbag or a shoe or a fedora. Melody is the woman and rhythm is the man. Both are necessary and feed off each other in music as in fashion.<br />
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<b> What advice would you have for someone wanting to start their own line or business? </b><br />
Focus, focus, focus! Go after your dream, have a point of view and be true to yourself, believe in yourself and your dream, dreams do come true if you believe and work from the heart.<br />
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<b> What were some of the challenges you faced in starting out and how did you overcome them? </b><br />
In general, there haven't been any serious challenges because failure isn't much of an option for me. At first, though, it was hard for people to associate me with footwear and handbags, but eventually once people saw the quality and style, which spoke to their aesthetic, we were given permission through trust and even more doors opened.</span><br />
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<b> Describe your customer? </b><br />
I'm always looking for a new color or feeling or sensation, so there's nothing ho-hum or 'been there, done that' about my existence. I feel that this transcends the brand and the people who wear my creations. My customer is a person who is not emotionally invested in fear, and that makes her supremely attractive. She is confident, a go-getter, the woman who knows who she is and what she wants, understands style and trend and wants to be fashionable.<br />
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<b> What would you say is your design signature? </b><br />
Symetry of color, texture and confidence that makes the woman who wears or carries my products feel special while inspiring and transcending her confidence and inner balance.<br />
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Walk like you own clarity, peace of mind, good health and happiness. Utilize my Carlos by Carlos Santana shoes, bags and hats to compliment and make your outfit. Create your own unique style by embracing your individuality and your own true self.<br />
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Follow your heart and your own style, be who you are, be comfortable and do what speaks to you – embrace your individuality.<br />
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<b> Celeb you'd most like to see in your shoes? </b><br />
I like to see celebrities, as well as all women, that exude femininity, individuality and supernatural style, just like who my customer is. If I had to pick one, she'd have to embody all of that and have exceptionally pretty feet! — <b>Niria Portella | <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/fashion/interviews/a4063/carlos-santana-interview/" target="_blank">Cosmopolitan</a></b> </span><br />
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The Dark Knight: How Heath Ledger's Joker Was Born</h1>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">When The Dark Knight was released in the U.S. on July 18, 2008, it was immediately clear that not only had director Christopher Nolan elevated the superhero movie genre to something approaching high art, but that an iconic take on a classic character had also emerged from the endeavor: Heath Ledger’s dark, scary and more realistic take on Batman’s age-old nemesis, the Joker.<br />
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On the occasion of The Dark Knight’s 10th anniversary, we spoke with make-up artist John Caglione, Jr., who was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on The Dark Knight along with Conor O'Sullivan. Caglione had previously won an Oscar for his makeup on Dick Tracy back in 1991, so he came into The Dark Knight with some very relevant experience in the realm of creating grotesqueries. But when it came to birthing a new version of the Joker, the makeup artist quickly realized that he would be crossing into some new and uncomfortable terrain.</span><br />
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“So I read the script for The Dark Knight, and having seen the first one of Chris Nolan’s trilogy, I got the feeling it was going to be more of kind of an organic-looking thing,” Caglione explains. “It was going to be kind of real, not so comic book-y. Going in, and then talking to Chris, meeting him, it became a more realistic approach to the makeup. … What would it be if this guy slept in this makeup? You know, this psychopath. If he didn’t spruce up his makeup for two or three weeks. And, you know, he never changes his clothes in the film. … It was those kinds of organic details that really helps.”<br />
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When Caglione joined the production, Ledger was already signed on to play the iconic villain. The makeup designer’s earliest meetings were with the actor, director, and costume designer Lindy Hemming, followed by Caglione creating five or six color sketches as overlays of headshots of Ledger complete with green hair, different kinds of clown makeup, scars, and so on. This was followed with some makeup tests with Ledger in London, but as the process continued, it became clear that Caglione had to abandon his artist’s instinct to get everything just right.<br />
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“You know, you go into it, and you’re trying, as a makeup artist, I’m always trained to do every little detail,” he says. “And you think of a clown makeup, and for the most part they’re pretty detailed with sharp lines, but this had to be the opposite of that. It had to look very broken down, very… very lived in. So, yeah, my first few times were too perfect, so I had to kind of let my hand go. And it was hard, it was really hard to do that. And I remember the first week, the first few days on set, I would look at the makeup, and you don’t know the context of the film and the overall vision, and you’re looking at it as a makeup artist. And I’m saying, this is the worst makeup in the world here! You know? And, it was like, oh, am I doing the right thing?<br />
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And you’re looking at all the great makeups in history,” he continues. “Not just the Joker, but Clarabell and so many other greats -- you know, Emmett Kelly. And they’re always just very accurate, very precise makeups, and then here comes this. Ahhh! But, thank God it all worked out, right?”</span><br />
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It’s easy to forget now, but before The Dark Knight was released, the standard bearer of Joker makeups was the Jack Nicholson version from Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. But Caglione says that as far as he can recall, that design was never really discussed when creating the Ledger Joker. In fact, even the idea of the Joker’s white face being the result of an accident -- which is clearly the case in the Burton film -- just didn’t fit in the Nolan world of Batman.<br />
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“The first Batman was amazing,” says Caglione. “I love Nicholson’s makeup. And I love the whole approach that Tim Burton [took] … the comic book style of the film, it worked. Everything about that film was great. So, in the back of my mind, maybe subconsciously it was there, but no, it never came up in meetings or discussions. It was, let’s roll up our sleeves and make this thing look like a real person could have done this to themselves. … I think it was always discussed, that this was a possible -- you know, just a psychopath. A real person that just gets into this whole thing. It’s almost like a split personality. And so, yeah, it’s a madman in makeup. It’s that concept.”<br />
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Part of the “doing this to themselves” aspect of the character includes the question of those scars on either side of this Joker’s face. Of course, the film itself leaves the question of where the scars came from open to interpretation, as unknowable as the Joker’s ever-changing origin.<br />
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“I always got the impression that it was self-inflicted,” says Caglione. “But it’s up to you to decide. Was he punished, was it abuse? Was it an abusive situation? It could have been [and] that just tipped him over the edge. Mutilation, self-mutilation. We never really know for sure.”<br />
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Not surprisingly, Ledger himself was very involved in creating the makeup with Nolan and Caglione. Indeed, he was essential to getting the worn and cracked look of his Joker just right.<br />
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“It was great with Heath, it was just a great experience,” says Caglione. “He was a great person to work with every day. It was like a dance, because certain parts of the makeup, to get those cracks and all the drippy stuff, you really need the cooperation of the actor’s facial gestures when laying down the makeup and the paint. So we had a lot of fun together on that movie.”</span><br />
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Achieving the desired effect essentially involved Ledger acting in the makeup chair.<br />
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“He would contort his face or raise his eyebrows,” recalls Caglione. “Or I would even take one hand and kind of scrunch the corner of his eyes to create crows’ feet, you know, draw those wrinkles, and brush grays and white colors over it, and he would relax and you would get all these expressive lines and details that just come naturally. Listen, it’s an old theater trick. They were doing it in the turn of the century, the 1920s in theater. Actors would put white makeup on and scrunch their face and let it go, and then paint little brown lines. So it’s nothing that we really invented. It was a throwback to old makeup techniques.”<br />
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Another throwback in the design process came in the famous interrogation scene, where things get real rough between the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime.<br />
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“So, Heath and I would always be like, gee, what could we do a little different toward the end of the sequence?” recalls Caglione. “And I remember one time we’re talking about the scene where he gets beat up by Batman. He’s in the jail cell. And at the end of the scene, he wanted to have a different look, Heath. And I was thinking about what we can do with the eyes, the black and stuff. And I went, you know, there was this great villain in the Chaplin films, he was played -- the actor was Eric Campbell, and he always played the big heavy in all the Chaplin movies. And he always had these big, black eyes that kind of had these black eyebrows. And Heath was like, well, let me see a picture. So I pulled it up, and we kind of went for that kind of look. It was a throwback to an old Chaplin villain from the silent screen days.”<br />
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According to Caglione, Christopher Nolan wasn’t the kind of director who said “I want you to do exactly this.” Instead, he would offer inspiration and guidance. Take, for example, the paintings of Francis Bacon that he brought to Ledger and Caglione early in the design process.<br />
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“I think it was his way of saying, let’s blur this, let’s loosen this up,” says Caglione. “Here’s a book, look at it, and maybe you’ll find some inspiration. And it really helped, you know, we turned a corner. He didn’t have to say much, but that was the way it kind of went. And then Heath helped me to relax. The great actors help you relax so you can really bring it, and you can just try different things and feel free to do it. But that Francis Bacon painting, that day that Chris came in and plopped that down and we went through some pages… He said, yeah, maybe look at this picture, look at that picture. I think he actually had some of the pictures tagged with Post-its that he likes. Just for inspiration.”<br />
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Funny enough, it was a Francis Bacon painting in the 1989 Batman that the Jack Nicholson Joker spared during his gang’s rampage in the Gotham City museum. Coincidence? Who can say?<br />
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Of course, sadly Heath Ledger passed away before The Dark Knight was released. He went on to receive a posthumous Oscar for the role, but had he not died, the actor could’ve returned as the Joker. Caglione recalls Ledger talking about his ideas for the character beyond The Dark Knight.</span><br />
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“Yes, he did, he actually did talk to me about it,” he says. “He wanted to… start at the Arkham Asylum. And his idea -- I don’t know if he ever talked to Chris. This is just private moments in the chair with Heath, and conversations like, wouldn’t it be great to go back and see what really happened to this guy, how he became what he became? And why he just, you know, flipped out and became maniacal? And he always thought it would be great to go back to the asylum, or even before that. So it was just chit-chat in the chair. … Because I’m sure as an actor, he needs to know the origins of the character; it’s really important to him.<br />
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“He was excited about the idea of going back in time, and seeing how he became the Joker. You know, the evolution of the character,” says Caglione. “It would have been cool. It would have been cool.”<br />
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Indeed, it would’ve been cool. But at least we’ll always have Heath Ledger’s amazing performance from The Dark Knight, and the unforgettable look of the character created by Christopher Nolan, John Caglione, Jr., Conor O'Sullivan, Lindy Hemming and, of course, Ledger himself. — <b>Scott Cullura | <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07/18/the-dark-knight-how-heath-ledgers-joker-was-born" target="_blank">IGN</a></b></span>theKONGBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221316242424692880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018142852465167742.post-89069814037786898472018-09-19T18:14:00.000-04:002018-09-26T10:14:33.897-04:00theORIGINS: Your Beard Is Weird<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> It was (and is) cheesy, hokey, goofy, silly and evidently effective. It was a cri de coeur to men that their moribund love lives could be resuscitated with brush-in facial hair gel. It was the Just for Men advertisement with Keith Hernandez and Walt Frazier as barside analysts of Miss Hottie’s brush-off of poor Mr. Graybeard.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “No play for Mr. Gray,” Frazier said, as if the sap had just had his jumper blocked.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> It lacked the snap, crackle and pop of “Tastes great, less filling” or the cinematic élan of Mean Joe Greene’s Coca-Cola ad. But the original Hernandez-Frazier singles-bar pairing is still running after nearly five and a half years, outlasting a less-memorable follow-up — and still enriching two stars of graying age: Hernandez, 54, a Mets analyst for SportsNet New York, and Frazier, 62, MSG’s lead Knicks analyst.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “People used to stop me in the airport and ask, ‘Can I help you move?’” Hernandez said by telephone, alluding to his 1992 guest appearance on “Seinfeld.” Now, he added, “They say, ‘Rejected!’” a line that he and Frazier uttered in unison in the first ad.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> Research showed Combe Inc., Just for Men’s parent company, that its target male buyers are not tired of the ad. “It’s so much a part of the vernacular,” said John Lerch, Combe’s chief advertising officer, worldwide. “The lines really play back.”</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> And, he said, the over-the-top production eases the reluctance of hair-coloring virgins.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> The Hernandez-Frazier announcing tandem returned Saturday night (on the Jaguars-Steelers playoff game on NBC) with a new ad with the former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith. He is first seen in a retirement home for running backs, rendered morose by a gray beard that, if left to thicken and grow paler, would look like Fred Sanford’s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “Emmitt, your gray facial hair has put you in a rocking chair,” Frazier says.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “Your beard is weird,” Hernandez adds.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “Your ’stache is trash,” Frazier chimes in.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “Oooh, it’s bad,” Smith moans. His bonus for coloring his beard is not a date (although cheerleaders celebrate his renewal) but a touchdown in the Orange Bowl.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “He scores!” Hernandez and Frazier say, once more as one, from the sideline.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> Just for Men prefers that Hernandez’s mustache be of a continually dark hue; the company does not mind if he keeps his hair dark, too, but his deal is strictly facial. Two executives have the additional corporate assignment of contacting him when they spot his color fading and suggest that it is time for a touch-up.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> “During the season, I use it quite a bit,” said Hernandez, the Mets’ former first baseman. “I can’t have gray.”</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> Lerch said, “When we remind him, it’s more like kidding him.”</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"> Frazier needs no such reminders from the home office in White Plains; he is so fastidious about hiding the encroaching gray. But in the off-season, invisible to his gel masters, Hernandez lets the gray show in the signature facial hair that was voted the top sports mustache ever last year by the American Mustache Institute. — </span><b style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Richard Sandomir | <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/sports/06sandomir.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Intro]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Oh my god, Ronny</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Verse 1]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Ayy, somebody grab him some clippers (zzzzt)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">His fuckin' beard is weird</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Tough talk from a rapper payin' millions for security a year</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">"I think my dad's gone crazy," yeah, Hailie, you right</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Dad's always mad cooped up in the studio, yellin' at the mic</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You're sober and bored, huh? (I know)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">'bout to be 46 years old, dog</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Talkin' 'bout "I'ma call up Trick Trick"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Man, you sound like a bitch, bitch</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Man up and handle your shit (ugh)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Mad about somethin' I said in 2012</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Took you six years and a surprise album just to come with a diss</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Homie we get it, we know that you're the greatest rapper alive</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Fuckin' dweeb, all you do is read the dictionary and stay inside</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Fuck "Rap God," I'm the Rap Devil</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Comin' bare-faced with a black shovel</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Like the Armageddon when the smoke settle</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">His body next to this instrumental, I'm sayin'</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of them sweatsuits and them corny hats, let's talk about it</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of you bein' rich and you still mad, let's talk about it</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Both of us single dads from the Midwest, we can talk about it</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Or we could get gully, I'll size up your body</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And put some white chalk around it (ey)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Verse 2]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Let's talk about the fact you actually blackballed a rapper</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">That's twice as young as you (let's talk about it)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Let's call Sway</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Ask why I can't go on Shade 45 because of you (brrt)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Let's ask Interscope</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">How you had Paul Rosenberg tryin' to shelf me (huh?)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Still can't cover up the fact</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Your last four albums is as bad as your selfie</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Now tell me, what do you stand for? (what?)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I know you can't stand yourself (no)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Tryin' to be the old you so bad you Stan yourself (ha)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Let's leave all the beefin' to 50 (please)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Em, you're pushin' 50</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Why you claimin' that I'ma call Puff?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">When you the one that called Diddy (facts)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Then you went and called Jimmy (facts)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">They conference called me in the morning (what?)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">They told me you mad about a tweet</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You wanted me to say sorry (what?)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I swear to God I ain't believe him (nah)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Please say it ain't so (no)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">The big bad bully of the rap game can't take a fuckin' joke</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Oh, you want some fuckin' smoke (what?)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But not literally, you'll choke</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Yeah I'll acknowledge you're the GOAT</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But I'm The Gunner, bitch, I got you in the scope (brra)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Don't have a heart attack now (no)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Somebody help your mans up (help)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Knees weak of old age, the real Slim Shady can't stand up!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Chorus]</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of them sweatsuits and them corny hats, let's talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of you bein' rich and you still mad, let's talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Both of us single dads from the Midwest, we can talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Or we could get gully, I'll size up your body</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And put some white chalk around it (ey)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Verse 3]</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Hello Marshall, my name's Colson</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You should go back to Recovery</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I know your ego is hurtin'</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Just knowin' that all of your fans discovered me (hi)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">He like, "Damn, he a younger me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Except he dresses better and I'm ugly</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Always making fun of me."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Stop all the thuggery, Marshall, you livin' in luxury (damn)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Look what you done to me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Dropped an album just because of me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Damn, you in love with me!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You got money but I'm hungry</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I like the diss but you won't say them lyrics out in front of me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Shout out to every rapper that's up under me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Know that I'll never do you like this fuckery</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Still bitter after everyone loves you</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Pull that wedgie out your dungarees (hey)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I gotta respect the OGs and I know most of 'em personally (ayy)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But you're just a bully actin' like a baby</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So I gotta read you a nursery (nursery)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm the ghost of the future</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And you're just Ebenezer Scrooge (facts)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I said on Flex anyone could get it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I ain't know it would be you</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Chorus]</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of them sweatsuits and them corny hats, let's talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of you bein' rich and you still mad, let's talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Both of us single dads from the Midwest, we can talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Or we could get gully, I'll size up your body</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And put some white chalk around it (ey)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Bridge]</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Ridin' shotty 'cause I gotta roll this dope</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">It's a fast road when your idols become your rivals, yeah</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Never hesitate to say it to your face, I'm a asshole</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Bitch-ass motherfucker</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Oh my god, Ronny</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Fuck Kells!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Verse 4]</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">We know you get nervous, Rabbit</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I see Momma's spaghetti all over your sweater</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I wish you would lose yourself on the records</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">That you made a decade ago, they were better</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Accordin' to them, you're a national treasure</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">To me, you're as soft as a feather</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">The type to be scared to ask Rihanna for her number</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Just hold her umbrella-ella-ella</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">"I'm not afraid," okay Oscar the Grouch, chill on the couch (fuck)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You got an Oscar, damn</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Can anyone else get some food in their mouth? (For real)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">They made a movie about you, you're in everybody's top ten</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You're not getting better with time</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">It's fine, Eminem, put down the pen</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Or write an apology</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Over the simple fact, you had to diss to acknowledge me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I am the prodigy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">How could I even look up to you? You ain't as tall as me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">5'8" and I'm 6'4", seven punches hold your head still</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Last time you saw 8 Mile was at home on a treadmill</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You were named after a candy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I was named after a gangster (brr)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And don't be a sucker and take my verse off of Yelawolf's album, thank ya (thank ya)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I just wanna feed my daughter</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You tryna stop the money to support her</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You the one always talkin' 'bout the action</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Text me the addy, I'm pullin' up scrappin'</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And I'm by my fuckin' self, what's happenin'?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">EST captain, salute me or shoot me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">That's what he's gonna have to do to me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">When he realizes there ain't shit he could do to me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Everybody always hated me, this isn't anything new to me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Yeah there's a difference between us</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I got all of my shit without Dre producin' me (ayy)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I know you're not used to me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Usually one of your disses should ruin me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But bitch I'm from Cleveland</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Everybody quiet this evenin', I'm readin' the eulogy (shh)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Dropped an album called Kamikaze</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So that means he killed him</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Already fucked one rapper's girl this week</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Don't make me call Kim</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Chorus]</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of them sweatsuits and them corny hats, let's talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of you bein' rich and you still mad, let's talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Both of us single dads from the Midwest, we can talk about it</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Or we could get gully, I'll size up your body</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And put some white chalk around it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">"Killshot" by Eminem | Produced by IllaDaProducer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Intro]</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You sound like a bitch, bitch</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Shut the fuck up!</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">When your fans become your haters</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You done?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Fuckin' beard's weird</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Alright</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You yellin' at the mic, fuckin' weird beard</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">We doin' this once</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You yellin' at the mic, your beard's weird</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Why you yell at the mic? (Illa)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br /></span>
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Verse]</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Rihanna just hit me on a text</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Last night I left hickeys on her neck</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Wait, you just dissed me? I'm perplexed</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Insult me in a line, compliment me on the next</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Damn, I'm really sorry you want me to have a heart attack</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Was watchin' 8 Mile on my NordicTrack</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Realized I forgot to call you back</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Here's that autograph for your daughter, I wrote it on a Starter cap</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Stan, Stan, son</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Listen, man, Dad isn't mad</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But how you gonna name yourself after a damn gun</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And have a man-bun?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">The giant's woke, eyes open, undeniable</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Supplyin' smoke, got the fire stoked</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Say you got me in a scope, but you grazed me</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I say one call to Interscope and you're Swayze</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Your reply got the crowd yelling, "Woo!"</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So before you die let's see who can out-petty who</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">With your corny lines ("Slim, you're old")—ow, Kelly, ooh</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But I'm 45 and I'm still outselling you</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">By 29, I had three albums that had blew</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Now let's talk about somethin' I don't really do</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Go in someone's daughter's mouth stealin' food</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But you're a fuckin' mole hill</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Now I'ma make a mountain out of you, woo!</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Ho, chill, actin' like you put the chrome barrel to my bone marrow</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Gunner? Bitch, you ain't a bow and arrow</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Say you'll run up on me like a phone bill, sprayin' lead (brrt)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Playin' dead, that's the only time you hold still (hold up)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Are you eating cereal or oatmeal?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">What the fuck's in the bowl, milk? Wheaties or Cheerios?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">'Cause I'm takin' a shit in 'em, Kelly, I need reading material</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">…Dictionary…</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">"Yo, Slim, your last four albums sucked</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Go back to Recovery," oh shoot, that was three albums ago</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">What do you know? Oops</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Know your facts before you come at me, lil' goof</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Luxury, oh, you broke, bitch? Yeah, I had enough money in '02</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">To burn it in front of you, ho</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Younger me? No, you the wack me, it's funny but so true</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'd rather be 80-year-old me than 20-year-old you</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">'Til I'm hitting old age</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Still can fill a whole page with a 10-year-old's rage</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Got more fans than you in your own city, lil' kiddy, go play</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Feel like I'm babysitting Lil Tay</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Got the Diddy okay so you spent your whole day</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Shootin' a video just to fuckin' dig your own grave</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Got you at your own wake, I'm the billy goat</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You ain't never made a list next to no Biggie, no Jay</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Next to Taylor Swift and that Iggy ho, you about to really blow</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Kelly, they'll be putting your name</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Next to Ja, next to Benzino—die, motherfucker!</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Like the last motherfucker sayin' Hailie in vain</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Alien brain, you Satanist (yeah)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">My biggest flops are your greatest hits</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">The game's mine again and ain't nothin' changed but the locks</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So before I slay this bitch I, mwah, give Jade a kiss</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Gotta wake up Labor Day to this (the fuck?)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Bein' rich-shamed by some prick usin' my name for clickbait</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">In a state of bliss 'cause I said his goddamn name</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Now I gotta cock back, aim</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Yeah, bitch, pop Champagne to this! (pop)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">It's your moment</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">This is it, as big as you're gonna get, so enjoy it</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Had to give you a career to destroy it</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Lethal injection</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Go to sleep six feet deep, I'll give you a B for the effort</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But if I was three-foot-eleven</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You'd look up to me, and for the record</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You would suck a dick to fuckin' be me for a second</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Lick a ballsack to get on my channel</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Give your life to be as solidified</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">This mothafuckin' shit is like Rambo when he's out of bullets</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So what good is a fuckin' machine gun when it's out of ammo?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Had enough of this tatted-up mumble rapper</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">How the fuck can him and I battle?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">He'll have to fuck Kim in my flannel</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'll give him my sandals</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">'Cause he knows, long as I'm Shady he's gon' have to live in my shadow</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Exhausting, letting off on my offspring</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Lick a gun barrel, bitch, get off me!</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You dance around it like a sombrero, we can all see</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You're fuckin' salty</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">'Cause Young Gerald's balls-deep inside of Halsey</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Your red sweater, your black leather</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You dress better, I rap better</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">That a death threat or a love letter?</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Little white toothpick</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Thinks it's over a pic, I just don't like you, prick</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Thanks for dissing me</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Now I had an excuse on the mic to write "Not Alike"</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But really, I don't care who's in the right</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But you're losin' the fight you picked</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Who else want it? Kells—attempt fails! Budden—L's!</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Fuckin' nails in these coffins as soft as Cottonelle</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Killshot, I will not fail, I'm with the Doc still</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But this idiot's boss pops pills and tells him he's got skills</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">But, Kells, the day you put out a hit's the day Diddy admits</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">That he put the hit out that got Pac killed, ah!</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of you bein' wack</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And still usin' that mothafuckin' Auto-Tune</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So let's talk about it (let's talk about it)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of your mumble rap mouth</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Need to get the cock up out it</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Before we can even talk about it (talk about it)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">I'm sick of your blonde hair and earrings</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Just 'cause you look in the mirror and think</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">That you're Marshall Mathers (Marshall Mathers)</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Don't mean you are, and you're not about it</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">So just leave my dick in your mouth and keep my daughter out it</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">[Outro]</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You fuckin'—oh</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">And I'm just playin', Diddy</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">You know I love you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><b>When Dan Price returned to his home state of Oregon in 1990 he was determined to avoid mortgages or rent (he and his family had just finished caretaking a mansion with a heating bill of $500/month). He found an unused meadow in Joseph, Oregon and began renting it from his neighbors for $100/year (in exchange for cleaning downed trees and repairing fences). <br />
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His first underground structure was actually built to shelter his home/office, namely his copy machine, essential for publishing his zine “Moonlight Chronicles” which he started in 1992 (it was sponsored by Simple Shoes for a decade).<br />
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In his meadow paradise, Price now also has an underground "hobbit hole" style home, as well as, a composting toilet, a propane-powered shower (using river water) and a pine wood propane sauna. He’s not hooked up to city water (he discovered a spring on the property), but he’s hooked up to the grid and it’s been approved by the county and city.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">When Dan Price returned to his home state of Oregon in 1990 he was determined to avoid mortgages or rent (he and his family had just finished caretaking a mansion with a heating bill of $500/month). He found an unused meadow in Joseph, Oregon and began renting it from his neighbors for $100/year (in exchange for cleaning downed trees and repairing fences).</span><br />
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He first erected a tipi on the property, but after awhile felt it was too big so he built himself a 9’ by 12’ red willow dome hut. Then he began traveling a lot so he made an even more temporary home from a 4-season mountain tent. Eventually he fell in love with a cedar shingle beach shack he’s seen in a tiny house book and built a 6-by-10-foot one for himself with an underground room as a bedroom.</span></span><br />
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He was never comfortable in a square home so when he was robbed (someone entered a skylight and took his photography equipment and computer), he tore down the home and left only the underground portion as his entire home. “That was what 15 years ago. That’s when I went into the little hobbit hole. Eventually, of course, I saw the Hobbit movies and made like the porch with the little curved porch on it and I’ve been in that ever since.”</span><br />
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His first underground structure was actually built to shelter his home/office, namely his copy machine, essential for publishing his zine “Moonlight Chronicles” which he started in 1992 (it was sponsored by Simple Shoes for a decade).</span><br />
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In his meadow paradise, Price also has a composting toilet, a propane-powered shower (using river water) and a pine wood propane sauna. He’s not hooked up to city water (he discovered a spring on the property), but he’s hooked up to the grid and it’s been approved by the county and city.</span><br />
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“Initially I had to go through the county and the city because there’s an electric line brought down. And they approved it. They also approved, the city council approved this composting toilet 25 years ago. So I’m kind of grandfathered in. And I don’t, as you can see there’s no junk cars or piles of trash around. I keep it really pristine so there isn’t anyone complaining. And if I had trashed the place and people were complaining they’d probably come and kick me out.”</span></span><br />
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Price’s monikers is “hobo artist” and he’s hopped trains and lived an itinerant life at times, but he also sees himself as very conventional.<br />
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“I’ve hopped trains. I really have done kind of a hobo’s life. Sort of like a neo hobo, a classy hobo maybe. I’m just totally normal, but I live this simple way. More like a surf bum, how about a surf bum.” Price spends every winter away from his underground home surfing. — <b>Kristen Dirksen | <a href="https://faircompanies.com/videos/dan-prices-underground-home-art-philosophy-on-5000year/" target="_blank">Fair Companies</a></b></span>theKONGBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221316242424692880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018142852465167742.post-9333768428197365132018-08-31T12:09:00.000-04:002018-08-31T16:29:18.815-04:00POLO HI TECH by Ralph Lauren<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">THE STORY OF THE ICONIC POLO HI TECH LOGO—WHAT IT SIGNIFIED, AND HOW IT INSPIRED A NEW COLLECTION FOR FALL 2018</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">High above sea level and the clouds that enshroud the Himalayas, Ed Viesturs, one of America’s greatest climbers, forged a path up Mount Everest. He had summited the world’s highest peak before, but this was his first go at making it to the top alone—a historic attempt at a particularly difficult feat of mountaineering.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fall 2018 Polo Hi Tech collection, photographed in Yosemite National Park by Tom Gould.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br />It was the fall of 1993, and Viesturs cut a striking figure against the blinding white snow with his red-and-black insulated down suit, worn over technical layers and color-blocked accessories in red, blue, and black. “I was the best-dressed climber on Everest, ever,” he said at the time. Unlike the clothing worn by his contemporaries, which was supplied by traditional outdoor companies, Viesturs’ gear had an unexpected logo: “POLO SPORT.”</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fall 2018 Polo Hi Tech collection, photographed in Yosemite National Park by Tom Gould.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br />Ralph Lauren’s sponsorship of Viesturs’ Everest trek represented a new direction for a brand that was built on the codes of traditional American and English style—New England prep, the American West, the romance of Old England, and, of course, the sport of polo. But while Mr. Lauren may draw inspiration from the past, he isn’t bound by it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fall 2018 Polo Hi Tech collection, photographed in Yosemite National Park by Tom Gould.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br />“One of the most important things of our decade,” he said at the time, “is that women, men, and children are all taking up sports—biking, running, skiing, boating, and lots more. And if you’re not playing, you want to look like you are.” His response? Polo Sport, a new line with a bold new look. A line that wasn’t just inspired by sport—it was made for it, whether worn on the deck of the America, the slopes of Telluride, or, in the case of Viesturs, even Mount Everest. Over the next few years, Polo Sport would become one of Ralph Lauren’s most iconic—and most collected—creations.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fall 2018 Polo Hi Tech collection, photographed in Yosemite National Park by Tom Gould.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br />Following the athletic-inspired Stadium collection, which launched Polo Sport for Fall 1992, Ralph Lauren introduced three collections that reimagined modern activewear with a Polo sensibility: Snowboarding (which included the legendary Snow Beach jacket), Sportsman (inspired by rugged outdoor pursuits), and the sought-after winter sports collections RL2000 and Ski ’92, all of which featured the graphic sensibility and colorful motifs that would come to define the Polo Sport aesthetic. Certain pieces in these collections were emblazoned with a new logo, one reserved for items with true performance capabilities: “POLO HI TECH.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br />From 1992 through 1994, the Hi Tech patch appeared on countless pieces, from vests constructed for marathon fishing expeditions to anoraks designed to withstand the rigors of backcountry skiing. Each piece was unique in what made it Hi Tech, but all boasted some kind of technical aspect: ripstop quilted linings, ballistic or micro-coated Supplex© nylon, high-function coated cotton, Cordura©, utility pockets, specialty insulation, reinforced joints, and more. Often adorned with words like “ALPINE” or “CLIMB,” Hi Tech pieces embodied a rugged sense of action and adventure built into their design, and while the logo was phased out after 1994, the concept of technical sportswear lived on in RLX and other collections in subsequent years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br />Now, a quarter-century later, Polo Hi Tech is back for Fall 2018. Mr. Lauren has done more than revive the logo—he’s built an entirely new collection around the concept, combining design details from those original Polo Sport collections—including utility pockets, custom weather-resistant fabrics, bold graphics, and vibrant color-blocking—with entirely new styles and silhouettes. The results, we’re happy to report, pair equally well with denim, camouflage, or tweed, and look as sharp on a city sidewalk as they do hanging from a cliff in Yosemite—or a solo climb up Mount Everest. — <b>Andrew Gould | <a href="https://www.ralphlauren.com/rlmag/the-story-of-polo-hi-tech-ralph-lauren.html?ab=en_US_rlmag_hp_slot1" target="_blank">RL Mag</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">Not only is the latter — the </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">consensus</span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;"> N</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">o. 1 recruit in all of college basketball — he is also NBA legend: Steve Nash's godson. Not only do their opponents have to deal w/ the "all-around" </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.08px;">worldly</span><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.08px;"> skills of R.J., the opposition is forced to reckon w/ an immovable & unstoppable object known as </span></span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">Zion </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">"Half-Man/Half-Beast"</span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">Williamson.<br /><br />Although an "official" nickname has yet to be given, it is beyond a reasonable doubt that those in Zion's way should be afraid, be very afraid.</span></div>
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<b> YEAR</b>: Freshman<br />
<b> HOMETOWN</b>: Spartanburg, S.C.<br />
<b> HIGH SCHOOL</b>: Spartanburg Day School</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Back in 2011, a video titled ‘The Crazy Nastya** Honey Badger” was posted on YouTube. You may have heard of it.</span><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">“Ew! What’s that in its mouth? Oh, it’s got a cobra? Oh, it runs backwards?” the video’s narrator, Christopher Gordon (who sometimes goes by the name “Randall” online) says over National Geographic footage of a honey badger scampering around. “Now watch this. Look, a snake’s up in the tree. Honey Badger don’t care. It just takes what it wants.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">After his viral video racked up millions of views and turned the previously obscure mammal into a cultural icon, Gordon began cashing in. There were honey-badger-themed wall calendars, mouse pads and plush toys, not to mention the standard mugs and shirts. He got a book deal and was reported to be working with a production company to develop a TV show called “Honey Badger U,” although that never materialized.</span><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">In the meantime, however, the honey badger became the center of a long-running trademark battle centering on the video’s most memorable catchphrases: “Honey Badger Don’t Care” and “Honey Badger Don’t Give a S—.”</span><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">After Gordon lost a first round in a U.S. district court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Monday reinstated his lawsuit against the companies that he says infringed on his trademark.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;"><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">As the appeals court’s ruling notes, Gordon had trademarked the phrase “Honey Badger Don’t Care” and entered into licensing agreements with the Duck Company and Zazzle, which currently sells more than 9,000 honey badger products, including a pair of socks that show a honey badger dabbing.</span><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Then, in 2012, Papyrus-Recycled Greetings, a division of American Greetings, started selling several honey badger greeting cards, including one that said “Honey Badger and me just don’t care. Happy birthday.”</span><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><br style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;" /><span style="letter-spacing: 0.093px;">Several other cards featured the phrase “Honey Badger Don’t Give a S—,” which Gordon has not trademarked.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the post-Honey Badger era, it’s become increasingly common for large corporations to appropriate viral memes for their own marketing purposes. Critics argue that the creators of these memes, who are often teenagers and frequently people of color, rarely have the opportunity to monetize their work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Want to profit off your meme? Good luck if you aren’t white,” read a 2017 headline in Wired magazine after Kayla Lewis, who goes by Peaches Monroee on social media and is credited with creating the phrase “eyebrows on fleek,” launched a GoFundMe campaign asking for donations so that she could start her own cosmetics line. Before launching the campaign, the magazine noted, Lewis hadn’t made any money off the phrase, even after companies such as IHOP, Taco Bell and Forever 21 used it.<br />
And meme creators have only a small window of time to monetize their viral fame before the Internet moves on to something new, as Reback acknowledged during his oral arguments before the appeals court.<br />
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“My client is a creative genius,” he said. “He had a bolt of lightning, 86 million views on YouTube, was basically a celebrity around the country for about three years, and he had a brief window of time to strike while the iron was hot on that. He should be the one — not the defendants in this case — to capitalize on that.” — <b>Antonia Noori Farzan </b>|<b> </b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/01/honey-badger-may-not-care-but-the-creative-genius-who-took-him-viral-just-won-a-big-victory/?utm_term=.b2aed909b922" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Washington Post</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A 29-yr-old ground-baggage employee at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport stole a Bombardier Q400 twin-engine turboprop 76-seat aircraft on Friday, August 10th, 2018. He began circling the area, performing aerial stunts while engaged in an hour-long negotiation w/ air traffic control. In response, the North American Aerospace Defense Command & Defense Department unleashed two F-15 Eagle pilots from </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.093px;">the Oregon Air National Guard‘s 142nd Fighter Wing. </span></div>
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Jerry & Rita Alter's Heist Of The Century — Willem de Kooning's $160 Million "Woman-Ochre" Painting</h1>
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Jerry and Rita Alter spent Thanksgiving Day 1985 with family in Tucson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> A newly discovered photo from the gathering shows them smiling side by side at the dinner table, plates of pumpkin pie in front of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Jerry was a retired music teacher and Rita a speech pathologist; a couple of New Yorkers in their 50s who had moved to rural New Mexico.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> A day after the photo was taken, a valuable painting by the artist Willem de Kooning was taken from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. Officials believed the thieves — a man and a woman — distracted a guard, cut the painting from the frame, rolled it up and carried it out of the museum under a coat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The thieves and the painting disappeared without a trace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Composite sketches, in hindsight, resemble the faces in the Thanksgiving photo, down to their position side by side.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;"><span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> No one would have made the connection at the time. But three decades later, the painting, “Woman-Ochre,” turned up in the Alters’ New Mexico home, discovered by accident in the master bedroom following the couple's death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> No one handling the Alters' estate was aware of the background or value of the oil abstract of a nude woman. But when the home's furnishings were sold to a local antiques shop for $2,000, customers immediately recognized it as the work of de Kooning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The painting is thought to be worth more than $100 million. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> August marks the first full year since the painting's recovery. In the 12 months since, clues have emerged that might explain how an unassuming, retired couple came into possession of the artwork. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Rita Alter's nephew and executor of their estate, Ron Roseman, recently discovered the Thanksgiving Day photo while going through family photos and shared it with The Arizona Republic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman said he doesn't want to believe his beloved aunt and uncle might have been involved in a major art theft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "We have no idea when they got it, how they got it, if they were involved, if they bought it from someone. Ultimately there’s a lot of coincidence," he told The Republic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The Alters, it turns out, left other interesting clues, or coincidences, besides the Thanksgiving Day photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The FBI has declined to discuss the de Kooning case until it's resolved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> University police didn't find much evidence at the museum crime scene. The museum had no video cameras. Police found no traces of fingerprints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> One witness did say whoever took the painting drove off in a rust-colored sports car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The Alters almost exclusively drove red cars, their nephew said. "All their cars over the years, but one, was red. They had one blue car," Roseman said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> A composite sketch of the thieves show the woman wearing a scarf and “granny” glasses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The man was described as 25 to 30 years old with curly hair, an olive complexion, thick mustache and glasses.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;"><span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;">The woman may have been a man in disguise, said UA Police Chief Brian Seastone, who was the lead detective on the case before it was turned over to the FBI. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The Alters have two adult children but they have not been able to shed light on how their parents obtained the painting, Roseman said. Neither could be reached for comment by The Republic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The family photo taken Thanksgiving Day 1985 in Tucson shows the Alters' son, 23-year-old Joseph, at the table with his parents and other family members. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> About six months ago, Roseman said he showed a photo of "Woman-Ochre" to Joseph to see if he might remember or have anything to say about the painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman said his cousin laughed for about 30 seconds when he saw the painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "Why are you laughing?" Roseman asked him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "That's one of the ugliest paintings I've ever seen," Alter told him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman likes to imagine his aunt and uncle acquired the stolen painting in a not-so-nefarious way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Jerry Alter, a professional musician and a band teacher in New York City schools, left teaching at 47. Roseman said the couple decided to "get out of the rat race" and moved to rural New Mexico in 1977.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Jerry drew up blueprints and hired contractors to build a ranch-style house atop a mesa on 20 acres in Cliff, a blink-and-you-miss-it town of fewer than 300 people. Rita Alter started work as a speech pathologist for the local school district, Silver Consolidated Schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> They frequented art museums, which leads Roseman to another possible scenario on how his aunt and uncle ended up with the de Kooning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> They could have been at an art exhibit or art gallery, he said, when someone approached them and said, "I have something better in my garage."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> He surmises the Alters could have bought the painting under the belief it was either an original de Kooning or a good copy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> David Van Auker is co-owner of the antique shop that inadvertently purchased the stolen de Kooning as part of the Alters' estate sale. He has a theory about how long the painting was in the Alters' home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Van Auker said the painting was "hidden" from guests behind a door in their master bedroom — as if the couple didn't want anyone but themselves to see it. He found cobwebs and dust when he examined the painting as he was looking over objects in the home in early August 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> When the painting was removed from the wall, it left an outline on the wall where the frame had hung, indicating the work had been there for some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "I honestly believe that it had been there since the day it was stolen," he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The Alters also apparently took steps to safeguard the valuable work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> A camera team from WFAA television station in Dallas was able to enter the Alters' former home for a 2017 documentary on the de Kooning theft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> They examined the area where the painting had hung. On the baseboard, they spotted a thick screw, blocking the door from opening all the way and damaging the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The Alters were deeply in love, said Roseman, their nephew. When he was going through the contents of their estate, he found love letters they had written to each other, even into old age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> They met in 1955 or 1956 at a hotel in the Catskill Mountains, where H. Jerome "Jerry" played clarinet in a jazz band and Rita Sinofsky had gone to be a waitress. When Rita got there, however, she discovered there wasn't a job opening, so she went to a café to mull over her predicament. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> That's where Jerry spotted her, decided she was the one and struck up a conversation, Roseman said. They married a year or two later.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> They would fly to exotic vacations during school breaks, visiting more than 140 countries and taking some 13,000 slides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The Alters wrote three books together, one about traveling, another about poetry and a twist on Aesop's Fables.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "The Cup and The Lip: Exotic Tales" features fictional accounts of travel adventures. In one story, "Eye of the Jaguar," a grandmother and her granddaughter case a local city museum and then return to steal its prize exhibit, a 120-carat emerald.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The thieves leave behind no clues. The jewel is kept hidden "several miles away" from the museum, behind a secret panel, "and two pairs of eyes, exclusively, are there to see!" he wrote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The details are similar to the de Kooning theft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman said he read parts of his uncle's book five or six years ago. At the time, though, he would have had no inkling a stolen painting was behind their bedroom door, where only the Alters could see it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> It wasn't until after the famous painting was recovered, Roseman said, that a New York Times reporter, researching a story about the painting's recovery, brought to Roseman's attention the emerald-theft story's similarities to the de Kooning theft.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The recovered de Kooning, now safely back at the university, holds a few clues to its travels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> UA museum officials believe the painting was reframed only once after being stolen, a possible sign the work of art hadn't passed through multiple owners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The painting was mounted in a gold commercial frame. Someone crudely stretched the canvas and screwed it into the frame, methods inconsistent with professional framing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman, who is a high school computer teacher, said he was close to his aunt and uncle, especially during the late 1970s and early '80s when he was a student at the University of Arizona. He visited them about once a month in Cliff, which is about 225 miles east of Tucson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> After he graduated college, he visited less frequently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Jerry Alter died in 2012. He was 81.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> A few years later, Rita Alter started showing signs of dementia. She placed dozens of sticky notes inside her car to remind herself how to drive with instructions such as, "press the middle pedal to stop the car."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman, who lives in Houston, and other family members made plans for round-the-clock care in January 2017, so she could remain in her home. That's when Roseman first saw the painting behind the door of the master bedroom. But like others, he didn't recognize the work as being valuable or stolen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman considered himself pretty close to his aunt and uncle. They were worldly and fascinating. And he loved hearing about their travels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> But after the events of the past year, he was "not close enough evidently," he said with a laugh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Rita Alter died in June 2017 at age 81. Roseman, the estate's executor, arranged to clear out and sell the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Manzanita Ridge Furniture & Antiques in nearby Silver City purchased furniture, African art objects and a couple of paintings, including the as-yet-unidentified de Kooning. Silver City is known for its vibrant arts district. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> David Van Auker, one of the shop's owners, found the painting striking. He thought it would be the perfect addition to a guesthouse he owns. He and the shop's co-owners, Buck Burns and Rick Johnson, brought the painting to the store in the back of a truck along with lamps and African art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "The painting actually kind of got thrown in on top last," Van Auker said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> He leaned the painting against a coffee table in the store. The next day, the painting started attracting attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "I think that's a real de Kooning," one of the customers said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Van Auker assumed it was nothing more than a copy. But then two more visitors voiced similar opinions that it was a real de Kooning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Van Auker typed the words "de Kooning" into his internet browser. Among the results was a 2015 azcentral.com story about a de Kooning painting taken in a daring heist. The photo with the story looked exactly like the one in his store. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Van Auker hid the painting in the shop's bathroom, the only interior room with a lock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> He nervously placed a series of calls: to the university art museum, to the FBI and to The Republic reporter who had written the 2015 story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The museum's curator, Olivia Miller, was, of course, immediately interested. She asked Van Auker to email photos and measurements of the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> With each photo that she examined, Miller grew more excited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> She and other museum staffers drove to the antique shop the next day where, after seeing the painting in person, they arranged to bring it back to the university under police escort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "After 31 years, stolen 'Woman-Ochre' returns," UA proclaimed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> FBI Supervisory Special Agent Tim Carpenter, who works on the bureau's Art Theft Program, said when he learned "Woman-Ochre" had been found, his first reaction was shock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The 30-year-plus case had gone cold. When art has been missing for decades, it's only natural to wonder whether the piece has been lost or destroyed, he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Valuable stolen art is extraordinarily hard to sell. It's common for high-value pieces to disappear for decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> But it's gratifying when art is recovered thanks to the actions of "good Samaritans," who call the FBI when they suspect they have come across stolen art, he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> "I hate to be corny, but it really reinforces the notion that good people are out there and doing the right thing," Carpenter said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> When architect and businessman Edward J. Gallagher Jr. donated "Woman-Ochre" to the museum in 1958, it was appraised at $6,000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The painting was valued at $400,000 for insurance purposes when stolen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> UA officials aren't releasing a current value on the advice of attorneys, and the museum couldn't and wouldn't sell the painting, under an agreement made with the donor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> But it's safe to say "Woman-Ochre" is worth more than $100 million. A similar de Kooning work, "Woman III," sold for $137.5 million in 2006. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> When Will 'Woman-Ochre' Go On Display?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Thefts of valuable paintings in broad daylight are rare, according to the FBI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Most museum thefts involve smaller, easier-to-fence items, such as historical documents or lower-value artifacts. It's usually museum insiders who are involved, stealing objects out of storage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The de Kooning theft seemed to be a brazen crime that left few clues behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> The empty frame showing where a thief ripped Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" painting out of its frame in November 1985. (Photo: Courtesy University of Arizona)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> In their haste, the thieves damaged the painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> A sharp blade was used to cut the painting from its frame. The de Kooning was then ripped out, creating a tear in one corner. The thief rolled the canvas tightly and stuffed it under a coat, causing horizontal creases in the paint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> UA officials are raising funds for repairs, but they don't yet know the extent or cost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> They have difficult decisions to make. Can the painting be reattached to its original frame? How much evidence of the theft should be left, if any? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Museum Curator Olivia Miller said there's a "good likelihood" repairs could start sometime in the next year so that, eventually, "Woman-Ochre" can be displayed at the museum again, more than 30 years after being taken.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> But it's hard to discount the clues, or coincidences, that point to a quirky couple from New Mexico with time to spare on a Thanksgiving vacation in 1985.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem;"> Roseman, their nephew, doesn't want to believe the Alters are responsible. But with all the potential clues that have emerged in the last year, "I can see that it's possible," he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">A small asteroid broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013. The shock wave it generated shattered glass and injured about 1,200 people. Some scientists think the meteor may have briefly outshone the sun. The blast was stronger than a nuclear explosion, triggering detections from monitoring stations as far away as Antarctica.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;"> <span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">The incident was another reminder to space agencies about the importance of monitoring small bodies in space that could pose a threat to Earth. The same day Chelyabinsk happened, the U.S. House of Representative's Science, Space, and Technology Committee said it would hold a hearing to discuss asteroid threats to Earth, and how to mitigate them on top of NASA's current efforts.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">Bolides and fireballs are terms to describe exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to be seen over a very wide area, according to NASA. They usually reach a visual or apparent magnitude of minus 3 or brighter. (The sun’s apparent magnitude is minus 27.) The terms are used interchangeably, although technically, bolide refers to a fireball that explodes in the atmosphere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">Other terms: Asteroids refer principally to small, rocky bodies. A meteoroid is an asteroid or comet fragment that is between 10 microns and about 1 meter in size. When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere, its path is called a meteor or “shooting star.” If any of the pieces reach the ground, those pieces are called meteorites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">In the days after the explosion, meteorite hunters worldwide rushed to the remote area to try to find pieces of the impactor (which exploded high up in the atmosphere). Just three days after the explosion, on Feb. 18, 2013, the first reports came in that pieces had been found around Lake Chebarkul, 43 miles (70 km) north of Chelyabinsk. At that same location, scientists spotted a hole in the ice, which they also thought could be traced back to the impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">Meanwhile, experts reviewed both the fragments and many amateur videos of the explosion. It is common in Russia for drivers to use dashboard cameras in cars in case of a collision, in which case the camera footage could be used as evidence. This provided a lucky treasure trove for scientists as many of these cameras caught the explosion while drivers were on the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">"The asteroid was about 17 meters [56 feet] in diameter and weighed approximately 10,000 metric tons [11,000 tons]," Peter Brown, a physics professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, said in a statement. "It struck Earth's atmosphere at 40,000 mph [64,370 km/h] and broke apart about 12 to 15 miles [19 to 24 km] above Earth's surface. The energy of the resulting explosion exceeded 470 kilotons of TNT."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">The explosion was pegged as 30 to 40 times stronger than the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. Chelyabinsk, however, did not produce as much of a blast as the Tunguska meteor, another object that exploded over Siberia in 1908. The explosion a century before flattened 825 square miles (2,137 square km) of forest, a Space.com report said. Nevertheless, dust from the Chelyabinsk impactor stayed in the atmosphere for months. [Infographic: Huge Russian Meteor Blast is Biggest Since 1908]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">In the months afterward, scientists learned more about the origins of the Chelyabinsk impactor, and also raised a coffee-table-size piece of the bolide from the lake in which it crashed. Some of the pieces inside the meteorite were formed in the first 4 million years of solar system history, David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston said in December 2013 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">In another 10 million years, the pieces (along with some dust) created an asteroid about 60 miles (100 km) wide. This parent body had a huge impact about 125 million years after the solar system was formed, with more strikes coming during the “late heavy bombardment,” a time of frequent small-body strikes between 3.8 billion and 4.3 billion years ago. Two other impacts came in the last 500 million years. Closer to the Chelyabinsk event, the parent body experienced yet another impact and was also nudged out of the main asteroid belt into an orbit that crossed near Earth's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">In February 2014, one year after the impact, several scientists said that the danger of small asteroids was now foremost in many public officials' minds, especially because it was said to be the first asteroid-related disaster. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency had already attended a planetary defense conference — a first for a meeting always dominated by scientists — and the Obama administration asked Congress for $40 million in asteroid-seeking funds for NASA, double what the agency had before. NASA also launched a “Grand Challenge” to get input from the public, industry and academia on asteroid-protection methods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">More study is still going on into the origins of the Chelyabinsk bolide. Initially it was thought to be part of 1999 NC43, a 1.24-mile (2 km) wide asteroid, but the orbit and mineral composition between the two bodies turned out to be different. In April 2015, a study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggested Chelyabinsk was a part of asteroid 2014 UR116. — <b>Elizabeth Holwell | <a href="https://www.space.com/33623-chelyabinsk-meteor-wake-up-call-for-earth.html" target="_blank">Space.com</a></b></span></div>
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Shortly thereafter, we were meeting with him to go over a few things and Amy (Mickelson's wife) was with us. I slowly eased my way into this pitch, then went for it and played the song on my iPhone. Amy immediately started laughing while Phil broke out into a big smile. Amy looked at him and said, "Should I tell him or should you?" to which Phil replied "Go for it." Amy's was overjoyed to share: "Phil can do The Worm!" At this moment I knew we would make this happen. I then got to see some home videos of Phil's extraordinary dancing skills, along with The Worm and the high kick.</span><br />
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"I'll do private (lessons) for the right price,'' Mickelson told the AP after his round at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Thursday. — <b>Darren Rovell | <a href="http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/24266698/golf-story-phil-mickelson-ad-stop-watching" target="_blank">ESPN</a></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.gq.com/story/alex-rodriguez-jennifer-lopez-power-couple-vanity-fair" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><i>Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez Are Officially 2017's Most Stylish Power Couple</i></a> <span style="font-weight: normal;">—</span> GQ</h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19635447/inside-j-lo-a-rod-new-15-million-apartment/" target="_blank"><i>J.Lo and A-Rod Just Bought a $15.3 Million Condo in NYC</i></a> — </span>Bazaar</h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There are few music careers like that of Scott Storch. The esteemed producer-songwriter made his initial mark in Philly as a key member of the Roots. A great start, but just the beginning of a wild ride to the top.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Giants rookie running back</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">Saquon Barkley has enormous legs</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">. It’s not a surprising fact when you think about</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">what a beast he was at Penn State</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">and</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1625rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.005em;">at the NFL combine</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">, but it’s incredible.</span></div>
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When Eli Manning went on Bleacher Report’s Simms and Lefkoe podcast, even the quarterback admitted that he’s also impressed by the size of Barkley’s legs.</div>
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“His quads are the size of my waist and whole upper body. I’ve never quite seen anything like it. I don’t often stare at another man’s legs, but in that case, you just can’t quite help it.”</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "aleo" , serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: normal;">Eli Manning can’t stop staring at Saquon Barkley’s legs 😂😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/Mc81ofrdS2">pic.twitter.com/Mc81ofrdS2</a></span></div>
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When he was asked about his teammates, such as Barkley and Odell Beckham Jr., going shirtless for their workouts while Manning always wears a shirt, the QB jokingly said, per NJ.com, “We do practice with our shirts on with the Giants. With the friction, they might have to make an adjustment the first few weeks. It might be something new for them and take a little time to get used to that.”</div>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/saquon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@saquon</a> is a MACHINE 😳 <a href="https://t.co/NDTsiYlb2Y">pic.twitter.com/NDTsiYlb2Y</a></div>
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— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNFL/status/1016759557073375233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2018</a></div>
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