#procro

[mirmidones]

(lo conosco perché Alessandra Mastronardi nell’allieva era di lì e Lino Guanciale la chiamava Sacrofano)

sexy...

[kovacissues]

Zlatko looking highly unimpressed is a mood!

[tfc2211]

Liverpool Five – That’s What I Want (RCA Victor) The Tasaday – Nena, Nena, Nena (London) The Music Explosion - Dazzling (Laurie) The Road – She’s Not There (Kama Sutra) Los Silverton’s – Por Ti Estoy Sufriendo (MaG) The Castaways – Liar, Liar (Terrific! Records) Little Phil And The Night Shadows – Sixty Second Swinger (GAYE) The Fireballs – Groovy Motions (ATCO) Procro Magnum – Neurotic Saga (Polydor) Johnny Thunder – I’m Alive (Calla) Jimmy Gordon – Buzzzzzz (Challenge) Russell Morris – The Real Thing (Part II) (Diamond)

[lostjohnny]

Procro Magnum

Neurotic Saga

[ericfruits]

Naming New York’s neighbourhoods

HARLEM’S Apollo Theatre, where Ella Fitzgerald first sang, and the Hotel Theresa, which counted among its guests Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali and Fidel Castro, are landmarks. Malcolm X, who called Harlem “Seventh Heaven”, preached on the corner of 116th Street. Stretching further back, in the 1920s and 1930s the Harlem Renaissance gave rise to an outpouring of literature, art and music. Harlemites are proud of this history, and proportionately upset that estate agents are trying to rebrand the southern part and call it SoHa.

Such rebranding is nothing new: New York was once called Nieuw Amsterdam and before that Mannahatta. Pigtown, in central Brooklyn, is now called Wingate. Gas House District is now Stuyvesant Town. Yellow Hook became Bay Ridge after a yellow-fever outbreak. Bloomingdale became the Upper West Side. Neighbourhoods can be fluid, with vague borders. Some have disappeared. Shapes change: in Brooklyn, Park Slope keeps getting bigger and Flatbush keeps getting smaller. Chinatown has been taking over Little Italy.

SoHo, so-called because it is south of Houston Street, was better known until the 1960s as Hell’s Hundred Acres. It was the first to use an acronym, and has spawned imitators. Tribeca (triangle below Canal Street) emerged in the 1970s. Despite, or perhaps because of, its silly name, Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is one of the most sought-after areas in the city. NoHo (north of Houston) and NoLita (North of Little Italy) are now on maps. Others, like SoBro (south Bronx), BoCoCa (Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill, which is in fact flat) and Rambo (Right after the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), mercifully did not stick. “None of these worked,” says Philip Kasinitz, a sociologist at City University of New York. “At a certain point they got too silly.”

They also didn’t work, he says, because their residents objected. ProCro, a rebranding of Crown Heights, another historically black neighbourhood in Brooklyn, did not take either. Hell’s Kitchen is equally resilient. Attempts to change the name to the generic Clinton have not been successful. It is a lot easier to rebrand when there are few residents, as was the case in SoHo. Brokers also rely on recent arrivals not knowing the city well.

“You can’t talk about this without talking about race,” says Amy Plitt of Curbed, a property blog. Affluent white New Yorkers have flocked to Harlem, followed by restaurants, bars and shops. The stock of cheap housing has dwindled. Longtime residents, already feeling financial pressure, resent what they see as a deliberate move to erase their history. “It’s about identity,” said Brian Benjamin, a Harlem-born state lawmaker. He recently introduced legislation in Albany requiring estate agents to consult the community on any name change, or face a fine. Others see a clumsy attempt to link SoHa to SoHo in the minds of would-be buyers, making it cooler and justifying higher prices. But nowhere is cooler than Harlem.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Harlem shuffle"

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[swayesports]

Meeting Sway eSports - Carbon

Esports fans, and followers of teams in any sport, are usually interested in the backgrounds of the players that make up their favorite squad. Major League Baseball teams, for example, have tons of information all over the web about their players. On a smaller scale, for an organization like Sway, information about players is a bit harder to find. That's why we are bringing to you a new series: Meeting Sway eSports. This new platform will be the perfect way for you to learn about Sway competitors and have all the information you need to follow our squads. Today we caught up with Carbon to discuss his overall Rocket League career and his time in Sway.

Q: What is your current role in Sway eSports?

A: Currently I am the Team Captain for Sway Purple, which is our Champion 2 to Grand Champion team. As the captain, I make decisions about who we should pick up during tryouts and who we might want to let go. I also help to set up scrims between my team and other non-sway teams.

Q: How many hours do you put into Rocket League per week?

A: I've put about 30-40 hours a week into rocket league since I first got it totaling to around 2,100 hours

Q: What are your goals as a player, and for Sway Purple?

A: As a player, I hope to become more than just a third. I want to be able to hit the nuttiest shots out there while also keeping my team in check from the net. When season 7 started, my goal was to hit Champion 3 and then Grand Champion. I've already hit one of those so obviously my next goal is to become a Grand Champion player, and eventually a top 100 player. As for my team, we've kind of been challenged by our owner, Procro. We are all working to make this the season where all of us hit Grand Champion, 2 out of the 4 of us already have in previous seasons, and we have set for ourselves the goal of making it to RLRS, once our 4th become old enough.

Q: Explain your relationship with the people in Sway eSports.

A: I'd say that I get along with everyone in Sway extremely well. We all banter and ego each other all the time, however no one truly seems to take offense to it because they know that none of us really mean it.

Q: Has Sway Esports helped you improve your gameplay? If so how.

A: Yes, greatly. I joined the team as a low Champion 1/High Diamond 3, that was in the beginning of January. Now, the middle of March, I have already hit Champion 3. My team and I will sit down sometimes and just discuss rotation with one-another, which has showed massive improvement to my role as a third.

Q: If you were to name one thing you feel as if you do the best, what would that be?

A: I'm a passer at heart. I can get the ball past the entire enemy defense, but I can't put it in. However, I seem to always be able to give my teammates open nets to shoot on. Even if the net isn't open, I can put the ball into positions that are extremely awkward for the enemy team.

Q: Who has been your biggest inspiration in the Rocket League community?

A: Really it's just any content creator who is good at the game. I watch them liberally and try to do what they do. I have grinded training packs just to try and hit JSTN shots or Squishy shots.

Q: And finally, who has been your biggest inspiration in Sway eSports?

A: Funnily enough my biggest inspiration has been Stokelyy. He's a top 100 player who is known by many semi-pros, and even some pros. Similarly to JSTN and Squishy, I try to mimic some of the crazy bangers Stokelyy can hit, however this time I can actually talk to him instead of just watching him stream or make youtube videos.

Special thanks to Carbon for taking the time to answer these questions. Be sure to keep updated with Sway Esports on Twitter @SwayGamers and be sure to join the discord at discord.me/sway . -Thomas

[tencuita]

20 Worldwide Mod Psych Freak Rock Smashers!

                                                                                                                          Year: 2006

Label: Crazy Apple Boutique

Genre: Beat, Freakbeat, Garage, R&B, Soul, Ye-ye

# Tracks: 20

Duration: 56 minutes 17 seconds

1. Garden Odyssey Enterprise - Sad & Lonely (4:20) 2. Paul King - Confusion (2:45) 3. The Dukes - I'm An Unskilled Worker (2:43) 4. Los Roberts - El Saltamontes (3:33) 5. La Quinta Faccia - Strano Uomo (3:26) 6. Ray Sharp & The Soul Set - Earthquake (2:38) 7. Carlos Bisso & Conexion 5 - Baby I Love You So (2:35) 8. Procro Magnum - Neurotic Saga (3:07) 9. Pintura Fresca - Shake (2:23) 10. The Rogers - Non Chiedero Aiuto (2:46) 11. Les Problemes - Je Ne Vois Rien (3:03) 12. Fire And Ice - The Truth Of The Madder (2:14) 13. Pinkerton's - Duke's Jetty (2:04) 14. Levy & Flinkestein - Never My Time (2:12) 15. Hamilton Streetcar - Brother Speed (2:59) 16. Boneshaker - Sweetness (3:04) 17. Primitive Man - Animal Love (2:30) 18. Windows - Nobody's Baby (2:07) 19. Terry Britten - Bargain Day (3:03) 20. Serge Franklin - Exister (2:45)

[11216now-blog]

FRANKLIN AVENUE

Little Zelda + Rosebud Vintage

11216 Brooklyn

[swayesports]

Sway Does Dropshot

Sway Project Does Dropshot

By miGOAL

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When you think about a game of Rocket League, you probably envision two teams of rocket-powered cars, an oversized ball, and two goals at each end of an enclosed arena. Rocket League esports itself is planted on this concept. This standard gamemode, soccer (or "Soccar"), is what competitive players strive to master. If you're a player yourself, you've certainly experienced the endless grind of conquering these rules. High level players will spend hours a day trying to send the ball at maximum power into the hard-to-reach places of the net. Although perfecting these soccer-based skills is vital to being a successful Rocket League player, sometimes you need a break. There are many different and unique alternative game modes in this wonderful game, but nothing can rival the extravagant Dropshot.

Despite its unusual rules, Dropshot is a fun and underrated gamemode for players of all skill levels. Although not many players try it, Sway eSports recently capitalized on this exotic sport. In collaboration with Ranked Dropshot, a community passionate about this odd version of Rocket League, the next addition to the Sway Project was born. On March 4th, players battled in Core 707 to be crowned champion of the first Sway eSports Dropshot event. It was an incredibly exciting tournament, and we hope it shed light on how much potential Dropshot has as gamemode; if only players gave it a chance.

Twenty teams fought to be the winner of this event. After three upsets, sixteen shutouts, a reverse sweep, and twenty-eight intense sets, Sway | Coneheads and Damage Incorporated earned spots in the grand finals of the tournament. In a best of five, these two teams played their hardest, reaching for the largest portion of the sixty-dollar prize pool. After being down by two games, Damage Incorporated pulled off an impressive comeback. Winning three consecutive Dropshot matches, they locked in the victory of the Sway Project Dropshot tournament. Proving to be the most skilled players of the weekend, the Damage roster, consisting of Virus, Venomous, and BJayB, earned themselves seventy percent of the prize. Coneheads were sent home as runner-ups, taking thirty percent to applaud them for their respectable second-place finish.

Some of the tournament champions generously took the time to answer follow-up questions about what took place. Virus started by saying that his team went into the event confidently. When asked if his team figured they had a chance at winning beforehand, he wrote, "To begin with, yes because we didn't see any decent opponents that we [recognized]. The only player we noticed was ‘The Car’ as he is a 1s player." In addition, BJayB claimed that the tournament was a good experience, and he was glad to play something different. He confirmed that the championship title has inspired him to play more Dropshot in the future.

Procro!, the owner of Sway eSports, also had some intriguing things to say about this event. For starters, he explained the Sway Project itself, and shed light on its mission to cultivate the Rocket League community through fun and enriching events.

Procro! began by claiming, "We created a platform at Sway eSports called Sway Project. This platform's purpose is to host events run by our community members, as well co-host with other communities." He goes on to portray his initial interest in teaming with this unique Dropshot community.

"When we launched the partner side, one of the first people I reached out to was Negachin with Ranked Dropshot. I have been watching their tournaments for awhile, and even played in one (it didn't go well for me). They are very professional and represent the Rocket League community in the right way. Dropshot is fun! That's really all there is to it. "

When asked about his favorite part of this tournament, the Sway Owner came up with a predictable response - he was grateful for the opportunity to support the Sway family, soccer or not. "I'd have to throw the support out to my Sway family here, and go with just watching and casting Sway Black....I mean Sway Coneheads."

He also brought good news for those who want to see more tournaments like this in the future. "Ranked Dropshot is one of our first partners, but we are currently already working on other events with other communities. Sway Project is going to help bridge the gap between many different communities here in Rocket League, and hopefully help propel the scene forward. Be on the lookout for more events coming soon."

"Dropshot is so much fun. It's really a shame that Psyonix has neglected it's players by not making this mode competitively ranked. Until they wisen up, I think it's amazing that people like Negachin are giving the players an option. Soccar isn't for everyone. I feel like Rocket League's alternate game modes are a great way to reach out to new players, and even help hold onto the player base we already have." With this statement, Procro! mirrored the beliefs of most members over at Ranked Dropshot. This also gives us something interesting to think about: Would a ranked Dropshot playlist thrive the gamemode even more?

Finally, he closed with these kind words. "I mostly just want to thank everyone that played, watched, and helped us run this thing. It takes a lot of work to put on an event such as this. The tournament ran smoothly and it seemed all of the players had fun. In my book that's a success. Definitely be on the lookout for more Sway Project events, as well as Ranked Dropshot Tournaments every Sunday." That's wonderful to hear - more events to come!

Negachin, the Dropshot enthusiast himself, also spoke. "When dropshot was just released, there was a big tournament with a huge prize pool where a lot of pros were playing. The plays they made were insane, even when the game mode was just released! Since a lot of the core mechanics of regular Rocket League carry over into Dropshot, I think it sure is has competitive potential! And having played in, and having watched our tournaments, I'm positive that it doesn't even need pro players to look insane!" This continues to drive in the point that Dropshot is capable of more than what its judged for.

He also had some heartwarming words for Sway eSports and the Sway Project. "I'd like to thank Sway again for collaborating with us, and I wish them all the best trying to win our next tournament," he hinted.

Sway would like to thank everyone who participated in this tournament. If you didn't get to partake in the events, as confirmed in the interviews above, there will be plenty more like it. Also, don't forget to give Dropshot some love...it may surprise you!

~miGOAL, Sway eSports Journalist

Author's Notes:

Unrelated to the article above, I would like to give this quick message.

My name is Michael, also known as miGOAL. I have been involved in Rocket League for nearly two years, and esports for much longer. I have a passion for writing, and I've decided to put it to use through entertaining and informing the competitive Rocket League community. There is no better place I can do this than the amazing Sway Project platform. For all members and fans of Sway eSports, I am thankful for the opportunity to write for you.

[lalalawords]

Puppies and Blogging > Homework. Forever.

I have an essay due tomorrow at 5 PM. I've been at it for the past 45 minutes and thought I was being decently productive. Then I looked at my Recent Internet History.

  As you can tell, I have the academic attention span of a goldfish.

I am a loud and proud procrastinator. I live and breathe the Art of procro. I don't even watch my favorite TV shows on time. My roommate says I always procrastinate and then procrastinate even more by complaining about how I always procrastinate. Which is probably true. Except I just realized something.

Procrastinating isn't really any different from doing homework like a normal person. I can prove it! Mathematically! I'm about to blow your mind right now, just wait for it...

OKAY SO, let's say you've got a 10-paged paper to write. Actually, ew, jokes, I hate that example. it reminds me of the shit I still have to do.

OKAY SO, let's say you've got a 35-paged chapter to read for your Psychocommunobiochemicalbanana Studies class, and you've got a week to do so. 

Here's how a non-procro might get 'er done:

Day 1: 5 pages. Day 2: 5 pages. Day 3: 5 pages. Day 4: 5 pages. Day 5: 5 pages. Day 6: 5 pages. Day 7: 5 pages.

Here's how a procro like myself would absolutely get 'er done:

Day 1: 0 pages. Day 2: 0 pages. Day 3: 0 pages. Day 4: 0 pages. Day 5: 0 pages. Day 6: 0 pages. Day 7: 35 pages!!!!1!!!1!!!!!!

The thing is, the non-procro way might look more productive, but in the end, the same amount of pages is being read. The same amount of work is being done. The same amount of time spent dicking around is happening. Because although 5+5+5+5+5+5+5=35, 0+0+0+0+0+0+35 also = 35. BITCHES AND HOES.

Sooooo next time you feel bad about watching obnoxious amounts of cute animal videos or belting almost every Kelly Clarkson song in your room or watching wet paint dry instead of doing your schoolwork, just remember: As long as you get it done eventually, who gives a fuck?

No one! 

PROCROS UNITE... TOMORROW. OR PROBABLY NEVER BECAUSE WE LIKE TO SLEEP IN ON THE WEEKENDS.

[demurband]

A sneaky gander at some of the gear we are using to record the lead guitars at the moment. #shoegaze #noise #shoegaze #unsigned #guitar #redpanda #line6 #electroharmonix #dod #gaze #jazzmaster #jaguar #blackstar #bills #tune #rat #procro #manchester #music #nicefloorboards

[thebrooklynpolitics-blog]

Suleiman Osman: It's all ProCro and BoCoCa to me

Osman, author of "Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity", penned an op-ed in the Daily News about Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries's (D-Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, ProCro) bill to stop arbitrary name changes for neighborhoods:

A good deal of the names used today are an outgrowth of the neighborhood organizing movement of the 1960s and '70s. In struggling areas throughout the city, grassroots activists coined new names or drew on forgotten ones with the hope that a strong identity would help deter flight to the suburbs, increase citizen participation in improvement projects, preserve architectural treasures and foster a stronger sense of community. At the same time, the city granted more political power to neighborhoods. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, for example, was coined by an interracial group of homeowners in the late '60s to protest red-lining and to lobby for better municipal services. The Stuyvesant Heights historic district was lobbied for by a group of middle-class black homeowners in part to counter the stigma of the name Bedford-Stuyvesant. A young funeral home owner came up with Carroll Gardens in 1964 to try to stem the flight of his fellow Italian-Americans to the suburbs of Long Island. ... Regardless of the ultimate fate of Jeffries's proposal, we should all continually question each neighborhood name: Who coined it, and why? Who is included within its borders? Who is left out?

It's an interesting read in full.

(h/t Gatemouth)

[lovelimess-blog]

I am both disgusted and delighted by the re-branding of New York City neighborhoods with abbreviated nonsense. Crappy that developers and real estate agents are taking the lead. However, pretty excellent to live in Dumbo (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). 

I guess when it comes to inventive branding, I'm BOFA (BOth For and Against)

[11216now-blog]

Crown Heights North Open House