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Select photos as Austin Berry, Hunter Jumper, Sean Johnson, Jalil Anibaba, Daniel Paladini, Quincy Amarikwa, Gonzalo Segares, Michael Videira, Paolo Tornaghi, and Aron Hyde were all out on the runway at ROOF on theWit strutting their stuff for the Chicago Fire Foundation.
It was a great night, and as you can see below the guys had some fun too.
Photo Credit: Nick Sintich, Chicago Fire
Last night, Marty Allen, the Grand Prize winner in our Mobile App Contest powered by Cricket got to fulfill his prize, going out to dinner with Gonzalo Segares and Daniel Paladini at Vapiano in Lincoln Park!
Check out a couple photos from dinner and be sure to download the club's new and improved mobile app, available on iOS and Droid by visiting www.chicago-fire.com/app.
Gonzalo Segares Yellow Cards
As I was going through my post-game audit of stats (yes I think every Sr. Content Producer does this), I found that Gonzalo Segares is coming up on another career milestone.
About this time last year, Sega had appeared in his 200th competitive match for the Men in Red and a month ago, it was his 200th MLS regular season match but this statistic wasn't of the appearance variety but rather of the disciplinary.
Segares was shown a 61st minute caution in Saturday's 3-2 win over New England, getting him to 50 all-time yellow cards in his Fire career (MLS Regular Season) and leaving him just one away of equaling the club's record holder, C.J. Brown who racked up 51 yellows in 296 MLS appearances.
I of course tweeted about this and never too shy, @SuperSega13 sent this response:
@JefeCrandall what an honor. It has cost me a lot of money. Anything for the team.
— Gonzalo Segares (@supersega13) September 17, 2013
UPDATE! Upon further review, an inconsistency existed in Elias and Opta's stats. Elias listed Segares with six yellow cards in 2013 but as I looked at the MLS Disciplinary Report this morning, I saw him with seven. After some quick deduction, I realized Elias (and hence myself) failed to count Segares' 86th minute yellow card in the July 3 match vs. San Jose.
This means Segares actually tied Brown's club record on Saturday. Perhaps this tweet from @WhereisHawkins in response to the one above from Gonzalo is even more fitting now...
@whereishawkins @JefeCrandall better get it ready soon. Still 6 games left.
— Gonzalo Segares (@supersega13) September 17, 2013
Important to note that Gonzalo is on Caution Watch, so breaking the record this season isn't a necessity...
Austin Berry has played every game...
...since his memorable debut in the team's comeback win at Chivas USA on May 4, 2012. You remember that one -- Berry, was plugged into the lineup next to Arne Friedrich after Jalil Anibaba earned a one-game suspension in the previous match.
Berry conceded a penalty kick to Alejandro Moreno in the 23rd minute only to pull it back on his own two minutes later before Marco Pappa's late strike sealed the three points for the Fire in LA.
Well, maybe you already knew this but Austin Berry hasn't missed a competitive game since, playing 62 consecutive matches as of Saturday night. That number includes all five of the team's Open Cup games as well as last year's playoff match vs. Houston.
The only games he has missed? Friendlies against Santos Laguna in 2012 and Club America this past July.
#Fitness #Longevity #NoCardTrouble
Baky and Sean to 100 Appearances?
Maybe its a bit premature but thought this would be interesting as well. Sean Johnson hit 100 competitive appearances for the Fire in his return from Gold Cup duty in the team's 2-1 win at Philadelphia on August 3.
Should they play in the remainder of the Fire's Regular Season matches this season, he and teammate Bakary Soumare will hit another century milestone.
- PERUSE: TrueCar Player Registry
For Johnson, the season finale at New York would be his 100th MLS appearance for the Fire while Soumare, who spent three and a half seasons away from the club, would hit his 100th competitive appearance in the match.
Yellow Card Watch and U.S. National Team callups be damned!
The Centerback: Fire find themselves in playoff place ahead of Crew clash
In society we all can't agree on everything, but there is one thing we can all agree on... Everything is better in slow motion.
This week we caught two goals on our "behind the net" cameras. First we have Mike Magee's perfectly timed run to give him his 16th MLS goal on the season. And if that wasn't enough, we also caught Alex's #BRAZILIANT shot from distance to put the game away.
Some of the best tweets from Saturday's 3-2 victory over New England are below... Have the chance to see your tweets in a future gallery, by hashtagging #cf97!
So now we have a different sort of perspective. Now suddenly the Fire are sitting in a playoff spot. Now the fight has paid off and the double comeback on Saturday night has everyone high and talking about "attitude" and "mentality" and there's a different feel. Can you tell? Off-field issues, on field disappointments, coaching decisions, refereeing - it all feels a little irrelevant right now.
Now the approach is different. Now the Fire have in some way reached their goal, they've come back and got into a playoff spot. Now the team has a little momentum again, a little confidence, a little faith in this season's various experiments.
Suddenly the Arevalo Rios/Jeff Larentowicz partnership looks as good as the Alex/Larentowicz partnership, while Alex has excelled as a utility attacker (center/left/right) off the bench or filling in for Rios on international duty.
Juan Luis Anangono finally finished and is beginning to look like a player you would spend transfer dollars on, while some healthy competition between Patrick Nyarko, Dilly Duka, and Joel Lindpere for outside midfield spots will only push them more and mean more service for Anangono.
Suddenly, the Fire look like a deep, experienced, full squad that can bring players like Chris Rolfe and Logan Pause off the bench if need be.
I just mean to say that the feeling after a dramatic and total team victory like Saturday's is so much different from the panic, terror, and anger that fans felt on and off for most of the season. Toyota Park was more energized after Alex's goal on Saturday than at any other time all year.
It feels like some fans and commentators have been calling games "must win" for the Fire since the spring, in a way that - deserved or not - everything felt like it was on the edge of a complete and utter disaster. That's sports, especially in Chicago, but now that a goal's been reached, there's a feeling that you could almost call pride, back again.
So forgive us, playoff gods, for looking to the calendar because, as Mike Magee said Larentowicz told the team down 2-1 at halftime on Saturday, "the season gets shorter and shorter now and business has to be done."
How will the team deal with being in 5th place looking down, instead of the other way around?
The Fire still have to improve on their away form if they're going to hold their position despite tricky trips to Columbus, RFK, and Dallas, before finishing the season at first place New York. And the Fire still have to take the seemingly easier points against Toronto and DC. But it's just six games and they hold their own destiny.
We know the playoff spot is the Fire's to lose, and the fans can sense that this team, with its three different phases this year, and its hot streaks and cold streaks and other hot streaks and other cold streaks - this team might just have found enough consistency to not only make the playoffs but, well, if it was too early to panic about making the playoffs, it's probably too early for the overly optimistic thoughts too, right?
Ben Schuman-Stoler is a contributor to Chicago-Fire.com. Follow him on Twitter @bsto.
For all the talk of the Fire's possession problems, you wouldn't have known it in the first 20 minutes of Wednesday night's game in Toronto. The Alex/Jeff Larentowicz partnership hummed along like it did during the squad's hottest streak this year, a fresh looking Patrick Nyarko did his havoc-creating thing, and it all culminated with a deserved goal.
Of course, at the final whistle it was obviously a shame they didn't get one or two more during that period. But that's what this Fire does. They pull off the tough results and tend to drop the seemingly easier ones. Even on short rest, away from home (where they've struggled all year), Toronto was the perfect opponent.
And in the first 20 minutes, the Fire pretty much had their way with the ball and the field, pressing hard to win it up field, running off each other -- it was yummy. It's hard to pick one sequence but there was one down the right side in the 15th minute I loved. The Fire won the ball and played a couple fast one-touch passes before Nyarko just missed Chris Rolfe, wide open past midfield. It didn't come off, but just look at the wide open spaces in TFC's team shape.
TFC started bad. Really bad. They misplaced more balls than a dog with amnesia and the Fire took all the space they wanted. It was a veritable buffet for Rolfe, Dilly Duka, and Mike Magee, enjoying constant service from midfield as well as the enterprising Gonzalo Segares.
TFC's goal shouldn't have been the last goal of the game but it was and thankfully other results held up so the Fire are still in perfectly okay position for the playoffs. They need to pick up points down the stretch, yeah, but they're all of one point out of fifth with seven games to play. I still don't understand the doomsayers calling the season off already.
If the 14th minute, free-flowing Fire example showed everything this team can be when it flows right, Quincy Amarikwa's 78th minute chance showed what's sometimes dispiriting about them. They let points get away from them.
Off a TFC attack, Magee got the ball in his own half and turned through the midfield to play Rolfe, who spotted Amirakwa's dash inside. It was a great run because he timed it later than Juan Luis Anangono's, which was a bit too early so his defender could recover before Pause pushed close enough to goal.
Amarikwa's run came directly in front of his defender, giving Pause the angle and target he needed, and Quincy was in. He had the choice of laying off for Anangono, who was beyond the goalie and just a simple touch away from giving the Fire the lead, but he went himself. Against his own team, in on goal, Amarikwa went himself and shot right at TFC keeper Joe Bendik. Anangono (and Fire fans) were furious.
It's not outrageous for a striker in that position to go himself; actually, it's probably the right thing to do versus risk an extra pass. But it was a moment the Fire couldn't quite grasp, the kind of moment they'll need to in the next seven games if they're to keep their season going into the playoffs.
Select shots from the Fire's draw with TFC.
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The Answer Is In The Beat
Show #231 – 2/22/14
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Hour 1
3:01 AM Mark McGuire ~ The Instinct ~ Along The Way ~ Dead Oceans
3:13 AM Thug Entrancer ~ Death After Life IV ~ Death After Life ~ Software
3:21 AM DJ Taye ~ New Age 14 ~ mp3 ~ xlr8r.com
3:24 AM D/P/I ~ Watchyr.Back ~ 08.DD.15 ~ Leaving Records
3:28 AM Headboggle ~ Music Easel Demo In Hi-Fi Digital ~ Meili Xueshan I ~ Bandcamp
3:36 AM Godseye ~ The Drunken Boat ~ A Season In Hell ~ Digitalis
3:49 AM Crowhurst ~ No Dollar Menu Items After Midnight ~ Crowhurst And Montage ~ Bandcamp
3:55 AM Alvarius B ~ Ghost Of South Carolina ~ Alvarius B ~ Abduction
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Hour 2
4:00 AM Burnt Skull ~ Uniform ~ Sewer Birth ~ 12XU
4:03 AM Xiu Xiu ~ Bitter Melon ~ Angel Guts: Red Classroom ~ Polyvinyl
4:06 AM Watabou ~ Ingrained Social Reflexes ~ Plasticity ~ self-released
4:08 AM El Ten Eleven ~ Yyes! ~ For Emily ~ Fake Record Label
4:15 AM The Notwist ~ 7-Hour Drive ~ Close To The Glass ~ Sub Pop
4:19 AM Nothing ~ B&E ~ Guilty Of Everything ~ Relapse
4:24 AM Woodsman ~ Healthy Life ~ Woodsman ~ Fire Talk
4:35 AM Supercollider ~ Tuliptree ~ 7″ ~ self-released
4:38 AM Mogwai ~ Tell Everybody That I Love Them ~ 7″ ~ Sub Pop
4:42 AM Chit Chat ~ Don't Go ~ 7″ ~ PRTYNGG!
4:44 AM Bad Daughter ~ track 4 (titles are in Chinese) ~ Tiny Sun ~ White Wabbit Records
4:47 AM Green Lights ~ Way Down ~ split 7″ w/ Congress ~ Animal Tapes/Save Your Generation
4:50 AM Johnny Ill Band ~ Post Office ~ 7″ ~ Dusty Medical Records
4:53 AM Danny And The Darleans ~ Don't Get In The Car ~ Danny And The Darleans ~ Nero's Neptune
4:55 AM Angel Olsen ~ Hi-Five ~ Burn Your Fire For No Witness ~ Jagjaguwar
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Hour 3
5:02 AM Kasim Keto ~ Long Way ~ Long Car Rides ~ Babygrande
5:05 AM Lee Bannon ~ Cold/Melt ~ Alternate/Endings ~ Ninja Tune
5:09 AM Illum Sphere ~ Sleeprunner ~ Ghosts Of Then And Now ~ Ninja Tune
5:12 AM Actress ~ Street Corp. ~ Ghettoville ~ Werkdiscs
5:18 AM No Milk ~ Telephone Tones ~ Ant Parade/No Milk Retrospective ~ Hot Releases
5:24 AM Nima ~ Ride ~ Spirit Sign ~ self-released
5:27 AM Figure Study ~ Invisible ~ Figure Study ~ Dark Entries
5:33 AM Guardian Alien ~ Tranquilizer ~ Spiritual Emergency ~ Thrill Jockey
5:43 AM Debruit & Alsarah ~ Jibal Alnuba ~ Aljawal ~ Soundway
5:46 AM Max + Mara ~ Unseen ~ Less Ness ~ Dark Entries
5:53 AM Pinkcourtesyphone ~ Blow Up (Iamaphotograph Cut By CoH) ~ Please Pick Up ~ IO Sound
5:56 AM Cibo Matto ~ Check Out ~ Hotel Valentine ~ Chimera Music
Crush Collision 2/20/14
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10:01 PM Actress ~ Skyline
10:07 PM Lucy ~ Follow The Leader
10:12 PM Dantiez Saunderson & John Norman ~ Stuck In My Mind (Kevin Saunderson Curators Edit)
10:16 PM Oleg Poliakov ~ Anatomy Of A Shipwreck
10:22 PM Balil ~ Norte Route
10:25 PM Esteban Adame ~ Home Sick (MGUN Crunch Time Remix)
10:32 PM Snow Ghosts ~ Secret Garden (Matthew Herbert's Wash It All Away Instrumental)
10:36 PM Addison Groove ~ Bad Seed
10:39 PM Dariuus ~ Polar Vortex Storm Ion
10:45 PM Black Deer ~ Strike 3
10:49 PM Inigo Kennedy ~ Interaction
10:53 PM Link & e621 ~ Antacid II
10:57 PM Thug Entrancer ~ Death After Life III
Burnt Skull: Sewer Birth LP (12XU, 2014)
Austin duo whose name entirely matches their sound. Hard, noisy sludge-metal-noise-rock with ungodly vocal effects. This sounds every bit as dark and evil and hellish as it looks. Thick pounding drums, flaming guitars, and supremely devilish vocals. Sometimes approaches early Swans or Godflesh territory. "God Hole" and "No Cross" are faster, getting closer to horror-punk territory. Of the 4 instrumental tracks, "Uniform" is maybe the most industrial, "Lord's Prayer Underwater" is a short noisy interlude with some submerged talking, "Abduction (Lost Underground)" is a REALLY noisy interlude, sounding like a barrel explosion in a sewer, and "Abysm/Rotting Plain" is an outro that sounds like scraping metal in a sewer. This one effectively burned my skull!
Thug Entrancer: Death After Life (Software, 2014)
Hard-to-define mixture of juke, minimal techno, trap, acid techno, noise, and more. Lots and lots of 808 beats. Active and busy, but sometimes minimal and bassy. Tracks 1-8 are parts 1-8 of "Death After Life". Part 1 is uptempo juke/trap. Part 2 is slow dubby minimal techno. Part 3 is a long uptempo simmering acid techno jam, which ends with a lazer-like noise jam for the last couple minutes. Part 4 is another slow simmering techno track, which sometimes erupts in flurries of uptempo drum fills. Part 5 achieves the simultaneous feeling of slowly floating (due to the bubbly synths) yet at the same time rocketing forward into hyperspace (with the fast hypnotic beats). Part 6 is midtempo dubby techno with some soft noise smears around the corners. Part 7 starts quiet and unassuming, then kicks into a thin, uptempo techno, with small melodies and lots of handclaps at one point. Part 8 is more beat-heavy, uptempo, kind of hypnotic, but also minimal. The last 2 tracks are 2 parts of "Ready To Live". Part 1 is another slow, minimal 4/4 techno track, but has one of the more interesting melodies on the album. Part 2 is mysterious midtempo techno, a bit more submerged and crackly than some of the other tracks, and a bit more distant and paranoid. Always amazing stuff from Software, and also I think this guy does web design for Decoder, which I write for sometimes, so that's awesome too.
Night of Noise 2014
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Supercollider: "Heartbomb/Detonate" b/w "Tuliptree" 7″ (self-released, 2013)
Debut 7″ from WCBN alumni Aaron Smith and Rory. Tight, wiry, mathy indie rock. "Heartbomb/Detonate" has vocals (lyrics about a crush), and a perky mid-uptempo, "Tuliptree" is instrumental and starts midtempo, then launches into energetic doubletime, and even has room for some cowbell. Facebook says Rory is moving to LA so I dunno if this band will be playing live anymore, but at least you can enjoy them on this 7″.
El Ten Eleven: For Emily EP (Fake Record Label, 2014)
New EP from long-running instrumental post-rock duo whose first album was on Bar/None back in 2005. This is a nice, upbeat, electronic-tinged collection of 5 to 7 minute jammers. Concise but complex, not too proggy, and definitely enjoyable, nothing too ponderous. "Yyes!" is the most electronic of the 3, starting with kind of scattered, blippy sequences that continue through the song, and some drum machine beats in the breakdown around 2 minutes, but still guided by flying-high guitar and bass guitar groove. "Reprise" is also kind of electronic, even dubby, and kind of breaks down around 2 minutes and pulls itself into a more straightforward rock section, then tumbles into some free-falling drum soloing, then bumps around some electronic beats and more tranquil guitar effects. All good vibes.
Kasim Keto: Long Car Rides (Babygrande, 2013)
Mostly instrumental hip-hop, but with sung vocals with ethereal vocal effects. Definitely has a repetitive highway-travel feel to it. After a short intro of a car revving up, "Antseed" starts things off with minimal beats and synths and kind of trippy textures. "Wounded Knee" has a bit of sung vocals, and trippy beats. "Rat Race" has more sung vocals, mostly just the title repeated. "Facing" has sparkly synth sounds. "Belong" has some more sung vocals, can't really tell what they're saying. "Pusher" has kind of spacey synths. "Through" is a little more downtempo, has a tiny bit of piano. "Long Way" has a slow tempo to the melody but a more uptempo broken-beat shuffle to the beats, and vocals singing the titular phrase in the background. "Tell-Lie-Vision" is slow-jammy and has some lazy, loungey, stargazey vocals. "Nova" is short but has a really cool choppy beat and lots of spacey echo on the vocals, and lyrics about exploding supernovas. "Who Knows" is over 5 minutes, has the "Synthetic Substitution" breakbeat, and has vocals that sort of gaze off into space. "Hishandsunderstand" is light and spacey. "I Can't" is melancholy and has light guitars and has some minor sung vocals towards the end. "Cause & Creation" has more barely comprehensible sung vocals, but seems to be concerned about something. "Hurrywait" has a hard beat and kind of trippy synth sounds. "So much Pain" ends it with more kind of melancholy beats and a little piano and vocals. RIYL: Driving long distances at night, Adult Swim bumper music.
Illum Sphere: Ghosts Of Then And Now (Ninja Tune, 2014)
Ninja Tune debut from Manchester producer Ryan Hunn. His older stuff was closer to abstract instrumental hip-hop, but this album takes in a much wider scope of electronic music, touching on various current forms of "bass" music, R&B, house, Krautrock, and more. "Liquesce" is a shadowy, crackly, string-filled noir intro which has Shigeto drumming away in the background. "At Night" kicks up the tempo with light female vocals and edits, and 808 State-esque synths. First single "Sleeprunner" has more vinyl crackle than the first track, a nice Krautrock (via the last Portishead album) synth arpeggio, and a steady chugging beat which builds to juke intensity towards the end, along with vintage synths and strings. "The Earth Is Blind (Prelude)" is a spacey interlude leading into "The Road", a downtempo R&B ballad with a stomping beat and frequent cut-ins from what sounds like a police radio, rhythmically sampled into the beat. "Ra_Light" has kicking beats, city-light synths, and a break in the middle with some excited-sounding voices, and then an outro of some slowed, echoed voice. "It'll Be Over Soon" has a little more vinyl crackle, fast jittery beats, and a recurring sample of kids going "yeah!", and later a robot voice repeating "game over" over a fast juke-inspired beat. "One Letter From Death" is a short, simple track with a rimshot-heavy beat, snakelike rattling percussion and bass synth. "Ghosts Of Then And Now" has a soft sensuous beat and organs, and gets more intense during the second half, which features atmospheric backup vocals. "Love Theme From Foreverness" is another moonlit R&B ballad, with midtempo beats. "Lights Out/In Shinjuku" starts out sounding like it's going to be tense and frantic, but then really calms down during its second part. "Near The End" is the most uptempo, busy 4/4 dance track, with an upfront live-sounding beat and jazzy keyboards. "Embryonic" is one last vocal track, with a cumbia-esque beat and xylophones, and synth washes.
Show #223 – 1/1/14
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Hour 1
3:01 AM Phoenicia ~ Monday (Disjecta Rmx) ~ Lily Of The Valley ~ Schematic
3:07 AM Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group ~ Worm = Spice ~ Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group ~ Sun Ark
3:16 AM Seers ~ side B excerpt ~ tape ~ self-released?
3:28 AM Foom ~ Whun ~ Surface Noise And Imperfections ~ No Fidelity Audio
3:37 AM Hiss & Hum ~ one of the two sides, I can't tell which ~ Shut-In Tape #35 ~ self-released
3:53 AM Profligate ~ Against The Wall ~ Come Follow Me ~ Hot Releases/More Records
3:57 AM VVAQRT ~ Lunule ~ Than On Eother And You Have 0 Answers ~ Hot Releases
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Hour 2
4:02 AM Max + Mara ~ Hands ~ Less Ness ~ Dark Entries
4:05 AM Group Rhoda ~ Dust ~ 12th House ~ Not Not Fun
4:09 AM Figure Study ~ Rain ~ Figure Study ~ Dark Entries
4:12 AM Esplendor Geometrico ~ Necrosis En La Poya ~ Metal Dance 2 ~ Strut
4:16 AM Long-Sam ~ Tomorrow ~ Magneettinen Kasetti Vol. 2 ~ http://www.pcuf.fi/~plaa/oh.html
4:25 AM O. Sam. A. ~ Meilahti Stomp ~ Magneettinen Kasetti Vol. 2 ~ http://www.pcuf.fi/~plaa/oh.html
4:36 AM Leæther Strip ~ Never Trust Anyone At The Carnival ~ Teenage Demos ~ Dark Entries
4:40 AM Bezier ~ Ensconced ~ Ensconced ~ Dark Entries
4:45 AM Inhalt ~ Programming ~ Occupations ~ Dark Entries
4:49 AM Roland Tings ~ Roland's Beat ~ 12″ ~ 100% Silk
4:54 AM Ron Morelli ~ Slow Drown ~ Spit ~ Hospital Productions
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Hour 3
5:01 AM Hiss & Hum ~ side A ~ Psychic Death ~ self-released
5:28 AM Luc Ferrari ~ Presque Rien Avec Filles ~ Presque Rien ~ Recollection GRM
5:42 AM Francois Bayle ~ La Preuve Par Le Sens ~ L'Experience Acoustique ~ Recollection GRM
Seven Lies About Girls/Hiss & Hum megapost
Finally getting around to the package of tapes Hiss & Hum sent me way earlier in the year. First is a tape by Seven Lies About Girls called The Process Of Weeding Out (Teen Action Records, 2013) which is named after the Black Flag EP (and the track names on here are named after the tracks on that EP) but it doesn't really resemble them musically, other than a rule-breaking, anti-authoritative mindset. It's paranoid, dissonant, formless, and not an easy listen. The second side features harsh sawing sounds underneath amorphous bubbles, and ends with a splashy puddle of sound which dissipates into night air.
The Seven lies tape is alright, but I'm honestly way more into the two Hiss & Hum tapes. This is Seven Lies member Capt. Dave Destroyer's solo project, and he has an extensive series of home-recorded tapes that he just gives away. The left-most tape pictured here has Shut-In Tape #35 scrawled on it, and it has a lot of humming and hissing that you might guess a shut-in would make, but the second side in particular is really pretty. Just a really good not-too-long dose of laser blasting mixed with sparkly atmospheric sounds, and eventually blasted beats. Then it all burns out to a fiery crisp. The tape on the right is Psychic Death, and that has more of a balance/contrast (it gets hard to tell sometimes) between pretty and harsh noise textures. Second has harsh noisy Japanese-psych-ish guitar soloing and some Dylan Ettinger-ish vocals, and then it just gets completely overdriven with spacey noise-droning. It goes on for a while and it's pretty mindblowing.
Show #222 – 12/31/13
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Hour 1
12:03 AM Mick Harris ~ Tap ~ L'Inacheve/The Unfinished ~ Sub Rosa
12:10 AM Golden Donna ~ Infinite Earths ~ Golden Donna ~ Not Not Fun
12:16 AM Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group ~ Glassed Massed ~ Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group ~ Sun Ark
12:21 AM UZ ~ Crazy Horse Endings ~ UZ tape ~ Life Like
12:24 AM Patrick Cowley ~ He's Like You ~ School Daze ~ Dark Entries
12:27 AM M. Geddes Gengras ~ Air Solo ~ Beyond The Curtain ~ Holodeck
12:35 AM S U R V I V E ~ Lunar Eclipse ~ LLR002 ~ Light Lodge
12:39 AM City Center ~ Powdered Animal Wig ~ City Center Volume 1 ~ Life Like (Soundcloud)
12:42 AM Max + Mara ~ Unseen ~ Less Ness ~ Dark Entries
12:48 AM Bezier ~ Templar ~ Ensconced ~ Dark Entries
12:53 AM Nosaj Thing ~ Light #3 (Gerry Read Remix) ~ 12″ ~ Innovative Leisure
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Hour 2
1:02 AM Oak Openings ~ side B track 2 ~ Oak Openings tape ~ Life Like
1:07 AM Shingles ~ Sunken City ~ Mugen Volume 4 (split tape w/ Josh Millrod) ~ Hausu Mountain
1:13 AM Lidless Dogs ~ 2 ~ Lidless Dogs tape ~ Life Like (Soundcloud)
1:22 AM Fred Thomas ~ 2013-09-13 ~ mp3 ~ Life Like (Soundcloud)
1:24 AM Ivo Malec ~ Turpituda ~ Triola Ou Symphonie Pour Moi-Meme ~ Recollection GRM
1:34 AM Nagual ~ Sweat Raag ~ Nagual ~ Ergot Records
1:49 AM The Blood Of Heroes ~ I Love You But I Chose Darkness ~ The Waking Nightmare ~ Ohm Resistance
1:57 AM Misty Conditions ~ Drizzle ~ D'zzzz ~ Planet Mu
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Hour 3
2:03 AM Justice Yeldham ~ Popped In The Head ~ Popped In The Head All The Time Now ~ Feeding Tube Records
2:11 AM Philip Corner ~ Two In Thailand ~ Rocks Can Fall At Any Time ~ more mars team
2:23 AM Alligator Indian ~ Gnarwhal ~ Spring I'm In ~ Bleeding Gold
2:31 AM Snakepiss ~ Snakes ~ Toil ~ Chambray
2:35 AM Roland Tings ~ Loose Jaw ~ 12″ ~ 100% Silk
2:41 AM JMII ~ Nueva York ~ 12″ ~ 100% Silk
2:47 AM Seth Carter with Craig Huckaby ~ Baba Mi ~ Warrior Cry ~ Musicality
2:54 AM Figure Study ~ Maze ~ Figure Study ~ Dark Entries
Shingles/Josh Millrod: Mugen Volume 4 split tape (Hausu Mountain, 2013)
I love pretty much anything with an Electric Valve Instrument, so that's all that matters for me to get into the Shingles project of Jesse DeRosa (Grasshopper, Hex Breaker Quartet/Quintet, Baked Tapes). It's all EVI and a looper, and it's all sweet, warm drones, with lots of texture and melody and range. "Sunken City" is a bit more sunrise-y, "Chromium" is maybe more starry and sparkly. Josh Millrod (also of Grasshopper and Hex Breaker) takes up his entire side with his piece "We Sorcerize", and it's a bit deeper and harsher, with a hazy, buzzing trumpet sound swooping throughout, piling on more layers and distortion until it's just a blanket of noise. But you can still hear the trumpet playing, it just becomes this mutant trumpet that's mega-distorted. Best of all, these were all recorded live at a place called Greenpoint Bed and Breakfast and Pizzeria. The tape's still available, but you can grab the music on Bandcamp.
UZ: untitled tape (Life Like, 2013)
Saw this group (who name is pronounced "ooze") play their first show at Life Like Fest at the Elk's Lodge in Ann Arbor back in April, and I'm finally getting around to listening to their tape. Just in time for a new Life Like batch that I may or may not get around to buying and eventually listening to and reviewing. Nice spaced out guitar and drum machine + real drums + calm synths. Sometimes almost slide guitar-ish, that sort of lonesome prairie sound, but with a drum machine and droney synths. I guess reminds me a bit of FWY! but not as motorik. I like that this tape has compact songs that wrap up in a reasonable length, and that they all have titles. Not that I'm complaining about untitled sidelong jams (or just simply unlisted titles) but you know, this makes it more welcome. Tough to really choose a favorite, although the edgy guitar and ticking drum machines and distant pianos of "Crazy Horse Endings" might be the winner. The synth zone-out of final track "Lighthouse" is a nice touch too. The tape is probably long gone but you can listen to it on Soundcloud.
The Onliest Souls 12/29/13
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The Onliest Souls 12/29/13
5:04 PM Sri Darwin Gross ~ At The Grass Roots ~ Songs In The Key Of Z Vol. 1 ~ Which? Records
5:08 PM Dot Wiggin Band ~ Banana Bike ~ Ready! Get! Go! ~ Alternative Tentacles
5:10 PM Daniel Johnston ~ Rocket Ship ~ Yip/Jump Music ~ Homestead
5:15 PM Jandek ~ Jaws Of Murmur ~ Follow Your Footsteps ~ Corwood Industries
5:20 PM Robert Alberg ~ Guitar Texture ~ Acoustically ~ self-released
5:23 PM Robert Alberg ~ I Been Single All My Life ~ YouTube
5:27 PM Ken Jackson ~ Worthless Art ~ My Magazine ~ self-released
5:35 PM Luie Luie ~ El Touchy ~ Songs In The Key Of Z Vol. 1 ~ Which? Records
5:39 PM Half Japanese ~ Penny In The Fountain ~ Charmed Life ~ 50 Skidillion Watts
5:40 PM Janeen Brady & The Brite Singers ~ I'm A Mormon ~ mp3 ~ 365 Days Project
5:42 PM The Space Lady ~ I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) ~ Songs In The Key Of Z Vol. 2 ~ Gammon
5:46 PM Peter S. Langston with Eedie & Eddie & The Reggaebots ~ Some Velvet Morning ~ mp3 ~ 365 Days Project
5:51 PM Mark Kennis ~ Heart Of The Heartland ~ Songs In The Key Of Z Vol. 2 ~ Gammon
5:55 PM William Janiak ~ Do You Like Foods: Do You Like Meat? ~ Songs About Me ~ Kimbo Educational
Blevin Blectum: Emblem Album (Aagoo Records, 2013)
5th solo album (and first in 5 years) from the less showtuney half of Blectum From Blechdom, following the excellent Gular Flutter, also released by Aagoo. Playful blippy electronics and occasional neo-classical/baroque melodies. "Cromis Part One" starts out like Dan Deacon circa Bromst, adds hushed vocals, eventually leading to a counting of numbers which keeps stalling, before blasting off after reaching "9″. The song continues in the second part, mostly instrumentally. "Nanofancier" is a short noodly, tweety instrumental. "Deathrattlesnake" is a fast rapid drilly track, just as rattling and toxic as its title. "Basically Chunnelled" is a curiously minimal, sparkly, sinewavey track, which ends up with a throbbing beat, swinging-pendulum synths, and short-circuiting bursts of static. "Wrapped In Aw" seems to take off on a tangent from the previous track, adding squishy beats and more detailed/less minimal textures. "Harpsifloored" is where the baroque melodies come in, in the form of scrambling, overdriven harpsichord sounds, crashing into each other and shredding. "Goth Botch" is a slow, squirmy minimal techno track with damaged/malfunctioning spaceship sounds, and jarring louder-than-the-rest-of-the-mix zaps. "Manners Melting" is more harpsichord shredding, but this time it seems a little less chaotic, and seems to settle into a bit more of a pattern and be intentionally more pretty. "Sycamore Scarab" is a quiet, mysterious piece, sounding like a field recording from a haunted forest, with a few backwards sounds, insect-like noises, and plenty of space (the last minute is nearly silent).
Show #221 – 12/28/13 BEST OF 2013 SHOW
Mic break music = Synth Meditation tape on Life Like
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Hour 1
12:00 AM Oneohtrix Point Never ~ Zebra ~ R Plus Seven ~ Warp
12:09 AM Autechre ~ Bladelores ~ Exai ~ Warp
12:20 AM Boards Of Canada ~ Jacquard Causeway ~ Tomorrow's Harvest ~ Warp
12:26 AM His Name Is Alive ~ track 2 ~ Dragons Look Out Your Window ~ Silver Mountain Media Group
12:31 AM Shells ~ Beach ~ In A Cloud ~ Life Like
12:33 AM White Poppy ~ Daydreaming ~ Drifters Gold ~ Constellation Tatsu
12:37 AM Twigs & Yarn ~ Yuurei ~ mp3 ~ flau
12:42 AM Grouper ~ Vital ~ The Man Who Died In His Boat ~ Kranky
12:46 AM Julia Holter ~ Maxim's I ~ Loud City Song ~ Domino
12:51 AM Justin Walter ~ Dream Weaving ~ Lullabies & Nightmares ~ Kranky
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Hour 2
1:02 AM The Haxan Cloak ~ The Drop ~ Excavation [my favorite album of 2013] ~ Tri Angle
1:14 AM Wolf Eyes ~ Born Liar ~ No Answer-Lower Floors ~ De Stijl
1:17 AM Swans ~ Oxygen ~ Not Here/Not Now ~ Young God
1:25 AM Troller ~ Tiger ~ Troller ~ Holodeck
1:37 AM Burial ~ Come Down To Us ~ Rival Dealer ~ Hyperdub
1:50 AM Forest Swords ~ Onward ~ Engravings ~ Tri Angle
1:56 AM Ensemble Economique ~ We Come Spinning Out Of Control ~ The Fever Logic L.P. ~ Not Not Fun
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Hour 3
2:05 AM DJ Rashad ~ Let It Go ~ Rollin' ~ Hyperdub
2:10 AM Ultrademon ~ Dolphin ~ Seapunk ~ Fire For Effect
2:13 AM µ-Ziq ~ Monj2 ~ XTEP ~ Planet Mu
2:17 AM Sawi Lieu ~ Sneaking Into The Pulsar Wave ~ Pasaraya ~ Constellation Tatsu
2:22 AM Piper Spray ~ Sigma Draconis ~ Epigraph To The Bright Star Catalogue ~ Singapore Sling Tapes
2:26 AM Unicorn Hard-On ~ Houndstooth ~ Weird Universe ~ Spectrum Spools
2:41 AM Special Request ~ Soundboy Killer ~ Soul Music ~ Houndstooth
2:47 AM Sensate Focus ~ Y ~ Sensate Focus 1.6 ~ Sensate Focus
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Hour 4
3:01 AM PAS Musique ~ Modern Witchcraft ~ Abandoned Bird Egg ~ Alrealon Musique
3:06 AM Stave ~ Tower9 ~ Reform ~ Flingco Sound System
3:11 AM Shapednoise ~ Survival Of The Dead ~ Until Human Voices Wake Us ~ Opal Tapes
3:17 AM Tim Hecker ~ Live Room ~ Virgins ~ Kranky
3:23 AM Barn Owl ~ Blood Echo ~ V ~ Thrill Jockey
3:31 AM Deafheaven ~ Dream House ~ Sunbather ~ Deathwish Inc.
3:40 AM The Body ~ Denial Of The Species ~ Christs, Redeemers ~ Thrill Jockey
3:45 AM Pharmakon ~ It Hangs Heavy ~ Live on WFMU's Distort Jersey City – April 10, 2013 ~ Free Music Archive
3:51 AM Laserbeams Of Boredom ~ Blown Blurs ~ Mind Arrays ~ self-released tape
3:56 AM Scissor Now! ~ There's An International District In Seattle ~ Not Now, But Right Now! ~ Arbco
3:58 AM Blanche Blanche Blanche ~ Look At Me Now ~ Wooden Ball ~ NNA Tapes
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Hour 5
4:03 AM Longmont Potion Castle ~ Deiter's Heat ~ LPC 10 ~ D.U. Records
4:07 AM [PHYSICS] ~ Emerald Forest ~ Spectramorphic Iridescence ~ Digitalis
4:10 AM Mountains ~ Identical Ship ~ Centralia ~ Thrill Jockey
4:13 AM Mind Over Mirrors ~ Storing The Winter ~ When The Rest Are Up At Four ~ Immune
4:19 AM CFCF ~ Lamp ~ Music For Objects ~ Paper Bag
4:23 AM Sally Shapiro ~ What Can I Do ~ Somewhere Else ~ Paper Bag
4:30 AM Low ~ Just Make It Stop ~ The Invisible Way ~ Sub Pop
4:34 AM Toxie ~ Newgate ~ 7″ ~ Goner
4:36 AM Saturday Looks Good To Me ~ Invisible Friend ~ One Kiss Ends It All ~ Polyvinyl
4:39 AM Disclosure ~ Latch ~ Settle ~ Cherrytree
4:43 AM DIANA ~ That Feeling ~ Perpetual Surrender ~ Jagjaguwar
4:47 AM Primitive Motion ~ Flow Form ~ Two Ellipses ~ A Guide To Saints
4:52 AM Aloonaluna ~ Stutter-sleep Dance ~ split tape w/ Motion Sickness Of Time Travel ~ Constellation Tatsu
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Hour 6
5:01 AM White Poppy ~ Wear Me Away ~ White Poppy ~ Not Not Fun
5:04 AM Jon Hopkins ~ We Disappear ~ Immunity ~ Domino
5:09 AM DJ Rashad featuring DJ Phil ~ Everyday Of My Life ~ Double Cup ~ Hyperdub
5:12 AM RP Boo ~ Speakers R-4 (Sounds) ~ Legacy ~ Planet Mu
5:15 AM Misty Conditions ~ D'mmmm ~ D'zzzz ~ Planet Mu
5:21 AM LX Sweat ~ Addicted To Your Love ~ City Of Sweat ~ Not Not Fun
5:24 AM High Wolf ~ R.I.P. ~ Kairos: Chronos ~ Not Not Fun
5:26 AM Quicksails ~ Dancing By Yourself ~ Mayville Dream ~ Spectrum Spools
5:34 AM Four Tet ~ Unicorn ~ Beautiful Rewind ~ Text
5:37 AM The Field ~ No. No… ~ Cupid's Head ~ Kompakt
5:47 AM Clearcut ~ Depends On You ~ Messages ~ Boont
Crush Collision 12/26/13 BEST OF 2013 SHOW
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Hour 1
10:01 PM Huerco S. ~ Ragtime USA (Warning)
10:07 PM Moderat ~ Milk
10:14 PM Ron Morelli ~ No Real Reason
10:17 PM The Field ~ Cupid's Head
10:20 PM Gerry Read ~ Liver
10:23 PM Cyclist ~ Mangel
10:25 PM Disclosure ~ White Noise
10:29 PM Jonas Reinhardt ~ Private Life Of A Diamond
10:34 PM Laurel Halo ~ Serendip
10:37 PM MGUN ~ Mask
10:43 PM Octo Octa ~ Please Don't Leave
10:45 PM Storm Queen ~ Look Right Through (MK Dub III)
10:48 PM Jon Hopkins ~ Open Eye Signal
10:53 PM Omar-S ~ Thank U 4 Letting Me Be Myself
10:59 PM Bobby Browser ~ As Far As I Know
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Hour 2
11:02 PM Shams ~ Piano Cloud
11:04 PM Carl Taylor ~ Lost Memories
11:08 PM Coyote Clean Up ~ 2 Hot 2 Wait
11:13 PM Container ~ Obstruction
11:14 PM Voigt & Voigt ~ Triptychon Nummer 7
11:18 PM Bobby Draino ~ Brain Drain (Cloudface Edit)
11:22 PM Ikonika ~ Eternal Mode
11:24 PM Bonobo ~ Emkay
11:27 PM Gold Panda ~ Brazil
11:31 PM Floorplan ~ Altered Ego
11:35 PM Photodementia ~ Letech
11:37 PM Xander Harris ~ Night Fortress
11:41 PM Housemeister ~ Chicago
11:43 PM Four Tet ~ Kool FM
11:48 PM Special Request ~ Ride VIP
11:55 PM Nah Like ~ Python QS
11:59 PM Vatican Shadow ~ Remember Your Black Day
Local Music Show 12/25/13
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Hour 1
9:00 PM Jib Kidder ~ Opening Medley ~ A Magical Christmas ~ Burning Tongue Records
9:03 PM Saturday Looks Good To Me ~ Mistletoe ~ 2002 tour cdr ~ Ypsilanti Records
9:06 PM Fuxa ~ Berzap ~ Dirty D ~ Rocket Girl
9:10 PM Deepchord ~ Seaweed ~ 20 Electrostatic Soundfields ~ Soma
9:14 PM Snakepiss ~ Unvisible ~ Toil ~ Chambray
9:17 PM Nosaj Thing ~ Try (Kyle Hall Remix) ~ 12″ ~ Innovative Leisure
9:22 PM Seth Carter ~ Warrior Cry (FBK Remix) ~ Warrior Cry ~ Musicality
9:28 PM KILN ~ Star.field ~ Meadow:Watt ~ Ghostly International
9:40 PM The Gories ~ Thunderbird ESQ ~ The Shaw Tapes ~ Third Man
9:42 PM Shells ~ track 4 ~ 12/12/12 ~ Gingko Records
9:46 PM Shigeto ~ Ritual Howl ~ No Better Time Than Now ~ Ghostly International
9:50 PM Dabrye ~ Evelyn ~ Instrmntl ~ Eastern Developments
9:55 PM His Name Is Alive ~ Happy Blues (Recloose Remix) ~ 12″ ~ 4AD
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Hour 2
10:03 PM Persona ~ Cycloid ~ Uptight ~ Simulated
10:06 PM Princess Dragonmom ~ Library Girl ~ Slow Poke ~ Time Stereo
10:18 PM Detronik ~ 9.21.01 ~ Electric Kingdom Vol. 1 ~ WCBN
10:23 PM 01V ~ CFR15 ~ Block Diagram ~ Stop/Eject Records
10:31 PM Viki ~ track 7 ~ Live On Electric Kingdom 4/19/2003 ~ WCBN
10:36 PM Mammal ~ Lung Haze ~ Secrets And Sounds ~ Animal Disguise
10:40 PM Xenharmonic Gamelan ~ XHG Improv ~ Intermission 1 ~ cdr
10:43 PM Vena Sarin ~ Ending ~ Gag Order, Volume 1 ~ Woodshed Records
10:46 PM Windy & Carl ~ Awhile ~ Drawing Of Sound ~ Icon
10:56 PM Mechanik ~ Kinahcem Attax ~ This Damn Planet ~ Scratch And Sniff Entertainment
Show #195 – 6/15/13
Mic break music = Voice of Eye and Thomas Dimuzio: The Unveiling Of Darkness
Move Your Ass 6/11/13
An extended meditation on Doug Hream Blunt's "Gentle Persuasion".
Show #194 – 6/8/13
Mic break music = Boyle: 2013Disc2
Show #183 – 3/9/13
no show next week, probably no reviews for a while, because i'll be in austin for SXSW. expect lots of photos.
Move Your Ass 3/7/13
The sports show was away for spring break so I did an emergency Move Your Ass in which I played Huey Lewis & The News' magnum opus Sports and mixed it with a bunch of other stuff. Also included in this file is Pandora's Lunchbox (the second half hour of the file) because I didn't have time to edit it out because I'm about to go on vacation.
Show #182 – 3/2/13
mic break music = giuseppe ielasi/kassel jaeger: parallel/grayscale
Show #180 – 2/9/13
pledge your support to WCBN –> wcbn.org
mic break music = popol vuh: in den garten pharaos
Crush Collision 2/7/13
WCBN fundraising has officially started! Please pledge and help keep freeform radio (and Crush Collision) alive!
R.I.P. Foxy Digitalis
Show #156 – 9/8/12
mic break music = clade: if brightness outshine heavens so prepared
Show #155 – 9/1/12
i'm dj'ing at the Blues Control show at the Work Gallery in Ann Arbor this thursday night. doors open at 8. please stop by!
Move Your Ass 8/22/12
This might be my last MYA this summer, so I played 2 copies of Strawberry Shortcake's "Bicycle Upside Down" simultaneously along with the WCBN online stream, some text-to-speech, "I Wanna Be A Hulkamaniac", and "Yakety Sax".
daytime mario star
Show #152 – 8/11/12
mic break sounds = "world of birds" cd donated to the station by The Liz, who has departed ann arbor in her motorized turtle shell
Basically I played the first 20 or so minutes of Rokhausen's Data Cloud Sessions and added some sound effects records and text-to-speech. And then I played a Bernie Krause 12″ (one of Rykodisc's few vinyl releases) on 45.

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Today, we bid farewell to the Girls' Gift Guide-fondly, and with a wee bit of sadness-but before that happens, we have one final installment for your shopping and wish-listing pleasure! Our final day is dedicated to the Modern Muse, meaning the type of girl who loves the most fashionable things and has style in spades. She's always up on the best collaborations, the coolest new products, and the most covetable items each season, so look for little luxuries that are in keeping with her sensibilities. (Need more help? Just ask yourself, "Would Kate Bosworth like this?" and if the answer is yes, you're golden!) From the most darling key chain to a must-have bag to a majorly delightful book, we have a feeling that everyone will love these Modern Muse gifts-we sure do!
StyleMint Venice T-Shirt ($29.99)
Amazing t-shirts are a staple in the Modern Muse's wardrobe, so add to her collection with this cheery, striped shirt from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's amazing e-commerce site, StyleMint. The shirt, which is also available in a pink/orange/black version, is not only designed by the Olsens, it's also incredible affordable and has a memorable graphic look that feels very Prada-like!
JewelMint Fine Tune Necklace ($29.99)
While the Modern Muse might save up and splurge on a fancy watch or diamond studs, she also likes to mix her finer pieces with more casual baubles too-hence our inclusion of this darling necklace from JewelMint. Designed by Kate Bosworth and star stylist Cher Coulter, this vintage-inspired piece is memorable and cool, just like our girl!
Theyskens' Theory Anta Mini Flap Bag ($495) in Multi
Of all the breakout fashion stories this year, Olivier Theyskens' incredible work at Theyskens' Theory is definitely one of the most important. Everything the man designs is amazing, including this outrageously awesome bag. With its standout color palette and simple shape, it's sure to enliven the Modern Muse's favorite ensembles and might be her favorite gift this year.
Rebecca Minkoff for eBay iPhone Case ($28)
Everyone knows and adores Rebecca Minkoff's amazing bags, clothing, and shoes, but did you know that she also makes killer studded iPhone cases too? It's true! Created in collaboration with eBay, it's the ideal edgy case for an iPhone 4 or 4S, so be sure to buy one today!
Balenciaga Paris L'Essence Candle ($65)
Loving all things Balenciaga is just how the Modern Muse rolls, so she's sure to flip out over this attractive and aromatic candle from the French fashion house. The candle has a violet scent mixed with woody notes and hints of leather-so it's delightful to the nose-plus it comes in a beautifully unfussy silver container that's perfect for any vanity or coffee table.
American Apparel Lip Gloss ($12) in Pasadena
Since today's girl always knows about things early, she surely is aware that American Apparel just launched their own signature collection of lip glosses. The colors are gorgeous-especially this vibrant coral-and the formula is cruelty free, fragrance free, and petroleum free. Buy her the whole set or pick it up for yourself, either way, it's a great gift!
Proenza Schouler Key Chain ($135) in JoJo
Judging from the way Who What Wear editors react to anything Proenza Schouler puts out, we can say with absolute certainty that the Modern Muse will swoon for this sweet key chain. Inspired by Lazaro's dog-a Prague Ratter-this accessory is so ridiculously cute, we just can't get over it. And if for some reason this style won't work, you could pick up the Buster Keychain ($135) instead, which is modeled after Jack's Newfoundland.
Very Classy: Even More Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady ($18) by Derek Blasberg
Manners are one thing that never go out of style, so make sure your Modern Muse is up on all of the latest etiquette by giving her Very Classy. Written by the wildly talented Derek Blasberg-you know his byline from such esteemed magazines as Harper's Bazaar and V-Very Classy is the expanded version of the author's first book, Classy, and is full of even more tips and tricks. With two new chapters (one on interior decorating and the other on wellness) and nearly 100 new pages, this book is an essential buy even if you already have Classy. After all, a lady is always learning, right?
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Conferences, Meetings & Special Events
Put your feet up and get down to work.
You can have meetings and retreats at Spring Creek Ranch without distractions, unless you count the stunning views of the Tetons or the call of powder at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort 15 minutes away. We will help you stay focused on the goals of your event so you can get more done and leave time for a little play.
Spring Creek Ranch is located 12 miles from the Jackson Hole airport (learn more about access to Spring Creek Ranch here), five miles from downtown Jackson, and 15 minutes from the resort village at Jackson Hole. Perched 700 feet above the valley Spring Creek Ranch overlooks the stunning Grand Teton National Park floor. America's First National Park Yellowstone National Park is just 45 miles to the north. This proximity gives you many options for your meetings and events year-round.
Meeting and Retreat Space at The Ranch
The Ranch House is the premier venue for meetings, conferences, and special events. Facilities include the Sagebrush Ballroom, Sage East, Sage West, and the Sage Boardroom.
Meeting Space
- 3,200 feet of total meetings space
- Four rooms plus outdoor space in summer months
- Accommodate gatherings of up to 200 guests
- 125 guest rooms
Guests have access to our full catering services and DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America) award-winning and very innovative Granary restaurant.
What You Can Do Here, You Can't Do Elsewhere
The property is a wildlife refuge so it's not unusual to see the occasional elk or moose amble through or Hawks and Eagles soar above. Team building exercises might use the natural elements of the Tetons or take you on our wildlife safaris available only to our guests and not offered anywhere else with one of our wildlife biologists. Other activities might include a horseback ride on the wildlife sanctuary, a hot air balloon ride alongside the spectacular Tetons, or mountain climbing and whitewater rafting on the Snake River to name just a few. Learn more about possible activities for your corporate retreat or meeting.
Meet Your Meeting Planners
Our one-stop shop conference services team is here to make you look good. Once they understand the goals of your meeting, they will help you plan the details.
Kristie Grigg, Director of Sales
Riverton, Wyoming
I handle all aspects of group meetings and incentive travel. My first priority is to make sure Spring Creek Ranch is the perfect fit for your group. I'll listen to what you want to accomplish during your stay with us to ensure a memorable experience.
Having been involved in a number of successful sales teams over the last 20 years in the wireless industry to original fine art, I've learned a great deal about communication, and working with people. The bottom line, regardless of industry, we all prefer to do business with someone we enjoy, and someone who cares about every detail. I feel lucky to be able to live here and do what I do.
As an adult I lived in Newport Beach, CA for (8) years, before moving back to Wyoming and where my heart belongs, Jackson Hole.
When I'm not in the office, I might be out skiing or snowshoeing, or paddle boarding on String Lake in summer and out biking. I collect and admire original fine and art and always do my best to keep up with my adopted Cairn Terrier.
Lizzy Windley, Wedding and Event Manager
Mobile, Alabama
It is my job to make the most important day of someone's life as stress-free as possible. I get great satisfaction knowing brides can actually breathe and enjoy their day. When I was 15, my first job was in catering and since then, I love the buzz and energy that comes with events and hospitality. It is where I feel "at home." I attended University of Alabama and received my degree in hospitality management.
In college I worked an array of positions in restaurants. Everything from line cook/ dishwasher , bartender and management positions. When I first moved to Jackson, I was a server at Flagg Ranch a resort in Teton Park. I immediately felt connected to the area and knew it would not be my last. I have worked at Spring Creek Ranch for 2 and a half years, starting as Assistant Manager in our Granary Restaurant. Soon after, I met my fiancé and we are getting married in April. We live in Etna with our dog Beatrice.
When I'm not in the office, I'm planning my own wedding! We hike, cross country ski, snowshoe, and play with our dog Beatrice.
Chris Wheeler, Sales Manager (with a concentration in skiing/winter-specific groups)
Manchester, Vermont
My goal is to make our meeting planners look good and to create memories that will be forever ingrained in the minds of our guests. That starts with doing all we can to provide the best Jackson Hole experience. I pride myself in being a great resource to guests and meeting planners thanks to my in-depth knowledge not only of the property but also of the Jackson Hole Valley. Having worked here at Spring Creek Ranch for over eight years, mostly in Guest Services as the assistant director, and also in concierge, reservations, bellman, maintenance, and at the Granary means I know the operation inside and out as well as all the staff here. I can get things done quickly and creatively resolve details for our meeting planners.
When I'm not in the office, I am a BIG skier and grew up ski racing in southern, VT eventually competing at a national level through majority of my racing career. For that reason, my first choice is to be out skiing. Otherwise, I hike, travel, fish, camp and play tennis and soccer.
Marla Straight, Conference Coordinator
South Hero, Vermont
Originally from South Hero, Vermont, I grew up on an island and fell in love with the water. I grew up playing ice hockey and played division I at the collegiate level. Drawn to Jackson for the big mountain skiing I instantly fell in love with the area. I've lived in Jackson since 2008. Before Jackson I spend some time in Hawaii and Alaska working on a small cruise ship sailing the Inside Passage as well as being a bike, kayak, & zip line guide. I've worked in the hospitality industry since I was 13 and have dreams of one day owning my own business.
When I'm not in the office you can find me either at the rink coaching or playing hockey or in the backcountry skiing. In the summer I'll be hiking the Tetons, camping or on Jackson Lake surfing, wakeboarding or water skiing behind my boat!
Ready to get in touch? Contact a meeting a planner now.


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LOWVILLE — Lewis County legislators held a prebid conference Friday on the proposed county office building.
Nine contracting companies signed into the meeting, with representatives from Bernier, Carr & Associates, Watertown, and several legislators on hand to answer their questions.
Rick W. Tague, president of Bernier, Carr, described the building as "a basic box." Though it will have two stories, he said, the roof deck will be flat to allow the construction of a third story in the future, if necessary.
Potential bidders asked questions about excavation of the site, spoil sites for removed materials and construction of sidewalks.
Mr. Tague outlined the projected schedule for the project. A mid-October start date is projected, with construction expected to be completed by the end of October 2014.
Philip R. Collins of Meridian Construction, Colton, asked who would be responsible for snow removal at the site.
"Phase one should be done before snow," Mr. Tague said.
Legislator Paul M. Stanford, D-Watson, questioned the accuracy of the mid-October start date, noting, "We have village issues not answered yet," referring to questions about the capacity of the village sewage treatment system and safety of the village's Stowe Street.
"I think it's doable," Mr. Tague said.
Legislator Philip C. Hathway, R-Harrisville, said, "That's not his problem. That's ours."
"I really don't think that's a problem," said Legislator Jerry H. King, R-West Leyden, who said he has met with village officials.
The county and village have agreed to conduct sewer and traffic studies, which have yet to be scheduled.
Mr. Stanford asked how much construction traffic could be expected from deliveries of stone and other materials.
When the possibility of alternative routes to the site was discussed, Matthew J. VanWagenen of Adhan Piping Co. Inc., Cortland, said, "If we have to take certain routes, that needs to be established as part of the bid. If I call Virkler's and then the parameters change, his price could change, as well."
Constableville legislative candidate Duane C. DeLair also was at the meeting. He said that, before contractors put time into submitting a bid, they should know the county is not prepared to move ahead with the project. He then offered copies of a letter from Associated General Contractors of New York, addressed to legislative Chairman Michael A. Tabolt, R-Croghan, voicing concerns "that the finance and other details of this project are not too sufficiently developed to allow for this project."
Jack T. Bush, R-Brantingham, said he had conducted a straw poll and has seven "yes" votes if the bids come in within the budget. "There are problems, but nothing we can't overcome."
Following the meeting, contractors were invited to visit the site on Outer Stowe Street.
The location now houses a 50-by-100-foot storage building southwest of the public safety building. Bids are due in the next week for the purchase and removal of that building.
Legislators had hoped to relocate the building but it was discovered to be cost prohibitive. Instead, a new storage building will be constructed behind the Department of Social Services building. Bids for that project also are due in the next week.
Bids for the county office building are due Sept. 19.
Legislators may award contracts if the bids are within the range of the budget.
Mr. Tague said that after 45 days, contractors no longer are obligated to honor their bids.
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Today's post is written by Liz Caringola, who works on our ancestry.com digitization project. February 22, 2012, marks the 25th anniversary of the death of American pop artist Andy Warhol. The Pittsburgh native rose to fame in the 1960s as one of the most prominent members of the American pop art movement. He […]
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As Joe Tufos slick, 20-foot downhill putt was about five feet from the hole on the 17th green Saturday at Ives Hill Country Club, he raised his arms high.
When the ball gently rolled into the cup, signifying a birdie 3 and the end to his 2013 City Mens Golf Championships semifinal match with James Ambrose, Tufo breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The 2003 champion is back in the championship match again, his seventh foray into the finals, where he will meet Mr. City Golf, 11-time winner Bob Hughes, in todays scheduled 36-hole finals.
Its always a pleasure to play Bob, said Tufo after knocking off 2009 champion Ambrose 3 and 1. Hes got me both times weve played before, so many its my time this time.
Hughes, back in the finals for the first time since losing in successive years (2008, 2009), knocked off former champion and medalist Adam Brown 4 and 3 to set up his rematch with Tufo.
Hughes bested Tufo, his current Watertown Golf Club teammate, in 1998 and 2002.
Joes so consistent, and he doesnt make many mistakes, said Hughes, who last won a city crown in 2002. He beat me on the 20th hole last year (in the quarterfinals), so I owe him one.
Both Tufo and Hughes sank several key putts to set up their latest championship match-up.
Tufo was clinging to a 2 up lead when he holed clutch 10-foot par putts on holes 14 and 15 to retain his lead.
That putt on 17 was great, said Tufo, who also finished second in 1999, 2005 and 2011. But those two on 14 and 15 were even bigger because if he wins them its a new match and anything can happen.
Hughes rolled in a key 20-footer for birdie on the par-5 13th hole while holding a 1 up advantage, while Brown missed a five-footer to halve the hole.
Being 1 up is so much different than being even, said Hughes, who also sunk key birdie putts on 4 and 7 to win holes. It was a bit sloppy today and Ill certainly have to be sharper tomorrow.
Ambrose seized an early 2 up advantage over Tufo by winning No. 2 with a birdie and No. 3 with a par. But he didnt win another hole after taking the fifth hole with a par 4.
Tufo gained ground with a nice birdie 3 on No. 6 then also won seven with a par to get back to even.
Even heading to the back nine, Ambrose saw the match get away from him quickly. He drove in the hazard on 10 and made a double-bogey 5, and also lost No. 11 with a bogey.
I hit it good enough to win, but just didnt make enough putts, Ambrose said. And I had some good opportunities.
After 12 and 13 were halved, Tufo salvaged a great par 4 on No. 14 from off the green, and did the same on the par-3 15th with Ambrose ready to make easy pars on both holes.
Those were daggers, Ambrose said of Tufos two big par putts.
Tufo said both of those putts broke about the same and were really fast. Fortunately, I read them both right and had just the right speed.
On 17, Tufo said he knew he couldnt hit his birdie putt hard because it would just roll off the green. But halfway there I said to myself, Why not.
The Hughes-Brown match turned at the end of the front nine when Hughes birdied No. 7 to take a 1 up lead and Brown three-putted No. 8 to miss a chance at getting back even.
The 10th hole, with a diabolical front left pin placement, was a nightmare for Brown. He settled for a triple-bogey 6 with a poor tee shot left of the green while Hughes also struggled to make a bogey.
Hughes gave a shot back on 11 when he drove into the hazard left and made a bogey. But he drained his long birdie attempt on 13 and Brown could not make his from a much shorter distance.
Brown also lost 14 when his tee shot sailed out of bounds right. The match ended when he could not get up and down for par after missing the 15th green.
I didnt convert on a handful of good chances, and Bob did. That was the difference, Brown said. If you make some putts once you get to this far in the tournament, its tough to win.
Said Hughes, making his record 18th finals appearance: Your goal when you start the week is always to make it to Sunday, so that never gets old.
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It is a murder mystery set in an anthropological museum.
Museum sleuth Berry Cates discovers that museum staffers are casting illicit bronzes. Blackmail, fraud and accusations are rife.
Read all about it in Insinuendo: Murder in the Museum.
Better yet, meet the author, Miriam Clavir of Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday at Ogdensburg Public Library, 312 Washington St., from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
A lifelong museum enthusiast and fully trained art and artifacts conservator with a doctorate in museum studies, she wrote the award-winning Preserving What Is Valued: Museums, Conservation and First Nations in 2002 for the University of British Columbia Press. With those kind of credentials, the move from scholar to mystery writer would be a seamless one, right?
Well, not exactly.
There were bumps, Ms. Clavir said. The biggest one was that while I had written many articles on preservation for the public and for my museum conservation colleagues, Id never seriously sat down to write fiction. My challenge here was to weave real-life museum experience into an intriguing story, to blend the real with the imaginary.
Museums, she said, are rather mysterious places to begin with.
Yes, museum rooms contain things that lived once, whether in peoples lives or in nature, Ms. Clavir said. In some cases they are still alive. Either way, they always have or have had significance even if the museum or the visitor doesnt know exactly what it is or was. And we hardly ever know the whole story behind what were seeing. To me, museums are also like eye-opening travel, except you are going backwards and forwards in time as well as everywhere around the world. So you are always seeing things you never imagined. There are many questions and hidden secrets, even when we are allowed to know some of the details.
Insinuendo, she hopes, will cater to scholarly and literary tastes.
In the novel I wanted to give readers a true behind-the-scenes visit to a museum as well as a fictional murder mystery, Ms. Clavir said. So, for example, the setting is entirely real as is the conservation information, but all the characters are fictional. You can go and see in the UBC Museum of Anthropologys collection some of the artifacts that are mentioned in the book like the gun with Haida designs carved on the stock and the Inuit rock band, but murder and forgery never took place there. I am certainly very grateful to MOA for allowing me to use it as a site for murder and mayhem.
And Berry Cates will be back.
There is a second book right now waiting for publication, Fate Accompli: The Golden Dog Murders, Ms. Clavir said. Berry has moved to Quebec City to be closer to her friend Daniel, and is working as the artifacts conservator on an archaeological excavation. But instead of artifacts, she discovers a corpse recently buried on the site.
The Corning Museum of Glass allowed Ms. Lavir to use an image of one of its artifacts on the books cover. The piece is Roman, 2,000 years old and in reality is just around an inch high.
As a conservator I have learned how pieces like this were made and Ill explain this at the reading, she said. But perhaps its an example of one of the museum mysteries I mentioned. How can something this fine and detailed and an inch high have been created 2,000 years ago? Could we even be able to do it today?
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Consider the following scenario:
The Performance Logs and Alerts service (smlogsvc.exe) threads run at the "Time Critical" priority as real-time application threads. When the Performance Logs and Alerts service logs lots of performance counters, the counter collection threads compete with the threads of some real-time applications for processor time. This behavior causes a periodic decrease in performance of the real-time applications.
Hotfix informationA supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.
If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.
Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=supportNote The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.
PrerequisitesTo apply this hotfix, your computer must be running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
For more information about how to obtain a Windows Server 2003 service pack or a Windows XP Professional x64 Edition service pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/889100/ )How to obtain the latest service pack for Windows Server 2003
Installation instructionsWarning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.
After you install this hotfix, the following registry item is added to the registry:
Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysmonLog
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If the value is 1, the Performance Logs and Alerts service threads run at priority 10.
If the value is 0, or if this item is deleted, the performance logs data collection runs at the "Time Critical" priority (15).
Restart requirementYou do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.
You must restart the Smlogsvc service after you install this hotfix.
Hotfix replacement informationThis hotfix does not replace a previously released hotfix.
File informationThe English (United States) version of this hotfix installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.
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For several years I have been on yahoo. But I am getting bombarded with spam. WHO isn't? Anyways. A lot of my good mail is thrown in to bulkmail/junkmail. So who knows how many important e-mails I am missing.
Anyone knows of any good e-mail service (free or not). I am willing to pay good money for a good e-mail account. Remote access and the whole deal.
I do like yahoo because I like I can access it with my cell phone. That would be nice otherwise I could use nextel's webmail client to retrieve my messages.
Anyways, hope you can point me to the right direction.
Well I'm looking for something that will give me a proffesional looking addy. I am thinking about spending some money for a good e-mail service. And I don't want to pay yahoo 30 bucks for their crappy service and still have them sell my addy
I have comcast. I'm allowed to have 7 email addresses. I run my own mail server plus a few domains with own MTAs so I rarely use comcast's. They support POP as well as Webmail although I hate to my guts that they use Flash for their main web site.
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owwie!! i hope you are okay.
There I was heading southbound on highway 99 , a 1000 pound wall of snow came falling down from the over pass above [ King Gorege Hwy ] as I passed under it . Doing 110 km\h is about normal speed on the 99 . This snow hit my car like a ton a bricks . Smashed in my windshield , destroyed my grill , blew in my lights and signals put a huge dent in my hood and then ripped of all my body trim on my side . I put 100% blame in the retard who was driving that plow and carelessly dumped his load onto the freeway below. Therefor I have decided to Sue the City of Surrey to pay for all my damage . It is sad to think our Plow truck drivers along with other lowermainlader's cant even drive in the snowy weather > > > > >
Ahh, snow. That's that white, cold stuff, right? :P
you have no idea of cold
I hope its repairable, and i hope that they pay for their damages...imean, you cant do anything about the fact that the snow falls on your car. Good luck getting them to.
I hope all goes well for you and you get what you are looking for, but remember it could always be worse...
...you could have been riding your bike instead ;D
Please tell me you didn't have your new wing on your car when this happened. :-\
I'm fine i'm still shook up.
Later I am going to go talk with the the driver and his boss to see if there is a way we can resolve this issue, i'll let you guys know how it goes when I get back.
Yea I had my new wing on but nothing happend to itPlease tell me you didn't have your new wing on your car when this happened. :-\
lol that actually sounds like fun ;D ;D I think i'll go try it...you could have been riding your bike instead ;D
if by fun you mean painful... yes
speaking of cold, today in chicago it was -3 F, -22 F with windchill
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In 1897, James Grant founded Glen Grant Number 2, named for the Glen Grant distillery which he co-founded with brother John in 1840. At the turn of the 20th century there was a massive spike in whisky demand and what followed was a surge in production based on borrowed money. Inevitably, cracks in the proverbial ice gave way and the resultant backlash, known as the 'Pattison Crisis', caused the closure of several distilleries. Amongst their woeful number was Glen Grant Number 2, closing in 1902. The distillery lies in north Moraytown Village across the street from its name sake. Customs and Excise were adamant the spirit from Glen Grant No. 2 should be carried across the street to its neighbour by a pipe. Known as the 'whisky pipe', it was inexorably tapped by locals to plunder the spirit. With the new ownership of Glenlivet Distillers, the distillery went through renovations which began in 1965. The name, lawfully, had to be changed after a new act was passed which did not allow two distilleries to share a name. So in 1967 it was renamed Caperdonich, meaning 'secret well', after the well from which it draws its water. Caperdonich (pronounced 'CAPpa-DONick') has produced whisky intended, almost solely, for blending. Beneficiaries have included Chivas Regal and Passport. There have been, however, some independent bottlings from bottlers such as Duncan Taylor and Douglas Laing. The one official expression, a cask strength sixteen year-old, was released in 2005. Pernod Ricard acquired Caperdonich in 2001 but retired it along with Allt-á-Bhainne and Braeval just one year later.
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The distillery is founded by James Grant and is named Glen Grant Number 2 Distillery after the neighbouring sister distillery Glen Grant.
The Pattison crash shakes the industry and the distillery closes.
It reopens with The Glenlivet & Glen Grant Distilleries as owners. According to law two distilleries cannot bear the same name so it is changed to Caperdonich.
The number of stills are increased from two to four.
Seagrams buys The Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd (the new, shortened name) and forms Chivas and Glenlivet Group. Longmorn, Benriach, Glen Grant and The Glenlivet are also included in the deal.
Pernod Ricard and Diageo take over Seagram Spirits & Wine, the Chivas Group becomes part of Pernod Ricard.
The distillery is mothballed.
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TRAINING CAMP LIVE: Friday, NVMCLIVE scribbling during practice; Okposo out
Video Interviews: Schremp, Bailey, Martin
A little live blogging at Islanders practice, which started at noon and is comprised of just one large group. Check back during the next few hours for updates.
Noon: Kyle Okposo has a shoulder injury and is out for today's practice. The Islanders say he will be re-evaluated over the weekend.
12:05: Before practice, former Bridgeport assistant Bernie Cassell – a skating specialist – had a small class with a handful of players, including Matt Martin, Zenon Konopka and Radek Martinek.
12:08: Also out for the Islanders: Doug Weight, Frans Nielsen, Rob Schremp, PA Parenteau and Trent Hunter. The Islanders say they have been given a day off. The team website says they're all out with "general soreness." No matter what you want to call it, Weight (coming off shoulder surgery), Nielsen (not revealed) and Parenteau (groin) have already missed days during camp.
12:10: For tomorrow's public scrimmage at the Coliseum, the two Islanders squads will wear their new blue and white uniforms. Tickets are $10 each (benefiting the team's Children's Foundation) and are available through the team site and at the Coliseum box office.
12:12: For those that can't make it to the arena, newyorkislanders.com will stream the scrimmage. Chris King will call the play-by-play.
12:15: Coaches on the ice at practice: Scott Gordon, Dean Chynoweth, Scott Allen, Sudarshan Maharaj (goalies), Jack Capuano (Bridgeport) and Cassell.
12:20: First 15 minutes of practice featured drills and almost complete silence, except for the occasional thought from Gordon. Now Gordon is at the dry-erase board by the Islanders' bench.
12:25: At some of the days I've been at camp, I'd see this familiar face either sitting in the stands or around the locker room. He was wearing an Islanders coach's jacket, but I knew that he was new. I'd think, "I know he was a player. I think he was a good player. I just know he never played here." Then I'd forget about it and not pursue. As Katie Strang blogged yesterday, it is Geoff Sanderson. Perhaps he'll fill the player development position vacated when Bryan Trottier's contract was not renewed. The former Whaler last played in Edmonton in 2007-08.
12:30: Mikko Koskinen, on his back, recovers to make wild save on Konopka. Justin DiBenedetto smiles, can't believe it.
12:37: If only Radek Martinek can stay healthy for most of the season…
12:45: There are five lines of forwards, arranged by colors, plus two players wearing yellow: Trevor Gillies and Kirill Kabanov.
12:54: Scott Gordon yells, "Stretch. That's it"! Looks like a short one. Team plays a full scrimmage tomorrow morning.
12:58: It's worth pointing out that the Coliseum scoreboard keeps running time in big, blue letters throughout practice. Have to believe this is a coach's aid.
1:05: James Wisniewski enlists Kabanov's help for post-practice work. Kabanov, at at the faceoff circle, backhands a puck to either Wisnewski or D partner Mark Streit. The current first-unit PP defenseman take turns one-timing slappers off their passes.
1:07: Gordon in discussion on the ice with Rick DiPietro, who is scheduled to play in tomorrow's scrimmage.
1:40: After I interviewed Mark Katic for a future piece, I asked Scott Gordon about the defense prospect who flies below the radar and under Calvin de Haan and Travis Hamonic. Gordon complimented Katic's work ethic in an offseason that started in February with shoulder surgery. "If he continues to get stronger and strong on his feet," said the coach, "he has a real opportunity to play in the NHL."
1:50: Gordon says the Islanders will play three full periods in their public scrimmage on Saturday. DiPietro is confirmed to play. The major change from the team's prospect scrimmage in July is that the skills competition will be "modified." For darn good reason, the coach is concerned about injuries. If a player was to get hurt in a skills showcase, there is little time for recovery before the start of the regular season.
Gordon on the extent of Okposo's injury: "Sore shoulder. Day off."


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Intelligent Giving was a website for charity donors run by a small charity based in Bethnal Green, London. It was founded in 2005 by two former journalists, David Pitchford and Peter Heywood, and launched on 1 November 2006.[1] In September 2009 the charity wound down but the website and brand were taken over by New Philanthropy Capital.[2] The website was discontinued soon after.
Intelligent Giving aimed to raise public interest in charitable giving and advised donors how to make the most satisfactory use of their money. It was one of several organisations, including New Philanthropy Capital (UK) and Charity Navigator (US), that formed for this purpose, and it operated in a relatively new sector in the not-for-profit arena. It sought to bring its findings to as wide a readership as possible, employing a casual, witty approach on its website [3] and issuing timely press releases of charity-related material.[4] The authors aligned themselves with donors, not with the charity fundraising community. The organisation was a company limited by guarantee and itself gained charitable status in 2008.
Services and work[edit]
The central feature of Intelligent Giving's website was a charity ratings service. In 2005–06, it researched and rated over 500 UK charities and listed a further 1,000. Although it clearly acknowledged that quality of work is the most important way to judge a charity, it held transparency as an important indicator of a charity's diligence, and said that this was the most important aspect—and a cross-sector comparable one—of a charity's annual report.[5]
Intelligent Giving claimed to assess transparency using 43 criteria[6] derived largely from research carried out by the Charity Commission in 2004.[7] Intelligent Giving gives a percentage score for the transparency, or "Quality of reporting" of each charity.[6]
The website also contained overviews of charity sectors, an explanation of the full range of ways to give, interviews with givers and short articles by experts. It also provided a discussion forum for the donor community.
Media coverage[edit]
In November 2006, Intelligent Giving published an article about Children in Need, a big charity, which attracted wide attention—some of which Intelligent Giving regarded as misleading—across the British media.[8] The article, titled "Four things wrong with Pudsey", described donations to Children in Need as a 'lazy and inefficient way of giving' and pointed out that, as a grant-giving charity, Children in Need would use donations to pay two sets of administration costs. It also described the quality of some of its public reporting as 'shambolic'.[9]
In March 2007, Intelligent Giving claimed that English Premiership football clubs were not giving enough to charity.[10] Chelsea FC was particularly criticized in this work, and an alleged member of the Club's media team threatened an Intelligent Giving employee with violence in response to media reports.[11][12]
In June 2007, the organisation analysed the Jewish charities it had profiled and concluded, "They are pretty appalling in terms of transparency." Details from the report were published in The Jewish Chronicle.[13]
In July 2007, Intelligent Giving won the New Statesman New Media Award for Information & Openness.[14]
October 2007 saw Intelligent Giving name and shame in The Guardian the rugby union charity Wooden Spoon Society for providing a very low return on its fundraising activities.[15] Intelligent Giving's argument was rejected by John Inverdale, a BBC broadcaster, in an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph as "misguided reporting that fails to understand how fund-raising operates." It was also condemned by Wooden Spoon in a statement.[15]
Charity commission[edit]
Intelligent Giving was criticised by the Charity Commission following the complaint it raised regarding Wooden Spoon. In a letter dated 13 November 2007, a Charity Commission representative disagreed with IG's financial analysis and stated, "The Commission does not concur with your view that the charity's costs were excessive, taking into account the method of fundraising which is employed by the Charity".[15] This judgement subsequently attracted attention in The Sunday Telegraph, where it was given as an example of the Charity Commission's poor decision-making process.[16]
Voluntary sector response[edit]
Intelligent Giving said it received good and bad responses from charities in equal measure.[citation needed] Negative responses included: Steve Taylor of Sue Ryder Care, who decried the organisation as a 'self appointed guardian' with 'little demonstrable understanding of the operating framework' of charities; the Institute of Fundraising, which called its research methods 'rudimentary'; and Sir Terry Wogan (a trustee of Children in Need) who condemned its work as 'contemptible'.[17][18]
Intelligent Giving's analytical approach—which resulted in the production of league tables that rank charities by their degrees of transparency—also caused concern. Detractors argued that charities do complex work that cannot be summed up in tabular form.[citation needed] Intelligent Giving, however, said that its approach was significantly more nuanced than that of other charity-profiling services, such as Charity Navigator in the US.[19]
See also[edit]
- Charity Navigator: financial analysis and ratings of US charities
- GuideStar: UK and US databases and information on charities
- GiveWell: An American non-profit charity evaluator, focused on identifying outstanding charities that are proven, cost-effective, scalable, and transparent.
- ^ "The History". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "New Philanthropy Capital to take over the work of Intelligent Giving". New Philanthropy Capital. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
- ^ "How to Give". The Spectator. Retrieved 20014-07-24. Check date values in:
- ^ "Press office". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-19.
- ^ Pitchford, Dave. "Why the Obsession with annual reports?". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ a b "How We Review". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ "For Charities: How we calculate transparency". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ Pitchford, Dave. "The Times, Children in Need, and us". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
- ^ Rothwell, Adam. "Four Things Wrong With Pudsey". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ Ghosh, Neill. "Football's Big Guns Caught Offside". Intelligent Giving. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
- ^ Marre, Oliver. "Pendennis: Chelsea play hard - off the pitch as well as on". London: The Observer. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
- ^ Malley, Paul. "League of Scrooges". Daily Star.
- ^ Rocker, Simon. "'Secret' charities under attack". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-06-29.[dead link]
- ^ "New Media Awards 2007 Winners". The New Statesman. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
- ^ a b c Booth, Rob (2007-10-29). "Watchdog blows whistle on rugby charity's £2m bill for high living". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ Palmer, Alasdair (2008-01-20). "To be charitable, this commission is warped". London: The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Kelly, Annie (2006-11-29). "Pudsey's worst nightmare". London: Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ^ Wogan, Terry (2006-11-19). "Wogan's World". London: Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ Pitchford, David (2007-01-10). "Are charities really afraid of committing to transparency?". Third Sector. Retrieved 2007-01-19.
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External links[edit]
- [1] NPC explanation of Intelligent Giving's work


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