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Make-or-break Week 13 had plenty of boom-or-bust performances. Josh Gordon, Eric Decker, Alshon Jeffery, DeMarco Murray and Ben Tate went off; old favorites Steven Jackson, C.J. Spiller and Roddy White reminded fantasy owners they still have value; guys like Ladarius Green and Andre Holmes made names for themselves heading into the fantasy playoffs (might as well pick them up); and countless players had fantasy owners cursing their ways into consolation brackets and/or the offseason.
No time to waste – let's look at some risers and fallers at each offensive position after Week 13.
Also, don't forget to send your questions in for the Fantasy Football mailbag. Every Friday during the season, we'll tackle the best fantasy questions of the week and help you with roster, trade and strategy decisions. You can submit your questions by 5:00 p.m. CT every Thursday. Please specify players with common last names (e.g. Davis, Jackson, etc.) and include the relevant scoring parameters of your league (e.g. PPR, passing TDs worth 4 points, etc.).
Is Tom Brady back? Maybe. In fact, probably. Brady put up at least 24.8 fantasy points last week for the second-straight game and third time in the past four contests. The returns of Rob Gronkowski and Shane Vereen have been huge for Brady, as he's put up these numbers against some pretty good pass defenses, include a Pittsburgh unit and a Houston unit than were ranked Nos. 2 and 1, respectively, when Brady played them. Brady has more tough matchups down the stretch (vs. CLE, @MIA, @BAL), but he looks like he's regained must-start status.
Almost matching Brady is Carson Palmer, who's now scored at least 24 fantasy points in three-straight games. The difference is he's done it in three very favorable matchups (@JAC, vs. IND, @PHI). As good as Palmer has looked, there are still reasons to worry about him.
Notable Riser: Ben Roethlisberger is also on a hot streak, scoring at least 20.4 fantasy points in four of the past five games. Last week (25.4) was especially encouraging since Antonio Brown (59 yards) wasn't even a big producer. Roethlisberger has been good about getting his backs involved, and he always likes going to Heath Miller in key situations. If you have slumping "starters" like Andrew Luck or Colin Kaepernick, Roethlisberger just might be the higher-upside play most weeks.
Notable Faller: Both Andy Dalton (190 yards, TD, INT) and Philip Rivers (252 yards, TD, INT) disappointed fantasy owners last week and have now managed just one 20-point performance between them since Week 9. Dalton looks especially bad right now, and his one saving grace is that he manages to still get the ball to A.J. Green. Rivers continues to get the ball to Keenan Allen, but other than that, there aren't many reasons to have faith in either.
Running Back
As always, running backs were all over the place on Sunday, but it's unlikely any player frustrated owners as much as Houston's Ben Tate. Tate was essentially benched two weeks ago, but last week he ran 22 times for 102 yards and three touchdowns. Dennis Johnson ran just three times.
Coach Gary Kubiak said Tate was his guy before the game, so apparently some coaches do tell the truth. Credit to Kubiak, and credit to Bill Belichick, who didn't make fantasy owners guess about Stevan Ridley last week by simply inactivating him before the game. It's unclear if this will be a weekly thing, but it's clearly not good for Ridley's value. He's too talented – and the Pats are too unpredictable – for him to be dropped right now, but Vereen remains at the top of the fantasy-value chart in New England's backfield. LeGarrette Blount is second … for now.
Notable Riser: Rashad Jennings (17 carries) once again dominated carries in the Raiders' backfield even though Darren McFadden (5) was active, and more importantly, he got in the end zone twice. Jennings did suffer a concussion late, but the Raiders are hoping he'll be ready because of the extra days off. It's unclear if Jennings will continue to get the vast majority of touches as McFadden gets healthier, but he will continue to have value the rest of the year. The same goes for Donald Brown in Indianapolis, who took a while to get going last week but eventually got in the end zone and had nine more carries than Trent Richardson. Detroit's Joique Bell is on the opposite side of a platoon, but with at least a dozen touches in two of the past three games, he still has value.
Notable Faller: With DeAngelo Williams (quad) out, things were set up for Jonathan Stewart. But he managed just 39 yards on 14 carries and received just one carry inside the 10-yard line. He could have some value down the stretch, but he hasn't shown much so far. On the flip side, a bunch of backs fantasy owners wanted to write off stepped up last week, including Willis McGahee, Rashard Mendenhall and Lamar Miller. The latter two didn't do anything great, but they did enough to warrant keeping around for at least another week. Be judicious about using them in your lineup, though.
Wide Receiver
After two more monster games, Josh Gordon and Alshon Jeffery have proved to be every-week starts, even if it didn't necessarily look like that two weeks ago. But another second-year receiver, Michael Floyd, isn't too far behind them. Floyd has at least 99 yards in three straight games, and he's scored in three of his past five. Even better, both him and Larry Fitzgerald have double-digit fantasy points in three straight games.
Minnesota rookie Cordarrelle Patterson finally got into the end zone, but it wasn't because of the frequent targets he had been seeing in Weeks 11 and 12. Patterson only caught one of four targets last week for four yards, but he scored on a touchdown run. It was actually similar to
Notable Riser: Julian Edelman seems to have supplanted Danny Amendola as the primary wide receiver in New England's offense. Edelman has had back-to-back games with double-digit targets and 100-plus yards. This doesn't mean Amendola should be dropped – he still caught five of five targets for 54 yards – but he's clearly behind Edelman, Gronkowski and Vereen in the pecking order for passes.
Of course, Edelman didn't break through his team's pecking order the way Eric Decker did. Decker caught four touchdown passes to go along with his 174 yards, which should hopefully remind owners that all of Denver's receivers have major upside in any given game especially if Peyton Manning shakes off his cold-weather issues like he did last week. Wes Welker is now the "struggling" receiver, failing to top 7.2 fantasy points since Week 8, but he'll bounce back soon enough.
Notable Faller: Miles Austin still isn't doing much of anything, but now his presence seems to be affecting Terrance Williams, who caught just three of six targets for 23 yards on Thanksgiving. He was still second on the team in looks behind Dez Bryant, so by no means is he a forgotten man, but diminished production and a key fumble last week aren't helping his value.
Fantasy owners shouldn't expect that to be the situation in Atlanta after Roddy White's reemergence last week. Harry Douglas still received 14 targets, so he'll continue to be involved. Same goes for Anquan Boldin, who had 13 targets despite Michael Crabtree's return.
Tight End
Heading into last week, only five teams were allowing double-digit fantasy points to TEs – Arizona, Jacksonville, Miami, Denver and Minnesota. However, only one, Arizona, allowed double-digit points in Week 13. To be fair, Denver did give up a touchdown to Anthony Fasano, and Miami wasn't exactly playing great tight ends against the Jets, but it was a tough week for matchup-plays.
This doesn't mean you should stop playing sleepers against these teams. These are still great matchups, and the majority of TEs are matchup-plays, so don't ignore the numbers unless you have guys like Gronkowski or Jimmy Graham.
Notable Riser: Miami's Charles Clay lost some fantasy value several weeks ago, but he's had at least seven targets in each of the past four games, including 10 last week. His production hasn't always been consistent, but the upside is there. As we always say, that's half the battle in the fantasy playoffs.
Notable Faller: Tennessee's Delanie Walker once again underperformed in a close game, and this time, he only received two targets. He could obviously see more looks next week, but at this point, he seems like a guy you can only count on if Tennessee is getting blown out. Because you can't always count on that, he makes for a very risky play.
Thursday Preview
Texans at Jaguars
Stat to know: The Texans have had a top pass defense all year, but they've been more generous lately, allowing double-digit fantasy points to a WR in four of the past five games. Cecil Shorts III has received double-digit targets in back-to-back games, so don't be nervous about starting him.
Sleeper: TE Garrett Graham (Jaguars has allowed the second-most fantasy points to TEs.)


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It's a strange world, that of football.
Regardless of how useful a player could be to a team, no matter how desperately they need a new striker or a new goalkeeper, fans would refuse to see certain players lining up for their club.
For some it's association with a long-standing rival, for others it's a controversial past.
In other instances, the player may not sign for a club because of his advanced years.
Here we take a look at five signings that really should happen but, for one reason or another, almost certainly won't.
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CRYSTAL LAKE – Because of poor ice conditions, the Chili Open Golf Classic has been rescheduled for Feb. 2 on Crystal Lake.
It had been originally scheduled for Saturday at Crystal Lake Main Beach, 300 Lakeshore Drive in Crystal Lake.
Tee times begin at 8 a.m. and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The registration fee for the Chili Open is $115 per team (foursome).
Participants may register online at www.crystallakeparks.org and use program code 1405-0. Registration also may be done in person at the park district's office, 1 E. Crystal Lake Ave. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
If ice conditions are poor, the event will be rescheduled for Feb, 16.
Golfers will play one championship, nine-hole, par 32 course on frozen Crystal Lake. No golfing experience is needed, just three friends, a few short irons and a putter. Painted golf balls, prizes and side games are provided.
All foursomes will receive a bowl of chili and the chance to win several prizes, including golf bags, golf clubs, golf apparel and gift cards.
Golfers can decorate a sled and enter the Chili Open "Best Sled" contest for a chance to win additional prizes.
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Calls to bring back Chumbawamba's Tubthumping – "I get knocked down, but I get up again" – as the NRL's anthem have been resisted by the ARL Commission.
Instead, Roberta Flack will be appear at the grand final singing Killing Me Softly.
The truth is out. The NRL has gone soft. There will be more physical games of Twister at six-year-old birthday parties than you will see next season. The medical room at the World Chess Championships will contain more casualties than at Shark Park.
This we know because of the hysterical reaction to the ARL Commission's decision to ban the shoulder charge – a backlash that sent Sir Reginald Twitter's patented apparatus into meltdown.
"Banning the shoulder. Who's keen to play badminton?" tweeted Issac Luke.
"They should ban the ball from rugby league! And play with a fluffy teddy bear," suggested Josh Cordoba.
Both Luke and Cordoba suffered career-threatening calluses on their Twitter fingers after making those observations. Or so you would think, if the image NRL players are portraying of themselves – and their game – is to be believed. Softer than Anna Kournikova's second serve.
And here we were thinking, from outside the fence, that the increased speed of the game, and the size of the athletes, had created a contest every bit as ferocious – and much cleaner – than in the "good old days". That the introduction of the interchange, the neutering of the scrum and quicker play-the-ball resulted in a frenzied game in which the sheer speed of the collisions intensified the risk.
We had – if you believe the players now – deluded ourselves that the size of the modern combatants, with bodies chiselled in the gymnasium rather than the front bar, had made the contemporary rugby league field a place for latter-day gladiators. That the influx of Polynesian players, with their size, speed and agility, had further increased the pace, the physicality and the inherent danger.
Once, we had thought two exhausted behemoths standing toe-to-toe on a muddy field trading punches in a highlights reel from the 1970s was symbolic of a "real man's game". But, on second thought, we would rather have taken our chances against these blokes than try to hold the line against the muscular cannonballs who now prowl the field.
Yet, the players are telling us, the removal of the shoulder charge – something the statistics show is a rare and relatively incidental part of the game – means the NRL will be about as brutal as a slumber party pillow fight. The fact Greg Inglis will no longer be able to turn his lethal weapon of a body, and cast Dean Young in the title role of Sleeping Beauty, supposedly means the game has lost its machismo.
Alternatively, perhaps the players have already suffered so many concussions from shoulder charges that they are not thinking straight. That their eagerness to inflict such punishment is – like the brain injuries that are a blight on football codes world-wide – blurring their vision.
I have some sympathy for the view that only the head-high charges be illegal. Automatic sin-binning and stiff judiciary penalties might make players think twice before turning their shoulders into baseball bats. But, faced with the disturbing images of American NFL players who suffer higher rates of brain injury and suicide because of head-high shots, you cannot blame those who have to deal with the carnage – the club doctors and surgeons – for erring on the side of caution.
The objection of the coaches is predictable. Offering a coach a rule change is like offering an Eskimo a sauna. In this case, the discomfort is created by having to drill players to adapt to changed circumstances which, with three months before the first game, should not prove too great a challenge.
The fans? Yes, the shoulder charge can be spectacular. So can a car crash. But you only have to watch any State of Origin game from the past five years to realise this ban will not diminish the game's incredible blend of athleticism, brutality and courage. On the evolutionary scale, it is a move from Neanderthal to Mediaeval.
Certainly, the players are entitled to their say. They are not only the ones who inflict the shoulder charge, but also suffer the damage. But next season, when ex-track rider Billy Slater is standing under a bomb with all sorts of mayhem reigning down upon him, I'll be checking my Twitter feed to see how many think the game has gone soft.


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I just finished reading the final issues of Before Watchmen: Minutemen and BW: Silk Spectre. These were easily my favorite titles out of the group, and now I was wondering if any one had any thoughts on the series as it comes close to it's conclusion.
Theres been some pretty blatantly odd choices in the series of books, like rorscach meeting travis bickle or the villains plot in silk spectre, but overall I've enjoyed the output of the books, the characters feel less wooden and the story flows better than the original IMO except for the len wein stuff, i mean, i love wein for his contributions to comics, particularly the creation of wolverine and swamp thing, plus those episodes of batman tas he penned, but his writing is really dense considering the stories (which are pretty good)
"If you really loved me you'd all kill yourselves right now" -Spider Jerusalem
I thought the Taxi Driver reference was fun. Those sorts of cameos happen a lot, just not always as blatantly.
Personally Silk Spectre was once of my least favorites, a close second is ozymandias. The whole hippie thing in a turn off in general for me though.
as a whole, I really like the before watchmen.
I personally have not enjoyed any of Len Wein books for BW. I felt Ozymandias was retreading the original book's ideas/stories, and thought the Dollar Bill one-shot was completely unnecessary.
I loved Silk Spectre mainly due to Amanda Connor's artwork, which was stellar in all directions.
dude, it's FAMES revenge. geeze. Anyway I totally agree with you about her artwork. She is amazingly talented.
Sorry about that. I'm new to the site....
@Jagedar: Have to agree about Dollar Bill and Silk Spectre. I loved Jae Lee's artwork in Ozymandias.
I've enjoyed almost every installment that I've read so far, but I'm a bit behind. I held off on reading Nite Owl 'til last week and surprisingly liked it. I'd have to say that Dr. Manhattan's was my favorite while Rorschach's was my least.
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@Jagedar: Yeah, I just finished the last issue of Dr. Manhattan yesterday and was slightly annoyed at having to flip the book over a number of times but the book felt so much like Dr. Manhattan and I liked the overlap, couldn't think of the word for a second, with Ozymandias.
I honestly thought (except for the flipping) that Dr. Manhattan #4 was the one BW issue good enough to stand next to Moore's work. I thought it was excellent.
Rorscach's series is probably my favorite simply for shear entertainment value, its short, simple, and adds to the character in a meaningful and almost tragic way. There was a satisfaction to the ending panels, a closure for the character in a way, a "this is who he is and all he can ever be" sort of feeling, it had some pacing issues but I loved the simplicity of it even though its not technically the best series before watchmen has to offer, I also personally looked forward to reading it more than a lot of the other books in my pull
Being a fan of Lee Bermejo I loved Rorscach's art direction.
@Chaos @Jagedar: I have to agree that Rorschach's series did feel a lot like him and had gorgeous, consistent art to boot.
I found Ozymandias' to be in the same boat in terms of feel, with a lower score in the art department as his face always looked weird to me, but the very last panel and the way the series came together seemed very much Ozymandias-esque.


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Former Brown lacrosse standout Darren Lowe '92 has been named to the International Lacrosse Federation's All-World Team after leading the United States to the 2002 World Championship, recently completed in Perth, Australia.
Lowe led the United States to victory with a team high 30 points on 11 goals and 19 assists. He scored three goals and handed out two assists in the United States' 18-15 championship victory over Canada on July 14, 2002.
A member of the Brown Athletics Hall of Fame, Lowe helped Brown to three NCAA Tournament appearances in his four-year career, and is the only player in Brown lacrosse history to be named the USILA Division I Player of the Year.
Lowe's 316 career points were an Ivy League record and second in NCAA history. A three-time All-American, Lowe set a Brown record with 102 points as a senior (36 goals, 66 assists) while being named the Ivy League Player of the Year and the USILA Attackman of the Year.


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Of course I had to find out more about Albert, so I did a google search, and within seconds, I read, "real life Hannibal Lecter," "Profile of a Serial Killer" and a few other horror titles. The Wikipedia article is very long, and terribly graphic, that I didn't even finish reading it. I am warning you about this, but if you like, "Criminal Minds," you might be able to stomach it. Luckily for my family, that Albert chose his name, and he is in no way related to mine, whew.
To give my Albert some credit, I found online, "ALBERT FISH, a worthy and respected citizen of Watertown, now deceased, belonged to a family which has been for one hundred years resident in Jefferson county. His grandfather, Ebenezer Fish, lived in Rhode Island, and was the father of a son, Furman. The latter, in his youth, came to Jefferson county and settled on Dry Hill, in the town of Watertown. He was a farmer and combined with his agricultural pursuits the occupation of a tanner and currier, and operated a tannery several years at Tylerville. He was a prominent man in the community and took a leading part in local affairs. In 1859 he was a member of the state assembly. He married Caroline Rose, and seven children were horn to them, four of whom are living. Mr. Fish died in 1890. at an advanced age. leaving a name respected by all.


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Final construction was completed recently connecting nearly 50 miles of bike path access around the perimeter of Cape Coral. A ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday at Veterans Parkway and Surfside Boulevard officially opened the circular route.
The northern section of the city loop is named for Physicians Primary Care, which donated money to complete the path and to place signage along the route. The southern section of the loop is named for the Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral, which likewise contributed money to the project. Together, the routes comprise 49 miles of the city's completed system.
Cape Coral Mayor Marni Sawicki, City Manager John Szerlag and several other city officials and dignitaries attended the ceremony on a cool, clear and bright morning suitable for an informal bike ride of various distances.
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Carolyn Conant, center, head of Cape Coral Bike-Ped, introduces Dr. Mary Yankaskas of Physicians Primary Care at Saturday's ribbon-cutting officially opening the northern loop of the city's bike path bearing the doctors' office name. About 50 cyclists lined up behind the ribbon at Veterans Parkway and Surfside Boulevard and ride a portion of the route.
Over many years, the city has been converting less traveled four-lane streets to two lanes with a designated bike lanes at the curb side as well as constructing sidewalks and paths. Those existing bike lanes have now been linked together to form safe access for bike and pedestrian use.
"It has been a great partnership with the private sector to put these sections together," said Cape Coral Public Works director Steve Neff. "Just six months ago it was decided to get the last of the routes laid out and funded. By the end of the year we expect to have a total of 90 miles of paths completed."
Mike Swanson of the Caloosa Riders cycling club was instrumental in designing and laying out the routes, which are clearly marked with green and white traffic control signage as well as blue and white Adopt A Route sponsorship signs.
Cape Coral Bike-Ped, a volunteer organization, spearheaded the fund-raising part of the project, raising more than $70,000 from local businesses and organizations and naming the routes.
Seven routes will be sponsored when the project is completed.
"In less than a year we were able to create these routes," said Carolyn Conant, head of Cape Coral Bike-Ped. "It's been a tremendous public-private partnership. We will continue to try to improve the experience along the route by constructing benches and kiosks for riders and pedestrians."
Crews are still working to complete sections of routes associated with the Physicians Primary Care and chamber routes. Team Aubuchon Route is a four-mile link servicing the chamber route running from El Dorado Parkway along Agualinda Boulevard, Beach Parkway, Oasis Boulevard and Gleason Parkway at Surfside.
The Yacht Club Spur is a 2.7-mile route from the Cape Coral Yacht Club along Driftwood Parkway, Lucerne and Coronado, Southeast 47th Terrace and a portion of Palm Tree Boulevard.
The Veterans Route runs east and west from the Midpoint Bridge at Four Mile Cove to Surfside where it intersects with the Physicians Primary Care and Chamber Route as well as the seven-mile Cape Coral Community Foundation route.
The Community Foundation route runs north on Surfside to Trafalgar and joining up with Chiquita Boulevard, east along Pine Island Road to Cultural Park Boulevard.
That leaves the CCCIA Route, a seven-plus mile stretch which runs from U.S. 41 west along mostly Diplomat Parkway to El Dorado Boulevard.


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Banana Applesauce Cake Recipe
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- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs, separated
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 2 cups sweetened applesauce
- 3 medium firm bananas, sliced
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk. Beat in extracts. Combine flour and baking powder; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition.
- In a small bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form; gently fold into batter. Pour into three greased 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- Divide applesauce and spread over two cake layers. Dip bananas in lemon juice; arrange over applesauce. Stack on serving plate with plain layer on top.
- For frosting, in a large heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, egg whites, water, cream of tartar and salt over low heat. With a hand mixer, beat on low speed for 1 minute. Continue beating on low over low heat until frosting reaches 160°, about 8-10 minutes.
- Pour into a large bowl; add vanilla. Beat on high until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes. Frost sides and top of cake. Sprinkle with coconut. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 16-20 servings.
Originally published as Banana Applesauce Cake in Reminisce Extra February 1995, p47
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Nov. 5, 2004
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
Casey Cook had a game-high 16 points to go with eight rebounds, and Cecil Brown added 15 points as UC Santa Barbara opened its 2004-05 season with a 56-49 exhibition win over visiting Cal State Los Angeles Thursday night.
Cook, a senior, was forced to play 37 minutes as UCSB played without three of its top five frontcourt players. He made 6-of-11 shots from the field and all four of his free throws en route to his 16 points. In addition, Cook had a team-high four assists. Brown, a junior, scored 13 of his points in the first half, including seven right out of the gate as the Gauchos opened the game on a 9-0 run.
After jumping out to the 9-0 lead, Santa Barbara was outscored by Cal State Los Angeles 19-6 as the Golden Eagles took a 19-15 lead. The Gauchos, however, ended the first half with a 12-2 run to take a 27-21 lead into halftime.
UCSB built the lead to a game-high 12 points at 49-37 with 5:58 to go in the game, but forward Jon Folonis, who finished with a game-high 14 points for Los Angeles, scored eight consecutive points to cut the gap to four, 49-45. Folonis capped his spurt when he made a lay-up and was fouled with 3:05 remaining. He made the free throw to narrow the lead to four.
At that point, it was Gaucho guard Josh Davis' turn to take over. Davis, who was scoreless in the first half, finished with nine points, including UCSB's final seven points in the closing 2:40 of the game. With the Gauchos up by four and just 1:01 to go in the contest, the Golden Eagles sagged off of Davis who was about 21 feet away from the basket. The junior looked inside, but then made a three-point basket to extend the lead to an insurmountable seven points, 54-47.
"I thought we did some good things," said UCSB head coach Bob Williams. "Casey Cook played a lot of minutes because he had to, and I thought he played well. David Kennedy, who has hardly ever played in a college basketball game, played 33 minutes and while he didn't score, I thought he worked tremendously hard and played very smart. Cecil (Brown) was also very good, and Josh (Davis) had his moments. But we have a lot of areas we need to improve on. We need to make big improvements on the offensive end before our next game."
Davis added six rebounds to go with his nine points. Walk-on sophomore David Kennedy, who started in the frontcourt, tied for game-high honors with eight rebounds. Although he did not attempt a field goal, he also had a pair of steals and two assists in his 33 minutes of action. The Gauchos shot 42.3% for the game, but they did make 50.0% (11-of-22) in the second half. Cal State Los Angeles shot 42.2% for the game.
UCSB played without junior forward Cameron Goettsche, who is nursing a severely strained groin. Sophomore forward Glenn Turner was sidelined with a sprained ankle, and freshman forward Chris Devine is out until sometime in January following knee surgery.
Guard Mike Gavaldon added 13 points for the Golden Eagles, who are an NCAA Division II team.
Santa Barbara will finish its exhibition season on Friday, November 12, when it hosts crosstown opponent Westmont College in a 7:00 p.m. game at the Thunderdome.


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Meridian, Miss. The State Games of Mississippi got underway with all kinds of pomp and ceremony Friday night. Thousands of people packed downtown Meridian for the official opening ceremonies that was a prelude to all the fun happening across the area Saturday.
The fun and competition actually takes place every weekend in June. Thousands of athletes, friends, family and interested onlookers take part.
There's a reason it's the city's single largest tourism event. Over five thousand athletes come to the State Games, ready to compete for bragging rights of best in the state.
Many of these players have trained and practiced multiple times per week to fine-tune their skills.
"We work really hard on positions and passing and dribbling," said Tucker Jones of Team Renaldo.
And it all builds up to these matches. Each team hopes to see its hard work pay off as they walk away from the field victorious.
"We've been practicing and we've been trying our hardest," said Lillie Grace Garrett of The Brandon Chaos. "We're going to try our best and win. Probably win."
But it isn't all about getting the win for these athletes. They're out here to have a good time doing what they love.
"We got beat the first game, but the girls played really hard and had fun while they were doing it," said Coach Kristi Bush of The Blue Dolphins. "And we look forward to playing the next game."
And speaking of winning, we caught up with Tori Powers, the winner of a gold medal on the volleyball court. She says it was great to see her hard work rewarded after years of playing volleyball.
"It means a lot. It was hard and tiring, but we worked through it," said Power. "I couldn't have done it without my partner, but I had fun. It was hard work, but it was worth it."
These games won't be the last. The State Games continue throughout the entire month, so you'll have plenty of chances to see these athletes in action. Click the link below for more information about the State Games and the remaining events.


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While fans watched Chicago Bears No. 88 tight end Desmond Clark work the field in 2006, the Lakeland, Fla., native earned his real estate license in Florida. After all, he said he needed to establish a profession once he transition out of the NFL.
"I had done some real estate investing and gotten my feet wet," Clark said. "It was something I enjoyed doing."
Now at age 35, he has partnered with his girlfriend of one year, Maria McDaniels, and they work at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Libertyville. He's been living in Vernon Hills for the last 5 years. While he still has ties to Florida, he said this is his home.
"This has become my final destination," Clark said. "I wanted to tap into the contacts I've built up and the reputation that I made for myself here."
Clark actually met McDaniels when he and his ex-wife had decided to sell their home. McDaniels didn't get the listing, Clark gave it to a friend. But he eventually got back in touch with her and they started dating. And the relationship has turned serious, he said.
"I don't like to waste my time," Clark said. "If we weren't serious about each other, I wouldn't waste the time."
Clark also isn't wasting time in his real estate profession. He and McDaniels have formed "The Home Team" at the firm and plan to focus on the northern suburbs of Cook and Lake counties. Clark, who has connections with Chicago investors, likely will target investment properties, foreclosures, and other properties in the city as well.
Clark, after spending about 12 years in the NFL, including eight with the Chicago Bears, also did a lot of work with kids. He founded the 88 Wayz Youth Organization, where he helped to mentor those in 3rd grade through 12th grade on literacy, social and leadership skills. He also was recently named Mentor of the Year by 7th District U.S. Cong. Danny Davis, a Chicago Democrat.
Now, Clark has plans to expand the 88 Wayz organization, and help Fenger High School in Chicago.
"I just have to give back," he said.
Throwing the first pitch
Bill Keena, general manager of Des Plaines-based Rivers Casino, joins actor Jim Belushi to throw out the ceremonial first pitches during Rivers Day at Wrigley Field during the Chicago Cubs v. Miami Marlins game at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday. Belushi also is expected to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch.
Cleaning for 155 years
Tom Zengeler is the fifth generation and great-great grandson of John Zengeler, who founded Zengeler Cleaners in 1857. At that time, the cleaning-and-dyeing business was called the New York Steam Dye Works, at 208 S. Clark St., which later was rebuilt elsewhere in Chicago after the Great Fire. Now, the Northbrook-based family-owned business marks 155 years. Tom and his brothers Robert Zengeler Jr., and Michael have each worked for the company for 34 years or more. And Robert Sr. has no plans to retire.
Penny for your thoughts
Shane Beard, owner of FastSigns in Naperville, got a check in the mail as a result of the Hanson v. Google settlement. Google advertisers, part of a class-action lawsuit, started receiving checks from a 2009 settlement for $20 million. The case involved Google allegedly charging advertisers 120 percent of their maximum daily budget within the AdWords (clicks) system. "You know that settlement that Google had to payout to their loss in the class action lawsuit????" Beard wrote on Facebook. "Well, I finally got my share. This is like 'pennies from heaven'......and I do mean PENNIES! Glad I didn't hire a lawyer!" Beard's take -- 25 cents.
George Stege, president of Lincolnshire-based Ford Gum & Machine Co., sent a video message to Congress, telling lawmakers that reforms are necessary to reduce the price of sugar so U.S. businesses can compete more fairly worldwide. ... Shawn Scott, senior vice president for Medline in Mundelein, said they're joining other long-term care executives from around the country last week in Washington, D.C. to meet with congressional leaders on issues affecting elder care and the nursing home industry.
Palatine resident Stephen Ferrara has been promoted to the chief operating officer of BDO USA LLP, an accounting and consulting organization. He'll be based in Chicago. ... Palatine native Lawrence Eppley has been named managing partner at the office at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in Chicago. ... Downers Grove resident William Guzik started last week as chief financial officer for Oak Brook-based Ace Hardware Corp.
Vernon Hills resident Jeffrey Gwin has opened Padgett Business Services in Arlington Heights. ... Ronald Hem is the new chairman of the Aurora University board of trustees. Hem grew up in Oswego and now lives in Sugar Grove. ... Istvan Abdai, director of food and beverage at The Garlands of Barrington, was named among the top 10 outstanding food service professionals in the nation and earned the Premier Healthcare Alliance's annual Illuminating Excellence Award.
David Strosberg, president of Morningside Group, and Wheaton Mayor Michael J. Gresk today join the ceremonial groundbreaking for Wheaton 121, luxury apartments in downtown Wheaton. ... Jim Primm, store director at the Jewel-Osco in Wheaton, said the newly renovated grocery store had its grand reopening with a ribbon cutting and then donated $1,000 to First Assembly of God Church, in support of its hunger relief efforts. ... Harry Zoberman, vice president of Vernon Hills-based CDW said the company earned Microsoft's Server Platform Partner of the Year.
Neurologist Henry Echiverri has joined the Edward Neurosciences Institute in Naperville. He comes to Edward from NeuroMed Clinic in Warrenville, where he was president and clinic director. ... Elias Shaheen has joined the Edward Medical Group in Naperville.
Michael R. Errico, a dentist from Kildeer, received the Academy of General Dentistry's 2012 Fellowship Award during the group's annual meeting in Philadelphia. The Errico name has been in the Rolling Meadows area for about 50 years, Ron Errico started the office and was joined by his son, Michael, in 1985. Mike also provides dental care to people in need through the Salvation Army and helps with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago.
Michael W. Jones of Chicago and Joseph Hylak-Reinholtz of Darien are new lawyers with the Chicago-based Holland & Knight. ... Marty Singer, chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale-based PCTEL, acquired TelWorx Communications, a North Carolina-based company, last week. ... Recruitment and business consulting expert Andrew LaCivita, of Park Ridge, and has a new book out called "Interview Intervention: Communication That Gets You Hired."
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Emulators are programs that allow one type of game to be played on another system. Such as a PS2, or PSP native game being able to be played on a PC. While not just for video games, they can be used for other purposes. Some parts of emulating setup is prohibited under law such as obtaining copies of BIOS (Basic Input Output System) unless these were purchased legally. Emulating is regularly a complex thing to like like modding a console game system. Also emulators are a benefit when running the game in it's original form.
The graphics are the same on the PC. However some problems do arise (like with GTA games). One of these problems is with the graphics. Such as the radar, and HUD not being rendered, and black boxes can be seen around them. Also the game can contain distorted graphics as opposed to the PS2 on a television monitor. This cannot however be fixed with in-game anti-aliasing as it doesn't exist.


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Lie Algebras
One more little side trip before we proceed with the differential geometry: Lie algebras. These are like "regular" associative algebras in that we take a module (often a vector space) and define a bilinear operation on it. This much is covered at the top of the post on algebras.
The difference is that instead of insisting that the operation be associative, we impose different conditions. Also, instead of writing our operation like a multiplication (and using the word "multiplication"), we will write it as and call it the "bracket" of and . Now, our first condition is that the bracket be antisymmetric:
Secondly, and more importantly, we demand that the bracket should satisfy the "Jacobi identity":
What this means is that the operation of "bracketing with " acts like a derivation on the Lie algebra; we can apply to the bracket by first applying it to and bracketing the result with , then bracketing with the result of applying the operation to , and adding the two together.
This condition is often stated in the equivalent form
It's a nice exercise to show that (assuming antisymmetry) these two equations are indeed equivalent. This form of the Jacobi identity is neat in the way it shows a rotational symmetry among the three algebra elements, but I feel that it misses the deep algebraic point about why the Jacobi identity is so important: it makes for an algebra that acts on itself by derivations of its own structure.
It turns out that we already know of an example of a Lie algebra: the cross product of vectors in . Indeed, take three vectors , , and and try multiplying them out in all three orders:
and add the results together to see that you always get zero, thus satisfying the Jacobi identity.


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Lincoln County High School's Falcons played in two holiday tournaments over the break. Prior to Christmas, the boys participated in the Madison Academy's Classic. Before the New Year, the Falcons took a three-day road trip for the Hixson Wildcat Tournament in Chattanooga.
Lincoln County split in the Madison Classic and finished at 2-1 in their match-ups at Hixson.
Overall, the Falcons' record now stands at 10-5.
Thursday, Lincoln County opened the Wildcat Tourney and went down, 65-44.
Justin Blackwell led the scoring with 12 points. B.J. Thompson had 11; Tradarius Christian, 6; Riley Malone, 4; Jaquez Thompson and Austin Grimes, 3; Ty Hadley and Tyler Jones, 2; and Xavier Talley-Hyde scored 1.
Lincoln County hit two from the arch coming from Christian and Grimes.
Friday in their second game, the Falcons took on Sale Creek and finished on top, 61-39.
Blackwell led the scoring with 15. Talley-Hyde and B.J. Thompson had 10; Christian, 8; Jaquez Thompson, Grimes and Malone, 4; Hadley, 2; and Cameron Boyd had 1.
LCHS hit 4 from the arch with Christian with 3, while Talley-Hyde and Tyler Jones had 1.
Next, the boys matched up with Rhea County for their final action of the tournament on Saturday and took the win, 63-59.
B.J. Thompson and Ty Lewter set the pace with 12. Talley-Hyde had 10; Blackwell, 9; Christian, 8; Jones, 5; Jaquez Thompson, 4; and Malone had 3.
The Falcons hit seven from the arch with Talley-Hyde, Christian and Lewter with 2 each. Jones had 1.
Madison Academy Classic
Lincoln County opened the tournament with a tough match-up against a strong Madison Academy Mustang team and went down, 78-54.
B.J. Thompson led the scoring with 14 points. Talley-Hyde followed with 11; Blackwell, 7; Lewter and Jones, 6; Malone and Hadley, 4; and Christian had 2.
Lincoln County hit 5 from the arch with Talley-Hyde with 3 and Jones with 2.
In their second game of the Classic, the Falcons took on the Columbia Eagles out of Alabama and hung on for the win, 72-70.
With 3:24 in the fourth, LCHS had their biggest lead of the game, up 63-55, but in the final minutes, the Eagles nailed three from the arch. At the eight-second mark, LCHS was up 71-70. B.J. Thompson made one from the line, and it was a 72-70 ball game. Columbia had to go the full length of the floor in the final seconds, and the Falcon defense kept the Eagles from getting off a clean shot at the buzzer.
B.J. Thompson set he pace with 22 points. Blackwell had 14; Christian and Jones, 10; Talley-Hyde and Lewter, 5; Hadley and Malone scored 3.
The Falcons hit three from the arch with Jones hitting two and Talley-Hyde having one.
Lincoln County returns to district action Friday night traveling to Lawrence County. Game time is at 6 p.m.


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4 March 2012 at 9:09am
@myk: I haven't used SplineEQ, but as I understand it, EVERY linear phase EQ introduces latency because of the way linear phase adjustments are computed (the signal must be delayed a bit, kind of obvious if you think about it). That's why they're typically used for mastering and final mixing, as opposed to tracking. Seems kind of unfair (if not dead wrong?) to mark it down for something that's inherent to its way of working.
5 March 2012 at 9:23am
@myk Just locate the latency knob and adjust it for lower latency, you should be just fine.
The reason why you want to be able to change latency, is for rendering purposes. If you are really anal about getting the best possible sound, you should increase the lantency when you render, and that will give you an even sharper sound. As you might have noticed with the "dotted real processing" line that shows up on the lower frenquencies,
it will become more accurate with higher lantecy settings, this is something you can't escape when processing audio the way linearphase eq's does it.
It's not fixable, it's just something you have to learn, with ALL linearphase eq's :)
5 May 2012 at 5:19am
just a little thing to say I tried this out on a audio cleaning project i had and it kept the tone of the voice but got rid of the noise I mean whistling right next to the vocal frequency. no other eq i had was doing it right and this baby kicked ass.
7 May 2012 at 6:17pm
Really nice free EQ, very tweakable, efficient and colorless. Perfect for cleaning, mixing and mastering.
7 May 2012 at 9:05pm
I agree. the paid version is even better to. I use this for cleaning and mastering
3 July 2012 at 7:23am
Yep, i discovered what the free is by itself capable of on a sample design purpose and after that i'll certainly by the full version ASAP ...really excellent tool !
3 July 2012 at 8:24am
You know what is awesome is if you set it to minimal delay and stuff right to find something like if there is this annoying hum then you cut the hell out of it swap back to max mode and render you will be amazed on how high the quality of the eq its like you never did anything but the hum is gone. its very non destructive
3 July 2012 at 9:36am
well i currently experience narrow bandpass (rather than bandstop) to isolate locust's stridulation at almost a precise frequency then rendering, not much different technique as you know, that what made me amaze about spline eq
3 July 2012 at 6:56pm
I know some people complain because its super latency ridden but that's what i think makes it so good the quality of the eq is so high that it has to be
12 November 2012 at 6:58pm
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28 June 2014 at 1:52pm
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MANSON - Since last Friday's game against Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire, the North Union girls have just struggled to hit shots.
According to Warrior coach Merle Tigges, his team shot just 20 percent in a 42-21 loss to Class 2A No. 12 Manson-Northwest Webster.
"Their defense was good, but we had no 3-pointers tonight," said Tigges. "We're just not hitting outside shots."
North Union trailed 15-5 after one quarter, 23-9 at halftime and 36-11 after three quarters.
"We did contain them (Manson-NW) a little better than the last time we played them," said Tigges.
Sarah Rolling led North Union with five points and Dena Looft had four points and four steals. Madison Bollig had four points, Shelby Luke had three, Cheyanne Boland and Maddy Irmiter each had two and Aurora Oliver had one.
North Union (4-3 overall, 1-1 in the Cornbelt Conference) hosts Harris-Lake Park this evening in Armstrong.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Keion Bell scored 24 points and Jabari Brown added 23 to lead Missouri to a 90-68 win over South Carolina on Thursday night.
Missouri shot 69.6 percent (32-of-46) for the game, and plenty of those baskets were easy. The Tigers (20-8, 9-6 Southeastern Conference) had 10 dunks and 46 points in the paint to pick up just their second win on the road this season. Missouri shot just nine 3-pointers, making six of them.
After shooting 67 percent (16-of-24) in the first half, the Tigers (20-8, 9-6 SEC) made 12 of their first 13 shots from the field in the second half to go on a 31-13 run that ballooned a seven-point halftime lead into a 76-51 margin.
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For most of the game, Missouri flirted with its best shooting night ever, 75.4 percent against Hawaii Loa in December of 1989. But the Tigers missed four of their last six shots to fall off the pace.
Damien Leonard came off the bench to lead South Carolina (13-15, 3-12) with 20 points. The Gamecocks have lost seven of their last eight games.
Missouri remains fifth in the SEC, just a game behind fourth place and a double bye in the conference tournament. With the victory, the Tigers reached 20 wins for the fifth straight year.
Bell missed the first game between the teams in January, where the Tigers shot 20 percent in the first half and had to come back from 13 points down for a 71-65 win. He was the difference in this one, shooting 8-of-12 and even adding four assists.
Alex Oriakhi scored 18 points, making all six of his shots and all six of his free throws. Phil Pressley didn't attempt a single shot, but had nine assists, two over his SEC-leading average of seven a game.
Williams and Brian Richardson each added 10 points for South Carolina.
Missouri started the game hitting its first six shots and barely cooled off the rest of the half. But South Carolina always had a run to keep it close. The Gamecocks made seven of their 12 3-pointers in the opening half. South Carolina's reserves scored 28 points, led by Brenton Williams' 10 points.
Williams' jumper with 2:35 left in the first half cut Missouri's lead to 39-36. But the Tigers got dunks on each of their next three possessions and led 45-38 at halftime.


text: A Classic Christmas Adventure is an event for the entire family that celebrates the joy of Christmas. You can participate in Christmas traditions past and present.You can get a picture with Santa, drink a cup of cocoa, eat a couple of cookies, play games in ancient Bethlehem, or visit the nativity. You're invited to join us in this celebration of the Savior of the World on Friday and Saturday, December 7 and 8 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm at the Rushsylvania Church of Christ.


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- Barcelona Test - Day 1
Hamilton tests solutions for Rosberg's start issues
Part of Lewis Hamilton's testing programme at Barcelona on Tuesday was focused on solving a clutch issue team-mate Nico Rosberg has been struggling with at the start of recent races.
Hamilton was at the wheel of the W05 on Tuesday in Barcelona, but had his running limited by a wet morning before working on engine management and aero evaluations as well as practice starts in the afternoon. Ahead of the test team boss Toto Wolff revealed that Rosberg was struggling with starts and that Mercedes had made it a "special project" to get to the bottom of the issue.
"On the starts we have a problem on Nico's car," Wolff said. "It seems to be a problem related to the clutch. That is a special project of ours; we expected some improvement for Barcelona which didn't kick in as expected. We just need to sort it out for Monaco because that's crucial there and we discussed it in the debrief."
After testing on Tuesday, Hamilton said he had been working on the issue ahead of Monaco where a start can make all the difference.
"The start at every race is important, but Nico's been a little bit unhappy with some of the starts and as a team we have been okay but it could be better. We were really trying to focus on that to see if we could improve it."
Hamilton said the weather and track conditions meant there was not much point in working on set-up.
"Today was kind of a non-eventful day really. There was nothing that a test driver couldn't do and I was just putting in laps really and working on the starts. We didn't really change much and the track conditions and temperatures were different so there isn't really much you can compare to the weekend."


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Can an online game played on one side of the continent make a difference in the lives of children on the other end?
SIEM REAP – During the early hours of one Wednesday morning, bystanders around Chrey Cheung Primary School, located some 300km northwest of Phnom Penh, were treated to a delightful sight – two foreigners, together with the teachers were frantically cooking up a storm.
The visitors, Jaesung Lee and Yunyoung Chang, are NCSOFT's Executive Director of Public Relations and External Affairs and Company Associate, respectively. They flew from South Korea to personally witness the impact their company is making on the lives of the children they are helping.
Five years ago, NCSOFT, a gaming company in Korea, developed the Korean version of WFP's online game "Food Force" – a socially interactive game which educates its players on the challenges of distributing food assistance in emergencies.Since then, NCSOFT has been an avid advocate of WFP's work, contributing almost US$300,000 for WFP's School Meals Programme in Cambodia which has ensured that 30,000 primary schoolchildren get to eat nutritious food at least once a day."We are happy to support WFP in its efforts to end hunger worldwide and support schoolchildren with daily meals by sharing our technical expertise in developing online games and other multimedia products", says Lee.
Over the course of their two-day visit, NCSOFT met communities assisted by WFP through its various programmes – School Feeding, Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition and Food-for-Assets programmes – in Siem Reap province. At Chrey Cheung Primary School, apart from helping cook and distribute the meals, Lee and Chang also gamely taught and played baseball with the students – a new game for the children – which inevitably led to a lot of laughter.
Furthermore, through this visit, as they observed the living conditions of the food scholarship beneficiaries, NCSOFT affirmed their corporate social responsibility strategy of helping disadvantaged children live a better life. "We are glad to visit the schools and see the children eating the rice we provided. We recognize the importance of having a full stomach so that these kids will have the energy to concentrate in their classes. At the end of the third year of our support to WFP Cambodia's School Feeding programme, we look forward to continuing our support for Cambodian children and to exploring ways to help them become happier and healthier", Lee adds.
NCSOFT also developed the Korean version of "FreeRice", WFP's online educational game that allows its users to donate rice for free for every correct answer provided. Through this initiative, thousands of South Korean internet users are now players of Freerice and are donating rice grains to WFP Cambodia's School Feeding programme with just a click of their mouse.


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MGMT – Kuroma
Event on 2013-12-07 00:00:00
This event is all ages
Had Andrew and Ben not agreed (probably with a smirk) long ago that, should their ever-evolving musical collaboration called MGMT reach the crucial Third Record Threshold, they'd make that milestone eponymous, "MGMT" (the album) might well have been called something like "Step Into The Club" — ("because it's like a multi-level club inside of our brains") — or "Now, That's What I Call Now!" or just "MGMT – NOW!" (like the Rolling Stones' third album), because MGMT has indeed made a very now record.
Songs for anyone who's "going through daily life feeling like an alien," "MGMT" draws seasoned fans and new initiates alike into the band's eureka zone, a psychic oasis offering the opposite of dumbed-down (smarted-up?) as sympathetic counsel or support for something like chronic mis-aligned-multiple-reality syndrome, DejaVu-DO or Modern malaise — whatever you want to call it. With their resplendent third album, Ben and Andrew finally open up the MGMT inner sanctum through a brand-new sound that's about what it's all about: "sinking in — and forgetting about time."
With these ten irreducible new tracks, Andrew and Ben have significantly enhanced the MGMT catalog, definitively shattering any remnants of creative confines or stylistic pigeon holes, while continuing a pattern of naming a record years before new music exists (they'd christened their second album "Congratulations" before their first, "Oracular Spectacular," had even been released). Both minimal and maximal, "MGMT" is the band's most fully-realized, provocative and accessible collection to-date; a dense swirling force-field of musical energies, once again shoving open the perimeters of pop.
The 21st century is finally, literally, in its teen years and MGMT — labeled "futurist pop" in 2007, when their earliest songs "Kids," "Time To Pretend" and "Electric Feel" were palpably feeding the youthful zeitgeist — are responding to our current times with a refined, focused celebration of liberated consciousness, reflecting and refracting the human experience and our intersecting, increasingly complicated relationship with nature, technology and each other. "MGMT" is prismatically post-political. "It's not ironic," says Ben. "It's take-it-at-face-value, but these days face value is pretty crazy."
MGMT fans got their first taste of the eponymous third album when "Alien Days" was released as a limited edition single for Record Store Day in April 2013. Opening with the pure voice of a nine-year-old boy and culminating in a blown out repeating tear, "Alien Days" serves as a thesis statement of sorts — suggesting that "MGMT" is both tangible and ineffable, otherworldly yet grounded somewhere very near and dear — effectively bridging the stream flowing through the first two albums and confidently opening a sonic portal to the budding worlds that follow.
Zip into "Cool Song No. 2" (Remote Sensing) and "MGMT" quickly settles into a meditative groove, breezing into infinity like cartoon train tracks converging on the horizon, always shadowed by some insidious paranoid zonk; a twisted branch of transcendence just out of reach.
Partially inspired by a close friend who'd contracted a near-fatal lung infection and woken up in the clutches of opiate dependency, "Mystery Disease" sees convergence through another lens — obscured, algorithmic and constantly shifting focus. The entrancing "Mystery Disease" may be life itself, or sentience, or some parasitic temptress hidden in the microbes of eternity.
The paradoxically confident "Introspection" is a cover of a long-buried 1968 nugget by Faine Jade, a flowery Long Island psychedelic garage band, proving remarkably prescient with a chorus that plaintively asks: "Why have all the prophets lied?"
"Astro-Mancy" was one of the last songs completed for "MGMT" and is one of the album's musical tours de force. Drawing lyrical inspiration from a poem by the surrealist bard Phillip Lamantia and a spectacularly other-worldly Aurora Borealis display Andrew witnessed while alone in Iceland, its words are enveloped in a breathing, pulsating organic quilt of fuzz and digital birds.
The album concludes with the anachronistically-named "An Orphan of Fortune," built around a crystalline chord progression mined from one of the many long improvisations recorded while at Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios. "We always felt it would make a good last song for the album," says Andrew. "Once I finished the lyrics, something clicked and it felt like the whole album made more sense. Lyrically, that's what I was trying to do with that one — reference the other songs on the album and summarize the major feelings throughout…being shot through life all the time and learning how to watch it all flow by…realizing that you're an observer."
"MGMT" was written, performed and produced entirely by Ben and Andrew (with the exception of the young boy's vocals on "Alien Days"), the duo having returned for a third time to the familiar, humble wooded facilities of Tarbox Road Studios in Western New York state. With Dave Fridmann behind the console as co-producer/mixer/engineer and one-man support group, Ben and Andrew continuously experimented with new working processes, expanding on the creative chemistry they developed over the course of a decade of musical partnership. They struck a balance between control and abandon, allowing themselves the freedom to let the music tell them where it wanted to go. The initial writing period recalled the pair's collegiate days of free form composition. "Just for fun, we started jamming a lot," says Ben. "Just the two of us setting up synths and drum machines in the studio, sequencing things and going for hours on end. We were picking out sections of jams, editing them down in a way that resembled song structures, then doing overdubs on that. If there was some crazy thing that happened once, that often became part of the final song."
Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden formed the first incarnation of MGMT (then called "the management") as fellow students at Wesleyan University in 2001, taking root in the school's fertile grassy hills as some improbable synthesis of Fugsian merry pranking and early 2000s Billboard pop wanking. Having toured twice with kindred spirits Of Montreal and released a 1000-copy EP on tiny indie label Cantora Records, MGMT miraculously signed with Columbia Records in November 2006, completing and recording their first album by the next spring, their first collaboration with producer Dave Fridmann.
With the wide release of "Oracular Spectacular" in January of 2008, MGMT's reputation began snowballing, nay avalanching, on both sides of the Atlantic. The UK's NME dubbed them "the best NY band about" in typical NME style, while Rolling Stone proclaimed them one of the "Top 10 Artists to Watch in 2008."
"Oracular Spectacular" went on to hit #1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart in the United States and proved especially popular with fans and critics in Europe and the UK, where it entered the charts at #12 in England and #5 in Ireland. Today, it is consistently ranked amongst the most celebrated pop albums of the 21st century.
Ben and Andrew brought on friends Will Berman (drums), James Richardson (guitar), and Matt Asti (bass) to tour major festivals and clubs all over the freaking place in 2008, sharing the stage and smudging the sage on successful tours with Beck, Yeasayer, Radiohead, Florence And The Machine and Tame Impala. Being on the road served as a true rock and roll immersion program that was a far cry from the tiny dorm room shows they were playing just three years prior; over the course of these 18 months, they transformed from a shaky rookie live act to a solid, well-respected psychedelic rock spectacle.
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 06:48 PM
Finally uploaded some photos/video. These were taken about two months ago, and since then I haven't had a chance to work on the car because of work.
But, for starters, here's a video of it running! (Super rich thanks to that goofy SU)
And now for the photos.
^Current hiding place/storage. In the process of moving so just being stored at a friends place for now.
^Rats nest under dash has been cleaned up. Surprisingly the stock harness wasn't hacked into, just a ton more wires were added for various experiments over the years.
^Before cleaning up under hood. Removed the remains of what appeared to be a primitive DAQ system, don't really know what it logged (except fuel pressure/flow), but I saved it as I don't throw anything away.
^The casuse of most of my problems. The SU Carb, apparently it came stock on MG's for a few years. It's flooding out the engine constantly whenever throttle is applied. And the flooding appears to be coming from the choke enrichment circuit. Due to lack of parts/knowledge available for this carb, I would much prefer to swap to a Weber or Holley. Also open to any suggestions in this department, as I'm sure someone has turbo'd an EA81 before.
^Cracked water jacket on top of engine
^Sealed with JB Weld. First the crack was cut into a "V" that extends past both ends, then thoroughly cleaned and sealed. I know a lot of people think of JB Weld as a non structural "quick fix," as I used to be one of them. But while at school (composites engineering) I did a lot of epoxy testing, and surprisingly JB Weld held up great (sometimes even better) in heat/strength testing than lots of more expensive products. As I didn't have access to a TIG welder, this will do. There is a crack on the water jacket of the R cyl head, but that will be welded.
And as always, looking for a driver/parts car '80s GL Hatch! I'd like to replace QS's hood/front fenders/front valence as they are all tweaked and in poor shape. And pretty much every body panel has been dented over the years (storage was not kind) so those will be replaced at some point. Also, the doors are rusted out like most every old GL. And it's missing a ton of little interior bits/exterior trim, etc.
Feedback/advice is welcome!
Posted 02 October 2012 - 02:25 AM
Plan for carb choice is to figure out max CFM of turbo, and then size a carb that can handle that. Sort of hard finding a chart/data for the turbo, IHI RHB6. Going to contact company for info on it.
Posted 02 October 2012 - 06:22 AM
A weber 32/36 could be used on a custom manifold, that could be set up in the spare wheel well.
Does the SU have oil in the top where the black lid is?
It needs thin oil (machine oil or transmission oil) in there to make it work properly.
good to see this being worked on
Posted 02 October 2012 - 05:17 PM
Posted 02 October 2012 - 06:28 PM
not sure if you have seen this page
It may give you an idea of how you could make a manifold for a downdraft carby.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 03:07 PM
i had triple SU's on a 6 cylinder holden torana back in OZ, the thing outran
v8's all the time. i never learn't about the SU's but knew a guy who did, tuning is the key but it would be much easier with just 1.
might just be less trouble to replace it with something more mainstream if you can't find someone.... or learn yourself, that would be fun
Posted 06 October 2012 - 02:19 AM
I pulled the drivers side cylinder head, as it had a crack in the water jacket (I am dropping it off at a professional welder for the repair). I found SBC roller rockers! And possibly SBC valve springs. Also, many various hand machined spacers and such. And finally, the head has some crazy porting going on, the welds on which are what failed, I'm guessing when the coolant froze. I have photos of all and I'll try and get them up tomorrow.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 12:39 PM
Beginning, removing AC compressor and all that. Compressor seems to be in good shape, plan on keeping it.
Crane, SBC roller rockers.
Valve cover spacer, so rockers will fit.
Custom rocker mount plate, sits behind spacer on top of head
And here's where it got really interesting:
Two welds, one of which is cracked. It appears they cut out the water jacket, welded a large amount of material around the exhasut port, ported it, and then welded the water jacket back on. Lots of work, seems like with a turbo that might not be as helpful as it would be with NA.
More detail
And, definately not stock valve springs. My dad seemed to think that they might be SBC as well. And knowing how Doc Seal seems to have a particular like of SBC parts in projects, I wouldn't doubt it.
And more of the head. The intake has been ported as well. I'll try and get better photos of the in head porting next time, as these didn't show that well.
Once the water jacket is welded up and everything is put back together, next step is the carb! Everything went very smoothly in the tear down, and most everything shows very minimal wear, leading me to believe this was a NOS engine they put these parts on, and then never really ran it.
Also, looking for a drivers side mirror for QS, and a passenger side front turn signal lens if anybody has one laying around. There are a ton more bits it's missing, but going to start with these two!
Posted 06 October 2012 - 12:47 PM
Thanks for the pics and details.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 01:02 PM
Posted 06 October 2012 - 03:13 PM
Good luck with this project. That motor looks to be a bit of a basket-case
Ill be watching this thread
Posted 07 October 2012 - 12:27 PM
The engine is NOT NOS... The short block is original to the chassis, AFAIK, circa 2004. I don't remember anything about the cracked block, but we never had it running well enough to diagnose much.
Those heads were found in the "Stupid Storage" at WWU and were never original to QS. If you're going for originality, pull them. Being that they are a student's project, I would be dubious as to their strength and longevity. A nice shelf/conversation piece, but that is about it.
Also, that turbo will need a rebuild. It is DUMPING oil into the engine and was smoking out the exhaust something fierce when we did have it on the road.
That "data aquisition" box on the fire wall is from Arkay Turbos, it is a detination control box, if memory serves me.
The engine is NOT NOS... The short block is original to the chassis, AFAIK, circa 2004.
You should go back and read some of the articles about this car before you dig any deeper. Some of the parts are one offs (seats, sunroof, heads, fuel, etc.) and will be impossible to replace if you can't save them.
BTW "quatro" has two Ts, as in Quattro San.
Edited by carfreak85, 07 October 2012 - 12:36 PM.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 04:33 PM
The old threads were quite jumbled, and I don't do much research on forums, as why would I believe anything I read on the internet when its put up as "AFAIK." And I didn't just go blindly out and purchase this car. In fact I've been poring over it for the past four years, asking the right people the right questions, and followed it throughout the surplus process. Apparently nobody else thought it was worth $250, so I purchased it.
From the brief driving I have done with the car, the turbo was not dumping oil anywhere, or smoking (except from leaky fittings, which have been repaired already). More driving will tell.
Curiously, why did you swap heads with student project heads from stoopid? Especially if your concerned about the quality of the work? Also, since the modifications were made to the water jacket I am not to concerned about their structural integrity, but only driving and proper tuning will prove that. And if they explode, it won't be too hard to put different heads on.
If the last people to work on the car had prepared it for outside storage properly, I wouldn't be dealing with a block/heads cracked in multiple places from freezing...
If people were concerned about passing on the history of the car, it would have been written down in an organized manner. That's not the case for most VRI cars, so there is a ton of speculation for any of them. I'm learning about the car as I dig into it, as that's pretty much the only way you can tell for sure what has been done to it. Either way, you can't argue that the attention it is finally receiving will be beneficial for the car.
Edited by TOsborn, 07 October 2012 - 04:50 PM.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 11:51 AM
The car was moved last night from it's deep storage in Oly up to my house in Lakewood. Work will begin again soon (after my Yamaha motorcycle project is finished). Until then it'll continue to be stored safely.
Posted 29 July 2013 - 10:56 PM
Update again, as this weekend the ball will begin rolling. I've been waiting to randomly come across parts for this, and that finally happened thanks to an '82 GL wagon at the pick n pull. Already bought a few parts off it (pass fender, turn signal lenses, some interior, rearview mirrors, etc), returning for other front fender/cowling/hood/skidplate/and more interior bits.
Since my garage in Everett will then be packed with parts, I'll be trucking them all down to Tacoma this weekend to mount them all to QS. The whole front end should look real spiffy afterward!
Also, if anyone has any info on this car I'm all ears. After tearing into the car, it definitely has many unique modifications, but nothing that is completely groundbreaking. Since it has a...well "clouded" history, I'd like to help put myths to rest and present facts on the car. I've heard tons of rumors, everything from "super rare factory sunroof," "super rare JDM seats," "it's a JDM import car," "car and driver test car that was then donated to the school," "jackie chan drove it," etc. I can reasonably say this is not Jackie Chan's movie car, but everything else is still up in the air, as this car has basically zero documentation.
Also, my overall goal is still to turn this into a unique and kick butt daily driver. That's still a long way down the road, but at least the project is moving again.
And parts donations (I can gladly trade beer or pay reasonable cash) are always accepted, like I need both doors (mine are rotted to heck), and a hatch (also rotted to heck on QS). The fenders/hood/cowling from the yard will help a ton, as the ones on QS show the neglect that can only be caused by 20 or so years of college kids beating on a car!
Posted 03 August 2013 - 02:41 AM
^Leaving the storage area. Other than some new mouse poop under the hood, storage has been pretty nice to the car.
^Have to admit at this point it kind of looks like a giant pile of poo.
^And tonights progress. Did a lot of cleaning, fixed the hood hinges, and hung some panels for inspiration. Tomorrow going to roll the car back outside for a deep clean, then hang the new front end panels/plastic back on, re-do interior with junkyard replacement bits, finish removing A/C system from car, and decide next step for the cylinder hear repair (probably take to a machine shop).
^Engine as currently sits. I can't wait to work on this darn thing, no timing belts, no OHC, no blasted timing belt covers covering water pump, it looks like heaven!
Posted 03 August 2013 - 11:35 AM
Despite the lack of factual documentation, or the rumors of this car, it's amazing even the way it is.
Don't give up. It'll be one of a kind when it's finished.
Posted 03 August 2013 - 01:29 PM
O M G !!!!!!!! I can't believe you got this...
"Dr.RX" (who lives down the street from me) tried to buy this thing over five years ago, and pretty sure Carfreak85 did too while he was going to school there.
I remember Corky (Dr.RX) saying there was an issue with how the car was registered and that it might be complicated to transfer the title. It used to have special license plates on it, and if you reg it as a classic car, you can input the original plates from the school into the DOL system and run them legally.
I don't think Mr. Chan actually drove QS, but there "MIGHT" be a very small chance that he did. It was lost on a old hard drive, but I used to have a pic of the black Cannon Ball Run hatch and QS together in a shop. (it also had a white Brat in the pic that had a giant orange hood scoop) Dr.RX posted some pics after he came back from talking with Doc Seal about the origin of the car.
The sun roof is definitely aftermarket, and the seats from the looks of it, were reupholstered because someone didn't think plaid was bad arse enough for a race car. The front spoiler was an aftermarket accessory for another car from the 80s ( I think it was a camero).
*[There is a thread about EA-81 front air dams circa 2004-5 and talks about this front spoiler--someone also posted a link from ebay with a two-tone silver and blue Brat that had the same spoiler.. None of us were able to find the company that produced the rear spoiler though.]
I never knew that the car was originally "Harvest Beige" Good job getting the same factory color on the replacement parts:)
Oh, and the car originally had a rear spoiler too: (This is the only know photo of it)
Edited by SkankinPickle, 04 August 2013 - 02:24 PM.
Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:21 AM
Thanks for more info and the photo!
As far as title, since it was sold through state surplus I was issued title application paperwork, as it was never titled before. My title states that I am the first owner of the car. The dol people were quite confused! I tried to get the original plates to keep with the car, but unfortunately rules of surplus auction state that the original plates had to be kept/destroyed/something, either way they wouldn't let me have them.
The spoiler is going to test my composte repair skills, glad to hear it may be from a camaro as a possible backup.
I bugged VRI faculty for years about this car, as I gave four years of my life to that shop and watched QS decay over that time. On a shop purge they finally found the paperwork and put it up for public auction, no one bid against me so here it is!
Edited by TOsborn, 11 August 2013 - 05:46 PM.
Posted 04 August 2013 - 01:23 PM
^In the middle of deep clean. Found a bit more rust in the body, but nothing that's not fixable.
^Back together!
^Junkyard interior bits mostly swapped in. Looks better, but nowhere near nice.
^Mirrors from the yard really helped clean up the outside. Looking better...
^Yesterday's find for QS: Holley 670. Going to give this a shot!
Edited by TOsborn, 04 August 2013 - 01:28 PM.
Posted 04 August 2013 - 02:23 PM
Very cool project, glad to see it went to a good home. I'll be keeping an eye on this build from here on out!
Posted 04 August 2013 - 06:17 PM
Worst of the rust (that I've found so far). Both doors don't have much actual metal holding them together down low.
Posted 05 August 2013 - 09:22 AM
Wow she is a rough one.......
Are you gonna do it all "right" so to speak and remove all rust and replace panels etc?
Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:19 AM
^In the middle of deep clean. Found a bit more rust in the body, but nothing that's not fixable.
^Back together!
^Junkyard interior bits mostly swapped in. Looks better, but nowhere near nice.
^Mirrors from the yard really helped clean up the outside. Looking better...
^Yesterday's find for QS: Holley 670. Going to give this a shot!
A 670 will probably make the poor EA81 fall flat on it's manifold even boosted. You probably want to try this http://www.summitrac...re-bore/cfm/390 or maybe a 450 cfm.
Posted 05 August 2013 - 12:48 PM
The 670 is pretty large, but it was cheap and looks like it'll be a good learning experience if nothing else (and I have a supply of Holley jets/parts already). The only other carb I found at the yard that might work was a downdraft Weber on a 'builder' vehicle, so I went with this one. If it doesn't work on QS, it'll go on my truck just fine. Plus a Holley goes hand in hand with the SBC valve parts!
I eventually plan on a full resto (fresh paint etc), but immediate plans are getting it driving, and then fixing rust. New doors will help a ton, and the rest of the rust is limited to rocker areas which is an easy fix.
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