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CHICAGO —Daniel Murphy homered twice, Scott Hairston hit a grand slam and David Wright drove in five runs to lead the New York Mets to a 17-1 rout of the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.
Ike Davis had a three-run homer and an RBI double as he combined with Murphy, Hairston and Wright to drive in all 17 runs — with each having at least four RBIs — to help the Mets snap a four-game losing streak.
The Mets had their highest scoring total since they had 18 at Wrigley Field on Sept. 5, 2010. It was also the most runs the Cubs have allowed since that game.
Mets starter Jonathon Niese (6-3) struck out six and held the Cubs to one run over seven innings.
New York's first seven hits went for extra bases, six of them off Cubs starter Jeff Samardzija (5-7).


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I will be doing a recap of the Kassel Photobook Festival plus a look into the 40 pounds of books I shipped home from Europe. I was going to give a preview but I packed them before I snapped a few photos.
In Berlin now scoping out the bookshops, then onto Prague, then London for the Self-Publish Be Happy show at the Photographer's Gallery. Final stop is Dusseldorf Germany for Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber's Ant!Foto Festival starting on Thursday June 10, at 7:00pm located at the Kunstraum. There will be several guest speakers: Wassinklundgren, Taiyo Onorato, Nico Krebs, Joachim Schmid, Jason Lazarus and many more including myself. Those talks start on June 12th at 1:00pm. More info is available below.
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Preheat oven to 400. Pierce a potato and place it in an oven. Bake 1 hour or until soft. About 20 minutes before the potato should be done, heat the olive oil in a skillet. Add the onion and artichoke, sprinkle with salt and pepper and saute until caramelized, about 10-15 minutes. When the potato is done, slice it nearly in half lengthwise. Top with sour cream, onions, artichokes and a few slivers of asiago cheese. Eat immediately.
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270 million have been killed by Jihad in 1400 years. At least five Islamic terrorist attacks are committed every day, globally. Polls show widespread support for Sharia among Muslims in the West and globally. 200 million females today have been mutilated and 3 million a year are at risk. Islam`s prophet Mohammed ordered apostates, critics and gays killed and was factually a slaver, terrorist, pedophile, wife-beater, extortionist, thief, assassin, rapist, robber, torturer and mass-murderer.
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Once you introduce them to the idea of a true Islamic doctrine, you can go into a thousand directions to your chosen advantage. The doctrine is a devastating strategic weapon. The Sunna is also a weapon of magnificent power at small tactical details. Once you know Mohammed, there are unlimited stories to illustrate any point you want."
In a January 2009 speech that aired on Al Jazeera, Qaradawi said:
"Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them - even though they exaggerated this issue - he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of the believers."
When asked if female rape victims should be punished under Islam, Qaradawi replied: "To be absolved from guilt, the raped woman must have shown some sort of good conduct.... Since Islam addresses women to maintain their modesty, as not to open the door for evil…. [F]or a rape victim to be absolved from guilt, she must not be the one that opens … her dignity for deflowering."
In 2004 Qaradawi wrote a fatwa that presented burning or stoning as acceptable penalties for those who practice homosexuality, adding: "While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements."
According to Qaradawi, Islam's practice of executing apostates has served to ensure Islam's survival since the 15th century: "If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.
They tell us sharia is their goal everyday. They hold up signs, put up billboards, and put it out on television and social media. They say it in open court, they scream it in public, and thousands of speeches by Islamic scholars and leaders can be seen at places like MEMRI where they are constantly and clearly calling for warfare against non-muslims (JIHAD) until the world is under the rule of sharia.
Therefore, the professional response by U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence professionals and leaders is to simply read Islamic law.
When a person does this they will quickly learn Al Qaeda and ISIS have never misquoted sharia to support their actions.
Crucifixion, beheading, stoning, rape, and other behaviors are all legal under sharia. But you have to read sharia to know it.
When you read sharia you will learn it is a capital crime for muslims to teach other muslims anything incorrect about Islam, and it is obligatory for muslims to lie to non-muslims when the goal is obligatory…like jihad.
From Chapter 1: "The One Organizing Principle", page 33:
"The intention of Shariah authorities today is to limit the knowledge of non-Muslims to what they are allowed to know about Islam. If we read the books that the enemy declares are the basis of his intentions, we will better understand the nature of the threat. Because the enemy knows he lacks the kinetic ability to defeat us in battle, it is of utmost importance that he prevents us from defining him. The primary objective of the enemy in the War on Terror is to keep us from understanding his threat doctrine by keeping us from looking at the fact of Islamic law-"the one organizing principle"-that he, in fact, states is the driver of his threat doctrine. Once we understand his threat doctrine, the game is up. This is true even if he is wrong in his interpretation of Islam and Shariah."
Here are some examples:
In March 625, the Quraysh tribe of Mecca and some of their allies attacked the Muslims in Medina; this was known as the Battle of Uhud. The Muslim army, under Muhammad's command, had two battle cries that day: "I seek death, I seek death," and "Kill! Kill!" The Muslim army sustained heavy causalities, but the Quraysh failed to defeat them.
In December 627, Muhammad led an attack against the Banu al-Mustaliq tribe. The Banu Al-Mustaliq were defeated, and their property, women and children were divided among the Muslims. The battle cry of the Muslims that day was, "O victorious one, slay, slay!"
In June 628, Muhammad led a Muslim army against the Jewish community of Khaybar. Muhammad told his warriors, "You will not go out with me unless you desire jihad. As for plunder, there will be none." Fittingly, the battle cry of the Muslims was "O victorious one, slay, slay!" As the Muslims attacked, Muhammad called out, "Allah akbar [sic]! Khaybar is destroyed."
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The hadith (story of what Mohammed said and did) below is core Islamic doctrine:
The Prophet said, "The hour of judgment will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. It will not come until the Jew hides behind rocks and trees. It will not come until the rocks or the trees say, 'O Muslim! O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him."
Bukhari 2926: Book 56, Hadith 139
Strive hard against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be harsh against them, their abode is Hell.The Arabic for "strive hard" uses the same root as Jihad - and the context in this sura is holy war (see v. 86 and 91). Thus, there are two distinct classes of people that a true Muslim is to target with "harshness": disbelievers and hypocrites.


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Whodeani111 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 225 Designs von 65 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Hopefully, one of the most exciting briefs you'll come across at 99designs.
Whodeani is in need of a logo, but it's far from the usual corporate graphic design job.
Firstly Whodeani (pronounced Who-Dean-E) is not your average brand. It is the essence of me Dean Jones, the founder, both personally and professionally.
Once completed, the Whodeani logo/imagery will be used both within my corporate ID (business cards, letterheads etc…) and within my official website located at http://www.whodeani.com (Note: there is a temporary website there at the moment that will be updated shortly after the completion of this competition.)
Refer to the website to gain an understanding of the Whodeani brand/business.
You can also learn more about Whodeani at my Twitter page. http://www.twitter.com/whodeani
***** Please read the brief in full before submitting designs to this competition. *****
It is vital that the logo conveys both trustworthiness and 'magic' (without being tricky)… the magic of bringing ideas to life.
This ('The Magic of Bringing Ideas to Life') is the essence of the Whodeani brand – particularly regarding entrepreneurship. It expresses the ability to see opportunity, identify pathways and bring ideas to life that are beyond the ordinary, beyond what most people would expect.
The Whodeani logo should convey a sense of wonder and progress.
It must also be very confident (not cocky) and captivating (enticing, not misleading) and striking (individual and aesthetically compelling in its own right).
I like to do things differently. As an example, I envisage the business card to have no contact details on it – simply the logo/image.
The identity must be so distinctive and intriguing that people then go on to search for Whodeani to find out more. (Currently if you do a search on Google.com for 'Whodeani', all 10 results on the first page are related to me with my Twitter account, Official blog, Website and LinkedIn profile all in the top 5 results.)
A logo & visual ID. - Stylistically, Whodeani has a need for an illustrated logo graphic and associated symbols in addition to typeface. It must have an 'old world' feel but with 'new world' relations. It should be highly detailed. This may take the form of an etching style or graphically realistic technical illustration. A sense of magic and showmanship is appropriate.
- Draw inspiration from from Movies such as 'Wild Wild West' featuring Will Smith. And we're particularly fond of elements from films such as 'The Prestige' and 'The Illusionist'.
The clothing and devices used in these eras are very 'Whodeani'.
The video game 'Bio Shock' can also be referenced.- Think Artisan. Someone who is highly skilled, creates objects of great beauty, employing only imagination, manual dexterity, tools and material. Relevant to an era of industrial revolution. A time of great wonder, driven by men of great ambition whose ideas and inventions changed the world.- Also envisage steam punk art, a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. The use of industrial revolution machinery mixed with a modern element.- Importantly the work needs to look a) complete, b) grounded and c) that it could actually function (that is that it 'could' conceivably operate.)
- An illustration.
- Abstract. What ever is produced needs to look 'fantastic' yet grounded. It can't be abstract.- Montage of elements. Do not want a variety of disparate elements 'blended' together. Final logo/imagery needs to look 'whole' or complete.- Cyborg. For some reason when mentioning styles like Steampunk, many people conjure up images of half human, half cyborg. Ie a head with a robot eye or whatever. While happy to have 'machinery' connected to me (should you choose to include me in the entered logo/imagery) this can not be at the expense of any 'organic' element you would normally expect to find within such an image.
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basically i love lego and i love castles and history oh and fantasy. After seeing some of the creations on this website i had to join and hopefully get involved.
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Artist Toby Atticus Fraley has long had a soft spot for found object robots, cobbling together lively robot sculptures from vintage objects. Now you can visit his art installation, Fraley's Robot Repair Shop, in Pittsburgh. Located at the former entrance of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the Robot Repair shop employs a 1950s aesthetic and a playfully grim sense of humor (Won't someone please let that little robot out?). The installation will be up until next November, and will change throughout the year.


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Thanks ! Put a bunny in your life xD xD xD
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bor i skövde :P men har så jag kan fixa de här gratis typ nu fast menar du att allt annat än samsung är skit eller vad? xD
Thx Nirfu... just breaking it down math wise so people can understand that the price of sweat cannot equal 5ped/1k unless your charity of getting or valueing FN at very loooow.
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you are right and that picture seems close to truth! =)
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I recently read about a new Swiss study claiming that the ingredient titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles — widely used as a white pigment in sunscreen, toothpaste and cosmetics — provokes similar inflammatory effects on the lungs as asbestos. Yes, that asbestos. The stuff that can cause serious illnesses, "including malignant lung cancer, mesothelioma (a formerly rare cancer strongly associated with exposure to amphibole asbestos), and asbestosis (a type of pneumoconiosis)."
According to Jürg Tschopp, the lead researcher and professor of biochemistry at Lausanne University, "With titanium dioxide you accumulate, like asbestos, particles in the lung. You get chronic inflammation and this can last ten or 15 years and the next step is cancer." Tschopp is concerned that nanoparticles could be the "asbestos of the future." However, he also admitted in his findings that he would not immediately stop using sunscreen and toothpaste, but believes more caution and regulation are needed.
This begs the question: do you take the risk of avoiding sunscreen and exposing your skin to cancer-causing ultraviolet rays or do you use the sunscreen and risk the exposure to chemicals that may give you cancer anyway?
Huma Khamis of the consumer association of western Switzerland calls the sunscreen dilemma "a big problem," but states "the immediate risks of not using cream [sunscreen] and sunbathing are greater than those of exposure to products containing titanium dioxide nanoparticles."
Yet this isn't the first time an ingredient in sunscreen has been called into question. I wrote about the chemical oxybenzone nearly three years ago. Oxybenzone — one of the commonly used ingredients in most sunscreens — has been linked to allergies, hormone disruption, and cell damage. It is also a "penetration enhancer, a chemical that helps other chemicals penetrate the skin."
The primary sunscreen I've been using on my kids for the past several years — California Baby — does not contain oxybenzone and even tested quite well on the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetics Safety Database. However when I rechecked the ingredients I noticed titanium dioxide was listed; although it did not specify whether the TiO2 was the suspect nanoparticles or not. At first I freaked out thinking I've been putting something potentially cancer-causing on my kids, but after asking a few Twitter friends (@YourOrganicLife and @ErinEly) their opinion, I decided to contact the company directly. I received an automated response indicating that "California Baby utilizes coated micronized titanium dioxide (TiO2 for short) as the active ingredient for our sunscreens." I believe that means it is not nanoparticles, but I've asked for clarification from California Baby just to be sure (and will update here when I hear back from them).
I do my best to make informed choices regarding my kids' health and safety. However, I'm not a chemist or a physicist and I can't test every chemical out there. I have to rely upon others (the government?) to test for X, Y, and Z's chemical safety, but it seems all too often that chemicals are assumed to be safe until proven otherwise. I don't like to think of my kids (or anyone's children for that matter) being used as guinea pigs and I don't think it's too much to ask that products and chemicals are tested before they are available for mass consumption. Do you?
Where does this leave me? I'll stick to trying to limit our exposure to the sun during peak hours for starters. I already tend to do that, but this is a good reminder to continue. I may avoid sunscreen containing titanium dioxide all together and only purchase sunscreen in which zinc oxide is the active ingredient. (Badger makes a good one that I've used on my kids in the past.) Of course, we'll continue to wear our hats and sunglasses — the kids' eye doctor just reminded me about how important that is — as much as possible outdoors. Another thing I plan to do is buy some sun-protective swimwear for when summer rolls around again. The less exposed skin, the better.
Lastly, I will hope that testing will continue on the various chemicals in sunscreen, cosmetics and everything else we rely on both for ourselves and our children on a regular basis. I will sign petitions. I will blog. I will raise awareness.
Safe Sun Tips
- Minimize sun exposure between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. when the greatest amount of ultraviolet light exists.
- Wear Hats. Each inch of hat brim can lower your lifetime risk of skin cancer by 10%. A hat brim of four inches or greater is recommended.
- Wear UV-blocking clothing.
- Wear protective eyewear. Sunglasses with UV-blocking filters are very important.
Related links:
- No Such Thing As Chemical Free In Cleaning & Beauty Products. Really. Really really. by Jennifer Taggart of The Smart Mama
- New Study Finds Only 8 Percent of Sunscreens are Safe and Effective by Healthy Child, Healthy World
- Protecting your kids against Vitamin D deficiency by Tasha Gerken of FYI Living
- Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetics Safety Database
- EWG's 2010 Sunscreen Guide
- Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles In Household Products Linked To Cancer In Mice from Science 2.0
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Monday, January 05, 2009
US Fifth at World Juniors
Thomas McCollum vs. Canada: 5 goals allowed on 28 shots
Thomas McCollum vs. Slovakia: 5 goals allowed on 19 shots
Say whatever you will about coaching, or how the team is selected, or any other complaint you can come up with. You can't coach the puck out of your net, and when your goalie only stops 37 out of 47 shots over two games, and forces your team to score 6 goals win, you're going to lose 99 times out of 100. In a short tournament, hot goaltending can take your team a long way, and poor goaltending can kill you. This year, it killed the US.
I'll give the rest of my thoughts in bullet form, since it's easier...
-Some people are also blaming the US defense for playing poorly. They didn't look good against Canada, and I didn't see the Slovakia game, but how bad could they have been if they only gave up 19 shots and McCollum gave up a couple soft goals? That's more than good enough to win.
-Should McCollum have been pulled? In hindsight, yes, because they couldn't have done any worse. I'm not sure I would have pulled him at any point in the Canada game, because bringing a cold goalie into a close game probably wouldn't be wise. Maybe I would have started Unice against Slovakia, but again, that's using hindsight. I can see the argument for starting McCollum again as well.
-Why is it that the people screaming loudest about how not winning the gold is an absolute failure for the US, and the whole system needs to be torn down are the same people that talk about Canada being the greatest hockey nation in the world? Sorry, you can't have both ways. It only proves that these people don't have enough objectivity to make their opinion worthwhile.
-I still don't see how the NTDP-bashing is valid in any way. This year's team took way more CHL players than in the past and look where it got them. Adding a few more plugs like Eric Tangradi, whose biggest contribution to the team was putting his stick in some guys face and getting one of the good players jacked in the face, or Tyler Johnson, who didn't do much of anything, wouldn't have made things any better. One of the big omissions from the roster was John Carlson, and again, using hindsight, he would have been a better choice on D because he couldn't have been any worse, but the seventh defenseman on the US was Blake Kessel, who is not an NTDP alum, so I don't see how that decision is political.
-When trying to wow me with the OHL's goaltending, it's probably not best to cite some kid who needed a career game just to bring his tournament save percentage up to .901. As a general rule, goaltenders peak much later, and it's just hard to be a very good goalie in that age group. That's why you see so many talented young goalies struggle at the college level. I'm not saying some of those CHL goalies might not be great some day, but at 18 or 19, most aren't providing much of a challenge.
-Congrats to Canada on winning another gold medal. I hope the Queen doesn't decide to take it for England when she makes the call on reinstating your parliament later this month.
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sounds like a sore loser to me
very much a sore loser.
15 golds to 1 - that speaks for itself.
Meanwhile, they leave a gold medal winning, USHL rookie leading, potentially highest drafted goalie at home. MISTAKE.
Can't wait for the 2010 Olympics. When Canada loses gold on home turf in both men's and women's hockey we'll see who the sore losers are.
You are a fool.
Blame the Goalie, make excuses.
It is almost comical.
Talk about "reading what you want to read"... What exactly did he say that makes him a sore loser?
McCollum was brutal - true
The US took more CHL players and still didn't medal - true
Goaltenders develop later than skaters - true
Doesn't think the NTDP is the problem - opinion, not attacking anyone
If he were to say that the US lost due to officiating so something, that would be false and be whining.
Bottom line: this tournament means everything to Canada, while most people in the US haven't even heard of it. No wonder its 15 gold to 1.
Forget about fixing the NTDP. There isn't enough demand for it to begin with. Just piggy back off Canada's junior system if you really want to develop. Then again, if the sport is to succeed at the professional level, Canada needs the U$.
Chris, you forgot to add that Unice upon his selection was the second worst goalie (statisticly) in the OHL.
McCollum had given up 5 goals a game in like 2 of 3 games prior to his selection.
Bad selections for the team at a crucial position. I guess the selection committee has forgotten the way to Fargo.
Who exactly picks the team anyway?
I think the seeds of US defeat were sewn when the coaching staff failed to get Josh Unice any playing time early on. Whether it was the final 15 minutes vs. Germany after the lead ballooned to 5 goals, or some/all of the Kazakhstan game, Unice should have played. McCollum was not particularly good against Germany (2 goals on 18 shots, and 3 or 4 VERY shaky saves) or the Czechs. Clearly he has the better pedigree than Unice, but Unice has had international success with the U-18s, and he couldn't have been worse than McCollum turned out to be in the first two periods of the Canada game or the Slovakia game. However, by the time it got to the elimination games, it was too late to toss Unice in there completely cold.
With apologies to William Shakespeare:
A glorified Holiday tournament, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
this is all laughable, the draft picks are all still there and will be shuffled a bit. That is really is all the kids want anyways. One game in a torunament is not really reflective of kids overall talent or character. developing to the show is a continual, cumulative process. Brodeur and other canadian goalies never had much success and they are now HOF material.
what do u mean sore losers...did u watch any of the us games the u.s goalie was brutal and let in soft goals every game...if canadas goalie let as many soft goals as the u.s. they might not have been where they ended up and u know thats true. obvioulsy the problem was goaltending from watchin all the games...the d and forwards were good
The US needs to finish higher than fifth place for the US Developmental program to be considered a success. We can finish fifth without it.
The key to success for the US is defensemen and goaltending. You need 6 defensemen that can play and great goaltending.
It is interesting to watch the World Junior Hockey and then flip the channel to watch Texas play Ohio State in football and you see where all the great athletes in the US are.
How good is the freshman QB at Ohio State right out of High School.
The US is always battling the same problem; it is not the competition from other countries but competition from other sports here in the US for the best athletes.
Remember Canada was 5 seconds away from not getting a medal.
Fifth place is not good enough for the US Developmental program, we could finish in fifth without it.
As i was watching the World Junior tournament i switched channels to the Ohio State vs Texas football game. How good of athlete is the freshman QB at Ohio State.
We are not competing against other countries but with other sports here in the US for the best athletes.
James.."Clearly he has the better pedigree than Unice."
Unice backstopped an OHL team to the Memorial Cup final last year.Pedigree?
The problem is bad coaching and horrible player selection by the NTDP.For you guys who say the best athletes are playing BBall and football etc speak for your own state or region. Michigan, New York (upstate) and Minnesota have their BEST atletes choosing hockey over girls never mind another sport :). Maybe in Indiana,Texas and most urban areas this is true but have you ever wondered why that backwater Michigan travel team almost always kicks the crap out of your best New York city/Philadelphia team. Yes,they are better hockey players and better athletes.
I think the US development program has failed in it's objectives. It doesn't "develop" it's players. It cherry picks the best players across the country, forms teams, and then simply cannot function in a team environment.The players are all first line guys who can't thrive in other roles. Canada can put 4 scoring lines together but choose players that can play PK,agitator,grinder styles so the skilled players can flourish. If the USNTDP wants to add all skill and no heart,they are forgetting what team concept is all about and don't understand the game of hockey.
"Why is it that the people screaming loudest about how not winning the gold is an absolute failure for the US, and the whole system needs to be torn down are the same people that talk about Canada being the greatest hockey nation in the world?"
In an earlier discussion/thread on this blog the poison politics of USA Hockey was repeatedly cited - why is the dead horse being beaten once again?
The chronic failure of USA Hockey to gather the best players for a short term tournament such as the WJC is the problem.
"I still don't see how the NTDP-bashing is valid in any way. This year's team took way more CHL players than in the past and look where it got them".
Point taken. However, the NTDP takes an inordinate amount of the USA Hockey resources in its continual attempt to find the next (insert Gretzky, Crosby or now Tavares) which is has failed to do. With as much money, training, etc. as is being provided to these kids they should bring home the Gold or at least be competitive with the elite teams. Not the case.
If USA Hockey was run like an actual business, these repeated failures would have resulted in management being ousted and new blood being brought in to right the ship. Not going to happen with the entrenched bureaucracy at USA Hockey.
Forget about fixing the NTDP. There isn't enough demand for it to begin with. Just piggy back off Canada's junior system if you really want to develop. Then again, if the sport is to succeed at the professional level, Canada needs the U$.
Finally someone with some sense! The top producing model for NHL players is in Canada. The US should copy that!
Although many of the u20 players did come through the ntdp system, I'm not sure it's fair to base one's opinion of the ntdp on the outcome of a single game where the participants are 2 or more years removed from the program, if they played there at all. The current u18s have a strong showing in tournament play; last year, they did well @ u17 challenge (losing a close gold medal game with less than a full bench); then also took silver @ 5 nations (in a rigged loss to soviets where pp differential was 10-2); then won 4 nations this year. Anon @ 11:16 is closest in analysis of current ntdp, in that they tend to treat players projected as first (and second) round nhl picks as kings who keep favored status no matter how bad their plus/minus is; and the rest of the team has to fight for quality opportunities. Upcoming 5 nations (in Sweden) and especially Fargo will be real tests for them, but lets not write off ntdp model based on anything less than a gold. Other problem with current u18s is that coaches run more of a dump and chase (grinder) system when skill level and depth of talent favors more puck possession and movement. Kind of liking asking thoroughbreds to pull harnesses. Good coaches, in all sports, base their systems on their players, not the other way around.
It's ultimately up to the players to decide if they want to pursue the USNTDP program. Once top end players start choosing the junior route(and it's begun) then either the program will make changes or will fail and disban. I believe the junior route prepares you quicker to play pro hockey, and thus in a U20 tournament those players playing, and getting quality ice time against better competition will obviously be further along.
There's no question the CHL is the best route to the big show. That's not even debatable.
The USNTDP and NCAA players have proven to be a failure in these high pressure international tournaments. It's NOT the players--it's the systems. Team USA was incredibly talented but unprepared to compete at a high enough level.
I love NCAA hockey, but the fact is these college kids are not living up their potential in these tournaments.
Only reason you guys win that bullshit under 18 tournmanet in the spring is because Canada can't send it's best CHL's because they are still in post season.
Also under 17 challenge, past two gold medal winners team ontario, if there was a team Canada under 17 team, it would shit kick their american competitors.


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Whether it's fruitful or not, people tend to worry more about their health as they age. For some, the worrying can be productive, forcing them to overhaul a lifestyle that might not be healthy. For others, the worrying might only compound existing problems.
While it's understandable and necessary to focus more on health as the aging process progresses, taking care of oneself and aging healthily doesn't have to be as hard as it seems. Instead, having an understanding of the human body and what happens to it as it ages can go a long way toward maintaining a healthy lifestyle well into one's golden years.
The body's energy levels decrease over time. Fewer calories are needed to function on a daily basis.
Whenever health comes into question, the first thing to cross most people's minds is their diet. Dietary changes are necessary as we get older for a variety of reasons.
Shifting Energy Levels:
One of the foremost reasons diet changes are needed as we age is the loss of energy that comes with age. Because the body's energy levels decrease over time, fewer calories are needed to function on a daily basis. If caloric intake is not reduced as we age, weight gain and other negative physical consequences can result.
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Dietary changes are also necessary to defend oneself against injuries that can result from bones weakening as the body ages. As we get older, bones begin to lose mineral content, making them more susceptible to breaks and other injuries. In addition, the body is more susceptible to osteoporosis, a condition in which bones become brittle and fragile as it ages. Calcium can help prevent osteoporosis and injuries to bones, emphasizing the importance of making calcium a part of your daily diet.
Exercising more to combat the reduction in muscle tissue production is necessary.
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Perhaps the biggest risk you run when being underweight is associated with turning a cold or other short-term illness into a much bigger problem. Keeping a healthy weight helps ensure that your body is resilient, fully capable of handling some ailments such as cold or flu that can afflict anyone regardless of age. Being underweight lessens your energy reserves, meaning you won't be able to bounce back quickly should you get the flu or a cold. Sometimes, you might not be able to bounce back at all leading to permanent disability, or, in some cases, death.
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Electric guitar players are the coolest creatures on this planet, and here we salute the best guitarists at being, well, cool.
When you play guitar, you can get away with all kinds of acts normal people could never attempt. Face it: an ordinary person could not walk down the street wearing a leopard-skin jacket, high-heel cowboy boots, flowing silk scarves and dozens of silver bangles without getting beaten up within minutes.
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Try doing Chuck Berry's famous duck walk without a guitar; people will think you're crazy. But do it with a guitar and they'll pelt you with a sea of money.
Since guitar players are automatically cool, that means cool guitar players are the coolest of the cool. Here, we exalt this elite class of cold - some of them are pioneers who paved a bold, daring path to define new styles of cool, while others are simply the kind of guitarists we want to be when we never grow up (which is part of being cool).
These people are the real reason why the guitar remains the world's most popular instrument, so let's all raise our headstocks and give them a 21-powerchord salute.
1. James Hetfield
Born August 3, 1963
Band Metallica
Iconic Guitar 1984 Gibson Explorer
Coolest Riff "Leper Messiah" — Master of Puppets
Most metal guitarists would kill to have half of the power and precision of James Hetfield's right hand, not to mention his ability to write the most devastating riffs known to mankind, from "Seek and Destroy" and "Creeping Death" to "Enter Sandman." Of course, most musicians with skills comparable to Hetfield's have such big egos that they become the targets of our murderous intentions. That's not the case with Hetfield.
Years of hard-earned success and fame have not changed his down-to-earth attitude. Even though he has become one of the world's richest rock stars, he hasn't married a supermodel or become a pompous art collector. Instead, he's remained true to his working-class roots, spending his spare time building incredibly cool kustom cars and cruising the streets with his car club buddies, the Beatniks of Koolsville.
His kustom masterpieces like "Slow Burn" (a 1936 Auburn boat-tail speedster), "Skyscraper" (a 1953 Buick Skylark) and his daily driver known as "The Grinch" (a 1952 Oldsmobile) are drivable works of art that defy the bland Toyota Priuses, Lexuses and Land Rover SUVs of his Northern California environs like a stiff middle-finger salute wearing a skull ring.
2. Joe Strummer
Born August 21, 1952 (died December 22, 2002)
Band The Clash, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Iconic Guitar 1968 Fender Telecaster
Coolest Riff "Train in Vain" — London Calling
Joe Strummer was far from the most proficient rhythm guitarist in punk rock, and his tone was often downright wimpy.
Yet you'd never find a punk rocker who didn't want to be just like him. Whereas most punk guitarists found inspiration from the same hard rock and proto-metal players that they pretended to despise, Strummer was influenced by reggae, rockabilly, soul, ska and even early New York rap music when most of the world still hadn't heard of the Sugarhill Gang.
Those influences helped him develop a truly unique rhythm guitar style that no one has been able to duplicate since. Perhaps the coolest thing about Joe Strummer is no one could ever predict what he would do next. In 1981, the Clash played 17 consecutive nights at the 3,500-capacity Bond's International Casino nightclub in Manhattan, but when they returned to New York the next year they played two sold-out shows at Shea Stadium as an opening act for the Who.
Julien Temple's documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, reveals what many would perceive as Strummer's flaws: from his hippie squatter roots to the way he dissed former bandmates during the Clash's last gasps. But ultimately, Strummer was a man who simply did wanted he wanted to do without giving a shit what anybody else thought.
3. Slash & Izzy Stradlin
Born July 23, 1965 (Slash); April 8, 1962 (Izzy)
Band Guns N' Roses
Iconic Guitar 1985 Gibson Les Paul Standard (Slash); Gibson ES-175 (Izzy)
Coolest Riff "Welcome to the Jungle" — Appetite for Destruction
Rock music has produced some memorable tandem guitar teams: Keef and Ronnie, Angus and Malcolm, Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing to name a few.
But Slash and Izzy Stradlin, with the original lineup of Guns N' Roses, have to go down as one of the coolest duos ever. Gutter rats Slash and Izzy had just enough yin and yang going on to provide the color and contrast that made them more than the ordinary lead and rhythm guitar team.
Both loved similar bands, like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, but Izzy's tastes leaned more toward groove-oriented bands like the Rolling Stones and the Doors, with a healthy dose of punk rock thrown in, while Slash loved guitar heroes like Michael Schenker and Jeff Beck.
The combination of Slash's rough-edged pyrotechnic solos and Izzy's raw power chords and off-kilter rhythms resulted in an unusual mish-mash with massive crossover appeal that metalheads, punks, glam poseurs, pop fans and classic rockers loved alike. Slash and Izzy also made vintage guitars cool again, strapping on Gibson Les Pauls, Telecasters and ES-175 hollowbodies when most guitarists were playing DayGlo superstrats, pointy metal weapons or minimalist headstock-less Stein-bortions.
Balding guitar players also have Slash and Izzy to thank for making hats fashionable rocker attire during a time when big hair was all the rage.
4. Jimi Hendrix
Born November 27, 1942 (died September 18, 1970)
Band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsys
Iconic Guitar Fender Stratocaster
Coolest Riff "Machine Gun" — Band of Gypsys
Most guitarists view the guitar in terms of scales to master and tones to tame, but Jimi Hendrix viewed the instrument as an open canvas for his imagination, pulling sounds out of his Stratocaster and Marshall stacks that no one previously knew the guitar was capable of making.
The first guitarist to chain effect pedals together, Hendrix combined their tones and textures with whammy bar squeals and growls and unorthodox playing techniques to make the guitar sound like a symphony, animals, armies or the far reaches of outer space. While most Sixties psychedelic music was banal bubblegum pop with fuzz-tone guitar hooks, Hendrix made music that actually sounded like a trip after ingesting a cocktail of LSD, mushrooms and THC.
What makes Hendrix stand out is how he could play chilling, beautiful music without the sonic bombast as well. Naked, unadorned songs like "Little Wing" and "Red House" still burn with intensity even without sound effects and studio trickery, showing Jimi's uncanny ability to speak through his instrument.
His playing shocked, awed and frightened even Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, who still view Hendrix as some sort of supernatural, mythical being. Of course, they may have also been scared of how Jimi could make even a puffy shirt and a marching band jacket look fashionable.
5. Eddie Van Halen
Born January 26, 1955
Band Van Halen
Iconic Guitar Homemade "Frankenstein" Strat
Coolest Riff "Panama"—1984
Eddie Van Halen forever changed the way that the guitar is made and played, but that's not why he's cool. Sure, he's single-handedly responsible for the whole hot-rodded guitar and amp phenomenon that brought companies like Jackson and Charvel fortune, techs like Jose Arredondo and Lee Jackson fame and inventors like Floyd Rose immortality.
Yes, he perfected the two-handed tapping technique that made the guitar sound like a fucking synthesizer. And, okay, he crafted a legendary sound that guitarists are still trying to duplicate today. But what makes Eddie cool is his attitude—especially how he makes work seem like it takes no effort at all.
While he could put out an album of his farts or slap his name on any shitty guitar and still make millions, he is a painstaking perfectionist who spent years agonizing over every minute detail of his EVH Wolfgang guitar and EVH 5150 III amp before offering it to the public and who has refused to release a new Van Halen album until he feels it's ready.
Even after splitting with Valerie Bertinelli after 26 years of marriage, surviving battles with alcohol and cancer and enduring the presence of David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar for most of the last 38 years, nothing has wiped the big, warm, friendly smile off of his face.
6. Link Wray
Born May 2, 1929 (died November 5, 2005)
Band Link Wray and the Ray Men, Robert Gordon
Iconic Guitar Supro Dual Tone
Coolest Riff "Run Chicken Run" — Rumble: The Best of Link Wray
Back in 1958, most guitarists and guitar amp designers tried to avoid distortion. Not Link Wray. When he recorded his instrumental "Rumble," Wray poked holes in the tweeters of his Premier Model 71 amp to make it sound even more nasty and distorted than it could on its own.
A direct line can be drawn from "Rumble" to "My Generation," "Anarchy in the U.K." and "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The song is often credited as the origin of the power chord, but it also heralded the transformation of rock from the music of youth to the soundtrack of juvenile delinquency. Several radio stations banned "Rumble" because they thought it was too sexy, raunchy and violent. Wray even dressed like a juvenile delinquent, embellishing his greasy black pompadour with a leather jacket, jeans and shades at a time when most white rock and rollers still took fashion cues from Perry Como and Bing Crosby.
Wray kept the hits coming through the Sixties, issuing singles like "Jack the Ripper," "Ace of Spades," the manic "Run Chicken Run," the appropriately titled "The Fuzz" and the coolest version of the Batman theme ever. Wray rocked hard until the end, playing his last gig only four months before he passed away at the age of 76.
7. Johnny Ramone
Born October 8, 1948 (died September 15, 2004)
Band The Ramones
Iconic Guitar Mosrite Ventures II
Coolest Riff "Blitzkrieg Bop" — Ramones
If ever there were a forensic investigation to identify the true biological father of punk rock guitar, all DNA evidence would point clearly to Johnny Ramone. The guitar style that people most associate with punk—briskly downpicked barre chords executed with blinding precision at breakneck tempos and marshaled in service of concise catchy song structures—is the invention, progeny and proud legacy of the man born John Cummings on Long Island, New York.
Johnny was a strange case, a rock and roll outsider who was obsessed with uniformity. And that obsession helped forge the Ramones aesthetic: the identikit leather jackets and ripped jeans worn by each band member, the single surname shared by all four (in the absence of any actual familial kinship) and the terse pacing of the music itself, with not a single excessive note or lyrical utterance.
It all added up to a cartoonish minimalism that struck a vital cultural nerve when the Ramones burst out of Manhattan's Lower East Side CBGB scene in the mid Seventies. They were the perfect antidote to the bloated self-indulgence of Seventies arena rock and the tendency—a hangover from the hippie era—for rock and rock musicians to take themselves way too seriously. The Ramones were passionate about rock, without ever being pompous.
Their songs cut right to the melodic and rhythmic core of great rock and roll. Johnny contributed song ideas and slashing guitar arrangements, but he also kept the whole thing on the rails. A straight guy in a world of addicts, perverts, weirdoes and psychos, Johnny's politics were dubious. But, like Mussolini, he made the Ramones' rock and roll train run on time for more than two decades. John Cummings passed from this life in 2004 after a five-year fight with prostate cancer.
But in the clashing clangor of Green Day, Rancid, Blink-182 and the next bunch of punk rock misfits rehearsing in some basement or garage, Johnny Ramone lives on.
8. James Williamson
Born October 29, 1949
Band Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop
Iconic Guitar Gibson Les Paul Custom
Coolest Riff "Search and Destroy"—Raw Power (Iggy and the Stooges)
James Williamson was the man who facilitated Iggy Pop's transition from self-lacerating Stooges frontman to solo artist, icon and all-around elder statesman of punk. In a way, Williamson was the only man for the job. He shared Iggy and the Stooges' Detroit garage rock roots and was a friend of Stooges founding guitarist Ron Asheton during the mid Sixties.
But he also had his act way more together than any of the Stooges during their cataclysmic heyday. By the early Seventies, the Stooges were two albums into their career and starting to come apart at the seams due to myriad drug problems and an overall lack of widespread commercial acceptance of their music.
Williamson injected new life into the group, bringing an ideal balance of discipline and frenzy, best heard on the group's 1973 disc Raw Power, the album that launched thousands of punk and post punk bands. "I'm his biggest fan," the legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr once said of Williamson. "He has the technical ability of Jimmy Page without being as studious and the swagger of Keith Richards without being sloppy. He's both demonic and intellectual, almost how you would imagine Darth Vader to sound if he was in a band."
Williamson went on to produce and play on Iggy's classic solo 1979 album New Values, which features gems like "I'm Bored" and "Five Foot One." The guitarist also played a key role on the follow-up disc, Soldier, anchoring a punk rock all-star lineup that included ex-Pistol Glen Matlock, Ivan Kral from the Patti Smith Band and Barry Adamson from Magazine. Shortly after Soldier, Williamson took a hiatus from rock to study electronic engineering, becoming Vice President of Technology and Standards for Sony.
When Ron Asheton died, Williamson took an early retirement from Sony and returned to his rightful place as the Stooges' guitarist. Their new album, Ready to Die, came out this year.
9. Buddy Guy
Born July 30, 1936
Band Solo, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Iconic Guitar 1957 sunburst Fender Stratocaster, polka-dot Buddy Guy signature Fender Strats
Coolest Riff "The First Time I Met the Blues" — Can't Quit the Blues
Buddy Guy is our greatest living link to blues tradition—a man who sat and played with immortals like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon and Otis Spann, and who still climbs up onstage at events like the Crossroads Festival to jam with greats such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana, not to mention newcomers like John Mayer.
Clapton himself has repeatedly called Guy "the greatest living guitarist." Hendrix literally knelt at Buddy's feet in the late Sixties, the better to study his riffs. Guy's secret? He combines an old-time blues feel with the technical facility of a modern guitar player. He was a youngster at the legendary Chess Records in early Sixties Chicago. Fresh up from Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy was some 20 years junior to giants like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, yet old enough and gifted enough to share the studio with them.
And when Cream, Hendrix and Led Zeppelin brought amped-up guitar hysteria to the fore, Buddy was still in his prime, ready, able and eager to join the fray. He's still going strong today, an inspiration—and intimidation—to all who would strap on an electric guitar and dive deep into the mighty river that is the blues.
10. Johnny Thunders
Born July 15, 1952 (died April 23, 1991)
Band New York Dolls, the Heartbreakers, Gang War
Iconic Guitar Gibson Les Paul Jr.
Coolest Riff "Chinese Rocks" — Blank Generation: The New York Scene (1975-78) (The Heartbreakers)
Johnny Thunders' snot-nosed New York take on Keith Richards' cool is one of the pillars on which punk rock was built. An Italian-American guy (birth name John Anthony Genzale Jr.) from Queens, he was born a little too late to be part of the Sixties rock explosion. But the bands of that era were his influences, and he put his own spin on them in the early Seventies as the New York Dolls came together with Thunders on lead guitar.
Thunders had the riffs to match the glam-trash group's mascara. He took rock guitar and cooked it down to its essence, playing open chords and switchblade riffs that laid bare the amphetamine urgency behind the Dolls' concise, catchy tunes. The Dolls had split up by the time punk rock got underway in New York and London, but their influence was profoundly felt on both shores.
Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols has repeatedly cited Thunders as a major influence, Dee Dee Ramone was a friend, colleague and drug brother, and Richard Hell played alongside him in the Heartbreakers. While Thunders shared Keith Richards' appetite for excess, he sadly was not blessed with Keef's monumental endurance.
Thunders died in New Orleans in 1991 under mysterious, although most likely drug-related, circumstances.
11. Keith Richards
Born December 18, 1943
Band The Rolling Stones, the X-Pensive Winos
Iconic Guitar 1953 Fender Telecaster Coolest Riff "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" — Out of Our Heads
Keith Richards has made living on the edge his life's mission. Grinning blissfully—and blatantly stoned—from mid-Sixties picture sleeves, lean and lanky, swathed in flowing scarves and stylish shades, he defined the look, the attitude and the swagger essential to the vocation of rock guitarist.
From day one, his playing asserted the primacy of riffs and rhythm as the structural backbone of rock music. Following his lead, an entire generation discovered the ancient mysteries of the blues and learned to cultivate a little sympathy for the devil. Effortlessness is the key to Keef's cool.
He's sauntered down through the decades unfazed by stints in jail and hospital, heroin addiction, assorted femmes fatales, copious boozing, rampaging Hells Angels and assaults from fellow icons like Chuck Berry and Peter Tosh. Unconstrained by the grinding gradations of clock, calendar, public morality or legal prohibition, he has defined life on his own terms.
The same lawless sense of effortlessness defines his playing. Guitar slung low, cigarette dangling from his lip, he's never hyper, never tries too hard and always swings free of such limited concepts as lead versus rhythm. This is what enables him to get down to the raw truth of the groove.
12. Roy Orbison
Born April 23, 1936 (died December 6, 1988)
Band Solo, the Traveling Wilburys
Iconic Guitar Gibson ES-335
Classic Riff "Oh, Pretty Woman"—The Essential Roy Orbison
Most people think of Roy Orbison as the super-smooth crooner who sang songs like "Crying," "In Dreams" and "Only the Lonely." But Orbison was also a wicked guitar player, who ripped out several impressive solos on early Sun Records singles like "Ooby Dooby." In fact, Sun owner Sam Phillips was more impressed with Orbison's guitar playing than his singing during the early days of the rocker's career.
Although Orbison's good friend and Sun Records labelmate Johnny Cash may be known as "the Man in Black," Orbison habitually dressed from head to toe in black in the early Sixties, a decade before Cash adopted his dark uniform. Even Orbison's raven hair and impenetrable jet Ray-Bans were blacker than the cover to Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove, adding to his alluring persona as a mysterious, brooding artiste.
By 1964, most of Orbison's early rock and roll contemporaries were either dead, strung-out on drugs, in jail or making crappy movies, but Orbison's musical career still hadn't reached its peak. In between the ballads, he recorded singles like "Mean Woman Blues" (check his wild guitar solo) and "Oh, Pretty Woman" that showed upstarts like the Beatles, the Animals and the Rolling Stones that Americans still could rock harder than any Brit.
13. Mike Ness
Born April 3, 1962
Bands Social Distortion, Easter, solo
Iconic Guitar 1971 Gibson Les Paul gold top with Seymour Duncan P-90s
Coolest Riff "Ball and Chain"—Social Distortion
Bull necked and heavily tattooed, Mike Ness is not the kind of guy you'd want to mess with. The Southern California guitarist, singer and songwriter has known good times and bad, punching his way out of a serious drug addiction in the mid Eighties. He has funneled these experiences into some of the most hard-hitting, plain-dealing rock songs to come out of the SoCal punk milieu. Ness launched Social Distortion in 1978.
Initially a hardcore act—in fact one of the most vital bands on the Orange County beach town/skater hardcore scene—Social Distortion morphed over the years into a vehicle for Ness' ever-evolving narrative songwriting gift, dedicated to a few simple-but-slamming guitar chords and lyrics that recount life's hard lessons.
An avid skateboarder and hot-rod enthusiast, Ness epitomizes working-class Southern Californian culture. Springsteen comparisons are always dangerous, but the Boss did appear on Ness' 1999 solo disc Cheating at Solitaire. Springsteen also named Social Distortion's Heaven and Hell as his favorite record of 1992. Brian Setzer is another kindred spirit and musical collaborator. Ness is one skate punk kid who has stood the test of time.
14. James Honeyman-Scott
Born November 4, 1956 (died June 16, 1982)
Band The Pretenders
Iconic Guitar 1980 custom metal-front Zemaitis
Coolest Riff "Tattooed Love Boys"—The Pretenders
James Honeyman-Scott's moment in the spotlight was far too brief. He recorded only two albums with the Pretenders before he died of heart failure, but those tracks revealed incredible talent and versatility that quickly made him the most revered guitarist to emerge during the early days of post-punk new wave.
Honeyman-Scott's solos were concise and economical, getting the point across in only a few measures. His solo on "Kid" is a pop song unto itself that evokes the Beatles' finest melodic moments, while his three- and four-second bursts on "Tattooed Love Boys" unleash more emotion, fire and style than most guitarists can convey in an extended 15-minute solo.
Unlike most new wave guitarists at the dawn of the Eighties, Honeyman-Scott had impeccable fashion sense. He always maintained a timeless detached rocker look, and his aviator shades, medium-length shag haircut, suit jacket and jeans attire never really went out of style, unlike the geometric haircuts and DayGlo suits that many of his contemporaries wore. He always played the coolest guitars onstage as well, from classic Gibson Les Pauls and Firebirds to custom-made Hamers and Zemaitis metal-front guitars.
He even married a model with coolest imaginable name for a guitarist's girlfriend—Peggy Sue Fender.
15. Brian Setzer
Born April 10, 1959
Bands Stray Cats, Brian Setzer Orchestra
Iconic Guitar 1959 Gretsch 6120
Coolest Riff "Runaway Boys"—Stray Cats
Most musicians who revive a musical style from the past are like classic-car restorers, refusing to modify it in any way and insisting on keeping it exactly as it was back in the day. Brian Setzer is more like a hot rodder, keeping certain essential elements as a foundation but updating them with a lot more power, speed and style.
With the Stray Cats he made rockabilly sound as dangerous as punk, and his fleet-fingered solos impressed even the most technically minded metalheads. He pulled off a similar feat in the Nineties with the Brian Setzer Orchestra, making big-band jazz appealing to rockers.
Although Gretsch went out of business and ceased making guitars about the same time that the Stray Cats emerged, Setzer helped bring the company back to life by showing players just how cool Gretsch guitars could sound. As a result, Setzer was the first artist since Chet Atkins to be honored with his own signature-model Gretsch guitar.
For those of us who dread Christmas music, Setzer's holiday collections with the Brian Setzer Orchestra provide relief, giving guitar fans plenty of shredding solos to enjoy in between schmaltzy verses about figgy pudding and some fat, creepy man in red velvet pajamas.
16. Django Reinhardt
Born January 23, 1910 (died May 16, 1953)
Band Quintette du Hot Club de France
Iconic Guitar Selmer Modèle Jazz
Coolest Riff "Mystery Pacific"—The Very Best of Django Reinhardt
Electric guitarists like Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker rightfully get a lot of credit for introducing the concept of the single-string electric guitar solo, but many historians forget that Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt was shredding the strings a few years before those gents—and he didn't need electricity.
The acoustic solos Reinhardt recorded with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France between 1936 and 1940 are simply astounding displays of virtuosity, melodic taste and speed that left indelible impressions on players throughout several generations, including Les Paul, Jimmy Page and Michael Angelo Batio. Django didn't even need all four fretting fingers either, using only two left hand fingers to play complicated chords and hyperspeed solos (his third and fourth fingers were badly burned in a fire).
Django's "handicap" later inspired Tony Iommi and Jerry Garcia to keep playing guitar after they permanently injured their fretting hands. Django lived life as hard and fast as he played guitar. A notorious gambler, drinker, gourmand and womanizer, he died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 43, but his solos continue to awe players today.
17. T-Bone Walker
Born May 28, 1910 (died March 16, 1975)
Bands Solo, Sebastian's Cotton Club Orchestra, Freddie Slack's Orchestra
Iconic Guitar Gibson ES-250
Coolest Riff "Strollin' with Bone"—The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950–1954
As the first blues guitarist to pick up an electric guitar and play single-string solos in the late Thirties, T-Bone Walker didn't just lay down the foundation for electric blues and rock and roll—he also built the first three or four floors. John Lee Hooker credits T-Bone Walker with making the electric guitar popular, claiming that everybody tried to copy T-Bone's sound.
That's not an overstatement, as traces of T-Bone's influence can be heard in the early recordings of Albert, B.B. and Freddie King, Muddy Waters, and especially Chuck Berry, who adopted many of Walker's signature licks as his own. A sharp-dressed, flamboyant performer who played the guitar behind his head and did the splits without missing a note, Walker helped reposition the guitar player from the sidelines to center stage, inspiring Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan to copy his impossible-to-ignore moves.
Walker's licks were so fresh and ahead of their time that his solos on the 1942 single "Mean Old World" and his 1947 breakthrough "Call It Stormy Monday" still inspire guitarists today.
18. Jimmy Page
Born January 9, 1944
Bands The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, the Firm, Coverdale/Page
Iconic Guitar 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard
Coolest Riff "Black Dog"—Led Zeppelin IV
Normal people define cool as laid-back, excellent or highly skilled, but most guitarists define cool as Jimmy Page circa 1975 in a black velvet bellbottom suit decorated with embroidered dragons, playing a Les Paul slung down to his knees. As the musical mastermind behind Led Zeppelin, one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Page elevated the guitar riff to an art form, crafting orchestrated overdubbed parts that bludgeoned listeners like the hammer of the gods.
Page's musical contributions with Led Zeppelin are well known to readers of this magazine, but here are some cool facts about him you may not know. As a session musician in the Sixties, Page played guitar on the singles "Gloria" by Them, "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, "I Can't Explain" by the Who and "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones.
He's owned homes previously lived in by Richard Harris, Michael Caine and Aleister Crowley, and his guitar collection consists of more than 2,000 instruments. The devil sold his soul to Jimmy to learn how to play the blues. As for that guy in the Dos Equis ads, forget him—Jimmy Page has already won the title of Most Interesting Man in the World.
19. Billy Gibbons
Born December 16, 1949
Band ZZ Top
Iconic Guitar 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, a.k.a. "Pearly Gates"
Coolest Riff "Heard It on the X"—Fandango!
Bumper-sticker philosophy says that he who dies with the most toys wins. If that's true, Billy Gibbons would be the hands-down champion.
The sharp-dressed ladies man known to his friends as "the Reverend Willie G" owns more hot rods, Harleys, vintage and custom guitars, amps, stomp boxes, museum-quality African art pieces, cowboy jackets, tortoise-shell combs and cheap sunglasses than two dozen sultans of Dubai could ever hope to acquire.
Every ZZ Top tour is a treat for guitar geeks, as Gibbons uses the occasions to unveil a six-string surprise. (Last year it was an elusive Gibson Moderne.) But what really makes Gibbons cool is a certain undefinable quality called "vibe." Anyone who has ever met Billy and gotten to know him—however briefly—has an outrageous story to tell about the encounter.
Gibbons has also twisted more than a few towering tall tales in his time, but his life is so surreal that it's hard to tell where the truth ends and the trip takes over. His colorful manner of speech, known as "Gibbonics," has made him one of Guitar World's favorite interview subjects, especially since his poetic ponderings are loaded with insight, wisdom and a unique sense of humor.
20 & 21. Zacky Vengeance & Synyster Gates
Born December 11, 1981 (Vengeance); July 7, 1981 (Gates)
Bands Avenged Sevenfold (both), Pinkly Smooth (Gates)
Iconic Guitars Schecter Vengeance Custom (Vengeance); Schecter Synyster Custom (Gates)
Coolest Riff "Unholy Confessions"—Waking the Fallen
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more distinctive guitar tandem in modern metal than Zacky Vengeance (Zachary Baker) and Synyster Gates (Brian Haner, Jr.). From their sound, to their look, even to their names, the duo routinely go down guitar paths other metal axmen don't dare travel, spicing up Avenged Sevenfold's otherwise dark and aggressive attack with, among other things, hooky, major-key melodies, laid-back acoustic picking, buoyant, carnival-esque rhythms and a whole lot of style.
They can also shred like nobody's business: Though Vengeance largely fills the role of rhythm player while Gates handles the majority of the solos, almost every A7X song finds the two locking up for at least one or two rampaging runs of dual-guitar harmony leads.
Vengeance and Gates' ascent to the top of the metal guitar heap did not always seem inevitable. Avenged Sevenfold began life as a somewhat traditional Orange County–style metalcore act, as evidenced on their 2001 debut, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, for which Vengeance served as the primary guitarist. But the band has been reinventing and refining its sound ever since. By A7X's third effort, 2005's City of Evil, they had morphed into a swaggering, thrashy unit with an adventurous edge that showed itself in everything from the grand, instrumentally dense songs to the band's theatrical image.
On 2007's self-titled effort and the new Nightmare, Avenged Sevenfold have continued to expand their sonic template, leaving Vengeance and Gates plenty of space to explore a range of different styles. At the end of the day, however, metal is metal, and at its essence that means killer riffs and shredding solos, which the duo unleash in abundance. A7X staples like "Bat Country," "Almost Easy" and the latest single, "Nightmare," are chock full of blistering rhythms and finger-twisting, speed-of-light leads, while they tread that sweet spot between catchy melodicism and all-out aggression.
As metal guitar continues to evolve in even faster and wilder ways, expect Vengeance and Gates to be two of the players leading the pack for a long time to come.
22. Muddy Waters
Born April 4, 1915 (died April 30, 1983)
Band Solo
Iconic Guitar 1958 Fender Telecaster
Coolest Riff "Rollin' and Tumblin' "—The Real Folk Blues
The father of electric blues, McKinley Morganfield was born in rural Mississippi, where he absorbed the folk blues stylings of Son House, Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson. But in the Forties, he made the pilgrimage to Chicago, picked up an electric guitar and forged a bold new style all his own.
He assumed the stage name Muddy Waters and released a series of historic recordings on the legendary Chess Records label. These discs established the quintessential Muddy Waters persona—the jive-talkin', sharp-dressed, tough-as-nails, mojo-workin' Hoochie Coochie Man. Waters' confident, cocky vocal delivery was augmented by the knife-edge drama of his bottleneck guitar leads. This steely, highly electrified sound galvanized a new rising generation of British rock musicians when Muddy first visited those shores in 1958.
A group of blues-crazy Brits even took their name from one of his songs: the Rolling Stones. The blues in general, and the recordings of Muddy Waters in particular, became the "roots music" for the youth counterculture that sprang up in the Sixties. Countless bands, from the Stones on down, have assayed Waters classics like "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "Got My Mojo Workin'," "You Shook Me," "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" and "Mannish Boy."
Leading rock publications Rolling Stone and Mojo also paid proud titular homage to Muddy Waters, who passed away in 1983. It's no overstatement to say that there would be no rock and roll had Muddy Waters not come along.
23. Billy Zoom
Born February 20, 1948
Bands X, Billy Zoom Band
Iconic Guitar Gretsch Silver Jet
Coolest Riff "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"—Los Angeles (X)
As guitarist for the seminal punk band X, Billy Zoom played a key role in launching the L.A. punk scene in the late Seventies. His raw-nerved guitar work with X drew heavily on Fifties rockabilly, spelling out the connection between punk rock and the original rock and roll music.
But Zoom also served as the perfect foil for X's principal songwriters, singer Exene Cervenka and bassist John Doe, who were arty, bohemian denizens of hip L.A. environs like Silverlake and Venice. Zoom was a politically conservative Christian greaser from the notoriously uncool southern L.A. suburbs of Orange County. In the now-classic L.A. punk documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, he is famously shown refusing to get a tattoo.
But opposites not only attract—sometimes they also make groundbreaking music together. This is certainly true of Zoom's collaboration with Doe and Cervenka. Since that band broke up, Zoom has gone on to do session work with everyone from the late John Denver to the Raconteurs. He's also become semi-legendary as a guitar amp hotrod guru, having tweaked circuitry for Jackson Browne, the Black Crowes, Los Lobos, L7 and Social Distortion, among many others.
24 & 25. Wayne Kramer & Fred "Sonic" Smith
Born April 14, 1948 (Kramer); September 13, 1949 (Smith; died November 4, 1994)
Bands The MC5 (both), Gang War (Kramer), Sonic Rendezvous Band (Smith)
Iconic Guitars Custom Strat with American Flag finish (Kramer); Mosrite Ventures (Smith)
Coolest Riff "Ramblin' Rose"—Kick Out the Jams (MC5)
The MC5 were the nexus where radical politics and proto-punk belligerence first came together. This dangerous mixture touched off an explosion that's still rocking the world today. The group burst out of Detroit in the cataclysmic year of 1969, with its roots firmly planted in mid-Sixties garage rock, and mutated by injections of inner-city R&B and free-jazz mayhem.
The MC5 was founded by guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, friends since their teen years and veterans of the Detroit garage rock scene. They honed a two-guitar attack that owed much to the heavy rock sounds being popularized at the time by acts like Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Led Zeppelin. But Kramer and Smith laid down their riffs with more reckless abandon and a greater sense of desperate urgency than any of those groups.
Many Sixties rock acts made political statements, but the MC5 were among the first rockers to make a serious commitment to revolution, aligning themselves closely with the White Panther Party (a Black Panther offshoot organization) and effectively serving as the White Panthers' agitprop machine. Their blue-collar Detroit roots lent a certain gritty gravitas to their stance. These weren't effete rock stars dabbling in left wing chic but working-class guerrillas with ammo belts strapped across their bare chests and guitars brandished as rifles.
Kramer served a prison sentence on drug-related charges after the MC5 split up. When he got out, he teamed up with Johnny Thunders to form Gang War and later re-emerged as a solo artist on L.A. punk label Epitaph. Smith went on to lead the punishingly loud Sonic Rendezvous Band and married New York punk rock poet, artist, singer and originator Patti Smith. He passed away in 1994. But from the Clash to Fugazi, Crass and Green Day, the politicized wing of punk rock continues to fly the banner first raised by the Motor City 5.
26. Chuck Berry
Born October 18, 1926
Band Solo
Iconic Guitar Gibson ES-355
Coolest Riff "Johnny B. Goode"—Gold
Chuck Berry is probably the only man alive who could kick Keith Richards ass, and not only would Keef let him get away with it, he'd thank Chuck afterwards. That's because Keef knows that without Chuck there would have been no Rolling Stones, let alone the Beatles or Beach Boys.
Chuck Berry is the true founding forefather of rock and roll. His guitar playing in the mid Fifties defined the true personality and vocabulary of rock and roll guitar so comprehensively and conclusively that it's impossible to find any rock player who doesn't still steal his licks, riffs and tricks today. In fact, Berry doesn't even tour with his own band; instead, he hires local musicians to back him up, because almost everyone all over the world knows how to play his songs.
Berry is also an energetic performer who invented perhaps the ultimate rock and roll stage move: the duck walk. Surprisingly, Chuck still performs this signature move when he plays onstage, even though he's now in his 80s.
27. Lou Reed
Born March 2, 1942
Bands The Velvet Underground, solo
Iconic Guitars Gretsch Country Gentleman (Velvets), Schecter, Klein, Sadowsky and other customs
Coolest Riff "Sweet Jane"—Loaded (The Velvet Underground)
The dark underbelly is Lou Reed's comfort zone. Despair and degradation are his muses. Emerging in the mid Sixties at the helm of the Velvet Underground, he offered up a gritty black-and-white alternative to the rainbow-colored pyschedelia of the prevailing rock culture. He brought us along, albeit reluctantly, to meet junkies and hustlers, S&M bondage goddesses and suicidal transvestites. He was one of the first rock guitarists to embrace chaos truly and wholeheartedly.
But the avant-garde din of Velvet Underground rave-ups seemed a genteel curtain raiser compared with the full-bore cacophony of Lou's 1975 solo opus Metal Machine Music. The noise-guitar side of Lou's legacy set the stage for cutting-edge genres like industrial, art damage, dream pop, grunge and present-day noise exponents, like Wolf Eyes and Yellow Swans.
But Lou's edgy lyrical stance and image spawned something even more fundamental to deviant aesthetics: punk rock. It is with considerable justice that he graced the first cover of Punk magazine in 1976 and was subsequently dubbed the Godfather of Punk. Lou embodied a new kind of rebel hero, an amalgam of two distinctly different but equally vilified social pariahs: the disaffected intellectual and the scumbag street hustler. In recent years, he's added a third persona: the grumpy old man.
And let's not forget his recent album with Metallica ... Still, there can be no underestimating Lou's immense contribution to rock or the fierceness of his commitment to obtaining guitar tones and lyrical images that cut like a knife and leave a permanent scar.
28. Johnny Marr
Born October 31, 1963
Bands The Smiths, Electronic, the Pretenders, The The, Johnny Marr and the Healers, Modest Mouse, the Cribs, solo
Iconic Guitar Rickenbacker 330
Coolest Riff "What Difference Does It Make?"—The Smiths
Johnny Marr is a chief architect of the post-modern rock-guitar aesthetic. As the guitarist for seminal Eighties poetic pop stars the Smiths, he created a tonal palette and crisp stylistic approach that still forms the roadmap for much modern rock guitar playing. It was Marr who created the orchestral guitar soundscapes that enhanced the moody drama of Smiths singer Morrissey's introspective lyrics and ironically detached vocals.
From the low-string riff for "What Difference Does It Make?" to the deep tremolo textures and swooning string bends of "How Soon Is Now," Marr always seemed to have the notes and the tone to suit the moment perfectly. Marr's work has been profoundly influential to guitarists of the Nineties and beyond. Noel Gallagher of Oasis dubbed Marr "a fucking wizard," and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien has cited Marr as the reason he picked up a guitar. In essence, Marr is a classicist, drawing much of his approach from the guitar sounds of the Sixties British Invasion, yet deftly adapting those influences to rock and roll modernity.
He embodies the stylish sideman identity forged by guitar greats like George Harrison and Keith Richards: a neatly trimmed pudding-basin haircut, and a stage presence that never upstages the frontman. Yet, he is intriguing in his own right. Marr's post-Smiths career has been stellar. He's worked with everyone from New Order's Bernard Sumner (in Electronic) to Oasis to John Frusciante, and has been quite active recently with both Modest Mouse and the Cribs. He has an uncanny knack for being around whenever cool music is happening.
29. Ritchie Blackmore
Born April 14, 1945
Bands Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night
Iconic Guitar Fender Stratocaster with scalloped neck
Coolest Riff "Smoke on the Water"—Machine Head (Deep Purple)
The original dark knight of metal guitar, Ritchie Blackmore boasts a surname that evokes Medieval England and a pedigree that goes back to the beginning of classic rock. Early studies in classical guitar left him with an astounding legato technique that laid the groundwork for the neoclassical and shred movements several decades later.
In the early Sixties, Blackmore did sessions with legendary British producer Joe Meek and apprenticed with U.K. session ace (and Jimmy Page mentor) Big Jim Sullivan. Blackmore founded Deep Purple in the late Sixties and led the group through various incarnations. He also spearheaded metal icons Rainbow with the late Ronnie James Dio and has more recently played a role in Blackmore's Night with his wife Candice Night.
The history of metal wends ever onward, but, much like Mephistopheles, Ritchie Blackmore has a way of always turning up.
30. Joe Perry
Born September 10, 1950
BANDS Aerosmith, Joe Perry Project
ICONIC GUITAR Gibson Les Paul
COOLEST RIFF "Walk This Way"—Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith)
Joe Perry is the American distillation of the good-old Keith Richards/Jimmy Page recipe for sideman/lead guitarist cool. He's got the look and the licks, and he's maintained both over the course of three or four decades—despite all odds. Jagger and Richards are the Glimmer Twins, but Perry and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler went down in history as the Toxic Twins.
They took the Sixties formula of sex, drugs and rock and roll to new heights in the decadent Seventies. Yet they also cranked out a steady stream of hard rock gems throughout a career that has known more ups and downs than a roller coaster. What's perhaps most amazing about Tyler and Perry's partnership is that Perry is the sensible one.
He averages only about one meltdown to Tyler's every three and keeps the Aerosmith juggernaut anchored with endless heavy guitar hooks. He's even marketed his own brand of hot sauce. How cool is that?


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