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Friday, 06/03/2011
DTE Energy Music Theater, Clarkston, MI
Soundcheck: The Joker [unconfirmed and possibly incomplete]
Set 1: Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother, Funky Bitch, SampleSample in a Jar, NICU[1], Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, Tela > CDTChalk Dust Torture, WedgeThe Wedge
Set 2: DwDDown with Disease[2] -> Fluffhead > BowieDavid Bowie, Waste > 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > Cavern
Encore: GTBTGood Times Bad Times
[1] Happy birthday wish from Trey to Mike.
[2] Unfinished.
· Happy Birthday to You tease in NICU
· Happy Birthday to You and A Love Supreme teases in Down with Disease
· Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine and Super Bad teases in Also Sprach Zarathustra
Noteworthy Jams: Chalk Dust Torture, Down with Disease (highly recommended), David Bowie
Average Song Gap: 7.12
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: During NICU, Trey wished Mike a happy birthday. NICU subsequently contained a Happy Birthday tease from Trey. Happy Birthday was teased before and during Disease. Disease also featured a jam based on A Love Supreme and was unfinished. Also Sprach Zarathustra contained Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine and Super Bad teases from Trey.
Official Photos
LivePhish Download
"Down With Disease" Official Video
Phish.net Recap
Song Distribution:
3 Hoist
2 Stash
2 A Picture of Nectar
2 Junta
1 Billy Breathes
1 Rift
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2011 Early Summer Tour."
I found a worthy recipient for my extra ticket on the walk in.
I handed her the extra lawn tick I had and kept walking, glancing back just long enough to watch her eyes light up. As I was walking away, she chased me down and gave me a hug. I love good karma.
I've only been to 16 or so shows so my ability to compare this show is somewhat limited.
I know what I witnessed.
The first set was thoroughly enjoyable in every way. I was in the 7th row with a clear view of the band's interaction with each other and the crowd.
They were a unit. One entity. Everyone smiling and joking. I was so fortunate to hear some of my favorite Phish tunes. Tela, Wedge...etc
Honestly I wouldn't have picked DWD as a song I wanted them to open the second set with. I've seen my share and loved them all, but was hoping for something unique. In retrospect, however, I wouldn't have wanted to hear anything else.
Around the 9 or 10 minute mark, something happened. The music took on a life of it's own organically. It flowed naturally into this ambient jam/groove just kept cycling and evolving.
It sounded like so many things.
I was in a trance and completely unaware there were other people around me. My eyes were closed and the music moved through me.
When that happens, it is one of the most beautiful sensations.
I recall hearing Coltrane's 'Love Supreme' at some part of the jam but wasn't sure if the band was playing it consciously or, even more brilliant, unconsciously and it was just another part of the landscape they were painting with the music.
There were so many times at other shows where they sounded disjointed or Trey abruptly ended a jam before it had a chance to get off the ground. Friday night in Clarkston, that didn't happen.
The band played as one unit, complimenting each other, building something that took on a life of it's own.
I will never forget that Down With Disease as long as I live.
The David Bowie that followed the excellent version of Fluffhead would take a separate review as it was equally historical.
I'll just say it ranks as my favorite version to date with some incredible guitar work from Trey.
I can only hope that the other two shows I'm able to attend this summer are half as good as this second set.
The trifecta that opened up set II was as good as I have seen (I have been with the band for a very long time). The jam out of DWD had direction and great interplay between everyone. Fluffhead was flawless and, IMO, there is nothing better than Fluffhead when they really do it right. The Bowie was of the old-school variety, several different jams linked together that somehow found there way into the closing portion. Tough to keep it going after that, but they did throw a great 2001 out there (complete with James Brown jams!).
At any rate, I've only seen the band two times in since they came back (some of us are old now), but I will say that this show confirmed to me that rumor that the boys have lost a step is greatly over-stated. It isn't 1994, it isn't 1997, it isn't even 2003, but what I saw last night blew my mind just as much as it did during each of those time periods. If you are reading this and debating whether or not to catch a show on this tour, stop now and get your ticket.
Wolfman's opener was tight. Trey rocked it out and Mike, Page and Fish laid down the nice funky groove. Funky, Sample and NICU were all short and sweet. Great start to the show.
I was calling for a Mike's groove and once I found out it was his birthday I knew we would get it. First set though.......sweet. Thought we would get a Simple out of Mike's but Hydrogen was alright and seems to be a rarity these days. Mike's and Weekapaug bookends were tight and high energy. Great versions of these classic tune's.
Tela was a real nice treat. I think someone had written it on a beach ball that Trey was passing around stage before Mike hoofed it back to the crowd. Chalkdust was different with a bit of space in the jam segment. Very cool version. I was surprised at the Wedge closer but it was different and I have not seen that song live since Lemonwheel so it was a nice treat.
Out in the lot, I called the DwD second set opener b/c it had not been played for a few nights and this song follows me around. I see it every 3rd show and I don't tour with the band. Just cherry pick shows close to home. I have to admit that this is a mixed bag for me b/c I enjoy DwD but I see it so often that sometimes I find myself longing for something different. However, on this night, they really smoked this version and jammed the shit out of it. Great peaks and valleys and some really nice interplay b/w all band members on this one. Go watch the video on the Vimeo site and you'll see what i'm talking about. This version goes right to the top of the list of DwD's for me along with the galactic Great Went version. The transition into Fluffhead was absolutely seamless and they just nailed Fluffhead. Bowie (listening to it now) was also epic with them nailing all of the composed segments and then featuring a nice spacey jam before the high octane outro.
You knew we were going to get a breather after those three barn burners and Waste was a welcome treat. Definitely one of my favorite ballads. 2001 is my most seen song (9 times in 24 shows) so, again, not surprised to see this. It was a nice tight funky version. I notice they don't take this out there as much as they used too (Great Went version and MSG 12/29/98 are two versions i've seen that were just epic, loooong and funky). Cavern and GTBT were great finishers.
All in all, very impressive show with some amazing jamming. I found out yesterday that the DwD was the longest jam of 3.0. Didn't realize this at the time but DwD>Fluff>Bowie were easily the highlight of the night.
'Down With Disease' ignited the lead off slot of the second set for the second time this summer, and this time rose to new places and officially became the longest jam of Phish 3.0. We thought we had seen what Phish's new style of the ambient wall of sound was like with the 'Down with Disease' from the Alpine Valley 2010 DVD, but this version simply soars into a multi-segmented monster. Maybe Trey felt bad for taking a lot of the spotlight the past few days in New Jersey, or maybe the nearly 25 minute 'Down With Disease' was his magical birthday gift to Mike. Nine minutes in the space begins, but instead of completely laying back Big Red repeats some swanky strokes to keep a blues style momentum flowing. Gordon is definitely all over the fretboard and the band comes together in a loopy frenzy. Twelve and a half minutes in the song morphs again and Gordon opens another door into a Plinko madhouse before settling into a calming and oddly Australian rhythm. Trey layers a fleeting and delicate riff over this and embarks onto the new Phish sound of 3.0. Some call it a "Wall of Sound", to me it sounds like an electric firestorm, but whatever you name it there is no doubt that Trey is loving the use of it. On the official Live Phish release it begins around 15 minutes in and continues to build for a minute and a half before turning into a series of hammer-ons akin to the New Year's Eve 'Ghost'. Instead of progressing systematically higher on the fret board, Trey plays erratically like Thom Yorke and unleashes the beast within. After a minute of and a half of this glorious fury, Trey disappears back into a subtle electric storm, once again creating an ambient soundscape. John Coltrane's 'A love Supreme' is teased once the band floats away from the harsh, jagged, yet amazing feeling the past few minutes subjected us to. Interestingly enough, for those setlist nerds out there, the following night Chicago rockers Umphrey's McGee teased the song in their rendition of "Jimmy Stewart" at the Mountain Jam in Hunter, NY. Finally, after a series of arpeggios, the Trey seamlessly leads the rest of the band into 'Fluffhead', proving once again that he has it in him to make some seriously good moves if he doesn't let his TreyDHD get the best of him. Instead of bolting into Fluff, he slowly melds the notes into the final glimpses of Disease and makes the song come to him, and not the other way around. The summer's second 'David Bowie', also a 16 minute monster, was nothing to laugh about either. Until this show I thought May 31st held the best jam segments worthy of a DVD, but this time around it may be clear - until tomorrow - what is the best. Although who wants another Disease monster? Everyone. The fast paced '2001' brought the stunned crowd back to the feet after a short and much needed 'Waste' break ('Down With Disease' > 'Fluffhead' > 'David Bowie' clocks in at about an hour for the three of them!). After a very appropriate and lively 'Cavern', the lights went down and the crowd waited for the first encore of Phish's Midwest journey. 'Good Times, Bad Times', a song many thought would make an appearance in Holmdel on June 1st, slid its way once again into the setlist, usually nothing short of disappointing.
Wolfman's and Funky Bitch were a great choice to start with and the rest of set 1 was very strong. The spontaneous Tela (a request via beach ball thrown onstage) was unexpected but refreshing, though not as strong as everything else (probably because the band wasn't expecting it).
Set 2 was AMAZING!! The 25min DwD -> Fluffhead > Bowie were flawless. I was never really a fan of Fluffhead until I heard it played live. It had so much energy!! The Fluff's Travels extension of Fluffhead is a great piece of music in my opinion, and they played it well that night. The rest of set 2 was excellent.
The encore of GTBT was well-played, although I'm sick of that song in all honesty.
Overall it was a great show. I think I've re-listened to it about 10 times and am still blown away. My first Phish show turned out to be arguably one of the best shows of 3.0 and by far the best show they've played so far this tour. It was an amazing experience, and I'll never forget it.
The whole place was standing and gettin' down the entire show, the band was tight. TELA was a bit of a let down but appeared to be played as a request, (or a well planned set up?), but we needed a couple of slow jams to catch our breath. Waste was a good slow one too... especially if you had your girl by your side, good make out song before the next funk fest jam.
This was a heavy funk night! Mike's birthday and he stretched his legs in honor of it. We tried to get the pavillion to sing him happy birthday but it never caught on... Happy Birthday Mike! Thanks for giving US the gift of that incredible show!!
"DWD contained a Happy Birthday tease and a jam based on A Love Supreme."
This is false. The supposed 'A Love Supreme jam' is based on a jaunty two-note rhythm that happens to be the same as the famous chant in 'A Love Supreme' - not to mention half the dance rhythms ever played, Jesus - and Page does at times play the full four-note chant line, but it takes more than a single one-measure rhythmic concordance to make a jam 'based on' anything. It must feel nice to spot such things, but it's not there this time. Four notes don't make a song; context matters. The musics are totally different. C'mon now!
Like the ballyhooed NYE '95 'Fire on the Mountain' jam that Dirksen used to get monomaniacal about, this one's just (very very very brief) coincidence. I think someone was just out to win cred this time; ho hum.
Thanks for coming to visit metro Detroit again Phish! Come back soon
This was quite the birthday show for Cactus. First set was packed with jams that highlighted Mike. I really enjoyed the CDT in this first set, it took on a weird, slower tempo but it was great nonetheless. Even though the first set is a good one, the second set is what this show is all about.
The DWD to open set two was phenomenal...really just a great, out-there version. Follow that up with a seamless segue into Fluffhead and you've got a knockout second set opening sequence. Looking back at this setlist, there really isn't a dull moment in there. After a well-executed Fluffhead we get a high-energy David Bowie followed by a soothing Waste to bring it back down for a bit. 2001 is always a dance party, and Cavern never disappoints in the closing slot. GTBT was my first Phish-Zeppelin cover and it was killer. Being only my third Phish show this was quite the treat. I had no idea what was in store for me on this weekend, but night one at DTE was a good start!


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BRECKENRIDGE - The town of Breckenridge signed on Tuesday to help fund an estimated $1.3 million renovation and expansion of the Backstage Theatre, helping the local nonprofit put on bigger shows and host casts from across the region.
Town leaders opted to support the improvement and expansion of the existing theater rather than scraping the building and constructing a new one, saying they hoped to preserve the quirky character of the little performance center.
"I want to support the Backstage Theatre, but I believe there is magic in it being a small community theater," Councilwoman Wendy Wolfe said Tuesday. "That is partly captured and encapsulated in the fact that this is an eclectic building with the organic nature of the whole arts district."
The building, officially the Breckenridge Theatre, is owned by the town and leased to the Backstage Theatre, a private nonprofit that town leaders have recognized as a partner and anchor tenant of the Breckenridge arts district.
The renovation will include a new shower and dressing room, additional storage, extra space for set construction and rehearsals, a bigger, taller stage and improvements to the small lobby area where the theater sells tickets and drinks.
The council passed on the theater's request to increase seating.
Backstage representatives say the improvements - particularly the addition of the shower and dressing room, which would allow them to host professional actors - are "vital and necessary" to the continued growth and health of the operation.
Although they would prefer a new theater.
"It introduces the exciting ability ... to start fresh and create a theater experience that is contemporary, modern and state of the art," artistic director Chris Willard told the council Tuesday. "I think we will always be quirky, because we understand this community and we understand what our place is in that community."
The council was divided on the question. Councilman Mike Dudick suggested the issue be put on hold until money could be saved for a new theater, which would cost up to $3 million.
But others said reconstruction wasn't a realistic option.
"It's not going to happen," Councilman Mark Burke said. "I don't think there's the passion on this council to spend that kind of money, so it would have to go to the community and I don't think there's this kind of money in the community right now."
The Backstage has been operating in Breckenridge for more than 30 years, claiming to be the oldest and most-award wining theater on the Western Slope.
But in recent years the theater has hit a wall, representatives say, unable to accommodate the musicals and better-known productions that attract larger audiences.
The improvements will allow the organization to implement five and 10-year plans to increase profitability and attendance and reduce "dark days" - the amount of time the theater has to close for turnover between productions.
The Backstage currently goes dark for 10 days to two weeks between shows.

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PBS Premieres Documentary About Activist Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs, who turns 99 on Friday, has been calling for an American revolution for 60 years.
In the mid-1960s, she was known as a Black Power figure; according to her FBI file, she was believed to be of Chinese — and African descent, like her late activist husband Jimmy.
How she defines revolution – and how she became a philosopher with seven decades of activism – is the subject of "American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," which will have its national broadcast premiere Monday on PBS' POV (Point of View) documentary series. (The 87-minute film will also stream on PBS' website from July 1-30.)
"Folks didn't really think of Grace as a Chinese American," said Ron Scott, a Detroit activist, in one film clip. "She was Grace, she was one of us."
Born in Rhode Island during World War I, five years before American women won the right to vote, Boggs would become active in the labor, civil rights, Black Power, women's, anti-war, Asian American and environmental justice movements.
She has written that being born both female and Chinese gave her a sense of being an outsider to mainstream society. Despite a doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr in 1940, she said discrimination would have made it unlikely for her to become a university professor back then.
It was A. Philip Randolph's threatened "March on Washington" by 100,000 African Americans in 1941 that led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, banning racial discrimination in government hiring, including the defense industry which at the time was in a war boom. Boggs recalled, "Boy, if a movement could do that, that's what I want to do with my life."
The black struggle was what drew her to the radical movement. The Marxist ideas that had gained influence during the Depression were applicable toward encouraging workers to gain control of production. And in her autobiography, "Living for Change," Boggs saw 1950s Detroit, the Motor City that was then at its industrial apex, as the "movement city" where radical history had been and would be made.
Capturing Boggs is filmmaker Grace Lee, who learned of her 14 years ago while filming "The Grace Lee Project." It explored other Asian American women who share the name, one she found could be suffocating when associated with the dull model minority stereotype.
In trying to find "revolutionaries" who break the mold, she found an actual one in Grace Lee Boggs. "I knew I wanted to make a longer film on her," said Lee, who wouldn't begin the filming of "American Revolutionary" in earnest until 2008.
Among the challenges Lee faced was in capturing the philosophers and thinkers whose ideas Boggs absorbed. "She throws [G.W.F.] Hegel out there," Lee said. "She expects you to have this background." What transpires is an animated sequence, "Hegel in 30 seconds," about dialectical thinking, or the analysis of the contradictions that arise when reality is always changing. Then it was "Marx in 30 seconds," and then "Dr. King versus Malcolm X."
Boggs had considered herself a "Malcolmist" and thought King was naïve; these beliefs would later evolve, as would King's and Malcolm X's as well.
Lee didn't want to do a documentary that unfolded like an autobiography. "I wanted to take the feeling we had when we first saw Grace Lee Boggs speak in public – that sense of excitement…My job is to make it visual and cinematic." Boggs' words would live on in her writings; a film could capture her personality, Lee said.
Boggs, often seen wearing a shirt with the word "revolution" — the {r} set off by curly brackets — defines a rebellion, fueled by anger and resentment, as an outburst of a revolution, whereas the latter takes patience and small steps. "Revolution is an evolution toward something much grander: what it means to be a human being," she says in the film. Rather than wait for changes to happen from the top down, people have to "change ourselves in order to change the world."
That philosophy underlies the Boggs Center, which operates from the top floor of her home and has become a hub to nurture community leadership. This week the center is hosting "Visionary Organizing," an annual gathering of leaders to discuss problems including gentrification, school closures and joblessness.
Back in 1992, Boggs and her husband had launched "Detroit Summer" as a response to the city's blight, drugs and gangs. Inspired by Freedom Summer 50 years ago, when students from the North assisted in the voter registration drive in Mississippi, Detroit Summer's aim was to enlist youth to rebuild the city. They transformed empty spaces into community gardens, organized festivals, rehabilitated houses, painted murals. In doing so, the youth would also transform themselves.
The first volunteer was Julia Putnam, then 16. "That we could rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up was very appealing to me," she said by phone. "In high school, to be successful I had to get good grades to leave Detroit. Detroit Summer gave me the opportunity to make it better, not to leave it."
Today she is the principal of the Boggs School, which just completed its first year as a charter school serving elementary age children. Its vision is to make community-building an educational tool and to foster future leaders. It's the kind of American revolution Boggs has been calling for.


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It's been two years since the historic towboat W.P. Snyder Jr. returned to port in Marietta after undergoing $1.4 million in renovations, mostly to the 94-year-old vessel's hull and paddlewheel.
Now the sternwheeler is scheduled to spend another winter at a shipyard for additional repairs that are estimated to cost around $712,000.
"Last time most of the work was on the hull, below the waterline, which was not visible to the public, but this work will be on the decks, above the boat's waterline," said LeAnn Hendershot, interim manager of the Campus Martius and Ohio River Museums. The Snyder is part of the Ohio River Museum site.
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SAM SHAWVER The Marietta Times
Museum grounds and maintenance worker Brian Hitchcock on Wednesday puts up a sign that the W.P. Snyder Jr. towboat is closed for the season. The vessel is expected to be towed out for repairs over the winter.
She said the museum staff is hopeful the work can be done while the Ohio River Museum is closed for the season.
"The river museum is open April through October. We close at the end of October because after that we usually begin to have bad weather," Hendershot said, adding that the main Campus Martius Museum on Second Street will stay open all year.
George Kane, director of historic sites and facilities for the Ohio Historical Society, said work on the W.P. Snyder Jr. won't be as extensive as the hull replacement that took 10 months to complete in 2009 and 2010.
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"Now that the hull project is done we're looking at the decks and other work, including rewiring of the boat," he said. "But there are some things that have to be completed before we can move the boat."
Kane said agreements with funding agencies will have to be finalized, and bid documents are being finished up so the society can advertise for a contract on the project.
A federal Transportation Enhancement Grant for $736,000 will provide the majority of the funding. That includes expected contingencies and other costs for the project.
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- The W.P. Snyder Jr. is expected to be towed to a shipyard facility for deck and wiring work this winter. The basic project cost is estimated to be around $712,000.
- Major funding for the project will come through a federal Transportation Enhancement Grant in the amount of $736,000, which will cover additional costs and contingencies expected for the project.
- The 94-year-old towboat spent 10 months in drydock at South Point during 2009 and 2010 for a $1.4 million hull replacement.
Source: Ohio Historical Society
He said a time frame is still being figured out for the project.
"We are dealing with a window of opportunity here. The boat needs to be moved while the rivers are still down because of the bridges she'll have to pass under on the way to the shipyard," Kane said.
Although the deck work and rewiring will be done above the waterline, he said it's likely the towboat will have to be put in drydock during the renovations.
The W.P. Snyder Jr. is the last steam-powered sternwheeler towboat of its kind still afloat in the U.S.
"The Snyder is a really important boat that had a part in the history of navigation," Kane said. "So we want to keep it in good shape."
The towboat will, itself, have to be towed by tugboats when it's moved to the shipyard, as the engines on the W.P. Snyder Jr. have not been used for some time.
"The engines and boilers have been inspected and are in pretty good condition, but they haven't been fired up since 1955 when the boat was originally brought to Marietta," Kane explained.
Hendershot said the vessel is a big part of the museum experience for visitors.
"When it's gone for repairs we really miss it," she said. "And hopefully we'll continue to have the staff to keep it maintained. The boat really needs someone full-time to do maintenance."
Although the Snyder remains moored on the Muskingum River when it's at the museum, Hendershot noted it still takes a lot of work and money to keep it maintained.


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As we rejoin our little band of castaways, they are celebrating making the final five. Abi actually thanks them for keeping her. Of course, she thinks it was her big bluff about having a fantasy immunity idol that saved her, but in truth, the other four think she can't possibly beat them so they'd rather keep her in the game, as much as she annoys them. And us.
Malcolm realizes he now knows exactly where former teen starlet Lisa stands. Lisa had said she would rather sit next to someone in the final that she could beat, rather than one who deserved to be there. Now he knows for certain that she'll be gunning for him. But because he has a hidden immunity idol that is good only through the next tribal council, he doesn't have to worry too much.
The next morning, Abi wanders off into the jungle and everyone starts talking about how silly she is being, pretending to have an idol. With her head on the chopping block at the last tribal council, she would have played the idol if she had it. She didn't, so she doesn't.
Meanwhile, Abi tells the camera that she needs to break up Malcolm's and Denise's alliance, and that if Denise doesn't win the next immunity challenge, she needs to go home ASAP. Not sure how she's going to manage to do that, but perhaps she will come up with a fantasy ballot to ensure it.
To set her plan in motion, Abi goes to Lisa and tells her that Malcolm and Michael are solid, and that Lisa is on the bottom of the alliance of four, so she should be very, very careful. This is the worst acting job we've seen since Elvis played Hamlet. OK, we made that up, but imagine how bad it would have been, then double it to get Abi's performance in warning Lisa to be careful.
Lisa tells the camera she didn't buy it for a minute, but she pretends to because she needs to keep Abi close, either to take to the finals or to gain her vote on the jury. It would feel "yucky" to take Abi to the finals, Lisa says, but she might do it.
Lisa feels she is controlling her destiny, but she'll need to wait until the right time to make her big move. But right now, it's time for a treat.
Reward challenge
The contest this time is to race up a wooden pyramid, slide down the other side, run into the ocean and retrieve bundles of rope rings. Then the rings must be tossed onto a board with pegs. First one to ring all of the pegs wins reward, which is a helicopter-boat trip to paradise with pizza, whale watching and, oh yeah, they can take two players with them.
It comes down to Michael and Malcolm, and Michael pulls it off. Michael chooses Malcolm and Lisa to join him, giving Denise all of his rations for the day. Lisa promises to wash the dishes when she comes back. Abi sulks and says she guesses her vote doesn't mean anything.
Abi tells the camera she was crushed not to be chosen and to make it worse, she has to hang out with Denise, who isn't upset about not going on the reward, but is none too happy to have to put up with Abi. Denise describes it as going on a date with the kid who pulled your hair and spit in your lunch in elementary school.
But Denise is determined to let Abi prattle on about being the swing vote and playing her invisible immunity idol, and just get through the afternoon. After a while, though, Denise is wishing for something to gouge out her own eyes and needles to plunge into her ears so wouldn't have to see or hear Abi.
Meanwhile, Lisa, Malcolm and Michael are kicking back on a boat, eating pizza and cookies, and drinking "pop." Malcolm explains that Michael doesn't eat sugar in his "real life," so he got a super sugar rush with the sodas and the cookies, and it all makes him fun to be around. Who knew?
Dining done, they go swimming with whales and Michael, of course, collides with one of them. But the biggest shock is yet to come. Malcolm tells them the only way that any of them can win is to cut out Denise, his longest and best partner and original alliance member. But they all agree that they will be in the final three.
Lisa isn't sure it's a good idea. Michael thinks it is because Malcolm is the most likely to win immunity, which would give him the power to decide who goes with him to the final. Lisa thinks Malcolm is too big of a threat to win it all, but she's leaving her options open. If it works to her advantage, she'll stick with the threesome. If not, she'll work it out.
The next morning, Denise is in great pain. Something bit her in the neck, leaving fang marks, and it's burning and she can hardly raise her arm. Abi helpfully suggests it could be poison. Denise tries to tough it out and Lisa and Michael pray over her to be healed. Abi, not so much into the whole sympathy thing. She came to win a million dollars, not worry about someone else. News flash, Abi, you didn't have to tell us that. We already knew it.
Immunity challenge
As the players arrive for the immunity challenge, Jeff Probst asks how everyone is holding up and Denise tells him about her misery. Probst points out that this could be an opening for Abi, who agrees and says it's the story of her life, going after opportunities.
The challenge today is to use two planks to cross a rope bridge, collecting two pieces of a maze along the way. Then the maze is assembled onto a big tilt table where they players must maneuver a ball through the maze to the finish point. First one to complete the challenge, wins immunity. So let's go.
Malcolm is almost across the rope bridge when he falls and has to start over. Michael is through to the maze part first, followed quickly by Denise and Lisa.
After several tense moments and lead changes, Malcolm comes froms way behind to win immunity, which he doesn't need. Will he give his hidden immunity idol to one of the others? Denise tells the camera that it's a slam dunk to vote off Abi and she will at last be rid of her. Uh, Denise, you may discover that you'll be rid of her, but that's because you've been sent to Loser's Lodge instead of Abi. Oh the intrigue.
Abi talks to Michael about keeping her, and Michael talks to Lisa, who actually is keen on keeping Abi and voting Denise off. Denise asks Malcolm for the "extra" immunity idol, but they agree there's no need. Everyone is voting Abi off. Aren't they?
Tribal council
Probst wastes little time addressing Abi, telling her that her tribemates hate her, laugh at her, think she's clueless and not nice (are you getting to a question here, Jeff, or do you just like rubbing salt into the wound?), so that makes her the perfect person to take to the finals. Denise agrees, if that's the way you want to play the game. She doesn't.
Abi says that no one can beat Denise and Malcolm. Lisa and Michael don't have a chance of winning, Abi says, and when Michael tries to speak, she calls him an idiot and a moron. Pot, meet kettle.
Probst sends them off to vote, then tallies the ballots. No one plays a hidden immunity idol and the votes are thus: Denise, Abi, Abi, and yes! Abi is gone at last. Choirs of angels sing in harmony. As the remaining players leave, Michael does a joyful dance and everyone else laughs with glee. Don't let the banana bush hit you in the rear as you leave, Abi.
Next time: Big season finale, 8 p.m. Sunday, followed by a 60-minute reunion show at 10 p.m.


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CORVALLIS — Oregon State freshman Andrew Moore and sophomore Michael Conforto were each named first-team All-Americans by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) on Monday.
The honors come on the heels of the Beavers' run at the College World Series in Omaha, which saw Oregon State finish with a 2-2 record and remain as one of the last four teams still alive. OSU tallied 52 wins on the year, setting a new school record.
For Moore, it's his third All-America honor of the year after both Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball recognized him earlier in June. He finished the season with a 14-2 record, tying for the nation's lead in victories. The 14 wins also tied him with Scott Christman (1993) for the most ever by an Oregon State pitcher.
Moore, the Pac-12's freshman of the year, posted a 1.79 earned run average, the 10th-lowest single season total in team history. He struck out 72 and walked just 28 in 131 innings of work, and the righty held opponents to a .207 average while compiling a 0.92 WHIP.
Conforto was named the Pac-12's player of the year and was a first-team All-America selection by Perfect Game. He finished the year tied for the Pac-12's lead with 11 home runs — giving him 24 in two seasons at Oregon State.
Conforto also finished in a tie for the Pac-12's lead with a .447 on-base percentage. He's first with 41 walks, second with 130 total bases, fourth with 81 hits, tied for sixth with 47 runs batted in and tied for eighth with 14 doubles.
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Hep, on 13 July 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:
how did you obtain this "fact"? seems a lot more like an assumption.
Events scale, there's probably a sweet spot in active player pop where a given event is as it's lowest relative difficulty. However that really does not mean that 'more' automatically means 'easier', at some point you will hit diminishing returns.


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I wrote a tiny script to iterate through folders and create a txt file within them folders but this doesn't work:
# Iterate through folders and create txt file$location = Get-ChildItem -Path '\\path\to\directory'ForEach ($folder in $location){ New-Item -Path "\\path\to\directory\$folder" -ItemType file "IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt" }
and I am a little confused about why it doesn't - I get an error about not being able to assign "IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt" to a parameter.
Instead I have to write the script like this (which works):
# Iterate through folders and create txt file
$location = Get-ChildItem -Path '\\path\to\directory'
ForEach ($folder in $location)
{ New-Item -ItemType file "\\path\to\directory\$folder\IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt"
Just wondering if you can explain to me why my other script above doesn't work - it has been driving me nuts.
You're treating $folder as if it were just a folder name (like C:\Windows), but it isn't. It's an entire Folder object. Rather than using $folder, you probably want to use something like $folder.Name.
Likewise, $location isn't a folder - it's a collection of Folder objects.
Inside your ForEach loop, add:
$folder | gm
And you'll see what $folder actually contains. Right now, what's working is only working because PowerShell's doing some finagling under the hood for you. It's a bad idea to rely on that - it'd be better to explicitly tell it what part of $folder to use.
Also, you need to provide a parameter name for all of your parameters. You've got -Path and -ItemType, but I suspect you meant to put "-Name "IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt". Because you're just putting that value there, PowerShell is trying to assign the value to a parameter positionally, and there's nothing that makes sense for that.
It works the second time, I'm guessing, because you've put the value in the second position, and PowerShell knows what to do with that. If you'd use parameter names for every parameter, it'd work regardless.
Thankyou very much Don, that makes alot more sense now - your right, i was treating $folder as if it was a folder name instead of an object with multiple properties (am I right in thinking everything in powershell is an object?) I see it is definitely worth using get-member to see what an object contains.
Yup, EVERYTHING - even a simple String - is an object.


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November 30, 2011
Town Known for First Thanksgiving is Grateful for Energy Savings
The town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is synonymous with Thanksgiving. One year after the 1620 landing of the famous Mayflower, the town was the site for the very first harvest celebration between the Pilgrim settlers from England and the local members of the Wampanoag tribe.
As "America's Hometown," Plymouth has embarked on a path to energy efficiency to reduce energy waste in the coming years, while also exploring opportunities to expand use of renewable energy sources.
A 2009 energy audit identified the largest uses of municipal energy, as well as where the biggest savings could be realized. To help implement energy efficiency upgrades, the town received $514,000 in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funding from DOE as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
One of the most obvious projects on the town's list was to improve the energy efficiency of Memorial Hall, a 1,300 seat civic arena built in 1921 and used for concerts, plays, town assemblies, proms, graduations, and basketball games. See the Energy Blog post.


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STOCKTON - A 32-year-old man in the 2400 block of East Main Street around 1:45 a.m. Monday was shot after someone told the victim he looked at him wrong.
The assailant, a passenger in a white Ford F-150 pickup in a parking lot, told the victim he looked at him wrong and shot at the victim four times, striking him once in the abdomen.
The victim fled on his bicycle to the 2400 block of Church Street where he called 911. He was transported to an area hospital and was listed in stable condition with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
The shooter was described as a Latino man about 35 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 320 pounds, bald and wearing a black-and-white-striped shirt. The woman driving the pickup is also being sought by police.
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LAFAYETTE -- Colleen O'Keefe believes succeeding in the art of improvisation can be summed up in one word: Trust.
O'Keefe, who takes drama courses at Diablo Valley College, said that it takes courage and having the right mindset when you're on stage to be an improv performer.
"You're nervous before the show because you don't know what's going to happen," said O'Keefe, a Pleasant Hill resident. "But you have to trust the other performers you've been working with for awhile. You've gotten to know them and trust it will work out."
That's the nature of performing in full-length improvised plays -- there's no script but plenty of room for improvisation based on suggestions from the audience, said Kenn Adams, artistic director of Synergy Theater, a new performance and training program focused on the art of improvisation. The program is based at the Manzanita Hall of the Lafayette Community Center.
Synergy Theater will kick off a slew of shows and classes with "Play by Play," an improvised, no-script two-act play at 8 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Lafayette Community Center that depends on audience suggestions for the title and characters -- then Synergy Theater performers take care of the rest.
"It's kind of hard to mess up with improv because good performers will take whatever you think is a 'mess up' and build it into something great," O'Keefe said.
Besides the interactive nature of improvisation, O'Keefe said that this kind of performing keeps you on your toes.
"It helps to pay attention to what's on stage and to stay in the moment," she said. "You get to perform, act and direct a play -- use all portions of your brain, then just go with the flow."
Adams, a Lafayette resident, has mastered the art of improvisation since his days as a student in New York City studying playwriting and acting. He developed the "Play by Play" improv format years ago in the hopes of bringing it to the stage as a full-length play -- minus a script.
Beyond the Jan. 26 show, Adams also will teach improv classes for adults and teens.
"I give people an understanding of the classic dramatic structure, how good plays are built from beginning, middle to end," said Adams, author of the book "How to Improvise a Full-Length Play."
Previously, Adams, who spent three years as Director of Education for Willows Theater Company, worked with local schools and theaters to introduce children to improvisation blending entertainment, fantasy, adventure and education through interactive performances.
Even though improvised plays rely on audience suggestions and interaction, performers still need to rehearse, Adams said.
"When improvisers rehearse, we practice and develop the skills that are necessary to perform," said Adams. "We use drills and exercises to practice the three rules of improvisation -- be spontaneous, make your partner look good, and build on your partner's idea."
The performers also use team-building activities to develop their ensemble and use theater exercises to build their skills as actors, directors and playwrights -- all necessary in order to improvise a play, he said.
"Also, we explore the particular body of knowledge that we need for a given show," Adams said. "For example, if we're going to improvise a play in the style of a famous playwright, then we'll spend time at rehearsal reading and discussing that playwright's work. It's very much like the way a professional basketball team has ongoing practices in order to build their skills and develop the team, even though they don't know what's going to happen in the actual game."
Mike Stauber of Concord has been improvising for 10 years and has worked with a number of professional groups. Stauber heard about Adams and Synergy Theater through his wife, Ashley, who also performs with Synergy Theater.
"Kenn told us about his vision for a theater group that improvised full-length plays, and it sounded incredible," said Stauber. "After one rehearsal, I was hooked."
" 'Play by Play' has been the most challenging yet rewarding experience that I have ever been a part of regarding improv," said Ashley. "This show is for theater lovers and improvisation enthusiasts alike, and it'll amaze you what can unfold in front of you in two hours."
Stauber said he invites people to watch a performance they will never see anywhere else.
"Every night we bring new characters to life and tell new stories that are completely original," he said. "You never know if it will be a drama, a farce or a love story. It's a completely unique theater experience where anything can happen, but the stories will always be genuine and heartfelt."
Synergy Theater 'Play by Play'
WHEN: 8 p.m. Jan. 26
WHERE: Lafayette Community Center, 500 St. Marys Road
INFORMATION: $8 general. $5 students and seniors. Visit www.LafayetteRec.org or www.SynergyTheater.com


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Teens + cellphones = Instagram and Twitter.
Or at least that's been the reason schools have banned the use of these mobile devices during class.
But the ubiquitousness and power of these links to the Internet is turning them into more than a means for social networking as teachers harness the power of students' smart phones for their own purposes.
"There are so many whiz-bang things they can do on their phone, but I want them to realize that they can use this computer in their pocket to do their schoolwork," said Louise Colbert, a technology teacher at Byron's Excelsior School.
And Byron Union School District isn't the only one in far East Contra Costa where students are gaining new freedom to use smart phones as an educational tool.
Brentwood teacher Kim Sudweeks, along with the rest of her colleagues in Adams Middle School's math department, began sending mass text messages last fall alerting students who sign up on the website Remind101.com -- and most of them have -- to upcoming tests and projects.
She schedules two reminders for weekend homework, one for early Saturday afternoon explaining what the assignment entails and another for Sunday evening asking whether they've done it.
Sudweeks also has found another way of using kids' love affair with their phones to her advantage: Although they aren't crazy about textbooks, she says they're more likely to finish a required reading if she lets them take photos of the pages.
"They have an excuse to have the device out," she said.
The camera applications also help kids who shuttle between divorced parents: When they forget to take a book from one home to the next, they still can read the text off their phone.
Similarly, students regularly take a snapshot of notes and assignments their teacher has written on the whiteboard, preferring their iPhones and Samsungs to old-school pen and paper.
Colbert's seventh- and eighth-graders often use their cell phones to collaborate on a paper or slideshow they've created with Google Docs while enroute to some extracurricular activity.
As for cell phones' in-class applications, the possibilities are almost limitless.
Teachers have used their own cell phones to download apps that track students' participation in class and randomly choose names to call on, eliminating the chance of favoring those who always raise their hands.
When Sudweeks found herself trying to teach two students who barely spoke English, she turned to the app iTranslate to communicate. She'd type in a word or sentence they didn't understand and the software converted it to Spanish or Arabic, both written and spoken.
Adams Middle School's Brian Brown lets his language arts students consult their phones to look up definitions of unfamiliar words and he plans on allowing their use for online research when classes embark on an in-depth study of the science fiction novel "The Hunger Games" later this month.
Eighth-graders in Kiara Boyle's math classes have been taking tests on their phones this year, usually from home because the Excelsior School educator wants to maximize the amount of time she has to teach.
Students log into a virtual classroom and answer questions posed in various formats -- multiple choice, true/false, ones that require a text or hand-drawn response and others that gauge the intensity of their opinions from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree."
The results are charted as a bar graph and displayed instantly, showing Boyle whether her class has grasped a concept.
Liberty High School students in Anita Kaddoura's algebra and geometry classes do their homework the old-fashioned way, then upload a photo of their answers to a website where she corrects the work.
Teens also can communicate with each other as well as her via the site, leaving notes that Kaddoura receives as text messages or posting comments on a blog.
In addition, they'll use their phones to download apps that help them figure out how to draw parabolas on a graph as well as to access a website that presents step-by-step solutions to equations they key in.
The way Kaddoura sees it, students' cell phones are a portal to other technology they'll need down the road.
"If we send them to university without giving them the skills to use, they get lost," she said, noting that at the start of the school year some of her freshmen didn't know how to upload photos to a website or message her via the Internet. "I don't want them to miss out on anything."
Teachers also point out that by allowing students to use cell phones in class, they don't have to jockey for space in crowded computer labs.
As for the potential distraction, those embracing cellular technology say it isn't an insurmountable problem.
Brown circles the room to ensure kids keep their devices where he can see them and directs them to specific websites rather than risk them stumbling across inappropriate content during a Google search.
"I have to be that filter," Brown said, noting that students are accessing the Web through their own data provider instead of the school's Wi-Fi network, which has a built-in screening function.
Although Boyle routinely confiscates cell phones from youngsters who can't resist responding to a friend's text message, she says there will always be those who find a way to flout the rules even if cell phones are verboten.
Freedom High School parent Kerri Seligman and her husband gave their 15-year-old daughter a Samsung after a couple of her teachers touted cell phones' usefulness at back-to-school night.
Now a believer, she thinks it's wiser for schools to incorporate cell phones into lessons instead of prohibiting them.
"It's not going away (and) if you can use it as a tool to help teach these kids other than the conventional ways, which don't always work ... a kid might ... get it quicker," Seligman said. "The whole object is to get them to learn, right?"
Contact Rowena Coetsee at 925-779-7141. Follow her at Twitter.com/RowenaCoetsee.


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Contact Information
Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo
219 Bryant Street
Buffalo, NY 14222
- (716) 878-1074
- (716) 878-7883 Fax
- Map & Directions
Quality and Patient Safety
Asthma Home Management Plan (HMP)
An asthma home management plan is a written plan to help maintain control of asthma at home. The plan outlines a child's asthma triggers, the controller medications they should be taking, an action plan if the child has an asthma attack, and physician contact information. The plan allows patients and families to be educated on the child's treatment plan and know how to control and manage their child's asthma.
What are we doing to maintain our goal?
- Extensive patient education for patients and families prior to discharge


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March 16, 2011
DOE Finalizes $50 Million Loan for CNG-Powered Vehicles
The CNG-powered MV-1 will feature a ramp and a large side door for wheelchair accessibility.
Credit: The Vehicle Production Group, LLC
DOE announced on March 10 that it has finalized a nearly $50 million loan to support the development of the six-passenger MV-1, a purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible vehicle that will run on compressed natural gas (CNG). The vehicle will be produced by the loan recipient, The Vehicle Production Group LLC, at the AM General Plant in Mishawaka, Indiana, the site where the military Humvee and the General Motors Hummer H2 are produced.
The CNG-powered MV-1 will produce lower emissions than gasoline-fueled vehicles. The manufacturer estimates that at full capacity, the project will produce more than 22,000 vehicles per year, creating some 100 jobs in Indiana. The company, a startup in Miami, Florida, says MV-1 is the only purpose-built vehicle that was designed from the ground up for wheelchair accessibility and is the only factory-built, light-duty vehicle to date that meets or exceeds the guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The vehicle features a deployable access ramp with a 1,200-pound weight capacity, a 36-inch entryway, and an interior that accommodates up to six occupants, including one or two wheelchair passengers and the driver.
DOE's Loan Programs Office oversees the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, which backs innovative, advanced technologies that create thousands of clean energy jobs while reducing the nation's dependence on oil. DOE has provided more than $8 billion in loans to advanced technology vehicle manufacturers, including Ford Motor Company, Fisker Automotive, Nissan North America, and Tesla Motors. See the DOE press release.


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Red-Light Cameras
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:44 p.m.
The report from the Lakeland Police Department clearly shows that red-light cameras do not reduce accidents at monitored intersections. In fact, it looks like they cause them.
Comparison of three-year periods show there were 204 accidents with the cameras versus 178 without — an increase of 15 percent. The figures by themselves do not comprise a rigorous statistical analysis, but the difference is unquestionably significant.
This is just another example of how reasonable, commonsense assumptions are proved false when tested in the real world.
City commissioners must put aside their prejudices and preconceptions and reconsider the effectiveness of the program.
They should not rationalize, for example, that only a portion of some intersections had cameras.
The post-camera numbers might have been higher with full coverage. It is difficult to accept hard facts that conflict with deep-rooted beliefs, but it is obvious that cameras might not be right for Lakeland.
If commissioners proceed to install more cameras, they need to at least justify them in light of the higher accident rates.
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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
As I'm getting more and more things in trade these days and many of those don't come out very quickly, I often miss titles that everyone is raving about for my year-end lists (see: Daredevil). So I've decided to do a post every month about the various trade paperbacks I got in the month. I've also included editions of things that may be from an earlier year but which I didn't get until now or which have been re-released, and some other stuff, too. I'm still going to review new graphic novels individually, but this is for anything that doesn't fall into that category. Sound good? Great. Let's check some stuff out!
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Comics Should Be Good accepts review copies. Anything sent to us will (for better or for worse) end up reviewed on the blog. See where to send the review copies.


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- Oct 3:
- California health exchange website had fewer hits
- Oct 1:
- Rollout of 'historic' Obamacare in California hits some snags
- Tell us your experience with the new Obamacare health insurance exchange
- Sep 30:
- Ten essential things to know about Obamacare and the insurance exchange
- Obamacare dispute sends government to brink of shutdown
- Sep 28:
- Obamacare 101: Brave new world of health insurance
- Obamacare's effect: The long-term uninsured
- Obamacare's effect: The new Medi-Cal recipient
- Obamacare: Piecing together the puzzle
- Obamacare's effect: Small-business owners
- Obamacare's effect: The chronically ill
- Obamacare's effect: The 'young invincibles'
- What you need to know about Obamacare
- Sep 27:
- Concord: Obamacare California call center prepares for influx of 4,000 calls a day
It took Clifford Brown until about noon Wednesday to finally access California's online health insurance exchange. Even then, he got as far as creating an account but still couldn't log in.
"If my mother was trying this, she would have quit by now,'' said Brown, a 32-year-old musician and independent producer who lives in Emeryville. He hoped for greater success later in the day or by Thursday morning.
It didn't help that for two hours Wednesday morning, the enrollment function on the Covered California website was shut down after logos of some of the health plans did not appear because of a computer glitch, according to spokesman Larry Hicks.
Brown later found out that was the reason he couldn't access the site during that time. But even when he tried around noon Wednesday, he got an error message and could not proceed.
Around the country Wednesday, similar problems with overloaded websites and jammed phone lines continued to frustrate consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for coverage using the new marketplaces.
Hicks said the Covered California exchange continues to work on improving the site (www.coveredca.com). He noted that 7,143 applications for insurance were started on Tuesday, and the same day 19,000 calls were logged by the exchange's two call centers.
But a corresponding list of doctors and hospitals affiliated with each plan, which Hicks had said would be posted online by Wednesday, still had not appeared. Nor had a list of Covered California certified insurance agents or certified enrollment agents to assist consumers around the state.
Hicks said the names of providers will be loaded onto the website when it's not being heavily used. He said he could not be more specific about timing.
In some ways, the delays that continued Wednesday were good news for President Barack Obama and supporters of his signature domestic policy achievement because the difficulties showed what appeared to be an exceptionally high level of interest in the overhauled insurance system. But if the glitches aren't fixed quickly, they could dampen enthusiasm for the law at a time Republicans are using it as a rallying cry to force most of the federal government to shut down.
In the 36 states being operated fully or partially by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, consumer patience was still being tested.
Agency spokeswoman Joanne Peters said many Americans successfully enrolled in health insurance on the first day through the federal healthcare.gov website, but she declined to put a number on it. She said the delays were due to "overwhelming interest" and high volume.
It's not as if nobody was warned. Just three months ago, the Government Accountability Office said a smooth and timely rollout could not be guaranteed because the online system was still getting finishing touches and had not been fully tested.
The Obama administration shrugged off the evaluation.
The bumpy debut has the hallmarks of a technology project that may have rushed to meet the Oct. 1 deadline, said Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST, a software quality analysis firm, and director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality, which develops standards.
"When you are in a rush, you typically make a lot of mistakes, and you don't have time to test them all out," he said.
High volume can also expose software flaws that were not detected in testing, like the recurring problem consumers encountered trying to set up accounts on the federal site, Curtis said. Drop-down menus that were supposed to provide security questions did not work.
Back in the Bay Area, Brown said he'll be patient with the exchange, and for good reason.
He's been uninsured since 2008, the last time his health insurance was paid for by an employer. After he started his own company, he said, the rates for premiums he'd been quoted -- about $1,000 a month -- were too expensive to consider paying.
"Until this health care plan, there was no real route for someone like me to get health insurance," Brown said.
He and his longtime girlfriend -- who is insured through her employer -- plan to marry next year but had considered pushing up the wedding so he could be added to her policy.
"I didn't think it was going to take this long" for the exchange to work, Brown said. "But it's going to dramatically change my life.''
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact Tracy Seipel at 408-275-0140. Follow her at Twitter.com@taseipel.


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Linux (see QCAD 3 Page for details)
Version: 3.0.0 RC2
I have downloaded the above version . After down load is completed I double clicked the bin file. Ubuntu 11.1 is not initializing the installation process.
I think it has to be installed through the terminal window. Kindly let me have the commands to install the same.


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Undersavers Anonymous
For the poorest of the poor, putting money into savings is no small challenge. Strategies like direct deposit, automatic 401k deposits and employer matching, and default contributions are not typically available to the very poor, who are often self-employed and don't have formal, regular paychecks to redirect default savings from. Even small levels of savings have been shown to net large benefits to savers, and policymakers recognize that increasing the savings rate is an important means to improving quality of life.
But how can the poor be encouraged to put just a little bit more of their income into savings?Professor Stephan Meier often investigates the intersections between psychology and economics, and one line of his research examines the effects of peers on behavior. Meier notes that while the poor may not have access to retirement accounts and default depositing, they do have access to peers. "Weight Watchers and Alcoholics Anonymous use peers as commitment devices, so we tried applying that idea to savings for the poor," Meier says.
Peer commitment devices are thought to work in several possible ways. Reneging on a promise or goal declared to a group of peers can be met with direct punishment, such as a financial penalty, or with indirect consequences, such as a tarnished reputation. Gathering information from peers about the best way to succeed at losing weight or overcoming a challenge may help people meet those goals. And seeing peers succeed may lead people to believe they are able to achieve a goal they previously thought unfeasible.
Meier, working with former Chilean planning minister Felipe Kast and Dina Pomeranz of Harvard Business School, found research partners in Banco Credichile, Microdatos, and Chilean microcredit organization Fondo Esperanza.
Microcredit borrowers offered an ideal group of subjects: they typically have a low income and already meet regularly in groups designed to encourage loan repayment. In the researchers' first experiment, borrowers were split into three groups and asked a series of questions about their individual savings goals and offered the chance to open a savings account through Banco Credichile (which made all deposit transaction data from these savers available to the researchers). The control group continued to meet as usual, reporting back on loan repayment. The second group likewise continued to meet and report as usual, but individuals also reported on progress toward their stated savings goals. The third group continued meeting and reporting back on their loan repayments, but rather than reporting back on savings goals, the group members were offered higher-interest savings accounts 5 percent, compared with 0.3 percent for the savings accounts offered to the other groups.
At the one-year mark, subjects in the group that reported their savings progress back to their peers had a savings rate 100 percent higher than those in the control group. For most participants in the high-interest rate group, the savings rate was not higher than in the control group (although a small number put away large amounts of money, so that on average, the savings rate in the high-interest rate group was about 50 percent higher than in the control group).
Why did the self-help peer-saving group have a greater effect on increasing savings rates than a remarkably high interest rate did? "If reputation preservation is an important aspect of peer effects," Meier says, "then someone needs to know whether or not I save. Or it could be that going to the meeting is literally just a reminder oh yeah, I wanted to save and has little to do with peers."
The researchers tested these possible explanations by taking the meeting out of the meetings. They asked participants from the first experiment to set a new savings goal. As before, a control group continued to meet as usual, without discussing their progress toward those savings goals, over a three-month period. A second group was offered automated cell phone text message reports, linked to their savings accounts, that congratulated the recipient on saving that period or noted if they had made no deposits. A third group was offered the automated reports combined with a savings buddy a friend or relative chosen to also receive the text messages about the saver's progress and support the savers toward their goal.
The savings buddy triggered an impressive increase in savings they deposited more money more often into savings than the control group but so did the group that received only the automated text messages from the bank. Text messaging has distinct advantages over self-help peer groups and face-to-face settings, Meier notes. "First, it's scalable, and doesn't require attendance at meetings. Second, treatment is the default users must unsubscribe to stop text reminders from coming."
The conclusion: peer self-help groups may work not so much because of peer pressure, but because they serve as a simple, effective reminder to take an action. "You can increase savings or deal with other self-control problems in ways that are extremely scalable, even for the poorest of the poor," Meier says. "There are limits. Getting 50 other text reminders about other issues probably wouldn't work. But prioritizing a few of the most important can."
Stephan Meier is the Regina Pitaro Associate Professor of Business in the Management Division and a senior scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School.
Stephan Meier
Stephan Meier is an Associate Professor at Columbia Business School. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich, was previously a senior economist at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and taught courses on strategic interactions and economic policy at Harvard University and the University of Zurich. His research interest is in behavioral...
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Stubbs announces coaching changes at Nicholls
Published: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11:08 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11:08 a.m.
Nicholls State University football coach Charlie Stubbs announced Friday the hiring of three new coaches — Steve Adams Freddie Banks and Brandon Nowlin — and the promotion of tight ends coach Matt Clark to offensive line coach.
Adams, who will coach special teams and safeties, joins the Colonels after serving as defensive backs coach/recruiting coordinator last year at Concord University.
Banks, who will coach cornerbacks, comes to Nicholls after spending two seasons at Minnesota State University Moorhead where he coached the defensive backs. Along with calling defensive plays, Banks helped out with the special teams and assisted the strength and conditioning program.
Nowlin, who will coach tight ends, joins the Colonels after serving as head football coach and athletic director at Morgan City High School. Before taking over at Morgan City in 2010, Nowlin coached in the collegiate ranks with a three-year stint at Central Arkansas (tight ends/H-backs) and one year stops at Adrian College (special teams coordinator/tight ends/offensive backs) and Iona College (defensive line/specialists).
A native of Baton Rouge and graduate of Catholic High, Nowlin played football at LSU where he was a member of the 2003 championship team as an H-back/fullback. At LSU, he received a degree in business administration before earning a Masters in sport management.
Clark, in his second season with the Colonels, will take over as offensive line coach after directing the tight ends in 2012. Under his tutelage, sophomore Nick Scelfo was second in the conference in receiving yards among tight ends and was named second-team All-Southland.
The Colonels will open up their spring practice schedule on April 9, with the annual spring scrimmage slated for April 27.
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Maine state trooper injured in Presque Isle crash
Trooper's dog escaped without injury
A Maine state trooper has been flown to a Bangor hospital after his cruiser was involved in a crash with another vehicle in Presque Isle.
Police say Trooper Shawn Whalen sustained a hip injury in the crash on Route 1 at about 4:20 p.m. on Monday.
Whalen was driving south when he attempted to turn around in the roadway to reverse direction.
Police say his cruiser was struck by a car driven by 49-year-old Eric Rosten of Presque Isle. Rosten suffered a minor hand injury but did not go to a hospital.
Whalen's police dog was in his cruiser but was unhurt.
Both vehicles were total losses.
The crash remains under investigation.
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The adviser to Sergio Martinez says that the fighter will end his career at 160 pounds rather than move up to 168. Sampson Lewkowicz also believes Martinez will fight Marco Antonio Rubio for the vacant WBC middleweight title after Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is stripped for refusing to fight him. .
"Absolutely not. He will not do it," said Lewkowicz, referring to the move up to super middleweight. "I can tell you that I have had several conversations with Sergio Martinez, and he doesn't feel that he wants to go to 168."
Lewkowicz said that the former middleweight titleholder will pursue Chavez, a bout which WBC officials have mandated to take place in early 2012, but he doesn't expect the son of the legend to accept the fight.
Martinez (47-2-2, 26 knockouts) is scheduled to meet Darren Barker (23-0, 14 KOs) on Oct. 1 in Atlantic City, N.J.
"Let's put it this way, Chavez would be a big underdog against Martinez, so we do not think that his promoter (Top Rank's) Bob Arum, will allow this fight to happen. Chavez can fight 10 times really if he wants to. But in that time, most likely, we believe that he will give up the title," said Lewkowicz.
"Because it's not only about Chavez, it's about Bob Arum. Bob Arum will not allow Chavez to lose. But we have
The 25-year-old Chavez (43-0-1, 30 KOs) reportedly will make the first defense of his title in Mexico against Ronald Hearns on Sept. 17 before taking on Peter Manfredo on Nov. 19.
If Chavez will not face Martinez after those two bouts, Lewkowicz believes that Chavez will be stripped of his belt, paving the way for Martinez to face the next available challenger in Marco Antonio Rubio (51-5-1, 44 KOs) for the vacant belt.
"Sergio is trying to be patient, but he has also been very specific, and all of us agree. And when I say all of us agree, the No. 1 person in that is Sergio Martinez," said Lewkowicz of Martinez, who was named Fighter of The Year for 2010 by the Boxing Writers Association of America.
"Because Sergio is a gentleman, he has said, 'Let Chavez fight, and then he can face me in the first quarter of next year.' So we're talking about February or March that we hope to fight Chavez. If not, then we think that it's going to be Rubio."
Martinez earned the undisputed middleweight belt with a unanimous decision over Kelly Pavlik in April of last year. He followed that up with a second-round knockout of Paul Williams (40-2, 27 KOs) in November, a rematch of their 2009 fight that Williams won by a controversial majority decision.
The Argentine forced to give up his WBC belt for fighting Sergie Dzinziruk in March on HBO, a fight Martinez won by an eight-round KO, The WBC then elevated Sebastian Zbik to the status of full champion and mandated that Zbik face Chavez, who dethroned him by a unanimous decision in June.
"Not only does Chavez want to avoid Martinez, but Bob Arum will not allow it to happen. This is not about boxing, but for Bob Arum, it's only about business," said Lewkowicz.
Lewkowicz said Martinez bears no ill-will toward the WBC.
"Personally, Sergio is very loyal to the WBC," said Lewkowicz. "He will fight only for the WBC (title) because the WBC made Martinez significant when nobody gave a s–t about him. The WBC gave him the opportunity, and now, everybody knows who he is. So he has gratitude for the WBC and will not betray them."
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PASADENA—Time Warner Inc.'s TWX -0.82% Turner cable-networks division is betting that the broadcast-network castoff "Cougar Town" and a reality show about "nerd" culture can help TBS lift its sagging ratings and become more of a destination for comedy fans.
TBS begins airing the fourth season of "Cougar Town," a Courteney Cox sitcom about wine-loving friends, later this month. While the show failed to gain traction on Walt Disney Co.'s DIS +1.91% ABC Network during its first three seasons, TBS believes that the smaller audiences needed to sustain a show on cable can help make it a success with viewers and advertisers.
"The networks are forced by the structure of the business to broadly appeal to ratings and viewers, so it's tough to survive as a niche show on network TV," said Bill Lawrence, the show's executive producer. "That's what cable allows you."
Mr. Lawrence was speaking on the sidelines of the Television Critics Association press conference, a semiannual industry gathering where Turner and other cable and broadcast networks are pitching their lineup of new shows for 2013.
TBS has in recent years attempted to bolster its image as a destination for comedy series on cable by adding original content and popular network re-runs to its lineup. But it has also attracted criticism for relying too heavily on reruns off "The Big Bang Theory," which airs multiple times in any given week.
"It's [become] the Big Bang network, and after a while that kind of routine begins to get soft," said Steve Farrella, chairman and CEO of media agency MaxxCom Global Media, a division of MDC Partners.
For the fall season, TBS's ratings were down by 6% on average among prime-time viewers, compared with a year earlier, according to Nielsen.
TBS executives also highlighted "King of the Nerds," a reality contest show premiering later this month and produced by Ben Silverman, creator of reality shows like "The Biggest Loser" and "Fashion Star." Two additional unscripted comedy shows are in the works for TBS later this year: "Who Gets the Last Laugh" and "Dean Cole's Black Box," Turner said.
Turner also offered a fresh glimpse of programming due out on TBS' drama-focused sister network TNT, which has made big investments in shows like the remake of 1980s blockbuster "Dallas" and sports content in hopes of boosting sluggish ratings. Those efforts appear to be paying off so far this season, with TNT's ratings up 11% among prime-time audiences. The new shows include the hospital drama "Monday Mornings," based on a book by CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and "Boston's Finest," a police reality show directed by Donnie Wahlberg.
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Police investigate armed robbery
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The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery reported about 3 a.m. Monday.
Sheriff's Office spokeswoman detective Dawn Foret said the victim was outside an apartment complex at 521 La. 20 in Schriever when a male brandishing a handgun robbed him. The victim said the suspect fired several errant shots at him as fled in a white, mid-size car.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 1-800-743-7433 or detectives at 876-2500.
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The unpleasant Roald Dahl JUN 07 2011
Sometimes children's author Roald Dahl was not a very nice man. This Recording explains.
His early writing in the short story form was impacted by the political situation on the world stage. He believed in a world government and he was extremely sympathetic to Hitler, Mussolini, and the entire Nazi cause. His stories were filled with caricatures of greedy Jews. One suggests "a little pawnbroker in Housditch called Meatbein who, when the wailing started, would rush downstairs to the large safe in which he kept his money, open it and wriggle inside on to the lowest shelf where he lay like a hibernating hedgehog until the all-clear had gone." In 1951 he visited Germany with Charles Marsh and luxured in Hitler's former retreat at Berchtesgaden. His dislike of Jews and especially of Zionists was egged on by Marsh's Israel hatred, later encapsulated in a revolting letter to Marsh where he mocked the head of East London's B'Nai B'rith Club.
Dahl's dark side is on display in his short story collection, Tales of the Unexpected, which I read as a teen (twice!) and loved. A more charitable take on Dahl is available at Wikipedia.


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Funeral services for Martha J. Ethridge, 69, Irmo, S.C., will be at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church of Irmo with entombment to follow at Bush River Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.
Memorials may be made to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (nationalbreastcancer.org) or the American Cancer Society.
Mrs. Ethridge was born Sept. 9, 1943, in Neosho, and passed away on Nov. 1, 2012.
She was the daughter of the late Ralph Oxford and Edith Mildred Oxford. Mrs. Ethridge was a devoted member of First Baptist Church in Irmo, where she was also the church secretary prior to retiring. She also worked at the Virginia Baptist General Board as a secretary. She loved playing Scrabble and doing puzzles. Mrs. Ethridge was one of ten children.
Mrs. Ethridge is survived by her husband, Robert Ethridge, Irmo; sons, Chris Ethridge and Greg Ethridge; granddaughter, Emma Ethridge; sisters, Pat Bly, Mary Long, Frances Sloan; brothers, John Oxford, Harry Oxford and Dale Oxford; and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Ethridge was predeceased by her sister, Grace Boul; and brothers, Ralph Oxford and Jerry Oxford.
The family wishes to extend special thanks to Dr. Robert Smith, his assistant Nicole Hendry, nurse Pam Posey, and the entire staff of South Carolina Oncology Associates for the care and support they provided to Marty for many years.
Additional gratitude is extended to Hospice Care of Tri-County and Lincare.
Arrangements are under the direction of Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Irmo, S.C.
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Oak Ridge educators asked the Oak Ridge Board of Education for 2.5 percent pay increases next school year at Monday night's meeting.
Also, the School Board approveD taking $450K-plus from their budget to replace visitors' side bleachers at Blankenship Field, with hopes that city will help by doing the wheelchair ramp and/or provide some labor for the project.
The issue of contracting for substitute teachers was taken off the agenda prior to tonight's School Board meeting and is expected to be discussed next month.
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What's up Islander Fans?!
I hope you all are having a fantastic week! I know I am! We are currently wrapping up the semester with finals ahhhh! After the November schedule that we had, we turn around and have finals! It's hard, but it's a part of being a student-athlete! We ended the month playing one more game than the Houston Rockets!! We are definitely a great team to overcome such a tough schedule, but with that said, we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other making November a month to remember and December a month to look forward to.
These first two weeks of December we don't have a game so we have had some tough practices to get ready for our Dec. 15 game against Texas State. One that I personally always look forward to because if you all remember from last year, one of my closest friends Jasmine Baugus, plays for them. I'm excited to see her play and play against her my last year but I'm even more excited to BEAT THEM!!!!! :) But outside of that, our practices this week have been like boot camp lol. We have been getting our legs and minds ready to endure these upcoming games against Texas State (Dec. 15), Cornell (Dec. 18) and TCU (Dec. 29).
I hope to see you all there this Saturday in the Dugan Wellness Center!!! Well I just wanted to keep you all updated on the events that have been going on for your women's basketball team!!! Now…back to studying!


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Stabile, Carol A. (Marquette University Press, 2011)[more][less]Stabile, Carol A. 2012-05-17T12:35:29Z 2012-05-17T12:35:29Z 2011 "'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale': Lessons of the Broadcast Blacklist", Moment of Danger: Critical Communication History, Ed Janice Peck and Inger Stole, Marquette University Press, 2011 978-0-87462-034-4 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12209 14 pages The following essay considers the ways in which the broadcast blacklist affected how media studies scholars think about and study the 1950s, as well how we understand the role of gender and family in 1950s popular culture. At the start of the 1950s--at the very moment in which television was emerging, in the words of blacklisted writer Shirley Graham DuBois, as "the newest, the most powerful, the most direct means of communication devised by Man ... .[whose] potentialities for Good or for Evil are boundless"--a massive ideological crackdown occurred in broadcasting (Graham 1964. By focusing on how the blacklist made struggles over gender, race, and class unspeakable in the new medium, this essays seeks to restore the memory of these struggles and their participants to accounts of the 1950s, to underscore the strategic manipulation of culture and memory by conservative forces, and to remind us just how crucial historical research is for media studies. en_US Marquette University Press rights_reserved Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century "We can remember it for you wholesale": Lessons of the broadcast blacklist Book chapter
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