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In the 1870s, my great-grandfather supported his family as a cooper, that is, a barrel-maker, in Pittsburgh, Pa. One day, according to family lore, Great-grandfather was approached by an entrepreneur who was starting up a business in that city. This man's company would produce pickles and condiments, and he needed a skilled cooper to make the barrels. My great-grandfather, being an astute businessman, didn't think he would have much of a future partnering with such questionable and unproven business. So he politely turned down the offer, and instead, accepted a much more promising job making barrels for a brewery in Wisconsin.
The brewery my great-grandfather ended up working went out of business long ago. But you just might have heard of the Pittsburgh pickle-maker he turned down. His name was Henry J. Heinz. Today, the H.J. Heinz Company sells nearly $12 billion worth of pickles, ketchup, and other food products each year. I can't help but wonder what might have happened if my great-grandfather had accepted the job offer from Mr. Heinz. Would he have become a tycoon? Would his descendants have all been millionaires? If only he had taken that job in Pittsburgh! Shoulda. Coulda. Woulda.
We may not have missed out on opportunities quite like my great-grandfather, but all of us can look back in regret at choices we have made in life. None of us has to think long or hard to come up with a lengthy laundry list of poor decisions we have made and regrettable actions we have taken. How easy it is to become mired in regrets of the past. How difficult it is to shake the guilt of the wrongs we have committed.
If anyone ever had a reason to be held hostage by his past, it was the apostle named Paul. Before Christ called him to apostleship, Paul was determined to destroy the Christian church, becoming a sort of bounty hunter, capturing not criminals, but Christians. But all that changed when Jesus called him to faith. For the rest of his life, Paul served the Lord he had once hated and the Church he had once tried to destroy.
Paul never forgot his former life. He never tried to whitewash the sins he had committed and the hurt he had caused. But he also didn't let those sins of the past prevent him from doing the right thing in the present, and continue into the future. He said, "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13,14).
Paul understood the seriousness of his past sins. But rather than letting those sins hold him hostage, he embraced the peace of his forgiveness, and continued forward. Through Christ and his forgiveness, we can do the same. The sins of our past are gone, paid in full at the cross. While we may not forget them, God has. So instead of being held hostage by regrets, we can move forward, serving our Lord and each other with a clean slate and clear conscience.
No "I shoulda," or "I coulda," or "I woulda." Instead, our lives can be, "I will."
- Brent Merten is pastor of Mountain Valley Lutheran Church, 802 Brush Creek Terrace, Eagle.


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8.3-1 Driving Under the Influence -- § 14-227a
Revised to March 25, 2015
The defendant is charged [in count __] with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / or both).1 The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
no person shall operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / both). A person commits the offense of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / both) if such person operates a motor vehicle <insert appropriate subsection:>
§ 14-227a (a) (1): while under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / both).
§ 14-227a (a) (2): while such person has an elevated blood alcohol content.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the following elements:
Element 1 - Operated a motor
The first element is that the defendant was operating a motor vehicle2 at the time and place alleged. A person "operates" a motor vehicle within the meaning of the statute when, while in the vehicle, such person intentionally does any act or makes use of any mechanical or electrical agency that alone, or in sequence, will set in motion the motive power of the vehicle. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to conduct when (his/her) conscious objective is to engage in such conduct. <See Intent: General, Instruction 2.3-1.>3
Element 2 - Under the influence
/ Elevated BAC
The second element is that at the time the defendant operated the motor vehicle, (he/she) <insert as appropriate:>
§ 14-227a (a) (1): was under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / or both). A person is under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / or both) when as a result of (drinking such beverage / ingesting such drug / or both) that person's mental, physical, or nervous processes have become so affected that (he/she) lacks to an appreciable degree the ability to function properly in relation to the operation of (his/her) motor vehicle.4
The person's physical or mental capabilities must have been impaired to such a degree that (he/she) no longer has the ability to drive a vehicle with the caution characteristic of a sober person of ordinary prudence, under the same or similar circumstances. [<If appropriate:> If you find that the defendant was operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicating liquor, it is no defense that there was some other cause that also tended to impair the defendant's ability to exercise the required caution.] Evidence of the manner in which a vehicle was operated is not determinative of whether the defendant was operating the vehicle under the influence of (an intoxicating beverage / a drug / or both). It is, however, a factor to be considered in light of all the proven surrounding circumstances in deciding whether the defendant was or was not under the influence.5
§ 14-227a (a) (2): had an elevated blood alcohol content. "Elevated blood alcohol content" "means a ratio of alcohol in the blood that is (eight-hundredths/ four hundredths) of one percent or more of alcohol, by weight."6 The chemical analysis of the defendant's (blood / breath / urine) that was presented as evidence may be used as evidence of the defendant's blood alcohol content at the time of the alleged offense. This means that you may find, but are not required to, that the defendant's blood alcohol content at the time of the alleged offense was the same as at the time the test was administered.7
[<If applicable:> Evidence of the defendant's refusal to submit to a blood, breath, or urine test has been introduced. If you find that the defendant did refuse to submit to such a test, you may make any reasonable inference that follows from that fact.]8
[<If charges include both subsections:> In deciding on your verdict as to the count __, which alleges the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, you cannot consider the results of any chemical tests from the Intoxilyzer as evidence of the defendant's guilt. That evidence was offered for a limited purpose only and is admissible only with respect to the allegations contained in the operating with an elevated blood alcohol content as found in count __ of the information.]9
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant was operating a motor vehicle at the time and place alleged, and 2) (he/she) (was under the influence of (intoxicating liquor / any drug / or both) / had an elevated blood alcohol content).
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of driving while under
the influence, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if
you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable
doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not guilty.
1 If the defendant is not charged with being under the influence of drugs, then that part of the statute should be omitted from the jury instruction. State v. Tryon, 145 Conn. 304, 306-307 (1958); see also State v. Coughlin, 61 Conn. App. 90, 94-96 (2000), cert. denied, 255 Conn. 934 (2001) (court properly gave limiting instruction to the jury that the case did not involve cocaine and that the jurors could not consider anything about the drug when deliberating in order to negate any potentially adverse effect of a report that was admitted and showed trace amounts of cocaine in the defendant's blood).
2 "Motor vehicle" includes a snowmobile and an all-terrain vehicle, as those terms are defined in § 14-379. General Statutes § 14-227a (a).
3 Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor is a general intent crime. State v. Borrelli, 94 Conn. App. 849, 859 (2006) (defendant's involuntary intoxication insufficient to negate general intent requirement). In addition, there is no requirement that the defendant knew or should have known that he or she had ingested an intoxicant. Id., 860.
4 State v. Gordon, 84 Conn. App. 519, 527 (2004); State v. Sanko, 62 Conn. App. 34, 41, cert. denied, 256 Conn. 905 (2001); State v. Andrews, 108 Conn. 209, 216 (1928).
5 If there has been evidence of the defendant's performance on field sobriety tests, the court may wish to tailor this part of the instruction. See State v. Kelley, 95 Conn. App. 423, cert. denied, 279 Conn. 906 (2006).
6 Effective October 1, 2009, if a person is operating a commercial motor vehicle, "elevated blood alcohol content" means a ratio of alcohol in the blood that is four-hundredths of one percent or more of alcohol, by weight. See the definition of commercial motor vehicle in the Glossary and instruct on the relevant portions of it.
7 See General Statutes § 14-227a (b) (formerly (c)); State v. Gallichio, 71 Conn. App. 179, 183-89 (2002); State v. Nokes, 44 Conn. App. 40, 44-45 (1996); State v. Korhn, 41 Conn. App. 874, 880-81, cert. denied, 239 Conn. 910 (1996). The statute provides an exception to this rule: "if the results of the additional test indicate that the ratio of alcohol in the blood of such defendant is twelve-hundredths of one per cent or less of alcohol, by weight, and is higher than the results of the first test, evidence shall be presented that demonstrates that the test results and the analysis thereof accurately indicate the blood alcohol content at the time of the alleged offense." See also State v. Pilotti, 99 Conn. App. 563, cert. denied, 282 Conn. 903 (2007) (discussing evidentiary requirements involving breath tests).
8 General Statutes § 14-227a (e) requires that a jury be instructed as to any inference that may or may not be drawn in the event there is evidence that the defendant refused to submit to a blood, breath, or urine test and there has been compliance with § 14-227b (b). See State v. McCarthy, 63 Conn. App. 433, 437- 39, cert. denied, 258 Conn. 904 (2001) (instruction substantially complied with the statutory language of General Statutes § 14-227a (f), despite its failure to state that it "may or may not" draw a negative inference); State v. Corbeil, 41 Conn. App. 7, 19, appeal dismissed, 237 Conn. 919 (1996) ("refusing" to take a breath test may be accomplished by a failure to cooperate, as well as by an expressed refusal); State v. Barlow, 30 Conn. App. 36, 42-44 (1993) (whether the defendant refused to take the test is an issue of fact for the jury). In State v. Weed, 118 Conn. App. 654, 664-65 (2009), the Appellate Court concluded, as a matter of first impression, that evidence that the defendant refused to submit to a breath test provided a sufficient basis for a consciousness of guilt instruction.
9 General Statutes § 14-227a (c) "provides that evidence of the amount of alcohol in the defendant's blood as shown by a chemical analysis of the defendant's breath is admissible with respect to the behavioral subdivision only at the request of the defendant." (Emphasis added.) State v. Cooper, 38 Conn. App. 661, 673, cert. denied, 235 Conn. 908 (1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1214, 116 S. Ct. 1837, 134 L. Ed. 2d 940 (1996). "Substantial defective compliance with that statutory provision requires reversal even if no particular prejudice is shown and even if there is overwhelming evidence of guilt." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Id., 673; see also State v. Longo, 106 Conn. App. 701, 710 (2008) (trial court properly instructed jury regarding the use of chemical evidence when defendant charged under both subsections and issued appropriate limiting instruction); State v. Gracia, 51 Conn. App. 4, 14-15 (1998) (same).
There are two ways by which a defendant can be charged with violating General Statutes § 14-227a (a): subdivision (1) of subsection (a) describes the "behavioral" violation; subdivision (2) of subsection (a) describes the "per se" violation. State v. Gilbert, 30 Conn. App. 428, 437-38 (1993), aff'd, 229 Conn. 228 (1994). Because the two subsections provide alternative methods of proof for the same offense, it would be a double jeopardy violation to punish a defendant under both subsections. State v. Re, 111 Conn. App. 466, 473 (2008), cert. denied, 290 Conn. 908 (2009). If these two ways of committing the offense are charged in the same count, the committee recommends giving a unanimity instruction that the jury must unanimously agree as to the way the defendant committed the offense.
Subsequent offenders
General Statutes § 14-227a (g) provides for an enhanced sentence if the defendant has previously been convicted of one or more violations of § 14-227a within ten years of the current violation. Pursuant to Practice Book § 36-14, the prior conviction must be charged in a Part B information so that the jury is unaware of the prior conviction during the trial on the current charge. If a guilty verdict is returned, the jury must then be instructed on the second part of the information. See Subsequent Offenders, Instruction 2.12-2.
State v. Burns, 236 Conn. 18 (1996), the Supreme Court held that the
language of § 14-227a ("for conviction of a third violation within 5 years [now
10] after a prior conviction for the same offense") means the third violation
within the time period, not the third conviction.

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Matthew Baity
Personal Information
California School of Professional Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Sacramento Campus
Program Director
Associate Professor
Alliant International University Sacramento
2030 West El Camino Avenue
Sacramento CA 95833
Courses, Research Interests, Publications
Personality and neuropsychological assessment; personality disorders; treatment process, outcome and alliance; premature termination; prediction of substance abuse treatment relapse/success.
Book Chapters
Gacono, C.B., Bannatyne-Gacono, L., Meloy, J.R., & Baity, M.R. (2008). The Rorschach assessment of aggression: The Rorschach extrended aggression scores. In C.B Gacono, F.B. Evans, N. Kaser-Boyd, and L.A. Gacono (Eds.), The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment. New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Blais, M.A., Baity, M.R., & O'Keefe, S. (2008). Understanding and applying psychological assessment. In T. A. Stern, J.F. Rosenbaum, M. Fava, Biederman, J., and S. Rauch (Eds.). Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. Mosby Inc., St. Louis, MO.
Blais, M.A., & Baity, M.R. (2008). The projective assessment of personality structure and pathology. In G.J. Boyle, G. Matthews, and D.H. Saklofske (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Vol. 2 Personality Measurement and Testing (pp. 566 - 586). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Blais, M.A., & Baity, M.R. (2006). Rorschach assessment of histrionic personality disorder. In S. Huprich (Ed.) Rorschach Assessment of Personality Disorders. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.
Baumann, B. D., Hilsenroth, M. J., Ackerman, S. J., Baity, M. R., Smith, C. L., Smith, S.R., Blagys, M. D., Price, J. L., Heindselman, T. L., Mount, M. K., & Holdwick, D. J. (2001). The Capacity for Dynamic Process Scale (CDPS): An examination of reliability, validity, and relation to therapeutic alliance. Psychotherapy Research, 11, 275-294.
Siefert, C.J., DeFife, J.A., & Baity, M.R. (In press). Process measures for psychodynamic psychotherapy. In R. Levy and S.J. Ablon. (Eds.), Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
Baity, M.R. (In press). Brief rating scales for the assessment of cognitive and neuropsychological status. In L. Baer and M.A. Blais (Eds.). Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ.
Edited Books
Blais, M.A, Baity, M.R., & Hopwood, C. Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory. Routledge. (Expected Release 2/10)
Barazani, S., Smith, S.A., Baity, M.R., & Hilsenroth, M.H. (2008). Rorschach correlates of adolescent self-mutilation. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 72, 54 - 77.
Baity, M.R., Siefert, C.S., Chambers, A., & Blais, M.A. (2007). Deceptiveness on the PAI: A study of na#ve faking with psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 16-24.
Harley, R., Baity, M.R., Blais, M.A., Jacobo, M.C. (2007). Use of DBT skills training for borderline personality disorder in a naturalistic setting. Psychotherapy Research, 17, 362 - 370.
Jacobo, M.C., Blais, M.A., Baity, M.R., & Harley, R. (2007). Concurrent validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory Borderline Scales in patients seeking Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 75-81.
Blais, M.A., & Baity, M.R. (2005). Exploring the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS) in a medical psychiatric sample. Assessment, 12, 1-7.
Hilsenroth, M.J., Baity, M.R., Mooney, M.A., & Meyer, G.J. (2004). DSM-IVMajor Depressive Episode criteria: An evaluation of reliability and validity across three different rating methods. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 8, 3-10.
Smith, S.R., Hilsenroth, M.J., Baity, M.R., & Knowles, E.S. (2003). Assessment of patient and therapist perspectives of process: A revision of the Vanderbilt Psychotherapy Process Scale. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 57, 195-205.
Hilsenroth, M.J., Ackerman, S.J., Blagys, M.D., Baity, M.R., & Mooney, M.A. (2003). Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression: An examination of statistical, clinically significant and technique specific change. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 349-357.
Baity, M..R., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2002). Rorschach aggressive content (AgC) variable: A study of criterion validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 275-287.
Smith, S.R., Baity, M.R., Knowles, E.S., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2001). Assessment of disordered thinking in children and adolescents: The Rorschach Perceptual-Thinking Index. Journal of Personality Assessment, 77, 447-463.
Blais, M. A., Hilsenroth, M. J., Castlebury, F., Fowler, J. C., & Baity, M. R. (2001). Predicting DSM-IV Cluster B personality disorder criteria from MMPI-2 and Rorschach data: A test of incremental validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 76, 150-168.
Baity, M.R., McDaniel, P.S., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2000). Further exploration of the Rorschach aggressive content variable. Journal of Personality Assessment, 74, 231-241.
Ackerman, S.J., Hilsenroth, M.J., Baity, M.R., and Blagys, M.D. (2000). Interaction of therapeutic process and alliance during psychological assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment 75, 1, 82-109.
Hilsenroth, M. J., Ackerman, S. J., Blagys, M. D., Baumann, B. D., Baity, M. R., Smith, S. R., Price, J. L., Smith, C. L., Heindselman, T. L., Mount, M. K., & Holdwick, D. J. (2000). Reliability and validity of DSM-IV Axis V. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 1858-1863.
Baity, M. R. & Hilsenroth, M. J. (1999). Rorschach aggression variables: A study of reliability and validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 72, 93-110.
Baity, M.R., Blais, M.A., Hilsenroth, M.J., Fowler, J.C., & Padawer, J. (In press) Self-mutilation, severity of borderline psychopathology and the Rorschach. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic.
Personality Assessment
Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior
Neuropsychological Assessment
Academic History and Background
Bachelor of Arts cum laude, University of North Texas, 1995
Master of Arts in Psychology, University of Arkansas, 1999
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Arkansas, 2003
Licensed Psychologist, Massachusetts
Member, American Psychological Association
Member, APA Division 39, Section VI (Psychoanalytic Research)
Member, Society for Personality Assessment
Professional Practice and Community Service
Assistant Professor, Alliant International University
Manuscript reviewer: Journal of Psychological Assessment, Assessment
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Consulting Editor: Journal of Personality Assessment


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When it rains, the water can land on two kinds of surfaces: pervious or impervious. Pervious surfaces allow water to soak into the ground. The other type, impervious, increases the amount of water in the drainage system and the amount of storm water pollution in our creeks and lakes.
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Saturday, 08/16/1997
Loring Commerce Centre, Limestone, ME
Set 1: MakisupaMakisupa Policeman -> Harpua[1] > CDTChalk Dust Torture, ThemeTheme From the Bottom > PYITEPunch You In the Eye > Ghost > GinsengGinseng Sullivan, YEMYou Enjoy Myself > Train Song > Character Zero, CoilThe Squirming Coil
Set 2: Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother -> Simple -> My Soul, Jam -> SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light > Rocky Top > Julius[2]
Set 3: Halley'sHalley's Comet -> Cities[3] -> Llama > Lawn Boy, LxLLimb By Limb > Funky Bitch[4]
Encore: Contact > Loving Cup
[1] Picked up where the Clifford Ball Harpua left off.
[2] Intro performed a cappella with finger snaps.
[3] Trey altered lyrics to reference "Fishman sleeping in the daytime."
[4] Fireworks.
· What's the Use? tease in Theme From the Bottom
· Theme from The Odd Couple tease in Simple
· Theme from The Odd Couple tease in My Soul
· On Your Way Down tease in Halley's Comet
· Theme from The Odd Couple and Entrance of the Gladiators teases in Jam
Noteworthy Jams: Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom, Ghost, Wolfman's Brother (highly recommended), Simple, Jam, Halley's Comet, Cities, Llama, Limb By Limb (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 11.42
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: This was the first show of The Great Went festival. Harpua picked up where the Clifford Ball Harpua left off. After Chalk Dust, Trey remarked that the first three songs served as the soundcheck, which the band did not do before the show. Theme from the Bottom contained a brief What's the Use? tease from Trey. The jam out of Simple, the beginning of My Soul, and the jam before Slave included Odd Couple theme teases. The jam before Slave also contained an Entrance of the Gladiators tease. Halley's Comet included On Your Way Down teases. The lyrics in Cities were changed to reference Fishman sleeping in the daytime. The Julius intro was partially performed a cappella with finger snaps. Funky Bitch featured a fireworks display behind the stage that culminated as the song ended. After the show, the members of Phish DJ'd under pseudonyms at a festival tent in what has become known as the "Disco Set."
Song Distribution:
3 Billy Breathes
2 The Story of the Ghost
2 Hoist
2 A Picture of Nectar
2 Lawn Boy
2 Junta
2 The White Tape
1 Stash
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "1997 Summer U.S. Tour."
The rest of the show is just magic.
1997 was arguably the best year for Wolfman's Brother, and this version is nearly on the same plane as the first 20 minutes of 11/30/97's masterpiece; the segue into Simple is old-fashioned full-band improvised songwriting, and if Trey inexplicably bobbles the Simple opening, what follows renders such a small matter wholly immaterial. The Simple jam builds to a soaring climax, then cools out to a weird full-band 'Odd Couple' jam, which naturally leads into My Soul. Which, in turn, they *slaughter*. The jam before Slave is charming, Slave is gorgeous, and Julius is Julius. It's the kind of second set we would've killed for in 2009, full of organically blended tunes and closely-observed improvisation.
The final set is weirdest of the three: Halley's simmers down into noisy sludge-rock, out of which bubbles another molasses-slow 1997 Cities (akin to 7/1 in a way). Midtempo dance rhythms congeal and blow up a la the colossal 8/17 version of 2001 - then the band accelerates into the rock'n'roll lightning storm known as Llama. That's 32 minutes of music right there, but the show's not over: after a restful Lawn Boy, an extended LxL brings band and audience back to the heavenly fields. It's the version I love best, a fleet intricate group improvisation that floats from raucous peak to delicate coda without any visible effort on the band's part. Awesome. And though Funky Bitch would get her finest showing (in 'Type II' jam finery) on 11/30/97, the brief set closer is just nasty fun.
What is there to say? Get this show.
In the three months between the Went and the start of Fall Tour, the boys found a way to interstellar spaceways they'd never even seen before, but the Went represents the perfection of an early pure strain of Phish funk, which was just beginning to diffuse and blend into the band's overall approach to improvisation. Phish hadn't yet uncovered the 'space jam' style that helped unify and elevate Fall '97, but they had the open-field summer spirit, a huge audience with a lot of time to kill, and a still-evolving formula for intricate but danceable polyrhythmic improvisation - which added up to a classic festival that bridged between Phish's spry mid-90's sounds and the dark mysticism of their pre-hiatus stuff.
(Sidebar: How does the Went compare to Lemonwheel? I'd say the Went is stronger front-to-back, but the ambient set at Lemonwheel is one of Phish's iconic achievements, a step beyond any previous set into a freely improvised musical realm and a prelude to the 'Long Set' at Big Cypress sixteen months later. The best moments of Lemonwheel, like the Gumbo that circulates in SBD form, are superb. But the Went was a more joyful time - more innocent, if that makes sense. Oddly enough, I'd take the IT festival over Lemonwheel too, modulo that ambient set; between the Tower Jam and the handful of long-but-controlled jams at IT (e.g. Chalkdust, Ghost, 46 Days, Waves) it's much much further-out than the 'wheel, though the 1998 festival probably shows more stylistic variety.)
There are four kinds of legendary concerts. There are shows that are renowned for their locale (e.g. Red Rocks or The Gorge), shows that get high praise for being a special event (Halloween or NYE), shows that are exalted for the bands great playing, and the ever-popular great-looking setlist shows. If a show has two or three of these things going for it, it will be remembered forever. The Great Went was the extremely rare show that was legendary in every category.
I first knew that this was a bigger deal for Limestone than the Clifford Ball was for Plattsburgh. There were people parked on overpasses, looking on I-95, watching cars drive by below. Getting off of 95 in Houlton, I stopped in a gas station to see how people were handling the chaos. Everyone seemed to be having fun and enjoying themselves. I bought an ice cream bar and was told that it would take me four and a half hours to get there. That was a lie by nearly an entire hour.
The first five miles of the drive went great (you know that I had to use the pun somewhere in this review), but then I was stopped. After about five minutes I got bored of sitting there and decided that it was time for auto tag. I got out of the car, ran to the one behind me, hit the hood and said, "Tag. You're it." I then looked in the car. It wasn't filled with Phish fans; rather it was a local mom with her kids. Beet red, I walked back to my car. About two minutes later, still stopped, one of the kids came up to my car, hit it and told me that I was it.
During the next half-hour, while we sat parked by the ironic "Reduced Speed Ahead" sign, I told the family about Phish. I played some tapes for them, and ended up giving them my spare copy of 12/31/96 III and a Mockingbird flyer. They gave me their address for tapes. However, I lost that sheet of paper. So guys, if you're reading this, I didn't mean to blow you off.
Traffic finally cleared up a bit and we were able to drive. Going through small town after small town watching the locals sitting in their yards and waving was amazing. I felt that we really were part of the show this time and it was our obligation to perform our tasks properly. The vendors had better have their best veggie burritos and T-shirts, the spinners must spin elegantly, the tapers should produce only A-1 quality tapes, and my timings would have to be perfect.
After an eternity of driving (I had flown into Boston that morning), being able to pick up Went Radio was a relief. I had been listening to the local station that had decided to play all Phish studio albums in shuffle play commercial-free all weekend, but it was getting old; hearing Fluffhead stop right before Fluff's Travels could begin was amusing though. On Went Radio, Mike revealed that he was singing Ginseng Sullivan wrong all these years. Did they fix the version they would play the next afternoon? Umm no.
There was but one unfortunate occurrence at the Went, and that happened the first night. It rained. Hard. As a result there was a lot of mud throughout the next two days. I ruined a pair of shoes when I misjudged the wisdom of taking a shortcut. Other than that, and the expected high price of food and the lack of portapotties, I had no complaints about the venue.
I went into the show early the first night to explore the Went Village. It was a lot more surreal than the Clifford Ball's village. The centerpiece was a station wagon, loaded down with suitcases, the Went's logo. The buildings included a free art booth, a bubble house (with mountains of soap bubbles), and a demolition derby between remote-controlled tiny household appliances. I was not the only one wandering the village I ran into Mike doing the same. I couldn't believe that. Even with seventy-five thousand fans there, the band was still trying to hang out.
Outside of the village, there were other attractions. There was a corn maze with a castle in the middle. However, the corn wasn't quite high enough to make it interesting. There was the portapotty pavilion with a bathtub in the center. All in all, it appeared that they had outdone themselves again.
Around 4 PM, though, it appeared that my body wasn't going to cooperate. Sharp pains through my stomach suddenly appeared. I thought about the first-aid tent, but then I would miss part of the show. Fortunately, right before the show the pain went away. I didn't know it at the time, but this is the second time I had a kidney stone attack at a Phish show. Upon reflection, the thought of trying to get to a hospital from the middle of the show area is quite scary.
Allegedly at exactly 4:20, the band came on and opened with Makisupa. If I had noticed the time I would have been quite amused. As it was, my amusement began when the jam segued into the end of Harpua. No more would Phish be chastised for not finishing the Clifford Ball version; there just were a lot of songs played in the middle. Chalk Dust followed, at which point we were told that those songs were just the soundcheck (due to the lack of a formal one, allegedly due to a delay in the transit of the equipment from Darien).
Apparently they meant it. With the first three songs, this set lasted close to two hours. Most likely this was the longest set they ever played outside of some one-set shows (and 12/30/97, which was up there as well). While the length was impressive, it's the jams that are the thing. We would get those soon.
Second set opened with "Wolfman's". Earlier this summer I had foolishly assumed that the Gorge "Wolfman's" was the best that they ever had played or ever would play. They were just warming up. This version has an amazing jam that eventually evolves into "Simple". HmmmmR30;back-to-back jam songsR30;that works for me. The "Simple" jam had a long Odd Couple Theme tease. The transition between that and the "My Soul" intro was seamless. This is a beautiful segue. I know everyone hates this song, but I sure can't figure out why. I thought it just rocked. They came to a full stop and then started playing a jam that sounded like it was written by Snow White after being up for a week straight. Okay what's next? "Slave"?! No way! Finally they had to try to restore some sanity, but it was too late. It just wasn't meant for them to play a normal song this set; Mike couldn't remember any of the lines of "Rocky Top". Trey added to the amusement by loudly correcting Mike.
The third set has to be a letdown after that, right? Apparently not. The first "Halley's" since the Clifford Ball was to be our opener. This is a unique version of "Halley's Comet". The jam started out like the usual quick jam, but it kept going and going. It took an angry, almost heavy-metal turn that easily could have segued into "BBFCFM". Instead they invented a little vocal reprise, singing "I'm going down, to the central part of town." A happy little jam came out of this that slowed down and funked down until I suddenly realized I was going to get my first "Cities". Never mind the Slip Stitch and Pass version. This "Cities" just completely destroys it, not to mention TreyR17;s humorous lyrical substitution of "Fishman sleeps, sleeps in the daytime" and showing us where the "dry ice factory" was, by pointing out into the nothingness to the side of the stage. The funk went on and on until the jam started getting faster and faster and suddenly was Llama. At the time I thought this might have been the most exciting half-hour I had seen Phish perform. I had no idea how wrong that would be in a mere twenty-four hours.
Set 1:
Makisupa: You can all imagine the reaction from the crowd when the boys walk out at 4:20 and start playing Makisupa. Trey gives a little reminder that Phish can still pull out the locker room talk when he sings "Woke up in the morning...blue balls." A quick little jam takes us halfway into...
Harpua: the segue from Makisupa started Harpua at the point where Trey usually says "Look, the storm is gone" He didn't say it this time, but as the sun started to burn through the clouds everyone at the show thought it. They did the goldfish dog stuff and finished out the song in standard fashion. I had finally seen a complete Harpua! The fact that Phish played this song just shows that they really care about us fans and that they felt bad that the encore last year confused some people and left them with a bad taste in their mouths. Thanks guys!
Chalkdust: Was damn good, with the exception of some flubs by Trey. He apologized for these afterward, saying that they hadn't had a chance to do a soundcheck and that was it. There was definitely some GREAT jamming in here, if you can ignore the flubs, I heard the NC Chalkdust (must hear) from this summer on the way up, and I think this one is almost as good. Members of PLM will want to check this out!
Theme from the Bottom: Was jammed out nicely, with some tasty melodies in the jam. Not the best ever, and it ended in a piercing wail of feedback that lasted at least 3 minutes. Then...
Punch You in the Eye: Trey hit the opening chord on PYITE just as the feedback kicked out. It seemed like perfect timing. Then the feedback was back. They jammed over it a little bit (don't get excited the feedback was too annoying to enjoy it) and when the feedback kicked out the rest of the song went off without a hitch. At the end of the song, Trey gave everyone a welcome to the Went, said we were the biggest city in Portland, said Fishman was had been naked in the Portolet Piazza bathtub and that we were going to hear the story of the Ghost.
Ghost: This song, of all Phish songs, has the thickest groove. Dancing to it I felt like I was wading through molasses or the tar pits. The bass line just overpowers you and MAKES you move. Mike was spanking the bass like there was no tomorrow. There were times when I felt like they could easily go into Lucy. It's a sweet song, and it's only going to get better. Listen to an early Tweezer if you don't believe me.
Ginseng Sullivan: My favorite of the bluegrass tunes. I love to sing along to it. I could have sworn this was the end of the set. But no!
YEM: My first YEM!!! It was definitely unplanned; Trey walked around the stage to discuss it before they started up. Having waited 13 shows for my first YEM, I was in sheer ecstasy. It's like going on 13 dates with someone you really like, but not being able to kiss her. And boy are Phish great kissers! :-) Everyone was ON in this YEM. It wasn't the longest version around, but it had some DAMN fine jamming. Mike was LOUD and laying down the funk. Page was dancing on the keyboards (not literally). The tramps came out and Trey and Mike did some stunt moves. They were incredibly tight in the jam that follows the tramps section. It went on for a good 10 minutes. I really can't get over how tight it was. I just can't. I'll lose all faith in our esteemed YEM reviewer if it doesn't get at least an 8.5 (or A- or whatever you use for YEM, Charlie). Trey gets a little bit spacey over a hard, driving bassline. It kicks ass. The vocal jam is short and fits the mood of the last part of the jam PERFECTLY. One of the only vocal jams I've heard that has a steady beat to it.
Trainsong: Standard, non-acoustic version. I really like the imagery behind the lyrics of this song, and it was a welcome break from the funk.
Character Zero: A loud screaming rocker to close out the set, I thought. Apparently Page did was well, since he stood up to leave the stage. Trey would have none of that, however, and ran around the stage telling people what to play next.
Coil: followed, as if to "punish" Page for trying to leave early. It was beautiful as always, and the piano solo was a great way to wind down from the 2 hour first set!!! "Stick around" Page said as he finished his solo. I don't think anyone was planning on leaving after a set like that, which so obviously fed off of the tremendous energy of the crowd. I am firmly convinced that this set would have ended with Trey's comments at the end of PYITE if he hadn't felt the power of 60,000 people.
[Setbreak music: New Alison Krauss CD (the one where she looks like she is on Melrose Place as my girlfriend puts it)]
Set 2
Wolfman's: Starts out as always, then headed into uncharted waters. I don't like to put "Jam" on setlists, but if it was ever justified, this might be the case. The other Wolfman's jams I have heard have seemed lacking in direction, but not this one. It was EPIC. You know how you get the FEELING of other jams in the Providence (12/29/94) Bowie like Hood and McGrupp, but they aren't quite teases? That is exactly what this Jam felt like. I get a YEM feeling, a DWD feeling, a Tweezer feeling. I think I may have to use the word HOSE, which I don't like to use lightly. This is one of those GLORIOUS moments in Phishstory. This Jam felt like it couldn't be improvised. It was just too perfect. You could tell that the Hey Hole exercises were paying off. The listening among the members of the band is unbelievable. At the end of the jam, Trey gives a slide up the neck of the Doc and kicks in with the riff to...
Simple: I love hearing this song at shows. It just tells me that the band LOVES what they are doing. Trey did the screaming guitar riff at the we've got be-bop part; I loved it. So, they get to the end of the lyrics, and here I am thinking that they are going to keep it pretty short because of the monster jam they just came out of. But no. They keep it going. Another tight jam. I'm looking at my friends in disbelief. They are looking at me in disbelief. The jam slows down a bit and Trey and Page start to fool with a familiar riff...
Odd Couple Jam: I couldn't quite place it at the time, but one of my friends filled me in at the end of the set. This wasn't an all-out playing of the theme song, but they just played with the riff and did crazy things with it. This was not necessarily a space jam, but it was a little out there. Then Trey starts to play...
My Soul: The intro to this song has Mike playing the Odd Couple theme still. Then the lyrics start up. All I have to say about this version of this song is that it is as far away from "lame" as almost anything I've ever heard. It ROCKS. It rocks HARD. If you think this song sucks, you obviously haven't heard this version. People were dancing like crazy. Sheer FUN.
"Off to the Carnival": Okay, so I named this myself. You know that part on the ALO tweezer where Trey uses some sort of weird effect to make his guitar sound have a circus-like feel? Well, this was about a 5 minute song that was played like this, and I felt sure that it would go into Esther (Hence the name). It's really tough to describe this, and I'll let you all hear it for yourselves.
Slave: Slave has usually played second fiddle to Hood in my book, but this version may have just changed my mind. I think it is safe to call this one of the best Slaves ever. An amazing build up; great guitar work from Trey.
Rocky Top: FAST!! This felt like it had to be the fastest Rocky Top ever. I'm not so sure anymore, listening to the tape, but it is still DAMN fast. And fun as always, if you enjoy bluegrass Phish like me.
Julius: Pretty standard, until they break it down into a quiet little jam for Trey to talk over. He says that they are going to play "a lot more strange and weird music for you" and "to not forget to go to the disco." (WHY DIDN'T I GO I'M SUCH AN IDIOT!!!!!) Then they get back into a normal Julius jam to close out the set.
[Setbreak music: Charlie Hunter Quartet "Natty Dread" (Buy this album!!!)]
Set 3
Halley's Comet: I thought we got a great jam out of this song at the Clifford Ball. Well, the jam out of this Halley's puts that one to shame. It is, and you won't believe it until you hear the tapes, a Type II jam. They finish up with the chorus (I'm going down...) going over a dark jam rather than the real Halley's. Then the jam keeps going into...
Cities: I've only heard one other version of this song, from 3/1/97. Suffice it to say, this version blows that one out of the water. It is slower and funkier and way more improvised. Trey, when speaking of London says that "Fishman sleeps...he sleeps in the daytime" The lyrics seem to come out of nowhere on this song, which I find very cool. I didn't miss the symbolism about finding yourself a city to live in, either, because that's what we all did this weekend. The jam out of Cities starts to sound like...
Llama: After a neat segue, this is a pretty typical version of Llama. But the first two songs MORE than make up for one standard song.
Lawn Boy: Page stands up with the microphone and croons Barry Manilow style on this one. Hilarious! Mike then proceeds to sit down on his monitor and put his feet up for his solo. This is one thing I love about Phish. They can blow your mind one minute and have you ROTFLYAO in the next.
Limb by Limb: Having heard only one other version of this song, I can't make a comparison to other versions. However, it is a damn cool song with a fun jam in the middle.
Funky Bitch: This was a fairly standard Funky Bitch, but what made the song was the fireworks during it. Luckily I was in a position to see them. At this point in the show, I was loving life.
Contact: I'll always love this song. It was one of my first favorites. And it doesn't hurt that I really did wake up one morning in November and realize I loved my girlfriend :-) It was an amazing sight to see 60,000+ people waving their hands at the request of Trey and Mike.
Lovin' Cup: This is my friend's favorite cover song, and it was great to see his face light up when they started playing. I normally don't like it when people sing along at shows, but for this song we all had to. And it was a beautiful buzz.
I'll give my review of Sunday night in another post, but I just want to say right now that after this weekend, I have come to the conclusion that Phish is what IT is all about. They have their finger on the pulse of my existence. Their music transcends description, regardless of what I wrote here. Give your soul to Phish. It will be in good hands.
- A segue *into* Harpua, closing out the Clifford Ball's version;
- An extended and fiery Chalk Dust (pre-2012 through 2014, when extended CDTs were slowly becoming the rule instead of the exception) leading into an equally extended and fiery Theme;
- A Ghost that slides from its usual '97 funk into a thick and gruesome, plodding '03-style jam before opening up into some brief hose before chugging to a close;
- Your typical average-great '97 YEM (the first four highlights were in the *first set*, mind you);
- An absolutely superb 3-song sequence to kick off Set 2. Wolfman's moves into a very typical '97 funk space (think the 11/17 Tweezer), as Page heads to the organ and Trey plays some spartan notes, before the band moves into a dreamier and contemplative space and closes with a 70's-esque flourish, then picks up steam and segues into Simple, which books along before morphing into a goofy Odd Couple Theme jam (funny how that riff has stuck with Trey throughout the years, like a wackier Streets of Cairo), then grows dissonant and wanders into My Soul;
- A very odd little jamlet, almost sound-checky in its abstract nature, that gives way very naturally into Slave;
- ANOTHER crazy good 3-song sequence to kick off Set 3 (a candidate for their finest ever 3rd set). Halley's moves into a more Page-driven version of the usual Halley's jam before Trey hits on a nasty tone and things get dark and weird, then Fish kicks into a tasty groove and the band lands on a growly and thick blues/almost reggae jam. Cities emerges in this same weird tempo (think more 7/12/13 -> out of Tweezer and less 12/31/14 -> out of Theme), and they crank out a milkshake-thick funk groove, rather like something from the Lemonwheel soundcheck, before picking up the pace and making a natural move into Llama (!), which burns bright before petering out and giving way to Lawn Boy (!!);
- And, finally, a wonderful Limb by Limb that never really breaks free of its constraints, but instead of ending in the usual fashion goes into a swirling and powerful reprise, from which Funky Bitch comes in to end three exceptional sets of music.
The fact that a show this exceptionally strong *isn't even the best show of the year* should be more than enough to tell you that 1997 is, at the very least, one of Phish's peak years. Highest possible recommendation - you skip this show, available in tasty SBD, at your own peril.
another local hanging out in the same area joked that she might have to move away after the festival ended, 'cuz this event had spoiled her for good & the town of limestone could never match something like this in a million years, lol (fortunately for her, the boys came back a couple of more times, so maybe she held off on that move for the time being ;D ).
this show was one of the "top shelf" shows i attended, but it was a bonus chatting it up with the locals....i was initially concerned what their perception of 60,000+ phish fans would be, but everyone i talked with was having a blast & wouldn't trade those two nights away for anything...
We drove forever from university in Guelph, Ontario to get up there and really went through the ringer at the border b/c someone found rolling papers (but nothing else). I had not heard much Phish except for Junta, Rift and Billy Breathes but those were enough to know the band was amazing. I had not heard any live shows and did not know anything about the Phish lot scene. Needless to say, after this show I was hooked on the scene, the band, the whole works...
The tapes speak for themselves. My highlight would have to be the Halley's>Cities>Llama run from the 3rd set but it was a sweet day all around despite the mud and rain from the night before.
the 4:20/makisupa opener is very nice, and it leads into the 2nd half of the harpua from the clifford ball. this was a quasi surprise, but it really gave some closure... anyway, chalk dust finishes the "sound check." there are some flubs and miscues, but it is still pretty solid. theme gives the boys their first chance to dig deep, and they find some nice areas in theme. punch gets the funk thing going, and ghost really seals the deal. this is a nice funky ghost with some great page work in the jam. a very good yem appears to close the set before train, zero, and coil are tacked on.
wolfman's opens this set in grand fashion. this is a full on bad boy 97 funk wolfman's. this one is easily my favorite of the u.s. summer tour. fishman and gordon provide great rhythm and page and trey just funk wail over the top. eventually, it starts hitting a more rocking feel with a lovely simple. this one covers a lot of ground before hitting an odd couple jam driving it into my soul. this gives way to a nice spacey jam that serves as a lead into a mind blowing slave. trey just rips this one. rocky top is nice and snappy, and even julius has a few interesting twists that are worth checking out.
now, the 2nd set was good, but i think that i have to take the 3rd set. it's even better. halley's is a nice funky exploration that finally works its way into a low, nasty, dirty cities. of course, phish already slows this song down tremendously, compared to the talking heads version that is, but this one is sooooo much slower than that. it's almost comical how cool this one is. fishman and trey are particularly kicking on this one. now, as for "the jam factor," i might have to take the deer creek version from a week before over this one, but this has one gets very serous "weird points." the funk jam out of cities finally starts to pick up as the boys find themselves in a very hot llama. like the 2nd set though, i felt that this set was also quite front loaded. there were fireworks during funky bitch, but obviously, that does not carry over all that well on my ipod.
set 1:
makisupa>harpua, pyite, ghost, yem
set 2:
wolfman's>simple>my soul, slave
set 3:


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Ben Affleck has announced that he won't be running for Senate, according to the Huffington Post.
"I love Massachusetts and our political process, but I am not running for office," he said. He vowed to continue his work with the Eastern Congo Initiative and with fighting hunger in the United States.
The "Argo" director and star was rumored to be considering running to replace John Kerry in the senate. President Obama has nominated Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
"We are about to get a great Secretary of State and there are some phenomenal candidates in Massachusetts for his Senate seat," Affleck said. "I look forward to an amazing campaign."
Other potential candidates that have been named are soon-to-be former Senator Scott Brown and several members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation.
JESSICA SIMPSON OFFICIALLY PREGNANT AGAIN: Jessica Simpson is officially pregnant again.
She was probably pregnant before, but it wasn't official because she didn't tell us.
After much speculation, the singer admitted that she is pregnant via TwitPic, according to MSN. The photo shows Simpson's 7-month-old daughter, Maxwell Drew, sitting on sand with the words "BIG SIS" drawn out in front of her.
Simpson's pregnancy was first reported by Us Weekly last month.
Simpson announced her last pregnancy on Halloween 2011 on JessicaSimpson.com. She posted a photo of herself dressed up as a mummy holding her baby bump.
Get it? It's subtle but try to follow along.
Simpson is engaged to former 49ers tight end Eric Johnson.
RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN GO PUBLIC: For the first time in years, Chris Brown and Rihanna arrived at a public event together. They sat together and were semi-cuddily at Tuesday's Los Angeles Lakers-New York Knicks game in L.A.
The two arrived to Staples Center in the same car but got out of the vehicle separately, according to TMZ. This is important news you need to know.
The pair eventually met inside and sat down together in their courtside seats.
The pair hasn't officially announced that they're back together but have shared enough Twitter pictures and other evidence to convince us they're not just friends. As you know, Brown is still on probation after pleading guilty to assaulting Rihanna in 2009. Apparently, she's moved past it.
JANET JACKSON ENGAGED: Janet Jackson is engaged.
A source told Us Weekly that Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana "gave her a huge, expensive ring" earlier this year.
The source said, "She's afraid it will get lost, so she keeps it locked up."
Maybe she's afraid LaToya will try to hock it.
The luxury-brand mogul, 37, will spare no expense on his nuptials to Jackson, said to be set for spring in Qatar.
The affair "will cost millions," a Jackson insider revealed. "He is flying in all of Janet's friends and family on private jets."
He might need a 747. That's a lot of Jacksons.
Added the source, "He wants to get a top chef to create a custom menu."
Good idea. Nobody wants Qatari Taco Bell at a wedding.
BIEBER AND GOMEZ BEING FRIENDLY AGAIN: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are, like, totally making out in public and stuff.
Sure, we all have been on the edge of our seats trying to figure out if these adorable kids are still together. And the latest good news is: yes. At least if playing tonsil hockey in Salt Lake City counts.
According to TMZ, the Biebs and the former "Wizards of Waverly Place" star were spotted canoodling and kissing in the airport in Salt Lake City, with Gomez sitting on Bieber's lap at one point and cuddling him.
Thank goodness. Some of us haven't got a full night's sleep since we heard their relationship was on the rocks.
Bieber and Gomez have been spending quite a bit of time together recently including hopping on a jet together in Van Nuys, Calif., on Wednesday. Since they supposedly broke up in November, it seems like they've been making up and breaking up almost every week.
SINGER SURVIVES MOTORCYCLE CRASH: "Big Time Rush" star Logan Henderson was in a nasty motorcycle wreck last week and might have been saved by his jacket, according to TMZ.
Sources told the website the Nickelodeon boy bander was cruising through the Hollywood and Vine intersection on his way to the studio when a car turned right in front of him.
Henderson swerved at the last second to avoid an accident and was violently tossed off his bike in the process.
Remarkably, he was able to stand afterward. The poor dear was scraped and bruised from bouncing across the pavement. But he emerged in better shape than one might expect, thanks in part to his Marc Jacobs jacket, which he says saved his back from becoming a mangled mess.
Sounds like an endorsement deal in the making ... not that anyone in Hollywood would milk a near-disaster for cash.
Henderson was OK, but his bike didn't fare as well. It's in the shop for the foreseeable future.
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Thursday is Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2012. There are four days left in the year.
1512: King Ferdinand II issued the original Laws of Burgos, which were intended to regulate the treatment of indigenous people on Hispaniola by Spanish settlers.
1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
1904: James Barrie's play "Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" opened at the Duke of York's Theater in London.
1927: The musical play "Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
1932: New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened to the public in midtown Manhattan. (Opening night, consisting of several hours of live acts, was considered a disaster, prompting the owners to shift to a format of showing a movie followed by a stage show.)
1945: 28 nations signed an agreement creating the World Bank.
1947: The original version of the puppet character Howdy Doody made its TV debut on NBC's "Puppet Playhouse."
1949: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed an act recognizing Indonesia's sovereignty after more than three centuries of Dutch rule.
1968: Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
1970: The musical play "Hello, Dolly!" closed on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
1979: Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.
1985: Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; 19 victims were killed, plus four attackers who were slain by police and security personnel.
-- American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied gorillas in the wild in Rwanda, was found hacked to death.
2002: A defiant North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. But the U.N. nuclear watchdog said its inspectors were "staying put" for the time being.
-- A suicide truck-bomb attack destroyed the headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people.
-- Clonaid, a company founded by a religious sect that believes in space aliens, announced it had produced the world's first cloned baby, a claim subsequently dismissed by scientists for lack of proof.
2007: Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan following a campaign rally.
-- Kenya held an election pitting incumbent president Mwai Kibaki against opposition candidate Raila Odinga, both candidates ended up claiming victory in a vote that observers said was seriously flawed. (Kenya was racked by weeks of ethnic violence; Kibaki and Odinga ended up forming a coalition government.)
2011: Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising.
-- Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a conservative Democrat, said he would retire from the Senate rather than seek a third term.
-- Abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler, 83, known for her bold, lyrical use of color, died in Darien, Conn.
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Consumer rights advocates lost a crucial vote in the state Legislature on Wednesday after a bevy of lobbyists for the payday lending industry persuaded senators to reject new curbs on the storefront operations.
Although short-term loans with triple-digit annual interest rates have been deemed predatory and barred in 17 other states, legislative attempts to regulate payday lending in California have not made it very far. And this time was no different.
Senate Bill 515, carried by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, and co-authored by Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, challenged lawmakers to protect low-income Californians by capping the number of payday loans to six per customer each year. It also sought more time to repay the loans, typically due on payday after two weeks.
But the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee -- among them top recipients of campaign contributions from payday lenders -- voted 5-3 not to forward the bill to the full Senate. The vote followed a testy, two-hour hearing with testimony in opposition from some of the most powerful lobbying firms in Sacramento -- and pleas to pass the bill from a single mom, a state employee and a college student.
Paul Gladfelty, a lobbyist for two prominent California payday lenders, objected at Wednesday's hearing to the term "debt trap." He and other payday lending interests described the term "safety net" as a more apt description for the cash provided to those who don't qualify for bank loans or credit cards.
"I do feel bad that people have to go to the payday lending industry," Gladfelty said. "But the fact of the matter is, they help a lot of people in the state of California" -- roughly 1.6 million borrowers taking out more than 12 million loans at last count.
Responding to those who say the storefronts are disproportionately located in impoverished communities of color, Gladfelty said, "If they are, it's coincidental, and it's not part of a coordinated strategy."
Jackson's bill did not technically die after its first hearing in a two-year legislative session. It will remain "under consideration" in the banking committee.
But that body, dominated by payday lending industry supporters, is not expected to look favorably at the reforms currently championed by consumer advocates, civil rights groups and religious leaders.
Some signs are new, however. Senate banking committee members said they would not rule out considering reforms of the payday lending industry if Jackson went back and rethought her bill.
Meanwhile, another bill, authored by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, did make it through the banking committee Wednesday. SB 318 seeks to create a pilot lending program to promote alternatives to payday loans -- something senators insisted was needed before they would consider further restrictions of payday loans.
By capping the annual number of loans, Jackson's bill could have significantly scaled back the storefront industry, based on data from other states that enacted lending caps. And although they offered no evidence, bill opponents said limiting access to payday lending would drive more customers to unregulated, online lenders based as far away as Belize and Malta.
"There's a lack of credit out there. People are hurting; there are no viable options," said committee chairman Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana. "The only option is the Internet."
Proponents of SB 515 argued that they are not seeking to kill the industry, simply to hold it to its advertised mission of offering emergency, occasional loans. Three Bay Area Democrats on the banking committee agreed and voted in favor of the bill -- Beall, Hill and Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro.
Payday lenders charge a $45 fee in exchange for $255 in cash. But one loan typically leads to another. And at annualized interest rates of up to 460 percent, that burden compounds, falling heavily on the working poor and even those relying on public benefits.
Krissie DeLeon of Hollister testified that she got caught up in payday loan debt trying to feed her small son and keep gas in her car to get to work. SB 515, she said, would "help us as consumers get out of the hole we're in." The current loan structure, she added, "basically helps us dig the hole deeper."
Beall said payday lending contributes to poverty in California by taking money that could be used for basic living expenses and wasting it on loan fees instead. He urged his colleagues to keep the bill alive.
"It's harmed people," said Beall, who first learned of payday lending from former foster youth who asked his office for help. "It's time we stand up and say we're going to continue to work on this -- we're not going to close the blinds and go along with the people in Sacramento who tell us what to do."
Jackson said after the hearing that she is "very disappointed" in her colleagues' votes, adding, "I'd hoped that more committee members would have been willing to stand up to the industry."
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Our unofficial "eating meeting" where we visit and talk about what we want to (including but not restricted to genealogy) is going to happen at 6:00 p.m. at Peralta's Restaurant in Quitman across from the Governor Hogg Park on Highway 37.
This is the last meeting to discuss what we're doing at the Old Settlers' Reunion celebration the first week of August. If you have forgotten what you volunteered to do, show up and we'll get out the list. If you would still like to help, show up (or contact Deason Hunt) and we'll put you on the list. We are still looking for ideas.
Also, as a special treat, after we finish visiting and eating, member Barbara Coleman has arranged for those who are interested to tour the Wood County Historical Commission Museum on the courthouse square in Quitman. Pretty good for an unofficial meeting, huh?
All members, guests, and visitors are welcome to come to either or both. There's no charge unless you eat or drink something. We have arranged to use a room near the back of the dining areas so we won't disturb others at the restaurant — too much. Some people there might not like hearing laughing and fun. You never know.
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Q&A: What Health-Law Revision Means
In a major revision to the federal health-care mandate, the Obama administration said Tuesday it is delaying penalties for large employers who don't provide health coverage to workers under the new law for 2014, the first year the provision to take effect. Here is a Q&A on the revision:
What is the change?
The law requires companies with the equivalent of 50 or more full-time workers to offer health benefits starting on Jan. 1, 2014—or pay a penalty of at least $2,000 per employee. The delay means that penalty won't kick in until 2015.
What does it mean for small businesses?
The move won't affect most of the nation's small employers, nearly all of which have fewer than 50 employees.
What about large employers that already offer good health coverage?
They aren't affected by the change. Some large employers that currently offer skimpy coverage might have to pay penalties, but they too get a delay until 2015.
How does it affect consumers?
The provision of the law that requires individuals to carry health coverage or pay a fine, starting next year, remains in effect. The delay only applies to the business penalties.
Who pushed for the change?
Companies in such lower-wage industries such as restaurants, retail and agriculture had asked for more time, citing difficulties posed by the law's requirements. Also, some companies were talking about cutting back workers' shifts so they worked fewer than 30 hours a week and wouldn't be counted as full-time employees subject to the law. The delay gives these companies more time to sort through their options.
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"Miracles only happen to those who believe in them."
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"Miracles only happen to those who believe in them."
And he said he saw miracles so not to give up.
I love this! Kris you are in great hands with this surgeon! None of us will ever give up!
Kris, Teddy and I know about Miracles! They do happen.
I like that quote a lot Kris! It sure does sound like you have an excellent surgeon with a great attitude!
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Kris...you and I have been on this board for several years and WE HAVE SEEN MIRACLES. We are ready for more.
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I was told by my doctor to never under estimate the power of prayer. Since my Mom's diagnosis in November, we have been overwhelmed with prayers from people who don't even know her and she is doing better then they hoped. I truly believe in miracles!!
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We appreciate the valuable time you spend here, with us playing Senatry. In order to appreciate your efforts we like to start a weekly contest.
You can vote for a player's name, but it shouldn't be the same as yours or your alt account. Every Player will be having 1 voting power(if you have many accounts you can vote with only 1). The vote should be based on the players helping, mentality, popularity in world chat and family, also active participation in forums. Please put the players name and why you liked him/her …. this is applicable to all players including GM or PG.
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In his latest book, former Vice President Al Gore explores what he sees are the "six drivers of global change." These include economic globalization, the digital revolution, loss of natural resources, climate change, technological advances in the life sciences, and a shift in the global balance of power. He dissects the opportunities, as well as the dangers in each, and adds his own thoughts on our government's seeming current state of paralysis, as he looks to "The Future" (303.400).
Popular novelist Jennifer Chiaverini has based her latest book on the life of Elizabeth Keckley, the former slave who became "Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker." By the time Lizzie set up her business in Washington, she had bought her freedom, and her son's, through her talent for sewing. Much in demand by the prominent ladies of D.C. society, she accepted the position of modiste to Mary Lincoln as the Civil War broke out and became an integral and trusted member of the Lincoln White House.
The mother-and-son writing team known as Charles Todd are finally coming into their own with a new entry in their Ian Rutledge series. An inspector with Scotland Yard and a gifted investigator, Rutledge spent World War I in the trenches of France. He carries the burden of those years as he returns to work and tries to make a normal life for himself. His latest case concerns an unidentified man, the victim of a hit and run. Ian's task is to identify the victim and find the killer. As different leads take him in different directions, more unidentified bodies begin to appear. "Proof of Guilt" (M) is the title.
Four years after her mother's death from cancer, Cheryl Strayed felt helpless as her life spun out of control. Her family ties became shaky, her marriage fell apart, and the drugs she had turned to for relief only brought more trouble. Fascinated by a book on the Pacific Crest Trail she had seen in an outdoor store, she determined to make that hike — all the way from Mexico to Canada — despite her lack of experience and poor physical condition. "Wild" (917.940) is her memoir of the three months she walked "from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail."
A consummate writer, the late John Updike excelled in whatever form he chose — fiction, poetry, essays or criticism. His final volme of art critiques offers a unique experience. Each of the 15 pieces is richly illustrated by the paintings Updike is addressing. In "Always Looking: Essays on Art" (700.000), Updike is your guide as you wander together through some fabulous museum exhibits.
A promising and ambitious young painter, Claire Roth had been the center of controversy when her then lover, artist Isaac Cullion, claimed one of her works as his own. When the truth was revealed, Cullion committed suicide. Now Claire makes her living painting copies of popular works of art for a website called Reproductions.com. One day, a gallery owner offers her a deal: he will let her have a one-woman show if she will forge a Degas — one of 13 works stolen years ago from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Claire reluctantly accepts, but the more she works with the masterpiece the more convinced she becomes that it, too, is a forgery. "The Art Forger" is the latest from B.A. Shapiro.
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Fiction — "Lambs to the Slaughter" (M), by Sally Spencer;
"The Spy: an Isaac Bell Adventure," by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott;
"The Kashmir Shawl," by Rosie Thomas;
"Daddy Love," by Joyce Carol Oates.
Non-fiction — "The 8 Hour Diet: Watch the Pounds Disappear Without Watching What you Eat!" (613.250), by David Zinczenko;
"Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives ... Eight Hours" (306.874), by Larry Elder.
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- 2006-2008 University of California at San Diego - Master of Arts in Music (Composition)
- 2002-2006 Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Bachelor of Music in Composition
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Daniel Tacke (b. 1985) is a composer, educator, and performer of keyboard instruments. He holds degrees in composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BMus, 2006) and the University of California at San Diego (MA, 2008, PhD, 2012), where he also taught as a Graduate Music Fellow. From 2011-2013 he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music before accepting a position as Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Arkansas State University. His most recent compositions have centered around veiled and fragmented expressivities stemming from unconventional instrumental sonorities and subjective qualities of human experience such as embodiment and memory. His works have been performed and recorded in the United States and abroad by Duo Echo, Ensemble Bonne Action, the Formalist Quartet, the Kenners, the Palimpsest New Music Ensemble, and the Red Light New Music Ensemble, among others. He has been awarded the BMI Young Composer Award (2006) and the Walter E. Aschaffenburg Prize (Oberlin, 2006), and in 2010 was the recipient of a Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections Grant. As a pianist he was awarded the Advanced Certificate with Distinction by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (England, 2000). More recently, as an organist and harpsichordist he specializes in North German baroque music and the works of J. S. Bach, an area of research and performance that resonates deeply with his activities as a composer.
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A Graduated Tax Would Stir Support for Immigration Reform
Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 11:58 p.m.
In 2002 I emigrated from Jamaica to Florida. I am a graduate of Auburndale High School and Wake Forest University, and a graduate student at Yale currently studying as the Lakeland Rotary Club's ambassadorial scholar in Denmark.
It is my dream that the embracing of the egalitarian ethos that is at the core of an America that has always been a nation of immigrants and a country that prides itself on its propensity for compassion and making the pursuit of happiness and self-actualization a possibility to motivated, ambitious and industrious individuals will again be celebrated as part of America's national character and reflected in the nation's policies.
I implore our nation's legislators to be on the right side of morality in pursuing comprehensive immigration reform. But I'm aware that the moral argument may not be enough to sway public opinion.
I believe in compromise and the benefits of symbiotic relationships. The economic argument for providing a pathway to legal residential status for undocumented immigrants is a convincing one.
A 2010 study by the Center for American Progress postulated that legalizing undocumented immigrants could increase their incomes and result in the economy being infused with an additional $36 billion yearly. I suggest that a gradient tax rate scheme be devised whose application would be contingent on the attainment of a certain income.
For the first five years have them pay a 25 percent federal income tax rate, then the next five years 30 percent, then 35 percent for five more years, then 40 percent and 45 percent for the following two five-year periods. After this initial 25-year period, they'd pay a tax rate that is commensurate with their income like any other American as dictated by the current tax code.
Undocumented immigrants would get legal status, conservatives could point to this as sound fiscal policy, and the liberals could argue that this is good social policy.
Everybody wins.
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- You've heard of donating food, clothes and money, but what about giving back even after you aren't around anymore?
It's a way to leave your legacy, but not having a street named after you or nameplate on a building. It's one that could save lives and save your family money. It's called leaving behind your body to science.
First-year medical students at Georgia Health Sciences University are preparing for class. But in this class, they won't be relying on books or boards -- but bodies.
First-year medical student Pierre Desanges says, "A book can only give you a general sense of where things are via illustrations."
Anatomical Program Coordinator David Adams says the students come in with a lot of emotion.
"We begin each semester with the students, one of our chaplains from the hospital comes over he has a prayer before we ever start -- first thing," Adams said.
It wasn't always easy for first-year medical student Mary-Caroll Lee, but she says you get used to it really quickly.
"Making the first cuts was hard," Lee said. "The first incisions we made were along the back. I just kept thinking someone once patted this back, put suntan lotion on it and massaged it and they loved this person and I'm about to destroy this back."
For Lee's group, they've named their first patient Elma.
One of the students says, "We definitely appreciate her. I would never know where these muscles are."
While they will only ever know Elma's age and profession, "You know their bodies better than they ever do," she said.
Their professor and the bodies guide them through the process of learning medicine.
"They look so much different than books," Lee said. "One of the things I noticed about her is that her nails are really well manicured so someone must have been taking care of her in final days and I thought that was nice."
Adams says, "We have about 12 thousand people who are registered with us to become body donors at the time of death."
So here is how it works. You register to donate your body to science and when you die, you get assigned to a class.
After they use the donor's body, which could be up to two years, they are then cremated and can then be buried at the university's cinerarium. That's where the benefit could come for your family.
"The university pays basically all the expenses for this donor," Adams said.
This could save your family up to $7,000 in funeral expenses. The university covers the costs of transportation to embalming to cremation. The remains are then returned to the family or buried on campus.
Sam Engler is waiting on his mother's. She passed away in 2009.
"All through her life she didn't want to be a burden to her children," Engler said.
So she donated her body to science not just to save money but to save lives.
"It's a first-class facility and and all of those students and that whole department know what it takes to make that type of decision to donate your body," he said.
That's when he made the decision to be a donor, too.
"I can't think of anything more morbid than to be put in a box and put in the ground," he said.
So while death is inevitable, the costs don't have to be.
"Even in death you can still be present and do something good for the world," Lee said.
In this room, these could be your former engineers, accountants, nurses or homemakers, but at the end of this lesson, they all become teachers to your future doctors.
There are programs like this across medical schools in the country. If you are thinking of being a body donor there are limitations. First, you have to be at least 18 years old. The program cannot accept anyone who has died by severe trauma or had a contagious disease.
When the semester is over, they have a memorial service to honor those who have donated their bodies.
That's where a lot of these students meet their first patients' families for the first time. An experience many describe as emotional.
If you want to learn more about being a body donor, go to this website.


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Published: Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 11:48 p.m.
LIVINGSTON | University of West Alabama defensive end Ridge Wilson and place kicker Ryne Smith have been named to the Daktronics All-America Football Team. Both were named to the second team.
Wilson, a senior from Louisville, Ky., was the Gulf South Conference defensive player of the year after recording 67 total tackles, 11 for loss and 11 sacks. In his only season at UWA after transferring from Kentucky, Wilson led the GSC in both sacks and tackles for loss while forcing two fumbles and recovering one.
Smith, a senior from Madison, Miss., was a first-team All-GSC selection after converting 16-of-17 field goal attempts and 50-of-52 PAT tries. He set the NCAA Division II record for consecutive field goals made with 24 over the last two seasons. Smith, who originally came to UWA to play on the Tiger baseball team, led the GSC in scoring with 96 points.
The Tigers finished the season 9-4 and won the first outright GSC title in school history.
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SAN JOSE — Sharks coach Todd McLellan said forward Raffi Torres will be ready to play in the postseason and added that the team will know more about forward Tomas Hertl's availability in the next day or two, pending medical reports.
McLellan said Torres, has not played since March 8 with soreness in his surgically repaired knee, will not dress for either of the next two games as the Sharks host Colorado on Friday and play at Phoenix on Saturday to close the regular season.
Hertl has not played since Dec. 19 in a knee-on-knee collision with Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown. Hertl had surgery Dec. 31 to repair his right posterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments, but has made steady progress in recent weeks as he skated with the team in practice.
Getting both players back for the playoffs would provide a huge boost to the Sharks, who are 4-5-2 since a six-game win streak from March 6-16.
"We'll know more in the next day or two," McLellan said when asked about Hertl. "It's been a long time since Tomas has played as well, so we're waiting for some doctors reports and we'll go from there."
For more on the Sharks, see the Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow Curtis Pashelka on Twitter at twitter.com/CurtisPashelka.


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Dirac Schrödinger 1.0.9 Released
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As we were on holiday last week, in the chilly snows of Austria, we almost missed an important announcement regarding the Schrödinger implementation of the Dirac codec.
It has been roughly eleven months since the last Schrödinger release, so this is indeed welcome news.
Don't know what either Schrödinger or Dirac are? Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format, initially developed by the UK's BBC Research and Development team. To quote from the recent release announcement:
"Schrödinger is a cross-platform implementation of the Dirac video compression specification as a C library. The Dirac project maintains two encoder implementations: dirac-research, a research encoder, and Schrödinger, which is meant for user applications. As of this release, Schrödinger outperforms dirac-research in most encoding situations, both in terms of encoding speed and visual quality."
That last sentence is really important. Previous testing by Stream0 showed that while Schrödinger was a much faster implementation than Dirac Research, the quality suffered enormously. If indeed Schrödinger has now surpassed Dirac Research in quality terms, this is exciting news.
Further information regarding enhancements in this release, and plans for a more regular release cycle, are available on the Dirac Video website.
With the increasing acceleration of HTML 5 acceptance, it'd be fantastic to see more browser support for Dirac, alongside Ogg Theora, as an alternative to the currently almost ubiquitous Flash/H.264 combination.
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Wherever your travels lead you this holiday season, a movie debut is sure to bring smiles to young and old. With the help of ComingSoon.net, we've compiled upcoming releases for the 2011 holiday season. Whether you love a good romantic comedy, or like the action packed sagas, there is something sure to entice every movie lover this year!
November 30
- The Collection
- Killing Them Softly
December 7
- Playing for Keeps
December 14
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D)
December 19
- The Guilt Trip
- Monsters, Inc. 3D (3D/2D theaters)
December 21
- Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (3D/2D theaters)
- Jack Reacher
- This Is 40
December 25
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
- Parental Guidance
December 28
- Quartet
- Therese
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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man who escaped from the San Joaquin County Jail Honor Farm.
Jimmy Lee Rayburn, 29, was discovered missing during an inmate count that took place at 2 a.m. Friday, according to a Sheriff's Office report.
Rayburn, who is from Lodi, was last seen wearing honor farm blue clothing. He had been in custody since November on an auto theft conviction and was expected to be released in July.
Anyone with information on Rayburn's whereabouts is asked to contact the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office at (209) 468-4400. Text message tips can be sent to "274637." Messages should start with the letters SJSO, a space and then the tip.
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Re: Loss of features from QCad 2 to Q Cad 3
The command box is no longer able to be undocked and relocated to the side of the work area, or alternatively another screen
The status bar is now permanent, I for one would be just as happy if there were no status bar at all, I never read it (perhaps I do sometimes check how many entities are selected, not very often tho)
QCad 3 appears to have drawing tabs at the top of the screen (limited value)
The rulers cannot be disabled
While I'm at it, what benefit is there in the slider bars, (uses up screen space)
These items combine to leave my 24" ($400.00) screen with an effective viewing
area of the drawing equal to a 15.3" screen. I don't want to be trying to squint my way along with that
The grid cannot be turned off or adjusted. I don't actually understand this obsession cad programmers have with a grid; I have over 25 years of professional cad experience, and cannot recall any professional or amateur drafts person who actually uses a grid. Whenever we assess a new cad, the first discussion is usually "How do we disable the grid?"
There appears to be no library toolbar (at least not in the same place it was in 2) surely the intention is not to load library items directly as drawing files or something
The block list toolbar seems to have lost the ability to "hide" and "show". This feature was very useful, and was a personal favorite. It is not present in many other major packages. Well certainly not as accessible as QCad 2
Some of the drop down menus have very poor contrast and do not seem do display at all until they are selected (e.g. Layer data)
The Modify/Attributes feature is missing from the menu; this was a very effective tool when loading a drawing from a foreign source like a translated PDF or an imperfect or old .dwg
There is no PDF export option. This is a critical one; no PDF and I can't communicate with a client
I have set up my system to operate on 2 screens, the drawing on one side and the tool bars on the other side, at this point it seems that the reset toolbar occasionally becomes locked on, and is only removed by a computer restart.
QCad 3 is very slow to load on my system and seems to run and work slower, I have just compared drawing 10,000 vectors on QCad 2, and QCad 3. QCad2 is blindingly fast, loads in less than 1.0 seconds and manipulates the 10,000 vectors with only the slightest lag. QCad3 loads in about 12.0 seconds and there is a 15.0second lag selecting and operating on the10,000 vectors
Others are reporting 3 is faster than 2, so I must have some setting wrong in my system
Best new features are:
Select polygon
User define shortcuts
My system is Win7 6.1 Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 6.00GB Ram