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Tips for Repaying Student Loans
The six-month post-graduation grace period on student-loan payments expired last month for many May graduates, meaning they are now required to make payments on their loans. We asked members of the Class of 2013 to tell us about the student debt they face, as well as their strategies for paying it down. Here's a sampling of what they shared with us:
Nathan Kaehler, 29
University of California, Los Angeles, '13; Master of Business Administration
Total Student Debt: $80,000 in federal and private loans
Debt-Free Target Date:1-2 years
Mr. Kaehler completed his MBA in June and made his first student-loan payment in August. He now works as a portfolio manager at an alternative-investment firm in South Bend, Ind.
Of the $80,000 in student loans he took out to finance his business degree, he says only about 10% are federal, at 6.8% interest, and the rest are private, at 4.25%. His after-tax earnings total about $6,000 per month, and he plans to make monthly loan payments of $3,500 to $4,000. Mr. Kaehler says the low cost of living in South Bend makes it easier for him to meet his loan-payment and retirement-savings goals.
He says he hopes to have the loans paid off by early 2015.
Nathan Lattimer, 24
University of Southern Indiana, '13; B.S., Social-Science Secondary Education
Total Student Debt: about $30,000 in federal and private loans
Debt-Free Target Date: 4 years
Mr. Lattimer, who works as a mentor at a nonprofit Christian educational organization in Bloomington, Ind., hopes to pay off his student loans within about four years. Of his net $2,000 in monthly income, he has recently started paying $630 per month toward his $30,000 in loans. The interest rates on his loans range from 3.4% to 6.5%. The loans have taken a "huge toll" on his lifestyle, he says. He keeps dining out to a minimum, rents a small apartment with a roommate and plans to stay on his parents' health insurance until he ages out at 26, he says.
Another way Mr. Lattimer makes ends meet? "Not dating."
Ryan Weatherford, 22
Neumann University '13; B.S., Business and Marketing
Total Student Debt: $30,000 in federal loans
Debt-Free Target Date: 8 years
Mr. Weatherford hopes to pay off his $30,000 in student loans by the time he's 30. Of the $2,200 he pulls in per month from his job in investment operations in Philadelphia, Mr. Weatherford plans to put about $538 toward paying off the loans, on which he pays 5% interest. He estimates that about $700 of his monthly earnings go toward rent and utilities, leaving him about $1,000 "for everything else," he says. To minimize expenses, Mr. Weatherford says he prioritizes essentials like gas and furniture over social outings.
Rather than dining out, he frequently opts to "eat the food in the fridge."
Torie Olson, 23
Marquette University, '13; Master of Science in Accounting
Total Student Debt: $43,000 in federal loans
Debt-Free Target Date: 10 years
Ms. Olson is on the brink of moving from a Chicago suburb to New York to start her career in accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC. She completed her Master of Science in Accounting at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisc. in May, and has about $43,000 in federal loans. Her interest rates range from about 3% to 6%, she says. She hopes to pay off the debt within about 10 years. Because Ms. Olson registered with a temporary-employment agency and they were unable to place her, she was eligible to defer payments on her loans on the basis of unemployment for an additional six months. But she says she plans to begin making monthly payments of about $500 to $700 by February or March. That will eat into her monthly take-home pay of $3,130, she says, as will New York's relatively high cost of living.


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Gaming the Electoral College
This article originally appeared in our October 2010 issue and has been revised and updated for the 2012 presidential election.
As Mitt Romney and President Obama crisscross the nation this campaign season, some voters are receiving VIP treatment. The country's electoral college system almost guarantees that voters in swing states, like Ohio and Florida, get more candidate attention, both on campaign stops and on the airwaves, than in states that lean decidedly Democratic or Republican. In fact, according to Professor Brett Gordon, just one third of the US population was exposed to more than 90 percent of campaign advertising in the 2000 and 2004 elections.
The role of the Electoral college in shaping national elections has been under particular scrutiny since 2000. Only three times in US history has the electoral vote trumped the popular vote in a presidential election, but the uniquely contentious results in 2000 rekindled the debate about whether to abolish the winner-take-all electoral college in favor of a direct national vote. Since then, a handful of states have passed legislation pledging their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote and several others have considered following suit.
Perhaps the greatest criticism of the electoral college is the way it influences candidates' campaign strategies, creating battleground states that attract a disproportionate amount of attention from candidates in terms of advertising dollars, fundraising, and candidate appearances relative to the number of popular votes those states represent. While Gordon estimates that $3 to $5 billion will be spent on advertising in the 2012 election, those dollars aren't spent evenly. California, New York, and Texas — large states with huge numbers of electoral votes — barely register in presidential campaigns. These blockbuster-sized states are viewed as noncompetitive because the margins of victory for the dominant party in each are so big that campaigns view their election results as predetermined. And although geographically indiscriminate social media is playing a more prominent role than ever in elections, Gordon says political campaigns still focus the majority of their media budgets on TV ads.
Consider the 2008 presidential campaign. More than $600 million was spent on television ads in the 2008 race, according to the Wisconsin Advertising Project, a research initiative documenting US presidential and congressional campaign advertising between 1998 and 2008. The Obama campaign advertised very little in New York, probably on the calculation that John McCain was unlikely to advertise much because he was unlikely to win in the heavily Democratic state. Likewise, common wisdom suggests that the McCain campaign passed over advertising in Texas, where it anticipated that the Obama campaign would not invest much in ad efforts — because the Democrat would most likely lose in the Republican stronghold. But both candidates showered swing state Ohio with advertising, partially because each campaign sought to influence Ohio's outcome and believed the other would do the same.
In the 2000 race, it was battleground state Florida that brought these criticisms most sharply into relief, prompting the most recent calls for electoral college reform. "A lot of people — safe to say mostly Democrats — think back to Gore and Bush in 2000," Gordon says, "and conclude that if we'd had a direct national vote instead of using the electoral college, Gore would have won.
"But that may not be true," Gordon contends. "If you change the way the system works, then you change the way candidates campaign." After all, it would be political suicide if candidates didn't also shift their campaign strategies and instead continued to ignore large markets like Los Angeles, New York City, or Houston. "Even though the larger stronghold states lean strongly one way or the other, there may be people in the middle whose votes could be swayed. These areas would become much more competitive in attracting candidates' attention."
Gordon, working with Wesley Hartmann of Stanford University, created an econometric model of the electoral system and combined it with advertising data from 2000 to 2004 from the Wisconsin Advertising Project. The model combines game theory with methods from economics, marketing, and political science to predict how changes in the electoral system would prompt changes in campaign ad spending and how those changes would in turn affect voter decisions and election outcomes. (Listen to Gordon discuss the context and design of the model in this podcast.)
The results suggest that, without the electoral college, advertising would indeed shift away from battleground states and proportionally toward the large states where candidates, at present, tend to do little advertising. Interestingly, a direct national vote might make for more expensive elections — preliminary results show total spending on advertising going up. (How advertising directly affects voters is still hotly debated among political scientists — Gordon says his own research suggests that advertising in presidential elections leads to both turnout and persuasion effects.)
Gordon and Hartmann also ran their model as if there had been no advertising in the 2000 presidential election (with the electoral college in place). While the scenario itself is a bit unrealistic, researchers run such counterfactuals as checks on the soundness of their underlying methods and math. If results seem too far out — say, either candidate winning by 400 electoral votes — that's a sign the model or methods are probably flawed. In this alternate reality, Gore picked up Florida and New Hampshire for a total of 29 electoral votes, while Oregon shifted to Bush for a total 22 votes, putting the outcome at 288 to 249, in Gore's favor. "These states all had thin margins of victory in the actual election," Gordon says, "so it's not surprising to see them switch. But without the model, we wouldn't have known whether eliminating advertising would have tilted a given state one way or another."
And in 2012, the electoral college isn't the only influence on campaign advertising — political action committees (PACs) are also major players. Although PACs have existed for decades, in 2010 the Supreme Court ruled that PACs that did not make contributions to candidates, parties, or other PACs could accept unlimited contributions from individual donors, unions, and corporations, and the "super PAC" was born. Their creation has already had an enormous impact on the 2012 presidential race, with super PACs spending more than the candidates' campaigns during the Republican primary. "The super PACs are contributing to these inequities between battleground and non-battleground states and will keep increasing the gap," Gordon said.
"But we are particularly interested in the electoral college first because of the vocal criticism that it disenfranchises voters in non-battleground states and deprives them of attention from candidates, who might position their own policies to appeal to voters in battleground states rather than more broadly," he says. "For these voters, the electoral college seems unfair."
PACs are among the topics Gordon plans to study using the model, mainly to evaluate the different ways candidates could choose to allocate limited resources to the most effective markets.
"With every election that's very close in this regard, such as in 2000, it creates renewed discussion and highlights some of the problems with the electoral college that could be minimized under a direct popular vote.
"Should we encourage a system where as many people are involved in the process as possible? How do we value spreading out an election?" Gordon asks. "These are real policy questions, and our work can make predictions about the likely changes that would happen under a new system and inform policy discussion."
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Druid City Garden Project expects to sell out event
Published: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 5:47 p.m.
It's probably no surprise that the Druid City Garden Project knows how to grow. Last year's inaugural Garden Party was such a hit that it burst out of bed.
"We did it last year at the (L&N) Train Station," said Lindsay Turner, executive director of the Druid City Garden Project. "It was such an overwhelming success; we sold out the event in advance and had to turn away a line that wrapped around the building."
That venue's capacity is 350. So this Sunday's 2013 version moves to the River Market, across from the Tuscaloosa Public Library on Jack Warner Parkway, in anticipation of selling 400 to 500 tickets for a meeting between 10 restaurateurs and 10 farmers to produce an all-local smorgasbord.
The number of restaurants and farmers grew from about seven last year, and there will also be local beer from the Druid City Brewing Co., which will introduce Hot Pepper Beer, made from hot peppers grown in the University Place Elementary School garden. The Garden Party will have contributions this year from Jim 'N Nicks Bar-B-Q, Hotel Capstone, FIG, Epiphany Caf�, Cypress Inn, Edgar's Bakery & Caf�, Chuck's Fish, Mary's Cake & Pastries, Snap Decisions Catering and Tin Top Restaurant and Oyster Bar.
"I sent them a spreadsheet of what kinds of produce are available at this time of year," Turner said. "For some of them, it was as easy as that; for others, they had to be a little bit more accommodating."
General admission is $40, with children younger than 12 free. General admission grants all-you-can-eat food and beer from Good People Brewing Co. of Birmingham. There's also an All-Star Level, at $55 each, to receive all the above plus exclusive beer from Druid City Brewing Co. , wine, a private bar, private seating area and exclusive food choices. If there are any tickets left Sunday, prices will go up by $5 each at the door. See www.druidcitygardenproject.org/thegardenparty for ticket purchase.
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Flutist Jacqueline DeVoe is an active freelancer in the greater Boston area and performs regularly with Cantata Singers, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Emmanuel Music and many other ensembles. In addition to her her studies at New England Conservatory, she was a two-time recipient of the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund grant and completed a diploma at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria. A Tanglewood Fellow, Ms. DeVoe is the former principal flutist of the Mexico City Philharmonic, has performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and has been presented in solo and chamber music concerts in Europe, Mexico and the US. In addition to her private flute studio, she is on the faculty of New England Conservatory Preparatory School. A strong advocate of music education in public schools, Ms. DeVoe is a member of North Winds, the Young Audiences' woodwind quintet which presents educational concerts in schools throughout Massachusetts. During the past two seasons, she played educational outreach programs for the Nashua Symphony in all of the Nashua and Brookline elementary schools, first with the North Winds Quintet and this past March with harpist Virginia Crumb. She was involved as an "Artist Teacher" in the pilot program through Young Audiences and NPR's From the Top, which brings gifted young artists into public schools.
B.M. with honors, M.M. (NEC); Diploma (Hochschule für Musik, Vienna); studies with Claude Monteux, John Heiss, Wolfgang Schulz; Boston performances with Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, Boston Ballet, Collage New Music, and others; flutist with North Winds, the Massachusetts Young Audiences Woodwind Quintet; former principal flute and soloist, Mexico City Philharmonic; soloist, Philharmonic Orchestra of Guadalajara, Chamber Orchestra of Querétaro; performances with Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble of the 20th Century-Vienna; Tanglewood Fellow.
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From groundwork to gardening, last-minute pieces are being out in place for the 61st Annual Choctaw Indian Fair.
"A lot of people are going to be showing up pretty soon, and I think right now, these people are just ready for the fair," said Aaron Bell.
Loretta York said she is looking for souvenirs.
"You meet a ll your friends here," said Lewana Otter. "And getting the first service, you don't have to wait in line for the whole week."
"We are expecting over 30,000," said Choctaw public relations director Wilma Simpson.
Simpson says attendance will be up by more than 5,000, if that happens. Because of the oil spill in the Gulf, fair organizers have hopes that people who would otherwise head to the beach for a vacation will instead head to the reservation.
"We've advertised out in Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Oklahoma, Texas, hoping that people will come," said Simpson.
The 61st Annual Choctaw Indian Fair will officially kick-off Wednesday night with an address from Miko Beasley Denson at 6 p.m., followed by the Choctaw Princess Pageant at 7 p.m. and World Series Stickball at 10:15 p.m. Tickets for the fair may be purchased at the gate.
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AstraZeneca fails endpoint
08.04.2013 - AstraZeneca's arthritis pill fostamatinib is proven inferior to competitor drugs in a late-stage clinical trial.
While the first-in-class oral rheumatoid (RA) arthritis drug proved to be efficient as measured by ACR20 reponse it failed to halt the progression of joint damage as compared with placebo in the OSKIRA-1 Phase III study. In December, fastamatinib was shown to be inferior in efficacy compared to Abbvie's injectible RA blockbuster antibody Humira (adalimumab),reducing its ability to compete in the US$20bn-plus RA market. AstraZeneca' RA pill also increased blood pressure and led to diarrhea.
"Our misgiving is that fostamatinib appears to be inferior to Humira on efficacy and now the adverse events seem to pitch it below Pfizer's Xeljanz, (– another RA pill in late-stage development –) so it is hard to see where the product will fit," said Panmure Gordon analyst Savvas Neophytou.
AstraZeneca, which currently announced the restructuring of its R&D, licensed fostamatinib in 2010 from Rigel Pharmaceuticals. However, after the current study results, analysts forecasted only low fostamatinib sales, averaging just US$171m in 2016. Humira, by contrast, has annual worldwide sales of more than $9 billion but has become under pressure by new RA drugs such as Roche's RoActemra.
With last year's loss of exclusivity on schizophrenia drug Seroquel, and Nexium for stomach acid and cholesterol fighter Crestor set for U.S. patent expiries in 2014 and 2016, AstraZeneca faces one of the industry's steepest "cliffs" of patent expiries.
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miCoach is your personal trainer. Choose training plans or create your own. Track your workout progress, get coaching feedback, and see improvements.
NOTE: miCoach is not compatible with iPhone 5.
Whether on field, on court, in a game or during training, your movements are captured - wirelessly and effortlessly.
Easy to use - just slide it into your miCoach compatible shoe. No wires - just you, your shoes and your new miCoach SPEED_CELL. On-Board Memory stores all measurements during your workout/game (every 5 sec).
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The miCoach SPEED_CELL and platform allows you to compare your stats vs. your team, your league, your state, the pros. And to easily share the data with your friends, coach, and community.
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Captura cada uno de tus movimientos en la cancha con el miCoach Speed Pod de adidas. Es fácil de usar ya que no necesita cables, solamente lo instalas en tus zapatos y su memoria guarda las estadísticas de tus movimientos cada cinco segundos. Luego, dicha


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Kohl's Cares
Over the past seven years Kohl's Cares for Kids has raised and donated over $700,000 to Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo for education and prevention programs that help keep kids in Western New York healthy.
You can help support these wonderful programs each time you visit your local Kohl's Department Store. Located in the front of the store are stuffed animals and books that can be purchased for just $5. One hundred percent of the proceeds from those sales in Western New York are donated to Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo.


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Puma proudly updated one of their classic styles with a durable suede upper with stylish details to create this sleek silhouette that works with any style wardrobe.
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Because each piece is individually handmade by glass artists in an Oregon collective, your dish and dabber set will be one-of-a-kind. The color pattern may vary slightly from what you see in the photo, but the overall design will be the same.


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I made a discovery over the weekend. I made a discovery about my NuGlow products.
I knew NuGlow did a fantastic job at evening out my skin tones, and hydrating, and nurturing my skin with MD3 copper peptides. I knew NuGlow had already improved my skin so much, people have been asking me what kind of makeup I'm using now – and I'm not using any makeup most days.
However, I had no idea of the immense power NuGlow had, even with all of the above proof, until I got hit in the face with a clump of poison ivy last Thursday afternoon.
I am so allergic to poison ivy that even when the cats bring in the resin on their fur, and I don't even actually touch the plant itself, I get the rash so badly I've had to go to the emergency room several times. Every year, once I'm exposed, I have to go to my doctor and get a poison ivy shot.
Thursday afternoon, poison ivy TOUCHED MY FACE. The lawn mower sprayed it on me, and even though I ran into the house and took a shower right away, I could feel my skin starting to react to the poisonous resin.
Friday morning, I had patches of poison ivy rash on my face.
Today – Monday morning – the patches are gone.
This is the first time in my entire life that exposure to poison ivy and the appearance of the rash were wiped clean and gone without a shot in the emergency room.
I genuinely believe that it was the NuGlow copper peptides and their nurturing and cleansing of my skin, not just on the surface but from underneath up, that did away with the poisonous resin.
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Tregs control atherosclerosis
18.02.2013 - European researchers have shown that depletion of immunosuppressant T lymphocytes boosts hypercholersterolemia and atherosclerosis in mice.
The findings lay the foundation for cell-based therapies against the fatal disease. Until now, several studies had supported the assumption that FoxP3-positive CD4+CD25+ T cells block the inflammatory processes that lead to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the blood vessels, which can cause cardiac infarction and stroke. But the team under Göran Hansson from Swedish Karolinska Institute was the first to demonstrate the effect in genetically engineered DEREG mice. Those mice express the diphteria toxin (DT) under control of a Treg-specific FoxP3 promotor.
Lethally irradiated, atherosclerosis-prone, low-density lipoprotein receptor–deficient (Ldlr–/–) mice received DEREG bone marrow and were injected with DT to eliminate FOXP3+ Tregs. The depletion caused a 2.1-fold increase in atherosclerosis without a concomitant increase in vascular inflammation. The mice also exhibited a 1.7-fold increase in plasma cholesterol and an atherogenic lipoprotein profile with increased levels of VLDL. Clearance of VLDL and chylomicron remnants was hampered, leading to accumulation of cholesterol-rich particles in the circulation. Functional and protein analyses complemented by gene expression array identified reduced protein expression of sortilin-1 in liver and increased plasma enzyme activity of lipoprotein lipase, hepatic lipase, and phospholipid transfer protein as mediators of the altered lipid phenotype. The results prove that FOXP3+ Tregs block atherosclerosis by modulating lipoprotein metabolism.
The findings are good news for drug developers, as Milan-based researchers have recently demonstrated that it is feasible to isolate functional Tregs and expand them in vitro. The patent has already been licenced to German T-cell Europe, which will use the technology for inducing immune tolerance after organ transplantation.
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Sanofi ramps up artemisinin plant
12.04.2013 - From its Italian manufacturing site at Garessio, Sanofi has launched large-scale production of semi-synthetic artemisinin, a potent anti-malarial drug.
The launch of the new facility on April 11 represents a further milestone in an anti-malarial drug partnership led by OneWorld Health, a non-profit drug development organisation, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sanofi has invested €10m to build an industrial-scale plant that converts the biological precursor artemisinic acid into artemisinin in reaction steps that involve photochemistry. With its photochemical batch-flow-reactor technology in action, Sanofi envisions a production of 35 tonnes of semi-synthetic artemisinin in 2013, with the first batches available by this summer. It plans to increase capacity to 60 tonnes per year in 2014 and thereafter, which would meet at least a third of the annual global need for the drug. Sanofi hopes to get WHO approval for its product in the coming weeks.
From a technology perspective, the semi-synthetic artemisinin project is a combination of biotechnological and chemical know-how at the industrial scale. Artemisinin is a secondary metabolite extracted from the traditional Chinese medical herb Artemisia annua. However, the botanical supply is subject to climatic variables, leading to a fluctuation in antimalarial medicines and big price variations. Aiming for a stable and more reliable supply of the drug, Jay Keasling and his team at the University of California Berkeley and synthetic biology start-up Amyris genetically engineered yeast cells to produce the precursor artemisinic acid, which must then be converted into artemisinin by synthetic organic chemistry. Sanofi entered the project in 2008 as manufacturing partner with its Access to Medicines programme, and was involved in scaling-up fermentation of artemisinic acid and its conversion into artemisinin using photochemistry. At a facility run by Huverpharma in Bulgaria, an industrial-scale fermentation process was established that could produce up to 100 tonnes of artemisinic acid annually. It is considered as the first industrial-scale deployment of synthetic biology for drug production. Sanofi said it will provide its semi-synthetic artemisinin at a stable price using a non-profit, non-loss production model.
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Other highlights: Gin, Roggae (during the sunset) > Walk Away, Bowie
Friday, 08/05/2011
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Set 1: KDFKill Devil Falls, WedgeThe Wedge, GinBathtub Gin, Nellie Kane > My FriendMy Friend, My Friend, Cavern > Taste > Roggae > Walk Away, Funky Bitch, RosesRoses Are Free > BowieDavid Bowie
Set 2: BDTNLBackwards Down the Number Line > R&RRock and Roll[1] -> Meatstick -> Boogie OnBoogie On Reggae Woman > Farmhouse > Show of Life > Julius > Character Zero
Encore: Loving Cup
[1] Page on theremin.
Noteworthy Jams: Taste, Roggae (highly recommended), Rock and Roll (highly recommended), Meatstick, Boogie On Reggae Woman
Average Song Gap: 6.29
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Rock and Roll featured Page on theremin.
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Song Distribution:
2 Joy
2 Billy Breathes
2 Rift
1 Farmhouse
1 The Story of the Ghost
1 Hoist
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 Lawn Boy
1 Junta
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This show was part of the "2011 Late Summer Tour."
Other highlights: Gin, Roggae (during the sunset) > Walk Away, Bowie
The R'n'R is the jam of the summer, far as I'm concerned. I was at Great Woods in June to witness THAT stunning version in person, so it's got a special place in my heart - but while the Great Woods version has that scintillating, spare major-key jam (about 11 minutes in) and roaring climax, Phish have *never* played music quite like the closing sixty seconds of this Gorge performance. It really does sound exactly like something off 'Endtroducing...' but it's purely improvised in the moment...as is the silky smooth, boundlessly patient segue into Meatstick. The second half of this R'n'R is simply incandescent improvisation, with Page's Cape Canaveral theremin and Mike's eerie chanting connecting the performance to the Tower Jam from IT, but with a stronger and more complexly integrated rhythmic foundation.
Beyond the marquee Set II jam sequence there's also a canonical version of Roggae to be had here, which simmers down into an ambient fog where (say) the equally powerful 12/27/10 Worcester version climbs to a roiling dissonant peak. Pay attention to Mike while listening to both versions - he touches on some of the same effects-laden material but in totally different emotional contexts, and the difference is instructive. And as at that Worcester show, we've got a stirring Farmhouse that combines the explicit triplet feel of Roggae and its own lilting swing.
I've actually held onto more of the 8/6 show for regular listening, but this is the first and highest peak of August '11. Its abyssal mirror comes ten days later at UIC: the underground Waves and dark Light and gathering Steam of 8/15.
Maybe people don't like some of the song selection, I dunno. Show of Life seems to draw a lot of hate. This was the first time I had heard it, and I don't mind it at all. It's not like getting a Secret Smile or something else fairly awful. Pretty innocuous.
Anyway...yeah, you need to hear the Rock & Roll. 'Cause it's all right.
Now for the music: The first set offered good song selection and energy from the crowd. Roggae was the first time I felt like we were in the Gorge. This is not just another show at a Verizon Wireless Venue near you. Everyone was looking around at each other with the same knowing glance. Walk Away, Funky and Bowie gave Trey some time to shred us all to pieces before set break.
Rock and Roll-> Meatstick -> Boogie. This 37 minute roller coaster was the best music I have heard in person so far this year. The RnR seemed to be a continuation of Super Ball for me; the next step forward. I was back at the Storage Jam, except the band had more of a purpose behind the madness this time. With CK5 throwing down, my wife asked me if the stage was about to fly off into space. We all thought the same thing she did. This was one of those once a year (if you're lucky) moments for me. Magical.
Having seen 21 shows in 1999, it is hard for me to enjoy a Meatstick (except 7-15-99), but the bookend jams were HOT. Boogie kept the dance party going with nimble Trey dancing around Mike's phunk. Truth be told, Page earned MVP of the west coast for me and these 3 songs give a taste of why.
Farmhouse, Show of Life, who cares what they play after that. Everyone kept telling my wife not to expect this type of a performance every night. Fortunately, the band proved them wrong the very next night.
THE POINT: Around 11:00 into Rock in Roll it sounds an awful lot like Trey is playing the main lick from the solo in Rush's "By-Tor & the Snow Dog" (album: Fly By Night, '75). I throw in the year so that you'll actually consider listening to it.
Here's it's all cued up for ya:
Listen to the full song to get a taste of the awesomeness of original Rush. As a music lover, you owe it to yourself.
So I'm really curious to hear what everyone here has to say. It certainly *sounds* like the same lick. But is it coincidence? An homage? What?
Note: Philip Zerbo cited that this was Page's first use of the theremin since 8/11/97; interesting statistic that you are really only likely to get from experts like those at Phish.Net; cheers to you all for being the central source for Phish lore since 1990!
If you are doing a tour highlights reel you can clip "Backwards Down the Number Line" and "Show of Life" off of the second set run, but I recommend keeping them, they may not be "best ever" but they are both above average and the flow is fantastic.
Play Often, Play Loud!
But the second set. Oh the second set. I was doing classwork during the my listening of the second set. I actually had to stop typing my essay when Page started playing the theremin midway through R'n'R and couldn't get back to work until the smooth-as-butter, lights-out, funky segue into Meatstick. This Rock n' Roll is, in my opinion the best jam of the summer. It just beats out the Pine Knob Disease and Dick's Tweezer.
Listen now.
This was a really special night for me for a number of reasons. I had been following the rise of Phish 3.0 for awhile via @mkdevos now sadly defunct youtube page. My last show was the Gorge '99 and I was excited to see they were heading that way again after missing out on the '09 run.
My partner doesn't get teh Phish so I decided to write to a friend in MN to see if she could make it. The last show we had been at together was in Kalamazoo, MI of all places in '94. I convinced her that the boys were peaking once again and that she shouldn't miss out!
So the stage was set for a sweet little reunion. Whether the band played well or not didn't much matter at that point.
When they kicked off the first set with Kill Devil I was a little shaky. Let's just say it's not a fav. But once the dust had settled and The Wedge emerged I was back on familiar ground.
My friend has 2 kids now both in their teens. Hard for me to believe sometimes. The older one's favorite Phish song is Bathtub Gin and the younger one's fav is My Friend, My Friend. To hear both of those in the first set was really special for her and I loved to get a little taste of bluegrass with Nellie Kane. As Cavern rolled into Taste the groove was returning to my hips. Then the magic of 3.0 really hit me with my first Roggae. What a beautiful moment that was: Sunset, the Gorge, my bff and Phish 3.0 rolling into a beautifully extended Roggae jam. I remember looking at her with an "I told you so" grin and glance. The rest of the first set was like crossing a threshold for me and became a rocking celebration of life. Nothing prepared us for the treat that was coming in the 2nd set.
I know a lot of folks groan at Number Line but on this day and this occasion it really hit home and spoke to me. As Number Line wound down and the first chords of Rock and Roll started I remember being happy for another first for me. As they meandered into heavier darker territory the grin on my face widened and I marveled at where they were going. When Page started in with the theremin my friend turned to me dead serious and said, "I'm glad we didn't drop acid tonight." I just giggled and thought, yeah, probably a good thing. As the darkness subsided and the Meatstick emerged any shadow of doubt that I had about 3.0 had been lifted. One beautifully crafted segue followed up by another into Boogie On Reggae Woman then gently falling into the fluffy pile of hay at the Farmhouse.
Again the groan fest at Show of Life was lost on me and the song resonated with were I was in that moment. Julius and Character Zero wrapped things up in a pretty little bow.
The boys had once again replenished my loving cup and I could now see that cup was indeed half full! 3.0 is a whole other beast. More mature, more patient but still whip smart and lethal when it decides to unleash.
though its not a paradigm that really holds up for each and every show, ive always thought that 2009 was a year with great improvisation and poor technical playing (maybe excitement but lack of practice?) while 2010 was a year with great technical playing (comparatively) but little improvisation (ive heard the fall tour and NYE disprove this statement, but i havent listened to all of those shows yet). from the very first show, 2011 seemed to show that the band was suddenly not only able to both play hundreds of different songs note-for-note with no more flubbage than any 1.0 or 2.0 show, but they were also willing to improvise like the old days, supposed ripcording notwithstanding.
combine that with 10 years of being obsessed with phish and not getting to see any shows until 2009, and my expectations for the gorge were through the roof. amazingly, not only did the band exceed those expectations, they continued to add a new piece to the whole phish-y puzzle each night, constructing an experience that was, for me, the next best thing to living in an alternate universe where i have 300 phish shows under my belt by 2011.
but of course, every minute of every show wasnt perfect so i suppose i should get down to the actual review.
the kdf opener started a trend of standard, solidly played opening songs that would continue the next night with possum. nothing to complain about here. it was obvious immediately though that the band was fired up (trey especially) and that they were just waiting to rip loose. kdf almost seemed like it was holding them back and, as improbable as it seemed, i almost expected them to rip off something like the 6/12/2009 version.
they didnt, though, and instead continued into a shaky the wedge. and when i say shaky i dont mean missing a note or two, i mean definitely cringing in a few places. however, the song was a nice nod to the gorge, and the introduction was jammed out briefly. it still really sounded like the band was tripping over themselves trying to take the music somewhere.
so i wasnt surprised (though i was really excited) when bathtub gin went off into left field for a few minutes before coming back to the rock. the desire to do some deep-space jamming was obviously there, and there early, and for the first show ive been in attendance for the band seemed to have the chops to pull something amazing off without even really thinking about it. by the end of the gin, i definitely had the feeling that we were in for something special.
they reined things in for nellie kane, mfmf, and cavern, but those are all fun songs to hear and i didnt really expect anything to go way out there in the first half of the first set anyway (gin was a pleasant anomaly). things started to come unhinged (in a good way) during taste.
im surprised to not see anyone really raving about this taste. at least within the context of 3.0, its one of the better, if not best version. page loses his shit for the first of a thousand times over this run, and theres a lot of weird, interesting (though brief) plays with rhythm going on during the jam. trey absolutely slays the guitar solo and takes it back into the closing taste theme which he then sends soaring out majestically across the gorge over and over before the band finds a great segue into roggae.
roggae was easily the best moment of the first set, working like a microcosm of the later rock and roll jam, hitting the highlights and compressing them before exploding into walk away. the energy of this one simply didnt translate to the tape, but the move from roggae-space to full-on guitar rock was flawless and the soloing here is spot-on. funky bitch and roses were both songs i was glad to hear, and were both played excellently, keeping up the energy from the transition into walk away. this whole run of songs (taste to roses) is worth a listen.
the set-closing bowie was confusing live. it was hard to hear trey and the jam seemed to go nowhere (a problem i would also have with the tahoe bowie). however, on tape this is an absolutely solid version and stands with the better ones of 3.0. i dont know why i couldnt hear it during the show, but at the time i was disappointed by it in what was otherwise an amazing set.
set two. all four shows i saw would, to varying but satisfying degrees follow the old-school set one = rock, set two = jam formula, and man did gorge 1 start off the trend with a bang. i had listened to the storage jam for the first time the night before driving to the gorge, and so i pretty much lost my mind as rock and roll took a left turn into the oort cloud. even considering all of the other amazing musical highlights of the run, this jam was the absolute best. there was a moment when the music itself seemed to take on an aspect of some huge mothership lifting off, right as kuroda began simulating some close-encounters-esque light effects against the backdrop of the last little bit of sunlight left in the gorge, and i knew that i was finally getting to see the kind of magic id only heard before on tapes.
the followup into meatstick was just priceless, and the segue from there into boogie on was amazing. there were even hints of the space jam seeping into the closing jam of boogie on by the end, and it all seemed effortless, the way it always sounds on tapes from 94 and 95. it seemed to be the point that the band had wanted to reach all night, but they had actually been patient enough to work up to it and let it loose at just the right time.
my girlfriend had called farmhouse the night before and i had laughed, so i looked like an idiot (albeit a happy one) when the band next broke into farmhouse. the song proper here could have been executed more cleanly, but the following solo is one of the finest melodic pieces ive ever heard trey improvise. it wasnt what i expected from the solo at all, and works really well as a bookend for the rock and roll -> meatstick -> boogie on > farmhouse sandwich.
from there, though, the set kind of deflated. honestly, this show is amazing enough that had it just ended after farmhouse i wouldnt even have been disappointed, but it seemed like suddenly trey just decided he wanted to play rock guitar and so he did, for the rest of the set. it wasnt BAD rock guitar by any means, but after four songs in a row that each peak with basically the same guitar tone, especially as the end of a set that showcased such varied musical virtuosity and interplay previously it was a little bit of a letdown.
the last few songs werent bad, though, and actually this version of character zero convinced me that the song could still be done decently after the lackluster blossom 10 version, but the second half of the set basically got by on the volume of treys wailing. needless to say, listening to these on tape, without the energy of the venue around you, just makes you want to skip to the beginning of gorge 2.
all that said, though, the closing four songs were probably the closest i came to being bored in four shows, and the rest of this show more than made up for that. any misgivings i had about the second show getting buried by treys giddy shredding would be buried in layers of funk in about 20 hours
First: The Gorge is the greatest place on the face of the earth to see a show ... the only thing that anyone can knock about the Gorge is the walk from campgrounds to the venue. Boo hooo. It's a small price to pay for the greatest venue ever. I used to work at Red Rocks and I love it there, but the camping puts the Gorge over the top.
Second: If you are at any stage as a Phan and have not listened to the Rock 'n Roll-->Meatstick-->BORW please do so now. The end of the second set prevents this from being the best show of 3.0, but the aforementioned sequence is not only in my opinion the best of this era, it can go toe to toe with the best from any era. Even at a Phish show I have never soaked in music like I did listening to that jam on the lawn. Good lawd
Those are my belated thoughts. Great weekend. Great band. Great people. And I have to give a shout out to the disco dance party and fire spinners next to us in the campgrounds. Somehow you guys were going the whole time and kept us going the second night. Good work.
What can I say about set 2 that hasn't been said already? The RnR -> Meatstick -> Boogie on was just about as good as Phish gets! What an amazing show...I can't wait for another Gorge show!
Kill Devil Falls - I thought this was an awesome concert opener, It got everyone dancing and Trey played really well.
The Wedge - My favorite part of this was what page is playing in the beginning, it is also one of my favorite versions and one of the longest that I have heard.
Bathtub Gin - Similar to The Wedge: one of my favorite parts is the little riff that Mike plays in the beginning. It also features a really good jam (which is my other favorite part lol).
My Friend, My Friend - When they played this song I was thinking "Man this is really funky" Also it builds up a lot of energy towards the end.
Taste - Just like My Friend, My Friend: this song really builds up energy towards the end, and it also features an awesome jam.
Roggae - This song was like a cool down from My Friend/Cavern/Taste. That being said it isn't lacking in intensity or good jamming, definitely the best song of the set. It featured some awesome playing by Mike, and was perfect accompaniment to the sunset at the Gorge.
Walk Away - In this song the energy is built back up with some guitar shredding by Trey, which continues for the rest of the set.
Roses Are Free - What I liked about this song was the transition that seems to melt into David Bowie.
David Bowie - I thought this was really well played and a perfect closer for this awesome set.
Rock & Roll - This is by far the best jam of the show, quite possibly of Summer 2011. The theremin filled the Gorge and bounced around the mountains, it was really eerie, kind of like the alien mothership had landed. I didn't even know what was making that sound until I checked the setlist. What added to the eeriness was Mike singing "It was alright...." Another awesome part was Mike's bass transition into Meatstick, his bass was so loud it felt like it was piercing me.
Meatstick - The transition from spaciness to funkiness was flawless. The jam featured some excellent playing by Page.
Boogie On Reggae Woman - The transition into Boogie On was another really good one, albeit a little shaky compared to the one into Meatstick, though in my opinion the jam was better than in Meatstick. It also featured a nice melodic transition into Farmhouse.
Farmhouse/Show of Life - These two songs seemed like a cool down from the spaciness and funk of the previous songs, but definitely not as good compared to the Roggae cool down. I thought it was a really good version of Farmhouse though.
Julius/Character Zero - These songs built the energy back up after losing some of the energy with the previous two songs. Character Zero featured some high energy playing from Trey to close out an awesome set.
Loving Cup - It kind of seems like there is a pattern between Phish playing an awesome show and then closing with Loving Cup encore in 3.0.
Set 1 highlights: Bathtub Gin, Taste, and Roggae
Set 2 highlights: Rock & Roll, Meatstick, Boogie On Reggae Woman
Honorable Mentions:
Set1: The Wedge, Walk Away, David Bowie
Set2: Farmhouse
I paid to take three of my friends (one phan and two 1st timers) to both Gorge shows, tickets, camping and all, and I just wanted to say that being in front of and dancing through the progression of the Set 2 Rock and Roll jam in and of itself made the whole thing worth every penny. Not to mention the flow to Meatstick and Boogie but for me, that Nasty, dark, broken glass ninja creepin in your ear sound that this RnR turned into is the stuff that really cleans my soul. Yes please.
OK. Done... Have a nice day.
The first set is almost flawless. Strong performances on every song, especially Roggae and Walk Away, which are the highlights of this set. The only thing I would change would be to remove either Funky Bitch or Roses because this set was just too damn long IMO. But really I'd much rather have too long with solid playing than shorter with ripcords or sloppiness or any other such tomfoolery.
Now back to my original statement (I'm not even going to bother talking about The first half of set two because all the other reviewers have already covered everything). After the cataclysm that was R&R -> Meatstick -> Boogie the set *kind of* dived off a cliff. Farmhouse is fine, I like that song and thought it would be a great cool down after that crazytown preceding it. But to follow that up with Show of Life? I still don't really know what Big Red was thinking but I have learned to accept it. Show of Life is definitely a pretty weak song, but I'm not gonna let it ruin this set for me, ya know? Julius is a great song and this version would be the best of the year had it not been for Essex. There is some really nice motivic playing from Trey in this version. Character Zero was Character Zero. If they hadn't played Cavern in set one it should have showed up here. The way I see the end of the set now is that there isn't really anything to complain about, just things to wish for.
Loving Cup was great. Sure they were playing it a lot this tour, just like Tweezer or Cavern or Wilson or Bathtub Gin or etc. a lot.
Super solid show definitely top 10 (maybe even top 5) for 2011 IMO.
The sun had just set when they came up for the second set. It was unreal - Rock and roll to the most ridic dance party ever. Meatstick was funky as hell and straight into a tight boogie on... nuff said.
The gorge is an amazing experience every time...
Luckily, that was not the case. Three words for the second set: Rock. And. Roll.


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The San Francisco 49ers are moving to Santa Clara next season. But a popular East Contra Costa shuttle service to the team's home games is not.
Tri Delta Transit's board of directors unanimously punted this week on the idea of continuing its service on game days to Levi's Stadium next September.
"At this point, I think the best thing to do is wait and see how it plays out," said county Supervisor Federal Glover of Pittsburg, the board's chairman.
The service to Candlestick Park, which started in 2002, averages about 175 riders.
Tri Delta board members said there are numerous red flags in the planned setup for bus parking at the $1.3 billion Santa Clara facility. For instance, the parking lot off Democracy Way is about a half-mile from the stadium, Tri Delta Executive Director Jeanne Krieg said.
Candlestick Park's bus lot is just outside the stadium, said Glover, an avid 49ers fan who takes the shuttle to games.
"There's a convenience for riders because it puts you right there. You're close enough you can join people who are tailgating," he said.
Also at issue is the cost to park at the game. Buses pay $40 to park at Candlestick Park, and the drivers are allowed into the stadium, Krieg said. Though there is no official word on how much parking will cost at Levi's Stadium, Krieg said preliminary talks indicate that it could exceed $100. And the driver would not be allowed in.
Though the new stadium's parking arrangements are still in flux, Krieg said the proposed charter bus and RV area could accommodate only about 100 buses and RVs.
Other options, such as connecting to other bus lines, did not make sense, the board said.
"I think that they will figure it out. I just don't want to be part of the figuring-it-out process," Krieg said.
Adds Glover: "Maybe something will come up that will be a good fit for us."
East Contra Costa football fans will still be able to head to Candlestick on the shuttle through the end of this year. Pickups are still at the Brentwood Park-And-Ride off Walnut Boulevard, Antioch Park-And-Ride off Hillcrest Avenue and Pittsburg Park-And-Ride off Bliss Avenue.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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While I'm still wired on caffeine, I figured I'd post a review. If you don't want to read the whole thing, just read the next sentence. SET II FROM TONIGHT WAS QUITE POSSIBLY THE BEST SET OF PHISH EVER IMHO. It was definitely the best I've heard live, and I've heard some nice sets (the Went, 12/29/94 II, 12/30/93 II).
As usual, the setlist comes first:
11/29/97 Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA
Set I (~80 min)
The Wedge, Foam, Simple> TMWSIY> Alvenu Malkenu> TMWSIY, Sloth, Ginseng Sullivan, I Saw It Again, Horn, Water In The Sky, David Bowie
Set II (~95 min, elapsed time after certain points)
Runaway Jim> "Type II Hose Jam" =)(48 min)> Weekapaug Jam*> Jam (58 min), Strange Design, Harry Hood> Prince Caspian, Suzie Greenberg
E: (~15 min)
Buffalo Bill> Drum Solo> Moby Dick**, Fire
*No vocals, just the main riff
**Led Zepplin Cover (1st time played?)
[My scene and security comments from last night apply here too.]
On to the review:
Set I
THE WEDGE A fun opener, nothing special.
FOAM Well played, I hadn't heard it for a while. Pretty standard, I think. Stop-start "segue" into...
SIMPLE After what became of this song at the Went, I probably will never be satisfied with a standard Simple again. And that's what this one was. A pretty normal jam that ended up as...
TMWSIY I don't think they have played this for a while, and it showed. Plenty of flubs by Trey. They got it together for the standard segue into...
ALVENU MALKENU In contrast with TMWSIY, this was played perfectly. Which isn't to say it was anything but standard.
TMWSIY The second stab at this song was played flawlessly. It's a really pretty song if there are no mistakes :-)
SLOTH This is a fun song, but pretty standard. There isn't really anywhere to go with it.
GINSENG SULLIVAN Well done, my favorite of the bluegrass tunes. So far this set is pretty standard all around.
I SAW IT AGAIN Now we're talking. The jam out of this song kicks ass, as does the lighting that accompanies it. I've only heard one other version (7/1/97), and this one seemed to have a longer jam. This is the Phish song you test your speakers with.
HORN Standard.
WATER IN THE SKY Same as the Went. Sappy as all hell, and this time I didn't have my girlfriend to put my arm around ;-)
DAVID BOWIE A little (2 min or so) spacey intro lead into Bowie. This is basically the only song worth mentioning in this set (well, I saw it again was worthwhile too). I'd put this Bowie on a level with 12/11/95, that is, kick ass and fun to hear, but nothing we haven't heard before. It saved the set from being a disappointment, IMO.
Set I rating: 4.5 (without the Bowie, I shudder to think what I would have given it)
Setbreak Music: Don't remeber, really. A woman singing to a hip-hop beat.
We had no idea that a rather mediocre set would lead to what it did in...
Set II
RUNAWAY JIM This song started off like it always does, with no hint of what was to come. The first jam was about what you would expect. But the outro - this went on for about 10 min, while still on the Jim Theme and Beat. When it wavered from the theme, I called what happened next the...
TYPE II HOSE JAM This jam had at least 5 distinct sections (movements, if you will). I drew the line between these sections by the changing of the drum beat, you might be able to count more. Let me just say that this jam will forever allow us to tell people what Type II jams and "the hose" are. There was a little bit of space in here, but most of the Jam was a full-out assault on your mind, with all of the band joining in. At times, Trey would let Page take the lead. Mike layed down a nice bass line the whole Jam, spanking it every now and then, and leading the rest of the band. But Trey definitely was the Star here, using plenty of effects, and layering his sound beautifully. The "movements" would be separated by a deconstruction of whatever theme they were jamming on, and then a new drum beat by Fishman. It is SO HARD to get this jam across in words; the time and awe of those in attendance should speak for itself. After the fifth movement, the drum beat changed once again to what I thought was Runaway Jim. I was wrong. (48 min to this point)
WEEKAPAUG JAM When I thought the jam would go back into Jim, I was very surprised to hear the full on beginning of Weekapaug, minus the bass solo and the words. They jammed on the Week theme for a bit, and then headed into a typical Weekapaug Jam, which then became just a regular old...
JAM All traces of Weekapaug were lost, and it was time to jam again. Thiswas rather short, and slowed down into a spacey effects-laden stew that ended the Runaway Jim to end all Runaway Jims. Grand total: 58 min. I thought that perhaps this would be the whole set. I was wrong again.
STRANGE DESIGN followed, and allowed everyone to enjoy Page's voice and cool down. Played in normal concert style, not CD single style like I wish they would do it.
HARRY HOOD A very nice Hood. But aren't they all? Again, I have trouble with comparing different Hoods, but this one got me VERY emotional, what with all that had transpired in the set so far. At the beginning of the jam segment, right after the "Thank you Mr. Hood" when the lights change, I almost broke down with joy. Isn't Phish great? After the "You can feel good" part, Trey circled his finger to get the rest of the band to keep going. They held the final note until Trey started to play the opening to...
PRINCE CASPIAN A perfect choice to close the set (or so I thought). Nothing spectacular here, but in the afterglow of the Jim, it felt real good. It was sort-of a collective smoke after the sex of the earlier Jam
SUZIE GREENBERG IIRC[1], this was one of the "retired" songs. Even if it wasn't, the opening was botched like it had been. I thought they were going to abandon it and start over, but they pulled it together. Page had a nice jam in there, and Fishman supplied the screams where necessary. Trey finished up saying something like "Thanks for coming, sorry we didn't get to Destiny Unbound" This seemed like a joke to me, because who in their right mind would have rather heard destiny than what WAS played tonight?
Encore (~15 min)
BUFFALO BILL Fishman played the opening Drum beat to this a couple times, but the rest of the band just kind of sat there. Then Trey said "Now we are going to play Fishman's favorite song" Buffalo Bill followed, and ended up in a...
DRUM SOLO Trey told Fishman to "Take it away" or something here, and he did. A little drum solo lead into...
MOBY DICK This was a real treat! Has it been played before? I think John Bonham might be a little better at the ego-stroking rock-n-roll drum solo than Fishman, but he held his own. This song was really tight, and it was obvious that they know it well.
FIRE I couldn't believe there was yet another song in the encore, but I was happily surprised. Trey was on fire (sorry :-) in this, similar to the way he played J. B. Goode on 11/28. Great encore!
Set II and E rating: 10! (I don't give this grade lightly. YMMV, however. I'm a big fan of long-ass jams. I love the Fleezer, for example. If you think the Ball is better than the Went, you won't agree with me here. And also, you are deaf ;-)
Complete Show Rating: 9 (They played a first set? Seriously, get the second set, but you'll probably have to get the 1st as well to hear the encore due to the length. So enjoy the whole thing! If you care, the average of the sets is 7.25)
Man, I need to go to bed, the coffee is wearing off.
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LETTER: You had to travel to find Twinkies in 1975
Published: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 11:32 p.m.
Dear Editor: I came to Alabama in 1975 from Michigan. Much to my surprise I couldn't buy Hostess products here. When I went to Mississippi or Tennessee, I bought up a supply for the freezer.
I never liked Twinkies, but my children did. I decided it was because of the competition that it would give Flowers Bakery.
Aside from that product, I couldn't buy Tennessee Pride sausage either. In the late 1990s, finally, I could buy all these foods. I don't know what changed.
However, in the 1950s, while living in Corning, N.Y., Hostess products weren't sold there either. I imported them from Michigan while living in New York!
This observation is just a history lesson for others.
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Runner on 2nd, 2 outs, hit to SS, he fields the ball throws to 1st, umpire signals out but, then points to HP Ump for verification if 1st baseman was on the bag, he is called safe.My team starts to leave field on out call, runner rounds 3rd and scores? Shouldn't the runner have to go back to 3rd? there was no chance he would have scored... shouldn't the out still stand???
I have never had this happen and haven't had a chance to look it up.
1) Reversals of calls at first (and other bases for that matter) happen. They're legal. The "safe" stands. They happen often enough that you should be prepared for the possibility.
2) The run scores.
3) If you've never had a reversal happen you're really new at this.
On this, does the BU have to ask the PU for help or is the PU responsible to call it when he sees it?
The timing could affect when the defense realizes what happened.
The BU has to ask. "Overrules" are verbotten.
Players need to be aware that it's a possibility.
This play is actually not specifically covered in any rule book.
In cases where plays are not specifically covered, umpires are allowed to use judgement and common sense in issuing rulings, per Rule 9.01(c) in the Major League rule book (there are similar rules in almost all rule books).
In this case, using common sense, the batter-runner would be placed at first and the original runner on second would be placed back at third.
The base umpire must initiate getting help from the plate umpire. However, this genearlly takes a minute or so. The defense cannot be responsible for runners running the bases while umpires are conferring. For that matter, if umpires were conferring, there would be no umpire available to rule on any subsequent plays at any base.
Hope this helps.
I think Cubbie has the correct answer.....it is not covered by any rule. I do know however, I have never seen an umpire call the out and then immediately look to the HPU for clarification. This is done during relaxed play on appeal. If no appeal the out stands, if appeal overturns the original call the baserunners should be placed at the bases they would have normally advanced to. TM
Checking with the home plate umpire for a pulled foot at first is a standard mechanic. So much so that its actually specifically covered by most clinics and is a part of the Little League umpire school.
The field umpire did not actually do it 'right' in that he should have first checked with the home plate umpire immediately for a pulled foot if he suspected it might be possible, and only made his call after checking with home plate. The correct mechanic is to point to home plate and ask "Did he pull his foot?" to which the home plate umpire answers yes or not, not safe or out. The field umpire makes the safe/out call. Still, the field umpire calling the out (ball beat runner) then checking is not too far out there as long as it was nothing more than a point. If the home plate umpire says he pulled his foot, then the call is safe. The runner is safe and to call him out anyways would be wrong.
This is never an 'appeal play'. An appeal is a specific term referring to a missed bag or failure to tag up (and it doesn't have to happen in relaxed action and most often doesn't). It would be very bad form in a case like this for umpires to confer after all was said and done and to THEN reverse a call. That is just plain bad umpiring. A pulled foot is never an appealable call. I'll admit that it is fairly common to see a coach request to a field umpire that the first baseman pulled his foot and then the two umpires will confer and possibly overturn a call during a timeout. Yes, that happens, but no, it is not actually correct form. Still, that is not an appeal. And, in a case like that the umpires could not place runners where they would have otherwise advanced to. At best they could put a runner back on 1st that was called out incorrectly.
This really isn't that uncommon, although the umpires did mess up a little in the order of actions. Not sure why it created such a drama.
Mackman, I am not disputing your opinion on how this is viewed by an umpire, I'm taking the other side. I know my teams once they hear of SEE the out call for the 3rd out, they hustle off the field (not uncommon) and the first baseman would either toss the ball to the umpire at first or roll it to the mound. This is very common occurance. For the umpire to call the out and signal the out should automatically have relaxed play begin. To say OOPS I might have missed it and confer with the HPU is just not good umpiring. Again, in many many years of coaching (and umpiring) I have never seen the senario you describe. You have basically UNRUNG the bell. This includes College and High School venues. TM
Ok, I can see the argument for the case that if this were the third out and the team started leaving the field, it would be unfair to penalize the team for that. However, there are better rules justifications for what to do to remedy the situation. I agree that this is somewhat of a 9.01(c) situation, but it is certainly not an appeal play. I think it would depend on how this occured. The post seemed to imply that the reversal was more or less immediate, in which case I think I'd have a hard time doing anything for the defense. If there really were some delay and it was clear the defense reacted to the calling of the third out and started leaving, then my argument would be that the calling of the third out essentially ended the inning, therefore all play is dead. Reversing that call would allow the runner to stay on third, but would not allow any other to advance.
I am not debating the umpire calling out and then with in a moment calling for the HU verification. I am not debating runner at first being called safe. BUT the runner that wasn't at third at the time of the out and only got their when the HU came out to make the call when asked, that is when the runner noticing our fielders and catcher had moved to follow the umpire or vacate the field.
On the note of how long I have played, since I was 3 and I am now 36, have played at all levels and have coached for 8 years. I have taken most courses that are available on coaching and know that over turning of plays are common. I have never seen a runner advance while the umpire's are conferring or making a call that should be a dead ball. I am a coach that doesn't believe in bending the rules to win and that is bending them...
By the way we won the game 9 to 1 and then we went on to win the Championship game beating out 14 teams.
I was not debating the runner being called safe at first, just the runner advancing while the HU came out to make the call of safe. The umpires the next day when we came to play mentioned in our situation the runner should have still been on 3rd and the runner on 1st who was safe because of the foot being pulled off. That is what I thought it should be and discussed with them before the end of the game. They came to me to tell me the runner should have still been on 3rd.
Thanks for your answer it was informative
OK Mack I can live with that logic. TM
That's freaky that you asked this question, because the exact same thing happened to us in a game on Saturday. BU called an out on a 4-3 grounder, which was a 3rd out. F3 rolled the ball to the pitcher's mound. Play was eventually reversed for a pulled foot. Runner kept going and scored from second. After conferring, runner was placed back at 3rd.
[Actually, the PU spontaneously called the F3 off the bag and changed the call without being asked (?!), but that part is beside-the-point to this story.
this is easy, the runner from third should have been put back on third, The home plate ump having seen the mistake should have called time and had a conference with the feild ump. The runner is not allowed to score on an umpire mistake, besides the fact that he would not have been allowed to score when the third out was called. Any reversal of a call happens after the conclusion of the play.
Duckie, you say the play was eventually reversed. Could you tell me in what manner did this happen? Did the OM go out and chat with the Field Umpire and in doing so convince him that he might have missed it and if he could, check with the HPU? If so, that is an appeal. TM
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