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QR codes for Nonprofits
Seen one of these codes? It's called a QR code. It's a kind of bar code -- so just like a grocery checkout bar code, a computer can scan it to automatically receive information. In this case, though, it's coding a website address, and it can be scanned by smart phones. If you have a Droid, for instance, you can simply take a picture of this code with your camera, and it will automatically take you to the Idealware homepage on your phone. Nifty, huh? This will work with most smart phones, though for some of them you'll need to download an application to be able to read the code.
This service allows you to create your business card directly from your linkedin profile, with no typing and to share it with any user having a QR scanner. No other app is required. The receiver will be able to: follow you on twitter, link with you in linkedin and get all your data stored as a contact in his/her phone without typing anything...
QR codes for Nonprofits
You can receive cards from others by scanning their QR Code. Last but not least, whenever you update your QR Card information, all your contacts that already received your QR business card will be able to see and access the new information automatically. More info at http://www.yprintit.com
Have you tried
Have you tried http://www.bwscan.com. Got free qr code stickers to use behind my business cards from BWScan. It's a great conversation starter.
This is remarkable, and will revolutionize our ability to market our agency in a techno-savvy society! Thanks for the article Idealware!
We use QR codes
Thanks for the article. We are using QR codes already on our "introduction to the organisation" brochure. We place it next to the section that explains our organisational vision, goals and contact information. Not sure how many people actually use the code to access our website yet, but like you say, as people become more familiar with the codes their usage is likely to rise.
Favorite QR generator
I've created QR codes for the non-profit I work at to help with volunteer requirement. My favorite site to use is QR Monkey at http://www.qrmonkey.com/. Not only do they have a free QR code generator they are up-to-date with all the latest trends in QR codes and have good recommendations to strategically use these codes. Happy scanning!
How long will QR codes last?
I was discussing QR codes with someone at work this week and we decided we probably won't put them to use just yet. This is because some of the more useful landing points in our website just aren't as mobile friendly as they could be - but also alot of our target audience are less likely to have smart phones nor understand QR codes.
With google goggles (http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles) where you can search based on analysing real pictures (rather than QR graphics) I do wonder how long QR is going to last...
NonProfit Instant Donation QR Code
Taking QR Codes for the NonProfit sector one step further, we have developed QR Code tech that enables you to create Codes that deliver instant donations via PayPal or Google Checkout - Scan this code to see more - http://twitpic.com/3s8n0q
Light-duty obfuscation. Say,
Light-duty obfuscation. Say, to keep door-to-door campaigning information private from straying eyes.
Quick example: While volunteering during a recent election, we were given clipboards with lists of names, addresses, and notes, and sent out to knock on doors.
I had columns of Y/N questions to fill in while canvassing, and while I didn't keep an exact tally, I'd have to say the majority of people I spoke to were mighty interested in which of their neighbors I was talking to and how they had answered. If my list consisted of QR (or Data Matrix) codes, I'd have had the ability to keep information visible yet private instead of cowering over the clipboard.
Sure, you get into the gray area of how the data is retained on the handheld, and who owns the handheld, etc., but that's a different conversation.


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A volunteer appreciation tea was held to honor all those volunteers who donate their time to help residents at Pleasant View, Brandt Ridge and Prairie View.
The spring appreciation tea is an annual event, but was postponed last week after the area was hit with a snow storm. Still, many volunteers were able to make the meeting on Monday, April 29, at Pleasant View in St. James.
Among the honorees were the five years of service pin winners. These individuals were honored with a pin to commemorate their five years of service at Pleasant View, Brandt Ridge and Prairie View. The five year service members recognized were Harlan Yates, Joan Engstrom, Gerry Engstrom, Vera Lentsch, Don Fastenau and Clarice Fastenau.
Gaining her ten years of service pin was Judy Menson – indicating that she has been a volunteer for the past ten years at Good Samaritan in St. James.
Poems were read by residents of Pleasant View before the 30 and 35 years of service gifts were given. Elaine Jorgenson received an imprinted light-blue bible for giving 30 years of service to the organization, while Jean Bruton received a special clock for her 35 years of service.
Recognized as volunteer of the year was Carol Todnem. Her name will be etched on a plaque with the past award winners and she will also receive a book for her service to Pleasant View, Brandt Ridge and Prairie View.
Individuals were also recognized for more than 100 hours of service at Good Samaritan. Among those people recognized were Lorraine Munsterman, Ardis Petterson, LuAnn Rasmussen, Cheryl Steffen, Arnie Anderson and Lois Thompson. The 43 volunteers at Pleasant View donated more than 2,000 hours during 2012.
Volunteer activities include bingo, cooking, washing dishes, volunteering at the annual bazaar, playing music and more. Staff of Pleasant View Good Samaritan in St. James wanted to thank all of the volunteers who give of themselves to make the residence experience a great experience. Volunteers were described as exceptional people with extraordinary hearts.
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The University of Kentucky women's soccer team defeated Vanderbilt 6-1 Friday at the UK Soccer Complex in Lexington, Ky., to advance to next week's SEC Tournament in Orange Beach, Ala. Photo by Chet White
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Nick Jacobs scored 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and streaking Alabama beat Kentucky 59-55 on Tuesday night for the Crimson Tide's fifth win in six games.
The Tide (12-6, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) held Kentucky (12-6, 3-2) to a season-low scoring total, 22 points below its average.
Levi Randolph and Trevor Releford each hit two free throws in the final 13 seconds to secure the win for Alabama, which had lost seven of the last eight meetings.
Releford had 13 points and Randolph added 11 for the Tide. Jacobs came in averaging 5.8 points a game.
Kyle Wiltjer led Kentucky - which had won four of five games - with 14 points and seven rebounds. Nerlens Noel had eight points, 13 rebounds and for the second straight game blocked seven shots.
The Wildcats shot 8 of 27 (30 percent) in the second half, managing just 22 points.


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The body of a man who apparently tried to swim to Keefer's Island before the fireworks show Thursday night has been recovered.
Officers said Lloyd N. Westbrook II, age 27, attempted to swim to the island at about 9:30 p.m. from the Shilo Inn area.
Westbrook's body was located at about 1:10 a.m. Friday.
Dive crews searched the area near Keefer's Island for about an hour, pushing the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration back to 11 p.m.
The search was suspended during the fireworks show.


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BERKELEY -- A University of San Francisco media studies professor known to his students as the "Professor of Pop" died early Tuesday morning after a fire broke out in the front room of his Berkeley apartment, officials said.
Andrew Goodwin, a 56-year-old educator and musician friends say was engaged to be married, died at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center shortly after he was discovered unconscious in his apartment at 2431 Oregon St. While investigators do not yet know what sparked the fire inside the home Goodwin lived in for 20 years, officials say it started in the front room where he kept his priceless collection of albums and instruments.
The two-alarm blaze broke out just before 1:38 a.m. at the seven-unit building, which was engulfed in flames when crews arrived. A couple who lived on the first floor, Will Dryer and Jen Agius, say they awoke to the smell of smoke and called 911 before running through the building, banging on neighbors' doors.
With seven of the building's eight residents accounted for, firefighters forced open the dead-bolted door to Goodwin's third-floor unit and found him unconscious in a back room, across the apartment from where the fire started.
While the first and second floor apartments were damaged only by water, Goodwin's apartment was deemed a total loss, officials said. Melted keyboards and guitars were strewn across the front room as fire crews pored through the rubble in search of what may have caused the blaze.
Fire Inspector Fernandez said investigators have ruled out an electrical problem as the cause of the fire. Friends and neighbors said Goodwin was a smoker and enjoyed burning candles, but investigators could not immediately conclude that the fire even started inside the apartment.
"We're working to determine whether the fire started on the inside and worked its way out, or whether it started outside and worked its way in," Fernandez said.
Geoffrey Clarkson, a family friend, said he was blocks away with Goodwin's son, James Foley, about the time the fire broke out.
"We were chatting in his apartment at 1:30 a.m.," Clarkson said, adding he left Foley about 1:45 a.m. "As I was driving ... to Montclair with the window open I smelled the fire and thought it was the Mt. Diablo fire."
Clarkson said Goodwin, a tenured professor at USF, musician, radio broadcaster and radio DJ, was a "gentle soul" and "very generous."
"He was always willing to teach and engage with you," said Clarkson, who said Goodwin loved soccer, and that his favorite team was Chelsea with the English Premiere League.
In a letter released to members of the USF community, school leaders called Goodwin a respected scholar, esteemed colleague and dynamic teacher.
"The USF community offers its sincere condolences and prayers to the family, friends, colleagues and students of Dr. Goodwin," Julia Dowd, USF director of University Ministry wrote. "Andrew will be greatly missed by his colleagues and friends. During this time of loss, please remember that grief counseling and support services are available to USF students, faculty and staff."
A campus memorial gathering will take place but a date and time have not been announced, said Anne-Marie Devine, USF senior director of media relations. Goodwin's blog, "Professor of Pop," was taken offline Tuesday morning.
According to his online USF biography, Goodwin received his Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Birmingham, England. He wrote a book on music television and cultural theory called "Dancing in the Distraction Factory" and published articles on media and cultural theory.
Goodwin served on the Editorial Board of Popular Music & Society, was a Corresponding Editor for Media, Culture & Society and wrote for Tricycle, Inquiring Mind, and theworsthorse.net. As of late, he spent much of his time writing a book about Led Zeppelin, a band he has covered across various media and taught classes about at USF.
"We were all out here last night, and everyone who was in the building knew he was still up there," said neighbor Elizabeth Greene, pointing to the exposed facade of the charred apartment. "We just watched and waited."
Greene said she got to know Goodwin only recently despite living across the street from each other for the better part of two decades. She said she was trimming her trees in the yard when Goodwin approached her on his way to the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and suggested they have tea.
She described Goodwin as open, gregarious and a good storyteller, and said he admitted he had been having a difficult time and had recently become a Buddhist.
"I've been thinking about him a lot," Greene added as she watched pieces of ash and debris flutter from the third floor to the ground. "His spirit is definitely with me today."
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Crawthz, on 05 February 2013 - 07:49 PM, said:
If it does change it into shadowcleave/lsd2 kinda dot-style game, then it's overpowered.
My initial thoughts were that you could drop down big hits down with this if the spell was to have say 100% spell power efficiency. Like 100k->80k and from small hits like 10k->7k, 1k->700 and so on. Now it's useless against big hits basically.


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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Identify semiochemicals from host plants, natural enemies and/or conspecifics that can be used as tools in the management of the invasive emerald ash borer.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
Laboratory and field research will be done to identify, isolate, synthesize, and test antennally active semiochemicals of emerald ash borer.
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Topic: Redirecting my energy.....Oh what a friend
Well, on the subject of changing my focus from dwelling on the negative percentages of this disease, I am today making a list of things I am going to actually DO, to move in another direction. Each day I sit and wallow in the negative numbers of CC, I lose another day of my life to this disease while I am still here on earth. Twelve years ago, I survived a heart attack which I was told usually is a type that is fatal. I remember feeling like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop because the doctors told me that they had no idea why I had the heart attack ....caused by a large blood clot completely, 100%, blocking a main artery. I'm trying to also remember what changed, what I did to start looking at the future again without dread. It was simple, I went about planning my own 50th birthday party, a month after the heart attack, did cardiac therapy, and got on with my life and didn't let the heart attack define and limit me.
So, with that, two days ago, a friend drug me to her workplace (United Way) to utilize my artistic skills in designing and painting a window for an inhouse campaign fundraiser. Now, I don't know if my artistic skills are all that great, but bless her for asking me and making that experience possible. She has patiently stuck with me, calling me and cooking up things to do to get me out and about as I heal from surgery. Oh, and this is the same friend who was here waiting at our house when I came home from a 3 hour ride from Mayo after my surgery.....with the table set. She made us both sit down and then served us dinner that she had hot and waiting in my oven. THAT is a friend!!!
Today, lunch with the same friend and grocery shopping. Tomorrow, lunch with another friend and Friday again lunch with retired friends. Life is good. This happens to be the week before my birthday and my gift to myself this year is giving me my life back.
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A Just-In-Time Approach to Medical Care
A few years ago, a radical idea began circulating in the world of primary-care management. Rather than scheduling a medical practice in the traditional manner — booking a doctor's appointments well in advance, while perhaps keeping a few open slots for emergencies — advocates of an approach known as "advanced access" called for offering every patient a same-day appointment, regardless of the severity of the ailment. That way, patients wouldn't experience frustrating waits of weeks or longer (and potentially suffer the medical consequences of a delay in care). Meanwhile, doctors and their staffs wouldn't waste capacity by holding appointments open or attempting to triage patients by phone. There would be fewer cancellations and no-shows, and everyone would be happier.
Much to the surprise of skeptical doctors and nurses, researchers have found the approach works. Empirical studies have shown that managed-care and fee-for-service practices that follow advanced access can significantly reduce patient backlogs, and even make more money, by adhering to the approach's unofficial motto: Do All of Today's Work Today.
However, the lack of specific implementation guidelines held back doctors who might otherwise have given advanced access a try. Professors Linda Green and Sergei Savin, working with physician Mark Murray, designed a mathematical model that allows doctors to apply the approach to their practices. The researchers' elegant solution, in the form of a simple-to-use Excel spreadsheet, allows doctors to predict how many patients they can accommodate. "A lot of physicians are trying to implement the idea of advanced access," says Green. "But they need to find the right balance between patients and capacity."
Many studies have investigated why the traditional scheduling method makes this balance difficult to achieve. One conclusion is that the longer patients are forced to wait for an appointment, the greater the chance they will cancel. Often, the practice isn't able to fill in the suddenly available slot, so the doctor's time is wasted. "The irony is that physicians may have three or four weeks' of patients waiting for an appointment, but they're spending only 70 percent of the day seeing patients," Green says. "With advanced access, the number of no-shows goes down to almost zero. If patients get an appointment for the same day, chances are they're going to show up."
At first, advanced access may seem counterintuitive. Typically, doctors try to keep their availability equal to their average demand, reasoning that slow days and busy days will eventually balance each other out. But the flaw in that logic is that excess capacity from a slow day can't be rolled over to a busy day, and busy days quickly produce an ever-increasing backlog. Since the goal of advanced access is to provide a same-day appointment to every patient who wants one, doctors need to keep their availability greater than their average demand. Green and Savin's model shows doctors what this difference should be.
Doctors who follow the approach will occasionally need to work some overtime, since the daily demand will vary. The researchers' model allows doctors to predict how many days they will stay late, depending on how many patients they want to serve — a degree of control not found in traditional practices. "Many doctors work a lot of overtime in a traditional system, and they still wind up with a long backlog," Green says. "So they try to get nurses to sort out who needs the physician more urgently. They wind up with more administrative overhead. With this system, they're not wasting time, and they can bring in more revenue."
This possibility of greater efficiency and profitability has already won over some doctors. Green and Savin have received requests for their model from several large practices, including the St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center at the University of Connecticut and the Carle Clinic Association, which has more than 300 doctors, in central Illinois.
The researchers are distributing the spreadsheet to any doctor who requests it. "From my personal contact with the healthcare system and talking to physicians, I realized this was an area that needed a lot of help," says Green, who has spent much of her career designing ways for healthcare services to run more smoothly, from increasing the efficient use of MRI machines to preventing emergency room overcrowding. "Healthcare is the biggest sector of the U.S. economy and affects all of our lives. The more I educated myself, the more I realized that problems in healthcare systems really needed an analytical approach."
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Green, Linda, Sergei Savin and Mark Murray. "Providing Timely Access to Care: What Is the Right Patient Panel Size." Forthcoming in the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Linda Green is the Armand G. Erpf Professor of the Modern Corporation at Columbia Business School and a founder and codirector of the Columbia Alliance for Healthcare Management.
Linda Green
Professor Green earned her doctorate in Operations Research from Yale University. Her research, which has focused on the development and application of mathematical models of service systems, has resulted in dozens of publications in the premier technical journals such as Operations Research and Management Science as well as prominent healthcare journals such as Health Services Research, Inquiry and Academic...


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With its composition of planes, this lamp by Alan Wanzenberg for Remains Lighting evokes a card house or construction paper studies, but here in thick ceramic slabs. It has an attractive weight and permanence; solid yet playful at the same time. Finished with hand-applied glaze, sharp metal details and a fine handkerchief linen shade.
Overall: 28-3/4" h. x 16" diameter
Shade: 11" h. x 15" top diameter x 16" bottom diameter
Base: 7-1/4" w. x 7-3/4" d.
Body: 13" h. x 7-1/4" w. x 7-3/4" d.
UL listed for use in dry environments
2 Edison sockets, maximum 60 watts per socket
For other configurations and sizes, see our Taghkanic Studio Family.
1 fixture total available.
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A 20-year-old Canton man sustained moderate injuries in a one-vehicle mishap Tuesday morning in Lewis County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the crash happened at 7 a.m. on U.S. 61 three miles south of La Grange.
A 2004 Pontiac Grand AM was being driven north by Aaron W. Lewis when it ran off the road, hit a tree and overturned.
Lewis, who was wearing a safety device, was taken by ambulance to Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill.
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I usually watch videos either on PS3 or directly on my Bravia thru PMS, without major issues.
However, there is this one video whose audio is getting out of sync along the video (meaning, it starts synchronized but after a few minutes it is completely out of sync).
Reading some other threads, it made me believe the problem is related to wrong framerate detection.
However, in most of these cases, the videos had 30 or 29.97 fps, while in my case I believe the video has 23.976 (standard one).
But checking the debug.log file, it has 3 different values for fps, in different places: 24000/1001 (-ofps parameter of meconder.exe), 23.976 and 24.000.
So I'm a bit confused if this 24.000 x 23.976 is the cause of the problem, and I also don't know how to solve it.
The debug.log file is attached.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much,


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Study: Prey Emit Warning Cues to Predators
May 29, 2015
SCBI's Paul Weldon and University of Tennessee at Knoxville professor Gordon Burghardt propose that conspicuous organisms arise when predator and prey populations interact. Conspicuous prey organisms are favored when predators, by chance, recognize and avoid their novel appearance. Organisms that are not distinguished by conspicuous features are attacked and perish. The mechanism they propose for this is called concurrent reciprocal selection because both the innate avoidance behavior of predators and the novel prey cues to which predators are averse appear coincidentally. In contrast to the traditional view of warning signals perceived visually, these researchers point to auditory, chemical and other types of prey signals to divert predators.
SCBI Studies Show Habitat Fragmentation Affects Gene Flow in India's Leopard and Tiger Populations
July 31, 2013
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists analyzed the genes of these great cats in the Satpura-Maikal landscape—a 15,000 square kilometers area composed of four interconnected reserves: Kanha, Satpura, Melghat and Pench. From April-June 2009 and November 2009-May 2010, they collected scat (fecal matter) and hair samples for DNA analysis. This data, combined with India's forest ecology history, enabled SCBI scientists to construct a definitive picture of how habitat loss affects the genetic diversity and gene flow of cat populations. Published in Evolutionary Applications and Proceedings of the Royal Society B, their research demonstrates that an intact forest corridor is vital for maintaining gene flow in these great cats.
Study Finds Baby Marmosets More Likely to Become Obese if Transition to Solid Food Faster
April 10, 2013
Companion study finds young obese monkeys more likely to have pancreas problems.
New Genetics Research on Leopards and Tigers in India Underscores the Importance of Protecting Forest Corridors
January 14, 2013
As rapid economic expansion continues to shape the Asian landscape on which many species depend, time is running out for conservationists aiming to save wildlife such as tigers and leopards. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have used genetic analysis to find that the natural forest corridors in India are essential to ensuring a future for these species. According to two studies recently published in two papers, these corridors are successfully connecting populations of tigers and leopards to ensure genetic diversity and gene flow.
Relocating Elephants Fails to Decrease Human–Wildlife Conflict
December 10, 2012
Human–elephant conflict in Sri Lanka kills more than 70 humans and 200 Asian elephants every year.
SCBI Scientists Find That Humans Alter Animal Distribution on the Appalachian Trail
November 2, 2012
Every year more than 4 million people enjoy the popular Appalachian Trail, which extends from Maine to Georgia and is surrounded by forests as well as agricultural and residential development. However, just as humans depend on the land, so, too, does the native wildlife.
An SCBI Scientist Discovers a ''Butterfly Effect'' on Population Modeling
September 27, 2012
ologist from SCBI's Conservation Ecology Center uncovers flaws in the methods scientists use to estimate butterfly populations, with important ramifications for wildlife conservation.
Infrastructure Supporting National Parks May Provide Poachers Easier Access to Wildlife
May 11, 2012
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists publish new study based on camera-trap images of poachers in Thai park.
Smithsonian Researchers Use Non-Invasive Techniques to Look at Genetic Diversity in Leopards from a Distance
April 18, 2012
Researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have spent years developing genetic techniques that use more easily acquired samples, and their latest success uses scat, or feces, collected from wild leopards living in the highlands of India.
Smithsonian Scientist Uses Innovative Method to Predict How Forests Will Change Over Time
April 6, 2012
In a paper published in this month's issue of BioScience, a scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute explores the potential of a creative technique to look toward the future of forests.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Publishes Two Significant Panda Studies
April 4, 2012
Two new research papers by Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists and partners will help conservation biologists make strides in saving the fewer than 1,600 giant pandas left in the mountain forests of central China.


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Joe Coto, the former Democratic state assemblyman and East Side Union High School District superintendent, spent $731,275 in campaign cash on a losing bid for the state Senate seat won last year by Jim Beall, D-San Jose. But at least some of it stayed in the family.
As Steven Harmon of our Sacramento bureau reports in a front-page story today, Coto paid his daughter Lisa $24,080 for "consulting" and appearing in a campaign TV ad with him. When we asked Coto about the payment, he said he had no idea his daughter was paid that much.
"That doesn't sound right," Coto said. "The way I used her, I paid her minimum wage, about $9 to $10 an hour. She helped with fundraising, sending letters, making phone calls, arranging locations. And she did TV work."
Minimum wage? Um. Thanks, Dad!
Actually, Lisa Coto is an associate with GameChanger, a marketing firm whose "manifesto" is to "change consumer products innovation." In her bio sketch, her company boasts that she has "experience in nontraditional marketing, including house parties and event marketing."
Doubtless, that qualifies for a nice campaign stipend.
Anyway, if you missed it during last year's campaign, you can still see the spot online at http://youtu.be/swpkJT_MosY.
Anti-tax leader leaves for Lone Star State
You've heard tell that with California approving the nation's highest state income and sales tax rates last November, wealthy Golden State residents have been high-tailing it to Texas, where the taxes are lower than a rattler's belly. Now pointy-headed know-it-alls who looked at the numbers have deemed this California exodus story about as real as the prairie jackalope. But anecdotally, we know there's a Texas-sized kernel of truth to it, and not just because golf ace Phil Mickelson is mulling a move to the Lone Star State to keep Gov. Jerry Brown's mitts off his millions.
We're told that John Roeder, chief executive officer of San Jose's Great Oaks Water Company, recently relocated to suburban Dallas to escape rising taxes. Who can blame him? Santa Clara County voters last year also approved a new eighth-cent sales tax and water district parcel tax. San Jose leaders are eyeing a host of new taxes for next year's ballot. And the state's Democratic Legislature is thinking of weakening Proposition 13 tax protections for business property, as well as lowering voter approval thresholds for passing transportation measures to 55 percent.
Roeder, of course, knows a thing or two about taxes. He's a former president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, a position he resigned when he moved, though he's still active with his water company. He must have been out ropin' steer when we tried to find out how he's enjoying Texas. Silicon Valley taxpayers still stuck in Taxifornia now have Mark Hinkle to speak for them.
Public defender candidate seeks unusual endorsement
Two candidates have surfaced so far in the week or so since Santa Clara County posted the crucial job of Santa Clara County public defender.
One of them is Molly O'Neal, who took over temporarily last summer when Mary Greenwood was appointed to the Superior Court bench. A stellar public defender and popular executive, O'Neal is considered a strong candidate for the permanent role of overseeing the office responsible for representing indigent clients in criminal and certain civil cases.
Then there's Tony Estremera, directing attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County and longtime board member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District.
If audacity were the chief qualification for the $241,000 a year job, Estremera would be the top pick.
The Board of Supervisors -- which appoints the public defender -- hasn't exactly looked kindly on Estremera in the past. Citing bad management and other criticism of Legal Aid's performance under Estremera, the board in 2008 voted unanimously to end the county's $7 million annual contract with the nonprofit, which represented low-income criminal defendants when county lawyers weren't available. Estremera is still in charge of Legal Aid, whose budget is less than a fifth of the public defender's $48 million budget.
If that weren't enough, Estremera also is a member of the old guard of the water district, long famous for lavish employee salaries, sweet benefits and questionable projects criticized by county grand juries.
Estremera won the endorsement of the La Raza Lawyers last week, and he told us he also expects to have the support of Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr., who has been eager to diversify the ranks of county department heads. Shirakawa declined to comment. But he's hardly a sought-after endorsement these days.
Mired in scandal, Shirakawa faces possible felony charges for misuse of his county-issued credit cards after two county audits found he had misspent public funds. He also faces fines from the state's Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to disclose campaign contributors.
25th District seat draws plenty of interest
Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, re-elected to his 25th District seat in November, has some time to think about his next political move. The former Fremont mayor can run again in 2014 before term limits cap his Assembly service at the end of 2016. But Wieckowski is said to be coveting the District 10 Senate seat of Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, who wraps up her second term in 2014.
And that, of course, is arousing interest in Wieckowski's district, which stretches from Fremont down through Milpitas and northern San Jose. Among those we've heard are either tantalized by this opportunity or being encouraged to contend: Pete McHugh, the former Milpitas councilman; San Jose City Councilman Kansen Chu; Milpitas City Councilman Armando Gomez; and Ohlone Community College District Trustee Teresa Cox. All are Democrats.
McHugh has deep political roots, not only from representing Milpitas for years on the council (where he also has served as mayor) but also as a former Santa Clara County supervisor. He made an unsuccessful run at Wieckowski's seat last year.
Chu, whose final term on the council runs through 2016, also has deep political ties, and says he's interested. His wife is a staffer for Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr.
Gomez, whose council term expires in 2014, is also San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's budget guru. He told us he's interested.
Cox, who made national headlines as the first African-American woman with a degree in nuclear engineering, has ties to President Barack Obama's administration. She was appointed by the former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to serve as a trade adviser working on small and minority business initiatives.
Wieckowski has not indicated a preference among possible contenders.
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- Oct 29:
- Woman to face charges Tuesday of killing Menlo Park couple while driving drunk
- Oct 28:
- Dog injured in fatal Menlo Park crash to return home soon
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REDWOOD CITY - An arraignment has been postponed a third time for a woman accused of killing a Menlo Park couple in a alcohol-fueled crash Thursday night, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said today.
Marjorie Reitzell, 53, has not been medically cleared by the jail medical staff, Wagstaffe said. The case, which was set to for 1:30 p.m. today, will be re-scheduled for Thursday afternoon in San Mateo County Superior Court, he said.
Reitzell is accused of plowing down a Menlo Park couple that was out walking their pet Chihuahua around 7 p.m. near the bike lane on Chilco Road in Menlo Park.
Kamal Singh, 45, and Balbir Singh, 50, were hit from behind and were propelled into the air, according to Menlo Park police. They both died at the scene.
Prosecutors say that after hitting the Singhs, Reitzell, whose blood alcohol level was allegedly twice the legal limit, continued driving and struck a car carrying four teenagers, causing minor injuries. She then crashed into a tree where first responders found her. Police took her into custody then.
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AVON, Colorado - Rich Carroll will serve a second two-year term as Avon's mayor, but he faced some competition for the job.
The Avon Town Council selects a new mayor after every town council election, which happen every two years. The mayor is selected by other council members.
During the brief time the town was mayor-less Tuesday, Carroll was selected to run the meeting. When he asked for nominations for mayor, council member Dave Dantas nominated fellow council member Buz Reynolds. New council member Jennie Fancher nominated Carroll.
Carroll was then elected by a 5-2 vote. Reynolds voted for himself, as did Dantas.
What makes this story somewhat unusual is that mayors are often selected by secret ballot, and the discussions leading to those votes aren't often public.
In this case, both incumbent and new council members asked questions of both men - the biggest one being, "Why do you want this job?"
Reynolds answered that his background and experience in town made him the best candidate.
Carroll said he'd like the opportunity to "give back to the normal part of town" after spending virtually his entire first term as mayor wrestling with the dispute between the town and the developers of The Village at Avon.
Before the council voted to give Carroll another term, town resident Michael Cacioppo praised the group for doing its business in open session.
"It's refreshing to watch the transparency here, and I'd recommend to other groups in Eagle County that they follow your example," Cacioppo said. "I'm convinced you don't know what you're going to do right now... Typically I go to meetings and I know there's been previous discussion."
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Top 25 Rdp: Buckeyes roll over FAMU in B10 tuneup
Ohio State wide receiver Evan Spencer, right, tries to escape the grasp of Florida A&M cornerback Patrick Aiken during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kenny Guiton again starred in place of the injured Braxton Miller, setting a school record with six touchdown passes — all in the first half — to lead No. 4 Ohio State to a 76-0 victory against Florida A&M on Saturday. It was the most lopsided Ohio State win since 1935.


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Don't fall into the trap of dwelling on how much you miss each other and how hard it is to be apart. While it's healthy to express those feelings, to maintain a sense of normalcy and closeness it's equally important to talk about random, happy stuff that's going on. Send each other quick texts—like that you just had the best sandwich ever, or totally wiped out on the subway—and bring up the kind of mundane details you'd fill each other in on at the end of the day if you lived together.
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Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Jennifer Howard is still overcome with emotion.
"We didn't sleep all last night. I'm tired from crying. We were very upset," she said.
A few minutes before 9 o'clock Wednesday night, she went to the Kroger here on Knox Avenue in North Augusta to pick up a few things.
It was an ordinary trip to the grocery store that ended up being anything but ordinary.
"We came back out, I got him in the car, I put the things in the car, I walked around, I got in the vehicle, I went to close the door, and then there he was," Howard said.
She was face to face with an armed robber. Her young son was beside her in the passenger's seat. She says the 6-year-old quickly became the target.
"He had a gun at my face, and he said to give me my bag or he was going to shoot my son," she said.
Without hesitation, she gave up her purse. An incident report filed by the North Augusta Department of Public Safety values what was stolen at $100, including cash, ATM and Social Security cards and prescription drugs, too.
"We've been gone all morning. We started at the DMV, we went to the bank, the Social Security office, and we've had to go to the doctor's to get medicines refilled," Howard said.
Howard says the suspect ran toward nearby Arby's and escaped in a dark-colored minivan. Officers pulled prints from Howard's car and are hoping to enhance surveillance footage from the Kroger parking lot, too.
Meanwhile, Howard is still struggling to comprehend why this happened.
There was also some discussion by police that this armed robbery could be tied to some in Richmond County. They're looking for a heavyset black male with a goatee around 35 to 40 years old, possibly driving a dark-colored minivan.


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Several political signs were pulled from the ground and two canopies damaged in front of the Oak Ridge early voting site Tuesday.
According to an Oak Ridge Police Department report, Don Carson and Denny Phillips were listed as the victims in the crime. Phillips is a candidate for County Commission in the 7th District. He is one of several challengers facing incumbent Commissioner Jerry Creasey.
The officer indicated that the crime appeared to be simple vandalism and not politically motivated. The early voting site is the Oak Ridge Community Center, Wildcat Den, 102 Robertsville Road.
In a phone interview, Phillips said that Carson owned the tent being used by Anderson County School Board member Steve Fritts who is seeking re-election. Phillips said in addition to the signs being pulled up, some of the legs of the tents were damaged and some tables and chairs were turned over.
"One of Don Carson's tables was broken," Phillips said.
When asked if he felt if it was politically motivated, Phillips hesitated but said that he was willing to go with what the officer said about simple vandalism.
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Dale Jordal wrote:Added my name to the petition ............ wish you luck.
Obviously the main point that the city needs to understand just replacing the poles lost somewhere else does not resolve the issue.
Disc golfers undertand that but you may really have to work to make all or most of those who have vote in this understand this point. I am sure most of them don't understand.
Grimm wrote:It's not only about the course. This will ruin also ruin a staple sledding hill in the CR area that everyone brings the kids to year after year......................
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For some reason with MKVs, the beginning is always skipped during playback on my PS3. On my PC it works fine though. It always seems to skip the opening chapter (intro for the anime).
I've had this happen once on my PC and it was due to Gabest's Splitter so I switched back to Haali Splitter and it no longer occurred.
Also, PS3MS is using MEncoder and I'd like to mention that this doesn't happen with Tversity - although I'm not using that for other reasons.
Anyone have any idea as to why this is happening now?
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At last night's exhibition game between the American and Brazilian basketball teams, First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama were thrust into the long and storied tradition of forced Public Display of Affection when they appeared on the Verizon Center's Kiss Cam.
At first, the presidential pair wasn't too keen to play along, or perhaps was caught off-guard, and the crowd was audibly upset at the "airball."
But the Kiss Cam operator wasn't about to miss the opportunity of a lifetime, and made another attempt to compel the couple to lock lips.
Score! And the crowd goes wild.
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This set has some OK tunes (ACDC Bag, Divided Sky) and some slop (Wilson, McGrupp>Who Do We Do, Rocky Top, Coil). The jam out of McGrupp is OK, too, but there's no real highlights I would hang my hat on. I could honestly go either two or three stars on this, as I think its somewhere in between. I'll say 2 stars based on lack of discernible highlights and a little too-much slop.
Saturday, 03/10/1990
The Front, Burlington, VT
Set 1: Wilson, Esther, McGruppMcGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Who Do? We Do! > BagAC/DC Bag, Rocky Top > CoilThe Squirming Coil > Funky Bitch, DividedDivided Sky, JJLCJesus Just Left Chicago, Carolina
Set 2: HoodHarry Hood
· Hot Blooded tease in AC/DC Bag
Average Song Gap: 8.17
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: AC/DC Bag contained Hot Blooded teases from Trey. Trey dedicated Hood to "our lightman, Chris." The setlist for the second set is incomplete.
Song Distribution:
2 Junta
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
1 Lawn Boy
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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Coming to the Vail Valley for the weekend? Your room better be reserved.
Thanks to the Burton U.S. Open Snowboard championships, Vail lodges are virtually booked solid. The same is true in Avon. Even downvalley hotels are busy this weekend.
Rich tenBraak runs the Hawthorn Suites in Eagle. He said that hotel is almost, but not quite, full for the weekend.
"We're not asking why people are here, but we have seen a spike (in business) for Friday and Saturday," tenBraak said.
That boost in business came as good news, since the hotel last year was booked solid thanks to the second, and final, Avon run of the SnowBall music festival. That festival filled up the valley, but drew numerous complaints from Avon residents and lodge managers there.
With SnowBall gone to Winter Park - it's set for March 8-10 - the Burton event has largely filled the rooms the festival did.
The Vail Valley Partnership tracks lodging reservations and runs www.vailonsale.com, a source for last-minute bookings. Partnership CEO Chris Romer said the numbers for 2012 and this year are just about the same.
"There's limited availability everywhere," Romer said.
For instance, the Westin Riverfront Resort and Spa reported two rooms available - out of 230 - as of Thursday.
"I think that we're sold out due to a combination of factors - the Burton U.S. Open and free concerts in Vail and Saturday's Talons Challenge, which is always a popular Beaver Creek event, plus a little help from the steady snowfall that we've seen recently. It's going to be a busy weekend for the entire Vail Valley," Westin General Manager John Evans said.
The Holiday Inn in West Vail reported a sold-out house for the weekend, as did the Christie Lodge in Avon.
"We've had small groups from Burton, which has driven other business," Christie Lodge Director of Resort Sales and Marketing Tom Butz said.
Even Triumph Mountain Properties, which has several luxury homes in its rental pool, was just about booked up for the weekend.
At Avon's Comfort Inn, general manager Emily Ravn said that hotel's 146 rooms had been booked for about six weeks. That's good news for any lodging manager, but Ravn added that the Burton crowd seems considerably "tamer" than last year's SnowBall guests.
"Events like this really drive demand," Ravn said. "The rates aren't quite as high, but I don't have to pay for security, either."
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SFR announcement wrote: If you ever have the opportunity to visit Greece, I highly recommend you do so. It is so unique. Very old with crazy energy. Here's a video that 2Mex posted on youtube explaining his first 4 hours there. He chops it up with a couple locals.
Another cool thing that came through today is this beautifully written album review of "My Fanbase Will Destroy You" by Chaz Kangas for Spectrum Culture:
At a time when independent rap labels seem to be evaporating into thin air, Rhode Island's Strange Famous has stepped in and established itself as a sturdy symbol of quality. Founded and overseen by indie rap favorite Sage Francis, Strange Famous has not only given distribution to albums for artists who've long deserved it, but has helped focus the veterans on its roster, such as Buck 65, to release the most critically celebrated works of their careers. When it was announced that Los Angeles underground staple 2Mex was going to release his next project under the Strange Famous banner, it was greeted with an anticipation from fans that this was finally going to be the 2Mex album. A member of several rap collectives, most notably the Visionaries, he's been just as visible with his exceptionally prolific solo career with the past 15 years seeing 2Mex's name on over 35 of his own full-lengths. Since signing with the label, the man's been uncharacteristically silent, going two years without releasing a project. His exile ends now with My Fanbase Will Destroy You.
One of 2Mex's strengths is his brutal emotional honesty. Going to the vulnerable parts of his psyche that most artists would try to convince you they don't have, 2Mex has made a career and one of the scene's most loyal fanbases from choruses such as, "I didn't mean to touch your hand/ I didn't realize that I was so grotesque." While it's refreshing and undeniably endearing, over the spotty production of a lot of his previous releases, it's a trait that has many times become overbearing over the course of a full-length release. On My Fanbase Will Destroy You, this is not the case. Backed by beats from Busdriver, Deeskee and Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta, among others, 2Mex is finally given a lush soundscape as lavish as his personality. From his tour stories ("Dead Deer Diary") to his love of local and obscure hip-hop ("What You Know About," featuring Organized Konfusion's Prince Po) and everything in-between, the album shows all shades of 2Mex's character while harnessing the energy of his live shows.
2Mex's writing has never been sharper. On the LDONTHECUT-produced "Rollercoaster" (which features Murs and Ariano), he explores the metaphor of a "rollercoaster relationship," showing his partner running the gauntlet of mixed signals as a fun ride, a crazy irritant, a sympathetic figure and the "bi-polar bi-sexual" who "buys me issues of my favorite comics." With the voice of a wise elder at his best friend's birthday party, his subtle choice of words allows his stories and character studies to really resonate. In a genre where what you say is just as important as how you say it, 2Mex is using both to paint pictures with sounds calling to mind the brightest and darkest colors of the human experience.
One of the main reasons why My Fanbase Will Destroy You works so well is that it, for once, feels like 2Mex is in complete control of the greatest resources he's had to date. As I mentioned earlier, the production is really what sets this apart from the rest of his catalog and catapults what he's able to do on record into the stratosphere. But while his ability to showcase all facets of human emotions lends itself to a more enriching listen on the more pleasant, melodious beats ("Dead Hand Control" featuring Maney Wilson and "The Fun in Funeral" featuring Deeskee), the murkier backdrops like "Press Your Luck" seem to have 2Mex's job already done for him and don't offer the same re-playability. Fortunately, those moments are few and far between as My Fanbase Will Destroy You is not only the album 2Mex fans have known he's had in him all along, but the perfect all-access pass to one of indierap's most inclusive fan clubs.


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- May 4:
- Warriors' Stephen Curry questions why Mark Jackson's job possibly in jeopardy
- Warriors, Clippers game ends with hallway altercation
- May 3:
- Thompson: Warriors offense comes alive, but defense takes step back with season on the line
- Warriors fall to Clippers in Game 7
- Warriors' Jermaine O'Neal says he plans to play in Game 7
LOS ANGELES -- The Warriors' exit in the first round of the NBA Western Conference Playoffs could be the first of more than one exit for Warriors' personnel. Andrew Bogut, Steve Blake, Jordan Crawford and Jermaine O'Neal will all be free agents. O'Neal, who played three minutes due to a bruised right knee, is contemplating retirement.
Warriors coach Mark Jackson brushed off questions of whether this could be his final game.
"I take every day like it could be my last day. Doing anything," Jackson said. "There's so much pressure every day being father, a husband, a pastor, a coach, a friend, a son and an uncle. I treat it like it's my last." ...
Saturday's game marked the first time Jackson had coached a Game 7. As a player, Jackson's teams went 1-3 in Game 7s. Jackson suggested that his players stick to the game plan.
"When we do the things that we talked about doing all along, we win ball games," Jackson said. "When we defend at a high level, take care of the basketball, when we execute ... and we gang rebound, we wind up on the good side."
After winning Game 6 on Thursday in Oakland, Jackson said the pressure was on the Clippers to win the series, rather than the Warriors. His message to his team was to not think about being eliminated.
"People get into trouble when they think its Game 7 and then they get out of character," Jackson said. "The message is 'Do you.'" ...
The Warriors responded early to their coach's advice to be themselves, taking a 6-0 lead on three-pointers by Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
The Warriors extended the lead to 10 points after the first quarter on 72 percent shooting (13-for-18) from the field and held an eight-point lead at the half. Green scored 13 of his postseason career-high 24 points in the first half on a perfect 5-for-5 shooting effort. The second-year player made his first six field goals, one shy of tying the franchise playoff record for most field goals without a miss.
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Awkward's Nikki DeLoach and husband Ryan Goodell have welcomed their first child together, Us Weekly reports.
William Hudson Goodell was born on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 3:19 a.m. in Los Angeles. He weighed in at 6 pounds and 15 ounces, and measured 21 inches long. "Mom and baby are doing well," a rep for the actress told the magazine. "And the new parents are overjoyed at the arrival of their first child."
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The MTV star, who plays Jenna's young mother on the drama series, and her husband, an entertainment lawyer, have been married since 2009.
Awkward returns with new episodes on Tuesday at 10:30/9:30c on MTV.
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Tuesday, 06/02/2009
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Set 1: Runaway Jim, Foam, STFTFPStealing Time From the Faulty Plan[1], TimberTimber (Jerry), Cities, Driver, Reba, Possum, Farmhouse, If I Could
Set 2: Mike'sMike's Song > Simple > Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother -> WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, CircusWhen the Circus Comes, KDFKill Devil Falls[1], HoodHarry Hood > Loving Cup
Encore: SuzySuzy Greenberg
[1] Debut.
Noteworthy Jams: Possum, Kill Devil Falls
Average Song Gap: 14.29
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan and Kill Devil Falls both debuted at this show, with the latter, remarkably, being played by request. This show featured the first If I Could since June 28, 2000 (103 shows).
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Song Distribution:
2 Joy
2 Farmhouse
2 Hoist
1 Stash
1 Lawn Boy
1 Junta
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2009 Early Summer Tour."
Set I:
Runaway Jim:****
Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan:**
If I Could:*****
Set II:
Mike's Song >:****
Wolfman's Brother >:****
Weekapaug Groove:****
When The Circus Comes To Town:****
Kill Devil Falls:****
Harry Hood >:*****
Loving Cup:****
Suzy Greenberg:*****
Batting Average: .757 (72 Stars/95 Stars)
The two ratings are Batting Average and GHI. Both are defined below.
BA: The total number of stars achieved divided by the total possible stars a concert can achieve. Each song can achieve a total possible 5 stars, 5 being the best, 0 being the worst. Therefore, each show receives anywhere from a 1.0 to a .001.
GHI: This rating is used in The Phish Companion 2nd Ed. Each show is given a score from 0 to 5, five being the best and 0 being the worst.
The two scores are synonymous. I like the BA form better because each show receives a score closer to its worth depending on how you rated it.
One of those days that I will never forget, and at the same time never fully remember.
And because it had some really legitimate moments. But what really blew me away 'bout this show was the four songs that ended the 2nd set: A poignant When The Circus Comes, Kill Devil Falls (all debuts should be this good), an explosive Harry Hood and one of my fave Stones songs, Loving Cup. And now my cup runneth over this band. Bring on Summer '11!
Such is the case with this show. Aside from the debut of Stealing Time and the weird ending, the first set is completely forgettable. @waxbanks has it when it comes to the Mike's Groove: every segue is butchered. Though don't let that get you down. After all, this was only the fifth show in almost as many years and what comes afterword is the aforementioned gold.
The second sets closing quartet is unquestionably the highlight of the show. When The Circus Comes is well played and placed perfectly. The debut is KDF is really nice. Trey rips it up. And now, the first Truly memorable jam since the return emerges out of Harry Hood. Slight mistakes in the composed section aside, this is one of the best Hoods of the year. The ambient passage is quite beautiful and the build to the peak afterword is flawless. At this point we weren't all sick of Loving Cup yet, and this is a good version. Suzy ends closes the show is style.
I won't be listening to any of this show besides the Hood again, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it when I did.
Set I is the better of the two, with the 3.0 debut of Cities, a nice Reba, and surprisingly excellent If I Could closer. Possum is a solid offering, and hints at why the band decided to play it so relentlessly for the next few years: it was one of the songs they could reliably bring down the house with. It gets the job done here, and I particularly like Trey's country pluckin' during the intro.
Set II is probably the worst set I've been in attendance for. The entire Mike's Groove is kind of a sloppy snoozer, with little that begs additional listening. The segue to Weekapaug in particular is ugly, ugly stuff. But hey--it's all about trajectory, right? Think about all those butter smooth segues of 2012-2013. Those don't happen unless the boys had first built themselves back up from depths like this.
The bright spot is the Hood, which is unusual and spacey. Very interesting version, and caught me totally off guard. The transition back into normal Hood territory doesn't go according to plan, but that doesn't keep this from easily being the #1 highlight of the night.
All in all, I see June 2009 as a sort of Pilgrimage for devoted Phish fans. These shows are worth hearing, and are so crucial to the current (phenomenal) state of the band, but if you are making the trek through these 15 shows, be prepared for some bumps and stalls.


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Marriage Equality at the Ballot: Take action to change hearts and minds!
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- Monty Pennington said...
I really do think that marriage is very sacred and it's something worth fighting for. I remember a wedding that i have attended, i had a chat with the bride's aunt and she tells me that it was full of twists and turns before they finally tied the knot. Thier story moved me and i could not help notice how stunning the bride was. Her aunt also told me that she got her wedding accessories picked by her mother and she was so happy. I love weddings.
- December 16, 2012 at 8:18 PM
- Damon Tolles said...
Weddings are very special to me, they mark the start of a new life together, and with these moments there should also be a wedding photographer in brisbane to capture the moment on film, to make it least a lifetime.
- January 3, 2013 at 2:07 AM
- Tim Arellano said...
We know how sacred weddings are, but we also know that two people decide to get married because of one thing: love (at least for the majority of us). Never mind the struggles while preparing for the wedding: checking dress stores on long island, getting contacts from the caterers, and inviting the bunch of your loved ones to witness your precious day. Let's keep on helping advocacy like this one, make love not war.
- January 23, 2013 at 8:41 AM
- jack said...
I have seen a situation too. everything was so perfect in that wedding. Wedding venue was looking so beautiful. Suddenly someone had a fight with the friend of groom. he was bride's brother. bride and groom also got into fight but in the end everything became normal.
- February 8, 2013 at 7:00 AM
- Piper Donnovan said...
Weddings are incredibly precious to a lot of people. Wedding coordinators always pull off great feats, as weddings are very volatile, if plans aren't made with utmost foresight. One mishap could just ruin it.
- February 20, 2013 at 3:07 PM
- Ellie Abdullah said...
Weddings are sacred and should not be taken for granted. The moment a man puts that engagement ring into a woman's finger means he's ready to spend his life with her. And all the stress in the wedding preparation comes next. If they would let one mistake ruin the whole marriage, then they're just letting all those sacrifices and efforts go to waste. And aside from the wasted efforts, they'll just throw away a huge part of their lives that will scar them forever.
- February 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM
- Scarlett Pither said...
Marriage is sacred, and it doesn't matter what your history is, as long as you truly love each other. It doesn't matter if you've only met online or through awkward ways - there are no laws against that, and nobody can dictate what you should feel about a person.
- March 4, 2013 at 9:45 AM
- David Stopford said...
I'm in favor of this freedom to marry as long as the couple loves each other. It's not about the diamond rings, jewelry, houses or cars we can give our partner; it's about caring and passion for that someone. I believe that's the point everyone's conveying here.
- March 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM
- Ryan Black said...
That's right! Love is love and family is family, its one driving force in life that keeps us living. I bid you good luck in your endeavors cause I know that your beliefs are of good purpose.
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"I would love to see all of our players there, but at the same time, they have to do what's best for them and make their own decisions," Kaepernick said while hosting his second annual golf tournament benefiting Camp Taylor's efforts for children with heart issues.
Kaepernick has stayed in contact with David and Boone this offseason even though the starting tight end and right guard have skipped organized team activities. Each player is seeking a raise despite having two years left on their contracts.
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"There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally, basically wrong ... The great danger facing us today is not so much that atomic bomb that you can put in an airplane and drop on the heads of hundreds of thousands of people, as dangerous as that is. But the real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb that lies in the hearts and souls of men capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness ..."
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Feb. 28, 1954, in a sermon at Second Baptist Church in Detroit
Had he not been struck down by the very hate that he devoted his life to fighting, Martin Luther King Jr., who was gunned down at 39, would have turned 84 last Tuesday. On Monday, Americans will observe a federal holiday in memory of King -- the Baptist preacher and Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights leader who inspired people all over the world with his courageous nonviolent movement for racial and economic justice.
The national holiday coincides this year with the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. The election of American's first African-American president is the fulfillment of part of King's dream that his four children would "one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." We are certainly not all the way there, but Obama's election was a huge milestone.
What would King have said about the nightmare he could not have foreseen. America's -- out-of-control gun violence epidemic?
About the hate that drove a disturbed young man in Newtown, Conn., to walk into an elementary school last month -- for reasons no one seems to know -- and kill 26 people, 20 of them 6- and 7-year-olds?
Or about the illness that makes boys and young men in urban neighborhoods all across this country shoot and kill each other -- and anyone else who gets in their way -- by the thousands year in and year out?
Or about the scary number of people who are killing their partners and children, then themselves?
King, I suspect, would have raised the kinds of questions that challenged us to go deeper -- beyond arguments about gun laws. He would have urged us to look at ourselves and what we have become as a society, at the fact that the violence is merely a symptom of the underlying disease of moral decay that no gun plan by the president or anyone else can fix.
Sometime back, I bought "The Landmark Speeches and Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.".¿ The CD set is a treasure trove of 16 hours worth of recordings.
In February 1954, King spoke at Second Baptist Church in Detroit. His talk was called "Rediscovering Lost Values."
He might as well have been talking about January 2013.
King said America had made amazing technological progress, that it was now "possible to eat breakfast in New York City and supper in London, England." Yet, what he called "man's moral genius" had taken a giant leap backward.
King decried a modern world that had adopted what he called a "relativistic ethic" where there was no right or wrong, where the prevailing attitude was that as long as everyone else was doing something, it must be right. Yet if no one else was doing it, it must be wrong. Where it was OK to lie and steal as long as you didn't get caught. He called it "survival of the slickest." Far too few, he said, were willing to stand up for what they believed in.
In a never-ending quest for the material, King said, we had become a thing-oriented society that had lost its moral compass and "unconsciously left God behind."
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"We've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind," King said.
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The book, written by Cynthia Barnett, is the focus of a countywide reading initiative and explores the topic of water management and the importance of using water responsibly. Nancy Karklins, bookseller and regular discussion leader at The Next Page, will lead the conversation.
"The main thrust is developing a water ethic, much like we have done with recycling and littering," Karklins said of "Blue Revolution." "We have a responsibility to take care of the environment. ... It's about taking care of our water, which we all need; we can't live without air, and we can't live without water."
Karklins said she's not an expert on the subject matter of the book, but she read it and it raised her curiosity about the topic of water.
"It was a real eye-opener for me," she said. "I don't have the answers, but I have good questions. Cynthia has both. I hope to learn a lot from the group. People will bring up issues that even she hasn't included."
The format of a book discussion allows for a free flow of information without the fear of insulting the author or one another, Karklins said.
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Karklins said when she first started reading the book, she began talking to people in the community, asking if they were worried about their water.
"Summit County is proactive in protecting our water resources," she said. "I didn't realize that we had a water task force, a sustainability task force made up of local leaders and members of the community. It was very educational to me personally."
Establishing a water ethic in our community really begins in the schools, teaching children the value of protecting our water resources, Karklins said. She said it's a local responsibility that starts with each individual making a commitment to properly manage his or her water use, and the book is a catalyst for starting a water revolution.
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In response to Rick Perry's attempt to draw business away from New York, and other states, Lewis Black delivered one of his classic rants on The Daily Show, directed at the Governor of Texas. He starts, "People come here from all over the world, for the freedom to live as they choose, for the variety of cultures, but most of all for the fact that it's not Texas." Below, his message, brought to you by "New Yorkers Who Think Texas Blows."
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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released a preliminary draft version of the state's greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade regulation on November 24. As proposed, the cap-and-trade regulations will take effect in 2012 and will apply to 605 of the state's largest stationary emitters of GHGs, including industries and power plants, along with electricity imports. Starting in 2015, the regulations will also apply to fuel suppliers, to help address emissions from vehicles and from smaller stationary emitters of GHGs, such as homes and commercial businesses. The regulations will set a cap on GHGs emissions that will decline each year through 2020, in order to help bring the state's GHG emissions back to 1990 levels, which represents a decline of about 15% from today's emission levels. The cap-and-trade program is just one part of achieving this goal; other measures include building and appliance efficiency standards, strong energy efficiency programs, a statewide renewable energy requirement, clean car standards, a low-carbon fuel standard, and targeted usage fees. The goal was set by the state's Global Warming Solutions Act, which was signed by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006.
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