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WATERFORD - The Wolf Creek Local Board of Education approved nearly $150,000 in repairs and maintenance at Waterford High School Monday, to be paid for with revenue from leasing the district's mineral rights.
"These projects are going to be done with the oil and gas money we received," board President Hugh Arnold said, noting no money will come out of the district's general fund.
The district received approximately $375,000 for leasing the mineral rights to Colorado-based PDC Energy Inc. last year.
The board approved four contracts, each with a separate business and under the $50,000 threshold that requires competitive bidding under state law, for placing new tile on the walls and repainting the hallways in the new addition to the high school, as well as repairing 22 lintels on the building and repainting other areas. The total cost of the work is $148,352.41.
Other potential uses for the money were discussed, including repaving the area in front of the vocational agriculture facility and upgrading the baseball field.
Assistant baseball coach Gene Paxton, who has done a lot of volunteer work for the field, proposed installing new chain link fencing to enclose the entire field and provide enclosures for pitchers and catchers to warm up. He said the work can be done for less than $25,000.
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- Kern Construction, for an amount not to exceed $44,888, for labor and material to repair the hallways in the main addition to Waterford High School.
- Round Bottom Masonry (Brad Schott), for an amount not to exceed $44,888 for labor and materials to repair the hallways in the main addition of the high school and 22 lintels.
- B&W Painting Services (Dana Wilson), for an amount not to exceed $45,905 to paint the high school hallways, mini gym, doors and gate.
- Marietta Paint, for the approximate cost of $12,671.41 to purchase paint and prepare materials.
Source: Wolf Creek Local Board of Education.
"I'd really like to see us get a field (that players) can be proud of," he said.
Superintendent Bob Caldwell praised the efforts of Paxton and other volunteers and said the work they've done is why an upgrade was being discussed with the board in the first place. He noted the facility is in line to eventually receive upgrades like other facilities have.
"We've had a lot of stuff donated on our baseball field. We've got a grass infield. ... It's even got a warning track now," he said. "It's pretty classy."
But Caldwell is recommending a reduced scope of work that would replace the current home run fence, under which baseballs can roll and plunge into Wolf Creek and putting up some fencing to protect pitchers and catchers from incoming balls and stop overthrows. He said the district has long opted not to do "Cadillac" projects when they weren't required and he believes residents will question spending so much money on the field.
"You're going to have a lot of people come to board meetings when I tell them no in those IEP meetings," he told the board, referring to individualized education plans that sometimes call for expensive devices the district turns down because of the cost.
Caldwell said he would provide estimates for both approaches to the board.
Arnold also suggested using the oil and gas money to offset overages in the athletic department instead of raising ticket prices.
Caldwell said the athletic department is on pace to bring in $55,515 this school year while spending $63,541. Raising ticket prices is one possible approach, but school officials were hesitant to do it.
"I don't like pricing people out of the opportunity to support our programs," Caldwell said.
The district also got an auditor of state award and commendation signed by Ohio Senate President Keith Faber, R-Celina, and Sen. Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville, "in acknowledgment of its timely, accurate and comprehensive financial statements." Caldwell and Treasurer Rachel Miller said they can't recall the district receiving such an award before.
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Consummate terribly unfunny jokester Senator John McCain—he of the infamous gorilla rape quip—is back at it again on Twitter, this time with a crack about how Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is nothing but a monkey. Get it?
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Tuesday's letters: Faith community nursing
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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This letter is in response to the article "Promoting Healthier Worship," which appeared in the Faith & Values section last Friday. Our purpose in writing is to inform readers of a similar, successful partnership in our own community.
Celebrating 15 years of service, the Congregational Nursing Program (CNP) began as a partnership between the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and local faith communities. Financial support was provided by Spartanburg Regional, the Spartanburg Regional Foundation, the Mary Black Foundation and the Spartanburg County Foundation.
Faith community nursing is a specialized practice of nursing recognized by the American Nurses Association. Our program has grown to more than 75 registered nurses who claim the title of faith community nurse.
These nurses teach health promotion classes, train volunteers, locate community services and provide compassionate care. Faith community nurses are in a unique position to collaborate with other health care providers to provide a comprehensive approach to meet the health needs of the faith community and the community at large. As one of our own so eloquently stated, "I'm doing what I love, in a place I love, for the people I love."
The impact of the CNP is proven and includes community case management, medication supervision, support for caregivers, coordination of volunteer services, health coaching, health screenings and care given with attention to preserving dignity and enhancing quality of life.
Thank you for this opportunity to speak on behalf of this amazing group of nurses. If you have a faith community nurse, say a prayer and a word of thanks on his/her behalf. If not, ask what your faith community can do to become even more engaged in promoting compassionate, caring health ministries in your organization.
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Ceremonial Centres of the Early Micronesian States: Nan Madol and Lelu
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Nan Madol: Madolenihmw Municipality, Pohnpei State Lelu: Lelu Municipality, Kosrae State
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This citation relates to a serial cultural property with two component parts, Nan Madol and Lelu.
Nan Madol is a complex of archaeological sites built on a coastal reef flat near the smallTemwenIsland on the east coast of Pohnpei. It comprises a set of almost 100 stone and coral fill platforms atop artificial islets separated by narrow channels and enclosed by an outer seawall. The total area of the enclosure is 1.5 x 0.5 km (75 ha). The foundations of the islets were constructed of huge basalt boulders, on which walled enclosures were built using columnar basalt in a header and stretcher pattern in-filled with coral rubble. Some walls stand at their original height of up to 6 m. The islets are quasi-rectangular in plan view. The largest are up to 110 x 115 m and the smallest 15 x 20 m. The largest islet enclosure, Nan Douwas, is estimated to contain 4,500 m³ of basal rock and 13,500 m³ of coral fill, with a weight of 45,000 metric tons. Nan Madol was constructed mainly in the period after 1100 AD, and served as a residential and ritual center for the highest-ranking members of society. The islets to the northeast, particularly Nan Douwas, have the strongest ritual associations, while over time all the seawall islets functioned as burial places. Other islets were administrative and residential. The demise and abandonment of Nan Madol occurred sometime after 1500AD, possibly as the result of conquest by invaders from Kosrae, or alternatively due to the rise of a stronger political force elsewhere on Pohnpei. Regardless, its demise correlates with the development of a very similar site on theisland ofKosrae.
Lelu was the center of settlement for the rulers of Kosrae from about A.D. 1400, when the island became unified under a highly stratified system of chiefs and commoners. The center consisted of some 100 walled compounds on small islands on the inner reef platform with a total area of about 20 ha. Today the surviving ruins consist of the walls constructed in prismatic basalt in header and stretcher fashion of some chiefly compounds, the mortuary areas of the kings constructed in coral rubble and basalt paved ceremonial platforms, one principal access canal and some paved streets. The mortuary areas incorporate a number of basalt lined burial chambers. The final mortuary practices were at the nearbyYenasrIsland. The compounds are named and their traditional associations and functions are well known.
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionelle
In respect of criterion (i) both Nan Madol and Lelu represent globally significant masterpieces of creative genius. The exact means of engineering with which the massive stones were moved from their distant quarries, over land and water, and erected on the reef complexes is still unknown. There is little promise that the world will ever know, but one look is all that is needed to appreciate the accomplishment. Though there are other examples of similar structures on the two islands none is as grand as the two sites listed.
Under criterion (iii) both Nan Madol and Lelu bear an exceptional testimony to the founding ideologies of modern Pohnpeian and Kosraean social and cultural practice. The Nanmwarki system of carefully ranked inherited leadership that still exists today is a direct product of the centralized Sau Deleur system of governance that first created Nan Madol. In Pohnpei this traditional system is still very much alive. In Kosrae depopulation and missionization had a stronger influence on the loss of culture. However, Lelu has the advantage of direct historical observations from skilled nineteenth- and twentieth-century recorders such as Duperrey and Dumont D'Urville (1824). These observations provide documentation of everyday life and the system of rule that are not available for Nan Madol which had been abandoned by the era of European exploration. Thus, both sites are exceptional testimonies to a culture that is both living and disappearing.
Regarding criterion (iv) Nan Madol and Lelu exhibit the most perfectly preserved habitation, leadership and ceremonial plan of an architectural ensemble of the Pacific region. They represent an achieved transition from separate tribal organizations to a small state-like organization, which controlled the whole of the island area. These two sites represent two distinct phases in the development of these two islands that cover roughly 700 years of history. Very few examples exist in the prehistory of the Pacific region with which to compare this state-like organization. Traditional Pohnpeian and Kosraean society depended on the resources of the sea, hence the location of both sites by reef channels.
Under criterion (v), these two sites represent locations for the traditional systems of tribute and exchange managed by and controlled by the chiefly offices. This system ensured that all resources were distributed according to a strict hierarchy of respect. It still exists today in its modern form.
Likewise, under criterion (vi), Nan Madol and Lelu represent profound emblems for the identity of the people of Pohnpei and Kosrae today. They are symbols of their unique heritage, which is constantly threatened by modern cultural fusion. These sites are associated with the traditional chiefly institutions, which today engage in a constant dialogue with the administrative and constitutional realities of the modern state apparatus.
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
Nan Madol
There has never been any reconstruction of the archaeological features of Nan Madol. Nan Douwas, the most ritually important of the islets, has the full-height coursework of prismatic basalt columns for most of its perimeter and its internal mortuary chambers. The inner islets have become somewhat degraded over the years but the outline of the islets and channels is still distinct. The purpose of each of the islets has been passed down by oral tradition, i.e. Idehd islet was used for the ritual feeding of cooked turtle to the sacred eel. It is from this islet that the most secure radiocarbon dates come showing that the temple was used primarily from 1100-1400AD. However minimal archaeological excavation has occurred within Nan Madol. Instead, research has focused on mapping and surface collection. More importantly development has remained well outside the periphery with only a small path being constructed with removable wooden bridges providing access for tourists.
Subsurface coring shows when Nan Madol was alive there were no mangroves growing in its vicinity. Since its demise, however, mangroves have come to cover nearly the entire site. These mangroves have served to protect the site while encompassing the spirituality of the place as a ruins. Recent consultation with an expert on mangrove growth began the development of a plan for managing these mangroves in order to provide access in a way the respects the current state of the site. For many centuries following its abandonment it seems the site was avoided due to superstition. Later some of the tombs were robbed of their bones and whatever grave goods they may have had. Nevertheless the tombs are fully intact and traditional protocol is in place to respect the site.
Traditionally, the Nanmwarki Madolenimw has overseen the care of Nan Madol through his traditional ownership of the site. Ownership is held by the title and transferred to each successive Nanmwarki. This traditional system has been passed down since the end of the Sau Deleur dynasty 1400-1500AD. It is important to maintain this traditional system as tenants of criteria iv & vi. Currently, tourism is limited only to Nan Douwas and the open canals. To access these areas tourists are supposed to first ask permission from the Nanmwarki. Nan Douwas is currently being tended to by the Pohnpei Visitor's Bureau under the permission of the Nanmwarki and the Historic Preservation Office recently completed a project to clear the islets of the larger Nan Douwas complex. Thus it is possible for the government agencies to work together with the Nanmwarki to preserve the traditional ownership while implementing government projects.
Nan Madol is on the US National Register of Historic Places (19741219 74002226) and is on the Pohnpei State Register of Historic Properties. It is protected under the Pohnpei Historic and Cultural Preservation Act 2002. FSM and Pohnpei state officials acknowledge that the Nan Madol Preservation and Management Plan (1992) needs upgrading and updating in the light of the provisions of the 2002 Act. This work is currently underway.
The part of the ruins that is still intact consists of the architecturally imposing compounds of the chiefs and the mortuary areas. There has been some reconstruction of paved areas but the compound walls and the rubble-wall mortuary compounds all have high authenticity. Their form has been maintained and the knowledge of the different buildings remains. The prismatic basalt walls of many of the ancient compounds still stand to full height.
Much of the original commoners' settlement area towards the modern lagoon edge has been subsumed into the housing area, household cemeteries (some dating back to the early twentieth century) and roads of the modern Lelu municipality. The landowners manage the ruins through the Lelu Ruins Association. The Historic Preservation Office contracts them to keep tree growth back and to maintain the channel and pathways. A recent visit to the site showed that this work has slowed and needs to be rejuvenated. A meeting with the leaders of the Lelu Ruins Association was promising that this work could recommence now that the association is under new leadership. Discussion also supported the construction of a buffer zone by removing modern development that is too close to the site. The vegetation also seems much more manageable than at Nan Madol.
The site is also on the U.S. National Register (since 1984) and on the state register where it will be more fully protected under the new Historic Preservation Bill, not yet passed but before the legislature.
Archaeological features associated with the functioning of both of these small centers extend out from the core area being nominated. At Nan Madol these features include areas on the small surrounding islands that would have been used in the transportation of stone. At Lelu housing for commoners extended out into areas that are now under modern development. In both cases these minor features have been excluded from the proposed nomination as they do not add significantly to the outstanding value of the site.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
Villages built over water have been a feature of some early Austronesian settlements and can be seen in some places in island southeast Asia today. However, Nan Madol and Lelu are not villages in the normal sense. They are elite residential areas for the religious and political leaders. On some atolls, marae are sited on the patches of solid land on the fringing reef and bear some comparison functionally with Nan Madol and Lelu. It is possible that the creation of these marae may have been influenced by the cultures of Pohnpei and Kosrae.
In Polynesia there are several island systems that are noted for assemblages of stone-surfaced field monuments. In Tonga the Ha`amonga Trilothon, a 12-ton gate structure built at the beginning of the 13th century, serves as one example. It is small in comparison to Nan Madol and Lelu. Temple complexes found throughout Hawaii and Tahiti serve similar functions as the center for religious leaders. However, these complexes never grew large enough to encompass the island-wide population.
There is a qualitative difference in the scope of the construction of Nan Madol and Lelu that is comparable only to the Moai of Rapa Nui for sites in the Pacific. These statues, though, were built as competition between villages rather than as a single centralized culture and are therefore very different. Truthfully, the real marvel of Nan Madol and Lelu was the fact that it would have required everyone on the respective islands to unite at the time that that they built. Evidence of such unification is rare in the Pacific where most often times villages remain separate and in competition with each other. Perhaps the only site that marks such grand unification is the royal tombs of the Tui Tonga, which are on the Tentative List for World Heritage Sites.
Other large religious city centers may be found around the world.Tiwanaku in Peru was constructed around the same time as Nan Madol and Lelu. Machu Picchu came later. Really all of Peruvian prehistory is marked by ancient urban centers. These are a product of the environment where survival depended on the centralized control of water systems, similar to the control of the Nile in Egypt. These examples were the source of Wittfogel's hydraulic hypothesis that large civilizations develop around resources that are capable of being controlled. Nan Madol and Lelu serve as a contrast to that theory. In the Pacific food grows everywhere and water is abundant. There is no single resource to concentrate power around. Yet those who organized the construction of Nan Madol were still able to centralize their power system around a system of familial respect.
Ironically, though, the cultural site of greatest similarity to Nan Madol and Lelu is the Italian city of Venice. Both are composed of roughly one hundred artificial islets made of imported materials separated by small canals. Both are small urban-like centers for elite royalty created by divine vision. These similarities are ironic, however, because there is little possibility that these two cultures ever met. Their independent, autonomous creation marks a propensity in our human culture to create such places. They show a connection to the sea that is forgotten in the modern world.
The terrestrial equivalents to these sites are numerous. There are several spiritual centers composed of megalithic structures on the World Heritage List. The most famous of these is Stonehenge in the United Kingdom. The megalithic temples of Malta are another example. These sites predate the pyramids of Egypt, which are also megalithic mortuary temples that are comparable to Nan Madol and Lelu. However, while all of these sites exhibit the grand temples that have been constructed for religious leaders of ancient cultures within Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, no such sites are represented within the Pacific.
The conclusion to be drawn from all these comparisons is that there is an inherent propensity within the human species to build societies with large religious centers for an honored elite. However, this takes on different forms based on the environmental, technological, and cultural differences of people through time and across the world. Only by looking at each of these sites in their own right can we fully understand and appreciate what each of those peoples of the past lived through and created. It is the uniqueness of each and every site that enthralls the archaeologist and the public alike.
Like all the sites mentioned above the serial property of Nan Madol and Lelu adds to the human story in a unique way. For the Pacific region there is nothing else like it. And given the uniqueness of cultures in the Pacific Islands, composed of people living in the most remote parts of the world, then there is nothing else like it in the world.


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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Wednesday, April 24, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- City leaders are working to redevelop downtown and the areas around it to attract more families and more businesses.
On Wednesday, they celebrated Community Development Week at an event in Dyess Park. Neighbors say they are already noticing a difference.
"The whole area's just better, the whole area," said Gilbert Grier, who has lived across the street from Dyess Park for six years.
Grier grew up just a few blocks away, and over the past year, he's watched the renovation process clean up the park and his neighborhood.
"You'd have fellas over there selling drugs, then you had the fools over there going and buying them, but we don't have that [any] more," Grier said.
It's not just the drugs that have cleared out -- Gilbert says the people who used to sleep in the park are gone, too.
"Now you don't have the drunks or the hoodlums, you don't have them in the area," he said. "There's nothing for them to do, so they have to go somewhere else."
Many of the people who live around the area say one of the best things they did was adding a fence and gate that close off the park at night. They've also added a new gazebo area and a walking trail, cleaned up the inside of the community center and improved the overall look of the park.
This is all part of phase one of the renovations -- there are five more to go.
"This is nice. It's a start, it's still got a ways to go, and we're looking forward to it," said Dennis Harvey, who uses the park every week.
Phases two through six involve adding a new pool area, renovating the playground and the inside of the community center, covering the basketball courts, adding new covered tennis courts and redesigning the open green space.
"It's a big improvement for the community because I think this has been long overdue and people needed this," Harvey said.
A safe place to play, and for Grier, a safe place to live. Grier says he's noticed that they've also added patrols two to three times a night and the gates to the park close when it gets dark.
As for when phase two will begin, they say the projects are ready to go, but it just depends on funding. They are funded by SPLOST and community development grants, so they'll start the next phase when the money becomes available.


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The northbound and southbound lanes of the Causeway were open again Wednesday night after a crash.
The closure happened after an accident at Mile Marker 6 on the southbound side.
A spokesman with the Causeway Police Department said officers received a call of a vehicle on fire on the bridge. Shortly thereafter, officers received another call about a car that was in the water and that several pieces of the railing were missing.
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Atlanta, GA., December 10, 2012 - Former Republican Congressional Candidate and State Representative Mike Keown qualified to run for State Senate today. Keown's existing political infrastructure and experience are already giving the campaign a huge advantage.
Since announcing on Friday, Team Keown:
-Has raised over $20,000 in two days
-Has County Chairs confirmed in all 8 counties in the district
-Has received positive press coverage from 11th district media outlets
-Has received the support of key leaders from across the district
"I believe our country is at a crossroads. Now more than ever we need Constitutional, common-sense, conservative leaders at all levels of government, who will stand for limited government, reducing the tax burden and burdensome regulations, protect life and stand firm for our values," said Mike.
Mike's campaign will focus on issues that are important to citizens of Southwest Georgia:
-Jobs for South Georgians
-Support and enhance the agricultural community
-Improve our education system
-Improve access to rural healthcare
Senate District 11 includes the counties of Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole and Thomas. Keown has appeared on the ballot or served in elected office in 7 of these 8 counties and carried these counties with 62% of the vote during his 2010 bid for Congress. With the election a few short weeks away, grassroots support, and volunteer driven get out the vote efforts will make the difference.


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Sunday, 11/29/2009
Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Soundcheck: Dog Log, Undermind, Glide, My Friend My Friend, Uncle Pen
Set 1: Possum > DwDDown with Disease, Nellie Kane, Weigh, CircusWhen the Circus Comes, KDFKill Devil Falls, Water in the Sky, Stash, Meat, Undermind, Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove
Set 2: MomaThe Moma Dance > R&RRock and Roll > Light > Crimes of the Mind > Pebbles and Marbles > 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > GolgiGolgi Apparatus > Cavern > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Encore: Free Bird, Carini > Waste
Noteworthy Jams: Light
Average Song Gap: 24.56
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Nellie Kane was played for the first time since July 1, 2000 (137 shows). Before Meat, Trey announced (in a reference to Meat's lyrics) that Mike had changed his name and is now "The Artist Formerly Known as Cactus" and "The Artist Presently Known as Prince." Subsequently, during Meat, Trey introduced Mike as "Prince" and Fish as "Prince's alter ego on the drums, 'Princess.'" Free Bird was played for the first time since June 22, 2000 (144 shows) and was performed a cappella for the first time since December 29, 1998 (223 shows).
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Song Distribution:
3 The Story of the Ghost
2 Joy
2 Stash
2 A Picture of Nectar
1 Undermind
1 Round Room
1 Billy Breathes
1 Hoist
1 Rift
1 Lawn Boy
1 Junta
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 The White Tape
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This show was part of the "2009 Fall Tour."
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Awesome little venue, the sort of tiny New England multi-purpose arena that finds its niche when hosting a baseball card convention or Tupperware General Assembly but really earns its stripes when the Phish comes to town.
The band's history practically drips from the rafters here and they seemed to be feeling it this late night in November. It served to be a perfect warm up show for the MSG run around the corner but is in no way a door mat to those shows musically.
Nestled into the quaint little town of Portland, the "Quad C" as I've taken to calling it, is an easy access venue and I had the entrance scoped out well prior to showtime. This allowed me plenty of time to check out the town and its watering holes before I had to be back to get a good spot in line. And did I ever? I was about the tenth in line to enter and from there it was a straight up sprint to the GA front row. I had to choose between Mike and Trey side...a tough decision for some but I'd been dying to feel Mike's bass bombs wreak havoc for months, so I knew my spot would be on the rail right in front of Gordeaux.
I was standing right next to a guy with a little orange sign with glitter letters that said, simply, 'Weigh'. Trey came out, all smiles, and sort of panned his gaze through the front row.
He mouthed the word, "weigh?" to the guy as sort of a question to which the dude simply nodded.
He got his Weigh.
I had on the Antelope's Jersey which Mike seemed to stare at blankly with passionate interest. (Hey there, Mike. What's up? You ah...you looking at my shirt there?)
Whole set was a Mike fiasco.
I chose well.
Mike became a Prince this night.
The Meat and Undermind were the clear set highlights. Meat had been M.I.A. for far too long and Undermind was great to hear live. Of course, Nellie Kane was hot and hadn't been played since I last saw it live, a cool connection.
This happened a few times in 3.0 for me.
Most recently with the Manchester Song I heard the Ocean Sing and, more outlandishly, After Midnight.
The second set in Portland is one that I still have dreams about.
Enough about me.
Moma continued the thick atmosphere out of the break (*ting!*) but from there the show just happened in a big way.
Rock and Roll was played for another cat's sign and raged well into the still infant Light.
Crimes of the Mind took the crowd a stanza to place but was well received. Great tune. Lots of >'s...Pebbles was hot and long overdo and 2001 was raucous. Fish owned this one.
Portland was very much to me a defining show in that this (including MSG '09) was the first time that I started to notice the new, concise jamming that would become the 'sound' of 3.0.
All of these songs had it, especially this 2001. Power-packed. Nothing missing. Pocket Einstein shit!
Then the closer/closer fakeout of Golgi and Cavern led us into the beast of the second set, as it should be-
Antelope was bliss.
This one had it all and should be checked out by any serious 'Lope fan at all costs, as well as it's twin at the next show in NYC. Crystally accurate, fun, loud and unbridled...this Antelope was one for the books and was nailed.
The encore basically served to let us all know they'd had as much fun as we'd had. Freebird was so sweet sounding to someone who had recently been calling for acapella Freebird. Too much.
Carini opened up the pores again one last time and they let us slide down into the night in style with Waste.
All in all, Portland may have been the perfect show.
It's certainly one that should be in any collection and could be relistened to on the reg.
See you on the NYE run '10!
FWIW, neems.
I thank you so much, had a wonderful time down there.
a few hours before the show i actually ran into trey and got to talk with him for about 5 or 10 minutes and I told him i had been watching the setlists and no Weigh in a long time. he said it was a good request! I was so happy when I heard the beginning of that noodle. Amazing experience. And then the show.
Mike defintely gave alot of funk throughout the show, dwd was crazy. weigh was great just what i wanted, a few songs they played a little faster then normal, great energy. Stash and Meat was awesome, Then Mikes to Weekapaug was unbelievable! Moma Dance ,Mike mind phucked us all ! Trey had alot of energy and the show was pushing 4 hours! The lights have definetly gotten a nice transformation that flows well with 3.0. Not alot of 3.0 tunes here but I loved Crimes of the Mind, great bustout! They really just jammed the entire show and let everyone groove. Acapella Freebird Was funny trey fell down laughing at the beginning, and Carini left my ears ringing even after I left the show. Small crowd didnt even look soldout. 8k people?
To Jean who wrote: "I just want to say thanks to the guy who traded his floor ticket for a CC section ticket when they started the 3rd song of the second set... I thank you so much, had a wonderful time down there."
... C'est moi. You caught a great one for what I recall you saying was your second show. Thanks for helping hold down those killer seats on the side of the arena during the break. On my way out of the arena I handed your CC ticket to a collector. That CC ticket radiated good karma.
Way to go boys, you still got it!
Set two features an above average Moma and a good RnR that gets to spaceland near the end (with excellent Kuroda work that doesn't translate well on tape...because it can't). Light is also finding it's legs in the live setting, and the band probably walked away from this jam pleased. A good, early take. Crimes of the Mind followed, and I thought it was an excellent call, listening back. Who knows when THAT song will come back...
I'm a sucker for anything Round Room, so when Pebbles started I was psyched. Quality version too. In the box...but still. Given how little they play it these days, I'll take any version I can get. 2001 was great to see for the first time, and Golgi/Cavern/Antelope was a good end to the set for 2009 me. 2012 me would probably be pissed and found complaining on this very website the following morning. My, how times have changed
Encore was excellent. Free Bird was both shocking and hilarious. Carini was also shocking but I loved the call, and I was delighted to hear Waste.
Overall, a fantastic two-set affair that left 2009 me mindblown. Don't miss Phish in Maine.
(actually, please do...it'll make it easier for me to get tickets)
The second set is full of welcome songs and revolves around the swell R'n'R > Light > Crimes segment, but it never quite coheres into magic. (Golgi, Cavern, Antelope - c'mon boys, one set-closer will suffice! Dig deeper!!) Mike dropkicks the first set into a new dimension after a fine-but-monochrome Stash, and the Meat/Undermind combo is unexpectedly perfect, but it feels like a recital set up to that point. Freebird is their most joyous a capella tune, but this version is a dreadful mess.
This show is an exciting, unevent 6.8, y'know? Worth the trip to be part of such a small, uncomfortable crowd in the ol' northeast, but you probably won't listen to this show all the way through. Trey has said that he envisions the band's present purpose as *escapist pleasure*, and this is that. But the first 20 minutes of 12/2/09 II (that MSG Light!) contain more 'Type II' improv than this show. If that's your thing then worry not - there are other shows. Still, you can't go wrong with Phish '09.


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Last week, a U.N. envoy to Syria warned that a whole generation of children has been traumatized by the violence in that country's 2½-year civil war. Thousands of children have been wounded and killed. Many have witnessed wartime atrocities.
Syria "will have to face a generation of children who lost their childhood, have a lot of hate and are illiterate," said Leila Zerrougui, the U.N.'s special representative for children and armed conflict.
She might just as well have been talking about children living in violent U.S. neighborhoods. There might not be a civil war going on. But teens and young men -- most of them African-American armed with firearms that are trafficked into poor communities of color -- are wounding and killing thousands, including children, across this country every year. From Oakland and Chicago to New Orleans, where two children were among 20 people shot during a Mother's Day parade earlier this year.
On Wednesday, another little girl in Oakland was killed, this time during a sleepover at the house of a friend who lived up the street.
Alaysha Carradine, 8, was killed when someone walked past the unlocked security gate of an apartment building on Wilson Avenue and rang the doorbell. Alaysha's 7-year-old friend Amara York opened the door, thinking it was her mother. Someone sprayed the metal security gate with gunfire. Alaysha was killed. Amara and her 4-year-old brother, Antoine, were injured along with their grandmother Clara Field.
No one had been arrested as of Friday. Oakland police said they did not have any further information about who had committed such a sick, cowardly act. The one person in the house who was not injured, a 22-year-old man named Khamel Hardin was upstairs. He denied that he was the target and said he had no idea who would want to shoot up the house.
One woman sobbed as she recounted how emergency medical personal carried Alaysha's crumpled body to an ambulance. She had just seen the little girl playing in front of the apartment building the day before.
"Why would you do this to a kid, why?" she asked. "Excuse me, God," she said, crossing herself, "but I hope whoever did it rots in hell."
Alaysha's friend and her little brother survived, as did their grandmother. But how will these two young children be affected by such a horrific ordeal? How is what they have gone through any less traumatic than the experiences of children in foreign wars?
Outside the apartment where Alaysha was killed, a neighbor with a 3-year-old said her daughter has become so accustomed to hearing gunshots that she automatically crawls beneath the dining room table for cover. Even if she hears a car backfiring, the little girl thinks it's shooting. "I don't want her to get so used to that that it becomes normal," the woman said. "I feel like a bad mom but I can't afford to move."
Lisa Blair is the principal at E.C. Reems Academy of Technology and Arts. The K-8 charter school is located in one of the city's most violent East Oakland neighborhoods. Blair told me in an interview last year that her students have had to step around dead bodies before the police arrived to cordon off the scene. They hear gunshots night after night after night "just like a war."
"Students in disadvantaged communities suffer from PTSD, just like children in Iraq," Blair said. "But people expect them to leave all those emotions outside and walk into the school like any other student in a middle-class or upper-class neighborhood."
Yet there is no U.N. envoy to draw attention to their plight.
Perhaps 40 people showed up for a rally for Alaysha on Thursday outside the apartment where she was killed -- compared to the thousands who protested in the days after George Zimmerman was acquitted in¿ the Trayvon Martin slaying.
Why do so many get so worked up about children dying across the country or clear across the world, yet so few speak out about the babies dying right under their noses?
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Contact her at email@example.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.


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PARIS -- Unemployment in the eurozone rose to a new high in October, according to official data released Friday. But the head of the European Central Bank tempered the bad news by predicting that the region's economy would begin to recover next year.
Mario Draghi, the ECB president, cautioned that, "We haven't gotten out of the crisis yet." But he told Europe 1 radio in Paris, "The recovery for the entire eurozone will no doubt begin in the second half of 2013."
To be sure, many economists remain skeptical. But Draghi's remarks were a firmer forecast than he gave earlier last month, when he said only that growth next year would be weak.
At a separate appearance in Paris on Friday, Draghi acknowledged that government austerity measures would bring "a short-term contraction in economic activity," something he said was "inevitable." And he said again that the central bank was ready to do "everything necessary" to maintain stability in the eurozone. The central bank has promised to buy debt from countries like Spain to hold down their borrowing costs, provided they agree to conditions.
But the labor market report Friday underlined the grave effect the eurozone crisis has had on European society. The jobless rate in the eurozone rose to 11.7 percent in October, breaking the previous record in September of 11.6 percent, the official Eurostat statistical agency reported from Luxembourg.
The jobs market tends to react to underlying economic trends with a time lag, so the rise was not necessarily inconsistent with Draghi's prediction of a turnaround next year.
Still, that was probably little consolation to the 18.7 million people in the eurozone who have been classified as jobless.
Spain, struggling with the collapse of its real estate sector and painful austerity measures, again led all 27 European Union countries, with a 26.2 percent jobless rate. Greece was in second place with a 25.4 percent rate in August, the latest month for which data were available.
Austria's 4.3 percent rate was the lowest.
For youth, the unemployment picture was even worse: 23.9 percent of people younger than 25 in the eurozone are defined as unemployed, Eurostat said.
For the entire 27-nation EU, Eurostat said, the unemployment rate rose to 10.7 percent in October from 10.6 percent a month earlier.


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Flu reports spur influx at emergency rooms
January 10, 2013
PARKERSBURG— With an outbreak of the flu being reported throughout the area, the emergency departments at Camden Clark Medical Center have seen an influx of people over the past few days....
@Hippie; mack76 resembles your remarks;BUT with her screwed up kids,"Has your back",to boot people out of triage because "HER" kids" take priority.There's no doubt you have seen alot of maladjusted thing in that ER,but that's becoming the norm,not the few due to the way things are written by the great"Lawmakers".You people have ALWAYS done a great job, whenever I was hauled in there,and I MEAN "hauled", it Takes falling out before I go.
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To WallyinWV, the difference is that YOU are a responsible and moral human being, and realize that debts are things that need to be paid. You're not a "victim", whining and crying about the bad luck that you had regarding your job. You receive a service, and, as a man, you pay for that service.
Sadly, there are just so many "victims" who take no responsibility in providing for themselves or their families.
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Lots of good points here. You know what they should do? How about keeping the St Joe's ER for those who do NOT have health insurance. That way, the constipation visits and Saturday Family Night at the ER would go to St Joe's, leaving the ER at CCMH for those of us with jobs and health insurance.
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Excellent points made by "Hippie". Excellent reasoning to support the commentary, as well. Good job! You must be new to the area. :)
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Lawmakers need to sit down and think about the laws they pass. Allowing welfare people to come to the ED at no cost is an insult to working people. If they can buy beer, smokes, junk food, ice cream, pop, then they can afford SOMETHING for their own care. Its like the uproar when the working class wanted those receiving welfare to be drug tested. Oh Lord, that violates THEIR rights, but "I" have to be drug tested to get my job, and am subject to unannounced durg tests anytime. So Why do I have to be clean and sober to pay my taxes buy you can be a crackhead with 10 kids to receive my taxes that "I" worked for??? I just don't get it.
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Nothing wrong with a little dialogue between people! I enjoy it myself. :)
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Mack....I'm really not curious, just trying to make folks grin. Fact is, I'm 59 years old, been married to the same woman for 38 years, father of three daughters (2 PA's and a banker), and like to get on here once in a while and discuss what's going on in the world with other folks who like to do the same. I do enjoy a good argument! Sometimes though, I have to stir the pot a little to get one going. Some would call me a s*** stirrer, I guess.
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They can apply to have their services written off as charity due to indigent status. Took me quite a while to pay off my bill from my emergency appendectomy way back when, and I had two kids then. Still paid it, and that hurt worse than the ailment...lol
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I was without insurance for a while when I was between jobs. During that time I had to make a trip to the ER. I was billed for the treatment and I'm still paying for it in monthly payments. My question is this.....How do these people go to the ER and not get billed or charged for the service? What did I do wrong?
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Oh, and jbennett, I'm already well aware of what I'm mandated to do considering I work in social services. I'm fully aware that I cannot pick and choose who gets service and who does not. It will not, however, stop me from vocalizing about the cracks in our system that cause people like me to divert my attention from the ones who actually "need" to the ones who just leech. Just saying.
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And Privatized, you're absolutely right. CCMC (then CCMH) was quite instrumental in helping my stepgrandmother meet her demise back in the 90's due to negligent care. My stepmother is STILL good and ticked about that one.
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Uh oh... PN&S doesn't like the acronym L M A O. Duly noted.
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****@Wally!! It's a nickname I got as a kid, but then, I'm the child of sailors. As for your other questions, I will echo what I saw someone say to you yesterday in that, Wow Wally, you sure are a curious guy! Hahaha! For the record, yes, my man is older. ;)
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Gee Mack, I didn't know you were a female. I thought, going by your screen name, that you were a guy. By the way, how old are you, what color are your eyes, and do you like older men??? (just kidding, lol)
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jbennett. I firmly believe that as Bob Dylan said in his song, "the times, they are a-changing".
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Wow Brooks, I hadn't read your post about the advocate before I posted mine. Not surprised though, many people realize this now.
We can blame the hospital as much as those abusing the ER. They aren't going to turn down $500-1000, for taking your temp and feeding you a Tylenol, even if that dollar figure is in the form of a write-off.
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Well Mack76, you're lucky they were able to figure out it was a ruptured appendix and didn't tell you it was an ulcer and send you home with Zantac. Then you could have had two emergency surgeries removing a large part of your insides, spent two weeks in the ICU as the nurses on duty kept you awake all night shuffling and playing cards, and injecting the wrong drugs that turn into glue in your IV.
You know it's bad when you need a medically trained advocate to stay with you in the hospital to make sure you come out alive.
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To Mack and Hippie, You need to wake up to the fact that the "stupids" as you call them will always be there and you will be mandated by law to serve them and their needs, like it or not. It' time to ramp up our hospitals to serve the public needs and spend some of those government dollars they so eagerly accept to pay their bonases each year. I am from a larger city that has 6 hospitals and not one has over a 4 hour wait at any time night or day in their ED. I was sent into this area to work, and you are right I am not a happy camper with the services provided by the local hospitals and it's not the personel that work there. They are great.
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Welcome to the new normal for the US economy. People can't afford a doctor, so they go to the ER for everything, because the ER by law has to treat them. The working producers in the economy footing the bill yet again.
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Amen to that, Brooks. Hope your fiance is doing much better. You are right on with your analysis of the overworked competent staff who are doing their best to juggle all of their demands while certain unqualified staff fill in the cracks. I and my children have been inpatient there several times over the course of the last five years, and I wasn't ever wholly impressed by the overall care. Certain staff members really amazed me with their commitment to the patient care, while others stunned me with their lack of compassion, education, and skill.
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The whole 'do more with less' metality is thanks to the recession and greedy Corporations working people to the max to make up for the positions they chose to 'do away with' to cut costs. The increase in 'right to work' states will only see this trend expand. The fact that Hospitals have been doing it for years is a sin. My fiance spent 47 days in CCMH a decade or more ago...they almost killed him twice..the level of incompetance (hiring young dumb aides) was unreal, and the overwork of the competant and compassionate staff was evident then. I don't expect it has gotten any better. I learned a valuable lesson during that time. If you are extremely ill and need hospitalization, make sure you have an advocate watching out for you...if you don't and aren't well enough to pay attention to what is going on around you...God help you.
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Hippie, I wasn't aware that the LPN change was due to policy revisions at the federal level, but I do know that there were changes already being implemented because of the "do more with less" trend that has been seen overwhelmingly across the healthcare board.
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Brooks, I understand where you're coming from, and I agree that the area definitely needs more than just CCMC to fulfill its hospital and emergency care needs. I was also sickened by the closing of St. Joe's. As for LPNs, it is now a nationwide trend that this position be phased out because all hospitals want to do more with less. This means more demands being placed on CNAs and RNs, with no need for LPNs. The patient is ultimately the one who suffers, and that is truly shameful. I work in social services for an agency that subsidizes childcare services and have several clients that have already finished or are finishing LPN school just to find that they can't even find a job as one. The best position they can hope for is CNA or a Patient Care Tech, which is NOT what they busted their rears going to school for. Hippie is right in that a facility can't staff for stupid people with petty issues going to the ER for things they darn sure know they shouldn't be.
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Mack. LPN positions were not useful in many respects (not all) because the federal government have forced made so many assessment, charting, and medication responsibilities at the RN level. MANY hospital in the nation are going to all RN. It isn't a CCMH or SJH thing, it is the changes in the system. Do I agree, well I don't write policies at the federal level. I don't have a clue about any cut in pay for SJ staff, none that I know of (and I know many) ever said that to me. I think (and you know what they say about opinions), if the ED was not overrun by "stupid", it would work fine. You can't afford to staff for "stupid", you have to staff for needs (again, my opinion). I think in five or six years, when there are modern expanded services in the valley, everyone will say "why couldn't it have happened sooner". But for a third time, just my opinion. I gotta get to Charleston... Have a good day!
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Here is one for you Mack76. One night in the ED about five years ago, a "mother" (and I use that term lightly) brought her whole set of kids, four I believe into the ED. Said one was sick but since she was here, can you just look at all of them... WOW! That is just the tip of the iceberg. "my tooth hurts", "I may be pregnant", "I don't have any pills", "I have a fever of 99.2", or my two all time favorites, both welfare. One, lady had a pimple on her arm (not kidding), she came to the ED for a pimple. Second, the "boyfriend" had a drip from his lower parts so he wanted to be checked for STD, then his girlfriend decided to be checked too. Again, not kidding, tie up two ED beds for STD??? Our lawmakers allowed this to happen when they decided that these people don't have to pay any co-pay like working people do. I would guess, and this is a guess but I am sure I am fairly close, 80% of the visits in the ED could be seen in ur
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OAKLAND -- In another life, Coy Gibbs would be going to Saturday's motocross at the Coliseum as a fan.
Instead, he'll be there as the leader of the Joe Gibbs Racing Motocross team, hoping to come out big in the Monster Energy AMA Supercross.
Gibbs, a linebacker at Stanford from 1991-94, has spent his life torn between football and motor sports. His dad, former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, likes to joke that Coy is the only person ever to spend four years at Stanford and emerge as a mechanic.
It's a good line, and mostly accurate. Gibbs, who'd been a BMX rider as a kid and had always shared his father's passion for auto sports, went to work as a mechanic for his dad's drag racing team. That was just a setup for Coy Gibbs becoming a racer himself, first as a drag racer in the late 1990s and then in NASCAR in 2000.
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The two remain close. Gibbs visited with Shaw at the Rose Bowl earlier this month, and Shaw has seen Gibbs' teams compete.
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The Coliseum has been remodeled this week for the event with 400 truckloads of dirt to create the peaks, valleys and jumps that motocross motorcycle riders must navigate. The track takes two or three days to put together, then is dismantled within 24 hours of the event's completion.
Then it's on to the next race.
Gibbs, who saw his rider James Stewart win in the Coliseum in 2012, will follow the races closely, of course. But he'll also be talking with sponsors and potential sponsors, agents for riders and manufacturers during the course of the day.
It's not football, but it's not bad.
"Fans can come right into the pit area and kind of interact with the riders and crew during the practice sessions," Gibbs said. "The main show at night, however, is different, totally. It's like a football game that's packed into 30 minutes. There's a lot of energy there."
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