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STOCKTON - Authorities are investigating a case of grand theft after thieves stole a trailer containing tens of thousands of dollars worth of Japanese drums from a Victory Park home early Wednesday morning, police said.
The theft occurred between 5:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. in the 1200 block of Yale Avenue, said Earle Fox, 60, who owns the drums. Fox was inside his home when someone stole a 2008 Wells Cargo trailer from his driveway. Inside the trailer were 17 drums worth between $50,000 and $100,000, Fox said.
The trailer has Japanese writing and dragon decals on both sides, Fox said. The license plate number is TAIKOFX.
Fox said he has owned most of the drums for 10 to 15 years. The retired elementary school teacher now leads after-school programs teaching taiko, a Japanese word for drums, to students at Bear Creek and Lincoln high schools, Primary Years Academy and El Dorado School, where he taught for 17 years. Fox said his taiko students have performed at a number of community events over the years.
"I'm very disappointed in the people who decided they had so steal the equipment," Fox said. "I'm still stunned. This is going to deprive hundreds of kids."
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Eating Fatty Fish Benefits Younger Women, Study Shows
Dec. 5, 2011 -- Younger women can cut their risk of heart disease and stroke by occasionally eating fish high in omega-3 fatty acids, such as salmon, Danish researchers report.
"We saw a positive effect on [heart disease and stroke risk] even from relatively modest intake of fish, so this is encouraging to people who might struggle to comply with the recommended levels of daily fish intake," study researcher Marin Strom, PhD, tells WebMD in an email.
Strom, of Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark, and her colleagues note that most research into omega-3 fatty acids and heart attack and stroke risk has focused on men, and even studies that did include women tended to overlook those of childbearing age.
The Danish researchers took advantage of their country's large database of health information about pregnant women. Dietary data for about 49,000 women in the Danish National Birth Cohort was linked to information about hospitalization from the Danish National Patients Registry. At the beginning of the study, the women on average were about 30 years old.
The scientists compared the women's intake of fatty fish, including salmon, mackerel, cod, and herring, with their risk of being hospitalized for heart disease, stroke, or high blood pressure over the next eight years or so. Compared to the women who ate the most fish, those who ate little or none were about 50% more likely be hospitalized for heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.
Previous research has shown that people who don't eat fish are also more likely to have other risk factors for heart disease and stroke, such as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle, Strom and her colleagues write. But even after they accounted for those factors, the association between omega-3 fatty acid intake and heart disease and stroke risk remained significant.
Why Omega-3s Might Lower Risk
Women who can't stomach fish probably could benefit from taking fish oil supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids, Strom says.
"However," she says, "fish also contains other important nutrients, such as selenium, and I would rather emphasize the importance of eating fish ... than advise people to take supplements."
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2013-14 MacMurray College Women's Basketball Season Preview
November 8, 2013
There have been a lot of changes since the conclusion of the 2012-13 MacMurray College women's basketball season and the beginning of the 2013-14 season. One of the biggest changes is at the head coach position. Long-time MacMurray College men's and women's assistant coach Derek James was promoted to women's Head Coach when former Athletic Director and Head Women's Coach Dane Pavlovich resigned last spring to become the Dean of Athletics at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan.
For new Head Coach Derek James, who was inducted into the SLIAC Hall of Fame last spring for his outstanding career on the Highlanders' men's basketball team from 2000-2004 and also serves as the Head Men's and Women's Golf Coach at MacMurray, this is an opportunity to build a consistently successful small-college basketball program. James has been around the game long enough to understand that building a winning program takes time.
"I am looking forward to building a program where the players succeed on the court, in the classroom and in our community," said James as he prepares his team for the start of the 2013-14 season.
The Highlanders are led by senior captain Gabrielle Douglas who looks to push the Highlanders day in and day out. Other seniors include captain Breezy Walton, Dana Steben and Ashley Jenkins. "Ashley comes back to us after a year off and she provides instant offense for our team," James noted.
Juniors Fonashay Potter and Megan Duisen are very solid inside post players who will contribute both offensively and defensively; and junior forward Amanda Howard has shown the flexibility to play multiple positions for the Highlanders. "Our bigs will be key to our success and all of them have worked hard and have come a long way in this program," said James.
The sophomore class includes Jen Cox, Akita Fugate, and Emily Riddle. Coach James sees this trio providing solid depth and stability to the roster. "If we're going to play the up-tempo, high-energy style that we want to establish for our program, then we need every player on our team to contribute and to be ready when they're called on," added James.
The new-look Highlanders also boast a talented group of six freshmen who are expected to contribute immediately to the program. The "New Era" of Highlanders includes KayDee Carmody, Cydny Saxer, Carley Prince, Rachel Kerr, Emily Elliott and Jordan Wall.
"I can't express enough or completely the excitement that exists around our incoming freshman class…they have the ability to step up right away and help our program reach a higher level in this conference," said James.
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 7, 2013 16:51 Flag
Webb - Manshitter UTD game
Well seems Webb is gonna be reffing this one..
Thats a guarunteed 3 points to the scum..
The FA should just allow Webb to wear a Manshitter Utd kit.. Don't they know by now he's a diehard Manshitter Utd fan?
Refs are supposed to be imparttial.
Well not when Webb is referring a LFC v Manshitter Utd game he isn't..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
To me it was quite clear I was saying I wouldn't be going to Old Trafford to support my team. Whether I might watch the match on TV is a rather different question. I don't think you can infer an answer to the second from my answer to the first.
Did you know Chelsea have just reported profits in their annual accounts?
Yes, I do believe it was Colin who suggested that, and you being a United fan..
Obviously you know I was paraphrasing, and I do ok with my grammar and quotations, so in this instance, let's not be so literal considering you were able to remember it perfectly, and know exactly what I was referencing to..
If you didn't say you would not be watching, then I'm wrong, but I thought you had said you would not, so was just curious what would have changed your mind.. Obviously for any EPL fan, Europe/world fan, or just a neutral, LFC v MUtd is a big draw, so it's to be expected that most would watch if able to..
I wish you well in your quest for both teams to lose, because I too share that sentiment for United vs Fail Madrid in the UCL tie, and also have hopes of Chelsea and Madrid going broke in 2-3 years time with FFP sanctions.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 14, 2013 12:45 Flag
Ron the reason why Dan didn't start is because Brendan said in a pre- interview that Dan isn't fully fit. When he is though he'll do very well with Luis.
There's rumours going around that Luis is getting fed up with all the attacks made against him.. As a result he may quit LFC..
Their winner against us was marginally offside too.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 14, 2013 12:32 Flag
Because it seems to me the men in position to include video evidence are old fashioned in their views..
Time to remove them and have people who're more foward thinking.. or football is gonna look like an old fashioned sport.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jan 14, 2013 12:28 Flag
Yep Robert.. a game which could well determine the outcome of the title..
So about time some kind of video evidence was used.. I wonder how many other games, that have been given wrong decisions and as a result a team lost.
Football is so behind the times it's unreal..
The human eye isn't quick enough to spot things these days. As football as got much quicker.
Oh and ps.
Without wishing to re-open old wounds, I thought a passage of play from yesterday was a perfect example of my "everybody cheats" theory.
Downing dives for a free-kick and then watches as Evra gets booked for not kicking him. The free kick is headed out of play by Vidic who immediately asks the ref for a goal kick.
Technology is the only way forward.
As you say, very difficult for the officials to spot (none of the Liverpool defenders noticed either!). And yes, another example where simple technology would have given the officials a better chance (as in the Suarez handball).
The right team won on the day and Utd had decent claims for a pen & GJ to be sent off so not a gripe against this particular result, but ...
100% agree. Why do the footballing authorities not see that technology would help take pressure off the officials?
Ah, I see. Yes, it does look like that. Despite what I wrote I was actually looking to see if Vidic was ahead of Evra or not, which I can't determine. But as Evra isn't a defender the question is whether he is ahead of the ball. He does appear to be in this shot.
So it looks like offside, yes. Almost impossible for the officials to spot, given that for the linesman Vidic was behind Evra. Yet another game result affected by the absence of review technology.
Hey Roberto...no point in shitti@g arround with this. Its clear from TV images that when the ball is put in, Evra is level but Vidic is slightly ahead of him. Evra heads directly goalwards, Vidic is ahead of Evra and gets the last slight deflecting touch ensuring the ball beats Pepe. The goal was thus marginally offside 'cos by simple geometry Vidic must be ahead of Evra and the ball.....simples? Anyway its happened and no megga failings by the Ref. We looked OK in the second half but didnt turn up for the first 45 so I got little to complain about with such a marginal decision. I do question the decision to start without Dan Sturridge 'cos Luis needed some support..but then I guess hindsight is a very precise science, init?
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What are these morons talking about?
I know from time to time, I've posted quotes and comments from our mighty skipper, Stevie, and while I agree some are your regular "good guy", "leader" and PR friendly stuff, I've also had some other things he said, shut down or lumped in with the "PR" campaign despite never hearing the endorsements during the dying Rafa days, Hodgson disaster, and down the stretch as the 18th placed team under the King.
That said, I think these 2, who are very ordinary players, one linked with a 20+ move to City last year and could have gone, along with some Barca noise, and another, purely Barca material, should both shut up.. The reason I say this is because it doesn't matter that they're in training every day, have been for almost 1 full season, see what's going on behind closed doors, both very vocal players of the lot we have, top class calibre, highly in demand and know what's going on, yet we some how have much more knowledgeable experts on the board, including one, who went on a rant about 2 months ago with the foresight to say, in factual terms, Rodgers is no better than a mid table manager, others that he's completely inept, and so many other decisive terms and comments. So, I really do think with such insight and certainty from our armchair supporters (not aimed at you Armchair, just the ""), that these players need to shut up, and stop with the friendly PR talk because surely as players, 2 of our very best and coveted as I've described above, they can't possibly really believe these things they're saying, can they???
I actually think, that if we're so lucky to have such precise, accurate and before the fact information, such as what Mel for example (sorry Mel) said, then this board should be raided by LFC for all sorts of management, personnel, and financial positions, rather than the ones we have. Only makes sense to me..
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-agger-rodgers-will-help-bring-trophies-anfield-165632191.htmlSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Mar 27, 2013 23:44 Flag
Refer to me as Pete C.. as Armchair / Sofa Supporter are just names i chose because I actually sit on an armchair or sofa when watching sports (blimey bet you never knew that) ..
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Armchair - I think you're two people. What I mean by that is that your posts seem to have taken on a different 'flavour' shall we say? Have someone typing your posts up and vetting the stupidity now do we?
Jason...frankly think there are one or two posters on this board would do a site better job than ayres so maybe LFC LTD SHOULD think about raiding this board to find his successor !


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German publication B.Z. has shed some light on the apocalyptic coming together of the Manilow*, Manson, Del Rey trio, pictured together at the Echo Music Awards in Germany: Marilyn Manson and Lana Del Rey are dating. B.Z. is supposedly in possession of photographic evidence that the once-rumored Wonder Years star and forever-rumored self-fellating rocker is having hotel sleepovers with Lana Del Rey.
So Happy Friday, because it will be your last. The end is nigh.
*Barry Manilow's involvement is still unclear, though some kind of Bermuda Triangle explanation has yet to be ruled out.
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Chemokines and their receptors are proteins important for leukocyte trafficking, are critical in immune responses and inflammation, and are emerging therapeutic targets in HIV and a variety of immune-mediated diseases.
Recently, members of the Inflammation Biology Section have been using the chemokine system to investigate the activities of human T-cell subsets and the differentiation of memory T cells, including the newly recognized Th17 cells; to understand cellular and molecular mechanisms in medically relevant models of inflammatory tissue injury, including models of Th17-cell mediated disease; and to develop new tools for clinical imaging in cancer and inflammation.
Dr. Farber obtained his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, where he did additional clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Dr. Farber's postdoctoral training in bench research was both at the National Institutes of Health and at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Farber joined the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Investigation in 1993, became a senior investigator in 2000, and moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at its inception in 2004.
Chang Hoon Lee, Ph.D.
I obtained my Ph.D. in immunology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, I am using the chemokine system to understand the roles of highly differentiated CD4+ memory cells and how populations of these cells are produced and maintained.
Satya P. Singh, Ph.D.
I obtained my Ph.D. in life sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. My work focuses on using the chemokine system to understand the genetic mechanisms that drive the differentiation of human Th17 cells.
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I received my Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the Johns Hopkins University. I support projects in the laboratory by performing in-depth and downstream analyses of large data sets in order to identify candidate molecules for experimental investigations.
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I received my M.D. from China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, P. R. China, and my Ph.D. in medical science from Osaka University, Japan. I am currently focused on using the chemokine system to understand mechanisms of antibacterial host defense and toxin-induced acute tissue injury in mouse models of lung disease.
Howard H. Zhang, Ph.D.
I obtained my Ph.D. in immunology from Mississippi State University. In addition to my own studies focusing on chemokine receptors on human T cell subsets, I contribute to many of the laboratory's projects, providing support and advice in the areas of cellular immunology and protein chemistry.
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Zhang HH, Song K, Rabin RL, Hill BJ, Perfetto SP, Roederer M, Douek DC, Siegel RM, Farber JM. CCR2 identifies a stable population of human effector memory CD4+ T cells equipped for rapid recall response. J Immunol. 2010 Dec 1;185(11):6646-63.
Singh SP, de Camargo MM, Zhang HH, Foley JF, Hedrick MN, Farber JM. Changes in histone acetylation and methylation that are important for persistent but not transient expression of CCR4 in human CD4+ T cells. Eur J Immunol. 2010 Nov;40(11):3183-97.
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Many people assume that concern for the environment and luxury were somehow incompatible terms. If you want an environmentally conscious holiday, you have to be prepared to sleep in tents, hug trees and wear funny clothes. But at Parker Cottage Guest House, we show clearly that luxury and a minimum impact on the environment can go hand in hand.
Our aim at Parker Cottage Guest House in Cape Town is also to show that heritage buildings can and should be adapted for an age concerned with energy efficiency and better waste management. Of course, it's much easier to build a new house with energy efficient designs, but older houses have several elements about them that are very environmentally conscious. For a start, Parker was made with mud bricks, partially fired to much lower temperatures than bricks are baked today, using less energy. Most of the materials would have had to have been locally sourced from what were then sustainable sources (local pine forest) and of course, there were no carbon miles in 1895! Add to that the high ceilings, big roof spaces and thick walls for insulation and you have already a pretty sound house. So there's simply no excuse for having a heritage house and not costing the earth.
But we're not content to rest on our laurels. Our aim is that by 2015, Parker Cottage Guest House will the first and only urban eco-lodge in the whole of Africa. We're going to try, if we can, to be totally 'off-grid' for water heating, water treatment, sewage processing, electricity and solid waste management. It's an ambitious and fool-hardy project and that's what makes it so exciting.
Below you'll see our current planning and time frames. Some of this looks easy and some of it looks very hard. Watch this space!
Phase 1
Completion July 2010.
Install loft insulation to lessen heat absorption in summer and retain heat in winter Replace first electrical element hot water cylinder with a solar-ready one. Install ceiling paddle fans instead of air conditioning as necessary Plant only indigenous or water light plants in the garden of No. 1 Carstens Remove alien vegetation (yuka trees etc.) from garden Recycle 80% or more of household solid waste at local recycling site.
We have now gone dark, dark green on our solid waste recycling! Our waste is now collected on foot (so no emissions) and disposed of very locally, where it is also processed. More on this on our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Parker-Cottage/127610063987607
Phase 2
Completion July 2011
Cost the installation of a biodigester and French drain and connecting all sewage to it.
Cost a centralized heat exchanger system to add additional cooling and heating capacity
Install 1 x 5000 litre capacity water butts to catch winter rain from the roof
Install first photovoltaic panel and deep cycle batteries in roof. Run at least one fridge off PV panel energy
Install first solar water heating panel
Replace all light bulbs with LED lighting.
use only chlorine free toilet paper and facial tissues in the guesthouse.
Well, we've learnt a few things here! Some things are easy to do and somethings are not only really expensive, they make you question their actual 'harvest' (i.e. how much energy does the new device cost to make and recycle on expiry?) The answer is that most PV panels have a very poor harvest: they only 'make' about as much enery as they take to produce, so the planet isn't really gaining. So we're not sure about them for now.
The heat exchanger debate is still raging here: we've had the electricity and temperature usage in the house analysed and it's looking very feasible, mainly because for the same kW you're using for heating water, you also cool the room. Wow. UPDATE: we hope to have the first heat pump installed by the end of the year.
LED lighting going great guns: 100% of the public room bulbs are either CFL or LED now and we're working on the rooms.
The biodigester is a whopping R40 000 and right now, out of budget. Ouch. We're also not convinced that we can really process enough black water successfully on site.
Water butts are coming when we can find one thin enough to fit on the sides of the house! Most are designed for rural areas with lots of space, a luxury we do not have.
Phase 3
Completion September 2013
Install a grey water system to reuse water from koi pond cleaning and laundry in garden watering.
Manufacture solar collector from waste materials to heat water for showers, coffee machine, etc.
Use a clay cooler/filter for bottled drinking water, along with recyclable containers (glass) instead of PET bottled water in guest drinks fridge
We're already on the way with this: the solar collector we hope to make from waste irrigation piping and flourescent tubing (to focus UV on the irrigation piping.
The clay cooler needs to specially manufactured because of the amount of water used everyday. Also, we have to find a green way to sterlise the bottles when guests return them.
The grey water system is going to be piece by piece: first port of call is the koi pond back wash water, which is actually nutrient rich anyway. More coming.
Phase 4
Completion September 2015
All hot water either solar or heat pump heated
At least 60 % of all rain water collected or reused and used in laundry, washing, irrigation, etc.
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The Flying Ashtray
By john on Mar 19, 2007
In preparation for my upcoming Java One Session I was reading over some speaker guidelines and came across two hints that reminded me of an embarrassing (and potentially dangerous) incident.
Many years ago I played in a country band, "White Lightning," that toured the small towns of northern Alberta. Many of these towns' main business was cattle ranching, so frequently the entire audience was comprised of beefy cattle ranchers and their cohorts.
One such night we played a song by KD Lang, a moderately popular singer hailing from Edmonton. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to us, she was also an animal activist and had recently released a another song, Meat Stinks, in support of the animal rights movement. The song was clearly and rather graphically opposed to the cattle industry.
We were a few bars into the song when a heavy ceramic ashtray came whizzing through the air and slammed into the wall a couple of feet from the drummer's head. Turns out someone had taken exception to us playing a song by a performer who publicly denounced their entire livelihood.
Back to my preparation for the JavaOne session: the two hints I read were "know your audience" and "know your material." We were clearly in violation of both these rules.


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This is the long review I've been asking other people to do because I am too lazy to do it myself. The only thing that competes with my laziness is my finely honed sense of procrastination, of which this review was done in a blissful state. Aside: don't even try to read Husserl. That guy is a dick to the face in his own right.
As was said before, a patient first tube that still grabs you. Not a sonic assault, but still shakes you and says wake up this is a phish show.
Uncle Pen is sharp. Not 94 sharp, but this is pretty darn tight. I think people tend to forget just how hard it is to play these bluegrass songs. The breakdowns require rhythmic precision as there is just no faking it through these turns. Trey comes pretty close to nailing it and of course everyone else is on point.
Carini, ahhh, Carini. How far has this song come in 3.0?
6:45 a switch towards major key melody, amazing fills by mike at 7:00 sustain turned melodious run at 7:30 by trey. Just gorgeous stuff in here, complete understanding of the spaces between notes.
Locking into a repeating ascending/descending run by mike and trey 8-9, then trey takes the helm pushing the little theme with more force, hiiiigh notes by mike 9:15.
9:30 whammy-esque effects by trey leading to more space/ambience. Some power chording by trey around 10-10:30 followed by start stop and siiiick mike effects. A haze enveloping leading to some powerful trey licks, a la fall 97. Think of if they took an Izabella waaaaay out there. Just a patient crescendo here punctuated by some scratch, as things turn ambient again at 12:45.
High hat by fish as the swell washes out to a more post-apocalyptic feel. It gets louder as the rhythm slows down. Fantastic bleeding out.
And here comes Kill Devil Falls. First solo break shows a patient trey that is not hitting us over the head with the chordal changes. Heating up to a mini-peak of sustained tonics around the 5 minute mark. When you get to a hot peak its just so much more satisfying after stretching out first. Like foreplay. Bringing a bit of heat around 7 with some nice runs that culminate in a mash up of double-stop strumming and sustain.
Trey saying how phish loves dicks, and a nice rimshot (haha) by Fish punctuated by a crowd chant of "we love dicks" too. I think they had to add "Sporting Goods" between "Dick's" and "Park" to try and alleviate some of the obvious hilarity but I still label as simply "Dick's Park." Which leads us to YEM. So I'll put on my best Charlie Dirksen face and go after the YEM. But really, the guy has done enough, like 500 reviews.
Pre nirvana has a spacy interlude, showing some patience again. Nirvana at 3:31 and the dancing page runs are gloriously good as always. I think we may all sometimes forget just how good this portion sounds. If we had to win over friends and neighbors to the dark side, playing the YEM composed section alone might be enough.
Darkness in the pre-charge mike section at 4:15-4:30. A splash of yang to the yin of glorious melody. Good sustain at 5:43 and 5:53, not quite the *note* though. Ah 6:26 monsters in the machine at the real attempt at the note.
AHHHHHH BOY!! Emphatic after a whole band scream. Funky ass Mike between the "lyrics" A little clop by Fish at 7:30 or so.
Pre- Tramps take off by page on what I think might be the clav before the second Washuffizi. And organ proper on the tramps segment. Using rhythm to emphasize the changes in the first half of the 9 minute mark. Greeeaat run using the left hand by page here to fill the low end with chordal emphasis while running along with the right at 9:45. Just locked in groove, well done sir.
Peak at 10:05 and trey enters chording along nicely. 10:22 trey proper. Low end slaky groove with a perky rhythm. Emphasizing the ends of the runs with quasi-staccato. Sustain at 11:18 cloud-like support by Page here (I can't think of any other term). And Mike steps into the space! Funking it up in dreamy fashion. Trey steps back and then enters again with a bit more passion around 11:52 especially. 12:11 for real. Taking the helm during the 13th minute by trey. Just a good solid lead in here (nothing to die for mind-blowing) but still a reasonably passionate take on the old warhorse. Things get dirty at 13:45 with some double time strum-lead by trey leading to Mike's section. B+D I suppose.
Mike is his usual funked out self with the filter. Following the melody with some nice changes at 15:00-15:25. Ok, he definitely stepped out of the box at the end there. Well done. Most hilarious and best Vocal Jam by faaar. Cheesecake can eat a dick for all I care. They are cracking up here at 16:40. Seriously, a must hear VJ. Ends 18:35: 18:56- "I hope you're all having as much fun as we are" Trey.
Ocelot: this little jam has finally earned its lot-T. Its been a little-extra decent lately and goes from being enjoyable both for the song and the little type I mini-jam it contains. The song itself has such syncopated tension before the tonic chord that its a great listen on its own. You know, where you get the extra-hard hod bop when it comes to that chord when dancing.
Jam at 4:05 with a coy trey taking slow lead sustain. Dirty note at 4:27. Very solid playing all around here wIth trey swelling in and out and dancing around some trills at 5:37. The slow-played dirty emphasis on the notes leading to a more rapid peaking reminds me of (dare I say it) a really solid Ten Jed. But of course trey's a very different guitarist than Jerry with more concern about the build-release. Which is excellent here by the way around the 8 minute mark. Repeating trills up and down the neck at 8 to 8:30 with a big drop back into the structure-rhythmically nailed.
UUUUNDERMIND .aaaahhhh. Flashbacks to the Element at UIC. Also, the lyrics are far more appropriate to 3.0 than 2.0.
1:55 and we're in the organ, trey pull-ups (chording or soloing?) with mike bouncing on the notes. Fish at slight syncopation not playing the downbeat. Just great great standard type-I in here, trey playing the melody outright at 3:30 and again at 3:40 reminding us all what song is it we wanna hear??
Fantastic staccato runs at around 4, trey puts on a bit more sustain and we're back to the verse.
Lryically fading away into the jam with trey "undecided undefined" how is THAT for a jam mantra? Amazing interplay between trey and mike immediately. Trey's playing a two chord structure that (while I repeat is not, not in any way a tease of FOTM) can be best described as similar in structure to Fire. But in no way at all is a tease or a jam or anything else. Just a musical reference point here of my own device for review purposes. Between the rhythmic stressing of the two notes by trey's chording there, is a really fast Mike run that is just prefect contrast to what trey is playing. A role reversal from the traditional guitarist-bassist interplay.
Anyway, hear it. Hear it. Just hear it. That little bit from 5:15 to 6:15 alone is what I'm referring to above (and I'm not even describing page in here, tasteful organ accompaniment). 6:30 things open up quite a bit punctuated by the occasional woodblock clop. A hazy escape from the song structure itself towards new horizons. Sustain by trey at 7:43 signaling further departure. reaching upwards in the still-probably-type-I soloing from trey at 8:15- 8:45. Finding a theme at 8:57-9! Which trey shows us (this could easily be a key change but of course I am deaf so someone else can fill in on this one) and then proceeds to immediately trill away from. Yet, the rest of the band is LOCKED into. Subtly running around the theme without playing it exactly, while the melodic structure is intact. Trey picking out which notes to emphasize here at 9:50-10:15 turning on some kind of elfin phase shifter blocking the build the rest of the band was going to go after.
This does not deny the build, just causes its tensions to be EVEN larger. This is a slow dripping glorious run up to the mountain top. Trey's jedi glory melody building in here 11:40-12 ahhhh that run at 12. Just exuding happy melody WITH a build. I might have to consult Charlie or Benjy Eisen, but I believe this is the DEFINITION OF HOSE!! Just fantastic repeating trilling three notes building and building and building ahhhhh fish 13:25 pushes a gear shift trey sustain at 13:30!!!! This is seriously orgasmic.
Just absolutely transcending playing, they alll hit the same peak at 14:18 and *hold on* till 14:45 washing the jam out to the end. This is the Dick's show so I'll just get extremely homosexual and say it: this sounds like all 4 of them coming at the same time. Subtle and patient, extremely connected to each other, they almost know what each will do before they do it. They all hit that final peak at exactly the same time, and the music's over. Not because they have decided to end the jam but because when everyone comes the sex is over.
Sorry for that excursion into homo-erotic group orgy imagery, but I cannot think of a better way to illustrate the kind of connectedness in jamming I mean here. This is definitely one of those "music plays the band" moments where they are just receiving the language of the gods beamed into their souls by a culture of aliens much further advanced than our own. This is what best YEMs and Gins of 1.0 are made of. This is their exact DNA filtered through the consciousness of the band at this stage of their career. Go back and listen to your favorite 1.0 jams and I'll tell you, this holds up with any of them. When you glimpse perfection, it can only be repeated and never bettered.
I feel at this point, regrettably, a disclaimer is warranted. I don't mean to be that guy claiming that his "phish dick" is the biggest, but I feel that given the Undermind review I have to give some context. I am not a fluffer and this isn't Mr. Miner speaking. There are 497 shows in my phish collection and I have heard every note of all of them. So I don't just go giving praise where it isn't warranted and trust me when I say I know the historical context of phish.
And that, my friends is the end of the first set. I'll say it again. The. First. Set. Also, they have spelled out "FUCK YOU" as everyone who with a pulse has recognized already.
"Hey, Hey, we're not finished" from Page it sounds like. Audience already yelling Fuck Your Face!! Happy B-Day to Matty from Waterwheel.
AND we're off into Runaway Jim. Which, fwiw, I thought was a great left turn when everybody was thinking Rock n Roll after the recent excursions. Standard tightness, with the Mike lead on the melody at 2:30 building up to the classic trey intro. God, it takes a show like this to remind me how much I love Phish songs. Remember when you first heard them? Quiet part and slam! into the archetypical Jim dynamics.
Solo at 4:45 adding a little flavor, very patient. Not emphasizing the notes again but the beautifully textured spaces between them. Playful runs by trey around 5:30. Picking up a little heat: sustaaaain, quick run, sustaaaain, quick run. Chording at 6:52 interspersed with runs. 7:05 dark direction, could be key change to minor. I always felt the mark of a great guitar player was the ability to play lead and rhythm at the same time which trey evidences. Some space at 8:15. Kinda losing the previous hold of direction. Still searching at 9. Great turn to punctuated higher notes at 9:06 by trey. Mike offering direction at 9:25. Gorgeous filtered runs by trey around 9:35. Chording with more purpose at 9:50 and more heat from trey. Biiiiig upstart of new direction around 10:30 from trey. Fully locked at 10:56 awesome page loooow chording. Smoky flavored.
This direction is taken hold of and explored through the 12th minute with great trey wah mutes scratches. BAM BAM ba da da BAM BAM. Best I can do, sorry. Hendrix mute scratches again. This is definitely underscoring the rhythm of the jam more than melody through 13:15. Mike takes over a lead at 13:25. Space opens up at 13:45.
Filtered stuff from Mike at 14, more introspective but very engaging still at this point. Long sustain by Trey and Mike filling in with an Arabian scale lead. Very awesomely Floydish. Mike making it his bitch at 14:50. Backwards guitar intro by Trey at 15. AHHH, there we are. Walking down the hall, father!, yes son?, I want to kill you! Spin 3.1.97 again. Darkly done. Losing the grip a little at 16, Trey turning more melodic. Another key reversal in this jam.
Kind of in between major and minor, like a sunny day with clouds on the horizon. Sorry for the cheese. Sustain by Trey at 17:22 and its a nice descending waterfall trills at 17:35, with power chording at 17:40, page fills at 17:48 repeating trey chords of power at 17:55. great Mike run at 18:15, organ swells by Page at 18:25 mixed with light piano (nice). An almost rhythmic stop and some melody by Trey at 18:50. Mike bomb 19:08 watch out! Page plays something on the clav I swear is something recognizable, sounding a bit like Kraftwerk. Machine robot melody glory.
19:45 strange effects. Highhat and tom roll. Farmhouse.
Beautiful sustain 3:35-4:24. Yes that's right almost a minute of sustain from trey. One of those teary-eyed moments at the show for sure. Gorgeous soloing, a must-hear Farmhouse. Haha, its awesome to be able to say that. How far has this song come in 3.0? I mean, wow. Bigtime effects from all present 6:20-10:53. No other way to say it, others have already said it on the review board here. Very pleasant to hear and another great fake out. I repeat, very pleasant. Okay, I have to mention the Floyd run by Mike at 10:35. Listen.
Like a cop knocking on your window when you are right about to spark up a J, Alaska comes in instead of 2001. Talk about a slap in the face. Wow. Again, hate to be that guy but I like this song much better when it was called Tennessee Jed. Once the awful awful cheese lyrics are over, things get better. A buddy of mine said, "Hey its your favorite!!!" right when they played this at UIC and before I could get a word out about what an asshole he was the girl right in front of us said, "Me too!" Hahaha, I guess you get what you deserve at a phish show.
Seriously though, crunchy chording by Trey who seems very enthused to be playing Alaska. Dirty bend by Trey at 4:37 to enter the solo/jam. Really nice tone and bends. Nice fill from page at 6 repeating the descending bridge which trey locks onto at 6:20. Heating up at 8 fuzzy dirty sustain with trey nailing the peaks.
Chalkdust with great rhythmic punctuations between the change to the main riff by Trey and solid Mike fills. "CAN'T I LIVE WHILE IM YOUNG?!" at 2:08. This song is such an energy beast. Solo at 3:15 which we shall see turns into a *jam* instead of a solo for the 2nd one. Standard chalkdust soloing at this point though. Nice first release at 4:08. Big energy strum to release at 4:30 and another ascending run peak at 4:50. Oooh, 5 min mark TRILLS UP THE NECK! Nice stuff there. Main theme return and back into verse at 5:33.
Hmm missed change at 6:20 by Trey turned into gold by a power dive at 6:45. 7 Mike comes in in a big way, they all seem to be on the same page here about the jamming impetus. No false endings. Trey developing rhythm bouncing off mike at 7:30. Niiice quote of the original melody in low register by Page at 7:38. Funk funky playing at this point with Mike and Page in fine form and Trey really fastly chording in mute wah. Maintaining chalkdust pace here yet space opens up in the jam. Reminds me of the "quiet section" of a Weekapaug 7:30-9:00. Trey comes in soloing off this pace at 9 with force, the pace not dictating an early peak but the semi-staccato. Hitting the peaks with lead-rhyhm emphasized here. 10:06 nice spunky line by trey picked up on by Mike. Neeeeearly plinko but not quite. Things turn melodic in a big way at 10:30 simultaneously by Trey and Mike. Great melodic chording in here.
This point sounds like a sped-up chordal version of the Alpine Fee. If that makes any sense. Trey picks up on a repeating pattern/run and throws it through permutations 11-12 min mark. Things shift with a 5 note slice of glory at 12. Righteously repeated by Trey and Mike into a beautiful little jam. Melodic and fast, this is very very nice. Tease at 13:15 of Linus and Lucy perhaps? I know its something I just can't place. Jessica? Maybe. Either way it sounds glorious and is interwoven with the lead lines of Trey through 13:35. 13:50 things become lighter with a nice Mike run at 14. 14:15 wow! Trey picks up this some melody but, instead of playing the lead, he chords to a chalkdust pace, this heavenly melody. Very nice stuff in here and demonstrative of slight shifts that go a long way in big jams.
Back to to solo in 15:13 with the band locked in more passionate soloing over this intricate band play. High notes from Trey at 16. Forceful single punctuation notes at 16:25 through 16:40, just amazingly inventive guitar work. Fading in repetitious effects haze at 16:55, using the digital delay perhaps, that sounds like sonic lasers slicing through a sunset. Seriously great and mesmerizing stuff at the 18th minute mark. Exactly at 18 things turn reflectively haze and the smoke clears.
Top notch stuff here. Top notch. Very close to hose if not actually so. I would be absolutely drooling over this jam if it weren't for the fact that I just heard the musical voice of baby jesus speaking to the Community of Phish in mystical reassurances in the Undermind Jam.
Hilarious falsetto by Mike on Emotional Rescue. Seriously though, he's got some vocal skill. Will this be another 20 minute '97 style dip? No. And that would just be greedy anyway. Nice chordal bass work too.
The capping glory of Fuck Your Face comes. Further humor by the encores.
Taken as a whole, I'd say this is the best show of 3.0. Others have there moments but this motherfucker was crafted. No moments of uncertainness or adolescent anxiety. A dick to the face for sure.


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6 Face Yoga Poses That'll Make You Look Like You Had a Facelift
OK, we might be exaggerating just a little. But these new face yoga poses promise to relax your fine lines into smooth submission. Worth a shot? We think so
Smile with your teeth showing, then gently press your fingertips into the creases between your nose and lips. Lift the muscles up and press your fingertips down into the muscles for slight resistance.
How it works: One of the best signs of youth are plump, round cheeks, which is why people use injectables to fill the area. Instead, Hagen says to try this exercise, which will "strengthen the muscle so that it doesn't become slack." "When your fingertips push into facial muscles, the muscles push back, which is what makes them stronger and fuller," she says.
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I've seen these yoga exercises before and the pictures a above are not correct. You should not be crinkling your skin while doing these. Particularly in the "bullfrog" doing it the way the model is will just increase your lip lines.
by Green4good Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 08:58PM Report as inappropriate
very cool
by LittleBunny Monday, January 7, 2013 at 12:18PM Report as inappropriate
Hmm, I'm not so sure about this. I feel like it will only increase wrinkles over time.
by heather_hejna Friday, November 2, 2012 at 07:52AM Report as inappropriate
I have a facial book of different poses that has been proven to work for years and none of these are in it, or the other I found online before. These are more of a pain, makes me rather get needles in me. Who really recommends these articles and do you have any before and after pictures for gallery proof.
by Lani702 Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 10:24PM Report as inappropriate
Seriously? I feel like these would give you wrinkles.
by Chris213 Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 08:19PM Report as inappropriate
Facinating, going to try these
by kimihavens Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 01:10PM Report as inappropriate
so fun, hopefully it works.
by lilas Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 02:31PM Report as inappropriate
looks like fun, i like yoga ^_^ now its for my face lol
by Sohee Monday, September 17, 2012 at 01:23PM Report as inappropriate
Hmmm... Interesting and worth a try. Thanks!!
by muellsrus Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 06:20PM Report as inappropriate
its better than chemicals
by passion4christ Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 03:13AM Report as inappropriate
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Should every CEO follow Elon Musk's example of making Tesla patents free to all?
Probably not, but Musk's gesture, which included taking down the framed patent awards from Tesla's lobby, could force a debate about a contentious issue in Silicon Valley.
On Tesla's website, where Musk posted a blog, and on Twitter, people called the Tesla CEO a "hero" and heralded the move as a sign that there is a new culture in Silicon Valley about patents. On the day of the announcement, I'm told, one in-house corporate counsel at a tech firm heard from dozens of employees asking why the company couldn't do the same.
Patent fights have long been a tech industry staple, often part of the maturation process for startups. Once a company starts to get some success in a competitive market, presto, it is sued over patent infringement. Companies learn that they need a patent treasure chest of their own to fight back. The skirmish is settled with a cross-licensing agreement.
But anger toward the patent system has been rising in recent years because it isn't just the big guns in a slugfest anymore. Lawyers representing patent-holding firms have besieged startups with accusations of patent infringement. The startups and their venture backers are often faced with paying to avoid legal action.
In fact, more than $20 billion in venture capital investments would have likely been made in the past five years "but for (patent) litigation brought by frequent litigators," according to a recent study by a professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management and funded by the Computers and Communication Industry Association, a tech policy group.
"There is enormous frustration with the patent system among engineers in the valley, especially in IT, but as Tesla indicates even in manufacturing," said Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford.
Tesla is not the first to try to push back on the valley's reigning patent culture. Tech firms joined together to fight for patent reform, but it failed in the Senate.
Meanwhile, companies have tried to position themselves as good on patent issues. Twitter has an "Innovator's Patent Agreement," which states that Twitter will use patents mostly for defensive purposes and won't use them offensively unless it has the permission of the innovator.
Google has its "Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge," promising not to sue developers, distributors and users of open source software who take advantage of a subset of Google's patents, unless Google is attacked first. Other companies, such as Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft, have made their own pledges.
None of these promises have been tested in court, but that doesn't matter. This is about perception. For example, being seen as "good" about patents may help with recruiting.
"This is a pressure cooker that has been cooking for awhile," said Jason Schultz, an associate law professor at New York University, who created an open source license for patents. "Tesla says it will use its patents for defense, not offense, and that's the line between the good guys and bad guys. I think Tesla's move will increase the pressure on other companies to make a commitment. Every engineer and employee in a tech company should ask their company if you will make the same commitment."
The answer may be no and for good reason. Typically a company's position on patents has to do with the firm's business model and market opportunity. At the time of Musk's announcement, analysts pointed out that Tesla was trying to expand the electric vehicle market, which could benefit Tesla if its platform is widely adopted. That's a bigger goal than fighting over Tesla's intellectual property.
But not every company faces the same strategic calculus as Tesla. "One of a firm's important assets is patents and differentiating itself," said Thilo Koslowski, an analyst at Gartner.
Also, a "no first strike" strategy won't work for all companies, said Robert Barr, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and former vice president for intellectual property and worldwide patent counsel at Cisco.
"The most common circumstance would be if the company's business goes bad, in which case they may want to monetize their patents."
Musk's move turns up the heat on every CEO in Silicon Valley to ask about the point of the firm's patent portfolio. It may be hard to bring down the patents from the headquarters' lobby, but companies should ask themselves what they want their patents for.
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Australia's Woodside buying 30% of Leviathan for $2.5b
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The deal values the Leviathan natural gas reserve at $8.3 billion. It was first reported by "Globes".
By Amiram Barkat and Hillel Koren
As first reported by "Globes", Australian company Woodside Petroleum (ASX: WPL) is buying 30% of the rights in the Leviathan reserve for $2.5 billion, and it will be a strategic partner in the drilling. The details of the buyer and the expected price were first revealed in "Globes".
News of the deal has boosted prices of the participation units of the Leviathan partners on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Ratio Oil Exploration (1992) LP (TASE:RATI.L) is up 13%.
Under the terms of the deal, which has been agreed in principle, Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG), controlled by Ytitzhak Tshuva, will sell 15% of the rights in the licenses for $1.281 billion. Noble Energy will sell 9.66% of the rights in the license for $802 million, and Ratio will sell 5% of the rights for $417 million. The consideration will be paid in stages. On the signing of the deal, Woodside will make an advance payment of $696 million.
The deal values the Leviathan natural gas reserve at $8.3 billion.
Woodside is the largest operator of oil and gas production in Australia. It will be the operator of any LNG development of the Leviathan field, while Noble Energy will remain upstream operator. Noble Energy targets initial production to the domestic gas market in 2016. A pre-FEED (front-end engineering and design) assessment for an LNG project is underway.
Woodside CEO Peter Coleman said the agreement was a significant step towards realizing Woodside's ambition to secure world-class growth opportunities.
"We have a proven track record of safe and reliable operations in Australia and being selected as the Leviathan Joint Venture's preferred partner in a competitive bidding process demonstrates the value of our LNG development capabilities," Mr Coleman said.
"Acquiring an interest in these permits is an exciting opportunity to grow our portfolio in the emerging Eastern Mediterranean basin and we look forward to finalizing the agreement."
Woodside has offered the following contingent payments: a payment of $200 million once laws permitting LNG export from Israel are in force; a payment of $350 million on a final investment decision in relation to an LNG development; potential annual LNG revenue sharing payments equal to 11.5% of Woodside's incremental revenue above an agreed escalating price threshold, over the life of the project (capped at $1 billion); carry of expenditure up to $50 million in relation to costs associated with the drilling of a deep oil exploration well targeted for late 2013.
Woodside cautions that the agreement is subject to a number of conditions, including execution of fully termed agreements, completion of confirmatory due diligence and obtaining the necessary government and regulatory approvals.
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Dozens of East Bay teenage girls took to the skies Sunday in small personal aircraft, flying thousands of feet above the Earth to experience aviation firsthand during Women of Aviation Worldwide Week.
"It was fun -- it looked like a big giant board game with tiny little cars," said 13-year-old Michaela Price of her first-ever flight above her hometown of Brentwood.
Michaela, along with a couple dozen other girls, took turns flying out of the Byron Airport.
"(On) the takeoff, like my stomach kind of turned a little bit, but then it went back once we were in the air," Michaela said, grinning from ear-to-ear. "Then, the landing, once the wheels hit the floor, that was the bumpy part and everything else was smooth."
The event, run by volunteers, was organized by Danville resident Jacquie Warda who also held a similar talk and demonstration earlier in the week in Livermore for a couple of young women, who also got the opportunity to fly.
"It's hard to describe, because there isn't anything you can do on the ground that is similar to it," Warda said.
This unique feeling and the lack of women in the field of aviation is exactly why Warda wanted to share her experience with other young women. Each was awarded an inaugural flight certificate and given a book about women in aviation.
"People say it's about being free, slipping the bonds of Earth," Warda said.
"And what it does to your soul if it's meant for you -- there is only one way to find that out," she added. "That's one of the reasons why we've got to get people in an airplane or they will never quite understand the allure or the excitement or the thrill of it."
Kadie Ukkestad, 16, couldn't agree more, and after her first flight she is anxious to learn more about flying.
"It was so great being up there and controlling it. I had so much power and you were free to go wherever and you had open skies," said Kadie, her voice still shaking after the flight.
Kadie said that she took control of the aircraft and was able to fly the plane over her house in Discovery Bay and her school, Liberty High, in Brentwood.
"It was cool; it got me so excited," Kadie said. "We went about 120 miles per hour and (the pilot) said we were about halfway the height of Mt. Diablo."
Kadie described the differences she felt between being in an airliner and a small plane.
"You feel the little things, like (the pilot) said, 'the potholes' -- we would shake a little bit because of the wind," Kadie said.
As for landing, "it was way different than a big plane, the impact -- it was kind of squirrelly in the beginning," she said.
Warda said, "I don't expect them all to walk away wanting to be pilots, but I want them to walk away asking questions."
Flying is just one aspect of aviation, and Warda is hopeful that by providing these young women with a taste of aviation that they will take off in the field of aviation like she did 26 years ago.
"There are so many things that women can do in the aviation world," she said.
"There is traffic control, maintenance -- there are a lot of women in the military who go into the maintenance. They don't want to fly them; they're gear heads, they want to turn wrenches," Warda said. "What's a more cool thing to do than turning wrenches on an F-15 or an A-10?"
She added, "There's dispatching. There is corporate aviation. Every corporate aircraft has a management team; somebody has to schedule the airplane."
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week began as a single-day tribute event in 2010 celebrating the centennial of the first women to obtain a pilot's license -- Raymonde de Laroche on March 8, 1910. In the following year, the tribute grew to become a week of "Fly it Forward" with the hopes that pilots would take girls and women under their wing in an inaugural flight into the wild blue yonder and possibly into the field of aviation.
Warda's payoff for doing this: "The after smiles are always better than the before smiles."
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Streamwood Magic Tryouts
Saturday Aug 10th 10am - 12:00 (Registration begins at 9:30)
Make-Up tryout for our 14U team.
All Tryouts to be held at Rahlfs Woods located on Park Blvd between Irving Park Rd & Lake St. in Streamwood, IL.
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STOCKTON - A man was assaulted and robbed late Friday night when he went to meet another man in a central Stockton park, police said.
The victim went to Oak Park in the 600 block of East Alpine Avenue about 10:40 p.m. to meet a man he had been corresponding with online, authorities said. The robber struck the victim once in the head and stole his property before fleeing, police said.
The victim was treated for his injuries at a hospital, officers said. The thief was described as a black man standing 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighing 210 pounds with a light complexion and black clothing.
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