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A medical marijuana plant is shown at the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Seattle. After voters weighed in on election day, Colorado and Washington became the first states to allow legal pot for recreational use, but they are likely to face resistance from federal regulations. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
DENVER -- Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state could lead to big profits for people in the pot business, but industry entrepreneurs have plenty of questions about the recent votes.
The National Marijuana Business Conference convenes in Denver today, less than 48 hours after voters in Colorado approved marijuana for recreational use. Washington state also voted to make the drug legal.
Business owners and others in the industry planned two days of lectures and discussion about what the ballot measures mean for businesses. Discussions include navigating regulations and banking restrictions, along with tips for handling federal drug raids.
Speakers include the head of the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project. The project was the biggest funder of recent legalization campaigns in the two states.


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Sunday details. More photos soon. The Chanel rucksack hasn't been on the blog for a too long time
Dettagli domenicali. More photos soon. Lo zainetto Chanel non faceva la sua comparsa sul blog da troppo tempo
I like it very much Chiara Chanel is always a good choice!
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LOVED THE SUNGLASS! xoxo, Julia Friozzi
Stunning. I love the star print!
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Can't wait to see the photos! The star print skirt looks amazing!
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Knitter's Review
October 20, 2005
I'm always on the lookout for good staples. Not the ones you use to keep paper together, but the basic quality ingredients you use to assemble a unique and memorable project.
This week I think I've found one in the form of Valley Yarns Berkshire, a single-ply wool/alpaca blend that comes in 35 colors.
The catch? You can only find it in one store.
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In the Boutique: Year in Yarn
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Rx Minute: Cancer Drug Abandonment and Early HIV Treatment
Rx Minute: Cancer Drug Abandonment and Early HIV Treatment
This month's edition of Rx Minute focuses on two major new studies. First, we highlight a new study in the Journal of Oncology Practice and the American Journal of Managed Care which found a surprisingly high rate of abandonment of oral anti-cancer drugs, with high cost-sharing as a key driving factor. Second, we recap a new study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease that produced strong evidence that antiretroviral treatments can prevent HIV/AIDS transmissions.
Cancer Drug Abandonment Common
A new study in the Journal of Oncology Practice and the American Journal of Managed Care finds that 10% of cancer patients abandoned their initial prescriptions for oral anti-cancer drugs and another 23% had a delay in initiating therapy. The study examined claims data for more than 10,000 Medicare and commercially-insured patients who initiated anti-cancer therapy in 2007-2009.
Several factors impacted the likelihood of prescription abandonment: high cost sharing, a higher number of other prescriptions, low income, and Medicare coverage (instead of commercial insurance). Patients with cost-sharing over $500 had an abandonment rate of 25%, four times higher than patients with cost-sharing under $100 who abandoned 6% of claims. Seventy-three percent of patients had cost-sharing of $100 or less, but 16% were at the $500 or higher level.
Patients who had more than five concurrent prescriptions were 50% more likely to abandon claims than patients with no other current claims. Lower household income was associated with higher rates of abandonment, with a rate of 11% for incomes below $40,000 and 9% for incomes over $75,000. Finally, abandonment rates were 16% for Medicare claims and 9% for commercial insurance claims.
The authors conclude, "The results of this study highlight the importance of identifying strategies to minimize the impact of high cost-sharing requirements in prescription drug plans so that they do not pose a barrier to access to newer oral therapies for patients diagnosed with cancer, thereby denying patients the potential benefits of these effective agents."
Early HIV Treatment Initiation Reduces the Risk of Transmission
A large new study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease finds that early initiation of antiretroviral treatments (ART) reduces HIV/AIDS transmission by 96%. The international trial, known as HPTN 052, was stopped and unblinded four years early because the findings were so robust.
At 13 sites around the world, the study enrolled 1,763 couples who were serodiscordant, meaning that one partner is HIV positive and one negative. Couples were randomly assigned to two groups. In one group the HIV-infected partner initiated ART treatment immediately and in the other (the deferred group) they waited to begin treatment until their CD4 count fell below 250 cells/mm3 or they had an AIDS-related illness.
In total, 28 new infections were confirmed to have been transmitted from the HIV-infected partners to the non-infected partners. Of those, 27 were in the deferred treatment group and one was in the immediate treatment group.
In addition, there were nearly six times as many cases of extrapulmonary tuperculosis in the HIV-infected partner in the deferred treatment group compared with immediate treatment group.


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You Can`t Say That (Memoirs) by Ken Livingstone
November 9, 2012
Book review
This is a highly readable account of Livingstone`s life beginning with his early years in post-war Britain, a world resembling Mike Leigh`s depiction in `Vera Drake'. London is an incredibly boring place lacking cultural diversity home life dominated by the Daily Express. His Conservative voting parents were socially enlightened although Victorian values permeated Livingstone`s upbringing, to escape he read Orwell, political awakening coming from Horowitz in 1967 `From Yalta to Vietnam`. Harold Wilson`s position on Rhodesia transformed Livingstone`s initially high opinion of the Labour leader and Livingstone delayed joining the party repelled by Callaghan`s treatment of Kenyan Asians.
Racism was a strong generational factor his uncle a member of Mosley`s Black-shirts who refused to watch television featuring black or Irish personalities. Livingstone outlines the racist Conservative campaign during the Smethwick election in 1964 setting the tone for UK politics. The Labour Party mimicked this agenda illustrated by comments made by Mellish and Richard Crossman, notable non-racist exceptions such as John Fraser MP encouraged black political participation which attracted Livingstone to the Labour Party. Livingstone also worked at Chester Beatty with brilliant "research doctor" Tom Connors and drew closer to Ghanaian colleagues because of Ian Smith`s "racist government in Rhodesia". Read more of this post


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Snowboarding, hiking, sports betting, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, music but what I've really got into over the past few years is photography. I spend about as much money on cameras as I do surfboards.
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Snowboarding, skating, fishing, hiking, mountainbiking,martial arts, splitting logs, photography, drawing, chilling by my fire pit, grilling and or cooking, tinkering with my boat and car, messing around on adobe cc, bullsh!tting with you strange peeps on SI....... I think I have a.d.d. but am to old to have been diagnosed as a kid.
Jan 18, 2014, 04:01 PM #16
when I was young and lived close to the woods,i had one of those bs snowboards,that just have the straps u slide ur foot through,not the clickity clack lockin straps.we had a lot of big hills and plenty of snow.i don't know much about snowboards or the brands,but I had a roommate a long time ago who was big into snowboarding,he was sponsored by some company called burton or something,and some grenade logo.we were going through a rough batch and ended up getting evicted,and I came home from work one day and I swear to god,this dude left without saying a word and took the toilet paper,noodles,chicken still in packages,toothpaste,ellios pizza,he cleaned me out for some reason.he happened to leave 2 of his snowboards behind,and as pissed as I was at the moment,i took a hammer to his boards and destroyed them.and those boards were really hard to break.so I bashed them up and left them in the yard of his gf house.wish I would've kept them.i been trying to go snowboarding for a long time at on of those spots like mountain creek,but could never fork up the dough to go.lol thinking about it,i remember right before we moved,there was a little black kid trying real hard to skateboard on one of those cheap kmart boards,so I gave the little kid my buddys skateboard to keep.maybe that's why he robbed me blind lol
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Just kidding. Hike with my snow beast, remove survey stakes, work my muay thai and jiu-jitsu, read, wander, and after I pee pee in the next cup, gonna burn so much cheeb that Gaff can see my smoke signals from SD. And I'm gonna get back into gardening this spring.
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PEBBLE BEACH — Clint Eastwood made the day of AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am executive Steve John on Wednesday night, and perhaps saved his life in the process.
The renowned 83-year-old actor/director performed the Heimlich maneuver on the AT&T's tournament director at a volunteer dinner, the Carmel Pine Cone reported.
"A piece of cheese went in my mouth, and suddenly I couldn't breathe," John told the Pine Cone. "It was as bad as it could have been. But Clint came up behind me and he knew exactly what to do. He did the Heimlich maneuver and he lifted me right off the ground."
Eastwood, the former mayor of Carmel and a part owner of the Pebble Beach Golf Links, had only practiced the Heimlich in the past.
"I gave him three good jolts, and that got it out," said Eastwood. "The look on Steve's face was different than when somebody is just coughing or joking around. I looked in his eyes and saw that look of panic people have when they see their life passing before their very eyes. It looked bad."
John, 50, is a longtime area businessman and golf enthusiast who was named CEO of the Monterey Golf Foundation in 2011. Among his myriad duties, he oversees the PGA Tour event that is taking place this week in Pebble Beach.
As part of the ownership group, Eastwood helped select John to his current post. Now John is even more indebted to him.
"Clint saved my life," John said. "He's strong. The cheese popped out, and I was fine."


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Congressional Budget Office (CBO) February 2013 baseline projections issued this week showed, as expected, that there will be less money available to write a farm bill this year. However, the reduction in total funds was less than expected. One key indicator, crop insurance spending, showed a 3 percent decline based on expectations that commodity prices will be lower in 2013. The February baseline numbers are important because they are a good indication of what March 2013 baseline numbers will show. Farm bill programs proposed this year will be scored against the March numbers. The full baseline is available at http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43893_USDAfarmPrograms.pdf.
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I'm in Asia on vacation, and one of my amusements is finding interesting mini velo and folding bikes. Here's my current object of obsession, the Gios Panto. I saw one parked outside a bike shop while in Taiwan.
Late this afternoon, right as the sun is setting, Bettie and I will emerge from the Hugga HQ garage draped in black and riding like a bat of out hell, hell-bent on scaring the Underoos off the neighborhood children. The spooky plan includes scary sounds played on an iPod connected to a speaker and a basket full of candy to give away, after the children realize it's just that guy in the 'hood who's really into bikes …
What do you have planned for your bike and Halloween?
I've seen Easy Racers a few times and caught up with the bike and cyclist while riding with Pam and her new Pink Bike.
Whether or not a commuter will ever pin a number on, turn a pedal in anger, or race their bike, they're as competitive as anyone and this bike is built to be an "ultimate commuter." Dude is reducing his commute time being low and all aero. In the video, we're clipping right along. On the hills, I think he'd go like 4 mph and 64 on the descent.
Note: we rode next to the West Seattle Freeway, a noisy road.
Knickers (manpris), flat cap, sport coat, safety bike …
I don't keep old bikes. It's become a bit of a problem really, but every year about this time I get involved in "the shuffle". I sell my race bike in order to buy a new one for the next season. This year I sold my Trek Portland rain bike making way for my new Baron. My wife is convinced it all makes for a very complex money drain, but somehow it all seems to work out.


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SARASOTA COUNTY - Snook Haven, the 67-year-old restaurant and landmark on the Myakka River, is back in business.
Venice Pier Group owner Mike Pachota, who got a contract with Sarasota County as the new concessionaire last month, said the old Florida-style eatery had a "soft opening" Monday with no formal announcement or splashy advertising.
Nonetheless, word soon circulated and customers arrived by the dozens to enjoy the food, which includes barbecue, and the scenery.
Pachota has hired 40 employees and intends to hire another 10 to 15.
For a few weeks, Snook Haven will serve lunch only — from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will later add dinner hours.
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My bicycle is our second car. I love to bicycle in all weather, for all distances, and on all routes. Bicycling has brought so much joy to my life, and I want to share it with anyone who is interested. I will use my soapbox to tell you about the joys, the freedom, the benefits, and, yes, the challenges of bicycling and walking for transportation.
Up until recent times, the weekly ritual of planning meals played itself out in homes across the country. Meals were painstakingly thought out. Moms clipped coupons from the Thursday night paper and carefully planned the weekly grocery shopping trip. At meal time, everyone at the table was expected to be a member of the "clean plate club." Even the family dog might happily to do its part, cleaning up table scraps. Leftovers were packed as lunches or eaten at other meals later in the week. Little went to waste.
Lifestyles have changed dramatically and so has the amount of food waste we generate. Numerous experts have proclaimed the need to double the world's food supply in the next 40 years to meet a growing population and changing dietary demands. However, because of food waste, doubling the food supply actually will require tripling production from fewer resources.
According to a report issued in January by the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers, "Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not," up to half of all food produced goes to waste. Waste occurs at all levels of the food chain, from production, to harvesting, transportation, processing, retailing and restaurants and by consumers.
The UK report echoes studies previously released by other organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Various sources show that a lot of food is produced but never consumed in North America and Oceana—nearly 40 percent of grain products, half or more of seafood, fruits and vegetables, and one-fifth of meats and milk.
The good news is that because of ever-improving farming practices, very little of that loss is in farming and production in the U.S.—just 2 percent of grains, 11 percent of seafood, 20 percent of fruits and vegetables, 3 percent of meat and 3 percent of milk. Higher losses in fruit and vegetable production are due to retail, restaurant and consumer expectations of perfection; nutritious, safe and "tasty but ugly" produce never leaves the field.
The consumer side is another story: 27 percent of grain products, 33 percent of seafood, 28 percent of fruits and vegetables, 12 percent of meat and 17 percent of milk go to waste in the U.S. The UK report says that as the development level and per capita income of a country increases, the food loss problem generally moves further up the chain, toward consumers. Thus, the U.S. is among the most efficient and least wasteful in farming and production, but the most wasteful at the consumer end.
Further, close to 20 percent of the U.S. food supply is lost in households, restaurants and foodservice. In restaurants, portion sizes have increased dramatically over the past 30 years. Yet, on average, diners leave 17 percent of meals uneaten and half of all leftovers are not taken home.
At home, U.S. families throw out one-quarter of the food they buy. Yet every day, about one in six people—50 million people—in the U.S. are "food insecure." Reducing food losses by just 15 percent could feed half of them.
Fortunately, small changes can yield big payoffs. Analysts estimate that reducing food waste can help the average family of four find an extra $1,350 to $2,275 annually. That's a nice bonus in tough economic times.
For consumers, reducing waste does not mean major dietary changes, guilt or doing without. It starts with little steps: meal planning, small reductions in portion sizes, taking home and eating restaurant leftovers, accepting slightly imperfect produce and storing and cooking with an eye toward reducing waste.
Reducing waste in the food system is a continuous improvement process, involving cooperation and efforts at all levels. It also requires education, but not from a formalized program. It may be as simple as asking mom or grandma, "How did you used to do this?"
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: Why, in the traditional table settings, do knife edges face toward the plate when it seems more convenient to have them facing out?
GENTLE READER: Convenient for doing what?
Knives are correctly set so that a leftward flick of the right hand positions it to cut what is on the plate. What else were you planning to do with your knife?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My male cousin will be marrying a woman within the next week. I do not like this woman at all and so am not attending the wedding, partially because our families live in two different countries.
I would like to send a gift, as I love my cousin and his mother. In this action I would prefer to favor the groom to show my disapproval without being rude. What can I buy?
GENTLE READER: Are you seriously asking Miss Manners to suggest an insulting wedding present? Or are you thinking that your cousin wouldn't notice that you sent something for him alone -- and that his bride would be miffed, but yet not point it out to him? And that the family wouldn't hear about it -- in two countries? And that ...
All right, Miss Manners is getting carried away. It probably wouldn't burgeon into an international scandal. Possibly they wouldn't particularly care.
But it's still not nice. You needn't send them a wedding present at all, but at least wish them well -- both of them, if you hope to remain on good terms with your cousin.
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also a note to the editors of this set list... light contained a extended "frankie says" tease from mike and shortly after that a brief simpsons tease from mike.
Sunday, 07/01/2012
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Set 1: Soul Shakedown Party, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, Vultures, JibbooGotta Jibboo, Dirt, ASIHTOSA Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Access Me, Meat, Frankenstein[1], Fee[2], Maze, CoilThe Squirming Coil
Set 2: C&PCrosseyed and Painless > No Quarter > Light > Ghost -> BOTTBack on the Train > Farmhouse, 46 Days, Heavy Things > Joy, Julius
Encore: Meatstick[3]
[1] Page on keytar.
[2] Trey on megaphone.
[3] Lyrics changed to "T.F. The Meatstick."
· Frankie Says tease in Light
· Crosseyed and Painless tease in Ghost
· Chalk Dust Torture Reprise and Lawn Boy teases
Noteworthy Jams: Fee (highly recommended), Light, Ghost, Farmhouse
Average Song Gap: 18.43
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Soul Shakedown Party was preceded by a Chalk Dust Torture Reprise tease from Trey. Frankenstein featured Page on keytar and was followed by a brief Lawn Boy tease from Page. Fee featured Trey on the megaphone. Light contained Frankie Says teases and Ghost contained Crosseyed and Painless quotes. Meatstick had fans dancing on stage and Trey saying that "from now on we're doing it by initials. We hope you enjoyed H. Things and C. E. & Painless, and right now we'd like to do the dance for you now. This is called 'T.F. The Meatstick'". The lyrics of Meatstick were then changed to "T.F. The Meatstick."
Song Distribution:
5 Farmhouse
2 Joy
2 Undermind
2 The Story of the Ghost
1 Round Room
1 Stash
1 Hoist
1 Rift
1 Lawn Boy
1 Junta
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This show was part of the "2012 Early Summer Tour."
also a note to the editors of this set list... light contained a extended "frankie says" tease from mike and shortly after that a brief simpsons tease from mike.
Seriously. Flawless composition, and the most goosebump-inducing piece of post-Fee improv I've ever heard. 100% MUST HEAR.
All of Set 1 was outstanding, one of the best of summer tour, and Set 2 was a baller all the way through the end of 46 Days.
The perfect cap on a perfect hot-as-hell four-night midsummer Midwestern Phish run. My pick for the show of the four that holds up best on tape, though the first night of DC was phenomenal and hilarious in person.
2nd set was to be the icing on the cake; c&p was excellent>NO QUARTER (been waiting for this, and it was worth it), light is getting very good, super funky Ghost, Farmhouse was beautiful, the next 2 songs rocked the f out, Joy was prob the best I've heard yet, and the Julius was the loudest I've ever heard Phish play.
Would have loved a YEM encore, but i'll take Meatstick anytime I can get it.
Yes it was an amazing stretch but any that gets mad cuz they play 5 farmhouses is pretending to be way cooler than they are...
especially when the five songs are some of the better songs from farmhouse too
who gets mad when they play gotta jibboo? sick jam with loop guitar? Dirt is always great Farmhouse is a classic remember this song debut in 97' ... and is about the place where all this magic happens... Back on the train is always fun with good jamming and the fifth one heavy things is always fun and can give trey a chance to rip a happy song too
over all I just hate when people knock the songs.
hey everyone there are good versions of farmhouse and waste and then there are bad versions but dont hear some bad versions and hate on a slow song forever? look for the good versions of songs and be positive!
My only complaint is that they put 3 slower songs out of 4 in the second set but after a first set so amazing... who even cares great show great times!!!
glad you had an epic time and yea dont listen to kids that just whine about slower songs, not every show is supposed to be drop down balls to the walls intense lol
Seriously, for anyone who was upset at five Farmhouse songs just remember hiatus and how painful it was. This show, this TOUR, all in all should have no complaints. We are lucky to have our boys.
Something I noticed between the 2 creeks and 2 alpines each night featured a velvet underground cover
Night 1 creek : Cool it Down
Night 2 creek: Sweet Jane
Night 3 alpine: Rock and Roll
Night 4 alpine: Lonesome Cowboy bill
pretty cool
I would like to add is anyone going to mention A Song I Heard? This is my all time favorite Phish song! I love all of Undermind, but A Song I Heard is definitely my favorite. This was my first one and I was ecstatic. Part of the way into night four I did not think of anything that could make me happier and instantly stopped thinking about all of the other songs on my summer hopes and dreams list.
Before becoming a Phish phan my favorite band was Led Zepplin. So when No Quarter started I almost died. My boyfriend looked me in the eyes and warned me not to lose my mind. I could barely keep my head on though. I have already listened to this show a good 50 plus times.
Of course, Thank you for that amazing Coil!
There are still songs left on my wish list, but this night made me so happy that I am willing to save all of them for next summer
P.S. I am kind of sad that I was not in my seat for Meatstick (I love being on the lawn). I was on the end of my row pretty close to the front and part of me wonders if I could have been on stage too. I made my boyfriend practice Meatsticking with me before we left because it is a common song for us. I will keep practicing in my bedroom in the meantime...
also a note to the editors of this set list... light contained a extended "frankie says" tease from mike and shortly after that a brief simpsons tease from mike.
Everyone was hot off of the previous night, it was a generally great time, always a treat at Alpine which is a must-experience venue in the middle of nowhere.
When the town has only 34 cabs, you're gonna have a bad time getting a ride there. We made sure this night to plan ahead to get there before the show started. Alpine has become hilarious with their undercover security. Specifically, make sure to watch out for middle aged males with still wrinkled tie-dye t-shirts tucked into jeans with aviator glasses. They're not there for the same reason you are.
So to the show.
I for one had an AWESOME time. Shakedown was the right opener. It seemed like the venue was not at capacity, because it wasn't. I have seen so many bands there over the years, it was noticeably free with room.
Everything was enjoyable with sun and cold brew until it really picked up with Meat. Everything started with Meat.
They didn't look back from there. If you haven't been to alpine, it is a great outdoor venue in the middle of rural Wisconsin on a somewhat steep hill outdoor amphitheater with seats under cover close to the stage. Destination venue. I think the thin crowd felt pretty loose when cactus started sassing out the bass in meat during sundown. I really loved when the song ended, and the MP3 audio catches a Leon saying "thanks for the parking lot jam."
Page decided to whip out the keytar for Frankenstein which was a good segue into everything that was about to happen. Fee is a must hear, super smooth. I think 2/3 of the crowd were shrugging their shoulders in sync with the beat, hands spread out to absorb the waves.
Maze... some of us never got out of that maze. Outside in such brisk, clean air, with a $10 Fat Tire,... so nice.
By this time we were Page side within 10 yards of the fence that kept out the lawn seats from the pavilion. My buddy and I thought that it was strange that the area so close to the stage was so open, then we realized we were mountain goats on a 45% grade hill and made due which is why no one else was there.
In any case, the second set came on hard with a Talking Heads cover into a Led Zeppelin cover. The transition was beautiful. If you were there, you know how quiet, dark, and blue it got on the grassy knoll during the transition into No Quarter. I think most people snapped out of it when they heard the first heavy guitar chord of No Quarter - "oh yeah, whoa. Here we are then."
Light followed and took us for a ride into Ghost. We were all smiles at that point, the first chords of ghost began on our our 45% dance grade, and some phan behind me asked me if I was okay if phish played Ghost next.
Good ghost, into a great "Back on the Train" mid-set. Farmhouse provided a good moment of reflection, and the rest of the set ended out well, though no real breakouts. Joy had a lot of people happy and reflecting on the weekend.
Meatstick was a sick closer. We knew it was coming from the first muted chord. I think the crowd was feeling loose and wanted something fun, and they delivered. Not a super heady show, but just really fun. Trey pulled up a bunch of people from the crowd onto the stage to do the Meatstick dance, I can only image they had the time of their lives. Alpine is a varied, grassy, steep hill that I'm sure the band sees as contours of the crowd height. Certainly left with a smile.
i would say yes!
I am a tenderfoot with all of this. Only my third show on Sunday. What a blast! Was at Alpine both nights. Sunday was extra special!
Set 2
2 great covers out the gate, no quarter was just awesome. Light was my bathroom break, ghost was quite funky (btw a pretty ghoulish night with 3 mentions of ghosts i e Vultures, Meat, Ghost also 5 Farmhouse songs) I wish they played something besides meatstick for the encore but hey, they played meat. I went home happy.


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College of Charleston Sweeps South Alabama In Opening Series
The Cougar pitching staff was impressive as the Cougars gave up only three runs, two earned, in the double-header. CofC also allowed just six hits on the day and combined for 10 strikeouts in the two games. Junior Matt Pegler picked up the win in the first game with senior David Peterson earning the save, while junior Christian Powell pitched an impressive six innings of two-hit, shutout ball to earn the win in the second game.
The Cougars were led offensively by Marty Gantt who went 4-of-7 with three runs, two RBIs and two stolen bases, as he reached base six times. Gantt's double in the first game drove in the eventual game-winning runs as the Cougars scored four runs in the sixth inning.
Freshman Gunnar Heidt went 4-of-8 with one run, while Daniel Aldrich hit his first home run of the season, a solo shot in the fourth inning of the second game.
"I was very proud of our pitching," said head coach Monte Lee. "We only gave up two earned runs and our bullpen was outstanding. We need to be a little better in RBI situations, and our infield defense played well but still has room to improve. If we pitch the way we did this weekend, we can win a lot of baseball games. It's always great to open the season with a sweep on the road."
Game 1
College of Charleston tallied 12 hits, scoring six runs to knock off the Jaguars, 6-3, in the first game of the double-header.
After giving up three runs, two earned, in the first inning, junior starter Matt Pegler allowed only one more hit to shut out the Jaguars in the next four innings, putting him in line for the win after College of Charleston scored four in the top of the sixth inning.
Junior Drew Freie teamed with seniors Nick Osterman and David Peterson to shut down USA over the last four innings and Peterson picked up his second save in his first two games.
Senior Marty Gantt led the way offensively with a perfect 4-of-4 performance, reaching base on all five plate appearances. He scored three runs drove in two runs, including the eventual game-winner, in the sixth inning. Gantt also swiped two bases. Freshman Gunnar Heidt went 4-of-5 and scored a run.
The Jaguars opened the scoring at the bottom of the first inning with a two-out walk and double, setting up Dustin Dalken's two-run single. The Jaguars tacked on another run after an error from Glazer on a grounder to third.
The Cougars got on the board in the third inning after leadoff single from Gantt and a walk from Aldrich put two runners on with no out. A grounder to the pitcher advanced Gantt to third before a sacrifice fly to left field by Glazer scored Gantt from third.
Martin continued his strong weekend with a two-out single to right in the fifth inning that scored Gantt from third to make it 3-2. CofC had kept the inning alive after Glazer reached first on a wild pitch swinging third strike with two out.
College of Charleston took its first lead in the top of the sixth on a double from Gantt that scored Heidt and Goodson to put the Cougars up 4-3. Three batters later, Rob Harding pinch hit for Glazer and roped a double to left that scored Gantt and Aldrich to extend it to 6-3.
Game 2
Powell dealt six innings of two-hit ball to earn the win and a partial shutout for the Cougars in the second game. Powell did not give up a hit until the fifth inning when a loop single dropped into right field. Powell struck out four and walked four to earn his first win of the season. Junior Dre Watts came on in relief to get the save with a no-run seventh inning.
The Cougars scored first, reaching home in the bottom of the first after redshirt-sophomore Jimmy Holton singled home Brandon Murray who led off the inning with a double.
On the first pitch of the fourth inning, Aldrich connected on a pitch inside and drove the ball over the right-field fence for his first home run of the 2012 season.
College of Charleston scored an insurance run in the sixth inning as Harding and Martin singled and advanced to second and third. Harding came home on a wild pitch by Jaime Dennis to put the Cougars up 3-0.
College of Charleston will host the Cougar Invitational next weekend as Rhode Island, Xavier and Connecticut come to Patriots Point.


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August 24, 2011
World's First Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Station Opens in California
The world's first tri-generation fuel cell and hydrogen energy station, supported by DOE, was commissioned on August 16. It is called "tri-generation" because it is a combined heat, hydrogen, and power system that co-produces hydrogen in addition to electricity and heat. The system, at the Orange County Sanitation District's wastewater treatment plant in Fountain Valley, California, will provide transportation fuel to the public and electric power to an industrial facility.
The hydrogen produced by the system is sent to a hydrogen fueling station that will be open to the public and can support between 25 and 50 fuel cell electric vehicle fill-ups per day. The fuel cell also produces approximately 250 kilowatts of power for use by the wastewater treatment plant. This on-site approach to hydrogen production advances hydrogen infrastructure technologies that will accelerate the use of this renewable fuel. Also supporting the project was a partnership of the California Air Resources Board, the Orange County Sanitation District, and private industry. See the DOE press release and DOE's Fuel Cells Technologies Program website.


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Hi, I've used PMS for a couple years now but only to watch local video files. Is there a way to have it grab a stream from the Internet and send that over to my PS3? It would be great to be able to watch the latest Apple keynote address on the TV instead of a laptop. Today's WWDC keynote isn't up yet, but it would be similar to this one: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/march-2012/
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After consulting the CMS Matrix, I found several possibilities, but none of them seemed to really do everything we needed. Joomla! probably came the closest, but its wysiwyg editor seemed flaky in Firefox. We've also tried Dragonfly CMS, Game CMS, and CMS Made Simple, but all were lacking in some regard. In the past, we were using e107, but switched to Drupal because we thought it'd simplify things. Using the image and img_assist modules, we are able to do everything we need with Drupal, but the above mentioned MYSQL problems have forced us to find something else. Obviously, we need advanced caching and some way to keep down the # of simultaneous connections on the database. We normally receive about a million hits per month, and 33-35 thousand unique visitors.
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>>>Joomla! probably came the closest, but its wysiwyg editor seemed flaky in Firefox.
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And there is always (gasp) IE Tab as a Firefox extension which lets you run IE as a tabbed Window in Firefox if you are running Windoze or Linux.
>>Having used Joomla a bunch, you can choose between at least 2 WYSIWYG editors (and can certainly cut and paste using NVU).
How do you do this? I only have two options: TinyMCE and NO TinyMCE. Does this involve installing a plugin, perhaps?
Um... switch *hosts*
Dude, if your host isn't letting you get past 25 simultaneous mysql connections, but drupal is otherwise a usable system for you, then SWITCH HOSTS.
I run http://linuxlaboratory.org. I started it in 2001. Since then I've tried/used/scrapped somewhere near 50 different systems. Most of them suck in one way or another. If you already know you like drupal, then find a host that'll deal with it. 25 simultaneous connections isn't unreasonable, but I *would* love to know which routines are causing all the connections. One stupidly written 'foreach' loop could be enough to make 10x the number of required DB connections :-)


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After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, my father, who had struggled through the Great Depression to become a surgeon, volunteered with the U.S. Army. He was stationed in the United States for some time, but eventually sought an overseas assignment. In March 1944 he shipped out of San Francisco to join the 35th General Hospital in New Guinea and then, one year later, transferred to the 1st Portable Surgical Hospital at Leyte Island in the Philippines where he operated on wounded soldiers in an active combat zone. Soon after he arrived in the Philippines, his commanding officers gathered the troops together and informed them that the United States soon would be invading Japan and that this action would result in tremendous casualties.
As we left the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, my 8-year-old son, who is fascinated by all things military, stated matter-of-factly that there should be no more wars."
But an invasion would prove to be unnecessary. On August 6 and August 9, 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Days later, World War II ended with Japan's surrender. In the Philippines, my father and his fellow soldiers were notified that they would be some of the first troops to occupy Japan. Shortly thereafter, he and his colleagues landed in the island nation. Visiting Hiroshima, he saw a city reduced to rubble, globs of melted glass scattered about, and shadows on the ground where people once stood. He spent a few months in Japan before being discharged back to the United States. Almost 65 years later, at a frail 92 years of age, my father insists that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved his life and the lives of his fellow soldiers.
My children and I traveled to Japan this summer to join my husband who had left a few weeks earlier to work with Japanese colleagues. Since I had never been to Japan before, I insisted that we visit Hiroshima. My father's recollections haunted me, and I wanted to see the city. While riding the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Hiroshima, I took the opportunity to reread John Hersey's book Hiroshima, in which he chronicled the experiences of six people who survived the bombing. I felt conflicted. As I read the horrors of what Hiroshima residents went through, I couldn't help but also think about what might have happened to my father if the bombings hadn't occurred.
My family arrived in Hiroshima and went straight to the Peace Memorial Museum, which is located near ground zero. Exhibits in the East Building describe Hiroshima's history and Japanese war activities before the bombing. We read about Japanese military engagement in China from 1931, the Nanking massacre in 1937, and the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Exhibits in the Main Building described the effects of the bombings and the profound suffering of the victims. It was the most moving part of the museum.
At one point, my 12-year-old daughter asked about keloids, unsightly thickened scars that commonly result from severe burns and which are one of the many damaging effects of radiation exposure. She was scared that something like this might happen to her. After I explained what keloids were, she left the exhibit. She had had enough. I could understand her response. I found it depressing to have to explain the medical horrors of nuclear explosions and radiation effects to my children.
We found the videotaped testimonies of the survivors the most powerful exhibit in the museum. For example, Akihiro Takahashi was a 14-year-old attending a junior high school 1,500 meters from ground zero. He was blown off his feet when the bomb exploded and suffered severe burns over much of his body. While walking home, which was 6 kilometers away, he ran into a friend who also was badly burned. He tried to help his friend despite his own injuries.
As we left the museum, my 8-year-old son, who is fascinated by all things military, stated matter-of-factly that there should be no more wars. My 15-year-old son exclaimed, "Can't people just talk things out with diplomacy?" My daughter bought a "Hiroshima Peace" T-shirt that she could wear to school and educate her friends. I could not help but be proud of all three of them.
Did the atomic bombs end the war in the Pacific? It's debatable. (In fact, a 2005 Bulletin roundtable examined that exact question.) A colleague recommended that I read the book, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a professor of history at the University of California-Santa Barbara, for a different perspective than what I was accustomed to hearing. Hasegawa conducted an in-depth analysis of the end of the Pacific War by examining the roles of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan and concluded that it wasn't the atomic bombings that ended the war, but rather Stalin's declaration of war against Japan on August 9 when Japan refused to accept the terms of unconditional surrender from the United States, Britain, and China. The Soviet declaration of war and subsequent invasion into Manchuria was, according to Hasegawa, a greater shock to the Japanese leaders than the atomic bombings. They saw no alternative but to accept unconditional surrender. Having grown up hearing the U.S. side of the story, I found this alternative viewpoint unexpected but certainly plausible. Clearly, there is no simple explanation for how the war ended.
Unfortunately, the United States opened a Pandora's box in using atomic bombs. We now have a full picture of the horrors these weapons bring--not just the immediate effects of instantly killing untold numbers of people but also the lifelong suffering of the victims and their unborn children. Such weapons are a crime against humanity, and their use should be universally condemned.
I returned to Hiroshima 64 years after my father had visited the city. Yet, even being surrounded by the past, I couldn't help but think of the future. If my children return to Hiroshima in another 64 years, how will they find the world? Will we have taken steps toward a nuclear-weapon-free existence, or will our inability to stop proliferation lead to future Hiroshimas?


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In front of a national television audience on ESPN on Thursday night, Tulane junior kicker Cairo Santos was named the 2012 winner of the Lou Groza Award during the 2012 Home Depot College Football Awards Show at the Walt Disney World Resort. Legendary NFL kicker and former New Orleans Saint Morten Andersen presented Santos with the 21st Groza Award.
Santos, who was named a finalist, along with Florida's Caleb Sturgis and Florida State's Dustin Hopkins, completed one of the finest campaigns by a kicker in NCAA history by finishing a perfect 21-of-21 on field goal attempts. Santos was named to the All-Conference USA First Team and joined 1996 Groza winner Marc Primanti as the only kickers in FBS history to stay perfect throughout a season in which they attempted 20 or more, but Santos finished with one more make than Primanti, who was 20-of-20 in 1996.
"I think if you look at the replay you can see I was in complete shock when they called my name for the award," Santos said. "It was great to be on the same stage as Dustin Hopkins and Caleb Sturgis as finalists. They are two of the finest individuals I have ever met. I am in shock but so happy at the same time. This is a tremendous honor and I am very grateful, but it would not have been possible without my coaches and teammates, especially my holder Ryan Rome and deep snapper Billy Johnson. This award is for each of them as well. I would also like to thank the Lou Groza Award committee and the Palm Beach County Sports Commission."
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Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels
Forget the Picasso and the Monet. Head instead to the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada, for "Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels."
Travel Off the Beaten Path :: Weird Museums
Here are some suggestions from among dozens of unusual museums across the nation, from a funeral museum to an attraction devoted to wet wipes, of all things. They're all worth a stop.
Conservatives Try to Block Natl. Women's History Museum
The Religious Right is making one last attempt to block the creation of a new museum dedicated to American women's history, despite numerous failed efforts to derail the project.
NSFW: Breaking and Entering
If you feel like you're living life with a ball and chain attaching you to a cubicle, fear not. EDGE has scoured the globe for quintessential vacation experiences that will reinvigorate your zest for adventure. Consider the "YOLO" package in Sante Fe.
Panama Inaugurates Frank Gehry-Designed Museum
After years of delays, Panama has inaugurated a museum designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry that officials hope will become a cultural landmark and symbolize the country's recent economic ascent.
Flappers, Bootleggers and More in New Prohibition Exhibit
The Indiana State Museum features an exhibit about one of the most colorful periods in American history with "American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" on display through February 15, 2015.
World Aids Museum and Educational Center
It's been nearly three years since the World AIDS Museum was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and since then nearly all of the hopes and dreams of the Museum's Board of Directors have been fulfilled.
Legacy Project Establishes Equality House in Kansas
The Legacy Project opened last month in Kansas, spreading hope and information on the lives of prominent LGBTs.
Sept. 11 Museum Prepares to Open
Set to be dedicated and open to the public on May 21, the Sept. 11 museum is a haunting reminder of one of our country's most tragic events.
NYC's 9/11 Museum Scheduled to Open This May
After years of delays due to funding disputes, engineering challenges and a nearly disastrous flood, a museum dedicated to victims of the 9/11 terror attacks will open to the public in mid-May in a giant cavern beneath the World Trade Center site.
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Transporters Warming to Tablets for Business, Interest Doubles in Single Year
It seems every technology goes through this cycle – a new product hits the market, gains market share, and then replicas and wannabes flood the market, only to cause consumer buying confusion due to an overabundance of choice. The PC market had it. Cell phones did it. And now tablets…Read more


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Transportation museum in Tuscaloosa to show "Indiana Jones" film Friday night
Published: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 11:00 p.m.
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Indiana Jones will whip up the adventure as the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum's outdoor movie series continues at 8 tonight with "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Admission is $5 per group, with a maximum of seven people per group. Audience members can bring snacks, nonalcoholic beverages, blankets and chairs.
"Raiders" will be shown on the museum's 50-foot inflatable screen on the former site of the historic Queen City pool. The museum is at 1901 Jack Warner Parkway.
For more information, call the museum at 205-248-4931 or Tuscaloosa 311 at 205-248-5311 or visit www.mwwtm.com.
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Contra Costa's two-decade transformation from conservative suburb to Democratic stronghold appears unstoppable.
"This isn't Bill Baker's Contra Costa County anymore; this is George Miller's Contra Costa County," said East Bay pollster Alex Evans, referring to the former GOP congressman from Danville, who lost his 1996 re-election bid after two terms, and 38-year Democratic Rep. George Miller, of Martinez.
As evidence, Evans points to results of the Contra Costa Poll, a telephone survey his firm conducted of 600 county residents who voted in the Nov. 6 general election.
Contra Costans voted, for example, more liberal than statewide results in nearly all 11 California ballot propositions.
Six out of 10 supported Proposition 30, the tax hike for education, compared with 54 percent statewide. And a majority of Contra Costa voters supported overturning the death penalty, while the state as a whole opted to keep it.
Even more striking, Evans said, the survey revealed more support in Lamorinda for Prop. 30 and its tax increases than the traditionally blue West Contra Costa County.
"Contra Costa is no longer the last suburban bastion for Republicans," Evans said. "It's even considered hostile to Republicans, who find it impossible to get elected to a partisan office and even some nonpartisan ones."
Party registration and election trends bears out Evans' observations. Contra Costa Republicans have lost significant ground here and statewide. No Republican holds a partisan office in Contra Costa or anywhere in the nine-county Bay Area.
A dozen years ago, Republicans outnumbered Democrats in seven Contra Costa cities, including Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda.
One by one, the numbers began tipping into the Democrats' column as voters increasingly abandoned parties in favor of "decline to state" and "no party preference."
Republicans outnumber Democrats in only two cities today: Danville Republicans enjoy a comfortable 10 percentage point registration lead, while Clayton appears poised to become the next city to go Democratic. The GOP held a slim 19-person advantage in the small Central Contra Costa town as of Nov. 6, a significant decline from its nearly 9 percentage point lead a dozen years ago.
"What's happening in Clayton is the same thing that is happening all over the country," said "no party preference" Clayton Councilwoman Julie Pierce, re-elected this month and the only non-Republican on the council. "It has become much more polarized."
The shift surprised and worried Clayton Councilman Howard Geller, a self-professed staunch Republican who was also re-elected.
"I went to three or four parties during the campaign season, and there wasn't a Democrat in the house, so I'm not sure I understand why this is happening," Geller said. "But I'm just sick that our state has gone that way. When you have more people with their hands out than you have people who (are) working hard to make the money to give away, then we're all in trouble."
A coalition of Tesoro, Phillips 66 and Shell oil refineries commissioned the roughly $25,000 poll as a community service, said spokesman and political consultant Eric Zell. The survey contained no industry-specific questions, and all results have been made public.
Evans' company, Oakland-based EMC Research, surveyed by telephone 600 Contra Costa vote-by-mail and early voters between Nov. 4-7. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
"Our hope is to make the Contra Costa Poll an ongoing effort, perhaps conduct surveys twice a year where we track issues of importance to residents and elected leaders," Zell said.
Among other Contra Costa Poll results:
Contact Lisa Vorderbrueggen at 925-945-4773, firstname.lastname@example.com, politicswithlisav.blogspot.com or Twitter.com/lvorderbrueggen.
Tesoro, Shell and Phillips 66 refineries commissioned an exit poll during the Nov. 6 general election, the second in the coalition's new Contra Costa Poll series. Here's a sample of what the 600 Contra Costa voters surveyed had to say:
President -- Six-and-a-half out of 10 voters embraced Democratic President Barack Obama, who received 59 percent of the vote statewide.
Prop. 30, income and sales tax hike for education -- Six out 10 said they voted yes, a full 6 percentage points higher than the statewide result. Interestingly, it doesn't match up with a different question, where seven out of 10 local voters said they would pay more taxes to improve education.
Prop. 34, death penalty -- If left to Contra Costans, the death penalty would have been repealed. Statewide, the measure lost.
Taxes -- Seven out of 10 support reforms so the wealthy pay their "fair share" of taxes. Two out of 10 would vote no on any tax increase no matter its purpose.
Source: Contra Costa Poll


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Anderson County Circuit Court Clerk Tyler Mayes has made contact with Anderson County Commission Chairman Chuck Fritts and Law Director Jay Yeager indicating his intent to lobby local and state officials for the addition of a court cost fee to be used for added security at the schools.
The fee would be titled "school security."
Mayes said there is a courtroom security fee assessed with court costs, which has been beneficial to the security at the Anderson County Courthouse.
"In my letter to Chairman Fritts and Mr. Yeager, I made it clear that this is
a fee that I will passionately fight for. As a former educator and the husband of an educator, it is near and dear to me," Mayes said in a news release. "Furthermore, our kids deserve to be in a safe environment at all times. I will do whatever I can, in my capacity, to help the schools do that."
The school security fee would be added to the bill of costs for a defendant charged with a crime in Anderson County. Money would be deposited into an account which would be created by the Budget Department.
"We are at the beginning stages of discussion, but I look forward to meeting with local and state legislators about this topic," Mayes stated. "The school systems in our county do a great job of keeping our children safe with the resources they have. I want to be able to provide additional financial resources for them."
Mayes pointed out the decision would ultimately be made by the state legislature. A fee cannot be assessed without their approval.
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Let's hear it for the girls
Published: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 9:30 a.m.
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I tell people all the time that we have excellent high school basketball in our area.
And I'm not just talking about the boys teams.
Our girls basketball here is pretty strong, and this year is no different.
Entering tonight's prep basketball slate, two area girls teams (Vandebilt Catholic and E.D. White Catholic) have cracked the Top 10 in their respective classes in the latest Louisiana Sports Writers Association Poll and another (Ellender) is just outside it.
Vandebilt is the top-ranked girls team in our area and has been so for the past few seasons.
The Lady Terriers (18-3, ranked No. 3 in 4A) made the state semifinals the last two seasons, won the state championship in 2010, made the state finals in 2009, the quarterfinals in 2008, the semifinals in 2007 and the quarterfinals in 2006.
That's a ton of recent success for the Lady Terriers and head coach Kathy Luke, and Vandebilt is poised again to make some serious noise in the 4A ranks this season.
Vandebilt has only lost to John Curtis (fifth in Class 2A) and Helen Cox (ranked fourth in Class 4A) twice this season and has recorded wins over some of top programs in the state in Mandeville, Ponchatoula, St. Louis Catholic, Abbeville and Vermilion Catholic.
The Lady Terriers compete in District 8-4A and that's where Ellender also resides. The Lady Patriots are 12-4 overall and are just outside the Top 10 rankings in 4A.
Ellender was a perennial state title winner in the early 2000s, won a title again in 2007 and were runner-up in 2008, but have not won a playoff game since.
The Lady Patriots (2-0 in district) and coach Kenneth Dixon may not be back to that state-title caliber level yet, but they are on their way back to state-wide prominence.
The Lady Terriers (2-0 in district) and Lady Patriots meet Tuesday at Ellender and again on Feb. 8 at Vandebilt in games that will likely determine the district champion.
E.D. White Catholic may not have the same girls basketball tradition as Vandebilt or Ellender, but the Class 3A Lady Cardinals are doing some really good things this season.
Under head coach Darin Fontz the Lady Cardinals are 18-3 overall and ranked fifth in Class 3A. They have impressive wins over Fontainebleau and Riverside Academy this season.
E.D. White is the early favorite to win District 7-3A at 3-0 in the league and was a second-round playoff team in 2011, made the playoffs last season and is looking for even more in 2013.
Other area girls teams that have winning records so far this season are Class 5A Central Lafourche (12-8), Terrebonne (13-10) and Thibodaux (13-7) and Class 4A Assumption (11-9). So the next time someone asks you about high school basketball here, be sure to remember to tell them about the ladies.
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An inheritance can come in the form of a lump sum payment, such as from an insurance policy payout, or assets such as cash or securities. Figuring out what to do with an inheritance is an important and difficult decision.
What to do with an inheritance?
Once you understand all of your options, you'll be in a better position to make a good financial decision. Resist the urge to act fast. Many experts recommend that you take several months or even a year before making a decision, especially if the inheritance is tied to an emotional event, such as the death of a close friend or family member.
Here are some other considerations:
Am I doing what I can to avoid fraud?
Your inheritance may make you a target for scams, particularly if the payment has been in the news. Be particularly wary if someone approaches you to discuss what to do with the money, instead of the other way around, and walk away from promises of quick profits, guaranteed returns, or pressure to invest immediately.
Often, you can avoid fraud by asking questions and doing research on any brokers, advisers, or investment opportunities you are considering.
Do I understand my current financial situation?
Maybe you've never had a financial plan or lived on a budget. Now is the time to develop both. If you sit down and take an honest look at your entire financial situation, you will be in a better position to use and invest your inheritance wisely. There are many tools to help you put a financial plan together. The Ballpark Estimate, created by the American Savings Education Council, can help you calculate what you'll need to save each year for retirement. FINRA has a college savings calculator, and the Social Security Administration has a benefits calculator to estimate your potential benefit amounts.
Do I need the help of a financial professional?
If you're the type of person who reads as much as possible about investment choices and asks the right questions about them, you may not need expert advice. But if you're busy with other responsibilities, or don't feel comfortable making important financial decisions on your own, you may benefit from professional advice. While most financial professionals are honest and hardworking, watch out for unscrupulous individuals. Even if a financial professional is recommended by someone you trust, you should thoroughly evaluate their background before doing business with that professional. Make sure the financial professional is licensed, and check and to see if the individual or his or her firm has had run-ins with regulators or other investors.
Have I paid off my high interest credit card debt?
No investment strategy pays as well as eliminating any high-interest debt you may have. Most credit cards charge high interest rates—as much as 18 percent or more—if you don't pay your balance in full each month. If you owe money on high-interest credit cards, one of the wisest things you can do is to pay them off as quickly as possible.
What if I inherit securities?
If you inherit a security and later sell it, you'll need to know the cost basis - the value of the security on the day the person willing it died - to determine if you owe any taxes.
Here's how cost basis works: if a person bought a stock for $10 a share and the stock's closing price was $200 a share on the day the person died, whoever inherits the shares and sells them must pay taxes only on any gains over the $200 per share price. Or, if the stock price drops between the time of the person's death and the time of the sale, whoever inherits and sells the shares would claim tax losses only on declines below the $200 per share price.
Consider consulting with a tax or legal professional to work through your specific circumstances.
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