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Ray Davies Hints The Kinks Could Reunite
In the era of the rock-band reunion, one of the few and greatest remaining white whales is The Kinks — disbanded since the '90s amid familial bickering and other problems involving Ray and Dave Davies. In a pub in North London on Sunday afternoon, Ray Davies strongly suggested the wait may finally be over.
Mr. Davies made a cameo at one of London's great autumn rituals, the annual Kinks Fan Club Convention at the Boston Arms, down the road from the Davies family stomping ground in Muswell Hill. The event is anchored by an afternoon of music by the Kast Off Kinks, a collective of nearly every other living member of the band not named Davies.
Before the band's second set at the Boston Arms pub on Sunday, Ray Davies popped up in a North Face jacket and fashionably disheveled scarf to drop a series of broad hints that the band will finally return in 2014, 50 years after the release of "You Really Got Me." Promising "big" things in the year ahead, Mr. Davies teased that he couldn't say more because he hadn't yet negotiated pay with the collection of ex-Kinks surrounding him on the stage.
Mr. Davies also acknowledged brother Dave, who suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago but today is gigging again in the U.S. The Davies brothers' on-and-off-stage warring is the stuff of legend, but Ray Davies used the occasion to say what his brother had accomplished in recent years was "commendable"– before leavening the brotherly love with a joke that his re-emergence was also a "disgrace" for a man his age.
Complaining of a sore throat, Mr. Davies threatened to exit without singing. But seconds later, he popped back on stage to lead his band mates through "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues," a tasty nugget from the band's revered, and recently reissued, album "Muswell Hillbillies." The ensuing set from the Kast Off Kinks — ranging from giant hits "All Day and All of the Night" and "Lola" to rarities like "God's Children" and "Dead End Street" — suggested that a full-on, career-spanning tour is on the tee for the Davies brothers to hit — a promise Kinks devotees have seen come and go before.
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Cal's search for a successor to Mike Montgomery shifts into high gear later this week when athletic director Sandy Barbour heads to the Final Four, a gathering spot for hundreds of coaches, to identify candidates.
Barbour said she hopes to have a new coach in place by the end of next week "in an ideal scenario."
In the interim, expect a steady stream of speculative media reports with the names of real, potentially real and no-chance-in-heck candidates.
So let's step back and address two issues that will shape Cal's search: the quality of the candidate pool and the authority behind the hiring process.
Is this really Barbour's show?
She was responsible for hiring Montgomery six years ago -- a deft move, for sure, but one that landed in her lap: A brilliant coach was living in the area, unemployed and seeking work.
Since then, Barbour has been involved in a series of missteps for the athletic department, from the budget fiasco and the Memorial Stadium financing mess to the embarrassing graduation rates.
She is also responsible for hiring football coach Sonny Dykes, whose rookie season could not have been worse.
The combination of events have cast Barbour's long-term future at the school into doubt and undermined confidence in her judgment within the Cal athletic community.
Will she be handed the keys to the basketball search, free to present her favored candidate to the administration for approval? Or will her every move be vetted as thoroughly as the candidates themselves?
Barbour has retained an executive placement firm to assist in the search -- the same firm, she said, that was used to identify Dykes (DHR International).
The plan is for Barbour and DHR to narrow an initial list of candidates down to a handful, then place the names in front of chancellor Nicholas Dirks and vice chancellor John Wilton, who oversees athletics.
Dirks has been on the job for just nine months. But Wilton, who was new to Cal at the time of the football search, should have a sense for the attributes that fit well in Berkeley.
Given all the mistakes the Bears have made recently -- don't forget the decision to hire defensive coordinator Andy Buh for $1.5 million over three years, only to reassign him within the athletic department -- it's difficult to imagine a rubber-stamp situation for Barbour's preferred candidate.
It's also difficult to envision a candidate pool that meets the expectations of many Cal fans.
The Bears haven't been to the Final Four since 1960 or the Sweet 16 since 1997. Within the coaching profession, Cal is considered "a hard job,'' according to the head coach of a West Coast school.
The program is in better shape now than when Montgomery arrived in 2008. But Cal is not UCLA, steeped in success and surrounded by the most fertile recruiting ground in the country. It's not Arizona, a basketball factory and the only show in town. And it's not Stanford, which has embraced its inner "Nerd Nation."
"Cal has no brand," the West Coast coach explained.
The difference between Cal and Stanford is crucial to understanding the likely shape of the candidate pool.
Both universities are among the finest in the world. But for a variety of reasons, including Cal's status as a public school, the Bears have lower admission standards for football and men's basketball players than does Stanford.
How much lower? That's difficult to quantify because transcripts and test scores are private.
But the discrepancy between the qualifications of some recruits and Cal's rigorous curriculum have created a perception within the coaching industry that it's a tough, tough gig.
Cal is more rigorous than Stanford but lacks the reputation for selectivity in admissions that shapes the Cardinal's recruiting pipeline.
Cal is more rigorous than UCLA but lacks the tradition and easy access to elite prospects.
Cal is more rigorous than Arizona but lacks the rabid community support so many recruits find appealing. As Barbour enters the heart of the search, perception could frame the reality of her options.
The recipe for success in Berkeley, it seems, is easy to outline but difficult to execute -- as the past 50 years have proved.
"You have to embrace what Cal is all about and not make hurdles an excuse,'' the coach explained. "You have to love Cal and be proud (the) players are getting a Cal education."
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Some Richmond County firefighters say they haven't gotten paid for overtime hours they worked several weeks ago.
The wife of one firefighter says she was afraid to go on camera, but says, "When he found out it wasn't on his paycheck, they said to wait and see if it was on the next paycheck, and then we did, and it's still not there."
And her husband isn't alone. Some have been waiting for overtime pay since Nov. 16.
We asked her, "What is your frustration with all of this?"
She said, "My frustration is my husband works overtime because we need the money, not because we can wait until the next one or the next one -- we have kids, bills, we're like any other family."
So we took their concerns straight to the source.
Chief Chris James says the delay is thanks to the city's holiday payroll process, saying, "All payroll for last year had to be turned in by Dec. 19."
So any hours worked after that had to be posted later. But firefighters and their families say it's been a month now, so where's the cash?
"Bills get behind. He works overtime to make extra money to pay the bills," she said.
City Administrator Fred Russell explained, "Because of the holidays, we turn our payroll in a little bit early, apparently these ladies and gentlemen worked after the payroll was turned in."
"We will continue to have this issue as long as we have to submit it before the pay cycle ends," Chief James said.
But there is a solution going forward for the fire department, James says, "We have to definitely inform them of what the situation is."
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The cost of most items bought in Washington County will increase in a few weeks.
Washington County Commissioners learned Thursday during their weekly business meeting the state will increase its sales tax by 0.25 percent, increasing the state sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5.75 percent. That means the new Washington County sales tax will be 7.25 percent, effective Sept. 1.
"It is not an increase in the Washington County rate," said Washington County Commission President David White.
Most counties in southeast Ohio currently have a 7 percent sales tax as of January 2013. Athens, Hocking and Gallia each have a 6.75 percent sales tax.
"I worry about making things more expensive," said Michael Boersma, 23, of Marietta. "We're in difficult economic times, and everyone's having trouble making ends meet."
A 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer available at a local dealership for $9,995 would generate just less than $700 in sales tax. After Sept. 1, that same vehicle would incur $725.64 in sales tax.
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Dave Boso has owned and operated Dave's Marine, 2 Walnut St., Belpre, since 1967.
"The state is cutting taxes in one place and raising it another place," Boso said. "Where does it get us ahead?"
Boso said he typically sends about $2,000 per month during boating season and almost nothing during the winter. The state pays each business owner 0.75 percent (a reduction of the amount the business owner keeps) to report sales tax collected via a website and send it in. He said he has to calculate sales tax on paper and add it to the website, which "makes it easier for them, not me."
Boso also said he supports dumping the Ohio income tax altogether. He supports adding 1 percent to the sales tax instead of these small increments.
The state sent out postcards to all taxpayers, and Boso said his notification arrived during the first week of July.
"It takes me probably an hour, and if I am lucky, in a really good month, I probably don't get $5 for collecting sales tax. ... I'll have to reprogram my register," he said. "That'll take an hour."
Gov. John Kasich signed the sales tax hike into law June 30. Besides the state sales tax hike, state income tax rates will drop 10 percent, with the first 8.5 percent retroactive to Jan. 1. New property taxes OK'd by voters in November will cost homeowners 14 percent more because a state-funded discount will be eliminated, according to the Associated Press.
"In terms of job creations, we reduced income taxes so we can be competitive with other states," said Rep. Andy Thompson, R-Marietta. "I don't want to see any taxes go up, but the net effect was a positive one."


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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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1. Irving's working methods are fatally flawed: not because of a naive credulity towards those he interviewed and the documents he read, but because of his overriding desire to excuse Hitler's role in the 'Final Solution'. Irving deliberately ignored the most basic cautions when interviewing the surviving members of Hitler's staff. The symmetry of aims and means between interviewer and interviewees is perfect. Irving resorted to the very same methods of excusing Hitler as those he interviewed had adopted in excusing themselves.
2. Irving's work with historical material is characterised by his utterly tendentious choice and interpretation of documentation. The greater wealth of statements directly implicating Hitler's role in the 'Final Solution' is rejected out of hand, whilst those rather fewer statements exculpating Hitler are adopted as 'persuasive' without any explanation as to why greater emphasis should be put on one set of statements than another. Likewise, Irving deliberately fails to take into account a number of key considerations when using his material. For instance, rather than Hitler not knowing about the 'Final Solution' he may quite explicablly have lied to certain members of his staff. Only by taking the sources at face value can he mould them to his pre-conceived ideological aims.
3. Neither is it coincidental that at no time does Irving enter into source criticism, save when the aim is to dismiss a source that contradicts his theory. Irving has written: 'In fact I have been startled by the number of such 'diaries' which close scrutiny proves to have been faked or tampered with - invariably to Hitler's disadvantage.'309 Almost invariably these rejections are either unfounded or involve crass double standards on Irving's part. Wolff's trial, Engel's diary, and Zoller's book are but the three most blatant examples amongst a veritable myriad of distortions, suppressions, and manipulations.
4. Irving requires absolute standards of proof from those sources which contradict him, yet requires no such proof from those which support him. For instance Irving rejects those like von Below who said:
Nevertheless I am completely convinced, even without written evidence, that the extermination of the Jews originated in an express instruction from Hitler, because it is inconceivable that Himmler and Göring undertook such a thing without his knowledge. Certainly Himmler did not inform Hitler in every detail, but he acted in this matter with his approval and in complete accordance with him.310
5. Irving discredits the statement by resorting to the phrase 'A scrupulous historian is not impressed by what sources either "imagine" or profess themselves incapable of "imagining."'311 And yet both Wolff and Krause too stated what they believed, or better said what they wanted to believe. Nowhere does Irving seek to reconcile these contradictions.
6. Irving was unequivocal when he said 'Hitler's surviving adjutants, secretaries, and staff stenographers have all uniformly testified that never once was the extermination of either the Russian or European Jews mentioned - even confidentially - at Hitler's headquarters.'312 This is contradicted by the evidence cited above. By looking at the documents and statements from Hitler's former staff, not only does Hitler's personal role in the murder of the European Jews become apparent, but it becomes clear that concrete episodes in the 'Final Solution', such as Einsatzgruppen killings and even the death camps, were talked about at the Führerhauptquartier. Any idea that members of Hitler's entourage knew nothing about the mass murders in the East is similarly contradicted in the evidence.
309. Hitler's War (1991), p. 6.
310. Von Below, p. 219.'Allerdings bin ich fest überzeugt davon, auch ohne schriftliche Beweise, daß die Vernichtung der Juden auf eine ausdrückliche Anweisung Hitlers zurückgeht, da es undenkbar ist, daß Himmler und Göring so etwas ohne sein Wissen unternommen hätten. Sicher hat Himmler Hitler nicht über jede Einzelheit unterrichtet, aber in dieser Angelegenheit mit seiner Billigung und in gänzlicher übereinstimmung mit ihm gehandelt.'
311. Reply to the Defence of Second Defendant, paragraph 23, p. 18.
312. Ibid. Hitler's War, p. 327. The sentence stands in David Irving, Hitler's War (1991), p. 424.
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SANTA CLARA -- Have the 49ers gone rogue?
The days of glittering Super Bowl trophies have given way to a new type of parade: allegations involving bomb threats, brass knuckles, automatic assault rifles, public intoxication and drunken driving.
In all, there have been nine arrests involving 49ers players since 2012. . That's the most in the NFL during that span, according to a review of NFL crime databases compiled by profootballtalk.com and utsandiego.com.
The legal troubles tarnish an organization otherwise soaring, with three straight NFC Championship game appearances and a sparkling new $1.3 billion stadium set to open this fall.
For those 49ers who remember better days, the rash of bad publicity does not sit well.
"They have to think about what Bill Walsh used to tell us: 'Be accountable off the field as well as on the field,'" said former running back Roger Craig, who was part of three Super Bowl champions in the 1980s. "I see their young guys making the same mistakes over and over. Somebody needs to get in their ear and talk to them."
Star linebacker Aldon Smith accounts for four of the 49ers' arrests, including April 13, when the All-Pro pass rusher allegedly became belligerent at Los Angeles International Airport and told a Transportation Security Administration officer that he was in possession of a bomb.
The arrest figures do not include star quarterback Colin Kaepernick or young receiver Quinton Patton, who are being investigated for a "suspicious incident" after a purported night of partying at a Miami hotel. No charges have been filed in the case, and coach Jim Harbaugh said Friday: "I've seen one side reported. I've heard the other side. I feel very good there'll be a good resolution, and hopefully a just one, too. I hate to see his reputation be the victim."
Asked about the recent run of negative headlines, general manager Trent Baalke said: "One (arrest) is too many, OK? We just have to do a better job. And that's the mentality of this group and that's the mentality of this ownership. To think that we don't care? I take offense to (words like) 'classless' or 'lawless,' because that's far from the truth.
"Because if you're in there every day, if you're in the locker room with the majority of those guys, those are damn good guys that work awfully hard. ... Respect the masses because the masses are doing it right, and we'll get the other things fixed."
The trouble might represent a mere blip on the police scanner. But it also might signal the new price of success. As the arrests mount, it's time to wonder if the 49ers' willingness to take on players with questionable backgrounds represents a shift toward an edgier, more volatile culture.
Other episodes have led to undesirable press clippings: rookie cornerback Chris Culliver made anti-gay comments during the Super Bowl media day in 2013 in New Orleans; Pro Bowl linebacker Ahmad Brooks hit a teammate over the head with a beer bottle last June outside his San Jose home; Culliver, who had been working hard to rehabilitate his image, was arrested in March on suspicion of hit-and-run against a bicyclist while driving on a suspended license and was found in possession of brass knuckles.
The 49ers' off-field developments have raised some eyebrows around the NFL. The Bay Area News Group interviewed more than 20 people, including former players, coaches, general managers and agents, who discussed the 49ers' arrests and the challenges of evaluating character in the social media age.
Second chances? Or a blind eye?
In the three years before Harbaugh and Baalke took charge, there were four arrests involving 49ers players. In the three years since, the arrest figure has more than doubled. All five of the players who have been arrested in that span remain on the team.
At least one opposing front-office man has a simple explanation for the spike: "It just seems like they're on a bad run," the executive said.
Still, the 49ers seem unafraid to bank on players with checkered pasts, as well as to show forgiveness for their missteps. As for the troubled linebacker Smith, Fox Sports 1 obtained a predraft psychological profile from a subscription-service scouting company that pegged the Missouri star as "a higher than average risk" for getting into trouble. Baalke confirmed Friday that the 49ers subscribe to that service and that they were aware of the red flag.
Under Harbaugh and Baalke, the team has acquired several players with at least one arrest on their resume: Alex Boone, Chris Cook, Perrish Cox, Braylon Edwards, Donte Whitner, Randy Moss and Eric Wright.
Wright, who was arrested for driving under the influence in 2012 while playing for the Detroit Lions, faced a DUI charge only days before the 49ers acquired him in 2013 in a trade from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office did not file charges in the latter case).
In some of those cases, notably Boone and Whitner, the players emerged as model citizens inside the 49ers locker room as well as major contributors on the field.
"It's a risk-reward business," Baalke said. "And we try to take chances -- calculated chances -- and it has worked in a lot of cases. There are other times when the character of an individual coming into the NFL was sterling. But they end up being guys who get in trouble.
"It's not always the guys that come into the league with a checkered past that leave the league with a checkered past. It can be the opposite. And if anybody in here has the answer about who is going to end up doing what, give it to me. I could use it."
Big talent, big concerns
No 49ers' trend is more troubling than the career path of Smith, the linebacker at risk of squandering his prodigious talent.
Smith has been arrested for DUI twice and turned himself in on felony weapons charges in June 2012 after a wild party at the four-story home he rented in the hills of East San Jose spun out of control.
Police arrived after receiving reports of gunshots to find two men shot and a third -- later identified as Smith -- suffering from a stab wound. Investigators' details later revealed that Smith and then-teammate Delanie Walker had both fired guns into the air in an attempt to get hundreds of partygoers, including alleged gang members, to leave.
Last September Smith was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he was found passed out behind the wheel of a still-running car he had crashed into a tree. He is charged with having a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 -- nearly double the legal limit.
Some questioned management when the All-Pro pass rusher practiced with the team hours after he was released on bond. The scrutiny increased when less than 48 hours later, he played every snap of a 27-7 loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
After that Sept. 22 game, owner Jed York announced that Smith would be entering an inpatient facility for substance abuse. Smith, the team's sack leader, missed five games but returned for the team's third playoff run in as many years. He has never been suspended by the team.
Ronnie Lott, the legendary 49ers defensive back, has taken a personal interest in Smith's well-being, taking time to meet with the linebacker.
"I'm worried about him as an individual," Lott said after the LAX incident. "He's got so much ahead of him as a person -- forget about football -- as a person."
Smith has a hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Tuesday.
The 49ers probably will wait for the courts and league to act before deciding his playing status for 2014. The NFL might suspend him and the 49ers could take disciplinary action, as well.
"We're a family," Baalke said. "You don't just open a door and toss people out of it. You continue to work -- until they leave you no choice."
Former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon, a one-time league MVP, said the only reason that threshold hasn't already been met is because of Smith's extraordinary pass rushing ability.
"He'd probably be gone by now but he's a unique talent," said Gannon, who has met Smith. "He's probably a decent guy. But he's got some demons he's trying to fight through. And just because you're a decent guy doesn't mean you're a good decision-maker, and clearly he's made some really poor decisions that he has to be accountable for."
Judged on wins, losses
The 49ers are 36-11-1 since the off-field trouble began in earnest, with one Super Bowl appearance to go with those three NFC title games. Across the league, there is empathy for the 49ers' plight because even rival executives know what the job is all about.
"I don't think you can fault the 49ers for what they're doing because the real basis of this is what? It's wins and losses," said Ron Wolf, a former Green Bay Packers general manager. "That's how you're judged, and no one can do better than they've done."
Carmen Policy, a 49ers executive from 1983-1998 who helped create a sports dynasty in San Francisco, said societal changes make comparisons to the past almost moot.
The 24/7 news cycle, the lack of privacy in the social media age and an erosion of authority figures has contributed to the 49ers' situation.
"The authority of the coach isn't what it used to be," Policy said. "Nor is respecting the brand or shield. There is no bigger picture: just the image in the mirror."
Policy said the relative inexperience of York, at 32 the youngest NFL owner, has not complicated the 49ers' problems. He said the coach is responsible for team discipline, with executives acting in a supporting role.
"It's part of his authority and you don't want to overstep it, especially with a personality like Harbaugh, who seemingly had everything so put together the first couple of years," Policy said.
Gannon, who knows Harbaugh from his time as a Raiders assistant, said the coach and general manager take off-field behavior seriously.
"I think they think the same way when it comes to what type of player (they're looking for)," he said of Harbaugh and Baalke. "You want high-character individuals that do the right thing when no one's watching."
Gannon also recalled the perils of sharing a locker room with troubled players. He remains forever frustrated by "guys that were more concerned about having a good time than winning football games, guys that quite frankly put the entire team at risk because they got themselves in trouble and weren't able to play, disciplined, suspended," he said. "It gets to the point where it just wears you down."
Baalke said that the social media era throws another wrinkle into the character evaluation process. It's already tough to predict how fame and money might alter the personality of a young player transitioning from college to the NFL.
Now, they must envision how the prospect will handle round-the-clock scrutiny.
"It's made life for general managers even more difficult because it's nonstop," he said. "But this is what (players) signed up for, right? So they have to understand that significance of their actions as men. Not as players, as men. They have to understand that when they do something wrong, especially in the society that we live in now, that negativity sells."
Players' taking ownership
In one sense, the 49ers are no different from any team that is susceptible to their players' questionable off-field behavior. What is occurring in San Francisco is not an anomaly. Since Harbaugh and Baalke took over the 49ers, 153 players leaguewide have been arrested, including New England's Aaron Hernandez on murder charges.
But the NFL has received more scrutiny for other issues such as the handling of concussions and the bullying of former Stanford star Jonathan Martin in Miami.
"Some of these things these guys are getting involved in, it's just carelessness," former Raiders receiver Tim Brown said. "No respect for the position that they hold, or not enough respect."
Craig, who made four Pro Bowls during a 49ers career that lasted from 1983-90, said Walsh fostered a culture in which players were taught to act "as an extension of each other."
That didn't stop when players left the field. And while Walsh delivered the message, Craig said locker room leaders such as Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds, Charle Young, Willie Harper and Ronnie Lott carried it through. He chuckled a bit while recalling the many times Lott, a fearsome safety, would summon the players to clear the air.
"Ronnie would call a meeting and it would be players-only," Craig said. "What we did as football players was to take ownership of the team and say: 'Stop this kind of stuff.' Ronnie Lott was like the CEO of our team. When he talked, we listened."
Now, Craig called on the team's current leaders to do the same. The 49ers' most respected veterans, such as linebacker Patrick Willis, running back Frank Gore and defensive end Justin Smith, aren't known for their speechmaking. But Craig said recent incidents should serve as "a wake-up call."
"I think the team could do it now," he said. "Patrick Willis. Vernon Davis. Kaepernick. They have some strong voices and they can pull those guys in to be on the same page."
Beyond veteran players, all NFL teams employ someone to oversee player engagement, essentially a round-the clock resource for players as they navigate the pitfalls of being young, rich and in the spotlight. But former player Troy Vincent, now the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, said players also must accept their role.
"The resources that are available to the players are unlimited," Vincent said. "The challenge is we can only assist those who are looking for it."
Policy said he does not hold management responsible for the 49ers' off-field incidents. But he added that team officials need to pay attention to who their players hang out with to help them make the transition to a professional culture.
They also need to foster a peer-to-peer policing in the locker room, Policy said.
"The less authority you have in your life the tougher it is to handle" the NFL, he said. "It's all coming to roost now."
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Are Americans better off than before Barack Obama was elected president?
That's a question being debated today by the presidential campaigns.
Vice President Joe Biden says the answer is yes. At a Labor Day rally in Detroit, he led the chant: "Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive."
But Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, campaigning in Greenville, N.C., says the years under President Jimmy Carter "look like the good old days compared to where we are now."
Obama's supporters are insisting Americans are better off a day after Maryland's Democratic governor said the answer was "no." Martin O'Malley revised his remarks today, telling CNN "we are clearly better off," though "we have not recovered all that we lost."
Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus says today's happier talk from Democrats must mean that in one day, "23 million Americans have found jobs, incomes have gone up, gas prices are going down, poverty is in decline and the deficit has been cut."
As for regular Americans, 28 percent of those questioned in a recent Associated Press-GfK poll said they were better off than four years ago, while 36 percent said they were worse off. Another 36 percent said they were about the same.


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High IQ in Childhood May Predict Later Drug Use
Nov. 14, 2011 -- Brainy kids -- especially girls -- may be more likely to experiment with marijuana, cocaine, and other illicit drugs when they grow up, according to a new report.
In the study of close to 8,000 people, those who had high IQs when they were aged 5 and 10 were more likely to use certain illicit drugs at age 16 and at age 30.
The findings appear online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Exactly why having a high IQ at age 5 or 10 may encourage future drug use is not fully understood. But researchers have a theory. "People with a high IQ have also been found to be more open to new experiences," says study researcher James White, PhD, in an email.
White is a research associate at the Center for Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement at Cardiff University, Wales.
The research has been mixed on how a high childhood IQ affects behavior in adulthood, White says.
"Previous studies have found high childhood IQ is associated with mostly healthy behaviors in adult life, such as having a healthy diet, being physically active, and not smoking," he says. "However, other studies have found high childhood IQ is linked to excess alcohol intake and alcohol dependency in adult life."
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In the study, women with high IQ scores at age 5 were more than twice as likely to have used marijuana and cocaine by age 30 than those with lower IQs at age 5.
Men with high IQ scores at age 5 were about 50% more likely to have used speed (amphetamines), 65% more likely to have used ecstasy, and 57% more likely to have used multiple illicit drugs by age 30, compared with those who did not perform as well on IQ tests at age 5.
The findings held when IQ was measured at age 10.
Parents' social status, psychological distress during adolescence, and their adult socioeconomic status did not affect risk of illicit drug use.
The study was not designed to determine how often participants used illicit drugs. More study is needed before researchers can draw any conclusions on how to keep brainy kids from using illicit drugs in the future, White says.


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When Long Island resident Richard Manfredi decided to buy full-page ads in The Daily News and another Palo Alto newspaper in the form of an open letter to Elon Musk, he didn't expect to get a reply from the Tesla Motors CEO. But he wasn't surprised.
"The man's responsive to John Q. Public," said Manfredi, who lives in Southold, N.Y. "I'm just an ordinary man who bought his car and loves it."
His ad, which ran Friday in both The Daily News and the Palo Alto Weekly, calls Musk an "Automotive Visionary" and thanks him for "building the great American car."
Along with the flattery, Manfredi threw in some recommendations for future models -- seven of them, in fact. Voice-activated phone dialing would be nice, as would some blind-spot monitors and sound sensors. And, oh yes, bringing the cup holder forward would be good, too.
Instead of using his name and that of his wife's -- each owns a Tesla Model S sedan -- he signed the letter-ad "two VERY highly satisfied Tesla owners from Southold, New York."
In a message he tweeted to 863,000 followers on Sunday, Musk wrote: "Ad taken out in Palo Alto Daily by two Model S owners is right. Many of the suggestions will be implemented soon."
The message from the billionaire entrepreneur made a lot of headlines, including such publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Popular Mechanic, Market Watch and Huffington Post, and by Monday it was retweeted by almost 1,500 people.
Manfredi was astounded by all the media buzz.
"It's Mr. Musk that created the news, not me," said Manfredi, who declined to state his occupation but proudly described himself as an environmentalist. "It's all over the place."
Manfredi told The Daily News on Monday that when he went to buy a car in 2012 he wasn't planning to buy an electric vehicle. Instead, he ordered a brand new 2013 Lexus Hybrid 2013. But shortly afterward, he popped into a Tesla showroom in Long Island and fell in love with the Model S.
"I put my deposit down, having already ordered the Lexus," Manfredi said.
Although he's "not much of a driver," Manfredi said he kept the hybrid for longer trips when electric battery chargers may be unavailable, but drives the Tesla most of the time.
"The Lexus has a little over 2,000 miles, the Tesla has 20,000. That will tell you what car I like to drive," he said. "It's the most fun, most exciting car to drive."
And soon he'll have another.
Manfredi said he's already put down a deposit on the Tesla Model X SUV, slated to be launched next year. That's part of the reason he took out the ad, hoping that the next model will be a little more perfect.
"They weren't big deals," Manfredi said about the recommendations. "I thought maybe some of the engineers would see it."
Manfredi said he's glad Tesla is getting some publicity from the ads, because he would like to see more environmentally friendly vehicles on the road. In fact, his seventh suggestion is for Tesla to take out more media ads promoting its products.
"I'm hoping the electric car really catches on," Manfredi said.
A spokeswoman for Tesla, Alexis Georgeson, said in an email Monday that the company is "fortunate to have such passionate customers."
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Board Math: One Woman Equals Fewer Accounting Errors
Publicly traded companies are making a concerted effort, albeit a slow one, to diversify their boards. (The Journal reports a one percentage point gain at Fortune 1000 companies last year, meaning that women now hold 15.6% of board seats.)
But it turns out that even the smallest step – adding a single woman director– correlates with positive results.
New research shows that firms with at least one woman director are significantly less likely to restate quarterly or annual earnings than are companies with an all-male slate of directors—40% less likely, researchers say.
Restatements aren't just an issue of bad math and some extra charges in the next quarter. They can undermine a company's credibility, with shareholders second-guessing future earnings results and questioning the competency of the board's audit committee. (This CFO Journal piece looks at the accounting standards most commonly involved in recent restatements. Revenue recognition, taxes and hedging are all common.)
One theory as to why the mere presence of a single woman could lead to fewer accounting restatements, according to co-author Susan Parker, accounting professor and associate dean at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, is that heterogeneous groups are less susceptible to groupthink and allows members to raise objections and ask tough questions.
Also, companies open to board diversity may already be predisposed to good governance. "A good company may desire diversity because of its real or perceived benefits, and this effect may dominate any actual resulting improvement in corporate governance," Parker and her co-authors suggest.
Parker says she'd hesitate to say that the different restatement results are based on women being "different" from men, though she notes that other research has found women may have a greater tendency to challenge the status quo.
Much of the push for board diversification has been centered on Fortune 500 firms, but Parker says smaller companies – which this report examined – have an even worse representation of women than their big siblings. The vast majority of Fortune 500 companies have at least one woman, while the researchers' sample here showed less than half with any female representation.
Lawrence Abbott of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Theresa Presley from Kansas State University co-wrote the report with Parker.
The report is based on a study of 278 annual and 187 quarterly restatements from small U.S.-based public companies between 1997 and June 2002. It doesn't measure whether an even more equitable split could further improve accounting practices—because, the researchers say, there weren't enough companies in the sample with multiple women in the boardroom.
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13.115 I am satisfied that Irving has associated to a significant extent with the following individuals: Frey, Deckert, Althans, Philip, the Worches, Christophersen, Staglich, Rami, Varela, Zundel, Remer, Weckert and Faurisson. They are described in paragraphs 10.8 to 10.25 above. They are all right-wing extremists. I have no doubt that most, if not all of them, are neo-Nazis who deny the Holocaust and who are racist and anti-semitic. I also have no doubt that Irving was aware of their political views. His association with such individuals indicates in my judgement that Irving shares many of their political beliefs.


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Man jailed for naked stunt on London statue
Published: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 2:45 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 2:45 p.m.
LONDON (AP) — A man who climbed naked onto an equestrian statue in London's government district, ripped off its sword and bit it has been sentenced to 12 weeks in jail.
Dan Motrescu brought central London traffic to a standstill when he mounted the bronze statue of the 19th-century Duke of Cambridge on Nov. 23.
Police cordoned off Whitehall, a street that is home to several government departments, as Motrescu climbed up and down the statue, at one point balancing himself on the duke's head.
It took several hours for officers to talk him down.
Motrescu, a Ukrainian citizen of no fixed address, was convicted Tuesday of possession of an offensive weapon, criminal damage and a public order offense. A magistrate at Westminster Magistrates' Court sentenced him to 12 weeks in jail.
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The Bistro boasts a delicious "Fresh Food Menu" that includes breakfast sandwiches and for lunch, unique sandwiches, soups and salads made with "fresh veggies and fresh bread."
Opening at 6:30 a.m., all orders that are pre-ordered or called in are made. They start serving walk-ins at 8:00 a.m., staying open until 3:00 p.m. daily, including weekends.
Some of the sandwiches one can sink his teeth into include The Gobbler, Here Piggy Piggy, Holy Cow and Gone Fishin' to name a few. Their signature sandwich sauce keeps customers coming back.
What makes the Bistro's sandwiches stand out, along with their signature sauce, is the bread and fresh vegetables. They have Italian panini bread and freshly baked Torpedo rolls, Focaccia bread, white or honey wheat sub rolls, bagels and homemade croutons.
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Opdahl Grocery, Kjelshus Take Top Prize in Chili Cook-off
By Ginny Heth
There was a 'hot time in the old town' on Saturday as Westhope Community Club hosted the First Annual Chili Cook-off!
May 10th was chosen as Community Day for Westhope with city-wide rummage sales happening throughout the day as well as the annual Presbyterian Women's fund raiser serving sloppy joes, pie and coffee. They also had basket- and purse-mania, a silent auction type activity that is fun for all. Included this year in the day's activities was the Trini Tree Frogs Youth Group detailing the insides of cars. They had a great turn-out for their fund raiser, even having to turn away a couple of cars that arrived after their time was up. Maybe they will have to plan another day of car cleaning since people were so happy to have someone to take on that task for them!
Meanwhile, all around town people's homes were beginning to smell a lot like a Mexican restaurant as pots of chili were started in anticipation for the Chili Cook-off. Around 3:00 p.m., the Gateway Community Room began buzzing with activity as the ten contestants brought their chili in for tasting......some contestants even brought their own Mexican ambience including table cloths, decorations (even some hung on the wall!) and music!!
Ten entirely different pots of chili were there for the tasting when it began at 4:30 p.m. coming from Westhope Farmers Union (Kevin Schroeder, cook); Westhope Fire Department (Ryan Ellsworth, cook); Double EE Service (Ben Cartwright, cook); John Gruenberg, M&D Pizza (Heather Lee, cook); Presbyterian Children (Lola & Randy Kimpland); Rachel Gruenberg; Kim & Lance Kjelshus; Opdahl's Grocery (Barb Opdahl, cook); and Westhope Ambulance (UB & Sylvia Schlieper, cooks). There were white chilis, red chilis, and no bean chilis. Some were quite spicy and some were just flavorful, with out the bite! Many contestants included 'add-ins' such as sour cream, onions, chips, crackers and cheese to make their offering more enticing. Community Club provided corn bread to make sure everyone had a way to 'cut the heat' between bowls of chili, coffee & water with the water being the most popular thing!
In all, nearly 100 people voted and there was a tie for first place! Opdahl's Grocery and Kim & Lance Kjelshus are the proud winners, sharing a traveling trophy for the year and prize money. Coming in a close third (only one vote separated the three chilis!) was Westhope Ambulance with UB's Road Kill Chili, who took home a small cash prize as well.
Plans are already in the works for the 2nd Annual Westhope Community Day Chili Cook-off, so get those recipes tweeked, plan on a few decorations for your table (Opdahl's & the Kjelshus' both had very nicely decorated tables -- whether that had anything to do with the winning or not.....) and take a chance at bragging rights for next year!!
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Having abandoned city life long ago, the Marak's live in a quaint cottage on the outskirts of a small rural village. Honza (Tomás Hanák) earns a very modest living as a forest laborer, while his wife Marketa (Bara Schlesinger) works as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of the hallucinatory mushrooms that grow wild in the film's semi-fantastical state forest setting. Anyna (Anna Linhartová), their nymph-like, pubescent daughter, explores the verdant landscape by night, communicating with the stags that still make the endangered woodland their home.
It is in these wanderings that Anyna makes the acquaintance of locally born-and-bred forest ranger and hunter, Ludva (Tomás Vorel Jr.). Though the teen vegetarian is quick to criticize Ludva's hobby, she comes to develop deeper feelings for her co-lead after he saves her from a detestable group of predatory sportsman. In the meantime, her pagan parents are persecuted by local authorities, with her mother being taken into custody for her popular magic mushroom séance. As their financial situation becomes increasingly dire, a solution emerges following an unexpected life change.
A sequel to Vorel's successful Out of the City (2000), To the Woods is a comic celebration, ultimately, of West Bohemia's surviving flora and fauna species. The director's follow-up also pays tribute to the area's woodsman and farmers, whose traditional mode of existence is perpetually threatened by urban encroachment. Destined to be one of this year's most singular selections, To the Woods is an enchanting and truly eccentric work of Czech popular cinema.
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- The arts improve the quality of life in the community (54 percent)
- The arts help create a vibrant community and society (49 percent)
- The arts improve academic performance for students (47 percent)
- Arts organizations offer education initiatives that benefit the community (47 percent)
This most recent survey shows an increase in business support for the arts bringing us back to near 2006 levels. However, there is still more work to be done. In 2012, we launched the pARTnership Movement (www.pARTnershipMovement.org) to provide businesses and arts organizations with the tools they need to create meaningful partnerships that support a healthy, creative, and artistic community, but that also give businesses a competitive advantage. The pARTnership Movement demonstrates how the arts can help businesses enhance the critical thinking and creative skills of their workforce and how arts organizations can develop new innovative business strategies. Together, they can advance the communities in which they live and work in new and resourceful ways.
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STOCKTON - Edison High School and adjacent Dolores Huerta Elementary were locked down as a precaution for 25 minutes late Thursday morning following unconfirmed reports of an individual with a gun on or near the high school campus.
Stockton Unified spokeswoman Dianne Barth said SUSD police officials swept the schools. No weapons were found.
Lockdowns are routine at schools if there are reports of someone with a gun.
Edison and Huerta students returned to their classes following the lockdown. Thursday was an early release day at Edison; instruction ended at 12:20 p.m. Huerta let out at 2:30 p.m.
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Late plea negotiations in a Mill Valley attempted murder case collapsed Thursday, leaving the trial to start as planned in September.
The suspect, Max Wade, 19, appeared Thursday morning before Judge Kelly Simmons, who reported that settlement discussions in her chambers "broke down."
Prosecutor Yvette Martinez-Shaw and defense attorney Charles Dresow said they were ready to proceed to trial. Neither would comment on the plea negotiations, and it was unclear whether all the charges were in the table or just some.
Wade returns to court Sept. 10 for pre-trial discussions on various issues, including whether he will be shackled at the defense table.
Wade was arrested last year after an investigation by the Marin County Sheriff's Office. Authorities allege that he tried to kill a teenage couple in a drive-by shooting last April because the girl had rejected him romantically.
After investigators identified Wade as the suspect and placed him under surveillance, they tailed him to a storage facility in Richmond. They arrested him there, searched the storage locker and seized weapons, ammunition, fake IDs for three states, radio-jamming equipment, a replica police uniform and a $200,000 yellow Lamborghini.
The car, which belonged to restaurateur and television chef Guy Fieri, was stolen from a San Francisco dealership in 2011 after the thief rappelled from a high window to the showroom floor, authorities said.
Wade, who spent part of his childhood in Tiburon, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, vehicle theft, burglary and other crimes.
Although the alleged crimes occurred before he turned 18, he was charged as an adult.
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Veterinarian remembers growing up at Buffalo Zoo
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 4:41 p.m.
Frank McClelland had a different kind of life growing up than most kids. He was surrounded by animals, following his dad around the Buffalo Zoo.
You could say the retired veterinarian was destined to work with animals. McClelland, now 95 and an Arden resident, was born at his family's animal hospital in Buffalo just two floors up from horses in stables and other animals.
McClelland's father, Frank Sr., was a veterinarian who moved to Buffalo in 1909 and began working at a local animal hospital before taking it over and turning it into the McClelland Small Animal Hospital. He became instrumental in the Buffalo Zoo's operations.
"When they put the zoo together, he was the first veterinarian there," McClelland said.
McClelland, who had a younger sister and brother who were also born on the third floor of the animal hospital, spent his days at the family practice.
"As soon as we got old enough, we came to the hospital to clean the kennels," he said.
The younger McClelland graduated from Cornell in 1940, but didn't immediately join the family practice. He instead chose to join the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and spent World War II working as a food inspector.
When he returned home, however, McClelland began working in the family business. He and his brother, Robert, were both veterinarians and well on their way to following in their fether's footsteps.
He spent time working at the Buffalo Zoo, where he befriended a chimp named Eddy and a giraffe he helped to deliver. The giraffe would come to him on command.
"This is what happens when you get involved with the zoo," he said. "You make a lot of friends."
The Buffalo Zoo eventually added an onsite animal hospital and named it after Frank McClelland Sr. The hospital treats animals at the zoo today.
The McClellands had a long history in not only New York, but the rest of the country working as veterinarians. All three were named National Veterinarian of the Year at one point. McClelland and his brother won the award after developing a vaccine for distemper.
They all were awarded the New York State Distinguished Service Award and served as presidents of different veterinarian associations, including the American Veterinarian Medical Association. The senior McClelland was a charter member of the group.
Frank McClelland Jr. retired to Brevard in 1994. He immediately put his knowledge of animals to use in the community by becoming involved at Brevard College and local elementary schools. He had plenty to share with the kids, from pictures of himself with animals varying from leopards to elephants to giraffes.
He had a lifetime to share.
"All my life I was around animals," McClelland said. "You get attached to them. The important thing is that it was a family affair."
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If you've driven down Laney Walker Boulevard lately, you may have noticed the progress on the new Laney High School stadium and athletic complex.
Contractors are on schedule and hope to be finished by the fall.
Superintendent Dr. Charles Larke explains some changes to the plans that will only mean more football fans.
Betty and Willie Jones have seen the transformation of their neighborhood in the past five months.
"Most of the houses had gone down, the area had gone down, and when you have new Laney Walker areas that have been built up, you've got to make this side look good to build up," says Betty.
And building up is what's happening.
Contractors are piecing together what will be Laney High School's new stadium and athletic complex.
Originally plans called for a 6,000-seat stadium at $8.5 million, but city commissioners contributed $2.5 million and the Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corporation contributed $1 million to the project.
Now instead of 6,000 seats, "We now will have 9,000 seats and added restroom facilities for that capacity," says Richmond County School Superintendent Dr. Charles Larke.
The entire complex calls for football, soccer, baseball, and softball fields, press boxes, and even a walking track accessible to the public.
Until now Laney was the only high school with a football program without a stadium.
"I've seen different areas they are going to have over in the stadium. That's going to be nice," Betty says.
"Why is it important that Laney finally gets their own stadium? I think that every high school needs to have their own stadium. What is home field advantage if you don't have a home?" says Dr. Larke.
Something that means a lot when playing one of your biggest rivals.
Other projects going on near Laney High School:
A.R. Johnson Magnet School is getting $15 million in renovations, and C.T. Walker is getting $9 million dollars in renovations.
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Former Oak Ridge schools superintendent Bob Smallridge could come back on board as an interim superintendent of schools if a potential nominee has a scheduling issue.
The Board of Education currently has three candidates on its short list for the superintendent position and is setting up appointments for them to visit the city, sit for a second interview and have a "meet and greet" session with city leaders, officials and residents at the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.
BOE Chair Keys Fillauer said earlier this week the BOE will meet on Jan. 7 and at that time could offer Smallridge the interim superintendent position.
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New wings for spinal research
The Paracelsus Private Medical University (PMU) in Salzburg is to build a new research center for spinal cord injuries. The €70m construction tab will be picked up by Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner of Red Bull. Other partners in the project include the province of Salzburg, Salzburg's University Hospital and the Foundation for Spinal Cord Research "Wings for Life", which was also founded by Mateschitz. The new facility in Salzburg will focus on several research areas, including stem cells, the regeneration of nerve cells and molecular approaches to restoring injured nerve connections. Other priorities include the prevention of secondary damage after spinal cord injuries have occurred, and compensation therapies that rely on stimulation of nerves and patient rehabilitation. "This is the third largest amount that a European university has ever received from an individual," said PMU Rector Herbert Resch. Construction will begin in the first half of 2012. It will host numerous research and teaching facilities on 8,000m2. "The close integration of basic science and clinical research on new cross-sectional and tissue regeneration will be one of the great features of the new facilities," stressed Resch. In all, these will employ three research professors and around 40 staff.


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Offshore wind turbines like these could appear off the New Jersey coast under a new state program.
In a bid to boost offshore wind energy, New Jersey enacted a law on August 19 that provides a financial incentive for companies to construct turbines in the Atlantic Ocean off the state's coast. The "Offshore Wind Economic Development Act" will offer offshore wind renewable energy certificates to approved projects for the generation of 1,110 megawatts of power. The new law also seeks to attract firms that build wind turbines, their components, or water access facilities by granting up to $100 million in tax credits as well as financial assistance to qualified applicants. The Garden State used a similar approach to encourage photovoltaic installations and is now producing 57.3 megawatts DC, putting it second behind only the much-sunnier California on the list of states.
Under provisions of the new law, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities will determine a process for utilities to buy offshore renewable energy certificates from commercial offshore wind farms. State statutes require New Jersey get 22.5% of its electricity from renewables by 2021. See the press release from Governor Chris Christie and the full text of the bill (PDF 183 KB). Download Adobe Reader.
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I first heard Phish around 1995, when a cute hippy girl I knew in high school was telling me stories of shit I just could not fathom (driving around California following some band, taking acid at age 14?) -- I was a nerd to the core (still am) and the craziest thing I had done at that point was have a beer at a family BBQ. She played me a few songs from Rift, and a couple from Junta, and like a typical 14/15 year old I thought Fee was "neat" and Lengthwise was funny. Then I went back to listening to Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, and Pearl Jam. Fast forward a couple years, a kid moves from Connecticut to my high school in San Francisco, and he's a huge Phish fan. And Dave's got tapes! By that point I had been getting into the Dead by exploring my Dad's record collection (turns out Pops caught some Dead shows in the '70s -- you'd never guess from meeting him), and though Phish was very different from the Dead to my ears, after Jerry died, at least in San Francisco, a lot of the talk in that "scene" turned to Phish. Dave copied some tapes for me, including a VHS of that Woodbury Racquet and Ski Club show (4/29/90) which I watched a bunch of times. I go off to college in Fall '98 and I still hadn't seen Phish, but I started getting into them some more. I just wasn't paying enough attention, and I hadn't found resources like etree.org or RMP. Once I had settled in at college just across the bay in Berkeley, I finally used my newfound freedom to get out to some shows. I saw String Cheese at the Fillmore in March '99, Phil and Friends at the Greek in August '99, and got tickets to night two for Phish at Shoreline. In retrospect, I am *so* disappointed that I missed the Phil and Phriends run in April '99. God damn I'm an idiot -- I love those shows! But again, I just wasn't paying enough attention. At that time I was more interested in chasing tail and was stressing about school.
So I finally make it to Shoreline (with Dave, who became my roommate a few months later). We get lawn tickets because again, I'm just a 19 year-old n00b and I don't know any better (Shoreline lawn pretty much blows -- you can't see shit unless you're watching the jumbo screens, which is kind of like watching a DVD). My first song is Mozambique and I have no idea what the hell's going on. Is this some crazy jam or some song I've never heard of? But by the time the dark part of Guyute rolls around, I'm already locked in. This is nuts! Then Trey starts up the sirens and I get my first Ghost. I get lost in the jam and don't even remember what they're playing halfway through the jam (at this point I'm completely lit). And out of nowhere comes Lawn Boy, from Ghost with a perfect ">" as if they were one long song I had heard the version on Slip, Stitch and Pass, and because to that point I'd only heard a handful of shows, it tripped me out that within four songs these guys had played a new latin-infused instrumental, a prog-rocking epic about a pig, a full on porno-funk groove, and now some lounge music? Needless to say I was sold, despite my being a little uncomfortable with some of the crazy shit going on around me (dirty wooks falling over and acting, well, acting like dirty wooks). Then comes Peaches, which had *just* been busted back out two shows earlier in Boise in a show (9/14/99) that also featured my second-favorite AC/DC Bag of all time (12/30/97 being my favorite). A nice, thick, funky Moma ensues, and this one's got some Monkey Man teases around 3:45 that I did NOT notice while I was at the show. Water in the Sky is the fast version, fine, and Circus is nice too -- I didn't even know it was a cover at that point. BoTT was pretty damn boring to me this time around -- it hadn't been jammed out yet, and it didn't have any funk that we'd see in versions like 6/14/00 the next year. After the little lull of Water, Circus, BoTT, things got awesome again and they didn't let up for the rest of the show. David Bowie and YEM were probably my favorite songs going in to my first show, so I was stoked to get a first set Bowie and knew enough about the band to expect that once Bowie started, it would be the first set closer -- after all, going into Bowie they'd already been playing for an hour. Bowie did not disappoint, and I was pleasantly suprised to have Coil tacked on to end the set. I instantly fell in love with the Page outro as a way to end a set, though this wasn't his best effort ever (still good though).
We went and bought hot dogs during set break -- no beer for these fake ID-less 19 year olds! We went back on the lawn and tried to eavesdrop to see what other people thought of the first set. I thought it was really good (still do!) and I got the sense that others enjoyed it, but that nothing truly *epic* had happened. Runaway Jim kicked off the second set, and I thought it was a great way to kick off the second set. It was 10 minutes long, and I remember liking how they stretched it out beyond early '90s versions -- at that time I didn't have a sense for the second set opener being the spot for the beginning of serious exploration, even though compared to later shows, a 10 minute Jim batting leadoff in the second set wouldn't be considered long at all. Dave turned to me during Jim and commented on this line:
"Jim came home when he was 17 / that's 119 to you and me"
He explained that 7 dog years were the equivalent to a human year, so the band knew what they were talking about: 7 x 17 = 119. My fragile teenage mind was blown. If I were me seeing this exchange between two 19 year olds at a show now it would probably be the funniest thing I saw all night. Oh, to be a n00b again... The end of Jim jumped right into Sand, another "never heard this one" for me. It was only the second time played, and was a lot slower pace than it is nowadays. Mike didn't stray at all from the bassline and Fish kept solid time. Trey set up some pretty psychedelic, effects-laden sonic washes throughout the whole jam -- it sounded like Electric Ladyland-era Hendrix, or some of the more acid-influenced Beatles work. Piper was up next, and consisted of essentially two full on jam sections separated by a "second verse" of red red worming. It was balls to the wall the whole time, and contained more of the same psychedelic swells from Trey. The second jam winds down into a very cool sparse section which leads into Roggae. At that moment I don't think I'd ever heard anything more beautiful than Roggae and before I could get lost too deep in thought, here comes YEM! So I got my Bowie and I got my YEM -- thanks guys! AND WAIT, WHAT'S THIS?! IS THAT PHIL LESH JUMPING ON TRAMPOLINES WITH TREY AND MIKE?! Being a Dead fan at that point and having just seen Phil for the first time a month earlier, I just about shat myself. I didn't realize the historic significance of this, and all the "Phish not wanting to draw comparisons to the Dead" were completely unknown to me, but I did know that this was sick! I actually couldn't hear Phil for shit in YEM until the duet. The Bass Duet out of YEM was cool even though to be honest I didn't think musically it was *that* great until the very end. I know, blasphemy... Wolfman's was freaking great, and I didn't know that Phil had already learned it in April (as I mentioned, head in the sand). Cold Rain and Snow was awesome as well, and it's *so* good to hear Trey jamming on Dead tunes. Having just seen Phil the previous month at the Greek, I recognized Warren when he came out on stage -- I'm not really a fan of Mule or his music in general, but it was money to get the second guitar for Viola Lee Blues and the extra vocals are a *must* for this one. The sweet part was that even though they show had already hit the 3 hour mark before the encore, they didn't care what time it was, they jammed the encore out till it was done. VLB comes to an intense peak around the 10 minute mark, before breaking through in an orgasmic release, circling back to the main theme. Great stuff! This is a solid 4 star show -- one of the few Phish shows where the guest sit-in actually works -- but I'm giving it the full five stars for popping my cherry.


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PEMDAS is a Cocoa-based calculator which lets you work with equations and variables.
Also make sure to check out the PEMDAS Dashboard Widget, which is similar but not as powerful as the app.
Required OS: 10.5
Tags: calculator , math , scientific , engineering , utility
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PEMDAS is the perfect balance between a simple calculator application and a more advanced math software tool such as Matlab or Scilab.
Additionally, Mike Filippone was very reactive to fix a nasty bug I reported.
Great app from a smart developer!
This is great!
Iusethis all the time :)
Thanks for that. That's what we call BEDMAS (brackets being the first letter).
I had been using Formulas which seems to be the previous name of the program... it's really great.
Oh man, resizing and side bar have no minimum's this rocks now!
Mr Developer, if you ever get time can you please make it remember its previously set window settings :) So when i reopen it doesnt go back to default.
Not a big deal cause i hardly close this
I just saw this, ive been using Calc (http://osx.iusethis.com/app/calc) which is similar. However this app does look more beautiful.
I have one request tho, the ability to resize the application more, for most of my calculations i dont need 515 pixels wide textarea, i would love to resize it down to like 200px.
Thanks for making this app, looks great so far!
@ ruahine:
PEMDAS is the acronym of "Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract", which is the order of operations for evaluating math expressions.
What's this word PEMDAS which is referred to everywhere? Is it some old unix calculator?
Hi zany, thanks for the comments, I'll try to add bin/oct/hex output and input in the next version.
I just love PEMDAS. But I still use BC (the unix terminal classic) for complicated stuff.
Formulas could finally be an awesome replacement for BC. (Mike could perhaps add optional output in different bases?)
I'm not sure if I'd necessarily say it's like Soulver -- I think both apps have different audiences. With Super PEMDAS, I'm shooting more for an ultralight version of Matlab/Maple, especially for doing engineering/science type work.
In all honesty, it's not quite usable for everyday work yet (you can't even save things), so you won't be missing too much if you hold off on upgrading to Leopard until 10.5.2 or 10.5.3, when things in the OS stabilize a bit more. You can always use the PEMDAS widget on Tiger in the meantime (shameless plug, heh).
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Lou Siffer wrote:Yeah, 20 can be difficult, and it does seem more direct to go to 22 from 19.
Leftys and forehand throwers will love both of those holes! h well.
IHearChains wrote:I love 21. But 20 is more like a necessary evil the only purpose is to get me up the hill so I can tee off on 21.
K.C. wrote:I actually think its a a controlled Roc and THEN possibly a driver shot (as it clears out a bit more after 200 ft. or so)(or maybe YOU have the arm to throw another mid-range, where as I don't). Where I think most people are relying on driver THEN mid-range. Who knows...maybe I'm wrong, and thats why I still suck. But...I think that hole deserves more credit, cuz it can easily cost you 1 - 4 (or more) strokes.
KePP wrote:Personally I would love to see a pair of baskets set 50' apart near a camping area to get kids hooked on bangin' chains playing catch.
KePP wrote:Worked with Mike the Axe last night at Devil's Glen and it reminded me that I still need to reply to this. Primarily the reason for removing the four additional holes is to make it 18... not necessarily b/c there are real issues with them.
7: Storm damage knocked out the huge trees in the middle of the fairway. More importantly, the teepad is a blind landing zone for hole 8. And flow from 6 to 8 is perfect.
12: Flow (after removal of 10 & 11). This is a beautiful hole that would be missed. I've heard the idea of 9's tee to 12's basket, with some protective trees added by 13's pad.
19: FLOW! And people hazard, as I've seen this basket used for a tackle box. When you finish this hole, because the Parks people blocked off the wooded trail, you're supposed to walk all the way back down the fairway to get to 20. This hole also fields a few minor complaints from a golf standpoint, mostly the green area, after tournaments. Also, the flow from 18-20 is perfect.
22-23: People loved this safari hole! 22 is good, but not special. Combined, it could basically be the signature finishing hole, almost.
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