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I think there is already quite enough gaming in the Climate Treaty discussion.
Then there's developing countries that say no, and China, who looks at their allocated 10 red and 10 black chips, and says, "Give us 275 more chips or g'bye", and negotiators give it to them.
Much simpler generalizations are pimped for all manner of ideology in philosophy, politics, economics, education,
For important issues, apparently, we just have to choose the right mission statement and let the divine hand of providence guide us to safety.
Yep. The problem is that the game they play has nothing to do with fixing the climate.
It's all about ass-covering and not appearing 'weak' in front of your peers. The same game that governs high schools, street gangs, prisons and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzee groups.
But who's going to "give" the treasure and what will be the source of the funding? Serious question.
And to what end since China will *never* play the game. They have no reason to - they own everything.
A good read: Death by China... (Also a movie narrated by Martin Sheen.)
The Chinese argument is that their CO2 emission per capita is still less than of most developed countries.
The Chinese argument is that their CO2 emission per capita is still less than of most developed countries.
Largely irrelevant. If the Chinese won't play till their per capita CO2 emissions are comparable to EU/US levels, then CO2 emissions worldwide will continue to increase till then even if the EU and US reduce our emissions to ZERO.
The sooner we impose heavy tariffs on goods from countries that do not meet certain requirements for human rights and environmental policy, the better. We could do it now. It will hurt, but we could manage. If we wait a few decades, it will be too late.
Agreed, we should restrict imports from the biggest polluters, especially America.
Uhm, China has been quite willing over the past two decades. Especially in the period 1990 - 2005 China was open for serious reductions. It was the stubborn asshole-ness of Australia, USA and Canada that eventually made China turn around. If you want to play the blame game I suggest you start with Team USA.
(posting as anonymous as I don't want my account linked to this comment, I work on this for the Canadian government)
Especially in the period 1990 - 2005 China was open for serious reductions. It was the stubborn asshole-ness of Australia, USA and Canada that eventually made China turn around.
More cynical people might view this as an attempt to use emission regulations as a weapon to harm their competitors's economies, and stopping that when their own industry grew to the point where it would start seriously affecting them.
If you want to play the blame game I suggest you start with Team USA.
Yes, always blame the USA. It is impossible to miss a target that big and it just seems so very right. There are no other forces in this world other than America.
The negotiations must fail, because they're all based on blame and negativity. Fingerpointing between the first world and the developing world is not at all useful. Every premise we've seen so far has been based on the lose-lose more strategy of negotiating.
We're fucked.
We're fucked.
Indeed. The ultimate answer to the Fermi Paradox is too obvious to ignore: Greed.
There is a bit of that happening. Luxury companies offering the wealthy protection against extreme weather events already exist (for example a company that promises hurricane evacuation on first class travel systems).
Other companies are investing heavily in tools to profit from climate disasters - particularly where those are expected to hit poor regions/countries, there is a fortune to be made out of the suffering of those people who are displaced, killed etc.
Make no mistake - when you're rich, there is no
We're fucked.
#define SARCASM
You must be either from outside the USA or a blatant commie!
The PC correct way to comment is: "When we're fucked we'll at least have a huge stash of cash hidden away for bad times. And we'll be needing it dearly to pay our way out of the disaster." PC but not really smart reasoning.
#undef SARCASM
Forget the "bad" things the USA gave us. These things would have come around regardless. Instead consider that Nash gave us game theory which holds keys to solving many problems where egoism i
Yes, yes, the sky is falling, it always has been, and it always will be.
We coped with far wilder climate change when we had nothing better than smelly furs, sharpened sticks and "Fire bad, tree pretty" to work with. I'm pretty sure that many of us will muddle through somehow.
We're fucked because we are too stupid to choose the right decision, however evident it is.
Some say humans are the smartest animals out there, but the reality (and soon history) is humans are as dumbfuck as every other species of the little muddy rock, they grow until they overshoot and then disappear.
They did and it worked as predicted. There is nothing wrong with game theory when applied accordingly. Game theorists pointed out that by present and past regulations short time gains can be increased by the risk of losses later. And they predicted that those who are able to stay ahead would not suffer losses. And that is exactly what happened. They played hot potato with a lot of hot potato. And someone burned their fingers. It is a pyramid-like game. They always fail in the end. But while normally the las
In my experience the difference between psychopaths and the rest of us is not in how we behave, but in how we feel afterwards.
Don't blame math for the people misusing it.
If model and reality disagree then reality must be wrong.
Math is not a model of anything. You should learn game theory before bashing it.
You've phrased that incorrectly, because all people can "behave according" to game theory, but they may not be aware or else each be playing at a different game. In their example, they demonstrate incetive based reasoning with clear short term and long term benefits. They found that most people chose the short term benefit because they couldn't justify the value of their contribution to the more intangible long term benefit. So they took their chances on being able to weather what they considered a lesser l
I'm planning on watching this BBC Documentary [wikipedia.org] this weekend; it looks like the first segment discusses game theory.
I'm planning on watching it, too. For anyone else who wants to make plans to watch BBC's The Trap:
https://torrents.thepiratebay.se/3795702/The_Trap__What_Happened_To_Our_Dream_Of_Freedom__(Adam_Curtis.3795702.TPB.torrent [thepiratebay.se]
It was a geography class and we were supposed to be countries working together.
I did a model UN in high school once (no experience necessary, just sign up) and a friend and I represented Qatar (pre-US involvement) because we only got to pick from the smallest countries. Most of the delegates were highly-studied polisci geeks and they represented the Security Council nations and others of global import.
Our strategy was we only cared about oi
You can't just take a paragraph at random from the article and throw it up onto the screen. I mean, you can, but it's not useful. Having read the article it's an interesting experiment, but the summary gives me no information about the other important piece: when the number of chips to avert disaster is set at 150 and known, the players cooperate; while when that number is unknown except for "between 100 and 200" everybody skimps on contributions and loses 15 euros plus whatever they contributed.
On the ot
In frustration, I read the linked article, because I couldn't tell what the actual was about, from the Slashdot summary. Here's a better summary:
Researchers gave each person a national treasury of €20. In order to avert catastrophe, a minimum of €150 in the main pool had to be collected total. If catastrophe is not averted, each player's account is depleted by €15. Players got to keep any remaining money in their national treasury. In almost every game, people contributed enough money to avert catastrophe. It was only when the catastrophe was made more unpredictable that the game collapsed. Instead of requiring €150 to completely avert disaster, the catastrophe had a chance of happening based on how much money was allocated. In the second scenario, people promised enough money to minimize the risk, yet they did not allocate it, thinking that the odds would not be significantly increased if they underfunded the mitigation. Because so many people "embezzled", the odds were significantly affected and the catastrophe invariably occurred.
Basically, the players should have studied their Kant [wikipedia.org].
Significant changes in climate we observe since roughly 1985.
If CO 2 output would be stopped right now, then on the first glance nothing would be changed. It would take centuries to get rid of the current CO 2 level back to a niveau from - lets say 1980.
However a fix will of course only work if we can stop a runnaway climate catastrophe. Greenlands Ice should not melt e.g. Alaska and Sibirian perma frost is not allowed to melt e.g.
Looking at the current rate of acceleration in increased CO2 output I guess w
Well, that was the whole point of the game. Since nobody can be certain if a particular fix will or won't work, negotiations are hampered as risk is a continual slide and spending too much is a "waste." If you think that there is no climate change risk then any amount is too much, and if you think it is likely then no amount is too much, and then you have every position in-between. Any which way you benefit from anything others spend, so you have incentive to try to get others to fix the problem for you.
Actually 150 chips not 150 euros (otherwise why bother to contribute at all, the cost will be the same either way).
In frustration, I read the linked article, because I couldn't tell what the actual was about, from the Slashdot summary.
The question I would ask is whether or not the players in these games are drawn from the same culture, political system, and so on.
In other worlds, whether they share the same values.
The same understanding of the issues.
The difference between this model and reality is basically the difference between the prisoner's dilemma and its iterated version. IRL it's possible to react to parties not keeping their promises.
The given scenario states, that we are all doomed, because there is no fixed point of disaster. However, they missed one thing. If if we had a fixed point. The point is outside of our lifespan. The effect of our doing will hit our children children. Therefore, the game has to be changed. You get the money and can spend it on green stuff. And when enough of the others do the same, the next group of people who plays the game gets the money.
I'm about to become 46 this year.
Neither the point where the oil is gone nor the point where certain areas of earth suffer harshly from climate chane is beyond my expected rest live span.
Sure, regarding oil you will always find another tar or oil sand pit somewhere
Make it a bit more realistic
A few nations are wealthier than the majority, the people playing those nations get booze and a blowjob every night.
Those who are poorest have to give the blowjobs to the wealthiest. Now commit the money. You have to convince the wealthiest to give up their margin of comfort and all its rewards so that the poorest nations can get enough wealth to join the wealthy ones. The only way to do this is for everyone to commit to sharing their wealth equally.
The end result is no one gets booze and blowjobs, but also no one is forced to give head. Good luck convincing the rich to give up their advantage, and good luck convincing the poor that they don't need all the wealth of the richest ones so they can get the same lifestyle.
Lastly, whether you win or lose, your children and your grandchildren will be playing the same game when they grow up.
Ok, its very tasteless as an example, but I can't foresee any circumstances in which the rich and powerful will be willing to part with their riches and power (obtained at the expense of the poor people they walked all over to obtain it), or which will convince those who live in poverty that they don't deserve better treatment and a better level of living - which they can't get if they are required to spend too much of their money and effort on being ecologically responsible, particularly if the rich nations are trying to buy their way out of being equally responsible - in proportion to their contribution to the problem.
Our problem boils down to human selfishness and greed. Those will kill millions in the end if we don't do something. No politician wants to be the one that tells their electorate "Sorry but you have to reduce your quality of life", because they won't be reelected. Few wealthy and powerful people are going to give up what they have for the sake of making others more rich and more in control of their own destinies etc. Some humans are altruistic but not enough of us.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Sounds like a multiplayer version of this. Cooperate and receive a payoff, don't and you all lose.
One problem is: he current models don't make useful predictions and so the contribution necessary to avert future 'disaster' or how that contribution is to be spent isn't certain. Or even if the results of that spending might make things worse rather than better.
The other problem: The outcome is in the future and is uncertain. Prisoner's dilemma only really works if the game is trusted. That is; if it is know
Game Theory is wrong. Has always been wrong and that is not going to change. It is best ignored and avoided in all cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory [wikipedia.org]
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"


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Oliver Makes Her Mark
UCLA Medical Center's Pattie Oliver shines with healthful, upscale room service and a wellness initiative.
At A Glance: UCLA Medical Center Foodservice Snapshot
•$11 million annual budget
•35 tons of food and supplies received each week
•1,500 patient meals served daily
•$7 million annual cafeteria sales
•6,000+ catering evens per year; $1 million+ annual catering sales
With her striking good looks—think long blond hair, model's figure, vivacious blue eyes and 500-watt smile—Pattie Oliver easily could be part of the Hollywood scene. But this California woman, a registered dietitian whose credentials also include MS and MBA degrees, is right at home as director of nutrition at 669-bed UCLA Medical Center.
When Oliver came on board eight years ago as chief clinical dietitian, she faced a daunting task: she was being groomed to one day take the helm from her boss, the beloved and widely respected Silver Plate award winner Carlton Green. But since Green's retirement two years ago, Oliver has succeeded not by copying him but by being herself.
"Carlton made a great financial impact here with a department that had been in a very poor state when he arrived," she points out. "But following a successful person—actually a legend—was a challenge, especially since he left such a very high functioning department. Also, few people have the speaking skills and stage presence that he has. For example, each year we have a holiday party and Carlton would put on a costume, sing and dance and really give them a show. That first Christmas after he left, my staff wanted to know what costume I would wear.
But, more appropriate to my personality—and without donning a costume—I said a few words about the staff's contribution to our department's success. Carlton and I speak often—he's still my great mentor and friend—but we all have to be who we are."
Taking the lead: In choosing her career, what Oliver wanted most was to work in a "helping field." During her freshman year at California State University at Northridge, a nutrition course sparked her interest. "Several times in my career I was going to be promoted into management but twice I made the decision to go back to a more patient-related position," she recalls. "I guess I have a knack for stepping in and taking the lead, so I knew eventually I'd move into administration. Therefore, in 1995, I went back to school to get some formal management credentials, and earned an MBA in 1997 from the University of La Verne [CA]. When Carlton hired me, he made it clear he wanted someone with the educational background to eventually take his position; he was a firm believer in having someone for every key position waiting in the wings."
Today, Oliver finds herself very involved in two major projects. The first has thrust her into the gearing-up stage of the implementation of one of the first healthful fine-dining hotel-style room service programs in a medical center. The second project brings her back to her original reasons for choosing a career in dietetics by immersing her in developing a many-faceted employee wellness initiative.
Moving right along: Following several postponements, come September, UCLA Medical Center is slated to move patients and staff across the street and into the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a 550-bed facility touted as one of the most technologically advanced centers in the world—with a first-class room service program to match. While the kitchen and cafeteria are "beautiful," according to Oliver, they were both designed a decade ago, predating both Green's and Oliver's arrival and the subsequent growth in cafeteria participation; she concedes this may prove problematic.
Although Oliver hasn't had much input on the physical layout, the many aspects of creating and implementing the fine-dining room service program are center of her plate. "Executive chef Mark Dyball and chef manager Gabriel Gomez have planned this menu to include more than 32 entrees, 18 vegetarian choices and no fried foods," she says. "We're rolling it out this month at our Santa Monica UCLA facility; they're already doing a manual style of room service but we're automating it. The Santa Monica kitchen will be a training area for us prior to our September move, plus we'll also pilot room service here on our VIP floor with private rooms."
Most of the menu and service planning has been effected over the past two years under Oliver's direction. In April, she was still holding weekly meetings to iron out the many technical aspects of implementing the computer program. "One portion includes interfaces for the diet order program, another for the food allergy program and a third for the patient information program," Oliver explains. "Most computer menu systems don't accept free text, so each element has to be assigned a code. The process has taken over a year and has included training every nurse and physician to understand that there are only a certain number of diets they can order. We've always wanted to decrease the number of special diets, and this move allowed us to actually reduce the number from about 100 to 24."
Training her staff, which will increase from 180 FTEs to about 190, is also critical since the tray line of old will soon disappear. As a result, new positions, most requiring patient interface, will be created.
Wellness for staff: Meanwhile, during the past year Oliver has been called upon to make wellness a priority for the medical center staff, as mandated by Dr. David Callender, the medical center's ceo.
"I was named chairman of the initiative and it's really brought me full circle to focus on nutrition," she asserts. "We have created a Web site with articles written by our dietitians and a weekly display cooking station in the cafeteria featuring a healthy entrée—the recipe and nutrition breakout are available—with both the chef and dietitian participating. 'Live life well' is our slogan and a green apple is our logo; we put that apple logo, attached to little wooden toothpicks, on all items we consider to be heart healthy."
Oliver admits she had some concerns that the average of 5,000 transactions daily and, in turn, the approximately $7 million in annual cafeteria sales, might drop with the implementation of the wellness initiative. Those fears, so far, have not come to pass.
"Thursdays, when fried chicken is on, have traditionally been our largest selling days," she explains. "The lines are out the door. Now, that's the day we also do display cooking with healthful items such as Harvest Roast Turkey Salad. There's still a long line for fried chicken, but cafeteria sales are up by 3% and I get so many positive comments every day."
Keeping positive but not daring to think too far ahead—say five or ten years into the future—Oliver quips: "Just get me and my staff into that new hospital. We're ready."

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University of Vermont
Department of Xxxxx
Interview: CUPS Director Susan Munkres
- 10-16-2013
- By Jeffrey R. Wakefield
When Susan Munkres became acquainted with UVM's Community-University Partnerships and Service Learning office after arriving at UVM in 2011, the sociology lecturer had a flash of insight. As she looked back at her teaching at the University of Wisconsin and, especially, Furman University in South Carolina, where one of her students had done research for the Greenville Farmer's Market as part of his coursework, she thought to herself, "Wait a minute, some of what I was doing actually counted as service learning."
Since joining the CUPS office in 2012 and assuming the directorship in January of this year, Munkres has learned that the experience she had of teaching a service learning course without knowing it isn't uncommon. "It feels like it keeps falling into my lap that there are these community-engaged teaching moments happening, and faculty don't see them in that light," she says.
As the CUPS office prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary next week, UVM Today sat down with Munkres to discuss the state of service learning on campus today and where she hopes to take it in the future.
UVM Today: First, for the uninitiated, how would you define service learning?
Munkres: Service learning is community engaged learning; it's a form of experiential learning that involves an intentional relationship with a community partner and the intention that the research or service contribute to public benefit.
What's the goal or benefit of the pedagogy?
There are three. The most immediate is the benefit to the student in terms of real-world application of the skills they are learning in their academic discipline. A second is the benefit to the community partner in a service or a product delivered to them. And a third is a benefit to faculty in terms of students' deepened understanding and increased engagement.
Is there evidence that students do learn more deeply and are more engaged?
Service learning is a high-impact practice that is nationally documented to improve student retention and success. And our data (from the National Survey of Student Engagement) confirm that. We see statistically significant benefits for students in areas like ability to work with others, ability to solve problems, reported sense of gaining work-related skills, reported academic challenge, reported interaction with a faculty member, reported satisfaction with UVM, and eagerness to choose UVM if they were able to choose (what college they would attend) again.
You've noted that there are many faculty out there who, like you, were doing service learning without realizing it. Are there any advantages to coming into the fold and having your course officially designated?
When you are aware that there are others also doing this kind of pedagogy, then you have opportunities to talk with them, to deepen your practice, to reflect on it. On a more mundane level, our office offers small implementation grants to faculty in designated service learning courses. We offer training opportunities and workshops, and we also offer TAs for faculty designated service learning courses. So there's material advantages as well as support for the pedagogy and ideas for developing it further.
Re-working an entire course could seem overwhelming. But service learning doesn't have to be all or nothing, does it?
No, service learning can become a small portion of the course. For example, I taught NFS 073 Farm to Table last spring as an SL course, and my students had one assignment of four major assignments as a service learning project. And it was a much smaller proportion of the grade, yet this was still a service learning class with a community partner. And the students had that portion. So it doesn't have to be the entire course.
The CUPS office is also one of the partners in the Career+Experience Hub that opened in the Davis Center this fall. What contribution does the pedagogy make to career preparation?
Service learning give students real world experience in connection with their academic discipline. So, for example, students who graduate from Kathy Fox's service learning Criminal Justice class have either written survey and interviewed prison inmates about their family needs for the Department of Corrections or done the data analysis, which is great preparation for graduate school or for work in any number of agencies and nonprofit settings.
CUPS is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. What are you ambitions for the future?
Currently, we have about 80 service learning courses reaching about 1,800 students. That's about 13 percent of the student body. I would like to see slow steady growth where appropriate. We currently have more service learning in the junior and senior years than our peer institutions and less service learning in the first and second year than these peers. I would like to see growth in these first two years so that students are better prepared for their service learning and other engagement opportunities like internships in their senior year.
What should faculty do who are interested in exploring service learning?
Visit our website, or pick up the phone and call. We can offer all kinds of information and support, and we welcome contact from anyone who would like to learn more about this pedagogy.
To contact the CUPS office, call (802) 656-0095, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Have You Voted For The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour As The Best Annual Festival/Event in New England?
I'm not sure that it's the Best Annual Festival In All of New England or Even Gloucester But It Sure As Hell Beats The Heck Out of It's Competition In The List of Nominations
Here are your nominees-
Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour – Cape Ann, MA
Lowell Folk Festival – Lowell, MA
Maine Whoopie Pie Festival – Dover-Foxcroft, ME
Sea Music Festival – Mystic, CT
Six Flags New England Fright Fest – Agawam, MA
Seems like a kinda random list, no????
No Rockland Lobster Festival? No Big E? No Topsfield Fair? No Newport Jazz Festival? No Hemp Festival on the Boston Common? No King Richard's Faire? No Saint Peter's Fiesta? But You Have The Very Prestigious Maine Whoopie Pie Festival?
Anyway, if we're basing it just off of these choices it's obviously The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour. No Brainer. Support Our Artists (and Artisans)
You can vote here-
The Cape Ann Artisans Tour Is A Must Do Event Every Year For Shizzy.
It's funny when we were having the discussion with the people from the mass Cultural Council as to whether Downtown Gloucester deserves to be designated a Cultural district one of the things I brought up was our ridiculous number of Cultural events to attend here in GTown.
and that's why I find it funny that the Cape Ann Artisans Tour is nominated in this category. Because in many other communities The Cape Ann Artisans Tour would be their number one event of the year, hands down no contest. But because we are so spoiled here we have monster events just about every other week and sometimes multiples in one week that would blow all of the other nominations out of the water.
It's in no way shape or form a slight to The Incredible Cape Ann Artisans Tour. It's just a testament to how insanely rich we are with community organizations that band together and put on incredible annual events that we get to enjoy.
So vote and bring home yet another feather in the Cultural Cap of Gloucester.
Vote here


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Bitten Calif. surfer says shark came from nowhere
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5 ways to enjoy southern Utah during the government shutdown
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Nobody can match Keeton's impact
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Supreme Court to consider striking down campaign donation cap
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Police issue abandoned vehicle tag for Barbie Jeep
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With donations for headstone, mother finds closure after son's death
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Salt Lake County Council asks governor to close down Stericycle plant
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5 delicious food movies
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Man not wearing helmet dies in motorcycle crash
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Chiropractor convicted after claiming cure for diabetes
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Man grabs cash from Logan car dealership
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Accidental gunshot injures Ogden couple, police say
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2 gas station robberies may be connected
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Man accused of killing Draper officer finally appears in court
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Man killed after crashing into canal, police say
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Woman dies after being run over by semitrailer
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Obama, Boehner trade barbs, hints of compromise
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3 arrested in Park City meth bust tied to Mexican drug cartel
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Provo couple to travel world using only virtual currency
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Herbert asks Obama to let state operate national parks during shutdown
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir reveals Christmas concert guests
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When you know your kid is sexting, but you don't know what to do
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Credit card fraud hearing held for man accused of killing babysitter
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Herbert announces new lieutenant governor
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Dad of 9-year-old plane stowaway: 'He's got a behavioral problem'
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Funds for military funerals delayed due to gov't shutdown
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The skeletal remains that once belonged to the Longmont Veterans of Foreign Wars have been identified as those of an adult male between the ages of 28 and 38 years old, Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall announced Wednesday.
The remains, which were described as well-preserved, were kept in a coffin at the VFW at 206 S. Main St., until the September floods damaged the basement where they were stored. The floodwater made the coffin moldy, so the VFW disposed of it and turned the bones over to authorities in December.
The human identification laboratory at Metropolitan State University of Denver analyzed the remains, Hall said.
"Analysis suggests that the remains are likely archaeological, although there is no definitive answer as to how long ago the individual died," she wrote in a news release.
The bones did not come from an American Indian, Hall said in a released statement, as had been rumored. Their ancestry could not be determined and it's not likely the identity will be, either, she said.
VFW Cmdr. Cliff Elrod said in December that the bones were used during the "Last Man's Club" annual remembrance of those who died in war. The casket and the remains represented the deceased.
It's thought that a former member of the VFW recovered the bones from an archeological dig in eastern Colorado or western Kansas during the 1940s or '50s.
The coroner's office, with several state agencies, is trying to determine how best to dispose of the bones.
Elrod said in December that Ahlberg Funeral Chapel had agreed to cremate the remains if police and the coroner's office approved. If they are cremated, the VFW will continue to use them in the "Last Man's Club" memorial.


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An Army officer and his veteran father have an unusual bond for Father's Day.
Lt. Col. Patrick Harkins and his dad, retired Col. Bob Harkins have led the same unit into combat four decades apart. Patrick Harkins took the unit known as the Rakkasans from Fort Campbell, Kentucky into battle in Afghanistan. Bob Harkins led the same unit into combat in Operation Apache Snow, better known as the Battle of Hamburger Hill, in Vietnam in 1969.
While the military has long had family legacies — and featured them prominently in Father's Day celebrations — the Harkins' achievements stand out. Capt. Charles Emmons, a spokesman for the brigade, said it appears to be the first time a father and son have commanded the same unit decades apart.


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With 12 weeks to go before the 87th "Battle of the Piney Woods" at Reliant Stadium in Houston October 6, GoBearkats.com presents the next installment of"Great Performances" in Piney Woods history.
This Week:
Sam Houston 6, Stephen F. Austin 0
For the first 13 seasons following World War II, Stephen F. Austin seldom had been a factor in the annual Lone Star Conference football race.
But in 1959, the Lumberjacks appeared headed for a league championship, posting victories over Southwest Texas, Sul Ross, Texas A&I and Howard Payne.
Only two games separated SFA from the title, the first a November 14 Homecoming encounter with Sam Houston in Nacogdoches.
The Jacks were heavy favorites to defeat Sam Houston, a victory that would set up a showdown for first place with East Texas in Commerce in the pair's November 21 season finale.
Sam Houston came into the tilt with only one victory in its last four contest.The Kats had been shut out by East Texas and lost to Texas A&I and Southwest Texas.
Stephen F. Austin featured a potent offense led by quarterback Harold Stephens and running back Kenny Davis.
A muddy field and a hard cold rain greeted the two teams as they took the field. The Lumberjacks offense ground out plenty of yardage between the 20s but bogged down each time SFA threatened to score.
After a scoreless first period, Sam Houston senior quarterback Ronnie Choate led a drive to the Jack 20-yard line and put the Kats on the board with a 40-yard field goal.
Choate added another field goal in the third quarter, this time from the 25-yard line.
Later in the period, SFA made its most determined drive, going 82 yards to the Sam Houston 4-yard line where the Bearkats held on fourth down to regain possession.
Stephen F. Austin ended the game with 601 yards total offense while the Bearkats produced only 149 yards, but Sam Houston ended up with a 6-0 upset, ending the Jacks' title hopes.
Choate, who later became a Sam Houston assistant football coach, started the Bearkats' national championship men's golf program and served as athletic director, ended the season as the team's leading rusher, passer and scorer.
Sam Houston center Leonard Speaker was named All-Lone Star Conference second team while Choate and end Jackie Harris were honorable mention selections.
The victory marked the eighth Bearkat victory over the Lumberjacks in the 10 "Battle of the Piney Woods" encounters in the decade of the 1950s.
The next chapter in the "Battle of the Piney Woods" football rivalry sees Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin battle at Reliant Stadium in Houston Oct. 6 at 3 p.m.
Crowds of more than 25,000 have packed the lower bowl at Reliant each of the past two years and tickets are going fast.
Battle of the Piney Woods Tickets are now on sale through the university's athletic website. Fans also can purchase tickets at the Sam Houston athletic ticket office located in the Ron Mafrige Field House in the south end zone at Bowers Stadium or by calling ticket office at (936) 294-1729.


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AVB compares Saints academy to Barcelona
Tottenham manager has likened Southampton's youth policy to Barcelona's La Masia academy, claiming they nurture talent in the same way.
The Saints have produced the likes of Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Gareth Bale and Adam Lallana in recent years while defender Luke Shaw - who has emerged this season - is tipped for big things in the future.
And their work has not gone unnoticed, with Villas-Boas bracketing them with some of the top clubs in Europe when it comes to the development of footballers.
The Portuguese said: "Sometimes there are clubs that keep developing and nurturing players, then there are clubs that go for scouting.
"In Portugal, Sporting Lisbon is the development club and great players have come out of that school. They haven't produced the results in the first team as they wanted in the modern era. Porto invest in a later stage and don't develop the player.
"Southampton falls into the same category as Sporting Lisbon, like Barcelona, which is to nurture. But it is a great school of development - a bit like West Ham."
Villas-Boas has begun to enjoy the dividends of Tottenham's youth policy with Steven Caulker, Andros Townsend and Tom Carroll all making an impact at times this season. And the Portuguese envisages a situation where more players will follow in the years to come.
"Tottenham has a great school with great young players,"Villas-Boas said. "The biggest jump for a young player is from the development team into the first team, and that gap they can try to bridge with the Under-21 league.
"But it's the first year and it needs time to get established. In the end I think it will allow players to get into the first team a little more often."


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On Monday, April 1, Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Fusselman filed charges of First Degree Murder on Jeffrey Jay Nichols and Christopher D. Lewis. Bond has been set at $1 million by Judge Cynthia Suter. Both subjects are currently being held in Chariton and Randolph County Jails, awaiting arraignment.
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Girls Basketball: Bath rolls past Roughriders
BATH TOWNSHIP — The Bath girls basketball team appeared plenty motivated after suffering a 19-point loss at Ottoville on Saturday.
The Wildkittens made half their shots, Alyssa Manley scored a game-high 19 points and Bath rolled to a 69-21 win over St. Marys on Thursday night.
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Bath roared out to a 14-0 lead to start the game and never let up.
Manley knocked down 3-of-4 from 3-point range, and Bath hit eight treys on the night. The Wildkittens shot 28-of-55 from the floor (50.1 percent).
Emily Ruhe, who is still working her way back from injury and coming off the bench after being a key contributor to Bath's team over the past few seasons, scored 11 points off the bench.
Bath's full-court pressure yielded 30 Roughrider turnovers.
The Wildkittens kept pace atop the WBL. The Wildkittens moved to 4-0 in the league and 9-4 overall. Bath and Shawnee remain the only unbeatens in the WBL.
Molly Albert and Erika Angstmann each scored four points to lead the Roughriders. Albert left the game with an injury in the first half and did not return to the game.
St. Marys falls to 2-9 on the season and 1-3 in the Western Buckeye League. The Roughriders will look to end a four-game skid at New Bremen on Saturday at 1 p.m.
St. Marys shot 31 percent from the floor on 9-of-29 shooting.
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the triple the other day looked nice to me
the triple the other day looked nice to me
I'll take his current .480 OBP. But maybe my expectations are too low and I should demand he bump that up 100 points or so.
Joey has not been himself since the injury but I believe he started slow last year.
I give it up to the original post for the Hal Morris reference. I had forgotten about that feet shuffling Punch and Judy.
They still aren't pitching to Votto which surprises me. His reputation precedes him.
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When I used to play fantasy baseball (and I played it far too much, with 18 ESPN teams one year), I used to live off of guys who over-reacted one week into the season, dropping their studs because of a cold streak. I don't like to see Votto struggling so bad right now, but he will produce the numbers we expect of him.
mgbrown66 (04-07-2013)
This can't be a serious thread, and if it is, friends don't let friends post drunk.
now I understand why they didn´t let anyone post in the old red guard....
bigredmechanism (04-07-2013),George Anderson (04-07-2013),mgbrown66 (04-07-2013)
You can write off anything from last season, everyone acknowledged he wouldn't be the same player. As for this year, he's just not having a hot start. It happens. No other player on the team is going to be evaluated after 6 games. Anyone think Frazier is going to hit .500 the rest of the season? Of course not, it's just 6 games and things will eventually even out. It 's not like he's hitting disastrously low right now, his average is like .260 which is mediocre for him. Give him time to hit his stride.
I've said all winter they talk about this team winning the division and my comment is, they won't win it because, at the end of the day, they still are the Chicago Cubs, and they will figure out a way to screw this whole thing up. - Marty Brennaman
Some people are really stupid, lol.
This might be the worst thread ever. Can we make him go 250-300 posts before ORG access?
bigredmechanism (04-07-2013)
Many NFL players return after a couple weeks from a meniscus repair and or partial removal and are fine, and many are RB's!
I think with Votto it is mental, he has now turned into a get on base guy.
Seems to almost always look for a walk first, get 2 strikes, choke up and hit it to the left side.
God, when will he ever turn on pitch and pull it 400 feet into the right field seats!
If his leg is not at full strength by now, it never will be.
When I tore up my knee way back in the mid 80's, they said you don't need an ACL for softball and that torn meniscus, well we just had to remove that, because cartilage will not heal.
Just saying I know a little about this injury.
And Joey did not tear his ACL, he had (has) a very minor and common knee injury.
Remember a guy named Mantle, he tore up his knee really bad, never sapped him of his power...
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I think it is very possible that Joey hasn't quite shaken his approach from the end of last season yet. OBP was crazy even when he returned from the injury as a singles hitter.
Joey doesn't strike me as the type of guy that gets caught up in rbi's and HR. He cares about producing runs, that's what he does and is paid the big bucks to do
Just give it time, I think he'll be back to where he needs to be. It's not just about Homeruns.
sdwagers (04-08-2013)
let me respond to the op with a question. Are we as good with Brandon Belt as our 1st baseman?
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Two boats that caught fire off Captiva Saturday evening are a total loss, according to Capitva Fire District reports on the incident. One of the vessels, a houseboat, sank about 500 feet offshore. The second, a powerboat, drifted into mangroves where it remains awaiting to be towed away.
Captiva Fire Lt. Bart Lally was the first on scene about 7:30 p.m. He said two houseboats and two powerboats were anchored together in the channel. Lally said Dennis Biram, who has lived aboard a houseboat in the channel for many years, was working on the fuel system of a generator when a backfire ignited some gasoline on board. The flaming craft were set adrift unoccupied.
"The fire quickly spread to the second boat and he (Biram) untied them," said Lally. "One drifted to shore near Tween Waters (Marina). Both were fully involved when I arrived."
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Captiva Fire District photo Firefighters on boats prepare to battle the inferno on one of two boats destroyed by fire Saturday off Captiva. One vessel sank 500 feet offshore while the other drifted to a mangrove shoreline.
Lally said the fires were controlled within a half hour and units, including one from Sanibel Fire, Iona-McGregor, Pine Island, the U.S. Coast Guard and Lee County Sheriff Marine Unit, were released from the scene within three hours.
"Biram was removed by Lee County EMS and treated for minor injuries and later released," said Lally.
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Oakland County Deputy County Executive, Matthew Gibb, was on hand to present owners, Douglas and Kim Jenkins, and John and Rosalie Lieblang, with a proclamation on behalf of L. Brooks Patterson, and support was provided from Bonobo Winery and Celani Family Vineyards.
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If you're a purist who's against the shootout, you might not want to watch tonight's Bruins game at Los Angeles.
While those of us on the East Coast will be hoping for a regulation game that leads to a relatively early night, the Bruins and Kings will most likely be taking the game to the limit. The last four match-ups between the two clubs, including their meeting Nov. 20 at TD Garden, have gone to extra time — the last three to a shootout.
The Kings have won all four of those games, with goaltender Jonathan Quick racking up a perfect 4-0 record against Boston. The UMass product is also 4-0 in shootouts overall this season for the Kings, who have the same shootout record as a team.
It will behoove the Bruins, 1-5 in shootouts this season, to avoid the post-overtime spectacle at all costs in pursuit of two points. The Kings' perfect record is led not just by Quick's play but by the sharp shooting of veterans Michal Handzus and Jarret Stoll, who are both 2-for-3 this season. One of Handzus' goals was the game-winner against Boston.
The Bruins as a team are just 5-for-19 (26 percent) shooting in the shootout, while the Kings are an excellent 8-for-19 (42 percent). So those of us that want some rest back East, and for their best shot to win, the Bruins need to do all they can to close this one out in the first 65 minutes.


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First, I was upset when the Reds signed Taveras. Never understood the signing, with Dickerson already on the team.
I hope that Dusty will start Dickerson in CF for the rest of the season.
But I will make this absurd prediction. If Taveras does start the rest of the season (or at least platoons ) he will finish the season with an OBP of around .350.
He just needs to bunt more and hit the ball on the ground more, and he will get on base. He is well below his career averages for GB/FB, BUH, and IFH.
I have faith that Jocketty, Jacoby and Baker will make sure he does that correct those, or make sure that he does not start.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
Well, it you think that, then you should think that he will finish with an OBP of .329, which means that he will OBP around .360 the rest of the way. Which is basically my point.
Right now, due to an 0-19 slump (Pujols just had an 0-16 slump) he is off of his career numbers. I think if he gets enough playing time, they will come back to his norm.
However, even if he did do that, I would still want Dickerson over him.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
At least he's played good defense -- and that point I will argue if others disagree. Every defensive measure I've seen shows that he has been good defensively this year.
I'm also saying that the team's offensive woes go way beyond Willy Taveras.
How about some threads criticizing the others with low OBPs or miniscule slugging percentages. Just to break things up a little.
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This is easy. Its Dickerson. Taveras is just not a smart player. Just look at his AB on Tuesday night after Ceuto walks on 4 pitches. Instead of actually making a pitcher throw a strike he immediatley swings at two pitches that are clearly out of the strike zone. To me that shows a very low baseball IQ. Dickerson is no great player either but is clearly a better choice at the moment.
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Gotta be Dickerson at this point -- he's shown he can defend in CF, and his plate approach is much better than WT's. It remains to be seen whether Baker can actually bring himself to bench Taveras.
"Baseball is a very, very complex business. It's more of a people business than most businesses." - Bob Castellini
I would rather have Gary Redus and Eddie Mllner ...right now over WT and JHJ.
Janish over AG.
I would sit Bruce against more LH....not all but just some, at least.
From Lance's blog:
Forget leadoff, I would ask you if Taveras should even be the CF? I know Dusty gets irriated by talk of playing the "hot hand". I can only point out the facts. This team struggles to get runnners on base.
If you can't get on, you can't get over and you can't get in.
Willy Taveras: BA .243, OBP .300, OPS .606
Chris Dickerson: BA .244, OBP .373, OPS .734
Taveras is hitless in his last 20 ab's and 1 for his last 25
Dickerson is hitting .308 in his last 12 starts
And consider this from emailer Jeff:
Wily Taveras had 14 game hitting streak between 4/29-5/13.
Taveras during 14 games streak: 24-59 .407 avg Reds go 10-4
Taveras in other 44 games: 22-130 .169 avg Reds are 21-23
Maybe it's simply the hamstring still bothering Taveras...fine.
Play Dickerson til he shows you he should sit. He showed the glove over the weekend. He's a much better CF than LF. Wayne Krivsky always said that. If he has the glove and he's getting on-base. And your "team" is about pitching, speed and defense, what's the downside to playing Dickerson for now?
Dickerson is far better (and younger and cheaper), with a much higher ceiling than Taveras in everything (but stealing bases).
Heisey and Stubbs, down on the farm, are BOTH arguably better than Taveras.
Stubbs and Dickerson should platoon NOW. Stubbs is ready and Heisey needs challenged in Louisville.
There simply is no reason that Willy Taveras should occupy a roster spot with this team.
Sad thing is, that this is just common sense type stuff that many of us have been saying for months, even when they were just flirting with the idea of signing Willy.
You know, common sense type stuff like Gomes over McDonald. Wow. Rocket science.
Everyone understands that Taveras has more time in the majors than Dickerson. Yet, the only thing Taveras has done with that time is demonstrate that he's not very good. Dickerson hasn't had as much time in the majors, but so far he's demonstrated that he's a better player than Taveras. That said, he's also shown the same when you compare their minor league numbers.
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
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April 18, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - UC Santa Barbara junior Max Taylor battled back from two match-points in the third set to defeat Utah's Timmy Allen by a score of 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, leading the No. 65 Gauchos (13-7) past the No. 64 Utes (12-12), 4-3 on Friday in Salt Lake City.
"This was the first time since our second match of the season (a 4-3 loss at Hawaii) that everything came down to the last match on the court," said UCSB head coach Marty Davis. "It was Utah's Senior Day, so there was a big crowd and it was really exciting."
Taylor faced match-point at 5-4 and 5-5 before climbing back to win the decider.
"Max really hung in there," Davis said. "It was a big win for him, and for us."
The Gauchos needed wins in four singles matches to win the contest after losing the doubles point. They got the wins at No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6. In addition to Taylor's win at No. 5, senior Jack Hui swept Othman Zerouali-Ouariti at No. 3, 6-4, 6-3. At No. 4, freshman Alex Konigsfeldt blasted Russ Hancock, 6-0, 6-4, and at No. 6, sophomore Josh Finkelstein defeated Jason Smits, 6-2, 7-5.
Santa Barbara dropped matches at No. 1, and No. 2, both by way of sweep. At No. 1, Philip Therp lost to Zack Ganger, 6-2, 6-1, and at No. 2, junior Bijan Hejazi was defeated by Miron Mann, 6-1, 6-4.
In doubles, Konigsfeldt and Finkelstein, playing No. 2, topped Taylor and Zerouali-Ouariti, 8-5, but Therp and Hejazi were beaten by Ganger and Mann at No. 1, 9-8. At No. 3, Anders Dalskov, playing just his second match of the season after returning from a knee injury, teamed with Hui, and lost to Allin and Hancock, 8-6.
The win is the second in a row for the Gauchos. They will play at BYU on Saturday, before completing the road trip at No. 35 Boise State on Sunday afternoon.
No. 65 UCSB 4, at No. 64 Utah 3 Singles No. 1 - Zack Ganger (Utah) d. Philip Therp (UCSB) - 6-2, 6-1 No. 2 - Miron Mann (Utah) d. Bijan Hejazi (UCSB) - 6-1, 6-4 No. 3 - Jack Hui (UCSB) d. Othman Zerouali-Ouariti (Utah) - 6-4, 6-3 No. 4 - Alex Konigsfeldt (UCSB) d. Russ Hancock (Utah) - 6-0, 6-4 No. 5 - Max Taylor (UCSB) d. Timmy Allin (Utah) - 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 No. 6 - Josh Finkelstein (UCSB) d. Jason Smits (Utah) - 6-2, 7-5 Doubles No. 1 - Ganger/Mann (Utah) d. Therp/Hejazi (UCSB) - 9-8 No. 2 - Konigsfeldt/Finkelstein (UCSB) d. Taylor/Zerouali-Ouariti (Utah) - 8-5 No. 3 - Allin/Hancock (Utah) d. Hui/Anders Dalskov (UCSB) - 8-6
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Damn stroked for all the debut album tracks but threw Second Coming in car stereo for first time in years and was floored by how much I enjoyed it. Doesnt have the magic of the first album but the Zepplin esque riffage is fantastic. Hope they play more than just 10 story love song and Love Spreads off of it.
Only morons who don't know a damn thing about alternative music are confused about the Roses headlining.
Just to give a bit of context, I'm 23 and the band are one of the main reasons I bought a Coachella pass this year. This will be my first 'Chella ever. And I'm fucking stoked.
I'll see you gents and ladies on Friday, Weekend 2. We are going to have a magical time.
Pavement got screwed in 2010....their reunion should have been bigger than it was (it was probably a year or two late also), but they should not have been put against Phoenix/Thom Yorke....main stage should have gone something like Yorke(sunset) > Pavement > Gorillaz. Oh well.
"wheres ze swedish house mafiiaaaa, tiessto closah? Ze Deadmau5 should be on ze big stage after ze stone roses"
Wait, jazzz is a guy? I still would I guess.
So excited. You all argue too much.
I have gone every single year. My family also had a house at La quinta, my entire life. Haven't all you figured out yet that Goldenvoice made the decision for Stone Roses and Blur to make a statement. They are getting back to their roots for Coachella. the simple fact is they have always been tied into the Brit scene, punk rock, and mod/ new wave scenes. this is a big reason why Coachella was such a unique festival. It's only when this fest got tainted with AEG's quest to "sell out" and start booking all the Top hip hop top 40 junk, that it brought this new type of demographic crowd into the forefront. Many of these kids have no clue about the history of Goldenvoice, or the early years of The Coachella Music Fest. It was not made legend by top 40 acts that you can see at some power 106 concert. Goldenvoice knows exactly what they are doing here, and what direction they want for the future. The Stone Roses have earned their top billing here, and there are plenty of people here who couldn't give two shit's about the new disco edm- daft junk, Eminen or Kaeneen West. (Still don't know how to spell that clowns name) But you get the picture. Coachella knows what's best for Coachella! Trust em. They just locked in another 20 year contract with the polo grounds and the city of Indio. So to sum it all up, so stoked right now! This is the one!
4 more days until the Roses melt so much face that all of the naysayers' heads explode. Super ready for this right now.
Using other festivals like lolla or bonneroo as an example of what is headliner caliber is for coachella is wrong. Coachella has traditionally been a better festival for lots of reasons in the past. I do not want it to merely be on par with the others around the country or world. Coachella has the power to pull acts that other festivals wish they could get, reunite bands who were broken up, book bands who aren't on tour currently. This year that was not the case.
No, this year WAS that case.
I've been asking for the Stone Roses for YEARS. When they reunited last year, it was GV's duty to bring them here.
Opinions are like assholes.... mine is that the Stone Roses are great, and are on my must see list this year.
Stop arguing, go have fun.
I really hope this is the Swedish mehfia crowd that's bailing and bitching over the Friday night headliners. Would really be the cherry on top of this year's lineup if they just didn't show up.
No it's just the American crowd.
even before they were booked you guys didnt think they would be headliner caliber
I had no idea they would headline. I really didn't think they would. But I am giddy that they are because LONGER SET LIST. W00T.
The only place where they would take a hit is if fewer people show up who spend less money. Considering that tickets are under face right now, this means that a) people will have more to spend inside and b) the festival is available to a whole new set of people who couldnt afford it in the past. As far as lowering the demand for pre-sale next year, sounds good to me.
As for their brand being diluted, I see this lineup as a strong message that they felt their brand was being badly diluted by the EDC crowd that would, long term, hurt their profitability. The older veteran crowd has more and spends significantly more money at Coachella so by crafting the lineup to them they bring many of those back that jumped ship in the last 2 years. By going back to their old ways, they are in essence saving the Coachella brand.
your argument is so flawed. It is astounding how you are trying to argue that weak demand for the festival can be a good thing. The main audience for music festivals is roughly 20-33 years old. Older people tend to go to less music festivals and concerts. Unless you want it to turn into Geezerchella and have gradually declining ticket sales (lower ticket sales = less budget for artists) they need to stay current and market to their main demographic. I agree that maintaining their brand as a festival that books more obscure and artistic acts and not the super mainstream ones is a good idea but not at the expense of lost revenue.
Stone Roses fans:
1. Think that bagging on Nirvana actually increases their credibility on matters of music rather than destroying it.
2. Believe that the massive ticket dump, steep plummet in demand, and tickets going for $100-150 under face value is actually GOOD for Golden Voice and Coachella rather than a massive disappointment.
Real fucking sharp, you lot are.
But hey, at least you'll be able to cry like pre-teen Bieber fans come Friday night. Keep those chins up and don't miss the Ian jizz!
Its not a disappointment, its just what you would think it would be.
You don't release a poster with these headliners and expect demand to be what it was last year. GV had to know that going in, and the lineup delay had to be due to discussions with other acts falling apart.


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In the biggest foreign-bribery penalty under U.S. law, Titan Corp. pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle allegations that it covered up payments in six countries, including millions of dollars funneled to an associate of an African president to influence a national election.
The case underscores the government's drive to heighten scrutiny of companies' foreign payments and corporate disclosure about potential corruption, particularly in materials distributed during mergers. The Securities and Exchange Commission is ratcheting up pressure on companies to reveal -- both publicly and to the government -- suspicious overseas payments by firms they are seeking to acquire. Titan's foreign bribery was uncovered by Lockheed Martin Corp. during acquisition negotiations. Though both companies cooperated with the ensuing investigation, delays in resolving the probe scuttled the $1.6 billion deal in June.
In yesterday's settlement, Titan pleaded guilty to three criminal charges stemming from a now-abandoned effort by the defense contractor to expand into telecommunications. The San Diego company agreed to pay $13 million in a plea with the Justice Department. It also agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle related SEC allegations without admitting guilt. While Titan's corporate responsibility is now settled -- and the Pentagon isn't barring it from future contracts -- the company agreed to cooperate with continuing criminal investigations of individuals.
The SEC civil action says "a senior Titan officer" and several former officers approved some of the illegal payments. The officers weren't identified.
Titan said in statement that it has strengthened its internal controls and stepped up ethics training. Under the settlement, Titan is required to turn over all evidence of possible wrongdoing uncovered by its own lawyers.
Court documents depict Titan as a company which for years ignored internal warnings of fraud and failed to "devise or maintain an effective system of internal controls" at one unit where commissions paid to overseas agents amounted to nearly half of its revenue in some years. Despite using more than 120 representatives in more than 60 countries, Titan "failed to have meaningful oversight over its foreign agents."
Titan set up a joint venture with a government company in the West African nation of Benin in 1998 to build a wireless telephone network. It soon hired as its local agent a man who was known as a business adviser to Benin's president, Mathieu Kerekou, according to court documents.
From 1999 to December 2001, the documents say, Titan paid more than $3.5 million to this agent, including some $2 million that was falsely invoiced as consulting services but actually was used for the president's re-election campaign. Some of the money was used to reimburse the agent's purchase of campaign T-shirts and to pay for a $1,850 pair of earrings for the president's wife.
The payments were made to win higher management fees for the telephone joint venture, though the government didn't accuse President Kerekou of knowing about corrupt payments. Some of the funds were transferred from Titan's San Diego headquarters to the agent's account in Monaco, the documents say. Other payments, totaling more than $1 million, were paid in cash to the agent in Benin.
A former senior Titan officer also hired a World Bank official as a consultant to the Benin project and wired $15,000 to him in an account under the name of the official's wife, according to documents filed by U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego and the SEC.
In addition to Benin, Titan created false documents to disguise commissions to agents in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the SEC said. It also said that an agent made payments to high-ranking military officials in the Philippines to obtain business, and that an agent in South Africa expressed concerns about the legality of certain payments but was told by a Datron official not to worry about it.
The government's case against Titan also alleged that the company ignored explicit warnings of corruption from as early as 2000, when external auditor Arthur Andersen identified lack of controls in tracking overseas payments. When Titan managers passed on allegations of forged invoices and bribes in Benin, a senior Titan officer failed to order an adequate investigation, both criminal and civil filings said. By 2002, the situation had deteriorated to the point that a Benin auditing firm identified $1.8 million in "missing cash," according to the documents.
Titan, which pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, false accounting and aiding and abetting filing a false tax return, had reached a draft agreement to settle its legal woes last June, but hurdles posed by the State Department and the SEC delayed the deal, and Lockheed pulled out of its purchase. The largest previous penalty for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was $24.8 million paid by Lockheed in 1995.
Titan stock rose 4.5%, or 75 cents, to $17.35 in New York Stock Exchange 4 p.m. composite trading.
In a separate case, Northrop Grumman Corp. agreed to pay $62 million to settle 15-year-old allegations of overcharging the government for radar-jamming equipment. Northrop said it also has agreed to settle personal claims by two whistle-blowers, including their petition for attorneys' fees, as well as to reimburse the government for legal costs.
--John R. Wilke contributed to this article.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Devin Downey skipped down the court. His
3-pointer had just put South Carolina up 28 points on Kentucky
midway through the second half, and his team was about to vault
alone into first in the SEC East for the first time in February in
12 years.
Downey and his teammates soaked up some of the loudest cheers
ever heard at their 6-year-old arena. "I'm just speechless,"
Downey said when asked to recall the moment. "This feels so
The Gamecocks' special season continued on Wednesday night with
a 77-59 win over Kentucky. South Carolina left little doubt it's an
NCAA tournament team, winning the biggest game in Columbia since
the program's only SEC East title in 1997.
South Carolina (20-6, 9-4 Southeastern Conference) set a school
record with 16 blocked shots, forced 20 turnovers, never trailed
and led by at least 18 points for the entire second half in just
its ninth win over Kentucky (19-9, 8-5) in 50 games between the
Meanwhile, the Wildcats find their streak of 17 straight NCAA
tournaments in jeopardy.
"They got their tails kicked tonight, guys. Everybody gets
their tails kicked every once in a while. We'll be better on
Saturday. The world is not ending," Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie
said. "We got whipped. Give Carolina credit for how well they
played ... they made us play poorly."
Downey may be South Carolina's SEC player of the year candidate,
and he showed his versatility with five steals and five assists.
But he received plenty of help, especially from Muldrow, who South
Carolina coach Darrin Horn challenged before the game.
"He got dunked on two or three times at Kentucky," Horn said.
"I told him I thought he was better than that in so many words not
for print."
Muldrow responded with eight points, 10 rebounds and seven
blocks. Zam Fredrick added 15 for the Gamecocks.
South Carolina swarmed Kentucky inside, and Patrick Patterson
called it the most frustrating game he has ever had. He scored 28
points and had 12 rebounds, but had his shot blocked eight times
and shot 10 of 24, almost all on shots within five feet of the
Gillispie said Patterson got no help from the rest of the team.
"One of the best performances I've ever seen as far as courage,
toughness, determination, willingness to try to help your team
win," the coach said of his sophomore forward.
Kentucky's Jodie Meeks, battling with Downey for SEC player of
the year honors, scored 18 points, playing sparingly once the game
got out of hand.
The Gamecocks pushed Kentucky around all night long.
Leading by 23 with less than 10 minutes to go, the 5-foot-9
Downey swooped between three defenders and hit a high-arching layup
to put South Carolina ahead 68-43.
On the next possession, Muldrow and Mike Holmes had back-to-back
blocks as Kentucky tried to push the ball inside, and then Downey
buried a 3 to give the Gamecocks their biggest lead at 71-43 with 9
minutes to go.
In the next three minutes, South Carolina blocked three more
shots. Holmes also blocked a Patterson hook shot on its way down.
He got called for an obvious goaltending, but the crowd roared
"I really think our bigs were the difference in the game. You
know Meeks and Patterson are going to be good and Fredrick and
Downey are going to do what they do. That's what all-caliber SEC
players do," Horn said. "But I thought our bigs and our bench
were the difference. They were terrific."
The Wildcats have little time to regroup. They need at least a
couple more wins to feel comfortable on Selection Sunday, and
finish with SEC leader LSU, Florida - a team also battling for an
NCAA bid - and Georgia.
The road is much easier for South Carolina, which heads to
Vanderbilt on Saturday, then finishes with Tennessee and Georgia.
Gamecocks fans haven't been this excited since 1997, when they
won the SEC with a 15-1 league record. That team was the only other
one to sweep Kentucky.
Wednesday's game was the biggest in Columbia since that team
knocked off the then-No. 3 Wildcats in overtime. The courtside
celebrities that night were a just-past-their-peak-of-fame Hootie
and the Blowfish, who scrambled over tables to rush the court along
with hundreds of other fans at the old Carolina Coliseum.
The fans stayed in the stands on Wednesday, and Horn planned to
temper the enthusiasm by telling his team this game means little
unless the Gamecocks can keep winning.
"I don't think we need to get too overly excited about it,"
Horn said. "Again, we've got to lay it one brick at a time."
Stevenson 2-5 0-0 4, Patterson 10-24 8-13 28, Harris 2-5 0-1 4, Porter 0-2 0-0 0, Meeks 6-11 2-2 18, Miller 0-2 5-6 5, Slone 0-1 0-0 0, Krebs 0-0 0-0 0, Stewart 0-0 0-0 0, Liggins 0-6 0-1 0, Carter 0-1 0-0 0, Harrellson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-58 15-23 59.
Archie 5-7 0-0 12, Holmes 2-5 0-0 4, Muldrow 4-5 0-0 8, Downey 8-18 3-5 21, Fredrick 3-11 8-8 15, Raley-Ross 3-6 0-2 8, Wilder 0-0 0-0 0, Steed 2-3 1-1 5, Baniulis 1-5 1-2 4, Carter 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-60 13-18 77.
Halftime-South Carolina 46-28. 3-Point Goals-Kentucky 4-12 (Meeks 4-6, Slone 0-1, Porter 0-2, Liggins 0-3), South Carolina 8-20 (Archie 2-3, Downey 2-5, Raley-Ross 2-5, Fredrick 1-3, Baniulis 1-4). Fouled Out-Holmes, Steed. Rebounds-Kentucky 42 (Patterson 12), South Carolina 36 (Muldrow 10). Assists-Kentucky 11 (Liggins 7), South Carolina 9 (Downey 5). Total Fouls-Kentucky 16, South Carolina 21. A-16,035.


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I'm here and the weather is fantastic. Business networking forum is where it's at.
One more Jedi mind trick, as a thanks for all the ideas.
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The Woodshed in Brewster.