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Definition of shaggy in English:
adjective (shaggier, shaggiest)
1(Of hair or fur) long, thick, and unkempt: the mountain goat has a long, shaggy coat
More example sentences
- The feline bristled its shaggy fur and started to stand.
- She glanced over and saw that even Walter's shaggy fur had taken on a touch of glamour, and Bill's looked much like her own.
- The young woman noticed its shaggy fur was receding and looked to see the moon disappearing behind another cloud.
hairy, hirsute, bushy, thick, woolly, fleecy, long-haired, unshorn, uncut, shock-headed;
tangled, tousled, unkempt, dishevelled, untidy, matted
rare crinose, hispid
1.1Having long, thick, unkempt hair or fur: a huge shaggy Alsatian
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- Their big shaggy komondor sheepdogs with matted dreadlock pelts stayed close at heel.
- She took a bow, and he grinned as he scratched his shaggy head.
- The pony was old, and had been Asa's own for three years, ever since Asa's older brother, Oberon, had handed him down when he had grown out of the shaggy brown pony.
1.2Having a covering resembling rough, thick hair.
Example sentences
- During the season, shear off faded blooms or cut back plants if they look shaggy; fertilize afterward.
- During the actual weaving, tufts of fleece were sometimes knotted into the weave to anchor them, creating a fabric with a hairy or shaggy finish.
- In answer to Dianne's question, Jocelyn says that Roman Chamomile is very tough and has sweet smelling white flowers, but may grow shaggy and need mowing.
shaggy-dog story
- A long, rambling story or joke, typically one that is amusing only because it is absurdly inconsequential or pointless.From an anecdote of this type, about a shaggy-haired dog (1945)Example sentences
- Great use of sound, lighting and camera angles draw you in to this absurdly eerie little shaggy-dog story.
- Still later, I was childishly confident that America had been invented by mean-spirited grown-ups as the setting for innumerable jokes and shaggy-dog stories that were wildly popular in my circle of acquaintances and friends.
- The pleasure comes from the journey rather than the arrival - a shaggy-dog story without the Beethoven punch line.
shaggily adverb
- Example sentences
- He had brown hair, curling shaggily around a sharp, high-cheekbone-lined, intelligent face, sparkling but melting brown eyes, and a body that shouldn't have been allowed to go around in shorts and muscle tees.
- The teddy bear that lives on in memory as being rich, dark brown, and shaggily massive turns out, when rescued from the attic decades later, to be anemic and disappointingly scrawny.
- The first time she saw me I was a long-haired, post-hippie, shaggily dressed, 27-year-old cave dweller.
- Example sentences
- He is much happier in the muggy heat and I am enjoying the sight of the black Cleopatra lines around his eyes, which are usually obscured by general shagginess.
- I fervently attacked my menacing hide of beastly shagginess and managed to pull off a state of continuous hairlessness for over a year.
- Sal's was long and twisty with faux-careless shagginess at the back and swoopy blonde strips at the front.
Words that rhyme with shaggyAggie, baggy, craggy, draggy, jaggy, Maggie, quaggy, saggy, scraggy, slaggy, snaggy
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Revival services are set for October 1-6 at Independent United Brethren Church, 1014 Washington Street (across from the former Cope's Market) in Ravenswood. Services will be held nightly at 7 p.m. with evangelist Wayne Runyon. There will be special singing nightly: Monday-Matics Family; Tuesday-Tommy Nutter; Wednesday-Hilton Family; Thursday-The Glorifiers; Friday-Karen Adams; Saturday-Church Choir. Pastor Anton Hager invites everyone to attend.
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Day 3: Our teens meet Smash's Christian Borle and more T.V. and Broadway stars at the National High School Musical Theater Awards
It's Day 3 for our teens competing in the National High School Musical Theater Awards, or Jimmys, in New York. Here's a brief diary courtesy of the kids and their chaperones:
WEDNESDAY: Day 1
From Emily McIntyre, Schmidt and Jones winner after the first day's loooong rehearsal:
Great energy from everyone on the room.
From Faye Austin, chaperone of Betty Buckley Awards winners Myle Phillips and Chloe Voreis:
We have already hit the ground running here in NYC. Chloe and Myles are staying focused and excited. We had a very fun cab ride from the airport yesterday. The cab drive misunderstood us and thought we were coming for a computer competition. Driving through the city was a thrill for the students. Once we got to NYC we grabbed a quick snack, and then headed to the meet and greet pizza party at [NYU's] Tisch School of the Arts… they learned 10 pages of music for the opening number of the Jimmys and got put into their medley groups.
THURSDAY: Day 2
From Michael Williams, DSM Best Actor winner:
From Tracy Jordan, chaperone for DSM winners Michael Williams and Emily Emmett:
Thursday at lunch actors were treated to a talk back with some impressive Broadway talent: 2- time Tony nominated star Liz Calloway, who was also voice of Kiara in Lion King Simba's Pride, Jasmine in Return of Jafar and Anya in Anastasia, Broadway veterans Leslie Odom Jr. who has also recently appeared on television and Smash and the big screen in Red Tails, Tony-nominated Broadway actor Michael McElroy, and Telly Leung seen on Broadway DSM's Flower Drum Song, the revival of Godspell, and on television in Glee.
From Mary Anna Dennard, chaperone for Schmidt and Jones winners Drew Shafranek and Emily McIntyre:
Tony winner, Kelly O'Hara, and veteran Estelle Parsons speak to us after the show. They were generous in answering all our questions about performing and encouraged the young artists to pursue their dreams.
FRIDAY: Day 3
From Faye Austin, chaperone for Betty Buckley winners Myles Phillips and Chloe Voreis:
Today the students rehearse all day long, and only stop for meals. At lunch today they had an interview session with Christian Borle from Smash and Peter and the Starcatcher. He had a lot of interesting things to say and the students loved it. Tonight is a dress parade to finalize all costumes for the Jimmys!


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Read Othello's That I Did Love The Moor soliloquy below with modern English translation & analysis:
Spoken by Desdemona, Othello, Act 1, Scene 3
That I did love the Moor to live with him,
My downright violence and storm of fortunes
May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord:
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honour and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
"That I Did Love The Moor" Soliloquy Translation:
I love the Moor enough to live with him. My heart is his entirely. I became aware of Othello's qualities and dedicated my soul and my future to him. So, dear Senators, if I were to be left behind while he goes to war, I would be deprived of all the things I love him for and it would be very hard for me to be without him. Let me go with him.'
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I don't think this is a soliloquy as Desdemona is speaking in response to the Duke's question.
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A kmer or k-mer is a short DNA sequence consisting of a fixed number (K) of bases. The value of k is usually divisible by 4 so that a kmer can fit compactly into a basevector object. Typical values include 12, 20, 24, 36, and 48; kmers of these sizes are referred to as 12-mers, 20-mers, and so forth.
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Back in early October the Advocate Tribune spoke to a number of artists following the 2012 Meander and received a mixed bag of opinions as to how well this year's Upper Minnesota River Valley Art Crawl fared in terms of attendance and economics.
Responses ranged from slightly down due to the cold weather to slightly up in spite of the weather. But it turns out that both points of views paint a picture of a glass less full than the final tally has determined it to be. With 42 of 45 artists reporting, the total art sales for the 2012 Meander stands at $94,067, a 9 percent increase over 2011 sales, according to the Upper Minnesota River Valley Development Commission (UMVRDC).
"We are extremely proud of this event, which is looked at as the premier art crawl in Greater Minnesota," said UMVRDC Community Development Planner Kristi Fernholz. "This summer, Mayor R.T. Ryback called the Meander 'One of the five great events in Minnesota' and added, 'You should stay overnight.' The Meander continues to catch the attention of people throughout the state as well as out-of-state visitors."
Additional information obtained through 387 "passport-type" surveys returned by Meander participants showed further increases to metrics such as the amount event-goers spent on food and lodging in conjunction with what was the region's ninth annual Meander. According to Fernholz, individuals are offered prize incentives for filling out and returning the passports, which require attendees to visit at least eight studios to make the questionnaires valid.
Below is a tabulation of the results derived from the 2012 artist and customer surveys.
$94,076 – Total reported Meander art sales to customers during the Meander weekend. (An increase of 9% from 2011 w/ 42/45 surveys reported)
$2,240 –– Average reported art sales per artist (an increase of 5% from 2011)
91% –– The amount of money raised to organize the Meander through sponsors and artists that was spent on products or services in the five county area (printing, paper, advertising, graphic design, staffing)
70-1100 –– Reported total number of customers at individual studios for the entire weekend
12 –– Average number of studios customers visited
3 –– people per travel party (on average)
71% of customers said the quality of the art was excellent
78% of customers said their overall experience was excellent
53% did NOT attend last year
81% plan to attend again next year
14% maybe plan to attend next year
44% came from within local 5-county area
20% came from greater Minnesota (outside 5-county area)
23% came from the metro area
13% came from out of state
Average Expenditures per Customer (387 reporting in 2012 vs. 273 in 2011)
$98 on Meander Art ($103 in 2011)
Page 2 of 2 - $41 on Food/Gas ($36 in 2011)
$14 on Shopping, other than art ($15 in 2011)
$12 on Lodging ($8 in 2011)
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Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.
During routine house calls of registered Assumption Parish sex offenders Wednesday, deputies found two people allegedly in violation, the Sheriff's Office said.
Michael Field Jr., 26, 437 Belle River Road, is charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, as well as marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession, Sheriff Mike Waguespack said. He was convicted of indecent behavior with juveniles in 2008.
Field was brought to the Assumption Parish jail, the Sheriff's Office said.
A second registered offender is accused of moving to Iberia Parish in November without notifying law enforcement in either parish, said Waguespack, who did not release this person's name. Deputies are still investigating this.
In total, 28 sex offenders live in Assumption Parish, the Sheriff's Office said. Periodic checks will continue.
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962: The Corliss Resolution
|The Corliss Resolution
Title text: And no avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.
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Jeb Corliss is a professional BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer, like in the fourth panel. Corliss has jumped from a lot of different buildings and monuments in the world. Hence, the Corliss Resolution.
The Fermi paradox is an astronomical problem that states: "The universe is large enough that many planets should have extraterrestrial intelligent life. Why, then, haven't we detected any signs of it?" The paradox has numerous hypothetical solutions — some say that life is much rarer than we think, and others suggest that civilizations will eventually destroy themselves (as mentioned in the comic).
Randall proposes another solution to the Fermi paradox: before they can develop space travel and the like, civilizations will inevitably invent an "activity more fun than survival." That is, something fun that's also very dangerous, such as flying off a cliff in a wingsuit.
As said in the title text, a being that can already fly (hence "avian society") would probably prefer flying around outside over developing the tools needed for space colonization.
See 384: The Drake Equation for another comic about intelligent life in the universe.
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- The Fermi Paradox: Planets are so common that life should be too. So where is it?
- [Cueball with an unusual suit runs.]
- Well, now we know. It's not that life inevitably destroys itself with war.
- [Cueball keeps running.]
- It's just that it takes longer to develop space colonization.
- [Cueball leaps off a cliff]
- Than it does to invent an activity
- more fun than survival.
- [Youtube video of Cueball, with the suit opening up into a wingsuit. As this is youtube, the comments have not been shown. Two people are watching the video offpanel.]
- Person 1: Holy crap.
- Person 2: I don't care how dangerous it is. I have to try it.
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But technological development is eventually going to make wingsuit flight safe, so how are we going to explain our continued survival after that? Davidy²²[talk] 08:28, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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When wingsuits become safe, they will become common, and will therefore not be as much fun. In the mean time, someone will have invented something else which is both fun and dangerous (like the aforementioned Rocket-Sneakers(TM)) Drmouse (talk) 13:19, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
"before they can develop space travel and the like, civilizations will inevitably invent an "activity more fun than survival." That is, something fun that's also very dangerous, such as flying off a cliff in a wing-suit."
Before they can develop space travel and the like, civilizations will have to invent an activity more fun than jumping off a cliff in a wing-suit and the like. Space travel is boring. Engineering space travel is boring with maths and work in it too. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 22:22, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


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Irving v. Lipstadt
Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(i) Introduction
1. We now turn our attention from Irving's treatment of one particular historical event to his use of one specific type of historical evidence. We have repeatedly seen how Irving uses double standards when evaluating the post-war testimony of survivors of the 'Third Reich'. He dismisses the evidence of victims, while giving serious consideration to the evidence of the perpetrators. He uncritically accepts the testimony of members of Hitler's entourage when it is suitable to his arguments, but ignores it, suppresses it, manipulates it, or attempts to discredit it when it is not. The centrality of this evidence to Irving's arguments requires that it now receive a more systematic consideration.
2. When Hitler's War was first published in 1977 the claim which caused most consternation was that Hitler, although ultimately responsible for the murder of the European Jews, had known nothing about the crime itself:
Irving expressed his thesis more clearly in a letter in February 1974:
There are documents which strongly suggest that Hitler's responsibility - as distinct from Himmler's - was limited to the decision to deport all European Jews to the east, and that responsibility for what happened to the Russian Jews and to European Jews after their arrival in "the east" rested with Himmler, Heydrich, and the local authorities there - who took full advantage of the atmosphere of hatred and contempt for human life created by their Führer.1
Irving expressed his thesis more clearly in a letter in February 1974:
It is important for me to ascertain if there was a difference in Hitler's eyes between the 'deportation' and 'liquidation' of the Jews at the turn of 19411942 and also later. From the documentary material available so far one could almost suspect that as far as the Jews of Western Europe were concerned it was only a matter of deportation in his eyes, and he believed that there in the East they were being put to work, albeit under hard circumstances. This belief seems to have stayed with Hitler for the whole of 1942. Only in April 1943 does one find formulations, which might possibly point to a different attitude on Hitler part.2
3. Irving's thesis rested on three strands of argument. First, the absence of a written order signed by Hitler, such as existed for the euthanasia action. Second, the 'chain of documents' discussed earlier in this report. Third, the argument that Hitler had never talked about the destruction of European Jewry in the close private circles surrounding him.
4. This part of the Report concentrates on the third point, namely, Irving's claim that Hitler's surviving adjutants, secretaries, and staff stenographers have all uniformly testified that never once was the extermination of either the Russian or the European Jews mentioned, even in confidence, at Hitler's headquarters.3 Irving clearly makes use of the alleged testimony of Hitler's retinue as to the absence of any discussion of the extermination of the Jews amongst Hitler's intimate circle to support his thesis that Hitler did not know about the matter. In his dispute with the Sunday Times in 1977, over an article written by Lewis Chester and Gita Sereni, Irving wrote to the Press Council a letter which appeared to deny the connection:
But the matter is totally unimportant, as I never, at any time, anywhere, based my case on these five staff members and it is dishonest of Miss Serenyi [sic] to suggest that I did. Let her state precisely where I claimed that these people supported my case. Once they informes me, as they did, that they never heard any mention of Jewish liquidations at Hitler's HQ, and that they themselves learned of it only after the war, what possible purpose was there in my questioning them further about it, let alone basing my case on them?4
5. If we refer to the structure of the relevant passages in the 1977 edition of Hitler's War this is pertinently not the case. The passage falls squarely in a section of the book which sought to propound Hitler's ignorance of the ultimate fate of those Jews deported to the east.'[...] no direct report by Himmler or Heydrich to Hitler on the barbarous massacres of Russian Jews they themselves had witnessed has ever come to light.'5 Irving then added (and it is to be borne in mind how unequivocal he is): '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.'6
6. Irving relies on four varieties of evidence from these people: contemporary documents, such as letters and diaries; his own 'exhaustive' interviews; post-war interrogations, interviews and affidavits (usually in connection with one or other of the post-war Nuremberg trials); and memoirs composed after the war. Of the four, contemporary documents are, without doubt, of most value to the historian, as Irving himself has argued in a general manner; the other categories of evidence are not to be dismissed, but have to be treated with a high degree of critical caution.
7. As we have seen, it is Irving's stock in trade as a Holocaust denier to become cautious with certain types of evidence when it contradicts the revisionist line.7 For instance Irving criticised Gerald Fleming's book Hitler and the Final Solution (London, 1983), which set out to refute Irving's central thesis that Hitler knew nothing of the 'Final Solution', by pointing out that Fleming relied heavily on war crimes trial testimonies 'which are anything but safe'.8 Yet Irving has presented the court with precisely five such pieces of testimony in document 1856, to support his claim that Hitler's adjutants were as ignorant as Hitler was himself. In his book Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving draws heavily on testimonies and affidavits from the Nuremberg trials.9 Yet he has also said: 'I myself know that one has to be very careful with personal questioning. I put a lot of worth on personal letters from this time, on personal diaries, on war diaries, and on documents, which are demonstrably authentic. Only then come people....'10 Despite this, all of the evidence presented to the court is post-war testimony, and little of it is pertinent other than to establish Irving's contact with certain individuals. It should also be taken into account that none of the documents presented to the court, apart from the correspondence with Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder and the extract from the Krause memoir, have been presented in an original form. Rather they constitute Irving's notes on the same.
8. It is not proposed in this report to tackle each and every member of Hitler's staff individually to prove the extent of their knowledge.11 But, using the printed documents and memoir literature at hand, it will be shown that:
- Hitler did talk about the 'Final Solution of the Jewish question', or better said aspects of it, to his personal staff.
- Hitler was often disingenuous in his conversation, but that the listener who chose to understand him, either at the time or in reminiscing after the war, was perfectly able to.
- Despite the claustrophobia and cloistered nature of life in the Führerhauptquartier, aspects of the 'Final Solution' were common knowledge amongst members of Hitler's staff, either through rumour, gossip, or what they themselves saw and heard at first hand.
- Members of Hitler's staff were not only witness to Hitler's role in the 'Final Solution', but also perpetrators themselves.
- While some of Hitler's staff tried to exonerate Hitler in various ways after the war, similarly some of them were in no doubt that the 'Final Solution' could not have taken place without Hitler's knowledge and express orders.
- Those members of Hitler's staff who sought to exonerate him had many good reasons after the war to disguise or deny what they saw, heard, or did during their time in Hitler's service. This is a factor which Irving conveniently chose to ignore.
- Irving's findings and interpretations were not the result of a flawed methodology or a naive credulity. In full knowledge of the historical detail Irving subjectively filtered, bent, and manipulated his sources to his own political and ideological desire to exculpate Hitler.12
9. In this section, we will start with a survey of the general background of knowledge about the extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the post-war ideology and purposes of the surviving members of Hitler's immediate circle and the pressures operating on them. These general considerations have an important bearing on the evaluation of the quality of their evidence. We shall then move on to a consideration of selected individual members of Hitler's entourage, and conclude with some wider reflections on Hitler's decision-making process as reflected in the evidence of those who worked closely with him on a daily basis.
1. David Irving, Hitler's War (London etc., 1977), p. 326.
2. 'Für mich ist ja wesentlich festzustellen, ob es um die Jahreswende 1941/42 und auch später einen Unterschied zwischen "Abtransport" und "Liquidierung" der Juden in Hitler's Augen gab. Aus den bisher vorliegenden Aktenmaterialien könnte man beinahe vermuten, dass - was die Juden aus Westeuropa anging - in seinen Augen es sich nur um den Abtransport handelte, und er glaubte, dass sie dort im Osten zwar unter sehr harten Umständen den Arbeitsprozess zugeführt wurden. dieser Glauben scheint das ganze Jahr 1942 über noch bei Hitler geherrscht zu haben. Erst im April 1943 findet man dann Formulierungen, die eventuell auf eine andere Ansicht Hitler's schliessen lassen könnten.' (document 397, Irving to Dr. Friedrich Kabermann, 2 February 1974).
3. Irving, Hitler's War (1977 ed.), p. 327, and 1991 ed., p. 424.
4. Document 625, Irving to the Press Council, 6 August 1978.
5. Hitler's war, 1977 edn., p.327. See also p. 331.
6. Ibid., p.327. The sentence is retained in David Irving, Hitler's War (1991) p. 424.
7. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust. The Growing Assault on Truth and Menory (London, 1994), p. 181.
8. Hitler's War (1991), p. 20.
9. Irving, Goebbels, p. 281, n. 73 (Schallmeyer), p. 274 n. 27 (Eberstein).
10. Guido Knopp (ed.), Hitler heute. Gespräche über ein deutsches Trauma (Aschaffenberg, 1979), p. 92.
11. Some of the reminischences and documents cited in Hitler's War can be dismissed out of hand in relation to the point under discussion. For instance Nicolaus von Vormann was Hitler's adjutant for August and September of 1939. Max Wünsche's diary recorded 'Hitler's movements and minor decisions' only for 1938. Wilhelm Brückner and Fritz Wiedermann were both released from Hitler's service in 1939.
12. Lipstadt, p. 181.
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If I select an object, type mv, click a random point, press space-bar and enter a relative distance, select keep original in the dialog, the original is deselected and the new copy is selected. At this point I cannot select other objects or deselect the new copied object with the mouse. Though, after I press ctrl-k to deselect all, all is well.
If I use the mouse to select the source and target points this does not happen.
This is the same on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 7.04 for QCAD 188.8.131.52.


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Dylan Byers (above), one of the annoying twerps who write for Politico, expressed impatience yesterday that the culprit in the Boston bombings had not yet been caught.
A progressive (and impressive) blogger who calls herself Digby has a DELICIOUS RESPONSE to Byers' piece:
I have read a lot of fatuous reporting on this event but I think this one may take the cake. The idea that they are "tortured" because they don't yet have all the information is just ridiculous. Moreover, the whining, passive tone is embarrassing. Reporters should be beyond busy right now (and many are), �trying to ...
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MMH growth
Health system plans new offices on Wayne Street
May 15, 2013
Earth-moving activity has begun on the six-acre lot owned by Marietta's Memorial Health System at the corner of East Eighth and Wayne streets just off Pike Street in preparation for the constructio......
Wow! Such negativity...I think we should be grateful for what we have. In an age when many hospitals will be forced to close their doors, we should be thankful that we live in a community with a facility that is expanding services while attempting to contain costs. Most people do not realize the TRUTH about healthcare cuts that are forcing hospitals to look at things differently. All I say is make sure you know FACTS about situations before sounding off and acting like you know all of the factors. Healthcare is not what it used to be....federal cuts and mandates are what drives most of the decisions being made.
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Teacher, I have no idea who MMH C suite is. I am a former patient who has had an unfortunate experience at MMH. So NO, I will not turn off the comments. And to even ask anyone to do this is ridiculous. People have the right to vent and more importantly to voice concerns.
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I love how bastards made the cut but not ******! Lol.
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Okay MMH C suite. Time to turn off the comments. Things are going south here.
Folks.... Everything about healthcare stinks. It is all a big game and there is too much money in the medicare pot to be made by all the greedy bastards. Doctors are unhappy and ******. Nurses are overworked and largely under qualified for the complex patients. Gone are the days of just a physician/ nurse and patient. There are tons of people scanning, reviewing, approving, coding, billing and extracting data from the patient chart. These people all need paid. It is complex and chaotic. We need to blow is all up and start over. And finally, we need to recognize that we all can't live forever. Age, genetics and the choices we made in our lifetime don't always need to be treated with every latest and greatest treatment. Live your life in moderation and accept your fate. Peace and love to all.
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Yes dogeared, I agree. Scott Cantley, Jennifer Offenberger, and the rest of their disgusting stable need to go. They are masters at rationalizing their actions that have negatively affected so many people. I honestly don't know how they can live with themselves.
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Scott Cantley needs to go. He has alienated everyone, lost great employees and he cares nothing about patients! ONLY money!
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Try to work with their billing office on medical bills....GOOD GOD! I have never seen such incompetence! And everyone I spoke with wanted to blame the new computer system, or blame the coder, or blame the doctor's office. It was awful! And then I was told I should call the patient advocate Jetta something. And she didn't even call me back. The whole place is a sham! Go to Columbus!
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MMH has created a monopoly. They get away with what they do because there is no competition. We in the valley are stuck. They have bought up everything. They have outsourced as many services as they can so what you are seeing in the ER, for example, is primarily traveling staff. No one cares because it is not their community. IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY. NOT, patient care. And with Obama care....it will only get worse.
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This is one reason why healthcare is in such a bad way/ the recent article indicated that MMH expected to avoid layoffs( that means count on layoffs ) but now wait a minute we are expanding our empire to include more buildings ! Where will we got the money to staff these places,maybe they have a plan to include robots. That may be better than patient care techs . If you have ever encountered one if these on a doctors office visit , they seldom can spell the name of the drug you are taking , never write the milligram strength correctly even when copying it and have little knowledge of diseases . Then the hospitals spin is what a good opportunity this is for us. Wrong wrong wrong and you can't blame this one on Obamacare . This is a good example of an overextended company counting on you to pick up their bills.
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Looks to me like MMH is making too much money and has to spend lots of $'s in new facilities (Wayne St.and Belpre) in order to try to remain a not for profit organization.
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What is going to happen to the LPNs employed by MMH, since they are being replaced by Patient care techs? No layoffs, but take a cut in pay because your position will be terminated. Also heard that Physician's Care is moving to Kroger plaza. Why wouldn't they move it to Wayne Street, since they are building new offices? All this and they need money!!!
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My family has received excellent care at MMH. The physicians and staff are wonderful. They deliver excellent care with kindness and compassion. My family has been treated for very serious illness and have received quality and personalized care. I commend all the staff and am extrememly thankful for the excellent care my family has received.
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"Probably are using non-local labor for the project too."
Pioneer Pipe is local labor.
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This is how MMH rolls... I have witnessed first hand, one of their past attempts at "keeping operation costs in line". I bet the employee meetings they just completed were a lot of fun. They shake your hand, look you in the eye and tell you that you are a valuable part of their system, all the while planning your demise. They avoid taking ownership of what they are doing to the "valued employee" by claiming other healthcare systems are all doing the same thing. Rest assured, administration and the ones that are favored by administration will not be affected by the cutbacks. In lieu of being "layed off", employees will be "offered" other positons that they simply can't do or are not suited for, so that the hospital can tout no one lost their employment. Jennifer Offenberger can try and sugar coat this all she wants, but it is what it is, we're not stupid.
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Cutting back and expanding at the same time? Great help to the local economy MMH!!!! Probably are using non-local labor for the project too. And I agree with you all, the doctors are horrible here with the exception of a rare few. I, too, take anything intensive to Columbus. OSU hospitals are wonderful.
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It's always easy to spend someone else's money! As long as they have their monopoly, MMH will bring in more patients but the quality of care will keep dropping. Has anyone tried to see one of these Memorial employed doctors recently? The wait is horrible and the doctor doesn't spend any real time with you anymore. They just sit and type into their computers without making eye contact.
Welcome to the future of medicine in the United States!
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Wow.... cutting employees hours and building more.. makes sense MMH... That's what happens when you try to be something your not!!!! This is Marietta... not Columbus! SAD!!!!
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This just doesn't make sense! MMH should let Ohio Health take over the management of the hospital. They know how to do healthcare.
By the way Marietta Times. Did you guys hear about the Benghazi and IRS scandals? You may want to check into that. I hear its a big big story lol.
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I thought MMH was cutting back.
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Except for a very few positions,(as the cost of healthcare goes through the roof) they will staff those offices with close to minimum wage workers. The rich continue getting richer, while the poor continue getting poorer.
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The West Port Apartment
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Bright living room with 1 double sofa bed, Freeview TV and DVD. Dining area for 4. Open kitchen (4 hotplates, oven, microwave, fridge/freezer, toaster and kettle).
1 Bedroom with 1 double bed.
1 Bath/shower/WC with heated towel rail
Towels and bed linen provided
Electric Central Heating
High Chair and Cot available free on request
Washing Machine
Iron and ironing board
Access to internet: High speed WIFI (free)
We meet guests at the apartment, show them them around, and give them the keys. We try to be flexible with arrival and departure times.
Welcome pack provided: toilet rolls, washing up liquid, tea, coffee, sugar, milk, fruit.
Getting Around
Edinburgh Castle 750m (0.5mi)
Princes St 750m (0.5mi)
National Museum 650m (0.4mi)
Royal Mile (St. Giles Cathedral) 750m (0.5mi)
Parliament/Holyrood House/Park 1.9km (1.2mi)
Edinburgh International Conference Centre 650m (0.4mi)
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Grocers 77m
Banking Machine 100m (0.1mi)
Restaurant 95m
Bus Stop 10m
Tram to/from airport 850m (0.5mi)
Airport Bus (Shandwick Pl) 850m (0.5mi)
Train Station (Haymarket) 1.2km (0.7mi)
Train Station (Waverley) 1.3km (0.8mi)
Metered parking on adjacent streets Mon-Sat 8:30-18:30 (free outside those hours)
Long Stay Car Park on Castle Terrace: 300m
Unrestricted Area: 2.4km (1.5mi)
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A fine apartment in the center of the action. It's all there, what you need. Clean and well maintained. Very nice landlord. Those arriving by car should make sure the parking ticket to pay! Parking outside the monitored zone (suburbs) and commute by bus is possible. Eric can add information. All in all, recommended.
Ein feines Apartment direkt im Zentrum des Geschehens. Es ist alles da, was man braucht. Sauber und gepflegt. Sehr nette Vermieter. Wer mit dem Auto anreist sollte darauf achten das Parkticket zu bezahlen! Parken ausserhalb der überwachten Zone (Vororte) und pendeln mit dem Linienbus ist möglich. Eric kann dazu Auskunft geben. Alles in allem: empfehlenswert.
The stay at the West Port Apartment was simply amazing. The apartment was comfortable, light, clean, more than well-equipped and Marion's hospitality made us feel very welcome. We have stayed at the Apartment for a week for a city-holiday and our child's graduation and we can fully recommend this place for anybody looking for a cozy place to stay while exploring Edinburgh.
We enjoyed our stay thoroughly in this lovely flat: Well equipped and with a welcome survival set of milk,fruit and tea/coffee , the flat proved to be the perfect location for exploring Edingburgh. We will be back next time we are in Edinburgh!
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This is the story of a "local guy" who stuck to his guns and made it on his own terms. He's a DIY musician. His name is Marcus Shelby.
Twenty years ago, Shelby -- bassist, bandleader, composer, big musical thinker -- was part of the "Young Lions" movement in jazz, recording for Columbia Records and seemingly destined for fame and fortune in New York City. Shelby, however, moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco and began gigging six and seven nights a week. He was forging a reputation, teaching in schools and collaborating with theater companies, choreographers, filmmakers and poets, while building a discography focused on grand historical themes in African-American history.
He's never left the Bay Area. Lucky us.
"In New York, I'm not sure I could've built the vision," he says, during a two-hour conversation at the Red Poppy Art House, a cozy community center near his Mission district apartment. "This is my city. This is where I am. My kids go to school here. I work in the schools. I believe in them."
Dedicated to Duke
Now 48, he brings his latest project to fruition Friday at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, where the Marcus Shelby Orchestra will perform a Duke Ellington tribute under the auspices of Cal Performances. It will include early classics by Ellington, as well as his "Such Sweet Thunder" suite, inspired by Shakespeare -- and here performed by Shelby's 16-piece orchestra in a collaboration with Cal Shakes. Actors just may pop up around the concert hall to render Bardian bits: i.e., from the balcony scene of "Romeo and Juliet," which inspired Ellington and Billy Strayhorn to compose the suite's sublime ballad "The Star-Crossed Lovers."
The collaboration was Shelby's idea; he knows Jonathan Moscone, Cal Shakes artistic director. Well, Shelby knows everybody, it seems.
On stage, wrapped around his double bass, grounding bands with his fat tone and deep rhythm, he is all business, rarely cracking a smile. In conversation, he is a charismatic dynamo, expansive and prone to breaking into laughter -- and, as on stage, wearing a fedora tipped at just the right angle, his signature.
He veers from one topic to the next: from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (he scored a 2012 production for San Francisco's African-American Shakespeare Company) to actor-playwright Anna Deavere Smith (he's scoring her new play "Pipeline Project"), from San Francisco's juvenile hall (where he teaches music) to the 100-voice choir he conducts in Sonoma (it performs in June at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival) and somehow on to the California Gold Rush, Ohlone Indian culture, Grizzly bears and naturalist John Muir (about whom he wrote a piece, "Muir's Walk," part of his "Green and Blues" suite for his orchestra).
"I've tried to combine different things that inspire me," he says. "When I want to learn about a subject, then I find a way to write music about it."
Shelby has composed a triptych of big band suites drawn from African-American history. His "Port Chicago" (2006) was inspired by the 1944 explosion at an East Bay naval yard, where more than 320 men were killed, mostly black American sailors. His "Harriet Tubman" suite (2007) evoked the Underground Railroad's abolitionist hero. His "Soul of the Movement" (2011) drew on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., while exploring work songs, spirituals, blues, jazz and Curtis Mayfield's "We're a Winner."
Doing his homework
It involved three years of research, including residencies at Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research, also in Chicago. He drove from Alabama to Tennessee, interviewing scores of men and women who lived through the civil rights years, including his aunts Katie Mae and Lucille Greer, retired nurses who had participated in the Memphis protests on behalf of the city's black sanitation workers, led by King in 1968.
"It's research and immersion, and that turns into melody," Shelby says, explaining his process. "It's action and movement, which turns into rhythm." He adds, "Music has to be about something."
Pianist and composer Rebeca Mauleón directs the education program at SFJazz, where Shelby's family concerts (including two with author Lemony Snicket) have been sell-outs:
"Everything he does is with this spirit of curiosity and experimentation -- one foot in tradition and one foot in the modern world," she says.
Deborah Cullinan has known Shelby since the late '90s, when she directed Intersection for the Arts. Now she directs the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and has helped guide funding toward his projects for 16 years. She says, "He's special. He's one of these constantly evolving, constantly questioning people."
Asked to imagine what Shelby might be doing in 15 years, she says, "His curiosity is kind of insatiable, so the question would be like, 'What kind of wild collaborations would he come up with?' Astronauts and musicians and who knows what? But also the themes and questions that he feels required to explore: What will they be?"
Memphis boyhood
As a boy, Shelby lived in Memphis, where his grandfather was a preacher and family life revolved around church. "Oh yeah, every Sunday. Twice on Sunday," he says.
When he was about 5, Shelby and his family moved to Sacramento. At 13 -- inspired by the bass-playing older brother of his best friend -- he took up the double bass, playing it alongside the choir at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church and in his high school orchestra. He never had a private lesson -- and quit at age 16 to pursue sports.
He won a basketball scholarship to Cal Poly, where he majored in electrical engineering, thinking, he recalls, "I was going to be an electrical engineer or a professional athlete, if God let me be."
In his senior year, though, his father suggested that he "check out this trumpet player." It was Wynton Marsalis. Shelby took a date to see Marsalis' band at the Radisson Hotel in Sacramento -- and quickly forgot about his date. "Because it was like they were playing to me. This swing, this up-tempo swing, this multi-polyrhythmic -- oh, man. And Wynton was so articulate. And I was, 'Wow, that's what I want to be, right there.'"
This was in 1988. Shelby was 21 or 22. He dusted off his bass and practically was laughed off the stage during a gig in Pismo Beach, where the bandleader shouted to the drummer to "Play louder," to drown out Shelby's mistakes. "I was horrible," he says.
He practiced maniacally. He moved to Los Angeles and found a home at the World Stage, a community arts and performance center founded by Billy Higgins, who was one of jazz's most infectiously swinging drummers. Higgins saw the spark in Shelby and his friends, mentored them, taught them the connection between community and music. At the World Stage, the young bassist and his pals formed the Black-Notes, the group that later recorded for Columbia Records and toured Europe in 1994, opening for Marsalis.
We'll have to fast-forward through Shelby's two years at Cal Arts, his studying with flutist-composer James Newton, his self-education in classical music, his obsessing on Tchaikovsky and attending more than 100 Los Angeles Philharmonic rehearsals at the Hollywood Bowl with pocket scores in hand.
No wasting time
We'll jump to 1996, the year Shelby performed at a Billy Higgins tribute in San Francisco. He soon moved to the Mission, began gigging and meeting with arts administrators. He "got into the middle of our stuff immediately," remembers percussionist-educator John Santos. "He's a mover. He's not a guy who's wasting time."
Shelby has never stopped moving. He teaches the music-history connection in two schools. His daughters, 4 and 11, play in the teen jazz band he directs at the Community Music Center in the Mission. He has become a mentor to a new generation: "Without Marcus, there is no me," says Oakland-reared trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, who's now a star, tours the world, but still texts Shelby for advice "whenever I'm feeling stuck or boxed in."
Last year, Shelby was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Commission: "I'm here 18 years, man," he jokes. "Sooner or later, people will call you for things."
He's here. He plays bass. He swings, infectiously, like Billy Higgins. And he's got something big on tap for Friday, his Ellington extravaganza. Expect sweet thunder.
Contact Richard Scheinin at 408-920-5069, read his stories and reviews at www.mercurynews.com/richard-scheinin, and follow him at Twitter.com/richardscheinin.
Performing "The Legacy of Duke Ellington: 50 Years of Swing!" with members of Cal Shakes for "Such Sweet Thunder," the Ellington-Strayhorn suite
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
Tickets: $22-$56; 510-642-9988, www.calperformances.org
Online: See videos of Marcus Shelby in performance at www.mercurynews.com/entertainment.


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Now in its third year, Arts in April is proof that there is more to the Napa Valley arts scene than landscape paintings and stuffy artist receptions. We combed through 30 days of gallery exhibits and art lectures to find these five not-to-miss events. Go to www.visitnapavalley.com and click on Arts in April.
1. Groupies at Markham Vineyards
Catch photojournalist Baron Wolman's new exhibit, "The Groupies," on view for the first time in the United States. Wolman was the first chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine. Admission is free. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. April 13 (exhibit is on display through June 30). 2812 St. Helena Highway, St. Helena.
2. Wine & art pairing at Beaulieu Vineyards
Enjoy an interactive sensory experience with this wine-and-art pairing featuring painter Penelope Moore, whose work celebrates her joie de vivre and obsession with all things food and wine. $15. 1-4 p.m. April 14. 1960 St. Helena Highway, Rutherford.
3. 'Wine Booty' call at Judd's Hill Winery
Who doesn't love pirates, especially those who know their wines? Winemaker and web TV personality Judd Hill hosts a live studio audience taping of his popular talk show, "Wine Booty," with his trusted sidekick, Captain Whylee Raven. $25. 5:30-8 p.m. April 26. 2332 Silverado Trail, Napa.
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Here's your chance to play Food Network judge. Taste wines from St. Helena Appellation wineries, sample food and wine pairings by St. Helena restaurants, caterers and student chef teams from the Culinary Institute of America, and vote on the best food and wine pairing. $85. Culinary Institute of America, 2555 Main St., St. Helena. Call 707-967-1100 for details
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Broadly, I am interested in the folklore of forced historical population movements, especially those resulting from the encroaching Sahara, the depletion of farmlands, wars in Africa, and the Atlantic slave trade. I am presently working on the transatlantic slave journeys of the Igbo people of Nigeria together with the issues of their forced relocations and settlement patterns, survival, and the establishment of Igbo community traditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 1999, I have been researching and writing about the material culture, verbal lore, and historical narratives of Igbo slave journeys from Nigeria to Virginia and through the Underground Railroad to freedom in the United States, as well as the reconnection of Africans and African Americans of Igbo descent long separated by the tragic events of Atlantic slave trade. Since 2006, I have been using relevant lessons from my folklore studies to help shape the preparedness of Igbo immigrants in America to reestablish their ethnic community tradition in the United States. I organize and facilitate reconnection events at the Igbo Farm Village in Staunton, Virginia. The Igbo Farm Village, an outdoor museum exhibit in Staunton provides a context very close to the Igbo cultural environment for experiencing and learning Igbo culture in America. I use the exhibit to run summer and weekend cultural immersion classes that reacquaint parents with their Igbo cultural heritage so that they can pass same on to their American born children. Although the cultural immersion workshops at the Igbo Farm Village are Igbo-centered, I also draw from my 20 years' experience in teaching cultural diversity in the United States to anchor my presentations within the greater American multiethnic and multicultural heritage. Because the Igbo Farm Village is in the midst of English, Irish, and German Farms that showcase the contributions of Old World Cultures to the development of the American frontier culture, there could not be a better location in the United States for achieving my goal.
"Before the Middle Passage: Igbo Slave Journeys to Old Calabar and Bonny" Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora, edited by Carolyn Brown and Paul Lovejoy. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press (2011) 57-69.
Amamihe: The Basis of Igbo Culture and Character formation. Goldline and Jacobs Publishers, NJ, Canada, and Owerri, 2010.
ENYI BIAFRA: Regimental Drill, Duty Songs, and Cadences from Biafra. Goldline and Jacobs Publishers, NJ and Owerri, 2009.
"The Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, Gender, and Class Transformations in the Bight of Biafra Hinterland" in Olaudah Equano and the World. Edited by Chima Korieh. Africa World Press, (2009), pp. 203-217.
"Civil Society Practices among the Igbo People of Nigeria," in Comparative Perspective of Civil Society, edited by Robert Dibie. Lexington Books 2008, pp. 209-223
Oral tradition and the material culture of the Atlantic slave trade as historical source: evidence from the Bight of Biafra hinterland. In The Aftermath of Slavery: Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria. Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Femi J. Kolapo. Trenton, NJ: African World Press, Inc. 2007, pp. 136-157.
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area animal shelter has found a home for a 37-pound cat named Biscuit. It even found him a sympathetic shoulder to meow on.
Operators of the St. Charles County shelter say recent news coverage of the tubby tabby's plight led to more than 100 adoption requests for him.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/10gClxR ) reports that Biscuit will go to live with Ed and Lisa Pyatt next week. The Eureka couple adopted another fat cat, Max, several years ago, and Ed Pyatt says it'll be good for Max to have a buddy.
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DOE Awards $24 Million for Algal Biofuels Research
DOE announced on June 28 its selection of three research consortiums to receive up to $24 million to tackle commercialization of algae-based biofuels. The selections will support the development of a clean, sustainable transportation sector and creation of jobs in the domestic bio-industry while helping cut greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels. The three consortia include partners from academia, national laboratories, and private industries located across the country. Projects are expected to continue for three years.
The three consortia selected will take differing approaches. The Sustainable Algal Biofuels Consortium, led by Arizona State University, will focus on testing the acceptability of algal biofuels as replacements for petroleum-based fuels. DOE funding of up to $6 million will be dedicated to investigating biochemical conversion of algae to fuels and products as well as to analyzing physical chemistry properties of algal fuels and fuel intermediates. Also, the Consortium for Algal Biofuels Commercialization, led by the University of California, San Diego, will concentrate on developing algae as a robust biofuels feedstock. Up to $9 million in DOE funding will aid the search for new approaches to algal crop protection, algal nutrient utilization, and genetic tools. And the Cellana, LLC Consortium, led by Cellana, LLC, of Hawaii, will examine large-scale production of fuels and feed from microalgae grown in seawater. DOE will invest up to $9 million in tasks integrating new algal harvesting technologies with pilot-scale cultivation test beds, and in developing marine microalgae as animal feed for the aquaculture industry.
As these allied groups tackle hurdles to algal biofuels use, they will follow the path outlined by the National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap which DOE released on June 28. This document synthesizes public comments on a draft version published in June 2009. That preliminary report summarized the work of more than 200 experts and stakeholders who took part in DOE's National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap Workshop. The final National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap is intended to guide future work and investments in algal biofuels. See the DOE press release, the National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap (PDF 7.5 MB), and DOE's Biomass Program Web site. Download Adobe Reader.


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Trey Anastasio Band,
Wednesday, 07/11/2001
Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA
Set 1: Mozambique, Moesha, Alive Again, Happy Coffee Song, Flock of Words, Last Tube[1], Cayman Review, Push On 'Til the Day
Set 2: The Way I Feel > Gotta Jibboo, Burlap Sack and Pumps > When[2], Money, Love and Change, Andre the Giant, Mr. Completely > Sand
Encore: At the Gazebo, At the Barbeque, Will It Go Round in Circles?
[1] Dedicated to surfers catching the "last tube" of the day.
[2] Debut.
Notes: Trey dedicated "Last Tube" to the surfers catching the "last tube" of the day. This show marked the debut of "When."
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Dave Grippo, Russell Remington, Jennifer Hartswick, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Ray Paczkowski, Andy Moroz


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The Mary Wade Strother Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met Oct. 21 at the Mentor Firehouse. Karen Buhler, Assaria, hosted the meeting.
The opening ritual, led by Buhler, Regent, was recited and followed by two verses of the National Anthem and the reading of the Preamble of the Constitution.
Vice Regent Carol Brown, Lindsborg, gave the President General's report.
The national defense report was given by Sharon Foust, Minneapolis, chair of that committee.
Minutes of the Sept. 16 meeting were read by Recording Secretary Melissa Stuchlik, Lincolnville, and approved by the group.
In the absence of Treasurer Christy Jarrett, Salina, the financial report was given by Buhler, who also reported on the Fall Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution meeting in Junction City in September.
Committee reports were given by Deb Colle, McPherson, schools; Marcia Price, Salina, Indians; Virginia Frederick, Salina, he American Flag and the NSDAR Library; and Carol Brown, Good Citizens and American Heritage.
Foust presented a review of "The Art of Power," a book written about Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham.
Refreshments were served by Frederick and Buhler.
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To put into the context what the Oakland A's accomplished in 2012, winning their division and pushing a first-round playoff series to the limit, one must consider their humble beginnings.
They opened the season braced for a rebuilding year, wanting to believe they had identified a cornerstone and hoping to squeeze one more productive season from two old men.
They failed on all four counts.
And still, they prevailed. They endured. The A's actually thrived amid the chaos of constant turnover to evolve into that rarely glimpsed sports phenomena: the accidental contender.
This season was not a mirage. It was not a fluke. What we saw actually did happen, Oakland posting a 94-68 record and summoning the resolve to take Detroit to the maximum five games in the American League Division Series before being eliminated.
"It hurts right now,'' third baseman Josh Donaldson said in the wake of the Game 5 loss. "But what's special about this team is we went out there every day and gave it our all. And we were pretty successful.''
Don't expect a repeat performance. It simply can't happen. Even if the A's somehow contend next season, and they just might, the 2012 script can't be reproduced. They cannot again come from the seeds of widespread doubt stemming from justifiably diminished expectations.
After this remarkable season, everybody will know the A's are coming.
Yet for most of this summer, as 2012 unfolded, nobody saw them at all, perhaps because they were not the team they thought they would be or the team everyone expected them to be.
The cornerstone was supposed to be a dynamic, smallish second baseman, Jemile Weeks, who had been in the big leagues for 114 days.
The old men were Bartolo Colon and Manny Ramirez, each nearly a decade past his prime and fading gracelessly under clouds related to performance-enhancing drugs.
None of the three was on the roster that rocked baseball and shocked the nation.
Weeks, 25, led all rookies with a .303 average and eight triples in 2011. Oakland's first-round pick in the 2008 draft, he stole 22 bases and entered spring training as a fixture atop the lineup. He starred in the team's marketing campaign; a giant mural of Weeks on a hangar at Oakland International Airport is visible from a mile away.
He struggled this season and was demoted to the minors on Aug. 21 -- one day before Colon, 39, was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone, a banned substance.
As for Ramirez, he never even reached Oakland. The 12-time All-Star began the season serving a 50-game suspension after a positive drug test last year. A little more than two weeks after joining the A's Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento, the 40-year-old requested and was granted his release.
The splendid accident is that the A's flourished without them.
Good baseball teams generally are built by assembling good young talent and allowing it to develop over several years, or by adding quality -- and costly -- players to a solid roster under a smart and perceptive manager.
That's what Texas has done in winning the A.L. West the past few seasons. That's what the Los Angeles Angels planned to do in 2012, adding the likes of slugger Albert Pujols and All-Star pitcher C.J. Wilson -- investments of more than $300 million. It was universally expected the division would be settled between these teams.
The A's last winter went in the opposite direction. They pared the payroll.
General manager Billy Beane and his staff traded the team's last three All-Stars to collect plenty of good young talent.
That talent, however, developed at an astonishing pace under manager Bob Melvin. Beane and his staff constantly shipped players back and forth on I-80 between Oakland and Sacramento. The A's utilized 19 rookies; rookies accounted for two-thirds of their postseason pitching staff.
Somehow, the A's did in 2012 what the brain trust hoped they might do in 2014.
This premature excellence stunned baseball people and, over the final weeks, charmed most everyone with even cursory interest in the game.
The A's bridged the gap between low expectations and exceptional results.
"It was a heck of a story,'' Melvin said. "It was a heck of a run for us.
"But it doesn't feel any better at the end of the day when you end up going home. It's a pretty empty feeling, but hopefully we can go farther next year.''
Don't bet on that. Baseball organizations have a tremendous capacity to adjust. That's why it's such a challenge for even well-funded franchises to consistently contend.
Even if the A's somehow exceed 94 wins and run deeper into the playoffs, this feeling can't be duplicated.
The element of surprise will be gone.
And that, after all, is what made this season so enchanting.
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SANTA CLARA -- Reflecting better-than-anticipated personal-computer sales to businesses, chip-making giant Intel reported an impressive increase in earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations for the second quarter in a row.
The company said it made a $2.8 billion profit in its second quarter, a 40 percent jump from the same period a year ago. Its sales of $13.83 billion were up 8 percent over the same period a year ago. That worked out to earnings of 55 cents a share
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters generally had expected earnings of 52 cents a share on sales of $13.68 billion.
"I'm pleased with the second-quarter results," CEO Brian Krzanich told analysts during a conference call. But he cautioned that PC sales to consumers "remains challenging, primarily in emerging markets."
Intel also announced that its board has authorized the repurchase of $20 billion of its shares, with $4 billion of that occurring in the third quarter. Intended to benefit investors, such stock buybacks frequently result in a company's stock price increasing.
Intel Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith predicted the Santa Clara chipmaker's sales would reach $14.4 billion in the third quarter.
"We are encouraged by the improved results, as PCs appear to be in a state of growth following two years of declines," said Edward Jones analyst William Kreher. "But visibility on the long-term health of the traditional PC market appears limited and Intel's competitive positioning in tablets remains weak."
Tech analyst Jack Gold was generally positive.
"Overall, this has been a very good quarter for Intel and shows that despite what some believed, Intel in not down and out in a changed market," he said. "They are reinventing themselves to the needs of the new market realities."
Intel reported its earnings after the market's official close, when its shares posted an increase of 22 cents -- or nearly 1 percent -- to $31.71. It's shares got an added boost of more than 4 percent in after-hours trading.
Because it is the world's biggest chipmaker in terms of revenue and a trailblazing Silicon Valley legend, Intel's earnings reports have long been regarded as a barometer of the overall tech industry's health. But the company's sales have slowed in recent years, due to dwindling consumer purchases of personal computers, which mostly run on Intel's microprocessors.
Consequently, Intel has been trying hard to get its chips into other devices, making some headway in the smartphone and tablet markets, for example. Nonetheless, those segments remain dominated by firms using an alternative chip design licensed from British company ARM Holdings.
Intel also is making a big push to have its chips power the so-called Internet of Things, which includes a huge array of household, retail, industrial, automotive and other gadgets that are being computerized and linked together. In addition, it is exploring using its advanced manufacturing plants to build chips for other companies, including its competitors.
Following its first-quarter earnings in April, which slightly beat analysts' expectations, Intel's shares have been trading at their highest level in 10 years.
Some of the recent improvement in PC sales is due to Microsoft ending its support for its Windows XP operating system, prompting purchases of newer computers with newer operating systems. In addition, corporations have been modernizing their computer equipment, after putting off such upgrades for several years.
Although problems still dog Intel's business, "stronger PC outlook (however temporary) is doing well to mitigate them for the moment," concluded Bernstein Research analyst Stacy Rasgon in a note this week to his clients. But he offered caution about Intel's future, adding, "while the company appears to be taking a bullish tone, we have seen this movie before."
In a separate note, Raymond James analyst Hans Mosesmann noted that "while the company will likely continue to benefit from a commercial PC upgrade cycle over the immediate term," that's not likely to last long. Moreover, he expressed concern about ARM chipmakers pressing for a growing share of the computer server market, also long dominated by Intel.
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If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process. ~ Ken Wilber ~
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LIVERMORE -- Despite speakers who called the move "inhumane" and ineffective, the City Council on Monday adopted a law giving the city the power to clear out homeless camps.
Citing threats to public health and safety, especially from camps along the Arroyo Mocho and other waterways -- council members voted 4-1 to adopt an urban camping ban for public lands or private property with a public right of way.
Mayor John Marchand, who proposed the ordinance, said it would give police and the city power to combat increasing problems of solid waste and trash in local waterways.
"This is just going to be another tool that we have," Marchand said. "What I want to be able to do is to be able to lift people out of homelessness. ... What we're doing right now isn't working."
Councilwoman Laureen Turner, who voted against it, argued the ban punishes the homeless without providing alternatives.
"We're like moving chess pieces here," she said. "Compliance means moving, but to where? These people have nowhere else to go."
The city estimates its homeless population is 60 to 80 people, but advocates say it could be triple that.
City officials said the new rule that makes putting up tents or makeshift shelters for camping in public areas a civil infraction -- with $100 fines for first-time offenders -- would be complaint-driven and enforced in "a compassionate fashion." Those who violate the law multiple times could face fines of up to $300, misdemeanors and possible jail time. Camping gear, like tents and sleeping bags, could also be confiscated and stored until they can be recovered by the owners.
The meeting drew more than 20 speakers, a great majority opposing the rule. Several pleaded with the council to put off a vote in order to consider community-based solutions.
"It makes no sense to me," said Lori Pavich, a Livermore homeless advocate. "You cannot take blankets and sleeping bags away from homeless people. It's inhumane."
City Manager Marc Roberts said citations would be a last resort for those who "willfully refuse" to move. Offenders would be given 24 to 72 hours to collect their belongings prior to any action.
"We would not be hunting folks down," Roberts said. "We would be looking to where we have a problem that is causing implications to the city as a whole, or to neighbors."
Livermore resident Michael Duncan, who frequents the Arroyo Mocho and supports the ordinance, said the area's homeless camps have gotten so bad, he no longer feels safe while walking the trail.
"I can't use it anymore without being accosted," Duncan said. "It's got to stop."
Livermore, along with the greater Tri-Valley, has no permanent shelter for single homeless men. Nick Tynan, a homeless veteran from Livermore, said the lack of services gives many no other option than camping.
"Not every homeless is a nuisance," Tynan said. "Purely policing this problem will not solve anything without active solutions."
Similar ordinances have been adopted by the Livermore parks district, the cities of Dublin, Pleasanton and San Ramon, and the town of Danville.
Livermore's ordinance takes effect March 12, but council members agreed no citations will be given until a "homeless summit," which Marchand is organizing with local and federal agencies, is convened.
Council members will meet Feb. 24 to consider a plan to implement the new law. The proposed homeless summit will be scheduled by March 10.
Contact Jeremy Thomas at 925-847-2184. Follow him at Twitter.com/jet_bang.


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Saikx, on 11 November 2012 - 09:17 PM, said:
To kinda quote my homie Wallirikiz: " If you can't get to the same # and Rating after the patch again, you dont deserve it anyways.
Also the biggest plus, all these retarded hunter/warrior newcomer wannabes will get reset and will have to play on even terms with everyone else.
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"William Dietrich is a born stylist, moving characters around on an historical chessboard with the assured hand of a master novelist firing on all cylinders. Ethan Gage is a wiry, battle-scarred hero, with great decency, who rings absolutely true."
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key
"William Dietrich...should be read by anyone who loves adventure at its grandest, or humor both smart and sharp, or romance with a wild heart."
—James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Colony
New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich is back with another rollicking adventure in the popular Ethan Gage series, following Napoleon's Pyramids, The Rosetta Key, and The Dakota Cypher. From the man Library Journal calls "a leader among historical novelists" comes a grand adventure, featuring a hero as memorable as Indiana Jones or George MacDonald Fraser's Sir Harry Flashman.
As dazzling and action packed as the best novels of James Rollins, George MacDonald Fraser, and Steve Berry, The Barbary Pirates will have readers cheering for William Dietrich and his dashing hero, Ethan Gage!
Swashbuckling American explorer and ladies' man Ethan Gage has seen his fair share of danger, having braved the sands of Egypt, the perils of the Atlantic Ocean, and the harsh wilderness of early America. Once more, he finds himself in a desperate race—this time with the Barbary Pirates, a powerful band of Muslim outlaws from North Africa. Also after Ethan is his nemesis—and former lover—Aurora Somerset, member of a dangerous sect called the Egyptian Rite. The prize is the Mirror of Archimedes, an ancient superweapon that, according to legend, once burned a Roman fleet with its power. In 1802, this death ray could tip the balance of power in the Mediterranean, and Ethan must stop the pirates from using it against the American, English, and French fleets.
From the salons and brothels of the Palais Royal of Paris, where the quest for information about his lost love Astiza involves real-life scientists and engineers—including inventor Robert Fulton—Ethan must travel at Napoleon's behest to the canals of Venice, the caves of Santorini, the dungeons of Tripoli, and finally to treachery on the high seas in the Mediterranean.
Can Ethan rescue Astiza without betraying the cause of his own United States? Can he save the two-year-old son he only recently discovered he had without allowing the Egyptian Rite to finally dominate the world? And when the sun rises on the Mirror of Archimedes, will everything Ethan cares about be set afire?
Delivering the fast-paced adventure, uncanny wit, and page-turning historical excitement that readers have come to expect from the masterful William Dietrich, The Barbary Pirates is Ethan Gage at his winningest, most hilarious, and most death defying.
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"Dietrich is an excellent writer, and fun-loving, amoral, and occasionally deadly Ethan Gage is a compelling hero who tries hard to do the right thing—if only he wasn't so easily distracted by temptations. An action-filled romp that's both historically accurate and great fun." — Library Journal
"Dietrich works real characters and historical events into the mix, expertly blending fact and fiction. Fans of the earlier Gage novels will definitely want to read this one, but the book should be heartily recommended to all action-adventure lovers." — Booklist
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- Jun 23:
- Castro Valley: Valley Springs Manor owner withdraws defense, could have licensed revoked
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- State agency says it 'fell short' in protecting Castro Valley care home residents, promises reform
- Nov 25:
- State never examined Castro Valley senior homeowner's dismal record
- Nov 3:
- With good info hard to find, Castro Valley senior home residents left in the dark
- Nov 1:
- Reports show state worker left Castro Valley care facility in hands of a cook and two others
The first call to the Alameda County Fire Department from a caller seeking help at the Valley Springs Manor in Castro Valley came in the morning of Oct. 25, when a man at the center called to say a resident was having trouble breathing.
A later afternoon call for another resident alerted rescuers that residents had been left without assistance.
Here's a partial transcript of 911 calls regarding the incident that led officials from the Sheriff's Office to the scene of the home, which had been shut down by the state Department of Social Services.
10:29 a.m. Male caller calls dispatch to report that one of the residents says she needs an ambulance because she's breathing heavily. The resident, he tells the dispatcher, is 62 and is "letting you know it is not a life or death situation."
He reports that she's speaking but breathing heavily. Responding to questions from the dispatcher, the caller tells her the resident can talk between breaths, is not having skin discolorations, doesn't have asthma and is not cold or clammy. But does seem to have a fever.
The dispatcher assures him that help is on the way and to no give her any food and to gather her medications and to turn her on her side if she begins vomiting or begins to fall asleep.
3:06 p.m. Same male voice calls for an ambulance saying, "We have a resident who's not looking very good in his room." She asks for details about how he looks but he says someone else is telling him he is to call and he hasn't seen the resident. He tells the dispatcher the man is about 60. Pale, not eating, alert and breathing normally, but looks like he's in pain. The dispatcher assures him that help is on the way and tells him to call back immediately if the man gets worse.
3:07 p.m. Emergency personnel acknowledges that a medic is on the way.
3:15 p.m. Paramedics arrive and report that "there's a possibility we have a number of patients here." In the next 30 minutes, calls are made for more units to be dispatched to the address.
3:47 p.m. Call made for Sheriff's Department deputies to respond to the address. "It's a convalescent home that's been shut down by the state and there are still clients in the building without any support," the emergency personnel employee says. "It looks like the management people have left them here."
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Hub City Bookshop to hold discussion on Eboo Patel's new book
Wofford faculty members to take part in event
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 11:10 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 11:10 a.m.
Eboo Patel, a former member of President Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships and founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core, will be in Spartanburg on March 4-5.
Want to go?
What: Eboo Patel's "Sacred Ground"
When: 6 p.m. today; 7 p.m. March 4 and 11 a.m. March 5
Where: Hub City Bookshop, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. Ste 2; Leonard Auditorium, Wofford College, 429 N. Church St.
Tickets: Free and open to the public
Info: www.wofford.edu/newsroom/2013/Wofford-Hub-City-Writers-launch-community-read/ or http://hubcity.org/bookshop/events/community-read-launch-and-discussion/
In anticipation of his visit, at 6 p.m. tonight, the Hub City Bookshop will host three Wofford College faculty members in a discussion about pluralism. The context for this discussion will be Patel's new book "Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America," in which he explores how, as he puts it, "America is about forces of pluralism beating forces of prejudice."
Patel released his first book, "Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation," in 2010 and almost immediately after started working on "Sacred Ground," which was published in fall of 2012. His inspiration came from the controversy over the Cordoba Mosque being built at the time near Ground Zero in New York City. Since 9/11, Islam is a religion that has had backlash in the United States because, according to Patel, "when there is a vacuum of information on a subject, it is filled with prejudice."
Growing up, says Patel, he "was not particularly religious." In college, however, he discovered interfaith leaders such as Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the Dalai Lama. In his book "Sacred Ground," he shows how he learned from them that "faith is the source of inspiration to serve."
Using the book as a talking point, Hub City Writers Project assistant director Kari Jackson will lead the discussion Tuesday about the importance of books and religious diversity in communities. This will include a panel of Wofford faculty members: Ron Robinson, Perkins-Prothro Chaplain and professor of Religion; Dr. Ellen Goldey, professor of Biology; and Dr. Trina Jones, associate professor of Religion.
Jones and Wofford became involved with Patel during the Bush administration. "There was an expectation of accountability and assessment in higher learning," Jones said, "So we asked ourselves what a liberally educated student needs in the 21st century?" A grant from the Teagle Foundation was a catalyst to create public discourse in the Upstate on religion as, according to Dr. Jones, "it would be unethical not to approach these questions."
It was then decided that Wofford would present Patel with the Sandor Teszler Award for Moral Courage and Service to Humankind. According to Dr. Jones, his book exemplifies the ideals of the Sandor Teszler Award in how it attempts "to ground pluralism within the broader script of America." That means appealing to a younger audience, prompting them to build up positive relationships. "If you know just one person of another faith as a person," said Jones, "then you can start improving your attitude."
This lays the groundwork for Patel's public lecture at Wofford at 7 p.m. on March 4 in the Leonard Auditorium. The following day Wofford presents Patel with the award, representing Wofford's highest ideals, and an honorary doctorate. The presentation will be made in a special convocation at 11 a.m. in Leonard Auditorium in Main Building, and will be free and open to the public.
It's Jones' goal in the next few months to get the word out to local religious and civic leaders. "People know this is important, but find it hard to discuss without things getting heated," she said. "This book is a great way to create conversation."
Patel, meanwhile, "is proud to be associated with Wofford. We have an awful lot of commonalities and a deep pride in diversity."
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Crookston High School's 2013 Prom is Saturday, and the weather might start to perk up just in time. Doors open for grand march at 4 p.m. and the march itself begins at 5 p.m. Proceeds from a small admission fee will go toward prizes for students at the Blast to Bede after-prom party, which, is being called "iBede '13" this year and has a technology theme.
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