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The family of Jahi McMath is attempting to raise money to help pay for the cost of airlifting the brain-dead 13-year-old from the Oakland hospital where she has been since Dec. 9 to one of two facilities that have offered to care for the teen indefinitely.
Omari Sealey, Jahi's uncle, said in a statement Saturday that "progress was being made" and that two facilities are being considered for Jahi: one in Southern California and one in New York.
"We are optimistic but are feeling ever anxious as the deadline of 5 p.m. on Monday approaches," he said in the joint statement by the family.
Sealey said that on Friday, the family; their attorney, Christopher Dolan; and the attorney for Children's Hospital Oakland had a conference call with one of the facilities to prove Jahi could be accepted there. The family said they are withholding identifying the facilities' names to ensure the privacy of patients and to not interfere with Jahi's potential transfer, and asked Children's Hospital to respect those wishes.
Sam Singer, a public relations expert hired by the hospital, said despite the family's reports, the hospital has not heard from either the McMath family or Dolan in more than 24 hours about any progress on transferring Jahi. He said the medical director of the Southern California facility was supposed to call the family back and Dolan would contact Children's Hospital, but that has not happened.
"Our hearts go out to the family, that is not what is in question," Singer said. "But it is wrong of (Dolan) to create false impressions that brain dead is not dead. It is dead.
"The family has been told by doctors and by a judge that Jahi McMath is dead. And that is very sad, but there has to be some recognition that the situation is not going to change."
On Friday, Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, created the "Jahi McMath Fund" on the fundraising website Go Fund Me.
On the site, Winkfield writes: "I am raising money for my daughter Jahi McMath so that she can be airlifted to a hospital out of state. Her insurance does not cover it and Children's Hospital is going to remove her off life support if can't get her out of this hospital."
In the family's lengthy letter released Saturday, they addressed the polarizing debate on life and death that Jahi's case has stirred and acknowledged they have many critics, as well as supporters. The family said they never intended to cause such a rousing discussion, but that Jahi's family stands by their religious conviction and their right to decide what happens to Jahi either in life or in death.
"People think we are naive about what the future holds for Jahi and our family. We are not ignorant," the family said. "We understand that Jahi has suffered a tragic and perhaps irreversible catastrophic injury to her brain. We also understand that it should never of happened and we believe that Children's is responsible. We acknowledge that the odds are stacked against us."
Jahi underwent tonsil surgery and two other procedures to remove tissue from her nose and throat in order to treat her sleep apnea. Complications following the operation resulted in loss of all brain function, according to six doctors who evaluated her. Jahi has been on a ventilator at Children's Hospital ever since.
So far the fund has raised almost $5,000 from 174 donors. The goal is to raise $20,000. Some donors have left messages on the site saying their prayers are with the family and donations seem to be coming from all over the country, with one woman saying she was from New Mexico. Many on the site urged Winkfield to keep fighting, saying miracles can happen.
"Children recover every day from brain injury she just needs a chance! Praying for your family," read one post from Kathy Clark.
The family faces a court-ordered 5 p.m. Monday deadline to pull Jahi off her ventilator at Children's Hospital. Jahi's family does not accept that she is dead and has been scrambling to find a long-term care facility. But hospital officials said Friday while it would send the girl to such a facility it wouldn't install a trachea or gastric feeding tube necessary for most facilities to accept her.
Other experts say it might be hard for the family to find any doctor to perform the procedures on Jahi with her brain-dead status.
"We know the darkness that likely lays ahead for us, for Jahi. We have heard the criticisms that we are harming Jahi and we need to just let go," Sealey said. "We are working every minute to preserve our rights and Jahi's existence. It is our fundamental, constitutional right as it would be yours should this horror ever befall you; something I do not wish on anyone, ever."
To view the fundraising page, go to www.gofundme.com/jahi-mcmath, or contact the family at Jahi McMath, P.O. Box 5128, Oakland, CA 94605-0128.
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I'm currently in a state of shock about going back to school. It's the end of August already? Didn't summer just start like…yesterday?!
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As cases of influenza continue to spread at the fastest rate in nearly a decade, hospitals around the country are buckling down on safety precautions, with some hospitals going so far as to mandate flu vaccinations for all employees.
In some states, the mandates have led to termination for employees who refuse to comply with the shots. In the past two months, 15 nurses and hospital staff members in four states have lost their jobs over the issue, reported The Associated Press.
The firings have prompted debate over whether required vaccinations for hospital staff are an infringement on personal freedom or if it is a necessary safety measure.
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Marietta Nursing Director Tricia LaBarre, right, takes the blood pressure of resident Carolyn Hathaway, 78, of Vienna, W.Va. at Heartland of Marietta Tuesday. Though LaBarre has gotten a flu vaccination, she still wears a mask, a safety precaution even more strongly encouraged for Heartland employees that opted not to receive a flu shot this year.
"It should be up to them," said Sardis resident Mary Martie, 51.
Though she has already gotten her own flu shot this season, Martie said that firing people who opt out of a flu shot is going too far.
"Some people are just strongly against them," she pointed out.
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The Marietta City Health Department has no official policy but all nine staff members opted to receive the vaccination this year.
The Washington County Health Department has no official policy and does not track how many of the county's eight health care providers have received the vaccination.
The Memorial Health System and affiliated facilities do not mandate the vaccination but require employees who opt out to sign a waiver, and they track vaccination rates among employees.
Camden Clark Medical Center and affiliated facilities do not mandate the vaccination but require employees who opt out to sign a waiver, and they track vaccination rates among employees.
Locally, neither the Washington County Health Department, nor the Marietta City Health Department have an official policy regarding the flu vaccination among employees.
"We don't have a policy in place because we've never run into that issue," said Jonni Tucker, a registered nurse at the Marietta department.
The nine staff members at the city health department have all opted to receive the vaccination this year, she said.
Ken Robinson, interim administrator of the county health department, said he does not know how many of the county's three nurses or five members of the dental clinic are vaccinated. There is no official policy in place, he noted.
Similarly, neither the Memorial Health System nor Camden Clark Medical Center mandate that employees receive the vaccination. However, the local hospitals do have a structured policy in place and track vaccination percentages among employees.
"Our policy is that all employees are encouraged to have the flu vaccine or are required to sign a waiver to decline one," said Scott Cantley, CEO of The Memorial Health System, which includes Marietta Memorial Hospital, Selby General Hospital and other health care facilities in the region.
That policy encompasses all employees, from nurses and doctors to accountants and custodians, and includes all facilities that fall under the Memorial Health System's umbrella, said Cantley.
Currently, 75 percent of the company's approximately 1,700 employees have been vaccinated, he said.
Each year, those numbers are reported to agencies including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and plans are for the numbers to eventually be posted online for consumer comparison. Also, the statistics are educational for each facility, as they work to get the immunization rates higher each year, said Jennifer Offenberger, director of marketing and public relations for the Memorial Health System.
At Camden Clark Medical Center, both the policy and the percentage of vaccinated employees are almost identical, said Tim Brunicardi, director of marketing.
"Normally they start putting out a notice in the fall and employees sign a waiver if they don't want a flu shot," said Brunicardi.
Reasons for refusing a flu shot can vary, said Margene Brown, a registered nurse in Marietta Memorial Hospital's Employee Health Department, which processes all of the declination waivers.
"Well, I've been vaccinated because I'm a strong believer in the flu shot, but certainly, I've talked to a lot of employees," said Brown.
A small amount of individuals are actually allergic to the flu vaccination, she said. But more often, employees opt out for other reasons, said Brown.
"Really what I hear most people saying is either they don't feel like they are at risk or they are afraid that they might get side effects from the shot," she said.
If employees do refuse a shot, they are not required to give a reason, said Brunicardi.
Though MMH and CCMC have both tracked their vaccination rates among employees for years, soon all hospitals will be required to do so.
The Associated Press reported that this year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will start requiring hospitals to report employees' flu vaccination rates in hopes of helping the government reach a goal of 90 percent coverage of health care workers by 2020.
Beverly resident Goldie Sampson, 85, said she thinks everybody should get a flu shot. Still, she said, no one should have it forced upon them.
"I think it should be their choice. I have a granddaughter that works at the (Marietta Memorial) hospital and I think that she should have her choice," said Sampson.
Sampson said firing people who do not want the shot is unjust, but added that direct care employees should let their patients know they haven't had a flu shot.
Heartland of Marietta, a 101-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility in Devola, offers the vaccine to its approximately 200 employees who fill out a form to either accept or decline the vaccination, said registered nurse Tricia LaBarre, director of nursing.
"With the flu being widespread this year, we do ask that they wear a mask if they decline," said LaBarre, adding the policy is strongly recommended, but not demanded.
At MMH and Camden Clark, employees utilize standard safety precautions, such as using gloves, masks and sanitizers.
"It's as safe as can possibly be," said Brunicardi.
It was those safety precautions that put Waterford resident Kelly Miller, 31, at ease when she gave birth to daughter, Nora, at Marietta Memorial Hospital last month.
"The hospital did an amazing job. Every nurse used antibacterial foam and sanitizers. I was very impressed and very happy," said Miller.
Concern for influenza is not reserved for the hospital staff, said Miller, who herself is a teacher.
"We were concerned with anybody, including our family," she said.
However, mandating flu shots for hospital staff could be a slippery slope, she said.
"If you're going to require nurses, what about teachers or anybody who comes into contact with those at a high risk? Are you then going to mandate all of them? I think that you can't isolate one group," said Miller, who did receive her vaccination this year.
When she was a bank employee in Parkersburg, Leah Lent, 80, of Lowell, was required to get a flu shot for years.
"It never really bothered me," said Lent of the requirement.
The shot should be a personal choice, said Lent, who still gets one even though it is no longer required of her.
But, added Lent, "I think probably they should get one if they're going to be working with patients."


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A champion of Kurtis SP
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i dont use a head set
and you can do just like in the main game and just shoot near the cashier and he'll still hurry up
now that online is somewhat fixed its pretty fun, better than what i thought, i like the main game better still, seems more alive
Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:13 pm
Mark in Minnesota
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Location: Saint Louis Park, MN
The way the game teleports you around to join missions in progress is very immersion-breaking. The post-mission "select next job" dialogues are worse.
Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:51 pm
girls don juan anything to do with me
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
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Location: Ohio
I played for a few hours the other night, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. However right now it's having trouble connecting, and the one time it tried to load it appears my character and all progress has been deleted. Hoping thats not the case anyway
and i'm a pretty horrible driver. mostly just a lazy driver because I know I can just slam into most things
Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:08 pm
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Location: Rivertown
But what about the single player?
I think this might be my fav. GTA along with Vice City.
Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:45 pm
Mark in Minnesota
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Well, since you're asking...
I really liked the single player. Some of the gold medal challenges are badly designed and non-fun (should I really be proud of, or challenged by, or rewarded for, being able to use a thumbstick to close spam ad pop-ups fast enough?) but for the most part the story is great, and again succeeds powerfully at deconstructing the "supercriminal in a corrupt, dystopian America" trope at the heart of the GTA franchise.
The game looks hard at the nature of loyalty between criminals, and at the relationships between criminals and the rest of the population. In maybe the third full mission, Lamar stereotypes the entire GTA dynamic as he describes how and why he thinks he and Franklin will someday betray Simeon--and (Trevor's various gang wars aside) the game works hard to keep that kind of betrayal from becoming a regular occurrence. That kind of thing absolutely plagued Niko's campaign in GTA IV, and seeing them move away from it in the writing for this game was really refreshing in some ways.
I was surprised by the ratcheted-up levels of sex/nudity, violence, and drug use. The deleted "Hot Coffee" content that got GTA: San Andreas in trouble a little less than a decade ago was far tamer than this.
Trevor Phillips is one of the most disturbing protagonists I've ever seen in a video game. I recently had a nightmare involving a person from my past turning up and behaving like Trevor does. It's not often a video game gets past my defenses like that.
There aren't many taboos left for a game like this to break. I'm not going to list any off because that could escalate quickly--but it really is sort of breathtaking how far they took things since the days of GTA3 and "zomg you can kill a hooker and get ur moneys back."
The "jumping between protagonists" feature was timely for me, and helped answer the question of how mainstream titles would achieve some of what State of Decay did in an indie context. I'm now conceiving of a large scale world using a mix of procedurally generated content and real GIS databases (sort of like what Google Earth and Sketchup do when wired together) to establish motorcycle clubs like The Lost (or, for that matter, Sons of Anarchy) and operate them as something halfway between State of Decay's survivor communities and GTA V's "crew members." Recruit & train prospects, and eventually start to be able to play as them; permadeath, no indispensable protagonist, open-ended story/gameplay options, real law enforcement that relies on investigation and arrest warrants rather than "wanted levels", etc.
I've been saying for a few years now that our descent into the last strange days of the Moore's law prediction have meant that gaming innovations are increasingly not going to be technological, but design/invention-centric. GTA V isn't really as much of a grand technological achievement (in the sense that, for example, Skyrim seemed to be) as it is masterful incremental improvement on the ideas of Max Payne, GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Hitman, etc.
I'm excited to see what GTA VI and beyond will look like; will we see a Los Santos that can simultaneously render and drive enough vehicles to simulate real L.A. traffic?
But I'm also skeptical about whether that would really inform the gameplay. In four years and working with a nine-figure budget, Rockstar made an almost comically large game world--so big that there are intricate parts of it where you don't spend any time at all. Cut content? DLC? Probably a bit of each. Being able to simulate more stuff going on in that world only buys them something if they have the resources necessary to populate the world with more stuff. Unless they resort to procedural generation, their creative pipeline isn't going to scale to meet the capabilities of the new hardware.
Meanwhile a positively tiny team (Undead Labs) made a game for a fraction of the cost which did way more to push the state of the art. Imagine what
would do with four years, a hundred million dollars worth of talent and two hundred million dollars in marketing.
GTA V is great. One of the best games ever made, from a consistently strong studio and one of the most successful publishers in the game. And yet... with the right kind of eyes it's getting easy to see how games like this are going to be overtaken by better ideas, by smaller and more agile studios.
Even without the Johnny Klebitz cameo, GTA V would have felt a little like a goodbye to the franchise.
Not that this is what I'm talking about when I say that, but can you really see another game with Lazlow in it after this one?
Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:58 pm
A champion of Kurtis SP
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maybe because i played red dead at a slower pace but i feel like red deads story/missions was A Lot longer
Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:49 am
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Horse get around alot slower then cars
Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:03 am
A champion of Kurtis SP
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Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:56 pm
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I'm not gonna lie Neuro, I hate that you posted that link. The title alone is a spoiler if you haven't started playing it and if I wanted to know if I missed some stuff I'd go to a wiki on my own.
Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:24 am
A champion of Kurtis SP
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if you look at it ,its not really a spoiler at all, its an unsolved mystery still
Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:28 am
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You posted a link called Aliens in GTA 5, ofcourse it's a spoiler. Nothing in trailers and marketing hinted at this.
I clicked the link because I finished the story but this spoiled in ways I didn't think it might because of reasons I can't say because it's a spoiler.
Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:09 pm
A champion of Kurtis SP
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well im sorry if that "spoiled"anything for you but i dont consider any of that spoilers
i would like to know though how are you supposed to find the 50 letters and 50 spaceship parts without looking at some sort of map, is there a way to find them all or youdo you really have to just search every single nook and cranny in the gta world, how are people doing this?!?!!?
and this is a good way to find out what you have done and havent to get 100%
whats this "Checklist items marked with a colored bar indicate contribution to the 100% completion." does that mean only those count? that is dumb if some of the things you do dont count
Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:19 am
girls don juan anything to do with me
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
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eh the aliens link didn't bother me, if anything it gives me some stuff I want to do that I might not have discovered naturally on my own. i really need to play with the game more. just discovered you can throw sticky bombs from cars so right now I'm driving around and blowing up giant busses and groups of people
Sat Oct 12, 2013 4:28 pm
Mark in Minnesota
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So I'm playing GTA Online last night in free mode, and there is a "High-Priority Vehicle" available. Players are able to compete for this vehicle, which must be stolen, re-sprayed, and taken to a drop-off point in a remote corner of the map.
A player has the car and has taken it to be re-sprayed. I post up outside the shop with an assault rifle and destroy several tires on the car plus kill the driver as he's leaving, take the car before he re-spawns, and go back into the mod shop to repair the damage I caused with the gunshots. I am invulnerable to attack inside the mod shop, and dawdle in there for about ten minutes, making a cocktail for myself and playing around with the map system a bit.
When I come out, three separate players have gathered outside the shop and are fighting each other. I drive away up a grass hill, catching just enough air to clear a concrete barrier and get on a freeway. I am well on my way before they can give chase. I take the car far north to get it repaired again, and am driving south to the drop-off point. Another player chases me and opens fire, but I evade him and am pulling into the drop-off garage when he blows up the car with a grenade, and me in it.
Keep in mind: If I had blown up his car to defend myself, I would have gotten hit with "bad sport" and eventually condemned to play on a server populated only by griefers like this guy.
So I call up Lester, one of the NPC contacts, and set a bounty on the guy, inviting other players to be paid money out of my in-game supply to kill him. He starts immediately talking shit to me, putting a bounty on me, bragging that his is for more dollars than mine, etc. Each time he dies from my cheap bounty I replace it with another cheap bounty; meanwhile I steal a helicopter, park it on the top of the tallest building in the city, and wait up there with a heavy sniper rifle which I use to shoot down any copter that comes after me.
This continues for about 20 minutes, including angry messages sent to me offline via Xbox Live itself ("What did you think I was gonna do? Not blow up the car?"), before he enlists aid from other players, a group effort with military choppers and fighter jets, all to come after me and punish me for retaliating when he did something to fuck me up at no benefit to himself. He literally would have made more money, and spent less money on ammunition, by letting me drop off the car and then killing me as soon as I was got out of the drop-off.
I've engaged in similar antics myself--but what I haven't done is gotten incredulous after it happened.
A day or two earlier I lost several hours of income from missions when I chased a bountied player north into the mountains of Blaine County. When I got there another player in his crew destroyed my car with an RPG, earning himself a ding for being a Bad Sport but stranding me in the mountains with no way back to civilization other than traveling on foot. He and his friends (who, it turned out, had been placing bounties on each other as bait) then penned me in on that mountain area where no vehicles spawned and kept repeatedly killing me even though I was dropping no cash and the ammunition they were using to fight me was costing them money. The terrain where I was respawning offered no cover and because I had no cash on me I could not switch to passive mode. I was consistently under attack from one of them within seconds of respawning. Accessing the banking system to transfer money from my bank account took so long that I couldn't withdraw without being killed, as did accessing any of the phone or interaction menu options I might have been able to use to teleport away. Literally the only option I could see to get out of it was to sign out of the game and hope that when I signed back in I got placed into a different session. This could have been trivially fixed by giving me a death screen option to respawn at a different location, which they didn't do.
Think about this: If you didn't lose in-game cash for dying at the hands of other players, and were rewarded for overcoming the challenges other players create for you (e.g. rank points and cash for killing your arch-nemesis) then everything I'm talking about here would just be happily raving about emergent gameplay, just like I was doing about Red Dead Redemption back on page 30 of this thread.
I just told you a story about how proud I was that a team of other players working in concert had to use a fighter jet to bring me down! Instead you're getting several paragraphs about how much the game punished me for getting into this fight in the first place. This seems like a design error by the game's developers.
Some further thoughts about this:
1. The player versus player aspects of the game are what they are. There is no meaningful way to opt out of them and participate only in the cooperative aspects of the game.
2. Dying in player versus player mode costs money--disproportionately more than the other player gains by killing you. Money is used to limit and control access to the game's higher-end content, which means that when other players kill you (outside of the bounty system) they are denying you access to the game's best content at little or no direct benefit to themselves.
3. Rockstar has plans to sell in-game money for real money.
The system they use to prevent griefing is broken to the point of being inadequate; other than the penalty for destroying personal vehicles (which makes it harder to defend against aggressive players) the only way to get "Bad Sport" status is with things like in-mission team killing or quitting instanced missions in progress.
The net result is a system where player versus player activity is used to whittle away in-assets, and the only way to prevent this from happening is by participating in the non-sandboxed missions at the expense of free play... unless you pay Rockstar extra money to defray these costs.
A more cynical man might suggest that, given the incredible quality of design on display elsewhere in the product, the whole thing has been quietly engineered to encourage use of "cash card" purchases.
To be clear: The best apartment currently present in the game costs about $400000, and vehicles and upgrades go considerably beyond that in price. Getting competitively equipped for the late-game online content probably requires close to a million dollars. The most lucrative missions seem to award a maximum of around $20000, and once you've accumulated six figures worth of cash every death in free play costs at least $2000. Vehicle theft in free play, especially of vehicles Simeon wants for missions, can randomly result in bounties being assigned.
A bad twenty minutes in the sandbox can eradicate multiple hours of progress during the missions, and if you don't have money proportionate to your in-game progress you will not be competitive in the racing or deathmatch style of missions.
If you're good at missions, devoted to playing missions that earn you decent money, and cautious about how you play in sandbox mode, $100000 an hour in earnings seems achievable--but even at those levels you're actively avoiding seeing some of the game's less lucrative content. Going beyond $100K or so per hour only looks possible to me if if you exclusively play with organized, disciplined crews that do things like pool proceeds from races, agree on match types, and predetermine winners. Or you could pay around $25 extra US and get a million dollars worth of in-game currency without the repetitive, farming gameplay.
Again, a more cynical man might think that this stuff has been carefully tuned to tax lengthy play in the online game's signature mode, coupled with microtransactions to offset that tax. Toil in the peer to peer hosted game modes to unlock content, or play in the public sessions and see that progress quickly erased.
But I'm an optimist. I'm assuming all of this will be fixed in a couple of months. I hope so; I'll likely have moved on to other things by then in any case, and I'd like to see more of the multi-player content (heists, max-rank missions, etc) before then... without having to spend money on microtransactions to get access to it.
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i refuse to pay for cash card no matter what
i think its actually designed well and balanced to get you to do / try the missions and side stuff, SO you can free roam, but really, it costs nothing if you really want to free roam thug it out, you can go berserk no matter what , in online mode if i eventually get money for cool stuff , then thats cool, but im there for the player vs player aspect in an open world if i want the other stuff i play the more-alive story mode, the whole bad sport thing is meaningless to me, thats why i play online to battle the other players! yes here and there you will team up with others, and if you are in a crew you dont even need to really, and you can join several crews, gta online in my opinion is played best when you go beserk and battle it out, dont try to play it like an rpg, although if you are good at the fight you will gain a lot of money and experience like an rpg, even if its slow, its good that its slow earning though
also theres supposed to be tons(?) of new free dlc updates adding more and more stuff to do, right now they are still smoothing everything out
Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:33 am
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NEWINGTON — Christmas is not an easy season for some folks. In fact, the season can be very challenging.
It is not unusual for some people to struggle with depression, grief and loss, medical challenges and broken relationships.
A "blue" Christmas worship gathering is not a morbid gathering, but it is designed to serve as a safe place for those who are not happy, but want to gather around the promise of the Savor's birth. Clergy of DARLA (Dover Area Religious Leaders Association) and the Portsmouth Ministerium in the Dover, Newington, and Portsmouth area are sponsoring this special service on Friday, Dec. 21 at 7 pm.
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The annual William Stafford Birthday Celebration will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Southern Oregon University's Hannon Library's Meese Meeting Room.
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PHOENIX -- Eric Sogard will have to settle for being the Face of the American League.
Pitted in the final of the MLB Network's #FaceofMLB competition, Sogard's supporters came up a bit short against Mets third baseman David Wright, who garnered 51 percent of the vote on Twitter to 49 percent for Sogard.
The A's second baseman credited Oakland's "very passionate fans" for his near win and his run to the final that included head-to-head wins over the Cubs' Anthony Rizzo, the Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki, the Giants' Buster Posey and the Blue Jays' Jose Bautista.
Although Sogard didn't tweet "even one vote" on his own behalf, his teammates joined A's fans and many others in an effort to make him the face of baseball, with his spectacles and NERDPOWER hashtag.
Sogard, who has a fight ahead of him to hold the second base job he won last spring, won't soon forget the support of A's fans.
"We may not have the most fans, but we have amazing fans," Sogard said. "They get the credit for all this. This was them."
Pitching against the Giants, Parker faced 11 hitters, got just four outs and left with his team trailing 5-0. He was charged with six runs on five hits, a walk and a hit batter in a game the A's would win in the ninth inning, 7-6.
"It was good to get out there," Parker said. "There's a different feel (to games) than when you are throwing to your own guys. I need to work on my delivery and try to get the game feel, get used to it all."
Most of the trouble for Parker came on sliders. The pitcher said he'll break the pitch in over the course of the spring. Manager Bob Melvin said Parker "has no issues" with the slider.
"I was trying not to smirk (after the strikeout)," Doolittle said. "To work on it, then be able to go out and execute it in a game is good."
Melvin said Doolittle is "trying to work on things that make him even better."
"If hitters have any doubt what he's throwing," the manager said, "it'll make his fastball that much better, and he realizes that."
Minor leaguer Jake Goebbert walked to start the winning rally, was balked to second, raced to third on an error and scored on the wild pitch. "That's the way we do it," Melvin said.


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Winger Nick Schlobohm had a hat trick and flyback Garrett Brewer scored two tries in No. 4 Saint Mary's 55-31 rugby victory over top-ranked Cal at Pat Vincent Field on Saturday.
The Bears (16-2), playing their regular season finale, had the run of play for much of the day, but the Gaels (14-1) countered effectively.
"Against a great Cal program we just want to play respectable rugby," Gaels coach Tim O'Brien. "We did that today."
Cal captain Seamus Kelly scored in the first half, and the Bears got second-half tries from Andrew Battaglia, Harry Adolphus and Nicklas Boyer.
"We gave up a half-dozen lightning-strike-quick tries that mostly came from transition moments, most from 50 meters out," Cal coach Jack Clark said.
Vince Bruno went 3-for-3 with a home run, but Cal (14-13, 3-5 Pac-12) fell 3-1 at Washington State.
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Birthday boys Casey Munoz and Jose Vizcaino Jr. both had two hits to help Santa Clara (12-18, 3-5 WCC) to a 7-3 victory over Portland.
Saint Mary's (14-17) opened WCC play with a doubleheader sweep of Loyola Marymount at Cottrell Field. In the opener, Sydney Gouveia pitched a complete game in a 6-1 win. In the second, the Gaels scored twice in the seventh for a 2-1 win. Monika Reichhardt delivered a walk-off RBI infield single.
LSU placed first in the six-team regional with 198.325. Cal (195.700) finished fourth and San Jose State (193.950) sixth at the Minneapolis Regional, and both teams failed to advance. Oklahoma won with a 197.725.
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Baby boomers made up most of the country's nurses, and many of them are retiring.
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163.An important part of Irving's thesis that the scale of the atrocities perpetrated at Auschwitz has been materially exaggerated is that it would have been quite impossible to cremate the alleged numbers of gas chamber victims with the supplies of coke delivered to AuschwitzíBirkenau. See e.g. his cross-examination (Transcript of day 9, pp. 149 et seq.) of Van Pelt, who, being neither an engineer nor a chemist, but a professor of cultural history with some knowledge of architecture, should not have been heard on this issue anyway.
164.Summarizing Van Pelt's evidence on this issue at 7.124, Gray J observes that:--
"basing himself on a contemporaneous calculation and assuming bodies were burned together at the rate contemplated in Bischoff's letter of 28 June 1943, he maintained that the quantity of coke required per corpse would have been no more than 3.5kg."
165.No crematorium, anywhere, ever has achieved a figure in the region of 3.5 kg of coke per corpse. The best figure achieved anywhere in Nazi Germany for mass cremations was 35 kg, at Gusen camp. But Van Pelt was (in part) extrapolating backwards from the Bischoff document, which is probably a forgery.
166.It is also enlightening to compare both Evans's comments on the Dresden death toll and their treatment by Gray J at 11.18 with Gray J's acceptance of Van Pelt's Auschwitz evidence:--
"How, asked Evans, would it have been possible to hive removed 200,000 bodies within a month? Moreover the claim in TB47 that 68,650 were incinerated in the Altmarkt defies belief, according to Evans, since it would have taken weeks and many gallons of gasoline to burn so many corpses in the available space."
167.Every one of Evans's arguments about Dresden mirrors those marshalled by Irving to refute key documents and allegations about Auschwitz, Birkenau, and the gas chambers. Irving's arguments, which are the product of forty years' investigation, were not accepted by Gray J, but when deployed by Evans, who has come to them only recently, they were accepted without a murmur.
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The White House has released its projections of how the automatic government spending cuts known as the sequester will impact Michigan starting March 1.
According to the White House in Michigan the sequester threatens "hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs, and cut[s] vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform."
State Budget Director John Nixon says the exact effects won't be known until after March 27, when Congress has to pass a new budget.
"It's not black and white right now," said Nixon. "We don't know how much of the cuts are going to be absorbed at the Federal level. We don't know how much are going to be passed down to the state level. But at the end of the day we do know that there will be some reductions coming."
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Completed his fourth NHL season with Carolina, totaling five points (3g, 2a) in 37 games… Played for the Charlotte Checkers (AHL) during the NHL work stoppage, and ranked second on the team in goals (14) and sixth in points (22) in 37 AHL games prior to his recall… Scored goals in eight consecutive games for Charlotte from 10/19-11/4, including a two-goal effort at Rockford (10/20)… Had three multi-point games on the AHL level… Made his NHL season debut at FLA (1/19)… Earned his first NHL point of season with an assist at OTT (2/7)… Scored his first NHL goal of season vs. TB (2/23)… Had his first NHL fight, sparring with Steve Olesky, during the third period at WSH (3/12)… Played his 100th NHL/Hurricanes game at WPG (3/30)… Suffered a lower-body injury vs. PIT (4/9) and missed the remainder of the season (9 games)… Was a healthy extra for two games (2/26, 3/26).
Is in his fifth NHL season with the Hurricanes… Signed a two-year contract with the Hurricanes on 7/23/12… Was born in Michigan but raised in Littleton, CO… Had notched 56 goals and 54 assists (110 points) in 186 career AHL games entering 2013-14… Concluded his junior hockey career with 130 goals, 112 assists (242 points) and 275 penalty minutes in 265 games in the Western Hockey League (WHL)… Averaged more than a point per game in 39 career WHL playoff games, tallying 21 goals and 19 assists, and won the 2008 Memorial Cup Championship with Spokane… Finished his Spokane career ranked sixth in franchise history in goals (130) and 11th all-time in points (242).
2005-06: Was Spokane's Rookie of the Year as a 16-year-old in 2005-06, notching 17 goals and 34 points in 72 games… Became the first 16-year-old to notch double-digit goals for Spokane since 1998.
2006-07: Totaled 24 goals and 19 assists (43 points) in 61 regular-season games with Spokane… Ranked fourth among Chiefs skaters in goals and sixth in total scoring in his second full season of major junior hockey… Played in the CHL's Top Prospects Game in January 2007… Saw his first postseason action for Spokane, scoring two goals and earning five assists (7 points) in six playoff games.
2007-08: Led Spokane and ranked tied for 10th in the WHL in scoring during the regular season with 42 goals and 40 assists (82 points) in 66 games… Was the first Spokane skater since 1998 to net 40 goals… Scored nine game-winning goals and was second in the WHL with 17 power-play goals… Ranked eighth in the league in plus/minus (+32)… Was named the WHL's Player of the Month in November after scoring 13 goals and earning 11 assists (24 points) and being named the Canadian Hockey League's Player of the Week in back-to-back weeks during the month… Had a career- and team-high 11-game point streak from 10/28-11/24 (14g, 11a)… Was tied for third among all WHL skaters in scoring during the playoffs with 20 points, and second only to fellow Hurricanes prospect Zach Boychuk in playoff goals with 11, leading Spokane to the WHL Championship… Was the leading goal scorer during the 2008 Memorial Cup, with six goals in four games… Had a hat trick and an assist in Spokane's Memorial Cup opener against Belleville, a 5-4 overtime win… Notched the game-winning goal in Spokane's 4-1 victory in the Memorial Cup championship game against Kitchener, and was named to the tournament's All-Star Team.
2008-09: Led Spokane (WHL) in scoring for the second consecutive season, totaling 83 points (47g, 36a) in 62 games… Ranked fourth in the WHL in goals (47) and 14th in the league in points (83)… Became the first Chief since 1994 to score 40 goals in back-to-back seasons… Was twice named the WHL's Player of the Week (2/2 and 3/16)… Netted a career-high four goals in a 5-2 win vs. Kamloops (2/25), his third hat trick of the season and sixth of his junior career… Had 32 goals and 49 points in the final 30 games of the regular season… Had 21 multi-point games, including two five-point nights and four four-point games… Led the Chiefs in postseason scoring with eight goals and 13 points in 12 playoff games.
2009-10: Completed his first professional season, splitting the year between Albany (AHL) and Carolina (NHL)… Skated in nine games with Carolina, scoring two goals… Was tied for fourth among River Rats with 17 goals in 56 AHL games… Scored his first professional goal (and point) in Albany's season opener vs. Manchester (10/3)… Made his NHL debut vs. ATL (1/16)… Beat Antero Niittymaki for his first NHL goal and point, and added a second goal for his first career multi-point game, at TB (4/6)… Led Albany in playoff assists (6) and was tied for the team lead in scoring (9 points), playing in all eight of the River Rats' Calder Cup Playoff contests.
2010-11: Skated in 23 NHL games with Carolina, notching one assist… Had 30 points (12g, 18a) in 51 AHL regular-season games with Charlotte… Made his season debut in the Hurricanes' opening game against MIN (10/7) in the first game of the 2010 NHL Premiere in Helsinki… Earned his first career NHL assist vs. MTL (3/30)… Earned eight points (2g, 6a), skating in 15 of Charlotte's 16 Calder Cup Playoff games as the Checkers advanced to the Eastern Conference Final… Was tied for third on the team in assists (6) and tied for fifth among Checkers in points (8).
2011-12: Established NHL career highs in games played (37), goals (6), assists (7) and points (13), in four stints with the Hurricanes… Skated in 42 AHL games with the Checkers, totaling 26 points (13g, 13a)… Scored two goals, his second career NHL two-goal game vs. VAN (12/15)… Scored two goals and added an assist for his first career three-point game at MIN (3/17)… Missed three NHL games due to illness.


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Ruby Irene Riner, age 65, passed away on Monday, December 10, 2012, at her home in Lone Grove, Okla. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, December 14, 2012, in The Chapel at Griffin ~ Hillcrest Funeral Home with Pastor Steve Bernard officiating. Services will conclude in The Chapel.
Ruby was born November 20, 1947, in Fresno, California, to R.D. Cain and Irene (Clay) Cain.
She married Wilson Riner on June 23, 1966, and to this union four children were born.
She attended Dickson Schools and enjoyed reading, playing games, gardening and spending time with family and friends. Ruby worked for many years at Wal-Mart in the shoe department.
Ruby was preceded in death by her husband, Wilson; one daughter, Stacy; one son, Virgil; and a grandchild, Kara.
She is survived by daughters, Toni Martin and husband, Michael and Lucinda Bryson; grandchildren, Vincent Riner, Michael Keith Martin Jr., Elizabeth Cheyanne Martin, Elaini Thompson, Jordan Bryson, Dustin Bryson, Shelby Bryson, Kelly Merideth, Jessie Malone and Rusty Philpot; sister, Bernice Alvarez; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.
Serving as pallbearers will be Vincent Riner, Barry Patterson, Christopher Patterson, David Leibrock, Robert Leibrock and Mike Dante.
Family visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. Thursday, December 13, 2012, at Griffin ~ Hillcrest Funeral Home.
Condolences may be left at www.Griffin-HillcrestFH.com.
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I don't know about you but I love warm spicy drinks like chai tea. I prefer to make my own because coffee shop chai is usually far too sweet for me. I've been working on perfecting a chai tea recipe for some time now. Yesterday I was inspired to add dandelion root to my recipe after reading this article on the amazing cancer-fighting effects from consuming dandelion root extract.
Dandelion root tea is earthy and slightly bitter. It's excellent for assisting the liver with detoxification as well as being stimulating to the digestive system. Chai spices are warming and also stimulate digestion. You are welcome to play around with this recipe and add other spices such as fennel seeds, nutmeg, star anise, or black tea leaves. Additionally, if you are sensitive to the bitter flavor or are unaccustomed to the flavor of dandelion root, you may consider starting with 1 or 2 teaspoons instead of a tablespoon.
Dandelion Root Chai Tea
This recipe makes a small batch of about one quart. I need to double it for my family. You can find dried dandelion root and the chai spices in the bulk herb section of your local health food store or herb store. Once the herbs have simmered you can add any thick, rich milk of your choice such as homemade raw almond milk, hemp milk, cashew milk, or fresh raw cream (from pastured cows). I quickly whipped up a batch of vanilla cashew milk in my Vita-Mix for the photos here. I usually fill 3/4 of the mug with tea and 1/4 with milk. I then stir in a small spoonful of raw honey to sweeten it. My children and I love this tea so much and I hope you do too!
1 tablespoon dried dandelion root
2 cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces
5 to 6 cardamom pods, crushed
1 teaspoon whole cloves
1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1-inch piece of fresh ginger, thinly sliced
4 cups filtered water
milk of your choice
raw honey
Place the dandelion root and spices into a 2-quart pot and cover with the water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Strain into a quart jar using a fine mesh strainer. Pour into mugs, top off with milk of your choice, then sweeten to taste with raw honey. Source: www.NourishingMeals.com
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Exe Estuary Trail (Cycle/Walkway)
The development of the Exe Estuary Trail is an important element of the County Council's aspirations to encourage more sustainable and healthy travel by walking and cycling.
The County Council has good experience in developing cycle networks across the County. Additionally connections between Dawlish Warren and Dawlish serve as access to the local Community College. The Exe Estuary Trail provides other links to complete a route around the whole of the Exe Estuary. The route forms part of the National Cycle Network Route 2 as shown in the Devon Local Transport Plan 2001-2006.
- Current Status of the Exe Estuary Trail
- Exe Estuary Background
- Exe Estuary Proposals
- Exe Estuary Planning Applications
- Exe Estuary Trail Interpretation
The Trail was completed on the eastern side of the Estuary between Exeter and Exmouth, when the Clyst Bridge, between Topsham and Ebford, was opened in November 2013. As part of this project, a new management plan for Topsham was prepared:
The Western side of the Trail from Exeter to Dawlish Warren was completed when the section between Turf Lock and Powderham Church, including a new bridge over the main West Coast Regional railway, was opened in November 2014.
The Exe Estuary is a unique and very special place. The Exe Estuary NCN Route 2, known as the Exe Estuary Trail, is proving to be to be a first class cycling and walking route. This route provides an exciting opportunity for people to experience cycling or walking around the entire Exe Estuary, appreciating the wildlife and passing through some beautiful riverside towns and villages steeped in maritime history.
The different habitats on the Estuary support a diverse and plentiful range of flora and fauna including wintering waterfowl and waders. As a result, the Exe Estuary has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a Special Protection Area (SPA), a Ramsar Site (internationally important area for birdlife) and is a candidate Special Area of Conservation. The primary conservation interests are the extensive inter-tidal habitats and the nationally and internationally important bird populations. These designations place responsibilities on Local Authorities and statutory bodies to ensure protection of the area's wildlife and environment, and demand that the 'precautionary principle' is enshrined into planning and management of the Estuary. The Estuary has very strong historic and cultural interests many of which are linked to the coastal and marine environment and provides a valuable setting for activities such as walking, boating, fishing and bird watching.
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Interim mayor wins in Lockport
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 1:15 a.m.
A familiar face will carry on as Lockport mayor, town voters decided Tuesday.
In addition, voters elected one member to the Town Council and sent to others into a Dec. 8 runoff.
Interim Mayor Paul Champagne won a four-year term that starts in January. He replaces three-term mayor Richard Champagne, who lost his battle with cancer in August.
Champagne defeated Bruce Wilson, 93 percent to 7 percent, or 812 votes to 64 votes, according to complete but unofficial results from the Secretary of State's Office. Both men are Republicans.
Voter turnout in the mayoral election was about 58 percent.
Meanwhile, Sharon Robichaux Guidry will face Ralph Sapia in a Dec. 8 runoff for the vacant Division B seat on the Town Council.
Guidry received 47 percent (411 votes) to Sapia's 35 percent (302 votes) and Eddie Guidroz Jr.'s 18 percent (159 votes), according complete but to unofficial results.
The voter turnout in that race was about 57 percent.
Incumbent Councilman Rodney Hartman, a Republican, retained his Division D council seat, securing 73 percent to 27 percent of the votes cast, or 629 to 236, against challenger Hamilton Guidroz, a Democrat.
The voter turnout in that race was about 57 percent.
Besides serving as interim mayor, Champagne, 62, was a council member for 20 years. He is also a project manager at Bollinger Shipyards and has lived in Lockport since 1975.
"I am very humbled and very honored that the people of Lockport elected me" he said.
He said leaks in sewer lines are the biggest issue facing Lockport today.
As interim mayor, Champagne oversaw negotiations with the state Department of Environment Quality to secure a $4 million low-interest loan to pay for needed improvements.
Champagne said he will work to attract more business to Lockport and wants to find a tenant for the former Rouses grocery.
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Paula Deen Dumps Legal Team
Posted July 12th, 2013 @ 11:19am by Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff
(NEWSER) – First she ditched her agent, now Paula Deen is swapping out her legal team in the latest fallout from her n-word scandal, the AP reports. Her new lead counsel is Grace Speights, an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, who specializes in employment discrimination defense. (The n-word admission came out ofa lawsuit from a former manager of a restaurant Deen co-owns with her brother, who says she was sexually harassed and also claims racial slurs were commonplace at the restaurant.)


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calvarycoffee wrote:i've posted flyers about this website around the east park course. i was hoping to get some more DG'ers on this site by the flyers.
hopefully soon, we'll be organizing a Mason City DG club - with custom discs and shirts and stuff.
Sounds like you are working hard to get things going in the area. Hopefully we can see some Mason City golfers at some events. What are the courses like in the area?


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- Feb 12:
- Chat Transcript: Discussion of Elder Care Facilities
- Castro Valley: 911 recordings from Valley Springs Manor senior home
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- State never examined Castro Valley senior homeowner's dismal record
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- In California, $1 million in unpaid fines for assisted living centers
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- Contra Costa Times editorial: Time for accountability for Castro Valley care home fiasco
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- With good info hard to find, Castro Valley senior home residents left in the dark
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- Missing Castro Valley assisted living patient found in San Jose
- Nov 1:
- 911 calls: Help began to arrive at Valley Springs Manor with call that resident was having trouble breathing
- Reports show state worker left Castro Valley care facility in hands of a cook and two others
- Oct 30:
- Castro Valley senior home residents moving to nursing homes as investigators launch elder abuse probe
- Castro Valley: Department of Social Services condemns actions at care facility
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- Castro Valley senior home's chaotic closure mirrored similar problem months earlier
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- Castro Valley senior care facility had license suspended
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- Patients left to fend for themselves after state shutters Castro Valley senior care facility
CASTRO VALLEY -- Choking back tears, the janitor at the now-notorious Valley Springs Manor on Thursday poured out his harrowing tale of several days desperately trying to feed, bathe and keep safe 19 elderly and mentally ill residents stranded when the rest of the workforce walked off.
Hired as a janitor just three weeks earlier -- and never paid -- Miguel Alvarez and the friend who helped him get the job spent sleepless nights running up and down the hall as wearying seniors screamed for food, medicine, emergency treatment and help cleaning up soiled undergarments.
"I felt bad for them so I helped them," said the 33-year-old San Leandro resident, who had no experience or training caring for elders. "I felt ... who's just going to leave these people? Just leave them for damn near dead?"
Now the home is the subject of a criminal investigation into elder abuse charges. Also facing scrutiny are state officials who allowed residents to keep living in the home after ordering it closed.
Confused by the chaos that began shortly after he arrived, Alvarez said he just tried to do what seemed right for ailing residents he had grown friendly with.
"I just tried to hold on strong for them, and that's all I could do," he said. "I wouldn't want nobody to leave my parents or my grandparents."
The last days overwhelmed him, especially as residents appeared to weaken and asked for medicine he had no authority to give them. One mentally-ill resident wandered off and went missing during the hectic lunch hour Friday.
Unsanitary conditions and ambulance calls mounted until a fire captain realized Saturday afternoon there had been no professional caregivers since state officials ordered the home's license revoked two days earlier.
Alvarez worked alongside his childhood friend, Maurice Rowland, a cook who had referred Alvarez to a custodial job opening three weeks earlier. In the final days before paramedics evacuated the last 14 residents, they took turns sleeping on a couch and chair in the home's TV room.
A stay-at-home dad, Alvarez said he took the job on Oct. 7 hoping to supplement his wife's income as the Christmas season approached. But he never got a time card and instead kept note of his hours on a tiny piece of paper in his wallet. His mom moved to his apartment from Stockton to take care of his 4-year-old son as he worked days that lasted 12 hours -- and eventually 24.
As the state threatened for months to revoke the home's license over a host of unfixed safety and staffing violations, he was hired just before an administrator walked off without notice. The workforce kept dwindling, with some caretakers returning to the facility late last week only to angrily demand missing paychecks. An interim supervisor who often slept in a backroom at the home repeatedly promised relief and payment until he, too, disappeared and stopped answering calls, Alvarez said.
The state Department of Social Services officials who posted the closure notice Oct. 24 also were nowhere to be found as the weekend began, said the two friends who stayed on.
"I thought they'd be there the whole entire time until the last resident was gone," said Rowland, the cook. "I didn't think they would just come and do their regular 9-to-5 shift."
Rowland, a Hayward resident, worked there for three months. He saw his last paycheck on Oct. 18 but kept working because "from what I understood, we were supposed to work all the way until all the residents were gone."
Alvarez said his child-rearing experience helped him as he and Rowland were suddenly thrust into taking care of the entire beleaguered facility by themselves.
"I just know from having a son how to clean up people, changing their diapers," Alvarez said. "I was the person who was bathing them, cleaning them, and that was not my job." He added, "I'm just a janitor."
A lawyer for the home's embattled owner, Hilda Manuel, disputed some of the accounts given by Alvarez and Rowland and said the two workers were not hired to be simply a cook and a janitor.
"People who are in a residential care facility are not there for medical treatment. It's not like a nursing home," said attorney Orrin Grover. "They may need help dressing ... brushing their teeth, washing their face, combing their hair. That isn't anything that requires special training."
He also said the home appears to have met the state's legal requirements for one worker for every eight to 12 residents. Grover acknowledged there had been some paycheck problems in the past week but said the company planned to pay all the workers what they were owed.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is probing elder abuse charges at the home, and local law enforcement officials had been scheduled to meet Thursday with health care investigators from the FBI and California Department of Justice.
Alvarez and Rowland enjoyed a short respite from last week's chaos but then, on Wednesday, went searching for the missing resident, Edmund Bascom, who called himself Goldfinger and disappeared on their watch.
"Me and Maurice rode over there on our bikes" to look for the missing man near the San Leandro BART station, where he was last seen, Alvarez said. "We know how he looks and stuff."


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Performing as a professional musician is a dream come true to Jesse Tubb. Performing on national and world stages for the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own," however, goes beyond even his wildest dreams.
And whether it's Veterans Day or any other day, Tubb regards playing "Taps," the national song of remembrance, as true privilege.
"To be a professional musician, especially in the Army serving my country, it's just been an awesome experience," he said. "I've played in concerts in great halls throughout the world and, you know, playing Taps for a funeral holds more meaning and importance to me than playing in a concert hall."
Tubb, 36, whose mother, Linda Beug, lives in Gardnerville, has enjoyed a magical tour that has led from his hometown in South Lake Tahoe to an Army career that has taken him around the globe - including a recent trip to China - and much more.
Now, at Arlington National Cemetery, where he has played "Taps" for funerals on many occasions, he has an opportunity to play a different role as a model for a bugler's statue at Arlington's Visitors Center.
"My understanding is it's going to be in the middle of the lobby," Tubb said. "So when you walk in, one of the first things you see is a statue of the bugler getting ready to play Taps."
Tubb was near breathless to learn this honor had been bestowed on him, and to add a special twist, 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of "Taps."
"When they assigned the band to pick a bugler to model for the statue, one of the officers and the command sergeant major picked me," Tubb said. "To have the statue there and to be the one chosen, to be the face for that moment, not only of the Army band, but for one of the most recognizable melodies, for our country in that military cemetery, it's an incredible honor."
Dr. Charles Cureton, chief of the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Museums Division, coordinated the details and the work to create a precise pose and look to the statute was extraordinary, according to Tubb.
"Essentially, he was trying to capture this emotional moment right before Taps are being played," Tubb said. "It's the split second as
I'm taking my breath in before I start playing."
Tubb said he went to StudioEIS in Brooklyn, which specializes in the design and production of museum figures, amd spent a day with a videographer and photographer to create the model.
"To see the pictures before they painted it, to see my face, it was really unusual," he said. "The details that went into the statue, it was pretty incredible. I saw pictures before they painted it, of the uniform the statue was wearing, they made sure the pant length was right and the sleeve length was good and the cap looked good. They made sure they had everything exactly the way we wear it when we're at the cemetery."
The uniform is distinctive uniform that only the Army band wears, Tubb observed. For example, the shape of the rank is reminiscent of the U.S. Cavalry - much like what General John Pershing would have worn a century ago. And it was Pershing who in 1922 formed the band Tubb now performs with.
"It's a distinctive uniform that only the Army band wears ... it's similar to the dress blues the rest of the Army wears but the coat is different. The way the rank is shaped is different, it's reminiscent of the Cavalry rank, that General Pershing would have worn. The coat, it's got eight buttons on the front that symbolize the eight notes of the scale ... there's a whole bunch of symbolism that goes into the design."
This has been a long and rewarding journey dating to his introduction to the trumpet at age 9. The 1994 South Tahoe High graduate went on to study music at California State University Stanislaus and received a bachelor of arts in music education in 1999. He also earned Masters of Music degrees in trumpet performance and jazz improvisation at the University of Michigan.
After joining the Army Reserves, Tubb performed with the 91st Division Reserve Band from 1996-1999 and the 70th Division Reserve band from 1999-2002, followed by three years with the U.S. Army Field Band. In 2005, he joined "Pershing's Own" Ceremonial Band before winning his current Concert Band position.
"We play concerts in the area and support the ceremonial band when there are too many events," he said of the Concert Band. "We frequently play for funerals or official arrivals like when the Queen of England came."
Recently, the Concert Band spent one week touring China as part of a historic collaboration with China's Military Band.
Tubb gives credit to his band director at South Tahoe High, Alisa Jiminez, for helping him pursue music in college. In his senior year when his high school band played at a jazz festival in Monterey a professor came to watch and offered him a scholarship to Cal State Stanislaus.
"It was my band director that hooked me up going to Stanislaus," he said. "I didn't know what I was going to do and she got in contact with one of her old professors who was teaching at Stanislaus. It was only because of her that I went to college at all. My secondary education and grad school would not have been possible if not for music."
In between his regular duties, Tubb also keeps up his fitness as an endurance athlete. He is entered in the 50th running of the JFK 50-Mile ultramarathon, which includes a 13-mile section of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and has the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon on his radar for 2013.
That makes for a pretty impressive day's work. And this staff sergeant isn't ready to seek new employment anytime soon.
"I've got to see a lot of important people and play for a lot of important political figures from around the world and it's been an incredible journey," he said. "I just went over 11 years of active duty service and I plan on staying until they kick me out. It's been an amazing gig."


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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Men's and Women's Tennis teams will host the Prairie View A&M Panthers on Thursday afternoon, with the women starting at 2 p.m., and the men starting soon after at 3 p.m. on the courts at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
The Islander women (10-2) will start first, trying to duplicate their 7-0 win over the Panthers in Prairie View on Feb. 5 the first time the teams met. The men (8-7) picked up a 6-1 victory that same day, winning all but one singles matches and winning the doubles point.
The women are coming off of a tough loss against No. 27 Rice on Tuesday afternoon, but it was just the second loss of the season for the team, which reached the national rankings for the first time in program history this season.
The men's team went 1-2 at the Rice Tournament last weekend, beating Radford in the middle match, while falling against No. 33 Oregon and the now 66th-ranked Rice Owls.
Live updates will be available during the matches by following the team on Twitter (@IslandersTennis).
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook and visit the official athletics website at www.GoIslanders.com.


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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Wednesday, April 17, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- "I just wonder how many people bought tickets, you know? And are in the same situation, they don't know where to go," said Tiffany Wood.
Wood is talking about the canceled concerts scheduled for April 13.
Her husband bought two tickets just before the event.
"Twenty-five dollars each that day," Wood explained. "We bought two, then some friends of ours bought two. And they told us to, 'Buy them today or the day you come they're going to be $50.'"
Wood says they were looking forward to it.
"It would be nice to have something out here in south Augusta instead of having to go all the way to Columbia County or downtown," she said.
Charles Collins, the event organizer, says he had seven acts lined up for the grand opening. But the booking agent says he never paid them and the artists were forced to pull out.
Now Wood is just wondering how to get her money back.
"I tried going on the website, and it's non-functional," she said. "If you click on something, it goes to nothing. I didn't know what else to do."
News 12 spoke with Collins.
Here's what to do if you need a refund: Email email@example.com with a picture of your tickets and contact information, and you'll get a refund.
"I'm glad someone's trying to do something," Wood said. "But at the same time, if you can't follow through with it, tell us how to get our money back."
Now the question: Is a canceled concert considered fraud?
"For it to be considered fraud, you would have to prove that at the beginning, this individual meant to deceive you out of your money," said Sgt. Randy Hayes with Technical Crimes at the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
If the refunds don't come through, the next stop is civil court.
"It probably wouldn't be worth it, it really wouldn't," Wood said.


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