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Play X-Men
The object of X-MEN is to obtain winning symbol combinations by spinning the reels.
Game Type
- A wagering denomination (coin value) can be chosen by clicking the Click to Change denomination button in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.
- Line bets are chosen by clicking Bet per Line. Each click adds a coin to the line bet. When the maximum amount is reached (10 coins of the selected wagering denomination), clicking the button again resets the line bet to one coin.
- Paylines are chosen by clicking Lines. Each click activates a payline. When all paylines are activated, clicking the button again resets it to one active payline. Paylines can also be activated by using the numbered buttons on either side of the reels. Selecting a high payline includes all the lower ones too. For example, selecting payline 6 also activates paylines 1 through 5. Clicking Bet Max activates all paylines with the maximum bet per line and spins the reels.
- Total bet per game round = line bet X active paylines.
- Clicking Spin spins the reels with the current selection of lines and line bets. During the reel spins the Spin button changes into Stop. Clicking Stop ends the spin animation and immediately displays the spin result.
- Reels can also be spun using the Auto Start function. Clicking + or – above Auto Start selects the successive number of spins to be enabled. Clicking Auto Start spins the reels. The Auto Start button changes into Stop during the Auto Start mode of reelspin. The Auto Start mode ends when the reels have been spun the number of times determined by the player, or when the player clicks Stop.
- Wins are calculated according to the paytable. Line win = line bet X corresponding multiplier according to the paytable. Scatter win = total bet X corresponding multiplier according to the paytable. The paytable can be accessed via the Info page.
- On a given payline, only the highest payline winning combination pays while simultaneous winnings on different paylines are added up together.
- In case of a winning spin, the Win field displays the accumulating winnings. The win ticker can be stopped by clicking anywhere on the screen. Symbols that make up the winning combinations are also animated. The animations are just visual theme elements and do not change the actual symbol.
- Payline wins and the total win are also displayed on the strip located at the bottom of the reels or the game window.
Clicking Info opens the reference screen describing different game components. Clicking the arrow buttons at the lower right-hand corner of the screen enables navigating between the different info screens.
- The Paytable screen shows all winning combinations. When opened after a winning spin, the winning symbol combinations (number of symbols and bet multiplier) are highlighted and blink.
- The X-Feature screen shows the necessary symbol combinations to trigger the X-Feature.
- The Free Games screen gives an overview of the Heroes and Villains modes in Free Games. For more information on the two modes, enter Heroes Mode page or Villains Mode page
- The Heroes Mode screen explains the rules of Heroes Mode in Free Games.
- The Villains Mode screen explains the rules of Villains Mode in Free Games.
- The Marvel Multi-Level Mystery Progressive Jackpot screen describes how to win entry to the Marvel Multi-Level Mystery Progressive Jackpot game that wins one of four jackpots, and explains the game's rules.
- Show Paylines can be clicked from the Paytable page to open a screen which illustrates all possible payline combinations. Clicking Hide Paylines closes this screen and returns to the Paytable page.
- Clicking Back exits the Info screen and returns to the game.
- Active paylines are represented by lines that appear over the reels. Paylines can be activated and their shape displayed by progressively clicking Lines.
- Only active paylines can register wins.
- There is a difference between the line bet and the total bet. The line bet shows how much is being bet on a single payline. The total bet shows how much is being bet in total on the game round. Payouts shown in the paytable are multiplied by the line bet.
The Scatter symbol is an exception to these rules. More information about the Scatter symbol can be found below.
About payouts
- If a symbol has a winning combination on more than one reel, the winnings are added up.
- Winning combinations must start from the leftmost reel, and the symbols have to be on consecutive reels.
- If two payline winning combinations occur on the same line, the higher of them is paid out. If more than one active payline has a winning combination, the winnings are added up.
- Winning combinations must start from the leftmost reel, and the symbols have to be consecutive.
The Scatter symbol is an exception to these rules. More information about the Scatter symbol can be found below.
Theme Symbols
The theme symbols are separated into two groups, Heroes and Villains.
Professor X
Wild symbol
The Wild symbol in the game is the symbol. It can stand for any other symbol, except Scatter, to make the best possible winning combination.
Please note: There is also a separate payout for 2 or more Wild symbols on an active payline, as seen in the paytable. This is paid out instead of the regular symbol win, if the win amount from Wild symbols is larger than the win from the regular symbol (by Wild standing in).
Scatter symbol
The Scatter symbol in the game is the symbol. Scatter symbols do not have to occur on a particular payline – if there are two or more Scatter symbols in the spin results, an additional win is earned and added to payline winnings. The payout for the Scatter symbols is multiplied by the total bet.
If three or more Scatters appear on the reels simultaneously, regardless of position, Free Games are initiated.
Free Games
Three or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels, trigger the Free Games. If the Free Games are triggered, click on Click to Start to reveal the entrance screen to the Free Games. Click Continue to begin Free Games.
Free Games are played in two modes: Heroes Mode and Villains Mode. Free Games begin in Heroes Mode. Heroes Mode is played with an unlimited number of free spins. Villains Mode is played with 8 free spins. The 8 free spins in Villains Mode are cumulative, meaning that all together, only 8 free spins will be played in Villains Mode before the Free Games end and the main game resumes.
When a Magneto symbol appears anywhere on reel #3 during Heroes Mode, Heroes Mode stops and Villains Mode begins. When a Professor X symbol appears anywhere on reel #3 during Villains Mode, Villains Mode stops and Heroes Mode begins. If a Professor X symbol appears anywhere on reel #3 during the last, 8th free spin in Villains mode, then Heroes mode is not triggered.
In Heroes Mode, the only symbols on the reels are the hero symbols, the Wild symbol, and the Magneto symbol. The Magneto symbol counts as an extra Wild symbol and can appear only on reel #3, substituting for all symbols except the Wild symbol. In theory it is possible to have an infinite number of free spins in the Heroes Mode if the Villains Mode is never triggered.
In Villains Mode, the only symbols on the reels are the villain symbols, the Wild symbol, and the Professor X symbol. The Professor X symbol counts as an extra Wild symbol and can appear only on reel #3, substituting for all symbols except the Wild symbol. After every spin, one free spin is subtracted from that count. When the number reaches zero, the Free Games ends. Free Games cannot be retriggered during Free Games.
During the Free Games, the reels are spun automatically using the same number of lines and bets per line as on the spin that won the Free Games. After each spin, the win is displayed in the Win field. The Free Games Win field shows the accumulated winnings from the current Free Games.
After all Free Games have been completed, a result board summarizes the winnings. Game win shows the winnings that were received from the spin that won the free games. Feature win shows the winnings that were received from the free spins. Total win shows the aggregate winnings (Game Win and Feature Win added up). Clicking Continue will return you to the main game.
The X-Feature
The X-Feature is triggered when any of the hero symbols, in whatever combination, occupy the 5 symbol locations on the reels #2, #3 and #4 as specified in the Info page. When the X-Feature is triggered, it immediately adds 5X the total bet to the player's winnings in addition to all other winnings.
The X-Feature cannot be triggered during Free Games.
Marvel Mystery Jackpot
Marvel Mystery Jackpot is a multi-level progressive jackpot game that is available in all Marvel slot games and is linked to all Marvel slot games. A small percentage of each bet in the Marvel slot games, by every person playing this game in each of many online casinos, is added to the progressive jackpot.
The trigger that starts the Jackpot game is random and can occur after any spin in any of the linked games. It is not caused by any symbol combination in the linked games and even a spin that does not win anything in the main game can trigger the Jackpot game. Likewise, any bet with any size in the linked games can trigger the Jackpot game. Nonetheless, the chances of triggering the Jackpot game increase or decrease proportionally to the bet size. Entering the Jackpot game guarantees a win of one of the four jackpots. Playing the Jackpot game reveals the jackpot that has been awarded to you, but does not determine it.
There are four different levels of jackpots that you can win: Power Jackpot, Extra Power Jackpot, Super Power Jackpot and Ultimate Power Jackpot. Different types of jackpots hold different prize amounts. The jackpot gamescreen contains 20 squares which in the beginning of the gameplay are turned upside down. Clicking on a square will turn it around and reveal one of four jackpot symbols on the other side. Once you have found three matching symbols, you win the jackpot that corresponds to these symbols. Jackpot winnings are added to the main game winnings (if any) and are displayed in the Win field together with any other winnings.
The Marvel Mystery Jackpot game has a timeout timer. This means that if you do not pick a square in a set amount of time, you will automatically receive your prize.
The Jackpot for this game works like this:
Seed (how much money the Jackpots start out with):
Power: €50
Contribution rate (what percentage of each bet goes into Jackpot):
Win condition (the result you have to get to win the Jackpot):
Entering the jackpot game guarantees a win. Match 3 jackpot symbols of the corresponding Jackpot or wait for the timer to run out.
Win requirements (what you need to do to be eligible for the Jackpot):
Play a Marvel slot game.
Please note:
- The seed and Jackpot values are in Euros in the progressive network and their value in your local currency is dependent on the currency exchange rate.
- The mechanics of Marvel Mystery Jackpot prohibit simultaneous jackpot winnings.
- Imperfections in the Internet connectivity may cause you to experience delays in Jackpot messages or updates, but they do not affect actual Jackpot wins.
- If a Jackpot is being discontinued (a game is closed and removed from the casino client), you will be notified of it by the casino.
Open the reference screen that describes the different game components.
|Auto Start / Stop
Spin the reels a number of times in succession. / End the active Auto Start reelspin mode.
+ and – buttons
Increase or decrease the number of successive spins made with Auto Start.
Activate one more payline.
Bet Per Line
Add a coin to the line bet.
|Bet Max
Activate all paylines with the maximum line bet, and spin the reels.
|Spin / Stop
Spin the reels. / Stop the reelspin animation and immediately display the spin result.
The lower edge of the game window holds the casino toolbar. It contains the following:
- Current balance
Your account balance. This is the money you can use to play the casino games.
- Cashier
Clicking this button opens the Cashier window, where you can make deposits and withdrawals, see your transaction history, etc.
- Play for Real Money
This button appears only in Fun or Offline Mode. Clicking it will take you to the Real Money account creation page. If you already have a Real Money account, it will take you to the Play for Real Money login screen.
- Menu
Some popular functions are united under the Menu.
Clicking History (unavailable in Offline mode) will open the game history window, where you can see the details of recent game rounds.
Options allows you to change audio quality and various gameplay settings, and Help opens the help article that you are reading right now.
Online Support lets you contact a customer support specialist, if one is online.
- Close
This button is available only in the download version of the game.
Clicking this button closes the game window and takes you back to the Lobby.
Shortcut keys
If you wish, you can press the following keys on your keyboard instead of clicking on the buttons on the screen.
Press this key
To do this
Highlight the next button on the screen.
Select the button that is currently highlighted (equal to clicking on it)
Spin the reels with the currently set bet.
Exit the game (applicable only for the download version of the game).
Note on disconnections: If you are disconnected from the Internet in the middle of the main game, the spin will be automatically completed. You can click the History button to see the outcome of your previous round after you log back into the casino.
- If you are disconnected from the Internet during free spins, you will be automatically directed back to the game after you log back into the casino so you can continue the game.
- If you are disconnected from the Internet during a spin using the Auto Start function, the spin will be automatically completed, but further spins will not automatically commence. You can click the History button to see the outcome of your previous round after you log back into the casino.
- If you are disconnected from the Internet during the Marvel Mystery Jackpot, the game will be automatically completed. The Jackpot win will be displayed on the next login.
- If you are disconnected from the Internet during a spin that triggers the X feature, the spin will be automatically completed and X feature prize will be added to your winnings. You can click the History button to see the outcome of your previous round after you log back into the casino.
Note on malfunctions: A malfunction voids all pays and plays.


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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
September 29, 2010
DOE Announces Dates for the Solar Decathlon 2011
In less than one year, the National Mall will bustle with construction as teams prepare for the Solar Decathlon. This photo is from the second day of assembly at last year's event.
DOE announced on September 23 that the Solar Decathlon 2011 will hold its opening ceremony on September 22, 2011, and will be open to the public from Friday, September 23, through Sunday, October 2. The DOE Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges collegiate students from across the globe to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, attractive, and easy to live in. Student teams generally spend nearly two years designing and partially building their solar homes on or near their campuses. The teams then transport their homes to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where they complete construction of the homes and then operate them for more than a week while competing in ten contests.
The 2011 competition will feature 16 U.S. teams from 14 states, including California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. The competition will also include teams from Belgium, Canada, China, and New Zealand. While getting the houses to the National Mall is a challenge for all teams, with most shipping their houses on flatbed trucks, the trip will be particularly difficult for the teams in Hawaii, Belgium, China, and New Zealand, as they will likely ship their houses by barge and then load them onto trucks for delivery to Washington, D.C.
Once on the National Mall, the teams will compete in ten contests that give the Solar Decathlon its name. Juried contests select the teams that best meet the competition's criteria for architecture, market appeal, affordability, engineering, and communications (that is, communicating their accomplishments to the public). In addition, monitors in each house will determine which teams do the best job at keeping their home in the comfort zone; delivering 15 gallons of hot water over a 10-minute period each day; washing and drying laundry and operating other appliances, including a refrigerator-freezer and a dishwasher; and meeting all of the home's energy needs. A tenth contest judges the teams on home entertainment and includes criteria that are measured—such as lighting the house, boiling water to simulate cooking, and operating a television and computer—as well as two dinner parties and one "movie night" that are awarded points by the attendees, who come from neighboring teams.
The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency. The Solar Decathlon educates both student participants and the public about how to integrate affordable clean energy products into homes to save money and reduce energy use, and it provides participating students with unique training to enter the clean energy workforce. This will be DOE's fifth Solar Decathlon competition. See the DOE progress alert and the Solar Decathlon Web site.


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anyway, they open with one of my favorite openers, theme from the bottom. this is a very sharp version. page and trey have some very nice back and forth in this one. punch you in the eye, in true '97 fashion, gets that nice dark, funk thing going. they carry that vibe over to a fantastic ghost. gordon really cuts lose, and don't miss page on this one either. after some very nice funky explorations, they dip down into a very nice taste. the playing here is similar to some of the areas they were hitting in theme, so of course, it is damn good! dogs stole things gave everyone a much needed breather. then they dive into an absolutely rediculous reba. they are all over this one. trey is immaculate on this reba. in fact, i must say, this is my favorite one since nye 95, which puts it in my top 2 of all time. lawnboy gives everyone a chance to say hello to their good friend page. then they spring a pretty hot cross roads break out to close down the set. i like the effort, but i feel phish is just a little too "white" to pull this one off, at least without some tinkering. either way, it's a shit load better than hearing another character zero!
wilson brings the crowd back into the game quickly. nothing too fancy here, but it's played well. foam works really well out of wilson. also, they toss in a nice exploratory, jammy section in the middle of foam. mike's song really soars. it may be a best of year contender; although, '97 was not an over the top year for mike's song, especially after europe. page really has some strong playing under trey on this one. they peter out into a nice little ain't love funny. i really like this odd little tune, and i wish they would pull it back out a little more often. they bring it back up into a very solid version of simple. fishman has some very strong playing throughout this one, managing and driving some very nice subtle tempo changes. eventually, it gives way to a very straight forward swept away/steep. then the fun really cranks up. this mule is insane! the middle section gets real nuts, and when they come out of the jam, they rip right back into mule. without skipping a beat, they drift into a dreamy slave. they really float through the front section of this song, but they soar through the back section. they just keep driving the ending jam before they explode into another best of the year candidates, weekapaugh. a sets worth of energy has carried over into this one song. they just bury it. it one of those great moments where they are all in sync. what a trio to close a set. phish does a nice job bringing everyone down at the end of the show. circus is probably my favorite slow songs phish does. this one is well done. rocky top is straight forward.
if you do not have this show or have not heard, aquire it asap. it is top notch from start to finish. some nights they nail the setlist, but it still never really takes off. well, this one, is actually better than it is on paper, and imo, it looks pretty goddamn good on paper.
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theme, ghost>taste, reba
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mike's>funny as, scent>slave>weekapaugh(must hear this whole sequence)


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With their annual meeting coming up on Feb. 9 at the Prairie's Edge Casino, CURE is seeking nominations for candidates to their board of directors.
According to an email sent out by CURE, "The current Board is seeking to broaden the representation of women on the board and we are also looking for board members with non-profit organization management experience. We also are looking for more young people to serve on our board."
The CURE board meetings nine times a year, and they set the organization's strategy each year as well as carry out annual events.
"For the past 20 years, the CURE Board has been made up of different kinds of people with different perspectives. We have always had farmers, teachers, students, business people and hunters, fishermen, bird watchers and prairie lovers on the Board. Our meetings are always very interesting as we seek to find common ground and make decisions by consensus," the email reads.
If you or someone you know would fit the position, call (877) 269-2873 or sent an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Every Richmond County elementary and middle school student must take it: the Criterion Referenced Competency Test, or CRCT.
It determines if the student will be promoted to the next grade.
But preparing for the test may not be so easy for a child without the right tools.
These students spend their Saturdays in this computer lab at Hornsby Elementary.
They are getting extra practice on skills that most likely will pop up on the CRCT test.
For 3rd, 5th, and 8th graders, it's a test they must pass in order to go to the next grade.
Richmond County Board of Education Title One Director Geneva Stallings says Title One funds help provide materials for extra practice.
"A portion of that time is devoted to practice on activities that would be similar to those seen on CRCT," says Stallings.
It can be a real challenge to practice activities at home if students don't have a computer, but Richmond County says in addition to Saturday School, they also have computers to loan.
"Let's say a parent doesn't have a computer at home, we have in this department and it's been going on for about 20 years we have what is known as the Parent Take Home Computer Program," Stallings says.
The school board has about 100 laptop computers a parent can sign out for 6 weeks.
It's extra practice a student can get at home even if they don't have a computer.
"If the children wanted additional practice on an activity began earlier that day then they have their own code and they can punch that in practice on some of the same stuff earlier that day," Stallings says.
Title One is making sure that no child is left behind.
"It is our job to support the efforts of the school system and its efforts to help all children to reach their potential," says Stallings.
If you need more information on Saturday school or the Parent Take Home Computer Program, call the Title One office at 826-1134.


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Editor's note: Dusty Delario has been around Vail since 1962 and told us this story. He was part of Vail's original ski school and was part of this adventure.VAIL - You work like a slave to build an entire ski area in six months and you'd think Mother Nature would drop a little snow on you.But in 1962 you would be wrong.There was so little snow on Vail Mountain as that first season loomed that some wise guy drove his car to Mid-Vail. It was early December, and Rod Slifer was that wise guy.But that's a different story. We're talking about Vail's first ski team.You may have a ski mountain with no snow, but you still have promote it.That leads us back to Vail's Bob "The Marketing Magician" Parker and Morrie Shepard, Vail's first ski school director, and their fertile imaginations.And that's how, around Thanksgiving 1962, a bunch of Vail's ski instructors came to be perched on a platform four stories above the May D&F department store's ice skating rink in downtown Denver.Their task was to promote the new Vail ski area, and sometimes promotion can be death defying.To win glory and honor, all these newly minted Vail ski instructors had to do was ski pretty much straight down a four-story, carpet-covered ramp.They looked down, they looked at each other, and they looked down again. They didn't name the ramp "Pallbearer Peak," but only because they were too busy figuring out how to survive to think about anything cutesy at the time.Vail's ski instructors picked were from the East or from Europe and were supposed to be able to ski hard pack and difficult conditions. Maybe not like this, but difficult.They had no training runs and falling was not an option, especially in front of a large skeptical Denver audience, ready to poke fun at that upstart ski area. And also, if they fell they'd become a physics lesson about inertia.When dealing with protests, Morrie had a way of cutting to the heart of the matter by asking, "Where are you going to be teaching next season?"They careened from their fourth-story perch to the skating rink, impressed the crowd, put on a good show and no one died.Pepi Gramshammer even jumped out a fourth floor window, onto the ramp and down to the ice rink.Marketing named them "Vail's First Ski Team."Somewhere in this photo is an adorable blonde whose name is lost to the winds of time. Bob Parker smiles when asked about it and says putting her in the picture seemed like a good idea at the time."It still does," Parker said.Later that year around Christmas, Morrie and Pete Seibert took the new instructors into the Back Bowls for the first time. They skied down Milt's Face in 6 inches of sugary powder with grass and weeds up to their knees.There was a little whispering among the instructors that they didn't think the average tourist would be able to ski the back side of Vail Mountain, but they didn't complain to Morrie or Pete Seibert. They didn't want to go back to that ramp.
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- Document: Hospital decries Jahi McMath family's wishes to keep her on ventilator
- Jahi McMath may be transferred to treatment center in New York
- Jahi McMath: Terri Schiavo group secretly leading transfer efforts
- Jahi McMath: Hospital fights in court to remove brain-dead girl from ventilator
- Dec 30:
- Jahi McMath: Judge's order keeping girl on ventilator reinvigorates family
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order keeping girl on ventilator
- Dec 29:
- Jahi McMath: Statement of Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Mom and lawyer say only remaining option for brain-dead girl is a New York care facility
- Dec 28:
- Jahi McMath: Family, attorney release letter addressing critics
- Jahi McMath: Family trying to raise money to get 13-year-old airlifted out of state
- Dec 27:
- Jahi McMath: Hospital open to transferring brain-dead teen but won't perform surgery required by admitting facilities
- Jahi McMath: Children's Hospital Oakland agrees to release brain-dead girl to long-term care
- Contra Costa Times editorial: No one recovers from being brain dead
- Dec 26:
- Jahi McMath: Family ready to move brain-dead girl to new facility; hospital may refuse surgery request
- Jahi McMath: 2 years ago, a girl wound up severely brain damaged following similar surgery
- Jahi McMath: Family says they'll move brain-dead girl to another Bay Area facility
- Dec 25:
- Jahi McMath: Family tries to have normal holiday celebration in hospital waiting room
- Dec 24:
- Lost in the divisive battle over Jahi McMath is a mother's undeniable love
- Jahi McMath: Judge denies petition to keep girl on ventilator past Dec. 30
- Dec 23:
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order to keep brain-dead girl on ventilator
- Dec 22:
- Faith leaders call on prosecutors to investigate Jahi McMath case
- Oakland: Need for tonsillectomies in question
- Dec 21:
- Jahi, her mom and 13 days at Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Medicine's ability to keep a heart beating complicates how death is perceived
- Oakland: Emotional letter from Jahi McMath's mom to keep daughter 'warm'
- Dec 20:
- Oakland: Judge grants restraining order keeping Jahi McMath on ventilator through Monday
- Family of Oakland girl on ventilator furious after meeting with hospital officials
- Dec 19:
- Family of girl left brain dead at Children's Hospital Oakland demands medical records
- Dec 18:
- Jahi McMath prayer vigil: "God knows we want a miracle"
- Family of Oakland girl on life support after tonsil surgery calls for international prayer vigil
- Dec 16:
- Family furious, hospital investigating after tonsil surgery leaves girl brain-dead
- Oakland: Girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery may be taken off life support Tuesday
- Dec 15:
- Oakland girl, 13, declared brain-dead after tonsil surgery
OAKLAND -- Under nightfall on an empty side street Sunday, an ambulance emerged from a secured gate at Children's Hospital Oakland and quietly pulled away. Ambulances come and go from the busy North Oakland facility, but not like this: Inside on a gurney laid Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl declared brain dead nearly a month ago and who has remained on a ventilator as her family clashed with the hospital over her fate and continue to cling to hope that one day she may wake up.
It was an eerily quiet end to what has been a public, and oftentimes tense, situation. And it came just days before a 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline to move Jahi.
Her uncle, Omari Sealey, took to Twitter almost immediately: "I told you we'd do it!!! I love you Jahi and I will come visit you soon baby girl. Your Uncle is a BEAST!!!" Later adding, "Jahi is free. Bye Children's Hospital."
Just before 8 p.m., Jahi could be seen in the back of the ambulance on a gurney wearing what appeared to be an oxygen mask, with a paramedic supervisor vehicle and a car with two uniformed Alameda County Sheriff's Office deputies in tow. The ambulance had arrived hours earlier, and left a side entrance to the hospital, turned left on 52nd Street, then left on Martin Luther King Jr. Way and out of sight.
It was unclear where it was headed, though a New York facility with ties to the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network has said it will accept Jahi for long-term care and reiterated that in a statement to CNN on Sunday.
David Durand, chief of pediatrics at Children's Hospital, and hospital spokesman Sam Singer each confirmed Jahi was moved.
"A short while ago, the body of Jahi McMath was released by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland to the coroner," Durand wrote in a statement. "The coroner has released her body to the custody of her mother, Latasha Winkfield, as per court order, for a destination unknown.
"Our hearts go out to the family as they grieve for this sad situation and we wish them closure and peace."
The family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, and Sealey would not provide details on her treatment during a late-night news conference at his San Francisco office, but said Jahi will be hooked up to a feeding tube and a tracheotomy tube by Monday morning. He also refused to identify where Jahi would be taken and said his silence on the matter was to protect Jahi's privacy and the privacy of other patients at the undisclosed facility. Court documents show that the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network has been working to place her in a New York facility, and that Georgia-based Medway Air Ambulance would provide the transportation.
A call to the Life & Hope Network went unanswered Sunday morning. An email to MedWay Air Ambulance president Rick Moore was not answered immediately. Court documents said the approximate cost to transport Jahi was just shy of $32,000; the Jahi McMath page at the gofundme.com website said Tuesday that $47,842 had been raised for Jahi by Sunday morning.
Her mother, Nailah Winkfield, is by her side, as are "highly skilled intensive care" workers, Dolan said.
"This family knows the odds are way stacked against them," Dolan said. "This family knows that they need nothing short of a miracle but what this family wanted was a chance.
"This is about a girl named Jahi McMath. But this is also about every parent being able to have the right to make a choice for their child, not a hospital making that choice for them."
Jahi has been on a ventilator at the hospital since developing complications and suffering cardiac arrest after a three-part surgery to remove her tonsils and clear tissue from her nose and throat at the facility Dec. 9. Multiple doctors have declared her brain-dead, but her family has rejected the diagnosis and has fought to keep her on a breathing machine. Jahi cannot breathe on her own, doctors say.
On Friday, the family and hospital agreed through a compromise forged in Alameda Superior Court that Jahi's mother may remove her from the hospital as long as Jahi's mother takes responsibility for the child's care.
Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman J.D. Nelson said Friday that a death certificate had been issued for Jahi, but Dolan insisted in Sunday's interview that "she has not passed. Her kidneys function, she regulates her temperature and her body moves now more than ever. This is a real human being, not a dead body."
The hospital, however, continued to dispute that, as well as Dolan's assertion that Children's Hospital Oakland has "withheld food for 26 days," the result of which has "kept Jahi (from receiving) nutrients that might help her brain to be at an optimum place" for recovery.
"Sadly ... Mr. Dolan is not being truthful to the public or his clients," Singer said. "When he says his 'medical team' wants to feed her body so her brain will have the optimum nutrients, he is either being purposely deceptive or ignorant. In either case, he is perpetuating a sad and tragic hoax on the public and the McMath family. Tragically, this young woman is dead, and there is no food, no medical procedures and no amount of time that will bring back the deceased."
The agreement states that the hospital would allow a transfer team to enter the facility and move out Jahi, with her entire health responsibility and the responsibility of the move falling to the mother. Jahi's tubes from the ventilator ¿to be removed and placed into the transport team's equipment, along with other devices and her body moved from the hospital's gurney to a new one. Her medical records, medications and a status report also is to be handed over, and the hospital is to sever ties with her, the agreement states.
Sealey said he's hoping "to have her come back home with 100 percent full recovery."
"If I wasn't ready for the long distance fight I wouldn't have taken it this far," Sealey said. "I'd rather have her live her life versus having (had them) take her life."
David DeBolt covers breaking news. Contact him in Richmond at 510-262-2728. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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LITTLE HOCKING - At Little Hocking Elementary Tuesday night, students gathered to read and laugh with delight. The goal was to show that reading is fun, and even more special when shared with a loved one.
More than 75 kindergarten through second-grade students gathered with their families at the school to read Dr. Seuss books and participate in activities related to the stories. The event was part of the school's week-long observance of Read Across America Day, said kindergarten teacher Shelly Hess.
"It's all about celebrating the importance of reading and the importance of getting the whole family involved," she said.
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Little Hocking Elementary kindergarten teacher Shelly Hess, center, reads Dr. Seuss' "McElligot's Pool" to, from left, kindergartners Kendra Hoyt, Madeline Best, Benjamin Casey, and second-grader Kameron Trudo as part of the school's family reading night Tuesday.
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Kindergarten student Mollie Smith, center, catches a fish with a magnet at the "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" activity center during Little Hocking Elementary's family reading night Tuesday.
Students and teachers were encouraged to wear pajamas to school Tuesday and again to the event, just as they would while reading a bedtime story, said Hess.
During the two-hour event, students had the opportunity to participate in three of 12 reading and activity sessions being offered.
In Hess' room, students listened to Hess read "McElligot's Pool," a story about a little boy imaging all the things he could catch by fishing in a tiny puddle.
After the story, students got to "catch" a fish that was dangling from the ceiling and decorate it with family members.
The story brought back a vivid memory for kindergarten student Benjamin Casey.
"I caught a fish one time. My mom made me touch it," he said.
When it comes to stories, Casey prefers dogs to fish.
His favorite book is the "The Puppy Who Went to School," he said.
Benjamin's mother, Jane Casey, could easily have guessed that, she said.
"We read that over and over and over," said Jane.
Also creating a fish in Hess' room, kindergartner Madeline Best likes Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" and books about princesses, she said.
But recently, Best learned there is a literary heroine named after her when she and her mom, Audrey Best, picked up the book "Madeline" from the library.
"We absolutely read every night. And if we don't remember, she definitely reminds us," said Audrey.
In a separate session in the gym, students rotated between a variety of physical activities revolving around Dr. Seuss books.
Kindergartner Mollie Smith went fishing with a magnet at the "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" spot and got her picture taken with Thing One and Thing Two at the "The Foot Book" stop, but her favorite book is "Horton Hears a Who", said Smith.
"I like the bird. He's not very nice to Horton," said Smith with an impish grin.
Twin brothers Adam and Austin Florence used the cups fashioned into stilts at the "King's Stilts" corner to race each other around the cones.
The second-graders take turns reading out loud at home, said Adam, who likes stories about trucks.
Austin likes books about animals and tractors.
"We live on a farm," he said.
And reading is not just reserved for bedtime for the Florences.
"We like to read on the bus," exclaimed Adam.
First-grader Ben McLaughlin does not have as much in common when it comes to reading with 3-year-old brother Nicholas.
"We pick on each other sometimes," admitted Ben.
But the two boys enjoy reading separately. Ben's favorite book is "Where The Wild Things Are", he said.
"It's been around for like 50 years," he explained of the book's popularity.
But what really captures his attention are nonfiction books, he said.
"I usually read stuff about the weather," said Ben, who recently read a book about the benefits of sunshine.
He is not the only one who enjoys nonfiction books. Second-grade student Rylee Burtnett's favorite book "If I Ran The Dog Show" is about different types of dogs.
"I pretty much read with mom and dad. It kind of helps me fall asleep," she said.
Burtnett's mother, Ruby Danner, said she was thrilled to learn about the event, which the two attended for the first time this year.
"We read a lot. And we go shopping for books a lot," said Danner.
Because Burtnett is an only child, the event is a great chance for her to share her enthusiasm for reading with other children, said Danner.
"She was really excited about this," she said.
She was maybe a bit too excited, in fact.
"We actually came a week early. We showed up last Tuesday and nobody was here," Danner laughed.
After students participated in all three sessions, they gathered in the cafeteria to share a cupcake and sing "Happy Birthday" to Dr. Seuss, who would celebrate his 109th birthday on Saturday, the official Read Across America Day, said Hess.


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Europe will apparently not fall apart after German chancellor Angela Merkel shepherded a deal early Thursday morning to write down Greek's debt. It's complicated, but basically she got a bunch of banks to take a 50% haircut on what Greece owes them. Click on the image on the right to see how one of the negotiators diagrammed it in the middle of the night.
Here's the whole thing. As you can see, there are still some details to be worked out. Like the part that says, "Private sector support (CIC): € ?" Or the worrisome final panel in the mathematical menagerie: "1. GREECE——> 2. BANKS——-> 3. OTHER COUNTRIES EUROZONE——-> 4. ?"
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RNC Adopts Rules to Condense '16 Primary Season
The Republican National Committee overwhelmingly approved rules changes Friday intended to condense the party's next presidential nominating contest in 2016.
RNC members, gathered in Washington for the committee's winter meeting, voted 153-9 for a package of rule changes that includes stiffer penalties on any state that tries to leapfrog the four early nominating states by scheduling a primary or caucus before March 1. The new rules also require states to pick their delegates about two weeks earlier, a seemingly small change that when coupled with an earlier national convention could force most states to pick a nominee by late May.
The changes mark an attempt by the RNC to avoid another drawn-out nominating fight like the one the party had in 2012 that left the eventual nominee, Mitt Romney, badly bruised. "We will all have a better process in 2016," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said after the vote.
Some of the people who crafted the changes suggest the new rules will lead to regional primaries in which a larger share of states vote on each Tuesday in March and early April. On its face, the changes might make it harder for an under-funded long-shot to compete, but has little obvious impact for any of the top-tier candidates mentioned as prospective White House hopefuls in 2016.


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A Late Season Edit from Ryan Gamel
Check the sweet edit dropped just yesterday by Colorado ripper Ryan Gamel. It was filmed at Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper and in the backcountry of Breckenridge. Sure looks like he's having fun on his snowboard! Ryan is currently on his way out to Mt. Bachelor to showcase his stunt sticking skills at Snowboarder Mag's Superpark 18.


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Zeller scores 24, leads Indiana past Illini 80-64
Cody Zeller scored 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead No. 3 Indiana past Illinois 80-64 Friday in the Big Ten quarterfinals.
The top-seeded Hoosiers (27-5) are off to a good start after claiming their first outright conference title in two decades and earning a first-round bye.
They took control midway through the first half and withstood a mild push in the second, avenging a two-point loss at Illinois (22-12) last month. That set up a matchup with Michigan or Wisconsin in Saturday's semifinals.
Zeller had another big game after scoring a season-high 25 in a win at Michigan. He was 9 of 11 from the field and hit all six free throws.
Victor Oladipo added 12 points and 11 rebounds and drew the loudest cheers with a 360-degree fastbreak dunk with 90 seconds left. The Big Ten's Defensive Player of the Year, he also helped contain Brandon Paul.
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I felt that what I was looking at represented my future. I was going to be a father. And not just any father, but the father of this blurry little personage with its lovely pea-sized head and cartoonishly reclining body. And as I was thinking about all the clustered possibilities in those rapidly subdividing cells-all the bewildering permutations of gender and appearance and personality and genetic fate-I also began to think about the possibilities that were, as of right now, in my past, and that were therefore no longer possibilities.
And so when I heard that the British psychoanalyst and essayist Adam Phillips had a new book called "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life," I was intrigued. The idea from which Phillips' book starts out is that the paths we don't pursue in life are a crucial dimension of our lived experience. "Our unlived lives-the lives we live in fantasy, the wished-for lives-are often more important to us than our so-called lived lives," he writes in his prologue. "We can't (in both senses) imagine ourselves without them." This is a fascinating idea, and it's difficult to think of anyone who would be better suited to exploring it than Phillips, who is one of the literary world's most consistently provocative explorers of fascinating ideas.
In a sense, he has been hovering around this topic for much of his career. Psychoanalysis itself, of course, is traditionally at least as concerned with the things that don't happen in our lives as those that do, with the shadow-world of dreams and anxieties and unmet desires. And Phillips has always been interested in the various ways, real and imagined, in which we extricate ourselves from the lives we find ourselves living. One of the oddest and most interesting of his many odd and interesting books is 2001's "Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape," in which he examines evasion as one of the crucial mythologies of our cultural and psychological lives. "Every modern person," he writes in its final pages, "has their own repertoire of elsewheres, of alternatives-the places they go to in their minds, and the ambitions they attempt to realize-to make their actual, lived lives more than bearable. Indeed the whole notion of escape-that it is possible and desirable-is like a prosthetic device of the imagination. How could we live without it?"
"Missing Out" seems, at first, to pick up where "Houdini's Box" left off, with this idea that the life that doesn't happen-the life, for instance, of the aforementioned wandering man of letters-is actually crucial to interpreting our experience of the one that does. "We may need to think of ourselves," as Phillips puts it in the prologue, "as always living a double life, the one that we wish for and the one that we practice; the one that never happens and the one that keeps happening." The implied definition here-that life is the thing that keeps happening-gives some sense of the kind of stylist Phillips is. He is casually, almost off-handedly epigrammatic; his work yields a perennial harvest of quotable phrases without ever making this aphorizing seem the point of the exercise. ("We share our lives with the people we have failed to be"; "Greed is despair about pleasure"; "Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism"; "If you get Othello you have no idea of what it is about.") If you're an underliner, in other words, have a pencil sharpener to hand when reading Adam Phillips.
But in a way that mirrors Phillips' idea (inherited from the child psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, who seems a stronger influence than Freud) that the good life is one in which there is "just the right amount of frustration," the pleasures of his style-its studied waywardness, its cultivations of paradox and playful evasion-are inseparable from its aggravations. He seems to embark on his essays without a clear sense of what their destinations might be; he is, unmistakably, the kind of writer who finds out what he wants to say by finding himself saying it. Phillips' books may be richly eloquent and aphoristic, but don't look for conventionally attractive arguments-takeaways, ideas worth sharing. He's as likely to write about Proust as he is to write about Freud or Lacan, but you're never going to find an explanation of how Proust was a neurosurgeon, say, or an assurance that reading him can change your life. He is not, in other words, one of your modern notion-hawkers. His books tend to be basically gist-resistant, which is why their titles are always, to one degree or another, misleading. A Phillips essay is typically one in which a great many interesting ideas have been floated, but in which no solid overall structure of significance has been built.
There are moments in "Missing Out," though, when Phillips' equivocations and circumlocutions start to cancel one another out, and when you find yourself wondering what, if anything, is actually being said. In the essay "On Frustration," for instance, he tells us that "Knowing too exactly what we want is what we do when we know what we want, or when we don't know what we want (are, so to speak, unconscious of our wanting, and made anxious by our lack of direction)." This is too obviously a sentence that doesn't know what it wants at all, or that doesn't seem to want anything but to be left to its own devices. This is an extreme example of his evasive style, but his tics-always related to his habit of hedging and qualifying his statements-can be alarmingly domineering. Page 13: "Frustration is always, whatever else it is, a temptation scene." Page 117: "Getting out ... is always a missing-out, whatever else it is." Page 134: "Literature is escapist, whatever else it is, in its incessant descriptions of people trying to release themselves from something or other." Page 185: "Whatever else we are, we are also mad."
I'm not just being overparticular here about a slightly irritating stylistic quirk. These sentences illustrate an interesting structural tension in Phillips' prose between two equal and opposite forces: the resolutely aphoristic and the instinctively ambiguous. In what I think is his best book, the 1993 collection "On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored," he asks whether "the artist has the courage of his perversions." In a similar way, Phillips is an essayist who has the courage of his ambivalence, who never loses sight of the task of equivocation.
The question in "Missing Out" is whether those equivocations serve any obvious larger purpose. The six essays here are mostly either reformulations of the prologue's claim about the lives that have escaped us, or extended considerations of subjects that only have tangential (or whimsical) relevance to it. This isn't to say that there aren't some intriguing ideas here, or a great many beautiful sentences. As is usual with Phillips, the diversions (the parenthetical assertions, the distracted definitions) are a sideshow that justifies the price of admission. There are wonderful analyses here-in both the Freudian and the critical senses-of Othello, of King Lear, and of Larkin's poetry. Phillips breaks down the distinction between the work of the analyst and the work of the critic, and makes them seem like more or less the same job. He's the sort of literary thinker who can extract vast amounts of significance from a single word or phrase. In "On Not Getting It," which is, if I understand it, about the benefits of not understanding things, we get this wonderful run of sentences:
Infants and young children have to be, in a certain sense, understood by their parents; but perhaps understanding is one thing we can do with each other-something peculiarly bewitching or entrancing-but also something that can be limiting, regressive, more suited to our younger selves; that can indeed be our most culturally sanctioned defense against other kinds of experience-sexuality being the obvious case in point-that are not subject to understanding, or which understanding has nothing to do with, or is merely a distraction from. That if growing up might be a quest for one's illegitimacy, this is because one's illegitimacy resides in what one thinks one knows about oneself.
This gets to the heart of what I mean about the fundamental inseparability of the frustrations and pleasures of Phillips' writing. It's a superb passage-beautiful and surprising and, for all I know, true-but, like so much of the rest of the book, its relevance to the topic supposedly at hand is difficult to see. The subtitle of "Missing Out"-"In Praise of the Unlived Life"-suggests that Phillips plans to address the question of the unlived life, and that, if he were pushed to take a stance on this question, he would be broadly in favor. But, ironically and oddly appropriately, "Missing Out" ends up missing out on-or perhaps managing to evade-its own apparent subject. And so, while reading it, I spent a lot of time wondering about the wished-for book in praise of the unlived life, which remains frustratingly and tantalizingly unwritten.


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"We've had in high school sports, a caveman attitude for years about concussions," said John Johnson, Communications Director of the MHSAA.
That caveman attitude has brought the BIAMI and MHSAA together to bring awareness to the problem of concussions in youth sports.
"It's critical that [parents] understand how important being aware of concussions is to the long term care of their child," said Michael Dabbs, President of the BIAM.
The announcement was made in front of a packed dining hall at the Lansing Center filled with brain injury specialists and medical professionals from around the state. The need for bringing awareness Johnson said, comes from the fact that most concussions are not obvious.
"About 9 out of 10 concussions are not the knocked out, knocked down, loss of consciousness kind," said Johnson.
Some symptoms of concussions include sleeplessness, sensitivity to light or sound, headaches, memory loss or concentration problems, nausea, slurred speech, dizziness and any loss of consciousness.
Dabbs said parents are best equipped to identify symptoms of a concussion because they can notice subtle symptoms of a concussion that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Dr. Christopher Abood of Lansing Neurosurgery said that young minds are particularly at risk.
"Repeated head injury has significant long term impact," said Abood. "You can develop learning disabilities, development issues and now we're seeing things like Parkinson's down the line. At a young age you're much more susceptible."
That impact caused the MHSAA to institute a rule. If an athlete is held out of the game with a concussion injury, they can't go back in the game unless a qualified medical professional on the sidelines or doctor signs off on their return. High schools violating the rule can be subject to forfeiture of wins or postseason bans.
"We have a rule, a good rule, on the athletics field," said Johnson. "Now the education can come."


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SAN JOSE -- Though it's been nearly 30 years since John McEnroe won the last of his seven Grand Slam singles championships, he hasn't lost his passion for playing the sport that made him internationally famous.
As the 53-year-old former tennis superstar put it recently, "I keep myself in shape."
Friday night at HP Pavilion, McEnroe will join two other former Grand Slam champions -- Andre Agassi and Jim Courier -- and late replacement Todd Martin in what organizers are calling a champions showdown.
Martin, who replaced Ivan Lendl on the bill, will face McEnroe in the first semifinal, followed by a match between Agassi and Courier. The winners will close out the night by meeting in a final.
"I think we want to show we can still play at a certain level," McEnroe said.
The event is part of the PowerShares Series, a tour for champion players over 30. In addition to the four players scheduled to play Friday and Lendl, the circuit also includes Pete Sampras, Patrick Rafter, Michael Chang and Mats Wilander.
Lendl, who had some legendary matches against McEnroe in the 1980s, withdrew from the San Jose event last week because of a shoulder injury.
Martin, 42, was a finalist at the 1999 U.S. Open and the 1994 Australian Open.
For McEnroe, the event marks a return to the area where he went to college (Stanford) and was a fixture in the Bay Area men's pro tournament, now called the SAP Open, during his playing career.
Agassi also was a mainstay at the Bay Area men's tournament, winning the last of his five singles championships at HP Pavilion in 2003. That tied him with McEnroe for most in the tournament's modern era.
Asked how often he still plays, Agassi, 42, said last week, "Enough to be ready for these things. I spend a few weeks getting myself physically in gear as it relates to movement and timing, and then you're pretty much good to go."
Agassi knows his opponent Friday very well.
Courier, 42, won four Grand Slam championships from 1991 and 1993 and was ranked No. 1 in the world. Along with Agassi, Sampras and Chang, he was part of America's Fab Four generation.
"Jim was quite the leader in our group," Agassi said. "Chang broke through first to win a slam. But Jim was the first one to really be at the top of the men's game and hold that position for two years and win multiple slams and actually give the rest of us the belief that it is achievable to have those expectations on yourself."
Agassi, who went on to win eight Grand Slam titles, including all four majors at least once, added, "He beat me a number of times in a lot of big matches, so he always got my attention. He's the kind of guy who needs to dictate play. I'm the kind of guy who likes to do the same thing, so for us it was always toe-to-toe tennis."
Friday, they'll be back at it again, with the winner possibly meeting Johnny Mac to end the night.
"Anyone can win this," McEnroe said. "It's a good format."
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Globe to reopen as Carmelo closes its doors
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 4:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 4:10 p.m.
Carmelo Cafe, 405 23rd Ave. has closed its doors, but a phoenix will rise from its ashes: Chef Jeff Wilson plans to open a new version of The Globe Restaurant in that Temerson Square spot, which was also formerly Jalapeno's.
Patrons of Carmelo hoping for its upscale meat-and-three lunches were greeted by darkened doors and a dimmed "Open" sign in recent days. Its outside chalkboard, which listed daily specials, had been wiped clean. A call to the restaurant's number Tuesday said the listing had been disconnected. Owner Jason Williams said the restaurant actually closed its doors Wednesday, although he let employees know a week before.
"I loved the restaurant," Williams said, "but it just wasn't the right time for us to grow. We had a great, loyal customer base."
Wilson owned and operated The Globe in downtown Northport for 17 years before falling victim to the economic downtown in 2009. He'd originally wanted to open his restaurant, which featured Wilson's own creations, a mix of Southern, French and other cuisines, in downtown Tuscaloosa. Although plans are still tentative, he's shooting for a March 1 opening of the new incarnation.
"I'm extremely excited about coming home to Tuscaloosa and cooking for all the Globe fans," Wilson said. "The journey has lead me down many trails but I'm back on the road."
Wilson started the Northport restaurant with friend Gary Wise, like Wilson, a local actor with restaurant experience. They named it after Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, with the name also reflecting the eclectic cuisine from various cultures. The theme carried over into Wilson's culinary creations, such as the Twelfth Night Trout, Winter's Tale Lamb or Salmon Caliban, and the visual atmosphere, which featured hand-drawn posters from each of the Bard's plays.
In its heyday, The Globe won awards from DiRONa (Distinguished Restaurants of North America) and Wine Spectator magazine.
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3.6-14 Excused or Justified Violation of Statute
Revised to January 1, 2008
A defendant who has violated a
statutory duty is negligent as a matter of law, unless there is a valid
excuse or justification for the violation. If you find that a valid excuse
or justification exists, then the defendant's conduct is not negligent as a
matter of law. All persons are required to make reasonable efforts to
comply with the laws governing their conduct. The defendant has the burden
of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that a valid excuse or
justification exists. A valid excuse or justification exists if you find,
from the evidence presented: <list those applicable:>
that the
defendant made reasonable efforts to comply with the statutory requirements,
but a violation occurred of which the defendant was unaware; OR
that the
defendant made reasonable efforts to comply with the statutory requirements,
but after making such efforts, the defendant was unable to comply; OR
that the
defendant was confronted by an emergency not due to (his/her) own
misconduct; <see
Sudden Emergency, Instruction 3.7-18>; OR
that compliance
with the statute would involve a greater risk of harm to the defendant or
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235
Conn. 360, 376 n.16, 377 (1995); 2 Restatement (Second), Torts § 288A
This charge, applicable in
general negligence cases, is to be given in conjunction with
Negligence Per Se - Statutory Negligence, Instruction 3.6-13. It should
be given when the defendant has attempted to avoid liability by offering
proof of a valid excuse or justification. Only the pertinent excuses should
be read to the jury. This charge should not be given when the specific
statutory provision provides that no excuses or justifications are permitted
to avoid liability. Such statutes result in strict liability on the part of
the violator. Gore v. People's Savings Bank, supra, 235 Conn.
377-78, 382-83.
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Amanda Lewis of Elk Horn and Phillip Farr of Columbia announce the birth of a daughter, Amelia Maye Farr, at 6:01 p.m. on June 16 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. She weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Grandparents are Barry Lewis and Peggy Baldwin of Campbellsville, Daniel Farr of Columbia and Loralee Trim of Lexington.
Great-grandparents are Wendell and Goldie Lewis of Elk Horn and Roland Farr of Michigan.
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Kathleen Malone Harmon of Bowling Green recently celebrated her 90th birthday with a surprise open house party hosted by her children, Charles and Brenda Moody and James and Carolyn Harmon of Bowling Green and Rachel and Michael Holmes of Paris. The celebration was at her daughter Brenda Moody's home.
Harmon was married to the late James J. Harmon, who lived in Taylor County.
Bronson Cox, Savanna Wells and Sophia Myers attended the Taylor County Fair for family night and had their faces painted.
Campbellsville resident Mark Newton participated in the Frankfort State Hospital Cemetery cleanup on May 22.
After the residential facility for children with disabilities closed in 1972, the cemetery was mostly abandoned until a few years ago.
Newton and Heather Bava, direct support staff member for Tri-Generations, plan to participate in the cleanup every year.
Lisa Michelle Milby and Darren Edward Wade of Campbellsville were married on Saturday, June 7, at Miller Park. The Rev. Paul Dickens officiated.
Milby is the daughter of Pauline Mardis of Campbellsville and the late Charles Leslie Mardis. Her grandparents are the late Della Mardis and James Mardis.
Wade is the son of Linda Sue Wade of Campbellsville and the late James Bernard Wade.
Natalie Michelle Rood and Amy Jo Milby were their mother's maids of honor.
Jason Wade of Campbellsville was his brother's best man.
Brandon and Sarah Frank of Campbellsville announce the birth of a daughter, Anna Kate Frank, on April 14 at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.
Grandparents are James and Magaline Skaggs and Traci Lobb of Campbellsville and Jim and Angela Frank of Greensburg.
Great-grandparents are Lena Dial of Magnolia and J.R. and Darlene Bishop and Anne Frank all of Greensburg.
G.E. and Louise Gray of Campbellsville will celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary on Monday, June 23. The couple was married in Jessetown on June 23, 1951.
The Grays have two sons and daughters-in-law, Mark and Mary Gray of Campbellsville and Jamie and Bobbi Gray of Georgetown.
They have three grandchildren, Lindsay Gray of Campbellsville and Jacob Gray and Savannah Marie Gray of Georgetown.
The Grays will celebrate their anniversary with friends and family.
Carrie JoBeth Newton and Jeremy Trent Thompson of Campbellsville announce their engagement.
Newton is the daughter of Helen and Lowell Jones and Mike and Mila Newton of Columbia.
She has a master's degree in education from Lindsey Wilson College and is a language arts teacher at St. Charles Middle School in Lebanon.
Thompson is the son of Randy and Jody Thompson and Deborah and David Mouser of Campbellsville.
He is a 2003 Taylor County High School graduate and is employed at Campbellsville Water and Sewer.
A crowd of people gathered on Memorial Day to pay honor to those from Taylor County who fought in the War of 1812.
Campbellsville residents Teresa Spurling and Chuck Darnell spent several months tracking down the history of Spurling's third great-grandfather, Stephen Harding, who fought in the war.
And they, along with family members, the Marion County Honor Guard and the public, gathered to honor those who died in the war and to unveil a new stone to honor Harding.
Sgt. Matthew J. Mowery of Huber Heights, Ohio, recently returned home from a one-year deployment to Sinai, Egypt. He is stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, and previously served a year in South Korea.
Mowery is the grandson of James R. and Fay Tucker of Campbellsville and the great-grandson of the late LeeRoy and Florence Sallee and Sara Tucker.
He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in finance and a master's degree in sports leadership.
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MORAGA -- Defense remains a work in progress for the Saint Mary's College men's basketball team, but the Gaels' effort was just good enough in an 80-74 victory against upstart Pepperdine on Thursday night.
Saint Mary's never trailed after the opening minutes, but the Gaels had trouble pulling away in front of 2,654 fans at McKeon Pavilion. It was Saint Mary's 14th consecutive victory over Pepperdine.
"We had chances to separate, but we don't sustain a defensive effort long enough to ever hold leads," Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett said. "Until we do it's going to be down to the wire every game."
Besides defensive struggles for the Gaels, they suffered from second-half shooting woes. After leading by as many as 11 points in the first half, the Saint Mary's lead dwindled to one point twice as it shot just 39 percent from the floor in the final 20 minutes. The Gaels also went nearly eight minutes without a field goal and missed 12 consecutive 3-point attempts.
"We won a tough game, but we're better defensively than that," the Gaels' Brad Waldow said. "We're very athletic, so we should be getting a lot more stops."
But Saint Mary's (15-5, 5-2 WCC) survived, thanks in part to Stephen Holt (20 points, seven rebounds), Kerry Carter (18 points) and Beau Levesque (13 points), plus a strong second half from Waldow.
The Gaels' junior center finished with 21 points and 13 rebounds, and he exacted a little revenge on Pepperdine big man Brendan Lane, one of his high school rivals.
Waldow remembers his Ponderosa-Shingle Springs team being knocked out of the playoffs by Lane's Rocklin squad.
"It's cool getting a little revenge on a guy six years later," Waldow said. "I don't know if he still remembers, but I do."
Lane led Pepperdine with 18 points, six rebounds and three blocks before fouling out. In Lane's first year on the court since transferring from UCLA, his emergence is a part of the Waves' major improvement over last season.
Picked to finish last in conference before the season, Pepperdine (12-9, 5-4) has already matched its best win total overall and in WCC games over the past nine years.
The Waves aren't the only team that has improved -- there's more parity in the conference than usual with no team undefeated and no team still looking for a victory.
"Usually some teams start to break off and separate, but you really haven't seen that yet," Bennett said. "I don't know that it will happen.
"The fact that all of our teams were .500 or above going into league, we just have more good teams and, thus, more balance."
Loyola Marymount (11-10,
3-6 WCC) at Saint Mary's
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Pavlik Meet and Greet
Kelly Pavlik, former world champion from Youngstown, Ohio signs an autograph for a young fan during a meet and greet with fans at a local restaurant for his upcoming feature fight against Aaron 'Jedi' Jaco of Sarasota, Fla. This Top Rank Live! boxing card, will be televised live on Azteca America this Saturday, March 31 from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. read more »
Pavlik in San Antonio
Kelly Pavlik is in San Antonio to prepare for his fight on March 31st. read more »
Firepower in Tucson
Firepower weigh in and arrival photos for Diego Magdaleno's fight in Tucson. read more »
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Brandon Rios workout in Oxnard as he prepares for his fight at Mandalay Bay on April 14th. read more »
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Crowd Funding for World Poetry Fourth Peace and film Festival, Oct 1-26th!
By worldpoetry on August 14, 2014 - 11:42pm
This will be our 4th World Poetry International Peace Festival. We have been working hard to put an exciting program together for you!
To make this possible we are trying crowd funding for the first time this year. This gives everyone an opportunity to help, according to your means, and so contribute to world peace. Be sure to visit our IndieGoGo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fourth-world-poetry-peace-festival
This year, we have an exciting festival which includes for the first time a Peace and Human Rights Festival showcasing young filmmakers in Canada and around the world at the UBC Learning Exchange on Main Street. Other venues include the Simon K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC with a month long display and a communication hub, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, the Britannia Library (VPL) and the New Westminster Public Library.


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- Nov 3:
- By the numbers: Oakland Raiders vs. Philadelphia Eagles
- Oakland Raiders' Terrelle Pryor, Darren McFadden suffer injuries
- Raiders' top pick D.J. Hayden has a long day
- Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles joins select company
- Kawakami: Coach Dennis Allen expects Raiders to bounce back
- Nick Foles' record-setting day helps Eagles soar past Raiders
OAKLAND -- When it was all over and the reality of a 49-20 Raiders defeat had set in Sunday, free safety Charles Woodson was asked if there were clues to suggest Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles could throw seven touchdown passes in a game.
"I don't think Nick Foles has ever seen anything on film that would give him any indication he'd throw for seven touchdowns," Woodson said. "Nobody thought today he'd come in and have this kind of day."
Yet that's how the Raiders arrived at midseason as the remnants of a crowd of 51,751 filed out of O.co Coliseum in either stunned silence or vocal disgust.
Foles had more touchdown passes than incompletions, hitting 22 of 28 passes for 406 yards in joining Peyton Manning earlier this season and five others for the most TD passes in a single game in NFL history.
Considering coach Chip Kelly pulled Foles from the game in favor of Matt Barkley, with more than nine minutes to play, the Raiders were fortunate to only share a standard for futility.
The Raiders are 3-5 -- same as last season -- instead of the 4-4 they'd hoped to be before entering a brutal road stretch. There was no building on the previous week's 21-18 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it was a big hit to the reputation of a defense that was starting to gain national attention for its play.
Woodson thought the Raiders might have been reading their press clippings, but coach Dennis Allen, after his team gave up the second-most points in his coaching tenure, wasn't so sure.
"I don't know if that was the case or not," Allen said. "We all have to understand that in the NFL, you have to come out and be fully prepared mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally ready to play."
Foles' touchdowns came on passes of 2 yards to Brent Celek 17, 63 and 5 yards to Riley Cooper, 25 yards to LeSean McCoy, 46 yards to DeSean Jackson and 15 yards to Zach Ertz, the rookie from Stanford.
The Raiders generated almost no pressure and faltered in coverage (cornerback D.J. Hayden in particular), with one of the scoring passes to Cooper and one to McCoy coming against no discernible defender in the secondary.
Foles had missed the previous week's game with a concussion, and the Eagles had scored 10 points in the last two games combined -- both losses.
"We tried some five-man pressure. We tried some four-man pressure. We tried some max-drop, and really, nothing worked," Allen said.
The Eagles (4-5) set a torrid pace with their no-huddle offense, and the Raiders, after talking about being ready for it all week, were flat-footed all day.
"They came out firing on all cylinders, and we couldn't match their tempo," cornerback Tracy Porter said. "Usually, we're the team setting the tempo, but they came out ready to play. They out-executed us, point blank and simple."
The Eagles scored so fast -- with only 22:06 in time of possession to gain 542 yards -- that the Raiders ran 92 plays and gained 560 yards.
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor completed 22 of 41 passes for 288 yards and two interceptions and ran 10 times for 94 yards. Pryor left in the fourth quarter with a knee injury he said he doesn't believe to be serious.
Running back Rashad Jennings ran 15 times for 102 yards, scored on an 8-yard run and caught seven passes for 74 yards. Jeremy Stewart scored on a 2-yard run in the game's final minute.
Yet the Raiders failed to keep pace when the Eagles were running away with the game in the first half, and the yardage figures were more a result of playing catch-up than anything else.
"I think if you look at this game and the manner in which it was played, it's hard to say there's a lot of positives in any regard," Allen said.
Foles was asked afterward if he had ever thrown seven touchdown passes before.
"Only in a video game," he said.
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on Twitter at twitter.com/Jerrymcd.


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STOCKTON – A 74-year-old man returning home from church was robbed in his driveway in the 700 block of Queensland Circle around 1 p.m. Sunday, police reported.
The man was still in his driveway when he was approached by a black man, 20 to 30 years old, 6 feet tall weighing about 130 pounds and with short hair who asked to borrow the victim's cell phone. He was wearing a gray T-shirt and gray pants
The suspect ripped a gold chain from the victim's neck and went away on foot.
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Quote: URBNET After the uproar over the Kerrang kerfuffle, do you wonder if the hip-hop crowd might not accept your return to hip-hop, or that it might affect the sales of a more hip-hop album from you?
BUCK I hadn't thought about it before you asked the question, but I suppose it's possible. I hope with this record, like anything else I've done, that any sort of, like, preamble or poaber [sic] or anything that's been said past or present, that the record will take on a life for itself based on word of mouth or whatever else, and that people will just judge the record on the record itself. And that's the most you can ever really hope for. Just like I wouldn't want record sales to be killed by something that has nothing to do with the record, I wouldn't be particularly happy with selling records that was based on hype or nothing else either, whatsoever, which has been real indicative of the way I've chosen to conduct my career up until now. I think, although this isn't really speaking to the question that you asked, there was definitely a period of whatever you want to call it growing pains or something else for a couple of years. I was trying to figure a lot of things out and, in particular, a place for myself in the hip-hop world. That's not been easy to do. It's not been easy for me to find on my own, and it's not been easy for anybody else to understand what my place is. The conclusion that I came to after struggling with it for a long time and coming face to face with the Kerrang thing and fallout around that is that just the word [hip-hop] is really problematic. And I don't think I ever really explain myself very well, but the example I've been making... I mean, put it like this: I am actually one of them nerds who will, on a night off, sit in my house and dial up the YouTube and sit there and watch Q-Bert videos for hours on end. And I can convince myself until I'm blue in the face that my belief in hip-hop is right and pure and good, and the fact that I'm really into DJ culture is as pure and as quintessential a pursuit of hip-hop whatsoever. But if I were to get into a discussion about that with a kid who idolizes Souljah Boy or something like that, we're bound to not see eye to eye, just like I don't think it's fair to expect someone's three favourite artists to be Buck 65, Q-Bert and Souljah Boy. There is wide and wild diversity there between those three names but somehow we use the word hip-hop or at least some people try to use the word to describe all three of those things, and that's really problematic. And I don't think I ever really stopped to think about that and sort it out. But it was a source of frustration for me and I was allowing the disagreement from the Souljah Boy camp or whatever else camp to get to me and to confuse me. Not that I've come to any real firm conclusions there or anything else, I just have to stay secure in my beliefs that Q-Bert is somehow hip-hop, Souljah Boy is somehow hip-hop, and if that's the case then goddammit somehow I'm hip-hop as well. And just like any two given people are never bound to see eye to eye, I can't expect everyone to see eye to eye with me and vice versa. Until one day we can all wake up to that fact and maybe get over ourselves a little bit, these sorts of headbuttings and whatever else are gonna happen forever. We're all purists. We all know and believe that we're right. So, we're never going to get along. If there's one thing I learned in this whole process, the one that I've concluded that is really valuable and important for me, is for me to start with myself and say I'm no expert, I don't have the answer for anything. I'll be the first to surrender that 'cause if I stubbornly hang on to it and expect everyone else to give up, it's going to be a pissing contest. I'll be the first to surrender and say, Look, I don't know, I don't know what to call what I'm doing either. I don't think it's any better or any more pure. And that's all there is to it. And that just requires a real measure of humility to just say, I'll let go.