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In and out of the ring, Mike Tyson has always been fast on his feet. Now the legendary heavyweight has bobbed and weaved his way from badass to thespian.
The former fighter faces off against himself in his new one-man show, "Undisputed Truth," which comes to San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre from Feb. 28 to March 2 after a short Broadway run directed by Spike Lee.
"This is like a dream for me," says Tyson, 46, during a pithy 15-minute phone interview. "I saw Chazz Palminteri's show 'Bronx Tale,' and I was blown away by it. It was better than the movie. And I knew I wanted to do something like it. I like to interact with the audience and be off-the-cuff like that."
Tyson is a study in contrasts. Once dubbed the baddest man on the planet, he speaks in a high squeak that smacks of Minnie Mouse. But he still exudes the intimidating personality that made him arguably the most feared fighter since Muhammad Ali.
Born in Brooklyn in 1966, the champ stands as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. His braggadocio knew no bounds. He was the sort of boxer who threatened to eat his opponent's children. But in recent years, he has busted out of the world of boxing to cross over into the pop culture realm.
The one-time champ has been spoofing himself hard lately, particularly in the "Hangover" movie franchise. He has also stirred up controversy over a guest shot playing a rape victim on "Law & Order: SVU," which has drawn the ire of victims' rights group who denounce the casting of a convicted rapist. Tyson spent three years in prison for the rape of 18-year-old Miss Black America pageant competitor Desiree Washington.
The swaggering gladiator once prone to fits of rage would make no comment on the topic, but he did confess to being anxious about making his theatrical debut, saying he was "100 percent" nervous about baring his soul onstage.
When the show first started in Las Vegas, it was a glitzy affair.
But when it moved to New York and the Oscar-nominated Lee ("Malcolm X," "Do the Right Thing") became involved, he suggested they cut the band, the dancers and the splashy production values and focus on just the man. Tyson was uncertain. With his bragging and blustering days behind him, he says he worried about holding the spotlight all by himself.
"He told me that I couldn't hide by any of that stuff," recalls Tyson ruefully. "There are no buffers. It's just me up there."
Written by Tyson's third wife, Lakiha "Kiki" Spicer, the 90-minute tell-all riffs on a notorious series of events, including battles with drug abuse, a rape conviction and biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear (ouch!). Some critics had the show on the ropes during its New York engagement. The New York Times called it "ham-handed and manipulative." But others hailed the work as "emotionally revealing" and "clever."
Reviews don't matter
It hardly matters to Tyson. The former fighter does not believe in reading reviews.
"I'm not interested in other people's opinions. I'm interested in how the show went that night. Did the audience enjoy it?" says the champ, showing a flash of his famed quick temper. "If I read someone else's opinion, I might get angry. I want to do my own thing. I've got to do it my way."
No arguments, here. Certainly, Tyson has been reinventing himself by shedding his belligerent persona for the past few years. After grossing an estimated $400 million in his career, Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003 and retired two years later after losing three of his last four fights. He has since given up boozing, drugs and womanizing, a transformation he credits to his wife and family. He no longer thinks of himself as Iron Mike.
"I'm just Mike now. I have better life skills than I did before," says Tyson, who lives in Las Vegas. "I have my wife and my family. I put a lot of wreckage into their lives but now they respect me. I have a lot of gratitude."
The famous gold caps on his teeth are also gone, although the Maori-style facial tattoos remain. The tension between past and present is the heart of this rough-and-tumble one-man memoir. Onstage, Tyson traces the arc of his career while making time to take shots at rivals, promoters and ex-wives such as Robin Givens. The barnburner narrative switches from the silly to the poignant, such as the accidental death of his daughter Exodus at the age of 4. Her neck got tangled in the power cord of a treadmill at her mother's house.
It's one of the hardest things Tyson has ever had to face. The horror of that loss haunts him still.
"Burying a 4-year-old, that's gut-wrenching," he admits. Less than two weeks after her death, Tyson married his current wife, Kiki, with whom he began to turn his life around.
Fisticuffs fans are eager to hear his uncensored impressions as he looks back on his life and times. The rawer the better, they say.
"As a sports fan, how can you not be curious?" says Aldo Billingslea, a lover of boxing and professor of drama at Santa Clara University. "To hear his story told by him, Tyson being honest about what it's like to be Tyson, that's fascinating. He has nothing to hide behind up there. What if he gets heckled? What will he do?"
Indeed, pugilist enthusiasts see Tyson as a tragic figure of epic proportions, a man who got "old too soon, smart too late."
'Iron Mike' dichotomy
"I have always been intrigued by the dichotomy of Iron Mike," says boxing writer Kim Francesca, "the brutality and bombast both in the ring and out belies an inherent sensitivity to the world around him. All the follies, the loss and the victories, his whole journey compels me; I think it compels most. He seems a changed man from the 'monster' we saw at the height of his career. I'd love to live in his mind for a day and get to know the man behind the myth."
But some theater insiders are less impressed. They chalk the show's success up to tawdry TMZ-style celebrity gossip.
"It probably all comes down to schadenfreude," notes Tom Ross, artistic director of Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company. "Even the most wealthy, famous, powerful people are more screwed up than me."
For his part, Tyson is big enough to take a few punches. He knows he's an easy target for potshots, and he knows that many people will never forget his past thuggery. But he also knows how to soldier on. Asked if he has any regrets looking back on his life in the ring: "My whole life is a regret. I regret my whole life."
After a beat he adds: "I don't look at it that way anymore. Nothing is coincidence. Everything is ordained to be the way it is."
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza, follow her at Twitter.com/karendsouza4 and like her at Facebook.com/dsouzatheaterpage.
Starring Mike Tyson, directed by Spike Lee
When: Feb. 28-March 2
Where: Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St., San Francisco
Tickets: $50-$110, 888-746-1799, www.shnsf.com


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Vanston Shaw, a retired superintendent of California schools, has won a seat on the Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission, according to unofficial results from the Jackson County Elections Office.
Long-term Parks Commissioner Jim Lewis, who ran unopposed, was re-elected.
Shaw ran against Vicki Tripoli, who said during the campaign that she was dealing with a family medical emergency and probably wouldn't accept the position if elected.
Shaw garnered 58.86 percent, or 4,294 votes, to Tripoli's 40.11 percent, or 2,926 votes, according to unofficial results.
Jackson County will certify official results on Nov. 26, said Jackson County Clerk Chris Walker.
Shaw said that after he takes office, he would like parks and city officials to discuss stable funding for Ashland parks. Last year, the city took money from the quasi-independent parks department in order to fund city operations, a move Shaw opposes.
Shaw said he is in favor of loosening rules on dogs in parks, which require dogs to be leashed and remain on sidewalks and other paved surfaces, or within six feet of paved surfaces, while in parks that allow dogs.
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Parks Commissioner Rich Rosenthal was elected to the City Council and will leave his commission post in January 2013.
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STOCKTON - An argument between roommates turned violent, with one roommate biting the other, causing severe lacerations.
A short report from the Stoctkon Police Department didn't say why the male suspect and the 29-year-old victim were arguing about 8 p.m. Saturday in the 900 block of North Sierra Nevada Street.
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Community activism, conservation, agriculture and adventure. These are a few of the themes of the films showing at Walking Mountain Science Center in Avon Friday and Saturday. The event, called the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, is a collection of films from the annual festival held the third week of January in Nevada City, Calif. Wild & Scenic focuses on films that speak to environmental concerns and celebrations of the planet. "Films featured at Wild & Scenic give people a sense of place," said tour manager Lori Van Laanen. "In our busy lives, it's easy to get disconnected from our role in the global ecosystem. When we realize that the change we need in this world begins with us, we can start making a difference."The Wild & Scenic Film Festival was started by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in 2003, Van Laanen said. The festival's namesake celebrates SYRCL's landmark victory to earn "Wild & Scenic" status for 39 miles of the South Yuba River in 1999. "We're unique because we're the only film festival produced by an environmental non profit," Van Laanen said.With the support of national partners, the festival tours venues coast to coast. "The tour shows 101 places across the country, and in Canada and the Bahamas," Van Laanen said. Fifty-five of the films from the festival go on tour, and Walking Mountains got to choose the lineup showing this weekend, she said. One of the national partners is Patagonia, who gave the Walking Mountains Science Center a $1,000 grant to bring the festival here, said Kristen Belschner, the marketing manager for Walking Mountain Science School."The local Patagonia store came to us in conjunction with Specialty Sports Ventures," Belschner said. "They introduced the idea to us and we thought it would be a good fit."Films will be offered on both Friday and Saturday nights, with kids films beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Walking Mountains will host a family fun fair from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday with science experiment stations for kids, as well as concessions. Here's a brief look at some of the films showing:"Mother Nature's Child" (57 minutes): An extension of the discussion sparked by Richard Louv, author of "Last Child in the Woods" and "The Nature Principle," offers a thought-provoking overview of the benefits of unstructured outdoor play, risk-taking, the use of technology and what it means to educate the "whole child.""Green Fire" (73 minutes): This film is about Aldo Leopold, conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer and outdoor enthusiast. The film examines Leopold's thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecological challenges. "Nico's Challenge" (15 minutes): Kids and adults alike will be inspired by this film, which catalogues the journey of a 13-year-old boy who climbs Kilimanjaro on one leg, raising money to bring wheelchairs to handicapped people in Tanzania. This plays both Friday night and Saturday during the kid's session. "Walking the Valley: Mountain Pine Beetle" (23 minutes): This film is a collaboration between TV8, Walking Mountains, Vail Resorts and the U.S. Forest Service. Learn about the life cycle of this tiny, yet powerful critter and find out what our local forest caretakers are doing to combat the epidemic. "We're excited about this one," said Kristen Belschner, the marketing manager for Walking Mountain Science School. "Dale Versteegen, community programs coordinator, talks about what some of these local outlets are doing to combat the pine beetle. It's very informational.""Gloop" (4 minutes): This dark fairytale follows the meteoric rise of plastic, from its inception in Leo's gloomy laboratory 100 years ago. Told like a Brother's Grimm fable, "Gloop" offers a poignant and lasting message about the price we pay for the convenience of plastic."Weed War" (6 minutes): A profile on Mark Harbaugh, Patagonia fly fishing rep and goat rancher, this film showcases one man's obsession to do his part for the environment using weed-eating goats to control noxious invaders in the Rocky Mountains.
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CARSON -- Chris Wondolowski enabled the Earthquakes to exploit an advantageous situation in their quest to reach Major League Soccer's playoffs.
Wondolowski scored in the 87th minute to give the Quakes a 1-0 victory over Chivas USA on Sunday night at the StubHub Center.
The Quakes (12-11-8) extended their unbeaten streak in all competitions to a season-best five games -- and moved one point behind the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Colorado Rapids, who share fourth place in the Western Conference.
The fourth- and fifth-place teams in each conference will play an elimination game to determine which team will face the conference's top seed.
"It's really do or die," Quakes defender Steven Beitashour said. "We knew we had to come out with three (points)."
Helping the Quakes' chances were the Galaxy's and FC Dallas' losses Sunday. Dallas had trailed the Quakes and the Vancouver Whitecaps by one point as the day began.
The Quakes won despite playing with 10 men for the final nine minutes. Steven Lenhart received his second yellow card in the 81st for shoving his left forearm into goalkeeper Dan Kennedy's chest as both were in the air.
Lenhart will be suspended for the Quakes' next game, Oct. 9 against Colorado at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Nevertheless, Beitashour believes the Quakes are ready to make a late-season surge.
"We were fighting a lot of injuries in the beginning of the season, a lot of suspensions and a lot of international duty," Beitashour said. "Now, we have everyone back."
Wondolowski scored his ninth goal after Alan Gordon fired a 23-yard shot that Kennedy blocked with his chest. An onrushing Wondolowski converted the rebound from nine yards.
Jon Busch made two saves against Chivas USA (6-17-8) for his seventh shutout of the season.
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Remembering 50 years of theater
The stories flowed last night (June 2) at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The Dallas Theater Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a program featuring past artistic directors and representatives of past directors. Robyn Baker Flatt, representing her father Paul Baker (who sent a taped message since he was unable to travel–he's only 97!), told about the struggles her father had with theater architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Adrian Hall then said those struggles were nothing compared to the ones he faced with the city of Dallas when trying to build the Arts District Theater.
Others on stage included Trey Birkhead, representing the late Mary Sue Jones, the company's only woman director and wife of Preston Jones; Richard Hamburger, who served from 1992-2007; actress Linda Gehringer, representing the late Ken Bryant; and current artistic director Kevin Moriarty, who moderated the discussion. The discussion drew laughs and frequent applause from the packed audience. Gehringer said she looks upon her time in Dallas as a truly joyful time in her career. She still keeps in touch with members of the company from those days.
Now, the comapny is leaving its beloved home for bigger quarters in the Dallas Arts District. A tribute to its history is available in the book, Staged Right.


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Database Partitioning A Source Table With Golden Gate Replication In Place
By AndyBaker on May 06, 2013
At a client site there was a requirement for performance of a SIEBEL database to partition an existing source table that happened to be also replicated with golden gate. The requirement was only to partition the source table and NOT the replicated target table. During this process an issue occurred with duplicate data being replicated after the database partitioning occurred. This article covers the issue found in the process and a workaround to that issue using a simple test case to demonstrate. It firstly recreates the issue then secondly explains the root cause and solution.
Please note that in this example of golden gate, 'DDL' replication is NOT used. As stated in this case the partitioning is only at the source side only. It is a simple extract of the table SCOTT.EMP containing 14 rows and replicating to a new schema / table in the same database called REP.EMP. The primary key is defined on the EMP table at both sites based on the EMPNO field as is default in the SCOTT sample schema.
The document also does not cover set up for this replication as it focuses on what happens when the source table is changed into a partitioned table from a non partitioned table and replication is in place. However it does cover some basic outline steps for setting up the test-case.
Please Note these scripts were written only for demonstration purposes. They are not optimized and they have almost no error checking, so be careful!
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Definition of perfect in English:
1Having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be: she strove to be the perfect wife life certainly isn't perfect at the moment
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- Four hundred years later the kayak is still unchanged in its basic design, because for its size it is as near as possible to being a perfect boat.
- For me to achieve a perfect throw requires concentration and luck.
- What I love about your characters is the perfect balance of cute and sinister, attraction and repulsion.
ideal, model, without fault, faultless, flawless, consummate, quintessential, exemplary, best, best-example, ultimate, copybook
superb, exquisite, superlative, excellent, wonderful, marvellous, beautiful, sublime, magnificent, idyllic, blissful, utopian;
unrivalled, unequalled, matchless, unparalleled, beyond compare, without equal, second to none, too good to be true, unmatched, incomparable, nonpareil, peerless, inimitable, unexcelled, unsurpassed, unsurpassable
informal out of this world, terrific, fantastic, fabulous, great, super, heavenly, glorious, gorgeous, stellar, divine, phenomenal, sensational, dreamy, fab, fabby, fantabulous, awesome, to die for, magic, ace
British informal brilliant, brill, bosting
rare unexampled, indefectible
1.1Free from any flaw or defect in condition or quality; faultless: the equipment was in perfect condition
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- As I landed it I was amazed at its excellent condition and perfect fins.
- It is very important to note that she was wearing a white frilly dress that was still in perfect condition.
- Very few goods - especially those on display - are in perfect, pristine condition.
flawless, mint, as good as new, pristine, impeccable, immaculate, superb, superlative, optimum, prime, optimal, peak, excellent, faultless, as sound as a bell, unspoilt, unblemished, undamaged, spotless, unmarred, unimpaired
informal tip-top, A1
1.2Precisely accurate; exact: a perfect circle
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- I spun in a complete circle, delivering mortal wounds to all of them with perfect precision.
- These deposit themselves with perfect precision on a gold-coated silicon substrate.
- With perfect precision he swerved in between cars and into the other lane.
exact, precise, accurate, faithful, correct, unerring, right, close, true, strict;
British inch-perfect
British informal spot on
North American informal on the money
1.3Highly suitable for someone or something; exactly right: Giles was perfect for her—ten years older and with his own career
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- The location is perfect and is the ideal last bar to visit.
- She's got real skill as a comedienne and the super-perkiness of the character is a perfect fit for her talents.
- In short he's got the perfect character profile to be a really accomplished singer-songwriter.
ideal, just right, right, appropriate, fitting, fit, suitable, apt, made to order, tailor-made;
British informal spot on, just the job
2 [attributive] Absolute; complete (used for emphasis): a perfect stranger all that Joseph said made perfect sense to me
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- Like all parental guilt trips, the reasoning behind it made absolute and perfect sense.
- A thought's breadth away, a woman of perfect absolutes stood in a field of death.
- Structurally this makes perfect sense, as life gets denser and more morally complex as you go through your teenage years.
absolute, complete, total, real, out-and-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, downright, utter, sheer, consummate, unmitigated, unqualified, veritable, in every respect, unalloyed
British informal right
Australian/New Zealand informal fair
archaic arrant
3 Mathematics (Of a number) equal to the sum of its positive divisors, e.g. the number 6, whose divisors (1, 2, 3) also add up to 6.
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- Prior to publishing, he also found an upper bound on the least prime divisor of an odd perfect number.
- Many mathematicians were interested in perfect numbers and tried to contribute to the theory.
- He who affirms that all perfect numbers end with the figure 6 or 8 are right.
4 Grammar (Of a tense) denoting a completed action or a state or habitual action which began in the past. The perfect tense is formed in English with have or has and the past participle, as in they have eaten and they have been eating ( present perfect), they had eaten ( past perfect), and they will have eaten ( future perfect).
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- It has seven vowels, it has no perfect tenses, it is chock-a-block with suffixes and its syntax is baroque.
- First, it is relevant to the formation of the perfect tense in many European languages.
5 Botany (Of a flower) having both stamens and carpels present and functional.
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- Pistillate flowers are usually smaller than perfect flowers and produce nectar with lower sugar concentration.
verb[with object]
1Make (something) completely free from faults or defects; make as good as possible: he's busy perfecting his bowling technique
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- The staff busied itself with perfecting a peacetime organization which meshed closely with the demands of war, so that the chaos of 1870 could never be repeated.
- With this knowledge, he perfected the tendon transplant technique through which he carried out reconstructive surgery on those with damaged hands and feet.
- You see, grace builds upon nature; it doesn't destroy nature, but builds upon it and perfects it.
improve, make perfect, bring to perfection, better, polish (up), burnish, hone, refine, consummate, put the finishing/final touches to, ameliorate, brush up, fine-tune
rare meliorate
1.1 archaic Bring to completion; finish: then urg'd, she perfects her illustrious toils
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- I would like tomorrow to be done with, complete, perfected.
1.2Complete (a printed sheet of paper) by printing the second side: the heap was normally printed as white paper in the morning, turned at the midday break, and perfected in the afternoon
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- Having perfected his angsty, sheeny whine, he sounds good, even if he seems to spend most of this album jabbering about how late it is and what the weather's like in some city or other.
- He has since perfected his 'soft-spoken, man-out-of-place' style of acting, but here it is very much in test mode.
1.3 Law Satisfy the necessary conditions or requirements for the transfer of (a gift, title, etc.): equity will not perfect an imperfect gift
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- The donor, having by then changed his mind, declines to perfect the imperfect gift in favour of the intended donee.
- It was submitted by the bank before the judge and before this court that, notwithstanding that the garnishee order nisi was not perfected, a genuine belief that the bank was entitled to act as it did was a defence to the claim.
- The limits of any jurisdiction to vacate orders made and perfected by courts of appeal have not been examined or stated by this Court in the criminal sphere.
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- Republican Abraham Lincoln's legacy is that of a Union perfecter.
- Cornishmen of a different stamp emerged: John Opie, the precocious portraitist and art theoretician, Richard Trevithick, wrestler and inventor of high-pressure steam traction, Humphry Davy, perfecter of the miner's safety lamp.
- Religion, on the other hand, would appear to have been the inventor of the technique and the perfecter of its practice.
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- The domestic gaming machine functions as a box within a box, where the rule-based environment of the game, with its fantasies of perfectibility and perfect control, is played out within the regulated space of the home.
- On the other side were the Enlightenment humanists who believed in infinite perfectibility through education and nonviolence as adopted by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- For instance, one difference lies in in Benjamin Franklin's approach to his errata - we are often told he believed in the Enlightenment tradition of the perfectibility of man.
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- Just as she believed man to be continuously perfectible, so too could republics become increasingly enlightened until they achieved her ideal of national freedom enhanced by intellectual cosmopolitanism.
- That said, it is important in a way that many other screeds only wish to be, and, in an easily perfectible world, would serve as a rallying cry for tax reform.
- The Western Romantics believed that their societies were perfectible and could be salvaged from within.
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- His characteristic manner soon brought customers from near and far and his perfectness in hair styling was always much admired.
- And why do they want to drag everyone they know into their world of perceived perfectness?
- He said that the students come out with the ideas themselves and also execute them with great perfectness.
Middle English: from Old French perfet, from Latin perfectus 'completed', from the verb perficere, from per- 'through, completely' + facere 'do'.
The basic sense of perfect is 'completely made'. It is from Old French perfet, from Latin perfectus, formed from per- 'through, completely' and facere 'to do'. The early sense of the related perfection (Middle English) was 'completeness'.
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Coach John Calipari tries to start every morning in church. That's right the game's biggest name in coaching who just won a national championship has a prayer list. I asked him why going to church is so important to him. His answer was simple. "I am a sinner, and sinners need forgiveness."
He laughed, but he was serious. This grandson of immigrants who worked in the coal mines feels blessed to be in the position he's in, and praying for others is one way he gives back. During our exclusive, hour long interview, Coach Calipari talked about the fish bowl he lives in, and how he finds time time for his teenage son Brad. I noted that Brad was with the team during the public shoot around in New Orleans, and later at the White House after they won the national championship. Coach says he finds any opportunity he can to include his son because his job has stolen so much time away from family. He also laughed about Brad being the only one allowed to bounce a basketball during a practice while his dad is talking.
"No one else is allowed to do that." Coach Cal says Brad is working hard to be a good player, and Cal says the game teaches his son commitment.
Coach Cal also finds time to explore business and charitable ideas. Many people know he's invested in the popular Orange Leaf Yogurt shops. He has a college background in business and marketing, and says he enjoys coming up with ideas that he and his wife Ellen can leverage to benefit their foundation. The older he gets, Coach Cal says he realizes it's not about money or him. It's about helping people close to him succeed like his young players.
For more with the coach, watch our hour long special, "A Conversation with Coach Cal," Thursday, 8pm, on WKYT.


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2011 (R-SOPHOMORE): Posted nine appearances, punching out five in 6 2/3 innings of work … made season debut with two punchouts in one inning at Houston Baptist (3/1) … went 1 1/3 scoreless at Texas Tech (3/13) … had scoreless outings against UT-Brownsville (3/22) and McNeese State (3/25) … had a scoreless frame against Texas (4/5).
2010 (SOPHOMORE): Made two appearances before missing the rest of the season with an injury … was 1-0 with a 6.00 ERA … in two appearances, held opponents to a .167 batting average … went 2 2/3 against Prairie View (2/21), allowing a hit and a walk in collecting the victory.
2009 (FRESHMAN): Made 14 appearances on the mound as a freshman, with 13 games out of the bullpen … Did not record a decision … tossed 17 1/3 innings while posting a 10.38 ERA … recorded two or more Ks four times … had a season-high four strikeouts against Alabama (3/5) as he tossed two innings … struck out three batters against Sam Houston State (5/14) in final appearance of season … made lone start against UTPA in a midweek game.
HIGH SCHOOL: Played for head coach Victor Herbst at Craig High School in Janesville, Wis. … was named all-state, all-conference and all-district during his senior season … rated the No. 4 prospect in the state of Wisconsin by Perfect Game … played travel ball for Hitters Baseball in Wisconsin … was 5-1 on the mound as a senior with a 1.96 ERA and 68 strikeouts in 46 2/3 innings … also started at shortstop.
PERSONAL: Trevor Robert Foss was born Nov. 15, 1989, in Janesville, Wis. … son of Jacqueline and Steve Foss … has a younger brother, Trent, and younger sister, Kendra … majoring in criminal justice.


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Selection and sizing of membrane flat-sheet cassette devices are critical to a successful tangential flow filtration (TFF) process. To maximize return on investment, the devices should boost product yields while offering cleaning and reuse results that provide superior membrane lifetime cost benefits. In this case, small-scale models were developed and executed to test and evaluate selected membrane devices for a protein concentration–diafiltration application, in which the current device delivered unacceptable product recovery and cleaning and reuse results. The application involved the last purification step of a recombinant bacterial protein. Characterization and optimization of operating process parameters were followed by performance verification at the pilot plant, and by full commercial-scale use of the device selected.
In the end, laboratory-scale membrane lifetime studies of the characterized regenerated cellulose membrane processes showed sustained product yields and satisfactory performance over 30 use cycles. The development, characterization strategy, and summary of results are presented here.
The molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of a membrane is crucial to the retention capability of the target molecule. The recommended choice is generally a membrane with an MWCO rating of less than 1/3 the size of the molecule to recover.4 Following this rule allows the process characterization to proceed efficiently to select the best operating parameter ranges and to optimize for large-scale trials. In the current study, the existing application used a PES-based membrane with an MWCO of 8 kDa, which is greater than 1/3 the size of the molecule to recover. The new membranes tested had MWCO ratings of 1/3 or less of the size of the molecule of interest.
To demonstrate reproducibility of the laboratory model to the commercial process, the commercial TFF process of interest was scaled down to the appropriate laboratory scale and process conditions. The product load per surface area is a critical parameter to consider when designing the proper small-scale model. Conducting experiments at various loads per surface area is important for studying membrane performance over different product-load ranges and its effects on process cycle times.


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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Chris Hawkins-Mast had a career-high 22 points and Terence Jones added 20, but West Virginia's inside game was too much for the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team in an 84-64 victory on Saturday at the WVU Coliseum. Kevin Jones scored 22 and Deniz Kilicli added 13 for the Mountaineers, who improved to 7-2 on the year.
Myron Dempsey added eight points and eight boards for the Islanders (1-7), while Johnathan Jordan matched his career-high with six assists in the contest. The Islanders shot 50 percent (7-of-14) from the outside in the game. WVU scored 34 points in the paint, 24 after halftime, to emerge victorious.
After the Mountaineers scored the first bucket of the game, the Islanders countered with an 8-0 run on two Terence Jones threes and a Jordan layup to make it 8-2. But WVU came right back, getting five straight points to trim it to 8-7. From there, it was give-and-take between the two teams, with the Mountaineers rallying for a 14-13 lead to force a timeout from Willis Wilson at the 12:45 mark.
But the rally continued after the timeout, with Aaron Brown knocking down a three to ignite a 5-0 run for a 19-13 lead. Hawkins-Mast responded with back-to-back buckets inside to trim it to a 19-17 deficit. Again, the home squad replied, though, this time with Jabari Hinds scoring four straight points and Truck Bryant knocking down a three to open up a 26-17 lead before a Myron Dempsey putback ended the skid. From there the teams battled back-and-forth for a 29-23 Mountaineers edge. The Islanders trimmed it to 32-28 at the half to go in down four, closing with an 11-6 rally.
Out of the break, the two teams traded baskets to make it 35-31, but Kevin Jones scored eight straight points on his own for a 43-31 edge for the home squad. The Mountaineers pushed it to 46-31 before a Dempsey layup broke the rally. But WVU continued to press on, with Kilicli and Jones doing most of the damage, at one point scoring 17 of 19 Mountaineer points. A Terence Jones layin reduced the deficit to 54-39 at the 11:46 mark.
But the Mountaineers' hot shooting continued, as did the performance of Kevin Jones and Kilicli. The duo combined for 25 of the first 36 Mountaineers points out of the break. But after trailing 59-39 at the 11:22 mark, the Islanders refused to go quietly, staging an 18-11 run to cut it to 13 with 5:49 left. Terence Jones' shooting was largely responsible for the run, as he hit four of his first five shots in the half to top 20 points for the second time this year.
The Mountaineers continued to try to deliver the knockout blow, but every time the Islanders were able to punch back. Hawkins-Mast and Hameed Ali delivered threes in the closing minutes and Dempsey added a high-effort second putback. But the Mountaineers were too much for the Islanders offensively, finishing off the 20-point victory.
The Islanders will continue the Las Vegas Classic on Monday, when they travel to Springfield, Mo., for a matchup with Missouri State at 7 p.m. Steven King will have the call on NewsRadio 1360 KKTX and GoIslanders.com.


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Mulberry Man Sought in Robberies Arrested
Published: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:16 p.m.
Polk County deputies arrested a 32-year-old man Sunday who is wanted in a string of robberies.
William David Mounts, of Mulberry, robbed two gas stations Saturday in Lakeland, deputies said. In each, he entered the gas station masked and armed with a gun. The robberies occurred early Saturday morning at a Circle K gas station at County Line and Coronet roads and that night at a BP gas station at Pipkin and Yates roads.
Deputies found Mounts about 3:25 p.m. Sunday when he pulled into a parking lot on West 14th Street in Lakeland. They say he confessed to the robberies.
Mounts was also wanted by Hillsborough authorities in a Plant City bank robbery and the U.S. Marshals Service for probation violation.
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OWNER TRYING TO OPEN HIS EATERY... THE CONTROVERSIAL café HABANA PICKED UP A LITTLE VICTORY, BUT IS BY NO MEANS GUARANTEED TO OPEN. café HABANA WOULD BE LOCATED IN THE QUARTER AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH RAMPART AND ESPLANADE .... W-D-S-U'S TRAVERS MACKEL HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY ALL DAY AND HAS THE LATEST NOW FROM THE FRENCH QUARTER This blighted gas station and pharmacy at the edge of the french quarter is one step closer to becoming cafe habana ... Just hours ago the vieux carre commission granted conceptual approval to the owner Sean meenan But meenan still has a long way to go to get final Approval and break ground - city architects will need to review all plans ... The design isn't specific on size, seating space and other particulars and many residents turned out in opposition to the project they feel doesn't fit the historic neighborhood. Stand Up Meenan owns other restaurants in Brooklyn, Malibu and Dubai CITY ARCHITECTS WILL START REVIEWING THE PLANS FROM THE NORTHSHORE TONIGHT, A
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- Conner Wess had a career-high 25 points to go with four steals and four assists for Coventry in a 78-67 loss to Ravenna. The Comets boast balanced scoring as Bryce Hargrove (12 ppg), Jimmy Holmgren (9.1) and Wess (8.9) lead the way.
- Manchester wrestling took second at the Manchester Invitational tournament and continued its success at the Brecksville Holiday tournament, where Joey Bowen (106 pounds) and Jacob Hanzel (heavyweight) placed sixth in 32-person brackets. Hanzel also won the heavyweight championship at the J.C. Gorman tournament and Joey Bowen, Bobby Bowen (132 pounds) and Drew Brasial (160 pounds) placed third at the event. For Bobby Bowen, the event yielded his 100th career win.
- Green boys bowling posted a team score of 3,997 to place fifth at the Black Tiger Invitational at Legend Lanes in Cuyahoga Falls.
- Senior guard Jake Kitchen drained six 3-pointers and scored a game-high 28 points as Springfield toppled Crestwood 60-53 in a Portage Trail Conference contest.
- Courtney Basinger narrowly missed a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds for Coventry in the Comets' 42-37 loss to Field.
- Coventry won 10 weight classes, including a major decision by Zach Lake at 145 pounds, as the Comets wrestled their way to a 50-15 win over Stow.
- Junior Amanda Smith bowled games of 229 and 191 to lead her team to a win over Coventry.
- Green boys basketball notched a 41-23 rebounding edge as the Bulldogs doubled up Cloverleaf 54-27 in a Suburban League matchup.
- Junior forward Alex Klein led all scorers with 21 points as the Manchester girls basketball team tallied its seventh win of the season, 66-41 over Tusky Valley.
- Springfield girls bowling dropped a 2,329-2,215 decision to unbeaten Portage Trail Conference leader Kent Roosevelt at Bill White's Akron Lanes.
- Mount Union sophomore guard Evan Keeslar (Green) averaged 7.5 points per game over a four-game span – including a season-high 18 on Dec. 18 – as the Purple Raiders extended their winning streak to seven games with wins over Baldwin Wallace, Adrian, Olivet and Westminster.
- Kayla Jackson bowled games of 234 and 214 for Coventry as the Comets topped Portage Trail Conference rival Ravenna.
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STOCKTON - Police have arrested a third man suspected of carrying out a morning crime spree last week in Stockton, authorities said.
Community Response Team officers and members of the multiagency countywide gang task force helped detectives locate Ben Garcia, 30, about 10 p.m. Thursday near East Hammer and West lanes, police said. Garcia, a parolee at large, was arrested on suspicion of firearm possession, drug possession, robbery, carjacking, assault with a firearm and other crimes, authorities said.
Last week, authorities arrested Daniel Francis, 25, and Sean Lobosco, 32, on suspicion of numerous crimes, including robbery, carjacking, assault with a firearm, gun possession and drug possession. Police believe the three men were among those responsible for a home invasion robbery, a carjacking, a shooting and a drug heist that occurred Feb. 1 over a span of about 45 minutes.
Police said they are still searching for a woman, 25-year-old Jean Tanguileg, in connection with the same crimes.
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SANTA CLARA -- The stats aren't quite what they're accustomed to, yet evidence is mounting that the 49ers run defense still is plenty formidable.
In the past three games, the 49ers held the Rams, Texans and Cardinals to an average of 86 yards rushing and one touchdown combined.
That's a marked turnaround from the first three games, when the Packers, Seahawks and Colts gouged the 49ers for an average of 139.7 yards and six touchdowns.
Defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey said he and his linemates "took it personal" after the Seahawks and Colts combined for 356 yards and five touchdowns rushing in back-to-back games.
"We understand that for us to be a good defense, we have to stop the run," Dorsey said. "I don't know if we placed extra emphasis on stopping the run, but everybody is starting to realize that we have to clamp down on running situations."
The way the 49ers shut down the run each of the past two seasons made it pretty difficult for this year's team to match the standard.
In 2011, the 49ers allowed a league-low 77.2 rushing yards per game and three touchdowns. Last season, those figures jumped to 94.2 and seven touchdowns, respectively.
Even with the recent success, the 49ers are 20th against the run this season at 112.8 yards per game. Also, the Browns are the only team that has allowed more rushing touchdowns than the seven surrendered by the 49ers this season.
Sunday's game against the Tennessee Titans and struggling running back Chris Johnson gives the 49ers an opportunity to build upon their recent success against the run.
The Titans average a respectable 108.3 rushing yards per game. However, they net only 3.7 per carry and a touchdown every other game. Johnson is averaging 3.1 yards per carry and has no rushing touchdowns this season.
This marked the second straight day that Crabtree went through part of his rehab from a torn Achilles while the media were present.
Afterward, Crabtree said he didn't want to speak about his progress. He did say, "I'm just working, grinding extra hard."
Coach Jim Harbaugh said earlier this month that he doesn't expect Crabtree back until mid-November, even though Crabtree is eligible to return at any time now that he spent the first six weeks of the season on the physically-unable-to-perform list, as required by the league.
"We're very excited," Harbaugh said, when asked about Crabtree's workouts. "We're proud of what Michael's doing."
Harbaugh said the rehab process is "grueling" and something that shows Crabtree's "mental toughness."
The 49ers are without Crabtree and Mario Manningham, their top two wide receivers from last season.
However, it sounds as if both will be back before long. Harbaugh said, "It's going to be soon" for Manningham's return.
Manningham practiced at full strength Wednesday for the first time this season. He missed the latter part of last season and all of this season to date because of a knee injury that required surgery.
Given the dearth of healthy defensive linemen, it's likely that rookies Quinton Dial or Tank Carradine will be activated from the non-football-injury list or that Mike Purcell will be signed from the practice squad.
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Definition of switch in English:
1A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit: the guard hit a switch and the gate swung open
More example sentences
- By adding switches to their electrical circuits, the students were able to understand how circuits can be broken to determine its on and off status.
- Other switches sense the electrical conductivity of the water in the bilge.
- So the motors in most refrigerators, for example, control electricity with a switch - you can hear it go on and off.
button, lever, control, dial, rocker
1.1 Computing A program variable that activates or deactivates a certain function of a program.
Example sentences
- He pressed the switch to deactivate the program, then his weapons faded and he opened the door.
- Many simple things, for example picking up an item, activating a switch or initiating a dialog, can be done with a single mouse click.
- If incorrectly configured, extremely complex technologies like operating systems, switches or databases are unreliable.
2An act of adopting one policy or way of life, or choosing one type of item, in place of another; a change, especially a radical one: his friends were surprised at his switch from newspaper owner to farmer
More example sentences
- Mr Morrissey said oil companies used currency fluctuations to justify price increases but that a switch to euro pricing would put an end to this and bring real benefits for road users.
- Despite McKenzie's bullish predictions about take-up, the switch from NT to Windows 2000 is likely to be a gradual one.
- Opinion polls show more than half of Britons are opposed to ditching the pound although an increasing number feel the switch is inevitable.
change, move, shift, transition, transformation;
reversal, turnaround, U-turn, changeover, transfer, conversion;
substitution, exchange
3A slender flexible shoot cut from a tree.
Example sentences
- The students are lined up in somewhat orderly rows by their class leaders while a few of the teachers oversee the process, swishing small switches recently torn from nearby eucalyptus trees.
- She wanted a whippy switch off a willow tree in the front yard.
- I've been hit with slippers, with a dustpan, with a switch cut from the cherry tree in our backyard.
branch, twig, stick, rod
4North American A junction of two railroad tracks, with a pair of linked tapering rails that can be moved laterally to allow a train to pass from one line to the other.
Example sentences
- In later years private contractors installed the siding while the railway installed the switch.
- Life-expired signalling equipment and related trackwork, switches and crossings will be replaced.
- Imagine for a moment you are standing at a railway switch.
5A tress of false or detached hair tied at one end, used in hairdressing to supplement natural hair.
Example sentences
- On an impulse, Katherine reached up with her other hand and flicked her hood off of her head, revealing her long switch of hair.
- He also collected strands of their hair that had fallen out to make a switch.
- The long, silken switch of hair was cut carefully into four or five shorter sections.
verb[with object]
1Change the position, direction, or focus of: the company switched the boats to other routes
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- The families of 24 children have called on the ministers for education and healthcare to reverse a recent trend to switch its focus away from health services.
- The deflection diverted it and Gordon had to switch direction to get a hand to it and palm it away.
- Have you ever noticed how, when an uncomfortable topic comes up in conversation, the focus is sometimes switched to avoid the important issue that just came up?
change, shift;
informal chop and change
1.1Adopt (something different) in place of something else; change: [with object]: she's managed to switch careers [no object]: she worked as a librarian and then switched to journalism
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- But if for any reason he wishes to switch to a different career, he certainly has what it takes in other ways.
- Trained as a librarian, he switched careers to begin work as a museum assistant at the old railway museum in Faringdon Road.
- Remember, if you wish to switch lenders mid-term different exit penalties may apply.
1.2Substitute (two items) for each other; exchange: after ten minutes, listener and speaker switch roles
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- The next day, they are out on the street corner comparing their presents and neither is happy, so they switch gifts with each other.
- 'Once a year we reward the ladies for their efforts by switching roles with the men donning their aprons to provide a Ladies Lunch,' said Gordon.
- By switching the sibling roles and darkening their relationship, Chéreau found echoes of the emotional distance he feels from his own brother.
exchange, swap, interchange, trade, substitute, replace, rotate
Phrasal verbs
switch something off
- Turn off an electrical device.Example sentences
- There's even a remarkably clear optical viewfinder to help framing if you want to conserve battery power by switching off the 1.6in colour screen.
- Islanders traditionally begin Sabbath observance late on Saturday night, switching off televisions and making sure they are home well before midnight.
- Many people think their actions will make no difference but if a million of us all take the same small action such as switching off the TV stand-by there would be a huge saving.
- (switch off) informal1.1 Cease to pay attention: as he waffles on, I switch offMore example sentences
- Particularly I'm going to switch off or stop reading when I recognise signs of distress in myself.
- Many just switch off, saying that they'll pay attention when there is real danger.
- That's ideal if you come here to switch off, since you enjoy attentive service without any hassle.
switch something on
- Turn on an electrical device.Example sentences
- He came into the house between 6.40 am and 6.46 am and for whatever reason, switched on the computer.
- I switched on the headlights.
- She stepped forward and switched on the light in the living room.
switchable adjective
- Example sentences
- Even though this is a few steps down from the top spec car, it still comes with air conditioning, switchable between driver and passenger, a CD player, electric windows, and alloy wheels.
- Consider, for instance, how the interior windows, glass balustrades, and switchable partitions create both a sense of openness and the ability to zone spaces for specific uses and privacy.
- The three separately switchable, compact fluorescent lamps in red, green and blue, not only produce these primary colours, but also three secondary-colour pastel shades and one shade of white.
Late 16th century (denoting a thin tapering riding whip): probably from Low German.
Words that rhyme with switchbewitch, bitch, ditch, enrich, fitch, flitch, glitch, hitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, titch, twitch, which, witch
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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(v) The fate of the Roman Jews: the question of language.
1. As it was, on 16 October 1,259 people were seized and after two days and a sifting process the remaining Jews were shipped off, not to Mauthausen, but to Auschwitz.38 The exact number of deportees is unclear. Kappler's report gave the number as 1,007, but the Italian literature puts the number at somewhere between 1,030 and 1,035.39 On arrival on 23 October 149 men were admitted to the camp and given the numbers 158491-158639, and 47 women were admitted and given the numbers 66172-66218. Katz traced 14 male and one female survivor. Tagliacozzo traced 17 men and one woman and Ebrei in Italia 15 men and one woman.40 The rest were gassed.41
2. Even after the analysis above, the question remains if it is possible to reconcile 'liquidation' in 'upper Italy', 'hostages' in Mauthausen, and deaths in Auschwitz. Four points can be made: First, where exactly in Northern Italy Himmler ordered the Jews to be taken and how they were to be 'liquidated' is unclear. The first large concentration camp on Italian soil (Fossili near Carpi) was not operational until December 1943.42 'Upper Italy' was probably a convenient euphemism for 'the East'. This is supported by a note by the head of the Inland II department of the Foreign Office, Horst Wagner on a conference in Berlin on the Italian Jewish problem on 4 December 1943. By this time the Italians had gone some way to rounding up the Jews themselves. Inland II had persuaded the RSHA to 'delay' [abwarten] with a request for an immediate transfer of Jews concentrated in Italy to the East:Ribbentrop saw the note and concurred.44
Group Inland II considers it, however, advisable to delay this request for the moment because the concentration process will probably proceed with less trouble if the transfer to concentration camps appears for the moment as the final solution and not as a propr step to the evacuation to the eastern territories..43
3. The verbal camouflage surrounding the Final Solution is notoriously hard to penetrate. That Moellhausen used the word 'liquidate' is reason enough to surmise that Hitler's order used 'Mauthausen' and 'hostage' to reassert the prescribed phraseology. It should suffice to quote another order of Hitler's. On 11 July 1943 Hitler's private secretary and close collaborator Martin Bormann addressed a circular to all Reichsleiter, Gauleiter, and Verbändeführer:
Re: treatment of the Jewish question. By order of the Führer I hereby notify: in the public handling of the Jewish question every discussion of a future total solution must be discontinued. It can be said though that the Jews will be drawn into appropriate work detail en bloc.45
4. The concern to use camouflaged language and avoid all use of words such as 'liquidation' and 'final solution' in public thus emanated from Hitler himself.
5. As for Mauthausen, if Hitler did indeed mean what he said when he ordered the Roman Jews to be sent there, he was surely aware that it was perhaps the deadliest of all concentration camps. In January 1941 the head of the Reich Security Service SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich divided the concentration camps into three grades to determine conditions of detention and work in each.46 Those camps in Grade III were to deal with the worst category of prisoner; protective custody prisoners with bad records, particularly criminal records and anti-social elements, i.e. those who could not be re-educated.47
6. Grade III was reserved solely for Mauthausen. The mortality rate, especially for Jews, was terrible. Deportation to Mauthausen was effectively a death sentence, often by forced labour in the quarries or in camp construction. For example, between 26 November 1942 and 1 March 1943, 10,191 state prison inmates were transferred from German state prisons to concentration camps. 7,587 of them were transferred to Mauthausen/Gusen. By 1 March 1943 3,853 of the original ten thousand were dead, 3,306 of them in Mauthausen alone.48 Marsálek estimates that of the 25,732 Jews committed to Mauthausen between 1938 and 1945, 14,356 were registered in the camp's deaths register [Totenregistratur] as 'deceased'. This figure excludes 4,005 retransferred to other camps.49 The fate awaiting Jewish 'hostages' in Mauthausen is clear from the example of Holland. In Febuary of 1941 a German security detachment suprised a Jewish 'illegal terror group' and were doused in ammonia.50 In retaliation some 400 young men between eighteen and thirty-five were rounded-up in the Jewish quarter. They were taken as 'hostages' first to Buchenwald and then 348 of them on to Mauthausen on 17 June 1941. A second group of 291 'hostages' arrived direct from the concentration camp Schoorl outside Amsterdam on 25 June. Only one of the original 400 young men survived.51
38. A Gestapo report was sent to Wolff, the SS commander in Italy, signed by Kappler, but presumably written by Dannecker. It read: 'Judenaktion according to plan worked out in this office exploiting all possibilities was today initiated and completed. Put into action were all the available forces of the Sicherheits- und Ordnungs Polizei [Security- and Order Police]. Participation of the Italian Police in the affair was not possible, given their unreliability ... Blocking off entire streets was not practicable considering the character of the Open City and also the insufficient aggregate of only 365 German police. Nevertheless during the action, which lasted from 5.30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1,259 persons were arrested in Jewish homes and brought to a central collection point at a military college here. After the release of the half-breeds, the foreigners (incl. one citizen of the Vatican City), the members of mixed marriages (incl. the Jewish partners), the Aryan domestics and subtenants, there remained in custody 1,007 Jews. Deportation set for Monday, 10/18 at 9 a.m., with through-accompaniment of 30 Order-Police.' IfZ NO-2427 (17-18 October, 1943), as cited in Michaelis, p. 367. A rump of the original German text is printed as document 154 in Longerich (ed.) Die Ermordung der Europäischen Juden, pp. 330-31.
39. Centro di Dokumentazione Ebraica Contemporanea di Milano [CDECM - Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Milan], Ebrei in Italia: Deportazione, Resistenza (Florence, 1974), p. 13; Michael Tagliacozzo, 'La persecuzione degli ebrei a Roma', L'occupazione tedesca e gli ebrei di Roma: Documenti e fatti, ed. Liliana Picciotto Fargion (Rome: Carucci, 1979), pp. 149-71. Both mentioned in Susan Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust. Persecution, Rescue and Survival (London, 1987), p. 117, fn. 43. Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945 (London, 1990), p. 512, gives the number as 1,006, but likewise cites Ebrei in Italia. The full CDECM list of deportees minus those names unconfirmed by the sources is given as Appendix I in Katz, pp. 331-340. Liliana Picciotto Fargion gives the number deported as 1,023, the number of survivors as 17 and the number of victims as 1,005 in 'Italien' in Wolfgang Benz (ed.), Dimension des Völkermords, Die Zahl der jüdischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Munich , 1991), 199-228, p. 220. See also L. Oicciotto Fargion, Il libr della memoria. Gli ebrei deportati dall; Italia (1943-1945) (Milan, 1991), p. 42, and the same author's Per ignota destinazione. Gli ebrei sotto il nazismo (Milan, 1994), p. 63.
40. Katz, pp. 293-4 and appendix II, p. 341; Tagliacozzo, 'La persecuzione degli ebrei a Roma', p. 164; Ebrei in Italia, p. 13. The most important survivor was Armino Wachsberger whose fluency in German secured him a position as translator to the deportation. He witnessed the selections at Auschwitz and conversed with Doctor Josef Mengele on more than one occasion. A. Wachsberger, 'Les deportations des juifs italiens', 25 December 1955, CDEC doc. E11; report prepared for Katz by A. Wachsberger, 8 October 1967, and 1 January 1968, Katz, p. 345.
41. The liquidation of the remaining (839?) Jews was witnessed by a rare survivor of the Sonderkommandos, a Czechoslovakian Jew called David Karavet. In January 1946 he met the Roman Jewish historian Michael Tagliacozzo, who had himself avoided the round-up of 16 October. Karavet detailed the last moments of the Jews of Rome to Tagliacozzo in a number of transcribed talks which followed this chance meeting. Katz, pp. 275-9.
42. Fargion, 'Italien', p. 204
43. Gruppe Inland II hält es jedoch für ratsam, mit diesem Verlangen zunächst abzuwarten, da sich die Konzentrierung vermutlich wird reibungsloser abwickeln lassen, wenn die Überführung in Konzentrationslager zunächst als die Endlosung und nicht als Vorstufe für die Evakuierung in die Ostgebiete erscheint.', NG-5026, Inland II (signed Wagner) via Hencke to Ribbentrop, 4 December 1943.
44. NG-5026, Hilger via Steengrach and Hencke to Inland II, 9 December 1943.
45. 'Betrifft: Behandlung der Judenfrage. Im Auftrage des Führers teile ich mit: Bei der öffentlichen Behandlung der Judenfrage muß jede Erörterung einer künftigen Gesamtlösung unterbleiben. Es kann jedoch davon gesprochen werden, daß die Juden geschlossen zu zweckentsprechendem Arbeitseinsatz herangezogen werden.', NG-2710-NO, quoted in Eugen Kogon et al. (eds.), Nationalsozialistische Massentötung durch Giftgas. Eine Dokumentation (Frankfurt a. M., 1986), p. 23.
46. Helmut Krausnick et al., Anatomy of the SS State (London, 1973), p. 227.
47. .'für schwerbelastete, unverbesserliche und auch gleichzeitig kriminell vorbestrafte und asoziale, das heißt kaum noch erziehbare Schutzhäftlinge', quoted in Hans Marsálek, Die Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Mauthausen. Dokumentation (Vienna, 1980), p. 39. Heydrich's ordinance of 1 January 1941, Mauthausen Museum Archive, A 7/1 and 2.
48. Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Department Oswald Pohl to Heydrich, 16 March 1943, Mauthausen Museum Archive, O 2/4, quoted in Marsálek, p. 41.
49. Marsálek, p. 283. This excludes the fate of the mainly Hungarian Jews who arrived at the camp in April 1945.
50. Higher SS and Police Leader Hans Albin Rauter to Himmler, 20 February 1941 in N. K. C. A In't Veld (ed.) De SS en Nederland. Documenten uit SS-Archiven 1935-45 ('s-Gravenhage, 1976), vol. 1, 1935-42, doc. no. 61, pp. 543-48; NG-2285, proclamation by Rauter, 25 Februay 1941.
51. Gerhard Hirschfeld, 'Niederlande' in Wolfgang Benz (ed.), Dimension des Völkermords, Die Zahl der jüdischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Munich, 1991), 137-165, pp. 141-2 and 165; J. Presser, Ashes in the Wind. The Destruction of Dutch Jewry (London, 1968), pp. 50-55, 70-72; Hilberg, p. 372-4.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Brandi Huff has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Huff is given the award after nearly averaging a double-double on the week with 18 points and 16 rebounds in two games.
She helped the team to a win against UT-Pan American on Sunday with 12 points to go along with five rebounds. In an overtime loss to UTSA she recorded the second double-figure rebounding performance of her career with a team-high 11 rebounds against the Roadrunners. She also added six points, two blocks and two steals on the night.
After scoring just 12 points in her first four games, Huff found into a rhythm as of late, averaging 10.5 points per game to go along with 6.75 rebounds over the last four matchups.
The women's basketball team will be off for finals this week, but will have a quick two-game road trip to Texas Southern on Dec. 19 and UT-Arlington on Dec. 21 before the holidays.
Keep up-to-date with GoIslanders.com each week to see who is named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi. Also, for the latest information, follow Islanders Athletics on Twitter and Instagram (@Go_Islanders) and Facebook (Islanders Athletics).
2013-14 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
12-10-13: Brandi Huff, Women's Basketball
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Wednesday, 04/04/1990
Quigley's, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Set 1: GolgiGolgi Apparatus, YEMYou Enjoy Myself > Walk Away, 'A' TrainTake the 'A' Train, Possum, Foam, Rhombus Narration > DividedDivided Sky, Carolina
Set 2: Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, Esther > Uncle Pen, SlothThe Sloth, LizardsThe Lizards, IDKI Didn't Know, GTBTGood Times Bad Times
Encore: Contact, Highway to Hell
· Theme from Popeye tease in You Enjoy Myself
· Theme from Woody Woodpecker tease in Take the 'A' Train
· Take the 'A' Train tease in Possum
· Wilson tease in Rhombus Narration
Average Song Gap: 5.05
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: YEM contained a Popeye theme tease, 'A' Train included a Woody Woodpecker theme tease, 'A' Train was teased in Possum, and Wilson was teased in the Rhombus Narration. I Didn't Know was dedicated to "George" and the second verse of Contact was dedicated to "Eli" for his birthday.
Song Distribution:
6 Junta
3 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
1 Stash
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Middle Park Disc Golf Course Dedication
You are cordially invited to the dedication and grand opening of the Bettendorf Parks and Recreation Department's
Middle Park Disc Golf Course.
Friday May 11th, 2007
Middle Park Disc Golf Course
(Fairway off 18th tee)
The Middle Park Disc Golf Course was installed in the fall of 2006
thanks to a grant provided by the Scott County Regional Authority.
Come celebrate our "grand opening" of this premier course.
Parks staff and QC Disc Golf Club representatives will be on hand
to give a tour of the course and demonstrations.
Special guests, Professional Disc Golf Tour Players Jay Reading, current World Mixed-Doubles Champion
and Des Reading, 3-time World Champion and current
World Mixed-Doubles and Singles Champion,
will show their skills following the ceremony!
The Middle Park Disc Golf Course will be one of three courses being used for the River Cities Rumble tournament that weekend, which will attract disc golfers from all over the nation. Come and catch the disc golf spirit!
Directions: From Middle Road in Bettendorf, turn south on 23rd St. and take your first entrance on the right into the park (Splash Landing entrance). Take the first drive to the left and follow it around to the parking lot. From State or Grant St. in Bettendorf, turn north on 23rd St. Just before Middle Rd., take a left into the Splash Landing entrance, then take the first drive to the left. Follow that drive around the Memorial Garden and baseball field to the course parking lot. Event will take place on Hole 18 fairway.
In case of inclement weather, the dedication will be held at Middle Park Lagoon Shelter, 18th St. and Parkway Drive. Call Tracey at 563-344-4119 for more info.


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RP wrote:I had a Soft Magnet for awhile but have switched to the regular Magnets now. It's just like it says "Chain Seeking Device."
RP wrote:Thundercleese wrote:I hate the magnet and anyone who throws it.
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NEW BEDFORD — Police recovered a 40-inch TV, eight small bags of crack cocaine and $458 in cash from the home of a suspected credit card thief, police said today.
The case involved fraudulent purchases on a card that never arrived in the mail for its owner, who called police.
Detective Barry Pacheco said the card was used to purchase a $500, 40-inch flat screen television from Sears at the Dartmouth Mall by the suspect.
Detectives executed a search warrant at 530 Mount Pleasant St., in the Nashmont housing development, at 9 a.m. They recovered the TV, still in the box, and found the drugs, the cash and some packaging material and a scale, said police Capt. Steven Vicente.
The investigation is ongoing as the credit card may have been used at other locations, he said.
The suspect's Toyota Corolla parked nearby had a license plate that was reported stolen off a vehicle in New Bedford.
Alison Sheppard, 26, was arraigned today in New Bedford District Court. She was charged with receiving stolen property exceeding $25 (the TV), receiving stolen property not exceeding $250 (the registration plate) and fraudulent use of a credit card.
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 is webbing its way to mobile formats, courtesy of developer Gameloft. It's pegged for an April launch.
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Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has told Rolling Stone he is considering bringing the game back; however, should he decide to do so, he will include a warning asking players to take a break due to it's addictive qualities. These qualities are what caused Nguyen to take the game off the App Store. Via The […]
Deus Ex: The Fall and Tomb Raider mobile games are 99p from today
Square Enix is sticking its middle finger up at World Book Day – it's today – by holding a mobile sale, knocking Deus Ex: The Fall and two Tomb Raider games down to 99p until March 10.
Average of 60 Flappy Bird clones added to Apple's App Store every day - report
Flappy Bird may have been pulled from iTunes by Dong Nguyen almost a month ago, but the wave of clones that followed it doesn't seem to be letting up any. A new report finds that an average of 60 Flappy Bird clones are appearing on the iOS marketplace every day.
Original Shin Megami Tensei to release for iOS next month
Atlus has announced the original Shin Megami Tensei will localized in English for iOS. The title will land on the App Store March 18. The original Super Famicom title was releases in Japan back in 1992. It will run you $7.99 and will be the first time the game was released in North America. A […]
Analytics firm finds half of in-app mobile game revenue comes from .15% of player base
Analytics firm Swrve dug through user data attributed to tens of millions of mobile gamer players and found that half of all in-app mobile game revenue came from .15% of the player base. Around 1.5% of active users didn't purchase microtransactions, and 49% only purchased a single item. The firm reported that 13% only made […]
Flappy Bird clones being rejected by Apple & Google as creators speak out
Flappy Bird clones are now being rejected on the iOS App Store and Google Play following a wave of developers trying to cash-in or pay tribute to Dong Nguyen's controversial game.
Tales of Asteria coming to Android & iOS, is series cross-over, trailer inside
Tales of Asteria has been announced for Android and iOS devices by publisher Namco Bandai, and it bring together classic characters from across the JRPG series.
Sonic Dash adds Dr. Eggman battle mode today
Sonic Dash has been invaded by Dr. Eggman in a new battle mode that sees players jumping and weaving around explosives and traps hurled by the portly buffoon.
Radiohead releases experimental iPhone & Android game PolyFauna
Radiohead – as in Radiohead, the band – has created an iPhone and Android game in collaboration with UK design company Universal Everything. It's called PolyFauna and it's out now.
Flappy Bird creator pulled game because it became an "addictive product"
Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has responded to the press for the first time since he pulled his runaway app from Apple's marketplace. He has explained that he nuked the game after he saw how addictive it was becoming.
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Clash of Clans developer SuperCell is making some $654,000 per day off its mobile title.
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Flappy Bird has been removed from iTunes by creator Dong Nguyen and the whole world seems to have become a little bit more crazy. Someone's selling an iPhone 5S with the game pre-installed on eBay right now, and the current bid is $99,900.
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The Learning Assistance Center (LAC) of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa actively partners with programs across campus to respond to the needs of the diverse student population. The LAC is committed to enhancing the quality of student services by providing a structured learning environment and professional development opportunities for both students and the student staff.
The LAC professionals, including the professionally trained student staff, address students' needs and development in relation to achieving academic goals. Our holistic paradigm maintains sensitivity to individual student and faculty needs. We develop independent, effective learners in a collaborative learning environment.
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After a water line replacement at the Water Treatment Plant, the utilities department is planning to replace the remaining portion of the calcified line.
The department recently replaced 127 feet of the 30-inch water line due to a large amount of calcification. That portion of the water line had 20 inches of calcification.
Initially, the plan was to clean the line, but the company incorrectly estimated how much of the line was calcified, City Manager Brian McDougal said.
Because of that, Interim Utility Director Steve Nelms would like to replace the remaining 110 feet of the line, McDougal said.
"This will make sure that we get it all," McDougal said. "Once it's done we'll have a clean slate."
Additionally, lake levels are low to the point of beginning voluntary rationing, which begins at 1064 feet. The lakes are currently at 1064.5 feet.
"We're going to follow the drought management plan," McDougal said.
Voluntary rationing is not a requirement, but instead gives recommendations to residents regarding how to conserve water.
"I think we still have plenty of water," McDougal said, adding that this is an issue facing most cities in Oklahoma right now.
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Definition of subjunctive in English:
- If on the other hand, a logophoric pronoun/long-distance reflexive and subjunctive mood are deployed, it indicates that the speaker does not take the responsibility for the truth of the report.
- In English, such verbs have largely replaced the subjunctive mood, and three kinds of modality can be distinguished for them.
- French also has the option (which exists also, but very marginally, in English) of the embedded clause appearing in the subjunctive mood.
- Because I have been using English naturally for the best part of sixty years I have stopped thinking about the construction of sentences (gerunds, subjunctives, conjunctions and prepositions, and all that).
- Milton's speech here is full of subjunctives and conditionals which reinforce the dream's and the muse's role of masking the direct activity of the speaker.
- Again, as in the case of muncho, haiga, the present subjunctive of the verb haber, is also an archaism still found in many dialects of Spanish.
... if I were you; the report recommends that he face the tribunal; it is important that they be aware of the provisions of the act. These examples all contain a verb in the subjunctive mood. The subjunctive is used to express situations that are hypothetical or not yet realized and is typically used for what is imagined, hoped for, demanded, or expected. In English, the subjunctive mood is fairly uncommon (especially in comparison with other languages, such as Spanish), mainly because most of the functions of the subjunctive are covered by modal verbs such as might, could, and should. In fact, in English, the subjunctive is often indistinguishable from the ordinary indicative mood since its form in most contexts is identical. It is distinctive only in the third person singular, where the normal indicative -s ending is absent ( he face rather than he faces in the example above), and in the verb 'to be' ( I were rather than I was, and they be rather than they are in the examples above). In modern English, the subjunctive mood still exists but is regarded in many contexts as optional. Use of the subjunctive tends to convey a more formal tone, but there are few people who would regard its absence as actually wrong. Today, it survives mostly in fixed expressions, as in be that as it may; far be it from me; as it were; lest we forget; God help you; perish the thought; and come what may.
subjunctively adverb
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- Not all of the implicit narratives incorporated subjunctively within the text are quite so coherent or so ruthless in their ill fated logic as Violet's private narrative of her relationship with Henry.
- At other times, it is less easy to be sure quite to what extent the narrator's words should be read subjunctively.
Mid 16th century: from French subjonctif, -ive or late Latin subjunctivus, from subjungere (see subjoin), rendering Greek hupotaktikos 'subjoined'.
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Civil Unrest ReportMonday, November 16, 2015;
The Baltimore Police Department has released the following documents.
Interim Police Commissioner Davis' Youth Basketball LeagueThursday, July 16, 2015;
Kevin Davis Takes Command as Interim CommissionerThursday, July 9, 2015;
Baltimore, Md., July 8, 2015 - Today, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake named Kevin Davis as the Interim Police Commissioner. As the former Chief of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Police Commissioner seven-months ago, overseeing the Investigations and Intelligence Bureau.


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"Rat Girl," a new stage play inspired by Kristin Hersh of the Throwing Muses, is making its debut in San Francisco.
The play, which is based on Hersh's excellent memoir of the same name, runs through May 24 at the Exit Theatre. It's a key part of DIVAfest, the annual monthlong celebration of women in the arts. (See www.theexit.org/divafest for more information.)
"Rat Girl" covers one tumultuous year in Hersh's life, as the singer-songwriter-guitarist -- who was still a teen at the time -- dealt with the discovery of her bi-polar disorder, being pregnant with her first child and the demands of recording the Throwing Muses' eponymous 1986 debut.
Hopefully, the play will help garner more attention for this very deserving musician. As the leader of the Throwing Muses, Hersh helped write the rule book on alt-rock in the '80s. Yet, the Muses are too seldom ranked in the company of the Replacements, the Pixies, Husker Du and other early alt-rock pioneers.
If you aren't familiar with Hersh, I recommend that you correct that situation immediately. You can do so by listening to my play list of some of the Throwing Muses' best songs.
Here is the track listing:
"Bright Yellow Gun"
"Pretty or Not"
"Rosetta Stone"
"Counting Backwards"
"Him Dancing"
"Ellen West"
"Two Step"
"Mexican Women"
"Marriage Tree"
"Not Too Soon"
"Hate My Way"
"Saving Grace"
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