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LOGAN, Utah - The Utah State basketball team meeting room in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum will officially be named the Rod Tueller Team Room when it is dedicated at the Aggies' home game against Idaho on Friday.
The room is being named after Tueller, who was a coach and athletic director at the University for a number of years. He remains involved with the basketball program as the analyst on radio broadcasts.
"Rod Tueller epitomizes everything good about Aggie athletics," said USU director of athletics Randy Spetman. "He totally cared about the student-athletes as both a coach and as an administrator."
Tueller served as the head basketball coach at Utah State from 1980-88 and compiled a 139-120 record while leading the Aggies to three NCAA and one NIT appearances. His postseason numbers are second only to Ladell Andersen in USU history.
Three of the 16 players named to USU's all-century team played while Tueller was the Aggies' head coach, including Greg Grant, Dean Hunger, and Brian Jackson.
Prior to assuming the head coaching position, Tueller was an assistant at the school under Dutch Belnap from 1974-79. Tueller also spent seven years as USU's athletics director from 1985-92.
"This is a tremendous honor for Rod and is well deserved," said USU head basketball coach Stew Morrill. "(Former USU head coaches) Rod, Ladell Andersen, and Dutch Belnap have always been heroes to me and I greatly respect their contribution to Utah State University and Cache Valley. All Aggies have to be happy for Rod Tueller. Congratulations to him and his family."
Tueller, who was born in Cedar City, Utah, graduated from Utah State in 1959. After graduation, Tueller was an assistant at Logan High School, his alma mater, for two years and the head coach at Altamont High School for four years. He spent the 1965-73 seasons as the head basketball coach at Logan High School before beginning his long-time association with Utah State.
A reception will be held prior to the game, which will include Tueller's family and a number of his former players.
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More than 50 years after the Grateful Dead and its extended family defied all the rules of the music industry, becoming one of the most successful and iconic rock acts on the planet anyway, four of the band's elders gathered in San Rafael one evening last week to talk about the long, strange trip of their charitable Rex Foundation.
At a $2,500 a ticket benefit at original Grateful Dead member Bob Weir's TRI Studios in San Rafael, basketball great Bill Walton, aka "the world's tallest Deadhead," moderated an evening of story-telling about Rex's unorthodox history by Weir, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (Jerry Garcia's ex-wife) and lyricist John Perry Barlow, who co-wrote the Dead classics "Cassidy," "Estimated Prophet" and "Mexicali Blues," among other songs.
Named after a roadie killed in a car crash, the Rex Foundation was founded in 1983 after the band's attorney warned the musicians that they were losing too much money performing willy nilly at benefits for one cause or another.
The mere suggestion of such an establishment concept as a "foundation" sent a wave of alarm through the famously iconoclastic band.
"We said, 'Foundation?,'" Hart recalled. "What do you mean foundation?'"
But common sense prevailed, and the first Rex benefits were staged the following year in the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Since then, Rex has given $8.6 million to more than 1,000 recipients under the
banner of "Furthering a tradition of grassroots giving."
In 1992, the foundation made world-wide news when they gave money to the impoverished Lithuanian basketball team so it could buy tie-dye uniforms to wear in the Olympics that year. After they won the bronze medal, the foundation raked in a small fortune selling Lithuanian team jerseys and T-shirts.
But most grants have been modest and quietly received. The list of recipients extends from the Gyuto Monks to the San Quentin Prison Choir to many Marin nonprofits, including the 2011 grantees, the Tiburon Salmon Institute and the Bolinas Stinson Summer Camp.
"It became quite a vehicle for us over the years, and it's helped a lot of the things that would have fallen through the cracks," Hart said. "But it wasn't easy to decide who we gave the money to because there was a lot of need."
Barlow described the creative chaos of the early Rex decision-making process, which allowed the band and all its employees to nominate favorite causes but tended to turn a blind eye to more formal applicants.
"In those days, if an organization applied for a grant, they had automatically disqualified themselves," Barlow chuckled. "We were looking for people who were so dedicated to doing whatever good thing they were doing that they wouldn't think or have time to apply for a grant."
Garcia, who joined the Rex board in 1987, described the raucous affairs that were the early foundation board meetings.
"They were pretty noisy and fun and carefree," she remembered. "Someone would shout from the back of the room, 'Let's give them $5,000! No, let's give them $6,000!'"
Because the band was becoming the highest-grossing touring act in the country in the late '80s and early '90s, their foundation had plenty of cash to give away.
"The Grateful Dead as a whole has always embodied the notion that if you get something, you give something back," Weir said. "It just felt right."
But the way they gave back was nothing like traditional conservative foundations. Rex operated the Grateful Dead way.
"We were able to do things that no other foundation would even dream of doing, which was to give away money with no strings attached and with no expectations," Garcia recalled. "It was an exercise in kindness for every member of the Grateful Dead organization."
Former band manager Danny Rifkin was the foundation's gratis factotum, hauling the entire Rex office around in cardboard boxes in the trunk of his car.
"We had the lowest overhead of any foundation on the planet earth," Barlow laughed. "Our administrative costs were less than zero. But it was one of the most effective foundation models I've ever seen."
The gravy train dried up after patriarch Jerry Garcia died in 1995 and the Grateful Dead ceased touring. For the past decade, Sandy Sohcot, who has an MBA in finance from San Francisco State University, has served as the foundation's executive director.
"In the absence of Grateful Dead touring, we've been connecting with musicians who feel they owe their existence and inspiration to the Dead and want to support what the band started," she said, mentioning Rex Musical Caravan events in which bands across the country raise $1 a ticket for Rex.
In addition, Rex produces music festivals that benefit high school music and arts programs. And musicians like Bruce Hornsby, Phish and String Cheese Incident donated performances of a dozen Garcia songs on "Jerry Jams for Rex" benefit CDs and downloads. Musicians even donate their used guitar strings to be fashioned into Rex benefit bracelets by a group called Wear Your Music.
Rex continues its tradition of giving grants that are generally smaller, in the $5,000 range, to programs including work for the environment, innovative education, arts for youth, social services and building community.
"We became small grant experts, creating a new model for charitable giving," Garcia said. "It was a simple process, almost no process whatsoever, which was what everybody wanted."
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Hey I'm Lee. My blog was put up to house my strange thoughts, ramblings, nuggets of information I can refer back to and document my learning curves on new dev stuff and fitness regimes.
All thoughts and comments on here are my own, and in no way reflect my employer - I also take no responsibility for spelling, grammar, terminology, accuracy of facts etc... So read at your own risk!
Just like a sheep, I have been very keen on having a play with the cloud computing 'buzz' that everyone seems to be throwing around. I have heard only great things about using cloud computing to host your applications, things like "Great for start ups", "Inexpensive way of developers launching their new apps", "Completely scalable" and so on.
I currently have two dedicated Win2003 servers with 1&1, basic models with only 1GB of ram and a pretty useless processor. But you get unlimited bandwidth, and use of their mail server which is pretty good but the problem comes if you start to max one out you're stuffed! Its either get another server, or try to find the best way of spreading the load across both servers. My thoughts were that I would have a play with EC2 and if I can get it setup, I'd look at switching some smaller sites over to my EC2 instance run it for a month and if all went well look at keeping a single 1&1 server and a single EC2 instance knowing I can easily give my EC2 instance more resources if needed. [more]
This was all great, I Googled around and found a brilliant screen cast by John Sheehan on how to create a Windows instance on EC2. Then I went over to Amazon just to double check the pricing…
I was/am a bit shell shocked with how expensive using Amazon EC2 is! I wanted a machine with about 3GB of ram, which meant I would have to opt for a 'Large' instance according to their documentation. After a bit of working out, based on using a European region, how much traffic my smaller server currently consumes it would mean I would have to pay around £289 per month!!
If I look at this compared to the current 1&1 offers – I can get a better spec server for approx £85 per month (With their current special offer, or £109.99pm without the deal) and with unlimited traffic? Now I realise I would be in a 6 to 12 month contract if I took the 1&1 offer, but seriously… Using EC2 would mean an extra £200+ per month!!
Amazon EC2 does have some pro's, but the buzz they have generated around it is a bit false in my opinion. Its not great for start ups and its not an inexpensive way of developers lunching/testing new applications.
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Concerned by recent leaks at the nearby San Onofre nuclear power plant, several local residents are imploring San Clemente to make independent radiation monitoring information available to the public in real time.
Ten speakers at Tuesday night's City Council meeting told city leaders they were worried about safety at the 44-year-old plant, which can provide power for up to 1.4 million Southern California homes. The plant remains shut down three weeks after a minor radiation leak.
Some asked that the city provide real-time access to data from independent radiation detection stations within the city.
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Responding to the public comments Tuesday, council members directed the city staff to report on current monitoring and the potential for data to be made public.
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The council plans to discuss the topic sometime after their next meeting and will decide then whether to take action or seek more information.
City Manager George Scarborough added that several government agencies conduct radiation monitoring in the area, including the Environmental Protection Agency, California Department of Health, U.S. Department of Energy and Orange and San Diego county agencies.
The residents' request comes after a series of recent issues at the plant.
On Jan. 31, the plant was shut down after a minor radiation leak brought on by severe wear to tubes that carry radioactive water within a steam generator. The NRC told the Los Angeles Times that the tubes showed "many, many years" worth of wear despite being less than two years old.
The week before the leak was discovered, a worker fell into a reactor pool. While the pool would normally be radioactive, the reactor had been shut down for two months and the employee was uninjured, plant officials said.
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Homes in southern San Clemente sit 2.6 miles from the nuclear plant, which can provide power for up to 1.4 million Southern California homes.
San Onofre's proximity to a populated area — San Clemente has around 63,000 residents — sets it apart from the state's only other facility at Diablo Canyon southwest of San Louis Obispo. That reactor is 7 miles from the nearest town, Baywood-Los Osos, which has a population of about 14,000.
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness Chapter 1 Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 1
A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. (1.2)
Dark air; "Gravesend" and a "mournful gloom." Hm. Already, it sounds like this "greatest town on earth" (London) might not be as great as we want to think.
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"Now letters went to the coast every week. . . . 'My dear sir,' he cried, 'I write from dictation.' I demanded rivets. There was a way – for an intelligent man." (1.68)
The brickmaker's role as the manager's puppet is furthered when we find out that he writes all the letters asking for supplies word-for-word (or by "dictation") from the manager. Not even his written words are his own – they originate from another's mouth. Marlow insults his intelligence for being such a mindless automaton.
Quote 3
"There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he [the brickmaker] talked fluently about 'the necessity for every man to get on.' 'And when one comes out here, you conceive, it is not to gaze at the moon.' Mr. Kurtz was a 'universal genius,' but even a genius would find it easier to work with 'adequate tools – intelligent men.' He did not make bricks – why, there was a physical impossibility in the way – as I was well aware; and if he did secretarial work for the manager, it was because 'no sensible man rejects wantonly the confidence of his superiors.'" (1.67)
The brickmaker goes all over the place with his speech, flitting from random topic to random topic and trying to make each one sound profound. He does not even notice when Marlow stops listening to him.


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Did My Arizona Childhood Make Me a Fiction Writer?
Can you imagine being sad when school ended on Friday afternoons? Or wishing there were no extra days off during holidays? That was me.
School meant books, learning, kids, softball and FUN!
Don't get me wrong. It was awesome growing up on a ranch in the Arizona White Mountains. Nonetheless, those pretty mountains also meant no television or radio reception. Well, sometimes we got a little bit of night radio out of Oklahoma City.
Cable, satellite TV, computers, email, video games or cell phones hadn't been invented yet. Imagine that!
Friends? Oh sure. Our community included a whole canvas of ranches just 20 or more miles away across highways and rutted roads and mini-Grand Canyons.
No friends nearby, or sisters, destined me to pretend Anna of Green Gables, or Princess of the Chickens, or anything else I wanted to pretend, by myself.
I had older brothers, but roping fence posts, cutting barbed wire off hay bales and tinkering with engines just wasn't my idea of fun. The exciting cowboy stuff belonged exclusively to the men, with the exception of my mom. She being about the best cook in all of Arizona, they'd have been plumb stupid to leave her out of their shenanigans.
I'd get an urge to play ball, so I'd throw a ball over the DC electric line strung from the battery house and wind charger to the ranch house. I'd duck under the wire to quickly catch the ball on the other side of the wire.
I balanced broom handles in my palm. Such skill.
I decorated rocks with little pieces of glass using old brown glue. I leaped onto the Butane tank in the backyard and hung off the side like a trick rider.
I played Monopoly and Old Maid alone, actually jumping to the other side of the game board or to a line of dealt-out cards and pretending to be another person! Who won? I never knew. Pretty soon, I'd give up and go sing to the chickens. Or read. I read hundreds of books back then.
On one of my grandmother's visits, she taught me how to embroider. That opened up a vibrant world. An empty cookie tin with a picture of the Blue Boy on top became my sewing tin. I filled it with needles and threads of every conceivable color and, of course, my work-in-progress . . . which was usually a tea towel or a dresser runner.
In the summertime, I carried my tin under my arm when I climbed up the ladder of the windmill and sat behind the water tank on top of the rock house. In previous years, the rock house had been used for ice but that was before my time. The windmill mostly belonged to me because I understood its lonely vocabulary of groans and creaks.
A fence made from crooked, skinned cedar posts covered in a vigorous wild Mustang grapevine connected the rock house to a corner of our corral system. The cool sand under the grapevine invited our wandering chickens to dust-bathe by scratching out a small hole. They whipped their wings furiously and made circles in the holes, laughing heartily the whole time.
I was the only one with the power to hear their strange cackles of mirth. I popped lots of sour unripe Mustang grapes into my mouth during those years and spit the seeds out for the chickens just to help them settle down.
The hens and I had a huge secret.
See, in a faraway land, I had been a princess and they had been my Ladies in Waiting. An evil wizard had transported all of us from our castle to the ranch in Arizona. The ladies . . . er, hens, and I discussed this outrageous state of affairs at length and sadly reminisced about the old days.
As far as I know, those hens never breathed a word of our secrets to anyone.
Walking from the ranch house in any direction, I stumbled into adventures. Native Americans who had lived there for hundreds of years left me signs as to where they were hiding. A shard of ancient pottery, a worked-over piece of flint not quite an arrowhead, a pitted lava rock—those were my clues.
I heard their laughter and tears on the wind, but I never found the people.
At times, a handsome young Native stole me away and took me to his tribe to live. I fought viciously to return home, until I became older and fell in love with him. Then I just forgot about the ranch and became an Indian princess. You might have read about me somewhere, or else I dreamed that I was mentioned in an important historical book or two.
Riding our ranch horses was always an experience. Let me say it in no way resembled the genteel equine lessons, excursions and shows of today. I had to ride Partner, an ornery buckskin who was sick to death of kids. Every time I put my left foot in the stirrup, he whirled around and kicked up with his left hind foot. That slung my little body around in a semi-circle because no way would I turn loose.
My heart hammered in my chest but I was going to ride that horse no matter what. He was cussed and rein slapped in the nose by one of the adults, which, in itself, was incorrect horse technique. But who knew? Diehard cowboys did it their way, and I respected them . . . then and now.
Eventually I was in the saddle and kicking my legs along Partner's sides to coax him in the opposite direction of the hay and feed. When we were out of sight of the barn, he dropped his evil guise and became downright amiable.
He and I discussed life as we plodded to the White Rocks, a crazy stack of rocks about a half mile from our ranch house. The White Rocks were rich with history, tunnels and wind-y crawl spaces. I knew every crack and corner of them. Some of the rocks were blackened from ancient Anasazi fires. Others had petroglyphs. All of them were magical.
My favorite thing was to tether Partner to a cedar branch at the bottom of White Rocks and scurry to the top like a rock lizard. I was a fast climber and I talked aloud all the way to the top boulder. I had to—the stories were real and I was living them.
After climbing, crawling, singing and telling stories to the accompaniment of the constant Arizona wind, I'd sneak up on one of the sprawling red anthills at the foot of White Rocks. I never tired of watching the bulky ants toil to bring their treasures back to their mound. I found parts of old beads made from bone, little chips of arrowheads and other relics on the sides of their graveled hills.
Partner never complained when I swung back into the saddle to start home. Looking back, he was a pretty great partner for me, as I galloped the winds of my imagination through the canyons and arroyos of that cedar-drenched high country.
My childhood in the Arizona mountains was a little surreal. The question is—did it have anything to do with my becoming a fiction writer?
Hmm . . . you decide!
Jodi Lea Stewart was born in Texas and grew up in Apache County on a cattle ranch near Concho, Arizona. She left the University of Arizona in Tucson to move to San Francisco, where she learned about peace, love and exactly what she didn't want to do with her life. Since then, Jodi graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Business Management, raised two children, worked as an electro-mechanical drafter, penned humor columns for a college periodical, wrote regional western articles and served as managing editor of a Fortune company newsletter. She currently resides in Texas and New Mexico with her husband, two Standard poodles, two rescue cats and numerous gigantic, bossy houseplants. Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves: SUMMER OF THE ANCIENT is her first novel. CANYON OF DOOM is her second novel in the Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves series.
- www.jodileastewart.com
- www.jodileastewartblog.com
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True to its word, ASUS will soon be bringing its PadFone line of smartphone/tablet hybrids to the US. But the company won't be starting with a model that's already been revealed and will instead be launching a new ASUS PadFone X.
We first got a glimpse of the PadFone X when an AnTuTu benchmark for the device was discovered last December. All that was revealed back then was that it would be powered by a 2.3 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, have 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, and running the latest Android 4.4. While ASUS is now confirming the existence of the device there is still much about it left unknown.
According to ASUS, the PadFone X is a 5-inch Full HD smartphone, so we can presume at least 1920x1080 resolutions. The 1920x1200 figure spotted in the AnTuTu benchmark, then, could be tablet dock's own display resolution. That dock is actually a strange one. For reasons only known to ASUS for now, the smartphone half of the PadFone X combo slides into a 9-inch tablet dock. The new PadFone Infinity has a 10.1-inch dock while the PadFone Mini has a 7-inch one. We still don't know what makes 9 inches special.
The PadFone X remains shrouded in mystery and ASUS isn't really saying when it will reveal all. It will be arriving exclusively through AT&T channels, who will probably make good use of the device's support for LTE-Advance and Voice over LTE (VoLTE).


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Intensive oral antiplatelet therapy for reduction of ischaemic events including stent thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndromes treated with percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting in the TRITON-TIMI 38 trial: a subanalysis of a randomised trial.
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Intracoronary stenting can improve procedural success and reduce restenosis compared with balloon angioplasty in patients with acute coronary syndromes, but can also increase the rate of thrombotic complications including stent thrombosis. The TRITON-TIMI 38 trial has shown that prasugrel-a novel, potent thienopyridine-can reduce ischaemic events compared with standard clopidogrel therapy. We assessed the rate, outcomes, and prevention of ischaemic events in patients treated with prasugrel or clopidogrel with stents in the TRITON-TIMI 38 study.
Patients with moderate-risk to high-risk acute coronary syndromes were included in our analysis if they had received at least one coronary stent at the time of the index procedure following randomisation in TRITON-TIMI 38, and were further subdivided by type of stent received. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1 to 1 fashion to receive a loading dose of study drug (prasugrel 60 mg or clopidogrel 300 mg) as soon as possible after randomisation, followed by daily maintenance therapy (prasugrel 10 mg or clopidogrel 75 mg). All patients were to receive aspirin therapy. Treatment was to be continued for a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 15 months. Randomisation was not stratified by stents used or stent type. The primary endpoint was the composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, or non-fatal stroke. Stent thrombosis was assessed using Academic Research Consortium definitions, and analysis was by intention to treat. TRITON-TIMI 38 is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00097591.
12,844 patients received at least one coronary stent; 5743 received only drug-eluting stents, and 6461 received only bare-metal stents. Prasugrel compared with clopidogrel reduced the primary endpoint (9.7 vs 11.9%, HR 0.81, p=0.0001) in the stented cohort, in patients with only drug-eluting stents (9.0 vs 11.1%, HR 0.82, p=0.019), and in patients with only bare-metal stents (10.0 vs 12.2%, HR 0.80, p=0.003). Stent thrombosis was associated with death or myocardial infarction in 89% (186/210) of patients. Stent thrombosis was reduced with prasugrel overall (1.13 vs 2.35%, HR 0.48, p<0.0001), in patients with drug-eluting stents only (0.84 vs 2.31%, HR 0.36, p<0.0001), and in those with bare-metal stents only (1.27 vs 2.41%, HR 0.52, p=0.0009).
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The estate of a young woman who was mauled to death by a cougar while working at a wild-cat sanctuary in suburban Portland is suing the sanctuary and its owners.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Tuesday blocked a bill to end bulk collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's primary proposal to rein in domestic surveillance.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the discovery last spring of 25 dead cats hanging from trees in plastic bags, a grisly find that prompted animal lovers including Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler to post $25,000 in reward money.
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Get out your notebook and start to figure out what you would do in a bug out situation.
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Hospitals Work on Patients' Most-Frequent Complaint: Noise
First it's the beeping of a heart monitor. A nurse comes in to take a patient's temperature. There's conversation during the shift change, overhead pagers, a visitor's cellphone conversation and the din of a TV talk show. An aide pushes a cart of rattling dishes. An alarm goes off when IV medication is finished.
All these sounds make up the steady assault of beeps and bustle during a typical night in a hospital bed. More hospitals are getting creative about lowering the noise level, masking intrusive sound and distracting patients from the cacophony.
Facing potential financial penalties from Medicare, more hospitals are changing decades-old practices that contribute to the din. Some are replacing overhead staff paging systems with wireless headsets, and allowing patients to shut room doors and post a Do Not Disturb sign. Designated sleep hours in some units mean there are no routine checks of vital signs unless necessary.
Some hospitals are installing ambient white-noise machines and sound-absorbing ceiling tiles and carpets in rooms and corridors. They are offering televisions with closed-circuit "relaxation programming" of soothing music and nature imagery. "Quiet Kits" with sleep masks, earplugs and crossword puzzles help patients tune out intrusive sound.
Hospital noise is more than an annoyance. It disturbs patient sleep, prompts spikes in blood pressure and interferes with wound healing and pain management, studies show. Some hospitals have installed a device like a traffic light that heightens awareness of the need for quiet by monitoring the noise level and turning from yellow to red as it rises.
Noise-reduction efforts really gained momentum last year, when Medicare began basing a portion of hospital reimbursement on quality measurements including patient ratings of the quality of care. Noise consistently gets the worst marks on patient surveys. The latest data from the federal program for the year ended in June 2012 shows that only 60% of patients said the area outside their room was quiet at night, representing the lowest satisfaction score among 27 questions about the hospital experience.
In a 2013 State of Patient Experience report released in April by the Beryl Institute, a nonprofit that helps hospitals improve patient satisfaction, hospital administrators ranked noise reduction as their top priority for the second time since the last report in 2011. They cited changing behavior and culture as the biggest challenge. "There is a constant tension in hospitals between the need to create a place where patents can rest and heal and the realities of an active and almost chaotic work environment," says Jason Wolf, Beryl president. Noise can never be completely eradicated, he adds, but "we can counteract it."
Many hospitals now have only private rooms, but noise remains hard to control in shared rooms. A complicating factor is hospitals' increasing openness, including more liberal visiting hours and policies that permit cellphones and other devices. "It's also the responsibility of patients and family members to remember this is a hospital," Mr. Wolf says. "You aren't hanging out at your friend's apartment."
Dignity Health, based in San Francisco, is forming quiet teams at its 39 hospitals to identify ways to reduce noise. Some are reducing the frequency and intensity of medical alarms, dimming lights in the evening and replacing nurses' pagers and walkie-talkies with mobile headsets. Patients are getting Quiet Kits, white-noise machines and headsets for TVs and iPads, says Tracy Sklar, senior vice president of quality, adding patient satisfaction scores on noise levels have improved.
Margaret Burleson-Turner, 80, was admitted to Dignity Health's St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Calif., after a heart attack in April. She says she was kept awake by the constant "ding ding ding" of bells, alarms and phones on the telemetry floor where she was monitored. She was transferred to a rehabilitation unit with a noise-reduction program and noted how sounds were muted and voices hushed. She used a sleep mask and Do Not Disturb sign for naps, and worked on the crossword puzzle to tune out her surroundings. Overall, she says the experience was like "being wrapped in a warm little blanket."
Some hospitals hire consultants offering "soundscaping" solutions, including architectural changes and the use of ambient sound. Gary Madaras, director of Making Hospitals Quiet, a consulting service, says a $10,000-to-$50,000 investment over two years can raise patient satisfaction scores enough to bring in $100,000 to $150,000 over three years in additional Medicare payments.
"We encourage clients to stop chasing silence and increase the ratio of good sounds to bad noises," Mr. Madaras says. Complete silence can actually be worrisome and isolating. The sickest patients "want to get quality sleep but want to feel connected to their caregivers and know that they are not far away" in case of an emergency, he adds.
Hospitals are asking staffers to use "library" voices because quiet murmurs can be more comforting than normal speaking tones. They are adding white-noise machines in patient rooms and hallways because studies show sleep and relaxation are aided by an unvarying but unobtrusive sound.
A recent study at Baylor Health Care System's Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas, found white-noise machines made no difference in patient perception of noise in rooms. But construction during the study period may have elevated noise levels, according to Linda Tjiong, a study investigator and director of education and research at Baylor Medical Center at McKinney. That facility, which opened last summer, is installing white-noise machines in some halls and common areas to mask noise.
Terri Nuss, vice president of patient centeredness at Dallas-based Baylor, says there may be other factors to weigh against noise mitigation. Smooth, hard surfaces enhance noise but they are easy to clean and help fight infection. Alarms alert staff to potential emergencies. "We are trying to figure out what is an acceptable sound level," she says.
The CARE Channel—it stands for "continuous ambient relaxation environment"—offers a 24/7 television menu of original instrumental music and nature imagery, including a starry night sky. Susan Mazer, chief executive of producer Healing HealthCare Systems Inc., says foreground music can mask other sounds and has been shown to induce relaxation and improve the quality of sleep.
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Rapper Flo Rida Busted In $1.7 Million Bugatti Veyron
The rapper Flo Rida, who is known for the hit song "Low" and for his "Right Round" sampling of the 1980s group Dead or Alive, was arrested in Miami Beach after a police officer reportedly saw him driving erratically in his Bugatti Veyron supercar.
Miami Beach police said they charged the 31-year-old Flo Rida, whose given name is Tramar Dillard, with driving under the influence and for driving with a suspended driver's license. Police said his car caught the officers attention because it was swerving.
The $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron is the kind of car that just about always attracts attention. The two-seater has a huge 16-cylinder engine that puts out 1,000 and can push the car to a top speed over 250 mph.
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The Unbeatable Wizard: 'Oz' Tops Box Office for Second Week
Once again, the wizard was unbeatable at the box office.
"Oz: The Great and Powerful," from Walt Disney, was the most popular film in the U.S. and Canada for the second weekend in a row, grossing an estimated $42.2 million.
The relatively modest 47% drop from its opening weekend indicated good word-of-mouth for the $200 million-plus production. "Oz" has now collected a total of $145 million domestically, putting the picture on a good path toward profitability.
Two new, inexpensive movies opened this past weekend to mixed results.
Thriller "The Call," starring Halle Berry, took in a solid $17.1 million. Financed by Troika Pictures and World Wrestling Entertainment's WWE Studios, the movie was released by Sony Pictures Entertainment's TriStar label. 61% of ticket buyers were women, according to exit polls.
"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," a comedy about Las Vegas magicians starring Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey, launched with $10.3 million. The weak start continues what has been an unpleasant winter for Time Warner's Warner Bros., with box office disappointments also including "Jack the Giant Slayer" and "Gangster Squad."


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by Michelle, mom of a 5-year-old and a 10-month-old
Evan has loved his sister from the minute he learned that I was pregnant. He was so excited that he was going to be a big brother, and from Day One, he said he wanted only a sister.
I reminded him over and over that he might not get a sister, and that God had picked the baby we needed…even if that baby was a brother. This did not dissuade him. He prayed for a sister. And when Kevin called to let him know Riley was born, he literally jumped with joy when he learned that he had the sister of his prayers.
"Mom," he said later. "God knew I needed a sister, so he gave me a sister."
In her short 10 months, Riley has been smothered with Evan's hugs and kisses. Her reaction is usually to cry. To be fair, Evan isn't always gentle, but I was beginning to wonder if Riley even liked her brother.
Yesterday, I knew she did.
We were at one of Evan's after-school activities. There is an observation window where parents can watch what their kids are doing. Normally, I don't hold Riley up to the window because she'd prefer to play with the toys in the lobby. But Evan was doing a particular skill, so I held her up to the window and said, "Look, Riley. There's brother."
And she started to blow kisses to him.
This is Riley's latest skill. She's only been doing it for a few days, and she does not do it on command. It melted my heart to see her intentionally show affection to her big brother.
I know that through their lives, Riley and Evan will have plenty of battles. But moments like these make me hopeful that when push comes to shove, they will be there for each other.


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Ducks 6, Blues 3
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Andy McDonald had two goals and an assist, Teemu Selanne scored his team-leading 18th goal of the season and JS Giguere picked up his 100th career win to lead the Ducks past the St. Louis Blues, 6-3, on Wednesday night at the Arrowhead Pond.
With the victory, Anaheim improved their record at the Arrowhead Pond to 13-6-3. The Ducks are 7-1-1 in their last nine home games.
"Every game is a big game, said McDonald. "We've got to win these games and this was important especially because of the break. We wanted to go off on a good note and win the last game so we could come back after Christmas with some momentum."
Selanne (18, Salei, McDonald) started the Ducks' four-goal first period by skating past Blues' defenseman Steve Poapst and jamming in a long pass from Ruslan Salei inside the far post at 2:28 of the first.
The Blues answered back with a quick goal by center Dean McAmmond (11, Weight, Gamache) 38 seconds later at 3:06 to tie the game at one.
Anaheim got two more on special teams and one even-strength in the period to enter the break with a 4-1 lead.
McDonald (10, Sykora, S. Niedermayer) got his first of the game by stuffing a loose puck past Blues netminder Jason Bacashihua on the power play at 7:59.
With the Ducks shorthanded at 9:41 of the first, Jonathan Hedstrom and Samuel Pahlsson would break in the Blues' zone 2-on-1 with Hedstrom feeding Pahlsson (2, Hedstrom) for his second goal of the season.
After Pahlsson's shorthanded marker, Bacashihua was replaced by Reinhard Divis who was welcomed to the game by Tyler Wright less than a minute after entering.
Wright (2, Unassisted) pounced on a loose puck and beat Divis to give the Ducks a commanding 4-1 lead.
McDonald (11, Sykora) got his second on the night at 3:38 of the second period. Petr Sykora fed a pretty between-the-legs pass off the half-wall and McDonald rifled a wrister over Divis' left shoulder for a career-high 11th goal of the season.
"I think I've been healthy this season," said McDonald of his career-high marker. "I've been given a great opportunity to play with Teemu and Petr Sykora. They're great players and when I'm on the ice with them, things are pretty easy out there."
The Blues got two goals from Dennis Wideman (2, Cajanek) at 14:30 of the second period and Eric Brewer (5, McAmmond, Gamache) at 5:30 of the third to cut the Ducks lead to 5-3.
Joe DiPenta (1, Fedoruk, Konopka) put the game away with his first goal as a Mighty Duck at 6:19 of the third.
"I think that it was a game where we were able to get things going in a positive direction after the first shift," said Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle. "We took a penalty right off the bat, but we were able to regroup and get ourselves going. We were fortunate to get enough pucks past them."
Anaheim will now have six days without a game over the holidays before hitting the road to face Columbus (Dec. 28), St. Louis (Dec. 31), Nashville (Jan. 1), Dallas (Jan. 6) and Minnesota (Jan. 7).
The Ducks will next play at the Arrowhead Pond on Monday, January 9th versus So Cal rival, the Los Angeles Kings at 7:30 PM.


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Belgium & Beyond
Strolling down the path toward the corporate offices of the Duvel Moortgat Brewery in Breendonk, Belgium, it's impossible not to be taken in by the charm of the brick industrial-age exteriors of some of the buildings on its campus.
Once you arrive in the main lobby, it's just as impossible not to be floored by the artsy modernity of it all. It looks more like the reception area of a gallery in New York City's SoHo than that of a brewery whose history dates back 140-odd years.
It's just that sort of split personality that serves as the perfect representation of the dual nature of Belgian–and international–brewing as a whole: a strong connection to yesterday with an eye toward what's relevant to the beer drinkers of today and tomorrow.
"We are convinced that if you want to be successful in the future, you have to know your history, you have to know where you come from, to know what has been done in the past," says Michel Moortgat, CEO and fourth-generation leader of the brewery that bears his family name.
"Devil" is in the Details
Although the Duvel Moortgat story officially began 14 decades ago, the family's brewing heritage extends as far back as the 16th Century. But 1871 was the year that Jan-Léonard Moortgat and his wife founded the Moortgat brewery after they moved to the town of Breendonk, which today exists as a component of the larger municipality of Puurs.
The brewery had considerable success leading into the 20th century–when there were some 3,000 breweries throughout the relatively small Western European country (that number now, thanks to a century's worth of consolidation, stands at about 120). But it wasn't until the company was more than 40 years old that the flagship brand for which it is best known was born. During World War I–at which time Jan-Léonard's sons Albert and Victor were running the business–Belgium came into close contact with England and its traditional ales. Albert, who ran the brewing operations, decided he wanted to create a beer based on the English model.
In 1918, the final year of the Great War, he traveled across Great Britain trying to get his hands on a specific yeast strain. After many near misses, he finally was able to get a sample at a Scottish Brewery. Once the Moortgat brothers perfected the recipe, they released what they called "Victory Ale" to commemorate the end of the devastating conflict.
However, it was in 1923 that history truly was made for the brewery. As the legend goes, during a tasting session, a local shoemaker was so impressed by the beer's complexity (not to mention strength) that he declared, "This is a real Duvel," meaning "devil "in the local tongue. Thus born was Duvel, which, to this day has remained the name of the company's flagship strong golden ale. And of course, it also is, along with the Moortgat surname, one of the brewery's two namesakes.
"We indeed pay much attention to our history," Moortgat notes. "I think it's good that we're not brewers since five years ago, but since many decades, even centuries, ago. On the other hand, we don't only want to look back, we want to look toward the future. We believe in innovation and using the best available technology at the service of the quality of all of our beer. We want people to feel that not only are we an old-school brewery, but a modern, contemporary factory."
In modern times, Duvel has enhanced its profile as one of four key international specialty Belgian brands, along with AB InBev-owned Leffe and Höegaarden and Aiken Maes brewery group's Grimbergen, according to U.K.-based beverage research group Canadean.
And as the global beer market continues to consolidate, with multinational giants seemingly scooping up any brewery with a bit of heritage to its name, Duvel Moortgat has managed to maintain its independence by sticking to what it's known for: the specialty segment.
"The more consolidation there is, the more opportunities there are for niche brewers like us," says Daniel Krug, Duvel Moortgat's chief operating officer. "The more [the larger breweries] consolidate, the more focus they give to their biggest brands because they have to simplify their activities. Whereas with niche products, that's our business."
The only danger in rapid consolidation, Krug notes, is if it hinders the route to market. "Otherwise," he says, "everything is blocked and it's unhealthy for everybody: for the consumer–definitely because he needs his variety–for the wholesalers and for the beer business."
Purchasing Power
Over the past decade the company has made a number of acquisitions of its own, not so much to get the competition out of the way, but to ensure that many high-end specialty Belgian brands enjoy the same kind of longevity and regard for heritage that it has.
Its most recent purchase was the venerable De Koninck brand, a staple of the Antwerp beer scene whose origins predate the Moortgat brewery's by nearly 40 years, having first been made commercially available in 1833. Duvel Moortgat bought it in 2010 from the Van den Bogaert family, which had been a part of the business since shortly after the close of the First World War. Like Duvel, the glass in which De Koninck amber ale is traditionally served–called a bolleke–is about as famous as the brand itself.
"We acquired [De Koninck] because we believe it's a beautiful brand with a lot of potential," says Krug. "It had been decreasing, so we have to change that negative spiral and ensure a top-quality brand. When the owner signed the contract, he said, `I'm very happy I can entrust it to you to develop it.'"
Other reasons factored in to the acquisition as well. Real estate was one of them. "They have some very interesting key locations, bars," Krug explains. "And they have a distribution company as well."
The De Koninck purchase closed out a decade marked by strategic investments and outright acquisitions for the brewery.
In 2001, it bought a 50 percent stake in Czech Republic-based Bernard, brewer of the eponymous pilsner. In early 2003 it took a significant step into the U.S. market by buying the remaining stake–it had been an investor–in Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Brewery Ommegang, known for its Belgian-style ales like its eponymous abbey-style ale, Hennepin, Witte, Rare Vos and Three Philosophers. Ommegang also serves as Duvel's U.S. importation arm. In 2006 the company set its sights back on its home market for its next acquisition: Brasserie d'Achouffe, known for its blond La Chouffe and its dark Mc Chouffe–an ale that marries the brewing traditions of Belgium with those of Scotland–and Houblon Chouffe, a Belgian riff on an India Pale Ale. It's perhaps even better known for its iconic gnome.
"It's a beautiful product taste-wise and a beautiful brand with the gnome image," notes Krug. "Fantasy is still very, very appealing. It is located in the Belgian Ardennes and it's a brand that is very natural, very much about nature. And we preserved that. Whenever we make an acquisition, we preserve the brand's heritage–we even invest to preserve it."
That investment seems to have paid off, as Krug reports that in just over five years since the acquisition, the company has tripled d'Achouffe's volume to between 75,000 and 80,000 hectoliters, from about 25,000 hectoliters in 2006.
Two years after the Brasserie d'Achouffe purchase, the company's next acquisition target was the brand that had built something of a cult following in Belgium and among specialty beer lovers abroad–over the course of its three-centuries-plus existence. That was Liefmans, known for its blended beers, particularly its cherry (kriek, in the local tongue) brew.
But the latter years of the brewery's history had taken its toll on Liefmans and by the time Moorgat stepped in in 2008, it wasn't so much an acquisition as a rescue.
"Liefmans was indeed very different from other breweries because it was bankrupt," Krug recalls. "When you buy something that is bankrupt, the customers disappear; they can't purchase the beer anymore. So in terms of sales, there was nothing anymore."
That begs the question: Why buy it?
"We believe very strongly in Liefmans," Krug offers. "It's a very unique beer and we were fascinated by it."
The flagship Liefmans cherry brew blends brown beer with cherries that have macerated for as long as three years. The brewery also offers Liefmans Goudenband, which it calls "the masterpiece of blending."
The first thing Duvel Moortgat did when it acquired Liefmans was to invest in upgrades to its brewing facility in Oudenaarde, Belgium–equipment, as well as quality control. "We invested again just a few months ago to increase capacity," Krug adds.
To distinguish its kriek from other cherry beers produced in the country, the new owners changed its name from simply Liefmans Kriek to Liefmans Cuvee Brut.
It also launched a new brand, Fruitesse, designed to appeal to a broader audience.
"Six months to a year after we acquired Liefmans, we launched a new beer with different fruits in it–with cherry, but with raspberry, blackberry and other fruits as well–that's a completely different way of drinking beer," says Krug. "You can drink it in a wine glass or a mojito glass, and you do it on the rocks. All of a sudden we're talking to people who might not like beer, more like the wine or Champagne drinker."
The launch was the second prong of its twofold strategy for growing the Liefmans brand: Focus on perfecting the existing portfolio to appeal to the seasoned beer drinker and take some occasions from wine and Champagne with a new light, refreshing innovation– an approachable ABV of 4.2 percent–that brings new drinkers into the beer category.
Beyond the brands it acquired, Duvel Moortgat also is the commercial brewer behind the Maredsous line of abbey beers. The company has had a licensing deal with the Benedictine brothers at the Maredsous Abbey in Denée, Belgium for nearly 50 years.
A decade's worth of strategic acquisitions has enabled the company to rely less on its flagship brand and on its home market for growth. In 2000, 85 percent of its business came from Duvel and an equal percentage came from sales in Belgium. Today, sales of the flagship brand account for about 59 percent of its revenue while its home country represents about 55 percent of its overall revenue, with the rest coming from outside its borders. Its second largest market is the U.S. where it generates about 13 percent of its revenue, followed by the Netherlands, France and the Czech Republic. The company's annual revenue is about €140 million (roughly $180 million), a jump of about 84 percent over its sales of just five years prior.
"The company has consolidated its opposition in the Belgian specialty sector, through the acquisition of Brasserie d'Achouffe and Liefmans," says Kevin Baker, Canadean's account director, alcoholic beverages. "The development of a strong portfolio of Belgian specialty brands puts Duvel Moortgat in a strong position in the rapidly growing international specialty beer market."
The Mature Approach
In its drive for global growth, Duvel Moortgat's approach is virtually antithetical to that of its much larger counterparts. Where the multinational brewing giants are putting much of their expansion focus on emerging markets around the world, Duvel Moortgat actually is concentrating on established ones.
"We've chosen the specific strategy where we want to focus on mature markets, on markets where people tend to drink less quantity, but more quality," explains Moortgat. "
In addition to its team at Brewery Ommegang–which, from an import and marketing standpoint, also serves as Duvel Moortgat USA–Duvel has its own sales teams in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. China technically still is considered an emerging market as far as beer is concerned–the largest of the four BRIC countries–but it's been growing and maturing rapidly. That's why for nearly five years Duvel has had a sales team–now numbering 20–in China.
"Developing specialty beers takes time," explains Krug. "You've got to explain a lot of things and I can say that the beginning [phase] is very pioneering. You explain why a specific glass is needed and sometimes you explain things that are very interesting and necessary, but not always appreciated. A bar doesn't always want all of those specific glasses. Now they understand that it's needed and even interesting for the consumer."
The growth of Duvel Moortgat's portfolio in the United States has benefited from the trajectory of the U.S. craft beer boom over the past decade, more so in the latter half. The company struck when the iron was hot when it acquired Ommegang and was able to methodically expand from state to state. "We go to the right bars, the right shops, we do the necessary tastings, we talk about the foam, the product, etc.," says Krug. "So step by step we grow in one state, in two states and so on. You cannot run before you walk, but it grows steadily."
Knowing when to walk before it runs has helped Duvel Moortgat nearly triple its business in the pass dozen years. But it's the balance the company has found between being publicly traded and continuing to operate as a family business that really has facilitated its expansion, according to Moortgat. The founding family still owns nearly three-quarters of the business. That's enabled the family to transcend the quarter-to-quarter mentality that often pervades public companies, he says.
"Although we are publicly listed we are family owned," Moortgat says. "Family businesses generally have a more long-term approach. We don't have to take a short-term view. We are willing to have less-good figures in the short term if we are convinced that what we are doing is a good move in the long term."
For example, the agricultural nature of brewing ingredients often means wild fluctuations in raw material costs from year to year. "Sometimes the harvest is good, sometimes it's weaker," Moortgat says, "but we always have to ensure that the brewer always delivers the same kind of beer, the same quality."
In other words you–quite literally–reap what you sow.


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Research Experience
Research Program: Agronomy
The goal of the agronomy research effort is to help advance the production of oilseeds in the Columbia Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest and supply feedstock for advanced biofuel, which is expected to be in great demand in the near future. Brassica plant species have potential to be grown as dryland oilseed crops to diversify the traditional winter wheat-summer fallow (WW-SF) system in the largest, driest portion of this region.
The direct customers of this research are growers who are keenly interested in optimal rotation strategies for integrating oilseed crops into WW-SF and deriving bio-economic benefits of rotating oilseed crops with winter wheat. Research findings on economic returns and risk of oilseed production under water-limited conditions will be supplied to growers, crushers, biorefiners, and policy makers. Governments, general public, and interest groups will have information concerning the environmental and economic implications of different cropping systems used to produce food and biofuel feedstocks.


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Exploration of advertising and marketing ideas dominated the conversations at the Downtown Merchants Association, aka the Elkins Downtown Merchants Promotional Committee, meeting again on Tuesday. Everyone is exploring ways and means of advertising their products and services for the Christmas Season, and beyond, that will compete with the advertising campaigns - on a much smaller budget of course - launched by the big box stores this time of year.
After considerable discussion, the merchants approved a promotional program that they hope will encourage people to shop in Elkins on Dec. 5. According to Anne Beardslee, who proposed the program, "It is a low-cost way to get your name and business out and to do cooperative advertising. We hope you will consider joining us in this advertising campaign."
Participating merchants will contribute $20 to cover the cost of the prize and advertising. Each participating store will be listed in the newspaper promotion campaign. The participation form for merchants is being distributed by the EDMPC.
Customers who make purchases at the participating stores will be given a ticket making them eligible to win a $100 gift certificate. The gift certificate will be redeemable at any of the participating businesses. The winner will be notified on Dec. 7.
Merchants who wish to participate must return their invitation along with the $20 entry fee to Ceramics with Class no later than 4 p.m. Nov. 24.
Business owners who attended Tuesday's Downtown Merchants meeting reported several incidents of soliciting that were suspect or perhaps might have been outright fraud. I checked with officials in Mayor Duke Talbott's office and learned that anyone soliciting within the Elkins city limits must have a solicitor's permit.
Perhaps a word of caution might be prudent here. If you or your business is approached by a solicitor, ask them to present their solicitor's permit. If they don't have one, they are probably not legitimate.
Ed Griesel, defacto president of the Merchants Association, mentioned at Tuesday's meeting that the ON TRAC program is under way and needs volunteers.
"We need volunteers as committee chairpersons and to serve as members on all the various committees," Griesel said. "The program provides a wealth of expertise and assistance for the revitalization of the downtown area and expert advice on how to keep our community's economic base expanding and viable. If we can't get the volunteers to help with the program, it simply won't work."
Those who would like to help with the program should call Griesel at Ceramics with Class at 304-636-2903 or the Chamber of Commerce at 304-636-2717.
While I'm talking about Mr. Griesel, I'd like everyone to know that despite his advanced age, (he and dirt are the only two things in existence older than I am) he said he is "continuing to expand my cultural horizons in my 'golden years.'"
It seems he launched his quest to quench his cultural thirst by attending JoAnn Peterson's portrayal of Jenny Lind at the Randolph County Community Arts Center on Nov. 11. He was so impressed with her presentation that he has decided to attend another event in Wheeling - at the Victorian Theater. A slip of the tongue, however, as he was telling us about his upcoming trip, put him in Victoria's Secrets rather than the Victorian Theater. Old age does strange things to the mind.
Gary Schoonover mentioned at the merchants meeting that he has 1,123 square feet of space for rent or lease at Granny's Attic. When he first mentioned it, he said he had 1,000 square feet of space for rent or lease, then it jumped to 1,100 square feet, then another 23 square feet was added. By now, he may have an entire building for rent or lease. One can't help but wonder if Ruth Lynn, owner of the store, knows about it though.
Seriously, he does have space available and is looking for a tenant. If you're interested, contact him at Granny's Attic.
The New Tygart Flyer is offering a Thanksgiving Special on Nov. 28. The four-hour trip to Tygart Junction will depart the Elkins Railyard Depot at 11 a.m. Reservations may be made by calling toll free 877-686-7245.
Randolph County Commission President Mike Taylor reported at the merchants meeting that construction on the new building beside the courthouse annex is ahead of schedule. Construction, according to Taylor, should be finished about mid-December - about three months ahead of schedule. Those who will be housed in the new facility should start moving in soon after the work is completed.
A great many people, me included, have a tendency to believe that books written and published that deal exclusively with a certain family contain family information that is of interest only to the members of the family the book deals with. That can, and often does, prevent would be readers from learning more not only of the family's ancestry and descendents but also the history of the times of the book's setting. One such fine example is "The Charles Town, West Virginia, Confectioner - John Frederick Blessing, His Family, and His Descendents" by Richard G. Anderson.
As does most, if not all, genealogy books, this 52-page book on the history and family of John Frederick Blessing has some interesting historical and possibly little known facts regarding the family's connections to the history of Charles Town and its famous and infamous including John Brown's miniature Bible.
If the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" is correct, then this little volume speaks a great deal. It contains 16 images of family members from infancy to old age. Studying the images reveals much about the physical anatomy and habits of the people in those days as well as their dress, hairstyles, even the architecture of post Civil War days in Charles Town.
It appears that the book was hastily written and leaves much to the wanting of more details of the family's history. Be that as it is, the author admitted as much when he wrote in the preface, " ... work still needs to be done in order to complete, if possible, a number of gaps in the family genealogy, and I would be pleased to hear from anyone who might be able to supply any of the missing information, including any updated information, or to correct any errors."
Anyone interested in not only the family genealogy, but other information about what businesses were established and by whom from about Civil War times until the mid-20th century of Charles Town, might want to pick up a copy of this little book. It is not an encyclopedia by any means, but it might supply a tidbit of information not available anywhere else.
The book is available at most retail bookstores, or may be ordered from McClain Printing in Parsons or online at www.mcclainprinting.com.
Many of you may have already read Nathaniel Philbrick's bestseller "Mayflower - A Story of Courage, Community and War," but for those who haven't there is no better time than now to do so. We learned about how Thanksgiving came to be during the early and formative years of our education. Over the years, scholars have proven that the first Thanksgiving was, in all probability, not exactly as we were taught way back then. Philbrick's book published by Viking is, in addition to being an entertaining read, one of great historical value as well. It is a great book. If Thanksgiving means more than a day of football and merrymaking, you'll enjoy it.
Sue and I wish everyone a happy (and safe) Thanksgiving. I hope the year has brought you, if not to total realization of your dreams and goals, nearly so anyway. I am thankful for the opportunity to come into your home each week through this media. I hope what I have written has been of benefit to you if only in some small way. As Red Skelton always said at the end of his wonderful shows, "may God bless" each of you.


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on June 3, 2010 at 12:26 am
Thanks, everyone who voted the past couple of days. The Lady's back in the Top 100 where she belongs!
Now, if we keep at it and vote once every visit… how high can she ascend, I wonder?
Come to think of it, I hate that song too. Every time it comes up on Loreena McKennitt's CD, I skip it. Damn depressing.
Pooka is a cute but very appropriate nickname:
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