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Wagner: USA running trials an inspiring eventBemidji, Minn. Once every four years, track and field takes center stage across the globe as the top athletes from more than 200 countries gather for the Olympics.
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Wagner: Adventure race an enduring experienceWe stood beneath a gray sky as the wind hurled gusts of 25 mph at us. Months of planning and anticipation had led to this moment, and we still didn't really know what was in store for us.
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Participation numbers for 26.2-mile distance increaseEach year Running USA tabulates marathon statistics and surveys runners to track changes, trends and attitudes in our sport. And the 2011 numbers show the 26.2-mile distance continues to grow, albeit at a slower rate than the past few years.
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Just after 6:30 p.m. on a wet, muggy evening in Manila a man called Butch leads me to the back of a bustling market. A former street child himself, Butch now earns a living as an outreach worker, helping children living like he was to improve their lives.
"I want you to meet someone," he says to me.
For several minutes we squeeze our way through a maze of narrow streets, packed with people. Then, finally, we reach some vegetable stalls. We walk around them and there, wearing a filthy white vest and green shorts, is a boy, 3-feet tall in bare feet.
"This is Reynold," says Butch.
Reynold grins. He seems pleased to see me and I put an arm around his shoulder.
"Can you show me where you sleep?" I ask.
He nods. Then, holding my arm, he leads me to a battered-looking upturned vegetable cart covered in a piece of plastic. He points to it. This is where he calls home.
Not for the first time during my stay in Manila, my mind goes back to my own childhood. By the time I was 10 – Reynold's age – I'd already been racing go-karts for three years, had won my first British Cadet Kart championship and met the man who would finally be my boss, Ron Dennis, the owner of the Formula One team, McLaren.
I've never taken my success for granted, but the street children of Manila reminded me just how lucky I've been. I grew up with a loving family who allowed me to follow my dreams and dedicate my time to something I was passionate about. For these children, sadly, their time is mostly dedicated to the daily battle to find enough food to survive.
Formula One drivers don't normally get much time off after a grand prix. The F1 schedule is punishing and, no matter how tired I am, physically or emotionally, I have to throw myself straight into training and preparations for the next race. In March, however, I made an exception.
The morning after the Malaysian Grand Prix I woke up at the crack of dawn and boarded a plane from Kuala Lumpur to the Philippines. I travel a lot, and have done so since I was very young, but I knew this trip was going to be unlike anything I'd ever done before. I'd agreed to make a film about the street children in Manila for UNICEF. I've always had an interest in UNCIEF so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to get involved.
When I landed it was hot and humid. I collected my bags and met up with my travel companions: Jesus Far, a UNICEF child protection officer based in Manila (who everybody calls "Jess"), and a cameraman and director who were making the film.
We clambered into a people carrier and began our journey downtown. We didn't travel at the sort of speed I'm used to, to say the least. There are 11 million people living in Manila and the traffic is unbelievable. Every road is crammed with cars, motorbikes and jeepneys, a form of public transport that's part jeep, part cattle truck, and stops whenever a passenger bangs a hand on the roof. (Apparently drivers in Manila spend an average of 1,000 hours every year stuck in jams.)
Since we had time on our hands, Jess took the opportunity to give me a briefing. If I'm honest, I hadn't given too much thought to what I was about to see and the children we were going to meet, although, just looking out of the window, I could see a lot of families who looked like they were living on the streets.
Ironically, the homeless problem in Manila is a product of the city's growing prosperity. Over the past few decades, tens of thousands of people have fled the poverty in the countryside to seek their fortunes in the capital. But the sad truth is that, when they get here, they find few jobs and nowhere to live. People are forced to build makeshift homes under bridges, next to flood defences or even in cemeteries.
The country as a whole has a quarter of a million children living on the streets and, Jess told me, there are 85,000 in Manila alone.
These children are some of the most vulnerable in the world, living hand to mouth and sleeping literally on the pavements, with only a piece of cardboard for a mattress and, maybe, some plastic sheeting to protect them from the rain.
"You're going to be shocked by the numbers you see," Jess warned me.
UNICEF helps these children in three ways. First, in the community, by trying to prevent their families ending up on the streets in the first place; secondly, through "street based intervention" which includes facilities to help children living on the streets, such as mobile health clinics and mobile education vans; and thirdly, by supporting shelters where the most vulnerable children, like orphans or children that have suffered abuse, can be taken off the streets and given the protection and support that they need.
It's a fragile existence, but, Jess told me, the children are always smiling.
"They are young kids who don't have enough fun, and the best thing you can do is play with them," he said. "That's really all they'll want from you."
I really appreciated his advice, but I can honestly say that it didn't prepare me for the harsh reality of these young children's lives that I would see over the next couple of days.
Our filming started in an extremely poor part of the city called Binondo. The streets are busy and loud and lined with market stalls, which makes them pretty narrow and crowded. But the most striking thing about Binondo is the large river that runs through the centre of it. The Pasig River flows out to the sea. Streets and bridges criss-cross all along it, but it doesn't look like a river I've ever seen before. It is absolutely full of rubbish – so much so that you can't really see the water beneath it. There are no other words for it – it was disgusting.
The river is also responsible for another characteristic of that part of Binondo – the smell. It was the first thing that hit me when we got out of the car by the river – it was unbelievable. I'm not even sure how to describe it, apart from that it smelt like the worst public toilet you can ever imagine – so strong that it caught the back of your throat and you could taste the acid in the back of your mouth. And this is where children live and breathe every single day.
Sadly, children have also died in the Pasig River. Only a few weeks before my visit, two young girls had been playing on the banks, the only place away from the cars, and they'd fallen in and, unable to swim, had drowned in the current. It was terrible to hear. And even more so when I learnt that lots of the other children who live and play close by had seen it happen. Right as I was there, they were still dealing with the shock and sadness.
As we walked around the streets, we started to see just how many people call this place their home. There were children everywhere – from tiny babies, sometimes with absolutely no clothes on, to teenagers, and all ages in-between. They were sitting on the pavements, with just a piece of cardboard underneath them, or they were playing in the streets or by the river. Some were even in the water, washing and playing – ignoring the large number of rats that also call the river their home.
As soon as we appeared, they all raced up, full speed, and crowded around us. They didn't recognize me, but they knew Jess and the staff from Childhope, one of the organizations UNICEF works with, who we'd met when we arrived in Binondo.
The children weren't shy; they asked 'What's your name?' (the only English they knew) and then, once I'd told them, they kept saying it over and over again: "Lewis, Lewis, Lewis!" At the same time they grabbed my hand and put it on their foreheads, which, I was told, is a local custom and a sign of respect. Every single child would do this, and I quickly got used to my hand being grabbed in this way time and time again.
As Jess had predicted, the children were desperate to play. They didn't have any toys so we mostly played games with their hands – like one to the song London Bridge and also their own version of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Most of the children live with their parents, but, since their parents spend the days looking for work, the children are alone for a lot of the time, starved of the attention, affection and protection they need.
Even the tiny babies, with just dirty rags on their bodies, are on their own. I ended up playing with them for hours.
Later, after dark, we went further into the market area and that was when I met the outreach worker Butch and 10-year-old Reynold. Reynold's home was literally an upturned vegetable cart with a thin plastic sheet. There wasn't even enough space inside to sit upright and he had to share this with two brothers – 9-year-old Arnold and 2-year-old Rico – and his mum and dad.
Rico, the baby of the family, is one of the most beautiful babies I've ever met and I spent most of my time after that point with him in my arms. Sadly though, the reason he stayed in my arms is that he can barely walk and is so malnourished that he looks more like 6 months than 2-years-old. He also had no clothes on him apart from a dirty, ragged top. It was heartbreaking – especially as you could see that he was so loved by his brothers and his mum. They just didn't have enough money to feed him properly, and his mum was so thin herself that she hadn't been able to produce enough milk to feed him when he was younger.
I have a big family and so have spent a lot of time around children – I know what a healthy 2-year-old should look like and that's why Rico's appearance was so distressing. He was malnourished, weak and underweight from his life on the streets.
After he'd shown me where he lived, I asked Reynold if I could spend some more time with him and learn more about his life. He told me that every night he goes to the market and collects scraps of food to eat or sell on. As I watched, Reynold and Arnold went from stall to stall, begging for scraps. It was heartbreaking, but also strangely uplifting. The loyalty Reynold showed to his brothers was amazing. Whenever he found any food he immediately ripped it up so he could share it with Arnold and Rico.
"I share anything I get," he told me via Butch, who was translating. "I have to make sure they have something to eat."
Arnold did the same.
Reynold also told me he wanted to be a doctor.
"I want to help old people who are sick."
As the boys finished working for the night and went back to their cart, it was pitch black, save for a few street lights illuminating the rain that was still falling.
Early the next morning we met with Butch again. The children clearly loved him – he's like the pied piper of Manila and a huge inspiration to many, including me. A couple of hours into our second day of filming we heard that the mobile health clinic was arriving, so we headed to the central plaza where it parked up.
It was a great sight – the children were literally clambering over each other to get to it, and Butch had to ask them quite firmly to line up properly so that the doctor could see them one by one.
Whilst we were there I got even more of an insight into the state of these children's lives, if I hadn't seen enough already. I met a mother with a baby that had suffered severe burns to one of her arms and couldn't stop crying (there was a terrible accident where boiling water was dropped onto her arm).
It turned out that this tiny baby had been crying solidly for five days since the accident, because her mum hadn't had enough money to pay for medical treatment. Her skin had almost come away completely from the injured arm. It was incredibly distressing, but Butch and the UNICEF staff leaped into action, and one of the street outreach workers took her to the hospital straight away as the clinic didn't have the right supplies to treat her there and then.
In that second it became clear to me what supporting UNICEF is all about – it's about asking everyone for a donation of just a few dollars to help children suffering like this to survive.
As we finished filming on that second day it was time for us to get ready to leave Manila and fly home. But scenes like that don't just leave you. Since my visit, Binondo has never been far from my thoughts. My mum has been great. She's a very good listener and I've spoken to her at length about the trip and what I saw.
It can make you depressed, thinking about the injustice of it all. But seeing the way UNICEF works on the street also filled me with hope and I knew I was bringing attention to an important issue.
I consider it a privilege to have met those kids, including Reynold, Arnold and Rico. I won't ever forget them.
Visit www.unicef.ca to learn more about the charity and to watch Lewis Hamilton's video from Manila.


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So here we are with muted expectations, six to nine years after the alleged transgressions, finally seeing the Justice Department joining several states, including Illinois, in filing a civil suit against Standard & Poor's over its contribution to the housing-market crash.
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At issue is the seal of approval it gave mortgage-related securities that turned out to be far riskier than the S&P rating suggested in the run-up to the financial crisis. Settlement talks broke down, reportedly millions of dollars apart and stuck on whether S&P would admit wrongdoing. A civil case requires a lower standard of proof of wrongdoing than a criminal prosecution.
The government is arguing the ratings firm defrauded federally insured banks and national credit unions to advance its own business interests, because it only made money when deals were sold, not if they were rejected. Standard & Poor's, a division of McGraw-Hill, countered in a statement that "claims that we deliberately kept ratings high when we knew they should be lower are simply not true."
What is undeniable is that the long wait for justice, whichever way it cuts in this case, has frustrated many stung by the economic downturn, though that speaks to the complexity of compiling the case the feds are trying to make. And history tells us whatever the resolution, it won't satisfy many more. Think Enron. Think Arthur Andersen, the onetime Chicago-based accounting giant sunk by reputational damage despite a verdict that was overturned.
These cases ultimately play like the federal investigations of plane crashes, and that — more than the business of vindictiveness or vindication — is the best rationale for going to court. They will never undo the damage, but they can send a resounding message to everyone else by identifying bad practices and structural defects, as well as who's to blame or exculpate.
Still there always will be those who argue someone was treated too harshly or let off too easily, especially when it comes to those connected to the financial crisis. We are not a nation that puts heads on sticks, but Wall Street is seen as having escaped largely unscathed. One reason may well be that pulling at that string threatens to unravel more than most would bargain for, making the stakes especially high.
"In the securities field, if you agree to being a knowing violator of SEC regulations, you risk losing your license," said David Ruder, a Northwestern University law professor who was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the late 1980s. "People say, 'How come they don't make Citi and Morgan Stanley admit they were wrong?' Well, does the SEC really want to revoke their licenses and put them out of business? Can't it find some lesser sanction?"
When Ruder was head of the SEC, the question was whether to go after Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken for market manipulation and insider trading in their junk bond business.
"They said, 'If you bring this case and put us out of business, the market will be gone,'" Ruder recalled by email. "We really had to deal with the question, whether their conduct was serious enough that we should risk putting them out of business. Then we had to ask ourselves: If we put them out of business, will the market tank? We came to the conclusion it would not. But we were very concerned with what the effects would be."
Even if there were no concerns about the effect on the larger economy, there's reason to proceed slowly. Like the financial dealings at the center of these cases, prosecution is risky. There is incentive on both sides to settle.
In another case, Royal Bank of Scotland Group is reportedly poised to announce a financially and reputationally expensive settlement with U.S. and British authorities related to allegations the bank tried to rig Libor, a benchmark for interest rates.
For S&P, the best-case scenario is it didn't know what it was doing, hardly a business booster. It also is expected to argue that its assessments of the safety of the risky investments should be protected by the First Amendment, much like a critical theater review that closes a play.
There are damning emails, like one from an analyst cited in the government suit who not only seemed to see the problems ahead, but set it to the tune of the Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House": "Watch out/ Housing market went softer/ Cooling down/ Strong market is now much weaker/ Subprime is boiling over/ Bringing down the house."
But if you went through all the emails of companies beyond reproach, you likely would find plenty of knuckleheads saying idiotic things that may or may not reflect the larger worldview of the employer.
Still, those never go over well.
"Standard & Poor's was a trigger for the destruction of our economy," Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who sued S&P 13 months earlier, said in a statement. "While the big banks and lenders built mortgage-backed bombs, it was S&P's faulty ratings that detonated them."
There were many factors that brought down the economy, and S&P's ratings were one, and now the case will be prosecuted as to whether it was deliberate. That is serious business with serious ramifications.
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11. Our media has a poor sense of history.
I was a also-ran AAU swimmer in my early teens. The workouts are brutal. The condition of these swimmers is as good as it gets, but its not the only Olympic moment with great historical meaning. There are so many moments in the Olympics other than people winning medals. Some examples:
Nadia scoring the first perfect 10s I ever saw in gymnastics.
The great Russian weightlifter Alexiev that used gardening as is getaway from training.
Frank Shorter really making the Marathon take hold in the U.S.
The U.S, beating the USSR in hockey, a feat that was considered impossible.
Mark Spitz, who said recently he felt snubbed because he was not invited by NBC to Beijing be a commentator. When he won his seven medals, those races were not as close as the ones Phelps was involved in. The training and condition of swimmers is much more evenly matched these days, despite the dominance of the U.S. in the sport.
I am very proud of the way Phelps handles himself. I wish some of our current leaders had that kind of class.
I am fortunate that I get to watch some of this on CBC, as I live in Detroit area. They root for Canadians, but thei coverage is very thorough and informative. Our media could take a lesson big time.I guess ol' lying Tom couldn't come up with a story about competing in the Olympics, so we get this lame tale. You should have tried harder, Tom. Your unrestrained jealousy of a man who actually accomplished something in life really jumps out of this lie.TomInTib (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-17-08 02:03 PM
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14. F**k Spitz
I spent the better part of a week next to the arrogant little prick at the National Pool and Spa Show in Atlantic City.
He was endorsing a tether that would allow one to swim in place, a create-your-own-lap-pool type of device.
The guy was actually wearing his damned medals. I acted as if I had never heard of him and, at one point, asked him if he had acquired his medals at a pawn shop.
The guy has the personality of a scorpion (and that's putting it nicely, no disrespect to scorpions).
zonkers (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-17-08 02:56 PM
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18. Spitz reminds me of ex NBA great Rick Barry. They both have the resume but for some reason their
personalities are the deal breaker.TomInTib (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-17-08 08:24 PM
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19. Funny that you should mention Barry...
I used to work with the Houston, Texas, chapter of Special Olympics.
Barry used to volunteer a good bit of his time to the effort, probably in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
Whenever he entered a room, it felt like someone had just walked out.:DMorrisons Ghost (150 posts) Mon Aug-18-08 07:03 AM
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23. Was
Mark Germino there as well?
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-18-08 11:20 PM
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26. Don't you just love me?
You must, because you follow me around quite a lot.
I planted that just to draw out trolls such as you, HotRod.
Worked like a charm, didn't it?
Could I send you a pic of mine so that you have something to get excited about when your sister/mother/dog gets old?
Suck it, Softee.
You are not man enough to carry my guitar case.
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Local singer/songwriter/guitarist Blue O'Connell will visit Rebecca on Walk Right In. Blue's long awaited CD, "Choose the Sky" is a musical tapestry of introspective songs that draw the listener in from the first note. Whether it is her intricate accompaniment of her songs or inventive solo instrumental pieces, one can immediately hear all the years of serious woodshed. Themes of nature always make their way into her music with songs titled, "Once I Was the Wind", "Transcriptions (of a Wasp's Nest)," and "Owl's Dream". While most of the songs were composed in recent years, a few of them go all the way back to 1989. A very interesting portrait from a what John McCutcheon calls "uniquely compelling songwriter".
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The public may be shocked at revelations that the United States is collecting its citizens' private phone calls (according to the president, it's to fight terrorism), but it's all old news to Shia LaBeouf.
In a 2008 interview on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," LaBeouf (who was at the time promoting his conspiracy action film "Eagle Eye") revealed the extent to which the United States monitors Americans.
In "Eagle Eye," LaBeouf played a young man who was manipulated by an intelligence-gathering super force. According to LaBeouf, an FBI consultant on the film told the actor that one in five phone calls is "recorded and logged."
"I laughed at him, and then he played back a phone conversation I had had two years prior," LaBeouf told Jay Leno. "It's extremely creepy."
So, what exactly did the authorities hear the star of "The Company You Keep" say? "It was one of those 'What are you wearing?' type of things," LaBeouf said. "Yeah, so it was mad weird."
That would likely make the person on the other end of the line China Brezner, the actress LaBeouf reportedly dated from 2004 to 2007 after meeting her on the Montreal set of "The Greatest Game Ever Played."
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Queen of the New Mexico spelling Bee is 10-year-old Ariel Kokoricha who spelled "legato" in the 14th Round. She is from Clovis in Curry County and attends Clovis Christian School. Ariel will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 29-30 in Washington, D.C. CONGRATULATIONS, Ariel!!!!!
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Friends Darrell, from Turlock, and Rob, from Richmond, Va., fished with guide Doug Neal of Almanor Fishing Adventures last week. Part of their catch was this beautiful 28-inch brown that weighed in at a bit over 13 pounds. Photo by Doug Neal
"It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming." —John Steinbeck
Lake Almanor
July has been pleasantly, if not unseasonably, cool. Water surface temperatures have dropped to 67 degrees.
Water clarity is great at about 13.5 feet. Insect hatches continue and the pond smelt are everywhere.
These are ideal conditions for the fish. But they are a bit challenging for the angler.


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Spain is taking its time asking for a bailout, and this strategist has a way to trade the stalling.
If you think Spain is dragging its heels on requesting a bailout , plenty of experts say you're right - that it's just a matter of time.
Still, Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman, isn't holding his breath.
"I think it is not going to be this weekend at the summit" of European Union leaders, he told CNBC. Chandler thinks Spain may not ask for help until November, and even then they may request something less than Greece or Portugal did.
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"The euro has really rallied more than a dime since the late July lows, " he says, and he thinks investors are being overly optimistic. "The next big news probably will be some disappointment, " either more problems from Greece, further delays by Spain, or something not even on the radar.
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Harrison Ruopp, D
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Height: 6-2
Weight: 193
Born: 1993-03-17
Hometown: Zehner, SK, Canada
Drafted: 2011 by Phoenix, 84th overall
April 2013 - Ruopp's junior team, the Prince Albert Raiders, were just knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. But his season will not end just yet, as the Penguins have signed him to an entry level contract. He will join their AHL affiliate. Ruopp finished the year with a career high 16 points. He was a willing combatant once again with 12 fighting majors, and ending with 132 penalty minutes. Seth Brisendine
February 2013 – Ruopp is having another quiet season up in Prince Albert. He has a new career high in points with 12 and a career high plus/minus of plus-11. He has also added 105 penalty minutes thus far. Ruopp is a rock on the backend and will be leaned on heavily to shutdown opposing teams' top lines in the postseason. He will be given a shot at cracking the AHL team in Wilkes Barre-Scranton, but it will be tough given the Penguins depth at the defense position. Zenon Herasymiuk
July 2012 – Pittsburg recently acquired Ruopp in a trade with the Yotes'. The Pens' gave up Zbynek Michalek in the deal, so they must have faith in their return turning into a solid stay at home defenseman in the next few years. He will be going back to Prince Albert again this season and likely take the long AHL route in following seasons before being a consideration to the NHL roster. He has bulked up and is now tipping scales around 200, which is a positive step for him to be a force at the WHL level. Jason Banks
April 2012 – Ruopp is an all defense rearguard that plays a tough as nails game. Has only recorded 18 total points in three WHL seasons, but has been one of the few bright spots on the lowly Prince Albert Raiders. Some thought that the Coyotes may have reached a bit to take him in the third round, but he could turn out to be a diamond in the rough with his quite, physical style. Will need to make big leaps next year in his overall hockey sense and offensive involvement if he wants to prove the doubters wrong.
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Join the discussion in Newcastle in November
The Newcastle Public Library has a discussion for all ages through its four book discussion groups, each of which will meet in November.
Topics for this month's talks are:
Forever Young Book Club, 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 – Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama. The group is for adults who enjoy reading young adult genre books.
Brown Bag Book Discussion Group, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 – Ages 18 and up are invited to read and discuss American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin. Attendees are invited to bring a sack lunch and enjoy snacks provided by the Friends of the Newcastle Library.
Teen Book Club, 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14 – Teens will take part in discussion and a related craft on the book Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. The group meets monthly throughout the school year for ages 13-18.
Tween Book Club, 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14 – Ages 9 to 12 have the chance for their own monthly discussion and related craft project as well. Their topic for this month is "Quilts and the Underground Railroad." The group also will be provided snacks courtesy the Friends of the Newcastle Library.
For more information on any of the library's book clubs, call 387-5076.


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avodaq implemented Cisco Collaboration suite, including enterprise social software, IM and presence, telepresence, and web conferencing.
Founded in 1997, avodaqAG is a Cisco Gold Certified Partner and Master Partner in Unified Communications, delivering planning, design, implementation, operational, optimization, and learning services. avodaq distinguishes itself with technical depth, including 13 CCIE® engineers, as well as a strong commitment to customer satisfaction. The company earned the Cisco "best-in-class" designation for Cisco® Unified Communications Manager Versions 6, 7, and 8.
Like many of its customers, avodaq strives to optimize the performance of project teams distributed across multiple locations. Of the company's 90 employees, only about half work at company headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, while the others are based in three other offices in Germany and one in Singapore. Many employees work some or all of the time from home offices.
avodaq's workspace has evolved over the years to support globally distributed teams and a more mobile workforce. For example, employees and customers in different locations can interact with an in-person experience using immersive Cisco TelePresence® Systems TX1300 in each office, as well as desktop Cisco TelePresence Systems. Employees and customers join Cisco WebEx® Meeting Center for web collaboration, and employees use Cisco Jabber™ for presence and instant messaging.
But something was missing. "We didn't have a good way to make sure everyone on a virtual team had access to all of the relevant files and information pertaining to a project," says Andreas Kusch, chief executive officer for avodaq. Instead, documents and information tended to be scattered across multiple offices and team members' hard drives, making it difficult to find all information pertinent to a particular project. "We realized that an enterprise collaboration platform with social networking features would help employees find information and expertise more quickly, maximizing team performance while further increasing customer satisfaction," Kusch says.
avodaq has optimized team performance by enabling employees to easily create communities populated with relevant document, information, and expertise, using Cisco WebEx Social™. Employees in all five offices use the Cisco WebEx Social enterprise collaboration platform for project management, customer support, and knowledge sharing:
Project Management: "Project team members in any location join a Cisco WebEx Social community to share documents, updates, blogs, and wikis," says Manuel Michel, solution architect for avodaq. "Consolidating all information in a community makes it searchable." Team members can also check each other's presence and click to initiate a Jabber instant messaging session or WebEx conference from within WebEx Social. Threaded discussions are easier to follow than group email communications. And employees can create watch lists to receive alerts about project news.
Customer Support: Engineers in avodaq's Service Center created a Cisco WebEx Social community for virtual team communications, discussion forums, and wikis, allowing them to improve customer satisfaction by sharing information and documents about customer engagements.
Knowledge Sharing: The avodaq IT team has its own WebEx Social community for sharing know-how, documentation, and procedures. The team also integrated its community with the internal IT ticket system, which spares engineers from having to go back and forth between two interfaces throughout the workday.
Cisco WebEx Social is the latest addition to avodaq's collection of Cisco Collaboration applications. Already a Cisco TelePresence user, each avodaq office has at least one Cisco TelePresence TX1300 System to enable employees and customers to interact with an in-person experience. During customer engagements, avodaq CCIEs can conduct in-person discussions with customers in any other location, avoiding the need to assign a CCIE to each customer site and optimizing these engineers' valuable time. As CEO, Kusch estimates he spends about half of each day using a desktop Cisco TelePresence EX-90 System in his office to interview job candidates, provide employee performance reviews, and meet with customers. "In the past, I had to travel for all of these interactions or, in the case of job interviews, bring the applicant to Hamburg," he says. "With Cisco TelePresence, I avoided 15 trips annually just for job interviews, and have hired more than five persons without any travel expenses at all."
avodaq also conducts shareholder meetings using Cisco TelePresence, using one display for video and another for presentations. Board members and partners need only travel as far as the nearest avodaq office to join a session.
Web conferencing is another integral part of avodaq's daily operations. The company's sales force and Service Center engineers meet with customers and share desktops using Cisco WebEx Meeting Center. "After a WebEx session with a customer, our service center engineers post updates to the Cisco WebEx Social community so that everyone on the team has the latest information," says Michel. avodaq manages the audio portion of Cisco WebEx sessions on Cisco Unified MeetingPlace®, which is fully integrated with WebEx, to lower costs.
Another way avodaq maximizes the efficiency of its virtual teams is by using Cisco Jabber for Windows, Mac, and iPhone for presence and instant messaging. "I have chatted with an employee on assignment in Hong Kong, and then just clicked to escalate to a WebEx session with high-quality video and web sharing," says Kusch. Thanks to federated intradomain presence, employees can also see presence information for their Cisco contacts. And Cisco Intercompany Media Engine enables avodaq employees to use Cisco Unified Communications Manager features such as call back and instant video when communicating with Cisco and other partners.
Finally, avodaq conserves data center space, power, and cooling by hosting its Cisco Unified Communications and collaboration applications on a Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS™) B200 M2 Blade Servers. Receptionists in all offices work on virtual desktops hosted on the system, eliminating the overhead of keeping individual desktops patched and up-to-date.
Increased Organizational Efficiency among Distributed Workforce
Cisco WebEx Social helps avodaq's project team members collaborate efficiently from any office. "Flexible search options in WebEx Social enable sales and service center employees to very quickly find all information about a particular aspect of a project," says Michel. "Making it faster to find a document or answer increases productivity, efficiency, and response times. In addition, many employees work from home offices, and WebEx Social enables them to participate fully and feel connected to the company."
Empowered Mobile Employees
avodaq employees all have iPhones, and many also use iPads or Cisco Cius™ mobile collaboration devices. Cisco Jabber allows employees to use their mobile devices as if they were Cisco Unified IP Phones, making and receiving calls from their office phone number, IMing with anyone on their corporate contact list, and enjoying the convenience of Visual Voicemail. The Cisco WebEx app lets them join meetings with the tap of a finger, from anywhere, on any device.
Return on Investment
Cisco Unified Communications and collaboration applications have paid for themselves:
● Travel Reduction: "The in-person experience of Cisco TelePresence means we don't have to travel so often," Kusch says. "I estimate we've eliminated 100 trips annually, saving approximately US$100,000."
● Audio Conferencing Savings: avodaq takes advantage of Cisco Unified Communications to lower audio conferencing costs by connecting it to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. Already fully integrated with Cisco WebEx, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace significantly lowers the costs of the audio portion of Cisco WebEx sessions.
● Optimized Team Performance: Cisco WebEx Social and Jabber help salespeople and engineers more quickly access information and expertise, helping them provide the industry-leading customer satisfaction that has propelled avodaq to the top of its field.
● Lower Support Costs: Consolidating multiple collaboration tools into WebEx Social reduced application, support, and server costs. Likewise, consolidating all collaboration servers onto the Cisco Unified Computing System reduced data center space, power, and cooling requirements.
First-Hand Experience Strengthens Sales
Using Cisco Collaboration tools internally allows avodaq salespeople to speak credibly about how the tools increase their own productivity, which helps in sales engagements. "Our customers get excited when they see me using Jabber," Kusch says. "I point out that having a full suite of communications tools (presence, chat federation, and integrated video) in one interface is very useful. I call it my comfort workspace."
avodaq recently closed a deal with Bank am Bellevue of Zurich, Switzerland. The bank has about the same number of employees as avodaq as well as a similar business goal: to bring employee teams together across several divisions. "One of the bank's business challenges was efficiently sharing 1000 new files monthly, created by the bank's Asset Management division," says Michel. "It's annoying to use email as a collaboration tool. We described our own experience with Cisco WebEx Social to illustrate the benefits for file sharing." avodaq also provided Bank am Bellevue with planning, implementation, and training services, and first-level support, and customized WebEx Social's web front-end to provide the same design user interface as the bank's homepage.
Next Steps
avodaq continues to add new Cisco collaboration applications as it discovers and develops new use cases for Cisco WebEx Social and Cisco video solutions. One plan is to begin using Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, currently used for developing customer scripts, to improve the customer experience in the service center.
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Learn more about Cisco Collaboration at http://www.cisco.com/go/collaboration.
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quote:Originally posted by EliseT Why do so many steakhouses serve Italian food? Is it a reflection on the owners, the clientelw, or the era in which they were popularized?
quote:Originally posted by sk bob DelMonicos Italian Steak House in Syracuse N.Y. has great steaks & great Italian food & they've been open for years.
quote:Originally posted by Jimeats That's not the case here in the Northeast. But on the other hand we do have many Italian spots that do serve a great steak. I would assume that it's do to the fact that it's an easy side dish, profitable, fast 8min. start to finnish. It also keeps well, todays sauce is just as good 3 days from now. Chow Jim
quote:Originally posted by twinwillow If I'm not mistaken, I believe "The Palm" chain of steakhouses have Italian dishes on their menus. I could swear I remember seeing Veal parm on the menu. Can anyone validate this for me?
quote:Originally posted by twinwillow I don't recall any steak houses in Dallas serving Italian food. Which reminds me, "Steak Pizziaole". What a great steak dish served in almost all the North East Italian restaurants. Never see that dish here in Dallas-in any restaurant!


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The FC Dallas Foundation is the charitable arm of FC Dallas and Toyota Stadium. The Foundation strives to positively impact the health and well-being of disadvantaged youth through the sport of soccer.
The Foundation seeks to promote healthy, active children by programs such as:
- The BR Heart Project: Which promotes good heart health by participating in the AHA Heart Walk and by offering assistance for AED training to nonprofits and schools.
- Field Development: A project to build well-lit turf soccer fields in low socio-economic areas which will provide safe playing environments and facilitate active lifestyles in local youth.
The Foundation is committed to supporting disadvantaged youth through activities such as:
- Kicks for Kids: A program that partners with local nonprofits serving at-risk children. The Foundation works with these organizations to allow children the opportunity to experience a professional soccer match at Toyota Stadium.
- The Gear Up Project: A project which collects new and gently used soccer gear to distribute to those in need locally and globally.
The FC Dallas Foundation partners with various organizations to contribute to its mission. Some of these are the Mayor's Youth Fitness Initiative (MyFI), America SCORES Dallas and Lionsraw USA.
For more information about the FC Dallas Foundation and its programs, contact Melissa Reddick or call 469-365-0147.
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FC Dallas Foundation Field
The FC Dallas Foundation field will be located at Bickers and Hampton in front of Lake West YMCA. The predominantly Hispanic West Dallas area is home to over 25,000 residents in a 10.8 mile radius. The field will be a modified replica of the Freddy Field at Maple Lawn Elementary, which the Foundation helped to build in 2011.
By partnering with City and Community leaders such as Mercy Street, local businesses and organizations such as the Pro Players Foundation, the FC Dallas Foundation Field is slated to break ground in the Spring of 2013. Along with Pro Players, the FC Dallas Foundation will host a character camp to teach children leadership skills through soccer. The Foundation is fundraising to complete this asset for the youth of West Dallas.
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The FC Dallas Foundation is proud to be partnering with the following entities to make this field a reality:
Robert Moehler, Kevin Kelley and Clay Small
Lionsraw Partnership
The FC Dallas Foundation and Lionsraw will also be hosting a fundraiser called Match For A Day in 2013. Details coming soon!
The Bobby Rhine Heart Project
FC Dallas lost a beloved member of our family, Bobby Rhine, to a sudden heart attack in early September 2011 at the age of 35. Bobby played for FC Dallas from 1999 until 2008 when he joined the staff of FC Dallas as a broadcaster and became the voice of the club. To honor Bobby's life, the FC Dallas Foundation has created the Bobby Rhine Heart Project. The project includes two elements:
- To raise funds to help organizations obtain the necessary training for AED and CPR.
Many organizations cannot afford the cost of training that is needed to use the AED that they have. The FC Dallas Foundation reaches out directly to non-profit organizations, including schools, through the American Heart Association and the Red Cross to offer assistance to cover the high cost of the training.
To understand the importance of AED training, watch this video about a girl in Frisco whose life was saved due to quick thinking and proper AED training.
- To raise funds for the American Heart Association (AHA) and promote good heart health by walking annually in the Dallas Heart Walk in September.
On Saturday, September 8, the Foundation team comprised of FC Dallas staff, players and fans, as well as the Rhine family, walked to honor Bobby and raise awareness for good heart health. Our team of 116 raised over $10,000 for the American Heart Association. Check back in May when we start signing our team up for the 2014 Heart Walk on Saturday, September 13.
Community Clinics
The FC Dallas Foundation provides free community soccer clinics to locations throughout the Metroplex by partnering with various nonprofits such as the Boys & Girls Club. The FC Dallas Community Clinics initiative is geared toward traditionally underprivileged areas to provide children the opportunity to run through soccer drills with professional athletes and trained coaches.
The Foundation would like to thank, A-Affordable, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cash America, Conn's, MoneyGram, Novo Nordisk and TXU Energy for their support of the FC Dallas Community Clinics.
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Installing and exploring Xfce 4.2
If you're ready for life without KDE or Gnome, maybe it is time to try Xfce, a lean, fast, and eye-catching desktop with a large collections of tools.
In January of this year, the Xfce project released version 4.2 of the Xfce desktop (see Figure 1). Like most alternative desktops, the Xfce desktop is faster and easier on resources than sprawling systems like Gnome and KDE. But Xfce is far more advanced than many of the alternatives. The Xfce 4.2 desktop, which is compliant with Freedesktop specifications, provides several useful management utilities, a development framework for building applications, and support for more than 40 languages. Xfce 4.2 offers a unique blend of features and performance that make it an ideal alternative for many users who want to scale down from Gnome or KDE.
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The following links provide more detailed information about how to become a Division I student-athlete.
To participate in Division I athletics or receive an athletics scholarship during the first year of college, a student-athlete must:
Student-athletes enrolling in college in August 2016 and later must meet all of the above requirements to receive aid in the first year and practice in the first term. In order to compete in the first year, prospects must meet all of the above and:
If a student-athlete earns nine credits in the first term, he or she can continue to practice the remainder of the year. If not, he or she can remain on aid but can't practice.
All incoming student-athletes must be certified as an amateur student-athlete. With global recruiting becoming more common, determining the amateur status of college-bound student-athletes can be challenging. All college-bound student-athletes, including international students, need to adhere to NCAA amateurism requirements in order to preserve their eligibility for NCAA intercollegiate athletics.
All college-bound student-athletes must have an academic and amateurism certification from the NCAA Eligibility Center.
The online registration process that must be completed by all future Division I and II college-bound student-athletes includes a questionnaire relating to the individual's amateur status.
For the staff at the NCAA Eligibility Center to certify amateur status, college-bound student-athletes must answer a questionnaire during registration.
The questionnaire covers the following precollegiate enrollment activities:
The Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete contains more detailed information about initial academic and amateurism eligibility.
NCAA policies govern how coaches can recruit college-bound student-athletes. The rules specify when and how coaches can contact prospects, what materials can be sent and when student-athletes can visit campus. The rules differ from sport to sport.
The NCAA Eligibility Center administers the National Letter of Intent program. The National Letter of Intent is a contract between a college or university and a prospect that requires the college-bound student-athlete to attend the college or university for one academic year and the college or university to provide athletics financial aid for one academic year. The National Letter of Intent is a legal document and should be read carefully before being signed.
Individual colleges or universities award athletics grants-in-aid (often described as scholarships) on a one-year, renewable basis. They may be renewed for a maximum of five years within a six-year period of continuous college attendance. Aid can be renewed, canceled or reduced at the end of each year for many reasons. If a student-athlete's aid will be reduced or canceled, the college or university must provide the student-athlete with an opportunity to appeal.
Financial aid is awarded in various amounts, ranging from full scholarships (including tuition, fees, room, board and books) to small awards that might provide only course-required books. Such partial awards are known as "equivalencies." Some Division I sports (including Football Bowl Subdivision football and basketball) do not permit equivalencies.
All scholarships from any source in any amount must be reported to the college financial aid office. The total amount of financial aid a student-athlete can receive and the total amount of athletics aid a team can award may be limited. These limits can affect whether a student-athlete can accept aid from other sources.
Athletics financial aid can be a tremendous benefit to most families, but some costs are not covered (for example, travel between home and school). Also, although the benefits of athletically related financial aid are substantial, the likelihood of participating is relatively small. Any young person contemplating college attendance should use high school for legitimate academic preparation.
Division I student-athletes interested in transferring to another four-year college or university and student-athletes at two-year colleges interested in attending a four-year school should be aware of the rules that govern the transfer process.
Individual colleges or universities and conferences also often have their own rules governing transfers.Last Updated: Jul 18, 2013


text: Computers and smartphones keep us connected to our families, but they can also connect our kids to trouble. Teens who exchange inappropriate text messages or visit questionable websites could be putting themselves in serious danger, and threatening to take away their phones or computers isn't an effective solution. With BrickHouse Security's selection of effective and discreet computer and phone monitoring tools such as USB key loggers, PC monitoring software and cell phone data extractors, you can monitor your teens texting and cell phone habits, and prevent their exposure to online predators and illegal activities.


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text: Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin and MSYS with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. It is based on parts of PuTTY by Simon Tatham and provides xterm-compatible terminal emulation, but does not require an X server. Its features include a simple options dialog, Unicode support, fullscreen mode, drag & drop, and window transparency.