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Franklin County — "The Land Between the Lakes and the Blue Ridge" is home to the Franklin County Fun Fest. One of the major venues along the Crooked Road is located in Ferrum — The Blue Ridge Institute & Farm Museum and the site of the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival.
Rocky Mount — A site for plenty of jamming sessions, including a festival at the Tripple Creek Ranch.
Floyd County — One of the major venues along the Crooked Road is located in the town of Floyd — the Floyd Country Store Jam Sessions and Concerts. The annual FloydFest is one of the best festivals in Virginia.
Patrick County — Many famous musicians hail from this county. Quite a few jam sessions and fiddlers' conventions take place here, too.
Carroll County — The Blue Ridge Music Center is here. It's one of the major venues along the Crooked Road.
Hillsville — Home of the Hillsville Concert Series and Hillsville Jam Sessions.
Grayson County — "The Rooftop of Virginia" and home of the Grayson County Old Time and Bluegrass Fiddlers' Convention.
Independence — Home of the famous Mountain Foliage Festival & Mountain Privy Races as well as the 1908 Courthouse.
Galax — Galax is an independent city nestled between Carroll and Grayson Counties. It is home to the most famous fiddlers' convention of all time, The Galax Fiddlers' Convention, and the Rex Theater which is a major venue along the Crooked Road.
Washington County — This county was the first place in America named for George Washington. The Appalachian Trail runs through here.
Abingdon — Home to The Barter Theatre which is the State Theatre of Virginia.
Damascus — considered "The Friendliest Little Town Along the Appalachian Trail."
Bristol — "The Birthplace of Country Music" and a major venue along the Crooked Road. The Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion takes place here, too.
Scott County — The Carter Family Fold is here, one of the major venues along the Crooked Road.
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Lee County — "Where Virginia Begins" and the place where the Lee County Tobacco & Fall Festival takes place.
Wise County — The Mountain Music School is here at Mountain Empire Community College where they host jams as well.
Appalachia — Home to Coal and Railroad Days
Big Stone Gap — Home of the "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine" Outdoor Drama.
Coeburn — Birthplace of Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Ralph Stanley Festival.
Pound — Home to Pound Heritage Days.
Wise — Wise County Fairgrounds is here.
Norton — The city of Norton is where the Country Cabin, one of the major venues along the Crooked Road, and Appalachian Heritage Village is located.
Dickinson County - Home to Breaks Interstate Parks where many music activities are held.
Clintwood — Home to the Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center as well as the Jettie Baker Center.
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In today's world, increasingly it is citizen-critics or organizations outside of mainstream journalism, empowered by the Web's ability for two-way conversations and comments, and by independence from past restraints of expensive printing presses and broadcast machinery.
Free-standing journalism reviews at one time also helped fill the role, but their numbers are down. The idea of press councils to review and judge press performance still exists, though the real numbers are miniscule.
But there's one more approach, present in about 25 news organizations: An in-house public critic, the ombudsman. In various ways and formats, those ombudsmen - down from 40 such positions just a few years ago - tackle complaints, evaluate newsgathering and arbitrate claims of misreporting, distortion and even the absence of coverage.
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It can result in some very public spats.
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The original NPR report said state authorities appeared to disregard the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, which favors placing Native American children with relatives or other Native American families before other options - and may have done so because of cultural bias and to gain increased federal aid to support such placements, involving as much as $100 million.
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A Western Courtship(END)
The Winchester cracked the silence,
Spinning the coyote to a stop.
She said, "Now that was some shooting."
He said, They're hard on your calving crop."
The hours had turned into days,
The days lined up to be months,
Almost a year to the day,
He stopped for some water and lunch.
No word had been spoken of her husband,
She'd talk someday with the need.
The stranger too, had said nothing,
But for her he was willing to bleed.
A spring had broken through the hardened soil,
They stopped to let their mounts rest,
She said suddenly, "You're such a good man."
He said simply, "I do my best."
He tossed a rock toward a tumbleweed,
Which sent a "jack" on the run.
Though he spared the rabbit,
He lined the sights of his gun.
"He was a good man," she said quietly,
"Though he's never returned.
He was headed up to Hayes City,"
At first he said nothing, then turned.
"Been here most of a year.
Don't say too much at first.
But lady, you're a hell of a woman,
And I don't like seeing you hurt."
He told her of the skeleton,
He had buried some time back.
He figured it must have been her husband.
So he stayed to take up some slack.
"Figured if his boots had been on my hoss,
Me leaving my woman behind.
And him a driftin' nowhere,
He'd surely have been so kind.
Now, it don't look like you're goin' nowhere,
You're a stayer, that's for sure,
Most women would have headed back home,
Not you, you're too much a doer.
Now pass me that basket of chicken.
We'll light here a while and eat.
Figure I know you pretty well by now,
But this cow-poke, you're fixin' to meet!"
She spread out an old worn blanket,
They settled in the high desert grass.
The start of a western courtship,
One that was certain to last.
The shadows lengthened across the desert.
The sun cast it's last hues on the land.
Stirrup to stirrup they rode together.
A ranching woman, and her only ranch hand.
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Here is the winner of the Screenshot of the Month contest for April 2012: Escen with Overheat. While the competition submissions were regarded as very high quality, Escen won with an impressive percentage of the votes: 64%.
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On Nov. 22, Chapman sold items that he had reason to believe were stolen, according to court records.
Licking County Common Pleas Court Judge David Branstool ordered Chapman to pay $3,802 in restitution to the victim and all court costs and fees.


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Sodus Bay is becoming nationally known as a test bed for the study of blue-green algae and its toxins.
Researchers from five universities plan work related to algae problems on the popular Wayne County bay. The so-called Summer of Science on the bay was prompted by a major 2010 algal bloom that disrupted end-of-summer vacations.
Local government agencies and advocacy groups have attracted at least $1 million in grant money to pay for studies and experiments, including a first-in-New York test of a chemical treatment to kill the aquatic organism.
Sodus Bay is becoming known as one of the premier test sites if youre working with blue-green algae, said Gregory Boyer, a blue-green algae expert who is chairman of the chemistry department at the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Theres so much going on on the bay this summer that its going to be ridiculous to try to keep track of it, he said.
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A three-year test of whether hydrogen peroxide can short-circuit blue-green algae blooms is in its second year. This summer, floating enclosures that look like inflatable swimming pools will be used to test the concept. The work is being led by Boyer and funded by a $400,000 federal grant. A boat will make broader application of the chemical next summer.
Hydrogen peroxide has shown very encouraging results on smaller lakes in the Netherlands, Boyer said, though he noted the idea remains experimental. Dont shoot me if it doesnt work, he joked at a recent Sodus Point meeting on the projects.
Floating buoys will be anchored on the bay this summer to help determine when and where blooms begin and how long they last. Boyer and his group also will continue enhanced monitoring for algal blooms and toxins from shore and from a boat.
Data collected by that group will be used in a computer model being constructed by University at Buffalo professor Joseph Atkinson, Boyer and others. The model is meant to predict when and where algae blooms may occur, and allow the study of ways to ameliorate them. University of Michigan researchers are assisting.
A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor will be testing a biofilter device that may be able to render the algal toxin harmless. The work is funded by a four-year, $700,000 federal grant. They wanted a place to try it out and I suggested Sodus Bay, Boyer said.
Save our Sodus was given a $15,000 grant from the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition to update information on sources of phosphorus entering the bay so that remedial work such as stream bank restoration can be better targeted. The College at Brockport professor Joseph Makarewicz is involved, as is the Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation Service.
Phosphorus, a nutrient found in human and animal waste, in fertilizer and in the soil, fuels the growth of blue-green algae and other algae and weeds.


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Rail tunnel between NY, NJ in jeopardy
Sep 22, 2011 Budgetary pressures may lead New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to pull the plug on an $8.7 billion commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River. Christie says cost-overuns may drive the price even higher and he needs that money for roads. It's a harbinger of what's to come for governors around the nation. Andrea Bernstein reports.
Texting bans for drivers don't make much difference
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Sep 29, 2010 This according to a new study. Because if you're stupid enough to text while driving, are you really going to follow laws? I didn't think so....
Amtrak rolls out high-speed rail plan
Sep 22, 2011 Amtrak released a 30-year vision for high-speed rail travel along the Northeast corridor. It'll cost more than $4 billion a year over the next couple decades. That's more than the annual operating budget for the government-funded rail company. Alex Goldmark reports.
Eric Schmidt is really upset that we have to drive cars
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Sep 28, 2010 The CEO of Google is still complaining that we have to drive our own cars. Humans, I mean. Clearly, cars should have the ability to drive...
Better sorry than safe?
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Transportation index highlights needs
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Sep 22, 2011 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will unveil its first-ever transportation performance index to highlight what it calls the urgent need to improve the transportation infrastructure. John Dimsdale reports.
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Photos are like dust particles for a word-snowstorm to gather around.
When too tired for words, there are photos.
When there are no photos…Houston, we have a problem.
I suppose that means clear skies for doing rather than talking head.
But body feels like a rusty nail.
But thesis-less.
Bah, such a headache. Day 2 of feeling steamrolled.
Good thing good events are good because the crash is substantial for an insubstantial thing.
Ever feel like a chump for going to a dentist?
Pah. Complaint is a cheetah on a plain, and entraining for gladness is getting a cat to do chin-ups.
A gratefulness journal for 8 weeks (3 things, most days) improves the ticker.
It's probably not a stretch to say it aids the immune system, joints, skin condition and various viscera as well.
Let's see, what causes gut-yes. I'm gonna need more than 3 per dose.
These once existed for order.
The laugh thru the wall of bingo of humorous email received.
The tumble and mumble of rain. The unseen snow disappears.
Thunder. I love thunder. Winter is long without it. Lightning flashes.
Being indoors with no need to go out and heat.
And found slippers.
So I forgot to return the library books. Another day.
So I took the money with me and walked right past the bank and didn't deposit. Another day.
So 3 chapbooks were stolen out of the store rack despite the price tag on them. So they may be enjoyed out there.
This radish thong.
Being outside on the warmest day of the year yet, maybe. Hatless with a warm wind in the face. Despite winter coats, it's like a walk on the beach.
Finally booked an eye exam so maybe in a couple weeks or so I'll be able to see clearly again. That'd be nifty.
Saw frames that I actually liked. Huh. I've gone thru half a dozen websites and 3 stores with no, no, no. Except for one $700 frame in Toronto. Ach.
What else was a yes, Latin-English translator is nifty.
Earache subsided. Not better but not spiking worse.
Making up absurd translations for Italian sentences as hubby plays his learn-Italian videos.
The subtler pleasure of being able to transfer my Spanish knowledge to Italian. Did I get that right? Maybe I retained something.
Finding my brain that stammered so painfully slowly at reading French poetry zips along on a much more fluent pace at the simpler structures and vocabulary level of L'Actualité magazine.
Long hot shower.
Warm fruit tea.
A date day of slow time, conversation, totally non-instrumental speech, time for catching up and daydreaming aloud, curiosity about each other.
The smoothness of a returned chin. As much as I also liked his beard.
Seeing one pair of pants I kinda liked and taking just one pair of jeans to the dressing room and them fitting like they were tailored. And $6. Sweet. Not everybody's a gamber but everyone loves a deal.
Emails from friends.
That I could be there for mom's medical visit and could do something useful and concrete like push her chair thru the long halls, and feed her when we got back.
The look of new paint colour.
A favourite tomato sauce. I could chug that straight from the jar, it's so good. But I won't.
The small uncomplicated beauty of hanging out.
Alright, time to do some of that.
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Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
The internet is visual Redbull. It's easy to get overstimulated. It can be all heroes arc and villains all the time without nuance. Infinite options, news, some kind of informational black hole. The rate of reading is so much faster disclosure than conversations wending about.
Somewhere on twitter someone said it articulately. Something like: Say no to any things that aren't a 'heck yeah! I'm in.'
Desirée climbing about chewing my hair. HY.
(And circle of people unpictured to not harass people all the time. Their HY.)
To add to the glad game, migraine medd, Motrin and sympathy when I crash.
Phone connection and emails to check on those I love from far off.
An aunt being back out of the hospital.
Making time for a walk and a spontaneous date long enough to get thru debriefing and onto dreaming. HY.
Stop to watch the snoring cat whose fallen nose-first on the sheet. HY.
There is so much to do but balance means mixing it up. There's no natural end to work. Boundaries are arbitrary and imposed.
I could keep on going headlong, or allow myself to be pulled up short by, "I'm not demanding that you work harder or faster. What I'm asking you is what your priority is."
Lack of focus can be a good thing. The body kicks against it but still it's a Heck Yeah.
Roadtrip reading with friends. HY.
Stop to watch a llama (or alpaca) kitted out for Christmas. HY.
While I don't entirely approve of premature jubilation for Christmas, dozens of little kids shouting Merry Christmas kinda wavered me over the line.
Wave to any fireman dogs and antique truck fireman at the Kemptville Santa Claus parade.
Bagpiping Christmas carols. HY. Like jello wigglers.
Wave to Santa even if his beard doesn't turn with his head.
Heed Voltaire's advice. HY. Like no one cares. Because they do or they don't. But only you can.
Little Things that Slay or Play
I was going to ease into the day and read, and did for a bit
until a certain furry bookmark parked herself across my notebook, iphone and book.
"Nummy Gandhi, hush," sez kitty.
One can touch the book and get swatted, or stay off her book.
Possession is 9/10th of the law, yes? (What Guttersnipe Spy Snitched that to the Cats?)
Yesterday everything became overwhelming and impossible. Yesterday crashed. No burn. Okay a little singed, and less singing around the edges.
I got up at 10, kinda up, and at quarter speed did some life-maintenance schtuff and fell into a deep sleep again at 4 until 6 then made it to 9pm and slept almost around the clock.
Sleep is a good doctor.
I'm still moving at half speed but the world doesn't seem so daunting. My throat isn't sore so maybe my immune system deflected the incoming or maybe it's too soon to say.
But glad game:
- Sunshine that doesn't twist behind and hurt the eyes
- Foot rub for aching feet
- Citrus. Sourcing clementines. A taste for grapefruit.
- Some days call for opening a new pair of socks. I keep a few pristine ones in their package for days such as this.
- Looking back and feeling like a dream echoes of well-being.
- To see friends happy.
- The glory which is delivery. Food brought to sofa when anything else seems as hard as taking the scythe to the field and pulling a millstone myself
- Files that open and are not in a haste to crash.
- Ah, well-timed comedy, Pages.
- The small victory of bringing a full change of clothes to the bathroom. Instead of say, 3 pairs of pants and no shirt.
- The small pleasure of combing the hair and the realization later that it means I can lift my arm without pain as a normal thing.
- The scent of aromatic eastern red cedar. I once nearly bought a chest of that and now our closet will be lined with it.
- Some loops take decades to complete. Let's call this good.
- A cat who could be anywhere but chooses to flop near
- The fickleness of memory that cuts both ways. When spiralling down, can only see things that went that way but when upward, can access only upwards as salient. Knowing the game's blindspots doesn't detract from grabbing the next cab up
- Gradually learning when not to push it. Can't. So be it. But want. But can't. But chest compression. But life's self-leveling so wait.
- The fingers have their own intentions. I aim to write slices and fingers type smiled. Is the part of my body that is sloppy also pressing an agenda of happy? Probably random misalignments that happen to signify. I'll take it.
- Reading aloud together until one or the other falls asleep.
- Work I find useful and satisfying. Some design, some hands on, some promise of connecting right words to the mind that will receive them.
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It's good to count your blessing while you can remember them. When the neural weather system reverses, they still may be unreachable as something with significance but they might glimmer.
A family reunion was fun. I like having something to do that is needed. So I was in charge of getting people to sign the attendance sheet and write their names on a slip for door prizes, and then going to find the people when they won who had scattered all over, in a circle playing music, or another playing badminton, or kicking a soccer ball,
or gone up to visit the neighbour's cows, or down to the river to look for snakes, or gone for a walk around the pond, or sitting in the shade.
Got a chance to have a few words with a few. Lowering expectations to dribs and drabs that may accumulate or not, but being present for little bits.
Mom dropped another couple bags of things I left at her house when I moved out, including the best jeans ever. If I ever return to my 8-year-old frame, I would totally wear those red roadrunners again. Also, this:
I do not remember cutting the sleeves off a sweatshirt. Or writing this. Misspelling totally unintentional I'm sure. Did I wear it in public with that written on the back? The past is a mysterious country.
Five social events in 2 weeks. What butterflies we are. And after a sense of well-being. For Canada Day I thought I pulled a muscle in my face from smiling. I haven't laughed that much in a long while.
Yesterday slow, mellow easy company. Sometimes it feels impossibly hard as such a long pattern and then this. Sometimes one gets the illusion that life might be easy. And/or funny.
Older Ladies by Donnalou Stevens has that wonderful balance of good humour and standing self-assessing as acceptable and self-assured. With 5 million views in a month, seems the world has been waiting for that message.
A time for refusing and reflecting putdowns, not silently shrugging off like that 14-year-old Carleigh. Determine one's own terms of engagement.
And canning small joys. For almost a month I've been planning to try this. (The post at Eaten Up at noon tomorrow.)
It's a hard sweet spot to hit to want something enough to do it and to not want something so much that it is paralyzing. Stage fright and performance anxiety aren't just for conversation and presentation. Alone in the kitchen. Until it's in the thick of it. Then there's a breakthru in the doing. As with anything else.
To do something concrete. To saw off 4 limbs and have the backyard less overhung with leaves. I have a sap-lust. Is this how lumberjacks start? Or deserts? If only we could eat Manitoba Maple we'd never be able to go hungry.
Sometimes I feel darnright domestic without it seeming pejorative.
Imagine all the funny human tricks I can do — like lift a heady pot, or carry limbs again. Or lift laundry onto the line. Or carry a table. It's been 14 months or so since I was that normal. Sometimes the shoulder aches if I lift too much for too long, or lie on it for too long, but it is largely normal.
A good normal of wanting the well-being for one another, asking after, the casual walk by with a touch on the back or arm. And the longer time off together, with an excuse of food.
The garden is growing. So are plans for the next. Maybe take out that tree, and put a fruit one. Or move such and such. Nice to see a bit of future instead of being in the smaller now.
What a profusion of flowers. Everything is blossoming. Except poetry. I'm writing at probably 1/10 or 1/20 of my normal rate but life in general is a creative outlet.
Sunny days of zig zag hopping all around the yard. I don't know how we'll explain winter to her. A rainy day is lament enough. Her ears back and meowing when it's raining out not just the front door, but at the back door too. She adds an inordinate joy with her curiosity and innocence.
The good life must include watermelon in the shade.
And yesterday the sweetness of standing together under a roof in a white out of downpour, sheets of rain blowing down the water-covered river of a street. Cat at our feet. On other verandas along the street other people out watching the torrential rain. I ran out in it for the cold shock and at my squeak, the cat retreated closer to the door then as the rained eased came back to hunker between our ankles.
It's rather nice that a being so independent could be anywhere and chooses there. I woke to her sleeping against my ankle. Hubby at the other side. Good way to ease into a day.
Glad Game: Summertime
The weather is not trying to kill us. Moving inside to outside isn't a shock.
Barefoot in grass. And in hammock.
How hard and intense reading sessions are completed by work of the body. I see why monks do practical gardening and so on. The mind processes better and the body is more complete with useful muscle work.
Since 2004, this is post 2001 at Humanyms.
The yard is taking shape. The new doors in the studio brighten the whole place.
I found all the missing hats. The mysteriously missing baseball caps fell to the back of the top shelf. Thanks to a chair, I saw them, and the missing scarf, the badminton rackets, the frisbee and 2 bottles of sun protection.
That brings our total house count to 7. 2 empty. 2 creams of 30 and 50 spf, of known location. These found. And one other spray bottle on the lam.
Homemade rhubarb juice and homemade lemonade.
It's date day. Our take off and talk about nothing instrumental or practical while we eat somewhere for a couple hours. It's a lovely tradition.
Fireflies. I was sure I'd never see them again since we left the countryside but here they found us in our very yard. All this and bat swoop too.
The Bruce Taylor workshop closed the season with lots of food for thought on didactic poetry from the time of Socrates to present. None of which I'll pass on here in the interests of going back outside among the sun and ferns.
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COLUMBUS: Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson is a popular figure among his peers these days. There aren't many teams that can definitely be considered "sellers," but the last-pace Blue Jackets are and Howson has the two biggest names reported to be on the market in captain Rick Nash and Jeff Carter.
Howson has been proactive, traveling to the east coast to meet with fellow GMs about prospective deals. He has reportedly met with Philadelphia's Paul Holmgren and Toronto's Brian Burke, and given the reported negotiations with New York's Glen Sather, it is likely they met during his time in Manhattan as well.
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"Not enough, because we haven't done a deal," Howson said to Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch.
Nash is the marquee name, but there are other players Howson could potentially move in the next seven days as well. He hasn't made a move yet, but expect Howson to be active at some point between now and next Monday.
"As you get closer to the deadline, you start to have more certainty about what teams are thinking and you start to be able to define things with more clarity," Howson told Mitchell.
N.Y. RANGERS: Nash and the Blue Jackets were in town to play the Rangers on Sunday, and New York remains one of the teams in pursuit of the Columbus captain. Larry Brooks of the New York Post reported the price for Nash might be a little higher than previously reported.
"Columbus' asking price [is] believed to be Brandon Dubinsky, Ryan McDonagh or Michael Del Zotto, Boston College winger Chris Kreider and either a first-round pick or another of the Rangers' top prospects," Brooks writes. "McDonagh and Del Zotto are untouchables on the NHL roster, and Kreider is regarded as a can't-miss prospect with a ceiling as high as those in an apartment in a Manhattan pre-war building.
"It is unknown whether Sather has made a counter-proposal."
Brooks had originally reported the talks between Howson and Sather had started with Dubinsky, Krieder and a first-round pick. Nash is almost certainly worth more than that, and the new price seems more in line with what one of the top players in the League could command -- especially since Nash has six more years left on his contract.
PHOENIX: For the third straight season, the Coyotes are fighting for a playoff spot when preseason prognosticators did not expect it. Will Don Maloney be among the GMs that makes a move to bolster his team's chances?
"I like the group, I like the mix, I like our chemistry," Maloney said to Jim Gintonio of the Arizona Republic. "We'll still work very hard to see, 'Can we make it a little better?' But we're not looking to take anything off our roster. I just think we're in a good place where players know their roles, know what to expect and if we do this and stay healthy, then we're a playoff team."
Last season the Coyotes added defenseman Rostislav Klesla from Columbus near the deadline, but Maloney sent forward Scottie Upshall the other way in the deal. Two years ago Maloney was really active, adding Wojtek Wolski, Lee Stempniak and Mathieu Schneider on deadline day alone.
Maloney hasn't made a move yet, but don't count the Coyotes out of the teams that could be involved in the next week.
"It's a different marketplace now," Maloney told Gintonio. "There's probably three sellers, that might change; all you have to do is look at the standings. The last two days there's been a shift in two or three teams in the discussions I'm having, so I do believe as we go into next week, more players will be available."


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How to Use Silence to Stay Focused
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Today I'm recommending another in John Jantsch's Recover You series: How to Use Silence to Stay Focused. Everybody should read it. I love reading John on how to live better. In his case, it's a natural extension of his brand on business advice. Do yourself a favor. Read this. Think about it. Do it. Read More »
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I'm proud to say John Jantsch, the world's number one expert on small business marketing, is a friend of mine. I've worked with him for years and I've learned a lot from him. For example, I still use his definition of marketing ("getting people to know, like, and trust you") almost daily. His wisdom has... Read More »
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These are some posts I recommended reading this week. My absolute favorite this week was Mark Suster's 9 Women Can't Make a Baby in a Month, on TechCrunch. Mark's Both Sides of the Table is a great blog, by the way. And this is the thought at the heart of that post: Over funding often... Read More »
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Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. That's @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. So I asked her this: "What do I do with my... Read More »
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I love this paragraph: There are three ingredients necessary for a rewarding and successful business experience: You must enjoy what you do and feel a sense of purpose; you must be good at what you do; and you must be able to convince other people to pay you for what you do. That's from John... Read More »
Humility, Leadership, and Self Promotion, Oh My
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Why Men With Pens is Written by a Woman. And Why That Matters.
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Recycling efforts at CU have prevented over 235,000 fir trees from being cut down and has saved 415,000 gallons of gasoline, 98 million gallons of water, 843,000 pounds of air pollutants, 65 million kilowatt hours of electrically, and 67,500 cubic yards of landfill waste since 1980!
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May 29, 2014 (www.investorideas.com newswire) Individuals and families with large estates have enough to worry about – they shouldn't have to wonder whether the advisors they depend upon have their best interests at heart, says financial advisor Matthew T. Shafer.
"Many don't realize that wealthy people are targets for criminals and opportunistic people; that's why an estate should have a good team of professionals who work well with each other," says Shafer, author of "The Future of Your Wealth," (http://mattshafer.us/).
"Wealthy families – and many middle-class families – have multiple advisors who specialize in different disciplines, including attorneys, tax specialists, insurance agents and the like. A family could find the best specialist in each field, but if these experts do not work in harmony, the results can be dreadful."
These key players are like musicians in a band or orchestra. If they are off doing their own thing with no consideration for the overall production, it will sound terrible, says Shafer, who offers tips for overcoming potential problems within a group of advisors.
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Matthew T. Shafer, author of "The Future of Your Wealth," (http://mattshafer.us/), is a graduate of American University, where he obtained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in economics, with a concentration in International Financial Markets. In 2005, Matthew attended the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkley, where he obtained the title of Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and joined the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA). He has been named one of the top 1,000 Financial Advisors in the U.S. by Barron's Magazine (2009) and has received several national recognitions, including "Premier Advisor" by the National Association of Board Certified Advisory Practices (2012).
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Public Policy Agenda Early Education webinar: Discusses National PTA's position and recommendations regarding early education as outlined in the Public Policy Agenda.
In a competitive global economy, the education of our nation's children must begin long before they enter school. The evidence is clear: providing effective, targeted supports and interventions to children and parents starting at birth will prepare our nation's children for later academic and career success. Studies have shown that students who complete high-quality prekindergarten education or similar early childhood programs achieve at higher levels, including increasing high school graduation rates by 31 percent, college attendance by more than 80 percent, and employment by 23 percent. The benefits extend to physical well-being as well: students who attend preschool are more likely to go to a doctor, receive appropriate health screenings and immunizations, and receive dental care.
In addition, high quality early education programs should be affordable for low-income families. From 2009-2011, an average 63 percent of low-income 3- and 4-year-olds in the US did not attend a preschool program as compared to 45 percent of children from higher-income households. But research indicates that high-quality pre-kindergarten, especially for disadvantaged children, can lead to a decreased need for special education services and interventions during a child's academic career.
PTA supports federal and state incentives for high-quality child care and preschool programs for children ages 0 to 5. These programs should be affordable and accessible; developmentally appropriate; coordinated at all levels (federal, state, and local); and characterized by high standards for teaching, training, health, and safety. Additionally, the PTA strongly encourages the inclusion of a strong family engagement component into all early childhood education programs.
Currently, there are several vehicles within Congress, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to meet the needs of young children and their families, including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Child Care and Development Block Grant, Head Start/Early Head Start and the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. National PTA will continue to advocate in Congress to strengthen early childhood education programs that further the success of our earliest learners.


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Wausau Tile founder Edward Creske, seen here in 2000, died Wednesday at 86.
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Those big, red, concrete balls in front of Target. The McDonald's trash cans, the seemingly indestructible ones with the pebbles on the outside. Furniture or tile or wall treatments and more at the U.S. Capitol, Mount Rushmore and Reagan National Airport. Wausau Tile has gone everywhere, and the company has supported thousands of Wausau-area families since its founding in 1953.
Its founder, Mosinee native Edward J. Creske, died Wednesday at 86 in Palm Springs, Calif. The company that he built continues on, with 350 employees in its 450,000-square-foot Rothschild facilities and clients all over the globe. It's a major regional employer and a central Wisconsin business with a truly global reach.
And Creske leaves a lasting mark on the region. He paid for the Mosinee School District's Creske Community Center and donated to his church and many charitable efforts. Creske lived the American dream, and he will be missed.
Forest Park neighbors work for change
The neighborhood groups in Wausau established in the last few years to fight crime and blight have had real success stories. Now a new group in the northeast side's Forest Park neighborhood - between north-south Sixth Street and 13th Street, and the east-west Winton and Sylvan streets - aims to clean up its area.
The group, led by resident Marcia Marek, has attracted about 20 members and is seeking more. It plans to meet once a month to discuss with city officials the neighborhood concerns, which could be everything from speeding drivers and lack of sidewalks to drugs or crime in the area.
It is a worthwhile effort and we hope the Forest Park residents are able to have their voices heard and their suggestions taken seriously.
Volunteers help lost dogs to be found
For a lot of us, a dog is a member of the family, and losing a dog is a wrenching experience. Lost Dogs of Wisconsin is a nonprofit organization that uses volunteers and harnesses the power of social media to help people connect with their lost dogs. They have a website and a Facebook page that allows people to report if they have lost a dog - or if they've found one, and they work with local shelters and rescues to reunite animals with their owners.
Locally, David Woods is a volunteer who tirelessly gives his time to help sometimes desperate families find Fido. To learn more or to make a donation, visit www.lostdogsofwisconsin.org.


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Per the request of Tammy's Fiance (James Messersmith) the following have been added to the obituary; Jill Millins, Sarah Mullins and Sarah Mullins's Daughter. Tammy Dale (Garrett) Kegley, Age 55, passed away Friday (December 21st 2013) at home. She was born in Wayne County on February 7th 1958 to Russell Dale Garrett and Alverta Marlene Mullins (Yingst) and had lived in the area her whole life. Survivors include her boyfriend, James Messersmith of Lynn, Two daughters, Tamera Kegley and Amy Kegley of Richmond, Two sons Russel Dale Wesler, and Justin Kegley of Richmond. Three step children, Julia Baker of Greenville, OH, Tina Messersmith, of Union City, OH and Joshua Messersmith of Lynn, One brother, Mark Garrett, Three sisters Jamie (Greg) Gellinger, Joy (Mike) West, and Darlene Walcott all of Richmond, One step - daughter, Jill Mullins of Greenville, OH, Sarah Mullins of Greenville, OH, and Sarah Mullins's Daughter. Other survivors include one sister in law Sandy Garrett, Several grandkids, Several aunts and nieces and nephews. Including her parents she is preceded in death by one brother Timmy Garrett and one uncle. Services for Tammy will be held on Friday (December 27th 2013) at Riggle-Walterman Mortuary at 3:30 P.M. Burial will be in Earlham Cemetery. Pastor Paul Mingus will Officiate. Friends and family may call from 5:00 P.M. To 7:00 P.M. On Thursday (December 26, 2013) at the funeral home. www.riggle-waltermann.com
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Technology Benefiting Equality
Allen S. Hammond
Introduction: Not Just a Digital Divide, but also a Technology Divide
Many people in the United States and abroad have heard of the "Digital Divide ".1 However,the Digital Divide in the United States and in the world 2 is part of a larger global technology divide between the Northern and Southern hemispheres,the rich and poor nations and the rich and poor inhabitants of the world.3 Even in the Northern Hemisphere,even in countries such as the United States,geography,un- equal distribution of wealth and cost conspire to per- petuate a technology divide.Recently the technology divide has been evident in the conflict between U.S. pharmaceutical companies and South Africa and Bra- zil over the countries ' attempts to create generic AIDS drugs for which the companies hold patents.4 The technology divide is also evident in the growing de- bate over access to biotechnology to increase food pro- duction5 and technology to treat and potentially cure disease.
In an effort to address these global discrepancies in a limited way, the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University and The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose identified Technology Benefiting Equality as one of the five categories for its Technology Benefiting Humanity awards. The panel selecting the finalists and the winner in this category was required to select an award recipient from among the applications of numerous organizations, companies, and individuals whose innovative use of technology has the potential to reduce the technology divide.
Judging Criteria
The panel established a set of general criteria for the selection of the finalists. The use of a technology was to address a serious problem or challenge of broad significance. The technology was to be used responsibly in its delivery to its intended beneficiaries. The technology in question could be used in a new way, or could be a new technology altogether.Thetechnology 's use must have a measurable impact on the problem addressed.In addition,applicants were required to have a sense of potential adverse effects the technology 's implementation might have.And,finally, the use of the technology to address the particular prob- lem or challenge should be able to be replicated.
In reviewing the applications,we eschewed an emphasis on novelty or newness in favor of an em- phasis on effectiveness.To quote one of our panelists: "Novelty for its own sake isn 't worth much,unless it demonstrates or at least promises effectiveness in achieving its goal." Consistent with the judging ru- bric,we made no distinction between a project using old technology to address a pressing problem,and a project using new technology to address a pressing problem.Instead,we sought to select those projects using technology that showed the greatest promise and that possessed the potential to enable lots of new uses if developed.
We were "technology neutral" in that we sought to avoid favoring one generic form of technology (for instance, information technology) over others. We also sought to judge projects using a single technology and those using multiple technologies as theoretically equal, but recognized that there is great value in projects that orchestrate a variety of technologies or media to achieve a particular end. We attempted to select applicants that could have international impact consistent with the criteria established in the judging rubric. Finally, we treated as equals the applications that proposed training in the use of technology and the applications that focused on the deployment and or implementation of a technology to achieve equality by leveraging positive change.
The Finalists
The Panel selected five finalists from among the many worthy applicants. The finalists in alphabetical order are: Benetech, Chaz M. Holder, Greenstar, James Sheats and LINCOS, and the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP). Whether seeking to improve the mobility of the physically handicapped through the development of efficient cheaply produced prosthetics; or developing and deploying self contained and powered technology centers to enhance the provision of potable water, medical services, electric power and communication; or expanding the voice of the women; or expanding the access to information of the world's blind and visually impaired; the finalists are engaged in using technology to address the serious global problem of inequality. Each of the finalists met all of the criteria established by the panel.
Benentech's Bookshare.org uses technology to provide people with sight disabilities access to a growing online library of digital books. While this concept is not new, its implementation is critical and timely. Aside from the population born with a significant disability, those growing older tend to develop sight disabilities as well. This fact will become increasingly clear to Americans as the post-war babyboomers continue to age. In the United States it is estimated that there are at least ten million blind or visually impaired individuals.6
Bookshare.org offers a Web-based digital library for individuals with visual and other print disabilities. Prospective registered users access and download library materials in the NISO/Daisy XML digital talking book standard or the BRF (an electronic Braille format). In all probability, the vast majority of the ten million blind or visually impaired Americans can make use of Bookshare.org's technology.7 One can add a significant portion of dyslexic Americans as well.8 There are approximately forty-five million blind individuals in the world.9 This number could double by the year 2020.10 It is estimated that between eighty and ninety percent of the forty-five million blind live in the less developed countries of the world. Twenty-five percent of these live in one country, India. One million, four hundred thousand of these individuals are children. Seventy-five percent of the 1.4 million children live in the poorest parts of less developed countries.11 In addition, it is estimated that five percent of the world's population is dyslexic.12 Thus the potential impact of Bookshare.org could be substantial should it expand its digital library to include books in other languages besides English.
Chaz M. Holder, CZBioMed Enterprises
In developing countries as well as developed nations, accidents, congenital defects, bone deformities, constricted bone growth, and the aftermath of armed conflict result in numerous physically challenged individuals. 13 For many, the cost of acquiring prosthetic limbs14 limits their ability to enjoy a more selfdirected life.15 CZBioMed Enterprises joins a small number of firms seeking to provide prosthetic limbs. These limbs are cheaper and more responsive to the user's actual need to perform every day tasks taken for granted by those with their biological limbs.16 In the process, CZBiomed will help create opportunities for people in various parts of the world to purchase cheap, user compatible prosthetics and live a more productive life.17
Greenstar recognizes that access to technology is not the primary need of many of its would be beneficiaries. So, it uses technology to deliver services addressing basic health, education, energy, environment, training and financial needs. Greenstar's Solar- Powered Community Center provides a platform on which a village in an isolated portion of the world can use technology to first meet its immediate needs. 18 As needs such as water purification, telemedicine, education and economic developmentare met, the village can also use communications technology to communicate its culture and perspective to the outside world.19
James Sheats, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, and LINCOS
A LINCOS (Little Intelligent Communities) Digital Town Center is composed of a discarded steelshipping container stocked with computer equipment, modems, solar panels and satellite-dish antennas and dressed up with a nice white awning.20 Developed by James Sheats of Hewlett-Packard Corporation, assisted by the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Living and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, LINCOS Digital Town Centers provide access via satellite to the Web, E-mail, videoconferencing, IT training, and telemedicine. Presently, seven LINCOS centers operate in Costa Rica. The technology's creators intend to install LINCOS centers throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. The LINCOS model, complete with the shipping containers, is already being deployed by Pride Africa, a Nairobi, Kenya, organization that has established 58 limited bank branches in five African countries for 100,000 of the region's poorest people.21
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace
The Women's Learning Partnership is a U.S.- based group seeking to promote the use of modern technologies by Muslim women worldwide. 22 "Of those in the Arab countries with Internet connections, only 4 percent are women, compared with 7 percent of China's Internet users, 17 percent of South Africa's, 17 percent of Japan's and 38 percent of those in the United States." 23 According to Noeleen Heyzer, director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, "the key to a better life for millions of women in the Muslim world struggling against poverty, illiteracy, and isolation may be found in E-inclusion., Econsultation, E-campaign."24 Currently, providing Internet access to most women in the Muslim world remains a distant goal. However, where it is available, the introduction of e-mail and the Internet has already begun to make women activists more effective and has helped women who live in isolated areas in Nigeria, the Palestinian territories and Morocco.25
The Panel
Allen S. Hammond, Chair, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
Christine Bachen, Associate Professor ofCommunication, Santa Clara University
Hans-Peter Dommel, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University
Brian Fitzgerald, Dean of the School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia
Brenda Laurel, Designer and Writer
Steve Puthuff, Chairman, SyberSayCommunications
David Sul, Director of College Special Programs, Santa Clara University
End Notes
1 One measure of the global digital divide can be taken by considering these few facts.
2 "Amid reports that the 'digital divide' is actually narrowing in the U.S., the facts about a rapidly widening gap worldwide are becoming a focus of concern among internationally minded organizations that assume that information access and connectivity are essential for full participation in the global economy.
The disparities are great. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recently said that the Internet is used only by 5 percent of the world's population. Some 85 percent of all users and 90 percent of the hosts are in developed countries. Research by University of Maryland professor Ernest J. Wilson III indicates that in 2000, 98 percent of Latin Americans,
99.5 percent of Africans, and about 98 percent ofAsians were not connected to the Internet. And the gap is widening. Access is growing by 23 percent annually in the 'have' countries (those mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, and Australia and New Zealand), but is only growing by 18 percent annually in the 'havenot' countries (mostly in the Southern Hemisphere)." Wally W. Conhaim. "The Global Digital Divide." Information Today, 7:18 (July 1, 2001), 1.
3 See "UN Economic and Social Council opens 2001 substantive session; Begins Discussion on Transfer of Knowledge and Technology" M2 PRESSWIRE ( July 4, 2001). Also see Hardev Kaur. "Uneven Results of Globalization" New Straits Times- Malaysia, (February 1, 2001), 17.
"In April 1998, 29 OECD countries spent $520 billion on research and development, most of which is funded by the private sector, which is more than the combined economic output of the 30 poorest countries. In 1992, less than 10% of global spending on health research addressed 90% of the global disease burden, 0.28% was dedicated to research on pneumonia and diarrhea, diseases which constitute 11% of the global disease burden. Out of the 95,000 scientific articles dealing with therapy, only 182 were about tropical diseases. Similarly, out of the 1,223 new drugs introduced worldwide between 1975 and 1996, only 13 were meant to treat tropical diseases.
About 95% of the world's publicly supported energy research and development was spent by OECD countries and very little on renewable energy resources that are more relevant to the needs of developing countries. More or less the same pattern is visible for Internet use and even the diffusion of what the report calls old innovations such as electricity and grid development, first invented in 1831, but from which a third of the world's population continues to be deprived. Consumption in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa is less than one-tenth of the OECD.
The same pattern is detected as far as scientific and technological research is concerned: OECD countries, with 14% of the world's population accounted for 86% of the 836,000 patents filed in 1998 and 85% of the 437,000 scientific and technical articles published worldwide. The OECD spends 2.4% of its GDP on research as against 0.6% in South Asia. It follows that new technologies and products are more likely to be developed in OECD countries than elsewhere. This is a natural consequence of the scientific and technological breakthroughs that were first achieved in Europe, reinforced further by the social revolutions that occurred there and the global dominance that followed from these twin causes." "Technological Power: Massively in Favour of the Western Bloc." The Statesman – India (August 3, 2001).
4 "The Bush administration said yesterday that the United States was withdrawing its international copyright complaint against Brazil over AIDS drugs. Critics said the U.S. action, which had been brought through the World Trade Organisation, had threatened Brazil's drive to tackle AIDS, which has been credited with cutting the infection rate by 60 per cent…Brazil was regarded as the latest front in the battle to get cheap AIDS drugs for poorer nations over the objections of drugs firms defending their copyrights. The United States had objected to a Brazilian law requiring drug companies to produce patented drugs inside the country rather than import them - reducing their cost. If this is not done, the law gives the Brazilian government the right to license the manufacturing rights to someone else.
In April, pharmaceutical companies retreated from a three-year lawsuit against South Africa's government in which they attempted to enforce their copyrights. More recently, Kenya's parliament unanimously passed a law allowing the government to suspend patent rights in times of emergency, clearing the way for cheaper, generic AIDS drugs in the East African nation.""Brazil Wins Battle for Cheap Drugs."The Scotsman (June 26, 2001), 11.
In a direct challenge to the world's pharmaceutical industry, the authors of a new UN report have called on developing countries to strengthen their national laws in order to enable local production of cheaper, lifesaving AIDS drugs. Such an option can be pursued legitimately under compulsory licensing, a principle in international commerce that permits countries to "use patents without permission of the patent holder in return for a reasonable royalty on sale," says the Human Development Report 2001, released today by the UN Development Program. The United Nations estimates that, of the 36 million people living with HIV/ AIDS, an estimated 70 percent are in sub-Saharan Africa, with countries like Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya the worst affected. Marwaan Macan-Markar. "UN Report Sees Green Light for Generic Aids Drugs."Inter Press Service (July 10, 2001).
5 Recently, Dr. Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], stated that: "biotechnology and genetically modified organisms [GMOs] can help to increase the supply, diversity and quality of food products and reduce costs of production and environmental degradation, as the world grapples with the scourge of hunger and malnutrition". " UN FAO Director-General Stresses Benefits of Biotechnology in Fighting Hunger."Ascribe Newswire ( May 15, 2001).
Also see C. V. Gopalakrishnan. "Breakthroughs in Agro-Biotechnology."The Hindu (July 26, 2001).
6 Every seven minutes an American becomes blind or visually impaired. Currently, there are approximately 10 million blind and visually impaired people in the United States. One million, three hundred thousand of them are legally blind. Five million, five hundred thousand of them are older Americans. At least 1.5 million blind or visually impaired adults in the United States use computers. See Barbara T. Mates, "Accessibility Guidelines for Electronic Resources, Library Service for Disabled Persons." Library Technology Reports 4:17 (July 1, 2001) reciting excerpts from American Foundation for the Blind.
7 "For the purpose of interfacing with a computer, a person who is blind can be considered as someone who cannot use a visual display. People who are blind usually have little or no trouble inputting information, as most can use the keyboard effectively. Accommodation is not needed at the input end of the information chain but is needed for information retrieval. A person who is blind will more than likely not turn on the monitor when accessing information. A blind person will not be able to perform tasks that require eye-hand coordination, such as manipulating a mouse. A person who is blind and wishes to access computer information more than likely will use a Braille display or synthesized speech output."
Barbara T. Mates. "Accessibility Guidelines for Electronic Resources; Library Service for Disabled Persons."Library Technology Reports, 4:17 (July 1, 2001), 1.
8 According to the International Dyslexia Association,
2.4 million U.S.school children are reported to have learning disabilities. "Despite Dyslexia, Indiana U. Grad Excels."University Wire (September 7, 1999).
9 Brian Barber. "Vision group picks Tulsa."Tulsa World, (August 10, 2001).
10 News, Documents and Commentary. "Kenya;
Project to Fight Blindness." Africa News, (June 13,
11 Clare Gilbert and Allen Foster. "Childhood
blindness in the context of VISION 2020 — The
Right to Sight." Bulletin of the World Health
Organization, 3:79 (March 1, 2001), 227.
12 Sarah Boseley. "Tests of Newborns Can Indicate
Dyslexia Risk, Researchers Say." Minneapolis Star
Tribune (September 5, 1999), E3.
13 "Artificial limbs for the Handicapped." The Hindu
(May 18, 2000).
14 For instance, "a standard, modern leg prosthetic
costs $2,000. Costs can increase dramatically for the
latest computer-age models that automatically compensate
for going down a slope when body weight
can dramatically shift from one leg to another."
Elliott Jones. "A Part of Them." Vero Beach, Florida,
Press Journal (April 3, 2001), C1.
15 Catherine Zandonella. "Legs With Promise",
Newsday (September 12, 2000), C8.
16 Ibid. Also see Chompoo Trakullertsathien. "Life
and Limb", Bangkok Post (November 23, 1999), 1.
17 "High-Tech Lab Helps Amputees 'Just Do It'." Chicago
Sun-Times (May 06, 2001), 18.
18 "Technology Empowerment Network Selects
Greenstar as Sponsored Project at Davos Conference."
U.S. Newswire (January 30, 2001) International Desk,
Technology Reporter.
19 "Arab-Ka'abneh entered the modern era last year
when an American foundation set up a solar power
energy plant in the village. Now the village––which
till recently had no running water, electricity or phone
lines––also has its own Web site to promote and sell
its rugs and cheeses in the international
market…[T]oday, a solar-powered system runs an ultraviolet
water purifier, a vaccine cooler, a computer,
a fax machine, a copy machine and a digital cellular
antenna for access to data networks. The project
…brings tele-medicine, distance learning and e-commerce
to areas where electrical power grids are unavailable
––was one of the first to use a combination
of solar power and wireless communications to link a
rural population with the rest of the world.
Arab-Ka'abneh is one of four villages-Palestinian,
Israeli, Jordanian and Egyptian––which form
part of a unique solar energy project called A Solar
Bridge for Peace Building', sponsored by Friends of
the Earth Middle-East (FoEME). The concept is to
turn the villages in this shared solar zone into a model
of sustainable communities relying on the energy of
the sun to power their needs." Soumya Sarkar.
"Reaching for the Sun to Connect with the Earth."
Financial Express (May 1, 2000).
20Adam Piore and Ron Moreau. "A Global Gap."
Newsweek Atlantic Edition (January 29, 2001), 30.
21 Mary E. Thyfault. op. cit.
22 "Getting Connected; Muslim Women Leaders Talk
About Internet's Potential and Its Perils." Chicago
Tribune (June 21, 2000), 8.
23 "A Muslim Woman's Place is ... Online?" The News
and Observer Raleigh, N.C. (June 5, 2000), D3.
24 Ibid.
25 "Getting Connected; Muslim Women Leaders Talk
About Internet's Potential and Its Perils." op. cit.


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