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Augusta,Ga---An icy relationship between the city of Augusta and the local hockey team is about to get even colder.
Riverhawks officials say they're planning to sue the city.
We're told they lost more than $150,000 when the ice at the James Brown Arena melted last season forcing them to find a new home. City attorneys are vowing a legal face off.
"I remember two players got into a fight. I was like they're supposed to do that," said Hockey Lover Sophia Sgalato.
Sgalato fell in love with the Riverhawks. She has two hockey sticks, an autographed puck, and several jerseys all of her favorite team.
"I know the teammates that signed my jersey are going places. They may go to the NHL," said Sgalato.
Unfortunately, one place where her team won't be is the James Brown Arena. The ice machine is broke and so was her heart when the team stopped playing.
"I guess it hasn't really hit me yet. I remember I got the email and I started crying. It's like my every winter thing," said Sgalato.
"I don't foresee any ice on the floor," said Attorney Ed Enoch.
Coliseum Attorney Ed Enoch says the contractor will have to replace the whole floor to the tune of a million dollars. No ice is also costing the Riverhawks. They had to move to finish the season last year. Loss revenue along with moving leaves them asking the city for $150,000. It's money Enoch says they won't get.
"It talks about "Force Majure" which are acts of God. One of the specific things, it talks about is breakage or accidents to a machine," said Enoch.
For Sgalato, she doesn't care about a contract. she just wants to see them play.


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Up until recently many media outlets were obsessed with having a 'Facebook strategy', building pages and apps and begging people to Like them. The times seem to be changing though, with many outlets now considering Twitter, Pinterest, and email newsletters better drivers of traffic.
Indeed, there is a growing feeling that to build a strong audience in Facebook requires precious resources that publishers simply do not have and that ultimately this benefits Facebook more than the publisher.
Publishers have to either purchase adverts on Facebook, or spend significant time developing content for their page. Nicke Blunden, global publisher of The Economist told told Digiday:
"You're either spending ad money on Facebook or spending time by working on there; both benefit Facebook."
While New York Magazine's Michael Silberman says his magazine isn't going off of Facebook, but he does say they are "digging into our numbers to understand the value of a Facebook fan, how much happens on Facebook, how much happens on our sites and how those relate to each other".
Other publishers complained that Facebook does not communicate well with them, making it hard to improve interaction and readership via the social network. Others still claimed that Facebook is a difficult company to work with.
High profile newspapers like The Guardian and the Washington Post have experimented with building readers into Facebook so that people don't have to leave the network to read their content, but both these projects have ultimately bitten the dust.
While some publishers like The Independent do maintain significant linkage between Facebook and their website, it does seem that Facebook has become too insular in an age in which publishers need to be shared as widely as possible. It also requires too much work for publishers to get their content to new readers, while Twitter excels at this via hashtags, retweets and search functionality.
Pinterest too is becoming a vital sharing tool for publishers. Brian Sugar told Digiday that the visual based network provides seven times the number of referrals that Facebook does. For readers that have decided they want updates from a publisher, an email newsletter is also still an important way of distributing content.
Look at this example: Brian Sugar, CEO of Sugar highlighted how an article about "Exercises to Lose Your Muffin Top" scored about 1,000, but 442,000 pins. That is a huge difference. He said Facebook had never been a big driver of traffic.
Annie Heckenberger, VP Community Trailblazer at Red Tettemer + Partners, asked why would publishers invest much in Facebook when it is a doctor's office waiting room for publishers.
She described it as a place where your content sits for long periods of time and is maybe half read, maybe discovered, over a long period of a time.
"Versus Twitter, which is more like a Publisher's content being fodder for a CNN story; real time coverage, every hour, for several hours, sparking coffee shop chatter and begetting more news coverage," Heckenberger said.
There is no doubt that publishers still have a place on Facebook, but pages now seem to be best used as message boards, where a community dedicated to a certain outlet can discuss the content, instead of being a traffic driver for the publisher themselves.

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(1931) EXILED QUEEN SAYS GOOD-BY: With the words: "Adios Madrid! Adios Espana!" tears running down her face, Queen Ena left Spain on April 15, travelling secretly to meet her husband, King Alfonso, who had abdicated following the news of sweeping Republican success in the municipal elections.
(1936) Meanwhile in Spain - WAR: Middle class intelelctual formed the Republcian government of Spain after the flight of King Alfonso in 1931. They believed they could alter things in Spain without a revolution; but they faced opposition from Church, army and landowners. In February 1935 came a general election. Republican parties joined up and got 4,839,449 votes; Rightists parties got 3,996,931 votes. Six months later, on July 18, the Rightists rose againts the newly-elected government. Civil war had come to Spain.
(1938) SINKING OF THE BALEARES: Seventy miles off the coast of Cartagena, Spain, a Loyalist fleet of four destroyers and two cruisers met a Rebel fleet of four destroyers and three cruisers, shortly after midnight on march 6. First major naval battle since 1916, it ended at 2.30 a.m. with the sinking of the Rebel cruiser Baleares by a Loyalist torpedo. Ignoring shouts to jump overboard from sailors of the British destroyer Kempenfelt that had come to the rescue, five hundred of the Baleares crew, including the admiral in command, were burned to death. (Men swimming from the Baleares can be seen in lower left corner of the picture.)


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ReQuest is betting there's a music server in your future, and they're working hard at eliminating any objections you might have about it. In addition to showing off their new S-series components ("S" for "serious sound"), the company introduced a host of widgets, added functions, new remotes, and the Echo, a daily-updated backup drive for your music library.
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Producer commented, "The film would definitely attract the mass audiences. The entire film has been brought out as an entertainer and at the same time very exciting. We have remixed the popular song 'Ragulutondi Mogali Poda...' and choreographed on Rajiv Kanakala, Suhasini and Mumaith Khan. This song would remain a highlight in the flick. The visual effects for the film are being carried out in London."
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Commentary: Does Cisco Have A Microsoft Problem?
Do trustbusters smell blood in the water? Now that the federal government has sued Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. for violating the Sherman Act, there's been widespread speculation on op-ed pages, TV finance talk shows, and the antitrust conference circuit that networking giant, Cisco Systems Inc., could be next. "Get ready, John Chambers," one Wall Street Journal guest editorialist warned the company's CEO. "It's only a matter of time before the Beltway show-trial begins."
Certainly, there are plenty of similarities between Cisco and the Wintel duo. The San Jose (Calif.) company, which makes specialized computers that direct traffic across the Internet, is gigantic, manufactures a key piece of America's technological backbone, and dominates many segments of its industry. In the market for high-end routers, for example, Cisco has an 89% share, notwithstanding a history of incursions by rivals such as 3Com Corp. and Bay Networks. Cisco's success has rocketed it to the top of the stock-market valuation charts: Even after falling 38% from its Mar. 27 peak, it's still worth a stunning $383 billion, just behind General Electric Co. and Intel.
That's not all. Like Microsoft, Intel, and many other technology companies, Cisco benefits from what economists call "network effects." That means that the more market share it accrues, the more its products become standards, and the more valuable they become to customers. These days, network effects have become a trigger for antitrust scrutiny because they can give companies so much market dominance. And, just as is the case with Wintel, there are concerns that Cisco abuses that power. Specifically, critics claim that the company sells software called Internetworking Operating System (IOS) with its products that makes them work better with other Cisco equipment than they do with other companies' gear. IOS could help Cisco leverage from routers into other markets where it's not as dominant--much as Microsoft grabbed the browser market by bundling Internet Explorer with the ubiquitous Windows.
BUYING BINGE. Then there's the question of innovation. Justice antitrust chief Joel I. Klein has made protecting it a top priority. Yet some critics worry that Cisco is cornering the market on innovation in networking, in part by having bought more than 50 companies, many of them potential rivals, during the last seven years.
Despite the superficial similarities, though, Cisco is far less likely to run afoul of regulators than its fellow members of tech's top troika. Start with the most critical issue in any antitrust inquiry: market power. Sure, Cisco dominates critical segments of the data networking market. But in most of these areas, it's relatively easy to substitute somebody else's equipment for Cisco's, which isn't always the case with Microsoft and Intel products. That's because networking is driven by open standards--devised by international bodies--that ensure interchangeability among products from different vendors. So it's harder for Cisco to throw its weight around the way Microsoft did.
Indeed, the data networking business is much more fragmented than either PC operating systems or PC processors. There are 14 major sectors, of which Cisco is in a dozen. While it has dominant shares in many areas, such as routers used in corporate networks and those used in the heart of the Internet, most sectors are quite competitive. In broadband networking, for instance, Cisco's share is 15%. All told, it owns about half the overall data-networking market. "Cisco has the largest market share of anybody, but it's not the only kid on the block," says analyst Michael Wolf of Cahners In-Stat Group.
Fact is, competition in the networking business has never been fiercer. In 1999, says researcher VentureOne Corp., venture capitalists pumped nearly $8.2 billion into some 383 networking and communications startups, three times more than they invested the year before. "There's still room in the networking world for smart startups with a better idea to succeed" says Dennis Barsema, chief executive of Redback Networks Inc., a maker of specialized networking gear used by Internet service providers.
What's more, the networking market is rapidly evolving. As data and voice networks start to converge and the Net evolves into the backbone for virtually all communication, Cisco increasingly competes with sellers of traditional telephone equipment, such as Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp., that have far bigger revenues and profits. They're all chasing a giant market pegged at about $150 billion annually. Cisco's share of this larger market--including both voice and data gear--is roughly 10%. If prosecutors tried to paint it as a monopolist in data networking, Cisco could counter that it's now a relatively small player in a much bigger arena. "Our relevant market has shifted," says Chief Counsel and Vice-President Dan Scheinman.
LEGAL CLONES. The company's practice of using IOS to lock in customers is also less abusive than it appears. Five years ago, when Cisco's primary market was corporations using a wide array of different networking protocols, the software was critical. But its importance is diminishing. Now, most of the world has standardized on Internet protocol, the lingua franca of the Net. And competitors such as Juniper Networks Inc. have managed legally to clone enough of IOS that their equipment can be used interchangeably with Cisco's, with no less performance.
As for innovation, you can make a strong argument that the company's acquisition binge also turned Cisco into an engine for distributing cutting-edge technologies, many of which it acquires from nimbler startups. This means customers get to use those technologies far more rapidly than if they were being sold by tiny companies with limited market access.
No matter, it's clear that antitrust cops are watching Cisco. In the fall of 1998, the Federal Trade Commission opened a brief investigation into allegations that Cisco had colluded with Lucent Technologies to divvy up the market, but the case was closed nine months later. For now, there's no sign that Cisco is on the verge of being sued by either the Justice Dept. or the FTC. But the Feds have been closely monitoring Cisco's acquisitions. "I've gone to Washington about a dozen times to meet with people in Justice about our mergers," says Scheinman. But he has "always taken these meetings as an opportunity to talk to the DOJ about our market" in general.
Such lobbying won't forestall antitrust action if the company ever abuses its market clout. But it's a much wiser approach to prevention than the disdain Microsoft has shown for the Feds--and could very well help Cisco convince the trustbusters that not all technology titans are cut from the same cloth.


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Of all the things that signal the start of a new school year, possibly one of the largest, literally, is the sight of a line of big yellow school buses.
Routes are being finalized and tires are being replaced as the Ohio State Highway Patrol finishes summer rounds of inspections to ensure all buses are up to state standards.
Facing everything from construction woes to the closing of an entire school, schools across Washington County are preparing to bus hundreds of students to their respective schools when school begins later this month.
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Mechanic Jeff Lauer changes a filter under the hood of one of the Marietta City School District's several dozen buses, part of the summertime routine to prepare fleets for the start of the new school year.
A new year
After the closing of Lawrence Elementary School, the Frontier district had to do some tweaking so that Lawrence's approximately 40 students would have the ability to be bused to other schools, with the majority headed to Newport Elementary.
"The routes haven't changed a lot, but we've readjusted a couple for Lawrence kids so they can get rides," said Frontier Superintendent Bruce Kidder. "It wasn't much, we just had to make sure they could get to Newport or wherever they were going."
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Belpre City School District: Aug. 19.
Caldwell Exempted Village School District: Sept. 2.
Fort Frye Local School District: Aug. 20.
Frontier Local School District: Aug. 21.
Marietta City School District: Aug. 20.
Noble Local School District: Aug. 18.
Switzerland of Ohio Local School District: Aug. 26.
Warren Local School District: Aug. 20.
Washington County Career Center: Aug. 20, first day of school for first-year students; Aug. 21, first day of school for all returning students.
Williamstown schools: Aug. 18.
Wolf Creek Local School District: Aug. 19.
Frontier has been working on plans for new buses, but bidding has yet to be finalized as the board continues to discuss what the most cost-effective options are.
In Marietta, traffic-stalling summer construction throughout the city, concentrated in the Pike Street area, is expected to cause delays that Marietta City Schools Transportation Director Dave Davis said just has to be dealt with as it comes.
"It will put us behind from time to time, but most of the time we just have to slug it out," he said. "We use some detours and keep in communication, and if things start backing up, they'll radio in and cut across County House Lane and come in on (Ohio) 26."
Davis said though the district foresees delays for a while after school begins, it is something drivers are fully prepared to handle with radios and constant communication.
"We get the calls, and the phone always rings off the hook for the first few days because things are late," he said.
Davis said the district also has the issue of Millcreek Road where the bus garage is, with the thick traffic of large vehicles trying to pull onto Colegate Drive. Construction is under way at that site as well to widen the roadway.
"Thermo Fisher has a lot of trucks and tractor trailers and a lot of employees, and it's very narrow for all of us back there," Davis said. "The county and city all came together to provide better access for us."
At Fort Frye Local Schools, Superintendent Stephanie Starcher, who is serving as the director of transportation for the upcoming school year, said letters were recently mailed home to families alerting them of changed bus routes.
"This summer we have updated a few routes to reduce student time spent on buses, total time driven per day, and total miles driven per day, but our school start and end times are still the same," Starcher said.
School buses, along with commercial and church buses, have to undergo inspections for safety purposes through the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a program that includes three summertime inspections for schools.
Law requires school buses to pass each inspection and to be fully-functional and fully-maintained before use for the new year.
"We're one of the first to go through them, and we try to keep ours up to state standards all the time, so it's not normally an issue for us," Davis said.
Davis said over the summer, Marietta's 22 buses have only gone through some moderate maintenance issues, mostly tire replacements, to get ready for next year.
State inspectors run through the exterior, interior, engine undercarriage and brakes of a bus before approving it for use of transportation, and by now, districts are finishing up and making last minute changes.
"At Fort Frye, we have ordered two new buses and all of our other buses have passed inspection," said Starcher. "We will likely be selling two buses later this fall from our fleet."
Fort Frye, like most other districts, is also running test drive routes during the days leading up to the start of school to make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible when children load up the buses.
Lisa Spence, transportation and operations director for Warren Local Schools, said the district currently has 28 buses for its 28 routes.
"All the buses, we go through them with a fine-tooth comb and check them from top to bottom with mechanics all year, and do any body work necessary," she said. "Then the state comes through and does those inspections, where they go through them and check for any abnormal parts, cracks in a frame, wipers, everything."
One of the larger districts in the county, Warren's district covers 196 square miles and buses drive 2,700 miles per day.
"And we're looking for subs right now, as all districts need that right now," Spence said. "We currently only have three regular drivers, and the rest we rely on substitutes."
Wolf Creek Local reported no issues going into the new school year with its nine daily routes, plus an additional three buses that go to St. John Central Grade School and the Washington County Career Center, which receives students from schools across the county.
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SAN RAMON -- Employees at San Ramon Valley Unified will be under the microscope of federal education officials for the next two years following repeat discrimination complaints from parents of special education students.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights investigated a complaint filed May 15 by parents Adam and Judy Wang. They claimed their 12-year-old autistic son with verbal apraxia and his special day class peers at Los Cerros Middle School were discriminated against when they were excluded from an otherwise all-school sixth-grade trip to The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose last fall. They said their son's only off-campus outings consisted of walks to the neighboring sports field at Monte Vista High School.
The Wangs also complained about the complete lack of information posted about their son's special education assignments and grades on the online School Loop system, used by the district's general education teachers, parents and students.
The investigation closed Nov. 25 with the district agreeing to revamp its policies, train and monitor staff to ensure students are not discriminated against, but public records show that in October 2012 -- a month before the Los Cerros Middle School museum trip -- the district had made a similar pledge.
To resolve an earlier Office for Civil Rights complaint filed by the parent of a fifth-grade student at Twin Creeks Elementary, the district in October 2012 had adopted and circulated new procedures that promised "to provide (disabled students) accommodations to permit participation" in extracurricular field trips. It also said field trip information given to parents of other students "must be provided to parents or guardians of students with disabilities," something the Wangs did not receive.
This time around, Judith Cameron, the district's new special education program director, is committed to better results, she said.
"The district is taking this very seriously," said Cameron, who joined the district Nov. 12. "You can have procedures, but if you don't have the training and accountability, then it gets lost."
Cameron will reinforce and rewrite district policies to specify that only a special education student's Individualized Education Program team -- comprised of a parent or guardian, teacher and program specialist -- can decide to deny a student participation in a field trip. Cameron will also train and monitor school sites to make sure they do not run afoul of anti-discrimination laws and give a report of her findings to the superintendent and the Office for Civil Rights at the end of each semester.
Asked what she thought of the coming field trip rules, parent Judy Wang said, "I like that the default assumption is they get to go," but while she is generally pleased with the outcome of the investigation, her joy is tempered.
"We just want to make sure that they deliver on those promises," Wang said. "I am just a little saddened that it took our filing, as well as another parent's filing, for OCR to take a harder action."
As for the online information system School Loop, new district guidelines will direct IEP teams to decide on a case-by-case basis whether such a system should be used to report academic progress for special education students, or if existing email, phone call, meeting or notebook communications are preferred.
Though not entirely satisfied, Wang said things are looking up for her son, who was granted a transfer request to Iron Horse Middle School this year.
He and other special education students in the district attended a Special Olympics Northern California soccer competition in Concord on Nov. 8, and his class plans to visit the San Jose technology museum this spring, she was told.
Resolution came more quickly for Wang this year when she learned her son and other male special day class students were changing into their P.E. clothes in the classroom, rather than the locker room because there was no male teacher's aide to accompany them. She filed a complaint, and not long after, a male aide was assigned by the district.
"We have been proactive and we put that support in place," Cameron said of the added aide. "Our students, again, should have the same access as non-disabled peers."
Ashly McGlone covers San Ramon. Contact her at 510-293-2463. Follow her at Twitter.com/AshlyReports.


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McCain's Language on Abortion Shifts Toward the Middle
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What IS John McCain's position on abortion and life issues?
That may seem like an odd question. He has just appointed an antiabortion heroine to his ticket and approved the most antiabortion Republican platform ever. Surely if anything is certain in this shifting campaign it's that Sen. McCain is ardently against abortion.
Not if you go by his statements this past week.
On The View, he was asked about abortion, and said he wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade. That's no change. But his emphasis was fascinating. First, he stressed that he would not impose a litmus test in favor of antiabortion (or abortion rights) judges. Then, instead of arguing that Roe needed to be overturned because abortion is wrong, he emphasized a states' rights position – that state governments, not the Supreme Court, should decide.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "So it was in how Roe v. Wade came apart that's the issue. You want it to be through the Constitution from the people not from the bench."
Sen. McCain: "And I believe that if Roe v. Wade were overturned then the states would make these decisions."
Later he said, "I had committed myself to a pro-life position because I happen to believe that life begins at conception, but that is an issue that I respect other people's views on." If you didn't know better, you'd think he was saying he was antiabortion but wouldn't impose that view on others.
Compare that to the Republican platform, which goes well beyond overturning Roe, endorsing a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in all 50 states, even in cases of rape and incest. Sen. McCain has said he supports the platform but mysteriously didn't mention the ban during his comments on The View.
Delighting Conservatives at Saddleback
Or compare his View comments to what he said at Saddleback Church a month ago when he delighted the conservative crowd with his ardently antiabortion views – "I will be a pro-life president and this presidency will have pro-life policies" — and didn't mention states' rights at all.
In her interview with Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin followed the lead of her ticket-mate, emphasizing that while she's personally antiabortion, "states should be able to decide that issue." She then uttered a few words that had been deemed utterly inappropriate by the Republican Party's platform committee just two weeks ago. An early platform draft had included this olive-branch sentence: "We invite all persons of good will, whether across the political aisle or within our party, to work together to reduce the incidence of abortion." Religious conservatives deleted the sentence, arguing that it sounded too much like Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
But there was Alaska Gov. Palin with the olive-branch, telling Mr. Gibson that she wanted to "reach out and work with those who are on the other side of this issue, because I know that we can all agree on the need for and the desire for fewer abortions in America." (For full texts of their statements on abortion, click here.
Then there's the confusing new advertisement about stem-cell research. The Republican platform this year called for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research. But a new McCain-Palin ad declares: "John McCain will lead his congressional allies to improve America's health. Stem-cell research to unlock the mystery of cancer, diabetes, heart disease. Stem-cell research to help free families from the fear and devastation of illness. Stem-cell research to help doctors repair spinal cord damage, knee injuries, serious burns. Stem-cell research to help stroke victims."
Technically, the ad doesn't specify whether he meant embryonic stem cells, but usually when politicians hit stem-cell research so hard they mean embryonic cells unless they specify otherwise.
Stirring Up New Questions
These new statements leave new questions: if Roe were overturned and Congress passed a ban on abortion, would a President McCain sign it (being pro-life) or veto it (since they want the states to decide)? Does he still support the Republican Party's position in favor of a 50-state ban on all abortion? Does he support embryonic stem-cell research in contradiction to the Republican platform?
Sen. McCain hasn't done a blatant flip-flop. But his emphasis has shifted significantly, over time and depending on the audience. He now seems to be in partial conflict with the Republican platform.
At the Republican convention, the Family Research Council's Connie Mackey told me how surprised religious conservatives were when Sen. McCain chose Gov. Palin as his running mate. They figured that since they won on the platform, they'd lose on the vice president. Instead they got both. They were thrilled.
Sen. McCain's comments this week raise a different possibility: that by embracing a sharply antiabortion platform and running mate, he now feels free to move to the center on abortion to appeal to independent and pro-choice voters. He's betting that antiabortion activists are now so invested in the success of the McCain-Palin ticket that they will cut him slack.
So far, they have – providing a sweet tactical assist to Sen. McCain's operatives.
But this strategy carries some risks. The religious conservatives are energized by Gov. Palin, but if Sen. McCain goes too far to the center, he'll end up reminding religious conservatives why they hated him in the first place. Gov. Palin might come to be viewed less as the woman who would transform John McCain as the heroine who was turned into a temporizing hack by John McCain.
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Is Black Friday Moving Online?
Reporter Stacey Delo visited downtown San Francisco on Black Friday and found that the stores weren't that busy.
In an interview, Andrew Eisner, director of community and content for online electronics store Retrevo.com, told Stacey that it had been a busier day online than in stores. "We may be starting to see a trend toward a Black Friday online or even Thanksgiving Thursday online," he said.
Mr. Eisner said that his site has found that TVs are the number one item shopper are looking for, followed by laptops and netbooks, which he said may have been fueled by the release of Microsoft Windows 7.
Mr. Eisner also pointed out that some of the online deals were better than the offline deals. For instance, he said the prices were better at the Black Friday sale at MacMall.com than at Apple's one-day Black Friday sale.


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Jan. 20, 2009 -- Medication for anxiety is "modestly beneficial" for very anxious older adults, according to a new study, but it takes four weeks or so to work.
Researchers looked at one specific drug, Lexapro, part of a class known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), to see if it could help relieve the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in older adults. Those with the condition worry chronically and can't seem to stop, with their quality of life affected.
SSRIs are medications prescribed for both anxiety and depression and are thought to work by correcting an imbalance of the brain chemical serotonin.
"Although these medications have been examined in younger adults, there has been very little examination of them in older adults," says study researcher Eric J. Lenze, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis.
And the need is great, he says, with nearly one in 10 older adults affected by GAD.
Medication for Anxiety: Study Results
Lenze and his colleagues assigned 85 adults with GAD (average age 71) to take Lexapro. Ninety-two adults with the condition (average age 72) were assigned to take placebo pills. The participants did not know what they were taking. The study lasted 12 weeks.
Lenze's team measured the participants' anxiety and other factors, such as social functioning and limitations in activity due to anxiety.
At the end of 12 weeks, 69% of those in the medication group had a response, compared to 51% in the placebo group, a difference that is considered significant. Those on Lexapro had more improvement in anxiety symptoms and their self-reported functioning, the researchers found.
But when the researchers considered the participants who dropped out, a more conservative way to analyze the findings, they found that the response rate was 57% for those who got the medicine and 45% for those on placebo -- not a significant difference.
"A short conclusion is that the drug was modestly beneficial, and even those modest benefits can only be seen if someone sticks with the medication long enough to see if it will help or not," Lenze says.


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A health and safety briefing provided by the IET.
European Law places an onus on all parties involved in supplying goods to the consumer to ensure that only safe goods are put onto the market?
NB: This article concerns the supply of goods not the electricity supply.
European Directives covering the supply of goods to the consumer do not limit liability to the last link in the supply chain (e.g. retailer or wholesaler). All parties concerned are equally responsible - manufacturer, agent, exporter, importer, wholesaler, factor, improver, shop-owner, stall holder. Goods in storage or transit, for example, on warehouse shelves ready for supply, are required to be safe.
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NORWALK, Ohio (AP) — A man who was driving drunk when he caused a fiery crash that killed a 36-year-old woman last year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in northern Ohio.
Huron County Common Pleas Judge James Conway also gave Jevec a lifetime driver's license suspension and ordered him to pay $1.3 million in medical bills for the passengers in his car who were injured.
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ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - At a crowded market stall in Syria, a middle-aged couple, well dressed, shuffle over to press a folded note, furtively, into the hand of a foreign reporter. It is the kind of silent cry for help against a reign of fear that has been familiar to journalists visiting Syria over the past two years. Only this is not the Damascus of President Bashar al-Assad but rebel-held Aleppo; the note laments misrule under the revolution and hopes Assad can defeat its "terrorism". ...
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Now in its 26th year, the annual Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2016) is one of the cybersecurity events of the year.
In Denver Colorado, more than 500 delegates from around the world are expected at VB2016.
From 5-7 October 2016, the world's leading IT security experts - from academia and vendors to non-profits and mega corporations - will gather to share their expertise, ideas, research, and predictions.
VB2016 offers three full days of cutting-edge presentations, debates, and panels that cover all aspects of the global threat landscape.
Each day provides several networking opportunities and events, giving you plenty of time to catch up with old friends and make new IT security contacts.
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Registration for the 2016 Virus Bulletin conference is now open.
VB2016 is expected to reach maximum capacity early. Please book now to avoid disappointment.
Contact Allison at Virus Bulletin for assistance.
The 2016 Virus Bulletin conference will be held in Denver Colorado, hosted at the impressive Hyatt Regency Denver Hotel at the Colorado Convention Center.
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Please note that there are three Hyatt hotels in Denver. The conference venue is the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, located at 650 15th Street.
The hotel is a 30-minute drive from Denver International Airport (the hotel recommends allowing an hour for transportation from the hotel to the airport). The taxi fare from the airport to downtown is approximately $51.
From April 2016, the Denver Light Rail will run from the airport to downtown Denver (Union Station - approx. 1 mile from the hotel), with a journey time of 37 minutes and costing $9.
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Arkadiusz Jaroni on Life Outside the Hospital
Arkadiusz Jaroni is a firm believer that to be successful long-term in the medical field, physicians must have a life outside the hospital. Arkadiusz Jaroni poses the question to all physicians, "Medicine is our vocation but what is our avocation?"
It's true that everyone needs time off to allow the body and the mind to relax and recuperate but, Arkadiusz Jaroni explains, doctors often forget this simple piece of advice. "Over the course of their education – which can take anywhere from ten to fifteen years – medical students become accustomed to spending all their time focusing on medicine. Classes and studying can occupy sixteen hours a day six or seven days a week. Internships and residencies can require the student to be at the hospital for days on end sometimes but this is what's necessary to become a competent physician. Their life outside the hospital gets put on hold in order to complete their education. The problem is, when they graduate and begin practicing medicine, the habit of spending long hours at work carries over.
These long hours at work eventually take their toll. Arkadiusz Jaroni continues, "Newly graduated physicians – and some who have been in the field for years – forget that balance is needed in a person's life in order to be truly happy and healthy. Doctor's give that advice to patients on an almost daily basis but they forget to apply it to themselves."
Physicians see the result of imbalance in others but often fail to see it in themselves. Arkadiusz Jaroni offers this advice, "If a patient came to you feeling ill and you discovered that he had been working sixteen hours a day six days a week for the past few years, what advice would you give him? You likely tell him to take some time off or reduce his workload if at all possible. That patient could easily be you [speaking to physicians]."
What is necessary to remedy this situation? Again, Arkadiusz Jaroni's opening question is appropriate: "Medicine is [a doctor's] vocation but what is [his] avocation?"
Arkadiusz Jaroni elaborates, "It's important to have something in your life other than medicine. So whether it's your family or learning a new skill or pursuing a hobby, all physicians need a life outside of medicine."
When asked what he does to unwind and decompress, Arkadiusz Jaroni responds, "My education took me from Alberta to Nova Scotia to Ontario then back to Alberta. Seeing diverse parts of the country fostered in me a love for travel that exists to this day. I use that passion to help me recuperate and recharge."
But travel is not something Arkadiusz Jaroni can do on a daily basis. For a more localized remedy Arkadiusz Jaroni turns to, "Family! I like being there and helping out as much as possible. It's something I can do when I find a spare moment and it helps me get my mind off the problems and stresses of work.
When asked to give some advice to current medical students, Arkadiusz Jaroni offers the following, "Before we went to medical school, we all had things we enjoyed doing. Don't let those things go. Even though you may not have the time while in school, when you graduate, make those things a priority. Do something fun as a way to put work behind you for a few hours. You'll be better off in the long term and be a better doctor in the short term."


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'Gatsby' as Opera, Fox Trots and All
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Published: December 20, 1999
When John Harbison began working on his third opera, ''The Great Gatsby,'' he faced a particular musical challenge that has stymied many opera composers before him.
The iconic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, on which the opera is based, is set in the Jazz Age, the early 1920's. So the narrative is filled with popular songs, dance music and show tunes from the period. Jay Gatsby is always giving parties at his fancy house on the Long Island shore, and his house resounds with music: jazz bands and pop vocalists, dance combos playing fox trots and tangos. Sometimes real tunes turn up significantly in Fitzgerald's prose, like ''Ain't We Got Fun'' and ''The Sheik of Araby.''
What was Mr. Harbison to do? Incorporate pop standards into his opera? His own music would very likely have been blotted out by the familiar tunes, and the tunes might have jarringly interrupted the musical-dramatic flow.
Far from being intimidated by the challenge, Mr. Harbison welcomed it. The technique of evoking vernacular music has a long heritage in opera, and Mr. Harbison conceived ''The Great Gatsby'' as an extension of the tradition. The work receives its world premiere tonight at the Metropolitan Opera, with James Levine conducting.
Audiences are often startled when a living composer evokes vernacular music, as William Bolcom does, for example, in ''A View From the Bridge,'' which recently received its premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The familiar music can seem incongruous with what is perceived as operatic style. But older operas are filled with evocations of vernacular music, though today's audiences often miss this because the evoked styles are from another era.
Verdi's operas are rich with vernacular music; for example, ''Rigoletto.'' After an ominous orchestra prologue, the scene opens at the Duke's palace, where an offstage band, exactingly evoked in the orchestra, plays dance music for a bawdy party. The trick, as Verdi realized, was to blend the vernacular idioms into a contemporary musical language. Verdi did not provide his impressions of dance bands from 16th-century Mantua, the opera's setting, but music that his audience in the 1850's would have recognized from any village square in Italy. And before long the dance music builds subtly but steadily into a full-fledged, complex choral ensemble, the kind of music an audience member of the day would have encountered only in a Verdi opera.
Sometimes opera composers must invent vernacular music to suit their purposes. Verdi obviously knew nothing about the music of ancient Egypt when he composed ''Aida.'' So he fashioned a 19th-century Italian composer's impression of it, quite convincingly, Mr. Harbison said. ''It works for me,'' he said recently during a break in rehearsals for his opera at the Met. ''If it's not Egyptian, it should be.''
Tchaikovsky used many real and made-up Russian songs and folk tunes in his operas. Wagner's ''Meistersinger'' is a veritable compendium of German folk songs, hymns and dances. Even a weighty work like ''Tristan und Isolde'' has Wagner's versions of sailors' songs, shepherds' plaints and hunting calls. Berg's ''Wozzeck,'' despite its Expressionistic atonal language, evokes soldiers' songs, children's ditties and ever some maudlin barroom piano music.
As an opera composer, Mozart is practically Mr. Vernacular. In her 1983 book, ''Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart,'' the scholar Wye Jamison Allanbrook demonstrates that virtually every aria and ensemble in ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' and ''Don Giovanni'' is based on some 17th- or 18th-century dance form that Mozart's audiences would have found familiar. They may not have exactly identified, say, a musette as a musette. But they would have recognized the style and intuitively understood its implications, much as Mr. Harbison's listeners may not identify one of his rumbas as such but will get the point.
His solution to the problem of evoking music from the 1920's in his 1990's opera was the only one possible. Though he wrote his own libretto, he asked Murray Horwitz to write 20's-style song lyrics for which Mr. Harbison composed music. The songs and dances are spiked with contemporary harmonic touches and blended into the continuous musical flow of the score, which has a consistent compositional voice.
Of course you cannot evoke 1920's music without having a feel for it. Mr. Harbison, who turned 61 today, does. From the age of 8, he listened to the radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera faithfully, and his father, a history professor at Princeton University and an amateur musician, periodically took him to Met performances. At the same time, though, he was excited by jazz.
In junior high school he formed a Dixieland band called, to his continuing embarrassment, the Harbison Heptet. He played piano. At 14 he applied to the musicians' union and, after swearing under oath that he had never been a member of the Communist Party, was admitted. In high school he played in jazz bands and wrote arrangements of pop standards.
Mr. Harbison's formal training as a composer came later, at Harvard, where he studied with Walter Piston, and in graduate school at Princeton, where he worked with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt.


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The idea for the bracing scent of this scented potpourri first caught my fancy when I was flipping through a yard sale find—a 1979 cookbook called Herbs from Cultivation to Cooking by the Herb Society of Greater Cincinnati. The original author was Rosella F. Mathieu, but I've streamlined the drawer sachet recipe a great deal so you can fix up a batch to freshen a winter clothes cabinet or stale summer cabin air without waiting weeks to assemble the ingredients. Make extra so you can set out a dish in the mildewy basement workshop or your guy's shoe closet, or use it to fill the car ashtray.
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An Over-the-Rhine man was arrested Wednesday, after witnesses said they saw him urinate on books at the downtown branch of the Hamilton County Public Library.
Eldred Earl Cobb, 57, is facing charges of criminal mischief, public indecency and obstructing official business.
According to court records, Cobb admitted to the offense.
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Cincinnati police say Cobb walked away from them when they were trying to question him.
About 30 books, valued at $585.09, were damaged, a library spokeswoman said.
All of the books were shelved in the hardcover fiction section with authors whose last names began with I and J, the spokeswoman said, ranging from Chatter: A Novel, by Perrin Ireland, to Red, White, and Blue: A Novel, by Susan Isaacs.


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All I want for Christmas is…
I'd like to use this post to hear what you all would like in the new year in relation to Dallas ISD. This coming year will usher in a series of changes, including a new state exam, a new superintendent and even less state funding.
But those are obvious issues. What else should be on the agenda in the upcoming year?
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When should something go into Property Management records?
- Property Management records must be maintained on all non-expendable, movable property and equipment owned by the college which has a historical cost (or fair market value for gifts and donations) of $1,000 or more, and a life expectancy of two years or more. Such property will be tagged and inventoried. All equipment purchased through the following methods must be inventoried and tagged
- Various funding sources including federal grants, contracts, state appropriations, student fees, generated revenue, private funds, etc.
- Purchased with funds administered by another institution or entity but being used and maintained at Salem State University
- Transferred from another institution
- Donated, on loan, constructed, or installed by industry for the purpose of collaborative research
- Self-contained for its primary function (not a component part of another piece of equipment)
- Has sufficient individuality and size to make control feasible by means of bar coding, or other tagging methods.
How is "equipment" defined?
Salem State University uses the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-21, as revised on July 26, 1993, effective January 1994, which establishes a definition for equipment as "non-expendable, tangible personal property having a useful life of more than two years, and an acquisition costs of $1000 or more per unit."


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Born in the Flemish part of Belgium, Axelle nevertheless learnt French in her childhood and, proving to be gifted for languages, the polyglot singer went on to record her first songs in English. After coming through her years of musical 'apprenticeship' with flying colours, Axelle has now reached maturity and can proudly gain her place on the Francophone music scene. What exactly is this place, you might well ask? Well, Axelle continues to tread a thin (and extremely delicate) line between modern 'chanson' (i.e. songs with intelligent lyrics and carefully-crafted arrangements) and mainstream 'pop' (a market currently cornered by fellow Belgian diva Maurane and French 'crooner' Liane Foly). Fans need not worry on Axelle's behalf, however, she's guaranteed to stand out from the crowd of female artists on the current music scene - and not just because of her flame-coloured locks! What makes Axelle a true original is her public persona which continues to waver between touching naivety and angry rebellion, between old-fashioned romanticism and headstrong independence. And it's this which will no doubt ensure her staying-power.
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A word used to describe a person who is not actually mentally retarded but shows very clear signs of the deformity he isn't supposed to have. The signs include, Stupid comments that don't make sense, having trouble operating a fork and knife in sync and also having trouble not walking like a complete gimp.
person one: OMG my brother is such an idiot, he tried to retrieve his toast from the toaster with a knife today, and nearly killed himself!
person two: lol what an o'hare.
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this is the REAL definition. O'Hare is Irish for "Above the Rest" or "Better Than All Others". O'Hare happens to be to be used in Ireland as a word for cool.
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KOEPKE, Ivan Elmer
Peacefully at home in Southampton, on Thursday December 28, 2006. Ivan KOEPKE of Southampton in his 86th year. Beloved husband of Rebecca (Becky) KOEPKE (née MENAR) of Southampton. Dear father of Gordon and his wife Marion of Owen Sound, Wayne, Larry and his wife Cheryl and Debbie and her husband Ron INDOE, all of Southampton and to Evelyn and Bruce HATHWAY of Newmarket. Proud grandfather of Brian, David (Michelle,) Mandy TRAFELET (Bruce,) Marcy McLEAN (Dave), Carrie-Ann INDOE (Ross), Renee INDOE, Kelly JAQUES (Derrick), Pat HATHWAY- BAXTER (Dan), Sarah (Scott) and Michael. Sadly missed and fondly remembered by his great-grandchildren, Nicole, Roxanne, Tyson, Bradley, Caleb, Kyler and Mackenzie. Predeceased by his parents Gordon and Irene KOEPKE, by his step-mother, Flossie, by his daughter-in-law, Wendy and by his grand_son Gordon HATHWAY. Private Family Services will be conducted through the Eagleson Funeral Home, Southampton. Interment Southampton Cemetery. Expressions of Remembrance to the Port Elgin Lions Club or to War Amps. Southampton Legion Branch #155 will hold a Memorial Service at the Funeral Home on Friday December 29, 2006 at 7: 30 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family through www.eaglesonfuneralhome.com.
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JAQUES, Howard Carleton (November 28, 1921-January 10, 2005)
Husband, father, grandfather, friend We will love and miss you till the end Our hearts shed tears with each new day It seemed so hard when you went away We miss the smile, the wink, the touch Your way of loving us so much There is not a day that passes by That we don't know how hard you tried To stay with us through pain so rare It was hard to watch you suffering there So let you go, we had to do And hold you in our hearts so true Remembering with love and pride A man that loved till the day he died We know that you are with us now To give us strength and show us how To love each other day and night To do the things we know are right Although it's hard to say goodbye There's one thing that we can't deny You are the one that we hold near Thank you for loving us, my dear. Forever loved and missed by Vivian, Leigh, Dennis, Cindy and families.
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FERGUSON, Margaret Edythe (formerly FORREST, née TREFFRY)
Peacefully, at Exeter Villa, on Tuesday, January 10, 2006, the former Margaret Edythe TREFFRY, in her 81st year. Beloved wife of the late Ross FORREST (1977) and the late Wilmer FERGUSON (1997.) Loved mother and step-mother of Deanna and Wayne McBRIDE, Nancy and Kevin KALE, Bill and Heather FORREST, Don and Nancy FERGUSON, Muriel and Tom DALRYMPLE and Ken FERGUSON and Donna WEITZEL. Cherished by 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Dear sister of Erla COLEMAN and sister-in-law of Grace SCOTT, Elva FORREST, Olive FERGUSON and Roy and Marie FERGUSON. Predeceased by her parents Elsie Ann LAWSON and Samuel Earl TREFFRY and in-laws Clarence COLEMAN, James SCOTT, Edison FORREST, Mildred FORREST, Norm FERGUSON, and Wilhelmine and Oliver JAQUES. Friends and relatives will be received at the Hensall Visitation Chapel, 79 King Street, Hensall on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 14th at 2 p.m. Interment Bayfield Cemetery. Donations to the Alzheimer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be gratefully appreciated. (J.M. McBeath Funeral Home, Zurich 236-4365). Condolences may be forwarded through www.jmmcbeathfuneralhome.com A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Peggy FERGUSON.
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JAQUES, Clifton " Clif" W.
At South Huron Hospital, Exeter on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Clifton (Clif) W. JAQUES of Exeter in his 81st year. Beloved husband of Leona (DOBSON) JAQUES. Dear father of Yvonne and John ELLIOT/ELLIOTT of Thorndale and Dalton and Sandy JAQUES of Usborne Township. Proud grandfather of of Leanne and Andrew and Charlsey and Kelsey. Dear brother of Ross JAQUES of Hensall. Predeceased by a sister Verna and her husband Sam BOWER, a brother Oliver JAQUES and his wife Wilhelmine, a sister-in-law Helen JAQUES and an infant brother James Frederick. Friends may call at the Hopper Hockey Funeral Home, 370 William Street, 1 west of Main, Exeter on Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be held on Friday, April 7th at 1: 30 p.m. with Rev. Michelle DOWN officiating. Interment Exeter Cemetery. Donation to the South Huron Hospital would be appreciated by the family. Condolences may be forwarded through www.hopperhockeyfh.com.
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WAYE, Linda J. (née TOMLINSON)
Peacefully at Saint Marys Memorial Hospital on Saturday, May 13, 2006 Linda J. (TOMLINSON) WAYE in her 53 yr. of Water St. S., Saint Marys. Beloved wife of Ian WAYE. Loving mother of Jennifer BROWN and husband Robert and their children Ian and Ema of Exeter, Geoffrey WAYE and wife Cindy and their daughter Tamara of Stratford. Beloved daughter of Jessie (ROBINSON) TOMLINSON of Saint Marys and the late John TOMLINSON (1982.) Dear sister of Susan and Harry JAQUES of Exeter, Janet and Ron HENDERSON of R.R.#3, Saint Marys, David TOMLINSON of Aylmer and Chris DAMEN of Saint Marys. Dear sister-in-law of Irene TOMLINSON of Exeter. Predeceased by a brother Barry J. TOMLINSON in 2003. At Linda's request cremation has taken place. A service of celebration will be held at the Saint Marys United Church (85 Church St. S.) on Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 11 a.m. with Rev. Dr. Richard BOTT officiating. In lieu of flowers donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or Children's Hospital of Western Ontario Foundation would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy and may be made by calling the L.A. Ball Funeral Chapel at (519) 284-1480.
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McCLAY, Donna Lorraine
With deepest regrets the family announces the peaceful passing of Donna Lorraine McCLAY of Otter's Edge Trailer Park, Port Burwell at Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital on Sunday June 18, 2006 in her 74th year. Beloved wife of 48 years to her husband and best friend Ray McCLAY. Dear mother of Greg McCLAY of London Kathryn (James) THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON of Windsor; Russell (Kelly) McCLAY of Dorchester. Cherished and forever loved grandmother to her 8 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren. Dear sister of Fred (Betty) PLEWES of Port Burwell; Suzanne JAQUES of Delaware; Marla LANTHIER of Kerrwood; Leslie COULTER of Saint Thomas. The family will receive Friends and family at Ostrander's Funeral Home, 43 Bidwell Street, Tillsonburg (519-842-5221) on Tuesday June 20, 2006 from 2-4 p.m. only. Funeral service for Donna will be held in Ostrander's Funeral Home Chapel on Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. Pastor Bryan BUTCHER officiating. Cremation to follow. Family interment will be held at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, London at at later date where Donna will be laid to rest beside her beloved mother. Memorial donations (payable by cheque) may be made to the Children's Wish Foundation. Personal condolences may be sent to www.ostrandersfuneralhome.com
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NUTTER, Irene (KENNERLEY)
Died peacefully at London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital on Monday, June 19, 2006 in her 80th year. Predeceased by her dear husband John NUTTER, Irene leaves her loving daughter, Lisa and her beloved granddaughter Juliana. She will be missed by Juliana's father, Morris DALLA COSTA and many family and close Friends: Audrey and Harold PICKERELL of the United Kingdom, Leslie and Myra NUTTER of Australia and Sandy and Dennis JAQUES of Victoria, Mille and Tod LINTER of Whitby, Margie MANN of Bay Ridges, Margie and Lewis TRULL of Port Perry and Verna and Jack DEWELL of Oshawa. Visitation will be held at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King Street, on Wednesday, June 21 from 4-7 o'clock. A private interment will take place at Mount Lawn Memorial Park, Oshawa at a later date. Lisa wishes to thank the doctors at University Hospital and nurses Rose and Louise for their support and kindness. In lieu of flowers, a gift to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated.
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SYMES, William " Bill"
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At his residence near Stirling on Sunday, March 5th, 2006 in his 65th year. Beloved husband of Carol (GRAY/GREY) SYMES. son of Goldie SYMES- NEWTON and the late W.A. (Bert) SYMES. Special father of Teresa of Stirling, Beverly of Belleville, Earl "Billy" of Mississauga. Dear grandfather of Charity, Anne-Marie, Tavis, Dylan, Lindsay and great-grandfather of Michael, Dakota, Destiny. Brother of Betty ELLIS of Stanwood, Carol JAQUES (Doug) of Peterborough, Margaret LUCAS of Peterborough, Ruth GOUIN (Jim GALLANT) of Cobourg, Shirley LYONS (Alex) of Ennismore, Jim SYMES (Janice) of Lucknow, (Gloria) the late Robert SYMES of Lucknow. Bill will be remembered by several nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to call at the Weaver Family Funeral Home, 77 Second Street, Campbellford from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday. Service to be held in the E.W. Al Weaver Chapel on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 at 2 p.m. Reverend Lionel PYE officiating. Spring interment in Keller Cemetery. Donations to Heart and Stroke Foundation, Campbellford Memorial Hospital Foundation, Venture Van or the Charity of Your Choice would be appreciated by the family. Online Guest Book and Condolences at www.weaverfuneralhomes.com
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|Patriots' Tom Brady
This is a very big week in our house in Wicklow. My hometown team, the New England Patriots, is back in the Super Bowl and facing our sworn enemy, the New York Giants. I am hoping and praying that the Patriots will exact revenge for the devastating loss in Super Bowl XLII the Giants inflicted on that year's theretofore undefeated team.
The New York Giants of the National Football League are – the New York Yankees included – the professional sports franchise I loathe most of all. Battles during college with Giants fans and, even more vexingly, heated discussions with my father fueled this passionate and venomous distaste. My father, like many of his generation in Boston, grew up a Giants fan in the days before our city had a professional sports franchise. Just as after the 2008 Super Bowl, there will undoubtedly be a grin on his face late on Sunday evening, regardless of who wins.
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This Super Bowl is particularly special for me in that my 12 year old Irish son, Seán, has become a huge fan of American football. Each and every day, he is tuned into NFL-related programming on satellite television or on his iPod. Not having grown up with it, his instincts for some of the mechanics of the sport are still developing, but his understanding of the rules and his knowledge of the players and teams are just as good as any young fan in the United States. Most important of all, however, he is a fanatical supporter of the New England Patriots – as if he had any choice!
Over the years, I have been heartened to witness the expansion in popularity of American football on this side of the Atlantic. Anyone who has traveled to the annual NFL regular season game played at Wembley Stadium in London will have been blown away by the incredible sight of more than 80,000 fans from all over the world wearing the jerseys of just about every team. The NFL is carried weekly on the Sky Sports television network and has a faithful following in the United Kingdom and further afield. In addition, there are American football leagues throughout the UK and, as fellow attendees at the game in London have told me, all over the world.
The strong connections between Ireland and the United States make this country exceptionally fertile territory for American football. Thousands of returned emigrants still follow the teams of their erstwhile hometowns. Countless others acquired a taste for the sport on visits to their American cousins. Many more have been taken in by their friends' infectious enthusiasm for the sport.
At the same time, the number of young, home-grown Irish fans of American football continues to grow. By way of evidentiary anecdote, the mixture of commiseration and good-natured abuse I received from my law students at the National University of Ireland, Galway after the Patriots lost the 2008 Super Bowl to the Giants was overwhelming. And this September's Notre Dame-Naval Academy collegiate game promises to pack Dublin's Aviva Stadium with Irish fans and American visitors alike.
Unfortunately, there are still those who heap scorn on American football, and who lace their scorn with tired old stereotypes about America and Americans. Sports journalist Brian O'Connor of the Irish Times appears to be one such individual. In a column enticingly entitled "Super Bowl may be worth staying up for," Mr. O'Connor commences by positing that most Irish people, like him, have never heard of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. That admission of his own ignorance, and of his view of the knowledge base of most readers of his column (presumably sports fans!), eventually yields to a repetition of some oft-repeated canards.


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Jalen Rose on Duke Vs. Michigan, the Fab Five's Legacy–and Grant Hill
Jalen Rose, a retired NBA star, was a member of Michigan's famed "Fab Five," a quintet of freshman basketball players (including Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson) that led the school to appearances in the NCAA tournament final in 1992 and 1993. Rose served as an executive producer on the recent ESPN documentary "The Fab Five." In the documentary, Rose said he believed at the time that Duke only recruited black players that he considered "Uncle Toms." Grant Hill, who starred on the Duke team that beat Michigan in the 1992 final, responded to Rose last week in the New York Times. "I caution my fabulous five friends to avoid stereotyping me and others they do not know in much the same way so many people stereotyped them back then for their appearance and swagger," he wrote.
Duke and Michigan meet again in the NCAA tournament today at 2:45 p.m. on CBS.
I want to thank the many people who helped to make last Sunday's "Fab Five" documentary the highest-rated documentary in ESPN history. The response was tremendous and demonstrates the legacy of the Fab Five will be long remembered and we have secured our place in the history of college basketball. The purpose of the documentary was to tell the story from our perspective.
Although we came up short of our ultimate goal of winning the championship, we showed we were full of substance and not just hype. Creating the documentary, I wanted to show we did something that has never been done and possibly no other team will accomplish — start five freshman and reach the NCAA championship. We were a band of brothers and the documentary reflected our bond on and off the court. To this day, I am proud to say my Fab Five teammates are my brothers.
Addressing the elephant in the room, comments from the documentary regarding Duke University were completely taken out of context. I respect the success of Duke's program and stated this was my opinion as a teenager growing up in the inner city of Detroit.
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I already miss the railroad tracks running east-west through Sikeston. Though I have cursed them through the years, their removal this week is clearly the end of an era - though it could be argued their era ended long ago.
Sikeston's rail connection through the heart of our community became a relic of bygone days. In the end the line served just two customers here and that apparently signaled the end to our rail.
Rail service will remain here of course. We still depend on the railroads to deliver coal to our power plant and serve the Industrial Park north of town. But the quaint line that bisected the heart of our community is now a pile of ancient wood and steel.
A plan was devised a few years ago to buy the local line and run a tourism train from Miner to the downtown area. Though it was an interesting idea, it gained no traction.
I have long advocated the removal of the rails and the widening of Malone to a six-lane highway. But the cost of that idea - including the construction of a bridge - is probably prohibitive given the economics of the time and countless other factors.
It struck me this week that viewing the removed rails, I was seeing something in my community not one of us has ever seen. These rails have been along Malone Avenue longer than any of us have been around. And though I have often complained about their lack of purpose, I still found myself sad in some ways.
A journalism professor of mine many years ago said there was but one way to write a story about just such an event. "Like the passing of the buffalo, this change marks the end of an era," he would say. Despite that flowery prose he suggested, the feeling is appropriate.
Across central Missouri, a major rail line was abandoned and turned into a massive walking trail. That is unlikely to happen here. And for good reason.
I doubt there is any organized effort or suggestion on how to address this newfound look in our community. Perhaps over time, grass will slowly replace the scarred earth where the rails once rested. Someday, the rails will be no more than a memory - like the church that once held the downtown columns that we cherish and protect.
A whole lot of our community's history was rapidly removed this past week. It can be viewed as progress. Or it can be viewed as a sad commentary on the changes within a small town.
My first wish would be that we had so much manufacturing and industrial need along the rail line that it would have remained. But since that is no more than a pipe dream, I supposed the logical choice was to scrap the steel and call it progress.


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Portfolio, traditional? or not? by Alina Hagen
Should I have an online portfolio or a traditional portfolio or both?
A traditional portfolio is an absolute must, particularly if you are going to be doing print work. Even if you only do web work, a traditional portfolio with screen shots of your work would be wise to have. There is a lot of debate as to whether the traditional portfolio should be a book or individually mounted boards. It's easier to keep your work looking neat and clean if it's in a book, but individually mounted boards afford greater flexibility in catering your presentation to the type of work desired.
It's well worth your effort to learn web design and create an online portfolio. Some employers demand to see an online portfolio before deciding whether they want to interview you. It's a quick way for them to get feel for your style and capabilities before going to the time and expense of an in-person interview. When you are asked to an interview, they will want to see your traditional portfolio.
One should have one traditional portfolio, as well as copies of your portfolio that you wouldn't mind dropping off at a firm. Some firms request you drop your portfolio off in advance. You may or may not get it back in good or bad shape, so only use back-ups! You might also want to consider designing a leave-behind brochure or sheet of your best work so they can keep something on file.
Some designers put their portfolio on CDs. It's been my experience that this inevitably leads to problems. The CD won't work with their computer, or they don't want to spend the time viewing it. If it's something you would like to do as an addition to your portfolio, that's fine. But don't have it serve as your primary portfolio.
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I am glad to see so much of yalls approach and method. It adds a wonderful component to each glass… and days work. Nice site, great cider, and how do the crown grafts look?
I worked at Little Tree Orchards around the time James had his accident. I moved not long after and wondered what ever happened to that odd intellectual. Glad to see him back at it. The only time in my life ive worked for doughnuts and alcohol. Love em!
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