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Services Gatekeeper 5.1: A Large Documentation Effort for a Feature-Rich Platform
By chlander on Aug 30, 2013
Today's blog is from one of our technical writers, John Francis, from the Service Delivery Platform (SDP) writing team. He was the documentation project lead for the most recent release of the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper and shares information about the product and the docs below. John is relatively new to the our team - he started in March 2012. He has a fondness for electronic gadgets and Boston Terriers, and can be found in the shoe department at Nieman's watching his wife shop most weekends. He has a keen sense of humor, which you'll soon experience. I hope you enjoy reading his blog!Cheryl Lander, Oracle Communications InfoDev Senior Director
Thanks very much, Cheryl! By way of introduction, Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper lets telecom service providers grant their partners access to myriad telecom network services via easy-to-use, standardized interfaces known as facades. Its feature set includes full partner and network control, finely grained service level agreement support, and almost unlimited extensibility potential, along with carrier grade reliability and scalability.
After more than a year of concerted development effort, on May 28th, 2013, Oracle released a comprehensive upgrade for Services Gatekeeper that provides the following enhancements:
Simplified telecom partner management, including policy provisioning, partner on-boarding, and business process automation via a brand new web-based partner portal application
API reporting capabilities allowing telecom customers to see detailed trends at a glance
An expanded repertoire of communications services including support for QoS, Email, Address List Management, Bulk Messaging, and Application Subscription Management
Enhanced existing Services Gatekeeper APIs in the areas of Charging, Unified Messaging, Mobile Policy and Authorization and Authentication, via OAuth and Anonymous Customer References
Expanded platform support, including ready-to-use integration with Oracle Communications Online Mediation Controller, Oracle Communications Policy Controller, as well as Siebel CRM, via SMS and Email
As you can see from that list, the modest "dot one" version increment belies a wealth of expanded features and complexity, all of which it was incumbent upon SDP InfoDev to document.
Project Documentation Accomplishments
As often happens, because of the multiplicity of projects and responsibilities, InfoDev arrived a bit late in the development of Services Gatekeeper 5.1. In addition to the late start, the writing team faced the following challenges:
With a lead writer new to Oracle and Services Gatekeeper, the lead had to learn the CGBU InfoDev organization's enterprise documentation standards, and ramp up on the extensive processes devoted to delivering quality technical documentation.
Services Gatekeeper is a huge product with broad areas of functionality. It's difficult to master some of the core concepts, let alone the entire product.
The documentation set has expanded over Gatekeeper's decade plus service life. Writers had to carefully research the two thousand plus pages of documentation to identify which documents were affected by which features.
We've got only two hard-working editors, whose time is continually spoken for and whose schedules were at odds with Services Gatekeeper's milestones.
Development goals were fluid during the course of the project with features prioritized and deprioritized on a regular basis.
We were able to mitigate those factors by assembling a team of veteran technical writers (along with one scrappy upstart) who were able to dig into the Services Gatekeeper documentation library, understand its scope, assimilate the new features and come up with a flexible documentation plan. As with all large scale, long term projects (this one spanned more than a year), we needed to remain agile, regularly interfacing with the development team, and trying to stay on top of the project. In addition, we counterbalanced the lack of editorial support by farming out our documentation to our willing colleagues for peer review.
Project Documentation Extended Accomplishments
At the beginning of the project, our goals were initially modest. We, of course, wanted to document all features, as well as provide editorial support for the two Javadoc systems that ship with Services Gatekeeper. As the project evolved, and the timeline expanded to encompass unforeseen obstacles and integrate late-breaking critical features, similarly, InfoDev expanded its scope. In the end, the team met the following additional expanded goals:
Created a new Security Guide per Oracle's latest guidelines
Produced and delivered a revised and reorganized OAuth guide
Reviewed more than 650 Javadoc source files, making edits to approximately 195 of those
Worked extensively with the Portal team, not only on online help for the application but also on workflow reviews and bug hunting
Addressed more than thirty incidental documentation enhancement requests requested during the product lifecycle
Closed out bug backlogs from earlier versions and made it to GA with no outstanding issues
Our fantastic production team also enabled enhancements that required no effort from us, the most impressive of which were:
ePub and Mobi ereader formats, should you wish to review our documentation on your tablet or ereader
A much requested search feature, capable of searching our documents either at the library or single document level
And, finally, on a nerdy level, a new source control system (Subversion, or SVN) that enabled us to build our documents whenever our hearts desired
Future Plans for Services Gatekeeper Documentation
Naturally, time stands still for no software product, and Services Gatekeeper is no exception. Even as I write this, product management and development are in the planning stages for the next version, and InfoDev is no different. Some initial goals that we're hoping to meet for the next version include:
Having the large (22 systems) documentation library reviewed by our content architects and identifying opportunities for simplification and consolidation
Working with Product Management and Consulting teams to identify areas in the documentation which need to be improved or expanded
Identifying tools that will help improve the quality of our documentation with little to no capital investment or time commitment
We Value Your Feedback
If you're an Oracle employee, you can find the Services Gatekeeper 5.1 docs here.
As always, we'd love to get feedback! If you've got content additions or changes, you can post a comment on this blog or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Finally, you can find all our documentation on the Oracle Technology Network.
Thanks for reading!


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July 4, 1776, was a big deal here.
OK, so Charlestonians didn't find out about that date's momentous Philadelphia event until well past July 4, 1776.
Hey, that was before newspapers got into Twitter.
But the Charleston-based South Carolina Gazette did publish the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, 1776.
July 4, 1876, wasn't nearly as big a deal here — at least for white folks. Many of them still weren't inclined to cheer for a Union preserved — and a Southern bid for independence crushed — by a bloody Civil War that had ended only 11 years earlier.
Then again, that outcome was a literally liberating experience for black folks, who thus had a justifiably jubilant feel for Independence Day.
By July 4, 1976, most South Carolinians, regardless of race, had long rightly recognized the glorious Fourth as a grand occasion for national celebration.
According to the next day's News and Courier, an estimated crowd of 20,000 showed up for a bluegrass concert at Boone Hall Plantation.
The South's Oldest Daily Newspaper (we still are) also reported: "A planned concert by the Navy Band at White Point Garden failed to materialize. Participants in a craft show there said the imminence of rain may have kept the band away."
Don't feel bad if that no-show has vanished from your fading memory banks.
After all, it happened quite a while back: Joe Riley had been Charleston's mayor for less than seven months.
A Jam shagging shame
Today, July 4, 2013, spectacular fireworks shows will light up our local Independence Night sky.
However, before attending tonight's Uncle Sam Jam at the Mount Pleasant Pier, beware that it will feature the unseemly spectacle of people — many far past their dancing primes — "shagging" to "beach music."
And before overlooking the transforming historic significance of this date and that Declaration, remember that Thomas Jefferson wrote the epic document with a little help from fellow Founding Father friends John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman.
Remember that South Carolinians Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr. and Arthur Middleton signed it. (Rutledge, like Middleton a Charlestonian, was the youngest of the Declaration's 56 signers at 26.)
Remember that you don't have to be in the written-word business to remain awed by the majestic wording of:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
This defiant conclusion is also still stirring: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
Still alive and kicking
Our newborn nation, like the men who created it, wasn't perfect. It still isn't.
Yet our Declaration of Independence remains about as perfectly written as an assertion of collective — and individual — human freedom can be.
And on this 237th birthday of these United States, our country remains a light of liberty for the world.
So regardless of your political leanings, find fresh inspiration in that founding Declaration.
If you're a conservative, don't get too down about liberals running the White House and U.S. Senate.
If you're a liberal, don't get too down about conservatives running the U.S. House and the S.C. governorship and Legislature.
If you're a moderate, face up to the fact that vigorous and even bitter debate comes with the self-governing territory.
So does voting out one crowd and voting in another one.
And if you want to hear some Revolutionary music, check out today's fife-and-drum performance at Middleton Place — which used to be Declaration signer Arthur Middleton's place.
But please, don't shag to it.
Frank Wooten is assistant editor of The Post and Courier. His email is email@example.com.


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So many things. Aside from the crazy and the gerbils, we live less than two miles from basically anywhere in our entire town- and literally with only one stoplight in my normal path- but I am still running late. People adjust. I've adjusted.
It wasn't a defining moment, and left very little imprint on my day. It was as if it was just part of the norm, as you do. Moving the minutes from one to the next. Here to there. What's one gerbil cage added to the list?
It was quite comical how short Sharing Time was compared to all that was required to get the gerbils there to be shared: I cleaned their cage and activity ball, drove them to school, signed in, applied my name tag, walked down to the class. Gray was pretty much like "here's my gerbils" and then went back to his seat. I'm seriously only exaggerating a smidge. I walked them back to the office, signed out, then took them home.
Then I felt a little guilty, like maybe I should have prepared him to speak in front of the class. He could have had some snappy facts about gerbils other than this one's black and they like to eat seeds. But he was happy nonetheless.
On the way I did see my first flooded cranberry bog and farmers wading through the harvest. And felt pleased that I'd piloted all four kids safely into Friday, we made it to the weekend, where all our time during the week is really being pushed toward, isn't it.
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Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriageby Janelle Brown Christine Brown Kody Brown Robyn Brown Meri Brown
In many ways, the Browns are like any other middle-American family. They eat, play, and pray together, squabble and hug, striving to raise happy, well-adjusted children while keeping their relationship loving and strong. The difference is, there are five adults in the openly polygamous Brown marriage--Kody and his four wives--who among them have seventeen children. Since TLC first launched its popular reality program Sister Wives, the Browns have become one of the most famous families in the country. Now Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn reveal in their own words exactly how their special relationship works--the love and faith that drew them together, the plusses and pitfalls of having sister wives, and the practical and emotional complications of a lifestyle viewed by many with distrust, prejudice, even fear. With the candor and frankness that have drawn millions to their show, they talk about what makes their fascinating family work, addressing the topics that intrigue outsiders: How do the four relationships differ? What effect does a polygamous upbringing have on their children? What are the challenges--emotional, social, or financial--involved in living this lifestyle? Is it possible for all four sister wives to feel special when sharing a husband--and what happens when jealousy arises? How has being on camera changed their lives? And what's it like to add a new wife to the family--or to be that new wife? Filled with humor, warmth, surprising insights, and remarkable honesty, this is a singular story of plural marriage and all the struggles and joys that go with it. At heart, it's a love story--unconventional but immediately recognizable in the daily moments of trust, acceptance, forgiveness, passion, and commitment that go into making one big, happy, extraordinary family.
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Following a challenging non-conference slate, the Stetson men's basketball team (3-8) is set to open Atlantic Sun Conference play this week, heading on the road to play at Mercer (7-6) on Monday, Dec. 31 at 4:30 p.m. and at Kennesaw State (1-11) on Wednesday, Jan. 2 at 5:00 p.m.
While the results haven't been what the Hatters would have wanted at this point in the season, dropping seven of their last eight after beginning the year 2-1, Stetson has had some success that the team can build on moving into conference action.
Early in the 2012-13 campaign the Hatters recorded back-to-back 22-point victories, marking the first time a Stetson squad won two consecutive games by 20 or more points since November of 2000. Moreover, when the NCAA released its first national statistical rankings, the Hatters were leading the country with 20.0 assists per contest. Still using team play and a quick moving offense to its advantage, Stetson leads the A-Sun with 16.5 helpers per contest.
"Our non-conference slate, which included several road games against high caliber teams, should certainly prepare us for conference play," Stetson head coach Casey Alexander said. "We're not pleased with the results at this point, but the greatest measure of how good we are will be determined by how we play in the A-Sun."
The Hatters are currently second in the league on offense, scoring 70.0 points per game. Reaching that number on Monday will be a challenge against Mercer, a team that has been holding its opponents to just 54.8 points per tilt. The Bears enter conference play with a 7-6 record and are forcing opponents to shoot under 40 percent from the floor and under 30 percent from beyond the arc. Winners of the CIT postseason tournament a year ago, Mercer has wins over Florida State and Alabama in the early part of 2012-13.
"We have what may be the toughest A-Sun game we'll play all year when we travel to Macon for our conference opener against Mercer," Alexander said. "It's been well documented what they accomplished last season, and their recent performances have strongly resembled that impressive run. It will take a great effort and some strong performances for us to be in position to win. Mercer's depth and experience allows them to play extremely hard and with a lot of confidence. Teams that do that are hard to beat."
Stetson will follow up the game at Mercer with a trip to Kennesaw State on Wednesday. The Owls have had less success over the past few years. KSU was just 3-28 a year ago, finishing 0-18 in A-Sun action. This season the Owls have opened 1-11 with their one victory coming in overtime against South Carolina State. Kennesaw State is led by three-time All-Atlantic Sun honoree Markeith Cummings, who is second in the league with 17.3 points per game.
"Kennesaw's status strongly resembles our own," Alexander said. "Both programs are in the second year of a coaching transition and we both wish we had more wins on the ledger, which would better reflect the hard work that goes into building a winning program. For us it's a chance to get a road win in conference play and that needs to be our expectation. I anticipate it being a game where the team that wants to win the most will. It's always important to keep Cummings in check, but they are not a one man team. I probably have as much respect for Anderson as any player in the league because he does his job and has impressive numbers every time the ball is tipped."
The Hatters begin Atlantic Sun Conference play with the goal of reaching the league tournament for the first time since the 2008-09 season. Stetson will look to improve on last year's 6-12 mark that left the squad just out of the eight-team field.
Both games this week will be streamed live and for free on ASun.TV and HatterVision courtesy of Mercer and Kennesaw State. Stetson fans can also listen to both games on the radio at WSBB 1230 AM in New Smyrna, 1490 AM in DeLand, and online at www.MyAM1230.com. Live Stats (MU, KSU), the @StetsonMBB Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates.


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This is a guy who is close to 50 and has no job. No, I retract that statement. He searches for coins in vacuum cleaners in gas stations. He also is a frequent heroin user (look for track marks). He's been in prison for not appearing in court. Do you want to see his house? Just come to San Antonio and look for a trash heap. It'll probably be his house.
Hi, my name is Diver Dan.
Do you have $20.00 for sex?
No. Let me call my nephew real quick.
Do you have $20.00 for sex?
No. Let me call my nephew real quick.
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"I vamped this shit son."
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To have your loot stolen by another thief after you took the risk getting busted by LE.
Man I lifted that shit and almost got busted, then I got Vamped by some dork who found out where I stashed my shit.
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Vamped and or Vamp'd - to take something dull or boring and give it a face lift or a breathe air into and give it life! vamp it vamp'd
I just vamped my garage and turned it into a man cave with a new screen TV and new surround sound system! I vamped it son!
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony is being held in Rochester Monday to mark the completion of a bridge at the Granite State Business Park expansion.
The bridge will provide access to a new, 353,000-square foot manufacturing plant that is currently under construction. Safran USA and Albany Engineered Composites plan to build composite parts for the new LEAP aircraft engine at the new plant. The companies hope to bring at least 400 new jobs to the area over the next several years.
Monday's ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Granite State Business Park on Innovation Drive in Rochester.
Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan is expected to speak at the event.


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High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn't believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father's boss's daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy, and Tyler's secret crush. And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in school, in his family, and in the world.
"Poignant and gripping." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Once again, Anderson's taut, confident writing will cause this story to linger long after the books is set down." —SLJ
A New York Times Bestseller
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
"Anderson…stretches her wings by offering…a male protagonist… one of the most poignant and gripping scenes in young-adult literature."–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Several tiny villages in Northern & Central NY and Syracuse, NY: the big city.
Childhood ambition?
To read all the books in the library and climb to the top of the rope in gym class.
Desert island book?
Ulysses, by James Joyce.
Favorite city?
Tough question! San Francisco, with Paris running a close second.
Favorite movie?
It's A Wonderful Life, Van Helsing, Rocky, Last of the Mohicans.
Where do you write?
My office is the third floor loft of our house, with windows that look over our woods and meadows. If it's really cold, I take my computer down to the living room and work in front of the fire. Sometimes I work in coffee shops and libraries and book stores, just to see other human beings. But mostly, I like my loft.
What made you decide to write Twisted?
Many of the teenage guys I met in the last ten years had fascinating things to tell me. While the book is not based on anyone's story, the themes of a guy's alienation from his dad, a broken family pretending to be happy, and the despair that leads kids to kill themselves came from what they told me. And I like a challenge. I'd written a bunch of books from a girl's point-of-view, and I wanted to see if I could get in the head of a boy.
What would you like readers to learn from Tyler?
That they are not alone with their darkest thoughts, that most people go through hell, and that it is possible to survive having parents who are clueless jerks. Oh, and that friends are gold.
What adjectives would you use to describe Twisted?
Aaahhh…twisted? No, that's too obvious. Dark, funny, dangerous, and honest.
Favorite food?
Popcorn with butter, bran muffins (not too sweet) and strong coffee, bacon and eggs cooked over an open fire while camping, pickled herring.
Favorite song?
Hotel California (live version) by The Eagles and Clocks, by Coldplay.
Favorite item of clothing?
Hoodie sweatshirt just out of the dryer.
Greatest achievement?
Raising my kids to be good people (though they did most of the work).
Most embarrassing moment?
There are countless!! The worst was when my little sister and I got into a knock-down, drag-out fight at a family reunion and all of the older second cousins I had been hoping to impress dismissed me as being one of the stupid little kids because of it. (I was 11 years old.)
Smartest thing you ever did?
Went overseas, took some time off after high school, then went to community college before transferring to a four-year school. Marched to the beat of my drummer.
Life motto?
It's not a mistake if you learn from it.


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Fans of both are getting a much-anticipated first glimpse this week as Brad Pitt returns to the screen in a just-released trailer for World War Z", a horror film about a futuristic zombie apocalypse.
In the much-anticipated movie, based on the best-selling book by Max Brooks, Pitt, 48, plays Gerald Lane, a family man and U.N. researcher who gets torn from protecting his wife and children as he must heroically help save the world from zombie takeover. (See trailer below.)
Scenes from the sci-fi thriller show colonies of people in survivalist mode, some living on water even, as they attempt to avoid the hordes of zombie predators.
The reportedly $180 million film, also starring Mireille Enos and Matthew Fox and directed by Marc Forster, was originally set for holiday release this year. But after reshoots and other editing and production revisions, it's now expected in theaters this coming June.


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With a
refresh of the MacBook Air seemingly impending the rumor mill
surrounding Apple Inc. (AAPL)
is once again heating up.
According to Macotakara.jp, a Japanese Apple
fan site, the latest version of the ultraportable will use cutting edge flash memory
technology. The site cites sources at unnamed Asian chipmakers as
claiming that the latest Airs will contain 19nm flash memory chips soldered
directly onto the motherboard for blazing speeds of up to 400 megabits per
Current generation MacBook Airs only have RAM chips soldered on. The SSD
for the laptops are connected using mSATA connectors.
Apple reportedly calls the new technology Toggle DDR2.0. Aside from the
rather curious title (ostensibly it involves NAND flash, not DDR memory), the
technology is expected to be Apple's proprietary implementation of the Open
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chips. These factors add up to nearly "instant" boot times and
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If the rumor about the new flash is true, it likely comes from Micron
Technology, Inc. (MU),
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producer, Toshiba Corp. (TYO:6502)
are not currently members.
A split with Samsung would make sense, given Apple's ongoing legal war with the gadget and
component maker.
At times Apple has been on the bleeding edge of introducing new standards.
It was the first major manufacturer to push Intel's proprietary LightPeak
interface, which it renamed Thunderbolt. The refresh of the MacBook Air
is expected to come packing Thunderbolt as well, which requires fancy chip-laden $50 USD cables to work.
OS X Lion and the refreshed MacBook Air are
expected to launch on July 14.
quote: If the rumor about the new flash is true, it likely comes from Micron Technology, Inc. (MU), Intel Corp. (INTC), Spansion Inc. (CODE), or SandForce -- all members of the ONFI 3.0 coalition.
quote: Regardless of whether it's soldered onto the board or routed through an external connector, both interfaces will likely still have to go through the SATA or PCIe bus, unless Apple has convinced Intel to make them a chipset that directly talks to the NAND. Performance will still be dictated by whatever controller they use in the design.
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ATLANTA — As the 25,000-student Kennesaw State University prepares to mark its 50th anniversary this October, some of the people who made it possible, among them former Gov. Carl Sanders, recently gathered to celebrate the golden anniversary.
Among those lunching in the dining room of Sanders' law firm, Troutman Sanders, located in Atlanta's Bank of America Plaza, were former Cobb Board of Education member John Strother of Marietta, who turns 100 in August, former Marietta City Schools Superintendent Lloyd Cox, age 93, of Marietta, banker Joe Daniell and former Gov. Roy Barnes.
Sanders, who lives in Buckhead and turns 88 this month, was governor from 1963 to 1967.
Part of his platform was to build a junior college in every congressional district in Georgia.
"And we damn near did that too," Sanders said.
Prior to his election as governor, when he was in the Georgia Senate, Sanders said he took an interest in California's community college system.
"Out in California they built these community colleges in areas where the population was, and anybody could go, they didn't charge them tuition," Sanders said.
"So I said to myself, 'I'm going to see if we can do something like that in Georgia.'"
Lt. Governor is put on notice
Sanders said he paid a call to the lieutenant governor at the time, Peter Zack Geer, to ask for his support.
"I said, 'Now you enjoy having that patrolman drive you around the state in that state patrol car?'" Sanders recalled, noting Geer said he did indeed.
"I said, 'You like to fly in the state aircraft too?' He said, 'Oh yeah.' I said, 'Well, I want to see you do that, but if you screw up one of these bills you're not going to have a patrolman driving you around the state. You're not going to have an aircraft to fly in.' He said, 'I understand,' and he never screwed up the first bill we had."
Sanders said he was able to build about a dozen community colleges across the state.
"Before that time all the college education went to Georgia Tech or University of Georgia," Sanders said. "And many of the boys and girls who would like to go to college were not given the opportunity. When the community colleges were built, local people who otherwise might have left the state stayed in Georgia."
State Reps. Harold Willingham and Joe Mack Wilson represented Cobb County at the time.
"I told them if they would raise the money locally for the land to put the college that I would see to it that the college would be built, and that it would be part of the university system," Sanders said.
Marietta and Cobb pay for a college
Joe Daniell, whose late father Herman Daniell was on the Cobb Board of Education in the 1960s, said a citizens committee was formed, chaired by former MDJ editor Bob Fowler, to rally community support for the college.
The largest bonding group in the county was the Cobb School District.
"They had more access to funding than anybody else did," Daniell said. "The county was kind of broke at the time and didn't have any bonding capacity to speak of, so the Cobb School District partnered with the city of Marietta."
The Cobb School District came up with bonding for $1.9 million and the city with $425,000. But first a law was passed in the Legislature to allow school districts to spend money beyond the 12th grade, Daniell said.
Willingham was also the attorney for the Cobb School District.
"Harold put a bill through the Legislature to allow the Cobb County Board of Education the authority to issue $2 million, and that was enough to start it," Strother said.
The school district and city then bought the 150 acres of property in Kennesaw for $100,000, deeding it over to the Georgia Board of Regents.
Cox, who was principal of Marietta High School in the 1960s prior to becoming school superintendent, recalled scheduling the community meetings to sell the bond referendum.
Cobb taxpayers approved the bond referendum in April 1964.
Kennesaw Junior College was chartered Oct. 9, 1963. The university will commemorate Oct. 7 to 12 as Founders' Week, KSU President Dr. Dan Papp said in his April state of the university address.
Betty Siegel, fireball
Kennesaw Junior College became a four-year institution in 1976, changing to Kennesaw College in 1977, Kennesaw State College in 1988 and Kennesaw State University in 1996. The key figure overseeing that transformation was Dr. Betty Siegel, who served as the school's president, taking it from 3,500 students in 1981 to 18,000 at her retirement in 2006.
"Betty Siegel, she was a fireball," Sanders said.
Strother said Siegel wanted from the beginning for KSU to become a university.
"I thought the Atlanta Journal was going to come off the top of the world," Strother said. "They didn't think it was possible. She believed in it and she worked her butt off and she did it fairly and squarely, and I still think that she did a better job than anyone else could have done."
Papp said in April that KSU has an economic impact of $900 million.
Without Kennesaw State, Barnes said the county would be quite different.
"Until the early '60s and Carl Sanders came along with having community colleges, education was only for the well-to-do, that is higher education," Barnes said. "If you didn't have a daddy or a momma that had money and had gone to the University of Georgia before them, you weren't going. I mean that was it. You didn't have the money to go, and you weren't getting in."
Community colleges opened the doors for everybody to have access to higher education.
"So you just imagine what would happen to Cobb County if that 25,000 students, that economic impact, plus the intellectual capital that has been created there, wasn't," Barnes said.
Sanders said the bright students who didn't get into Georgia or Georgia Tech, but whose parents had money, would send them out of state.
"And we were getting nothing out of it," he said. "When we built these junior colleges and all, they stayed in the state because they could go to college and get a degree and get something that they can live with and that turned out to be a great thing for the state, and of course Kennesaw was one of the early ones and one of the best ones and look at it today."
Barnes said it wasn't until 1951, when the state brought a sales tax, that there was much of any state support for education. Prior to that it was all local funding and few high schools were accredited.
Marietta High was the only accredited high school in Cobb County in the '30s and '40s until North Cobb and South Cobb high schools were built, Barnes said.
"But if you wanted to go to college you had to pay tuition and go to Marietta High School to get to an accredited school," Barnes said. "So what you have to understand is this has been a progression."
Georgia had been an agrarian state where all that was needed was people who could drive tractors and harvest crops. When the economy began to change after World War II, the state wasn't ready for it.
Gov. Herman Talmadge was the first to address this problem by passing the three percent sales tax to fund the schools, followed by Sanders, who strove to make higher education available for everyone, Barnes said.
The only other Southern governor who followed Sanders was North Carolina's Terry Sanford, Barnes said.
"And what are the two most prosperous states in the South now? North Carolina and Georgia," Barnes said. "And what worries me in today's Georgia is we don't seem to have and hold education in such great esteem like we used to."
Sanders smiled when told that KSU is expecting a fall enrollment of more than 25,000 students.
"That makes me feel very proud that I had a part in it, but bear in mind that the people up in Cobb County had a great part in making sure that college had the attractiveness where people wanted to go to it, and of course it turned out to be a great example of what a community college can do and mean to the community," Sanders said.


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MUNCIE, Ind. - - The Ball State softball team fought like the reigning Mid-American Conference Championships should Sunday afternoon, rallying from two runs down to end the regular season with a hard-fought 8-5 victory over Bowling Green at the BSU Softball Complex.
The Cardinals (39-13 / 17-3 MAC) will now turn its focus towards the second season, when it opens the 2012 MAC Tournament as the No. 1 seed Thursday with a scheduled 5 p.m. start versus an opponent yet to be determined.
Bowling Green falls to 35-20 (15-7 MAC) with the loss and earns the No. 3 seed in the upcoming MAC Tournament.
In a senior day celebration, catcher Amanda Montalto (Las Vegas, Nev./Palo Verde) became the Ball State and MAC's all-time leader in walks with two on the day, moving her career total to 106.
Senior hurler Kim Mazzapica (Palm Harbor, Fla./East Lake) picked up her 23rd victory of the season in the circle and improves to a perfect 11-0 against league foes. In addition, her 23-3 overall record ranks first in the MAC based on winning percentage at .884 and is currently the best single-season winning percentage in league history.
Senior shortstop Alison Mercado (Perris, Calif./Arizona Western College) went 1-for-3 in her final regular season game, including an RBI fielder's choice sacrifice bunt which drove in a critical run in the bottom of the fifth.
Senior pitcher Audrey Workman (Wickenburg, Ariz./Yavapai College) had the day off after earning the win in Saturday's MAC Championship clinching victory.
Bowling Green tallied the first run of the contest, thanks to a RBI single from Katie Yoho in the top of the first.
The score remained 1-0 until the Cardinals offense came to life with three runs in the bottom of the fourth after BGSU replaced its starting pitcher. Sophomore third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean) opened the inning with a single and was replaced by pinch runner Jessica Craft (LaPorte, Ind./LaPorte). With one out, freshman right fielder Loren Cihlar (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles) singled to give BSU two runners on base.
After a groundout advanced the runners, pinch hitter Lauren Schroeder (Greenfield, Ind./New Palastine) was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Freshman designated player Hanne Stuedemann (Mattawan, Mich./Mattawan) followed with a bases-clearing double to give the Cardinals a brief 3-1 lead.
Bowling Green would capitalize on a pair of home runs in the top of the fifth to reclaim the advantage at 5-3.
Singles from sophomore first baseman Taylor Rager (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern), Bickel and junior center fielder Amanda Carpenter (Santee, Calif./Santana) would load the bases with no outs in the bottom fifth. However, BGSU re-inserted its starting pitcher at that point and she held the Cardinals to one run on a Mercado RBI fielder's choice sacrifice bunt.
Trailing 5-4, the Cardinals held the Falcons scoreless in the top of the sixth and proceeded to take the lead in the bottom of the frame thanks to four more runs.
Sophomore left fielder Jennifer Gilbert (McKinney, Texas/McKinney) opened the frame with a leadoff home run to tie the score, while Montalto and Rager both drew walks. Bickel would reach base on the next at bat thanks to a fielder's choice which put out Montalto for BSU's first out.
Carpenter followed with a RBI single through the right side which put runners at the corners and gave BSU a 6-5 edge. Carpenter would then get called out in a rundown on a double steal attempt, but Bickel came home to score and gave BSU a 7-5 advantage. Cihlar would then add a final insurance run with her first career home run over the right center field fence.
Mazzapica would then shut down the Falcons in the seventh, including opening the inning with a strikeout. In earning her 23th win of the season, Mazzapica held the Falcons to five runs on seven hits and struck out three batters.
BGSU's Paris Imholz suffered the loss, falling to 17-9, after holding the Cardinals scoreless over the first three innings, only to surrender four runs over the her final two. In all, she pitched five innings, allowing four runs and six hits.


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One hundred and sixty-two baptisms. One hundred and seventeen weddings. Eighty-seven funerals. Seven hundred new members.
�It�s a privilege being a part of that many different families,� said the Rev. John Knutson, who is leaving Christ the King Lutheran Church after 18 years to move to his next posting at Our Savior�s Lutheran Church in Greeley. �I was just on a hospital visit with a woman who had just given birth to her fourth child. She said I�d been there for all four.�
He�s also happy to have performed the church�s first fourth-generation baptism, with great-grandmother Dottie Johnson, grandparents David and Sandy Peterson, and parents Gabe and Nicole Neutelings all on hand to welcome Ella Jade.
Sunday will be his last day, and the congregation is holding a farewell party for him and his wife, Diane, after he preaches about the last decade at the church.
�A lot of pastors dream of serving at a place like this,� Knutson said. �There�s a lot of grace, a lot of generosity. This congregation continues to be a gift to the community.�
A presence in the community has been a priority for �Pastor John� during his posting here. He has been pivotal in creating ecumenical worship, most visible through joint Advent and Lent services with four other churches.
�Being able to reach out, that�s a blessing,� he said. �We like people sharing their gifts outside the walls of the church.�
Among the innovations at Christ the King during Knutson�s tenure has been taping his sermons, which are now available online. About 100 people from up to 25 countries log on each week.
Pub Chat, an informal worship and discussion group that meets Wednesday evenings at the Irish Embassy Pub, has become a popular outreach. Between 10 and 20 people, many in their 20s, gather each week.
He has served as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician, first with Animas Fire Protection District, and then with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority after they merged, as well as DFRA�s volunteer chaplain. He has gone on more than 100 calls a year during his time here.
�The ability to be with the fire department was a great way to be involved in the community,� he said. �It�s a way to be aware of things a lot of pastors are not privy to.�
The financial numbers, another indicator of the health of a church, have also increased significantly under Knutson�s leadership. The budget has quadrupled to around $400,000, and giving to causes in the community has increased more than tenfold, from $9,000 annually to more than $112,000. The church provides meeting space to community groups 365 days a year.
�At least a quarter of the people I work with are not members of the congregation,� Knutson said. �One time, two people had crises at the same time. One was a member of the congregation, and the other was not. The member of the congregation told me to help the other person. �We�ve got each other,� he said.�
Knutson said he believes he�s been at Christ the King long enough. Plus, the move will allow John and Diane Knutson to be closer to their son, Patrick, a student at the University of Colorado at Denver, and Diane Knutson�s parents, Ed and Rosemary Krass, who moved to Louisville from Durango last fall.
Diane Knutson will continue living in Durango to serve as a municipal judge in Ignacio and Durango as well as maintaining her law practice here.
�She already has her plane tickets for visits,� her husband said.
While Knutson treasures all his pastoral acts, there is one that will always be his favorite.
�The greatest highlight was when Diane and I got married 13 years ago on a Sunday afternoon,� he said. �The whole congregation, 350 people, came, and it was such a celebration. This congregation has always been there for me.�


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The Bay State Banner reports the symposium honoring the centenary of Child's birth offered a day-long sampling of Child fervor, drawing an overflow audience as well as Internet viewers. In Cambridge, as on TV, Child was disarmingly natural and free of pretension, engaging and curious, whether shopping for cheese or meats or chatting with nearby ladies at her hair salon.
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The MacArthur Foundation awarded its $500,000, no-strings-attached fellowships, known as "genius grants," on October 1. Former Radcliffe Fellow and MIT professor Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was announced as a winner.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter RI '12, who spoke as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute's Colloquium Series, said she decided to re-issue her prize-winning book, "Carry Me Home," after she discovered new materials on the subject. Introducing McWhorter was Jane Rhodes the Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.
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The Boston Globe reports one of the coolest events in Boston last week was a daylong symposium on the life and legacy of the inimitable Julia Child, who would have turned 100 in August. Hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study's Schlesinger Library, the event featured friends of Paul and Julia Child from the couple's years in Cambridge, who discussed Child's first TV kitchen.
Ratatouille from Mastering the Art of French Cooking and A Day of Julia
"You have a ratatouille garden!" Julia Child exclaimed to her hostess, Jane Thompson,"we'll have ratatouille for dinner." Thompson was one of many friends and family who recalled Julia Child stories to an adoring crowd in the Radcliffe Gymnasium, all celebrating what would be Julia Child's 100th birthday.
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Tuukka Rask goes nuts
Posted 22 March 2009 - 08:35 AM
So I'm going against the grain and saying the ref got it right here.
"I once devoured a monk's soul. It tasted like chocolate."
Posted 22 March 2009 - 08:40 AM
...insanity later!
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
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Posted 22 March 2009 - 11:43 AM
and dunkin donuts has an arena? yikes.
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Posted 23 March 2009 - 02:57 AM
Which has brought him a lot of succes...
I went to buy some camouflage pants the other day but I couldn't find any.
Posted 23 March 2009 - 03:18 AM
I say the Bruins make an example of him by trading him to Detroit for Bret Lebda.
Yeah- that'll teach that young upstart.
Thanks TeeMan!
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of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage" --H.P. Lovecraft
Posted 23 March 2009 - 02:09 PM
How it works in America is the more incompitent (sp?) you are the more you get moved up. I am positive we will seeing him ref the SCF's this spring
Edited by OsGOD, 23 March 2009 - 02:10 PM.
Just one chance is all i ever wanted...just one time i'd like to win the game...from now on i'll take the chance if i can have it...just one just one
Posted 23 March 2009 - 02:20 PM
So I'm going against the grain and saying the ref got it right here.
No listen here Eva- I have a hard time believing that in the course of a game-deciding shoot-out, the losing goalie would express an honest (but misguided) argument that the winning goal was in-fact a non-goal!
I mean be reasonable here.
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of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage" --H.P. Lovecraft
Posted 23 March 2009 - 02:22 PM
I think it's more along the lines of- seniority trumps competence in a head to head competition for a reffing position.
I guess they assume that the more games a ref's called without losing his job the better he must be at reffing?
Thanks TeeMan!
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of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage" --H.P. Lovecraft
Posted 23 March 2009 - 02:35 PM
Unless they added it this season, the last I knew the AHL (amazingly) didn't have video review.... period.
"In-a da crease... outta da crease... in-a da crease... outta da crease!!!"
Posted 23 March 2009 - 03:26 PM
Hell of an embarassing tantrum, if you ask me.
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Posted 23 March 2009 - 03:40 PM
in all honesty though I think the play should have been blown dead on the first attempt, but then again the ref's angle was from the goal line looking out so he may have deemed it that the motion was continuous since the player never did actually stop his feet. The 2nd one definately looked like it got the crossbar cause it shot out very quickly after the shot and the netting looked as if it were a little loose, but who knows for sure with the quality of the video it was too tough to tell conclusively
Posted 23 March 2009 - 07:48 PM
And guys, not to be cynical or anything, but get a clue as to how a game is officiated and what the rules are. This board is just filled with posts of how bad refs are, has anyone stopped to think...maybe it's the league's standard that has to be changed? A lot of NHL reff's i know don't agree with the current standard, but they still have to call it if they want a job.
As for punishment of officials, occasionally officials will get "suspended" but never will it be a public thing, they just won't get the same number of assignments they usually get. But if you want a real test try getting a buddy to load up a youtube video of a questionable call (because if you load it yourself you'll know what's going to happen), watch it once, then say what you'd call, it's not that easy.
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 03:31 PM
Or 200 supporters wait for him outside the stadium. If the calls bad enough maybe beat him down right then at midfield.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!
Posted 24 March 2009 - 04:22 PM
Moments like these are very entertaining!
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 04:29 PM
and dunkin donuts has an arena? yikes.
Regardless of where the rink is, america (and the world) run on dunkin and baskin robbins.... They are currently expanding in this market (with something like 800 opening planned this year), while starbucks is hoping to survive. That's without mentioning the market share they already have.
Edited by CaliWingsNut, 24 March 2009 - 04:30 PM.
Posted 24 March 2009 - 06:43 PM
Providence Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, who had a meltdown after last Friday's AHL game against the Albany River Rats, will not be suspended for his stick-smashing, crate-tossing tantrum, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday.
Bruins coach Rob Murray said the AHL office has notified the club that no suspension was forthcoming, adding that he did not know if the 22-year-old had been fined, according to the Journal.
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ALBANY – They must wear helmets when they ride bicycles, and now children under age 14 in New York are looking at a new effort to make them wear protective head gear when they hit the ski slopes.
Legislation recently proposed by a Democrat from the Buffalo area and a Republican who represents major ski slopes in the Adirondacks would have New York join New Jersey as the only states in the nation requiring minors to wear helmets while skiing and snowboarding.
The measure in New York would mirror the state's bike-riding laws. Parents could face violations issued by local police with fines of up to $50 if their children do not have helmets securely fastened while on skis or snowboards at New York slopes.
While the mandatory ski helmet idea has had trouble advancing in the United States, sponsors of the new legislation here say a trade group for New York ski operators is backing the effort.
"We're working on trying to make the sport a little safer,'' said Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak, a Cheektowaga Democrat who has sponsored the bill along with Sen. Elizabeth Little, a Republican from north of Albany whose district includes some of the state's largest ski mountains.
The measure would be less strict than New Jersey's law, which was passed in 2011 and kicked in last November, requiring helmets on all skiers age 18 and under.
The measure, according to a bill memo accompanying the legislation, is backed by the Ski Areas of New York, a trade group. With that support and its recent introduction by majority party members in the Assembly and Senate, the bill is seen as having no major opposition this session, lawmakers said.
The legislation would require posting of warnings on lift tickets and require ski areas to offer a "reasonable inventory'' of helmets for rental or sale.
Among skiers, there has been a debate over the years about whether helmets protect people or if they can present their own set of problems, such as reduced peripheral vision, increased neck injuries and more risky moves by skiers feeling a helmet will protect them from their mistakes. Safety advocates blame those assumptions for the unwillingness by states to mandate helmet use at ski areas.
But a study published in November by the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery sought to debunk those concerns, saying there is no evidence that helmets heighten "compensation behavior'' for skiers who may take more risks wearing helmets.
"The use of safety helmets clearly decreases the risk and severity of head injuries as compared to non-helmeted participation in skiing and snowboarding,'' the report concluded. Its authors include trauma surgeons.
Ski operators across the country are not embracing the idea of mandatory helmet laws. Troy Hawks, a spokesman for the Colorado-based National Ski Areas Association, said New Jersey – not known for its major ski centers – is alone in requiring helmet use by minors. California lawmakers passed similar legislation, but it was vetoed by the governor.
"Certainly New York seems like a blip. We're not aware of similar efforts in other states,'' Hawks said.
The national trade group says about 80 percent of skiers and snowboarders under the age of 14 already use helmets on a regular basis. "Obviously, the data shows that people are complying without a law being in place,'' Hawks said.
The group's members – covering more than 300 ski mountains in the United States – saw 54 fatalities last year, up from 47 during the 2010-11 ski season. The trade group said that amounts to 1.06 fatalities per million people based on the 51 million skier visits to the nation's slopes last season – a rate that has been rising over the past decade.
The group also notes that 36 of the 54 people who died on the slopes last year were wearing helmets at the time.
The legislation in New York would leave enforcement of ski helmet laws entirely up to local police.
Like the state's bicycle helmet law, a fine of up to $50 could be given to the parent or guardian of a skier under age 14 if the child was not wearing a helmet while in their presence on a slope. A guardian could include, apparently, anyone from another parent who brings a group of children under age 14 skiing to a school chaperone. The fine could be waived if a parent later supplies proof that a helmet was purchased or rented after the summons was issued. A basic child's helmet can start at about $50.
The head of the Ski Areas of New York State did not return calls to comment, but Gabryszak said he and Little have worked with the trade group to draft the legislation.
Dennis Eshbaugh, president of Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, said he is comfortable with some of the bill's wording but wonders if it is needed, since voluntary helmet use has been soaring in the past decade. "My personal belief is I don't feel it's a necessary action,'' he said.
"We've made huge inroads relative to education, and I'm a real believer in that approach of informing and educating people so they can make good choices,'' Eshbaugh said. He said teens under age 18 at his slope are in helmets about three-quarters of the time.
Whether the law would actually be enforced is uncertain. Unlike the bicycle helmet law, which would let police riding in a car see if a child is complying with the statute or not, this bill would, practically speaking, require a police officer to be on the slopes.
"It leaves it up to local law enforcement. They may or may not enforce it, but what this does is take the onus off ski resorts and put enforcement on the enforcement agencies,'' Gabryszak said. He said he knew of no opposition to the measure.
Studies have shown about 600,000 injuries occur on North American ski slopes each year, with up to 20 percent involving head injuries. The total number of what the industry deems "serious injuries'' – involving internal and head injuries or paralysis – amounted to 51 instances last year in the United States. But that does not include, health experts say, concussions and other head injuries that could be prevented by the use of helmets.
The ski industry says the number of skiers wearing helmets has increased markedly over the years, from 25 percent in 2002 to 67 percent last year for skiers of all ages.
Among young skiers, the numbers are higher; 77 percent of skiers and snowboarders under the age of 17 wore helmets on the slopes, the national trade group reported.
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