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- 1 FIRE Thematic workshops on Wednesday May 9, 2012
- 1.1 FIRE workshop 1: Experimental validation of cognitive radio/cognitive networking solutions
- 1.2 FIRE workshop 2: Measurement and Measurement Tools
- 1.3 FIRE workshop 3: EU-Japan Workshop on Experimental Future Internet Research
- 1.4 FIRE workshop 4: Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT Research and Development
- 2 "Hands-on FIRE!" demo on Thursday May 10, 2012; 09:45 - 18:30
- 2.1 Building Service Testbeds on FIRE, Project: BonFIRE - Kostas Kavoussanakis, Andrés Gómez, Raúl Valin
- 2.2 Experimentation on Community Networks, Project: CONFINE - Roger Baig
- 2.3 Video streaming over a publish-subscribe/information-centric architecture, Project: CONVERGENCE (www.ict-convergence.eu) - Nicola Blefari Melazzi
- 2.4 Wireless experimentation of cognitive radio networking solutions, Project: CREW - Ingrid Moerman (IBBT)
- 2.5 Future Media Internet, Project: EXPERIMEDIA - Remi Francard
- 2.6 FIRE Infokiosk, Project: FIRE STATION - contact(at)ict-fire.eu
- 2.7 Integrating Smart/Green Buildings with the Web, Project: HOBNET - Sotiris Nikoletseas
- 2.8 Demo name here, Project: Nano Data Centres - xx yy
- 2.9 Federation of FI platforms: PlanetLab and FEDERICA use case, Project: NOVI - Bartosz Belter,Chrysa Papagianni
- 2.10 Using the OFELIA testbed to support Information Centric Networking, Project: OFELIA - Stefano Salsano
- 2.11 Instantiating generalized virtual network topologies across OFELIA islands, Project: OFELIA - Hagen Woesner Elio Salvadori
- 2.12 Optical network control through OpenFlow, Project: OFELIA Mayur Channegowda
- 2.13 PlanetLab-NITOS federation, Project: OpenLab - Thanasis Korakis
- 2.14 Remote control of mobile robots for setting up (controlled) mobility scenarios during mobile & wireless experiments, Project: OpenLab - Pieter Becue Ingrid Moerman
- 2.15 OpenFlow and P2P integrated testing, Project: OpenLab - Christos Tranoris Spyros Denazis
- 2.16 Demo name here, Project: SMART-Net - Bruno Selva
- 2.17 SmartSantander: Experimenting IoT at the city scale, Project: SmartSantander - JM Hernandez-Munoz, Luis Muñoz, José Antonio Jiménez
- 2.18 Provisioning Semantic IoT Services, Project: SPITFIRE - Manfred Hauswirth Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
- 2.19 TEFIS for eHealth experimentation, Project: TEFIS - Jose Junior Farid Benbadis
FIRE Thematic workshops on Wednesday May 9, 2012
FIRE workshop 1: Experimental validation of cognitive radio/cognitive networking solutions
Responsible for the workshop: Ingrid Moerman (IBBT)
Project: CREW
Location: Aalborg Congress & Culture Center
Meeting room: Gaestesalen
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
In this workshop concrete results will be presented on experimental validation of cognitive radio/cognitive networking solutions. We target projects in the areas of Future Networks, Future Internet, and Embedded Systems & Control. In this workshop we want to share experiences and best practices for wireless experimentation and find answers to the following questions: What is a good experiment? How an experiment can be unambiguously defined? What output do we expect from an experiment? How do we control the wireless environment? What does an experimenter expect from the FIRE facilities?
In the afternoon, tutorials will be presented by representatives of the CREW facilities on how to use the CREW facilities.
Expected outcome(s):
- Recommendations for improving current wireless facilities
- Best practices for wireless experimentation
- Attendees will learn how to use CREW testbeds
Agenda: Session chair: Luiz Da Silva (TCD)
09:00 – 09:30 Opening - introduction by the CREW project
09:30 – 10:15 Case 1: CONSERN
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15 Case 2: COGEU
11:15 - 12:00 Case 3: FARAMIR
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion
13:30 - 16:30 Tutorials: using CREW
- CREW representatives of the Berlin, Ljubljana, Dublin and Gent CREW islands will be present to show the audience the possibilities offered by these CREW islands.
Abstracts of the presentations:
- The CREW project: experimental validation of cognitive radio, cognitive networking and spectrum sensing concepts - Luiz DaSilva - Luiz DaSilva, Trinity College Dublin - 30 minutes
- The main target of FP7-CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands. In the opening talk, the relevance of experimentation for the field of CR/CN en spectrum sensing is discussed. In addition, the audience will learn how CREW can help them in executing CR, CN and sensing experiments.
- The CONSERN experimental validation methodology - Panagis Magdalinos - Panagis Magdalinos, University of Athens- 45 minutes
- CONSERN (COoperative aNd Self growing Energy awaRe Networks) is a Specifc Targeted Research Project (STREP) of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission, addressing (i) the Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects and (ii) the Control of large-scale systems pillars of the Strategic Objective ICT-2009.3.5 "Engineering of Networked Monitoring and Control systems". CONSERN is introducing a novel paradigm for dedicated, purpose-driven small scale wireless networks characterized by a service-centric evolutionary approach, referred as an energy-aware self-growing network and system. CONSERN concepts and techniques are evaluated - with respect to their validity and viability - on the project's integrated testbed. In fact, a key project goal is the evaluation and demonstration of energy gains in cooperative heterogeneous wireless networks as well as the applicability of self-growing network paradigms on a small scale level. Additionally, CONSERN's prototyping activities on the integrated testbed are focusing on providing experimental results regarding the validity and viability of the concepts and techniques developed in the project's technical workpackages.
- In the context of this presentation, we will try to provide in a concise and precise way the CONSERN experimental validation methodology. Specifically the presentation will evolve around the following thematic areas:
- The CONSERN integrated proof-of-concept and experimentation testbed
- Presentation of the experimentation methodology (testbed integration, test-cases derivation etc)
- Experimental and Impact Assessment Process
- Lessons Learnt and Way Forward
- The development and evaluation of the COGEU TVWS prototype - Tim Forde - CTVR, The Telecommunications Research Centre - 45 minutes
- COGEU (COgnitive radio systems for efficient sharing of TV white spaces in EUropean context) is an FP7 STREP project that is a composite of technical, business, and regulatory/policy domains, with the objective of taking advantage of the TV digital switch-over by developing cognitive radio systems that leverage the favorable propagation characteristics of the TVWS.
- Of interest to the FIRE workshop is the development and experimental evaluation of the COGEU TVWS prototype transceiver which has been designed to demonstrate some key features; the ability of a TVWS device to co-exist with spectrum incumbents, i.e. DVB-T receivers and PMSE users, to efficiently use fragmented spectrum opportunities, to allow for network rendezvous between these TVWS devices in a dynamic environment and, finally, to operate under the control of a geolocation database or other licensing entity.
- FARAMIR - Jad Nasreddine, RWTH Aachen - 45 minutes
- FARAMIR is an FP7 STREP project, with a goal to research and develop techniques for increasing the radio environmental and spectral awareness of future wireless systems. The project aims to accomplish this by developing a reference hierarchical architecture and implementation for Radio Environment Maps (REMs), which are essentially knowledge bases in which next generation wireless networks, such as cognitive and heterogeneous networks, store and access information about the environment, user preferences, and other wireless systems. New spectrum sensing technologies and algorithms are also being developed, including novel radio neighbourhood mapping techniques for characterizing interference sources. These technologies will then be used to develop environment-aware resource management decisions in a variety of wireless network types.
- In this presentation we discuss the experiences from the prototyping and experimentation work carried out in FARAMIR, especially focusing on the challenges posed by the application of cognitive radio principles in cellular networks. Current experimental platforms used in the research community typically target small scale indoor deployments, which are well suited for performance studies in, for example, small femtocell networks. However, in order to understand the true potential of applications of radio environment maps and similar technologies, much more large scale experiments will be necessary. In particular, experiments related to dynamic construction of propagation models, coverage estimation, uncertainty in collected information, and management of aggregate interference require new types of platforms. We discuss how we have dealt with some of these issues within the project, lessons learned from those activities, and propose avenues for future work within this domain.
FIRE workshop 2: Measurement and Measurement Tools
Presentations & slides available on EULER web
Responsible for the workshop: Davide Careglio (UPC) Dimitri Papadimitriou (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
Project: EULER
Location: Aalborg Congress & Culture Center
Meeting room: Bondestuen
Time: 9.00-17.15
This workshop aims at gathering all the FIRE projects under the measurement and tools thematic. Participants are invited to present their current needs and developments on measurements and associated tools in the context of experimental research. Measurements and measurement tools will be key elements in the operation and management of future network infrastructures, at the equipment and network performance monitoring level but also in support of higher-level control functionality such as on-line analysis and diagnostic. These tools also play a fundamental role in measurement-based experimental research relying on the experimental evaluation and benchmarking of project outcomes including protocols, systems, etc. by means of reliable and verifiable tools.
This workshop consists of 11 talks from 9 different FIRE European projects and a final round table. Speakers will present their current needs and developments on measurements and associated tools in the context of experimental research. Four talks present and discuss specific "measurement and tools" needs in FIRE projects. Presentations discuss tools needs in wireless/sensor networks, informatic-centric networking, large scale experimental facilities, and openflow-enabled networks. Six talks present tools that are currently used and/or under development and try to bridge gaps (how reusable some of these tools are, can they be extended/enhanced, what are their properties and capabilities with respect to other similar tools, etc.). The important point here is more about the potential of the tool(s) than their kinetic. Presentations discuss available tools to measure heterogeneous metrics in wireless/sensor networks, large scale experimental facilities, openflow-enabled networks, and Internet.
The workshop will consist of four different sessions:
- Session 1: Introduction and motivation of the workshop thematic.
- Session 2: Measurement and tools needs in FIRE.
- Session 3: Presentation of tools developed in FIRE.
- Session 4: Round table discussion (how to bridge the gap).
Expected outcome(s):
- Identify what can be performed/reached by means of cooperation between projects from a directory of tools accessible to the FIRE community at large up to the joint development of tools, under which conditions, etc.
- Determine needs and document best practices in tools development for measurement-based experimental research
09:20 – 9:30 Welcome
09:30 – 10:00 Session 1: Introduction and motivation of the workshop topic
For this purpose, an introductory talk will be given (what do we mean by measurement, in which context/experimental-research measurements are being performed, their objectives - up to which extend a measurement tool can be designed if the measurement model is not completely known, etc.) - Dimitri Papadimitriou - 30 minutes
10:00 – 12:30 Morning session: tools needs and tools developed in FIRE
Session chair: Davide Careglio
- 10:00 – 10:30 - HOBNET - Experimental performance evaluation of sensor-based networking for energy efficiency in smart buildings - Sotiris Nikoletseas
- This talk presents experimentation methodologies, test-beds and tools developed in the context of the FIRE/HOBNET project for smart/green buildings via IPv6 sensor networking. The problems addressed relate to key distributed computing primitives (such as data propagation, tracking) as well as specialized application commissioning (such as garden watering, CO2 monitoring). Towards better convergence and integration of collected measurements a REST architecture is adopted. Also, for experimental research, repositories of key networking components (reference topologies, traffic patterns, energy models, mobility profiles, protocol families and performance metrics and trade-offs) are developed.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 – 11:30 - CREW - Metrics and measurement tools for assessing the channel condition in a wireless experimentation environment - Ingrid Moerman
- Novel wireless solutions, in particular new cognitive radio and networking concepts, require a rigorous experimental validation prior to uptake in wireless standards and commercial products. Wireless experimentation is very challenging, as experiments may be impaired by unwanted/uncontrolled interfering signals in the wireless environment. Within CREW a benchmarking methodology is developed to support the experimenter in getting more reliable and comparable results when executing their experiments. In this talk we will focus on a method for measuring the channel occupation during a wireless experiment. First we will explain how we can measure and score the channel condition in a wireless experimentation environment. Next we will show that the metrics for the channel condition can be used at the same time (1) to validate the performance of a cognitive wireless solutions in ISM bands and (2) to improve the efficiency of wireless experiments.
- 11:30 – 11:50 - LAWA - Methods and tools for temporal Web analytics - Marc Spaniol
- The LAWA project develops methods and tools for temporal Web analytics. The focus of developments are semantic and structural analytics of time-versioned textual Web contents. In particular, we are developing methods that enable entity detection and tracking along the time axis as well as temporal studies of large (Web) graphs. To this end, we also prepare a reference data set and will provide analytics services.
- 11:50 – 12:20 - CONVERGENCE - Metrics and measurement tools needs in Information-Centric Networking and CONVERGENCE in particular - Nicola Blefari Melazzi, Nicola Blefari Melazzi
- This talk first introduces Information-Centric Networking (ICN), a new paradigm in which the network layer provides users with contents, instead of providing communication channels between hosts, and is aware of content identifiers. Then it presents the needs on measurements required by this approach in general and by the project CONVERGENCE in particular. ICN is significantly different with respect to the current networking architecture, and poses several new requirements to measurements, which have to be performed both in the current network (to understand some of its aspects useful for the design of ICN) and possibly in the new one.
12.20 - 13.30: Lunch break
13.30 - 16.20 Afternoon session: tools needs and tools developed in FIRE
Session chair: Josep L. Marzo
- 13:30 – 14:00 - OFELIA - Metrics and measurement tools needs in openflow and OFELIA in particular - Hagen Woesner
- The core idea of OpenFlow and in a wider sense the new paradigm of 'software defined networks' is the separation of control, forwarding and processing of data. Performance evaluation of such networks has to look into details of switch internals that were not visible before, but also requires different tools for measurement. This talk introduces the available tools in the OFELIA testbed and demonstrates live access to a traffic generator/testing environment available inside the federation of OpenFlow-enabled campus islands that OFELIA is growing.
- 14:00 – 14:30 - OpenLab -- Heterogeneous testbeds, tools and experiments - Measurement requirements perspective - Anastasius Gavras
- OpenLab delivers control and experimental plane middleware to facilitate early use of its large scale shared experimental facility by future Internet researchers. Interoperability of testbeds at several levels is the main challenge of the technical work of the project. A key objective is to provide experimenters the testbed environments they need, including the tools to manage their experiments and measurement results. OpenLab has conducted an open call for experiments and is currently integrating the accepted experiments according to the capabilities of the testbeds and is ensuring the availability of the tools to run the experiments and assess the results. This presentation will focus in parts on the different requirements for measurements and measurement tools to support the researchers in their work.
- 14:30 – 14:50 - EULER - Metrics and measurement tools for distributed and adaptive routing algorithms - Dimitri Papadimitriou
- In the ICT domain, measurement is classically oriented to the verification process of the designed function set and their expectedly met performance objectives by the experimental corpus being an engineered artifact, a prototype, etc. When the scale of the real environment becomes difficult to reproduce (the Internet being the best examples) and the number of states together with their dynamics are themselves difficult to model ("how to model and quantify uncertainty"), a new approach shall be considered: simplify the experimental corpus (introduce abstraction) while maintaining its functionality and reproduce significant environmental phenomena derived from measurements of the actual environment. The EULER project in its investigation of adaptive and distributed routing models - alternative to policy-based path-vector routing - is confronted to this situation: there is no Internet scale facility where routing schemes can be experimented before being deployed. In this context, this talk will detail the proposed methodology, the measurement tools being developed in order to derive representative environmental conditions, and the verification means that have been elaborated to enable wide-scale experiments.
14:50 – 15:20: Coffee break
- 15:20 – 15:40 - OpenLab - Measurements and measurement tools in OpenLab - Javier Aracil
- This talk provides an overview of the measurement tools developed within openlab, with special emphasis in the integration of several heterogeneous data formats within a common user interface. The talk summarizes the main concerns when dealing with many different measurement tools for the different testbeds present in OpenLab. As a possible solution, the use of ontologies provides an umbrella under which federation of the measurement tools becomes feasible. In this regard, the talk presents the measurements ontology developed within MOMENT and OpenLab, along with the standardization efforts.
- 15.40 - 16.00 - NOVI - NOVI's experience in monitoring tools and measurements - Józsi Stéger
- The FP7 STREP project NOVI develops control, management and monitoring planes in order to allow the federation of various test beds, consisting of heterogeneous virtual resources. Monitoring and measurements of federated testbeds is of primary importance not only to allow other service components to make intelligent decisions, but it is also very valuable for the end-users. This talk focuses on the monitoring service component of NOVI, and it will be shown that with the use of monitoring ontology a wide range of monitoring tools, metrics and databases can be easily integrated in the NOVI monitoring framework.
- 16:00 – 16:20 - CONECT - NITOS: Methods and measurement tools for experimentation on wireless testbeds - Thanasis Korakis
- NITOS is a publicly accessible wireless testbed featuring WiFi-enabled nodes, USRP boards, cameras and various types of sensors, while it is currently also being extended with WiMAX, LTE and 3G femtocell components. In the EU project CONECT, NITOS is widely used for the implementation and experimentation evaluation of packet level cooperative approaches, from the MAC to the application layer. To cope with the heterogeneous set of measurements in these experimentation efforts, we use the OML measurement framework adopted from the EU project Openlab. OML is based on customizable measurement points inside applications running on the resources and provides a well-structured solution for capturing, processing, storing and visualizing measurements. Experimentation on cooperative networks, taking place in CONECT, exploits this framework, in order to benchmark different architectures tested on NITOS. The existence of USRP boards with spectrum sensing capabilities offers the capability of capturing the state of the wireless medium during an experiment and is extremely important for understanding the dynamics of cooperative networks implementation.
16:20 – 17:00: Session 4: Round table
- Finally, a round table discussion about what can be performed/ reached by the projects together (from a directory of tools accessible to the FIRE community until joint tools developments), under which conditions, etc.
17:00 – 17:15: Concluding session
- Wrapping-up results of discussions and define possible action points and future activities
FIRE workshop 3: EU-Japan Workshop on Experimental Future Internet Research
Presentations & slides available on FIRE web
Responsible for the workshop: Milon Gupta
Organisers: FIRE STATION Project & NICT, Japan
Location: Aalborg Congress & Culture Center
Aalborg Congress & Culture Center, Europa Plads 4, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Meeting room: Albatrosstuen
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
The workshop will continue discussions between experts from the EU and Japan on collaborative activities in the Future Internet area with a focus on experimental R&D over federated testbeds in Japan and the EU. This will continue the dialogue from the 4th EU-Japan Symposium on the "New-Generation Network (NWGN)" and the "Future Internet (FI)" held in Tokyo, Japan, on 19 January 2012.
The workshop will be of particular interest for both Japanese and European researchers in view of the envisaged coordinated EU-Japan call for research projects in this area. The workshop will focus on 'OpenFlow and its applications' as well as 'Global Cloud infrastructure'.
- Welcome and introduction
- SESSION 1: OpenFlow and its applications
- SESSION 2: Global Cloud infrastructure
- Wrap-up and conclusions
Expected outcome(s):
Closer collaboration between Japanese and European researchers, particularly in view of the envisaged coordinated EU-Japan call.
09:00 – 10:30 Opening and Session 1: OpenFlow and its applications
Session chair: Nozomu Nishinaga, NICT
- Welcome and introduction - Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom - 10 minutes
- The RISE testbed - Eiji Kawai, NICT, Japan - 10 minutes
- The OFELIA testbed – how to use and federate it - Hagen Woesner, OFELIA, EU - 10 minutes +++ CANCELLED +++
- Virtual Network Services as Enabler of Dynamic Application-Aware Traffic Engineering - Masato Tsuru, Kyutech, Japan - 10 minutes
- NOVI Experimental Research in Federated Future Internet Infrastructures - Vasilis Maglaris, NOVI, EU - 10 minutes
- Open Source Software Activities for Deploying OpenFlow - Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan - 10 minutes
- OpenFlow and P2P integrated testing - Christos Tranoris, OpenLab, EU (tbc) - 10 minutes
BREAK - 30 minutes
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Global Cloud infrastructure / Conclusions
Session chair: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom
- ICT Integrated Emulation according to Disaster Scenario on StarBED - Prof. Shinji Shimojo, Japan - 10 minutes
- The BonFIRE multi-site Cloud prototype facility - Josep Martrat, BonFIRE, EU - 10 minutes
- Challenges for Large Distributed Cloud – WIDE Cloud - Yuji Sekiya, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan - 10 minutes
- Experimental challenges for cloud security - Albena Mihovska, CTIF, Aalborg University, EU - 10 minutes
- AIST Inter-Cloud Framework - Tomohiro Kudoh, AIST, Japan - 10 minutes
- Federating the wireless facilities of OpenLab with wired networks and the cloud - Thanasis Korakis, OpenLab, EU - 10 minutes
- Wrap-up and conclusions - Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom - 10 minutes
FIRE workshop 4: Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT Research and Development
Presentations & slides available on EC Cordis web
Responsible for the workshop: Jorge Pereira
Organizer: European Commission/FIRE
Location: Aalborg Congress & Culture Center
Meeting room: Albatrosstuen
Time: 14:30 - 17:15
Related web page on EC CORDIS: Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT Research and Development
The event will run as part of Future Internet Week under Danish Presidency events, in Aalborg, Denmark. This workshop will involve experts from ICT research areas who have a strong potential for future cooperation and therefore might be interested in a new EU-Brazil coordinated call in the ICT field. This call includes topics in the area of cloud computing for science; sustainable technologies, services and applications for a smarter society and for large events, including experimental infrastructures and open services platforms, not forgetting the social dimension. Hybrid broadcast-broadband TV applications and services will also be addressed.
The event will be broadcast via IPTV and will involve via Skype and chat Brazilian as well as European participants unable to be physically present at the meeting. After the introduction of the call topics and of the rules for EU-Brazil cooperation under the ICT coordinated call, there will be presentations from related running projects and short presentations ("Elevator Pitches") where experts and organizations will present their ideas, indicating their needs for future collaboration. They may also offer their expertise for potential future international consortium partnerships. Finally, this event opportunity will support the networking between experts and organizations from EU and Brazil as well as it will stimulate the international ICT cooperation for the next coordinated call.
If interested to make a short (5-7 minutes) presentations (Elevator Pitch) please contact Jorge Pereira as soon as possible and before 20th April 2012, with the title of the proposed presentation, speaker name and contact details.
To participate at this FIRE Workshop 4 on Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT Research and Development please register at the FI-Week event website.
Please also join this workshop discussions, networking and preparation at FIRE Group at LinkedIn.
Expected Number of participants: 30 – 60.
Session chair: Manuel Monteiro
14:30 Opening Remarks Mario Campolargo, Director, EC
14:45 Sub-Objective Presentations: Cloud Computing for Science - Silvana Muscella; Sustainable technologies for a Smarter Society - José de las Heras; Smart services and applications for a Smarter Society - Nuria da Lama; Hybrid broadcast-broadband TV applications and services - Klaus Illgner;
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Experience in EU-Brazil Cooperation
16:00 Elevator Pitches
17:15 Closing Remarks - Virgilio Almeida, Secretary of State, Brazil
"Hands-on FIRE!" demo on Thursday May 10, 2012; 09:45 - 18:30
Photos & short videos available in the FIRE FP7 group at Flickr
Location: Aalborg Congress & Culture Center
Room: In the front of the auditorium
Time: 09:45 - 18:30
- Hands-on FIRE! Demo stand must always be staffed during 09:45 - 18:30 to be able to explain the project objectives (briefly) and how people can effectively use test facilities
- Showcase FIRE Facilities
- We have a great opportunity to "sell" FIRE with a view towards Horizon 2020: FIRE 2.0
- Guided Tours of Hands-on FIRE!:
Tentative schedule:
Sending material in advance:
If you need to send demo material or brochures in advance to Aalborg, please send it to:
Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center
Att: Else Herfort, Tel: +45 9935 5518
Europa Plads 4
9000 Aalborg
Please label the package(s): "Future Internet Assembly"
Please send the track-and-trace number to Mr. Rasmus Hjorth Nielsen
Demo places:
- Demo stand must be always staffed during 09:45 - 18:30 to be able to explain the project objectives (briefly) and how people can effectively use test facilities
- Tables of 1.8m or 3.6 m will be available
- Poster walls will be in both ends of the table (90 cm wide)
- Displays will be on table
Demo set-up time:
- On May 9, 2012: 15:00-19:00
- On May 10, 2012: 07:00 - 09:30 (assistance from organizer 07:00 - 08:00)
Demo dismantle time:
- On May 10, 2012: 18:30 -> after FI Forum visit!
Power Sockets:
- Unless the projects need power for very power-intensive equipment, organizer provides the following: 1 power socket with 3 outlets supplying 2 kW. Sockets with more than 3 outlets not available.
FIRE shirts & caps for demo personnel:
- Lahnis/Timo Lahnalampi (Tel. +358 40 5456 971) will distribute FIRE shirts & caps for demo personnel based on "pre-orders" in time on FIRE STATION stand on Thursday morning May 10 at 09:00-09:30.
For ALL demo owners:
EXPERIMEDIA project can help you to make your demo even more visible by using augmented reality application in Apple & Android smartphones called smartsy. Each demo stand/poster can be a trigger recognizable by smartsy application.
FIRE STATION project will collect all project logos pointing direct to each project website.
If you are interested in to "augment" more your demo, e.g. having a picture of demo itself and pointing e.g. to video or any application, please contact Remi Francard!
QR-codes will be used similar way for Symbian devices.
Hands-on FIRE! Demonstrations:
Hands-on FIRE! Demo descriptions 2-pager incl. floorplan: File:Hands-on FIRE!.pdf
- Demo floor plan:
Building Service Testbeds on FIRE, Project: BonFIRE - Kostas Kavoussanakis, Andrés Gómez, Raúl Valin
Demo description:
BonFIRE is a multi-site facility, consisting of five Cloud testbeds, distributed across Europe. The facility supports the community of researchers on applications, services and systems. BonFIRE provides an infrastructure that gives experimenters the ability to control and monitor the execution of their experiments to a degree that is not found in traditional cloud facilities.
BonFIRE Facility: As part of this demonstration, we will showcase applications already running on BonFIRE. We will use BonFIRE's graphical and declarative tools to describe experiments, then demonstrate BonFIRE's extensive, built-in, monitoring functionality, including VM, application and infrastructure metrics. We will also provide examples of controlling an experiment, showcasing controlled VM placement, controlled network parameters and cross-site, elastic deployment of resources. Additionally, our experts will help the event participants to run their first experiment on BonFIRE's facilities.
Virtual Clusters on Federated Cloud: This demonstration will show how to deploy a fault-tolerant virtual cluster devoted to High Throughput Computing (HTC) among several sites on BonFIRE infrastructure using a single command and how it adapts dynamically to the fault of one site using effectively the elasticity of the Cloud. We will also show how to build and use your own experiment agent to control your computing experiment.
Experimentation on Community Networks, Project: CONFINE - Roger Baig
About the project:
Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. These community networks incorporate a large and wide variety of commodity wireless and optical links, heterogeneous nodes, different routing protocols, applications and a large number of end-users, following an innovative model of self-provisioning using unlicensed and public spectrum. The project develops a unified access to an open testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run, monitor and experiment with services, protocols and applications on real-world community IP networks.
Demo description:
This demo shows the CONFINE testbed on Community Networks (following the Bottom-up Broadband model) with an on-site small extension of the testbed using a wireless Manet network linked live to other CONFINE nodes in different community networks in different parts of Europe (Guifi.net in Catalonia, FunkFeuer in Austria, AWMN in Greece). The setup shows the CONFINE experimental nodes and how the testbed operates using a live experiment.
Video streaming over a publish-subscribe/information-centric architecture, Project: CONVERGENCE (www.ict-convergence.eu) - Nicola Blefari Melazzi
Demo description:
The CONVERGENCE demo shows the dissemination of audio-video material by exploiting a publish/subscribe approach, coupled with information-centric networking (ICN) principles. The demo focuses on publishing video content (in the form of references to the video resource itself, plus metadata describing the video), and further publishing additional resources (for instance textual comments) that link and refer to the original video content. All publications are indexed in a semantic overlay and can be semantically subscribed to. All resources are stored in an ICN infrastructure and can be directly fetched by their identifier. Subscriptions are matched with publications in a distributed fashion, and the resulting matching video content is streamed to the subscriber by using streaming-over-HTTP technologies, mapped on top of the ICN infrastructure, in order to exploit caching of segments and collaborative "proximity routing" between users that watch the same video segments.
Wireless experimentation of cognitive radio networking solutions, Project: CREW - Ingrid Moerman (IBBT)
Demo description:
The CREW project will show two demonstrations:
- Mobile experiments in a cognitive radio testbed: In this demo we will show how a subset of the testbed infrastructure provided by the CREW (Cognitive Radio Experimentation World) project can be accessed remotely to conduct experiments in the field of cognitive radio. We will use the TWIST testbed located at Technical University Berlin (TUB), Germany, to build an RF noise environment map for the department building. In the experiment a mobile robot, located at the Berlin island of the CREW platform, is equipped with a sensing agent that continously measures 2.4 GHz RF noise. The path of the robot will be controlled remotely (from Aalborg) and the measured data will be visualized in realtime. In addition, a signal generator at TUB premises can also be controlled remotely to emit RF noise in different parts of the spectrum, enabling a repeatable wireless environment. More info: Mikolaj Chwalisz (TUBerlin)
- Capabilities of new Slovenian Island: In this demo we will show Vesna - the platform that is underlying the new testbed of the CREW (Cognitive Radio Experimentation World) federation located in Slovenia. We will show the Vesna hardware and software modules, their spectrum sensing capabilities, extensions, remote over the air reconfiguration and reprogramming. More specifically, Vesna is composed of four modules SNC (Sensor Node Core), SNR (sensor node radio), SNP (sensor node power) and SNA (sensor node application). The four modules can be layered in a sandwich for applications and we will show the layering for spectrum sensing applications. Spectrum sensing capabilities will be demoed in ISM bands. Finally, the over the air re-programming protocol will be demoed. More info: Carolina Fortuna (JSI) and Matevž Vučnik (JSI)
Future Media Internet, Project: EXPERIMEDIA - Remi Francard
Offering collective and participative experiences to real-world and online communities is at the heart of the Future Media Internet and forms an essential part of entertainment, collaborative working, education, product and service innovation and advertising. EXPERIMEDIA aims to explore new forms of social interaction and rich media experiences through experiments and pilots conducted at live events offered by culturally and economically important Smart Venues.
EXPERIMEDIA will demonstrate two technologies that offer examples of novel Future Internet usage: SkidroidXtreme and SmartSy. These technologies are representative of how user experience, user interaction and search are changed through rich media, pervasive sensors and content algorithms, and how media applications drive usage of the Internet. SkidroidXtreme and SmartSy are just a part of the EXPERIMEDIA toolkit which aims to support technologists innovating and disrupting Future Internet ecosystems through new applications and services. EXPERIMEDIA does this by offering experimentation at Smart Venues with infrastructures enhanced with generic FMI technologies and a methodology to pull it all together that considers the important relationship between Content Lifecycle (How we experience) and Experiment lifecycle (How we learn).
Interactive Gaming with Augmented Reality and NFC: Augmented reality, AR, and near field communication, NFC, are two technologies mixed into a game to propose a new user experience. The game is viewed through the phone's camera and projected onto AR markers**. The game is winter sports inspired from Schladming skiing resort, one of the venue of the project. The obstacle course is an alpine slope and a playing user will steer a small skier down this course. It is in a miniature scale so that the game could be played on top of a small surface such as a table. The game interaction is also done using NFC as the markers used for AR projection are also NFC tags. Users also tap their phones in order to acquire new course modules. The game is developed as a part of a master's thesis which aspires to explore ways of interaction using NFC and AR in mobile gaming. Thanks to the venues, EXPERIMEDIA facilitate the set up of scalable trial and be confronted to users' adoption barrier and real quality of experience challenges.
Content Publishing and Sharing with mobile: Smartsy is a technology that develops a platform which identifies through visual recognition algorithms, real objects, images and videos, and connects them to organized and interactive information like, but not limited to, product information, reviews, similar product, m-commerce, ... creating a whole new ecosystem that links consumers, publishers, manufacturers, advertisers and technology companies. Smartsy has published the 1st version of its smartphone apps on iPhone and Android as well as a Cloud service which indexes object-triggers and allows editors to create, in the smartsy Generator, contents attached to objects. (http://www.smartsy.fr)
FIRE Infokiosk, Project: FIRE STATION - contact(at)ict-fire.eu
Demo description:
Overview of all FIRE projects and promotion of the overall concept of experimentally-driven research for the Internet of the Future, joining the two ends of academic-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation. To make this approach a reality, FIRE aims to create a dynamic, sustainable, large scale European Experimental Facility, which is built by gradually connecting and federating existing and new test beds for emerging or future internet technologies.
Promotion tools:
- FIRE web
- FIRE Office/single contact point: contact(at)ict-fire.eu
- FIRE group in LinkedIn, incl. European Commission organized FIRE Focal Point: Call for Ideas and Networking for Future Internet Research Experimentation activities under the ICT-WP2013.
- FIRE mobile news application
Integrating Smart/Green Buildings with the Web, Project: HOBNET - Sotiris Nikoletseas
Demo description:
Summary: This demo will showcase that developing a green building monitoring/automation application with the HOBNET architecture is as easy as developing any web-application. More specifically, the demonstration will include remotely connecting to the HOBNET testbed at Patras over the web and remotely interacting with diverse sensors (i.e. luminance, temperature, CO2, CO, etc) and actuators (i.e. controlling lights, curtains, ventilation system, etc). Furthermore, we will showcase how one can combine and manage these directly accessible resources into sophisticated smart, green scenarios such as room adaptation to presence, adaptation to weather conditions, emergency evacuation, etc. Live video stream from the testbed will be provided via an IP web camera.
Background: Up until now, systems developed for building automation applications follow rather simplistic architectures typically consisting of a WSN collecting and storing data to a database. Then custom made tools are developed that provide "real time" feedback by periodically accessing the database. This type of architectures exhibits severe limitations on scalability, portability and ease of maintenance as they highly depend on custom made software that addresses application-specific issues. The HOBNET proposed architecture aims on easing and maximizing the use of FIRE platforms for Future Internet applications on automation and energy efficiency for smart/green buildings. HOBNET introduces a RESTful and fully IPv6/6LoWPAN enabled architecture, thus facilitating seamless connectivity with the Web. Each mote is configured as a webserver with a unique global IP and each sensor is represented as a resource. This way, direct interaction with the system is feasible without any need of middleware.
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Federation of FI platforms: PlanetLab and FEDERICA use case, Project: NOVI - Bartosz Belter,Chrysa Papagianni
About the project:
NOVI (Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures) research concentrates on efficient approaches to compose virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service. Resources belonging to various levels, i.e. networking, storage and processing are in principle managed by separate yet interworking providers. NOVI will concentrate on methods, information systems and algorithms that will enable users with composite isolated slices, baskets of resources and services provided by federated infrastructures.
Demo description:
The demo will be a live presentation of how NOVI Innovation Cloud services enable users to create isolated slices with resources drawn from a federation of dissimilar, yet interconnected virtualization platforms. Intelligent services include resource discovery, virtual resource mapping, reservation and substrate stitching. The experiments will be performed on FEDERICA and private PlanetLab facilities.
Using the OFELIA testbed to support Information Centric Networking, Project: OFELIA - Stefano Salsano
Demo description:
This demo is about using the OFELIA testbed to support Information Centric Networking (ICN). Despite this demo has been developed by a partner of the OFELIA project, the ICN functionalities have been implemented using the OFELIA testbed as a "regular" external user. Therefore the demo will first show how it is possible to setup a distributed experiment based on Software Defined Networking / OpenFlow on the OFELIA testbed. Using the OFELIA control framework a "slice" for the ICN experiment is requested and the hardware and software configuration of the experiment is properly configured. Coming to the specific topic of the experiment, the demo willl show how it is possile to exploit the OpenFlow architecture to realize a distributed in-network caching infrastructure supporting ICN.
Instantiating generalized virtual network topologies across OFELIA islands, Project: OFELIA - Hagen Woesner Elio Salvadori
Demo description:
This demo presents VeRTIGO, an advanced network virtualization framework for OpenFlow / Software Defined Networking networks developed by CREATE-NET within OFELIA project. VeRTIGO enables researchers to instantiate generalized virtual network topologies decoupled from the underlying physical topology, with the aim to let them test novel network protocols and innovative operational mechanisms in a controlled testing environment. While currently under development, VeRTIGO's main features will be shown in two experimental scenarios: the first will demonstrate how OFELIA facility can be leveraged to test network virtualization mechanisms and capabilities. The second will show how VeRTIGO can effectively replace the current network virtualization framework (FlowVisor) by instantiating a virtual topology across two different islands of the facility.
Optical network control through OpenFlow, Project: OFELIA Mayur Channegowda
Demo description: One of the unique features of the OFELIA project is to support optical networks using extended OpenFlow protocol and its control framework. This demo will show how experimenters can use OpenFlow enabled optical switches (ADVA FSP 3000 ROADMs) in the OFELIA facility. The idea is to experiment lightpath establishment in the optical networking domain using extended OpenFlow controllers and OpenFlow agents using the OFELIA testbed. OpenFlow enabled ROADMs (ADVA FSP 3000) infrastructure at University of Essex will make use of the OFELIA testbed to run experiments in the optical domain. The demo will showcase how extended controllers interact with optical switches to discover optical network topology using OpenFlow. We will also demonstrate a sample application which users can run on top of the extended OpenFlow controller to setup and tear down a lightpath between the discovered network elements.
PlanetLab-NITOS federation, Project: OpenLab - Thanasis Korakis
Demo description:
This demo presents experimentation on the field of association mechanisms in wireless networks, in a combined wired and wireless environment. The scenario consists of a wireless station operating in the coverage area of two available access-points. The STA is sending traffic to a remote destination (in the wired network) through the Internet. The goal of the node is to get associated with the AP that gives the best end-to-end delay over the wired-wireless path. In order to provide a proper experimental setup that consists of both wired and wireless networks, we established a federated environment between the NITOS wireless testbed, located at the premises of the University of Thessaly, and the large-scale distributed Planetlab Europe wired testbed. This demo shows the federation approach we followed and provides some interesting results regarding experimentation in the combined experimental architecture. The whole experiment is orchestrated through the OMF control and management framework.
Remote control of mobile robots for setting up (controlled) mobility scenarios during mobile & wireless experiments, Project: OpenLab - Pieter Becue Ingrid Moerman
Demo description:
This demo will show how to remotely control the mobile robots in the W-iLab.t testbed in Ghent. During the demo, a live video feed will show the movement of the robots in the testbed. As the W-iLab.t testbed is fully OMF compatible, the robots will also be controlled by OMF. We will show how to define mobility patterns in the OMF experiment description language. This way, the users can define a fixed path for the robots to follow during their experiment. The exact position of the robots can be determined at any time during the experiment. We will also show how experiment data from the robots is collected through the OML measurement framework. All of the above functionality will be demonstrated by setting up a wireless experiment which will show the relevance of introducing mobility in a wireless testbed. One example could be to visualize the fluctuation in RSSI and/or throughput measurements when a robot drives around in the testbed where a wireless access point is set up. Interaction with the WiFi node on the robot during the experiment will also be shown.
OpenFlow and P2P integrated testing, Project: OpenLab - Christos Tranoris Spyros Denazis
Demo description: The demo will demonstrate how it is possible to use OpenLab tools with OpenFlow configuration. In more detail the demo will use the Federation Scenario toolkit for describing the experiment, including some potential federated resources from OpenLab. Then mechanisms like Resource Adapters and the Panlab Testbed Manager will be used to configure the testbed. The aim of the demonstration will be to show what are the possibilities with OpenLab tools for future experimentation.
Demo name here, Project: SMART-Net - Bruno Selva
Project Presentation:
SMART-Net project proposes a partially distributed infrastructure taking advantages of smart antennas techniques. SMART-Net addresses strong requirements in term of Scalability, Reliability and Security of Radio backbones dedicated to Mobile Access networks and Video surveillance applications.
In this context SMART-Net proposes a novel architecture with a set of algorithms and protocols combining multiple Radio Access Technologies (WiMAX and WiFi) with Smart Antennas deployed on subscriber units (whereas they are traditionally deployed on Base Station). Outcomes of the project have been developed taking advantage of a Real Life TestBed and Simulation TestBed integrating WiMAX, WiFi Radio Access Technologies and Smart Antennas. In the context of FIRE European Research Initiative, SMART-Net offers unique facilities to external European Researcher within this associated framework allowing them to perform their own investigations for Future Wireless Networks.
Demo description:
In Aalborg an example of Real Life TestBed node will be brought demonstrating on site how smart antenna can be advantageously used on WiMAX Subscriber Stations providing security, resiliency and capacity to the wireless link. Moreover SMART-Net Testbed access and usage will be presented and explained.
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SmartSantander: Experimenting IoT at the city scale, Project: SmartSantander - JM Hernandez-Munoz, Luis Muñoz, José Antonio Jiménez
SmartSantander project
The project aims at the creation of an experimental test facility for the research and experimentation of architectures, key enabling technologies, services and applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) in an urban landscape. The testbed is conceived as an essential instrument to achieve the European leadership on key enabling technologies for IoT, and to provide the European research community with a one-and-only platform of its characteristics, suitable for large scale experimentation and evaluation of IoT concepts under real-life conditions.
The project envisions the deployment of 20,000 sensors in Belgrade, Guildford, Lübeck and Santander, exploiting a large variety of technologies. The core of the facility will be located in the city of Santander and its surroundings, encompassing IoT deployments, up to 12,000 devices in different key areas of the city infrastructure will be deployed, ranging from public transport, key logistics facilities such as harbour and waste management, public places and buildings, work places and residential areas, thus creating the basis for development of a Smart City.
Demo description
Different functionalities of the SmartSantander infrastructure will be remotely demonstrated, such as authentication and authorization procedures, resource management, over the air programming, experimentation and services.
- Santander Facility. An experiment will be conducted towards the experimental test facility, composed of more than 3000 IoT devices deployed within the city of Santander. Once the user has been authenticated, a set of nodes will be selected and reserved in order to run the corresponding experiment. Selected nodes will be reprogrammed using Multihop Over The Air Programming (MOTAP) protocols, reflashing them with a new program and showing real time results to the audience. At the application level, as data aggregation for fine-tuning of real life services, different applications will be shown. Apart from the smart parking and environmental monitoring applications developed during the first year of the project, augmented reality and participatory sensing services are expected to be demonstrated as well.
- Belgrade / Pancevo. Remote access to the EkoBus system deployed for environmental monitoring and public transport management will be shown. The system is made available for experimentation on IoT data level, and utilizes public city transportation vehicles to monitor a set of environmental parameters (CO, CO2, NO2, temperature, humidity) over a large area as well as to provide additional information for the end-user like the location of the buses and estimated arrival times to bus stops.
- Guildford. The SmartCampus testbed is part of the SmartSantander facility and offers an environment of more than 200 IoT for experimentation devices in an indoor environment, deployed at Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey. The SmartCampus testbed provides advanced tools that allow experimenters to selected adequate testbed resources for her/his envisioned experiments based on static and dynamic resource properties which are semantically described and topology characteristics which are automatically updated. The demonstration will show how suitable resources can be selected based on desired resource properties and topology characteristics and how these tools can adapt to topology change. Finally it will demonstrate how easy it is to receive fast visual feedback on live experiments.
- Lübeck. A collaboration between the projects SmartSantander and SPITFIRE will be shown. (Sensor-)Data about the availability of parking lots from two SmartSantander sites (Lübeck and Santander) will be aggregated and semantically enriched by the SPITFIRE SmartServiceProxy. This data is then used in a WebClient showing information about both cities.
Provisioning Semantic IoT Services, Project: SPITFIRE - Manfred Hauswirth Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
Demo description:
This demo will demonstrate how the SPITFIRE project results to develop Future Internet Applications. The experiments will utilize existing FIRE facilities (e.g., WISEBED, w-iLab.t) and a live testbed comprising of 10 IoT devices that will allow the participants to interact on-site with the embedded devices. The remote and local testbed will be federated using the Virtual Link technology provided by the FIRE facilities and the SPITFIRE Smart Service Proxy (SSP). Interaction between users and smart objects is achieved using technologies like 6LoWPAN, CoAP, RDF, Linked Data and advanced concepts like Semantic Entities and Automatic Sensor Annotation. The unified concepts, methods and software infrastructures developed in the context of the SPITFIRE project are exploited to develop a smart multi-office environment that interacts with the users' needs and while on the same time optimize energy consumption.
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TEFIS for eHealth experimentation, Project: TEFIS - Jose Junior Farid Benbadis
Demo description: The eHealth application is a Future Internet solution under development, which is based in long distance surgery over non-dedicated networks with the help of a Distributed Patient Medical Record (PMR). The usage scenario of the solution is during a surgery in which a surgeon operates a patient, in another hospital, over a long distance with the data passing through a non-dedicated connection. In this procedure the surgeon will have access to all patient medical history and all new information, since the surgery video can be persisted in the PMR. The application also includes the functionality to test the input generated by the surgeon on the procedure, and tell if this type of network is capable to handle the long distance, with an acceptable jitter and response time. The purpose of this experiment is to measure the minimum resources necessary for the proper functioning of such an application. The goal here is to run the eHealth application under ideal conditions and with almost unlimited resources in order to measure its proper limits, and then, stress the network to see what happen when it is overloaded. After that several parameters will be adjusted, independently or not, and measure their impact on the overall performance of the application. This experiment will allow the exeprimenter to measure what is the minimum bandwidth required for its functioning and what level of latency and jitter can be accepted without losing quality in usability, as data-loss could create a disaster for the medical treatment of the patient, and a high jitter can misled the surgeon during the procedure.
Running this experiment requires from the experimenter to use multiple TEFIS connected testbeds: ETICS in Italy and the KyaTera testbed in Brazil. By using ETICS capabilities, the eHealth solution developers are able to produce the most efficient piece of code, in term of execution capabilities (CPU and memory usage, speed of execution, etc), as well as to create the application package and easing the application deployment due the large amount of dependencies; and for the KyaTera, once the application is compiled, it will be deployed on the testbed network, which is an optical network, that can provide high network capabilities, in term of bandwidth, error rate, latency, and jitter. Thus, it can be considered as a network with infinite resources, or can be an overload network, simulating the two capacity edges.
In the demo we will show in runtime how the TEFIS portal is used for planning a Future Internet service experiment, to request testbed resources on demand, to configure and initialise test resources, to deploy resources and to manage and run/re-run individual testruns and then to monitor and access results from the test. The demo will be a live demonstration of an effective test in runtime which involves testbed resources from two different testbeds independent of place. Spectators will gain insights into how TEFIS supports and satisfies the user requirements of service experimenters via a single access point. Moreover we will also demonstrate how to specify and plan for a Future Internet experiment and the various factors which should be taken into account for the best results.


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I didn't really live blog and didn't even really keep too accurate a running diary. I mostly drank wine (like, a lot of wine) and cracked wise, occasionally remembering to write down my observations. And here they are:
Karros: So, does the best player in the game get butterflies?
Pujols: I don't think I'm the best player in the game.
Karros: Albert, we are men of action. Lies do not become us.
OK, that's not really what Karros said, but he should have.
AL wins again, which is fairly depressing for an NL Fan like me. Still, when you see Mariano Rivera closing it out, you have to appreciate how the currents of history are flowing these days. In 50 years, people are going to think about the mid-90s to the late oughts as a time when giants named Rivera and Jeter roamed the Earth, and games like this one are going to form the chronicle. To have interlopers like Francisco Cordero and Brad Hawpe screw with that narrative simply won't do, and we as NL fans have to accept that.
All in all a good game. Brisk. No silliness about everyone getting in the game. It felt like real baseball and looked like real baseball. I don't have any complaints. Good show Messers Manuel and Maddon. Crawford wins the MVP. He's as good a choice as any.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go pass out somewhere.

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I'll add to this list when other games come in:
North Salem 45, Beacon 32: At North Salem, Danielle Fiacco had a triple-double with 16 points, 11 blocks and 10 rebounds. Jamie-Rose Zappolo had 11 points.
Carmel 62, Mahopac 29: At Carmel, Brittany Horne led the Rams with 18 points and 15 rebounds and Kim Broccoli had 13 points. Sabrina Diaz added 11 points and Nikki Oliver had 10 rebounds.
Pearl River 69, North Rockland 35: At Pearl River, Nicole Grossbard led Pearl River with 29 points and seven steals and Christa Scognamiglio had 24 points with six rebounds and six steals. Deanna Jones led North Rockland with eight points.
Pelham 38, Bronxville 26: At Bronxville, Laura Davis led Pelham with 12 points and Caroline Stiefvater had 10 points. Kristen Noonan led Bronxville with 13 points.
Putnam Valley 52, Croton-Harmon 43: At Putnam Valley, Rachel Fitzgerald scored 16 points for Putnam Valley. Carey Berry added 15. Haley Clarke scored 13 points for Croton-Harmon.
Rye Country Day 43, Hopkins 32: At RCDS, Alexandra Osborn-Jones scored a team-high 17 points. Bridget Stock pulled down 9 rebounds. The Wildcats sealed the victory by going 6 for 6 from the foul line in the last 41 seconds


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I have gone on three mission trips with Free to Smile in the past year. This organization has truly changed my life along with the hundreds of children they help every year. Every trip has run smoothly and is adequately staffed. Free to smile truly puts forth its resources to make sure every child they serve has top notch care throughout the perioprative process. I can't say enough about Free to Smile. They are a cut above the rest!
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This small organization does amazing work. My son volunteered with their Guatemala cleft lip/ palate mission in 2013. It was absolutely amazing to see the lives they changed and the hope they gave these kids, young adults and families. They do all this with donations... I was so amazed that I have developed a program in which our small family business , the Dramm Corp.,promotes Free to Smile and donates financially... "springing Hope, Gardening for Smiles". Stacy and Byron Henry are the 'real deal', with their hearts in the right place:)
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He needed specialist surgery after being injured during an England under-21 scrummaging session in March.
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This review is from: ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2.0 LGA 775 VIA PT880 Pro/PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard
Pros: AGP8x w/775
Relatively flexible in terms of what hardware you can plug into it, may not run great, but it'll usually run.
Cons: The VIA chipset was my main beef, but only when trying to do stupid stuff with it.
ATX header is almost in the middle of the board (this may be useful in some specific application though).
Other Thoughts: I've had this board almost three years with no issues, I got it for what I think it was intended- as a transition board. And for that it does the job.
After purchasing a proper motherboard, this piece was relegated to component testing, which it also has performed well at.
It's recently done time inside in an arcade emulator cabinet, getting banged around, unplugged at random and generally treated poorly. For my abuses I've lost one USB and had to re-seat the battery, not bad for board I got new for $60, or so, three years ago.
This review is from: EVGA 896-P3-1257-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
Pros: Handles everything I throw at it. Have gotten some decent overclocks. EVGA customer service. Came with all connectors I needed. Flawless installation under Win7 x64.
Cons: Power hungry, can heat my room, and points out bottlenecks in the rest of my system. Oh well.
Other Thoughts: Feed it plenty of cool, clean air. I've had to clean the fan/radiator a couple times, otherwise, runs between 38 and 66 degrees.
I've taken to using MSI's Afterburner software instead of EVGA's as it allows more precise control of the fan.
This review is from: APEVIA X-CRUISER2-AL Silver SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Pros: It's a cheap, flashy case, I like the gauges and the pseudo-50's American car styling. Comes with fan controller, a few big fans (2 are LED, 1 isn't) and plenty of 3.5" drive slots.
The essential aspects of the case work. Can support some tool-less methods.
Can be quiet at idle, with the door closed and fans turned down.
Cons: -Audio VU circuit isn't good.
-Front cover/door creaks. Spend a couple a couple minutes routing the wires coming from this and things improve a bit.
-The cases overall depth is too short to accommodate my EVGA GTX 260 without sacrificing a couple 3.5" slots (by about an inch).
-There's a muffler on the side panel fan, while reducing noise does impact the airflow, easily removed.
-Only comes with screws.
-Temperature probe only reaches about halfway across the case if it's routed alongside the 5.25" bays.
-Inlet port in the door for the front fan is pitiful, open the door or get busy with the dremel.
Other Thoughts: Overall, I like this case. When I bought it, the other cases at this price point were made worse or didn't have as many features (as cheesy as some of them are). Yeah, the fan controller is simple, and the gauges aren't terribly accurate, but I bought it with the intention of modding it a bit anyways, kind of like the 50's cars it's styled after.
-1 Egg for not being 1" deeper for giant video cards.
-1 Egg for cheap electrics, only providing screws and not having a larger aperture in the door.


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Glory Days - by Lenny Shulman
A multitude of stars have passed in the last fortnight. read blog
A multitude of stars have passed in the last fortnight. read blog
Grade I winner Somali Lemonade died Jan. 23 from complications of foaling, according to breeder Helen Alexander, sister of the 7-year-old mare's owner, Caroline Forgason.
Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey have won the fifth annual John Deere Award as outstanding breeders of the 2015 Breeders' Cup Challenge Series and the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Lenny Shulman recaps the Breeders' Cup meet at Keeneland and sits with Ken Ramsey to discuss several scoops on plans for Bobby's Kitten, international racing, and International Star. Sponsored by Hill 'n' Dale Stallions watch video
Leading turf sire Kitten's Joy will stand for a fee of $100,000 for the third straight year in 2016, Ramsey Farm announced Nov. 5.
American Pharoah dominates the Breeders' Cup Classic and more in the November 7, 2015 issue of Blood-Horse magazine.
Ramsey Farm closed a deal Nov. 2 to sell Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT) winner Stephanie's Kitten to the Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm in Japan for $2.8 million.
Grade 1 winner Angela Renee, a full sister to To Honor and Serve, topped Fasig-Tipton's November sale on a $3 million bid from Don Alberto at a session that saw fewer million-dollar lots as median and buybacks rose.
Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Stephanie's Kitten, winner of the Oct. 31 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT), failed to sell at the Fasig-Tipton November sale Nov. 1 for the second consecutive year.
Four years after claiming her first Breeders' Cup victory, Stephanie's Kitten returned to a Breeders' Cup winner's circle again Oct. 31 after a courageous rally to win the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT).
Chad Brown's success has been synonymous with the Breeders' Cup since he handled saddling Ginger Punch to victory in the 2007 Distaff as an assistant trainer. That success has continued unabated.
She will be offered at Fasig-Tipton Nov. 1, but first Stephanie's Kitten will seek her second Breeders' Cup victory, this time in the Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT), which she narrowly lost a year ago.
Foreign-breds Legatissimo, Dacita, Photo Call, and Secret Gesture will square off against the likes of Stephanie's Kitten and Hard Not to Like in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf
Trainer Chad Brown unleashed a cavalcade of Breeders' Cup-bound horses at Belmont Park Oct. 24 for their final works, including Big Blue Kitten, Slumber, Shining Copper, Stephanie's Kitten, and Dacita.
Former claimer Royal Posse will try for his second straight stakes win against other New York-breds and third victory overall when he faces an expected eight rivals in the $300,000 Empire Classic Handicap.
A group III winner in France back in 2013, Trevor Stewart's Stellar Path broke through with her first graded score in North America Oct. 17 at Belmont Park, taking the $200,000 Athenia Stakes (gr. IIIT).
Lady Lara and Coffee Clique will be working Oct. 17 to find some semblance of their previously consistent form in the $200,000 Athenia Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.
Trainer Chad Brown could have as many as four of the 10 possible runners in the Flower Bowl, but expected rain in the New York area will make this a challenging race to forecast.
The Illinois Racing Board upheld the stewards' decision to disqualify Secret Gesture in the 2015 Beverly D. Stakes (gr. IT) from first to third place and also confirmed a $1,500 fine against her rider Jamie Spencer.
Recepta secured her second straight stakes win and first career graded stakes victory Sept. 19 in the Noble Damsel Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Belmont turf.
Co-highweights Lady Lara and Coffee Clique look to return to winning ways in the one-mile Noble Damsel Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.
The Aug. 28 card at Saratoga Race Course, on the eve of Travers Stakes (gr. I) Day, will feature six New York-bred stakes worth $1.15 million, highlighted by a showdown of older turf runners in the $150,000 West Point.
A late rally into second by Watsdachances helped the daughter of Diamond Green to her first grade I victory when she was placed first in the Beverly D. Stakes Aug. 15 at Arlington International Racecourse.
Team Valor International's Euro Charline and Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Stephanie's Kitten will hook up yet again in the $700,000 Beverly D. Stakes (gr. IT) Aug. 15 at Arlington International Racecourse.
Hard Not to Like came flying and secured her second consecutive grade I victory July 25, edging out Tepin in the final strides of the $500,000 TVG Diana Stakes (gr. IT) at Saratoga while setting a turf course record.
|Breeder / Owner
|Better Lucky
|Thomas Albertrani
|Coffee Clique
|Brian A. Lynch
|Dame Marie
|Eddie Kenneally
|Discreet Marq
|Christophe Clement
|Ready Signal
|Amy Tarrant
|Somali Lemonade
|Michael R. Matz
|Stephanie's Kitten
|Wayne M. Catalano
|Strathnaver (GB)
|H. Graham Motion
|Unlimited Budget
|Todd A. Pletcher
|Waterway Run
|Chad C. Brown
|Albuquerque Distaff H.
|Eddie Read S. (G2T)
|TVG San Diego H. (G2)
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Just got back from the Track, Little review....
Well I did another racing school today at Road America in Elkart Lake Wis. Road America for those of you who don't know is a 4 mile road course with 14 turns. I got there and they placed me in Class C because I have done a couple racing days there before. I took one look at my class and was like I will never keep up with any of them. There were tons of C5's a couple Z06's, a 993TT, my dads 993RS, an E46 M3, and a few other nice sports cars. Well my little 325XI did really well, much to my surprise. I was running Kuhmo R compound tires and Pagid Blue brake pads(which are now 75% gone) and the car seemed to brake really well and sit really balanced. It was a lot more forgiving then any of the rwd cars I have driven on the track, I had a lot more room for error but this isn't always a good thing because I can't get used to it. Anyways I was holding off most the C5's minus one Z06 and held off the porsches through corners and the "carosuel" but as soon as we got to the straights I was smoked. It mostly came down to driving and I was out driving most the guys with the exception of the 911's and one Z06. Everyone was shocked that I could keep up in a little 2.5 liter bmw. I learned today that our cars have a lot more potential then we give them, we can do some amazing things in them. The day as a whole went really well, Track Time Racing School runs a great, organized event. There was only one mishap where a 944 Turbo in my class spun out and did some heavy damage to his car. Other than that the day went well and the car was awesome, now all I need is some more hp and bigger brakes!!
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sounds great!
souds like a great time - thanks for sharing your experience, I know our cars have more to them then people might think
now if only I could get my husband ot let me track.... oh well, guess I should just convince him that I should use the saved $$ on mods
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:21:25 -0500, Bill Minton <billminton at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> I disabled all serial and parallel ports in BIOS and now get to:
> sio1: configured irq3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
That should be normal given that the serial port is disabled. The
M0N0WALL_GENERIC kernel config uses IRQ3 for sio1, and it can't find
it because it's not there. It should follow that with "sio1: port may
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When you visit VanDusen you'll first be greeted by the award-winning, 'Living Building' Visitor Centre. Opened in 2011, the Visitor Centre is designed to excite, educate and inspire our visitors about the world of plants. It's a vibrant meeting place for culture and social activities, and also a remarkable piece of architecture.
Shaped like an orchid when viewed from above, its organic lines echo the way nature and conservation have been considered at every turn. The building is widely recognized as a pioneering structure in green design—and is LEED Platinum certified.
Living Building
Designed by Busby Perkins + Will and landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the structure has been created to meet the 'Cascadia Living Building Standard'—the most advanced measure of sustainability in the building industry. When it was built, Living Building elements had been attained in many projects around the world, but not all together. Today, only four buildings have met the standard and VanDusen's Visitor Centre is in line to join their ranks.
Behind the 'Living Building' concept is the belief that humans need to move to a state of balance between the natural and built environments. These buildings are water independent—100 percent of the building's water use comes from captured precipitation or reused water that is purified without chemicals. All energy is supplied onsite by renewable sources.
To this end, the building currently employs a number of energy efficient systems, including a rainwater cistern for toilet flushing and onsite sewage disposal. As well as a solar hot water system on the roof, there is a high-profile 11.52 kilowatt solar photovoltaic array on four custom pole mounts in the parking lot.
- Lieutenant Governor's Award for Engineering Excellence by the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies, BC.
- Five Vancouver Regional Construction Association awards
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia award in architecture, merit level by the Architectural Institute of BC
- 1st place in the inaugural World Architecture News Engineering Awards (UK)
- In Canada, the Cascadia Living Building Challenge is operated by the Canada Green Building Council in concert with the International Living Future Institute.
Discovery Hall
Before exploring the Garden, pause for a moment to enjoy the Discovery Hall. This space is home to travelling exhibits, art shows and special seasonal displays such as the Lego Village at Festival of Lights. The Discovery Hall is free to enter, along with Truffles Café, VanDusen Garden Shop and the Yosef Wosk Library and Resource Centre.


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Andrew J. Ferguson
Research Scientist
Andrew Ferguson received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Imperial College, researching the photophysical properties of molecular organic semiconductors under the supervision of Prof. Tim Jones in the Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices (CEMD).
After his graduate studies Dr. Ferguson joined Garry Rumbles' group at NREL as a postdoctoral researcher, investigating the fate of excitons and carriers in organic photovoltaic (OPV) material systems, such as conjugated-polymer:fullerene blends, using time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) as well as time-resolved and steady-state photoluminescence spectroscopy.
Research Interests
Dr. Ferguson is now a research scientist in the Chemical and Materials Science Center and is actively involved in the investigation of novel mechanisms for third-generation solar photoconversion schemes. He is a principal investigator for an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Next Generation Photovoltaics II Project studying frequency upconversion phenomena to enhance solar conversion efficiencies, and is a key member in a research team investigating factors influencing singlet fission and the interaction of plasmon-active substrates with excited states in model organic semiconductor systems. Dr. Ferguson is also interested in understanding excited-state dynamics in blends of conjugated polymers and single-walled carbon nanotubes, and the potential application of such system as light-harvesting active layers for OPVs. He is currently leading, along with Dr. Jeffrey Blackburn, a Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) project focused on understanding and controlling the factors that affect the thermal and electrical transport properties of organic semiconductor thin films.
Selected Publications
- Ferguson, A. J. ; Blackburn, J. L. ; Kopidakis, N. (2013). "Fullerenes and carbon nanotubes as acceptor materials in organic photovoltaics." Mater. Lett. (90); Accessed May 06, 2013: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X12012839.
- Nardes, A.M.; Ferguson, A.J.; Whitaker, J.B.; Larson, B.W.; Larsen, R.E.; Maturová, K.; Graf, P.A.; Boltalina, O.V.; ; Strauss, S.H.; Kopidakis, N. (2012). "Beyond PCBM: Understanding the Photovoltaic Performance of Blends of Indene-C60 Multiadducts with Poly(3-hexylthiophene)." Advanced Functional Materials (22); Accessed May 06, 2013: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201200336/abstract.
- Nardes, A.M.; Ayzner, A.L.; Hammond, S.R.; Ferguson, A.J.; Schwartz, B.J.; Kopidakis, N. (2012). "Photoinduced Charge Carrier Generation and Decay in Sequentially Deposited Polymer/Fullerene Layers: Bulk Heterojunction vs Planar Interface." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (116:(13)); Accessed May 06, 2013: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp212390p?journalCode=jpccck&quickLinkVolume....
- Ferguson, A. J. ; Kopidakis, N. ; Shaheen, S. E. ; Rumbles, G. (2011). "Dark Carriers, Trapping, and Activation Control of Carrier Recombination in Neat P3HT and P3HT:PCBM Blends.." J. Phys. Chem. C (115:46); pp. 23134-23148. Accessed July 26, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp208014v.
- Rance, W. L. ; Ferguson, A. J. ; McCarthy-Ward, T. ; Heeney, M. ; Ginley, D. S. ; Olson, D. C. ; Rumbles, G. ; Kopidakis, N. (2011). "Photoinduced Carrier Generation and Decay Dynamics in Intercalated and Non-intercalated Polymer:Fullerene Bulk Heterojunctions." ACS Nano (5:7); pp. 5635-5646. Accessed July 26, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn201251v.
- Holt, J. M. ; Ferguson, A. J. ; Kopidakis, N. ; Larsen, B. A. ; Bult, J. ; Rumbles, G.; Blackburn, J. L. (2010). "Prolonging Charge Separation in P3HT-SWNT Composites Using Highly Enriched Semiconducting Nanotubes." Nano Lett. (10:11); pp. 4627-4633. Accessed July 26, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl102753z.
- Coffey, D. C. ; Ferguson, A. J. ; Kopidakis, N. ; Rumbles, G. (2010). "Photovoltaic Charge-Generation in Organic Semiconductors Based on Long-Range Energy Transfer." ACS Nano (4:9); pp. 5437-5445. Accessed July 26, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn101106b.
- Ferguson, A. J.; Blackburn, J. L. ; Holt, J. M. ; Kopidakis, N. ; Tenent, R. C. ; Barnes, T. M. ; Heben, M. J. ; Rumbles, G. (2010). "Photoinduced Energy and Charge Transfer in P3HT:SWNT Composites." J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (1:15); pp. 2406-2411. Accessed July 26, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz100768f.
- Tenent, R.C.; Barnes, T.M.; Bergeson, J.D.; Ferguson, A.J.; To, B.; Gedvilas, L.M.; Heben, M.J.; Blackburn, J.L. (2009). "Ultra Smooth, Large Area, High Uniformity, Conductive Transparent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films for Photovoltaics Produced by Ultrasonic Spraying." Advanced Materials (21); p. 3210.
- Ferguson, A. J. ; Kopidakis, N. ; Shaheen, S. E. ; Rumbles, G. (2008). "Quenching of Excitons by Holes in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Films." J. Phys. Chem. C (112:26); pp. 9865-9871. Accessed July 26, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp7113412.


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Rather, Obama sounded like a dog-tired idealist forced to grapple painfully with hard reality.
And dog-tired reminds me that we hadn't found Pincher, in spite of all our trouble.
But many of them were wounded and dog-tired, and it was hard work.
But bein' by this time pretty cold with watchin', and dog-tired, I tumbled below and into my bunk.
My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired.
And now I must stop writing, and go to bed, for I am dog-tired.
He was dog-tired but before he slept he walked around the little pool.
The men were dog-tired, and suffered the officers to command and chatter as much as they liked.
To us, knocked about and dog-tired as we were, the going was difficult.
He was dog-tired, he said, and that was a fact; had been drivin' about with his wife to 'shows' all the afternoon.


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DAYTONA BEACH — What do you call improvisational humor with an art-history attitude? Dr. Lori's Antiques Appraisal Comedy Tour, and it's coming to the 52nd annual Fall Home Show.
The professor-turned-TV-personality who goes simply by the name Dr. Lori has no way to know what audience members will have in tow when she takes the stage for stand-up performances during the three-day expo that opens Friday at the Ocean Center. But, as the title of her touring act suggests, she promises to tell them how much their objects are worth and to be funny while she's at it. Her key to making that happen — aside from the knowledge she amassed in pursuit of her doctorate in art history from Penn State and subsequent university, museum, auction and garage-sale-combing experience — is that she's fascinated by it all.
"There's not any object I look at and don't go, 'Wow, this could be an interesting thing,' " she said this week in a phone interview from her office in Bucks County, Pa. She had just returned from a home-show appraisals gig in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the city's legacy as the port for bodies recovered from the sinking of the Titantic in 1912 was apparent in the items she saw and the stories told by those who brought them to her.
"Art history is the study of people and the things that are around them," she said.
What Dr. Lori will learn next week about the Daytona Beach area and its inhabitants while doing free appraisals for Home Show patrons remains to be seen. What's known is that she'll have 150 chances to glean such knowledge.
"Dr. Lori will be doing 50 appraisals each day. It will be first-come, first-served," said Jessica Fox, event marketing manager for The Daytona Beach News-Journal, longtime presenter of the annual show. "She will be on stage from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday."
Those waiting their turns won't be standing in line, ala the "Antiques Roadshow," because, in Dr. Lori's words "that's boring." They'll be in the audience, as the appraisals she does are as much for the entertainment of the crowd as they are for the benefit of the owner of the thing being appraised at any given time.
That showbiz scenario was not what Dr. Lori envisioned when she studied the history of art, which by definition includes the decorative arts that with time become antiques and collectibles. Any time she did appraisals in public forums, though, her style caught attention. Local news producers in Pennsylvania invited her to appear on their program.
"I used to do a segment called 'Trash or Treasure' on the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia, the fourth-largest market in the country," she recalled. That led to guest appearances on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Anderson Cooper's talk show on CNN and other national programs — and eventually to a regular spot on the Atlanta-based reality show "Auction Kings," now in its third season on the Discovery channel.
"No, TV was not at all what I ever thought I'd be doing," Dr. Lori said.
Television accounts for only a fraction of her appraising practice. She also does in-home appraisals, writes a syndicated newspaper column and appears all over the country at expositions such as the Fall Home Show here.
Given Dr. Lori's past discoveries on the road, there's a chance someone who comes to the show will learn he's holding a $500,000 lamp or a $170,000 Impressionist painting. Dr. Lori recounted a story of a Kansas City show, where she informed parents the trinket a street vendor in Peru had slipped to their 3-year-old to keep the child from distracting the parents from his wares was a coin from the ancient Inca civilization now worth $15,000. And another about breaking the news that a piece a curious 5-year-old dug out of his grandfather's button jar was a Lewis and Clark peace medal intended for Native Americans in the early 1800s.
Dr. Lori made only one prediction, however, about what the local show will produce.
"Daytona will have a good time. They just have to bring their stuff," she said.
Home Show headliner makes antiques funny
DAYTONA BEACH — What do you call improvisational humor with an art-history attitude? Dr. Lori's Antiques Appraisal Comedy Tour, and it's coming to the 52nd annual Fall Home Show.


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By JIM SALTER
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — Winter storms usually cause a spike in wrecks, but the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Friday raised concerns about the massive number of accidents that occurred over a two-day period this week.
Heavy snow, nearly a foot in some places, as well as sleet blanketed much of the state Tuesday and Wednesday. Streets, roads and highways across Missouri were a mess, and the cold made it harder for crews to clear the pavement.
The Highway Patrol typically handles about 100 accidents per day. On Tuesday and Wednesday, troopers investigated a combined 1,054 wrecks in which 96 people were hurt and two killed.
Both fatal wrecks were near Springfield. On Tuesday, a car slid off the road and struck a culvert, killing the passenger, Shane Lutz, 30, of Walnut Grove. The other fatal wreck was Wednesday when a Ford Ranger driven by David Speake of Fair Grove slid off the road and hit an embankment.
In addition to accidents, troopers responded to 3,045 calls for assistance — cars breaking down, vehicles that slid off the roadway and vehicles abandoned on the side of the road and in the way of snow removal equipment.
Patrol Superintendent Ron Replogle urged people to stay off the roads if at all possible when conditions are treacherous.
"It is dangerously cold outside, and winter isn't finished with Missouri quite yet," Replogle said in a news release.
Those venturing out into winter weather are encouraged to make sure the car is in good condition. In addition to an ice scraper, the patrol suggests keeping in the trunk tire chains, battery booster cables, flares or reflectors, blankets, gloves, a flashlight and a bag of sand or kitty litter.
The patrol also suggests that drivers carry a fully charged cellphone, bottled water and a snack in case they get stranded. Keep the fuel tank at least half-full, decrease speed and allow extra room between vehicles, the patrol said. If the car slides off the road, stay with it until help arrives.