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Candace Cameron Bure's Daughter Joins Team Adam"D.J.'s" daughter makes it on the show!
Jodie Sweetin Confirms DWTS AppearanceDWTS & Renewed for a second season. Your Netflix list just got even fuller.
PREVIEW: Watch The 'Fuller House' TeaserThe house is full again.
PHOTO: Netflix Reconstructs Tanner Family Home for Full House RebootWhat are some of the most iconic home exteriors in all of television? What do you remember? Leave a comment and let us know!
Trish's Trash: New members of One Direction?? Fall TV!!Benji Madden's sweet message to Cameron Diaz
Trish's Trash: New Movies and Weekend TV includes the Full House Movie!Fear the Walking Dead series premiere!
WATCH: The San Francisco Giants Recreate 'Full House' Opening CreditsMake sure to watch the video for a "special appearance" by one of the show's stars.
Trish's Trash: Kelly covers Taylor, Fuller House pic, Ed Sheeran a jerk???Ed Sheeran joins TV, Kelly Clarkson covers Blank Space
Perez Hilton Lands Danny Tanner Role in 'Full House! The Musical!'In addition to a reboot series in 2016 on Netflix, now Full House! The Musical! is coming to off-Broadway.
10 Best TV Dads, Ranked By ArchetypeGot a favorite TV dad? We round up 10 of our favorites and arrange them by archetype. See where your own dad fits in.
Lifetime's 'Unauthorized Full House Story' Cast RevealedThe Unauthorized Full House Story, set to air on Lifetime this summer, just got an authorized cast photo. And seriously, have mercy.
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF. Philips Semiconductors has launched a single-chip, triple-band, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Class 12 RF transceiver based on the near-zero intermediate frequency (N-ZIF) architecture. Philips claims it is among the first companies to develop the N-ZIF architecture for GSM applications.
The UAA3535 targets mobile phones that handle voice and high-speed data on GSM networks, providing e-mail, Internet and file-transfer connectivity. It meets all European, North American and Far East GSM band requirements.
Yvan Droinet, international product marketing manager for RF products, said Philips has replaced the conventional IF configuration, which requires the use of an expensive external SAW filter, with a single-conversion alternative that can be done entirely on-chip.
The N-ZIF architecture for triple-band GSM900/1800/1900 GPRS Class 12 handsets integrates an IF channel filter with a high dynamic range, a low-noise amplifier with an image-rejecting front end, and frequency synthesizers and a transmit offset loop with integrated filters.
Droinet said that compared with the zero-IF architecture, N-ZIF has a lower RF development cost, and time and manufacturing advantages.
"Besides providing simplified signal processing for GSM applications, its high integration level provides significant cost and size reductions," he said.
The part operates at 2.5 volts, interfaces to standard analog-to-digital converters and requires few external components. The chip is manufactured in Philips' Qubic3 0.5-micron BiCMOS process.
The UAA3535 is packaged in an LQFP48 and is priced at $8 in 100,000-unit quantities.
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Group Tours
Great Camp Sagamore welcomes groups of 20 or more people for tours with advance reservations. We are open from Memorial Day through Columbus Day and are happy to schedule your group during the season.
You will see 27 buildings, all designated National Historic Landmarks.
You will be greeted by your tour guide in the Chalet. The Chalet also has bathrooms and a cozy snack shop where you can be seated.
As an historic site authentic to 1897, Great Camp Sagamore is not paved anywhere and does not have ramps to most of its buildings. The walking tour is about ½ mile in total with many places to sit. There is a hill in the center of camp. Those who do not wish to walk with the group will see a one-hour video presentation on the Durant camps in Raquette Lake while seated in the snack shop. The group that does the walking tour will return when the DVD is over. We often split groups in this manner for the convenience of the group leader or tour operator.
The permanent exhibits are accessible to all and there is an accessible bathroom in the barn. The barn is near the snack shop and it houses the Vanderbilt exhibit and the virtual tour. Across from the barn is the accessible carriage house that houses the Durant exhibit. These exhibits can be viewed by all at everyone's leisure.
Discounts are offered for group tours. To place a reservation for a group tour of Great Camp Sagamore, please call our Tour Supervisor at (315) 354-5311 x1039. (Please note that in the winter, messages are checked weekly.)
Group Tour Options:
In addition to touring Great Camp Sagamore, you may combine a group tour of Great Camp Sagamore with a scenic boat tour of Raquette Lake through an arrangement we have with Raquette Lake Navigation Company . Consider a tour at either 10:30 a.m. or noon and then the rest of the afternoon on the WW Durant, a 60′ double-deck vessel and indulge in a gourmet lunch or dinner cruise on beautiful Raquette Lake. Please download and print the coupon below to take advantage of this offer.


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Your Christmas tree can play an important role in helping the Jersey Shore rebuild from Hurricane Sandy.
The Barrier Islands of Ocean County are spreading the word that your old tree can serve a special purpose this year.
Donated trees will be lined up and added to sand dunes to help trap sand and rebuild the dunes.
Here are some tree drop-off locations:
Cattus Island County Park
1170 Cattus Island Boulevard
Toms River, NJ
Drop off on January 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Ortley Beach EMS
6th and 35 South
Ortley, NJ
Drop off now through Jan. 12
Plumstead Township Maintenance Building Parking Lot
Pine Street
Drop off on Jan. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon
Silverton Farms
1520 Silverton Road
Toms River, NJ
Please remove all tinsel, lights and ornaments before dropping your tree off.


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Always searching for the image that endures, I carry my camera wherever I go, whether to Asia, Death Valley, Antarctica, or in my own backyard in the Berkshires. I make no apologies for aiming to create visually beautiful photographs and defamiliarize the familiar.
Most of the images were taken with a Nikon D300, I now use a Panasonic, Lumix GH-3 camera.


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The difficulty of parenthood is "sacrifice."
Providing house and food alone will not suffice!
Do not except the local underpaid teacher to raise your child, remember your baby is one of several dozen on their case file.
A smile in the morning can dictate your child's day.
Remind him or her to stay focused so as to better retain all that is displayed!
Education is the key to success in all areas of ones life.
Your contribution will determine the level of your child's stress and strife!
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" Brand: Philips / Type: Light Therapy "
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I treated myself to the Philips Wake-up light last winter, after realising that my regular, heart-stopping alarm was getting dangerously closed to being hurled out of the bedroom window! I am a morning person when I'm up, but the process of getting up on a dark morning I find difficult. With the nights beginning to draw in again and the kids going back to school, I decided it was time to dust off the light and get it ready for the coming seasons!
My initial thought was that at an RRP of £140 the wake up light was very expensive, but I purchased this in a sale through Amazon at £98 - still quite dear, but it brought it in line with the cost of other similar products. Plus, the light was to be used on a daily basis, and if it helped me get out of the right side of bed on a miserable morning I reasoned that it was money well spent!
The light has a clock, alarm and radio all built into it so despite the fact that the product was larger than I imagined, there is no need for an additional lamp or clock on the bedside table so doesn't take up too much extra space. It is also a sleek and tidy looking device so looks nice on display.
The theory of the device is a good one - it is well thought out and simple to use, I guess it's just a personal preference as to whether it is liked and more importantly beneficial to individuals. The time is set that you ultimately want to be out of bed at, and about 30 minutes before this (this is changeable) the light starts working gradually. It begins by emitting a very low level of light which gradually increases every few minutes in order to simulate a sunrise. In addition, you can select either a gentle sound of birds singing to accompany this, or simply the radio if preferred. Again, a gradual increase in volume is used. When the time originally set to rise is reached, the lamp is at its full brightness (also pre-set by you) and an alarm sounds. By this time, the body and mind should have been woken up gradually rather than with a start, putting you in good stead to start the day cheery!
To be honest, I do find it easier to get up using this device as opposed to a simple alarm clock, though I'm not sure I would recommend paying £100 for it. There are no lasting benefits for me, as once I'm up I'm fine anyway, so on occasion I simply opt for half an hours extra sleep and just harsh alarm!
I was expecting the light to be a little whiter, I found it a little yellow and not really reminiscent of natural light. The quality of the sound of the effects and the radio I also found a tad tinny, which again, for the price, a very good lamp and quality radio could be bought!
One thing I do like a lot is the way in which the lamp can be used at bedtime in the opposite way. The light can slowly fade whilst laid in bed which I found incredibly relaxing plus I didn't have to worry about falling asleep with my light on and a book on my face as I usually do!
All in all, a good product, just far too expensive.
Philips HF-3485 USB Alarm Clock with Wake Up Light
I bought this as I thought it would help uplift my mood when waking up in the morning - especially on sad, dreary winter mornings. It is listed as a health product and I read some reviews on it before I bought it. When buying something which costs over a hundred pounds I tend to do at least some research before parting with the cash. It is promoted as a device to help with seasonal affective disorder. Just what I was looking for. I expected to wake up feeling refreshed and positive. I had high hopes for the benefits of this product. Ultimately, I was disappointed.
I found setting up the appliance very fiddly and I had to read the instructions through carefully. You can set the light to come on for whatever time you wish. It comes on slowly to simulate approaching day. When I first began to use it I convinced myself that it was a lovely way to wake up - listening to my selection of birdsong, (you could choose radio if you wanted) with the light coming on gradually at my bedside. The time is illuminated on the side. Although the settings took a while to get use to and could be better marked - it seemed a useful device and it had an initial novelty value for me.
After a couple of weeks, however, I began to find this product very irritating. Having listened to it over and over the birdsong sounds tinny and repetitive. The light is yellowy and not really like 'daylight' at all - more like the sun rising and shining in your eyes which is sometimes quite annoying.
The device itself is fairly bulky and takes up quite a bit of space on my bedside drawers. I don't find it particularly attractive in design especially with the metal control button sticking out at the side and when not being used it looks like a cheap plastic item - not something that cost the RRP of this product.
I have no idea how the price for this item can possibly be justified.
Mine is now used as a part-time bedside light, part-time radio and seems to attract more than its fair share of dust. I wish I'd not bothered with it at all. It did little for my SAD in wintertime - a light-box which emits pure white light might have been a better option for this. Having read some reviews on this product it clearly lessens the SAD symptoms of some people - but unfortunately, it was not a success for me. It makes me 'sad' to think of the amount of money I wasted.
Very poor purchase.
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The mission of the MIT Sloan Real Estate Club is twofold: to bring together a set of MIT Sloan MBA students who share a common interest in Real Estate, and to promote networking and learning opportunities via contact with leaders in industry and academia.
We welcome all MIT Sloan students to join our Club. Benefits of Membership include Treks to New York and Boston, Networking Mixers and other special, off-campus events as well as access to Club-only job postings such as opportunities with development, investment, private equity and research firms.


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Making his first career MLS start, No. 1 SuperDraft pick Omar Salgado may have just given head coach Teitur Thordarson more to think about.
Quiet for most of the match, in the blink of an eye Salgado showed why Vancouver's coaching staff is so high on him, snapping a header into the back of the net to score his first MLS goal in a 2-1 loss to Columbus Crew.
"That [goal] means a lot, especially for him," Thordarson said. "That's his first MLS start and he scored a fantastic goal, but he also played very well."
That was the second time in recent weeks that Salgado has proven his pure striking ability. In Vancouver's reserve match against Chivas USA two weeks ago, the lanky 17-year-old demonstrated great patience to finish on a breakaway. That killer instinct is precisely the reason why the Whitecaps took him first overall.
The 17-year-old was in line for more playing time with Atiba Harris out with a knee injury, and he showed that he deserved it on Saturday. Without big striker Eric Hassli, the 'Caps knew that they were going to be in for a tough match against the Crew.
"Coach talked to us before the game and told us that we weren't going to have much possession in the first half," Salgado said. "He said we're going to have to defend and not get scored on and be patient."
That strategy looked good after 45 minutes of play as the teams went into the break knotted at 0-0. However, things fell apart for Thordarson's men early in the second half when a pair of mistakes led to a 2-0 lead for Columbus.
"It was frustrating since they hardly had a chance on goal the first 45 minutes." Thordarson said. "We made two mistakes and that changes the whole thing."
With the match looking like it could get ugly for Vancouver, Salgado's ignited the visitors, and for the first time the 'Caps resembled the attacking team that fans have been accustomed to watching at home. The young prospect was very active in the latter stages of the game and nearly tallied a second goal to level the match shortly after his first, but was denied by Crew goalkeeper Will Hesmer.
His energy was a welcome addition to a Whitecaps team that has yet to gain a point away from the friendly confines of Empire Field.
"He did a lot of good things and maybe should have scored more goals," said Thordarson of Salgado. "I think he did extremely well."
Hassli will most likely return to a starting role next match, as his ability to hold the ball in the attacking end has been sorely missed in his absence. However, Salgado's performance may make Thordarson think extra hard about whether to stick with Hassli and Camilo up front or go with the hot hand and give his young No. 1 pick another start.


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Fraternity's Philanthropy Creates New Community Endowment
November 12, 2010
November 12, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — A gift by a DePauw University fraternity has created a new fund which will aid the Putnam County Community Foundation: the Lambda Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Philanthropy Endowment."The endowment was a top goal of the chapter for the past year, and they contributed $12,000 to make it a reality this fall," reports today's Banner-Graphic. (l-r: senior Avery Archer presents a check to Putnam County Community Foundation executive director Elaine Peck and director of community development Eric Wolfe '04).
"This endowment was important for our chapter so we could have an amount of money that would last forever and provide us a tool to have an impact on the Putnam County community every year no matter what happens," says chapter president Avery Archer, a DePauw senior. "It also gives us a chance each year to discuss philanthropy and charities we want to support as a chapter."
"This endowment is a tool for the fraternity to teach philanthropy to its members and give support to local charities that members believe are worthy causes," states Elaine Peck, executive director of the Community Foundation. "Fiji should be congratulated as a leader in philanthropy on campus and in the fraternal world."
The Lambda Chapter was founded in 1856 and has "a long history of philanthropy," notes the article. The Community Foundation was established in 1985 and administers more than 200 funds and endowments for donors, supporting a variety of charitable purposes.
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Japanese Animals, Fish魚 , Birds 鳥, Reptiles, Insects and Wildlife are very unique and many area very rare and more rarely studied due to the difficult terrain here. I am starting to collect information for myself and other people around the world.
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 126.96.36.199
Are there any official/unoffical site describing what people really want? How many want entertainment? How many want info/documentation? How many want product info? etc, etc.
Is there a smart way I can combine documentation/info with entertainment?
I feel writing a good web page becomes more and more difficult. I have learned a lot by reading WW, but now I feel I have more to learn than ever. And my priority is to make pages people like to read/return to. This means I need to know more about writing, as well as need to know what people are looking for.
Anyone have suggestions for where to find what I'm looking for?
I have written many pages based on "long-tail" searches -- the ones where people enter five or more words because they can't find what they are looking for using short search phrases. These long-tail-phrase pages often rise to become the most popular visitor-attracting pages on the sites.
Just for example, on a site about widgeting competition, one of our most popular pages is about what widget a beginner should buy in order to do well at widgeting. And the page itself explains that due to the nature of widgeting, it does not matter so much what widget they use or buy, but rather whether they take training classes to learn the most modern widgeting techniques so that they can then practice proper techniques and compete in widgeting competitions more successfully.
I got the idea to write this page based on a small but consistent number of queries for "best widget for widgeting competitions" and similar search phrases. It is now the most-popular page on the site among people who are not members of our local widgeting organization.
So don't just look at your stats for your most popular pages -- Dig deep and find out what else you might provide.
I'm sure you are right.
Main problem is that I'm afraid spread the site to much. And writing realy GOOD info/documentation is difficult as every page needs a lot of work as I'm not a specialist in everything (unfortunately). But this might also be the reason why people are coming back to my site and not going to others. I have put a lot of work in every sentence, and I have used a few weeks to write some of the singel pages.
Looking at the statistics and i.e. see how long time they used on each page could give me some information for what have to be done better.
You have indicated a bit different way to attack this goal than I was thinking of myself. Some people are born writers. Other people got altarnative skills. I'm not the born writer, but maybe I could get people back to my site by using other skills. At least it's worth trying.
And consider that it may be advantageous to begin the transition from a tightly-focused niche site to an authority site. You might even want to consider asking your users to contribute material, with the understanding that it will be edited for publication, and that payment --if any-- will be on the terms you specify.
Again I'm very pleased that you help me. I have followed discussion at ww for almost 3 years now. Still I'm not sure about all the buzzwords (maybe not that strange as english is not my mother language).
I.e "authity site". I've seen this been used in many discussions, I have read the glossary at top of this page, I have searched for it on the net but only found discussions or description where this word is a part of the message.
Pls help me understand this description. I know what "authority" is in plain english, but not in this setting.
Looking through the tail of your search engine gives an opportunity to enhance your content. Did your page supply what the searcher wanted?
If not, and its relevant for the page - research that search term and improve your page. I will however give an example of a search term I decided not to improve.
The page was about the health benefits of oily fish.
After I added a recommended upper limit from the food standards agency for women and girls then I started to get searches for 'oily girls' and I decided not to attempt to improve that one :)
As a question too, would Google consider changes of this sort (if they noticed) manipulating their search results its the tail after all, but strictly speaking ...?


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"Audio-Depot.com has awesome deals on uncommon stuff. I dont find many cables and such on their site but they have everything else from parts to limited edition synths and guitar cases, for example the collectable Postal Monkey limited edition guitar cases. They sell on ebay as Audio-DepotCom and on Amazon too, which is how I found them. Two complaints though, 1) they dont have everything that they sell on their website so I once had to call them to order something. 2) they dont offer express shipping on their site though they say it is coming soon. They offer it on Amazon though. They ship stuff out fast (both my orders shipped the same day they were placed) so the express shipping was not necessary anyway. Great customer service, very personable and knowledgable. I would buy from them again, but save your money by buying from their website instead of on ebay or Amazon. Most items are cheaper at audio-depot.com."


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The National Weather Service Friday warned of an East Coast storm expected next week that "could bring heavy precipitation and strong winds" Wednesday into Thursday.
While "accumulating snow" is possible, it's too early to "quantify," the service said in a hazardous weather outlook.
As of Friday, weather models were indicating many variables and uncertainty as to how conditions might evolve, said Dan Hofmann, weather service meteorologist in Upton, referring to a disturbance developing Friday in the North Pacific, expected to reach the Pacific Northwest on Sunday when details should come into focus.
There "will be unsettled weather" starting Wednesday, he said, but as of Friday, it's too early to pinpoint severity, timing or type of precipitation.


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You can't have Batman without the Joker, Superman without Lex Luthor, and you can't have a Daredevil TV show without at some point casting the Kingpin.
To wit, Marvel has cast Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin of Crime in their upcoming 13-episode Netflix TV show. Charlie Cox was previously cast as the lead, blind attorney-by-day Matt Murdock and superhero crimefighter Daredevil by night.
It's interesting that the bad guy has such a pedigree, whereas we don't know anything at all about Cox, who is playing the lead. D'Onofrio ("Full Metal Jacket") is probably best known for his movie work, but he did previously spend a long stint on TV with one of those "Law and Order" TV shows, so this isn't a first for him.
In the comics, the Kingpin runs all of crime in New York and is usually the man behind all the bad things happening in the city. But while he likes to pull strings from the shadows, he can also get physical, as he's a huge bloke. He and Daredevil are the opposite of BFF, so expect D'Onofrio to stick around for a long, long time.
The Netflix "Daredevil" will follow "the journey of Matt Murdock, who was blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, now fighting against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the super hero Daredevil in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City."
"Spartacus'" Steven S. DeKnight recently took over showrunning duties on the show from Drew Goddard, with "Daredevil" scheduled to debut on the online streaming service sometime net year.


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Alexander Krimmel
Alexander Krimmel was born in 1962, he studied physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his M.S. degree in experimental solid state physics. Subsequently, he became a Ph.D. student at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France, and then graduated at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1993. After a postdoctoral position as instrument scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, he moved to the University of Augsburg. In 2003, Krimmel completed his Habilitation and obtained the Venia Legendi in Experimental Physics. He was the Member and the Chairman of Subcommittee 4 of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ILL, Genoble, and a Member of the Facility Access Panel at the neutron source ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Chilton. He was a Principal Investigator within the Collaborative Research Network SFB484 at the University of Augsburg and of the Research Group Quantum Phase Transitions of the German Science Foundation. Krimmel's Referee activities included the externally funded instruments at the ILL (via Research Centre Jülich) and research projects of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The research profile includes extensive expertise in neutron and X-ray scattering, muSR, magnetic measurements, and ESR techniques that include high pressure (DAC and large volume cells) and high magnetic fields (steady and pulsed). Krimmel's main fields of research are magnetism, electronic correlations, superconductivity, crystal and magnetic structures, structure-property relationship, phase transitions, rare earth and transition metal compounds, multiferroics, low-dimensional systems, and nanostructured systems.
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Chinese students experience life in County Durham
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11:55am Friday 20th June 2014
CHINESE students are experiencing life in the North-East as part of an exchange visit.
The nine students from the Country Garden School in China's Guangdong Province are currently visiting Hummersknott Academy, in Darlington, along with their teacher.
The students arrived at the beginning of the week and have already paid a visit to the mayor, Councillor Gerald Lee, at the town hall, as well as visiting Beamish, York and Newcastle.
They are staying with the families of students at Hummersknott Academy to experience life in an English family.
Lau Hoi Shing, one of the visiting students, said: "Hummersknott Academy is very like our school in China. All the students here have been very kind and friendly to us."
Jenny Wong, subject leader for Mandarin said: "The experience of participating in an Anglo Chinese exchange is quite rare and our students are extremely fortunate to have this opportunity.
"The learning of Mandarin is becoming increasingly relevant in today's global society."
Hummersknott Academy is one of 37 Confucius Classrooms across the country which offer lessons in Chinese.
Their students will visit China later this year.
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Giving Disabled Kids a Start In Science
The following article appeared in the May/June, 1994 issue of Technology Review.
A new educational program funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Washington at Seattle aims to give disabled high school students a head start in science and engineering. "Just because individuals have different ways of functioning - they don't hear, don't speak, or don't use their hands - people think they can't do science and engineering," says Virginia Stern, director of the project on science, technology, and disability of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a consultant for the program. "But what many counselors and parents don't realize is that engineering and science are primarily intellectual professions."
To prove that disabled students can participate in these professions, program officials chose 15 high school sophomores and juniors from the state of Washington with disabilities such as blindness, deafness, and physical impairments from cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. Each student had also demonstrated an interest and aptitude in science.
The program - called DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) - began with a two-week orientation at the University of Washington last summer, where the students met mentors, took such courses as chemistry, oceanography, civil engineering, and astronomy, and learned to navigate the Internet, a worldwide computer network. The students were given home computers and whatever adaptive technology they needed to use them, as well as further training, regular house calls for technical support, Internet accounts, and contacts in scientific fields.
Sheryl Burgstahler, director of DO-IT, says she was inspired to initiate the program largely because adaptive technology is now both affordable and readily available. In fact, products such as enlarged displays for people with impaired vision, special input devices for those with limited motor control, voice synthesizers, and Braille printers are available off the shelf. And personal computers now come complete with many of the necessary hookups for adaptive technology; once a disabled person buys any extra equipment, he or she can simply plug it in.
Gary Moulton, manager of disability resources at Apple Computer, attributes the greater availability of adaptive technology to the effects of two pieces of legislation: Section 508, a 1986 revision of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which required the federal government to consider access for disabled users before purchasing electronic office equipment; and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. Both laws greatly expanded the market for computer hardware and software.
DO-IT has since been able to accommodate even those users with severe handicaps. For example, one student who is unable to move his hands uses a mouth wand (a stick attached to a mouthguard) to tap the keys. Special software lets him type sequences that require holding down more than one key at a time. Another student who is unable to control either his hands or his head uses a sip-and-puff device to communicate with the computer in Morse code, blowing air out through a plastic straw for a dot and sipping air in for a dash. The device translates the Morse code into characters the computer can understand.
Such interfaces can be surprisingly efficient. Students using mouthwands and sip-and-puff devices can type 30 words a minute. Blind student Randy Hammer's speech-synthesis program takes about 50 seconds to read a screen of text, averaging only three mistakes per screen. Eliminating all mistakes would add about 30 seconds to the process. In the trade-off between speed and perfection, Randy says, "I live with the mistakes."
Internet access, which high school students rarely obtain, is also an important component of the DO-IT program. It allows students to tap into diverse references such as dictionaries and encyclopedias as well as myriad databases that can be useful for special projects. Internet's electronic mail service is also vital, enabling students to communicate with each other and their mentors.
Designed as an adjunct to a student's normal high school education, the DO-IT program has no formal curriculum of its own. However, Burgstahler often sends Internet messages containing special science projects for the students as well as activities that encourage them to explore the network. The real goal, Burgstahler says, is to get the students to stay in touch with their peers and mentors throughout high school and into college, at which point they will be encouraged to become mentors to new DO-IT students.
Participation in DO-IT has already heightened career expectations. For example, one student has become interested in virtual reality and now has a part-time programming job at the University of Washington's virtual reality lab. Another student hopes that by learning to write about his first love, astronomy, he can contribute to that field.
NSF is currently signed on to provide three years' worth of funding for the DO-IT program, which will add a new group of disabled high school students each year. The next group will be chosen from six Northwestern states; in the future, Burgstahler would like to see the program include the rest of the country.


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It's finally done, the Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas.
Five-point-two acres of green space over an eight lane highway you don't even realize is there.
Thousands arrived, on Saturday morning to give it a test run including Magan Kuhlenbeck who lives near the park. She brought out her beagle puppy Walter for a walk on the dirt trail.
"It's awesome and it's a wonderful place to take him and it's new," says Kuhlenbeck. "I think it's a good thing for right here."
So does Charles Hamilton, sitting at a table in the sun in the reading and games area. Across from him, his 12-year old grandson. They're playing checkers.
"We're enjoying the benefits of the park right now," says Hamilton. "And hopefully generations to come these kids will be able to enjoy it. Outstanding."
During the dedication ceremony Mayor Mike Rawlings said Dallas is truly trailblazing with this new park. "Our central city was once divided by this major freeway separating our city's core. This project has been a long time making and solidifies our foundation and city core."
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson helped secure $16.7-million in stimulus money to help fund the $110-million park.
She said she's all for cutting budgets, but if the government's spending, she's going to get what she can for Dallas.
The beautiful park will require a lot of people to keep it beautiful. Among them a pretty famous ten-year old, Klyde Warren, the son of Kelcy Warren who helped fund the park.
"I'll be cleaning up trash and walking around making sure every thing's okay," said the 4th grader after the dedication ceremony.
He also said he's looking forward to enjoying the park like everyone else.
It features a separate kids park, a dog park, ping pong tables and a five-hole putting green. A restaurant will go in next summer.
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Families of 27 Libyan victims killed in US raid demand compensation
Families of 27 Libyan victims, killed in the American air strike on Benghazi and Tripoli on April 15, 1986, urged their government on Wednesday to stop all payments of compensation to the victims of Lockerbie until they are compensated.
Secretary General of a new NGO, dubed "The families of the American Aggression Victims Society", Mounir Mohammed Shermit told reporters that among the 27 victims was his eight year old daughter, his mother and father in law, the brother of his wife and her uncle, KUNA reported.
Shermit added that a number of houses were also destroyed and therefore the families of victims are demanding compensation for loss of life and damaged property, not less than what has been agreed in the Lockerbie case.
He added that his NGO would file a case against the US government in power at the time, the defense minister and the pilots who executed the strikes.
He noted that in addition to the 27 victims killed in the raid there were another 170 severely injured as well as 400 with minor injuries.
On April 15, 1986, U.S. warplanes bombed "selected targets" in the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. One of those "selected targets" was the Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi's residence. A bomb killed his 15-month old daughter, and most of the other casualties of the raid were civilian men, women and children. (Albawaba.com)
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When players from the 10-under Scenic City Stars football team from East Ridge, Tenn. walk out of the tunnel at the Georgia Dome Saturday onto the playing surface their eyes will be open wide.
The Scenic City Stars will have the opportunity to play in the D.L. Scott Coalition Bowl against the East Metro (Atlanta) Titans squad coached by event originator and sponsor, Dr. David L. Scott. Kick-off is set for 12 p.m.
The Scenic City Stars are coached Jamey Jones and the players participate in the Scenic City Youth Football League, which includes more than 80 teams from both Georgia and Tennessee. The Stars are comprised of players representing both states.
"As we were winding down the 2013 football season a lot of the kids were getting a little tired and looking forward to their next sports season, whether it was basketball, wrestling or whatever," Jones said. "But when we got the invitation to play in the Dome and I announced it to the players, we could see the excitement in their eyes to play a little bit longer."
Jones said the players immediately began to ask questions.
"They wanted to know if we were going to play on the same field as the Atlanta Falcons, and isn't that where they play the SEC championship," he said. "Needless to say, the boys are very excited. As far as an opportunity for these young kids, this might be the only chance some of them get to play on the big stage and hopefully it will inspire some of them to stay with football and play at the next levels."
Jones believes he has some players who have a chance to one day play in college and maybe even professional football if they continue to progress.
"We have some very talented kids and it's been a honor to be able to coach them and watch them grow," Jones said. "I know one day I will be watching football on Saturdays or Sundays and there will be a couple of them I will be able to say that I coached in youth football."
The players aren't the only ones excited about the Scenic City Stars playing in the Coalition Bowl.
"This opportunity is exciting for the coaches as well to be able to coach these boys on the sidelines of the Georgia Dome," Jones said. "It's going to be a new challenge, not only to get them ready to play a game, but to keep them focused on the game instead of the thousands of fans they will be playing in front of."
Jones is joined on the Stars coaching staff by Todd Mirabella, Ted Pritchett. Daniel Eaton, and Chris Hedrick.
The Scenic City Stars include C.J. Robertson, Nic Mirabella, Bryce James, Denver Newman, Troy Williams, Jamir Eaton, Brody Cobb, Tyler Pritchett, Hunter Jones, Jacob Bridgeman, Zane Penney, Jake Davey, Wyatt Standridge, Cody Thomas, Carson Hedrick, Mathew Smith, and Scott Clinton.
The 10-under game will be one of nine youth and high school All-Star games slated in the Dome on Saturday.
The North Georgia High School Senior All-Stars will face a team from Central Georgia at 1:30 p.m., while the East Metro Atlanta graduating seniors will face a squad from West Metro Atlanta at approximately 7:45 PM.
Tickets are $25 each and good for all nine games.
For more information, log on to dlscottcoalitionbowl.com or contact Stump Martin at 423-421-2595.
Schedule of games:
8 a.m. - (6U) Atlanta Vikings vs. Eastway Cherokees
9 a.m. - (12U) North Henry Tigers vs. Athens Rams
10 a.m. - (8U) Sandtown Vikings vs. Decatur Army
11 a.m. - (10U) Central DeKalb Jaguars vs. Edgewood Red Devils
12 p.m. - (10U) East Metro Titans vs. Scenic City Stars
1:30 p.m. - North Senior All Stars vs. Central Senior All Stars
4 p.m. - Atlanta Junior All Stars vs. Augusta Junior All Stars
6:30 p.m. - (12U) Welcome All Panthers vs. Jonesboro Ducks
7:45 pm - East Metro Atlanta Senior All Stars vs. West Metro Atlanta Senior All Stars
Turman to be honored on Saturday
Creekside High School football player DeAntre Turman, who died from injuries suffered making a tackle during a preseason scrimmage game in August, will be honored at the Coalition Bowl on Saturday.
Turman will be remembered at the halftime of the 4 p.m. Junior All-Star Game.
The 5-foot-11, 165-pound cornerback was one of the top prospects in the Class of 2015 and had made a verbal commitment to Kentucky according to his family.
Known to many as "Tre Tre", Turman was an extremely talented player who made a tackle during the scrimmage against Banneker and never got back up.
Scott said he wanted to make sure that Turman was honored at the event.
"He was a great kid that excelled despite adversity in his life," he said. "He was a competitor and he always gave my teams fits...and I had some very good teams."
According to news reports, Turman's mother died when he was just four years old and he was raised by Tarsha Keller.


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To be a moderate northeast Republican in 2011 is a lot different from what it was in the days of Dewey and Rockefeller. The hoots and hollers of the base have cowed many a legislator seeking to carry on the centrist tradition, but Scott Brown has stood out for a measured fearlessness in pursuing an agenda of his choosing. In throwing his support behind the drive to make cuts in the national budget, he has said the elimination of funding for Planned Parenthood "goes too far." He was also among the first Republicans to support the repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. His stances have made him a divisive figure in the GOP, and if he's going to be re-elected in 2012 he might need two pickup trucks. But everyone agrees on Brown's courage in deciding to come forward to speak out on the sexual molestation he suffered as a child.
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Ennio Morricone: The good, the great and the magnificent maestro
The towering influence of film composer Ennio Morricone — and his appearance at this year's Belfast Festival — is being celebrated at the QFT with a special season, featuring all your favourite spaghetti Westerns, a forgotten Italian classic starring Marlon Brando, and family favourite The Mission. Michael Open delves into the superlative Morricone back-catalogue in time for curtains-up
Ennio Morricone is unquestionably one of only half a dozen, at most, composers of film music who can be said to have dominated the medium in the last half of the 20th century.
Indeed, apart from Bernard Herrmann, it is difficult to think of a film composer who is his peer. His visit to the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's and his forthcoming 80th birthday have been the perfect excuse, if excuse were needed, for QFT to present a short season of films graced by some of his most memorable scores.
Born into a musical family in Rome, Morricone took to the trumpet (his father's instrument) as a child and shone at the Conservatory. After qualifying from music college, he gravitated towards the theatre, then moved into radio before taking advanced studies in composition. This was at a time (the early 1960s) when the creative corner of the Italian film industry was emerging from the influence of neo-realism and a new generation of film-makers, headed by Sergio Leone (with whom Morricone had been at school) and Bernardo Bertolucci were beginning to make their presence felt.
Morricone's early scores were relatively unremarkable, but he often worked on films that became quite influential, including Bertolucci's first feature film, Before The Revolution — a dazzling coming-of-age drama.
However it was with his first film for Sergio Leone that Morricone clearly announced his arrival as a major composer. His score for A Fistful of Dollars (1964, QFT Oct 25 and 27 ) has become emblematic of the entire 'spaghetti western' genre with its wailing high-register melody and insistent guitar bass.
Clint Eastwood's 'Man with No Name' character caught the public mood of sceptical alienation which was signalling the end of the road for 'classical' westerns. Leone's wildly original vision of the West as a dusty, empty space peopled by the avaricious and the frightened has become part of the collective consciousness and Morricone's score, for this film and the other two in the trilogy established his reputation as a cutting-edge composer of memorable melodies and mood music.
The other two films in the trilogy are also screening in the season: For a Few Dollars More — (1965, QFT Oct 25 and 28) — sees Eastwood's 'Man with No Name' back on screen, but this time pitched against the sinister 'Man in Black' — Lee Van Cleef in his seminal role as the rival looking for the same bounty.
The third apex of Leone's triangle is Gian-Maria Volonte as an archetypal drug-crazed villain. This was followed the following year by the finest of the three, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (QFT Oct 18 and Oct 24-26) – presented in its fully restored digital version). Real enthusiasts will, additionally, be able to hear the UK authority on Leone, and Morricone enthusiast Sir Christopher Frayling talk about the composer before the October 18 screening. The film itself delightfully alternates high drama and black comedy in a complex story of greed and betrayal.
During this early period of Morricone's career, he also worked with the 'young turks' of the era, and an influential film (though perhaps not score) was Fists in the Pockets, by Marco Bellocchio (1965, QFT Oct 30). Shot in dark black and white, this highly charged emotional family drama of bourgeois adolescent angst was a huge succes d'estime on release.
Around the same time, the composer worked with young politically active director Gillo Pontecorvo on the controversial and spectacular Battle of Algiers (1967). This dazzling collage of activism and violence featured a script by one of the finest political scenarists of all time — Franco Solinas.
Morricone re-joined Pontecorvo and Solinas on the 'American sequel' to Battle of Algiers, Burn (Queimada), in 1969. This sensational, but largely forgotten work will be screened at QFT on Oct 23 and should not be missed.
Starring Marlon Brando as a Machiavellian English opportunist in a Caribbean Portuguese colony during the 19th century, the film is a thrilling and hugely cinematic political drama that refuses to preach. Almost from the opening scene, the drama is locked onto an inevitable course.
Another young Italian director to have benefited from Morricone's talent is Dario Argento, who went on to become Italy's leading exponent of the horror genre.
The season gives a rare screening to his first feature, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970, Oct 17). More psychodrama than horror story, the film, influenced by Blow-Up, stars Tony Musante as an American writer who is trapped between two walls of glass during an attempted murder.
In the late 1970s Morricone 'broke through' into Hollywood — largely due to his wonderful score for Terrence Malick's second masterpiece, Days of Heaven (1978, QFT Oct 22), which gained the composer his first Oscar nomination. This lyrical cine-poem – a turn of the century love story set in the wheatfields of Texas broke QFT's box office record when it was first shown during Festival 1979. A very young Richard Gere and Brooke Adams star opposite Sam Shepard as lovers fleeing the oppression of Chicago. Nothing I could say would prepare you for the film's visual wonder, enhanced by Morricone's haunting score.
Less overtly 'arty' but more popular was John Carpenter's The Thing (1982, QFT Oct 18). Loosely based on a famous but rarely-shown sci-fi horror film of the late 1940s, it changes the story of the discovery of a mysterious object deeply buried and frozen in arctic ice into a much more insidious tale of an alien that can adopt the shape and behaviour of any creature. A minor masterpiece of paranoia!
Finally, for this season, is the Oscar-nominated score for The Mission (1986, QFT 21 Oct). Much of Morricone's orchestral work sounds somewhat religious in tone, and this chimes beautifully with the film which tells the story of an 'unspoiled' Amazonian village and mission that falls victim to the socio-economics of capitalism and the Church of Rome. The grandeur of the environment is perfectly captured by the score's strident chords and lyrical melodies.
There is no doubt that the QFT Morricone season is a fabulous opportunity to catch up on great classics with wonderful scores. Just sad, really that Morricone's masterpiece — the score for Once Upon A Time in America — remained unavailable.
A Fistful of Celluloid opens tonight and runs until October 30. www.queensfilmtheatre.com
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KANATA, Ontario--SiberCore Technologies here today announced an initiative to develop a new family of content addressable memory (CAM) networking ICs from alliances between other companies and its designers of packet management co-processors.
The new SiberLink Strategic Partnership Program aims to establish close cooperation with vendors of network processors, switch fabric ICs, traffic management chips and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), said the Canadian company. The partnerships will focus on applying SiberCore's ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) technology, which the company says is used in network co-processors to significantly increase switch and router throughput. The SiberCAM co-processor offloads packet forwarding and classification functions from network processors, SiberCore said.
"Historically, the processor has handled all packet classification and packet forwarding functions, as well as header parsing, encryption, compression, traffic queuing, header modification, statistics gathering, and other functions," said Andrew Sorowka, vice president of marketing SiberCore. "Packet forwarding and classification are the most computationally intensive functions in any switch or router, typically requiring 60% to 70% of the network processor's cycle capacity. Thus, adding a co-processor for packet forwarding and classification offers the opportunity for substantial throughput improvement," he said.
SiberCore said the 3-port interface in the SiberCAM design allows equipment developers to perform route and policy table management without impacting the search process, providing for sustained performance at up to 100 million searches per second.
"Several industry factors make a transition to co-processing solutions mandatory," Sorowka said. "The growing popularity of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) requires that networking equipment implement Quality of Service (QoS) and Class of Service (CoS) provisions. This results in the need to provide for application-aware switching, policy based networking, and packet classification, thereby compounding the packet forwarding task," he said.
"To implement these functions, information from Layers 4 and above must be extracted from the packet header and must be processed by the equipment," Sorowka said. "This phenomenon has increased the computational burden on the network processor and created a bottleneck that prevents wire-speed packet throughput."
Sorowka said the SiberLink partner program is much more than a cooperative marketing agreement and includes engineering departments working closely together to develop "innovative, exceptionally high throughput networking solutions."


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It appears another Maryland Racing Commission meeting will come and go Tuesday without an agreement between Magna Entertainment Corp, horsemen and breeders on a plan for the 2006 racing season in the state.
Though the commission directed the parties to resolve their differences over expense sharing and come to a resolution on racing dates for 2006 by this Tuesday's meeting or have the commission do it for them, the sides appear in little rush to find common ground.
And even the commission is backing off its promise to settle the issues.
"The clout we have is only punitive," said commissioner John Franzone. "We don't have to allow simulcasting. We don't have to allow a race meeting. But to do either of those things would be beating up an industry that is already in dire straits because of other states with slots (supporting their racing industries). We've tried to use the bully pulpit and we are making progress."
After one meeting, several conference calls and countless phone conversations, Franzone said the sides are within half of a percentage point (about $400,000 over two years) of a cost-sharing agreement that he said renders that issue "very minor".
But still there is no agreement on a new racing schedule. Instead, in separate conversations both Maryland Jockey Club chief operating officer Lou Raffetto and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association executive secretary Wayne Wright said each is willing to go into 2006 under the existing agreement that requires five days a week racing until the day after the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) in June.
"It's unsettling not to have this done," said Wright. "But we're making every effort. We'll get this approved and then continue to talk."
And Raffetto said, "We'll follow what the horsemen's contract calls for. That's what they want and I feel we have the horseflesh to maintain it through the winter time. And with racing five days, it allows the loss of a day or two for weather."
After months of turmoil and concern in the racing community over whether Maryland's racing industry would be decimated by attempts to save it, there now seems no urgency to settle the matter.
Since September the air has been filled with words from Magna Entertainment officials stressing the need to cut the schedule to raise purse money to higher levels so Maryland racing compete against slot-supported racing states.
But Magna withdrew its plan to cut Maryland's racing days from nearly 200 to 112 after the commission ruled Magna and the horsemen already had an agreement through the middle of June 2006 that required five days of racing per week until mid-June.
Directed by the commission to negotiate a new agreement on racing dates by the November meeting, the sides failed to agree when Magna introduced the expense sharing issue and included a request for retroactive payments.
"It was only when (Magna) introduced expense sharing that it didn't happen," said MTHA lawyer Alan Foreman.
The commission approved MJC's request for all the possible racing days in 2006, but, upset by the lack of an agreement, commissioners lectured all sides and told to them speed up the process.
Commission chairman John McDaniel and others said they would introduce their own proposal with an equitable cost sharing figure to settle the expense sharing issue if there was no agreement by Tuesday's meeting.
McDaniel, in business meetings all week, could not be reached. But commissioner Franzone said the commission's hands are almost tied when it comes to taking decisive action.
"Statutorily, we can't dictate payments," Franzone said. "It's beyond our legal capacity...The commission's powers are what they are. We can use the bully pulpit to push the negotiations. But we are limited. We can't just say 'let's do nothing' and seem hapless, but besides yelling and screaming there are no other avenues available."


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Day By Day: Surprises come in all shapes and sizes
When I look back I don't think I have had a particularly surprising life. On the contrary, I generally I feel like my aversion to risk-taking and fear of failure have resulted in a pretty pedestrian existence.
That sounds bad. I'm a pretty content person and happy and grateful but I wouldn't say surprising. But there have been some things along the way.
I got a big surprise on Valentine's Day that didn't cost my husband Kevin a thing. Our son Cory got married in Boston. We knew he and his fiancée Rachel were likely going to go the simple route when it came to their wedding. Cory doesn't go in too much for ceremony and he isn't exactly what I would call a detail person but I was surprised when that included not telling his mother he was getting married.
Thank you, Rachel, for texting us. Unfortunately she didn't know that it had slipped Cory's mind to let his old parents know. Way to start off with your new daughter-in-law -- blow off her wedding! When I called him on it, he was sure he had mentioned it but for the record, I was surprised! I'm thinking a good wedding gift would be a lifetime supply of Post-It notes to remind Cory of life's little details.
I was kind of surprised by my own wedding. I was 19, hadn't dated much and Kevin was not what I pictured. A hippie artist who at first didn't appear to have much of a sense of humor, I can't really account for why he asked or why I said yes at that tender age. Although it might have had something to do with the fact that I was afraid maybe nobody else would ask.
Again that sounds bad but we have been together 42 years. I think that qualifies as a pretty good surprise. Sitting next to him that same Valentine's Day at the Social Security office where we went to check out some things, I was more than a little surprised to think that all that is a lot closer than I realized.
We were married a long time before we had kids. Getting pregnant at all was a big surprise but to find out we were having twins was more like a shock. I can still see Kevin standing there in his white shirt and tie, black socks and no pants (he was changing after work) telling me I had to promise not to spring anymore "surprises" on him until after the kids were born.
That didn't work out. I have been a procrastinator all my life but that didn't stop the kids from coming three months early.
They were tiny and had to stay in the hospital for a couple of months. That took some getting used to but it was no surprise that they thrived. They come by their love of food genetically.
Over the years, Katie and Cory have done all kinds of things that have been very pleasant surprises and some that took some getting used to. But the biggest thing has to be that they are about to turn 25. Katie will get married to Josh this summer. I count him among my pleasant surprises these past few years.
Considering my kind of checkered past career-wise -- office clerk, insurance adjuster, and bad-news bookstore owner, I am a little surprised to note that I have been a reporter for this newspaper for 23 years now.
I still remember having lunch with Willis Miller at Dibbo's telling him I wasn't sure this was something I could do. He assured me I could and said there were lots of things to recommend the job, not the least of which is getting paid to be nosey. Among the hundreds of interviews I've done over the years, there are many of you out there who have both surprised me and enriched my life with your accomplishments, your challenges and your willingness to share.
You've read enough about politics in this space recently. Suffice it to say that there have been both great and disappointing surprises on that front. I think the biggest thing has been departure of civil discussion and disagreement and the tendency to believe whatever suits us, regardless of the facts or the truth. As a colleague says, we are entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts. It does surprise me how many people don't get that.
I have said it here before but among the best surprises I've had is finding the friends of lifetime right where I live. These women are a diverse bunch with two very important things in common -- an enormous affinity for laughter and hearts that are even bigger.
So I guess I consider myself lucky on a number of accounts. But let's get real. The biggest surprise of all has to be the finale of "Downton Abbey" Sunday night. Oh my god, I can't believe it!


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Episcopal church elects new Atlanta bishop
The rector of an Episcopal church in Richmond, Va., has been elected bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta, a jurisdiction including Athens and the surrounding area.
The Rev. Robert G. Trache, rector of St. James Episcopal Church, was elected Saturday during a special meeting of the Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, a group comprising clergy and laity, at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.
The election must be ratified by a majority of the other bishops and standing committees in the church's 112 other dioceses. If the election is ratified, Trache will be ordained as bishop on March 4 at the Cathedral of St. Philip.
Trache, 52, holds a master of divinity degree from Harvard. He was ordained a priest in 1978.
ABC correspondent to give McGill Lecture
ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts, a 1982 graduate of the University of Georgia, will deliver the 22nd Ralph McGill lecture at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 3 in the Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center.
The annual lecture is sponsored by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at UGA.
In her speech, titled ''Life on the Front Lines: A Southern Gal Covers the World,'' Roberts will talk about her experiences in television news, from college to the network.
Roberts joined the ABC News program ''20/20'' in 1995. Stories she has done include investigations of abuse among the Amish, and a profile of civil rights legend Rosa Parks.
Also at ABC, Roberts has served as substitute anchor for ''World News Weekend'' and ''Good Morning America.''
Before coming to ABC, Roberts worked with NBC, reporting from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war, and covering the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Middle school band to close Blue Sky concert series
The Eighth-Grade Band from W.R. Coile Middle School will perform at noon Wednesday at the last of the four-concert Blue Sky series on College Square.
The four-week series was sponsored by SunTrust Bank and coordinated by the Athens Transit System in conjunction with the Athens-Clarke County Downtown Development Authority.
Each week of the series, Athens Transit (''The Bus'') took a contest winner and 11 co-workers to the concert, and provided them with lunch by Cookies and Co.
Volunteers sought to help with Vietnam Moving Wall
Volunteers are sought to help with the set-up and dismantling of the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall, which is scheduled to visit Union Point from Nov. 28-Dec. 4.
This mobile replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., travels the country to recognize the American soldiers who were killed in the Vietnam War.
The Moving Wall is over 252 feet in length and, at its greatest height, six feet tall. The tallest of 37 gloss black aluminum panels features 137 lines of names. The panel graduates in height to the shortest panel, which contains one name.
To volunteer to help, call (706) 486-4102.
Athens Regional to host women's health program
The Health Promotion Department of Athens Regional Medical Center will host ''Just for Me at Night,'' a health program for women, from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Margaret K. Cramer, a physician from the Athens Women's Clinic, and Suzanne Fincher from The Psychotherapy Group will discuss ''Menopause: The Mind-Body Connection.''
The cost is $5 per person and includes refreshments.
For more information and to register, call Health Promotion Services at (706) 354-3455.
Maysville Fire Department to host barbecue Oct. 30
The Maysville Fire Department will host its annual barbecue and flea market from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in Maysville City Park.
Those interested in purchasing tickets should contact any Maysville firefighter or visit Maysville City Hall, Joy's Clips and Snips, Short Stop or the Golden Pantry.
Those interested in renting booth space for the flea market should contact Jay O'Kelley at (706) 652-3122 or (706) 652-2719.
All proceeds will benefit the Maysville Fire Department.
Teacher workshop set for Nov. 6 and 20
The Georgia Museum of Natural History and Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail in Memorial Park will host a Wolf Tracks teacher workshop Nov. 6 and 20.
The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an hour lunch break. The first day will be held at the museum and the second at Bear Hollow.
The purpose of the program is to educate about the plight and problems of wolves in the United States.
Teachers will be provided with multi-disciplinary classroom hands-on activities appropriate for all grade levels and can earn a staff development unit (SDU).
There is a $25 for tuition for earning an SDU and a $20 materials fee. For SDU information, contact Joyce Fleeman or Linda Thompson at (706) 542-3536.
For a summary of the goals, objectives and agenda for the program, and a registration form, call (706) 613-3616.
Salvation Army taking requests for holiday aid
The Salvation Army will accept applications for assistance with food and toys for Christmas on Thursday and Friday and Nov. 1-2.
Applications will be taken from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. each day at the Salvation Army facility at the corner of Chase Street and Boulevard.
Applicants will need identification for everyone in their household. Driver's licenses, Social Security cards, birth certificates or Medicaid cards are acceptable forms of identification.
Applicants will also need to supply monthly income and expense information.
For more information, call (706) 543-5350 or (706) 543-2508.
AARP driving course focuses on older drivers
The American Association of Retired Persons ''55 Alive'' driving course for drivers age 50 and over will be held Saturday and Nov. 6.
The class will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, 3036 Lexington Road.
Attendance at both session is required to receive certification, which may be used to gain a discount on automobile insurance.
The cost of the course is $8 and light refreshments will be served.
Pre-registration is required. For more information, call Bob Nicholls, (706) 353-0236.
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A different kind of March Madness sets in
College basketball fans are feeling pretty smug this week.
They shouldn�t be.
Sure, compelling Final Four matchups such as Connecticut-Michigan State and Villanova-North Carolina are much more than warm-up acts for the main event next Monday night, the national championship game.
But any fan who�s concerned with the game he or she loves needs to pause for a moment and remember what�s happening off the court.
This past week�s allegations by Yahoo! Sports that Connecticut is guilty of recruiting violations are the latest smear on a sport that�s in danger of turning off a fan base that�s grown in leaps and bounds with the popularity of March Madness.
Or is it?
What�s most startling in the aftermath of the accusations is there has been no outcry from other schools, fans and even most media.
Makes you wonder if college basketball fans are like baseball fans who don�t care if their sluggers take steroids. Just as long as they hit tape-measure home runs.
So who cares if the basketball coach of the state university, the highest-paid state employee, is breaking NCAA rules?
Just as long as he�s putting together a national championship contender every year.
Maybe we should all take advantage of the break before the Final Four to question our priorities. Has college basketball become an out-of-control monster that can�t be regulated by an NCAA governing body that never would have known of the Connecticut allegations if it weren�t for two investigative reporters?
You might think that.
It�s mind-blowing to me that there is no public backlash in Kentucky as the state university, with plenty of help from well-heeled alumni and boosters, considers giving Billy Gillispie a $6 million payout not to coach the Wildcats. The heck with the sagging economy or tuition hikes, let�s get us a better basketball coach.
Now Connecticut is going to spend an unspecified amount to defend a head coach who�s accused of breaking rules. This after there was never any �We�re not guilty� responses after the Yahoo! report surfaced. First, Jim Calhoun tried to belittle the writers by referring to them as bloggers and then admitting he or somebody on the staff might have made a mistake, with a sly reference to the NCAA�s 502-page rules manual or �the distraction� he must deal with in his third Final Four.
Don�t expect the NCAA or Connecticut to throw the book at the Hall of Fame coach for making too many calls to a player who didn�t last at UConn, or for him or his staff for having contact with a former Huskies student manager who�s now an agent and reportedly help deliver two recruits to Connecticut.
Should the accusations be verified, Connecticut probably will get a slap on the wrist: maybe two less scholarships for a couple of years (like Calhoun ever is going to use more than eight players in a big game), and a reprimand for the coach. Because he doesn�t have Calhoun�s credentials, former Huskies assistant Tom Moore, who was the point man for the recruitment in question, probably will be fired as Quinnipiac head coach.
Along the recruiting trails, however, hardly anybody will notice.
Only the strong�and in some cases the rule-breakers�survive in the world of $1 million-plus-per-year head coaches. There�s little to no room for rule-following coaches who know their X�s and O�s but can�t recruit the quality players needed to carry them out.
Take a 1996 Sunday evening at the San Francisco airport. Seton Hall had lost to Stanford in San Jose earlier in the day and as I was waiting for the red-eye flight home, the Hall coaches arrived ahead of the players, who were eating dinner on Fisherman�s Wharf.
An assistant coach handed his cell phone to head coach George Blaney and told one of the game�s gentlemen to call Tim Thomas, the then-Paterson (N.J.) Catholic star and future NBA player.
Blaney, who ironically now is Connecticut�s associate head coach, refused, saying it was too late, because Thomas had classes the next day.
After Blaney walked away, the bewildered assistant coach said to me: �Can you believe that? Do you think Jim Calhoun would do that?�
Of course he wouldn�t. Blaney was devoured by the sharks in his brief Seton Hall stint. Calhoun was and still is one of the man-eaters.
As fans, we must decide if we want to invest anymore time or interest in a sport that often violates many of the non-enforced credos of the NCAA. Or do we just close our eyes and hope the alma mater can develop a Final Four contender, with or without compliance with the rules?
Just like the baseball fans who don�t care about steroid use.
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TechPawLooza 2013 is scheduled for October 9, 2013 at LSU.
The agenda for TechPawLooza 2013 will be posted soon. If you would like to participate with a table display as a vendor, please click on the Vendor Registration tab above.
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Louisiana State University invites you to exhibit and participate during TechPawLooza! 2013. The date planned for this event is October 9, 2013 and the venue is the LSU Student Union Royal Cotillion Ballroom. Our event will run from 10:00AM to 2:00PM.
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Doug's Diggings: Stupidity injury offers teachable moment
I suffered a stupidity injury on Valentine's Day. I somehow got into a fight with my snow blower -- guess who won.
The result was an injured finger and a three-hour stint in the emergency room at Hudson Hospital on Valentine's evening.
The reason I consider it a stupidity injury is that I've had a snow blower for 25 or more years. I know the dangers, I know the list of "do not's," and I am generally a very cautious individual. Yet there I was, thinking I could safely push out the clog of heavy wet snow from the snow blower's shoot.
It all happened very quickly, but I knew right away something was amiss. I was hoping it wasn't my finger that was missing! When I got the snow blower put away, I took off my glove and discovered the damage. My fingernail had been ripped from the finger, the finger was cut and bleeding and I later discovered the bone was broken.
In many ways, however, I was a lucky victim. I still had the finger and it looks like it will heal pretty well. When my hand was being x-rayed, the technician said he's seen worse -- often people mangle or lose three or four fingers. He said the worst ones are people who tangle with skill saws. Maybe he was just trying to make me feel better, because pretty soon I was thinking "this could be a lot worse!"
The staff at the emergency room did an excellent job of making repairs and they were sympathetic to my condition -- much more than my wife! She was not happy with my "stupidity," but neither was I.
So now I am playing the waiting game. A broken middle finger is not convenient for someone who makes a living using a keyboard. Oddly enough, however, typing seems to come pretty naturally, even with one finger out of the game. My biggest problem is trying to write with a pen or pencil. It is difficult to hold a writing utensil with any authority; my handwriting has become very "shaky." It reminds me of my late mother's handwriting when she was older and suffering from illnesses that made her writing weak and "shaky."
Then I realized that I could not wear a glove on that hand. When I go outdoors I have to wrap a scarf around my hand to keep it warm. Most things, for me anyway, are now merely inconveniences. I am, however, using my left hand much more than any time in my life!
At first I was embarrassed to tell anybody about my injury, but it's pretty hard to disguise a big wrap around the middle finger on your right hand. I soon realized that the truth had to be told. Among the first to hear the news were my sons. I wanted to warn them not to repeat dad's mistake. Both have snow blowers. My youngest son is an orchestra teacher and plays pretty much all stringed instruments. This sort of injury would be much more devastating to him.
But, the reason I decided to write about this in my column was to warn others who use snow blowers. It is amazing how many people have told me that they do exactly what I was doing that evening -- clearing the snow blower path with their hand. Like many other things, a person can get any with it for months and years -- but all it takes is that one time when the finger slips into the cylinder and one finds himself or herself on the way to the emergency room. So, with the bit of winter we have left, learn from my mistake and save yourself, pain, embarrassment and money. It is never a good feeling to be sitting in the emergency room, second-guessing your decision and wishing you could relive that moment. After clearing your driveway of snow, spend the evening in the warmth of your living room. It can always be that way if you use a little common sense!


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ELON � Ever since preseason practice began in October, a habitually repeated mission statement has echoed from seemingly every member of the Elon University men�s basketball team.
One of our goals is to be at our best in March.
Now that March has arrived, with a special season in tow, Elon�s best still hinges on getting better.
�We need to improve,� coach Matt Matheny said. �I think our r�sum� right now with one regular-season game left says that we�re a good basketball team. Now in order to achieve one of our goals, we�ve got to get better. So I think we�re a good basketball team with aspirations of improvement.�
The Phoenix�s last chance for progress before the Southern Conference Tournament comes tonight against nearby rival UNC Greensboro.
It�s a regular-season finale that pits the league�s current North Division champion (Elon) against the league�s former North Division champion from a season ago (UNCG).
A victory would deliver Elon�s first 20-win season in 25 years � a span that stretches back to the school�s NAIA affiliation � and allow the Phoenix to avoid its first three-game losing streak of the season.
�I�m excited about the growth of the program,� Matheny said. �Our players have elevated the program, and we�ve come a long way. But that being said, we still need to improve.�
Elon power forward Lucas Troutman�s sprained ankle has improved to the point where he labeled himself on the verge of full health Wednesday night, a loss to South Division champion Davidson in which he played 27 minutes and scored 11 points.
Troutman, who leads the Phoenix in scoring (14.7 points per game), initially suffered the injury 18 seconds into Elon�s victory Feb. 9 at Furman.
After tonight, Elon will have a week off from games until it opens conference tournament play, a break which would figure to benefit Troutman�s continuing recovery.
�It was a pretty bad sprain,� he said. �I�ve had my days where it�s not good and I�ve had my days where it�s good. Here recently, it�s been getting much better and I�ve been feeling a lot better.�
Meanwhile, UNCG guard Trevis Simpson is poised to become the 11th player to lead the league in scoring in consecutive seasons. He�s averaging 19.1 points per game to rank ahead of Western Carolina�s Trey Sumler (17.9 points per game) and Wofford�s Karl Cochran (16 points per game).
UNCG has lost five of its last six games and is just 2-11 away from home this season. But both of those road victories have been attained since Feb. 7.
Who: UNC Greensboro (8-20, 6-11) at Elon (19-10, 12-5)
When: 7 tonight
Where: Alumni Gym, Elon
Series: Elon leads 20-13 and has won the last five meetings
Tip-in: The Elon women (15-12, 12-6) play host to Davidson (18-10, 15-3) at 2 p.m.


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Pep Guardiola reveals the man who has made him the manager he is today
The Spaniard will be without a host of his leading stars due to post-Euro 2016 and Copa America breaks.
He has previously admitted one of his first challenges has been to win the trust and confidence of his squad, but reckons if City are to start winning trophies again his players need to fight for each other and be prepared to run through brick walls for him.
"They have to understand that alone, they have absolutely nothing," he said.
"You have to believe that together you are stronger.
"There is not one player around the world who can alone decide absolutely everything for himself – they all need each other. That is the most important thing.
"I will try to win and keep their confidence. Every training session, every speech, every time we speak, whether we're taking a beer together or whatever, I want them in that moment to see they can trust me. That's the first step for me.
"We have to create a good body language on the pitch. I want them to feel that I work for them, because in the next action they have to run for me."