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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Killer Bad Calls
Last week we posted about a Miami fan's contention that Tosu's national championship in 2002 should be nullified since they benefited from a pass interference call that he felt should never have been. Whether the call should have been made is debatable. But it does fit the category - a questionable call by a referee on the last, or nearly last play of the game, that undoubtedly decides the result of the game.
The first two bad call games mentioned above involved Michigan. Sadly, those are much too easy for us to remember here at the M Zone. And though many Michigan fans might not believe this, the Wolverines aren't the only team to lose a game because of a bad referee call. So let's hear from fans of every school: What was the worst ref call that cost your team a game?
Let's try to keep this to one distinct call, not a pattern of bad officiating throughout a game (e.g., 2005 Alamo Bowl where it hurt both teams, or the Michigan-Iowa game last year where the Wolverines got some early benefits). The call has to have come late in the game, perhaps on the last play. And without this call, the result most likely would have been reversed. Rebuttals to any of the complaints are welcome as well.
So, which games and calls still haunt you, oh, M Zone reader and lover of all things college football?
43 comments:
- Sean said...
I'd definitely have to say the 2001 MSU game when the clock went 4...3...2...1...1...1, Spartanbob got to us.
I was at the game and I was only 11 years old, and on top of us getting screwed on the call, on the way back to my car some MSU fan that was a women basically rubbbed the loss right in my face. And the fact that with that win we would've had a Rose Bowl trip coming up later that year.
- March 29, 2006 8:20 AM
Although this wasn't "my" team, the Florida-Vanderbilt game this year was terrible. The Vanderbilt WR score a touchdown with about thirty seconds left to bring them within one, and then shook his shoulders a bit. He didn't do some elaborate dance or taunt the crowd or anything. And the ref throws an excessive celebration flag.
Keep in mind, there was thirty seconds left...
Anyway, Vandy did actually make the long extra point to send the game into ot, but Vandy coach after the game said he would've gone for two if not for hte penalty.
- March 29, 2006 8:38 AM
I'd have to say the Notre Dame/USC game from this past year. As much as I hate both teams, Notre Dame got screwed late in that game. With the forward fumble, Bush pushing Leinart into the endzone.
- March 29, 2006 9:35 AM
- Todd said...
I was at The Desmond Trip game and it was surreal. Michigan was ranked #1 in the country at the time and we had corner of the end zone seats (season tickets) about six rows up on the same side of the stadium as the student section, but opposite end.
From where we were we couldn't see anything but a pass go up into the air. We couldn't see if it had been caught or not, but the student section erupted in a frenzy so we, along with everyone else in our section were going nuts too because we thought they had completed the pass and won the game.
I remember my dad, stepbrothers and I were dancing in a circle in the aisle and then it got very quiet, very quick and a guy neaer us with a radio headset on told us what happened.
From total euphoria to clinical depression in the space of about 10 seconds. Easily one of the worst football experiences of my life. :)
- March 29, 2006 10:02 AM
There was an OSU game at Columbus (perhaps 1972?) when Mike Lantry attempted a last-second field goal. It was ruled no good. When you look at the TV view, which was at a goofy angle, you can make a pretty good argument that the field goal was actually good. Since I was 5 at the time, this one doesn't burn me up as much as "clock gate" or "the trip."
But as long as we are talking UM/MSU fiascos, don't forget 1995; in that game MSU was facing 4 and 7 on their last drive. Banks threw an out pattern that was good for 6 and marked for 8.
There are more UM games I could mention, but that's a good start.
masked avenger
- March 29, 2006 10:05 AM
The South Carolina-Clemson game in 2001 was decided by one of the most atrocious non-calls I've ever seen. South Carolina was up 14-13 with little more than a minute to go. Clemson QB Woody Dantzler heaved a ball downfield for wideout Rod Gardner who clearly, indisputably pushed off, separating himself by a good three yards from DB Andre Goodman. Gardner makes the uncontested 50-yard grab, Clemson kicks a field goal and wins 16-14.
Like the Desmond Trip, there is a photo proving beyond any doubt that the Push Off occurred and cost South Carolina a rare victory over reviled Clemson.
- March 29, 2006 10:18 AM
Since I'm guessing no Mizzou fans are going to stop by to rag on '97 Nebraska, I might point out that the rules do officially state that a receiver may not intentionally kick a thrown ball up into the air.
Is it likely that call is going to be made in most cases? No, but I'm just sayin...
- March 29, 2006 11:40 AM
- Kyle King said...
In the interests of fairness, I'll cite two examples of blown calls deciding games, one of which awarded my team a victory it did not earn, the other of which robbed my team of a victory it deserved.
Georgia's win over Alabama in 1965 occurred because of a game-deciding flea flicker. Still pictures and video replays (once of which still plays on the Sanford Stadium matrix board before every home game, much to my chagrin) show clearly that the player who flipped the ball back had his knees on the ground. He was down and the deciding touchdown should not have counted.
Speaking of Georgia players whose knees were down, Jasper Sanks's shins, knees, calves, hips, forearms, and elbows were down before he "fumbled" at the goal line against Georgia Tech in 1999.
What made the blown call even more egregious was the fact that the "fumbled" ball was picked up in the end zone by a Yellow Jacket, a Bulldog had that player in his grasp, and the play was then whistled dead.
Either the ball was dead---in which case the 'Dawgs have possession at the goal line---or the ball was live, in which case Georgia gets credit for a safety and Georgia Tech has to kick to a Red and Black squad the Ramblin' Wreck hadn't stopped all day.
Instead, Georgia Tech got the ball and the win, the latter of which later was vacated (along with the Golden Tornado's 1998 win over the Bulldogs, which also was decided on an erroneous, but less egregious, fumble call) by the N.C.A.A. Serves 'em right.
- March 29, 2006 11:57 AM
- Wangs said...
COWolverine - excellent point. Another reason that Michigan should've been voted #1 by all of the coaches, assistant ads, and interns that year.
- March 29, 2006 11:58 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
KK, I have to say, no matter how many more comments we get, yours will be the best. Any post that references an ill-gotten victory from 1965 AND Jasper Sanks is an award winner. Nice job.
- March 29, 2006 12:09 PM
I also feel terrible about losing a couple of cheap games, but we benefitted HUGE against Illinois in 99 (I think) when Thomas fumbled clearly, but the refs at that time ruled he was down. We needed that to score, and won the game eventually.
later on the refs even admitted that they blew the game, and IU should have won. I felt bad for IU
- March 29, 2006 12:53 PM
"COWolverine said...
Since I'm guessing no Mizzou fans are going to stop by to rag on '97 Nebraska, I might point out that the rules do officially state that a receiver may not intentionally kick a thrown ball up into the air. "
Actually, that was 1994, so you can add that to the misery of us "whiner" Penn State fans, who would have had a 3rd MNC.
Oh, yeah and there was something about 2 seconds being added to the clock in a game this year where the outcome was decided on the last play of the game. Can't remember who that was against. ;-)
- March 29, 2006 12:59 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Anonymous Penn State fan, thanks for your comments.
The kicked ball that COWolverine refers to was definitely 1997. It was the same day that Michigan beat your Nittany Lions. The media dubbed it "Judgment Day." The kick allowed Nebraska to stay alive and share the MNC with the Wolverines.
As for the two seconds, though I can understand your frustration, it was the right call.
- March 29, 2006 1:03 PM
- Wangs said...
Penn Sylvania State (aka Anon 9:59), the Nebraska kick of the ball by the wide receiver did occur in 1997. It put the game in overtime where Nebraska won. And, for the coaches/assistant ads/interns who were busy doing other things on that College Football Satuday, they just saw the score and gave their vote to Nebraska. If they had watched the game, they would've certainly held that against Nebraska. At least a little bit.
Re: this year's Penn Sylvania State - Michigan game. Adding the two seconds was the right call. Not a ref error.
- March 29, 2006 1:05 PM
"Actually, that was 1994, so you can add that to the misery of us "whiner" Penn State fans, who would have had a 3rd MNC."
cowolverine was correct you Nittany Dope, it was 1997.
- March 29, 2006 1:06 PM
- Greg said...
I don't care too much about the time being added to the clock in last year's Penn State-Michigan game, but about three plays before the winning touchdown, a Michigan receiver was CLEARLY out of bounds on a catch. It was a good chunk of yardage, too (I can't remember specifically, because I have tried to blot that game from my memory), and I wonder how it would have changed the game if the refs had gotten the call right. Or looked at the instant replay, which I can't believe they didn't do.
I was at a wedding watching it in a bar, so I could be mistaken about the events. Any Michigan fans want to dispute my memory?
- March 29, 2006 1:12 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Anon 9:59
Yep, the Nebraska kick against Missouri was definitely in '97, as others have pointed out. It still wasn't a good day for Penn State since while that was going on the #4 Wolverines were pummeling the #3 Nitany Lions in Happy Valley 34 to 8.
It's interesting how in both '94 and '97 Nebraska was the recipient of some charity in the polls. Penn State was robbed of at least a share of the MNC in '94.
And the 2005 loss to Michigan is largely irrelevant. Whether Penn State was undefeated or had that one loss, they still would have been #3 at the end of the season. Where's the gratitude for sparing Joe Paterno yet another season that was both undefeated and without a MNC?
- March 29, 2006 1:32 PM
the Fiasco Bowl where Terry Porter robbed my canes with a horrible Pass Interfernce Call
- March 29, 2006 1:35 PM
psu-nebraska 1982 psu receiver has one foot out of bounds and makes a "legal" catch
psu-alabama similar play but for a psu td
psu relative being a ref for psu games in the 80's and early 90's.
- March 29, 2006 2:06 PM
Actually baggypants no one will know for sure where PSU would have ended the season had the referines called the game fairly. There is a very good chance that PSU would have been ranked higher than USC or Texas.
All the referines did was spare the BSCS the aggony of having two undefeated teams at the end of bowl season.
But that is history now... the future reads that the Wolverines will get sent home from HV with a nice loss this October...
Here's to another heartbreaking season for you spoiled Meatchicken fans. :)
- March 29, 2006 2:26 PM
- Matt said...
I knew it wouldn't take long for somebody to cite SC-ND '05. Too bad the fumble was ruled exactly right and as for Reggie's push... you can have it back when you cut your grass.
However, for an SC-ND fumble that a) decided the game and b) was wrong, how about The Bus in... 91? The year escapes me. The image of the ball rolling through the EZ next to the ref in TD-Jesus pose does not.
- March 29, 2006 2:41 PM
- Doug said...
I'm with Mayor King -- no single call has driven me into a homicidal rage quite the way the Jasper Sanks "fumble" of 1999 in the Georgia-Georgia Tech game did. The rest of the day after that awful ending was pretty much a hazy delirium, but I specifically remember being restrained by a Georgia Tech campus cop to keep me from running out onto the field and taking a leak on the "GT" logo at midfield while all the Techies were celebrating.
- March 29, 2006 2:52 PM
Any amount of phantom calls in USC's favor at home or in the Rose Bowl. Apparently USC has to get to the 2 yard line to score at home.
Also, the questionable clip call on Rocket's punt return against Colorado in the '91 Orange Bowl.
- March 29, 2006 2:57 PM
There was a Rose Bowl in the 80s with Bo against USC *I think* where there was a horrible holding call (replay showed nothing) on a faked punt. This killed the game for us and was near the end of the game.
- March 29, 2006 3:45 PM
Hilarious, Domers whining over calls from last year's SC game. The "Bush Push" only starts to balance out all the horsecrap calls domers have enjoyed over the years. Consider last year a start, balancing out "The Spot" in the 89 game. I figure SC's got about 10 more calls to go their way before this balances out.
PS - Buy a lawnmower Charlie.
- March 29, 2006 4:21 PM
- Dawgnoxious said...
I'm with Mayor King. The Phantom Fumble against Tech is surely a sign of the apocalypse. I'm fully convinced that if I were an 80-year old man in a wheelchair and you told me "Jasper fumbled" I would arise from my chair and punch you in your lying mouth.
Blown calls are part of sports, but the egregarious part is not that it was blown. As Kyle points out, the University of Florida graduate (Al Ford) who made the bad call screwed up his screw up. He blew the blown call!
If it was a fumble, then UGA gets a safety and the win. If not, UGA gets the ball on the 1, a gimme FG, and presumably the win. Under no set of circumstances should UGA get neither possession nor a safety.
This call will make my blood boil until I draw my last breath.
- March 29, 2006 4:34 PM
i still don't understand why Penn State fans are so upset about Joe Paterno getting 2 seconds put back on the clock in the M-PSU game...
I mean, he did so with about 3 minutes left, because he wanted to make sure the Nittany Lions had enough time to score on Michigan... there was no way he could've known that it would've been the difference in the game.
Would you have been as upset about those 2 seconds if PSU had scored on the last play of the game, instead?
- March 29, 2006 4:38 PM
How can any Michigan fan ever forget "The Phantom Touchdown" in the 1979(? I think it was '79) Rose Bowl.
Charles White fumbles on the two yard line, the ball is recovered by Michigan, and USC gets a touchdown...
- March 29, 2006 5:00 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Anon 11:26
Meatchicken? Are we now seven year olds? Why all the hate?
I don't think anyone in their right mind would consider Penn State's chances of overtaking the two teams that were nember 1 and 2 the entire season as "very good" unless Penn State administered 98-0 beatdowns to the remainder of their opponents.
And a Penn State victory over Michigan might actually be a nice thing. If only for the novelty. What's it been, a decade?
- March 29, 2006 5:30 PM
- Kirbdaddy said...
After Judgement Day '97, the polls were split with FSU (who beat undefeated UNC w/ Mack Brown) and UM being number one in the polls. The pollsters actually paid attention that weekend. The coaches gave Osborne a retirement present at the end of the season.
- March 29, 2006 5:38 PM
The phantom holding call was in the 1990 Rose Bowl. Michigan was #2 going into the game. Chris Stapleton faked a punt with the score tied at 10 with about 6 minutes left. Michigan gained 30 yards, but a Pac-10 ref called an imaginary hold - Bobby Abhram on Junior Seau. If I recall correctly, Seau later admitted the call was bogus.
Again, if my memory is correct, Bo was so steamed, he got not one but two unsportsmanlike penalties from the Pac-10 ref.
USC took its good field position and scored the winning touchdown, and #1 Colorado lost its bowl game.
Masked avenger
- March 29, 2006 5:47 PM
"he did so with about 3 minutes left"
False. Definitely less than one minute. I believe it was reset from 26 seconds to 28 seconds.
- March 29, 2006 6:22 PM
Bama fan here, but the worst call I've seen (other than in Bama games...) happened in UF/Tenn game a couple of years ago with a minute left on the clock and then Tenn def back slugs the UF receiver a couple of yards right in front of the ref. The UF player looked at the ref, can't believe it's not called, and hit the Tenn player back. The ref called UF player for personal foul, though his hit was less of a hit, which gave Tenn an incredibly important 15 yards.
This was followed by the ref not starting the clock which would have taken the clock down to 30 seconds or so. The clock didn't start, UF had to punt, Tenn got the ball with a minute left and 15 yards closer, rather than 30 seconds, made one big play, and scored on a field goal I believe.
The worst non-call on a personal foul that I have ever seen, with a terrible result.....
- March 29, 2006 6:22 PM
No, Anon 3:22. Paterno got 2 seconds put back on at around the 3:00 mark. Carr later got time added back as well, from :22 to :26.
The PSU fans are angry about Carr getting time back, but not Paterno, which is moronic on so many levels we don't have the time nor the space to go into it.
- March 29, 2006 10:49 PM
Although it didn't impact my Wolverines, I believe that the most egregious officiating error in college football history came during the 1990 Colorado-Missouri game.
Colorado had first and goal with under one minute to play trailing by four. The Buffs ran four plays, failing to get into the endzone. The ball should have then gone back to the Tigers, however the officials had forgotten to change the down marker after one of the plays. Colorado was allowed one more play, and on fifth down, the Buffaloes scored a touchdown as time expired.
- March 29, 2006 11:23 PM
- VaticanCrusader said...
The 2 seconds added at Paterno's request were legitimate. Those added at the whining of Carr were not. The added time aside, let's not forget two outrageous spots, each giving Micigan a first down on what would otherwise have been 4th downs and the out-of-bounds catch that was called in bounds and not reviewed. All of this happened in the last minute of the game.
NITigan clearly no longer buys basketball championships, but it's also zpretty clear what those MeCheatAgain boosters buy now.
- March 30, 2006 8:38 AM
"The 2 seconds added at Paterno's request were legitimate. Those added at the whining of Carr were not."
Well there it is ladies and gentlemen, undeniable truthiness. I am sure the rulebook says "Paterno: yes, Carr: no" somewhere. I'm quite sure either coach has the right to point out if too much time ran off the clock. As I recall, a rule had been changed about the sidelines calling for timeouts and that was Carr's point to the officials. Whatever the reason he got the time back, there are two points that get no play with the PSU complaints:
If there were 4 seconds left instead of 6, does Carr avoid running that retarded throw underneath to Breaston and skip straight to the post to Manningham because he knows he is on his last play?
Recollections are correct that UM's extra 2 seconds came with 20-some second left and PSU had done it a few minutes earlier. However, these two instances of 2 seconds being put back on the clock were not anything new. In the home game with Minn just prior to that PSU game, the officials added those exact same slippery 2 seconds back to the clock on 3 other occasions. Before the officials gave Carr his 2 seconds that last time, my friend next to me even joked "please add 2 seconds back to the game clock" because this had become a pretty regular occurence. They didn't suddenly decide to give Carr this ability at some crucial moment.
I still have never been convinced how the rule is interpreted on the Avant heel-toe catch. It was obvious to everyone how he came down on the sideline, and I still haven't seen a rule which clearly states whether it was a catch or not. If that was a bad call, it was about rules interpretation though, and I am curious if there is a final word in the rulebook.
- March 30, 2006 9:19 AM
- Becky said...
I'm a little bitter at the fact that my boss walked up yesterday as I was typing my tirade about the '97 Husker-Mizzou kicked ball. Since I accidentally closed instead of minimizing, my bid to be the first to bitch about it being perhaps OUR opportunity to build a billboard in Nebraska was cut off at the pass. I hate how work gets in the way of the important stuff.
- March 30, 2006 11:20 AM
- Michael said...
For my imaginary money, the worst call I can remember going against Michigan was at the end of the 1/1/98 Rose Bowl against Wazzu. UM had WSU backed up on its own ten yard line in the final seconds. Leaf heaves a hail mary pass down the right sideline, where Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson is camped under the ball to end the game. Before the ball arrives, a Wazzu receiver tackles Woodson, clearing a path for a friend to catch the pass. The official (from an SEC crew that had a conflict of interest since Tennessee would get a shot at the national title if Micigan lost) on the spot takes his flag out of his pocket, then keeps it in his had while he's marking the ball at the spot.
Wazzu then completes a hook and ladder pass to the 20 and the game ends in controversy when WSU can't spike the ball in one second. After the "disputed" ending and Nebraska's win over a gimpy Peyton Manning and Tennessee in the Orange Bowl, NU wins the coaches poll by two votes. If the offensive PI is called correctly, then Michigan almost certainly wins both polls.
Putting my Georgia hat on for a moment, I totally agree that the end of the '99 Tech-UGA game was the worst call I've ever seen. Jasper Sanks was lying prone on the ground when the "fumble" occurred. Adding insult to injury, Georgia lost the previous year after getting screwed on a two-point call. In defense of Tech, they got screwed in '97 when Georgia's winning drive was kept alive by a very iffy interference call. It was a contentious few years for the Tech-Georgia rivalry.
- March 30, 2006 5:04 PM
What was the bowl game this year where one team actually recovered the onside kick and it was ruled not recovered. I think Iowa was in the game.
- March 30, 2006 8:05 PM
- Kyle King said...
Michael is right that the pass interference call at the end of the 1997 Georgia-Georgia Tech game was iffy.
What it was---as George O'Leary admitted afterwards---was defensive holding.
Coach O'Leary's point was that, although his team clearly deserved a penalty, it didn't deserve as many yards.
The yardage, however, was not what mattered. The Yellow Jackets intercepted a pass because the defensive holding/pass interference occurred. The important fact of the penalty wasn't the fact that Georgia picked up a particular number of yards, it was that the Bulldogs retained possession . . . which even the Ramblin' Wreck's head coach admitted they should have.
For purposes of that game, the pass interference/defensive holding issue is a distinction without a difference. Either way, Georgia retains possession deep in Georgia Tech territory with time on the clock. Unlike the uncalled fumble that was in 1998 and the called fumble that wasn't in 1999, the question of which of two possible penalties to call in 1997 was not clearly an outcome-changing decision.
Besides, subsequent events have rendered that debatable call moot. Had no flag been thrown and the Yellow Jackets won, that game would have been one of the vacated Georgia Tech wins, anyway.
As I admitted in my original comment in this thread, my alma mater has won some games on bad calls (e.g., the 1965 Alabama game), but the 1997 Georgia Tech game was not among them.
- March 30, 2006 8:46 PM
- Anna said...
The Gardner "pushoff" was a borderline call but not even in the top 1,000 of all time bad calls. Not even close - that kind of shoving happens all the time down the field and doesn't get called.
Anyway, you know a call is bad when an officiating crew gets sanctioned and that is exactly what happened after the "fumble" by Jasper Sanks in 1999. THAT was a bad call. Wow. One of those where the officials right next to the play calls him down and some moron with no view comes running from across the field to call it a fumble b/c he sees a GT player with the ball after the play. That was the beginning of the end for Jim Donnan. FWIW, I think he did the right thing by taking one more dive at the endzone before kicking the winning FG.
- March 31, 2006 3:30 AM
- shakeyour$maker said...
"Oldest Rivalry in the South"
University of Georgia vs. Auburn University, 1990.
Auburn was in the middle of a below average year...a "Rebuilding Year" if you will.... and had a True Freshman QB by the name of Stan White. UGA was a much better ball team that year, but struggled against the stubborn Tigers. In the final minute of the game, UGA led Auburn by 6 points. Auburn drove to the UGA goal line with about 15 seconds to go in the game. AU Coach Pat Dye called a QB sneak for Stan White....he took the snap and got lost in the pile. Many Auburn students burst into cheers as they thought White had crossed the goal line. No signal was given and Auburn players hurried back to the line to try one last time. Instead, the UGA players laid on the gound...held Stan White down...while Pat Dye screamed furiously at the refs to call a delay of game penalty on the Dawgs. Unfortunatly, the call never was made. The Dawg D continued to lay flat on the ground and the clock ticked to 0. Stan White chased the refs into their locker room. Jordan-Hare Stadium was in a state of shock by the obvious delay of game by the Bulldogs. Then, the UGA chants began..."There aint nothin finer in the land...than a drunk obnoxious Georgia fan!!!" Some UGA lineman proceeded to climb the Auburn cheerleader stand in front of the AU student section, shooting birds to the students and grabbing themselves like Michael Jackson. Lots of Class was shown this day!!!
- April 04, 2006 5:02 PM


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I have been out of the office, on vacation, since Dec. 22, and when I got back to work today and started wading through the thousands of emails in my inbox, I found one from Hank Henley, asking if we could include some information in Dallas Voice about BACH, the weekly Breakfast At Cathedral of Hope program in which church volunteers prepare and serve breakfast to the homeless.
So I am including Hank's write-up about BACH's Christmas Eve event here on Instant Tea, just as he sent it to me:
Use the words "Bach" and "cathedral" in a sentence this time of year, and most people will picture the "Christmas Cantata" or "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." But at a certain church in Dallas, BACH stands for "Breakfast at the Cathedral of Hope," a program that just celebrated its four-year anniversary in November. On Christmas Eve morning, while most of Dallas was nestled all snug in their beds, a small army of volunteers was in the kitchen at the Cathedral of Hope whipping up a hot and hearty breakfast for the homeless and needy that would be coming through their doors by 7:30 a.m. Under the direction of Rev. William Baldridge, Associate Pastor for Community Outreach, this weekly breakfast has grown from serving just 11 guests at the first meal to an average of 200 guests each Saturday morning.
And guests they are: receiving a hot meal served on china plates and with silverware and glasses. The guests may also receive a haircut after they eat, if they so chose.
This week, in addition to the usual food and drink, each guest received a bag with a blanket, hat, gloves, toiletries, water and food coupons. The gift bags were the result of the generous work of Jan Okerlund and Leslie Frye.
Leslie Frye, one of the volunteer coordinators, when asked how the volunteers feel about the work they do, said, "The real blessing is in the cooking for and serving those less fortunate, not only during this Season, but all year long."
This Saturday's volunteers included members of the church community of the Cathedral of Hope, members of the Turtle Creek Chorale and a group of 14 students from "I-CERV," the "Ismaili Community Engaged in Responsible Volunteering." They are here once a month, all year long. Kenneth Campbell, the Interfaith Services Director Volunteer Coordinator of the Memnosyne Foundation, brought these energetic and focused youth.
The Memnosyne Foundation is a wonderful organization whose mission is "to help a diverse people of the world consciously encourage an evolution of themselves and for future generations by providing the means to encourage positive, peaceful global collaboration." The diverse crowd of leaders, volunteers and guests were certainly doing that on this morning.
And one guest, who guest shared his story quietly and privately with tears streaming down his face, personifies the spirit of sharing and giving. This time last year, he was on the street, living under a bridge and depending on the generosity of others to survive. He told me he could always count on a hot meal and being treated with respect when he came to BACH. This year, he is able to draw social security and is donating $25 a month to BACH. "They always fed me and helped me get through. Now I want to give back whatever I can. God blessed me and it's what I want to do."
Across the room, his hands deep in a bucket of soapy water, volunteer Jamie Rawson, spent the morning scraping plates and glasses, getting them ready for the dishwashers.
"There a few things a person can do which so clearly put Christmastime in perspective as doing something to help others. It is has been said so often as to become a cliché — but it is no less true for being a cliché. It is heart-warming to see so many people gathered to help provide for those in need. It is especially affirming to see so many young people from such a diversity of backgrounds. This has been the most fitting and rewarding way to truly start my Christmas."
When the guests were finished with breakfast, finished visiting with friends and volunteers, finished with their haircut, and picked up their bag of supplies for warmth and comfort, they left the cathedral and headed back into the rain and the street.
As they left, Richard Boule greeted each of them and wished them a Merry Christmas.
"As I watched those people leaving the Cathedral after breakfast this morning, I could not help wondering where they were going and what each one of them had to look forward to this Christmas time. But I had the feeling that they were grateful for the humanity they were shown, so many left with a smile. May they be blessed."
If you would like to help with BACH, please call Rev. Baldridge at the Cathedral of Hope at 214-351-1901.
You can see more photos from the Christmas Eve Breakfast at Cathedral of Hope after the jump.

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Great scoop here via @wildresiliency.
Totally agree with the following:
Vision is an essential element to making organizations work in meaningful ways but the work needs to be reinforced through the right cultural aspects.
The culture and vision blend:
- See more at: http://www.thindifference.com/2014/03/26/vision-incite/#sthash.1lbKxRqR.dpuf
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, October 2, 2013 1:52 PM
Not surprising but still needs more exploration by authentic leaders, the key is that one can overpower the tendency to quelsh empathy in their roles. But it is not easy nor is it often truly understood.
Chris Brown's curator insight, October 2, 2013 6:05 PM
"Whether you're with a team at work [or] your family dinner, all of that hinges on how we adapt our behaviors to the behaviors of other people, and power takes a bite out of that ability, which is too bad."
A powerful statement. How can we keep focused on connecting to others so we don't become less empathetic?
Barbara Kerr's curator insight, August 19, 2013 4:07 PM
"Being able to see, understand and deal effectively with others' perspectives is key to successful leadership (as well as personal life). That capacity, part of self-awareness, is empathy." The author includes a brief discussion of whether gaining power causes a decrease in empathy.
Rim Riahi's curator insight, September 11, 2013 1:46 AM
Senior executives don't seek coaching or leadership development. Here's why.
Dr. Karen Dietz's comment, August 29, 2013 9:48 PM
Many thanks for your comments Anjela, Vilma, and kjcoach! I think AI has many benefits to bring to all of us.
CCM Consultancy's curator insight, May 7, 2017 1:35 AM
Appreciative Inquiry is a model that can help organizations come together in a spirit of trust AND happiness! It seeks to create a better reality by everyone working together and realizing their full potential. When employees are treated as contributors to a better future, it is easier to establish a culture of trust and happiness at work.
John Michel's curator insight, July 20, 2013 1:31 PM
The notion of a building a leadership legacy has always been a driving factor for business leaders and owners, who are naturally driven to influence the way in which they will be remembered after they have gone. Whether you're a leader ready to retire, or a new manager itching to make your mark on your organisation; you are now writing history for your employees, but how will it read?
Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's curator insight, March 30, 2013 4:14 PM
We do have a leadership crisis as this article points out. What does it mean to manage? We have to be careful. Do we want leadership or management? Both are necessary, but serve different purposes.
Rim Riahi's curator insight, June 24, 2013 3:31 AM
Solo performers can shine, but working together can yield greater results. Here are seven tips for improving collaboration.
Annette Swann's curator insight, June 24, 2013 4:45 AM
7 tips for improving collaboration - #7 is amazing "Broadcast recognition and gratitude" - no matter the size of the effort always broadcast and acknowledge any degree of collaboration you see.
Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's curator insight, April 4, 2014 1:43 PM
The second is a key one: avoiding quiet politeness. Collaboration has to be messy.
Dr. Karen Dietz's comment, June 24, 2013 2:49 PM
Andrea, welcome to my curation. I hope you find lots of good material here. Keep on telling your wonderful stories -- they are a precious gift!
John Michel's curator insight, June 16, 2013 10:39 AM
In Canada and the United States, having frequent contact with neighbors was associated with higher levels of well-being, as was the feeling of truly belonging in a group. "If everyone in a community becomes more connected, the average level of subjective well-being would increase."
Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's curator insight, June 4, 2014 11:50 AM
When we are direct, are understood, are reliable, and trustworthy, we send signals about being responsible. The era of accountability and transparency are not about responsibility. We can still hide necessary information in being transparent. We cannot when we are responsible.
Frank J. Papotto, Ph.D.'s curator insight, June 4, 2014 12:29 PM
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (aka VUCA) does require good leadership. But all of the DURT behaviors are important and should be practiced regardless of conditions. Trust as we know is important for robust engagement, clarity is important for broad alignment, directness is important for superb execution and reliability is important in sustainable adaptation. Leadership's purpose in VUCA situations and, in general, is to maintain and build effectiveness in achieving results; the DURT behaviors and other Purposeful Leadership behaviors is at the heart of organizational success regardless of circumstances.
donhornsby's curator insight, April 9, 2014 7:14 AM
The following is a collection of their responses. Bookmark it, print it, and share it with others. Pick one resource that you didn't know about and review it yourself. We can all learn something new when it comes to the art and science of coaching.
Jerry Busone's curator insight, April 12, 2014 8:39 AM
great list of books on mentoring , coaching etc...
Peg Gillard's curator insight, March 26, 2014 7:30 PM
I can't imagine any leader thinking EQ wouldn't matter.
Peg Gillard's curator insight, March 27, 2014 8:29 PM
Knowing how to "read others' emotions" allows leaders to lead from the heart to the heart and gain the most from the talent that surrounds them.
Ron McIntyre's curator insight, October 2, 2013 1:52 PM
Not surprising but still needs more exploration by authentic leaders, the key is that one can overpower the tendency to quelsh empathy in their roles. But it is not easy nor is it often truly understood.
Chris Brown's curator insight, October 2, 2013 6:05 PM
"Whether you're with a team at work [or] your family dinner, all of that hinges on how we adapt our behaviors to the behaviors of other people, and power takes a bite out of that ability, which is too bad."
A powerful statement. How can we keep focused on connecting to others so we don't become less empathetic?
Maria Persson's curator insight, August 26, 2013 12:33 AM
Not sure about the whole 'native versus immigrant'...#Prensky's idea, upon reading his book, does not lead me to believe in the term 'native' as so many seem to misconstrue this term (a tad out of whack). I'm not young and my adult daughter says that it's like I've been born with tech literacy and she wasn't?! I think it is about openmindedness, resourcefulness, inquisitiveness, creativity and more...I argue that you don't need to be born in the 1990's to be a digital native! I wasn't!
Hein Holthuizen's curator insight, September 1, 2013 6:41 AM
I am not raised with a smartphone and slowly i am loosing speed in staying up to date with technology where the youngsters still can handle it
donhornsby's curator insight, August 6, 2013 9:50 AM
(From the article): This is important. We are leading together for a generation. Let's do it by realizing there is a thin difference between generations and a vast opportunity exists to create a big leadership story.
David Hain's curator insight, July 17, 2013 9:11 AM
Reading about leadership this last week, I have come across associations with love, kindness, gratitude and empathy even more than, or as a precursor to, results. This is a welcome trend and much more than flavour of the month.
John Michel's curator insight, July 6, 2013 11:47 AM
An informal survey of 150 senior managers who attended my last Sustainable Leaders Strategy workshop revealed the biggest challenge they faced was "having too much to do in too little time with fewer resources than ever before." The speed with which business must get done today is light years faster than even 15 or 20 years ago. In many industries (technology), change happens too quickly and if you only strive to keep up, you will be out of business faster than you can say "Buck Rogers."
Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's curator insight, July 6, 2013 12:32 PM
I liked points 2 and 3. People who are serial single-taskers are better listeners because they know when to listen. It is their only task in that moment.
Garth Sanginiti's curator insight, July 7, 2013 10:05 PM
"There are only 24 hours in a day and you cannot create "more time" in a day. The solution for most senior managers is to work longer and harder to get the job done. The only problem with that solution is that it is a recipe for burn out. What if you broke the rules and shifted your beliefs to recognize this truth: Time is a limited resource & Energy is an infinitely unlimited resource. You cannot create more time. You can, however, create more energy by taking control not only of your time, but where your attention is within that time frame."
Carolyn Williams's curator insight, June 24, 2013 9:34 AM
A personal emotional intelligence growth curve
Luís Cochofel's curator insight, June 22, 2013 12:35 PM
Stay curious; LEAD YOURSELF first!; your ability to be a Leader lies on your attitude.
Don Cloud's curator insight, March 2, 2014 11:38 AM
Intellectual growth stems from lifelong learning seated in deep curiousity, and adaptive/growth mindset, and paradoxical thinking.
AlGonzalezinfo's curator insight, June 17, 2013 6:48 PM
Thanks to John, David and Wise Leader! Great scoop.
From the article:
Develop Awareness– Great leaders are self aware, organizationally aware, culturally aware, contextually aware, and emotionally aware. They value listening, engaging, observing, and learning over pontificating. They value sensitivity over insensitivity and humility over hubris. Leaders who come across as if they know everything haven't fooled anyone – except themselves.
Doris Palomino's curator insight, June 18, 2013 10:24 AM
The 5 key transitions the author proposes make you think about how great human beings we expect great leaders to be: (1) find purpose, (2) people first, (3) develop awareness, (4) shun complexity, and (5) get personal. And I could not agree more about the fact how many people assume the responsability to lead but only a few can do it well: "Average leaders spend time scaling processes, systems, and models – great leaders focus on scaling leadership".


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WireframeSketcher is a software tool that helps product managers, designers, and developers quickly create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for desktop, Web, and mobile applications. It's a standalone application and a plug-in for any Eclipse IDE.
Release Notes: This version introduces simplified components, improves stroyboard editing workflow, and updates the online sharing service. Other changes include various small improvements and bugfixes.
RCDevs OpenID Provider is an OpenID 1.1 and 2.0 provider with simple registration and multiple OpenID URL formats. Compared to other OpenID provider implementations, RCDevs OpenID Provider is extremely easy to implement: provided that you have a working WebADM server, installation just consists of adding the OpenID WebApp in WebADM and adding a markup in the index page of your public Web site. The RCDevs OpenID Provider works with LDAP and OpenOTP authentication back-ends. With OpenOTP, your OpenID users can authenticate with any OpenOTP one-time password mechanism (Soft Tokens, SMSOTP, MailOTP, Yubikey, MobileOTP). RCDevs OpenID Provider supports both query-string-based OpenID URLs and hostname-based OpenID URLs. An example of the format using a query string is "http://rcdevs.com/?user=myuser&domain=mydomain" and an example of the format using a hostname is "http://myuser.mydomain.rcdevs.com/".
Release Notes: RCDevs Web federation service (Idp) now supports SAMLv2 with AuthnRequest and LogoutRequest. Both HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect protocol bindings are supported. There are options to return a list of configurable user LDAP attributes. The update includes other new features and some fixes.
RCDevs TiQR is an innovative way to authenticate yourself to Web applications. Its unique user friendly features include one-click enrollment using QR codes and secure authentication without having to re-type complicated codes by leveraging dynamic QR codes embedded in Web pages. TiQR supports the OCRA suite of authentication protocols. Its security is based on AES 256-bit encryption and the SHA family functions.
Release Notes: TiQR Server supports hardware cryptography with YubiHSM from Yubico. HSMs are used for hardware encryption of TiQR secrets in user data and true random number generation for TiQR challenges. The update includes a lot of new features and some fixes, and is now free for 40 users.
Guvcview provides a simple GTK interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the Linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any video4Linux2-compatible device.
Release Notes: Changes include H264 decoding support, sync translations, compensation for audio drift, capture of images and video through system sygnals, a true no_display mode, and various bugfixes.
RCDevs OpenOTP Server provides two-factor authentication with one-time passwords (OTP). It supports OATH RFC-4226 HOTP (Event-based) and TOTP (Time-based), OCRA (Challenge-based), Mobile-OTP, YubiKey Software/Hardware Tokens, SMSOTP, MailOTP, and OTP lists. It provides a SOAP/XML, RADIUS, and OpenID APIs and integrates into your LDAP (OpenLDAP, Novell, ActiveDirectory). It works with Web applications, VPNs, Linux PAM, Microsoft, and more. It is composed of the RCDevs WebADM server application, the OpenOTP SOAP service, the OpenOTP Radius Bridge, the User Self-service Desk, and Token Self-enrollemnt end-user Web application. VMWare appliances and Web demos are available.
Release Notes: This release supports hardware cryptography with YubiHSM from Yubico. HSMs are used for token seed generation, SMS/mail passwords and OCRA challenges, and token secret storage (AES-256-CBC mode). Server-side concatenated passwords are now supported for simpler integrations in non-challenged mode. The update also includes a lot of other features and some fixes.
RCDevs WebADM is Web-based LDAP administration software designed for professionals to manage LDAP organization resources such as domain users and groups. WebADM is also a core framework component and management console for RCDevs SOAP-based Web Services (e.g. OpenOTP, OpenID, and OpenPKI) and for the related end-user WebApps (e.g. User Self Service Desk). It provides a hierarchical view of LDAP organizations, SQL audit trails, and powerful LDAP management features. It includes delegated administration and fine-grained access control to LDAP resources; administrators can be created at different levels of the tree structure, with different privileges and views. WebADM is compatible with Novell eDirectory, OpenLDAP, and Microsoft Active Directory (Windows Server 2008).
Release Notes: This major version update includes a lot of new features and enhancements including hardware encryption with YubiHSM, improved clustering support, and paged LDAP results for large deployments. Freeware usage has been extended to 40 users.
LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package. It consists of a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation package, a drawing program, a database, and an equation editor.
Release Notes: This release contains a number of new features, enhancements, and bugfixes.
Lightning is a calendar application which works with the popular Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey mail clients. It lets you manage multiple calendars, create your daily todo list, invite friends to events, and subscribe to public calendars.
Release Notes: This version features bugfixes in CalDAV and webdav-sync.
DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any email/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the Internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access. DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book and user personal contacts to allow recipient address completion in the mail compose window, and full calendar support with attendees free/busy display.
Release Notes: This version features EWS performance enhancements, improved Exchange 2013 support, and many fixes detected by the Coverity audit tool.
Apache is the world's most popular HTTP server, being quite possibly the best around in terms of functionality, efficiency, security and speed.
Release Notes: New features include loadable MPMs, major improvements to OCSP support, mod_lua, dynamic reverse proxy configuration, improved authentication/authorization, FastCGI proxy, a new expression parser, and a small object caching API.
Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. a new look and feel with a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client, and the ability to add UI extensions.
Release Notes: This version features three critical security fixes.
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop an all-in-one Internet application suite. It contains an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client with an included Web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat, and Web development tools, and is sure to appeal to advanced users, Web developers, and corporate users. It uses much of the Mozilla source code powering such successful siblings as Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird, and Miro.
Release Notes: New features include a Gamepad API, CSS3 variables, Promises, "number" and "color" input fields in HTML forms, and the option not to strip signatures when replying to messages. There were also several fixes to stability issues.
Firefox (formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird) is a cross-platform, powerful, usable, and standards-compliant Web browser, based on the Mozilla framework. It is written using the XUL user interface language and was designed to be cross-platform.
Release Notes: This release added a sidebars button and support for GStreamer 1.0. Non-whitelisted plugins will no longer be enabled by default. There are also a number of bugfixes, security fixes, and developer-specific changes.
OpenXava is a framework to develop AJAX JavaEE/J2EE applications rapidly and easily. It allows you to define applications only with POJOs, JPA, and Java 5 annotations. It is feature rich and flexible. It generates JSR-168 portlet applications (Liferay, WebSphere Portal, Jetspeed, etc.).
Release Notes: This release has a new look and feel and includes module navigation, user login/logout (so you no longer need Liferay), inline editable collections (just like a spreadsheet), a new editor to attach files to your entity, and many more things.
JAXX is a system that allows you to describe Swing user interfaces in XML and then generate them. It includes support for common user interface elements such as navigation trees.
Release Notes: This version fixes a bug where StatusMesagePanel did not take into account the showI18n, showClock, and showMemoryStatus properties.
BakAndImgCD is a small Linux-based operating system which has been designed to perform the two tasks: data backup (with support for btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT, HFS, HFS+, jfs, Minix, NTFS, ReiserFS, and XFS) and disk imaging (using Partimage, Partclone, and GNU ddrescue). The output files (archives and images) can be optionally compressed and sent to a remote FTP sever via Ethernet, WiFi, or dial-up. It is fully compatible with UNetbootin, which can be used to create an easy-to-use live USB.
Release Notes: This release is based on 4MLinux Backup Scripts 9.0.
Monkey HTTP Daemon is a very fast and lightweight Web server for Linux. It uses a hybrid networking model based on asynchronous calls (event-driven) and fixed threads, which makes it scalable and capable of attending thousands of clients per second. It provides a powerful API for C and is ideal for embedded devices, thanks to its small core and plugin architecture.
Release Notes: This release fixed user switching when running as root and improved the Scheduler when facing over capacity load.
isort automatically sorts and sections Python imports. It can turn even the most messy import structure into nice clean sections without duplicates. It provides a command line utility, Python library, and Kate plugin for convenient use.
Release Notes: This release fixes how multiple import lines separated by semicolons are parsed.
CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of database application.
Release Notes: This release offers a large number of CIOS Community Homepage API enhancements, a large number of CIOS Publisher API enhancements, CIOS Community group manager bugfixes and enhancements, various CIOS ILS API user interface enhancements, as well as updated system images, language kits, and style sheets.
The Parted Magic OS employs core programs from GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs including Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools are also included, and the following filesystems are supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, HFS+, JFS, Linux-swap, NTFS, ReiserRS, reiser4, and XFS. It loads completely to system memory and requires at least 256MB of RAM to operate.
Release Notes: GParted has been upgraded to version 0.19.0. The Linux kernel has been upgraded to 3.14.4. Firefox has been updated to 29.0.1. OpenSSL was upgared to 1.0.1h. The "Sleep" button in the secure erase program now automatically wakes the computer after 5 seconds. Most people will no longer have to tap the power button. Support for ATI video cards was improved. A few rare bugs in the Parted Magic Mount program were fixed. NTFS file systems that were improperly unmounted now mount. A problem on some machines where the window manager would crash the mount program when the window size was set to zero was fixed.
WCD is a directory changer for DOS and Unix. Another NCD (Norton Change Directory) clone. This program jumps to a (sub)directory anywhere in the directory-tree. The directory to jump to can be given by only the first characters or an expression with wildcards.
Release Notes: New translations of user interface messages to Esperanto, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. The manual has been translated into Dutch, German, and Ukrainian. The code was cleaned up.
fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 19 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet, guasi, solarisaio, and more), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information, including complete IO latencies and percentiles. Fio is in wide use in many places, for both benchmarking, QA, and verification purposes. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, OpenSolaris, AIX, HP-UX, Android, and Windows.
Release Notes: A sync engine fix for Windows, support for the Ceph rados block device and Gluster IO engine, improvements to the replay of iologs or blktrace files, support for ARM 64, improvements for S390, and parallellized writeout of IO logs, making that part much faster. There were lots of other bugfixes and improvements.
Gnome Partition Editor is a graphical frontend to libparted. It supports creating, resizing, moving, and copying of partitions.
Release Notes: This release refactors a section of code to address random crash behavior, and makes partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens. Also included are other bugfixes and language translation updates.
Opendedup is a deduplication-based filesystem and block device designed to provide inline deduplication and flexiblity for applications. It benefits services such as backup, archiving, NAS storage, and Virtual Machine primary and secondary storage, and can be deployed in both a stand alone and distributed, multi node configuration. Standalone, it provides inline deduplication, replication, and unlimited snapshot capabilities. In a multi-node configuration, it adds global intra-volume deduplication, block storage redundancy, and block storage expandability. and will store and share unique data blocks with other volumes within the cluster. These volumes can also specify a level of redundancy for data stored in the cluster.
Release Notes: This release fixed replication reporting of progress by bytes transferred, symlink issues when a file does not exist, symlink permissions, and a clustered DSE buffer size mismatch issue. The Guava library was upgraded to version 1.7.
License4J is a total solution for software product licensing. It provides Java libraries and GUI tools for generating and validating license keys, license text, and floating license files. It is designed to be easy to use and integrate in your application. A License Manager GUI is provided for generating and storing licenses, and a Floating License Server can host and serve created floating licenses. An Online.License4J System allows single or multiple license activations to be defined. It also supports license generation through HTTP post either from a payment processor or a custom script.
Release Notes: Main license table renderer performance was improved. Hardware ID value was added to the License Generation Settings window, so node-locked licenses can be auto generated with a HTTP POST request. License list, activation list, and online key usage list can be exported to an XLSX file for opening in Excel, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. The file will only include enabled headers on the license table. Bugs were fixed. Third party libraries were updated.


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Henderson County is poised to make great strides in the real estate market over the next couple of years, said Steve Dozier, broker associate at Beverly-Hanks & Associates, Realtors.
Henderson County is poised to make great strides in the real estate market over the next couple of years, said Steve Dozier, broker associate at Beverly-Hanks & Associates, Realtors.
During the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce's Business Morning Update Wednesday, Dozier said people are now buying more homes than they have in the past five years.
The average selling price for homes in Henderson County for 2012 was $200,880, compared to $201,512 so far in 2013.
"And we are just getting through slowest time, which is winter," Dozier said.
He anticipates that the average price will improve by 4 to 5 percent over 2012.
The number of home sales in the county is also on the rise. There were 1,361 homes sold last year, and Dozier expects totals to exceed 1,500 this year, with 458 sold so far.
"We are now seeing multiple offers (on homes) that we haven't seen in five years, and (homes) are being sold in the first 30 days," Dozier said. "It is such a dramatic change."
Dozier said low interest rates will continue, and are currently at 3.5 percent on a 30-year loan and 2.7 percent for a 15-year loan.
"The perception has changed," Dozier said. "Homes are 'in' again."
Five years ago, there was a 24-month supply, meaning homes were on the market for an average of one year. Currently there is an 11-month inventory. By summer, the number of months houses will be on the market is likely to decrease to eight or nine months, Dozier said. Fast-forward to summer 2014 and it may be six months, making it a seller's market.
Dozier said 90.6 percent of homes sold since January 2012 in Henderson County have been priced up to $400,000. Only about 80 percent of the market was in that bracket the previous year, Dozier said.
"We are seeing more sales in higher price ranges," he added.
Homes ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 are 42.3 percent of the current market, while 27 percent come from homes from $200,000 to $300,000, and 10.9 percent are from homes less than $100,000.
These indicators point toward a better market in the coming years. In the short term, Dozier expects the rising value of homes will increase demand because buyers are competing for a limited number of homes.
"As prices rise, buyers will become impatient and sellers will hold out hoping for the market to get better," he said.
After that, he anticipated homeowners to jump into the market and home builders to follow, adding more homes to the market.
"Now is the time to buy and it is also the time to sell," Dozier said.
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In addition to this latest purchase order from BART, Axion has also received purchase orders from two more public transit lines ranking in the top ten U.S. transit systems. These transit lines will conduct trials of ECOTRAX on their systems.
"To put this order into perspective," said Axion's Material Supply Director Ed Campbell, "we recycled approximately 738,000 high-density polyethylene plastic bottles to make these railroad ties."
"This order from BART represents our customer's belief in our products and their value," stated Axion's CEO Steve Silverman. "It also proves that our specialty-application strategy in North America is working for Axion and for our customers. We are providing a quality product and valuable solution to their long-term problems."


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- Kristján Kristjánsson also known as KK is an Icelandic blues and folk musician. His stage name is pronounced "cow cow." KK was born on March 26, 1956 in Minnesota, USA, but later moved to Iceland with his family. He attended music school in Malmö, Sweden for four years and then played his way across Europe, returning to Iceland in 1990. He has been nominated for the Gríma Prize twice and has been awarded the Icelandic Music Prize twice. In 2007 he toured to Shanghai with Magnús Eiríksson and Óttar Felix Hauksson in advance of the release of their next recording there and in Iceland.
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The band that delivers in one record the diversity of punk, metal, rock, and pop that most bands would hope to achieve in the span of their career are back. "House Of Bad Touch" is the band's third full length and second album for Alternative Tentacles. The New Jersey trio celebrate their eighth year of destruction with eighteen new anthems of speed, riffs and satire. Spazztic hardcore, Jersey metal, and three stooges rock covering all the bases from militias, O.J. Simpson, Jerry Springer, aliens, and of course a cover song are all guaranteed to kick your jaded ass in less than 40 minutes.
"House Of Bad Touch" is once again a testimony to the band's amazing versatility from their musicianship, expanse of musical styles, and their biting sense of humor. The soundtrack to the Y2K meltdown has begun.
"House of Bad Touch is a very cool album throughout. To give you a little background on this New Jersey based power trio, Buzzkill were originally known as Butthead. They formed in 1990. Two years into their musical endeavor they were forced to change their name due to the popularity of the MTV show Beavis & Butthead. The strange coincidence continued when in the mid 90's MTV launched a rock/grunge show called Buzzkill. I'm sure these guys have had many sleepless nights haunted by nightmares of a huge musical conglomerate consuming their creativity. But they persisted to stake their own claim in the music scene and prevailed.
Buzzkill is Bruce Steinert Jr on Vocals and guitar, Dan Roorda on bass and Mike Polli on drums. House of Bad Touch, their latest release is an elegant blend of a quirky punk sound with crazy desperate sounding vocals. The songs are super catchy and cool. My favorite on this 18 track CD is Springer, an in depth look at the psychology of what sort of people insist on parading on his show. This CD is clever, it's funny, it rocks, and should not be missed. A must-buy for punkers with a good sense of humor."- Primal Chaos On-line


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Finding quality brushes for affordable prices can be difficult. Recently I was introduced to Sigma, a company that sells high quality face and eye makeup brushes. Since receiving them, I've used every single one and cleaned them as well. They work and hold up beautifully and while they are MAC-comparable, I actually prefer some of them to my actual MAC brushes! These are definitely my new babies.
I received the Sigma Makeup Professional Brushes Kit-Complete (with the brush roll), which contains 12 very high quality eye and face brushes. The complete kit with 12 brushes and a very high quality brush roll is $79. You can also purchase the brushes only without the roll for $64, which is great for brushes of this quality. Imagine what you would spend on 12 MAC brushes! This averages out to about $5 a brush. Amazing. I also received the SS182 kabuki-style brush which is a fabulous brush as well and goes for $16.
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The weather is warming up and spring break is in full swing. Plenty of car owners will be dusting off their convertibles or day dreaming of someday owning one. Here are the best convertibles for this summer and beyond.
By Houston Chronicle Web Staff
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KLRU is kicking off our March pledge drive a day early with some exciting ways to thank you for your support and help you enhance your experience with KLRU beyond TV:
- Vampire Weekend tapes Austin City Limits | Sunday, March 17 | Donate $200 and we'll thank you with two balcony passes
- Il Divo at ACL Live | May 15 | Donate $400 and we'll thank you with two incredible floor seats to the performance. Or donate $200 to receive two balcony level tickets
- Joe Bonamassa at ACL Live | November 30 | Donate $350 we'll thank you with two tickets to his concert plus an invitation to a Meet-and-Greet before the show. Or donate $250 for two great seats without the Meet-and-Greet
- Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tribute at the Paramount | May 18 | Donate $100 for two great seats at their concert. Or join them for a Meet-and-Greet before their concert when you donate $150
KLRU is proud to be the largest producer and presenter of high-quality arts in Central Texas. When you support KLRU, you become a key partner in keeping the arts alive today and for generations to come.
Whether you choose one of our special ticket opportunities or donate without a thank you gift, I hope you'll decide to show your support for KLRU right now.
Thank you for your generosity.


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All eyes are turning toward Sony to set the tone for the next generation of console hardware next week. Like any generation, though, the real mettle will come down to developers and publishers. Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen recently spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, and gave some insight to what the company expects from the next generation.
"Historical transitions have been bumpy for a few reasons," Jorgensen said, in statements reported by Gamasutra. "One reason has been that a lot of the companies had too many titles. We had way too many titles in the last transition, and the more titles you have, the more expensive it is to convert them from one generation to the next. We're much more focused now. We've got a core group of ten-to-fifteen titles. We'll stage those in terms of the transition and manage those costs through that. Our goal is to keep the cost increase for R&D under $100 million. And some of that will be in this year, some of that in '14, and some in our fiscal year '15."
Jorgensen also commented on how used games can actually help fuel the market, and stopped short of commenting on whether he had heard anything regarding the persistent rumors that one or both of the upcoming console generations would restrict used games by tying them to the user. He did, however, remark, that "the trend in the business is to have that always-on connectivity and connect with a customer, and to the extent that the software identifies a certain customer is going to create some issues going down the road in the used game market."


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Sea, sand, and shops
Near the beach, this upscale resort hotel is near sailing and water skiing. For dining and shopping, The Gallery at Beach Place is nearby. Port Everglades (cruise ship terminal) is 2.7 miles away .
Infinity pool, spa
Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort features a 20,700-square-foot tropical enclave with an infinity pool. Other highlights include a spa and an ocean-view restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating.
Kitchens, balconies
Studios and suites have balconies facing the ocean or Intracoastal Waterway, kitchens or kitchenettes, Hilton Serenity Beds, and flat-screen TVs.
Languages Spoken
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Located on the beach, Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort, built in 2007, is a half-mile from Las Olas Boulevard and Bonnet House. A 20,700-square-foot tropical enclave includes an infinity pool, terrace, and deck. Indoor and outdoor spa treatments are available on site. The Spa Q offers aromatherapy, body scrubs, facials, and massage. Three restaurants and bars serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The resort also offers WiFi, 24-hour fitness center, and valet parking.
- Express check-in
- Elevator/lift
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Children's club
- Full-service spa
- 24-hour front desk
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- Limo or Town Car service available
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- Smoke-free property
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 929
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- Number of restaurants - 3
- 24-hour business center
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- Conference space size (feet) - 10000
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Spa tub
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Total number of rooms - 374
- Number of floors - 25
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 14.95 per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 14.95 per 24-hour period )
Languages Spoken
- English
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- Italian
- Portuguese
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- Air conditioning
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- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Pillowtop mattress
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
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- Video-game console
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- WiFi (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Ilios - Mediterranean cuisine. Serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Le Marche - Gourmet market and bakery.
In-room dining available 24 hours.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
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- Sauna in spa
- Minimum age to access spa is 16
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
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Check-in time ends at 3 AM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: USD 35.00 per accommodation, per night
- Pool access
- Spa access
- Beach loungers
- Beach towels
- Health club access
- Fitness center access
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- In-room safe
- In-room coffee
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Optional extras
- Fee for full breakfast: USD 29 for adults and USD 14.5 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 14.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 14.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 42 per day (in/out privileges)
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- Fort Lauderdale Beach Hilton
- Fort Lauderdale Beach Hilton Resort
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Easter Bonnet Promenade on Saturday
Hendersonville's 11th annual Easter Bonnet Promenade will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday on Main Street.
The event is an old-fashioned Easter bonnet parade with a new twist. Participants sashay through downtown Hendersonville in their finest Easter bonnets, representing their churches in the annual event.
Everyone is welcome — men, women and children. People who wish to participate in the contest should gather in the 400 block of Main Street and saunter southward for five blocks, then cross to the west side of Main Street and promenade north to the 600 block, cross to the east and amble back to the starting point.
The winners will receive a basket of goodies from Narnia Studios. Call 828-697-6393 for more information.
Author Benson to read at Hannah Flanagan's
Hendersonville author and columnist Bruce Benson will read from his book "The Embrace" at 3 p.m. today at Hannah Flanagan's Irish Pub at 300 N. Main St.
"The Embrace" is a journal of Benson's time in Egypt, where he picked up trash at the Great Pyramids of Giza as a demonstration of his spiritual philosophy, which he calls The Embrace.
"If anyone who has seen me picking up trash in Hendersonville over the last five years has wondered why I was doing it, I will try to answer the question," Benson said.
Reception for Kanuga exhibit on April 7
The Kanuga Conference Center at 130 Kanuga Chapel Drive, Hendersonville, will host an opening reception for the 28th annual Kanuga Watermedia Workshops Instructors' Exhibition from 2:30-5 p.m. April 7 in the Fireside Lounge at the Kanuga Conference Center Inn. The exhibit runs April 7-11.
Other viewing times are from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. April 8-10 and from 10 a.m.-noon April 11.
The exhibition includes work by Sue Archer of Palm Beach Garden, Fla., M.E. "Mike" Bailey of Santa Cruz, Calif., Linda Baker of Mooresville, Marilynn Derwenskus of Chicago, Don Getz of Peninsula, Ohio, Ken Goldman of San Diego, Lana Grow of Arden Hills, Minn., Robbie Laird of Lake Almanor, Calif., Dale Laitinen of Mountain Ranch, Calif., Jan Ledbetter of Williamsburg, Va., Annie Morgan of Grand Haven, Mich., and Janet Rogers of Ormond Beach, Fla.
The annual Kanuga Watermedia Workshop welcomes artists from across the country to study with these instructors. Each student artist works intensely with a selected instructor for the entire workshop. Call 517-281-1043 or email firstname.lastname@example.com, robbie@ kanugaww.com for more information.
Literary grant applications available
South Arts is accepting applications for its 2013-14 literary arts grant program.
This competitive program offers nonprofit arts organizations in a nine-state region the financial support to engage writers (fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry) who reside outside of the applicant's state. Applicants can receive up to $2,500.
Past grantees include the Global Education Center in Tennessee, The Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective in Louisiana and Ruth Eckerd Hall Inc. in Florida. They have brought in writers such as Matthew Shenoda, Randall Kenan and Glenis Redmond.
The application deadline is May 1. Call 404-874-7244, Ext. 16, for more information.
Auditions set for 'Carousel' and opera
Asheville Lyric Opera auditions for both the musical "Carousel" and opera "Suor Angelica" will take place from 5-8 p.m. April 11 at the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville.
Auditions are open to all singers regardless of experience. Rehearsal schedules are made available during the audition process. All conflicts must be noted at the audition. Schedule conflicts will influence casting. Only conflicts noted at the audition will be taken into consideration. Costume measurements will be taken from all who audition, but this does not guarantee casting. Auditioners should plan to arrive 30 minutes early.
Auditions will take place on the Diana Wortham Theatre stage. Neither the musical nor opera will be amplified by electronic means. Please keep this in mind when preparing vocally. All singers must enter through the loading dock on South Market Street directly across from the Asheville Fire Station.
All applicants must provide a performance resume and photograph. An accompanist is provided. To cover expenses, a $5 audition fee (cash or check only) is required. Call 828-236-0670 to schedule an audition. Office hours are from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays.
Craft school offering reduced tuition
Penland School of Crafts at 3135 Conley Ridge Road, Penland, has open spaces in several upcoming classes available at half tuition to residents of Western North Carolina counties including Buncombe, Henderson, Polk and Transylvania.
Regular room and board charges apply, but students are not required to stay on campus.
The week of April 7-13, three classes are open. Elizabeth Rideout will teach calligraphy and decorated letters focusing on the Italic lettering style. John Woodin's photography class will emphasize portraiture with a mixture of natural and flash lighting. Students in Bill Thomas' wood class will make a complete wooden canoe. In addition to the tuition, the wood class has a $1,200 fee for the canoe materials.
Ceramic artist Tom Spleth will teach a two-week workshop, from April 7-20, on all aspects of making plaster molds for slipcasting, pressmolding and handbuilding.
Except for Charlie and Linda Riggs' clay class, which requires some experience, classes are open to student of all levels; beginners are welcome. Complete information is available in the classes section of the Penland website at www.penland.org.
To enroll, call 828-765-2359, Ext. 15.
Comical math debate at UNCA
"The Great Pi vs. E Debate," a comical yet serious math debate, will be staged at 7 p.m. Thursday in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium.
The event, UNC Asheville's annual Parsons Lecture, showcases eminent scholars explaining math theories and problems in innovative ways understood by non-mathematicians.
"The Great Pi vs. E Debate" features Colin Adams and Thomas Garrity, both professors of mathematics at Williams College in Massachussets.
Adams writes a humorous column for the Mathematical Intelligencer Journal, is author of "The Knot Book" (American Mathematical Society, 2004) and received the Deborah and Franklin Pepper Haimo Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America.
Garrity is the author of "All the Mathematics You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge University Press, 2002), a technical text covering topics such as vector calculus, probability theory, abstract algebra and numerous other subfields of mathematics.
"The Great Pi vs. E Debate" is free and made possible by an endowment from an alumnus in honor of UNC Asheville Professor Emeritus Joe Parsons, who served in the Mathematics Department from 1952 to 1980. Call 828-251-6556 for more information.
College library marks women's history
Brevard College's J.A. Jones Library is recognizing Women's History Month in March with a special lineup of books and online resources.
A copy of the 2013 Women's History Gazette is also available to anyone who visits the library.
This year's national theme is "Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics." Each year, the National Women's History Project employs a unifying theme and recognizes national honorees whose work and lives testify to that theme.
In celebration of Women's History, Brevard College's Library has a number of books on display, including: "Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream," "A to Z of Women in Science and Math," "Courage for the Earth (Rachel Carson)," "Elizabeth Blackwell: the First Woman Doctor" and "Why Aren't More Women in Science?"
Online resources are also readily available through NC LIVE or databases such as "Academic OneFile," "America: History & Life," "Biography in Context," "Gale Virtual Reference Library" and the EBSCOhost e-Book Collection.
Brevard College's J.A. Jones Library is open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and from 3 to 10 p.m. on Sunday.
Call 828-884-8248 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
(Re)Happening at former college April 6
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center at 56 Broadway, Asheville, and the Media Arts Project will host the 4th annual (Re)Happening from 6 p.m.-midnight April 6 in the original dining hall of the former Black Mountain College, now Camp Rockmont.
The event begins with a cocktail hour, leading into a seated "family style" dinner. This year's dinner will feature an expanded focus on the culinary arts with contributions from local chefs Elliot Moss and Mark Rosenstein as well as longtime supporters Vinnie's Neighborhood Italian, Ultimate Ice Cream and others.
This year, more than 80 artists will participate in more than 30 projects, performances and installations dotting the buildings and grounds.
Some of the highlights include:
u Kathy Meyers Leiner and Jenni Cockrell will perform a Butoh dance piece incorporating a Victorian-style garment made entirely of zippers. They are collaborating with designer R. Brooke Priddy on the garment.
u Severn Eaton will construct two pods, 5 to 6 feet in diameter, to serve as an experiment in interpersonal communication. Participants will be able to enter a pod individually, and have varying degrees of interactivity with the other pod, through video and microphone speakers.
u Rachel Whitlock's Comment! Subscribe! is a study of consumer culture, nascent gender and sexual identity, exhibitionism and social media via installation and interactive video. She will take over one of the camp cabins and transform it into a teenage girl's bedroom.
u Ten sound artists from Asheville working in collaboration will create a "Sound Room" in one of the lodges. Local musician Kima Moore is organizing and leading this group.
u The collaborative team of Bridget Elmer, Priddy, Matt Schnable and Nathanael Roney will transform the Roundhouse using sound, symbols, fiber, ink and light.
The second part of the evening will begin at 8:30 p.m. with music, art and performances, along with drinks and a food truck. A limited number of early-bird tickets for the entire evening, including cocktails and dinner, are available for $65 ($55 for BMCM+AC members). Call 828-350-8484 for more information.
Shuttle service from Asheville via the Gray Line Trolley is available for $7.
For a full list of participants, visit www.blackmountaincollege.org/programs/rehappening.
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Adam Farris knows he has impairments such as attention deficit disorder and Tourette syndrome, but thinks of himself as someone with unique abilities, not disabilities.
Adam Farris knows he has impairments such as attention deficit disorder and Tourette syndrome, but he thinks of himself as someone with unique abilities, not disabilities.
That's why he started a nonprofit in North Carolina and Texas called Ability Shirts, which brings autism and Tourette syndrome awareness to the public while raising money for his cause.
"I want to open doors for people with disabilities," said 25-year-old Farris, who started Ability Shirts in Hendersonville in January and in Texas a little more than a year ago.
Farris repeated his company's slogan, "No one has a disability, everyone has abilities," which is printed on T-shirts and wristbands he sells on his website and at local businesses.
A lot of people who suffer from ADD or Tourettes, obsessive compulsive disorder and other impairments may feel like they cannot function in public. But Farris' father taught him otherwise when he was a young man.
He encouraged Farris to take the world by storm, and that gave the young man strength to use his abilities to earn an office-skill certificate from a community college. Farris is now employed by Walgreens Pharmacy, where he can work toward a career.
Farris has Ability Shirts merchandise at Mike's on Main Street and Mast General Store in downtown Hendersonville for sale, and proceeds go to different local organizations.
"I am really impressed with what he has accomplished," said Patty Adamic, owner of Mike's on Main. "It is really nice to see someone with his ability start a business."
The wristbands have been on sale at Mast General for a couple weeks, and assistant manager Lori Dorsey said Farris' endeavor is a great thing.
"He is a very determined young man," Dorsey said. "I am very impressed with what he is doing by raising awareness."
To purchase merchandise, get more information or make a donation, visit www.abilityshirts.com or call Farris at 713-591-5789.
Reach Schulman at 828-694-7890 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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(CNN) -- The death toll in Syria is probably now approaching 70,000, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Tuesday.
In early January, Pillay said that 60,000 people in Syria had died, a figure that she called "truly shocking." She blamed the international community for failing to act.
At that time, CNN tried to put the number in perspective. Sixty thousand people is roughly the population of Terre Haute, Indiana; or Cheyenne, Wyoming. It's how many people would fit in Dodger Stadium, and it's more than the 50,000-plus U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam.
The war in Syria has been raging since March 2011 when protesters, partly inspired by Arab Spring uprisings in the region, began demonstrating for more freedom. That movement quickly morphed into a movement against President Bashar al-Assad, who was appointed president by Syria's rubber-stamp parliament in 2000 after his father died.....