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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) The first thing Florida coach Will Muschamp showed his players this week was a list of mistakes.
He put all the errors from Saturday's 14-6 win over LSU on an overhead projector and went over them one by one.
His message was loud and clear: There would be no more celebrating around the football facility, which was a raucous scene last Saturday. Long gone was all the screaming, shouting and dancing. Even Muschamp's stage dive in the middle of the locker room was a distant memory now.
It was back to business for the fourth-ranked Gators (5-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference).
Muschamp wanted his team to realize the importance of handling success. After all, it's been nearly three years since Florida has been so highly ranked or won five consecutive games. How will the Gators respond?
``We'll see Saturday night,'' Muschamp said.
Florida goes on the road to Vanderbilt on Saturday, trying to avoid a letdown after the most significant win in Muschamp's two seasons in Gainesville.
``It's a new week. We've gotta forget about last week,'' linebacker Jon Bostic said. ``There were still a lot of areas that we could improve on, so this week we're focusing on that.''
The Gators have few players remaining from those Tim Tebow-led teams that won 22 consecutive games, including the 2008 national championship. Instead, the roster is filled with guys who experienced nearly as many losses (11) as wins (15) over the last two seasons - Urban Meyer's final season and Muschamp's first.
All those setbacks seemingly brought this team together, especially during offseason workouts.
``Family was the motto, just grinding for each other,'' sixth-year senior guard James Wilson said. ``I just think we're all pretty focused on one goal. It's to get to Atlanta first. ... Just got to keep it going. Nothing's done yet.''
Even though the Gators are trying to stay focused on the Commodores (2-3, 1-2), they are well aware that next week's game against No. 3 South Carolina likely will determine whether they reach the SEC title game.
And that's challenge: forget the past, don't think about the future and focus on the task at hand.
``We set expectations and we talk about how to handle them, what are standards are,'' offensive coordinator Brent Pease said. ``It shouldn't change. We go back out and start over just like it's a new week. It doesn't matter who we're playing. Cover up the scoreboard, put new-colored jerseys on and you go get ready for the next game.
``It's how you handle success: You start all over. Preparation is key to any game because we can go out and get beat as easily if we don't prepare properly.''
And that's why Muschamp focused on the miscues early in the week, pointing out the three sacks, the two turnovers, the six penalties, the missed tackles, the blown assignments and several missed opportunities.
Although the Gators rank third in the league in rushing offense and third in scoring defense, their passing game ranks last and their grind-it-out, close-to-the-vest style seemingly makes them vulnerable to mistakes and prone to an upset.
``We're still hungry,'' cornerback Jaylen Watkins said. ``It's easy for us to come off that game and be still pumped about it and talking about it, but nobody talked about the game. That was the weekend and now we're focusing on Vanderbilt. ... We can't change what we do preparation-wise to keep the thing going.''


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Tailor-made 3D printing solutions for the education market are a strategic objective of Objet. The company's 3D Printers have been adopted by many of the world's leading universities and research departments, including Virginia Tech, University of New Orleans, Art Center College of Design, Purdue University, and The Technion.
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Google has just announced its Nexus 7 tablet and we have been among the lucky few to get a play with the latest piece of Nexus kit. The tablet was announced at Google I/O 2012 in San Francisco.
Priced at just £159 for the 8GB model, or £199 for 16GB, it is one of the cheapest and most powerful tablets available, or will be when it lands in mid-July. Manufactured by Asus, you'll be able to pre-order and buy the 8GB direct from Google Play, however Asus will sell the 16GB version through its own channels.
It also sports the latest version of Google's Android operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. So how does it handle?
The Nexus 7 is a very portable tablet. It weighs just 340g and measures 198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm. In the hand it feels solid and well built, something that tablets at this price don't always achieve. The size means it fits nicely into one hand, the tactile finish on the back giving plenty of grip. The design is understated, yet elegant.
Controls-wise, the Nexus 7 is laid out like the Galaxy S III, with power button and volume controls on the right-hand side. The Micro-USB port and headphone jack are mounted on the bottom. On the bottom left-hand side is a set of pogo pins, just like the Galaxy Nexus, for charging and docking. Being an Android 4.1 device, control is via the touch controls on the display.
There is no micro SD card slot, no replaceable battery and no HDMI out either. If you are wondering the micro USB socket is just for charging rather than being a display out (MHL) port at the same time. The move, say Asus, is to encourage people to stream content from Google's numerous Play content stores. Google Play is your storage drive now rather than anything local. That's not to say everything will be streamed, but its the idea that you'll download a movie to watch and then at the end delete if from your device if you need more space.
With any tablet the display is critical. At 1280 x 800 pixel resolution it boasts a 216ppi pixel density which makes for sharp and crisp text and media. It's an IPS display, capable of vibrant and engaging colours with excellent viewing angles. Like other manufacturers, Asus has cut out the air gap between the touch surface and the physical display, again enhancing the performance. Of course, it's glossy and reflective and will attract fingerprints, but we found it easy to wipe clean, and the screen is much more impressive than the Kindle Fire. Asus here have taken the approach TV manufacturers adopted a long time ago and tried its best to remove the air gap between the screen layers and the glass. In practice that means less space for light to refract and therefore a more vivid experience. Understandably Asus call this technology TruVivid.
Music playback, which integrates nicely into the newly designed Google Play store and home screen widgets, is of respectable quality from the rear-mounted speaker. The 1.3-megapixel camera on the front will suffice for video calling but don't expect to be getting high-quality snaps from the Nexus 7, because there is no rear camera. Interesting that means Asus and Google have removed the Camera app altogether. You'll only be able to use that front camera for video calling rather than snapping.
In terms of software, Jelly Bean looks great and right now it seems as if the Nexus 7 is the best way to experience it. Project Butter certainly seems to have resulted in a device that's silky smooth. Navigating around the Nexus 7 is a real pleasure and apps and menus are quick to open.
Features like Google Now looks like a really useful tweak to Google searching, making the search results feel more useful. In use and it seems as easy to use as you would expect. It's not just about blue links and green writing any more.
If you want to find out more about what Jelly Bean has brought to the table why not check out our Android 4.1 Jelly Bean features round-up.
From our two quick plays it looks like an impressive tablet from Google. The quad-core Tegra 3 processor with 12 core GPU is astounding on a device that costs £159, offering class-leading performance for Android. Just like the Kindle Fire in the US, this device could very well be the one that not only takes another bite out of Apple's rather large share of the tablet market pie, but totally destroys any chance cheap Android tablets have of making an impression.
The shift to a smaller size is something we're enthusiastic about. While many tablets have come out around 10-inches, there is a lot to be said for the smaller device. It's easy to carry around, easy to use one-handed, yet big enough to experience media in a way that your smartphone currently won't quite do. It's a view shared by Asus who tell us that they hope people will own a Nexus 7 and a Transformer - one for the home and one for the road.
The Nexus 7 tablet is on pre-order at the Google Play store, with plans to ship around mid July.
UPDATE: After a second viewing with Asus we've added a lot more photos of the device in action and more comment above. Extra photos and words by Stuart Miles.
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I know that you kind of hate watching things, so it's basically about a 29 year old who is dumped by her fiance. It sounds like a really obvious premise, but it's actually pretty charming and unexpected and not a typical romantic comedy. Also, there is a great scene where she breaks up with someone by reciting an entire monologue from The Godfather.
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Actress Ellen Page will celebrate the 10th anniversary of her film Juno by reprising her titular role as a pregnant teen for a charity live-reading.
Jennifer Garner, who played Juno's baby's adoptive mother, will also return to the project for the movie get-together, which will feature an all-female cast to benefit Planned Parenthood.
Director Jason Reitman, who previously hosted a series of live-script readings, will announce the actresses who will take on the characters portrayed onscreen by Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, and J.K. Simmons on Twitter in the lead up to the 8 April (17) event, reports Entertainment Weekly.
The fundraiser, which will take place at the Theater at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, is aimed at highlighting the work of women's health organization Planned Parenthood, which will receive drastic cuts to its government subsidies under President Donald Trump's administration.
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Village of Lewiston trustee defeats Town of Lewiston councilman
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Come January, Dennis Brochey will be supervisor in the Town of Lewiston.
Brochey, a Democrat and Village of Lewiston trustee, defeated Ernie Palmer, a Republican and Town of Lewiston councilman, by 418 votes in Tuesday's election. Brochey took 10 out of 14 districts, including all three in the village, en route to 1,965 votes. Palmer finished with 1,547 votes.
Less than 300 absentee ballots were cast, and are expected to fall 50-50 between the two candidates.
"I don't know where to start in thanking you all," Brochey told a crowd at Apple Granny moments after winning. "I gotta' thank you all! You're all a part of this. I promise I'm going to do the best to never let you down."
Brochey said he went door-to-door visiting upward of 2,500 homes. He attributed his win to the trust he said voters have in him.
"The people of Lewiston spoke what they wanted, and I'm not going to let them down," he said.
Brochey has served on the Village of Lewiston Board of Trustees for a little more than a year. More notably, the supervisor-elect owned and operated Dennis Brochey's Automotive on Center Street for more than two decades.
The voters, Brochey said, "understand that Lewiston needs a change.
"I feel bad; I think Lewiston suffered a black eye recently from everything that's happened to them. I'm here to make sure that it never happens again.
"I'm going to run it like a business - like I did my own business for 25 years."
Brochey said he plans to "get more community input; have ideas; and I'm going to start on them right away."
The appointment of a deputy supervisor and town finance director are expected to be among Brochey's first actions.
"I want to surround myself with people I trust and that I can work with," he said. "I don't know who those people are right now; I never talked to anybody yet. But I do want to make the right decision."
Moreover, Brochey vowed relations would improve between the town and the village. The two municipalities have clashed in recent years over the Lewiston Police Department budget, water bills and the establishment of a recreation center.
"There's going to be a great working relationship between the town and the village, but it's not going to just be limited to the village - it's going to be with Sanborn, Colonial Village," Brochey said. "I'm not just for the village; I'm for the whole community.
"I'm looking forward to making a difference in the whole community."
When asked where he thinks Lewiston should go in the wake of outgoing Supervisor Steve Reiter's failed bid to build a $9 million recreation center on the Lewiston-Porter School grounds, and a lack of progress at Joseph Davis State Park, Brochey said, "I'm not going to rule out anything for advancement in the Town of Lewiston."
That includes a smaller version of a recreation center and work at Joseph Davis State Park.
With regard to the latter, "What can we do to get the state to give us Joe Davis back?" Brochey said. "I don't have any problems giving money to Joe Davis if it's town property."
Brochey said he'd rather put money into the village or the Sanborn area than into state property.
In the other Town of Lewiston race, councilmen Mike Marra and Alfonso Bax were re-elected. Both ran unopposed, and will serve four more years.
Brochey's term is for two years.
In Porter, Mert Wiepert, Tom Baia, Joe Fleckenstein, Sally Hogan and Dave Truesdale were re-elected.
At the county level, incumbent legislator Bill Ross edged challenger Sean O'Laughlin, and incumbent Clyde Burmaster soundly defeated Christopher Ferrante.
All election results are unofficial at this time.


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Obama's plea: A cry, not an argument, for warEDITORIAL
September 11. 2013 11:49PM
President Obama's Tuesday night speech on Syria was an illogical ramble festooned with contradictions. He did not make an argument for war, he made a plea for intervention. That plea was based not on American national security or the security of our allies, but on his emotional reaction to watching horrifying videos of the victims of the gas attack he wants the United States to avenge.
Politico's White House reporter commented online, "After listening to this speech, I really do believe the images of dead kids was the prime mover for Obama. Just like Newtown." Bingo.
"I ask you to reconcile your belief in freedom and dignity for all people with those images of children writhing in pain, and going still on a cold hospital floor," Obama said. He went on: "I'd ask every member of Congress, and those of you watching at home tonight, to view those videos of the attack..."
As with his rush to do something, anything, to combat gun violence after Newtown, Obama tried to rush the nation into an ill-conceived act of war because he was emotionally overcome by horrifying images. Thankfully the American people have been more level-headed than the supposedly cool, analytical President during these tests.


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FIVE YEARS ago, in his speech at the Welsh Kennel Club dinner, the then Kennel Club chairman expressed his apprehension about a television programme due to be broadcast the following Tuesday.
How right he was to be worried, for the programme showed dog people in the worst possible light.
Much of it was anything but fair, as Ofcom later agreed. But there was sufficient basis of fact and justification to its general slant that the pedigree dog world has never been the same again.
The broadcast duly set in motion a whole chain of events and actions from which it took a considerable time to bounce back, and with a continuing fall in participation at shows, and now a distinct decline in registrations, one wonders if permanent damage was done, if not on the scale we all feared at the time.
But what matters most is the welfare of the dogs themselves, and here the programme, however painful it was, may have in the long run done good in focusing breeders and judges attention on health and freedom from harmful exaggeration. For many caring breeders these had been the priority for decades before 2008. But now no one claiming to be a responsible breeder can ignore them.
In future columns we will look at this anniversary in more details; meantime there remains much to be done. One of the issues raised in Pedigree Dogs Exposed was syringomyelia in Cavaliers. It is only now, five years on, that test results are published in the record supplements. No one, surely, could deny that these give enormous cause for concern, and not only in the one breed. As many suspected there is clearly a major problem to be dealt with. Breeders can no longer bury their heads in the sand.


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This analysis does not constitute the giving of legal advice. Blue text portions represent actual wording of Oklahoma statutes. Italicized notes represent OCHEC's comments. All other portions reprinted with permission of Home School Legal Defense Association.Updated 3/02Oklahoma Constitution, Section 4, Article 13Oklahoma is the only state with a constitutional provision guaranteeing the right to homeschool. Section 4, Art. 13 of the Constitution of Oklahoma guarantees the homeschool exemption by stating that the legislature "shall" provide for the "compulsory attendance at some public or other school, unless other means of education are provided of all children in the State who are sound in mind and body, between the ages of eight and sixteen, for at least three months each year." [Note: This is original wording from the Oklahoma Constitution. See Compulsory Attendance Ages and Required Days of Instruction.]It seems quite evident that the "other means of education" language is directly applicable to homeschooling since it was added for the specific purpose of protecting the right of parents to choose homeschooling. In 1907, during the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, one of the delegates, Mr. Buchanan, proposed that the phrase "unless other means of education be provided" be added to Article 13, Section 4. Favorably responding to Mr. Buchanan's proposal, another delegate, Mr. Baker stated,
"I think Mr. Buchanan has suggested a solution. A man's own experience sometimes will teach him. I have two little fellows that are not attending a public school because it is too far for them to walk and their mother makes them study four hours a day."As a result of this discussion on homeschooling, the "other means of education" language was added to Article 13, Section 4.Attorney General Opinion No. 73-129According to Attorney General Opinion No. 73-129 (Feb. 13, 1973) Oklahoma law recognizes the right of parents to carry out this responsibility through homeschooling "so long as the private instruction is supplied in good faith and equivalent in fact to that afforded by the State." Equivalency has never been defined by any court or Attorney General opinion, nor is equivalency mandated by law. However, it seems clear that the point of the Attorney General opinion is that homeschooling must not be used as a subterfuge for truancy.Attorney General Opinion No. 73-129 The Oklahoma Compulsory Attendance Statute does not require that a private school be accredited by the State Department of Education or that a private tutor hold an Oklahoma teaching certificate so long as the private instruction is supplied in good faith and is equivalent in fact to that afforded by the State. While a board of education has discretion to classify students as it deems appropriate and to require examinations relative thereto [for readmission to the public schools - ed.], credit for private instruction may not be denied solely because the private instructor did not hold an Oklahoma teaching certificate. A board of education is not required to furnish textbooks or other materials to a child residing in the district not attending a district-operated school. (Emphasis added) [Note: While the Attorney General's opinion is not law, OCHEC encourages home educators to honor it since OCHEC promotes obeying not only the letter of the law but the spirit as well.]Compulsory Attendance Ages"over the age of five (5) years and under the age of eighteen (18) years." Oklahoma Statutes Annotated Title 70, § 10-105(A)-(B). 70 O.S. 1997, §10-105It shall be unlawful for a parent, guardian, or other person having custody of a child who is over the age of five (5) years and under the age of eighteen (18) years, to neglect or refuse to cause or compel such child to attend and comply with the rules of some public, private or other school, unless other means of education are provided for the full term the schools of the district are in session or the child is excused as provided in this section.... It shall be unlawful for any child who is over the age of sixteen (16) years and under the age of eighteen (18) years, and who has not finished four (4) years of high school work, to neglect or refuse to attend and comply with the rules of some public, private or other school, or receive an education by other means for the full term the schools of the district are in session. (Emphasis added)Required Days of Instruction[Note: The following two statutes are public school requirements which MAY apply to home education based on equivalency.] 180 days. Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 70, § 1-110. 70 O.S. 1997, §1-110 "A school month shall consist of twenty (20) school days during which school is actually taught or school activities performed. Provided, that holidays, elections, days devoted to professional meetings and other days when school is closed may be included in the number of days required for a regular school month, but no holiday or other occasion when school is not in session shall be included in the one hundred eighty (180) days required to be taught, except not to exceed five (5) days may be used for attendance of professional meetings (Emphasis added) 70 O.S. 1997, §1-1ll "A school day for any group of pupils shall consist of not less than six (6) hours devoted to school activities, except that a school day for nursery, early childhood education, kindergarten, first grade, extended day program, and alternative education programs shall be as otherwise defined by law or as defined by the State Board of Education. ... Beginning with the 1993-94 school year, the school day for kindergarten may consist of six (6) hours devoted to school activities." [Note: One-on-one tutoring may not require six hours per day, especially for younger students.] Required Subjects[Note: The following statute is a public school requirement which MAY apply to home education based on equivalency.] Reading, writing, math, science, citizenship, United States constitution, health, safety, physical education, conservation. Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 70, 11-103. 70 O.S. 1997, §11-103 "A. Courses of instruction approved by the State Board of Education for use in school years prior to 1993-94 shall be those courses that are necessary to ensure: 1. The teaching of the necessary basic skills of learning and communication, including reading, English, writing, the use of numbers and science; and 2. The teaching of citizenship in the United States, in the State of Oklahoma, and in other countries, through the study of the United States Constitution, the amendments thereto, and the ideals, history, and government of the United States, other countries of the world, and the State of Oklahoma and through the study of the principles of democracy as they apply in the lives of citizens. In study of the United States Constitution, a written copy of the document itself shall be utilized....B. Courses approved by the State Board of Education for instruction of pupils in the public schools of the state for use in school years prior to 1993-94 may include courses that are approved by a local board of education and are necessary to ensure: 1. The teaching of health; 2. The teaching of safety; 3. The teaching of physical education; 4. The teaching of the conservation of natural resources; 5. The teaching of vocational education; and 6. The teaching of... other aspects of human living and citizenship..." [Note: For college-bound students, refer to the Oklahoma State Board of Education Regulations for Graduation listed at www.sde.state.ok.us or required courses at the college of your choice.] Teacher Qualifications and Standardized TestsOklahoma law does not require parents to use certified teachers or state-approved curricula, initiate contact with, register with or seek approval from state or local officials, test their students or permit public school officials to visit or inspect homes. Homeschools are not regulated, since the framers of the Oklahoma Constitution specifically intended "other means of education" to include homeschooling and gave the state no authority to regulate. Case Laws Allowing for Home SchoolsIn Snyder v. Asbery (No. 78,045, Oklahoma Court of Appeals, Div. 2, May 18, 1993), the Oklahoma Court of Appeals returned two children to the custody of their homeschooling father, reversing a lower court decision. On page 4 of the decision, the Court agreed with the homeschooling father, stating "...the State Department of Education has no jurisdiction in homeschooling." See 70 O.S.1991 § 3-104 … Okla. Const. art. 13, § 5…." In the case, Sheppard v. Oklahoma, 306 P.2d 346 (Okla. Crim. App. 1957), the court held that requirements of school attendance laws could be met even though children were not attending public or private school. The court said "education may be furnished without attendance at any school." Sheppard, at 353. The court also emphasized "it was incumbent on the state to offer proof" that "no other means of education was provided." Sheppard, at 356. In other words, the state failed to carry its burden of proof since it failed to prove that "other means of education" were not being provided. The court indicated further that, if the state finds other means of education are being provided, then they must prove that the means of education is not "adequate and comparable" to instruction in public schools. Id. at 356. The court also suggested the state could inquire about the curriculum in two areas: period of instruction and subjects taught. Id. The Oklahoma Supreme Court in School Brd. Dist. No. 18 v. Thompson, 103 P. 578, 24 Okla. 1 (1909), upheld parental rights against the public school's authority. "Under our form of government … the home is considered the key stone of the governmental structure. In this empire, parents rule supreme during the minority of their children … they may … withdraw them entirely from public schools and send them to private schools, or provide for them other means of education."


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Mulberry Square provides residents with unique Christmas wish
PUNXSUTAWNEY — On a silent winter's night, with only the soft jingle of silver bells to disturb the stillness, Punxsutawney native Betty Daughenbaugh would set out along Sprankle Mills Road on a horse-drawn sled. That cherished childhood memory of a lovely, snow-white sleigh ride is a recollection that Daughenbaugh has revisited often in her 90 years. It is one she was certain was meant to remain only a memory as she is now just a decade shy of a century.
Nevertheless, this year, all Daughenbaugh really wanted for Christmas was a trip down memory lane.
And though the route she traveled is now where the Hemlock View Golf Course lies, a trip down memory lane is just what she received.
When Mulberry Square Elder Care & Rehabilitation Center Administrator Marianne Dougherty was deciding how to make the holidays memorable for residents — one of whom is Daughenbaugh — and posed the question: "If you could have anything for Christmas you want and nothing is out of bounds, what would it be?" she was not deterred by their answer of: "An old-fashioned sleigh ride."
Of course, nowadays, Dougherty discovered, old-fashioned sleigh rides are few and far between.
However, with direction from the Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce, Dougherty was able to find and hire Misty Haven Carriage, a company that gives sleigh rides as part of Groundhog Day festivities.
With the horses, driver and sleigh squared away, Mulberry invited residents, along with their families, and employees to a Dec. 21 Christmas celebration, featuring a memory to remember, yet again.
"We picked a date, and we prayed for nice weather," Dougherty said. "God smiled on us today, because it's beautiful."
Four days before Christmas, residents, along with their family members of all ages, Mulberry employees and members of the Punxsutawney Area High School choir — which later sang to residents — took turns riding on a horse-drawn sleigh that jingled all the way to Barclay Square and back.
"It was just the greatest thing," Daughenbaugh said. "I thought to myself, 'I'm just so thankful I've got that sleigh ride in before I die.'"
The old-fashioned sleigh ride experience was a Christmas present, according to Dougherty, that Mulberry staff wished to give to the residents who are destined to spend their holidays at the assisted living center.
"We have to remember that people, regardless of age or disability, are still young at heart," Dougherty said. "It's important to allow them some real excitement at Christmas-time, to allow them to live and enjoy the same things here that they would enjoy in the community."
"Picture if you were 80 years old: Would you think you would be able to go on a sleigh ride?" she said. "That's what it's about: Making dreams come true."
In addition to Daughenbaugh, that dream certainly came true for 72-year-old resident Rose Goyette.
"I never thought I'd have a sleigh ride in this life of mine," she said. "My brother, he just called and asked what I was doing. I said I was about to go on a sleigh ride. He said 'What?' like I was dreaming or something."
In addition to a touch of nostalgia, the day offered a bit of holiday spirit to all residents — even those with disabilities. The feat was seemingly impossible to many residents, as their age, handicaps and other ailments are prohibiting, however, using mechanically-assisted lifts and, what Dougherty terms, "people power," Mulberry staff members were able to accommodate all residents wishing to take a sentimental horse-drawn sleigh ride.
"Can I be put on the list?" resident Dora Sherry asked Mulberry staff members as they attempted to organize the order in which residents would take off.
The 44-year-old is currently undergoing rehabilitation after the amputation of her right foot, which she caught in a ladder while loading a moving van. Not realizing the severity of the injury, Sherry walked on her broken foot, and a subsequent bone infection led to its amputation.
Due to the nature of her disability, employees were uncertain as to whether they would be able to successfully place Sherry on the sleigh.
When they regretfully explained this to Sherry, she simply continued to hold steady eye contact and wait for them to come up with a solution.
"It took a lot to get used to not having a foot," she said. "I've gotten over it, though."
Currently waiting on her prothesis, after which she must learn to walk and then muses she will be "cut loose" from Mulberry, Sherry enjoyed the novelty the horse-drawn carriage ride offered.
"It's like a yesteryear type of thing. People my age have never really been on a sleigh ride like that, its been done away with. So I'm going to enjoy this," she said. "It's a once in a lifetime thing."
Her husband, Arthur Sherry, who walks down from his residence near Comet Market to visit his wife every day, noted the lost foot as only the most recent challenge in the checkered medical history of his wife, additionally rattling off stroke, diabetes and dialysis as past struggles.
"She hasn't been home since September, and in and out of the hospital since 2008. When she had her stroke they kept telling me she would either end up a vegetable or bed-ridden. It was a massive stroke," he said. "She out-fooled everybody."
Though Arthur notes his wife's time spent at Mulberry as "just the beginning" of her recovery, she out-fooled everybody Tuesday, as well. After patiently awaiting for her chariot in a Mulberry van, and various attempts to move the sleigh closer to the van ramp, Sherry found herself situated on the sleigh.
"There she goes," Arthur said, watching his wife disappear into the distance as the faint echo of silver bells sounded. "There she goes."


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Colombian Artist Fernando Botero Follows His Own Path in WAG Exhibition
A major exhibition of the work of internationally renowned Columbian artist Fernando Botero is coming to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, a WAG first. The Baroque World of Fernando Botero opens December 10, continuing until February 27.
"This exhibition is the first major retrospective of Botero's work to tour in North America since the late 1970s, and the first time the WAG has displayed his art," says Director Stephen Borys. "The Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec saw gallery attendance of 125,000 people during the run of the exhibition there and it also did well at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. Although at times misunderstood or underappreciated by critics, Botero has emerged as a major figure in 20th century South American art. This exhibition provides audiences with the opportunity to explore the work of an artist who chose not to conform, opting to follow his own personal vision."
Botero creates a world of his own that blends violence, humour, and beauty. His images of his native country and its inhabitants combine brilliant colour, cultural identity, and political satire.
"Botero draws on the opulence of Baroque art for his inspiration," says Helen Delacrataz, WAG Chief Curator. "Baroque art seethed with emotion, sensuality, monumental forms, and convoluted and exaggerated drapery. Botero uses this same energy and tension to great effect, manipulating, compressing, and experimenting with the dimensions and proportions of his subject matter."
The 100 works on display are from the artist's personal collection with some of them being displayed for the first time. Among the most impressive works are three monumental bronze sculptures including the 4,000 pound Smoking Woman.
Admission to The Baroque World of Fernando Botero: WAG member $5 • Adult $14 • Senior (60+) $12 • Student $12 • Student Admission Card $5 • Family (up to 2 adults and 4 children under 18) $32 • Child free (5 and under) • Includes general Gallery admission.
Exhibition curated by Dr. John Sillevis, Curator of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Sponsored by Pattison Outdoor Advertising.
Drop-in Tours • Selected Sundays at 2pm • Included with exhibition admission
January 9, 16, 23, 30 / February 13, 20
Wed, January 12, 12:10pm • Exhibition tour with Chief Curator Helen Delacretaz.
Sun, January 23, 2pm • With Chief Curator Helen Delacretaz. Coffee, tea, and conversation to follow.
Life and Death in the Tropics: Columbia and Latin America in the Art of Fernando Botero
Sun, December 12, 2pm • Included with exhibition admission • With Jorge Nállim, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.
Botero, Originality and the Lure of the Past
Sun, February 13, 2pm • Included with exhibition admission • Join Winnipeg artist Tom Lovatt on an exploration of the artwork of Fernando Botero as we examine our assumptions about the purposes of art, the role of the artist in society, and how we ascribe meaning and value to what we see.
Sun, January 30, 1:30–4pm • Botero or Bust • Grab a Gallery passport and tour the wonderful world of Colombian artist Fernando Botero. Catch the South American vibe with dance troupe Folklore De Mi Tierra. Create your own Botero-inspired work of art.
Write to Art: creative writing and the visual arts
Sun, January 29, 2-5pm • Explore art in a new way! Acclaimed writers Debbie Schnitzer and Marjorie Anderson will lead a writing workshop responding to the work of Colombian artist Fernando Botero. Participants will go beyond simply looking whilst learning new creative and interpretive strategies involving their own writing and the visual arts.
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An airpot rack can help keep your coffee station organized. The simplest ones provide a way to organize and secure the dispensers, while others include compartments for cream, sugar, and stirrers. Many of them include drip trays to help contain spills, and some provide sign holders to indicate the different varieties of coffee available.


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The sequel to the mighty World War II flight combat game Heroes of the Pacific, Heroes over Europe takes aspiring combat pilots into the bullet-ridden heart of major World War II European air battles in glorious dogfight-friendly high definition. Heroes over Europe follows the Allied campaign from the attacks on London to the destruction of Berlin, with players under orders to strap themselves into the authentically rendered cockpits of the campaign's iconic aircraft. Their mission: to survive the most ferocious dogfights ever seen in a flight combat game.
"The Heroes series has brought some of the world's most exciting air battles in history to gamers all over the world, and Heroes over Europe builds on the series' impressive legacy with highly detailed realistic visual presentation and an even deeper online experience," said Cyril Voiron, VP Brand Management Worldwide Publishing, Atari.
"Transmission Games did an incredible job on the first game, Heroes of the Pacific, and this second game in the series is definitely benefiting from that experience," said Simon Price, President of Red Mile Entertainment. "We are very excited to partner with Atari to bring this stunning title to gamers worldwide."
Developed by Transmission Games (formerly IR Gurus) in Melbourne, Australia, and powered by an all-new engine, Heroes over Europe is set to raise the bar for flight combat games, with new and unique game modes, and deeper and more comprehensive online gameplay for up to 16 players. Visually, the game takes no prisoners with meticulously rendered environments including faithful recreations of London and Berlin, and ultra-realistic iconic warplanes of the era, all presented in stunning high definition graphics.
With additional content available to download from launch, Heroes over Europe is scheduled for release in 2009.
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Come and meet gubernatorial candidate Mike McCabe, hear his inspiring vision for improving our state and ask him questions about the issues that matter to you.
A lot of people compare how they got excited about Mike to how they got excited about Bernie. You can hear about his decades of leadership in fighting the influence of money in politics. You can look at pictures of Mike engaged as a grassroots activist. But to really get excited about Mike as a candidate, you really need to hear the passion in his voice, see the sincerity in his facial expressions and feel his conviction when he looks you in the eye.
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The New Holiday Tradition
What's an "authentic" Christmas celebration?
Actual tinsel doesn't get much airtime in Tinsel, Hank Stuever's takedown of the middle-American Christmas. None of the people he writes about seems to use it; none of the towns he drives through is adorned in it. But Stuever doesn't have to explain his title. We all know what tinsel represents come Christmastime: the cheap, the tacky, the lowbrow.
Tinsel is easily the world's most disdained Christmas decoration, sometimes treated more as a disease to be cured than a decoration to be enjoyed alongside nutcrackers and strands of lights. Why does it come in for so much derision? Probably because in this natural-medicine, organic-cosmetics, local-food-obsessed era, tinsel is totally, unabashedly fake. Even the much-maligned artificial Christmas tree tries to look real (most of the time). But don't try to pretend the shiny, silvery, stringy stuff of which tinsel is made appears in nature.
For three Christmases in a row, Stuever decamps from Washington (where he is a "professional snarkist" for the Washington Post's Style section) to Frisco, Texas, a booming exurb 30 miles from Dallas. On his "search for America's Christmas present," he eagerly points out every less-than-authentic aspect of Christmas that he observes in the lives of his subjects. Given his choice of subjects, he has plenty of material.
In Frisco, he follows three families as they prepare for each Christmas in 2006, 2007, and 2008. There's Caroll, a single mom who works at the sort of megachurch where the Rev. True Religion Jeans preaches health, wealth, and personal fulfillment. There's Jeff, the architect of the most spectacular Christmas light show in Frisco. And then there's Tammie, the bubbly woman who's a stay-at-home mom every month except December, when she pulls 18-hour days decking other people's halls with Christmas kitsch.
It's Tammie who provides Stuever with the title of the first section of his book. When he asks her whether she or her clients ever spring for real trees or real greenery on the mantel, she shakes her head. "Fake is okay here," she says.
Fake may be OK with Tammie, but it is not all right with Stuever. He chronicles everything in Frisco that smacks of falsity with the same fervor with which Tammie attacks her clients' banisters. Their decorations are not old enough ("They seek out brand-new 'vintage' ornaments"). Their garlands are not native enough ("alien foliage, things not ever seen in nature"). Their town squares are not authentic enough ("You'll know you're there by the faux period architecture").
But this sniping about the fakeness of it all raises a question Stuever never answers: What's so bad about fake? Furthermore, what would a real Christmas in Frisco, and its cousins across America, even look like? If authentic means old, then the residents of Frisco are fresh out of luck.
We like to think that our Christmas celebrations are born out of longstanding traditions rooted in the history and culture of our homes. Many familiar traditions—holly, mistletoe, evergreens—were outgrowths of natural materials that were available in Europe, where the modern Christmas began. Personal traditions like the Christmas Eve church service or Christmas dinner at Grandma's are often matters of family practice, sometimes so entrenched that they're never brought up for discussion. Until someone moves.
The supposedly organic origins of Christmas are challenged by the development of the modern exurb. Vast swaths of land-rich states like Texas, Arizona, and California have been transformed into sparkling new subdivisions that left little of the natural environment intact. The brand-new homes and schools of these bedroom communities are planted on fields that used to be home to cotton and cattle. (Stuever's subjects tell him " '[t]here were just cows' where the Outback Steakhouse and the Red Lobster and the Bed Bath & Beyond are.")
The residents of these new American cities settled in Frisco and its ilk within the last few years, deposited by corporate moving vans hundreds of miles from hometowns and extended families and generations-old Christmas traditions. They've lost the infrastructure of Christmas. So they're making it up as they go along, with botanically incorrect foliage and biblically inaccurate Christmas plays. When exurbanites do Christmas, they aren't flouting traditions—they're creating them from scratch. (OK, maybe from a mix.)
There would be something sort of troubling about a Wal-Mart-fueled Christmas in a German hamlet where the residents have been lighting up trees for centuries. But in Frisco, Texas, there are hardly any native trees, much less long-cherished traditions about how to decorate them.
Perhaps they could hang a single stand of lights hung on a scrubby mesquite tree in the middle of a windblown prairie. Except that there aren't any electrical outlets on the prairie. So you can see why the city's residents have built subdivisions and draped their town square in lights. Tammie is more right than she knows—and more legitimate than Stuever lets on—when she tells him, "We're makin' Christmas now!"
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Character Actor Abe Vigoda Dies at 94
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Abe Vigoda, the character actor who starred on Barney Miller and in The Godfather, died Tuesday, The Associated Press reports. He was 94 and died of natural causes. Born in New York City, Vigoda went to Carnegie Hall's Theater School of Dramatic Arts… Read more


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The Baltimore Ravens are healthy and rested, qualities they hope will serve them better in the playoffs than the momentum they would have derived from winning the regular-season finale.
Baltimore's 23-17 loss to Cincinnati on Sunday had the feel of a preseason contest, which is appropriate because the Ravens (10-6) consider themselves to be starting anew this Sunday against Chuck Pagano's Indianapolis Colts (11-5).
Coach John Harbaugh said Monday, "It's a whole new season. It all starts fresh. It's the playoffs. We're all 0-0 at this point."
Baltimore sputtered to the finish by losing four of its last five games. The Ravens won at least one playoff game in each of the previous four seasons, but on each occasion they were coming off a victory in the regular-season finale.
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CNN's Human to Hero series celebrates inspiration and achievement in sport. Click here for videos and features
(CNN) -- Want to know the real secret to being a success on Wall Street?
If you're a college student aiming to land a top job at the world's most famous financial district then it might just help to take up a sport -- but perhaps not the one you're thinking of.
Basketball? Baseball? Neither. The answer is ... lacrosse.
The "Lacrosse Bros." culture is well known on Wall Street -- but the way in is blocked to all those who failed to play the sport to a high level at college.
The unofficial club has played a leading role in helping former college lacrosse stars walk into some of the biggest jobs in New York City.
"I think that playing college lacrosse translates pretty well into the corporate world," leading lacrosse star Garrett Billings tells CNN's Human to Hero series.
"College is a high-pressure environment and a lot of the people who play lacrosse go to very good schools.
"You have to stick to your books, study hard and get on with your work.
"With lacrosse you're working in a team environment, which is really beneficial when it comes to business."
The Virginia Lacrosse Alumni Network, to which Billings belongs, has helped hundreds of graduates reach Wall Street, while other schools boast similar systems.
Employers often look for the competitive edge which lacrosse players possess as key to their success.
"I have a bunch of friends who work on Wall Street and there's a big link between college and there," says Billings, who earns his living by playing lacrosse and coaching for Canada's Toronto Rock team.
"A lot of the guys go out of their way to help graduates from their old schools get a job.
"Lacrosse is big on Wall Street and has helped a lot of people."
While the "Lax Bros" continue to rule on Wall Street, Billings has trodden a different path away from the world of bankers and investors.
One of the most sport's most prolific goalscorers, the 28-year-old has been the standout player for the Toronto Rock over the past season -- though last weekend he suffered a serious knee injury that will rule him out until next year.
Billings, who runs the club's community program as part of his job during the week, has been one of the leading voices in promoting the sport in recent years.
Box lacrosse, which is played inside hockey arenas during the summer on artificial grass, has been gaining popularity across the U.S. and Canada.
Paul Rabil became the first lacrosse player to take his earnings from the sport to over $1 million after attracting a host of big name sponsors.
Rabil, who boasts one of the most powerful shots in lacrosse, has teamed up with the likes of Red Bull and Warrior as the sport's brand becomes more attractive to investors.
The growth of lacrosse and the rising profile of stars such as Rabil has convinced Billings that the sport is only going to get bigger and bigger.
"In the U.S. it's growing like wildfire," says Billings, who also plays field lacrosse in the summer.
"In Canada, it's a lot more of a natural progression, where it's basically you're signing up one kid at a time.
"That's what I do for the Toronto Rock, which is helping minor associations grow and try and help figure out how we can capture the same growth that's happening south of the border.
"I think it's happening and with the Toronto Rock being a high profile team and on television all the time, it helps that but there is work to be done."
Billings has spent his entire life in love with lacrosse.
He is only half-joking when he says "when I'm not playing lacrosse then he's usually thinking about lacrosse."
But this summer, he's got something else to think about -- his wedding.
Billings will marry fiancee Alicia Paglia on June 7 after proposing late last year -- a moment which was more terrifying than any he has faced on a lacrosse field.
"I proposed on Christmas Eve," he says. "Maybe it was a bit cliché but she didn't have a clue it was coming.
"I spoke to her dad the day before and we decided that I'd do it in front of the family when we were giving presents.
"She really wanted me to get her the box set of 'The Sopranos' but then with my last gift, I gave her the ring and asked her to marry me.
"I was pretty confident she'd say yes but that's the most nervous I've ever been. She had no idea whatsoever it was coming."
With his injury blow, Billings will have more time to plan his nuptials.
It didn't prevent him from becoming the first player in the history of the National Lacrosse League to register 100-point hauls (a combination of goals and assists) in three successive seasons, though he will miss the climax to the campaign.
"I couldn't have got luckier to play for the Toronto Rock because it was the team that I grew up watching," says Billings.
"I got to come here, play a lot and they've treated me great.
"We ended up winning a national championship and it's kind of a dream come true being able to play for these teams and accomplish the goals I've strived for my whole life."
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You might consider making a game night out of the experience. In October, I had the pleasure of meeting Carol and Mary Jane McPhee at a Toronto book festival. The two sisters have created a game called "LifeTimes: The Game of Reminiscence." The game consists of 125 cards with vintage photos and 500 "Remember?" prompts that invite storytelling and conversation. Currently, the game comes in a 1950's edition, and I am hoping the sisters expand it into other decades (although perhaps many of us will want the 60's kept secret!). Most of the prompts can be used for other time periods, as well, so even if you want to explore other decades, you can do it fairly well with the 50's set.
Each card has a general theme for the prompts. For example, the card that contains the saying "Be home when the street lights come on" has the following prompts: "What was your family's signal for bringing the kids in?" "Try and recall a game played by the children in your neighborhood," and "What were some fears parents had for their children? Are these fears different today?"
Carol and Mary Jane created the game to help their mother with memory loss. They wanted to develop a "positive tool" to get their mother "more relaxed and to a happy place." They soon found that the game resonated not only with their mother and other elderly persons, but with their friends and even younger generations.
I can envision so many ways a family historian can use these cards. They are excellent writing prompts for anyone writing their memoirs or personal essays. They are also great memory jogging tools. I have often found myself stymied when interviewing family members for movies or oral histories. Some relatives close up like clams, and the questions on these cards are sure to pry some interesting stories out of them. I like reading over some of the cards in private and losing myself down memory lane.
The game is available to order online, and can be shipped to Canada and the USA.
(Disclaimer: I am not associated in any way with LifeTimes or the McPhee sisters, nor have I received any payment or reward for this review).


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Q: Does LeTourneau University have student housing?
A: Yes, LETU provides residence halls with several options students can choose from.
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LETU also offers a housing option for international students known as I-House. I-House is a multi-cultural living environment that fosters cultural awareness among the LeTourneau student body.
Q: Where is LeTourneau located?
A: Our 162-acre campus is located in Longview, Texas, which is located two hours east of Dallas and one hour west of Shreveport, Louisiana. To learn more about Longview, click here.
Q: Are there places for shopping in Longview?
A: Yes, there are places like the Longview Mall, Longview Main Street, and Walmart, all within 15~20 minutes drive.
Q: What is the weather like in Longview?
A: The Longview region is humid (70%) all year. In the summer, the temperature reaches to about 95°F (35°C), . In the winter, the temperature drops down to about 34°F (1°C). So please bring both summer clothes and a couple of winter jackets.
Q: Can I work as a student?
A: Yes, a number of on-campus jobs are available to LeTourneau students who are qualified and successfully apply for such positions. Note that for international students with F-1 visas, employment is limited to campus jobs only.
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