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The resolution was perhaps as shocking as the crime itself: Ten years ago, Elizabeth Smart was found alive nine months after a religious zealot in search of plural wives kidnapped the 14-year-old from her Salt Lake City home.

Most people likely thought she was dead, although Elizabeth's parents never publicly expressed anything but confidence that their daughter would come home.

Many Utahns remember exactly where they were when they heard the astonishing news that Elizabeth had been rescued. But a few were in the middle of this uniquely Utah drama.

'Thou sayest' When Sandy police Sgt. Victor Quezada heard from dispatchers that two couples had possibly spotted Elizabeth on a Sandy street, he didn't think much of it: Nearly every agency in the Salt Lake Valley had received a false alarm about the missing teen.

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Elizabeth Smart speaks to reporters regarding her advocacy of child protection and the healing process she has experienced, prior to her presentation at the Child Sexual Abuse Conference, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in State College, Pa. Smart was abducted in 2002 and held prisoner for nine months before being reunited with her family. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)

But this call - that the girl was with another woman and a man who looked like the suspected kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell - seemed more legitimate, Quezada said Monday.

"I had my doubts that it was going to be anything, to be honest," he said. "But when I first pulled up, the first thing I fixated on was him. He looked just like the guy."

Quezada, now a lieutenant with Sandy police, was the fourth officer on the scene near 10200 S. State St., after Karen Jones, Troy Rasmussen and Bill O'Neal.

The officers separated the trio, O'Neal said, and took Elizabeth about 50 yards away from Mitchell. She looked familiar, he said, maybe a kid he had interacted with in the past. Then he looked at her smile, at her teeth, and it hit him: This was Elizabeth Smart.

But Elizabeth, wearing large sunglasses and a wig, repeatedly denied she was the missing girl.

"Her heart was beating so hard in her chest, you could see it," said O'Neal, now a Sandy police captain. "She was extremely nervous, visibly nervous."

But after 30 minutes, Quezada said, his patience was wearing thin.

"I was actually getting frustrated out there," Quezada said. "It's been 30 or 40 minutes, and we know she's not telling us the truth. But, on the other hand, she's been through an ordeal that we can't even imagine. So my frustration was, we have the answer, but just tell me the answer. And she wouldn't do that. And at the very end, I said, 'You know, for your family's sake, for your sake, for everybody that's been looking for you around the country, just tell us you're Elizabeth Smart.' Before she got into the patrol car, she said, 'Thou sayest.' "

Quezada said he and O'Neal looked at each other and decided to "take that as a yes."

Quezada and O'Neal said their actions on that March day they weren't necessarily heroic or extraordinary. They were just street officers doing basic police work.

The officers said they have followed Elizabeth's case, from Mitchell's 2010 trial to seeing her grow into a young woman.

"I'm glad that [Mitchell] was found guilty," Quezada said. "Bigger than that, though, I'm glad she's OK and that she's functioning, from what I understand, a normal lifestyle. She shouldn't be robbed of another minute by what happened and let him win. I'm happy for that."

Spotted Sandy residents Alvin Dickerson and his wife, Anita, were running errands on March 12, 2003, when he spotted a homeless man and two women. When they drove past the trio a second time, something about the man's face jogged Dickerson's memory.

Half-kidding, he told his wife that the man looked like the street preacher suspected in Elizabeth's June 5, 2002 disappearance.

"It was Mitchell [I recognized]," Dickerson said recently. "You didn't recognize the other two at all. Especially Elizabeth, the way she was dressed. I hate to say this, but I think everybody thought she was dead, except her father."

Dickerson said he pulled into a nearby Kinko's. When his wife left the shop, she came within 20 feet of the figures. He could tell she knew the man was Mitchell, Dickerson said. "She kind of got this electrified look on her face."

The couple called police, then returned home. Dickerson said he "halfway forgot" about the incident until he heard the phone ring and his wife answer. "I kind of heard a scream," Dickerson said. "She was really excited that [police] told her it was [Elizabeth]. I still get chill-bumps thinking about it - seeing that look on her face."

Dickerson said that in the last 10 years, he hasn't thought much about the case, although his wife testified at Mitchell's trial.

Jurors convicted Mitchell, now 59, of kidnapping and transporting a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity. He is serving life sentence in an Arizona federal prison. His wife and accomplice, Wanda Barzee, now 67, pleaded guilty to kidnapping Elizabeth and attempting to kidnap her teenage cousin and is serving a 15-year term at a Texas federal prison.

"I'm glad it turned out the way it did," Dickerson said. "It seemed she [Smart] turned her life way around. I'm just glad for that, really."

The search The news that a child had been abducted from her bed in the middle of the night horrified many Utahns. Marianne Ogaard, of Sandy, was among thousands of volunteers who combed the state to hunt for her..

"I have two daughters who weren't too much older than Elizabeth Smart at the time," Ogaard said recently. "But more than anything, it was just that whole community outreach, and 'How could this happen?' "

Ogaard said she went with a group of about 10 or 15 to the rural town of Randolph in northern Utah, where they knocked on doors, looked through fields and poked inside garages. But they never found anything, Ogaard said.

"We were very thorough," Ogaard said. "Of course, you hold on to that glimmer of hope. Nearly a year later, when I found out she was safe, I had not thought that was going to be the outcome, after so long."

Ogaard said she was grateful when she heard that Elizabeth had been found on a Sandy street, but that the news was unexpected.

"I think the majority of people had kind of the thinking of, 'I'm not sure we'll ever see her again,' " she said. Ogaard said that since Elizabeth's rescue, she has continued to follow the case.

"Here is this unbelievable, unexpected outcome that happens, and now, you wonder what this girl's life is going to like," she said. "Is she going to be traumatized? Is she going to have a lot of contradictive parts of her life? Is she going to pick up and run with it?"

During the court proceedings, the ugly details about Elizabeth's abduction and abuse became painfully public. After taking her at knifepoint from her bed, Mitchell marched her to a makeshift camp in the foothills near her home.

There, the Mitchell and Barzee performed a "wedding" ceremony. The next morning, Mitchell raped Elizabeth - something that would happen almost daily during the next nine months as the trio traveled from Utah to California and back. Elizabeth later testified she was told that any attempt to escape would mean death for her and her family.

Mitchell claimed he was commanded by God to take Elizabeth and six other young girls as plural wives. He believed the LDS Church had lost its way and become wicked by abandoning polygamy and claimed he would guide the church back to the correct path.

At Mitchell's 2010 trial in federal court, his defense attorneys claimed he was severely mentally ill and delusional, and argued he should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. But prosecutors claimed Mitchell was merely a pedophile and a panhandler who used religion to get money, sex and alcohol.

Ogaard is impressed by what Elizabeth has accomplished, given what she endured.

" It's been pretty amazing, I think, what she's done," Ogaard said. "I'm not sure everyone can do that."

Coming home Ed Smart got a call on the afternoon of March, 12, 2003, from Salt Lake City police Detective Cordon Parks, who told him, without saying why, that he should get to the Sandy police department as quickly as possible.

With a knot in his stomach, Smart headed out, feeling "something significant" might be about to happen but trying to temper his emotions because of previous false alarms.

The previous October, Elizabeth's younger sister, Mary Katherine, had been leafing through a Guinness Book of Records when she suddenly remembered that the man who took Elizabeth might be "Immanuel," a homeless handyman who had worked for a day at their home in November 2001.

The night of the abduction, Mary Katherine, then 9, had feigned sleep and told her parents about the kidnapping two hours later.

Following Mary Katherine's revelation, she described the man for a sketch artist. But Salt Lake City police refused to publicize it, fearing it might harm the investigation.

But in mid-February, police released the sketch of Immanuel to the Smarts, who decided to publicize it, despite police concerns. Showings of the sketch on "America's Most Wanted" generated phone calls from citizens, as well as from Mitchell's step-children.

During his drive to Sandy that March day, Smart got a call from family spokesman Chris Thomas, who told him, "They think they've found Elizabeth." When Smart arrived at the police station, Parks directed him to a room where a sunburned young woman sat on a sofa.

"I thought, 'She looks a lot like Elizabeth, but more mature,' " Smart recalled. "She'd changed so much."

"I ran over and grabbed her and, of course, I was crying," Smart said. "Then I held her back because she was not responding like I thought she should."

"Is it really you, Elizabeth?" he asked.

"Yes, Dad," the girl replied.

"And then she started crying," Smart recalled, "and I knew I had her back."

Later that day, Smart said, his street was jammed with an almost impenetrable mass of neighbors, well-wishers and media, and all the fences and trees were festooned with ribbons and balloons.

The summer that followed Elizabeth's return was "craziness," Smart said, as he was approached by people wanting to write books and make movies. Elizabeth's parents penned their own book in 2003, Bringing Elizabeth Home, which later served as material for a 2003 made-for-TV movie that originally aired on CBS. In 2005, Elizabeth's uncle, Tom Smart, wrote the book, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation. Elizabeth's memoir will be the third book written by a member of the Smart family detailing her kidnapping.

'She's happy' Elizabeth is now a married 25-year-old.

"She's happy. She's happily married. You can't beat that," said her mother, Lois Smart.

An accomplished harp player, Elizabeth has been working on a degree in music from Brigham Young University, and a book of her memoirs is set to be published in September.

She also created the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to raise awareness about predatory child crimes. And she devotes time to speaking publicly about child protection issues and overcoming adversity, often calling upon her own experience as a survivor.

"We all have our trials in life and a lot of times they look like Mount Everest and we wish we could hibernate but that's not how life works," she told The Salt Lake Tribune last week.

Elizabeth said her child advocacy work is a way to turn the bad things that happened to her into something good, as well as repay the community for bringing her home.

"I feel like I've been so blessed and I feel like I've been given so much in my life, I want to reciprocate on some level," she said.

She called March 12, 2003, "a wonderful day" because she was reunited with her family.

"My family has always been the most important part of my life and that day was more of a new beginning than an ending," she said. "I still talk to my parents on a daily basis, if not multiple times a day."

Advocacy The kidnapping put the Smart family in the spotlight, and they have made the most of that celebrity to promote child safety.

Ed Smart has advocated for a nationwide Amber Alert program. And in 2006, Elizabeth and her father lobbied Congress to pass a law to create a national sex-offender registry. Elizabeth watched President George W. Bush sign the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act into law.

"We've tried to reach out and help others because we know how critical it was in our case," Ed Smart said. "The not-knowing is the worst thing of all. Is she alive. Is she well. Is she being taken care of ... It's an open wound that doesn't heal."

In 2008, Elizabeth shared her experience and words of encouragement in a booklet published by the U.S. Department of Justice, "You're Not Alone," for survivors of abduction.

Elizabeth sent a letter to President Barack Obama in November 2011 asking for more funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which investigates sexual exploitation of children on the Web. She also asked the president to declare a "national emergency" and allot resources for a "massive search and rescue operation" to help children trapped in abusive situations.

The Smarts are also staunch advocates of radKIDS (Resisting Aggression Defensively KIDS), a program that teaches children about calling 911 and making defensive moves towards attackers. In December 2011, Elizabeth announced a partnership between radKIDS and her newly formed Elizabeth Smart Foundation.


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I recently drove them home from the amusement park and had to keep the windows all the way down the whole way. Whenever Alexis is at my house, I have to Febreeze the couches after she leaves. This past weekend, my husband and I told our daughter that Alexis couldn't come over to watch a movie with us because we literally couldn't stand to be in the same room with her. You can smell her from a solid 10 feet away. It's really gross.
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Michel Sidibe warned that despite the progress, it is too early to say 'mission accomplished' [GALLO/GETTY]

The number of new cases of HIV/Aids has dropped by about one-fifth over the past decade, although millions of people still lack access to new methods of prevention and treatment.

In 2009, 2.6 million people contracted the HIV virus that causes Aids, down 19 per cent from the 3.1 million recorded in 2001, UNAids, the United Nation's agency spearheading the campaign, announced on Tuesday.

While positive about the growing impact prevention measures and treatment are having on the Aids epidemic, the UNAids' 2010 global report on the Aids epidemic also highlighted the dangers of backslide.

"Fifty-six nations around the world have stabilised or significantly reduced infections," Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAids, said.

"We have halted and begun to reverse the epidemic. Fewer people are becoming infected with HIV and fewer people are dying from Aids.

"However we are not yet in a position to say 'mission accomplished'."

The report showed that treatment has made huge inroads in the past five years.

About 5.2 million people in poor countries had access to costly lifesaving antiretroviral medicine in poor countries last year, compared to 700,000 in 2004.

HIV/Aids in figures

 33.3 million people worldwide were living with HIV in 2009

 In eastern Europe and central Asia, the number of people with the virus has almost tripled over the past decade

 Around 10 million people who need antiretrovirals do not have them

 Aids-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africafell by 20 percent over the past five years

 The annual death toll  in Asia has grown to 300,000

However, overall "demand is outstripping supply," Sidibe warned.

And this trend could continue -  investment against HIV/Aids stopped growing for the first time last year.

"If we stop financing, the five million people who are under treatment will start to die," he warned.

An estimated 10 million people who need antiretrovirals do not have them, while "stigma, discrimination, and bad laws continue to place roadblocks for people living with HIV and people on the margins" of society, he said.

The report found that epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, the worst hit region, were declining or stable.

Aids-related deaths there fell by 20 per cent over the past five years, while the number of people living with the HIV declined from an estimated 2.2 million to 1.8 million.

In South Africa, which has more people than any other country with the virus that causes Aids, the report says new infections have reduced by more than 25 per cent in the same time period.

Sheila Tlou, UNAids regional director for sub-Saharan Africa, says the drop in Africa is because of increased condom use, abstinence and improved awareness of AIDS.

"The efforts of anti-retroviral therapy are really evident, especially in our region of the world, sub-Saharan Africa, where because of access we have seen 20 per cent fewer deaths related to HIV than in 2004," she said.

Yet across sub-Saharan Africa, 22.5 million people are still living with HIV, more than any other region in the world, and 68 per cent of the global total of 33.3 million people, UNAids found.

'Significant' progress

In Asia, HIV stabilised at a caseload of about 4.9 million, with "significant" progress on tackling mother-to-child transmission, when pregnant women pass on the virus to their babies, UNAids said.

In India, Nepal and Thailand the rate of new infections fell by more than one-quarter.

However, the annual death toll has grown by about 50,000 to 300,000 in Asia over a decade. The pattern of disease within highly populated countries such as China and Indonesia can vary significantly.

The biggest inroads were found in North America and west and central Europe, with a 30 per cent decline in the caseload over a decade.

But new infections rose there slightly last year and UNAidsS signalled a resurgence of the epidemic among male homosexuals due to unprotected sex.

In eastern Europe and central Asia, the number of people with the virus has almost tripled over the past decade to reach about 1.4 million, while deaths grew fourfold.

Russia and Ukraine account for nearly 90 per cent of new infections in the region.

Scientific breakthrough

In news that promises to reinforce the wider "prevention revolution" heralded by Sidibe, a daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug reduced the number of HIV infections among sexually active gay men by 44 per cent, in what scientists claimed on Tuesday is the latest breakthrough in the fight to further stem the virus's spread.

The study of the pill Truvada was conducted by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDP) and involved 2,500 gay and bisexual men, and 29 transgender women.

Participants between the ages of 18 and 67 were drawn from six countries, including Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, South Africa, Thailand and the US.

Its authors urge people to wait for guidelines on how to use the drug safely and effectively. Condoms and safe sex remain the best ways to prevent Aids transmission, they warned.

The results will be published in the November 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study follows the ground-breaking results earlier this year for a microbicide gel that could help women protect themselves.

All participants in the CDP trials were given counselling on preventing the spread of the virus as well as condoms and medical care for other sexually-transmitted diseases during the course of the study.

The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases sponsored much of the study, with additional funds provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

California-based Gilead Sciences, which makes Truvada, donated the drugs used.

Gay men are one of the most at-risk groups for HIV in the United States, accounting for more than half of the 56,000 new infections each year. One in five gay men living in 21 major US cities is infected with HIV and nearly half are unaware of it, according to a separate study by the CDP that was published in September.

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The UN secretary-general has offered to mobilise additional international help for Israel in its battle to contain massive forest fires that have engulfed the country's north, and have killed at least 41 people.

Ban Ki-moon's announcement comes after Turkey and Greece were among several countries to offer assistance, in response to an urgent appeal by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.

"This is a terrible tragedy," Ban said in a letter to Netanyahu which was released by the Israeli mission.

The UN leader offered help "mobilising further support" from other United Nations members to battle the blaze on Mount Carmel which now threatens the port of Haifa.

"I am deeply saddened by the loss of life, suffering, human displacement and damage to nature," Ban said.

He also praised the courage of Israeli emergency workers and the "generous international assistance" already sent.

A plane and a helicopter from Cyprus and two British helicopters have been sent to help fight the enormous blaze from above, while a group of Jordanian firefighters tackled the flames on the ground.

Bulgaria, Russia Egypt, Azerbaijan, Spain, Croatia and France have also offered contributions.

The aircraft repeatedly swooped over Israeli forests, dumping tonnes of sea water onto the flames below, but officials say the blaze was still out of control more than two days after it started

Israel, which has a formidable air force, has no firefighting aircraft of its own.

The largest fire in the country's history scorched more than 7,000 acres of drought-afflicted land, destroyed houses and revealed dramatic shortcomings in the country's ability to tackle such an emergency.

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More than 13,000 people have been evacuated following the disaster.

Israel has only 1,500 firefighters, a number widely accepted as inadequate for a country of 7.6 million people.

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from the outskirts of Haifa, said that some residents are returning to their homes.

"Despite the continued threat, some are returning, but the authorities are trying to convince them to leave, and some are even being forced to leave," he said.

Major General Nachustan, who is heading co-ordinating international rescue efforts, said he hoped the planes "will be a significant contribution to the fight against the fire".

"These are airplanes that have the capacity which we don't have in this country and we hope to put them into operation very soon."

It was not immediately clear what started the huge fire, but police said on Friday that arson was suspected in two smaller fires that were burning nearby.

Israel has experienced unseasonably hot weather for months and it was the driest November in 60 years.

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Republicans and Democrats are still debating a deal to lift the US debt ceiling in order to avoid defaulting on its payments. Congress must raise the $14.3 trillion limit on US borrowing by August 2 or the government will run out of money to pay its bills.

The US government reached its debt limit in May, and since then the treasury department has used special measures to allow the government to keep paying its bills.

But unless the limit is raised by August 2, the treasury says growing spending and debt service commitments will force a default, which would have disastrous ripple effects throughout the global financial system.

But, with time running out to reach a deal, both Democrats and Republicans have refused to budge from their positions. Republicans want spending cuts to balance the budget, which will affect Obama's social security programmes, while Democrats insist on taxing wealthy Americans.

So, just how far apart are they and what will it mean if the world's biggest economy defaults on its debts?

Inside Story, with presenter Hazem Sika, discusses with Jason Johnson, a professor of political science and author of Political Consultants and Campaigns: One day to sell and David Cohen, the director of Asian Economic Forecasting for Action Economics, an independent market analysis firm.

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A remarkable event following the collapse of Apartheid in South Africa was the effort at truth and reconciliation.

It was meant to lay the foundations to build a multi-racial, multi-cultural society free of the injustice of racism. But how effective was it?

What challenges have South Africans faced in trying to tackle the legacy of discrimination, poverty and unemployment? Where has it left the infrastructure, health care and education system?

Riz Khan speaks with Cape Town mayor and Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille about the future of South Africa.

Before entering politics, Zille was active in Apartheid opposition groups and it was her investigative reporting that uncovered the truth about the murder of anti-Apartheid activist Steven Biko.

Also joining the programme is Aids activist Zackie Achmat. At the age of 14 Zackie found himself imprisoned for trying to force a student boycott by setting fire to his school during the Sowehto uprising.

A longtime member of the ANC he has been critical of the Mbeki government's Aids policies and has been very outspoken about the recent sacking of the country's deputy health minister.

We ask: "How will South Africa find its way forward and will it include all the people of the 'Rainbow Nation'?"

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Guide sentenced for illegal wolf killings

MCGRATH: David Haeg will appeal, forfeits license.

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Published: October 1, 2005

A Soldotna big-game guide convicted of illegally killing wolves while working with the state on a predator control program near McGrath has been ordered to forfeit his guiding license for five years, officials said Friday.

David Haeg, 39, was also sentenced to 35 days in jail, fined $6,000 and ordered to forfeit his plane to the government. But those and other penalties -- everything but the loss of his license -- have been put on hold by the court pending an appeal, according to Mark Morones, a spokesman for the state Department of Law.

The sentence, handed down Thursday in McGrath, stems from a March 2004 investigation in the areas of the Swift, Stony and Big rivers. The Alaska State Troopers found that Haeg killed nine wolves in the area by shooting them from his aircraft and then falsely reported the location of the killings to state wildlife officials who had hired him to kill the animals only within a prescribed zone.

A McGrath jury in July found Haeg guilty of five counts of knowingly taking nine wolves the same day he was airborne, two counts of unlawful possession of illegally taken game, one count of unsworn falsification and one count of trapping wolverines during a closed season.

The total sentence handed down this week was 570 days with 535 suspended and a $19,500 fine with $13,500 suspended, Morones said.

Haeg was also placed on probation for seven years and ordered to pay restitution of $4,500 for the illegally taken wolves. The court said he had to turn over the hides of the animals, the guns used to kill them and the airplane involved -- a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser, according to Morones.

Efforts to contact Haeg on Friday for comment were unsuccessful.

In an unrelated case, Haeg's guiding service, Dave Haeg's Alaskan Hunts, was also involved in a fatal hunting accident in August near Anchorage that killed a Pennsylvania man.

According to troopers, Haeg and an assistant took the East Coast client on a bear hunt across Cook Inlet. The Pennsylvania man shot and wounded a bear, troopers said, but did not kill it. Haeg told his assistant to shoot the animal again. But just as the assistant fired, the Pennsylvania man stood up in the path of the bullet. He was shot in the head and died at the scene.

The shooting was deemed an accident and no charges were filed, troopers pokesman Tim DeSpain said Friday.

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"Perhaps it is a peculiarity of mine that... I have always preferred playing without an audience." —Bill Evans (1929-1980)

I used to play the piano. Quite a bit, in fact—and I even got paid for it, sometimes. I started taking lessons when I was 11 years old, and ended up playing in rock 'n' roll garage bands during the 1960s, "fusion" groups during the 70s, top-40 bands during the 80s, and jazz combos during the 90s. I've played solo, in duos, trios, quartets, quintets and octets. I've played on Farfisas and Hammonds, Wurtlitzers and Fender-Rhodeses, and I've done it in gymnasiums, nightclubs, auditoriums, church basements, bowling alleys, coffee shops and bookstores.

These days, once every proverbial blue moon, if no one else is around, I may sit down at the sad, broken-down, out-of-tune spinet in the basement and dither out something by Horace Silver or Dave Brubeck or Chick Corea. But the several non-functioning notes (some of them critical) are frustrating, particularly to a harmonic-minded player. And the broken surfaces of the keys themselves—which, in many cases are exposed down to their wooden cores—can be rough on the fingernails, even drawing blood if I permit myself to become intoxicated by my own exuberance. As for the foot pedals ... well, the less said the better...

As with most things, the stage was set in my youth. Parents can never really determine the direction their children take once they have set them in motion. My musical development is a wonderful example. Although my mother envisioned me playing "Pomp and Circumstance" and other decorous pieces on the spinet in the dining room ("Must you play that awful Bartok?"), leave it to an adolescent to follow the influence of his peers instead.

While several of my buddies were taking up the guitar, bass or drums, in response to the then-ascendant British Invasion, I was reduced to nerdhood, as usual, by my mother's insistence that I take up the piano. Like the protagonist of a Greek tragedy, my fate had been written in the stars long before my birth.

My mother, a genuinely musical woman blessed with a beautiful singing voice, was a frustrated pianist who felt cheated out of her chance to play the instrument. Although her sisters had been given lessons when they were girls (for a year or two, before they started waitressing in my grandfather's restaurant), my mother's turn came along at a very bad time: the death of her oldest brother.

Now when a Greek household goes into mourning—especially over the death of an eldest son—it REALLY goes into mourning. For a year, there was no radio, no card-playing... and the piano was draped in black. By the time the mourning was over, my mother's window of opportunity to take piano lessons had passed, and it was time for her to start waitressing after school in Papou's greasy spoon (where, incidentally, she met my father).

So it was my mother's idea to have me take piano lessons. But it was my father who gave me the hands for it. Pater Familias was vain about his hands, with their long, sculpted fingers, as he was about his appearance generally. In his younger days, by all accounts, he was something of a dashing young zoot-suited blade in the jitterbugging dancehalls of Youngstown, Ohio, where he evidently cut quite a dashing figure. He always remained something of a clotheshorse and ever-fancied himself a devastating charmer of the ladies. Over the course of his lifetime, a great many pairs of feminine eyes were rolled behind his back—but he did receive a great many compliments from women about his hands.

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The All Children's Hospital Foundation has bestowed its highest honor upon Allen W. Root, M.D. with the 2012 William Belcher Award. Dr. Allen RootWilliam S. "Bill" Belcher was the first All Children's Hospital Board chairman and a tireless advocate on behalf of All Children's and our patients. After Bill died in 1992, the Foundation created the William Belcher Award to honor his legacy. The Award is given to an individual who represents the leadership, commitment and passionate advocacy that Bill exemplified. Dr. Root has been a member of the All Children's faculty for 39 years. His passion and dedication have helped to advance All Children's mission and benefited children all across Florida.

Dr. Root and his wife, Janet, arrived at All Children's in 1973 along with their three children. Previously on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, Dr. Root was recruited to establish a pediatric endocrinology program at All Children's Hospital and to lead the University Teaching Service, training the second- and third-year USF pediatric residents who rotated through the Hospital.

"In addition to our full-time faculty there was an extensive cadre of excellent community pediatricians who made the commitment to serve as volunteer faculty and help support the residency program," Dr. Root recalls. "They were absolutely terrific...everybody, I think, from the residents through the faculty, enjoyed that experience."

Dr. Root cared for thousands of young patients at All Children's Hospital over the years and made many contributions to clinical care, pediatric medical education and endocrine research (his first laboratory was located in the hospital's basement and affectionately dubbed "the Root Cellar").

He also made contributions to child health policy that benefited a generation of Florida's children. In 1979, he was appointed to the state's first Infant Screening Advisory Committee; at that time Florida screened only for PKU (now infants are screened for more than 40 congenital disorders). Dr. Root immediately advocated for screening for congenital hypothyroidism, which was added in 1980 and has since prevented mental retardation in thousands of Florida children. He also helped establish the neonatal screening program for congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Dr. Root chaired the Infant Screening Advisory Committee for 12 years and remained a member until 2011.

Dr. Root served as professor of pediatrics, associate and vice-chair of the Department of Pediatrics with the University of South Florida as well as director of the All Children's Hospital pediatric residency prior to its incorporation into the USF pediatric residency program.  He has been honored by USF with the Distinguished Service Award, the Professorial Excellence Award and the Joanne & Charles Fishel Distinguished Scientist Award.  At All Children's, he was given the Councill C. Rudolph Medical Staff Award for dedication to children's healthcare, and the ACH Resident of the Year Award and the Kuehnle Visiting Professorship in Pediatric Endocrinology were both established in his honor.

Having taught hundreds of pediatric residents over the years, Dr. Root inspired many of the pediatricians who serve our region's children. He was also a teacher and mentor to endocrinology fellows who now practice in Florida and beyond; some lead pediatric endocrinology programs across the globe, including in Seoul and Tel Aviv.

Back in 1973, it was a double rainbow in the sky over Tampa Bay that helped Dr. Root and his family decide to come to All Children's and St. Petersburg, where they flourished. He and Janet, a longtime educator, have three children who all were inspired to become physicians; daughter Jennifer Root Mayer, M.D. has been a member of All Children's medical staff since 1996.

Family is also the word that best describes his early years at All Children's Hospital, Dr. Root recalls. "I knew it had tremendous potential just by virtue of the enthusiasm and commitment of the people here, yet I could not have had any inkling of the extraordinary course it would take."

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  4. Use the glow-in-the-dark paint and fill in the very bottom part of the fire fly's bottom.
  5. Squeeze some white glue onto the wings and use your finger to spread the glue around into a thin layer. Shake some glitter onto the wings to make them sparkle.
  6. Use a black paint pen to draw eyes and smile onto the head.
  7. Use other paint pens (all colors) to decorate the body of your bug!
  8. Expose the finished fire fly to light and then take him into a darkened room and watch him glow just like the real thing!

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The group will be unveiling two part series of 'SPEED Dreaming of Polaris' with part 1 kicking off on January 6th through Mnet, followed by 'SPEED Lucky Guys' part 1 on the 7th through MBC Music, and 'SPEED Wild Story' on the 8th through SBS MTV. It is not clear at this point if the shows are all the same but titled differently for each station, or if they will be three separate shows.

The first parts are said to include BTS footage from their drama version of their blockbuster MV coming up with actors Kim Young Ho, Park Bo Young, Ji Chang Wook, Ha Suk Jin, and A Pink's Na Eun, and footage from their dance version as well. The second parts will include a small concert from SPEED and the story behind their emergency trip to Japan.

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I have a bad habit of “treating” myself to coffee and a breakfast treat on the days I commute to work. After waking up early and traveling many miles in the process, I try to justify spending money and lots of calories on a delicious bakery muffin. Treats are okay in moderation, but there is really no excuse to do this several times a week. My new goal is to create healthy breakfast items at home that make it easy for me to grab-and-go. I started out this challenge with a blueberry muffin recipe from The Old Farmer’s Almanac All-Seasons Garden Guide.

I took it upon myself to make sure that these muffins were extra satisfying by adding flax meal, chocolate chips, and walnuts. The result? An energy-packed breakfast muffin that allowed me to drive right past the bakery!

I used frozen blueberries that I had picked from our bush last summer, just sprinkling them on top of the muffins before I baked them. Next time, I’ll follow the directions, thaw the berries, and actually mix them into the batter.

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1 cup all-purpose flour
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1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup mashed ripe banana (about 1 large)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
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2/3 cup packed light-brown sugar
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Butter a 12-cup standard muffin pan or line the pan with baking cups. Set aside.

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IPA, please!

Postby Garzo » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:25 am

Is this just my silly head, or does this site not support IPA? We could have one of those BBCode thingies to tag IPA with an HTML span tag that would force silly browsers (well, Internet Explorer) to display IPA in a suitable font (even horrible Arial Unicode MS).

As this is a language site, IPA seems to good to overlook. The word of the day thing can then use a pronunciation guide that makes some sense, and we can write clearly about phonetics.

Is this anywhere near possible?
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Hear hear. Then again, is it asking too much if I say I want suprasegmental features too?

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Faced with a binary decision, I had to vote Yes instead of Probably. :wink:

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Postby anders » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:40 pm

I'm a fontomaniac. The more, the better, especially for far away languages. I had to reduce the number of registered fonts in this computer to 1100 plus, because some programs I use couldn't cope with the previous number. (I still keep those I weeded out, thousands perhaps, but in a separate folder.)

Not only would I appreciate a cople of IPA fonts, but I would be very happy to find details on what's avaliable now, and for example how to enter a š without having to create a separate document from which to copy the letter, and still not knowing if this SW will accept it.

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Postby tcward » Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:51 pm

The default font appears to support the IPA Extensions.

Andrew, I have 'Always allow HTML' marked YES in my profile, and yet when I am in the Post a Reply form, under the Options list to the lower left, HTML is OFF...

With HTML enabled, we would be able to post IPA characters to our hearts' content (with a little effort) by creating the HTML document in Word and posting the source.

Or... We could have a pop-up window with an IPA character map, where we double-clicked the character that we wanted to insert, one after the other, and then closed the pop-up when we were done. :)

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Postby tcward » Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:55 pm

Here's a very good website called IPA transcription systems for English, although at cursory glance it appears to indicate the proper character codes for the vast majority of IPA sounds.

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Is there any book that is able to teach you to read the IPA symbols adequately?
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Paramore attempt to combat scalpers by rolling out paperless ticketing for upcoming tour

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Paramore attempt to combat scalpers by rolling out paperless ticketing for upcoming tour

Paramore have posted a message, elaborating on how they are handling ticketing for their upcoming North American tour with Metric and Hellogoodbye.

In an effort to keep tickets affordable and accessible to their fans, something they "fight people about," and to combat scalpers, the band have implemented a paperless ticketing system for the best seats in each venue. They will additionally earmark further premium seats for Ticketmaster's Platinum Ticketing Program, which donates portions of proceeds to benefit school music programs and will also employ its own paperless ticketing system. By avoiding the use of physical tickets, scalpers are deterred from buying the best seats to resell, a longstanding issue for high-profile artists such as Paramore.

For more on the ticketing policy, which the band expects to implement for every tour going forward, check out Paramore's full announcement:

"Since day one, we have always made sure to put our fans first. Yeah, it probably sounds super cliche but honestly, we couldn't do this without you and we know that. You are just as much a part of Paramore as we are.

With past tours, we realized that not all of you are getting the access to the tickets we wanted you to have. We knew we had to address this issue for future tours. So, in doing that, we want to put this ticketing policy in place which will help explain how you can get your tickets to our shows.

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Alan Dugan (1923-2003) was an American poet. His poetry is known for its plain and direct language, though it is supported by technical skill; it is generally trenchant and ironic in its criticism of American life and received ideas, and in its frank sensuality alike. Dugan received many awards for his poetry.

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That big new house we bought? The rooms sat empty. The room I had planned to use as a nursery held empty boxes. Moving boxes, shipping boxes, boxes that held housewarming gifts – all empty. It hurt to even walk past that room. It didn’t matter that Alan and I had frozen embryos to preserve our dream. I felt like I would never have that family we had planned. I wondered if I could ever fill that room. As if breast cancer hadn’t taken enough.

People sometimes refer to their cancer experience as a gift.  Not me. At least not then. That big pink ribbon wrapped package was not for me. I clearly hadn’t registered for it. And I definitely couldn’t exchange it for better hair, the size 6 body I used to have, and the baby I wanted. And I certainly wouldn’t re-gift it, either. But maybe, just maybe – like the hideous bowl someone cared to give me for my wedding, the one I definitely did NOT ask for, my breast cancer experience is a part of me. And like that bowl, breast cancer sits on the shelf of my life, next to all the pretty crystal and china. It sticks out.  And it’s ugly. But I reach for it a whole lot more than I thought I would.  It’s a part of the collection now and I can’t give it back.

Somewhere in the middle of my ugly serving bowl of breast cancer, something in me switched. It was two years after my treatment that I realized I still could have that life that I had planned for. That maybe breast cancer didn’t have to keep me from the life I had dreamed of that New Year’s Eve. After careful consideration, discussion with my doctors and some help of modern medicine, I got pregnant. This was no small feat, considering I had ER-positive breast cancer and I had recently removed my ovaries. Yes, you read that right. At thirty-one years old, I was a POST menopausal woman who used her frozen embryos to get pregnant. I was always good at science fairs.

I conceived my son in the shadow of my breast cancer experience. He is a baby that was created before my treatment. A child that I waited 3 years to carry. Aidan is the happy ending that some days I thought would never come. He is the time I can point to my body and say, “This time you didn’t fail me. This time you got it right.” And when I walk past that room, instead of empty boxes, I see Goodnight Moon. Instead of discarded cardboard, I see the greatest gift of all, my son Aidan sleeping with his blankie.

Who knows what the future holds for me, or for the thousands of young survivors around the world? Having breast cancer was a defining moment in my life. It’s the line that separates me. Before Cancer and After. My son will never know mommy before breast cancer. What he will know, however, are the women who already love him like family. The women in the pink boas who swarmed him when he came with me to last year’s Conference for Young Women. The ones who are watching him grow up on Facebook. Watching these women with my child, knowing I spend my time protecting and working for them both; seeing their hope reflected in his smile… Maybe that’s the gift.

It is my hope that my baby will grow up never having to learn the lessons I did. Except for this: Other people need you. Help them where you can. Try to make them laugh. And it’s okay not to love pink. But you’d better get used to it.

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  1. Jeannie Cohen says:

    I read and appreciate your story of the wonderful gift of your son. I too had breast cancer in 1985 when I was 26 and then again in 2005. I wasn’t so lucky the second time in 2005. I was stage 2 and her2 positive. I had surgery that led to another breast removed. I couldn’t have reconstruction because of radiation and then chemo I had to do. I also had a complete hysterectomy in 2006 to avoid ovarian and uterine cancer. My husband and I never had children from the advise of the doctors due to the her2 positive. I’m 53 and regret sometime that we never had children. I’m now stage 4 breast cancer because it is now in my bones. I bless the treatment and the doctors for giving me the treatment that has kept me here. God has blessed you and your family. We don’t know what the future brings but you were blessed for not just your husbands love but your precious son. Just a FYI. A note from my husband. It’s important to ask how your husband feels and is handling something as scary as cancer and what it has done and may do to you. Husband’s are lost without their wives.

    • Shan says:

      Thank you for sharing your story, Jeannie. Not everyone has the same experience and it’s good for us to share our unique stories. Best wishes to you and your obviously adoring husband! :)

  2. Audrey Geddes says:

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