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This year our fund raising party will take place on Saturday, December 3, 2011, commencing at 7pm, at Fairways Restaurant at Provo Golf Club. [3]

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Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and is one of the world’s wealthiest men. [1]

Note: Good images of Bill Gates that are in the public domain are amazingly hard to find. [2]

A selection of portraits and news photos of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. [3]

He and three fellow students (including future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) were banned for one summer after they were caught exploiting bugs in a computer operating system to obtain free computer time. [2]

William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. [3]

William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, and former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. [4]

On a vacation earlier this year, Bill and his family explored the magical Amazon Basin where their activities included climbing trees in the rainforest and swimming with freshwater dolphins. [...] Developing inexpensive, large-scale battery technology is the key to expanding our use of renewable energy sources. [5]

In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. [...] He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. [4]

1999)… Gates’s personal charitable initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has focused on global health issues, especially on preventing malaria and AIDS in poor countries… For their philanthropic activities, Time magazine named Bill and Melinda Gates (along with rock star and activist Bono) its Persons of the Year for 2005. [1]

Since leaving Microsoft, Gates continues his philanthropy and, among other projects, purchased the video rights to the Messenger Lectures series called The Character of Physical Law, given at Cornell University by Richard Feynman in 1964 and recorded by the BBC. [4]

Bill Gates’ mother-in-law is Mimi Gardner Gates (maiden name Neill), an American art historian and socialite who is Director of the Seattle Art Museum. [2]

Gates oversaw the invention and marketing of the MS-DOS operating system, the Windows operating interface, the Internet Explorer browser, and a multitude of other popular computer products. [1]

Bill and Melinda went to Tanzania recently to talk with scientific researchers, health care workers, and mothers about the effort to control and eradicate malaria. [5]

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[1] Bill Gates: Biography from Answers.com
[2] Bill Gates - a knol by David Blomstrom - Google
[3] Bill Gates: Chairman
[4] Bill Gates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] The Gates Notes

Halloween falls on a Sunday this year and some communities have moved their trick-or-treat times to Saturday. [1]

, caused widespread power failures and threatened to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating. [...] Trees, branches and power lines still littered roads and rail lines throughout the region, leading to a tough Monday morning commute for many. [2]

The kids from youngstown are dropped off in van loads and are left here without parental supervision. [3]

Oct. 29 at city hall, 17290 Roosevelt Road. [1]

Don’t the officials setting the hours think that most Parents and community member work till 5pm. [...] Are kids trick or treating in Starke, fl. [3]

Communities from Maryland to Maine that suffered through a tough winter last year followed by a series of floods and storms went into now-familiar emergency mode as shelters opened, inaccessible roads closed, regional transit was suspended or delayed, and local leaders urged caution. [2]

They dont say thank you dont say trick or treat or anything. [3]

Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor got 26 inches. [...] That led to limbs breaking off and contributed to the widespread power failures. [...] Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., who was grocery shopping Sunday morning in nearby Newtown at one of the few businesses open for miles, said she’s hoping the power will come back on in time for her husband’s Halloween tradition of playing “Young Frankenstein” on a giant screen in front of their house. [...] The snowstorm was blamed for at least 12 deaths, and states of emergency were declared in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and parts of New York. [2]

Newton Falls Man Shoots Self After Stand-Off With Police It happened Friday night after police said he threatened to shoot another man and then refused to drop his weapons. [...] I live in boardman in the euclid blvd area (off of midlothian, but way down toward the boardman indianola) and so many of us in this neighborhood have stopped handing out candy. [3]

Sources:
[1] Trick-or-treat times reminder | MLive.com
[2] Trick and treat: Schools closed in snowy Northeast - Yahoo! News
[3] Halloween Trick Or Treat Times 2011 - WKBN - 27 First News - Local …

Water management contractors working in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a giant Burmese python that had just consumed an adult deer. [1]

Contractors load the python that they were able to kill. [2]

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla.-Officials in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a 16-foot-long Burmese python that had just eaten an adult deer. [3]

– Officials in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a 16-foot-long Burmese python that had just eaten an adult deer. [4]

Hardin says the python had recently consumed a 76-pound female deer that had died. [5]

It was the largest python found in South Florida, said Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. [6]

He says it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north. [7]

Water management contractors working in the Florida Everglades captured and killed the giant Burmese python, which they said had just consumed an adult deer.Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, said workers found the snake on Thursday. [2]

Giant 16-Foot Python Found in Fla. [8]

The humongous, slithering snake devoured a 76-pound female deer right before the snake was captured and killed last Thursday in western Miami-Dade County in the Everglades. [9]

One of the Fla game managers figured there were probly around a 1000 in plastic tupperware containers that were just thrown in the Everglades by the wind. [10]

‘This is clearly an extreme event,’ Skip Snow, a python specialist at Everglades National Park who conducted the autopsy, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. [9]

Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, says workers found the snake on Thursday. [5]

Discover News based on what your friends are reading and publish your own reading activity. [7]

He added it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north. [8]

Sources:
[1] 16-foot python found in Everglades had consumed adult deer | The …
[2] 16-Foot Python Found In Florida Everglades ? CBS Miami
[3] 16-foot python found in Everglades had eaten deer - Article …
[4] AP News | Richmond Times-Dispatch
[5] 16-foot python in Everglades had eaten deer
[6] Deer-eating16-foot python killed in Florida - Chicago Sun-Times
[7] 16-foot python found in Everglades had eaten deer - Yahoo! News
[8] Giant 16-Foot Python Found in Fla. Everglades
[9] 16-Foot-Long Burmese Python Devours 76-Pound Deer | ABC News Blogs …
[10] 16-foot python eats entire Deer - Page 2 - Xfinity Community

The Indians are holding strategy meetings this week to decide whether or not they’ll exercise the 2012 contract options on Grady Sizemore and Fausto Carmona. [1]

The Cleveland Indians have reported declined Grady Sizemore’s option. [2]

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Indians declined OF Grady Sizemore’s $9 million option for 2012. [1]

News: Sizemore (knee) became a free agent Monday after the Indians declined their $9 million option on his contract for 2012, the team’s official Twitter feed reports. [4]

Sizemore, 29, batted just.224/.285/.442 with 10 home runs and 32 RBI in 71 games this season. [1]

In his first year back from microfracture surgery, Sizemore struggled to a.224/.285/.422 slash line and.302 wOBA in only 71 games. [2]

On June 27, 2002, Sizemore was part of a six-player trade between the Indians and the Expos. [5]

The 29-year-old batted just.224/.285/.422 with 10 homers, 32 RBI and zero stolen bases over 268 at-bats this season and just underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Monday, so it’s not an easy call. [1]

Gradius “Grady” Sizemore III (born August 2, 1982) is an American Major League Baseball center fielder who is currently a free agent. [5]

Indians make Sizemore a free agent: The Indians declined their 2012 option on OF Grady Sizemore on Monday, according to MLB.com. [6]

Montreal dealt Sizemore, along with Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips and Lee Stevens to Cleveland in exchange for Bartolo Col?n and Tim Drew. [5]

The Indians held strategy meetings earlier this week and may have concluded that the $9 million option on Sizemore was not an affordable risk, given the progression and versatility of Michael Brantley and Shin-Soo Choo. [1]

When speed is a big part of your game and you’ve fallen off to a stolen base every eight games since reaching the majors, you don’t have as much value as you once did. [...] That’s another seven players earning an estimated $21.7 million. [2]

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[1] Grady Sizemore - Cleveland Indians - 2011 Player Profile …
[2] Grady Sizemore Option Declined: 5 Reasons Why Cleveland Indians …
[3] Grady Sizemore Stats, News, Pictures, Bio, Videos - Cleveland …
[4] Grady Sizemore | Cleveland Indians | Stats, News, Pictures, News …
[5] Grady Sizemore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[6] Grady Sizemore Fantasy Baseball at CBSSports.com