New Facebook for iOS Adds New Chat Features, Multiple Photo Uploads, and Gifts (Updated)

A new update to the iOS Facebook app rolls out today, and it's bringing some handy new features with it. Now, you'll finally be able to add friends to favorites, upload multiple pictures at a time, and as a bonus, you can swipe left anywhere to open up chat. More »

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Stay Away From These Home Improvement Pitfalls

A few easy and considerably small home renovations can greatly impact your home?s value. Actually, you can raise the value by thousands with a few updates. Here are some home improvement tips to help you begin.

Find a way to remove all of the debris. Debris left by home improvement projects can become annoying so you need to figure out how to deal with it. Ask for help from someone with a large truck or rent a dumpster to hold the debris you need to get rid of.

If you?re looking to start any type of home improvement project, a simple way to raise your house?s value is by painting its exteriors. A new paint coat makes everything look fresh. The effect of a fresh coat of paint in an exciting new shade simply cannot be underestimated.

Motion detection lighting can not only improve your home, but it can also save you cash and increase your overall security. These type of lights are only active when someone needs them, so you save money on electricity bills. This also means intruders will think twice about approaching any home with motion detection lights, in fear that they will be spotted.

Use aluminum foil to cover electrical outlets prior to painting. It is much easier to use foil, rather than tape, and it protects your covers from the mess. Plus, your cleanup is so much easier! Just let paint dry before removing the foil and recycling it for other purposes.

Remember that your bathroom needs to have plenty of ventilation to function properly. Humidity from taking showers can create environments where mold can spread and grow. Repainting the walls in your bathroom won?t get rid of the mold. The key is to prevent the mold from growing in the first place. Install a window or ventilation, to dehumidify your space.

Alway employ proper safety precautions. You have to think about wearing things like hardhats or goggles for the appropriate occasion. Safety glasses, hardhats and breathing masks help reduce the dangers associated with home improvement projects.

Your bathroom can be redecorated quickly and on the cheap. Simply replace the old towels, curtains and mats with new ones. You will change the look of the room right away. Plants are good in livening up any type of bathroom. Remember to choose the right one that can tolerate high humidity as well as low light requirements.

The advice shared here can help you save money that you don?t always need to give to a professional. These tips are sure to help you create the home that is perfect for you and your family. As long as you are willing to consider different options, such as the ones from this article, you are highly likely to enjoy success in your next home improvement project.

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Way to go! | Granville Recreation District

The Granville Cannibals (5th/6th Grade) won the League Championship by beating the previously undefeated Millersport Lakers. ?The Cannibals finished the season 7-2-1; their only losses coming to the Lakers during the regular season. ?The Championship game went into overtime deadlocked at 0. Seven minutes into the overtime Nate Massa took a pass from Shane Whitehead found the back of the net scoring the game?s only goal. ?Will Gilbert and Bradley Maag spearheaded a defense which didn?t allow a single goal throughout the tournament. ?Gabriel Valenzuela was in goal for much of the tournament and all of the Championship.

Team: (Back row, standing) Bradley Maag, Peter Collins, Charles Ziegert, Coach Teich, Calvin Teich, Millie Field, Nate Homan, Becky Miller (front row) Shane Whitehead, Geoffrey White, Morgan Mills, Anya Mitton-Fry, Mara Shields, Will Gilbert, Gabriel Valenzuela, Benjamin Gibson, Carl Greene, Mary Kate Hill, Nate Massa.

Photo Credit to Bryant Gilbert

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Windows ME to my way of thinking was Microsoft's first major attempt to kill off MS-DOS for good. Microsoft even says that you can't shutdown to MS-DOS:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262846

You can, however, restart to MS-DOS. All in all, I stay away from ME and stick with Win98SE.

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A fix to this was circulated as modifying the following registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\WinOldApp]
"NoRealMode"=dword:00000001

...and changing it to 0. I've never tried it.

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Italian PM: We will not desert Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Italy's prime minister pledged Sunday not to abandon Afghanistan as his country pulls out its troops, saying Rome will "transform" its support but not leave altogether.

Mario Monti met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Italian troops during the visit. Italy currently has about 3,500 troops in Afghanistan, most in the west of the country, and those are scheduled to leave by the end of 2014.

Monti told reporters that the pullout will not mean a break in his country's commitment. "We look forward to 2014 as a year of change but not as a year of rupture. Italy, like most other countries, will transform its support for Afghanistan, but will by no means leave Afghanistan alone," Monti told reporters in the capital city of Kabul. He noted that he and Karzai signed a partnership agreement in Rome in January for ongoing economic and development support.

Monti also said that he hoped the Afghan presidential election the same year will give the country a reason to celebrate progress. The previous presidential and parliamentary polls were marred by fraud and many Western governments are looking to the upcoming presidential vote for signs of whether the Afghan government is worth funding.

On his side, Karzai repeated a call to remove foreign observers from an election watchdog group that monitored fraud in previous votes. Karzai said putting foreigners in such a place of power threatens Afghanistan's national sovereignty.

It was this fraud monitoring panel ? called the Electoral Complaints Commission ? that identified nearly a third of the ballots cast for Karzai in 2009 as fraudulent, and the foreigners on the panel were seen as the driving force behind that decision.

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Mail-in ballots: the hanging chads of 2012?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sloppy signatures on mail-in ballots might prove to be the hanging chads of the 2012 election.

As Republicans and Democrats raise alarms about potential voter fraud and voter suppression, mail-in ballots have boomed as an uncontroversial form of convenient, inexpensive voting.

In the critical swing states of Ohio and Florida, more than a fifth of voters chose the mail-in option 2010. In Colorado, another battleground, the number was nearly two-thirds.

But there may be controversy to come. For a variety of reasons, mail-in ballots are much more likely to be rejected than conventional, in-person votes.

With the razor-close presidential election Tuesday between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney potentially riding on a few tens of thousands of votes in a handful of states, the election could be decided by election officials' judgments about mail-in ballot signatures.

"You would worry that in Florida, in particular, the new hanging chad becomes whether you count this absentee ballot or not based on whether the signature is right," said Charles Stewart III, co-director of the Voting Technology Project and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

The "hanging chad" made election history in 2000 when President George W. Bush won Florida, and in turn the presidency, by 537 votes after election officials debated which absentee ballots and punch ballots with hanging flaps to count.

"In the case of Florida, a lot of absentee ballots get rejected because of signature problems. That's open for mischief," said Stewart, noting that poll workers could favor one side or the other.

Mail-in voters typically have to request a ballot, fill it out when it arrives, put it in an envelope, seal it, sign it, put it in a second envelope and drop it in the mail.

At the elections office, the outer envelope is opened and the signature verified, and if it's judged to be valid the ballot goes into safe-keeping for counting.

IMPERFECT PROCESS

Many states attempt to contact the voter if there is any issue with the ballot. Election officials in states with deep experience in mail-in voting - especially Oregon and Washington state, which rely on it entirely - say they have honed the process to reduce invalid ballots to a minimum.

But in many other states the process is not as fast or simple as talking to someone at a polling station. National law requires equipment at voting stations that informs voters of ballot issues and lets them fix them; fix-it opportunities are not mandated for mail-in ballots.

As a result, mail-in ballot voters who manage to get a ballot to election officials are about four times more likely to see their vote go uncounted as those who vote in person, Stewart calculates.

Add in the number of ballots never sent to voters who request them and ballots that don't make it to the polling station, and approximately one in five mail-in votes may be lost, Stewart says.

How absentee ballots are counted can affect outcomes in the most important of races. Minnesota Senator Al Franken won his seat in 2008 by 312 votes after a fight over absentee ballots.

Jeff Clemens, a Democrat recently declared winner of a Palm Beach County Senate primary that had been the subject of several recounts and a court case due to alleged absentee ballot fraud, said Florida needs to reevaluate how it handles mail-in ballots.

"There's no question that the absentee ballot process as it stands is a potential disaster," he added.

COMFORTS OF HOME

Voters like the convenience of making decisions at their own pace, in their homes, and election officials say it costs less to operate a mail-in system. Officials say it also boosts turnout, especially in lower profile elections, when the fate of a school board official might justify a few minutes with the mail, but not an hour's trip down to a polling station.

But Ohio rejected more than 14,000 mail-in ballots in 2010, or 1.7 percent of those sent in domestically, and Florida rejected close to 18,000, or 1.4 percent, according to the federal Electoral Assistance Commission survey. Both topped the national average of 1.3 percent. In Colorado, rejected absentee ballots made up 0.43 percent of the total cast in the election.

In Colorado, where polls show a dead heat in the presidential election, officials' decisions about which ballots to reject could easily determine which way the state goes.

Some election researchers say vote-by-mail is inherently problematic, because it does away with the iron-clad guarantee of a secret ballot. That's a problem for an individual who wants privacy but can't get it, such as a partner in an abusive relationship. It also makes vote-buying much easier, since purchases can make sure they get what they buy.

That has not been much of a problem so far, but it has happened. In Miami, a mayor's race in 1997 was overturned by a court, which threw out 5,000 absentee ballots in the face of evidence of illegal activity including forgery and coercion.

"I think it is somewhat serious in actuality, and it's quite serious in potential," said Daniel Lowenstein, an election law specialist and emeritus professor of law at UCLA.

RIGHT WAY

So can vote-by-mail be done right? Election officials in Washington state and Oregon say the keys are to use statewide databases when registering voters, to train workers in forensics and manually check every signature and to contact voters whose ballots don't pass, giving them enough time to correct problems.

Oregon even sends pairs of voting assistance workers, from opposing parties, to nursing homes as a way to avoid such pressure. Oregon throws out half as many mail-in ballots as the states likely to determine the president this year.

Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown, who won her first state primary election by seven votes, argues that her system is better than a hybrid offering voters polling stations as well as mail-in ballots.

"One of the challenges for states that have both absentee and polling place elections is that there is a lack of consistency in the process," she said.

Oregon approved going to exclusively mail-in-ballots in 1998, and it has cut rejections to an average of 0.64 percent of ballots in the last five elections, Brown says.

Oregon turnout of registered voters in the 2008 presidential race was third in the nation at 85.7 percent, which the state says is the best measure of vote-by-mail's success.

Washington state came more recently to vote-by-mail. It rejected more than 2 of every 100 ballots in 2008. But the state cut that rate by a third in 2010, which State Elections Co-Director Shane Hamlin credited to massive voter education.

Signature issues and late ballots are the two main issues in Washington, like most states. "They are both totally fixable through education," he said.

In Ohio, more than a million absentee ballots have arrived at elections offices so far. Secretary of State spokesman Matt McClellan describes a long series of actions taken to ensure mail-in ballots are counted, including contacting voters whose ballots are problematic.

An Obama campaign spokesman acknowledged the importance of making sure mail-in ballots are handled properly and said the campaign would have observers in key areas. The Romney campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

McClellan said the state was trying to balance accuracy and access, a theme echoed in states across the country eager to raise participation rates and see mail-in as one way to do so.

"It fits the 21st century lifestyle," said Washington state Secretary of State Sam Reed.

(Additional reporting by Tom Brown in Miami; Editing by Jonathan Weber, Mary Milliken and Todd Eastham)

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Battered by storm, Staten Islanders feel forgotten

Sheila and Dominic Traina hug in front of their home which was demolished during Superstorm Sandy in Staten Island, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under fire for pressing ahead with the New York City Marathon. Some New Yorkers say holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and divert police and other important resources when many are still suffering from Superstorm Sandy. The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Sheila and Dominic Traina hug in front of their home which was demolished during Superstorm Sandy in Staten Island, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under fire for pressing ahead with the New York City Marathon. Some New Yorkers say holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and divert police and other important resources when many are still suffering from Superstorm Sandy. The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

James Traina climbs over the remains of his parent's house which was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in Staten Island, N.Y. Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under fire for pressing ahead with the New York City Marathon. Some New Yorkers say holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and divert police and other important resources when many are still suffering from Superstorm Sandy. The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

James Traina climbs over the remains of his parent's house which was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in Staten Island, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under fire for pressing ahead with the New York City Marathon. Some New Yorkers say holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and divert police and other important resources when many are still suffering from Superstorm Sandy. The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Members of the Traina family try to recover photographs and other personal items from the basement of Sheila and Dominic Traina's destroyed home in Staten Island, New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under fire for pressing ahead with the New York City Marathon. Some New Yorkers say holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and divert police and other important resources when many are still suffering from Superstorm Sandy. The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Walter Traina, 6, drags a model plane out of the rubble near his grandfather's garage in Staten Island, New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under fire for pressing ahead with the New York City Marathon. Some New Yorkers say holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and divert police and other important resources when many are still suffering from Superstorm Sandy. The course runs from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on hard-hit Staten Island to Central Park, sending runners through all five boroughs. The course will not be changed, since there was little damage along the route. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

(AP) ? Gazing at her bungalow, swept from its foundation and tossed across the street, Janice Clarkin wondered if help would ever come to this battered island off the coast of Manhattan.

"Do you see anybody here?" she asked, resignation etched on her face. "On the news, the mayor's congratulating the governor and the governor's congratulating the mayor. About what? People died."

Staten Island was devastated beyond recognition by superstorm Sandy and suffered the highest death toll of all of New York City's boroughs, including two young brothers who were swept from their mother's arms by the swirling sea and drowned. Yet days after the waters receded, residents feel ignored and forgotten.

That sense of isolation is deeply rooted on Staten Island, a tight-knit community that has long felt cut off from the bright lights of Manhattan.

"It's always been that way. We're a forgotten little island," said Catherine Friscia, who stood with tear-filled eyes across the street from the Atlantic Ocean in front of homes filled with water and where the air smelled like garbage and rotting fish.

"Nobody pays attention to any of us over here."

In the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, dazed survivors roamed Staten Island's sand-covered streets amid ruined bungalows sagging under the weight of water that rose to the rooftops. Their contents lay flung in the street: Mud-soaked couches, stuffed animals and mattresses formed towering piles of wreckage. Boats were tossed like toys into roadways.

Residents washed their muddy hands with bottled water and handed out sandwiches to neighbors as they sifted through the soggy wreckage of their homes, searching for anything that could be salvaged. Spray-painted on the plywood that covered the first floor of one flooded home were the words: "FEMA CALL ME."

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited Staten Island on Friday, touring a shelter and a Red Cross distribution center where storm victims lined up to get food, water and clothing. A short distance away, a long line of cars snaked down the street, waiting to get to one of the few gas stations with fuel.

"We know that Staten Island took a particularly hard hit from Sandy, so we want to make sure that the right resources are brought here as quickly as possible to help this community, which is so very strong, recover even more quickly," said Napolitano, who was joined by Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern and Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro ? who a day earlier had sharply criticized what he said was the Red Cross's inadequate response in Staten Island.

Sticking together in the aftermath of the storm has kept Staten Islanders who lost everything from completely falling apart. Self-reliance is in their blood just as the island's very geography lends itself to a feeling of isolation from the mainland: the only way to get on or off is by car, bus or ferry.

After the storm, residents who had evacuated had to wait four days until the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge finally reopened to the public.

Most of the deaths were clustered in beachfront neighborhoods exposed to the Atlantic Ocean along the island's southeastern shore, an area of cinderblock bungalows and condominiums. Many of these homes were built decades ago ? originally as summer cottages ? and were not constructed to withstand the power of a major storm.

Diane Fieros wept as she recalled how she and her family survived by huddling on the third floor of their home across the street from the ocean, watching as the waves slammed into the house and the water rose higher and higher, shooting through cracks in the floor. A few blocks away, several people drowned.

"The deck was moving, the house was moving," she said. "We thought we were going to die. We prayed. We all prayed."

Fieros rode out the storm with her two sons, her parents and other extended family members. She pointed to a black line on the house that marked where the water rose: at least 12 feet above the ground.

"I told them, 'We die, we die together,'" she said, her voice cracking. "You saw the waves coming. Oh my God."

The storm has reopened old frictions among local officials who maintain Staten Island's infrastructure remains inadequate and that it has little sway on City Council compared to the other, bigger boroughs. In 1997, Staten Islanders voted in favor of seceding from New York City and incorporating on its own, buoyed by a belief that the borough pays more in taxes than it receives in return and that it's typically put last on the list for city services.

Molinaro suggested earlier this week that people should not donate money to the American Red Cross because that relief agency had neglected his borough. On Friday, however, he praised the Red Cross response and said he had spoken in anger.

"You see what the Red Cross is doing here today. They got 11 trucks out here For four days, this borough was cut off. No bridges, no way of getting off or on. Sometimes you get frustrated, you get angry. So I got angry, I was frustrated. I think they're doing a good job," Molinaro said.

The controversy surrounding this weekend's New York City Marathon, which was cancelled Friday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had special resonance among Staten Islanders. The lucrative race begins on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and would have brought nearly 50,000 runners to an area not far from the Staten Island neighborhoods where people died.

Resident George Rosado, 52, who spent two days scrubbing a thick layer of sludge from his tiled floors and was preparing to demolish the water-logged walls of his home, found the idea repulsive. Except for a lone hospital van offering bottled water and power bars, Rosado had seen no federal, state or local agencies in his neighborhood, which sits about a block from the ocean.

"Nothing, nothing," he said, choking back tears. "We're hit hard. Homes are washed away. People are dying. Look around. You hear anything? It's quiet."

The city's tourism officials have long complained that Staten Island is the one borough that nobody wants to visit. But that has never bothered the half-million people who reside in this community, which is more suburban than urban and has a high concentration of police officers and firefighters.

It's a place families are drawn to by the allure of having their own backyard and raising their children in a small-town atmosphere.

"We were all around family, you know what I'm saying?" said 68-year-old Joseph Miley, Clarkin's cousin. "A person went away and there was always somebody here to watch their house, watch their animals."

In fact, so many relatives lived on the same street that they jokingly referred to it as "The Compound."

That's all been wiped out now. The family's mud-spattered possessions lie dumped on the street; their homes will be bulldozed.

Billy Hague, 30, described paddling around the neighborhood looking for his missing 85-year-old uncle, James Rossi, who refused to evacuate before the storm.

"I kayaked back to the house and broke the windows and got in the house trying to find him," he said. "I found the dog, but I didn't find him until the next day until the waters subsided."

Rossi was among the 19 Staten Islanders claimed by the storm. His dog also drowned.

Hague, Clarkin and other now-homeless family members are bunking with relatives who live on higher ground, just beyond the reach of the devastating ocean waves. They have no idea where they will live. They do not have the money to rebuild their homes.

But they have each other. Amid the debris and the broken glass and the uprooted trees, an American flag blew in the breeze. Clarkin waved a dismissive hand at the scene of destruction. She considers herself one of the lucky ones.

"People perished," she said. "This is stuff. That's all."

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Associated Press writers Eileen A.J. Connelly and Michael Rubinkam contributed to this report.

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AAFP Kicks Off Social Media Campaign of Thanksgiving -- AAFP ...

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In response, the Academy has developed a social media toolkit for family physicians that provides tools to help them get started with the campaign. The toolkit contains

  • a downloadable, ready-to-use campaign graphic that members can adopt as their profile picture on Facebook and Twitter during November;
  • user guides that explain the basics of social media and how to set up Facebook and Twitter accounts; and
  • sample Facebook posts and Twitter tweets from AAFP Connection that can be personalized and that refer the public to information about family medicine from the AAFP and on FamilyDoctor.org.

An example of a Facebook post suggested by the campaign is "Choosing a medical specialty is kind of like Thanksgiving. I chose family medicine because I enjoy caring for ALL body parts -- not just legs, thighs, necks or livers. Family physicians provide integrated health care by treating the whole person in the context of an ongoing physician-patient relationship. I'm not talking turkey!"

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KCSP's MAGUIRE HEADING TO PITTSBURGH | Bottom Line ...

Ryan Maguire, who took over the reins at sports talker 610 KCSP in 2009, will be leaving the?Entercom?station to become PD at CSB Radio?s KDKA-FM in Pittsburgh, according to All Access.com.

His first day will be November 26th at the station, which began in November 2, 1920 and is known as the world?s first commercially licensed radio station.

Maguire, 34, ?did not lack confidence when he joined KCSP in January 2009 after a 2 ?-year tenure as the program director at WSSP in Milwaukee.

?We are going to beat WHB. That?s not a prediction. That?s not a mission statement, but a fact and everyone needs to believe that,? Maguire, an admitted workaholic, said at the time to his staff.

While KCSP made a ratings run at perennial sports talk leader WHB for awhile, the station never was able to achieve that goal.

Maguire brought in young, aggressive talent such as Nick Wright, but it could not really dent WHB. In fact, Wright left for Houston and promptly bad-mouthed his former boss routinely in Tweets.

?I?m happy that 610 Sports Radio is a better place now than it was when I arrived here in January of 2009,? Maguire told Bottom Line.? The reason for that is because I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with some very talented people, both on the air and off.

?It was because of their efforts that this brand has improved over these last 4 years.? I?m grateful to our General Manager Dave Alpert, our cooperate team at Entercom and to all of the people I?ve had the opportunity to work with here in Kansas City.? I wish them all the very best and continued success.?

Maguire said he is glad to to be heading to Pittsburgh.

?Pittsburgh is closer to family and close friends of mine, and that was the biggest factor in my decision to take this new opportunity,? he says.? ?CBS Radio has built a very talented and successful radio station in 93.7, ?The Fan? and I?m excited at the challenge of helping them get to the next level.?

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?I?m thrilled to have the opportunity and privilege to be a part of SPORTSRADIO 93-7 THE FAN in PITTSBURGH,? said MAGUIRE.? ?Western PENNSYLVANIA is home to some of the most loyal and passionate fans in the country, and I?m looking forward to seeing KDKA continue to be a big part of their sports experience.?

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