OCR Text |
Show November 18, 1997 'y," i Page 7 The Dixie Sun ' " ' Features feature Editor: Jennie Squire Comdex convention vice Presidents and technical wizards of every company news services TRIBUNE that shapes the industry. There will be more than 100 seminars on all aspects of hundred thousand professionals will gather in Las Vegas this weekend for the opening of the worlds largest industy conference and exposition. Ten thousand new products will be announced during five days, said William Two computer Sell, show computing, he said. Hot works on the Internet. Corel will show Remagen, which enables operating systems like NT to be multi-userDVD will challenge CD Since they hold ROMs. seven times the content, they can deliver stereo audio and 3D as well as text and graphics. New notebooks with a DVD drive can show broadcast quality sales presentations. Intels new chips improve laptop speed and time. MMX based computers will become business tools as MPEG 2 compression makes it possible to s. director. chairman and Microsoft will Bill Gates, CEO of include products Java and anything that the show. Microsoft is expected to show beta versions of Windows 98 and NT release 5, which will add secure remote access for mobile keynote low-pow- computing. Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Novell will deliv- keynote on Wednesday. Novell is sponsoring the Connecting Points, worlds largest live production network. It will supply complimentary messaging between attendees, show updates, and access to the Internet. The Novell system will send and retrieve one million messages a day. Those who log on are eligible to win a 1997 Porche Boxter, or one of five Compaq computers, he said. CEOs of Barnes and Nobel, Cisco, Compaq, Dell 3 Com and Visa will also speak along with presidents, senior er a a manuals store and reference documents on multi-medi- a laptop. The Infrared Data Association will be pushing wireless technology. Popular on TV remotes for two decades, infrared is now used to communicate between computers and printers, digital cameras, phones, and hand held computers. The best products of the show will be recognized in competition sponsored by and PC Week Comdex Celebrity Concert Series National Adoption read the pro clamation declaring November as SUN NEWS SERVICES November is National Adoption Awareness Month. It is time for families, parent groups, agencies and other child advocates to educate the public about all the children who are waiting for adoption. In Utah, there are approximately 2,900 children who are in foster care and 300 children have a goal of Approximately adoption. 500 children were adopted in Utah last year. On Saturday, Nov. 8, from 3 to 7 pm. the Utah Adoption Council, in cooperation with the Utah of Natural Museum History, celebrated Utahs adoptive children and their families. Adopted children, adoptive families, birth parents, and children who are waiting for a permanent adoptive home, were honored during a day of fun The and exploration. Celebration began at 3 p.m. with craft making and interactive exhibits for the Adoption Awareness Month in Utah. Awards were presented to those who have made significant contributions to adoption in the past year. This celebration will begin the various festivities of Agencies Adoption throughout Utah to high- - "Complex regula- outdated tions, and assumptions, laws the stand in way of bringing these parents and children together." wrong-heade- d -- Hillary Clinton National Adoption Awareness Month. The statistics show the 20 of all are directly Americans associated with adoption through themselves or family relationships. One in every 50 Americans is These figures whole family. adopted. Roma Downey of show dramatically how Touched by an Angel read prevalent adoption is in the stories in the Story Corner United States. As wonderful as these and Governor Olene Walker 5T light Sumo C2BSC29 r rTi Of the 1,479 AIDS coses reported in Utah, involved men having sex with other s men? Protease inhibitors ore not the cure yet, HIV andor you are still at risk of contracting on how to information AIDS For from dying Utah the contact risk, Depoilrr ent reduce your two-third- of Health or your local health department. Utah Department of Health Thursday, Dec. 1 , 1997 ai 8:00 p.m. Dixie Center - Cox Performing Arts 1 i 1 800 537.1046 or 1.800.FON AIDS Confidential HIVAIDS testing and counseling available. "! erf Heoi- t- 1VW World's AIDS Day - Dec. 1st f- figures look, there are many children who continue to wait for adoption. In the past 30 years, the adoption process has changed framatically. A family does not have to be wealthy to adopt. The waiting time for some adoptions can be under one year. There are many children waiting for someone they can call Mom and Dad. These kids are as varied as the families who are wanting to adopt a child. In an effort to make adoption easier, Hillary wrote Clinton that, instead of yelling at one another about abortion, we should spend our energy making adoptions easier. The first lady said that while 450,000 children in the United States need homes and tens of thousands want to adopt, complex regulations, outdated assumptions, and wrongheaded laws stand in the way of bringing these parents and children together. The bottom line according to Mrs. Clinton is that, ...considerations such as money, regulations, and skin color do not outweigh the important gift of love. Adoption is becoming harder and harder and regulations such as a couple being married for three years, both adoptive parents must be between the ages of 21 and 42, no biological children, and medical documentation proving infertility, makes adoption These very complicated. the often are requirements case for infant adoption. After being dubbed sound parents and capable of adoption, parents can be put on a waiting list for many years. National Adoption Month will help people to see that there are many needy kids who need love and attention and a safe happy home to live in. |