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Thursday, March 31st, 2016
I have read and I have seen acts of heroism and gallantry that have always amazed me. But every once in a while an individual seems to break the definition of "Hero" in such a way as to make the word insufficient to describe who he is and what he has done. Bennie Adkins is just that sort of individual. After fifty years, Adkins was finally recognized for his service in Vietnam; service that will go down in history as not just heroic, but also almost super-human.The following article was originally publishes on Yellow Hammer News and is written by Cliff Sims. I humbly ask you to read this story and to share it with all your friends. It is a story that needs to be shared and should become part of the lore of American heroism. Benny Adkins is my Everyday Hero this month:
"Bennie Adkins turned 82 on Feb. 1. Exactly 50 years ago, Mr. Adkins was in the jungles of Vietnam. He returned to the United States a legend among Army Rangers, and almost a half-century later was awarded the Medal of Honor for personal acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty during the Vietnam War.So numerous and heroic were Adkins' battlefield exploits that President Obama started his remarks at the White House Medal of Honor ceremony by saying that there was no way there would be enough time to describe them all. At another point he paused to simply say, "you can't make this stuff up."Here's a lightly edited transcript of the official citation, which details a portion of Adkins' incredible story:When Adkins' camp was attacked by a large North Vietnamese and Viet Cong force in the early morning hours of March 9, 1966, Sergeant First Class Adkins rushed through intense enemy fire and manned a mortar position continually adjusting fire for the camp, despite incurring wounds as the mortar pit received several direct hits from enemy mortars.
Upon learning that several soldiers were wounded near the center of camp, he temporarily turned the mortar over to another soldier, ran through exploding mortar rounds and dragged several comrades to safety. As the hostile fire subsided, Adkins exposed himself to sporadic sniper fire while carrying his wounded comrades to the camp dispensary.When Adkins and his group of defenders came under heavy small arms fire from members of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group that had defected to fight with the North Vietnamese, he maneuvered outside the camp to evacuate a seriously wounded American and draw fire all the while successfully covering the rescue.When a resupply air drop landed outside of the camp perimeter, Adkins, again, moved outside of the camp walls to retrieve the much needed supplies.During the early morning hours of March 10, 1966, enemy forces launched their main attack and within two hours, Adkins was the only man firing a mortar weapon. When all mortar rounds were expended, Adkins began placing effective recoilless rifle fire upon enemy positions. Despite receiving additional wounds from enemy rounds exploding on his position, Adkins fought off intense waves of attacking Viet Cong.
Adkins eliminated numerous insurgents with small arms fire after withdrawing to a communications bunker with several soldiers. Running extremely low on ammunition, he returned to the mortar pit, gathered vital ammunition and ran through intense fire back to the bunker. After being ordered to evacuate the camp, Adkins and a small group of soldiers destroyed all signal equipment and classified documents, dug their way out of the rear of the bunker, and fought their way out of the camp.While carrying a wounded soldier to the extraction point he learned that the last helicopter had already departed. Adkins led the group while evading the enemy until they were rescued by helicopter on March 12, 1966.
During the thirty-eight hour battle and forty-eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Adkins killed between 135 and 175 of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds to his body.When that last line was read aloud, there was a collective, audible gasp throughout the assembled crowd of friends, family, press and members of the military in the East Room of the White House.Every member of Adkins' unit was either killed or wounded during the 48-hour ordeal detailed above. Two of the men he saved were able to attend the event. After the ceremony, Adkins' thoughts quickly turned to the other heroes with whom he served.
"This Medal of Honor belongs to the other 16 Special Forces soldiers with me," he said.Medal of Honor recommendations usually must be made within two years of the act of heroism and must be presented within three years. Adkins received his some 48 years after the fact.So why did it take so long for Adkins to be recognized?"In 2009, Command Sergeant Major Adkins' family contacted my office and told us that they were going to try to get this wrong righted," U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, Adkins' congressman, told Yellowhammer.From that moment forward, Rogers made it his personal mission to make sure Adkins received the honor he was due.Rogers immediately moved for there to be a review of Adkins' records. Fortunately, all of the documentation the Army compiled after Adkins' heroic efforts — including first-hand accounts from American soldiers who are still alive — had been preserved by the Pentagon.
According to the documentation, Adkins was nominated for the Medal of Honor shortly after the battle by his chain of command. In doing that, his commanding officer, who was in the battle with him, wrote a five-page narrative detailing what had happened. The Army then took statements from every soldier who was with him and documented all of the communications that took place during the battle.But as the recommendation worked its way up the chain of command to the general officer level, they inexplicably decided Adkins' actions merited the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second highest military honor, rather than the Medal of Honor.When Congressman Rogers' office started pushing for the Army to revisit Adkins' story, there was a treasure trove of original battlefield information still intact.
"You've got to get the documentation that supports the review," Rogers said, explaining the process. "Then the Secretary of Defense has to review it and decide that he would like to see it recommended to the president. After that happened, we had to go back and get an exception to the law, which says that the Medal of Honor must be awarded within three years of the event. So we had to get Congress to pass a law to say this deserves an exception."Rogers lobbied his colleagues incessantly."There was a lot of resistance, surprisingly," he said. "But one thing that really helped was that Secretary (of Defense) Hagel was asking for this. He had reviewed it and felt like it was an injustice that needed to be remedied. It finally got passed, but it took several months."In addition to lobbying Congress, Rogers also had to make his case to the White House, who would not normally be receptive to the requests of a Republican congressman from Alabama."
We spent several months pestering the president's office," Rogers laughed. "Fortunately they did the right thing.""Sometimes even the most extraordinary stories can get lost in the fog of war or the passage of time," President Obama said. "When new evidence comes to light, certain actions can be reconsidered for this honor, and it is entirely right and proper that we have done so."As for the reason why Adkins and other deserving soldiers were not properly honored initially upon their return, Rogers said he was not exactly sure, but believes it could have been a combination of the post-war political climate, as well as prejudice."There were clearly some prejudices involved when you look at who was and wasn't recognized after Vietnam," he said. "Some folks were of a different race, some folks were a certain religion, and some folks were from the South. So there was some of that involved. It may have been because Bennie was a southern boy. You never know.
"In late September of 2014, all of the efforts of Adkins' family and Rogers' office came to fruition. Four of the five living men whose lives were saved by Adkins between March 9 and March 12, 1966 joined him at the White House in a scene that had been a half-century in the making.Adkins, who usually walks with a cane, rose unassisted and stood at attention as the President of the United States bestowed upon him his nation's highest military honor. Adkins' chin quivered ever so slightly as President Obama placed the medal around his neck. His wife of 60 years, Mary, beamed with pride on the front row, smiling as she wiped tears from her eyes.Adkins snapped off a perfectly formed salute to the crowd before exiting the stage.
"This Medal of Honor belongs to the other 16 Special Forces soldiers with me," he would later say with genuine humility.And as the Army Chaplain led the audience in a closing prayer, Bennie G. Adkins of Opelika, Ala., stood once more to honor the One who had always been with him, from the jungles of Vietnam to the East Room of the White House and everywhere in between."


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Time and Tide wait for no man
By E-Ming Fong 09 Nov 2016
When it comes to enforcing rights and obligations in Scotland, time and tide wait for no man. Rights and obligations in Scotland are subject to statutory rules on time bar as set out in the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973.
What is prescription?
Prescription is the term used in Scots Law (equivalent to limitation in England and Wales) which relates to a specified period of time over which certain rights and obligations can be created or extinguished.
The extinction of rights and obligations is called negative prescription. Where a right or obligation has subsisted for a certain period of time and no steps have been taken to exercise or enforce such right or obligation, then the right or obligation no longer exists and is said to have "prescribed".
Unlike the position in England and Wales, most obligations which are governed by Scots Law prescribe after 5 years. The types of obligations which prescribe after 5 years include breach of contract, delict (tort), non-payment, unjustified enrichment and professional negligence. Certain claims must be commenced within 3 years (death or personal injury, defamation and harassment). All other rights prescribe after 20 years.
From when does the 5 year period commence?
The 5 year time period commences when a party suffers loss, injury or damage. However, section 11(3) of the 1973 Act provides that the commencement of the 5 years can be delayed where the party was not aware or could not, with reasonable diligence, have become aware, that loss, injury or damage had occurred.
In the case of non-payment or certain types of breach of contract claims, the start of the prescriptive period is relatively clear. However, where loss is suffered through the fault of another party, the decision of the Supreme Court in David T Morrison & Co Limited v ICL Plastics Limited & Ors([2014] UKSC 48) has resulted in a more restrictive interpretation of s11(3). Prior to the Morrison case, it was understood that the 5 year period commenced when the claimant knew that the actions of the defendant had caused loss or damage. In the Morrison case, the claimant and defendant were neighbours. An explosion in the defendant's plastics factory resulted in damage to the claimant's property. It was more than 5 years after the explosion that it became known that the cause of the explosion lay at the defendant's door. The claimant raised proceedings to recover its losses. By that time however, more than five years had elapsed since the explosion.
The Supreme Court (by a majority of 3:2) held that the claimant first became aware of its loss immediately upon the explosion. Accordingly, the 5 year prescription clock had started to run from that moment. Although the claimant was not aware who was at fault, it knew that it had suffered loss through an explosion. It was therefore under an obligation to investigate matters and bring relevant court proceedings within the 5 year prescriptive period. Morrison has since been followed in the case of Gordon v Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson (March 2016).
How do you stop the prescriptive clock?
There are two main ways in which the prescriptive clock can be stopped or interrupted:
1. The raising of relevant court proceedings will stop prescription.
2. Prescription can also be halted where a relevant acknowledgment has been made. A relevant acknowledgement can be demonstrated in two ways:
a. performance by or on behalf of the debtor towards implement of the obligation which clearly indicates that the obligation still subsists (eg part-payment of a debt); or
b. where there has been made by or on behalf of the debtor to the creditor or his agent an unequivocal written admission clearly acknowledging that the obligation still subsists.
The quickest and surest way of stopping prescription is therefore to bring relevant court proceedings. Under Scottish procedure, however, an action is not "raised" until court papers have been served on all defendants. In other words, it is not sufficient for the court to simply issue proceeding (or for the initial court papers to be received by the court). In Scotland, we must also serve the court papers on the defendants so that they have notice of the claim against them. Accordingly, care must be taken to ensure there is sufficient time to do so.
The passage of time without appropriate action can be fatal if a claim is left too long before being acted upon. Where rights or obligations appear to be governed by Scots Law, the affected party should seek Scottish legal advice as a matter of urgency, especially if it appears that the end of the prescriptive period may be approaching.
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It's been awhile since my last post on extremely rapid prototyping tools. So I figured I'd list a few gems I've discovered along the way. A lot of times having the right tools to create placeholder content, find clip art, or other resources can get you over the hump when trying to create a quick prototype. Here's some tools that can help.
When laying out HTML/CSS, or otherwise mocking up interfaces, sometimes you need placeholder icons, pictures, and other bitmaps. I discovered this incredibly simple to use and absolutely ingenious site awhile back, placehold.it, which does just that. You simply pass the dimensions of the bitmap to the URL like placehold.it/350×150 and it will create a bitmap of that size. Why didn't I think of this?
Need temp music for your game but don't want to find a composer or pay for library tracks? Easy, use autotracker. This free python script will create surprisingly good randomly generated chiptune music in IT tracker format. This is a very compact format that can be used directly in engines such as Unity or converted to MP3 or WAV files. It even randomly generates a name for each composition.
Need sounds for your prototype? These open source tools will create randomly generated 8-bit style sound effects using tunable parameters and sound types (power up, damage, jump, etc.) I find the quality of the flash version, Bfxr, to be the best. Especially if you are doing a retro 8-bit style game, as so many neckbeardy hipsters are, these sounds are good enough for production use too. I've been toying around with the idea of porting it to C# as a Unity3D editor extension.


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Q: Wordpress multisite with same login for different domain I have configured a wordpress multisite based on two different domains: website.net and website.com
Everything works as expected except for the login functionality (not synchronized).
If I'm logged in website.net and I want to access website.com dashboard I have to login again, same for the frontend.
I'm currently using wordpress 5.3.2
This is my multisite configuration in wp-config.php
 /* Multisite */
define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'website.net');
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

Thank you for your help!

A: There seems to always be a bit on confusion on this topic. Perhaps WordPress could do a better job guiding it's users in this process. Although, I suppose Multi-site wasn't intended to be used for TLD's.
So first of all, I would install WordPress, setup multisite, and configure it as a subdomain network configuration.
Here's a sample configuration for your wp-config.php file in the base directory of your WordPress installation:
/* Multisite */
define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );
define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true );
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.primary-domain.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

Then, here's the basic configuration for your .htaccess file as a subdomain configuration, in the base directory of your WordPress installation:
# BoF WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# EoF WordPress

Now in order to get TLD's to work properly, I've had to make some additional configurations to the wp-config.php file like this:
define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '' );
define( 'ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', '/' );
define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );
define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

That's it with the WordPress specific configurations.
Personally, I like to have one Apache Virtual Host for the primary domain in the network and then configure that virtual host with alias domains. Each alias domain being one of the additional sites in your network.
However you end up tweaking your setup, you need each domain's DNS to resolve to the same web server, and each domain to be pointed to the same directory the primary domain is installed with WordPress. Each domain in your network needs to point to the same web server with DNS records and share the same directory path for the files used by WordPress.
Once you've got everything configured and setup properly as discussed above. Log into your WordPress administration area and navigate to the Network administration area to add a new site into your network.
When you go to add a site, it will enforce you to add the website as if it were a sub domain under your primary domain. Just roll with it. Enter something temporary.
Once the site has been added, then go find it under the list of sites in your network. Click edit on that specific site. Now, you can fully 100% change the domain name of that website. That's when you would put the actual domain name for this TLD site.
I know it's a bit of trickery to do it that way, but it works and you don't need to use any plugins.
Here is the original answer : https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/251116/how-to-use-wordpress-multisite-with-different-domain-names/251146#251146

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The genius of Mourinho
You may not approve of his methods, but "The Happy One" always delivers
Sunday was supposed to have been coronation day for the Reds as Liverpool's finest, past and present, turned up in all their finery at Anfield to celebrate what should have been title no.19 and a return to the top of the English game after nearly a quarter of a century. Instead the Kop bore witness to a tactical master class from the man they absolutely love to hate, as Jose Mourinho led a severely depleted Chelsea side, missing as many as 7 regular starters to a shock 2-0 win. The result left Liverpool at the mercy of Manchester City, who are now in pole position to clinch their second Premier League title in three years.
While Liverpool are left to rue their chances, Chelsea and parts of the footballing world are toasting Jose Mourinho's greatness as the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan manager showed just why he is the best in the business, tactically outclassing his former prot?g? Brendan Rodgers. While few genuine fans of the beautiful game approve of Mourinho's tactics, the undisputed facts are that he delivers results. As the Portuguese tactician pointed out in his post match address, he has now beaten both Liverpool and Manchester City twice this season, without conceding away from home against any of the other teams in the top 4. Mourinho's ability to set up his teams to grind out results was the cornerstone of his twin Premier League triumphs during his first stint as Chelsea boss, and will no doubt continue to be the 'Chelsea-way' as long as he remains the Blues' manager.
Liverpool fans, no surprise, have anointed Mourinho as the destroyer of the game they love and adore, and have labelled his approach "anti-football". Their Manager, Brendan Rodgers, went a step further in his press conference declaring that, "There were probably two buses parked out there instead of one", however, as Rodgers admitted himself, the harsh reality is that it continues to work for Chelsea.
This isn't the first time Jose Mourinho has crafted a win with a vastly inferior side (and it won't be the last). In 2010, his Inter Milan side stunned Barcelona in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League by holding out with 10 men for over an hour. What was even more remarkable was that it was achieved at the Camp Nou against a Pep Guardiola led side that included both Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Lionel Messi, very much in their prime. On that occasion, Mourinho's team had 24% possession, on Sunday afternoon at Anfield they were slightly better off at 27%.
Neutral fans would have no doubt observed the irony in the fact that both Chelsea goals came in stoppage time at the end of each half, time that would never have existed had Chelsea not resorted to time wasting early in the fixture, much before they were ahead on the scoreboard. Mourinho used it as a tactical weapon to rile up the home fans and to throw Liverpool off their game plan. The Reds have scored early goals against almost all their opponents this season, and have won most games even as early as the opening 20 minutes. By killing the clock early, Mourinho negated Liverpool's rush-rush approach, and the Reds had no response.
In fact, instead of blaming Jose Mourinho's negative approach to the game for their demise, there is a lesson to be learnt for Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, one that he has successfully managed to evade in what has been a near-perfect season thus far. Liverpool quite literally don't have a Plan B. Had Liverpool played 50-60 games like most of their competitors this season, the inadequacies in their squad would have also been laid bare more often, but it took a continental manager with a defensive mindset like Mourinho to teach fans that football is won on two sides of the pitch, and moan all you like, but Chelsea just cannot be breached at one end of it.
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B and L Shutters supply and install a wide range of commercial and domestic security doors. From our West Midlands base, we have secured businesses and industrial facilities in England and even as far as Wales and Scotland.
Why Choose B & L Security Doors?
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Nadiah is a barrister at the firm. She joined Juristconsult Chambers as a pupil in 2016 and completed her pupillage at Juristconsult Chambers before being called to the Bar of Mauritius in January 2017.
Nadiah holds an LLB (English Law with French Law) from the University of Manchester. She also spent a year at the University of Burgundy in France.
Since joining the firm, she has acquired experience in areas of corporate and commercial law. She also has a keen interest in tax law and deals with advisory and litigation work in that respect. She appears regularly before the Assessment Review Committee. Nadiah also advises clients on the competition law aspects of their transactions.


This course examines the national security process, regional studies, advanced leadership ethics and Air Force doctrine. Topics include the military as a profession, officership, military justice, civilian control of the military, preparation for active duty and current issues affecting the military profession. JMU students will take AFROTC classes at the University of Virginia for JMU credit. Corequisite: AIRS 100.


NEW YORK (WABC) -- An alert for commuters: there will be overnight lane closures this week on the George Washington Bridge.
The Port Authority says that the bridge's lower level westbound lanes to New Jersey will be closed during nighttime hours, from Monday night through Thursday night, August 13, from 9 p.m. each night to 5 a.m. the following morning, and from 10 p.m. Friday, August 14, through 10 a.m. Saturday, August 15.
Next week, beginning Monday, August 17, the bridge's lower level eastbound lanes are expected to close each weeknight during the same hours.
Similar weeknight closures, alternating between the lower level eastbound and westbound lanes, are expected to continue through mid-October.
The closures will allow for the removal of temporary construction platforms used for the upper level deck installation, the Port Authority says.


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Merissa Aguilleira
Merissa Aguilleira is a wicketkeeper and bats right handedly in the West Indies Women's cricket team.
Merissa played in her first One day International on 2nd July 2008 at Utrecht (Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd) and the opponent was Netherlands Women cricket team. She was the opening batsman, but returned back to the pavilion for a duck after facing 5 balls. As a wicketkeeper, she took 2 catches. This match was won by West Indies Women by 59 runs.
Aguilleira played in another match against Sri Lanka Women at Colombo (R Premadasa Stadium) on 12th November 2008. In this match, she was allocated the No. 3 batting position. She faced 68 deliveries and hit 28 runs inclusive of 3 fours. Sri Lanka Women won this match by 7 wickets with 77 deliveries to spare.
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Team West Indies national women's cricket team
Role Wicket Keeper
Born 14 Dec 1985
Nationality Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies national women's 2008 - present
Merissa Aguilleira has represented the West Indies Women cricket team in 8 One day Internationals. She has batted in 7 innings, out of which she has remained not out in 1 innings. Overall, 80 runs have been scored by her at a batting strike rate of 39.21 and batting average of 13.33. Her highest score has been 28. She has smashed 9 boundaries and has taken 12 catches.
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The Lee Lunch Bunch met on January 9th at Logan's Roadhouse and approximately 24 classmates got together to visit and share some memories. Since not all of you readers use Facebook, below are the 12 photos that were taken by Linda Taylor, Class of '64.
Unfortunately no one submitted a story nor identification of all the people in the pictures, but we thought you would enjoy seeing them anyway. If you have any specific questions then please email them to me and we will try to get the answers.
Memphis, TN - I'm sorry I missed the get together but from what I hear those who did attend enjoyed themselves. As soon as we get the date for the next scheduled one we will let you know so you can start making plans.
This week we continue featuring segments of the video tape made at the 2000 reunion and supplied by Niles Prestage, Class of '65. It will be broken down into approximately five minute segments and continued each week as permitted. We hope you enjoy them.
Maggie Elizabeth Hall Bailey, 89, of Huntsville, passed peacefully, Friday, surrounded by family. Mrs. Bailey was a woman of extraordinary kindness, gentleness, and strength. Her faith and love for Jesus was the center of her life. It flowed from her to everyone she met. She was a devoted wife and a remarkable mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Her love and compassion is what will be remembered most from those who knew and loved her. She was preceded in death by Gonzia, her beloved husband of 60 years. She is survived by three children; sons, Ronald, Ricky and wife Leesa; daughter, Carol and husband Lloyd Olson; one brother, William Hall and wife Helen; eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. The family wishes to thank Teresa Hollis and Southern Care Hospice for their loving care and support.
I think something was missing in relation to the story of the Orange Bowl trip. During that event Sherman Banks had left his paper route in my hands to ensure that all his customers were well cared for in his absence. I had my own route to look after as well. It ranged from just above the intersection of California at Govenors , up Govenors Dr. to the last residence below the overlook and back down, including side streets, then up and back on Big Cove Rd. 140 customers or there abouts. Enough to give you a good workout on a motorbike. Sherman's route was off to the east of California on the connector streets back from the creek near Govenors but south of the cemetery. But the weekend Sherman was out of town along with the rest of the Lee High Band, I had his additional 120 customers to deliver. Not really a problem for short term under normal conditions. That weekend, though, turned out to be a lot different...a lot different in Huntsville! We got a load of snow about 20" deep. I think it all started with a light rain, then turned COLD, then the rain changed to snow, accumulating as deep wet snow. At first it wasn't so bad. I was finished with my deliveries, and was starting his route. The snow flakes got bigger, and more started coming down. After a little bit I began fighting the ruts left by passing cars. Next the ruts disappeared and I was skidding all over even with knobby tires. Then the snow became so deep i couldn't hardly go at all. Trying to move along the street with fifty pounds of newspapers slung around my neck was turning into a lot of work, and becoming impossible to go any further. Then a bright idea came into my head. I knocked on one of the customer's door, and asked to use the phone. I called my dad. He had a VW beetle. We all knew a bug could go anywhere, at least by what the ads said. A little while later he shows up. Its starting to get dark and the cold is settling into my hands and feet and down my neck with the melted snow. We go about a half a block in that bug, and he is getting stuck. We gave up and went home. I still had about a third of the papers left to deliver. What a soggy cold day and evening, all the while Sherman and his band are relishing the warmth of Miami with all the fun leading up to the Orange Bowl performance. About the time we get in the door up on Maysville Rd. the phone starts ringing. "Where did you throw my newspaper?" We probably had 3 or 4 calls at least. Folks wanted their newspaper. So goes the world. Now newspaper companies are going out of business because folks have stopped reading them.
Thanks so much for all you do to keep us informed. I greatly enjoyed the Orange Bowl article as I either didn't see it 10 years ago or have just forgotten. Thanks to Rainer for writing it as well. You help make my Sunday mornings bright.
Blessings to all the Fam-I-Lee for a safe and healthy 2014.


There are 3 ways you can get an inexpensive small business loan with bad credit. Before you do anything, it's important to know what your credit score is.
Your score means different things to different lenders. The better the score, the more available money will be. Know what it is and do everything you can to correct any credit report errors. It's not that tough and you can do it yourself for free.
According to Entrepreneur.com, only 25% of small business loans come from banks and credit cards. That means there is a lot of money that funds small businesses coming from other sources.
One of those sources might include friends and family. If people know you to be a responsible person who does what she says, they'll be happy to help you along your way. They want to see you succeed. Show them your business budget and plan. Share your dream with them. They might surprise you with their support.
Another way to expand your choices is to slow down. There are tons of bad credit lenders out there who love people like you – because they know you are desperate, have few choices and need the money fast. As a result, they'll rake you over the coals and charge you sky-high interest rates.
But you can do a great deal to disarm these predators. Try to lengthen your timeframe. If you need a car to make deliveries, do you have to buy one today? Can you borrow your brother's extra Chevy for a few weeks instead? Think of tactics like this to give yourself some breathing room. If you do, you'll save a bundle. If you can reduce the pressure to get the money quickly, you expand your options and reduce your cost.
I'm a huge fan of peer-to-peer lending. There are a number of companies out there who put people who need money together with people who have money to invest. The rates they charge are often much lower than bad credit lending firms. Why? Because each firm sees and understands different things about you based on the credit score.
Don't assume that just because you have a bad credit score, everyone is going to treat you the same. Each company has underwriters who are actually human. They interpret your credit history differently, so take advantage of it.
Peer-to-peer lending is often a much better choice than bad credit lenders and payday lenders.
They work on volume and they facilitate loans of all quality. The people who just do bad credit loans need to make lots of profit from each loan they make because they only do bad credit loans. The peer-to-peer lenders deal with private people who just want to be fairly compensated for the risk they take. These people aren't predatory and they aren't dependent on squeezing every last dime out of you.
What are other sources of small business loans if you have bad credit?
It's so important to present yourself, your business model and your financial statements as attractively as possible.


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Battle for the Boat 75 — 'The Anniversary Show' on Jan. 9th
by Press Releases on Jan.06, 2010, under Boxing News
George 'Monk' Foreman III, David Torres vs. Raymundo Beltran, and the return of Walter Wright featured
TACOMA, Wash. – Brian Halquist Productions and the Emerald Queen Casino will start their 14th year of pro-boxing Saturday, January 9, 2010, with Battle at the Boat 75 – The Anniversary Show. Doors open at 6:00 pm, first fight is scheduled for 7 pm. Battle at the Boat 75 will feature fighters well known to the Northwest boxing fan along with some new faces that will become familiar to the Northwest boxing scene.
The Main Event will feature Othello, Washington's David "El' Torrito" Torres (21-1, 13 KO's) vs. Raymundo Beltran (22-4, 14 KO's) in a 10 round contest. Torres who last fought in October of 2008, will look to gain ground in the light welterweight division. "It's great to have David back at the Emerald Queen. He's had lots of success fighting in Tacoma and we look forward to a great fight with Beltran," said Promoter Brian Halquist.
Also on the card will be George "Monk" Foreman III (4-0, 4 KO's), son of former three time heavyweight champion George Foreman. "George III just started his pro-career this past June and has been extremely active. When we saw that another Foreman was fighting, we set our sights on featuring him on one of our shows," Halquist stated. Foreman III will fight a four rounder. This isn't the first time that a Foreman has fought locally. George Foreman fought an exhibition fight at Fort Lewis at the beginning of his comeback some 20 years ago.
Making his return to the Emerald Queen Casino will be local fan favorite Walter "2 Guns" Wright (13-3, 7 KO's). Wright, who was featured on ESPN's "The Contender" reality television show, will be fighting 6 rounds in the semi-main. "Walter has the skills to be a champion. We built him at the Emerald Queen Casino and the crowd loves him. We want to get Walter back in the ring and feature him in 2010," said Halquist. Wright is a Seattle native who signed with BHP after turning professional.
Making his pro debut will be 2008 Olympic alternate David "Thunder" Clark who is trained by Freddie Roach. "We'll be working with Freddie to develop David in the years to come. Clark was one of the best amateurs in the world and we are very excited about working with him, Freddie and the crew at Wild Card Gym," Halquist said. Roach will be making the trek from the famed Hollywood, California gym to Tacoma with Clark. .
Also making his pro debut is Tacoma's Mike "Imagine" Gavronski. Gavronski is a 3 time Tacoma Golden Gloves champion and was named the "Golden Boy" at the 60th annual Tacoma Golden Gloves tournament in 2008. "Gavronski is ready to turn a pro. He is coming in with an impressive amateur career and the Emerald Queen Casino fight fans have been excited to see his pro-debut," said Halquist. "It's great to turn another local kid pro. Northwest fight fans are so supportive of our local fighters. Mike already has a big local following and there is a big buzz about him."
The Battle at the Boat started on July 9, 1997 in a big circus tent when the Emerald Queen Casino was on a riverboat located on the Tacoma tide flats. On that night Tacoma's Emmett "Laser" Linton faced Jose "Shibata" Flores for the IBA light middleweight world title. A sold out crowed watched the fight and the series was launched.
Showtime, HBO, ESPN, ESPN 2, Telemundo, Fox Sports Network, Univision, Direct TV, and Azteca have all broadcast Battle at the Boat shows from the Emerald Queen Casino. Fights from the series have been shown nationally and internationally.
In July of 2007, The Battle at the Boat saw Vernon Forrest face Carlos Baldomir for the WBC Super Welterweight Title which aired on HBO. It was dubbed one of the biggest fights in Washington State history and definitely lived up to its hype, as Vernon Forrest defeated Carlos Baldomir by Unanimous Decision to lay claim to the vacant world title.
Shortly after that, ShoBox celebrated their 100th telecast on November 2nd 2007 at the Emerald Queen Casino. On that night, heavyweights Eddie Chambers and Calvin Brock fought to a 12 round Split Decision victory for Chambers.
On August 2nd, 2008 Showtime came back to the Emerald Queen Casino to present the Dmitry Kirillov-Vic Darchinyan IBF Super Flyweight Title fight. Vic Darchinyan dominated from the very start and was able to score a 5th round KO to take the title from Kirillov.
The fight series will continue into 2010. Five fights have been scheduled for the year. "We were only planning on doing one show back in 1997," Halquist said. "Thirteen years later we are still going strong. It's been an incredible run and we are looking forward to many more shows in the future. This series has taken on a life of its own. I feel so fortunate to have been a part of this." Halquist said, with a smile on his face.
The Fight card
Main Event – 10 Rounds
David Torres (21-1, 13 KO's) vs. Raymundo Beltran (22-4, 14 KO's)
Semi-Main – 6 Rounds
Walter Wright (13-3, 7 KO's) vs. TBA
Also Featuring:
George Foreman III (4-0, 4 KO's) vs. TBA
Francisco Reyes (3-0, 2 KO's) vs. Darren Darby (5-7-2)
David Clark (Pro Debut) vs. Rob Diezel (Pro Debut)
Mike Gavronski (Pro Debut) vs. Darren Azeie (Pro Debut)
Available at the Emerald Queen Casino box office 1-888-831-7655 and at all Ticketmaster outlets. Or online at www.ticketmaster.com
Ticket Prices: **VIP Ringside $100 – Reserved $60 – General Adm. $30
**All VIP ticket buyers will be invited to a pre-party function at the EQC Bridge Nightclub starting at 5:00 pm.
Quickie Facts
What: Battle at the Boat 75 – The Anniversary Show
Where: Emerald Queen Casino's I-5 Showroom
When: January 9th, 2010
Time: Event starts at 7:00 P.M. Doors open at 6:00 P.M.
2010 Battle at the Boat Schedule
January 9th, 2010: Battle at the Boat 75
April 3rd, 2010: Battle at the Boat 76
June 19th, 2010: Battle at the Boat 77
August 28th, 2010: Battle at the Boat 78
November 13th, 2010: Battle at the Boat 79
Get up to date information at: www.Halquistproductions.com
For more information or fighter interviews contact event coordinator Kelly Thompson at (509) 607-0497
:David Torres, George "Monk" Foreman III, Raymundo Beltran, Walter Wright


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Anna's life is upended when her father accepts a job transfer the summer before her junior year. It's bad enough that she has to leave her friends behind, but her dad is moving them to the beach where her parents first met and fell in love—a place awash in memories that Anna would just as soon leave under the surface.
While life on the beach is pretty great, with ocean views and one adorable lifeguard in particular, there are also family secrets that were buried years ago. And the ebb and flow of the ocean's tide means that nothing—not the sea glass that collects along the shore, and not the truths behind Anna's mother's death—stays buried forever.


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October 2013: The President's health care web is in cardiac arrest, threatening to to drag his signature initiative down with it. Enter Mikey Dickerson '01...
September 4, 2014 by Adam Rogers '92
Lunch was supposed to be casual. Mikey Dickerson '01 was in Chicago catching up with Dan Wagner, a friend who'd been in the trenches with him on Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency in 2012. Wagner had since gone on to found a company, Civis Analytics; Dickerson was a site reliability engineer at Google, one of the people who make sure that the search engine never, ever breaks down.
This was October of 2013, no time for the President's geekiest loyalists to have a little fun. Healthcare.gov, the sign-up website that was the signature element of President Obama's signature initiative, was a technological disaster. People couldn't sign up even if they wanted to—the site would break, or fail. Delays were interminable. Information got lost. Customer service was about as good as you'd expect from a cable TV company. The Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for the new health care system, couldn't seem to get it working.
"So, we got this phone call yesterday," Wagner told Dickerson. "HHS is looking for help with healthcare.gov. Can I list you as an advisor or consultant?"
"Yeah, sure. If it's any value to you, list me," Dickerson replied. It seemed innocuous enough. Today, he smiles at his own naïveté. "I had no idea what I was getting into," he says. About a week later, Dickerson found himself on a 5 a.m. conference call with a van full of technologists in Washington D.C., headed over to HHS. With him in the White House motor-pool car was Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer. And Park, whom Dickerson didn't know, was selling the group as a team of experts who could solve any tech problem. Dickerson realized: They're saying I can fix healthcare.gov.
Without really meaning to, Dickerson had become an anchor of the Obama administration's "tech surge," a Silicon Valley-powered push to fix the bugs in the healthcare.gov system. But the system was more than just software. In D.C., Dickerson and his new team found an organization in bureaucratic and technological meltdown, unable to execute what any e-commerce start-up would consider basic prerequisites for being in business.
The crazy part is, they fixed it.
To a Connecticut native like Dickerson, good at math and computers but with no desire to attend a big university, Pomona shows itself off pretty well—especially on a campus visit in May, when Dartmouth might still have slush on the ground. It's not that he was so avid about computer science—in those days, as a major, CS really ran out of Harvey Mudd anyway—it's just that Dickerson was an ace. He felt like he was cheating just a little. "It seemed dumb to be spending all that money on something I was already good at," he says. In fact, Dickerson was already coding for various companies while in school. After graduation, he ended up working in Pomona's computer lab.
Then the 2000 presidential election came around, with its photo finish in favor of George W. Bush. "It was a trauma for me," Dickerson says. "That razor's edge. All that was intensely painful. Almost anything would have moved those last 200 votes." So in 2004 Dickerson volunteered with a poll-watching group … and caught the politics bug. Four years later he was working at Google, where CEO Eric Schmidt was (and remains) a multimillion-dollar Obama supporter. During campaign season an email went to a mass-distribution list that Dickerson was on, looking for people who could manage big databases for the Obama campaign.
Hey, Dickerson thought. I manage a group that runs large databases. And that was it. He worked as a volunteer in Chicago, one of a small group of techies who, during their long nights, idly wondered if maybe they could do something useful for the campaign with better records of people's voting history. When the 2012 campaign came around, he was still on the campaign organizers' list. This time, though, he was no newbie—though still technically a volunteer, his experience made him a trusted veteran. Those vague ideas about leveraging voter lists went into practice, and Dickerson's group became the analytics team, credited by some political analysts as having been the key to Obama's re-election. Once the campaign was over, Dickerson went back to managing a site reliability engineering team at Google, but he stayed in touch with his friends—which is why Dickerson was at lunch with Wagner on October 11.
The tech team's first stop, in Virginia on October 17, was PowerPoint Hell. Technically, it was a large IT firm working as a government contractor. "They scheduled a three-hour meeting and sent a VP with, I shit you not, a 130-slide PowerPoint presentation," Dickerson says. Over beers in a bar on San Francisco's Embarcadero, about a block from Google's offices, Dickerson wears the uniform of the coder—hoodie, Google ID badge, Google T-shirt, close-cropped hair and unshaven chin. In San Francisco, that's stealth armor. In Washington's blue-sports-coated, khaki-pantsed hallways, he was an alien.
The group fought its way out of the meeting and took over the office of someone who was on vacation. Then they went wandering, finding teams huddled in cubicles and asking them what they were working on, which bugs they were trying to fix. But they weren't—mostly they were waiting for instructions. In their defense, it was hard to figure out what needed fixing. Engineers weren't really allowed to talk to clients or users, and the people who created the healthcare.gov website hadn't even built a dashboard, a way to monitor the health and status of their own system. If you wanted to know whether healthcare.gov was functioning, the only way to find out was to try to log on. "We thought this would be a targeted assessment and we'd spend a few days there," says Paul Smith, another member of the team. "When we realized how bad things were, we just independently decided, we're not going home. This is what we're doing now, for an indefinite period of time, until it gets better."
After a couple of days, Park asked them whether it could be fixed. "Todd, they have made all the mistakes that can be made," Dickerson told him. "We can barely find a case where, when two decisions could be made, they made the right one. But low-hanging fruit isn't the right metaphor. We're stepping on the fruit." The point was, some very simple fixes would yield some very big gains. Any improvement would be a massive improvement. Google site reliability engineers have a saying—they tell each other, if we have an outage that big it'll be on the front page of The New York Times. Is that what you want? "But here's the thing," says Dickerson. "Healthcare.gov had been on the front page of The New York Times for four weeks. That was the silver lining. How much more could I screw it up?"
The group of coders decided that if no one was telling anyone what to do, they would. That's when they started getting called "the Ad Hoc Team." The name stuck. "We had a big stick, because we were the magical guys from the White House," Dickerson says. "After a couple of days, we instituted a war room." Every morning at 10 a.m., every team had to send a representative to a big meeting to explain what was going right, or wrong, and why. "It was an incredibly expensive thing to do—60 people in a room while we arbitrate disputes between two of them. But we made so much progress we stopped worrying," Dickerson says. "Having a giant studio audience is better sometimes. It's harder to say, 'I didn't do that because it wasn't on my task order.'"
In other words, Dickerson had built into the system something no one had thought of: accountability. "What Mikey really excelled at was, if there's a priority issue that needs to be addressed, how can people address it? What do they know? What do they need to know? What's blocking them?" says Smith. "That's just his demeanor and the way he operates." The meetings were so productive and making so much of a difference in site performance that the Ad Hoc Team instituted a second one, making them twice a day, seven days a week.
When they weren't in the war room, they coded. Problems started getting solved. A stupid little flaw that required the same kind of wait to connect to the database every time went away with the change of a couple of configuration settings, and poof! An eight-second response delay dropped to a two-second delay. "And that's still terrible," Dickerson says. The site stopped crashing. People actually started signing up for health care.
The work took a toll, though. Except for a quick trip back to California to pick up some clothes—Dickerson had come to the East Coast with a carry-on bag and a Google computer, expecting a short visit—he was in the greater D.C. area from mid-October through Christmas. Dickerson estimated he ran 150 war-room meetings in a row.
After a couple of moves to accommodate bureaucracy, Dickerson ended up working remotely, alone, from an operations center in Columbia, Md.—three hours from D.C. in what locals sometimes call "spook valley" for its preponderance of government contractors. Since healthcare.gov's original creators hadn't built a ship-in-a-bottle version of the software to test updates and fixes, everything the Ad Hoc Team fixed had to get changed on the live site, and the primary maintenance window was when traffic was lightest, between 1 and 5 a.m. "It was literally 20-hour days a lot of time. " Dickerson says. "I was hallucinating by the end, hearing things."
With 12 days left before the deadline, Dickerson was ready to go home. He gave a speech listing the five mission-critical things remaining, and attempted to flee back to California. But the bosses panicked. The Ad Hoc guys can't go home, they said. They gave him the service-to-your-country pitch. They begged. So Dickerson agreed to stay through to the end—with some conditions. He got to set the specific technical goals for what his team and the rest of the government coders would do. And he got to hire whomever he wanted, without arguing the point. He wanted to be able to trust the new team members, so he chose them himself. Eventually a rotating team of Google site reliability engineers started coming through to keep the project on track.
Dickerson got to dictate those terms because he was getting results. He had become indispensable. "Mikey is an incredible talent who was seemingly built in a lab to help fix healthcare.gov," Park says. "It's not just the fact that he's got a sky-high tech IQ, honed over years as a star site reliability engineering leader. He's also got tremendous EQ, enabling him to step into a tough situation, mesh well with others, and help rally them to the job at hand."
The real bummer, of course, is that healthcare.gov, while an unprecedented attempt to link government services, private insurers and identity verification, shouldn't have been that hard to build. "It's basically a distributed, transactional, retail-type website, and we've been building those for years," says Smith. "In the private sector, we know how to do that. We're not forging new computer science ground here, right?"
By April of 2014, just a few days after Dickerson and I spoke, the Obama administration announced that over 7 million people had signed up for private health care through federal and state exchanges, and 3 million had signed up for Medicare. The program had made its numbers—barely, to be sure—because people, in the end, could actually use the website.
Dickerson is back at Google, but as he says, "you can never unsee the things you see in the federal government." He has become an outspoken advocate for reform in the ways government builds technology, concentrating especially on trying to convince young technologists to go work for government. "You're gonna eat free food and drink free soda in micro-kitchens and work on another version of what we'll say, for argument's sake, lets people share pictures of what they ate for breakfast, and tens of thousands of people will die of leukemia because we couldn't get a website to work," Dickerson says. "These are real people's lives that will end in 2014, and you're going to sit at your desk working on picture sharing."
The problem isn't competence. People who work on websites for the government are every bit as competent as the ones who work at Google or Facebook. "The mechanisms by which you do a contract with the federal government are so complex that it requires expertise in and of itself," says Jennifer Pahlka, founder and executive director of Code for America, a group that connects software developers with local governments. "Fundamentally the process in government has evolved to meet government needs. A federal project has dozens of stakeholders, none of whom represent the user."
That's why Code for America focuses on local governments, Pahlka says. The feds are too hard to crack, and anyway, most people's interactions with government are at the state and city level—think DMV, local parks, or trash pick-up. So Dickerson has started stumping for Code for America, giving speeches at their events. And he is lobbying Eric Schmidt and his other bosses at Google to develop programs that would allow—maybe even encourage—software developers there to take time to work on government projects. Consider: The feds paid $700 million for healthcare.gov, and it didn't work. Imagine being able to bid for that contract at a tenth the price. "I don't have to appeal to your altruism or desire to serve your country," Dickerson says. "I can just say, 'Do you want to make a ton of money?"
Pahlka thinks the pitch might actually work—and not just because of capitalism. "The consumer internet has influenced the way a generation feels about doing things together," she says. "You have a generation of people who value collective intelligence and collective will—not necessarily collective political will, but the ability to actually do things together." Software designers and engineers are already political, Pahlka and Dickerson are saying; it's just that the web generation is ignoring the greater good. Going to work at Twitter is a political choice just as much as going to work for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"I give the worst sales pitch," Dickerson says. "I tell people, 'This is what your world is going to be like: It's a website that is a Lovecraft horror. They made every possible mistake at every possible layer. But if you succeed, you will save the lives of thousands of people.'"
The weird part: Almost everyone says yes.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly before this magazine went to press, Dickerson announced that he's going to practice what he preaches, full time. He is leaving Google to join the Obama administration as administrator of the U.S. Digital Service, a newly created office overseeing government spending on information technology. And after signing on, he discovered that the lead designer on the initial staff for U.S.D.S. is another Pomona grad, Mollie Ruskin '08.


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Dennis Edwards, Temptations singer for 2 decades, dies at 74
Dennis Edwards, a former member of the famed Motown group The Temptations, has died. He was 74.
Rosiland Triche Roberts, his longtime booking agent, says Edwards died Thursday in Chicago after a long illness.
The Birmingham, Alabama-born Edwards replaced founding member David Ruffin in 1968. His soulful, passionate voice defined the group for years. He was a member on and off for about two decades and part of the lineup that released "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone," "Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)" and "Cloud Nine."
Paul Riser, a Motown arranger and musician, worked with Edwards during the label's Detroit heyday and subsequent projects. He says Edwards possessed a "voice for the ages," with a great range, energy and artistry.
Edwards would have turned 75 on Saturday.
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Seymour, I must say that this is quickly becoming a favorite blog site of mine. I'm delighted that Barb directed me this way as we are both bookish, artsy geeks (quite unashamedly I might add) and always on the lookout for good words on the creative process, muse, archetypes, etc. You sir, are very gifted.
Thank you so much for your kindness and words, Rob. I'm sure you know how much it is appreciated when a reader stops to say "hi" and express a deeper connection with you as a writer. I really hope we get to meet one day, as this virtual hollering across the pond ain't cutting it for me with people like you and Barbara.


Lifeson says the band has six songs pretty much ready to go and three others almost done. The group plans to write at least a couple of additional songs after the tour. At this point, the CD is shaping up to be a musically varied work.
"There is the epic song, 'Clockwork Angels,' which is really taking shape. It's a multi-parted piece, very dynamic," Lifeson says. "Then there's some stuff that's very melodic and on the softer side, on acoustic, with a strong melody. So there's great diversity there. Honestly, I can't wait until we start really working on these songs. We've sort of got them to the stage where Geddy and I were happy with the arrangements and then Neil kind of comes in and starts working on his drum arrangements, and they go from there. So they're sort of in that pre-drum stage right now, and it's great to see them come to life."
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Elizabeth J. "Betty" Usselmann, age 83, of Aviston, passed away Saturday, January 9, 2021, at Clinton Manor Living Center in New Baden.
She was born November 14, 1937, in St. Rose, a daughter of the late John and Mary, nee Henrichs, Ribbing.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert "Bob" F. Usselmann, whom she married May 22, 1957, at St. Rose Catholic Church and who died March 26, 2015; brothers, Arnold Ribbing, Raymond (Mary Helen) Ribbing, Ralph (Louise) Ribbing; sisters Helen (Edwin "Hoppy") Holtgrave, Johanna (Cletus) Walter, Marie (Roger) Michel, Ellie (Marcellus "Weekie") Potthast, Annie (August) Timmermann; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Frank and Catherine, nee Norrenberns, Usselmann; and sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Mary Usselmann in infancy, Alice (Ray) Book, Ervin Usselmann, Melvin Wuebbels, Mary Usselmann, Floyd Kraft, and Rita (Leo) Macke.
Surviving are her children Sue (Tony) Jansen of Breese, Barb (friend Lenny Kalmer) Alexander of Aviston, Lynn (Kurt) Ripperda of Okawville, Karen (Alan) Timmermann of Breese, and Mary Kay (Kurt) Sudholt of Damiansville; grandchildren, Nicole (Curt) Carillion, Chad (Jen) Jansen, Aften (Josh) Wessel, Michelle (Eddie) Meyer, Ryan (Alison) Alexander, Jennifer Kalmer, Julie (Kurt) Huelsmann, Jaci Krebs, Carly (Will) Hovater, Nicki (friend Spencer Campbell) Ripperda, Alyssa Ripperda, Travis (Katie) Timmermann, Alisha (Spencer) Beckmann, Danielle Timmermann, Austin (friend Sophie Rickhoff) Timmermann, Amanda (Patrick) Henrichs, Emily (friend Clay Pollmann) Peters; seventeen great-grandchildren and was anticipating the birth of her eighteenth great-grandchild; sister Agnes (Popeye) Korte of St. Rose; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Frances Wuebbels of Germantown, Frank (Rita) Usselmann of Breese, Louis Usselmann of Belleville, Rose Kraft of Breese, and Greg (Anna Maria) Usselmann of St. Louis; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Betty was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church and Altar Sodality and Aviston American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1239. She enjoyed sewing, cards, dancing, making chocolate, watching the St. Louis Cardinals, and above all she enjoyed babysitting and spending time with her grandchildren.
Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will be Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Francis Catholic Church in Aviston with Fr. Daniel Friedman presiding. (Masks are required at the Funeral Mass and will be limited to 100 people). Burial will follow at St. Francis Cemetery in Aviston.
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Whoever loves Jazz, loves Jorge Pardo. Whoever loves Flamenco, loves Jorge Pardo. Those who have a passion for music must love Jorge Pardo because he chants through his flute, is able to let his saxophone complain, enjoys the rhythm and passes his magic on to his instruments.
Jorge Pardo, saxophone and flute player, is one of the most outstanding and consistent revelations of the flamenco jazz fusion. He, together with Paco de Lucía and Camarón de la Isla, helped forging a new musical language melding jazz and flamenco. His playing style has become a referential point.
He shared ideas, music and experiences during 20 years, with the master of flamenco guitar, Paco de Lucia. During these years of tours, records and coexistence, they created a new musical language known as Flamenco Jazz or Flamenco Fusion. This music had a strong flamenco nature and was composed also off classic works and world rhythms.
His discography extends beyond 20 recordings as leader. Also he collaborated and exchanged experiences with other artists all over the world, such as Chick Corea, Paco de Lucía, Tete Montoliu, Marcus Miller, Pat Metheny, etc.
Huellas, released in 2013, earned him the award of Best European Jazz Musician by the French Jazz Academy, becoming an international reference for Jazz, Flamenco and traditional and improvised music. He has recently won The National Award for Contemporary Music, conferred by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports from Spain in 2016.
After a successful 3-year tour, which took them around the world (Europe, India and South America) performing over 250 concerts, this atypical trio, coming from the most traditional flamenco scene, experiments by playing by ear different kinds of music like Jazz, South American Folklore, classical music or even songs of the Beatles and, of course, using their detailed knowledge of Flamenco.
Huellas is the most personal and awarded project of Jorge Pardo. And now, three years later the Huellas project travels to the U.S. Over these three years many musicians have been part of this project, and in this American tour, Jorge brings his music to the American stages, featuring an exclusive collaboration with the Juanito Pascual Trio.
Virtuoso flamenco guitarist / composer / improviser Juanito Pascual has been called "one of the hottest flamenco guitarists in recent years" by National Public Radio, a major accolade which in this case is just the jumping off point for the Minneapolis native's musical style. His sound is a truly organic blend of a mastery of traditional and contemporary flamenco with influences ranging from Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead to Miles Davis and J.S. Bach. Pascual's international touring schedule has brought him to venues including the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, New York's Lincoln Center, and Blue Note Jazz Club, The Panama Jazz Festival and Madrid's renowned Casa Patas.
The Juanito Pascual Trio featuring bassist Brad Barrett and percussionist/vocalist Jose Moreno, has been touring regularly throughout the U.S. and abroad, captivating audiences with their masterful musicianship, and truly infectious chemistry. Their album Juanito Pascual New Flamenco Trio, recorded and mixed by multi-Grammy winning sound engineer Rob Griffin, was released in 2014 to critical acclaim and was included in NPR critic Milo Miles' Top World Music Albums of 2014 list.


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Dominici és un cràter d'impacte en el planeta Mercuri de 20 km de diàmetre. Porta el nom de l'escultora i pintora maltesa Maria de Dominici (1645-1703), i el seu nom va ser aprovat per la Unió Astronòmica Internacional el 2010.

Els raigs lluminosos de Dominici indiquen que és relativament jove, i els raigs joves apareixen de color blau clar en imatges en color millorades. Dominici també té material brillant en el seu sòl i està envoltat per material ejectat del cràter, el material que apareix de color taronja en les imatges en color millorades.

Aquestes diferències de color, com en els voltants del cràter Titian, suggereixen que el material del cràter d'impacte ha sigut excavat des de sota de la superfície de Mercuri, que difereix en composició de la superfície circumdant.

Dominici es troba dins d'una estructura d'impacte molt més gran, la conca Homer.

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Home » Currents » St. John's University Celebrates 150 Years of Vincentian Education in New York City
St. John's University Celebrates 150 Years of Vincentian Education in New York City
Tags: Currents Catholic, Catholic College, Catholic Community, Catholic Education, Education, Faith, Family, Inspiration, Media, Queens, NY, St. John's University
"Faithful to the mission." It's the Vincentian's motto that dates back a century and a half. Its roots first take hold in a one-room farmhouse in Brooklyn.
Now, 150 years later, St. John's is a thriving university with seven campuses around the world, 21,000 students and almost 200,000 alumni.
"The story of St. John's University is the story of New York City. Indeed, it's the story of America. It's about immigrant's dreams coming true," says Brian Browne.
Dreams that were nurtured right here in the Diocese of Immigrants with Brooklyn's first bishop, John Loughlin, who invited the Vincentians to establish the school in 1870. As a center for education and compassion for the city's youth, its guiding principles are inspired by St. Vincent de Paul.
St. John's spokesman, Brian Browne, says the Big Apple's urban appeal is still alive today.
"Whether you're descendants of indigenous peoples, whether your family came over on the Mayflower or landed just yesterday at international arrivals at JFK," says Brian, "there's a home for you here in New York City."
A home that St. John's newest leader, Father Brian Shanley, is getting used to as the schools 18th president and first Dominican priest to hold the position. He started in his new role at the height of the pandemic…
"It does feel strange to be on a college campus and not see kids everywhere," Father Shanley says. "Some of our kids are coming in for class, some are doing it remotely. So there's a sense of life on campus, but it's not normal."
Father Shanley hopes the fall will look more like a traditional college campus as they continue to help students through the tough times with the Catholic faith as the backbone of its curriculum.
"Catholic education has always been important to the church," the university president says. "We're interested not just in their heads, but their hearts…their faith, their sense of right and wrong, their sense of social justice and commitment to particularly the poor."
Father Bernard Tracey is part of that mission too. He's tasked with expanding the university's reach and he's a 1970's grad, so he's been with St. John's for decades.
"St. Vincent de Paul founded us to serve the needs of the poor, but also we were found for the formation of clergy and laity in the service of the poor," Father Tracey says. "With the same spirit of wanting to make sure that our students have a clear understanding about the education they are receiving and with an understanding that they have an obligation to help those less fortunate."
Students understand that mission. Many of them are the first in their family to attend college.
"It's that commitment to being a place where first-generation students get the break that really changes their lives," Father Shanley says. "I mean college education then 150 years ago and now is the kind of thing that can change your whole life and change your whole family's life."
Changing lives and futures,150 years later: St. John's University is still faithful to its mission.


About the Children's Department: How Do I Help a Child Who . . . Won't Settle Down in Class?
How Do I Help a Child Who . . . Won't Settle Down in Class?
Let me start this post by saying any child can have a bad day - just as any adult can. If a child stayed up too late Saturday night, or wasn't able to sleep well, or is not feeling well, or didn't get the cereal they wanted for breakfast, or couldn't find his/her shoes and had his/her parents unhappy with them, or for any reason they just are not their normal self, it can show in the way they behave . . . or misbehave in class. When I talk about a child who won't settle down in class, I'm not really talking about the child who typically behaves.
The one I'm talking about is the one who consistently, week after week, won't settle down. The child who won't sit still or stop talking. The child who doesn't follow directions and who seems to almost enjoy getting other children to follow his/her lead. So, what do we do; how do we help a child who won't settle down? Consider the following . . .
Find someone who will be a prayer warrior for this child.
Be sure the child knows you love him/her and want him/her in your class.
It is very important for all children to have the same teacher each week, but particularly for children who have trouble settling down. If you have teachers who only serve one or two weeks a month, it is much more difficult for the children to connect with the teacher and this can contribute to a child acting out.
Make sure you have activities which involve children in moving - if you give them opportunities to move and talk, they are more likely to listen when you need them to listen. Be sure however; you do not have activities just to let kids move. Plan activities which help teach and allow children to move at the same time.
Along this line, be sure you have a class which is interesting and engaging. Do not expect children to sit in their chairs and listen for the entire class time. If a child is bored they are much more likely to decide to find something more interesting to do. Make your classes interesting and fun!
If you have a child who just can not settle down, find a helper who can sit by this child and help them stay focused.
Do NOT threaten them, do NOT try to get them to settle down by embarrassing them in front of the other children.
Be sure to praise them when they do listen, when they do help - even find something you can put them in charge of doing each week - leading in prayer, collecting prayer requests, handing out papers, etc.
These are just a few ideas of ways you can help a child who won't settle down in class. What have you done to help these children in your ministry?


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using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace BizHawk.Common
{
	// fields are serialized/deserialized in their memory order as reported by Marshal.OffsetOf
	// to do anything useful, passed targets should be [StructLayout.Sequential] or [StructLayout.Explicit]
	public class BinaryQuickSerializer
	{
		#region methodinfo from a lambda expression.  cool.

		private static MethodInfo FromExpression(Expression e)
		{
			var caller = e as MethodCallExpression;
			if (caller == null)
			{
				throw new ArgumentException("Expression must be a method call");
			}

			return caller.Method;
		}

		private static MethodInfo Method(Expression<Action> f)
		{
			return FromExpression(f.Body);
		}

		private static MethodInfo Method<T>(Expression<Action<T>> f)
		{
			return FromExpression(f.Body);
		}

		#endregion

		#region read and write handlers for individual fields

		private static readonly Dictionary<Type, MethodInfo> Readhandlers = new Dictionary<Type, MethodInfo>();
		private static readonly Dictionary<Type, MethodInfo> Writehandlers = new Dictionary<Type, MethodInfo>();

		private static void AddR<T>(Expression<Action<BinaryReader>> f)
		{
			var method = Method(f);
			if (!typeof(T).IsAssignableFrom(method.ReturnType))
			{
				throw new InvalidOperationException("Type mismatch");
			}

			Readhandlers.Add(typeof(T), method);
		}

		private static void AddW<T>(Expression<Action<BinaryWriter>> f)
		{
			var method = Method(f);
			if (!method.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType.IsAssignableFrom(typeof(T)))
			{
				throw new InvalidOperationException("Type mismatch");
			}

			Writehandlers.Add(typeof(T), Method(f));
		}

		static BinaryQuickSerializer()
		{
			AddR<bool>(r => r.ReadBoolean());
			AddW<bool>(r => r.Write(false));

			AddR<sbyte>(r => r.ReadSByte());
			AddW<sbyte>(r => r.Write((sbyte)0));

			AddR<byte>(r => r.ReadByte());
			AddW<byte>(r => r.Write((byte)0));

			AddR<short>(r => r.ReadInt16());
			AddW<short>(r => r.Write((short)0));

			AddR<ushort>(r => r.ReadUInt16());
			AddW<ushort>(r => r.Write((ushort)0));

			AddR<int>(r => r.ReadInt32());
			AddW<int>(r => r.Write((int)0));

			AddR<uint>(r => r.ReadUInt32());
			AddW<uint>(r => r.Write((uint)0));

			AddR<long>(r => r.ReadInt64());
			AddW<long>(r => r.Write((long)0));

			AddR<ulong>(r => r.ReadUInt64());
			AddW<ulong>(r => r.Write((ulong)0));
		}

		#endregion

		#region dynamic code generation

		private delegate void Reader(object target, BinaryReader r);
		private delegate void Writer(object target, BinaryWriter w);

		private class SerializationFactory
		{
			public Type Type;
			public Reader Read;
			public Writer Write;
		}

		private static SerializationFactory CreateFactory(Type t)
		{
			var fields = DeepEquality.GetAllFields(t)
				////.OrderBy(fi => (int)fi.GetManagedOffset()) // [StructLayout.Sequential] doesn't work with this
				.OrderBy(fi => (int)Marshal.OffsetOf(t, fi.Name))
				.ToList();

			var rmeth = new DynamicMethod($"{t.Name}_r", null, new[] { typeof(object), typeof(BinaryReader) }, true);
			var wmeth = new DynamicMethod($"{t.Name}_w", null, new[] { typeof(object), typeof(BinaryWriter) }, true);

			{
				var il = rmeth.GetILGenerator();
				var target = il.DeclareLocal(t);
				il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
				il.Emit(OpCodes.Castclass, t);
				il.Emit(OpCodes.Stloc, target);

				foreach (var field in fields)
				{
					il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldloc, target);
					il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
					MethodInfo m;
					if (!Readhandlers.TryGetValue(field.FieldType, out m))
					{
						throw new InvalidOperationException($"(R) Can't handle nested type {field.FieldType}");
					}

					il.Emit(OpCodes.Callvirt, m);
					il.Emit(OpCodes.Stfld, field);
				}

				il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);
			}

			{
				var il = wmeth.GetILGenerator();
				var target = il.DeclareLocal(t);
				il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
				il.Emit(OpCodes.Castclass, t);
				il.Emit(OpCodes.Stloc, target);

				foreach (var field in fields)
				{
					il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
					il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldloc, target);
					il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldfld, field);
					MethodInfo m;
					if (!Writehandlers.TryGetValue(field.FieldType, out m))
					{
						throw new InvalidOperationException($"(W) Can't handle nested type {field.FieldType}");
					}

					il.Emit(OpCodes.Callvirt, m);
				}

				il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);
			}

			return new SerializationFactory
			{
				Type = t,
				Read = (Reader)rmeth.CreateDelegate(typeof(Reader)),
				Write = (Writer)wmeth.CreateDelegate(typeof(Writer))
			};
		}

		#endregion

		private static readonly IDictionary<Type, SerializationFactory> Serializers =
			new ConcurrentDictionary<Type, SerializationFactory>();

		private static SerializationFactory GetFactory(Type t)
		{
			SerializationFactory f;
			if (!Serializers.TryGetValue(t, out f))
			{
				f = CreateFactory(t);
				Serializers[t] = f;
			}

			return f;
		}

		public static T Create<T>(BinaryReader r)
			where T : new()
		{
			T target = new T();
			Read(target, r);
			return target;
		}

		public static object Create(Type t, BinaryReader r)
		{
			object target = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
			Read(target, r);
			return target;
		}

		public static void Read(object target, BinaryReader r)
		{
			GetFactory(target.GetType()).Read(target, r);
		}

		public static void Write(object target, BinaryWriter w)
		{
			GetFactory(target.GetType()).Write(target, w);
		}
	}
}

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Skip to main content Maryland Politics Where to vote early Md. election guide 2020 election Local news D.C. politics Va. politics
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Maryland Democratic Party picks Kathleen Matthews as interim chair
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Former television news anchor and Marriott executive Kathleen Matthews, who was just named interim chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, said Thursday that the selection of a four-year party chair will be "inclusive and transparent."
Matthews, who is a resident of Montgomery County, unsuccessfully sought the 2016 Democratic nomination for Maryland's 8th Congressional District seat.
She said she intends to run for a full term as party chair in May but will "empower the staff, central committees and build the party infrastructure in the meantime."
Democrats are numerically dominant in Maryland, with a 2-to-1 voter registration advantage over Republicans, seven of eight congressional seats and veto-proof majorities in both houses of the state legislature. But the party has struggled to gain traction against popular first-term Gov. Larry Hogan (R).
In an interview last month, Matthews said she was approached about becoming party chair by senior Maryland Democrats — U.S. Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Rep. Steny H. Hoyer.
She reached out to party leaders throughout the state and was named interim chair by the executive committee late Wednesday.
Her appointment was criticized by former Montgomery County Council member Valerie Ervin (D), who said the process smacked of insiderism. The state party "missed an opportunity to open up the space for a new and different kind of leadership," said Ervin, who is the first African American woman to be elected to the council.
She said party leaders should have adopted the approach taken in the publicly contested race for Democratic National Committee chair, which was won by Maryland resident Thomas Perez, the former Labor secretary.
Matthews spent 25 years as a reporter and anchor for WJLA and was later a vice president at Marriott International, where her job included overseeing a political action committee that contributed more than $1 million to House and Senate candidates.
She serves on the board of Emerge Maryland, which helps prepare women to run for elected office, and is married to MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews.
In a statement from the party Thursday night, Matthews promised "an inclusive and transparent process going forward," guided by party parliamentarian Greg Pecoraro and leading to the election of a chair to serve a four-year term that will include the 2018 gubernatorial race.
Pecoraro "will convene a diverse committee that will work over the next two months to oversee the process, including an open forum for the public and state central committee members to hear from prospective candidates," the statement said.
Perspective Catch me if you can: An unlikely hummingbird is banded at a Virginia park


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Music at the Menil: Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi
This Friday evening's concert at the Menil Collection is a rare opportunity for folks in Houston to hear this experimental group. They have performed in the city only twice, in 2010 and last December.
Here's a five-minute song and a longer performance by this variable, roving band of musicians led by Theaster Gates.
The artist describes them on his website:
Organized by Theaster Gates, The Black Monks of Mississippi is an experimental musical ensemble of close collaborators of the artist whom are often joined by musical monks from around the world. They are an order of performers who harmonize the Eastern ideals of melodic restraint with the spirit of gospel in the Black Church and soul of the Blues genre deeply rooted in the American musical tradition. Uniting these diverse spiritual and religious practices, the Black Monks simultaneously achieve holiness and humanness, restraint and ecstasy. Together, they serve to musically enrich and emotionally activate many of Gates' exhibitions into transcendent and participatory experiences.
The Black Monks of Mississippi
Music harmonizing Eastern ideals of melodic restraint with the spirit of Gospel music in the Black Church and the soul of Blues, a great American Black music.
Montrose / Museum District
Related Exhibitions
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence (now closed)
An exploration of the resonance of Gandhi's ethics of nonviolence, satyagraha, in the visual arts. Approximately 130 works spanning several centuries and cultures, and including contemporary installations.
1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, United States


A commissioned piece of art work for a pig similar to the Pink Eared Pig which I made a couple of years ago. The top coat is predominantly shades of light brown paper with text whilst the inner ears are pink with blue spots.
Created in Wales using traditional paper mache techniques and protected with matt acrylic varnish. My initials and year of making can be found on the sculpture. The art work will be packaged in a cardboard box, together with a signed Certificate of Authenticity and sent via Royal Mail Tracked Next Day delivery.