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JACKRABBIT SPORTS CAMPS
Andy Janssen | Assistant Coach
Andy Janssen was announced as assistant coach for the Jackrabbit soccer program March 24, 2017 and is now in his second season with the team.
Janssen helped the Jackrabbits to an 11-5-3 record with a perfect 7-0 Summit League mark. He worked with the goalkeepers throughout the season, including Summit League Keeper of the Year Maggie Smither and seven all-league selections. The Jackrabbit defense allowed only 17 goals for the season (one in league play) with eight shutouts.
Janssen spent the previous seven seasons with Bemidji State and the last five as a full-time assistant coach. While at BSU, he helped the Beavers compile an 81-45-9 record (.626) with seven consecutive trips to the NSIC Tournament. He has coached one NSIC Offensive and one Defensive Player of the Year, 14 all-region selections and 35 All-NSIC picks.
Janssen served as recruiting coordinator the last five years in addition to handling coordination of forward and midfield attacking patterns, planning and implementing practice sessions, goalkeeper training, scouting reports and assisting in making travel arrangements.
Prior to joining the Beavers, Janssen served as the director and coach of the Orange City (Iowa) Parks and Recreation soccer program from 2009-10. He also held a youth soccer coaching position at The Dakota Alliance Soccer Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from 2006-10.
Janssen graduated in 2009 from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in business education with a coaching endorsement in addition to being a four-year letterwinner with the men's soccer team. He earned three All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) selections, was team captain in 2007 and 2008 and garnered NAIA All-America Honorable Mention accolades following the 2007 campaign. In addition, he played three summers in the Premiere Development League for the Sioux Falls Spitfire.
He earned his master's degree in sports studies from Bemidji State in 2017.
The Sioux Falls native currently holds a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Advanced National Diploma and a NSCAA Level 3 Goal-Keeping Diploma.
Caylee Costello | Assistant Coach
Caylee Costello began her tenure as the women's soccer graduate assistant in 2015 and will step into the role of full-time assistant for the 2017 season.
During her time as a graduate assistant, she assisted in the program's 2015 and 2016 NCAA Tournament berths, helping the program post a 22-14-7 over those two years.
In addition to her on-field coaching efforts, Costello handles program operations with recruiting and team travel. Costello also coaches club soccer with Brookings Select as the head coach for the U15-17 age group.
Costello was a four-year letterwinner at South Dakota State, starting every game her junior and senior years at defensive midfield. During her senior year, she was named First Team All-Summit League and was one of the first two Jackrabbit soccer players to be named to The Summit League All-Academic Team. After exhausting eligibility, she served as a volunteer coach for South Dakota State in 2014.
Prior to becoming a Jackrabbit, Costello was a six-time state champion as a member of Dakota Alliance and was a four-time all-state selection for Washington High School.
A Sioux Falls, South Dakota native, Costello graduated from SDSU in 2015 with bachelor of science in physical education. She will complete her master's degree in exercise science in May 2017 and currently resides in Brookings, South Dakota.
She holds her National Soccer Coaches Association of America National Diploma and obtained her Coerver Youth Diploma in 2013.
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Forum Auctions: Editions and Works on Paper (March 2019)
Dorothea Tanning
Composition Surrealiste (Hommage à Max Ernst), 1974
Lithograph printed in colours
29 9/10 × 22 in
signed and numbered from the edition of 500 in pencil, on Arches wove paper, published by Center …
An active artist for nearly 70 years, Dorothea Tanning began her career as a Surrealist, later moving away from the movement to create the raw and prismatic merging of color planes she called "Insomnias". Tanning's earlier works, like Fatala (1947), are heavily representational, favoring strong line, shading, and linear perspective. In the 1950s, she began to reveal new overriding preoccupations with luminous color and energy, as in Midi et demi (Half past noon) (1957), a quietly energetic composition with only the vaguest hints of figures. Tanning, who was influenced by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, to whom she was married, turned increasingly to experimental styles as her career progressed, such as soft cloth sculpture and installation, fusing the two for one of her first installation pieces, "Hotel de Pavot 202" (1971), without fully abandoning a surrealistic aesthetic. Late in her career she worked as a poet and memoirist.
signed and numbered from the edition of 500 in pencil, on Arches wove paper, published by Center National de L'Art Contemporain, Paris, with margins, sheet 760 x 560mm (30 x 22in) (unframed)
Other works by Dorothea Tanning
BATEAU BLUE (THE GROTTO), 1950
Bateau bleu (The Grotto), 1950
Birthday (Self Portrait at age 30, 1942), circa 1970
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Different People, 1986
Kasmin
Birthday , c.1940-50
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Elysian Fields; Nue Couchée, 1975
Quatrième péril, 1950
Rago/Wright
Tristan und Isolde, 1978
Sun of the incas, 1978
Kunzt Gallery
Victor Brauner
Plate II from the portfolio Codex d'un Visage, 1962
Alain Jacquet
La Plage, 1970
Florence Henri
Pierre Molinier
Senza titolo (Autoritratto mascherato), 1970s
Johnny Friedlaender
Counterpoints I, 1977
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HomeNewsFrank Byrnes wins Bodyshop of the Year again
Frank Byrnes wins Bodyshop of the Year again
Accident repair specialist Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs, based on Galway's Oranmore Business Park, has been named 'Bodyshop of the Year' at the fourth SIMI Motor Industry Awards. The accolade was announced in front of over 500 of the motor industry's senior figures at a glittering ceremony at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Dublin (formerly the Burlington Hotel).
Sinead Healy General Manager, Des Cahill RTE Presenter, Frank Byrnes MD, Marian Byrnes & Larry Raftery Bodyshop Manager.
This is the second time that Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs has come away from the awards with the gold medal, having also won the award in 2012.
The awards honoured those businesses that have demonstrated excellence and best practice in the face of extremely challenging economic conditions. Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs picked up one of only five awards, which were presented by Irish comedian Brendan Grace, Alan Nolan, Director General of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) and Paul Smith, Head of Castrol in Ireland.
Backed by the SIMI, the official voice of the motor industry in Ireland, the awards are held in partnership with Castrol, the specialist lubricants and business improvement solutions provider.
Winning the trophy for 'Bodyshop of the Year', judges praised Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs, recognising the business for "Continuously refining standards and processes, optimising the customer experience and implementing a sustainable, strategic management plan.
Frank of Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs said" We are delighted to have received the Award for the second time. Its credit to the fantastic Team that I work with & the experience they provide to our valued Customers."
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Will Cannabis Banking Reform Happen Soon?
By FindLaw Staff on April 05, 2019 1:07 PM
You know how the line at the bank gets longer on Friday? That's because it's pay day, and everybody wants to put money in and get money out.
The same thing is happening in the cannabis industry. Pot growers, sellers and related business can't wait to get to the bank.
The problem for the industry is, federal regulations are pushing them back to the end of line.
Waiting for Regulation
Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, says it's time for banking reform. He claims U.S. lawmakers are under pressure from all directions.
"Rapid shifts in public opinion and a rising number of states with legal medical and adult-use cannabis sales have laid bare an obvious need to update our banking laws to meet the age of regulated cannabis markets," he wrote for TechCrunch.
There are signs. In February, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to discuss challenges facing financial institutions with marijuana businesses. In March, the House Financial Services Committee voted to advance 420-friendly legislation to the floor.
The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act would provide safe harbor to banks serving state-legal cannabis businesses. It has broad support, including 108 co-sponsors in the House.
High Legal Support
In addition to the support from lawmakers, 19 state attorneys general asked Congress last year to make similar laws. They said state-legal cannabis companies should be allowed to use the same banking services as other legal industries.
Americans have voted to legalize marijuana in most states. Thirty-three states have legalized medical marijuana, and ten states have made it legal for recreational use.
According to reports, legal marijuana is a $55 billion industry. That's a lot of money to be circulating outside financial institutions.
Some lawyers have solutions for that, but imagine the lines when federal regulators make it legal to deposit the money in the bank.
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Q: ubuntu server won't boot after restoring backup I have created a backup of my server using the following command:
tar -cvzf ~/clone.tgz --exclude ~/clone.tgz  /etc /home /opt /tmp /usr /var
Then I want to restore this backup to another server (same hardware except for the hard drive, which I upgraded to a a SSD). There is already a fresh install of the same ubuntu distribution.
I first did a backup of the following files:

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*/etc/hosts

*/etc/hostname

*/etc/host.conf

So I run the following command :
tar -xvpzf ~/clone.tgz -C /
Once the files are restored, I restore the host files.
Everything seems fine so I reboot the server, but it won't boot. I don't have access to the server during boot since it is hosted from a remote location. All I can do is start all over again.
What might explain this problem ? Is there a file that I should not have overwritten during the restore ?

A: What is the problem
You have a problem with grub and UUID in your /etc/fstab.
There is a line in /etc/fstab and grub.cfg like this:
..... UUID=73faad0d-2343-4f69-8103-92dbbaf40a5f .....

Each partition in Linux has unique identifier called UUID, it is assigned during partition creation. Linux use this UUID to distinguish partitions. After replacing hard drive you have to change all old UUIDs with the new ones, which can be checked by running command blkid.
What to do
You have to boot from Ubuntu Live CD and replace all old UUID to new UUID in /etc/fstab and grub.cfg. Here is another Q/A where you can find further instructions. Then update grub using this Q/A or
simply install and run Boot Repair choosing Recommended Repair option.

A: With the command tar -xvpzf ~/clone.tgz -C / you have restored all, /etc, /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, /var.
I believe, you have more problems than a wrong UUID in your /etc/fstab.

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*The full restore of /etc, problematic

*The full restore of /usr, bad idea

*The full restore of /var, bad idea

also on identical machines.
My piece of advice, install the server again.

A: I ended up doing it this way:

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*install fresh ubuntu server

*export list of installed packages on old server:
dpkg --get-selections >output-file

*import list  on new server:
sudo dpkg --set-selections <output-file
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
I just had a few users and permissions to set/create and a few application config files to copy across from the old server, but all in all it was very quick.

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Q: Posting data from iPhone application to php web page I am posting data from iphone application problem is that when i access the url using post from browser and pass www.apple.com then it shows result but when i pass from iphone code it does not return any thing in data as given below in code.
NSString * URL=@"www.apple.com";

NSLog(@"User Name entered is %@",URL);

NSString *post =[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"URL=%@",URL];

NSLog(@"post is %@",post);

NSURL *url=[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://celeritas-solutions.com/pah_brd_v1/productivo/urlTest.php?"];

NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];

NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [postData length]];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] ;
[request setURL:url];
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[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
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NSURLResponse *response;
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The St. Nikolai-Kirche, (Nikolaikirche or St. Nicholas' Church) is the oldest church in Berlin, the capital of Germany. The church is located in the eastern part of central Berlin, the borough of Mitte. The area around the church, bounded by Spandauer Straße, Rathausstraße, the River Spree and Mühlendamm, is known as the Nikolaiviertel 'Nicholas quarter', and is an area of restored medieval buildings (in some cases recent imitations). The church was built between 1220 and 1230, and is thus, along with the Church of Our Lady at Alexanderplatz not far away, the oldest church in Berlin.

History
Originally a Roman Catholic church, the Church of St. Nicholas became a Lutheran church after the Protestant Reformation in the Electorate of Brandenburg in 1539. In the 17th century, the prominent hymn-writer Paul Gerhardt was the minister of this church, and the composer Johann Crueger was musical director. The prominent Lutheran theologian Provost Philipp Jacob Spener was the minister from 1691 to 1705. From 1913 to 1923, the minister at the Church of St. Nicholas was Wilhelm Wessel, whose son Horst Wessel later became famous as a Nazi: the family lived in the nearby Jüdenstraße.

On Reformation Day in 1938 (October 31) the church building served its congregation for the last time. Then the building, the oldest structure in Berlin proper, was given up to the government, to be used as a concert hall and ecclesiastical museum. The number of parishioners had shrunk due to the ever intensifying gentrification of the inner city, as residential premises became superseded by offices and shops. The congregation later merged with that of the Church of Our Lady.

During World War II, the Church of St. Nicholas had its roof and the tops of its towers destroyed as a result of Allied bombing. In 1949 all the vaults and the northern pillars collapsed. The ruins were located in East Berlin, and it was not until 1981 that the officially atheist East German Democratic Republic authorities permitted the rebuilding of the church with old designs and plans. Thus, the Church of St. Nicholas as seen today is largely a reconstruction. Today the church serves again as a museum and as a regular concert venue, administered by the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (Landesmuseum für Kultur und Geschichte Berlins). There is an organ recital there almost every Friday at 5pm. It is renowned for its acoustics and the rebuilt church has been equipped with a fine set of 41 bells.

Organ
The current organ was made by the firm Jehmlich (Dresden). It has 44 stops on three manuals.

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External links

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Dress size: 4 (US)
Measurements: 34-24-34 in /86-61-86 cm
Amber Heard is celebrated as a talented actress and a woman, who quit her marriage with a Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp. The lovers of hot details read about Depp-Heard separation. And those, who admire Amber's bright beauty, read about her body statistics.
The star looks like a classical Hollywood blonde. She is 173 cm tall. For some people Amber seems too high, but the star likes to add 10-12 extra cm to her body length and puts on high-heeled shoes. Thus she feels more self-confident (according to her own words).
Amber's body is extremely slim. She is just 55 kg of weight, which is really low for a person of her height. Heard has a banana body shape. It means that her shoulders and hips are very narrow. Some people consider this type of female body as a little boyish. But the star is content with her look and the fans, who are into her, confirm that her body is great.
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Amber Heard is a faithful fan of sports. She workouts several times per week. If her schedule is too busy, the star can miss a gym session. But she always runs in the morning, no matter how busy she is.
Amber Heard knows that great physical shape is an important part of her success. Due to her bright beauty she won the role in Kenny Chesney's music video. After that she gradually moved her way to the big screen and acted in such popular projects as "Never Back Down", "North Country", "Zombieland" and many others.
Name: Amber Laura Heard
Nickname: Amber
Date of Birth: April 22, 1986
Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA
Place of Residence: Los Angeles, California, USA
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Education: St. Michael's Catholic Academy
1) Ex-husband Johnny Depp (got married in 2015. In May, 2016 Amber filed for divorce)
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There are plenty of people who fail in your home based business industry that do not even realize why they've unsuccessful. Individuals are extremely swift to evaluate and blame things on others so that they never understand that the only issue was themselves. They're extremely swift responsible the chance, their upline as well as their very own downline. If you're seriously interested in being effective and don't want to fail again you need to arrived at realization that you're the issue you need to fix. In the following paragraphs become familiar with how you can repair the problem that you're getting and it'll educate you the way working on your mind could make the main difference between success and failure.
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All of this may seem silly for you however it really works, they are likely to be many obstacles that you'll face in your journey that will take you lower thus making you wish to quit which is that which you must build up your mindset and start to get psychologically more powerful.
By using these steps and dedicating time essential to working on your actually will start to see success and can help others perform the same.


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Andrew is a journalism student at Stony Brook University entering his sophomore year. He is a tennis coach at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center while he is not at Stony Brook, working with students of varying ages and levels, with a focus on the USTA'S Quickstart 10 and Under initiative. He also is an editorial writer for New York and Long Island Tennis Magazines.
Victor Ochi signs as an undrafted free agent with the Baltimore Ravens
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports April 30, 2016
All signs pointed toward one of the NFL's 32 teams making outside linebacker Victor Ochi the first Stony Brook player to ever be selected in the NFL Draft.
Jeff Boals introduced as new Stony Brook Men's Basketball head coach
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports April 12, 2016 April 14, 2016
Director of Athletics Shawn Heilbron introduced Jeff Boals as the team's new head coach on Monday, starting a new chapter for Stony Brook Men's Basketball.
Stony Brook hires Jeff Boals as new Men's Basketball head coach
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports April 8, 2016 May 28, 2016
The department said that it will officially announce the hire on Saturday before holding an introductory press conference on Monday morning.
After losing his mother, McGrew finds strength to lead team to NCAAs
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports March 16, 2016 March 17, 2016
Although he might not project his feelings to fans, opponents, coaches or even teammates, this season has been a tough one for senior forward Rayshaun McGrew.
Sports Highlights: Seawolves defeat Vermont in AE Championship
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedMultimediaSports March 12, 2016 March 14, 2016
The Stony Brook Men's Basketball team defeated Vermont 80-74 in the America East Championship game. The Seawolves will now advance to the NCAA Tournament.
Stony Brook to square off against Vermont, looking for NCAA bid
The seniors of Stony Brook Men's Basketball have one last chance to win an America East Championship on Saturday when Stony Brook faces No. 3 Vermont in IFCU Arena at 11 a.m.
Stony Brook standout Victor Ochi participates in NFL Scouting Combine
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports March 1, 2016
"I used to watch it on TV. It's crazy being a part of it," Ochi said of being selected to participate in the combine.
Campus Briefing: USG president announces push for free laundry
by Andrew EichenholzNews February 22, 2016 February 23, 2016
USG President Cole Lee announced that he is working on an initiative to provide free laundry for undergraduate students who live on Stony Brook's campus.
Ochi invited to NFL Scouting Combine
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports February 16, 2016
Victor Ochi will look to take the first step toward sacking the NFL when he participates in its NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis from Feb. 23 to Feb. 29.
Stony Brook Ice Hockey reclaims top spot in rankings as Nationals near
by Andrew EichenholzFeaturedSports February 8, 2016 March 14, 2016
No. 1-ranked Stony Brook is carrying a Zamboni full of momentum into the end of the season as the team attempts to take the next step and become national champions.


Slimming supplements containing extracts of the seeds of the African bush mango, Irvingia gabonensis are hot in webshops right now. Try asking Google. The websites promise unprecedented weight loss: 12-13 kg in 10 weeks. And they cite studies to prove it.
Almost all of these studies come from one source – Julius Oben of the University of Yaounde in Cameroon, Africa. A recent study was published in spring 2009 in Lipids in Health and Disease. In this Oben and his colleagues gave 102 fat test subjects extract of Irvingia gabonensis or a placebo for a period of 10 weeks. The extract goes by the name of IGOB131, and is produced by the American manufacturer Gateway Health Alliances.
The subjects took one capsule containing 150 mg extract twice a day, one just before breakfast and one just before lunch.
The subjects in the supplements group lost 12.8 kg. Their body fat declined by 6.3 percent, and their waist circumference by 16.2 cm.
These are results which, according to review studies, are impossible to achieve even with pharmaceutical and largely forbidden slimming aids. Not if you don't follow a diet as well, and certainly not if you don't include training. Nevertheless, these researchers write: "No major dietary intervention or formal physical activity program was instituted during the course of the study".
The figure below shows some of the effects of taking Irvingia gabonensis supplements. What jumps out at us is the effect on the levels of leptin and the inflammatory protein CRP.
Even more noticeable is the effect on adiponectin, a protein hormone that is secreted by fat cells. Most of the signal substances that enter the bloodstream from fat tissue are unhealthy, but adiponectin is an exception. One of its functions is to ensure that muscles absorb more energy from the blood.
So it looks like good stuff, this Irvingia gabonensis. Though somehow the results reported by the Africans just seem too good to be true. You'd be inclined to think that the researchers work for the producer, Gateway Health Alliances. And surprise, surprise: "Part of the funds for carrying out this study was provided by Gateway Health Alliances", is printed at the end of the article.
What the article doesn't state is that the head of research, Julius Oben, is on the payroll of Gateway Health Alliances as Chief Scientific Officer, and that the same Oben has a healthy number of patents to his name, if Google is to be believed. Three of these refer explicitly to Irvingia gabonensis.
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Scott Morrison says social distancing will prevail until the discovery of a vaccine
Australia Covid 19 News
Rahul Raj
As a means of tackling the coronavirus problem, Australians are being encouraged to download a voluntary tracing app that is available online. Stuart Robert, the Government Services Minister, said the intended purpose for building this tracing app was to curb the spread of coronavirus. Once set up, the COVIDSafe app uses Bluetooth tech to search other nearby phones that have already installed the tracing app.
For the app to be effective, users need to have it running in the background when coming into contact with other persons. It will keep running on a locked phone as well. This tracing app makes a type of 'digital handshake' which keeps track of date and time, distance, and duration of the contact. Mr Robert continued to say that all information collected by the app is secured through encryption technology and then stored in the user's phone.
The digital handshake: It tracks people from 1.5M
This app helps to detect people through their phones by Bluetooth pairing of the phone user. People who have been diagnosed with the virus can communicate with health officials and share vital info about staying safe.
The health authorities can then advise people on whether they have been exposed to the virus or not.
The government's contact tracing app securely protects data collected by the state authority. Third parties are restricted from accessing your data, ensuring a high level of security for your info.
WHO doubts COVID-19 eradication hopes
The WHO has withdrawn an earlier statement of issuing 'immunity passports' for recovered patients. News about certificates being issued to patients who now have recovered has been doing the rounds. WHO says that if issued without proper verification, it could lead to an increase in health risk.
Rejection of masks from China
The federal health minister has rejected the use of masks made in Wuhan, which was the epicentre of the virus. Greg Hunt has said there was a high-level agreement that had ensured the steady supply of testing kits, masks, and ventilators. But the story is slowly changing now with private players entering the supply chain.
Asia starts to ease restrictions on lockdowns.
Countries in Asia like India and South-Korea have been affected adversely by lockdowns. These countries have eased restrictions to ensure that economies have a transition time while recovering. The world economies in this part of the country have opened specific sectors paramount for the survival of citizens.
Ease of restrictions in Europe
Belgium has eased lockdown restrictions to allow for the resumption of some services. Hospitals and the textile industry have been opened while bars and restaurants will be allowed to open from June 8.
In France, the government has set May 11 as the date for reopening some businesses. The use of masks and sanitisers will be a must necessity for business reopening.
Partial opening of business in the US
In the US, governors have started to ease restrictions with limited applicability of these restrictions being based on strict social distancing. This to help the economy recover from devastating effects of the health pandemic. The president has assured American citizens of a smooth transition with a budget of $484 billion being advanced to aid during the period.
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Amazon.com Inc.'s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are the last two companies competing for the US Department of Defense's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, according to the Pentagon.
The JEDI contract is the Pentagon's effort for tech modernization within the department. The contract is estimated to be worth $10 billion over a 10-year period for a single cloud service provider, which will be in charge of hosting and distributing mission-critical workloads and classified military data to soldiers around the world.
The contract has been open to bidders for a year, with Amazon Inc., Microsoft Corp, IBM, and Oracle Corp being the front-runners among the candidates.
The Defense Department's announcement confirmed that IBM and Oracle have been removed from the potential awardees, with the Pentagon implying that the two companies did not meet the minimum requirements for the program.
"I can confirm that AWS and Microsoft are the companies that met the minimum requirements outlined in the Request for Proposals," said the Department of Defense's spokeswoman Elissa Smith in a statement.
At first, the Defense Department said it would pick a winner for the contract this month. However, the selection has been moved to mid-July at the earliest due to a protracted legal battle, according to Smith.
Allegations have surfaced, claiming that the selection process has been mired with unethical behavior and conflicts of interests while slowing down the process.
The Pentagon has announced a couple of months ago that it was investigating new information about possible conflicts of interest related to its procurement process. The allegations from Oracle pointed fingers at Deap Ubhi, a former employee in Pentagon's high-level tech unit.
The lawsuit was filed last December in the US Court of Federal Claims, accusing Ubhi of manipulating the design of the contract to be favorable to Amazon. The lawsuit claimed that Ubhi was, at the time, negotiating with the e-commerce giant regarding the sales of his own company.
The lawsuit further explained that in October 2017, Ubhi admitted the partnership with Amazon. He had then recused himself from working on the procurement process, resigning from the Pentagon two weeks later.
On the flipside, the government claimed that Ubhi was involved in the JEDI procurement only during the beginning of the project. It was after he left that a "robust" debate of the acquisition strategy commenced.
According to Smith, their investigation "determined that there is no adverse impact on the integrity of the acquisition process." The Defense Department is planning to ask the court to lift a stay in the case.


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Homer Rice was a football coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1978 to 1979, finishing his career as the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. Over his two years of coaching his teams compiled a cumulative win/loss record of 8-24-0. He was the head coach of the Bengals for the 1979 season. The Bengals went 4-12-0 in this lone season as a head coach. During his career he was a head coach for one season.
Homer Rice Coaching Tree
Before he was a head coach, Rice served as an assistant coach for Bill Johnson. He spent one years as an assistant coach to Bill Johnson, finishing as the interim head coach/quarterbacks coach in 1978. One assistant coach from his coaching staffs, Frank Gansz, was eventually hired as a head coach. After coaching on Homer Rice's coaching staff, he was the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs for two seasons where he combined for a regular season record of 8-22-1 and 0-0 in the playoffs.
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Named the interim head coach during the 1978 season for the Cincinnati Bengals
Past teams coached for: Cincinnati Bengals
Homer Rice was an accomplished athlete and played with the Brooklyn Dodgers and was briefly a teammate of Jackie Robinson.


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Beer business brewing in downtown Gilroy
By Bryce Stoepfel -
DOWNTOWN DRINKING Promised Land Brewing Company will be neighbors with Bartender Unions. Golden State Brew and Grill and the upcoming Lonely Oak Brew Pub and Pizzeria will be nearby.
Downtown Gilroy is going to get a lot more brew-tiful in 2018.
By the end of the year, the downtown will add two new breweries, Promised Land Brewing Company and Lonely Oak Brew Pub and Pizzeria.
Bartenders Union, a place for the low-key lovers of the suds was followed by Golden State Brew and Grill, which later in 2018 is to include a full restaurant and an onsite brewery. Now Eric Ingram, co-owner of BBQ 152, plans to open Promised Land Brewing Company, a full-scale brewery, and bar at the old tortilla factory at 7419 Monterey Street.
He'll be joined, just down the street, by Lorenzo Jaso's Lonely Oak Brew Pub and Pizzeria at 7373 Monterey Road. Both will brew their own craft beers.
In keeping with a love of fine craft beer that has become a staple at Ingram's chain of barbeque restaurants—which not only includes Trail Dust BBQ in Morgan Hill, Mission St. BBQ and others—Promised Land Brewing Company represents the entrepreneurs' first foray into mass producing craft beer.
The idea for Promised Land Brewing Company has been brewing for at least 10 years for Ingram. After a search of potential sites, with the help of Christian Renz at Renz and Renz Real Estate, Ingram settled on the location after almost three years of looking.
"The building has a lot of character and we got a great deal from the owner, George Hall and we want to be there for the next 20 years," Ingram said. "We see a lot of potential in downtown Gilroy. We saw a complete turnaround for downtown Morgan Hill and we think the same thing will happen in Gilroy."
For Jaso, who is working in a partnership with his father, Greg Jaso, President of Integrated Building Systems, Lonely Oak Brew Pub and Pizzeria represents a new beginning for an old building that formerly was a brewery and bakery in the 1800's.
"We're pushing to open around July or August," Jaso said. "We're just getting through the permitting process. The building won't need that much work. It already has a brick oven from the old bakery."
Golden State Brew and Grill owner Seth Hendrickson is not afraid of the competition. He embraces it. For him, a rising tide, of beer, in this case, raises all ships.
"The entire Bay Area is an underserved beer market," Hendrickson said. "There's much more of a demand than there is supply for breweries here. We're ready to see this whole town change in the next couple of years and we want to make the downtown a destination."
Like Hendrickson, Jaso and Ingram both believe that new breweries will not deter business but will help to make downtown Gilroy a destination for bar hoppers looking to sample a variety of craft beer.
"Santa Cruz is about the same size of Gilroy and they have about a dozen breweries and everyone there does just fine," Jaso said.
For Tammy Brownlow, President/CEO of the Gilroy Economic Development Corporation, the new breweries are a good reason to say, "cheers."
"Golden State, Promised Land and Lonely Oak are spaced out enough that the foot traffic should help surrounding businesses downtown," Brownlow said. "Now that many buildings have been seismically retrofitted which can now be occupied, along with the strong economy, we are seeing an uptick in businesses interested in downtown."
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There are hella pubs downtown, but still no dispensary. Great Job Gilroy politicians. You "really" know what you are doing


First, note that this event is only Wednesday 7-9:30pm, and Friday 7-9:30pm – no Thursday gathering. Two evenings – Wednesday and Friday. Also, there's important info at the end, so read this whole thing please. Love.
We're plugging away at tracking the record. Vocals getting done this week hopefully, which means that we're quickly moving on to gathering our citywide worship choir… YOU!
Check out the first video posted below – Creatures of The King. Similar to what we did there, we're gathering up the choir to record your beautiful worshipping voices. Except this time it's not just for a video – you'll be on the first MKEW record!
Last time we did this was super lovely. You sounded great (just listen to the Creatures song!) and it was really fun to look around the room and see people from churches across the city getting to know one another and pouring their hearts out in worship. Here's a beautiful opportunity for you to welcome your family and friends into the MKEW crew and also to develop a broader understanding of and affection for the Church in Milwaukee. Oh yes.
We'll be tracking half the songs on Wednesday, and half on Friday. It would be super helpful for consistency's sake if you could make it to both nights, but not necessary.
We don't have the songs totally ready yet- still recording final lead vocals and some other things. We wanted to get this invite out so you can save the dates, and we'll post rough mixes on our soundcloud account for you to get familiar with before the choir gatherings- hopefully next week. We'll be moving quickly to hopefully track 6 songs on Wednesday night, and 6 songs Friday night, so the more prep you can do, the better.
Thank you so incredibly much for encouraging us along the way, supporting the kickstarter, worshipping with us at MKEW Nights, bringing meals during recording, all the calls and texts and messages checking up on us and letting us know you're praying with us… You friends are amazing and are beautiful expressions of the Father's heart for us. See you soon!


Are there sword shops in Minneapolis, MN?
QUESTION: I would like to buy a sword that I can see and hold first. Are there any sword shops in the Minneapolis area?
Unfortunately, I am not too sure about the location of any bricks and mortar stores there. However I will leave this question open so that if any other visitors stumble upon it and know the answer, they can inform you accordingly.
Sorry I couldn't be of more direct help.
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Hey. Actually there is a sword shop in Minneapolis. It is called Arms & Armor. Go to http://www.armor.com/ for more info.
To add on to what you just said, if you're looking for anime swords and things based off movies or shows, there are a lot there as well. I'm going soon to get Ichigo Kurosaki's Tensa Zangetsu from Bleach. Check it out! It's an anime lover's dream shop of weapons! There's even a gunblade!
I know two Location for bleach swords.
The first location I know that has a Bleach Sword is at the Hmong Village.
The last one I know is located in Mall Of America, it's on the third floor in a old Chinese store I hope I helped A Little.
If you're willing to put up with the drive, and any preconceived notion of what to expect, the Ren Fest is where I've gotten a few in the past. My favorite is Angel Sword hands down. There's more than just that, too. Anything from $200~$10,000. If you can't wait, or just hate the Ren Fest, you should try Arms and Armor. Great customer service and amazing swords. If you're willing to shell out a bit more cash than normal, you could have something custom made by them. Can't praise them enough for their quality and commitment to realism.
Try the Rising Sun on the corner of Cleveland and Marshal in St. Paul. The owner's name is Lynn and she has some Chinese and Japanese swords.
I just visited Arms & Armour swords in Minneapolis.
They are on the corner of Stinson Blvd and Broadway in the middle of a long brick bldg. You can park on Stinson. Continental Clay is on the north end of the bldg.
These guys forge/make/finish their own swords and weapons from quality steel and their prices are very reasonable! Plus, there is no junk steel.
I spoke with Craig Johnson who has been in the steel blade business for 30 years. Very knowledgeable guy.


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Benjamin Franklin: the art of self-education
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAS A GENIUS of many gifts. He was a scientist, an inventor, a printer, a writer, a patriot and diplomat. However, he did not allow all these pursuits to keep him from being a devoted family man, taking keen delight in his wife and children and grandchildren, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and cousins. There was never anything the least remote or solitary about him; he always loved company, both masculine and feminine. He had an extraordinary gift for friendship, and, up to the end of his life, was never too busy to write scores of letters to his men and women friends, old and young, famous and not-so-famous.
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Franklin was not a conventionally handsome man, nor a glib talker, but he was always fascinating to women of all ages. One reason was that he was practically the only man of his day to treat women as if they had any intelligence. As one of his biographers observes, "Always a person himself, Franklin treated every woman as if she were a person, too, and made her feel more truly one than ever. Because he loved, valued, and studied women, they were no mystery to him, and he had no instinctive fear of them. Statesman and scientist, profoundly masculine, he took women into account as well as any other force of nature."
Franklin's career as a patriot and diplomat is familiar. Franklin as a friend and family man is less well known—yet, it is important to become acquainted with Franklin's genius in human relationships, because home and family and friendship, mutual trust and affection, form so large a part of the truly democratic way of life. There has never been any other notable figure in American history whose human relationships were so warm, so interesting, so varied.
Franklin was one of fifteen children. His father was a tallow-chandler, his mother a typical hardworking housewife in a house that was small and inconvenient. In his autobiography, Franklin tells little of his early years except to say that, when he was seven years old, all his family tried to keep him from making so much noise around the house with a penny whistle.
Josiah Franklin, candle maker and father of Benjamin Franklin
Even after Franklin became world famous, he never lost touch with that large bustling household. He sent his brothers and sisters money; he took nieces and nephews into his own home and saw to their education; he always took the time to write long letters to his mother, letters about the things she would like to hear, his simple everyday life, rather than his political or scientific activities. Once he wrote to her, "I would rather have it said of me, 'He was useful,' than, 'He died rich.' " And she, the mother of a man whom the world delighted to honor, sent him a few loving misspelled letters in return.
Franklin had very little formal education, two years, in fact. He learned wherever and whatever he could, and he, the future scientist, failed in arithmetic. But he was the sort of boy who would have educated himself in a desert, because he had curiosity and boundless energy and, soaring ambition. One of his ambitions was to improve his character. In his early teens, he drew up a very solemn and earnest list of the virtues he wished to practice: Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
This imposing program does not seem to have daunted him. He kept a little account book where he recorded his successes and failures with the virtues, and he did not try to practice them all at once, but practiced each one separately for a week. Since he wanted thirteen virtues, and there were fifty-two weeks in a year, he hoped to practice each virtue four times a year! He seems to have found humility easiest, and in his own words, orderliness, the hardest. We know that he practiced frugality, because he became a vegetarian and teetotaler, in order to save money. He was always cleanly. Long afterward, when he was Ambassador to France, the French newspapers commented often on the special whiteness of his linen.
In spite of all these virtues, Franklin was no prig. He liked a good time as much as any boy, and became an expert swimmer. He even learned to swim and fly a kite at the same time, being drawn along the surface of the water by the power of the kite. He fell in and out of love, like any other adolescent, and, to his family's horror, ran away to Philadelphia. When he landed in that city, having rowed part of the way, he was tired and dirty and the pockets of his homespun suit were stuffed out with shirts and stockings. His first thought was food. He bought three loaves of bread and walked down the street, a loaf under each arm, eating the third loaf. That was when his future wife, Deborah Read, saw him first, as she stood in the doorway of her father's house and laughed heartily at the spectacle he made. She was a handsome healthy high-colored girl, and young Benjamin Franklin must not have been discouraged by her laughter, because he took lodgings with her family and set about the business of courting his Deborah. However, her family thought the lovers were far too young and the lovers parted with many vows to be faithful forever.
The disappointed suitor took a boat for England where he became apprentice in a London printing shop. He wrote Deborah only one letter all the while he was away, a mistake he was to regret bitterly. Deborah, thinking he had forgotten her, married a ne'er-do-well, with whom she was never happy, and from whom she parted as soon as she discovered he had another wife living. On his return from London, Franklin found Deborah remorseful and despondent. Franklin said it was all his fault for having left her, and what did the past matter, since they still loved each other. They were married.
Franklin had always believed in marriage, and, all his life, advocated young marriages. Often he said that reasonable friendship, rather than blind emotion, should be the basis for marriage. His and Deborah's marriage had friendship and emotion, too. As Franklin said, "We throve together and have ever mutually endeavored to make each other happy." He set up a little shop in part of his house, in connection with his printing shop, where Deborah sold books and stationery and his mother-in-law sold salves and ointments she had made. Their first customer was a farmer who, to their intense delight, bought five shillings worth. There, in a room over the shop, Franklin's son, Francis, was born, who died of smallpox at the age of four. Long afterward, Franklin wrote to his sister . . . "though it is thirty-six years since Franky died, I cannot think of him without a sigh."
Shortly before Deborah died, in her seventies, Franklin wrote her: "It seems but the other day since you and I were ranked amongst the boys and girls, so swiftly does time fly. We have, however, great reason to be thankful that so much of our lives has passed so happily." Franklin, much more than most husbands of his day, was anxious to make his wife's domestic work as easy as possible.
He invented, for better household heating, the Franklin Stove, which he called the Pennsylvania Fireplace. When he put it on the market, he cleverly addressed his advertising to women. He said that, on account of imperfect heating systems, women got "colds in the head, rheums, and defluxions, which fall into their jaws and gums, and have destroyed many a fine set of teeth in these northern colonies. Great and bright fires do very much contribute to damage the eyes, dry and shrivel the skin, and bring on early the appearance of old age." Naturally his stove sold very well indeed. To make his home safe from lightning, Franklin invented the lightning rod, which led to all his further experiments with electricity.
Franklin always paid a great deal of attention to dress, both his own and women's. He was far from being a fop, but he was always appropriately dressed. In France, for instance, he at first wore a coonskin cap, because he knew the French liked to think of him as a man out of the wilderness. When he appeared at the French Court after the treaty of aid and friendship between France and the United States, he wore no wig or sword, but simple brown velvet, white hose, his hair hanging loose, and a white hat under his arm. "He was much the most conspicuous among the envoys," a spectator said.
Though Franklin was affectionately devoted to Deborah all her life, he had numerous friendships with women, and, the older he became, the more fascinating to women he was. When he was Ambassador to France in his seventies, his picture was on thousands of miniatures, medallions, statuettes, rings, watches, vases, handkerchiefs and dishes, all eagerly purchased by the fair sex. Past seventy, after Deborah's death, he proposed marriage to a French lady who turned him down, but her refusal did not disturb their friendship. Years later he wrote her, "Often in my dreams I have breakfast with you, I sit beside you on one of your hundred sofas, I walk with you in your beautiful garden."
Franklin could not have occupied such important diplomatic posts, in America, in England, and in France, had he not known how to handle men with consummate tact and wisdom. One of his greatest pleasures was organizing clubs for men, and, almost everywhere he went, he founded one. The most famous was the Junto Club, which he organized in his youth in Philadelphia. Its purpose was to discuss questions of the day, questions such as: "Have you observed lately any encroachment on the just liberties of the people?" The Club met in a tavern, and between questions, drank a mild glass of wine. Many young men have organized clubs for discussion, but Franklin is the only man to have kept such a club alive for almost half a century.
This presentation of the less familiar side of Benjamin Franklin's life cannot, in such a brief time, give more than a glimpse of him as a friend and family man. His character was so complex, his activities so multiple, that whole books could be written on any one of his interests. However, we cannot leave this glimpse of Franklin without saying that Franklin, all his life, was filled with an abiding faith in a God. Just a few weeks before his death, he wrote to the President of Yale: "You desire to know something of my religion. . . . Here is my creed: I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by his Providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this."
SOURCE: WISDOM MAGAZINE, March 1958 "Benjamin Franklin the very human philosopher"


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Howard & Marilee Williams
An Autobiography: April 2001
Howard and Marilee Williams were married October 31, 1970 after a summer courtship and their six collective kids having summer picnics, swim parties and trips together. This is the story of their lives before meeting and their lives together since.
Howard's early years in Indiana
I was born Howard Walter Williams in Evansville, Indiana on October 18, 1937. I was the eldest child of Walter and Marie Williams. The Great World Depression had pressed down on the world like a lead weight for five years previously and there was no relief in sight. Had we known the relief would come in the form of a world war we would have opted for the depression to continue. There was war ongoing in Europe and in the far East.
No one could have predicted that I would see a world war as a boy just as my father did. His war started when he was 3 in 1911. "My" war spread across Europe and into Russia on the one axis and from Japan to China and the South Pacific at the opposite world axis. Gradually by December 7, 1941, when I was 4 and my father was 33, it became a world wide war. Two generations –two world wars. And a world depression in between. Not the best of times. Yet in my little world, in southern Indiana on the Ohio River, life was good and those factors didn't cause me a lot of grief.
My parents had worked hard all their lives, were able to get and keep jobs and they saved every cent they could. My parents saved enough to buy a home before having me. Something very rare in any timeframe, especially in the depression years. I lived in a nice home on Lafayette Street in the north end of Evansville and didn't feel deprived of anything. I didn't know what a depression was. Because of their industriousness and their frugality which made sure the necessities were available. Looking back, I can see the reasons ice cream wasn't bought every time it was asked for. And why that teddy bear in the window cost too much.
I did know what World War II was by the time I was 5 or 6. My friends and I played with small model war airplanes and wooden guns. My dad made me a wooden machine gun that would make a rat a tat tat sound of a small stick clacking over a cogged wheel when I turned the crank. My friends would dig trenches and fox holes. An abandoned car in the backyard of one friend was a "tank" and we could throw dirt clods at it. When I was 7 the war took a turn for the good when the Allies landed at Normandy on D-Day June 1941. The LST ships dad helped build were vital to that and other campaigns.
I started Henry Reis School in kindergarden in September 1942 and remember the first day vaguely. Finger painting is the most memorable to me. In later grades we played marbles on the bare dirt ground by drawing a circle and shooting marbles out of the center. On frozen winter days we would slide on ice and see who could slide the farthest. Cousin Bob Bollinger was two grades ahead of me. Twice a day a bugler would play taps and everyone would salute the raising and lowering of the national flag. I attended that school until early 1946 and completed the third grade before moving to California.
Relative to the War, I started school just 10 months after Pearl Harbor and left Henry Reis less than a year after VJ day. No wonder everyone was so patriotic with the flag. We didn't talk of the war at school. But in those early school years there were tens of millions of people killed by war and the diseases that go with it. I remember celebrations vaguely of VE day when Germany surrendered.
The school is still there as of 1984 and is very much the same as in the 40s. We had one car that Dad generally drove to International Steel to work so I walked to school. This included days with snow which was always a treat. We loved to pick cockle-burrs about the size of a small pea and throw them at each other because they would stick on our clothing. We carried a lunch pail. I remember traumatic incidents best. Seeing a dead dog by the side of Heidlebach Avenue. Seeing a kid throw his lunch pail in the air and hitting another on the head causing blood to gush. Having an older kid tell me that he knew a guy who had a deep hole punched in his heel when he was crossing the street and that it could happen to me.
There is a vivid recollection of Mom and Aunt Ruth talking seriously in the living room when Mom knew that brother Harold was coming. They knew that but I'm sure I didn't. I heard "blah blah ..take Howard to my house…blah blah, did you call the doctor. Is he coming soon?" I would have been 3 or 4 so I was very concerned for that to be burned in my memory. Also the terrible crying when he was circumcised. Again, I didn't know what was going on and neither did Harold. Sister Janet was born in 1943 when I was in the first grade.
Mom had two identical twin brothers, Earl and Neal who lived several blocks away. Bob Bollinger was Neal's son and only child. Mom also had a younger sister Ruth and their mother, my grandmother, Lula Barth-Bollinger, who also lived close by. My grandfather on Mom's side died before I can remember. All lived within two blocks of each other.
Dad had a very large family. His mother died when he lived on the farm in Posey County, Indiana near the town of Mount Vernon. His father couldn't keep the farm going and moved them to town. But shortly he died of spinal meningitis and his older sisters raised them. Stella was the oldest and became his new mom. Dad had seven sisters and two brothers. The boys were all the youngest. If they were the oldest, chances are his dad could have made a go of the farm. The farmhouse he was born in is still in very good shape and Harold and I have separately visited it. Uncle Bob was dad's non-identical twin. They really looked identical in many ways. I remember visiting Bob in mid 80s when he was in his 70s and seeing such a strong resemblance. Dad's other brother was Bill and was nicknamed Stocky from the time he used to like to hang around the stockyards and see the cattle and the operations there. He was 6 ft 5 inches tall and stood out in a crowd in that generation.
I remember we would visit Aunt Lula and Aunt Eva in their homes closer to downtown Both their husbands worked for the railroad. Many did in those days. They had no children at home at that time so how to keep little Howard quiet while they talked was a problem. I would get stern lectures on the way home about being too rambunctious. Going to Aunt Grace's large two story house was a different story. She had kids of every age and type. We would have fun with the piano and just playing kids play. Marlene was the closest to my age. Marlene later spent years taking care of Stocky and his wife in their last years and was very selfless in that. Going to visit Aunt Lillian gave me a curiosity about their pot bellied stove. Shirley was about my age also and I remember our playing there.
There were some traditions that were special. Christmas Eve was often at Aunt Ruth and Uncle Franks. There would be presents for all the kids. Aunt Ruth really loved to decorate for Christmas and it was special to her. Mom's uncle Benjamin Barth "Ben" would have family picnics that I believe were annual. Probably on his birthday. They were in a park. Maybe Garvins or Mesker. He would make a delicious beef vegetable soup that was special in that the ingredients were ground up before cooking. The texture and taste was fairly homogeneous that way and it was easy to eat. Several generations of our family ate mom's version of Uncle Ben's "Burgo" soup as he called it. The name implies a German ancestry with a meaning something like "town" in the manner of the name berg. I seem to remember one very big pot it was made in. It was in good weather and a lot of beer was consumed which probably made the soup even better. These Burgo fests were done even in wartime and were very much enjoyed.
One other culinary delight that is popular in the Evansville area is thin sliced pork in barbecue sauce. It is a specialty of restaurants in town and of many townsfolk probably. The barbecue sauce is not especially sweet or thick like those currently popular. It is soupy and soaks into the thin sliced and well done lean meat. All my life I have been able to recall and crave its taste. Same with all the uncles and aunts that came west. There are probably several herbs and spices that are used in a secret formula to give that taste. Also, compared to the other meats we ate that were a little "lower on the hog" prime cuts of pork would be delicious no matter how cooked. Compared to ground beef heart and brain made into fried patties, it was especially good.
Once there was a family get-together at a farm north of the airport and I remember the chicken and dumplings. Also the tour of the root cellar where there were lots of canned pickles. Don't know who lived there but it was a special time.
The Williams relatives lived closer to downtown and the homes were on very narrow lots not much wider than 30 feet or so. But they were very deep allowing for gardens and grass and had alleys in the back and sidewalks I the front. Aunts Eva and Lula lived in these small houses all their adult lives. Modern women would look down on their small size but they were very practical in many ways compared to new houses of today in California. They were very affordable and could easily be bought by young couples and paid off in more like 10 years than 30. Utilities would be one-tenth that of modern large homes. They had an attic for storage. I would guess that they were less than 500 square feet.
The cars were very practical also. We had a 1935 4 door black Chevy which was reliable and very capable to meet our needs. It was much like a Model A Ford but advanced more by a couple years. You sat up in it and could see well out of it's square windows. The four cylinder engine was low pressure and very very simple. Many repairs could be done without special tools or knowledge. Nothing was hydraulic so there were no pumps or filters or lines to leak. Even brakes were mechanical. When you pushed on the brake there were mechanical levers that went to the brake pads on the wheels. If you dinged a fender you didn't have to get a special paint touchup. All cars were black.
Telephones didn't have dials or buttons. You turned a crank which generated signal to the local operator. She connected your line physically to the line of the party you were calling.
There were no televisions in home use. People were working on their invention about then. Our radios were in large and bulky wood cabinets. Partly to allow for a reasonably large speaker made of paper that would serve well. Some had 78 rpm phonograph record players. Ours didn't. The large size helped make them sturdy. Us kids would lay down on the floor to put our ears close to the radio speaker to hear programs that appealed too us and not our parents. We liked G-Men in Action about the FBI catching criminals. And Fibber McGee's comedy. His wife Molly and he would have funny conversations about everyday life. He had a closet full of his things and whenever he went to get something out of it there would be a loud crash of his unorganized things onto the floor. Also Amos and Andy. The special programs were the scary ones like the Shadow and the Whistler. "The Shadow knows many things for he walks by night". A little organ music and we were riveted. Jack Benny also was funny with his dry sarcasm that fit well into any mid-west home.
Today's kids would feel those programs were laughably simple. But we enjoyed them as much as those of the 21st century. They really used our imagination. We would stare into the speaker and "see" the faces of each person talking. They would look the same each week. And everyone had a face. No one was faceless just because it was radio..
Of course the special treat was to see the movies at the theatre. I only remember one in the early 40s. It was "The Wolfman" with Lon Cheney. Scared the pee out of me almost literally. I believe all were black and white. The newsreels from the war were the only way we could get a glimpse of what the war was like and they were well sanitized.
A favorite pastime for young boys during the war was to hold small warplane models and make them swoop and dive shooting at make believe Germans and Japanese.
Soon to come:
H family Going to California
H Pre High School
H High School
H College
Aerojet Azusa
Divorce and Meeting M
M Early years
M moves to SB
M High School
Betty and the Girls
Norton AFB
Divorce and meets H
Brady Bunch Years
The late 70s
Looking to Retirement
Copyright © 2001 Williams Family from Evansville, Indiana


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Home Giving Back RSVP Northern Virginia volunteer named Points of Light award recipient
RSVP Northern Virginia volunteer named Points of Light award recipient
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ALEXANDRIA, VA –RSVP Northern Virginia Volunteer Denise (Dee) Mackie-Smith of Alexandria, has been selected as a Daily Point of Light honoree by the Points of Light Foundation.
RSVP Northern Virginia volunteer Denise (Dee) Mackie-Smith is shown at the headquarters of New Hope Housing Inc. in Fairfax County in this 2017 photo. (RSVP Northern Virginia Photo/Rob Paine)
Mackie-Smith has played a major role as a volunteer to help those seeking affordable housing and employment in the City of Alexandria and along the Route 1 Corridor in Fairfax County.
She is a volunteer with and sits on the board of RSVP partner New Hope Housing Inc., a Fairfax County-based nonprofit whose mission is "to provide homeless families and individuals shelter and the tools to build a better life."
"I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good," Bush said in 1989. (Courtesy photo)
The Points of Light Foundation was created in 1990 as a nonprofit to promote the spirit of volunteerism as described by President George H.W. Bush in his inaugural address.
Points of Light's affiliate network consists of more than 200 volunteer-mobilizing organizations (including Volunteer Fairfax of which RSVP Northern Virginia is a program of) that share a common mission, goals and approach, according to the foundation.
In 1989, President Bush created the Daily Points of Light (DPOL) Award to recognize those who are taking direct voluntary action to solve serious social problems, locally and globally.
Mackie-Smith also serves on the board of the Alexandria Commission on the Aging. In 2012, she founded the Northern Virginia chapter of Les Gemmes and served two years as the group's national vice president . Les Gemmes is a nonprofit whose members support various community causes.
Since 1989, over 6,000 people have been honored with this award. Mackie-Smith is the 6,164 person to receive the honor, according to the foundation.
In addition to her work with the homeless in the Alexandria area, she supports the RSVP program each week with her administrative skills at RSVP's headquarters at Volunteer Fairfax. Mackie-Smith has been with RSVP Northern Virginia for two years.
"Dee is one of the most dedicated volunteers I have had the pleasure of working with, "said Nadia Hoonan, program manager of RSVP Northern Virginia. As part of Daily Point of Light honor, Mackie-Smith will receive a certificate signed by President Bush.
RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) is the region's largest volunteer network for people 55 and older and provides individualized support to seniors seeking service opportunities in and around Fairfax County, Arlington County and the City of Alexandria.
"Whether it is helping at our office or helping those in need of affordable housing, Dee is always busy serving her community," Hoonan says. " She is truly deserving of this award. She is a real difference maker and her record of service speaks for itself!"
The Daily Point of Light award is one in a string of honors Mackie-Smith has garnered for her volunteer work since completing a 37 year career in the federal government in 2011.
Mackie-Smith received the 2017 RSVP Northern Virginia Award from Volunteer Alexandria in October. She received a similar honor from Volunteer Fairfax at its annual Volunteer Service Awards breakfast in April.
"Denise has been one of our most proactive volunteers turned advocates. Not only does she serve, she has opened up her network to serving, inviting other members to tours and to serve New Hope Housing's clients," wrote Sami Smyth, volunteer coordinator for New Hope in the nomination that lead to Mackie-Smith getting the Volunteer Fairfax-RSVP honor in 2017.
"Denise is the type of volunteer you look for as a non-profit. Denise contributes in so many ways. She is a wonderful ambassador for New Hope Housing," said Pam Michell, executive director at New Hope Housing. "She has volunteered with individuals residents and in the administrative office. She has connected us to other groups she works with -RSVP, Les Gemmes, and the Alexandria Council on Aging and she serves on our board. What more could we ask from a volunteer!"
Volunteer Fairfax will open nominations for the 2018 RSVP award on January 4, 2018.
RSVP volunteers enjoy flexible schedules, free accident and liability insurance while serving, optional mileage and meal reimbursement and are invited to volunteer group projects and social gatherings.
RSVP offers its volunteers more than 200 different opportunities across Northern Virginia including providing rides, support and meals to older neighbors, assisting local veterans in need and helping prepare communities for disasters.
To learn more about RSVP or to sign up for an upcoming orientation, please email RSVP Volunteer Specialist Carly Hubicki at chubicki@volunteerfairfax.org or call the RSVP Hotline at 703-403-5360 or visit www.rsvpnova.org.
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Yesterday afternoon, freshmen received tours of MIT's athletic facilities as part of a new addition to Orientation - Sports and Wellness at MIT.
The activity began in Kresge Auditorium, with presentations about athletics and health at the Institute.
Partially introduced as a replacement for Project Move Off Your Assumptions, the activity was designed as an integrated introduction to athletics and health activities at MIT.
Cheerleaders performed in Kresge. Later, they were joined by members of the women's crew and field hockey teams for a ragged rendition of the MIT cheer.
After the performance, William M. Kettyle, associate director of MIT Medical, spoke about student health at MIT. His talk focused on "the five S's": sleep, sustenance, sweat, stretch, and shower.
Kettyle presented the freshmen with data showing how errors by car drivers, airplane pilots, and in reaction time increase during periods when people are normally asleep.
He went on to emphasize the importance of regular meals, exercise, and stretching for MIT students. "Fanny fatigue" can be a problem at the Institute, he said.
Kettyle then introduced Stuart Schmill '86, head coach for crew at the Institute. Schmill provided an introduction to the athletic system at MIT. He also announced that the athletic facilities would be open free to freshmen through the first week of the semester.
More students participate in various athletic activities at MIT than at almost any other college, Schmill said.
That may be because MIT students have more free time than students at other colleges, he said, "but I was a student here, and I don't think you'll find that that's the case."
After Schmill's speech, the freshmen left Kresge and rejoined their orientation groups. Each group combined with four others with consecutive atomic numbers to participate in a cyclic tour of the athletic facilities at MIT.
The groups spent ten minutes at each stop on their tour. During that time, they heard talks by and asked questions of coaches, athletic department employees, and student athletes.
During the tour, members of many sports teams showed off for the freshmen.
As each group of new students walked through Steinbrenner Stadium, they watched the varsity football team in various stages of drills and practice.
The crew team set up an eight-man shell in front of Kresge to greet the freshmen as they emerged and answer any questions about their sport.
"I think the opportunity for people to actually see the activities, rather than just hearing or reading about them, will be positive," said Roger Crossby, director of sports information and one of the presenters.
This may improve sports recruiting, or it may increase attendance at sports events, Crossby said. "If we get one more of each, that's positive."
Along the tour, many presenters continued to emphasize the health aspects of athletics. Larry Anderson, a basketball coach, quoted the Book of Proverbs, saying, "If you have a sound mind, you can also have a sound body."
Staying active physically is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, Anderson said.
Student reaction to the event was generally positive. "I found the tours very informative," said Keith A. Bonawitz '02.
"I didn't do any sports in high school, but I'm looking to get involved" in sports at MIT, Bonawitz said.
"I think it was a good idea, getting to see everything that was available," said Effy J. Klopfer '02.
Organizers also called the event a success. "I think it went great," said Interfraternity Council President Duane H. Dreger '99, the organizer of the event. "It's a lot better than the old MOYA."
The response from freshmen has been very good, Dreger said. They were happy to see all their options, he said.


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The FastFig Blog: FastFig Goes Live!
Fig Buddies, as of yesterday we are out of beta and live to the world!
Press release is pasted below.
AUSTIN, TX, February 27, 2013– Math just got better.
After 18 months in development, the new math software FastFig went out of beta and live to the world last night. The cloud-based platform plans to change the way students do math.
By combining a powerful math computation engine with an easy-to-use notepad that solves as users type, FastFig instantly delivers the easiest and most painless experience for students in math courses and professionals working with math every day.
FastFig can be accessed from any computer and is completely cloud-based, unlike cumbersome, locally installed competitors like those licensed by Universities. It is also easy to use, providing a painless experience and seamless access to a powerful math engine for even math software beginners.
The proprietary FigPad interface intelligently discerns whether the user is typing math or text, and then formats and solves the notes automatically. FastFig's collaborative tools allow users to save and share their FigPads with other users anywhere in the world.
The story of FastFig began two years ago, when FastFig Founder and CTO Brian Peacock was an engineering student with insufficient tools. All of the software his school purchased was difficult to use and required that he be at one computer – not using multiple devices the way he and his classmates all did regularly. Finding himself constantly working with pen, paper and calculator, he decided there had to be a better way, and began teaching himself to code so he could create FastFig.
According to the Department of Education, The United States graduates less than 6% of its students with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) degrees, compared with 47% in China and 38% in Korea. The decline of STEM students has been particularly acute among minority and female students. By making math more accessible and providing a convenient tool for students in early college STEM classes, FastFig aims to disrupt the academic landscape.
FastFig takes a powerful math engine and pairs it with a proprietary, patent-pending UI that intelligently determines if a user is typing math or text and formats it accordingly. Collaborative tools allow users to save their notes on any device, share them with others around the world, and print or export easily. FastFig is the lead consumer product of Fig Labs, Inc., and was funded by the prestigious DreamIt Ventures as part of their inaugural Austin program in 2013. We've been featured in stories by places like Business Insider and Technically Philly. Our official first public demo day will be during SXSW in Austin, on March 9, 2013.


Medical examination requirement of family based petitions – We have discussed the family-based petition process in several of our earlier blogs but we have not yet discussed the medical examination requirement. A medical examination is a requirement for beneficiaries of family-based petitions. The purpose of the examination is to ensure that the beneficiary is in good health and that their admission into the United States does not cause any health concerns for the beneficiary, or for the rest of the U.S. populous.
How is a Medical Examination Conducted?
What Should be Brought to the Medical Exam?
How is the Government Notified of the Results?
After your medical examination is concluded, the doctor is required to complete Form I-693. They will fill out the form and hand it to you in a sealed envelope which should be submitted to USCIS. It is important that you do not open the envelope, or the results will be invalidated. Make sure to request an additional copy from the doctor so that you have it for your personal records.


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Treasurer Davis Shares Important Lesson with Third Graders
Governor's Weekly Message: Recognizing Talents of All People to Build Our Economy
Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | Kent County | New Castle County | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Friday, March 25, 2016
Wilmington, DE – In his weekly message, Governor Markell highlights Delaware's commitment to ensuring all communities in Delaware realize their potential through meaningful work.
"We should strive every day to ensure everyone has access to opportunities to make the most of their abilities. It's a moral imperative, but it's also a fact that we only achieve our potential as a state when we tap into the talents of all of our people," Governor Markell said. "We'll continue to build on those efforts to ensure that all Delawareans have the opportunity to realize their full potential through meaningful work. And that will keep Delaware moving forward."
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