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Virginia Guard's 276th Engineer Battalion recognized for outstanding vehicle maintenance program
FORT PICKETT, VIRGNIA — The Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Mark A. Milley, has recognized the 276th Engineer Battalion of the Virginia Army National Guard for outstanding vehicle maintenance, according to senior Pentagon officials.
The battalion's high vehicle readiness came to the attention of the Army Staff last week, during an individual emergency deployment readiness exercise in Richmond, Va. During the exercise, 1st Lt. Joshua Yabut conducted a two-hour tactical convoy movement in an M577 Armored Personnel Carrier without any prior preparation, except standard preventive maintenance checks and services.
Incredibly, the vehicle remained fully operational throughout the entire exercise.
Lt. Col. Lee Jenkins, commanding the 276th Engineer Battalion, said he could not have been prouder of the performance of the Armored Personnel Carrier during the exercise.
"We don't get the best equipment. Most National Guard vehicles break down the second you start them up," Custer said after an awards ceremony. "We're very proud of our maintainers for keeping our vehicles in this top condition, ready to very literally fight tonight."
General Milley, before presenting an award to the battalion, said that they should be proud of what they have done.
"At any time, any one of you could be called upon to pick up those vehicles and drive them into battle," Milley said. "We live in the most dangerous world I have ever seen. Right now, we have to be prepared to face North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, the remnants of the Islamic State, and even Canada is looking pretty threatening right now. You have proven to America's enemies that you are ready to beat them in any battle."
Yabut's actions were "an incredible example of mission command," according to Lt. Col. Jenkins. "He got the order to make this movement happen from the voices in his head, and executed after only conducting hasty mission analysis using the Army's Ground Risk Assessment Tool. This is the sort of leadership that I would expect from not just the regular army, but really an elite unit like the special forces. One team, one fight!"
The award presented to the battalion consisted of a puke-green streamer and a signed certificate that Gen. Milley made on PowerPoint.
Fossils of prehistoric staff officer found frozen in Afghan Conex box
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Deployed soldiers found the preserved remains of a prehistoric staff officer frozen in a remote Conex box on Bagram Airfield, noting that the discovery may revolutionize the budding scientific field of "Slideology," sources confirmed today.
Soldiers stumbled upon the fossil, which they believe belongs to the species uselessum majoris, while exploring a section of the base that hadn't been visited in decades. They say the nearly completely intact remains contained rare and exquisite samples of hair and skin.
"His head was so well-preserved. Signs of male pattern baldness are still evident around the scalp," said Sgt. Kelly Holcomb. "And you can see that his stubby little sausage fingers are perfectly evolved for editing PowerPoint presentations and making red pen changes to information papers."
Researchers believe the find may offer insight into the earliest years of staff officer evolution. This is the oldest fossil found to date that shows signs of a flattened, blubber-covered pelvis designed specifically for sitting in the same place for long hours, and a resting dumb face which may have evolved to ward off task-oriented commanders.
"Contrary to what is normally seen as a violent period in evolutionary history, this specimen actually lived a fairly comfortable and luxurious life," said Dr. Steve Cristal. "We can tell from the contents of his stomach that he fed at the local dining facility four, sometimes five, times a day on a diet primarily consisting of energy drinks and ice cream."
Scientists in the area also found the preserved remains of a lieutenant which they think may have gotten lost and wandered into a local tar pit.
"We're not really surprised about this one," added Cristal. "Lieutenants are wandering into tar pits all the time."
Black Mold replaces Black Knights as official Army mascot
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The United States Military Academy at West Point announced today that all academy sports teams, previously known as the "Black Knights," are re-named the "Black Mold" in solidarity with Army families suffering from the deadly spores in military quarters.
The re-naming is a reaction to recent Congressional inquiries into the deteriorating state of living quarters throughout the Department of Defense. Multiple service members and their families report being plagued by persistent black mold as well as mice, rats, and other disease-inducing conditions. The plight of quarters residents invoked outrage in Congress and support from West Point.
"We sympathize with Army personnel and families suffering from black mold, said USMA historian Allison Wright, "and we understand the value of tradition. Believe it or not, we've never been certain how that 'Black Knight' nickname started, but black mold is actually a deep-rooted Army tradition."
"Throughout our history, American soldiers have encountered black mold in other places that are equally as comfortable as current Army quarters, like Valley Forge, Andersonville Prison, and World War I trenches just to name a few," Wright continued. "And since black mold is a tenacious adversary, it reflects the resiliency of Army personnel. As a deadly substance it sends a badass message to young cadets."
The re-naming is part of a larger effort. The USMA will begin teaching cadets the rich history of black mold. West Point will also update its etiquette guide so new lieutenants and their spouses know how to tactfully and politely inform Congress about living in slum-like living conditions.
Recognizing the need for updated symbology for the new name, USMA leaders are consulting with the Army Heraldry Institute, the Army Center of Military History, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We want new imagery that is inspiring, historically accurate, and serves as a bio-hazard warning," said Wright. USMA is reportedly receiving several symbology suggestions from the Army Chemical Corps.
"This finally gives all the chemical officers out there real jobs beyond battalion unit status reporting and voting officers," she said.
Possibly echoing the Army move, the DOD is encouraging families to adopt household rodents as pets while Congress develops solutions to the situation.
Reports that "Golden Spores" is replacing "Golden Knights" as the name for the Army parachute demonstration team could not be confirmed.
DTRA major wears his uniform for the first time in five years
FORT BELVOIR, Va. – Surprise and confusion occurred at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) headquarters when Army Maj. Greg Tomlinson wore his uniform for the first time in as long as any employee there can remember, sources confirmed today.
"Wearing it felt weird," Tomlinson said. "I've gained some weight, so I had to suck in the old gut a bit. I doubt anybody noticed."
As at most commands and activities, DTRA policy requires military personnel to wear their uniforms regularly. However, Tomlinson chose a path that could be considered unorthodox.
"I like to look sharp, and that's almost impossible in that ugly-ass mashup of camouflage and velcro called the Army Combat Uniform," Tomlinson said. "So I bought some blazers from J. Crew and ditched the ACUs. The last time I wore a uniform was on Veterans Day in 2013 to get 30 percent off at Denny's."
"But this month I got a wild hair and decided to break out the ACUs," Tomlinson said. "I found them in an old aviator kit bag in the basement next to the cat's litter box. My rank badge was stuck into the family cork board, holding up the school lunch schedule and some coupons for KFC. My beret was in our son's toy box, and how it got there is anybody's guess. Kids!"
Personnel at DTRA showed a variety of reactions to seeing Tomlinson in uniform. Sgt. Greg Gomez, administrative NCO in Tomlinson's division, mistook the major for a newly arriving officer.
"I scheduled him for a newcomer's briefing and the next unit weigh-in and PT test," Gomez said.
"It was a little odd that they scheduled me for a newcomer's briefing, but I attended anyhow and learned a lot, like that it's policy for military personnel to wear their uniforms weekly. Who knew?" said Tomlinson.
"If he's going to sham out on the uniform, he should at least get a clue about style," said Staff Sgt. Rachel Bailey. "He acts all 'Mr. Fashion' in his J. Crew outfits but in reality, Tommy fucking Hilfiger here can't match a tie to a shirt to save his life."
Wearing the uniform resulted in distinct changes in how people perceived Tomlinson and his role in DTRA activities.
"Nobody bothered me when I wore civilian clothes, said Tomlinson. "Maybe my identity was ambiguous, or people thought I was a senior warrant officer. Now that they know I'm a major, everybody keeps asking for help with their PowerPoint presentations as if I'm some kind of PowerPoint expert! Actually, I am a PowerPoint expert, so its really okay."
Tomlinson's return to the uniform may also have unintended consequences for other officers at DTRA headquarters.
"I thought he was your typical civilian with an over-inflated ego and a limited duty day," Thomas Bowles, a senior executive, said. "Now I know he's actually your typical major with an over-inflated ego. I'm going to see if we have other field grade officers masquerading as civilians. We make a lot of PowerPoint presentations here, so we need all the majors we can get."
Departing for the day, Tomlinson said he intended to "devote some serious time" to getting rock hard abs. And finding his PT uniform.
Soldier avoids UCMJ by living inside amnesty box
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A soldier in Iraq is successfully avoiding the Uniform Code of Military Justice by living inside an amnesty box, sources confirmed today.
Spc. Ray Thomas, a communications specialist deployed to Camp Taji, began residing in the amnesty box after becoming the focus of a 15-6 investigation into unauthorized drinking on post.
"It came to light that Spc. Thomas, while intoxicated in direct violation of General Order No. 1, allowed a negligent discharge of his M4 rifle in his housing unit," explained Maj. Robert Sandusky, the officer in charge of the investigation. "Unfortunately, when Spc. Thomas learned he was facing punishment that could include extra duty and/or reduction in rank, he just disappeared."
Thomas was declared AWOL 36 hours later when base security contractors discovered him inside a 5'x5′ amnesty box near the post airfield, along with his sleeping bag, a log of Copenhagen, and a rucksack full of MREs, according to sources.
"That amnesty box is essentially a legal forcefield," admitted Sandusky. "Therefore our investigation is on hold pending his emergence from said box."
Prominent experts on military law begrudgingly praised Thomas's legal acumen.
"It's a brilliant move," commented Lt. Col. Simon Curcio, an attorney for the Army's Judge Advocate General. "Under the UCMJ, nothing inside an amnesty box is subject to punishment, so they can't touch him. If he can hold out until he leaves theater, he's home free."
"He's really got them over a barrel — or over a box, so to speak" he added. "But my question is, 'where's he relieving himself?' You know what, never mind. Please don't answer that."
Soldiers on post say that despite the lack of latrine or running water, Thomas has remained in the box for six days and shows no inclination of leaving.
"Ironically, this shitbag move displays more creativity, initiative, and discipline than I've ever seen from Spc. Thomas," said Sgt. Dominic Johnson, his former squad leader. "He should be recommended for promotion to E-5 if he doesn't end up getting a GOMOR [General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand]."
Speaking from inside the amnesty box, Thomas said he has been busy making the most of his environment.
"It's amazing what people just toss in here," Thomas said. "Just in the last week, I've collected a baggie of cocaine, a smoke grenade, a vintage Penthouse from a care package, and two extra-large dildos, which I can use to weigh down the corners of my poncho."
"Plus, I'm supplementing my diet by licking used candy wrappers," he continued. "Those sort of make up for all the cigarette butts and dip spitters that fall on my head when I'm trying to sleep."
It remains to be seen whether Thomas can hold out until his redeployment flight in April, but he remains confident.
"I'm in here for the long haul, man," he said. "You know if I'm living off MREs I won't have to shit for at least another month."
E-4 accidentally joins actual mafia in mix-up
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — In an effort to join the E-4 mafia, a local soldier has instead joined the actual mafia, sources confirmed today.
Newly-promoted Spc. Rafael Hernandez first realized something was amiss when, according to his testimony in court, he stuck a hastily-constructed shiv into the base of an old Italian man's skull.
"This just didn't seem to be in line with the Army Values," Hernandez said.
Hernandez attempted to establish contact with the E-4 mafia in the traditional way, according to witness testimony. He placed an all-day appointment on his calendar, indicating that he would not be available for any additional duties. Then, Hernandez stood in front of a bathroom mirror and recited the words "I don't know anything about that, sergeant," three times. According to urban legend, after doing this, a specialist passes out and finds himself sleeping in the back of a vehicle in the motor pool while the lower-ranking enlisted do all his paperwork.
"I really thought it was going to be that easy," Hernandez said. "I mean, nobody ever told me outright how you join the E-4 mafia, but I've heard stories. It made perfect sense to me at the time."
Instead of passing out, however, Hernandez was met by a man in a seersucker suit who kept adjusting his tie as he looked at himself in the mirror. He wore an unbuttoned striped coat, and did not meet Hernandez's eyes. The man asked him if he'd be willing to give an "associate" of his a "very close shave."
"Seemed normal," said Hernandez when asked how he felt about the approach. "I thought maybe it was one of the specialists from medical hinting that he could write me a shaving waver. I always wanted a beard."
As it turned out, it meant slitting someone's throat.
"Shit, I thought 'these E-4 fuckers are hardcore,'" Hernandez said. "But alright, whatever it takes to get out of KP duty I guess."
"Normally it starts with small tasks, favors, stuff like that," FBI Agent Tricia Patel, head of the Newark Organized Crime Unit, explained in an interview after the trial. "But in this case Hernandez just went right for murder. It got him fast respect, and respect is the only currency these guys deal with."
The spree that followed involved three bank heists, two more murders, and one extremely complicated case of horse theft involving swapping a prize racehorse with a Shetland pony wearing stilts. Hernandez rose through the ranks of La Cosa Nostra in mere days, catapulting himself to lieutenant of a smaller capo.
"I thought the people calling me lieutenant were being cute," Hernandez said, "you know, because LTs don't do any work either, right? I guess I was wrong."
Hernandez was finally arrested not by local authorities, but by army MPs, after it was discovered that he had missed a mandatory urinalysis appointment.
"What's funny is that I was actually peeing at the time anyway," Hernandez said. "Just not in a cup."
Hernandez is currently out on bail and sleeping in the back of a vehicle in the motor pool.
Optimistic private sees burn pit as half full
CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – Pfc. Braddock Chase, the highest speed motivator in the 1-167th Infantry doesn't listen to the haters and draggers and prefers to see the burn pits as half full, sources confirmed today.
"A lot of guys, you know, focus on the bad shit. I focus on how much shit," said Chase, coughing up a suspiciously dark loogie. "Whatever, maybe the burn pits aren't as dank as the old timers talk about, but they're still burn pits."
Chase, a PT stud who volunteers for every additional duty, is also known for having the best e-mail signature block in the battalion. Half full, half empty, full of diseased dead camels or just human shit, Chase is always willing to see the best in his situation.
"Chase just won't stop," said Sgt. Maj. Ted Hopper. "Some guys would see a bunch of cocks drawn in the port-a-shitter and only notice that there's no balls. But not Chase. Chase would focus on all the dicks."
When reached for comment, Chase was leading his squad patrol despite his oozing eye infection in his left eye, preferring to focus on how well his right eye was working.
Absence of assassin from future confuses ambitious company commander
Aspiring military dictator wonders why agents from the future have not been sent to stop him… yet
Fort Bragg, N.C. — A company commander is expressing shock and dismay that after six years in the Army a future assassin has yet to travel back in time and attempt to kill him, sources confirmed today.
"Boundless ambition? Check. Contempt for subordinates? Check. Rejection of enlightenment values combined with a burning desire to usher in a fascistic, military-style dictatorship with myself at the helm? Check, and check," said Hawkingson. "Why haven't I been targeted for elimination by a temporal agent desperate to stop my inevitable rise to power?"
Capt. Ben Hawkingson, a company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division, has accomplished every goal he's set out for himself so far to date including: being promoted below zone, taking top honors at West Point, leading the scout platoon, intriguing against buddies during Ranger School resulting in their getting peered, and immediately taking command of B Co, 4/325, 3rd Brigade, 82nd ABCT upon arriving at Fort Bragg. In spite of all Hawkingson's successes thus far, the future has yet to reach backward to stop him.
"It wasn't until after I received a silver star for heroism in combat that I realized my true potential," Hawkingson said. "At West Point, I knew I was destined for greatness, but everything began to fall into place for me after the award. Now, I know what I'm meant to be: leader of then newly-formed United Federation of American States. So why has no temporal agent from the future been sent to destroy me while there's still a chance?"
Hawkingson said that he compulsively checks his rear-view mirror while driving, expecting at any moment that leather jacket-clad, sub-machine gun wielding operatives sent into the past from a dystopian future will pursue him on Kawasaki Ninjas. He keeps a loaded pistol in the glove compartment of his truck for this reason. Hawkingson also enrolled in a defensive driving course that taught him how to maintain control of a vehicle that's being attacked by a single well-trained martial arts expert with cybernetic implants or waves of monomaniacal assailants.
"I don't do drive-through any more," said Hawkingson, "not since my awakening. And I try to avoid tolls, too. I'd be a sitting duck."
While Hawkingson admitted that there are probably other threats he's missing because the motivated and fanatical resistance his regime will inevitably provoke has yet to invent them, he tries to keep his mind open.
"Science fiction films and television programming seem convinced that the future will include directed energy weapons, and it's already pretty easy to use drones right off the shelf," he added. "Subversive assassins may have access to the type of technology necessary to control groups of them to rain down death from above or below. Submarine drones! Think about it."
Another possibility, which Hawkingson considered briefly before dismissing it, is that time travel isn't possible.
"I suppose it's possible that at some point in the future, my bold scheme is thwarted, there is that," he said. "My plots have never failed before of course, including when I sabotaged another platoon leader's packet for Special Forces selection. But if I did fail, I guess there would be no need for an enterprising, aging quantum physicist to dedicate his life to vengeance after I somehow cause the death of his only beloved daughter."
One thing is certain, according to Hawkingson.
"If they don't kill me, in 15 to 20 years, you can expect either a presidential run from yours truly, or a no-holds barred military coup," he said. "One way or the other. It's happening."
"Unless someone thinks they can stop me!" he shouted, turning to the sky.
Command climate survey filled out in bile
FORT BLISS, Texas – Recent command climate surveys from 28th Personnel Services Battalion have proved difficult to compile due to the high proportion that were filled out in bile, semen, and spit, sources confirmed today.
"We're not really sure what's going on at the 28th PSB," said Col. Megan Smith, a spokesperson for army G1 at the Pentagon. "We weren't able to get many data points from these poorly or incorrectly completed surveys."
Command climate surveys have been a tool in the army since 2013 and are now usually completed online with a paper option. West Pointer Capt. Keith Konzel had the grand idea to initiate the 28th PSB's surveys as famously hands-on. The 28th was unique in that the entire unit completed the survey without reminders and a high proportion of soldiers opted for paper surveys.
"It's really unusual to get so much participation," said Smith, pinching her nose above a seeping pile of climate surveys. "Soldiers often feel that they can't be completely honest on the survey."
The chaplain reports an unusually high number of pastoral care requests for the company, and medics have been attempting to track down a small typhoid outbreak related to a batch of surveys covered in "sick baby shits."
At press time, G1 was close to compiling the command climate results based almost entirely on the one survey where the bubbles had been filled out to resemble a penis.
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2013-03-14 • DNA again.. Yatah waits
Start: 12:15:48
Seventies: Good afternoon Selma
Selma: Afternoon sevenites..you here by your lonesome
Seventies: yes. all by my lonesome
Selma: LOL
Seventies: How are you? We had snow this morning... ugh
Selma: Snow..ugh..we have sunshine.. Afternoon yatah
Seventies: but we have sunshine now too.. Hi yatah
Selma: Afternoon vkn
Seventies: hi vkn
vkn: Howdy Seventies Selma Yatah Selma I sent you a query re maps in email did you get? Just checkin
Selma: Maybe..haven't read all my mail yet..have to delete all the junk first.. LOL
Seventies: lol
vkn: I tried a search for GILES in Newspapers nationwide re Keli1. Negative results
Selma: Looking for an obit?
yatah: hey i wait for my dna result but it said wait till my data is loading what is mean ?
vkn: I am understanding Selma. I have some 900 at my INBox this morning. Gotta set stronger filters
Seventies: yatah, it means that your test is not done yet.
vkn: yes an obit selma
yatah: oh how long will ready ?
Selma: If they could get the First Lady's SS..how much filtering do you think we have to work with
Seventies: You will be notified once your test results are in.
yatah: they got my lab feb 16 th
vkn: lol lol lol re 1st lady
daviss: Good Morning from SD Cali
Seventies: Ok it hasn't been a month. What did the instructions on your test package say, yatah??
Selma: Yatah Maybe daviss can answer your question
vkn: Well Daviss you home or Lost Angels
Seventies: Hi daviss!
Selma: I was just about to ask where you were daviss...glad you made it safe
daviss: in San Diego vkn
vkn: Well goodness sakes
Selma: How long is the drive daviss?
Seventies: Well you shouldn't have any internet issues while you're there... sheesh...
daviss: lol with the Chirren The drive was about 5 1/2 hrs
Selma: Oh not bad..it takes me long to get to NY
daviss: what can I answer for yatah?
yatah: ok seven, no result in yet mean three more week left right n
vkn: Is that Highway 5 Daviss or the SanDiego
Seventies: okay then have patience...
daviss: we come down 10 to 8 vkn
vkn: ahhhh ok not recognize 8
yatah: daviss, about dna
Seventies: I answered your question, yatah..
daviss: oh ok yatah
vkn: I know 10 is Santa Monica or at least it was Not familiar with name attached to 8
daviss: The kids convinced me to ride with them so they could wear me out at Sea World and the San Diego Zoo the 8 cuts about a hour and a half from the drive vkn from Phx
vkn: SeaWorld is good as is the Zoo. Also a break is good Daviss
daviss: that was their thinking regarding break
Selma: brings back memories, went to both those places when we visited San Diego over 20 years ago
vkn: Great minds lol
Seventies: Well what's new with your research? daviss is obviously on vacation... *jealous*... lol
vkn: Yatah as seventies says read the instructions. Also there is no fast food DNA
daviss: my ideal vac would be in a courthouse somewhere lol
Seventies: Be careful what you ask for lady... lol
Selma: Right thru here I need sand and water and sun
daviss: 'lol Seventies
Selma: What's new in your research seventies Looking forward to Bennie tonight
vkn: Me too
Seventies: Lots of leads as always and I need to get down to D.C.
daviss: if we are back in the room by then I will tune in
Seventies: Y'all have a good, warm time.
Selma: Saw that the NA is cutting hours..did you post that seventies?
Seventies: I didn't post it, but shared with a few folks.
vkn: Do you have kin in SanDiego Daviss
Seventies: I'm subscribed to the NA site, so I got the notification.
daviss: shhhhhh vkn lol
Seventies: Its a bummer...
Selma: When you get your results yatah..come back and let Daviss, alt and seventies explain what the heck it all means.. LOL
Seventies: lol Selma is funny!
Selma: Its true..1/2 the folks land up back on Afrigeneas so someone can explain..
Seventies: I'm still trying to understand the changes in my own DNA testing...
daviss: yes yatah there is a dna forum here to post questions also
Seventies: 23 and me is well, not as good as they advertise in regards to genetic genealogy. which reminds me... Did I mention my latest genetic match??
Selma: Are you related to Joe Biden?
vkn: lol lol lol
Seventies: lol ha ha ha Selma
Selma: Excuse me..I am delirious here..need a nap
daviss: why do you say that seventies compared to other companies
Seventies: Well, I don't think that they really took the time to go over other databases to refine their database... so many changes.
Selma: So who is your new match seventies?
daviss: Build 3 was huge
Seventies: Some guy... lol .66% over 4 segments
daviss: Ged Match will hopefully get theres done so I can download from FTDNA
Selma: Is that really close seventies?
Seventies: Its ranges from 3rd to 4th cousin... but 23andme determines it as a 3rd cousin. Its a much closer of a match than my next highest match of .46% a female who I've determined was a 3rd 1/2 cousin. Meaning that there is only one common gg grandparent.
daviss: well gotta run folks time to go get breakfast
Seventies: bye daviss
Selma: Have a great day daviss...
daviss: later and have a nice day
Selma: Do you have a name of this person..or just know that he is male? or where he is?
Seventies: Right now, I just see them as a male. and I sent an invitation. The profile is private
Selma: Then it could be Joe Biden.. LOL
Seventies: lol Selma Selma Selma
Selma: Well we will wait to hear the details when he responds..
Seventies: Me too Selma!
Selma: Did the female respond to your invitiation?
Seventies: Then I have another person Roos, who shares .65% over 2 segments... no response... I suspect they may be another race Yes they did... that's the lady in Virginia. She's my highest match on gedmatch as well.
Selma: Does she research? Is Virginia where her folks were from?
Seventies: Yes. Va and nc
Selma: Did she say what county or counties?
Seventies: Henry Co. and Halifax Co. Va
Selma: Oh jeez I research Henry Co..and Char Bah researches Halifax
Seventies: Stokes, Union, Harnett, and Forsyth, Co. NC Okay then were there any major slave markets in either of those areas that sold down south?
Selma: Honey the whole state was a slave market
Seventies: lol I know of Franklin and Armistead because of Khathu's research. They were up in Alexandria.
Selma: They could have moved with the slave owning families who moved down south..you have a huge migration of folks moving to lower parts of the south There was a slave market in Richmond.. The name escapes me..
Seventies: okay
Selma: Do you have an approximate time frame when this movement took place
Seventies: My grandfather, who is the source of the information, never said when...
Selma: But if you found them on the census...how old was the oldest person giving VA as birthplace?
Seventies: Selma, I haven't found any consistently being born out of MS.
Selma: Ok..
Seventies: Example, on an 1880 census it'll say VA/AL or whatever, but after that MS
Selma: and how old is that person in 1880
Seventies: Knowing my grandfather, it was most likely his great grandparents who came drawing a blank... lol
Selma: You have a large migration in late 1700's and early 1800's of folks looking for land.. Moving west and south
Seventies: Ok I get that, especially in the area in which my family settled.
Selma: I have a series of books done by a woman..will have to dig them out..she did her own maps showing migration movements
Seventies: I know a lot of people migrated to SW MS and LA for free land given by the Spanish and French. Do you know the title by chance?
Selma: Nope..
Selma: I'll dig it out later today Seventies, seventies..you know I have piles..I have to find the right pile
Seventies: lol I thought it was just BJ and I... lol
Selma: You have no idea..I should take a picture but I won't
Seventies: lol
Selma: Well guess I better run Will look for the book..
Seventies: me too enjoy your nap '
Selma: Have a great day..yes I will enjoy my nap
Seventies: thanks Selma. Your help is greatly appreciated Have a good day vkn


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Poteau boys blank Roland; Senior pitcher throws one-hitter with 13 Ks
When new Poteau football coach Greg Werner arrived, his senior son, Jay, was going to be part of the Pirates' team as a tight end and a deep snapper. However, the gridiron isn't the only place Jay's presence is going to be felt.Werner excels on the pitching mound as he did on the football field. The Poteau senior pitcher struck out 13 batters and tossed a one-hitter as the Pirates blanked the Roland Rangers 8-0 in a five-inning, run-ruled game Thursday at Town Creek Park.


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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crescendo Bioscience®, a molecular diagnostics company developing and commercializing quantitative, biology-based tests for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune diseases, announced today that the Wadsworth Center at the New York Department of Health through its Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP) issued a laboratory permit to Crescendo Bioscience to provide services to physicians in New York. Crescendo Bioscience offers Vectra® DA, a multi-biomarker blood test that measures disease activity in RA by integrating 12 key proteins consistently associated with the biology of RA into one single, objective and quantitative score to help physicians make more informed patient management decisions. With this clearance, Vectra DA is now available in all 50 states.
"This is welcome news for the more than 400 rheumatologists in New York," said Max Hamburger, M.D., President of the New York State Rheumatology Society. "In order to effectively treat our patients, we need to have the most advanced technology available that can help bring us closer to achieving treatment success. Vectra DA is a valuable tool that can enhance the assessment of RA disease activity to aid rheumatologists in achieving better management of the disease."
"This is an exciting step in our continuing efforts to bring Vectra DA to more RA patients to help improve their care," states William. A. Hagstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Crescendo Bioscience. "Since Vectra DA's introduction in late 2010, more than 20 percent of rheumatologists in the U.S. have successfully used Vectra DA to evaluate more than 40,000 patients' disease. We look forward to working with rheumatologists in New York and across the U.S. to increase access to the important information that Vectra DA provides."
"New York's CLEP clearance is further evidence of the quality of the testing performed by Crescendo. Vectra DA can offer insight on disease activity that may not be captured by current standards of RA measurement," states Stephen Paget, MD, FACP, FACR, Physician in Chief Emeritus of the Division of Rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY. "Vectra DA brings a deep understanding of the underlying disease biology that can be utilized in the clinic and in clinical trials as we continue to develop potential new treatments for RA patients."
About Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
RA is a debilitating, highly variable, chronic disease affecting approximately 1.5 million Americans and more than 2 million people in Europe. The primary symptoms of RA are joint inflammation, pain and fatigue, with the disease often resulting in joint damage and disability. RA is a systemic disease and can significantly damage other parts of the body as well, resulting in infection, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of death for RA patients.
Clinicians assess RA based on three factors: disease activity (clinical signs and symptoms), structural damage such as erosions, and functional status (including pain). Current assessment tools used by physicians are qualitative and subjective and may not identify the underlying changes of the disease.
Early and accurate detection of RA, followed with frequent monitoring and responsive therapeutic adjustments, is critical to improving clinical outcomes. Advocates, such as the American College of Rheumatology, are developing "Treat to Target" and "Tight Control" guidelines to help clinicians manage patients to achieve both clinical remission and structural damage remission, which leads to improved functional status.
About Vectra® DA
Vectra DA is the only multi-biomarker blood test for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity that simultaneously integrates 12 key proteins consistently associated with RA disease activity into a single objective score to help physicians make more informed treatment decisions. Vectra DA testing is performed at Crescendo Bioscience's state-of-the-art CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) facility and test results are reported back within 7-10 days of receipt of sample. Physicians can either receive test results via standard mail or fax or via the private web portal, VectraTMView. For more information on Vectra DA, please visit, www.Vectra-DA.com.
About Crescendo Bioscience®, Inc.
Crescendo Bioscience is a molecular diagnostics company focused in rheumatology and located in South San Francisco, CA. Crescendo Bioscience develops quantitative, objective, biology-based tests to provide rheumatologists with deeper clinical insights to help enable more effective management of patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.CrescendoBio.com.
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July 12, 1947 - March 26, 2013
Saugerties, NY
Patricia M. Epstein a longtime resident of the area passed away on March 26, 2013 at Kingston Hospital, Kingston, NY. She was 65 yrs. old. She was born on July 12, 1947 to Frank and Mary Alfonso Piccirilli in Bronx, NY. She was the wife of Ronald L. Epstein.
She is survived by her husband, Ronald at home; son, Daniel R. Epstein of Pine Bush, NY; brother, Joe Picirilli and wife, Theresa of Bloomingburg, NY; sisters: Linda Piccirilli of Pine Bush, Lorraine Longobardo and husband, Vincent of Holly Springs, NC; several niece, nephews and cousins.
Visitation will be held Saturday, March 30th from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gridley-Horan Funeral Home, 39 Orchard St., Walden, NY 12586. Cremation will be at Cedar Hill Crematory, Newburgh, NY. Burial of ashes will be in the New Prospect Cemetery in Pine Bush.
Arrangements are by the Gridley-Horan Funeral Home, Inc. 39 Orchard St., Walden, NY 845-778-3811, www.gridleyhoran.com.


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NWSB blogger & insider J.D. Burke explores Mike Santorelli's early production and determines it's sustainability and where it will land him, long-term, with the Canucks. Advanced stats, graphs and even ordinary stats are used to accurately display a picture of whether this season is a flash in the pan or the mean. J.D. argues that Santorelli is best suited for third line duties, and presents valid reasoning to boot.
Where does Mike Santorelli fit long term with Van City?
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A modern American mining town is sent back in time to the Middle Ages. A circular area, encompassing the town of Grantville, West Virginia, is transported to another place and time. When Mike Stearns, the head of the local miners' union, and some of the others go out to size up their situation, they end up rescuing two Jews, the learned physician and part-time spy Balthazar Abrabanel and his beautiful daughter Rebecca, fleeing from a band of roving merce...
Mike Stearns and his band of Americans transported back to 17th century Germany are back, this time fighting against sinister Cardinal Richelieu of France and his alliance of England and Spain. President Mike must deal with many domestic issues as well as fight along side Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, for the survival of his people. While Mike is governing the new United States, his wife Rebecca must try to convince the nobility of Europe to ally ...
The Philosophical Strangler
Baen, May 2001, 24.00, 342 pp. ISBN: 0671319868 Anyone who knows anything about professional assassins knows that Greyboar is usually the best at the trade. However, if the intended victim can engage Greyboar in his passion, not sex but philosophical discussion and debate, the target might survive in a Sherherazade type of way. Like any pro, Greyboar has an agent Ignace and he hopes a significant other in the nearsighted swordswoman C...


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Braco the Gazer
The Good Word
Karen Stollznow
April 26, 2011
The Silent Evangelist
There's a new pseudoscience out there that doesn't involve devices, dogma, or even claims—so they claim.
Braco (pronounced Braht-zoh) is a "gazer." He is a spiritual healer with a difference: there is no consultation, no cold reading, no contact and no paraphernalia; his performance involves standing on a podium and simply gazing at his audience. Moreover, he doesn't claim to be a healer. (But his advertising does.)
Hundreds of thousands in Europe have already experienced Braco's silent gaze in the last 15 years. He doesn't call himself a healer, but up to 10,000 people a day who come seeking his gifts happily say otherwise.
Braco doesn't call himself a healer because he doesn't make any claims directly; his claims are made by his staff and devotees. Furthermore, he doesn't make any claims because he doesn't speak in public.
It's all very difficult to explain – that's why Braco stopped speaking in public 8 years ago - leaving it up to the people to decide for themselves what it was about.
And with the help of his publicity machine, the people have decided that Braco heals with his gaze.
The Non-Healing Healer
Braco's biography 21 Days with Braco describes him as a "Super Healer" and claims he has "a gift of healing that defies scientific understanding and human comprehension at this time."1 Nevertheless, Braco's team has found a few medical practitioners to attest to his "invisible powers."
Many medical doctors have shared their opinion that Braco's healing abilities are extraordinary, but cannot explain his work though the conventional scientific process.
However, these doctors dabble in the metaphysical. They include Professor Alex Schneider, President of the Parapsychological Association of Switzerland and founder of the World Healing Congress, and Dr. Wiesendanger, "one of the top experts on healers and healing" and founder of the International Agency for Outstanding Healers.
They all confirm, that those impressive reports from Braco´s visitors proove [sic] his successes and that they show that something flows through Braco, which can change the lives of thousands of people and solve even fundamental problems in health like cancer, epilepsy and psychological problems.2
But these "impressive reports" are anecdotal and Braco's alleged healing abilities have never been "prooved" under test conditions.
Journalists and scientists who have studied Braco and his energy have been impressed by him and by the impact of his work, which has resulted in an incredible number of documented cases of physical healings and life transformations taking place in those who attend his gazing sessions.3
These "documented cases" are testimonials featured on Braco's website. Apocryphally, he performs miracles, bringing healing and good luck to those who view his gaze. He has allegedly "cured" countless people of countless chronic conditions: anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, thyroid conditions, asthma, brain tumors and cancer of various kinds. He allegedly restored someone's sight, healed a paraplegic woman, and even cleared someone's blocked nostrils.4
He's a modern-day Messiah, but he's not affiliated with any religion.
Braco does not relate his successes to any form of religion or to a specific methodology, and he has changed his working-methods over time. He tries to develop his methods further and further to enable as many people as possible all over the world to feel this energy and consciousness.
However, it seems his one and only method is standing in front of a crowd and looking at people. There seems to be a lot about Braco that no one can explain.
The healings are unexplainable, yet undeniable. Reams of documentation recount stories of countless souls remarkably and often spontaneously transformed by standing before Braco's silent gaze -- and not just physical healings, but emotional, spiritual, mental, and interpersonal healings, too.5
Braco makes many claims for someone who claims to not make any claims.
The Eyes Have It
Braco was born Josip Jelavic in 1967 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1993 he became a student of the Serbian prophet and healer Ivica Prokic, who bestowed the spiritual name Braco, "Little Brother," upon his talented protégé. Prokic died in 1995, and now Braco continues his work.
The experts are also impressed that Braco is able to have such a strong impact on his visitors, and began his work at the extraordinarily young age of 26. Braco has reached a level of consciousness now in his fourties, which even the most famous masters did not reach before they were sixty, seventy or eighty years old.
Braco's gazing sessions usually last five to ten minutes, and during that time he only makes fleeting eye contact with each member of the audience. His powers are so potent that people only need look at his likeness to reap the benefits, but to avoid being "overburdened," YouTube videos and DVDs of his gazing carry a warning.
Braco has been given firm guidelines from Spirit that no gazing in any DVDs or online can be longer than seven seconds.
It is further advised that people under 18 years of age and pregnant women beyond their first trimester should not view Braco's gaze, for their own safety.
The energy could overburden children, so the sessions are not open for visitors under the age of 18, or to pregnant women after their third month. For your children and for other people who are not able to attend a session, it is recommended that you bring a photo of that person to a session instead. The power of Braco's gaze can equally reach people through photos, and the same level of healing and transformation occur through this method.6
Braco also offers a line of Sunce (sun) jewelry that displays his mentor's symbol: a golden sun with 13 rays. The price of the jewelry ranges from $190 for a pair of earrings to $2395 for a diamond pendant. Website testimonials claim these talismans bring good luck to the wearer.
The Gazing
Braco's fame has stretched beyond Europe and he is currently on a tour of the U.S.
Braco does not take any money for his help, he does not accept donations and the sessions are always free at his Center in Zagreb. There is only a small fee at international events, when he visits other countries on tour, to cover the event facilities rental and organizational costs.7
Aside from his moneymaking books, DVDs and jewelry, the "small fee" is $8 to attend each session, but he conducts multiple sessions daily and hundreds of sessions annually, with hundreds of thousands of attendees. I attended a session in Denver, and was informed that 3,500 tickets were sold for that day alone.
The room was filled beyond capacity, with people lining the walls. Reminiscent of a Benny Hinn performance, there were many hoping to be healed, including people in wheelchairs. Everyone filed into the hall to the tune of singing glasses and a female vocalist warbling a mesmerizing song.
The female host appeared and conditioned the crowd for Braco, the "healer who doesn't call himself a healer." We were told to "take this time to frame your intentions. Everyone's experience will be different," but we were to expect healings and miracles. She assured us that after seeing Braco "skeptics become believers."
There were some "bliss piggies" in the audience—people who had attended Braco's sessions all day long. This was the final session for the day and we would be rewarded with some "extra gazing." But Braco would not address us. "He doesn't speak in public anymore," the host explained. "He made a promise eight years ago. It's not important what he says, but what people see." However, she claimed that "The Voice" is healing.
New Age music began and all those who were able were asked to stand as Braco emerged and climbed the stairs of the podium. He stood before the room awkwardly at first, and then his pose grew majestic, like he was standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Everyone watched him expectantly.
Then Braco gazed at the audience. For ten minutes.
He was expressionless, but his eyes scanned the room intensely. His head barely moved but he seemed to make eye contact, like one of those paintings where the eyes appear to follow you. As we all stared back we were looking at Braco for longer than the "safe" seven-second period.
As Braco "gazed," some meditated or prayed, some rocked back and forth gently, and some were crying. Some held photos of sick or deceased loved ones to their chests. We'd also been told that if we had photos of people in our phones, Braco would heal them too.
Then it was all over.
Braco ceased gazing across the room and then appeared to go slightly cross-eyed. He took a step backwards, tripping slightly as he did so, then he stepped down from the podium and left the room. As he exited an audience member screamed, "Thank you, Braco!"
The After Gaze
Braco's security guards, known as "guardians," ran around the room with boxes of tissues for those overcome with tears. Then the host asked that we stand again to listen to "The Voice." They proceeded to play a pre-recorded speech by Braco—in his native Croatian. Amazingly, some people claimed they could understand Braco! Braco-info.com claims:
It was very amazing to see, that even in Germany or other countries, where people cannot understand what Braco is speaking, the reactions of the visitors during the session with his voice are exactly the same as with those people who understand Braco's words.
There are several possible explanations for these claims. In this context, people may simply guess the spiritual-related themes of Braco's speech. As for claiming to "understand" Croatian, people may hear cognates: Croatian words that sound familiar because they are historically related to words in English. Also, like Electronic Voice Phenomena and other audio pareidolia, people search for recognizable patterns and perceive sounds they construe as familiar words.
Then the host asked the audience for testimonials. One woman claimed Braco fixed her car before she'd even seen him, so she could attend the gazing. A man who had recently suffered a stroke claimed Braco's gaze left him with tingling, healing sensations. Others also reported tingling and other non-specific feelings; perhaps they were numb from standing for so long?
It seemed that Braco and his crew practiced a form of stage hypnosis on the audience, given the long periods of standing, the repetitive music, the suggestions of what we "would" experience, the testimonials and the disorienting speech read in a foreign language.
One source reports the following experiences during a session with Braco.
During my first session, people reported seeing Braco's white and golden aura all around him. Braco submerged in gold; there were vibrant violet colors all around the ballroom. The same violet color was swirling like a whirlpool on the back of the audience. People heard sounds of the universe, comparing it to the ocean and wind. People saw wings behind Braco, and large white wings spread open on the stage. One gentleman saw angels in the ceiling dancing and looking down on the audience. People saw bubbles, light balls touching people one by one and white aura surrounded the audience, everyone seem to be glowing. There was a light emanating from Braco reflecting onto others. People felt electricity, warmth all over their bodies, warmth on their hands, trembling, shaking, moving, skull moving, energy pushing back, blissful feeling, euphoria, tears, a healthier deeper connection, emotional, loving, hot heat, and felt the flow of energy enter their body. Braco's pupils turned into golden suns, his face morphing and shifting as if he was becoming another being. Everyone felt born again and found a true home for their hearts and souls. Everyone was healed.8
In one of his Youtube videos a viewer also claims Braco "shapeshifts" during his gazing sessions. This is a lot to live up to, so the host made some vague promises instead: "You will experience shifts, transformations and healings." Like a psychic that encourages clients to connect the dots in hindsight, she said, "But it doesn't always happen here in the room; it may happen later on when you've left." Finally, she warned us, "There is lots of extra energy about, so be careful tonight!"
Those who arrived in wheelchairs left in their wheelchairs. No one in our large contingent of skeptics reported any healing, miracles or good luck during or after the event. We did have a 17-year-old in our party, but fortunately, he was not "overburdened" by Braco's gaze.
Navel Gazing
Gazing is best classified as a type of spiritual healing, due to the claim that its major benefit is therapeutic, in conjunction with other ambiguous alleged benefits such as bringing good luck, "shifts and transformations," and miracles.
Gazing for healing is popular for its simplicity and as a novelty, but it's unlikely to become as common as other paranormal and pseudoscientific practices. But it's not new. Will Johnson's Rumi: Gazing at the Beloved: The Radical Practice of Beholding the Divine describes the "ancient mystical practice" of "intentional gazing" for the purposes of healing. However, this method is different from Braco's. As seminar leader William Record puts it, eye gazing "involves 2 individuals coming together for the purpose of mutual healing. There is no healer/client distinction."9
Johnson explains how eye gazing works.
When eye contact between two people is initiated and maintained, an invisible energetic circuit is established between the participants, dissolving the barriers that ordinarily separate them from each other, drawing them ever closer into a shared sense of union.10
Eye gazing is not only used for healing. Eye Gazing parties are events where people sit across from a partner and gaze at them to assess potential compatibility.11 Eye gazing is also a tantric sex technique, whereby couples use gazing to increase intimacy and bonding.12
There is no evidence that Braco's
kind of gazing has any benefits at all, but he takes credit for any
perceived successes, and absolves himself of failure by claiming he
makes no claims. However, the "no claim" claim is disingenuous;
whether the claims come from the public or his crew, the claims are
promoted by and therefore made by Braco.
1. Whitecliff, Angelika. 2009. 21 Days with Braco. Awakening Within. [Publisher?-JB]
2. Braco. Description of an
invisible power. Accessed 03/30/2011. Available online at
3. Braco.net. About Braco.
Accessed 03/30/2011. Available online at
4. Braco America. Testimonials
from the American road. Accessed 04/04/2011. Available online at
5. Braco America. Accessed
04/04/2011. Available online at http://www.bracoamerica.com/
6. Awakening Within. About
Braco. Accessed 04/04/2011. Available online at
7. Braco Pendant. About Braco.
Accessed 04/04/2011. Available online at
8. ibid.
9. Healing Through Eye Gazing.
Accessed 04/15/2011. Available online at
10. Johnson, Will. 2003. Rumi Gazing at the Beloved – The Radical Practice of beholding the Divine. Vermont USA. Inner Traditions.
11. Eye Gazing Parties. Accessed
04/15/2011. Available online at http://www.eyegazingparties.
12. Tantra: Gateway to Ecstasy.
"The Science behind Tantric Eye Gazing." Accessed 04/15/2011. Available
online at http://tantraecstasy.blogspot.


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Ann and Mike Juhl named Ma and Pa Kettle
Ann and Mike Juhl have been named Ma and Pa Kettle for Ma and Pa Kettle Days in Kettle River this weekend.
The couple will appear in the parade, accompanied by their grandsons: Trent, 12, Blake, 9, and Tyler, 7.
"Blake's first football game was the day of the parade," said Ann. "He chose not to go, he wanted to ride in the parade."
Ann and Mike have been married 37 years and have lived in the same home, located in rural Kettle River, close to the Aitkin County line, all of their married lives.
"We see all kinds of critters in the yard," said Mike.
"Except for Sasquatch," Ann laughingly added. "We've had bear and coyotes."
Two children, a son and a daughter, were born to Ann and Mike. Their son, Jeramie and his wife, Jolene, the parents of the three grandsons, live close to his parents. Their daughter, Julie Kenowski, lives in the Twin Cities with her 6-month-old baby son, Grayson. Julie was a princess for Miss Kettle River in 1993.
Ann has been employed at Mercy Hospital for 12 years as a dietary aide. She has gotten to know and care about the residents of the Augustana Mercy Care Center.
"I get very close to them," she said. "They make you smile. They appreciate you there."
Mike is a foreman with Mlaskoch Utilities, and admits to being harassed about his new title as Pa Kettle by his coworkers.
"We do that all the time, tease each other," he said. "That makes work fun."
Both Ann and Mike have helped out with Ma and Pa Kettle Days over the years. They have run the games.
"We haven't missed any of the celebrations since they began," said Mike.
"We were the first ones that did it," added Ann. "I think that they got desperate this year. They are running out of people to do it."
Both Ann and Mike are members of the Star Club. Mike serves on the board, and Ann is a member of the Ladies Guild.
Mike's passion is stock car racing. He raced at the Carlton County Fair every year until recently. He also competed in the Demolition Derby at the fair.
"I won the Demolition Derby three or four times," he said. "I never won a race but I finished second one time.
"It was fun to build the cars, rip them apart, and then make junk out of them when they were done. "
Work occupies much of Mike's time these days.
"Now all I have time for is a little bit of fishing and bow hunting," he said.
Yet, the couple keeps up with racing by attending NASCAR races.
"We've been to Las Vegas to watch the races a couple of times, and we've been to Florida, Virginia, Atlanta and California to watch races," said Ann.
The couple enjoys their grandsons.
"We have fun with them," said Ann. "We like to play little tricks on them.
"One year, in the fall, we had a dummy sitting on the swing in the yard for weeks," added Mike. "When Halloween came, I dressed the same as the dummy had been and sat in its spot. I scared the boys when they came for Tricks and Treats.
"Another time, I was dressed as a dummy and was sitting in the house when they came. They thought that it was a dummy sitting there and didn't pay any attention. I scared them again!"
Both Ann and Mike are pleased to have been named Ma and Pa Kettle.
"My sisters always said that we'd be Ma and Pa Kettle someday," Ann said. "It's an honor."
"It's always fun to go and see everyone that you haven't seen for a year," added Mike. "It's like a big family reunion. It's an honor to be chosen as Ma and Pa Kettle. It will be a lot of fun."
Ann and Mike will be honored at the Miss Kettle River pageant on Friday evening, Aug. 9, at 6 p.m., and in the parade on Saturday, Aug. 10, starting at 11 a.m.


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The Mets face a lefthander tonight in Scott Olsen, which shouldn't automatically draw the assumption Gary Sheffield will start in place of Ryan Church in right.
Don't do it. After a homer the other day in St. Louis, Church is showing signs of getting back on track. He's your starting right fielder and deserves the opportunity to hit against a lefty.
If Sheffield has to play, and because he's hit the ball hard the odds are he will, it should be in left tonight.


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Pacifichem - pre-launch publicity eventActivity by Kazuyuki Tatsumi | added on Jan 25, 2010 | Japan
Pacifichem 2010 will be the 6th in the series of successful co-sponsored scientific conferences of the Pacific Basin Chemical Societies. A IYC 2011 pre-launch publicity event will be held to highlight the coming celebratory year and promote in that context collaborations among chemists of the Pacific Rim countries.
Founded in 1984, these conferences have been held in Honolulu, Hawaii, around every five years. The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies has been established to disseminate recent research results in the chemical sciences among chemists of the Pacific Rim countries, thereby fostering industrial development, improving local and global environments and the material well-being of their peoples. Pacifichem 2010's goal is to promote collaborations among Pacific Basin chemical scientists that improve the quality of life throughout the world.
A IYC 2011 pre-launch publicity event will be held to simply highlight the coming celebratory year. Pacifichem will provide an excellent opportunity to promote the year celebrations especially in the Pacific region.
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I couldn't find the right sub-forum for this question so here goes:
How do I remove the grey border from around all the tables on my site. I don't want it on any of them. I don't want to use a CSS insert for each and every table.
I am talking about tables inside of posts.
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Rich and Anna Rogness are crazy. For the second year in a row, they're hosting a youth lock-in at the building. From 6:00pm this Friday to 9:00am Saturday morning, they will be playing games, eating pizza, watching movies, and generally having a good time with Impact & Frontline students. Neither one plans on getting much sleep.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. (Ps 103:1-2) On April 6, we will celebrate 25 years of God's faithfulness to Kingsway Community Church.
Don't forget our first quarter members meeting is this Sunday @ 6:30pm. Here's a rough sketch of our agenda for the evening: Explain our vision for international missions Interview the guest speaker who is preaching on missions during the morning service Provide an update on our church finances Welcome a class of new members If you're a member of our church, thank you for making these meetings a priority. I can't wait for you to hear from our guest speaker and his wife.
Hi, Ladies! I'm really excited to let you know about our next Ladies Event - a Ladies Sleepover on February 7 & 8 in the KingsWay building! We'll begin Friday night at 7 pm and end by noon on Saturday.
As of 6am this morning, it looks like most of the freezing rain will hold off until this afternoon. Our Sunday meeting is on for 10am. Wear a warm coat and come ready to celebrate the hope and help we have in Jesus!


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The Urban Renewal Authority Board of Commissioners met on Thursday at noon in Jodi's Restaurant to discuss the fate of the Plaza Block Building, the last 19th century building remaining in La Junta. Tim Stroh and Charise Boomsma were present to go over their feasibility study, and a large group of concerned citizens also attended the meeting, as well as members of the board and City Manager Rick Klein. A copy of the feasibility study is available in the lobby of the La Junta Tribune-Democrat
The Urban Renewal Authority Board of Commissioners met on Thursday at noon in Jodi's Restaurant to discuss the fate of the Plaza Block Building, the last 19th century building remaining in La Junta. Tim Stroh and Charise Boomsma were present to go over their feasibility study, and a large group of concerned citizens also attended the meeting, as well as members of the board and City Manager Rick Klein. A copy of the feasibility study is available in the lobby of the La Junta Tribune-Democrat
Chairman Lynn Horner asked that a final decision on the fate of the building be tabled, so that the entire board could be present when the decision is made. A key board member is Otero County Historical Preservation Chairperson Rebecca Goodwin, who was absent on a long-anticipated vacation with husband Otero County Commissioner Keith Goodwin.
Horner asked for input from the guests after Stroh explained the possibilities for the building: demolition, building shell rehabilitation and building rehabilitation for tenant occupancy.
Ed Hunnicutt, local businessman, pointed out that nobody would sign a contract to occupy a building that was not rehabilitated at least to the shell stage. He also said that a lot of the buildings he frequented as a teenager are gone by now and that there are too many parking lots. Although he remembered not having great love for Trinidad when he was playing football, he said the restoration of that town's downtown area could be a good example for us. "The first stage renovation would at least put it into position for a buyer to finish it in his own way."
Diane Rickhof deplored the loss of so many of La Junta's historic buildings, including a roundhouse which could have been a wonderful railroad history museum. She and her husband restored an old building on their own over a period of over 20 years, doing what they could afford to do. Losing local history is not a good idea, she said. "We are being short-sighted about the future and not enhancing our living in the present," Rikhof concluded.
Later in the meeting, Mack Burtis pointed out a number of historical buildings that have been restored through private nonprofit organizations, such as the Picketwire, and suggested a "Friends of the Plaza" type organization be formed. The Fox Theater was restored by Joey Johnson with some help from Urban Renewal.
Charise Boomsma said that there are many grants available for restoring old buildings, but very few for the demolition of buildings. The shell restoration and the demolition cost almost the same amount. Many suggested a phased approach to a restoration, including City Manager Rick Klein, who reminded the group of the step by step renovation now going on at the La Junta City Park.
Jenny Mathews, who had to go back to work, left her comment with a friend. She supports renovation and feels that Trinidad and many other towns have been revitalized by historic restoration.
Lewis Encinias is a meat cutter who has been looking for a place to open a traditional butcher shop and has been unable to find one that is up to code for food safety. A renovated building, particularly a historical one, would be perfect for his business.
One of the most outspoken and eloquent speakers was Lorraine Melgosa, candidate for Otero County Commissioner in the recent elections. She lives in Manzanola but is interested in business prospects in La Junta. Also, she said outside money helps to revitalize the economy fourfold for each dollar gained. Grants are outside money. We should take into consideration towns like Fort Collins, Pueblo and Florence, that have not hesitated to use grant money. She also believes we should take advantage of heritage tourism. If we tear down historic buildings, particularly Highway 50 frontage, they are gone forever and there goes our attraction for heritage tourism.
"We still have First Street - part of it, anyhow," said Hunnicutt. "I understand Urban owns this building. They had plans for it; that didn't work out. That's not unusual. What kind of return are we looking at if we tear it down? If we do the first stage of rehab, the second stage will be easier."
David Cockrell, being sure to say he is speaking for his own ideas, not officially for Otero Junior College, brought up the desirability of downtown apartments to be leased by the college for visiting nurses, who do not necessarily fit into regular student housing very well. He sees the downtown upstairs two bedroom, one bath apartments ideal for their purposes. Also, a whole new field of study could open for OJC students who could manage the building, market for the building, distribute goods for building tenants; in short, learn marketable skills in many fields associated with real estate management.
Mike Pruyn, owner of a window replacement business with his wife, Jeffri, and also past president of the La Junta Chamber of Commerce, sees an opportunity to do some of the work on the building. Other local carpenters, contractors could also hope to be considered in the rehabilitation process.
Rikhof said a group of farmers is talking about restoring an old school to use as a farmer's market, precisely the same idea that has been mentioned repeatedly for the Plaza Building. "The neighborhood farms are looking at working together. If they can restore the old Excelsior School, surely we can restore the Plaza Building."
Klein urged the group to consider the big picture. The Main Street Program from the Department of Local Affairs will be guests at the next meeting of Urban Renewal on March 14. "We also need to join Downtown Colorado and get our education level up," said Klein.
Horner thanked the group for appearing in such numbers and speaking out at the meeting. "Thanks for being a part of this. Business people within a community giving input is what we need."


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A Lansing man was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison for selling drugs in Leavenworth.
A Lansing man was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison for selling drugs in Leavenworth.
Joel M. Lemke, 35, was sentenced in Leavenworth County District Court to a total of 52 months in two cases.
In one case, he was sentenced for distribution of oxycodone. That crime occurred in July 2010.
In the other case, Lemke was sentenced for distribution of morphine. That crime occurred in October of last year.
He pleaded no contest to the charges last month.
Lemke's attorney, Michael Highland, sought to have his client placed on probation and entered into a drug treatment program.
But Assistant County Attorney Michael Jones said Wednesday that the prosecution was opposed to a defense motion for a departure in sentencing. Jones noted that both cases involved the distribution of drugs.
"There's no indication that Mr. Lemke is going to stop selling these pills," Jones said.
The prosecutor recommended a standard sentence of 56 months. He said probation would not be in the community's best interest.
Highland said his client needed help through drug treatment.
"He should at least get one shot at it," he said.
When given the opportunity to speak, Lemke said he's had a problem with addiction to opiate drugs for six years but he's been clean for 10 months.
"I miss my family," said Lemke, who was in custody at the time of his sentencing.
Lemke's father also spoke during the sentencing, asking the judge to grant the defense motion.
When imposing the sentence, District Judge Gunnar Sundby said the proverb "a day late and a dollar short" applies in the case.
Sundby said Lemke had done nothing after the 2010 case was filed to deal with his drug abuse problem.
"Instead what you did was you continued to sell more drugs," the judge said.
Sundby gave Lemke a mitigated sentence of 52 months, citing the defendant's age and the fact that he had resolved the case.


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Jenni Barber, Andrea Burns and Cady Huffman Join THE NANCE; Casting Complete!
Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Jenni Barber, Andrèa Burns and Cady Huffman will join Nathan Lane, Jonny Orsini and Lewis J. Stadlen in its upcoming production of The Nance, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane to be directed by Jack O'Brien. The production will begin previews on Thursday, March 21 and open on Monday, April 15 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45 Street).
A nance, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "an effeminate or homosexual man." In the world of 1930's burlesque, a nance was a wildly popular character, a stereotypically camp homosexual man, usually played by a straight performer. In The Nance, playwright Douglas Carter Beane tells the story of Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane), a headline nance performer in New York burlesque, who also happens to be homosexual. Integrating burlesque sketches into his drama, Beane paints, with humor and pathos, the portrait of a homosexual man, living and working in the secretive and dangerous gay world of 1930's New York, whose outrageous antics on the burlesque stage stand in marked contrast to his messy offstage life.
THE NANCE will have sets by John Lee Beatty, costumes by Ann Roth, lighting by Japhy Weideman, sound by Leon Rothenberg, original music and arrangements by Glen Kelly, orchestrations by Larry Blank and choreography by Joey Pizzi.
Douglas Carter Beane's plays include The Little Dog Laughed, As Bees In Honey Drown, Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, Music From A Sparkling Planet, The Country Club, Advice From A Caterpiller and The Cartells. He received Tony Award nominations for his books for the musicals Xanadu (for which he won a Drama Desk Award), Sister Act and Lysistrata Jones. He also wrote the book for the current new stage version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.
Jack O'Brien won Tony Awards for his direction of the LCT productions of The Coast of Utopia and Henry IV. His other LCT productions include The Invention of Love, Pride's Crossing, The Little Foxes, Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award) and Two Shakespearean Actors. His many Broadway productions include Catch Me If You Can, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray (Tony Award), The Full Monty and Damn Yankees. He staged the Metropolitan Opera's recent production of Il Trittico. In London, he directed Love Never Dies and Hairspray in the West End and His Girl Friday at The National Theatre. He was Artistic Director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre from 1981 to 2007.
This spring Lincoln Center Theater is also producing Richard Nelson's new play Nikolai and the Others, directed by David Cromer, beginning Thursday, April 4 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and the LCT3 productions of Luck of the Irish by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Rebecca Taichman (currently through March 10) and A Kid Like Jake by Daniel Pearle, directed by Evan Cabnet (June 2 - July 14), both at the Claire Tow Theater.


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LITTLE ROCK – High winds, low humidity and mild temperatures have contributed to an increase in wildfires across the state, the Arkansas Forestry Commission said Tuesday, adding that county judges have declared burn bans in 20 counties.
Commission crews and local fire departments extinguished 98 wildfires that burned about 1,460 acres between Saturday and Monday. More than 40 homes were near the wildfires, but just one was lost. That home was destroyed by a fire Saturday in Saline County
All of Arkansas was placed under moderate fire danger on Friday afternoon and since then Central Arkansas has been raised to high danger status, the news release said.
Counties declared burn bans include Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Garland, Howard, Independence, Jefferson, Johnson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Perry, Pulaski, Saline, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren, and White.


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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat the way people did in the 17th century? I've dreamt about an immersion course (small beer for breakfast — why not?) to see what life was like for my ancestors and get details for my novel. But after watching this hilarious episode of the BBC's Supersizers, I'm glad Giles and Sue did the immersion for me. I can live vicariously through their experiences while keeping my internal organs in good working order.
Each of the six videos below is about 10 minutes, for a total 1-hour episode about life — and especially food — in Restoration England. Thanks to A Woodrunners Diary for the idea.
My ancestors in Ireland were Quakers, so they would not have set such an extravagant table. There's a clip about Puritan/Quaker/country food towards the end of the third video.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Eating 17th-century food
Posted by Elizabeth Saunders at 5:20 PM
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- Mel Jones said...
I am going to have to set aside time to watch this. How interesting! I love Whole Slow Food, but I don't get the feeling that's what this is about!
Quakers in Ireland in the 17th/18th century. I would love to hear more about this. I am first generation Irish American, and to hear the old folks tell it there is one person in Ireland not Catholic (currently the Queen of England) and she has destroyed it for everyone else...
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Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Inspiration today, reality tomorrow. Creating, inventing, innovating, attacking challenges, solving problems, improving the quality of life—these are the driving forces for engineers.
The engineer's ingenuity is a driving force in our society. From space stations to nanotechnology, the potential for innovative engineering is endless. If you're wondering what the future might look like, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering can show you the way.
Comprehensive education
The engineering program at RIT combines classroom and laboratory learning in technical areas with a broad liberal arts curriculum and cooperative work assignments to give you an education tuned to the 21st century wavelength.
We are dedicated to giving you and all the talented and motivated students in our programs an exceptional engineering experience. A top-rated education requires knowledgeable and engaged faculty and the latest equipment and technology. Intensive laboratory assignments in state-of-the-art facilities will give you plenty of practice with engineering design tools.
You have options
Within the College of Engineering, you'll find biomedical, chemical, computer, electrical, industrial, mechanical, and microelectronic engineering majors. Most of these incorporate industry-specific options that let you specialize to a greater degree. So many choices will likely help you find the discipline that best suits your skills and interests. But you may discover options that you'd never considered before and want the time to decide which one to follow. In that case, you may want to apply to our engineering exploration program. You'll take first-year courses that give you the foundation for entering the engineering major of your choice as a sophomore.
If you're interested in pursuing graduate- level studies in engineering, you may apply for admission to an accelerated BS/MS degree program during your sophomore year and complete both degrees in five years of course work. Something else to consider: the college has launched the nation's first interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in microsystems engineering and a Ph.D. in engineering that focuses on industries (communications, energy, health care, and transportation) with challenging problems facing our society.
A supportive setting
With more than 2,500 undergraduate students, the College of Engineering is small enough to allow for close faculty-student relationships, and we emphasize team-based problem solving. If you'd like to take part in undergraduate research or advanced independent study, you can work directly with faculty members who are investigating areas that interest you.
Here you'll be part of an academic environment that encourages creativity, the sharing of ideas, and an enriching quality of life for all students. Our Women in Engineering Program offers special academic and career advising, professional development workshops, and female graduates who are mentors and role models. Similar support is available through our Minorities in Engineering Program.
Bright prospects
RIT's College of Engineering is one of the few engineering schools in the nation to require cooperative education for every student. The five-year BS program includes four years of academic work and 12 months of full-time, paid, professional work experience. Many RIT students receive job offers for permanent positions from previous co-op employers—indicative of industry's respectfor our graduates.
RIT has been a national leader in cooperative education since 1912, and we offer students co-op opportunities throughout the nation. Active co-op employers include IBM, Bausch & Lomb Corp., Xerox Corp., Boeing Corp., Pratt & Whitney, McNeil Consumer Products, Harris Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Mobil Chemical Co., and hundreds of others.
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Work is progressing on schedule for the Western Connecticut State University School of Visual and Performing Arts Center on the university's Westside campus in Danbury. And as the impressive structure takes shape, construction design organizations have taken note.
The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) announced recently that ClarkDietrich Building Systems, the industry's leading manufacturer of a full-line of drywall studs and accessories, structural studs and joists, metal lath and accessories, shaft wall studs and track, interior finishing products, and connectors and accessories for commercial and residential construction, was honored for its role in the project with a Design Excellence Award at the 2013 CFSEI Annual Expo and Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. The Design Excellence category recognizes small and large projects that exemplify excellence in the structural design of new or renovated structures utilizing cold-formed steel products.
According to a ClarkDietrich press release, "The 137,000 square-foot project presented several unique design challenges for the use of cold-formed steel including a 96-foot soaring wall, an interior 40-foot plenum, as well as trapezoidal and triangular windows."
Accepting the award, Robert Warr, P.E., LEED AP, director of Engineering Services for ClarkDietrich Engineering Services LLC, said, "Our work on this project truly represents the best of ClarkDietrich's offerings. We would like to extend a special thank you to CONN Acoustics in Newington for trusting us with their design needs. It is only with top-quality contractors like them that we are able to receive this distinguished accolade."
The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute "comprises hundreds of structural engineers and other design professionals who are finding a better way to produce safe and efficient designs for commercial and residential structures with cold-formed steel," according to their website. "CFSEI members work together to develop and evolve industry standards and design methods, produce and issue technical bulletins, and provide seminars and online training to improve the knowledge and skills base of engineers and design professionals."
The eagerly awaited SVPA Center will house the university's music, theatre and art programs. Western Director of Facilities Planning and Engineering Peter Visentin said the project is about 65 percent complete and is on track for a February 2014 commissioning that will include testing of all mechanical, electrical, plumbing and lighting systems. Visentin said furnishings and equipment are scheduled to be loaded in during spring 2014, with the first classes to be held in the new facility in fall 2014.
For more information, call the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.


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Former publisher of the Taft Midway Driller
Los Altos, Calif.-resident Ed Scripps passed away on March 27 at the age of 71 after a long struggle with residual effects of a major stroke in 2005 that resulted in a fall at his home.
Born in Seattle on Aug. 9, 1941, Ed spent his childhood in Atherton, Calif., attending Menlo-Atherton High School, from which he graduated in 1959. He went on to attend college in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and lived overseas where he enjoyed travel, living as a bon vivant driving his MG Midget across the Riviera and making new friends. Ed eventually settled back in the Bay Area to start his professional career.
Ed worked in the newspaper industry, holding various posts in the family's Scripps League Newspapers chain, including as publisher of daily and weekly community newspapers in Taft, Calif. (Daily Midway Driller), and Hamilton, Mont. (The Ravalli Republic.) When Scripps League Newspapers was acquired, Ed took on new challenges, publishing titles including the Bishop, Calif. Inyo-Register, the Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Mammoth Mountain News, and the Maui Bulletin.
At home, Ed married his first wife Bonnie, with whom he remains friends. Together they raised their son and daughter James and Joanna in Los Altos. Ed remarried in 1999 after a long courtship with Becky, whom he met through mutual friends.
Ed and Becky retired in 1999 and answered the call of adventure, taking to blue-water cruising aboard their 46-foot Hylas sloop "Seasilk." Their ocean travels took them up and down the west coast of North America, from the serene fog-drenched waters of the Puget Sound to the friendly cruising grounds of Mexico. Ed was at his happiest at the helm of the Sausalito, Calif.-based yacht with Becky by his side.
When the challenges of frail health made sailing more difficult, Ed and Becky started spending more time at their home in Tahoe City on Lake Tahoe's north shore. There they enjoyed the company of their children and grandchildren, as well as a steady stream of family and friends.They shared the beauty of the high sierra with the people they love.
Ed will always be remembered as someone with a big heart and a quick laugh who lived life on his own terms. From the friends with whom he would gather on Sunday afternoon at Rosati's ("Zots") under the "Tree of Knowledge," to his colleagues in the newspaper industry, everyone knew Ed as a true original.
Ed is survived by wife Becky; son and daughter James Scripps and Joanna Lovera (Otto); stepchildren Brian O'Boyle and Kathy Reehl; grandchildren Lauren and Andrew Scripps, Ayla Lovera, Kira and James Reehl, and Daniel Lindevald; brother and sister Barry (Gail) and Stephanie Scripps; mother Betty Knight Scripps, and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of Ed's life will be held April 4 at 2 p.m. at the University Club, 3277 Miranda Ave. in Palo Alto. All friends are welcome to come and share stories of their time with Ed.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests generous donations in Ed's name to Reach Program Foothill Foundation, 12345 El Monte, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022. Ed formed special bonds and made amazing progress in this supportive, therapeutic community.


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Chris Corde needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
EMC Corporation
RSA Security, the Security Division of EMC, is the world's leading security brand. Every year the RSA Conference brings together the world's foremost security experts. EMC Corporation is a Fortune 500 corporation handling all aspects of information for our customers.
We are targeting customers looking to purchase security software, for both Data Loss Prevention (preventing the misuse of sensitive information) and Encryption & Key Management (protecting data at rest and in motion). We need graphics to create compelling sales presentations.
We are looking for the following graphics for a sales presentation. If they follow a consistent theme, that would be best:
- Appliance: a packaged hardware device (i.e. a server) that provides a complete set of resources for customers (i.e. a database, a web server, application server, etc)
- Scalability: we need a graphic representing the scalability of our products (symbolically)
- Tokenization: we need a graphic to represent a new piece of technology called Tokenization. Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive information with an alternate or alias value (i.e. a token). The token has no real meaning or relationship back to the original value
- Encryption: a graphic that represents encryption (hiding sensitive information mathematically)
- Incident Management: a graphic that shows the workflow of managing security incidents properly (i.e. unauthorized access, data breach, etc). The incident workflow would include processing the incidents and routing them to the appropriate person.
I have attached an example of some graphics we used in the past for reference. We are looking for a more consistent look and feel.