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CLEVELAND, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE: AIT) Chief Executive Officer Neil A. Schrimsher today announced that the Company's Board of Directors raised the Company's quarterly cash dividend by $0.02 declaring a quarterly dividend of $0.21 per common share, payable on February 29, 2012, to shareholders of record on February 15, 2012. This cash dividend represents an 11 percent increase over the previous regular quarterly dividend of $0.19 per share.
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"Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed. Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation. Under the city Health Department's voluntary [emphasis mine] Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city's 40 hospitals have also agreed to give up swag bags sporting formula-company logos, toss out formula-branded tchotchkes like lanyards and mugs, and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn receives."
"Voluntary" for now. I'll bet you that Nazi Bloomberg will eventually get the guns of his government to either ban baby formula outright from hospitals or create such heavy regulations and paperwork in order for the mother to get "permission" to use baby formula that it will be a tacit outright ban anyway.
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No Gods license plate in Indiana
I have to say, I'm a little disappointed in him. He could have racked up a thousand irony points for putting it on our free In God We Trust license plates:
At least it seems Jason is living in a more liberal part of Indiana (Marion County is home to Indianapolis). If my car has survived living in West Lafayette with a Darwin Fish & Obama sticker, he should be fine.
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I have noticed that the "In God We Trust" license plates are becoming more prominent also. Some have made it to Oklahoma (side note there is an In Reason We Trust license plate petition for Oklahoma). I drive through Indiana a bit and it is a noticeable increase.ReplyDelete
I've noticed that people with the "In God We Trust" license plates are usually horrible drivers.ReplyDelete
Then again, that might just be selection bias.
I complained about the drivers with the "In God We Trust" plates and un-christian like driving behaviors. My mom has noticed it too. She recently traded in her "In God We Trust" plate for a "Kids First" plate and she is a Christian. (Win!!)ReplyDelete
The bad driving is certainly not just in Indiana. I've noticed that dangerous-driving cars disporportionately often have those Jesus fish on them.ReplyDelete
Maybe they're trying to prepare us for the Rapture, when they all expect to vanish from behind the wheel.....
It's not that everyone has them here, either. In Portland it's somewhat rare to see a car without an Obama sticker.
Congrats to Jason -- will be interesting to see what kind of reactions he gets, if any.
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Go Jason, looks great.ReplyDelete
Lucky guy, I live in a fairly conservative part of Fort Wayne. I would probably have my car vandalized for something like that. Not to mention I would probably get kicked out of school for having one of those!ReplyDelete
Gene Shepherd, who grew up in Indiana, wrote a book based on his childhood in the 30s. The title came from a sign at the local bar, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash." That works just as well for atheists as well as anyone else.ReplyDelete
As for driving, my favorite bumper sticker was "Jesus would have used his turn signals." If that's what it takes ....
When I lived in southern California, several times I had Darwin fish on my car damaged or removed...ReplyDelete


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On "Out Of The Black," a track from her new Four Tet-produced comeback album Blank Project, eternal badass Neneh Cherry linked up with Robyn, a fellow Swedish pop-music tough-chick. But the song isn't the technicolor pop explosion it could be; it's a tense and downbeat seether. The song's new video, from director Dario Vigorito, looks like a sensory-overload pop video, placing Cherry and Robyn into a frantic cut-up kaleidoscope. But instead, it works as a meditation on the idea of sensory overload; it's not exactly a celebration. Watch it below.
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There are miracles happening around us all the time but most of us are blind to them. We occasionally see a miracle when we experience a near miss in traffic.
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Many people do experiments expecting specific results because they believe that's what they should see or measure.Such a prejudice can influence the experiment and make it invalid. After all, such a mind discards the anomalies, whereas it is the anomalies that lead to new information and the knowledge.
A disciplinary procedure is the means by which rules are observed and standards are maintained.In the area of science, a person have chance can be good, but also dangerous. So we should always take precautions where safety and health are concerned. A person taking chancing, should prepare for the best outcome, but the same time be ready to deal with negative results.
Science is a good analyzing accidents because there are communities of people usually highly knowledgeable that use known testing guidelines, they have tried and tested scientific methods, as well as being known for producing concrete results based upon evidence.
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Lady Pilots of Houston – The Ninety-Nines' Houston Chapter
By Kara Pound and Charles SimmonsDuring the history of flight, it has been primarily a male dominated endeavor. In 2013, while this may still be true, the balance may be changing as more and more women enter the arena. It is not uncommon today to see ladies in the cockpit of a fighter jet or airliner and just as many fly their own personal aircraft. This is due, in part to the efforts of organizations like The Ninety Nines.
In August of 1929, 26 years after the Wright Brothers flight in North Carolina, a group of aviation enthusiasts gathered for a nine day adventure that began in Santa Monica, California and ended in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the National Women's Air Derby. After observing many of the ladies making sure they looked their best, Will Rodgers affectionately began referring to the race as the Powder Puff Derby and the name stuck. While all of them were beautiful these ladies were tough powder puffs.The camaraderie that developed between many of the competitors during the race might have been the impetus for the beginnings of an organization that would begin a few months later in November, 1929. Of approximately 117 certificated female pilots at the time, 99 became charter members of a group that formed and called themselves "The Ninety Nines."
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Today, The Ninety Nines have grown to over 5000 members in 36 countries. Head-quartered in Oklahoma City the non-profit corporation works diligently to provide professional support and development for tomorrow's women pilots. They accomplish this by hosting social events, encouraging a sense of camaraderie and providing for fellowship, and scholarships through their many local chapters.
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While the organization as a whole is thriving let's not forget about our own Houston based chapter of the 99's. They are an active and well known participant in the aviation community here.
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Established in 1959, the Houston Chapter of the Ninety-Nines currently boasts 61 members ranging in age from 20 to 70 with a wide array of flight experience including helicopter pilots, glider pilots, commercial pilots, flight instructors, aerobatic and race pilots and even a "pilot" in the Houston Ship Channel – guiding ships in and out of the channel.
"When the chapter formed, there were 11 charter members," explains 99s' Houston Chapter Chairman, Rose Lepore. "From the very beginning, chapter members were involved in air racing from flying in the Powder Puff Derby [replaced by Air Race Classic] to international races that took them into Mexico as well as Central and South America."Today, the 99s' Houston Chapter members – based at West Houston Airport – are involved in aviation safety and aviation education for Girl Scouts and other various school groups. They also host a fear of flying seminar and raise money to support organizations like the Ninety-Nines' Museum of Women Pilots and the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund.
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My lifetime friend, David Motsinger, and I were having breakfast at Hardee's. I find Hardee's has as good a gravy biscuit as one can get anywhere and I appreciate the fifty cent senior coffee. We were about to leave when a gentleman a little older than me approached us. He began the conversation with what a nice day it was and, within a minute, I realized he just wanted to talk to us for the sake of talking. After exchanging pleasantries, Horace Conner told us he just liked to talk to people. It just so happens, I have the same hobby.
Horace told us he was originally from Kinston and that he moved to Mississippi and he'd sold Lance crackers for a living. This piqued my interest. I am an aficionado of Lance crackers, more commonly called Nabs here in the greater Ledford area. Horace informed us that he was in the top 100 Lance cracker salesmen for his entire career and that his route around Lexington was one of the most productive in the state. Now that Horace is retired, seven sales people cover the same area he covered by himself.
We discussed our favorite Lance flavors and I found Horace and I shared the same favorite cracker, the Toast-chee. I learned that the Toast-chee is the number one seller and that another of my favorites, the Toasty, is number three. At some point, I asked Horace how old he was. "Eighty seven," he replied and I could tell he was proud of his age.
"You look really good for 87," I said.
"Well, I take care of myself, I've cut down to three or four packs a day, and really, I just can't eat as many crackers as I used to, anyway," he laughed. Horace was an example of a Southern gentleman. He was polite. He was friendly. He was generous. Horace was a Lance Cracker man for life. As we parted ways, he shook my hand and handed me a pack of Toast-chees. "You might get hungry, later."
This is Thanksgiving week and I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what makes me thankful. My granddaughter, Mia, and I went to McDonald's for breakfast Thanksgiving Day and on the way home, we discussed our blessings. We decided we had so many things to be thankful for that it would take all day to list them. I think most of us come in this category, though we don't often consider the fact. When the conversation fell silent for a few minutes, something that doesn't happen often with Mia, I thought about one of the things I'm most thankful for. I love how Southern folks are willing, and many times, eager to talk to strangers.
In my life, I've traveled a lot and something I've noticed is that the more people are around a place, the less they want to talk. I've been in foreign countries, I've been in almost every state, and I've spent time in Los Angeles and New York City. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings if they're from one of those places but I'd just as soon live in Hell with a broke back as to live in New York City or Los Angeles. People in big cities don't like to talk to strangers. I don't know why, it's not like they don't have time to talk to strangers while waiting in line or riding the subway. It's like they're afraid of each other or maybe just don't trust each other. It seems the social aspect of urban humanity has regressed to distrust of their fellow man.
On the other hand if I had to ride a subway to Wallburg every day to work, I'd be talking to everybody and everybody would be talking to me. I love Alabama. I don't think the most urban Alabama native would be reluctant to talk. Go into a McDonald's in Tuscumbia to order a Quarter Pounder and by the time you get your burger, the lady behind the counter will know your kid's names and you'll know about how much her grandmother liked crappie fishing. Rural folk in the North, Midwest, and West are friendly but Southern folk just seem to have a talent for hospitality and conversation with strangers. This thrills me. It is an exchange of humanity. Social behavior is what society is; one word comes from the other.
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ABC Family is a cable channel owned by The Walt Disney Company. It started in 1977 as CBN Cable ("CBN" standing for "Christian Broadcasting Network"), owned by controversial Right-Wing pastor Pat Robertson. In 1988, the channel was renamed to CBN Family Channel; two years later it was spun off and the name was changed to The Family Channel, as the channel had begun to make too much money for non-profit CBN to keep it around. Through all the CBN/Family Channel years though, outside of the hours devoted to The 700 Club and its surrounding programming it was probably known more for being the place your grandfather got his fix of Westerns with Gunsmoke, The Big Valley and Bonanza. In the early 90's, the network started original programming such as Big Brother Jake (think Charles In Charge, minus the hijinks of teenage hormones), and the television version of Maniac Mansion, which owing to where it aired was severely Bowdlerised. Soon though, most of the network's original efforts devolved to the usual No Budget family Game Shows found on cable at that time.The Family Channel, which was by this point co-owned with the library of MTM Enterprises, was bought by Fox in 1997, and renamed Fox Family Channel the next year. The channel, along with Fox Kids, was sold to Disney in 2001 because Fox had no idea what to do with a network devoted to families and the restrictions of their contract for the purchase of the network. An attempt to create two spin-off channels with sex-segregated children's programming, the Boyz & Girlz Channels, failed because of a lack of interest and viewers questioning excluding one gender from an entire channel (though it could be said that these days, the Disney Channel and Disney XD have the near-same concept).That same year, the channel's name settled on the current one, the Fox Kids block met its end the next year, and its programming moved to ABC Family (and Toon Disney) as "Jetix" (the name was introduced in 2004; previous to that the programming had aired on ABCF under the name of "ABC Family Action Block"). The early ABC years were spent converting the network to a place to re-air ABC programs, which was botched by the network realizing that only programs from their internal studio could get a second ABC Family run, with other outside producers heavily objecting to the arrangement. By 2005, it had seemed to become a place for cheap reality programming and non-stop reruns of The Bachelor.Disney planned to revamp the channel into a young-adult-aimed channel named "XYZ"; a stipulation in their contracts with the cable companies that "Family" remain in the name forever put the brakes on this. The network also has to give up a full day of programming in late January so Robertson can air his annual Telethon, but these days the only thing that's lost is the usual Sunday movie marathon.The channel eventually abused a loophole and remained ABC Family, but changed their slogan to "A new kind of family", pretty much saying that they may have to keep the name, but that won't stop them from turning it into a not-so-family-friendly channel. Eventually, the network also got actual original programming too, mainly targeting young women. The end result is something akin to being the [adult swim] to Disney Channel... or the channel itself being "Teen Disney", the channel's answer to TeenNick (Minus the old Disney shows in it).In March 2012, the network gained a Canadian sister network in ABC Spark, which replaced Dusk, a horror film network. ABC Spark is bound by none of Robertson's requirements, and outside of some programs already claimed by other channels (like Pretty Little Liars, which is one of MuchMusic's stalwart shows), carries most of ABC Family's original shows, and even rerun shows.
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By Esperanza Soto Aburto, ChildFund Mexico
At the age of 12, Jesus — or Chucho, as he's known to friends — was part of the Organization Hñañhu Batsi, a community group in Mexico. He played soccer and was part of a team that won a regional tournament.
Today, as an adult, he has worked with teens who belong to the same organization, a local partner with ChildFund Mexico.
"I was looking for the kids to bring out their character, and teaching them teamwork," Chucho says. But it was also important for him to open a business, making good on what he calls his "Mexican Dream," which has special significance since he immigrated to the United States when he was 15, returning later.
With other young people in his community, Chucho began to figure out what the needs of the community were, and there were no bakeries.
That's how the Nheki Bakery was born; nheki means "me too" in Chucho's native language, Hñañhu.
"At first I wanted to name the bakery 'I undertake,' " Chucho says, "but there is no translation of this word to Hñañhu, so I named it Nheki: 'I want, I can, me too!' "
They started making doughnuts, biscuits, bread, buns and other pastries, sweetening them with agave honey produced in the community. The yeast and jams also are made locally.
The bakery has been open for almost a year, and Chucho and his colleagues are considering opening more bakeries in the region. ChildFund Mexico is now a trading partner, buying bread from the Nheki Bakery for children enrolled in the Early Childhood Development programs. Chucho realized that there is work to do in his community, and with a lot of effort and sweat, there's always a chance to create opportunities.
Members of ChildFund-supported communities in Ecuador have been working nonstop during the last two weeks to complete orders for St. Valentine's Day. It's the peak season for flower production and exports, and we were lucky enough to be visiting Ecuador last week to see the business in action. This country, along with Colombia, is among the main flower exporters, and during these days the local industry in Ecuador estimates exports for about 4,000 metric tons to the United States and about 2,600 metric tons to Europe, approximately 30 percent of its yearly production.
Twelve years ago, the community of Santa Rosa de Patután had no running water, sewage treatment, schools or health center. However, today, after many years of projects and trial-and-error experiences, this village has transformed into a community of dynamic farmers who produce mainly roses and carnations for export to the United States, Europe and Russia.
Jose Manuel Yaule is one of the leaders behind this change. With no education other than what he calls "the university of life," he began working for his community by building a water system with the help of ChildFund. Today, that is the local water company, a service and business totally run by the community. That was the first step toward his venture into the flower business.
He then began researching with technicians in businesses from surrounding areas and first tried with his own greenhouse as a pilot. Realizing they could actually produce high-quality carnations and roses for exporting, he replicated this model by teaching the business to the whole community.
"I remember back in 1994, seeing children here was very sad: very poor, hungry, no shoes, no school. I was thinking all the time about work opportunities for parents, who were mainly peasants without any hope and lots of alcohol problems," Jose Manuel says. "Now I see children and I can't even recognize them… sometimes I think they are from another town: so educated, so well-dressed, so happy and healthy!"
The flower business has indeed brought color, joy and progress to this community. Jose Manuel didn't have an education, but his five children went to university; two of them graduated, two study music at the conservatory, and one is pursuing a degree in economics.
His dream is for everyone in this community of about 400 families to be a small business owner. Continued water supply, agricultural technical support and financing are keys to making this a reality.
To support the farmers with credit, the community also created in 2008 their own credit union, which has 780 members and assets of about US$1 million, provides loans for land, supply and machinery. The credit union works well under the management and supervision of Monica, a former sponsored girl in the community, who, after finishing university, decided to come back and work for the development of her own village.
This community keeps dreaming and growing, just as the flowers do. Farmers continue to get training and are currently working on producing new varieties of flowers and diversifying their production. Thanks to this work and the support of buyers in the United States every Valentine's Day, more children keep playing and learning in better schools, while their mothers and fathers continue cultivating the seeds of change and progress in their community.
Reporting by ChildFund Mexico
ChildFund Mexico is teaming up with ArcelorMittal Mexico, a multinational steel manufacturer, to improve conditions for children in six communities in Michoacán, Mexico.
The new community-development project, launched in late June, will directly benefit 1,300 Mexican children and reach more than 7,000 people in the town of Lázaro Cárdenas over the next nine years. The project's main purpose is to develop sustainable improvements in education, health, nutrition and livelihoods.
With funding from ArcelorMittal, a new community center has been established, as well as four smaller meeting points in other areas, giving children and adults places to discuss their communities' needs. The goal is for residents to take the lead in evolving their groups into independent community organizations over the next several years.
"Through the Integral Community Development Project of Lázaro Cárdenas, we look to promote the well-being and socio-economic growth of the communities where one of our main operations is located," said Felicidad Cristóbal, global director of the ArcelorMittal Foundation, the company's social investment arm. "ArcelorMittal is one of the main companies in Mexico with a long-term strategy for corporate social responsibility supporting self-sustainable development processes. That's why we value the partnership we have established," says Virginia Vargas, ChildFund's national director in Mexico.
By Ya Sainey Gaye, ChildFund The Gambia
A group of 37 formerly sponsored children — now young adults — have formed an alumni association in The Gambia. They hope to increase awareness of ChildFund's sponsorship program at a community level, as well as ChildFund-supported projects that improve education, early childhood development, health care and other needs.
"To ChildFund The Gambia, I have to say that you have indeed restored and nurtured the hopes and aspirations of over 20,000 people in this country through your sponsorship program, which all of us here today benefited from," said Alieu Jawo, who was elected chairperson of the alumni group. "This is indeed a divine investment."
Alieu, who is now 35, runs a graphic design and printing company, owns a general merchandise brokerage and serves as a shareholder and director of an insurance firm.
"My inclusion into the sponsorship program brought hope and joy to me and my entire family," Alieu said, "as it was a serious nightmare for an ordinary farmer like my dad and any other average farmer to be able to send his or her kid to high school. There were no good ones around my village or region."
But with the help of his ChildFund sponsor, who paid his school fees above and beyond the monthly sponsorship, Alieu was able to excel at primary school and continue his education. Other alumni echoed Alieu's story.
"I was privileged because it gave me the opportunity to continue my education," said 30-year-old Fatou Bojang, who received shoes and medical supplies too. "That meant less worry and burden on my parents."
ChildFund The Gambia hosted the forum to formally launch the alumni association in Bwiam. Participants received a briefing on ChildFund's organizational structure, a refresher on its mission and overviews of ChildFund's five-year strategic plan and The Gambia's strategic plan.
Equipped with a better understanding of ChildFund's operations in The Gambia, the group drafted a constitution and nominated candidates for an executive board. Then the members cast votes.
Staff from ChildFund's national office challenged the participants to continue to make time for the alumni association, to work in their communities and to assist ChildFund as partners to promote child development and protection. The alumni, who well recall what sponsorship means to them, expressed optimism for the future.
"My enrollment in ChildFund sponsorship program really did contribute to what I am today," noted Demba Sowe, 37. "I am now a father of five and an interpreter at the judiciary of The Gambia."
By Kate Andrews, ChildFund Staff Writer
From ChildFund Japan, one of our ChildFund Alliance partners, comes a touching video about how the seaside city of Ofunato is recovering from the deadly earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. "The Garland of Smiles," which focuses on ChildFund's people-centered approaches to healing and rebuilding, is nearly 22 minutes long, yet if you are interested in seeing what has happened in the aftermath of the tsunami, it's well worth viewing.
More than 15,000 people in Japan died as a result of the disaster, and as we see in the video, numerous homes and buildings were destroyed, forcing as many as 8,000 people in Ofunato to live in temporary housing. It's in this makeshift community where we meet ChildFund Japan project manager Yoshikazu Funato, who oversaw many initiatives to bring back some normalcy to children and adults.
ChildFund Japan, which normally assists children and families in the Philippines and Nepal, had to focus its energy inward after the disaster. With financial support from other ChildFund Alliance members, including ChildFund International, ChildFund Japan concentrated its activities in Ofunato because outside support was less available there than in other stricken areas. Beginning its work in the weeks after the earthquake and tsunami with a variety of volunteers and staff, ChildFund completed its projects in March 2013.
In preparation for the rebuilding, Funato and others conducted a door-to-door survey to see what Ofunato's residents wanted and needed most. Some projects were small — building wooden benches in the temporary communities to promote socializing — while others were more ambitious, like providing grief counseling to preschoolers and creating a collective farm that keeps residents supplied with healthy food.
As a result of ChildFund Japan's work throughout the past two years, some residents in temporary housing became invested in the improvements, from working at the farm to taking part in a residents' association.
As you'll see in the video, Ofunato has undergone a transformation in the past 24 months — not just physically but in attitude as well.
Reporting by ChildFund Sierra Leone
For 50 days, ChildFund is joining with numerous organizations to demonstrate support for government policies and programs that will allow women and girls to be healthy, empowered and safe — no matter where they live. Ending early and forced marriage is this week's theme.
In 2005, at the age of 10, Kadiatu was enrolled in ChildFund's programs serving the Daindemben Federation in her Sierra Leonean community. With support from her sponsor to pay for school fees and learning materials, Kadiatu eagerly embraced the educational opportunities available to her.
But when she reached junior secondary school, Kadiatu's father decided to remove her from school and give her in marriage to a middle-aged man in the village. ChildFund and its local partner intervened on Kadiatu's behalf, standing firm to ensure that her father's decision was overturned. The marriage was cancelled, and Kadiatu continued her schooling. But her father withdrew all support. Her mother has died long ago and her stepmother showed no love to her.
Without ChildFund sponsorship and the support of Daindemben Federation, Kadiatu would have had nowhere to turn.
Today, Kadiatu, 18, is in senior secondary school preparing for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination. She credits ChildFund and Daindemben Federation for restoring her hope and believes she would have been the mother of two or three children by now had it not been for the intervention of the federation. "Daindemben has made me realize my importance and value in society," she says.
Now she is determined to go all the way to university to study accounting. "I want Daindemben Federation and my sponsor to be proud of me. They have done so much to get me to where I am today. I don't want to let them down," she says. "Even my father is proud of me now," she acknowledges. "He has regretted the action he had wanted to take then.
"I would like Daindemben Federation and my ChildFund sponsor to continue being my pillar, so that I will achieve my dream of becoming an accountant."
Read more about ChildFund's work to prevent early marriage.
Reporting by ChildFund Ethiopia staff
Tariku, now 33, grew up in a family of nine in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Without the support of ChildFund, he says he would not have been able to afford school materials or continue his education. Today, as a university graduate and a master's degree student, Tariku has found success. The following is his story in his own words:
Today I am going to tell you about myself, about how ChildFund changed my life, as it did for many children, by providing various kinds of support. ChildFund played a great role in my life and helped me become who I am now. I enrolled in the project when ChildFund opened its office at Semen Shoa, in the Amhara region, in 1992 during the downfall of the Derg political regime. At that time, I was a grade-six student, while my father was a soldier and my mom was a housewife. We were nine in the family.
I am the youngest in my family, except one younger sibling. However, no one in my family has gone far from home or been successful in education. Since I joined the project, ChildFund supported me with educational materials, health care and fulfilling our family's needs. Before, I had no means to buy books or other educational materials. The project provided me with everything I required for my education; that, in turn, increased my interest in learning.
After I finished my diploma in agriculture at Jimma University (a top Ethiopian teaching university) in 2000, I had the chance to join ChildFund's local partner organization staff as a community development worker. After some time there, I moved to a project in Addis Ababa.
I received my first degree in business management in 2009, and now I am a graduate student at Addis Ababa University in psychology. I am now a sponsorship relations head at work.
"Supporting one child means supporting the family."
One thing that I want to highlight is how ChildFund's work is fruitful. There are many successful alumni who are working in many areas in different organizations. Supporting one child means supporting the family. For instance, my family has benefited a lot. I have created work opportunities for my elder siblings by supporting them financially, and I was able to teach my younger sibling.
The support I received in the Semen Shoa project is the basis of all my success. I can say that ChildFund was just as important as my blood circulation.
I am sure that I will keep on improving my life even after this, but I will give credit to ChildFund often. Now I am successful in my work. I want to be a role model and pass this message on to other children who are receiving support from ChildFund to give credit for what ChildFund did for them. I hope that many children will attain similar success to what I have achieved now.
By Priscilla Chama, ChildFund Zambia
A Zambian youth group supported by ChildFund recently won a national award for its entrepreneurial spirit. The Mukubulo youth group's work — growing vegetables and selling them at a local market — earned them a laptop computer and a cash prize of US$654.
The Zambian government awarded the prizes on March 12, National Youth Day, as part of its first young entrepreneurs' exhibition, "Opportunity for Youth Through Enterprise." The Mukubulo group reached the national level after beating 15 other teams in the provincial level, winning a trophy and US$935 in cash.
The national event attracted 61 teams, including 24 international competitors from Namibia and Zimbabwe. The exhibition was aimed at encouraging young people to create their own wealth through innovation, creativity and hard work.
The Mukubulo youth group is supported by ChildFund Zambia through the Youth and Caregiver Entrepreneurship Development Project. They initially came together in 2007 as a group of 10 that grew vegetables and sold them at a local market.
Group leader Davey explained that they struggled to share the money raised from the sale of their vegetables, because their profit margins were too small.
"When we started, we did not have modern agricultural equipment, and we used to water our gardens with buckets. Thus, we did not make enough profits for us to share," he explained.
The big breakthrough for the group came when they began receiving support from ChildFund. They were trained in organic farming and entrepreneurship skills and then were given start-up seeds.
With further support from ChildFund, the group managed to procure modern agriculture equipment and is now involved in gardening on a large scale. The size of their market presence has also grown, and they are now selling their products not only in Chongwe but also in Lusaka.
"We are grateful for the support from ChildFund, and winning the first prize both at provincial and national level is a big motivation for us to work even harder and explore further business ventures," Davey said after receiving the award.
During the presentation of the prizes to the group, Zambia's Minister of Youth and Sport, Chishimba Kambwili, urged the group to recruit more young people.
"As a ministry in charge of the youth in this country, we would like to see the group grow from its current membership so that other young people that are not in formal employment can benefit," he said.
By Patricia Toquica, Americas Region Communications Manager
Much significance is attached to the Easter egg tradition: springtime, fertility, rebirth and life. But for the women of the community of Sao Joao de Chapada, near the city of Diamantina in Brazil, an egg hunt has become a daily activity that not only means nutritious food for their children but also a much-needed source of income.
But which came first: the chicken or the egg? In this case, the chicken, thanks to ChildFund Brasil's Chicken Plus project, which allows many women in extremely arid regions of Brazil to produce food and generate income at home instead of having to migrate to cities for work. This helps ease the problem of families leaving home and residing in urban slums.
In Sao Joao de Chapada, the community farm project started with a donation of 300 chicks a few years ago, and now the chicken population has grown to 1,200. The eggs provide high-protein nutrition for more than 30 pre-school children attending an early childhood development center, plus healthy meals and snacks for older children and families participating in the project. Each family receives 12 eggs a week and one chicken per month for consumption or for selling at the local market, along with other farm products like vegetables and homemade goods.
Geralda, a mother of four, volunteers at the community farm about two hours a day. "While we work with the other mothers picking up the eggs, cleaning the farm or in the community garden, our children play and learn at the community center," she says. "With the money we get from the eggs, we feed our families and keep the project going, so we'll always have food." A community savings fund, set up when the farm was established, ensures that chicken production keeps going strong.
With a sustainable approach, the project is leading community members toward the development of innovative businesses based on chicken farming. The project also enhances women's business skills by emphasizing quality control, microcredit options and entrepreneurship.
By Saroj Kumar Pattnaik, ChildFund India
On International Women's Day, we're spotlighting some of the amazing girls and women we've encountered in ChildFund-supported communities. We honor their struggles and cheer their successes.
Dusk was settling over a suburban neighborhood in southern India, but Stella Leethiyal wasn't ready to go home. The 47-year-old teacher was busy visiting shanties to meet women and educate them about good parenting — the key to a child's successful development.
Aside from teaching women about parenting, Stella also focuses on educating them about their individual rights and convincing their male partners to understand and respect the value of the women in their households. Stella, who works as a teacher at a ChildFund-supported early childhood development (ECD) center in Chennai, India, does this out of a desire to see her fellow women become aware and empowered.
"Personally, I have seen many setbacks faced by women in my locality since my childhood," Stella says. "I have always dreamt of a society where women and men are treated equally in all aspects of life. My association with ChildFund India has given my dream a direction, and I have tried my best to achieve this goal."
Currently, Stella works with children whose families often migrate to find work, a population that faces serious obstacles to a full education.
Before becoming an ECD teacher in 1997, Stella was a community mobilizer for ChildFund; her prime focus was educating and empowering women. Her efforts helped convince nomadic families to send their children to school for the first time.
Stella is very happy about her work, but she is dissatisfied with the general condition of women across the country. "People say India is now a powerful country," she says, "But how can you be powerful when one section of your population is so weak?"
According to latest U.N. Human Development report, India is ranked 129 out of 146 countries on the Gender Inequality Index. However, many people in India like Stella are working to improve the state of women and girls through education, health care, sanitation and political participation. The government also runs several programs aimed at empowering women.
In the past year, ChildFund India has reached out to more than 142,000 women and engaged them in various issues ranging from their health and sanitation to economic empowerment.
To assist women who wish to earn income, ChildFund India promotes women's Self-Help Groups (SHGs) that manage microloans at a village level, which helps women become more self-sufficient. India has more than 5,600 such groups across the country, with 18,000 members.
ChildFund is also committed to helping youths become involved community members, and toward this goal, we support more than 700 clubs for boys and girls.
Female youth clubs, also known as Kishori Samuha, have proven to be a major success in creating an informed and confident new generation.
Durgesh, 15, is a testimony to this success. A sponsored child from Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, Durgesh led a campaign against child marriage and managed to bring the number of early marriages to almost zero in her community.
As a leader of her youth club, she generated great awareness about the ill effects of child marriage and managed to gain broad community support .
"Initially, it was very difficult for us to convince parents to say no to child marriage, which has been going on in our community since ages," says Durgesh, who is in 10th grade. "But with the support and guidance from ChildFund India program staff, we continued our campaign for months. And we finally succeeded. Parents are now not in favor of getting their young daughters married. Rather, they are sending them to schools."
Stella and Durgesh are two of hundreds of committed individuals in India who are giving hope to women across the country. They aspire to build a new India where women are respected and allowed to lead.


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Batman Arkham City + vanquish + limbo +other free games and discounts for Ps Plus members for December
Scroll down the list, because you will surely find something that you may be interested.
For the month
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Top Comments (3)
- deaddrama2 years, 2 weeks ago30 LikesShow comment tools ReplyThis is why I'm selling my Xbox 360, why the hell would you pay for live when you PS Plus gives you so much cool stuff?!
- keepitonthelow2 years, 2 weeks ago8 LikesShow comment tools ReplyNeed new hard drive.
- nathlee112 years, 2 weeks ago6 LikesShow comment tools ReplyOwning both a PS3 and a vita has made PS+ and complete no brainier! received gravity rush and uncharted for the vita last week, now Decembers content is on the way (which looks very good) i have litrally bought maybe 2-3 games since signing up around june time, PS+ has saved me loads of money and i get to experience games i would otherwise probably not get to play. Fair play Sony!!
- Dhiraj12 years, 2 weeks ago1 Like #1Show comment tools ReplyUpdates on December 5th. Link to exclusive article
- quidditys_shore2 years, 2 weeks ago #2Show comment tools ReplyOh how I love PS+!!!!!!!
Just saved myself £15 as now no need to buy batman! & can also sell vanquish :)
- Dhiraj12 years, 2 weeks ago #3Show comment tools ReplyMakes me also realise not to bother buying psn games unless heavily discounted... I bought limbo recently and haven't played it yet.
- SupraGaz2 years, 2 weeks ago #4Show comment tools ReplyThanks for the heads up, not got round to trying Arkham City yet so looking forward to giving that a blast :)
- keepitonthelow2 years, 2 weeks ago8 Likes #5Show comment tools ReplyNeed new hard drive.
- slliw2 years, 2 weeks ago1 Like #6Show comment tools ReplyAnyone got the Vita list?
- CyDoNiA2 years, 2 weeks ago1 Like #7Show comment tools ReplyI can probably predict all the future free stuff based on what I have already purchased before. :p
Limbo is great as is Vanqiush and I needed Batman back after I sold mine ages ago so its all good. Damn wait it's Arkham City. Got that needed Asylum. :(
Edited By: CyDoNiA on Nov 28, 2012 08:31
- Buyt562 years, 2 weeks ago #8Show comment tools ReplyslliwAnyone got the Vita list?
I could be wrong but, we might not see anything for Vita until mid December as that's when it launched this month. Or possibly not until the new year.
Not sure if PS3 and Vita content will update at the same time.
- Allytoe2 years, 2 weeks ago #9Show comment tools ReplyHow does this work if you have one psn account and two ps3s? If I already have the batman game, does this mean another family member can have the psn one and each have their own trophies and saves for the game or are the trophies set to one lot per game per psn account?
- Krat2 years, 2 weeks ago #10Show comment tools ReplyVanquish is a gorgeous looking game. I finished it on normal, might have a go at the harder modes now!
Bought PS+ a month ago and already feel like i've got my money back.
- Sna2 years, 2 weeks ago #11Show comment tools ReplyArkham City is fantastic not sure I'll sell my physical copy 'cause I'm just a bit old school like that.
Vanquish is quite good, judging from the demo I played around it's original release date and everyone raves about Limbo.. since signing up to PSN+ a couple of months ago I've already got a heap of great games to work through! 8)
- springy992 years, 2 weeks ago #12Show comment tools Replyslliw
Anyone got the Vita list?
scroll to the bottom of the link for the Vita list
- Buyt562 years, 2 weeks ago #13Show comment tools ReplyAllytoeHow does this work if you have one psn account and two ps3s? If I already have the batman game, does this mean another family member can have the psn one and each have their own trophies and saves for the game or are the trophies set to one lot per game per psn account?
I imagine so. As you can with purchases from the store.
- anlygi2 years, 2 weeks ago #14Show comment tools ReplyBy fixed, do they mean they are there permanently or they fixed the terrible audio problems with LBP2? It's totally unplayable as the audio repeats and skips. Is anyone else having this problem with it? I have installed it twice and the problem is still there and others reported it online.
- HT UK2 years, 2 weeks ago2 Likes #15Show comment tools ReplyAwesome, always wanted to play Vanquish
- morg1062 years, 2 weeks ago3 Likes #16Show comment tools ReplyBetter finish Arkham Asylum, cannot believe they are giving us Arkham City for free. If you have an Internet connected PS3 and you don't have PS+, there is something quite wrong with you.
- roberttaylor827312 years, 2 weeks ago1 Like #17Show comment tools Replyspringy99 that's this months vita games, anlygi never had any problems with LBP2. still cant believe there are people out there who think xbox live is a better service!
Edited By: roberttaylor82731 on Nov 28, 2012 09:03
- yokerbloke2 years, 2 weeks ago #18Show comment tools ReplyI just bought Batman: Arkham City GOTY
oh well
- anlygi2 years, 2 weeks ago #19Show comment tools ReplyBy fixed, do they mean they are there permanently or they fixed the terrible audio problems with LBP2? It's totally unplayable as the audio repeats and skips. Is anyone else having this problem with it? I have installed it twice and the problem is still there and others reported it online.
- macst8082 years, 2 weeks ago #20Show comment tools ReplyJust got Playstation Plus+ on 3 months deal with new PS3 purchased for Christmas.
Question 1: once you download games to HD are you able to play them for as long as you want or do they require you to continue subscription. i.e. after my 3 months is up will the games I've downloaded be still playable.
Question 2: is it worth a 12 month subscription. Guess answer for me is going to be yes as it is mainly used for my 2 lads (8 & 11) who enjoy the older games as oppose to really unto date games like COD etc. We mainly buy 2nd hand games and only really a couple of really new titles for Birthday's/Christmas...
Any info much appreciated.


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Governor Deval L. Patrick
Testimony Before the Joint Committees on Health Care Financing,
Community Development and Small Business
State House, Boston, MA
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Governor Patrick testified on behalf of some of the provisions in his Small Business Jobs bill today, specifically mentioning the small businesses around the state who need relief from health insurance premium increases. Below, read his testimony as delivered.
For more information, please visit www.mass.gov/governor/jobs
Address as prepared
Chairwoman Stanley, Chairwoman Forry, Chairman Moore and members of the Joint Committees: Good afternoon, and thank you for promptly convening this hearing on our proposals to limit the rise in health care premiums for small businesses and families.
A woman wrote me from Hopkinton the other day. She told me about her husband's small business located here in Boston. His business's premiums just went up 41.17%. When they called the health insurance company, they were told that premiums increased because the insurer "didn't realize how popular the deductible plans would be and therefore, underpriced that product." She asked me in her letter, "How is a small business to grow and offer other employee benefits with staggering increases year after year?"
The owner of a physical therapy business on the Cape got notice her premium would increase by 35% this month.
In Pittsfield, a broker saw a health insurance premium increase of more than 90% this month.
In Lawrence, a self-employed, single mother's premium increased by 44%. Now, she has to pay the higher premium rather than perform home repairs, for which she had saved for years. In hearings conducted over the past four months by the Commissioner of Insurance, stories like this are everywhere.
Members of the Committee, enough is enough. On the main streets of the Commonwealth, we have an emergency on our hands. We can debate the whys and the hows of health care increases, but the strivers who are investing their energy, their time and their money to help the Massachusetts economy flourish can wait for answers no longer.
We filed our proposals in a Jobs Bill for one reason: Without small business, we will have no economic recovery. Small businesses and sole proprietorships make up 85% of businesses in our Commonwealth. If they don't start hiring, complete economic recovery will elude us. Next to access to capital, soaring health care costs are the consistent reason given for why they can't see their way to add more jobs. Thanks to the recommendations of the Payment Reform Commission, we have a good path to a permanent and comprehensive fix to escalating health care costs. But small businesses and families need help now-as a bridge to payment reform.
We recognize that controlling health care costs is a shared responsibility between insurance companies, providers, businesses and government. But our goal is simple: lower health care costs now, freeing up resources for businesses to hire new workers and spark growth for our Commonwealth. Our bill does the following things.
First, it provides oversight of health insurance company AND provider rates by the Division of Insurance and the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, respectively. Oversight of the reasonableness of rates charged by both insurers and providers is designed to be a temporary two-year measure that will hopefully exert some downward pressures on escalating health care costs as we continue to move toward systemic changes to our health care payment system. For a period of two years, this oversight triggers a presumptive disapproval for those health insurer and provider rate increases that exceed benchmarks based on the prior year's consumer price index for medical services (2009 medical CPI is 3.2%). These rates would be disapproved, unless there is a compelling reason not to.
Second, the legislation requires the Commissioner of Insurance to examine small business health insurance rating factors and prevent any duplicative or unjustified administrative charges that may drive up costs for small businesses.
Third, the legislation empowers the Commissioner of Insurance to protect small businesses from rate shock caused by drastic increases in premiums driven by changes in the composition of their workforces (particularly the age of their workforces).
Fourth, the bill includes a two year moratorium on the adoption of any new mandated benefits.
Fifth, beginning in July, the bill gives smaller companies the choice of more affordable plans by requiring health insurance carriers in the small group market to offer at least one selective network plan with premiums that are at least 10 percent lower than the premiums for the full network product.
Finally, our package requires insurers to establish bi-annual open enrollment periods for individuals who purchase individual coverage to encourage people to maintain their health insurance.
I have directed the Commissioner of Insurance to require health insurance companies to file proposed increases to small business premiums with the Division of Insurance 30 days in advance of their taking effect (beginning with rates effective with April 1, 2010). Under existing authority, the Commissioner may review and disapprove rates that are excessive or unreasonable. Recently proposed rate hikes announced by the insurance industry-up to 39%-make implementing the emergency measures even more urgent. But we need the Legislature to enact the proposed regulation promptly in order to control the impact on insurers of runaway costs charged by hospitals.
Taken together, these steps will help bring health insurance costs under control for more businesses. They are a jumping off point for what I know is a larger discussion about additional ways we can get a handle on system costs through payment reform. I welcome your ideas. But the most urgent need is for action. We cannot hope that small businesses will start hiring while they are drowning under huge health care increases. I look forward to working with you to meet this important challenge and help create new jobs in Massachusetts.
Thank you again for having me here today. Secretaries Bialecki and Bigby, Assistant Secretary Glen Shor from Administration and Finance, Barbara Anthony, the Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and Joseph Murphy, the Commissioner of Insurance join me here and they will be happy to answer any of your specific questions about our proposals..


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Do you think that social attitudes are really changing?
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It seems that there are stories frequently on the news about people boycotting businesses for their anti-gay sentiments, but a recent study found that social attitudes might not be as open as we think:
So a team from Ohio State University and Boston University compared these survey techniques to another strategy that provided even more privacy and anonymity to participants, by guaranteeing that even the researchers could not connect the volunteers to their answers. Among the 2,516 U.S. volunteers who were randomly assigned to answer questions about their sexuality using one or the other survey method, those taking the more veiled survey were 65% more likely to report a non-heterosexual identity themselves and 59% more likely to report having a same-sex sexual experience than those using the standard survey technique.
The veiled method also revealed more people with anti-gay sentiment than among those taking the other type of survey. The participants were 67% more likely to disapprove of an openly gay manager at work and 71% more likely to admit that it was acceptable to discriminate against people who are lesbians, gay or bisexual.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/10/07/social-attitudes-about-sexual-orientation-may-not-be-as-open-as-previously-thought/
What has your experience been, do you really think that people are changing their attitude?


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Lake County residents with long memories can tell you about the days when Waukegan ended at Lewis Avenue, long before the arrival of Belvidere Mall, much less the Home Depot that now sits next to it.
There are also People of a Certain Age in Gurnee who can tell you about the cornfields west of Hunt Club Road, which was a two-lane road back then. Go to Vernon Hills, and there are those who remember when Hawthorn Mellody Farms gave way to Hawthorn Mall.
Living proof that just-add-water development isn't limited to the suburbs can be found an hour or so beyond the county line, where the once wide-open spaces between DeKalb and Sycamore contain much more than the Dairy Queen and Farm and Fleet that you remember.
True, the Farm and Fleet is still there, way out east on Route 23, and the Dairy Queen still sits across from Hopkins Park. But the march of time did not come to a halt when some of us gathered our diplomas and fled the scene in the late 1980s, long before Bath & Body Works was a thing.
This past holiday weekend took me to an extended family reunion at a home technically in Sycamore, though it sits in an area that was closer to Aurora 25 years ago. The six miles from there to DeKalb and the campus of Northern Illinois University have also been filled in a way that made me think I had come out of a wormhole onto Town Line Road in Vernon Hills.
Yes, this retail strip had a Bath & Body Works. And also a Giordano's, a Portillo's Hot Dogs and a Noodles & Company. There was also, of course, at least one Starbuck's, not to mention a Panera Bread.
The drive down what is called DeKalb Avenue in Sycamore before becoming Sycamore Road as you approach DeKalb — no lie — also featured a U.S. Celllar, a Sprint Store and a Verizon Wireless. Also represented were Buffalo Wild Wings, Panda Express and Ruby Tuesday.
Just like Gurnee, this strip included not only a Menards but also a Lowe's. Oddly, the nearest Home Depot is in South Elgin. Give them about five minutes.
In other words, the DeKalb-Sycamore tandem was once a farm town that became a college town and is now, in more ways than one, a suburb.
And not just a suburb, but apparently one with clout: Unlike Mundelein, Round Lake Beach and Zion, they still have an Applebee's. Raise your hand if you're old enough to remember that one.Tags: Dan Moran


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Part of being a Ranger in the United States Army is accepting the challenge to be the best.
Fort Stewart gate security guards began confiscating damaged and expired ID cards earlier this month.
Members and guests of the Fort Stewart Enlisted Spouses' Club recently gathered at the Desert Shield/Desert Storm Memorial in front of the Post Exchange to place a wreath to remember all military personnel who have lost their lives while serving our country.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq - Israel ushered in the age of the unmanned aerial vehicle during its 1982 war with Lebanon. Now, almost 30 years later, these aircraft are still proving their value in the airspace and battlefields of Iraq.
The 3rd Sustainment Brigade will be "second to last to turn off the lights" in Iraq as the 3rd Infantry Division draws down said brigade commander Col. Shawn Morrissey by phone Thursday. Morrissey said his unit is tasked with sustaining troops during a historic and large-scale retrograde operation.
FORT GORDON - Take a drive around the periphery of Fort Gordon and you'd be excused for thinking you have entered small-town America.
Along the edge of the post, multicolored playgrounds intermingle with new two-story homes - the yards perfectly manicured. Pearl white sidewalks line the road for school-age children to walk the short distance to a K-8 school. They dangle from monkey bars as their mothers watch from benches nearby.
FORT STEWART - The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Pvt. Francisco J. Guardado-Ramirez, 21, of Sunland Park, N.M.., died June 2 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident when the MRAP he was in struck an overpass. An investigation is underway. He was assigned to 1-41 Field Artillery, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd ID.
MARIETTA - A soldier from Marietta has died in Afghanistan.
Department of Defense officials Wednesday announced 22-year-old Spc. Jonathan K. Peney died June 1 in Kandahar province. Officials say he died of wounds sustained when he was shot by enemy forces.
Sixty years ago, the Army was not as supportive of married soldiers and their dependents as it is today. The adage, "If the Army wanted you to have a wife, you'd be issued one," was often heard.
TIKRIT, Iraq- A Puerto Rican National Guard unit increased the awareness of the military's wounded warriors by getting 600 individuals out of bed early Sunday morning to participate in a run for the warriors.
WASHINGTON - Congress is headed toward landmark votes on whether to allow gays to serve openly in the military.
The House was expected to vote as early as Thursday on a proposal by Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Pennsylvania Democrat who served in the Iraq war, that would repeal the 1993 law known as "don't ask, don't tell."
Third Infantry Division commanding general Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo dispelled rumors and offered an update on the deployment to Iraq during a surprise appearance Tuesday at a Family Readiness Group round-up on Club Stewart.
Third Infantry Division soldier Staff Sgt. Amilcar H. Gonzalez has been posthumously awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Fort Stewart soldier Cpl. Ryan Shurtleff brought home one silver and a bronze medal from the inaugural Warrior Games held May 10-14 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Shurtleff was wounded by an IED in Iraq and is assigned to the Warrior Transition Battalion here.
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas man with no military experience managed to trick the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, putting an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The revelation comes just months after the Army drew criticism for failing to flag the suspicious activities of the Army psychiatrist now charged with killing 13 and wounding dozens of others at Fort Hood.
WASHINGTON ― The Department of Defense Monday announced the 2015 military pay and compensation rates for service members, with most service members receiving a one percent increase in basic pay.
Airman 1st Class Lance Owens II, a 2011 Richmond Hill High School graduate and Richmond Hill native, recently became a 364 TRS/Golden Knights electrical and environmental controls graduate. Owens achieved distinguished graduate status by scoring a 95 percent.
KABUL, Afghanistan ― International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, which has handled day-to-day operations in Afghanistan for five years, formally cased its colors during a ceremony Monday at the command's headquarters at Kabul International Airport.
Vehicles from the 3rd Infantry Division will convoy from Fort Stewart to Hunter Army Airfield late tonight.
Clyde's Market, a Glennville-based convenience-store chain, recently showed its support for Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield soldiers and their families with a $20,000 donation to Stewart-Hunter's Survivor Outreach Services.
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