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Ethel Sentipal wipes snow from a stone at Cross Creek Cemetery. She said that particular table stone is especially meaningful to her because it marks the grave of a relative who died in the early 19th century.
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A monument at Cross Creek Cemetery honors veterans of the American Revolution who are buried there. On the reverse, veterans of the Indian wars and the War of 1812 are honored. In the foreground are special veterans markers that the Sentipals hope to match with the correct gravesites. They had been stolen years ago but were recovered.
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Jonas Amspoker (1740-1796) was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. His modern-day descendants commissioned a new marker when his original tombstone was damaged, and they visit his grave every year to place a wreath. The Sentipals hope descendants of those buried in the cemetery will contact them to they can learn more about historical figures laid to rest there.
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Ethel Sentipal clears one of dozens of markers placed near a storage shed at the graveyard. She said a landscaper placed many of the broken or overturned markers there while he cut the grass. The Sentpals are attempting to match the markers with their original gravesites.
The members of the volunteer Cross Creek Cemetery Co. have a "grave" responsibility: restoring the hundreds of historical grave markers that have been destroyed or damaged over the centuries.
"We've been working very hard since we've taken over last year," said Ethel Sentipal, secretary of the group. "But there's still so much to do. I don't watch much TV."
The cemetery, on Cross Creek Road at Cross Creek Presbyterian Church, has been in existence since 1779. In that time, it has been the final resting place for veterans of "Indian wars," the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, to name a few. But over the years, the limestone and granite markers of the graveyard's "residents" have become damaged, misplaced and vandalized.
As head of the small group of volunteers endeavoring to restore the cemetery, Sentipal hopes to put all the pieces back together in order to give the men and women buried in the cemetery the respect they deserve.
"We eventually want to renovate (the markers) and get all of them up," said Joe Sentipal, Ethel's husband and an integral member of the volunteer team. "But it's tough because the only money that comes in is from the new burials."
The cemetery is a tale of two plots. The area closest to the church is the "old cemetery," while a more distant graveyard houses new interments. Separating the two is a mowed hillock that was full of brush and bramble until Joe Sentipal recently cleared it with some help from his brother, Jim.
Despite the monumental task ahead of them, they do have a couple things going for them: They maintain an active congregation and they have inherited the immaculate records of a noted local historian who oversaw the cemetery through 1939.
"I don't know if you know anything about A.D. White, but he must have been a genius," Ethel Sentipal said. "Everything fell in line from where we could see. But there's just a lot of stones missing."
Inside a meeting room in the church building, Ethel spreads out a rolled-up chart. Its paper yellowed by age, it shows the neat handwritten notes of the church elder superimposed over a gridded map of the cemeteries. A nearby ledger shows a similar attention to detail.
"The person who mowed, what he did was if he found a stone laying over, he would throw it up against that building," Ethel Sentipal said, pointing to a log storage shed.
A thief stole copper markers honoring veterans from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War and both world wars. They were eventually returned, but the Sentipals aren't sure which graves they should adorn.
The Sentipals are asking for the public's help in putting the numerous misplaced tombstones where they belong. They're hoping the families of people buried there may know the stories behind those folks and share the stories so the cemetery group can compile accurate historical records.
"I, myself, would like to learn more about the people who are buried there," Ethel said.
She knows some people are interested in caring for their ancestors' plots. She's had inquiries from family members from as far away as Florida, and one particular grave – that of Revolutionary War veteran Jonas Anstoker, who died in 1796 – is visited every year.
"Someone adorns that grave all the time," Ethel said. "And we know nothing about them."
The cemetery is a historian's dream. Among the numerous historical figures interred at the site are Hannah Bebout, who died in 1830 and was said to have pumped water when she served Gen. George Washington during the "dark days" of the Revolutionary War, and Joseph Vance, who died in 1832 and was the proprietor of nearby Vance's Fort.
To get in touch with Cross Creek Cemetery Co., call Ethel Sentipal at 724-947-4079 or write to 1156 Eldersville Rd., Burgettstown, PA 15021.
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For immediate release -- Thursday, March 15, 2001. Contact Bob Brammer, 515-281-6699
A concerted effort has netted over $250,000 in consumer refunds.
In Ottumwa case, a contractor was jailed for contempt of court and ordered to pay restitution to customers whose money he took without doing the work.
The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division is mounting a concerted effort to curb home repair fraud.
"The classic problem occurs when a questionable contractor takes a large sum of money in advance to do a job but never does the work," said Attorney General Tom Miller. "The huge majority of contractors in Iowa are capable and honest, but a few bad apples can really cause problems for people," he said. "They can cause big losses and big headaches."
Last year the Consumer Protection Division obtained more than $250,000 in refunds for consumers who filed complaints against contractors, as well as orders for contractors to complete work or honor guarantees. The division also filed lawsuits, issued investigative subpoenas, and obtained various court orders and formal agreements to resolve cases.
Miller said warm Spring weather usually brings a jump in home repair activity and complaints. He advised people to use reputable contractors, have written contracts, and avoid paying large sums in advance. He also said Iowa law gives consumers three days to cancel a contract signed at their home or some other location away from the contractor's regular place of business.
An Ottumwa case filed by the Consumer Protection Division illustrates measures that can be taken in cases of alleged fraud. Last fall, Polk County District Court Judge Scott Rosenberg found that Ottumwa contractor Gary Allen O'Dell violated the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act when O'Dell demanded advance payment on home repair contracts for siding and roofing jobs and then never performed the work. Rosenberg ordered O'Dell to reimburse a total of $5,300 to two consumers who filed complaints with the Consumer Protection Division. Another judge found O'Dell in contempt of court on two occasions for refusing to appear at hearings ordered by the Court in the matter, and O'Dell served a total of 40 days in jail. Finally, in February, a third judge ordered O'Dell to pay $10,000 for fees and costs of the investigation.
Judge Rosenberg also prohibited O'Dell from accepting any payments for labor until the labor is performed. Rosenberg ordered O'Dell to have customers make any payments for materials directly to the material supplier, and he ordered O'Dell to comply with the Iowa Door-to-Door Sales Act and follow specific procedures in all future business transactions. Rosenberg also assessed an additional $40,000 in civil penalties - but he said O'Dell would not be required to pay the penalties to the State so long as he complies with all other terms of the Court judgment. The Wapello County Sheriff's Department assisted in the Consumer Protection Division investigation.
The O'Dell case is part of a larger effort by the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division against home repair fraud that includes education and work with local law enforcement agencies in addition to enforcement. The Division's enforcement efforts focus on complaints of outright home repair fraud. Consumers and contractors also sometimes have disputes about workmanship or other issues that need to be resolved privately under their contracts or in court if necessary. Such disputes often are resolved in Small Claims Court.
Miller said the most common home repair fraud complaints in Iowa involve a very few local contractors who take money in advance and fail to do the work, sometimes leaving many victims. He also said springtime usually brings a few vicious scams run by out-of-state traveling con-artists. He said such "fly-by-night" perpetrators typically knock on people's doors and offer to do a job at a bargain price, usually saying they have material leftover from another job, such as paint or asphalt for driveways. The con-artists take people's money and do little or no work - and sometimes bully and intimidate older victims into paying huge sums. Victims should call the police or sheriff immediately to report such schemes in their area, and should call their bank at once to stop payment if they've written a check.
Miller encouraged Iowans to contact the Consumer Protection Division to file a complaint or obtain a Consumer Advisory bulletin, "Prevent Home Repair Scams and Disputes." The phone number is 515-281-5926, and the web site is www.IowaAttorneyGeneral.org. (Click on "consumer protection information.")
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I think many of you are being very hard on Mr David Beckham. You seem to begrudge him his good fortune which comes as a result of his athletic skills. We mere mortals have no idea of how much it costs to be a legend. When we find out, we are all jealous.
The reason Mr Beckham is going to be paid so much in America is that his employers are hoping he will play a little better than he has with Real Madrid, who, BTW, have not won any championships or cups or even a second place ribbon since Mr Beckham moved south to the Iberian Peninsula.
Also, Mr Beckham needs the money. His private hairdresser costs a fortune and his personal massuer is paid an arm and a leg to keep his mouth shut and his new fancy mobile phone out of the change rooms. And then there are the elocution lessons he will have to take if anyone in the USA is ever going to be able to understand him.
Jubbers should also appreciate how many poor and unfortunate people Mr Beckham supports through his contributions (via the taxman) to various nation's coffers. (He used to pay a lot more but then he got a new tax accountant and it is rumoured that the amount of tax he pays now is enough to support two hand pumps for artesian water and a child in Sierra Leone. But as I said, this is all just rumour.)
If the Beckhams become friends with the Cruises, then it is likely that the next Beckham child, whose name will be Suriruri, will have to have its own hair stylist from the day it is born. After the Beckhams join Hollywood's royalty, they will probably have further expenses when they import the odd baby or two from Rwanda or Lesotho or wherever.
I wish Mr Beckham all the best for his future sporting life. I just cannot help wondering why he was not good enough to make the English National squad.


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The simple act of planting a tree: a Citizen Forester's guide to healing your neighborhood, your city, and your world / TreePeople with Andy and Katie Lipkis. p. cm.
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Before you can mount Windows Shares you need to have samba.
You also need support built into the kernel.
If you are using a binary distribution your kernel should be automatically configured for this.
Getting Samba on Ubuntu
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install smbfs
To install the required mount and unmount utilities.
You can map a network drive to Storage01 using the smbmount utility. You can run the following command as a regular user:
$ smbmount //storage01/share /path/to/mount -o user=myusername,domain=campus
- //storage01/share is the mount location. Replacing 'share' with your domain username will map the network drive to your personal storage space. Please read the article on Storage01 for other possible locations.
- /path/to/mount is the location you want to map/mount the network drive at. You can map it to a mountpoint in your current directory such as 'mnt' by not using any slashes (full pathname is also fine)
- username=myusername - myusername should be replaced with your Stevens username.
- workgroup=campus - this specifies the domain to check your username and password against, leave it like this
- uid=mylocalusername - mylocalusername should be the name of your linux user (whoami will tell you this if you are unsure). This is the user who owns the directory/mountpoint you are mounting/mapping to.
- ip=storage01.stevens.edu - this specifies an "ip address" (a FQDN in this case) to locate Storage01 by. Leave as-is.
When you run this command, you should see a prompt similar to:
Type in your Campus Domain password and press enter. You will now be able to access the file stored on storage01 at the mountpoint you specified.


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Barbara Walker gets choked up when talking about how much the home improvement work means to her. Walker received help from members of the Holy Name Society of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal to put up siding, do yardwork, create concrete stairs, install a fan and reinforce support beams in her Midland home.
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The Rev. Carmen D'Amico, pastor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, weeds around the house of Barbara Walker in Chartiers Township. The parishoners of the church volunteered to help Walker and are looking to do more projects in their community.
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Dominic Altieri cuts boards to size for reinforcement of the support beams under the house during the first Good Samaritan Project.
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Siding goes up on the house of Barbara Walker in Midland. In addition to the siding, gutters, downspouts and concrete steps were also installed. The Good Samaritan Project is geared to help elderly, disabled and single parents in need of home improvement help.
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Earlier this year, during Lent, Bob Bradley was listening to the Rev. Carmen D'Amico's homily during Mass at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Meadow Lands, encouraging members of the parish to make sacrifices.
"I felt like he was talking to me," Bradley said Saturday, covered in sawdust and sweat as he and other parishioners worked at the home of Barbara Walker in the village of Midland, Chartiers Township.
Bradley said, as a member of a carpenter's union, he worked on the Christmas In April program, where home repairs would be done. He approached George Pecharka, secretary of the church's Holy Name Society with his idea for the Good Samaritan Project.
Fast forward to July and members of the society were joined by D'Amico, the pastor of the church, as well as other parishioners from young to old, to work at Walker's home. She was selected from several applicants to be the first of what church members hope will be many to be helped.
Michael Kubacki, president of the Holy Name Society, said donations were collected from parishioners for the materials. Volunteers donated their labor for the repairs.
"We had some fathers and their young sons here working," Kubacki said. "Some of the women were working in Barb's flower beds, pulling out weeds."
Work being done at the house included replacing the siding, gutters and downspouts and painting the trim on the outside of the house. On the inside, the floor in her laundry room was replaced and a paddle fan and light were installed in her bedroom. Dangerous concrete steps and sidewalk leading to Walker's house were also replaced.
D'Amico said it is great that members of his parish are putting the Gospel into action.
"It is one thing to sit in church and another to live it out," D'Amico said. "In our community, we know there are a lot of needs. We try to focus on the elderly, disabled and single parents requiring help to meet their daily needs."
"We want to have an impact, not just when we are in the church building, but when we go out into the community," the pastor added.
Pecharka said Saturday's project was not the only example of the society's work in the community. The group does other projects including helping the local food bank.
Bradley said he would like others to follow the example set by the Holy Name Society and parishioners by paying it forward and helping someone in their community.
"I'd like to see someone else do something nice for someone," Bradley said. "We have to give back."
"Help one another," urged Kubacki.
Walker, her eyes filling with tears, said she was overwhelmed by the help on the home she has lived in since she was a young girl. She pointed to an imposing pine tree in her yard and said it was planted when she was 10 years old.
"God is good," Walker said. "I don't know what I've done to deserve this."


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No more than three children from the same family can be registered in our Child Sponsorship Program, though each country may choose to limit this to fewer children so they can help a larger number of families.
"There is so much need in Nicaragua that choosing a child becomes a real dilemma. Often we see children that don't live near the center, struggling to be registered. Or families that want to register their children because of the situations in which they live, which are not necessarily economic needs. Or parents that think their children must be assisted just because they are church members … How to say no?"
— Mirna Alguera, Compassion Nicaragua Partnership Facilitator.
Our Program Field Manual, which guides how we operate the Child Sponsorship Program, addresses how we choose the children who can be registered in the program.
"Compassion desires to work with the neediest and most vulnerable children that it can reach . . . Therefore, it is vital to have a means by which to assess the relative poverty and vulnerability of different children in the community."
When church staff members interview parents or caregivers in order to assess the poverty of the family and the child's ability to benefit from the program, the staff members follow this criteria:
- Is the child between the ages of 3 and 9?
- How low is the family's income and assets?
- Does the child suffer from chronic illness and/or malnutrition?
- Is the child able to attend school or progress in school?
- Does the child have a physical or mental impairment?
- Is the child an orphan? Has the child been abandoned or is the child being/at risk of being exploited?
- Does the child have good access to the church? Generally, a child is considered to have "good access" when he or she lives within a 30-minute walk from the church.
- Is there evidence that the child is likely to be non-transient and stable within the community?
- Was the child part of our Child Survival Program (CSP)? Preference is given to CSP graduates who meet the other needs-based criteria.
These guidelines help ensure that a long-term relationship can be developed with each child registered in the program, which is key in the holistic development process.
Angela is the mother of two boys and twin girls. All of them are the right age to be registered; however, she could only register three of them.
"As a mother, I felt bad because one of them could not be registered, but I had to accept that three of them would be registered and then find ways to provide for the other one."
"Parents decide which of their children will be registered. I would like to register all the children but we have to accept reality (policies)." — Arelys, a secretary at Mimados de Jesus Student Center
Families usually say that although they have more children in the family, registering at least some is a great help for them. It's a blessing from God they will not reject.
In Angela's case, she and her husband have explained their decision to their little daughter who isn't registered, and they have the other three share with her the gifts received from their sponsors to ease the fact that she's not registered.


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Al-Farouq Aminu represents the greatest hope for the Muslim world in the upcoming National Basketball Association draft of college players, to be held in New York City next month. Aminu just completed his junior season at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. And, he is currently projected to be a top 10 pick in the draft. Al-Farouq grew up in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, and after an illustrious career at Norcross High School, he was given the prestigious honor of being named the state of Georgia's "Mr. Basketball." Rivals.com rated him the top small forward coming out of high school. And, he played in the 2008 McDonald's All-Star Game for the nation's best high school basketball talent.
The son of Aboubakar and Anjirlic Aminu, Al-Farouq and family are reportedly descendents of Nigerian kings. They are establishing themselves as kings of basketball as well. His brother Alade, 3 years his elder, played for Georgia Tech University and currently plays in the NBA. And, their 11-year-old younger brother, Al-Majid, appears to be following in their basketball footsteps as well. Alade told the Winston-Salem Journal, "I think he's going to be the best Aminu."
At 6 feet 9 inches and 215 lbs, Al-Farouq Aminu is surprisingly agile for his size. NBADraft.net describes him as, "a huge leaper with freakish athleticism, explosiveness and solid length, Aminu uses these 3 strengths to make him an excellent rebounder and defender." With a 7 feet 2 inch wing-span, he demonstrates tremendous reach and shot-blocking ability. And, his lateral quickness is such that he can also guard smaller, faster players, while still having the strength and size to bang with the big boys.
A blemish on Al-Farouq's record came just prior to his high school graduation in 2008. Through a combination of boredom, peer pressure, and teenage bravado, he and two friends fired a BB gun at an Atlanta woman. Aminu had nothing close to a criminal record prior, and has had no brushes with the law since. And, his remorse and stellar record were so strong that the woman herself requested leniency for the boys, and the charges were reduced to three misdemeanors. Al-Farouq and his two friends were given probation. He still remembers the impact of that brush with the law, and admits to becoming more of an independent thinker as a result. "…I guess it humbled me even more. It doesn't matter who you are. The world looks at you just the same," he told the Winston-Salem Journal.
Al-Farouq is a good enough basketball player to begin his professional career after only his sophomore year of college. But with the dedication he has shown on the court, and as a Muslim, the communications major will, by all indications, be returning at some point to complete his degree. Draftexpress.com asked him what a typical off-season day for him was like. He responded, "I pray, work out in the morning, and then have a pretty normal day." That is the type of answer we would like to hear from all of our kids. And when Al-Farouq's parents watch him take the stage next month after being selected early in the NBA Draft, they will be seeing further attestation to the translated meaning of the name Al-Farouq: The Chief has arrived!


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Charleston W.Va. - For the first time in school history, the University of Charleston will host the Central Atlantic Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls (CAACURH) "No Frills" Residential Leadership Conference February 8-10. The conference will take place on the University of Charleston's Kanawha City campus and at the Ramada Inn South Charleston.
The "No Frills" Conference serves as CAACURH's annual business meeting and the right to serve as the host school is highly contested. UC is the first institution in West Virginia to host the conference, which required 16 months of rigorous planning by students and support from Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Delegate Meshea Poore. Over 200 students from West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia will participate in the weekend's activities.
Thomas J. Lucas, President of the UC Resident Hall Association, has been nominated as a candidate to be a future member of the CAACURH Board of Directors. He has been instrumental in coordinating the conference, as well as organizing over 50 UC students as volunteers.
"I believe this is a great opportunity, not only for his organization but for the University of Charleston as a whole," said Lucas. "We are greatly excited about the weekend's events and hope we can use this to attract other conferences of this importance to our campus."
This press release was prepared by UC communications student Rebecca Hansborough.
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Hi everyone. I have a 2009 Impreza, 5-door, 4 speed automatic. Ever since I got the car last summer, I've had a problem with the engine rattling while accelerating, especially uphill. If I am getting onto the freeway, for example, the car will shift into 3rd and rattle for a bit, then shift into 4th (too soon in my opinion) with a lot of rattle and no power. The rattle is similar to the sound a car makes when you shift in too high of a gear for the speed you're going in a manual transmission car. If I give the car extra gas to make it downshift, I have more power and there is less rattling, but still some. So I think it's the transmission. The car definitely does not stay in 3rd as long as it should and in general doesn't know when to shift at the right speeds. Anyone know how I can fix this? thanks.
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The Hornets won five of the six meets they competed in this season. The Hornets closed out the year on Saturday by finishing second in the 2A State Cross Country Meet at Choctaw Trails in Clinton. The Hornets scored 62 points finishing behind the eventual state champion East Union (58 points).
"It has been an exciting, joyful season for us ( the guys)," JFK head cross country coach Linda Allen said. "They started this summer together. We talked about our strategies and the things that we wanted to do. These young men worked hard and went out and found guys to put the team together. This has been a season I won't ever forget. These guys won every invitational meet they participated in."
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On April 20, Calvary Church will present Brian Welch, lead guitarist of Korn and recovering meth addict. In May, the church will present a seminar, "How to Drug-Proof Your Children."
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JoAnn was having a bad day.
On top of the usual — cold, hunger, the absence of a future — she had been stolen from.
"People keep taking my stuff," she says. "My clothes, my meds, my food. I went to the food pantry and they took it all."
Living here, on a concrete ledge near the top of a viaduct under the Stevenson Expressway, even a person who seemingly has nothing can still have much to lose.
Homelessness at any time is sad, but on a cold winter night, in the shadows cast by Bridgeport's overpasses, it seems unforgiveable.
Tucked beneath tattered blankets, an old sofa cushion for a pillow, JoAnn suddenly sits up, adjusts her knit blue hat, smiles and says everything will be all right, she's not completely hopeless.
"I just need to get my leg fixed, then maybe they'll let me stay in the shelter," she says.
She broke her ankle and hurt her leg in a recent fall — the injuries the latest in a lifetime of hurts and injustices that left her and her 30-year-old son, James, living on the streets.
"I used to live in an apartment in Lockport," she says. "It was a real nice place."
Now her home is atop this steep concrete ramp, just off Archer Avenue near Chinatown. Every 10 or 15 minutes, the el rattles past, reminding her that if she could walk, she'd have the option of climbing the stairs up to the CTA and riding the warm train all night.
"Nobody will take you in a wheelchair," she says, pointing to the metal chair braked against her concrete bed.
So she had James push her up to the ledge, where she keeps her stuff — a plastic soda bottle, a pack of cigarettes, shoes, some trinkets, a Bible — all lined up on the metal beams holding up the highway.
JoAnn is not the only one to lay claim to a slab of concrete. There's Dave and Jennifer, huddling together in a single stall. And further east sit other shadowy figures, bundled against the weather and whatever demons keep them living on the edge of the night.
On this night, their solitude is disrupted by a band of urban missionaries — members of Calvary Church in Orland Park, people who have homes and nice clothes and decent jobs but who choose to spend their Saturday nights reaching out to those who have next to nothing.
They'd like to befriend JoAnn and the others. They'd like to give them some food, a warm coat and invite them to consider a different way of living.
JoAnn embraces the outreach. She'll laugh and talk and smoke a cigarette with these people. She'll take the hot coffee and the bag of warm clothes. But she's not coming with them. She's not ready.
She suddenly recognizes a man in a nice Columbia jacket.
"Hey, I remember you," she says, pointing her cigarette at Mike Burton. She places him at a nearby taco joint.
"That was a long time ago. How ya doin'?" she asks. "You look good."
Whole new world
On the bitter cold morning when Burton was saved, both literally and figuratively, he awoke shirtless and shoeless, sporting two black eyes and a couple of cracked ribs.
It was New Year's Day 2009 and, after 20-some years on the streets, drinking whatever booze he could get his hands on, doing whatever drugs he could find, he had finally hit bottom.
"I wasn't sure what had happened the night before. Did I get in a fight? Was I robbed?" Burton says with a shrug. "Some street people like to hit you in the head with a brick while you're sleeping and then take your stuff. I knew a guy who was killed that way."
What he knows for sure is that he weighed 105 pounds, had no teeth and "was a total mess."
About the only thing he did have was a minute left on his go-phone. He called a friend, and his journey toward sobriety, toward productivity, toward hope had begun.
His friend brought him clothes and food and then got him into a treatment center. When he finished the standard 30 days there, the friend brought him to the Rev. Ron Ovitt, pastor and head of New Hope, a recovery fellowship at Calvary Church.
Ovitt got him into Sober House, in Tinley Park. It was a safe haven where he could continue to recover. He continues to work with Ovitt.
Long road to recovery
"A lot of people think you can treat addiction with a 30-day program," Ovitt says. "It takes a lot longer, sometimes five years."
Ovitt's recovery program focuses on helping addicts, and really anyone suffering from an emotional trauma that makes it difficult or impossible for them to assimilate in society.
"It's our emotional learning that drags us into addiction, that lands us in the streets," he says. "The root of addiction is in trauma, and that's mostly likely to occur in childhood."
He defines "trauma" as any event that triggers feelings of anxiety, depression or insecurity. Once a person learns that alcohol or drugs help them "deal with" those emotions, they put themselves on the path to self-medicating every time those emotions arise. That, he said, leads to addiction, which can lead to homelessness.
Ovitt said there are three stages of homelessness: 1) moving in with family or friends, 2) wearing out your welcome and then living in your car, and finally, 3) surviving on the streets.
Ovitt said 30 percent of those living in the streets have a dual diagnosis, often mental illness and addiction. At the very least, they have a state of mind that needs to be changed.
He works with other organizations, including MorningStar Mission, Women's Breakthrough, Tabitha House and Urban Ministries, to match each homeless person who wants help with the kind of help he or she needs.
"Almost everyone coming off the streets needs some kind of place for transition," he says. In addition, some need medical attention, some dental, almost all need job training and retention skills.
Among the most challenging obstacles to overcome is addiction.
Ovitt has developed his own process, which he calls "emotional relearning." He helps participants untangle their emotions, recognize the triggers and then attach different memories or feelings to those experiences. He began studying the process in 2008 and has several success stories to prove it works.
There's Tammy, who was found sleeping in the church parking lot. They brought her in, got her into treatment and today she is married and working as a certified nursing assistant.
There's Brian, who was living in an abandoned building on 95th Street. He entered the program, as did his estranged wife, who also had been living on the streets. They now are drug-free, and Ovitt recently remarried them.
Before Ovitt can help people, though, he has to find them. Hence the outings to the viaducts on Chicago's South Side.
He rotates the Saturday night outings among the viaducts, the CTA stop at 95th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway, and Daybreak Shelter in Joliet.
Ovitt drives the church bus filled with parishioners and supplies. Typically, 30 to 35 people accompany him.
Bonnie Gorgievski, of Mokena, and Don Weber and Faith Ondras, both of Orland Park, are among this night's ministry participants. So are the Kostelyk family, of Hinsdale.
Jason and Dee Kostelyk brought their 10-year-old son Calvin, 13-year-old daughter Jada, and nieces Esme Gonzalez, 13, and Vanessa Gonzalez, 15.
"This shows them that no one's better than anyone else. We're all capable of ending up homeless," Jason Kostelyk says. "It's our job to give and help in any way we can."
"I couldn't imagine sleeping out here," Calvin says, looking up at the pockets of homesteading along the upper rim of the viaducts.
The church members drop off coats, food and bags of hygiene products. They chat for awhile with their new friends and, before leaving, gather 'round for a prayer and a verse of "Amazing Grace."
They promise to return.
A present and a future
A regular among the outreach participants these days is Burton.
"It's important for me to give testimony, to share my story," Burton says. "It's important for me to give others hope."
Today, Burton, 48, works two jobs, as a full-time mechanic and part time at the Tinley Park Jewel-Osco.
He has an apartment and a car, as well as a hard-earned license to drive that vehicle.
More important, he has a future, he has hope.
"This is more than I've ever had," he says.
Burton grew up in Bridgeport. He took his first drink at 14. His mother was an alcoholic; he never knew his father. Though his stepfather tried his best to raise him to be a productive member of society, Burton said once he started hitting the bottle, he couldn't stop. Beer led to hard liquor, hard liquor to drugs.
"What was my drink of choice? It was 'What do you got?' " he says. "I got drunk or high every day. Some days, I would pray that I would fall asleep and just die, to end it."
To get money for his habit, he stole, he hustled, he took his Link card to certain stores where he knew they'd give him 50 cents on the dollar, cash.
"I was a mess, a total mess," he says. "I used to eat out of Dumpsters."
In the four years he's been sober, off the streets and in Ovitt's treatment program, he's learned why booze became his crutch.
"I always wanted to be a part of something, you know," he says. "I never felt like I belonged anywhere."
He had a sister who was murdered when she was just 18.
"I was never really close to her, though," he says. "I wish I had been close to my mom. I wish my mom was here today so I could hug her. I don't have any other family."
But he does have the church.
"People at Calvary took me in, trusted me. They didn't judge me," he says. "They invite me into their homes; sometimes they take me on vacation with them. Now I belong somewhere."
Maintaining his new life is hard work, he said. He must stay focused and, but for the church-led excursions into the city to look for others in need of help, he knows he must stay out of Chicago.
"I have bad memories of Chicago. It makes me nervous to be back here," he says, looking beyond the concrete girders to the lives being played out in the shadows.
"I used to live here," he says. "I know I am one drink away from being drunk, from driving drunk, from going to prison, from losing everything. I am one drink away from being back here."
On the drive back to Orland Park, Ovitt explains that this is the kind of outreach work that churches need to do more of.
"Churches are capable of helping these people," he says. "Churches started hospitals and hostels and social service programs. They need to get back into that kind of work."
He wants to bring his program to the masses. He also wants to help church officials learn how to work in unison with social service organizations, with the police and with hospitals to offer long-term care and treatment programs.
There are a lot of programs out there, he said.
"If we work together, we can make a difference," he says.
As the church members debark and say their good nights, Ovitt says, "This has been educational and I hope meaningful. This is the kind of stuff you won't forget.
"This is not easy work," he says. "But we can't give up."


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WORLD CUP 2012 - BRIGHTON ENGLAND - 2nd COMPETITION DAY
Friday October 5th, 2012.
The 2nd competition day started with a remaning elimination competition of some 60 divisions/categories in pattern and sparring. A very long day for the officials, coaches and competitors which started at 8.30 am and finished around 20.15 pm.
Fantastic bouts at a very high level either in pattern or sparring took place. Also Special Jumping Techniques took place with the participation of many competitors that reached unbelievable heights. Traditional Sparring also a very spectacular item which was very much appreciated by the audience took place.
Tomorrow the Individual finals shall take place which might be seen by live stream tv through the World Cup website.


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inkycatz wrote:The proper glass is important! Which of these are you stocking up on?
Was about to go in on the "Luigi Bormioli Michelangelo 12oz Double Old Fashioned - Set of 4" and it sold out as I was about to check out... Sad face.
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I bought a few sets of these last month because the price was so good. I was a little surprised at how good the quality was when I unboxed them. This is very nice glassware, and by no means as cheap as the price might suggest.
ZeroFlame007 wrote:Was about to go in on the "Luigi Bormioli Michelangelo 12oz Double Old Fashioned - Set of 4" and it sold out as I was about to check out... Sad face.
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dalematthew wrote:Woot - is there a reason I was charged tax on these in CA? I got the 16 oz. sorry if this has been asked before.
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The Vara of Yima, the original Garden of Eden, sealed from the rest of the world and populated with the fittest of men and women. A secret paradise that 150 years ago became ravaged by smog that choked out the skies.
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Few sixteen-year-olds could claim to have a stalker. Typically they were reserved for celebrities, rock stars, maybe even reality TV rejects, and conventionally, 'popularity' was a prerequisite. A commodity not in abundance in Sammy Ellis's existence. Not that she really cared. She was cool with it. But if she had to have a stalker, did it really have to be a crusty old woman? As opposed to, say, a buff Sheffield University student?
In the margin of her maths book she absent-mindedly doodled an odd-looking terminator blasting an old woman in the face with a twelve gauge auto-loader. Boom! Headshot!!! she scrawled over the top, underlining it several times.
Rat-a-tat-tat. A fist rapped on the corner of her desk. It was Miss Armatage.
"The square root of X does not equal death by machine gun," she said with a straight face. It was a bored, depressed face that had seen a thousand students come and go. An assembly line of kids that she regurgitated the same information to before pushing them back out the door. She was a desiccated husk of a woman, probably in her fifties, but she could've easily been a few centuries old.
"It's not a machine gun, Miss. It's…"
"I don't care, Miss Ellis. You're a tick in my register, a GCSE mathematics grade. A grade B is what I expect from you. And I'll be disappointed if I don't get it."
Sammy wondered whether it was possible for Miss Armatage to look more disappointed with life than she already did. A bloodhound that had been neutered on his birthday would look happier.
Miss Armatage drifted out of focus, replaced by the clock above the whiteboard. 3.15pm. Sammy raised her hand.
"I'm right here, Samantha."
"Right. Can I be excused, Miss?"
"There's only half an hour before the bell. Can't you hold on?"
"Not really. I was dehydrated after PE, so I drank loads of water. Maybe I drank too much, but I was so thirsty I kept drinking…"
Miss Armatage held up her hand to stop her. "Look at my face."
"Do I have to?"
Miss Armatage stared back, devoid of emotion. "Just go." She turned and walked back towards the whiteboard, then as Sammy reached the door, added, "Hurry back, my little statistic."
Sammy ran for the gates, zigzagging across the uneven tarmac outside the science block, dodging puddles while clutching her backpack to the top of her head to stop the icy rain stinging her face. She'd gone straight to the staff room after leaving class, as she had done every night so far this week. Thankfully, this time the room had been empty, so she'd phoned the police and sacked off the last fifteen minutes of school. Tonight she wouldn't be creeping across the football pitch and over the fence.
She slowed as she approached the school gates. A glimpse of powder blue shimmered through the grey sheets of rain. The old woman stood in front of the houses across the street, the same spot she stood every night, wearing the same pale blue headscarf and dressed in bedraggled brown clothes that resembled a heap of threadbare carpets. Her clothes were heavy, waterlogged and probably freezing. But there she waited, soaking up the rainwater. She must have picked Sammy out as a loner because no one ever came to pick her up. So, then, why hadn't she made her move yet? This had been going on for weeks and the old woman always stood outside, in plain view.
The dark eyes fixed on Sammy's. The woman smiled. Then her head snapped to the side and she tensed. Sammy smiled this time. She couldn't see past the school wall, but she knew what was coming.
The old woman raised her palms as two men in black trench coats came into view. The school gates framed a picture-perfect movie scene of two cops picking up a criminal. One carried an umbrella above both their heads, the other held out a badge. End of the line, old bag.
Voices clamoured behind Sammy. The lower school cloakrooms were emptying. A river of slate-grey bodies accented by flapping red ties came sweeping towards her. She sidestepped, but not quickly enough, and an errant satchel caught her in the face, knocking her down. She landed on all fours and pain spiked in her knees. She sucked in air through her teeth and closed her eyes while the other kids trampled past, kicking her satchel as they jostled to get to their parents' cars.
Sammy remained where she was, facing the floor, the water streaming from her blonde hair. No one stopped to help. Typical. No one had noticed her since she'd started at this new school, and no one noticed her now, even though they had to run round her to get out of the gate. She was invisible. Only the satchel that tugged at her arm as it got booted around served as a reminder that she still existed in their world.
She waited until the traffic became lighter and flicked her sopping hair back from her face. The two policemen and the old woman had gone.
She had sore knees, sleeves saturated with puddle water, and she'd missed the action. That was probably the most – maybe even the only – exciting thing that was going to happen this term, possibly all year. And it was over.
Miss Armatage stood at the corner of the science block monitoring the stragglers. She peered at Sammy with an expression of exaggerated indifference and motioned for her to get up. She should get up. Her tights were soaking up rainwater and the longer she stayed down, the heavier and colder they'd get. But then, if she got up, she'd have to start walking and she'd have damp, heavy fabric chafing back and forth across her skin and sucking in cold air at the edges.
As she considered her options a hand grabbed her under the arm and jerked her to her feet. She came face to face with a boy sporting a black eye and his tie knotted round his forehead like a Rambo headband. Wayne Grubby. They had maths and science together. He was less unpleasant than most of the other boys in her year, but that wasn't saying much.
"You all right?" he asked.
Sammy stared down at the wet patches around her knees. "Yeah," she said.
"You should be careful," he said. "The playground is proper lumpy, you know. You new?"
"I joined at the start of the year. So… no, not really."
"Yeah. Well, I haven't seen you before, but whatever. Bye." And he ran off.
They had maths and science together! She sat between him and the whiteboard. How could he not know her? Maybe he should spend more time paying attention and less time setting his mates' books on fire with Bunsen burners. She didn't care anyway. He was a moron.
She watched him go. Cars crawled along the street outside the gates, their windows fogged with warm breath, smiling faces drawn in the condensation. Perhaps she'd stand where she was one more minute. If she kept perfectly still with her legs spread and her arms out then she could minimise the amount of wet cloth in contact with her body. Miss Armatage had gone, so there was no one left to shoo her away, and if she waited long enough the rain would stop and her body temperature would dry her clothes enough to stop them chafing.
On the street the last car pulled away. The rain wasn't going to let up and her clothes weren't going to get any drier. She should start on the long walk home. She took a step towards the gates and stopped.
The old woman was there, barring the way.
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