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Staff Sgt. David Wallace III, 91st Security Forces Group plans and programs section, poses for a photo at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., May 9, 2014. Wallace was named one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brittany Y. Auld)
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Staff Sgt. David Wallace III, 91st Security Forces Group plans and programs section, identifies possible threats and hazards to security force teams within the missile complex along, with crafting tactical defense plans for launch facilities and missile alert facilities at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., May 12, 2014. Wallace was named one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brittany Y. Auld)
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Staff Sgt. David Wallace III, 91st Security Forces Group plans and programs section, poses for a photo at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., May 9, 2014. Wallace was named one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brittany Y. Auld)
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91st defender named one of Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year
Posted 5/12/2014 Updated 5/13/2014
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5/12/2014 -
-- Becoming one of the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year takes superior leadership, outstanding job performance, community involvement, and personal achievements.
Once an Airman is nominated by their leadership, he or she will go on to compete against Airmen in their specific Major Command. After winning at the MAJCOM level the Airman goes on to compete at the Air Force level, competing with other Airmen who have also won at their MAJCOM level.
"The Air Force 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year award is huge and rarely seen at the base level," said Col. Kevin P. Cullen, 91st Security Force Group commander. "In fact, I've only met one other award winner in my entire 22-year career."
For Norfolk, Virginia, native, Staff Sgt. David Wallace III, competing, let alone winning, was never in his plans when he joined the Air Force.
"It's still surreal even for me now," said Wallace.
Before joining the Air Force, four years ago, Wallace worked as a bank teller, an information technology assistant and was a student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where he studied law.
"I came in open general, and I haven't looked back ever since," said Wallace. "The lord has blessed me, so I'm pretty ecstatic to be where I am."
Wallace works in the plans and programs section of the 91st Security Forces Group. His duties include providing tactical and strategic support for the security movements of vital national assets across 8,500 square miles of prairies of North Dakota.
He's been awarded below the zone in 2012, 2013 Air Force Global Strike Command Airman of the Quarter and Air Force's 2013 Outstanding Security Forces Support Staff Airman of the Year.
Wallace found out he was now one of the 12 OAY from the AFGSC commander, Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson.
"It completely went right pass me, when he said it," started Wallace, "but when I got off the phone with him I realized this was something pretty big."
Wallace said with hard work and dedication, your feats will begin to speak for themselves.
"If you keep doing your job every day and doing it well, I don't see why you wouldn't be recognized for your actions," said Wallace. "And if you aren't for some reason, keep pressing forward because you're not only making yourself better, but you're making the Air Force better as a whole."
While he was competing within the 91st SFG, Wallace had a philosophy he used: "If I win, great, but I'm going to go in with high hopes and whatever the outcome is I'm just going to press forward. If I don't win, I'm still going to be the same person I am today."
Wallace was recognized as a "superior performer" during the base's Air Force Global Strike Command staff assistance visit. He reinvigorated seven-year-old Site Defense Plans for 165 strategic facilities. He has also performed as an exercise controller during three major wing-level training events, leaving a lasting impression on all Airmen from his peers to his leadership.
"This is a great accomplishment, and it attests to the great men and women we have in the 91st Missile Wing and at Minot AFB," said Col. Robert Vercher, 91st MW commander. "I've never been stationed with a 12 OAY and feel honored to be here at Minot with Staff. Sgt. Wallace."
Wallace says he's fairly new to the Air Force but he hit the ground running and will continue to run.
"As one of the 12 OAY, I believe I'm in a position where I can be a voice for others, the Airmen stationed at Minot AFB or other AFGSC bases even beyond that," said Wallace. "I want to be able to take in and absorb and listen to what other people are telling me."
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A few weeks ago a my brother decided to buy a computer outside of the normal place that he would go through. He did some research around the internet and found a company called iBuyPower. I have never heard of this company before. Come to find out they use refurbished parts and sell the computers at a to high a price.
Here is my story with the company:
Three weeks ago my brother bought a computer from iBuyPower and he did a rapid delivery method. Which meant he would get the computer shipped within 24 hours and have it within a week. When he received the computer he hooked it up and everything by himself and I had to install the Operating System. Everything installed correctly, it was after install that we started having blue screen and crashing problems. Almost immediately after installing the OS, Windows 7, the blue screens started happening. First it crashed on install of the anti-virus I put on. I figured the file was corrupted to I reinstalled a different anti-virus program, it took. The next thing that happened was I was doing the OS updates and the monitor went black, I figured the video drivers were out of date, so I updated them. Then it blue screened, so un-installed the drivers. Then I put Google Chrome on because IE8 was crashing the computer, it was working fine for awhile there.
After about a day of my brother having more crashes and then finally not booting up at all. I came back over to take a look at it and when I turned it on it did one long beep continuously. I did some research on what error codes mean, this one in particular meant CPU failure. I ended up calling the company and going through some troubleshooting. Long story short we ended up sending it back for repair.
After shipping it back, the company itself had the system for about 24 hours before they shipped out again. When my brother received his "newly refurbished" computer, he plugged it in. He had me come over, again, to set up his OS... again. This time everything installed properly, we didn't have any major issues. Except for a USB driver problem that blue screened us and crashed his computer. This was easily corrected by uninstalling the driver. We had no more issues after this....until after I left. He started installing all of his software and games. Then the issues started happening, AGAIN. It crashed a few different times on him. Then he turned it off and went to work. In the morning he went to turn it on and low and behold it was doing the exact same thing it was doing the last time, the continuous long beep with no BIOS or video. Nothing was showing up. I ended coming back over to call the company again, come to find out all they did was disable the temperature sensor. They didn't check the CPU or the motherboard, they didn't put it through any diagnostic what-so-ever.
In talking to the technician, is where I got the best customer service ever...... not really.
Here's how that went:
I called the company on behalf of my brother to do some troubleshooting with them to figure out what was going on. I was connected to a technician and I was explaining to him what was going on. He was telling me to do things that weren't possible to do, like press the restart button and wait for the Logo screen to pop up. I explained to him before he had me go and attempt to do this that I wasn't able to see the logo screen because the computer wasn't booting up. He kept trying to get me to restart the computer and do what he asked me to do. I informed him 3 different times that what he was asking was impossible and then I explained to him that I am a technician and I work on computer for a living. What happened next completely shocked me, he put me on hold and transferred me to someone else, without telling me he was doing so.
I ended up getting transferred to the Customer Service department.
He did this because I said something early on in our conversation that we wanted to find out what the procedure would be to get a refund. While I was talking to the customer service person I gradually started to get angry. I first informed him that I was transferred without my knowledge to someone that wasn't going to be able to help me fix the issue. Then the person I was talking to kept telling me to calm down and to call him back when I have calmed down. Instead of trying to fix the issue or help me fix the issue, he kept telling me to calm down and let the technician help me. I told him that was exactly what I was doing until he transferred me to Customer service. By the end of my conversation with them, I was so livid with the company. I asked to talk to a supervisor and come to find out the guy I was talking to was also the acting supervisor for the day. Then to top it off instead of trying to calm me down and help me fix the problem, he stuck me on hold. Just hung up on me basically, that told me that he didn't and wasn't going to do anything to make this any better. For me the customer or for their company. I informed them that I was going to be writing up this review, he told me to go ahead and that he didn't care what I did.
All in all, after everything was said and done. My brother ended up calling the company back and he is shipping it to them AGAIN. They said they were going to build him a whole new computer this time, we'll see how this one goes.
It was reviewed through many different companies, CNET had a few not so positive customer reviews.
I for one being a computer person, would NEVER go through this with a company after the reshipment of the "second" computer. I would have gotten my refund and went through another company, at least then I would know I wouldn't get shoddy customer service and I would be able to get reliable tech support. But that is just me. I can go through a computer components company and be able to buy all the products I need for a fraction of the price and have it all be new product. As the saying goes, don't make other people's problems become yours, this is especially true in electronics of any sort.
The moral of this story, please be careful of where you buy your computers. Just because the company sells cool product doesn't mean they are the best company. Do your research and find out as a whole how the company runs and operates. Or use a consultant to find out what they think. Either way don't just settle, know what your getting into.

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CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - One of the most innovative and pioneering leaders in military logistics, Brig. Gen. John O'Connor, Third Army director of logistics, was succeeded by Brig. Gen. Jesse R. Cross, former commanding general for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee, Va., at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait Dec. 20.
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Young spent some time Saturday afternoon reading to children as part of a program — Stealing Some Smarts — sponsored by Young and the Rockies, the Colorado branch of Volunteers of America and the Denver Public Library. Saturday's session, at The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, is the first of six featuring Young reading to children.
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Growing up, Young was an avid reader. In fact, he came up with the concept for the program while enjoying a book.
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This is not the first time Young has volunteered in the Denver community. He has helped the Colorado branch of Volunteers of America with the homeless and battered women in the past, said Jim White, director of community affairs.
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As a homeschool mom with three boys who do not particularly enjoy spelling, I was eager to try
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is an interactive online spelling tool that can be accessed from any available Internet connection. No modifications to your computer are necessary, as this is a Web-based program
The first step is to select a package based on how many users you have. One user is required to administer the spelling lists and assignments (this of course, is Mom or Dad) and you'll need to create a login name and password for each user. As administrator, you set preferences for each student, and there are helpful hints along the way to help you decide. Once the set up is complete, you may choose from WizardsSpell's vast library of word lists, or create your own from an additional program.
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A House committee on Thursday gave a green light to a repeal of the statewide law approved last year that lets cities put up red light cameras. The bill (HB 4087), sponsored by Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, passed despite several speakers from local governments who spoke in favor of continuing to allow the cameras. "I can give you some hard data that shows these cameras are working," said Kathy Till, an Apopka city commissioner. The measure was narrowly approved 10-8 in the Economic Affairs Committee, with Republicans split on the issue. Most Democrats opposed it. The loss of the $158 fines would cost state and local governments, though legislative staff say its impossible to calculate the exact amount. Red light cameras in place since July of last year have resulted in cities remitting $8.4 million so far to the state. More than $7 million of that is general revenue. About another $7.6 million has gone to local governments as a result of red light tickets.
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Mars vs Snickers
It's the ultimate chocolate bar war. Will the peanut encrusted bar beat the caramel stuffed one, or will it be vice-versa?
The packaging for Mars hasn't changed over the years. It's the standard black background with Mars written across in red with a gold outline. We like simplicity. No claims of being the best or healthiest. They know that chocolate isn't healthy. Period.
Score: 5
The wrapper claims that the bar is 32 percent nougat and 27 percent caramel. It has traces of peanut, almond and hazelnut, so if you have allergies stay far away. The unhealthy stuff? Each bar contains 230 calories and 9g of fat.
Score: 1
Taste and texture:
The chocolate is so sweet and sticky from the very first bite you need a big gulp of water to wash it down. The caramel sticks in uncomfortable places, and the aftertaste isn't much better either. The whole ordeal (yes, ordeal) leaves you with a sickening feeling at every bite. Only good for those with a really, really sweet tooth – the kind that's decaying and your dentist warned you about.
Score: 4
Claim to fame:
British band "The Undertones" wrote a song called Mars Bar, which claims they need a bar of the good stuff to help them through the day. Now that's impressive. How many other chocolates have inspired a song? Not a mention, but a whole song. British TV presenter David Dimbleby included a Mars bar in a time capsule in 2007. The thought of what the rotting chocolate will look and smell like, years from now when someone finally digs out the capsule, makes our stomach turn. So maybe there is something to this chocolate then, if it makes a bunch of people sing about it and is deemed worthy to save for time immemorial.
Score: 7
Final Score: 17
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Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk didn't come by his reputation as an innovator by chance, he earned his street credibility by risking his life, and proving he could jump over a moving MINI Cooper.
In a video posted to YouTube by the RIDE Channel, the 46-year-old Hawk is shown flying over the compact car a split second after it smashes into the ramp he took off on.
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So, this dude posts on a local bike forum about a track frame for sale, no details, no pics, but I was curious, so I emailed him (mistake #1).
He replies that it's a 70's Frejus that he's selling for his Dad, and he wants ~$300 for it, but seems to REALLY need to sell it, so I bet he'd bite for like $250. All I/he knows about the componentry is that the cranks are Japanese replacements because the originals broke. He says there's a little oxidation on the paint.
I can't see it in person unless he has his dad bring it to town, which he obviously doesn't want to do unless I'm "serious" about considering it.
So basically what I want (or don't want) to know is whether this bike is too good a deal to let go, or whether I should just ignore this horrible temptation.


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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Mexico Washington had a winning toss of 36 feet, 2 1/2 inches in the shot.
Senior Hayley Tobias claimed all-NCMC recognition by taking second in the 110-meter hurdles (16.80 seconds) and third in the 300 hurdles (:49.8).
Junior Sam Christensen took second in the boys' 110 hurdles (:16.26) and third in the high jump with a leap of 5-10. Sophomore Conner Foote came in second in the 400 in :53.1, while senior Tanner Eliuk was second in the discus with a heave of 138-6.
Eliuk joined Foote and freshmen Brandon Dews and Jared Eliuk to claim third in the 1,600 relay in 3:36.7.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released the likely cause of a 2012 plane crash east of San Diego that killed a Phoenix family of three.
The amateur-built experimental plane -- carrying 65-year-old William Arthur Stern Jr., 53-year-old wife Jennifer Jane Stern and 19-year-old Katelyn Jane Stern -- went down after the pilot failed to maintain airspeed while attempting a visual climb through a broken cloud layer, the report said.
The Lancair IV-P aircraft stalled and began spinning, ultimately smashing into a hill, the report said.
A hiker originally saw the small plane go down on Dec. 29, 2012, in the Sycamore Canyon Open Space Reserve, said Lt. Scott Amos, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff's Office. A Sheriff's Office helicopter found the crash site before fire crews and sheriff's personnel returned and found three bodies.
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Amy Senser jury may have been confused; defense wants convictions overturned
Amy Senser's jurors may have misunderstood their instructions when convicting her of two counts of criminal vehicular homicide, prompting defense attorney Eric Nelson to ask that the convictions be thrown out.
At the heart of Nelson's contention is a note jurors sent to Hennepin County Judge Daniel Mabley just before her verdict was read on May 3. That note, which wasn't read in court, said, "We believe, [Senser] believed she hit a car or vehicle and not a person."
The glaring problem with the note is that during the trial, no evidence was presented that Senser hit a car. Senser didn't deny that she ran over and killed Anousone Phanthavong last August, but said she initially thought she'd struck a construction barricade, not a person. So why in God's name would jurors write a note stating they believe she thought she struck a vehicle if they were paying attention to the trial?
As the Star Tribune reports, according to the jury instructions in Senser's case, convictions for the two counts of criminal vehicular homicide required "that the defendant knew the accident involved either injury or death to another person or damage to another vehicle."
The jury apparently didn't believe that Senser knew she struck a person, and again, no evidence was presented suggested Senser struck a vehicle. So Nelson argues jurors were confused about their instructions when convicting her of two felonies.
Nelson, in his appeal filing, wrote:
In Ms. Senser's case there was no reason to instruct the jury that Ms. Senser knew she hit a vehicle; this is simply not the offense she was charged with. Further, because there was no evidence that Ms. Senser did hit a vehicle, it would be impossible to establish knowledge for that element as one cannot have actual knowledge of doing something he or she did not do.
Nelson also cites an interview juror Anthony Sather did with KARE 11. When Sather was asked if he thought Senser knew she hit a person, he said, "I couldn't tell you. I mean, it's, it was borderline, the evidence from the defense and the prosecutor; you could have gone either way."
In the filing, Nelson asks Hennepin County judges to throw out the jury's verdict; failing that, he requests a new trial, one in which the jury will hopefully better understand its instructions.
According to sentencing guidelines, Senser's convictions call for her to spend four years in prison. She's currently scheduled to be sentenced on July 9.
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Who Says Marriage Is Obsolete?
Lessons in employability from the recession.
Those familiar with the creation story in Scripture know that when God viewed all that He had made, He pronounced it to be good. Except, of course, when He looked at Adam, He said, "It is not good that man should be alone." Today's intelligentsia dismiss the story as myth and the truth it expresses about the natural order of things as irrelevant. For many of them, traditional marriage is passé. The marriage rate today is well under half of what it was in 1969. Consequently, the number of persons not living in families -- persons the Census Bureau refers to as "unrelated individuals" -- has increased by more than three times. Today, they comprise 17.5 percent of our population of 304 million; take note that better than one fifth of these unrelated individuals live in poverty. Not exactly the yuppie life of "Friends" or "Sex and the City."
In these last 40 years, single-person heads of households (male and female) have gone from 14 percent of all family units to 26 percent. Better than one fourth of these households live in poverty. Yet, from the academics in the university to the actors in Hollywood, those who are shaping popular culture today are pushing a self-destructive, "me first" lifestyle; these opinion leaders gloss over the selfishness of the choices they promote and glamorize decisions about drugs and sex that ultimately scar the lives of those young people who follow their lead. "It's all good" is their mantra. But where does that attitude lead?
Marriage, we were harangued by the feminist zealots, has always been about male domination of women, not about two people learning what it means to respect and value each other. According to the feminist view, marriage only degrades and oppresses women.
But is that actually the case? What if the give and take of marriage -- so necessary for two persons, usually opposite in many respects, to get along -- is, in fact, a positive teacher? In the results of the current recession, we have a ready-made experiment by which to examine this question.
When the economy goes into recession, businesses (especially small ones) must make severe adjustments in order to survive. Among the things they do as sales decline is to reduce their work force to lower production. Experienced personnel, however, are a valuable asset to a company, so managers try to hold on to their most productive workers where possible; often this is done by giving them maintenance work to do that has been deferred during boom periods. And who gets the pink slip? Obviously, the least productive and/or the most difficult to manage get weeded out.
The data for 2009 are very clear about which class of workers has the highest likelihood of ending up unemployed. Unmarried males, whether or not they have children, are twice as likely to become unemployed, and the same holds for unmarried females with children.
The unemployment rate for married men 25-54 years of age without children was 7.1 percent versus 14.5 percent for unmarried men of the same age group without children. If we look at this same age group for men with children, the comparison shows 6.7 percent unemployment for married men versus 14.8 percent for unmarried men. Clearly, marriage produces men who, on average, are more valued by businesses trying to survive during this recession.
But does marriage do anything for women in the business world? Although the current recession has been harder on men than women, the effects of marriage on women's employability are similar to those for men. The unemployment rate in 2009 for married women 25-54 without children was 5.4 percent, and for unmarried women without children it was 7.5 percent. In this same age group, the unemployment rate of married women with children was 5.2 percent, compared with an 11.8 percent rate for unmarried women.
It is unlikely that business managers looking to make it through tough times choose persons on the basis of whether they are married or not. So why do we see consistently higher unemployment rates for unmarried men and women alike (controlling for both age and presence of children)? There can be little doubt that managers choose to retain those who have a set of traits and attitudes that being married can help develop and which, in turn, help sustain a marriage.
Now it goes without saying that there are good marriages and there are bad marriages, depending upon the values and virtues of the persons involved. But marriage does provide a framework with a tremendous potential and incentive for learning how to work together. Being unmarried may let you "have it your way," but a "my-way-or-the-highway" attitude doesn't pay off on the job, where the ability to compromise and get along are just as essential to smooth operations as they are in a marriage.
It appears the creation story may have had it right all along: it isn't good for man (or woman) to be alone.


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Sonnets from the Silence
by Minnie Ferris Hauenstein
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Silence hath songs in every language known,
On every wind her silvery summons blow,
Her singing kin, the cloud, the sod, the snow -
Stars that are constant, mountains ancient grown;
It is not given vibrant strings alone
To voice the score of all soul-haunting songs,
Nor to far-echoing, sonorous flutes belongs
The diapason of Life's undertone.
Art hath upbuilt her Temple stair on stair,
Whose towers touch the very heights of heaven,
They gleam as Pleiades the splendid seven,
And resonant Beauty is high mistress there;
Yet Silence stands, with brooding, soundless part
And breathes the music of the human heart.
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APA: Hauenstein, Minnie Ferris. (2013). Sonnets from the Silence. London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1922)
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Former Guadalcanal Premier Regains Post
By Daniel Namosuaia
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, Feb. 23, 2013) – Stephen Panga yesterday regained the premiership job he lost in the last Guadalcanal Provincial election after 11 of the 21 members put him back into power.
The snap election was held after former premier Anthony Veke resigned early this week amidst allegations of misuse of public funds.
In his victory speech, Mr Panga said he will continue on with the policy framework and plans of action of the Veke government, which he was part of.
"I intend to honour the policy framework and programme of action so that we continue with ongoing activities as well as build on the foundation put in place over the past two years."
He said his executive will make changes only if absolutely necessary to ensure continuity and effectiveness in the province's development efforts and service delivery.
Mr Panga said some of the priority issues his executive will focus on includes land issues on Guadalcanal, investment activities, bona fide demands of the Guadalcanal people, state government for Guadalcanal, reconciliation between his people, the national government and people of Malaita, pursue Doma township and USP fourth campus and address law and order issues in the province.
"My government intends to engage the national government to pursue the settlement of Lungga Land and to protect the customary land of Guadalcanal people.
"My executive will engage the national government and appropriate bodies to look at squatter settlements around Honiara and the customary land recordings to ensure security for both land owners and potential investors.
"My government will continue to promote investment activities and uphold existing agreements and ensure resource owners derive benefits and minimise negative environmental impact from the developments.
"We would work closely with the national government to seriously look into the bona fide demands of the Guadalcanal people ...and pursue state government," Mr Panga added
He finally said that he will ensure Law and He said his executive will pursue inter and intra reconciliation between the people of Guadalcanal as the first step.
Mr Panga's only rival, former national MP Walton Naezon, collected 10 votes in the two-man contest.
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Catching Up With ... former Colt Bob Vogel
Each Tuesday in The Toy Department, veteran Baltimore Sun sportswriter Mike Klingaman tracks down a former local sports figure and lets you know what's happening in his/her life in a segment called, "Catching Up With ... " Let Klingaman know who you'd like him to find and click here to check out previous editions of "Catching Up With ... "
Pound for pound, he was the smallest offensive tackle of his day, and maybe the smartest. It wasn't size but savvy that made Bob Vogel one of football's top lineman and a pillar of the Baltimore Colts' storied front wall.
Vogel, the team's top draft choice in 1963, spent the next decade taming sack packs and clearing paths for Colts' runners despite a 240-pound frame that even then was underwhelming.
"I wasn't one of those guys who could lift the stadium," said Vogel, from Ohio State. "I was purely a technician. That's how I survived."
As a rookie, Vogel was so good that Baltimore shifted tackle Jim Parker, a Hall of Famer, to guard to accommodate him. A five-time Pro Bowler, Vogel helped the Colts to two Super Bowls (III and V) and then retired from the game at the age of 30, his dignity intact.
"I just walked away in 1972 and said, 'It's over,' " said Vogel, 68. "I loved every minute of the game, but it was painful to see so many of my teammates stay too long. They either got hurt, mad, benched or traded. For so many guys, their identity is wrapped up in football. It's who they are, like Brett Favre. To me, that's sad."
Vogel traded the mayhem for a more selfless life. Witness the 48 foster children that he and his wife, Andrea, have cared for through the years. Or the prisons that Vogel visits, Good Book in hand, in a bid to turn inmates' lives around. Or the mission trips he makes regularly to places like Honduras and Cuba, to bring health care to the poor.
"Football was a good experience, but this is the Lord's will for my life," said Vogel, of Sunbury, Ohio.
Retired from a career in marketing and sales, he travels regularly to area prisons to share the word of God. A born-again Christian, Vogel taught himself Spanish so he could converse with Latinos who don't speak English.
At one youth facility, he said, "the kids are so violent that I'm not allowed to go into their cells. I have to sit outside their room, on a plastic bucket, and talk to them through the slot in the door where they're fed. It's a unique way to spread the gospel."
Only in prison does Vogel ever wear his Super Bowl ring from the Colts' 16-13 victory over Dallas in 1971.
"Masculinity is the trump card in there," he said. "The ring is a symbol of machismo. If the men respect my manhood, they'll sometimes allow me to share my feelings about Jesus, whether they are believers or not."
Vogel also travels regularly to Third World countries with a philanthropic group that provides free dental care to townsfolk there. His job? Translator and Bible thumper.
"We've been to places in Honduras that are 12-hour drives through the jungle," he said. "Dentists spend a week there pulling hundreds of teeth, and sometimes my job is as his assistant. Imagine, with these big, heavy digits of mine."
Married 46 years, Vogel has four children, four grandkids and his health. The man who missed one Colts game in 10 years works out daily and weighs 210 pounds, well below his playing weight.
He doesn't regret having quit football early. The Colts' Super Bowl victory played a role, said Vogel.
"How many teams that blow a Super Bowl get a second chance?" he said of Baltimore's upset loss to the New York Jets in Super Bowl III. "I remember a bunch of us sitting in the locker room during training camp (in 1970) and looking at ourselves. Someone said, 'We're an aging team and if we don't get it done now, it ain't never gonna happen.'
"That thought drove us all season."
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Today's date: May 3, 2016
May 30, 2014
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, the Arnold Memorial Healthcare Foundation (AMHCC) will be holding its summer fundraiser, "Memories and Dreams." Beginning at 5:30 p.m., there will be a social hour, which will give participants the opportunity to look at the items available on the silent auction.
The AMHCC is currently seeking donations in the form of gift baskets for the silent auction. Examples of popular gift basket ideas include a wine basket, a weekend getaway, a movie night, a fishing basket, a "pamper yourself" basket, an "enjoy a good book" basket, a family fun basket, a summer fun basket, a sports related basket, a chocolate-lovers basket – the possibilities are endless! Cash donations are also accepted, and greatly appreciated.
The AMHCC values the support it has received in the past, and would appreciate help again in making the fundraiser – and, therefore, its projects – a success. You can mail your donations in, drop them off at the Adrian Clinic, Adrian Assisted Living, or Adrian Nursing Home. Deadline for dropping off gift baskets is June 1. If you would like someone to pick up your gift basket, please call Cindy Wolf at 483-2281, or Tammy Loosbrock at 483-2894.
If you are mailing a donation, please send it to: AMHCC Foundation, 601 Louisiana Avenue, Adrian, MN, 56110. If you would like tickets to the event, payment can be sent to the same address


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The import of today's blog title becomes clear when I tell you that I fly to Melbourne late morning, then catch a train east to Lilydale, and a car to the beautiful Yarra Valley, home to such picturesque-sounding places as Woori Yallock, Mount Donna Buang and Launching Place.
I think it's going to be a chilly weekend for a cookery class. It was -1 degrees C this morning in the region. There's snow on top of Donna Buang, and in the indiginous Wurundjeri language, Woori Yallock means 'cold, wet and windy'. Yeah, that would be right; so I'm packing my new hemp trackkies and some extra socks.
My trusty Canon accompanies me, so I can share with you, yet again, some 'Kodak moments'.
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The truth in a nutshell:
Your feelings and thoughts create your reality. Your feelings, thoughts, and future reality are intertwined. If you can learn to manage your feelings and thoughts, you will have a more happy, abundant, and fulfilling reality now and forever.
The Attitude Tracker mobile app was created to do just that; to manage your feelings and thoughts through monitoring your daily moods, helping you become aware of your prevailing thoughts, and guiding your thoughts to a more positive state which in turn will lift your feelings state. Think of the Attitude Tracker as part of your "well-being" therapy, helping you create a consistent positive outlook on life, therefore helping you plan and enjoy a more satisfying life.
Think about this, the first habit of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is being proactive which falls under his term Self-Mastery. Self-Mastery is where you decide to make a change from dependence to independence. Basically, it's when you decide to govern yourself and become proactive in your life from its quality to its direction. How better to govern yourself than to monitor what your brain is making you feel and think. Studies have shown that a "mere" thought can change your brain activity, therefore by purposefully changing your thoughts, you will affect change to your emotional state. The Attitude Tracker gives you the ability to monitor your daily thoughts and feelings, giving you the ability to manage them and the power to change them.
How the Attitude Tracker works:
1. Input your feelings periodically throughout the day. The Attitude Tracker will store and track this data for you to view and manage accordingly.
2. After you input your feelings you will be given a thought-guidance quote that is meant to enhance your current mood or help guide it to a more positive state. Take these "life quotes" to heart and heed the words, apply them quickly through "mindfulness meditation" then watch your current feelings and reality change for the better. "Mindfulness meditation" is to practice deep awareness of your thoughts and feelings, particularly applying this practice to the thought-guidance suggestions so that you are able to change your current negative thought pattern into a positive one. Know that at any moment in time you are able to change your thoughts and emotions for the better by being proactive, deciding to have a better perspective of the current situation.
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5. The Diary feature also provides randomly chosen "inspirational quotes" by famous Authors, Poets, and Artists; heed their words and be inspired and motivated to improve the quality of your life.
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This is a "sister" list to The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part One). That list is a compilation of six other various World War II-related "The Best…" lists I've previously posted, along with links to special lessons I have posted for my United States History classes.
Today's list includes more general links that don't relate to those other six lists, along with ones that I've found since I made those U.S. History lessons more than a year ago.
Here are my choices For The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part Two):
The History Channel has a nice interactive called Inside World War II: A Global Perspective.
"The Price Of Freedom: Americans At War" is a Smithsonian multimedia interactive on each war in United States' history. Videos (with transcript), images and text are included.
Here are two good online interactives related to D-Day:
One is titled The Battle of Pointe du Hoc. It's about one particular battle that took place during the invasion of Normandy, and is particularly accessible to English Language Learners because it provides audio support for the text.
The other provides an overview of the entire invasion. It's really quite impressive, and is accessible to ELL's. It's just not quite as accessible as the first one because it doesn't provide audio support for the text.
Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago is a great set of images from The Boston Globe's Big Picture.
Code Talkers is an online exhibit from the National Museum of the American Indian. It tells about how Native Americans used their languages to help transmit messages as part of the United States military during World War II. The site is very accessible to English Language Learners, with audio and text support, along with helpful images. Early Intermediate speakers and above should be able to understand much of it.
The National World War II Museum has a special feature on the Science and Technology of World War II. I particularly like The Darkroom exhibit and the Atomic Bomb interactive timeline.
BBC's Primary History site has a number of accessible activities.
eHistory has a good overview of the war.
The History Channel has many short videos on the war, as does How Stuff Works.
The Los Angeles Times has a slideshow about the Japanese surrender.
Storming Juno is the online site of a television show from History TV about Canadian soldiers landing on D-Day. It has a 3D feature of the landing, plus interviews with survivors that include subtitles.
The BBC has a film on D-Day which provides closed-captioning.
Before and After D-Day: In Color is a slideshow from LIFE.
Remembering D-Day, 67 years later is a slideshow from The Los Angeles Times.
World War II In Photos is the start of a twenty part series of photos about…World War II.
The Daily Mail has published a series of pretty amazing photos of the damage caused during the London Blitz in World War II. They are a "must see."
D-Day To Victory is a very engaging interactive from History Television in Canada.
Here's a color video of World War II soldiers:
The Smithsonian has a relatively new "Choose Your Own Adventure" interactive where you play the role of a Tuskegee airman escorting bombers on a mission (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
D-Day by the Numbers is an infographic from The History Channel.
D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive is from The Guardian.
BBC Made From History World War Two
Here's some amazing color footage of Berlin right after World War II. You can read more about it at Vox.
The Fallen Of World II is both a video and an interactive.
The video is described as:
An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.
The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.
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Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- The bodies of two young boys killed in last week's school shootings are being taken to their resting places.
The first funerals were held Monday for 6-year-old Jack Pinto and Noah Pozner. Jack was a big New York Giants fan, and Noah liked to figure out how things worked mechanically.
Family, friends and townspeople streamed out of two funeral homes after the services.
In front of Noah's, well-wishers placed two teddy bears, white flowers and a single red rose at the base of a maple tree.
At Jack's service, hymns rang out from inside.
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