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The Migration Policy Institute celebrated its first decade as the authoritative, unimpeachable resource on immigration and immigrant integration analysis and policy design in the United States and internationally.
This report finds that the 813,000 U.S. children under the age of 10 who have Black immigrant parents from Africa or the Caribbean generally fall in the middle of multiple well-being indicators, faring less well than Asian and white children but better than their native-born Black and Hispanic peers. Citizenship status, English proficiency, parental characteristics, poverty, housing, and access to social supports are examined.
Immigration from the Caribbean to the United States is a relatively recent phenomenon, beginning largely after 1965. This report provides a demographic profile of the 1.7 million Caribbean immigrants in the United States: their geographic settlement, education and workforce characteristics, earnings, modes of entry, and more.
The economic consequences of emigration on migrants' countries of origin have long been studied, yet the precise assessment of positive and negative impacts remains complex. This analysis finds that Mexico's fiscal balance appears to benefit from emigration when considering remittances and labor markets.
This Transatlantic Council Statement examines both the challenge and opportunity for governments, in an era of skepticism about migration, to create a new definition of "we" based on a more inclusive idea of national identity and belonging, and to convince the broader society that investing in integration is an investment in shared futures.
The two sides of the debate on immigration and integration in Europe share an underlying assumption that the problem is cultural, while disagreeing on whether it is the result of too much or too little respect for cultural differences. This report contends that both get the issue wrong, calling attention to the inability of policies to ensure immigrants acquire and retain work.


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ZF-9330: Setting translator for elements and validators
If a form is validated, the translator of the form will be passed through all elements and all validators of the elements.
Specifying a different translator for an element or a validator of an element will therefor be overridden and will result in the translator being discarded for individual validators and formelements.
In my opinion there should be a check to determine if a translator has already been set for individual formelements or validators rather than just "blindly" passing the translator of the form onto it's children.
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Freshwater & Saltwater Dividing Line
The dividing line between saltwater and freshwater on the rivers listed is defined in this section, and all waters of the rivers and their tributaries, streams, and estuaries lying seaward of the dividing lines are considered saltwaters, and all waters lying landward or upstream from all dividing lines are considered freshwaters for purposes of licensing and regulating commercial and recreational fishing.
Except as otherwise provided below, the freshwater/saltwater dividing line is U.S. Highway 17. The Freshwater/Saltwater dividing line as depicted is an approximation of the line described in South Carolina Code Section 50-5-80. (Numbers below correlate to the map above):
- On Savannah River (PDF) the dividing line is the abandoned Seaboard Railroad track bed located approximately one and three‑fourths miles upstream from the U.S. Hwy. 17A bridge.
- Wright River (PDF) is salt water for its entire length.
- On Ashepoo River (PDF) the dividing line is the old Seaboard Railroad track bed.
- On New River (PDF) the dividing line is at Cook's Landing.
- Wallace River (PDF) (5a), Rantowles Creek (PDF) (5b), Long Branch Creek (PDF) (5c), and Shem Creek (PDF) (5d) are saltwater for their entire lengths.
- On Edisto River (PDF) the dividing line is the abandoned Seaboard Railroad track bed near Matthews Canal Cut.
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- On Cooper River (PDF) the dividing line is the seaward shoreline of Old Back River at the confluence of Old Back River downstream from Bushy Park Reservoir.
- Wando River (PDF) is saltwater for its entire length.
- On the Intracoastal Waterway (PDF) in Horry County the dividing line is the bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway at the intersection of S.C. Hwy. 9 and U.S. Hwy. 17.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Kimberlee Souza's walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning led the No. 11 Huskies to a 4-3 win over No. 14 Nebraska in game one of the WCWS at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Thursday afternoon.
At 44-15, the Huskies will advance to Friday's 4 p.m. PT game against No. 7 Tennessee live on ESPN. Nebraska (45-15) plays Saturday at 9 a.m. PT in an elimination game.
Washington is now 4-0 in extra inning games on the year and earned its first win at the WCWS since winning the national championship in 2009.
Both teams got on the board in the first inning as Gabby Banda scored on a sac fly for the Huskers against Bryana Walker. The UW junior pitcher from La Quinta, Calif., allowed two runs on one hit in 3.0 innings of work for the no decision.
Junior Kaitlin Inglesby (Portland, Ore.) started the game as the designated player and hit a two-run home run in the first to give the UW a 2-1 lead. Junior Victoria Hayward (Mountain View, Calif.) also scored on the bomb to left center after reaching base on a walk.
Both teams had plenty of chances to score as Washington was walked eight times and each team had an error. With the bases loaded in the third, a double play and a pop out got Nebraska out of the jam.
The first hit for Nebraska was a single to left by Taylor Edwards to lead off the fourth. After a walk, Inglesby entered to replace Walker in the circle. A sac bunt advanced the runners and the tying run scored on a Husky error. Brooke Thomason rounded third in an attempt to give Nebraska the lead, but Hooch Fagaly made a great throw to Shawna Wright at the plate to keep the game tied at 2-2.
The starting pitcher for Nebraska, Tatum Edwards scored on wild pitch with two outs in the fifth to give the Huskers a 3-2 lead. Tatum Edwards pitched 4.0 innings and earned a no decision.
With the bases loaded again for the Huskies in the fifth, freshman pitcher Emily Lockman (15-6) got the Huskies to groundout and then struck out Kylee Lahners and Souza to end the inning.
Down to their final two outs, Hayward tripled to right in the seventh and a sac bunt by Fagaly drove her in to send the game to extras.
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1 Summer Palace
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RC - Hejin
Built in the 12C, but sacked on several occasions, this summer palace was restored at great expense at the end of the 19C by the empress Cixi, whose megalomania remains legendary even to this day. Situated 12km northwest of Beijing, this enchanting s..
2 Great Wall
Architecture, castles and historic districts
RC - Badaling
This winding, superhuman construction, which is said to be visible from the moon, runs for a length of 6 000km, punctuated along its route by 40 000 towers and small forts. It follows every contour of the land it traverses, but it is at Simatai, wher..
3 Great Wall at Simatai
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RC - Simatai
Simatai is the most spectacular and striking section of the Great Wall as it is here that it traverses mountain ridges, the sides of which plunge dramatically into the void below. In these extreme landscapes, the technical prowess of engineers from t..
4 Terracotta Army
Archaeological and historical sites
RC - Xi'an
These thousands of life-size clay soldiers, either on foot or on horseback, their faces imbued with great solemnity, watch over the imperial necropolis of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, who ordered their production. The project took 700..
5 Pingyao Town Walls
Architecture, castles and historic districts
RC - Pingyao
Pingyao's walls, built in 1370 from brick and compact earth, have the shape of a turtle. 6km in length, they are punctuated with 72 towers and 3 000 crenellations, in reference to the number of disciples and pupils of Confucius. The walls, which make..
6 Wang Family Mansion
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RC - Huo Xian
Numerous peasants from this region left the land in the 14C to successfully turn their hand to commerce. Like Qiao, Wang Shi was part of this group, going on to establish a dynasty of business dealers. Once he had made his fortune, he built for himse..
7 The Bund
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Le Bund RC - Shanghai
The mere mention of the Bund has inspired generations of adventurers. It was here, at the beginning of the 20C, that immigrants trying to make a new life for themselves - and hopefully their fortune - disembarked in Shanghai, at the time an internati..
8 People's Square
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Place du Peuple RC - Shanghai
It is from this square that the frenetic 5km-long pedestrianised Nanjing shopping street cuts a path through the city. The square, and its well-tended adjoining park, are home to the city hall, the Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibit..
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People's Dajie Lu RC - Shanghai
The Shanghai Museum is a must for visitors to the city, who should set aside at least a day, or possibly more, to do it full justice. Opened in 1994, its architecture is resolutely modern in style, with a floor plan that is a eulogy to the Earth and ..
10 Old Centre of Suzhou
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Pingjiang Lu RC - Suzhou
The "city of canals and gardens" has stood the test of time in the narrow streets of the old centre, in particular in Pingjiang Street, where a stroll along the canal will bring back some nostalgic memories. A section of the canal network b..
11 The Humble Administrator's Garden
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QiMen Lu RC - Suzhou
Created in the early 16C, the garden was the private estate of Wang Xianzheng, a censor at the imperial court. Its name is inspired by the maxim: "cultivate your garden to meet your needs - this is the policy of the humble". This garden, ex..
12 Suzhou Museum
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RC - Suzhou
The family of the architect, I.M. Pei, who designed the Louvre pyramid in Paris, was born in Suzhou. Pei's design for this museum incorporated a restrained yet bright look influenced by the local habitat and the Zen-like layout of the town's gardens...
13 Master of the Nets Garden
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RC - Suzhou
Although it's the smallest garden in Suzhou, the Master of the Nets is without doubt the most appealing for visitors. Laid out in the 12C and then abandoned, it was restored in the 18C by a bureaucrat who it is said was tired of his administrative du..
14 The Lingering Garden
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Liuyuan Lu RC - Suzhou
The magnificently laid-out Lingering Garden covers an area of 3ha, in which galleries punctuated by windows boasting delightful views link the main sights. This garden was designed to help the convalescence of the sick - as a result everything here h..
15 Temple of the Soul's Retreat (Lingyin)
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RC - Hangzhou
Founded in the 4C by a Buddhist monk from India, the Temple of the Soul's Retreat has been destroyed and rebuilt on no fewer than 16 occasions, either as a result of war or earthquake. The present building is a restoration of the temple built during ..
16 Yellow Mountains
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RC - Tangkou
To the south of Anhui province lies the arid range of the Yellow Mountains. A maelstrom of canyons, precipices and bare peaks, these mountains are often shrouded with mist and clouds, creating a picturesque sight which has inspired many poets and pai..
17 Western Sea of Clouds
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RC - Taiping
At a depth of over 1 000m, the canyon of the Western Sea comprises a granite landscape of cliffs and ridges, with the occasional twisted pine tree clinging to the mountainside. Upstream from here, the gateway to the Western Sea, a balcony jutting int..
18 Sea of Heavenly Clouds
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RC - Yuping
The highest point of the Yellow Mountains, the Lotus Flower Peak (1 864m) dominates the landscapes of the Sea of Heavenly Clouds, with its isolated peaks and huge expanses of bare rock. A path winds its way around the narrow peak, which at its summit..
19 Old Street in Tunxi
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Lao jie RC - Tunxi
Tunxi, a town which became wealthy thanks to the tea trade, makes a good base for exploring the Yellow Mountains. The Lao Jie, or "old street", is the only really attractive part of this otherwise rather dull town. The paved street has reta..
20 Yixian District
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RC - Xidi
The three most famous villages in the Anhui province - Xidi, Hongcun and Nanping - form the district of Yixian, which was long overlooked by visitors and specialists alike. The region's sumptuous houses adorned with wooden carvings tell the story of ..


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2013 Past Event: Students Town Hall: Associated Students
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The Associated Students of Pasadena City College invites all students of PCC to a Town Hall on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 6:00PM in the Creveling Lounge, to discuss and get more information on the impact of the trimester change on students planning to transfer for Fall 2013 and to talk to student representatives about any and all issues that are facing them while attending the college. The Town Hall is an opportunity for students to speak directly to their elected student representatives on any area of concern. This town hall will focus on the calendar changes and moving forward.
Creveling Lounge is located on the second floor of the Campus Center building.
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the greatest English composer of the 20th century, La Monnaie is presenting the work which Benjamin Britten wrote in memory of all WWII victims, as the requiem included in its programme every year. The War Requiem, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, is one of the events of this autumn. Along with the impressive chorus and La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, three splendid soloists will remind us of the disasters of war, in Latin and in English, and will call out our need for peace and reconciliation. This War Requiem concert is supported by Amnesty International.
This project is in keeping with La Monnaie's tradition to propose a requiem around the time of All Saints' Day. After the one by Bruneau (which you conducted last November), you are taking on a more ambitious work.
One of the reasons for this is of course the 2013 anniversary of Britten's birth, and also the 2014 commemoration of the beginning of WWI. It is also certainly a work which will be presented brilliantly thanks to the talent at La Monnaie: I am thinking of the children's chorus and the soloist roles, with Olga Guryakova, Mark Padmore and Dietrich Henschel.
This casting, with a Russian singer, an English tenor and a German baritone, is not just a coincidence.
No, indeed. Peter de Caluwe and I decided to recreate the trio of soloists which Britten had imagined in 1962, with singers from the three biggest countries involved in WWII. This was not quite achieved, as Galina Vichnevskaya could not leave the USSR. Instead, Heather Harper sang with Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
In this case, the concert will not take place in a cathedral.
I would have liked it, but performing in a cathedral would lead to other problems – acoustic in particular. And we will be able to recreate the necessary atmosphere for the War Requiem at Bozar. We must think about where the children's chorus will be placed, as it must be able to create an impression of distance. I think I will do what I did for the Bach choral in November 2012 and use the public space behind the balconies. This space provides a beautiful reverberation and allows us experiment with the doors opening into the auditorium to create different effects from one movement to the next. The Offertory must come from far away, but in the In paradisum part of Libera me, the children's chorus must be a lot closer.
In paradisum is one of the rare moments when…
…when the two orchestras play together with the chorus, three soloists, the children's chorus, the two organs – the big organ which appears for the first time, and the little organ which is connected with the children's chorus. In terms of volume, it is quite different.
Tell us about the distinctive feature of this requiem: how did Britten associate poems by Wilfred Owen with the liturgical text?
On the one hand, the soprano and choruses sing the Latin text, accompanied by the full orchestra; on the other hand, the tenor and the baritone share poems in English, accompanied by the chamber orchestra. The use of poems by a young English poet – Wilfred Owen, who died at the end of WWI at the age of 25 – has a big impact on the emotional level of the work. These poems are accessible and well written, thus bringing the work closer to our reality. In a certain way, the feelings expressed in the liturgical mass are 'illustrated' by the poems, making its content even more eternal. Conflicts and war will always be all too contemporary. I find it fascinating that Britten chose to conduct the chamber orchestra each time instead of the full orchestra. The interludes of the chamber orchestra summarise its musical vocabulary perfectly. The other passages in Latin are almost Verdian and secular. Dies irae, for example, has the same rhythmic force as Dies irae in Verdi's Messa da requiem, expressing immense anger.
Are these passages perhaps more conventional?
Yes, the passages with full orchestra and full chorus are rather conventional. The 'commentaries' represented by Owen's poems are Britten's signature. Such force emanates from 'Let us sleep now', the lullaby which ends this heartrending work. In it, Britten brings together both types of text: suddenly there is a juxtaposition of all of the elements which, until then, had remained separate. The War Requiem moves me each time due to the simplicity of the writing at several points in the score. I am thinking in particular of Lacrymosa in Dies irae, which is almost Mozartian in its simplicity of expression. The alternation with Owen's poems – almost like a meditation – is poignant.
Britten wished to prompt reflection on the disaster caused by the war and to 'warn' us – according to the famous phrase from his score: 'All a poet can do today is warn'.
Britten expresses his anger in his own way: in a spirit of pacifism, with restraint and great intelligence. He adds a dimension of his own to a more 'traditional' expression of the liturgical text after the fashion of Verdi and Mozart, with more intimate moments which, through silence and lights, translate the fear of death. Silence is used in a very beautiful way by Britten. He creates a sort of discomfort in the use of time, with the silent moments he has added. And what better way to meditate than in silence and with a limited use of means? Britten's Requiem has it all: instantaneous force and moments of reflection.
What are the challenges faced when presenting this work?
The first challenge lies in the score for the choruses, which is difficult and complex. And I have probably created one for myself by deciding to conduct the two orchestras, as the work is often shared with another conductor who conducts the chamber orchestra. But because the two orchestras rarely play together, it is possible to do it alone, as long as the arrangement on stage is well done. Furthermore, I could not imagine letting someone else conduct those wonderful passages for chamber orchestra! Britten made use of methods which were fascinating in terms of their simplicity, such as the use of the tritone C-F sharp. These effects are not very innovative, yet are very effective. The most difficult movement is Libera me, with the baritone's monologue which precedes 'Let us sleep now' before the great denouement. The singers must be remarkable and able to sustain the tension within a very finely woven fabric. In general, this work must achieve a shared respiration and rhythmic ostinatos, which reappear throughout the work.
How would you describe the role of the children's chorus?
This role is different in the four passages sung by the children's chorus. But generally, the addition of this chorus reflects Britten's desire for pacifism. Children are associated with guardian angels, which is quite obvious in In paradisum. With the two male protagonists who are two young soldiers, Britten also seems to involve future generations in an account of the horrors of war, by stating: 'Let us not create this type of future for our children.' This is perhaps my own interpretation, but I find the idea to be quite beautiful.
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Dion was born.
Dion and the Belmonts reach #22 with "I Wonder Why".
"Teenager in Love," by Dion & the Belmonts, reaches #3.
Dion and the Belmonts hit #3 with "Where or When".
Almost one year after splitting with his backing group the Belmonts, Dion's "Runaround Sue" hits #1.
Dion reaches #2 with "Ruby Baby".
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Dec 21st 2011
Where to get your Chanukah stuff!
When you say Chanukah, remember it's not the "ch" in Charles, but a guttural version of the one in Johann Sebastian Bach. Can't pronounce it? Just say Hanukkah, with a very American sounding "h." And if you didn't see our December issue, on stands now, pick it up for plenty of info on celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights. Read More


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"Nutty" Nutckracker
It's the same story and choreography as Ballet West's The Nutcracker, but with a bit more humor and surprises for families. The original's run, about a young girl who dreams of a Nutcracker prince and battle with the Mouse King, goes through Dec. 28. The Nutty Nutcracker shows on Dec. 30 and 31.
Capitol Theatre, 7 p.m. 50 W. 200 South, SLC Click here for tix
Countdown at Zoolights!
The Hogle Zoo's Zoolights! officially comes to an end on New Year's Eve, and every year they close with an early countdown to 9 p.m. (think of it as counting down to New Year's with the good folks in Newfoundland, who are three hours ahead). The kids will get to bed early, and the family will have one last great night out for 2010.
Utah's Hogle Zoo, show a couple hours before 9 p.m. 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, SLC Click here for more info
All-Night Party at Hollywood Connection
Most older kids probably want to hit a friend's New Year's Eve party, but if you want to make sure they're having fun in a safe place, sans booze, send them to Hollywood Connection for the huge New Year's Eve bash. The party starts at 7 p.m. and goes until 7 a.m. with rides, skating, mini-golf, a movie and breakfast for $30. When you buy before Dec. 31, you'll also get a 42 point card for tokens.
Hollywood Connection 3217 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley Click here for more info
In case you've never been to this place and don't know what it's like, I dropped by HC on Christmas Eve, when crowds were sparse, for some photos of what your kids can check out at the fun center this New Year's:
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From This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, NASA SP-4201:
The search for better experimental methods in manned satellite research produced a concept by Purser and Faget for a new test rocket which would employ a cluster of four solid-propellant Sergeant rockets to provide a high initial thrust. Fired almost vertically and unguided except for large stabilizing aerodynamic fins, the rocket would be an inexpensive means of testing full-scale models of spacecraft in the most critical phases of an orbital mission - launch, abort, and escape at different speeds and under different stresses, parachute deployment, and recovery. Such a vehicle could also "toss" a man in a ballistic capsule to an altitude of perhaps 100 miles. Late in February, Purser and Faget received a job order and authorization to proceed with design work on the test rocket, which at that time they called "High Ride."
Meanwhile Faget's and Paul Purser's proposal made early in the year for a clustered-rocket test booster to be used in payload design research and in manned vertical flights had undergone a politic modification. After Dryden publicly drew his analogy between the Army's Project Adam and the circus lady shot from a cannon, the PARD research team leaders dropped the name "High Ride" and shelved their ideas for using the rocket to fire a man into space. In August, Faget asked William M. Bland, Jr., and Ronald Kolenkiewicz of PARD to prepare precise specifications for a vehicle to launch full-scale and full-weight capsules to a maximum altitude of 100 miles. Only a year would pass before the experimental rocket went into operation. When it did, the former "High Ride" would have acquired the new nickname "Little Joe."
Informed that the Atlas prime movers would cost approximately $2.5 million each and that even the Redstone would cost about $1million per launching, the managers of the manned satellite project recognized from the start that the numerous early test flights would have to be accomplished by a far less expensive booster system. In fact, as early as January 1958 Faget and Purser had worked out in considerable detail on paper how to cluster four of the solid-fuel Sergeant rockets, in standard use by PARD at Wallops Island, to boost a manned nose cone above the stratosphere. Faget's short-lived "High Ride" proposal had suffered from comparisons with "Project Adam" at that time, but in August 1958 William Bland and Ronald Kolenkiewicz had returned to their preliminary designs for a cheap cluster of solid rockets to boost full-scale and full-weight model capsules above the atmosphere. As drop tests of boilerplate capsules provided new aerodynamic data on the dynamic stability of the configuration in free-fall, the need for comparable data quickly on the powered phase became apparent. So in October a team of Bland, Kolenkiewicz, Caldwell Johnson, Clarence T. Brown, and F. E. Mershon prepared new engineering layouts and estimates for the mechanical design of the booster structure and a suitable launcher.37
As the blueprints for this cluster of four rockets began to emerge from their drawing boards, the designers' nickname for their project gradually was adopted. Since their first cross-section drawings showed four holes up, they called the project "Little Joe," from the crap-game throw of a double deuce on the dice. Although four smaller circles were added later to represent the addition of Recruit rocket motors, the original name stuck. The appearance on engineering drawings of the four large stabilizing fins protruding from its airframe also helped to perpetuate the name Little Joe had acquired.
The primary purpose of this relatively small and simple booster system was to save money - by allowing numerous test flights to qualify various solutions to the myriad problems associated with the development of manned space flight, especially the problem of escaping from an explosion midway through takeoff. Capsule aerodynamics under actual reentry conditions was another primary concern. To gain this kind of experience as soon as possible, its designers had to keep the clustered booster simple in concept; it should use solid fuel and existing proven equipment whenever possible, and should be free of any electronic guidance and control systems.
The designers made the Little Joe booster assembly to approximate the same performance that the Army's Redstone booster would have with the capsule payload. But in addition to being flexible enough to perform a variety of missions, Little Joe could be made for about one-fifth the basic cost of the Redstone, would have much lower operating costs, and could be developed and delivered with much less time and effort. And, unlike the larger launch vehicles, Little Joe could be shot from the existing facilities at Wallops Island. It still might even be used to carry a man some day.
Twelve companies responded during November to the invitations for bids to construct the airframe of Little Joe. The technical evaluation of these proposals was carried on in much the same manner as for the spacecraft, except that Langley Research Center itself carried the bulk of the administrative load. H. H. Maxwell chaired the evaluation board, assisted by Roland D. English, Johnson, Mershon, and Bland of the Space Task Group. English later became Langley's Little Joe Project Engineer, Bland the STG Project Engineer, and Mershon the NASA representative at the airframe factory. The Missile Division of North American Aviation won the contract on December 29, 1958, and began work immediately at Downey, California, on its order for seven booster airframes and one mobile launcher.
The primary mission objectives for Little Joe as seen in late 1958 (in addition to studying the capsule dynamics at progressively higher altitudes) were to test the capsule escape system at maximum dynamic pressure, to qualify the parachute system, and to verify search and retrieval methods. But since each group of specialists at work on the project sought to acquire firm empirical data as soon as possible, more exact priorities had to be established. The first flights were to secure measurements of inflight and impact forces on the capsule; later flights were to measure critical parameters at the progressively higher altitudes of 20,000, 250,000, and 500,000 feet. The minimum aims of each Little Joe shot could be supplemented from time to time with studies of noise levels, heat and pressure loads, heatshield separation, and the behavior of animal riders, so long as the measurements could be accomplished with minimum telemetry. Since all the capsules boosted by the Little Joe rockets were expected to be recovered, onboard recording techniques would also contribute to the simplicity of the system.
Unique as the only booster system designed specifically and solely for manned capsule qualifications, Little Joe was also one of the pioneer operational launch vehicles using the rocket cluster principle. Since the four modified Sergeants (called either Castor or Pollux rockets, depending upon modification) and four supplemental Recruit rockets were arranged to fire in various sequences, the takeoff thrust varied greatly, but maximum design thrust was almost 230,000 pounds. Theoretically enough to lift a spacecraft of about 4,000 pounds on a ballistic path over 100 miles high, the push of these clustered main engines should simulate the takeoff profile in the environment that the manned Atlas would experience. Furthermore, the additional powerful explosive pull of the tractor-rocket escape system could be demonstrated under the most severe takeoff conditions imaginable. The engineers who mothered Little Joe to maturity knew it was not much to look at, but they fondly hoped that their ungainly bastard would prove the legitimacy of most of the ballistic capsule design concepts, thereby earning its own honor.
Although Little Joe was designed to match the altitude-reaching capability of the Redstone booster system, and thus to validate the concepts for suborbital ballistic flights, it could not begin to match the burnout speed at orbiting altitude given by the Atlas system. Valuable preliminary data on the especially critical accelerations from aborts at intermediate speeds could be duplicated, but Little Joe could lift the capsule only to 100 miles, not put it at that altitude with a velocity approaching 18,000 miles per hour. For this task, a great deal more, some sort of Big Joe was needed. A Jupiter booster might simulate fairly closely the worst reentry heating conditions but ultimately only the Atlas itself could suffice.
STG shed no tears over cancellation of Jupiter and the balloon tests was that the Little Joe program was making good progress. Blueprint work for the Little Joe airframe had begun early in 1959. North American had assigned A. L. Lawbaugh as project engineer; Langley Research Center had appointed Carl A. Sandahl as its representative for support of this test booster program; and William M. Bland, Jr., was managing Little Joe for the Space Task Group. Throughout the year 1959 these three men were primarily responsible for Little Joe.
Two significant design changes for Little Joe early in 1959 undoubtedly delayed the program slightly but contributed greatly to its eventual success. The first change, decided upon by Gilruth and Faget in January, required a switch from straight to canted nozzles on all the forward-thrusting rocket motors. Little Joe had no guidance system, and such a redesign would minimize any upset from unsymmetrical thrust conditions. The other departure from the original design was the addition of a so-called "booster destruct system." In the interest of range safety there should be some provision to terminate by command the thrust of the main motor units. Therefore Charles H. McFall and Samuel Sokol of Langley devised a booster blowout system, which North American and Thiokol Chemical Corporation, the manufacturers of the rocket motor components, added to the forward end of each rocket combustion chamber.
By mid-February it was apparent that a development program for rocket hardware, even of such limited scope and relative simplicity as the Little Joe booster, demanded a far more sophisticated management organization than either Langley or the Task Group had envisioned. Although informal arrangements had sufficed to get the program started, funding allocations, personnel expansion, and contract monitoring problems began to weigh heavily. Carl Sandahl lamented in one weekly progress report that the transfer of Caldwell C. Johnson from Langley to the Space Task Group could "just about break up the Little Joe Project." Langley's loss was STG's gain in this respect, however, and cooperation continued to be encouraging. Indeed, in May, Bland reported that the delivery of the first Little Joe booster airframe could be expected approximately two weeks earlier than scheduled.
While the results of the Big Joe launch were being studied, a five-man investigating committee at Langley was trying to learn why the first Little Joe shot, on August 21, 1959, had miscarried so badly. Out at Wallops Island that Friday morning several weeks earlier, the first Little Joe (LJ-1) had sat on its launcher, tilted toward the sea, with a full-sized model capsule and escape system on top. Its test mission was to determine how well the escape rocket would function under the most severe dynamic loading conditions anticipated during a Mercury-Atlas launching. At 35 minutes before launch, evacuation of the area had been proceeding on schedule, and the batteries for the programmer and destruct system in the test booster were being charged. Suddenly, half an hour before launchtime, an explosive flash and roar startled several photographers and crewmen into diving for cover.
No one was injured, but when the smoke cleared it was evident that only the capsule-and-tower combination had been launched, on a trajectory similar to an off-the-pad abort. The booster and adapter-clamp ring remained intact on the launcher. Near apogee, at about 2000 feet, the clamping ring that held tower to capsule released and the little pyro-rocket for jettisoning the tower fired.
The accident report on LJ-1, issued on September 18, blamed the premature firing of the Grand Central escape rocket on an electrical leak, or what missile engineers were calling "transients," "ghost" voltages or currents, or simply a "glitch" in a relay circuit. The fault was found in a coil. It had been specially designed as a positive redundancy to protect biological specimens from too rapid an abort and as a negative redundancy to prevent inadvertent destruction of the test booster. Again the problem of upgrading the machines to provide safety for animal payloads as well as to ensure mission success had created unexpected problems. This first trial of the brand-new Little Joe test booster apparently had been too ambitious. Fortunately the momentum of the Little Joe test series was not disturbed by the debacle of the boilerplate payload on Little Joe No. 1.
North American Aviation finished and shipped on September 25, 1959, its sixth and last airframe for the Little Joe booster as promised. The Space Task Group therefore had available at the beginning of October all the Little Joe test boosters it had ordered. Designed primarily to man-rate the escape system operating from a Mercury-Atlas already in flight, the Little Joe booster also was committed to perform some biological research before fulfilling its primary mission.
More by coincidence than by design, the next three Little Joe boosters were launched from Wallops Island exactly one month apart in the autumn of 1959. Still the primary aerodynamic test objectives remained unfulfilled. But the fourth shot, in January 1960, finally worked precisely as planned. STG was satisfied that its own pilot safety provisions were viable under the worst possible aerodynamic conditions. The same kind of test on McDonnell's finished product, rather than on boilerplate demonstration capsules, perhaps could be made the following summer.
On October 4, 1959, the same booster that had been jilted by the capsule and escape rocket in August was finally fired, this time with a double dummy - an uninstrumented boilerplate model fitted with an inert escape rocket system. After the fiasco of LJ- 1, the more modest purpose of this test, which later became known as Little Joe 6 (LJ-6), was to prove the "reliability" of the whole booster propulsion cluster. All four Pollux motors, plus four smaller Recruit motors, were set to fire in sequence. Little Joe 6, 55 feet tall and weighing 20 tons at liftoff, blasted up to a peak altitude barely short of 40 miles; then it was intentionally destroyed after two and a half minutes of flight to prove the destruct system. Impact was over 70 miles from Wallops Island. All went well.
Satisfied that Little Joe had proved itself as a booster, the supervisory team of NASA engineers, consisting of John C. Palmer from Wallops, and Roland English, James Mayo, Clifford Nelson, Charles McFall of Langley, and William M. Bland and Robert O. Piland of the Space Task Group, prepared for a new effort to check the correct operation of the abort escape system at maximum loading conditions. The region called "max q" (for maximum dynamic pressure) by aerodynamicists is the portion of the flight path at which relative speed between the vehicle and the atmosphere produces the greatest air resistance on the vehicle. Many variables were involved, but roughly both Little Joe and the Mercury-Atlas were expected to experience dynamic pressures of almost 1,000 pounds per square foot at an approximate altitude of six miles after about one minute of flight time.
For the second attempt at this primary mission, Little Joe 1-A (LJ-1A) needed to propel another dummy capsule and pylon to the max q region. Both drogue and main parachute behavior were to be carefully studied on this flight. Surprised by the insistent demands from the news media to witness these developmental flight tests, STG gave the press a careful enumeration of situations that might call for a "hold" or a "scratch" of the shot.
On November 4, 1959, when the second Little Joe booster was successfully launched, newspapermen could see nothing wrong. The flight looked straight and true until the rocket was out of sight. But the test engineers in the control center observed that the escape motor did not fire until 10 seconds after the point of maximum dynamic pressure. The parachutes and recovery operations performed well enough to fulfill secondary and tertiary objectives, but precisely why escape was too slow was never fully understood. Later analysis showed only that the delayed ignition of the escape rocket caused the separation of capsule from booster at a pressure only one-tenth of that programmed. Because the next scheduled launch of a Little Joe booster was already committed to a test for certain aeromedical objectives and was now in a late stage of preparation, the primary aerodynamic test of the escape system was postponed until January, when a third try, to be called Little Joe 1-B, could be made.
Back in May, STG had begun planning with the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine to include some biological packages in later Little Joe flights. The booster designated No. 5 was reserved specifically to qualify all systems in the McDonnell capsule, carrying a chimpanzee occupant and escaping from a simulated Atlas explosion at the point of max q.
After the disappointment of Little Joe 1-A, Donlan, Bland, and Piland decided to pull out the stops on Little Joe 2 and allow the aeromedical specialists to run all the experiments they wanted on a high-powered flight. The School of Aviation Medicine had made ready a biological package for its primate passenger, a small rhesus monkey named "Sam," after his alma mater. In addition to Sam's special capsule for rocket flight, the military physicians now prepared barley seeds, rat nerve cells, neurospora, tissue cultures, and insect packets to measure the effects of primary radiation, changes in appearance and capacity for reproduction, and ova and larvae responses to the space environment.
Little Joe 2 promised to be a spectacular flight if everything went as planned. The engineers could see how the capsule escape system would function under conditions of high mach number and low dynamic pressure; more important technically, they could measure the motions, aerodynamic loads, and aerodynamic heating experience of the capsule entering from the intermediate height of about 70 miles. The Air Force medical specialists might also learn about other things, but their chief interest was to see how well Sam himself would withstand weightlessness during the trip. This was also the chief interest of Alan B. Shepard and Virgil I. Grissom, who came to see this launch.
On December 4, 1959, just before noon, the third Little Joe, LJ-2, ripped through the air under full power and burned out at an altitude of 100,000 feet. The tower and capsule separated as planned and the escape rocket gave an additional boost, throwing the capsule into a coasting trajectory that reached its zenith just short of 280,000 feet, or 53 miles. This peak height was about 100,000 feet lower than expected because of a serious windage error, so Sam experienced only three minutes of weightlessness instead of four. He survived the mild reentry, the not-so-mild impact, and six hours of confinement before he was recovered by a destroyer and liberated from his inner envelope.
All preliminary indications reflected a highly successful flight. For the first time Little Joe had achieved full success on all three orders of its programmed test objectives. Congratulatory letters sped around the circuit among those responsible. It was a satisfying way to close out the year. But STG engineers knew that this full-performance test of the Little Joe was not the most crucial case for man-rating the Mercury escape system. They still had to prove that at max q, where everything conspired to produce failure, the escape system could be relied upon to save the life of any man who ventured into this region aboard an Atlas.
Later evaluations of Little Joe 2 were somewhat less sanguine. Biologists were disappointed: although results were better than on any previous biological space flight, they were still not good enough. STG engineers still awaited the more crucial test of the escape system under maximum aerodynamic stress. And the Mercury managers were disappointed at the way the news media had dramatized the animal experiments at the expense of the equally significant demonstration of technological progress.
Public information officers John A. Powers of STG and E. Harry Kolcum of NASA Headquarters tried to correct the "misplaced emphasis" in the news stories before the fourth Little Joe shot, Little Joe 1-B, occurred in January. By this time, Gilruth wished the press would note "the relatively minor role of this particular task in the context of the total Mercury program." But again, to the reporters the star of the event was "Miss Sam," the female counterpart to the occupant of LJ-2, whose life was at stake and whose nervous system was to be tested in psychomotor performance tasks during the short but severe flight. Some of the newsmen perhaps knew or divined that several of the astronauts wanted to ride one of the next Little Joes into space.
Finally, on January 21, 1960, with the fourth launching of the Little Joe series, the escape system performed as planned at the point of max q. Propelled by two Pollux main motors, Little Joe 1-B blasted up to the nominal altitude of slightly less than nine miles and attained a maximum velocity slightly over 2,000 miles per hour. Then the escape rocket kicked on the overdrive for an additional 250 feet in one second to "rescue" the Mercury replica from a simulated booster failure at that point. Over a range of 11.5 miles out to sea, Miss Sam, in her biopack prepared by medical technicians from Brooks Air Force Base and its School of Aviation Medicine, not only survived these severe g loads but also performed well (except for a 30-second lapse) at her business of watching for the light and pulling the lever. After 8.5 minutes of flight, during which the sequence system and capsule landing systems worked perfectly, Miss Sam touched down. She was recovered almost immediately by a Marine helicopter, and was returned in excellent condition to Wallops Station within 45 minutes after liftoff.
For half a minute after the escape rocket fired, the little rhesus monkey had been badly shaken up and did not respond to stimuli, but otherwise Miss Sam acted the role of the perfectly trained primate automaton throughout the flight. Evidence of nystagmus after escape rocket firing and after impact on the water did cause concern, for it suggested that an astronaut's effectiveness as a backup to the parachute system might be impaired. The internal noise level proved to be higher than expected, likewise causing some other worries over the provisions for communications and pilot comfort.
To this point, the Little Joe series of five actual and attempted flights had expended four of the six test boosters North American had made for NASA and five prototype capsules made in the Langley shops. The primary test objectives for these solid-fuel-boosted models were an integral part of the development flight program conducted within NASA by the Space Task Group, with Langley and Wallops support. Now only two Little Joe boosters remained for the qualification flight tests. North American had manufactured seven Little Joe airframes, but one of these had been retained at the plant in Downey, California, for static loading tests. STG ordered the refurbishment of this seventh airframe so as to have three Little Joe boosters for the qualification flight program. The success of Little Joe 1-B in January 1960 meant that the next flight, the sixth, to be known as LJ-5, would be the first to fly a real Mercury capsule from the McDonnell production line. In passing from development flight tests with boilerplate models to qualification flight tests with the "real McDonnell" capsule, the Space Task Group moved further away from research into development and toward operations.


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New beach fest seeks to boost area
Parrot Head gala aims for tourists to visit Oak Island and Southport
Published: Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 9:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 11:49 p.m.
Seeking to boost tourism in one of the slower weeks of the summer season, the Southport Oak Island Area Chamber of Commerce is organizing a Jimmy Buffett-inspired beach festival for the weekend of Aug. 24.
Business booster?
What: Phlock to the Beach
When: Aug. 23-25
Where: Southport and Oak Island
Details: Festival events begin with two shuttle-facilitated pub crawls on Friday night, one in Southport and another on Oak Island. Saturday brings family-oriented beach games and contests at Cape Fear Regional Jetport, volleyball and bocce ball tournaments at the beach, and a concert at the jetport by bands Latitude and Key Lime Pie. The final event will be a pancake breakfast on Sunday morning at the jetport as a fundraiser for the Experimental Aircraft Association's local chapter No. 939.
Admission: Tickets are available at the chamber of commerce office at 4433 Long Beach Road and through the chamber's smartphone application, available at Google Play and iTunes app stores, searchable under the name "Southport Oak Island."
Though there is no official involvement from the famous musician, the "Phlock to the Beach" event owes its theme to Buffett and his Parrot Heads, the name given to the colorful fans of Buffett's music and easygoing beach lifestyle.
Chamber Director Karen Sphar hopes the festival will prove a boon to the local economy as well as act as a fundraiser for the chamber of commerce in a time when the summer tourist season slows down and students head back to school.
"We expect the festival cost to the chamber at between $8,000 and $10,000, with the concert being the biggest expense," Sphar said. "I've done some estimating on the economic impact to the area, and I put it at just under $200,000 and that's a conservative low estimate."
One business owner hoping for high ticket sales to the festival is Jeff Todd, an 18-year member of the chamber of commerce and a part owner of the Turtle Island Restaurant.
"If they get good ticket sales we will make some good money," Todd said. "I'll be one of two or three vendors at the concert, doing beach-theme sandwiches and jerk chicken like I like to do."
Todd said his business has been up recently because of the movie industry's return to the area and an improving national economy, with 2012 his best year for sales since the financial crisis. He's hoping this year will top last.
"It's been madness lately, and I'm sure Labor Day will be madness too," Todd said.
The festival targets a weekend that is normally slow, he said. "I'm hoping we can just break even, but if we make money we will do this again."
The festival was proposed to the chamber by Barb
Olsen-Gwin, who co-owns Cape Fear Airworks Inc. and Brunswick Air with her husband, Rich.
"We went to one Buffett concert in Charlotte, and the Parrot Head party in the parking lot was unbelievable. Everyone was having a good time," Olsen-Gwin said. "That's what I wanted to emulate here – a little silly, a little crazy, but something everyone could get into."
With the concert taking place on an extra runway at the jetport, Olsen-Gwin hopes the festival will raise interest in the Civil Air Patrol and bring additional business and publicity to her aviation companies
Seth Robbins, chamber of commerce president and a general manager with Oak Island Accommodations, which manages 600 rental properties, hopes the event will attract added tourism money from the vacationers who visit Oak Island and bring local businesses the majority of their revenue for the year.
Vacationers such as Roland Houston, visiting from Arkansas, who spent Monday morning fishing from Ocean Crest Pier alongside a dozen other tourists and families.
"I came out here for a conference and brought my family to spend time at the beach and do some fishing for a summer break," Houston said. "This is our first time here. We've enjoyed it and would like to come back."
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Andrea Kihlstedt of New York City had a highly successful career as a fundraising consultant and trainer and also authored Capital Campaigns, Strategies That Work and How to Raise $1 Million (or More) in 10 Bite Size Steps. Then four years ago, she began thinking about how to expand her reach.
"As a consultant," she says, "I was only selling my time to clients; I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I wanted to create not just more work for myself, but an online business I could market to new customers."
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So Kihlstedt linked up with a partner — professional fundraiser Brian Saber — and they plunged headlong into launching Askingmatters.com, a site designed to teach nonprofit staffers and board members to ask for donations by identifying their own "asking style."
A 10,000-Person Following
Today, Asking Matters is an online community with an email audience of nearly 10,000, plus a membership of 350 and growing. The site offers free and fee-based fundraising tools and services, including workshops, individual coaching sessions and even $4 motivational pens sporting such slogans as "Ask for the World!" The site recently began selling Kihlstedt's latest book, Asking Styles: Harness Your Personal Fundraising Power.
In just three years, Asking Matters has achieved a positive cash flow. Kihlstedt anticipates that in its fourth year, the business will yield a decent income for Saber and her.
Here, Kihlstedt lays out the nine lessons she learned when she became an "accidental entrepreneur." They could help you avoid pitfalls if you choose to follow her path to launch an online business.
1. Just start. "I love the Internet because it's so easy to make a change to a website if you make a mistake. You can put an idea out there immediately and then simply correct it, if necessary. This gives me the courage to move ahead without feeling like I have to be perfect. 'Perfect' blocks your ability to simply dive in."
2. Learn as you go. "I had no experience in business startups, never mind an online business startup. So I had to learn about Web design, how to manage a website, online curriculum design, social media marketing and videography. I found online resources for many things, hired consultants for others and often relied on messy trial and error. I was learning so much every day, I felt like I had thrown myself into some kind of Harvard/MBA super-accelerated training program."
3. Understand that having a business partner is like being married. "Brian is almost 20 years younger than I am and we each have different skills and temperaments. Like a marriage, it's not always easy to accommodate our differences. Brian is more organized than I am and values consistency and strategic planning. I'm more of an innovator and a free spirit. We're a great team, but it's certainly not always easy."
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4. You can find plenty of free Internet applications for your business. "I knew that I wanted to develop and market an online fundraising course but didn't know how. I started asking young, tech-savvy people I knew for the best ways to present a course online and one of them told me about the free open-source platform, Moodle. It lets me create and present the course calendar and discussion forums. I also use Moodle to post course materials easily, with the 'Asking Matters' logo."


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Greenfield school to be sold, but major hurdles to be cleared
The former Chapman School will be sold for $2.5 million to $3.1 million, depending on how long it takes for rezoning and for the potential developer to buy additional properties needed.
The Greenfield School Board decided to sell the former school Monday, after being given authorization by a special meeting of electors earlier in the evening.
The buyer is BR Acquisitions of Wisconsin LLC, headed by developer Brian Riordan. The sale is contingent on getting the rezoning and acquiring the properties. Then a closing will take place and money will change hands.
But all that could take months or even a couple of years, school officials said. The price will go higher the longer it takes.
School officials say they don't know what Riordan has in mind for the property, but speculated that he would want to raze the former school at 8500 W. Chapman Ave.
Gun, ammunition sales in Greenfield might soon require public hearings
Stores that want to sell guns or ammunition might soon have to go through a public hearing to get a special use permit from the city.
The common council legislative committee has recommended a public hearing on changing Greenfield's zoning code to take gun and ammo sales out of the sporting goods store category. Such sales would be designated as special uses that would need a hearing and common council approval.
Changing the zoning will require a public hearing and council approval. A hearing is likely to be scheduled.
Initial Reaction Podcast: A look ahead to US Open 2017, look back at Champions Tour event in Madison
Lake Country/Now sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps. Find the podcast on Stitcher and iTunes.Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel sports columnist and golf writer Gary D'Amato stops by to chat about the next U.S. Open, to be hosted at Erin Hills Golf Course in Erin, Wisconsin. He also talks a little Bucks draft, and JP and JR focus on the selection of Thon Maker and the landing spots for former Wisconsin prep products Henry Ellenson and Diamond Stone. Plus, JP reports back from the inaugural PGA Tour Champions event, the American Family Insurance Championship, in Madison and the Kohler Grand Prix IndyCar race at Elkhart Lake. Each week,
West Allis pair confess to kidnapping, killing pregnant woman
Two West Allis residents who were pulled over by authorities in Colorado when they failed to dim their headlights have confessed to kidnapping and then killing a pregnant woman, according to charges filed Tuesday.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court:
Tiffany Simmons, 34, and Shanta Pearson, 44, were giving Tess White, 25, a ride to a mall when she and Simmons began to argue over whether White stole drugs from them.
White, in turn, was mad at Simmons for using her bank card to withdraw $200. Simmons and White fought in the back seat of Pearson's truck and Simmons pinned White down as Pearson tied her up while waiting for a drug delivery.
Simmons kept White tied up in the back of the truck where she tortured White before putting a plastic bag over her head and strangling her to death with a rope in a parking lot on National Ave. in West Allis. White was 10 weeks pregnant and was reported missing by her aunt on May 14.» Read Full Article
Preliminary West Allis school budget wipes out $4.2 million in red ink
A preliminary budget for the 2016-17 school year puts the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District back in the black after running $4.2 million in the red last year.
The preliminary budget got the nod Monday from the school board.
The turn-around was possible mainly because some payments don't need to be paid anymore and because of staffing changes, said Andrew Chromy, director of business services. Instead of a deficit, the district anticipates a $1.335 million surplus, he said. The deficit was the result of $14 million in overspending before the current school administration took over. Two audits confirmed that nothing illegal happened, but the overspending depleted the district's financial reserves.
The projected property tax levy is down from the previous year's levy, so the property tax rate for next year is expected to be 6 cents per $1,000 of full property value, which is normally a bit higher than the assessed value.
A budget hearing will be held in September and final school board approval is expected in October.
2016 Fourth of July events in the Milwaukee suburbs
From the North Shore, to Oak Creek and Franklin, to Wauwatosa and Brookfield and West Allis and New Berlin, and all of the other communities within the MyCommunity NOW coverage area, there are plenty of Fourth of July festivities to take part in. Below is a list separated by county and in alphabetical order of events planned to celebrate Independence Day 2016. If you know of an event you don't see listed below, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Celebrate the 4th of July in Humboldt Park, 3000 S. Howell Ave. This year's theme is joining hands for peace. No alcoholic beverages are allowed in Milwaukee County Parks without a permit. For the latest updates, visit www.city.milwaukee.gov/july4th.
9 to 10:15 a.m.: parade, starting at South Kinnickinnic Avenue and East Linus Street, proceeds to park.» Read Full Article
Bicycle ride share proposal could be rolling soon in West Allis
West Allis — Only five people came to give input at a recent meeting about proposed bike ride stations in West Allis where nine stations are envisioned.
Under the program, people can pick up a bicycle at one station and drop it off at another and pay for the ride time. The cost is $3 for 30 minutes, but passes offering substantial savings are available.
The bike share program is run by Bublr bikes in Milwaukee and planned for Shorewood and Wauwatosa. They and West Allis were approved for grants to cover most of the cost.
West Allis was approved for $399,360 in federal dollars in a competitive process. The city's share would be nearly $100,000, nearly all of it raised through private donations. No property tax money would be involved.
After the public meeting, consultant R.A. Smith National will firm up proposed bicycle locations and additional information.» Read Full Article
More decorative bike racks could add panache to West Allis locales
More decorative bicycle racks sporting the outline of a bicycle inside a gear that have appeared in downtown West Allis are likely to start appearing in other parts of the city as the city pursues beautification.
The common council approved exploring the cost of such racks and set aside $5,000 in grant money for purchase. The plan is for business owners who want the racks for in front of their establishments to buy the racks, so the financial impact for the city would be zero. Nearly a dozen business owners have expressed interest in having bike racks.
Anywhere from 15 to 20 decorative bike racks could be purchased. The city used similar grant money to place about 30 in the downtown area last year and earlier this year.
West Allis taps into tool to help get foreclosed properties fixed up
West Allis has joined what could be the vanguard of communities that are fighting blight by tapping into a database of bank foreclosures to get names of those responsible for maintaining foreclosed properties.
Banks often allow such properties to get run down and the city has trouble getting the banks to respond to calls on property maintenance issues, according to a news release announcing the new program. It is estimated that the city has about 500 foreclosed properties.
However, the new program will give the city a pipeline to property managers for each foreclosure and their contacts. That is available through a new partnership with Community Champions, a Florida-based company.
The program called proCHAMPS gathers registration information from banking institutions on foreclosures. That registration data contains contact information for property managers. The partnership will cost the city nothing.
West Allis Mayor Dan Devine launched the program that is the first in Wisconsin of its kind, the release said. West Allis joins more than 100 other communities around the country in tapping into the foreclosure database.» Read Full Article
West Allis hears 72nd Street residents who don't want bumpouts
There will be no bumpouts for 72nd Street, the West Allis Common Council decided after 70 residents of 72nd Street signed a petition protesting the bumpouts that cities use to help slow traffic.
Bumpouts are at intersections and they extend sidewalks into the street. Although they usually just close off parking lanes, they make the street seem narrower to drivers who then slow down. The bumpouts were planned as part of the city's resurfacing project from Cleveland Avenue to Kinnickinnic Parkway.
But the residents protested that speeding traffic is not a problem and they don't want the bumpouts.
"We heard them loud and clear," said committee chairman Alderman Gary Barczak. So, that stretch of 72nd Street will be resurfaced as a normal road, he said.
Also, no speed bumps will be contemplated, he said. West Allis doesn't install speed bumps because they are noisy, they can damage cars and they pose a problem for snow plows, he said.
West Allis helping fledgling craft brewery get started
The West Allis Common Council has approved a $35,000 loan to help a craft brewery get on its feet.
The Westallion Brewing Company would be the only one in the city.
Erik Dorfner plans to open the brewery Nov. 10 at about 72nd and Burnham streets. The loan using federal Community Development Block Grant money will be used to buy equipment and have working capital for the first months of operation. Dorfner has additional startup funding.
Alderman Kevin Haass, chairman of the Administration and Finance Committee that recommended the project, said a craft brewery is an amenity that helps set a city apart.
"We're trying to make the community attractive to young folks who like amenities like that," he said.
Burglaries at 10-year low in West Allis, robberies hit 10-year high
West Allis — With the West Allis Police Department publishing its 2015 annual report this month, there are some things that residents might like to know about crime in 2015.
- Burglaries were at a 10-year low.
- Robberies were at a 10-year high.
- Car thefts were just short of the 10-year high.
- Crimes against property were down 11 percent.
- Violent crime was up 10 percent.
Burglaries» Read Full Article
Man, 21, charged in fatal accident on 76th Street in Greenfield
A 21-year-old Greenfield man who was driving with a suspended license, according to Greenfield police, has been charged with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle after a fatal crash in the 4900 block of 76th Street in Greenfield.
The accident happened shortly before 6:30 p.m. April 17. Charged on June 17 was Shawn Graika who faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine, if convicted.
He is alleged to have been driving 73 mph two seconds before the crash, according to the criminal complaint. That information was downloaded from Graika's SUV sensing diagnostic module data recovery system.
Graika was southbound on 76th Street. He said the driver of the other car, Oscar Balli, pulled out from a parking lot and Graika hit the Balli car broadside. Balli was pronounced dead after being taken to Froedtert Hospital.
Graika is scheduled to make an initial court appearance July 12.
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Greenfield man charged in fatal crash
A Greenfield man has been charged with homicide by negligent use of a vehicle for a crash that killed another man in April, according to a criminal complaint.
Shawn Robert Graika, 21, is accused of driving 73 mph in a 35 mph zone when he struck a car driven by Oscar R. Balli, 64, of Milwaukee April 17 in the 4900 block of S. 76th St., according to the complaint.
Graika was driving an SUV southbound on S. 76th St. and had been swerving in and out of traffic before striking Balli's car when he pulled out of the parking lot of Barnes & Noble Booksellers, according to the complaint and Milwaukee police.
If convicted Graika could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison, according to the complaint.
The complaint and a summons ordering Graika to appear before a court commissioner July 12 was filed Friday, according to state court records.


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This is an English translation of one of the most intellectually important works in Western philosophy and political theory. It includes an extensive introduction, an extensive afterword "Imitation" by John White, a chapter-by-chapter outline of principal speakers and summary of the content, Stephanus numbers, boldface type to indicate the entrance of a new speaker into the discussion, footnotes, and glossary of key terms with cross-references for the text. This dialogue includes Socrates and others discussing the definition of justice, the theory of forms and the immortality of the soul. Plato uses numerous dialogues between Socrates and various characters in Athens to discuss the nature of government, including the nature of justice, the happiness of the just and the unjust man, the nature of rule in the ideal city-state, and other matters essential to understanding classical philosophy such as the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, poetry and the role of the philosopher in society. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato's immediate audience.
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Socrates: I went down yesterday to Piraeus with Glaucon, Ariston's son, to pray to the goddess, wanting at the same time also to see the way they were going to hold the festival, since they were now conducting it for the first time. The parade of the local residents seemed to me to be beautiful, while the one that the Thracians put on looked no less appropriate. And having prayed and having seen, we went off toward the city. Spotting us from a distance then as we headed home, Polemarchus, Cephalus's son, ordered his slave to run and order us to wait for him. And grabbing me from behind by my cloak, the slave said "Polemarchus orders you to wait." And I turned around and asked him where the man himself was. "He's coming along from behind," he said. "Just wait." "Certainly we'll wait" said Glaucon.


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ZF-39: Zend_Db_Table For Update
I would like to suggest allowing the fetch/find methods of Zend_Db_Table to accept a $forUpdate boolean parameter.
That is in Zend_Db_Table:
function find($val) // would become
function find($val, $forUpdate = false)
function fetchRow($where = null, $order = null) // would become
function fetchRow($where = null, $order = null, $forUpdate = false)
function fetchAll($where = null, $order = null, $count = null, $offset = null) // would become
function fetchAll($where = null, $order = null, $count = null, $offset = null, $forUpdate = false)
Note: Zend_Db_Table::find() would especially benefit from this syntax.
This would make it much easier for developpers to keep database integrity and would also make the Zend_Db_Table more widely accepted.
There should also be support for SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE, and the corresponding locking modes in SQLite ( http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html ), and similar for the other adapters. This issue is closely related to, and overlaps with, [ZF-40], although I believe [ZF-40] should be a higher priority.
Changing fix version to 0.8.0.
Recategorize as Zend_Db_Table component.
'FOR UPDATE' can now be passed to a Zend_Db_Table find/fetch operation by passing the Zend_Db_Table_Select query. See ZF1.5 PR1 or newer.


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ERIE, Pa – Mercyhurst rallied for four goals in
the thid period to defeat Syracuse 4-1 Saturday and claim the
College Hockey America 2013 Championship.
Sophomore Caroline
Luczak's power-play goal in the third period proved
to be the game-winner. Mercyhurst improved to 28-6-1 this season
while Syracuse finished its season with an overall record of
The first period was scoreless as the Lakers outshot Syracuse 10 to 4. Both teams had two power-play opportunities, but were unsuccessful.
Syracuse scored its only goal late in a penalty-filled second period. Syracuse forced a penalty late in the period and pressed the attack in the Mercyhurst zone. Defenseman Brittney Krebs elevated the puck toward the goal and forward Shiann Darkangelo deflected it past Mercyhurst goaltender Stephanie Ciampa just before the buzzer. Syracuse outshot Mercyhurst 9-7 in the middle period and headed into the dressing room with all the momentum.
Four minutes into the third, however, sophomore defensemen Molly Byrne picked up a loose puck in the slot and fired it past Syracuse netminder Kallie Billadeau to even the score. Junior captain Christine Bestland and freshman Jenna Dingeldein had the helpers.
Syracuse was also penalized on the play, giving the Lakers an extra attacker for the next two minutes. At the tail end of the power-play, senior Gina Buquet battled for the puck in the offensive zone and cycled it to senior Lauren Jones. Jones then found defenseman Luczak open at the point. Luczak's rising slap shot found the top left corner of the net for her second goal of the season.
Later in the period, and with Mercyhurst down a player, Bestland cleared the puck and skated past the Syracuse defense to create a one-on-one with goaltender Kallie Billadeau. Bestland sneaked the puck past Billadeau for her first short-handed goal of the season and a two-goal Mercyhurst lead.
Syracuse pulled Billadeau with about 90 seconds left, but junior Christie Cicero shot the puck into the empty-net to complete the 4-1 win.
The Lakers outshot Syracuse 31-to-21. Syracuse finished 1 for 9 on the power-play while the Lakers were 1 for 7.
Senior Stephanie Ciampa picked up her tenth straight win in goal for the Lakers. She made 19 saves on 20 shots and improved to 19-1-0 in the season.
Billadeau finished her season with a record of 16-9-0 in net for Syracuse. She made 27 saves.
Four Mercyhurst Lakers were named to the 2013 CHA All-Tournament Team. Ciampa was named to the All-Tournament squad and picked up the Tournament MVP Award as well for her efforts throughout the weekend. She picked up two wins, stopping 44 of 46 shots.
Senior forward Lauren Jones joined Bestland and senior Stephanie DeSutter on the All-Tournament Team. Jones tallied the first goal in the 2-1 win over Robert Morris on Friday and continued her scoring streak with two helpers against Syracuse. Bestland tallied two goals and an assist in the playoffs, while DeSutter collected two assists and helped the defense surrender only two goals in 120 minutes.
Complete CHA All-Tournament Team:
MVP- Stephanie Ciampa, Mercyhurst, G
Forward - Christine Bestland, Mercyhurst
Forward - Lauren Jones, Mercyhurst
Forward - Sadie St. Germain, Syracuse
Defense - Stephanie DeSutter, Mercyhurst
Defense - Brittney Krebs - Syracuse
Goaltender - Stephanie Ciampa, Mercyhurst


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Credit: Eugene Water & Electric
The Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) is Oregon's largest customer-owned utility. Founded in 1911 and chartered by the City of Eugene as a municipal utility with a separate elected board, EWEB provides electricity and water to more than 87,000 customers.
The award-winning utility relies on 224 vehicles, ranging from hybrid passenger cars to digger derricks to cranes to bucket, dump, troubleshooter, and vacuum trucks to manage water mains, pipelines, electricity substations, and electric lines supplying 7.8 billion gallons of water and 2.93 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually.
The utility uses ArcGIS ArcMap to visually display where water and power outages occur throughout its 236-square-mile service area. Fleet Services Supervisor Gary Lentsch was given the task of finding an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system that would easily integrate with Esri's enterprise mapping-and-asset-management software.
With so many products available on the market, Lentsch decided to look for what was available through the National Joint Powers Alliance, a cooperative-purchasing service that serves 50,000 U.S. government agencies and educational institutions. After evaluating the options, he chose Verizon Networkfleet because it integrates with Esri products, was competitively priced, and provides training and support.
"It takes a lot of staff time to create bids and review documents from vendors," says Lentsch. "We saved a lot of time using national contract purchasing because these contracts have already been negotiated on behalf of government agencies."
Fleet Services began installing Networkfleet's 5000 series GPS units on every vehicle, plus construction equipment like backhoes and excavators, in November 2012 and was finished by January 2013.
Agency: Eugene Water & Electric Board, Eugene, Ore.
No. of water customers: 51,628
No. of electricity customers: 87,277
No. of vehicles: 224
Vehicle tracking software: Verizon Networkfleet
Year-over-year stats
Fuel usage down 17.3%
Miles driven down 18%
Vehicle incidents involving damage down 47%
$75,000 annual savings
"We let everybody know up front what was going on," he says.
Because Fleet Services had tracked quarterly mileage, engine hours, and gallons of fuel used per vehicle before the deployment, Lentsch had an established performance baseline. No one was more surprised when he compared second quarter 2012 with second quarter 2013 results.
"I was probably the biggest skeptic about whether we could save money using GPS, but I've been proven wrong," he says.
"Notifying the operator when a unit was installed immediately made a positive impact on driving behavior," he says. "In addition, managers and supervisors are using this tool to make their operations more efficient and impose a higher level of accountability for idling and unnecessary trips."
Managers and supervisors were unable to accurately track idle time before, but now chart it weekly. When high idle times are reported, they work with their employees to reduce idling and unnecessary trips—one reason for significant fuel savings.
They can also run a report on how many days every month a particular vehicle is used. Since the deployment, 19 vehicles have been returned to Fleet Service's inventory because of low utilization. Three are assigned to other utility divisions. The remaining 16 were sent to the surplus auction. Based on average life cycle and asset cost, that will save $75,000 annually.
The ArcGIS map shows where utility poles, transformers, waterlines, and water mains are located. Utility managers locate and dispatch vehicles closest to an outage or break, saving time and lowering the number of miles driven. The utility is in the process of tying this information into its work management system (FleetFocus by AssetWorks) to make crews even more productive.
"As a public utility, we're stewards of the community and of the public's money," says Lentsch. "The GPS system fits with our culture of accountability and sustainability. We focus on running our fleet better and utilizing our fleet the right way. That's just smart management."
Chris Ransom is director of sales engineering for Verizon Networkfleet. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. For more, visit www.networkfleet.com.
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Kimi Eklund had a vision when she set out to create her bistro at Solitude, a personal vision. "Having the ability of sharing my life's passion in a setting as magnificent as Solitude is absolutely a dream come true," she says.
But it was a special culinary partnership with Chef Matt Anderson that helped her create a unique mountain dining experience.
"With Chef Anderson by my side, life can't get much better," she says. "His creativity and dedication are the keys in helping me realize my vision for kimi's."
The philosophy behind kimi's is based on the cornerstones of forest, lake and meadow as backdrop for showcasing a variety of regional Utah cuisine.
"Our gastronomic vision is a modern interpretation of mountain-inspired cuisine embellished by new and old European techniques and textures," Eklund says. "We always strive for uncomplicated, yet inspiring solutions. Our mountainside locale, fresh herbs, flowers, lounge chairs by the cozy firepits and our friendly local wildlife, all await your visit."
"Chef Matt and I would love for you to join us at kimi's for an exquisite dining experience. Whether you are looking for a business luncheon or dinner, a Saturday night out with the girls, an elaborate wedding nestled in the mountains, a casual lunch while skiing, a Sunday get-a-way brunch kimi's will be able to satisfy all of your needs with our variety of menu selections!
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100: People with a full sentence as their MSN name. Terrible spelling mixed with the fact that only four or so words fit on the little box means that the meaning is not only lost, but the frequent changes of the sentences means that it's hard for the people who you actually like to talk to to recognize you.
99: Quest for Fire by Iron Maiden: I just hate it.
98: People who are actually addicted to WoW: If you've played the game you know what I'm talking about. The kinda people who ignore anyone under lvl 70, the people who have at least three twinked 70s on the server, the people who spend more time on the game than they spend sleeping, eating, and on the toilet combined.
97: Arrogent dicks: I talk to people who have no fucking clue how stupid they are thanks to my glorious job. I get a kick out of subtly showing them, but it's an empty victory usually. We get people in there with TVs that have no composite jacks, the red, white, and yellow plugs like on a dvd player or a PS2. They started making these kinda tvs back in 1984, I know this because MY COMMODORE 64 HAS A FUCKING AV JACK!!! These people don't see the need for a new tv and complain that the RF modulator is $30. So then they buy some random crap that I know for a fact won't work, then they return it and blame the dude who told them NOT to buy it. I could go into the people who don't know what a modem is, people who think that the phone line connects into the hard drive, people who don't have a computer, and all their very justified reasons for their beliefs, but I think I've beat this horse enough.
96: Cell phone ringtones: They cost $4 each and they only last a month, God bless Capitolism.
95: Selling Sprint cell phones: The bad sides, people always want fancy packages that require you to jump through endless hoops, it takes 2-3 hours out of your life for maybe $10, and you just gotta love the customers when they get impatient. The good sides? It beats pointing people to the ink cartridges over and over.
94: Cell phone customers: Radioshack has recently dropped Verizon cell phones. For the spoiled assholes who get slightly inconvienced by this, it's like we told them we don't serve niggers (most people who cause this much shit are black people on welfare, I shall mention them much, much higher on the list) and they throw a fit. They act as if we grunts are the reason they have to drive a whole 10 more minutes to get their phones and thus we have to politely tell them to go pound sand up their asses.
93: McDonalds: They just inspire loathing.
92. Best Buy: We're drawn in by their promises of low prices, but are lied to, cattle-chuted in, and forced to buy overpriced computer equipment.
91. High gas milage cars. Just cause it gets 100mpg does not mean that it's 0-60 time of 12 seconds is something you can overlook.
90. The Gameboy Micro: Oh we love the gameboy, the gameboy pocket was okay, the gameboy color was god on earth, the gameboy advace was...meh, the gameboy SP was awesome, but this thing is unneeded, especially with the DS out. I hate it and it's overly ambituous nature.
89. Walmart: Also known as the Fortress of Capitolism, it's name is decieving. It's really a communist plot. Yes, Walmart is communist. Low prices for all? What next, free hammers and sickles? It's going down the same road as Circuit City.
88: Circuit City: Communist HQ. Low prises and prompt sevice for all is not the American way those pinko bastards.
87: Google. They're watching you right now, they're bigger than microsoft, they're more classy than apple, and they've got more porn than xnxx. Soon we'll be running Google OS and all sorts of glorious things like that. They also bug your computer with their desktop search.
86: Valentines Day. Oh everyone loves to get together with the ones they love, but who was the shithead who thought to devote an entire holiday to the idea of being with you're lover and not include the single people too?
85. Emos: People bitch about them, they bitch about people. They dress weird, but so does every other highschooler. They complain about every damn little thing, and people complain that they complain about every damn little thing. I think if we were to ignore them they'd blend right back in with the swirling masses, which is what they basicly say they're doing anyway.
84. People who type in all caps: CAPS LOCK IS NOT CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!
83. People who type in all caps and don't even write the king's english: It's bad enough to abuse the caps key, it's worse to use numbers and symbols in place of letters. Nothing is more degrading than "OMFG liek Im sooooo pwning'd dis n00b on WoW lmao he jus ttryd to get awa ybut I gank'd hs ass!!!11"
82. Working 9 hours on Saturday: My job is boring, exhausting, repetitive, and sometimes my coworkers can be unsavory. That's true of just about any retail job...which is why I loate retail. Being forced to endure 9 hours of this just isn't worth it.
81. CRACKA CRAZY!!!: It's moved down on my list, but I still hate it.
80. Noobs: OMG LIEK HOW DOS I PUT IN MA BANNARZZ!!??
79. People who bitch about noobs. OMFG STFU U STUPID NOOB!!!
78. RIIIIIPPPPPDDOOOO: Just had to be said. Could be the next Leroy Jenkins or Khan if we try.
77. People who try to be black, but are not: You know who you are...*looks at himself*
76. People who hate people who try to be black regardless of whether or not they succeed: You know who you are...*looks at his WoW guild*
75. Bush: First he sends us off to war with no plan as to what we're gonna do other than run around killing people, then he invades our privacy with a myriad of new laws and precautions, now he just fucked us outta hundreds if not thousands of jobs from the whole port issue.


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Norma Lindstrom Rowe, age 77, of Middletown, DE passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 9, 2012, at her home.
Norma was born on November 13, 1935, daughter of the late Horace and Erma (Critchfield) Lindstrom, and was raised in Maple Shade, New Jersey. She spent most of her adult life residing in Worton, MD and later in Laurel, MD. Norma moved to Middletown in 2003 to be closer to her brother.
After 40+ years Norma retired as a Project Manager from the U.S. Government, Department of Agriculture. Norma enjoyed shopping, sewing, crafts and spending time with her family. She was giving and generous to those less fortunate.
Norma was predeceased by her parents, her husband, James Robert "Mike" Rowe in 2001, and her sister, Carol Mason, in November 2012.
She is survived by her brother, Robert (Judy) Lindstrom, her sister, Linda Lindstrom, both of Maple Shade, NJ, and her brother, Duane Lindstrom (Kathy) and their children, Kyle, Corey and Alex Lindstrom and Matthew and Meghan Logullo, all of Middletown. She is also survived by many other nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Norma's family wishes to thank the doctors and nurses at the Helen F. Graham Cancer, her caregiver, Samantha Gallaher and Visiting Angel, Sandra Thornton for guiding us on this journey; we will be forever grateful.
Funeral services will be held 11 am on Saturday, December 15, at Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home LLC, 212 N. Broad Street in Middletown, where friends may visit with her family from 10:00-11:00 am. Interment will follow in Still Pond Cemetery, Still Pond, MD.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, 4701 Ogletown-Stanton Rd, Suite 3400, Newark, DE 19713.
Arrangements by Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home LLC, Middletown, DE
On-line condolences may be sent to www.daniels-hutchison.com.
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"A Place in My Heart" by Taylor McFerrin and Ryat has been on heavy rotation in our office for months, so we're thrilled to see some visuals. They're guaranteed to be good, coming from the best new West Coast record label, Brainfeeder, owned by Flying Lotus who's just made his own very successful foray into directing music videos with Erykah Badu's "Gone, Baby…" and Bilal's "Levels".


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Leg Tilt Series for Any Wrestler
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