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San Diego Pharmacy Pays $105,000 Penalty for Illegitimately Dispensing Opioids
SAN DIEGO – San Diego's Balboa Pharmacy has paid $105,000 to resolve allegations that it illegally dispensed opioids and other dangerous drugs to its patients, according to a settlement agreement signed by Balboa Pharmacy and the United States. The settlement stems from the United States' continued efforts to combat the...
Pain Clinic Doctor and Staff Member Charged with Unlawful Distribution of Opioids
TAMPA, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the return of an indictment charging Dr. Qing McGaha (55, Tampa) with conspiracy to commit unlawful distribution of controlled substances and unlawful distribution of controlled substances for no legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice, as...
Former Long Island Doctor Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Causing the Overdose Deaths of Two patients and Illegally Distributing Oxycodone
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Michael Belfiore, a former medical doctor, was sentenced by United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 23 years in prison for the illegal distribution of oxycodone causing the deaths of two patients and the illegal distribution of...
Naples Doctor Who Operated a Pill Mill Sentenced to Three Years in Federal Prison
FORT MYERS, Fla. – U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Gerald Michael Abraham, 76, of Naples, Florida. to three years in federal prison for dispensing controlled substances (oxycodone and amphetamine) for no legitimate medical purpose. The court also ordered Abraham to forfeit the following items to the United...
Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Distributing Opioids at His Pain Management Clinic
MIAMI – A Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawfully distributing opioids at his pain management clinic in Miami, Florida. According to court documents, Habib Geagea Palacios, 40, of Miami, owned a cash-only pain management clinic in Miami, Florida named General Care Center, Inc. At General Care Center, Palacios paid...
Federal Court Orders Tampa Pharmacy to Close in Case Alleging Unlawful Opioid Distribution
MIAMI - A federal court in Florida ordered a Tampa-area pharmacy shut down and prohibited two of its employees from ever owning, managing or operating any business where controlled substances are dispensed. Pursuant to an agreed consent judgment and permanent injunction filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District...
Long Island Doctor Convicted of Illegal Distribution of Oxycodone
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict this afternoon against Frank Parasmo, a medical doctor with an office in Deer Park, on 31 counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription painkiller, and one count of unlawfully distributing hydrocodone, all without a...
Former Long Island Doctor Sentenced for Conspiring to Illegally Distribute Oxycodone
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tameshwar Ammar, a former medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley to five years' imprisonment for conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. In June 2020, Ammar relinquished his license to...
San Diego Doctor Pays $200,000 to Resolve Allegations that He Wrote Illegitimate Opioid Prescriptions
SAN DIEGO – San Diego area pain clinic doctor Brenton Wynn, M.D., has paid $200,000 to resolve allegations that he illegally prescribed opioids and other dangerous drugs to his patients, according to a settlement agreement signed by Dr. Wynn and the United States. The settlement stems from the United States'...
Long Island Dentist Arrested
BROOKLYN, NY – An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging Dr. Barry Arnold, a practicing dentist with an office in Valley Stream, New York, with writing illegal prescriptions to women for oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and alprazolam ("Xanax"), a Schedule IV controlled substance...


How much do you really know about shower? Most people would think that they know much about shower by saying it is just the shower head installed on the bathtub enclosure. If you were one of those saying that, then you need more information about shower because in fact you know just a little bit about shower. For your information, there are more about shower than just the thing called shower head. Shower today; it could be installed separately from the bathtub. For some purposes, like optimizing the space, versatility, and aesthetical upgrade, people install the shower at different spot, away from the bathtub. If you had a plan to change the decoration of your bathing spot, then you should read on this article. We have gathered information about the pros and cons of open and closed showers for you.
The first obvious thing we can see about the pros and cons of open and closed showers is the visual aspect. For those who prefer extra privacy while bathing, the enclosed can give that to you. The wall option is ranging from the fully transparent, semi-transparent, or etched glass. All those three types of glass will protect our privacy during our bath time. However, there is something lacking about the glass wall of enclosed shower. We have to clean it sometime to keep it clear. The mixture of water and soap or shampoo that is splashed on the glass can spoil the glass, and then build crust. When this happens, the glass will lose its aesthetic additional value if we did not do the prevention. In the meantime, open shower offers better view to homeowner. We can feel the experience of bathing in huge bathroom. Other than that, this type of bathroom can bring the experience of bathing in expensive hotel and luxurious spa. Unfortunately, the luxurious temptation offered by open shower does not make it the most preferable shower because we will lose the privacy. We would feel unprotected while bathing in open shower.
The second thing that separates open shower from closed shower is the functionality. Closed shower for once again offers better secure feeling than the opposite side. Closed shower allows for several users to share the bathroom. Other than that, shower with barrier will provide you with extra space to store toiletries. In the meantime, the open shower does not offer high level of security. The users will be easily exposed when using this kind of shower, and thus it can be frequently found at public facility like swimming pools or at the beach. Open shower can be easily found at homes that the users need "zero entry", elderly and disables for instances.
Which one do you prefer? You are the only person can answer this question because it is totally user's preference. Every type of shower has pros and cons. They both offer different experience, and no one here can really make judgment over which one is better between the closed shower and open shower.


When things aren't going as we want, it's easy to take on a VICTIM mentality and begin to think that we are solely a product of our place, position, environment, or circumstances. We lead ourselves to believe that we have little control over what's really happened to us or around us...or our ability to improve things!
When we do, we don't realize it, but unconsciously this is just a way to excuse ourselves from taking personal responsibility for our actions, environment, or our progress.
Remember this: We are not responsible for what we don't have and we can't do.
It's a great day in our life, our ministry, or our organization when we stop focusing on what you don't have and what we can't do, and start focusing on what we do have and what we can do!
Let me ask you a question: What DO you have? What CAN you do?
You aren't responsible for that. You are only responsible for what you have, and what you have is enough if God is in it.
Don't be a victim. Take responsibility for what you do have and what you can do. Stop make excuses and do something!
Right now, decide that you will no longer be held captive by your past limitations. Stop blaming your parents, your predecessor, your president, your pastor, your CEO, or your boss.
Stop making excuses because of your position, or location, lack of resources, or lack of experience. Scarcity breeds creativity!
Stop placing expectations on yourself that God hasn't placed on you. You're not responsible for talents and resources you do not possess!
You are 100% responsible for what you can do and you do have.
Stop making excuses! Start being faithful where you are and with what you already have. God will do the rest. Trust me on this... and let me know how this goes today!


The Academic Fieldwork Coordinator for the KVCC is responsible for the program's compliance with ACOTE fieldwork education requirements and student requirements (immunizations, background checks and CPR, etc.), for assessing quality of sites, for coordinating contracts, and for working with students to ensure "the best fit" for each student's educational needs.
KVCC has in excess of 150 FW sites. This raw number is adequate to meet the needs of all students but not all contracted settings accept OTA students annually. All KVCC OTA students participate in five fieldwork experiences in total (including level I and II). No student will attend any setting/facility twice. At this time no student should expect FW outside of Maine due to legal limitations.
Level I FW at KVCC OTA consists of 3 one-week experiences in a variety of settings. It is primarily observation with limited participation. Level I Fieldwork occurs during the summer session between the first and second years. Level I Fieldwork is a 2 credit course and is imbedded in the 5 week intensive summer semester with OTS 107 and OTS 109. Some students may need to complete COM 104 in the summer semester as well. This is typically completed after the 5 week OTA program intensive. Students must successfully complete all semester 1 and semester 2 coursework and must register for this summer course prior to its commencement.
FWII consists of a minimum of 16 weeks' full-time Level II fieldwork (2 separate eight-week fieldwork experiences) during the spring semester of the second year. These may be completed on a part-time basis as defined by the fieldwork placement in accordance with the fieldwork placements usual and customary personnel policies as long as it is at least 50% of a full-time equivalent at that site.
During Level II Fieldwork students will participate as entry-level OTAs with duties and skills commensurate with service competency. The Level II Fieldwork experiences are in two different settings. It is not customary to have a Level I and Level II experience at the same site. Students may participate in one (1) non-traditional experience.
All OTA students must complete Level II Fieldwork following completion of academic preparation. Fieldwork Level II is only offered spring semester.
A student who fails either OTS 206 or OTS 208 can complete the FWII the following spring semester; other options may be considered for those who have withdrawn for health reasons or other extenuating circumstances. This process takes approval from the Academic Dean.
The fieldwork component(s) of the Occupational Therapy Assistant program are to be undertaken only by those students who: a.) have successfully completed all academic prerequisite course work; b.) who are current with immunizations; c.) who are currently CPR certified; d.) who have completed State of Maine (DOE) fingerprinting and independent background check with success and e.) who have demonstrated adequate performance in all of the Essential Performance Skills (EPS) including: academic, professionalism, self-awareness, and an ability to work with others (as noted in Essential Performance Skills and through the rubric standards).
Immunization, background check and fingerprinting tracking and CPR deadlines are student responsibilities. It is recommended that all checks, immunizations and CPR certification be completed prior to the start of the first semester. All checks, immunizations and CPR certification by the end of the first academic semester.
*OTA Faculty holds the right and responsibility to assess and determine all realms of FW readiness, academic professional including EPS, for each student. This is a collaborative effort between each student and faculty based on essential skills of an OTA student at KVCC. The process is outlined in this OTA student handbook.
Students must be aware that placement assignments are not guaranteed and may require reassignment to a different placement at any time before or during a Fieldwork rotation. Fieldwork placements are developed through a collaborative process between the fieldwork site, student, and fieldwork coordinator. Priority is given to educational need, experience, and availability of sites.
Fieldwork education centers throughout New England are used by the OTA program. Students may have to commute a distance to a fieldwork site or assume a temporary residence. Students are responsible for accessing and/or providing their own travel and living expenses. In some cases, housing and/or meals are provided at no charge or at a discount by the fieldwork site. While not a requirement, students are strongly advised to have a car available.
KVCC OTA Program requires fingerprinting and/or background checks for student participation in both FW I and FW II. This requirement corresponds with the demands of FW sites. These checks are at the student's expense. Expenses may change at any time.
It is important to note that a Felony Conviction may make a student ineligible to complete Level I and or Level II FW.


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My name is Quin Amorim, and I started the QA Selling Online podcast in 2017.
The podcast is, just like the title says, about selling online, eCommerce in general, but with a bigger focus on selling on Amazon.
As a creator of private label brands and being an Amazon FBA seller myself, I'm very passionate about anything related to selling products over the internet.
I run this show from my home office in Canada, and often get visited by my twins, as you can see in the picture.
As of December 2018, QA Selling Online passed the 50K downloads per month!
I started selling online in 1997, way before it was cool to sell online.
If you are going to take action, make sure you are taking the right action, and finish the steps of that action.
One day I saw some wooden statues for sale on a window display of a store, they were hand carved statues of people and animals. I wanted to buy every single one for myself, but the reality is that I couldn't afford a single one.
What I did back in 1997, today would be called a weird form of Dropshipping, but I didn't know the term, so I called it "Selling the Picture" because the picture was the only thing I owned at the time.
My mindset finally changed to be more "GIVE" instead of "GIVE ME" and I fell in love with the idea of helping others.
When I started my podcast, I still had my Facebook account private, my Instagram Private, had never used my Twitter account and my Linkedin didnt even have a Picture!
But after a life changing event that forced me and my family out of my home for 45 days, I developed a huge passion for helping others as they helped me, and it was such an amazing feeling.
As per that life changing event, it was just like something out of a "end of the world" movie… I was involved in the most expensive catastrophe in Canadian history!
A fire that destroyed 3200 buildings worth $3.6 Billion and burned 1.5 Million acres in the oil city of Fort McMurray.
When things got out of control, the government executed a mandatory city evacuation, and 90K people had to squeeze out of town through a single one lane highway , to the nearest city 500km away!
The mandatory evacuation lasted 45 days, and only after that was the population allowed back to see what was left.
During those 45 days, thousands of people all over the world shared their support with the habitants of Fort McMurray, and the feeling was overwhelming.
Since the only thing I had was one SUV packed with clothes, wife, kids the cat and nothing else, I had lots and lots of time to think about stuff I had never thought about. Like, the meaning of life, law of attraction, being pretty much homeless and having the best time of my life traveling the country for 45 days.
Believe it or not, I watched a YouTube video of how to launch a podcast!
Since I already had a VPS server that I rent for about $100 a month, I just created a WordPress site with the domain qasellingonline.com downloaded a free plugin called PowerPress, downloaded the free Audacity podcasting software, and bought an $80 USB microphone.
For the first 2 months the average was 60 downloads per episode, and then something exciting started to happen. The number of listeners started to triple every week, and now it continues to grow week after week.
The one thing I didn't learn on the video, was that during your first 20 or 30 episodes, you become VERY judgemental of your own voice, and it would take me 1 hour to edit a 10-minute episode. Now I've stopped caring about how I sound and, on top of that, I even outsource the sound editing.
The initial costs were pretty minimal, but as time goes by, and I create 5 episodes per week, the costs start to multiply. The MP3 size of each episode ads to disc space and the Bandwidth increases through the roof the more listeners I get, plus I have 2 part time VAs, for sound editing and sometimes for show notes.
As for the content for the show, my first episodes were reading questions that I had received from Facebook groups, and answering them on the air.
After I while I ran out of questions, and just started thinking of all the small things that I struggled with, and that now I thought were obvious.
Only after the first 100 episodes I started to receive requests to interview experts in certain fields, and it helped grow faster, so in 2019 I want to interview everyone!
Although my story may sound like it was super easy, for several weeks I was the only listener. I could double the number of downloads simply by playing my show on more than one iPhones hahaha.
For the launch, I thought I was going to do something that most other podcasters wouldn't do. Create Facebook Ad campaigns, sales funnels, show social proof, pixel the site visitors and retarget them after every new episode, and several other techniques that we all use in eCommerce.
Although that works in most product launches, it had minimal effect for the podcast launch, and the marketing campaign failed to generate the buzz I expected.
I couldn't understand why that would work to sell a product, but now that I was giving something away for free, people would not download or subscribe to the podcast.
In 2017, this exact marketing technique generated 34 Million views to a product Ad campaign, and generated $118K in sales in 4 days, with an Ad spend of $57!
You can be the most experienced marketer, plumber, electrician, or even a designer, but if nobody knows you exist, nobody will ask for your services.
In order to grow my listener base, since I didn't have 2 or 3 million followers, I simply had to offer good content, in a consistent basis and using good SEO on titles and description so I could be found by search.
One last thing I've done to retain the audience, is offer the content without any sales pitches or advertising. Not even to my own services!
On several podcasts I've listened too, some have up to 4 minutes of ads just on the intro alone. And, I understand that most podcasters have the podcast as their source of income, therefor place ads on the show, and I agree 100% with that, although as a listener I don't like ads so I decided to make the QA Selling Online Podcast absolutely Ad free, even from my own products and services.
Some podcasts sound like webinars for a sales course, where the listener is not 100% sure if that tool, or product is being recommended because it really works, or if it's because the host will get a kickback.
That's another reason I don't allow sales on the show.
The show doesn't make any revenue directly, but indirectly it generates influence, partnerships and even several brands that have reached out for me to manage their Amazon seller accounts.
Even though I lose money to air the podcast every day, in the long run, it's a very good investment for my personal brand.
Since QA Selling Online is available on all platforms, the goal for 2019, is to have more guests on the show, instead of solo episodes, and reach 1 million downloads.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but after doing a couple hundred episodes you start to get complacent and forget to press the record button.
This applies to any business situation, I learned that it doesn't matter how much of an expert you are at something, you should always have operating procedures and a checklist.
As for a real advantage, I keep checking Google trends to see what the newest and next big thing is, then I see it that trend can fit in my niche and by bringing up the subject, I can use it in the title of the episode.
QA Selling Online Podcast is currently available on all Podcast platforms. From iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Soundcloud, Spreaker, and even Alexa.
I want to give advice that doesn't apply to everybody.
What happens today in most cases is that some entrepreneurs take too much action!
Or better yet, take too many actions before finishing the previous action.
I often see entrepreneurs working with 20 to 30 open tabs on a computer and they want to do every single task at the same time, even if they are not even from related projects.
Sitting in front of a computer switching through tabs is doing lots, but not getting lots done.
So, my advice is, If you are going to take action, make sure you are taking the right action, and finish the steps of that action.


In this episode of Drop and Give Me 20, Lindsey interviews Britni Miltner of Oak Tree Network and Channel Milbourne of Milspo Biz Connect. With the new talk show format, they discuss about building your network, their experiences on networking, and some tips on how to grow your network.
Britni Miltner is the owner of Oak Tree Network. It was created to encourage military spouse entrepreneurship and to connect local spouses with service Talents to share with other nearby military spouses.


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Q: jquery sortable and droppable - cannot append the drop item? I want to append the dropped item into the targeted droppable box from the sortable list, but I cannot append the dropped item into the specific element.
My jquery,
$(".sortable").sortable({
    update: function(){
    // php update.
    }
}).disableSelection();

$( ".droppable" ).droppable({
    activeClass: "ui-state-hover",
    hoverClass: "ui-state-active",
    drop: function( event, ui ) {

        var targetElem = $(this).attr("id");

        $( this )
            .addClass( "ui-state-highlight" )
            .find( "p" )
            .html( "Dropped! inside " + targetElem );

            alert(targetElem);

        var container = $( this ).find( "ul.dropped-items" ).css({border:"blue solid 1px"});

        container.append(ui.draggable.clone());

        ui.draggable.remove();

    }
});

The dropped item should be appended into this element,
<ul class="dropped-items">
</ul>

But it just not happening. What have I missed and how can I make it work?
jsfiddle test page.

A: You could removing the absolute position styling on the element:
Javascript
...
container.append(ui.draggable.clone().css({position: 'relative', left: 0, top: 0, width: 'auto', height: 'auto'}));
...

Demo
Or, add the styling in to do the same:
CSS
.dropped-items li {
    position: relative !important;
    top: 0 !important;
    left: 0 !important;
    width: auto !important;
    height: auto !important;
}

Demo

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In May of 1940, half a million British and French soldiers were trapped in on three sides by German forces. They had their back to the sea, and the Germans seemed intent on pushing them right into it. But then the call went out all over the English coast for ship owners to come bring their boats to save these stranded soldiers. And they came, by the hundreds. In total 861 ships set sail for the shores of France, for the beaches of Dunkirk, including hundreds of small fishing boats and pleasure craft. This is one of the most stirring examples of courage, in a war that was filled with them, because this the most ordinary sort of courage - ordinary courage these were ordinary men the soldiers' old neighbors, their fathers and hometown friends heading out into danger simply because they were needed. They brought back more than 300,000 soldiers.
That's the story this little picture book sets out to tell, and it is quite a story. The author tells it from the perspective of a fisherman's daughter, who, because she is a seasoned sailor, goes along with her father and their little ship, the Lucy. This is a read-out-loud book, as the author Louise Borden lays out lyrical sentences - this isn't poetry, but it has a clear cadence and rhythm that springs up from the page.
The illustrations are water colors, which ably captures the mood and the scene, but the pictures themselves are not that eye catching - the colors are all muted. That's one reason I think this book may have to be read twice to be appreciated: it is a book about quiet courage, and the pictures are quiet too. But the text, read aloud, and the somber tones of the illustrations have a cumulative impact. It really hits you in the end. But the worry is that children might stop after only a few pages.
So to conclude, this is a great book for a teacher to read out loud to their class. There is a fair amount of text per page, and the intense story line also makes this a book best suited for Grade 2 or older, and while they may not be wild about it at the start, I'm confident they'll appreciate it, and the courage of these hundreds of ordinary men, by the time they get to the end.


Being able to see to thread the small eye of a needle, has always been one of the most challenging tasks when sewing. It becomes even more frustrating if the thread color has to be changed frequently like a needlework project. I have been purchasing and using the inexpensive Dritz Needle Threaders for decades. They are easily some of the most necessary items in my sewing basket and craft organizers.
I was recently making a costume when I realized how much I actually needed a sewing machine needle threader too.
Out of desperation, I grabbed my Dritz Needle Threader, reshaped the wire thread holder and, viola', the job was done quickly.
From now on, I will always keep a supply of Dritz Needle Threaders in my sewing machine cabinet.
Long before my moment of crisis, companies realized the need for sewing machine threaders. Today, there are several options available for purchase.
Dritz needle threaders have been my go-to for as long as I can remember. I just can't imagine not having one handy. I didn't even realize there were other options. Now, I have to go check them out. One can never have too many needle threaders!


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My mother and I left Cuba on April 12, 1962, and arrived in Miami. We were processed as refugees, given coats, ate at Royal Castle and spent the night at a downtown hotel. The next day, we flew to St. Louis, Mo., on a one-way ticket.
I was 8, and my mother was 46.
My sister had been living in St. Louis with relatives for a year. She moved to the States after being spotted by Cuban security (G2) while she passed out literature on religion. My mother sent her to New York on a tourist visa. There, she stayed with an aunt for a short time. At the age of 15, she left Brooklyn and headed to St. Louis to stay with more relatives until my mother and I arrived a year later.
She worked at Ralston Purina and gave my mother her check so we could have a halfway decent life. I lived with my aunt, grandmother, sister and mother in a two-bedroom house, with the dining room converted into an additional room.
My father always believed that each year to follow would end the revolution, and things would return to normal. Once he realized that year was not going to happen, he tried to row his way to Florida.
While doing so he was apprehended by the Cuban Coast Guard. After several years, I was able to claim my father and he was given permission to leave Cuba on Jan. 6, 1966, and he joined our family in St. Louis.
My sister stayed in St. Louis for seven years; my mother and I, four; and my father, six months.
We all moved to Miami because of the warm weather and the language barrier for my father. My mother lived and worked in St. Louis for two years during World War II and learned English with a heavy accent, but my father struggled with the language. He was trained as a sewing machine mechanic but had to accept lower-paying jobs in St. Louis because of difficulty with the language.
My first school in Miami was Southside Elementary on Coral Way and South Miami Avenue, where I had the most impressive teacher and the only one I remember to this day, 45 years later: Mr. Frank Buggs.
He was a young black man teaching in an all-white/Hispanic community in the mid-1960s and surmounted most obstacles that came his way. I hope he's reading this now and enjoys knowing that I remember him.
He took us to the Miami Seaquarium, the first field trip that I had ever been on, and Flipper performed for us. There was a monorail that took us around the park, above the sharks and manta rays, and it was very impressive to a 12-year-old. One Saturday, a group of us, without the teacher, took a bus on Biscayne Boulevard that took us to the "Saturday Hop" with Rick Shaw, which aired on Channel 10 every Saturday.
As time went by, some relatives moved to Miami, and soon more and more moved to the area. Eventually we reached a point where we could celebrate a family meal with most of the family. Our weekend family outings consisted of going to Hialeah for pizza on Sundays or the beach for the day, packing enough food for a week and parking under cover at the old dog track on South Beach. Occasionally, we would go to Crandon Park and visit the animals at the zoo or skate in the rink.
After being here a while, we ventured out to Dania Beach, where there was an amusement park called Pirate's World, or we would drive to Marco Island and come back the same day. Parrot Jungle was a must for all of visiting relatives trying to decide about the big move south.
I worked at the downtown Burdines while attending Miami Senior High School. I later graduated from Miami Dade College and went to work for large corporations in management. While working, I traveled to 26 different countries and over 120 cities throughout the world. While I never married, I have one daughter who enjoyed going to St. Michael's Catholic School and attending The Boys & Girls Club of Miami.
She graduated from Coral Gables High School and is now attending Miami Dade College. She dreams of moving to New York City. If her dreams come true, after a couple of winters, I believe she'll be right back here where it's warm all year round.
My parents both passed away in the same year, 1989, along with all of their siblings except for my aunt in Brooklyn, who is now in her 80s.
My two nieces and two nephews all grew up in Coral Gables and became successful individuals: One niece received a doctorate in math and is at the University of Miami, and the other is a salon owner and hair stylist in San Francisco. My older nephew has been living in Mississippi for over 18 years and is a successful contractor. My younger nephew became an Eagle Scout, received his bachelor's in education and later moved to Denver.
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Life is harder now, experts say (MSNBC)
By Bob Sullivan, Technology correspondent
Shopping malls are packed every weekend. Restaurants can't open fast enough. Everyone seems to be wearing designer shoes, jackets and jeans and sipping $4 lattes. Credit card commercials constantly advocate splurging and, it seems, U.S. consumers are all too ready to comply.
So what's the problem? Why do so many middle class Americans with so much stuff say they feel so squeezed? If they are dogged by debt, isn't it their own fault?
Perhaps, some experts say, things are not as they appear.
Bankruptcy law expert and Harvard University Professor Elizabeth Warren spent a lot of time crunching consumer spending numbers for her popular books, "The Fragile Middle Class" and "The Two-Income Trap." In both, she makes this point: Despite all those $200 sneakers you hear about and the long lines at Starbucks, consumers are actually spending less of their income — much less — on discretionary items like clothing, entertainment and food than their parents did. In fact, after taking care of essentials like housing and health care, today's middle class has about half as much spending money as their parents did in the early 1970s, Warren says.
The basics, according to Warren, now take up close to three-fourths of every family's spending power (it was about 50 percent in 1973), leaving precious little left over at the end of the month — and leaving many families with no cushion in case of a job loss or health crisis.
Warren's theories fly in the face of conventional wisdom and those crowded malls. But the premise is simple: Even though household incomes have risen about 75 percent from 1970, most of that is the result of a second earner — generally a woman — joining the work force. And that added income has been swallowed by rising fixed expenses, such as child care and housing costs, Warren argues. The average family pays at least twice as much for housing compared to its counterpart in the 1970s, Warren says, and in some competitive areas with good schools, housing costs have risen by as much as 600 percent.
Without savings, at risk of job loss
Now consider these factors: Four in 10 Americans don't have even one month's worth of savings for use in case of an emergency, according to a survey by HSBC Bank published in 2006. And with two incomes built into the family budget, the odds of a household getting hit by a layoff have doubled in the last generation. This combination — high housing debt, rising health care costs, lack of savings and greater exposure to unemployment — leaves many families in a precarious financial position.
Yet before Warren can get policymakers to talk about the middle-class squeeze, or at least middle-class worry, she often finds she has to beat back the notion that overconsumption is to blame for the rise in consumer debt — and in middle-class anxiety.
"A growing number of families are in terrible financial trouble, but no matter how many times the accusation is hurled, Prada and HBO are not the reason," Warren says in her book "The Two-Income Trap."
There is no arguing that most Americans have more gadgets in their living rooms and more clothes in their closets than ever before. Consider the explosion of the closet-organizer business.
But government spending data paint a different picture. Take the often-cited evidence of culinary extravagance. While it's true that Americans are eating out much more than ever — nearly half of all dollars spent on food now go to dining out — overall food costs have plunged in recent decades. Americans now spent only about 10 percent of their money on food each year, compared to nearly 20 percent in the 1970s, according to data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And despite the designer brands they buy, the average family of four spends about 20 percent less on clothes today, according to Warren's analysis. Think about your last trip to Target: Thanks in part to the entry of inexpensive imported textiles from China and other trading partners, it's possible to buy a Friday night outfit for under $40. This shows up in BLS data too: On average, Americans spent nearly 7 percent of their money on clothes in 1973, compared to about 4 percent in 2005.
Two weeks work for a fridge?
In fact, many consumer goods are much cheaper than they were in the 1970s. A look at 1971 Sears catalog offers a glimpse of some plummeting prices. In 1971, a basic Sears refrigerator cost $399. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $2,000 in 2005 dollars, or nearly 10 times the $297 price of a basic fridge in today's Sears catalog. Put another way, a fridge costs more than two week's work for an average earner in 1971, but less than two day's labor today.
Other household items were similarly expensive in 1971 — an 18-inch TV cost $429 (the equivalent of $2,150 today) and a 24-inch dishwasher cost $249 ($1,200 today).
Lower prices are, of course, a boon for the middle class, which now enjoys many conveniences and luxuries that were formerly reserved for the well-to-do. This is the cornerstone point for those who argue that the middle-class squeeze is a myth.
"I can't hazard a guess as to why there is such a malaise in this country about current living conditions, but ... we have never had it better," economist Arthur B. Laffer wrote in response to a question from a Gut Check America reader. Laffer is one of a large group of economists and policy-makers who point to crowded malls and high stock market returns as evidence that middle class America has little to complain about.
But Amelia Warren Tyagi, co-author of "The Two-Income Trap," and also Warren's daughter, said weekend shopping trip receipts aren't the best way to examine the state of the middle class.
"Yes, people are spending more on home electronics, but the dollars just aren't that big," Tyagi said. "Maybe they spend a couple of hundred dollars more on stereo equipment. But they are spending less on tobacco. This is not to say that there's no frivolous spending going on, but as you add it all up, there's no more frivolous spending than there was a generation ago."
The source of the anxiety
With government data showing that Americans are spending much less than they did 35 years ago on clothes, food, and even entertainment, Tyagi says the anxiety they are feeling comes from somewhere else: the exploding costs of housing, health care and education.
In housing, recent data is most striking. Household incomes have largely stagnated in recent years, even shrinking 2.8 percent from 2000 to 2006. Housing costs skyrocketed 32 percent in that time.
Even more striking is the amount of income most families are paying to stay in their homes. Banks have long had a standard that said mortgages should not be approved unless the monthly payment was 25 percent or less of the buyer's income. That limitation clearly is long gone. The U.S. Census Bureau defines "house poor" as spending more than 30 percent of income on housing expenses. In 1999, 26.7 percent of U.S. households were considered house poor. By 2006, the number had jumped to 34.5 percent.
Because of difference in government data collection methods, it's hard to reach back to the 1970s for a precise comparison point. But the rise in house-poor mortgage holders is striking by any measure. A 1975 Census report showed that only 8.9 percent of mortgage holders spent 35 percent or more of their income — including insurance, property taxes, and utilities — on housing.
The number of households spending half their income on housing — an amount that for most would be fiscal suicide — also has dramatically increased, from 10 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2006.
The cost of education has similarly spiked. Pre-school was largely non-existent in the 1970s, but today many families pencil in $1,000 a month for child care and early childhood education. On the other end, college costs have easily outpaced the cost of inflation. For example, the average bill for attending a four-year public college rose 52 percent from 2001 to 2007.
Health care costs have climbed steadily as well. According to the BLS, the average household spent 4.7 percent of its income on health care in 1984, and 5.7 percent in 2005.
In the end, the portion of an average family's budget spent on fixed costs like housing has risen much faster than wages and inflation, while spending on discretionary items has declined. [attribution?] That means mortgages, more than lattes, are the source of middle-class anxiety, says economist Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a generally liberal think tank that focuses on the interests of low- and middle-income Americans.
'They feel squeezed because they are squeezed'
"Consumers are asking, 'If the economy is doing so well why am I feeling so squeezed?'" he said. "Well, they feel squeezed because they are squeezed."
Identifying the source of the squeeze requires more than simply comparing overall inflation to overall wage growth, Bernstein said.
"You have to look at a basket of key goods," he said, like housing and college costs. "If you compare income growth to growth in prices of key goods, that stuff is growing 10 percent faster than income. ... Perhaps (consumers) are beating overall inflation but are they beating inflation in key components of their market basket? No."
More to the point, Bernstein said, rising housing costs have quietly broken a social contract with consumers that promised that a good job with a good income would guarantee a good place to live. While that may have been true in the 1970s, it is often not true today, he said.
"Lodged in the minds of those who come from the middle class is the idea that the middle class is a safe haven. It's not," he said.
That notion is changing. People no longer feel certain they will be better off than their parents, for example. "What really messes with your economic mind is when your expectations and aspirations are violated, Bernstein said. "You think, my parents died in a much better home than they grew up in. Will I?"
Generational trade-offs
Bernstein is not as pessimistic as Tyagi in his interpretation of the data. A comparison of then vs. now needs to be a little more subtle, he said. Clearly, middle class Americans are better off in some ways: larger homes and availability of what were once luxury items, like air conditioning, for instance.
"If a person is arguing that middle class families are worse off in every way, that person hasn't spent enough time at the mall," he said. "But these are things you don't see at the mall: housing, health care, child care, saving and saving for college. The price of those (are) rising more quickly than inflation in general, rising more quickly than family income. And they are largely responsible for the squeeze that families report feeling."
Middle-class squeeze skeptics often point to rising credit card debt as evidence that consumers have themselves, and their spending habits, to blame for any economic anxiety. But there's a problem with that theory too — it's an exaggeration, says Liz Pulliam Weston, author of "Deal With Your Debt" and an MSN Money columnist. The majority of American consumers carry no credit card debt from month to month and very few carry large balances, she notes.
Last year, Americans held about $900 billion in credit card debt, leaving the average household with a bill of about $9,300, according to Federal Reserve data. That sounds like a lot, but a few consumers with very large debts can skew the average. The median balance is — the point at which half of consumers have more debt, and half have less — is a better indicator. The median credit card balance is $2,200, a fairly manageable amount. Only 8.3 percent of households owe more than $9,000 on their credit cards. Meanwhile, one-quarter of all Americans don't even have credit cards, and another 30 percent pay them off in full every month.
Notion of heavy credit card debt called overblown
"Our national discussions about consumer indebtedness and bankruptcy are being distorted by the idea that we're waddling around with four- and five-figure credit card debts," Weston wrote recently. "That makes us sound like spendthrifts, when that's not the norm."
Nevertheless, overconsumption and excessive credit card spending persist as explanations for middle-class debt angst. Tyagi has a theory why.
"Frivolous spending is visible, and it's easy to pass judgment on, she said. "There is a comforting notion that if you are not spending wildly you are safe. If you are deeply invested in the belief that if everyone can solve their problems on their own, then there's no systematic problem, it would be important to think that if anyone is in trouble financially it's because they did something stupid."
It might be something their parents would never have done, such as taking out a negative-amortization mortgage or taking out a $100,000 home equity loan to pay for a child's college, or spend as much money on child care as food.
But you can't blame that on extravagant living, Warren said.
"Perhaps the most important thing we can do is persuade people that it's not about the lattes," she said. "I think the "latte factor" is a way to distract people from real changes in the economy. Those who shake their fingers over lattes can feel good about themselves, both for their own economic prosperity and for the fact that those who are in trouble are there because of their own personal failings."
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This weekend, you'll find us far away from the quiet hills and historic sites of the AMNHA: we'll have a booth in the heart of the bustling Decatur Book Festival! We love books (almost) as much as we love the National Heritage Area, and we'll be giving out our Junior Ranger booklets so kids can start on their Junior Ranger journey.
Here are our favorite books, from all of your friends in the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area:
Hiking Atlanta's Hidden Forests: Intown and Out by Jonah McDonald
Discover the secret side to Atlanta's greenspace with this guide from Jonah McDonald. From national parks to nature preserves, this book celebrates the many wild spaces tucked into the city. Located within Atlanta itself and in the surrounding area, these hikes will introduce residents new and old to forests and greenspace.
African-American Life in DeKalb County, 1823-1970 by Herman 'Skip' Mason Jr.
DeKalb County has a long and rich African-American history, and this book introduces readers to the fascinating, multifaceted legacy of the people who have lived here over the centuries. Mason, Jr. introduces us to the events and people who made DeKalb County what it is today, from Ellenwood to Doraville and everywhere in between.
Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy
"Doug's book is simple: value biodiversity. In the context of how to best attract wildlife to your yard how to best steward your home landscape – the answer is plant native plants! This book empowers us to better understand ecological processes and support insects, birds, and a healthy functioning ecosystem filled with native plants. Go native y'all, and read this book!" – Ranger Robby, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve
Our True Nature: Finding a Zest for Life in the National Park System by Audrey Peterman
"Audrey's love of nature and the national parks is equaled only by her love for people." – Juan Martinez, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Wyoming. "Audrey opens up the country to us in a whole new way. She weaves the beauty, history and culture she has found in our national parks into a spellbinding story that makes me want to get out there even more."
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr
Join scholar and researcher Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he uncovers the ancestry of nineteen extraordinary African-Americans and makes connections across history. Featuring figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, and Chris Tucker (who has roots right here in the AMNHA!), the book reveals the paths these people and their ancestors took over the centuries. When you're done reading, come visit the Flat Rock Archives to see that history in person.
Portraits of Grace: Images and Words from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit by James Stephen Behrens, OCSO
Get an intimate portrait of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit from Father Behrens, a monk who lived at the Monastery for decades. His book includes over 100 original photographs of the Monastery, the lives of the monks who live there, and the surrounding grounds. The photos are accompanied by text to inspire reflection and renewal.
Untamed: The Wildest Women in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan
Part biography, part adventure tale and part conservation story, Untamed is ultimately a love story about one of Georgia's most magical places. Carol Ruckdeschel's unapologetic passion and unconditional love for Cumberland Island (another National Park site in GA!) is nothing short of inspirational as detailed in this rich and poetic read.
Dominated by two granite outcrops, the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area offers natural wonders, compelling history and heart-pumping activity. This nationally significant landscape includes vibrant history, breathtaking beauty and intriguing cultural changes from early settlers to immigrant rock cutters, Trappist monks and one of the oldest African-American communities in Georgia.
Published : August 29, 2019
Category : Field Notes


(CINCINNATI)—Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is offering a winter session of acting classes and workshops offered to young persons ages 3-14 along with a new family improv class. Designed to build confidence, strengthen communication skills and develop a sense of ensemble and community, the programs focus on individual and collective skill development in a fun and supportive environment.
Classes take place in Mt. Adams. Details for each class, including fees, dates and locations, are below. All registrations include a $25 non-refundable deposit. Register at cincyplay.com or call 513-421-3888.
Pre-Kindergarten | 10 – 10:30 a.m.
Meow! Woof! Oink! The animals are in trouble and they need your help! Use your imagination to become a veterinarian, firefighter, shelter worker and more, all while learning movement, crafting characters and making new friends.
Kindergarten through second grade | 10:40 – 11:25 a.m.
Seals and penguins and bears, oh my! Travel to the Arctic with us as we discover a world of ice and wonder. Create characters, learn movement and acting techniques, and develop social skills in this adventurous class.
Third through fifth grades | 11:35 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
When science and imagination meet, the impossible becomes possible! Bring your revolutionary ideas to life while learning about radical inventors and using movement-based techniques to create an original performance that's all your own.
Sixth through eighth grades | 9 – 9:55 a.m.
Fourth through eighth grades | 4 – 5: 30 p.m.
Want to learn "How to Succeed" in musical theatre? After all, it's not your typical 9 to 5. In this performance-based class, learn acting, voice and movement techniques as we explore musicals like Legally Blonde, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Working.
Looking to switch it up for family game night? Explore the world of improv in this enrichment workshop! You and your family will enjoy creative games, interactive scenes and Family Feud-style comedy sports for a new twist on family fun. Cost of $50 covers up to five family members ages 3 and up.
For info or to register, visit cincyplay.com or call or call 513-421-3888.
The Playhouse is supported by the generosity of more than 40,000 contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund the Playhouse with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. The Playhouse also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.


I am currently working on a manuscript titled BLOWING UP LOS ANGELES, and two excerpts from the novel can now be found online.
There are also side stories or lost chapters coming out soon in kill author and on Michael Inscoe's new literary experimental art site unsure if i will allow my beard to grow for much longer.
When asked LA OR NEW YORK, Masha Tupitsyn answered: Both. Over the last few years, I've developed an obsession with LA, albeit an LA that no longer exists. See the documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself.
(The above picture is the title screen of the same documentary).
Check out her new 'interview' on we who are about to die.
Some inspiration for the manuscript so far comes from: Beauty Talk & Monsters by Masha Tupitsyn, Slow Jams + Bruised Fruit + Cursive A Book of Dirty Drawings + DAVID CHOE by David Choe, SPRAWL by Danielle Dutton, The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis, and Bed by Tao Lin.
Also the films: Nights and Weekends (2008), Wendy and Lucy (2008), A History of Violence (2005), Planet B Boy (2007), and 28 Days Later (2002), none of which does takes place in Los Angeles, CA.


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Linda Sherman
A skull found in a restaurant flower box reignites debate over whether a Missouri man orchestrated his wife's disappearance.
Whose skull was found outside the restaurant?
The Sherman Family
In Bridgeton, Missouri, at the Casa Gallardo Restaurant, two women having lunch noticed something strange outside the window. There, in the bushes, was a human skull. Police Chief Walter Mutert described the bizarre scene:
"It's a very well-manicured area. Plants and gravel and what have you. And the way it was situated, it would give one the impression that, you know, somebody put it there so you would see it. During that time period, there was the relocating of a cemetery that was in the area, and a lot of bodies were being exhumed, graves were being moved, so it gives you the impression now that this may be a prank, and there would be no reason to suspect that there was any foul play."
The skull, determined to be from an adult woman, went into the evidence room at the morgue and was soon forgotten. One year later, at a police station 25 miles away, a mysterious letter arrived. It stated, "The Bridgeton Police have L. Sherman's skull."
Dental records showed the skull was, in fact, that of Linda Sherman, a 27-year-old wife and mother who had been reported missing five years earlier, on April 22, 1985.
Does Linda's husband know more than he's saying?
A missing person's case suddenly became a puzzling murder mystery with many unanswered questions: What motive would someone have for leaving Linda Sherman's skull outside the restaurant? Where was the rest of her body? And, most importantly, who was responsible for her death?
Linda was only 17 when she married Don Sherman, her high-school sweetheart. When her daughter Patty was born, Linda could always count on her mom to watch the baby while she completed her senior year. Don Sherman said he took a job at a local gas station to support his new family:
"It was hard, but it was rewarding. We were very happy together. The relationship was rocky later on in our marriage, but not in the early years."
Where is the rest of Linda Sherman's body?
Money problems and working opposite shifts at their jobs strained the relationship. During the 10-year marriage, Linda took Patty and moved out several times, but the couple always reconciled. According to Linda's older brother, Dennis Lutz, Don was obsessed with knowing Linda's every move:
"Don was very possessive of her. She said, 'When I get off of work, if I'm not home within five minutes, he wants to know what's goin' on, who are you seein'? What are you doin' out that late?' He was always hitting her and things just weren't right."
Linda told her family that she was afraid of Don's violent temper. According to Sam Miller, Linda's brother-in-Law, Linda once got a restraining order to keep Don away:
"She'd already made the decision to move out. She had filed for divorce. She had definitely made plans to start a new life."
On April 22nd, 1985, Linda left her night job at around two in the morning. Don Sherman offered his account of that night:
"She didn't come home from work until about 3:00 in the morning. We got into an argument about the fact that she wouldn't tell me where she'd been. And we stayed up until at least 4:00 in the morning discussing that."
Linda was lying on the sofa later that morning when her daughter Patty left for school:
"She always took me to school, but my dad took me to school that day. And I remember her laying on the couch with her face to the back of the couch. And she didn't get up. She didn't get up to kiss me good-bye. She didn't say anything to me. She was just laying there."
That would be the last time Patty ever saw her mother. Don claimed that when he returned to the house that afternoon, Linda was on edge:
"When I came back home, Linda was still there. She should've been at work by then. And she was mad 'cause she was running late."
Don says Linda drove off at about 6 p.m., but there are no witnesses that saw her leave. Linda never arrived at work and never returned home. Don claimed to know nothing about her disappearance:
"When she didn't come back, I assumed it was typical of the previous times that she had left and I thought that she took off with somebody."
Linda's brother, Sam, said he knew Linda had met a violent end:
"We knew that if she left, there's no way she's leaving without the daughter. And the daughter was still at home, and so there was definitely foul play."
Linda's parents insisted that Don go to the police station to file a missing person's report. Meanwhile, Sam and Fran searched frantically for Linda. On a hunch, according to Sam, they headed to the local airport:
"As we pulled into the short-term parking, why, there's Linda's car sitting right there. We went to look inside the car and we could see her schoolbooks and her hat and everything. So we contacted the airport police. And they came, and the car was locked, but they tried the trunk, and the trunk was open. They'd said, 'Well, we fully expected Linda to be in there.' And she wasn't."
Don claimed he saw Linda with another man in the days after her disappearance. He said that she drove past him in a van and quickly ducked out of sight. Don's sighting was the last time anyone reported seeing Linda. Five years later, when the skull turned up at the restaurant, no one even thought it might be Linda's. In what seems like a bizarre coincidence, Don revealed that the restaurant was one of his favorite hangouts:
"I was at the restaurant that evening, after the skull had been found. I'd heard about it that day, when it happened, but never any connection to it until later on."
No one made a connection until a year later, when the mysterious letter arrived at the Vinita Park police station. Lieutenant Michael Webb interpreted the display of Linda's skull as a brazen message from her killer:
"I was rather astounded. It was obvious to me that someone wanted us to know that we had obviously missed something and was trying to tell us that Linda's remains had been recovered."
Don Sherman said he was just as incredulous as anyone:
"It was scary. And somebody that put those remains here at the restaurant obviously knew me, or knew that I hung out there. We're not talking about a place that I casually visited. We're talking about a place that I would visit two, three times a week."
Was it possible that the killer placed the skull there to threaten Don? Or did Don have a reason to put it there himself? Some speculated that Don wanted to remarry and needed proof that Linda was dead. Only one thing is certain: for Don, the skull provided the perfect piece of evidence. But for Linda's daughter Patty, the find was devastating:
"When the skull was found, I just kinda lost all hope in life. I didn't know that she was dead. I guess there was always some hope that she had just left."
For Lt. Michael Webb, the evidence pointed in only one direction:
"The only suspect that I've been unable to eliminate is Don Sherman. At this point in time, he has never been ruled out as a suspect."
Don's daughter Patty doesn't see how it can be any other way:
"In my heart, I think that he might've done it. You know, I can't think of anybody else who would've."
And Don Sherman has never stopped proclaiming his innocence:
"I had nothing to do with Linda Sherman's disappearance or her death. I still think that she left with someone and obviously met with foul play and died."
Police hope new technology in soil sampling will someday lead them to Linda's body and, eventually, her killer.
Watch this case now on Amazon Prime in season eleven with Robert Stack and in season one with Dennis Farina. Also available on YouTube with Dennis Farina. Various seasons available now on Hulu.
instead of saying my wife he says
"I had nothing to do with Linda Sherman's disappearance or her death. I still think that she left with someone and obviously met with foul play and died
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh righttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt he did it no doubt
TwistedTwit
Don did it because he was a violent, controlling man, and Linda wanted to get away from him. He killed her while they 'discussed' why she got home 5 minutes late. Hope he rots in hell. Poor Patty, God bless her!
I think she shouldn't have been sleeping around.
If that is your thought, it would be in your best interest to just not think then. So because the husband aka the prime suspect said she was seeing another man, that is the best explanation given? Your misogyny is both disgusting and disturbing. Seek help and I can only hope you never have a daughter. Pity the poor girl if you do…
C white
The police didn't even do forensics in the house looking for blood or anything? The police are always so incompetent in these unsolved cases.
to think i was related to this bastard is absolutely disgusting. not only did he kill his husband, but molested my innocent boy cousin. he deserves to rot in hell.
UM fan
What a sad story. It seems obvious to me that she was already dead on the couch when her daughter left. And I think that is what Patty suspects as well. I heard that Don has passed away. I don't see how this case will ever be solved but I hope Patty finds peace and happiness in her life in spite of these tragic circumstances.
UM slacking
Please tell me technology helped solve this case
Well, Don, the police's prime suspect died in 2015.
Patricia Cooksey
I was just cruising in hopes to find a/some of my paternal side. "Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, etcetera. I am a Sherman via Missouri and in hopes to find a paternal cousin. Can anyone help? My paternal Grandmother's name is Goldie Anderson-Sherman-Creamer. ❤ May there be perhaps 0ne…at least one of my cousins with the birth name "Sherman"?
Any Pendergraft could stand up for my sweet "Aunt Wanda"….she has passed now but she was the glue that held us together ❤ oh how I miss her, bless her heart, and she is still the glue ❤
Dear Auntie, I miss your calls every weekend!!! And I thank you for being our glue…sweet angel
I always thought the utter lack of empathy or emothion for his "wife" was a dead give away that the husband did it. She prob threatened to leave him, he killed her, left her on the couch to cover his tracks for the child, and buried her somewhere. THEN, met someone new, realized he needed proof of her death (she was still considered "missing"), dug her up, and placed her skull where it would be EASILY spotted. Bam, new wife, new life, no crime. EVEN HIS OWN DAUGHTER THINKS HE DID IT. We need Dr Cyril Wecht on this. Just my two cents.
it's obvious he killed her and disposed of her body. they fought alot and he was violent so maybe one night he got a little rough and accidentally killed her and left her on the sofa so their daughter could see she was still there even tho she was dead and later on he claims she left for work and never returned. only strange part is how the school ended up where it did
Jim early
It doesn't look good for the husband, but it seems maybe that they need more experienced investigators on the job. No matter what anyone thinks, the last thing we need to do is imprison someone without proof.
Why did he refer to her by her full name? Why didn't he just say Linda or my wife. It's as if he just forgot about her and tried to disassociate himself from her. She was the mother of his child.
My heart goes out to the family. I seen the story about Linda Sherman on an old re-run of unsolved mysteries in April of 2016. I have children and whether my I or my husband takes them to school I get up to say goodbye even if I'm not feeling well and if i don't get up my kids won't leave without coming and waking me even if its just to whisper goodbye and give me a kids on the cheek. I also do agree that she was probably already dead while laying on the couch when her daughter went off to school.
Was season and episode was that
Season 11, Episode 13
It seems to me that she was already dead when her daughter left for school. At 6 pm her husband supposedly returned home and she was running late for work but no one scene her leave and she didn't show up for work. Where did her daughter go after school was she not there with her dad at 6 pm.
Bernard Short
I remember watching this episode back on The Unsolved Mysteries DVD set called Bizarre Murders which features this case from the show that featured the discovery of a woman's skull found in a flower pot next to a local bar where this woman's husband once hung out at because I remember they've interviewed the Daughter & her Father during the time of that case which is still opened because they were reinactments where actors were portraying the husband & wife having fights in the home with they young daughter overseeing it & all because I remember the daughter was talking about the day when she was then going to school then seeing her mother sleeping on the sofa with her face turned away from the view & all & from there I would say that this woman was already dead during that child's departure from the house because she believes that her father may have kill her mother then later disposed of the body but I'll find that out later on when I watch the show again on The Escape Channel because someone's going to have their day in Prison I mean Prison Prison.
Punctuation dude
It's clearly one long sentence! What's the problem?
My thoughts exactly
I think she was dead on the sofa OBVIOUSLY by her abuser the ex husband.. He was fighting with her at night and was the last one to see her that morning. They didn't need hard evidence they had enough to show probable cause and motive. He liked it when they found her skull I believe he still has other parts that he's hiding very close to him because he was possessive with her…
Seeing as how Don, the primary and only suspect, passed away in 2015 and never faced charges, he got away with it. Too many people think karma is somehow a real thing and that we all reap what we sow but such is wishful thinking to make ourselves feel better. In reality, bad people get away with stuff all the time. Good people sometimes meet grisly fates. Karma sounds great in theory but it really is just wishful thinking in the end.
Have they found anything additional about this case?


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M. Stanton Evans at Breitbart: McCarthyism by the Numbers
At Breitbart News today -- the 64th anniversay of the conviction of Alger Hiss, by the way -- M. Stanton Evans has published a brand new article, "`McCarthyism by the Numbers." Besides laying to rest the canard that Sen. Joseph McCarthy's investigations only netted a "few small fry," it concretely strengthens the defense of American Betrayal against all those tired, postmodern, juju-charges of "McCarthyism."
Which isn't to say, of course, that I don't take "McCarthy's heiress" as a compliment.
"`McCARTHYISM' BY THE NUMBERS"
by M. Stanton Evans
The orchestrated attack on Diana West's important book, American Betrayal, has been brutal and unseemly, but in one respect at least it has served a useful purpose.
This lone positive angle--counter-intuitive at first glance--is that her iconoclastic Cold War history has sparked a barrage of charges about "McCarthyism" and the senator from Wisconsin who gave his name to a decisive epoch in America's long death struggle with the Kremlin.
As is well-known, "McCarthyism" was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: accusations of Communist taint, without any factual basis; bogus "lists" of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
Such is the standard image of "McCarthyism" set forth in all the usual histories and media treatments of the era. Such is the image relied on by the critics of Ms. West to discredit her book and dismiss her as a crackpot and "conspiracy theorist." By arguing that pro-Red elements in our government exerted baleful influence on US policy to suit the aims of Moscow, it is said, she becomes "McCarthy's heiress," reprising the evils of the fifties.
All of which, from my standpoint, has one beneficial feature--though it doesn't make things less unpleasant for Ms. West. It pushes the issue of McCarthy and McCarthyism to the forefront, where it ought to be, and where it is now possible to view his cases in ways not feasible years ago when the relevant data were not open to the public.
Even today, there is much that we don't know--documents that have vanished, ancient records still being censored, deceptions still in circulation. However, there is also a good deal of information available for those who care to view it: sizable tranches of McCarthy's papers, and those of his opponents; reams of formerly confidential data from the FBI; thousands of pages of hearing transcripts and archives of his committee and other panels of the Congress; intercepted Soviet communications and revelations from Cold War defectors; and so on.
Looking at this mass of materials and matching them up with McCarthy's cases, the main thing to be noted is a recurring pattern of verification. Time and again, we see the suspects named by McCarthy and/or his committee--treated at the time as hapless victims--revealed in official records as what McCarthy and company said they were--except, in the typical instance, a good deal more so.
The accompanying table provides a sampler of some of the suspects named by McCarthy, his aides, or in his committee hearings, and reflects what is now known about them, based on official records (some of it was known even then but ignored or misrepresented).
Suspects named by McCarthy, his aides, or before his committee; identified in sworn testimony, FBI archives, or other official security records as Communists or Soviet agents; or took the Fifth Amendment when asked about such matters.
1 .Adler, Solomon 26. Levitsky, Joseph *
2. Aronson, James * 27. Lovell, Leander
3. Barr, Joel 28. Mandel, William *
4. Belfrage, Cedric * 29. Miller, Robert
5. Bisson, T.A. 30. Mins, Leonard *
6. Carlisle, Lois 31. Moore (Gelfan), Harriet *
7. Chew Hong 32. Moss, Annie L.
8. Chi Chao-ting 33. Neumann, Franz
9. Coe, V. Frank * 34. Older, Andrew
10. Coleman, Aaron 35. Peress, Irving *
11. Currie, Lauchlin 36. Posniak, Edward
12. Dolivet, Louis 37. Post, Richard
13. Duran, Gustavo 38. Remington, William
14. Field, Frederick 39. Rosinger, Lawrence *
15. Glasser, Harold * 40. Rothschild, Edward *
16. Graze, Gerald 41. Sarant, Alfred
17. Graze, Stanley 42. Smedley, Agnes
18. Hanson, Haldore 43. Snyder, Samuel *
19. Henderson, Donald * 44. Stein, Guenther
20. Hyman, Harry * 45. Stern, Bernhard *
21. Jaffe, Philip 46. Taylor, William H.
22. Karr, David 47. Ullmann, Marcel *
23. Keeney, Mary Jane 48. Wales, Nym
24. Lattimore, Owen 49. Weintraub, David
25. Levine, Ruth * 50. Weltfish, Gene *
*Took Fifth Amendment as to Communist/ Soviet activity-affiliation
Solomon Adler, Chi Chao ting and V. Frank Coe would all abscond to Communist China. Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, members of the Rosenberg spy ring who worked at Fort Monmouth and related commercial labs in the 1940s, would flee to the Soviet bloc before the McCarthy Monmouth hearings started. Philip Jaffe would self-identify as a Communist in his memoirs.
Analyzing this list of 50, we find all of them either (a) identified in sworn testimony, or in FBI and other once-confidential official security records, as Communists or Soviet agents, and/or (b) pleading the Fifth Amendment when asked about such activities, saying a truthful answer would tend to incriminate them.
As is self-evident from this lineup, it's untrue that McCarthy never spotted a single Communist or Soviet agent, or--per one variation--came up with only a handful of valid cases. He in fact tracked down a small army of such people, and the roster given here is merely a sampling of the flagrant suspects who attracted his attention.
This is most obviously so of the Fifth Amendment pleaders. Our table of 50 includes 18 McCarthy cases who refused to answer questions concerning Red connections, but these were only a fraction of the total who claimed the privilege. All told, an astonishing 100-plus McCarthy suspects would plead the Fifth before his committee (the bulk of these in the Fort Monmouth/defense-supply probe that triggered the Army-McCarthy hearings).
Also, contra the standard image, McCarthy and his staffers in the usual instance did not allege that his suspects were Communists or Soviet agents--though in some famous cases (Owen Lattimore, Annie Lee Moss) this did happen--for the simple reason that the probers didn't then know the total story. More typically, they wielded dossiers concerning adverse security findings, membership in pro-Red groups, and so on--thereby understating the scope and nature of the problem.
Thus, such named McCarthy suspects as Solomon Adler, T.A. Bisson, Lauchlin Currie, Mary Jane Keeney, and many others were not then IDed as Soviet assets, though in fact they were. McCarthy knew enough to spot them as bad actors--in many cases knew a lot--but didn't know what we know today.
Add the fact that, in case after significant case, McCarthy suspects were linked in ever-widening circles to a host of other operatives of like nature. For example, Adler, Currie, Keeney and the egregious pro-Soviet apparatchik Robert Miller were all parts of much larger networks, each with multiple contacts in the government, press corps, and outside groups of shadowy purpose.
All told, the McCarthy cases linked together in such fashion amounted to several hundred people, constituting a massive security danger to the nation. However, numbers per se were not the central issue. By far the most important thing about his suspects was their positioning in the governmental structure, and other posts of influence, where they could shape American policy or opinion in favor of the Communist interest. This they did on a fairly regular basis, a subject that deserves discussion in its own right.
For now, there is enough to note that the standard version of McCarthy and "McCarthyism" being wielded to discredit Diana West is, throughout, a fiction. How and why it was concocted, and is being repeated even now, must be the topic for another essay.
M. Stanton Evans is the author of
Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
and co-author (with Herbert Romerstein) of
Stalin's Secret Agents.


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As we consider the topic of violence, it is important that we understand the role of anger as it relates to aggressive or violent acts.
Have You Noticed Trends of Violence?
As I have attempted to surface some current research and strategies to deal with anger, I do hope the past few weeks of posts have been helpful. But what happens when anger turns uglier? Today's post begins looking at violence, specifically, how to prevent it.
When we think about out-of-control anger, we tend to think about it as an adult problem. However, some children have verbal or physical outbursts that frighten parents and caregivers.
How Does A Parent's Anger Impact His or Her Child?
We have been discussing the topic of anger in many different ways in my last series of posts. Some may think that anger is benign in its impact as long as no one "gets hurt." However, it is interesting to think about what some researchers are saying about the impact of anger on children.
Parenting can be very difficult. When a child is misbehaving or acts emotionally out-of-control, parents can become so exasperated that they "lose it" and say or do things that they wish they had not.
In my last post, we discussed the importance of knowing your anger triggers. Many triggers can cause us to respond with intense anger, which can be extremely destructive to our relationships. What about the person who learned responses of anger as a part of the core beliefs of his or her family?


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in the cloud logs and my GCP invoice, I can see that I already have an HTTP load balancer, but when I go to network services -> Load balancing I don't find my load balancer.

I think the load balancer is auto-created by GCP once you create an APP engine. But How can I create a back End service to it. the goal is to customize the Load balancer to better handle web sockets time-outs.

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As we noted in our article, Obama and others would have been accurate to say that more than 90 percent of the guns that Mexican authorities recover in crimes and submit to ATF for tracing come from the U.S. One lingering question, though, was why the Mexicans ask ATF to trace so few of the guns they recover. In fiscal 2008, trace requests came in on 7,743 guns, and in FY 2007, it was 3,312 guns, for a total of 11,055. But Mexico's attorney general has said that authorities there recovered about 29,000 guns in that period. That means roughly 18,000 guns captured by law enforcement were not submitted for tracing.
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Other reasons: In Mexico, the farther away a police station is from a major city, the less likely it is that officials there will have access to ATF's eTrace system, which allows a trace request to be submitted to the agency via the Internet. Without that access, requests can be submitted the old-fashioned way, via paper, but the hassle factor increases and with it the willingness of police to go through with it. "We've got to distribute [eTrace] more broadly so it's closer to where the recovery comes from," said Houser. "Let's face it, without the electronic means of tracing, you're relying on faxes or paper moving from one inbox to another. It's not particularly efficient, and it takes a long time for [a gun] to finally get traced."
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