"Honor Flight Network is a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices. We transport our heroes to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at their memorials. Top priority is given to the senior veterans – World War II survivors, along with those other veterans who may be terminally ill.
Frank was transported to and from the airport by his granddaughter Kerri and her husband, Rob. Below are the impressions and memories of the Honor Flight experience as recorded by Rob Hewitt.
"I figured I'd write this since grandpa does not seem to remember much any more the details for any one who was interested. I asked him a lot of questions on the way home.
I picked him up at 5:20 am. Apparently I had called, Carol had called, and Nancy to make sure he was up. He was ready in his hat and jacket. Grandma had cooked him a breakfast. You could tell he was very anxious and nervous. He talked of wanting to get this over with and how if no one talked to him all day, he would be quite happy with that. As we know, he usually does not do much of anything by himself, with grandma or one of the kids/grandkids always with him. On the car ride there he put his hearing aids on.
They also had a table with fruits and snacks like granola bars and fig newtons, which, being free, he sent me over to fill up a paper bag's worth for him. They had a ton of wheelchairs ready and told him he could sit in one. His mood brightened considerably. He loves being pushed around in them. At that point, a guy from the VFW was going around handing out some free pins to some of the guys and somehow missed grandpa. That of course was unacceptable. Though he had no idea what the pin was, he had to have it . We eventually got the guy to come over and it was a flag pin.
There were about 35 veterans about his age and maybe 20 volunteers. A lot of women or VFW guys from later wars. You could tell by their caps. One guy in charge, the leader, gave a real gung ho speech about how that generation suffered through the worst economic conditions when they were teens and at an age when they should have been buying cars or thinking about girls, the war started, and other tributes to them. It was a bit a little corny but the veterans and volunteers gave him a thunderous applause and really seemed to appreciate it.
A woman came over and said grandpa was part of her group. She was a feisty 50 yr old or so and like a real "broad." She teased him. I told her he was a little hard of hearing. She said her husband was a lot younger and he was hard of hearing and used a wheelchair to get around sometimes too, so she's used to it. She then promised me she wouldn't lose him. According to grandpa, she wheeled him around everywhere and never left his side, and was really good to him. She took pictures with his camera and hers and promised to mail him pictures. When I picked him up later she said immediately "I said I'd never lose him" and was carrying in her bag his camera and a booklet they gave out with the information and stories of each veteran that had been submitted. I have an extra copy if any one like Carl is interested and grandpa has his.
Then I left him in good hands. When I came later that night at 8pm, a guy was there who had been a volunteer (they call them guardians) 2 months ago. He said they had arranged when he went for like 500 people, including some military and retired military types, to be there and they clapped, and there were a few speeches. Grandpa didn't remember that per se, but he did remember applause when they went different places and got off the bus so perhaps it was this organized applause the guardian spoke of or perhaps it was more spontaneous like grandpa seemed to think it was. Or both. Some of the pictures (real dark) it seems like there were some navy and army guys and other types who were there, and some instruments playing but he doesn't really remember. The website says that the weekday visits they don't have that but on the Saturday ones, they arrange for the military and a special guest to be present.
From there they seem to have headed to the WWII memorial, which is apparently huge. Grandpa remembered the big fountain and that there was a column from every state. He took a picture of himself by New York and something that said something about D-Day, which he has always been proud of being apart of. They also went to Iwo Jima memorial and got pictures there.
At the airport, I was worried maybe the day had been too much for him or not fun. But when he got off the plane he was beaming and saw me and kept waiving. He had a really great time and had nothing but good things to say. He said the entire time all the volunteers took complete care of him and he had no complaints at all about that. He said a nice goodbye to the woman who had walked him around. He had a card with a woman's e-mail address and name but he was not clear whether this was her name. He didn't think so at the time, but later said it could be. This may have been another woman volunteer who he mentioned also had taken pictures and said she could share them with him. Two other veterans said "goodbye Frank, it was nice meeting you" and gave big handshakes. So much for not talking to anyone.
After he got out of the wheelchair, I took one last picture of grandpa standing there, the proud veteran who had a long day. On the way home he told what happened and seemed to miss grandma. He thought she might come to pick him up because "she didn't even kiss me goodbye" which was sweet the way he said it. They had argued in the morning "I don't remember why" and he seemed a little worried she was still mad at him. But she greeted him with a big greeting when we came home and he was very happy. All in all, a successful day.
Frank and the group of veterans honored this day.
Senator Bob Dole addresses Frank and the other honored vets.
Former Presidential candidate Bob Dole. Himself a disabled WWII veteran.
Frank poses in front of a fountain inscribed "D-Day" n which Frank took part. Also enscribed "The Battle of the Bulge." Franks bomb group flew in missions to support the surrounded ground troops in that battle.
I had the honor of going with my father, Santo on the same flight as Frank. Dad was thrilled to see his buddy after so many years. They reminisced about their time in the 344th the entire trip. It was a great day!
I will always be so grateful that you wrote all of this down that weekend..no words can express..thats thinking ahead..grandpa would like that!


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November 2, 2010 Mallary Jean Tenore
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It's been six years since Tom Brokaw stepped down as anchor of "NBC Nightly News," but he's just as committed to journalism as he ever was.
When I spoke with him by phone last week, he was busy following conservative and liberal blogs to see what they were saying about the elections, which he helped cover Tuesday night as a special correspondent for NBC. He was also in the middle of writing a New York Times op-ed and a new book.
Tonight, Brokaw is visiting The Poynter Institute to help celebrate its 35th anniversary. In advance of his visit, I talked with the journalism legend about the changing role of the news anchor, the need for more one-subject broadcasts, and the reason you won't find him on Facebook or Twitter.
Changing anchors, philosophies at evening news stations
The anchor position at the three evening newscasts has changed significantly during Brokaw's years as a journalist. Most noticeably, it's no longer dominated by men.
"I thought it was inevitable that we would sooner or later have female anchors," Brokaw said. "The gender line has been crossed in so many areas, and it was crossed some time ago when it came to the news broadcasts."
The outlook of the evening newscast anchors has also changed. Brokaw said Walter Cronkite, the late "CBS Evening News" anchor, believed that the evening news ought to consist of the "hottest stories of the day" and questioned the need for a mix of stories on topics such as health and science. Over time, though, it became evident that people paid attention to that type of coverage and that the evening newscasts should provide it, Brokaw said.
Reporters' willingness to use certain words and phrases on air has also changed. Brokaw, who watches all three evening news shows, recalled a time when the "Nightly News" was reporting on the dangers of toxic shock syndrome.
"One of my colleagues said, 'I'm not going to mention 'tampons' on the air.' I said, 'Wait a minute …' Times have changed," Brokaw said. "These broadcasters are doing an admirable job of getting the right mix in the evenings."
Breadth of sources, changing consumer habits lead to lower ratings
Whether or not the evening newscasts have been offering the right mix of stories, their ratings have plummeted. Several factors have contributed to this, Brokaw said. First off, there are more blogs and start-up sites to go to for news nowadays, so there's more competition.
"The other part is that Americans' social habits have changed," Brokaw said. "What happened is that we're a much more mobile society now. Our daily patterns are far more different than they were." He pointed out, however, that millions of people still turn to the evening newscasts as a trusted source of information. All three newscasts saw total viewer growth in the week leading up to Election Day.
Brokaw said the three major networks are trying to meet their audiences where they are — online and on their smart phones and tablets — and said he expects there will be more synergy between what's shown on TV and what's available online moving forward.
Devoting the evening broadcast to one subject
Brokaw said one of his mistakes as an anchor was not advocating for more one-subject broadcasts.
"We did nearly that when we were ramping up to go to war. We said, 'tonight we're going to take you through the critical decisions, what we know and what we don't know,' " Brokaw said. "I think there could have been more one-subject broadcasts. And the value that the network news could have brought was, 'We're going to give you as much of this subject as we possibly can.' "
This could have been especially helpful for viewers when the economy was cratering, Brokaw said. And it would be an effective way for all three of the evening newscasts to dig deeper into the housing crisis — an issue that has "been underreported even though we've been covering it for some time."
The evening newscasts occasionally report on a story several nights in a row. "Nightly News," for instance, recently launched a series of stories about reinventing America as an "education nation." It's rare, though, for them to dedicate an entire show to one topic.
Fascinated by social media, but not convinced it has news value
There's an @TomBrokaw Twitter account, but it's not Brokaw's. Despite the various ways that news organizations are using social media to tell stories, Brokaw said he thinks there's still a lot we need to figure out about its effectiveness.
"We're still mid-passage in determining the impact of all this new technology," said Brokaw, who's not on Twitter or Facebook. "We're trying to absorb what it means to our individual lives and how it fits into a pattern that's useful for us."
Brokaw, who said he's developed a growing interest in social media, recently moderated a discussion about it during Stanford University's roundtable, "Generation Ageless: Longevity and the Boomers." Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, talked during the discussion about how the social networking site can enliven boomers' lives.
Still, Brokaw wasn't convinced enough to join. "I have too many invasions of my privacy as it is," he said. "I'm thinking about just signing up so I can share things with my granddaughters a little more, but I worry I'll read things on their Facebook that will unnerve me."
As for Twitter? He doesn't believe it's taken form yet journalistically. "I don't get Twitter," Brokaw said. "I know that it's very popular and that it's a quick way of getting a text blast out, so to speak, but an awful lot of it seems to be … just stuff that fills air."
He pointed to the Mumbai attacks, when Twitter was flooded with news and photos of the chaos. "It alerted the world to what was going on," Brokaw said, "but was that journalism or was it just a cry for help?"
WikiLeaks information needs to be presented in context
Context is key when reporting on military reports, said Brokaw, who has done extensive coverage of the Iraq war and created a related documentary.
"The difficulty is always when you get a flood of documents dumped on you and you feel like you have to get it on the air," Brokaw said. "Do you give it enough time and enough meaning for your readers so they understand what's going on?"
The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel did a good job reporting on the WikiLeaks documents, Brokaw said, but he wasn't all that surprised by the findings.
"Most of the stuff about WikiLeaks I think we already knew," he said. "I don't think there was any 'Oh my god' moment."
Being first on the scene of a story, writing well
When asked what advice he would give to today's journalists, Brokaw focused on the importance of good writing and curiosity.
"Journalists: learn to write. Text messaging is not writing," he said. "Whether you're writing for a newspaper, online or on the air, get better at writing."
Brokaw, who's written five best-selling books, says curiosity, hard work and contacts led him to a series of career "firsts." He was the first U.S. anchor to report that the Iraq war had begun, the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses, and the first and only anchor to report from the scene when the Berlin Wall fell.
"The line that I developed is 'it's always a mistake not to go.' You can sit around and debate, 'Should I leave for this story or not?' If I went, I always found something happened," Brokaw said. "There's always a reason to turn over a rock and find out what's under it."

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Historic 1867 Trophy Ball Set for Auction
September 28, 2017 By Rich Mueller
The Civil War had ended just two years earlier and professional baseball as we know it was still decades aw ay. A surviving relic from the game's earliest days in New York City 150 years ago is about to hit the auction block.
Preserved amazingly well thanks to its life inside the original velvet-lined case, what's believed to be the oldest surviving trophy ball from baseball in the Big Apple is about to hit the auction block. The 1867 silver trophy ball presented to the Liberty Club will be offered by Heritage Auctions in its November catalog auction. The trophy and case are expected to sell for at least $20,000.
The ball, measuring about the same scope as a normal-sized baseball, was presented by a man named Spencer Wood, a local sponsor.
The winning club was part of the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP), an organization boasting over 400 clubs in 1867. While the loosely organized league's records are a bit of a mystery, it's believed the silver ball was the prize handed out for a tournament involving teams in and around New York. The Liberty club's hometown was Nyack, just 30 miles upriver from Manhattan.
The ball weighs six ounces. The two halves of the original case have become separated but is still in good condition otherwise.
A book written by researchers of the New York sports scene from 1870-1930 references the presentation of the Spencer Wood baseball to the Liberty Club "on the grounds east of Oak Hill Cemetery."
The auction takes place from November 16-18 at HA.com.
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Every time we consider the graphics side here at team Funky, we like to do a bit of brainstorming. And that includes the snowboarders among us!
Graphics to express the Funky mood. The world we create is a world of fun, of colour, of the best of the 80s and 90s. We look back, but we look forward too. It's got to be modern, hip - something people notice when it finally hits the slopes!
Matching and choosing the colours are fundamental steps. This is what decides the final look and impact of our board.
The graphic elements for the snowboard that we'll use for our lessons is based very much on the kind of tee-shirt tops basketball players used to wear in the 1990s. The ideas can come from anywhere. The mood we choose, or the ambit, may have something to do with snowboarding. Or maybe not. This kind of contamination is what makes Funky boards so unique!
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I need a Sonotrod for a 450 x 155 MM freezer door in the refrigrator. It is 2 piece Gpps plastic injection door. We have 20Khz branson machines. they are telling us to weld 6-8 times by making 160 x 40 x 140 mm tall sonotrod off coarse it need to be tuned and calculated.
Why this can not be weld by one sonotrod? I like to get a controle of this calculation in our own hand rather than waiting outside help. How we can do it? What we need to test the frequency ? what we need to calculate the maximum size of sonotrod we can use?
As the size of a sonotrode increases it becomes more and more difficult to keep it vibrating in the correct mode of vibration. Ideally the dimensions should be such that the length (height) is exactly half a wavelength and all other dimensions significantly less than this, but some designs like block / blade horns can be pushed larger.
In your case with (I guess) a titanium sonotrode at 20kHz the half-wavelength is about 130mm, and the dimensions you've been given are reasonable as maximum values for a blade horn - attempting to increase the 160mm length will almost certainly result in unacceptable variations in vibration amplitude along the sonotrode. Having a single sonotrode to weld a workpiece 450mm x 155mm is simply impossible with current technology.
You can take control of the sonotrode design and manufacture yourself, but be aware that it's a difficult job and you have a lot of catching up to do before you can hope to approach the wealth of specialist knowledge and experience that the established manufacturers already have. Unless you're absolutely sure that you will have an ongoing need for this expertise, doing it yourself is unlikely to be cost-effective compared to simply buying the sonotrodes from Branson. At the very least you'll need finite-element analysis software to help with the design, specialist tuning equipment to test / tune the parts and of course the necessary expertise to use both. My sonotrode calculator does not analyse blade horns at present, although I would like to add at least some capability in this area in the future.


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Next time you feel guilty about idling away your commute on social media, remember that inspiration can come from all sources.
That was certainly the case for Benjamin Swan, whose subway scrolling sparked an idea that led him to quit his corporate job and embark on a multimillion-dollar business venture.
"I was on my way home from work and I read an article by (microbiology professor and author) Dickson Despommier on the future of farming and vertical farming very specifically," said Swan, referring to the practice of growing crops in stacked layers, rather than horizontal fields.
"I was looking at a lot of the illustrations and thought to myself … (this) just wouldn't work for Asia." So, that evening, the ex-engineer, who at the time was working for Citibank in Singapore, consulted "Professor You and Dr. Google" (YouTube and Google), and set about finding a solution.
Six months — and many long nights of experimentation — later, Swan, along with co-founder Martin Lavoo, finalized the first working prototype for an indoor vertical farm that could replicate in Singapore the conditions required to grow non-native crops.
And with that, the first seeds of Sustenir were sown. Within 18 months, Swan and Lavoo had quit their day jobs to pursue the project full-time; and today, five years on, the pair have pumped millions of dollars of their own and investors' money into vertical farms designed to make food production in Asia more sustainable and efficient.
Kale growing in Sustenir's Singapore-based vertical farm facility.
Globally, food production is becoming a hot button issue, with governments and corporations looking for innovative ways to make the process more suitable for today's society and climate concerns. That challenge is especially felt in Asia — and Singapore and Hong Kong in particular — where rising populations and limited land availability put pressure on the agriculture sector.
Vertical farms can provide a solution to that by reducing the space needed for production and manipulating the indoor climate (with LED lights for example) so that exotic crops can be grown away from their natural environment, thereby moving production closer to consumers. In the case of Sustenir's kale, Swan said it can make the process 127 times more efficient than traditional farms per square foot.
Vertical farming companies, of which Sustenir is one of many across the globe, are not only trying to reinvent tired processes. They're also attempting to reinvigorate a tired industry that has struggled to attract young, millennial workers, typically thought to prefer big cities and co-working spaces to provincial life.
Swan, who is now 38, said he hopes his business can help overhaul that mindset and attract more young people into agricultural careers.
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Below the Line: What is native advertising?
Last week I attended (and live tweeted) a webinar discussing native advertising hosted by Rebecca Lieb of The Altimeter Group. In the ever-changing world of marketing and advertising, "native advertising" is yet another new term that those in the industry don't even agree on.
That definition may be a bit too wordy to catch on. I like to think of native advertising as "advertising opportunities designed around the specific user experience of a platform."
Cons of #NativeAdvertising: labor intensive/scale. KPIs not fully defined. No Google juice.
#NativeAdvertising must maintain integrity of publisher/editorial relationship.
FCC has called for hearings on #NativeAdvertising. Set for Dec. 4. Looking at guidelines, disclosure.
Most common goals of #NativeAdvertising: community building, #leadgen, awareness.
Reco's for #NativeAdvertising: must be transparent, have a Content Strategy/brand guardian needed (my 2 cents), allow for shares/likes.
Yet another new(ish) term... "Converged Media.
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$offer = fetch_one('SELECT id, number, title, clientContact, closedAt FROM offers WHERE id=? LIMIT 1', array(1 => $_GET['id']));

not_found_if(empty($offer));

$offerPdfFile = make_offer_file($offer->id, 'pdf') . '.pdf';
$lang = !empty($_GET['lang']) && $_GET['lang'] === 'en' ? 'en' : 'pl';
$scheme = $_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'];

$_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] = 'http';

$cmd = sprintf('wkhtmltopdf -B 25mm -R 10mm -L 10mm -T 32mm --header-spacing 7 --header-html "%s" --footer-html "%s" "%s" "%s"',
  url_for("/offers/print/header.php?id={$offer->id}&lang={$lang}", true),
  url_for("/offers/print/footer.php?id={$offer->id}&lang={$lang}", true),
  url_for("/offers/print/body.php?id={$offer->id}&lang={$lang}", true),
  $offerPdfFile);

$_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME'] = $scheme;

$errors[] = $cmd;

exec($cmd, $output, $result);

header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
readfile($offerPdfFile);
unlink($offerPdfFile);

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Some of my clients include Hallmark Cards, ChickaDEE Magazine, JibJab, and Yahoo!
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Q: Bootstrap form validator I am new to Bootstrap 3. I am creating a login page and I have this code:
* I got this generated from Bootply.
<form class="form-horizontal">
<fieldset>

<legend>Registry Login</legend>

  Email

  <input id="input_username" name="input_email" placeholder="" class="form-control input-md" required="" type="email">

  Password

    <input id="input_password" name="input_password" placeholder="" class="form-control input-md" required="" type="password">

    <button id="" name="" class="btn btn-default">Login</button>

</fieldset>
</form>

I keyed in on my Email field this sample string abcde and I received a small tooltip saying that Please enter an email address. Is there a way for me to change the text?

A: You'll have to change the form options with Codeigniter, I'm not too familiar with it, but it sounds like it would be under a submit code for a post.

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