Camp Lejeune, A soft blanket of snow covered his son Sunday afternoon, but there was no snow on the day Lance Cpl. James E. Brown was born, recalls his mother, Joanne.

The family of Marine Owensville gathered with friends and members of Lance Cpl. James E. Brown Young Marines unit Saulmon Cemetery, final resting pace, to commemorate its 25th anniversary, which is Wednesday.

Her mother arrived before the service to carry his birthday crown and ball, and gave fans a hug after the funeral service.

Brown was 20 when he died November 2, 2006, while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, and Camp Lejeune, NC

In 2005, the Marines have recalled Gibson Southern High School graduate, leader of the Young John Hunter and Blythe Chapel laid minister Butch Davis, also a veteran.

Members of the Young Marines Color Guard placed a wreath on the tomb of Brown, like her mother, brother and sister looked Carma Dillen with family members.

Brown, a 2004 Gibson Southern Titan football player MVP, is also commemorated at the high school football field, where a marker was placed two years ago in his honor.

A new monument recognizing all veterans buried in the cemetery Saulmon small line of Gibson / Posey County was opened in November 2009, with a special marker on the image of Brown at the base of a new mast.

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Plano Isd, As Jamie Schell prepares for the Plano Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday “Plano first annual” he is constantly reminded about his grandfather and his importance to the city of Plano.

The late AR Schell Jr. was a founding member and founding an early president of the Plano Chamber of Commerce for more than six decades. He was mayor of 1932-1948, the 16 years still stands as the longest tenure of any individual position.

The name Schell holds much weight in Plano, and Jamie Schell and several other big names Plano VIP will receive a well-deserved recognition at the luncheon to be held at Collin College Conference Center.

Lunch this year celebrates 65 years of community partnerships.

“My grandfather has always been an important component of this chapter, as was my father”, Schell said, also referring to another former House member Plano – his father, AR Schell III.

“I also served [on the Plano Chamber] back in the 90s, there has been a big part of our lives and our business. My family believes in him, and I am a strong supporter of it. It’s like it was in my blood. ”

Lunch, in addition to marking the 65th anniversary will pay tribute to the eminent representatives of the House Plano, as well as partnerships with the City of Plano, Collin College, Plano ISD and Plano Economic Development Board.

Camille Ussery, the new chairman of the House Plano, said events such as these provide opportunities for residents to reflect and honor those who helped build the city into what it is today.

“Many times we as citizens can be complacent in the city where we live and to forget all that has been a part of,” said Ussery. “This is a celebration of partnerships, but more specifically, each partnership will be the opportunity to share with us some of their success stories. ”

Ussery said this year’s lunch would include a unique twist; these success stories will be shared through the testimony of cardboard. In addition to a contemporary setting, representatives will share their stories of trials to triumph in minimum words written on the cardboard.

Written on one side of a piece of cardboard show where a company was once, perhaps locate a firm or any individual times of weakness. The other side of the box will show you where this business is today and how far he has come. Few words will be said literally, as appropriate.

“When you look at what Plano has to offer, it does not happen by itself,” said Ussery. “We celebrate 65 anniversary of the Plano Chamber, but in our celebration, we recognize a number of important community partnerships and how they came.”

For Schell, the story began with personally have been in business about 30 years. He is now the owner of AR Schell & Son Agency, once a small independent insurance company founded by his grandfather who is not only in its 81st year of existence, but is also a staple community in Plano.

“This event marks only a milestone for all business owners in Plano. Sixty-five years is something to be really proud,” said Schell. “In business one or two people all the path to big business, it is a credit to the dynamic growth in Plano Texas and the North.

“As for what my grandfather accomplished, we hope we shall have to see another 65. I see only the brightest of the word.”

Ussery added, “[AR Schell Jr.] Loved this community. The whole family Schell was an important part of the community for many years. They not only donated their time and resources, but also gave many ‘themselves. ”

What: “Plano first” annual meeting and luncheon (sponsored by the Plano Chamber of Commerce)

When: Thursday, January 13

Where: Collin College Conference Center, Room AA135 (2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway, Plano)

Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Special feature: should be in attendance, among others, Plano Mayor Phil Dyer, Collin College President Cary Israel, Plano ISD Superintendent Doug Otto and Plano ISD Board President Skip Jenkins. … Camille Ussery took over the chairmanship of the House of Plano outgoing president Kelly Palmer. The luncheon will feature Officer’s passage of the hammer.

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Dallas Green – The 9 year old girl killed by a gunman who opened fire in case a member of Congress from Arizona is the granddaughter of former major league baseball manager Dallas Green, The Phillies Philadelphia Sunday.

Christina Taylor-Green was shot outside a grocery story Tucson where she went to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was meeting with constituents there. Giffords was among 13 people injured in the melee that killed six people, including Arizona federal judge and an assistant chief for the Democratic legislature.

“The Phillies organization expresses our deepest condolences to Dallas and Sylvia Green and the whole family on the senseless, tragic loss of life of Christine,” team president David Montgomery said. “It was a young and talented girl with a bright future. His untimely death weighs heavily on our hearts. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all families affected by the horrific shootings yesterday.”

An uncle of the girl of 9 years, told the Arizona Republic that a neighbor was going to the event and its guests, and because she had just been elected student council and was interested within government.

Dallas Green is a former pitcher and manager in the major leagues. He is an executive advisor for the Phillies, the team managed to World Series championship in 1980.

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Is Facebook Really Shutting Down, Late Saturday night and Sunday morning, rumors spread of Facebook’s imminent demise in the Internet like wildfire pushed by the wind through the dry brush, head of Google Trends and inspiring a flurry of tweets very troubled. Think about the equivalent of Chicken Little went viral, and count them as living proof of the capacity of the Internet for transmission of opinion and speculation as if they were facts.

A series of unfortunate events
Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported and well-informed sources have confirmed Goldman-Sachs was seeking major investments in shares of Facebook, the establishment and 2 million minimum purchase prices, and specifying Purchasers should keep their shares until 2013. Goldman estimated the value of Facebook at about $ 50 billion (USD), outlining plans to purchase shares totaling $ 1.5 billion (USD) or about 1.5% of the current value of the private company.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has so far refused to comment publicly on the movements of Goldman, has always remained suspicious of Wall Street, discouraging speculation on whether or when he can take his audience Palo Alto station. Significant investment from Goldman, coupled with a $ 500 million (USD) cash infusion from Russian Technologies Digital Sky Facebook gives cash to hire IT professionals in high-powered by a pool of super-charged and extend its reach through a wide range of cloud computing technologies. According to Reuters, “The vehicle appears to be designed to allow Facebook to sell shares to a larger number of donors, without triggering a settlement Securities and Exchange Commission requires financial reporting major public companies with more than 500 investors. This is because the vehicle could be considered a single investor. ”

On Friday, the veteran tech journalist, Muckraker, and populist David Rushkoff has produced an editorial for CNN Money, and his opinions were well informed largely mistaken as fact. The piece speculates on the future of Facebook, drawing on examples from AOL and MySpace, and reasoning that social networking sites follow essentially the same cycles as the dots of water popular in the world real: people get tired of the same old environment and they move on. If they are smart, tech wizards who create the sites of there cash holdings before their fields turn to ghost towns. Applying this reasoning, Rushkoff wrote: “As I read the situation, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook. These are not symptoms of a company that wins, but whoever is cashing out. ”

Problems with reading comprehension
The fundamental error from thousands of readers for taking strong opinion CNN facts established a tribute to the powerful prose Rushkoff, but a serious misunderstanding. While millions and displayed their tweeted “BMC!” Coolly and calmly Kanalley Craig noted in the Huffington Post, “Whatever the reason for this rumor, it’s safe to say that as a site with over 500 million and users and 500 investment from Goldman Sachs recently Millon, Facebook will not stop anytime soon. “

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The Company Men, If you are a travel agent, bank teller or a file clerk, or if you have a printing press, answering a switchboard or work at a sewing machine, if you repair watches or cameras, or if you doing everything that can be more expensive elsewhere, or do anything that can be done by a robot or a computer, you can feel history is against you.

An old vision of the future post-industrial – that the work could be done by machines but nothing would work – is done with a vengeance in the second decade of the 21st century.

Although the labor market of the United States this year should register at least modest gains in all states and regions more underground, many Americans who have jobs are still afraid of losing. Many who do not have jobs lest they never will find one? And although both sides fear that the recession that officially ended a year and a half ago, has accelerated the inevitable changes in the work.

Harry Holzer, a professor of government at Georgetown University and co-author of “Where are the Good Jobs Going”, says these fears are exaggerated a bit – but very understandable.

“The U.S. economy churns much more than in most countries,” he said. “Many jobs are created and destroyed, and it creates a lot of anxiety. In times of recession, insecurity is even worse. ”

Conduct of anxiety:

Globalization and automation can export or eliminate jobs not only, but all professions – living, really.

The Labor Department predicts that over the next ten years there will be fewer workers in nearly a quarter of the 750 occupations that follows, even if the total increases of 10 percent of employment.

A disproportionate number of new jobs could be the kind that, like Studs Terkel put it in his book Working, dulls the senses and breaks the spirit. ” In April, the MIT economist David Author has published a document that describes the influence of the labor market of the United States as more and more polarized, with growth in high-skill, high wages and low skills, ends low wages, and contraction in the vast middle.

Especially after a “jobless” economic recovery, the nation could end up accepting a basic level of unemployment far higher than 4-5 percent many economists and policymakers have long viewed as an indication of “full employment”.

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