Robber killed in shootout with ex-anchor's husband at motel

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Chris Kyle: Amen

This one is for the record.   Well worth reading the whole way through. 

 

From: Mark

Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 5:29 PM
To:  
Subject: FW: Chris Kyle: Amen

 

Just some good reading about the folks who support our military!

Subject: Chris Kyle: Amen
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:02:29 -0400

 

 Chris Kyle: Amen

This is apparently from a wife of one of the Navy Seals in attendance... it makes interesting, disturbing, but hardly surprising reading.

Chris Kyle became the armed services number #1 sniper of all time. Not something he was happy about, other than the fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American lives.
 
Three years ago, his wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams because he had a huge bounty on his head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The American Sniper." 100% of the proceeds from the book went to two of  the SEAL families who had lost their sons in Iraq.
 
That was the kind of guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas to train military, police and I think firemen, how to protect themselves in difficult situations. He also formed a foundation to work with military people suffering from PTSD.

Chris was a giver not a taker. He, along  with a friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered trying to help a young man that had served six months in Iraq and claimed to have PTSD.
 
Now I need to tell you about all of the blessings.

Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL and their family from any airport to the funeral... free of charge. The employees donated buddy passes and one lady worked for four days without much of a break to see that it happened.  Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.

The Marriott Hotel reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the hotel for only SEAL's and family.

The Midlothian, TX Police Department paid the $45 a night for each room. I would guess there were about 200 people staying at the hotel, 100 of them were SEALs.

Two large buses were chartered (an unknown donor paid the bill) to transport people to the different events and they also had a few rental cars (donated).

The police and secret service were on duty 24 hours during the stay at  our hotel.

At the Kyle house, the Texas DPS parked a large motor home in front to block the view from reporters. It remained there the entire five days for the SEALs to meet in and so they could use the restroom there instead of the bathroom in the house.
 
Taya, their two small children and both sets of parents were staying in the home. Only a handfull of SEALs went into the home as they had different duties and meetings were held sometimes on a hourly basis.


It was a huge coordination of many different events and security. Derek was assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris' body when it was transferred from the Midlothian Funeral Home to the Arlington Funeral Home, and to be with Taya. A tough job. Taya seldom came out of her  bedroom. The house was full with people from the church and other family members that would come each day to help. I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris' mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents (the other man murdered with Chris). A tough job.
 
George W Bush and his wife Laura , met and talked to everyone on the Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite a while. They had prayer with us all. You can tell when people were sincere and caring


Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people all day long including the 200 SEALs and their families.

The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the  house and fed all once again. Food was plentiful and all were taken care of. The family's church kept those inside the house well fed.


JerryJones, the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and he were just making sure everyone was taken care of....Class...

He donated the use of Cowboy Stadium for the services because so many wanted to attend. The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am.

Every car, bus, motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police. I am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a security risk, I don't know. We willingly obliged. No purses went into the stadium!
 
We were taken to The Legends room high up and a large buffet was available. That was for about 300 people. We were growing.

A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and police and Sarah Palin and her husband. She looked nice, this was a very formal military service.

The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked. We heard that about 10,000 people had come to attend also. They were seated in the stadium seats behind us .
It was a beautiful and emotional service. The Bagpipe and drum corps were wonderful and the Texas A&M men's choir stood through the entire service and sang right at the end. We were all in tears.

The next day was the 200-mile procession from Midlothian, TX to Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were out.

We had dozens of police motorcycles riders, freedom riders, five chartered buses and lots of cars . You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it was huge.

Two helicopters circled the procession with snipers sitting out the side door for protection.

It was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas . People were everywhere. The entire route was shut down ahead of us, the people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way.

Firemen were down on one knee, police officers were holding their hats over their hearts, children waving flags, veterans saluting as we went by.


Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from their tall ladders, people all along the entire 200 miles were standing in the cold weather. It was so heartwarming. Taya rode in the hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with us. I was so grateful to have that time with him.
 
The service was at Texas National Cemetery. Very few are buried there and you have to apply to get in . It is like people from the Civil War, Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical people of Texas.

It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.

Each SEAL  put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket, one at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow. Derek was the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was caressing it as he did it.

Another tearful moment.
 
After the service Governor Rick Perry and his wife, Anita , invited us to the governor's mansion. She stood at the door, greeted each of us individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas. She was a sincere, compassionate, and gracious hostess. We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden for beverages and BBQ.

So many of the Seal team guys said that after they get out they are moving to Texas. They remarked that they had never felt so much love and hospitality. The charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights. Derek just now called and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting America

We just wanted to share with you, the events of a quite emotional,but blessed week."
 
To this day, no one in the White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle;
his service, his death, his duty, his generosity, his caring, his life.

However, the President can call a sports person and congratulate him on his bravery for announcing to the world that he is gay.

He can say on national television that someone, a man who has committed a crime and was shot by police in the line of duty, would have made him a good son.

The SEALS have asked that you please, keep this moving if you think Chris Kyle would have made a good son.


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exterior Designs Landscape & Pool Construction Review Livermore California

We used Exterior Designs Swimming pool and landscape construction to improve our property in Livermore California.  They are  swimming pool contractor in Livermore CA and have done several projects in Livermore, Brentwood, Dublin and Pleasanton.  If you are considering Exterior Designs Landscaping or  Exterior Designs Landscape & Pool Construction in Livermore CA on Bess Avenue, I invite you to call me to discuss our experience with them.  If you are interested in an Exterior Designs Landscape & Pool Construction review or reviews, please give me a call or email.  I would be happy to discuss my experience.

 

All the best,

Doug

 

 

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Scary Federal Regulation on Savings Account Transfers

If this notice from Wells Fargo doesn’t state Government Control, I don’t know what does…  I have but three words, “Vote Them Out!”  Churn the politicians, all of them, in the next election.  No Incumbents…

 

Read on…

 

Subject	Savings Transfer Limits
Received	October 23, 2013
From	Online Banking

Savings Transfer Limits

We want to make sure you understand an existing federal rule (Regulation D) limiting certain types of transfers from your savings account to a total of six (6) per monthly statement period*. To help you stay within the limit, please keep in mind the following:

• The limit of six (6) transfers per monthly statement period from your savings account includes transfers through the following:
  • Online, Mobile, and Text Banking
  • Phone transfers - Using Wells Fargo's automated banking service or speaking with a banker on the phone
  • Overdraft Protection - Transfers to a checking account for overdraft coverage also counts
  • Third-party payments - Includes checks, wires, and ACH transfers (recurring and one-time)

• There are no limits on the number of transfers or withdrawals made in person at ATMs or Wells Fargo banking locations or on any type of deposit.
• If the six (6) transfers per monthly statement period are exceeded, an excess activity fee (currently $15) will be assessed for transactions that exceed the limit. If the limit is exceeded on more than an occasional basis, the savings account must be converted to a checking account (which doesn't have any transaction limits) or closed.

Beginning December 11, 2013
If the federal transfer limit of six (6) is reached or exceeded, additional transfers from savings accounts through online banking (including mobile and text) or the telephone may be declined for the remainder of the monthly statement period. We are taking this step to help our customers stay within the federal limit.

Easy ways to stay within the transfer limit:

• Keep track of your transfers (especially recurring transfers)
• Make transfers in person at an ATM or a Wells Fargo banking location

* Exceptions to the statement period may apply.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC.

 

 

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FW: Health Care Reform Play or Pay Delay - Insperity Responds

Well, the below email from our outsourced HR company pretty much says it all about Obamacare… Costs will be higher, regulations and reporting will be burdensome, and since the law is so fragmented and unruly, other provisions are delayed.   The American people are being SCREWED slowly under this Administration fraught with scandals and regulatory destruction for small businesses.  My only advice to those of you who vote out there, is to never let anyone have a second term in any office.   They just get too much power and don't care about the people any more…

 

L (sad face) for America on Independence day.  Let's bring our constitution back!

 

God  Bless America!

Doug

 

 

From: Insperity [mailto:contact…  @  insperity.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Doug Renner
Subject: Health Care Reform Play or Pay Delay - Insperity Responds

 

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July 3, 2013 Health Care Reform Play or Pay Delay - Insperity Responds As you may already know, yesterday the federal government delayed implementation of the Employer Shared Responsibility provisions (also known as "Play or Pay") of the Affordable Care Act. The Play or Pay provisions that have been delayed until January 1, 2015 include: employer penalties for failure to provide qualifying health insurance (businesses with 50+ employees) employer and insurer reporting requirements Yesterday's announcement cites the need for stronger infrastructure and more clearly defined reporting procedures as key reasons for the delay. Additional guidance is expected soon to clarify what actions employers must take in 2014. Once this guidance has been issued, Insperity will review and provide additional updates and analysis. This announcement does nothing to delay the implementation of other major components of the health care law, such as: extensive marketplace reforms- which will generally lead to higher costs, taxes and fees for employers and employees alike the individual mandate provision- expected to increase expenses by driving greater participation in employer health plans the launch of state exchanges- likely to increase reporting requirements and administrative burdens for employers Health care reform will still have a dramatic impact on the health care landscape in 2014. This recent announcement only underscores the volatility and uncertainty that businesses will face with the implementation of health care reform. Insperity remains committed to helping its clients manage the challenge of health care reform and the many new regulations issued in association with this legislation.

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Regular Expressions from ANDTEK

This is a super handy RegEx reference that just hit my inbox from ANDTEK.  They make UC Applications that work with the Cisco UC gear we install a lot of.  Good stuff.   Enjoy….

 

From: ANDTEK [mailto:info@andtek.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:00 AM
To: Doug Renner
Subject: Regular Expressions for Douglas Renner

 

Regular Expressions for Douglas Renner
Usually we give you some updates about products, new trainings and updated features. This time we want to focus on an interesting technical feature which is useful in the AND Phone Application Server but is used in a lot of different technological fields – regular expressions. Regular Expressions are very powerful and useful so why not looking a bit deeper into that "evil language"?! The ANDTEK server uses regular expression in several modules to modify or replace phone numbers and to prefix or append information to a phone number. You use lookup or calling a number out of a directory? Believe us, Regular Expressions will become your best friend. There is always a point where you struggle about phone numbers which are not E.164 compliant, include spaces brackets etc.? Now you can think about changing each single phone number in the data source which takes you probably a couple hours or days. Or you use regular expressions to transform and modify those numbers into a format which can be handled by the CUCM. This work for incoming calls as well as for outgoing calls. First a few words about what regular expressions are before we come to the most common regular expressions which are used at our server. The Regex Alphabet and Words Regex is a written language that uses its own alphabet of special characters to form its verbs and nouns. These verbs and nouns are properly called metacharacters or operators and are written with the following characters: { } ? : ( ) . [ ] + ! < > * | ^ $ = Western numerals (0-9) and letters of the Latin alphabet (a-z) are also used in conjunction with those characters. A typical regex consists of a search pattern and a replacement pattern expressed with a combination of metacharacters and non metacharacters. Metacharacters tell a regex engine what to look for, where to look, when to turn a blind eye to what it is looking at and what to do once it's matched its search expression to something. Non metacharacters are the symbols, digits and words being searched for. They have no special meaning to the regex engine and represent exactly what they are – regular text strings. Non metacharacters are usually called literal characters or literals. We can tell a regex engine to treat a metacharacter as a literal character by placing a backslash () in front of it. This act is known as "commenting out". Most important Metacharacters Expression    Definition ^ Beginning of the string $ End of the string Use before any of the following characters to escape or null the meaning of it. + [ ] ( ) ^ . * { } $ . Any character * Multiple occurrences of the preceding character (even 0 occurrences) ? At least one occurrence of the preceding character + Preceding character occurs once or multiple times | Starts alternative match this|that would mean match this or that [x-y] Range for matching digits from x to y [wxz] Range for matching digits w or x or z (no y) [^x-y] Negates the class and means digits don't match the range x-y (xxxx) Back reference point group which can be used in the „Replace with" definition by using the expression $ where is the number of the group. Group numbers start with 1. Examples Now since we know what we can do with regular expressions we will not leave you alone with it. Here the most common regular expressions which are used to normalize numbers or make them searchable. Typically phone numbers in a directory are configured like +49 (89) 555-123 and need to be brought into an E.164 compliant format like +4989555123 or a format like 0089555123. This just takes a few regular expression statements for "Outgoing Calls": Regex    Replace    Result Explanation Comment [^0-9#+] +4989555123 Everything which is not a digit, a + or a # This will remove all special characters like brackets, spaces, dashes etc. ^+49|+ 49 00 0089555123 String begins with +49 or string begins with + 49 This will replace the +49 with 00 ^+[^49]|+ [^49] 000 String begins with plus and next two digits are not 49 or space 49 This will replace the + for international numbers with 000 For reverse number lookup you need to define a set of regular expressions for "Incoming Calls" to transform the calling number close to the format how it is written in your database. Let's assume you get calls presented in a format like 0089555123 or even without the area code like 0555123 while your database entry has the format +49 89 555123. The following regex will help you to get properly formatted phone numbers for the lookup: Regex    Replace    Result Explanation Comment ^00 +49 +4989555123 String begins with 00 This replaces the leading 00 with the country code +49 ^0 +4989 +4989555123 String begins with 0 This will replace the 0 with the country code +49 and insert also the area code 89 That's it! With just 5 regular expression statements you covered about 95% of your phone numbers to be able to dial them or make them searchable. But always keep in mind: Not regular expressions are evil, but overuse of regular expressions might become complicated.

 

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A great article on successful people

http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/01/22/12-things-successful-people-do-differently/

 

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