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Pluralistic: 13 Mar 2020 (The third Little Brother book, Where I write, stream global news, AT&T's CEO gets millions for his failures, Chelsea Manning freed, Katie Porter vs CDC, Trump's scientific nihilism, Covid-malware co-evolution, Siennese solidarity)

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Announcing the third Little Brother book, Attack Surface: And a new Little Brother/Homeland reissue, with an intro by Ed Snowden!

Where I Write: A column for the CBC that's really about how I write.

Stream 200+ global news channels: Each hand-picked, no registration required.

AT&T's CEO fired 23,000 workers and gave himself a 10% raise: Life on the easiest setting.

Chelsea Manning is free: But she's been fined $256K for refusing to testify to the Grand Jury.

Rep Katie Porter forces CDC boss to commit to free testing: Literally the most effective questioner in Congress.

Trump's unfitness in a plague: It's not because he's an ignoramus, it's because he's a nihilist.

Malware that hides behind a realtime Covid-19 map: Peter Watts' prophecy comes true.

Locked-down Siennese sing their city's hymn: A cause for hope in the dark.

This day in history: 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

Announcing the third Little Brother book, Attack Surface (permalink)

Attack Surface is the third Little Brother book, coming out next October.

It's told from the point of view of Masha, the young woman who is Marcus Yallow's frenemy who works first for the DHS and then for a private spook outfit. It's a book about how good people talk themselves into doing bad things, and how they redeem themselves. It ranges from Iraq to the color revolutions of the former USSR, to Oakland and the Movement for Black Lives.

The story turns on cutting-edge surveillance and counter-surveillance: self-driving cars, over-the-air baseband radio malware, IMSI catchers, CV dazzle and adversarial examples, binary transparency and warrant canaries.

This week, I did a wide-ranging and deep interview with Andrew Liptak for Polygon about the book, the Little Brother series, the techlash, the tech workers' uprising (and #TechWontBuildIt), and the future of technological self-determination.

We also revealed the cover for Attack Surface, which was designed by the incomparable Will Staehle (who is eligible for a Best Artist Hugo – nominations close today!).

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531

Not only that, but Staehle has also designed a cover for a new omnibus edition of Little Brother and Homeland that comes out this July, and as you can see from that cover, the book has an all-new introduction by none other than Ed Snowden!

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583

(In 2017, Staehle also designed all-new covers for my adult backlist)

https://www.tor.com/2017/10/18/cory-doctorow-will-staehle-covers/

The Little Brother books are neither optimistic nor pessimistic about technology: instead, they are hopeful. Hope is the belief that you can materially improve your life if you take action. A belief in human agency and the power of self-determination.

The message of Little Brother is neither "Things will all be fine" nor "We are all doomed."

It's: "This will be so great…if we don't screw it up."

Where I Write (permalink)

I learned to be a writer while my life was in total chaos. Decades later, I have a beautiful office to work in, but I still do my best writing typing hurriedly on subway trains, in taxi-cabs, and airport lounges.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/finding-comfort-in-the-chaos-how-cory-doctorow-learned-to-write-from-literally-anywhere-1.5489363

My CBC column on where I write is really a primer on how I write: what it takes to be able to write when you're sad, or anxious, or wracked with self-doubt.

Unquestionably the most important skill I've acquired as a writer.

"Even though there were days when the writing felt unbearably awful, and some when it felt like I was mainlining some kind of powdered genius and sweating it out through my fingertips, there was no relation between the way I felt about the words I was writing and their objective quality, assessed in the cold light of day at a safe distance from the day I wrote them. The biggest predictor of how I felt about my writing was how I felt about me. If I was stressed, underslept, insecure, sad, hungry or hungover, my writing felt terrible. If I was brimming over with joy, the writing felt brilliant."

Stream 200+ global news channels (permalink)

TV News is an Android app that pulls like Youtube streams from 200+ global news channels in 50 languages, each manually selected by the app's creator, Steven Clift, whose work I've previously admired.

http://tvnewsapp.com/

You can filter the feeds by country and language and watch them as floating windows that let you continue to use your device while you watch. No registration required, either.

They're shooting for 1000+ channels soon.

AT&T's CEO fired 23,000 workers and gave himself a 10% raise (permalink)

Randall Stephenson is CEO of AT&T. Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality so that Stephenson could legally slow down the services we requested to extort bribes from us. Then, Trump gave his company a $20B tax cut.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxeg/atandt-preps-for-new-layoffs-despite-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-regulatory-favors

Stephenson used that money to raise exec pay, buy back his company's stock to juice its price and to pay off debts from earlier, disastrous mergers. He cut 23,000 jobs and slashed capital spending (America has the worst broadband of any rich country).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-7000-new-jobs-to-get-tax-break-it-cut-23000-jobs-instead/

After all that, Stephenson congratulated himself on a job well done by giving himself a 10% raise in 2019, bringing his total compensation up to 32 million dollars.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/att-ceo-pay-rose-to-32-million-in-2019-while-he-cut-20000-jobs/

I mean the guy earned it. He blew billions of dollars buying Warner and Directv, and then lost billions more on the failed aftermath. If that doesn't warrant a raise, what does?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/att-loses-another-1-3-million-tv-customers-as-directv-freefall-continues/

Chelsea Manning is free (permalink)

A judge has ordered that Chelsea Manning be released from jail, a day after her latest suicide attempt. She was jailed last March for refusing to testify before a grand jury, held in solitary for two months, then jailed again a few days later, in May, She's been inside ever since.

The judge ordered her release because the Grand Jury had finished its work.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.412520/gov.uscourts.vaed.412520.41.0.pdf

It's fantastic to that Manning got her freedom back, but she has been fined $256,000 for her noncompliance. I just donated to her fund:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-chelsea-pay-her-court-fines

(Image: Tim Travers Hawkins, CC BY-SA)

Rep Katie Porter forces CDC boss to commit to free testing (permalink)

I am a huge fan of Rep Katie Porter. Her outstanding questioning techniques and unwillingness to countenance bullshit from the people she questions are such a delight to watch.

Here she is demolishing billionaire finance criminal Jamie Dimon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WLuuCM6Ej0

Oh, Ben Carson, you never stood a chance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVWy3q2kmNM

Steve Mnuchin always looks like a colossal asshole, but rarely this comprehensively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78zpa0hQ1aw

I almost feel sorry for this Trumpkin from the Consumer Finance Protection Board as she faces Porter's withering fire.

Almost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaCc5VUHS8

Porter – an Elizabeth Warren protege – doesn't do this to grandstand. Like AOC, she uses her spectacular skills to elicit admissions and get them on the record, and to hold Congressional witnesses to account.

Today, Porter attained a new peak in a short, illustrious career. That's because today was the day she questioned CDC assistant secretary for preparedness and response Robert Kadlec, asking him to clarify Trump's televised lie last night that insurers would pay for Covid-19 testing.

https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1238147835859779584

Porter doggedly held Kadlec to account, forcing him to acknowledge that the cost of a Covid-19 test – $1,331 – was so high that many would forego it, and then to admit that these Americans could go on to transmit the disease to others, making it a matter of public concern.

Then she forced CDC Director Robert Redfield to admit – as she had informed him in writing the week before – that the CDC had the authority to simply pay those fees, universally, for any American seeking testing, under 42 CFR 71.30:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2019-title42-vol1/xml/CFR-2019-title42-vol1-part71.xml#seqnum71.30

Having laid this factual record, Porter insisted that Redfield commit to using that authority. Not to consider it, study it, or consult on it. To use it to help save the country. Whenever Redfield waffled, she reclaimed her time and forced him back on point.

KP: Dr. Redfield, will you commit to the CDC, right now, using that existing authority to pay for diagnostic testing, free to every American, regardless of insurance?

RR: Well, I can say that we're going to do everything to make sure everybody can get the care they need –"

KP: Nope, not good enough. Yes or no?

RR: What I'm going to say is, I'm going to review it in detail with CDC and the department —

KP: No, reclaiming my time [repeats the question]

RR: What I was trying to say is that CDC is working with HHS now to see how we operationalize that

KP: Dr. Redfield, I hope that that answer weighs heavily on you, because it is going to weigh very heavily on me and on every American family

RR: Our intent is to make sure that every American family gets the care and treatment they need at this time in this major epidemic and I am currently working with HHS to see how to best operationalize it.

KP: Excellent! Everybody in America hear that — you are eligible to go get tested for coronavirus and have that covered, regardless of insurance

[Curtain]

Trump's unfitness in a plague (permalink)

In this editorial, Science editor-in-chief H Holden Thorp makes a compelling case that Trump is not capable of leading the American response to Covid-19.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6483/1169

Trump has spent years denigrating and ignoring science before taking office, and it's only gotten worse, since.

As Thorp writes, "You can't insult science when you don't like it and then suddenly insist on something that science can't give on demand."

His policy track-record is even worse: "deep cuts to science, including cuts to funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the NIH…nearly 4 years of harming and ignoring science."

This reminds me of an argument I often have with digital rights activists who attribute bad technology policy to the inability of clueless lawmakers to understand the technical nuance. I think that's wrong. The fact that we're not all dead of cholera, even though there are no microbiologists in Congress proves that you don't need to be a domain expert to make good policy.

Good policy comes from truth-seeking exercises in which experts with different views present their best evidence to neutral adjudicators who make determinations in public, showing their work in explicit, written, public reasoning. These processes are made legitimate – and hence robust and reliable – by procedural rules. The adjudicators – regulators, staffers, etc – are not allowed to have conflicts of interest. Their conclusions are subject to the rule of law, with mandatory transparency and a process for appeal.

It has to be this way: there's no way that – say – a president could be an expert on all the different issues that might arise during their tenure.

This, then, is the problem with inequality and market concentration: it merges the referees with the players. When an industry only has a handful of players, they all end up with common lobbying positions – a common position on what is truth. That's because the C-suites of these five companies are filled with people who've worked at two, three or four of the competitors, and are married to others who've worked at the remainder. They're godparents to one anothers' kids, executors of each others' wills.

There's no way for there NOT to be collusion in these circumstances.

And when an industry is that concentrated, the only people who understand it well enough are those same execs, so inevitably the regulators are drawn from the industry.

That's why Obama's "good" FCC Chair, Tom Wheeler, was a former Comcast lobbyist, and why Ajit Pai, Trump's "bad" FCC chair, is a former Verizon lawyer. Apart from Susan Crawford, there's not really anyone who's not from the top ranks of Big Telco qualified to regulate them.

So many of us saw the photo of Trump meeting with all the tech leaders and were dismayed that they were throwing their lot in with him.

But we should also be aghast that all the leaders of the industry fit around one modest board-room table.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/donald-trump-meets-with-tech-leaders/

The problem with Trump's Covid-19 response is that he does not believe in a legitimate process with neutral referees. The refereeship, in trumpland, is an open-field auction, a transactional process that works best when it enriches Trump and his party.

The problem of Trump taking charge of the epidemiological crisis of Covid-19 isn't that he doesn't understand science: it's that he doesn't believe in evidence-based policy.

He is part of the cult of "Public Choice Theory," the belief that there is no one who can serve as referee without eventually colluding with the players for their mutual enrichment, a cynical, nihilistic philosophy that holds that there's no point in seeking to govern well. These people project their own moral vacuum onto all of humanity, a kind of cartoon Homo Economicus who is incapable of anything except maximizing personal utility.

For these people, the existence of bridges that don't fall down and water that doesn't give you cholera are lucky accidents, not results of sound policy and careful truth-seeking. They reason that since they would take bribes to poison the water of Flint, so would everyone.

Trump isn't just a non-expert, he's an ignoranamus, but that's not the problem. The problem is that he is a nihilist, someone who doesn't believe that truth-seeking is even possible.

Malware that hides behind a realtime Covid-19 map (permalink)

Hackers have developed a malware-as-a-service that packages up realtime Covid-19 maps with malware droppers that infect people who load them.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/live-coronavirus-map-used-to-spread-malware/

This reminds me intensely of Peter Watts's 2002 novel Maelstrom, in which Watts uses his background as an evolutionary biologist to posit an eerily plausible and devilishly clever way that a digital and a human virus could co-evolve.

https://rifters.com/real/MAELSTROM.htm

This has stuck with me! In May 2018, I wrote about it in Locus Magazine:

http://locusmag.com/2018/05/cory-doctorow-the-engagement-maximization-presidency/

Maelstrom is concerned with a pandemic that is started by its protagonist, Lenie Clark, who returns from a deep ocean rift bearing an ancient, devastating pathogen that burns its way through the human race, felling people by the millions.

As Clark walks across the world on a mission of her own, her presence in a message or news story becomes a signal of the utmost urgency. The filters are firewalls that give priority to some packets and suppress others as potentially malicious are programmed to give highest priority to any news that might pertain to Lenie Clark, as the authorities try to stop her from bringing death wherever she goes.

Here's where Watt's evolutionary biology shines: he posits a piece of self-modifying malicious software – something that really exists in the world today – that automatically generates variations on its tactics to find computers to run on and reproduce itself. The more computers it colonizes, the more strategies it can try and the more computational power it can devote to analyzing these experiments and directing its randomwalk through the space of all possible messages to find the strategies that penetrate more firewalls and give it more computational power to devote to its task.

Through the kind of blind evolution that produces predator-fooling false eyes on the tails of tropical fish, the virus begins to pretend that it is Lenie Clark, sending messages of increasing convincingness as it learns to impersonate patient zero. The better it gets at this, the more welcoming it finds the firewalls and the more computers it infects.

At the same time, the actual pathogen that Lenie Clark brought up from the deeps is finding more and more hospitable hosts to reproduce in: thanks to the computer virus, which is directing public health authorities to take countermeasures in all the wrong places. The more effective the computer virus is at neutralizing public health authorities, the more the biological virus spreads. The more the biological virus spreads, the more anxious the public health authorities become for news of its progress, and the more computers there are trying to suck in any intelligence that seems to emanate from Lenie Clark, supercharging the computer virus.

Together, this computer virus and biological virus co-evolve, symbiotes who cooperate without ever intending to, like the predator that kills the prey that feeds the scavenging pathogen that weakens other prey to make it easier for predators to catch them.

Locked-down Siennese sing their city's hymn (permalink)

In times of crisis, we typically pull together, but elite panic's pervasive mythology holds that these moments are when the poors reveal their inner beast and attack their social betters. That libel on humanity is disproved regularly by our everyday experience. As common as these incidents of solidarity are, they still warrant our notice.

The Song of the Verbena is the hymn of the Italian city of Sienna, currently on lockdown.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canto_della_Verbena

This video of Siennese people singing their hymn from the windows of their houses, into their empty street, is one of the most beautiful, hopeful things I've seen this week.

Truly, it is a tonic.

https://twitter.com/valemercurii/status/1238234518508777473

This day in history (permalink)

#5yrsago NYPD caught wikiwashing Wikipedia entries on police brutality https://web.archive.org/web/20150313150951/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/03/8563947/edits-wikipedia-pages-bell-garner-diallo-traced-1-police-plaza

#1yrago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263957/gimlet-media-union-spotify-recognition-podcasts

#1yrago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13's father admits it requires filters and says he's OK with killing Youtube https://www.golem.de/news/uploadfilter-voss-stellt-existenz-von-youtube-infrage-1903-139992.html

#1yrago Spotify's antitrust complaint against Apple is a neat parable about Big Tech's monopoly https://www.wired.com/story/spotify-apple-complaint-warren-antitrust-issue/

#1yrago A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmakk3/researchers-find-critical-backdoor-in-swiss-online-voting-system

#1yrago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal https://mcmansionhell.com/post/183417051691/in-honor-of-the-college-admissions-scandal

Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: Empty Wheel (https://www.emptywheel.net/), CNN (https://cnn.com), Memex 1.1 (https://memex.naughtons.org/), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org).

Hugo nominators! My story "Unauthorized Bread" is eligible in the Novella category and you can read it free on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

Currently writing: I've just finished rewrites on a short story, "The Canadian Miracle," for MIT Tech Review. It's a story set in the world of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. I've also just completed "Baby Twitter," a piece of design fiction also set in The Lost Cause's prehistory, for a British think-tank. I'm getting geared up to start work on the novel next.

Currently reading: Just started Lauren Beukes's forthcoming Afterland: it's Y the Last Man plus plus, and two chapters in, it's amazeballs. Last month, I finished Andrea Bernstein's "American Oligarchs"; it's a magnificent history of the Kushner and Trump families, showing how they cheated, stole and lied their way into power. I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley." I just loaded Matt Stoller's "Goliath" onto my underwater MP3 player and I'm listening to it as I swim laps.

Latest podcast: A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_330/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_330_-_A_Lever_Without_a_Fulcrum_Is_Just_a_Stick.mp3

Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627

(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).

"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531

"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583

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Silver Death - Part 9

H-RR:

Setting up my surround sound system in the gym I remember to turn up the volume as high as it will go and then make sure that the door for the hallway is shut correctly.

After making sure that everything is ready or secured I start my music.

The music that's starts playing and is an old lullaby that Winter sung to me when I was new at the facility that I was originally placed in for experimentation.

Looking at the punching bag in front of me I close my eyes to concentrate for a few brief moments before re-opening them only to see the agent that shot my mother standing in the place where the punching bag occupied moments earlier.

I start to beat on the bag, and after a couple of minutes my hands start to get used to the feeling of them hitting something repeatedly so I stop, wrap them and start beating it again.

By the time Winter finds me the bag is ripped in multiple places and has blood covering some of its surface, but I'm still beating it. Widow and Captain have accompanied him this far and stop at the door when they see me.

My hands are covered in blood and dripping down my arms onto my torso,legs and the floor. My hair is messy and bloody from my hands running through it, and the gym floor has sand and fabric from the bag strewn across it.

When my music runs out of new songs and replays the first completely I turn around and notice them for the first time.

(Winters P.O.V.)

When I go to find Silver I literally bump into Natasha and ask her to come along, she comes obviously curious about what I was going to say at breakfast four hours ago.

Steve was about to go to the gym where Silver is currently so when we see him walking across the shed to the hidden door I stop him so we can go in together.

Not hearing any noise from the gym we remember that she has sound proofed it. Opening he door we are greeted by a song that would give most people nightmares, but sing others to sleep.

Тили-тили-бом (Tili Tili Bom)

The first time Silver heard this song she was still Jessica: a scared little girl that wanted her mother.

It was her first night at the first facility she was placed in.

When she wouldn't stop yelling and the guards were planning on going into her cell to beat her until she was quiet.

I had yelled for the girl to be brought to my cell, which the guards had happily obliged assuming that I would make her shut up. Instead I picked her up and started talking to her.

Although I can't remember the words that I had said I know that she started to quiet down. And by the time I finished talking she was just watching me playing with the seams in my metal arm.

I can remember her looking at me and being so quiet that I could barely hear her whisper "can you sing? I can't sleep without a lullaby." She was so quiet back then, before all the testing and torture.

When Silver spoke I stopped thinking of the past and payed attention to the present.

"It's one of my favourite songs. But it will always be my favourite lullaby."

"You were so small on the day I met you. You were just under five years old. And wearing a pink dress."

"I remember that day. I killed a room full of people. And then you picked me up and took me out of that room, holding me and patting my back as you did so." She seemed so happy with her words.

Natasha and Steve watch as we talk. Silver has noticed them but hasn't made the effort to include them into the conversation.

"What do you mean 'I killed a room full of people?' If you weren't even five and in a room full of HYDRA agents how could you kill them all?"

When Steve speaks up Silver contemplates what to tell them.

"I was born with the ability to turn invisible and the ability to control fire. When the agents put me in a room of weapons and told me to throw a knife at the target maybe ten feet away from me I hit the man standing beside it. So I got handed a sword. I turned invisible as did the sword. And all twenty-five soldiers in the room were dead. Until they sent Winter in.

He picked me up and walked me to my cell. And after a few hours of me yelling the guards were threatening to beat me if I didn't shut up. Winter had called for me to be placed in his cell with him. The guards obliged -most likely assuming that he would beat me- and Winter took care of me on that first night. He sang to me and rocked me, while I was sobbing into his shoulder."

"But I've never seen you cry."

"You were wiped a few days later. I guess that memory hasn't come back yet. It's not like it's important anyways."

Watching Steve I nod my head towards her. Slowly he steps towards her and hugs her. It takes her a few seconds until she returns it by even then only for a second before pushing Steve away.

"I don't like physical contact. But thank you for trying to make me feel better."

She turns around and starts to hit the bag again. Reopening any cuts that had the slightest chance of closing.

(Silver's P.O.V.)

Winter and the others had left a few minutes ago. Captain had hugged me only for me to push him away. Widow had not said a single word while they were here. Winter looked pained when I told him he had seen me cry, but only to have the memory be destroyed less than a week later. I had told him that it had been a few days but I had lied. It had been the day after when they found me in his cell with him.

I continued hitting the bag in front of me. The swing of the bag kept me going, it reminded me of the last weeks I spent with Winter inside of HYDRA.

**Flash back thingy**

"Harder! Hit it harder! You are able to hit it hard enough for it to break so do it!"

"Ah!"

Screaming as I hit the bag busting some seems I glance at Winter he nods

"Make her continue until her hands bleed. I need a strong assassin that's not afraid to bleed for the cause."

"Yes sir."

Winter looked at me a mouthed

'I'm sorry' before yelling

"You heard him! Let's go!"

I beat the bag until my hands and shins were covered in my own blood. And when Winter said I could quit I kept going not hearing him.

"Silver. Your going to damage yourself. Stop," I continued. "stop please!"

He grabbed my arm as I was swinging and yelled the last part.

It startled me enough to stop and look at him. He pulled me close and picked me up carrying me to the medics room.

**flashback thingy over**

"You need a new bag. That one has blood in it."

"No shit Sherlock."

"Stark actually. But I'm flattered by that mistake."

"It's not a compliment. I'm trying to be rude." Stopping and turning around "And how did you get in here?"

"Watched the others leave. Came in to see what was in here. So far haven't been disappointed. But the real question is; why are you beating that if most of the sand is on the ground or in your cuts?"

"Because I can."

"That's not an answer."

"Oh it's an answer. Might not be one you like, but it's still an answer."

"Touché. You should get those checked out by Bruce," gesturing to my hands and shins he continues "I doubt he would want them to get infected."

"Well he shouldn't have to worry. They will be fine in a few hours. Probably."

He stays silent for a few moments while tapping on his phone.

"He's on his way."

"Who's on his way?"

"Bruce."

"Banner?"

"Yup. You should clean up now because as soon as he gets here he's gonna make you sit."

"When he gets here to do what?"

"Look at your hands and legs. So hurry before he gets here."

Turning and running down the hall Stark leaves me alone once again.

"Clean up? Why do I have to clean up? It's not like there's a mess or anything."

Taking the bloodied bag down from its hook I work on cleaning the sand up and putting it into a garbage bin.

By the time Banner gets to me I'm hanging another bag up and before I notice him a square up and start hitting the bag, leaving blood on it.

"Thats going to hurt in the morning."

"Nah. It'll be fine."

"Sit down."

Looking over my shoulder I scoff at Banner.

"You don't get to tell me what to do. Only Winter gets to."

Of course Winter walks in as I am saying this "Then sit down."

"James your ruining my fun."

"Stark told me she was still going. Now Silver listen to the doctor and sit the heck down."

I look at him scoff and drop to my butt.

"I meant in the chair over here but that works."

He starts walking towards me making me feel small. Shooting up I sit back down on the dumbbell bench and hold out my hands so Banner could see them.

"Why did you shoot up like that?"

"You were to tall standing above me like that. I don't like feeling small."

Now it's Falcons turn to walk in "That's good to know, and good for my assessment."

"Why don't you and your assessment fly off Falcon?"

"Anger issues."

"No I just don't- what's that?"

Banner had pulled something out of the first aid kit I have. I've never opened it but it's something everyone should have.

"It'll help fight infection. You don't have any allergies right?"

"Nothing that I'm aware of. Or HYDRA is for that matter."

"Good. Sam come here I need some assistance with wrapping these. Like how you would before training."

"I suck at that. Winter? You wanna?"

"Never knew how Sam," Almost taunting me Winter walks out the door only to return with Captain in tow "but he does."

"I can wrap them myself Doctor. I learned how."

"You need to keep your hands still for the next twenty minutes. Steve come here." Banner was in on something judging by the glint in his eyes.

"What am I doing?"

While I had been watching the doc I hadn't noticed America walk up beside me.

"None of us other than her know how to wrap hands. Like how someone would get ready for a fight."

"Yah I can do that. Not that hard. But Bucky I thought you know how, how else would she have learned how to?"

"He didn't teach me. Someone from the H-RR did. I mean I was part of H-RR but mostly HYDRA.

By the time I had finished talking Banner had put peroxide and ointment on my hands and legs while Steve was wrapping my hands.

"Silver. I don't remember what the H-RR is. What is it?"

"It's an acronym, that stands for HYDRA Red-Room."

I couldn't understand why they looked so worried when I said that.

"What?"

"Nothing. But let's go to the house. We all need a talk."

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Paul Rayhill, Chad Supp and Jonathan Fritz. Ushers were Troy White and Michael Fritz. Ringbearer was Stuart Seymour. A reception was held at Knights of Columbus Hall, New Berlin. The bride is a graduate of Springfield High School and Western Illinois University. She is employed as an assistant to an architect. The groom is a graduate of Griffin High School and attended Western Illinois University. He will attend Florida Atlanta University in the fall. The couple will reside in West Palm Beach, Fla.

SAUER - Maggio –

BUNN EMPLOYEE

*SECURITY GUARD

“AUXILIARY POLICE”

Sauer – maggio – SPD – aux police

Police unions – maggio at Il police assoc

OBITUARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Saturday, August 13, 2005

John E. Sauer Sr. DIVERNON - John E. Sauer Sr., 86, of Divernon died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, at his home. He was born Feb. 13, 1919, in Springfield, the son of Jack and Marguerite Schewe Sauer . He married Mary E. Roberts in 1969; she died in 1997. A daughter, Sandra Kaye Sauer , two sons, Jackie Eugene Sauer and William Allen Sauer , and a stepdaughter, Kathleen Kidd, preceded him in death. Mr. Sauer retired from the Springfield Police Department, where he had been an officer and detective. He was a lifelong member of the Police Benevolent Association and the Springfield Auxiliary Police. Survivors: two daughters, Marguerite Beemer of Riverton and Glenda (husband, James) Snyders of Lawrence, Kan.; two sons, John Andrew Sauer of Divernon and John E. (wife, Lynn) Sauer Jr. of Springfield; five stepdaughters, Anita (husband, Patrick) Giordano and Cindy (husband, Charles) Bland, both of Springfield, Vicki (husband, Dan) Bouknight of Texas, Lori (husband, Gary) Pshak of Athens and Tina (husband, Keith) Price of Florida; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

TITLE: OBITUARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, March 3, 1997

Mary E. Sauer

Mary E. Sauer , 60, of Divernon, formerly of Springfield, died Sunday at St. John's Hospital. She was born May 10, 1936, in Waverly, the daughter of James and Grace Lambert Roberts. She married John E. Sauer Sr. in 1969. A Springfield resident most of her life, Mrs. Sauer worked as a medical assistant/consultant -- long-term care for the state for 15 years. Survivors: husband, John E. Sr.; six daughters, Mrs. Patrick (Anita) Giordano , Mrs. Don (Kathleen) McCracken, Mrs. Gary (Lori) Pshak and Cindy Miller, all of Springfield, Mrs. Dan (Vicki) Bouknight of Liberty, Texas, and Mrs. Keith (Tina) Price of Bridgeport; a son, John A. Sauer of Divernon; two stepdaughters, Marguarite Beemer of Springfield and Glenda Snyder of Lawrence, Kan.; two stepsons, John E. Jr. and William A. Sauer , both of Springfield; 21 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Doris) Maggio of Springfield and Mrs. Raymond (Barbara) Reynolds Sr. of Rochester; two brothers, Maurice Roberts of Springfield and Paul Richard Roberts of Missouri; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

TITLE: ANNIVERSARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Tuesday, December 11, 1990

Maggio-45th Mr. and Mrs. Joe Maggio of Springfield recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary at a party at Gatsby's Restaurant hosted by their children. Maggio and the former Doris Roberts were married Dec. 1, 1945.

Mr. Maggio is retired as a policeman for the city of Springfield and is presently employed as a security guard at Marine Bank.

Mrs. Maggio is retired from City Water, Light and Power.

They are the parents of five children,

Jim,

Sam,

Joe and

Steve, all of Springfield,

and Anna Marie of Santa Ana, Calif.

ILLINOIS POLICE GROUP INSTALLS OFFICERS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Wednesday, November 20, 1985

Edition: M1,M2,E1 Section: LOCAL Page: 11

The Mid-State Division of the Illinois Police Association has installed new officers. Elected to two-year terms were Chairman Neil Williamson; 1st Vice Chairman Bob Nadalini; 2nd Vice Chairman Loren Larsen; Secretary-Treasurer Tim Franke; and Sergeants at Arms Charles Palazzolo, George Murphy, Jack Clifford, Alice Bartello and Joe Maggio . The Illinois Police Association has the largest membership of any police organization in the U.S., over 15,000 members. The Mid-State Division serves Sangamon, Menard, Morgan, Cass, Logan and Christian counties.

Maggio – Wilkerson – (cravens – muench)

TITLE: OBITUARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, August 9, 1993

Anna Maggio Anna Maggio, 105, of Springfield died at 7:50 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Medical Center. She was born Feb. 27, 1888, in Palermo, Italy. She married Jasper Maggio in 1908 in Palermo, and he died in 1951. Also preceding her in death were four sons, Sam, Tony, Jasper and Joe Maggio . Mrs. Maggio was a member of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. Surviving are a son, Pete of Springfield; a daughter, Mrs. Frances Wilkerson of Springfield, 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

RR’

Older generations share interest in model trains with children

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, November 30, 2009

Author/Byline: RHYS SAUNDERS, THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Section: homepage

Elijah Jones peered over the edge of a model train layout, reaching toward the foam mountain where a locomotive had just disappeared into a tunnel. The three-dimensional layout detailed to look like a desert landscape - complete with cattle, cacti, a western town and two trains traveling in opposite directions - captivated the 3-year-old Springfield resident at the annual railroad swap meet held Sunday at the Sangamon County Fairgrounds in New Berlin. More than 100 tables, selling everything near and dear to the train collector's heart, were featured at the five-and-a-half-hour event. And many of those model railroad enthusiasts who brought collectibles to buy and sell say their love for the hobby began when they were about Elijah's age. "I've had trains since I was five years old," said Frank Herman, 79, of Springfield. "You can have it as toy-like or realistic as you want it. I don't know what it is that makes it fascinating." Herman's booth featured two five-piece model train sets dating to the 1930s and selling for approximately $275 each. "I probably got them at one of these swap meets," he said. "Sometimes in magazines you'll see an ad, something that interests you." Others, like Joe Maggio , a member of the Sangamon County Central Railroad Club, said it's a chance for an older generation to share its love of model trains with younger children. "I think it's something you never grow out of," he said. "It's just a fascination that we all have with trains. We have to get the younger kids involved, or this hobby will die out when we start dying off." An official attendance count was not available Sunday, but Maggio said there was a mailing list of more than 600 people. Although most vendors were from the Springfield area, the swap meet drew model-train enthusiasts from as far as Missouri, Iowa and Indiana. And most vendors also are operators, meaning they have functioning model railroads on personalized three-dimensional layouts, he said. Often the swap meets provide the model train collectors a chance to sell their duplicates. Trains and accessories available were categorized by scale, from larger, G-scale trains to smaller trains that are O, S, HO and N scale. One attendee, Art Wiseman, 74, of Athens said it can take months to put the working displays together, but in the end, it's worth it. "It helps the kids realize trains are interesting," he said.

Weddings, added July 17

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Friday, July 17, 2009

Kohlbecker-Robertson Allison Dee Rose Robertson and Joshua Cooper Kohlbecker, both of St. Petersburg, Fla., were married at 7 p.m. May 3, 2009, in Longboat Key, Fla., by Gerry Kohlbecker, uncle of the groom. The bride is the daughter of Joe and Janeece Robertson and Carol Robertson, all of Springfield. The groom is the son of Charles and Joanne Kohlbecker and Pat Kohlbecker, all of Springfield. Serving as maid of honor was Bree Robertson. Bridesmaids were Missi Searcy, Kristen Slead and Kittie Kohlbecker. Flower girl was Kylinn Wood. Best men were Andy Kmett and Jeff Arison. Groomsmen were Daron Searcy, Joe Maggio , Steve Leitch and Nick Robertson. A reception was held at Marina Jacks in Sarasota, Fla. The bride is a 2001 graduate of Glenwood High School. She is employed by Cardiac Surgical Associates as Vein Center coordinator. The groom is a 1998 graduate of St Aloysius and a 1998 graduate of Ursuline Academy, and received his bachelor's degree in environmental science and policy from the University of South Florida. He is employed as an environmental science consultant with CH2M Hill. The couple resides in St. Petersburg.

FOR THE RECORD

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, March 12, 2007

Gina Marie and Randall G. Siddens, Divernon, a son, Dalton Anthony Samuel Siddens, Saturday, March 3, 2007. Grandparents are Joe Maggio and Bobbie Maggio, both of Springfield, Donald Siddens of Rochester and the late Rhondda Siddens.

All aboard: Model railroad event scheduled for Sunday

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, December 6, 2004

Section: LOCAL Page: 14

NEW BERLIN - A Model Railroad Open House and Swap Meet, sponsored by the Sangamon Central Railroad Club and the Sangamon County Fair Association, is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sangamon County Fairgrounds. Displays will be featured, as well as items for swap and sale. Food will be available. Admission is $2 for adults. Children younger than 12 get in free. Tables are $7 each. For more information, call Joe Maggio at 544-6797.

Maggio= SHG booster

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOD? / Sacred Heart-Griffin fans bond over pre-game feasts

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, October 12, 2003

Author/Byline: KATHRYN REM Staff Writer Section: SUNDAYAM Page: 13

Although it's common practice for fans to feast on brats and barbecue in stadium parking lots before pro and college football games, tailgating hasn't been a part of game day at most high school competitions. But that's changing. At Springfield's Sacred Heart-Griffin High School, parents and supporters of the state-ranked Cyclones plan their pre-game galas - down to each menu item for home and road games - before the season ever begins. "It started out as a way to make money for the football team," said Gary Nevins, who heads the Tailgaters Association, a group of SHG gridiron regulars who arrive about an hour before each game to share a meal and chat with friends. "Now it seems to be getting bigger every season." The Tailgaters Association, an informal group not officially affiliated with the Catholic school, was started four years ago by Rob Miller when his son Justin played for the Cyclones. "There were eight or nine couples who we were close to, and we talked about getting together before the games. I bought a tent and assigned people to do the cooking. Then we put out a coffee can for donations and other people started pitching in," said Miller, a sales manager for phone book publisher DonTech. "Every week, more and more people started coming and soon we raised enough money for the tunnel," he said, referring to the 20-foot portable black entrance tunnel through which the Cyclones take the field when playing home games at Memorial Stadium. Corporate sponsors helped raise the $3,700 price of the tunnel. "We didn't start the group to make money, but if we do, we put it back into the team," said Miller. Donations are used to rent a storage shed for the tunnel, purchase paper goods and extra food for the meals and feed the cheerleaders and pom squad before the games. It's believed that American tailgating began in the 19th century, when fans who traveled long distances to football games took to cooking near their carriages out of necessity. Its popularity took a leap in the late 1970s when college alumni hosted parking-lot parties as a way to socialize with old friends. National Football League fans embraced the concept, as did major companies like Coca-Cola, Masterfoods USA (M&M's, Snickers), Sara Lee and Jack Daniels, which reach millions of Americans with tailgating-themed advertising and promotions. At last weekend's game against the Lanphier Lions, about 250 SHG tailgaters dined on a menu of mostaccioli, sloppy joes, sausage and sauerkraut, meatball sandwiches, chili, baked beans, potato chips, cookies, cupcakes and soft drinks. On other days, entrees have included fried chicken, red beans and rice, shredded pork, barbecued beef, ham and beans, jambalaya, deep-fried turkeys and linguine with clams. "Each entree feeds 40 to 50 people," said Nevins, a manager at parking lot management company System Parking Inc. "People often bring food that we didn't anticipate. We don't refuse anything." Prior to the start of the football season, the tailgaters meet to plan their activities. A sign-up sheet is posted; volunteers fill in game dates with the foods they plan to provide. "Some people bring food; some throw a few coins in the can," said Nevins. "Everyone is welcome to come and pick up a plate. There is no real membership and no dues." Most of the tailgaters prepare the food at home, but some fire up in the parking lot. Joe Maggio and Henry Manci are among a group of alumni who occasionally haul a Weber grill and roasters to the stadium to cook up some on-site Italian sausage. "Not just any sausage will do," said Maggio, who buys it at a meat shop in the Chicago area. "It's the best there is. I took vacation time to go up there and get it." The buddies arrive about four hours before the game to cook the sausage with green peppers, onions and red sauce. High school tailgating is becoming more popular, said P.J. O'Neil, vice president of sales and marketing for Chicago-based American Tailgater Co. (www.americantailgater.com), a firm that sells tailgating supplies and equipment. "Usually you see it in areas where teams travel hundreds of miles for Friday-night games, places like Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma." He added that tailgating has branched out beyond football. Some baseball stadiums - including U.S. Cellular Field, home of the White Sox - allow it, as do facilities that host events such as NASCAR races and figure skating and Little League finals. O'Neil estimates that more than 20 million Americans tailgate at least once a year. A survey sponsored by Ragu found that more than half prefer the party to the actual game. "It's getting a little more notoriety because a lot of companies are beginning to recognize tailgating as a marketing tool. Companies want products associated with an activity that is fun. You never hear about people going to a bad tailgating party," said O'Neil about the increasing number of businesses that sponsor pre-game bashes. His company sells football-shaped grills, one-minute beverage coolers, beer-can chicken racks, Buffalo wing pots, team-logo steak branding irons, turkey fryers, college team flags, portable toilets, two-way radios, pickup truck dog ramps, NFL logo flasks and helmet-shaped snack bowls. The $6,000 "ultimate tailgating system" includes a 50,000 BTU Ducane gas grill, refrigerator, freezer, stainless steel sink, city hose connection and hand pump, locking drawers, food prep area, patio umbrella, electric lift system and power inverter to accommodate a slow cooker, blender and TV. You can save $200 if you choose the model with only one, instead of two, beer taps. "There's a very large competition between tailgaters," said O'Neil. "We see people who have been tailgating next to each other for 20 years and everyone wants to one-up each other. If one guy has a blender, the next guy has a gas-powered blender." The Sacred Heart-Griffin tailgate parties are more about connecting with friends and alumni. "There's something about SHG football that brings people together. It's a long tradition," said Michele Nevins, who helps her husband, Gary, with the Tailgaters Association. The couple's son A.J., now at Lincoln Land Community College, played for the Cyclones; their son, Tony, is on the roster now. Daughter Cristina, an eighth-grader at Little Flower School who will be an SHG freshman next year, helps her parents set up the tables, tent and school flag before each game. After the meal, she hauls the black-and-gold flag into the stadium so the team can carry it onto the field. Michele Nevins, a graduate of Sacred Heart Academy with brothers who played football for Griffin High School, didn't attend her alma mater's games after graduation until 1995. "It was like old home week. It was so much fun seeing everyone again." She couldn't get her husband, a graduate of Springfield High School, to attend the games until A.J. started playing. "He didn't convert till the last possible moment," said Michele, who works for the Illinois Department of Public Aid. Tailgating regulars include parents of students and graduates, alumni and people who simply enjoy SHG football. "Everyone likes a winner, and at Sacred Heart-Griffin, they expect to win," said tailgater Terry Montalbano, a Southeast grad whose daughter went to SHG. "Most games we go to on the road, we have a bigger crowd than the home team." Said Manci: "When we went to school at Griffin, it was all guys and we've kept up those friendships for 30 and 40 years. Tailgating has given me a chance to meet people who were there before me and after me." Karen Sronce is new to SHG tailgating. Her son John, a Cyclones player, transferred to the school this year from Springfield High. "There was a dinner for varsity moms and there was a (tailgate party) sign-up sheet. I'm sitting there in total awe by the number of mothers there. The amount of parental involvement at this school is amazing. I was an outsider, but they were so welcoming." Like other parents of players, she wears a big button with a color photo of her son in uniform to the tailgating party and game. "About 10 percent of the SHG people who go to the games are in the parking lot with us," said Gary Nevins. "It's turned into quite an extravaganza."

Caption: Jim Van Leer, right, and other Sacred Heart-Griffin football fans enjoy the offerings while tailgating before the game against Lanphier. The menu included mostaccioli, sloppy joes, sausages and sauerkraut, meatball sandwiches, chili, baked beans, potato chips, cookies, cupcakes and soft drinks (top of page).

ANNIVERSARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Maggio-25th Mr. and Mrs. Joe Maggio of Springfield celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a trip to Jamaica in February. Maggio and the former Monica Ramirez were married June 11, 1977, at St. Cabrini Church by Monsignor Dirksen. Mr. Maggio has been employed in the mailroom department of The State Journal-Register for 27 years. Mrs. Maggio has been employed by St. Aloysius School for the past year. They are parents of three children, Philip, Joseph and Sarah, all of Springfield.

TITLE: WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, September 26, 1999

Siddens-Maggio

Gina Marie Maggio of Springfield and Randall G. Siddens of Divernon were married at 2 p.m. July 24 at St. Aloysius Catholic Church by the Rev. John Titus. The bride is the daughter of

Joseph S. and Bobbie A. Maggio of Springfield.

The groom is the son of Donald and Rhondda Siddens of Rochester. Serving as matron of honor was Dana Duke. Bridesmaids were Kim Maggio, Brenda Staab, Lori Marinelli, Angela Antonacci, Elaine Ayers, Shelby Rae Siddens and Casey Shelae Siddens. Flower girls were Morgan Elise Duke and

Erin Nicole Staab. Best man was Bradley Siddens. Groomsmen were

Joe Maggio ,

Mark Staab, Rob Briney, Jay Sweeney, Rick Burris and Bradley Chase Siddens. Ushers were

Jeff Dorr, Chris Garner and

Kent Keiser.

Ringbearer was

Mark David Staab II. A reception was held at the Eagles Club. The bride is a graduate of Ursuline Academy and Illinois State University. She is employed by the state Department of Revenue. The groom is a graduate of Rochester High School. He is employed as a union ironworker with Local 46. The couple will reside in Divernon.

MINI-JACKPOTS AWAIT SOME STATE RETIREES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Saturday, May 7, 1994

Author/Byline: DAVID HOWELL STAFF WRITER Edition: M1,M2 Section: LOCAL Page: 1

Some former state workers may be sitting on a nest egg -- and not even know it. The State Employees Retirement System of Illinois wants thousands of ex-state workers to know they have mini-jackpots just waiting to be claimed. About 5,000 former state employees are entitled to between $5 and thousands of dollars that now is sitting unclaimed in the 50-year-old state pension fund,

said Joe Maggio ,

manager of the services and refunds division of the state employee retirement system. "These are people who have moved over the years and haven't told us their change of address," Maggio said. "(Other) people didn't realize the money was coming out of their paychecks, I guess." So now the state is trying hard to locate such people and hand out the cash, according to Maggio, who first hatched the idea to track down people two or three years ago. After looking at similar programs in Alaska and Indiana, he decided to recommend introducing a similar plan in Illinois this year. Co-workers, friends and relatives are being urged to contact the retirement system if they know the whereabouts of the 880 people who are owed more than $100 each. Their names have been published in two agency newsletters. A January newsletter for retired employees and an April newsletter for active employees both contained pages titled "Do you know where they are?" Any state worker who is over the age of 60 and served the state for at least eight years is eligible for a pension, Maggio said. At present, Illinois has nearly 80,000 state workers. They tend to be more aware and informed about benefits than some of their predecessors, he said. So far, the agency has received 60 responses to names on the lists, and some people have already been sent their money, according to Maggio. The agency hasn't received many hoax callers, although a few people with common names, "like John Smith," have made bogus inquiries. "We're careful to make sure the real people get the money," Maggio said. "Anything we find is gravy. We're not spending a lot of money (to trace ex-workers), but we're still finding people." Locating people after making arduous checks with credit bureaus, the secretary of state's office, the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration can be hard work, but it's good when it pays off, he added. "I ran down one guy who is a priest and he was in a monastery somewhere," said Maggio, who's been with the retirement system since 1977. Although the majority of missing recipients still live in Illinois, some on the list have ended up a long way from the Prairie State. "One woman is now living in Australia," Maggio said. Others have been tracked down in Alaska, California, Florida, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina. There's even one ex-state worker living in the nation's gambling mecca, Las Vegas. "He could probably use the (money)," Maggio said with a chuckle. How do people react when told they've got unexpected money coming to them? "Some people are really happy, and they think they're going to win thousands of dollars," Maggio said. "But it's usually smaller amounts. Sometimes they say `I don't want (the money), it's not worth it.' But most are genuinely appreciative." Any eligible recipients should get in touch quickly, Maggio warned, because future federal regulations may require former state workers who are now over the age of 70 to pay half their unclaimed pension money to Uncle Sam. And that's never good news.

TITLE: WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, October 10, 1993

Tober-Stewardson Elizabeth Ann Stewardson and William Keith Tober, both of Springfield, were married at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at Kumler United Methodist Church by the Rev. Jack Cramer-Heuerman. The bride is the daughter of Barbara and Keith Cripe and Doug and Ginny Stewardson, all of Springfield. The groom is the son of William and Jacqueline Tober of Springfield. Serving as maid of honor was Molly Stewardson. Bridesmaids were Leigh Ann Gobble, Alexandra Finkle, Tamara Olander, Michelle Herrick and Glenda Millhouse. Best man was Brian Tober. Groomsmen were Kevin Tober, Dave Baker, Jim Shures, Dave Eilering and Joe Maggio . Ushers were Timothy Olander, Roy Walker and Andrew Young. Ringbearer was David Gobble. A reception was held at the VFW Post 755. The bride is a graduate of Western Illinois University. The groom is a graduate of Illinois State University and is employed by GTech Corporation. The couple will reside in Springfield.

Sauer – donley

SEE “DONLEY” SITE

Donley trucking –

MTA – chamber – jasmon –

gray – scrp –

coal trucks – and see landes – gonet – cwlp – curry – lippold/Arnett –

sauer – giordano – pat G.=Grandview pd chief

Vicki Bouknight

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, April 7, 2008

Section: LOCAL Page: 19

Vicki Bouknight DIVERNON – Vicki Bouknight, 53, of Divernon died Saturday, April 5, 2008, at Memorial Medical Center. She was born March 2, 1955, the daughter of Melvin and Mary Roberts Kyle. Surviving are her fiance, Dave Chamness;

a son,

Bill Donley;

a grandson,

Cody Donley;

father, Melvin Kyle; five sisters,

Anita Giordano ,

Tina Price, Lori Pshak, Cindy Bland and Audrey Higgs;

three brothers,

John A. Sauer

and Ray Kyle and Roy Kyle; and several stepbrothers, stepsisters, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother and stepfather, Mary and John Sauer Sr., and a sister, Kathie Kidd.

SAUER= AUX POLICE

OBITUARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Saturday, August 13, 2005

Mr. Sauer retired from the

Springfield Police Department,

where he had been an officer and detective.

He was a lifelong member of the

Police Benevolent Association

and the Springfield Auxiliary Police.

Survivors: two daughters,

Marguerite Beemer of Riverton and

Glenda (husband, James) Snyders of Lawrence, Kan.;

two sons, John Andrew Sauer of Divernon and

John E. (wife, Lynn) Sauer Jr. of Springfield;

five stepdaughters, Anita (husband, Patrick) Giordano and

Cindy (husband, Charles) Bland, both of Springfield,

Vicki (husband, Dan) Bouknight of Texas,

Lori (husband, Gary) Pshak of Athens and

Tina (husband, Keith) Price of Florida; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

TITLE: OBITUARIES

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, March 3, 1997

Mary E. Sauer

Drew sauer

Vespa

Drew sauer

TITLE: WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, June 18, 1995

Sauer-Paul Barbara Jean Paul and

Jeffrey Edward Sauer,

both of Springfield, were married at 2 p.m. May 20 at St. Agnes Church by the Rev. David Paul. The bride is the daughter of

Dr. and Mrs. Glennon Paul of Springfield.

The groom is the son of

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sauer of Springfield. Serving as matron of honor was Sheryl Ungashick, with Sally Paul serving as maid of honor. Ginger and Mia Paul, Shelly Graupner, Angela Tobler, Gina McLaughlin and Gail Grant were bridesmaids. Flower girl was Allie Siebert. Serving as best men were

Drew Sauer and

Jeff Swaney.

Andrew Paul,

Rod Davis,

Vincent Madonia,

Jeff Dodd,

Brett Diamond and

Dave Saladino were groomsmen.

Ushers were Charles and Marty Paul. Ringbearer was

Bradley Sauer. A reception was held at the Springfield Hilton. The bride is a graduate of Sacred Heart Academy and St. Louis College of Pharmacy. She is a pharmacist. The groom is a graduate of Griffin High School and Southern Illinois University. He is employed by the secretary of state. The couple will live in Springfield.

Wedding, added July 13

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Monday, July 13, 2009

Author/Byline: THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Section: announcements

Frisina-Vespa Jessica Vespa and Vincent Frisina, both of Springfield, were married at 2 p.m. May 9, 2009, at St. Aloysius Church by the Rev. Mark Schulte. The bride is the daughter of Art and Sandy Vespa of Springfield. The groom is the son of Joe and Barb Frisina of Springfield. Serving as maid of honor was Caitlin Reynolds. Bridesmaids were Dana Vespa, Gina Vespa and Andrea Shafer. Flower girls were Mallory Vespa and Grace Vespa. Best man was Drew Sauer . Groomsmen were Chris Reynolds, Chad Bigelow and John Mikels. Ring bearer was Gavin Shafer. Ushers were Mike Vespa and Steve Vespa. A reception was held at the Artisan's Building at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. The bride is a graduate of Sacred Heart-Griffin High School and Benedictine University. The groom is a graduate of Lutheran High School and attended DeVry University. The couple resides in Springfield.

ON CAMPUS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Thursday, August 8, 2002

DREW SAUER (Lutheran) played in three games and earned a varsity letter in baseball at MacMurray College. Sauer, an infielder, was hitless in five at-bats, walked once and scored one run. He recently completed his sophomore year.

WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, October 16, 2005

Matzke-Mesenbring Airin Rae Mesenbring of Norwood, Minn., and Jeffrey Michael Matzke of Springfield were married at 4 p.m. June 18, 2005, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Norwood, Minn., by the Rev. David Winter and the Rev. Marvin Matzke, grandfather of the groom. The bride is the daughter of Larry and Marsha Mesenbring of Norwood, Minn. The groom is the son of Michael and Marsha Matzke of Springfield. Serving as maid of honor was Tyra Panning. Bridesmaids were Sonja Mesenbring, Amy Matzke, Christie Hanson and Amber Jennings. Flower girl was Leah Wroge. Candle lighter was Stephanie Hensel. Best man was John Matzke. Groomsmen were Andy Mesenbring, Daryl Werner, Kyle Wooster and Drew Sauer . Ring bearers were Ethan and Jared Roland. A reception was held at the OK Corral Restaurant is Jordan, Minn. The bride is a graduate of Lutheran High School in Mayer, Minn., Concordia University in Seward, Neb., with a Bachelor of Arts in math and attended graduate school at the University of Nebraska. She is employed as a marketing analyst with Supervalu Corp. in Chanhassen, Minn. The groom is a graduate of Lutheran High School, Concordia University in Seward, Neb., with a Bachelor of Arts in geography and a graduate of the University of Akron, Ohio, with a Master of Arts in urban planning. He is a city planner in Prior Lake, Minn. The couple resides in Chanhassen, Minn.

HEARTLAND CLASSIC

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Saturday, July 15, 2000

* SPRINGFIELD REDS 6, ROCHESTER 5: Back-to-back doubles by Jake Herr and Drew Sauer sparked a three-run sixth inning to rally the Reds. B.J. Halford earned the victory.

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GRIFFIN ARMS ITSELF FOR TITLE DEFENSE

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Thursday, June 9, 1988

Author/Byline: Dave Kane Edition: M1,M2,S1 Section: SPORTS Page: 27

En route to the Class AA state baseball championship last year, Griffin High School relied on the one-two pitching punch of seniors Jeff Borski and Tim Hull. As they prepare for a repeat appearance at Lanphier Park, the Cyclones don't have such a Big Two, but Coach Ron Wojcicki isn't fretting. "Last year, it was pretty much a case of us going as far as Jeff and Timmy could take us," said Wojcicki. "We don't have anybody of their caliber this year, but I think we have more people who can throw. We've been going with whoever's hot." Griffin certainly has gotten hot at the right time. The Cyclones entered last year's tourney at 33-4. Today, they'll take a 20-19 mark into an 11:30 a.m. quarterfinal against Chicago Marist (31-8). Griffin ended its regular season with six straight losses -- four coming to Joliet Catholic. In fact, Griffin enters with the second-most losses by a quarterfinalist. In 1982, Edwardsville finished 23-24. In 1981, Chicago Brother Rice was 32-17 in finishing second. But the Cyclones have allowed just 10 runs in their five post-season games. That's Wojcicki's main reason for optimism. "Our pitching has been outstanding," said Wojcicki, in his third year as head coach. "If you can hold your opponent to two runs, you know you're going to be in the game. That's all we look for." Wojcicki will look for more of the same today from junior right-hander Chris Stapleton (2-5). Marist Coach Don Kuehner said his likely starter will be senior left-hander Frank Vlk (9-2). Vlk is one of three lefties in Marist's rotation. Stapleton, a hard thrower, was winless in the regular season with a couple of tough-luck losses along the way. But he has won two tournament contests and has a 3.72 earned-run average over 53 innings, with 73 strikeouts 48 walks. If Stapleton would falter, it would be sophomore J.J. Borski out of the bullpen. In the Cyclones' five tourney games, Borski has saved three and won one. For the year, he carries a 1.81 ERA with 30 strikeouts and 15 walks in 39 innings. Senior right-hander Dave Saladino (5-4) got the complete-game victory Monday against Lincoln in the Springfield Sectional. "You knew whoever threw Monday wouldn't throw Thursday," Wojcicki said. "Saladino gave us a big lift Monday, and I think it helped his confidence." While Stapleton, Saladino and Borski have formed Griffin's post-season staff, Wojcicki sees several others with a chance for tournament work. Among them is junior right-hander Craig Jones, who worked three innings of relief in last year's quarterfinal win over Chicago Vocational. "We haven't used Jones in post-season, but we're confident enough in him from last year," Wojcicki said. "We'd have no problem pitching him. We haven't thrown (senior right-hander) Dan Patterson in a while, or (senior left-hander) Jeff Sauer ." Offensively, Griffin has had various post-season heroes. Leadoff man Terry Williams drove in the game winner in the regional opener against Chatham Glenwood and belted a two-run homer in the sectional win over Normal. And against Lincoln, No. 6 man Brad Rotherham went 3-for-3 while No. 7 man Greg Bernet delivered a key bases-loaded triple. In defeating the Railers, the Cyclones' top three batters went hitless. The bottom six combined for nine hits. "If you'd told me that was going to happen, I would've said our chances would've been pretty slim," Wojcicki said. "But the bottom of our lineup came through. We don't rely on that one person." Only a few Cyclones saw substantial action on last year's state championship team: Williams, second baseman Dennis Kracik and catcher Jeff Swaney. That, combined with an up-and-down regular season, casts the Cylcones as a heavy underdogs -- just as theywere in the regional and sectional. "Oh, sure, we're the underdog," Wojcicki said. "You look at our record and everything else. But we don't feel any pressure at all. You hear people say, `It's great just to be here,' and it is great. But we're playing our best ball now. "Our record reflects we didn't always play our best. But the kids are confident now."

TITLE: WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, October 19, 1997

Gerger-Donaldson Wendy Elaine Donaldson and Brett Alan Gerger, both of Springfield, were united in marriage at 2 p.m. Sept. 20 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church by the Rev. John C. Burnett. The bride is the daughter of Thomas and Donna Donaldson of Springfield. The groom is the son of Bert Gerger and Lynn Gerger, both of Springfield. Serving as matron of honor was Barbie Sauer. Bridesmaids were Sarah Newbury, Katie Hansen, Peri Gonulsen, Angie White and Alyssa Williams. Flower girl was Aleandra Kutz. Junior attendants were Molly Donaldson and Nicholas Valentine. Serving as best man was David Peters. Groomsmen were Eric Harbauer, Andy Seck,

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and Brian and Dan Donaldson. Ushers were Steve Rose, Jeremy Huffstedler and Paul Rayhill. Ringbearer was Alexander Palmer. A reception was held at St. John Vianney Activity Center, Sherman. The bride is a graduate of Ursuline Academy and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is employed as an occupational therapist at Memorial Medical Center. The groom is a graduate of Southeast High School and attends Lincoln Land Community College. He is employed by the state Department of Insurance and is also a wrestling coach for Springfield High School. The couple will reside in Springfield.

TITLE: WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, December 24, 1995

Saladino-Rohrig Michele Lee Rohrig and David Matthew Saladino, both of Springfield, were married at 2 p.m. Nov. 11 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church by the Rev. Patrick Gibbons. The bride is the daughter of Richard and Sharon Rohrig of Springfield. The groom is the son of Carl and Nancy Saladino of Springfield. Serving as maid of honor was Ann Reynolds, with Kim Robinson, Maria Sakowicz, Karen Miller and Karen Saladino as bridesmaids. Flower girl was Kara Gallagher. Serving as best man was John Saladino, with Pat Sullivan, Vince Madonia,

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and Tim Kell as groomsmen. Ushers were Jeff Beccue, Jim File and Jim Tresouthick. Ringbearer was Greg Gallagher. A reception was held at the Northfield Center. The bride is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois, where she earned a MS degree. She is employed as an advertising account executive with Professional Images. The groom is a graduate of SIU. He is employed as an environmental scientist with Andrews Environmental Engineering. The couple will reside in Springfield.

TITLE: WEDDINGS

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, September 6, 1992

Swaney-Douglas Jena Marlene Douglas and

Jeffrey Martin Swaney,

both of Springfield, were married at 11 a.m. Aug. 1 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception by the Rev. Michael Mullink. M. Kae Douglas of Springfield and Kenneth and Linda Douglas of Mechanicsburg are parents of the bride. Larry and Sue Misinay of Staffordville, Ky., are parents of the groom. Serving as matron of was Robin Kae Hayes. Bridesmaids were Mindy Maynard, Shannon Frederick, Kelli Kopmann and Michelle Misinay. Flower girls were Lindsey and Lesley Douglas and Erin Hayes. Best man was Barry Jordan. Groomsmen were

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