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Seven Hills veteran Joe Burdick's love for the U.S. flag is evident in ... (cleveland.com)

Joe Burdick, of Seven Hills, loves the stars and stripes. It is evident in the flags he creates and the mission that drives him to create them.

“Our flag is about everything that is good in our country, but it is not perfect, so I want my flags to show all of the imperfections. While he tries to never say “no” to a charity requesting he donate a flag for a fundraiser, sometimes it is impossible to satisfy every request. “It took me a long time to perfect the look of my flags, and it is symbolic,” he explained. Hundreds of thousands have fought, and died, and sacrificed, so much for our country – we are not a perfect nation, but we just need to be better.” “My legacy – first and foremost – are my kids, Miranda and Joey Jr. – but my flags are meant to last and they will be my other legacy. “I always hope someone will be inspired to look it up and learn about things they might not really know about. His hands go numb during the process, but he calls each flag a “labor of love.” More importantly to Burdick, they hang in the homes of fellow veterans and first responders. “When I got out of the service, I thought I could do anything,” he says. Burdick tried to re-enlist in the Navy after 9/11 but was rejected because of his age and medical issues. Four days later, he received his first order from the Cleveland Browns for 40 flags to be used as Christmas gifts for the team’s corporate sponsors. SEVEN HILLS, Ohio – Joe Burdick makes no apology for his love of the Stars and Stripes. He fought for the flag.

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Bucs Name Inaugural Girl's High School Flag Football COTY ... (Buccaneers.com)

A look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' initiatives during the previous week of the bustling offseason.

Saunders became instrumental in referee communication, logistics and scheduling for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Girl's Flag Football Preseason Classic presented by AdventHealth, the largest girl's flag football tournament in the country. In 2022, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected the inaugural Girl's Flag Football High School Coach of the Year award. In fostering the development of young athletes, the team was featured by Nike and the NFL in the Stronger Than One flag football campaign.

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Minnesota veteran's special flag honoring military members unveiled (KSTP)

A special American flag created by a Minnesota veteran and artist to honor military members has been unveiled.

RELATED: Minnesota veteran, artist creates special flag to honor service members A special American flag created by a Minnesota veteran and artist to honor military members has been unveiled. Minnesota veteran’s special flag honoring military members unveiled

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1 Green Flag and 1 Red Flag for Nvidia (Motley Fool)

Should investors worry about slowing revenue growth in 2022? Despite its stock falling hard during the recent bear market, Nvidia (NVDA -4.18%) as a company has ...

While revenue increased 46% in the most recent quarter, management expects top-line growth to decelerate to approximately 24% in the current quarter. The benefit of using digital models in the product development process is that companies save money, improve product quality, and ultimately boost revenue. Management has referenced over 150,000 warehouses and 10 million factories in the world today that are shifting to digital tools and automation. But this segment has taken off since the unveiling of Nvidia Omniverse in March 2021. Over the last decade, it's gone from gaming and data centers to most recently introducing new AI-driven software systems, including Nvidia Omniverse, a collaboration platform for independent and enterprise software developers. While the company continues to see new applications for its GPUs that could drive more expansion over the next decade, Nvidia is starting to experience slowing growth from macroeconomic headwinds.

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Master Craftsman: Ray Card Makes American Flag Signs (Behind The Hedges)

Ray Card has been a carpenter for 47 years. A skilled woodworker from Sag Harbor, he has done everything from working on a 14,000-square-foot house to small ...

A good woodworker could do the same thing, but he can make that more, 10 other variations of that.” He uses a wedge to keep the 13 pieces together while he attaches them with wood across the back. “They’ll last,” he says. Now you could take a craftsman — he could build that table 25 times that’d be exactly the same. “When you have a knot, you make that come up in the union (section) because that’s gonna be dark blue, you won’t even see it,” he explains. That’s the difference,” he explains.” I’ve folded a lot of flags,” he says. That’s a facsimile of a flag. Seeing the American flag flying,” he continues. For his niece in North Carolina who is a nurse, he made one with the caduceus medical symbol. “I’ve done it at every branch of the service,” Card says. “I used to carry around 20 flags in my truck, I used to get ‘em from the lumber yard.

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Maine's 'yellow flag' law could be a model for gun control, but legal ... (Maine Public)

A Maine law has been described as a potential national model for keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous or suicidal individuals.

Unlike the red flag laws that are in effect in roughly 20 states, Maine's yellow flag law does not allow family members to directly petition a judge to order someone to temporarily give up their guns and prohibit them from acquiring new firearms. And she says it shows that even when guns are taken away, they can be still be borrowed or stolen from friends or relatives, or purchased privately without a background check under Maine's gun laws. "They have the right to counsel," Trahan said. Rather than charge him criminally for the standoff, police and Penobscot County District Attorney Marianne Lynch used a brand new law to temporarily prohibit the man from possessing guns. Maine's yellow flag law has been invoked 24 times since 2020 to temporarily remove guns from people deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others. A Maine law has been described as a potential national model for keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous or suicidal individuals.

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Vermont High School Barred from Flying Black Lives Matter Flag (The Root)

Now that 2020 is in the past, some have decided the Black Lives Matter movement is too.

Flying a flag doesn’t change the actions of racist students or staff. However, it sparked a conversation around the administration and the handling of the previous racist incidents that were reported. Carlson had praised Waryas’ actions, in particular while she was surrounded by a group of “angry white men,” a reference to a group of Westminster men who had started attending the school board meetings once the Black Lives Matter issue came up.

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Vandalized And Abandoned Flag Pole On Remote Wyoming ... (Cowboy State Daily)

There's a spot between Cody and Greybull on U.S. Highway 20 where cell service gets sketchy. It's the highest point, just east of Cody, called Eagle Pass.

“And when I go past it, I just stop and go in and salute it, and it’s just America to me. “They poured the concrete and it’s ready for the pole now,” said Arney of the Eagle Pass flagpole. I’ve got a handheld posthole digger, Lee and I tried to drill a hole in that rocky country out there – beat the heck out of us – but we got a hole dug according to the permit, and we put it up. “And it was bent pretty badly.” So they asked me, and I told them that if they could get a permit, I would help and I would do the work.” And when his mother passed, in honor of her, he started putting up a flagpole.”

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Flag woven from military uniforms on display at San Antonio ... (KSAT San Antonio)

Jeffrey Stenbom's “Freedom's Threads” will be on display to the public at the airport through January 2023.

“That flag is the symbol of our country. Most of the uniforms were donated by USAA employees, a few of the pieces came from Stenbom’s grandfathers and he used one of his own uniforms for the project. “When I’m taking those worn uniforms and weaving a flag with those uniforms that were worn by those members who have bled, sweat and cried while wearing those uniforms is such a powerful thing,” Stenbom said in a video about the project created by USAA.

Niles museum flies flag exhibit (Youngstown Vindicator)

NILES — Since his eighth-grade history class at Austintown schools, Jonathan Guerrier said he has learned the importance of showing respect for the American ...

That got me interested in the flags,” he said. “When we walked into this class on the first day, and this has always stayed with me, he was holding the American flag and said when we are in the class we will talk about good stuff and bad stuff but I want people to respect the flag because people have fought and died for this. The latter includes looking in cemeteries for American Revolutionary War veterans and getting them headstones and also recording data on the markers. The state flags include territory flags such as Puerto Rico. There are Civil War flags with the Union and Confederate emblems. Former President William McKinley was a member of the SAR. Guerrier, of Austintown, who spent four hours setting up the flag display, said World War I veteran Samuel Hubbard Scott of Toledo was the one who started the flag collection so it is named for him.

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Housing Help of Lenawee gets $2000 from Gleaner's Flag Day ... (The Daily Telegram)

H2Lenawee can use the funds for needs that may not meet traditional funding eligibility. Some of these include providing veterans deposits on apartment rentals, ...

“The nice thing about this funding is it’s not restricted,” H2Lenawee interim executive director Lynne Punnett said. The project gave out 125 new American flags while retiring 200 old and worn flags that were dropped off. ADRIAN — Housing Help of Lenawee received $2,000 from Gleaner Life Insurance Society’s Flag Day flag exchange project for local veterans’ needs.

Opinion: Utah's state flag needs a simplified symbol (Deseret News)

The best flags have simple, memorable and unifying symbols. If Utah can simplify and unify with a new state flag, it would be worth a change.

In our time of division, Utah’s search for a powerful and unifying symbol is worthwhile. Georgia’s state flag once incorporated the Confederate battle flag — a simple and straightforward but divisive symbol. A big red U for the new Utah flag would be simple and straightforward but excludes other Utahns who claim a shade of blue (or purple) for their football team.

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Exchange Clubs of C-U making sure there's no flag shortage for the ... (Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette)

Monday's parade will mark the 35th year that the Exchange Club has encouraged patriotism among children with flags on the Fourth of July.

Anyone willing to help at the parade should contact Urbana Exchange Club member John Hummel at [email protected]. His father, Roy Williams, was also president of the local club in 1948. “We’ve given out a lot of flags. About 13 years ago, the Champaign Exchange Club invited the Urbana Exchange Club to join in the Give a Kid a Flag program. The club tries to have that many flags — for children only — to hand out at both the Fourth of July parade and the Labor Day parade in downtown Urbana. But there will be plenty of the small versions of the Stars and Stripes in the hands of children along the Fourth of July parade route thanks to the Exchange Clubs of Champaign and Urbana.

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Comcast veterans launch distressed flag replacement program (The Macomb Daily)

Brian Howard of St. Clair Shores cringes at the sight of a tattered or torn American flag. “It's a little disheartening when I see it because the flag is a ...

We might knock on the door or leave a card when we identify a flag in need of replacing as we go about our day.” “Her flag was discolored and was starting to fray at the edges,” Howard said. “I don’t think it’s disrespectful,” Howard said, of people flying tattered flags.

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Flamethrower used to torch Pan-African flag flying on pole (ABC News)

A person used a flamethrower to set fire to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of a Black international socialist group based in ...

Police say the arrested suspect in the Buffalo massacre is a white nationalist. The video shows him putting the flamethrower back in the trunk and then driving away. The group says the man stopped when a worker inside the building yelled at him.

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Person with flamethrower sets fire to Pan-African flag at activist ... (The Guardian)

Flag was outside Florida home of the Uhuru movement, a Black international socialist group.

A photo supplied by the group shows the flag with a large hole. The group said the man stopped when a worker inside the building yelled at him. The video shows the man putting the flamethrower back in the trunk and then driving away.

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Chatham honors hometown heroes with flag tribute field (WDBJ7)

“These flags represent and have names on them from military veterans, firefighters, police officers, medical professionals, moms, dads, grandparents, teachers ...

“It’s a public display of support and a public way of showing how you honor those people who are important to you. And it’s beautiful to see those flags flying especially at times like the Fourth of July,” said Tuite. That is one of the most moving parts. So, you can come and see who dedicated it and who they dedicated it to. I finished special training and they sent me to Wisconsin. I stayed up there for about three of four months and we packed up and went to Germany,” said Roach. Over 300 flags were sponsored this year in dedication to hometown heroes.

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Local pro-choice advocate flips flag to express frustration (NBC 15 WPMI)

Across the nation and in Mobile protestors gathered to make their voices heard about the decision made to overturn Roe v Wade.

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Video: Suspect with flamethrower torches flag at Uhuru House in St ... (FOX 13 Tampa Bay)

St. Pete police are looking for a suspect with a flamethrower who set fire to the African flag raised in front of the St. Pete Uhuru House Black community ...

Crews said nearby palm trees were also damaged by the flames. Then they hold it up and a massive stream of fire shoots from the end. African flag outside St. Pete Uhuru House was burned by an arson suspect who had a flamethrower (Uhuru House)

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Video shows person burning Pan-African flag in Florida using ... (WESH Orlando)

The driver pulls a flamethrower from the trunk and shoots a tower of fire at the flag flying 30 feet above the ground.

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Police investigate person using flamethrower to set flag and trees on ... (WTSP.com)

St. Petersburg police are investigating a fire that happened Saturday morning at the Uhuru House in St. Pete, Florida.

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Flamethrower used to torch Pan-African flag flying on pole (WPLG Local 10)

Security video released by the Uhuru Movement shows the driver of a white sedan pulling up outside the group's St. Petersburg headquarters on Saturday ...

The group says the driver stopped when a worker inside the building yelled at him. The driver pulls a flame thrower from the trunk and shoots a tower of fire at the flag flying 30 feet above the ground. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A person used a flamethrower to set fire to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of a Black international socialist group based in Florida.

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Flamethrower attack on Pan-African flag (Blayney Chronicle)

A person using a flamethrower set fire Saturday to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the...

Police say the arrested suspect in the Buffalo massacre is a white nationalist. The group says the man stopped when a worker inside the building yelled at him. Security video released by the group shows the driver of a white Honda sedan pulling up outside the group's St Petersburg headquarters, removing a flamethrower from the trunk and shooting a tower of fire at the flag flying about nine metres above the ground.

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