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Last week on Fossil Friday, I presented you with a tricky identification task. This egg-shaped rock was far afield from the jaws, spines and shells you've been used to.
So what was this unique rock? It was a dinosaur gastrolith from the late Jurassic!
What is a gastrolith?
From the UCMP:
"Lots of animals eat rocks. Or at least they swallow rocks; they don't eat them in the sense of digesting them. This is true of many reptiles and birds that are alive today, and a few mammals such as seals and whales. It was also true of some extinct animals, including herbivorous dinosaurs and marine reptiles. Rocks that have been in the digestive system of an animal are called gastroliths, which literally means 'stomach stones.' "
So, how can you tell a gastrolith from just some random rock?
"Sometimes a fossil skeleton is found with a pile of pebbles or small rocks inside the rib cage, or scattered around the body. These rocks are usually pretty easy to identify as gastroliths. The only other thing they could be is stream pebbles that washed up against the body of the animal as it was being buried under sand and silt. Paleontologists compare the rocks to others in the same formation to see if they could have washed in from someplace else, or if they are really gastroliths. This is usually only necessary if the gastroliths are scattered. If the rocks are found in a nice tight pile in the rib cage, they are almost certainly gastroliths."
I've seen some cool, crazy and unusal things since starting Fossil Friday, but to be honest, gastroliths take the cake. So who was the first to identify this ol' rock? Gerald Wilgus, a regular commenter on the Fossil Friday. Kudos to Gerald!
Gerald, any special requests for next week? How about something...mammalian for a change?

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Bristol, TN/VA -- The Appalachian Cultural Music Association will release a documentary on the birthplace of country music to the public on Sunday, September 30th at 3:00 pm at the ACMA Pickin' Porch located on the upper level of the Bristol Mall in Bristol, Virginia. There will be plenty of live bluegrass and old time music at the event to celebrate the project's release.
"Our documentary has been 18 months in the making and is a very interesting look at the history of our region's role in the birth of country, bluegrass and old time music", states John Necessary, president of the non-profit organization.
Chris Rector produced the ACMA's documentary which will be available on DVD at the fundraising event. There are two edited versions of the documentary, one 40-minute version and another 90-minute version both included on the same DVD.
The video covers the work of the ACMA's all volunteer organization including their Mountain Music Museum which is open 7 days a week at the Bristol Mall, the ACMA's Pickin Porch which is presented every Thursday night at 7:00 pm at the Bristol Mall for the past 15 years, the ACMA's connection with the Carter Family Fold in Hilton's, Virginia, the ACMA's support of Song of the Mountains, the nationally syndicated public television series based at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia as well as the ACMA's funding of two scholarships at ETSU in Johnson City, Tennessee for their bluegrass, old time and country music program. The video also concentrates on the history of the music born in the southern Appalachian region.
"We are offering the release of our new documentary in a unique way", says Necessary. "On Sunday, September 30th we will present a two hour concert at the Pickin' Porch stage at the Bristol Mall. Area bands will donate their time and talent to support the ACMA. Tickets will be $ 10.00. Everyone who purchases a ticket to this show will receive our new DVD absolutely free!" All proceeds go to the ACMA.
Scheduled to perform on the ACMA's Pickin Porch stage on Sunday, September 30th are the Whitetop Mountain Band, the VW Boys, the ETSU Bluegrass and Old Time Pride Bands, the Skinners, Appalachian Trail, Teddy Helton & Friends and more!
Included in the ACMA's documentary are interviews from Rita Forrester of the Carter Family Fold, Daniel Boner from the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Program, Tim White, co-founder of the ACMA and host of Song of the Mountains, Hunter Berry, fiddler for Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, the legendary Larry Sparks, James Allen Shelton, guitar player for Dr. Ralph Stanley and many other people from the southern Appalachian region who are respected in the music business.
The Whitetop Mountain Band provides music throughout the ACMA's documentary. The documentary was supported in part by Peer Music based in Nashville, Tennessee.
"Our hope is that our new documentary will be an entertaining and educational tool for folks who love our music in this region. We have a great organization with many volunteers who make all of this happen. Our members have a genuine passion for what we do", says Necessary. `"Free copies of our DVD will be offered to schools and libraries throughout our region."
If you would like to learn more about the ACMA, become a member or make a tax-deductible contribution please visit www.AppalachianCulturalMusic.org or www.MountainMusic.org or call 276-645-0035.
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And here is what Amber Rose recently told Hello Beautiful in an interview:
"I want to change the face of modeling. I want young girls growing up to know that they can actually eat something, and be beautiful and be a model."
"We could have the garbage truck driver who treats us good and cooks, and really just fall in love with him. Or we can have the guy with millions of dollars, and he's a f*cking dick. I think women want a man with money, but sometimes they get one and realize he's just a man with money. "
"As of right now, I don't believe in marriage. I was raised by a single mother, so I don't feel I need to be married to be happy and live my life."
"They label me a bisexual freak stripper that f*cks Kanye on a daily basis. "
"I'm extremely open with my sexuality. I can be in love with a woman, I can be in love with a man. I'm not into bestiality, but as far as humans go, I definitely find beauty in everybody"
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You know how, when you're pregnant, it seems everyone else is, too? I've been having that feeling lately about my ironing board. (Ha! I bet you thought this was a clever way to announce a bun in the oven! Nope - just a post about my ironing board.)
Anyway, my ironing board cover has been hurting for a while. Every time I iron hubby's pants, the diamond pattern of the metal under the board cover gets transferred onto his pants. The cover has old interfacing glue and has worn thin.
It seems I browse the ironing board covers every time I'm in Target/Walmart but never feel like the time is right to splurge (is that what life has come to that buying a new ironing board cover is "splurging"? perhaps I just enjoy the simpler things in life?).
Then, lovely bloggers start posting left and right about recovering their ironing boards, too! So, I decide to do it myself (uh oh!). I bought some super loft batting and was giddy to find that my thrifted sheet was plenty big to recover the board - hooray! Pack rat nature pays off!
So...I take photos of the ratty old cover, gleefully rip it off and throw it away, and set to work on the new one - only to discover that I need to IRON the new one in order to sew it together! Old cover back on. Complete project and really love the result (and it actually matches the color palette of its home in the play/craft room).
Iron-y part 2? Had I just bought a new cover, it probably would have cost about the same! Oh well - I feel a little bit fancy now when I iron - how many people can say that?


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As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.
NASA has turned the Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, nearly 240,000 miles away, thanks to a technology that may soon become routine.
The experiment took advantage of the laser-tracking system that's in operation aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon for the past three and a half years. NASA sends regular laser pulses from the Next Generation Satellite Ranging station at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to the space probe's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA, to measure its precise position in lunar orbit.
For last March's Mona Lisa maneuver, researchers encoded a black-and-white version of Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic masterpiece as a series of values in a 152-by-200-pixel grid. Each value represented a shade of black to gray to white, ranging from zero to 4,095. The signal for each pixel was then piggybacked on the ranging station's laser-tracking pulses: Each pulse was fired during one of 4,096 super-short designated time slots, at a rate of about 300 bits per second.
As the pulses were received in lunar orbit, LOLA's software used the precise timing of each pulse to figure out the grayscale value for a given pixel — and reassembled the black-and-white image. The process wasn't perfect: Atmospheric turbulence introduced laser transmission errors, even when the sky was clear. To accommodate the 15 percent error rate, the researchers used Reed-Solomon data coding, which is the same method used to smooth out the bumps in the playback of CDs and DVDs.
The picture was reprocessed and sent back to Earth using the orbiter's standard radio communication system, just to make sure that Mona survived the trip intact. Throughout the experiment, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter conducted its regular mapping tasks without interruption.
A research report on the experiment, with Goddard's Xiaoli Sun as principal author, was published online by Optics Express on Thursday.
This composite image shows how the Mona Lisa image looked after its trip to the moon. The left side shows the picture before error correction, and the right side shows how it looked after error correction.
Sun said the Mona Lisa was chosen for the transmission because the painting is so much more visual than strings of random numbers. "It's a familiar image with lots of subtlety," he said. "You can immediately feel whether the image looks right, and how much information got lost."
The feat marked the first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances, LOLA's principal investigator, David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a NASA news release.
"In the near future, this type of simple laser communication might serve as a backup for the radio communication that satellites use," Smith said. "In the more distant future, it may allow communication at higher data rates than present radio links can provide."
A data rate of 300 bits per second may seem achingly slow by today's standards, but NASA is planning a higher-bandwidth laser communication demonstration for its next mission to the moon, known as the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer. When LADEE is launched in August, it will carry an experimental laser system that's designed to transmit data at a rate exceeding 600 million bits per second.
In 2017, NASA is due to send an experiment called the Laser Communications Radar Demonstration into orbit aboard a commercial satellite to test a full-fledged, beam-based communication system. Studies suggest that laser systems have the potential to transmit data at rates 10 to 100 times faster than traditional radio systems for the same mass and power, or match radio's data rate with a smaller, more efficient package.
Who knows? Mona Lisa may well mark the start of a renaissance in high-speed satellite communications.
More about next-generation communications:
- Interplanetary Internet passes test
- NASA mission to test ultimate space Wi-Fi
- Military's new radio: laser beams
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Bullz-Eye.com's City Guide describes the best bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels, golf courses and more in each city. It is not a comprehensive guide. Instead, we only describe the best that a city has to offer from a guy's perspective.
The City Guide is Bullz-Eye's answer to the traveling guy's question: What is there to do in this city? You're on a business trip and don't want to sit in your hotel room. Sure, you could always ask the concierge, but why risk it with a guy whose best night in recent memory consisted of a bowling alley, three pitchers of Old Milwaukee and a 54-year-old redhead named Flo who could pick up the 7-10 split?
Chicago has da best sites, da best food, and Da Bears!
You'll find tons of beautiful babes, both real and enhanced, in this amazing city.
It's crazy like Vegas, and beautiful like Paris and Rome!
The ultimate adult playground.
The Big Easy is still rebuilding, but The French Quarter is intact.
Full of Southern charm!
Great parties by the river.
C-Town rocks!
Miles of beautiful beaches.
Practically all vices are legal in Amsterdam. Wow!
The capital of Europe.
Take your gal to the city of lights!
We will be adding more cities in the coming months. If you're familiar with some of the great spots in any of the cities on our guide or in other major cities, please contact us.
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Please join John Boveri, John Yuskaitis, Tony Sedani, and Jennie Wood to celebrate the debut of their graphic novels / comics at Boston Comic Con! It's a launch party for Jennie Wood and Jeff McComsey's Flutter as well as John Boveri's graphic novel, The Devil & Jack O'Brien, Tony Sedani's Return to Rander Issue # 1, and John Yuskaitis' Boots & Pup #1: Digital (iPad version) and Boots & Pup #2!
We have lots to celebrate so please join us at LIR on Boylston, right across from the Hynes Convention Center. We'll have a private room from 7:30 until 9:30pm. We'll have some food for you. A full menu and drinks will be available for you to order from as well. We will also be giving away free raffle prizes. Whether you're going to Boston Comic Con on Saturday or not, we hope you'll celebrate with us that evening!
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Hermes Franca – "Both guys are A+ level fighters and it is really hard to pick a winner for this fight. In my opinion the fans are going to be the biggest winners when this fight is over. In their first fight two years ago BJ came into the fight very strong and was able to push him around at the beginning but Georges St. Pierre won the second round and the third round was very close which lead to the split decision. I am going to stick with my pick that the fans are going to be the biggest winners."
Rob Kaman –"This is a very tough fight to call. I think that BJ is the more animalistic fighter and that Georges St. Pierre is the more athletic fighter. Georges is always ready to go the distance and BJ's conditioning has come into question throughout his career. This fight could end up being a fast win for BJ or decision win for GSP. They are both great fighters and like I said earlier, BJ is more animalistic in the sense that he enjoys punishing his opponents. Where as Georges St. Pierre is the more technical fighter, a pure athlete with the ability to knock out his opponents. I also think that GSP is going to have an advantage with his reach and it will be interesting to see how BJ counters that. If the fight ends in the first 3 rounds then I think it will be BJ. If the fight makes it into the championship rounds then I would have to take Georges St. Pierre."
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The details are a bit sketchy, but in a week or so IBM hopes to unveil an update for its PureSystems family of modular boxes focussed on big data and cloud computing.
Big Blue is hosting an online product launch for "the new PureSystems family member" on 9 October, and the company will talk about the kit at events in major US cities as well as the webcast. The launch will be a day before IBM's Big Data Developer Day in Boston, which may or may not have a related theme.
The PureSystems machines, developed under the code name "Project Troy" and announced in April, are based on the Flex System modular systems that bear a strong resemblance to server upstart Cisco Systems' "California" Unified Computing System machines, converge servers, switching, and storage into a single chassis (like blade servers) with integrated management (also like blade servers).
The difference is that both PureSystems and UCS boxes have better physical layout, allowing for hotter server components not normally allowed in blade servers to be used and packed in the same rack space as blades, and they arguably each have more sophisticated management tools than blades offer.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the new machines coming on 9 October were developed under the name "Project Sparta", and hopefully IBM's server divisions are not at war with each other as in days gone by. The WSJ blog cites sources saying that these new PureSystems machines will focus on big data munching.
IBM's own launch invite suggests it will have the dual theme of big data and cloud, and that could mean anything, really. It is possible that Big Blue could put the impending new Power7+ processors, expected to be launched on 3 October, into Flex System nodes and tune them up to run Hadoop big data munching software along with some special sauce whipped up by the smarties at IBM Research.
IBM could also be launching the expected integrated form of the Storwize V7000 arrays that it has promised for the Flex System chassis. There's not much chatter out there on the intertubes yet as to what Big Blue has in store, but we'll let you know as soon as we catch wind. ®


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we hope that everyone is doing well....well, matthew was put in PICU yesterday for some major RESPIRATORY DISTRESS....he has been sick since feb 11th with his usual junk....on feb 21st, he suddenly developed a fever of 104.5 and was in major pain and just feeling AWEFUL....i took him to see his dr and he was diagnosed with STREP THROAT!! sooo, we now knew what we were dealing with...so that weekend was AWEFUL with tons of pain, fever, refluxing, coughing, desating and the list goes ON! we just tried to keep him comfy (motrin & tylenol) and started antibiotics for the strep....well on monday, he got worst repiratory wise and he started diareah....took him to his pulmonologist who sent him for lab work and xrays....she tarted him on steroids and just watch him....well tuesday was a better day...and i talked to the drs office to let them know that he had turned around and them WHAM!! wed afternoon, he took a turn for the WORST and ended up desating again (in the low 80's) and grunting, moaning and just laying there LISTLESS AGAIN!! so the next day, thursday, i called the drs office again and the sent us over to the hospital to get some blood work, urin and other test done and then BACK over to the drs office...well, i had no nurse that day so i was by myself with my 3 kiddos!!! yep, all by myself! so when we get there, they were all SHOCKED at how BAD he looked!! he was really listless, crying and moaning and on oxygen....they immediatly started to work on him (the respiratory tech) to see if she could get him clear, she couldn't....she asked me if i wanted him admitted and i said, "no, if i can keep him home, i would rather do that" she said she understood....well, alex had to go potty and when i got back in the room, the dr, the NP and the resp. tech where all around matthew and they just looked at me when i walked in and i KNEW!! the dr said, "we need to admit him. i think this is going to get WORST before it gets better and i would rather him be at the hospital when it happens." of course i said, "whatever he needs!!" he was wheezing, crackling and just plain JUNKY....so off we went BACK across to the hospital to have him admitted into PICU......that night was horrible....they worked on him ALL NIGHT trying to get his oxygen sats over 90 (and this from a child that usually sats 100 on room air!!) they were even talking BIPAP MACHINE on him!! he is currently on 6 liters of oxygen and 45% blended!!!!! he is currently using IPV machine for his treatments every 4 hours with albuterol puffs in between the IPV treatments....he is also on oral steroids, they changed his antibiotic.....i don't know WHAT happened but this little guy needs some serious prayers and good thoughts PLEASE!! it has been SOOOO LONG since he was admitted into the hospital for anything but a seizure!!! he has been sick since JUNE 12TH with some cold, junky lungs, coughing ets....he goes about a MONTH sick and then MAYBE a week of clear lungs and WHAM once again, he starts up!!! i am really worried about him!!!
but i do have to say that i AM SO PROUD OF ALEX!! i told him that i REALLY needed his help because i wa bymyself and that he needed to help me and he DID!! he did everything i asked him to do, he stayed quiet and sat in the chair as they took blood out of matthew and ran whatever test they had to do at the hospital and then when we had to WALK all the way down the long tunnel to get across to the drs office, then stay quietly and played while they worked on matthew at the drs office for almost 2 hour then BACK across the tunnel to admit matthew and then sit quietly and watch tv as i admitted matthew......he was MY HERO!!! i am so proud of him!!! only after almost the SEVENTH HOUR did he start to say that he was ready to go HOME!!! my big boy!!!
sooo, i am here with matthew and joshua is also with me....my WONDERFUL MIL is staying at the house with ALEX and we are just dealing...james has called numerous times really worried about matthew...he is sad he can't be here to help us....and then when all that was going on on wed, i had a DENTAL EMERGENCY going on and had a root canal done..when we were at the drs office we were at the right place and at the right time for matthew....if i had NOT gone with my instict and called again to the drs, it would have been a NIGHTMARE OF A NIGHT and we probably would have ENDED up at methodist hospital but in a much different way!!! no doubt about it! even the dr said!! she said that she was VERY HAPPY that we went to the to see her....he was REALLY BAD...as bad as i have seen him respiratory wise in a LONG TIME......he is still bad...he is working really hard and it is a STRUGGLE to keep his oxygen sat UP!!! he is miserable and just feeling so bad!! the dr said that we would DEFINETLY be here till MONDAY and longer if he does not let up!!!
well, thanks again, for any thoughts and prayers for this little boy!! we really appreciate it!! as you know, i believe in the power of prayer and i know HE will hear our thoughts and prayers for matthew!! thanks so much!!!
take care and GOD BLESS....
james, maria, alex, matthew and joshua
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
here is the WEBSITE FOR THE ABOVE...www.thehomeschoollounge.com/
sooo, i just found out about this NEW online HOMESCHOOLING MOM'S community that is just starting up and i am SOOOO EXCITED!!! (thanks H!!) so if you are reading this and you are HOMESCHOOLING, come check this place out!! sounds like it will be JUST THE PLACE to find other moms out there that are HOMESCHOOLING their children!!
and there is a new GIVE AWAY on LESS OF ME MORE OF HIM....they are giving away $25 gift cards to AMAZON!! a must see
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Friday, February 22, 2008
what a NIGHT!!!........
wowowowow...i am SO TIRED right now....we had an AWEFUL NIGHTMARISH night last night...where do i start???
well, in our house, ILLNESS seems to LIVE there...i am pretty sure we get mail sent to our home ADDRESS to ILLNESS!!! so, matthew had been junky, but not really "sick" since 11th of feb....it was his "usual" junky congested CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE self going on...no fever and he was doing really well with his oxygen sats and his treatments....well, then ALEX started to cough on friday, 15th and then JOSH started on the 16th....well, everyone had NO FEVER just coughing....well, by sunday, alex was really hacking away and so was josh so i decided to go ahead and take josh & alex to the dr on monday and NOT matthew because he was doing fine even with all the congestion (remember he is CHRONIC LUNG)...SO, came back with the diagnosis of COLD/allergies...sooo on we go....matthew was same old self, alex was coughing less (with some cough meds from dr) and josh was coughing MORE and doing more of a "chocking" cough and also started with a fever that night...well, it just got worst for josh and i was getting ready to take him in on friday morning....
fast forward to LAST NIGHT....OMG...this night was the kinda night where i felt SO ALONE and SO OVERWHELMED with everything, wishing so hard that JAMES would be home!!! at about 7p, we came up stairs (i had no nurse) and matthew was just NOT himself....he was BURNING UP and just listless....after about 140cc of his formula, he started to REFLUX....man, i KNEW he was bad...so i put him in the tub for a bath and turned on the A/C cause it was HOT upstairs and then did our normal bedtime routine with meds and vest and such....well, his temp was 102.7!! so i gave him some motrin and went on...well, at about 1030, matthew sarts to whine and cry and start to cough, he ended up THROWING UP and he was BURNING UP still!!! oxygen sats were horrible and he was just miserable.....i called ask a nurse to find out some info when in walks alex into my room and he is crying...and them WHAM....he THREW UP!!! OMG, i am HORRIBLE about that!! so i rush him to the bathroom and get him settled in front of the toilet when matthew starts up AGAIN and i run over there and check on him and AGAIN he is burning up, throwing up, coughin, oxygen sat are horrible, heartrate is OVER 220!!! so then alex calls and off i go over there cause he is throwing up and back and forth ALL NIGHT LONG until AFTER 2AM!!! it was HORRIBLE!!! and THANK YOU GOD, HE heard my prayers and if you can believe it JOSH slept thru it ALL!!! for the first time and i was not there to ENJOY his sleeping in!! :) but THANK GOD HE took care of him for me!!
so, in the morning, matthew is still sick and we decided to take josh and matthew to the dr.....THANK YOU GOD ABOVE, my MIL stayed with ALEX while i took the other 2 boys to the drs and then i found out that JOSHUA has BRONCHITIS and a DOUBLE ear infection and then MATTHEW has STREP!!! OMG!!!!! i was in SHOCK!! the dr was in shock when he heard JOSH and mentioned the word ASTHMA to me!! well both xrays were CLEAR for both boys and the RSV was clear for josh ....both boys are on ANTIBIOTICS and joshua is also on ZOPENEX neb treatments.....boy....and right now, matthew's fever has NOT been broken so we are doing alternating tylenol (4hrs) and motrin(6hrs) to help him with the PAIN and the FEVER!!!!
ANYWAY, i really miss my husband and i wish he was here now more than ever......it was REALLY a bad night and i am so tired....i am ready to fall asleep but i am also worried what will happen!! i have my alarm set up to ring every 4 and 6 hours so i can give him his meds....it will be a LONG NIGHT...please, pray for these boys...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
i am so addicted!
what? might you ask?! i am SOOOOOOOO addicted to REALITY TV!! yep, that is me!! i have all these shows programed into my DVR and with the writer strike i got a couple of MORE shows!! let's see, here is a list of what i ENJOY watching....
and when it is back on my ALL time favorite.....THE AMAZING RACE!!
yep, i LOVE my shows!! and then there are my "regular" shows....
ELI STONE new fav
anyway, this is how i have enjoyed my "me" time when the boys are all alseep and i can sit and watch my shows that i have recorded....usually i start at 9pm and finish about 1100 or so....it use to drive james CRAZY when i would stay up late to watch my shows or i was ALWAYS recording SOMETHING!!!! i need to get this out of my system and tone it down so i can not do as much when he gets BACK, GOD WILLING!!
anyway, i am off to sleep.....ok, maybe not to sleep but to see my SHOWS!!!! FUN!
Posted by Maria at 10:27 PM 0 comments
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well, last night was so rough!
my little joshua was just not feeling well AT ALL!! all three boys have been coughing up a STORM and joshua had a VERY restless night all night long!! he was so cute because he was NOT feeling good AT ALL because all night long, he would nurse for a bit and then start to WHINE REALLY REALLY LOUD! and that is NOT an joke!! i acutally had to get up and close my door FULLY because i was afraid he would wake up the boys!! i mean, he was not crying just talking, whining really really loud!! he had a temperature so i gave him some tylenol and after that kicked in, he did great...but poor baby! i laugh because i don't think he will ever hesitate to let me know that he is NOT feeling good! but he is sure coughing really bad but still smiling big!! also, he is too funny...if for some reason he falls over (and doesn't hit anything just falls over while sitting on soft surface) he will put up SUCH A FUSS! i am sooooo not use to that!! both of my other boys could fall and not have a problem but this little guy is so dramatic...awwww....
Posted by Maria at 10:14 PM 0 comments
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
SANDY DAY.....from james at bucca...
Hello all! How are ya'll doing? I am doing fine.
Today was a very Sandy and Windy Day here in Bucca.
We where out at the compound doing some upgrades and
boy howdy let me tell you. So how is the weather
there in your town?
I am in this little club right now. Its a running
club and I am 1.99 miles short of hitting the 100 mile
mark in less than a month. Once i hit that i will be
getting this nice little certificate for hitting the
100 mile mark. Bueno, just wanted to say hello. Take
care and God Bless.
SSG Gonzo
Posted by Maria at 9:53 AM 0 comments
Monday, February 18, 2008
in awe....
today, i had to take alex and joshua over to the DOCTORS again because they both have been COUGHING up a storm...my poor babies! i took them in because i was not sure if it was a cold, allergies or WORST!! but, THANK YOU GOD, it was just a small cold and nothing was given to joshua but alex got a prescription for an antihistamine and decongestant. i hope it works for him because he is the worst with TONS of coughing....i know he gets fustrated with it! matthew is also coughing and has been for a week not but his, we think, is just his beautiful lungs getting aggrevated with whatever is in the air!! they tend to do that because of the condition of his lungs....so we do TONS of NEB treatments and SUCTIONING...not good news for him...poor baby!! but his oxygen sats are actually pretty good, THANK YOU GOD!! he has learned to COMPENSATE i guess, how his body works with his congestion...we just THANK GOD for that!!! and that is why i am IN AWE....tonight, alex and joshua were asleep and it was just me and matthew awake in his room right before it was time for him to sleep....we had an hour of play time together and it was soooooo nice! i am in awe....i sat there and LOOKED at my baby and realized that he is GROWING UP SO FAST!!!!! AMAZING! i looked at him and just melted because he is growing up and is getting leaner and just is SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL! his face is maturing and he is just stretching and WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!! it was fun just he and i playing on the floor...we enjoyed ourself and he is so smart! i was asking him for specific color and he would give it to me and he would point to a picture that i was asking about....so smart! i can't believe he is ALMOST 4 YEARS OLD!!! and then, i walked him to the bathroom so he could go do his buisness and he DOES! he is getting so good at that! the other day, he actually did the POOP in there!! that was funny! it was so awesome to see him do his buisness and his expression when he did!! he has been going PEE in the toilet for a year or so and he has gotten just recently when he doesn't PUSH to get it out...i know, TMI but i am just amazed by him!!!
anyway, just seeing him and how mature he is getting and how TALL and LEAN and how BEAUTIFUL HE IS....I AM SO BLESSED TO HAVE HIM IN MY LIFE!!! THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERY SECOND I HAVE HAD WITH HIM.....as i see him grow it just amazes me over and over that THIS was that baby that STRUGGLED for life his first few months and seeing him now just.....IN AWE....i love him so much....
Posted by Maria at 10:30 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
ABOVE, is a picture montage i made of our beautiful son MATTHEW ISAIAH who was born with a heart defect called TOTAL ANOMOLOUS PULMONARY VENEOUS RETURN (TAPVR) back on MAY 2004....this montage was made when he turned TWO YEARS OLD but it is very special because it shows what a MIRACLE this little guy really is! for those that don't know, our son matthew was born with a CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT (CHD) called TAPVR and we had absolutely NO IDEA when we were in the delivery room, that there was ANYTHING wrong with our beautiful baby boy!! so, we were one of those statistics that the parents, although we had PERFECT prenatal care during our pg, we had no idea that something was wrong....this defect is VERY rare and hard to detect in a normal sono or ultra sound....you MIGHT, if you are REALLY lucky, be able to find it in utero if you have a FETAL ECHO done on the baby while still in the womb...well, since we never had a history of this, there was no fetal echo done...so, when he was born via repeat c-section, he was born BLUE and would eventually be transfered to another hospital in town that specialized in pedi-cardiac patients...the cardiologist didn't think my baby would SURVIVE the transport across town!!! he had OPEN HEART SURGERY at 8 hours old and was placed on ECMO (http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/factsheets/families/F030174/index.html) for his first 5 days, and when they took him off that, life support, they basically took him to "die a natural death"....well, THANK YOU GOD, he is here today....he is our little miracle! CHD AWARENESS is so important because this is something that can affect ANYONE because even if you don't have a HISTORY of defects (like we didn't) this can happen in your life...your child...
OUR CITY and STATE have BOTH done a CHD Week Proclamation which is WONDERFUL!! the official week is FEB. 7 THRU 14TH...there is also a WONDERFUL SUPPORT GROUP called MENDED LITTLE HEARTS (http://mlhofsa.schendelsworld.com/index.htm) that just started up here in town...it is MUCH NEEDED because there are SOOOOOO MANY KIDS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED WITH A CHD!! it is soooo important to have support!!
anyway, just wanted to remind everyone of our little miracle....we are so BLESSED!!
CHD Awareness
Posted by Maria at 9:42 PM 1 comments
Monday, February 11, 2008
went to the NEUROLOGIST today....
today, we had an appt with matthews neurologist....we have had about SEVEN seizures since the begining of the new year and just 4 this month!! that is DEFINETLY an INCREASE in sz since before!! sooo, we talked about what he was doing and such and i found out that the names and what kind of seizures he is having....when he does his "normal" sz where his hand clenches or his mouth moves, he i having PARTIAL SEIZURES.....the sz that he had in OCTOBER 6TH (where he was airlifed) and the one on FRIDAY NIGHT, they are called COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURES...here is a definition of what they are!!
Partial SeizuresPartial seizures originate from a localized, or specific, part of the brain. There are two types of partial seizures: simple partial seizures, which do not alter an individual's mood or consciousness, and complex partial seizures, which are associated with a change in the level of consciousness or responsiveness. The clinical features of a simple partial seizure depend on the region of the brain in which the seizure originates, and may be characterized by little more than a tingling sensation in the hands or feet or a visual distortion or hallucination. The clinical features of a complex partial seizure also depend on the region of the brain involved, and can have a similar onset as a simple partial seizure. However, the individual's responsiveness is impaired during the seizure episode. For example, if a seizure starts in the region of the brain controlling movement of the hand, a simple partial seizure could be characterized by jerking movements of the hand. If the person also begins staring and becomes unresponsive, the seizure would be considered a complex partial seizure.
soooooooooooo....they are still considered "unresolved"....so, what is going to happen?? we are going to WEAN him off of one of his current drugs and move him to another drug with the HOPES AND PRAYERS that this will be the KEY to no more siezures!! please GOD!! he is currently on FOUR SIEZURE MEDS!! my poor baby! these drugs supress him so it' no WONDER he is still working so hard and is sooooo far behind!! but he keep trucking along! my strong boy!!!
sooo, that is it! we are going to start TODAY to wean him off of ZONEGRAM and replace it with KEPRA...he had been on that A LONG TIME AGO so we hall see what side effect he gets and GOD WILLING what good stuff comes from it!!
well, i guess i will be back in a couple of days to see what happens...PLEASE pray that this works!!
Posted by Maria at 12:19 PM 0 comments
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
i hope everyone is doing GREAT!!! it has been a while since i last EMAILED but all is well, THANK YOU GOD!! ....we have been enjoying the BEAUTIFUL WEATHER!! who would have thought that last weekend, we were FREEZING with temps just about 40's all day and this week, it has been AWESOME with high's about 80!! we actually had to put the AIR CONDITIONER ON again!!! amazing! we have been going out side everyday and the boys have been playing on their bikes and just enjoying the beautiful days and breeze!!! we are just missing ONE THING to make things soooo much better....daddy!! :( but time is going by soooo fast!!!
well, i will give a little bit of update on the boys!! here they go...
well, friday, both older boys (awww...i can't believe i can say that!!) went to the dentist and i am SOOOOOOOOO VERY PROUD OF ALEX!! OMG, it was such a CHALLENGE to take him to the dentist at the begining...i mean, screaming, crying and just TERRIFIED of the dentist!!! well, today, he was my BIG BOY and he did NOT CRY and he has known about the appt since about a month ago and he had NO PROBLEMS with it!! we got there and he let them clean his teeth, look at his teath, scrape his teeth, take XRAYS, floss them and EVERYTHING!! with no DRAMA at all!! awwww...my BIG BOY!!! he has been riding his big boy bike (with the training wheels) like crazy!! he loves it and he looks really cute! and he wears his helmet and everything! i am so proud of him! in class, well, we have been having issues in that area where he has not wanted to DO class!! i have had to really get on him and try to get him back on it! he LOVES it but i gues i need to move him up a grade level to keep him interested! we are still doing the kinder curriculum because i don't want to stress him out....i am moving up on the math part to 1st grade but everything else...it is just review...i am excited about next year because i really can't wait to challenge him....i hope to do better in that grade with him...he loves to read and we have reading time where he reads me a book!!! and then writing, he is doing great!! he i working HARD to get those letters looking good! i am so proud of him! and he still just AMAZES ME on his IMAGINATION!!! this little boy LOVES his LEGOS and he is forever playing with them and making such AMAZING ROBOTS, TRUCKS, AIRPLANES YOU NAME IT!! and i just got him a TRAIN one that is for older kids and BOY, ALL BY HIMSELF, reading the directions he made all 3 trains you can make with this kit!! and those are TINY little legos!!! i am just in awe of him! he can also draw on his writing board and he loves to draw transformers and robots....just in awe...
now, matthew, on the other hand, was just FREAKING OUT at the dentist, poor baby! he did NOT like it at all!!! soooo, GOD WILLING, he will be having a ANGIO CT SCAN in june-ish or so and they will be doing it under general anesthesia, HOPEFULLY the dentist can go and do whatever it is she needs to do (scraping and such) WITHOUT fear of aspiration!! it is scary!! but we can not do it any other way because he starts to gag and wretch and just scream and cry! i hope that MAYBE someday he will get over it but i just don't think so! i know how scary the dentist are!! they just about OWN MY TEETH!! anyway, he is doing great in school too! his teacher comes out 2 times a week for 2 hours and he is learning soooo much...i KNEW he was a smarty but he has shown me how MUCH of a smarty he is! he is able to SORT objects by color and thing, he is learning to talk more and he is such a SMARTY!! example...teacher tells him to give her a RED block, and in front of him are 5 block of different color with the red one right in front...he will procede to hand her EVERY BLOCK BUT THE RED ONE and just be smiling and laughing about it!! he is such a STINKER sometimes!!! he can be a bit stubborn but i will TAKE THAT!! :) matthew is getting some NEW AFO'S that the ankle actually flexes!! that will be nice as he is learning to walk more and is doing more!! i am just so proud of his accomplishments! we have been concerned because he has been getting really tired recenlty and we are just closely monitoring him with that!!! GOD WILLING it is nothing......AND just this week alone, matthew has had 3 SEIZURES already with the one on FRIDAY NIGHT (which is RARE in itself) happening WHILE HE WAS AWAKE!! that freaked me out because that happened when he was going to sleep and apparently, he started to stare at the cieling fan that was on and it caused him to go into this totally unresponsive state...i had gone in to turn off the tv that he was watching when i noticed he was STILL AWAKE, or so i thought, until i went over to him and noticed his HUGE PUPILS and just blank stare...man, i was worried!! i had JUST called my MIL to come over because i thought i was going to have to call EMS cause he was TOTALLY not responding when, BAMMM, he takes this HUGE BREATH and snaps out of it! i don't know HOW LONG he was acutually IN IT before i FOUND him and he was in it for at least 10 mins when i got to him....man, that was REALLY scary cause i was soooo sure i was getting ready to call EMS....please, give a thought or prayer for this little guy that he does NOT have a seizure....so scary!
anyway, joshua has learned a couple of new things this week...he FOUND HIS HAIR(which is JUST coming back in after falling out)!! he looks sooooo cute when he reaches up there and starts to scratch it!! awww...and then he found his FEET!! he LOVES to grab them and try to EAT THEM!!! TOOOO CUTE! he has also started to blow rasberries (i think that is what they are called) so he sounds soooooo cute!!! and of course, he gets the other boys into it and they are ALL doing it at the same time and ALL are cracking up together!!! it is a sight to see! he also has JUST started to sit by himself! he can sit there for at least a couple of minutes before he over corrects and falls over! and this little guy is the first little one that will CRY when he topples over! he is our drama boy too! such a CUTIE!!
well, james is doing well! he is just struggling with the work...he calculated that he is working about 81 hours a WEEK!!! that is ALOT OF TIME!! and he is just exhausted!! they recently had to move from their compound to another one while the original one was being worked on......i know that his compound that he works at, has been COMMENTED on that it is one of the best one out there and the soldiers are doing an AMAZING job there!! they also are the only ones with a CATWALK (that they built) running over the compound that allows them to see down on the people and the higher ups where REALLY impressed with that!! i am so proud of him!!! his unit is a mixture of several different states so they call themselves CHAOS!! awwww..anyway, we are able to talk to each other more on the internet because he FINALLY got internet acces from his room!!! yayayayaya!! he does NOT need to be out in the bitter cold to get on the internet...what a BLESSING!! so now he can get on for a couple of minutes, call me, and then i can jump on the computer and we can video chat with each other and he can see the kids....it is GREAT!!! the boys LOVE to talk to daddy!! i have just posted his latest UPDATE from bucca over at our blog!!! so, if you would like to read it, please go right over!! :)
well, as for me, i am doing fine....just trucking along here at home just WAITING for my hubby! we just celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary on the 1st of the month....AWWWWW! i am so in love with that beautiful man! i have been just busy with the boys and making sure we are doing everything we can! the nurses schedule is kinda different so i don't have ANY nurse on thursday and that is kinda right in the middle of the week but we have handled it just fine. i don't normally go anywhere on that day...just relax! my FIBROMYALGIA is REALLY acting up lately...it is so hard in the morning to get out of bed and walk down those stairs to get the door for the nurses...it is so painful....i can't even describe to you have much it HURTS! not to mention the REST of my body! i feel like such an old lady somedays....i have had to take some MOTRIN to help ease some of the pain....it helps somewhat but man! i just deal with it!! i can't take what is prescribed for me because of the kiddos...those things would KNOCK ME OUT if i took them! anyway, all is well! i just can't WAIT to get daddy home!!!
CHD Awareness Week has officially started FEB 7-14! MLH of SA is excited to let you know that we have received a state and city proclamation from Texas Governor Rick Perry and San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger in recognition of CHD awareness.....FINALLY! there is something in san antonio to HELP spread awareness of CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS!!! unfortunatly, i was unable to be much help this year with the booth and such but i KNOW they are doing a WONDERFUL JOB at any and all events!!
well, that is it for the update....if you have not been by our BLOG (www.blessingsinmylife.blogspot.com) in a while, come check out all the NEW pictures of the boys!! they are growing sooooo fast! i also backtracked all our time with DADDY on our blog (look for date of dec 23rd to current) to see what happened, pictures of our time and also some current pics and videos too!!
GOD BLESS EVERYONE!! we are doing fine just waiting for james to COME HOME SAFELTY!!!!
take care and thanks for reading,
Posted by Maria at 10:40 PM 2 comments
Labels: alex, family update, IRAQ, james, joshua, matthew, me
picture time!!!
here are some NEW pictures...ENJOY!
matthew decided that brother had had this toy ENOUGH and he wanted a GO at it!! awwww....he is so BIG NOW!! :)
matthew's nurse decided to SPIKE his hair up!! :) he looks so MATURE!!
alex also getting his hair spiked up!
joshua found his TOES!!! CUTIE!
this is alex NEW train he BUILT ALL BY HIMSELF!! he is such a SMARTY!
here is the OTHER train he built by himself!! awww....
this is joshua sitting by himself...
here is ALEX with his new haircut....
here is matthew with HIS new haircut that we got today!!!
Posted by Maria at 10:21 PM 1 comments
BUCCA UPDATE....love james...
20080209- 0627hrs your time and 1527hrs my time
Hello all! How are ya'll doing? I am doing fine over here in the Middle East. The trip here has been an experience that will not be forgotten. Sorry I have not sent many emails out lately but the time here has been really busy. It has taken a toll on the body physically and not as much mentally. I have been on a 6 and 1 schedule lately and over 80hrs of work time in a 6 day work week. When I have that one day off all I want to do is absolutely nothing. I try to call mamma and the boys as much as I can and it just fells so good to talk to them when I can. I love it when I talk to them and it makes me feel so good. I always look forward to talking to mamma and the boys. There still isn't much to talk about over here on the net or phone. Everything you say on the phone is being monitored and everything you send on the net is being watched. Boy I can't wait till I get home. Everything on this end is pretty much the same ol same. My time here still consists of the following:
1 go to work
2 go to sleep
3 go to gym
4 take shower
5 go eat
6 go to work
7 go to sleep
8 go to gym
9 take a shower
10 go eat
11 go to work
It's the same thing day in day out. I turn in laundry when I need to in between the schedule. I know these letters have probably been the same but I'll try to change it up every once and a while. I just wanted to basically let all know that I am dong just fine.
Chayo's and my moms care packages have been outstanding and they keep me in good spirits and make me feel good. I have received other care packages from friends and I thank them for keeping me in mind. The one that is the true hero here is mamma back at home taking care of my 3 lovely boys. She has such a busy schedule with them and is doing such a great job. It is nice that we have a nurse that comes over to help out with Matthew. My boys are doing great. They are all growing and missing their daddy, but soon I will be home with them and my wife. I can't wait to see everybody again when I get home. There is a lot of things that I want to do when I get home. Well, ya'll take care and have a good day. I will talk to you later.
Love from Iraq,
SSG Gonzalez, James A
Posted by Maria at 6:27 AM 0 comments
Friday, February 01, 2008
11 years ago today, my beautiful wonderful husband and i celebrated our MARRIAGE to each other in front of all our family and friends....oh what a BEAUTIFUL day that was! my memories of that day plus ALL the days before and after are sooooo clear in my mind...it is AMAZING that my husband is my COUSIN'S BEST FRIEND and has been since middle school!! we have probably met each other SOMETIME during all those years they were friends...he was always WITH my cousin and we use to have tons of parties and such...wow...it took a PARTY in NOV 1994 that was given for him and all my cousins for their birthdays for us to meet and fall in love at FIRST SIGHT! yes, that was us, LOVE...it was so pure and so SPECIAL...GOD brought us together in such a special way....HE showed me that not all men are horrible and abusive...that there are good men out there! HE showed me on that day as CLEAR as a bell what type of man my husband was....how? well, as we went to the store that DAY i met him, i ACCIDDENTLY spilled about 20oz red punch on my husband BRAND NEW TRUCK!! OMG, i was so SCARED and EMBARRASED because i was SURE that he would yell at me, hit me or SOMETHING, which i know that he had every right to (at the time) but instead, my wonderful husband sat there and consoled me and told me "HEY, IT'S OK! IT IS JUST A TRUCK! IT WILL CLEAN UP!!!!" can you IMAGINE?! i was in SHOCK, but i was ready to go home because i was so upset and crying and when i told him i was going home, he told me "DON'T GO...I JUST MET YOU!! PLEASE STAY..." awwwwww....that was when GOD showed me what a special man that was! he NEVER got upset or mad at me that i spilled that drink in his car...not ONCE! that is what and who my man is!! since that day, we have been inseperable....we have always enjoyed being together and just being US...we both feel SOOO BLESSED that GOD had brought us together and has has BLESSED us THREE TIMES with our beautiful kiddos!! everything that we have, that we ARE and just EVERYTHING we know are THRU GOD!! he has given us 13 years, 11 beautiful MARRIED YEARS together and i just PRAY we will have many MANY MANY more years together!!
so, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MY LOVE....you are loved and missed here at home.....
THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN THE DAY WE MET!!! just look at us...we are SOUL MATES....
THIS montage was done LAST YEAR for our 10 year anniversart...please feel free and check it out if you would like to see our years together in pictures...
Posted by Maria at 8:44 PM 1 comments


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The aircraft crashed and caught fire on New College property near the Sarasota-Bradenton airport.
UPDATE Authorities have identified a pilot who died in a Saturday plane crash at the New College campus and his critically injured passenger.
John William Ardoyno, 70, of Hayward, Wisc., piloted the single-engine Seawind aircraft that took off from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport at about 3:30 p.m.
Ardoyno died when the plane suddenly crashed across the Tamiami Trail from the airport in a field at New College.
His passenger — William S. Jackson, 63, of Ann Arbor, Mich. — was on fire when he managed to get out of the damaged plane. Paramedics airlifted Jackson to the burn unit at Tampa General Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
No one on the ground was injured, though the plane crashed about 100 yards from a campus building.
The International Seawind Pilots Association lists Ardoyno as a member and a flight instructor.
In September, Ardoyno made an emergency landing in the Indian River Lagoon when the Seawind he was piloting lost engine power and he could not make it to the nearest airfield. He had just left Vero Beach Municipal Airport when the aircraft reportedly lost oil pressure.
Ardoyno and his passenger, Leonard Fleming of Port Orchard, Wash., were not injured. Fleming had just purchased the plane, according to a news report.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in Sarasota this morning. They have yet to say what may have been the possible cause of the Saturday crash.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at (941) 861-4900.
EARLIER One man was killed and another severely burned Saturday afternoon when a small plane crashed as the pilot attempted to take off from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.
The seaplane, which crashed about 3:30 p.m. on the west side of New College of Florida's campus near the Heiser science building, could not gain enough altitude, said Sarasota County Fire Department spokeswoman Capt. Susan Pearson. The pilot of the plane was killed and the badly burned passenger was flown by helicopter to Tampa General Hospital. The pilot was not from this area, Pearson said.
Authorities did not release the names of the pilot or passenger Saturday pending notification of their families.
Pearson said Saturday evening that she did not yet know where the plane was headed. After the plane took off from the airport, witnesses said it was flying low and dipping in the air.
One witness, Rich Parker, said he was standing in his kitchen near the window when he heard a loud pop "like a gunshot." He looked out the window and saw the plane banking, then veering toward the ground.
"I knew he was going to crash," Parker said. The plane looked like it might hit power lines and trees on the college campus directly behind his house, Parker said, but the pilot managed to avoid those and the plane came down in a grassy area. He said the branches littering the grass were knocked off as the plane came through.
There was a loud boom, then fire and smoke where the plane crashed, Parker said. Another witness said the plane caught fire before even hitting the ground.
"I couldn't believe how ferocious it was," Parker said of the fire. Witnesses in the area reported seeing a big black cloud of smoke immediately following the crash, which occurred about 100 yards from a school building.
Parker said the pilot initially appeared to be alive and yelled for help but was overtaken by the fire. The passenger was on fire and climbed out of the plane, he said.
Parker and other neighbors ran towards the plane but the fire was too hot and they could not get near it. The passenger was badly burned and in shock but was sitting up, Parker said. The passenger sustained second and third degree burns, according to the fire department. An airport rescue team was the first to respond.
Standing at the edge of the perimeter around the wreckage law enforcement later taped off, Parker said he felt "shook up" and his face still felt hot from the fire.
The county fire department sent 15 units to the scene. Pearson said in her memory, planes from the airport have had accidents while landing on the runway, but not after taking off.
"It miraculously did not hit a building or other structure. No one on the ground was injured," she said.
Firefighters doused the flames and there were no issues with hazardous materials presenting a problem, she said.
Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration were at the scene Saturday and the National Transportation Safety Board will also be investigating the crash.


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Had a trial on the Head youTek Radical MP last night durign a spontanious hit with a friend.
Significantly lighter than the Wilson K Six One 95. More square-lish grip. Also realise the string were more tight in this demo racket than the 6.1 95.
It has significant better direction control. Lots of time I had over done it.
Volley wise is very stable racket. Has much less virbation than the 6.1 95.
But on ground stroke I am unable to control the amount of power I should input to the swing. More than often it goes out the court, and under the net. (Again - very likely its the fault of the the idiot behind the stick)
At the moment I still perfer the K Six One 95. Will try the Dunlop 4D Aerogel 3 Hundred tonight - and draw a conclusion.


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Princeton students stoke young imaginations with 'Lego engineering'
From the May 16, 2005, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
A group of Princeton University students is using Lego toys as teaching tools to take children beyond textbook math and science and stoke their imaginations with hands-on engineering.
The student group, Princeton Engineering Education for Kids (PEEK), is collaborating with teachers at Riverside Elementary School in Princeton to help children build their own computer-controlled cars and, at the same time, learn principles of engineering. For the past two years, the University students have been spending an hour and a half a week for five weeks each semester in most of the classrooms at the school.
"Legos are a good tool to get people excited about learning in general," said senior Rosalind Echols, co-president of PEEK. "It is a toy, but it's something that is really exciting to children, so we associate that with learning and it brings out that learning can be fun too."
"It's not only fun, it's problem-solving; it's working together; it's learning to compromise," said fourth-grade teacher Pam Devine, as her students worked in pairs on the day's assignment of making their cars back up and turn around when they bumped an obstacle. "It touches on all the content areas of our curriculum -- and the kids enjoy it."
The PEEK program grew out of the work of former visiting faculty member Chris Rogers, a professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, who taught at Princeton in 2002-03. Rogers worked with the Lego company to add a small microprocessor, motors, touch sensors and other devices to the toys. Using a computer, the children invent programs that determine the behavior of their creations, then transfer the programs to the onboard microprocessor. Rogers taught a freshman seminar using Legos and helped Princeton students create a curriculum for local schools.
PEEK now has 15 to 30 students who go into classrooms each semester and a total membership of nearly 100 undergraduates, including a number of non-engineers and non-scientists. In addition to the regular classroom sessions in kindergarten through fourth grade, PEEK organizes "engineering nights" when the children can enter their Lego creations into competitions. The group, which is advised by Clarence Rowley, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is looking for funding to expand into other Princeton elementary schools.
In a recent session of Devine's class at Riverside, sophomore John Donnal and junior Jian Li helped the children figure out how to build bumpers that would press against a small sensor when the vehicle hit something. Fourth-graders Hanna and Emily were among the first to be ready to program instructions into their car. "Cool!" said Emily when the program successfully transferred from a desktop computer. But, far from being finished, the girls ran into difficulties when they tested the car. The bumper fell off, and the wheels lost traction. They headed back to the Lego bricks and the computer, slowly improving the performance of their car.
In another team, Julian and Jaz were delighted when their car got stuck in an endless loop of hitting a wall, backing up and plowing forward again, but not turning. "I think it's interesting to find out how to make things and make them work," said Julian.
"It was funny watching our car burst into pieces," said Jaz. "It's good to add on a lot of pieces, but not unneeded pieces. Get just enough pieces and you're going to be O.K."
The classroom visits are a chance for the Princeton students to
think in a new way too. "It's a little intimidating when you first go
in because you are facing 20 kids who love Legos but have no idea what
you're talking about," said Echols. "You can't say, 'Let's talk about
"A lot of times you'll be surprised," said junior Mark Spano, the group's incoming president. "They really do understand something, just not in the words that you're explaining it to them in. They have a pretty good physical intuition about this stuff."
Devine said that another benefit of the program is it engages
students of all abilities. "Sometimes a child who may be having trouble
in math or computers really thrives in Lego engineering," she said.
"It's a place where everyone can excel."
"My favorite thing," said Echols, "is when I ask a question that I
am not really expecting anyone to answer, and some person in the class
who I've never heard speak before will shoot their hand up and say,
'Ooh, ooh, I know!' and give you almost a perfectly worded answer. It's
really exciting."
PEEK's ultimate goal is to increase the level of interest among
students, especially girls, in science and engineering, but the program
also shows students that playing and learning go together long past
elementary school. "You can have fun even when you get past the age
when you should be playing with Legos, like college," said Echols.


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Theirs is often the first face we see when injured or ailing, and, like angels of healing, they guide us down the road to recovery. Every year from May 6 – 12, we honor and celebrate nurses for their strong commitment, compassion, and care that they display in their important role all over the world.
New Jersey businessman, Edwin Scanlan, began promoting the idea of Nurses Day in the U.S. in the early 1970s after witnessing the excellent care nurses provided at his hometown hospital, Riverview Medical Center. Things really took off in 1974, when the International Council of Nurses proclaimed May 12 International Nurses Day. Eight years later in 1982, a signed proclamation by President Ronald Reagan declared May 6th "National Recognition Day for Nurses," and was later extended to a weeklong celebration to include the observance of International Nurses Day on May 12th.
Happy birthday, Florence Nightingale!
While the week of May 6 -12 is National Nurses Week, the 12th is significant not only because it's recognized as International Nurses Day around the world, but the day was chosen purposefully because it's the birthday of one of the world's most notable nurses, Florence Nightingale. Here are some interesting facts about the most famous nurse in modern history:
- Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of the modern nursing profession.
- She is named after the city of her birth, Florence, Italy.
- Born into an affluent family, her parents forbade her to enter the nursing field, but at age 16, Florence knew it was her calling.
- She earned the name, "The Lady with the Lamp" during the Crimean War for her solitary rounds made past dark to comfort patient after patient with only a small lamp lighting her way.
- In the 1870s, Nightingale mentored Linda Richards,"America's first trained nurse."
- Nightingale's book Notes on Nursing is still a classic read for nursing students today.
- In 1883, Queen Victoria awarded Florence Nightingale with the Royal Red Cross.
- Each year, a service is held in Westminster Abbey in London, during which a symbolic lamp is taken from the Nurses' Chapel in the Abbey and handed from one nurse to another, and then to the Dean, who places it on the High Altar. This process signifies the passing of knowledge from one nurse to another.
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English students have been beaten by their Asian counterparts in a key international test to measure skills vital to the job market.
England came 11th overall, edged out of the top ten by Singapore, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
But domestic schools did better than expected and have outperformed a number of western rivals.
The average score across 44 industrialised economies was 500 with the 137 English schools tested scoring an average of 517 in an online exam to measure practical problem-solving ability. It is the first time that the test has been used.
English students outshone their counterparts in France, Germany and the USA in the tests, a new component of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa).
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said that English students did 'significantly better' in problem solving compared to pupils in other countries with similar maths, reading and science scores.
But despite English students' relatively impressive headline performance, the test revealed that almost one in six of the English 15-year-olds tested failed to reach a minimum standard of problem solving ability.
A spokesman for the OECD said: "These students are, at best, only able to solve very simple problems that do not require thinking ahead and that are cast in familiar settings, such as choosing the cheapest models of furniture from a catalogue."
In Japan and South Korea, just 7% of pupils were found to be at such a low level.
The organisation warned that students with weak problem solving skills would struggle to find work as jobs become increasingly demanding.
The OECD's director of education and skills, Andreas Schleicher, said: "Today's 15-year-olds with poor problem solving skills will become tomorrow's adults struggling to find or keep a good job."
Another cause for concern was the dismal performance of immigrant students in English schools.
On average, immigrant pupils scored 17 points less than their British-born classmates - the largest gap of all of the countries tested.
Explaining the gulf, Pisa analyst Francesco Avvisati, said: "Immigrant students in England do worse than non-immigrant students in problem solving and in science as well, but not in reading and mathematics.
"Immigrant students focus so much on reading and mathematics that they actually succeed in closing the gaps in those subjects but sometimes they don't benefit from all those opportunities given to non-immigrant students to develop their problem solving."
Despite areas of weakness, today's results are in stark contrast to England's poor showing in the OECD's global rankings for maths and reading announced in December 2013.
The UK was ranked 16th for reading and 19th for maths, sparking calls for a radical overhaul of the school system.
The OECD's head of early childhood and schools division, Michael Davidson, said: "Problem solving is where England comes out relatively strong.
"If you value those skills, and they are obviously valued by employers, the demand for those problem solving skills is strong and growing, then clearly England is producing skills for students that match what the growing demand of the labour market is."
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland did not participate in the optional new test.


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Foster father faces July 22 trial in baby's death
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A Fort Bragg man accused of beating a 5-month-old baby girl to death in December while she was in his care has been scheduled for a July 22 trial in Mendocino County Superior Court.
Wilson L. "Josh" Tubbs III, 38, the baby's foster father, faces a charge of child abuse resulting in death, which carries the same weight as murder, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office.
Judge John Behnke ordered Tubbs to be bound over for trial after three hours of testimony from three witnesses, including the child abuse specialist who examined baby Emerald Herriet at Oakland Children's Hospital, who testified that the extent of injury to Emerald's head and brain indicated the baby had been abused over a period of time, with traumatic events appearing to have happened around Nov. 2 and Dec. 1, based on medical records.
Tubbs had on Dec. 2 brought the baby girl, who had months earlier been taken from her mother by county Child Welfare Services, to the Mendocino Coast District Hospital not breathing and blue, and with bruises on her face and head.
The 49 or more bruises found on the baby's head and face during her autopsy, along with two skull fractures, multiple hemorrhages in her retinas and severe subdural hematoma -- the accumulation of blood between the brain's surface and inside of the skull -- could have been several months old, according to testimony from Dr. Rachel Gilgoff, a pediatrician specializing in child abuse.
injuries appeared to have been caused by a combination of blunt force trauma and shaking, Gilgoff testified. Public Defender Linda Thompson said the baby's regular pediatrician noted the infant was a "shaken baby," and that subsequent rough treatment from Tubbs would not have otherwise been an issue.
According to county records, the infant was taken from her mother June 28 after a roommate reported that the mother left after a verbal fight during which, according to the roommate, the mother held Emerald on her hip and the baby's head was "basically being flung around due to a lack of proper support" while the mother gathered her belongings with her other hand.
Asked if that incident could have caused the brain injuries described, Gilgoff said there is "not enough force" in that kind of motion to cause such severe damage.
"That's not what we worry about when we talk about shaking," she said on the witness stand, adding that injuries as severe as Emerald's are typically caused when "someone loses it in anger and shakes the baby. If you saw someone do it to the extent where it could cause subdural hematoma and brain injury, you'd freak out."
Tubbs initially claimed the infant was injured when she fell from a changing bench onto a hardwood floor in his house, and later admitted he slapped and violently shook the baby in frustration at her crying, a Fort Bragg Police Department officer and a DA's Office investigator testified.
Responding to Thompson's cross-examination, DA's Office investigator Kevin Bailey testified that Tubbs told authorities baby Emerald bruised easily, and that while he felt "partially" responsible for her death, he also said, "there were underlying issues my wife and I kept trying to address but they kept blowing us off.'"
Prosecutor Paul Sequeira of the DA's Office also procured testimony about stressors in Tubbs' life, including marital strife and unemployment. Tubbs was responsible for Emerald's care during the day while his wife worked, according to witness testimony.
Thompson also questioned Gilgoff about whether the baby could have had hydrocephalus, a condition where an abnormal amount of cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain, causing pressure inside the skull and head enlargement -- or another brain disorder. Gilgoff testified that the baby appeared to be developing normally, based on her medical records, and that there would have been other indicators if brain disorder was an issue.
The baby girl was flown to Oakland Children's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead Dec. 4. Tubbs was arrested Dec. 10 in her death, and remains in custody at the Mendocino County Jail under $500,000 bail.


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Released: April 1989 Charted: 13 May 1989
Tracks (UK version): (Click for codes to singles charts.) I Wanna Be Adored (9/14/91, #20 UK, #18 MR) / She Bangs the Drums (7/29/89, #34 UK, #9 MR) / Waterfall (1/11/92, #27 UK) / Don't Stop / Bye Bye Badman / Elizabeth My Dear / (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister / Made of Stone (3/31/89, #20 UK) / Shoot You Down / This Is the One / I Am the Resurrection (4/11/92, #33 UK)
Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.6 UK, 0.8 world
Peak: 86 US, 9 UK
Review: "There's almost no precedent for the Stone Roses…their debut was a fully formed gem that gave birth to an entire genre – Brit-pop." TL "Pop hooks [are] one thing, and dance rhythms [are] another, but it's also important to have dat swing, you know, and the band has it." GS The album "ushered in the era of Madchester," AZ "an indie rock phenomenon that fused guitar-pop with drug-fueled rave and dance culture." AMG At the time, "British youth were abandoning rock music en masse for acid-house sounds and communal raves" BN "and the charts were looking less than healthy." AD By bringing "dance music to an audience…previously obsessed with droning guitars," AMG the Stone Roses "almost single-handedly made British rock music hip again." BN
Through "classic psychedelia married with punk energy and rave swagger" BN, the Roses established themselves as "postmodern English, filtering folk-rock romanticism through Joy Division and Jesus and Mary Chain hyperromanticism." RC "The repercussions…could be heard throughout the '90s" AMG as the band spawned the sound of the guitar-based pop of Oasis and Blur, "gave birth to shoegazer bands like My Bloody Valentine," RV and were "a definite precursor of grunge." JA
Frontman Ian Brown revived "the concept of classic pop songwriting." AMG "Quietly melodic" PK "prime 'sixties' harmonies" AD "owe far more to, say, Simon & Garfunkel than to New Order." PK The lyrics "flicked at epic romance…without veering into sentimentality." TL The album "creates it's own world and atmosphere whilst simultaneously reminding you of almost every great sixties English group." AD It has "the lyrical sensibilities of John Lennon and Joe Strummer, mixes in Motown rhythms, adds a dash of Sex Pistols and tops it off with a purple haze of instrumentation and production reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix." RV "The vocal melodies are well-written and sound fresh, sincere, and inspiring. And happy, too: this is one hell of a cheerful, optimistic record." GS "Only The Beatles ever dared exhaust so many good tunes in the space of an hour." IB Ultimately, the album is "a crystallization of everything there is to love about the last 40 years of pop music." RV
Guitarist John Squire establishes himself as "a new hero for a new age," AZ deftly heading into the world of "guitar heroism without the attendant pomp and egomania." IB His "playing is endlessly inventive but never overwhelms the songs." IB His "layers of simple, exceedingly catchy hooks" AMG are "a thing of magic," AZ "recalling the British Invasion while suggesting the future with their phased, echoey effects." AMG He "lingered over chords like the Byrds' Roger McGuinn." TL "Drummer Alan 'Reni' Wren's galloping, hiphop-influenced beats [are] a sonic infusion that became a fixture of '90s alt rock." JA Along with bassist 'Mani' Mounfield, the two "shift from charging beat-pop to fluid funkadelic grooves, sometimes in the space of a single song." IB They "always imply dance rhythms without overtly going into the disco," AMG establishing themselves as "one of the tightest British rhythm sections of the time." GS "This is as good as guitars, bass and drums can sound together, and if you don't get it, you probably have some disease that keeps you from liking music." IB
I Wanna Be Adored
I Wanna Be Adored is "a perfect album opener" AD "with it's slow, slow build up [and the] impeccably played musical backing" AD of Mani's "creeping bassline," AMG Squire's "waves of cool guitar hooks" AMG and Reni's "funky drummer shuffle." QM Through it all, Brown "Brown sings with a vitriolic verve unheard since Johnny Rotten" RV as he "reveals the band is driven by the devil to make great music. 'I don't need to sell my soul,' he sings. 'He's already in me.' When he wails, 'I wanna be adored,' the sentiment doesn't seem like an egotistical statement from a band in its infancy as much as it is a prelude to greatness." RV
She Bangs the Drums
On She Bangs the Drums "the '60s hooks and the rolling beats manage to convey the colorful, neo-psychedelic world of acid house" AMG and "wind into the rhythm inseparably" AMG while displaying "a rush of guitars not heard since The Byrds invented folk rock." AD Waterfall is "a luminous, druggy, Byrds-style ballad" JA "with it's delicate repeating guitar figure and it's dramatic ending." AD By leaning on "sixties-influenced studio gimmicks like backwards tracks and phasing," JA
Made of Stone is an "atmospheric" and "heartbreaking, swoon-some classic pop rock song." AD "The band were justly proud of this and released it as a single." AD It "depicts the destruction of Manchester under dwindling industrialization and Margaret Thatcher's iron fist. 'When the streets are cold and lonely / And the cars they burn below me / Are you all alone / Are you made of stone?'" RV
Made of Stone
While every song on the album "is knocking on the door of perfection…[the epic finale I Am the Resurrection] kicks it down, taking in bubblegum, Motown, and psychedelic funk on the way to a glorious instrumental climax that'll having you shaking your head in disbelief." IB It takes a certain amount of arrogance for a band to claim its [sic] the second coming, let alone an upstart. The Roses pull it off with ease. Brown snarls, 'I am the resurrection and I am the light / I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I fly,' sounding more like a villain than the messiah…By the time the band reaches its instrumental climax, it's easy to adore the Roses." RV
I Am the Resurrection
The band would never find a way to equal their debut. With their fame came subsequent legal battles to move from independent status to a major label. They eventually signed with Geffen and, five years after their debut, "reemerged…with the stodgy and wrongly titled Second Coming. The Stone Roses, however, remains a stellar contribution to the canon of classic debuts." BN It is "one of the finest records of the past 30 years." CL "Some albums really can change the world, and in 1989 this was one of them." AZ
Resources and Related Links:
- The Stone Roses' DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- album page on DMDB website (even more in-depth look at album)
- AMG All Music Guide review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- JA John Alroy, Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
- AZ Amazon.com review by Chris Nickson
- BN Barnes & Noble review by Tony Fletcher
- RC Robert Christgau
- AD Adrian Denning's Album Reviews
- IB Ink Blot Magazine review by Jesse Fahnestock
- CL Colin Larkin (1998). Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums. Virgin Books: London, England.
- PK Pop Kulcher 50 Greatest Rock & Roll Albums of All Time
- QM Q magazine review by Ian Gittins (October 2000 print issue)
- RV The Review "100 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Clarke Speicher (October – November 2001; Vol. 128: numbers 12-23).
- GS George Starostin reviews
- TL Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Albums by Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light (11/13/06).


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CHENEY, Wash. (AP) Stephen Madison scored 29 and Kyle Barone scored 20 to lead Idaho to an 81-79 overtime victory over Eastern Washington on Thursday night.
Barone had 11 rebounds, and Madison had 10 to give both double-doubles.
Connor Hill and Mansa Habeeb added 10 points apiece for the Vandals (3-4).
Eastern Washington led 34-33 at halftime in a game that saw 22 lead changes. At 15:53 in the second half, the Eagles led by 17.
With 3:22 to play, a 3-pointer by Hill put Idaho up 65-62, and Madison made two free throws to make it 67-62.
Venky Jois hit a layup for the Eagles, and Justin Crosgile made a 3-pointer at 1:32 to tie the score at 67.
During overtime, Idaho shot 75 percent from the field. Eastern Washington (2-6) shot 42.9 percent.
Crosgile had 26 points. Jois had 13 points, 10 rebounds. Thomas Reuter added 11 and Martin Seiferth 10.


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(Pocket-lint) - Dyson has unveiled its "Air Multiplier" fan and Pocket-lint was on hand to get some snaps of the interesting magnifying-glass-shaped design. The company tried very hard to keep its bladeless fan a secret, but news leaked out some months ago so the eventual announcement was almost something of an anticlimax.
The fan does what it purports to do very well. It blows air at you, basically. It does this without blades thanks to a very thin stream of air which the fan emits from around the rim at 55mph. Without boring you with an extensive description of fluid dynamics, it works because of friction - if air is travelling in a jet, air alongside it tends to get pulled along too.
It can therefore shoot out a relatively thin stream of air, and that small quantity of air will pull upto 15 times more air along with it. Pretty efficient, compared to a traditional fan (though a similar principle does apply there, too). In terms of volume, the fan is about as noisy as a regular fan, if a smidge less.
What was most surprising about the Air Multiplier was the price - £200 for both the 10-inch and 13-inch versions. It's pretty and all, but when a regular fan is a fiver, it seems tough to justify splashing out two hundred quid on a desk fan, however beautiful it is. What do you guys think?