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1638 – The first permanent white settlement in Delaware was established. Swedish Lutherans who came to Delaware were the first to build log cabins in America. The first English colonists did not know how to build houses from logs but those who lived in the forests of Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland did. German pioneers who settled in Pennsylvania built the first log cabins there in the early 1700s. The Scots-Irish immigrants who settled in the Appalachian highlands after 1720 made the widest use of log cabins and by the time of the American Revolution, log cabins were the mainstay among settlers all along the western frontier.
1790 – John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States (1841-1845), was born in Charles City County, Va. He was also the first vice-president to succeed to office on the death of a president.
1806 – The Great National Pike, also known as the Cumberland Road, became the first highway funded by the national treasury. Built between 1806 and 1840, the Great National Pike stretched from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois. On this day the first appropriation of $30,000 was made by congressional act. Eventually over $6 million was appropriated for the highway. In 1856, control over the road was turned over to the states through which it ran. Roads would be left to the devices of the states almost exclusively until the dawn of the automobile. Henry Ford and other leaders of the automotive industry were instrumental in encouraging the federal funding of national highways.
1814 – In the Battle at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, Andrew Jackson beat the Creek Indians.
1847 – Some 12,000 US forces led by General Winfield Scott occupied the city of Vera Cruz after Mexican defenders capitulated. The Battle of Veracruz was a 20-day siege of the key Mexican beachhead seaport of Veracruz, during the Mexican-American War. It began with the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces, and ended with the surrender and occupation of the city. U.S. forces then marched inland to Mexico City.
1864 – Union General Steele's troops reached Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
1864 – The low level of the Red River continued to hinder Rear Admiral Porter's efforts to get his gun-boats above the rapids at Alexandria for the assault on Shreveport. He reported: "After a great deal of labor and two and a half days' hard work, we succeeded in getting the Eastport over the rocks on the falls, hauling her over by main force. . . . ' All the Army transports maneuvered safely above the rapids, but hospital ship Woodford was battered against the rocks and sank. Porter added: "I shall only be able to take up I part of the force I brought with me, and leave the river guarded all the way through."
1865 – Battle of Quaker Road, Va.
1865 – The final campaign of the war begins in Virginia when Union troops of General Ulysses S. Grant move against the Confederate trenches around Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee's outnumbered Rebels were soon forced to evacuate the city and begin a desperate race west. Eleven months before, Grant moved his army across the Rapidan River in northern Virginia and began the bloodiest campaign of the war. For six weeks, Lee and Grant fought along an arc that swung east of the Confederate capital at Richmond. They fought some of the conflict's bloodiest battles at Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor before they settled into trenches for a siege of Petersburg, 25 miles south of Richmond. The trenches eventually stretched all the way back to Richmond, and for ten months the armies glowered at each other across a no man's land. Periodically, Grant launched attacks against sections of the Rebel defenses, but Lee's men managed to fend them off. Time was running out for Lee, though. His army was dwindling in size to about 55,000, while Grant's continued to grow–the Army of the Potomac now had more than 125,000 men ready for service. On March 25, Lee attempted to split the Union lines when he attacked Fort Stedman, a stronghold along the Yankee trenches. His army was beaten back, and he lost nearly 5,000 men. Grant seized the initiative, sending 12,000 men past the Confederates' left flank and threatening to cut Lee's escape route from Petersburg. Fighting broke out there, several miles southwest of the city. In a downpour, General Grant launched his wideswinging move to the southwest of Petersburg to roll up Lee's flank. Ever concerned about his lifeline on the James River, he wrote Rear Admiral Porter: "In view of the possibility of the enemy attempting to come to City Point, or by crossing the Appomattox at Broadway Landing, getting to Bermuda Hundred during the absence of the greater part of the army, I would respectfully request that you direct one or two gunboats to lay in the Appomattox, near the pontoon bridge, and two in the James River, near the mouth of Bailey's Creek, the first stream below City Point emptying into the James." Porter complied with double measure, sending not one or two but several ships to Grant's assistance. Lee's men could not arrest the Federal advance. Two days later, the Yankees struck at Five Forks, soundly defeating the Rebels and leaving Lee no alternative. He pulled his forces from their trenches and raced west, followed by Grant. It was a race that even the great Lee could not win. He surrendered his army on April 9 at Appomattox Court House.
1867 – The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.
1867 – Congress approved the Lincoln Memorial.
1893 – US Congressman James Blount arrived in Hawaii to investigate the change in government. He later reported to Congress that annexation to the US was being forced and that the people of Hawaii supported their queen.
1898 – Lieutenants David Jarvis and Ellsworth P. Bertholf and Surgeon Dr. Samuel J. Call of the USRC Bear reached Point Barrow after a 2,000 mile "mush" from Nunivak Island that first started on 17 December 1897, driving reindeer as food for 97 starving whalers caught in the Arctic ice. This "Overland Rescue" was heralded by the press and at the request of President William McKinley, Congress issued special gold medals in their honor.
1903 – A regular news service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.
1912 – Revolutionaries from various areas of Mexico began to challenge the new government, and an offensive was launched in March 1912 by Orozco, who accused Madero of abandoning the principles of the Plan of San Luis Potosí. Orozco was defeated, however, by Victoriano Huerta, the unscrupulous commander of the federal forces. To protect the embassy staff, the U.S. sent rifles to the Mexican ambassador in Mexico City and readied U.S. ships to transport troops to fight the rebels.
1917 – Marines garrisoned St. Croix to deny harbor to German submarines.
1918 – US pilot Edward Rickenbacker scores his first air victory. By the end of the war he will be acknowledged as his country's top ace with 26 kills.
1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. Usually referred to as NARBA, the treaty set out an international bandplan and interference rules for mediumwave AM broadcasting in North America. NARBA accommodated much of the U.S. bandplan of 1928, with accommodation to Canada and Mexico.
1943 – World War II meat, butter and cheese rationing began.
1945 – The US 7th Army captures Mannheim and Heidelberg.
1945 – Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army captures Frankfurt, as "Old Blood and Guts" continues his march east. Frankfurt am Main, literally "On the Main" River, in western Germany, was the mid-19th century capital of Germany (it was annexed by Prussia in 1866, ending its status as a free city). Once integrated into a united German nation, it developed into a significant industrial city-and hence a prime target for Allied bombing during the war. That bombing began as early as July 1941, during a series of British air raids against the Nazis. In March 1944, Frankfurt suffered extraordinary damage during a raid that saw 27,000 tons of bombs dropped on Germany in a single month. Consequently, Frankfurt's medieval Old Town was virtually destroyed (although it would be rebuilt in the postwar period-replete with modern office buildings). In late December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, General Patton broke through the German lines of the besieged Belgian city of Bastogne, relieving its valiant defenders. Patton then pushed the Germans east. Patton's goal was to cross the Rhine, even if not a single bridge was left standing over which to do it. As Patton reached the banks of the river on March 22, 1945, he found that one bridge — the Ludendorff Bridge, located in the little town of Remagen — had not been destroyed. American troops had already made a crossing on March 7 — a signal moment in the war and in history, as an enemy army had not crossed the Rhine since Napoleon accomplished the feat in 1805. Patton grandly made his crossing, and from the bridgehead created there, Old Blood and Guts and his 3rd Army headed east and captured Frankfurt on the 29th. Patton then crossed through southern Germany and into Czechoslovakia, only to encounter an order not to take the capital, Prague, as it had been reserved for the Soviets. Patton was, not unexpectedly, livid.
1945 – There are American landings in the northwest of the island Negros near Bacolod. The landing force, part of the US 185th Infantry Regiment, encounters heavy Japanese resistance on the island.
1945 – US naval forces, including TF58 and TF52, continue air strikes on Okinawa while TF54 continues bombarding the island. Japanese Kamikaze and submarine attacks continue.
1950 – Police frantically search Grand Central Station in New York City for a bomb after receiving a threatening note. The bomb was found and taken care of by the bomb squad. In the next few months, five more bombs were found at landmark sites around New York, including the Public Library and the Grand Hotel. Authorities realized that this new wave of terrorist acts was the work of the Mad Bomber. New York's first experience with the so-called Mad Bomber was on November 16, 1940, when a pipe bomb was left in the Edison building with a note that read, "Con Edison crooks, this is for you." More bombs were recovered in 1941, each more powerful than the last, until the Mad Bomber sent a note in December stating, "I will make no more bomb units for the duration of the war." He went on to say that Con Edison, New York's electric utility company, would be brought to justice in due time. The patriotic Mad Bomber made good on his promise, although he did periodically send threatening notes to the press. After his flurry of activity in 1950, the Mad Bomber was silent until a bomb injured two people at Radio City Music Hall in 1954. In 1955, the Mad Bomber hit Grand Central Station, Macy's and the RCA building. A bomb that injured seven on the Staten Island Ferry showed that his bomb making ability was advancing. The police had no luck finding the Mad Bomber, but an investigative team working for Con Ed finally tracked him down. Looking through their employment records, they found that George Peter Metesky had been a disgruntled ex-employee since an accident in 1931. Metesky was enraged that Con Ed refused to pay disability benefits and resorted to terrorism as his revenge. Metesky, a rather mild-mannered man, was found living with his sisters in Connecticut. He was sent to a mental institution in April 1957 where he stayed until his release in 1973. As he left, he was reported to have said, "I don't look like a Mad Bomber, do I?"
1951 – In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953. The conviction of the Rosenbergs was the climax of a fast-paced series of events that were set in motion with the arrest of British physicist Klaus Fuchs in Great Britain in February 1950. British authorities, with assistance from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, gathered evidence that Fuchs, who worked on developing the atomic bomb both in England and the United States during World War II, had passed top-secret information to the Soviet Union. Fuchs almost immediately confessed his role and began a series of accusations. Fuchs confessed that American Harry Gold had served as a courier for the Soviet agents to whom Fuchs passed along his information. American authorities captured Gold, who thereupon pointed the finger at David Greenglass, a young man who worked at the laboratory where the atomic bomb had been developed. Gold claimed Greenglass was even more heavily involved in spying than Fuchs. Upon his arrest, Greenglass readily confessed and then accused his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, of being the spies who controlled the entire operation. Both Ethel and Julius had strong leftist leanings and had been heavily involved in labor and political issues in the United States during the late-1930s and 1940s. Julius was arrested in July and Ethel in August 1950. By present-day standards, the trial was remarkably fast. It began on March 6, and the jury had convicted both of conspiracy to commit espionage by March 29. The Rosenbergs were not helped by a defense that many at the time, and since, have labeled incompetent. More harmful, however, was the testimony of Greenglass and Gold. Greenglass declared that Julius Rosenberg had set up a meeting during which Greenglass passed the plans for the atomic bomb to Gold. Gold supported Greenglass's accusation and admitted that he then passed the plans along to a Soviet agent. This testimony sealed Julius's fate, and although there was little evidence directly tying Ethel to the crime, prosecutors claimed that she was the brain behind the whole scheme. The jury found both guilty. A few days later, the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death. They were executed on June 19, 1953 in Sing Sing Prison in New York. Both maintained their innocence to the end. The Rosenberg case garnered worldwide attention. Their supporters claimed they were being made scapegoats to the Cold War hysteria that was sweeping America. The French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called their execution a "legal lynching." Others pointed out that even if the Rosenbergs did pass secrets along to the Soviets during World War II, Russia had been an ally, not an enemy, of the United States at the time. Those who supported the verdict insisted that the couple got what they deserved for endangering national security by giving top-secret information on a devastating weapon to communists.
1951 – The Chinese rejected MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea.
1953 – U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel George L. Jones, 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, became the 30th ace of the Korean War.
1954 – Carrier aircraft began reconnaissance near Dien Bien Phu, Indochina.
1960 – Launch of first fully integrated Fleet Ballistic Missile from USS Observation Island.
1961 – The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, was ratified.
1962 – Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.
1964 – The U.S. planned to add $50 million a year for aid to South Vietnam.
1971 – Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Calley ended up spending three years under house arrest.
1973 – Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining, admitted, American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to Vietnam to bolster the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history. During the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists' Tet Offensive of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks. In the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. Richard Nixon, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and "Vietnamization" of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam's borders. This expansion of the war, which accomplished few positive results, led to new waves of protests in the United States and elsewhere. Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced. In reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, "You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated." The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.
1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
1973 – As part of the Accords, Hanoi releases the last 67 of its acknowledged American prisoners of war, bringing the total number released to 591.
1974 – The unmanned U.S. space probe Mariner 10, launched by NASA in November 1973, becomes the first spacecraft to visit the planet Mercury, sending back close-up images of a celestial body usually obscured because of its proximity to the sun. Mariner 10 had visited the planet Venus eight weeks before but only for the purpose of using Venus' gravity to whip it toward the closest planet to the sun. In three flybys of Mercury between 1974 and 1975, the NASA spacecraft took detailed images of the planet and succeeded in mapping about 35 percent of its heavily cratered, moonlike surface. Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system and completes its solar orbit in only 88 earth days. Data sent back by Mariner 10 discounted a previously held theory that the planet does not spin on its axis; in fact, the planet has a very slow rotational period that stretches over 58 earth days. Mercury is a waterless, airless world that alternately bakes and freezes as it slowly rotates. Highly inhospitable, Mercury's surface temperature varies from 800 degrees Fahrenheit when facing the sun to -279 degrees when facing away. The planet has no known satellites. Mariner 10 is the only human-created spacecraft to have visited Mercury to date.
1974 – Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. The guardsmen were later acquitted.
1975 – Evacuation of Danang by sea began.
1985 – The Nantucket I was decommissioned, the last lightship in service with the Coast Guard. This ended 164 years of continuous lightship service by the Government. Nantucket I was the last of the U.S. lightships and the last of the Nantucket Shoals lightships that watched over that specific area since June of 1854. Launched as WLV-612 in 1950 at Baltimore, the ship has stood watch as the light vessel for San Francisco and Blunts Reef in California, at Portland, Oregon, and finally at Nantucket Shoals. The CGC Nantucket I also served as a "less-than-speedy" law enforcement vessel off Florida for a time.
1988 – US Congress discontinued aid to Nicaraguan contras.
1991 – General H. Norman Schwarzkopf publicly apologized to President Bush for questioning his judgment about calling a cease-fire in the Gulf War.
1995 – The House of Representatives rejected, 227-204, a constitutional amendment placing term limits on lawmakers. The rejected proposal would have limited terms to 12 years in the House and Senate.
1999 – It was reported that the US government knowingly risked the lives of thousands of workers over the last 50 years by allowing them to be exposed to dangerous levels of beryllium, a metal critical to the military.
1999 – Albania and Macedonia appealed for help as thousands of refugees fled Kosovo on the 6th day of bombing. NATO said Serbs were targeting ethnic Albanian leadership for executions and the US accused Milosevic of "crimes against humanity."
1999 – In Montenegro Pres. Milo Djukanovic made a plea for an end to NATO attacks on Yugoslavia. The country reported that over 30,000 refugees had taken asylum there.
2002 – At Fort Irwin, Ca., a mortar round exploded prematurely and 3 soldiers were killed.
2002 – Iraq expressed interest in resuming relations with Kuwait.
2002 – It was reported that Russia had announced plans to build a nuclear plant for North Korea.
2003 – Pres. Bush sought to marshal the nation's resolve to withstand more casualties, saying further sacrifice must be expected.
2003 – In the 11th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom a suicide bomber driving a taxi killed four American soldiers at a checkpoint near Najaf, Iraq. US jets destroyed a building in Basra where paramilitary fighters were meeting and 200 were reported killed.
2003 – Two US special forces soldiers were killed and another wounded in an ambush in southern Afghanistan. Fighting there killed four Taliban with 6 captured.
2003 – A low-flying Iraqi missile avoided the detection of US defense systems and landed just off the coast of Kuwait City, shattering windows at the seaside Souq Sharq shopping mall.
2004 – Pres. Bush hosted a White House ceremony to welcome Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the NATO alliance.
2010 – Nine members of the Hutaree militia, a militia movement group adhering to the ideology of the Christian Patriot movement, based near Adrian, Michigan, are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. The name "Hutaree" appears to be a neologism; the group's web site says that it means "Christian warriors". The prosecution said this was to have involved killing a police officer and attacking the funeral with bombs. The presiding judge dismissed these charges. Three members pled guilty to possessing a machine gun and were sentenced to time served.
2013 – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un orders preparations for strategic rocket strikes on the US mainland at an overnight meeting with top army commanders, in response to the use of nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers in joint US-South Korea military drills.
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someone still has her days and nights confused....what a sleepy head!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
baby, it's cold outside!
since it's beyond cold here today in new england, zack bundled up in his new snowsuit and boots (thank you, grammy!) for his trips to home depot and the grocery store with daddy. (mom and penny just stayed in and made cookies together...)
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Friday, November 21, 2008
one week old!
penny turned 1 week old today! i must say, we've had a really great week together and big brother zack is slowly warming up to his new sis. he's learned to touch her feet (not her face/eyes!) and often says "hi baby!" the four (!) of us also enjoyed our first meal out yesterday, a delicious lunch at incontro.
comfy cozy in a blanket from auntie tara...
welcome home!
comfy cozy in a blanket from auntie tara...
welcome home!
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all snuggled in
look at this snuggle bunny! i imagine this is how she had been positioned the past 9+ months! she sure looks happy...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
weekend with penny
we've really been enjoying our first couple of days with penny. here are a few highlights -- if you'd like to see more, you can check out a larger photo album by clicking on the slide show in the right-hand margin of the page. if all continues to go well, we should be bringing her home from the hospital on monday at some point!
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Penelope Sue has arrived!!
We welcomed our little Penny into the world this morning at 11:46am! She is 7lbs 8oz, which is a full pound more than her older brother Zack was when he was born. Zack does retain some bragging rights, however... He was 20 inches when he was born and Penelope Sue measured in at 19.5 inches.
Mommy and Penny are currently doing great in the recovery room. Check back later... we'll post more photos when we have a chance!
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
getting some last-minute practice in before tomorrow!
we bought zack a baby doll so he could practice being "gentle" and doing "nice". so far, it's going pretty well, except he can't help but touch the baby's eyes!
hopefully he gets this out of his system before he meets baby sister -- which will be tomorrow! stay tuned for pics and stats!!
hopefully he gets this out of his system before he meets baby sister -- which will be tomorrow! stay tuned for pics and stats!!
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
bus! bbb.....bbbbbb....bbbb...
one of zack's favorite daily rituals...
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Monday, November 10, 2008
children's hospital of boston
today we had a big visit with the allergist at the children's hospital of boston. the visit took over 2 hours and zack was a good sport about it all. the good news is that it looks like he is not allergic to wheat as we previously thought. the bad news is that he's still allergic to egg & soy and severly allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. peas is also a new one...mom and dad did some additional epi pen training just in case!
zack's back during some of the testing...
zack's back during some of the testing...
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
the youth vote
i think zack is just excited as we are about our future president -- he even gets a bit choked up!
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Friday, November 7, 2008
now the trouble starts...
zack has been wanting to feed himself lately. not such a big deal when he's munching on yogurt, but pretty messy when it gets to carrots, sweet potatoes, etc....
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
with all this free time i've had on my hands thanks to voting early (we sent in absentee ballots just in case our daughter arrived early bird style), i've been finishing up some projects for the new baby. these are some bibs i made her. i hope she likes them!
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Monday, November 3, 2008
thanksgiving potluck!
zack and i are lucky enough to be in an amazing mom's group -- and we got all of our families together for an early thanksgiving potluck (with kids and hubbys, there ended up being around 55 of us! thanks for hosting, erin!!).
here's a pic of fearless group organizer melissa posing with the incredible spread.:and zack playing with daddy:
here's a pic of fearless group organizer melissa posing with the incredible spread.:and zack playing with daddy:
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
the little gym
we missed last monday's little gym class thanks to the false labor scare -- so we were lucky enough to have dad join us in a make-up class this past saturday!
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Thanks to the conversation here, I was able to determine that the problem is in the OnLoad() script, where I was setting a few attributes to ForceSubmit = true. This script is actually firing when I open the read-only record, which normally has no effect because the record cannot be saved. However, upon trying to reactivate, the system is performing a save operation, but the ForceSubmit is trying to submit the value in the attribute before the record becomes read/write again. Hence the above error.
The solution here is to simply wrap the ForceSubmit statements in an IF statement to make sure that they only fire on create or update forms and not on read-only forms.
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Sat, Apr 12, 2014
Modesto, CA
The 1st Annual Patriot Revolutionary 5k Fun Run/Walk for Beyer High School Athletics programs and athletic scholarships on Saturday, April 12th.
What better way to support our athletic program than by making a pledge to your health with friends, family and students. Let's show our patriot pride by being active and healthy in 2014!
Presented in Partnership with Golden Bear Therapy, Uno Chicago Grill, 5:11 Tactical, Borton Petrini, and many other community support that you can find on our website. This 5K Fun Run/Walk for Beyer Athletics and Scholarship programs will help our students to be the best they can be!
Couse: Flat and fast paved road that loops around Beyer High School/Rose Lane area.
Early Packet Pick-Up:
Pick-up your bag, bib number and race t-shirt, Friday, April 11th from 4:00pm-7:00 pm at Uno Chicago Grill on the corner of Briggsmore and Oakdale Rd, 1533 Oakdale Rd, Modesto, Ca 95355
AFTER APRIL 10,2014 you are not guaranteed a revolutionary t-shirt!! We only ordered enough for runners that are pre registered before this date!! Thank you for supporting Beyer Athletics!
7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. - Day of registration, Packet pick-up and Check-in
8:30 a.m. - 5K Run start at Beyer High School Staff/South Parking lot on Palmwood Dr.
Runners will be parking in the big lot on the north side of the school off of Sylvan Ave.
All registration tables will be in the Palmwood parking lot with vendors to visit after the race. Make sure to stick around after the race as we raffle off many wonderful donations and prizes provided by our many sponsors.


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*For use with the Philips Perfect Draft Machine.
Hoegaarden is for those beer lovers who admire a different taste. This wheat beer which has an ABV of 4.9% has been brewed in the town of Hoegaarden, Belgium since 1445. This stunningly beautiful beer is spiced with coriander and apple peel and has a cloudy appearance due to its unfiltered nature. Hoegaarden's long lasting head traps in all of the sensational aromas and taste for the best experience you could wish for.
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Voluntary Dispossession
Birth/Death, Michael D. O'Brien
THE Lord has pressed it upon my heart to publish this writing again. It is part of the message on prayer this past week. There is a "pentecost" coming upon the Church, and Jesus beckons His people, His Bride, to "come out of Babylon," come out of the materialism which has gripped so many parts of the world and His Church.
Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues. (Rev 18:4)
Jesus wants to pour out spiritual riches upon us, but if we have filled our hearts with the passing riches of this world, we will miss it. This time of preparation then is not so much a bracing for chastisement, but for the coming of the Holy Spirit. When have you ever heard our Blessed Mother tell her children that they should be gripped in fear as the proper response to her messages? Satan wants us all distracted and worried and anxious about tsunamis, earthquakes, the economy, or this or that to the point where people can't even pray or function. And so, Hollywood has been "inspired" by dark apocalyptic scenarios which leave little hope and often serve only to terrify rather than call us back to repentance. By now, I hope you recognize that Satan's pawns are using very similar "prophetic" language to that of the authentic voice of the Spirit, but which leads to solutions which are "antichrist." I have much, much more to say about this in the future.
For now, the most important thing is to live the Gospel of Jesus. That you begin again and humble yourself, seeking forgiveness from God and those whom you've offended. That you enter into the great adventure, which is prayer, and simply do the duty of the moment with docility and surrender. Be joyful, despite everything, yes, rejoice always!
And seek to have, like Our Lady, a true spirit of poverty. For the degree to which you are emptied of "self", is the degree to which you will be filled in The Coming Pentecost.
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. (Rom 12:2)
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- If you struggle to read the bible in the morning, (like someone I know) *cough*, biblegateway.com offer a read aloud version that you can listen to while you are getting dressed. Check out the verse of the day and play the whole chapter. GOOD STUFF.
- Band practice kicked ass mucho cos it gave space to worship God and I haven't done that good and proper in a week or two.
- Go to http://www.brother-sister.net, its the website of the new MeWithoutYou album and you can listen to some of their new stuff, and I absolutely LOVE IT!
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Three things really
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CORONA (CBSLA.com) — Elise Rodriguez, a 911 dispatcher, took a call several weeks ago from a woman who was hysterical when she found her 64-year-old husband on the floor.
Jeff Evans was in apparent cardiac arrest and his wife Carolyn didn't know what to do.
Saturday, Rodriguez got the chance to reunite with the Evans' for an emotional meeting.
CBS2's Tina Patel was there. She said there were few words between the three but there were lots of hugs and tears.
Rodriguez has been a dispatcher for the city of Corona for the past four years.
Carolyn didn't know CPR so Rodriguez talked her through it. Carolyn credits Rodriguez for keeping her calm.
"She just perfectly walked me through it, and when I would start to get sidetracked and lose my emotions, she would bring me right back to keep doing those chest compressions," Carolyn says.
Rodriguez does not see herself as a hero. She told Patel what she did was rather routine. 911 dispatchers do the same thing every day. She remained modest.
"I think it's something we're just trained to do, just follow our protocols," she said.
Paramedics arrived at the Evans home in just four minutes. But they said they noticed the difference those few minutes of CPR did
"His skin color was actually really good, usually they're blue or cyanotic. His skin color appeared to be really good," said Captain Chris Yoshioka of the Corona Fire Department.
Now that Jeff is out of the hospital and recovering, his wife thought it would be a good idea if they could meet and thank the people who saved him that day.
"I feel wonderful, thanks to all these people here. It's just amazing," Jeff said.
Rodriguez sayd she rarely gets to find out what happens when she finishes a call. She was glad to hear about the positive outcome of this one.
"That's why I picked this job. every day I feel like I hopefully did something to help somebody," she said.


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When today started, I was in a weirdly good mood. I woke up and shouted to the universe, "Hello World! I am in a Very Good Mood!" I was in a whistling-while-walking mood. A the-wind-between-my-neck-and-hair-is-poetry mood.
Today, the weather is perfect–"Colombian weather" my friend from Columbia would say, or "California weather" my friend from California would say. Today, the leaves were falling so slowly that by the end of my 20 minute walk, I had caught so many lucky leaves that I felt the luck pouring out of my ears.
The morning fog lent the world a glowing fairy tale feel to it, and as I crossed the street, I saw Icarus just starting to take flight (whereas every other day this week, the same statue was of Icarus mid-fall), and the-less-famous-white-house on the mountain peeped out from behind him. My thoughts this morning were "I am the most blessed person in the entire world" and "I hope God deals with others as tenderly and personally as He has with me."
Singing on the corner and laughing to myself and if there was a Cloud 10, that's where my head was.
In fluid mechanics, I watched a peer spin around with a huge bubble wand and make, as my professor very seriously explained, 2D flow fields everywhere.
In a small local restaurant, I had lunch with a friend I haven't seen for ages and there was much laughter and storytelling and good food and delicious iced-tea-and-lemonade.
I came home and found the brownies my roommate made to celebrate our success for the second year of managing to be best friends while living in an 8 foot wide room. I settled down in my fancy living room bench to start a lab report that wasn't due for another four days (I know, seriously getting ahead here) and then I remembered my phone was dead.
I stuck my phone in the charger and then I saw the telltale new voicemail symbol. I put my phone on speaker and heard the words from them that had rejected me saying, "I have good news."
And I, lacking any logical emotional response system, found all the airy-happy-go-lucky feelings that had been encompassing me all day popping like 2D flowfields.
You say "I have good news" and I say now? Now I am afraid.
I fell from Cloud 10 and into the stronghold of the God who surrounds me and hid there. It is a good feeling to have this oasis. The safety and security of a loving God is irreplaceable.
There have been times where I have regretted the safe decisions I have made all my life. I have wished for prodigal living: the younger son not only got to party all day, but also received and understood the grace more than his older counterpart in that he came home. Sometime I wish I would get that come home experience because sometimes I am sick of being in the house all the time. Sometimes I wish I had rebellious teenage years. Sometimes I think I would enjoy sinning recklessly.
Then God goes and does something like this. Whispers that He (remarkably) does not think the way I do. That He does not think much of my simple, silly pride and that, hard as I try, sometimes I just can't read His signs… correctly.
Thus I find the life of an ordinary, boring, non-rebellious Christian like myself quite a rollercoaster. Cloud 10 confidence to safely hiding my face behind God's legs like a toddler behind his father.
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Tuesday: Introducing the Singapore Workforce Development Agency
I met with Mohd Latiff Bin Rahmat (left) and Jenny Lee (right) at the WDA's headquarters in the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) building. Jenny and Latiff walked me through the key elements of the WDA's programs, which I'll try to summarize here. They've promised to provide comments if I get anything wrong.
While Singapore funded a variety of job training and employment programs through different government agencies over the years, the WDA was established in 2003 within the Ministry of Manpower.
Mission: Enhance employability and competitiveness of our workforce.
Vision: A mountain range of successes for Singapore
When the WDA was founded, Singapore was in the midst of an economic downturn. Today the economy is much stronger, with 176,000 new jobs created in 2006, and a current unemployment rate of only 2.9%.
WDA's Continuing Education and Training infrastructure is made up of three key areas:
- Employability Skills System (ESS), providing "generic and portable" skills. What we'd call "soft skills" training.
- Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ), providing skill upgrades within specific industry occupations. They focus on industry sectors that are important to the economy and have high labor demand.
- CET Institutions, which are the many different private nonprofit and for-profit institutions the WDA partners with to provide training.
ESS has identified ten key employability skills and offers training through more than 20 partner institutions. Through its ESS, the WDA is also working to develop something that looks to be the equivalent of our GED. Singapore follows the British secondary education system. After finishing school, students take exams, and can pass with an "N-level" or the higher "O-level." If you don't pass this exam, you'll have a hard time landing a good job. The WDA is working to get companies and training agencies to recognize ESS training as a legitimate alternative to N-levels and O-levels. And they're having some success. The Singapore Civil Service recognizes it, as do ExxonMobil Asia Pacific and Carrefour Singapore, among others.
Through the WSQ they've established sector-based Industry Skills and Training Councils that include employers, to develop standardized skills competencies or "frameworks" for each sector. Then they work with private nonprofit and for-profit training providers, who actually conduct the trainings. Twelve have been completed so far, in retail, finance, precision engineering, tourism and others. The WDA is currently working on WSQ Frameworks in, among other sectors, aerospace, human resources and creative industries.
WDA focuses its work on four key outcomes:
- Support industry growth
- Bridge the structural skills gap
- Raise industry standards
- Employability for low-skill workers
It's impossible to talk about the WDA without mentioning Singapore's National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), which partners with the WDA on a wide variety of programs. It's made up of 63 trades unions, and some 460,000 members. The NTUC is closely aligned with the governing People's Action Party, and its head is a cabinet minister. I've heard a joke that ever-bargain-conscious Singaporeans (more proof of how alike we are?) join the union primarily in order to get the NTUC discount shopping card.
Tomorrow I'll explain how the WDA is funded, and explain a little about how employers and workers access WDA-funded training.
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Star Wars Kid 2002
The boy made a video of himself swinging a golf ball retriever around as a weapon, imitating the Darth Maul character from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace who wields a double-bladed lightsaber. The video was filmed at the studio of his high school, and the tape was left forgotten in a basement. The original owner of the videotape discovered his recorded acts and immediately shared it with some friends. Thinking that it would be a funny prank, they encoded it to a WMV file and shared it using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Within two weeks, the file was downloaded several million times. An adapted version of the video was created, adding Star Wars music, texts, and lightsaber lights and sounds to his golf ball retriever.
As of 27 November 2006 it has been estimated by The Viral Factory that the videos had been viewed over 900 million times, making it the most popular "viral video" on the Internet. Because of the creation of YouTube, it may have been seen almost a billion times.[1]
Bruce Naumann stamping in the studio 1968
In 1966, just graduated, Nauman contemplated what it was that an artist was supposed to do. He concluded that 'if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.' Art at this point 'became more of an activity and less of a product' and he began to use his body as a material.
Concerned to incorporate the mundane elements of daily life into his work, Nauman used his behaviour, obsessively pacing around the studio, as the starting point for a series of films and videos made from 1967-69. He recorded himself performing simple, repetitive activities, each responding to a specific 'problem' suggested in the title. Physically and mentally demanding, these actions were often performed for one hour – the length of a videotape. As a result, the threat of failure is ever present, evoking in the viewer an empathy Nauman described as a 'body response'.
Although made much later, Setting a Good Corner (Allegory and Metaphor) 1999, responds to a similar set of concerns. Once again, the artist records himself performing a repetitive, mundane task, this time from the daily life on his ranch in New Mexico.
The figure in these recordings, which are endlessly looped, becomes a metaphor for the rituals and struggles of human existence and owes much to the plays and stories of Samuel Beckett that Nauman first read in 1966. Nauman shares with Beckett an obsession with the human condition: both use repetitive, non-productive and often solitary physical activity to reveal the lot of humankind – its modes of behaviour, frustrations, abilities and frailty.


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"Fanchie?" I called to my daughter who was in the kitchen when I heard the crash.
"Scusa Mamma," she said in her I-am-guilty voice.
"Stand where you are, DO NOT MOVE." I quickly rinsed my toothbrush and headed that way, to check the damage. She had gotten into the new habit of breaking things in my kitchen because she wants to do the dishes. It was my Batman mug. I just had coffee in it a while ago.
"Scusa Mamma," she said again and started to move.
"FERMA," I said, "You DO NOT move until all this broken pieces are cleaned up." She looked at me somewhat confused. I normally would make her clean up her mess and I suppose she expected to clean this one too, but there I was telling her not to move.
"I'll clean it," I clarified.
She smiled.
"I was only trying to clear the table," she said. I smiled at her. Lately she has been exhibiting a sense of responsibility a little too advanced for a five years old and I didn't know how to deal with it. I wanted her to be a child and to enjoy her childhood.
"It's okay," I said, bending over the pieces with a waste bin. I started picking the bits.
"I'll help you." She took a step towards me. She was barefoot .
"NO." And a piece cut right through my thumb and index finger.
"Shoot." I instinctively raised my fingers to my mouth but was aware she was watching me. "this is what happens when you break mugs." The irritation sounded in my voice. She nodded, I could see she was fighting to keep a straight face.
"Mamma is sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you." With that she broke into a wail and I exhaled. Now that's a normal child, I thought.
Well another habit she developed is to cry until it becomes one long annoying sound with no connection to the original reason why she started it in the first place. She carried on and I ignored her because I knew any minute now Arianna, the babysitter, will come and it will be all over. As soon as the doorbell rang she stopped and ran to it.
"Sono brava?" Fanchie asked Arianna without even saying hello.
"Of course you are a good girl," Arriana responded with a puzzled smile, "and hello to you too," she added, ruffling Fanchie's mad curls. She took a hold of Arrianna's hand and led her to me.
"Arianna said I am a good girl," she announced.
"Of course you are a good girl," I replied.
"But Arianna thinks so," she said as though Arianna's approval was more authentic than mine. I smiled and looked at Arianna who simply shrugged and smiled back.
"I'll be back in an hour," I said.
"Tranquilla, today is my day off so you can take two if you want," Arianna assured me, then went on to ignore me as she went over her plan for the day with Fanchie. Which reminded me to be thankful I found her as a babysitter. Unlike any I had used before, there is never an idle moment for Fanchie with Arianna. I headed out.
Amleto was shining his tumblers when I walked in.
"Ciao Bella, come va?" he greeted, I nodded and planted myself on a stool in front of him. There was a beautiful calming music in the background playing. It was an improvisation of Yanni's Almost a whisper. It was soothing. I let it wash over me for a while then I remembered why I was there.
"Amleto, un bicchiere di vino per favore," I ordered a glass of wine, feeling a bit awkward.
"Frizzante vero?" I nodded. He set the frizzling drink before me, I picked it then cleared my throat.
"Listen, I need to find the boy that bought me a drink yesterday. Do you remember him?" "Him?" he said, nodding to the far end of the bar and there behind the pianoforte was Matteo playing. I felt a weird sensation wash over me as I realized the music playing was indeed a life performance and even more so from a boy I already found fascinating.
"Impressive," I said as I sat there mermerized by the beauty of the sound. The way his fingers caressed the keys and his big green eyes fluttered in oblivion to the rest of the world made him somewhat delicate. Who is this boy? I thought. For the eight years I had lived in this little town, I had always gone to Amleto's for my drinks and I had mastered the faces of the regular crowd. I even learnt to spot the visitors, most of whom were regular tourists. Matteo had a local accent so he must be from around but I didn't recall ever laying eyes on him. He was good on the pianoforte and I found myself wondering what else his hands were good at.
"Why do you want to find him?" Amleto interrupted my thoughts.
"Who is he?"
"What do you mean who is he? He told you his name yesterday didn't he?"
"Yes, but who is he? I have never seen him here before."
"What difference does it make? Rapallo is a tourist town so people come and go, what does it matter?" "He has a Genovese accent Amleto. He's from around here."
"You don't want to know him," Amleto said in a tone rather protective.
"Oh but I do. Very much."
"He is a lot younger than you, you don't want him." It sounded almost like a warning.
"What does it matter to you how old we are?" I asked suspiciously. Amleto had never been one to really care who was lusting after who. He was content serving drinks and treating all his customers equally. There was a protectiveness about him towards Matteo that was almost paternal.
"Is he your son?" I asked. He laughed. It occurred to me for the first time that he might just be. I had never let myself think of Amleto in any way besides the guy behind the bar. For the first time it hit me that he could have a family and probably a life quite different from the one portrayed behind the counter.
"Is he?"
"No, but I knew his mother though. She died when he was very young and I had watched him grow. He is a very good boy but very delicate and I care a lot about him." Amleto said. I felt a thin rush of anger wash over me. I may be a decade older than Matteo but I was not a sex predator. I didn't like Amleto's attitude. I chose to ignore it because it was the first time in all the time I had known him that he had been in anyway disagreeable to me.
I sipped my wine in silence and drifted away with my thoughts.
"Ah, you came," I heard and turned around to find those big green eyes looking at me. I didn't even realize he had stopped playing the pianoforte.
"Matteo," I said, offering him a handshake, he took my hands and said
"I am Matteo."
I laughed.
"I know that."
"I haven't been to this little town in ages, I keep forgetting how expensive things are here in Rapallo," he said, sitting next to me. He exhaled then ordered for a glass of frizzled water. I watched him quietly as he drank. He was delicate, he had a really beautiful face, very symmetric. It was the sort of face that I usually found unattractive. I am not a big fan of perfection in humans. I found faces with a crooked nose for instance more interesting than ones with nothing to criticize. Matteo's face was perfect, yet there was something in his eyes that made me forgive his perfect face. It was a hunger, a yearning, a cry, for something I couldn't figure out. What was it about him that made Amleto so protective.
"So, where are you from?" I asked finally. He turned around fully to face me, he stared at me as though trying to see into my soul. I noticed that he didn't smile much although his eyes were always tender.
"I'm from here, but haven't been home in ages."
"So where have you been?"
"The UK mostly."
"What brings you back?"
"I don't know." He frowned briefly as though contemplating the question.
"So, who are you? Who is Binta?" He directed the conversation back at me.
"A single mother, a writer, an English teacher."
"You told me you were a sex therapist."
"That too," I said laughing, "although not certified." I didn't know why I was still claiming to being that, especially since I knew very little about the matter. He nodded.
"What do you write?"
"Short stories, poetry and general interest freelance, but I am currently working on a novel."
"What is it about?"
"A woman. It's a little difficult to describe."
"Sexual awakening."
"So how old is this woman?"
"About my age." I saw his first smile.
"Not really, just fiction, but it's in a memoir style yes, which is why I decided to make the main character female about my age, can't imagine trying to be someone else."
"It is a memoir then," he insisted.
"A fictional memoir."
"I'd like to read it, if you'd let me."
I nodded.
"What happened to your fingers?"
"He took my hands in his and ran his fingers over my Whinnie the Pooh band aids." I smiled.
"My daughter put that on for me."
"She broke one of my twin mugs and I cut myself cleaning up and she felt bad about it."
"Twin mugs?"
"I collect mugs in pairs."
"Why?" He peered into face pulling my hand to his chest and drawing me closer to him. I didn't know if he was feigning interesting but I found it intoxicating
"It all started when I decided it was time to find the love of my life and settle down. You see, for me, sex and love had always been interchangeable. So finding the love of my life automatically meant bed-fellows and breakfast for two."
"And how long ago was that?"
"About ten years."
"How many pairs have you got?"
"Thirteen mugs, twelve now with that one gone." He leaned away and let go of my hand.
"How many pairs?" he repeated.
"Right now, none." I thought I saw a ghost of a smile quickly wash across his face.
"So when do we go shopping for the next pair?"
"When I find Mister Right," I responded when what I really wanted to say was 'I shop alone'.
I found the conversation a little awkward then. He was in my intimate space and it bothered me somewhat. I have never had problems talking about my sexual relationships before. Not that I considered this conversation really about sex. But I didn't want him touching a topic that may likely never concern him. As much as I found him fascinating, I still could not really marry that to the fact that he was much too young for me. Which was why it felt like I was desperately trying to pervert an already sexually active child. My mind went back to when my aunties had asked me questions about our encounter with Magdalene. Did they feel any sense of moral responsibility towards me at all then?
"I'm glad you dropped by here today," Matteo interrupted my thoughts, "Amletto wouldn't tell me how to find you but he did say you drop by almost daily so I came hoping…." He looked away suddenly. I smiled.
"I really like you and would like to get to know you better," he added. He seemed slightly nervous. He was fidgeting with a bottle top. He had really beautiful hands. He didn't look at me. I stared at him in silence. I liked him. A lot. I didn't feel that clandestine sense of lust I felt the previous night. The feeling that afternoon was odd. I couldn't really describe it. It was a sense of wanting to protect him, it was almost maternal but in a weird way incestuous because I kept looking at his mouth and wondered what it would feel like to French kiss him.
He reached over and picked a paper napkin from the holder at the far end of the bar then scribbled something and pushed it over to me.
"That's my number," he said. I took out my cell phone punched the numbers and dialled. His phone rang.
"And that's mine," I said. I didn't want to be left with the option of calling him. I didn't consider myself a traditional female waiting to be wooed, but I couldn't quite define my attraction towards the boy or how to treat it. It felt safer for me to give him the option of taking the next step, whatever that was.
"I have to run now," he said, standing up, "I do volunteer work at the cat shelter and I'm expected in about thirty minutes."
"What cat shelter?"
"The one by the theatre." I looked at him blankly. I had no idea one existed. He flipped open his cell phone and showed me photos of a few furry felines.
"Would you like to adopt one for your kid?" I shook my head.
"You like cats," I stated rather than asked.
"Very much," he said and his eyes lit up, "I had one for sixteen years then it died and I haven't replaced him yet. But I constantly need the purr of a cat so I get a daily dose of that at the shelter, which is why I am volunteering," he laughed for the first time. I smiled.
"I better get going," he leaned over and kissed my cheeks, his were soft, warm and stubble free.
"I'll be in touch," he said. I waved and watched him leave. For a split second, there was a familiarity about him that made my heart beat faster. This feels like the Rohn experience all over again, I thought.
....To be continued.


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This is out of order, still have not put up ALL the Thanksgiving photos we have. Here is a little Christmas for you.
Santi, pre tree shopping, sizing up the perfect size tree we need.
No, those are too big.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
And so the adventure begins...
Well, August was a very eventful month at the Hester house. On Wednesday August 6th our sweet little man got really sick and had to spend the night at the hospital. He was poked and pricked and hooked up to IVs, but in the end all was well and we were all sent home the next day in perfect health. However 6 days later, Eli got sick again and Jordan and I rushed him to the Emergency room at Vanderbilt Children's hospital. He had to go through all the same tests that he endured the Wednesday prior including his second spinal tap in 6 days. It was quite scary and very sad to watch him go through all of this. We found out that his white count was almost twice as high as it was last time he was there, which was really high. But in the end Eli perked up and continued to perplex the doctors as all of his tests came back negative. All the doctors were wonderful and tried their best to answer all of our questions. We spent 3 nights at the hospital and Eli continued to act well despite having an IV in both his foot and hand. He also impressed the nurses with how well he handled having his temperature taken (not under his arm if you know what I mean) every 4 hours. He would hardly even flinch, as if saying, "oh that thing again, no big deal, I mean after 10 or so of those you kinda get used to it mom."
Eventually, because Eli continued to look so good and act like himself, they gave us the "OK" that we could go home. We were so glad that he was well but still a little unsatisfied that we did not really know what caused these 2 episodes, other than a virus or maybe a food allergy of some sort. The next few days at home were filled with a cranky, what in the world is going on, child and two confused and extremely tired parents. It was hard to not sit and try and disect everything that he was doing to give us some clue as to what had happened. That of course drove us crazy. I was able to call my cousin who is a doctor and she shed a lot of light on what could have been going on. So, we are in the midst of exploring his food allergy and trying to get his tummy back on track, which means that I am on a hypoallergenic diet of meat, rice, and green vegetables. Fun Times!! No more Three Musketeers for me. hehe.
It has been quite the introduction to parenthood. I am hoping we have met our hospital visit quota for a while. Thank you to all those who got word and prayed for Eli and our family as we waited for test results. We really appreciate it and are so very blessed by all the love and support. Well, onward in the new adventures that await us as we still begin to wrap our heads around this new world called "being a parent". Much Love to all.
...and of course one more look at our little fella.
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NCAAB Basketball - Preview
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks and the Baylor Bears will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Ferrell Center.
Lehigh was a 70-58 loser in its last match on the road against Xavier. They failed to cover the 4-point spread as underdogs.
Baylor was an 82-70 loser in its last match on the road against Kentucky. They failed to cover the 7.5-point spread as underdogs.
Next up:
Lehigh home to Robert Morris, Monday, November 12
Baylor home to Jackson State, Sunday, November 11


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1 pkg. spaghetti noodles
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1 16 oz Velveeta Cheese, Mexican flavor
½ can Diced Green Chilies
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
Milk to the consistency that you want it
Cook and season chicken w/Mexican seasoning and then cut into small pieces. Combine cheese, soup, and chilies on med. heat, making sure that you don't scorch the cheese. Stir until cheese is melted, add chicken. Serve over spaghetti.
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One of our first intentions when we discovered we were going to be parents was that we would try to stay true to ourselves and keep travelling, now as a family of three. We are testing our intentions on a big USA adventure from Seattle to Los Angeles. We will report how it went in a couple of weeks! See you soon!


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I was able to play the early alpha of the game, I had a key for myself and I still had 3 keys to give away.
Then for a moment they closed the alpha to work on the game.
Since then the game disappeared from my steam library and I haven't been able to play the closed beta at the start of this year.
Is this because Wargaming did not invite the old testers anymore or did something go wrong?
When I try to redeem one of the alpha keys I have left, Steam says I already own that product but it's shown nowhere.


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Another Endorsement for Dan
Today, the United Auto Workers announced their endorsement of Dan Maffei for Congress.
"We're heading in the wrong direction and this country needs change. It is critical that the Democratic Party take back the U.S. House of Representatives and provide a much needed check and balance on George Bush and the Republican leadership," said Doug Havens, President of the United Auto Workers Local 624. "Dan Maffei's experience with Senators Moynihan and Bradley provide a unique opportunity for Central New Yorkers to send a person to Washington who is qualified, experienced and dedicated to representing our needs. We are proud to endorse Dan Maffei for U.S. Congress."
"I am very proud and humbled to receive the endorsement of the United Auto Workers," said Dan Maffei. "I want to thank Neil Falcone, Doug Havens, Tony Nesci, Dave Scalisi, John Huber and all the women and men associated with the United Auto Workers for their leadership and continued dedication to Central New York's labor community."
The United Auto Workers represent over 50,000 active and retired members in New York State. Local 624, the largest in Central New York, represents over 4,000 members.


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November 25, 2014
Anyone out driving the day before Thanksgiving needs to be prepared for possible big traffic delays with traffic congestion predicted to be 25% worse than a typical Wednesday afternoon, according to the traffic analytics company Inrix.
According to the company's annual Thanksgiving Traffic Forecast, the Wednesday pre-Thanksgiving rush hour is expected to begin two hours earlier than a typical Wednesday. Drivers trying to avoid the worst delays should avoid travelling between 2:00-5:00 p.m, according to Inrix
"Encouraged by low gas prices and a steady economy, travelers will experience more traffic on our roads than in recent years when more people stayed closer to home for the holiday," said Jim Bak, Inrix analyst. "While good news for businesses, drivers will battle more traffic heading out of town this year, particularly on routes near major airports."
Top 10 Busiest Cities for Thanksgiving Traffic
Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and San Francisco top this year's list of worst traffic cities with trips out of town expected to take from 25% to 36% percent longer than a typical Wednesday afternoon. The chart below predicts the peak congestion period and extent of delays for the 10 worst cities.
"Our advice to drivers wanting to avoid the worst traffic is to leave by 2 p.m. or after 6 p.m. on Wednesday," said Bak. "If it's possible to wait to leave until Thanksgiving morning, roads will be free and clear as long as you're not heading to the Macy's parade or a major shopping center to get a leg up on Black Friday."
The above chart shows, for example, the average trip in Los Angeles on the day before Thanksgiving is predicted to take drivers more than a third longer than usual. "Los Angeles is simply the worst place to be on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving," said Bak. "The combination of people arriving for the holiday with those leaving town and normal commuter traffic will result in steady traffic all day long."
Busiest Airport Routes
Traffic congestion this year is expected to be worst on key routes to and from major airports nationwide as travelers headed toward flights combine with car travelers to create bottlenecks at these locations, meaning delays for anyone delivering or picking up air freight.
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Inrix also analyzed traffic levels around America's busiest shopping centers over the last three years to predict what drivers can expect travelling around these areas on Black Friday. It forecasts traffic congestion will peak between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., advising shoppers to head out early to avoid the worst traffic delays and hassles finding parking at the mall.
The following table tracks the Top 10 busiest U.S. shopping centers, the peak congestion hour and the percentage change over 2013.
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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
Staaten Shores Exhibit: A Photographic Journey of Our Maritime Boundary
at H.H. Biddle House (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
This exhibit celebrates the signature feature: the waterfront. North, south, east and west, the waterfront surrounds, unifies, and creates Staten Island's unique sense of place.
Category: Art, Waterfront
Youth Wheelchair Basketball Hosted by New York Rolling Fury
at Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center, Manhattan
1:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Come out and scrimmage against other wheelchair basketball players from the NYC area.
Category: Accessible, Best for Kids, Sports
Central Park Tour: Mid-Park Welcome Tour
at Alexander von Humboldt statue (in Central Park), Manhattan
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Explore some of the park's best-known features, including the Lake and the Ramble, and then marvel at the view from Belvedere Castle, on this tour led by Central Park Conservancy guides.
Category: Education, Nature, History, Tours
Garden & Conservatory Highlights Walk
at Perkins Visitors Center (in Wave Hill), Bronx
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Join us for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights.
Category: Nature, Tours
Film Screening: Saving Jamaica Bay
at Kingsland Homestead (in Margaret I. Carman Green - Weeping Beech), Queens
2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Please join us March 26 for a film screening presented by author/filmmaker and environmentalist Dan Hendrick about the fight to save Jamaica Bay for restoration.
Category: Education, Nature, Art, Film, History
DNA of Water: Opening Reception
at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Building C) (in Snug Harbor Cultural Center), Staten Island
3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
The DNA of Water exhibition considers how water has traditionally and simultaneously functioned as border, passageway, and gateway.
Category: Art
New York City's Oldest Standing Bridge: History of the High Bridge and the Croton Waterworks
at Yeshiva University- Belfer Hall, Manhattan
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Learn what went into the making of the historic High Bridge, NYC's oldest standing bridge, and how it transformed New York City.
Category: Education, History, Talks
Monday, March 27, 2017
Exhibition - Zane York: Nature Morte
at Arsenal (in Central Park), Manhattan
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
With a hint of dark humor, Zane York transforms traditional floral still lives and familiar scenes into unexpected compositions in Nature Morte.
Category: Art, Seniors
Arts, Culture & Fun: Lenape Landscape: Trees as Tonic by Artist Susan Stair
at Conference House Park Visitor Center (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
This exhibit of clay castings by Susan Stair forms portraits in trees used by the Lenape Indians for food and medicine.
Category: Art
Central Park Tour: Iconic Views of Central Park
at Outside the Dairy Gift Shop (in Central Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Some of New York's most iconic sights are found in Central Park, including the fountain at Bethesda Terrace and Bow Bridge. Join Central Park Conservancy guides for an insider's look.
Category: Education, Nature, History, Tours, Seniors
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I got an email at work the other day that said:
"You have received a Whiskey Sampler that we cannot deliver via interoffice mail. Please pick it up in the mail room."
Ummmm....yes please.
Yes, it is the holiday season, which usually means a plethora of vendor/partner gifts. All of which are fun to receive...but this...this sampler of whiskey from Scotland takes the cake.
And will most likely 'warm up' our Christmas with the family.....
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On the back of his run at the My Addiction Gallery in Arizona Harry Diaz has dropped Sun Up. This is a 3 colour screen print for the princely sum of $35. Harry also has a body of work from the show available from the gallery HERE
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This site is very unofficial and is for the benefit of dogs and dog owners who frequent the park or those that are interested in visiting. We have no authority over the park except for our mutual interest in keeping it a vital community space.
Monday, February 2, 2009
A chat with Commissioner Holmes.
Mr. Holmes has shown an interest in the park since day one. I believe he was instrumental in getting the second waste station with bags installed on the South side of the park. On Sunday he voiced concerns about the dead grass, missing plants and overall wear and tear of the dog park.
As many of you know the park has been open nearly a year and is the only publicly owned dog park in Chatham County. Although it was funded by the county, Park and Tree Officials have requested dog owners maintain and police its use.
In our short conversation, I mentioned to Mr. Holmes the deteriorating condition of the fence, lack of mowing from the Nelson Group (contracted by the County to maintain MMB Park) and the problems with standing water at the front gate and around the faucet. He promised to look into it and address urgent issues such as the fence immediately. I also asked that someone provide a pile of dirt to back fill the holes left by neglectful dog owners.
BEASLEY DP BLOGGERS: Please either post your concerns and comments or email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. Keep in mind that WE are responsible for most of the mess at the park and WE should take measures to clean up after our pets and keep an eye on our dogs at all times.
Respectfully, Stephen Morton
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- Seagrass said...
About the poo, I think that for the most part most Beasley Park dog owners pick up after their dogs. Of course there are a few that don't but there are also times when the park is really busy and a dog can leave a mess without its owners noticing. Sometimes someone will point out that your dog made a mess, sometimes not. I know nobody likes the task of picking up poo, but I think if we had a tool like a pooper scooper at the park, we would be more apt to clean up more poo regardless of whose dog left it? I wouldn't mind doing the occasional walk-through with a scooper while my dog plays.
As for the dirt, all it does it get muddy when it's wet and dusty when it's dry and I don't know of any type of grass that can put up with the amount of wear. A small paved (or even pebbled) area around the faucet will help greatly with the mud problem. Maybe if we can acquire some donated or salvage materials we can find some volunteers to help install it.
For the rest of the park, the most successful and economical solution for the ground cover (that I've seen) is wood chips, which will need to be re-filled periodically.
Obviously this stuff requires time effort and money but if we can reduce the amount of money creatively we could find people to help out.
Other ideas I have (maybe delusions of grandeur is a better description...) include using a few large rocks for the dogs to pee on to give the poor bushes a chance to live and to landscape with. Also having a small bulletin post would be nice to have for posting lost&found ads, friendly reminders, etc.
I don't have any money to donate but I have plenty of time and I am there practically daily anyways. I certainly wouldn't mind helping out. And I also have the authority to volunteer my fiance's time on the weekends!
- February 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Blair said...
I agree with the wood chips/mulch idea.
The county has an ample supply of FREE mulch... It's in big piles on Montgomery crossroad near the Truman. It's not the most uniform in composition, but it would be better than dust/mud. I think we should lobby the county to dump some of that mulch in the park. It would only cost the transport and some shoveling it around.
- February 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Kate Farley said...
Could we organize a clean-up day and have specific projects organized? Maybe a Saturday? If it was planned in advance and we had a sign up for supplies and volunteers, we could probably get a lot done. An initial list could include the following:
1. Start with a overall scouring for poop.
2. Rake up the bits of old toys, trash and cigarette butts in the corners and grass.
3. Fill in holes with dirt.
4. Place pea gravel around water spicket.
5. Rake new pine straw on edges.
We could ask for volunteers who are willing to either donate materials or organize to get them otherwise and then just a workforce. Either that or some people might be willing to put some cash into a kitty to go towards supplies. Like I couldn't afford to spring for all the pea gravel, but if 10 of us all contributed a little bit of money, I'm sure we could afford it.
Oh and what about including a doggie toy drive that day? And I really like that idea of adding in some large rocks for peeing to give the shrubs a break.
I'm more than happy to help organize something if we go that direction.
- February 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM