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The story
Deep in the forest lives the abominable BitKong, a formidable ape with a penchant for blondes, climbing, and eating custodial technicians. But his real passion… is Bitcoin.
Back in 2009, BitKong was already stacking mbits like a king, which is why some believe he is the original Satoshi, still hoarding coins deep within the jungle. Others think that's silly. But whatever you believe, being a Bitcoin millionaire is not enough of a thrill for this Gigantopethicus. And that is his only weakness, and possibly his downfall...
BitKong is bored, and he LOVES to gamble. By using an elaborate system of coconuts, ropes and pulleys, he has created a provably fair game that will strain your nerves with a chance at striking it rich as bananas.
And relax, the random number generator uses hashes directly from the Bitcoin blockchain! The prizes are predefined when you press start, and your luck is the only thing that matters. This means that BitKong is 100% verifiably fair. Go ahead and look.
The ground shakes. "So you want to be the new king of the jungle?", BitKong mimes in sign language. "Give it a go, and see if you can be the hero of this story. Maybe you'll be lucky, but keep your hands off the girls I have in my cave."
Travellers have known to return from his lair in their underpants, staring at their feet and sighing, "Well, at least he wasn't a loan shark!". Others groaned at his puns, and bought themselves a rolex with their winnings. Now say what you will about this big hairy beast, but his games are always fair.
His game is so addictive that even beloved Bitcoin trolls Chris DeRose and Junseth failed to find anything to complain about.
"It's totally true and we actually really said this." - Chris DeRose and Junseth, Hosts of the Bitcoin Uncensored Podcast.
Play BitKong, get rich, and tell girls you are an early adopter. They'll be impressed. Or lose everything and struggle to explain it to your wife. Preferably something in the middle. Just have fun!
Remember to try the demo, it's FREE. *Tarzan yell*
P.S. Please let him do this, at least he's not smashing buildings anymore.
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Deep in the forest lives the abominable BitKong, a formidable ape
Deep in the forest lives the abominable
Terms of Use
Please read these Terms of Use carefully. These Terms of Use (the "Agreement") should be read by you (the "User" or "you") in its entirety prior to your use of BitKong game (the website and the game together referred to as "Service"). Please note that the Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between you and BitKong.com (referred to herein as "BitKong", "us" or "we") which owns and operates the website and the game found at BitKong.com ("BitKong website" or "Website").
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Terms below that are used in this Terms of Use will have the following meanings:
Account: Personal profile created by the User on BitKong website.
Bitcoin (BTC): Decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency accepted by the BitKong.com
Bits: Fractional part of Bitcoin (1 Bitcoin = 1,000,000 bits). Used as unit for betting.
mBTC: 1 mBTC = 1,000 Bits.
Balance: User's game balance, the amount of Bitcoins User has available for betting.
Bet: Amount of Bitcoins(bits) User is willing to set for a single game (ticket) at BitKong.
Demo: Virtual version of the Game, which allows User to try playing without placing real bets.
Difficulty level: BitKong has 3 levels of difficulty (Easy, Medium, Difficult).
Faucet: Amount of Bitcoins(bits) presented to player for free with certain frequency for purpose of betting.
Game: The game, managed by BitKong and provided at BitKong.com Website.
House Edge: Commission, allocated to BitKong per each winning bet within the provided Service.
Hall of heroes: List of players, wagered most amount during periods of Day, Week or Month.
Max Win: A maximum sum of winnings generated by a Bet.
Maximum Bet: A maximum sum allowed for single bet (May be different at various levels of game).
Minimum deposit: Minimum amount of bitcoins, that is recommended to be deposited by player.
Minimum withdrawal: Minimum amount of Bitcoins (bits), required for making a withdrawal by player.
Prohibited Jurisdictions: Territories or states, where online gambling is prohibited or restricted.
Prohibited Use: Prohibited by this Terms of Use and applicable legislation actions in regards of the BitKong.
Service: Providing access to the Game managed by BitKong within the Website.
Step: BitKong game of every level consists of 10 (ten) rows. Each row is referred as "Step".
Withdrawal Fee: Сommission payable to BitKong to cover expenses of the bitcoin network for processing a transaction.
Ticket: Single complete game, consisting of up to 10 (ten) steps (rows).
User/Player: Individual, who uses Service and agreed to the Terms of Use.
Website: Website of BitKong located at BitKong.com
Website content: All the text, graphics, video, sound, software and other elements of Website and the Game.
Grant of License
Subject to Terms of Use contained herein, BitKong grants the User a non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable right to play the game on his/her personal computer or other device (including Mobile) that has Internet in order to access the game available and described on BitKong Website.
The Service is not for use by:
- individuals under 18 years of age,
- individuals under the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction and
- individuals accessing the Service from jurisdictions from which it is illegal to do so.
BitKong is not able to verify the legality of the Service in each jurisdiction and it is the User's responsibility to ensure that their use of the Service is lawful.
Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights
The term "BitKong", its domain names and any other intellectual property rights (including but not limited to our title, trademarks, service marks, designs, logos, URLs, and trade names that are displayed on our Service, which we refer to in these Terms) used by BitKong as part of the Service (the "Trade Marks") are solely owned by BitKong. In addition, all content on the website, including, but not limited to, the images, pictures, graphics, photographs, animations, videos, music, audio and text (the "Website Content") belongs to BitKong and is protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property or other rights. You hereby acknowledge that by using the Service, you obtain no rights in the Website Content and/or the Trade Marks, or any part thereof. Under no circumstances may you use the Trade Marks and the Site Content without BitKong's prior written consent. Additionally, you agree not to do anything that will harm or potentially harm the rights, including the intellectual property rights of BitKong.
BitKong and its licensors are the sole holders of all rights in and to the Service and code, structure and organization, including copyright, trade secrets, intellectual property and other rights. You may not, within the limits prescribed by applicable laws:
- Copy, distribute, publish, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, or translate the website; or
- Use the Service in a manner prohibited by applicable laws or regulations (each of the above is an "Unauthorized Use").
BitKong reserves any and all rights implied or otherwise, which are not expressly granted to the User hereunder and retain all rights, title and interest in and to the Service. You agree that you will be solely liable for any damage, costs or expenses arising out of or in connection with the commission by you of any Unauthorized Use. You shall notify BitKong immediately upon becoming aware of the commission by any person of any Unauthorized Use and shall provide BitKong with reasonable assistance with any investigations it conducts in light of the information provided by you in this respect.
User's account
Every user has an account within the Website. User may or may not Sign In (login) at website. Signed in users have the right to access more benefits at the Website, than not log in users. User can sign in using Facebook account.
If you wish to start making bets, you must deposit Bitcoins into your account from a source of which you are the only legitimate owner or use free faucet. After deposit is confirmed at Bitcoin Blockchain, it may be used to make bets. To make deposit please follow "How to Deposit" manual available at our Help Center.
Free faucet is an amount of bits provided to user for free with certain frequency. Free faucet is used to give new users a possibility to try playing the game with real money without making a deposit. Faucet is not designed for earing at BitKong. BitKong reserves the right to change size and frequency of faucet without notice.
To make withdrawal please follow "How to Withdraw" manual available at our Help Center. We have no limits for withdrawals. Large withdrawals may require manual processing in some cases. It may take up to seven calendar days. You may withdraw Bitcoins from your account as soon as your deposit have been confirmed.
User may deposit bitcoins into Savings account in purpose of earning interest. Interest rate is set at 8% per year. Interest is accrued on daily basis with daily interest rate equal 1/365 of annual rate, which is around 0.022% per day. BitKong reserves the right to change interest rate anytime without notice to user. BitKong reserves the right to stop accruing interest on Savings account without notice to user. All rules and changes to rules are available at website and it is user's responsibility to follow all rules and changes to the rules.
BitKong rewards users for sharing affiliate links and attracting users to website. BitKong has one of the highest referral commission rates. User can see number of referrals and total commission received for them at user's affiliate dashboard. Referrals become visible when referred user's wagered amount becomes more than 400 bits total. Usernames of referred users can not be shown due to privacy reasons.
BitKong shall not have any responsibilities for any delays, game being stuck or frozen and losses that may occur because of that in the game. This can only happen in accordance with Blockchain malfunctions, delays or because of your computer/device specific reasons or internet connection issues. When you press button to play, your bet is instantly being processed on server. And the result is generated and fixed on server. If after game stuck, you refresh website and see you lost the bet, it means that the bet was a losing bet with no regard to the freezing. But it is also true if you win, with same probability.
BitKong Rights
BitKong reserves the right to assign this Terms of Use, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. The User may not assign any of his/her rights or obligations under this Terms of Use.
BitKong' management reserves the right to cancel or reject any bet. BitKong' management follows all bets and financial operations on each account.
BITKONG MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY OR DELETE ACCOUNTS AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU. Accounts terminated by BitKong for any type of abuse, including without limitation a violation of the Terms of Service, the Game-specific Rules, will not be reactivated for any reason. For purposes of explanation and not limitation, most account suspensions, terminations and/or deletions are the result of violations of these Terms of Use, or Game-specific Rules. BitKong may stop offering and/or supporting the Service at any time.
BitKong charges a House Edge from the winning bet at the rate specified.
BitKong reserves the right to increase or decrease Maximum Bet at any time with no previous warning.
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Regardless of our efforts, we make no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, timely or error-free, or that defects will be corrected.
You agree to the game rules described on the BitKong.com website. BitKong retains authority over the issuing, maintenance, and closing of the Service. The decision of BitKong's management, as regards any use of the Service, or dispute resolution, is final and shall not be open to review or appeal.
You acknowledge and agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for any dispute with BitKong is to stop using the service and to cancel all accounts registered to you.
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Prior to your use of the Service and on an ongoing basis you represent, warrant, covenant and agree that:
There is a risk of losing bitcoins when using the Service and that BitKong has no responsibility to you for any such loss.
Your use of the Service is at your sole option, discretion and risk.
You are solely responsible for any applicable taxes which may be payable on bitcoins awarded to you through your using the Service.
The telecommunications networks and Internet access services required for you to access and use the Service are entirely beyond the control of BitKong and BitKong shall have no liability whatsoever for any outages, slowness, freezing, capacity constraints or other deficiencies affecting the same.
You are aged 18 or over and that you are not currently self-excluded from any gambling/online gambling site or gambling premises and that you will inform us immediately if you enter into a self-exclusion agreement with any gambling provider.
Personal use
The Service is intended solely for the User's personal use. The User is only allowed to bet for his/her personal entertainment and may not create multiple accounts for the purpose of collusion and/or abuse of Website.
All bets should be processed using BitKong' software. It is prohibited to use any other or additional software to use BitKong service.
It is prohibited to exploit any vulnerability of BTC or BitKong software for personal gain.
It is prohibited to use double-spend transactions.
It is prohibited to deposit and withdraw Bitcoins without making actual bets.
It is prohibited to spam, write in capital letters, use offensive words and post advertising in emails to administration and/or customer service team of BitKong.
It is prohibited to post false and/or offensive information about BitKong on external resources (forums, blogs, social networks and other).
It is prohibited to deposit bitcoins on your account for the purpose of withdrawing amounts, which were not allowed to be withdrawn due to minimum withdrawal limit restrictions (BitKong prohibits to withdraw amounts less than 4,000 bits).
BitKong prohibits player collusion and do not allow any kind of robots and programmed devices to participate in game play. BitKong reserves the right to void any game play which results from the use of robots and/or programmed devices.
BitKong strictly prohibits self-referral activities like creating second and other accounts to fake a real referral activity or any other activities, that abuse referrals.
BitKong reserves the right to block any account without any notice due to any suspicious or malicious activity or if it was inactive for the last 6 (six) months.
Should the user become aware of possible errors or incompleteness in the software, he/she agrees to refrain from taking advantage of them. Moreover, the user agrees to report any error or incompleteness immediately to BitKong. Should the user fail to fulfil the obligations stated in this clause, BitKong has a right to full compensation for all costs related to the error or incompleteness, including any costs incurred in association with the respective error/incompleteness and the failed notification by the user.
No shared wallet
The User must not deposit Bitcoins to the address provided by BitKong from a shared wallet or any other address not solely controlled by the User, as any amounts sent back to the initiating address may not be properly deposited to the User. The User must not withdraw Bitcoins to a shared wallet or any other address not solely controlled by the User as any amounts sent to such address may not be properly credited to the User.
It is prohibited to share your account access details to third-parties.
Persons located in or residents of the United States and the United States Territories, or residents of the states(countries) where online gambling is prohibited (the "Prohibited Jurisdictions") are not permitted make use of the Service. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing restrictions on engaging in betting from Prohibited Jurisdictions applies equally to residents and citizens of other nations while located in a Prohibited Jurisdiction. Any attempt to circumvent the restrictions on play by any persons located in a Prohibited Jurisdiction or Restricted Jurisdiction, is a breach of this Agreement. An attempt at circumvention includes, but is not limited to, manipulating the information used by BitKong to identify your location and providing BitKong with false or misleading information regarding your location or place of residence.
It is your responsibility to determine the law that applies in the location in which you are present. You should ensure that you will be acting legally in your jurisdiction in using the Service, and you represent, warrant and agree that you will do so.
Terms of Use Termination
Without prejudice to any other rights, if the User breaches in whole or in part any provision set out herein, BitKong reserves the right to take such action as it sees fit, including terminating this Agreement or any other agreement in place with the User and/or taking legal action against such User.
You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold harmless BitKong and its shareholders, directors, agents and employees from and against all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including legal fees and any other charges whatsoever, howsoever caused, that may arise as a result of:
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- Use by you of the Service.
If any provisions of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable, that shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of the Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect.
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If User wishes to make a complaint, he/she should contact our customer service team at email@example.com
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In case you have found a vulnerability in Bitcoin or BitKong Website, please report it to the BitKong administration by email: email@example.com
How to Play
BitKong is an exciting game which is really easy to play!
In the middle of main page you see a BOARD with rows and cells, held by hands of BITKONG. Every row on the board is a step of the game. (Default game has 10 steps). Every cell in the row is hiding a winning or losing result.
With EASY mode you have 3 cells in the row: 2 winning, 1 losing.
With MEDIUM mode you have 2 cells in the row: 1 winning, 1 losing.
With HARD mode you have 3 cells in the row: 1 winning, 2 losing.
Click "+" to increase or "-" to decrease the bet size (5 bits set by default) or input the amount manually. If you click "MAX" you bet all bits you have on account (be careful, don't click that accidently). If you click "MIN" you set a minimum possible bet (5 bits).
Choose one of the cells in first row which you think is winning cell.
If a word "Cool" splashed in that cell, you see a fruit in that cell and second row starts to blink – it means you guessed it right in first row! Good job!


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This is the next family in Group Number 1 (best fits) of "candidate families," who could be the families of my great-grandmother Susan Elizabeth Smith (m. 1st Bonner, m. 2nd Hiram Carroll Brinlee, Jr.).
The data on this family that puts it into the "plus" category for me are: Lived in the Knox County area around the time of my great-grandmother's birth (1868 or 1869), appears to be poor, and Archey has a daughter named Susan E., which could be Susan Elizabeth.
If you are researching this family and found this blog through a search, please contact me - I would like to know more about this family and whether or not it is actually the family of my great-grandmother. Even if all you know are a few details, they might help. You can contact me at my e-mail address, which can be found by going to my profile page (there is a link to that page in the About Me section to the left).
In addition to the censuses, there are some Ancestry Public Member Trees containing this family. The members of this family are:
William Smith (his mother's name may have been Mary Ann, b. 1790), b. ca 1819 in Tennessee, m. 1st "Unknown"; children:
Abe Smith (?)
James M. Smith, b. 1838 (d. 1933, m. Martha J. Hammond or Hubbard, 1857-1919, had children Henry Harrison Smith, 1898-1967 and Rose Smith 1888-1975).
Mary Ann Smith, b. 1844
Samuel Smith, b. 1846
Henry Smith, b. 1848
William Smith m. 2nd Susannah "Susan" S. Cerby, b. ca 1831 in Tennessee; children:
Archibald "Archey" Mansul Smith, 1854-1933
William Wesley Smith, b. 1857
Jane Smith, b. 1859
Dorcas E. Smith, b. 1861
Abraham L. Smith, b. 1863
Harrison Smith, b.1865
Elizabeth Smith, b. 1867
Rutha S. Smith, b. 1869
Luiza C. Smith, . 1872
Archibald Smith b. 4 Nov 1854 Knox, TN, m. 1st Nancy Jane Griffen 3 Feb. 1873; children:
Susan E. L. Smith, 1878-1936
William Mansul Smith, 1878-1936
Alice Smith, 1880-1970
Robert Henry Smith, 1883-1965
Charles H. Smith, 1884-1961
Archie Frank Smith, 1888
Rosy Smith, 1890
Joseph G. Smith, 1892
Bertha M. Smith 1899-1977
m. 2nd Eppie E. Payne, b. 1863
1860 US Federal Census, Henrys Roads, District No. 12, Sevier Co., Tennessee, p. 62, 29 June 1860
Line 33 425 424
Wm. Smith 40 M Farm hand $165 TN Over 20 cannot read or write
Susanah 29 F TN
Ann 16 F Spiner TN Attended school
Samuel 14 M TN Attended school
Henry 12 M TN Attended school
Archibald 6 M TN Attended school
William 3 M TN
Jane 1 F TN
1870 US Federal Census, Thorn Grove, 16 Civil District, Knox County, Tennessee, p.15-16, 11 August 1870
Line 38 118 113
Smith, William 50 M W Farmer TN Cannot read or write
Susan 30 F W Keeping house TN Cannot read or write
Mary A. 26 F W At home TN Cannot read or write
Archey 14 M W TN Cannot write
William W. 18 M W Farm Hand TN Cannot read or write
Dorcas E. 8 F W TN
Abraham L. 7 M W TN
Harrison 4 M W TN
Elizabeth 3 F W TN
Rutha 1 F W TN
1880 US Federal Census, Eighth Civil District, Grainger County, Tennessee, ED 99, p. 3, 4 June 1880
Line 7 18 20
Smith, William W M 61 Married Laborer Blind Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Susan S. W F 49 Wife Married Keeping house Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Elizabeth W F 12 Dau Single At home Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Rutha S. W F 11 Dau Single Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Luiza C. W F 8 Dau Single Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Harrison, Samuel W M 2 Grandson Single TN TN TN
Kirby, James W M 9 Orphan Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Eighth Civil District, Grainger County, Tennessee, ED 99, p. 2, 2 June 1880
Line 12 (in household of James A. McBee)
Smith, Nancy W F 37 Servant Widowed Servant TN TN TN
Aberham W M 18 Single Farm laborer Cannot write TN TN TN
Harrison W M 16 Single Farm laborer Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Belle W F 11 Servant Single Cannot read or write TN TN TN
Samuel W M 6 Single Cannot read or write TN TN TN
John H. W M 2 Single TN TN TN
Line 23 11 12
Kirby, Amanda J. W F 44 Widowed Keeping house Cannot read or write SC SC SC
James W M 19 Son Single Bookkeeper Disabled TN SC SC
William H. W M 17 Son Single Laborer Cannot write TN SC SC
Elizabeth W F 12 Dau Single At home TN SC SC
Mary C. W F 24 Sister Single At home Cannot read or write TN SC SC
Line 40 15 16
Smith, Arch. M. W M 25 Married Farmer TN TN TN
Nancy J. W F 24 Wife Married Keeping house Cannot write TN TN TN
Susan E. W F 4 Dau Single TN TN TN
William A. W M 2 Son Single TN TN TN
Wesly W M 21 Brother Single Farm laborer TN TN TN
Darcus W F 20 Sister Single At home Cannot write TN TN TN
1900 US Federal Census, 8th District, Grainger Co., TN, ED 23, p. 9B, 14 June 1900
Line 81 186 190
Smith, Arch Head W M Nov 1854 45 M 27 TN TN TN Farmer Yes Yes Yes R F F 87
Nancie Wife W F June 1855 44 M 27 12 11 TN TN TN Yes Yes Yes
Robert H. Son W M Sep 1883 16 S TN TN TN Farm laborer Yes Yes Yes
Charlie Son W M Oct 1885 14 S TN TN TN Farm laborer Yes Yes Yes
Archie F. Son W M Apr 1888 12 S TN TN TN Farm laborer Yes Yes Yes
Alice Dau W F Mar 1887 13 S TN TN TN No No Yes
Rosy Dau W F May 1890 10 TN TN TN No No Yes
Joe G. Son W M Oct 1892 7 TN TN TN Farm laborer No No Yes
Samuel F. Son W M Sep 1894 5 S TN TN TN No No Yes
Bertha M. Dau W F July 1899 10/12 S TN TN TN No No No
Wesley Bro W M Aug 1857 42 S TN TN TN Farm laborer Yes Yes Yes
Line 92 189 191
Smith, James Head W M June 1879 20 M 5/12 TN TN TN Yes Yes Yes
Minnie Wife W F July 1879 20 M 5/12 TN TN TN Yes Yes Yes
Mynatt, Theo D. Niece W F Apr 1900 2/12 S TN TN TN No No No
1910 US Federal Census, 6th Civil District, Jefferson Co., TN, ED 72, p. 11B
Line 57 186 194
Smith, William Head M 31 M1 13 TN TN TN Eng. Farmer Gen. farm Emp. No 0
Nora Wife F W 31 M1 13 5 5 TN TN GA Eng. None
Mansel Son W M 12 S TN TN TN Eng. Farm laborer Home farm W No 0
Yes Yes Yes
James Son M W 10 S TN TN TN Eng. Farm laborer Home farm W No 0
Yes Yes Yes
China L. Dau F W 8 S TN TN TN None
William Son M W 15 S TN TN TN None
Alexander Son M W 2 S TN TN TN None
Line 64 187 195
Smith, Arch M. Head M W 55 M2 0 TN TN TN Eng Farmer Gen farm Emp No 0
Yes Yes R F 128
Eppie Wife F W 47 M2 0 3 3 VA VA VA Eng None
Robert H. Son M W 25 S TN TN TN Eng Farm laborer Home farm TN TN TN W
No 0 Yes Yes
Joseph Son M W 16 S TN TN TN Eng Farm laborer Home farm TN TN TN
W No 0 Yes Yes Yes
Sam Son W M 13 S TN TN TN Eng Farm laborer Home farm TN TN TN
W No 0 Yes Yes Yes
Bertha Dau F W 10 S TN TN TN Eng None Yes Yes Yes
Payne, Georgia Stepdaughter F W 7 S TN TN VA None Yes
1920 US Federal Census, Second Civil District, Grainger Co., TN, 3&5 Jan 1920, ED 58, p. 1B
Line 59 13 14
Smith, Archey M. Head O F M W 65 M Yes Yes TN TN TN Salesman Gen. store Emp.
Eppie E. Wife F W 56 M Yes Yes VA VA VA Yes None
Georgie Dau F W 17 S Yes Yes Yes TN TN VA
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Smith Family Sunday: William Smith and Susannah Kirby of Sevier, Knox, and Grainger Counties, Tennessee
3 comments:
Greta, I feel for you, with all the Smiths. Wonder if they are related to Dolly Parton's family (only kidding), but she was from Sevier Co. Good luck with those Smiths.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Barbara. I know everyone has their Smith/Jones/insert common name here family, but sometimes it just makes me want to tear my hair out!ReplyDelete
Greta: I am Gary Ralph Smith Great Great Grandson of William Smith Born 1819 and Great Grandson of Archie Mansul Smith my agrand father was Charles Harrison Smith who was married to Nancy Griffen. I can help you update this site if you will contact me since I knew Grandpa and Grandma Smith I am 70 years old so I can help u a lot, free of charge of course 865-293-2298ReplyDelete
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Happy Holidays. Today's the big day -- that one day we eagerly await as soon as the Halloween decorations are taken down -- the Feast of Stephen or Boxing Day or Wren Day.
St. Stephen lived in the first century and was stoned to death c. 34 AD by a mob led by Paul (when he was still Saul). In Acts it says:
Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, "We have heard Stephen speak words of
blasphemy against Moses and against God." So they stirred up the people and the elders and the
teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. For we have heard
him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed
down to us."
Since Stephen was the first martyr, he's referred to as a protomartyr which is a word we only get to use once a year.
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Much of the world has heard about China's recent run of horrendous air pollution levels. Some reports listed the PM 2.5 – the measure of the finest particulates in the air – at a whopping 993 milligrams per cubic meter. After ABC anchor Diane Sawyer called it "air-pocalypse" on the evening news, the worried emails from home started popping up in my inbox.
For some perspective, any number over 300 is considered "hazardous" by the US Embassy's monitoring system, which has been measuring air quality for about four years.
Parents in Beijing – not even the most polluted city in China – have been agonizing over the fact that they're exposing their children to unhealthy particulates.
I have older children – although they both happen, somewhat miraculously, to live in China. My son Daniel called us Saturday from Guangzhou (which is in the south: Guangzhou is to Beijing as Miami is to New York) to ask how we were faring. What could we say? Most expats spent the day indoors. New York Times correspondent Edward Wong tweeted: "Holing up with books and movies and an air filter."
But I couldn't do that – I had invited eight for dinner that night, and decided to venture a 30-minute walk to Sanyuanli, the local wet market, where I could buy high-quality salmon, vegetables and even a baozi (steamed bun) snack to fuel my shopping. I also walked back, dragging behind me my little-old-lady shopping cart packed with salmon for the main course, celery and onions and zucchini for minestrone, and Brussels sprouts, potatoes, and cauliflower for side dishes.
On Sunday morning, after a lively and delicious party (if I do say so myself) I woke up with a throat so sore I could barely swallow and pollution levels still soaring into the 600s, 700s, and 800s. The sky still looked like a storm was approaching, the sun hidden behind a gray screen. The air smelled as if six dozen cars had caught fire.
The parents of young children stayed inside for the most part, although one mom on the Beijing Mamas listserv wrote that she was venturing out for one activity that her daughter loved. But to get to that they were wearing face masks.
The air, in fact, generated a round of hand-wringing on the various listservs, e-mail chains, and blogs that Beijing expats follow. One London mother wrote to Beijing Mamas that she was pregnant and about to move to Beijing: "I am freaking out about the pollution in Beijing and how it will affect our lives and our health," she wrote. "I am scared I will feel trapped indoors too afraid to take baby out or find the pollution depressing."
The mothers responded generously, welcoming her to what some call "Gray-jing" and telling her about the Chinese love of Western babies, the wonderful ayis who take care of children, not to mention perks like inexpensive manicures.
Beijing parents did fret, of course. Bill Bishop, who runs a popular news-aggregating e-mail called Sinocism, wrote, "I have to say, the last couple of days have me seriously questioning why I have chosen to force my kids to breathe this air." He added by e-mail that although he and his family put on masks, he was surprised that when he picked up his children from school few were wearing masks.
Trevor Marshallsea, an Australian-born expat dad who writes a blog called "The Tiger Father," posted this: "Here we also talk about which brand of face mask is safest. We regularly check our iPad pollution apps and our Twitter air quality feeds (provided you can get around Chinese Internet controls). Children are kept indoors in schools on bad pollution days, and most of us invest in expensive – but quite necessary – air filters for the home."
New filters can set you back about $3,000, while a three-year-old, used filter advertised on a listserv for 6800 RMB (or $1,094) was gone in seconds. Face masks range from the utterly useless fashion statements decorated with flowers and panda faces (popular with the Chinese) to contraptions that make a wearer look like Darth Vader (popular with expats who ride bikes around the city).
Earlier this year I bought a desk chair and some plants from a British woman who was leaving Beijing with her husband and two children. Why was she moving back to London? "I couldn't stand the pollution any longer," she admitted.
Expats here value the benefits the city confers on their children. Many of them are cared for by ayis who speak only Mandarin, so they grow up knowing at least two languages. These children are very much citizens of the world who have friends from every continent and can work their way through a falafel sandwich just as easily as a mouth-burning Sichuan dish. They tend to travel often, seeing parts of the world many can only imagine.
But they also might be playing a game of Russian roulette. One jokester wrote recently that a new tourism slogan should be: "The city that never breathes." It's almost funny.
The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best family and parenting bloggers out there. Our contributing and guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor, and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. Debra Bruno blogs at Not by Occident.


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I currently teach agility and I was thinking of trying my cavalier when she gets about 1 1/2 years. Does anyone think it's a bad idea? I've trained 3 Cavs and only one has hyperextended it's shoulder and had to stop. Does anyone here do it? What kind of testing should you do before hand?


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Nine people filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday against the city of Bovina, its ex-police chief and other officials, alleging they hatched an "illegal scheme" to harass some residents and extort money from them to fill city coffers.
The suit, filed in Amarillo's U.S. District Court, names as defendants former City Manager Jana Pitcock, Municipal Judge Donna Mitchell, former Police Chief Gary Sinclair and former police officers Jonathan Jimenez, Manny Jimenez and Owen Foster.
The suit was filed by Sandra Moreno, Carlos Moreno, Eliseo Castaneda, Federico Vela, Jose Vega Gonzales, Jose Vega, Briselda Rodriguez, Martha Jaramillo and Rogelio Martinez.
"The pattern of harassment and extortion began following the city's decision to raise additional revenue by forcing citizens and property owners to make improvements to their property against their will," the suit said. "This illegal scheme, concocted by then-City Manager Jana Pitcock, was approved by the City Council and implemented by the Bovina, Texas, Police Department."
The suit alleges, among other things, that police officers unlawfully arrested some of the plaintiffs for various offenses in 2010 and 2011, and that charges against most of them ultimately were dismissed.
The suit further claims former city officials engaged in a policy to generate city revenues by harassing and illegally arresting some residents through false accusations.
The suit alleges former officer Jonathan Jimenez tried to file criminal charges against one woman and instigated a failed complaint against her with Child Protective Services after she stopped Jimenez from stunning a handcuffed man with a Taser.
Police filed a criminal charge of interfering with a peace officer against the handcuffed man, the suit said, but the charge was dismissed about six months later.
The suit claims another man was arrested and forced to pay a $324 fine for failing to have a three-digit number painted on the curb where he lived, a residence that he did not own.
"No municipal judge or other magistrate was present when the officers confiscated his money to pay for the citation," the suit claims.
The suit seeks unspecified damages against the plaintiffs for conspiracy, excessive force and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
A woman who answered the phone Friday at Bovina City Hall said no one was available to comment on the lawsuit.
Hereford attorney James B. Johnston, who filed the suit, said Friday he could not comment on the case, but referred to the allegations contained in the lawsuit.


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Donation made to animal rescue team
Staff and friends of White Horse Liveries in Alton Barnes have made a £100 donation to Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service's animal rescue team, following a family fun day in September.
The gift follows two horse rescues, one at the stables in December 2010 and one in the summer involving a horse box.
Watch Manager Tom Brolan, rural safety officer with Wiltshire FRS, received the cheque from the fund-raising committee and nine-year-old Ryan Holden, who raised over £20 by selling homemade cookies and brownies. His aunt, Louise, works at White Horse Liveries.
Michelle Williamson, who manages the yard, explained: "We had a horse, PC, who fell in his stable and the fire service did a brilliant job in getting to him and getting him up on his feet.
"Then, in the summer, I was with Chloe Moreton when her horse Shrek got over the partition in his horse box and badly injured himself.
"Again, the fire service's animal rescue team turned out and they were amazing – we honestly didn't think Shrek would be OK, but he's now fully recovered and competing again."
She added: "We were already planning a fun horse and dog show to raise some money for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance, so we decided we would also make a donation to the animal rescue team as a way of saying 'thank you'."
White Horse Liveries is a relatively small yard, with about 25 horses, owned by Michelle Draisey, and it had fantastic support for its fundraising efforts – thanks go to sponsors including Wessex Equine Vets, Wadworths and Equilibrium.


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Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist Jr. (pronounced /ˈkrɪst/; born July 24, 1956) is an American politician who was the 44th Governor of Florida. Prior to his election as governor, Crist previously served as Florida State Senator, Education Commissioner, and Attorney General. He was elected governor in 2006 with 52.4 percent of the vote (against opponent Jim Davis), and took office the following year.
Crist's term as governor ended in January 2011. Crist announced on May 12, 2009 that he would run instead for the United States Senate seat being vacated by then-fellow Republican Mel Martinez. He later decided to run as an independent in the general election, but lost to Republican Marco Rubio in the general election.
Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on July 24, 1956, to Charles Joseph Crist, Sr., an American physician of Greek Cypriot descent, and Nancy (née Lee), of Scots-Irish American descent. His family name is adapted from the original Greek name "Christodoulou". Crist moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, as a child, where he attended Riviera Middle School and graduated from St. Petersburg High School in 1974. He is the second of four children and has three sisters: Margaret Crist Wood, Elizabeth Crist Hyden, and Catherine Crist Kennedy. He attended Wake Forest University for two years, where he played quarterback for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team. Crist earned his undergraduate degree from Florida State University where he was elected Vice President of the student body and became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He received his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law in Alabama.


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PS. He's idea for this shirt is much better
The King of Fashion --- He will be going through life commenting on fashion as He sees it. He comes here with no formal training in the matter, but He still does not think that makes him unqualified for the position.


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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wordless Wednesday: Paskas Are Ready!
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Yum! Looks scrumptious!ReplyDelete
That looks delicious! Your pictures are making my mouth water, lol.ReplyDelete
Yom, Yom, Yum!ReplyDelete
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Oh wow, these look delicious! I don't believe I've ever had Paskas. Tell us about them...what's in it? Is there a tradition or story behind them? Have a recipe? I'm hungry!ReplyDelete
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These look wonderful, Greta. I would also love to know more about them as I have never heard of paskas before. Happy Easter.ReplyDelete
First of all, YUM!ReplyDelete
Today I was presented the "Ancestors Approved" award by Dionne Ford of the Finding Josephine Blog. As a recipient of this award I'm supposed to list ten things I have learned about any of my ancestors that has surprised, humbled, or enlightened me and pass along the award to ten other bloggers who I feel are doing their ancestors proud.
I have chosen to present you with the award. You can pick up the picture of the award on my blog post athttp://genealogyandme.blogspot.com/2010/04/treasure-chest-thursday-my-ancestor.html
Thanks for sharing your ancestor stories!
Oh, Greta, I wish this weren't a wordless Wednesday post. Please tell us more about this delicious-looking food! And maybe you could give us the recipe, too, please?ReplyDelete
Thanks - I should give credit to the baker, my husband, as well as to the "braid-maker," my daughter. Mary, Linda, and Nancy - Paskas are an Easter bread made by many Eastern Europeans, especially Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Ruthenians, etc.). They have a lot of eggs, which is something that is not eaten during the Great Fast, so they go into the Easter basket along with ham, sausage, and hrutka, aka "egg cheese." I will try to post the recipe for Paska this weekend.ReplyDelete


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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Muffin Tin Monday - pumpkins!
The top row of my pumpkin muffin tin holds...
- whole grain crackers in a pumpkin shaped silicone cup
- green grapes and apricot fruit leather cut into pumpkin shapes
- applesauce with pumpkin sprinkles in a pumpkin shaped silicone cup
bottom row:
- salami rolls on pumpkin pick & cheddar cheese
- homemade carrot pumpkin muffin (baked in a pumpkin mold)
- salami rolls on pumpkin pick & cheddar cheese
Paige has been "studying" pumpkins in preschool and was just delighted with her pumpkin lunch today. :)
The pumpkin silicone cups are great. I know peeps want to know where I got them. I bought them the second Halloween stuff started making an appearance in stores and I'm not certain (because I picked stuff up at a lot of different places long before I started using any of it), but I think these were from Joann's craft store. The pumpkin picks are actually just the backside of jack-o-lantern picks that I found at a birthday party store. :)
To see more muffin tin lunches head on over to the main Muffin Tin Monday site. :)
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- Michelle, Muffin Tin Mom said... [Reply to comment]
love it! that pumpkin bread looks yummy. it finally feels like fall here in southren california. - may have to make some pumpkin bread. :)
- October 10, 2010 at 11:23 PM
- JDaniel4's Mom said... [Reply to comment]
I love the pumpkins cups.The carrot pumpkins muffin loos awesome!
- October 11, 2010 at 4:59 AM
- Vicki said... [Reply to comment]
SO cute!! Where did you find the pumpkin silicone cups and the picks?? Love it!! :)
- October 11, 2010 at 8:02 AM
- Cara said... [Reply to comment]
I love your pumpkin themed muffin tin this week! I just bought silicone pumpkin cups like those last week...I found mine at Hobby Lobby, and I'm already using them LOTS.
- October 11, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- Mommyof2girlz said... [Reply to comment]
So cute!! Where did you get those awesome pumpkin cups? Everything looks delish!
- October 11, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Dana said... [Reply to comment]
Very cute! I like the homemade pumpkin muffin. yummy!
- October 11, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Really cute lunch!
- October 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Kelly Polizzi said... [Reply to comment]
i love the little pumpkin cups. I have to try out Joanne's tonight for them! thanks. You have your own style of bento/mtm making that I just love. Like I've said before, it's so tidy and simple but very cute and creative. I always look forward to your posts!
- October 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- kris in larryville said... [Reply to comment]
That carrot pumpkin muffin is so cute! I love how you have the carrot on the surface. A great looking tin.
- October 11, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Awesome pumpkin meal! :D
- October 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Susan Yuen said... [Reply to comment]
Very cute!!! I love the pumpkin theme. :)
- October 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- ~LKB said... [Reply to comment]
Yummy looking tin! The carrot pumpkin muffin is making me hungry! Great job!
- October 11, 2010 at 3:47 PM
- Hailey's Butterfly Garden said... [Reply to comment]
that is super cute!!! the carrot pumpkin muffin looks so yummy
- October 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- Sandy said... [Reply to comment]
Carrot pumpkin muffins sound so good! Great tin!
- October 12, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Meal Plan Mom (Brenda) said... [Reply to comment]
This is adorable! Guess I know what kinds of things will be going on my wish list this holiday season! :-) I would love the pumpkin carrot recipe too--do you have a link?
- October 27, 2010 at 10:49 PM


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Pro-gamer Yum Boseung's Stories About Junsu
I always watch Yum Boseung's broadcasting, and here are some stories about Junsu I remember
(T/N: Yum Boseung is a pro-gamer close to Junsu)
(T/N2: Africa BJs are people who have their own broadcasting channel on Afrca TV-Broadcasting Jokey)
1. He's really bad at typing so he only types with his index fingers. And Junu's talking style is noticable even when he's chatting online
2. Junsu hyung is really really nice. Everytime they meet he pays for everything including meals
3. Yum Boseung bought Junsu an expensive brand-name shoes because BS was so so so thankful to Junsu and Junsu always pays for the meals and everything. Junsu thanked BS so many times and when Junsu went to see Yum Boseung's broadcasting, Junsu said he's using it well and thank you again.
4. Yum Boseng became a pro-gamer at such a young age. When Starcraft 1 League disappeared and BS had to 'choose' between entering a game company and becoming a BJ at Africa TV, Junsu hyung gave courage to him that you can really do it well.
5. So when everyone was badmouthing Yum Boseung, he could be always confident because Junsu hyung trusted him and said you can do well lol Besides Yum Boseung's room rule is that it's ok to badmouth BS, but if anyone badmouths Junsu, they're immediately kicked out and blocked.
6. There is a group consisted of Junsu+Pro-gamer…And Yum Boseung doesn't drink or smoke too lol So he always says all the people he hang out with don't smoke or drink, and just play games lol It makes me almost think is that the condition to enter that group?
7. Non-fan men always complain about playing XIA Junsu+JYJ songs (there are about 2000 viewers during the broadcasting) but he plays it anyway lol Especially after he went to the concert Song Joonki's 'Truly' is added! But the trap is, a lot of non-fans become fans because of it lol
8. Yum Boseung promised to take a picture with Junsu at the waiting room and upload it but he lost his phone at the concert venue so the picture is lost T.T No one returned the phone so he lost it foreverㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
9-1. The thing I realized everytime I heard stories about Junsu is that he is really a genuine person! Yum Boseung is also well-known to be nice in that dirty Africa BJ world. Birds of a feather flock togetherㅠㅠ
11. When the group meets up they usually go to PC room-drink coffee(lol)-sometimes play soccer-play Winning… Yum Boseung said they never hang out with girls lol Once BS tried to pay but Junsu never let him do that T.T And people often laugh at BS saying why does a world star like XIA Junsu play with you? But BS says they really spend a good time together
(December 19th tweet) Junsu just said 'Boseung-ah I really like the shoes you gave me!' at Boseung's chatroom and took off T.T So cute!
(December 19th tweet) And when BS asked Junsu if he doesn't have a schedule today, Junsu said he's tired because he practiced until dawn the day before! And he shyly said his typing is slow
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Dance Your Way to Disability
Patient (smiling and chatting with friend in room while flailing arms and legs; sitting on bed without falling off): "I can't stop shaking."
Me: "How long has this been going on?"
Patient: "Well it happened from 2003 to 2004 then it stopped but it's back again."
Me: (quickly considering neurologic crocodiles like Huntington's Chorea and fighting instinct to call 'bullshit'): "Who is your neurologist?"
Patient: "I don't have one, they kept sending me to psychiatrists."
The patient had been fine-tooth-combed at our regional zebra-diagnosing-center and had, in fact, been seen by a few head shrinkers, all of whom believed that this patient had a "non-organic" problem. "Non-organic" is a a handy cop-out for the doctor that doesn't want to end up in hour long depositions sitting with his attorney across from the plaintiff's attorney (and plaintiff in white neck 'brace'). And, to be fair, there is convincing evidence the somatiform illnesses are produced purely without a 'decision' by the patient.
"Malingering", however, is still diagnosed at the end of the 3 million dollar workup trail if the super sub-specialist has the balls to write it down. It occurs in the presence of secondary gain to the patient (i.e. a monthly disability check or a big legal settlement), AND, with a conscious decision by the patient to pursue this secondary gain by faking symptoms.
In the course of evaluating this admittedly very pleasant patient I asked her if she could walk. It seemed to me that if she tried she would smash her hands into walls and step in front of buses and such. She allowed as she could walk and I held out my hands to test her gait. Oh for a video camera at that moment! She made me look like a good dancer and, as my colleague stated to me afterwards, she has a great career in front of her in the tap field. She did a semi-perfect soft shoe all across the floor while following my gentle direction. Strangely, she was able, during this duet, to softly grip my hands.
Enter the neurologist who almost bust a gut laughing. Enter the ativan. Cue the sleep. Cue the CT Scan (negative). Cue the discharge paperwork. Cue the $5000 unpaid bill. Cue hours and hours of tap-dancing jokes.
Ladies and gentlemen. If you are going to fake an illness, don't pick one like schizophrenia or movement disorder. Go with the tried and true... back pain, neck pain and the like, otherwise you will end up exposed if not embarrassed.
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911, lately I've had the urge to walk on my hands wearing little more than well-placed coconuts while belting out a resounding chorus of "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Is there a drug for this affliction where I won't suffer intermittent rectal bleeding and cause my left nipple fall off?ReplyDelete
We had our own "conversioneur" today. He sustained a neck injury a few days ago and came in last night with weakness. Today he decided he was going to go apneic and bought himself a trip to the ICU. He was close to getting intubated when we realized his ABG was WNL. A few hours later, he could communicate by writing but couldn't speak. Another hour later and he was walking. Upon further review, he's done this before.ReplyDelete
We see more conversion disorder in peds than I care to admit or think about.
Last night, I had 5 patients with "fibromyalgia". Of course, all were on bags of meds (none of which ever helped) and wanted relief of their pain NOW in the ER.ReplyDelete
That was a record for me!
One of these patients had the trifecta: fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and mitral valve prolapse! She was the only one that was admittable....she had pneumonia and was hypotensive and hypoxemic (I suspect it was an aspiration from the baskets of drugs that she took for her non-existant problems.
Our hospital is full. We are holding patients in ER, and the chronic pain patients were furious that I wouldn't admit them for "further work up" (they've had it all already) or "pain relief" (IV Demerol works best, thank you very much).
I wish the FDA would approve HDST (high dose slap therapy) or HDPT (high dose pillow therapy). That's all that was going to help these people.
Here's the kick.....every one of these people tried to see their PCP and was told "go to the ER". When I called their PCP, they just went on and on about what a kook the patient was.
"So, why did your office tell them to come to the ER?" I asked. "Well, just to make sure nothing else was going on" was the reply. Admittedly, one had pneumonia and needed to be in the hospital, but the others took a shoe horn and a crow bar to get them out of the ER. And I'll get the complaint...not their PCP!
Lynn, I'll love you even without nipples....take the medication!
Lovely post.ReplyDelete
85: Very nice.
- Anonymous7:47 AM, January 25, 2008
"Great comedy is borne of tragedy"ReplyDelete
I believe it's actually Derek Smalls who wrote that.
Derek grew up in Nilford, England, and was the son of Donald "Duff" Smalls, who ran a marginally successful telephone sanitization business, "Sani-Fone". He joined Spinal Tap in 1967 after the departure of bassist Ronnie Pudding.ReplyDelete
Derek described the turbulent relationship of bandmates David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel as "fire and ice". He preferred to find a happy medium as "lukewarm water". He still enjoys his burl-wood pipe on occasion and continues to enhance the fit of his trousers with a strategically placed foil-wrapped cucumber, despite an embarrassing incident passing through a metal detector at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport during 1984's "Tap Into America" tour.
ps. lynn,ReplyDelete
great to hear from you.
- Anonymous8:40 AM, January 28, 2008
911: NICE! did you make that up?ReplyDelete
God's honest truth!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:37 PM, January 28, 2008
You are funny for a roundeye.ReplyDelete


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Jim Henson's Boulevard
by ALEX CARNEVALE
It was Group A streptoccocal pneumonia that killed Jim Henson in 1990, caught from a Mattel executive as Jim flew to Los Angeles to appear on Arsenio. By that time Henson had long since divorced the wife and mother of his children, bought out her half of his company, and taken up with model types like Daryl Hannah. (A friend said, "He loved beautiful things and beautiful women.") Henson, under the care of his Christian scientist mother, refused medical treatment until it was too late. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered outside his ranch in Santa Fe.
On September 26th, Sesame Street begins its 42nd season. It was the project that changed Jim Henson's life.
The original idea for Sesame Street was the brainchild of television executive Joan Ganz Cooney. Considered the mother of all children's television, Cooney's decision to use Henson's puppets changed what would become Sesame Street from a somewhat dour educational program to an entertainment show. Up until then, the absolute pinnacle of children's television was Bob Keeshan's Captain Kangaroo, and its rote instruction and low production values hardly comprised a breakthrough in the genre.
Henson's first attempt at children's television, Sam and Friends, was a dry run for his full cast of Muppets. The show's purpose was as much to hawk various products to the Washington D.C. area where it aired as to educate and entertain its audience. After the show signed off in 1961, the Muppets were already famous from Jack Paar's The Tonight Show and had appeared in a variety of commercials.
Henson and company wanted to shoot a Muppet Snow White as a pilot for CBS, but when ABC showed more interest, they demanded a different fairy-tale heroine. Jim's version of Cinderella would air years after Sesame Street was on the air, but it was actually a test-run for the show. The reason that it did not air was half ABC getting college football and half the fact that it wasn't very funny.
There was little movement to create educational television until Lyndon Johnson began pushing for noncommercial television as part of his Great Society program. Despite powerful people in the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation supporting the effort, all the major television networks passed on Sesame Street. Their fear, and eventually the fear of executives in public broadcasting, was that kids would just flip to cartoons instead of educational programming.
Academics involved with Sesame Street developed papers on how to integrate the educational aspects of the show with the entertainment ones. Focus groups were essential in their approach; it was how they could tell if the children were actually learning. The attitude of the male academics towards Joan Ganz Cooney was also problematic — they undercut her when they could, informing whoever was listening that they did not know if a woman could command such a program, questioning whether a woman from a non-academic background could really handle such an enterprise. The education and research director from the Ford Foundation, Marjorie Martus, opined that she "did not think a project headed by a woman could be taken seriously."
Despite these challenges, Cooney became the head of the Children's Television Workshop. A gruesome meeting of academics and creative types looking to siphon money from the show's appreciably large budget showed up to brainstorm ideas for the show. Maurice Sendak spent most of the time drawing pornographic cartoons of the participants. When a bearded, hippie-ish gentleman strolled into the back after they broke for lunch, Cooney initially thought he was a terrorist member of the Weathermen. Jim Henson introduced himself.
The first concepts for the visual look of Sesame Street involved an actual street with the familiar trashcans redolent of a poverty-stricken neighborhood. It was either too close to reality for a test audience of pre-schoolers, or too far from it. They kept the setting but used a brownstone instead.
The first title of Sesame Street was 123 Avenue B. Setting the show itself in a place much of its audience had never experienced was radical enough; but immersing it on a drug-ridden street corner betrayed the naivete of all involved. A child under the supervision of a CTW consultant at a daycare center on the West Side came up with the name Sesame Street, and at the last minute, it was used. As recalled in Michael Davis' marvelous history of the show, Street Gang, feedback came back from the affliated advertising agency: "Nobody is going to remember it. It has too many esses."
Once production began, the creative elements took over the show. The writers and actors drank constantly after-hours, fleshing out ideas for the next day. Henson worked harder than anyone, using entire weekends to film sequences.
Bert and Ernie, performed by Frank Oz and Henson respectively, became the show's centerpiece. Rather than a relationship between two homosexuals, the connection actually paralleled Frank and Jim's real life interactions, with Jim as the troublemaker egging on the more mercurial Oz. Another Frank puppet, Grover, represented a different direction from the same Bert and became one of the show's biggest attractions.
The first test screenings scored high marks for the puppets, but the long-mulled over choices for live actors were not as appealing, and passages featuring human actors generally bored the kids.
Encouraged by the early reaction, the academics began to see the potential in Henson's puppets. A Harvard professor suggested a fumbling figure who could make mistakes, and Henson created Big Bird to soften the proceedings, a puppet that stood over eight feet tall and required the puppeteer to enter it. Henson's walk wasn't birdlike enough so the part went to Henson recruit and talented puppeteer Caroll Spinney.
In the first episode, Bert and Ernie set up their traditional interplay:
ERNIE: Hey, Bert. Can I have a bar of soap?
BERT: Yah.
ERNIE: Just toss it into Rosie here.
BERT: Who's Rosie?
ERNIE: My bathtub. I call my bathtub Rosie.
BERT: Ernie, why do you call your bathtub Rosie?
ERNIE: What's that?
BERT: I said, why do you call your bathtub Rosie?
ERNIE: Because every time I take a bath I leave a ring around Rosie.
Henson had set up shop at East 67th Street, living with his growing family in a place that could occupy both of his major creative projects. The first Henson workshop constituted a space where ideas arose constantly and could be encouraged. Characters like Oscar the Grouch, Prairie Dawn and Aloysius Snuffleupagus emerged out of this collaborative environment, and soon there was a menagerie of potential puppets for the show that far exceeded the cast of Sam and Friends.
To a child watching Sesame Street for the first time on November 10th, 1969, it must have been something of a shock to the system. The inner-city setting integrated with a range of somewhat frighteningly realistic animal characters was fortunately softened by Henson's short films, where he really showed off his ability to captivate children with his perspective.
From the moment it aired, Sesame Street was a tremendous success among its core audience of children and parents, as well as the television executives who the show depended on for its continued existence. Children's television had never done ratings like this; parents immediately saw the utility of using the show to watch their kids.
Time touted the show as "one of the best researched programs in history" and gave credit to the combination of public and private enterprise. In reality, it was largely Henson's creative genius that made the show such a phenomenon, but that did not stop reams of educators and academics from beaming with pride. Time wrote,
This week the National Educational Television network began to do something for that forgotten minority with the first segment of Sesame Street. A color series to run one hour every weekday for the next 6½ months, Sesame's 130 segments are dedicated to the proposition that children are people, involved in their own quest for enlightenment and entertainment via the video set.
What Sesame Street does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it — kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story."
The show won every honor possible for children's television, and President Nixon wrote to Joan Ganz Cooney, telling her that "the many children and families now benefitting from Sesame Street are participants in one of the most promising experiments in the history of that medium. The Children's Television Workshop certainly deserves the high praise it has been getting from young and old alike in every corner of the nation. This administration is enthusiastically committed to opening up opportunities for every youngster, particularly during his first five years of life, and is pleased to be among the sponsors of your distinguished program."
Of course, there was backlash. Some educators resented having to share their job with a television program they felt was beneath them, and academics were still skeptical that a television program could be good for young ones.
The chief complaint about Sesame Street was the very thing that had captivated the attention of its target audience: the show's breakneck pace. It was impossible to be bored watching Sesame Street: if you did not like one particular segment, another was on its way. Taking its cues from the theater, including the considerable influence of vaudeville, Sesame Street endeavored never to be boring. To some, that was what made it dangerous to traditional learning — how could the classroom compare to an expensive television production?
Mississippi banned the show because of its integrated cast, and the National Organization for Women tore into the show for its depiction of Susan the homemaker, complaining that "the program has shown greater responsiveness to the needs of blacks than women." The Hispanic community was even more incensed — in the early years of the show, they had no representative on Sesame Street.
With the commercial success of Sesame Street, advertisers and toy companies wanted to cash in. Henson was extremely resistant to marketing the characters he had created, but once Cooney convinced him it would make his company financially profitable and therefore independent, he relented.
To fill the show's need for new characters and Henson's need for marketable muppets, more performers and writers were brought aboard. Sesame Street's then-head writer Norman Stiles came up with Count von Count, a dylslexic Dracula who poked gentle fun at Bela Lugosi. Writer/director Jon Stone and Henson reworked an old design into the fabulously popular Cookie Monster, originally created for an ad campaign. Producer Matt Robinson created a Roosevelt Franklin puppet that spoke in scat and was identifiably African-American. Black executives within the CTW were horrified, and the character was "killed off." In 1985, a little-used Muppet named Elmo became the show's mainstay.
By the time Sesame Street grew into itself, Henson already felt trapped. His ambitions lurked outside of children's television and had inspired his classic short Time Piece among other more adult-oriented projects. He did not want to work on Sesame Street for the rest of his life.
Cooney told him, "You are going to break out of this. Something is going to happen that will provide new opportunities for you. You need to have the patience and belief to see what I'm saying is true." Other projects, including the groundbreaking Muppet Show and several feature films lay in Jim's future, and Joan was right: all became possible because of what he had done for children.
His funeral is bizarre, even now. The notice in The New York Times read:
A memorial service for the puppeteer Jim Henson, who created Kermit the Frog and many other Muppet creatures, is to be held at noon on Monday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at 112th Street. Written instructions left by Mr. Henson, who died of a bacterial infection at 53 years of age on Wednesday, requested that no one attending wear black.
CNN wanted to broadcast the services live, but the family would not allow it. Employees of the company distributed fabric butterflies on wands to the attendees. His children and his ex-wife aimed for something uplifting more than maudlin.
The end result is a moving synthesis of both extremes. Near the event's conclusion, Big Bird came out.
Alex Carnevale is the editor of This Recording. He is a writer living in Manhattan. He tumbls here and twitters here.
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Well, the fitness classes have kind of taken over. Ive been going 3 or 4 times a week depending on Nathan really. I feel huge guilt when I'm sorting his dinner and sometimes rushing a bath, all so i can leave him for an hour. But i am loving the classes. Im hooked on powerhooping which is just great fun. Body attack and Body pump are now regular and Ive tried a few others to. This Sunday i am trying Bokwa, which judging by YouTube clips, i will find impossible, but will provide a good laugh.
The classes are my 'time out' from mum duties. My friends go all the time and its provided me with some sort of social life. People tell me i should use my time off to just sit back and relax, but i would feel too guilty getting my mum to watch Nathan just for me to laze around. And so i nip out for an hour where i sweat my a** off, struggle to breathe and catch up with the girls. For me, i love it. Where Nathans concerned, i kind of struggle to find the balance. I don't like leaving him too often and i feel less guilty on the nights where I have no classes, but i tell myself that mum needs some time out too. On an anxiety level there have been highs and lows at classes. Powerhooping has become such a favourite that i would hate to miss it. I know in the past when i have missed something, then maybe missed it again, it has been really difficult to go back to it, if Ive gone back at all. And so im probably quite uptight about it. The fact that i WANT to do it so much, just makes me more nervous in case i fail. But ill work on that and hopefully lighten up.
Ive mostly felt fine when i know I'm going to a class at night, but of course there's been the odd time where I've thought about it and felt nerves kick in. Ive visualised the drive there and imagined all sorts of panic attack scenarios. But Ive stayed determined and kept on going. It does get easier to ignore those thoughts with practise. There have also been times in class that Ive felt a bit floaty and out of sorts. A feeling I've had a lot through anxiety. But i try my best to ignore this too. To breathe and relax myself. I know that should i HAVE to... i can leave. But Ive never done it. Also with classes being so busy, some with over 100 people, the car park can get pretty busy. I always park in a place where i can get out quite quickly, but last night i got stuck behind a big queue of traffic. I had a brief 'arrrrgghhhhhh i don't like this i don't like this' moment.. but i took a deep breath and it passed.
Also Ive been picking my friends up and dropping them off which has added to my journey. For some this might be normal practise. But to an agoraphobic, that extra responsibility and pressure can make you more anxious. Yeah its hardly pressure but i don't have the option to just ditch a class and run should i panic. I have someone else to think about that i cant just abandon. I'm trying to embrace these little challenges as they are little examples of ways i can help myself grow and improve. As always the thought is way worse than the reality. Of course Ive wondered if i can actually make the journey to my friends house or will i have to explain that I'm freaking out and run. But the reality is i calmly make the trip while we chat, and if i do get nervous, it is very brief and no one would have a clue.
The weather here has been pretty shocking and there have been no signs of summer at all. This isn't so good for Nathan and I. And my forever crappy car is off the road, so its been a tough month regarding us getting out together. We have mostly played in the garden or gone little walks. I do get the use of my dads car from time to time so its not so bad. Nathan has his play dates and we visit family so he is kept entertained. But i suspect that from now till he leave home, ill always wish i could do more.
I don't think I'm selfish with regards to Nathan and what i want for him. I could be a blubbering wreck if i really let myself be dragged down by thoughts of what i 'should' be doing for him. I do feel terrible when i hear about people taking trips with their kids. And i have a horrendous guilt that he doesn't do some things because of the way i am. For example, his little play group he was going to, well i would only go there by car. And since that's off the road, and mummy cant walk that distance, he has missed his group. Sometimes i can brush it off and tell myself hes too young to even notice. But there are other times when i feel utterly dreadful. If he had a 'normal' mummy he would still get to his group. We'd just walk it! But I cant focus on that. I need to be positive. If i was to dwell on the things i CANT do instead of what i can, id drive myself crazy.
As long as Nathan is happy, i will be grateful for that. And so last weekend i could have been sad when his dad took him to the beach, but instead i was just pleased that he was getting to the beach at all. His first time on sand. His first time seeing the sea. And i missed it. I could be really cut up about it, but I'm more thrilled that Nathan go to go there and he had an absolute ball. I wont let anyone tell me that ill never take him to the beach. I just couldn't go that day, and maybe not in the near future, but never say never! There are a million and 1 'firsts' that i have been there for and i plan of being a part of millions more.
Today was a day where I had use of my dads car. Id heard of another playgroup that would suit Nathan and decided i should give it a go. Its a bit further than I'm used to driving, but only because i don't get the opportunity to practise like i did in the past. I felt fine knowing what was in store. I knew the route i was taking and i felt pretty confident about the trip. In fact looking back, i didn't once consider that i might not make it. Sheer determination had taken over and i was going there no matter what! My classes are quite good because although i might be nervous at first, I'm soon jumping around and following instructions, and so I'm distracted and before i know it the time is up. It was the same with the last group i took Nathan to. It was so filled with activities, that i didn't have time to think about how i was feeling, i was too busy. And so today i found it more of a challenge. Today's group was more your basic mother and toddlers set up. A big hall (eeek) filled with toys, and chairs round the sides for the mothers to sit and watch. Where was my distraction? My mum had come to and I think that's probably what helped me get through the first 10 minutes. Yeah i thought i was going to be OK, but when i was greeted with this huge room and basically was just to sit still, my mind went into over drive. 'What if i cant make it out to the car', 'What if my legs don't work when i stand up', 'what if i want to bolt, that would be so unfair on Nathan', 'i hate this feeling, i want it to pass now. Ive had enough of this crap'.
Its not even that far from home! 10 minutes drive tops. But its probably because i was out of practise. I looked at Nathan playing with the toys and told myself that this is where i wanted to be. I told myself i was not moving. I would find distraction! I took myself over to Nathan a few times and played with some toys, i read signs on the walls, i went to the bathroom lol. Just walking around instead of sitting thinking, began to help. I had a cup of tea, tried to chat with mum, all the while my head was screaming and my legs were like jelly. But i kept on going. I told myself to stop it, i took big calming breaths and told myself that nothing bad was going to happen. Worse case scenario would be that id panic, but even in the most horrendous panic attacks I've never been left completely immobile!! Id get to the car and be ok!! Soon i realised we'd been there for half an hour and my anxiety began to subside. 'You did it' I thought to myself. Nathans played, hes had his little breakfast with friends. Hes enjoyed himself, and if you really wanted to leave now, it would be a bit soon, but it would be ok. Knowing that the pressure was gone (pressure i had completely put on myself, no one else had done it) well i relaxed and enjoyed the rest of our time. I stayed about an hour and a half in the end. And surprise surprise, after all those horrendous thoughts of panic attacks in the car etc, i drove home completely calm and content. High 5s all round. The only way this is going to improve and i am going to relax easier is by doing it more and more and more. And so ill be going again this week. Tonight I'm wiped out. No doubt that's got something to do with this morning. Anxiety and facing up to it is pretty tiring stuff! But isn't it worth it. I think so x


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Don't expect old age to be all golf and cruises: As Americans live longer and longer, more of us should expect to suffer some sort of independence-threatening disability in the final phase of life, two new studies published online Monday suggest.
"The public is bombarded with messages that frailty and disability are not inevitable, and the most popular medical personalities assail the public with health messages that healthy living will lead to a long life free of disability to the end of life," wrote UC San Francisco researcher Dr. Alexander K. Smith and colleagues, in JAMA Internal Medicine (abstract available here).
But "it is likely that most well-functioning older adults and their families will need to be prepared for a period of disability as they continue to age and approach the last years of life," they noted.
Hoping to quantify exactly how likely people are to suffer disability at the end of life -- a phenomenon about which there is "surprisingly little national data," the team wrote -- the group analyzed interview data collected during the ongoing Health and Retirement Study, a project funded by the National Institute on Aging that tracks a nationally-representative cohort of Americans aged 50 and older. Participants in the study are interviewed every two years about their health and economic well-being. Smith and his coauthors focused on 8,232 participants in the program who died over the course of the study, examining answers they provided interviewers during the last two years of life.
The older the subject was when he or she died, the more likely he or she was to wind up disabled in activities of daily living in the last two years of life -- needing help with at least one of six activities: dressing, bathing, eating, getting in and out of bed, walking across a room or using the toilet. The team wrote that half the people who die at 90 or older are disabled two years before their death; the prevalence of disability in people 70 or younger at the time of death was at least 35% lower than that of the oldest in the study, at all points in the final two years of life.
Over all ages, the prevalence of disability increased during the last two years of life, with 28% reporting being disabled 24 months prior to death, and 56% in the last month of life. Among women of all ages, 32% were disabled in the last two years of life; among men, 21%.
With the number of U.S. adults older than 85 expected to rise to 19 million by 2050, the authors wrote, "the number of persons living with disability prior to death will balloon."
In the other study, also published in the online edition of JAMA Internal Medicine, Dr. Sarwat Chaudry and colleagues at the Yale University School of Medicine evaluated symptoms once a month in 754 people in the New Haven, Conn., area. Looking at data detailing the last year of life, they found that "restricting symptoms" were common and constant among interviewees during the last year of life -- but began increasing sharply at about five months before death.
In an invited commentary that accompanied the Yale study, UC San Francisco aging researcher Dr. Christine Ritchie wrote that the work raised many questions for caregivers working with older adults in their final months. The "findings suggest that more aggressive efforts need to be made to control symptoms at the end of life," she wrote.


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