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Dear friends,
As I write, my 97 year old grandpa, Henry Edward Hess, Sr., is in his final days, or even his final hours. He is in hospice care at my parents' home in Maryland after a heart attack last week. He is not able to talk and we're not sure he is really aware of anyone. I am expecting a phone call any time now to tell of his passing. I am so grateful that he is surrounded by loving family, including my mother and father, my sister Barb's family, my Aunt Barbara from Hawaii, and my mom's cousin Ruth Ann, who drove up from central Virginia to help.
The apples don't fall far from the tree, because Grandpa and Grandma are two of the most loving people I know. They are a mere 24 days away from their 76th wedding anniversary, and their marriage is full of warm and genuine affection. He and Grandma have done a whole lot of extra kissing and handholding in the past week, just like they did when Grandma was in the hospital after breaking her hip a couple of years ago, as pictured to the left. They always speak kindly of one another and serve one another gladly. What an example to me! Grandpa has always been affectionate to us children, too. It was always a pleasure to cuddle up on his lap in the rocking chair and hear him tell jokes.
Grandpa has kept his trademark sense of humor to the end, asking my sister a few days ago if she wanted his false teeth. Barb said, "No thanks, I have my own. Do you want them?" He replied, "Nooo, I came in without them and I may as well go out without them." As they say, you can't take it with you. Grandpa had to have a blood transfusion while in the hospital, so my cousin Elizabeth's joke made him chuckle: "A man got a blood transfusion, but the hospital ran out of blood so they substituted borscht. Now his heart never skips a beet."
After retiring as an insurance agent, Grandpa and Grandma took the opportunity to travel around the globe. I can't remember all the places they visited, but I think I remember Iceland, New Zealand, and Germany, among other countries. For more domestic trips -- say, a 10,000 mile round trip Alaska trek (via our house in San Francisco) -- they drove a bright orange VW bus that we dubbed "The Orange Crate." They liked to have fun at home, too. We always played games like Scotch Bridge when we visited their "Squirrel Hill" homestead in Pennsylvania, then their retirement home in South Florida, or more recently my parents' home in Maryland, where they have lived for several years. I hope I always keep their sense of adventure and family fun.
Grandpa is also known for his thriftiness and resourcefulness. One symbol of that would be his garden. When they lived on 10 acres in Pennsylvania, he had a huge vegetable garden. I remember snapping peas on their porch. He still has a garden -- he just makes other people do the work for him! He hunted deer every year and smoked his own venison. Grandpa is the one who inspired me to learn how to make turkey scrapple from scratch. See here: My Scrapple Experiment (It's More than Meat and Cornmeal to Me!) It's one thing he always made for us when we visited. He's quite the cook. When he came home from the hospital this weekend, he ate some soup he had made and frozen a few weeks ago when my Aunt Nancy from Kentucky was visiting them.
Perhaps my dearest memory of visiting Squirrel Hill is that at a Hess family reunion there in 1976, I became aware of God's mercy and took Jesus as my Savior. (Read more here: My Story of Liberty in 1976.) I wish I had a picture of that momentous gathering, but here's one from the 2006 reunion at Frances Slocum State Park. Grandpa is in the light blue shirt in the front row. I'm toward the right with Melody sitting up on my lap.
It is an honor to be a member of this Hess clan. Not including myriad distant cousins pictured above (many of whom are my dear friends), my grandparent's direct living descendents add up to five children, thirteen grandchildren, almost thirty great-grandchildren, and soon-to-be four great-great-grandchildren. My daughter Mary's son Jacob is due on Grandma and Grandpa's 76th anniversary on June 24 -- which is also Mary's birthday and the date of the aforementioned 2006 reunion. May his memory live on in the stories we tell and the pictures we share.
I thought you might like to read something that my grandmother wrote about 15 years ago. I added in a few things she told my sister this week. This is a great lesson in family history because she tells what life was like throughout the early 20th century. There are more similar photos here: Vintage photos from the Hess and Ransom families
Memories from Dorothy Ransom Hess
Memories from Dorothy Ransom Hess
Your grandfather Henry Edward Hess was born in 1912 in the small town of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River. Years before there had been a fort built there. Forty settlers from Connecticut walked or came by horses to settle in the Wyoming Valley on the Susquehanna River and named the area Forty Fort. I had a great, great grandfather, Captain Samuel Ransom, who was killed and scalped by the Indians while trying to defend the fort where the settlers went for protection. (Read more on this here: American Revolution stories from our family history.)
Grandfather Hess lived at Forty Fort through his kindergarten years. Public schools did not have kindergartens at the time; private people ran them and charged for it. Then his father decided to move to the country to raise his children and he bought a 165 acre farm out beyond Dallas, Pennsylvania, near Demunds Corners. They had cows, horses, chicken, pigs, turkeys (I was scared to walk over there sometimes to see my best friend Elizabeth because they had a mean turkey gobbler). They hired a man to help them farm because Great Grandfather Hess was really a banker and drove one of the few automobiles in the area down to the city of Wilkes-Barre each day to work in the bank. He worked in a bank in Scranton, then became President of the Dime Bank of Kingston.
Grandfather Hess lived at Forty Fort through his kindergarten years. Public schools did not have kindergartens at the time; private people ran them and charged for it. Then his father decided to move to the country to raise his children and he bought a 165 acre farm out beyond Dallas, Pennsylvania, near Demunds Corners. They had cows, horses, chicken, pigs, turkeys (I was scared to walk over there sometimes to see my best friend Elizabeth because they had a mean turkey gobbler). They hired a man to help them farm because Great Grandfather Hess was really a banker and drove one of the few automobiles in the area down to the city of Wilkes-Barre each day to work in the bank. He worked in a bank in Scranton, then became President of the Dime Bank of Kingston.
Grandpa Hess attended a one room school for his first eight grades. They walked about a mile to school. When the weather was nice they could cut across fields and through the woods to get there. There were about 15 in the school and three in his grade. The first teacher was a man teacher who was quite mean. He used a switch on them and sometimes would yank them out of their seats by the hair and hit them for talking or misbehaving. He was glad when they got a woman teacher. Each day one of the big boys would take a pail and go down the hill for a pail of water for drinking. They all used the same dipper. They had two outside toilets and Grandpa's brothers were so embarrassed that he went into the girls' toilet one time. They had a potbellied stove in the room for heat.
When it came time for high school, the township had to pay for them to attend any school they could get to. Some folks would move in town with relatives or friends for the week and go home weekends. Of course with Great Grandfather Hess working in the city, his children would ride into town with him and go to Kingston High School. Grandpa Hess and his best friend Hilton Long would sometimes take the trolley out to around Dallas and walk the five miles on home so they didn't have to stay in town such a long day. They graduated from Kingston High School.
I was born on down the river from Forty Fort in a small town called Dorranceton, later merged with Kingston. I went to Kingston schools. The first five grades I walked about three blocks to school. Then it was six blocks until I was through eighth grade, then further to walk to high school. When I was around five years old, my father decided to buy a farm, too, and bought one right across the dirt road from the Hess farm. So you see, we grew up as neighbors. We only stayed at the farm from May until October and then would go down to our city home. That was until the big stock market crash in 1929. Then my father sold our city place and we lived in the country one. My father was a contractor and built hundreds of homes in the Wyoming Valley. Imagine, in those days he sold homes for $500 and automobiles cost about $500. He was also one of the first to own an automobile in the area. The houses of course didn't have plumbing nor electricity at the beginning. Like out in the country, we used oil lamps and candles and gas lanterns until our fathers bought Delco light plants for our electricity. (The picture above left is of the Ransom home in Demunds.)
Airplanes were a rare sight. We would go outside to see them when we heard them flying over. I can remember going outside to see Charles Lindbergh fly over on his way to New York, and then he flew solo in his little plane clear across the ocean to France. That was quite a feat. We didn't have the big planes at that time and couldn't hop a plane to New York or Philadelphia like we can now.
Our first radio caused lots of excitement. We had to use our ear phones so only one could listen at a time until we finally got a speaker to set up on top the radio. You didn't just plug in your radio at first, you had batteries working it. Folks would brag that they heard Chicago last night, or New York.
When I was fourteen I invited him to a Valentine Party and they played kissing games. We said we'd all invite boys. So I invited Henry. And he'd never been to a party with kissing games. He drove the Cadillac down, and all the kids were saying, "Who has that big Cadillac?" He was 16. He kissed me and some of the others too. We played Post Office and Spin the Bottle. It was all the rage about then. After that he asked me for a date. From then on if there was anything going on at school Henry and Elizabeth and I would all go together.
When we first got married we had an apartment over the Ransom garage. We had a nice sized living room and a small kitchen and a bedroom, and we built a big porch across the back. There was an outside toilet, or we used a pail. It wasn't really winterized but we had a heating stove up there. Our daughter Barbara was on the way when we had the apartment. My mother wasn't well and Mother Hess got sick, and I guess that first winter we went over and stayed with Mother Hess and Henry's brother George in the big Hess house. She died that spring. Henry's older sister Amelia and her husband Sam were in the Hess big home, and we had George come live with us in the little Hess house down by the road. There were two Ransom houses and two Hess houses.
One of your Grandfather's first jobs was in an ice plant. Before they learned how to manufacture ice, men cut ice from lakes and ponds and stored it in an ice house where they packed the ice in sawdust to keep it from melting. Then men would truck it from house to house and sell you maybe fifty pounds for your refrigerator and it would keep things cool for a few days. We were married over ten years before we bought an electric refrigerator. After the refrigeration business died down, your grandfather learned how to sell life insurance and that remained until retirement.
While still in the ice business, the war, World War II, came along and your grandfather served in the Navy. He was a Machinist Mate second class. He didn't have to fight. He was on a repair ship to keep refrigeration units working. He was gone for almost two years. They were a long two years for me for we had five children and I was expecting the sixth. While he was away in 1944, David George was born in the back of my brother Willis' car with his cord around his neck. All I could remember was taking the blanket and saying "Here Louise, wrap him up in a blanket." Willis came later and said, "Dorothy, we buried the baby on top of Mother Hess." They wouldn't take a whole grave for a baby. I never wanted to go to the cemetery to see. I heard Henry telling somebody that when we die and are buried he wanted something about David too. I was in the hospital a week and I don't even remember being in the hospital.
Then along came TV. Our neighbors bought a TV set and graciously let our children and the neighbor children to come in Friday night and sit on the floor and watch a certain family program, like "I Remember Mama" or some such show. It was a great Friday night thrill. After a year or two they wanted to buy a better set so offered their set to Grandpa Hess for a reasonable price and we became TV owners.
Now we are into the Computer Age. What fantastic changes every day. We just can't keep up with what they are doing. Look at your children, as young as they are, having their own web site and we don't even know what all that means.
Grandpa and Grandma with their five living children,
celebrating their 75th anniversary last year
My cousin Elizabeth took this sweet picture a few weeks ago.
Here is a picture of Grandpa and me in November 2008. I took him to his favorite restaurant, Red Lobster, for his 96th birthday since Grandma was still in the hospital and my Mom was caring for my Dad after his traumatic brain injury (from which he fully recovered).
Want to read and see more?
- Hess Family Heritage page on my web site
I love you, Grandpa, and I'm going to miss you so much! As I prepare to become a grandmother this month, I hope I am as sweet as you are!
[Epilogue: Grandpa passed away on Thursday, June 3.]
[Epilogue: Grandpa passed away on Thursday, June 3.]

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the colour of summer
I just love these lighter summer evenings. I seem to have a lot more motivation and energy to take photos, finish projects, go for a run and having dinner outside surrounded by our pots of herbs and flowers makes me so happy.
I hope everyone is having a lovely week and enjoying the weather.
I've been gathering together inspiration for some new designs, which are now scattered across my work desk. I just love the lilac flower hair garland and I'm always inspired by the work of Alphonse Mucha.
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The lighter evenings are wonderful - it feels like there are more hours in the day. I'm looking forward to seeing your new designs, and I love your pearls. I find inspiration everywhere. Have a great weekend. :)ReplyDelete
I find inspiration on blogs just like yours! that floral outfit looks amazing!ReplyDelete
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I just love this time of year too - so uplifting! I'm enjoying having a bit of time to sit down and read blogs and look at beautiful images - a welcome break from all the DIY/house sale/house buying/area/job research of late!! Nothing I love more than a summer garden and long balmy evenings :) Long may the inspiration continue!ReplyDelete
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I love summer too and those long evenings are the best.
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That tune, aptly titled "The Happy Elf," has taken on a life of its own: first as a Christmas song, then a 2005 NBC animated special. Now it's being staged in Bethlehem. And Connick is lending a helping hand.
The Grammy Award-winning singer and "Hope Floats" actor is working behind the scenes in the Pennsylvania Youth Theatre production of "The Happy Elf," which runs Nov. 30 through Dec. 16 at the Charles A. Brown Ice House on Sand Island in Bethlehem.
On working with the Bethlehem-based troupe, Connick said: "There's also a great sense of freedom I think, it's very sort of liberating to not be that person and to be in a collaborative space where there are four or five other key people that are as or more important as I am.
"The best idea wins. It's not about ego at all," he said during a news conference at the Hotel Bethlehem. "I've shown up at places saying these are the songs I've written, this is how they're going to fit and this is how we're going to do them. It just doesn't work 'cause invariably there's someone at the table who's smarter or funnier or more creative. If they're at the table, they're there for a reason."
The Pennsylvania Youth Theatre executive director, Michael Melcher, said the show has been tweaked since he originally pitched the idea to Connick's representatives in April. After meeting with Connick in New York City about that time, Melcher said he gave his final pitch and, shortly after, received the green light. "The Little Elf" had previously been work-shopped a handful of times at different theaters around the country.
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Letters of Frederick Engels 1839
[Bremen] Jan. 7, 1839
Dear Marie,
I hope you have now had that tooth extracted or that it was not necessary. — The riddle about the pond is very nice but you ought to be able to solve it yourself. Listen, composing is hard work; you have to pay attention to so many things — the harmony of the chords and the right progression, and that gives a lot of trouble. I'll see if I can't send you something again next time. I am now working on another choral, in which the bass and soprano voices alternate. Have a look at this.
The accompaniment is still missing, and I'll probably make some changes too. It is obvious that most of it, except the fourth line, has been stolen from the Hymn Book. The text is the well-known Latin Stabat mater dolorosa juxta crucem lacrymosa Dum pendebat filius.
The Pastor [Georg Gottfried Treviranus] killed a pig in the wash-house at midday today. At first his wife would not have anything to do with the whole business, but he said he wanted to make a gift of it to her, so she had to take it. And the pig didn't scream at all. Once it was dead all the females in the family came in. But the old granny would not let anyone take her place stirring the blood and it looked quite strange. They will be making the sausage tomorrow, that is really the thing for her.
You say you saw a monkey and that it was you. Do you know that on the wafer with which you sealed your little letter there was written: Je dis la vérité?
It also has a mirror drawn on it.
Tell Mother that she should not write "Treviranus", she can leave out the Herr Pastor from the address altogether, the postman knows where I live anyway, as I fetch the letters from the post every day; besides, he might be tempted not to bring my letters to the office but to me at the Treviranus' and there I only get them a couple of hours later when I come home.
Strücker wrote me that on the Sunday before New Year Hermann acted all sorts of things, including a waiter, etc. He must write to me about it. — Strücker was full of praise for his skill, saying that Hermann played the part of the waiter as well as if he had worked in a restaurant for three years. Is he growing a lot?
Tell Mother not to show my composition to Schornstein or he will say again — that is the end of everything. You see, I learn everything that happens. Next time I am in Barmen again I shall become the consul for Bremen like the Old Man. [Heinrich Leupold]
Addiós mi hermana
Please excuse all the mistakes I have made in the bass part. I am not used to writing music. In case you could not read the last line but one, I am writing it out again for you.


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Venetian Riviera weather is very hot in the summer, often reaching the high 20s and low 30s. July is the hottest month of the year and you can expect at least 13 hours of lovely sunshine per day. The daily average is around 29°C with 72% humidity. The sun stays out for a maximum of 15 hours, giving you plenty of time to enjoy your stay and explore the region. Rainfall is moderate in the summer with 68mm of rainfall in July and 59mm in August. Temperatures on the Venetian Riviera remain high in September, with a daily average of 24°C.
Autumn weather in Venetian Riviera is very mild with an average temperature of 19°C in October that lowers to 13°C in November. There's 69mm of rainfall per month with winds reaching speeds of up to 6mph. There's a higher chance of rain from autumn to late-spring, but the temperatures are slightly cooler than the summer, which is great if you prefer a milder climate.
When December arrives, you'll need to pack warm clothes and plenty of layers for your visit. The weather cools to just 8°C, which drops in the evening. The weather improves again in March, with temperatures rising to 14°C at midday. There's not much rain in March, with an average rainfall of 29mm spread over the month. Rainfall picks up again in May, which is one of the wettest months of the year with at least 62mm of rain spread over the month. Temperatures are pleasant at 22°C and you can expect up to 14 hours of sunlight in spring.


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A few notes before we begin. Setting up this retirement account does require a $1000 initial contribution. After that, you can contribute as much or as little as you want (up to $5,500 per year). Also, if you are making over $100,000, please see these contribution rules. Finally, once your money is in the Roth IRA, don't plan on accessing it until you're retired. Withdrawing it early will cost you in penalties. So make sure your emergency fund is in place before you do this.
First head over to Vanguard to set up your account. Vanguard will take you step by step through setting up your account and funding it. Select "Retirement Account" and "Roth IRA" when prompted. Establish funding from the same bank account that you deposit your paychecks in. This way you'll be able to set up recurring automatic contributions. Once you have established the account and online access, you'll be prompted to select a fund to invest in. Vanguard offers a line of Target Retirement Date Funds, ranging from 2010 to 2060. Select the fund with the date closest to your anticipated retirement date.
Once you have your initial investment selected and funded, set up recurring automatic contributions. Vanguard lets you set up automatic contributions every week, every other week, twice a month, or monthly. Set the contributions to come out a few days after your paycheck is typically deposited.
Figuring out exactly how much to contribute is the hardest part. Vanguard offers a retirement calculator. Adjust the sliders to fit your situation. When all your other sliders are set, use the third slider to tell you how much you should be saving by sliding. You should have it set so that the green bar (anticipated income) on the left matches or exceeds the blue bar (needed income). This slider is the annual contribution, so you'll need to divide it out by the number of contributions you'll be making per year.
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Pakistani Singer Komal Rizvi Set to Make Her Acting Debut in Hollywood
Komal Rizvi gets famous through Coke Studio for her singing. She is now trying her luck by making her acting debut in Hollywood.
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This year, for the four weeks of Advent, we are doing the #RendTheHeavens devotion at both The Featherblog as well as Psalm 10 Ministries.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. 6 You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves. (Psalms 80:4-6 ESV)
"What will people think?"
It was the question my mother asked every time I did — or wanted to do — something that might not look right. Something that would make me stand out in all the wrong ways, and reflect badly upon her as my mother.
There was always a little fear in her voice when she asked me that question. And no wonder — she grew up in a tiny community, the daughter of a fairly wealthy and respect (and feared, and resented) farm family, the object of gossip. Anything she did got home before she did, and reflected for good or ill on her family.
Me? I've never cared what people think. I mean I do, but not like this. I want to be loved and accepted and to belong and be valued. But I don't know how, and whenever someone even so much as suggests "what will people think?" of something I have said or done, I don't quite know how to react or think straight.
I just don't. I never have, and I never will.
And at this point in my life, I don't know how to. I am misfit and an outcast, and that is all I will ever be.
I don't like it. I don't like being an object of concern, a thing people puzzle over and worry about, a problem to be managed. Someone robbed of agency because who I am and what I do seems to always frighten or anger someone and something "must be done" about me. And I have shed enough tears over it, anguish and despair, sunk into deep places and wondered — still wondering — when will I have finished my full measure.
Not yet, apparently. And maybe not ever.
Is it me? It must be. I know it is. I know who and what I am not. But no one tells or teaches or patiently tries to say, "this is who you must be to be one of us" or "this is who we must be to allow him and accept him and form him." Just an expectation, and impatience, an awkward intolerance. And not even a "no thank you" but a rough "please go away now" followed by silence and an angry turning away.
And still … I have not drunk my full measure.
I don't often ask God what it is I have done to deserve this life, to be this alone, and this cast off, but sometimes I wonder — what is this sin I've done that got me to this place? That has left me so cold, and alone, and unwanted? In which the neighbors whisper and gossip and wonder but never say hello, never actually speak to me, never actually ask me, "who are you?" Much less invite me into their lives, and ask me to participate, to become part of them.
I do not know. And so … I weep. I suspect I shall always have tears to drink, tears in my bread. A full measure.
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At Katie's playground there are swings, a slide, a see-saw, a roundabout and a springy. Can you imagine the best playground in the world? Tell us about it!
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The best playground is in UK.It is in a big field and there are many swings,they are very high so you can go more high,also there are picnic tables,tree houses,etc..You can not go there with an animal(dog,cat,parrot,etc.).The playground is very stange.
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Hi everybody, this is a very funny story!
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Very clever dog
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I like the story "No dogs" very much.It is very interesting & funny.I've read & listened to it many times.This story is very kind & positive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I like to read it every day.
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A really fun playround is:in spain,there are many things and it no has any rules.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
The Red Hot Chili Peppers also released a highly anticipated album this week. Their 28-song double album was produced by superstar producer Rick Rubin. Rubin previously worked with the Southern California natives on their big mainstream breakout album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, as well as later hit Californication. As the co-founder of Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons, Rubin produced albums for The Beastie Boys and Run D.M.C. He's also acted as producer for Nine Inch Nails, System of a Down, and the late Johnny Cash. It's surprising then, say Jim and Greg, that Rubin would be such a poor editor on this latest effort. Both critics agree that this album doesn't deserve to be nearly as long as it is, especially since more than half of the songs can be considered ballads — a far cry from the Chili Peppers' punk-funk roots. Those ballads are evidence of lead singer Anthony Kiedis' self-proclaimed spiritual transformation, but Jim and Greg are not quite moved. They can still hear a few moments when Kiedis' former, party-loving self comes through. The album, which was recorded in Harry Houdini's former home, is worth hearing for John Frusciante's guitar playing, but not worth a purchase. Stadium Arcadium gets a Trash It from both hosts.


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On the 9th of February, the Visual Rock-band AVALINITY performed their first show of 2016, at "Jutan" in Helsingborg. This was the first time since 2013 that all of the four original members performed together on stage. Setlist: FREAK SHOW La Petite Mort LIƎEYE Hypocrite Photo: Miharu Editing: AREKU
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Alcohol-related traffic crashes on the rise during Super Bowl
AUSTIN — With Super Bowl party plans nearing the goal line, the Texas Department of Transportation reminds football fans to drive sober or not at all.
"The Super Bowl is the biggest game of the year and a great time for a party, but it's no excuse to be irresponsible and kill yourself or someone else," said TxDOT Executive Director LtGen Joe Weber, USMC (Ret). "If your festivities include drinking, it's your responsibility to plan ahead for a sober ride. Don't put yourself and others at risk."
On Super Bowl Sunday 2014, there were 128 DUI alcohol-related traffic crashes in Texas resulting in eight fatalities and 12 serious injuries. Those crashes marked a 14-percent increase compared with 2013 and the lives lost were somebody's loved ones.
In 2014, there were more than 3,450 fatalities on Texas roadways. Of those fatalities, more than 1,035 involved alcohol. As impaired driving continues to be a major – and often tragic – problem in Texas, TxDOT remains vigilant in its efforts to remind drivers of the severe consequences of taking the wheel while under the influence. Drivers arrested for DWI can face jail time and up to $17,000 in court costs and legal fees.
As part of its annual Football Impaired Driving Campaign, TxDOT toured the state in the Fan Van — a giant football on wheels — to encourage fans to have a game plan for a sober ride. The van made appearances at more than a dozen college football tailgate parties, bars and restaurants during football season, and encouraged fans to make a sober-ride pledge. Those who make a sober ride pledge by Feb. 1 have a chance to win a trip to pro football's Big Game in the San Francisco area on Feb. 7, 2016. Details and information about various ways to pledge can be found at TexasGamePlan.com.
Public transportation, taxis and ride-sharing services are other alternatives to driving impaired and causing a crash. Visit SoberRides.org for more sober-ride options and do your part to keep Texas roads safe.
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Would the world be a better place if humans stopped eating things with faces? Indubitably, asserts English food-writer Spencer in this lively if sometimes debatable treatise.
Vegetarianism "is the diet which Gaia approves of and, if the human race are her infants, it is the only one by which she will suckle her brood," writes Spencer (The Heretic's Feast, not reviewed, etc.), taking for the purposes of argument the point of the view of the true-believer, extreme "vegetarian lobby"—a stance that he does not deliver from "the image of the morally earnest and the downright cranky." More prosaically and less annoyingly, Spencer observes that as omnivores with a broad range of dietary choices, modern humans do not need meat in order to survive, except in extreme conditions where food plants cannot grow; a meatless diet is both healthier and more humane. Much of this attempts to provide that thesis with a pedigree, an effort in which Spencer is only partly successful. At the outset, for instance, he advances sketchy claims about what our hominid ancestors did and did not eat, ignoring or brushing aside such inconvenient evidence as the dentition pattern of ancestral and even modern humans, with incisors developed for the tearing of flesh, not the gnashing of grain. His examination of the role of vegetarianism in utopian thought is much more interesting. Plato's ideal Republic, for instance, was meatless, and so is the heaven of the Jains and some Hindus and Buddhists. As for Hitler's supposedly vegetarian regime, Spencer notes that though the Führer believed meat-eating was harmful, he did not force that particular view on his subjects and even outlawed vegetarian societies. Even so, after Hitler, vegetarian literature no longer claims that "war would be ended if only humanity abstained from meat and the slaughter of animals."
A capable blend of dietary, religious, and political history that will please like-minded readers—but perhaps prompt contrarians to cook up a cheeseburger, rare.


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From time to time, it can be extremely helpful to analyze the habits of your overall giving climate to see what is currently working as well as where opportunities for a culture of generosity to increase might exist.
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"Stay On These Roads" contained 5 singles, the fabulous emotive title track reached number 5 in the UK chart and its Everly Brothers, early 60s feel was just brilliant, also reaching the same position was one of the great Bond themes in my opinion, "The Living Daylights". Bond collaborator John Barry released his version as the single but A-ha reworked it for this album and by all accounts preferred their version to his! The summery and bright and playful "Touchy" and "You Are The One" could have appeared on both previous albums as the composition is similar, both reached top 20 positions. The worst performer on the chart reaching a peak of 25 was "The Blood That Moves The Body". This is one of my favourite A-ha songs and has a mysterious feel similar to "The Living Daylights" with a catchy chorus and orchestrated backing.
"Hurry Home" is so unusual, it has a faint hi-nrg beat, almost disco-like but also has funky beats and classic late 80s soft Pop Rock guitars with a singalong chorus. Experimental but it works!
"There's Never A Forever Thing" is just a beautiful song, it lilts along with a minimal piano and drumbeat acoustic sound and Morten sings softly and quiet sometimes reaching that famous hgh pitched vocals to give the desired full emotional effect. A gem of a song.
"Out Of Blue Comes Green" is A-ha being soulful, a six minute epic track which reminds me of "Hunting High And Low" with its low and high vocals, complete with minor searing guitar and minimal keyboards, this is quite an awesome track.
"You'll End Up Crying" ends the album and is a kind of Latin sounding track, synchronised singing chorus and verses with trumpets and reminds me of Cowboys in Mexico for some reason!


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Too many employees are needlessly dying merely because they reported to work. The numbers are staggering.
On Dec. 15, EHS Today reported on the case of Regina Allen Elsea, a 20-year-old bride-to-be and temporary worker who needlessly died while trying to make a living. According to OSHA, Regina was killed two weeks before her wedding by her employer's decision to not positively lockout a robotic station whose sensor she was clearing.
That decision did not cost the employer's life. It cost Regina her life.
Regina's employer and the one she was supporting were cited by OSHA for a host of safety violations. The citations and the fines, while impactful, will never bring this young lady back to her family. These actions are lagging. They are too late. Waiting for the regulators to catch the safety violations is not the answer.
Regina's death does not have to be in vain. Major change can come and lives can be saved but only if corporations, hiring organizations and all of us demonstrate safety leadership and accountability in the supply chain.
Due Diligence Saves Lives
Vetting your contractors before contract award is one of the best ways to establish a safety management system foundation that is based on validation and due diligence.
Most world-class organizations that are focused on the full cycle protection of people require their product and service providers to provide three years of historical data, such as this, before they consider awarding contracts:
- OSHA recordable cases and injury and illness rates
- OSHA lost workday rates
- Number of fatalities
- Days away, restricted or transferred (DART)
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- Workers' compensation insurance carrier "experience modification rating" (EMR)
There are requirements for submission of job- and site-specific written safety policies, plans and programs; evidence of effective safety management system implementation; flow-down provision for lower-tier contractors; a signed certification from the contractor that all of its employees and those of its tiers agree to follow all applicable safety and health regulations; contractor safety checklists; job hazard analysis requirements; hazardous material identification and storage requirements, etc.
These world-class organizations have a formal supply chain policy in place detailing exactly the process that must be followed by all stakeholders to assure the safety of workers like Regina. The supply chain policy delineates responsibilities and details pre-bid requirements and post-award requirements, along with the project- and site-specific requirements.
Establishing safety leadership and accountability in the supply chain is not only the right thing to do, it is the only thing to do. Who you contract to support your work is a reflection of your safety management system.
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This is the fourth instalment in a series of blogs I've written summarising run times for 2D simulations conducted on PC hardware and NVIDIA GPU cards. The first was in December 2012, I then followed up with a second in September 2016 and a third in June 2017. Each blog shows how InfoWorks ICM has been designed to leverage technological improvements as soon as new hardware platforms and new GPU cards come onto the market.
The tables below give simulation runtimes for two of our standard 2D testing models that were run on a high-end AMD based Workstation containing an NVidia GeForce GTX 1070Ti GPU card and a high-end Intel Xeon Server fitted with an NVidia Quadro GP100 GPU card.
As with the previous runtime tests, the models contain 1.6 million and 3.3 million 2D elements and are 2D only datasets (i.e. no pipes or manholes). Each model is run for a 2hr simulation using a M5-60 design storm. Rainfall is applied directly to 100% of the mesh, so all elements in the 2D zone are wet throughout the simulation (this is important, because it's the number of wet elements that most influences the runtime, not the overall number of 2D elements in the model).
My thanks go to Alun Roberts of Shinglebrook Ltd and John Baxter of AC&E Ltd, who kindly supplied the physical hardware used to conduct the test runs with our standard Innovyze GPU Testing Database, the results of which are shown in the tables above. If you would like more details of the physical hardware employed to conduct these tests, you can contact either Alun Roberts or John Baxter using the contact details shown below.
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The biggest snowstorms can cause a lot of devastation. Visibility is impaired, snowdrifts abound and the roads become impassable. It gets even worse if it occurs over a populated area. In terms of snow depth, here are the top 10 biggest snowfall records in the world.
10 Chicago, 1967 – 23 inches
It was known as the "Blizzard of 1967" and it hit the Midwest portion of the United States. Areas from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Gary, Indiana were hit. Chicago saw a record amount of snow for a 24-hour period. Up to 76 people died because of the storm, of which 26 came from Chicago.
9 Ontario and Quebec, Canada, 1971 – 24 inches
It was called the "Eastern Canadian Blizzard of 1971." Montreal itself saw 18 inches of snow. The snowfall was accompanies by strong winds that affected visibility. Along with the frigid temperature, it caused the death of 20 people. Amazingly, Ontario residents were still encouraged to report for work that day. Still, the snowfall got so bad that it actually led to the cancellation of a game by the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL. That, in itself, was a calamity for its rabid followers.
8 New York City, 2006 – 26.9 inches
The ironic thing about this snowfall was that it did not come because of a blizzard. It only covered a small area, the winds were not that high and visibility was not really impaired. But in the one place that it did dump snow, which was New York City, up to 26.9 inches were recorded. It was the greatest snowfall in the recorded history of the city.
7 Boston, 1978 – 27.1 inches
This storm was a bad one because it couldn't have come at a worse time. The storm struck in the afternoon, meaning people were already at work or school. Thus, a lot were stranded inside their cars. Additionally, it happened during high tide, thus contributing to the area's most severe flooding. The amount of snow it dumped was also a record in Boston. At its height, up to four inches per hour were being dumped. More than 100 people died in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as a result.
6 Appalachians and Catskills, 1993 – 50 inches
It was billed as the "Storm of the Century" because this March storm dumped snow and unleashed wind in a far wider area than any other storm in recorded history. There were snowfalls from the eastern part of Canada all the way to Alabama. Up to 26 states were hit. There were 270 people reported dead. Temperature fell to negative 24.4 degrees Celsius in Vermont. Even those as far south as Florida felt the chill as temperature dropped to negative 0.56 degrees Celsius. Syracuse got 40 inches of snow, though it was much worse in the mountains.
5 Saratoga Springs, New York, 1888 – 58 inches
It was known as the "Blizzard of 1888" and it affected the entire northeast part of the United States from New England to the Chesapeake Bay. There were 400 people who perished during this storm, including 100 that were lost at sea. It bore all the hallmarks of a wild storm, from the amount of snow, the frigid temperature, the strong wind and the monster snow drifts. New York City was shut down because of 22 inches of snow, which got worse afterwards when the snow melted, thus causing severe flooding. New Haven had 45 inches, but it was Saratoga Springs that bore the brunt with 58 inches of snow.
4 Lhunze County, Tibet, 2008 – 72 inches
While Tibet is a place of bitter cold because of its high altitude, the climate in the place is usually arid and snowfall is usually mild. In 2008, locals got the shock of their lives when snow fell continuously for 36 hours, dumping as much as 72 inches in some parts. Average depth of the snow was reported by Chinese authorities to be 59 inches. Buildings collapsed and roads were closed as seven people died. People lost their animals because of the storm or were forced to slaughter the others for food.
3 New England, 1717 – 108 inches
Only estimates could be done, as meteorological records were not yet reliable back in the 18th century. Still, Boston bore the brunt of "The Great Snow of 1717," though areas as far as Philadelphia were affected. It happened because of four successive storms that hit the area, which topped off an already heavy winter season. Entire houses were buried and people had to exit through the second floor. As modern snow melting and removal equipment had yet to be invented at that time, people had no choice but to wait for the snow to melt. Roads were impassable for more than a week.
2 Mount Shasta, California, 1959 – 189 inches
In terms of actual snowfall depth, this is probably the biggest to hit North America. Fortunately, it fell in hugely unpopulated mountain areas far away from the communities of Mount Shasta City and Weed. The locals were not even aware of the record snowfall because they were already used to snowstorms. While the depth was more than three times than the 1993 storm that hit the northeast, the effects paled in comparison because of the small area that it covered.
1 Buffalo, 1977 – 199.4 inches
Buffalo is located in the northern region of the United States but it actually gets less snow and warmer temperatures than its neighboring areas. In 1977, it got hit with a modest snowfall accompanied by extremely strong winds of up to 45 miles per hour. But the winter had already left packed snow on the ground. Even Lake Erie was frozen. The result was intense cold, zero visibility and strong drifts. It cemented the city's reputation as the blizzard capital of the country. By the time it ended, 199.4 inches of snow had been dumped, the record for one season.


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More than 600 people applied for a raft of civil service jobs advertised in Blackpool last month.
The vacancies at the Department for Work and Pensions offices in Faraday Way, Bispham were for the expanding Universal Credit benefit.
Today, Karl Worsley from Blackpool's Jobcentre, said the response had been amazing.
Speaking as the monthly unemployment figures came out he said: "We had a massive response, more than 600n applications.
"They will be starting to go through those now and they will be getting in touch with people who have applied in the next few weeks."
He added that more jobs were available in temporary positions over the Christmas period and big names such as Primark, Debenhams, The Hilton, Boots and H Samuel were seeking staff.
He said: "It is seasonal work, but good work experience for your CV and sometimes an employer, if they like someone, will keep them on afterwards.
"On November 25, we are having an event at the Queen Street Jobcentre for the NHS who are looking for clinical and clerical staff. Anyone who is interested should contact their local jobcentre to come along.
He added that the Jobcentre is constantly giving out information about job vacancies and training sessions via their Twitter feed at #cumbriaandlancashirejobs.
Nationally the jobless total was cut by 37,000 in the quarter to September to 1.6 million, the lowest since 2006, giving an unemployment rate of 4.8 per cent.
Locally, the number of people claiming work age benefits such as Universal Credit between September and October remained fairly flat. In Blackpool North and Cleveleys 1,395 people claimed, down 0.1 per cent on the same period last year.
In Blackpool South the figures was 2,035, up 0.3 per cent, while in Fylde there were 640, the same as last year.
In Lancaster and Fleetwood the figure was 975, up 0.2 per cent while in Wyre and Preston North the figure was 385 also the same as last year's period.


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We are Beach People – Stuttgart Germany Travel Photographer
We are at 3.5 years in cold weather climates and LONG, LONG winters. We figured out fairly early on that although Terry and I grew up in the Midwest, we are now officially warm weather people. Sure I'm ok with a bit of a chill blast to put a sweater on and a day or two for the girls to play in the snow, but then I'm done. I'm ready for flip flops and sunscreen.
We promised the girls, after the winter from hell in Rhode Island, that each summer we would definitely take a trip to a warm, hot, beachy area here in Europe. Our first summer we settled on the island of Crete in Greece and it did not disappoint!
Oh the blue skies, steamy temps and equally blue waters won us over immediately. Pair that with some fruity beach drinks, endless taziki and digging in the sand and we may have stayed forever if we were allowed to.
We interrupted our sunbathing for a day to head to the gorgeous island of Santorini via ferry. If I could do it all again I think I would have stayed at least one overnight in Santorini to fully enjoy it and get the most out of it. Of course we were there when all other tour groups were and it was madness! To get the chance to walk around in the early morning, my absolute favorite time in any city, would have been magical. That just means I'll need to head back one day for more time!
I'm pretty sure one of our favorite parts of Oia was watching the donkeys come up the path and walk through the village. We appreciated the path and steep hill they walked up after we did it ourselves and nearly lost a couple of Paustenbaughs as heat casualties. It was HOT and we were longing for our beach chair and apartment pool.
We subjected the girls to more torturous walking around and touring after spending some time in Rethymno and then again experiencing a settlement that dates back to 7000 BC. Terry and I were of course impressed; Ella, not so much…
Such an incredible island and we didn't even scratch the surface of all there was to see and do there. It was definitely our happy place. Beach, sun, warmth and pool. It's the perfect combo for our little family!


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Sean Spicer, Hitler and Jewish Power
Sean Spicer apologizes for "Hitler" remark during interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN
By Richard Edmondson | Fig Trees and Vineyards | April 14, 2017
It has been reported that after the flap erupted over his offhand reference to Hitler, White House spokesman Sean Spicer made a personal phone call to Sheldon Adelson to apologize.
Adelson is the staunch Zionist and casino billionaire who has provided extensive funding to Republican candidates for office. Back in 2014, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie groveled out an apology to him after using the term "occupied territories" in reference to the West Bank, so it probably should come as no surprise that Spicer felt compelled to apologize as well.
But of course the apology comes at a time when the Trump administration has already prostrated itself to neocon wishes by launching a missile attack against Syria–an act which has heightened tensions with Russia and represents a dramatic departure from Trump's previous campaign positions. Moreover, Adelson isn't the only person Spicer has apologized to.
"You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said in an effort to justify the US missile strike. The remark was made at a press briefing on April 11. Later that day Spicer issued a public apology during an interview with Wolf Blitzer over CNN.
"As you know, six million Jews were killed in the holocaust, many of them with poison gas…" Blitzer prefaced the interview.
Spicer's replies throughout the seven and a half minute segment (see video here ) were almost cringing.
"Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the holocaust, for which there is no comparison, and for that I apologize. It was a mistake to do that… I was trying to draw a comparison for which there shouldn't have been one. It was insensitive and inappropriate… I should have stayed focused on the Assad regime and the dangers they have brought to their own people… it was a mistake, I shouldn't have done it. I won't do it again… it was inappropriate and insensitive…"
But despite the on-air contrition, Blitzer seemed reluctant to let the matter drop.
"Did you not know, Sean, there were gas chambers where the Nazis brought Jews in…" he demanded.
"Yes, clearly I'm aware of that… it was a mistake to do that…"
"Have you spoken to President Trump about your blunder today?"
"Obviously it was my blunder, as you put it correctly…"
So busy was Spicer apologizing that at one point in the interview he even committed a Freudian slip:
"I came out (to apologize) to make sure that we stay focused on what the president's doing and his decisive action. I needed to make sure that I clarified, and not in any way shape or form any more of a distraction from the president's decisive action in Syria and the attempts he's making to destabilize the region and root ISIS out of Syria."
Spicer obviously meant to refer to Trump's attempts to "stabilize" rather than "destabilize" the region, but Blitzer, having witnessed the presidential spokesman supplicate himself, allowed the slip to pass without comment.
In its article on Spicer's phone call to Adelson, The Forward notes that Spicer's Hitler analogy was "made on the Jewish holiday of Passover." The article also comments that the Jewish billionaire has a "special relationship" with Trump and was given "prime seats at Trump's inauguration after pouring massive amounts of cash into the campaign."
Despite all the apologies, the Anne Frank Center in New York has called for Spicer to be fired.
"On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death," said Steven Goldstein, the center's executive director.
Spicer's sin was nothing more than expressing himself in a clumsy manner; clearly he had no intentions of casting aspersions or doubt upon the holocaust religion. But such considerations apparently have little bearing. A punishment of some sort must be exacted.
"Spicer's statement is the most evil slur upon a group of people we have ever heard from a White House press secretary," Goldstein said. "President Trump must fire him at once."
Trump has not responded, and in fact seems to be laying low on the controversy surrounding his press secretary. This is likely due to the fact that the president clearly has problems of his own.
In the past week or two his behavior has become strangely erratic. The man who once accused the mainstream media of spreading fake news suddenly latched onto a very suspicious and dubious report about a chemical weapons attack in Syria. On April 6, he ordered a missile attack against a Syrian airbase; at a press conference on April 12 he praised NATO (after having called it "obsolete" during his campaign); and on April 13, the US dropped a "mega bomb" in Afghanistan. Now Trump is engaged in a massive military buildup in the Korean peninsula, and just today the foreign minister of China warned that a war could break out "at any moment."
All of this represents a startling and dramatic departure from Trump's campaign promises of wanting better relations with Russia and keeping the US from becoming embroiled in useless wars–and as a result, support for Trump is in fact plummeting sharply among his political base.
One of his most prominent and vocal supporters during his campaign was Ann Coulter. So avid a fan was she that she even published a book entitled In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! But you can listen to the interview below from April 7–one day after the attack on Syria–and hear for yourself how dismayed Coulter now is.
Losing the support of people like Coulter has to be a serious blow for Trump. Why would he risk it? One conclusion we might draw from all this is that it makes no difference who gets elected president–and that the policies and agenda of the deep state will remain in effect regardless. In other words, the president is really nothing but a puppet. But perhaps there's more to it than that.
If you watch the video of his press conference of this past Wednesday–a joint press conference he gave with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg–clearly Trump is not enjoying himself. Maybe he simply has a personal dislike for Stoltenberg. It would be impossible, however, that he could be unaware of the fact that he is alienating people like Coulter. In any event, his behavior during the press conference is quite strange.
In fact, over the past two weeks or so Trump's behavior has become so curious–on some levels almost bizarre–it is practically as if he has undergone some sort of demonic possession, although a perhaps a much more "earthly" explanation is the far-greater likelihood. My own guess: that someone has gotten to Trump, set him down, and "laid down the law" to him. That would be Jewish law, of course.
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See how easy it is to pull 'recalcitrants' into line, and publicly humiliate them and watch them grovel on their knees(as a warning to others) in the USA. EVERYONE in public life in the USA knows who runs the show, and who they are NOT allowed to upset.
From what I've seen of Spicer, he's clearly 'out of his depth' in his new job.
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