It seems that my friend Doris had a very rough weekend.
A man( Dean Freitag) who was helping renovate her new home out in Bristol, out on hwy 45, died on Friday morning after being involved in a fight at her home out there with his best friend.
It seems that the two guys (one was a brother of Doris' boyfriend-Greg) were playing cards till early into the morning on Friday and got into an argument about who knows what.
It seems Dean pushed Greg into the fireplace in the family room and then somehow the fighting escalated and Greg grabbed a piece of lumber and hit Dean with it and knocked him out cold.
He called 911 but by the time the police and emergency people got there, Dean was dead.
How awful. By the way, the two were best friends.
Now Greg is sitting in jail, his friend is in the morgue, and Greg is probably being charged with reckless homicide in the death of his best friend. I feel so bad for both of them.
What an awful and unfortunate accident.
Monday, February 28, 2005
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Baby Brother got Married this Weekend
So the baby of the family got hitched this weekend. Jeff is my youngest brother and the day of his wedding also happened to be his birthday (31 years old). It is so funny because I still think of him as being a little boy.
That is probably because when I left Rapids in the mid eighties after high school he was still just a little boy and then I didnt see him all that much over the course of the next 10 years...so that image just stuck in my mind.
Jeff's bride (Mandy) and her parents and some family and my dad and stepmother and my next youngest brother Jim all went out for a nice dinner at a supper club up in the Rapids to celebrate their special day. Later on a bunch of us went to a local watering hole downtown to cheer the newlyweds and have a few drinks with them on their special day.
I snapped a few photos of the dinner and have included a few below....
Happy Monday
That is probably because when I left Rapids in the mid eighties after high school he was still just a little boy and then I didnt see him all that much over the course of the next 10 years...so that image just stuck in my mind.
Jeff's bride (Mandy) and her parents and some family and my dad and stepmother and my next youngest brother Jim all went out for a nice dinner at a supper club up in the Rapids to celebrate their special day. Later on a bunch of us went to a local watering hole downtown to cheer the newlyweds and have a few drinks with them on their special day.
I snapped a few photos of the dinner and have included a few below....
Happy Monday
Thursday, February 24, 2005
A Changing of the Guard within the Catholic Church?
So...the pope is ill again. This time it seems his condition is necessitating surgery.
I sincerely feel that it is only a matter of short time before the world looses the head of the Catholic church that has been the leading force for my religion for most of my life.
He has had a good run and I feel did a lot to help the world and keep the catholic church from totally imploding (numerous times). Let us just hope that his successor is just as wise and benevolent when it comes to leading the many millions of souls that are under his charge.
A link to the whole story on the Pope's latest health woes:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POPE?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME
Happy Thursday......
I sincerely feel that it is only a matter of short time before the world looses the head of the Catholic church that has been the leading force for my religion for most of my life.
He has had a good run and I feel did a lot to help the world and keep the catholic church from totally imploding (numerous times). Let us just hope that his successor is just as wise and benevolent when it comes to leading the many millions of souls that are under his charge.
A link to the whole story on the Pope's latest health woes:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POPE?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME
Happy Thursday......
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The Biblical Garden of Eden being Rebuilt??
The other day I was reading the sunday edition of the "Milwaukee Journal" online and I came across a story about an area of Iraq called "The Marsh" which lies between The Tigris and The Uphrates Rivers. A group of Iraqi Arabs have called this area their home for thousands of years.
These people were also against Sadam's regime. Back in the 90's after the "Gulf war", the evil dictator decided to destroy this land area and drive out the people who called it home. He put up Dams and used massive amounts of Earthmoving equipment to dessimate the area.
Ok....here comes the kicker. This exact area is what many "Biblical Scholars"believe to be the site of "The Garden of Eden". I always knew that alot of the bible lands were located in present day Iraq and of course one of our earliest civilizations-The Sumurians-gave us most of western culture that we know today as our own....but to think that someone would purposely try to destroy such an important biblical, historical and ecological part of our earth....well that is just unthinkable.
The story went on to say that the U.S. government, along with the United Nations and other international orginazations are trying to refill this marshy area and bring back all the wonderful and amazing animals and birds that once called this area home.....and could very well be the ancient birthplace of all humanity.
The story got very little mention...it was towards the back of the main section on page 13 or something, which I feel is very unfortunate. Things like this need to be talked about and known about. There is something good after all happening over in Iraq and who knows....maybe that is one of the reasons we went over there in the first place. I couldnt think of a better thing to save.
The following is from the site mentioned below and I have included a link for those curious to learn more.
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BACKGROUND ON THE MARSHLANDS
The extensive marshlands of Mesopotamia represent a unique component of our global heritage and resources (UNEP, 2001). They play a key role in the intercontinental flyway of migratory birds, support endangered species, and sustain fisheries of the Persian Gulf. Biblical scholars regard the marshes as the site of the legendary "Garden of Eden." Historically they nurtured the culture and civilization of the Sumerians who produced the first alphabet and the earliest epics.
The current marsh-dwellers, the Ma'dan, are our only link with this rich cultural past. Following the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the Ma'dan were important elements in the uprising against Saddam Hussein's regime and the marshes offered a safe haven for the resistance. To end the rebellion and punish the freedom fighters, the regime implemented an extensive system of drainage and water diversion structures that have resulted in the almost complete desiccation of the marshes.
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A link to a site that talks about this project:
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects/edenagain/
These people were also against Sadam's regime. Back in the 90's after the "Gulf war", the evil dictator decided to destroy this land area and drive out the people who called it home. He put up Dams and used massive amounts of Earthmoving equipment to dessimate the area.
Ok....here comes the kicker. This exact area is what many "Biblical Scholars"believe to be the site of "The Garden of Eden". I always knew that alot of the bible lands were located in present day Iraq and of course one of our earliest civilizations-The Sumurians-gave us most of western culture that we know today as our own....but to think that someone would purposely try to destroy such an important biblical, historical and ecological part of our earth....well that is just unthinkable.
The story went on to say that the U.S. government, along with the United Nations and other international orginazations are trying to refill this marshy area and bring back all the wonderful and amazing animals and birds that once called this area home.....and could very well be the ancient birthplace of all humanity.
The story got very little mention...it was towards the back of the main section on page 13 or something, which I feel is very unfortunate. Things like this need to be talked about and known about. There is something good after all happening over in Iraq and who knows....maybe that is one of the reasons we went over there in the first place. I couldnt think of a better thing to save.
The following is from the site mentioned below and I have included a link for those curious to learn more.
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BACKGROUND ON THE MARSHLANDS
The extensive marshlands of Mesopotamia represent a unique component of our global heritage and resources (UNEP, 2001). They play a key role in the intercontinental flyway of migratory birds, support endangered species, and sustain fisheries of the Persian Gulf. Biblical scholars regard the marshes as the site of the legendary "Garden of Eden." Historically they nurtured the culture and civilization of the Sumerians who produced the first alphabet and the earliest epics.
The current marsh-dwellers, the Ma'dan, are our only link with this rich cultural past. Following the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the Ma'dan were important elements in the uprising against Saddam Hussein's regime and the marshes offered a safe haven for the resistance. To end the rebellion and punish the freedom fighters, the regime implemented an extensive system of drainage and water diversion structures that have resulted in the almost complete desiccation of the marshes.
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A link to a site that talks about this project:
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects/edenagain/
Monday, February 21, 2005
Another Epidemic the World is Not Ready For
The Earth may be on the brink of a worldwide epidemic from a bird flu virus that may mutate to become as deadly and infectious as viruses that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the 20th century, a federal health official said Monday.
Click on following link for more info:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BIRD_FLU?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME
Maybe someone will make a movie about this one. (Or maybe they already have...who knows)
They could call it the "The Birds". Oh wait....that title was already taken....sorry.
Happy Monday!
Click on following link for more info:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BIRD_FLU?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME
Maybe someone will make a movie about this one. (Or maybe they already have...who knows)
They could call it the "The Birds". Oh wait....that title was already taken....sorry.
Happy Monday!
Saturday, February 19, 2005
The Awesome and Powerful-and Sometimes Crazy World We Live In
So not too many exciting things going on the past few weeks but there are a few headlines in the news that have caught my eye recently.
The two most interesting ones for me....one which I need to dig a little to figure out the details but it was the "quote of the day" in my online email edition of the New York Times, was this:
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot."GORDON JOHNSON, of the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, on robot soldiers.
Well, I guess the good new on this one is that maybe (hopefully) some day in the future we wont have to sacrifice our young men to war and death. So much of the above quote sounds like it came right out of the anals of a Science Fiction Novel though like as in the movie "Universal Soldier"....it is funny how life (sometimes very errily) immitates art and fiction. Hmmmmm.
And then there was this little tidbit about our powerful universe and the forces within it:
NASA: Cosmic blast among brightest recorded
By Robert Roy BrittSPACE.com
(SPACE.com) -- A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday.
No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival.
The event equaled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light, NASA says. It was not visible to the naked eye.
The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected December 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).
The commotion was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar. These fast-spinning, compact stellar corpses -- no larger than a big city -- create intense magnetic fields that trigger explosions.
More on this story:http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/02/18/cosmic.blast/index.html
Wow is all I can say.
What else.....
My little baby brother (who is not so little anymore) Jeff is getting married this next saturday and I have been asked to be "Best Man". The wedding will take place back in my hometown of Wisconsin Rapids and so now there will be another Repinski in the world charts. Her name is Mandy....his wife to be.
Cant think of much else.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
The two most interesting ones for me....one which I need to dig a little to figure out the details but it was the "quote of the day" in my online email edition of the New York Times, was this:
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot."GORDON JOHNSON, of the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, on robot soldiers.
Well, I guess the good new on this one is that maybe (hopefully) some day in the future we wont have to sacrifice our young men to war and death. So much of the above quote sounds like it came right out of the anals of a Science Fiction Novel though like as in the movie "Universal Soldier"....it is funny how life (sometimes very errily) immitates art and fiction. Hmmmmm.
And then there was this little tidbit about our powerful universe and the forces within it:
NASA: Cosmic blast among brightest recorded
By Robert Roy BrittSPACE.com
(SPACE.com) -- A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday.
No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival.
The event equaled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light, NASA says. It was not visible to the naked eye.
The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected December 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).
The commotion was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar. These fast-spinning, compact stellar corpses -- no larger than a big city -- create intense magnetic fields that trigger explosions.
More on this story:http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/02/18/cosmic.blast/index.html
Wow is all I can say.
What else.....
My little baby brother (who is not so little anymore) Jeff is getting married this next saturday and I have been asked to be "Best Man". The wedding will take place back in my hometown of Wisconsin Rapids and so now there will be another Repinski in the world charts. Her name is Mandy....his wife to be.
Cant think of much else.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Happy Birthday to me.....39 years old today
I didnt think that I would make it to this age when I was 16. Hard to beleive it has been 39 years since I have been on this hard rock we call Earth.
I feel blessed that I am who I am. I live in a good country on this planet and have good family. i have a decent job and good friends and though I dont make as much money as I would want to at this point in my life, I am happy. I have most everything I want and am not starving or anything. I feel loved by those who care for me and I feel my life has been a good one and an exciting one for the most part, up to this time. I have done many things that I have wanted to do and my career has progressed more or less in the manner that I have envisioned.
So....happy birthday to John Joseph Repinski who is thirty nine years old today.
If I were to get a birthday cake and have to blow out candles and make a wish, the only thing I would wish for is to make sure that God is watching over my friends and family and my mother who is up in heaven. (And I am SURE he is doing just that.)
I feel blessed that I am who I am. I live in a good country on this planet and have good family. i have a decent job and good friends and though I dont make as much money as I would want to at this point in my life, I am happy. I have most everything I want and am not starving or anything. I feel loved by those who care for me and I feel my life has been a good one and an exciting one for the most part, up to this time. I have done many things that I have wanted to do and my career has progressed more or less in the manner that I have envisioned.
So....happy birthday to John Joseph Repinski who is thirty nine years old today.
If I were to get a birthday cake and have to blow out candles and make a wish, the only thing I would wish for is to make sure that God is watching over my friends and family and my mother who is up in heaven. (And I am SURE he is doing just that.)
Thursday, February 10, 2005
More interesting info on the Family Tree Search
So as I wrote about in a previous post, as I was drilling down into my family history past, I came across historical lines that show (possibly) that my ancestors decended from some of the royal houses of Europe. Then I started going back further and "thought" that maybe my line started with and emperor of the 7th century A.D.
Well, today as I am searching for stuff, I came across another website that tries to explain how most westerners (me and others), if not all of us are indeed probably decended from that emperor!! How suprising for me to come up with that same assumption....see paragraph from the web site mentioned, below:
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Site:http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/FamTree/Royal/ca.html
An excerpt:
Many people here have multiple Royal Descents. I show the most recent monarch they descend from.
Exponential growth (going backward): Consider that you need 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and so on. Assuming an average of about 25 years per generation, you only need to go back to about 1200 AD, quite within historical times, to need more separate ancestors than the entire population of the world. The solution to this paradox is of course that ancestors are duplicated. All of us descend from a massive amount of intermarriage even within the last few hundred years.
See estimates for Common ancestors of all humans, and in particular see Exponential growth (going forward). Restricting ourselves just to Europe (and those of European descent abroad) it is quite possible that the most recent common ancestor of the West lies within historical times. It is possible, for example, that every single westerner descends from Charlemagne.
Well, today as I am searching for stuff, I came across another website that tries to explain how most westerners (me and others), if not all of us are indeed probably decended from that emperor!! How suprising for me to come up with that same assumption....see paragraph from the web site mentioned, below:
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Site:http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/FamTree/Royal/ca.html
An excerpt:
Many people here have multiple Royal Descents. I show the most recent monarch they descend from.
Exponential growth (going backward): Consider that you need 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and so on. Assuming an average of about 25 years per generation, you only need to go back to about 1200 AD, quite within historical times, to need more separate ancestors than the entire population of the world. The solution to this paradox is of course that ancestors are duplicated. All of us descend from a massive amount of intermarriage even within the last few hundred years.
See estimates for Common ancestors of all humans, and in particular see Exponential growth (going forward). Restricting ourselves just to Europe (and those of European descent abroad) it is quite possible that the most recent common ancestor of the West lies within historical times. It is possible, for example, that every single westerner descends from Charlemagne.
Feb 10, 2005-The World Today
News Capsule for Thursday-Feb 10,2005
North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea announced for the first time Thursday it has nuclear weapons, and it rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying the bombs are protection against an increasingly hostile United States. The communist state's statement dramatically raised the stakes in the 2-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation talks.
Prince Charles to Marry Parker Bowles
LONDON (AP) - Prince Charles said Thursday he will marry his divorced lover Camilla Parker Bowles in April, putting an official seal on a long romance that Princess Diana blamed for the breakdown of her tempestuous marriage to the heir to the throne. The announcement ruled out the possibility that she would become queen. The Prince of Wales and Parker Bowles will marry Friday, April 8, at Windsor Castle, said the Clarence House, Charles' residence and office.
Report: FAA Had 52 Pre-9/11 Warnings
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration received repeated warnings in the months prior to Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida and its desire to attack airlines, according to a previously undisclosed report by the commission that investigated the terror attacks. The report by the 9/11 commission that investigated the suicide airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
'Cured' Pope Leaves Rome Hospital
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital in his white popemobile Thursday, 10 days after suffering breathing spasms that left him bedridden and rekindled debate about his ability to continue leading the Roman Catholic Church. Under heavy security, the 84-year-old pope was bundled into the vehicle inside a covered entrance to Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic to shield him from the winter chill. Police sealed off St. Peter's Square to tourists, and hundreds of cheering Romans lined the route to the Vatican.
Officials: Abbas Fires Gaza Commanders
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Reacting forcefully to Hamas rocket and mortar fire in the Gaza Strip in defiance of a cease-fire with Israel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas dismissed his top security commanders Thursday and sent a message to the militants that he will not tolerate further truce violations. Among about 20 senior officers who lost their jobs were the top two commanders, Brig. Gen. Abdel Razek Majaidie, chief of public security, and police chief Saeb al-Ajed, security officials said, a clear sign that Abbas is serious about enforcing the two-day-old truce.
Khatami: Iran Would Be Hell for Attackers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A month after President Bush warned that the United States hasn't ruled out military action against Iran, President Mohammed Khatami responded Thursday that his country would turn into a "scorching hell" for any possible attackers. Khatami's comments, before a crowd of tens of thousands gathered on a snowy square in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, came amid an escalating exchange of rhetoric between the United States and Iran. Washington accuses Tehran of maintaining a nuclear weapons program, which Iran says is for peaceful energy purposes.
U.S. Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. trade deficit soared to a record of $617.7 billion last year as Americans' appetite for all things foreign, from crude oil to cars, hit all-time highs. The United States even rang up a deficit in farm goods as imports of wine, cheese and other food products hit a record. The Commerce Department reported that the deficit for all of last year was 24.4 percent above the previous record, an imbalance of $496.5 billion in 2003. The U.S. deficit with China also set a record of $162 billion, up 30.5 percent from last year and the largest imbalance ever recorded with a single country.
Seabed at Tsunami's Center Shows Ruptures
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - The first images of the seabed that was rocked by the earthquake that triggered Asia's catastrophic tsunami revealed huge ruptures spanning several miles along the Indian Ocean's floor. The United States, meanwhile, said it was preparing to more than double its pledge for tsunami relief to $950 million.
Girls Get Donations in Colo. Cookie CaseDENVER (AP) - The cookie conflict isn't over yet. The spat between two teens from the southwestern Colorado town of Durango and one of their neighbors over a batch of cookies they baked last summer has garnered national publicity over the past week. It has led to donations for the girls. For Herb and Wanita Young, it has all been a nightmare.
NHL Needs Deal by Weekend to Save Season
By this weekend, the NHL will either have a surprising deal that saves the hockey season or a dubious place in history. The long-awaited deadline is set. If the league and the union can't hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement in this last round of talks that started secretly in Toronto on Wednesday, commissioner Gary Bettman will pull the plug.
Lots of stuff going on in the world today...weird how weeks can go by and nothing really of note happens and then "boom" all of a sudden....major events happen in all corners of the world.Happy Thursday to all......
North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea announced for the first time Thursday it has nuclear weapons, and it rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying the bombs are protection against an increasingly hostile United States. The communist state's statement dramatically raised the stakes in the 2-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea's nuclear program through six-nation talks.
Prince Charles to Marry Parker Bowles
LONDON (AP) - Prince Charles said Thursday he will marry his divorced lover Camilla Parker Bowles in April, putting an official seal on a long romance that Princess Diana blamed for the breakdown of her tempestuous marriage to the heir to the throne. The announcement ruled out the possibility that she would become queen. The Prince of Wales and Parker Bowles will marry Friday, April 8, at Windsor Castle, said the Clarence House, Charles' residence and office.
Report: FAA Had 52 Pre-9/11 Warnings
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration received repeated warnings in the months prior to Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida and its desire to attack airlines, according to a previously undisclosed report by the commission that investigated the terror attacks. The report by the 9/11 commission that investigated the suicide airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
'Cured' Pope Leaves Rome Hospital
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital in his white popemobile Thursday, 10 days after suffering breathing spasms that left him bedridden and rekindled debate about his ability to continue leading the Roman Catholic Church. Under heavy security, the 84-year-old pope was bundled into the vehicle inside a covered entrance to Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic to shield him from the winter chill. Police sealed off St. Peter's Square to tourists, and hundreds of cheering Romans lined the route to the Vatican.
Officials: Abbas Fires Gaza Commanders
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Reacting forcefully to Hamas rocket and mortar fire in the Gaza Strip in defiance of a cease-fire with Israel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas dismissed his top security commanders Thursday and sent a message to the militants that he will not tolerate further truce violations. Among about 20 senior officers who lost their jobs were the top two commanders, Brig. Gen. Abdel Razek Majaidie, chief of public security, and police chief Saeb al-Ajed, security officials said, a clear sign that Abbas is serious about enforcing the two-day-old truce.
Khatami: Iran Would Be Hell for Attackers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A month after President Bush warned that the United States hasn't ruled out military action against Iran, President Mohammed Khatami responded Thursday that his country would turn into a "scorching hell" for any possible attackers. Khatami's comments, before a crowd of tens of thousands gathered on a snowy square in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, came amid an escalating exchange of rhetoric between the United States and Iran. Washington accuses Tehran of maintaining a nuclear weapons program, which Iran says is for peaceful energy purposes.
U.S. Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. trade deficit soared to a record of $617.7 billion last year as Americans' appetite for all things foreign, from crude oil to cars, hit all-time highs. The United States even rang up a deficit in farm goods as imports of wine, cheese and other food products hit a record. The Commerce Department reported that the deficit for all of last year was 24.4 percent above the previous record, an imbalance of $496.5 billion in 2003. The U.S. deficit with China also set a record of $162 billion, up 30.5 percent from last year and the largest imbalance ever recorded with a single country.
Seabed at Tsunami's Center Shows Ruptures
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - The first images of the seabed that was rocked by the earthquake that triggered Asia's catastrophic tsunami revealed huge ruptures spanning several miles along the Indian Ocean's floor. The United States, meanwhile, said it was preparing to more than double its pledge for tsunami relief to $950 million.
Girls Get Donations in Colo. Cookie CaseDENVER (AP) - The cookie conflict isn't over yet. The spat between two teens from the southwestern Colorado town of Durango and one of their neighbors over a batch of cookies they baked last summer has garnered national publicity over the past week. It has led to donations for the girls. For Herb and Wanita Young, it has all been a nightmare.
NHL Needs Deal by Weekend to Save Season
By this weekend, the NHL will either have a surprising deal that saves the hockey season or a dubious place in history. The long-awaited deadline is set. If the league and the union can't hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement in this last round of talks that started secretly in Toronto on Wednesday, commissioner Gary Bettman will pull the plug.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
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Winter in Wisconsin Again?
Another 1-3 inches of snow is sppsed to fall during the next few days. It has been raining on and off all week so a fresh coat of snow will be good. It will cover all the yucky brown stuff that is all over the place right now.
I am toying with the photo options of this webblog and am going to try posting a photo of some pretty winter scenes around my world. But time to get ready for work now.
Happy Tuesday to all......
I am toying with the photo options of this webblog and am going to try posting a photo of some pretty winter scenes around my world. But time to get ready for work now.
Happy Tuesday to all......
Monday, February 7, 2005
The Core!.....Well Sort of at Least
Remember the movie "The Core" where the earth's magnetic feild stops rotating...causing weird weather and calamity for the people of earth??
Well, our good old UWM here in Wisconsin is doing research in to this very real "possible" scenario.
Links follow:
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/feb05/299531.asp
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/feb05/299568.asp
It is reasurring to know that some of us are looking into potential things that could very easily mean the end of life as we know them.....and try to figure out the ways that things work...before it is too late (as in the movies). I just love it when "art" imitates life!
On another front, my search for my family roots is coming along and I have gleemed alot more information from different sources and have filled in quite a few holes. I am all the way back to great grandparents on both sides of my family, with dates and all. There are some holes here and there yet and I am planning on making a trip to Stevens Point in the next week or so, to do some serious digging in the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point archives. They have lots of obituraries of quite a few of my ancestors....and in looking at those, I should be able to get back a few more generations in my tree on both sides. I was up all night last night looking through some of those obituaries, which a few are posted online. Very exciting to see how my families progressed and to see names that I had heard of when I was growing up...both from my mom's side and from my dad's side. Alot of work to do though yet. I hope eventually to be able to go back to Europe on both sides and get a feeling for where both families originated from back in midevil times. A daunting task, like I said before, but it is so rewarding when I come across another positive link in my history.
Happy Monday.......
Well, our good old UWM here in Wisconsin is doing research in to this very real "possible" scenario.
Links follow:
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/feb05/299531.asp
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/feb05/299568.asp
It is reasurring to know that some of us are looking into potential things that could very easily mean the end of life as we know them.....and try to figure out the ways that things work...before it is too late (as in the movies). I just love it when "art" imitates life!
On another front, my search for my family roots is coming along and I have gleemed alot more information from different sources and have filled in quite a few holes. I am all the way back to great grandparents on both sides of my family, with dates and all. There are some holes here and there yet and I am planning on making a trip to Stevens Point in the next week or so, to do some serious digging in the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point archives. They have lots of obituraries of quite a few of my ancestors....and in looking at those, I should be able to get back a few more generations in my tree on both sides. I was up all night last night looking through some of those obituaries, which a few are posted online. Very exciting to see how my families progressed and to see names that I had heard of when I was growing up...both from my mom's side and from my dad's side. Alot of work to do though yet. I hope eventually to be able to go back to Europe on both sides and get a feeling for where both families originated from back in midevil times. A daunting task, like I said before, but it is so rewarding when I come across another positive link in my history.
Happy Monday.......
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
The Family Tree Search-Part Two
So I have been digging, digging, and digging...trying to find more info to build my family tree, as I noted in my last post. So how is the search going? Arrg.....but with a few cool suprises.
Well....I seem to have made a fairly straight line back to my 3rd Great Grandparents on my mother's (Dietz-Deitz) side. But with alot of missing info that I hope some cemeteries will be able to provide some names (mainly the wives of some of my great grandfather's, and hopefully some of their history) and years of birth and death.
The U.S. Census records on the web have been very helpful and alot of Geneological sites have some interesting info on some members of this side of my family. There was an online obituary of my Great Great Grandfather that listed his children and some of the locations where they had moved or resided...which gives me some more links to find some extended family. Places such as Rice Lake-Wi., Waupaca-Wi, Milwaukee-Wi and even North Dakota.
I still am running into major blocks when it comes to the Repinski side, but hopefully some of my releatives will have some info and I hope to jog my dad's memory a little bit here and there for some other family names, as well as visiting some cemeteries in Stevens Point and Plover to look at some gravesites for names and years.
So it seems a road trip is in order. I may just take a drive north this weekend. I have sunday off. Wish me luck.
Happy Thursday......
Well....I seem to have made a fairly straight line back to my 3rd Great Grandparents on my mother's (Dietz-Deitz) side. But with alot of missing info that I hope some cemeteries will be able to provide some names (mainly the wives of some of my great grandfather's, and hopefully some of their history) and years of birth and death.
The U.S. Census records on the web have been very helpful and alot of Geneological sites have some interesting info on some members of this side of my family. There was an online obituary of my Great Great Grandfather that listed his children and some of the locations where they had moved or resided...which gives me some more links to find some extended family. Places such as Rice Lake-Wi., Waupaca-Wi, Milwaukee-Wi and even North Dakota.
I still am running into major blocks when it comes to the Repinski side, but hopefully some of my releatives will have some info and I hope to jog my dad's memory a little bit here and there for some other family names, as well as visiting some cemeteries in Stevens Point and Plover to look at some gravesites for names and years.
So it seems a road trip is in order. I may just take a drive north this weekend. I have sunday off. Wish me luck.
Happy Thursday......
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