Headlines..

Relative: Dead baby appeared 'happy, healthy'
YEP...RIGHT up until the time he was dead...He looked REEEEEL good.

..."Nine other children under the age of 18 were living in the three-bedroom apartment with several adult relatives, Morris and police said.

Police described the apartment as a "health hazard," saying it was roach-infested and strewn with garbage."

THIS from a couple weeks ago...

Babies found living with rats, roaches
January 4, 2009 4:26 PM

Three babies found by Chicago police in a West Side apartment without running water or central heat were taken into protective custody Saturday, and their parents were charged with neglect and endangerment.The babies -- a 16-month-old boy, 14-month-old boy and 4-month-old girl -- were taken from the apartment. There were roaches, rats, numerous open containers of alcohol, exposed electrical wires, an overflowed toilet with human waste, and no food or water in the second-floor apartment where the children were found. Shirley Johnson, 44,(Grandma) acknowledged the apartment does not have running water or a working toilet, but she said the Chicago police description of their residence was wrong.Police said they found the little boys sitting in the apartment wearing winter coats. Not yet knowing about the baby girl, police said they took the two little boys into protective custody, and arrested Latrice Johnson and Wysinger. Fenner, who had been at the store, returned shortly after and was arrested.

In the meantime, other officers stuck around the apartment to wait for evidence technicians to arrive, police said. About a half-hour later, police said, the officers heard noises coming from a bedroom.

That's where they discovered the baby girl on the floor behind a mattress that was propped against a wall, police added.

"If it were not for the alertness of the officers at the scene, this 4-month-old baby could have died," Andrews said.


Makes me sad...thinking of all of these kids crammed into a filthy reeking apartment...

MY HUGE FIND!!!

(these are online photos I grabbed, not the stuff I have)




Grace Murray Hopper, FIRST person to make computers understand English.-Yale Educated, Navy Woman to the Core, Retiring once, being recalled to Service.."Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. During her lifetime as a leader in the field of software development concepts, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers. .."
I am so Excited I can BARELY get out my information...
My Friend and I were Garage Sailing...

She found a box of old photos, news article, papers from Washington D.C., the PENTAGON ....and this lady Grace Hopper's pictures, papers etc are included in it. "this Lady" seems SO disrespectful. BECAUSE OF HER...Computers work. She worked for the Early RAND Corporation.
She retired, and was "requested" to return because of computer crisis of the Govt. in making computers integrate. She didn't retire until '88.
We have an original menu of the dinner of one of her special award events!




OK, On TOP of all this...are MANY MANY "Pentagon Released" photos of old war ships, missiles, in PENTAGON envelope!
I'm shallow enough that yes, some sort of similar photos seem to be selling for about 25 dollars each on ebay.
How bout a Picture of the underwater firing of a Polaris A-3 missile from an "unnamed" submarine? GOT IT. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/ss2.htm
the USS SEAFOX, off coast of OAHU - GOT IT!!!

The

In the news..Crock ...of eggs

Here's a news story in which I insert myself as tho I really were involved:
Again, like the research recently of COFFEE SMELLS...pretty much stupid money...
Do we REALLY need research to tell us what a CROCK eggs does? Ok..Maybe its NOT all a crock...of you know what...anyway...read on dear one reader:



have known that shortly before hatching, crocodiles make noises within their eggs. A new study

Biologist noted BEFORE KRisscop gaining exposure through Krisscop's House blog, which involved playbacks of the pre-hatching calls, reveals these calls from the egg tell siblings it's time to hatch and tell moms it's time to uncover the nest. As a mother of three hatched urchin herself, Krisscop can attest to the fact that young ones FREQUENTLY make noise, and tell siblings where to go.

Researchers Vergne and Mathevon , with little or no input from Krisscop of the Jean Monnet University in France monitored Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) eggs that were due to hatch within 10 days. The eggs were placed into one of three groups, for which the researchers either played recordings of pre-hatching calls, recordings of noise (other than the calls), or no sound.

The group of eggs that got a dose of real croc calls responded and moved, as the about finger-sized babies jostled about, more often than the "noise" eggs. The eggs incubated in silence showed no movement. Krisscop wonders if this noise made them mad because their nap was going to be interrupted...

All four of the individuals that successfully hatched in the croc-call group did so during or within 10 minutes of the playbacks.

After the eggs hatched, the moms-to-be stuck around to continue their nest guarding.
Krisscop later noted that "moms" pretty much are ALWAYS the one that continue to stick around.
The researchers found the female crocodiles responded to pre-hatching playbacks coming from loudspeakers hidden underground near the now-empty nests.

The female adults more often turned their heads or moved after egg sounds than after noise.

All in the family...

Hey...what a warm fuzzy feeling.



OAKLAND PARK, Fla. - Broward County authorities said a grandmother was arrested for hiding cocaine in her bra during a drug raid in Oakland Park. Eight others were also arrested Friday at or near the home of Henrietta Corvin Daise, 62. Many of them were her grandchildren.


Jail records show Daise posted $7,500 bail Saturday.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office said deputies conducted a search warrant on her home and found Daise with powder cocaine stuffed in her bra. Deputies also found 20 crack cocaine rocks, four grams of powder cocaine, marijuana and $1,000 in cash.

The eight face various charges including possession and intent to sell cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church, probation violations and marijuana possession.

Globalization Video

a REAL Godly man.

US farmer cuts off trapped arm...maybe the preacher below should have cut off his "ARM" and saved years of trouble....


This...has it all....amputation, "Skin so burned it was dripping off"...UGH...Reminds me of my son's time in the Burn unit....5 weeks of hell...scrubbings. THIS guy...I'll pray for..but sounds like he does JUST FINE with himself..and his God.

Monday November 26, 2007
The Guardian

A South Carolina farmer was forced to cut off his arm with a pocket knife after a farm machine in which his hand was trapped burst into flames.

"If I was going to die here I was going to put up a fight, and that's basically what I did," Sampson Parker told a local reporter.

Parker had noticed a corn stalk stuck in a picker, but when he attempted to remove it, the machine caught his glove, pulling his hand into a mechanical roller.

Article continues
"The more I tried pulling my hand out, the farther up my hand went," he said. The farmer used a metal rod to stop the machine, and spent the next hour on his knees calling for help with his hand still trapped in the machine.

With no help forthcoming the farmer decided to cut off his fingers with his knife, but as he began cutting a spark from the metal rod caused the machine to catch fire.

Parker found himself trapped, kneeling on the ground with one hand in the machine and the other fending off the flames spreading in the grass.

"My skin was melting. It was dripping off my arm like plastic, plastic melting. I realised I was in trouble," he said.

He picked up his knife once more. "And I just jammed it into my arm, just like that, just started cutting away from the bone," he said.

Once he was free he drove to his home, where a passing firefighter came to his aid, wrapping his severed arm and calling for assistance.

Parker has since managed to put the incident behind him. "[I] came down here, had a prayer with God and the corn picker and me. Made it easier. Made peace with it," he said.