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Flooding in biblical proportions in U.K.//5 year old raped and smothered in N.C., usa
Sunday, November 22, 2009 |
Sunday, November 22, 2009 |
FLOODING IN BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS:
Cockermouth, a market town 330 miles northwest of London, lies at the junction of the Cocker and Derwent rivers and is known for being the birthplace of poet William Wordsworth. Part of this pretty town has been destroyed by floods.
"It has devastated the town," said Michael Dunn, manager of the Bitter End pub. "There is a lot of properties in Main Street, private shops, that have had their windows smashed in by the force of the water and by debris in the water. There were cars floating down the street. It will be a long time before Cockermouth recovers from this." Nov. 20:
"It has devastated the town," said Michael Dunn, manager of the Bitter End pub. "There is a lot of properties in Main Street, private shops, that have had their windows smashed in by the force of the water and by debris in the water. There were cars floating down the street. It will be a long time before Cockermouth recovers from this." Nov. 20:
The flooding in northern England is being described as a one in a thousand year event. ITN's Damon Green reports
Nightly News: "This is a stone bridge — to wash away a bridge of that size and dimension is incredible," said lawmaker Tony Cunningham.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he had spoken to Cumbria Chief Constable Craig Mackey to offer help.
"Our thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by these floods," Brown said.
Britain has been hit by severe flooding in recent years, raising questions about the impact of global warming.
Last year the country saw its wettest summer since records began in 1914.
In Ireland: A hotel's 12th-century castle, normally a floodlit tourist's highlight on the lake vista, was almost completely under water Friday.
"You can just see the top of the castle and everything else is covered," said the hotel's general manager, Niall Huggard.
Nightly News: "This is a stone bridge — to wash away a bridge of that size and dimension is incredible," said lawmaker Tony Cunningham.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he had spoken to Cumbria Chief Constable Craig Mackey to offer help.
"Our thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by these floods," Brown said.
Britain has been hit by severe flooding in recent years, raising questions about the impact of global warming.
Last year the country saw its wettest summer since records began in 1914.
In Ireland: A hotel's 12th-century castle, normally a floodlit tourist's highlight on the lake vista, was almost completely under water Friday.
"You can just see the top of the castle and everything else is covered," said the hotel's general manager, Niall Huggard.
A 5-year-old North Carolina, U.S.A. girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday.
Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.
Mario McNeill, 29, is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child in the warrant, which was issued after police said they collected hair and fibers, clothes, and a straw from his 1997 Mitsubishi Galant. He was initially charged only with kidnapping.
McNeill seemed nervous as he appeared in court Friday for a brief hearing on the latest charges. He nodded his head slightly to the judge’s questions but did not enter a plea. His lawyer, Allen Rogers, left the courtroom with his client and didn’t speak to reporters. He also didn’t return messages left at his office from The Associated Press.
The girl’s mother, Antoinette Davis, is charged with filing a false police report, trafficking her daughter and child abuse involving prostitution.
Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.
Mario McNeill, 29, is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child in the warrant, which was issued after police said they collected hair and fibers, clothes, and a straw from his 1997 Mitsubishi Galant. He was initially charged only with kidnapping.
McNeill seemed nervous as he appeared in court Friday for a brief hearing on the latest charges. He nodded his head slightly to the judge’s questions but did not enter a plea. His lawyer, Allen Rogers, left the courtroom with his client and didn’t speak to reporters. He also didn’t return messages left at his office from The Associated Press.
The girl’s mother, Antoinette Davis, is charged with filing a false police report, trafficking her daughter and child abuse involving prostitution.
well, praise jesus, the PUMP was OFF last night. i think they made a deal with the city to shut it on friday nights, now as they did this last week as well. and then on sunday they turned it back on. ICH. so i stayed outside just to listen to the ocean and enjoy the AIR without the pump smog and fumes. WHAT A HUGE DIFFERENCE. can't believe we are going through this at all. we are now on week FOUR with this sewer pump!!! and while it is on i keep saying to myself, WHY am i living here and paying this premium to be living here, hell, if i want to live somewhere noisey, with dirty, smelly air, i can pay a small fraction of what i am paying. now, if i send a letter to the state of florida asking for money for damages? lol. think i will hold my breath and wait too. lol.
so i sat around outside on the deck reading and enjoying and listening to the lovely ocean and hanging with the animals, even though it was around 2 a.m. by the time i got back down south and i was actually calling them over for breakfast. lol. was at k's before that, and he was still up which is a surprise. he still has sneezing cats and the eye on the "blind" one is looking good and the swelling went down on the eye that is probably gone. i can't afford to take him to the vet every week though and i KNOW i have to seriously consider that 501 thing for that reason alone. really figure out the money here. lalalala. before that the canal was super quiet and still. the weather has been great. the only person i ran into was rf. he is headed up north because he had a death. ANOTHER DEATH this year. i can't believe it. i still think its the stress that is doing it.
spoke to r briefly as she called with names of rescue people (two of the three i already have) from rda, which means she TOLD rda its me, something i always tell her not to do because i don't like rda at all. she is a liar and a malicious gossip. i thought she would ask ANYONE ELSE if they could foster. nothing like having no tact or diplomacy. moreover, r doesn't remember saying if her two rescues go to a sanctuary she can take two. actually i'd only send her one because the other one is adoptable. she actually started shreaking and it was definitely a knee jerk reaction. and i thought to myself this is what clf was going through with her. she told me i am telling HER what she will or won't be taking, and i said YOU said that is what you are doing. and she says WHEN. and i said, YESTERDAY. it was almost amusing. she caught herself right away, but you can tell this is something that is going on with her. she kept saying clf is a liar and saying she says things she never says. well, r, sorry to have to tell you, but you may have gotten divorced for nothing, because she IS saying things and not remembering and then going off on it before she can stop herself. she's only been divorced since september and this is the second time she went off like that. i'd have to check my journal or planner to see what the other time was about, i don't recall it at this second. now she says her cats spray when a new animal is around and she is afraid of upsetting them if foster care inspects her. that's okay, but i didn't come up with the "if two go" thing, she did. i know she is pre-menopausal, she let me know about it when diagnosed (i think it shook her up to find that out), so it could be from that, or maybe its already menopause. she has also given up her church because the minister is annoying her too. lol. i keep thinking of edith on "all in the family", but at least she caught herself quickly and became rational. with clf, she thought he was playing tricks on her. it could also be why he was leaving all the time and not coming home, but she said he has ALWAYS done this, so who knows. keeping a journal would probably help her, or taping her conversations and then journalling the fine points until the menopause is over??? she's only in her 40's.
to be honest, if she is going through this and "forgetting" what she says, and then snaps at people for it, its the worst situation for a child, especially if foster care has so many other adults right now, willing to foster. the classes are FULL (30 people each class), and normally there is only around ten people in them. have no idea how that child advocasy group is with single people for this stuff anyway AND she only wants a "white" child, which surprised me. i didn't know she was like that. not even hispanic. white only. ??? so back to square one with protecting my rescues and not being fined $100.00 per animal!!! what a mess.
k went to see the intracoastal house again, and sounds wishy-washy on it. i was impressed that he pursued it. he says if he hadn't become a chiropractor, he'd have done something with real estate. i was surprised how much he knows about building. i'd learn a lot from doing this. what a burly thing to do. lol. the house is his choice, but i do think he should do it, even though its not acreage. he wanted an investment and its prime suburban 1/4 acre property needing work, one block from the intracoastal on the mainland side (and near my timeshare. lol.) i was too tired though, to really talk to him about it. i reminded him i only have two weeks to find solution to all of this. omg!!! i am bleeding like crazy again from the stress. so scary that my body does that.
spent the morning on the deck ENJOYING while i can, don't like having to choose when i go out there according to a pump!! shopped quickly for animal supplies and things, but i am dragging from being up so late and then getting up early and not falling back to sleep. i will sooooo miss the deck and being on a second floor. treated all the cat room animals with advantage and i think i need to do dewormers on some of them, just hard to tell which ones. two of the kittens are sneezing and i am thinking, please not now. am sipping ramen chicken soup because my stomach is acting weird. still on cough medicine but i think the cough is still from the pump fumes. no one is home up north right now at all. what else is new. lol. good time to try to nap and then return animal and business calls if i can. my knee is killing me so its either the cold, or a storm is coming. jf's knee was the same as this yesterday. it really is time for a new climate SOON. just nervous about doing it while the economy sucks, though i've never paid attention to economy before anyway. i used to not even read the news until internet came along. i had so much less stress that way too.
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People complain about losing the friendship thing, the older they get, the fewer there seem to be, both because of death and because of work and family (which is actually another form of work sometimes). They also forget how to make new friends for some reason. "friendship at 40: relearn what seems obvious when you are 5: Be patient, pay attention, stay open, and give.
give: information on subjects they are interested in, or "ins" on good deals at stores, or coupons of things they use or stores they visit, or articles on things they already pursue. giving generally doesn't mean give presents, in fact, material giving makes it awkward.
stay open: judging is not being a friend. narrow-mindedness is not friendship. either be open to each other or avoid what does not match.
pay attention: conversation is a two way street. you talk 50 percent and they talk 50 percent. whatever activity you BOTH decide to do, you BOTH want to do. don't bulldoze anyone, that is not friendship.
be patient: many people are very careful of who they decide to be freinds with. cultivating friendship often takes a long time. having someone understand where you are coming from can also take a long time, (though the best is when you automatically understand each other, this is rare). often, people who like the same authors/same music/same favorite sport click faster. then again, two people can read the same book, see the same movie or concert and get a totally different take on it. generally, that "possible-friendship" is not going to work, but anything is possible, as you may have the same values and same ethics and see the world a similar way in other genre's.
am sitting around cooking chicken breasts. it was 3 pounds for $5.00, i have a feeling walmart is cheaper pound for pound, but haven't checked yet. getting ready to go to the marina with a. nothing else really going on. pretty quiet day.
i think k got mad at me yesterday for falling asleep in the middle of a documentary on shang ri la that he was into. normally i would have watched it, but his loveseat puts me to sleep, generally within an hour of lying down on it. lol. i always sleep really good on it for like 30 minutes or an hour and then i have all this energy. lol. my two barnes and noble kind of chairs in my den at the other house had the same affect in that room on EVERYONE. lol. no sleeping pills needed just sit in one of those chairs with your feet up on the chair's ottoman and BAM you will sleep better than ever and quickly. lol. i still have the chairs and ottoman's at the beach house down south, but they don't put me to sleep over there. they are more like reading chairs at that house. normally, k never cares about my sleepiness (i also fall asleep at almost all movies in movie theatres, always have. lol.) but because of the documentary he started whining about it, and woke me up TWICE!! i guess i better look up shangrila so i know something if it comes up in conversation. lol. nice art they found in those caves though. the little ancient squares of art are worth about $100,000.00 each now. one of the caves had books hidden there from an ancient library and poachers had invaded it and cut out the little squares of art from the books.
was beautiful out all day long, "no jacket required" lol. couldn't resist. (from the phil collins album). made breakfast at k's and he wouldn't eat the eggs because the cat was eating the eggs as i was cooking them, and he got grossed out from it. lol. its his cat. i think he didn't even know i could cook eggs. i can. lol. i was cooking on one of the iron skillets i gave him and i almost ruined it by washing it. no soap allowed on iron. i didn't know that. he says one of the other iron pots CRACKED but he doesn't know how it happened, like too much heat or cold...its iron how the hell? he's really into iron for cooking. personally, i like calphalon. but whatever, i don't really cook.
its holidays so everyone is around and hearing even more lovely news. past and present. this seems to happen even more when people die. everyone still alive brings up the past and then the present as proof of the past. its easier to avoid all of that. we (actually k) is making lindy's cheese cake for the holiday week (as it always ends up being a series of buffets at more than one place, with no rhyme or reason of who or where. lol). k is the last of the formal hosts that i know at the moment, and he went pretty totally casual about a year or so ago. though he still manages to have the added aesthetics too. at my house up north, and even down south if i bothered, though i have no intention of it this year, and that's a first...i go it soooo casual that the foods take on a personality all their own. lol. i never entertain formal, even if its catered. though sometimes, attending the formal stuff is still fun, kind of like memory lane. lol.
my aunt used to attend a two day thanksgiving in new york city with animal rescue people, that was always large. the first day was for cat people and the second day was for dog people and their dogs if they choose to bring them, and everyone's leftovers. lol. up at plymouth rock they have a HUGE outdoor "reinactment" thanksgiving that is probably really cool and totally public, especially since they have all the sightseeing stuff up there (but way too cold for me). i have to find out what else i should be buying for the cheesecake. i still have shopping to do anyway, because i couldn't buy most of the stuff i needed at aldi's.
picked up a new manger and put it up. i spent all year missing my manger. lol. it was a small one with all the pieces glued in so nothing falls down, i used to keep it up until easter. it got lost in the move somehow. the new one is cool anyway. its made of immitation palm trees spelling out the word "peace" and the "A" in the word "peace" is the actual manger made of fake palms with jesus, mary and joseph underneath it and a really shiny star above it in the top of a palm tree, and then all the glued animals along the word "peace" which is just the area surrounding the manger and full of palms. loved it. lol. its like the trees decided to participate too and spelled out the word peace for the birth of jesus. lol. its very florida/middle east looking, as they have palm trees all over the place in the middle east too. lol. i've never viewed christmas as having anything at all to do with snow. it definitely didn't. has it EVER snowed in nazareth? nope. just lots of sand and sun.
the new kittens are very cute persian mixes who growl a lot and play a lot right now. lol. the black and white cat is supposed to be adopted this weekend i think, i hope it goes through. i haven't called r back about the sanctuary solution. i'm avoiding it i guess. if people ever want to know what it felt like to hide jews during the haulocaust, or hide and protect blacks or indians during the 1800's, they should try animal rescue, because that is what this feels like. very scary. they come in trucks to round them up. omg. what kind of country is this? i don't remember any of this kind of thing happening when i was a kid. i didn't even know what an animal control truck looked like, did they have that in the 70's? has america turned nazi or something?
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if i didn't lose weight. i seem to have lost inches. my pants from last year fit perfect and the pants i bought a few months ago, are BIG on me!!! lol. hallelujah.
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No, animals ran around free until about 1979 or 80, I think it was the "yuppies" who insisted on putting an end to that. I remember the most at both my grandmas. One who lived in the city hated the bands of dogs that would wander through the yard every day, so she finally put up a fence in the late 70s. The dogs would travel in twos or threes. I remember them. At the other grandmas who lived on the lake, her dogs, Boots and Duchess would roam free, they'd wander up the road to the vacant lots and hunt rabbits all day, then they'd wander down to the lake and swim with us kids, who, btw were also swimming without any adult supervision, all summer. When my mom got cancer in 1982 some animal control tried to pick up her poodle in the front lawn and the neighbor read them the riot act. She said: you can't take her dog she has cancer; and they put her back, she hadn't even wandered out of our YARD. It was very sickening they did that, but I never saw them again LOL. That was also around the time the yuppies started banning clothes lines to hang out laundry. They considered it unattractive. A bunch of snobs.
Your manger scene sounds lovely. The snow part came about from the merging of many legendary figures with, again, attracting pagans in the North, L. Frank Baum made up The Wizard of Oz, also wrote a Santa Claus story, but many people think modern Santa was perfected by illustrators at Coca Cola all based on stories of St. Nicholas.
I like that about friendships. Making friendships is lifelong, but that keeping a friend just because you've known them forever is unhealthy, if you've grown apart. I should copy and send that around :) have a good evening, it sounds lovely there XO
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A Great Journal I like the Friends....Especially enlightening. Good Luck on the Cheesecake. That reminds me I need to purchase a new Manger to, I lost mine somehow the year before...Never found it...Cooking away already today...Great news on the inches too...That is the way to go Girl...I know I will gain weight over the holidays...I like to eat all this great food. You have a Great Day...Good Luck on the adoptions too.
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The manger sounds lovely, I didnt ever think about not having snow and nazareth, you are quite right though. I have got a small one, I got one each for the kids last year.
Good news on the weight loss, I am steadily gaining lately, just a pound but I will have to be careful. My back isnt very good so I are'nt getting the exercise.
The animal rescue thanksgiving sounds lovely, at our rescue centre they have a nativity and a vicar goes in and blesses the animals, its very moving, I always cry!!
Have alovely weekend. xxx
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Its so stressful to pack up and move ,and your going to have to do it within two weeks! Wish I could help you. Are you still looking for a place around or near the ocean? I enjoy just hearing/reading about your time spent on your second floor deck! I am going to miss it as well...:o)
I remember the All In The Family episode w/Edith and her beginnings of menopause! Classic.!
Take care my friend,((((79 )))))
KneeDeep
that's a lot of stress and here comes the broken record, wish I could help!!! LOL So nice you get to enjoy a little peace and quiet outside on the deck.
That forgetfulness is hard to deal with, for everyone involved. My grandpa was snappy when he started becoming forgetful, but he had the onset of Jakob Creutzfeldt disease. Hope she just has perimenopause LOL. Do they get much money from doing foster care, I wonder if that's why there are soo many signing up?
Yeah it seems there is a lot less stress if you don't watch the news :)
Keep holding your breath! LOL love to you XXOO
cypher
actually no. its around 3 or 400 per month, but i guess if they do more than one, then its money. you have to have a certain income to be permitted to foster because people used to end up living off the kids and treating them badly. not high income, just enough to support yourself.
if a person does special needs kids, they are paid more like 1000 or 2000 per child, but you spend a lot of time doing the doctor's appointments and things with them. all different kinds of special needs kids like that. i always wanted to do foster care but i doubt i ever will. there's never any time. though when you hear bad things about the system's choices of people for foster care, i think, i should do something.
79pounds
You have to be a real special person to handle the needs and love of Foster Care and the problems that come with it...These people are truly amazing, wonderful persons.
Glad to hear the pump is off on weekends. Some peace of mind....I guess you should be having many people arriving for the winter season and the canals and marinas should be busy as ever. Good Luck with the adoptions.
Take care, Love U
LeeAnn