general petraeus

   The first thing I know about General David Petraeus is that he went to West Point with one of my dads friends!!  Dr. Jess Gillig and his wife are my mom and dads really good friends and Jess graduated West point with General Petraeus.  Jess says he is a very nice guy and an amazing soldier and army general!
   He is a united States Army general who serves as the current Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
   He visited Pakistan this past Monday and talked with their army chief on ways to boost security.  He visited Pakistan to spend time with Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan's chief of army staff.  This was Petraeus 6th visit to Pakistan as the NATO commander of ISAF to try and help.  He has long established relations with Pakistan's army staff and has worked with them alot.  On Saturday Kayani says his forces have inflicted deep wounds on the Al-Qaeda forces.  He took criticism from the United States for some of the attack. Kayani says that the terrorists backbone has been broken and God willing we will prevail.  He made this speech after the attacks at a parade at an army academy celebration.

matt damon and gary white

    Wow, i knew Matt Damon was famous but this is amazing. Now this is something i've never heard of before. What I'm talking about is the top 100 most influential people list. Here is apparently how he got on the list. Matt was recognized for raising awareness about clean water and sanitation for kids.  Matt Damon and Gary White co-founded Water.org.  They merged their two companies H2O Africa and Water Partners to create Water.org.  They are seeking around the world to make sure people have safe access to clean water.  Water.org says the global water crisis affects more than 2 billion people.  Times list of 100 most influential people list Matt and Gary on the list.  What an accomplishment for them.  Time says White and Damons message is one of hope and that their solutions for finding clean water are simple and cost effective
   I have always like Matt Damon from the Jason Bourne series of movies.  I knew he was a great actor but this just blows my mind.  He is a cool person to care.

Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure/Associated Press 4/24/2011

April 22, 2011  George Jan, Associated Press
Mr. Jan reported from Vienna that a man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure.  What a lucky guy.  Here I am in Ohio trying to find stuff... and this lucky guy ends up finding all these jewels and other valuables (more that 200) in a trove.  The luck.  The guy was building a pond in his back yard when he dug up the jewels.  This was about 2 years ago.  He did not report the find then.  Then when he was cleaning his basement to sell his home, he found the forgotten valuable again!!!!  Then he reported to the memorials office.  It is described at "one of the qualitatively most significant discoveries on medieval treasuries Austria!!!

COOL!!

easter 2011

Hi everyone,  hope all have had a great 3 day weekend, and a nice and Happy Easter.  Mine started at 6:00 am this morning.  We went to Easter Sunrise Service at our church.  Thank goodness our church is only 10 mins. away, because it started at 7:00 am.  It was a nice service and actually it was kind of shorter than a regular service so I think I would vote for this type of service even if it is so early.  "The Calling" band performed, they are pretty good, winging and guitar.
We got together with family to eat and have fun celebrating the day. My cousin Michelle and her husband Doug had their 10 week old baby here.  Her name is Ellie and she was pretty good.... tends to cry when hungry.
I played my mom a game of Mario cart on the Wii.  Even though  My mom has a bit to learn about video games she had a pretty good time.  Unfortunately, she lost all the games she played. My cousin Riley turned 13 today, so we celebrated his birthday as well.  He and I played games on the Wii as well.

interim

    Hey guys, just wanted to talk about my interim. My interim went great today, it was a really fun. I did my presentation  to my group and Jen. plus I passed around some artifacts that I brought. I brought in a bell pestle, a fort aincent 1.5 inch arrowhead knife, and a triangular arrowhead. during my interim i went to many places like marion ohio, crestline, the interim took me many days and I am glad to share it with you all.  here are some documents to print out, good luck and happy digging!!!

interim jerry

Hey guys. Just wanted to say thanks for listening to my interim on archaeology and anthropology today. It was very fun doing this for you guys, I really hope you enjoyed it. if anyone has any questions for me please be sure to let me know.

Co2 car2

My co2 car was amazin today. It took me so long but today was finally the day for testing. Nick and i went first. Our race was extremely exciting. We got to watch our cars as well as others collide and crash into each other. Neither nick or i had even a crack on our eggs. My friend cameron was slightly unfortunate, his egg came out of the front panel of his car and splat it broke. This was such a great day and i got an a+!!

co2 car

I have been working tonight on my CO2 car.... it is looking sweet.  I am excited tomorrow is the first day of test runs for our cars.  My car is black and white to resemble a police car.  At this moment I have some wet paint on it, and intend to have it fully ready to go tomorrow to be the best it can be.  I began working on this car shortly after Thanksgiving.  This project started with an IDW and then started creating three D sketches that showed what our car would look like.  I can't believe that my car is a real object now.  i built this car to be the best, precise and perfect in every way!  Tomorrow will be the first show and I sure hope mine does well.

florida....

Wow! what a great spring break, and can you believe it is already over.  A longer break would be cool, but at least it was fun while it lasted. As a family tradition, me, my parents and my danceoholic sister, Victoria headed south to Florida for some fun in the sun.  And this year we just so happened to come at the perfect time, everyday was lots of sun and in the upper 80's except for one.  On that one day we spent time with my grandparents, my grandma collects sharks teeth from all her years at the beach.  She has thousands of them and Victoria and I sifted through them and found some real cool ones that she let us keep.  On the sunny days we went golfing, swimming, and bike riding.  On the golf course we saw a huge alligator, probably about 15 feet long! He was ginormous and just laying in the water on the 16th hole of the golf course. We also saw a big turtle, mom asked Victoria to take a close up picture which really startled him and boy could that turtle run.  Very surprising how fast they can move.  All said this was a great spring break.... but then I always have a good time in Florida.  Maybe someday I will live there!