12/18/08 12:21 - 28ºF - ID#47097
Another attack reported - WTF
Reported in the Buffalo News
12/17/08 06:47 AM
A man was attacked and robbed Monday night on Niagara Street after he was approached by a group of about 15 males, according to Buffalo police.
The victim, whose age was not immediately available, told Central District police the incident happened at about 8:15 p. m. between Carolina and Virginia streets.
He told police he was punched in the face at least eight times, including once with brass knuckles.
The victim also said he was kicked in the back, and his cell phone and baseball cap were taken.
He may have fractured his right ankle while running from the suspects, who fled east on Carolina on foot, according to the report.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/15/08 02:46 - 41ºF - ID#47070
More jobs
Also, though it's not on the website, my understanding is that the school district is hiring teacher aids/assistants and I think they may have some clerical positions available either provisionally or temporarily. The HR dept. for the Board is on the 7th floor of City Hall - rooms 719 & 720.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/08/08 08:11 - 25ºF - ID#47001
Almost done?
Christmas bomb went off in my house
Also, had lunch over the weekend with my granddaughter. All she wants for Christmas...
...is her two front teeth! Hahahaha
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/04/08 11:21 - 27ºF - ID#46963
Companies hiring in WNY
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/01/08 08:21 - 38ºF - ID#46911
Outside - yuck
I really don't ever want to see one like this again... it was kind of creepy weird.
(2000 Storm pic)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
11/27/08 11:40 - 35ºF - ID#46865
More Thanksgiving food porn
And my friend and her son brought these pies - pumpkin, cherry crumb, chocolate cream.
And my sister made the other two pies - pecan and pecan with chocolate chips.
Everyone went home with leftovers and I have enough for another couple of meals. A 22 lb. turkey is pretty big. Anyway, now I kind of have turkey sleepy syndrome - but I think the coffe is helping to counter act that a little at least.
Hope you all had a good evening.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
11/26/08 03:04 - 34ºF - ID#46853
Happy Thanksgiving
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A FABULOUS THANKSGIVING!
Pilgrims' 1621 Thanksgiving
The tradition of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving is steeped in myth and legend. Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving the next year, or any year thereafter, though some of their descendants later made a "Forefather's Day" that usually occurred on December 21 or 22. Several Presidents, including George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobbying several Presidents for the instatement of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her lobbying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation (below).
Today, our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November. This was set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941), who changed it from Abraham Lincoln's designation as the last Thursday in November (which could occasionally end up being the fifth Thursday and hence too close to Christmas for businesses). But the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving began at some unknown date between September 21 and November 9, most likely in very early October. The date of Thanksgiving was probably set by Lincoln to somewhat correlate with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod, which occurred on November 21, 1620 (by our modern Gregorian calendar--it was November 11 to the Pilgrims who used the Julian calendar).
Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation that follows is taken from the collection of Lincoln's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
Much left to do preping and cleaning - So here at the end - a little Thanksgiving Pooh...
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11/23/08 04:39 - 35ºF - ID#46811
Flu update
For those who didn't get a flu shot - after this last week, I highly recommend it! Though we've obviously had one strain already, I think I will make appointments this week for myself and my daughter to go get shots if we still can. I sure don't want to spend another week down for the count.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
11/21/08 03:15 - 26ºF - ID#46786
I hate the flu
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Location: Buffalo, NY
11/19/08 10:16 - 30ºF - ID#46764
Bread and stuff
4 Blueberry with walnuts and pecans
3 Blueberry with chocolate chips, walnuts, and pecans
6 Corn bread with cheddar cheese and jalapeno peppers
5 Pumpkin with cinnamon, clove, and cranberries
3 Pumpkin with cinnamon, clove, cranberries, and pecans
4 Banana
4 Banana with walnuts
4 Banana with chocolate chips and walnuts
Now - my mess to clean up...
A friend of mine stopped by and dropped off these chips for me - she goes to Canada frequently and that’s where she gets them (I’ve never seen them here). They’re my very favorite - yum.
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And there have been day time attacks around my building where I work and I'm in and out of the building to go places throughout the day.
I don't do this everyday because that would be totally insane. But the objective is to be aware of all reported crime, map it and adopt safer ways. Just to make it clear, it's not really Buffalo specific. Buffalo is actually a safe haven compared to some of the other places I have lived and worked.
The triage consists of a quick scan, map and time of the incident, assessment of whether I am likely to be next, and future precautions to make that unlikely. Some of the things that have come out of this (specific for Buffalo) have been:
- I don't walk in the south-side pavement in front of my building after dark.
- I don't go shopping at Guercio's weekday evenings.
- I don't wait at bus stops more than 10 minutes and time my transfers very close.
- I avoid main-street as far as I can and walk on residential side-streets.
- 75% of my path from home to office and back is covered by some kind of surveillance.
- I don't wait at the tube station at lean/non-rush hour times.
- I don't go walking downtown weekdays after dark.
That's a lot of restrictions on my "lifestyle" but I accept these as decisions from the triage. These gang violence reports have been out of the ordinary and I am not sure how to respond to them. They are not crimes committed by one individual against another in an opportunistic environment. They really smell of some disturbing mob mentality that I have witnessed first hand in the walled city of Old Delhi.
As (e:libertad) says in his journal -> (e:libertad,47100) I have been at these very spots at those very times in the past. I am not really a street-fighter so yes, I am concerned about these particular reports. :(