Saturday, April 17, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
WHO raises warning to Level 4
[ATLANTA, GA April 16 UPI] -- The World Health Organization Friday elevated its international pandemic alert one step to Phase 4 in response to the latest outbreak of Textuenza. The increase in the alert status signals an outbreak of human-to-human and human-to-cellphone-to-human transmission of Textuenza most notably seen in Austin, TX, which increases the risk of a global epidemic, but does not mean a pandemic is inevitable, WHO officials said in a news release.
Fukuda said authorities need to focus their efforts on mitigating the disease rather than attempting to stop its spread, stressing that "containment is not a feasible consideration."
Experts indicate that containment begins with educating the public to recognize the disease and the onslaught of symptoms. Textuenza is a new, HIGHLY contagious variation/strain of the Type-A influenza virus and a mix of human/animal versions of Mad Cow disease. "It's a potent combination that we are trying very hard to contain. Unfortunately, all our containment efforts have failed miserably since the disease has mutated and been found to spread via text messages. As you can imagine, this puts adolescent and pre-teen children at VERY HIGH RISK."
Textuenza symptoms include head droop, inability to make eye-contact, twitchy fingers, seemingly unprovoked and uncontrollable giggling, laughing, snorting, eye-rolling, grunting, shoulder shrugging and drooling. Affects seem most pronounced in young teens with a cellphone in their hand. The undeveloped frontal lob of young teens make them especially susceptible to the disease which is now transmittable through simple texting.
One set of parents expressed their concern, "We just gave our daughter, Jessica [Daniels] a cellphone for her thirteenth birthday, and we're very concerned about this disease. We're convinced most of her friends have already been infected and are currently contagious. Just last night, when she opened her birthday gift, we begin to see signs of infection. What do we do now? The cellphone is already out of the box," said Mr. Daniels.
What's next? What unforeseen consequences lurk in the not so distant future for the Daniels family and other parents of young teens? What happens if these kids start to get behind the wheel of a car? God help us all.
Fukuda said authorities need to focus their efforts on mitigating the disease rather than attempting to stop its spread, stressing that "containment is not a feasible consideration."
Experts indicate that containment begins with educating the public to recognize the disease and the onslaught of symptoms. Textuenza is a new, HIGHLY contagious variation/strain of the Type-A influenza virus and a mix of human/animal versions of Mad Cow disease. "It's a potent combination that we are trying very hard to contain. Unfortunately, all our containment efforts have failed miserably since the disease has mutated and been found to spread via text messages. As you can imagine, this puts adolescent and pre-teen children at VERY HIGH RISK."
Textuenza symptoms include head droop, inability to make eye-contact, twitchy fingers, seemingly unprovoked and uncontrollable giggling, laughing, snorting, eye-rolling, grunting, shoulder shrugging and drooling. Affects seem most pronounced in young teens with a cellphone in their hand. The undeveloped frontal lob of young teens make them especially susceptible to the disease which is now transmittable through simple texting.
One set of parents expressed their concern, "We just gave our daughter, Jessica [Daniels] a cellphone for her thirteenth birthday, and we're very concerned about this disease. We're convinced most of her friends have already been infected and are currently contagious. Just last night, when she opened her birthday gift, we begin to see signs of infection. What do we do now? The cellphone is already out of the box," said Mr. Daniels.
What's next? What unforeseen consequences lurk in the not so distant future for the Daniels family and other parents of young teens? What happens if these kids start to get behind the wheel of a car? God help us all.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Teenager... newest member
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
-Ferris Bueller
Sadly, the world’s newest teenager probably won’t recognize this gem of a movie quote… Jessica’s life has been moving at Mach speed (at least from my perspective), and now, today, on April 15th, Jessica becomes… a TEENAGER. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, Jessica is celebrating her 13th Birthday today.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Easter 2010
We celebrated Easter in 2010 and the kids hit the eggs pretty hard -
You can see Jacob and Stephanie prepare their TEN eggs for coloration-
Jacob's best fake smile for the parents smile-
Stephanie couldn't be any more excited-
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Snow-Miser take two
I, Jessica Daniels has recently read my dad's blog entry and I think that I need to clarify a few things!! As my dad stated earlier I made a pretty awesome snowman which I have given the name snow white!! Now the neighbors decided to make a few snow creatures AFTER I made mine. THEY TOTALLY COPIED MY IDEA: SNOWMAN WITH HAIR!! So, just to clarify, my snowman is THE best. Also my dad's "scoreboard" is completely wrong and I beg to differ!! This is the real score:
Jacob-20 ( left early)
Stephanie (came in late)- 8
Neighbor kids- 6
Dad- 30
Me- 21
SINCE WE PLAYED KIDS VS. ADULTS THE ACTUAL SCORE WAS:
Kids: 50
Dad: 40 (He got points deducted for pelting snowballs to hard)
SO tenchnically we dominated!!! BTW I LOVE SNOW IN AUSTIN!!!!!!
Jacob-20 ( left early)
Stephanie (came in late)- 8
Neighbor kids- 6
Dad- 30
Me- 21
SINCE WE PLAYED KIDS VS. ADULTS THE ACTUAL SCORE WAS:
Kids: 50
Dad: 40 (He got points deducted for pelting snowballs to hard)
SO tenchnically we dominated!!! BTW I LOVE SNOW IN AUSTIN!!!!!!
I'm Mr. Snow-Miser...
Everyone went to bed on Tuesday night with the anticipation of snow... and with the possibility of snow there was the possibility of - NO SCHOOL.
Unfortunately, the day started drearily enough, only RAIN (with me dropping the kids off at school) which of course meant school was IN (DRAT!)
With the kids dropped off, I headed off to work. That's when the snow flurries hit and I remembered the two bald tires I had on the back of the Honda. At about the 12-minute mark in my commute the car fishtailed... I corrected to avoid the guardrail... corrected again to get back in my line (whew, no cross traffic), corrected again to avoid that DANG GUARDRAIL again, and then a minor correction to get back in my lane... near death experience, CHECK. Coffee, still warm. I didn't even charge the poor guy in the pick-up truck behind me for the NASCAR show.
At about 1PM the kids were sent home from school and the offiical snow day festivities began-
And Stephanie too-
I didn't get any shots of Jessica, but we did take pictures of her snowmen-
And the neighbors snowmen-
Most of the snow in our yard disappeared in the MASSIVE SNOW BALL FIGHT! In case your curious, the score finished something like-
. Jessica: 14
. Jacob: 12
. Stephanie: 2
. Neighborhood kids: 7
. Me: 1.45Million
We love snow in AUSTIN, TX
Unfortunately, the day started drearily enough, only RAIN (with me dropping the kids off at school) which of course meant school was IN (DRAT!)
What's that white stuff on the ground at school?
But, as you can see, the possibility of snow (and at least partial snow day precipitated in the minds and hearts of every child this fateful day)
At about 1PM the kids were sent home from school and the offiical snow day festivities began-
And Stephanie too-
I didn't get any shots of Jessica, but we did take pictures of her snowmen-
And the neighbors snowmen-
Most of the snow in our yard disappeared in the MASSIVE SNOW BALL FIGHT! In case your curious, the score finished something like-
. Jessica: 14
. Jacob: 12
. Stephanie: 2
. Neighborhood kids: 7
. Me: 1.45Million
We love snow in AUSTIN, TX
Monday, February 22, 2010
Family Update...
As I know that each of you woke up this morning wondering... "What's the Daniels Family been up to lately - really?" I've decided to focus on answering that very question, and I know you don't want just some snapshots of us doing something stupid with a confused expression on our face, you want DETAILS.
Let's work chronologically which is a compound word, meaning simply that it is a word comprised of two complete words. The first word "chrono" originates from the latin-chronos, which is the root for the word chronosome. If you have even an elementary understanding of biology you understand "chrono" means - gender. The second word (in our compound word chronological) is from the Hebrew- 'logical.' Webster defines logical as, "according to or agreeing with the principles of logic." It doesn't take a Jewish scholar to figure out that if we're going in "chronological order" we're going to start with the "logical gender..."
Jacob is doing well. Football is winding down, our last and final game(s) is this weekend. Jacob started the season at running back, but has recently moved to quarterback. For you ladies out there, a quarterback is 4-times better than a Fullback. Additionally, I should inform each of you, all seven of our readership, that just yesterday (Sunday, Feb 21st) Jacob's football teams scored their first touchdown of the season. To recap the score, Jacob took a quarterback sneak right up the middle... breaking twenty-seven tackles and out-running about 87 world class sprinters to the end zone for a 54-yard touchdown run. He had another touchdown run, sneaking the ball around the right side of the defense from about 40-yards out, but the wide receiver committed a clip at the goal line to have the play called back. Yeah, we benched that receiver.
Jessica, she would be our oldest daughter (for details, pictures, etc. please take a more detailed look at the BLOG). Just the other day, Jessica went to RENWEB (Summit's on-line school thingie) and checked her grades. She was quite disappointed about an "A-" in some class nobody cares about (like Social Studies or World History... ). I would also like to proudly report that Jessica STARTED for the Summit Christian Academy Eagle-girls (Eaglettes?) Junior High Basketball team. She's finally started to listen to me about basketball-
1. Treat everyone on the court like they are playing with your ball and you want it back - NOW!
2. Treat everyone on the court like they are your 9-year old brother.
Can you say, "domination?"
Stephanie is still our youngest... yeah, I know, we're still disappointed about that - and yes, I've told her that to her face. Soccer season will be starting up any day now. There's talk of practice and team rosters with "new" girls floating around the locker room. At dinner, Stephanie reported that she's just finished her math table up to the digit 9. Apparently, that leads the pack - the "pack" being her class of 3rd graders. Although I'm sad to say that after further examination and cross-examination we've learned that some others in her class have managed to "tie" her at the digit 9 on math tables. We only spanked her once and limited her dinner to the vegetables nobody else would eat and a stick of butter. Last I saw, she was in her room madly multiplying tens.
Speaking of butter, Jessica would like everyone to believe that margarine is only, "... one cell away from being a plastic..." After all, one of her classmates read it on the internet.
Dad, which would be me, is keeping up nicely with the BLOG, although we haven't received a single donation to keep the thing going. The weather improved dramatically on Sunday, so Jessica and I were able to spend five or six hours hitting the volleyball at each other. I promised her a dollar if she could hit the ball at my face hard enough and break my nose. Thus far she has failed... which is another one of those good news/bad news things. I've also challenged Jacob to a recreation of the San Diego Chargers regular season on Madden 2010. Basically Jacob is playing the Chargers while I play every single opponent the Chargers faced last year. Through three games, Dad is 2-1. I lost an hour or so ago as Jacob managed a late score (with 8-seconds left) on a 4-yard run by Darren Sprolles to win 42-41. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "why didn't you go for two on that last score with only 1:31 left in the game?" What can I say, he's my son.
After those heart-warming stories of me, Jessica and Jacob I'm sure your anxious to hear of games and fun between Stephanie and I. To which I say, didn't you read the part about her being TIED with some other pretty average kids at school on her Math Facts?
My wife Barbara is doing very well. She's survived "end of year," which for an accountant is supposed to mean something significant. I don't know if you got the memo... I'm not an accountant. She did show me the new shoes she bought for Jacob, and, in the process, showed me the "cute" new shoes she got as well. She also received an amazing Valentine's gift from... seriously, do I have to tell you who got her the gift? Really? For Valentine's I gave my wife an incredibly romantic Disney Christmas ornament from Disneyland. I had it hand-carried all the way from the Magic Kingdom (actually it was Epcot) in Orlando to get here in Austin the day before Valentine's. She might tell you some story of how she had a similar ornament in her possession before the Christmas holidays and that said ornament may have disappeared when the tree toppled over... (stinking dogs!), but I'm writing THE BLOG BABY!
To close, Eric's Valentine's gift to Barbara was officially, "The Most Romantic Gift Ever."
Let's work chronologically which is a compound word, meaning simply that it is a word comprised of two complete words. The first word "chrono" originates from the latin-chronos, which is the root for the word chronosome. If you have even an elementary understanding of biology you understand "chrono" means - gender. The second word (in our compound word chronological) is from the Hebrew- 'logical.' Webster defines logical as, "according to or agreeing with the principles of logic." It doesn't take a Jewish scholar to figure out that if we're going in "chronological order" we're going to start with the "logical gender..."
Jacob is doing well. Football is winding down, our last and final game(s) is this weekend. Jacob started the season at running back, but has recently moved to quarterback. For you ladies out there, a quarterback is 4-times better than a Fullback. Additionally, I should inform each of you, all seven of our readership, that just yesterday (Sunday, Feb 21st) Jacob's football teams scored their first touchdown of the season. To recap the score, Jacob took a quarterback sneak right up the middle... breaking twenty-seven tackles and out-running about 87 world class sprinters to the end zone for a 54-yard touchdown run. He had another touchdown run, sneaking the ball around the right side of the defense from about 40-yards out, but the wide receiver committed a clip at the goal line to have the play called back. Yeah, we benched that receiver.
Jessica, she would be our oldest daughter (for details, pictures, etc. please take a more detailed look at the BLOG). Just the other day, Jessica went to RENWEB (Summit's on-line school thingie) and checked her grades. She was quite disappointed about an "A-" in some class nobody cares about (like Social Studies or World History... ). I would also like to proudly report that Jessica STARTED for the Summit Christian Academy Eagle-girls (Eaglettes?) Junior High Basketball team. She's finally started to listen to me about basketball-
1. Treat everyone on the court like they are playing with your ball and you want it back - NOW!
2. Treat everyone on the court like they are your 9-year old brother.
Can you say, "domination?"
Stephanie is still our youngest... yeah, I know, we're still disappointed about that - and yes, I've told her that to her face. Soccer season will be starting up any day now. There's talk of practice and team rosters with "new" girls floating around the locker room. At dinner, Stephanie reported that she's just finished her math table up to the digit 9. Apparently, that leads the pack - the "pack" being her class of 3rd graders. Although I'm sad to say that after further examination and cross-examination we've learned that some others in her class have managed to "tie" her at the digit 9 on math tables. We only spanked her once and limited her dinner to the vegetables nobody else would eat and a stick of butter. Last I saw, she was in her room madly multiplying tens.
Speaking of butter, Jessica would like everyone to believe that margarine is only, "... one cell away from being a plastic..." After all, one of her classmates read it on the internet.
Dad, which would be me, is keeping up nicely with the BLOG, although we haven't received a single donation to keep the thing going. The weather improved dramatically on Sunday, so Jessica and I were able to spend five or six hours hitting the volleyball at each other. I promised her a dollar if she could hit the ball at my face hard enough and break my nose. Thus far she has failed... which is another one of those good news/bad news things. I've also challenged Jacob to a recreation of the San Diego Chargers regular season on Madden 2010. Basically Jacob is playing the Chargers while I play every single opponent the Chargers faced last year. Through three games, Dad is 2-1. I lost an hour or so ago as Jacob managed a late score (with 8-seconds left) on a 4-yard run by Darren Sprolles to win 42-41. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "why didn't you go for two on that last score with only 1:31 left in the game?" What can I say, he's my son.
After those heart-warming stories of me, Jessica and Jacob I'm sure your anxious to hear of games and fun between Stephanie and I. To which I say, didn't you read the part about her being TIED with some other pretty average kids at school on her Math Facts?
My wife Barbara is doing very well. She's survived "end of year," which for an accountant is supposed to mean something significant. I don't know if you got the memo... I'm not an accountant. She did show me the new shoes she bought for Jacob, and, in the process, showed me the "cute" new shoes she got as well. She also received an amazing Valentine's gift from... seriously, do I have to tell you who got her the gift? Really? For Valentine's I gave my wife an incredibly romantic Disney Christmas ornament from Disneyland. I had it hand-carried all the way from the Magic Kingdom (actually it was Epcot) in Orlando to get here in Austin the day before Valentine's. She might tell you some story of how she had a similar ornament in her possession before the Christmas holidays and that said ornament may have disappeared when the tree toppled over... (stinking dogs!), but I'm writing THE BLOG BABY!
To close, Eric's Valentine's gift to Barbara was officially, "The Most Romantic Gift Ever."
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