Summer Solstice and Eagles

In the Pagan Celtic year, there are four major Sabbats or harvest festivals and four lesser Sabbats, also known as solar festivals. Litha is one of the lesser Sabbats and is also known as Summer Solstice, Midsummer, Gathering Day and Vestalia. Typically celebrated on June 21st, Litha is the longest day of the year and a time when the sun reaches its apex in the sky. It is considered the mid-point of summer, which begins with Beltane on May 1st and ends with Lughnasadh on August 1st. In many Pagan traditions Litha is seen as the time when the Oak King, who represents the waxing year, is triumphed over by the Holly King who represents the waning year. The two are actually one God, the Horned God, but the Holly King is seen as the growing youth while the Oak King is seen as the wise and mature man. The Goddess is also celebrated at Litha by many Pagan traditions. She is seen as the woman heavy with child, who will give birth to the God at Yule. She is also seen as the bounty of coming harvests, of protection and sustenance. The ancient Romans saw this time as sacred to the goddess Juno who was the wife of Jupiter, the goddess of women and children and also the patroness of marriage. Seeing that the month of June is named after her it’s no wonder that marriages are so popular during this month.

The eagles aren't there i am starting to think they've left the nest for good.  If they did i will really miss them. I have watched them from when i heard about them. http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp

Victoria Day and Eagles

Victoria Day, the third Monday in May, marks the unofficial start of summer for many Canadians. Weekend cottages are opened after a long winter, gardens are planted, and young people camp and attend the first music festivals of summer. Fireworks, generally illegal in Canada, are used to celebrate this first long weekend of the summer season. The holiday is commonly referred to in Canadian-slang as May two-four; the two-four referencing twenty-four, the number of cans or bottle of beer in a Canadian case of beer.
It is the day used to celebrate both the current monarch of Canada, and Queen Victoria, a tradition that can be traced back to settlers in then Upper Canada saluting the Queen in 1854. Alexandrina Victoria was born in London, England on May 24, 1819. She took the throne in 1837 and ruled for almost 64 years, the longest ruling monarch in British history. She is the great-great-grandmother of current British queen, Elizabeth II, and the great-great-great-grandmother of princes William and Harry, second and third in the line of succession for the British throne, respectively. Victoria oversaw a period in history when Britain became a great world power. Artistic endeavors, industrial developments and the creation of the British Empire were seen under Victoria's rule, a period now referred to as the Victorian Era.  Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840. Albert became not only her companion but a political advisor. The pair produced nine children, many of who would marry into other European royal families. Victoria and Albert are sometimes called the Grandmother and Grandfather of Europe. Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861 at the age of 42. Victoria was heart-broken and went into a deep period of mourning, retreating from public life and wearing black for the remainder of her life. She wore white only once, to her diamond jubilee, celebrating her 60 years on the throne. Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861 at the age of 42. Victoria was heart-broken and went into a deep period of mourning, retreating from public life and wearing black for the remainder of her life. She wore white only once, to her diamond jubilee, celebrating her 60 years on the throne.

The eagles aren't at their nest its weird weeks ago they were there all the time and they were so little. I'm really starting to miss seeing them. I wonder how they look now i haven't seen then in a week. http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp

sUpRiSe ToPiC and Eagles

Few inventions have had as much effect on contemporary American society as television. Before 1947 the number of U.S. homes with television sets could be measured in the thousands. By the late 1990s, 98 percent of U.S. homes had at least one television set, and those sets were on for an average of more than seven hours a day. The typical American spends (depending on the survey and the time of year) from two-and-a-half to almost five hours a day watching television. It is significant not only that this time is being spent with television but that it is not being spent engaging in other activities, such as reading or going out or socializing. Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14. While still in high school, Farnsworth had begun to conceive of a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. Boris Rosing in Russia had conducted some crude experiments in transmitting images 16 years before Farnsworth's first success. Also, a mechanical television system, which scanned images using a rotating disk with holes arranged in a spiral pattern, had been demonstrated by John Logie Baird in England and Charles Francis Jenkins in the United States earlier in the 1920s. However, Farnsworth's invention, which scanned images with a beam of electrons, is the direct ancestor of modern television. The first image he transmitted on it was a simple line. Soon he aimed his primitive camera at a dollar sign because an investor had asked, "When are we going to see some dollars in this thing, Farnsworth?" RCA, the company that dominated the radio business in the United States with its two NBC networks, invested $50 million in the development of electronic television. To direct the effort, the company's president, David Sarnoff, hired the Russian-born scientist Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who had participated in Rosing's experiments. In 1939, RCA televised the opening of the New York World's Fair, including a speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was the first president to appear on television. Later that year RCA paid for a license to use Farnsworth's television patents. RCA began selling television sets with 5 by 12 in (12.7 by 25.4 cm) picture tubes. The company also began broadcasting regular programs, including scenes captured by a mobile unit and, on May 17, 1939, the first televised baseball gameÑbetween Princeton and Columbia universities. By 1941 the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), RCA's main competition in radio, was broadcasting two 15-minute newscasts a day to a tiny audience on its New York television station.

No eagles are in the nest! Its weird there are usually one eagle in the nest. This time there's none i don't even see them.  http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp

Flag Day and Eagles

The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'. On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day. Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as 'Flag Day', and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag. Two weeks later on May 8th, the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution unanimously endorsed the action of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames. As a result of the resolution, Dr. Edward Brooks, then Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on June 14, 1893 in Independence Square. School children were assembled, each carrying a small Flag, and patriotic songs were sung and addresses delivered.

The eagles are flying! Mommy is watching over them in her nest. It is weird not seeing them in the nest Ive seen them from like week 2 to like week 15. One just flew out of the nest they have huge black wings. Their mother is still watching them very closely its cute but kinda disturbing. Click the length to see them and their mother http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp

MyStErY ToPiC and Eagles

In ancient times, the best timepiece was the clepsydra, or water clock, which measured time by the regular dripping of water through a narrow opening. As water accumulated in the lower reservoir, a float carrying a pointer rose and marked the hours. The best water clocks were quite elaborate but few in number and fragile. They could not be relied on to tell time more closely than a fairly large fraction of an hour. In medieval Europe, the mechanical clock was invented. Clever arrangements of gears and wheels were devised that could be made to turn by weights attached to them. As the weights were pulled downward by the force of gravity, the wheels were forced to turn in a slow, regular manner. A pointer, properly attached to the wheels, marked the hours. These mechanical clocks were less delicate than water clocks and required less maintenance. They became common in churches and monasteries and could be relied on to tell when to toll the bells for regular prayers or church attendance. (The very word "clock" is from the French cloche, meaning "bell.") Eventually, mechanical clocks were designed to strike the hour and even to chime the quarter-hour. However, they had only an hour hand and were not enclosed. Even the best such clocks would gain or lose up to half an hour a day.  No clock in existence, up through 1656, could measure short intervals of time accurately, or could possible be relied on to tell time to the minute. This meant that advances in physical science were scarcely possible. Almost all of physics and much of chemistry (and even biology) depend on rates, on the rapidity with which processes take place, on the amount of change that takes place per unit of time. In order to measure such rates with the precision required for the development of the laws of nature, intervals of time must be marked off with far greater exactness than was possible for the crude clocks of ancient and medieval times.

The eagles are growing up so fast. they are so cute one just flew away leaving the nest empty. Im really gonna  miss seeing them but if one of them stays ill be super happy. There is still no eagles in the nest its sad earlier in like may and April they'd be there all the time. Click the length to see them http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp

Fathers Day History and Update On The Eagles

In the United States, there are two claims to the first Father's Day celebration. The first claim to Father's Day was in the State of Washington on June 19, 1908. A few weeks later, an independent celebration of Father's Day was held in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. In West Virginia, Father's Day was first recognized during a church service at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South. Grace Golden Clayton, who is reported to have suggested the service to the pastor at Williams Memorial, is believed to have been inspired to celebrate fathers after a mine explosion in the nearby community of Monongah a few months before. This explosion killed 361 men, many of them fathers and recent immigrants to the United States from Italy. Another driving force behind the establishment of Father's Day was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father was William Jackson Smart, who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington as a single father. Although she initially suggested setting Father's Day on June 5 in Spokane (which was her father's birthday), the other people involved did not think they would have time enough for a fitting celebration. So the first Father's Day was held instead on the third Sunday of June. The first June Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1908, in Spokane, WA, at the Spokane YMCA. Orator and politician William Jennings Bryan embraced the concept immediately and began sharing his support broadly. President Woodrow Wilson was the first U.S. President to celebrate Father's Day in June of 1916, a party hosted by his family. President Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson by executive order made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, when it was formally acknowledged by a Congressional Act setting it permanently on the third Sunday in June nationwide.

The eagles are so big! One of them just flew into the nest. It looks like they need a tiny bit more room in their nest for all three of them there are only two eagles in the nest so far. They are laying down enjoying the breeze. Im really gonna miss watching them grow up when they leave their nest and start a family of their own. Yesterday i saw their mother just watching them sore through the sky. To see them go to http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp

My trip to Wv and Eagles!

A couple of weeks ago i went to West Virginia. I stayed for two weeks and i spent time with all three of my grandmas. The first day i was in was at my grandma Linda's we planted red and white flowers for memorial day we had so much fun. i got to see grandpa Keith to but not much he was very busy with work. After the day i spent with grandma Linda i went to my grandma Debbie's. We did a lot of things. On the first day we woke up had breakfast and went out looking for change on the rode we only found two cents but we still enjoyed our walk. Later that day we had spaghetti for dinner  and it was Delicious after that we went to bed. The next day my sister came ad we walked to my store i got a push up ice cream, a pepperoni roll, and cinnamon swirl's. After that me and Alyson played outside with the kids from valley green. And at the end of the day we all went to sleep. The next day I went to my Ganny's. At night we watched fact or faked paranormal files, and insane or inspired those shows are awesome. When we woke up that morning we had to take Bradley to the military base and we had to pick up Jessie to drive her to her car.  Then after we did that we went yard selling I got a bear, and a panda bear. I got a toy for my sister and a ABC book for her to learn her letters. I also got a geode its this really cool rock and it is very pretty. The next day we just longed out in her living room then went to bed. Then on Sunday we went to my grandma Linda's again. And Cassie and Landon came over we had a big meal for supper it was spaghetti, chicken salad, and chicken nuggets with fries it was delicious.  then the next day we planted blueberries and straw berries. then the next day i went back to my grandma Debbie's. And we did our usual routine get up eat, walk to my store, then play with the valley green kids. Then when the time was over I had to go home with grandma Linda and grandpa Keith i had a really fun trip.

The eagles learned to fly!!! There is only 1 eagle in the nest. I am so happy for them. To see the eagles click the length. http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp