posted by admin on Oct 29
YahooStore Time-Life : For the first time ever, the greatest country love songs are together in one collection. You’ll get 151 country love songs by the biggest country stars. That’s four decades of hits on 10 CDs—and it all comes in the Lifetime of Country Romance Collector’s Box. The Lifetime of Country Romance (Collector’s box set) (10 CDs) – Suggested Retail Price: US$149.95 ( Link ) CONTENTS : Forever and Ever Randy Travis: Forever and Ever, Amen * Crystal Gayle: Cry * Lee Greenwood: Somebody’s Gonna Love You * Dwight Yoakam: Little Ways * Michael Martin Murphey: What’s Forever For * Eddie Robbin: The Best Year of My Life. 15 songs in all! Lifetime of Country Romance: Sweet Dreams Leroy Van Dyke: Walk On By * Patsy Cline: Sweet Dreams (Of You) * Barbara Mandrell: (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right * Glen Campbell: Galveston * Jack Greene: All the Time * Webb Pierce: Slowly. 30 songs in all! Lifetime of Country Romance: Always on My Mind Marty Robbins: My Woman, My Woman, My Wife * Charley Pride: It’s Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer * Jim Reeves: Is It Really Over? * George Jones: The Door * Willie Nelson: Always on My Mind * Leon Payne: I Love You Because. 30 songs in all! Lifetime of Country Romance: I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You Don Gibson: I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You * Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire * Waylon Jennings: Amanda * Elvis Presley: Can’t Help Falling in Love * Ronnie Milsap: Only One Love in My Life * Tammy Wynnette: I Don’t Wanna Play House. 30 songs in all! Lifetime of Country Romance: Gentle On My Mind Buck Owens: Together Again * Conway Twitty: Hello Darlin’ * Patsy Cline featuring The Jordanaires: I Fall to Pieces * Johnny Cash: I Walk the Line * Donna Fargo: Funny Face * Bill Anderson: Still * Bobby Helms: My Special Angel. 28 songs in all! Classic Country: ’80s Love Songs Clint Black: A Better Man * Roseanne Cash: Seven Year Ache * Mickey Gilley: Stand By Me * Kenny Rogers: Lady * Conway Twitty: Somebody’s Needin’ Somebody * Randy
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posted by admin on Oct 29
MUS014R Covers:Atchafalaya Bay to Brownsville, including Port Arthur, Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, and Padre IslandMapSource BlueChart serves up the best offshore cartography around and works in seamless integration with a wide range of Garmin products.Features Include:Chart-specific information, including chart name and number, scale, revision date, latest Notice to Mariners date Object-oriented cartography Faithful representation of published official paper charts Shaded depth contours Intertidal zones Spot soundings Navaids with view range and coverage Port plans Tides, wrecks, restricted areas and anchorages Trip and waypoint management functionsCompatible Units:GPSMAP 172cGPSMAP 172GPSMAP 178GPSMAP 178CGPSMAP 276CGPSMAP 3006CGPSMAP 376C
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posted by admin on Oct 28
DALLAS — Immigration agents arrested 280 people in Texas during a six-month national roundup of gang members and criminals.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Thursday that agents working with state and local officials made the arrests as part of Operation Community Shield. The sweep ended Sept. 30. and focused on gangs with foreign-born members.
ICE says 127 were arrested in North Texas and 113 in the Houston-Galveston area. Those included members or associates of such international gangs as MS-13, Surenos and Laotian Oriental Killer Boyz.
Officials say the 89-city operation led to 1,785 arrests nationwide of people suspected of gang and criminal activity or immigration violations.
ICE says 35 percent of those arrested in the nationwide operation have violent criminal histories and more than 1,400 are suspected gang members. About 905 people face criminal charges.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa091015_wz_apiceroundup.21cb6e736.html
They should nab ALL gang members! Not just gang members of a particular race. Gang bangers are a nuisance to society. The more we rid our streets of them, the safer the streets will be.
posted by admin on Oct 27
I’m curious about this too as I’m planning to take a cruise out of Galveston in January. This will be my first time at the Galveston port.
posted by admin on Oct 26
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posted by admin on Oct 26
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posted by admin on Oct 23
The Man From Galveston
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posted by admin on Oct 23
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posted by admin on Oct 23
im wanting to throw a bonfire party in galveston i was thinking i would do it on the san luis pass (west beach) but not sure if i will get in trouble for drinking there or not..Anyone know??
Call Galveston Police Department’s non-emergency phone number.
Lulz, I only found the chief’s, he might be able to tell you: 409-765-3790
His name is Charles Wiley.
posted by admin on Oct 15
1. Refer to the grid map of Galveston at the beginning of the book. Name the
building closest to the shoreline that sustained the least amount of damage.
2. After reading the chapter titled “The Beach,” write two adjectives that best
characterize Isaac Cline’s personality.
3. Explain what was unusual about the weather in Galveston the summer of the
hurricane.
4. Name two weather-related phenomena that were unsettling to Isaac in the time
leading up to the storm.
5. What controversy concerning the U.S. Weather Bureau existed at that time,
according to Larson?
6. What method of communication did the weather bureau use in its beginnings?
7. Explain the “butterfly effect.’
8. Who/what was Mark Twain criticizing in this statement, and why is the
statement humorous? “Probable northeast to southwest winds, varying to the
southward and westward and eastward and points between, high and low
barometer swapping around from place to place probably areas of rain, snow, hail,
and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes, with thunder and lightning.”
9. How did Columbus and his ships manage to weather the hurricane of 1502?
Explain.
10. To what does the “Law of Storms” refer? Have we mastered it today? Explain.
11. Isaac gave a “cruelly detailed” explanation of the Coriolis effect in a presentation
to the 1891 Galveston YMCA. “The crowd listened with iron concentration.” A
twenty-first century audience would have killed him (not literally). Why?
12. Explain how the Horse Latitudes got its name.
13. What is the main reason the U.S. Weather Bureau had a bad reputation?
14. What connection did Isaac see between weather and the study of medicine?
Explain.
15. What unusual weather phenomenon occurred in Abilene, Texas, not long after
Isaac arrived?
16. What first rivalry between brothers Isaac and Joseph is discussed?
17. What did Willis Moore have banned from all U.S. Weather Bureaus? (This
product was believed to make one stupid.)
18. “Against the hubris of the age, what was a mere hurricane?” Explain this quote
and its context.
19. Explain why the citizens of Galveston abandoned the idea of building a sea wall.
20. Give two reasons Larson cites as to why Moore discounted the Cuban
meteorologists’ predictions.
21. Characterize Willis Moore. Support characterization with support examples.
22. Abbreviations on weather maps were as follows: R=rain S=snow M =_______?
23. Explain what the Devil’s Voice is according to sailors.
24. Explain to what the following metaphor refers in Larson’s account: “Where the
Americans saw numbers, the Cubans saw poetry, dark poetry, perhaps- the works
of Poe and Baudelarie- but poetry all the same.
25. Until September 1900, any barometric pressure reading under __________inches
was considered in error.
26. Why did the Weather Bureau at that time prefer to call the “eye of the storm” the
“focus” or “center” ?
27. Explain what it means for a ship to be in the “troughs.”
28. What were Isaac’s actions the morning of the storm, according to Larson.
29. Quote the lines from the newspaper article that Larson says should have gotten
the Pulitzer Prize for bleak irony. Explain why.
30. What did you consider to be unusual about the behavior of the townspeople the
morning of the storm?
31. Why was Louisa Rolfing so angry with her husband, August?
32. Why did Rabbi Cohen instruct his wife to play the piano that day?
33. Describe the tragedy at Ritter’s Café and Saloon on Mechanic Street, the first
tragedy of the storm. Be very specific.
34. These people saw hurricanes in their sleep. What people?
35. Describe what happened to Isaac, his family, and Joseph’s dog immediately after
the storm hit.
36. Explain how Isaac was able to identify his dead wife?
37. What did Willis Moore instruct Isaac to do in the days following the storm?
38. Specifically what was the miracle of Anna Diez?
39. The Galveston Wal-Mart sits on the site of what former building?
40. Describe 3 examples of situational irony that occur in the last section of the book.
Explain what makes each an example of irony.
41. Explain why Isaac and his brother Joseph never reconciled. (inference question)
42. Describe an incident that occurred during the storm that you found to be most
poignant. Explain what makes it so; support. What writing strategies of Larson’s
make the account particularly moving?
16. What first rivalry between brothers Isaac and Joseph is discussed?
They both write a weather article for a contest, isaac gets excepted an jospeh dosent.
17. What did Willis Moore have banned from all U.S. Weather Bureaus? (This
product was believed to make one stupid.)
Cigerrets
38. Specifically what was the miracle of Anna Diez?
"there were miracles still, like Anaa Diez, sixteen years old, who had been washed to the mainland untill a week later she finally made her way back to galveston."
pg.225
