LINKS TO WORLDS LARGEST THINGS

HERE ARE A BUNCH OF LINKS TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST THINGS; see more on next page

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Brophy | Wednesday 30 November 2011 - 12:59 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments
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TOP JOBS 2011

The 10 Best Jobs of 2011

By Andrew Strieber

The geeks strike back: despite enduring an industry bubble and the threat of outsourcing, Software Engineer ranks as the Best Job of 2011.

In recent years, the job market has increasingly rewarded math whizzes at the expense of less technical professionals. Actuary, Mathematician and Accountant have all ranked among the best jobs in America by offering a pleasant work environment, good salary and healthy job security. But in 2011, as the emergence of specialized technologies creates new industries, landing the year's best job requires not just skill with numbers, but a strong knowledge of computers too.

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Brophy | Wednesday 30 November 2011 - 02:17 am | | Brophy Blog | No comments

Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's

WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND POLLS

work in progress:  do these polls mean anything?

November 29, 2011 RSS Feed Print

President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.

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Brophy | Tuesday 29 November 2011 - 11:49 am | | Brophy Blog | No comments

Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's

WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND POLLS

work in progress:  do these polls mean anything?

November 29, 2011 RSS Feed Print

President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.

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Brophy | Tuesday 29 November 2011 - 11:49 am | |

MATH PUZZLE # 01

ARITHMETIC PUZZLE: 

using only mathematical  symbols:  =,  +,   -,   x or  * for multiplication,  division n/m,  square root √¯,   exponent ^ or using superscripts,   parens (...),  brackets {...},  iverson brakets [...], the absolute value of n as in |n|,  ≠,  ≤,  ≈,   ≡,  ≥,  factorial or ! of n  or n  all of  which means n x (n-1) x (n-2),....., 1,   

and using the four digits:  5,  5,  5,  and 1 , each only once

construct an equation that sums to the number 24

answers below:

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Brophy | Monday 28 November 2011 - 10:36 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments
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MATH PUZZLE # 01

ARITHMETIC PUZZLE: 

using only mathematical  symbols:  =,  +,   -,   x or  * for multiplication,  division n/m,  square root √¯,   exponent ^ or using superscripts,   parens (...),  brackets {...},  iverson brakets [...], the absolute value of n as in |n|,  ≠,  ≤,  ≈,   ≡,  ≥,  factorial or ! of n  or n  all of  which means n x (n-1) x (n-2),....., 1,   

and using the four digits:  5,  5,  5,  and 1 , each only once

construct an equation that sums to the number 24

answers below:

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Brophy | Monday 28 November 2011 - 10:36 pm | |

HOW THE HRCC (Catholic Church) GOT STARTED

How did the HRCC (Holy Roman Catholic Church) get from the Cross on Calvary to Rome?

work in progress, near completion

I took a course:  the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Adventures in Learning, Colby Sawyer College, given by Art Rosen, a retired business executive, who indeed is a scholar as well.   I finally found the pieces showing where the seeds of Catholicism came from, as well as the trail of events leading from Calvary to Rome.  I was sold on the theory of the existence of God from the get-go; I was into astronomy at a very young age.  I had lots of questions for the nuns that were never answered.  But it didn't matter since i was sold on the Jesus story in the first grade. 

I now believe that there is a prime mover.  St. Anselm's proslogium finally convinced me.  I know that the famed mathematician, logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, an atheist,  was stuck on the proslogium. Earlier in 2011I took a course on the Philosophy (Metaphysics) of God at Dartmouth Adventures in Learning.

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Brophy | Sunday 27 November 2011 - 10:05 am | | Brophy Blog | No comments

HOW THE HRCC (Catholic Church) GOT STARTED

How did the HRCC (Holy Roman Catholic Church) get from the Cross on Calvary to Rome?

work in progress, near completion

I took a course:  the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Adventures in Learning, Colby Sawyer College, given by Art Rosen, a retired business executive, who indeed is a scholar as well.   I finally found the pieces showing where the seeds of Catholicism came from, as well as the trail of events leading from Calvary to Rome.  I was sold on the theory of the existence of God from the get-go; I was into astronomy at a very young age.  I had lots of questions for the nuns that were never answered.  But it didn't matter since i was sold on the Jesus story in the first grade. 

I now believe that there is a prime mover.  St. Anselm's proslogium finally convinced me.  I know that the famed mathematician, logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, an atheist,  was stuck on the proslogium. Earlier in 2011I took a course on the Philosophy (Metaphysics) of God at Dartmouth Adventures in Learning.

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Brophy | Sunday 27 November 2011 - 10:05 am | |

HOW THE HRCC (Catholic Church) GOT STARTED

How did the HRCC (Holy Roman Catholic Church) get from the Cross on Calvary to Rome?

work in progress, near completion

I took a course:  the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Adventures in Learning, Colby Sawyer College, given by Art Rosen, a retired business executive, who indeed is a scholar as well.   I finally found the pieces showing where the seeds of Catholicism came from, as well as the trail of events leading from Calvary to Rome.  I was sold on the theory of the existence of God from the get-go; I was into astronomy at a very young age.  I had lots of questions for the nuns that were never answered.  But it didn't matter since i was sold on the Jesus story in the first grade. 

I now believe that there is a prime mover.  St. Anselm's proslogium finally convinced me.  I know that the famed mathematician, logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, an atheist,  was stuck on the proslogium. Earlier in 2011I took a course on the Philosophy (Metaphysics) of God at Dartmouth Adventures in Learning.

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Brophy | Sunday 27 November 2011 - 10:05 am | |

HOW THE HRCC (Catholic Church) GOT STARTED

How did the HRCC (Holy Roman Catholic Church) get from the Cross on Calvary to Rome?

work in progress, near completion

I took a course:  the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Adventures in Learning, Colby Sawyer College, given by Art Rosen, a retired business executive, who indeed is a scholar as well.   I finally found the pieces showing where the seeds of Catholicism came from, as well as the trail of events leading from Calvary to Rome.  I was sold on the theory of the existence of God from the get-go; I was into astronomy at a very young age.  I had lots of questions for the nuns that were never answered.  But it didn't matter since i was sold on the Jesus story in the first grade. 

I now believe that there is a prime mover.  St. Anselm's proslogium finally convinced me.  I know that the famed mathematician, logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, an atheist,  was stuck on the proslogium. Earlier in 2011I took a course on the Philosophy (Metaphysics) of God at Dartmouth Adventures in Learning.

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Brophy | Sunday 27 November 2011 - 10:05 am | |

HOW THE HRCC (Catholic Church) GOT STARTED

How did the HRCC (Holy Roman Catholic Church) get from the Cross on Calvary to Rome?

work in progress, near completion

I took a course:  the Dead Sea Scrolls, at Adventures in Learning, Colby Sawyer College, given by Art Rosen, a retired business executive, who indeed is a scholar as well.   I finally found the pieces showing where the seeds of Catholicism came from, as well as the trail of events leading from Calvary to Rome.  I was sold on the theory of the existence of God from the get-go; I was into astronomy at a very young age.  I had lots of questions for the nuns that were never answered.  But it didn't matter since i was sold on the Jesus story in the first grade. 

I now believe that there is a prime mover.  St. Anselm's proslogium finally convinced me.  I know that the famed mathematician, logician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, an atheist,  was stuck on the proslogium. Earlier in 2011I took a course on the Philosophy (Metaphysics) of God at Dartmouth Adventures in Learning.

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Brophy | Sunday 27 November 2011 - 10:05 am | |

OBAMA: i do not want to take sides

The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press."
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008, 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" the then Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn, USAF (ret.), asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention, facing the flag, with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".
NOW GET THIS !!

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Brophy | Saturday 19 November 2011 - 6:18 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

PATERNO, SANDUSKY, PENN STATE - THOUGHTS

tom, i wish i had the patience and skill to write a response as thought provoking as yours, but i need to tell you that i disagree totally and absolutely with your sentiments.

1.        our jurist system is badly broken, particularly when it comes to delivering justice to victims. TG we have grand juries.

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Brophy | Saturday 19 November 2011 - 03:15 am | | Brophy Blog | No comments

TEA PARTY vs OWS - wow!!

TEA PARTY vs OCCUPIERS: OCCUPY WALL STREET

The OWC movement sounded like a good idea at the outset;  but now they look like disgruntled people

On the other hand, my negative feelings about the TEA PARTY folks have been negated.

Of course, two negatives leads to a positive feeling about the TEA PARTY

and a few pictures are worth a million words.

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Brophy | Thursday 17 November 2011 - 5:32 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

TEA PARTY vs OWS - wow!!

TEA PARTY vs OCCUPIERS: OCCUPY WALL STREET

The OWC movement sounded like a good idea at the outset;  but now they look like disgruntled people

On the other hand, my negative feelings about the TEA PARTY folks have been negated.

Of course, two negatives leads to a positive feeling about the TEA PARTY

and a few pictures are worth a million words.

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Brophy | Thursday 17 November 2011 - 5:32 pm | |

THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION

Inside the entitlement generation

This an interesting article.  When i was a trustee of St. Joseph College, CT we noticed in the application review process that 40%of the students recieved an A average.  Apparently this was true across the country.  So we had to continue to rely on the SAT scores toparse students. 

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Brophy | Sunday 13 November 2011 - 8:29 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION

Inside the entitlement generation

This an interesting article.  When i was a trustee of St. Joseph College, CT we noticed in the application review process that 40%of the students recieved an A average.  Apparently this was true across the country.  So we had to continue to rely on the SAT scores toparse students. 

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Brophy | Sunday 13 November 2011 - 8:29 pm | |

THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION

Inside the entitlement generation

This an interesting article.  When i was a trustee of St. Joseph College, CT we noticed in the application review process that 40%of the students recieved an A average.  Apparently this was true across the country.  So we had to continue to rely on the SAT scores toparse students. 

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Brophy | Sunday 13 November 2011 - 8:29 pm | |

THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION

Inside the entitlement generation

This an interesting article.  When i was a trustee of St. Joseph College, CT we noticed in the application review process that 40%of the students recieved an A average.  Apparently this was true across the country.  So we had to continue to rely on the SAT scores toparse students. 

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Brophy | Sunday 13 November 2011 - 8:29 pm | |

THE ENTITLEMENT GENERATION

Inside the entitlement generation

This an interesting article.  When i was a trustee of St. Joseph College, CT we noticed in the application review process that 40%of the students recieved an A average.  Apparently this was true across the country.  So we had to continue to rely on the SAT scores toparse students. 

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Brophy | Sunday 13 November 2011 - 8:29 pm | |

CHURCH GOERS

A Majority of Democrats Seldom or Never Go to Church, Says Gallup

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Brophy | Monday 07 November 2011 - 10:00 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

RONALD REAGAN

'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose.'

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Brophy | Sunday 06 November 2011 - 12:31 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

ONCE UPON A CAR

i tape all the booktv interviews.  it is good to listen to authors who apologize for the political correctness that gets in the way of their reporting.
I watched Bill Vlasic being interviewed by x Blunt on "Once Upon a Car." Vlasic convinced me that it was the right thing to save our automotive industry, which we apparently did.  Our automotive industry is no longer co-opted by the unions, and is free to compete worldwide on cost and quality, and apparently is doing so.
I always believed that we had the technology to compete worldwide. And I always blamed union leaders for getting in the way.  Now the union leaders are co-opted; they have too much at stake financially to get in the way of technology.
Everyone blames Obama for everything.  But this is a clear case where Obama deserves most of the credit.
try to catch Vlasic on TV, he is a good story teller;  attached is a book review from Amazon Books.

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Brophy | Sunday 06 November 2011 - 12:17 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

ONCE UPON A CAR

i tape all the booktv interviews.  it is good to listen to authors who apologize for the political correctness that gets in the way of their reporting.
I watched Bill Vlasic being interviewed by x Blunt on "Once Upon a Car." Vlasic convinced me that it was the right thing to save our automotive industry, which we apparently did.  Our automotive industry is no longer co-opted by the unions, and is free to compete worldwide on cost and quality, and apparently is doing so.
I always believed that we had the technology to compete worldwide. And I always blamed union leaders for getting in the way.  Now the union leaders are co-opted; they have too much at stake financially to get in the way of technology.
Everyone blames Obama for everything.  But this is a clear case where Obama deserves most of the credit.
try to catch Vlasic on TV, he is a good story teller;  attached is a book review from Amazon Books.

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Brophy | Sunday 06 November 2011 - 12:17 pm | |

Bill Clinton has advice, and some criticism, for President Obama

Bill Clinton has advice, and some criticism, for President Obama in new book

By Anne E. Kornblut,

President Obama and his Democratic allies made two key political missteps in recent years, according to former president Bill Clinton in a new book to be released Tuesday.

First was not raising the federal debt ceiling in the first two years of the president’s term, when Democrats still had a majority in Congress, and then failing to devise an effective national campaign message during the midterm elections of 2010.

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Brophy | Friday 04 November 2011 - 9:29 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

Obama Overrated

Overrated: Rumors of Barack Obama’s political skill have been greatly exaggerated.Oct 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 • By NOEMIE EMERY

For a success, Barack Obama is a very bad politician, the worst politician to win the presidency by an electoral landslide, to never lose a major election, or to rise to the presidency from a state legislature in little more than four years. He has gone from sterling campaigner to put-upon leader; from the new FDR to the next Jimmy Carter; from being the orator who could hold millions spellbound to the man who moves no one at all. The man who promised everything is delivering nothing. Journalists who wept when he won the election now grind their teeth in despair. Maureen Dowd admits he isn’t the one for whom even he had been waiting. The gap between sizzle and steak never seemed so large or alarming, and inquiring minds want to know what went wrong. 

Obama making a grumpy face

AP

Did the prince (assuming he was one) turn into a frog? Did he use all his luck up in winning his office? Did he, once in power, see his governing skills fade away? The answers to these things are no, yes, and no. The record suggests that he was never a prince (merely a fantasy); that his luck went away once his free ride had ended; and that he had few political, that is, governing, skills to begin with, a fact that is now more than clear. In three areas at least, he appears to be lacking. Let us walk back and see what they are.

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Brophy | Friday 04 November 2011 - 11:58 am | | Brophy Blog | No comments

Obama Overrated

Overrated: Rumors of Barack Obama’s political skill have been greatly exaggerated.Oct 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 • By NOEMIE EMERY

For a success, Barack Obama is a very bad politician, the worst politician to win the presidency by an electoral landslide, to never lose a major election, or to rise to the presidency from a state legislature in little more than four years. He has gone from sterling campaigner to put-upon leader; from the new FDR to the next Jimmy Carter; from being the orator who could hold millions spellbound to the man who moves no one at all. The man who promised everything is delivering nothing. Journalists who wept when he won the election now grind their teeth in despair. Maureen Dowd admits he isn’t the one for whom even he had been waiting. The gap between sizzle and steak never seemed so large or alarming, and inquiring minds want to know what went wrong. 

Obama making a grumpy face

AP

Did the prince (assuming he was one) turn into a frog? Did he use all his luck up in winning his office? Did he, once in power, see his governing skills fade away? The answers to these things are no, yes, and no. The record suggests that he was never a prince (merely a fantasy); that his luck went away once his free ride had ended; and that he had few political, that is, governing, skills to begin with, a fact that is now more than clear. In three areas at least, he appears to be lacking. Let us walk back and see what they are.

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Brophy | Friday 04 November 2011 - 11:58 am | |

Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause

here are two book reviews of "Confidence Men" by Ron Suskind, a heavy weight investigative reporter.  Check him out on Wikipedia:  Ron Suskind.  If you are conservative you might like the review from Amazon directly below.  If you are a liberal, you probably prefer the second review by Ezra Klein, a savvy liberal blogger reporting for the Washington Post.  If you read both reviews twice like i did, you seem to get to the same place;

Obama is a con man.  And, Obamaism failed.  joe   ps:   no, no, no, no one blames BUSH.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble. 

In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in “a new era of responsibility.” It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, and offers the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency.

Wall Street found that straying from long-standing principles of transparency, accountability, and fair dealing opened a path to stunning profits. Obama’s determination to reverse that trend was essential to his ascendance, especially when Wall Street collapsed during the fall of an election year and the two candidates could audition for the presidency by responding to a national crisis. But as he stood on the stage in Grant Park, a shudder went through Barack Obama. He would now have to command Washington, tame New York, and rescue the economy in the first real management job of his life.

The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players—like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner—who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation’s crises deepened, Obama’s deputies often ignored the president’s decisions—“to protect him from himself”—while they fought to seize control of a rudderless White House. Bitter disputes—between men and women, policy and politics—ruled the day. The result was an administration that found itself overtaken by events as, year to year, Obama struggled to grow into the world’s toughest job and, in desperation, take control of his own administration.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind introduces readers to an ensemble cast, from the titans of high finance to a new generation of reformers, from petulant congressmen and acerbic lobbyists to a tight circle of White House advisers—and, ultimately, to the president himself, as you’ve never before seen him. Based on hundreds of interviews and filled with piercing insights and startling disclosures, Confidence Men brings into focus the collusion and conflict between the nation’s two capitals—New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of public purpose—in defining confidence and, thereby, charting America’s future.

 Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause  Ezra Klein

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President   by Ron Suskind
                                                  

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Lawrence Summers, then director of the National Economic Council, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Washington, D.C., December 2010

Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men is not a calm first draft of history. It is not an impartial or unbiased look at the Obama administration’s first two years. Rather, it is an investigation. The crime is homicide, and the victim is the promise of Barack Obama’s presidency. But this isn’t a suspenseful whodunit. Suskind tips his hand in the first pages.

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Brophy | Thursday 03 November 2011 - 4:33 pm | | Brophy Blog | No comments

8 perfect summer lake towns

8 perfect summer lake towns

try pictures 13, 14, and 15 which were taken by joe brophy at lake Sunapee, NH.

picture #4 is on Flathead lake Montana looking towards a property owned by my cousin tom Mitchell MD.

picture #13 shows my home (dead center) on lake Sunapee NH.  If you look carefully (with a magnifying glass), you can see my astronomical observatory.

picture #14 shows the dinner boat on lake Sunapee while i was playing the bagpipes for the dinner boat.

picture #15 shows one of three lighthouses on lake Sunapee that i actually took and put on wikipedia.

small world

one of my daughters MaryKay found this site while searching the internet.

joe brophy

Brophy | Wednesday 02 November 2011 - 11:42 am | | Brophy Blog | No comments

8 perfect summer lake towns

8 perfect summer lake towns

try pictures 13, 14, and 15 which were taken by joe brophy at lake Sunapee, NH.

picture #4 is on Flathead lake Montana looking towards a property owned by my cousin tom Mitchell MD.

picture #13 shows my home (dead center) on lake Sunapee NH.  If you look carefully (with a magnifying glass), you can see my astronomical observatory.

picture #14 shows the dinner boat on lake Sunapee while i was playing the bagpipes for the dinner boat.

picture #15 shows one of three lighthouses on lake Sunapee that i actually took and put on wikipedia.

small world

one of my daughters MaryKay found this site while searching the internet.

joe brophy

Brophy | Wednesday 02 November 2011 - 11:42 am | |