May 12, 2014 Monday

Pilates - Have you tried the "hundred" ?  You lie on your back on the floor, raise your legs straight up in the air and then lower them to a 45 degree angle, keeping the small of your back on the floor.  Lift your head and reach your arms on your sides parallel to your body, off the floor maybe 6 ".  Hold this position and pump your arms 100 times.  You can keep your legs straight up, or bend them in table pose until you are stronger.  Great core strengthener.


Deuteronomy chapter 4 - Our God gave us laws to live by, not to ruin our lives but to make our lives better.  You might think it is great to do what you want, but not so great for others to do the same.  Laws make us civilized and separate us from people who are lawless.  You know who they are, you read about them every day in the news and hear about them on TV.  Thank God for the 10 Commandments.


On this day:  2001
They had a Remembrance Service for my daughters grandfather.  He had passed away earlier in Florida, but so many of his friends were up here that they came up here for the service. Aaron and Nicole loved their grandfather.  He was the cool grandpa, with cars and boats and funny stories.  The memories they have of him were the best person he could have hoped to be in his lifetime.  That's a great way to be remembered.


Parenting - Nicole and I spent a lot of this weekend together, visiting friends and working in the yard.  It was the best Mother's day gift I could ask for.  I am astounded though, that having spent most of her life with me, that when she is doing a project like assembling something, she turns right into her father.  Amazing.


Book club - Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough.  Politics rears its ugly head in this part of the book.  Theodore was at Harvard and Arthur Hayes is in the political arena.  Theodore's father, also Theodore, is very involved now and moving into a political career.


Venezuela -

1908–1958[edit]

Main article: History of Venezuela (1908–58)

Juan Vicente Gómez (1908–1935)[edit]

López Contreras and Medina Angarita (1935–1945)[edit]

El Trienio Adeco (1945–1948)[edit]

Main article: El Trienio Adeco

Rómulo Betancourt

El Trienio Adeco was a three-year period in Venezuelan history, from 1945 to 1948, under the government of the popular party Democratic Action (Accion Democratica, its adherents adecos). The party gained office via the 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état against President Isaías Medina Angarita and held the first elections with universal suffrage in Venezuelan history. The Venezuelan general election, 1947 saw Democratic Action formally elected to office, but it was removed from office shortly after in the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état.
There was no particular incident that set off the bloodless 1948 coup, which was led by Delgado Chalbaud. There was no popular opposition. This might have meant that the odds were too great or that the general populace had not noticed any particular improvement in their lives despite the incessant government propaganda. All prominent adecos were expelled. The other parties were allowed but muzzled.


Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!