Boston Classic Meet

Trevor placed 4th in the all around at yesterday's Boston Classic Boys' Level 5 gymnastics meet.

Here are some LoFi videos of his Rings, High Bar and Floor routines.

* Rings:

* HBar:

* Floor:

Another weekend, another meet

Gym and More Meet in Woburn, MA. For some reason they didn't give out rankings for the individual events.

Floor: 9.0
Pommel: 8.4
Rings: 9.5
Vault: 9.8
Parallel Bars: 9.1
High Bar: 8.6
All Around: 2nd place

Most exciting upgrade to Ubuntu/Edgy

This morning I had a free hour and this is how I upgraded my hp compaq nc6000 laptop from Ubuntu/Dapper to Ubuntu/Edgy. After updating /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the edgy repos...

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -dy dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Well there was a conflict between x11-common and xinit which both wanted to provide the man page XSession.5.gz.

11:45am Wendy calls me and says the school just called and Griffin is in a ambulance on the way to the hospital and to meet her there. He accidentally ate something that contained pineapple -- to which he has a severe allergic reactions to.

11:49 I'm on the road approaching the hospital and get a call on my cell phone. The woman says she is the school nurse and starts saying my son is having an allergic reaction. I interrupt her and say 'Yes, I just talked to my wife and I'll meet the ambulance at the hospital'. She says 'Well, your son is sitting here with me in my office.' Then we realize she is the school nurse from a different chool and is talking about Trevor who is having an allergic reaction! Trevor had his bee/wasp allergy shot earlier this morning and is reacting to that. Since he too was having difficulty breathing, he too is sent via ambulance to the ER.

12:05 -- Wendy and I both arrive at the ER before either of the kids do. Explain to the ER admitting person that yes both boys are ours, they are coming from different schools, with the same problem (allergic reaction, breathing difficulty), but different reasons (food allergy vs reaction to allergy desensitizing injection).

Long story short, after evaluation, some benedril and alburterol breathing treatments, we were sent home.

Around 3pm I worked through a few iterations of apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get -f install, aptitude dist-upgrade, I have a fully upgraded from Ubuntu/Dapper to Ubuntu/Edgy.

There are a bunch of new, interesting packages to take a look out. The list is here: EdgyConfiguration

Now that was a stressful upgrade.

8th Annual Sea Lamprey Appreciation day at Amoskeag Fishways

We had so much fun last year, we went this year to the Lamprey Appreciation Day again!

Another historial nugget we learned today -- the lamprey were so numerous in the Merrimack River, that the people of Manchester (called Derryfield in the 1800s) that they were called Derryfield Beef.







Check out all the photos here: 8th Annual Lamprey Appreciation Day

Kids for Democracy/NH with Senator Evan Bayh

Kids for Democracy/NH with Senator Evan Bayh

Originally uploaded by marcn.

We attended a fundraiser this afternoon for Betsi DeVries of Manchester's Ward 8 who is running for State Senator. The featured speaker was Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana.

During the Q&A, Spencer asked "if we will be seeing more of you here in New Hampshire?" The answer was "Yes" ;-)

See the complete photo set here.

Griffin with Senator John Kerry

Griffin with Senator John Kerry

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Tonight the Kids for Democracy, NH Chapter was invited to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at a Hillsborough County dinner featuring a talk by Senator John Kerry.

See the complete set of photos on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72057594080059326/

Walk New Hampshire

A few weeks ago a friend told us about the Governor's wife, Dr. Susan Lynch, and her involvement in Walk NH, a program to get children to execise more.

There is a limit of six people per team, so we have two teams, Wendy's "Team Wanna-Walk" and my "Team Nozell". As of today we are up to 36 and 43 miles respectively.

Only about another 150 miles to put in before June 1st. Gotta go walk another mile lap around the neighborhood...

Trevor's 10.0 on the Vault -- Salut!

Salut!

Originally uploaded by marcn.

At today's Gymnastics Village Invitational Trevor had perfect vault -- 10.0!

Initially they had Trevor 12th in the All Around, but they mis-entered his vault score as a 1. After they finished the awards they called him back and gave him 5th place.

Go Trevor!

The Gymnastics Village Level 5 boys' team placed 1st.

Go Boys!

Floor: 8.2 -- 4th place
PHorse: 7.2 -- 8th
Rings: 8.65 -- 7th
Vault: 10.0 -- 1st
PBars: 9.1 -- 3rd
HBar: 8.0 9th

See the whole photoset here

Trevor on the Rings

Trevor on the Rings

Originally uploaded by marcn.

From the Gym-Ken Invitational 2006

All Around Level 5 (ages 10-11) -- 3rd place

Floor: 8.3 (2nd place)
Pommel: 7.5
Rings: 8.2 (3rd place)
Vault: 9.4 (2nd place)
PBars: 9.0
HBar: 9.2 (2nd place)

See the rest of the photos here:

Gym-Ken Invitational (11 Feb 2006)

Limited Time Only: Click here for a 17M movie of Trevor's high bar routine.

Winter Carnival Meet @ Brentwood

Trevor had a great meet yesterday at the annual Winter Carnival at Gymnastics at Brentwood in Brentwood, NH
In the All Around he placed 3th in Level 5 (Boys 10 & 11).

Floor: 8.5 (3rd place)
Horse: 7.9 (3rd place)
Rings: 8.8 (2nd place)
Vault: 9.4 (3rd place)
P. Bar: 8.5 (2nd place)
H. Bar: 8.7 (-)

Boys' Gymnastics Meet

Trevor had a great meet this morning at the Boys' Meet at The Sterling Academy of Gymnastics in Sterling, MA.In the All Around he placed 4th in Level 5 (Boys 10 & 11).

Floor: 8.9 (2nd place)
Horse: 7.7 (5th place)
Rings: 8.7 (1st place)
Vault: 9.3 (1st place)
P. Bar: 8.3 (3rd place)
H. Bar: 7.5 (-)



See all the photos from the meet here: Sterling Meet 2005

Mandala of the Medicine Buddha

Watching the final creation stages of the Mandala of the Medicine Buddha

Originally uploaded by marcn.






Completed Mandala

Originally uploaded by marcn.






Gone

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Yesterday the Drepung Gomang Monastery monks completed the mandala and held
the deconstruction ceremony.

Visit the slideshow of my photo set

Mandala of the Medicine Buddha by the visiting monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastery [October 2005]

Go Spencer!

Today Spencer got a registered letter from NH Governor John Lynch appointing him to a three year term to the "Advisory Committee on the Education of Children and Students with Disabilities" (see NH's RSA 186-C:3-b subsection j))

Congratulations!

Merrimack's Community Theatre production this weekend

This weekend is MyAct's production of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" (or as the hoi polloi call it "MacBeth")

September 10th at 7pm and September 11th at 3pm at the Wasserman Park Theater in Merrimack. Tickets are available at the door.

Spencer has a couple of rolls and Griffin is on stage crew. I'll post some photos tomorrow after the second performance.

Bunch of kids' art

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Originally uploaded by marcn.

We are weeding through some of the kids' artwork today and photographing a bunch of it. The originals are then off the the trash can...

Watch the slideshow

Steadily working on the Turkey Hill Rd Graveyard

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Originally uploaded by marcn.

The last couple of weekends have been busy, but Griffin and I found some time today to continue documenting the Turkey Hill Graveyard.

We are about 1/4 of the way through with 94 photos and with the school year rapidly approaching, this looks like a multi-year project.

Kids for Democracy wish Lou D'Allesandro a Happy Birthday

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Originally uploaded by marcn.
Photo credit: Anita Gonzalez-Cecchin (anitagc@kidsfordemogracy.org)

The NH and MA chapters of Kids for Democracy attended NH State Senator Lou D'Allesandro's birthday party last Friday.




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Originally uploaded by marcn.
Photo credit: Anita Gonzalez-Cecchin (anitagc@kidsfordemogracy.org)

John Edwards (here photographed with Kids for Democracy) also stopped by to wish Lou a Happy Birthday too.

More photos are available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/672117/

Kids For Democracy (NH & MA chapters)

Kids For Democracy (NH & MA chapters)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

This weekend Spencer, Griffin and Trevor (and Wendy) were down on Martha's
Vineyard with Kids For Democracy/NH.

See the complete photo set here:
Kids for Democracy (9-Jul-2005)

NH Hampshire Kids for Democracy meet with John Edwards

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Originally uploaded by marcn.

Kids For Democracy (New Hampshire Chapter) with NH State Senator Joe Foster and Senator John Edwards

Photo credit: Anita Gonzalez-Cecchin anitagc@kidsfordemogracy.org


Left to Right: Joe Foster, Spencer & Griffin Nozell, John Edwards, Mikayla, Jhoshona, and Gabrielle Foster


For more information (okay, the site is pretty just a placeholder as of today) see KidsForDemocracy.org

Press coverage of the fundraiser:

* Nashua Telegraph

* PoliticsNH.com

* Boston.com

* UnionLeader

Kids for Democracy visit New Hampshire State House (group shot)

Kids for Democracy visit New Hampshire State House (group shot)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

I'm just getting around to uploading a bunch of photos Spencer took at last weekend's Kids for Democracy visit to the NH State House.

See the complete set here