The USB Stick contains all the web files including images
currently available from the
Fekete Website and quite a bit more.
Because nothing lasts for ever, the website will disappear one day but the files
will always remain on the stick I provided. I would recommend that you back up the
files perahps copy them to your computer
(instructions provided - Readme (3 formats),
including an automated batch file - BackWeb.bat)
and a second copy to a USB stick might be advisable IF you would like to keep this stuff for your records long after I am no longer here to provide any updates. The pictures will always be there even if technology no longer supports the html format.
No Need for a Web Host it all runs from the USB and your computer
Al Martino – I Love You Because –
Lyrics
Not all the pages are complete not all stuff attempted work properly but
it served me well to do testing and verifying how things are supposed to work.
Some stuff may be from the Lions website or links/refers to the Lions site.
Date specific stuff will be out of date in no time. Some are in the html file
some are in the (java script .js file in the inc subdirectory.
Not all attempts work in all browsers but I tried ........
NOTES:
There are recipes and there are cookbooks as additional hidden treasures along with
some of my favourite music, including some Hungarian gypsy music. There is no way to include everything I cherish and would love to share. I must admit everything
here may not even be the most significant stuff in all cases. This is simply a glimpse into the life of one family. Obviously I have more pictures of my immediate family and
home than than of the rest of the family. Some may wonder why I am on the site as frequently as I am but I have known myself for more years than enyone else on this site.
Enough for the humour.
We are a blessed family to have all that we have here in the free world. If it were not
for the love, dedication and selfless courage of my parents who know how our life would have unfolded!? Our family lived in moderate comfort in Budapest when the revolution
broke out October 23, 1956. My parents left all the known comfort, friends and family
behind to give us the opportunity to make a better life than what awaited us in Hungary.
We arrived in Canada January 9 1957 and life began anew. My father was a quiet
unambitious man who worked hard all his life to provide the best future for our family.
My mother was a powerful and dedicated woman who made all the right decisions as well
as enormous personal scrifices for the family. You could never meet a better finacial manager. With meager resources she always found a way to make the most of everything,
even finding some funds to assist her parents. When we tried to get a mortgage from the bank to purchase our home (about 1960) the manager laughed saying he lived here
all his life, had more income and less responsibilities but could not dream of purchasing a home. Needless to say Mom got a personal loan to purchase 226 30th St. and the rest
is history. All the children achieved success with nice families and lovely homes. Nothing in the world made my mother happier than to see her children succeed.
The
Album is Mom's photo album slightly enhanced with a few of my own pictures.
Having lost everything when we came to Canada the album is amazing. Family sent or
brought pictures left behind by our hasty exit November 28th 1956. Working on this project made me realise just how much I would like to talk to my Mother and Dad about so many things. Often we know not what we know not and not till it is too late do we start thinking how nice it would be to learn what we missed when we had the opportunity but
not the wisdom or interest to ask the right questions.
The rest of the
Website is something I created not only to share with the world but to
learn and keep active with something I really enjoy. I seem to learn something new,
if not every day, at least every week and I thoroughly enjoy the search for knowledge
and the creative process. I am sure you will notice I tend to ramble and add
not only finished product but other stuff I found useful along the way. Perhaps
one day someone will benefit from these musings and lessons. There is always, almost daily, just one more thing I will add to make it just a little bit better but this never seems to end.
n 1723, the Delaware Indians settled Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania as a campsite halfway between the Allegheny and the Susquehanna Rivers. The town is 90 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, at the intersection of Route 36 and Route 119. The Delawares considered groundhogs honorable ancestors. According to the original creation beliefs of the Delaware Indians, their forebears began life as animals in "Mother Earth" and emerged centuries later to hunt and live as men.
When German settlers arrived in the 1700s, they brought a tradition known as Candlemas Day, which has an early origin in the pagan celebration of Imbolc. It came at the mid-point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Superstition held that if the weather was fair, the second half of Winter would be stormy and cold. For the early Christians in Europe, it was the custom on Candlemas Day for clergy to bless candles and distribute them to the people in the dark of Winter. A lighted candle was placed in each window of the home. The day's weather continued to be important. If the sun came out February 2, halfway between Winter and Spring, it meant six more weeks of wintry weather.
The earliest American reference to Groundhog Day can be found at the Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center at Franklin and Marshall College:
According to the old English saying:
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Winter has another flight.
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Winter will not come again.
From Scotland:
If Candlemas Day is bright
and clear,
There'll be two winters in the year.
From Germany:
For as the sun shines on Candlemas Day,
So far will the snow swirl until May.
For as the snow blows on Candlemas Day,
So far will the sun shine before May.
And from America:
If the sun shines on Groundhog Day;
Half the fuel and half the hay.
If the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, an animal would cast a shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of Winter. Germans watched a badger for the shadow. In Pennsylvania, the groundhog, upon waking from mid-Winter hibernation, was selected as the replacement.
Pennsylvania's official celebration of Groundhog Day began on February 2nd, 1886 with a proclamation in The Punxsutawney Spirit by the newspaper's editor,
Clymer Freas:
"Today is groundhog day and up to the time of going to press the beast has not seen its shadow."
The groundhog was given the name "Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary" and his hometown thus called the "Weather Capital of the World."
His debut performance: no shadow - early Spring.
The legendary first trip to Gobbler's Knob was made the following year.
Information Source: StormFax
In Canada, Wiarton Willie is the primary groundhog predictor. He is an albino groundhog who lives in Wiarton, Ont (merged as South Bruce Peninsula in 1999), near Georgian Bay. He has been making his predictions since 1956; the role of Willie has been played by several groundhogs over the years. Like Punxsutawney Phil, Wiarton Willie does not live in a burrow in the wild; he lives in a special house across from Bluewater Park, away from predators.
It is unlikely that Willie would appear above ground on his own until early to mid-March, 6 - 8 weeks after February 2. He is awakened from hibernation by the town's "Shadow Cabinet" to make his prediction. Wiarton Willie is not alone in his role as weather forecaster; he is joined by groundhogs across the country, including Shubenacadie Sam (Nova Scotia), Brandon Bob (Manitoba) and Balzac Billy (Alberta).
Groundhog Day organizers maintain that the rodents' forecasts are accurate 75 to 90% of the time. However, meteorological records prove that the groundhogs' success rate is quite low. A study of weather data over several decades for 13 cities across Canada reveals there was an equal number of cloudy and sunny days on February 2. During that period, the groundhogs' predictions were correct only 37% of the time; ie, cold winter weather continued for several weeks following the appearance of sharp shadows on February 2, or were much milder than usual when that day was too cloudy for a shadow to be seen. However, for nearly two-thirds of the years the groundhogs' forecasts turned out to be wrong. Given that in this case 33% accuracy can occur by chance, a score of 37% is not significant.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart In SanFrancisco –
Lyrics
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