Phil Warners holds Tray in his knee after arriving home from work one Monday evening. With Tray being a “daddy’s boy,” Warners is looking forward to teaching him how to ride a bike and playing catch in their backyard.
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With a huge smile, Tessa clings to Phil Warners sweatshirt in a playful game of “horsey.” The family describes Tessa’s personality as one who likes to play the crowd, moody and a girly-girl with her sparkly hair band and pink clothes.
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While in between making dinner, Connie Warners knees down to helps Tessa put together a kitten puzzle on their living room floor. Warners explained that with Tray and Tessa not being able to speak English, communicating with the two children has been the hardest challenge that they have faced so far.
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I just heard an interview with Richard Tait from BBC World Service. I’d like to hear this guy speak some time. In fact I’d like to meet him and pick his brain on a few things.
Check out his Keynote Speaker bio where you can watch a video of him as a demo…
Richard Tait is an entrepreneurial pioneer who lives by the mantra, “Orville Wright did not have a pilot’s license.” He first honed his entrepreneurial instincts at Microsoft.When he left Microsoft in 1997, Mr. Tait went on to make board game history. As co-founder of Cranium, Inc., he created one of the toy industry’s most cherished brands and built an award-winning corporate culture
Here’s more on Richard Tait’s business innovations in the field of games.
Interesting! Check out the new energy company that launches February 24, 2010. Bloom Energy is KR Sridhar’s $400 million power generator idea that is generating lots of hype in the media right now. It sounds like a great idea, ” to have $3,000 household generators” that let you get off the grid, but I’m feeling my “Show Me” state roots dampen my excitement.
Watch the report here…
I was wondering about some of the old spacecraft that has been launched over the years. Whatever happened to ol’ Sputnik, Voyager, and others? Well, I did a little research and found out…
Sputnik 1 launched by the USSR in October 1957, burned up in the atmosphere in January of 1958 when it fell from orbit after kicking off the Space Race that put the USA in second place as the king of technology and space exploration.
Voyager 1 was launched on Sept. 5, 1977 just months before I was born and hurtled on it’s way to tour Jupiter and Saturn in a flyby. It is “currently the farthest man-made object from earth” according to Wikipedia’s entry.
New Horizons, — on it’s way to Pluto
Voyager 1, — exploring the “boundaries of the Solar System”
Voyager 2, — slowly dying
Pioneer 10 — On it’s way out of the Solar System but not communicating
Pioneer 11 — Jupiter and Outer Solar System
You can check out the mission locations by visiting Heavens Above site which…
shows the current positions and other interesting data of the five spacecraft which are leaving the Solar System on escape trajectories – our first emissaries to the stars. The graphics and data table are generated dynamically and so always represent the latest positions. The New Horizons spacecraft on its way to Pluto has been added to the table, and now the charts too.
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Tessa Warners (4) looks around inside Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Grand Rapids while being carried by her new big sister, Kate, who flew over with her parents to pick up the two children.
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Phil Warners holds his newly adopted son, Trey (6), while his 13yrs old son Robbie smiles brightly at his dad and new little bother.
Photo by Tamara Jackson