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Pauline Batts Yarborough
Meg’s great-aunt passed away over the weekend. Below is her obituary.
Pauline Batts Yarborough, 89, died February 24, 2007 at the Oaks of Carolina in Raleigh. Born in Wake County, near Garner, Pauline moved to Cary along with her family in 1920. She graduated from Cary High School in 1934 and attended Hardbarger’s Business School in Raleigh. She worked for the Hospital Care Insurance Company in Raleigh and for builders Jefferson Sugg and Clint Williams in Cary.
Surviving are: her sister, Lucille Batts Craddock and numerous nephews, nieces, great nephews, and great nieces.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Florence Margaret Crocker Batts; father, James Fitzhugh Batts; sisters, Laura Elizabeth Batts, Florence Batts Kilpatrick, Daisy Batts Craddock, and Dorothy Batts Winstead; brothers, James Fitzhugh Batts, Jr., Lonnie Crocker Batts, and Frank Avery Batts; and her husband, Dr. Frank Ray Yarborough.
A funeral service will be held 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at First United Methodist Church of Cary on Academy Street. The family will receive friends prior to the service at 2:00 p.m. at the church in the narthex by Waldo Street. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery in Cary.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church of Cary, 117 South Academy Street, Cary, NC 27511.
Arrangements by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home in Cary.
post from blackberry
I have been trying to post via email, but it has not worked. This is a test from the web function on my blackberry.
I am waiting in line to register the kids for baseball. I have been out in the cold for about an hour.
They just opened the doors and it is warm inside.
Blog by Email
This is a test of blogging by email.
Timberwolves Clinch Division Title
Peter and Grace’s Pee Wee Basketball team improved to 9-1 with a win in their 4th game in 8 days that clinched the Division Title. They have 1 more game next Saturday. With a win, they can capture the League Title.
It was a good win yesterday, as they came off their first loss of the year on Thursday night. Peter scored 5 points on Saturday and Grace got her first rebound.
“Duke Boy”
Former Duke basketball player and ESPN commentator Jay Bilas appears in the College Game Day promo. Bilas was one year ahead of me in school, so played for Duke while I was a Cameron Crazy.
Handmade Star Wars
These Boots are Made for Walken
from NPR’s Day to Day:
All About Walken is a stage tribute to Christopher Walken, perhaps America’s most imitated actor. Eight performers — male and female, young and old — re-create scenes from the actor’s considerable body of work.
Social Music
If you scroll down (or up if I have posted a lot lately), you will see a web widget for last.fm. I recently added this to share my music habits with the world. It tracks played music from both my ipod and my computer. I don’t know what I think of it yet.
Here’s an article reviewing all the main players in the Social Music space. I just found this, so I haven’t even read it to see if last.fm is what I should be using.
24 Too Unreal for Military
There was a recent article in the New Yorker, and some response in the press, including the Washington Post, about the tv show 24. I watched this for the first 2 seasons, but have not seen it since. It is now in its sixth season. Apparently, it has gotten very popular, especially among right-wing hawks in the government.
According to the article, military brass from West Point visited the set of the show and asked the shows producers to tone down the torture. Since the show is based on the “ticking bomb” scenario, the idea that unless the good guys can get the info right now, the bomb will explode, the only way to get that information is to use torture. And no surprise, they always get the information.
Well, the West Point cadets are trying to rationalize this fictional approach to prisoner information gathering, and its total success, with some of the suggestions being offered by the military. One example is helping a prisoner write a postcard to his family. I am not surprise they are confused by our recommended methods, but people who are the top in their classes, this is West Point, remember, are having trouble distinguishing between a tv and their training? The solution for this is not to talk to the producers of the show. The probably need to check their admission process.