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Demetria Daniels

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BREAKFAST AT TITAN at 5 am in the moring took place at the American Museum of Natural History were we watched the press conference coming from Europe from ESA, the people that created the Titan probe, which landed on the moon of Saturn. NEIL TYSON, Director of the Hayden Planetariu, Astrobiologist David Grinspoon, and Laura Danly, astrophysics Director of education ,all spoke. Most of the questions came from the 10-year olds in the audience who wanted to know about the methane lakes that the HUYGENS-CASSINI space creaft revealed. (Huygens lived in 1696 and wrote "Cosmotheris") We even heard the space sounds which were relayed and the photos which showed a coast line similar to California and strange cloud formations on the moon
The kids asked about the magnetic field, the tidal forces, seasons, the ice rocks, and more about the ethane and methane. Then we all marched into the Hayden Planetarium to see the photos in the round. What a morning that was.

posted by Demetria at 1:09 PM

 
I went to the INAUGURATION and it was truly fantastic. Not having made any reservations I wound up having an exciting time. First, in the elevator at my hotel someone asked if I was going to see the searing-in ceremony. I said I didn't have a ticket and I was with two other people. Well, Celia C. Ramos, Administrator of the Burlington School, Inc. from Los Angeles said, " well here are three tickets to get in. Wow, what a surprise. I got my friends and we walked over a few blocks to the yellow entrance. Getting in was a wait but once on the lawn we were right in front of the Capital and the ceremony was just beginning. After the swearing-in of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, under a sunny sky, the President spoke. A few of my favorite lines were "no one is fit to be a master and no one is deserves to be a slave" and ' the fire of freedom will erase the darkness of the world". He spoke too of the expansion of freedom which will create peace and if countries stand for liberty, we (the USA ) will stand for peace.
On to the parade route where again by accident we wound up in the guest bleachers watching the parade go by. LAURA BUSH , looking beautiful in white,and PRESIDENT BUSH waved to the crowd. The Crawford high-school band marched and played and Wyoming paraded by. It was getting too cold for me so we went back to the National Press Club, where we met some wonderful people like the past President, John P. Cosgrove, and the very helpful evening manager Joshua R. Funk.
The night before, we attended the Illinois ball which had taken over the entire Grand Hyatt with two dance floors, a riverboat room, a 50-s room, my favorite where we danced the night away and drank root beer floats. Gerry Frank and Jeanne Jacob co-chaired this marvelous event and pointed out to me that Abraham Lincoln was from Illinois.
I also made it to the Constitution Hall Ball where SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZA RICE was in attendance. A rock band was playing and they were serving my favorite Greek dessert -baclava.


posted by Demetria at 1:18 PM

 
I watched the TSUNAMI AID CONCERT FOR HOPE. It was a very low-keyed production starring the greats, singing and speaking. Along with the video footage of the wave, the actors present, hosted by JAY LENO, evoked the sadness and the sympathy we all feel. MADONNA, started the program singing JOHN LENNON'S "IMAGINE"She was wearing a simple dark blue dress and sang quietly as did DIANA ROSS who ended the show with "Reach Out and Touch Someone's Hand".
In between those two of the greatest, were ELTON JOHN playing from London, MICHAEL DOUGLAS and his wife KATHERINE ZETA JONES from New York and a host of celebrities manning and womanning the phones in Los Angeles that included GOLDIE HAWN, RENE ZWELLINGER, LEONARDO DI CAPRIO, TIM ROBBINS, ANETTE BENNING. GLORIA ESTEFAN sang while CINDY CRAWFORD TOM SELLECK, BRUCE WILLIS, HUGH GRANT,
did their part. STEVIE WONDER was brilliant- UMA THURMAN spoke and SHERYL CROW sang. JOHNNY DEPP, MAT DAMON, DREW BARRYMORE attended the phones.
I gave - will you give too. 1-800-435-7669 or www.redcross.org

posted by Demetria at 2:05 PM

 
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL.

Thank you to STEVEN SPEILBERG who donated $1.5 million dollars to the TSUNAMI disaster and to the other Hollywood celebrities that are opening up their pocketbooks to help and to all the countries and other persons who are donating their money and time to this tragic event. This Saturday celebrity singers will sing on television for the TSUMANI cause.

At STEINWAY HALL, Janis Spindel had a book signing for her 365 WAYS TO FIND A LOVE. She also has a web site janisspindelmatchmaker.com She is also doing an event at the 92 st Y a brunch at 11 am. She and her husband ( her personal trainer too) will be on hand.

posted by Demetria at 1:19 PM