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Video made by: http://www.cureconnieandpatrick.com/Presentation by the Loughman family of Indianapolis, IN. Connie Loughman, loving wife and mother of three daughters, is battling pancreatic cancer, the same disease that Hollywood legend, Patrick Swayze, recently announced he has.Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer. 90% of patients die within 1-year of being diagnosed. Over 95% of patients die within 5-years of being diagnosed.The good news is that there is a revolutionary new treatment called TNFerade by GenVec, Inc. which is in clinical trials and has already cured patients and saved lives.The FDA allows persons with terminal illnesses for which there is no effective treatment protocol (a universe which includes pancreatic cancer patients) to obtain access to drugs in clinical trials - outside of the trial.It's called expanded access/compassionate use.The problem: GenVec, Inc. has denied requests by people with pancreatic cancer to receive the drug outside of the current PACT clinical trial - even those who are willing to pay for the costs of the treatment (such as the Loughman family).Please go to http://www.cureconnieandpatrick.com/ and ask GenVec, Inc. to grant compassionate use/expanded access of TNFerade to pancreatic cancer patients such as Connie Loughman and Patrick Swayze.
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Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze Marriage Profile
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Together, Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze have dealt with success, disappointment, addiction, and loss. Now the two of them are coping with Patrick's cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Here is more information about the successful long term marriage of Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze.
Born: Patrick Wayne Swayze: August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas.
Lisa Niemi aka Lisa A. Haapaniemi: May 26, 1956 in Houston, Texas.
How Patrick and Lisa Met: Lisa and Patrick met when she was 16 years old. Lisa was one of Patrick's mother's dancing students.
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Patrick about meeting Lisa: "I robbed the cradle. All these girls were studying with my mum and I used to go and check them out in their leotards - it was like being in a candy store ... She didn't buy any of my nonsense. We spent half our dates in total silence as she wouldn't talk to me if she thought I was putting on an act."
"We were friends for a long time before we became lovers. We even lived and slept together for a year before we had sex. That wasn't easy."Source: Lester Middlehurst, "Drink, suicide and why I turned against Hollywood", DailyMail.co.uk, 11/29/2005.
Wedding Date: Patrick and Lisa have been married since June 12, 1975. They were married in Harris County, Texas (Houston area) when Patrick was 22 years old and Lisa was 19 years old.
Children: Lisa and Patrick do not have any children. Lisa miscarried twice.
Residence: Patrick and Lisa have ranches in Los Angeles and in New Mexico.
Patrick: "We try to run our ranch like a wildlife preserve. If you live your life very close to the environment, you realise that if people pull together and change one thing, one time, it'll break this vicious victim cycle that we're all in ... It's a timber farm and we're trying to fix mismanaged forests. We have about 700 head of cattle and we're turning it into a wildlife preserve. I love the idea of owning as much land as I can and protecting it from greedy grandchildren for the future."Source: "Patrick Swayze -- The Cult King", News.com.au
Occupations: Patrick: Actor, dancer, producer.
Lisa: Actress, writer, choreographer, dancer, singer, producer.
Quotes About the Marriage of Patrick and Lisa : Patrick about the key to a long term marriage: "I suppose it's about keeping love alive, learning how to fall in love over and over again, not taking each other for granted, forgiveness, trust. Whatever it is, it works for us."Source: Lester Middlehurst, "Drink, suicide and why I turned against Hollywood", DailyMail.co.uk, 11/29/2005.
Patrick about being married: "I like being married. I'm sort of like a loyal sheepdog, sometimes to a fault."Source: "Patrick Swayze -- The Cult King", News.com.au
Lisa about Patrick: "I give him a lot of credit for not making me feel overshadowed or left out."Source: TV Guide interview, Tribute to Lisa
Patrick about working with Lisa: "We've always been a team. We raise horses together, run a music business and a wildlife preserve together. We have an unspoken language after all these years. We just celebrated our 30th anniversary."Source: Courtney Hazlett, People, Vol. 64, No. 10, pg 37, 9/05/2005.
Patrick about Lisa: "She's a huge inspiration. She's never lost the vision, and I did. I got beat down by the business and the world and ... does anybody really care about doing a film that could really make a difference and really touch people's lives? And she's like a pitbull and never quits."Source: Randall King, "Swayze crazy about 'Peg", Canoe.ca, 3/10/2001.
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Ancestry of Patrick Swayze
World Famous Dancer and Movie Star
© Darlene Vaillancourt
Mar 7, 2008
Patrick Swayze comes from a family full of performers and his family tree is well-documented going back a number of generations.
Film star Patrick Swayze was born in Houston, Texas on August 18th, 1952. The rest of the Swayze family include Patrick's 2 brothers, Don and Sean, and a sister, Vicki. Unfortunately, Vicki passed away in 1994. Don Swayze is also an actor, who has had a large number of smaller roles on TV and on the big screen.
His father, Jesse, died fairly young in1982 of a heart attack. His mother, Patsy, is a professional dance choreographer who has worked on many movies and also runs a dance school.
Though his professional career began off-screen in the Broadway production of Grease, he shot to stardom with his role in the movie Dirty Dancing. His second big hit was Ghost. His latest movie is called Powder Blue where he will co-star for the first time with his brother, Don. It's due to be released in 2008
If you are unfamiliar with the following ahnentafel chart numbering system, you can find details on reading the chart here.
1. Patrick Wayne Swayze – b.1952
2. Jessie Wayne Swayze – b.1925 d.1982
3. Patsy Yvonne Karnes – b.1927
4. Jesse Elijiah Swayze – b.1890 d.1925
5. Mamie Bell Johnson – b.1895
6. Victor Elliott Karnes – b.1901 d.1982
7. Gladys May Snell
8. James Wesley Swayze – b.1840 d.1893
9. Sarah Elizabeth McDonald – b.1851 d.1907
12. William Karnes – b.1873
13. Pearl Lovejoy – b.1875
16. Alexander Swayze – b.1801 d.1850
17. Amanda Littleton
24. Victor Karnes – b.1849 d.1928
25. Frances
26. Reason E. Lovejoy – b.1841 d.1934
27. Martha Lucinda Hornsby – b.1846 d.1934
32. James Swayze
33. Elizabeth Starke
48. C.P Karnes
49. Mary
52. Mabry Lovejoy
53. Evangeline Sanford
64. Samuel Swayze – b.1737
65. Elizabeth Putnam
66. Daniel Stark
128. Rev. Samuel Swayze – b.1712 d.1784
129. Hannah Horton
256. Judge Samuel Swayze
257. Penelope Horton b.1689
He married his wife Lisa Niemi on June 12, 1975. The couple are still married (as of 2008) but have no children of their own. They met when Lisa was a student at Patsy Swayze's dance school. Though Patrick does not have children, he is uncle to the kids of his brother Don and sister Vicki.
In early 2008, Mr. Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time of this writing, he was optimistic about his treatment and doing well.
If you've seen the Swayze (or Swasey) name in your own family tree, you might want to visit the GenForum message board for this surname. Perhaps you and Patrick are cousins?
Sources:
Compiled from online databases at Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com, as well as the International Movie Database (IMDB).
The copyright of the article Ancestry of Patrick Swayze in Online Family Trees is owned by Darlene Vaillancourt. Permission to republish Ancestry of Patrick Swayze must be granted by the author in writing.

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Chuck Connors
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Apr. 10, 1921BrooklynNew York, USA
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Nov. 10, 1992Los AngelesLos Angeles County California, USA
Actor. Real name Kevin Joseph Charles Aloysius Connors. He appeared in over 40 films but won his greatest fame as TV's "The Rifleman". Born in Brooklyn, the strapping, 6'5" Connors attended Seton Hall College and served in the Army during World War II. After his discharge in 1946 he briefly played professional basketball with the newly-formed Boston Celtics, and baseball with his hometown Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs, but after spending most of his sports career in the minor leagues he decided to try his luck with acting. He made his screen debut with a bit in the Tracy-Hepburn sports comedy "Pat and Mike" (1952), and larger parts in B movies followed. Connors' fine performance as Burl Ives' worthless son in "The Big Country" (1958) led to his starring role in "The Rifleman", which was the top-rated television show in its first season. He played Lucas McCain, a New Mexico homesteader raising a son on his own and keeping the peace with the aid of his trusty Winchester. The series ran from 1958 to 1963 and had an international following. Connors' later work was routine, with the exception of the science-fiction thriller "Soylent Green" (1973), and his Emmy-nominated turn as a lusty slave-owner in the miniseries "Roots" (1976). Connors was a longtime friend of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, and vigorously campaigned for their Presidential bids. At a 1973 party at President Nixon's San Clemente retreat, the actor was greeted with a bear hug by Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev, who was a big fan of "The Rifleman". But Connors resisted the urge to go into politics himself. "Being around so many politicians, I became a little cynical about politics in general", he admitted. A heavy smoker, Connors died of lung cancer. He didn't seem to mind being chiefly remembered as Lucas McCain. "It's no problem at all for me", he said. "My whole ability to make a living is derived from the fact that I was 'The Rifleman'". (bio by: Robert Edwards) Cause of death: Cancer Search Amazon for Chuck Connors

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President Bush and his daughter, Jenna Bush, 26, pose for photos Saturday, May 10, 2008, before Jenna's wedding to Henry Hager at the Bush family's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Angela Merkel and Bush outside the main house in November 2007
Prairie Chapel Ranch is a 1583 acre (6.4 km²) estate located seven miles (10 km) northwest of Crawford, Texas, considered the Western White House of President George W. Bush.
Bush spends vacation time at the house as well as entertains dignitaries from around the world.
It derives its name from the Prairie Chapel School which was built nearby on land donated by mid-19th century German immigrant Heinrich Englebrecht who also owned the land that now comprises the Bush compound. Englebrecht also donated land for the nearby Canaan Baptist Church (the "Prairie Chapel").
Contents[hide]
1 History
2 House and Grounds
2.1 House
2.2 Other structures
2.3 Grounds
3 Activities
3.1 Visits from foreign dignitaries
4 Security considerations
5 Protests
6 Future of the ranch
7 Gallery
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[edit] History

USGS satellite photo of the ranch before Bush built his house. The elongated objects at the top are hog barns (on Mill Road). They were demolished and the drive extended to build Bush's house. He enlarged the lake on the upper right. In the lower right are more hog barns and the original Englebrecht house which is now called the "Governor's House." All of the lower barns except one were demolished. At the top is the Middle Bosque River. Prairie Chapel Road ends at the intersection in the lower left corner and becomes Rainey Road.
Englebrecht and his heirs raised turkeys and hogs. The original Englebrecht ranch house is about 4,400 feet (1,300 m) from the main house on Rainey Road and is now called the "Governor's House" and is used to house second-tier guests. The Bushes stayed in the house during construction of the new house.
In 1999 shortly after earning a $14.3 million profit from the sale of the Texas Rangers, Texas Governor Bush bought the land for an estimated $1.3 million from the Englebrecht family.
Bush was to remove five large hog barns on Mill Road leading into the compound during the construction of a new house, guest house and garage. [1]

[edit] House and Grounds

[edit] House
David Heymann, then an associate professor of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, designed the four-bedroom [2] (although some reports indicate it is eight-bedrooms)[3], 4,000 ft² (372 m²) honey-colored native limestone single-level home with painted white galvanized tin roof on the site. Heymann said the house was built from the less sought after portion of the local "Leuders limestone." The middle portions of the blocks of stone is a cream colored while the edges are multicolored. "We bought all this throwaway stone. It's fabulous. It's got great color and it is relatively inexpensive," Heymann said.[4]
In addition there is an open 10 foot (3 m) wide limestone porch that encircles the house. The house was built by members of a religious community from nearby Elm Mott, Texas, and wasn't finally completed until after his inauguration because of needed accommodations for security, meeting space, etc.[5]
Laura Bush said they decided to keep a single level ranch design because "We wanted our older parents to feel comfortable here... We also want to grow old here ourselves."[6]
The passive-solar house is positioned to absorb winter sunlight, warming the interior walkways and walls of the residence. Geothermal heat pumps circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet (100 m) deep in the ground. A 25,000 US gallon (151 m³) underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof urns; wastewater from sinks, toilets, and showers cascades into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is then used to irrigate the landscaping around the home.

[edit] Other structures
In addition to the house there is a guest house and a garage in separate buildings to the southwest of the main house.
The facility includes a helicopter hangar which is used as an auditorium on the rare occasions the president himself holds a press conference at the ranch.
In 2002, the ranch was wired for what Bush described in a 2003 tour of the ranch as "real time, secure videoconferencing" to be used for his briefings from the CIA and Dick Cheney.
Overnight visitors stay in the main house, or its associated guest house, or the original Englebrecht farmhouse, or in a double-wide five-bedroom three-bath mobile home, decorated in an early Pottery Barn motif according to a staffer.[7]
News reporters, including the White House Press Secretary, stay in hotels in Waco. Press conferences that don't involve the president are conducted in the gymnasium of Crawford Middle School, ten miles (16 km) away from the ranch. The ramshackle barn often seen behind TV correspondents during their live reports is actually a shed used by the school's groundskeepers.

[edit] Grounds

President Bush and Lance Armstrong on grounds in 2005
The land includes seven canyons and three miles (5 km) of frontage along Rainey Creek and the Middle Bosque River. In August 2001 while touring the canyons with reporters Bush noted that the cedars in the canyons would be a good nesting ground for the endangered golden-cheeked warbler although the warblers have not actually been seen on the compound.[8]
Bush added an 11 acre (45,000 m²) man-made pond that he stocked with 600 largemouth bass and 30,000 bait fish. There are also bluegill and red ear sunfish. The pond has a maximum depth of 17 feet (5.2 m). In May 2006 in a question to what the best moment in his administration, Bush was quoted: "I would say the best moment was when I caught a 7 ½-pound largemouth bass on my lake."[9]
At the urging of his daughters, the President has also built a large swimming pool [10] over the objections of Heymann who thought it would interrupt the stark views. President Bush calls it "the whining pool" — whine long enough and you get it.[11]

[edit] Activities
One of the most highly prized souvenirs from the compound is a gray Under Armour athletic shirt (retail $19.99) emblazoned with a Texas star encircled by the words The President's 100-Degree Club. In order to qualify a visitor must run 3 miles (4.8 km), or bike for 10, when the thermometer hits triple digits.[12]
President Bush uses the compound for vacations, occasional meetings, and entertaining foreign dignitaries. In the less formal setting, dress code for meetings calls for an open collar and no tie. Guests are typically treated to meals of Southern cuisine. When not holding meetings or briefings, Bush spends his time mountain biking, jogging, fishing, bird hunting, and clearing brush.
President Bush has made clear his preference for spending time away from his official residence at the White House in Washington, DC. In 2001, he said, "I think it is so important for a president to spend some time away from Washington, in the heartland of America."[13]

[edit] Visits from foreign dignitaries

Putin and Bush in 2001
Visitors to the ranch have included:
Russian President Vladimir Putin, November 2001
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, April 2002
Saudi King Abdullah, April 2002, April 2005
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, August 2002
Chinese President Jiāng Zémín, October 2002
Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, February 2003
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, May 2003
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, May 2003
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, July 2003
Mexican President Vicente Fox, March 2004, March 2005
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, April 2004
Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, November 2004
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, March 2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, April 2005
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, August 2005
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, November 2007[14]
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, February 2008[15]

[edit] Security considerations
The Federal Aviation Administration has three nautical miles (six km) no fly zone around the ranch full time (designated Prohibited Area 49). When President Bush is there, a Temporary Flight Restriction is issued, expanding the radius to 10 nautical miles (19 km), with lesser restrictions extending to 30 nautical miles (56 km), containing some exceptions for Waco Regional Airport nearby.
President Bush normally flies in and out of TSTC Waco Airport (the former Connally Air Force Base that is now owned by state technical college) on Air Force One and is shuttled on Marine One to the ranch.

[edit] Protests
Protests are frequent outside the compound with one of the most prominent being Cindy Sheehan who spent several months there protesting the Iraq War.[16][17] She created a peace camp called Camp Casey by pitching a tent by the side of Prairie Chapel Road leading to the compound in 2005 and was joined at one point by filmaker Michael Moore. She announced her intention to stay for the full five weeks or until such a meeting was granted. She also promised that, were she not granted a second meeting, she would return to Crawford each time President Bush visited there in the future.[18] Several cabinet members went out to talk to Sheehan, but she refused stating that she would only talk to the President himself. Toward the end of her vigil, she said she was "very, very, very grateful" Bush did not grant her that meeting because it would have ended the momentum the peace movement gained from the popularity of her demonstrations.[19] Pro-Bush supporters set up an alternative Camp Reality across Prairie Chapel Road.[20]

[edit] Future of the ranch

Alberto Gonzalez and his wife with the Bushes at the ranch the day before Gonzalez resigned as United States Attorney General
Speculation about the future of the ranch has been stirred up in the location of the George W. Bush Presidential Library with reports that the Bushes may be considering a residence in the Dallas, Texas, area after the Presidency.
Baylor University in Waco made a bid for the library. However, on February 22, 2008 it was announced that Southern Methodist University in the Dallas enclave of University Park, Texas, would house the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
Laura is said to have told reporters they are considering buying a home in Dallas, and rumors have circulated that it would be the enclave of Highland Park, Texas.[21]
The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed White House official: "They'll have their place in Crawford. He just loves it."[22] The Journal noted that in 2007 Bush had not visited the ranch as much as in prior years noting that in 2004 he visited 17 times compared with four times prior to August 2007.[23]

[edit] Gallery

George W. Bush with Colin Powell and Richard Armitage

Hosni Mubarak and President Bush and Marine One at the ranch in 2004

The President with Dick Cheney, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice and Peter Pace in 2006 at the ranch

[edit] References
^ CINDY SHEEHAN Guide to Bush Ranch - ntimc.org - Posted August 7, 2006.
^ Reporter's Notebook; Creatures and Creature Comforts at the President's Ranch - New York Times - August 10, 2006
^ 'Texas White House' a refuge from stress - USA Today - April 13, 2001
^ 'Texas White House' a refuge from stress - USA Today - April 13, 2001
^ Cowboys & Indians: The Bush Ranch
^ 'Texas White House' a refuge from stress - USA Today - April 13, 2001
^ Reporter's Notebook; Creatures and Creature Comforts at the President's Ranch - New York Times - August 10, 2006
^ Exchange With Reporters During a Tour of the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas - George W. Bush - Transcript - August 25, 2001
^ Best moment as president was catching a largemouth bass, Bush says - Seattle Times - May 8, 2006
^ No grocery, $5 haircuts - and the Bush ranch csmonitor.com
^ 'Texas White House' a refuge from stress - USA Today - April 13, 2001
^ Reporter's Notebook; Creatures and Creature Comforts at the President's Ranch - New York Times - August 10, 2006
^ Videotaped Remarks by the President for Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree - Whitehouse.gov - July 31, 2001
^ Merkel auf Bushs Ranch: Partner: Ja. Kumpel: Nein! - Politik - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten
^ The Associated Press: Bush: Listen to Generals on Troop Levels
^ this link is not working. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
^ this link is not working. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
^ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/16/politics/main780687_page2.shtml Sheehan Edges Closer To Bush Ranch: Anti-War Protesters Move To Site Provided By Texas Sympathizer]. CBS News/AP (2005-08-17). Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
^ Sheehan Leaves Central Texas Wednesday. KWTX.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
^ Crawford Protest Photos: Camp Reality & Sheehan's Camp Casey
^ Rumors, but no sale yet for potential Bush digs – Dallas News – July 25, 2007
^ Another Downturn: Bush Souvenirs In Crawford, Texas – Wall Street Journal – August 20, 2007
^ Another Downturn: Bush Souvenirs In Crawford, Texas – Wall Street Journal – August 20, 2007

[edit] External links
July 1999: Locals Hope Bush will create a White House in Texas, from the Abilene Reporter-News
December 2000: Home on the Range, from TIME magazine's Person of the Year story on Bush
March 2001: Prohibited Area P-49 established by the FAA over the ranch and enlarged during presidential visits
August 2001: No grocery, $5 haircuts - and the Bush ranch, from the Christian Science Monitor
August 25, 2001: President Gives Tour of Crawford Ranch, a White House press release
December 2002: The Bush Ranch, from Cowboys & Indians magazine
January 2, 2003: President's Remarks on Walking Tour of the Ranch, a White House press release
July 29, 2005: Bush plans 50th ranch trip in five years, an Associated Press report published in USA Today.
August 18, 2005: Can this bike ride be Bush's tour de force?, A report in The Times concerning the visit of Lance Armstrong to the ranch.
Prairie Chapel Ranch is at coordinates 31°34′57″N 97°32′38″W / 31.582447, -97.543831 (Prairie Chapel Ranch)Coordinates: 31°34′57″N 97°32′38″W / 31.582447, -97.543831 (Prairie Chapel Ranch)
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