Sunday 3-28

28 March 2010~~Week 14 of 2010: 87 days this year…278 remain
‡ Scottish Proverbs
A bird in the hand is worth ten fleein'.
He's as welcome as water in a holed ship.
‡ Free Ramblings
This is one of the windiest days we have had in quite a spell. Who knew all that wind was stored up someplace, just a waitin’ for today. The winds were a steady 30mph with gust up to 50 mph. Yesterday we had a couple of breaks, but not today. It seems like every time I opened my door to do something outside, the wind was blowing harder. This wind storm of cold air is not bringing any moisture with it and should be gone by tomorrow. Our high of 46° felt a whole lot colder.
A few years back a Navajo golfer was big in the PGA. Notah Begay III is still playing and not doing too badly. He had a little bump when he became famous to the general public, but has shown that he has gone past that.[ Last night a Tuba friend stopped by to watch the bball games before heading back to Tuba. His cable company doesn’t offer HD and even though he has a plasma TV, he isn’t getting the full value without HD. He was reminded of that as we watched the two games.] In our discussion he asked me if I had heard of Rickie Fowler. I had not. Turn out this 20 year old is an up and coming pro golfer. He is multiracial and grew up in California. Rickie made a mark at the recent Phoenix golf tourney and is being watched now by many. Then today I got three emails from Tuba people about him, each with a different news article or website to learn about him. Then tonight, he showed up on the Navajo Times Facebook page. While he hasn’t spent a lot of time on the Rez, he is Navajo and Navajos are proud of his accomplishments. That is good.
Sadly, Facebook also told us of the passing of Marshall Plummer. He was a Navajo politician and educator who was the first Vice President of the Navajo Nation. He was only 62, and will be missed by many. So very sad when a leader is lost.
‡ A quick smile
Military cost-cutting has hit everything, including toilet paper. Only the cheapest graces our latrines. So when a couple of boxes filled with the good stuff -- two-ply tissue! -- fell in our laps, it was like manna from heaven.
But the next morning, our behinds were brought down to earth. It was all a mistake. The boxes had been intended for the officers club. "I should have known," grumbled the supply sergeant.
"Our officers demand everything in duplicate!"
‡ Random Fact:
The brightly colored poison dart frog of Central and South America has enough poison to kill about 10 people or 20,000 mice. These frogs are only about ½” long.
‡Puzzle  
In each of these puzzles, a proverb is written with exactly one letter of each word replaced with another. Can you figure out what the original proverb is?
1 Earls so red, earls no rose.
2 Beauts in oily shin beep.
3 Ill word end so plan takes pack I pull toy.
‡ Side Show Stories
London: a five-year-old kindergartener who climbed a tree in his school yard and refused to come down. Due to the school's strict health and safety policy the teachers were prohibited from helping him down.
Instead, staff followed guidelines and retreated inside the school building to "observe from a distance" so the child would not get "distracted and fall".
It took 45 minutes before a passer-by noticed the child in the tree and helped him down. And for her trouble the head teacher of the school reported her to the police for trespassing.
‡ Calendar Information
• March’s Month Long Observances •
BIRTHSTONE: aquamarine and bloodstone (courage) FLOWER: Narcissus [daffodil, jonquil] (vanity)
National Cheerleading Safety Month • National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month • National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month • National Craft Month • National Ethics Awareness Month •National Eye Donor Month • National Frozen Food Month • National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month •National Kidney Month• National Nutrition Month • National Social Work Month • National Umbrella Month • National Women's History Month • Optimism Month • Play The Recorder Month • Poison Prevention Awareness Month • Red Cross Month • Save Your Vision Month • Sing With Your Child Month • Small Press Month •Spiritual Wellness Month • Women's History Month • Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month • Youth Art Month
• Observance Weeks in March•
22-28
World Folk Tales & Fables Week
• 27 March Observances—US/UN/World •
Something On A Stick Day
Weed Appreciation Day
•27 March Observances—by country •
China: Serfs Emancipation Day (since 1959 to celebrate freeing serfs in Tibet-which sees this as a day of tragedy)
Christians: Palm Sunday: Beginning of Holy Week
Czech Republic and Slovakia : Teachers' Day
Europe: Summer Daylight Savings Time begins
Libya : Evacuation Day
Number One Songs in…
1951 ►Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
1959 ►Venus - Frankie Avalon
1967 ►Happy Together - The Turtles
1975 ►My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli
1983 ►Billy Jean - Michael Jackson
•What Happened on this Day •
In The Arts
1794 ►Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1920 ►Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
In Athletics
1972 ►Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
In Business or Education
1797 ►Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1866 ►1st ambulance goes into service
1881 ►P.T. Barnum and James A. Bailey merged their circuses to form the “Greatest Show on Earth.”
In Politics
1845 ►Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
In Science/Religion
1885 ►US Salvation Army officially organized
1922 ►1st microfilm device introduced
1979 ►Radiation is released at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1930 ►Two of Turkey's largest cities change their names ( Constantinople and Angora ). The City of Constantinople is changed to Istanbul The City of Angora is changed to Ankara
• Born on this day •
Artists and Composers
Raphael, 1483, Urbino Italy, painter
Entertainers in Cinema, Music, Theater, and TV
Dirk Bogarde (Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde), 1921, actor
Conchata Ferrell, 67, actress (“Two and a Half Men”, “LA Law”),
Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta), 24, musician
Ken Howard, 66, actor (“Crossing Jordan,” “The White Shadow”)
Brian Jones [Lewis B Hopkin], 1942, pop guitarist (Rolling Stones)
Reba McEntire, 56, singer, actress (“Reba”)
Julia Stiles, 29, actress (The Prince & Me, The Bourne Identity, Save the Last Dance, O)
Vince Vaughn, 40, actor (Wedding Crashers, Old School, Swingers)
Dianne Wiest, 62, actress (Oscars for Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway; “Law & Order”)
Athletes
Rick Barry, 66, ABA/NBA forward (New York Nets, Golden State Warriors)
Bart Wayne Conner, 52, gymnast (Olympics-2 gold-1984)
K C Jones, 36, NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl XXXII)
Jerry Sloan, 68, basketball coach
Business, Education Leaders
August A. Busch Jr., 1899, beer magnate
Political Leaders
Ingrid, 1910, Queen Mother of Denmark
Francisco A G de Miranda, 1750, Venezuelan freedom fighter
Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 1914, (Senator-ME), US Secretary of State
Scientists /Religious Leaders
Marlin Perkins, 1905, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)
•Today’s Obits •
Jan van der Heyden, 1712, Dutch inventor (street lantern), @ 75
Jonathan Edwards, 1758, US theologist (Great Awakening), reaction to smallpox vaccine @ 54
Dwight D Eisenhower, 1969, 34th President/General (WWII), @ 78
Emmett Kelly, 1979, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
Jesse Owens, 1980, (Olympics-gold-36), lung cancer in Tucson AZ @ 66. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously on this day in 1990
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk) , 1953, Olympic Athlete, heart attack @ 65
‡ANSWERS to puzzle
1 Earls so red, earls no rose►Early to bed, early to rise.
2 Beauts in oily shin beep►Beauty is only skin deep.
3 Ill word end so plan takes pack I pull toy►All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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