10-12-11


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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .
  • 1692 - Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials
  • 1823 - Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
  • 1879 - British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan
  • 1892 - Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools
  • 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
  • 1967 - St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series
  • 1968 - 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2005 - The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit 
♪♪ HaPpY  BiRtHdAy to♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .
Whoa…73° here today…Amazing. The parking painters were here at 10 and finished by 3. Nice. Two cars didn’t move, but they didn’t have them towed. Nicer. Then about 10:30 the gutter people arrived. They did gutters on all the units in one day…amazing. The painters had a team of about 8, the gutter people had a team of six. They all worked really fast. I sure hope the gutters work, as I won’t know what to do when it rains and I don’t have a waterfall over my front walking area. The meteorologist says nice warm weather through the weekend. That is a good thing for the Tuba people as the Fair is starting.

One of my biggest complaints about the Fair in Tuba was that every year the Chapter sponsors held a ‘Kids Day’ at the fair on a school day. Kids got in free and could ride the rides for free. At TCBS we raised enough commotion that the planners finally added some kid friendly learning booths for those days and even brought in some kid-friendly acts to perform. It wasn’t easy to move 1000 kids from TCBS to ‘kids day’ but we did it every year. I discovered that it was much harder to move kids to the fair when I was at Kaibeto and Kayenta. But we did it. This year the Chapter had ‘kid’s day’ but no free rides and teachers and staff had to pay to get in and the bus drivers had to pay to park. That is certainly the wrong message. Next they will be charging to watch the parade on Saturday--$5 to watch and get candy, $4 to watch but not get any candy, $3 for kids in strollers… So sad that money making is the bottom line. Over at the Shiprock Fair Yei-Bi-Che’ the patient was told the Fair committee would cover all costs, then let her know that they didn’t have enough money and she would need to pay $5000 for having the 9 day ceremony. She found this out on the second day of the ceremony. Her family agreed to pay…and are selling burritos around Shiprock. Crazy.

While I was watching Prohibition, I was reminded of the old time Political Conventions. Delegates from around the country descend on a big city for a week or so. Lots of yelling, screaming, state banners and sometimes many, many floor votes before the candidate was selected. There were lots of back room compromise going on to get a candidate nominated. We didn’t get to see or hear or learn about the backroom stuff. When I was in college, I thought these backroom deals were wrong. Now it is all out in the open and not for a week or so, but for three years plus. Now the only reason to watch a convention is to see who will be the Vice Presidential nominee. It is so tiresome to listen to all the potential candidates. In the olden days those people were still around and on the first ballot or maybe even a couple more. Then the nominee was selected. It took a couple of DAYS. Ah, for the good ol’ days.


Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .
1.      Celeste was the wife of which fictional animal?
2.      What were the names of the two bears that lived in Jellystone park?
3.      What is the name for a collection of frogs?
4.      What kind of animal was "Gentle Ben" on the TV show?
5.      A female donkey is called a what?
6.      On a common lady bug, what color are the spots?>
7.      Which subhuman primate is the most intelligent?
8.      A mandrill is what type of creature?
9.      The most Asian elephants to be found in their natural habitat can be found in what country?
10.  Which animal is the fastest, a hare, greyhound, or horse?
11.  What type of animal is a Tasmanian Devil?
12.  Which sense is the weakest sense in most primates?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase does this suggest?                           .

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .
  • Average age British women consider themselves ‘old’ according to a British Funeral Planning Compnay: 29. For men: 58


Somewhat Useless Information                                                                  .
  • Fortune cookies actually originated in Japanese culture. You would find more Japanese-owned restaurants that served the still very popular American adaptation of Asian cuisine before WWII. When large populations of the Japanese-American citizens were put into internment camps, the fates of their restaurants were turned over to Chinese-Americans, and so we associate the famous cookie with the Chinese.
  • Actual Chinese cuisine is much different than what Americans know as Chinese food. However, the success of American-Asian food has necessitated vocational schools in China to teach potential immigrants the art of the cuisine. For example, Egg Foo Young is unheard of in traditional Chinese cuisine.

Yeah, It Really Happened on the Web                                                                              .            
After Cumberland County, Pa., District Judge Thomas A, Placey ordered a continuance for Barry Horn Jr., who’s accused in a standoff with police, several court observers Googled Placey’s Facebook page and learned he’s a Facebook friend with the defendant. Placey said he knew Horn’s father, a former county sheriff’s deputy, but has never socialized with the defendant. He insisted the two aren’t real friends, only Facebook friends, adding that he accepts every friend request he gets. “Someone says you want to be my friend, I say yes,” Placey said. “You could be a Facebook friend of mine, I wouldn’t know it.” (Harrisburg’s The Patriot-News)
Police in Greeley, Colo., accused Juan Gonzales Jr., 22, of breaking into a woman’s home and stealing her cell phone. After using the phone signal to trace the phone to Gonzales, investigators found that the suspect had sent the victim a friend request on Facebook. (Greeley’s The Tribune)
Authorities in China’s Zhejiang province detained 32 people accused of operating a criminal network selling “poisonous and harmful cooking oil” over the internet made from used grease dredged from drains behind restaurants. Noting the enterprise did business in 14 provinces, the ministry of public safety said police confiscated more than 100 tons of “gutter oil.” (Reuters)

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .
A couple lived near the ocean and used to walk the beach a lot. One summer they noticed a girl who was at the beach pretty much every day.
She wasn't unusual, nor was the travel bag she carried, except for one thing. She would approach people who were sitting on the beach, glance around, then speak to them.
Generally, the people would respond negatively and she would wander off, but occasionally someone would nod and there would be a quick exchange of money for something she carried in her bag. The couple assumed she was selling drugs and debated calling the cops, but since they didn't know for sure they just continued to watch her.
After a couple of weeks the wife asked, "Honey, have you ever noticed that she only goes up to people with boom boxes and other electronic devices?"
He hadn't and said so. Then she said, "Tomorrow I want you to get a towel and our big radio and go lie out on the beach. Then we can find out what she's really doing."
Well, the plan went off without a hitch, and the wife was almost hopping up and down with anticipation when she saw the girl talk to her husband and then leave. The man walked up the beach and met his wife at the road. "Well, is she selling drugs?" she asked excitedly."
No, she's not." he said, enjoying this probably more than he should have.
"Well, what is it, then?" his wife fairly shrieked.
The man grinned and said. "Her name is Sally and she's a battery salesperson."
"Batteries?" cried the wife.
 "Yes," he replied. "Sally sells C cells by the Seashore

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     
John Denver

Daybook Information                                                                                    .
…Happening This Week:
6-12
National Physicians Assistant Week
9-15
Build Your Business with Business Cards Week / Emergency Nurses Week / National Chestnut Week / Fire Prevention Week / National Metric Week / National School Lunch Week / National Work From Home Week
10-16
Home-based Business Week / Kids' Goal Setting Week / Take Your Medicine Americans Week / World Rainforest Week


TODAY IS                                                                                                         .
Columbus Day (Traditional)
Day of the Six Billion in 1999 when world population reached 6,000,000,000
Emergency Nurses Day
Free Thought Day
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
International Top Spinning Day
National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work or School Day
UN International Day For Natural Disaster Reduction
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Bahamas Discovery Day (1492--CC)
Equatorial Guinea: Independence Day (1968 from Spain)
Mexico:  Dia De La Raza (Day of Hispanic People)
Spain: Hispanity Day 


Today’s Events                                                                                                .
ARTS
1609 - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
1952 - KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1991 - Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
ATHLETICS
1925 - Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8) current 2:03.38
1968 - Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo (hurdles) is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
1989 - Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
BUSINESS
1915 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1920 - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
EDUCATION
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1676 - Mugg was an Arosaguntacook Chief. At the outbreak of King Philip's War, he sought out a peace treaty with the English for his, and other, tribes. Rather than listen to him, the English threw him in jail. While he was released soon, his treatment made him an enemy of the English. With 100 warriors, he attacked Black Point, Maine today in retaliation. Most of the settlers would escape, but he would burn many of the structures. Mugg would be killed in Black Point 7 months later.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon
1216 - King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
1810 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen
1984 - IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
2002 - Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists
RELIGION
1285 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
SCIENCE
1918 - 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
1972 - Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
US POLITICS
1792 - Columbus Day is 1st celebrated
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"
1915 - Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
1960 - JFK & Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
1972 - 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .
ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, 3 Tenors )
ATHLETES
1905 - Rick Ferrell, baseball Hall of Fame catcher
1963 - Lane Frost, American professional bull rider
Marion Jones, American track and field athlete is 36
Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer is 34
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Kirk Cameron, child actor will be 41
Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist /dietician (Bahamian Diet) is 79
Hugh Jackman, actor will be 43
Sam Moore, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave-Soul Sister) is 76
Adam Rich, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy) is 43
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
Chris Wallace, newscaster (NBC Weekend News) is 64
POLITICIAL FIGURES
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SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
1865 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Today’s Obits                                                                                                  .
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player dies of congestive heart failure, at 63
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician dies at 86
1997 - John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53
1969 - Sonja Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), dies of leukemia at 57
1940 - Tom Mix, US actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies in auto accident outside Tucson at 60
1985 - Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75
2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey dies at 72
1989 - Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends ), dies at 69 of kidney cancer

ANSWERS                                                                                                        .    
Trivia Quiz
1.      Celeste was the wife of which fictional animal?
a.      Babar the Elephant
2.      What were the names of the two bears that lived in Jellystone park?
a.      Yogi and Boo Boo
3.      What is the name for a collection of frogs?
a.      Army
4.      What kind of animal was "Gentle Ben" on the TV show?
a.      American Black Bear
5.      A female donkey is called a what?
a.      Jenny
6.      On a common lady bug, what color are the spots?>
a.      Black
7.      Which subhuman primate is the most intelligent?
a.      Chimpanzee
8.      A mandrill is what type of creature?
a.      Monkey
9.      The most Asian elephants to be found in their natural habitat can be found in what country?
a.      India
10.  Which animal is the fastest, a hare, greyhound, or horse?
a.      Hare 45 mph (70 km/h); greyhound about 43mph, quarter horse 35-40mph
11.  What type of animal is a Tasmanian Devil?
a.      Marsupial
12.  Which sense is the weakest sense in most primates?
a.      Sense of Smell
Wuzzle
Don’t buy the secondhand car
Batting slump

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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