≈Week 21 of 2010: 143 days this year… 222 days remain≈
≈ Something To Think About
Do not take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
~Socrates
≈ Random Fact
The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1827 ►The first nursery school in the United States was established in New York City. The school was developed “to relieve parents of the laboring classes from the care of their children ... offering the children protection from weather, from idleness and contamination of evil example.”
≈ Free Ramblings
Our discussion group was small last night, but very interesting none-the-less. Looking at how the Warsaw Pact and the former USSR have changed was fascinating. Since the election of Barack Obama many Americans are discovering that culture plays a very important role in our world. One’s culture frames so much of what one believes. It is difficult, if not impossible to remove cultural beliefs from an individual’s view of the world. It’s been a generation since the USSR broke apart. For two generations, the USSR government held so many under their thumb and did not allow for dissidence. Now these emerging nations are finding the difficulty of holding a country together when there are so many different cultures within the nation. This part of the world will show us that many future strifes will probably be energy based. We are in Iraq because of energy issues and these energy issues are not going away.
I thought it was windy yesterday…but that was nothing compared to today. The wind woke me several times during the night and kept blowing all day. We had a steady wind of 25mph with gusts up to 60mph throughout the day. It got to 65°, but I couldn’t open any windows. My deck is filled with pine needles. It got so bad this afternoon that I had to bring the bird feeders inside. They were swinging around so much that they were losing all their feed and I knew if I left them out they would be blown off their hangers and broken. Very few of my neighbors were outside. I they came out, it was only long enough to let the dog do its business. Our commons area is usually filled with kids on bikes, skateboards, footballs, softballs. Today, the commons area was deserted. The wind is not expected to let up until tomorrow night. I would head out of town, but it appears from the map that I would have to head out of the state to get away from this mess.
≈ A Quick Smile…
An old man strode in to his doctors office and said, "Doc, my druggist said to tell you to change my prescription and to check the prescription you've been giving to Mrs. Smith."
"Oh, he did, did he?" the doctor shot back. "And since when does a druggist second guess a doctor's orders?"
The old man says, "Since he found out I've been on birth control pills since February."
≈ Puzzle 1
And now for more in the tradition of the Vowel-less Knights: As a bonus, who said it first?
1. Mnds r lk prchts - th nl fnctn whn pn.
2. Bwr f smll xpnss, smll lk wll snk grt shp.
3. Prblms cnnt b slvd t th sm lvl f wrnss tht crtd thm.
≈ Side Show Stories
GEORGETOWN, Ky. - Officials in Georgetown, Ky., said a deceased city council candidate received 1,002 votes in the primary election, despite signs notifying voters of her recent death. Georgetown officials said Vickie Moore, who died of a heart attack April 4 at age 54, received enough votes Tuesday to move on to November's general election for the council despite signs at polling places telling voters the candidate had died and her votes would not be officially counted, the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader reported. Election officials said Moore's name is being dropped and will be replaced in the general election by that of Antonio Barber Sr. Moore placed 13th out of 29 candidates in the primary. Locals theorized people may have voted for Moore as a tribute to her memory, to show dissatisfaction with the other candidates or because they did not notice the signs. "I think people voted to make a statement, or people were doing it in honor of her, to say 'she would have had my vote had she lived,'" said Scott Turner, president of the Georgetown Scott County Community Connections.
≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
≈ Calendar Information
• Observance Weeks in May•
17-23
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week
National Effectiveness Week
National Bike to Work Week
National Medical Transcription Week
National Backyard Games Week
22-29
Cover the Uninsured Week
National Safe Boating Week
• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •
Penny Day
National Taffy Day
Neighbor Day
World Crohn's and Colitis Day
World Turtle Day
South Carolina : Ratification Day (1788)
• Today’s Observances—by country •
Bermuda: Empire Day
German Federal Republic: Republic Day (1949)
Jamaica: Labor Day
Rye, Sussex England: Mayoring Day
• Today’s Number One Songs in…
For anyone interested, all these songs are available on iTunes.
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1940 ►Tuxedo Junction; Glenn Miller
1950 ►'The Third Man' Theme; Anton Karas
1960 ►Cathy's Clown; The Everly Brothers
1970 ►American Woman/No Sugar Tonight; The Guess Who
1980 ►Call Me; Blondie
• Today’s Happenings•
In The Arts
1922 ►The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight Saving Time
In Athletics
1962 ►The National Basketball Association agreed to plans to transfer the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, CA. The team became the San Francisco Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors)
In Business or Education
1953 ►Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1977 ►South Moluccan militants armed with machine guns hold 105 children and six teachers hostage in a primary school in northern Holland
1990 ►Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
In Politics
1929 ►A new gold rush is starting in Australia
1945 ►Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
In Science/ Religion
1430 ►Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British
1785 ►Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
• Today’s Births •
Artists, Writers, and Composers
Mitch Albom, 52, journalist, author (Tuesdays with Morrie), born Passaic, NJ
Athletes
“Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, 56, former boxer, born Newark, NJ
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, 59, world chess champion, born in Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union
Entertainers
Barbara Barrie, 79, actress (“Suddenly Susan) , born Chicago, IL
Drew Carey 49, actor/comedian/game show host, Cleveland OH
Rosemary Clooney singer, born in 1928 Maysville, Kentucky
Joan Collins, 77, actress (“Dynasty”), born London, England
Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], actor, singer, musician, born in 1910 Terre Haute IN
Jewel Kilcher Murray, 36, singer, born Payson, UT
Artie Shaw [Arthur Jacob Arshawsky] New York NY, bandleader (Come'on my House), born in 1910 New York City
Business, Education Persons
Edward Hitchcock America's 1st professor of physical ed (Amherst College) , born in 1828 Deer-field, MA
Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb),first woman admitted to legal profession in U.S., born in 1846 Burlington, Iowa
Political Persons
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Scientists /Religious Persons
Carolus Linnæus Swedish botanist/"Father of Taxonomy" (naming plants & animals), born in 1707 Småland, Sweden
Robert Moog inventor (the Moog Synthesizer), born in 1934 New York City
• Today’s Obits •
Clyde Barrow outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush in 1934 @ 24
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson frontiersman, in 1881 aneurysm @ 59
William Kidd Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock in 1701 @ 56
Jackie "Moms" Mabley comedienne (Amazing Grace), in 1975 @81
Bonnie Parker outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush in 1934 @ 25
John Davison Rockfeller industrialist, in 1937 @ 97 in Ormond Beach FL
≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1
1. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Bonus: Thomas Dewar. Yep, the Scottish Whiskey Distiller.
2. Beware of small expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.
Bonus: Benjamin Franklin.
3. Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Bonus: Albert Einstein.
≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food
Fire.
≈ Something you might enjoy…
In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…
Here are two ways to enjoy "Eye of the Tiger". One as an Irish Step Dance, the other on the bagpipes.
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