Mar 27

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1625 - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne

1794 - US Navy forms and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1879 - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)

1931 - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor

1958 - Havana Hilton opens

1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die

1973 - Sacheen Littlefeather refuses Marlon Brando's Oscar as a protest against media and governmental mistreatment of American Indians.

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

It started out as a very windy day…thought I would stay home…but everything calmed down in the afternoon and I was out and about running errands. If Flag, one never knows how quickly the weather will change.

This Health Care issue is at least partially at the Supreme Court. I get the argument that the government can’t require people to buy anything. However; one of the reasons that we are told that health care costs are skyrocketing is that many individuals show up at emergency rooms with no insurance. In many cases, the not-for-profit hospital must make up that money somewhere…and that means we all pay. I have heard too many young people say they are healthy and don’t want to be forced to have health insurance. I was raised with health insurance and haven’t had any period in my life when I haven’t had it. Guess I’m not a gambler. I also don’t mind helping those who can’t afford insurance by paying a little more.  I sure would like to see some figures on people who end up in the hospital without insurance and can’t pay their bills. Are they unable to pay the current rates, are they denied insurance for a pre-existing condition, or are they financially able to buy insurance and just choose not to have it? I spent many years with the Navajos where many believe they get free health care. Well, those times have really changed. IHS has put lots of pressure on working Navajos to get insurance, so IHS can get money from the insurance companies. I get that too…but have to wonder about the 1868 treaty. I just hope the Supreme Court makes a definitive decision and doesn’t talk around the issue with lots of legal mumbo-jumbo.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

For each sentence given, change just one letter in one word to reverse the sentence's meaning. For example, given "The guard will not let you through the gate," you would change the T in "not" to a W and get "The guard will now let you through the gate."1.      Given the choice of gloves I prefer these:
2.      The pastor followed a liberal interpretation of the Bible:
3.      After getting a new card the poker player decided to hold:
4.      The race lasted one hour and our car came in fast:
5.      The ocean cruise was everything I’d dreamed:
6.      I get scared when it’s light:
7.      With any luck the investors will spur on the deal:
8.      The commissioner wants to prevent the performance of the rap group:
9.      The cook wants to cook the turkey for 15 more minutes:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—

Found on You Tube         

M.C. Escher Documentary

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of male scientists who say they have fewer children because of their careers: 25

**note yesterday’s should have read: Percentage of female scientists who say they have fewer children because of their careers: 45

 Joke-of-the-day

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next Twenty-four years telling them to sit down and shut up!

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

For every day you spend in the hospital, plan on one week to recuperate.

Somewhat Useless Information   

U.S. citizens are not legally permitted to come in contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles, according to the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented in 1969.In July of 1947, the U.S. Army Air Force announced that they had recovered a flying saucer that crashed near Roswell Air Field in New Mexico. Within hours, however, the Army dismissed the statement, claiming the saucer was a misidentified weather balloon.

Yeah, It Really Happened    

MSNBC At Holmes County High School in Florida’s rural north, not only do naughty students get spanked, but the woodshop class makes the paddles, according to reports in the media.

Eddie Dixon, the principal at the school in Bonifay, a small town 15 miles from the Alabama border, recently told a reporter from State Impact about the shop class's product: a lightweight paddle made of ash wood, measuring about 16 inches long, 5 inches wide and half an inch wide. 

“You can’t buy them anywhere,” Dixon said, according to State Impact, a partnership of local public media and National Public Radio. “There’s not a market for them, so yeah, students make it.”   

The report didn't say how many paddles a school the size of Holmes County High, with about 500 students, might need. An attempt by msnbc.com to contact Dixon by telephone was not successful Thursday evening.

Holmes apparently isn't the only Florida school making its own paddles. At Madison County Central's elementary and middle school, east of Tallahassee, townsfolk make the paddles out of Plexiglas, the dean of schools said, according to State Impact.

Florida is among 19 states that allow school staff to use corporal punishment, according to the Center for Effective Discipline. Other states allowing corporal punishment: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.        

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

21-27

Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

25-31 

Consider Christianity Week:

Passiontide (3/25-4/7)

National Conference on Family Literacy

Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week

Root Canal Awareness Week

National Protocol Officer's Week

National Cleaning Week

Today Is                                                                      

American Diabetes Association Alert Day

Celebrate Exchange Day

Education and Sharing Day

National "Joe" Day

Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day

Summer Daylight Savings Time (Europe)

Viagra Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt

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1500’s

1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida

1600’s

1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

1700’s

1790 - The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented in England

1800’s

1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)

1866 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend

1900’s

1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

1945 - Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"

1951 - Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"

1955 - Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)

1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party

1966 - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia

1978 - Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs

2000’s

2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel

2006 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers) is 70

Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84) is 73

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In their 40’s

Mariah Carey, singer is 43

Pauley Perrette, actor (NCIS) is 43

Quentin Tarantino, director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction) is 49

Under 30 years old

Brenda Song, Disney actor is 24

Remembered for being born on this day

Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon in 1712

Michael Bruce, Scottish poet in 1746

Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives) in 1813

David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive , Harry O) in 1931

Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce) in 1863

Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb) in 1892

Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly) in 1899

William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar in 1810

Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80) in 1917

Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody,  Summertime) in 1924

Today’s Obits                                                           

Milton Berle, American actor and comedian dies at 94 in 2002

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist dies at 81 in 1923

Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 in 1972

Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 in 1968

Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies of breast cancer at 41 in 1977

Dudley Moore, British actor dies of pneumonia at 67 in 2002

Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer dies at 89 in 1998

Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer in 1991

Billy Wilder, American director dies at 96 in 2002

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

Big animal v small animal

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Given the choice of gloves I prefer these:
a.      e to o--those
2.      The pastor followed a liberal interpretation of the Bible:
a.      b to t—literal
3.      After getting a new card the poker player decided to hold:
a.      h to f—fold
4.      The race lasted one hour and our car came in fast:
a.      f to l—last
5.      The ocean cruise was everything I’d dreamed:
a.      m to d—dreaded
6.      I get scared when it’s light:
a.      l to n—night
7.      With any luck the investors will spur on the deal:
a.      p to o--sour
8.      The commissioner wants to prevent the performance of the rap group:
a.      v to s—present
9.      The cook wants to cook the turkey for 15 more minutes:
a.      k to l--cool

 Wuzzle

• Six feet under
• Divided highway
• Tight security throughout 

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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