Fri 5-28

≈Week 21 of 2010: 148 days this year… 217 days remain≈

≈ Something To Think About  

Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals over the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

~A. Lou Vickery

≈ Random Sports Facts    

§ Los Angeles Clippers - Determined by a contest in 1984, this team name is said to pay tribute to the great sailing ships that passed through San Diego Bay.

§ Utah Jazz — An ideal name for this NBA franchise when it was set in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz music, in 1974. Five years later the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City and the name went with them.

§ Los Angeles Lakers — Originally based in Minneapolis, Minn., the name was based on the state motto "The Land of 10,000 Lakes." Despite the lack of lakes in Los Angeles, the team kept the name when it relocated in 1960.

• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1990 ►Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)

≈ Free Ramblings    

The Flagstaff schools are still in session. They are usually out by now, but there were so many snow days, they have to keep on truckin’. Kids are outside until dark now. They have all the energy of summer, but still have to sit in class. I’m sure the teachers and staff are as ready for summer as the kids.

It was a good day here. We made it to 75° and the breeze of about 10mph was nice. I was able to be on the deck and enjoy the spring weather. I think it is safe to start putting some plants in my planters. I’m sure it will get done during this upcoming long weekend. Not that a long weekend means that much to me, but it still ‘feels’ like a long weekend.

≈ A Quick Smile…    

My daughter Marina worked in my law office while she attended graduate school. One morning a call came in for her. I said she wasn't in yet and offered to take a message. The caller said she'd phone back later.

At 11:00 a.m., the caller tried again, and I reported that Marina had gone to lunch.

The last call came in at 3:30 p.m. "I'm sorry," I said, "she's left for the day. May I take a message?"

"Yes," the caller replied. "How can I get a job with you?"

≈ Puzzle 1    

Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.

1. Burn – Bead

                    … HINT: Food

2. Rid – Tripe

                    …HINT: Journey

3. Grove – Rout

                    …HINT: Indentation

4. Charm – Rush

                    …HINT: Damage

5. Cream – Sweep

                    …HINT: Outcry

≈ Side Show Stories    

ALBUQUERQUE - An Albuquerque man said police sent a bomb squad to his house after he discovered an item given to him by a friend years ago was likely an 1800s cannonball.

Kenny Honeycutt said he was describing the object to a friend Friday and was told it sounded like a cannonball from the Civil War era, leading him to call police to ask whether it might be dangerous, KOAT-TV, Albuquerque, reported. "My grandkids come over here and play all the time. I thought, if this thing is dangerous I want to get it out of there," Honeycutt said. "I had used it for a doorstop for a while. I thought I would set it up on the entertainment center." Police said the item was determined to be an explosive device from the 1800s, but there was no gunpowder inside the object so it was not considered dangerous. Honeycutt said he does not know what he will do with the cannonball. "It might be valuable to somebody. Maybe I should put it on the Internet," said Honeycutt.

≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food  

I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

≈ Calendar Information    

• Observance Weeks in May•

22-29

Cover the Uninsured Week

National Safe Boating Week

25-31

Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories

26-30

International Whistler's Week

May 27–June 6

Largest annual festival of literature takes place: Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales.

• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •

National Hamburger Day

Sierra Club Day

Slugs Return From Capistrano Day

• Today’s Observances—by country •

Azerbaijan and Armenia: Republic Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918.

Ethiopia: Downfall of the Derg Day, a National Day.

Nepal: Republic Day

Philippines: Flag 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.

1945 ►Sentimental Journey; Les Brown

1955 ►Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White; Perez Prado

1965 ►Help Me Rhonda; The Beach Boys

1975 ►Before the Next Teardrop Falls; Freddy Fender

• Today’s Happenings•

In The Arts

1953 ►Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"

1974 ►Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation

In Athletics

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In Business or Education

1742 ►1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)

1961 ►Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

In Politics

1774 ►1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)

1851 ►Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1926 ►US Customs Court created by congress

1968 ►Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon

1972 ►White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

In Science/ Religion

1664 ►1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston)

1892 ►Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature

1982 ►Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain

1959 ►Able and Baker were two monkeys who survived a trip into space from a launch at Cape Canaveral, FL.

• Today’s Births •

Artists, Writers, and Composers

Ian Fleming author: creator of Bond ... James Bond, born in 1908 London

Thomas Moore poet, lyricist: The Last Rose of Summer, born in 1779 Dublin, Ireland

Athletes

Kirk Harold Gibson, 53, former baseball player (Tigers, Royals, Dodgers), born Pontiac, MI

Jerry West Basketball Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist [1960]; Lakers, born in1938 Cheylan, WVa

Entertainers

Carroll Baker, 79, actress (Baby Doll, Harlow), born Johnstown, PA

Gladys Knight, 66, singer, born Atlanta, GA

John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees) born in 1955, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland

T-Bone Walker Linden TX, blues guitarist, born in 1910 Linden, Texas

Business, Education Persons

Dionne Quintuplets (Annette (76) Cécile (76), Émilie, Marie, Yvonne), born in 1934 Ontario Canada

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 33, American television panelist (The View), born in Cranston, Rhode Island

Political Persons

Rudolph Giuliani, 66, former mayor of New York City, born Brooklyn, NY

Mark Sanford, 50, Governor of South Carolina (R), born Fort Lauderdale, FL,

Scientists /Religious Persons

Zahi Hawass, 63, Egyptian Egyptologist, born in Damietta, Egypt

Stanley B. Prusiner, 68 American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology born in Des Moines, Iowa

• Today’s Obits •

Anne Bronté novelist in 1849, influenza @ 29

Sidney Greenbaum grammarian, in 1996 heart failure @ 66

Phil[ip Edward] Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), in 1998 shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife @ 49

≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1    

1. Bun - Bread

2. Ride - Trip

3. Groove - Rut

4. Harm - Crush

5. Scream - Weep

≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food  

A shadow

≈ Something you might enjoy…

In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…

John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, would be amazed at what it is doing today.

Sierra Club video

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Thurs 5-27

≈Week 21 of 2010: 147 days this year… 218 days remain≈

≈ Something To Think About  

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

--B.F. Skinner

≈ Random Fact    

Nancy Drew was created by a man, Edward Stratemeyer, who died only two weeks after the series debut in 1930. Carolyn Keene is a pen name for various ghostwriters who have written the books over the years. The first Carolyn Keene was Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books.

• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1679 ►Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK

≈ Free Ramblings    

I am just about ready to say good bye to the place I have get my glasses. Some will remember they messed up my prescription about 6 months ago. At that time I was really upset with the young girl who just kept adjusting them, when I kept telling her there was something wrong. Finally I went to the ophthalmologist and found the lenses were wrong. Yesterday I went in to get a quick adjustment. My glasses were loose. I waited as another young girl finished up with an elderly lady who was buying three pairs of glasses. I sat down and showed the lady what was wrong. She bent the bows, bent the nose pieces and they appeared to be much tighter. This morning, about 10am, I realized that they were pinching my nose and checked and had two big dents in my nose that were getting bright red. I went back and got another young girl. She said the problem was nose pieces that were too small and the fact that wire frames are ‘almost impossible’ to adjust correctly. That is crap, since I have worn wire frames for at least 15 years and never had that problem. The bigger nose pieces had the glasses feel like they were sticking way out on my nose. She said I’d get used to it. I told her that I had prisms in the lenses and I was concerned that they were off a little. She took the glasses back to the guy who makes the glasses. He marked the prism and brought them out. I put them on and he said, “Do they feel like they are sticking out from your face?” When I told him yes, he moved the nose pieces a little and now I have glasses that fit again. I am not happy with having to go back, I am not happy with the incompetence. Mostly, this is the first business that I have dealt with that really makes me feel ‘old’. All the young ladies I have worked with seem to treat me like I am old man who really doesn’t know what he wants, doesn’t really know what is going on, and certainly they don’t want to waste time with me. I’m now keeping my eyes open for a new place to buy my glasses.

I saw a great news piece tonight that hardly makes me feel good, but certainly opened my eyes. It turns out that back in 1979 there was another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling was being done by the same company that is responsible for this one. This was a oil well drilled by Mexico. The spill began when the blow out failed and the rig caught fire. That spill sent out about ten thousand gallons a day. The company tried to put a cap on the well. That didn’t work. They put out a series of buoys to contain the oil. They sent planes to drop dispersant on the oil. They did all the same procedures that are being done today. It took three months to drill the relief well, just like today. The difference is that the 1979 spill was in 200 feet of water and less oil was being released into the open Gulf. The oil companies claim to have made huge technological advances since 1979 and are now drilling at over 5000 feet of water. The scary part is that their R&D people have not made any technological advances on what to do when everything doesn’t work according to plan. BP is following almost the exact same emergency measures, using the exact same type of technology some 31 years later. Turns out that, at the same time of the 1979 rig fire, the Alaskan Pipeline had to be shut down because of a leak. Today there was an oil leak on the Alaskan Pipe line that cut production down to 20%. Too bad our government never seems to learn from history. For more information, just Google ’1979 gulf oil spill’. Oh, Permex has morphed into Transocean between 1979 and 2010.

Flagstaff had a great weather day. We made it to 70°, there was only a light breeze. The sky remained fairly clear. Spring is here and I am luvin’ it.

≈ A Quick Smile…    

The district attorney was cross-examining the murderess on the witness stand.

"And so after you had poisoned the coffee and your husband sat at the breakfast table partaking of the fatal dosage, didn't you feel any qualms? Didn't you feel the slightest pity for him knowing that he was about to die and was wholly unconscious of it?"

"Yes," she answered. "Come to think of it...there was just a moment when I sort of felt sorry for him."

"And, when was that?"

"When he asked for the second cup."

≈ Puzzle 1    

A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man escape?

≈ Side Show Stories    

BEMIDJI, Minn. - A Minnesota couple said their son was born while his mother was behind the wheel of her car en route to the hospital. Amanda McBride, 29, said she left work at about 11:30 p.m. May 18 when she began feeling labor pains and picked up the child's father, Joseph Phillips, 33, on her way to North Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji, the Bemidji Pioneer reported. McBride said she had to drive the car because Phillips suffers seizures, but the couple said Phillips had to grab the wheel when McBride's water broke mid-drive.

"She yelled at me to grab the wheel," Phillips said. "And then, all of a sudden, I heard this little waaa (cry)." The mother, who has two older sons, said the birth was quick. "The baby just came right out," she said. "I was just sitting on the seat and he just slid out. It really wasn't bad at all."

The family made it to the hospital with McBride and baby still in the driver's seat and Phillips steering from the passenger side. The baby, Joseph Dominick Phillips, was found to be healthy and weighed 8 pounds, doctors said.

≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food  

A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?

≈ Calendar Information    

• Observance Weeks in May•

22-29

Cover the Uninsured Week

National Safe Boating Week

25-31

Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories

26-30

International Whistler's Week

May 27–June 6
Largest annual festival of literature takes place: Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales.

• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •

Body Painting Arts Festival

Cellophane Tape Day

• Today’s Observances—by country •

Afghánistán: Independence Day (1921 from UK)

Bolivia: Mother's Day or Día de la Madre

Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin: Slavery Abolition Day since 1848

Nicaragua: Army Day

Nigeria: Children's Day

Turkey: Freedom & Constitution Day (1960, 1961)

• 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.

1924 ►It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'; Wendell Hall

1934 ►Cocktails for Two; Duke Ellington

1944 ►I Love You; Bing Crosby

1954 ►Wanted; Perry Como

1964 ►Love Me Do; The Beatles

1974 ►The Streak; Ray Stevens

1984 ►Let's Hear It for the Boy; Deniece Williams

• Today’s Happenings•

In The Arts

1933 ►Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1995 ►Actor Christopher Reeve was thrown head first while riding his horse.

In Athletics

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In Business or Education

1844 ►Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line

1895 ►British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1936 ►The Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York

1937 ►Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated 1943 ►The Ballpoint pen , is patented in America by Hungarian Laszlo Biro

In Politics

1607 ►Virginia has it's first significant battle between Indians and European settlers.
1703 ►St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great

1941 ►The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the Atlantic by the Royal Naval ships Dorsetshire and others

 (Click here for pics of sinking w/ Johnny Horton singing)

1985 ►Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

In Science/ Religion

1850 ►Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado

1930 ►Richard Drew invents masking tape

1961 ►1st black light is sold

• Today’s Births •

Artists, Writers, and Composers

Rachel Louise Carson biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring) , born 1907 Springdale, PA

Isadora Duncan, dancer: revolutionized the concept of dance, born 1878 San Francisco, CA

Herman Wouk, 95, writer (Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War), born New York, NY

Athletes

Sam Snead Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54/PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73) , born 1912 Ashwood, VA

Entertainers

Todd Bridges, 45, actor (“Diff’rent Strokes”), born San Francisco, CA

Louis Gossett, Jr, 74, actor (Emmy for “Roots”; Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman), born Brooklyn, NY

Christopher Lee, 88, actor (The Lord of the Rings films, Dracula, The Mummy), born London, England

Lee Ann Meriwether, 75, actress (“Barnaby Jones,” “Batman”), former Miss America (’55), born Los Angeles, CA

Vincent Price, horror actor, born 1911 St Louis MO

Business, Education Persons

Cornelius Vanderbilt millionaire (B & O railroad), born 1794 Staten Island, New York

Political Persons

Amelia Jenks Bloomer, women’s rights advocate; newspaper publisher: The Lily; social reformer; temperance advocate; led cause for more sensible dress for women: bloomer panties named after her, born 1818 Cortland County, New York

Christopher J. Dodd, 66, US Senator (D, Connecticut), born Willimantic, CT

"Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler] cowboy/scout, born 1837 Homer, Illinois

Hubert Humphrey, Senator-MN; 38th Vice President, born 1911 Wallace, South Dakota

Henry Kissinger, 87, former Secretary of State, author, born Fuerth, Germany

Scientists /Religious Persons

Karl Bühler, German linguist and psychologist, born 1879 – Meckesheim Germany

• Today’s Obits •

Jean Caulvin [John Calvin] French priest/church reformer, fever @ 54 in 1564

Archibald Campbell Chief of Clan Campbell, beheaded for high treason @ 53 in 1661

Jawaharlal Nehru the founder of modern India and prime minister, @ 74 in 1964

≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1    

He waits until night time and then goes through the first door.

≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food  

Suicide or Coup d'etat

≈ Something you might enjoy…  

In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…

Here is a plane view of Golden Gate Bridge that opened today in 1937. Click HERE!

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Wed 5-26

≈Week 21 of 2010: 146 days this year… 219 days remain≈

≈ Something To Think About  

"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."

~Denis Waitley

≈ Random Facts on recycling    

~Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

~Since 1978, the weight of a soda bottle has been reduced by 29 percent.

~Around 45% of the paper Americans use each year is recovered for recycling.

• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1948 ►The National Party of the Dutch Afrikaners headed by Daniel François Malan who had been campaigning on the policy of implementing full scale apartheid came to power and begin the policy of apartheid.

≈ Free Ramblings

We had a great weather day today. Very little wind for a change. I’m going to have to wash my windows pretty soon. The second story windows are the problem. I’ll get to them sometime this week.

I am starting to have a very hard time watching the oil spill. Disaster was used the second week, catastrophe was used the second week. The media has rapidly run out of adjectives to describe this mess. This is week four and the pictures and stories just get worse. BP has let America down. The Federal regulatory Agencies have let the country down. Today, there was a memorial service for those who died on the rig. Relatives talked about how they knew it was dangerous, but it paid really well. That is the same story I heard from relatives of the recent mining disaster. [Reality Check: while the families say their relatives were paid well on the oil drilling rig, it turns out the average salary for a manager of the rig is about $75K, and the workers make about $60K. While the families of the miners say their relatives were well paid, the average salary for a mine worker in West VA is about $68K.] Then I saw the newsman who put on a hazardous waste suit and dove into Gulf. His pictures, from the surface to about 20 feet, were frightening to say the least. He didn’t go any deeper because it was too dangerous—water pressure, not oil. In my little world, in the high desert of AZ, it seems to me that all deep well drilling in the oceans should be halted, until each company can prove that they can handle the worst case scenario. I find it hard to believe that BP is the only deep well driller who doesn’t have worst case scenario plans. What do I know? I live in a desert.

When I was teaching in Tuba, in the late 70’s some of my former students would stop by to say high. I remember one kid who had graduated from high school and got a job at the Kayenta mine—a surface mining operation. He had done well in school but didn’t want to go to college. He like an outside job and didn’t like paperwork. We talked about salary, and at that time he was making more than I did, almost twice as much. He was happy, I was happy. We all have different priorities. Another student visited another time; he was a high up in the air welder. He too was making almost double my salary. He was happy doing what he did. Talk about long term goals with either student was difficult. Asking if they planned to be mining or welding at 50 or 60 was impossible for them to envision. Looking back, it was hard for me to imagine what I would be doing at 50 or 60 too.

We do need to make many work environments safer. I don’t believe that anyone should have a career where the records show that they are really putting their life on the line every day because the company they work for is more interested in profit than safety. Miners and oil drillers are just two careers that could be made much safer, if the owners didn’t need an outrageous profit each year.

What a great weather day. I was able to clean up my deck after way too many days of high winds. I was able to take a nice walk this afternoon. My deck got up to 67° and it was nice. Several neighbors have moved out during this month. The unit next to mine has a new tenant. I haven’t met her yet, but her dad saw me outside and asked me few questions about the unit. She is a 20-something girl. Today she and her boyfriend were outside as I was dumping my trash. The young girl looks like a young professional who might have just graduated from college. The boyfriend is full out Goth. He’s got the tats, the black fingernails, the body jewelry, and the light skin with dyed black hair. I’m sure I’ll get to know them, but I’m sure I looked as strange to them as they looked to me. We spoke about the nice weather, but that was it.

≈ A Quick Smile…    

I was sound asleep when the telephone jarred me awake.

"Hi!" It was my peppy mother-in-law. She proceeded to rattle on about the busy day she had ahead and all the things that awaited her the rest of the week.

"Mom," I interrupted. "It's five in the morning."

"Really? What are you doing up so early?"

≈ Puzzle 1    

When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.

Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic Answer: The words are Start and Tart.

1. Female parent -> Not one already mentioned; alternate

…Hint—the shorter word starts with O

2. Several; large indefinite number -> One; some indefinite number

…Hint—the shorter word starts with A

3. A story's lesson -> Relating to the mouth; using speech

…Hint—the shorter word starts with O

4. Face disguise -> To request

…Hint—the shorter word starts with A

5. Trough for animal food -> Wrath; strong displeasure

…Hint—the shorter word starts with A

6. Sparse, poor quality -> Showing keen interest

…Hint—the shorter word starts with E

7. Symbolic team figure -> Necktie or scarf with broad ends

…Hint—the shorter word starts with A

8. Anything that belongs to a group -> Glowing wood fragment

…Hint—the shorter word starts with E

≈ Side Show Stories    

New City, N.Y. (AP) --It wasn't quite man-bites-dog, but there were men and there were dogs and there was biting. A sheriff's office said Monday that one man bit another during a fight over a couple of dogs at a park in suburban New York City. Rockland County sheriff's Capt. William Barbera said two dog owners got into it Sunday night. One didn't like the way their pets were playing at a dog park in New City, about 30 miles north of New York.

Barbera said that a third man tried to break up the fight and that one of the combatants bit him on the wrist. He said that no one has been arrested but that the case is still being investigated.

≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food  

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

≈ Calendar Information    

• Observance Weeks in May•

22-29

Cover the Uninsured Week

National Safe Boating Week

25-31

Week of Solidarity with the People of Non-Self-Governing Territories

26-30

International Whistler's Week

• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •

National Senior Health & Fitness Day

• Today’s Observances—by country •

Guyana: Independence Day

Denmark: Crown Prince's Birthday (since 1966)

Georgia: Independence Day, commemorate the day of the First Republic in 1918.

Poland: Mother's 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.

1943 ►That Old Black Magic; Glenn Miller

1953 ►The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart); Percy Faith

1963 ►It's My Party; Lesley Gore

1973 ►Frankenstein; The Edgar Winter Group

1983 ►Flashdance ... What a Feeling; Irene Cara

• Today’s Happenings•

In The Arts

1897 ►The vampire novel Dracula, by Irish writer Bram Stoker, goes on sale in London bookshops

1913 ►Actors’ Equity Association was organized in New York City.

1969 ►John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal)

In Athletics

1977 ►George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.

In Business or Education

1957 ►The religious program "The Fourth R" aired for the last time over NBC television. Produced by several different religious organizations, this short-lived series aired on Sunday mornings.

In Politics

1540 ►The "Lady of Cofitachequi" has been taken with the de Soto expedition, against her will. With a large quantity of the pearls that de Soto's men took from her village, she escapes.

1830 ►The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1868 ►President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote

1922 ►Lenin suffers a stroke

1938 ►House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work

1943 ►1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)

In Science/ Religion

1805 ►Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains

1975 ►Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today outlined a trillion dollar program to save oil consuming nations from being held hostage by the world’s oil producing nations including the increased use of Nuclear Power and funding to find alternative forms of energy. This is in response to the oil producing nations saying a sixth increase in oil prices can be expected later this year

• Today’s Births •

Artists, Writers, and Composers

Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter/pioneered cool jazz , born in 1926 Alton IL

Lenny Kravitz, 46, singer, musician, songwriter, born New York, NY

Athletes

Zola Budd, 44, track star, born in Bloemfontein South Africa

Brent Musburger, 71, sportscaster, born Portland, OR

Entertainers

James Arness, 87, actor (“Gunsmoke,” “How the West Was Won”), born James Aurness at Minneapolis, MN

Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson] jazz singer/silent film actor, born in 1886 Seredžius,Lithuania

Peggy Lee (Norma Delores Egstrom) singer: Fever, born in 1920 Jamestown, North Dakota

Stevie[Stephanie Lynn] Nicks, 62, singer (Fleetwood Mac), songwriter, born Phoenix, AZ

Jay Silverheels (Harold J. Smith) actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger) , born in 1912 Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, near Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Philip Michael Thomas, 61, actor (“Miami Vice,” Hair), born Los Angeles, CA

John "Duke" Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison], actor, born in 1907 Winterset IA

Hank Williams, Jr, 61, singer, born Shreveport, LA

Business, Education Persons

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Political Persons

Mary queen of Great Britain/North Ireland [Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes], born in 1867 Kensington Palace, London

Scientists /Religious Persons

Sally K. Ride, 59, astronaut, first American woman in space, born Los Angeles, CA

• Today’s Obits •

Édouard Michelin, managing partner and co-chief executive of the Michelin Group, drowning @ 43 in 2006

≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1    

1. Mother -> Other

2. Many -> Any

3. Moral -> Oral

4. Mask -> Ask

5. Manger -> Anger

6. Meager -> Eager

7. Mascot -> Ascot

8. Member -> Ember

≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food  

Silence or a secret

≈ Something you might enjoy…  

In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…

There are Mac people and there are PC people. Here is a parody of Microsoft. Enjoy.

Click here for parody

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Tues 5-25

≈Week 21 of 2010: 145 days this year…220 days remain≈

≈ Something To Think About  

“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”

~Leo Buscaglia

≈ Random Facts on Recycling    

~It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it can be recycled almost an infinite amount of times.

~The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s.

~One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.

• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1986 ►Approximately Seven million Americans joined hands hoping to raise more than $50 million to fight hunger and homelessness in "Hands Across America

≈ Free Ramblings    

I went to a retirement lunch this afternoon. It was nice to see the ol’ Tuba people who made it in from Tuba. John had completed 35 years with the Bureau, his Navajo wife is getting close to retirement. We shared stories, caught up on some local TC news, and had a good time. As I talk with Navajo’s who are nearing retirement, I realize more and more why they don’t retire. Our generation is the first generation of Navajo teachers. Most grew up in a boarding school and were the first in their family to graduate from high school. Their parents encouraged them to go to college. They got tribal and Federal scholarships and almost all Navajo teachers in my generation were the first to get college degrees. Being first with a degree can be a great thing—as it was for me and many more. Being first can be a burden—how can you ever repay for your education? So many of the teachers today are not the first in the family to graduate. They don’t have that internal drive or that responsibility. Times change. The old guard retires and soon the new guard will become the old guard.

Finally!!! At about noon today we found out that our Mayor will remain as it has been. Sara won by some 200 votes in the final count with over 12,000 votes cast. Again, I say, this is far from a mandate and much fence mending is needed. Our town is deeply divided on local issues, as well as state and national issues. This may not be a bad thing, but for our town to move into the future, the city government must work together with all the people. We all must all be open to compromise. Heels are dug in deep, beliefs are strong. Everyone will have to be able to compromise. This is a very tall order for our town.

BE SURE AND CHECK OUT THE VIDEOS AT THE END OF THE BLOG!

We had our usual wind again today, not as bad as it has been, but wind none the less. If the snow fell last night, I missed it. We made it to 55° but the 20mph gusts did not help make it a great weather day. I did learn that Tuba has had worse winds than Flag this spring. It’s a good thing that students are in the new school buildings and only have to go outside for a short walk to the library or dining room.

≈ A Quick Smile…    

Our dog suddenly began barking almost every night at around 3 a.m.

Irritated and sleepy, my husband, Larry, searched the back yard for what might have disturbed this otherwise peaceful animal.

For three days he found nothing amiss. When the dog woke up the neighborhood a fourth night at 3 a.m. with frantic barking Larry finally snuck around the house through the alley only to discover our quiet neighbor, the last man you'd suspect of wrongdoing, throwing pebbles over the fence at the dog.

My husband demanded to know what he was doing.

"My mother-in-law is visiting" the embarrassed neighbor explained. "If she gets awakened in the middle of the night one more time she says she'll leave."

≈ Puzzle 1    

Based on the clue in parentheses, find a four-letter word that can be inserted backwards into the blank to complete a longer word.

Example: di____ve (a defeat) Answer: dissolve ("A defeat" gives you LOSS, which is placed backwards in the blank: di_SSOL_ve.)

1. dis____s (horse movement) HINT: answer a synonym of deforms

2. mi____ce (high mountains) HINT: answer a synonym of lose

3. l____ion (a Mexican food) HINT: answer a synonym of venue

4. s____ing (food skin) HINT: answer a synonym of abed

≈ Side Show Stories    

STOCKHOLM, (AP) A maritime expert says a 12-foot (3.65-meter) Giant Oarfish - the world's largest bony fish - has been found in Swedish waters for the first time in 130 years. Also known as the "King of Herrings," the dead fish was picked up by a west coast resident who found it floating near the shore over the weekend. It was handed over to The House of the Sea aquarium in the town of Lysekil, where expert Roger Jansson says it's being kept pending a decision on what to do with it.

Johansson said Wednesday the Giant Oarfish can grow up to 36 feet (11 meters), and is believed to live in deep waters. He says the last recorded discovery in Sweden was in 1879.

≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food  

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

≈ Calendar Information    

• Observance Weeks in May•

22-29

Cover the Uninsured Week

National Safe Boating Week

• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •

National Tap Dance Day

Cookie Monster's Birthday

National Missing Children's Day since 1983

National Tap Dance Day

Nerd Pride Day or Geek Pride Day since 1978, with release of Star Wars

• Today’s Observances—by country •

Argentina : Day of the May Revolution/National Day (1810)

Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Zambia : African Freedom/Unity Day

Jordan : Independence Day/Arab Renaissance Day (1946 from UK)

Libya, Sudan : Sudan National Day/May Revolution Day (since 1969 with end of conflict)

• 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.

1942 ►Tangerine; Jimmy Dorsey

1952 ►Blue Tango; Leroy Anderson

1962 ►Stranger on the Shore; Mr. Acker Bilk

1972 ►Oh Girl; The Chi-Lites

1982 ►Ebony and Ivory; Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

• Today’s Happenings•

In The Arts

1878 ►Gilbert & Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London

1895 ►Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite

1927 ►The Movietone News was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City.

In Athletics

1922 ►Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire

In Business or Education

1953 ►1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston TX

1968 ►Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated

In Politics

1776 ►The United States Congress resolves that it would be "highly expedient" if they can engage Indians to fight on their side of the Revolutionary War.

1787 ►Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding

In Science/ Religion

1784 ►Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek

1945 ►Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit

• Today’s Births •

Artists, Writers, and Composers

Ralph Waldo Emerson US, essayist/philosopher, born in 1803 Boston, Massachusetts

Athletes

Bill Sharman, 84, Basketball Hall of Famer: Celtics, coach: NBA Coach of the Year: Lakers, Lakers General Manager & President, born in Abilene, Texas

Gene Tunney world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30), born in 1898 New York City

Entertainers

Claude Akins Nelson GA, actor (BJ & Bear), born in 1918 Nelson, Georgia

Tom T. Hall, 74, singer (“P.S. I Love You”), songwriter (“Harper Valley PTA”), born Olive Hill, KY

Lauryn Hill, 35, singer, actress (Sister Act 2), born South Orange, NJ

Jamie Kennedy, 40, actor (“JKX: The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” Malibu’s Most Wanted), born Upper Darby, PA

Mike Myers, 47, comedian, actor (“Saturday Night Live,” Wayne’s World, Austin Powers films), born Scarsborough, ON, Canada

Bill ‘Bojangles’ (Luther) Robinson vaudeville dancer, born in 1878 Richmond, VA

Beverly Sills [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], soprano, born in 1929 Brooklyn NY

Leslie Uggams, 67, actress (Tony for Hallelujah, Baby!; “Sing Along with Mitch,” Roots), singer, born New York, NY

Business, Education Persons

Bennett Cerf publisher (founded Random House) panelist (What's My Line) , born in 1898 New York City

Philip Murray founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), born in 1886 Blantyre, Scotland

John Raleigh Mott organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946), born in 1865 Livingston Manor, New York

Political Persons

Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia, born in 1892 Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia)

Scientists /Religious Persons

Igor Sikorsky developed a working helicopter, born in 1889 Kiev, Russian Empire(present day Ukraine)

• Today’s Obits •

Madame C J Walker cosmetics for Negroes manufacturer, 1st woman self made millionaire, hypertension @ 51 in 1919

Vic Tayback actor (Mel-Alice), heart attack @ 60 in 1990

Nancy Walker actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda), cancer @ 71 in 1992

Buck dog (Married with Children), @ 13 in 1996

≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1    

1. distorts (TROT - dis_TORT_s)

2. misplace (ALPS - mi_SPLA_ce)

3. location (TACO - l_OCAT_ion)

4. sleeping (PEEL - s_LEEP_ing)

≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food  

A river.

≈ Something you might enjoy…  

In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…

These songs have been around for a few years. Sharon Burch is a Navajo Singer. The first one is sung in English and Navajo. The second one is only in Navajo. The young students at Tuba enjoyed listening to and learning these songs. Enjoy!

Click HERE for 1st song

Click HERE for 2nd song

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Mon 5-24

≈Week 21 of 2010: 144 days this year… 221 days remain≈

≈ Something To Think About  

“The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.”

~Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (on court 1939-1975)

≈ Random Fact    

Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1982 ►Baby Boy Samane South Africa, son of Christina, heaviest known viable baby (22 lbs 8 oz/10.2 kg)

≈ Free Ramblings    

I had a busy day…at least busy thinking. One of my favorite daily emails is from Kim Komando. She sends out computer information on just about every subject. She has been on a kick about privacy issues, partly because of the Facebook changes, but also on how advertisers use your information. I spent a couple of hours on the web searching for me. I was happy to find that there ain’t that much about me out there. Kim had given me several less popular free search engines. First I found that there a lot of Charles Frazier’s out there. My middle initial is ‘S’ but I found that ‘E’, ‘R’, and ‘W’ popped up with one or more of my old addresses or phone numbers. I found this just another reason not to believe much of what you find on the internet. Finally, I am proud of the fact that I am named after my father and grandfather—making me the third. When I put my full name in the search, there is nothing, nada, zilch. This will help me rest well, knowing that my personal information is not out there for people to steal. As I believed, before the searches today, I figured the privacy issue was much more hype and fear than factual. This doesn’t mean I’m going to start being less prudent, it just means that my prudence has paid off. I feel a little left out of pop culture tonight. From what I hear, millions will be watching the final episode of Lost. I’ve heard this will be the biggest series finale of the decade. OK. I do watch a lot of TV. I have my favorites and work hard to make sure that I either see the show every week, or record it when I am not home. I did watch the first three or four Lost episodes when it first started back in ’04. Just never got into it. I heard they hype every year, but just couldn’t get it, so as millions watch the final episode I won’t be.

As if three days of high wind hasn’t been hard enough to live through, now we have snow in the forecast. Yeah, I know, it’s the end of May. The only good thing is that there isn’t going to be any accumulation. Just snowflakes falling from the sky and disappearing. We had steady winds of 30+ mph all night last night and all day today. As if that wasn’t enough, we had gusts that are called ‘strong gale’ meaning that the gusts are 47-54 mph. Just east of Flag the wind was ‘whole gale’ or 55-63 mph. My deck only got to 54° and the snow clouds started moving in early this evening. I will always take snow over wind. I will take just about anything over wind.

≈ A Quick Smile…    

Jimmy: 'Hey, Mike! How's your new pet fish doing? You told me he was really something special.'

Mike: 'To tell the truth, I'm really disappointed in him. The guy who sold him to me said I could teach him to sing like a bird.'

Jimmy: 'What? Let me get this straight... You bought a fish because you thought you could teach him to sing like a bird?'

Mike: 'Well, yeah. After all, you know, he's a parrot fish.'

Jimmy: 'Now listen, Mike, while you might be able to teach a parrot to sing, you're never going to get anywhere with a parrot fish.'

Mike: 'That's what you think! It just so happens this fish CAN sing. The thing is, he's terribly off-key and it's driving me crazy. Do you know how hard it is to tuna fish?'

≈ Puzzle 1       

With pointed fangs I sit and wait,

With piercing force I dole out fate,

Over bloodless victims proclaiming my might,

Eternally joining in a single bite.

What am I?

≈ Side Show Stories    

HORN LAKE, Tenn. - Officials in a Tennessee town said they are working on a new ordinance to ban locals from wearing their pants low enough to reveal underwear or bare backsides. Horn Lake Mayor Nat Baker and members of the board of aldermen said they have seen recent increases in men wearing their pants in the saggy fashion, leading them to seek a ban in the form of an ordinance, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported. "There have been ordinances like this upheld across the country, and in talking with the city attorney, I think we can draw up something that can be upheld in court," Baker said. "They need to pull their pants back up to where they should be," Baker said. "It's getting out of hand." Officials did not reveal possible penalties for violations of the ban.

≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food

The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

≈ Calendar Information    

• Observance Weeks in May•

22-29

Cover the Uninsured Week

National Safe Boating Week

• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •

National Escargot Day

Brother's Day

Morse Code Day

• Today’s Observances—by country •

Bulgaria : Education Day/Enlightenment & Culture Day

Ecuador : Battle of Pichincha (1822): Major turning point battle for independence

England : Victoria Day/Empire Day (1819)

Canada: Victoria Day

---Quebec: National Patriotes Day or Journée nationale des patriotes.

• 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.

1941 ►Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy); Jimmy Dorsey

1951 ►How High the Moon; Les Paul & Mary Ford

1961 ►Travelin' Man; Ricky Nelson

1971 ►Brown Sugar; The Rolling Stones

1981 ►Bette Davis Eyes; Kim Carnes

• Today’s Happenings•

In The Arts

1830 ►"Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written

In Athletics

1951 ►Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants

In Business or Education

1883 ►The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan over the East River opens to traffic.

1931 ►1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad

1951 ►Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal

1983 ►Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students

In Politics

1513 ►While exploring the Gulf Coast of Florida. Ponce de Leon encounters Calusa Indians near Charlotte harbor. In a fight with theCalusa, de Leon captures four warriors. 1921 ►1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected

1957 ►Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan

In Science/ Religion

1689 ►English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants

1738 ►Methodist Church is established

1844 ►Samuel F.B. Morse tapped out the message “What hath God wrought” in Morse Code.

1954 ►IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

• Today’s Births •

Artists, Writers, and Composers

Bob Dylan, 69, composer, singer, born Robert Allen Zimmerman at Duluth, MN

Emanuel Leutze artist: Washington Crossing the Delaware born in 1816 Schwäbisch Gmünd,Württemberg (Germany)

Frank Oz, 66, director, puppeteer (Grover, Yoda), born Hereford, England

Athletes

Tony Jones, 44, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) born in Royston, Georgia

Entertainers

Gary Burghoff, 67, actor (Emmy for “M*A*S*H”), born Bristol, CT

Dixie Carter actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night) born in 1939 McLemoresville, Tennessee

Rosanne Cash, country singer born in 1955 Memphis TN

Tommy Chong, 72, actor (Up in Smoke, The Corsican Brothers), born Edmonton, AB, Canada

Patti LaBelle, 66, singer (“Since I Don’t Have You”), born Patricia Louise Holte at Philadelphia, PA,

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, 65, actress (“Dallas,” Naked Gun movies), born Brooklyn, NY

Business, Education Persons

Samuel I Newhouse US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour) born in 1895

Political Persons

Coleman A Young civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit) born in 1918 Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Scientists /Religious Persons

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit physicist: developed system for cleaning mercury to keep it from sticking to glass; inventor: alcohol thermometer [1709], mercury thermometer [1714]; created measure of temperature which bears his name [1724] born in 1686 Danzig, (Polish: Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (now Poland)

• Today’s Obits •

David I King of Scotland, @ 68 in 1153

John Foster Dulles US Secretary of State (1953-59), @ 71 in 1959

Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington composer/bandleader/pianist, cancer @ 75 in 1974

George Jessel US comedian/America's toastmaster general, heart attack @ 83 in 1981

Jane Porter novelist (Scottish Chiefs), @ 74 in 1850

Harold Wilson British PM (1964-70, 74-76), cancer at 79 in 1995

≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1

A Stapler

≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food

A coffin.

≈ Something you might enjoy…

In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…

This is graduation time across the Navajo Reservation. Back in the 1970’s this song was played at many graduations. It brings back a lot of memories for me. I hope you enjoy it.

Click HERE to see "Go My Son"

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Sun 5-22

≈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.

Irish Step Dance-Click HERE

A coupe of songs on the Pipes Click HERE

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