Sunday, November 5, 2006

11/5/06
Well, I watched the entire Please Teacher series yesterday. Man, I like the series except I believe it is too short. Only 13 episodes. I also watched episode 49 of Tsubasa Chronicles. That series is starting to produce some great drama and suspense.

MARCHING BAND MEMORY
Land of 1000 Dances-Wilson Pickett


3-Day Theme
Ryo-Ohki's Theme-Suggested by Little Birdie


DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway, once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City, instead became part of the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1605 - The Gunpowder Plot: Thomas Knyvet arrested explosives expert Guy Fawkes and foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London, England.
1688 - Glorious Revolution: Protestant Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his father-in-law King James II, the last Catholic monarch of England.
1838 - The collapse of the United Provinces of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the federation.
1872 - Suffragette Susan B. Anthony voted in the U.S. presidential election for the first time. She was later fined $100 for her participation.
1917 - St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Panoramic shot of the interior of the Panthéon, a church and burial place located in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. Originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve, the National Convention ordered it to be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen. Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Marat, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie, and Louis Braille.
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Saturday, November 4, 2006

11/4/06
Hey everyone. I'm still feel a little sick. I decided I'm going to start another thing called Marching Band Memeories. I'm just going to post songs (Note: This is not the 3-day theme, completly different feature). So I will be bringing back songs of old. It will be the actual song, not the one we played since I don't have versions of that.

MARCHING BAND MEMORY
Pretty Fly-By the Offspring


DID YOU KNOW...
...that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1852 - Count Cavour became prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy.
1869 - Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general purpose scientific journals, was first published.
1890 - In London, England, the City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened.
1979 - Iranian radicals seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, beginning a 444-day hostage crisis.
1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was mortally wounded by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Animation showing the four-stroke cycle of an internal combustion engine, the most commonly used for automotive and industrial purposes today. The cycle is characterized by four strokes, or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a piston inside a cylinder: (1) the intake stroke, (2) the compression stroke, (3) the power stroke, and (4) the exhaust stroke.
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Friday, November 3, 2006

11/3/06
Hey everyone, I kinda sick today but I still went to school. I was thinking that I should post some songs from the 2006 Marching Band Season. These are those songs that were not on the field. Tell me if you want to hear some. Not much else going on. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms, tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1793 - French playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined for her revolutionary ideas.
1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded.
1848 - A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke was proclaimed, severely limiting the powers of the monarchy of the Netherlands.
1957 - The Sputnik 2 spacecraft was launched, carrying Laika the Russian space dog as the first living being to orbit the Earth.
1971 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual was first published.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus), seen at Fishing Pier, Goose Island State Park, Texas. Native across the United States and Canada, the population of this member of the Curlew family was significantly reduced at the end of the 19th century by hunting. Numbers have rebounded somewhat in more recent times.
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Thursday, November 2, 2006

11/2/06
My normal background is back "And there was much rejoicing." Anyways, I was playing basketball during lucnh and I got hit in the back part of my right ear. So like right now, I have like 50% hearing in that ear. So anyways, the last marching band thing I'll ever do is tomorrow. it is the "One More Time Concert." I get to indruduce a song. But get this, Mr. G. (band director) put in a joke that is suppose to be dry. I get to embarass myself. I don't even want to post it here where people don't know me in real life (AHH, the power of the internet). So, Ta Ta For Now.

3-DAY THEME

See what happens when you guys don't suggest songs. I run out of things to have. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SUGGEST SONGS. PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opened in Montreal, Quebec.
1917 - Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for Jewish settlements in Palestine.
1936 - BBC Television Service, the first regular, public, high-definition television station in the world, was launched.
1947 - Howard Hughes flew Spruce Goose, the largest flying boat ever built, on its maiden flight in Long Beach, California.
2000 - The first crew arrived at the International Space Station.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

11/1/06
Ok, last night as I always do, I listen to 700 WLW And Scott Sloan had a psychic on the show. Now, they were contacting fonder Powell Crosley (former owner of the Reds). Now, when the pyshic was talking with Mr. Crosley, there were some weird radio broadcast signals coming in. Now, if you know a lot about radio broadcasts. You would know that other smaller signals get into the radio. But, the same broadcast doesn't interfere with Alabama and Ohio. It was a WWII news broadcast, or at least it sounded like it. This was reported almost the entire time the psychic was on. Now this didn't happen during the commercials and current news events. Tell me this isn't strange. Just skip ahead about 1/3 of the broadcast you way hear it.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1512: Michelangelo finished repainting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in fresco.
1520: Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
1755: A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed Lisbon, and killed over 100,000 people in Portugal and Morocco.
1954: The "Front de Libération Nationale" began the Algerian War of Independence against French rule, with guerrilla attacks in various parts of Algeria.
1963: The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

View of Lake Lugano and the city of Lugano, Switzerland, from the foot of Monte San Salvatore in 1909. Lying on the border of Italy, Lugano is located in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino.

This image was taken before the advent of color film. It is composed of three monochrome pictures shot through different colored filters and could only be viewed at the time via projection. It was only with digital image processing that the images could be satisfactorily combined into one.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

10/31/06
**Laughing at LittleBirdie**

Sorry, she knew I would and I did. Anyways, it's Halloween and my brother is leaving for Washington D.C. "And there was much rejoicing." So, went to the middle schools to play a freaking sweet Trombone. But wait, the drummers screwed up the most important part of the concert at my middle school. I will kill them. Everything there has changed from four years ago. Well, while the band was out to lunch, there was a rumor spreading that there was a fire at the high school. Turns out that some kid pulled the fire alarm. Anyways Happy Halloween. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1517 - According to traditional accounts, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses onto the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
1863 - The New Zealand land wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato along the Waikato River.
1922 - Benito Mussolini became the youngest Premier in the history of Italy at age 39.
1941 - Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers completed the colossal busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore.
1984 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India was assassinated by two of her own bodyguards. Riots soon broke out in New Delhi.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Composite satellite image of the whole world in a plate carrée projection, a very simple map projection that has been in use since the earliest days of spherical cartography. The name is from the French for "flat and square". It is a special case of the equidistant cylindrical projection in which the horizontal coordinate is the longitude and the vertical coordinate is the latitude.
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Monday, October 30, 2006

10.30.06
So tired. Well, tomorrow, I have to go to the middle schools with the band to perform which means I miss another day of school. But, I'm backlogged in a bunch of work already so it's not so great. Anyways, I think I chose the perfect song for this 3-day period.

3-DAY THEME


DID YOU KNOW...
...that Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nearly thirty years after filming the original?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1270 - The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican
1974 - "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A Canada Goose in flight. This well-known species is native to North America. It breeds in Canada and the northern USA in a variety of habitats. Like most geese, it is naturally migratory, the wintering range being most of the USA.
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

10/29/06
I will be temporarily changing my background for Halloween but it will be back Nov. 1 or 2. I really had a long day and nothing special happened. Baseball is over and I'm kinda sad. Watching hockey now a days. I'm up to episode 48 of Tsubasa Chronicles. Slow news day.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Sail Rock is a federally protected natural monument, located among village health resorts on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai, Russia?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1268 - Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou.
1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni received its first performance in Prague.
1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first President of the Republic of Turkey, a new nation founded from remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
1956 - The Suez Crisis began: Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and pushed Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1998 - After more than three decades, 77-year old John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-95, to study the effects of space flight on the elderly.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Animation of a drop of water falling from a tap. While still connected to the tap, surface tension counters the gravitational pull until the drop becomes too large and heavy to be supported. This animation is made of 18 separate images, not all of the same water drop, but different pictures of different drops arranged to make them look like a series of pictures of one drop.
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

10/28/06
Well, the time has gone by and marching band is over. I must say, I had a fun time. We performed the haft-time show on the track. The crowd was realy getting into it. I must say, the senior section loves me, because they were chanting my name during the show. After half-time, the band was dismissed and I got to be in the stands for the first time in my high school career. I love the seniors and they love me back. It was probably the most fun I have ever had at a football game.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Råbjerg Mile, a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland, Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year?

TODAY IN HISTORY
312 - Roman Emperor Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius in the Battle of Milvian Bridge, ending the Tetrarchy. According to legends, he credited his victory to the god of the Christians.
1886 - In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, to commemorate the centennial of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1918 - Czechoslovakia gained its independence from Austria-Hungary.
1922 - The Fascist Blackshirts marched on Rome to take over the Italian government.
1940 - Italy invaded Greece from Albania, as part of the Balkans Campaign in World War II.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Composite photo of the Sun and Earth, showing the difference in size between the two astronomical objects. Although the Sun is an average-sized star, it is so large that its volume is equivalent to 1.3 million Earths and it contains approximately 99% of the total mass of the solar system.
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Friday, October 27, 2006

10/27/06
So, tonight is the night. I might become way too emotional. Today, I had a field trip to 2 gothic castles. It was kinda cool. Have to make up 2 tests though. Well, back to band. We won't march the show tonight because the school did a bad job of taking care of the field. Ta Ta For Now.

3-Day Theme


DID YOU KNOW...
... that Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to be the first female monarch in Asia?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake outside Geneva.
1904 - The first section of the New York City Subway opened, running between City Hall and the Bronx.
1958 - General Ayub Khan deposed Iskander Mirza in a bloodless coup d'état to become the second President of Pakistan, less than 3 weeks after Mirza had appointed him the enforcer of martial law.
1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket.
1971 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Flowers of the cultivar Hebe × franciscana, commonly known as "Blue Gem" or "Veronica", a member of the Hebe genus. This hybrid has been known to be continuously in flower for stretches over two years. Hebes are grown in many gardens and public areas as they attract butterflies. They cope with most soil types, and can be propagated easily from both seed and cuttings.
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