Thursday, October 26, 2006

10/26/06
Yea! My favorite player, Sean Casey, hit a homerun to put the Tigers up 1-0 in Game 4 of the World Series. So my last high school marching band practice was today. Kinda sad, kinda happy. Tomorrow, it all ends. Something I love is being taken away. Well, Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
... that Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to global warming?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1825 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1986 - The Buckner Error.
2005 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the Houston Astros in the World Series to win their first championship since 1917.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Marshall Space Flight Center's first Saturn I vehicle, SA-1, lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 27, 1961. This early configuration, Saturn I Block I, 162 feet tall and weighing 460 tons, consisted of the eight H-1 engines S-I stage and the dummy second stage (S-IV stage).
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

10/25/06
Well, my day went bad again. This time I left my calculator at school. But, at least the day wasn't horrible since we didn't need our calculators in math. Well, here it his. The music to my last show ever. Enjoy

Smoke on the Water


Carry On My Wayward Son


Fool in the Rain


DID YOU KNOW...
... .that the Waterberg is a UNESCO designated Biosphere, where cattle overgrazing is being reversed to allow giraffe, rhino and Blue Wildebeest to repopulate?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1147 - Reconquista: Forces under King Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege during the Second Crusade.
1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeated the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.
1616 - The Dutch sailing ship Eendracht reached Shark Bay on the western coastline of Australia, as documented on the Hartog Plate.
1922 - The Third Dáil adopted the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
1971 - The People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China as China's representative at the United Nations.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A wide-angle view of Horseshoe Bend, a horseshoe-shaped meander in the Colorado River, from U.S. Route 89. It is located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Page, Arizona, slightly downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

10/24/06
Well, LB may think she's unlucky but she may have single unlucky days. So far, my entire week has been unlucky. Well, let's start this off. Remember how I left my research home yesterday, not learning from mistakes, I left my entire Pre-Calc binder (notes and HW) today. Well, then I came home after 3 hours in the cold marching band) and politely ask to use the computer. He asks me why? I say because you can have for the rest of the night while I can only use it for a hour. He refuses (i swear the computer is a drug for him). Well, then, I go to the Halloween Parade (in the cold) for band. Band members dress up. I dressed up as a worker on strike. Anyways, I was hoping that it would be short. With my luck, it dragged out. Anyways, I'll try to put up show music tomorrow. My only luck today, I get to post to you guys during the World Series. AHHHHHHH. Ta Ta For Now. Reminder: SUGGEST SONGS PLEASE

3-Day Theme


DID YOU KNOW...
... that the location for Janesville Mall was chosen so that shoppers could leave by taking a right-hand turn, as the developers' research showed that women preferred right-handed turns?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1945 - Founding of the United Nations
1977 - Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A wakizashi, a traditional Japanese sword, on display at the Tokyo National Museum. The wakizashi is the smaller cousin of the katana and together the two swords were worn as a matched pair, or daisho, by samurai warriors. Towards the end of the Edo period, samurai swords became elaborate status symbols, with lavish decoration on the hilt and scabbard displaying the owner's wealth.
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Monday, October 23, 2006

10/23/06
I had a slow day. First, I forgot to bring in my research for Government class. Later on, during band, it started to snow. So how fun is it on a day in which you dressed for inside to be marching and playing outside in snow. Not that much. So, I got my research after school, brought it up to the school and now I'm at a friends house. Hope you had a better day than me. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
... that in 1919, the discharge of the chief of police of Berlin led to a general strike and accompanying fighting known as the Spartacist uprising, in which over 500,000 workers took part?

TODAY IN HISTORY
4004 BC - The universe was created, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
1911 - First use of heavier-than-air aircraft in war: an Italian pilot flew from Libya to survey Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War.
1958 - Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of comic strip characters, The Smurfs.
1983 - Lebanese Civil War: Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers of the international peacekeeping force.
2002 - Chechen rebels seized a crowded theater in Moscow, taking approximately 700 theatergoers and performers hostage in the Moscow theater hostage crisis.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge is a concrete double arch bridge located 14 km from the northern terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Williamson County, Tennessee. It is 479.1 m long and carries the two-lane Natchez Trace Parkway 44.2 m over State Route 96 and a heavily wooded valley. The 177.4 m long main span is symmetrical, while the 140.8 m long second arch is not, due to the slope of the valley at the southern end of the bridge.
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Sunday, October 22, 2006

10/22/06
Well, I sent in an application to UC today and then I was going to post here but my computer shut down automatically on me. So here I am with not much to say or do. Oh well. Hope you had a good weekend. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
... that Katsu! is a shout used in Zen Buddhism to induce enlightenment, as well as in the martial arts to focus one's energy?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1383 - In Portugal, a period of civil war and anarchy began when King Ferdinand I died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
1844 - Millerites and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by preacher William Miller.
1924 - Toastmasters International was founded.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced on television that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1999 - Vichy France official Maurice Papon was jailed for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Portrait of American photographer Dorothea Lange atop a Ford Model B car in 1936. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs, such as Migrant Mother, humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

10/21/06
OK, I had a half-day so basically I was doing everything in cut time. During band, I was randomly skipping parts of songs that I knew perfectly. It was very strange. So anyway, sorry for posting late yesterday but I went to a friend's house for about 2 hours and when I got back, my brother was on the computer until I left for band. So, the band went to the football game. We marched at half-time, except for the fact that the field was so muddy that, when we marked time, we were sinking into the field. At one point in the show, I was marking time on a pile of mud which I quickly turned into a sinking hole. In my four years of marching band, I have never marched on a worse field. And what made it even more tragic was the way our football team lost. We went into overtime again (38 straight games (never seen one, 2 straight have). This time we lost on a blocked extra point attempt. Today is Game One of the WORLD SERIES. GO TIGERS, TA TA FOR NOW.

3-DAY THEME

SUGGEST SONGS PLEASE

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the 1920 Treaty of Moscow, in exchange for the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil to troops of powers hostile to the Soviet republic?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson led the British fleet to victory in the Battle of Trafalgar, defeating Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French and Spanish navy.
1824 - English stonemason, bricklayer and inventor Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement.
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1944 - World War II: HMAS Australia was hit in the first kamikaze attack; 30 crewmen, including the commanding officer, were killed.
1969 - Siad Barre became President after a military coup in Somalia.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Apa Tani tribal women, with traditional tattoos and bamboo nose ornaments in Hija village, Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Originally, this practise started because the women wanted to look unattractive to males from other tribes. Apa Tani women were considered to be the most beautiful among all the Arunachal tribes.
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Friday, October 20, 2006

10.20.06
I'm going to bed. Talk Tomorrow.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1803 - The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1944 - General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
1973 - The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
1990 - World Series: The Cincinnati Reds sweep the Oakland Athletics 4-0. Jose Rijo would be the Series MVP.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Pangong Tso is a lake in the Himalayas situated at a height of about 4500 m (14850 ft). It is 134 km long and extends from India to Tibet. Two thirds of the length of this lake falls in the People's Republic of China. It is only 8 km wide at its broadest point. In winter, the lake freezes completely despite being salt water.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006

10/19/06
I think I forgot to tell you this but that football game last week, Northmont (not us) didn't score their last touchdown (according to video evidence) so that is Referees 2 wins, Butler 0 wins. Anyways, I don't think there are anymore magical words than "Game Seven" which is the do or die of two teams who have battled it out for a week just to come down to one game that prevents that team from the Championship. My arm is pretty much fully healed. I'm up to episode 46 of Tsubasa Chronicles (How far are you LB?). Well, this morning, I had to ride my bike to school because the person who gives me a ride was sick. I left my bike there and probably ride it home on Friday.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Martyrs' Cemetery holds the remains of both Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed during the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.
1960 - The United States government decides to place an embargo on Communist Cuba.
1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains.
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Havasu Falls, one of the four waterfalls of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, is located near the village of Supai, Arizona. It is the second of four falls on Havasu Creek, which empties into the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. The water of Havasu Creek has a bluish green tint due to the heavy lime content of the water. The fall is forked and looks like two falls when the river is flowing heavily.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

10/18/06
I went to the athletic trainer today and she said that I just strained my muscles in the shoulder. I shouldn't feel any more pain by Friday. And yet again, no requests for songs so I have to pick one by meyself. HMMM... Should I torture or should I please you guys and gals. OK, this one.

3-Day Theme

Don't ask why.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet that was used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it fell out of use in the 5th century BCE?

TODAY IN HISTORY
Nothing Important Happend

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Carts have many different shapes but the basic idea of transporting material (or maintaining a collection of materials in a portable fashion) remains. Carts usually have two or four wheels. Those with four wheels (also known as drays or wagons) will often have a pivoting front axle that has a pole connected to the collars or yoke of the two guiding draught animals.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

10/17/06
Currently watching the NLCS (National League Championship Series). 2-2 tie in a 2-2 series tie in a seven game set. Well, Cory visited the band today. We're setting drill for our next show and I will have the music up next week (most likely). I also injured my left shoulder area today. It is very painful, constantly. And when I took a shower, I was grinding my teeth. I really hope it isn't broken or anything. Anyways, I think today is last day of the 3-day theme, so suggest your songs before it's too late. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Fighting Solidarity, created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
1016 - Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeated Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Ashingdon, gaining control over most of the Kingdom of England.
1851 - Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company was founded by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom.
1954 - Texas Instruments introduced the first transistor radio.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A domesticated Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides) with a "knob" (found in some variations) above its beak. This knob is more prominent on males than on females and can be used for sexing by 6–8 weeks of age. Wild Swan Geese can be found in Mongolia and eastern Russia. They are migratory and winter mostly in south and east China.
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