Sunday, October 1, 2006

10/1/06
What a sad day. The Reds baseball season is over and I now have nothing to do. Well, I hope you all had a great weekend and I hope GN&LB had a great homecoming (and anyone else who had one).
Also, if you want to suggest a theme, please do so. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the immortal DNA strand hypothesis was proposed in 1975 by John Cairns as a mechanism for adult stem cells to minimize mutations in their genomes?

TODAY IN HISTORY
331 BC - Alexander the Great of Macedon defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela, and was subsequently crowned "King of Asia" in a ceremony in Arbela.
1936 - Francisco Franco was declared General¨ªsimo and head of state during the Spanish Civil War.
1958 - NASA began operations, replacing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
1964 - T¨­kaid¨­ Shinkansen, the first Shinkansen line of high-speed railways in Japan, opened.
1977 - Brazilian football star Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pel¨¦, played his last professional football game.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Great American Ball Park after a Reds win.
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Some actual news
Well, Friday night was the Homecoming parade and football game. Well, I must say the parade went well, nothing new there. Well, after the parade and before the game, the assistant band director (Mrs. Sherman) came up to us (Trombones) and criticized us on the bonfire performance the night before. But it wasn't on what I thought it would be. We started Cheer 4 Butler fast but slowed down to the right tempo, what we got in trouble for was that every trombone but me (which is surprising) glissed at the end of the song. We almost lost 3rd quarter privilages until attention was diverted towards the drum majors. Well, we lost the game with an interception with around 30 seconds remaining 42-35.

So today, I went to "The Battle for the Bell" between the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Miami Redhawks. I had a great time. I followed the Bearcat Band from the Performance at the Commons to Cattitude to the stadium where they do the most dangerous thing they can do, run down 60 degree steps onto the field (CRAZY). I rooted for the cats, won a t-shirt, and talked with the director after the game. He assured me a spot in the UC band if I attend UC next year.
Here is a photo (best I could find) of the crazy tradition of the Bearcat Band.

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9/30/06
I'm feeling lazy today.

DYK...
...that Léon Moreaux, a French Olympic shooter who won 7 Olympic medals, won his first medal at the age of 38?

TIH
1399 - The Duke of Lancaster deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown.
1939 - World War II: General W³adys³aw Sikorski became Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.
1966 - Seretse Khama became the first President of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Ethernet specifications were first published by Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1991 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in a coup d'état and replaced by General Raoul Cédras. A large-scale exodus of boat people ensued.

POTD

The chapel of the Palace of Versailles, one of the palace's grandest interiors. Located in Versailles, France, Versailles is famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy which Louis XIV espoused. Originally the royal hunting lodge when he decided to move there in 1660, the building was expanded over the next few decades to become the largest palace in Europe. Louis XIV officially moved in 1682 and the Court of Versailles was the centre of power in Ancien Régime France until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789.
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Friday, September 29, 2006

Ok, I now have Happy People working.
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9/29/06
OK, Happy People isn't working (at least for me) and I don't know about you guys. The last day of a stressful week with the Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game. Also, tomorrow, I'm going to Cincinnati to watch the Bearcats of Cincinnati take on the Miami Hawkeyes in the Battle for the Victory Bell. I'm really excited. It will be the first college football game that I actually want to go to.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Miko³aj Tr¹ba, first primate of Poland, took part in the Battle of Grunwald and might have been a papal candidate during the Council of Constance?

TODAY IN HISTORY
61 BC - In Rome, Pompey the Great celebrated triumphs over pirates in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and in the war against king Mithridates VI of Pontus in Asia Minor, with enormous parades of spoils, prisoners, army and banners depicting battle scenes. It was also his 45th birthday.
1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met or Scotland Yard, was founded by Robert Peel.
1938 - The Munich Agreement was signed, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
1941 - The Babi Yar massacre began in Kiev, Ukraine.
1964 - Mafalda, a comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Jews captured by SS and SD troops during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are forced to leave their shelter and march to the Umschlagplatz for deportation. The SD trooper pictured second from the right, is Josef Blösche, who was identified by Polish authorities using this photograph. Blösche was tried for war crimes by a Polish court in 1969, sentenced to death and executed in July of that year.
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3-DAY THEME
Happy People-From Bleach
Suggested by GhostlyNinja

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

A post with no title
Well, I went to the powderpuff game and now I'm angry. First oof, the school has to use the band's practice field. Then the school steals the band's long ranger (speaker thing). And we perform for them for free with no conditions except for stands during football games. Also, while playing the fight song, the drum majors are conducting it very slow for a fight song while the trombones were thinking at the beginning of the fight song that it would be a normal speed. So, the trombones get in trouble. CONDUCT THE FIGHT SONG AT A CELEBRATION TEMPO, NOT A FUNERAL TEMPO. And the comment thing still won't work. I might have to try to get onto my dad's computer.
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9/28/06
Stupid comment thing, won't work AGAIN. I will make it feel my wrath. Well, I have to attend the powderpuff game and they're going to destroy the band practice field because they can't play on the precious football team's field because it's already destroyed. NO RESPECT. Well, have a good day and night and Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Indian Opinion was founded by Mahatma Gandhi and served as the main vehicle for the Indian civil rights struggle in early-20th century South Africa?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1066 - Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships reached England and landed at Pevensey, Sussex.
1106 - Henry I of England decisively defeated his older brother Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy in the Battle of Tinchebray, and claimed Normandy as a possession of the English crown.
1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodr¨ªguez Cabrillo, the first European to travel along the coast of California, landed on what is now the U.S. city of San Diego.
1972 - Paul Henderson scored the game-winning goal against Vladislav Tretiak, securing a Canadian victory in the Summit Series over the Soviet ice hockey team.
1994 - The ferry M/S Estonia sank while commuting between Tallinn, Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A long-exposure photo of a poi performer using glow sticks. Poi juggling is done with balls on ropes, held in the hands and swung in various circular patterns. It was originally practiced by the M¨¡ori people of New Zealand, but now extends far beyond that. In juggling circles, a whole subculture has sprung up in some places, surrounding poi spinning as a hobby, exercise, or performance art.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

9/27/06
OK, well, I've had an exciting day but first I must start with last night. Well, I was at the school until 8:00. Regular school day, band practice, homecoming backdrop painting, and a school board meeting. Next, I spent 30 minutes trying to find Happy People. It is all over the internet put in .zip files instead of .mp3. Well, today during 2nd period, we had a lockdown at our school for the first time in 2 years (basically, you are stuck in your class without being able to go into the halls). Then we had a fire drill 6th. Both were very fun (don't know how). And one more thing; Root, Root, Root for the Redlegs. Ta Ta For Now

DID YOU KNOW...
...that during World War II, more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians, cut off from the mainland, resisted for 170 days in the Adzhimushkay quarries in Crimea?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1825 - Locomotion No. 1 hauled the first train on opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first railway to use steam locomotives and carry passengers.
1905 - Albert Einstein published the article "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1940 - World War II: The Tripartite Pact was signed in Berlin by the major Axis Powers — Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan.
1988 - Led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy was founded in Burma (now known as Myanmar).
1983 - Richard Stallman announced the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth with a long proboscis, and is capable of hovering in place, making an audible humming noise. These two features make it look remarkably like a hummingbird when it feeds on flowers. They fly during the day, especially in bright sunshine.
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