I got a call last night ans Dave Thomas with USA Swimming with be visiting today at Fun Friday. We also have the Gulf Power Transformer Group coming to watch the team.

44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep

In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents

In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.

Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War

Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining

In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar

The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley

Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system

The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting

The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build."

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail

In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today

The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles

Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana

There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.

The first TONKA truck was made in 1947

In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year

Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963

The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows north for almost half the year and then south for the rest of the year

Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America

Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales

Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else

The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long

The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."

Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers

Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone

The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour

In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to 205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there

It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.

The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour

Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour

The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade

The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916

Most lipstick contains fish scales

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language

The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender

Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was "Mary Kay and Johnny."

Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine

Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war

Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell

In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food

The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia

Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week

Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries

Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide

A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs

Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do

There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

Superman The Escape rollercoaster, located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour in only 7 seconds

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories

2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States

In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg. updated

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.

One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds

Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people

The word "comet" comes from the Greek word "kometes" meaning long hair and referring to the tail

The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82

The hydra, which is related to the jellyfish, can grow its body back in a couple of days if it is cut in half

The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres

Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out

Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

It would take about fourteen and half million notes of currency to build a mile high stack

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period (220 a.d.-280 a.d.).

It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world

One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples

The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time

The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin. Since the word for Christ in the Greek language is Xristos, which starts with the letter "X," they started putting the X in place of Christ and came up with the short form for the word Christmas

Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages

China has more English speakers than the United States

Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series

In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring

The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds

Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government

Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell

Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world

Before 1928, yo-yos used to be called bandalores in the United States

The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, "Thou shalt commit adultery." This legendary book is now known as the "Wicked Bible."

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years

When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns

Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days

The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."

Emus cannot walk backwards

The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion.

The most popular Twizzler candy flavour is strawberry

Thirty percent of all bingo players are under the age of 35

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do

The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died

The only species of turtle that lives in the open ocean is the sea turtle

Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system

Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise

Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations

On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually

The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton

Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements

Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S

The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot

The words "abstemioius," and "facetious" both have all the five vowels in them in order

French soldiers during World War I had the nickname "poilu" which translates to "hairy one."

Former U.S. President William Taft converted the White House stable into a four car garage in 1909

People living on the east coast prefer creamy peanut butter, while people living on the west coast prefer chunky peanut butter

Some snails live on branches in trees

Tomato ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it

The youngest pope was 11 years old

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world

Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses

During the First World War, cigarettes were handed out to soldiers along with their rations

The longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan

There are bananas called "Red banana" that are maroon to dark purple when ripe

Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House

The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre

Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse

The length of brink of the Canadian "Horseshoe" Falls located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada is 2600 feet

The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles

The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart

Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine

The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe

The chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylzantihine

Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year

Walmart-mart sells more apparel a year than all the other competing department stores combined

Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world

Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide

Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States

The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10? inches

500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc

In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries

The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series on television history

The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is

On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight

A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay

The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service

Atari had to bury millions of unsold "E.T." game cartridges in a New Mexico desert landfill in 1982

The biggest disco ball in the world has a diameter of 2.41 meters and 137.89 kilograms. It also has 6,900 mirror squares on it

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses

An average city dog lives approximately three years longer than an average country dog

On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States

Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.)

Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A

The greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean

Pepsi got its name from the ingredient pepsin, which is said to aid in digestion, however, it is not known

The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne

Detroit, Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other city in the USA

The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving

Rabbits can live up to ten years

The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days

Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art

The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies

Some Chinese chopsticks contain gold as on of their materials

The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million

The watch was invented by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg in 1510.

In North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters

The concept of Boxing Day, which is on December 26th, was to give boxes of food and clothing to the poor. It is now viewed in some countries as a time to get merchandise from stores at reduced prices

Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."

Every year, Burger King restaurants prepare over 950,000 pounds of bacon for their breakfast customers

Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament

Dumbest Dog: Afghan hound

At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal

There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world

In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs

The word "moose" comes from the native Algonquian Indian word meaning "twig eater."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill

An armadillo can walk under water

There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars

The Uape Indians, who live in the Amazon, mix the ashes of their recently cremated relatives with alcohol, then all members of the family drink the mix with fond memories of the deceased

The word "diamond" comes from the Greek word "adamas," which means "unconquerable."

On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day

For the movie "Tootsie" actor Dustin Hoffman thought of the title. His mother used to call him that as a child

The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia

The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building

The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897

There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult

To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed

The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18

Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second

In the summer of 1858, the smell of the sewage in the Thames River in London was so bad that the Members of Parliament had to leave from the chamber of the House of Commons. This was a result of two million people dumping all their sewage into the river

One out of five people that eat ice cream binge on ice cream in the middle of the night. The person is usually between 18 - 24 years old

The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark

There is a dog museum in St. Louis, Missouri

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas

An average person laughs about 15 times a day

The labels for Crayola crayons come in 18 different colors

The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit

In Spain, it is common to pour chocolate milk or cafe au lait on cereal for breakfast

Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon

Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers

Eating dandelions can make you urinate more

Enough paper is recycled in the USA every day, that a 15 mile long train of boxcars could be filled up with paper.

The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair

At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there

About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.

Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven

A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature

A rabbit is not able to vomit

The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose

Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River

The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.

The first American president to deliver a speech over the radio was Warren G. Harding

There are more than 40 million Americans that have "chronic halitosis," which is bad breath that never goes away

The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours

Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph

The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in

The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark

One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world

Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA

The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth

The Great White Shark can grow to be more than twenty feet long and can weigh approximately 4,000 pounds

In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened

The only popcorn museum in the world is lcoated in Marion, Ohio, USA

Any animal that has skin hair or fur can get dandruff, but in animals it is called "dander."

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons

In 1819, the USA purchased Florida from Spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt

In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times

Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy

Skippy Peanut Butter is sold more in the world than any other peanut butter

The highest bridge in the world is located in the Himalyan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army, in 1982, and is about 5,600 metres above sea level

In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built

Apples are part of the rose family

Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer

Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called "Criss Cross Words."

Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations

In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper

Enamel is hardest substance in the human body

A leech has 32 brains

Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.

In the late 1800's, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills.

In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Clarence Crane the inventor of "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers" sold his rights to the popular candy for less than three thousand dollars.

Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals

In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another

The sloth moves so slowly that green algae grows in the grooves of their hair

In the world, the United States and France have the most pet dogs. Approximately one out of every three families has a pet dog. Switzerland and Germany are the lowest only having one dog per every ten families

There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females

Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food

Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes

The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross

In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions

The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.

The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones

Over 20 million BluBlocker sunglasses have been sold since its debut in 1986. They now come in over 100 different styles

Crabs have very small hairs on their claws and other parts of their body to help detect water currents and vibrations

In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas

Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste

Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery

During the making of the the movie "Fight Club," actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his character

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted peoplewithout killing them used to burn their houses down - hence theexpression "toget fired."

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose

The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah-Mat," which means the king is dead

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea

Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites

McDonald restaurants serve food and drink to an amazing 43 million customers on a daily basis

The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed

Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout

During the era of Louis XIV, women used lemons to redden their lips

70% of the poor people in the world are female

The thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feet

The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily

The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds

The highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl week

During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore

Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R

The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens

Tarantulas can live up to 30 years

On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs

More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles

One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons

The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.

In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year

The word Nike comes from Greek Mythology. Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted as a small winged figure whom the goddess Athene carried

The biggest bug in the world is the Goliath Beetle which can weigh up to 3.5 ounces and be 4.5 inches long

Leaving the water running while brushing your teeth can waste four gallons of water in a minute

Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the world

There was once a country called Prussia. After World War II, it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSR

The word Spain means "the land of rabbits."

In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61.

The word tulip comes from the Turkish word for turban

Psychokinesis refers to the ability of moving objects through psychic power

The fat that comes from sheep, which is called tallow, can also be used to produce soap and candles

In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries

In the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used for blood in the shower scene

The movie "Chicken Run" made in 2,000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie

During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles

The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms

Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot

When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born

The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe

The average American kid will eat approximately 1.500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation

Goats do not have upper front teeth

It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones

There are about 6,800 languages in the world

Studies have shown that by putting on slow background music it can make a person eat food at a slower rate

By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year

Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%

Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates

On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was "Spud."

A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. updated

The fastest shark is the "Shortfin Mako," which can swim as fast as sixty miles per hour

The flatulation from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methane on this planet

Ironically, watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa

The first tattoo machine was invented by Samuel O'Reilly. He did this by using equipment that Thomas Edison used to engrave hard surfaces.

In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva

A slug has four noses

Chili Powder was invented in the 19th century in the American Southwest

The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever

Braces were first invented by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. The braces were made by a flat strip of metal, which was connected to the teeth by thread.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes

There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people

The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items

The highest toll paid by a ship to cross the Panama Canal was by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993 in the amount of $141,349.97 U.S. funds

The name of the famous snack "Twinkies" was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said "Twinkle Toe Shoes."

The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party

The unique characteristics of Barbie dolls in Japan are that they have their lips closed with no teeth showing

The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages

Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics

Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible

Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL

In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

Mosquitoes have teeth

To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times

The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP."

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day

Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror

On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day

In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago

Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint

In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.

"I am." is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language

On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere

The longest hiccups on record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987

Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke

Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther

Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid

In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour

Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits

In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year

Cattle can produce up to 180 litres of saliva in one day

Dolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear region

Teflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938

The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore. updated

Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials

The first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield Street

The White House has a movie theater, swimming pool, bowling lane, jogging track, and a tennis court

About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten

A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow

In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the nameof the Don McLean song.)

Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

A baby kangaroo is called a joey

Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris

There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996

In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."

Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese

The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put together

There is cyanide in apple pips

True spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinnerets

Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nation

Every continent has a city called Rome

The movie "Cleopatra" cost $44 million to make in 1963. The same movie would now cost $300 million to make taking inflation into account

A species of dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers in South Asia. These dolphins have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of their body

Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University

Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner

Play-Doh was introduced in 1956 by Hasbro Inc. The only color availabe was an off white, and it came in one size which a one and a half pound can

The USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.

An oyster can change its gender

From all the states, Montana has the most different species of animals

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is

Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she went

A group of people that are hired to clap at a performance are called a claque

The tallest tree recorded is located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. It is a coast redwood and has been measured at 117 metres high

In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it

Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character

Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human

Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process

Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country

In an year, an average American kid eats 46 slices of pizza

In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks

Bubble gum contains rubber

When Kleenex was first introduced to the market in 1924, it was marketed as a make up or cold cream remover

In the year 1900, for a women to be a telephone operator she had to be between the ages of 17 and 26 and not be married

The first spacecraft to visit the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure

Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older

Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating

In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

Water that is safe to drink is referred to as POTABLE

Actor John Ritter was the voice of Clifford, from "Clifford The Big Red Dog."

Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet

The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."

The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child

In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic

Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is made

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour

The word Thailand means "land of the free."

A rose imprint that was fossilized in a slate was discovered in Florisant, Colorado, which is said to be thirty-five million years old

U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram

The highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. It rises 22,834 feet above sea level

The Barn Owls hearing is so highly developed that they can hunt for their prey in total darkness

The average number of bridesmaids at a wedding is four

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire

On April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Luft Hansa flight

The temperature of lightning bolts is sometimes hotter than the surface of the sun.

When Burger King introduced the Whopper Sandwich in 1957, it cost only thirty-seven cents

Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago

The favorite honeymoon place is Hawaii

The 1960 Summer Olympics were the first Olympics to be aired on television by CBS

The Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the money

In proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super Dome

The Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks and finally the Maple Leafs

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world

In 1391, China began producing toliet paper for use by its Emperors

In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.

There are some ice creams that are 75% air

In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.

A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell

The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment

Totally Hair Barbie is the best selling Barbie of all time. It sold over ten million units

Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs

Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes

Shirley Temple was considered to play the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."

Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaper

One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.

In the world, the Netherlands has the highest concentration of museums in the world. Just in Amsterdam alone there are 42 museums

Amongst pre-schoolers, Caillou is the fastest-ever-growing television show and is seen in close to 97% of U.S. households

Rice flour was used to strengthen some of the bricks that make up the Great Wall of China

Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight can increase the risk of glaucoma in men

Each year all of the Hostess bakeries combined bake 500 million Twinkies a year. (A twinkie is a sponge cake with a creamy filling.)

Charlie Chaplin once lost a contest for a Charlie Chaplin look a like

Pluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft

The worlds tallest free fall rollercoaster is The Giant Drop located in Australia. The drops is 120 meters which is equivalent to a 39 storey building

Stalks of sugar cane can reach up to 30 feet

The markings that are found on dice are called "pips."

Joseph Gayetty is credited for inventing toilet paper in 1857. Unfortunately, his invention failed and did not catch on until ten years later

A newly hatched fish is called a "fry."

The music band UB40 got its name from an unemployment form in England

The Olympic Flame was introduced in 1928 in Amsterdam

The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer

Armadillos can be housebroken

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies

The material to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of 1000 elephants

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth

In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time

In Alabama, it is against the law to wear a fake mustache that could cause laughter in the church

In the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not married

Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer. new

The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away

Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second

It is said that grapefruit got its name because it grows like grapes in clusters. One cluster can have up to 25 grapefruits

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes

An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world

Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes

The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel

Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest

The most expensive perfume in the world is Parfum VI, which was made by Arthur Burnham. A 4 inch bottle which is covered with diamonds and 24-carat gold costs $71,380

If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world

Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison

In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 58.36 metres above the ground

Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash

The name "Snickers" for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned

The #1 peanut producing state is Georgia

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An artificial Christmas tree last up to six years in a home

Women are four times more likely to have foot problems than men

In 1783, the hot air balloon was invented in France.

There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia

There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same

The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold

Lake Ontario was originally named Lake St. Louis

Actor John Travolta was offered the role of Billy Flynn many times for the movie "Chicago." Richard Gere ended up playing the role

The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839

There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world

Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration

David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon

Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War

Chicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo" cookies in 1997

In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister

There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station

In one day, 230 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas

Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world

The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.

The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds

There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead it is inside the fruit

The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and had a double yolk and shell

Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players

Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient

An orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutes

Alexander the Great was an epileptic

Wood frogs can be frozen solid and then thawed, and continue living. They use the glucose in their body to protect their vital organs while they are in a frozen state

Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world

In a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of water

The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink

Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978

A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph

Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930

Research on pigs led to the development of CAT scans.

The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years

Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour

In the last 30 years, only seven people have been killed by a polar bear in Canada

The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles

The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m

In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats

One of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks the street rises about 80 feet

Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado

On September 9, 1950 dubbed laughter was used for the first time on television. It was used for the sitcom "The Hank McCune Show."

A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood

The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet

One out of four American households own a cat

Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had

Every day 2,700 people die of heart disease

There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk

The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born

An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week

Quality standards for pasta were set in the 13th century by the Pope

The A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh made his animated film debut in 1966 in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as isnecessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the ste of Virginia stillhad segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks andwhites.

The Lemon shark grows about 24,000 new teeth a year. A new set of teeth grow approximately every 14 days

One billion seconds is about 32 years

An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

The water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homes

Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living

As part of the original design, the names of 72 French scientists and other famous people is imprinted on the sides of the Eiffel tower

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com

Thirty to 40 gallons of sugar maple sap must be boiled down to make just one gallon of maple syrup

The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides

A seven year old boy was the first person to survive the Horeshoe Falls (Niagara Falls) in just a life jacket

The longest punt return for a touchdown was 103 yards

The most popular Hot Wheels vehicle sold is the Corvette

A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue

The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger

Flu shots only work about 70% of the time

People of Salt Lake City eat the most lime-flavoured gelatin Jell-O in the United States

In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it

On average, a person has two million sweat glands

France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia have always been in the modern Olympics since it began in 1896

The longer white infants from low-income families are breast-fed, the less likely they will be overweight as young children, researchers said on Monday

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

The most popular treat for Halloween trick-or-treaters are candy bars with Snickers being the most popular

Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as "corns" of salt

The Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.

In 1908, the first machine to make lollipops opened for business in New Haven, Connecticut

In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony

The most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New Jersey

In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country

John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.

The long fibres that are found in bananas are excellent in making paper. The long fibres that are found in the banana plant can make the banana fibre paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paper

The state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796

Over 90% of poison exposures occur in homes

Honolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the United States of America

Seven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttle

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000

The production of toilet paper in China began in 1391, which was used for the Emperors

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on theground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

It would take approximately twenty-four trees that are on average six to eight inches in diameter to produce one ton of newsprint for the Sunday edition of the New York Times

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum

The tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes, two in the center of its head and one on the top of its head

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people

The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69

In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car

The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water

The popular chocolate bar "Three Musketeers" got its name because when it was first introduced in 1932 there were three individual bars. The flavours were strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla

Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year

In 1864, A Quebec farmer found a frog inside a hailstone

Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner

The first time there was an instance where they had a separate toilet for women and men was in 1739 at a ball in Paris

In the marriage ceremony of the Ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable

Some birds have been know to put ants into their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid, which kills parasites

On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables

Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the world

In the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinners

India has the most post offices in the world

Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet

In America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magaznie subscription

Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States

In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola

75% of all raisins eaten by people in the United States are eaten at breakfast

Whale oil was used in some car transmissions until 1973

Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km

1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo

In 1903, there were originally only eight Crayola crayons in a box and they sold for five cents

Men are able to read fine print better than women can

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day

Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well

One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day

Women hearts beat faster than men

The Central African raffia palm is known to have the longest leaves. The leaves can measure up to 82.5 feet long.

Due to the shortages of lead and metals during World War II, toothpaste was packaged in plastic tub

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Historical Events ( 18th May) :

1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1268 - The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
1291 - Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1302 - Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
1302 - Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1385 - Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1596 - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
1619 - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
1631 - English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right
1631 - John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts
1642 - Montreal Canada founded
1652 - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1703 - Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
1756 - England declares war on France
1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1794 - 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
1803 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1811 - Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay lead by Jose Artigas.
1830 - Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever
1843 - United Free Church of Scotland forms
1846 - US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
1848 - Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1851 - Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
1852 - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1861 - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
1861 - Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache," premieres in Weimar
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, MS
1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
1866 - French government of De Putte resigns
1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
1880 - 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37.5
1887 - Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis," premieres in Paris
1889 - Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris
1896 - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1897 - Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 - NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
1897 - Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres
1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
1899 - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1900 - Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
1904 - American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
1910 - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1911 - Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
1912 - A's beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
1912 - Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
1916 - US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1917 - Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris
1917 - US passes Selective Service act
1918 - Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1918 - TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200
1920 - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
1922 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped
1927 - "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses
1927 - Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif
1927 - Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
1929 - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
1929 - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
1933 - Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1933 - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1934 - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1934 - Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense
1934 - Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers
1934 - TWA began commercial service
1935 - Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset
1940 - German troops conquer Brussels
1941 - An Egyptian steamer sinks
1941 - Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
1941 - Jewish veterans honor their dead
1942 - NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
1943 - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
1944 - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
1944 - Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
1945 - Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
1947 - A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
1948 - "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
1948 - Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus
1948 - Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
1948 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
1950 - "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
1950 - Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
1951 - UN moves HQ to NYC
1951 - US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1952 - Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
1953 - 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1953 - Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier
1954 - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1955 - 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record)
1955 - Atkinson & Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day v Aust
1955 - Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
1956 - Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy
1956 - Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
1956 - Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam
1957 - 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2
1958 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1959 - "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52
1959 - "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
1959 - "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91
1960 - Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
1960 - Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris
1961 - "Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 68 performances
1963 - "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 - "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
1963 - 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2
1964 - David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
1964 - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
1965 - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt
1965 - WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
1967 - Tenn Gov Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1968 - 94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8
1968 - AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger
1968 - Frank Howard ties AL record with HR in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games
1969 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 perfs
1969 - Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
1971 - 4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1971 - Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1971 - Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
1971 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1971 - Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
1972 - "Me & The Chimp," last airs on CBS-TV
1972 - John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1973 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill
1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1974 - 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6
1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1977 - Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao
1977 - Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
1977 - Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
1978 - Italy legalizes abortion
1978 - Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1980 - Belgium 3rd government of Martens forms
1980 - China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
1980 - Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1980 - Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
1980 - Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
1980 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
1982 - Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive HRs
1982 - Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
1983 - Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
1985 - "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
1985 - 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4
1985 - 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
1986 - "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 perfs
1986 - Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1986 - Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups
1986 - David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
1986 - South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
1986 - Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
1988 - Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen
1988 - In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16
1989 - Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
1990 - 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
1990 - Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
1990 - Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1990 - Return To Green Acres TV movie airs
1991 - 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
1992 - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs
1993 - Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
1993 - Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
1994 - AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona
1994 - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
1994 - Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1995 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
1996 - 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2
1996 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner
1997 - "King David," opens at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 - 43rd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Chris Johnson
1997 - Cadillac NFL Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic
1998 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
2006 - The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2009 - Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

MAY 19th, 2012 OREGON BEACH WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS @ Pacific City – Wrestling info: Lonnie Eggert 503-812-1820 email - eggertl@tillamook.k12.or.us
visit: beachwrestling.tv Senior, High School and Kids divisions. Male and female divisions for senior and high school USA Wrestling card required –special $10 membership card available for those without a current 2012 USAW Membership. Registration 9-10 AM Competition begins at 11 AM Awards to top 3 in each division. Prize money awarded in the Senior Divisions Entry Fee $10 Directions From South – Grand Ronde Start out HWY 18 2. Turn onto HEBO RD/OR-22. Continue to follow OR-22. (go 11.3 miles) 3. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto LITTLE NESTUCCA RIVER RD. (go 9.4 miles) 4. Turn RIGHT onto US-101/OREGON COAST HWY. (go 1.0 miles) 5. Turn LEFT onto BROOTEN RD. (go 2.8 miles) 6. End at Pacific City, OR From North - Tillamook Start out going WEST on HWY 6/1st AVE 1. Turn LEFT onto MAIN AVE/US-101 S/OREGON COAST HWY. Continue to follow US-101 S/OREGON COAST HWY. (go 24.5 miles) 2. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto BROOTEN RD. (go 2.8 miles) 3. End at Pacific City, OR Look for signs.We will be where the arrow shows. Park right in front. Easy RulesMen wear athletic swimming trunks and women wear a one or two piece bathing suit.
Athletes wrestle on a sand surface, with a 20-foot diameter circle marked in the sand
Matches start in the standing position, and there isno ground wrestling
Matches last three minutes Two scoring moves ends each match
Athletes can score takedowns or when someone steps out of the ring To Win A Match Score a fall by forcing the opponents shoulders to the sand
Score two takedowns Score two throws
When the opponent is penalized twice for fleeing the competition area
Scoring one takedown and having one fleeing call against the opponent
After the three-minute period ends, the match is determined by these criteria:
First takedown or throw; First wrestler penalized for fleeing; Penalties;
Officials decision visit: beachwrestling.tv
Easy Rules Men wear athletic swimming trunks and women wear a one or two piece bathing suit. Athletes wrestle on a sand surface, with a 20-foot diameter circle marked in the sand Matches start in the standing position, and there is no ground wrestling Matches last three minutes Two scoring moves ends each match
Athletes can score takedowns or when someone steps out of the ring To Win A Match Score a fall by forcing the opponents shoulders to the sand Score two takedowns Score two throws When the opponent is penalized twice for fleeing the competition area Scoring one takedown and having one fleeing call against the opponent After the three-minute period ends, the match is determined by these criteria: First takedown or throw; First wrestler penalized for fleeing; Penalties;
Officials decision visit: beachwrestling.t

Swim Team Makes a Big Splash

The Roanoke Catholic School Swim team had a phenomenal season this year. Not only was Coach Tudor named coach of the year by the Virginia Independent Conference, but the VIC Swimmers of the Year were Shane Tudor and Kylie Patrick. Five of our swimmers made the VIC Men's All-Conference team: Shane Tudor, Sal Russo, Keith Clark, Michael Craddock , and Steven Rosendahl. Equally, five of our Celtic ladies made the VIC Women's All-Conference team: Kylie Patrick, Reagan Johnson, HannahTirdor, Alicia Iott , and Katie Brajdic. Some of our swimmers qualified to, swim against others from up and down the east coast in the Eastern Zone Sectional swim meet.

Michael Craddock swam 200 meter breast Stroke at the Eastern Zone Sectional Meet and achieved NCSA Junior National Cut, which means that he has qualified for a national swim meet this August in California. Shane Tudor swam at Eastern Zone qualified for the finals in 100 meter free style and swam his best time in the 100 meter butterfly. He will be swimming for George Mason in the fall.

Sal Russo qualified to attend USA Junior NCSA swim meet this year and was only half a second off from making the finals to swim for the Olympic time trial cut. His relay team in the 200 meter medley placed 17th out of 80 teams. During the five-day meet Sal had qualified to swim for four of those days. He will attend Mars Hill College in the fall.
"~ . ~ .
19 Spring 2012

Way to go team and way to go son!!!

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1. First Name:Chris
2. Middle Name:Nhat
3. Last Name:Tran
4. Astrological sign:
5. Brothers?tony tran
6. Sisters?Kelly,jenny,nhi,phi,gina,julie
7. Height:4"8 1/2
8. Hometown:Lawndale
9. Current state:USA
10. Eye color:Brownish
11. Relationship status:Taken<3
12. Bestfriend:Jose Saucedo,Ronnie Ballesteros
13. Phone number:
14. Skin color:Tanish :P
15. What are you wearing right now?Non ur beezwax
16. Are you wearing socks?no
17. Mood right now:in love dafauq
18. Birthday:2-14-00
19. Do you like someone?not like LOVE
20. Are you in love?no shit
21. Age?12
22. Who did you last text?No one
23. Who did you last call?Monica<3
24. What were you doing at this time yesterday?GTA IV
25. Last person you cried in front of:No one
26. Who was the last person you hugged?Monica<3
27. Who was the last person you kissed?:P
28. Who was your first kiss with?:P
29. Favorite rapper:Big Sean
30. Favorite movie:idk lots and lots?
31. Favorite show:Family guy,american dad,spongebob
32. Favorite song:Doing it right afrojack,you'll find yourself
33. Favorite color:BLUEE<33
34. Are you drinking anything right now?No
35. Are you eating anything right now?No
36. Are your legs crossed right now?No
37. Is your hand on your face right now?No
38. Do you have any piercings?No
39. Have you passed out before?No
40. Is your bellybutton an innie or outie?innie;] fuck outie
41. Have you ever been in the opposite gender's bathroom?
42. Do you ride rollercoasters?Yes
43. Have you ever played in the rain?No
44. Have you ever locked yourself out of the house?lol Maybeeee....
45. Ever changed in the car?No

School-
46. What school do you go to?WRMS
47. What grade are you in?6th
48. Easiest class?PE
49. Funnest class?Sairrino
50. What day did school start?September something?
51. What day does school get out?June something?
52. Do you go to dances?No
53. Favorite teacher?Sairrino
54. Do you like your school?Sure
55. Are you in elementary, middle, or highschool?Middle

In the past 24 hours have you-
56. Had a serious talk?No
57. Hugged someone?Yes
58. Cried?no
59. Laughed?yes
60. Been embarrassed?no
61. Ate chocolate?no
62. Missed someone?yes<3
63. Talked to someone you love?yes<3
64. Taken a shower?yes
65. Done something stupid?yes
66. Yelled at someone?no
67. Had a staring contest with someone?no

Have you ever-

69. Ate an entire bag of oreos?no
70. Gone skinny dipping?idk what that is lol
71. Had a bubble bath?yes
72. Played truth or dare?Yes
73. Kissed someone?no
74. Colored in a coloring book?yes
75. Played with barbies?no
76. Babysat a kid?no
77. Fallen asleep in class?almost
78. Broken the law?no
79. Been on a plane?no
80. Been on a boat?no
81. Been on a train?no
82. Are you a virgin?yes
83. Ate sushi?YES
84. Tp'd someones house?no
85. Forked someone's house?no
86. Stayed up all night?yes
87. Stayed up all night to talk to someone?no
88. Shoved stuff under your bed to make your room clean?yes
89. Walked around your house in your underwear?YES LOL
90. Dressed up in a costume at a public place?no
91. Snuck out?no
92. Slapped someone?no
93. Had a crush on a teacher?no
94. Gone mattress surfing?no
95. Gotten nervous around someone you like?Yes Monica Cano
96. Played truth or dare?yes
97. Climbed a tree?yes
98. Hopped a fence?yes
99. Rapped a song?yes
100. Played MW3?yes

Random-
101. Are you good at flirting?no
102. What size bed do you have?Futon
103. Are you flexible?Kindof
104. Do you like to keep your room clean?idk?
105. What is your favorite perfume?Clone* Uhh idk some random shitt
106. What is your motto?Viet
107. Do you have braces?no next year
108. What namebrand do you wear most?Vanz
109. What do you want to be when you get older?idk?
110. Do you like to give hugs?yes
111. Do you like to walk in the rain?no
112. Do you sleep with or without clothes on?without fuckk yea just with myboxers
113. What time do you get up?7:30 wkends:10,12
114. What time do you go to bed?around like 11 or 12
115. Do you sleep on your tummy, back, or side?side
116. Do you watch tv before you go to bed?no
117. What color are the sheets of your bed?Buzz lightyear!
118. What did you eat for dinner?idk didnt eat dinner yet
119. What time is it right now?9:01
120. What day of the week is it?Wednesday
121. Have you ever had a nosebleed?Yes
123. Have you ever been on a road trip?Yes
124. What were you doing 3 hours ago?freezing my ass off locked out of the house

This or that-
125. Rain or wind:Wind
126. Summer or winter:Summer
127: Coke or pepsi:they're Basically the same
128. Kissing or hugging:either
129. Nike or adidas:Nike
130. Drake or Lil Wayne:Drake lil wayne be saying random shittt
131. Essays or poems:Poems
132. Herbivore or carnivore:Herbivore
133. Pizza hut or dominoes:Pizza hut
134. Pancakes or waffles:pancakes
135. Rap or country:rap
136. Half full or half empty:half empty ;[
137. Santa or Easter Bunny:bunny!
138. Hamburgers or cheeseburgers:hamburgers
139. Youtube or google:youtube
140. Laughing or crying:laughing
141. Sunday's or Monday's:mondays
142. Shower or bath?shower
143. Long or short hair:short
144. Chocolate or vanilla:chocolate
145. Snickers or Twix:TIXXX
146. Fingers or toes:fingers
147. Chips or popcorn:chi[s
148. Cake or ice cream:icecream
149. Spring or Fall:fall
150. Popsicle or fudgesicle:
151. McDonald's or Burger King:McDonalds
152. Xbox or playstation:PS
153. Text or call:Call
154. Tea or coffee:Coffe
155. Phone call or in person:in person
156. Lucky Charms or Fruity Pebbles:Lucky charms never taste pebbles
157. Cereal or soup:sou[
158. Love or money:love
159. Salt or pepper:pepper
160. Chinese or italian food:chinese

What was the last thing you-
161. Said:im doing the 5 likes-Monica
162. Ate:uhh burger
163. Drank:kool aid
164. Talked to:Monica
165. Texted:no one
166. Listened to:monica
167. Smiled at:monica
168. Laughed at:monica
169: Thought about:monica
170: Read:Wizard of oz

This year have you-
171. Met someone who changed you?Monica
172. Found out who your true friends are:Monica<3 Jose;]
173. Made new friends:Monica,frances,justine,cece,mostly everyone in my class
174. Gone swimming?yes
175. Gone tanning?no
176. Been dissapointed?sure?

We some gun toting, church going, 18-wheel rolling
Bag slanging, flag waving, at the dinner table praying
Old school yard fighting, beer drinking, hell raising
Hard working, blue collar, earn it all due paying
Illegal weed smoking, dope cooking, dirt dealers
On the corner bible preachers
Hollywood dream seekers
Muddy water swimming in
Rockin Roll all the time
Straight from the assembly line
And that's how it's made!
in the U.S.A!

Africa Should Leave President Obama Alone


The whole of Africa and Ghana in particular is in a frenzy mood because the President of the United States of America is paying a visit to Africa between the 10-11 July,2009. Many in thecontinent have developed perception that Obama’s visit will change every evil thing in Africa including poverty, hunger, starvation, wars, diseases, economic depression, environmental and social chaos. Where those false hopes come from I do not know.

While his visit offers a number of opportunities for Africa, it will be wrong for people to think that all problems will be solved in the 18 hours that Obama is going to spend in Ghana. I want to urge Africans to leave Obama alone because there is very little that he can do for the continent. He is yet to fulfill the promises he made to the American people to create 600,000 jobs and improve healthcare and until such promises are met there is no way he will solve the economic and social problems confronting the continent. Besides, Americans themselves now depend on China for financial support so how can President Obama ignore the problems in America and starts solving the huge problems facing Africa today.

It is true Obama’s father hails from Kenya and both attended Havard but that will not have any bearing or whatsoever in his relationship with Africa. The fact that he chosed to visit Ghana and not Kenya should send a clear message to Africans that he is not in for the nepotism and croynism that continue to mark many regimes in Africa. In fact Africans should give President Obama a break because God has given us every mineral one can think of. He has given us oil, gas, uranium and what have you so what do we want from Obama? If it is friendship then fair enough but if it is dependency on American aid then forget it.

Africans should forget it if they are looking for a messial from America. Omar Bongo, Paul Biya, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Obiang Nguema, Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Daniel arap Moi, Lansana Conte could have been messiahs for Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Egypt, Guinea, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya but they chosed to steal what belonged to their nations and banked their ill gotten wealth in foreign lands instead of investing it in their countries.

We love to cling onto our little and insignificant tribal and ethnic groupings and wage war against our neighbours instead of uniting to fight hunger and poverty. Our political leaders love to govern the people with impunity, barbarity, cruelty, extreme brutalities and torture instead of allowing them to enjoy freedoms, rights and democracy. Our leaders and politicians love to steal from the coffers of the treasuries and mismanage what remains of their loot and we expect Obama to pour money into our sick economies.

The leaders have sold their own dignity and birth rights of the people to corrupt multinational corporations and foreign powers for protection betraying their own peoples for peanuts.

Look at how every leader wants to be associated with President Obama, but if he had been an opposition candidate in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast,Togo or Cameroon there is no way he would have become president as the incumbent will do eveything possible to win the election. He might have even been in detention or under house arrest or in exile as is happening in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea and Chad.

If Obama wins the 2012 elections he will never be president again but just look around the continent and you will find leaders who have been in power for more than 30 years and still want to rule because they think they alone have brains to rule. For example Gaddafi of Libya has been in power for 39 years now. Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea 28 years, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe 28 years, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt 27 years, Paul Biya of Cameroon 26 years, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda 23 years, Omar Al Bashir of Sudan 19 years, Iddriss Derby of Chad 17 years, Yahya Jammeh of Gambia 14 years.

The 71 year old Mamadou Tandja of Niger wanted to change the constitution to rule for a third. When the court ruled against him, he sacked the judges, appointed new ones and and is now ruling the country through emergency powers. President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika of Algeria after two terms in office changed the constitution and is now in his term as president. Ben Ali of Tunisia is no different, they have all concentrated powers in their hands taking their citizens for fools.

Go to Gambia and Ethiopia and see how journalists are being killed, detained and tortured. Go to Nigeria and witness how federal and state government officials are squandering billions of oil revenue while millions of young graduates have no jobs and the infrastructures in the country are crumbling. Go to Cameroon and see how millions continue to live in abject poverty despite huge oil revenue. Go to Equatorial Guinea and see how Obiang Nguema and his circle of friends live in opulence and swimming in oil money while the 600, 000 people in that country live in squalor.

Go to Angola and find out who has benefitef from the oil proceeds.Visit Congo-Brazzaville and see how Denis Sassou Nguesso and his family are utilizing the oil revenue. Denis Nguesso has 112 bank accounts in France alone, plus fleet of expensive mansions and cars while millions scavenge for food in his oil rich country.

In Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Angola, Congo, Guinea and Central African Republic the first thing you will witness as you enter the country is corruption. Customs and immigration officials openly demand bribe because that is what they see their political masters doing everyday.

What do Africans want from President Obama? Is it loans, grants and food aid? I do not think we need aid. We must ask ourselves what we have done with those we have received so far before asking for more. What have we done with all the billions of dollars that we have received from the IMF, World Bank, US, Britain, France and Germany over the years? Have our leaders not stolen and banked it in Switzerland, France, Britain and save haven centers around the world? What have we done with the trillions of dollars that we have received from oil, gas, diamond, gold, cocoa, coffee, cotton and timber? Is it not sitting in Swiss banks?

What has Nigeria done with the over $400 billion she has received from the sale of oil and gas? How about Gabon? How many research institutions did Omar Bongo establish before he and his wife had to die in foreign lands seeking medical attention? What did Omar Bongo do with the billions of oil revenue that flowed into his country? Didn’t he open 70 bank accounts in France for himself and bought several mansions?

I feel ashamed that these corrupt African leaders are crying for President Obama’s attention. Is Obama not a blackman like Yar’ Dua of Nigeria or Prof Atta Mills of Ghana, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, Blaise Campore of Burkina Faso, Mamadou Tandja of Niger, Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt or Gaddafi of Libya? What good have these men done for their countries except accumulating power and stealing from their poor nations? Inspite of their massive failures and decades in office they still carry themselves as leaders of the people. They are like blind men driving in darkness. They behave like a child king or the proverbial pig who will always go back to the dirt no matter how well it is washed. They have no sense of shame and see nothing wrong with the poverty in their countries.What can be done for leaders who remain accountable to no one?

What do we want Obama to do? I guess to end the poverty and wars in Africa right? Do we want Obama to come and preach to us that it is time to stop stealing from the people? Do we want him to tell us it is time to invest in education, health, technology, roads and other infrastructures? Do we want him to tell Paul Kegame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to stop invadding and destabilising Eastern Congo and stop profiting from the illegal looting of that country’s resources? We want Obama to arrest the conflict and stalemate in Somalia and Madagascar yet we have leaders some of whom have ruled for over 30 years whose incompetence is the result of hopelessness written in the face of almost every African. Political leaders in the continent have no moral justification to celebrate the election of President Obama and his visit to Africa with the people.

Nigeria could have been the United States of Africa isn’t it? She has all the resources: oil, gas, rich soil, a hardworking population but what do we see? Corruption, embezzlement, utter incompetence, political assasination, coups, election violence, environmental destruction, arm robbery, fraud, internet scam, religious conflict and tribal affiliations have eaten the better part of what should have been a great nation.

DRC a nation with a third of the world’s natural resources yet what we see in that country are chronic poverty, malnutrition, massive official corruption, scant accountability, dictatorship, destruction of infrastructure, and six million deaths from senseless and useless wars.

Gabon could easily have become the Switzerland of Africa but her leaders have turned the oil blessing into a curse with poverty, corruption, embezzlement, waste, mismanagement, dictatorship, sitting very deep in the country.

Equatorial Guinea could easily have become the Singapore of Africa but her leaders have turned it into the usual African story of corruption, embezzlement, waste, mismanagement, dictatorship, poverty.

Libya could easily have become the California of Africa but 39 years of one man’s dictatorhip brought nothing but international isolation, wars, terrorism, scant accountability, coersion, fear, intimidation, arbitrary arrests, detention, force imprisonment and what have you.

Kenya was asking IMF for a $100 million loan yet the country loses over $1 billion annually through corruption. So what do Kenyans want Obama to do? To pump money into a rotten country? No way. http://africawatch1.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-letter-to-imf-on-loan-request-by.html

Instead of Rwanda and Uganda helping to maintain peace in DR. Congo they have crossed several times into that country in the name of fighting rebels but we know what they are doing there stealing over $600, 000,000 worth of minerals from that country. Is this what we want Obama to come and help us to do?

Lucky Dube the Reggae legend sung in his album Prisoner that “I asked the Policeman and said how long must I pay for my freedom? He said to me son they won’t build no schools anymore, they won’t build no hospitals all they build will be prison”. How long must Africans pay for freeddom, right to choose their own leaders in Egypt, Libya, E. Guinea, Angola, Congo, Uganda and Zimbabwe? How long must they pay for the corruption of the few? How long must they pay for the incompetence, dictatorship and power grabbing of the insensitive politicians? The leaders won’t build no roads anymore, they won’t build schools what they build is poverty, diseases, corruption, power grabbing, incompetence and mismanagement. Africans are now economic prisoners in a continent full of rich natural resources.

Why trouble Obama when we are own enemies and destructive forces? What do we do with our own intellectuals I mean our own scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses, bankers, planners and accountants? Why are they leaving the shores of the continent in their thousands for greener pastures abroad? Obama’s father studied in US and returned to Kenya to contribute to his country’s development and what good did Kenya make of him?

What is our own Africa Union doing? Or what has it achieved so far? Has the AU been able to bring peace to Darfur, Somalia, DRC, Chad, or Zimbabwe? Look at how divided we Africans are. Just look at how pathetic the Africa Union is. A body with over 53 members that see no wisdom in unity. A body that has not been able to accomplish anything except producing documents after documents and meetings upon meetings. A body made up of and controlled by corrupt dictators who represent no one except their own interests. What does it say about the leadership in the continent?

President Obama will deliver his policy statement about Africa in Ghana and there is a lot of expectations as to what he intends to do for the continent.But with all the dictators and kleptocrats still in power in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt,Libya, Angola, Congo what do you think will happen if Obama should give Africa all the money that USA has? Wouldn’t it be stolen by these same corrupt leaders and their associates? No matter the policy statement that Obama gives in Ghana poverty, diseases and wars will never depart from the continent if the leaders fail to change their corrupt, power grabbibg and incompetent attitude.

The tumour that is making the people poor is the leaders and until the tumour is removed the continent will not be healed of poverty, diseases and wars.Just go to every single African country and you will not be surprised to see the government in power living extravagent lifestyle while a great majority of the people live on less than a dollar a day.

I would rather want President Obama to focus his attention on nations like Botswana that are prepared to change and adopt political and economic reforms and demonstrate their willingness to fight poverty, diseases that continue to plague the continent not nations whose leaders are waiting to die while still president.

We cannot eat our cake and have it again. We cannot steal from the people and think poverty will leave them. We cannot continue to mismanage our economies and think that unemployment will go away. Until we begin to realise that manna will never fall from heaven again and there is nothing like free lunch we will continue to look to foreign countries as children look to their parents for everything.

By Lord Aikins Adusei
Activist and anti-corruption campaigner. He blogs at www.ghanapundit.blogspot.com

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A Fun memory of Sister Opel Scott.
Bloomers and Bacon
When I was a little girl, I, mom and dad took off to Alexander VA to see my sisters. This was near Washington D.C.
While we were they my brother in law wanted some county biscuits and gravy. So mom went to the local store. There I was a superstore. Years ahead of its time for us TN folk. Mom got all her supplies and made her way to the bacon. There she got the shock of her life.
A woman had bought underwear, we called them bloomers. Mom was in shock that she had put such an item in her buggy and then added Bacon, what a sinful thing to do. Mom went to the local payphone and made a quite expensive long distance phone call. She had to inform her sister Cecil Elsea of this sin of the Washington D.C. Area. You have to remember at this time, we believed everything was a sin, no swimming, no skating, no movies, for some no TVs. it was a different time. And now to see D.C in such shambles.
Women at that time were required to buy undergraments in a dept store, with no men in site lol...
So Aunt Cecil went to see Sister Scott and to have prayer for our Nation’s Capital. And boy did the word spread, before we got back to Dayton; Graysville church of God had had a sermon titled bloomer and bacon, and sins of the larger town in the u.s.a.
For years me and Sister Scott would laugh at this. We would laugh that now even Dayton had a super store. How funny. Then she would sometimes say.. Callie you know I still don’t think that is right, there is a place for sure, and I think Wal-Mart has crossed the line.
Oh I loved that woman. She stood her ground after all those years.

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My girls used to synchro with these talented young ladies. AWESOME!!
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Question Answer Jokes
Question: Why do most married men die before their wives?
Answer: Because they want to.

Question: What do diapers and Politicians have in common?
Answer: They both need changing regularly - for exactly the same reason.

Question: What is the definition of the early evening news?
Answer: It starts with the words "Good evening" then spends the next half an hour tellling you why it isn't one.

Question:What device will find furniture in a poorly lit room every time?
Answer: Your shinbone

Question: Why do parents give children a middle name?
Answer: So the child knows when it is in seriously in trouble
Question and Answer Jokes
Question: What would you have if you crossed a panther with a beef burger?
Answer: Really fast food.

Question: What would you have if you crossed a pig with a karate expert?
Answer: Pork chops

Question: Why do traffic lights rarely go swimming?
Answer: They take much too long to change.

Question: Why do thieves shower before they commit crime?
Answer: Because they like a clean getaway.

Question: What type of bow can never be tied?
Answer: A Rainbow.

Question: Why did Jack take a prune out for the evening?
Answer: He couldn’t get a date.

Question: Why couldn’t the pirate play poker?
Answer: He was sat on the deck.

Question: Which is the loudest state in the U.S.A.?
Answer: ILLI NOISE.

Question: Why is it that birds fly southwards for the winter?
Answer: Because it is much too far to walk.

Question: Why is it unpleasant to eat a meal next to a group of basketball players?.
Answer: They dribble far too much.

Question: How many teachers would it take to find their way out of a maze?
Answer: No idea as none have ever made it out yet.

Question: Where can you obtain virgin wool?
Answer: Really ugly sheep.

Question: How can you treble the value any Skoda car?
Answer: Put a gallon of petrol in it.

Question: What is the best definition of a mixed emotion?
Answer: Watching the mother-in-law reverse off a cliff driving your brand new car.

Question: What is a cow with no legs called?
Answer: Ground Beef.

Question: Why does a divorce cost so much?
Answer: Because it is worth it.
Question Answer Jokes
Question: What would you have if you crossed a panther with a beef burger?
Answer: Really fast food.

Question: What would you have if you crossed a pig with a karate expert?
Answer: Pork chops

Question: Why do traffic lights rarely go swimming?
Answer: They take much too long to change.

Question: Why do thieves shower before they commit crime?
Answer: Because they like a clean getaway.

Question: What type of bow can never be tied?
Answer: A Rainbow.

Question: Why did Jack take a prune out for the evening?
Answer: He couldn’t get a date.

Question: Why couldn’t the pirate play poker?
Answer: He was sat on the deck.

Question: Which is the loudest state in the U.S.A.?
Answer: ILLI NOISE.

Question: Why is it that birds fly southwards for the winter?
Answer: Because it is much too far to walk.

Question: Why is it unpleasant to eat a meal next to a group of basketball players?.
Answer: They dribble far too much.

Question: How many teachers would it take to find their way out of a maze?
Answer: No idea as none have ever made it out yet.

Question: Where can you obtain virgin wool?
Answer: Really ugly sheep.

Question: How can you treble the value any Skoda car?
Answer: Put a gallon of petrol in it.

Question: What is the best definition of a mixed emotion?
Answer: Watching the mother-in-law reverse off a cliff driving your brand new car.

Question: What is a cow with no legs called?
Answer: Ground Beef.

Question: Why does a divorce cost so much?
Answer: Because it is worth it.

Question: Why do most married men die before their wives?
Answer: Because they want to.

Question: What do diapers and Politicians have in common?
Answer: They both need changing regularly - for exactly the same reason.

Question: What is the definition of the early evening news?
Answer: It starts with the words "Good evening" then spends the next half an hour tellling you why it isn't one.
Question Answer Jokes
Question : What route do crazy people take to go through the woods?
Answer: They follow the psycho path.

Question: How would a spoilt little rich girl change a light bulb?
Answer: She would ask Daddy to buy her a new apartment

Question: What do people in prison use to communicate with one another?
Answer: Cell phones

Question: What would happen if you were to cross two snowmen with three vampires?
Answer: You would get severe frostbite

Question: What is big, fuzzy and green with four legs and six pockets and if it were to fall from a tree it would probably kill you?
Answer: A snooker table.

Question: What lettuce was served in the salad bar on the Titanic?
Answer: Iceberg

Question: What shakes and twitches and can be found at the sea bottom?
Answer: A nervous wreck

Question: Why is it there so many people with the surname Jones in the telephone book?
Answer: Because they have got phones.

Question: Why is it that people always walk whenever they play the bagpipes?
Answer: Even they are attempting to get away from that awful noise.

Question: What happened to the man who lost his left arm, left leg and eye in an accident?
Answer: It was touch and go but he is all right now.

Question: What was the name of the person who made King Arthur’s Round Table?
Answer: Sir Cumferance
2 line jokes
Question : What three letters alter boys into men and girls into women?
Answer : AGE

Question : Why are fish so easy to weigh?
Answer : Because they have their own scales

Question: How you know that you are flying with a "no frills" airline?
Answer: You need to have the correct change to board the plane.

Question: Why do "no frills" airlines never show movies on their flights?
Answer: They don’t need to. You keep seeing your life flashing before your very eyes.

Question: On a turkey, which side would you find most feathers?
Answer: The outside

Question: Why is that all cats dislike flying saucers?
Answer: Because it is impossible for them to reach the milk.

Question: If a cat has nine lives, what has more?
Answer: A frog – it croaks every day.

Question: Which ballet do pigs like best?
Answer: Swine Lake.

Question: What is the big difference between chopped pork and pea soup?
Answer : Everybody can chop pork but everyone can't pea soup.

Question: Why is it that we don't eat clowns?
Answer: They taste funny

Question: If you saw two cowboys in a kitchen, which would be the real one?
Answer : The one stood by the range.

Question: Where would you find a dog with one leg?
Answer: Exactly where you had left it.

Question: Why did the room packed with married people seem empty?
Answer: Because there wasn't a single person there.

Question: What's the difference between a pessimist and a magnet?
Answer: A magnet has a positive side.

Question : What is the longest sentence that a man knows?
Answer: I do.

Question: What do you call a chicken that is crossing the road?
Answer: Poultry in motion

Question: What is a quicker way to transfer money than electronic banking?
Answer: Marriage.
Funny Question and Answer Jokes
Question: Where would a 65 year old man find a young, attractive woman who would take any interest in him?
Answer : The local bookshop in the section marked "fiction".

Question: Why is it a good to use valet parking as you get older?
Answer: Because they will remember where the car was parked.

Question : If it takes six men eight hours for a wall to be built, how long would three men take to build it?
Answer : It wouldn't take any time - it has already been built.

Question : What would you have if you had four peaches and three pears in one hand with four pears and three peaches in the other?
Answer: Incredibly large hands.

Question: How would you lift a giraffe with one hand?
Answer: Doesn't matter as you won't find any one handed giraffe?

Question: If a green stone was thrown into the sea what does it become?"
Answer: Wet

Question : What falls regularly although never gets hurt?
Answer : Rain
Question and Answer Jokes
What was the reason for the confused looking woman staring at the can of frozen
Apple juice for twenty minutes?
Because it said Concentrate on the side of the can.

Question: What is another name for female Viagra?
Answer: A Diamond

Question: What did the cowboy say went he went into the car showroom in Germany?
Answer: Audi

Question : What is the quickest way to speed up your 70 year old husband’s heart rate.
Answer : Tell him that you are pregnant

Question: What is the best way to avoid wrinkles as you age?
Answer : Remove your spectacles

Brain Fitness - Your Guide to Good Brain Health
You are born with just about all the neurons (nerve cells) that your brain will ever have*. Damaged brains are NOT easy to fix. Here are some suggestions for good brain health.

1. Wear your seat belt!

In a car, truck or airplane, your seat belt will help protect your head and brain from injury. Motor vehicle accidents are by far the greatest causes of brain injuries, accounting for 37-50% of all brain injuries.

(Statistic from Amer. J. of Diseases of Children, Vol. 144, pages 627-646, 1990 and Brain Injury Association USA)



2. Wear your helmet!

Whether you are biking, skating or skateboarding, your helmet will protect your head if you fall. Make sure that your helmet meets or exceeds the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Snell Memorial Foundation standards for safety.

Head injury is the most common cause of death in bicycle crashes accounting for 62% of all bicycle-related deaths. (Statistic from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 44, No. RR-1, pages 1-17, 1995)

More information on bicycle injury.

3. Stay away from illegal drugs!

Drugs alter brain function - no question about that. Although damage done by some drugs can be reversed, some drugs may change brain function permanently. Why take the chance?

4. Know the risks involved with sports!

This applies mainly to boxing, football and the martial arts. However, even soccer, climbing, horseback riding, diving and skiing have risks. Always wear your safety equipment properly and be in good physical condition for your sport.

In the United States in 1987 and 1988, 92,763 emergency room visits were made for injuries related to horseback riding. 18.9% of these visits were made due to injuries to the head and neck. (Statistic from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 39, no. 20, pages 329-332, 1990)
Did you know?

Each year there are about 300,000 brain concussions that occur during sports activities. This statistic from the Center for Disease Control.

5. Look before you leap!

I know it sounds impossible, but people DO dive into swimming pools without water. Dive only in the deep end of the pool and make sure that the water in the lake and at the beach is deep enough to dive in head first. Also, be aware of any objects, such as large rocks, that may be hidden under the water.

There are up to 1,000 spinal cord injuries each year in the United States when people dive into swimming pools or other bodies of water - (Statistic from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 37, no. 30, pages 453-454, 1988)

6. Look both ways before crossing the street!

I know that you have heard this one before, but accidents do happen and you can't be wearing your helmet all the time.

7. Stay away from guns!

I don't think I have to explain this one.

Firearms were the second leading cause of injury-related deaths in 2002. A total of 30,242 firearm-related deaths were reported in the United States in 2002. (Statistic from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

8. Make sure you have a "good" surface around your playground equipment!

Just in case you fall off of a climber, a soft impact-absorbing surface will cushion your drop.

In the United States from 1983-1987, 66.5% of the school playground-related injuries involved the head and neck.(Statistic from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 37, no. 41, pages 629-632, 1988)

National Program for Playground Safety

9. Eat right!

Your brain needs energy to work its best.

10. Dispose of chemicals properly!

Many chemicals, such as pesticides and cleaners, contain neurotoxins that can kill nerve cells and damage nerves. These dangerous chemicals can be found in your home or at places of work. Dispose of these materials properly!

Did you know?

Each year in the United States, there are about 52,000 deaths caused by traumatic brain injury. This statistic from the Center for Disease Control.

*Note: Other data suggest that new neurons DO grow in the brain after birth. This has been demonstrated in rats, tree shrews, marmosets, monkeys and humans.

For more about brain injury and protecting your head, see:

Bicycle Helmet Effectiveness (large file - 150k)
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
Brain Injury: Prevention
Consumer's Guide to Bicycle Helmets
Help in Planning a Helmet Promotion Program
Think First Oregon
TBI Help Desk

For information on spinal cord injury, see the National Spinal Cord Injury Association.

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Obama's hidden birth certificate!

Here it is, folks! The document we have been waiting for! Now what, Supreme Court?

Widely circulated; challenge to Obama’s birthplace and to US Citizenship.

Seems this is bound to arise [again] in the “political diatribe” of the coming year!

Whether we like it – believe it – or disbelieve it.

“ Barack Hussein Obama II General Hospital , Mombasa , Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961(what a sad day for the USA !). Four days later his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth.”

Well, well, well … at last the ‘real’ thing. Now, what will happen?

Whom do you believe? This man should be impeached-now!

If these documents are as authentic as they certainly seem to be, Obama is NOT qualified to be our President and he sits in the White House illegally!

This is what Obama has spent almost $2M (so far) to hide.

Here’s a close-up of the top of the document where you can plainly read his name and his parents’ names, etc....

A British history buff was asked if he could find out who the colonial registrar was for Mombasa in 1961.

After only a few minutes of research, he called back and said “Sir Edward F. Lavender. Note the same name near the bottom of the photo above.

Source(s): Kenya Dominion Record 4667 Australian library.”

Here’s a close-up of the bottom of the document where you can read “Coast Province of Kenya” and the official signature of the Deputy Registrar:

The above document is a “Certified Copy of Registration of Birth,” but below is a copy of the actual Certificate of Birth – the real-deal legal kind of certificate.

The Mombasa Registrar of Births has testified that Obama’s birth certificate from Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa is genuine. This copy was obtained by Lucas Smith through the help of a Kenyan Colonel who recently got it directly from the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa , Kenya . Here it is:

Note the footprint!

The local Muslim Imam in Mombasa named Barack with his Muslim middle name Hussein so his official name on this certificate is Barack Hussein Obama II.

The grandmother of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. reveals the story of his birth in Mombasa , Kenya , a seaport, after his mother suffered labor pains while swimming at ocean beach in Mombasa .

“On August 4, 1961 Obama’s mother, father, and grandmother were attending a Muslim festival in Mombasa , Kenya .

His mother had been refused entry to airplanes due to her nine-month pregnancy. It was a hot August day at the festival so the Obamas went to the beach to cool off. While swimming in the ocean his mother experienced labor pains so was rushed to the Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961(what a sad day for the USA!).

Four days later his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth.”

Letter from Kitau in Mombasa , Kenya :
“I happen to be Kenyan. I was born 1 month before Obama at Mombasa medical center. I am a teacher here at the MM Shaw Primary School in Kenya . I compared my birth certificate to the one that has been put out by Taitz and mine is exactly the same. I even have the same registrar and format. The type is identical. I am by nature a skeptical person. I teach science here and challenge most things that cannot be proven. So I went to an official registrar today and pulled up the picture on the web. They magnified it and determined it to be authentic. There is even a plaque with Registrar Lavender’s name on it as he was a Brit and was in charge of the Registrar office from 1959 until January of 1964. The reason the date on the certificate says republic of Kenya is that we were a republic when the “copy” of the original was ordered. I stress the word “copy.” My copy also has republic of Kenya . So what you say is true about Kenya not being a republic at the time of Obama’s birth, however it was a republic when the copy was ordered.

The birth certificate is genuine. It will be authenticated by a forensic auditor. We are very proud Obama was born here. We have a shrine for him and there are many people who remember his birth here as he had a white mother. They are being interviewed now by one of your media outlets.

Fortunately, they even have pictures of his parents with him immediately after his birth at the Mombasa hospital with the hospital in the background.

It will be a proud day for us when it is proven that he was born here and a Kenyan became the most powerful man in the world.

I encourage anyone to come here and visit. I will be happy to take you and show you the pictures at the hospital myself as well as my document and many others that are identical to what Taitz posted. God Bless. Kitau.”

So, how much more proof do we need?

WELL, HERE IT IS:

Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9-year-old Barry Soetoro.

This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia , shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.

Name: Barry Soetoro
Religion: Islam
Nationality: Indonesian

How did this little INDONESIAN Muslim child - Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama) get around the issue of nationality to become President of the United States of America?

PART 2:
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College .

The transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia while an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.

To qualify for this scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.
This document provides the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking - that he is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States - necessary to be President of these United States . Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya , here we see that there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship.

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.

Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused comment on this matter.

THE STORY

Obama's hidden birth certificate!

Here it is, folks! The document we have been waiting for! Now what, Supreme Court?

Widely circulated; challenge to Obama’s birthplace and to US Citizenship.

Seems this is bound to arise [again] in the “political diatribe” of the coming year!

Whether we like it – believe it – or disbelieve it.

“ Barack Hussein Obama II General Hospital , Mombasa , Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961(what a sad day for the USA !). Four days later his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth.”

Well, well, well … at last the ‘real’ thing. Now, what will happen?

Whom do you believe? This man should be impeached-now!

If these documents are as authentic as they certainly seem to be, Obama is NOT qualified to be our President and he sits in the White House illegally!

This is what Obama has spent almost $2M (so far) to hide.

Here’s a close-up of the top of the document where you can plainly read his name and his parents’ names, etc....

A British history buff was asked if he could find out who the colonial registrar was for Mombasa in 1961.

After only a few minutes of research, he called back and said “Sir Edward F. Lavender. Note the same name near the bottom of the photo above.

Source(s): Kenya Dominion Record 4667 Australian library.”

Here’s a close-up of the bottom of the document where you can read “Coast Province of Kenya” and the official signature of the Deputy Registrar:

The above document is a “Certified Copy of Registration of Birth,” but below is a copy of the actual Certificate of Birth – the real-deal legal kind of certificate.

The Mombasa Registrar of Births has testified that Obama’s birth certificate from Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa is genuine. This copy was obtained by Lucas Smith through the help of a Kenyan Colonel who recently got it directly from the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa , Kenya . Here it is:

Note the footprint!

The local Muslim Imam in Mombasa named Barack with his Muslim middle name Hussein so his official name on this certificate is Barack Hussein Obama II.

The grandmother of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. reveals the story of his birth in Mombasa , Kenya , a seaport, after his mother suffered labor pains while swimming at ocean beach in Mombasa .

“On August 4, 1961 Obama’s mother, father, and grandmother were attending a Muslim festival in Mombasa , Kenya .

His mother had been refused entry to airplanes due to her nine-month pregnancy. It was a hot August day at the festival so the Obamas went to the beach to cool off. While swimming in the ocean his mother experienced labor pains so was rushed to the Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961(what a sad day for the USA!).

Four days later his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth.”

Letter from Kitau in Mombasa , Kenya :
“I happen to be Kenyan. I was born 1 month before Obama at Mombasa medical center. I am a teacher here at the MM Shaw Primary School in Kenya . I compared my birth certificate to the one that has been put out by Taitz and mine is exactly the same. I even have the same registrar and format. The type is identical. I am by nature a skeptical person. I teach science here and challenge most things that cannot be proven. So I went to an official registrar today and pulled up the picture on the web. They magnified it and determined it to be authentic. There is even a plaque with Registrar Lavender’s name on it as he was a Brit and was in charge of the Registrar office from 1959 until January of 1964. The reason the date on the certificate says republic of Kenya is that we were a republic when the “copy” of the original was ordered. I stress the word “copy.” My copy also has republic of Kenya . So what you say is true about Kenya not being a republic at the time of Obama’s birth, however it was a republic when the copy was ordered.

The birth certificate is genuine. It will be authenticated by a forensic auditor. We are very proud Obama was born here. We have a shrine for him and there are many people who remember his birth here as he had a white mother. They are being interviewed now by one of your media outlets.

Fortunately, they even have pictures of his parents with him immediately after his birth at the Mombasa hospital with the hospital in the background.

It will be a proud day for us when it is proven that he was born here and a Kenyan became the most powerful man in the world.

I encourage anyone to come here and visit. I will be happy to take you and show you the pictures at the hospital myself as well as my document and many others that are identical to what Taitz posted. God Bless. Kitau.”

So, how much more proof do we need?

WELL, HERE IT IS:

Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9-year-old Barry Soetoro.

This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia , shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.

Name: Barry Soetoro
Religion: Islam
Nationality: Indonesian

How did this little INDONESIAN Muslim child - Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama) get around the issue of nationality to become President of the United States of America?

PART 2:
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College .

The transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia while an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.

To qualify for this scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.
This document provides the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking - that he is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States - necessary to be President of these United States . Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya , here we see that there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship.

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.

Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused comment on this matter.

Question: What do diapers and Politicians have in common?
Answer: They both need changing regularly - for exactly the same reason.

Question: What is the definition of the early evening news?
Answer: It starts with the words "Good evening" then spends the next half an hour tellling you why it isn't one.

Question:What device will find furniture in a poorly lit room every time?
Answer: Your shinbone

Question: Why do parents give children a middle name?
Answer: So the child knows when it is in seriously in trouble

Question and Answer Jokes
Question: What would you have if you crossed a panther with a beef burger?
Answer: Really fast food.

Question: What would you have if you crossed a pig with a karate expert?
Answer: Pork chops

Question: Why do traffic lights rarely go swimming?
Answer: They take much too long to change.

Question: Why do thieves shower before they commit crime?
Answer: Because they like a clean getaway.

Question: What type of bow can never be tied?
Answer: A Rainbow.

Question: Why did Jack take a prune out for the evening?
Answer: He couldn’t get a date.

Question: Why couldn’t the pirate play poker?
Answer: He was sat on the deck.

Question: Which is the loudest state in the U.S.A.?
Answer: ILLI NOISE.

Question: Why is it that birds fly southwards for the winter?
Answer: Because it is much too far to walk.

Question: Why is it unpleasant to eat a meal next to a group of basketball players?.
Answer: They dribble far too much.

Question: How many teachers would it take to find their way out of a maze?
Answer: No idea as none have ever made it out yet.

Question: Where can you obtain virgin wool?
Answer: Really ugly sheep.

Question: How can you treble the value any Skoda car?
Answer: Put a gallon of petrol in it.

Question: What is the best definition of a mixed emotion?
Answer: Watching the mother-in-law reverse off a cliff driving your brand new car.

Question: What is a cow with no legs called?
Answer: Ground Beef.

Question: Why does a divorce cost so much?
Answer: Because it is worth it.

Question Answer Jokes
Question: What would you have if you crossed a panther with a beef burger?
Answer: Really fast food.

Question: What would you have if you crossed a pig with a karate expert?
Answer: Pork chops

Question: Why do traffic lights rarely go swimming?
Answer: They take much too long to change.

Question: Why do thieves shower before they commit crime?
Answer: Because they like a clean getaway.

Question: What type of bow can never be tied?
Answer: A Rainbow.

Question: Why did Jack take a prune out for the evening?
Answer: He couldn’t get a date.

Question: Why couldn’t the pirate play poker?
Answer: He was sat on the deck.

Question: Which is the loudest state in the U.S.A.?
Answer: ILLI NOISE.

Question: Why is it that birds fly southwards for the winter?
Answer: Because it is much too far to walk.

Question: Why is it unpleasant to eat a meal next to a group of basketball players?.
Answer: They dribble far too much.

Question: How many teachers would it take to find their way out of a maze?
Answer: No idea as none have ever made it out yet.

Question: Where can you obtain virgin wool?
Answer: Really ugly sheep.

Question: How can you treble the value any Skoda car?
Answer: Put a gallon of petrol in it.

Question: What is the best definition of a mixed emotion?
Answer: Watching the mother-in-law reverse off a cliff driving your brand new car.

Question: What is a cow with no legs called?
Answer: Ground Beef.

Question: Why does a divorce cost so much?
Answer: Because it is worth it.

Question: Why do most married men die before their wives?
Answer: Because they want to.

Question: What do diapers and Politicians have in common?
Answer: They both need changing regularly - for exactly the same reason.

Question: What is the definition of the early evening news?
Answer: It starts with the words "Good evening" then spends the next half an hour tellling you why it isn't one.

Question Answer Jokes
Question : What route do crazy people take to go through the woods?
Answer: They follow the psycho path.

Question: How would a spoilt little rich girl change a light bulb?
Answer: She would ask Daddy to buy her a new apartment

Question: What do people in prison use to communicate with one another?
Answer: Cell phones

Question: What would happen if you were to cross two snowmen with three vampires?
Answer: You would get severe frostbite

Question: What is big, fuzzy and green with four legs and six pockets and if it were to fall from a tree it would probably kill you?
Answer: A snooker table.

Question: What lettuce was served in the salad bar on the Titanic?
Answer: Iceberg

Question: What shakes and twitches and can be found at the sea bottom?
Answer: A nervous wreck

Question: Why is it there so many people with the surname Jones in the telephone book?
Answer: Because they have got phones.

Question: Why is it that people always walk whenever they play the bagpipes?
Answer: Even they are attempting to get away from that awful noise.

Question: What happened to the man who lost his left arm, left leg and eye in an accident?
Answer: It was touch and go but he is all right now.

Question: What was the name of the person who made King Arthur’s Round Table?
Answer: Sir Cumferance

2 line jokes
Question : What three letters alter boys into men and girls into women?
Answer : AGE

Question : Why are fish so easy to weigh?
Answer : Because they have their own scales

Question: How you know that you are flying with a "no frills" airline?
Answer: You need to have the correct change to board the plane.

Question: Why do "no frills" airlines never show movies on their flights?
Answer: They don’t need to. You keep seeing your life flashing before your very eyes.

Question: On a turkey, which side would you find most feathers?
Answer: The outside

Question: Why is that all cats dislike flying saucers?
Answer: Because it is impossible for them to reach the milk.

Question: If a cat has nine lives, what has more?
Answer: A frog – it croaks every day.

Question: Which ballet do pigs like best?
Answer: Swine Lake.

Question: What is the big difference between chopped pork and pea soup?
Answer : Everybody can chop pork but everyone can't pea soup.

Question: Why is it that we don't eat clowns?
Answer: They taste funny

Question: If you saw two cowboys in a kitchen, which would be the real one?
Answer : The one stood by the range.

Question: Where would you find a dog with one leg?
Answer: Exactly where you had left it.

Question: Why did the room packed with married people seem empty?
Answer: Because there wasn't a single person there.

Question: What's the difference between a pessimist and a magnet?
Answer: A magnet has a positive side.

Question : What is the longest sentence that a man knows?
Answer: I do.

Question: What do you call a chicken that is crossing the road?
Answer: Poultry in motion

Question: What is a quicker way to transfer money than electronic banking?
Answer: Marriage.

Funny Question and Answer Jokes
Question: Where would a 65 year old man find a young, attractive woman who would take any interest in him?
Answer : The local bookshop in the section marked "fiction".

Question: Why is it a good to use valet parking as you get older?
Answer: Because they will remember where the car was parked.

Question : If it takes six men eight hours for a wall to be built, how long would three men take to build it?
Answer : It wouldn't take any time - it has already been built.

Question : What would you have if you had four peaches and three pears in one hand with four pears and three peaches in the other?
Answer: Incredibly large hands.

Question: How would you lift a giraffe with one hand?
Answer: Doesn't matter as you won't find any one handed giraffe?

Question: If a green stone was thrown into the sea what does it become?"
Answer: Wet

Question : What falls regularly although never gets hurt?
Answer : Rain

Question and Answer Jokes
What was the reason for the confused looking woman staring at the can of frozen
Apple juice for twenty minutes?
Because it said Concentrate on the side of the can.

Question: What is another name for female Viagra?
Answer: A Diamond

Question: What did the cowboy say went he went into the car showroom in Germany?
Answer: Audi

Question : What is the quickest way to speed up your 70 year old husband’s heart rate.
Answer : Tell him that you are pregnant

Question: What is the best way to avoid wrinkles as you age?
Answer : Remove your spectacles

The first black swimmer to make a U.S. Olympic Water Polo Team, wasn’t one person, but two! And they were teammates! Genai Kerr, a goalkeeper from San Diego and UC Irvine, and Omar Amr, an attacker from Irvine and UC Irvine. Both were members of the 2004 U.S. team that competed in the Athens Olympics. USA Swimming is honoring Black History Month all February with neato facts!

Hey USA Swimming National Team alumni - who's going to 2012 Trials?! If you'd like to participate in Aqua Zone activities let me know!!!

Black History Month – Female Athletes Who Changed the World
by jane

Could you imagine sports without the Williams sisters or Jackie Joyner Kersee? It’s pretty difficult to picture, but there once was a time when women weren’t allowed to compete. And there was also a time that black athletes weren’t allowed to be on the same playing field as white people. Fortunately, there were African-American women who ignored the racial slurs and death threats and focused on making the sports world a better, equal place. This month, to celebrate Black History Month, we’d like to honor some of the women who have contributed to the soul of sports.

Pioneers
Althea Gibson was a pioneer in both amateur tennis and professional golf. In 1942, Althea entered and won her first tennis tournament. In 1947, Althea won the first of ten straight ATA National Championships. In 1956, she won the French Championships and, in 1957, won the All-England Championships at Wimbledon and U.S. National Tennis Championships at Forest Hills. Althea retired from amateur tennis in 1958 after she had won Wimbledon. In 1964, Gibson launched her golf career, joining the LPGA. She retired in 1971.
Another pioneer, Zina Garrison, became the first black woman to reach a Grand Slam Final (1990). She began playing tennis at the age of ten and held 20 major doubles championships before the end of her career.

Tennis
Both Gibson and Garrison are sports legends who paved the way for athletes like Venus and Serena Williams. Both sisters turned professional at 14 and have since moved up in the ranks to become two of the top single and doubles players on the circuit. In 2008, Venus won Wimbledon in a match against Serena, sister against sister. Last year, Serena won the Australian Open for a record fifth time and went on to win Wimbledon.

Track & Field
It’s inconceivable to discuss black, female athletes without mentioning Jackie Joyner Kersee, considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, who became the first participant to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. In an era where an immediate success gets followed by queries over performance-enhancing drugs, there were never questions surrounding Jackie Joyner-Kersee. As a six-time Olympic gold medalist, Joyner-Kersee has made strides off the track by starting the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation which provides athletic resources to at-risk families in the St. Louis area.

Gail Devers is also an inspiration, winning gold in the 100 meter dash in two consecutive Olympics as is three-time gold medal winner Valerie Brisco. And of course there’s Flo Jo (Florence Griffith Joyner) who set record after record as the World’s Fastest Woman. Following in the footsteps of these great track and field athletes are contemporary runners like Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards.
No one paved the way for black female track and field athletes quite like Wilma Rudolph. At a young age, Rudolph faced adversity when she was diagnosed with polio but that didn’t stop her from racking up three gold medals during the 1960 Olympics. Her performance compelled many young female teenagers to take an interest in track and field. A winner and inspiration, the embodiment of an icon.

Basketball
On the basketball court it’s easy to think about Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson. But how about Lisa Leslie, Chamique Holdsclaw, Swin Cash, Cheryl Miller, Sheryl Swoope, Candace Parker or Maya Moore? From Final Four appearances to representing the U.S. at the Olympic Games and playing in the WNBA, these basketball players, and many others, are role models for thousands of girls.

Softball
Softball also boasts some great players. Gold Medalist Natasha Whately broke the Olympic record for stolen bases with five in nine games and emerged in 2004 as one of the best players in the world.
Gymnastics
It’s easy to see why Dominique Dawes was called “Awesome Dawesome.” Dawes vaulted her way into the record books with a string of awards and titles. She came home with a bronze medal from the 1992 Olympics and two years later became the first gymnast since 1969 to make a clean sweep of everything gold at the U.S. National Gymnastics Championship.

Volleyball
Flo Hyman is remembered not only as a great athlete whose life and career were cut tragically short, but also as a woman of great character. At 6 feet 5 inches she played volleyball for the University of Houston and went on to win the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic games. In 1986 Flo collapsed and died during a volleyball match. Later than year, she was posthumously inducted into the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Winter Olympics
Who can forget 2002 when Vonetta Flowers made Olympic history, becoming the first African-American to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics? Her fellow Olympians chose her to carry the U.S.A. flag in the closing ceremonies.

Swimming
Maritza Correia is part of a new generation of competitive African-American swimmers. In addition to competing at the Beijing Olympics, Correia hopes to provide young minority girls with a swimming role model and bring the sport to inner city communities.

Fencing
Black, female athletes are making moves in new arenas, some fairly obscure. Laura Flessel-Colovic has established herself as the top French fencer and one of the world’s best. Flessel-Colovic started her career at seven years old and worked her way up to winning three Olympic medals and three world championship titles.
For their contributions to female sports – from amateur and college competitions to the world stage of the Olympics and professional sports – black, female athletes have achieved parity with their white female counterparts and are celebrated around the world.

As we embark on a four-week-long celebration of African American History, let’s not forget these unforgettable athletes.

So Allison! I figured I help you out and give some hints to narrow down who you think I might be! Heres 10 things you might not know about me...
1. I have random cravings for ice cream sandwich bars.
2. I love parades, all parades, any kind of parade, I'll stop for them all.
3. I am addicted to Pinterest
4. I like swimming in pools and oceans but I'm iffy about ponds and lakes.
5. I have got stitches once.
6. I'm very quite, unless I am comfortable around the people I'm with.
7. I was a girl scout until I went into middle school.
8. The farthest west I've ever been is Chicago
9. I've been to two countries, outside of the U.S.A.
10. I only like the red doritos.

:) Hope you feel like your really part of the sorority now with your happy supplies! Two more days!!! <3

Hi all

I hope u will enjoy it..

A tribute to the greatest city in the world: AHMEDABAD

kya male koine friends ma aatlo pyaar,

kaik thay ne malva aave dost hazaar



Kya evi rickshaw...kya eva rasta

Tya ni restaurant maughee..tya na paan sasta



amdavad maa jaat jaat na loko vasta

friends jode time nikle ekdum hasta hasta



kya evo varsaad, kya evi garmi

kone yaad nathi mummy na khola ni narmi



kya male koine dookan aatli sasti

kya male dukandaroni aavi graahak bhakti

kya male koi ne life ma aatli masti

sauthi best aapdi amdavad ni vasti



kya evi uttarayan, kya evi holi

festivals maa bhegi thay aakhi friends ni toli



kya evi navratri, kya evi diwali

kya eva dandiya, kya eva dhamaka



kya evi cielo, kya evi maruti

kya evi lassi, kya evi jalebi

kya L.D.,HL, MG, Xaviers jevi collego,

kya GLS,JL,CN,X'aviers, Nirma jevi schoolo,



kya male gymkhana jevo swimming-pool,

kya male drive-in no weekend melo



kya male cg road ni rangili saanj,

kya male law garden ni chatakedar raat



kya male e clubo ni maja, kya male e modi raato ni maja

kya male honest jevi pav-bhaji, kya male ashok jevu paan

kya male freezeland jevi coffee, kya male ten jevi naan

Amdavad no rang niralo,

Amdavad no dhang niralo

hoy bhale ema koi kharabi,

to pan garv thi kaho hu chhu amdavadi

Joyu U.k., USA & Sydney nu crowd....

kya male koine Amdavad jevu dark crowd,



bhale garmi thi thai jay kalia

to pan e aa gora o thi to sara...





We should be very proud of Amdavad ROCKS!!!!!

This was too funny!
** A Mother of a Small Boy says:**

The following article was written anonymously by a mother who lives in Austin, Texas, USA. It is about things that she has learned from being the mother of small boys.

1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house, 4 inches deep.

2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3. A 3-year old boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound [3 stone] boy wearing batman underwear and a superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 foot room.

5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it's already too late.

8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9. A six-year old boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.

10. Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.

11. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12. Super glue is forever.

13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15. VCRs do not eject "PB & J" sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18. You probably DO NOT want to know what that odour is.

19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens

20. The fire department in Austin, Texas has a 5-minute response time.

21. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22. It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24. 80% of men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

25. Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without permission.

This is simply funny Swimming

The Wealth-Transfer Machine

Hans Schicht

Till the advent of fiat money, the finances of man have always followed a certain historical sequence. The people produce the wealth. And the king receives his share, which his barons collect for him for a fee. Then the king and entourage spend, and the gold and silver find their way back to the citizens for goods and services rendered. Occasionally the king might decide to buy foreign goods, or lose his wealth through defeat in war. Then the gold and silver will begin circulating in the next country.

The more industrious and prosperous the citizens were, the more gold and silver were amassed, the greater the common wealth of country and king became. The king would not have much wealth if his subjects were not prosperous. Industrious citizens create wealth, not the king. King and government are only necessary evils needed for defense and administration.

Throughout history there has always existed a certain, proportionate, relationship between the wealth of the citizens and the wealth of the king. The healthiest relationship was, and still is, when the scales are tipped well in favor of the citizens.

Contrary to general belief, under normal circumstances and in a healthy environment, the king’s share hardly ever amounted to more than a minor percentage of the common wealth. The need for coining in itself already, combined with what we know about the volumes of gold and silver coinage estimated to have been circulating between the citizens, should be suficient proof thereof. A wise king understood that his own wealth depended on the prosperity of his subjects.

Whenever the king over-taxed his citizens, wasted too much on arms, luxury and extravaganzas, the gold flow from the citizens toward the king became lopsided. Then the wealth of the people decreased and the productivity of the country declined. And when at times the shift in wealth became unbearable, the citizens either revolted and ousted the king or the country went under.

The might of empires and civilizations, mirrored by its gold and silver in circulation, has always depended on the productive capacity of its citizens and available resources. Human prosperity thrives on grass roots, same as happens in nature. And it thrives best when free growing, broad based, and from the ground up, meaning from the ordinary people up. That is what capitalism should be and was all about in former times. The West flourished on natural capitalism till the advent of fiat money. All of Nature thrives on capitalistic principles. Its multitudes live and prosper in free competition. And when man strayed from Nature’ rules he had to pay dearly.

Natural Capitalism works when there is minimal government interference and free competition, when everybody has a chance, when the laws are impartially applied, when there is a level playing field and the markets are free, when money flows freely, possesses intrinsic value and is not somebody else his debt, and when there is a free and open flow of information. None of these requisites for a natural capitalism has survived. Natural Capitalism is dead, stone dead.

Grass roots is not only the most important, the least understood and most maligned precondition for growth and prosperity, it is the indispensable prerequisite for it. Prosperity is "from the ground up", a one-way street and should never ever be directed or dictated from the top.

Till the middle of the seventeenth century gold and silver flowed freely among the citizens and between the citizens and the king. But when the king’s demands and his share of the common wealth became excessive, the people united and the counter force of democracy was born. The Magna Charta was signed. The Bastille was stormed. Kings were ousted or saw their power reduced by parliaments. Over time, however, these young democratic governments, instead of remaining "part of the people" changed in character. Slowly but surely they took over the role once played by the king and turned into usurping powers in their own right.

For about two hundred years the two way, self-correcting, wealth relationship between the citizens on the one hand and the king or now the young democratic governments on the other hand, maintained itself. In a democratic ambiance, adjustments took place more smoothly, thanks to the ballot box. The bulk of the gold and the silver continued circulating among the people and a smaller part between the State and the citizens.

It was the glory time of grass roots entrepreneurship. The time of the industrial revolution, great inventions, cultural creativity and new horizons. Enterprise grew, self financed, out of profits. Taxation was moderate and focused. Growth was natural and efficient. Government was humble. The economies grew unrestricted. The Banker was not needed... but... he forced his way in through the back door and within one hundred years took over the world by stealth.

The sequence from the birth, ascent, to the decay and death of civilizations is mirrored by the steady migration of the bulk of the wealth in the form of gold and silver from the citizen to the reigning power. Power flows with the money. And when we analyze the present state of Western Civilization, we have but to discern who it is, that holds the real money, the gold and the silver, and we will know who holds the reigns of power. It is no longer the elected government, but the obscure Banker.

Detailed discussions of the ascent of the Banker can be found in several of my earlier Gold-Eagle essays and in my booklet "Towards Cyber Money". This present essay will be concentrating on the broader picture of the Banker’s shrewd penetration into the social structure of the West, his veiled rise to power and the dire repercussions for society.

The first Banker was a money changer, intermediary, custodian, transfer and payment agent. Then, when the Banker saw that the Church had much idle wealth lying around, which could be made productive by loaning it out, shrewdly the Banker convinced a greedy Rome of the merits of interest compensation. And sometime during the fourteenth century the Pope annulled the ban on usury, and gave his blessing for interest compensation on loans. From there on the Banker became financier.

Once interest compensation on loans was accepted and became the norm, the Banker pursued his aims further, extracting concession after concession from the State. One of his greatest days, and the citizen’s blackest, was when he obtained the legal permission to increase his loan portfolio to a value worth many times his bank’s registered capital. Overnight the Banker’s potential working capital multiplied many times over, and in some cases even up to twelve times his capital input, depending on local legislation. It gave the Banker a multiple advantage over all other business enterprises and laid the basis for the Banker’s stellar ascent, and his subsequent grab of control of the prime of industry, commerce and business. Although still restricted to certain limits, the multiple application and usage of his basic capital implied that the Banker now possessed the legal authorization to create money out of nothing. Creating money out of nothing and lending it out against interest became the Banker’s core business. It paved the way for the Banker to go out and buy the world.

Now, there is one thing the Banker hates, and that is competition. And because of this the Banker had to wring further privileges from the government. One was the establishment of a privately controlled bank of banks, the Central or Reserve Bank and the other privilege granted, to the same Central Bank, carried the exclusive license to issue and manage the government’s paper currency. In one coup, banking had become a closed shop and the State had ceded the control over its currency to the Banker.

Nearly all Central Banks or Reserve Banks in this world are privately owned and controlled and not owned by the State, contrary to what all the governments would like their people to believe.

And private ownership implies that Central Banks will always serve the Banker’s interests first and not the country’s.

As long as the currency circulation was in the form of gold or silver, or had legally to be covered 100 percent by gold or silver, the Banker remained restricted in his lending activities to the sum of deposits his clients held at the bank, of course less a prudent safety margin in the event of unexpected withdrawals. One coin in was one coin out. There just was not any more to lend out. But all that changed with the introduction of paper currency.

In the very beginning, when the first paper currency made its appearance, one paper unit was issued for each precious metal unit held in the treasury. In other words, money in circulation was backed 100% by precious metals, but not for long. Once the State ran out of cash, the Banker had no trouble convincing the State that it was not absolutely necessary to maintain a one hundred percent precious metal backing for the nation’s currency. The public seldom bothered to exchange their paper claims for the real metal. And anyhow, nobody would find out that easily, if a little bit more paper had been issued than there was gold in the vaults. From there on the precious metal backing began its disappearance act. In 1896 the gold cover of the total sum of US dollars in circulation had already receded to under 4%. Today, all paper money is one hundred percent fiat money. There is no more backing for any paper currency. The gold reserves of the Central Banks have no relation whatsoever any more to the currency in circulation! The published gold reserves, which form part of the country’s total reserves, are only there for the purpose of covering foreign obligations or for intervention in the markets to stabilize the currency. In how far these published gold reserves still have credibility is another, delicate, matter. GATA and Reg Howe have recently discovered inconsistencies in various Central Bank and IMF statements which imply that a greater part of the published official Central Bank gold holdings might in fact be mere paper claims on gold and do not represent actual gold bullion any longer. The same applies to the IMF itself.

A Banker wants to expand and grow his business. Depending on which currency he controls, the more dollars, euros, or yen the Banker succeeds in bringing into circulation, the wider his loan territory. And the more loans he manages to place, the greater his income and the mightier his power becomes.

Regular interest income is the Banker’s bread and butter. The Banker does not really want loans to be paid back. The Banker likes his loans to "work and squeeze" ad infinitum.

The Banker’s empire is his debt empire. It is this simple fact that makes the world go round ... that is....till the music stops ... maybe sooner than later.

Debt is negative money and negative money makes negative people. Far from being benefial for society, the Banker has become a wealth sucking parasite. And contrary to public believe, to function, society does not need Bankers.

Like an evil cancer banking has spread its tentacles throughout and invaded daily life. First the State was subtly seduced and corrupted to spend more than its income. With the result that, in order to cover the ensuing budget deficits, taxes had to be increased, government bonds emitted, and ever more paper money brought into circulation, all measures which benefited the Banker. The people and business in turn, burdened by increased taxation, were forced to take up more and more loans. Free enterprise was not able any more to finance itself out of profits. To add insult to injury the Banker saw to it that, in case of any default, loans obtained preferential treatment over shares. The people, enterprise and government became bank dependent.

The socialists, being the great spenders, were groomed and supported in elections. Legislators were corrupted. Social programs like social security and medicare and expensive public projects were pushed and supported by the Banker. The arms industry was especially nursed. Wars were instigated to bleed the national treasuries. Napoleon, the Kaiser and later the Nazis and the Communists were always amply financed. Step by step the Loan Piper got everybody dancing to his tune. Slowly but surely the governments and people walked innocently, through his bank palaces, into his debt camps.

"Spend, spend, spend", the Banker will give you all the paper money for anything you wish to spend on. That is patriotic, for the economy and the welfare of the nation, not to forget the Banker.

And the Banker conjured all the paper fiat out of thin air and in exchange the Banker took the State’s, the economy’s and the people’s real assets. Never before in history has there been such a total transfer of wealth taking place in such a short time without a shot being fired.

The Nations are in debt, the people are, industry is, commerce and business is. Everybody owes. Except the Banker, he owns and controls it all and still does not have enough. And in the same way he enslaved the people at home, the Banker enslaved the rest of the world.

Once there was a quorum of central banks, the global Central Bank of Central Banks was founded, the B.I.S., the Bank for International Settlements, which, at a later stage, together with the post war IMF and the World Bank, brought all the world’s finances under one central control and one set of rules, dictated by the Banker. And woe to him who ever dared to step out of line.

Development aid out of thin air was pushed with a stroke of the credit pen. But never were the developing countries allowed or given a chance to pay the loans back. To that purpose commodity prices were manipulated and controlled, politicians bought, students were granted scholarships to study financial and economic indoctrination courses on US campuses, controlled by the Banker, and groomed to stay loyal to the Banker’s fraternities.

Step by step the Banker wedged his way in-between the State and the citizen.

Step by step the Banker undermined the morality of both State and people, pushing his sugar coated credit. Pushing social legislation, pushing hundreds of different credit cards, even for children!

Stealth and anonymity are the Banker’s cloak. And he saw to it that anonymity of share companies, share holdings and voting became legalized. That dividends were taxed only once, at the source only. And that his trusts and foundations, through which he controls his empire, stayed exempt from taxation. It enabled him to build an invisible chain of interlocking anonymous companies into a mighty spiderweb of holdings, far from the public eye, where not even the hierarchy of CEOs know the connections and relationships, and the Banker alone has the sole control from one central point.

Whereas anonymity and tax exemptions served the Banker’s quest to build an empire, they proved fatal for the world economies and finance. They led to the transfer and dislocation of wealth from the broad spectrum of the population to a pyramiding concentration of capital at the top. They replaced good old fashioned people’s capitalism with megalomania and whimsical financial despotism.

Take-overs and mergers became easy to construe and to finance with all the money and credit created out of nothing and through the simple exchange of shares. The Banker’s out of thin air credits and money would finance anything, any size, as long as there was profit for him to extract. Totally uneconomic behemoth conglomerates were glued together, only to be sucked dry later. Established economic rules were overturned and the "new economy" heralded!

And the Banker was always careful to act within the financial laws, he himself had instigated and promoted. It is to the detriment of society, that there is little recourse left for the public in legal actions. The Banker has seen to that.

Fiat Money has broken the corrective natural cycle of wealth flowing from the citizens to the king or government and back to the people. Neither is there any real wealth flowing back to the Developing world, in exchange for their commodities. Only worthless paper is!

A huge bubble of fictitious paper wealth has been created out of thin air, obstructing the flow of real wealth back to the productive people.

Interestingly enough, neither are real assets being accumulated any more in the treasuries of the king or the governments. The Banker saw to it that every government today is a debtor, not only in the case of the developing countries. And might we ask where could real wealth then be heading? Where could all the gold leased out by the Central Banks have goneLeased out, to where, to whom? Not all of it to India or the Middle East! ? Where did the IMF gold go, not their paper SDRs and SDR Certificates, but the real gold? For instance, where did the massive 1.950 ts gold exported from the USA in the last quarter of 1999 go? Did Edmundo Safra know anything and was subsequently murdered only a few weeks later? Gold flows to where the power resides. And who is it that has the power today? Did the Banker set up the gold leasing schemes to make easy money on the gold carry trade or might his ulterior purpose be to channel all the world’s gold into his private vaults? Was the Banker not also the one who pushed the governments into privatizing State property, only to end up as the major share holder of the former, now privatized State enterprises?

And not content with having extracted the people’s long time savings in exchange for worthless paper, the Banker has made sure that even present earnings would be creamed off and that the people’s savings could only be invested in institutions controlled by him. And so the Banker planned shiny investment vehicles and services for the public, to seduce them to stock markets and casinos controlled and manipulated by him, the Banker. That, with the only purpose to fleece the sheeple. The Dow supreme at the top, followed by Nasdaq, Standard & Poor, commodity markets, funds etc.

For foreign governments the Banker saw to it that there would always be an ample supply of interest bearing treasury papers and government bonds available to invest in, so they would not ask payment back in real wealth. The Banker kept the real wealth himself.

And by pushing loans of upto 125% of underlying real estate value and calculated never to be paid back, the Banker laid claim on the people’s properties in exchange for still more of his fiat paper.

And the Banker saw to it that the government introduced new tax laws and 401K retirement plans to hoard even more sheeple into his paper money casinos. And the Banker controlled media heralded out to the whole world the marvels of Wall Street. Always positive in outlook and where necessary, pro-forma book keeping was applied or rules and statistics were changed.. And when the public ran out of earnings to invest, the Banker corrupted the politicians to invest the people’s social security and medicare money and the state pensions into his casinos.

Cleverly he uses his lackeys, his brokers, market makers, hedge funds, credit rating companies, his media empire, the bought politicians etc. Their tools are dis-information, short selling, derivatives and share-, interest-, currency- and commodity price manipulation and creative accounting.

The Dollar Banker is leading the way into the global debt enslavement. But not to worry, the Euro Banker, who was slowed down by the time consuming birth of the European Union and the late arrival of the euro, the common European currency, will catch up! The possibilities for the Banker are too tempting to be missed. With the obligatory exchange of all european national currencies for the euro, the European Union governments will soon have lost control of the now common currency. It’s exploit has now been entrusted to the Euro Banker, smiling all the way to the vault. World wide euro credit pushing will soon equal dollar credit pushing. And all the European Union governments and people will soon be swimming in the same debt morass as their trans-atlantic brethren. And what concerns the rest of the world, tomorrow they will find themselves doubly indebted between the dollar and the euro. But what might happen to the Japanese yen is still an oriental mystery.

Although physical slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century, the 20th century has taken the world back to square one, with millions of people again being subjugated. This time not physically, but by a more sinister, hideous, new kind of slavery, invisible and indirect: debt slavery induced by the Banker.

Following the history of the ascent of the Banker over the last two hundred years it becomes obvious that it were never the governments, but the invisible spider web of global fiat money and debt the Banker has spun, which is responsible for all the financial upheavals, market bubbles and crashes, depressions, defaults of many enterprises and countries, the rape of Africa, Latin America, SE Asia and Russia, and even wars.

Banking, far from having developed naturally in the wake of economic growth and necessity, has been shrewdly, methodically and with stealth been designed and advanced by the Banker lead by ulterior motives. His empire spread like an evil cancer, undermining and uprooting the established order, replacing it with the Banker’s Order. Our world would have been better off without. Banks are not needed and were never needed, as I hope to explain in one of my next essays. Even in our highly sophisticated economies of today, money needs only two functions: one, as a means of exchange, proper functioning of which modern communication and data technology easily can provide, and the other, as a store of value.

Alas, banking has become so interwoven in western economy and finance that by now it has become too much of an essential part and a necessary evil for the West’s survival. Banking has penetrated deeply into daily life. Not only would our western financial and monetary structures collapse without banks, but it would also spell the end of the whole of Western Civilization, which has been built around it.

A return to the gold standard, and the abolition of fiat money would only mean a temporary respite. They are not the solution. The Banker would still own the world and in his subtle way he would soon return in a new disguise. It is the whole system, based on interest, credit and fiat money, financial laws and control of the currency, which is rotten to the core.

I do not think parliaments or congresses do still have the will or the strength to correct the situation, they have been bought anyway. An unexpected dictatorial power might intervene and call for the nationalization of all banks or order their closure. Maybe a revolution might bring the necessary changes and redistribution of wealth. But what then? The cancer has already advanced too far for risk free and effective surgery.

In the end, events might well run their natural course of decay, break up, and finally chaos. One day history will show that the banks and entourage were only a one time manifestation, unique to Western Civilization.

Maybe history is already running its course. Wherever we look the rot has begun showing up: the SE Asia crisis, the developing countries’ debt crisis, Indonesia, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey, the lingering default of Japan, the return of darkness in Africa, sudden rise in global unemployment and defaults, the wavering stock and credit markets, international terrorism, WTO protesters, growing discontent, corruption, moral decay, the Third World’s sprawling shanty towns, and so on.

But not only is the apple rotting on the outside. The rot has already penetrated deep into the very core of the Banker’s empire proper. There are some vague, first indications from Banker’s Land that the situation is getting out of hand, that the Merchants of Debt cannot control their own disciples any longer, and that internal strive and betrayal are undermining the very Empire of Debt. After all, it is only a paper empire with its armed forces by proxy!

The Empire of debt itself is beginning to look just as corrupted and opaque as all the governments, international organizations and people itself has infiltrated and subverted. Greed, rivalry, intrigue and arrogance among the Empire’s own rank and file is becoming more blatant and open by the day. The barons have gone unrestrained on the rampage, raiding and looting the financial markets to their own personal benefit as if there were no tomorrow. They are even at one another’s throat. Everything goes! It is unbelievable what is presently going on in Banker’s Land. Trillions are being thrown around left and right like dirt. Markets floating on thin air, totally unhinged from reality. World finance is getting out of hand and rapidly approaching crisis level, without a hope left whatsoever that a new equilibrium will be found.

This is not going to be just an isolated financial crisis. It is going to be much more than that. It is a crisis of principles versus absolute power, Banker’s Power. A deep rooted structural crisis, affecting the very foundations of inter-human relationships, which is at stake: the way we live or are being lived.

I do not think the Banker will have his ill-gotten wealth for much longer. The looming financial storm is going to sweap him overboard. Understanding the ways of Nature, wealth will return to the people one way or the other. But that might take a tedious and chaotic while. There is too much what has to be corrected and restored. The inverted wealth pyramid has to be turned back onto a solid and broad base and all wealth redistributed. Only war, revolution and chaos can do the latter. Life is not run from the top. Life is grass roots and to grass roots we will return in the end.

How all this might come to pass and of how the impact of the coming financial chaos might be softened and the change-over into a more stable era might be smoothed out, I hope to discus in one of my next essays, on a more positive note.

January 7th 2002

Hans Schicht hansyebo@wanadoo.es

One of my coaches who inspired me to coach !

INTERNATIONAL MASTERS SWIMMING HALL OF FAME
WILLIAM MCALLISTER (USA)
2005 Masters Diver

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 142 GOLD MEDALS IN US NATIONAL AND FINA MASTERS WORLD DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS: 1m, 3m springboard and 10m platform; Since 1974, he competed in six age groups (60-64 thru 85-89); Known as “Father of Masters Diving”;

Born in 1910, Bill McAlister became a living legend in the diving world before passing away in 2000 at the age of 89. He envisioned diving as a sport that should include members of all ages and was instrumental in the formation of Masters Diving in 1973. He was the Masters Diving Chairman from 1977-1981, and founder of the Masters Diving Newsletter. He competed in almost every U.S. Masters Championship since 1973, earning over 142 gold medals in national and international competition. Bill’s final year of competition occurred in 1998 when at age 89 he won gold medals in both springboard and platform competition.

Bill began his diving career after winning a membership to the Long Beach YMCA as a bonus from his paper route. YMCA coach Shorty Kellogg saw his talent in gymnastics and diving and took him under his wing. He coached Bill diving off a 1920-vintage wooden diving board, which was described as an “old chunk of wood.” Nearby, at the Coast Club, there was an indoor pool with both 1 meter and 3 meter wooden buck boards. The ceiling in the pool was so low that Bill was forced to hold his hands over his head so as not to bump the ceiling too hard. If lucky, he would get a good bounce and end up under the skylight, missing the ceiling.

At the age of 22, Bill competed in the Olympic Trials of 1932 placing seventh on the 3 meter springboard. He dove against the worlds best divers of the time, all of whom made up the US Olympic Team: Johnny Riley, Marshall Wayne, Al Green, Dutch Smith, Frank Kurtz and Dick Degener. It was during this time that Bill developed a new dive, a front somersault with a full twist, then ducking it in for a 11/2. The only twisting dive at the time was a required standing forward dive with a full twist. Bill asked Johnny Riley to watch him do the first one and it must have been quite a sight. Bill became one of the first to perform this new dive which became known as the “5132”.

Bill was an innovator in the use of the trampoline for improving diving. Under the coaching of Capt. J.D. Loop during Bill’s early diving career, he trained on a crude trampoline made with cotton rope, an old piece of circus equipment left over from Long Beach Harbor. It had a wooden frame and nets all around to keep people from falling off. Bill joked that you could do all your dives on the trampoline and “not get wet”. Bill introduced Marshall Wayne to the trampoline in 1932 and Marshall won an Olympic diving gold medal in Berlin four years later.

Bill worked at the YMCA’s in Fullerton and Fresno, before settling in Madera in 1958 where he was the swimming and diving coach at Madera High School. He also began an AAU program for swimming and diving. Although he retired from full-time teaching in 1973, McAlister stayed on as coach at Madera until 1989. He coached the High School team for thirty-one years and the pool there has since been named in his honor. Divers throughout the valley would come to his country home to learn proper techniques on the much-improved trampolines in his “Bouncing Barn” an old barn-type structure with a high ceiling located at his home. He loved working with children and helping them to develop their skills.

Bill’s family has also been involved in swimming and diving. His wife Carol coached him from the deck for his Masters diving and his five children all participated in swimming and diving. His daughter Barbara won seven Senior National titles in springboard diving, competed in the 1963 Pan American Games winning the 3m springboard gold medal and was twice an Olympic finalist (1964 and 1968). His youngest son Rick won the 1974 NCAA 3 meter springboard title while at the Air Force Academy. Son Donny was a four-time Valley champion and an All-American and Bob was a California state junior college champion at Fresno City College. Bill’s coaching and support lead to many successful finishes for most of his athletes over the years.

Bill was the foundation upon which Masters diving was built and grew. He is known affectionately today as the “Father of Masters Diving”.

Life for a McGarry can at times be truly amazing; Got a packet in the post today address to Jeil Mtech to our address clearly sent with the intention of being sent to us. Enclosed was a pocket knife as well as two copies of a letter requesting that I repair the pocket knife as it would not open. .

In the letter I am informed that he purchased the knife at a Truck Stop in either Kentucky or Tennessee. That the knife worked two weeks until it failed. I am advised that the complainant is a retired Sgt. as well an Ordained Minister (as he continually reminds me in his letter of complaint) although a man of peace he applauds my web site "had my head swimming while I drooled like a boy in the Candy store" Did not need that mental picture.

So what to do but fix his knife. Turns out he had a screw much to tight .Once adjusted the knife opens and close with just one finger . When I look at the Blade, what do I discover?The name of the manufacture of the Knife "MTECH USA.

To think a retired Sgt. and Ordained Minister man of Peace believer in self and family protection who not only collects knives but carries two small caliber semi auto pistols, sends me his knife demanding that I repair or replace....WOW and me worried about what to give up for lent. go figure :-)

They're just so fast! USA wins 4x100 medley relay - Swimming World Championships Roma 2009 PEIRSOL Aaron SHANTEAU Eric PHELPS Michael WALTERS David 3:27.28 WR mens medley relay fi...

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First day of USA swimming SE championships tomorrow. Reece is ready to go. He has 200 Free and 50 Back. Have to be at UT in the morning at 7.

Congrats to my guys Jack Kane and Christian Aragona at the IHSA state meet today, and double props to Christian for getting a USA Swimming Academic All-American cut!