Denial isn't a river in Egypt, or in Yemen
She was only eight years old. Her family married her off to a 40 year old man, some say in order to gain his financial support for the family. They had sex on their wedding night and days later, she was dead from internal injuries caused by their "activities".
That's the story although Yemeni officials are denying it happened. Child marriage is legal in Yemen and many children are married off well before their 18th birthday.
Disgusting. Children are not capital assets that families can just sell or rent in order to plug a hole in the family's finances.
* * *
I'm still wiped out today from the long, long day yesterday. A couple of my friends on FB saw my status update on that topic and apparently weren't aware of my having been in the hospital for a year. So I'll re-tell the tale for the benefit of those who aren't fully briefed.
It was May of 2010 and I was on my way to work as a Human Resource Generalist for a nursing registry. I had trouble breathing and decided I'd better go to the ER and get a breathing treatment. I remember parking, walking across the street to the ER and checking in. Nine weeks later, I woke up in the ICU, with a tube in my throat that rendered me unable to talk. That tube would remain there for ten months.
I had been diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. You can learn more about the condition here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARDS At one point the doctors treating me told my mother it was out of their hands, that whether or not I lived would depend on what kind of "fighter" I was, and that she might want to "gather the family." Mom knew better. After three months at Santa Monica Hospital I was moved to a sub-acute facility. Just short of one year later, I moved into the assisted living facility where I still reside. I have an entire litany of health problems now, but every day is a good one because I'm still breathing.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Lotto fever is setting in again as the Powerball jackpot will swell above the $400 million mark for Wednesday's drawing. To have the opportunity to dream about having $223.6 million in cash is well worth the price of a $2 ticket. What's sad is that so many people who receive public assistance will spend far more than just $2 to try to win this jackpot. They are barefoot dreamers walking on a street covered in shattered glass.
Where is the Above Average White Band? The Below Average White Band?
Once rap and hip-hop are no longer bastions of homophobia, what will be the next institution to stop the hatred?
This might be frightening, I'm going to list states, territories and nations where I've eaten at a McDonald's, because I'm curious just how many there are:
California
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
New York
Illinois
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Guam
The Bahamas
Thailand
South Korea
Japan
Canada
Of course I'm nowhere near the number of burgers consumed that the 64 year old who has eaten 12,000 Big Macs over the last 30 years.
What's the big deal about Miss Kansas having tattoos or the fact she is a soldier?
I have a friend who is seeking work as a news writer or editor. After seeing yet another glaring error at Yahoo, this time in the sports department, I'm beginning to think he's seriously overqualified. Read this and see if you can find the error: "Once officials dug deeper, however, their investigation found at three separate attempts to manipulate the race."
The bad part of eating lunch late in the afternoon is that you eat dinner later in the evening than you should.
So far I've managed to resist the temptation to work on lesson plans or class recordkeeping today. I'd promised myself all day off.
Now that I play Sudoku again daily, I thought you might find it interesting to know that there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible Sudoku solution grids.
* * *
This Date In History:
668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 – India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
* * *
Famous Folks Born On This Date:
Marco Polo
James Fenimore Cooper
William Howard Taft
Robert Benchley
Agatha Christie
Jean Renoir
Roy Acuff
Fay Wray
John Mitchell
Margaret Lockwood
Frederick C. Weyand (when he was a Major General, he went into a firefight to save some of his troops...impressive!!)
Nipsey Russell
Jackie Cooper
Bobby Short
Norm Crosby
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Gaylord Perry
Merlin Olsen
Lee Dorman
Ron Shelton
Tommy Lee Jones
Pete Carroll
Dina Lohan (bet she hires a limo tonight)
Danny Nucci
Josh Charles
Tom Hardy
Prince Harry of Wales
Heidi Montag
Movie quotes today come from "Eraser" in honor of Danny Nucci's birthday. Considering he died ignominiously in that, "Titanic" and "The Rock" he's earned a little tribute today:
Sal: [referring to a sniper perched atop a crane] You think I can hit that guy from here?
Johnny C: Give it a rest, Sal. You couldn't hit the ground even if you fell on it.
#2
John: Lee, this is Father Rodriguez.
Lee: How do you do?
Father Rodriguez: Of course, I wasn't always Father Rodriguez. You might say I was born again, with a little help from our friend here.
John: Some of his Colombian associates wanted to introduce him to God personally.
Father Rodriguez: I've been given a second chance at life. I'm using it to do God's work.
#3 (Danny Nucci's death scene)
Robert: Listen, have I given you an evaluation yet.
Deputy Monroe: Evaluation?
Robert: Yeah.
[shoots Monroe]
Robert: A-plus, kid.
[his hands are now bloody]
Robert: Ah man, can somebody get me a wet-nap or something?
#4
[the limousine that Daniel Harper, Robert Deguerin, and Morehart were trapped in was just hit by a train]
Lee: What happened?
John: They caught a train.
That's the story although Yemeni officials are denying it happened. Child marriage is legal in Yemen and many children are married off well before their 18th birthday.
Disgusting. Children are not capital assets that families can just sell or rent in order to plug a hole in the family's finances.
* * *
I'm still wiped out today from the long, long day yesterday. A couple of my friends on FB saw my status update on that topic and apparently weren't aware of my having been in the hospital for a year. So I'll re-tell the tale for the benefit of those who aren't fully briefed.
It was May of 2010 and I was on my way to work as a Human Resource Generalist for a nursing registry. I had trouble breathing and decided I'd better go to the ER and get a breathing treatment. I remember parking, walking across the street to the ER and checking in. Nine weeks later, I woke up in the ICU, with a tube in my throat that rendered me unable to talk. That tube would remain there for ten months.
I had been diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. You can learn more about the condition here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARDS At one point the doctors treating me told my mother it was out of their hands, that whether or not I lived would depend on what kind of "fighter" I was, and that she might want to "gather the family." Mom knew better. After three months at Santa Monica Hospital I was moved to a sub-acute facility. Just short of one year later, I moved into the assisted living facility where I still reside. I have an entire litany of health problems now, but every day is a good one because I'm still breathing.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Lotto fever is setting in again as the Powerball jackpot will swell above the $400 million mark for Wednesday's drawing. To have the opportunity to dream about having $223.6 million in cash is well worth the price of a $2 ticket. What's sad is that so many people who receive public assistance will spend far more than just $2 to try to win this jackpot. They are barefoot dreamers walking on a street covered in shattered glass.
Where is the Above Average White Band? The Below Average White Band?
Once rap and hip-hop are no longer bastions of homophobia, what will be the next institution to stop the hatred?
This might be frightening, I'm going to list states, territories and nations where I've eaten at a McDonald's, because I'm curious just how many there are:
California
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
New York
Illinois
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Guam
The Bahamas
Thailand
South Korea
Japan
Canada
Of course I'm nowhere near the number of burgers consumed that the 64 year old who has eaten 12,000 Big Macs over the last 30 years.
What's the big deal about Miss Kansas having tattoos or the fact she is a soldier?
I have a friend who is seeking work as a news writer or editor. After seeing yet another glaring error at Yahoo, this time in the sports department, I'm beginning to think he's seriously overqualified. Read this and see if you can find the error: "Once officials dug deeper, however, their investigation found at three separate attempts to manipulate the race."
The bad part of eating lunch late in the afternoon is that you eat dinner later in the evening than you should.
So far I've managed to resist the temptation to work on lesson plans or class recordkeeping today. I'd promised myself all day off.
Now that I play Sudoku again daily, I thought you might find it interesting to know that there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible Sudoku solution grids.
* * *
This Date In History:
668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 – India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
* * *
Famous Folks Born On This Date:
Marco Polo
James Fenimore Cooper
William Howard Taft
Robert Benchley
Agatha Christie
Jean Renoir
Roy Acuff
Fay Wray
John Mitchell
Margaret Lockwood
Frederick C. Weyand (when he was a Major General, he went into a firefight to save some of his troops...impressive!!)
Nipsey Russell
Jackie Cooper
Bobby Short
Norm Crosby
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Gaylord Perry
Merlin Olsen
Lee Dorman
Ron Shelton
Tommy Lee Jones
Pete Carroll
Dina Lohan (bet she hires a limo tonight)
Danny Nucci
Josh Charles
Tom Hardy
Prince Harry of Wales
Heidi Montag
Movie quotes today come from "Eraser" in honor of Danny Nucci's birthday. Considering he died ignominiously in that, "Titanic" and "The Rock" he's earned a little tribute today:
Sal: [referring to a sniper perched atop a crane] You think I can hit that guy from here?
Johnny C: Give it a rest, Sal. You couldn't hit the ground even if you fell on it.
#2
John: Lee, this is Father Rodriguez.
Lee: How do you do?
Father Rodriguez: Of course, I wasn't always Father Rodriguez. You might say I was born again, with a little help from our friend here.
John: Some of his Colombian associates wanted to introduce him to God personally.
Father Rodriguez: I've been given a second chance at life. I'm using it to do God's work.
#3 (Danny Nucci's death scene)
Robert: Listen, have I given you an evaluation yet.
Deputy Monroe: Evaluation?
Robert: Yeah.
[shoots Monroe]
Robert: A-plus, kid.
[his hands are now bloody]
Robert: Ah man, can somebody get me a wet-nap or something?
#4
[the limousine that Daniel Harper, Robert Deguerin, and Morehart were trapped in was just hit by a train]
Lee: What happened?
John: They caught a train.
posted by me at 5:06 PM
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