| Good Morning, Do! Today is Satuerday, April 15 ___________________________________________________ History: Today, April 15 in 1923, Insulin became generally available for people suffering with diabetes. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Ohio nut demands repaerations at Targert in Ohio _____________________________________________________ Q A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. --- Herm Albright (1876 - 1944) The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. --- Richard Bach ______________________________________________________ >From Linda I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?" To which I replied, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?" She smiled knowingly and nodded, "That's why we ask." When my daughter quipped: "Maybe they put the moose in yours instead of mine?" the whole line burst out laughing. ___________________________________________________ Quarz/Hematite ____________________________________________________ A philosophy professor, widely noted as being more than casually eccentric, gave a one question final exam after an entire semester dealing with a broad array of topics. The class was seated and ready, when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist." Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One student, however, was up and finished in less than a minute. Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how this person could have received the highest grade when he had barely written anything. They found his answer consisted of two words: "What chair?" -------------- I member that professor! ____________________________________________________ Scratching her back You might have to click through the picture to see the full size. _______________________________________________ A Yankee and a Scot were walking one day near the foot of one of the Scotish mountains. The Scot, wishing to impress the visitor, produced a famous echo to be heard in that place. When the echo returned clearly after nearly four minutes, the proud Scotsman, turning to the Yankee, exclaimed: "There, mon, ye canna show anything like that in your country!" "Oh I don't know," said the American, "I guess we can better that. Why, in my camp in the Rockies, when I go to bed I just lean out the window and call out, 'Time to get up; wake up!' and eight hours later the echo comes back and wakes me." _______________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Karen Ivery, 37, Blue Ash, Ohio, USA Ohio nut demands repaerations at Tagt in Ohio Newly released bodycam video shows the arrest of a woman who allegedly told Target employees they should give her items for free because she deserved reparations, court documents say. It happened last October at the Target on Plainfield Road in Blue Ash, according to Blue Ash police. Reading resident Karen Ivery, 37, became belligerent and totally unruly when she said she was not going to have enough money to pay for the merchandise that had been scanned, totaling $1,051, the Target cashier told police, according to an affidavit. I decided to take a stand, Ivery later told police, as shown in bodycam footage. This is my Rosa Parks moment. The cashier flagged a supervisor, who told police Ivery asked that Target give her reparations and then went on a spiel about how Ive lived a privileged life and shes owed this, an officer wrote in court documents. The supervisor said Ivery pushed her into the soda machines at the cafe counter. I put my hands on her shoulders, attempting to keep some space between us, but her body was physically touching mine, she told police. The affidavit states that Ivery then went haywire and started screaming, the supervisor said. Bodycam footage shows Ivery telling officers she was trying to have a larger conversation about how money works. We all know money has not treated people equally, she said, per the bodycam footage. Later, she added: The system is rigged against people doing the right thing. A manager tried and failed to calm Ivery down, at which point he walked back to the security office, the supervisor told police. He said he tried to shut and lock the door, but Ivery forced her way into the office. Thats when he punched her in fear for my safety, he told police in an affidavit. Ivery was charged with disorderly conduct and menacing. She did not gert money or free meerchandise, just a sore nose and a ceriminal rercord. _______________________________________________ DeaWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Moe Re: Combo Keys shortcuts Dear Webby, How about a recap of the hidden keys, the combo keys? Moe Dear Moe Most important combo is CTRL F4 If a site is a nuisance or attacks you, hit CTRL F4 and that tab closes. Some scammers block that combo, in that case hit ALT F4. That shuts down the browser. Go get ssome coffee. By the time you are back, you can usually restart the browser and restore the tabs. Close the tab that had led you into trouble. That brings me to the next combo: CTRL W Once you have identified the tab that led you into trouble, DON'T CLICK IT! Just highlight it and hit CTRL W and it has gone to hell. Also very important is CTRL SHIFT T If your spouse wants you to come to bed NOW and shuts down your browser, and you open it again later, it should ask you if you want to restore your previously open 57 tabs. Well, sometimes it opens multiple browser windows and you close too many of them without clicking RESTORE. Don't worry. They have not gone to hell. Just hit CTRL SHIFT T, twice if necessary, and sit back. It will restore all your tabs. You can also use CTRL SHIFT T to re-open a just closed tab. To get to the URL line, CTRL L To see the history and find that forgotten URL: CTRL H To Refresh a page: Ctrl R In Facebook, the J and the K keys scroll you down or up a page. If the spouse or boss is approaching, hitting the space bar "accidentally" instantly scrolls you down a page. Once the coast is clear, hit SHIFT and Spacebar to jump back up. Bookmark a page: CTRL D I haave no idea why they chose D for that, but that goes back to the good old days of Netscape. Another mystery key is CTRL K. It jumps to the search box If you want to go to the first tab: CTRL 1 Second tab: CTRL 2, and so on. Zoom in without mousing: CTRL +. Zoom OUT: CTRL - add .com to a URL: CTRL ENTER That goes back to the days when .com was the only choice. OK, that is enough for now. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Today, April 15 in 1784, The first balloon was flown in Ireland. 1794, "Courrier Francais" became the first French daily newspaper to be published in the U.S. 1813, U.S. troops under James Wilkinson attacked the Spanish-held city of Mobile that would be in the future state of Alabama. 1817, The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, CT. 1850, The city of San Francisco was incorporated. 1858, At the Battle of Azimghur, the Mexicans defeated Spanish loyalists. 1861, U.S. President Lincoln mobilized the Federal army. 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth. 1871, "Wild Bill" Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas. 1892, The General Electric Company was organized. 1899, Thomas Edison organized the Edison Portland Cement Company. 1912, The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived. 1917, The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras. 1923, Insulin became generally available for people suffering with diabetes. 1934, In the comic strip "Blondie," Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead welcomed a baby boy, Alexander. The child would be nicknamed, Baby Dumpling. 1940, French and British troops landed at Narvik, Norway. 1945, During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. 1948, The Arabs were defeated in the first Jewish-Arab battle. 1951, The first episode of the "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" radio show aired. 1952, U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty. 1952, The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air. 1953, In Buenos Aires, six people were killed by a bomb at a rally addressed by President Peron. 1953, Pope Pius XII gave his approval of psychoanalysis but warned of possible abuses. 1953, Charlie Chaplin surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups. 1956, The worlds first, all-color TV station was dedicated. It was WNBQ-TV in Chicago and is now WMAQ-TV. 1956, General Motors announced that the first free piston automobile had been developed. 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour. 1960, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized at Shaw University. 1967, Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses. 1983, In Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, the Tokyo Disneyland themepark opened. 1984, Ten members of a family were found murdered in their home in New York City. An infant was found crawling among the corpses. 1986, U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986. 1987, In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related with a CIA protest. 1987, In New York City, Mbongeni Ngema's "Asinamali!" opened as the first South African play on Broadway. 1989, Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tienanmen Square massacre. 1989, In Sheffield, England, 96 people were killed and hundreds were injured at a soccer game at Hillsborough Stadium when a crowd surged into an overcrowded standing area. Ninety-four died on the day of the incident and two more later died from their injuries. 1994, The World Trade Organization was established. 1998, Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians. 1999, In Algeria, former Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president. All of the opposition candidates claimed that the vote was fraudulent and withdrew from the election. 1999, In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a panel of two Lahore High Court judges convicted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of corruption. 2000, 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit. 2010, In Prospect Harbor, ME, the Stinson Seafood plant stopped sardine processing after 135 years in operation. 2023, Do smiled.
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