| Good Morning, Do! Today is Fiday, April 14 Time to wear a bit of red to show your support for the troops! ___________________________________________________ History: Today, April 14 in 1912, The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Mom charged for murdering sleeping son, 11; driving car into ocean _____________________________________________________ Q I believe that every human has a finite number of heart- beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. --- Buzz Aldrin (1930 - ) Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. --- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) ______________________________________________________ THINGS I LEARNED FROM CHILDREN If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42- pound boy wearing pound puppy underwear and a superman cape. It is strong enough, however, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 by 20-foot room. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "Uh-oh," it's already too late. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it. A six-year-old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36 year old man says they can only do it in the movies. If you use a waterbed as home plate while wearing baseball shoes it does not leak - it explodes. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. foot house 4 inches deep. Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a four-year-old. Super glue is forever. McGyver can teach us many things we don't want to know. No matter how much Jello you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water. Pool filters do not like Jello. VCR's do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. The fire department has at least a 5-minute response time. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy. It will however make cats dizzy. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy. ___________________________________________________ Ana ____________________________________________________ Two guys left the bar after a long night of drinking, jumped in the car and started it up. After a couple of minutes, an old man appeared in the passenger window and tapped lightly. The passenger screamed, "Look at the window. There's an old ghost's face there!" The driver sped up, but the old man's face stayed in the window. The passenger rolled his window down part way and, scared out of his wits, said, "What do you want?" The old man softly replied, "You got any tobacco?" The passenger handed the old man a cigarette and yelled, "Step on it," to the driver, rolling up the window in terror. A few minutes later they calmed down and started laughing again. The driver said, "I don't know what happened, but don't worry; the speedometer says we're doing 80 now." All of a sudden there was a light tapping on the window and the old man reappeared. "There he is again," the passenger yelled. He rolled down the window and shakily said, "Yes?" "Do you have a light?" the old man quietly asked. The passenger threw a lighter out the window saying, "Step on it!" They were doing about 100 miles an hour, trying to forget what they had just seen and heard, when all of a sudden there came some more tapping. "Oh my God! He's back!" The passenger rolled down the window and screamed in stark terror, "WHAT NOW?" The old man gently replied, "You want some help getting out of the mud before the cops get here?" ____________________________________________________ Ana _______________________________________________ Every time the man next door headed toward Robinson's house, Robinson knew he was coming to borrow something. "He won't get away with it this time," muttered Robinson to his wife. "Watch this." "Er, I wonder if you'd be using your power-saw this morning," the neighbor began. "Gee, I'm awfully sorry," said Robinson with a smug look, "but the fact of the matter is, I'll be using it all day." "In that case," said the neighbor, "you won't be using your golf clubs, mind if I borrow them?" _______________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Shaun Rose, 41 KITSAP COUNTY, Washington, USA Man sentenced to 66 years for murdering a couple A man who pled guilty to a gruesome double murder in Kitsap County has been sentenced to 66 years in prison. After 5 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2022, officers with the Kitsap County Patrol went to a home on Shady Glen Avenue Southeast in Olalla for a welfare check after a woman called concerned about her parents who lived there. According to court documents, Alicia Shulz was in contact with her father the day before. But when she tried to reach her parents, Mina and Steven Shulz, they didnt respond. When Alicia went to her parents home, she saw their cars were still there but they still never responded to her. She used her key to get inside the home, and when she entered the master bedroom, she saw broken glass from one of the doors and the other with blood on it. After she couldnt find her parents, she called her boyfriend and 911. When deputies arrived at the scene, they found blood inside the home and on the deck outside of the master bedroom. Both Mina and Steve were found brutally murdered. According to probable cause documents, deputies saw what appeared to be a body in a garbage can on the property near the deck. Deputies then obtained a search warrant to process the home and the scene. Two bodies were found in the garbage can and investigators believe they were shot to death due to their injuries, documents said. Investigators noticed several drawers were pulled in the master bedroom and several items were missing, including a handgun and Mina Shulzs wallet. Through the investigation, they were led to 41-year-old Shaun Rose. At the time, he lived on a neighboring property to the Shulzes in an RV. Detectives found bloody clothing and a cellphone on a trunk in front of the RV and when Danielle got home, she told the cellphone belonged to Rose. On Aug. 18, Rose was pulled over for driving a stolen car. Inside the car were credit cards and an IDs that belonged to Mina and Steven Shulz. There was also a receipt from a fast food transaction that used Mina Shulzs credit card. Detectives were able to obtain surveillance video from the restaurant, and it showed Rose making the transaction that day. Rose pleaded guilty on March 8 in a deal to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to just over 66 years in prison. _______________________________________________ DeaWebby's Tech Support Pits From: Trevor Re: Hotkeys Dear Webby, Love your daily emails, chuckles and wisdom. Today the topic was "Reduce amount of mail stored in Gmail" Part of the instruction was "Set up hotkeys." As an electronically and chronologically disadvantaged senior, I am unfamiliar with "hotkeys" could you please explain? Thanks, Trevor Dear Trevor A hot key is a key combination, that calls a program sequence. You are probably familiar with "CTRL S" to save a document or picture. In Gmail you can set up additional hot keys. On your keyboard's top row, not the one with ESC, on the left side you see ` 1 Those are not used yet in Gmail, so you can use them and assign new duties to them. You can pull down different duties, when you go into the settings. On your computer, go to Gmail. At the top right, click Settings Settings and then Settings. At the top, second line, click Keyboard Shortcuts. Next to the action, type the keyboard key to make a new shortcut. Type 1 and pull down "SELECT ALL" Easy! Then type ` and pull down DELETE SELECTED. Now you know how to set up Hot Keys. Some are already selected. Those you can use as they are, or if they are for a function, that you never use, then you can re-assign them to do something else. I have no idea which ones are original, because since 2004 I have set up many hot keys myself. Just go in there and goof around. Have FUN! DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Today, April 14 in 1775, The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president. 1793, A royalist rebellion in Santo Domingo was crushed by French republican troops. 1828, The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language." 1860, The first Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, MO. 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning. 1889, The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC. 1894, First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope took place. 1902, James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store. 1912, The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived. 1918, The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France. 1925, WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2. 1931, King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed. 1939, The John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first published. 1946, The civil war between Communists and nationalists resumed in China. 1953, Viet Minh invaded Laos with 40,00 troops. 1956, Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture. 1959, The Taft Memorial Bell Tower was dedicated in Washington, DC. 1969, For the first time, a major league baseball game was played in Montreal, Canada. 1981, America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission. 1984, The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state's public school textbooks describe the evolution of human beings as "theory rather than fact". 1985, The Russian paper "Pravda" called U.S. President Reagan's planned visit to Bitburg to visit the Nazi cemetery an "act of blasphemy". 1986, U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and terrorist related targets in Libya. 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed banning all missiles from Europe. 1988, Representatives from the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Afghanistan and the U.S. signed an agreement that called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan starting on May 15. The last Soviet troop left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989. 1988, In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion. 1990, Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles began a streak of 95 errorless games and 431 total chances by a shortstop. 1994, Two American F-15 warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq. 26 people were killed including 15 Americans. 1998, The state of Virginia ignored the requests from the World Court and executed a Paraguayan for the murder of a U.S. woman. 1999, Pakistan test-fired a ballistic missile that was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching its rival neighbor India. 2000, After five years of deadlock, Russia approved the START II treaty that calls for the scrapping of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. The Russian government warned it would abandon all arms-control pacts if Washington continued with an anti-missile system. 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush sent a letter of congratulations to JCPenny's associates for being in business for 100 years. James Cash (J.C.) Penney had opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902. 2002, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being arrested by his country's military. 2008, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were combining. 2023, Do smiled.
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