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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Dogs and cats drink differently; Spiro T. Agnew was a fool.

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

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Nice to see the Carnival Spamalot was able to dock in San Diego. I bet the lawyers are busy in San Diego. This is going to cost Carnival quite a bit of money, meaning everybody who takes a cruise for the next several years will be paying for this fiasco.

So we now know why cats drink without making a mess while dogs just slop their water all around. With the help of super slow motion video, researchers discovered why. According to a study reported in Friday’s journal Science.

Cats are better physicists than dogs, according to the new study - at least when it comes to drinking.

A cat lapping milk strikes a delicate balance between gravity and inertia, the research finds. Unlike dogs, which use their tongues to scoop water into their mouths, a cat uses the tip of its tongue to pull water upward, closing its jaws before gravity pulls the column of liquid back toward earth.

The method requires cats to lap at just the right speed to balance the inertial force that keeps the water moving upward with the gravitational force pulling the water back down.

"Perhaps the most intriguing part of what we found was that the cats seemed to know just exactly how rapidly or how fast they should lap," study researcher Roman Stocker, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told LiveScience. "By lapping at the right time, [cats] take optimal advantage of this balance between inertia and gravity."

Stocker and his colleagues report their results online today (Nov. 11) in the journal Science.

Balancing act.

The study started one morning with Stocker's cat, Cutta Cutta, a rescue from a Boston animal shelter. Stocker was eating breakfast and watching the cat drink when he suddenly wondered, "How does he do that?"

"It occurred to me that there were some interesting biophysics behind that process," Stocker said.

So he borrowed a high-speed video camera from his lab and taped Cutta Cutta drinking. With several other curious researchers along for the ride, Stocker analyzed those videos, along with video collected from Zoo New England and YouTube.com videos of lions, tigers and other big cats drinking.

"It seems to be that this is the first study in Science that uses YouTube as part of the research," Stocker said.

The first thing the researchers noticed is that cats and dogs drink very differently. Both animals extend their tongues and curl them back toward their chins as they approach water. But dogs use their bent tongues as a ladle, spooning water into their mouths. The scoop of sorts created by the cats' tongues stayed empty. Instead, cats touched only the top surface of their tongue to the water.

Once a cats' tongue touches the surface, it draws it back at a rate of almost four laps per second. The inertia of the movement draws the water upward (think "objects in motion tend to stay in motion"). At the same time, gravity fights to pull the water back down. As these forces lengthen and stretch the water column, the cat snaps its jaws shut at just the right moment, catching a mouthful of liquid before it falls.

I do not actually care for cats; I am a dog person this, however, is good to know. I am sure some taxpayer money helped fund the study but we waste money on much less important matters and this study actually has meaning to citizens other than those doing the study or teaching about the study.

Notable births on this date:

354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77)

1838 Joseph F Smith 6th President of Mormon church
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)

1856 Louis D Brandeis Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39

1916 Jack Elam Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo) How could he do that with his one eye.

1941 Dack Rambo Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) with Walter Brennan as Will Sonnett
1941 Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)

Notable deaths on this date:

867 St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67), dies
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls. Apparently did not die from intelligence.
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56. The great ones die young.
1984 Dorothy Arnold actress, dies at 66

Notable events on this date:

867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii

1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

1960 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt

1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias & distortion They got a few things right, Spiro.

1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs" He just wouldn’t give it up, yet.

1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC

1986 US violates Iran arms boycott We are slow learners.

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Friday, November 12, 2010

So this deer walks into a bar.

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Why would Amazon.com sell a book about pedophiles and their feelings. We do not have to be that caring or politically correct. At least they backed down. Whoever made the decision to sell that book originally should be unemployed RIGHT NOW!

President Obama is losing the world over these days. The Chinese told him to stick it in regards to their manipulation of their currency. They said the bailouts we gave our businesses and the banking industry is the same thing. It is hard to argue with them.

The South Koreans, within miles of the DMZ and our troops providing them military protection, told the President they would not participate in a trade agreement Obama was counting on to bring thousands of jobs to the United States. When Obama leaves, he should bring our troops with him and leave a bill for services for South Korea to pay. Two can play that game.

Coke is currently introducing a fountain pop machine into the Chicago area. The machine is self-service, touch screen operated. We have all seen these types of machines at McDonalds, Burger King, etc. The difference with the new model being introduced is that this machine dispenses 106 flavors of Coke and Coke products. The customer decides what flavor to dispense. This will surely slow the process down but it might be fun.

Have you seen the video of the deer crashing into the bar in Ohio. You have to look for it but be sure to watch the version with audio. The deer was apparently on a mission. You can hear the jokes fly:

This deer walks into a bar and says, “What do you have for a buck?”

This deer walks into a bar and says, “Where’s my doe?”

This deer walks into a bar a looking for a wet tea-shirt contest and says, “I’ll win this thing. I got a great rack.”

This deer walks into a bar, (fill in the line.).

Notable births on this date:

1817 Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali) founded Bahá'ís faith

1889 DeWitt Wallace St Paul MN, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)

1929 Grace Kelly Phil, Monaco princess/actress (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)

1934 Charles Manson [No Name Maddox], Cincinnati OH, criminal (Tate-Labianco)

1943 Brian Hyland Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini)
1945 Al Michaels Brooklyn, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 Neil Young Canada, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1961 Nadia Comaneci Onesti Romania, gymnast (Oly-gold-1976, 80) (or 11/12)

1973 Melanie Gaffin Santa Monica CA, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids)

Notable deaths on this date:

1035 Canute "The Great" King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41
1558 Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva, dies
1962 Sid Tomack actor (Jim Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
1975 Anthony Ross TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69
1987 Roger Lewis aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 Eve Arden actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82

Notable events on this date:

1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name
1873 Bay District Race Track opens

1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner

1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator

1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany

1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted

1946 1st driv-up bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released

1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame

1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame

1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana

1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader

1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born

Who can forget this Notable event in history?

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BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Happy Veteran's Day; remember 11-11 at 11:11 a. m.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Happy Veteran’s Day. If you see a Veteran today, thank him or her for their service and sacrifice to and for us all. I know I will. Thank you Harold, Glenn, Michael, Goose, Dome, Judge Tom Doherty-elect, Mickey, Eddie and every Veteran I know and have neglected to name.

Speaking of Judge Tom Doherty-elect, he was quick to point out to me I forgot an important birthday yesterday. His Email read;

Another notable birthday, the U.S. Marine Corps, Tun Tavern,
Philadelphia, PA, 1775. Congrats on the book! Tom

Thanx Tom.

Also, yesterday was the 35^th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, caused by the cold winds of November. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, the 1976 song by Gordon Lightfoot made it famous, although those familiar with Great Lakes shipping knew about it. The ship, nicknamed “Big Fitz” and the “Mighty Fitz” broke in two during a winter storm on a voyage from Superior, Wisconsin to a port near Detroit, Michigan. The ‘Big Fitz’ never made it to Detroit. The crew of 29 perished and no bodies were ever recovered The ship had a checkered history of accidents at sea. It had been involved in at least five accidents on the water since it was christened in 1958.

I will finish the Anheuser-Busch story today. The book I am writing about “Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon.” is a very good read, especially if you like American business history and success stories.

The III thought trusting another person was a flaw. He did not possess that particular flaw. He did not trust his son August IV, The Fourth, although be eventually gave control over to his son. The Fourth was a former party animal enjoying booze, broads and fast cars. As a young man, he routinely broke the cardinal rule for an athlete in training; no booze, broads or bikes. Around the office father and son were referred to as “Crazy and Lazy” When the Fourth showed his dad the Super Bowl commercials of the talking frogs, the III did not get the humor.

Budweiser hired the majority of its junior executives from the St; Louis area. They were down to earth people that enjoyed the perks bestowed upon them. This was returned to the company in loyalty. That turned out to be a one-way street.

When InBev arrived on the scene in 2008, it was known as a no frills operator, the Walmart of brewers. The III was able to squeeze every dime out of the Brazilian company all the while knowing cost-cutting and layoffs would result from the sale. The powers were not concerned. Most of board, executives, lawyers and bankers would make millions from the deal. They did and the end of an American Icon was realized.

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BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Bruce A. Brennan gets published

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

BIG NEWS IS COMING FROM BRUCE A. BRENNAN SHORTLY. I WILL ADVISE YOU ONCE IT IS OFFICIAL.

IT IS HERE

I HAVE JUST PUBLISHED MY FIRST COMMERCIAL BOOK. IT HAS BEEN epublished. I am providing you with the webmall you can visit and download the book. It costs only $9.50, quite the bargain if I say so myself.

The name of the book is ‘Holmes the Ripper’ It is historical fiction, based on Jack the Ripper, H. H. Holmes and Lizzie Borden, among others. It is not graphic or pornographic. It is an adult read. Check it out.

As I said, this is my first novel published. I will improve in my skills but now you can get in on the ground floor. I have written for years but for business or my personal enjoyment. I have another full length book coming out in a few months. I have two others in various stages of production. I am a happy man today.

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Keith Olberman is a jerk. He thinks the rules do not apply to him. The people at MSNBC apparently do not have the intestinal fortitude to take him on. He rants and raves every night he is on the air against Republicans, FOX News, Bill O’Reilly and every one with money. Then, he secretly donates money to three Democratic candidates. He gets suspended for two whole shows. He then claims he did not know it was against company policy and says other people get away with it. How do you know any one is getting away with anything if you do not know it is prohibited activity?

The arrogant Mr. Olberman has said he is the star of the network and deserves special consideration. He claims he made the network what it is. What is it? The captain of the Titanic was probably a star on the ship also. What does that get you? It shouldn’t force the network into having two sets of standards. Perhaps Keith Olberman, the worst person in the world and MSNBC should look up the definition of standards.

Notable births on this date:

1483 Martin Luther Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism

1879 Vachel Lindsay Springfield IL, poet (Johnny Appleseed)

1925 Richard Burton South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)

1935 Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws)

1944 Dave Loggins singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 Tim Rice lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1945 Donna Fargo NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA

1948 Greg Lake rock guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Tarkus)

1955 Jack Clark Pennsylvania, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1956 Sinbad comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1959 MacKenzie Phillips Alexandria VA, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1961 Junior [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)

Notable deaths on this date:

1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident

Notable events on this date:

461 St Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico

1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance

1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
2084 Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

1977 It was announced that Pope Paul VI had ended the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried. (The excommunication was first imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.)

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Good for you Pres. Obama

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Apparently Robert Gibbs does have a backbone. He made his point and did not back down from the officials from India who changed the ground rules in the middle of the game. The prior agreement said each nation could have eight reporters in with the heads of state. When India unilaterally changed the number to five, Gibbs would have none of it. He emphatically told the officials from India it was eight or President Obama was leaving NOW. They backed down. Eight reporters were allowed in and so far Pres. Obama has not apologized to India for America. Finally, CHANGE has come to the White House, or at least to Obama.

The book I mentioned yesterday, “Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon” by Julie MacIntosh is full of stories about the various father-son combinations who have run the Budweiser empire, mostly without much care for the other. Budweiser is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. It is more recognizable than McDonald’s, Disney or Apple, according to people who track that sort of stuff. The company had an estimated value of between 40 and 50 billion dollars around 2008. That is when an unwanted suitor came calling, looking to buy the company.

At the time of the takeover August Busch III was in charge. He had taken control from his father in 1975. The Busch family has controlled the company since it began. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, the family ran the theme parks in Virginia and Florida, owned Shamu, the killer whale, employed in Florida. The company kept a stable of over 250 of the famous Clydesdale horses stabled around the country used for company promotions and commercials. The company had a staff of twenty pilots on call to fly the fleet of Dassault Falcon corporate jets. Every office with a refrigerator at corporate headquarters had it full of Bud, Bud Lite and Michelob.

In 2008, a Brazilian company, InBev put Anheuser-Busch in its sights for a takeover. The 40 billion dollar Busch resisted. The Third, as August Busch III is called, wanted more. He argued, negotiated and out maneuvered InBev until they agreed to pay $70.00 a share. That priced the takeover at 52 billion dollar, making it the largest all-cash acquisition in the history of the business world.

The Third, who had become loved in his over 27 years of running the business was a hero, even to his detractors. The Busch family members were already rich when InBev arrived on the scene, now they were super-rich, thanks to the Third. He had always been intimidating to his employees, especially the executives, because he generally knew more than they did and it was their field to be an expert in. At Corporate meetings, he ran the show because he could. In the takeover struggle, he ignored many of his advisors and came out ahead. He won again and everybody was along for the ride.

More to come later.

Notable births on this date:

1731 Benjamin Banneker Ellicott MD, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)

1905 James William Fulbright (Sen-D-Mo

1913 Hedy Lamarr actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)- NOT HEADLEY

1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew (R) 39th VP (1973-77), crook NICE DESCRIPTION

1931 Whitey Herzog baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 Carl Perkins singer (Blue Suede Shoes)

1934 Carl Sagan NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)

1935 Bob Gibson Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968) there was only 1

1969 Pepa rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)

1974 Dah-ve Chodan actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)

Notable deaths on this date:

1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880)

1970 Charles DeGaulle French President, dies at 79

1970 William L Dawson (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84

1988 John Mitchell former Attorney General, dies of heart attack in Washington

1991 Yves Montand actor, dies at 70 from a heart attack

Notable events on this date:

1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg

1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France

1861 Battle of Piketon, KY

1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox

1927 Giant Panda discovered, China

1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

1961 PGA eliminates Caucasians only rule

1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)

1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado

1973 Ringo releases "Ringo" album

1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for the 1st time

1989 East Berlin opens its borders

1990 President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf

1538 German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.'

1938 The worst Jewish pogrom in peacetime Germany took place as Nazi thugs led a "spontaneous" campaign of terror. During the night 267 synagogues were plundered, 7,500 shops were wrecked, 91 Jews were killed and 20,000 others were arrested and sent to concentration camps. It was afterward known as "Kristallnacht" because of the thousands of windows broken.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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