Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, December 15  From long time subscriber Jim H Jim Hetrick 5:30 AM to Dear I have written this to send as an email to friends and wondering if it would be something you would be interested in putting in your great newsletter? It won't bother me if you don't, but just thinking about it. Many thanks. jh For your health and well being. Being in my eighties and living alone, I have decided to do a wellness check every morning with a friend, only 76 and also living alone. I have my phone alarm set for 8:00 and when the alarm goes off, I will call him to make sure he is OK and if I dont make the call, he will be checking on me. I have his close family contacts in my phone and he has mine. I feel so much safer knowing that if I am having a problem, someone will be trying to contact me. I know a woman who spent 2 days in the bathtub because she could not get out. When she didnt show up at a birthday party, someone came to check on her and got her out. Another man got the gout in both knees and both ankles on a Friday morning. Finally on Monday at noon he got to his phone to get help and was lucky to survive. Please set up a buddy system with someone so that you are being checked on and you are checking on someone else daily. More hints, keep your phone close. Fall in the shower? Can you get to it or is it in another part of the house? A life alert button? --------------- I Skyped my dad evry day. He really looked forward to his daily call from Canada to Austria. He died at 98, but we talked a few hours before he got his wings. Originally we chatted with video but as he got too old for that, we simply dropped down to voice only. A camera is not expensive. I got mine for around $12. 
 
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 ___________________________________________________ History: on this day, December 15, in 1964, Canada's House of Commons approved the newly designed Maple Leaf flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award:  Suicide by cop  _____________________________________________________ Q A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. ____________________________________________________ Two men were sitting at a bar recounting their dreams. "I dreamed I was on vacation," one man said fondly. "It was just me and my fishing rod and this big beautiful lake. What a dream." "I had a great dream too," said the other. "I dreamed I was in bed with two beautiful women and having the time of my life." His companion looked over and exhorted, "You dreamed you had two women, and you didn't call me?" "Oh, I did," said the other, "but when I called, you'd gone fishing." __________________________________________________ A Japanese book publisher created an English edition of their book about sports rules, never running the translation by a native English speaker. After selling about 700,000 copies and getting about that many complaints, they came to understand that the book title ''Love Sports'' was somewhat misleading. The book has now been renamed to ''We Love Sports.'' __________________________________________________ An International Bonehead Award has been earned by  Dead Bonehead, MARIPOSA COUNTY, California, USA  Suicide by cop near Mariposa school  A suspect has died after a shooting involving Mariposa County deputies Wednesday morning. The Mariposa County Sheriff's Office says it happened on Frank Wilson Road near First Baptist Church/School. Deputies say they were responding to a call just after 9 am about a man who was trying to break into the church. When they arrived, they found the man holding a knife. Deputies say he was not listening to their commands and continued to walk towards the deputies. Officials say two shots were fired and the man died at the scene. The sheriffs office says following their policy's and procedures, all of the deputies involved were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. ___________________________________________________   ___________________________________________________ "Lizzie," asked Jill thoughtfully one day, "what would you do if you caught another woman in bed with your husband?" "With Phil?" Lizzie thought it over. "Let's see....... I'd break her cane, shoot her guide dog, and call a cab to take her back to the institution she escaped from." ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ After a heart-transplant operation, the patient was receiving instructions from his doctor. He was placed on a strict diet, denied alcohol and advised to get at least four hours' sleep a night. Finally, the patient asked: "What about my sex life, Doc? Will it be all right for me to have intercourse?" "Just with your wife," responded the doctor. We don't want you to get too excited for a while." ___________________________________________________   Ken Pemberton My coral cactus is a nice pink colour this year instead of the normal silver green. _________________________________________________ A woman goes into a meat market and asks the butcher why his porkchops are 99 cents a pound when the guy across the street is selling his for 89 cents? The butcher says: "Well then, why don't you go over there and buy his?" The lady customer says: "He doesn't have any." The butcher says: "Well thats nothing, when I don't have any, I sell mine for 79 cents." _______________________________________________ >Thanks to Beverly for bringing back this Classic: HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY? (written by kids) 1. You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. -- Alan, age 10 No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all the way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with. -- Kristen, age 10 2. WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED? Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.. -- Camille, age 10 3. HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED? You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. -- Derrick, age 8 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON? Both don't want any more kids. -- Lori, age 8 5. WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE? -Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough. -- Lynnette, age 8 (isn't she a treasure?) - On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date. - - Martin, age 10 6. WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE? -When they're rich. -- Pam, age 7 (Love her) -The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that. - - Curt, age 7 -The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do. Howard, age 8 7. IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them. -- Anita, age 9 (bless you child) 8. HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED? There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there? -- Kelvin, age 8 And the #1 Favorite is....... 9. HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK? Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a dump truck. -- Ricky, age 9 -------------- If you are a #7, come on over! I need you! __________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ A guy goes to a girl's house for the first time and she shows him into the living room. She excuses herself to go to the kitchen to make them a few drinks. As he's standing there alone, he notices a cute little vase on the mantel. He picks it up and as he's looking at it, she walks back in. He says, "What's this?" She says, "Oh, my father's ashes are in there." He turns beet red in horror and goes, "Geez, oh..I..." She says, "Yeah, he's too lazy to go to the kitchen to get an ashtray." ________________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Rolf Re: Diff between JPG and GIF Dear Webby What is the real difference between JPG and GIF pictures? Rolf  Dear Rolf GIF is an older style, not as fine as JPG. However, GIF does have a few features, that are not normally avalable with JPG, for example animations. The major drawback with GIF is that pictures are realtively coarse, and stay coarse even if you later save them in JPG format. A bonus for GIF is that the pictures are stable. They don't deteriorate further, like JPG pictures do with each saving. If you have to do a lot of editing on the same picture, save it in PNG format, or PSD. Those do not deterirate with each saving. Have FUN DearWebby _____________________________________________________ Laura fell for her handsome new dentist like a ton of bricks and pretty soon had lured him into a series of passionate encounters in the dental clinic after hours. But one day he said sadly, "Laura, honey, we have to stop seeing each other. Your husband's bound to get suspicious." "No way, sweetie, he's dumb as a post," she assured him. "Besides, we've been doing this for six months now and he doesn't suspect a thing." "True," agreed the dentist, "but you're down to one tooth!" ____________________________________________________ Today, December 15 in 1654, A meteorological office established in Tuscany began recording daily temperature readings. 1791, In the U.S., the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification by the state of Virginia. 1815, Jane Austen's "Emma" was published. 1840, Napoleon Bonapart's remains were interred in Les Invalides in Paris, having been brought from St. Helena, where he died in exile. 1854, In Philadelphia, the first street cleaning machine was put into use. 1877, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. 1890, American Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, SD, during an incident with Indian police working for the U.S. government. 1925, The third Madison Square Gardens opened. 1939, "Gone With the Wind," produced by David O. Selznick based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into practice Bill of Rights Day. 1944, A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris. 1944, American forces invaded Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 1944, Dr. R. Townley Paton and a small group of doctors laid the groundwork for the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration. 1961, Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in Jerusalem by an Israeli court. He had been tried on charges for organizing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. 1961, The U.N. General Assembly voted against a Soviet proposal to admit Communist China as a member. 1964, Canada's House of Commons approved the newly designed Maple Leaf flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag. 1965, Two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, maneuvered within 10 feet of each other while in orbit around the Earth. 1966, Walter Elias "Walt" Disney died in Los Angeles at the age of 65. 1970, The Soviet probe Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to land softly on the surface of Venus. The probe only survived the extreme heat and pressure for about 23 minutes and transmitted the first data received on Earth from the surface of another planet. 1973, J. Paul Getty III was found in southern Italy after being held captive for five months, during which his right ear was cut off and sent to a newspaper in Rome. 1978, U.S. President Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to Communist China on New Year's Day and sever official relations with Taiwan. 1979, The former shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left the United States for Panama. He had gone to the U.S. for medical treatment on October 22, 1979. 1979, In a preliminary ruling, the International Court of Justice ordered Iran to release all hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. 1981, The U.S. Congress passed $200 billion spending bill. At the time it was the largest in U.S. history. 1982, Gibraltar's frontier with Spain was opened to pedestrian use after 13 years. 1983, The last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew. It was just over seven weeks after the U.S.-led invasion of the Caribbean island. 1989, An uprising in Romania began as demonstrators gathered to prevent the arrest of the Reverend Laszlo Tokes, a dissident clergyman. 1992, IBM announced it would eliminate 25-thousand employees in the coming year. 1992, Bettino Craxi, the leader of Italy's Socialist Party, was informed that he was under investigation in a burgeoning corruption scandal in the northern city of Milan. 1992, El Salvador's government and leftist guerrilla leaders formally declared the end of the country's 12-year civil war. 1993, In Geneva, 117 countries completed the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The countries agreed on a reform package. 1993, The prime ministers of Britain and the Republic of Ireland (John Major and Albert Reynolds respectively) made the "Downing Street Declaration," stating the basis for trying to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. 1995, The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to take over the peacekeeping operations in Bosnia. 1995, French rail workers voted to end a three-week-old strike. 1996, Boeing Co. announced plans to pay $13.3 billion to acquire rival aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas Corp. 1999, Syria reopened peace talks with Israel in Washington, DC, with the mediation of U.S. President Clinton. 2000, The Chernobyl atomic power plant in Kiev, Ukraine, was shut down. 2000, New York Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to accept an $8 million book deal with Simon & Schuster. The book was to be about her eight years in the White House. The advance was the highest ever to be paid to a member of the U.S. Congress. 2001, It was announced that Siena Heights University would begin offering a class called "Animated Philosophy and Religion." The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy are part of popular culture and is based on the television series "The Simpsons." 2010, The U.N. Security Council gave a vote of confidence to the government of Iraq when they lifted 19-year-old sanctions on weapons and civilian nuclear power. 2022 Do smiled. 

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