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Entries for June, 2009

Post #201 – Math Tricks

We have hit the 200 mark with our recent post about “Juneteenth”. Now, we move on to reach new heights and boldly go where no University Place bloggers have gone before! Well, maybe later. Right now, I just want to pass along a clever little “mind reading” trick involving mathematics. Math can be fun, if [...]

Juneteenth

Today June 19th marks the holiday that is most widely recognized for African Americans and their plight of slavery. The emancipation from slavery is what is being celebrated today, and has been celebrated since as far back as 1865. 

Sunset Primary Loses An Icon Today

I was told by my daughter today that one of the very loved crossing guards and playground duties was retiring,  Mrs. Gladstone.  My daughter said that Mrs Gladstone had served Sunset for 15 years. 

You Will Respect My Authority!

California senator Barbara Boxer felt the need to remind an Army brigadier general of the fact that she is a “senator”, Tuesday during a hearing before her Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, where the military officer testifying had the apparent gall to call Boxer “ma’am.”  Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, with the U.S. Army Corps [...]

University Place the next Gary, Indiana?

University Place is becoming more ghetto-like as apartments and lower cost rents allow the influx of riff-raff. With this will come deterioration of neighborhoods and an increase in crime.  TODAY IN GARY, INDIANA – A 26-year-old convenience store clerk was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Ind., and police say witnesses stood by [...]

Be Nice To People Day

I am officially naming June 17th “Be Nice To People Day”.  I don’t mean the people you see everyday like in your office or your own home.  Let’s take it a little further,