[TheVillageChicken]

Lance Armstrong and I have the exact same number of Tour de France wins.

[DougB]

Jon,
What's the significance of the dollar bill? If I write them, will they send me one?

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken

Lance Armstrong and I have the exact same number of Tour de France wins.

What a shame that he had to cheat and then bully so many people to hide his actions. It seems he probably did this by threatening lawsuits, bad press and pulling strings he had as a Tour de France winner.

When he broke up with Sheryl Crow I thought something was a little off with him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong

I have made some very bad choices in friends too and did not know how to handle breaking away.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by DougB

Jon,
What's the significance of the dollar bill? If I write them, will they send me one?

That's one of the Where's George bills which I usually give out as change in my meanderings around the Villages.

I spent that particular bill yesterday getting some hot dogs. Which I will put some ketchup on!!!! I gave it to a very cute blonde. I mean the dollar bill. LOL

Those two letters are from the 110 or so that I sent the ObamaCare people back in March 2014. I hope that they see the importance of making libraries of all sorts part of the practical delivery of information for survivors/victims of crimes. Of course, most of this delivery is driven by local communities not by the Federal government. I had wanted them to authenticate all the letters I sent them like the one from the MA AG Office and the one from M. Kathleen Price, the Law Librarian of Congress from around 1990 through 1994 .

I had complained to all the US Senators of that Congress and some of the US Representatives back in 1991 about subtle and then not so subtle attacks on my mental health for wanting to be honest about this niche in library services towards survivors/victims of crimes. This was while I was still employed at the University of Minnesota Law Library or after I lost my employment contract around June 1991 and was studying for the Minnesota Bar but also trying to get through all the stress I was under from people pretty much telling me that my law librarianship career was over. I got a 251 out of a needed 260 but did write the Minnesota Bar Examiners about all this induced stress trying to get some leeway. No such luck so I moved from MN to CA around Thanksgiving of 1991. The CA Bar is much harder so I never gave it a try. Sending all those letters probably cost me about $10,000 when figuring in all the copying, postage, labor, and the food and rent to stay near Dinkytown to do it. I was not treated very well while writing all these as word did get around and Dinkytown is very dependent on the U of MN for customers. And, I was being very critical of actions taken by U of MN employees.

What happened from my writing all the US Senators and some of the US Representatives about this rather Machiavellian approach to dealing with do gooders? The Library of Congress made it a policy because they found it so effective. I do not know WHEN they made it a policy but would love to find out its genesis. So did Stalin find this approach extremely useful!! According to a CBS News Report from around July 6, 1996 or maybe it was July 6, 1995??? No good deed goes unpunished. Unfortunately according to the CBS report back then a target of this approach -- a Library of Congress woman employee-- had lost everything trying to fight back but that was the last I heard of this matter. Cannot say that I remember the name of this lady but I sure could relate to what she must have been going through.

I wish it worked that way that you send them a good idea and they send you back money with how to continue fighting the good fight. I did get forgiveness for a loan from the Northern Nevada Office of the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) around 2000. This was for my MA from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management. They helped pay for my education in Colorado. I promised to pay them back or work in Nevada for a certain amount of years. I never could find a job in a library in Nevada but all the work I did pro bono for victims/survivors of crimes from CA, MN, IL and FL helped victims/survivors of crimes in Nevada. I mentioned all the problems I had had to the WICHE Office and backed these up with documents if they had deemed it necessary.

I do hope that if another person seriously affected by some event they had no control over (like me and the 2-24-1976 Reno, Nevada murder of Michelle Mitchell and the subsequent investigation, trial, appeal, etc.) sees some problem with the delivery of services and tries to do something about it that he/she is treated much better than I was.

[DougB]

Originally Posted by jblum315

The Andrea Doria didn't sink exactly. It was severely damaged in a collision with another ship and was towed to New York. Lives were lost.

The Andrea Doria did most certainly sink. The Stockholm was towed to port.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by DougB

The Andrea Doria did most certainly sink. The Stockholm was towed to port.

After the captain left the Andrea Doria, it took 24 minutes for the ship to sink.

[ajbrown]

Originally Posted by DougB

The Andrea Doria did most certainly sink. The Stockholm was towed to port.

This is a great thread with many folks doing some things that are very interesting. Sorry if this looks like a continued hijack, but I found this little take off about the Andrea interesting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz7cSxZzOA

When I look at film like this, I ponder what will our "film" look like in 60 years? Not to be discussed on this thread...

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by EnglishJW

One item for me - I have never had a drink.

One for my wife - she made two transatlantic crossings on the Leonardo DaVinci before she was a teenager. The Leonardo DaVinci was the sister ship of the Andrea Doria.

I wonder if she was on the same crossing as my husband. Their family sailed
on the Leonardo from Italy in 1960.

[EnglishJW]

Originally Posted by CFrance

I wonder if she was on the same crossing as my husband. Their family sailed
on the Leonardo from Italy in 1960.

I believe it was 1963 after her father passed away. She sailed to and from New York with her mother and brother.

[fndrbndr]

I play the bass guitar in a "Trans-Siberian Orchestra" cover band in northern Ohio.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by fndrbndr

I play the bass guitar in a "Trans-Siberian Orchestra" cover band in northern Ohio.

Cool!

[Vinny]

I was an alternate UN advisor.

[Deseylou]

I have worked at three different theme parks

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Deseylou

I have worked at three different theme parks

Which ones? I still hav yet to visit Disney World even though we have been in Florida since mid-1996. I did get to Disney Land as a tween.