21) Message boards : Cafe SETI : THIS DAY IN HISTORY (Message 1001556) Posted 7 Jun 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Zoot Suit Riots Come to an End (1943) Named for the style of clothing favored by the mainly Mexican-American victims of these clashes, the Zoot Suit Riots erupted between American servicemen stationed in Los Angeles, California, during WWII and the city's minority residents. While the local press lauded the attacks by the servicemen and described them as having a "cleansing effect" on the city, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt denounced them as "race riots" rooted in discrimination

22) Message boards : Cafe SETI : IN THE NEWS: (Message 1001555) Posted 7 Jun 2010 by Matthew Love Post: To Up Fat Burn, Skip Eating before Workout Though many professional athletes eat before training, new research suggests that working out on an emptier stomach may actually help people burn more fat. In a recent study, European researchers found that cyclists who trained without eating first burned significantly more fat than those who ate. Another study, published in April, found that those who did not eat before working out burned a higher proportion of fat to carbohydrates than those who did, despite the fact that they performed worse in intensive cycling sessions than participants who ate before the workouts.

23) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: (Message 1001554) Posted 7 Jun 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Paul Gauguin (1848) First a sailor and then a successful stockbroker in Paris, Gauguin took up painting on weekends when he was in his mid-20s. Eventually, with the encouragement of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, he devoted himself completely to art, quitting his job and separating from his wife and five children. Today, he is recognized as a highly influential founding father of modern art whose bold experiments with color led directly to the Synthetist style.

24) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Quote of the Day (Message 1001552) Posted 7 Jun 2010 by Matthew Love Post: "You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow." - Harriet Martineau

25) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Ubuntu (Message 996283) Posted 14 May 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Does Ubuntu have A software installer similar to windows installer?

26) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CAR RACING 2010 !!! (Message 986972) Posted 6 Apr 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Not exactly a race, but some pretty impressive stunt driving... Cadillac Promo exhibition event in Japan. Evil Knievel now that is A stunt driver LOL

27) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bumper Stickers (Message 984652) Posted 28 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

28) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Famous Deaths on this Day (Message 982558) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: 1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904) 1978 - Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73 1979 - Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78 1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915) 1986 - Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies 1986 - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933) 1987 - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58 1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928) 1991 - Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73 1991 - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917) 1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934) 1993 - Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies 1993 - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 1993 - Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83 1993 - Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27

29) Message boards : Cafe SETI : THIS DAY IN HISTORY (Message 982552) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Great Britain Passes the Stamp Act (1765) Intended to help pay British debts from the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act established the first direct tax levied on the American colonies. It required all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies to bear a tax stamp. The act was vehemently protested by the colonists, and the Stamp Act Congress—the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure—petitioned for its repeal.

30) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARTICLE OF THE DAY: (Message 982549) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Fatal Familial Insomnia Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic disease that interferes with sleep and eventually leads to death. The disease is the result of mutations in a certain protein, which cause plaques to build up in the thalamus, the brain region responsible for sleep regulation. Patients initially suffer from insomnia and progressively develop more serious problems—including hallucinations, rapid weight loss, and dementia—before dying.

31) Message boards : Cafe SETI : IN THE NEWS: (Message 982547) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Saturn's Rings Far From Peaceful Scientists have long thought that Saturn's rings are stable and slow to evolve, but new images from NASA's Cassini orbiter have revealed that they are actually quite fluid and changing. They show that collisions are fairly routine, that chunks of ice leave trails of debris in their wakes, and that, at times, rings will rapidly rearrange themselves. The images also indicate that though the rings are largely composed of water ice, which is white in color, the ice of Saturn's rings is red, colored by an unknown contaminant.

32) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: (Message 982544) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) Andrew Lloyd Webber is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre whose scores include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and two of the longest running musicals of all time: Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Lloyd Webber has won multiple Tony and Grammy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe and an Oscar, and was knighted in 1992

33) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Aphorisms (Message 982540) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Happy solution never see light if truth kept in dark.

34) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bumper Stickers (Message 982536) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Be nice to your kids...They will pick out your nursing home.

35) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Quote of the Day (Message 982518) Posted 22 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson

36) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bumper Stickers (Message 982301) Posted 21 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: H2OLGD Waterlogged. The owner is a swimmer and this appears on his Hyundai Tiburon FX in Missuori

37) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stupid Laws part #3 (Message 982266) Posted 21 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Idaho Crazy Law Boise # Residents may not fish from a giraffe's back.

38) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Quote of the Day (Message 982255) Posted 21 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. Francis Maitland Balfour

39) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bumper Stickers (Message 982237) Posted 21 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Chaos. Panic. Disorder. My work here is done

40) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun (Message 982235) Posted 21 Mar 2010 by Matthew Love Post: Hockey Playoffs are coming up, that means the puck stops here. [/i] GO BLACK HAWKS!!!!!!!!! YAHOOO!! lol be like A hockey stick and get the puck out of here

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