Long-term readers may remember an item about Nora back in February telling of her participation as a crew member in the Denver Avon Walk 2006. The walk was this weekend and Nora has reported:
“I wanted to share the photos from my Avon Walk with you. Because of your generous donation to my walk, I was the #2 donor on the Denver Crew team. Your support means a lot to me (and to thousands of people affected by breast cancer).”
Why is it that the Baby Einstein series of videos, CDs and toys is so popular? Einstein himself didn’t talk until he was three and was never considered gifted (as a child).
From Fortune Magazine:
[Warren] Buffett has pledged to gradually give 85% of his Berkshire stock to five foundations. A dominant five-sixths of the shares will go to the world’s largest philanthropic organization, the $30 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose principals are close friends of Buffett’s (a connection that began in 1991, when a mutual friend introduced Buffett and Bill Gates).
At the current Berkshire stock value, Buffet, 75, plans to give away $37 billion, the largest philanthropic gift ever. In reality it may prove to be even more, as he is planning to give 5% of his current holdings each year — the total cash value of his holdings could well appreciate more than that annually.
“Like many people, I’d been on the fence about seeing it, mostly because I almost prefer to remain unaware of horrible things beyond my control.”
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, who goes on to say, “I was wrong on two counts. ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ while terrifying, is not depressing. It is a celebration of our planet … I was also wrong to think global warming is beyond my control.”
England’s David Beckham who bent it like only he can vs. Ecuador Sunday.
… took place 130 years ago today. Dee Brown wrote the following for The Reader’s Companion to American History:
In 1876, under command of Gen. Alfred Terry, Custer led the Seventh Cavalry as one force in a three-pronged campaign against Sitting Bull’s alliance of Sioux and Cheyenne camps in Montana. During the morning of June 25, Custer’s scouts reported spotting smoke from cooking fires and other signs of Indians in the valley of the Little Bighorn. Disregarding Terry’s orders, Custer decided to attack before infantry and other support arrived. Although scouts warned that he was facing superior numbers (perhaps 2,500 warriors), Custer divided his regiment of 647 men, ordering Capt. Frederick Benteen’s battalion to scout along a ridge to the left and sending Maj. Marcus Reno’s battalion up the valley of the Little Bighorn to attack the Indian encampment. With the remainder of the regiment, Custer continued along high ground on the right side of the valley. In the resulting battle, he and about 250 of his men, outnumbered by the warriors of Crazy Horse and Gall, were surrounded and annihilated. Reno and Benteen suffered heavy casualties but managed to escape to a defensive position.
Evan S. Connell’s Son of the Morning Star is generally regarded as the finest book on the battle; indeed, one of the finest on western American history. James Welch’s Killing Custer tells the story more from the Indian perspective.
The battle at Little Big Horn took place 130 years ago today.
Lt. Col. Custer made two errors of judgment that day. He acted without good intelligence and he divided his force.
By George, some commanders still do that.
