Freedom Rights Rally & State Meeting
April 9 - April 12
State Meeting: Sunday April 11 @ 12 Noon
Monticello - American Legion Hall

Vic Cedarstaff of Wickenburg, Arizona has been credited with the accidental invention of the bola tie. As the story goes, one day while riding his horse, Cedarstaff's hat blew off but the leather hatband slipped down around his neck. He left it on and a friend remarked that it looked nice. Soon thereafter, a replication of his original bola appeared on Arizona maps. The name comes from the bola, a device used by South American cowboys to rope cattle, because the rope device and the tie resemble each other. 

Seniors have been flocking to the Internet -- with users age 65 and older increasing 47 percent since 2000. The Pew Internet and American Life Project finds those 65 and over are the fastest-growing group to enter cyberspace, the New York Times reports. Exchanging e-mail with family and grandchildren, as well as pursuing interests in family trees, book clubs, religion and travel, have given many seniors a new lease on life. Kathryn Robinson, who went online at age 99 three years ago, says she uses the Internet daily to send e-cards, research topics and communicate with her grandchildren and great- grandchildren. 

Feng Shui, the Chinese philosophy that encourages balance and the flow of Life energy (called chi), can be applied to your garden. According to Feng Shui, everything in the world consists of one of the Five Elements: Earth, Metal, Water, Fire, and Wood. Keeping the Five Elements balanced in your garden raises the chi, keeping it moving happily and energetically throughout the place.

Walter Hunt patented a bullet with its own explosive charge on August 10, 1848.

Former WWE superstar Bret Hart is preparing to get into a legal battle with insurance company Lloyd's of London in a $2.2-million lawsuit. The claim is accusing the insurance firm of refusing to pay the former WWE & WCW Champion dis- ability claim over the career-ending concussion he suffered while wrestling Bill Goldberg at Starrcade '99, according to an article in today's Globe and Mail Newspaper. 

The lawsuit seeks more than $1.2-million in unpaid disability benefits and another $1-million in punitive and aggravated damages for breach of duties. "Lloyd's have not denied the claim, but they haven't paid it either," said Kenneth Staroszik, indentified as Hart's lawyer in the article. 
"Things are just going so slow that we've decided we have to start an action." 

Lloyd's of London was informed of the injury that Hart suf- fered when he was released from WCW back in October 2000. 
According to Stariszif, Hart has seen a neurologist working on behalf of Lloyd's but there has been no further movement beyond that and trading information. 

Ohio - From Tuesday through Friday for the next couple of months, jurors in the Outlaws Motorcycle Club trial in Toledo may have to put their jobs, their free time, and their families on hold.

U.S. District Court Judge David Katz said jurors in such cases, despite some burdens, seem willing to serve. He said it may take more time to pick a jury for a long trial because of job conflicts or preplanned vacations, but the composition normally looks like a jury panel in a regular case.

"It takes longer to get a jury in a case that's going to be in excess of two or three weeks, but you get a very good mix from the jury pool," Judge Katz said.

The jury in the Outlaws case is considering a variety of racketeering and conspiracy charges against 14 defendants. A federal indictment claims that some of the men committed acts such as murder and drug dealing on behalf of the club. The trial is expected to last anywhere from six to eight weeks.

Today, 40 percent of the world's newspapers are printed on paper 

HIGHWAY 61 BLUES FESTIVAL 
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June 11-13, 2004 ~10am-10pm~ Leland, MS http://www.highway61blues.com/ 888-889-8433 This young festival celebrates the blues of the Mid Mississippi Delta and benefits the Highway 61 Blues Museum. 
This year's festival will be dedicated to the grandfather of the blues, Charley Patton. A Charley Patton lecture and discussion will be held at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale on Friday afternoon followed by live music on the stage. Sunday, the Holly Ridge Grocery will host a Blues Jam. Holly Ridge, Mississippi was the home of Charley Patton for a time and his gravesite is located there as well. The Blues Jam will be a free event. 

Leland Blues Project would like to welcome all Bikers and Riders attending the Highway 61 Blues Festival and it's surrounding events. They would also like to extend an invitation to them to make this venue an annual Blues and Bikes event. 

At the turn of the 20th century the U.S. postcard was the e- mail of its day. An act of Congress in 1907 made it possible for a sender to include a message along with the address on the back of a postcard and the era of divided-back cards began. In most large cities, there were two mail deliveries a day. In 1907, a postcard with an invitation to dinner sent at 9 a.m. to the city's suburbs would reach the guest by noon the same day, the Los Angeles Times reports. Just as e-mail is a savings today, the postcard was a savings 100 years ago. "If you were sending out 50 Christmas greetings, you'd save a penny on postage using a postcard versus a letter or enveloped card," says James Stearns, a Los Angeles postcard dealer. "That 50 cents fed your family Christmas dinner." 

An angstrom is a unit of length equal to one ten-millionth of a millimeter, primarily used to express electromagnetic wavelengths. It was named after Swedish astronomer and physicist Anders Jonas Angstrom (1814-1874).