Sunday, December 22, 2024

OFH Perk

      Included in our monthly rental at the OFH is cable TV. While I'm not much of a TV watcher,. I do enjoy some sports, especially basketball. Today the Division I Volleyball championship was broadcast. It featured, Louisville, and it was played in Louisville to a record crowd. Representing the Big 10, was Penn State. A record crowd was in attendance.

    Perhaps you both know that volleyball is played the best of five sets. Sets 1-4, are played to 25, but a team must win by 2 points. The 5th set is to 15. One set today, that Louisville won, went into the 30s, (34-32) the highest scoring set in tournament history. Penn State won 3 of the first four sets so there was no 5th.

   History making was that both teams are coached by women. So, today's winner Katie Schumacher-Cawley is not only the first national Division I, volleyball champion, she's the first female coach to win a Division I national title. 

   A hearing device attaches to my TV that transmits the sound directly to my hearing aids. Why don't I use it? That device does not allow me to mute the TV. Then, too, sports announcers annoy me, judging, talking about uninteresting things and seldom reporting what I want to know. So, the solution is simple, I just watch with the sound muted.

Takk for alt,

Al

- It's been nearly half a century since Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided to build the House of the Republic in the heart of Bucharest. It was to be Europe's largest building at that time. Over 10,000 houses were razed, transforming a project initially conceived by Romanian King Carol II into a North Korean-style megalomaniacal endeavor.

Following the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake on March 4, 1977, that claimed the lives of 1,500 people, Ceausescu decided to transform Bucharest's ruins into a monumental socialist triumph. He believed rebuilding the city with grand architecture would symbolize the victory of socialism.  

   He was executed December 25, 1989.


Joanne were staying in hotel in downtown Bucharest not far from this building. We toured it.

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