Feb 10

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published

1824 - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)

1923 - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company

1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam

1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪                     

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

Our local news is back on the air…it’s been off since December. It’s a college station, so we have to deal with semester breaks, training of new people, and getting it all on the air. We do lean about local events so that is good. I had a good lunch with Mary today. Cheryl is still in California. We went to a great little restaurant on the West side. I had the salad and slice of pizza. Good conversation, good food, what more could I ask for? Mary and Mike spent the weekend in Phoenix, Mike got sick, Mary survived. They are converting the extra room into a home gym, so Mary is busy going through boxes of teaching stuff and tossing 99% of it. Been there, done that. Probably need to do it again, with lots of stuff I have that have nothing to do with teaching. Today I’ve got a great video of world record indoor mile run, along with some great music. Enjoy!

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

You are given clues for two words. Each of the words has two syllables. The first vowel sound in the first word is a short "I." Change it to a long "I" sound, and phonetically you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. For example: My cousin in a 1992 film; Like the walls of ivy league schools: Vinny and Viny

1.     One who breaks one of the "Ten Commandments"; John Hancock for one.

2.     Agricultural worker; President after Harrison:

3.     Not flat, as terrain; extremely:

4.     Half the symbol of Communism; wash or spin:

5.     To argue; Hell’s Angels:

6.     More cool; over excited:

7.     Overly prim and precise; expensive:

8.     Half of human kind; R. Reagan’s first wife:

9.     Resident of England, Scotland etc; become sunny:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

AZ Centennial – Feb 14:  Did you know?…

How did Payson get its name?

Payson was named for Senator Louis Payson, who helped establish a post office here in 1884. Earlier names included, Long Valley, Big Valley, Green Valley and Union Park. In 1882 the first building, a stockade, was created.

How did Colorado City, AZ get its name?

"This Mormon community had its beginnings in 1909 when "Old Man" Colvin joined the Lauritzen family already in the area. The Mormon polygamous colony was on Short Creek, so named because it is a short creek, but the colony was called Millennial City at the outset because it was viewed as "First City of the Millenium", in a paper called Truth, which advocated plural marriage. When the Federal Government attempted to enforce laws against polygamy, several Lee's Ferry polygamist moved to Short Creek, the name the colony had by the time the post office was established in 1913. Because of notoriety following a raid by Arizona state forces which netted two hundred women and children (which the state had to let go as the case fizzled), the community elected to change its name to Colorado City in 1958.

Daffynitions: :-)

ATHEIST — A believer in non-belief

WEALTH — Envied ownership

Found on You Tube         

Simon Bolivar : The Great Liberator of America

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of mortgage interest deduction recipients who say the ‘have not used a government social program’: 60Of Federal student loan recipients: 53Of food stamp recipients: 25

Joke-of-the-day

Father Murphy walked into a pub in Donegal, and said to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"The man said, "I do Father."The priest said, "Then leave this pub right now!" and approached a second man. "Do you want to go to heaven?""Certainly, Father," was the man's reply."Then leave this den of Satan," said the priest, as he walked up to O'Toole."Do you want to go to heaven?""No, I don't Father," O'Toole replied.The priest looked him right in the eye, and said, "You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?" O'Toole smiled, "Oh, when I die, yes, Father. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now."

Planet Earth

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

Always figure out who your characters are before you figure out your plot. You can follow a good character through a bad plot, but you can't make a good plot out of a bad character.

Somewhat Useless Information   

At the 2010 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift won 4 Grammys, that's 1 more than Elvis obtained in his entire career.

After leaving office, Ronald Reagan was offered a role in 'Back to the Future III', which he declined.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - Neighbors on a Missouri cull-de-sac said they are baffled as to why all of their garage door openers stopped working at the same time. The residents of the five homes on Westhampton View Court in St. Charles said their garage door openers stopped operating Dec. 26 and 27 and they have been unable to identify any new causes of interference in the area to explain the issue, The St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch reported Monday.
"You'd see one of the neighbors pull up to the garage and get out of the car," Gilbert Ballman said. "Pretty soon we were asking each other, 'Are you having trouble with your garage door too?'"
The neighbors said a technician from The Chamberlain Group, which makes Liftmaster openers, is scheduled to investigate the problem this week. All but one of the residents said they use Liftmaster devices. The residents said they have all filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, but it is unknown how long the agency will take to investigate.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

5-11

Boy Scout Anniversary Week

Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

Jump Your Significant Jerk Week

Freelance Writers Appreciation Week

International Coaching Week

Just Say No to PowerPoint Week

Publicity for Profit Week

World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

International Networking Week

International Friendship Week

National Green Week

National School Counseling Week

7-14

Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week

Risk Awareness Week

Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week

Getting Dizzy Week

Today Is                                                                      

Plimsoll Day:  set aside to remember Samuel Plimsoll, a member of the English Parliament back in the day who championed sailors' safety while traveling the world's waterways in crammed-full ships.

Umbrella Day: to honor the invention

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1500’s

1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets

1600’s

1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass

1700’s

1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England

1763 - "The definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between his Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain is concluded at Paris the 10th day of February, 1763." England claims sovereignty over all Indians east of the Mississippi River, as a part of the Treaty of Paris.

1800’s

1846 - Beginning of Mormon march to west US

1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship

1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia

1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)

1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement

1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam

1900’s

1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India

1933 - -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)

1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

1947 - WW II peace treaties signed

1951 - "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21

1956 - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV

1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms

1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power

1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA

1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals

1996 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov

1998 - Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery

2000’s

2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2008 - The 2008 Namdaemun fire  severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Robert Wagner, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart) is 82
Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest) is 83

In their 70’s

Roberta Flack, American singer (If Ever I Saw Your Face ) is 75
Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme) is 75

In their 60’s

Donovan [P Leech], Scottish rocker (Mellow Yellow) is 66
Mark Spitz , swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72) is 62

In their 50’s

Jim Cramer, American television personality is 57
George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser (Clinton); ABC News is 51

In their 40’s

Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder (NY Met, Philadelphia Phillies) is 49
Bobby Jones, pitcher (NY Mets) is 42

Remembered for being born on this day

Walter Brown, sports organizer (NBA) in 1905
Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols & Petticoats) in 1906
Jimmy Durante, long-nosed comedian (and Goodnight Mrs Calabash ) in 1893
Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) in 1890

Today’s Obits                                                            

Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies of heart attack at 70 in 1992
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies at 84 in 1912
Arthur Miller, American playwright dies at 90 in 2005Montesquieu, French writer dies of high fever at 66 in 1755
Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81Jim Varney, American actor (“Ernest Goes to…”) dies of lung cancer at 50 in 2000

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     One who breaks one of the "Ten Commandments"; John Hancock for one. Sinner and Signer.

2.     Agricultural worker; President after Harrison: Tiller; Tyler

3.     Not flat, as terrain; extremely: hilly and highly

4.     Half the symbol of Communism; wash or spin: sickle and cycle

5.     To argue; Hell’s Angels: bicker and biker

6.     More cool; over excited: Hipper and hyper

7.     Overly prim and precise; expensive: prissy and pricey

8.     Half of human kind, R. Reagan’s first wife: women and Wyman

9.     Resident of England, Scotland etc; become sunny: Britton and brighten

Wuzzle

• Mixed up kid
• I overate
• Surplus food

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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