What a WONDERFUL day yesterday! I got EVERYTHING done!! I did everything I needed to do, then I did everything I wanted to do ... that hasn't happened for 43 days ... FORTY-THREE DAYS! What a great feeling ... I have the "accomplished" moodlet among many others that are all very good ones! I won't bore you with everything I did yesterday, although some of it was pretty cool! I did however save a screenshot of my Sim who is a painter, in her new apartment with her cat, enjoying the new Calla Lilies she just bought to freshen the place up. Coincidentally (or not) I just bought some white & yellow silk Calla Lilies for MY living room. :) LCFD business meeting tonight.
335 Years' War ends between the Netherlands & the Isles of Scilly. Apparently a clerical error. (1986)
All set for dinner:
Glasses go directly above the knives & utensils on the right side. Arrange glasses by size, left to right, starting with the largest - the water goblet - on the far left, followed by the red-wine glass & then the white-wine glass (if wine is being served). Iced tea & other beverages are usually placed to the right of the water glass.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Cream concealer:
Bye-bye, dark circles under the eyes! (1957)
Dishwashers:
To save even more time, unload yours right before a meal so you can put dishes directly onto the table (2000)
Drinking Games Pro:
This app contains the rules and required items for all of the most
popular drinking games and some original ones that you are sure to have
fun with. More updates will follow with new games and new rules. This
version also contains a section that has recommendations for rules when
games such as Kings require that a player make a rule. Have fun and
please drink responsibly.
Evince:
1: To constitute outward evidence of. 2: To display clearly : reveal.
Melanie evinced an interest in art at an early age, so no one was surprised when she grew up to be an award-winning illustrator.
Charles Dickens advised, "Take nothing on looks; take everything on evidence" - an excellent rule, especially when considering the history of a synonym of "demonstrate" & "manifest." "Evince" derives from the Latin evincere, meaning "to vanquish" or "to win a point." That root in turn traces to vincere, Latin for "to conquer." In the early 1600s, "evince" was sometimes used in the sense of "to subdue" or "to convict of error," meanings evincing the influence of its Latin ancestors. It was also sometimes used as a synonym of its cousin "convince," but that sense is now obsolete. However, one early meaning, "to constitute evidence of," has hung on, & in the 1800s it was joined by another sense, "to reveal."
On this day in the 2002, ABC airs the 10,000th episode of the daytime drama General Hospital, the network’s longest-running soap opera and the longest-running program ever produced in Hollywood.
Created by Frank and Doris Hursley, General Hospital premiered on April 1, 1963. It was set in the fictional town of Port Charles in upstate New York,
and focused on the lives and loves of the staff working in the town’s
General Hospital. Prominent characters in the show’s early days included
Dr. Steve Hardy (John Beradino) and Nurse Audrey March (Rachel Ames).
On the same day General Hospital debuted, ABC’s rival network, NBC, launched its own medical soap opera, The Doctors. Both networks were attempting to capitalize on the success of prime time-medical dramas such as Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey.
General Hospital set a new standard for daytime soap operas
by introducing dramatic action-adventure plotlines into the complicated
mix of family and romantic issues that was the usual bread and butter of
soaps at the time. Still, by the late 1970s,
the show’s ratings had dropped to the point where it seemed on the
brink of cancellation. In general, ratings for daytime soap operas were
declining, a development some attributed to the fact that growing
numbers of women--the target audience for the genre since the first of
its kind, CBS’s Guiding Light, debuted in 1952--were entering
the work force and weren’t home during the day. In 1978, Gloria Monty
took the reins as executive producer of General Hospital; in a
few short years, the show had become the No. 1 daytime drama, largely by
captivating growing numbers of teenage audiences.
One of the big secrets to the show’s new success was viewers’
fascination with the romance of the “super couple” Luke Spencer and
Laura Webber (known to millions of fans simply as “Luke and Laura”),
played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis. After bad-boy Luke stole
Laura from her lawyer husband, Scotty Baldwin (Kin Shriner), their 1981
wedding became the most-watched event in soap-opera history. Luke and
Laura divorced on the show in 2001 after 20 years of marriage; with
great fanfare, they remarried in the fall of 2006.
In the 10,000th episode of General Hospital, Nurse Audrey
receives a medal commemorating her 10,000 days of service. Rachel Ames
departed the show in 2007, and the longest-running character on General Hospital
(as of its 46th season in 2008) is Shriner’s Scotty Baldwin, who was
introduced in 1965. Among the more famous performers to appear on General Hospital over
the years are Demi Moore, who got her start on the show, and Rick
Springfield, who became a pop star due to his soap-opera fame. Other General Hospital veterans
include John Stamos, Jack Wagner and Ricky Martin. Elizabeth Taylor, a
longtime fan of the show, made a cameo appearance in 1981.
One General Hospital spinoff, Port Charles, ran from 1997 to 2003; another, General Hospital: Night Shift, premiered in 2007. In recent years, General Hospital has been praised for its treatment of such sensitive issues as HIV/AIDS and sexual abuse of children. Chosen by TV Guide as the All-Time Best Daytime Soap, the show won a record-breaking 10th Emmy Award for Best Daytime Drama in June 2008.
Household: If you're pressed for time before guests arrive only clean the rooms that guests will use. No need to clean the entire house!
On this day in 2007, in one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history,
32 students and teachers die after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University by Seung Hui Cho, a student
at the school who later dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The violence began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a 23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech, shot a female freshman and a male resident assistant in a campus dormitory before fleeing the building. Police were soon on the scene; unaware of the gunman’s identity, they initially pursued the female victim’s boyfriend as a suspect in what they believed to be an isolated domestic-violence incident. However, at around 9:40 a.m., Cho, armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, a 22-caliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, entered a classroom building, chained and locked several main doors and went from room to room shooting people. Approximately 10 minutes after the rampage began, he committed suicide. The attack left 30 people dead and another 17 wounded. In all, 27 students and five faculty members died as a result of Cho’s actions.
Two days later, on April 18, NBC News received a package of materials from Cho with a time stamp indicating he had mailed it from a Virginia post office between the first and second shooting attacks. Contained in the package were photos of a gun-wielding Cho, along with a rambling video diatribe in which he ranted about wealthy “brats,” among other topics.
In the aftermath of the massacre, authorities found no evidence that Cho, who was born in South Korea and moved to America with his family in 1992, had specifically targeted any of his victims. The public soon learned that Cho, described by ex-classmates as a loner who rarely spoke to anyone, had a history of mental-health problems. It was also revealed that angry, violent writings Cho made for certain class assignments had raised concern among some of his former professors and fellow students well before the events of April 16.
In 2011, Virginia Tech was fined by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to issue a prompt campus-wide warning after Cho shot his first two victims. School officials sent an email notification about the dorm shooting to students and faculty at 9:26 that morning. According to the Department of Education, the message was vague and did not indicate there had been a murder or that the gunman was still at large.
The violence began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a 23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech, shot a female freshman and a male resident assistant in a campus dormitory before fleeing the building. Police were soon on the scene; unaware of the gunman’s identity, they initially pursued the female victim’s boyfriend as a suspect in what they believed to be an isolated domestic-violence incident. However, at around 9:40 a.m., Cho, armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, a 22-caliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, entered a classroom building, chained and locked several main doors and went from room to room shooting people. Approximately 10 minutes after the rampage began, he committed suicide. The attack left 30 people dead and another 17 wounded. In all, 27 students and five faculty members died as a result of Cho’s actions.
Two days later, on April 18, NBC News received a package of materials from Cho with a time stamp indicating he had mailed it from a Virginia post office between the first and second shooting attacks. Contained in the package were photos of a gun-wielding Cho, along with a rambling video diatribe in which he ranted about wealthy “brats,” among other topics.
In the aftermath of the massacre, authorities found no evidence that Cho, who was born in South Korea and moved to America with his family in 1992, had specifically targeted any of his victims. The public soon learned that Cho, described by ex-classmates as a loner who rarely spoke to anyone, had a history of mental-health problems. It was also revealed that angry, violent writings Cho made for certain class assignments had raised concern among some of his former professors and fellow students well before the events of April 16.
In 2011, Virginia Tech was fined by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to issue a prompt campus-wide warning after Cho shot his first two victims. School officials sent an email notification about the dorm shooting to students and faculty at 9:26 that morning. According to the Department of Education, the message was vague and did not indicate there had been a murder or that the gunman was still at large.
Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodia's killing fields, dies of
apparently natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against
him by his own Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge, organized by Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle in the 1960s,
advocated a radical communist revolution that would wipe out Western
influences in Cambodia and set up a solely agrarian society. In 1970,
aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, Khmer Rouge guerrillas
began a large-scale insurgency against Cambodian government forces, soon
gaining control of nearly a third of the country.
By 1973, secret
U.S. bombings of Cambodian territory controlled by the Vietnamese
communists forced the Vietnamese out of the country, creating a power
vacuum that was soon filled by Pol Pot's rapidly growing Khmer Rouge
movement. In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the
Cambodian capital, overthrew the pro-U.S. regime, and established a new
government, the Kampuchean People's Republic.
As the new ruler of
Cambodia, Pol Pot set about transforming the country into his vision of
an agrarian utopia. The cities were evacuated, factories and schools
closed, and currency and private property was abolished. Anyone believed
to be an intellectual, such as someone who spoke a foreign language,
was immediately killed. Skilled workers were also killed, in addition to
anyone caught in possession of eyeglasses, a wristwatch, or any other
modern technology. In forced marches punctuated with atrocities from the
Khmer Rouge, the millions who failed to escape Cambodia were herded
onto rural collective farms.
Between 1975 and 1978, an estimated
two million Cambodians died by execution, forced labor, and famine. In
1978, Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh in early
1979. A moderate communist government was established, and Pol Pot and
the Khmer Rouge retreated back into the jungle.
In 1985, Pol Pot
officially retired but remained the effective head of the Khmer Rouge,
which continued its guerrilla actions against the government in Phnom
Penh. In 1997, however, he was put on trial by the organization after an
internal power struggle ousted him from his leadership position.
Sentenced to life imprisonment by a "people's tribunal," which critics
derided as a show trial, Pol Pot later declared in an interview, "My
conscience is clear." Much of the international community hoped that his
captors would extradite him to stand trial for his crimes against
humanity, but he died of apparently natural causes while under house
arrest in 1998.
Rearrange the letters in the phrase to discover the related words or phrase:
I'm a dot in place
There are now women Sumo wrestlers, & you can be one if you put on a little weight.
Few actors go as far to bag a part as Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman),
who transforms himself into a woman to prove he can get hired on a soap
opera. But Michael has an enviable problem when his alter ego, Dorothy,
becomes daytime television's hottest ticket. His pretty co-star (Jessica
Lange) has no idea that her dear friend Dorothy is a man -- and neither
does the actress's father (Charles Durning), who falls for Dorothy
hook, line and sinker.
What country uses about half the world’s production of cloves—primarily in cigarettes?
Indonesia. Its kretek cigarettes are two parts tobacco to one part cloves.
What famous composer wrote the song “I Paid My Income Tax Today”?
Irving Berlin. The patriotic song, written during World War II at the
behest of Treasury Secretary Henry Morganthau, included the lines, “See
those bombers in the sky?/Rockefeller helped to build ’em, so did I.”
What is misleading about Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear?
The painting shows Van Gogh with his right ear bandaged, but it was his
left earlobe that he cut. Experts believe the self-portrait is a mirror
image.
When you start asking how much to pay down for a house, look at how quickly you can pay cash for a home given your income. If you make $10,000 a year & want to save $30,000 a year & buy a $90,000 house, it would take you 3 years. If you make $16,000 a year, this is going to take a long time. But when you make $16,000 a year, you don't need to go buy a $150,000 or $250,000 house. You can't afford the payments even though some idiot in the mortgage industry will probably loan you the money.
Which drink was available in cans 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Soda
B. Beer
C. Milk
Which historical figure lived 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Newton
B. Copernicus
C. Galileo
BCA. Newton & Galileo did their things in the 17th century; Copernicus, the 15th. He's the dude who discovered that Earth is not the center of our solar system. The sun is - along with Elvis.
Which is the only state flag with different designs on its front and back?
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