April 5, 2012

Good morning! At least it was morning when I started this post. :) Had a busy day yesterday. Went on a FD call that was 4 hours & could have easily been at LEAST double that. Easy call, just park the truck to block a lane on the highway & sit there with the truck. Made me wish I kept auxiliary speakers in my gear for my iPhone. Headphones are no good, need to hear what's going on around me. Also wish I had a Dr Pepper & maybe a cheeseburger in my gear too! I asked one of the TX State Troopers if Domino's delivered out here. He laughed & said he'd go pick it up for us if I had the money. Made me wish I kept CASH in my gear! OK ... list of items to put in my gear besides rescue equipment: Food, drink, speakers, cash ... just kidding! :) Anyway, got up relatively early & had high hopes for finishing a lot of things yesterday. I was rocking along & then we got toned out. SO ... other than the call, didn't get a whole lot done yesterday. Stuff happens. I did manage to get caught up on Google+. Got up a little earlier today, saw that the FD had 2 calls overnight. We've been busy lately. Milligan water meeting Monday.

As of 2009, which of these hockey teams are part of the Eastern Conference of the NHL?

Bruins, Capitals, Blues, Blue Jackets, Devils, Oilers, Panthers, Stars.

Bathroom:

Use a simple row of pegs to hang towels in the bathroom. Peg hooks save time when hanging up wet towels & keep the towels off the floor. Label above each peg or color code the pegs so family members know whose towel is whose.

Beatles dominated the music charts, scoring 12 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, 5 in the top 5 spots:

1. "Can't Buy Me Love"
2. "Twist & Shout"
3. "She Loves You"
4. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
5. "Please Please Me"

Books on tape:

Once used primarily by the sight-impaired, they make long car trips more enjoyable.

Business e-mails:

Porn.

In many businesses, transferring pornography via e-mail is grounds for dismissal. If a subject heading or address suggests porn spam, block future e-mails from the source & then delete it.

Charlton Heston dies (2008):

Best known in his later years as the outspoken president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the actor Charlton Heston first earned a reputation in Hollywood for playing larger-than-life figures in epic movies such as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. He died on this day in 2008, at the age of 84.

Born on October 4, 1923, and raised in the Midwest, Heston caught the acting bug in high school; he later attended Northwestern University. He landed his first major role in a 1947 production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra on Broadway, and three years later made his film debut in Dark City. Impressed with the young actor’s screen presence, the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille cast Heston as the manager of a circus in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Four years later, DeMille gave Heston the role that would make him famous--that of the biblical hero Moses in The Ten Commandments.

With his leading-man status confirmed, Heston went on to star in other notable films for Hollywood’s best directors. In 1958, he played a Mexican narcotics detective in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, appearing opposite Welles himself. Another biblical epic, Ben-Hur (1959), directed by William Wyler, won a then-record 11 Academy Awards (a mark that was later tied by Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004). Heston took home an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of a rebellious young aristocrat in ancient Judea.

In all, Heston would appear in some 100 movies on the big and small screens over the course of his lengthy career. He played the title character in the Spanish medieval epic El Cid (1961), opposite Sophia Loren, and was panned by critics for his turn as Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). He portrayed Mark Antony in both Julius Caesar (1970) and Antony and Cleopatra (1973); he also directed the latter film. Heston also made forays into the Western genre (1968’s Willy Penny), science fiction (the 1968 hit The Planet of the Apes and its 1970 sequel, 1971’s Omega Man and 1973’s Soylent Green), and highbrow literary adaptations (1972’s The Call of the Wild and 1973’s The Three Musketeers). His later work for cable television included A Man for All Seasons (1988) and The Avenging Angel (1995).

Long active in political and social causes, Heston publicly supported the civil rights movement and participated in the historic march on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. In 1966, Heston succeeded his friend and fellow actor Ronald Reagan as president of the Screen Actors Guild, a post he would hold until 1971. He also served as chairman of the American Film Institute from 1973 to 1983. After Reagan won the U.S. presidency in 1980, he appointed Heston as the co-chairman of a task force on arts and humanities. In this role, Heston defended National Endowment for the Arts and proved to be an effective speaker and public figure.

According to his obituary in The New York Times, Heston switched his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican in 1987, after the Democrats blocked the Supreme Court appointment of Robert Bork, a conservative whom Heston supported. Over the next decade, Heston began increasingly to speak out about what he saw as a decline of morality in American popular culture and entertainment. In 1996, he campaigned on behalf of various Republican candidates. He began focusing specifically on the opposition to gun control. After being elected vice president of the NRA in 1997, he became president the following year.

Heston parlayed his rugged onscreen persona into a forceful role at the head of the NRA’s campaign against what it saw as the federal government’s attempts to encroach on the constitutional right to bear arms. In 2000, he made a memorable speech at the NRA’s annual convention, bringing his audience to their feet with the rousing claim that gun-control advocates would have to pry his gun “from my cold, dead hands!” Meanwhile, Heston continued acting through the 1990s, making one of his final film appearances (uncredited) in Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes.

Humans experience 1st contact with Vulcans in Montana. (2063)

In the Valley of Elah:

When exemplary soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) disappears after returning from Iraq, his concerned father (Tommy Lee Jones, in an Oscar-nominated role) -- a retired sergeant -- works with gutsy police Det. Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) to investigate. Writer-director Paul Haggis based his script on events reported by Mark Boal in a Playboy magazine article. James Franco, Josh Brolin, Jason Patric and Susan Sarandon also star.

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There are lots of families out there where only 1 person works outside the home & generates income. Would it be fair to say that whoever brings home a paycheck is the only one who can have fun spending a little money once in a while? Of course not! When you 2 were married, the preacher pronounced you "as 1." That means you have 1 income, & that's our income; just like it's our house, our kids or our dogs. Marriage is not a "me" proposition - it's always a "we" thing.

What happened to Wild West outlaw Frank James after his brother Jesse was killed by Robert Ford in 1882?

Frank James surrendered five months after his brother’s death and was tried and freed after being found not guilty of murder and armed robbery in Missouri, and armed robbery in Alabama. He died in 1915 at age 72—of natural causes.

Which kind of penguin is the largest, 2nd largest, & 3rd largest?

A. King penguin

B. Fairy penguin

C. Emperor penguin

Which land purchase cost the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most?

A. Louisiana Territory

B. Florida

C. Alaska

ACB. The U.S. bought the Lousiana Territory from France for about $23 million, or roughly 4c/acre.

Who was the only football player on a losing college team to win the coveted Heisman Trophy?

Winnow:

1: To remove (as chaff) by a current of air. 2: To sort or separate as if by winnowing. 3: To narrow or reduce. 4: To blow on or fan.

The search committee is finding it extremely difficult to winnow the list of job candidates down to 5.

Beginning as windwian in Old English, "winnow" 1st referred to the removal of chaff from grain by a current of air. This use was soon extended to describe the removal of anything undesirable or unwanted (a current example is "winnowing out outdated information"). People then began using the word for the selection of the most desirable elements (as in "winnowing out the qualified applicants"). The association of "winnow" with the movement of air led to the meanings "to brandish" & "to beat with or as if with wings," but those uses are now rare. The last meanings ("to blow on" & "to blow in gusts") blew in at the turn of the 19th century.