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Our Daily Thread 9-28-13

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday! 🙂

On this day in 1542 San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.

In 1781, during the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.

In 1787 the U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.

In 1850 the U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. 😯

In 1892 the first nighttime football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.

In 1924 the first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.

In 1955 the World Series was televised in color for the first time. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

And in 1984 Bob Hope showed outtakes of his 34 years in television on NBC.

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Quote of the Day

“There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.”

Scott Adams 

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And on a personal note, tomorrow the 29th is our 14th wedding anniversary. 🙂

So this one is for my wife Cheryl. I love you Honey. 🙂

Today is Ben E. King’s birthday. He co-wrote and sang this song.

And on this day in 1963 this band and song debuted on American radio.

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Does anyone have a QoD for us?

61 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-28-13”

  1. AT 7:15, I get the opportunity to be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS! to AJ & Cheryl.!

    One of the first books I read as a kid was about a guy in a cross country airplane race. He had to land several times, and there was always trouble with his plane. Cross country flying was a challenge in those days.
    None of you remember this, but they used to have red and green (probably other colors too) to mark airways for pilots. Every so often, along the route, they placed rotating colored lights so the pilots could see them from the air. They for instance, might follow the green airways from New York, to Philadelphia, to Baltimare, to Washington.
    Later, they had an electrical system where A & N were used to indicate which side of the beam you were on. If you were “on the beam”, A & N merged into a solid tome.

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  2. Thank you Chas.

    I just went outside and on my neighbor’s roof I saw 4 little baby squirrels. It seems one of the slates is missing and the squirrel family moved in. 🙂

    Cute to me, but the home owner isn’t gonna think so. 😯

    They look like it was their first time out of the nest. Every time there was a noise they all ran back in. Then they stick their heads out and pop out one by one again. Too cute. 🙂

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  3. Morning all. I am about to head out. We are doing team photos together today and after that we are having an open house at San Carlos condos.
    I am showing property again tomorrow but this time I was able to set the times. We are not going out looking until 2 pm

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  6. Good Morning all…the sun isn’t quite up yet, but, I have been since 4…..it’s gonna be a long day…..
    Oh I would not like to have squirrels in my attic…nor mice…nor any other critter! We have lots of squirrels out here…the most comical are the black Abert Squirrels…they like to look in the door off of our deck and tease the dogs….they don’t like it so much when I let the dogs out to “greet” them!

    Happy Anniversary AJ and Cheryl…. 🙂

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  13. Elvera and I had our 14th anniversary in 1972.
    Seems like such a long tome ago.
    We’re beginning to get used to each other.
    😆

    But she still doesn’t understand me. 😉

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  14. Happy Anniversary AJ & Cheryl! 🙂

    The baby squirrels sound very cute … I had a raccoon get into my overhead crawl space one year (my house has a flat roof and no ‘attic’ per se, but there is room up there). He clomped around right over my bedroom ceiling at night, drove me crazy. He left and I got the openings better sealed, but raccoons have little hands and they can get into so many places they’re not supposed to be.

    I suspect something is staying under my house these days, too — every year at this time I find the grate to that space, which is pretty generous, knocked sideways apparently for coming and going. I’ll put it back in place but the next time I go out there it’s knocked askew again.

    We’re getting a lot of coyote reports in the cities near the beaches this year, seems our coyote population is really ramping up. 😦 It’s a bit jarring when people see the critters just galloping down city streets and sidewalks. No sightings in my neighborhood (though there have been in the past). I’m still making sure the cat gets in at night.

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  15. Chas, interesting about the lights for the planes. Now everything’s so computerized, I imagine.

    And let’s see, in 1972 I was a young college student walking precincts for the George McGovern campaign. 🙂 I was heartbroken when he lost. It does seem like a long time ago in so many ways. 😉

    Actually, though, I’ve since retained an admiration for him, he was a pretty straight-arrow guy. But, boy, did he lose big. No recount needed there.

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  16. It’s a good thing McGovern lost. He might have been a straight arrow, and a great guy. His governing philosophy was terrible.
    If the Gamecocks don’t make some tackels, all of us are going to miss our guess on the picks.

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  18. Chas- I don’t mean to be picky, but if you indeed got married around the time I was born, you would have celebrated you 14th anniversary in 1971. I graduated from 8th grade on my 14th birthday that year.

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  21. Go Gamecocks! 28-25
    One of the strangest games I’ve ever seen.
    Almost evey score the Gamecocks made were made in the third quarter.
    In the third quatere, they played like champions.
    Otherwise, CFU outplayed them.

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  25. Halo, everyone!
    HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, AJ&CHERYL

    The weather is great here in the Atlanta area. It is too good to mess up the nice feeling by mowing the grass.

    With the deadline for personal tax extensions fast approaching, my husband’s
    doing the thing he always does, working. He does not get to enjoy the weather or the football.

    I went to my first writer’s critique group this morning. It was pleasant and productive. There were only four of us—all ladies. They gave positive feedback on what I have written for the children’s market. Now I have ideas for making it better. 🙂 And I have some new friends. 🙂

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  37. Hub’s watching football highlights at this late hour. Just trying to generate some sympathy for the tax men and women who sacrifice football to keep folks right with Uncle Sam.

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  38. Good Sunday morning! I hope many WV folks will be with their church families today. I keep inviting people I meet during the week to visit my church. Has anyone here had success in having a person visit based on your invitation?

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  39. Anonymous, I have had some minor success getting someone to visit, but no lasting results that I remember. When we lived in a Fairfax, Elvera invited the lady nesxt door, and she became involved in the women’t programs, then she and her husband attended, and both she and her husband trusted the Lord and joined our church. It was the involvement that made the difference.
    (In addition the the Spirit.)

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  40. Well, I tried looking at the news at world again. It used to be I could not comment on their articles, now I cannot read them until I become a member. Stranger and stranger.

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  41. It’s called a “pay wall.” Our papers (we’re part of a large national chain of papers) have been adamantly against putting one up for our content. But now the top people who argued so strongly against them just a couple years ago now are hinting that we’ll be getting them too.

    I hate pay walls and hardly ever use them. The problem as I see it is that content on the web has been free for well over a decade. They really thing readers will suddenly now start paying to read an article? Some will, but many won’t, even if it’s just a token amount. The time to charge for content has come and gone. If we’d all been smart, we would have started doing in way back when then people would just accept that they needed to subscribe to a site to read it.

    Some sites let you ‘register’ for free but if you use it a lot they typically will say pay up to keep coming here. Sort of like a subscription, I guess.

    I think in our case it’s being seen as some revenue (not a lot) and these days every little bit helps if you’re in the newspaper business.

    How do you all feel about pay walls? I know WSJ has one — do you (or would you) pay to read the articles you are used to seeing for free? I always figure I’ll find a way to read it for free on another site that picks it up — or I’ll simply live without reading it.

    If AJ decides to put up a pay wall we’re in trouble. Although this is probably a site I’d chip in for — a little bit, anyway. 😉

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  42. I just figured, since we have the paper subscription, that covers it. Apparently not. But I can wait for the paper. And wrest if from the fingers of my children. Just seems odd to me. And yes, I do understand the need to be paid for the product. Just kind of figured that was the point of the advertisers and the paid for paper subscription.

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  43. When people stop paying for content, content will disappear.
    They have to make money somehow. Ain’t nothing free.
    As the guy said, “If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” They give you facebook, but they harvest the information you post and sell it to interested customers.
    I’ve always been skeptical of free downloads on the internet.
    I’ve always been skeptical of free luncheons where a guy tells about some a retirement plan.
    Don’t ever accept a free weekend at a timeshare.

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  44. I am reading an interesting book called On Saudi Arabia, by Karen Elliott House, which is, of course about life in Saudi Arabia. Several interesting things, but I thought this was worth conveying:

    Something as simple as a wife accompanying her husband on a brief trip abroad is laden with rules and norms that trap her into largely self-induced inaction. A young Saudi mother, the very picture of Western fashion…describes with dismay how tradition prevented her mother from accompanying her father on a short trip to neighboring Dubai. If a Saudi woman is traveling, Rana explains, she is expected to visit senior relatives and even close neighbors to bid them good–bye. Upon her return, she is obliged to make another round of visits to the same individuals to pay her respects and dispense small gifts. To simply pack her bags and fly off for a few days with her husband would break society’s conventions and thus disrupt social harmony, exposing her to negative gossip and bring shame upon her family. So, confronted with the heavy load of tradition, the wife simply stayed home. …………
    Rana, the mother of two young boys, insists she is not bound by such cultural conventions. “I advised my mother to just go. But she worries that other people will judge her. I don’t care what people think.” As evidence of her independence , she recounts flying off to Dubai with her two children for a four day holiday with ”only” two weeks of planning with her extended family.

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  45. Donna,

    I don’t think I’ve ever paid for online content. Some of it is my reluctance to give my credit card on the net–I’ll deal with sites like amazon, if I’m going to be ordering from them more than once, but I just don’t want to pay a dollar here and five dollars there. Now that paypal finally let me in, if the site accepted paypal and I wanted the article badly enough and it was inexpensive, I suppose I would. But generally the “wall” does keep me out. I’d rather get the print edition anyway, and will pay more for it. (I’d rather pay $50 for a print subscription than $30 for online.)

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  46. A Saudi groom’s prayer at his wedding: “Oh Allah, I ask you for the goodness that you have made her inclined toward and I take refuge with You from the evil within her and the evil that you have made her inclined toward”.
    The perfect way to start a wedding. But it works, In the Muslim world, a man’s duty is to obey Allah and a woman’s duty is to obey her husband.

    It works for them, but not well lately. There’s lots of turmoil in Arabia.

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  47. mumsee, if you are a world subscriber I’m guessing all you’d need to do in the registration process is give your subscription account number or something — having a print subscription should give you free access to the online content as well.

    Newspapers were hoping to get the same kind of revenue from online ads as they did for print ads, but that never has happened. And a lot of our main advertising revenue sources — from classifieds specifically — have simply vanished, migrating to free sites like Craigslist.

    So pay walls, while they won’t bring in a lot of money, do offer some sort of small revenue source. I just think content on the internet has been free for so long it’s too late to try to get people to pay now. I think we’d only lose a lot of readers.

    It’s also shooting ourselves in the foot in terms of sharing copy on social media sites. I’ve occasionally tried to tweet a link to an article only to find that when you go to the link it won’t let you read it without registering/paying for it. Forget it, I’m not going to send readers somewhere unless they can actually read the piece I’m linking to (for free).

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  48. It’s been a full church day. First, went to buy apples at the grocery around 7 a.m. for our Sunday School luncheon. Then get the classroom ready at 9 a.m. co-teach from 9:30 to around 10:45. Service at10:55 until a little after 12:00,noon. Then set up for luncheon. The children brought pot luck style foods they themselves prepared. Luncheon, cleanup and time on the playground was scheduled until 2:00. I went home for a few minutes before then but had to be back at the church at 2:00 to get on the church bus to go to the funeral of a dear church saint. Now I am home a few minutes before going back for the evening service. Most Sundays are not nearly so full. It has been good. Only difficulty is transitioning between being with the children who were wired from having desserts and running all over the place, to being with the senior adults group. I love them all.So sweet to attend the funeral of a lady retired missionary whose life was fully devoted to Christ. She always reminded me of my mother. At the funeral I found out her middle name was the same as my mom’s middle name that my mom went by. Also, this lady died the day after my mom’s birthday. I was quite touched by it all.

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  49. I have never paid for any content on the ‘net. I refuse. I just assume I’ll be able to read the story elsewhere for free and I usually do. I agree, Donna, it’s too late now to start charging.

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  51. Hey, I subscribed to World for years and years, more than a decade and then a few months off and a couple more years. I ended up not renewing when I was getting ready to get married, and was letting most of my subscriptions expire, but I paid a lot to them through the years. And I had letters published in the magazine about four times, so I even was a contributor. 🙂

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  52. I also saw the pay wall on World. However if you scroll down the rest of the article is still there. It is easy to log on, which is what I have to do in order to download my online subscription.

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  53. I tried, I did not see it. I tried logging on but I am apparently not me. I gave up a long time ago. Not really complaining, as I do get the magazine, it is just mildly disturbing. I could spend my time trying to figure it out but I am afraid most of my brain cells have been used up and there is little left for such excursions.

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  55. Mumsee, on the article I read, I had to go right to the bottom of the page and under the “Keep Reading” click on the article I wanted to finish.

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