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Our Daily Thread 2+13=15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

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On this day in 1542 Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII. 

In 1880 Thomas Edison observed what became known as the Edison Effect for the first time. 

In 1914 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (known as ASCAP) was formed in New York City. The society was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. 

And in 1971 South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support. 

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Quote of the Day

“My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach.”

Mike Krzyzewski

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 Today is Tennessee Ernie Ford’s birthday. The kid next to him cracks me up. 🙂

And we have some Monkees, for Peter Tork’s birthday. From TMCP Tv 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YIuqvh_WA&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

51 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2+13=15”

  4. Chas and I were first at the end of yesterday’s thread. 🙂

    AJ is doing creative math with the date again. Still has not gotten up to par with the government with creative math, however.

    It is chilly and freezy this morning in Atlanta. Global warming took a hike out of this world.

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  5. Good Morning…the sun isn’t up quite yet but I have already had my first cup of coffee! We are supposed to be in the 60’s today…global warming must have landed in CO Janice 🙂 …. well at least until Sunday…then we are to get a high of 10 with 5 inches of snow!

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  6. I should have posted on yesterday’s thread – i may have been first – I’ve been up since 4am with a severely sore throat. I’m just going to go pick up the work mail, drop it off and grab my mac so I can work from home today.

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  8. A cartoon in today’s paper says “His majesty, kIng Henry the Eighth wants to watch ‘Queen for a day’. It’s his favorite show.
    Henry killed his wives because divorce was a sin.

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  9. Global warming has camped over L.A. this week, where it’s been in the mid to high 80s. It’s supposed to start cooling down Monday, I think.

    I’m up early for an 8:30 interview I need to get to — meeting with someone who’s got some potentially very interesting documents that could be a good story for us. I’ll be doing that and finishing off the rat terrier today.

    But for now I’m savoring the aftermath of a hot shower, time to put some coffee on …

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  11. I was born on Friday the thirteenth. I consider it a wonderful day. I may be the only one.

    A beautiful day this morning. Frost on some steps but no ice on the water. Beautiful skies with lots of color and wispy clouds. Just right.

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  12. Ha, I just saw a *very* California Valentine’s Day card online:

    “I would get onto the 405 at 5 p.m. for you”

    (The 405 being one of our most congested local freeways)

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  13. We know about congested freeways around here. Just the other day, going to Kamiah, we passed a car on the grade. Or maybe it was the way home. I don’t remember. It was all too traumatic.

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  16. Interesting, though, I was in the Barnes & Noble in our area last Saturday and it was absolutely packed, with a line to buy stretching all the way back into one of the aisles. I asked the clerk what the big draw was and she told me it’s pretty much always like that on weekends. Who knew? Good for them, though, looks like they’re pulling in a decent amount of business

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  18. Mumsee 😆 That sounds like some of our roads around here.

    And it is indeed Friday the 13th. And when I see some of the news, I think Freddie Kruger is running the country. (Isn’t he the main character in the movies?)

    Mumsee- My son was born on Friday the 13th, and it’s his favorite day! He loves it when both February and March have it, then he gets two months in a row.

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  23. Chas,

    Apparently the owner is making ad revenue, so you need to go to their page to watch it. I don’t begrudge them the money, but putting a note up telling people ahead of time would be nice. Grrr… 😦

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  25. HA! Fixed it! 🙂

    Found another version of the same Chas. It plays now.

    And yes, I know it’s a Christmasy kind of song, but it’s my favorite from TEF.

    And the little kid on the left cracks me up. He looks like one of those organ grinder monkeys everytime he gets into the chorus. 🙂

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  27. Rat terrier is now in NYC for Westminster. His story will run tomorrow — provided I finish it today. 🙂

    “16 Tons” is the best song.

    I remember my parents watching his TV show when I was a kid — and my Uncle Bill kinda looked like Tennessee Ernie Ford, or at least I thought he did back then.

    Early morning interview is done (during which I spilled tea all over myself). Luckily it was close to home so I could change t-shirts 🙂 before heading into work, which is where I’m going shortly …

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  33. On Catherine Howard’s execution: It’s a bit more complicated than divorce being considered a sin. Henry VIII was a womanizer, a weakness which several English noble houses tried to exploit to their benefit by marrying or prostituting their women to him. The most “successful” were the Boleyns and the Seymours.

    Henry divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, on the dubious grounds that she was previously married to his elder brother, Prince Arthur (his brother had died before the marriage could be finalized); though the real reason was that he didn’t have a male heir and he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn (whose married sister Mary, had been the king’s mistress). Catherine had one surviving child by Henry, the future Mary I, often called “Bloody Mary”. The Pope wouldn’t annul the marriage because Catherine was a member of the powerful royal house of Spain – her parents were the Ferdinand and Isabella of Columbus fame. So, Henry brilliantly used the reforming zeal of English Protestants to his advantage, and separated from the Roman Church, creating the Church of England with himself as head.

    This Church granted his divorce and he immediately married Anne Boleyn, who soon (less than four months) after bore him the future Elizabeth I. However, Henry VIII was fickle and he soon met and fell in love with Jane Seymour. He charged Anne with the crime of adultery, incest, and witchcraft against the king, though the evidence seems to have been fabricated. She was executed, and Henry married Jane. Jane bore Henry the legitimate male heir he had wanted (he also had an illegitimate son by another mistress, Elizabeth Blount), the future Edward VI and promptly died. Henry contracted a marriage with Anne of Cleves, but found her unattractive and divorced her on grounds that the marriage was never consummated.

    That is where poor Catharine Howard comes into the story. She was Anne Boleyn’s first cousin and a lady in waiting to Anne of Cleves. However, she already had someone that she cared for (perhaps more than one), though she dutifully married the king. Of course, her other relationship was found out, thanks in part to the machinations of political enemies, and that is why she was tried and executed for adultery. In a somewhat ironic twist, the final wife of Henry VIII, Catharine Parr, was a widow, who was marrying her third husband and after Henry’s death she married a fourth husband, who was a Seymour.

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  36. Congratulations Phos.
    I got it! The kid was funny. But he has good rhythm. He had the right beat. Not everyone has that.
    Program at Lions was identity theft.. We went over ten minutes, but no one cared.
    This guy, former sheriff deputy, doesn’t like debit cards for transactions. Too dangerous.

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  38. Interesting story Phos. We passed through that briefly at Southwestern in a class on church history. During your education, you remember some exam questions you had back. A question on the exam for that course was:
    “Was Queen Elizabeth a Protestant or Catholic?”
    I forgot what I said. But now it would be different. I would say, “Neither. She was a politician.”
    And give my assessment on that.
    Another question, in another course I was taking in Arabia, was:
    Compare the legacies of Greece and Rome. I had a difficult time with that It would be easy now.
    Another, in a course I took at the Naval War College. Concerning a lecture on the book of Job.
    “Describe Job’s God”
    It would be difficult to this day. I hate that question.

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  40. Interesting about the debit cards, Chas. What did he recommend? I know someone who had money stolen from a debit card. The credit union had to replace it. They tried not to at first. I know someone who does not like paper checks and works at a bank. She says they are much more dangerous. The company of debit cards does say you are only as responsible as charge cards.

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  41. Chas, I had two of those kinds of questions, one a 1-2 page short answer question, from either one topic or another (I wrote on the Reformation); and the other an essay question, choosing from one of three titles (I ended up writing about the social movements during the Industrial Revolution). In the comments by the teacher who marked my work, he complimented me on my ability to recall historical details. On reflection, I think the reason I could use so much detail was because this course wasn’t the beginning of my study of world history. I have read historical works, watched historical documentaries, and even written about historical events so much that the narrative was already well established in my memory. I’m glad I took the course, because it helped fill in some details that I lacked, but I wouldn’t have done so well if I hadn’t been constantly studying history. Learning is a lifelong pursuit.

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  42. On using debit cards: I try not to use a debit card outside of the bank. If I don’t have the cash on hand, I don’t get it. There are exceptions to the rule of course, but I try to make sure those exceptions are trustworthy organizations with a high level of motivation for protecting your information. I don’t have a credit card, which makes online shopping difficult – then again, I don’t have a lot of money to spend – so I love those prepaid cards for different online companies that you can get in the grocery store. For mail-in forms – like the ones for getting those pesky transcripts – they still have the money order/cheque (Canadian spelling) option, so I use money orders. I get strange looks sometimes when I pay cash for a large purchase, but I like not having to remember how many places have access to my banking information.

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  43. Bought 4 crepe myrtles, Tuscarosa–sort of a deep magenta–for the median. We currently have a great guy with a degree in tuba from USC doing odd jobs for us. He’s been pulling all the grave out of the median and on Monday will dig us holes 20 inches deep and two feet around for the trees.

    We’ve been wanting to do something with this area between the sidewalk and the street since we moved in–if only to give us a little more privacy and something else to look at other than the neighbor’s house. Had to wait, though, until we could guarantee our ability to water them for a year.

    Thanks God for rain!

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  44. I’m smiling at Roscoro’s lifelong learning helping her on a test–and she’s smiling back. I’ve got that photo of her holding the baby stuck to the filing cabinet next to me!

    Good job, Phos!

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  46. Michelle. Please please please I beg of you do not commit crepe murder. Do not cut the back to create “joints” event it weakens the tree. Trim them up as needed but don’t cut them back.

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  47. There were several issues with debit cards. I use them only at the ATM because random and frequent use of the debit would mess up my bank tally. i.e. I like to balance it often. So, I have no experience. I’m repeating what he told us as I remember it.
    His issue was that debit comes from your bank account and it is money available. If someone gets your card and the four numbers, he has all of your money. Credit cards have limits. And if you pay them every month, they don’t cost you anything. It does cost the merchant and more work for the bank. But it’s much safer for you.
    The debit/credit card number and code can be obtained at any ATM, gas station, etc. by current technology. Little sensors attached to the machine, pump, etc. Also, the credit card company limits the damage that you can suffer.
    The bank will also refund a misused debit card. But they have ten days in which to do it and you have to prove that you didn’t lend your card to the culprit.
    Other comments. Don’t answer any questions from supposed credit companies, IRS, or anyone else over the phone. Except when you made the call.
    IRS does not work by phone nor e-mail.
    Don’t open questionable e-mail, even just to look at it. You didn’t win the S. African lottery and exotic women don’t want to meet you. (I just put that in.)
    A lawyer once told me: “Do not, under any circumstances, wire money to an off shore bank.”

    He talked for about 30 minutes. We are inviting him back.

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  49. Strange conversation here.

    Nice sheep dog video, though 🙂 Love the way he hops around

    One of the reasons I love online banking is it balances your account immediately, as soon as you swipe your debit card it shows up as coming out so your balance is always really right up to date electronically. Frankly it’s more accurate than I am with math.

    That and I love automatic bill pay, what a convenience every month.

    Don’t credit cards also just offer more consumer fraud protection than debit cards? I thought I’d heard that somewhere — so even when you use your debit card, use it *as* a credit card (you usually have the choice at the checkout).

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  51. Very impressed with my son in law. My liberal sister and step mom were there and he drew them out with great questions. He said that he knows they are liberal and wondered what grade they would give Obama. No arguing or complaining, just a genuine question to learn their opinion.

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