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    Dee
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    Today is Tuesday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2011. There are 340 days left in the year.

    Today’s Highlight in History:

    On Jan. 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television.

    On this date:

    In 1787, Shays’s Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass.

    In 1890, reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.

    In 1909, the opera “Elektra” by Richard Strauss premiered in Dresden, Germany.

    In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco.

    In 1936, former Gov. Al Smith, D-N.Y., delivered a radio address in Washington, titled “Betrayal of the Democratic Party,” in which he fiercely criticized the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

    In 1947, American gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48.

    In 1959, American Airlines began Boeing 707 jet flights between New York and Los Angeles.

    In 1971, Charles Manson and three women followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Idi Amin seized power in Uganda by ousting President Milton Obote (oh-BOH’-tay) in a military coup.

    In 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States.

    In 1990, an Avianca Boeing 707 ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, Long Island, N.Y.; 73 of the 158 people aboard were killed. Actress Ava Gardner died in London at age 67.

    Ten years ago: A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a six-year-old family friend, Tiffany Eunick. (An appeals court overturned the first-degree murder conviction in 2004. Tate was freed from prison under a deal in which he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation; however, Tate is back behind bars for violating that probation.)

    Five years ago: In his first encyclical, “God Is Love,” Pope Benedict XVI said the Roman Catholic Church had a duty through its charitable work to influence political leaders to ease suffering and promote justice. Seven children were killed when the car they were in was crushed between a truck and a stopped school bus in Lake Butler, Fla. Richard Hatch of “Survivor” fame was convicted in Providence, R.I., of failing to pay taxes on his $1 million in winnings (he later served more than three years in federal prison and was then placed on supervised release, but now faces the prospect of further jail time for violating the terms of his release).

    One year ago: Iraq hanged Ali Hassan al-Majid (ah-LEE’ hah-SAHN’ ahl mah-ZHEED’), known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in gassing 5,000 people in a Kurdish village. An Ethiopian airliner crashed into the Mediterranean after taking off from Beirut in a fierce thunderstorm; all 90 people aboard were killed. Director James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacle “Avatar” overtook his shipwreck saga “Titanic” to become the world’s highest-grossing film.

    Today’s Birthdays: Actor Gregg Palmer is 84. The former president of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, is 83. Actor Dean Jones is 80. Country singer Claude Gray is 79. Blues singer Etta James is 73. Movie director Tobe Hooper is 68. Actress Leigh Taylor-Young is 66. Actress Jenifer (cq) Lewis is 54. Actress Dinah Manoff is 53. Country musician Mike Burch (River Road) is 45. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kina is 42. Actress China Kantner is 40. Actress Ana Ortiz is 40. Musician Matt Odmark (OHD’-mark) (Jars of Clay) is 37. Actress Mia Kirshner is 36. Actress Christine Lakin is 32. Rhythm-and-blues singer Alicia (ah-LEE’-sha) Keys is 30. Actor Michael Trevino (TV: “The Vampire Diaries”) is 26.

    Thought for Today: “I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” — Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, American writer (1900-1948).

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    Dee
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    TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

    – National Irish Coffee Day

    – Dinner Party Day

    1799 Eliakim Spooner of Vermont patented a gravity feed seed planting machine. It was not until 1840 that a truly practical seed planting machine was developed.

    1874 British author, W. Somerset Maugham was born. Among the titles of his novels and short stories are: ‘Cakes and Ale’, ‘The Alien Corn’ and ‘The Breadwinner.’

    1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first U.S. city to fluoridate its drinking water, to reduce tooth decay.

    “Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat.”

    Alex Levine

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    Crazycatman – CA
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    National Irish Coffee day!?!? Now where did I stash that bottle of Irish Whiskey? 😉

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    HuddysMama
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    Oooo I’ve got some Bailey’s at home. Wonder if there’s any coffee?

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    Jeankit
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    Mmmm Irish Coffee Day! Hey HM, here’s the coffee pot & pass the Bailey’s to me when you can ok! A toast to you Dee with this yummy drinkey-poo today as thanks for the reminder!

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    Dee
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    On January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII announced the convocation of the Second Vatican Council at the Papal Basilica Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls. The Council’s document on ecumenism states: There can be no ecumenism worthy of the name without a change of heart. For it is from renewal of the inner life of our minds, from self-denial and an unstinted love that desires of unity take their rise and develop in a mature way. We should therefore pray to the Holy Spirit for the grace to be genuinely self-denying, humble. gentle in the service of others, and to have an attitude of brotherly generosity towards them.

    Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns was born January 25, 1759, and the date is celebrated in many places as Burns Night, featuring Burns Suppers, poetry readings and song — “trying to do justice to the words and spirit of Robert Burns.” His work is universally recognized in the traditional song for New Year’s, “For Auld Lang Syne.” Scotland.org offers a free iPhone app for the celebration.

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    Dee
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    MIDDAY MEDITATION

    There is a scriptural idea — Koinonia. It means partnership, community, participation, love, encouragement and communion.

    As individual as our relationship to God is, unless we join in fellowship, in community, we’ll miss an essential aspect of our own humanity, and, in missing that, we miss God.

    Let’s Pray:

    Dear God of all, You are one.

    We are many.

    As we seek the strength of our own souls,

    link us to others who also seek You.

    Reveal our humanity to us

    by revealing the humanity of those around us.

    Amen.

    Excerpt, “Koinonia”

    — Rev. Peter B. Panagore

    Author, Two Minutes for God:

    Quick Fixes for the Spirit

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    Dee
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    DAILY OM

    January 25, 2011

    Full Release

    Water Meditation

    Meditating with water can be a powerful way of aligning ourselves with an element that sustains us.

    Our bodies are over fifty percent water, so it makes sense that human beings have always considered water to be a sacred source of life and healing. It is literally half of who we are, and well over half of the earth’s surface is water. Water cleanses and hydrates, contains and produces nourishment, and when we enter it, holds us in an embrace that leaves no part of us untouched. Meditating with water can be a powerful way of aligning ourselves more fully with this support system that makes life both possible and pleasurable on so many levels.

    We may wish to conduct our meditation while in physical contact with a body of water, whether in the intimacy of our bathtub or the vast container of an ocean. We might float on our backs in a swimming pool or sit with just our feet submerged in a pond or creek. On the other hand, we may simply close our eyes and choose a location based on our imagination. Whatever we choose, we can begin by closing our eyes and listening to our breathing. At the same time, we tune in to the particular music of the water we have chosen—the loud rushing of a river or waterfall, or the surreal silence of the world beneath the surface of the ocean. We might consider how the type of water we choose reflects what we seek—the peace beneath the hectic surface of life, the cleansing power of a river racing through a canyon, or the mood lifting, melodic bubbling of a lively creek.

    As we move between awareness of our breath and awareness of the water in which we find ourselves, we can begin to release the things we no longer need into the rushing river, or release ourselves completely into the water’s embrace as we float, in our minds, in the watery womb of an ocean or a lake. When you feel you are ready to return to more solid ground, ease your body back onto earth, in your mind or in reality, and lie flat on your back, allowing the water to bead and roll off your skin, soaking the earth and evaporating into the air, leaving you cleansed, healed, and renewed.

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    metsa
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    I am always amazed at the info you find Dee! thank you for sharing :).

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    Dee
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    Glad you enjoy it, Metsa!

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    Dee
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    Today in Strangeness:

    On this date in 1995, Russia was mere moments away from starting a nuclear war after it detected a missile being launched from Norway. For the first time in Russian history, the country’s leaders activated their nuclear suitcases in anticipation of what they believed would be a Soviet counter-strike. After eight tense minutes, it was determined that the missile was not an impending attack against Russia. Later, it was revealed that the missile was, in fact, a Norwegian scientific craft and that Russia had been informed of the event but that the information never made its way down to those in charge of monitoring the skies over the country.

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