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    Dee
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    Today is Monday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2011. There are 82 days left in the year. This is the Columbus Day observance in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

    Today’s Highlight in History:

    On Oct. 10, 1911, Chinese revolutionaries launched the Wuchang Uprising which led to the collapse of the Qing (or Manchu) Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.

    On this date:

    In 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.

    In 1911, California voters approved Proposition 4, giving women the right to vote, and Proposition 7, which established the initiative process for proposing and enacting new laws.

    In 1913, the Panama Canal was effectively completed as President Woodrow Wilson sent a signal from the White House by telegraph, setting off explosives that destroyed a section of the Gamboa dike.

    In 1935, the George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess,” featuring an all-black cast, opened on Broadway; it ran for 124 performances.

    In 1938, Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland (soo-DAYT’-un-land).

    In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.

    In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty, prohibiting the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force.

    In 1970, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front, a militant separatist group. (Laporte’s body was found a week later.) Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.

    In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion, and resigned his office.

    In 1985, U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.

    Ten years ago: U.S. jets pounded the Afghan capital of Kabul. President George W. Bush unveiled a list of 22 most-wanted terrorists, including Osama bin Laden. U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California won the race for the post of House Democratic leader. Americans George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in economics; Americans William S. Knowles and K. Barry Sharpless and Ryoji Noyori of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

    Five years ago: The Bush administration rejected anew direct talks with North Korea in the wake of the communist country’s nuclear test, and suggested it was possible the test was something less than it appeared.

    One year ago: President Barack Obama delivered one of his most stinging criticisms yet of the GOP record to several thousand people in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood as he urged voters not to sit out the midterm elections. Kim Jong Il’s heir apparent, Kim Jong Un, joined his father at a massive military parade in his most public appearance since being unveiled as North Korea’s next leader. Opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, died at her home near Geneva.

    Today’s Birthdays: Former Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson III is 81. Actor Peter Coyote is 70. Entertainer Ben Vereen is 65. Singer John Prine is 65. Actor Charles Dance is 65. Rock singer-musician Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) is 63. Actress Jessica Harper is 62. Author Nora Roberts (aka “J.D. Robb”) is 61. Singer-musician Midge Ure is 58. Rock singer David Lee Roth is 57. Country singer Tanya Tucker is 53. Actress Julia Sweeney is 52. Actor Bradley Whitford is 52. Musician Martin Kemp is 50. Rock musician Jim Glennie (James) is 48. Actress Rebecca Pidgeon is 46. Rock musician Mike Malinin (mah-LIN’-in) (Goo Goo Dolls) is 44. NFL quarterback Brett Favre is 42. Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey is 42. Actor Mario Lopez is 38. Actress Jodi Lyn O’Keefe is 33. Singer Mya is 32. Singer Cherie is 27. Actress Aimee Teegarden is 22.

    Thought for Today: “Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.” — Orson Welles, American actor-director (born 1915, died this date in 1985).

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    TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

    – National Angel Food Cake Day

    1796 Traditional date for the creation of the metric system, 10/10.

    1886 The Tuxedo was created. Griswold Lorillard of Tuxedo Park, N.Y. fashioned the first tuxedo for men.

    1892 Earle Dickson was born. He invented Band-Aids for his wife, who had frequent kitchen accidents, cutting or burning herself. He worked as a buyer for Johnson & Johnson, who soon began manufacturing Band-Aids.

    1913 Adolphus Busch died. Founded Anheuser Busch in 1866 with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser.

    1913 A dike was blown up by the U.S. engineers to complete the final stage of the Panama Canal, and the waters of the Pacific met the waters of the Atlantic.

    1933 Waldo L. Semon received a patent on a method for making plasticized PVC, now know as Vinyl.

    1933 Proctor & Gamble began marketing ‘Dreft,’ the first synthetic detergent for home use. Detergents perform better in hard water than soaps.

    1966 Simon and Garfunkel release their album, ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme’

    “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”

    Jane Austen

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    Music History for October 10

    1713 – Composer Johann Ludwig Krebs was born.

    1813 – Composer Giuseppee Verdi was born. He composed 26 operas.

    1906 – Composer Paul Creston was born.

    1935 – The “Porgy and Bess” opera opened on Broadway.

    1940 – “Moonlight and Roses” by Lanny Ross was recorded.

    1962 – The BBC banned the song “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett.

    1964 – Shangri-Las released “Leader Of The Pack.”

    1965 – The Supremes made their first appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show.”

    1970 – “Tears Of A Clown” was released by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.

    1978 – Steve Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith were injured when a cherry bomb was thrown on stage at a show in Philadelphia, PA.

    1979 – “The Rose,” starring Bette Midler, premiered in Los Angeles, CA.

    1979 – The city of Los Angeles declared “Fleetwood Mac Day.” The group was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

    1988 – The U2 album “Rattle and Hum” was released.

    1992 – Slash (Guns N’ Roses) and Renee Suran were married.

    1995 – Peter Frampton released “Frampton Comes Alive II.”

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    Dee
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    “A girl phoned me the other day and said…Come on over, there’s nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home.”

    -Rodney Dangerfield

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    Dee
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    On this day in 1970

    “Cracklin’ Rosie” by Neil Diamond was the #1 song.

    (Live at the 2009 Boston Pops 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of0PAS9eWH4

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    Dee
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    The song “Do You Want To Dance” was a hit for Del Shannon, the Beach Boys, and it was first a hit for Bobby Freeman (who wrote it) in the late 1950s. Who is the singer/actress who had “Do You Want To Dance” as her first hit recording?

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    Bette Midler

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    Daily Inspiration

    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”

    – Confucius

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    Dee
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    DAILY OM

    October 10, 2011

    Cloud Meditation

    Head in the Clouds

    Following a cloud with our eye and drifting through the sky with it can be an easy and relaxing meditation.

    When people use the phrase “head in the clouds,” they usually refer to a mental state that appears to be drifting rather than concentrating. For this reason, putting our heads in the clouds can be a wonderful meditation tool. Whether puffy and white or tinted with the colors of dawn and dusk or shades of gray, those vaporous sky dwellers can remind us of so many things about life and about ourselves.

    For this meditation, we can find a physical place to relax and look upward, or we can look to the skies from within our imaginations. Directing our thoughts to the endless of expanse of sky that clouds inhabit, we feel our souls expand to reach beyond any seeming limitations. Following the clouds, we are free to unleash our imaginations. We may choose to merely drift along with them for a time, enjoying their distanced perspective on the world. Or we can look for messages in their fantastical shapes, or feel the joy of bounding between their immense billowy puffiness. However we interact with them, we do so from a peaceful place. Clouds drift above the hustle of the world below, knowing they belong to another realm that cannot be affected by its frenzy, reminding us that peace is always available to us. By directing our vision beyond the ordinary, clouds also remind us of the illusion of appearances. While appearing to be solid, their vapor and mist appear like cotton balls ! from below, giving little indication of the heights they reach. Sometimes they may cast shadows, leaving us in shade, but like life’s difficulties clouds change shape and move onward, revealing the shining sun, twinkling stars, and blue sky that are behind them.

    When a ray of light breaks through the clouds, their dramatic filtering only makes the light more beautiful by contrast, just as we can shine more brightly in the midst of life’s challenges. When we allow clouds to offer us a welcome respite, they help us visit the realm of illusion to see the truth beyond.

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    Jeankit
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    The Tuxedo was invented today 125 years ago sooo it is the purrfect day for Tdk’s cafe kit as Tuxie’s bithday, thanks for the reminder Dee!

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    Dee
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    Today in Strangeness:

    On this date in 1980, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Algeria, killing over 3,000 people and leaving a staggering 300,000 Algerians homeless. Oddly, the Algerian earthquake took place exactly 200 years after the Great Hurricane of 1780 took the lives of over 20,000 people in the Caribbean. Making 10/10 even more bizarre, weather-wise, on October 10th, 1986, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake would hit El Salvador, killing 1,500 people.

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