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First off, this is not my photo.
This image was captured by Marc Sorensen in New Brunswick, Canada.
This image is an example of an rare but real atmospheric phenomenom called a circumhorizon arc. Someone pointed this out to me in a group email, the subject has been verified with www.snopes.com.
Such an arc is the result of sun shining through the prism of a specific pattern of ice crystals. A recent, long-lasting circumhorizon arc was seen and photographed in June 2006 over Washington State by several people. Perhaps some have posted their pics of this on Flickr ??
Still curious? You can read more about rainbows, sundogs, circumhorizon and other types of arcs at Atmospheric Optics. Click on Ice Halos then in the menu on the left, click Infrequent Halos. The 7th link under that subtitle will a link simply called Circumhorizon. That is the first photo of an entire gallery, so continue to click the arrows on the top right corner to see other pictures of this beautiful occurence in the clouds above us.
This site is a wonderful resource for photographers, who may not be aware of such unusual photo opportunities. Buy perusing this site, shutterbugs can be on the lookout for such rare events and, in some cases, know the signs that can happen before they occur. At the very least, the Atmospheric Optics site opens one's eyes to beautiful images which transcend the ordinary and familiar. All kinds of unusual photographs are ours for the taking if we just keep looking up, even if all the technical information on the site is a bit "over the head". ;-D
If you're in a hurry and would like to skip the scenic route and take the express lane, click here. You can follow the gallery of these "fire rainbows" from there.
"The heavens are declaring the glory of God;
And of the work of his hands the expanse is telling." — Psalm 19:1
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Behold the Mythic Amazingness that is St. Joseph!
Or, specifically, a miniature plastic statue of St. Joseph.
There is a legend, of relatively recent origin as far as legends go, suggesting that a small statue of St. Joseph can be helpful in selling a home or property.
Many sources suggest burying the statue in the yard of the property that is for sale. Others say that placing the statue in a place of prominence and offering a prayer or request is sufficient.
My experience, to keep things succinct: it works.
1. Incident One: when I decided to leave Hawaii nine years ago, three separate real estate agents looked over the house I would be selling and estimated a selling price within a particular range, a range that was far too low to make selling the house worthwhile. Although the house had some peculiarities, as well as some condition issues, my online research suggested a listing price significantly higher than what the "professional agents" were saying. Ultimately, I "self-listed" the house through a help-you-sell type agency (Congress Real Estate). I had heard the St. Joseph legend somewhere, so it occurred to me that Ol' Joe might be helpful in moving a property that had some quirks. I purchased the small statue online and buried it in the sand in front of the house shortly after the listing went public. The sale wasn't immediate -- it took about three months to get a solid offer -- but ultimately the house closed for $210,000 more than the professional agents suggested as a starting price. (I excavated St. Joseph from his cozy resting place in the warm Hawaii sand and brought him with me to the barren arid wasteland in which I dwell today.)
2. A relative has been trying to sell his vacation home for about nine months. Despite lowering the asking price several times, he had no offers and no significant interest. Last month we were talking about his house, and I said, "this might sound silly to you, and I can't guarantee results, but..." and explained about the St. Joseph statue. While we were on the phone, he said, "here it is, I see it on Amazon, eight bucks! Okay, it's on the way!" The statue arrived the next day through Amazon Prime. He set it up where he was living, intending to take it to the vacation home later, and read through the prayer included on the handy instruction sheet a couple of times. Three days later he had a cash offer and his house was under contract.
3. Three days was pretty impressive! But it gets better! A while back I received an unsolicited offer in the mail to purchase my vacation bungalow in Florida. The Florida house needs some expensive work (the air conditioning system conked out last fall - $8k to fix it), so I'd been considering selling it. The unsolicited offer was from an investment company who claimed to buy houses "as is," but after making a very generous offer, upon a final inspection "the investors" decided to back out of the deal. That was a disappointment, but it started me thinking more seriously about maybe selling the Florida house. I conducted some internet research, and made the mistake of filling out an online form which resulted in my being deluged with calls from potential listing agents. Some of the agents were extremely pushy and some were mellow. I returned one of the calls, and after some back and forth I got a market estimate from an agent willing to take on the property. The agent seemed straightforward and offered a lot of caveats: sales in that neighborhood had been brisk but had slowed; prices were softening slightly; time on market was up; and the a/c problem was a BIG issue in Florida, as was the age of the roof and an unsightly berm in the back yard related to a previous septic tank installation. We agreed on a listing price with the understanding that the house might not sell or might not sell for a long time because of the issues.
During the ten days or so of getting ready -- filling out paperwork, having a neighbor do a quick cleaning, waiting for photos, etcetera -- I started "chatting" with St. Joseph from Hawaii, who had been sitting on a bookshelf, every day; not saying a prayer, but casual-kine conversation: how ya doin' today, you think this is a good idea selling the Florida place, good job on that friend's house, thanks for helping him with that.
On Friday afternoon the real estate agent from Florida called and said the listing was live. After I got off the phone, I said to St. Joe, "Okay, Joe, if this is the right thing to do, then let's see if we can make this happen. How many showings can we have over the weekend? At that point I also turned the statue slightly to face to the southeast, toward Florida.
An hour later the agent called back. "I can't believe it, I already have a showing scheduled." By Friday night there were six or eight showings scheduled for Saturday.
By 2pm Saturday afternoon there were two cash offers with no contingencies and no inspections. The real estate agent was floored. "I cannot impress upon you enough how rare a 'no inspections' offer is," he said. Both offers were a little low, but not unduly so. And some "wiggle room" had been built in to the price. Counter-offer, counter-proposal, and by 4pm the house was under contract. I'm not making a profit, but once the dust settles I'll pocket exactly what I paid three years ago, without having to invest thirty- to forty-thousand dollars to upgrade the roof, the septic, the electrical panel, and replacing the a/c system.
So... the Legend of St. Joseph; am I a believer?
Yes.
The St. Joseph pictured here, with two sales under his belt (a +$200k over estimate sale and a less-than-24-hour cash sale), is this one:
www.amazon.com/St-Joseph-Home-Seller-Statue/dp/B000WMH1CQ/
The St. Joseph who helped the relative with his moribund listing is this one:
www.amazon.com/Religious-Gifts-Joseph-Statue-Instructions...
Further reading:
Snopes Fact Check:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/property-rites/
HomeLight Real Estate:
www.homelight.com/blog/st-joseph-statue-to-sell-house/
SimpleMost Lifestyle Blog:
www.simplemost.com/the-story-behind-using-a-st-joseph-sta...
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P.S.: yes, the rainbow in the background is real. The "barren arid wasteland" has a few redeeming charms.
Photos are not from tsunami, rather they are from an event called a "tidal bore" which took place in Hangzhou, China in 2002. Note the Chinese architecture and people. www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/tsunami1.asp
Photos are not from tsunami, rather they are from an event called a "tidal bore" which took place in Hangzhou, China in 2002. Note the Chinese architecture and people. www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/tsunami1.asp
Photos are not from tsunami, rather they are from an event called a "tidal bore" which took place in Hangzhou, China in 2002. Note the Chinese architecture and people. www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/tsunami1.asp
Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original beyond "Victory Gardens replacing original owner "Essaness" • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
Adapted from a political cartoon drawn in 1942 by Theodor Geisel —better known as Dr. Seuss, the children’s author and illustrator— for the New York newspaper, PM.
The only alteration, above, from the original, is the substitution of "Trump" for "Adolph."
Of course, Geisel drew the cartoon not as advocacy but as criticism of American indifference to the deaths of foreign children.
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This car normally ran in the BF Goodrich Radial Challenge series, but was eligible for the TU class in this race. It is running radial street tires.
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For those too young to remember or too young to have parents who share this sentiment, Jane Fonda should have stuck to acting and exercise videos. In 1972, she took a little trip to Vietnam where she was photographed sitting on a anti-aircraft gun looking quite chummy with soldiers from the North Vietnamese Army . During her visit she called US soldiers war criminals and toured POW camps housing US soldiers. Later she would denounce returning POW claims that they had been tortured, calling them liars. Her name was cursed more than once around my house growing up. She's since expressed her regret and offered apologies, but some wounds go too deep.
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Taken at the Scott Kelby Photowalk starting in Tempe Beach Park.
I walked around and took a bunch of pics of what was left of the Pike. This is another angle of the LAFF in the Dark funhouse foundation & track after the building was demolished early 1980s / Long Beach Pike / California
Exterior: longbeachheritagemuseum.org/laff3.html
www.perrymasontvseries.com/lbpike.htm
This is where the "Six Million Dollar Man" was filmed when they discovered that one of the paper mache' monster props inside was actually a mummified dead guy that had been hanging around in carnival rides, side shows & funhouses for years! www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/mccurdy.asp www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/Mystery.html
The Long Beach Pike amusement park on the Southern California coast dated from 1902 to 1979. After everything but the slabs were cleared away, I found the old "Laff in the Dark" funhouse ride and grabbed a couple photos of it (probably its last photo ever!)
"Jimmies"... an interesting ice cream topping on the menu here has actually caused some controversy with the PC crowd, believe it or not! It's candy, for crying out lout! But many stories and myths surround the origin of the name for those tiny chocolate sprinkles that are so popular.
Some claim that is was named after the inventor, but tracing the inventor is difficult, as you will read in the article I posted below. And It has even been suggested, in an extreme case, that "Jimmies" is a racial slur! Some ice cream stands have actually changed the name and now just call them "sprinkles" to avoid any controversy. I'll buy my ice cream at a stand that doesn't get involved in this ridiculous debate, thank you very much. I've been calling them "Jimmies" since I was a kid, and will continue to do so!
9/18/13 The jimmies story- The BostonGlobe
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/03/13/the_...
The "Jimmies" story
By Jan Freeman
March 13, 2011
When I mentioned jimmies, the long-established localism for chocolate sprinkles, in a recent
column, it was just as a passing example; I didn’t mean to reopen an etymological can of worms.
But a few days later, along came an e-mail from Ron Slate of Milton, repeating the rumor that has
dogged our candy terminology. “My mother told us never to use the word ‘jimmies’ because it is an epithet for African-Americans,” he wrote. “So we always said ‘sprinkles.’ ”
Even before that tale got abroad, jimmies was trailing clouds of factoid and fancy. Its origins are
murky, so — like “the whole nine yards” and “the real McCoy” — it attracts just-so stories, some
plausible and some less so. At the “Boston English” section of the website UniversalHub,
commenters will tell you that jimmies are named for the Jimmy Fund, the children’s cancer
charity; for a kid named Jimmy who got them on his ice cream as a birthday treat (“they’re
Jimmy’s”); for a mayor named Jim Conelson, or a Jimmy O’Connell who was extra generous with
sprinkles; and for a guy who (maybe) ran the chocolate-sprinkles machine at the Just Born candy
factory.
Of all these theories, only the last is even remotely plausible. Just Born, the candy company that still provides us with our marshmallow Peeps and Mike and Ikes, was founded in Brooklyn in 1923, according to its official history, though patriarch Sam Born had already come up with candy innovations like a machine to put sticks into lollipops.
The company’s website claims that “jimmies, the chocolate grains sprinkled on ice cream, were
invented at Just Born, and named after the employee who made them.” (Company spokesmen have mentioned a Jimmy Bartholomew, but his existence is unverified.) But company histories often include a fudge factor, and this claim of invention seems dubious: Chocolate sprinkles, so called, were already popular in the 1920s, the newspaper archives show. The Nashua, N.H., Telegraph is advertising a treat made with chocolate sprinkles in 1921, before Just Born was born.
Later that decade, the sprinkles show up in Ottawa and Spokane newspapers, and by 1927, Sunshine is producing a Chocolate Sprinkle cookie topped with marshmallow and sprinkles. (There’s even a laxative consisting of “tasty Swiss-like milk chocolate sprinkles”; a 1928 ad in the Pittsburgh Press says it has given “Thousands of Pennsylvanians...the Glorious Complexion of a Regulated Body.”)
Just Born may still deserve credit for coining jimmies, but that claim remains to be proven. The
company’s website has a photo of two large cans of its product, one labeled “chocolate grains” and the other “jimmies” — but the jimmies can bears a Zip code, dating it to 1963 at the earliest. That’s decades after the earliest print evidence for jimmies: a December 1930 ad the Pittsburgh Press in which a local food emporium offers sponge cake “with creamy butter frosting and chocolate jimmies,” adding helpfully: “In case you don’t know what jimmies are...tiny chocolate candies.” This suggests that the term was new (to Pittsburgh, at least), but it offers no clue to its coinage.
Whatever the source of the name, though, nothing in the record suggests that jimmies was ever racially tinged. If it had been, it’s not likely anyone would have been coy about it, as racist brand names and artwork were unremarkable in the 1930s and ’40s. Katharine Weber, whose novel“True Confections” is set in a family candy company, blogs about some of them at Staircase Writing: The Abba-Zaba wrappers with their smiling cartoon savages, Heide’s “Black Kids” candy, and Whitman’s infamous Pickaninny Peppermints, a brand that persisted until Thurgood Marshall, then a young civil rights lawyer, took on the company in the early 1940s.
So where did the “racist” rumor come from? It’s possible that people old enough to remember the
candies of the ’40s, like Ron Slate’s mother, wrongly assumed that “jimmies” was also a slur. But
there’s no evidence that this notion was ever widespread: David Wilton, who investigated jimmies in his 2004 book, “Word Myths,” found no record of it before 1997.
If the idea hasn’t died out, that’s surely because it’s so hard to prove a negative. But as Wilton notes, “when one would normally expect to find evidence, its absence can be revealing.” And the absence of evidence here is striking; nobody warning against jimmies cites examples of its use as a slur; there’s just a vague hint that it might have some connection to “Jim Crow.”
In this instance, though, the facts may finally prevail. Yes, you can find fictional etymologies of
jimmies on the Web, but the “racist” accusation doesn’t seem to be catching on. And what we do
know about jimmies is widely available: in Wilton’s book, in David Feldman’s “Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?” (2006), and on the Web at Snopes.com, StraightDope.com, Barry Popik’s The Big Apple, and Wikipedia.
So be of good cheer, jimmies fans everywhere; you may feel guilty about the calories in those chocolate tidbits, but there’s no shame in the name.
Jan Freeman’s e-mail address is mailtheword@gmail.com; she blogs about language at Throw
Grammar from the Train (throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com).
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I'm very fair-skinned and avoid tanning so it was interesting turning myself orange!
Thanks to Obsidian Dawn at deviantart.com for the flame brushes and playingwithbrushes for the texture.
Eggs balancing in a frying pan. I originally thought balancing eggs was only possible on the equinox, but found that to be false
Laff in the Dark Funhouse / Long Beach Pike / California
Exterior: longbeachheritagemuseum.org/laff3.html
www.perrymasontvseries.com/lbpike.htm
This is where the "Six Million Dollar Man" was filmed when they discovered that one of the paper mache' monster props inside was actually a mummified dead guy that had been hanging around in carnival rides, side shows & funhouses for years!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_mccurdy
www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/mccurdy.asp www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/Mystery.html
The Long Beach Pike amusement park on the Southern California coast dated from 1902 to 1979. After everything but the slabs were cleared away, I found the old "Laff in the Dark" funhouse ride and grabbed a couple photos of it (probably its last photo ever!)
This is what Democracy looks like
Scott Beveridge
Clean-cut parents in their 30s pushed baby strollers, marching beside female octogenarians wearing hot pink for solidarity last week at a massive anti-war rally in the nation’s capital.
Labor turned out in force, representing the United Steel Workers of America, teachers’ unions and Service Employees International Union. An 80-year-old gentleman took the subway from the suburbs, holding a homemade sign criticizing President Bush’s rhetoric. There also was a showing of young adults wearing dreadlocks, looking as if they were in need of a bath.
“This is what Democracy looks like,” protesters chanted in the well-orchestrated, peaceful march on the Capitol that bore little resemblance to the turbulent war demonstrations in the 1960s and 70s.
It was easy to put a face on the anti-war movement during the Vietnam era.
Many proud World War II veterans working in Pittsburgh steel mills called those activists long-haired, unpatriotic queers who were afraid to die for their country.
Actress Jane Fonda would go on to represent everything evil about the youth movement when she was photographed in Hanoi in 1973, adding her name to the enemy Communist propaganda. She was young and just as naive about foreign policy as the rest of the protesters, many believed then.
It would take nearly a decade for mainstream America to join the opposition to Vietnam. Television newsman Walter Cronkite, who brought the war into living rooms, would be given credit for turning the masses against the war.
It happened when, thinking he was off air, he questioned whether the White House had been telling the truth about who had the upper hand in Vietnam. “What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning this war,” Cronkite said, reacting to the North Vietnamese army taking over nearly every U.S. stronghold during the surprise Tet offensive in 1968.
The first massive anti-war march would not occur in Washington, D.C., until 1969, when as many as 500,000 people turned out on the Mall separating the Capitol and Washington Monument. Still, it was a movement largely associated with drugs, hippies, peaceniks and college kids. It was five years after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the nation was misled into thinking a U.S. vessel had come under attack in North Vietnam in what became the smoking gun that brought U.S. troops to war.
The biggest difference between Vietnam and opposition to the war in Iraq is that it has taken much less time for the anti-war sentiment to galvanize. Large war protest rallies have been filling the streets in cities across the United States, since President Bush launched the war in Iraq March 19, 2003.
The 69-year-old Fonda made her first appearance at a war protest rally in 34 years last week in Washington, D.C., at the invitation of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of 1,300 anti-Iraq war groups across the nation.
This time, Fonda brought along her daughter and granddaughter. They were not alone among this diverse crowd that numbered in the tens of thousands, or nearly 500,000, depending on who did the estimating. Actors Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn were there. So were a mild-mannered priest, soft-spoken rabbi and non-violent rappers from across the country who call themselves the “Raging Grannies.”
However hard the war supporters try, it will be next to impossible for them to draw stereotypes about who belongs to this modern anti-war movement.
Please view the set of photos from the protest.
This would be humorous if it weren't an actual letter that 'President' Donald tRump sent to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the leader of Turkey.
9 October 2019.
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▶ "His Excellency
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of the Republic of Turkey
Ankara
Dear Mr. President:
Let's work out a good deal! You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy — and I will. I've already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Brunson.
I have worked hard to solve some of your problems. Don't let the world down. You can make a great deal. General Mazloum is willing to negotiate with you, and he is willing to make concessions that they would never have made in the past. I am confidentially enclosing a copy of his letter to me, just received.
History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way. It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen. Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!
I will call you later.
Sincerely,
Donald tRump"
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▶ "President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it, and put it in the bin," that being polite talk for garbage can. It's difficult to stay up-to-date on the daily examples of tRump's depravity and idiocy.
— BBC Turkish.
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Captain Phasma proudly leads her platoon of First Order stormtroopers past the massed civilians in Disney's Hollywood Studios. Soon, however, she will be a victim of a stormtrooper-turned-Resistance-fighter aboard Supreme Leader Snope's command ship, the Supremacy. I guess she's the poster girl for the old saying "Pride comes before a fall."
using the *real* recipe, not that "$250 recipe" viral email thing. and chocolate chunks instead of chips.
Warning: This is only a LOL story! No yellin' - screamin' - cussin' !
Sure, I could get all worked-up over being B A N N E D ... Think I'll just continue to post to groups that still have the welcome mat out for me. I care less whether 'they' "remove the ban" or not, but I'm really curious about the rest! After I had a good chuckle, egad, I just had to reply. I kept it 'sane', even though I was tempted to send a response similar to the reaction by a Michigan property owner to government entity's letter demanding that he make repairs to the dam on his property..... A beaver dam :)
(My reply, to the group Administrator....)
.... I can only assume it is in reaction to my recent postings of the battleship Iowa while it was in the mothball fleet. Otherwise, I'm stymied. I have never been banned by any of the 400+ groups that I belong to, and there was never an indication there was any problem.
I re-read the group rules, and checked the discussions; that's where I saw this 2011 entry by you... "I've been cleaning the pool again recently and I'm no longer just removing members who post photos that are not abandoned." ... which leaves me no closer to answering why I deserve this drastic action. With thousands of contributors, I can understand if this is an honest mistake, maybe even an oversight.
If the Iowa photos caused this, and If the problem is interpretation, the simple group rule of 'for abandoned places or things' seemed to easily cover mothball fleet photos, in that, even though Iowa was being 'housed', the fact that no one, including MARAD and the US Navy, prevented peeling paint or rotting deck wood, or kept the exterior of the battleship from rusting, corroding, or suffering damaging weather effects... constituted abandonment. The group rules seem to me to support that.
USS Iowa has since become a beautiful, cared-for museum ship. But in that 10 years of her exile in Suisun Bay, there was a very real possibility that she would be scrapped or sunk at sea as a target ship. I have been involved with preventing that since 2001: The day I rode aboard the tugboat that was the last to release lines from the battleship on her first day of a 10-year exile in the "mothball fleet". And for more than nine of those years, the word often used when referring to her was "abandoned". If I had been told I was improperly posting, I simply would have stopped posting, but I still would have asked why?
Greg Bishop
Side view of the NHSP Crown Victoria. (It is said the arrow is so they know which way to go although I think if you check Snopes I think it may be just a joke)
The latest whackjob "conspiracy theory" is the "North American Union" (NAU) and it's currency that will replace the American dollar, the Mexican peso, and the Canadian dollar....called the "Amero"
Here's the new "flag" and the $100 'coin' of the 'realm'! It's a FREAKING JOKE, folks! Honest...just go check out snopes and see! PT Barnum said there's a sucker born every minute.....they may well be popping out faster than THAT these days! ;)
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Home --> Inboxer Rebellion --> Household Tips --> Cell Phone Functions
Cell Phone Functions
Claim: E-mail lists five little-known but useful functions associated with cell phones.
Status: Multiple — see below.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, February 2007]
THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO !!!
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for
survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST Subject: Emergency
The Emergency Number
worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage
area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and
the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency
number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if
the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does
your car have remote keyless entry? This may
come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock
your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at
home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone
about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press
the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your
car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you
can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can
unlock the doors (or the trunk). Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried
it out and it unlocked our car over
a cell phone!"
THIRD Subject: Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell
battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will
restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase
in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell
next time.
FOURTH Subject: How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit
code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset.
Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen,
you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will
then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM
card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your
phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell
it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people
stealing mobile phones.
And Finally.... FIFTH Subject:
Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for
411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry
a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even
more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option,
simply dial: (800) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any
charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
Origins: The message
reproduced above is (with one exception) a compendium of topics we've
already covered in separate articles, so we'll just provide a brief
summary for each entry with a pointer to a more detailed explanation:
Calling 112
on your cell phone will (in some parts of the world, primarily Europe)
connect you to local emergency services, even if you are outside your
provider's service area (i.e., even if you are not authorized to relay
signals through the cell tower that handles your call), and many cell
phones allow the user to place 112 calls even if the phone lacks a SIM
card or its keypad is locked. However, the 112 number does not have (as
is sometimes claimed) special properties that enable callers to use it
in areas where all cellular signals are blocked (or otherwise
unavailable). Cars with remote keyless entry (RKE) systems cannot be unlocked
by relaying a key fob transmitter signal via a cellular telephone. RKE
systems and cell phones utilize different types of signals and transmit
them at different frequencies. The claim that pressing the sequence *3370# will unleash "hidden battery power" in a cell phone seems to be a misunderstanding of an option
available on some brands of cell phone (such as Nokia) for Half Rate
Codec, which provides about 30% more talk time on a battery charge at
the expense of lower sound quality. However, this option is enabled by
pressing the sequence *#4720# — the sequence *3370# actually enables Enhanced Full Rate Codec, which provides better sound quality at the expense of shorter battery life. Entering the sequence *#06# into a cell phone may display a 15-digit identification string, but that function only works with some types of cell phones, and the efficacy of reporting the ID number to a cellular service provider to head off unauthorized use of a lost or stolen phone is limited. Some business outfits such as (800) FREE-411
do provide free directory assistance services to cell phone customers.
However, users should note that the service is "free" in the sense that
FREE-411 provides directory information to callers at no
charge, but cellular service providers may still assess charges related
to placing such calls.
Last updated: 15 February 2007
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Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
Meaning- An American nickname of a cup of coffee. That’s pretty much all there is to it.
Have you ever woken up, sipped some coffee, and then wonder why the coffee you just drank is sometimes referred to as "a cup of joe?" Maybe not, but this well-known drink fuels the daily lives of millions of hard working people, so it would be rather interesting to see how the nickname came to be.
Sadly, the origins of this phrase are about as clear as coffee, but even so, here are a few of the popular theories floating around: One of them belongs to Josephus Daniels. On the month of June, 1914, he banned all U.S. Navy ships from serving alcoholic beverages. The sailors weren't too thrilled with the decision, because they had to resort to the next strongest drink on the list, which was coffee!
Since Josephus Daniels was the one responsible for banning alcohol and "forced" everyone to make the switch to coffee, the sailors nicknamed the drink after him, thus it became "a cup of joe," Joe being short for Josephus.
However, a more plausible theory comes from Snopes, where it's explained how the word "joe" can simply mean the average man. For instance, have you ever heard someone say: "I'm just an average joe." That means he's just an every day, ordinary kind of guy. Therefore, a drink involving the word "joe" would show that the drink is for the common man; thus, "a cup of joe!"
Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original beyond "Victory Gardens replacing original owner "Essaness" • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
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Bush: One of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.
See also: www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/disaster.asp
Or better yet: www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1209
Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984