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SMELLIN' FINE

Wildlife experts in Guatemala revealed that they use the cologne Obsession for Men to lure jaguars to cameras planted in the jungle. The scent’s creator said its musky odor “sparks curiosity with humans and, apparently, animals.”

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MEETING PROGRAM OCTOBER 31, 2013

Melissa Heger, Small Business Marketing Expert for Response Target Marking (St. Louis, Missouri), provides an overview of the many reasons why email marketing works well for businesses of all sizes.If you would like additional information contact Melissa  at 800.690.0945 or Melissa@ResponseTargetMarketing.com

FOR THOSE THAT HAVE EVERYTHING

Try to look past the “terribly clichéd name”: The iKettle can be helpful, if you let it be. Because it can be operated via smartphone, you can ask it to start heating water wherever you are, and to the temperature of your choice. When the water’s ready, there’s no “ear-piercing whistle”: The iKettle texts you instead. “Last but not least,” it knows when you arrive home because it detects when your phone reconnects to your Wi-Fi network. The kettle then sends another text, asking if you want water started—“like a personal butler who really has only one skill.”
$161, firebox.com
Source: Gizmodo.com

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REMEMBERING JONAS SALK

By Kurt Sipolski, freelance writer, polio survivor, and resident of Palm Desert, California, USA 

Years ago, I founded and published a magazine for homeowners and designers, San Francisco Gentry magazine. 

It was easy to target advertisers. While homeowners don’t necessarily eat out more than renters, they sure as heck hire builders and landscapers more often.

One time, I called a fire contractor to sell him an ad. I had used him when an apartment in a building I owned caught fire. After refreshing his memory of who I was, he replied, “Oh, I  remember. You’re the cripple.”  (click below to read more)

CONGRATS TO"JOKER" DICK, HE WON IT ALL!!

VINTAGE ROTARIAN

KAYAK SUBMARINE, WHO KNEW?

TODAY IN HISTORY

October 31

1517		Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg in Germany. Luther's theories and writings inaugurate Protestantism, shattering the external structure of the medieval church and at the same time reviving the religious consciousness of Europe.
1803		Congress ratifies the purchase of the entire Louisiana area in North America, adding territory to the U.S. which will eventually become 13 more states.
1838		A mob of about 200 attacks a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children.
1864		Nevada becomes the 36th state.
1941		After 14 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed.
1952		The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1968		The bombing of North Vietnam is halted by the United States.
1971		Saigon begins the release of 1,938 Hanoi POW's.
1984		Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi by two Sikh members of her bodyguard.
1998		Iraq announces it will no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1999		EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board.
2000		Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station.
2002		Former Enron Corp. CEO Andrew Fastow convicted on 78 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and wire fraud; the Enron collapse cost investors millions and led to new oversight legislation.

AND I QUOTE

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."-Albert Einstein

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HALLOWEEN SPENDING

Americans will spend $2.6 billion on Halloween costumes this year. The most popular outfits evoke Miley Cyrus during her notorious VMA performance, the characters of reality show hit Duck Dynasty, and Breaking Bad’s Walter White.
The Wall Street Journal

REALLY?

A Long Island, N.Y., school has banned footballs, baseballs, and games of tag from school grounds to prevent students from getting hurt during recess. Weber Middle School officials say too many kids have gotten bumps, scrapes, and head injuries. Students are not happy, saying they need to have some fun at recess. “We’re in school all day sitting behind the desk learning,” said one.

40 CHANCES

“In life, you only have 40 chances—about 40 productive years—to make an impact on the world,” says Howard G. Buffett. So … if you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, in 40 years, what would you do? Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son Howard in 2006, when the older Buffett announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy. Howard Buffett set out to help nearly a billion people who lack basic food security—and gave himself 40 years to put more than $3 billion to work on this challenge. Now Buffett, co-author of 40 Chances, shares his journey through 40 stories that introduce lessons he’s learned—and a way of thinking that speaks to every person who wants to make a difference.

SHELTER BOX TESTING

SPEEDY GUITAR PLAYER

THE BOTTOM LINE

Silicon Valley programmers are raking in record-setting salaries, with entry-level graduates starting at $80,000. Programmers with three to five years’ experience can earn base salaries ranging anywhere between $110,000 and $130,000.
BusinessInsider.com

TURKEY FUND TIME

PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

A Canadian man fended off an attacking black bear by grabbing hold of the beast’s tongue. Gilles Cyr said he was walking through the woods when the bear jumped out of the trees. “When I opened up my eyes, it was on top of me—with the friggin’ noise, it’s crazy the way it growls,” said Cyr. “I thought I was dead.” But as the bear opened its mouth to bite him, he grabbed its tongue and held on to it. “I says, ‘If you’re going to hurt me, I’m going to hurt you too.’” The shocked bear backed away from Cyr, who escaped with superficial wounds.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

October 30

1270		The Seventh Crusade ends by the Treaty of Barbary.
1485		Henry VII of England crowned.
1697		The Treaty of Ryswick ends the war between France and the Grand Alliance.
1838		Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorian County, Ohio becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students.
1899		Two battalions of British troops are cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender to General Petrus Joubert's Boers at Nicholson's Nek.
1905		The czar of Russia issues the October Manisfesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeonng supprot for revolution.
1918		The Italians capture Vittorio Veneto and rout the Austro-Hungarian army.
1918		Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon, October 31.
1922		Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini is made prime minister. Mussolini centralized all power in himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler's Germany.
1925		Scotsman John L. Baird performs first TV broadcast of moving objects.
1938		H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Many panic believing it is an actual newscast about a Martian invasion.
1941		The U.S. destroyer Reuben James, on convoy duty off Iceland, is sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of 96 Americans.
1950		The First Marine Division is ordered to replace the entire South Korean I Corps at the Chosin Reservoir area.
1953		US Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves a top secret document to maintain and expand the country's nuclear arsenal.
1961		The USSR detonates "Tsar Bomba," a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb; it is still (2013) the largest explosive device of any kind over detonated.
1965		US Marines repeal multiple-wave attacks by Viet Cong within a few miles of Da Nang where the Marines were based; a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old boy who had been selling the Americans drinks the previous day.
1973		The Bosphorus Bridge is completed at Istanbul, Turkey, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait.
1974		The "Rumble in the Jungle," a boxing match in Zaire that many regard as the greatest sporting event of the 20th century, saw challenger Muhammad Ali knock out previously undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman.
1975		Prince Juan Carlos becomes acting head of state in Spain, replacing the ailing dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
1985		Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for its final successful mission.
1991		BET Holdings Inc., becomes the first African-American company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
2005		The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) that was destroyed during thefirebombing of Dresden in WWII is rededicated.

TRIVIA Q & A

Reuben awards are given for what branch of the print media?
(click below for the answer)

THE FIRST WORD

mien

PRONUNCIATION:

(meen) 

MEANING:

noun: Appearance, bearing, or demeanor.

ETYMOLOGY:

Probably a shortened form of demean (to conduct oneself in a specified manner), influenced by French mine (appearance). Earliest documented use: 1522.

USAGE:

"Everyone Nanako Coates greets walks away smiling. But beyond that exuberant, youthful mien is a seasoned veteran with years of professional experience in the restaurant business."
Eizo Kobayashi; Daughter Follows in Family's Culinary Tradition; Oakland Tribune (California); Sep 17, 2013.

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A BETTER COMUTE

Workers are enjoying their commutes to the office more. A study of 27,556 British rail passengers found that 37 percent fewer felt commuting was a waste of time in 2010 than had in 2004. Researchers attribute the change to the rise of mobile devices, which make commuters feel more productive as they check email, listen to podcasts, or catch up on news.
The Wall Street Journal

PANDANOMICS

Deutsch: Großer Panda im Ocean Park, Hongkong (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pandas are big business for China, said Sophia Yan in CNN.com. The Chinese government “currently has about 50 of the supercute black-and-white furballs loaned out to zoos across the world”—almost all in exchange for major trade and investment deals with China. In 2011, Scotland entered into a multibillion-dollar deal with China, trading oil-drilling technology and salmon for a pair of pandas. In other countries, the demand for pandas has reached critical mass. In 2006, Australia agreed to supply China with uranium in exchange for a pair of pandas, while Canada and France have “both signed multibillion-dollar uranium export deals that coincided with panda loans.” And it’s not over yet. “There seems to be a backlog of countries clamoring for pandas,” said Oxford University researcher Kathleen Buckingham.

NOW YOU KNOW

The flood of aid and aid workers that followed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 helped boost the average Afghan’s life expectancy from 42 years in 2004 to 62 in 2010.
TheAtlantic.com

MONSTER DASH FOR POLIO ERADICATION

HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas — Ghouls, goblins, super heroes and four-legged caped crusaders ran to eradicate polio at the fifth annual Monster Dash on Saturday morning.
“There are about 274 cases of polio in the world right now,” said organizer Kelly Barr. “A couple of years ago there was a lot of debate about whether or not we should maintain where we were on polio vaccinations or attempt to eradicate the virus. Now there’s no more debate, we are close to eradicating it. For every dollar we raise today, Rotary Club International will double it and the Bill Gates Foundation will double that.” (CLICK BELOW TO READ MORE)

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CLASSIC BACKDRAFT

October 29

1618		Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh's enemies spread rumors that he was opposed the accession of King James.
1787		Mozart's opera Don Giovanni opens in Prague.
1814		The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City.
1901		Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY.
1927		Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute.
1929		Black Tuesday–the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out.
1945		The first ball-point pen goes is sold by Gimbell's department store in New York for a price of $12.
1949		Alonzo G. Moron of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African-American president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.
1952		French forces launch Operation Lorraine against Viet Minh supply bases in Indochina.
1964		Thieves steal a jewel collection–including the world's largest sapphire, the 565-carat "Star of India," and the 100-carat DeLong ruby–from the Museum of Natural History in New York. The thieves were caught and most of the jewels recovered.
1969		The U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation, superseding the previous "with all deliberate speed" ruling.
1969		First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet.
1972		Palestinian guerrillas kill an airport employee and hijack a plane, carrying 27 passengers, to Cuba. They force West Germany to release 3 terrorists who were involved in the Munich Massacre.
1983		More than 500,000 people protest in The Hague, The Netherlands, against cruise missiles.
1986		The last stretch of Britain's M25 motorway opens.
1998		South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports condemns both sides on the Apartheid issue for committing atrocities.
1998		John Glenn, at age 77, becomes the oldest person to go into outer space. He is part of the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-95.
1998		The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record up to that time, Hurricane Mitch, makes landfall in Honduras (in 2005 Hurricane Wilma surpassed it); nearly 11,000 people died and approximately the same number were missing.
2004		For the first time, Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US; his comments are part of a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network.
2008		Delta and Northwest airlines merge, forming the world's largest airline.
2012		Hurricane Sandy devastates much of the East Coast of the US; nearly 300 die directly or indirectly from the storm.

AND I QUOTE

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."-John Lilly

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NOW YOU KNOW

Wealth disparity has soared in Russia, where 35 percent of the entire country’s wealth now rests in the hands of just 110 people, according to Credit Suisse.
The Wall Street Journal

VINTAGE ADVERT-1970

WINDY, VERY WINDY

THE BOTTOM LINE

Three quarters of U.S. workers say they would prefer a demanding, high-achieving boss over one who is pleasant but ineffective. But according to one leadership consultancy, 18 percent of managers worldwide are downright “bad bosses,” scoring in the 10th percentile or below on at least one desirable trait, such as “integrity and honesty.”
The Wall Street Journal

THE GRAPHIC

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!

NOT A PLAN

A 518-pound British man was forced to pay for two airplane seats to account for his extra heft, only to discover on boarding the plane that the seats were not side-by-side. “[One] was in row 17 and the other in row 19,” said Les Price, 43.

TODAY IN HISTORY

October 28

312		Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge.
969		After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch.
1216		Henry III of England is crowned.
1628		After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces.
1636		Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass.
1768		Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans.
1793		Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand.
1863		In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the "cracker line." They fail.
1886		The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe's Island, by President Grover Cleveland
1901		Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington's visit to the White House kill 34.
1904		The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints.
1914		The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug.
1914		George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process.
1919		Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment.
1927		Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight.
1940		Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania.
1944		The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk.
1960		In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc.
1962		Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending theCuban Missile Crisis.
1965		Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world's tallest arch.
1971		Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket.
1982		The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco.
2005		Libby "Scooter" Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame.
2007		Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

TRIVIA Q & A

What Southern Hemisphere landmark is now known by the native name Uluru?
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