“You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.” Happy Cyber Monday! My inbox was stuffed with BUY, BUY, BUY! Multiple messages coming from the same vendor every couple of hours – it’s insane. Even places I ordered from once in the last 18 months – “Did you forget about us?” holy cow. Cyber Monday is the second-biggest shopping day and the biggest day for online sales. The term Cyber Monday was coined in 2005 by Shop.org, the online arm of the National Retail Federation. For what it’s worth, though, all my holiday shopping is complete; I’m waiting for a few final things to arrive via mail from various Etsy shops, then it’s time for wrapping, boxing, and mailing. First, huge congratulations to our latest Grand Slam winner, Glenn McMahon! He came into the restaurant saying he was going to get a grand slam, and darn if he didn't! Way to go, Glenn!! (and thanks for the cookies). We had 21 other players tonight, some did well, some not so much. We paid out five places and three teams: Mr. Positive Energy Glenn McMahon took 1st with a 18 / 9 / 146 Frank Abernathy, who now only needs 25 GRPs to reach his Silver, took home 2nd place with a 15 / 7 / 106 Megan Player took 3rd with a 14 / 7 / 66 Andy Wagner took 4th with a 14 / 6 / 82 and John Morch snagged 5th with a 13 / 6 / 58 First Team: Mike Due (11) and Kristy Haught (9) Second Team: Heather Chilsen (11) and Larry Phifer (9) Third Team: Bernard Whitfield (10) and Liz Henderson (9) Jennifer and Joe remain at 65 and 84 GRPs, respectively, to reach their Bronze. Joe, I think we need better cards!!! Current standings are below: On a cold, windy day 127 years ago, America’s 1st auto race – organized by the “Chicago Times-Herald” – was held. Six cars set out on a 55 mile course, from Chicago to Evanston and back. The winner of the 1895 race was Frank Duryea, driving a car he and his brother designed and manufactured, the Saturday Evening Post wrote. He drove 52.4 miles in 10 hours and 23 minutes. To put that number into perspective, Lewis Hamilton, the winner of the Monaco Grand Prix in 2016, travelled a total of 161.9 miles in less than two hours. The Duryeas are among the founding fathers of the American auto industry, and the Chicago Times-Herald race is a big part of their history. After the race, they established the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in 1896 and mass produced their car (well, 13 copies of it)—the first company to do so. A Duryea vehicle was also in the first car crash in the United States. In 1895, the automobile market was still open. The innovations of Henry Ford—the Model T and the assembly line—were over a decade away. Cars were hand-built works of craftsmanship free for individual innovation. In the race, the Duryea Wagon was the only gas-powered American car to arrive. The three other gas-powered contenders were all built by Karl Benz. They raced for the De La Verne Refrigerator Machine Company, Macy’s Department Store and a private family. The other two cars were electric, and failed quickly in the cold. Jerry Gooden had a pair of Kings Liz Henderson had two pairs, 10s and 7s Jennifer Johnson had a tiny pair of 8s Megan Player had a spade flush Andy Wagner had an almost-Yahtzee, with quad 3s A couple of final notes:
This is the information I have on the GRRT that is being hosted by Robert Reister (thanks, Mike!) Saturday, December 17th American Legion | 111 Miller St. Winston-Salem 9am sign up 930 start And flyers for the March Spring Fling are available here. I'll have copies at club soon. This year, it's a double-header. A one-day on Friday (12-game main and 7-game consy on the same day), and our typical Friday Early Bird, Saturday Main, Saturday Night Doubles, Sunday Consy. If it goes well, I'll keep this format for the spring tournament going forward. That's it for me, hope everyone as a great week! And for those traveling this week, be safe, and hope to see many of you in Virginia!! ~ Jennifer
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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. Club 58 hosted our Grass Roots Regional Tournament this past Saturday. HUGE shout out to Berrie and the fine folks at High Park Bar and Grill for letting us in early and letting us play. We had 20 peggers come out on that blustery morning, down from past years. There is another GRRT scheduled in Winston-Salem in December for those who missed this one. We were so very pleased to have Cathy Perkins in attendance; it’s always good to see her smiling face. We had a couple of visitors from Club 221: Mike Due and Keith Widener. Neither had great cards (sorry, guys!) but we were glad to have them. There were six people who earned GRPs at the end of day: Jeff Seidenstein (32) Barbara Gooden (29) Cathy Perkins (26) Joe Greiner (26) Jeff Raynes (24) Tom Goeschel (24) Look for a check after the holidays for your Regional winnings! Joe’s 26 GRRT points put him within 84 of his Bronze now…. Go JOE! With this week's almost grand-slam, Frank improved to only needing 40 for his Silver! And Jennifer continued to have terrible cards; her goal for Bronze remains unchanged at 65. We had 16 peggers come out on this Pre-Turkey Monday. We paid out four places and two teams. The cards were either really good or really not -- we had a battle of the 18s for first, and only one of the 13 cards made it into the final four. Frank Abernathy took 1st with a superior 18 / 8 / 163 Bernard Whitfield took 2nd with a slightly less superior 18 / 8 / 145 Mike Due took 3rd with a not-too-shabby 14 / 6 / 114 Kristy Haught took 4th with the best 13 of the night, 13 / 6 / 86 First Team: Jerry Gooden (13) and Joe Greiner (10) Second Team: Larry Phifer (13) and Jennifer Johnson (7) Current standings, inclusive of our GRRT, can be found below: Pearl Alert! Tom Goeschel had the first string of pearls for the club this season (in weekly play). We saw two 9-game strings in the GRRT (coughMikecoughAndcoughBob), but this is the first blank I've had to enter into the system for scoring. Better luck next week, Tom!! Jerry Gooden had a full house, Aces full of 8s. Liz Henderson had two pairs, Js and 10s. Jennifer Johnson had trip Qs Megan had two pairs, Js, and 8s. On this day in 1789, North Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution to become the 12th state in the Union. The vote to approve the fledgling nation’s revised founding document came some 200 years after the first white settlers arrived on its fertile mid-Atlantic coastal plain. In 1663, King Charles II of England had granted a charter for a colony to be named Carolina in honor of his deposed father, Charles I. (The name “Carolina” stems from the Latin word “Carolinus,” which means “of Charles.”) Originally inhabited by several indigenous tribes — including the Cherokee, Catawba, Tuscarora Chowanoke, Roanoke, Pamlico, Machapunga, Coree, Cape Fear Indians, Waxhaw, Waccamaw, and Coratans — North Carolina was the first American territory that English settlers sought to colonize. Sir Walter Raleigh (1512-1618), for whom the state capital is named (and who was executed by the order of James I), had chartered two colonies on the North Carolina coast in the late 1580s. Both attempts ended in failure. The demise of one of them, the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke Island, remains a mystery. By the late 17th century, several permanent settlements finally had taken hold in what was then known as the Carolina territory — also encompassing present-day South Carolina and Tennessee. From 1629 until 1712, the North and South Carolina colonies were one political unit. Under the terms of the North Carolina Biennial Act (1712), North Carolina became a separate colony with its own assembly and council. In 1729, North Carolina became a Royal English colony. On April 12, 1776, the North Carolina Provincial Congress, in its Halifax Resolves, authorized its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British crown. In the aftermath of the war, the Constitution, which had been drafted in Philadelphia in 1787, proved to be a controversial document in North Carolina. Delegates, meeting at Hillsboro in July 1788. initially voted to reject it on anti-federalist grounds. In time, they were persuaded to change their minds — partly by the efforts of James Iredell and William Davies and partly by the prospect of adopting a Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, residents in the wealthier northeastern part of the state, who generally supported the proposed Constitution, threatened to secede if the rest of the state failed to fall into line. A second ratifying convention, held in Fayetteville, ended in approval of the Constitution. North Carolina adopted a new state constitution in 1835. One major change was providing for the direct election of a governor for a term of two years; prior to that, the legislature would elect a governor for a one-year term. North Carolina became a battleground during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Its citizens were divided on the issue of whether to support the North or the South. In 1861, North Carolina voted to secede from the Union. In 1868, Congress readmitted North Carolina to the Union. On November 21, 1934, the Yankees traded four players and money to be named later to the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals for a young outfielder named Joe DiMaggio. An injury led the Yankees to keeping DiMaggio with the Seals for 1935 to prove he was healthy. He did so and promptly joined the Yankees’ roster for a remarkable rookie season in 1936; the rest is history. As to the four players that were traded to the Seals: One was Doc Farrell, who was at that point an eight-year major league veteran. Farrell never reported to San Francisco and ended up back in the Yankees’ system before a late-season 1935 move to the Red Sox, where he played his final four MLB games. Another was Floyd Newkirk, who had appeared in one game for the 1934 Yankees. He has to be one of very few, if not the only, Yankees who has apparently more uniform numbers than games played, with Baseball Reference listing him as wearing both No. 20 and No. 23. Newkirk played ‘35 with the Seals and spent a couple more years in the minors, but his one game in ‘34 remained his only career MLB appearance. The other two players, Ted Norbert and Jimmy Densmore, hadn’t played in the majors at that point, but were in whatever comprised the Yankees’ minor league system in 1934. However, they found themselves traded to a strictly “minor league team” and never ended up playing in an MLB game. Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill We had our first 28-hand of the season this week -- Congratulations to Ernie Hodgson! Also, We've got a few folks who are close to their first (or next) award. For Bronze, Jennifer is 65 points away, and Joe 110 -- both of which are achievable this season. Frank is close to his Silver, needing only 58 more GRPs. Good luck to us!! We had 20 players this week, meaning we paid out four places and three teams. Tom Goeschel took 1st with a 16 / 8 / 119 Larry Phifer took 2nd with a 16 / 7 / 131 Joseph Greiner took 3rd with a 14 / 6 / 81 Jennifer Johnson took 4th with a 13 / 6 / 49 First team (21 / 10 / 82) went to Mike Due (12) and Andy Wagner (9) Second team (21 / 10 / 58) went to Jerry Gooden (12) and Bernard Whitfield (9) Third team (20 / 9 / -48) went to Roger Doenges (10) and Jeff Raynes (10) Joe has extended his lead to more than 20 points over the nearest competitor. There are clumps of close in the top 10 -- see for yourself below. For the smarties, on this date in 1908, Albert Einstein presented his quantum theory of light. Albert Einstein managed to devise all of his theories on relativity and light using the power of his mind and mental experiments. While working as a clerk at the Bern Swiss Patent Office in 1905, the slow-talking daydreamer was quietly working out unique ideas. Therefore, Einstein proved the power of imagination and downtime to increase productivity and innovation, while simultaneously disproving busywork alone gets anyone anywhere. 1905 was considered to be Einstein’s year of miracles, as he published four mind-blowing articles on theoretical physics that year. Einstein may have worked as a clerk for his day job, but his side hustle was debating wild ideas about physics and holding onto a doctoral candidacy. The modern science world agreed on what they understood about light, but certain fundamentals about mechanics needed to be worked out. In 1908, Einstein presented his Quantum Theory of Light, which divulged that light operated at a constant speed despite space and time, and that light was composed of tiny particles which gave it a wavelike function. This year in 1959 saw Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii). Though a relatively short-lived event (November 14 to December 20, 1959) it produced some of Kīlauea's most spectacular lava fountains of the 20th century. Most importantly, the eruption provided some of the first measurable data about the magma reservoir system at Kīlauea. An erupting fissure of small lava fountains broke through the south wall of Kīlauea Iki Crater at 8:08 p.m. By 9:30 p.m., the fissure system was 985 yd long, and the fountains grew from 50 to 100 ft high. Lava cascaded down the steep forested slopes about 330 ft to the bottom of the crater, where it pooled in a growing pond of lava. In the first 24 hours, activity decreased and then eventually ceased at the outermost fissure vents. By nightfall on November 15, only a single vent on the west side of the fissure remained active. As lava fountains along the fissures stopped, the volume of lava erupted by the single vent increased, and fountain heights rose to 200 ft by November 16. On this day in 1960, Ray Charles' single "Georgia On My Mind" reached #1. One of my favorites… "Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell and first recorded that same year by Hoagy Carmichael. However, the song has been most often associated with soul singer Ray Charles, who was a native of the U.S. state of Georgia and recorded it for his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road. In 1979, the State of Georgia designated Ray Charles' version the official state song. Jerry Gooden had two pairs, Js and 5s Jennifer Johnson had a diamond flush Andy Wagner had two pairs, Js and 9s. Saturday is our GRRT -- 9am registration, 9:30am start. If I don't see you then, see ya'll Monday!
~ Jennifer “New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” The only other news I have is on the tournament front; I submitted my sanctioning requests for Raleigh Spring Fling which will be March 31-April 2. There will be a one-day tournament on Friday (12 game Main, 7 game Consy), and then everything else you're used to -- a Friday night satellite, the Main on Saturday, Saturday night Canadian doubles, and the Consy on Sunday. I'm trying out the two-tournaments-in-one-weekend thing. Hope it works out! Flyers will be available once the sanctioning has been approved. We had 18 players come out on this post-Halloween week; Glenn brought a big bag of candy (thanks, Glenn) that was pretty much decimated by the end of the evening :) First place this week went to Larry Phifer with a 16 / 7 / 107 Mike Due took 2nd with a 14 / 7 / 77 Frank Abernathy took 3rd with a 13 / 6 / 111 And John Morch took 4th with a 13 / 6 / 46 First team (19 / 9 / 10): Jennifer Johnson (10) and Pete Amacher (9) Second team (19 / 9 / -12): Brian Wilson (11) and Liz Henderson (8) Third team (18 / 9 / 17): Ernie Hodgson (10) and Jerry Gooden (8) November 7, 1932, was the first broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio. Writer Phil Nowlan unveiled space swashbuckler Buck Rogers in a story called "Armageddon 2419 AD," which was published in Amazing Stories magazine in August 1928. Nowlan collaborated with John F. Dille and Dick Calkins on a newspaper comic strip that started Jan. 7, 1929. The radio show, originally named The World in 2432, featured Buck, co-pilot Wilma Deering , a woman aviator or rocketeer was an advanced concept for the 1930s, and genius scientist Dr. Huer, fighting evildoers 500 years in the future. The trio relied on futuristic weapons like death rays, incendiary missiles, gamma bombs and a mechanical mole, among others. Sound effects made these all come across with dramatic impact. Buck's psychic destruction ray was really a Schick electric razor held at just the right distance from the microphone. The sound effects crew could also simulate anything from a regiment of marching robots to a scary rocket-ship crash. The show was an instant hit, in no small measure due to the premiums listeners could get by sending in cereal box-tops or other proofs of purchase. Gifts included a map of the planets, a cardboard space helmet and Big Little Books (3-5/8 inches by 4-1/2 inches) of Buck Rogers comics. The 15-minute serial ran Monday through Thursday evenings, from Nov. 7, 1932, to May 22, 1936, on CBS. It was revived as a thrice-weekly, 15-minute series on the Mutual Broadcasting System from April 5 to July 31, 1939, and then as a half-hour Saturday show on Mutual from May 18 to July 27, 1940. The show had its final radio incarnation Sept. 30, 1946, to March 28, 1947, as 15-minute episodes weekdays on Mutual. You can listen to the entire series here. And, on this date, organized in 1786, was The Stoughton Musical Society. For over two centuries it has had many distinguished accomplishments. In 1908, when incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the name was changed to Old Stoughton Musical Society and it has retained that designation. Musical historians now generally concede that the oldest Musical Society in the country is "The Stoughton Musical Society," which has had a continuous and uninterrupted existence dating back to the year 1786. Stoughton, Massachusetts is my hometown. Jerry Gooden had a measly pair of 4s. Liz Henderson had a full house, 10s full of 7s Jennifer Johnson had a full house, Qs full of 3s Megan Player had two pairs, 6 sand 3s. Hope everyone is having a good week; see ya'll Monday!
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