“The Joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other’s burdens, easing each other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” With Frank Abernathy's 13 card this week, he has earned his SILVER AWARD! Congratulations, Frank!! We had 19 peggers in a SUPER CROWDED High Park venue on Monday night. We were able to enjoy some delicious cookies and cherry mash from Tom and Cat Goeschel, some super rich truffles from Al Robinson, and yours truly provided a candy cane reindeer army that went over SMASHINGLY with the slightly inebriated at the bar at the end of the night. Even the 20-something dudes playing pool took some. A good time was had by all. A GREAT time was had by Heather Chilsen, who had a 28-hand! Way to go, Heather!! With 19 players, we had five places and two teams. John Morch took 1st with a 19 / 8 / 152 Brian Wilson took 2nd with a 16 / 8 / 105 Glenn McMahon took 3rd with a 13 / 6 / 96 Frank Abernathy took 4th -- and earned his Silver -- with a 13 / 6 / 61 Larry Phifer took 5th with a 12 / 6 / 54 1st team: Megan Player (12) and Heather Chilsen (9) 2nd team: Jennifer Johnson (11) and Bernard Whitfield (8) Joe crept a bit further ahead last week to put some distance between him and Frank, but Frank's points this week puts him within xx of the lead in the club. Full results can be found on the website, but here are the top-10 after this week's tournament: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, to give the work its full title, was the first, and the most popular, of Dickens’s series of Christmas books. The volume, published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December 1843, was an immediate success and the initial print run of 6,000 copies sold out within a matter of days. A Christmas Carol concerns a cold-hearted miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge, who is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. During the night three further spirits - the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future - also appear to Scrooge, each holding a mirror to his behavior and highlighting the unhappiness resulting from his misanthropy. The Ghost of Christmas Future, the most sinister of the three specters, also reveals the gloomy consequences for Scrooge, and those like Bob Cratchit and his son Tiny Tim whose livelihoods depend upon him, should he fail to mend his ways. The story also addresses wider social issues, particularly in the scene where the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the two children Ignorance and Want: ‘From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment’. Both children are the direct result of the poverty afflicting much of Victorian society. Dickens was a fierce defender of children, and took every opportunity to highlight the disastrous implications of neglect, financial hardship and a lack of education on their wellbeing. Heather Chilsen had two pairs, Ks and 10s. Mike Due had two pairs, Qs and 7s. Jerry Gooden had a straight to the 9. Joe Greiner had wo pairs, Ks and Qs. Jennifer Johnson had a full house, Aces full of 9s. Glenn McMahon had two pairs, Ks and Qs. John Morch had a flush in hearts, Ace high. Megan Player had a full house, 9s full of 5s. Andy Wagner had a full house, 10s full of Aces. Whew! That's the most folks we had playing Cut Card Poker so far! And a final note, this one form Jack Howsare.
If you are planning on attending the February Virginia Beach Cribbage Tournament please make your reservations soon. The Four Points availability is filling up fast due to another group in house that weekend. The cut off is January 17th but don't wait till then. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Solstice, Happy Festivus, Happy Kwanzaa to all, and to all, a good night! ~ Jennifer
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"When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends." We have a great found-family among our Cribbage friends. So when one of them hurts, we all hurt. This was a doozy of a week for unpleasant news. Heartfelt prayers for comfort and healing to Jeff Raynes, Dot Davis, Marcia Ward, and David Lambeth. We all love you dearly. We had 17 players this week (which makes the odd-rotation easy), and we paid out five places and two teams: Ernie Hodgson took 1st with a 14 / 7 / 44 Jerry Gooden took 2nd with a 14 / 6 / 79 First-place holder Joseph Greiner took 3rd with a 14 / 6 / 70 Liz Henderson took 4th with a 12 / 6 / 85 Andy Wagner took 5th with a 12 / 6 / 18 1st Team: Larry Phifer (11) and Steve Podolsky (11) 2nd Team: Jennifer Johnson (11) and Megan Player (10) Joe built a little more cushion with his 14-point card this week, and moved to within 70 GRPs of his Bronze. Frank and Jennifer are still waiting to advance their medal runs. Here are the top 10 in standings after this week's tournament: Tide officially became available on December 12 1946, and was an overnight sensation. Coined the “washday miracle,” Tide along with the invention of washing machines, drastically changed the way households did laundry. By reducing the manual labor required to do laundry, it freed up hours from household chores. This innovation allowed women, who were primarily responsible for laundry, to be able to hold jobs outside the home. By 1949, Tide was the leading laundry detergent in the US and has continued to hold this position to this day. On December 12, 1953, on its tenth flight, U.S. Air Force test pilot Major Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1A rocket plane to Mach 2.435 (1,618 miles per hour/2,604 kilometers per hour) at 74,700 feet (22,769 meters), faster than anyone had flown before. After the rocket engine was shut down, the X-1A tumbled out of control—”divergent in three axes” in test pilot speak—and fell out of the sky. It dropped nearly 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) in 70 seconds. Yeager was exposed to accelerations of +8 to -1.5 g’s. The motion was so violent that Yeager cracked the rocket plane’s canopy with his flight helmet. Yeager was finally able to recover by 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) and landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base. Yeager later remarked that if the X-1A had an ejection seat he would have used it. You can listen to the cockpit audio of that flight here: https://soundcloud.com/sgt_carbonero/x-audio-crop-mod In his autobiography, Always Another Dawn, NACA test pilot Albert Scott Crossfield wrote: Probably no other pilot could have come through that experience alive. Much later I asked Yeager, as a matter of professional interest, exactly how he regained control of the ship. He was vague in his reply, but he said he thought that after he reached the thick atmosphere, he had deliberately put the ship into a spin. “A spin is something I know how to get out of,” he said. “That other business— the tumble—there is no way to figure that out.” Jerry Gooden had a full house, Ks full of 9s Liz Henderson had two pairs, 9s and 3s Jennifer Johnson had two pairs, 10s and 9s John Morch had a full house, 2s full of Qs Megan Player had two pairs, Ks and 10s Andy Wagner had a flush. That's the update for this week -- just in time for next week. Next week, Tom is bringing in goodies from Cat's Kitchen, and I've got my army of candy cane reindeer ready for duty! See ya'll in a couple of days!
~ Jennifer I heard a bird sing / In the dark of December Well, we made it to December, everyone. Hope whatever holiday preparations are going on are going smoothly. Me? I'm finishing up the Christmas letter (late) and just ordered our cards (late)... but all the shopping is done (early) except for stocking stuffers (late). Decorating the tree is this weekend, then we should be done. Whew! December started with a BANG in so many ways for so many folks. First, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT, HEATHER!!!! We're all so THRILLED for you!!!! Second, CONGRATULATIONS to Raleigh for doing SO WELL at Virginia Beach this past weekend. Larry Phifer beat out frequent visitor Mike Due to take the Main, and Tom Goeschel edged out Megan Player to win the Consolation. Now, on to this week's results... We only had 19 come out to play this week; as such, we paid out five places and two teams: Bob Hewitt took his first 1st place with a 15 / 7 / 86. GO BOB! Glenn McMahon took 2nd with a 15 / 7 / 79 Pete Amacher took 3rd with a 14 / 7 / 62 Tom Goeschel took 4th with a 13 / 6 / 58 Frank Abernathy took 6th with a 12 / 6 / 48 1st team: Mike Due (11) and Brian Wilson (9) 2nd team: Barbara Gooden (12) and Jerry Gooden (8) After cross-checking at home, I learned that Barbara Gooden should have taken 5th with a 13 / 5 / 36, so Jerry, I'll have a little extra cash for you to bring home on Monday. Frank's points brings him to a mere 13 points from earning his SILVER, and only 3 points from taking club lead away from Joe. Jen (65) and Joe (84) need better cards to get their Bronze awards. Maybe this week!! Full standings are below: There was a time in the early years of American football, where jersey numbers were not used, until innovation was introduced by the University of Pittsburgh. On this day, December 5th, in 1908, the University of Pittsburgh was the first to have uniform numbers in a football game. The University of Pittsburgh has one of the nation’s oldest football programs, playing its first season in 1889, but the turn of the century was when the sport really became popular among colleges. John Moorehead is credited with helping to facilitate the introduction of uniform numbers, a godsend to coaches, officials, and players themselves—and especially to fans in the cheaper seats. Today, players are recognized and, in some cases, even build an identity based on their jersey number. After World War I, all major college teams wore numbers. This spilled over to baseball. April 16, 1929, the Yankees became the first baseball team to permanently affix numbers to their uniforms. The numbers corresponded to their spots in the batting order, which is why Babe Ruth wore No. 3, Lou Gehrig No. 4. The idea was to boost scorecard sales; hence the expression: “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.” In 1960, the Chicago White Sox became the first team to put names on the backs of uniforms. In 1933 Prohibition ended in the US when the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The movement for the prohibition of alcohol began in the early 19th century, when Americans concerned about the adverse effects of drinking began forming temperance societies. By the late 19th century, these groups had become a powerful political force, campaigning on the state level and calling for national liquor abstinence. Several states outlawed the manufacture or sale of alcohol within their own borders. In December 1917, the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment was ratified by the states. Prohibition went into effect the next year, on January 17, 1920. At 5:32 p.m. Eastern on December 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st amendment, achieving the requisite three-fourths majority of states’ approval needed to repeal the 18th amendment. Newly affianced Heather Chilsen had two pairs, Ks and 3s Jerry Gooden had a full house, Aces full of 8s Jennifer had a Yahtzee, with five Queen cuts. Have a great week, everyone, and see ya'll Monday!
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