Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:42 AM PST

By Bay City News Service

More than 1,900 people have been arrested in the Bay Area for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs during a regional anti-DUI crackdown that started Dec. 18 and ends today (Jan. 3).

The regional Avoid campaign, which involves 125 Bay Area law enforcement agencies, had netted 1,960 arrests through 6 a.m. Saturday, according to officials.

The arrest numbers are provisional, since a number of agencies have not yet reported their statistics.

Last year, the winter holiday Avoid campaign netted 3,261 arrests in the Bay Area.

There were five DUI-involved fatal collisions in the region during the 2008 enforcement period, while there have been two so far this year.

Blue moon mistake caught on as definition - Reno Gazette

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:09 AM PST

Lloyd Shanks wondered, "In your weather forecast you referred to the full moon we have this New Years Eve as a 'blue moon' because it is the second full moon to occur this month. It has been reported that this is not the historical definition of a blue moon."

It's true. The original definition of a blue moon was the fourth full moon in any season, but a mistake in an article in Sky and Telescope Magazine back in 1946 created the modern definition.

Writer James Hugh Pruett misinterpreted a quote in the 1937 Maine Farmers' Almanac. Pruett mistakenly thought the quote meant a second full moon in any one month was called a blue moon (which wasn't the almanac's intention), and that idea caught on. It wasn't until 1999 that the mistake was discovered, and by then, it was too late.

Not willing to spoil the story for the sake of the truth, the new definition has generally been accepted by most of the public.

Ask Mike Alger a question at malger@ktvn.com or 4925 Energy Way, Reno, NV 89502.

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World Almanac database Newspaper Enterprise Association - pepei.pennnet

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:05 AM PST

World Almanac database Newspaper Enterprise Association

Herald; Rock Hill, S.C. (January 3, 2010)

- Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010

Today is the third day of 2010 and the 14th day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1899, the first-known use of the word "automobile" was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.

In 1947, a session of Congress was televised for the first time. to viewers in three East Coast cities.

In 1959, Alaska entered the union as the 49th state.

In 2004, Flight 604, an Egyptian airliner, plunged into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people onboard.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth." -- Lucretia Mott

TODAY'S FACT: C-SPAN was launched in 1979 to "provide live, gavel- to-gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives."

TODAY'S NUMBER: 686,293 -- estimated population of the state of Alaska in July 2008 -- about triple the population at the time it attained statehood.

Originally published by Newspaper Enterprise Association.

A service of YellowBrix, Inc.

Almanac / Forecast - The Keene Sentinel

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 04:12 AM PST

Sunset today: 4:27 p.m.

Sunrise Monday: 7:20 a.m.

Today: Snow. Total snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches. Cold. High around 18. Tonight: Cloudy with a chance of snow. Low of 19.

Monday: Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 30s. Monday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s. Lows 10 to 15.

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy: Highs in the upper 20s. Lows 10 to 15.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s. Thursday night: Cold. Lows around 10 above.

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Collectors are hot for clothes irons - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:15 AM PST

Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.

New York Clipper newspaper almanac, color graphics of baseball, track, crew, circus scenes, sports statistics, 64 pages, 9 by 6 inches, $255.

Jim Dandy Cleanser powder can, character wearing black top hat and bow tie, red coat, holding can, image of trademark, metal top and bottom, dated 1911, 7 by 3 inches, $385.

Schwinn Apple Krate Sting-Ray bicycle, red with white lettering, 1970, 56 by 42 inches, $450.

Cloth doll, boy, stitched fingers, sepia features with blue accents, woolen two-piece suit, one leather shoe, c. 1880, 12 inches, $695.

Stoneware churn, brushed cobalt floral swag, applied lunette handles, Beaver County, Pa., mid-1800s, 14 ½ inches, $765.

Appliqué quilt, Rose of Sharon pattern, solid and print dress fabric, Pennsylvania, 1875, 92 square inches, $880.

Queen Anne-style chairs, curly maple, yoke crest rail over vase-shape splat, trapezoid rush seat, pad feet, c. 1900, 40 inches, set of six, $1,055.

Sandwich glass pomade jar, figural bear, milk glass, c. 1860, 5 ¼ inches, $1,250.

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