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- Weather / almanac - The Keene Sentinel
- Can we stay ahead? - Raleigh News & Observer
- Daily almanac - Columbus Dispatch
- The Almanac - OfficialWire
| Posted: 10 Jan 2010 03:49 AM PST With one eye on the weather forecast and another on fund-raising, Sam Walton is putting the finishing touches on this year's Plymouth Ice Festival. The festival begins Friday, Jan. 22, in downtown Plymouth. The hours are 3-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23; and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24. Walton, whose event-planning company, Signature Professional Group, in September took over the ice festival production from longtime organizer Watts Up. Inc., said the fund-raising goal for the nonprofit event is $75,000. "It's a little more aggressive than a couple of years ago, but that's the only way we're going to grow this festival, is to get some more dollars involved," Walton said. Fund-raising is ongoing, Walton said, but even in a tough economy, he's confident the goal will be reached. The show will feature some 30 college and high school ice carvers and 10 professionals turning 200 blocks of ice into a variety of sculptures. There will be a number of carving competitions, including a "Dueling Chainsaws" speed-carving event that will give carvers 15 minutes to complete a sculpture. Walton and the Downtown Development Authority are also lining up bands to play at different spots around the downtown both Saturday and Sunday as a way of drawing people out of Kellogg Park. The DDA is sponsoring the concerts; Steve King and the Dittlies have already signed on. The Gathering, next to the Penn Theatre on Penniman, will be the festival's "Hot Spot" for visitors to warm up and enjoy refreshments, while food vendors will be nearby, at Penniman and Union Street. Walton had wanted to spread this year's festival beyond the immediate downtown in order to involve the larger community, but he said Friday he had been hampered by budget constraints. "In future years, we're hoping to expand beyond that and really cover more geography," he said. Walton said the Farmers Almanac calls for temperatures in the mid-20s and partly cloudy skies. He's hoping a severe-weather front doesn't come through during festival weekend, but said organizers are prepared for colder weather. "As long as it's below freezing, I'm a happy guy," Walton said. For more information on the ice festival, including information on volunteering, donating and becoming a festival sponsor, visit its Web site, www.plymouthicefestival.org. mjachman@hometownlife.com (313) 222-2405 Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
| Weather / almanac - The Keene Sentinel Posted: 10 Jan 2010 04:18 AM PST Sunset today: 4:34 p.m. Sunrise Monday: 7:19 a.m. Today: Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 20s. Tonight: Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 6 above. Monday: Partly sunny, then becoming mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s. Monday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 above. Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the mid 20s. Tuesday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 above. Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs around 30. Wednesday night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 10 above. Thursday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 30s. Thursday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
| Can we stay ahead? - Raleigh News & Observer Posted: 10 Jan 2010 02:59 AM PST Forbes Magazine says North Carolina has the nation's fourth-best business climate, and the second-best in the South after Virginia. State government is fiscally sound. Standard and Poor's gives North Carolina an AAA bond rating, its highest. Among Southern states, Florida, Georgia and Virginia also have AAA bond ratings. North Carolina did this by making tough calls, whether cutting spending or raising taxes. North Carolinians earned more than most Southerners. Only residents of Virginia, Georgia and Florida were more affluent. But the state is also struggling in many ways, according to a recent statistical snapshot of how Southeastern states are faring. The statistics were collected by The Center for a Better South, a nonpartisan think tank created in 1969 by former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, former Mississippi Gov. William Winters and others. Consider: North Carolina has the country's eighth-highest unemployment rate and the third-worst in the South, with only South Carolina and Kentucky experiencing a higher percentage of joblessness. The Carolinas were particularly hard hit because of their reliance on textiles. The Tar Heel state has the 17th-highest state and local tax burden in the country, but the second-highest in the Southeast, after Arkansas. North Carolina has some of the most congested highways in the South. The center reports that 54 percent of the state's highways are congested. Only Kentucky reported a higher percentage in the South. North Carolina's high school graduation rate is slightly below the national average, but only three Southern states have a higher rate - Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginia. North Carolina has a lot of poor people compared to the rest of the country. The state had the 16th-highest rate of poverty, but among Southern states only Virginia and Florida had less poverty. The state has the seventh-highest level of infant mortality in the country. In the South, only Alabama, Louisiana Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee had higher levels. North Carolina has a higher percentage of people without health insurance than the national average, with more uninsured than those who live in Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia. Let the political debates begin. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
| Daily almanac - Columbus Dispatch Posted: 10 Jan 2010 02:59 AM PST Today is Sunday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2010. There are 355 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY On Jan. 10, 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapsed, trapping hundreds in the rubble; during rescue efforts, a fire broke out - up to 145 people, mostly female workers from Scotland and Ireland, perished.In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet "Common Sense." E In 1861, Florida seceded from the Union. E In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. E In 1910, Hallmark Cards had its origins as its founder, Joyce Clyde Hall, arrived in Kansas City, Mo., to begin selling postcards wholesale. In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect. In 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat. Five years ago: CBS issued a damning independent review of mistakes related to a 60 Minutes Wednesday report on President George W. Bush's National Guard service and fired three news executives and a producer for their "myopic zeal" in rushing it to the air. Ukraine's Election Commission declared Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the presidential vote. One year ago: Vice Presidentelect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan for talks with the country's leaders. "History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light." - William L. Shirer, Source: Associated Press Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
| Posted: 10 Jan 2010 01:40 AM PST
| The moon is waning. The morning stars are Saturn and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include silent screen actor Francis X. Bushman in 1883; poet Robinson Jeffers in 1887; Max Patkin, the Crown Prince of Baseball, in 1920; actors Ray Bolger in 1904, Paul Henreid in 1908 and Sal Mineo in 1939; singers Johnnie Ray in 1927, Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1944 (age 66), Jim Croce in 1943 and Rod Stewart in 1945 (age 65); boxer George Foreman in 1949 (age 61); and singer Pat Benatar in 1953 (age 57). On this date in history: In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, beginning the Roman civil war. In 1776, "Common Sense" by political philosopher Thomas Paine was published. The pamphlet advocated independence from England. In 1861, Florida seceded from the United States. In 1878, a constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote was introduced into the U.S. Senate. It wasn't until 42 years later that the amendment was signed into law. In 1901, oil was discovered at the Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas, launching the Southwest oil boom. In 1920, the League of Nations came into being as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect. In 1946, the first meeting of the U.N. General Assembly convened in London. In 1984, the United States established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican for the first time in 116 years. In 1994, NATO approved a plan for a limited expansion of the membership to Eastern European nations. In 1996, rebels in the Russian republic of Chechnya holding 2,000 rebels released all but 130 and were allowed to flee. However, before they reached the border, Russian troops attacked the convoy, beginning a five-day standoff. In 2000, America Online announced it had agreed to buy Time Warner for $165 billion, in what would be the biggest merger in history. In 2003, North Korea announced it was withdrawing from the 1979 nuclear nonproliferation treaty.In 2005, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip elected Mahmoud Abbas as their new president, succeeding the late Yasser Arafat. In 2006, Iran unsealed its nuclear facility at Natanz and resumed atomic research for what it claimed to be peaceful purposes but sparking international ire. In 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush announced he was sending more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq, most of them deployed in Baghdad, in what was labeled a troop "surge" and set off intense debate in Congress. Also in 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives approved and sent to the Senate a $2.10-an-hour increase in the national minimum wage, raising the figure to $7.25. In 2008, U.S. forces mounted a major air offensive against al-Qaida targets on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, the military said. Within 10 minutes, warplanes dropped 38 1,000-pound bombs on suspected al-Qaida safe houses. Also in 2008, at least 23 people were killed and 60 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated outside a busy courthouse at midday in Lahore, Pakistan. And, Edmund Hillary, who rose to international fame as a member of the first climbing party to scale Mount Everest, died in Auckland, New Zealand, at age 88. In 2009, a published report said Israel dropped a plan to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities after U.S. President George W. Bush denied permission to fly over Iraq. The New York Times said further the Bush administration also turned down a request for bunker-busting bombs. Also in 2009, six Somali pirates drowned during a dispute in their overloaded boat as they escaped with an alleged $3 million ransom for the Saudi oil supertanker the Sirius Star.
A thought for the day: Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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