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WHERE DID 2010 GO?by Patricia L. Cook

Young children think it takes forever for a year to pass. Waiting on Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, summer, etc. is almost painful to some. As you age you discover it’s just a matter of perspective. The years fly by for older folks! Regardless, this year is nearly history. Below are a few stories that made the news in 2010.

• For many sports fans in the United States, the biggest day of the year is Super Bowl Sunday. In 2010, the New Orleans Saints, with their exciting play during the regular season and playoffs, seemed destined to defeat the Indianapolis Colts; they did, winning 31-17. After being “underdogs” since their inception, the Saints made it to the top! Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Super Bowl win was a big boost for morale and tourism for the entire state of Louisiana.• Another “underdog,” actually an underwater crea-ture, that made some headlines was the sardine. The sardine canning industry was at its peak in the 1950s but has declined in recent years. The last re-maining large sardine cannery in the United States in Prospect Harbor, Maine, closed on April 15, 2010, after operating for 135 years. Fortunately for the lo-cal economy, the plant reopened as a lobster pro-cessing plant.

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The Grand Ole Opry is not a person that is a music legend but rather a legendary show. Many musi-cians have contributed to the history of the Opry, which has been in existence since 1925 after start-ing as a radio show in Nashville, Tennessee.• The National Life and Accident Insurance Com-pany started a radio station in Nashville in 1925, five years after commercial radio started in the United States. It began as a public service, but the main goal was to advertise their insurance policies. The call letters for the station, WSM stood for “We Shield Millions.” WSM hired George D. Hay, who was the most popular radio announcer in the coun-try at the time, having been on WSL-AM in Chicago and WMC-AM in Memphis. Originally Hay’s week-ly show was called the WSM Barn Dance, but he changed the name to the Grand Ole Opry in 1927. • Hay’s weekly program was so popular that the show was moved several times to accommodate the crowds eager to attend the live broadcasts. Through the years it was held at Hillsboro Theater near Vanderbilt University, Dixie Tabernacle in East Nashville, War Memorial Auditorium and then Ry-man Auditorium in 1943. The Opry remained at the Ryman until 1974, when it moved to the current lo-cation, the Grand Ole Opry House. It has now been at the Opry House for 36 years. • The Opry has been called “the show that made country music famous.” The show also put Nash-ville on the map for tourism where it is the city’s No. 1 tourist attraction. Along with the Opry House, owner Gaylord Entertainment now operates a large hotel in the same area.• Many country music stars have performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Names like Roy Acuff, Patsy Cline, the Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn, Minnie Pearl and many more made the Opry what it is today. When today’s new stars are invited to perform, they literally stand on a part of the old Ryman Auditorium stage. A circle of the dark oak wood was cut from the Ryman stage and installed at the new Opry home when it opened in 1974. Performers say it is a magical moment to stand on the floor where so many stood in the past. Some of the recent inductees into the Opry to grace the stage include Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, Ricky Skaggs and Carrie Underwood. The younger generation is just as thrilled to play at the Opry as the audience is to hear them.• In May 2010, flooding in Nashville inundated the Grand Ole Opry House. During restoration, the Opry performances were moved back to the Ry-man Auditorium. Remember, the “Opry” itself is not the building, but the show and the show continued!• One interesting bit of Opry trivia concerns Goo-Goo Clusters, made by the Standard Candy Com-pany, founded in 1901. Standard Candy uses milk chocolate, peanuts, marshmallows and caramel to make the famous confection. One story of the can-dy’s origin says that “GOO” stands for Grand Ole Opry, but that is not the real story. Howard Camp-bell, the inventor, told fellow streetcar riders of his baby son’s first words, and a teacher onboard sug-gested that Mr. Campbell name his delicious treat “GooGoo,” saying that it was so good people would ask for it from birth!

Music Legend:GRAND OLE OPRY

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DOG OF THE WEEK“Death Race 2” (Unrated) -- How is it even pos-sible to screw up a “Death Race” movie? All you need are a bunch of cars tricked out with missile launchers and machine guns, hot chicks, ridicu-lously cool destructo explosion stunts and a few zippy one-liners. Well, director Roel Reine (yeah, I never heard of him either) has managed to make this direct-to-DVD production a complete snooze-fest. The stunts are weak, the chicks are barely of-fice pretty and worst of all, he cast Danny Trejo, one of the most badass actors on the planet, as a wise-cracking mechanic. Save your money and avoid this abomination.

TV SERIES

“Merlin” The Complete Second Season“Last of the Summer Wine” Vintage 1987“Waking the Dead” Season 5“Justified” The Complete First Season “Hey Vern, It’s Ernest!” The Complete Series“Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” Collection 5 Pt. 2

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Little Fockers (PG-13) Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson2. True Grit (PG-13) Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon3. TRON: Legacy (PG) Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG) Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes5. Yogi Bear (PG) animated6. The Fighter (R) Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale7. Gulliver’s Travels (PG) Jack Black, Jason Segel8. Black Swan (R) Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassell9. Tangled (PG) animated10. The Tourist (PG-13) Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of January 1, 2011

Top 10 Video Rentals1. The Other Guys (PG-13) Will Ferrell2. Inception (PG-13) Leonardo DiCaprio3. A-Team (PG-13) Corey Burton4. Despicable Me (PG) (Steve Carell)5. The Town (R) Ben Affleck6. Knight and Day (PG-13) Tom Cruise7. Twilight Saga: The Eclipse (PG-13) Kristen Stewart8. Shrek Forever After (PG) Mike Myers9. The Expendables (R) Sylvester Stallone10. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG) Nicolas Cage

Top 10 DVD Sales1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-13) (Summit)2. Inception (PG-13) (Warner Bros.)3. Shrek Forever After (PG) (DreamWorks)4. Shrek Forever After/Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular (PG) (DreamWorks)5. Toy Story 3 (G) (Disney)6. The Search for Santa Paws (G) (Disney)7. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010) (PG) (Dis-ney)8. Christmas Classics Gift Set (PG) Vivendi9. The Expendables (R) (Lionsgate)10. Disney’s A Christmas Carol (PG) (Disney)9. The Pacific (M) (Warner)

PICKS OF THE WEEK“Buried” (R) -- Hands up: Who wants to see Ryan Reynolds buried alive? Yeah, me too. Well, in “Buried” we get our wish. Reynolds stars as Paul Conroy, a truck driver who wakes up to find himself buried in a coffin under 6 feet of earth with nothing but a cell phone that’s run-ning out of juice, a lighter and about 90 minutes of oxygen. With time running out on him, Conroy needs to piece together enough clues to deter-mine his location so he can call for help (that is, if the cell phone doesn’t go dead first).Demonstrating an almost Hitchcockian finesse, director Rodrigo Cortes does a remarkable job not only in finding impressive ways of shooting in such a confined space, but in keeping the dramatic tension taut as piano wire throughout the entire film. “Buried” is definitely worth a look.

“Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Se-ries” (Unrated) -- “Dark Skies” is one of those great, short-lived series that nobody watched, but should have. Set in the 1960s, the show tells the tale of a young couple (Eric Close, Megan Ward) who are drawn into a shadowy conspira-cy involving a secret war against an alien inva-sion.What made “Dark Skies” such brilliant television was its approach to telling an alternative his-tory, using real people like The Beatles, Howard Hughes, Bobby Kennedy, Charles Manson and other historical figures as players in this vast sub rosa struggle for humanity’s survival.

SUCH A DEAL!“Sean Connery 007 Collection Volume 1” (PG) -- This six-disc set includes the two-disc ultimate editions of “Dr. No,” “From Russia With Love” and “Goldfinger.” -- a pretty great deal for less than 20 bucks, if you don’t already own the films.

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¥ It was American radio and TV writer and commen-tator Andy Rooney who made the following sage observation: “Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”

¥ The iconic 1980s video games Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man had 256 levels, though it’s been reported that on both of them, the 256th level has bugs that make it unplayable.

¥ The earliest known examples of drinking straws were created out of gold and lapis lazuli by the an-cient Sumerians. It seems they were used by royal-ty to drink beer, thereby avoiding the yeast residue left over from the fermentation process. ¥ It takes 450 skilled workers to create a Steinway grand piano -- and the piano is made up of about 12,000 individual parts. ¥ If you are like 83 percent of adult Americans, you received a gift you didn’t want during the recent holi-day season. ¥ If you’re a heavy coffee drinker, you might want to consider the following: A study conducted in the United Kingdom found that those who reported the highest consumption of caffeine also were more likely to report hallucinations and other extrasen-sory experiences. ¥ The Campbell’s Soup portraits created by Andy Warhol have become icons of the Pop Art move-ment, and today they sell at auction for upward of $10 million. They weren’t always so well-regarded, however; in 1962, actor Dennis Hopper (a visionary art collector, it seems) purchased one of the first ex-amples for a mere $75.

***Thought for the Day: “I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dis-honesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” -- Charles Dickens


WHERE DID 2010 GO? (continued):• The first Olympic Winter Games were in Chamo-nix, France, in 1924. The Canadian hockey team outscored their opponents 110 to 3, winning five matches and the gold medal. Canada won the gold in the following three winter Olympics, and settled for the silver in 1936. Since then, Canada’s hockey dominance has waned even though the popular-ity of hockey remains strong among the Canadian people. Prior to 2010, Canada’s most recent hock-ey gold was in 2002 in Salt Lake City, and that win followed a 50-year gold medal drought. In 2010, however, at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Brit-ish Columbia, Canada had a chance to win hockey gold on Canadian soil. In one of the most excit-ing games in hockey history, Canada defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime to win the gold medal. There were many other great Olympic moments, but con-sidering how much Canadians love hockey, this was a colossal victory for them.• Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is famous for its golf courses and “island paradise” beauty. The island is also notable for the number of alligators in its lagoons and waterways. In July 2010, three ‘gator wrestlers and a truck pulled an 11-foot-long (3.4 meters), 500-pound (226.8-kilograms) behe-moth from a lagoon. So, you may want to keep your eyes open while riding or walking around the island’s many lagoons.• We’ve all heard that “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” The huge 105-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond has been part of the British Crown Jewels for about 150 years. When Prime Minister David Cameron was asked this year by Indian officials to return the diamond to India where it originated, he refused. He said it will “stay put.” (This question has been asked many times before and answered the same way!)• Do you remember listening to news reporters try-ing to pronounce “Eyjafjallajökull” last spring? (It is pronounced AY-uh-full-ay-ho-kul, just so you know!) This was the volcano in Iceland that spewed ash and grounded flights going into and out of Europe. (The last eruption of the volcano on the Eyjafjalla-jökull glacier was 189 years ago.) Flight disruptions in Europe cascaded around the globe and eventu-ally affected approximately five million passengers. The volcano caused the biggest flight disruption since World War II. The bad news was that many people had problems getting where they wanted or needed to be…The good news? No airplanes went down because of the natural disaster.

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Ice sculptures at fancy restaurants, weddings and other special events are fascinating. Artists use chainsaws, chisels and other tools to impress us with their skills.• The annual International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. The area has plenty of snow, a very cold cli-mate, and the frozen river provides lots of ice. The festival began in 1985 and opens every January, lasting as long as the weather allows. The sculp-tures are not ordinary by any means. They include life-size ice buildings that are lit up at night with many different colors, ice slides and more to thrill all ages.• Fairbanks, Alaska, hosted winter carnivals in the 1930s that included ice sculpting. In 1989, the winter fun was revived with the Annual World Ice Art Championships. Competitions for single block and multi-block carvings in abstract and realistic sculptures attract ice artists from the world over. The month-long events are run by Ice Alaska, Inc., which is a nonprofit organization. Recent years have hosted as many as 70 teams and 45,000 visi-tors. The 2011 events will be held from February 22 – March 27. • Some places struggle to have enough ice for an annual competition, but Ice Alaska harvests ice from O’Grady Pond, which is a man-made pond. The pond usually supplies over 4.1 million pounds (31859728.7 kg) of ice for the championships. The ice, nicknamed “The Arctic Diamond,” is exception-ally thick and clear and is loved by ice sculptors. It has been shipped to Seattle, Pittsburgh and even as far away as Israel!• The original ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Swe-den, is now open for its 21st season. Starting with 645-square-foot (60-square-meter) igloo, it is now the world’s largest hotel of ice and snow at about 59,201 square feet (5,500 square meters). An over-night stay includes reindeer hides to sleep on (in-side cozy sleeping bags with thermal underwear), hot lingonberry juice at your bedside when you awaken, and a hot sauna and hot buffet breakfast! The ICEHOTEL also has warm accommodations and recommends combining one night in the cold with nights in the warm rooms. So, if you are look-ing for some adventure this winter, join the 50,000 visitors expected at the ICEHOTEL, 124.3 miles (200 km) north of the Arctic Circle. • The Hôtel de Glace in Quebec received its in-spiration from the ICEHOTEL. The only ice hotel in North America, built on the shores of Lake St. Joseph each year, it will be open this year from January 7-March 27. The temperature in the guest rooms averages about 27ºF (-3ºC). Polar fleeces and deer skins are provided for warmth. This large hotel has a disco room for 400 dancers, an ice cha-pel, two art galleries of ice carvings, an ice chande-lier and a bar with furniture and even glasses made of ice! Overnight stays include a heated and lighted bathroom inside the hotel and hot beverages and breakfast.

TRIVIA

1. ANATOMY: Where in the human body is the mandible?2. MYTHOLOGY: According to Greek mythol-ogy, who ferries the souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron?3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: By what common name is the pirate’s flag of skull and cross-bones known?4. ENTERTAINERS: Which actress was born with the name Betty Joan Perske?5. MEASUREMENTS: What does a tachom-eter measure?6. HISTORY: What was the first year of the win-ter Olympic Games? 7. GEOGRAPHY: Where is Valley Forge, site of George Washington’s encampment during the Revolutionary War?8. ASTRONOMY: Europa is a moon of which planet?9. LITERATURE: Who wrote “The Tropic of Cancer”?10. LANGUAGE: In poetic terms, what is a “tarn”?

ANSWERS

1. Lower jaw2. Charon 3. Jolly Roger4. Lauren Bacall5. Speed in rotations per minute6. 1924 7. Pennsylvania 8. Jupiter 9. Henry Miller10. Mountain lake

SPORTS QUIZ

1. Who had more career victories as a major-league pitcher: Bert Blyleven or Tommy John?2. Three different Phillies pitchers won the N.L. Cy Young Award at least once during the 1980s. One was Steve Carlton (1980, ‘82). Name the other two.3. When Central Michigan’s Dan LeFevour set a major college football career record in 2009 for total touchdowns (150), whose mark did he break?4. Toronto’s Jose Calderon set the NBA record for free-throw percentage in 2008-09 at 98.1 percent. Who had held the mark?5. Who is the only player in hockey history to win a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal, a world championship, a World Cup, a Memorial Cup and a world junior title?6. Name the first black U.S. athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event.7. Who was the first U.S. golfer to claim the No. 1 spot in the LPGA’s world rankings, which began in 2006?

ANSWERS

1. John had 288 victories; Blyleven tallied 287.2. John Denny (1983) and Steve Bedrosian (1987).3. Hawaii’s Colt Brennan (2007) and Texas Tech’s Graham Howell (2008).4. Houston’s Calvin Murphy hit 95.8 percent of his free throws in 1980-81.5. Scott Niedermayer.6. William DeHart Hubbard, in the long jump in 1924.7. Cristie Kerr, in 2010.

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1. Name the female singer who released “The Way We Were.”2. Which one-hit-wonder group recorded “No-body But Me” in 1968?3. What was the original name of the group B.T. Express? Name its 1974 hit.4. Which group was Peter Cetera in before go-ing out on his own?5. Name the singer who released “Undercover Angel.”6. Who was the original drummer for the Ea-gles? What year did he start?

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1. Barbra Streisand. The song was on the soundtrack of the 1973 film by the same name and won multiple awards.2. The Human Beinz.3. Brooklyn Trucking Express. “Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)” rose to No. 2 on the Billboard charts and No. 1 on R&B.4. Chicago. His first solo, “Glory of Love,” was the theme song to the film “Karate Kid Part 2” in 1986.5. Alan O’Day, in 1977. While he’s not espe-cially well-known for his singing, he’s written a wealth of material for other artists, as well as National Geographic and “Jim Henson’s Mup-pet Babies.”6. Don Henley started when the band formed in 1971 and stayed until 1980, when the band broke up. He came back when they regrouped in 1994.

• Nebraska and Kansas have held the records for large hailstones for years. The heaviest on re-cord was 1.67 pounds (0.76 kg) for a stone that fell in Coffeyville, Kansas, in 1970. The largest stone diameter on record was 7 inches (17.8 cm) for a 2003 hailstone in Aurora, Nebraska. Both re-cords were shattered by a giant hailstone found in Vivian, South Dakota, on July 23, 2010. It was 8 inches (20.3 cm) in diameter and weighed 1.94 pounds (0.88 kg). The ranch hand who found it said it was larger but had melted some by the time it was checked by authorities. • A natural occurrence of a totally different kind was when a “cute” purple octopus was found by a team of Canadian and Spanish researchers off the coast of Newfoundland in July 2010. It is one of 11 possible new species found in the deep-sea expedition. They used a remotely operated vehicle that journeyed to a maximum depth of 9,800 feet (3000 m). Doesn’t it make you wonder what else is undiscovered?• For the superstitious, 2010 should have been a good year, with only one Friday the 13th, which occurred in August. Friggatriskaidekaphobia and paraskavedekatriaphobia both mean “fear of Fri-day the 13th.” Hopefully you don’t suffer from this malady – mainly because the long words are ex-tremely hard to pronounce!• The world’s largest oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The BP (British Petroleum) well released almost five million barrels of oil. Com-pared to the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989, this spill released 10 times more oil. The Exxon Valdez spill had previously been the worst in American history. The BP spill also surpassed the 3.3 million barrels spilled off the eastern coast of Mexico in 1979, which had been the world’s larg-est oil spill. • In more sports news: The Colorado Rockies dazzled baseball fans with a record-setting 12-run eighth inning to defeat the Chicago Cubs 17-2 on July 30, 2010. • Due to the ongoing economic recession, the year 2010 saw the closure of Coastal Community Bank in Panama City Beach, Florida. This closure, which included the incorporation of Apalachicola State Bank, occurred July 30, 2010. Apalachicola State Bank started as a branch of Tallahassee’s Capital City Bank in 1897 and was incorporated in 1906. More than a century of service has now gone away.

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