Daily Holidays - February 4

[Sherman A1]

Homemade Soup Day Soup is an easy vehicle for nourishment to reach your aching body. With a little planning, you can be enjoying a steaming bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup in almost the same amount of time it takes to pop a pre-made one in the microwave. Here are some tips:

Make soup when you’re healthy and freeze it in individual serving sizes. At the first sign of a throat tickle, move one portion from the freezer to the fridge.
Cream-based soups freeze better than broth-based soups, but both will keep in the fridge for a few days.
Make your own broth. Making vegetable or chicken broth is easier than you think and will pay off in the long run. With homemade broth, chicken noodle soup becomes as easy as heating some broth and frozen vegetables up in a pot and adding noodles.
Soups don’t have to cook for hours and hours. If you don’t have the time but want all the flavor, try roasting your vegetables before adding them to the broth or liquid. http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/02/04/national-homemade-soup-day/

National Stuffed Mushroom Day February 4 marks National Stuffed Mushroom Day! Who knew? It may not be as commercial or widely celebrated as that chocolate and champagne holiday coming up in 10 days (Anna Howard Shaw Day, to those of you who maybe haven’t passed a tacky candy aisle at your local drugstore lately), but celebrate by making some savory treats, and maybe one day NSMD will be picked up by Hallmark! http://www.bustle.com/articles/14445-10-recipes-for-national-stuffed-mushroom-day-our-new-favorite-holiday

Facebook's Birthday Facebook (formerly [thefacebook]) is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.[8] Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to it by American universities students.[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Liberace Day Władziu Valentino Liberace[1][nb 1] (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), mononymously known as Liberace, was an American pianist and entertainer.

A child prodigy and the first generation son of working class immigrants, Liberace's career spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to the 1970s, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world,[4] with established residencies in Las Vegas, and an international touring schedule. Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, acquiring the sobriquet "Mr. Showmanship". Liberace was recognized during his career with two Emmy Awards, six gold albums and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace

Medjoola Date Day To mark the holiday, Natural Delights™ is partnering with blogger and power-Tweeter Coryanne Ettiene for a one-hour Twitter party on Feb. 4 at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST. Guests who participate in the conversation by tagging @CoryanneEttiene, @NDMedjoolDates and using #MedjoolDateDay will have the opportunity to win more than $1,200 in fitness prizes, as well as downloading recently added recipes. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102392176#.

USO Day Throughout our country’s history, Americans have felt profound appreciation and gratitude for the dedication and sacrifice of our troops and their families. The USO provides a tangible way for all of us to say thank you, as it has for 70 years.

Thanks to your generosity, the USO fulfills its mission of lifting the spirits of America’s troops and their families. Through the USO, you touch their lives through an extensive range of programs at more than 160 locations in 27 states and 14 countries, and at hundreds of entertainment events each year. Thousands of USO volunteers do everything possible to provide a home away from home for our troops and to keep them connected to the families they left behind.

The USO makes sure your help goes to those who need it the most: troops serving in combat, their families, our wounded warriors and their families, and families of the fallen.

As a nonprofit, non-political organization, the USO is now, and always will be, about our troops. Wherever and whenever they go, the USO will be there, until every one comes home. http://www.uso.org/about-us.aspx

World Cancer Day Taking place under the tagline ‘Not beyond us’, World Cancer Day 2015 will take a positive and proactive approach to the fight against cancer, highlighting that solutions do exist across the continuum of cancer, and that they are within our reach.

The campaign will explore how we can implement what we already know in the areas of prevention, early detection, treatment and care, and in turn, open up to the exciting prospect that we can impact the global cancer burden – for the better.

World Cancer Day is a unique opportunity to raise awareness that there is much that can be done at an individual, community and governmental level, to harness and mobilise these solutions and catalyse positive change. By moving forward together we have the potential to show: Cancer. It is not beyond us. http://www.worldcancerday.org/about-world-cancer-day-2015

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/february4.html

[pinboy3niner]

1. For me it's Jury Duty Day

Wish me luck!

Not on being put or not put on a jury, because I'd be happy to do it if picked, just as a matter of civic responsibility. Just wish me luck for a good day.

[Sherman A1]

2. I hope the day goes well

as you know, take something to read, bottled water and some snacks if you can. I haven't been for a few years myself, but always found the process interesting, even served on a case or two along the way.

Thank You for serving

[pinboy3niner]

3. Thanks

I don't expect to be picked.

The only time I went through voir dire the ADA rejected me (he later became the D.A. for Multnomah County, OR). Somehow i came across as not automatically accepting of police testimony.

I've seen some people spin their answers trying to be picked, and others spinning in an effort to be excluded. My philosophy is to answer honestly and let the chips fall as they may. Though I would make a very objective and fair juror if selected.

My hero is my older brother, who once swayed a jury that was ready to convict a minority defendant, to an acquittal verdict. Not as dramatically as '12 Angry Men,' but to the same just result.

[cyberswede]

11. Just tell them you never vote to hide...then you'll be excused!

[pinboy3niner]

14. That's the ticket!

Though I'm not looking to get off, even if it's a long trial. It's an important civic duty and I'm happy to do it. Though my reputation precedes me and prosecutors tend to boot me early on.

[mnhtnbb]

12. I had the same experience on the one and only jury I served.

Three of us turned 9 other jurors from a first vote of guilty to 12 not guilty.
It was an African American man on trial for assault. We brought back
a not guilty verdict based on the fact it was self defense.

This was in Missouri in the early 90's. The jury was all white--the guy who had
been assaulted was white--and he admitted on the stand that he had started the fight.
The defendant had not brought a weapon, but grabbed a kitchen knife to defend himself in the guy's house
who got cut. The white guy who was cut was in the court room when the verdict was read,
and boy, he was pissed.

[Dragonfly]

7. Civic Duty

Haven't been asked for a while. Easier to do once I retire [2020 or so - LOL!] Thx for coffee and donuts....much accomplished on the painting mission.

[Sherman A1]

9. Happy to be of service!

And glad that you made good progress!

[Baitball Blogger]

16. I think they pulled me off the jury list once they figured out I was

a Liberal. Saves them time in the voir dire.

[hobbit709]

4. blue cheese and crabmeat stuffed mushrooms. Yum!

[magical thyme]

10. omg those sound delish!

[bigwillq]

5. I love SOUP!

[Sherman A1]

13. Me too...

Just had a bowl of homemade Turkey Soup!

[femmocrat]

6. Happy Birthday to two great women:

Betty Friedan: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/betty-friedan.html

and Rosa Parks: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/rosa-parks.html

[pinboy3niner]

15. Plus one

It's never a bad time to celebrate outstanding women.

[antiquie]

8. Medjool dates are a staple of my diet.

California natural large medjool dates.
Considered the ultimate delicacy, the fruit of royalty.
Great for stuffing with pecans, nuts or cream cheese, twice the size of other dates.