[nikos1121]

Today's Trivia

1. What American Company is headquartered in Fairfield, CT?

2. This company is noted for:

a. Their tax return is the largest return filed in the United States; the 2005 return was approximately 24,000 pages.

b. The company also "spends more on U.S. lobbying than any other company.

c. The one of the original 12 companies listed on the newly formed Dow Jones Industrial Average

d. All are true.

4. From 1953 to 1962, Ronald Reagan hosted what very popular TV series?

5. What took place in Fairfield, CT on November 29, 1945.

a. FDR visited the town. b. The entire New Yankee Baseball Team paraded down main street. c. The grounding of a barge with two crewmen on Penfield Reef in Fairfield during a gale led to the first civilian helicopter hoist rescue in history.

Name these famous Fairfield, CT natives.

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[nikos1121]

Good morning everyone. Does anyone remember watching this show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeSmNaKCjaw

[BluH2o]

General Electric GE
Aren't they bailing out of CT and moving to Boston?

[9YearLurker]

Thanks for posting this, but New Fairfield, on your map, is a different town than Fairfield.

[polly-put-the-kettle-on]

Good morning all!. Thank you Nikos!

GO TRUMP! Love that guy.

[StAnDeliver]

Tats & glasses is John Mayer.

[libertarian27]

GE is moving to Boston, MA
Devastating for the area.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-boston-ge-moving-20160113-story.html
General Electric Moving Headquarters To Boston

I hope Trump spends some time talking about GE and other companies that left, are leaving and soon will leave Connecticut because of the terrible business climate the CT government has foisted on their citizens.

[grania]

I'm glad Trump isn't listening to advice, and is campaigning in every state! CT is a perfect example of why.

CT is a well-educated state, with a situation where it has been decimated by the actions of both political parties. They didn't take the loss of manufacturing seriously enough, instead let gambling balance their budget until out-of-state competition and a general decline in gambling revenue shattered that piggy bank. The state is so bad, it's in a death spiral. Trump has strong ties to CT, and Manafort is from there. Manafort's Route 8 strategy for the primary was brilliant! Put it all together, and I'd think logically Trump can win in CT. (I hope someone in the campaign reads this stuff I post),

I'm from Danbury/Bethel, HS in the early 1960s. It is a traumatic experience to pass through "home" and see the decimation that's happened to what was once a wonderful place to grow up in!

[lysie]

Thanks, nikos. Good morning all.

[spokeshave]

Hi Nikos...thanks for the coffee grinder info...Mrs Spokeshave coming up with a birthday.

Turkey egg omelette this morning.

[Lakeside Granny]

Good morning all!

Won’t be here much this morning.

We are having a team roping event @ the arena dedicated to our 49 yr. old cousin who died way too young from pulmonary fibrosis.

She will be forever in our hearts.

Looking forward to reading all the commentary from all of you who are much more enlightened than I.

[SamAdams76]

Thanks for the thread. This time I will be an active participant as I will be attending (or at least trying to attend) tonight's rally. I do have tickets but that does not mean guaranteed admission as there is often an overflow. Out of concern for my wife, who doesn't do well in the heat, I probably won't get in line until around 4 or 4:30 - after the sun gets a little lower in the sky. Going to be a scorcher in Connecticut today.

This seems to be a fairly small venue for a Trump rally. I believe around 2,500 people is the capacity but if they put chairs on the floor, they might be able to squeeze in 3,000 plus. I aim to be one of them! Tickets are already "sold out" - meaning no longer available on the Trump website.

Going to take a ride by there this morning with the dog to get a lay of the land. This is basically right down the street from my house. I live on the Newtown/Easton town line so I just jump on Route 59 (Sport Hill Road), go about 10 miles, take a left on Jefferson (just past the Merritt Pkwy) and I'm there. Nothing but farms, woods and residential areas all the way there.

By the way, you have New Fairfield starred on you map. The rally is actually in Fairfield, which is on the "Golden Coast" of CT. To the south lies Westport, Norwalk, Stamford, New Canaan and Greenwich - a very high income area and one of the wealthiest - if not the wealthiest- part of the nation. Just to the north is Bridgeport, which is truly an urban hellhole. Fairfield is the buffer between the gritty coastal towns to the north (Bridgeport, New Haven, Milford) and the affluent NYC suburbs I mentioned earlier to the south.

The economy here in Connecticut is pretty poor. Lot of businesses closing or moving out of state (such as GE). Lot of "for Sale" signs in front of residences. Very, very high taxes and the politicians threaten to raise them even more. I work in New York City so I get double-taxed! But at least my job there is fairly safe.

I think this state is ripe for a Trump victory in November. The Democrat governor (Malloy) was re-elected only by the skin of his teeth in 2014 and he's more unpopular now than he was then. Many neighbors and people I speak to down here are openly for Trump and are fed up with politics as usual.

I will report back in after I take a ride past the Sacred Heart University rally location. An easy 15-20 minute ride each way.

[euram]

Seating capacity is 2,062, but if they use the floor space, it would probably hold 3,000.

[trisham]

Good morning, friends!

[Dr. Sivana]

Missing trivia, Fairfield is right next door to fictional Stepford, CT, and some of the original Stepford Wives was filmed there.

[proust]

[ballplayer]

It’s a stone’s throw from where Trump will be speaking,World Headquarters of General Electric that announced recently they are moving out of Fairfield ct.thanks to the idiot Govenor Malloy DEMOCRAT

[KosmicKitty]

I’m here. Where are you?

[Ray76]

seats over 2,000 people for basketball
http://www.sacredheart.edu/athletics/williamhpittcenter/

[freepersup]

My initial and instinctive guess for # 6 was Sam Snead. WRONG!

Turns out it’s...

JULIUS BOROS

1971 PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Former two-time U.S. Open Champions Julius Boros (1952, 63) and Dr. Cary Middlecoff (1949, 56) qualified for their first Senior PGA Championship and met with far different results. Boros (top left) strolled to victory at 3-under-par 285, the only player under par. Middlecoff withdrew after an 80-79159 the first two days. Three former Senior PGA Champions finished in the top four, with Tommy Bolt earning runner-up honors, defending Champion Sam Snead finishing third and Chandler Harper fourth.

1977 Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Icy rain, numbing cold, rising winds and fog conditions greeted the 180 starters in the 38th Senior PGA Championship. Boros survived with 5-under-par 283 total for his second Senior PGA victory, two strokes lower than he had in 1971 at PGA National. Former Champion Freddie Haas Jr. three-putted the 71st hole and finished at 284.

[freepersup]

From my little world- image # 7 was not projecting; instead, I got that quaint little default box with an image of a landscape depicting a road going over a hill.

For some inexplicable reason, the image is now restored and projecting as intended.

I did some research finding out that the portrait is US Radium's Corporation President Arthur Roeder.

Now the story behind the man...

Deadly occupation, forged report

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/

"Radium Girls" at work