Pre- Action Figure Work Day #AFWD2015

And we’re getting ready! How about you? I think I have a few people here at work that will be participating as well! The more the merrier, and we need fun! 😀

so this morning I brought in mini Wondie! aka my lego key chain of Wonder Woman. 😀 It is Wonder Woman Wednesday afterall and so far, this is what we’ve done. She’s basically just laying down on the job. lol

 

News from BBB serving Northern Indiana

This is an alert from the BBB of Northern Indiana, check your state. I’m sure it’s not just targeted here. Be careful!

Calls from 9-11

 [Fort Wayne, IN – March 3, 2015] – Threatening calls are being received by a male voice stating that he is with the Police Department and “That if you do not call within six hours, you will be turned over to the Attorney General and arrested for misuse of your Social Security Number, and that you will spend six months in jail.”  The caller then asks call recipients to phone 850-725-6952.  What is concerning as well is that the caller ID shows “911.”

 

The caller ID showing 911 is an example of call spoofing, wherein a service is purchased that disguises a phone number that the caller is actually calling from.  If you receive one of these deceptive calls, make a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission.  You can read more on their website for important FAQs regarding call spoofing fraud.  Alert the BBB to these calls as well so we can make the public aware that this is going on by calling 260.423.4433.

IOTD

Calendar day; March 4, 2015

General Events:

International Scrapbooking Day
March 4, 2015 in the World

International Scrapbooking Day takes place on March 04, 2015. Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of a scrapbook. Typical memorabilia include photographs, printed media, and artwork. Scrapbook albums are often decorated and frequently contain extensive journaling.

Celebrated all over the world, International Scrapbooking Industry Day is the day when lovers of memories, paper, photos and glue come together to celebrate this immensely popular hobby.

Scrapbooking is all about preserving memories whether they’re in paper, photo or letter format, or even items such as pressed flowers from your first date, ribbons from chocolates on Valentine’s Day or even an airline ticket from your first holiday wth the girls, guys or without your parents, or even with the kids. All that’s needed is some glue, a decorated book or album, and some time to sit down and start sticking! Some towns and cities even have their own Scrapbooking Clubs where like-minded people meet to chat, scrap, and hold fairs where you can choose your next scrapbook design, see the latest trends in scrapbooking, and try new products.

The advent of scanners, desktop publishing, page layout programs, and advanced printing options make it relatively easy to create professional-looking layouts in digital form. The internet allows scrapbookers to self-publish their work. Scrapbooks that exist completely in digital image form are referred to as “digital scrapbooks” or “computer scrapbooks.”

Where is the event?
Worldwide

Hug a GI Day 2015
March 4, 2015 in the USA

It’s “Hug a GI Day”. Give a great big hug to any and all GIs you see today. The men and women in the armed forces deserve our thanks and appreciation.

GI’s perform an invaluable service to the country. They risk their lives for freedom, and to keep us safe. A simple hug is a small thanks for this vital service to the country.

Where is the event?
Nationwide USA

Saint Casimir’s Day
March 4, 2015 in Lithuania

Saint Casimir’s Day is observed on March 04, 2015. It is the anniversary of the death of Saint Casimir, the patron saint of Lithuania and Poland. St. Casimir is the patron saint of many Roman Catholic Churches in the United States which were established by Polish or Lithuanian immigrants.

St. Casimir’s Day in many Roman Catholic parishes is marked with a special Mass said in his honor. His feast day, March 4, is commemorated optionally according to the Liturgical Calendar of the United States Conference of Bishops. It is, however, kept with great reverence in Roman Catholic parishes of ethnic Polish or Lithuanian origin

Surviving contemporary accounts described Prince Casimir as a young man of exceptional intellect and education, humility and politeness, striving for justice and fairness. Early sources do not attest to his piousness or devotion to god, but his inclination to religious life increased towards the end of his life.

Where is Saint Casimir’s Day?
Nationwide Lithuania

Historical Events on 4th March:

852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources

1238 – The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia

1461 – Battle of Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha, Edward IV recognised as king of England in place of Henry IV

1681 – English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1774 – First sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)

1789 – 1st US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)

1798 – Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews

1804 – The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising

1824 – The “National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck” was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.

1870 – On command of Louis Riel, Thomas Scott is executed by a firing squad. Riel rejects all appeals and requests to intervene in an attempt to demonstrate to the Canadian government that the Metis must be taken seriously

1894 – Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed

1923 – Lenin’s last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

1930 – Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people

1945 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver

1954 – Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant

1962 – AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation

1977 – Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541

1985 – War veterans returned to the “Bridge over the River Kwai”

1995 – Blind teenage boy receives a ‘Bionic Eye’ at a Washington Hospital

1997 – President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

1998 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex

2002 – Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions