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Celebrate Global Community Engagement Day

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Community Engagement is a process of working collaboratively with community groups to address issues that impact the well-being of those groups. While the term seems obscure, community engagement is a concept that is part of every person’s lives. Every job that you have had does something for your community and working with people to solve problems within the community is a daily activity for those who work for high-end companies and government organizations. Global Community Engagement Day is all about giving appreciation for those people.

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History of Global Community Engagement Day

Global Community Engagement Day began as an idea started by Engage 2 Act, a organization that aims to progress community engagement practice by bringing people together to talk about important issues in their community. Engage 2 Act started as a small group in Southern Australia who wanted to reach out to people all over the world about what they do for community engagement. Because they wanted to put the holiday on the global map, they began a poll, asking their social media followers what pioneer of community engagement stands out to them. Whoever answered the question the best will have their birthday used as their official holiday date.

Once the polls were taken, they chose the answer from Dr. Wendy Sarkissian and chose her birthday as the official holiday for global community engagement. Engage 2 Act has since been celebrating the holiday since its foundation, hosting a blog competition. By submitting their blogs and broadcasting what each individual does for their blog, and winners with the best blogs would get Engage 2 Act merchandise. People on social media are also encouraged to celebrate this holiday by broadcasting what they do for their communities and connecting with others who do the same.

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Marc Martin is an artist, illustrator and picture-book maker based in Melbourne. Having trained and worked as a graphic designer, his moonlighting as an illustrator eventually led him to a successful freelance career. Marc draws inspiration from his surroundings, nature, animals, and the city he lives in.

Word of the Day

gob

MEANING:

noun:
1. Lump or a large amount of something.
2. Mouth.
3. Sailor.

USAGE:

“We learned that spending gobs of time together is marvelous.”
Ted Paul; Can Love Be an Open Book?; Los Angeles Times; Dec 22, 2018.

Idiom of the Day

Don't push my buttons

"Don't push my buttons" can be said to someone who is starting to annoy you.

Example: I am not in a good mood right now. Do not push my buttons.

If someone "knows how to push your buttons", it means they have found out specific things that annoy or upset you.

Example: My mother really knows how to push my buttons!

This idiom is occasionally used in a positive way to indicate that someone knows exactly the right thing to do to get people to act the way they want.

Example: He was an extremely good speaker and knew just how to push an audience's buttons to keep them interested.

This Day in History

1722 - Composer Johann Ernst Bach was born.

1788 - The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay.

1807 - London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight.

1878 - "The Yale News" was published for the first time. It was the first, daily, collegiate newspaper in the U.S.

1902 - The Carnegie Institution was established in Washington, DC. It began with a gift of $10 million from Andrew Carnegie.

1904 - Enrico Caruso signed his first contract with Victor Records. He debuted at the Metropolitan Opera two months before.

1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.

1916 - Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Wilson to the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.

1935 - Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion.

1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that circus clown Emmett Kelly had been hired to entertain fans at baseball games.

1973 - CBS-TV debuted "Barnaby Jones."

1985 - The song "We Are the World" was recorded. More than 40 artists were involved. The proceeds went toward worldwide hunger prevention.

1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.

1997 - Clive Davis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.

1999 - Pat Boone formed the Gold Records label, which will only sign artists 45 years old and up. The first performer signed was Jack Jones.

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, January 28

You are highly idealistic and a bit of a perfectionist. You have excellent instincts and generally can size up a person or a situation quickly and quite accurately. While gentle and considerate overall, you do have a dominant or "rule the roost" side, and you can be quite stubborn. You are also very patient and strategic when you need to be, but you have little patience for close-minded people. You are clever and charismatic, with a flair for the dramatic. Famous people born today:

1225 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian and saint, born in Roccasecca, Italy (d. 1274)

1841 Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh journalist and African explorer (found Livingstone in Africa), born in Denbigh, Wales (d. 1904)

1873 Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle], French novelistand performer (Gigi), born in Paris, France (d. 1954)

1912 Jackson Pollock, American expressionist painter (Lavender Mist), born in Cody, Wyoming (d. 1956)

1955 Nicolas Sarkozy, 23rd President of France (2007-12), born in Paris, France

1981 Elijah Wood, American actor (Good Son, The Lord of the Rings), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

READERS INFO

1.

1596 -

Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – January 28, 1596)

Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, slave trader, and privateer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire trip. He died of dysentery after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Drake’s route around the world.

2.
1959 -

Vince Lombardi was named head coach of the Green Bay Packers
on this day.

Lombardi led the Packers to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls at the end of the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. Following his sudden death from cancer in
1970, The NFL Super Bowl trophy was named in his honor.

3.

1986 -

CHALLENDER SHUTTLE EXPLODES WITH

JUDITH RESNIK ON BOARD

The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, tragically killing the seven-person crew, which included Judith Resnik, the first Jewish astronaut in space.

Pictures of the day

George S. Boutwell (January 28, 1818 – February 27, 1905) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as Secretary of the Treasury (under President Ulysses S. Grant), Governor of Massachusetts, a U.S. Senator and Representative, and the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue (under President Abraham Lincoln). Boutwell, an abolitionist, was instrumental in the formation of the Republican Party, and championed African-American citizenship and suffrage rights during Reconstruction. He was a leader in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868.

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