Radio Recap (Friday 02/21/20)

Bible Trivia Question:
Isaiah prophesied that a young virgin would bear a son, what would the son be called?
A. Jesus
B. Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14)
C. Jacob
D. Isaac




In The News:

- National Caregivers Day on the third Friday in February honors the health care professionals across the country providing long-term and hospice care. Around the nation dedicated health care professionals serve those who require long-term or hospice care. They provide vital services, reassuring patients and families who care about them. Caregivers deliver a variety of duties from personal care to medical services with compassion and professionalism. Their days may be long and demanding, but they provide support to those who need it most.

- On this day in 1878: The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued. It covered 50 subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

- Walking breaks for runners. Real runners don’t take walking breaks, do they? Jen A. Miller, the author of Running: A Love Story, says they do. She tells the New York Times that when a friend suggested she run her first distance race by adding walk breaks, it startled her. She felt like a failure after racing in five marathons and walking for periods in four of them. Then she did her research. A study in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport that found those taking regular walking breaks during a race can finish at the same time as those who run the whole way. And the ones who didn’t run the whole way suffered far less wear and tear of their bodies.

- Violin Playing during brain surgery. A brain surgeon in London had a patient play her violin during a tumor removal to ensure her musical abilities weren't affected by the procedure.

King's College Hospital shared video showing Dagmar Turner, 53, playing her violin while neurosurgeon Dr. Keyoumars Ashkan and his team removed her brain tumor. The doctors were able to remove 90 percent of the tumor without any damage to Turner's musical abilities. She was sent home three days after the procedure and is looking forward to going back to playing with the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra.

- National Sticky Bun Day on February 21st recognizes a delicious pastry that comes rolled up and dripping with a sweet, sugary topping. Known as “schnecken” meaning snail, the sticky bun is rolled into a sweet spiral resembling its German name. Still considered to be a Pennsylvania specialty, many believed the sticky bun’s origin in the United States began in the 19th century. German settlers brought their baking traditions with them when they began settling in and around Philadelphia.

Most often served for breakfast or as a dessert, sticky buns consist of rolled pieces of leavened dough. Most contain brown sugar and sometimes cinnamon. Before the dough is placed in the pan, the pan is lined with sticky sweet ingredients such as maple syrup, honey, nuts, sugar, and butter. When the buns are finished baking, the baker flips the pan upside-down so the sticky bottom becomes the topping. (Famous cousins to the sticky bun are the cinnamon roll, caramel roll and monkey bread. )

- Quarter Pounder Candles. Ever been so hungry for McDonald's you could smell it? It could be your imagination. Or, it could be the candles.

The fast food chain is making a six-pack of scented candles that will smell like your favorite Quarter Pounder ingredients -- a bun, ketchup, pickles, cheese, onion and beef, it announced. The candles were created to celebrate the burger's nearly 50-year run.

- Kids need a vacation. Apparently playing video games, watching TikTock and texting friends isn’t relaxing enough. According to a survey, 71 percent of kids say they “need” a vacation.

- Make sure teacher likes you. Were you ever the teacher’s pet? Or did you just sit behind the teacher’s pet and roll your eyes from time to time? A study suggests that personality similarity affects teachers’ estimation of student achievement. In other words, how much you are like your teacher contributes to his or her feelings about you — and your abilities. This study looked at a group of 93 teachers and 294 students in eighth grade in Germany. The study found that when teachers and students were peas in a pod, the teachers overestimated the students’ general abilities. Conversely, students who were dissimilar from their teachers were judged less positively.

- Teen sells baked goods. A Houston teen is doing his part to help his mother cope with expensive medical bills that have piled up after she suffered a serious health scare. For the last few years, Elijah Cossio has been assisting his mother (Tina Hernandez) with her hospital bills by holding a daily bake sale after school. The 14-year-old routinely wakes up at 5 AM each day before school to bake desserts and once classes have ended, he sells his homemade goods to classmates, parents, and community members. Elijah’s mom nearly died from a bacterial infection in 2017.

- Walk like a penguin. If anyone’s an expert at walking in icy conditions, it’s penguins — so it only makes sense that we should follow their example to stay safe. Here’s how we should do it. Prevent slipping by focusing your center of gravity “over your front leg.” That’s instead of dividing your weight between two legs at angles that increase the risk of slipping. Widening your stance a bit will help, too. In other words, waddle.

- Hidden Valley Secret Sauce. Hidden Valley has been owning the ranch dressing game since practically forever, but the company is about to release a new line so amazing, you’ll suddenly have zero issues with keeping three different types of ranch in your fridge. It’s called Secret Sauce. The three flavors are original, smokehouse, and spicy.




Fun Fact:
31: Miles of zippers produced every hour in the world.

#funfact





Social Media Fun:
- Alligator was plastic. An alligator reported in the middle of a creek at a Michigan community college was found to be something far less threatening: a plastic toy.

Kristina Broughton, the social media coordinator for Muskegon Community College, said she and faculty members received multiple reports Monday of an alligator floating in Four Mile Creek, which passes underneath the school. "I started getting text messages saying, 'There's an alligator in the creek in the middle of campus,' so I went to go investigate," Broughton told Mlive.com.

Broughton ended up posting video and photos to the school's Facebook page when the reported gator turned out to be a plastic alligator head someone had planted in the creek. The toy replica was fished out of the water by facilities staff Tuesday morning.

Broughton conceded the faux-gator looked convincing from the shore.

"It did look real," she said.




Matt's Musing:
You can say "Have a nice day!" with no problem. But you can't say "Enjoy the next 24 hours." without sounding mildly threatening.... #musing



Matt's Pick Song:
“Walk Together Children” by Isaacs



Bible Trivia Answer:
B. Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14)