To: undisclosed-recipients:[©] Bcc: From: i or Sent Wed 2/13/201312:20:05 PM Subject Feb 13th tidbits & quotes "That men do not learn very much from lessons of history." - Aldous Huxley From the original Pac-Man video game, Inky and Clyde. "If you want something you've never never done." - Thomas Jefferson the lessons of history is the most important of all the the nicknames of the 4 enemy ghosts were Blinky, Pinky, had, then you must be willing to do something you've In defining the duties of a president, Section 3 of Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution says: "He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The nation's first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, delivered their messages to Congress in person, in the years 1790-1800. The third president, Thomas Jefferson, had a weak speaking voice and opted to send a written message in 1801, a practice successors maintained for more than a century. President Woodrow Wilson resumed in-person State of the Union speeches in 1913. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first State of the Union on radio in 1923. Harry Truman made the first televised State of the Union in 1947. President Lyndon Johnson upped the ante in 1965, moving the address to prime time, where it has stayed ever since. "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." - Aldous Huxley "Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Kate Upton making the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is good news for the stock market. If you think that sounds ridiculous, well, you're absolutely right. But that's what the data say, according to the analysts at Bespoke Investment Group, who have carefully crunched the numbers and found that, since 1978, when an American model makes the swimsuit cover, the S&P 500 is up 88% of the time, for an average total return (including dividend payments) of 14%. "When rungs were missing, I learned to jump." - William Warfield EFTA_R1_00807818 EFTA02148427