“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
When you feel small, collapsed, weak, judged, alone, scared, or when you feel like you need a grown up to step in and save you, you’re under the influence of “The Voice” – the part of you that wants to be safe by maintaining the status quo…..
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The weather is changing again. We had a rather unusual day yesterday with rain in the mountains and clouds in evidence around the costas. However, the heat is on the way back we need to see whether or not it will settle……….
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 29° C | 22° C
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29° C | 23° C
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The Olympic stadium in London was on the BBC news this morning and it is looking very impressive. Boris Johnson has looked increasingly less like the buffoon that first appeared as the candidate to usurp Ken Livingstone and he was waxing lyrical over the plans for its legacy. This is good to hear as the stadium should help regenerate the east end of London.
Yet another bizarre and grotesque series of murders has occurred in Britain and the daily toll of murders and outrages mounts. In Liverpool last night there was another targeted shooting on a group of teenagers. When I was involved in full-time teaching I always likened discipline to training an animal. I hasten to add the originator of all discipline must be in the family and home. We all know that this is already a very difficult area to define before we then move to the schools. We are the highest order animal and the comparison is justified. If you let a growing animal bite you without being appropriately punished then it will bite you again. The difference is that it will be growing stronger every day. I believe Britain is now seeing behaviour that reflects the non punishment of bad behaviour in the early stages of life. I also accept this is a very simplistic observation of a very large and difficult problem.
Summertime heat is an annoyance to some people, but according to Xu Qian, director of the infectious diseases department at the China-Japan Frienship Hospital in Beijing, sweating from the hot, summer heat is a natural part of keeping your body healthy, and avoiding this heat can actually cause health problems.
People typically run their air conditioners throughout the summertime in order to beat the heat, but doing so can Full actually compromise the immune system.
“People should go with the rules of nature. Summer is the time to sweat. It’s a natural process for the body to respond to the outside environment, and adjust itself through the constricting of blood vessels and nerves. In this sense, air conditioning is a reactive restrain of the body against nature,” Qian explained in a China Daily article. Full Story
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Word of the Day
la cancha kahn’-chah (noun)
sports field, pitch, course, court, slope (ski); runway; confidence
EXAMPLES
Nosotros siempre pasamos los sabados en la cancha de futbol. – We always spend our Saturdays on the soccer field.
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IDIOMS
En la cancha se ven los pingos – Deeds speak louder than words
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for la cancha.
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Gotta love older people !
A man was sunbathing naked at the beach.
For the sake of civility, and to keep it from getting
sunburned, he had a hat over his privates.
A woman walks past and says, snickering,
“If you were a gentleman you’d lift your hat.”
He raised an eyebrow and replied,
“If you weren’t so ugly it would lift itself.”
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Getting A Hairdryer Through Customs ....
A distinguished young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest beside her, ‘Father, may I ask a favour?’
‘Of course. What may I do for you?’
‘Well, I bought an expensive woman’s electronic hair dryer for my mother’s birthday. It’s unopened and well over the Customs limits, and I’m afraid they’ll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through Customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?’
‘I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you: I will not lie.’
‘With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.’
When they got to Customs, she let the priest go ahead of her.
The official asked, ‘Father, do you have anything to declare?”
‘From the top of my head down to my waist, I have nothing to declare.’
The official thought this answer strange, so asked, ‘And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?’
‘I have a marvelous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.’
Roaring with laughter, the official said, ‘Go ahead, Father. Next!’
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Bits and Pieces
1940 Bugs Bunny made his debut in the cartoon A Wild Hare.
1940 Billboard magazine published its first singles record chart (for the week of July 20).
1953 An armistice was signed ending the Korean War.
1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
1996 A pipe bomb exploded in an Atlanta park during the Olympic Games.
2003 Comedian Bob Hope died in his home, at the age of 100.
2003 Lance Armstrong won his fifth straight Tour de France, tying Miguel Indurain’s record.
Music Stuff July 27th
1958, fans of rock & roll music were warned that tuning into music on the car radio could cost you more money. Researchers from the Esso gas company said the rhythm of rock & roll could cause the driver to be foot heavy on the pedal, making them waste fuel.
1966, The Who appeared at the Flamingo Ballroom, Redruth, England.
1968, Bee Gee Robin Gibb collapsed, as the group were about to set out on their first US tour. The singer was suffering from nervous exhaustion.
1968, Cass Elliot released her first solo single following the break up of The Mamas and Papas. ’Dream a Little Dream of Me’ had been around since 1931 and had been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine and many others.
1974, John Denver No 1 US single ‘Annie’s Song’, the singers second US No.1.
1974 Wings UK No.1 album – ‘Band On The Run’, featuring the title-track, ‘Jet’
1976, John Lennon was awarded his Green card, allowing him permanent residence in the US.
1976, Tina Turner filed for divorce from her husband Ike
1985, The Eurythmics were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)’, the duo’s only UK No.1 single. The song featured a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder.
1986, Queen became the first western act since Louis Armstrong in 1964 to perform in Eastern Europe when they played at Budapest’s Nepstadion, Hungary
1991, Bryan Adams No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘(Everything I Do), I Do It For You’.
1992, Michael Jackson sued the British paper The Daily Mirror over photos and an article that said he was left a “scar face” from numerous plastic surgeries.
1996, The Spice Girls scored their first No.1 UK single with ‘Wannabe’. Seven weeks at No.1 the song won Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards and Best Single at the 1997 Brit Awards.
2001, Leon Wilkeson bass player with Lynyrd Skynyrd was found dead in a hotel room in Florida aged 49. Skynyrd scored the 1974 US No. 8 single, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ and the 1982 UK No.21 single ‘Freebird’.
2002, Mariah Carey checked herself into an undisclosed hospital suffering from “extreme exhaustion.” The singer cancelled all public appearances, including her headlining appearance at MTV’s 20th birthday party. Her record company denied tabloid reports that Carey tried to commit suicide
2003, Daniel Bedingfield scored his third UK No.1 single with ‘Never Gonna Leave Your Side.’
2006, Sharman Networks, a company that produced software called Kazaa, which made it easy for an estimated 400 million computer users to download music over the Internet, agreed to pay more than $115 million to music companies to settle global piracy lawsuits.
Birthday Boys and Girls July 27
1933, Nick Reynolds, The Kingston Trio.
1944, Bobbie Gentry, US singer, songwriter
1949, Maureen McGovern, singer,
1949, Rory MacDonald, bass, vocals, Runrig,
