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“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas H. Huxley, 1825-1895
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I’m watching pictures of children in the UK returning to school. They seem pleased to be back. You get sick and tired of doing nothing and I’ll bet many children are fed up with doing very little and relish the idea of seeing their friends again.
FRUIT and vegetable prices in Britain are rocketing after torrential rains in Spain devastated harvests, creating shortages of some popular crops.
Imports which usually line the fresh produce aisles before the UK growing season have been badly hit by the rain which caused floods in southern Spain last month.
Shortages have ramped up the price of many greens usually popular with families at this time of year, according to food industry magazine The Grocer.
Higher food bills will come as a blow to families who are already paying more for favourites such as carrots and cauliflowers after British crops suffered in the cold winter weather. Full Story
You might remember all the fuss over the Swine Flu vaccination. There’s already a mighty large amount of evidence that this was a rather contrived event and I am glad I didn’t take a jab. I had the normal flu jab. I wonder how those that invested in this swine flu product will try to recoup their losses for I am sure they will be trying to use the stockpiled antidote to this swine flu. Watch this space…..In the meantime, I feel the weather is cooling down so let’s get the forecast…..
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A new study out of Oxford University pinpoints vitamin D deficiency as a culprit in serious illnesses like cancer and autoimmune disorders. According to the report, which was recently published online in the journal Genome Research, genetic receptors throughout the body need adequate vitamin D levels to prevent these and other serious illnesses from developing.
Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Chron’s disease, leukemia — these and many more diseases are often caused by a lack of vitamin D. Your genes literally have receptors that need vitamin D in order to properly express themselves. If there is not enough of the vitamin, serious illness is prone to develop.
Word of the Day
el capítulo kah-pee’-too-loh (noun)
chapter; episode; area, subject
EXAMPLES
Mi sobrina solamente tiene 6 años y puede leer libros con capítulos. – My niece is only 6 years old and can read chapter books.
Mañana se abre un nuevo capítulo en mi vida. – Tomorrow starts a new chapter in my life.
IDIOMS
Llamar a uno a capítulo – To take somebody to task
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for el capítulo.
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A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:
Floor 1 – These men Have Jobs
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 2 – These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
‘That’s nice,’ she thinks, ‘but I want more.’
So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:
Floor 3 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.
‘Wow,’ she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the fourth f loor and the sign reads:
Floor 4 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.
‘Oh, mercy me!’ she exclaims, ‘I can hardly stand it!’
Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 5 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 6 – You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store. (scroll and keep reading!)
PLEASE NOTE:
To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.
The first floor has wives that love sex.
The second floor has wives that love sex and have money and like beer.
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.
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Events
1859 – The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service.
1887 – Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
1923 – About 100,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan.
1939 – World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
1942 – A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1945 – The U.S. received official word of Japan’s formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.
1969 – Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.
1972 – America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1983 – A Soviet jet fighter shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 when it entered Soviet airspace. 269 people were killed.
1985 – The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.
1986 – The Soviet Union announced the accident involving the Admiral Nakhimov the night before. 448 people died in the ship collision.
1997 – In France, the prosecutor’s office announced that the driver of the car, in which Britain’s Princess Diana was killed, was over the legal alcohol limit.
1998 – Vietnam released 5,000 prisoners, including political dissidents, on National Day.
Music Stuff September 1st
1952, Atlantic Records bought Ray Charles’ contract from Swingtime Records, where Charles had been recording in the mellower, bluesy style of Nat King Cole and Charles Brown.
1955, after complaints from his neighbours, Rock ‘n’ Roll fan Sidney Adams was fined £3 and 10 shillings, by a London Court after playing Bill Haley’s ‘Shake Rattle and Roll’ all day at full volume.
1956, Elvis Presley No.2 on the US singles chart with ‘Hound Dog’ being held off the top by The Platters ‘My Prayer’.
1956, 19 year old Jerry Lee Lewis arrived at Sun Records hoping for an audition, only to find that owner Sam Phillips was on vacation in Florida. Jerry Lee recorded some demos that Phillips would hear when he returned.
1957, The Biggest Show Of Stars package tour kicked off at Brooklyn Paramount featuring: Buddy Holly & The Crickets, The Drifters, The Everly Brothers and Frankie Lymon.
1962, Tommy Roe No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sheila’, a No.3 hit in the UK.
1966, The Who’s single ‘I’m A Boy’ entered the UK chart peaking at No.2 giving the band their second No.2 hit.
1967, the four Beatles held a meeting at Paul McCartney’s house in London to decide upon their next course of action following the death of manager Brian Epstein. They decide to postpone their planned trip to India and to begin the already-delayed production of the Magical Mystery Tour movie. They have two songs already recorded for the movie, ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ and ‘Your Mother Should Know’.
1974, The Osmonds No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Johnny Bristol song ‘Love Me For A Reason’
1977, Blondie, featuring former Playboy Bunny Debra Harry, signed their first major record company contract with Chrysalis Records.
1979, Van Morrison, Talking Heads, Squeeze, The Undertones, Steele Pulse and The Chieftains all appeared at The Edinburgh Rock Festival, Scotland, tickets, £6.
1979, U2 released their very first record, an EP titled ‘U2-3.’
1980, Stevie Wonder played the first of six sold out nights at Wembley Arena.
1984, after a 25-year career, Tina Turner had her first solo No.1 single in the US with ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’.
1986, Madness announced they were splitting up.
1996, Kim Wilde married actor Hal Fowler who she met while working on the West End musical Tommy.
2000, The Spice Girls had five places in a list of the UK Top 20 earning celebrity directors.
2002, Atomic Kitten started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the 1980 Blondie hit, ‘The Tide Is High.’
2007, Supergrass were forced to put all plans on hold after band member Mick Quinn broke his back. The bass player and vocalist sleepwalked out of a first floor window of a villa where he was staying in the South of France; he was rushed to a specialist spinal unit in Toulouse where surgeons operated to repair two broken vertebrae as well as a smashed heel.
2009, Jake Brockman, former keyboard player with Echo and the Bunnymen was killed when his motorbike was in collision with a converted ambulance on the Isle of Man. In 1989 the band’s first drummer Pete De Freitas died in a similar crash.
Birthday Boys and Girls September 1st
1927, Tommy Evans, The Drifters
1933, Conway Twitty,
1944, Archie Bell, The Drells,
1947, Barry Gibb, singer, songwriter, producer, The Bee Gees,
1949, Russ Field, Showaddywaddy
1950, Peter Hewson, Chicory Tip
1955,Bruce Foxton, bass, vocals, The Jam
1957, Gloria Estefan
