Thursday, July 14, 2016

Shark Awareness Day July 14, 2016

DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate Shark Awareness Day

 Contrary to expectations, the purpose of Shark Awareness Day is not to stand on the beach and shout out warnings to terrified swimmers and surfers, despite the hours of innocent fun that can provide.

It’s true that sharks are impressive hunters and predators, yet the sad fact remains that these magnificent creatures are more threatened by people than we are by sharks. The worldwide demand for shark-fin soup, shark-tooth medallions, and a false sense of security on beaches everywhere, all combine to leave sharks persecuted and endangered, with millions of them being killed each year.


Like top predators in any ecosystem, sharks play an essential role in keeping the seas healthy and productive. Whilst no-one is suggesting we go out and hug a Great White on Shark Awareness Day, it’s the least we can do to respect these wonderful creatures and let them be.



Word of the Day

tempestuous 


Definition:(adjective) As if showing violent anger.
Synonyms:angry, furious, raging, wild
Usage:The raging sea and tempestuous winds indicated that a big storm was coming.

Idiom of the Day

go under the hammer

 — To be put up for or sold at auction. 

History

Ingmar Bergman (1918)


Bergman was a Swedish film and stage writer, director, and producer. He achieved an impressive degree of freedom early in his career and used it to create and develop a highly individual approach. Working with many of the same actors and technicians from film to film—including actor Max von Sydow and cinematographer Sven Nykvist—Bergman filled his work with an unusual degree of unity and continuity.

Bastille Day


The Bastille was a 14th-century fortress that became a notorious state prison in Paris. An angry mob assaulted the Bastille—which had come to symbolize the French monarchy's oppression of the people—on July 14, 1789, freeing the political prisoners held there and launching the French Revolution. July 14 has been celebrated since that time in France as Fête Nationale, as well as in French territories in the Pacific, with parades, fireworks, and dancing in the streets. InTahiti and the rest of French Polynesia, it is called Tiurai or Heiva, and is celebrated for most of the month. 

US Navy Invests $750000 in Bomb-Tracking Cyborg Locusts


How's this for rebranding? The locust, commonly known as a pest and a bad omen, might someday avert disaster. 
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1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure. 

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 1911 - Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft. 

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 1914 - Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel. 

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 1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was first published.

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1951 - The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, MO, became the first national park to honor an African American. 

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 2003 - Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.
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DAILY SQU-EEK


If You Were Born Today, July 14
You are a very focused person, with some obsessive qualities, but as you gain life experience, you learn to ease up and enjoy yourself more. You often have a cause that you're passionate about and certainly enjoy helping people or opening others' eyes - teaching them to see the world differently. You are communicative, busy, and often on the go. You love to travel, but your home base is very important to you. Famous people born today: Woody Guthrie, Jane Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Matthew Fox, William Hanna, Gerald Ford, Jackie Earle Haley.


Picture of the day
Francisco de Miranda
Francisco de Miranda(1750–1816) was a Venezuelan revolutionary who unsuccessfully fought for the independence of the Spanish American colonies. Miranda was directly involved in the French Revolution for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Revolution and Marshal of France. He is the only American engraved on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. In 1812, he was handed over to the Spanish, dying four years later in a Cádiz prison. His imprisonment is depicted in this 1896 oil painting on canvas by Arturo Michelena.


Picture of Greek ruins at sunset

Ruins of Worship

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, Archaeological Site of Delphi
In Greece, twilight bathes the ruins of the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia at Delphi and its tholos, a circular building. Pilgrims may have offered sacrifices here before consulting the oracle of Delphi at the nearby temple of Apollo.


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Woodstock Vest

Woodstock Vest
thanks, susie, west coast correspondent
AGING PROBLEMS


This is what all of you 70+ year old, and yet to be, kids have to look forward to!!   This is something that happened in a local assisted living center.
The people who lived there have small apartments but they all eat at a central cafeteria. One morning one of the residents didn't show up for breakfast so the nurse went upstairs and knocked on his door to see if everything was OK. She could hear him through the door and he said that he was running late and would be down shortly so she went back to the dining area.

An hour later he still hadn't arrived so she went back up towards his room and she found him on the stairs. He was coming down the stairs but was having a hell of time. He had a death grip on the hand rail and seemed to have trouble getting his legs to work right. She told him she was going to call an ambulance but he told her no, he wasn't in any pain and just wanted to have his breakfast. So she helped him the rest of the way down the stairs and he had his breakfast.

When he tried to return to his room he was completely unable to get up even the first step so they called an ambulance for him.
A couple hours later she called the hospital to see how he was doing. The receptionist there said he was fine, he just had both of his legs in one leg of his boxer shorts.

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RECIPE

POULET AU VINAIGRE

Poulet Au Vinaigre - Easy French Recipes



CROCKPOT RECIPE

Creamy Tomato Chicken Pasta

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SWEETS


CRAFTS
iris folded bookcovers / suzys artsy craftsy sitcom



CHILDREN'S CORNER ... creative
Make rainbow toast for a fun twist on breakfast for snack time - It's simple and exciting!



PUZZLE



QUOTE
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. - Marcel Marceau


Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a collection of over 400 model ships! Submitted by Dan Paulun, W. Lafayette, OH. -------------------- Fish fall from the sky so regularly during the month of May and July in Yoro, Honduras, that locals celebrate their arrival with the Festival de la Lluvia de Peces! -------------------- In France, you can legally marry the deceased—about 50 posthumous marriages take place yearly!



CLEVER

Washi Tape Dispenser





EYE OPENER

Let’s Dance!


The forecast heatwave seems to have arrived in full force today and it’s far too hot to actually dance, so here are some vintage photos of people dancing their socks off to keep us all entertained. Thinking about doing exercise is almost as good as doing it, right?
Oh, and I’d like to know your opinion. I suspect the ballet dancers pictured in 1887 are actually all men in drag – what do you think? Also, which is your favourite costume?
Leon Woizikowsky as the golden slave and Nina Raievska as Zoebeide in Scheherazade, Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, 1937 / Russell Roberts Pty. Ltd
Leon Woizikowsky as the golden slave and Nina Raievska as Zoebeide in Scheherazade, Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, 1937
Studio portrait of a young woman in ballet costume striking a pose with arms behind her back
tudio portrait of a young woman in ballet costume striking a pose with arms behind her back. She wears a headscarf, bracelets, dancing costume and ballet shoes. She poses against a cloth backdrop representing a road and riverbank. 1910
Mr Webber and Miss Buchanan showing the correct way to dance
Photograph taken for a Truth newspaper feature on Mr S.G. Webber and Miss Dora Buchanan, who had won the Australian Championship for ballroom dancing. The couple gave classes at their studio in Ewing House, Adelaide Street, Brisbane. Photograph taken April 1932.
Ballet school, Wash. Sq. [i.e., Washington Square] players (LOC)
Ballet school, Washington Square players c. 1915
Miss Finney dancing, Montreal, QC, 1923
Miss Finney dancing, Montreal, QC, 1923
Alison Lee, stage name Helene Lineva and star of the Original Ballet Russe, 1939-1940, posing in the studio, Sydney / photographer Max Dupain
Alison Lee, stage name Helene Lineva and star of the Original Ballet Russe, 1939-1940, posing in the studio, Sydney / photographer Max Dupain
Colonel de Basil's "Original Ballet Russe" (Russian Ballet) season, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1939-1940, / Sam Hood
Colonel de Basil’s “Original Ballet Russe” (Russian Ballet) season, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1939-1940
 "Aurora's wedding" with Tamara Toumanova, Michael Panaieff, Anton Vlassoff and Oleg Tupine, 1940.
Rehearsal for “Aurora’s wedding” with Tamara Toumanova (wearing the fur coat) , Michael Panaieff, Anton Vlassoff and Oleg Tupine, 1940.
Halina Schmolz & Alex Volinin (LOC)
Halina Schmolz & Alex Volinin c. 1910-1915
Helene Kirsova, ballerina, ca. 1947 / photographer unknown
Anna Pavlova c. 1947
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Egyptian Ballet.
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Egyptian Ballet.
Tatiana Riabouchinska and Roman Jasinsky in Les Dieux mendiants (The Gods go a-begging), between Nov 1938-Aug 1940 / photograph by Max Dupain
Tatiana Riabouchinska and Roman Jasinsky in Les Dieux mendiants (The Gods go a-begging), between Nov 1938-Aug 1940 / photograph by Max Dupain
Gwen Caine of Bowen ca 1925
Gwen Caine of Bowen ready for a dancing recital. She is seen in her dancing costume, posing on pointe. 1925

Melba L. Procter & H.E. Marshall Hall [Ballet] (LOC)
Melba L. Procter & H.E. Marshall Hall c. 1920
Thamar Karsarvina (LOC)
Thamar Karsarvina between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915
Dancer at Tivoli Theatre
This image shows an exotic dancer ‘Terpoichore:’ performing at the Tivoli Theatre. The inscription reads: “To Little Eunice, from Terpoichore” c. 1935

Harry Furniss, (who worked in Australia as Paul Furniss), actor, director, author, singer and dancer, ca. 1927-1939 / photographer unknown
Harry Furniss, (who worked in Australia as Paul Furniss), actor, director, author, singer and dancer, ca. 1927-1939
Valrene Tweedie as an Odalisque in 'Scheherazade', Chicago, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1947-48 / Maurice Seymour
Valrene Tweedie as an Odalisque in ‘Scheherazade’, Chicago, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1947-48

Balletitantsijad / Ballet dancers
Ballet dancers c 1887

Alison Lee, stage name Helene Lineva and star of the Original Ballet Russe, 1939-1940, posing in the studio, Sydney / photographer Max Dupain
Alison Lee, stage name Helene Lineva and star of the Original Ballet Russe, 1939-1940




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  1. PattyJuly 15, 2016 at 8:33 AM

    So hot and humid that swimming with the sharks sounds almost appealing!

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