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Celebrate Save Your Hearing Day
Save Your Hearing Day is our yearly reminder to turn down the dial and to listen to the birds chirping outside our windows, for a change. Its originator is unknown, but bless our eardrums, he did us a great service, because how would we otherwise have been able to tell teenagers to turn off that noise?
Save Your Hearing Day is best celebrated in peaceful environments, with earmuffs, if need be. There’s a 60:60 rule that everybody should abide by on this day, which says you should listen to your MP3 at 60% of volume capacity for less than 60 minutes a day. It applies to concerts, as well. But if you simply couldn’t resist going to a live rock concert without wearing earplugs, then you should know you’ve been exposed to hours of decibel noise, the equivalent of listening to an ambulance siren for hundreds of minutes. A hearing detox consisting of 16 hours of auricular rest would do wonders for your eardrums, so have it on this day, because everybody else is.
Learn about Save Your Hearing Day
It is vital to take some time to learn about different ways to protect your hearing and your family’s hearing. This is what Save Your Hearing Day is all about. After all, our hearing is critical, and there are a number of things that we can do to reduce the chances of hearing loss.
There are a number of different signs and symptoms that you can look out for if you are worried that you or someone you love is experiencing hearing loss. This includes the following…
- Needing to concentrate hard in order to hear what other people are saying, which can be stressful and/or tiring
- Watching television or listening to music loudly
- Asking people to repeat themselves
- Having difficulty hearing what other people are saying clearly
- Misunderstanding what others have said
There are a number of different things that you can do in order to prevent hearing loss. This includes the following…
- Take precautions when you are at work. This includes wearing hearing protection, making sure you are not exposed to loud noises for long periods of time, and switching to quieter equipment if possible.
- Protect your hearing when at a loud event. When at a loud event, for example, a sports event or a music gig, you should give your hearing about 18 hours for recovery afterward. You should also try to take a break from the noise every 15 minutes and don’t stand next to the source of the noise, i.e. speakers.
- Avoid loud noises – The best way to protect your hearing is to avoid loud noises. A noise is probably loud enough to cause hearing damage if you have a ringing in your ears after, it hurts your ears, you can’t hear what people are saying nearby, or you need to raise your voice to talk to others.
History of Save Your Hearing Day
It is estimated that half of the cases of deafness and hearing loss can be prevented. This is why Save Your Hearing Day has been created. It has been celebrated for a number of years now, and in order to understand Save Your Hearing Day, it is worth looking at the invention of some of the different products that have been created in order to help people protect their hearing.
The invention of hearing protection has been spurred by military need. However, there have been references to hearing loss since Ancient Greek times. In fact, we know that people with hearing loss were shunned in Ancient Greece. They were called Barbarians by Aristotle because they were not able to speak the Greek language.
In 1864, earplugs were patented. By 1884, canal caps that could be attached to an adjustable headband were invented so that they could protect sailors and soldiers. In 1905, there were attempts to try and reduce the noise of gunfire through the creation of mechanical devices. This resulted in Mallock-Armstrong plugs being used in WW1. In fact, in 1914, disposable earplugs were also patented.
The V-51R were developed for WW2. These were leather flaps that went over the ears. They were designed to protect the crew on board military aircraft. Nevertheless, as jet engines became noiser and noiser, it was realized that something more effective would be needed, and this is when we Learn about Save Your Hearing Day
It is vital to take some time to learn about different ways to protect your hearing and your family’s hearing. This is what Save Your Hearing Day is all about. After all, our hearing is critical, and there are a number of things that we can do to reduce the chances of hearing loss.
There are a number of different signs and symptoms that you can look out for if you are worried that you or someone you love is experiencing hearing loss. This includes the following…
Needing to concentrate hard in order to hear what other people are saying, which can be stressful and/or tiring
Watching television or listening to music loudly
Asking people to repeat themselves
Having difficulty hearing what other people are saying clearly
Misunderstanding what others have said
There are a number of different things that you can do in order to prevent hearing loss. This includes the following…
Take precautions when you are at work. This includes wearing hearing protection, making sure you are not exposed to loud noises for long periods of time, and switching to quieter equipment if possible.
Protect your hearing when at a loud event. When at a loud event, for example, a sports event or a music gig, you should give your hearing about 18 hours for recovery afterward. You should also try to take a break from the noise every 15 minutes and don’t stand next to the source of the noise, i.e. speakers.
Avoid loud noises – The best way to protect your hearing is to avoid loud noises. A noise is probably loud enough to cause hearing damage if you have a ringing in your ears after, it hurts your ears, you can’t hear what people are saying nearby, or you need to raise your voice to talk to others. started to see the earmuffs that we know today being produced. However, at first, the cushions were incredibly stiff, meaning a strong headband was needed to ensure a seal against the head. This caused a grip that was described as vice-like. This issue was resolved by 1954 when fluid-filled cushions were developed.
Since then, there have been many progressions in the world of hearing protection. Progress has continued towards acceptability and comfort. In the late ‘50s, glass-down appeared, and then in the ‘70s, we saw the introduction of conformable foam plugs. In the ‘80s, non-linear electric systems were incorporated into earmuffs.
A Look Back at 1921
How do knitters get more fibre in their diet?
A view of Mount Rainier, with the buildings of Seattle, Washington, visible in the foreground. This photo was taken from Bigelow Avenue, near present-day Bhy Kracke Park.
WORD OF THE DAY
Fort Knox
MEANING:noun:
1. An inordinate amount of wealth.
2. A place extraordinarily secure and thus impossible to break into.
ETYMOLOGY:After Fort Knox, nickname of the United States Bullion Depository, a vault that houses most of the US government’s gold, in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
NOTES:Consider a kilo of gold. That sounds like a lot of the shiny yellow thing. How about 1000 kilos, about a ton? How about 1000 tons of gold? Now we’re talking. Fort Knox houses about 4,600 tons of gold. 4,603 tons to be precise, but what’s a ton here or there when we’re talking about gold?
That may sound like a lot, but all that gold is still going to buy you only about one-tenth of Apple or Google or Microsoft.
If you have your GPS handy, you can locate the vault at the intersection of Gold Vault Rd. and Bullion Blvd. in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Here’s the map. Don’t even think about it. Goldfinger was fiction and even that didn’t end well. For more productive results I recommend launching an online startup. Whatever your idea, please make it into something less detrimental to humanity than Facebook (permalink).
Guess what happens when the vault in Fort Knox overflows? They turn all that extra metal into crayons for nearby elementary schools.
JOKE:A man prayed. He prayed and prayed and prayed. God was relaxing on His celestial couch watching the Superbowl. The man’s whiny voice eventually got to Him. He picked up the remote and pressed pause. All the players froze in midair.
“What the hell do you want?” God asked.
“I want to be surrounded by so much gold, so much gold that I’d look tiny in comparison.”
This was a big ask, but God was eager to get back to the game. The man turned into a worm and found himself crawling among the pallets of gold inside Fort Knox.
He was happy for a few seconds, but then reality set in. He prayed again.
“What is it now?”
“Thank you so much for granting my wish, but get me out of here, please!”
“Man! Do you have any idea where you are? Even I can’t get anything out of Fort Knox. How about I make your football team the winner?”
USAGE:“The net result is a Fort Knox of vested-interest cash fighting for fewer and fewer genuinely contestable seats in an increasingly unrepresentative electorate.”
Peter Hartcher; Democracy Is Fragile. Guard It; Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia); Oct 17, 2020.
“Q: Your TV wife, Mandy Moore, recently let it drop that there was a big hot plot twist at the start of Season 4. Can you hint at what we should expect?
A: I think I’m a little more of a Fort Knox than Mandy Moore.”
Kathryn Shattuck; Milo Ventimiglia Finds a Good Guy Lane; The New York Times; Aug 4, 2019.
A 1921 publicity photo of the Canadian actress Mary Pickford, reading a copy of Little Lord Fauntleroy. She portrayed both Cedric Errol and Widow Errol in a screen version of the classic children's book.
1. An inordinate amount of wealth.
2. A place extraordinarily secure and thus impossible to break into.
That may sound like a lot, but all that gold is still going to buy you only about one-tenth of Apple or Google or Microsoft.
If you have your GPS handy, you can locate the vault at the intersection of Gold Vault Rd. and Bullion Blvd. in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Here’s the map. Don’t even think about it. Goldfinger was fiction and even that didn’t end well. For more productive results I recommend launching an online startup. Whatever your idea, please make it into something less detrimental to humanity than Facebook (permalink).
Guess what happens when the vault in Fort Knox overflows? They turn all that extra metal into crayons for nearby elementary schools.
“What the hell do you want?” God asked.
“I want to be surrounded by so much gold, so much gold that I’d look tiny in comparison.”
This was a big ask, but God was eager to get back to the game. The man turned into a worm and found himself crawling among the pallets of gold inside Fort Knox.
He was happy for a few seconds, but then reality set in. He prayed again.
“What is it now?”
“Thank you so much for granting my wish, but get me out of here, please!”
“Man! Do you have any idea where you are? Even I can’t get anything out of Fort Knox. How about I make your football team the winner?”
Peter Hartcher; Democracy Is Fragile. Guard It; Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia); Oct 17, 2020.
“Q: Your TV wife, Mandy Moore, recently let it drop that there was a big hot plot twist at the start of Season 4. Can you hint at what we should expect?
A: I think I’m a little more of a Fort Knox than Mandy Moore.”
Kathryn Shattuck; Milo Ventimiglia Finds a Good Guy Lane; The New York Times; Aug 4, 2019.
TODAY'S ARTIST thanks, Natalie
Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen (c. 1595 – 21 February 1624)
Dutch painter and one of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.
A view of Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October 1921
IDIOM OF THE DAY
What does 'Average Joe' mean?
An average Joe is an ordinary person without anything exceptional about them.
The actress Madge Saunders rides her "Ner-A-Car" motorcycle, somewhere in the U.K, circa 1921.
DAILY SQUEEK
If You Were Born Today, May 31
Your clever mind and strength of character are traits that others tend to notice first, and they earn you respect. You are an engaging conversationalist, offering a unique perspective on whatever topic is on the table. You are very capable and determined, and you have a distinct traditional side to your personality. Famous people born today:
1819 Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) and volunteer nurse during the Civil War, born in West Hills, New York (d. 1892)
1930 Clint Eastwood, American actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, California), born in San Francisco, California
1943 Joe Namath, American Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Super Bowl 1969; Super Bowl MVP 1969; Pro Bowl 1972; NY Jets), born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
1965 Brooke Shields, American model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan), born in NYC, New York
If You Were Born Today, May 31
Your clever mind and strength of character are traits that others tend to notice first, and they earn you respect. You are an engaging conversationalist, offering a unique perspective on whatever topic is on the table. You are very capable and determined, and you have a distinct traditional side to your personality. Famous people born today:
thanks, Cindy
(Not So) TOTALLY USELESS FACTS OF THE DAY
The are plenty of wedding traditions that span the globe. Some are done for luck, some to ward off evil spirits, some to bless a new home. The Greeks have a tradition in which the bride will carry a sugar cube in one of her gloves. This is done to ‘sweeten the marriage’.
What is the Halo Effect? It is the phenomenon in which your mind can’t stop your heart from seeing what it wants to see in another person. More or less. Being attracted to someone or thinking they are smart and/or good looking can and will influence how you rate their abilities or skills in other areas.
In the medieval days of Germany, they had an interesting way of curing a toothache. They would kiss a donkey. You read correctly. Somehow, the dentists of back then convinced their patients to kiss a donkey whenever they had a toothache.
READERS INFO
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The State of Israel hanged German official Adolf Eichmann, who had escaped from a prison camp in 1946 and spent some 14 years in hiding, for his part in the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.
2.thanks for the Offbeat Holiday, Patty
1st June – Dare Day.
Six retired Jewish gents were playing poker in the condo clubhouse when Meyer loses $500 on a single hand, clutches his chest and drops dead at the table. Showing respect for their fallen comrade, the other five continue playing, but standing up. At the end of the game, Finklestein looks around and asks, "So, who's gonna tell his wife?" They cut the cards. Goldberg picks the low card and has to carry the news. They tell him to be discreet, be gentle, don't make a bad situation any worse. "Discreet? I'm the most discreet person you'll ever meet. Discretion is my middle name. Leave it to me." Goldberg goes over to the Meyer's condo and knocks on the door. The wife answers through the door and asks what he wants? Goldberg declares: "Your husband just lost $500 in a poker game and is afraid to come home." "Tell him to drop dead!" yells the wife. "I'll go tell him." says Goldberg. |
In May 1921, the Irish Republican Army briefly occupied and then burned the Dublin Custom House, which housed a British government agency, during the Irish War of Independence
COFFEEthanks, Ella
PICTURES OF THE DAY
The Garden of Eels
The original caption from April 25, 1921 reads: "All the drudgery of dishwashing—this three-times-a day task which comes to the housewife who does her own housework—has been eliminated by the new dishwasher shown in this photograph. It is the invention of a Cincinnati school teacher, who sought to make things a bit more pleasant for his wife. Incidentally, his idea was worth $12 to him, for a manufacturing concern thought so much of the 'dishwasher,' they purchased the rights and will seek to add a little joy to thousands of other housewives. With the aid of only hot water, dishes placed in a wire rack and set into the drum are made clean and spotless in two minutes."
knit .. Father's Day
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CROCHET PATTERNS OF THE DAY
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crochet .. Father's Day
QUARANTINE COOKING RECIPES
CROCKPOT RECIPE
VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN RECIPE
Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
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Do You Have An Irrational Fear?
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