DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate Day of Pink
Bullying is never fun; it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.Raini Rodriguez
The Day of Pink is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Transmisogyny across the world. We invite everyone to celebrate diversity by wearing a pink shirt and by organizing activities in their workplaces, schools, and communities.
History of the Day of Pink
The Day of Pink was started in Nova Scotia when two straight high school students saw a gay student wearing a pink shirt being bullied. The two students intervened but wanted to do more to prevent homophobic and transphobic bullying.
They decided to purchase pink shirts, and a few days later got everyone at school to arrive wearing pink, standing in solidarity. The result was that an entire school took a stand and began working together to prevent homophobic and transphobic bullying.
The campaign has continued to grow: it is now an international campaign that thrives in schools, workplaces, and communities. The Day of Pink and the conversations, awareness, and acceptance that stems from it are making a real difference in the lives of queer and trans youth. So let’s wear pink, spark some conversations, and inspire acceptance.
Joke of the Day
LEMON PICKING EXPERIENCE
The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed way too qualified for the job.
"Look Miss," said the foreman, "do you have any experience in picking lemons?"
"Well ... as a matter of fact, Yes!" she replied. "I've been married and divorced three times."
"Look Miss," said the foreman, "do you have any experience in picking lemons?"
"Well ... as a matter of fact, Yes!" she replied. "I've been married and divorced three times."
Word of the Day
vandal
Sack of Rome (steel engraving)
MEANING:
noun: One who willfully damages another’s property.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Vandals, a Germanic tribe who overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa, and in 455 CE sacked Rome. Earliest documented use: 1555.
USAGE:
“Whether true Conservatives can save their party from such vandals is one of the great political issues of our time.”
On Parliamentarians Talented, Vainglorious, Entertaining, and Anarchic; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 5, 2019.
On Parliamentarians Talented, Vainglorious, Entertaining, and Anarchic; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 5, 2019.
Idiom of the Day
- No man is an island
Meaning: You can’t live completely independently. Everyone needs help from other people.
Modern Day Castaway
This Day in History
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.
1834 - In New York City, Cornelius Lawrence became the first mayor to be elected by popular vote in a city election.
1873 - Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.
1953 - The bones of Sitting Bull were moved from North Dakota to South Dakota.
1971 - Chicago became the first rock group to sell out a week of shows at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1974 - Hank Aaron hits 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's record.
1975 - Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians became first black manager of a major league baseball team.
1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
1992 - In Britain, the last issue of "Punch Magazine" was published.
1994 - The RIAA announced that Pink Floyd's 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon" had become the fourth biggest-selling album in U.S. history. It had passed the 13 million mark in sales.
2002 - Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "Topdog/Underdog."
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, April 8
You are a true pioneer with exceptionally strong business sense. You have little patience for slacking off and slowness. Quick-minded and generally thorough, you are also very independent, rarely asking for help. This trait can lead you to feel lonely at times. However, you are quick to help others if they sincerely need a hand. You make an excellent manager, and while you like to lead or do things on your own, you are not arrogant or overbearing. Famous people born today:
1460 Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer and conquistador who searched for the fountain of youth and the first European to discover Florida, born in Santervás de Campos, Castile, Spain (d. 1521)
1892 Mary Pickford [Gladys Smith], Canadian actress (Poor Little Rich Girl), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1979)
1918 Betty [Bloomer] Ford, US 1st lady (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
1938 Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006), born in Comassie, Gold Coast (d. 2018)
1966 Robin Wright, American actress (Santa Barbara, Princess Bride), born in Dallas, Texas
thanks, Bonnie
READERS INFO
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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:
Viktor Efimovich Kononov lost his right hand after an accident. He designed a functional and inexpensive mechanical arm with aluminium and ebony; which was approved for mass production in 1946.
During World War I, Nobel laureate scientist Marie Curie had a Renault car converted into a medical radiology unit, which she would drive from hospital to hospital and treat wounded soldiers
Sadly enough, not everyone welcomed Einstein to America. A nativist opinion piece in the 6 January 1933 edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly condemned the appointment of Einstein by the Institute for Advanced Study as "anti-American:"
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Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
It's in times like these you realize on a very deep level, how important relationships are. I live alone in a small seniors apartment (well, if you don't count the budgie and the cat, who are both as skittish as any rescue animals). The whole building was like a mausoleum to begin with, due to the controlling nature of the property manager and her henchman (actually a lady superintendent).
I was quite surprised when a woman of acquaintance from years ago reached out to me. Working from home, she gave me three phone numbers and times she would be taking a break. Now this woman is like the little girl in Grade 6 that no-one liked because she ratted out every little thing with unabashed cheer, and then smiled at those who were lead to the coat closet to meet their lonely doom. Imagine that in a music group of seniors.
I was the actual originator of the group, and spent a good 10 to 14 hours weekly arranging music for the other members, and she was one of those who had no clue as to the key she sang in, so every new song she wanted to sing was a surprise, and usually had to be arranged. Like Petula Clark's Downtown, only in strange keys amateur guitarists would not be familiar with. I just put up with her and other annoying people for a few years, but things were wearing thin (like tonal deafness, Altheimer's, politics, etc.), and a meeting was called. The leader (a male, of course) did nothing to stop the nastiness that arose, and a few months later, things were very obviously getting out of hand. One of my jobs was to arrange the lineup at the monthly performance. So I would juggle the artists and the flow of music so it blends, from one song to the next, making sure everyone got their two songs in. At the last performance I attended, before the last meeting I attended, Little Miss Sunshine decided to change the lineup around during the performance, cutting my songs out and sticking in an extra song of her own.
At the meeting I made it clear that this was not cool, that I wasn't spending all my free time on arranging music so she could cut people out of the lineup. She just looked at me with a blank face. Nothing was resolved, so I quit the group with a couple of other people. It was no surprise that attendance at those performances went plummeting. Now I am with a mixed group of mixed amateurs and professionals, and get my time in as a soloist and backup artist with audiences who do not fall asleep during performances.
So what am I to do with this woman whose only person in her life is her sister?
Absolutely nothing. Pray for her safety is about all I can muster. And think of my own sister, with whom I did not grow up. She cannot have a relationship with me because I remind her of our father, then she gets a headache. And there is other family stuff with which I had nothing to do, for which reason I wisely left home for far, far away at 18. But once when I visited her in in Indianapolis in 1991, I found this recipe in an old church cookbook she had. So I copied it and I tried it, and is it ever good! And every time I make it, I get to experience the memory of my beautiful, albeit distant, sister.
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
1992 - In Britain, the last issue of "Punch Magazine" was published.
2002 - Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "Topdog/Underdog."
DAILY SQU-EEK
I was quite surprised when a woman of acquaintance from years ago reached out to me. Working from home, she gave me three phone numbers and times she would be taking a break. Now this woman is like the little girl in Grade 6 that no-one liked because she ratted out every little thing with unabashed cheer, and then smiled at those who were lead to the coat closet to meet their lonely doom. Imagine that in a music group of seniors.
I was the actual originator of the group, and spent a good 10 to 14 hours weekly arranging music for the other members, and she was one of those who had no clue as to the key she sang in, so every new song she wanted to sing was a surprise, and usually had to be arranged. Like Petula Clark's Downtown, only in strange keys amateur guitarists would not be familiar with. I just put up with her and other annoying people for a few years, but things were wearing thin (like tonal deafness, Altheimer's, politics, etc.), and a meeting was called. The leader (a male, of course) did nothing to stop the nastiness that arose, and a few months later, things were very obviously getting out of hand. One of my jobs was to arrange the lineup at the monthly performance. So I would juggle the artists and the flow of music so it blends, from one song to the next, making sure everyone got their two songs in. At the last performance I attended, before the last meeting I attended, Little Miss Sunshine decided to change the lineup around during the performance, cutting my songs out and sticking in an extra song of her own.
At the meeting I made it clear that this was not cool, that I wasn't spending all my free time on arranging music so she could cut people out of the lineup. She just looked at me with a blank face. Nothing was resolved, so I quit the group with a couple of other people. It was no surprise that attendance at those performances went plummeting. Now I am with a mixed group of mixed amateurs and professionals, and get my time in as a soloist and backup artist with audiences who do not fall asleep during performances.
So what am I to do with this woman whose only person in her life is her sister?
Absolutely nothing. Pray for her safety is about all I can muster. And think of my own sister, with whom I did not grow up. She cannot have a relationship with me because I remind her of our father, then she gets a headache. And there is other family stuff with which I had nothing to do, for which reason I wisely left home for far, far away at 18. But once when I visited her in in Indianapolis in 1991, I found this recipe in an old church cookbook she had. So I copied it and I tried it, and is it ever good! And every time I make it, I get to experience the memory of my beautiful, albeit distant, sister.
Pictures of the day
Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral is the largest Armenian
Apostolic Church cathedral in the world. Located in the Armenian
capital Yerevan, construction started in 1997 and the consecration
took place on 23 September 2001, on the occasion of the 1,700th
anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity as the state religion
of Armenia. The building consists of three churches, the nave, with
seating for 1,700, and the side chapels of Saint Tiridates the King
and Saint Ashkhen the Queen, each of which has 150 seats; these
two royal figures provided crucial help to Saint Gregory the
Illuminator in his task of converting Armenia to Christianity. The
belfry tower is located above the entrance, and rooms for receptions
and church-related activities are provided on the lower floor.
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Germany
A crow in the branches of a tree at sunrise near Heidelberg.
knit
thanks, Ethel
knit
thanks, Cindy
Crimson Cowl
knit
Knit Pattern of the Day:
crochet
thanks, Mary
thanks, Kathy
CROCKPOT RECIPE
SWEETS
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS
thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
With time on their hands, they painted their cow
thanks, Lucy
PUZZLE
| alcove answer blind candy choose continuous | dwarf fairy field forthright fullness grass gypsy | haggle hated heard idiot kiosk light limit moron | nadir novels oath orange penultimate plain proper pure | recess refuse sharp slat sprite stump through |
SUDOKU ... very hard
QUOTE
thanks, Alice
Essential for smiles?
thanks, Heide
CLEVER
Fashionable
EYE OPENER
thanks, Sylvia
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Life is short, short, brother! / Ain't it the truth? / And there is no other / Ain't it the truth? / You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth! -Yip Harburg, lyricist (8 Apr 1896-1981)
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