World Creativity & Innovation Day - April 21, 2020

DIANE'S CORNER ... 

Celebrate World Creativity & Innovation Day

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Insanity is doing the same thing, the same way, over and over, while expecting different results. We’ve all heard this saying and often apply its wisdom to reasons to change negative life habits. However, this statement can also be applied to the creative process and scientific innovation. World Creativity and Innovation Day provides us an excuse to try to solve old problems in new ways with the potential of finding better and more effective ways to accomplish our goals! No more hum-drum day to day sameness! Instead open your creative center and try to make the world a better place!

History of World Creativity and Innovation Day

In 1452 a man was born who would set the standard for what it meant to be a renaissance man, excelling in both the arts and sciences. Invention, Mathematics, Music, Geology, Astronomy, Cartography, just to name a few, anything he turned his mind or hand to he made great advances. He was seen as the utterly perfect example of a universal genius, and his logical approach to the world was truly advanced and unusual for his time. World Creativity and Innovation Day was established to encourage everyone to dig deep and find their own inner da Vinci.

Creativity and innovation are beneficial in every walk of life, and every career. From those in customer service finding ways to improve their customer’s experience, scientists who’s every work day is filled with learning new things about the world and finding new ways to apply it, to politicians who could use their creativity to find new ways to solve problems and aid the public. World Creativity and Innovation Day encourages everyone to imagine a different world with different solutions.

Canadian geese practicing social distancing

Joke of the Day

MY FAVORITE EXERCISE

My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch.

It’s called lunch.

Word of the Day

totes

MEANING:

adverb: Totally; absolutely; definitely.

ETYMOLOGY:

A shortening of totally, from total, from Latin totus (whole, entire). Earliest documented use: 2006.

USAGE:

“Good for her for not pretending that everything is totes amazeballs.”
Ann Wason Moore; How Giving Birth Can Be Blissful; The Gold Coast Bulletin (Southport, Australia); Jan 6, 2018.

Idiom of the Day

11. Kill two birds with one stone

Meaning: Accomplish two things with one action or effort

This Day in History

1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President.

1892 - The first Buffalo was born in Golden Gate Park.

1895 - Woodville Latham and his sons demonstrated their Panopticon. It was the first movie projector developed in the United States.

1953 - In New York, the Sidney Janis Gallery held the Dada exhibition.

1972 - Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.

1984 - In France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed to cause AIDS.

1986 - Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside.

1989 - The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in Japan.


1994 - Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane.


2009 - UNESCO launched The World Digital Library. The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.



DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, April 21

You are charismatic and a leader at heart. Always aware of the impact you're making, your gestures are often grand and you do things in a big way. Inner restlessness keeps your life from becoming dull, although your drive for security is very strong. In long-term relationships, your actions speak louder than words, but it wouldn't hurt for you to express your affections verbally more often! Famous people born today: 

1816 Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (Jane Eyre), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England (d. 1855)

1838 John Muir, Scottish naturalist and discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras), born in Dunbar (d. 1914)

1926 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1952- ), born in London, England

1947 Iggy Pop [James Osterberg], American rocker (Zombie Birdhouse), born in Muskegon, Michigan

thanks, Riley

READERS INFO

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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:

Why are junk/unsolicited emails referred to as Spam emails? It is NOT in reference to the canned meat. Instead, it’s a Monty Python reference. On December 15, 1970, the British Comedy Group Monty Python premiered a sketch called “Spam”. In this sketch the word spam was used 132 times.

There are over 400 known phobias in the world. You have the fear of spiders, the fear of love, the fear of beds, to name a few, and you also have the fear of phobias. Yes, loosely translated that comes out to the fear of fear, also known as ‘Phobiaphobia’.

For every ten zippers you come across, there’s a good chance that nine of them will have the letters YKK on them. That stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the Japanese company that produces about 90% of all zippers.

2.

thanks for the Offbeat Holiday, Patty

NATIONAL BULLDOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL DAY

If you didn't already know this, you can see yourself out.

3.

Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent

Hello All!

As the world is social distancing right now, many of us are looking for hobbies to help pass the time. So you have been invited to be a part of a #QuarantineBookClub movement! Yay!

Please send your best book recommendation to the person whose name is in position #1 (even if you don't know them).

After you've sent your book recommendation to the person in position #1 below (and only to that person), copy this email into a new email, move my name to the #1 position and put your name in position #2. Only my and your name should show when you send your email. Send to 20 friends via BCC. 

You should receive A LOT of book recommendations and different worlds to escape to. It's fun to see where they come from! The turnaround is fast, as you only have to do this once.

In the meantime, stay safe, stay healthy, and STAY HOME.  

1. Sylvia Genders

Sylvia.Genders@gmail.com

Pictures of the day

The marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris) is a small North  American songbird of the wren family. The adult has a dark  cap, brown upper-parts, a white throat and breast, and light  brown underparts. It breeds in southern Canada and the  United States; some birds are resident while others migrate  to overwinter in the southern United States and Mexico. Its  habitat is marshland where it nests in tall vegetation, the male  building several oval structures with side entrances, only one  of which is eventually used by the female. The male is fiercely  territorial, attacking the eggs and young of other birds nesting  in the vicinity. This photograph was taken in the Cap  Tourmente National Wildlife Area in the province of Quebec,  Canada.

Cliffe, England

Avocet come in to roost at Cliffe Pools reserve

knit ... Mother's Day
thanks, Emily

Dixie's Dish Towel Recipe pattern by Dixie Schill

knit

thanks, Rose

Argyle Socks
knit

thanks, Emma

Hugging You From Over Here pattern by Brenda K. B. Anderson

knit

Sarabande Shawl pattern by Leah Prestamo

knit

Puzzle Baby Blanket pattern by Paula Levy

Crochet Pattern of the Day: 

thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

Fun Weekend blanket

Wrapped in Jamie CAL Pattern Release - Square 9

crochet ... Mother's Day
thanks, Sasha

GEM bag holder pattern by Dawn McIntyre

crochet ... Mother's Day
thanks, Tara

Heart Bookmark pattern by Julie A Bolduc

crochet

Slippers with Flip Flop Soles

crochet

bow Tied Hairband pattern by Asami Togashi

crochet

Ice Cream Summer Socks

RECIPE

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

Takeout-Style Sesame Noodles Recipe

CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Debbie

Slow Cooker Pork and Sauerkraut

SWEETS

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

Classic Chocolate Éclairs Recipe

ADULT COLORING

CRAFTS ... sewing

thanks, Kathy

DIY|Surgical Scrub Cap - Free Sewing Pattern and Tutorial

CHILDREN'S CORNER ... crafts

thanks, Mollie

Homemade Wind Chimes Made From Painted Sticks

PUZZLE

Camel Jigsaw Puzzle

WORD SEARCH

bend bridge cancel cavort circumstance collar corpse current

destruction ditch eager flood gentle gripe massacre

pirate places pleat poison prayer purge recoil

seize settlement sill small snatch sort soup stove sweep

tense thirst tissue trade veer winter

SUDOKU ... hard

solution:

QUOTE

Great Wealth - 2020 style!

CLEVER 

thanks, Sofia

Land O'Lakes Removes Native American Image 

From its Products

Land O’Lakes has changed its nearly 100-year-old packaging by removing an image of a Native American “butter maiden.” The image of the maiden named Mia, who was pictured wearing a headdress and kneeling with four sticks of butter, had been prominently displayed on Land O’Lakes products since 1928. In a statement released in February, the company, which was formed in 1921, wrote that the change would come ahead of its 100th anniversary in 2021 and is intended to feature “the farmers who are the foundation of the cooperative’s membership.”

EYE OPENER 

thanks, Heide

Plan Your Own Virtual Vacation

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (21 Apr 1838-1914)

OPTICAL ILLUSION

Do you see one man in this picture...or several people?

If you look very carefully, you'll find 9 different faces in the picture; the 9th belongs to a dog.

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