DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate Asthma Day
Millions of people all over the world suffer from asthma, and if you’ve ever met one who suffers from it then you’re familiar with the pssst psst sound of the inhalers that make a relatively normal day to day life possible for them.
Asthma Day is dedicated to raising awareness about this pernicious disease and seeks to bring awareness and advanced asthma care to sufferers throughout the world.
History of Asthma Day
Asthma Day was initially established in 1998 by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). While almost all of us are familiar with the sound and visual of an inhaler for asthma being used, not all of us are aware of the actual nature, cause, and that there are multiple types of asthma out there.
The truth of the matter is asthma isn’t entirely understood, what is known is that there are multiple factors at play in the complex chemistry that creates an asthma sufferer. These include genetic interactions and elements in the environment that can change both the severity and how likely it is to respond to treatment.
The known aggravators of asthma are many and include everything from allergens, air pollution, and other chemicals that can appear in the environment that irritate the lungs. In high enough concentrations these factors can cause serious asthma attacks in sufferers and aggravate cases that are otherwise mild.
Asthma is incredibly prevalent in those areas that suffer from low air quality as a result, and those areas also tend to be those that house low-income and minority communities. As such these already disadvantaged individuals are the highest sufferers of this pernicious disease. An added factor is psychological stress, and again this element is particularly high in those living on the edge of poverty, increasing its occurrence there further.
Digital Graphics by Uncle SimonJoke of the Day
DOCTOR'S VISIT
A man visits his doctor and complains that he feels like he has 5 legs.
The doctor asks him how do his pants fit?
The man replies, "Like a glove!"
The doctor asks him how do his pants fit?
The man replies, "Like a glove!"
Word of the Day
repugnant
MEANING:
adjective: Distasteful; offensive; objectionable.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French répugnant (disgusting), from Latin repugnant (contrary, opposed), from repugnare, from re- (again) + pugnare (to fight), from pugnus (fist). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peuk- (to prick), which is also the source of point, puncture, pungent, punctual, poignant, pounce, poniard, impugn, pugilist, and pugnacious. Earliest documented use: 1425.
USAGE:
“Aid for schools does not automatically raise spending on schools. The government may react by diverting the money it was going to spend on schools to another purpose, such as weapons or presidential palaces. Even attempts to fund worthwhile projects can facilitate repugnant ones.”
Bankrolling Bigotry; The Economist (London, UK); Mar 14, 2020.
Bankrolling Bigotry; The Economist (London, UK); Mar 14, 2020.
Idiom of the Day
- Rome wasn’t built in a day
Meaning: Doing important work takes a long time. Be patient.
This Day in History
1798 - U.S. Secretary of War William McHenry ordered that the USS Constitution be made ready for sea. The frigate was launched on October 21, 1797, but had never been put to sea.
1809 - Mary Kies was awarded the first patent to go to a woman. It was for technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
1891 - Music Hall was dedicated in New York City. It was later renamed Carnegie Hall.
1904 - The third perfect game of the major leagues was thrown by Cy Young (Boston Red Sox) against the Philadelphia Athletics. It was the first perfect game under modern rules.
1917 - Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service.
1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refused a 1925 Pulitzer for "Arrowsmith."
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft received a patent for the screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip.
1956 - Jim Bailey became the first runner to break the four-minute mile in the U.S. He was clocked at 3:58.5.
1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.
1986 - It was announced that Cleveland, Ohio, had been chosen as the city where the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame would be built.
1997 - Dolores Hope received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
thanks, Joan
1798 - U.S. Secretary of War William McHenry ordered that the USS Constitution be made ready for sea. The frigate was launched on October 21, 1797, but had never been put to sea.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, May 5
Determined and often stubborn, you have ambition and can work hard for what you want. You are multi-talented and somewhat restless. While you value stability, you crave stimulation and create new challenges for yourself to reach, which keeps your life in a state of flux. You are a good conversationalist, quite amorous, and especially attractive and magnetic. Famous people born today:
1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), born in Trier, Prussia (d. 1883)
1865 Nellie Bly [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman], American journalist and writer (Ten Days in a Mad House), born in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania (d. 1922)
1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work with lasers, born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 1999)
1942 Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], American country singer (Stand by your Man), born in Itawamba County, Mississippi (d. 1998)
1943 Michael Palin, English comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda), born in Sheffield, Yorkshire
1988 Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins], English singer (Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You), born in Tottenham, London
thanks, Ella
READERS INFO
1.
(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:
"Schnapsidee" is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you're drunk.
An Immaculate Inning is a baseball term. It applies when a pitcher strikes out three batters in the same inning while throwing the minimum amount of pitches needed, which is nine.
On January 1, 1835, President Andrew Jackson paid off the entire United States debt. The only time in American history this has ever been accomplished.
2.
1961 -
Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight on this day in 1961.
3.
Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
Oh, PDF Drive! I love and support this site, because you can download excellent books that have been transferred into ebooks for free. I'm not kidding!
This week, one of my all-time faves from the area of psychology is Goddesses In Every Woman, by Jean Shihoda, MD (https://www.pdfdrive.com/goddesses-in-every-woman-e27977849.html). It helps to understand the archetypal nature of the women you know, for good and bad. My mother was more an unhappy Persephone that became a Medussa, and I was not allowed to get close to her or any other adult women as a child, even my grandmothers. None except 'the maid' who raised my brother and me until I was eight. So my relationships with other girls and, later, women were very tricky. Emily Post was very helpful for posh parties, but not so much with relationships because the good guidelines in etiquette was so surface in Washington.
By the time I was in my 30's, I really wanted to connect well with other women, especially mothers and artists. When I tripped across this book through the Jungian Society, I found it helped me immensely to improve and succeed in my relationships with other women. In fact, I wonder if this is the reason why I have only come across one 'office bitch' in the many years since.
OB was hired while I was off having my hip replaced. I was told she had a degree in psychology, and was a single mum, so I was looking forward to getting to know her. But when I met her, things about her didn't add up. As a marketing and sales rep in the health and beauty industry, she wore no makeup, her hair was unstyled, and she wore a windbreaker and raggy shirts to meetings with high-profile estheticians. My teaching studio was an unholy mess, and I caught her lying about a great colleague who had been very kind and helpful to her, saying he had done it. I saw her shaming and blaming other people for her failures. She had a habit of tearing unnecessary strips off of people in accounting quite loudly in the middle of their office over things that had nothing to do with her department. I confronted her in the midst of one of these noisy tirades, so we were escorted to the boardroom to deal with the matter in private.
She was the oiliest and most gifted person in the art of verbal self-defence I have ever met outside of a government office - though a close contender of the male variety at the Archdiocese of Toronto comes to mind. But I digress.
I laid out the incidents in which she had minimized the efforts of others with accusations and outright lies, but she was slick at manipulation, denial, and not knowing what I was talking about. I finally told her she was incredibly good at Delphi, and her eyes popped, seething with rage; the personality change literally darkened her face. (Delphi is a type of communications taught to school boards, government personnel, politicians, and high-level executives for manipulating their audiences into believing they care and are listening, but don't - https://www.pdfdrive.com/how-to-win-every-argument-e26978146.html).
She was fired. But my point is, that all the other women I have worked with over the years, whether sullen or abrasive, responded well to simply being listened to and accepted for who they were. In fact, two burdened and unhappy supervisors became beloved leaders once someone 'got' them and smoothed the way for other relationships. Since reading this book (several times) I don't think I have ever worked in an office where the women did not wind up all understanding, if not caring for each other, and where things were always handled well and as a team.
Except for that one person. And for nigh on forty years, that's pretty good.
DAILY SQU-EEK
thanks, Ella
"Schnapsidee" is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you're drunk.
An Immaculate Inning is a baseball term. It applies when a pitcher strikes out three batters in the same inning while throwing the minimum amount of pitches needed, which is nine.
Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight on this day in 1961.
This week, one of my all-time faves from the area of psychology is Goddesses In Every Woman, by Jean Shihoda, MD (https://www.pdfdrive.com/goddesses-in-every-woman-e27977849.html). It helps to understand the archetypal nature of the women you know, for good and bad. My mother was more an unhappy Persephone that became a Medussa, and I was not allowed to get close to her or any other adult women as a child, even my grandmothers. None except 'the maid' who raised my brother and me until I was eight. So my relationships with other girls and, later, women were very tricky. Emily Post was very helpful for posh parties, but not so much with relationships because the good guidelines in etiquette was so surface in Washington.
By the time I was in my 30's, I really wanted to connect well with other women, especially mothers and artists. When I tripped across this book through the Jungian Society, I found it helped me immensely to improve and succeed in my relationships with other women. In fact, I wonder if this is the reason why I have only come across one 'office bitch' in the many years since.
OB was hired while I was off having my hip replaced. I was told she had a degree in psychology, and was a single mum, so I was looking forward to getting to know her. But when I met her, things about her didn't add up. As a marketing and sales rep in the health and beauty industry, she wore no makeup, her hair was unstyled, and she wore a windbreaker and raggy shirts to meetings with high-profile estheticians. My teaching studio was an unholy mess, and I caught her lying about a great colleague who had been very kind and helpful to her, saying he had done it. I saw her shaming and blaming other people for her failures. She had a habit of tearing unnecessary strips off of people in accounting quite loudly in the middle of their office over things that had nothing to do with her department. I confronted her in the midst of one of these noisy tirades, so we were escorted to the boardroom to deal with the matter in private.
She was the oiliest and most gifted person in the art of verbal self-defence I have ever met outside of a government office - though a close contender of the male variety at the Archdiocese of Toronto comes to mind. But I digress.
I laid out the incidents in which she had minimized the efforts of others with accusations and outright lies, but she was slick at manipulation, denial, and not knowing what I was talking about. I finally told her she was incredibly good at Delphi, and her eyes popped, seething with rage; the personality change literally darkened her face. (Delphi is a type of communications taught to school boards, government personnel, politicians, and high-level executives for manipulating their audiences into believing they care and are listening, but don't - https://www.pdfdrive.com/how-to-win-every-argument-e26978146.html).
She was fired. But my point is, that all the other women I have worked with over the years, whether sullen or abrasive, responded well to simply being listened to and accepted for who they were. In fact, two burdened and unhappy supervisors became beloved leaders once someone 'got' them and smoothed the way for other relationships. Since reading this book (several times) I don't think I have ever worked in an office where the women did not wind up all understanding, if not caring for each other, and where things were always handled well and as a team.
Except for that one person. And for nigh on forty years, that's pretty good.
Pictures of the day
Diego de Guevara (c. 1450 – 1520) was a Spanish courtier
and ambassador who served four, and possibly five,
successive dukes of Burgundy. He may have started his
service when quite young, as a page or valet de chambre,
rising through the ranks to become chamberlain by 1501, and
mayordomo mayor (high steward) to the king of Spain in 1518.
It is uncertain that this oil-on-panel portrait by Michael Sittow,
created around 1515 to 1518, depicts de Guevara. It was once
the right-hand portion of a diptych, the left half being a Madonna
and Child, now in the Berlin State Museums. The two oak panels
have been linked by historical and pictorial details; the ornate
carpet covering the stone parapet on which de Guevara's hand
rests is identical to the one in the other image. When the two
panels of the diptych were attached, de Guevara would have
been gazing down at the young child. This painting is now in the
collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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IN MEMORY OF ZEUS, THE TALLEST DOG EVER MEASURED BY GUINNESS
knit ... Mother's Day
thanks, Ava
Flower Pot Tea Cosy
knit
thanks, Ivy
knit, vintage
knit
thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
thanks, Sandy
CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Tina
Acrylic paintings by Uncle simon
SWEETS
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Mother's Day
PUZZLE
SUDOKU ... very hard
QUOTE
thanks, Bev
Granola Recipe
Yield: About 7 cups
Yield: About 7 cups
This recipe is just a starting point. Granola is one of the most adaptable foods you can make. Use up the oats you have, if you’re low on those stir in extra nuts, seeds, or other fiber flakes. If you’re low on honey or maple syrup, make use of the jam jars in your fridge. The important thing to keep in mind is to add enough oil so the dried ingredients crisp. like olive oil or coconut oil. Tweak to your liking.
3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats or equivalent measurement with oat bran, barley and flax seed mixed in
1 cups raw almonds or pecans, roughly chopped
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup coconut flakes
3/4 cup honey or maple syrup
3/4 to 1 cup olive oil or coconut oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup chopped dried cherries, currants, yellow raisins or a mix of all three
1 cups raw almonds or pecans, roughly chopped
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup coconut flakes
3/4 cup honey or maple syrup
3/4 to 1 cup olive oil or coconut oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup chopped dried cherries, currants, yellow raisins or a mix of all three
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, mix the oats, nuts, pumpkin seeds, coconut flakes, maple syrup or honey, oil, salt and cinnamon together. Spread mixture on a rimmed baking sheet in an even layer and bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes, until golden brown and well toasted.
2. Transfer granola to a large bowl and add the dried fruit, tossing to combine.
CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Tina
Acrylic paintings by Uncle simon
SWEETS
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
ADULT COLORING
FUN
Word - Real or Made Up?
answer:
CRAFTS
thanks, Mary
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Mother's Day
thanks, Lucy
PUZZLE
| balance blasts brake candle change constitution crowd | deer divide does empty endowed equal explain | father finger forgive hover identical latex nothing | obese poise reduction roast series service shake sire | thresh thumb tire trance trust vexate virus |
SUDOKU ... very hard
solution:
QUOTE
thanks, Jill
CLEVER
thanks, Dana
EYE OPENER
thanks "for sharing the world of freelancing," Emma
thanks, Sue
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
That's the terrible hypnotism of war, the brute mass-impulse, the pride and national spirit, the instinctive simplicity of men that makes them worship what is their own above everything else. I've thrilled and shouted with patriotic pride, like everyone else. Music and flags and men marching in step have bewitched me, as they do all of us. And then I've gone home and sworn to root this evil instinct out of my soul. God help -- let's love the world, love humanity -- not just our own country! -Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)
thanks, Jan
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