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Celebrate World Mosquito Day
You may be wondering why we have a World Mosquito Day when these animals are responsible for the transmission of malaria. Well, that is what this day is all about; raising awareness regarding this, so that more people will be safe and protected. It is also important to recognize that all animals and creatures play an important role in the circle of life, whether they are harmless or not.
Learn about World Mosquito Day
World Mosquito Day was created in order to honor the discovery made of the link between humans, malaria, and mosquitoes. This is something that has changed the health industry considerably, ensuring that humans can be protected.
Malaria is a disease that mosquitoes carry, which is caused by a parasite. It is curable and preventable, yet sadly, it still threatens the lives of millions of people across the globe. It is important to note that not all mosquitoes transmit malaria; only infected female anopheles are able to transmit this to humans.
You may be wondering how malaria is transmitted by a mosquito. It is as simple as a bite. If a mosquito bites you and it has been carrying malaria, the parasite is going to be released into your bloodstream, which can infect your entire body. Mosquitoes are typically most active at night and dusk, and so they do not usually bite during the day. However, it is important to make sure that your body is protected at all times.
The latest statistics show that approximately 435,000 people die of malaria every day. Not only this, but there is believed to be approximately 219 million cases of malaria every year across the world. These are pretty big statistics, right? A lot of people do not realize just how serious the problem is, especially those that live in areas that are not at risk.
Malaria can be found in over 100 countries. It is a condition that typically impacts the world’s tropical areas. Nevertheless, roughly 70 percent of the malaria burden around the world is concentrated in 11 countries. One being India, and the rest being on the African continent.
If you are going to be travelling to a country that does have a malaria risk, it is imperative that you take the steps to protect yourself against this disease. You should sleep under a mosquito net, use mosquito repellent, and take malaria tablets. Of course, the best thing to do here is to book an appointment with your doctor before you travel so that he or she can make sure that you are prepared and protected.
Facts about malaria
Let’s take a look at some facts about this disease…
- Travellers that are not-immune and come from malaria-free areas are extremely vulnerable if they are infected with the disease. In 2010, singer Cheryl Cole became incredibly ill after she contracted malaria while on holiday in Africa. This should be a warning to everyone regarding just how dangerous the disease is.
- Malaria parasites have developed resistance to a lot of the drugs that are commonly used, including artemisinin and chloroquine, and this resistance is spreading quickly. As a consequence, the battle for malaria continues and a lot of health professionals continue searching for better medicines that fight against malaria.
- Malaria was eliminated from Greece officially in 1974.
- In a lot of the high income countries, the disease is under control. This is because of effective monitoring and aggressive prevention measures.
History of World Mosquito Day
World Mosquito Day was first established in 1897, when the link between mosquitoes and malaria transmission was discovered by Sir Ronald Ross. It aims to raise awareness about the causes of malaria and how it can be prevented, as well as fundraising for research into the cure of malaria. It is also a salute to the groundbreaking work of Sir Ross and scientists who have followed him.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine celebrates World Mosquito Day with exhibitions and parties designed both to entertain and to inform, while other celebrations include Malaria No More’s ‘Mozzy Air’ campaign, encouraging people to take anti-malarial when flying to malaria zones, and Nothing But Nets’ twitter campaigns to provide mosquito nets for poor communities.
GREAT TO SEE & REMEMBER
HAPPIER TIMES THAN 2020
Ellen O'Neal, the greatest woman free style skateboarder in the 1970s.
Joke of the Day
ICE CREAM
What flavors of ice cream do you have?" inquired the customer.
"Vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate," answered the new waitress in a hoarse whisper.
Trying to be sympathetic, the customer asked, "Do you have laryngitis?"
"No...." replied the new waitress with some effort, "just...erm.... vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate."
"Vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate," answered the new waitress in a hoarse whisper.
Trying to be sympathetic, the customer asked, "Do you have laryngitis?"
"No...." replied the new waitress with some effort, "just...erm.... vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate."
A man ice skating in a suit (1937)
Word of the Day
Typhoid Mary
MEANING:
noun: A person from whom a disease or something undesirable spreads.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Mary Mallon (1869-1938), a cook in New York, who was a healthy carrier (contagious but showing no symptoms: asymptomatic) of typhoid. She died of pneumonia. Earliest documented use: 1909.
NOTES:
One Typhoid Mary is enough in the history of humankind. Don’t let yourself be the new Typhoid Mary. Wear your mask when out and about.
USAGE:
“I walked out of the ward wearing the surgical mask and kept it on for forty-eight hours to avoid becoming Typhoid Mary.”
Kenneth Schneyer; Life of the Author Plus Seventy; Analog Science Fiction & Fact (New York); Sep 2013.
“Insomnia is a global pandemic whose Typhoid Mary was Thomas Edison, forcing fake sunlight into hours when ancient biology demands shut-eye.”
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep; The Scientist (Midland, Canada); Sep 2012.
“One memorable time I’d actually shown up on my first day to find that the company had declared bankruptcy that morning. More than one person had suggested I was the Typhoid Mary of high tech.”
Margaret Dumas; The Balance Thing; HarperCollins; 2010.
“She wasn’t going to sit home on prom night the way she’d been doing so much lately. You’d think she was Typhoid Mary when it came to dates. So she wore her black strapless dress to the party and tried to pretend she was having a great time in the gymnasium.”
Ruth Jean Dale; Shane’s Last Stand; Harlequin; 2013.
High school fashion feature in Life Magazine (1969)
MEANING:
noun: A person from whom a disease or something undesirable spreads.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Mary Mallon (1869-1938), a cook in New York, who was a healthy carrier (contagious but showing no symptoms: asymptomatic) of typhoid. She died of pneumonia. Earliest documented use: 1909.
NOTES:
One Typhoid Mary is enough in the history of humankind. Don’t let yourself be the new Typhoid Mary. Wear your mask when out and about.
USAGE:
“I walked out of the ward wearing the surgical mask and kept it on for forty-eight hours to avoid becoming Typhoid Mary.”
Kenneth Schneyer; Life of the Author Plus Seventy; Analog Science Fiction & Fact (New York); Sep 2013.
“Insomnia is a global pandemic whose Typhoid Mary was Thomas Edison, forcing fake sunlight into hours when ancient biology demands shut-eye.”
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep; The Scientist (Midland, Canada); Sep 2012.
“One memorable time I’d actually shown up on my first day to find that the company had declared bankruptcy that morning. More than one person had suggested I was the Typhoid Mary of high tech.”
Margaret Dumas; The Balance Thing; HarperCollins; 2010.
“She wasn’t going to sit home on prom night the way she’d been doing so much lately. You’d think she was Typhoid Mary when it came to dates. So she wore her black strapless dress to the party and tried to pretend she was having a great time in the gymnasium.”
Ruth Jean Dale; Shane’s Last Stand; Harlequin; 2013.
Kenneth Schneyer; Life of the Author Plus Seventy; Analog Science Fiction & Fact (New York); Sep 2013.
“Insomnia is a global pandemic whose Typhoid Mary was Thomas Edison, forcing fake sunlight into hours when ancient biology demands shut-eye.”
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep; The Scientist (Midland, Canada); Sep 2012.
“One memorable time I’d actually shown up on my first day to find that the company had declared bankruptcy that morning. More than one person had suggested I was the Typhoid Mary of high tech.”
Margaret Dumas; The Balance Thing; HarperCollins; 2010.
“She wasn’t going to sit home on prom night the way she’d been doing so much lately. You’d think she was Typhoid Mary when it came to dates. So she wore her black strapless dress to the party and tried to pretend she was having a great time in the gymnasium.”
Ruth Jean Dale; Shane’s Last Stand; Harlequin; 2013.
High school fashion feature in Life Magazine (1969)
Idiom of the Day
About face
If someone changes their mind completely, this is an about face. It can be used when companies, governments, etc, change their position on an issue.
Frank Sinatra stepping out of a helicopter with a drink.
This Day in History
1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
1923 - The first American dirigible, the "Shenandoah," was launched in Lakehurst, NJ. The ship began its maiden voyage from the same location on September 4.
1945 - Tommy Brown (Brooklyn Dodgers) became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league ball game. Brown was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old.
1960 - Connie Francis begins working on the film "Where the Boys Are."
1965 - The Rolling Stones single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was released in the U.S.
1967 - The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.
1977 - Voyager 2 was launched by the United States. The spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1985 - The original Xerox 914 copier was presented to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Chester Carlson was the man who invented the machine.
1997 - Alabama Governor Fob James joined the mayors of Montgomery and Georgina, AL, in the Alabama State Capitol to dedicate a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 65 to the memory of Hank Williams. The section of roadway was renamed the "Hank Williams Memorial Lost Highway."
2000 - Bon Jovi played the last concert to be held at the historic Wembley stadium before its demolition.
2010 - The last American combat brigade exited Iraq after more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion began.
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DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, August 20:
You are a hard worker, yet you also enjoy the comforts of home and family. Striking a balance between these two passions is important for your all-around happiness. You don’t turn to others for advice or help very readily, simply because you find much satisfaction doing things on your own; yet you are also highly companionable. You enjoy conversation, friendly companionship, and a peaceful environment. You try to avoid discord as much as you can, and due to your graciousness and gentle manner, you usually succeed. You are excellent at strategy. You may cling to your lifestyle and don’t make changes as readily as others. An overall feeling of stability is important to you. You are a very ardent, charming lover, and you may be drawn to partners who are emotional and a tad dramatic. Famous people born today:
1779 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer who discovered the continent of Antarctica, born in Osel, Estonia (d. 1852)
1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93), born in North Bend, Ohio (d. 1901)
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic and translator (Nobel 1959), born in Modica, Italy (d. 1968)
1918 Jacqueline Susann, American author (Valley of the Dolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1974)
1948 Robert Plant, English rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin), born in West Bromwich, England
1983 Andrew Garfield, British American actor (The Amazing Spider-Man), born in Los Angeles, California
1992 Demi Lovato, American actress (Camp Rock) and singer/songwriter (Unbroken), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
READERS INFO
1.
(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:
Jingle Bells is one the better known and more popular Christmas songs. The song was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont. Did you know that it was NOT intended to be a Christmas song? When written, Jingle Bells was meant to be a song for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Yes. Just like male humans, male monkeys go bald too. Not only do they lose hair but they also lose the hair on top of their head. Some zoologists believe that the baldness can make them more attractive to their female counterpart.
Who is Paul Winchell? Winchell is known to most as the voice of Tigger from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. While he made appearances in shows such as Perry Mason, McMillan & Wife, and The Beverly Hillbillies, he is more known in the industry for his voicing of Tigger. However, he also gets credit for something very significant. Winchell was an inventor who used his medical training to create the first artificial heart.
2.
1909 -
In front of some 12,000 spectators, automotive engineer Louis H. Schwitzer wins the two-lap, five-mile inaugural race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.
On this day in 1909, the first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, now the home of the world’s most famous motor racing competition, the Indianapolis 500. Built on 328 acres of farmland five miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, the speedway was started by local businessmen as a testing facility for Indiana’s growing automobile industry. In that first five-mile race on August 19, 1909, 12,000 spectators watched Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win with an average speed of 57.4 miles
per hour. The track’s surface of crushed rock and tar proved a disaster, breaking up in a number of places and causing the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators.
The surface was soon replaced with 3.2 million paving bricks, laid in a bed of sand and fixed with mortar. Dubbed “The Brickyard,” the speedway reopened in December 1909.
Louis Schwitzer (center) and crew.
3.
Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
1977 - Voyager 2 was launched by the United States. The spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1985 - The original Xerox 914 copier was presented to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Chester Carlson was the man who invented the machine.
2010 - The last American combat brigade exited Iraq after more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion began.
thanks, Mollie
DAILY SQU-EEK
1992 Demi Lovato, American actress (Camp Rock) and singer/songwriter (Unbroken), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
In front of some 12,000 spectators, automotive engineer Louis H. Schwitzer wins the two-lap, five-mile inaugural race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.
per hour. The track’s surface of crushed rock and tar proved a disaster, breaking up in a number of places and causing the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators.
The surface was soon replaced with 3.2 million paving bricks, laid in a bed of sand and fixed with mortar. Dubbed “The Brickyard,” the speedway reopened in December 1909.
Louis Schwitzer (center) and crew.
The New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building in Kuching is the meeting place of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly, the oldest continuously functioning legislature in Malaysia and one of the oldest in the world. The current building was officially opened by Mizan Zainal Abidin, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, in July 2009. The building is shaped like a nine-pointed star, and the roof design resembles a Malaysian royal umbrella. The debating chamber, with room for up to 108 members, is located on the eighth floor, with a public viewing gallery above. The lower floors house the members' lounge, offices, function rooms, meeting rooms, an auditorium and a surau.
Beavering (France)
Loire river in France, being careful not to move and frighten the beavers – this adult dragging a poplar branch back to the dam for its kits.
A couple on Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1975)
knit
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knit
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knit
Dean Martin & Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo , 1959
Crochet Pattern of the Day:
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A stylish couple in the rain in London (1963)
crochet
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crochet
Quarantine Cooking Recipes
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Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger sit opposite each
other on a train to Bangor. (1967)
other on a train to Bangor. (1967)
RECIPE
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
Flank Steak and Rajas Fajitas
A salesman has his motorized roller skates
refueled at a gas station (1961)
CROCKPOT RECIPE
Girl on a scooter (1969)
SWEETS
Ernest Hemingway's striking passport photo (1923)
ADULT COLORING ... Vermeer
Answer:
CRAFTS ... cross stitch
CHILDREN'S CORNER
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
QUOTE
CLEVER
Flank Steak and Rajas Fajitas
A salesman has his motorized roller skates
refueled at a gas station (1961)
CROCKPOT RECIPE
A young Michael Caine in 1959
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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Can you believe that Steve Urkel was originally only supposed to appear once on Family Matters? Fortunately, Jaleel White's hilarious portrayal made Urkel an instant favorite.
COPYCAT RECIPE
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Tastes just like Panda Express except it takes just minutes to whip up and tastes a million times better!
Tastes just like Panda Express except it takes just minutes to whip up and tastes a million times better!
Girl on a scooter (1969)
SWEETS
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
Ernest Hemingway's striking passport photo (1923)
ADULT COLORING ... Vermeer
The definition of old school cool. Cary Grant in the 1950s
Riddle:
Answer:
Footsteps.
A couple dancing in a 1950's "Be Bop"
theater as everyone looks on.
CRAFTS ... cross stitch
thanks for the funnies, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
CHILDREN'S CORNER
| armpit begs bent better cause community course cream crew | daily desert disappoint drink event | gather gent labors last leave mire neighborhood | paint primary profit quarter quiet school seems staff | star storms surge train transfer transition treat water |
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
QUOTE
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CLEVER
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EYE OPENER
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thanks for the memes, Helen
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. -George D. Aiken, US senator (20 Aug 1892-1984)
OPTICAL ILLUSION
Stare at the Reversing Staircase Illusion until it changes to a different staircase.
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