World Duchenne Awareness Day - September 7, 2020

DIANE'S CORNER ... 

Celebrate World Duchenne Awareness Day

One of the best ways we can help to fight diseases and to ensure that people get speedy diagnoses and efficient treatments is to help boost the awareness of them.

The more people know about different diseases and health conditions, then the more likely they will be to get medical help and treatment before it’s too late. This is why World Duchenne Awareness Day is so important to the sufferers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

This day takes place annually and always has a different focus. For instance, the day was recently themed around standards of care. So, not only is it helping to raise the public’s awareness of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy on the whole, but this yearly focus helps to put an aspect of the condition and its treatment in the spotlight.

As part of World Duchenne Awareness Day, one of the main aims is to help educate the parents and families of children with the illness. They can then improve their knowledge of the disease and ensure that they provide the best care possible.

History Of World Duchenne Awareness Day

Even though World Duchenne Awareness Day has only been going since 2014, it has since made a huge impact and helped to improve the lives of thousands of people who have the condition.

Since its inception, the day is now celebrated around the world thanks to the support of many global charities. In fact, the day has become such a big deal that it is now under the patronage of the European Union Parliament and has also been supported by Pope Francis.

Joke of the Day

thanks, Mary

Word of the Day

Ballardian

MEANING:

adjective: Relating to a dystopian world, especially one characterized by social and environmental degradation, assisted by technology.

ETYMOLOGY:

After the novelist and short story writer J.G. Ballard (1930-2009), whose works depict such post-apocalyptic scenarios.

USAGE:

“‘Bunker’, self-evidently a work for our times, shimmers with a Ballardian imagery of disaster and melt-down.”
Ian Thomson; Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett - Review; The Spectator (London, UK); Aug 22, 2020.

Idiom of the Day

Across the board

If something applies to everybody, it applies across the board.

This Day in History

1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.

1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.

1896 - A.H. Whiting won the first automobile race held on a racetrack. The race was held in Cranston, RI.

1915 - Johnny Gruelle received a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll. (U.S. Patent D47789)

1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.

1930 - The cartoon "Blondie" made its first appearance in the comic strips.

1936 - Charles Hardin Holley, later Buddy Holly, was born in Lubbock, TX. His name was misspelled on his first record contract and he decided to leave it that way.

1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.


1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.


1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.

1975 - Steve Anderson set a record for picking a guitar. Anderson, at age 22, picked for 114 hours, 7 minutes. He broke the old record by more than four hours.


1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.


1986 - Desmond Tutu was the first black to be installed to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.


1989 - Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.


2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season. (California)

thanks, Ella

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, September 7

You have very strong values, and others know it. Your persistence is the major key to your success, but good money management is also a big contributor. Extremely sensitive to your surroundings, you pick up signals that fly over others’ heads. You are generally quite organized. You are competent, hard-working, and very proud of the work you do. Some may find you critical and tough-minded. On the inside, however, you are passionate and emotionally sensitive, and you don’t always show your more vulnerable side. You tend to attract relationships in which there is an imbalance of power – either you are controlling or dominating, or your partner is. Power struggles may be a theme or pattern in your love life until you learn to demand equality. Famous people born today:

1533 Elizabeth I Tudor [Virgin Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, born in Greenwich, London (d. 1603)

1860 Grandma Moses [Anna Maria], American primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket), born in Greenwich, New York (d. 1961)

1936 Buddy Holly [Charles Holley], American musician (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day), born in Lubbock, Texas (d. 1959)

1951 Chrissie Hynde, American rocker (The Pretenders), born in Akron, Ohio

thanks, Heide

READERS INFO

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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way.

Dung beetles can roll their dung balls in a straight line when they can see the night sky, but not when it's overcast – leading scientists to conclude that they are using the stars, and the Milky Way, to navigate.

You have a unique tongue print.

In a paper published in 2013, two scientists proposed using tongues as a method of identification, by looking at both their shape and texture. They said: "The tongue is a unique organ in that it can be stuck out of [the] mouth for inspection, in this act offering a proof of life, and yet it is otherwise well protected in the mouth and is difficult to forge."

There's an insect that has actual gears.

In 2013 scientists found the interlocking gears in a plant-hopping insect called an Issus, and published the results in the journal Science. Only the nymphs, and not the adults, had them.

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Labor Day -

11 Facts About Labor Day

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Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent

This takes me back...

Lost Words From Those Of Us Lucky Enough To Have Lived Through the 1950's...

Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!

The other day a not so elderly, (I say 75), lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her, quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old ... But not that old!

Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.

About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included: Don't touch that dial, Carbon copy, You sound like a broken record, and Hung out to dry.

Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker , to straighten up and fly right.

Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping jehoshaphat, Holy moley!

We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley ; and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell?

Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.

Oh, my aching back!

Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent - as oxygen - have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.

Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone?

Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses.

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)

Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth... See ya later, alligator! Okidoki. You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!

WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S ... NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN .. WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED FOR US BY THE "GREATEST GENERATION!"

Pictures of the day

Catherine Brass Yates is an oil-on-canvas painting created  in 1793–1794 by American artist Gilbert Stuart. The work  depicts Yates, the wife of a New York merchant, with her bony face and appraising glance, as too busy with her sewing to  take time off to pose for the artist. The fabrics, skin tones and  sewing implements are illustrated using a variety of thick, thin,  opaque and translucent oil paints, and a meticulous attention  to detail. The subject wears a mobcap, a round, gathered or  pleated cloth, to cover her hair. This was an indoor fashion  item of the period, and would have been worn under a hat for  outdoor wear. The painting was acquired in 1940 by the  National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it hangs  today.

Highlands of Scotland 

Rorschach: The image was taken this late autumn 

knit
thanks, Helen

Rainbow Cardigan {5 Sizes}

knit
thanks, Cindy

Poncho Latvian Blooms pattern by Dela Hausmann

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Pebble (Henry's Manly Cobblestone-Inspired Baby Vest) pattern by Nikol Lohr

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Sweet Nordic Rose

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Crocodilly Mocs for Women

Crochet Pattern of the Day: 

thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

Crochet a Rainbow Stripe Blanket

Crochet Vintage Fall Truck C2C Blanket

crochet
thanks, Julia

Mesmerizing Messenger Bag

crochet
thanks, Charlotte 

How to make crochet baby booties

crochet

Granny Cardigan

crochet

Darling One-Piece Romper & Hat

crochet

Nearly Autumn Shawl

Quarantine Cooking Recipes

thanks, Debbie

Five Can Soup

RECIPE

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

Cheesy Dijon-Balsamic Sheet Pan Meatloaf

CROCKPOT RECIPE

thanks, Winnie

Slow Cooker Pork Tinga

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.

thanks, Alice

You can never have enough easy side dish recipes

Mediterranean White Bean Salad

COPYCAT RECIPE 

thanks, Jenny

Copycat KFC™ Original-Style Chicken

SWEETS ... Rosh Hashanah

thanks, Sally

4 Ingredient Truffles & Rosh HaShanah Seder

ADULT COLORING

FUN

thanks, Lana

12 Secret Features Hidden in America’s Natural Landmarks

CRAFTS

thanks, Bella

DIY Pencil Toppers the Kids Will Love!

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Interview with Dr. Fauci

PUZZLE

Ivy Lamp Roof Jigsaw Puzzle

Endless isolation

WORD SEARCH

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deli delivery demand discussion economic economy essential

hater infest investment limit matter minimum

nation nine number policy quite regional

seat state survey today within

SUDOKU ... hard

solution:

Isolated endlessly

QUOTE

thanks, Mia

thanks for the humor, Bev

Trierachuncus Prairiensis

we have COVID & food problems, but people buy tutus for their chicks!

CLEVER 

thanks, Vicky

REPURPOSED COFFEE BEANS

This is not only practical, it also doubles as an air freshener! 

Fill up a small vase or glass jar with things like coffee beans, dried beans, marbles, popcorn kernels, rice, or mini crystals, and use it to store all of your makeup brushes. This is also a fantastic idea for table centerpieces. Simply throw a tea light or battery operated candle in there.

why signs are needed....

EYE OPENER 

thanks, Sue

Did you know.....??

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "piss poor."

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot; they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands & complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s.

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it . . . hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the idiom, "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, leading folks to coin the phrase "dirt poor."

The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way, subsequently creating a "thresh hold."

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while, and thus the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up, creating the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

And that's the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring?

and it's International

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. -Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964)

OPTICAL ILLUSION

Accidental Smiley

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