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Celebrate World Cerebral Palsy Day
I’m not saying ‘I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.’ We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
Zach Anner
Cerebral Palsy is a condition that’s sadly very common among people. No matter the conditions that cause it, Cerebral Palsy can be challenging to live with and can affect not only the person who has it but the loved ones that surround them. World Cerebral Palsy Day gives these families the ability to find better ways of handling Cerebral Palsy and helps spread awareness about the facts that come with Cerebral Palsy.
History of World Cerebral Palsy Day
Cerebral Palsy Day began with a small campaign called “Change My World in One Minute.” This project, started by Cerebral Palsy Alliance in Australia, sought for global change by allowing people to share ideas about new technologies and products that people with Cerebral Palsy could use to make their lives easier and better. Then, as time progressed, more ideas were spread out and called out to inventors to make them. Research teams from all over the world take part in this holiday, allowing new inventions to form and be presented at the CPA’s yearly event.
This day not only became a day for invention and innovation but also became a social movement. In 2015, the social change targeted vital issues that people with CP face all over the world. Hence, the CPA updated their website to provide tools and resources for people with CP. From there, Cerebral Palsy day became a way to make the lives of people with CP better technologically and socially. As it is a condition that at least 17 million people have, Cerebral Palsy Day helps bring awareness to CP, how to find resources to help those with CP and create an appreciation for those who work hard in research and technology towards a definite goal.
Joke of the Day
My neighbor, a tailor, has a new job. I asked him how much he enjoyed it.
"It's Sew-Sew."
Word of the Day
bunyip
Art: David Lancashire Stamp: Australia Post
MEANING:noun: An impostor.
adjective: Counterfeit; phony.
ETYMOLOGY:After bunyip, a large mythical creature of Australian Aboriginal legend, who lives in swamps, riverbeds, etc. The word is from Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of the Aboriginal people in Victoria. Earliest documented use: 1848.
NOTES:The most popular usage of the word is in the term “bunyip aristocracy” to refer to people pretending to be socially superior. It was first used by the journalist and politician Daniel Deniehy satirizing an attempt to establish a hereditary peerage in Australia. The label “bunyip aristocracy” stuck and the proposal was dropped.
USAGE:“Greens leader Christine Milne said Mr Abbott was trying to create a fake class system in Australia, a ‘bunyip aristocracy’.”
Labor Likens Tony Abbott to Marty McFly; AAP General News Wire (Sydney, Australia); Mar 26, 2014.
Idiom of the Day
adjective: Counterfeit; phony.
Labor Likens Tony Abbott to Marty McFly; AAP General News Wire (Sydney, Australia); Mar 26, 2014.
Alive and kicking
If something is active and doing well, it is alive and kicking. (It can be used for people too.)
This Day in History
1857 - The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.
1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer" opened in New York starring Al Jolson. The film was based on the short story "The Day of Atonement" by Sampson Raphaelson.
1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.
1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1998 - Alabama received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
thanks, Carol
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, October 6
You are an idealistic, warm, and family-loving person. When you aren't feeling confident, you are prone to withdrawing, sometimes appearing aloof. It's certainly not because you are unfriendly. Instead, it's due to a somewhat cautious nature. You crave a spiritual connection with another person--something that lifts you above and beyond the ordinary. Routine bores you, yet you are not attracted to crises or high-change situations either, as security is important to you. Highly creative, you need to express yourself in a few different avenues in order to derive the most satisfaction from life. Once befriended, you make a fabulously devoted companion, as you value quality over quantity in the people department. When you find people to adore, they are certainly well taken care of! Famous people born today:
1846 George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system), born in Central Bridge, New York (d. 1914)
1906 Janet Gaynor, American actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1984)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born in Larvik (d. 2002)
1917 Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), born in Montgomery County, Mississippi (d. 1977)
1963 Elisabeth Shue, American actress (Cocktail, Back to the Future Part II), born in Wilmington, Delaware
DAILY SQU-EEK
thanks, Ruth
READERS INFO1.
(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:
UPS trucks don't turn left. Their policy to never turn across oncoming traffic, even when it shortens their routes, reduces traffic collisions and delays, so they plan routes that avoid left turns whenever possible. This reportedly cuts their number
of trucks by 1,100, saves 10 million gallons of fuel and emits 22,000 fewer tons of carbon dioxide per year, and lowers the annual distance traveled by 28.5 million miles.
So how much DNA does the human body contain? The human body contains 46 chromosomes which are made up of a double stranded helix. When the cell is not multiplying or replicating, it has 92 strands of DNA.
In Japan, public napping is a sign of hard work. It's called "inemuri", which means "sleeping on duty" or "sleeping while present". Because falling asleep in public is thought to be a symptom of working yourself to exhaustion, it's sociallyacceptable in restaurants, stores, commuter trains, and on park benches – as long as you don't sprawl out and take up too much space.2.1925 -
TODAY: Journalist Shana Alexander, who was the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, is born.
3.Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO CorrespondentSo this morning I go to pick up my money-pit of a car (last week a blown radiator hose, a few weeks after I had taken it to my mech for overheating – subtotal $175), then yesterday to have the drive shaft fixed.
The taxi took its time, not because of so many clients, but because there are fewer cabbies since 10 who have picked up airport clients have died.After picking up the car, I thought I would swing by the hospital and get tested, but they gave me a ticket and said to come back at 2:30 — they would call me.
I was already too late for my morning Zoom meeting, so decided to make a quick run to the grocery store before the great line-ups…but a block away my car exploded in white smoke, as if I were in a cloud atop Mt. Everest. I cold not see a thing.
CAA asked if I would sit with the driver – YES!!! – and asked me a series of questions to ensure his safety.
I waited.
Then he said, no, he would not give me a lift back to the garage. Is it an ethnic thing that some people cannot think things through without fear? He had no mask, I did. So I got the rolator out and was very good. I did not say anything that I would regret, nor anything unkind that I wouldn’t.
It took me 40 minutes to hobble home. So.
I made my amazing Korean lunch (rice, lettuce, omelet julienned, tuna, homemade teriyaki sauce and mayo) caught the tail end of my third Zoom meeting of the day (a presentation that was truly, out of date at this point, all about safe distancing and wearing masks – puh-LEASE!!!) and took calls for the foodbank.
Then I had to call another taxi who was, again, on his way. When dispatchers say that, I think they mean 50 minutes, no?
And I stood in the drizzle awhile because when he finally phoned to confirm, he wanted to pick me up at the front of the building instead of at the main entrance (don’t ask). His was the inverse of most men’s ideas of measurement…his two minutes was actually 12. Happy wife, his. Though climbing in was like going into a fetishist’s boudoir with all the hangings of thick, shiny plastique. Then I learned that if you use a card, they charge you a service charge. Not the cost of doing business.
Then off to the bank to get another $50 for today’s froo-fraah…subtotal now $225 for hot car. I miss my Grand Am.
t the end of the day, my solace was a bowlful of Tim Horton’s Birthday Cake cereal, dry, and via The Great Courses learning about ancient Chinese cuisine, fermenting soy beans, and coming to an understanding of why my homemade seitan (back when I ate gluten) turned out so damned incredibly yucky and nothing like the professor’s.And I am going through Blacklist withdrawal.
That’s it. I’m having a drink.
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TODAY: Journalist Shana Alexander, who was the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, is born. |
So this morning I go to pick up my money-pit of a car (last week a blown radiator hose, a few weeks after I had taken it to my mech for overheating – subtotal $175), then yesterday to have the drive shaft fixed.
The taxi took its time, not because of so many clients, but because there are fewer cabbies since 10 who have picked up airport clients have died.
After picking up the car, I thought I would swing by the hospital and get tested, but they gave me a ticket and said to come back at 2:30 — they would call me.
I was already too late for my morning Zoom meeting, so decided to make a quick run to the grocery store before the great line-ups…but a block away my car exploded in white smoke, as if I were in a cloud atop Mt. Everest. I cold not see a thing.
CAA asked if I would sit with the driver – YES!!! – and asked me a series of questions to ensure his safety.
I waited.
Then he said, no, he would not give me a lift back to the garage. Is it an ethnic thing that some people cannot think things through without fear? He had no mask, I did. So I got the rolator out and was very good. I did not say anything that I would regret, nor anything unkind that I wouldn’t.
It took me 40 minutes to hobble home. So.
I made my amazing Korean lunch (rice, lettuce, omelet julienned, tuna, homemade teriyaki sauce and mayo) caught the tail end of my third Zoom meeting of the day (a presentation that was truly, out of date at this point, all about safe distancing and wearing masks – puh-LEASE!!!) and took calls for the foodbank.
Then I had to call another taxi who was, again, on his way. When dispatchers say that, I think they mean 50 minutes, no?
And I stood in the drizzle awhile because when he finally phoned to confirm, he wanted to pick me up at the front of the building instead of at the main entrance (don’t ask). His was the inverse of most men’s ideas of measurement…his two minutes was actually 12. Happy wife, his. Though climbing in was like going into a fetishist’s boudoir with all the hangings of thick, shiny plastique. Then I learned that if you use a card, they charge you a service charge. Not the cost of doing business.
Then off to the bank to get another $50 for today’s froo-fraah…subtotal now $225 for hot car. I miss my Grand Am.
t the end of the day, my solace was a bowlful of Tim Horton’s Birthday Cake cereal, dry, and via The Great Courses learning about ancient Chinese cuisine, fermenting soy beans, and coming to an understanding of why my homemade seitan (back when I ate gluten) turned out so damned incredibly yucky and nothing like the professor’s.
And I am going through Blacklist withdrawal.
That’s it. I’m having a drink.
Pictures of the Day
Belarus
knit
thanks, Vicky
knit
thanks, Leah
knit
knit
knit
crochet
thanks, Ava
crochet
thanks, Charlotte
crochet
crochet
Quarantine Cooking Recipes
CROCKPOT RECIPE
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.
SWEETS
FUN
CRAFTS ... sewing
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Halloween
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
| apart chart close crater curve desire dirty dormant duct | empty errs flute halt happily hips hone | imagine inane knowledge large lied loafer mime mire | nation nothing other oxygen panic path precaution program | rinse robber shiny silly smoky tirade under until viewers |
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
QUOTE
CLEVER
OPTICAL ILLUSION
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