*) Incoming First lady Mrs. Obama gave outgoing First Lady Mrs. Bush a diary to write
her memoirs on and it had a quote in it I really liked:
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
-Western fiction writer Louis L'Amour
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_bush
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Jaw bone of an Ass, what does it look like?
I was doing some web surfing today and came upon some articles about Sampson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson) slaying 1000 philistines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines) with the "Jaw bone of an Ass" (). This brought back memories of my Sunday School days and made me wonder, what does an Ass Jawbone look like? I was thinking that it must be a pretty impressive thing to be such potent weapon. I did some searching and found this link with a picture of one:
http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/12/21/are-you-looking-for-a-gift-that-functions-as-both-a-musical-instrument-and-a-weapon/
Now that is no joke! I guess you could use that as a weapon!
http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/12/21/are-you-looking-for-a-gift-that-functions-as-both-a-musical-instrument-and-a-weapon/
Now that is no joke! I guess you could use that as a weapon!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Hygiene
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Lists/?article=20ThingsHygiene>1=27004
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Hygiene
Cleanliness is serious business; dirty hands killed a U.S. president
By Liza Lentini and David MouzonProvided by Discover magazine
1. Hygiene comes from the name "Hygieia," the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness and ... the Moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double shifts.
2. The human body is home to some 1,000 species of bacteria. There are more germs on your body than people in the United States.
3. Not tonight dear, I just washed my hands: Anti-bacterial soap is no more effective at preventing infection than regular soap, and triclosan (the active ingredient) can mess with your sex hormones.
4. Save the germs! A study of over 11,000 children determined that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of eczema and asthma.
5. Monks of the Jain Dharma (a minority religion in India) are forbidden to bathe any part of their bodies besides the hands and feet, believing the act of bathing might jeopardize the lives of millions of microorganisms.
6. It's a good thing they're monks.
7. Soap gets its name from the mythological Mount Sapo. According to legend, fat and wood ash from animal sacrifices there washed into the Tiber River, creating a rudimentary cleaning agent that aided women doing their washing.
8. Ancient Egyptians and Aztecs rubbed urine on their skin to treat cuts and burns. Urea, a key chemical in urine, is known to kill fungi and bacteria.
9. In a small victory for cleanliness, England's medieval king Henry IV required his knights to bathe at least once in their lives -- during their ritual knighthood ceremonies.
10. That's their excuse, anyway: Excrement dumped out of windows into the streets in 18th-century London contaminated the city's water supply and forced locals to drink gin instead.
11. A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast-food restaurants than in toilet-bowl water.
12. There's no "five-second rule" when it comes to dropping food on the ground. Bacteria need no time at all to contaminate food.
13. The first true toothbrush, consisting of Siberian pig-hair bristles wired into carved cattle-bone handles, was invented in China in 1498. But tooth brushing didn't become routine in the United States until it was enforced on soldiers during World War II.
14. Please don't squeeze the corncob. In 1935, Northern Tissue proudly introduced "splinter-free" toilet paper. Previous toilet paper options included tundra moss for Eskimos, a sponge with salt water for Romans, and -- hopefully splinter-free -- corncobs in the American West.
15. NASA recently spent $23.4 million designing a space-shuttle toilet that would defy zero gravity with suction technology at 850 liters of airflow per minute. That's a lot of money for a toilet that sucks.
16. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. campaigned for basic sanitation in hospitals. But this clashed with social ideas of the time and met with widespread disdain. Charles Meigs, a prominent American obstetrician, retorted, "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean."
17. Up to a quarter of all women giving birth in European and American hospitals in the 17th through 19th centuries died of puerperal fever, an infection spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.
18. TV kills! University of Arizona researchers determined that television remotes are the worst carriers of bacteria in hospital rooms, worse even than toilet handles. Remotes spread antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus, which contributes to the 90,000 annual deaths from infection acquired in hospitals.
19. It is now believed President James Garfield died not from the bullet fired by Charles Guiteau but because the medical team treated the president with manure-stained hands, causing a severe infection that killed him three months later.
20. What on earth made them think manure-stained hands were remotely acceptable to treat anyone?
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Hygiene
Cleanliness is serious business; dirty hands killed a U.S. president
By Liza Lentini and David MouzonProvided by Discover magazine
1. Hygiene comes from the name "Hygieia," the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness and ... the Moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double shifts.
2. The human body is home to some 1,000 species of bacteria. There are more germs on your body than people in the United States.
3. Not tonight dear, I just washed my hands: Anti-bacterial soap is no more effective at preventing infection than regular soap, and triclosan (the active ingredient) can mess with your sex hormones.
4. Save the germs! A study of over 11,000 children determined that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of eczema and asthma.
5. Monks of the Jain Dharma (a minority religion in India) are forbidden to bathe any part of their bodies besides the hands and feet, believing the act of bathing might jeopardize the lives of millions of microorganisms.
6. It's a good thing they're monks.
7. Soap gets its name from the mythological Mount Sapo. According to legend, fat and wood ash from animal sacrifices there washed into the Tiber River, creating a rudimentary cleaning agent that aided women doing their washing.
8. Ancient Egyptians and Aztecs rubbed urine on their skin to treat cuts and burns. Urea, a key chemical in urine, is known to kill fungi and bacteria.
9. In a small victory for cleanliness, England's medieval king Henry IV required his knights to bathe at least once in their lives -- during their ritual knighthood ceremonies.
10. That's their excuse, anyway: Excrement dumped out of windows into the streets in 18th-century London contaminated the city's water supply and forced locals to drink gin instead.
11. A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast-food restaurants than in toilet-bowl water.
12. There's no "five-second rule" when it comes to dropping food on the ground. Bacteria need no time at all to contaminate food.
13. The first true toothbrush, consisting of Siberian pig-hair bristles wired into carved cattle-bone handles, was invented in China in 1498. But tooth brushing didn't become routine in the United States until it was enforced on soldiers during World War II.
14. Please don't squeeze the corncob. In 1935, Northern Tissue proudly introduced "splinter-free" toilet paper. Previous toilet paper options included tundra moss for Eskimos, a sponge with salt water for Romans, and -- hopefully splinter-free -- corncobs in the American West.
15. NASA recently spent $23.4 million designing a space-shuttle toilet that would defy zero gravity with suction technology at 850 liters of airflow per minute. That's a lot of money for a toilet that sucks.
16. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. campaigned for basic sanitation in hospitals. But this clashed with social ideas of the time and met with widespread disdain. Charles Meigs, a prominent American obstetrician, retorted, "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean."
17. Up to a quarter of all women giving birth in European and American hospitals in the 17th through 19th centuries died of puerperal fever, an infection spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.
18. TV kills! University of Arizona researchers determined that television remotes are the worst carriers of bacteria in hospital rooms, worse even than toilet handles. Remotes spread antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus, which contributes to the 90,000 annual deaths from infection acquired in hospitals.
19. It is now believed President James Garfield died not from the bullet fired by Charles Guiteau but because the medical team treated the president with manure-stained hands, causing a severe infection that killed him three months later.
20. What on earth made them think manure-stained hands were remotely acceptable to treat anyone?
Friday, January 2, 2009
40 Inspirational Speeches in Two Minutes
Noticed this on MSN's home page today, it's a mash-up of inspirational movie scenes\quotes and is pretty cool!
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=ad02b87d-201a-4082-933c-b33c8111adf4&playlist=videoByTag:tag:viral:ns:Gallery:mk:us:sf:ActiveStartDate:vs:1&from=MSNHP&tab=m137>1=42003
If this link doesn't work, try googling "40 Inspirational Speeches in Two Minutes"
Here it is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=ad02b87d-201a-4082-933c-b33c8111adf4&playlist=videoByTag:tag:viral:ns:Gallery:mk:us:sf:ActiveStartDate:vs:1&from=MSNHP&tab=m137>1=42003
If this link doesn't work, try googling "40 Inspirational Speeches in Two Minutes"
Here it is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI
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