I don’t believe I needed a study to know this, but according to a study published in Science, Money does not buy much Happiness.
However, according to another article, the rich do get more sleep.
More money and more sleep? That’s a disgrace that they can’t be a little happier and give us sleep deprived poor people a little hope!
I don’t know what has gotten into my internet connection of late, but it looks as if the gods of broadband are looking down at me with favor.
This was my lastest speed test, and I am loving it!
Do certains smells take you back to a pleasant memory? Soon there could be a way of recording smells to replay over and over again.
“Inventors are on the verge of creating the first mobile ’smellophone’, a gadget which can capture an odour and then replay it back later, just as camcorders do with images.
The invention has been developed by a team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Pambuk Somboon.
‘In video you just need to record shades of red, green and blue, but humans have 347 olfactory sensors so we need a lot of source chemicals.’ “
“Barb, tell Mr. King we want to go play dodge ball.”
My classmates seemed to think I was a teacher’s pet and could influence the teacher to let us out of class early for a game of dodge ball. We had hours and hours of fun in our school playground, and yes, quite often a request from me to explain how well we did in class that day, would result in the nice English teacher allowing us to play a quick game of dodgeball.
These are some very fond memories I have of my elementary school days. And, somehow, we survived recess, playground equipment, tag, and games like baseball, soccer, and hopscotch.
Why some traditional recess games are being banned from our schools, I cannot figure out. However, so they are. USA Today reported that they are being banned and “disappearing from school playgrounds because educators say they’re dangerous.”
“Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., banned tag at recess this year. Others, including a suburban Charleston, S.C., school, dumped contact sports such as soccer and touch football.
In other cities, including Wichita; San Jose, Calif.; Beaverton, Ore.; and Rancho Santa Fe., Calif., schools took similar actions earlier.
The bans were passed in the name of safety, but some children’s health advocates say limiting exercise and free play can inhibit a child’s development.
But several experts, including Donna Thompson of the National Program for Playground Safety, verify the trend. Dodge ball has been out at some schools for years, but banning games such as tag and soccer is a newer development.
“It’s happening more,” Thompson says. Educators worry about “kids running into one another” and getting hurt, she says. “
I have no idea how much more ‘hurt’ children today are getting compared to my elementary school days, but I swear, I don’t think we ever lost a classmate…
More on the story:
Moscow has overtaken Tokyo to become the most expensive city in the world, according to a new study.
I often add in my blog my thoughts on the news in general and also my thoughts on the weather in Maryland. It just seems more and more the weather IS the news here in our state.
According to the Baltimore Sun, we have had hurricane-level rains, minus the winds. It has caused travel woes, it has flooded communities, some had to evacuate their homes, and some roads had to be closed altogether. I have to admit, I was quite nervous even crossing the bridge on our road the water level was so high.
With all this said, more rain is on the way. Some had as much as 5 inches yesterday on an already saturated ground, and as much as 3 are expected today.
The sun peeked out for a moment early this morning, as if to say, “Don’t despair, I haven’t gone away forever…”
It only just seems like it.
The pastor this morning quoted from the Gospel of Mark:
“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.”
He went on to say that too often we get caught up in the things of the world and often the Lord invites us to retreat. Christ knows the importance of getting away, to a worthy place, to do ‘business’ with God. That is the Wilds for our youth at Anchor Baptist.
He listed what they would be getting away from:
He challenged them to rest and refocus. To make new friends, to take time to pray, to gain strength, to look for a way to make changes in their lives.
Today was the day of departure.
We arrived to a mess of luggage and bags. Anchor kids don’t travel light!
Lunches were made for the trip to North Carolina.
Laura with Kristin, Ross, and DJ in the back.
Mike and DJ more than ready for camping fun.
Look Out WILDS, here come DJ and Miquel. (Sigh, together, they’re always trouble)
Listening to last minute instructions.
The “Plan” for departure.
Leaving to the vans in the pouring rain.
Being raised in a Bible believing Baptist family, no doubt what was taught to me at home, at church and Sunday School was the Bible, and also the parts of the Bible related to prophecy. When one thinks of prophecy, you can think of that which has been fullfilled or that which is yet to come, the future.
Growing up, we were taught not to worry on these things, that we should be focused on loving our Creator and Savior, obedience to his word, and telling others about Him. Basically, the end times WOULD come and to BE READY by living righteously NOW.
Made sense to me then and it makes sense to me now.
However there is in the news today, an article about groups trying to hurry these ‘end times’ along. (as if they could!).
I find this a bit of folly as even Jesus said he didn’t know the hour of his coming.
Mark 13:32 (KJV) — But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Pastors are actually having meetings with strategies as to how they can hurry this along, according to the article. This isn’t limited to Christianity either, this is also a mindset in some of the Jewish and Muslim communities as well.
Even a rancher is getting into the act trying to raise red heifers which many see as a sign to start rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem.
So, is man creating technology and red heifers to hurry the end of the world as we know it, or does God allow technology and use it for his PLAN?
LA Times article HERE
Miquel, after growing his hair long, chemically straigthening it, and coloring it twice, has finally cut his hair. His reason is it will be a lot easier to take care of when going to camp and a lot cooler for the rest of the summer.
I must be the last of the hippy moms as I have found the whole thing quite traumatic. I was really sad to see it all go. So, while others rejoice at the haircut, I am kinda weepy.
One thing is for sure, he is very handsome, no matter what he does to his hair, he has looks and charm!
Wow, it just never ends to take away our freedom of speech.
”The Traditional Values Coalition asked New York Governor George Pataki to rein in a state agency which is threatening legal action against an Accord, New York skating rink because it plays Christian music during a “Christian Music Skate” party.
The New York Division of Human Rights threatened Len and Terry Bernardo, owners of the Skate Time 209 rink in Accord, with an investigation because the rink plays Christian music during certain hours. The agency also threatened to charge a local newspaper which advertised the event for “aiding and abetting” unlawful discrimination.”
Gee, even the newspaper is “guilty” for advertising it!
Look out folks, the “land of the free” is just getting too weird.
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ABC wants to hear from you.
ABC is now providing away for you to share what you have witnessed personally regarding any climate changes and any other global warming observations in your life.
You can share with ABC HERE
What are they getting themselves into?
Makers of a new inspirational football movie, “Facing the Giants“, are not very happy with Hollywood giving what would normally be a rated G movie, a PG rating for “for some thematic elements.” I suppose a fair translation of that is “too much religion that could offend.”
“We think our rating is correct,” they said of “Facing the Giants.” “I think it gives parents an alert that there may be something in the film they’d want to know about.”
“This incident raises the disquieting possibility that MPAA (Motion Picture Assn. of America) considers exposure to Christian themes more dangerous for children than exposure to gratuitous sex and mindless violence,” said Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).
More on the story HERE
Have you caught World Cup fever?
I was just noticing that one of my affiliates for Ring Tones was offering Ring tones, wallpapers, java games, all downloadable from the net with the World Cup theme.
It’s been a strange weekend for me with Affiliates. First I got a check from one I signed up with in 2004, and it was a mystery to me who the check came from and for what. It took a day and a half investigating, but I have finally figured out from whence it came! So, surprise money at this point in my life was nice. Nice to have the mystery solved too!
Next, came the ringtone affiliate. I notced that they don’t actually pay you like some others do, you have to go in to your account and invoice THEM. Then they send money straight to your bank. Different. Since I hadn’t done that the sales had piled up, so, more “surprise” money.
So, who do YOU like for the finals?
I don’t often use a lot of postwork in my Terragens, but I am not a Terragen “purist” either. There are a lot of things Terragen just can’t do.
Here is my latest, having added a lighthouse in post work:
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Words will never be adequate to sum up my dad.
This Father’s day I miss him more than ever.
He would bring stability into my chaos. He would encourage and challenge. He always did.
He raised me to always think. Wise enough to know that young people are often given to laziness, he never let my mind do that. He would often ask hard questions and expect me to back up any answers or opinions I had. If I chose to be lazy on that day, he would look sorely disappointed, till I could give a reasonable and thought out response.
When dad passed away, his doctor came to me, and in a thick German accent said, “Your father was a gentleman and a gentle man, I hope you know the difference.”
I appreciated that doctors insight to my dad. He was indeed a loving gentle man. I am not sure he was ordinary, but he was MY dad. He had his own way.
At any given moment he would say a number, and I had to know which football player on our local team that number corresponded to. To this day, the numbers 32 and 19 automatically bring to my mind Mike Curtis and Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts fame.
He had his own way with his daughters. Helping me when I was little to get dressed and struggling with my leotards (so they were called in those days), was to grab the tops by the panty waist and pull me up so I slid down into them. When I looked nice for a date or to go to church, he made sure to give a strong, loud whistle, and a good scowl to the young man at the door. There were comical times when I would come out into the living room and he would look and say, “What did you comb your hair with? The eggbeater?” and made me go back to comb it proper.
I don’t think I was an ordinary daughter either. He was often mystified as to what to do with me. I am pretty sure then, he thought that’s what mothers were for. He just let ‘mom handle me’.
We both loved music and I can’t recall how many hours he would teach me how to work his reel to reel tape recorder, and we would make recordings of music. He made sure the house was always full of country music and I knew each and every song. To this day, those old songs bring back the most pleasant memories, and I can VIVIDLY hear him singing along.
Everyone liked my father, he always had friends at work and he loved to tease every person in the family. Ask any one of us, and they will have a story of teasing each our own. He had a quiet charm.
I can see why mom fell in love with him at 15 when she first saw him bagging her groceries, and why she immediately sought employment at the same store to get to know him better.
He had three women in the household in one form or anther, each with our own whirlwind problems, he was the calm in every storm. The backbone. He was solid as a rock. Indeed life, no, even the world just hasn’t seemed the same without him. He was almost too good for this world, and in many ways, I am glad he isn’t here to experience much of the tragedy and changes that has fallen to this country.
Of course, sometimes for him, that didn’t go beyond West Virginia and our own back woods.(He required us to stand for his nation anthem, “Almost Heaven, West Virginia”). However, we did get him beyond that. To Holland, to Spain, and mom even got him to go out West. I often can’t believe it, Dad in Spain! Just was too much to even dream of one day.
He was taken from us way too early.
I love you daddy, and I was so right, words don’t even come close….
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I first heard about the Dixie Chicks some years ago when someone requested them for an ICQ skin, (back in the days of taking requests at MXskinz). I looked them up and realized, “Oh, country music, that is why I don’t know that much about them.”
And I guess I still don’t. Except for when they made the news when during a concert they made a negative remark regarding Bush and the Iraq War. It seems they have been doing damage control ever since.
They don’t understand why their concerts aren’t selling and why they have to look overseas to sell tickets.
“It was the bullying and the scare factor,” shudders banjo and guitar player Robison. “It was like the McCarthy days, and it was almost like the country was unrecognisable.”
That is quite a claim. Almost as if there is a conspiracy against them. I think they have a right to say what they want at their concerts, but I also think people have a right to react to what they say if they choose to.
It’s that simple Chick.
Hey Mr. Tallyman, come tally me banana…
Bananas containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout.?No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes. But energy isn’t the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND
amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills — eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood. Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases
of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect way to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry
to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside the of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a “cooling” fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhanced tryptophan. Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as
the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body’s water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in “The New England Journal of Medicine,” eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrates, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, “A banana a day keeps the doctor away!”
(sent to me from Cousin Maxine)
I watched Spiderman as a young girl, I read some of the comics, and I haven’t fallen asleep through all of the movies, so when I saw an article in Yahoo regarding this taboo of a superhero taking off the mask, I took notice.
The storyline has “a showdown between a group of superheroes and supervillains in which hundreds of innocent civilians are killed, the government passes the Super-Hero Registration Act, requiring all superheroes to reveal their identities and register as “living weapons of mass destruction.”
I just don’t know about this. If Peter Parker starts taking off his mask, a “glowing example” to all people, of what liberties, what we all should be giving up in the name of Counter Terrorism, what lengths more will they go to? Gee, they couldn’t even stay out of the comic books.
