Monday

We had the clouds for part of the day, but alas, they kept their moisture away from us. It was cooler with a high of only 75°, but a little rain sure would be nice. As the sun set, the wind really picked up. The cool wind is nice.

Tom Chabin, our local representative to the State House has joined Facebook. I’ve known Tom since back in the day, before state politics. He is a good man who has done much with his life. He is now in the State House, in the minority, and must be very frustrated. Our non-elected Republican governor and the Republican majority in both houses can’t agree on a budget. Neither likes what the other has proposed. Neither likes what the Democrats want. We have been in this stalemate much too long. Anyway, hopefully Tom will be using Facebook to keep us up-to-date on his legislative work.

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Random Facts…

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession.

125 in every 1000 people in Rwanda is murdered.

Crazy Stuff in the News…

LONDON - An 8-year-old London boy has become the youngest person in the world to walk on the wings of an airplane in mid-flight. Tiger Brewer broke the record -- set eight years ago by a then-11-year-old -- by wing-walking on his grandfather's biplane Thursday, 1,000 feet above Rendcomb Airfield in Gloucestershire, England, The Times of London reported. "On take-off I was scared. From one to 10, it was probably a nine, but when I was in the air, it was probably a five," he said. "It felt amazing, like I was on top of the world. It was cold and windy but it can't be beat. You don't have a parachute, just a pair of goggles."
The boy's father, Colin, said the family was not too concerned for Tiger's safety. "I wasn't scared for him physically, just emotionally," the father said. "He was nervous and although he acts like a big man, he is only 8. But he just kept repeating his mantra, 'Go away fear,' and he did it. He wanted to do this for years but wasn't tall enough."
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WEST VIEW, Pa. - A 95-year-old Pennsylvania man listed by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-serving bartender has announced his intention to retire. Angelo Cammarata, 95, said he and his sons sold Cammarata's Cafe in West View, where he has been tending bar for most of his 77 years in the profession, and he will no longer be seen behind the bar once the new owners are approved by the state within the next few weeks, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. "It was a pleasure," Cammarata said of his years behind the bar, "because I met so many wonderful people." He said the new owners, who are changing the name to Danny's, asked him to stay on, but he decided to retire and take care of his wife, Marietta, at their home in Ross, Pa.


Month long events in August

Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August National Immunization Awareness Month… National Psoriasis Awareness Month… Women's Small Business Month... National Back to School month…American Adventures Month…Golf Month…National Inventor’s Month…National Win with Civility Month…What will be your legacy Month

Week of Aug 25…

Be Kind to Humankind Week

25 Aug…

237 days so far this year…128 days remain in 2009
Kiss & Make Up Day
National Second Hand Wardrobe Day
*Uruguay: Independence Day from Brazil in 1825
*France: Liberation Day 1944
*Paraguay: Constitution Day 1967
*Hong Kong: Liberation Day 1945


BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

1530….. Ivan IV (the Terrible) 1st tsar of Russia

1819….. Allan Pinkerton founded Chicago detective agency
1836….. Bret Harte US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)

1905….. Clara Bow silent movie actress
1909….. Michael Rennie actor (Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
1913….. Walt Kelly cartoonist, creator of "Pogo"; worked on “Fantasia”
1916….. (Charles) Van Johnson actor
1918….. Leonard Bernstein conductor/composer/pianist
1919….. George Wallace Governor of Alabama
1921….. Brian Moore Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
and ….. Monty Hall (Halparin) TV host: Let’s Make a Deal
1927….. Althea Gibson 1st black tennis champion
1930….. Sir Sean Connery actor (James Bond)
1931….. Regis Philbin TV host
1933….. Tom Skerritt Emmy Award-winning actor: Picket Fences
1946….. Rollie (Roland Glen) Fingers Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
1949….. Gene Simmons musician: group: Kiss
1961….. Billy Ray Cyrus singer: Achy Breaky Heart

Events on this day…

325….. The first Council of Nicaea ends, at which leaders of the Christian church adopted the Nicaean Creed, affirming the Holy Trinity, and fixed the schedule of the yearly celebration of Easter.

609….. Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1689….. Montreal taken by Iroquois

1718….. Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, founded

1804….. Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)

1916….. National Park Service established in the Dept of the Interior
1989….. The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has reached the Planet Neptune which is over two billion miles from Earth and sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite moons


Riddles from BrainFood.com

Can you guess what each of these riddles is describing?
*Note yesterday’s #3: What goes up and down the stairs without moving? The Answer could also be banister.

1. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
2. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
3. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
4. The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
5. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
* Bonus: Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I? [2 answers]
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Answers:
1. A stamp.
2. A sponge.
3. Fire.
4. A coffin.
5. A shoe.
*Bonus: A wave, A tissue.
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