Follow-ups & Lists

Just a couple of things on the blog today. First up is a follow-up article to our yesterday's discussion about Alzheimer's:

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-alzheimers_14nat.ART.State.Edition1.293bf6e.html

I am a little concerned that the early diagnosis may go overboard and we may end up with what we are seeing now with some cancers. Over-treatment. While I am very glad we are starting to talk about this dreadful disease and exxploring ways to delay the onset of i, I worry that more diagnosis of it does bring with it the risk of more cases of wrong diagnosis. I'm withholding judgment.

Next up is a list that I hope will help you complete many tasks! Need to remove blood stains from your clothes? Do you need help loosening a rusty bolt? Neutralize a jellyfish sting? Relieve congestion? Strip paint off of furniture? Here is the list that will help you do it!

http://www.wisebread.com/51-uses-for-coca-cola-the-ultimate-list

As always you comments and takes on the above two articles are greatly appreciated!

WHO AM I?

Yesterday's answer Margaret Bourke-White

I was born in 1928 to a father that was a doorman and a navy dietitian and a mother who was a real estate agent, trained surgical nurse, and a merchant marine. I am most known by a nickname my brother gave me that is the same name as one recent contestant on Dancing With The Stars. One of my early influences was The Bard. My parents' marriage ended when I was three and we went to Governor Clinton's State to live with my dad's mother. We were later returned to the care of my mother where I was raped by my mother's boyfriend. The boyfriend was found guilty and jailed for one day. Four days later he was found dead. Many think it was the work of my uncle. I became mute because of the trauma and because I thought that my voice had killed him. I spoke again five years later. The teacher that helped me speak again introduced me to authors. During WWII I attended high school and studied dance and drama at a labor school. During school I became the first female streetcar conductor in the Golden Gate city. Three weeks after school my first son was born. As a single Mom at times I had to work as a prostitute or madam to support us. In all I would marry three times. My talents led me to travel Europe with a production of Porgy and Bess. I learned the language of every country we performed in. We moved later to New York and that is where I began to write. I am credited with organizing the Cabaret For Freedom to benefit a leadership conference. When in Ghana I became close friends with Malcolm X and helped him build a civil rights organization. I suffered greatly when both Martin and Malcolm were assassinated, Martin being assassinated on my birthday. After their assassinations I wrote an award winning autobiography. I also wrote one of Flack's song and composed movie scores. When Roots hit the airwaves I had a supporting role in it. When Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993 I recited one of my poems. Nobody since Frost and JFK had done that. I would become the first woman of my nationality to direct a major motion picture. My life was chronicled in a series of five autobiographies, the first described by Julian Mayfield as a work of art that eludes description. The first autobiography was criticized by many parents causing its removal from school curricula and school libraries. After reading my poem at Bill's coming out party sales of my paperbacks and poems rose three hundred to six hundred percent. While my first autobiography was banned from many schools it has also been used to train teachers how to talk about race in their classrooms. I am considered on of the most honored writers of my generation including induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame and winning the National Medal of Arts. Pat already knows who I am and I am betting if others think of a bird singing after escaping from a cage they will know the answer to the question, Who Am I?