HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! Known in some parts as a contest to choose the dumbest adults in your city day. The one that takes the fireworks a step to far and sends rockets towards houses and people. They get extra points in the contest for starting fired, injuring others, or blowing off their own body parts. STAY SAFE!!
In one of the posts last week we talked about citizenship tests. Here is an article on the subject:
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/how-dumb-are-we.html
I didn't take the test because it was just to difficult to log in there. I will find the test on the Internet and post it in an entry later this week.
Most people associate heart attacks with winter but summer heart patients are at risk too. Her is what to look for if you or someone you love has a heart history:
http://www.everydayhealth.com/heart-health/summertime-heart-smarts.aspx?xid=aol_eh-cardio_41-_20110627&aolcat=ESR&icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-
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I was surprised at a lot of information in the article.
As you know one of my favorite subjects is old things. An article about some old inscriptions:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/egyptian-inscribed-limestone-blocks-unearthed-archaeologists-_n_885370.html
Comment Away.
QUOTES
"Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one." She was born in 1920 and died in 1998. This American lawyer and Congresswoman was a lead of the Modern Women's Movement. Another one of her famous quotes was "This woman’s place is in the House—the House of Representatives." When she was 13, her father died and she was told she would not be allowed to say the Mourner's Kaddish for her father in synagogue, where it is Jewish law for sons to say Kaddish (for 11 months after the death of a parent, although in Conservative and Reform communities both sons and daughters are permitted to say Kaddish). However, she did so as one of her first feminist actions because her father had no son. She became an attorney in the 1940s, a time when very few women did so, and took on civil rights cases in the South. She appealed the case of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman in Laurel, Mississippi and sentenced to death by an all-white jury who deliberated for only two-and-a-half minutes. She was happily married and the marriage produced two children. Who said today's quote?
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I didn't take the test, either, for the same reason as you. Maybe later I'll be motivated. Or maybe I'm just afraid of revealing my ignorance.
Aerobic outdoor exercise here in midsummer would be enough to kill a person. It may be good advice for some, not for all.
The saddest part about folks not passing the test is that it's multiple choice, in most instances, if I remember right.
I'm with Pat - 30 minutes of outdoor aerobic exercise with our current weather would bring on heat exhaustion or heat stroke, if not a heart attack. A slow stroll around dusk is doable or, if you can haul out of bed, early in the morning, which would also get you your vitamin D. Otherwise, get your vitamin with ten minutes in a comfy chair in the sun, maybe with a fan (extension cords necessary) blowing on you.
Neat about the inscriptions. I'll be curious to know what they say, when they're deciphered.
Hope everyone is having a pleasant holiday and, yes, staying safe.
Hi Pat
It just seemed like a pain in the butt to get to the test. Wasn't worth it to me.
I agree with you but here in Sherwood. There are indoor bike trail at the Y, you can walk at an air condition mall etc. The mall I like to walk even has a Cinnabon at the end.
Bill
Hi DR
Multiple Choice tests usually have one answer that is so far out that it can't be right so you can narrow it down. That does make it really sad.
See my not to Pat about doing the excercise but changing the venue. Not possible most likely where you live but maybe Furman has places for walking and biking.
I'm dying to know what the inscriptions say and what was going on back them.
It was a pretty safe holiday, maybe the word got out.
Bill
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